IF CALIFORNIA STILL ENJOYS A REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT, IT’S IN THE FORM OF A BANANA REPUBLIC: 15 Los Angeles Fraudsters Stole Almost $2 Billion.
October 23, 2026
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OF COURSE IT’S COMMIES: UW–Madison center that backs ‘progressive’ change promotes Marxist and activist-led events.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Pedal to the Metal: NASA’s Psyche Heads Toward Asteroid Belt.
“It’s now ‘pedal to the metal’ to the asteroid Psyche,” said Don Han, the Psyche mission’s navigation lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, which is managed for the agency by Caltech. “We will be running our propulsion system at every available opportunity, pausing only for necessary engineering activities. The thrusters will be operating nearly 90% of the time from now until we reach the asteroid.”
Where conventional spacecraft thrusters rely on large quantities of fuel to provide powerful bursts of thrust for relatively short periods of time, the Psyche spacecraft’s solar-powered propulsion system uses electromagnetic fields to steadily deliver up to 250 millinewtons of force — about the amount of force that you would feel from the weight of holding one AA battery.
Yes, but it adds up.
If the mission confirms Psyche’s potential, it could become the most valuable object in the solar system aside from Earth.
SUCCINCTLY PUT:
The whole ethos of Washington, D.C. these days is: let's keep the racket going as long as possible. This is every agency, every Congressional office, every lobbyist, every think tank. Idealism is gone. Public service is gone. The notion of government as servant of the people is…
— Jeffrey A Tucker (@jeffreytucker) October 23, 2026
THIS IS NO SURPRISE:
Another "fun" detail from today's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel meeting concerning the ISS. If the space station's lifetime is extended from 2030 to 2032, it is likely the US Deorbit Vehicle (a modified Dragon spacecraft) would launch on a non-Falcon rocket.
— Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) October 22, 2026
Not only is SpaceX retiring Falcon 9, but the overwhelming majority Starship launches will likely be devoted to in-house Starlink and Starmind deployments.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Somebody Please Get the Democrats an Ativan and an Election Defeat. “Stella Parton isn’t an outlier among the Dems. These are the people who will be voting for the people who may end up holding a lot of power in the United States government. Some of them are already in place. They’ve all been very open about what they want to do if they’re in charge again.”
LE CHANGEMENT:
Témoignage d’un ami à moi, commerçant à Paris.
« Ma boutique a été pillée le 17 octobre. Boutique de motos, en plein centre de Paris. Vingt et un ans que j’investis tout là-dedans. Je paie mes impôts, je suis père de famille » , et hier soir il a appelé tout ses amis dont moi.… pic.twitter.com/akaXhyKrDl
— Guillaume Herblot 🎖️ (@Guigz75116) October 23, 2026
Translation:
Testimony from a friend of mine, a shopkeeper in Paris.
“My shop was looted on October 17. A motorcycle shop, right in the heart of Paris. Twenty-one years I’ve poured everything into it. I pay my taxes, I’m a family man,” and last night he called all his friends, including me. Tomorrow we’ll be about twenty of us inside the shop, doors locked.
If it comes down to a confrontation, we’ll face it. I won’t let myself get looted a second time. Enough with the complaints that lead nowhere, enough waiting for someone else to protect what I’ve built.
“Tomorrow, it won’t be the police watching over my store anymore. It’ll be us.”
When the State abandons protecting the property of hardworking citizens, all that’s left is this: friends who organize and refuse to take it lying down.
Call it a militia if that suits you. To us, it’s just not getting looted again.
This is what happens when the authorities can’t or won’t take the necessary action.
UM: A Florida Attorney Walks Into a Mississippi Gun Store . . .: “White identified herself to an employee as a protester and activist who wanted to buy a gun to kill Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, according to the criminal complaint.”
OUCH:
Judge Henry Wingate just received the most vicious benchslap I've ever seen in an appellate opinion:
"The district court—or perhaps, being charitable, its AI agent—ignored and manipulated governing law, apparently to satisfy a policy agenda."
He was removed from the case. pic.twitter.com/fYOsqD5C4c
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) October 23, 2026
Full opinion here.
21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Anduril and Colossal Team Up for Warhound.
On Thursday, a joint venture between Dallas’ Colossal Biosciences and defense technology company Anduril announced its emergence from stealth. The startup is called Warhound, and its pitch is that with Colossal’s genetic engineering capabilities and Anduril’s cybernetic augments, it can create a new generation of working military dogs better suited to, and better protected from, today’s advanced battlefields.
Warhound, which will based in Dallas, raised $200 million in its seed round led by Sequoia Capital. The release describes Warhound as a “vertically integrated platform, combining Colossal’s enhanced genetics platform and secure biobanking capabilities of America’s top-performing dog arsenal, controlled delivery through cloning with best-in-class training and animal care.” The dogs will then be outfitted with ear and eye protection from Anduril, as well as connected with Anduril’s AI and augmented reality Eagle Eye headgear technology, to enable dogs and their handlers better situational awareness in the field.
For those familiar with the early 1980s-era RPG Traveller, you’ll know that the Vargr had to start somewhere.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Europe Begs Trump on Ukraine After Snubbing Him on Iran.
REAL NEWS VS. THE FAKE STUFF:
America currently has a cabal of ~1,600 former military officers/NCOs and ex-State/USAID/CIA employees who are members of the National Security Leaders for America, an organization currently involved in an active plot to overthrow our Constitutional order via an American Color… https://t.co/E4Od8u2LbL
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) October 23, 2026
THIS SEEMS RIGHT: BIA: Asylum Seekers Who Go Home Abandon Their Applications. “The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) — the DOJ administrative tribunal that reviews immigration decisions — recently issued an opinion in Matter of M-R-I-, concluding that applicants for asylum and related humanitarian protections who go back to their home countries on advance parole ‘absent compelling reasons for the return’ abandon those applications. That’s common sense — if an alien claims a country is too dangerous to return to, he shouldn’t voluntarily go there — but let’s wait to see what the federal courts think — and how they analyze the administrative decisions.”
SPOILER: CNN will not hold Tapper accountable.
Any comment on this from CNN? https://t.co/l046GtRDpL
— Benjamin Domenech (@bdomenech) October 22, 2026
THE LEFT OUTED ITSELF BY TRYING TO SMEAR THE LATE LINDSEY GRAHAM:
Jesse James Rose, a writer for The Advocate, argued that those he considers “hostile” to LGBTQ rights do not deserve privacy and defended exposing Graham.
That’s a fun new standard by which to invade privacy.
I don’t particularly like politicians who undermine my First and Second Amendment rights. Can I violate their privacy? Somehow, I’m guessing Rose would say that’s (D)ifferent.
The other thing is this: Swamp Watch says this project was a year in the making; Graham died July 11. Who did it serve to out a dead man, save their own egos?
Absolutely no one.
Related:
"Free Palestine" is really upset they didn't get to throw Lindsey Graham off a roof.
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) October 22, 2026
LIBERTARIANS SHOULDN’T LET THEMSELVES BE USED: Abdul El-Sayed’s Treasurer Behind Super PAC Pushing Third-Party Libertarian as ‘True Conservative’ in Michigan Senate Race.
IF WE HAVE TO GO THERE, LET’S GO THERE:
Meanwhile, we have a sitting US Senator from CA, Adam Schiff, whose buddy Ed Buck is in jail for drugging and murdering his young male prostitutes.
Did Adam ever participate in sex parties at Ed Buck's house? Did he get drugs from Ed? Be useful, Harry. https://t.co/J7pm97VgAW
— Jennifer Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) October 22, 2026
KURT SCHLICHTER: Dem Hack Drops the Mask and Lets Her Fascism Freak Flag Fly.
The sour, bitter face of our enemy is the face of the chubby girl who always tried to get between you and her hot roommate — except instead of a double-bagger trying to block your shot, she’s now a Democrat trying to condemn you to serfdom. It’s the same face you see worn by malignant amphibians like Elissa Slotkin (D-CIA), a particularly loathsome creature who trumpets her time at the Central Intelligence Agency to establish her phony USA! USA! bona fides. This comes at the same time she supports a Jew-hating communist to be her co-senator who is, at minimum, a slobbering affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood. Whether her flex is calculated or stupid is a puzzlement; does she think she’s exploiting him instead of being exploited herself? It is useful to remember how the Iranian mullahs took power and then immediately shot all their erstwhile leftist allies. Regardless, they deserve each other; we don’t deserve either.
When fascism comes to America, it will come from the left, because the left is where fascism comes from. It will come in the form of a Democrat, a Democrat who pretends to be patriotic and points to her résumé as if it’s proof. And it will be dressed like an HR director at a mid-tier company in a second-tier town.
Exit quote: “That brings us to the next thing we need to do, which is vote. We can keep these aspiring hitlers out of office if we show up at the ballot box. After you had this US senator say that she wanted to basically outlaw the Republican Party, do you really think sitting out the midterms because your gas is a little more expensive from defeating the Iranians after 50 years is a good plan?”
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WELL, GOOD: EPA Extends Emergency Diesel Waiver For Texas As Fuel Supply Crisis Drags On.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) extended Texas’ emergency diesel waiver Tuesday, allowing certain older vehicles and equipment to use higher-sulfur fuel through Nov. 13. The 20-day extension follows an initial waiver granted October 5 at Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s request.
“EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is doing what he can to provide relief to American consumers, but emergency waivers cannot replace the refining capacity we’ve lost after decades of politicians pursuing so-called climate agendas,” Jason Isaac, CEO of the American Energy Institute told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “California has driven refineries out of business, while European countries pursuing Net Zero policies have watched their refining capacity decline.”
National distillate inventories were 11% below their five-year average as of Oct. 9, while refineries were operating at 93.5% capacity, according to the EPA’s Oct. 20 letter.
“It is EPA’s intention to issue new waivers effectively extending (renewing) these waivers until such time as the extreme and unusual fuel supply circumstances described in this action are no longer present,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin wrote.
The crisis looks like it’ll last a good, long while — maybe even time enough to get serious about increasing refining capacity.
TO BE FAIR…:
WOW: Asked about his message to undecided Jewish Democrats, Abdul looks at the report, rolls his eyes, and walks away. Absolutely shameful. pic.twitter.com/kXGrGA03Mh
— Democrats For Mike Rogers (@DemsForMike) October 22, 2026
…at least he didn’t promise to make Michigan judenfrei.
JONATHAN TOBIN: Christiane Amanpour leaves CNN, but a legacy of anti-Israel media bias remains.
Amanpour, who has spent her adult life hobnobbing with celebrities, and eventually becoming one herself, objects to Ellison. But this isn’t just the usual snobbery displayed by wealthy celebrities about even wealthier people they are forced to work for. David Ellison is the son of Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, ranked by Forbes as the eighth-richest person on Earth with a net worth estimated at $182 billion.
Her problem stems from the fact that he thinks legacy outlets like CNN are a dying paradigm and out of touch with most viewers. One of the reasons for this is that it, like the vast majority of legacy media outlets, is hopelessly biased, tilting the news from a liberal point of view to the point where increasingly few who don’t share its political prejudices bother to watch it anymore.
That’s why Ellison, who acquired CBS last year, hired Bari Weiss to try and inject some balance into that network’s biased, liberal news programs. Predictably, the staff at CBS has been outraged at Weiss’s attempts to do just that, with some resigning and others, like “60 Minutes” anchor Scott Pelley, being fired because of his clashes with her.
Amanpour has publicly criticized Weiss for trying to change CBS and clearly wanted no part of what she feared was a similar effort at “ideological realignment” at CNN. In her statement about her departure from CNN, she urged those she’s leaving behind to face Ellison and Weiss to “be truthful, not neutral.”
A detailed description from Amanpour of what she believes CNN’s f0rthcoming “ideological realignment” will be like would be astonishing to read.
