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Hat Hair's Beege Welborn is incensed Drexel University Closes Philadelphia's 200 Yr Old Academy of Natural Sciences

A beloved Philadelphia museum is now closed for good, after nearly 200 years of educating children and families. The Academy of Natural Sciences on the Ben Franklin Parkway was open to the public one final day on Sunday.  Drexel University announced the surprise closure last month, citing declining attendance and the university's financial struggles.

City Council plans to hold a special hearing next month to hear from museum leadership about the struggles leading to the closure.

The museum was founded in 1812 and opened to the public in 1828.

This is unconscionable. No notice to fundraise and save any of the treasures, like Lewis and Clark's samples, which were sent back from the expedition. It's not just dinosaurs.

The Academy of Natural Sciences will close its Parkway museum at the end of the month, ending a nearly 200-year run as a destination for generations of visitors.

The museum, founded in 1812 and opened to the public in 1828, has long been a fixture for families, students and educators.

News of the closure left many visitors disappointed as they reflected on memories made inside the institution's galleries and exhibits.  "I think it's a loss to Philadelphia," said Marcia Halbert of Germantown. Halbert, 97, said she visited the museum with her children and brought students there during her career as a teacher.

This is as underhanded as can be. And tragic.

I used to work for the Academy. I started at the Academy's Benedict Estuarine Research Laboratory (in Benedict MD) in 1985 as a post-doc, and stayed there until 2004, when the Academy sold/gave the laboratory to Morgan State University because we ran a chronic $20 k budget deficit in a multimillion dollar, multi-investigator program. So naturally, my view on this is a bit more nuanced. An institution is going to do what it's got to do.

Money, as always, was the issue that drove conflict. The public face of the institution, the museum which is now being closed, had a fairly large endowment and the curators in the museum mostly received money for the endowment, and from proceeds from the museum. The research arm, of which I was a part, was largely self-funded through grants and contracts. Both sides resented the other. 

This article doesn't mention it, but the research arm is still continuing under Drexel. I assume the collections, some of which would be worth real money, will be kept by Drexel, although I suppose some might be sold off to raise money. Like the Audubon Elephant Folio, kept on display under glass in the Academy library. I assume the bulk of the collections will largely go to cheaper off-site facilities, like the ones the Smithsonian keeps in Suitland, MD. 

There was an apocryphal rumor among Academy employees that back in the glory days of the 19th century, rich Philadelphians used to visit Africa on safari, and send back stuffed animals, and other things for the collection. One was reported to be a pygmy bearer who died on safari, stuffed into a barrel of alcohol, and shipped back to the Academy. I want to know who gets custody of the pygmy.

Flotsam and Jetsam - The FlyDubai Captain Speaks

The pilot of the FlyDubai flight is well enough to talk. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair hears the Hero Captain Speak: 'I Knew I Was Not Going to Let Others Die.' From the Victory Girls, FlyDubai Flight Reveals Heroes Instead Of Becoming A Horror. "I was so badly hurt that I had fallen to the ground. But I knew I had to act. I could feel the aircraft was going down." "Said Capt. Smit Machchhar, from a hospital bed, quoted in "'I Couldn’t Let All of Them Die': Pilot on FlyDubai Flight Recalls Sudden Attack/Capt. Smit Machchhar, who was stabbed by his co-pilot midair between Dubai and Tel Aviv, said he 'had to act' to prevent a crash despite serious injuries"

From NYPo, Trump’s Iran strategy is working — the ayatollah suffers as oil flows again. NewsSquawk reports US Treasury Secretary Bessent says Iran loaded zero crude oil onto tankers in September. The Trump Administration is cutting off the Iranian regime’s most critical source of revenue. RCW asserts Tehran’s Hormuz Offer Reveals Its Real Dilemma. "The Islamic Republic faces two dangers at once. Continued war drains the resources it needs to govern. Yet wartime conditions have made it easier for the state to define and contain domestic opposition as a national security threat. Tehran needs economic relief, but an agreement over the Strait of Hormuz will not resolve the crisis that already existed between the government and Iranian society." Bob Spencer at PJM notes Iran Touts Islam's Teachings of Equality. Reality, As Always, Is Different.

At Right Times with Kathy Gyngell, Why China Will Not Invade Taiwan. "Behind China's vast military lies an untested army, a purged high command and a leadership at war with itself." PJM's Sarah Anderson sees Venezuela 9 Months Later: Pressure, Protests, Power Outages... and a U.S. Military Base?

Hat Hair's Dave Strom thinks Canada's Ministers are Living in a Dream World. "Canada was, for years running, neck and neck with the US in terms of economic performance, but no longer. In productivity growth, for instance, Canada is right at the bottom of the G7, and its GDP per capita is dreadful compared to its competitors." At Da Signal, Victor Davis Hanson wonders Why Is Mark Carney Preparing for an American Invasion? "Carney is doing this, once again, to jack up opinion in Canada for a new nationalism to avoid the great dissatisfaction in Alberta and Quebec, and especially to try to influence the midterms in the United States and to otherwise mask his unpopular socialist globalist agenda."

At Construction Physics, Understanding the AI That Drives Robots, "An Explanation of Vision-Language-Action Models." Chris Queen at PJM hears AI Is Going to Destroy Us All — Just Like Everything Else Was Supposed To. John Sexton at Hat Hair, Headquarters @HQNewsNow, "Bill Gates on Trump's idea to use lawsuits to regulate AI: "Do we just use the liability laws to try and keep humans safe? ... We've created a society that tries to keep people safe not by saying, 'oh, we can bankrupt the person who does that.' ... Say you kill 100 million. You want to use a lawsuit? I almost can't keep a straight face.""

Capt. Ed, Midterm Miss: US Adds Only 29,000 Jobs in September. Breitbart Bus Dig explores Republican Electoral Optimism Versus Consumer Sentiment. From Twitchy, LA-HOO-ZA-HER: Hillary Clinton Instantly REGRETS Sharing 2 Headlines to Dunk on Trump's Economy. 

Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil, "Amazing. These researchers found that there's a spike in Bitcoin activity around the time foreign aid money goes out. Somewhere between 2 and 6 cents of every dollar of World Bank foreign aid disbursements got siphoned off into crypto wallets." From Ace, RFKJr. Exposes More Billions in Medical Fraud.

Don Surber tells Trump his Best midterm strategy? Finish the job "What is the use of being president if you don’t do the job as you see fit?" Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius. "In any competitive situation, winning requires two things: 1. The ability to win. 2. The will to win. MAGA has consistently shown the ability to win at the ballot box. Thus, the mid-terms come down to MAGA's will to win. This is why you are experiencing an epic information war campaign to convince you that you cannot win. That campaign's singular purpose is to BREAK your WILL to win. Please do not let that happen." From Decision Desk HQ, Episode 46: Can Susan Collins survive in Maine? Can Sherrod Brown flip Ohio? Capt. Ed is happy Paxton Goes Soft? $20M Family-Ad Campaign Floods Texas. unseen1 @unseen1_unseen, "Yeap. The dems aren't acting like it's in the bag anymore." Quote Seth Keshel @RealSKeshel, "There is a WHOLE LOT of language out there like this right now: 1) Republicans will steal the election 2) Republicans will buy the election 3) Polls have underestimated Republicans." Mark Tapscott says Not So Fast on That Coming Democrat Blue Wave. TownHall's Matt Vespa thinks We Need to Talk About the Current Slate of 2026 Polls. "Polling during the Trump years has always been atrocious, and this 2026 cycle is even more outrageous. The problem is increasing polarization and the insanity of liberals, who no doubt harass these pollsters when they see what they don’t like — Nate Silver got this treatment a little in 2024 — so silly things happen. These are businesses, so they chalk up whatever concerns to who’s paying. O’Connor notes that’s part of the problem: whatever you think, there’s a poll to satisfy your bias."

VodkaPundit at Insty notes IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Abdul El-Sayed Billed County Taxpayers $9,000 a Month in ‘Consulting’ Fees While Running for Senate. Hat Hair's Dave Strom, Caught: Abdul El-Sayed 'Resigned' From Government Job to Run for Senate, Remained on Payroll. Peter J. Hasson @peterjhasson, "Abdul you're not going to believe this but SpaceX alone made 4,400 millionaires, including welders and cafeteria workers." Quote Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed, "I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire." From CJ, Mamdani Will Be Honored Alongside Group with Alleged Ties to Iranian Regime. John Sexton can't believe Mamdani: Socialism Is Just Dignity. Everywhere it's been tried it bring poverty and totalitarianism, the opposite of dignity. AP @Average_NY_Guy, "He’s planning to spend $607 MILLION to renovate… Wait for it… 1,148 apartments. That’s roughly $528,746 PER APARTMENT. For renovations. $607 million is an insane amount of money. Private developers renovate projects with thousands of apartments for a fraction of that. Give $607 million to a Hasidic developer from Brooklyn and he’ll renovate half the city, put up a whole neighborhood of new buildings, and probably still come in under budget." Quote NYCHA @NYCHA, "@NYCHA closes $607M deal to modernize Brooklyn’s Nostrand Houses via the Public Preservation Trust! Highlights: • Renovations for 1,148 apartments (~2,000 residents) • Lead/mold fix & upgrades • 100% public & affordable • 100% public ownership." It's not like it's his money. Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, "JUST NOW: The Trump White House just LAUNCHED a devastating tracker that calculates the exact cost of Democrats’ 2026 socialist policies would cost the U.S. if they win $355,000 PER HOUSEHOLD. INCOME PLUMMETS. MORTGAGE RATES SURGE! Vote red! Add about $49T to the deficit over 10 years, which the Council of Economic Advisers puts at roughly $355K per household: - $22K: lost take-home pay per worker every year if they raise taxes to pay for it - 12%+ 30-year mortgage rates if they borrow it - 130% to 160% higher prices over the decade - 254% federal debt as a share of GDP by 2036, more than DOUBLE today - 39.6% average federal income tax rate, up from 14.1% - 6.9M jobs lost from the 32-hour workweek at the high - 3.3M rental homes lost to rent control DSA also calls for ABOLISHING the police and the prison system, which then costs lives!" At TownHall, a video, Socialism Offers 'Liberation,' but It's Really About Control. Russ Greene @GreenPlusAnE, "Robert Nozick explains socialism's attraction to intellectuals: they don't care about the "working class". Rather, they resent capitalists for earning more money than them, despite their apparently inferior merit. They're disappointed meritocrats, not suffering laborers." From NotTheBee, Democrat confuses 'Mein Kampf' and 'Communist Manifesto' during attack on Republican opponent.

PJM's Vicky Taft has another edition of West Coast, Messed Coast™ — After Decades, Could This Political Earthquake Happen? Yes, If You Vote. "Could it be that after 40 years in the progressive oppressive wilderness, Oregon could elect the first GOP governor since Vic Atiyeh in 1982? Let's grab the Magic 8 Ball. "Most likely," it reads. California is murkier, but hope springs eternal. We'll talk about it." NYPo reports Nithya Raman takes double-digit lead over Karen Bass in new LA mayor’s race prediction. Frying pan, fire. With the caveat that midterm polling sucks. From the Free Bacon, High Hopes Never Die: Buttigieg Surges to 1 Percent With Black Voters, "Plus: Kamala Harris flexes her famed rhetorical chops on the campaign trail."

John Sexton reports Letitia James Takes Over Cornell 7 Case (She Issued Her Judgement Days Ago). Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate, "Hochul is a very unpopular governor and her aids probably told her to do this because they think it will rally the base. The only thing that it will do is further delegitimize the prosecutorial apparatus. If you’re a ‘reasonable Dem’ this should be a blackpill because Hochul is a Catholic from Buffalo - she’s supposed to be a sensible, moderating force and not a rabid, unprincipled ideologue." Quote Phil Holloway @PhilHollowayEsq, "New York Governor Kathy Hochul has removed local DA Matthew Van Houten from the Cornell 7 case She says she lost confidence. And has thus appointed New York AG Letitia James. Politics has fully infected this case." Buck Sexton @BuckSexton, "You appoint Laetitia James as special prosecutor because you want a predetermined outcome, not an investigation or an impartial prosecutorial decision based on fact and law Hochul knows this. Everyone does." Insty, IF YOU WONDERED IF THE CORNELL THING WAS A POLITICAL OP: Hochul Names Letitia James as Special Prosecutor in Cornell Case and IF IT WASN’T OBVIOUS BEFORE, THE LAETITIA JAMES APPOINTMENT MAKES IT SO: Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "The October Unsurprise" Quote Paul @WomanDefiner, "Lol, democrats plan to gas up mentally ill females by highlighting the Clancy trial, the Cornell 7 story, and the execution of the first female inmate in decades is kind of ingenious but utterly destructive long term. All of these stories are built on bald faced lies or lies by omission. Millions of dollars is being thrown at leftist online personalities and foreign bot farms to push it. I bet they highlight a few more before November." Dan McLaughlin at NRO explores The Moral Wilderness of the Cornell Seven Case "We should get the facts and the law straight before holding a moral panic — but we should still demand a more moral society." That ship has sailed. Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "It is necessary for you to believe this young woman did not lustily agree to be gangbanged. By white males (also a brown one and an Asian one but never mind that.) Through the first Tuesday in November, anyway. After that, never mind. The fun part will be the slander suits, prosecutorial abuse suits after the dust settles." Quote C3 @C_3C_3, "Well well well… The signed statement did not claim she was drugged against her will, unconscious, or gang-raped, and that sex stopped when she asked."

Josh Blackmun at the Volokh Conspiracy says Somehow the N.Y. Times Made Me Sympathetic To Chief Justice Roberts. "Jodi Kantor's latest expose tells us nothing about the Court's decision but does destroy John Roberts's last refuge from scoundrels like me."

Matt Margolis, Renee Good's Family Sues the Government. Here’s Everything That Blows Up Their Case. From Campus Reform, UIC students protest CBP recruiting, demand ‘sanctuary campus’

Vodka at Insty looks at France, Visegrád 24 @visegrad24, "A French woman tells one of the second and third-generation migrant rioter no to vandalize her city He responds by trying to set her face on fire." Rick Morab at PJM, Rioting at French Schools Explodes Nationwide as the Government Is Running Scared. Beege Welborn, No Worries: Rotherham Man Explodes on Street, Determined to Be a 'Household Accident.' Stephen Kruiser thinks The United Kingdom Has Outlived Its Usefulness to the Free World. cdrsalamander @cdrsalamander, "They’ve destroyed their cities." Quote Richard J. Schenk @RichardJSchenk, "EU Commission staff refuse to move to Brussels North station due to crack smoking, public defecation & human trafficking. The EU’s disastrous migration policies also destroyed Brussels North, but Eurocrats think only regular people should have to live with the consequences." VodkaPundit at Insty says OH NO, PLEASE DON’T SPARK WORRIES: ":Japan’s harsher permanent residency rules, hiked visa fees begin, sparking xenophobia worries. “The Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act sets three requirements for permanent residency: good conduct; assets or skills sufficient to make an independent living; and the person’s permanent residence being in Japan’s national interest. The government revised its guidelines Oct. 1, making the second and third requirements stricter.” Those rules aren’t xenophobia — they’re just good sense."

Beege Welborn sees a Maine Wire Reporter Needed the 'Reflexes of a Cheetah' Today 

Some lunatic just attempted to murder our reporter @iAmJoeSokol.

We have the entire chilling interaction on camera.

We will take all necessary actions to demand justice. pic.twitter.com/Iwlpf3BWIx

— The Maine Wire (@TheMaineWire) October 1, 2026

I&I sees Reality Slaps College Graduates In The Face "The job market is booming for young people – but not those with college degrees. Are employers finally coming to realize that colleges these days mainly produce coddled, know-nothing, whiny, entitled brats? A recent analysis from Burning Glass Institute found that unemployment among those 22-34 years old without a college degree is lower than it’s been in decades, but those with college diplomas are having a much harder time finding work than before." The college educated have not done a good job of demonstrating their usefulness. 

Rusty Weiss at RedState, Bad News, Bra Burners: Sydney Sweeney’s Naked Sports Ad Just Hit the Jackpot "Sweeney’s naked sports ad for Novig has done more than just turn heads. It helped the prediction-market platform quadruple its valuation, from $500 million earlier this year to $2 billion by the end of September. Oh, and also sure to enrage the woke sports mob? The "Euphoria" star is an equity investor in the company. The paper value of her undisclosed stake has likely skyrocketed, too. "Novig continues to field investor interest and could raise additional capital soon at an even higher valuation," the Wall Street Journal reported. Everything she touches turns to gold."

Confirmed: Sydney Sweeney knows ball. pic.twitter.com/EXQ4PzVZsi

— Novig (@Novig) September 9, 2026

Matt Margolis, Michelle Obama Accidentally Admits That Trans Ideology Is Biologically Absurd. "Men would film themselves going into labor, and honoring their pain, you know? There would be trophies given," she said. She went on to say that "there would be the birth-Olympics," and then played the part of one fella congratulating another. "Well done, dude! Bob, you did that without an epidural!" Hold the phone here. Haven't Democrats been telling us for years now that men can get pregnant? Why, yes they have."

And, of course more still left on the Table at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 10.02.26 (Afternoon Edition) and In The Mailbox: 10.02.26 (Evening Edition).

Rule 5 Saturday - Jocelyn Binder

This week's Rule 5 wonder is  Jocelyn Binder, Sexy After Breast Cancer

Jocelyn Binder is an unstoppable model & influencer hailing from Los Angeles California by way of Florida. Launching her modeling career at age 15, Jocelyn signed to Wilhelmina and Direct Model Management in New York non-exclusively and went on to be featured in publications such as Maxim, multiple international Playboy editions (including the cover of Playboy South Africa), FHM and others. She also starred alongside Johnny Depp in Marilyn Manson's "Say10" music video.

At age 28 she was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent chemotherapy and a double mastectomy that, for a short time, halted her modeling career. Given a diagnosis that had a median of 24 months before death, Jocelyn resigned herself to fight. She formed a powerful system by combining Western & Eastern medicine with modern techniques that left her without a trace of cancer in her body. Throughout her recovery, Jocelyn found herself fielding questions about her journey, and decided she would share her story. Vowing to spread some of the wisdom that guided her from stage 4 cancer to remission in just ten months, she wrote the book “Sexy After Breast Cancer”. Jocelyn's powerful account of resilience is a warning shot to the disease and a reminder that women can embrace their sexiness at any stage of their fight.

Once in a while she even breaks model protocol, and smiles.

Beach Report 10/2/26

Wow! 80 F with light south winds, and moderate humidity and a few wispy, high clouds.

There's an Osprey in that picture somewhere. In fact, I saw two in the air at one time. Is there a dad still taking care of a juvenile? 

The tide was pretty low, but the beach is still "different" after the nor'easter. Lot's of good material to look through. The top tooth is a well worn lower Mako Shark. I'm pretty sure the lower tooth is a sadly broken retroflexus, the much rarer Long-fin Mako. If it had been intact it would have been one of our best ever.

Flotsam and Jetsam - FlyDubai Hijack Updates and a New Attack Thwarted

Cathy Salgado at PJM reports Netanyahu Confirms Hijacker Had ‘Islamist Radical Indoctrination.’ From NRO, Thwarted Hijacker Underwent ‘Islamist Radical Indoctrination,’ Netanyahu Says. Ace, Source at FlyDubai: The Omani Co-Pilot Was a "Religious Extremist" (Non-Amish Division), "We Hired the Services of a Terrorist". "Via Ed Morrissey, "We may never know the motive" once again becomes "We knew the motive all along because of course." But the media will never get tired of playing this game." Mary Chastain at LI, ‘Altercation’: Media Downplays Cockpit Stabbing on Flight Carrying 174 to Israel, "How the media described the stabbing: altercation, “violent” altercation, fought, struggle." From Twitchy, Israel War Room Torches NBC News' Post About Plane That Apparently Decided to Try and Crash Itself. NBC News @NBCNews, "He is being hailed around the world as a hero for helping stop a passenger plane bound for Israel from plunging into the ground, despite his own severe injuries." And, 'Did the Terrorist Write This Headline?' CBS Dusts Off a Media Cliché for Hijacking Attempt Update CBS News @CBSNews, "Questions about the motive of the co-pilot who tried to crash a packed flight from Dubai to Israel continue to swirl." Laughing Wolf's take on the FlyDubai Incident. Zionist Squirrel @Contra_Flash, "The flydubai incident is a good litmus test to see if people who claim they aren’t Nazis or Nazi-esque can condemn an attempt to kill a plane full of Israelis without excusing it, minimizing it, “contextualizing” it, or deciding the victims had it coming." Quote crunchyrugger @crunchyrugger, "they cannot."

Sunny @sunnyright, "Second foiled antisemitic terrorist attack in one day." Quote Tom Winter @Tom_Winter, "NBC News: Plot to attack Texas capitol foiled, DPS says. Suspect allegedly told his friend that he was angry at AIPAC (American Israeli Public Affairs Committee) and that "these people have to be exterminated."" AG @AGHamilton29, "I don’t know how anyone can keep seeing these stories and not realize how the current environment, including a lot of the conspiratorial rhetoric from the far-left and alt-right, is encouraging political violence." Ace, Of Course: Texas Police and FBI Disrupt Planned Terror Attack to "Shoot Up" the State Capitol, Out of Antisemitic Animus. "No word on his immigration status. No statement that he's a citizen. So maybe he's one of those Doctors and Engineers our country would collapse without." Mary Chastain again, UK PM Burnham: ‘Strong Indications’ Iran is Linked to RAF Fairford Plot. "Then WHY did you guys release them on bail!!?" The Bebe, UK-Iranian dual national arrested over RAF Fairford incident, police say. Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "Well there’s an Iranian link. Is this going to be another catch and release?" Quote Politics UK @PolitlcsUK, "BREAKING: Counter Terror Police have arrested a 27-year-old dual UK/Iranian national in London on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts over the RAF Fairford plot." From the Babylon Bee, Britain Apologizes For Disrupting Whatever It Was Nice Muslim Men Were Doing.

Bob Spencer at PJM looks at what happens to A Connecticut Jihadi in an Obama Judge’s Court. Dave Bernstein at Insty, NOTHING IS MORE PATHETIC THAN WATCHING A POLITICIAN DEFEND THE INDEFENSIBLE BECAUSE IT’S IN HER POLITICAL INTEREST TO DO SO: Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy, "“We’ll make sure no non-Muslims live in our city.” How? By charging a “service fee”, and funneling 75% of it to the mosque. “We’ll name our streets after the greatest Islamic conquerors, like Khalid bin al-Waleed.” “If they keep saying Muslims want to take over America, it will become a reality.” “We’ll use the infidels to serve Islam. John Smith will get us the permits. We have the money.”" Dave Strom, Muslims Keep Saying the Not-So-Quiet Part Out Loud, Elites Keep Saying It's Not True and What Do You Get When You Combine the French Love of Riots With Muslim Love of Riots. More and bigger riots. PJM's Aaron Hanscom, Why Jews Who Turn on Israel to Be Loved Still Get Hated. Ace is disgusted; Of COURSE: The UK Gives the Exact Same Sentence to a Muslim Immigrant for Actually Setting a Migrant Hotel on Fire As They Gave a White Citizen for Briefly Saying "Burn the Hotels Down for All I care."

Ace is irate that Iran Urges Americans to Vote for Democrats. "FOREIGN COLLUSION?! The case for Democrat collusion with Iran is far, far more extensive than the completely-fake Hillary campaign contrivance of "RUSSIAN COLLUSION." And the mad theocrats of Iran are making their support of the Democrat Party explicit." And vice versa. Dick Pollock at The World In Crisis views an Explosive New Film Reveals Iran’s Mass Killing of Protesters. "Independent Documentary Is Released A Week Ago...the Western Media Doesn’t Care." And neither do the Democrats. PJM's Eric Florack thinks The Real Battle Isn't Iran vs. the World; It's Iran's People vs. the IRGC. At YaHoo! Persian Gulf crude oil flows have largely recovered. For diesel and gasoline, it's more complicated.

Ace wakes up to realize Secretary of War Hegseth Plans to Fire 20% of All Generals and Admirals; Appoints a Panel to Game Out the Future of Warfare, Including Elon Musk. Hat Hair's Dave Strom has good news Chances of Chinese Attack on Taiwan in the Near Term Seem to Be Diminishing. From The Scuttlebutt, Enemy Actions. At YaHoo, Cold War Spy Satellite FARRAH III Breaks Apart in Orbit, Cause Unknown, maybe just an accident. Maybe.

From Campus Reform opines Universities must adapt quickly to AI to preserve the value of a college degree. "'If students continue to use AI to elide cognitive friction, they will fail to master the material and enhance their skill sets.'" Bloomberg reports Google Grapples With Employee Skepticism About New Gemini Model. CNBC, SpaceX launches Google AI chips into orbit in push toward space-based data centers. Race @multiplanet1, "After the first Falcon 1 rocket exploded 33 seconds after launch in March 2006, Elon Musk did something that his employees did not expect. He personally called the family members of the engineers who had worked on the rocket. Not the engineers. Their families. The engineers were at the launch site. They had watched their work explode in the sky. They were processing the failure in real time with their colleagues. They had each other. Their families were at home. Their spouses and parents had watched on a livestream or heard the news secondhand. They had no colleagues. They had no context. They just knew that the thing their husband or wife or child had spent 3 years building had just been destroyed in 33 seconds and they didn't know if anyone was hurt. Elon called to tell them everyone was safe. That the failure was a known risk. That the team would try again. That their family member had done extraordinary work and the explosion was not a reflection of their ability..."

Rod Martin calls it The Greatest Story Never Told: Trump’s Economic Miracle. "Trump’s economy has produced all-time record household income and an all-time record-low poverty rate. Now the Atlanta Fed predicts 5 percent GDP growth. You’d think somebody would notice." KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat, "NEW: RFK Jr. says Medicare spending on wound care patches exploded from $200 million in 2019 to $14 billion last year: "It's all stolen." Bad actors billed Medicare billions by slapping the most expensive skin grafts on elderly and dying patients who didn't need them. "The doctors who prescribed them would get 6% of the sales cost. And so, they were incentivized to prescribe more expensive products. In Europe, they spend 35 cents a cubic inch. We were spending $135, and that went up to $2,000 a cubic inch." "So 2019, we were paying $200 million. Last year we spent 14 billion. All stolen. It's all stolen. And we were on track to spend 23 billion this year." "We put an end to it, and we now have driven that cost down to somewhere around a billion dollars...."

PJM's Matt Margolis sees CNN’s Data Guru Just Dropped Brutal Numbers for the Democrats’ Midterm Dreams. The Calvin Coolidge Project @TheCalvinCooli1, "Just in: Chuck Schumer says Republicans would Steal the Midterms Elections He said: “Two things could have us to lose. One, they steal the election. The second thing is money. They have obscene amounts of money.”" From Da Signal, 47 Democrats Refuse to Vote to Ban Insider Trading. Ace hears The Muskily Heterosexual James Talarico: Despite My Transparently Disingenuous Claims to Have Moderated on the Trans Issue, I Have Not Changed My Position At All. "There's always the question with shifty, dishonest left-wing politicians. You know they're lying, but who are they lying to? When they claim to be moderate, are they lying to the moderates? Or are they lying to the leftist base?" They're lying to the moderates. Matt Margolis thinks Platner’s Replacement Nukes His Campaign With Disgusting Holocaust Remark. Matt Vespa thinks Troy Jackson's Apology to Jewish Voters Shows Dems Don't Know What Genocide Is. The Free Bacon reports Sen Kirsten Gillibrand Dons a Hijab at Bronx Mosque, Alongside Cleric Who Praises Hamas and Osama Bin Laden’s Mentor, in Under-the–Radar Visit. "The mosque in ‘Little Yemen’ has multiple ties to Muslim extremists and Hamas supporters." From PM, Pramila Jayapal questioned socialist Seattle mayor's competence during mass shooting response: 'I’m not confident she knows what she is doing'. Shooting News Week sees Virginia AG is Making the Process the Punishment in the Old Dominion’s War on Guns. Cathy Salgado hears Hilton Mock Becerra for Saying Tax Breaks for Those Earning Under $150K Benefit ‘the Wealthiest’.

Hugh Hewitt @hughhewitt, "Sometimes it takes your breath away. President Middle Finger, “You can keep your doctor,” “the ‘80s called” and “Tell Vladimir that after the elections….”" Quote Townhall.com @townhallcom, "Barack Obama: "I don't understand how we got so toxic and just so divided and so bitter."" Matt Vespa sees Bill Maher Had George Santos on His Podcast. It Didn't Disappoint. “It’s all F*CKING Kabuki theater!” “At the end of the day it ends in pizza. You know what that means?”

Brianna Lyman at Da Fed, Jack Smith Spied On And Targeted The Federalist During Biden’s Anti-Trump Witch Hunt.

NYPo, Trump’s $100,000 fee for new H-1B worker visas blocked by second judge. 

Dan Greenfield, aka Sultan Knish, sees Bari Weiss is Destroying CBS News. "No raping? No lies? You can’t do journalism that way." You go, girl!

Quotulatiousness likes Trump’s student loan policy change, "On the social media site formerly known as Twitter, Larry Correia applauds President Trump’s decision to stop providing goverment-backed student loans for courses that don’t provide students who graduate with a viable career path..." RCE takes A Closer Look at the Pentagon’s New Curriculum, not for soldiers, but for their kids. "Last month, the Associated Press reported that the Defense Department school system, which serves roughly 70,000 students at 160 schools around the world, will offer a new course on Western civilization drawing on The Golden Thread, the two-volume history by Allen Guelzo and James Hankins, and lesson materials developed with Hillsdale College." At Am Think, Monica Showalter on Why Johnny can't read in New York City's public schools: Failing upward: School officials who ran the bad NYC public school Nikole Hannah-Jones described get promoted. ROOZ @ROOZVA, "This is a sentence that should literally never be written. Fairfax County taxpayers are paying someone more than 3x the national median household income to run and office whose sole purpose is to racially discriminate against students. If that doesn’t radicalize you, I’m not sure what will." From the College Fix, Cal State lecturer removed after kicking student out for question on Native American alcoholism rates and Minority enrollment has increased since Supreme Court decision banning affirmative action, stats show. From the Martin Center, UCLA Would Rather You Didn’t Read the Syllabus. Seth Dillon @SethDillon, "What a heartwarming story. More of this, please." Quote WG1WGA @WWG1WGA_QQ, "School officials are in panic mode over kids revolting against “Pride Day” Kids refused to wear colors and some even chanted that their pronouns are USA."

From NYPo, Sydney Sweeney’s racy ads help sports betting platform quadruple valuation to $2B. Sex sells, duh. Driscoll at Insty catches a GREAT MOMENT IN DOUBLE STANDARDS: Kings reporters caught thirsting over Ben Simmons, Zach LaVine in wild hot-mic moment: ‘I like lightskins.’ "New Sacramento Kings guard Ben Simmons and his teammate Zach LaVine received an awkward welcome from several reporters during the team’s media day. A live stream of the Kings’ press conference caught a few women in the room speaking about the players in between interviews. One reporter was seemingly asking which player had been speaking the podium. “Ben Simmons. Ben Simmons was, that’s what comes with being Ben Simmons. Cringe. Cringe!” another woman responded. “He’s lucky he’s so fine,” one reporter said. “He’s a good looking dude! I didn’t notice, his skin is so smooth. I was like, damn, no tattoos?” said another. One male reporter said that that former Golden State Warriors guard Jordan Poole was the woman’s type, to which the woman said, “Allegedly, I like lightskins, I guess.” I’m sure the media would be equally laid back if the genders were reversed." Clay Travis @ClayTravis, "Women media members got caught on a hot mic discussing the hotness of Sacramento Kings players. If men in media were caught on a hot mic talking about hot female athletes they would be fired in five minutes and we’d have weeks of toxic masculinity stories." David Burge @iowahawkblog, "She bulldozed over Sophie Cunningham like a Mack truck, the refs gifted her with a foul on Sophie, the fan pointed at her and say "that was on you," and then she ran into the stands screaming at him like a toddler having a tantrum. Hope that helps." Quote Jemele Hill @jemelehill, "What just happened with A’ja Wilson and that Indiana fan? Whatever was said, it set A’ja off and she usually doesn’t react like that." Heather Mac Donald @HMDatMI, "Let’s take a moment, in light of the Cornell “rape case” hysteria, to savor the dilemmas facing the activists and academics who promote the idea of “rape culture.” If there is indeed a “culture of rape” at elite institutions, as Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez recently reaffirmed, why do female students flock into them? Cornell’s student body went from a little under 50 percent female in 2005 to nearly 54 percent female in 2025. The hoary (no pun intended) statistic bandied about relentlessly during the height of 2010’s campus rape frenzy—that one in four female undergraduates would be sexually assaulted during her college years—signifies a level of criminal sexual violence unheard of even during African tribal wars...." Suffragent @Suffragent_, "The eternally-validated Camille Paglia on the Cornell case. "The sexual revolution must be undone because middle-class women can't handle it. They cannot take responsibility for their own actions."" 

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