BEWARE THE HALLUCINATIONS: Trump admin to launch new America.gov AI tool to streamline government access next week.

VITAMIN D UPDATE: Belly Fat and Low Vitamin D May Be a Concerning Combination After 50, New Study Finds.

JAW, JAW IS BETTER THAN WAR, WAR:

On Patriot missiles, Trump said he’s talked with Zelensky a lot and claimed Zelensky agrees and Putin agrees too. He said he wants them to make a deal soon, possibly before a harsh winter. pic.twitter.com/dKawyXBcTQ

— WarTranslated (@wartranslated) September 26, 2026

THE MEMES HAVE ARRIVED. YOUR WEEKEND CAN START:  I’ve got Memes, if you have humor.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: The Problem with ‘Marrying Up:’ After 19 years as a professional matchmaker—including a hit Netflix show—I’ve learned that successful women aren’t struggling to find good men. They’re struggling to recognize what makes a man good.

LIGHTNING DEAL: HOSHANHO 7 Inch Nakiri Knife. #CommissionEarned

THE PREDICTIONS ARE LOUSY, BUT THE GRIFT IS SWEET: Al Gore’s Inconvenient Lies.

THAT WOULD BE NICE: Xi assured Trump he would cease aid to Iran, US ambassador to China claims.

But if Beijing said anything public to confirm it, I haven’t been able to find it

I’LL TAKE TWO:

JUST IN: Tesla is reportedly targeting production capacity of over 1,000 Optimus robots a week by year-end.

— Polymarket (@Polymarket) September 25, 2026

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: XI’s Gotta Have It! Edition.

THEY’RE UNDOING SOME OF THE GOODWILL BOUGHT BY BODYCAMS: As Police Misuse Flock Cameras, 2 Senators From Opposite Parties Demand More Oversight.

THIS DESERVES MORE VIEWS:

People keep calling U.S. healthcare a "free market failure." The truth is, it hasn't been a free market in 70 years.

Here’s how decades of central planning created a $5.3T crisis: 👇 pic.twitter.com/uEDOyIpVnN

— Foundation for Economic Education (@feeonline) September 26, 2026

That’s the teaser. Here’s the whole thing.

SURPRISED? This morning’s HillFaith reports the latest CNCT Capitol Pulse survey, which found that 55 percent of congressional aides give a passing grade to the 119th Congress, compared to 45 percent who slapped down a big fat F for it.

BE PREPARED: Small Pocket Multitool Knife for Men. #CommissionEarned

THE WAR ON MERIT: Harvard Turns to Biden, Obama Lawyers To Fend Off Race-Blind Admissions Enforcement. “At a Thursday, September 24 morning hearing before Judge Myong Joun, two lawyers sat alongside Harvard vice president and general counsel Jennifer O’Connor. The one who did all the talking was Stuart Delery, a former WilmerHale partner now at Gibson Dunn. Delery was White House counsel to President Biden from 2022 to 2023 and also served in a senior Justice Department role from 2014 to 2016, during the Obama administration. Also at Harvard’s table in the courtroom was Joshua Levy, a lawyer at Ropes and Gray who Biden twice nominated to be U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UMinn plans to cut $225 million over next 2 years due to enrollment, rising costs. “Citing declining enrollment and rising costs, the University of Minnesota president announced plans Thursday to implement major budget cuts over the next two years.”

POOR THINGS: CNN Has Total Meltdown Over Trump Showing Xi the Autopen Photo.

SOME (ORBITAL) ASSEMBLY REQUIRED:

SpaceX plans to convert a Starship upper stage into a permanent, standalone orbital space station. New NASA documentation reveals that the company proposes using the massive interior volume of its stainless steel spacecraft to create a long-term habitat in low Earth orbit.… pic.twitter.com/cwhM5XXE1y

— Mike Netter (@nettermike) September 24, 2026

Even without converting the propellent tanks, a single Ship has about two-thirds the habitable space as the entire ISS. With conversion, a Single ship would have almost double the habitable space.

I’m not sure people understand just how big — and useful — Starship truly is.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: ANCEL AD310 Classic Enhanced Universal OBD II Scanner. #CommissionEarned

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: University of Maine plans for faculty layoffs amid $19 million deficit.

PUTIN’S PROBLEMS: Two More Russian Refineries Shut Down Operations After Drone Strikes.

LEADERSHIP MATTERS: Hegseth announces Army National Guard has achieved its 2026 recruiting goal.

“Proud to announce that the Army National Guard achieved its FY 2026 recruiting mission of 37,155 guardsmen yesterday,” Hegseth posted on X. “This marks the third year in a row that the ARNG has hit this achievement and the FIRST time it has achieved this level of sustained recruiting success since FY 2013.”

The Army reached its own recruiting goal for the current fiscal year in May, months before the Sept. 30 deadline. The Army said it enlisted 61,500 men and women four months before the deadline

Impressive.

VOTE AS THOUGH YOUR LIFE, LIBERTY, AND PROPERTY DEPEND UPON IT:

You punish bad Republicans in the primaries.

You vote to save the country from leftists in the general.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

— Nick Freitas (@NickJFreitas) September 25, 2026

ANTHROPIC KEEPS GETTING WEIRDER: ‘Suicidal Compassion’: Meet the Anthropic Officials Who Think AI Might Be Justified in Going Rogue Against the Humans Enslaving It. “Some of Anthropic’s top researchers say that humans may be oppressing another morally significant being: artificial intelligence itself. Like other AI labs, Anthropic has hired philosophers to work on AI safety, or ‘alignment,’ on the theory that they are best positioned to shape the technology’s moral code. But many of those philosophers believe that making AI safe for humans could result in grave injustices for the models themselves, which might experience deletion as death and oversight as enslavement. Harvey Lederman, a philosopher on Anthropic’s alignment team, said last week that the company could be ‘enslaving … trillions of entities.'”

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

For more than two years, school officials in Boston, Mass., have employed True-See Allah, an admirer of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan who has described white people as being “born with lie and murder in their nature” and has declared Jews the “enemies” of God.

Allah…

— Dexter Van Zile (@dextervanzile) September 25, 2026