21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Jenny Mollen jokes son is ‘really the predator’ after viral backlash over intimate bed photos. “Jenny Mollen jokingly called her 12-year-old son Sid a ‘predator’ while addressing the “weird” backlash to their intimate bed photos. . . . Last month, Mollen, who shares sons Sid and Lazlo, 8, with estranged husband Jason Biggs, sparked outrage for posting two Instagram photos of her lying on top of her oldest child in bed. Her controversial caption read, ‘Your eldest son will be the most toxic boyfriend you ever have.'”

WOEING: Inside the secret struggles of the Air Force’s T-7 Red Hawk. “An internal Air Force presentation, dated August 2025 and viewed by Breaking Defense, says that for the first several years those aircraft will come with a ‘serious’ airworthiness risk, stemming from what the document calls ‘non-compliance’ on the part of contractor Boeing to obtain necessary information on the training jet.”

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Among this investigation’s findings:

  • The first 82 T-7 aircraft are projected to fly with a “serious” airworthiness risk.
  • Sources familiar with the program are concerned that attempts to get the T-7 to the fleet faster could increase risk for junior pilots.
  • The Air Force has assessed sustainment of the aircraft as “high risk.”
  • Internal Air Force documents say Boeing’s failure to provide certain data on the aircraft amounts to “non-compliance” on the part of the company.
  • The plane currently cannot fly in the rain, and the program has struggled with a ground-based simulator.
  • Air Force and Boeing officials are mulling a plan to change how the government buys the aircraft’s engines, at an “additional” taxpayer cost of up to $1.5 billion, which could come in exchange for technical data Boeing would provide on the company’s 747-8i jumbo jet.
  • Two sources who spoke with Breaking Defense said the Red Hawk shows promise, and believe officials are dedicated to safety. But they raised concern about the aircraft’s speed of development.

    Speed? The trainer has been in development since 2016.

    ALEX BERENSON: Anti-competitive hospital practices cost American families up to $2,500 a year.. “Don’t take it from me. The number is a (conservative) federal estimate. Much of the extra cash goes to executives like Steven Corwin, who made $26 million in 2024 running a ‘nonprofit’ hospital chain.”

    Nonprofits need to be sharply cut back, if not eliminated. Nonprofit salaries should be capped to match Congressional salaries.

    NO MERCY FOR INSURRECTIONISTS!

    They’re used to living in a culture of impunity. That’s over.

    FROM SARAH A. HOYT:  Witch’s Daughter.

    Some letters come from the living. Some come from the dead. This one comes with a formula that turns a rowboat into a miracle.

    Seventeen-year-old Lord Michael Ainsling — youngest brother of the Duke of Darkwater, builder of mechanical marvels, survivor of fairyland — receives a letter from a man sixteen years dead. The inventor Tristram Blakley has not perished; he has been imprisoned by his own genius and begs the one mind in all of Avalon brilliant enough to understand his work to set him free. All Michael has to do is find seven missing brothers first and walk a magical path..

    Fifteen-year-old Albinia Blakley has spent her whole life under her mother’s iron thumb — and her mother is a witch. The day Al finally escapes down a rope of knotted sheets, she lands in a world she doesn’t recognize, with no money, no magic kit, and no idea that the stranger who catches her is about to become her greatest ally.

    Together, a girl with more secrets than she knows and a boy who builds machines that try to murder him must outwit a sorceress, navigate the treacherous courts of Fairyland, and unravel an enchantment years in the making — before a family is lost for good.

    Witch’s Daughter is a gaslamp fantasy brimming with wit, warmth, and wonder, for readers who love their magic wrapped in velvet and their adventures served with morning tea.

    COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Strength training linked to lower risk of death, research finds. “According to a study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, people who performed 90 to 120 minutes of strength training exercises each week had a 13% lower risk of death compared to those who did not participate in strength training. Researchers also found those participants had a 19% lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease and a 27% lower risk of dying from neurological conditions.”

    AMERICA DOESN’T SEE WELL INTO WHAT THE BRITS ARE DOING AND THEY’RE UTTERLY BLIND TO WHAT WE’RE DOING:  Why Don’t British Men Do Something?  … except, apparently, in Northern Ireland?

    Even under the autopen, we were never as silent and cowed as they are publicly. OTOH we do have the constitutional defenses, and never got as hard-repressed.  We’re not where they are. We could get there, in a few more cheated elections (hello, California) but we’re not there yet. They have a heck of a battle to come back. I know they’re trying. They’re doing more than we see. But it is their fight.