October 22, 2026

FIND A GALLON JUG OF WINE, AND THERE’S PROBABLY A PORTUGUESE SETTLEMENT UNDERNEATH!  A chicken on Mars?

Posted at 7:32 am by Sarah Hoyt

RUBIO STRAIGHTENS OUT THE PRESS:

Here’s the crux: “I spoke to him today. We had a 45-minute conversation. Look, I’m seeing a lot of things in the media that are not accurate, so let me clear those up. And as I did in my conversation with him, number one is the Department of War. Everything they’ve been doing with Ukraine remains the same. That has not changed.”

Then there’s this: “I know one of the things that President Zelensky has been talking about is that he’s been trying to buy interceptors. And I understand. So does every other country in the world. I also talked to Saudi Arabia today. They’d like interceptors. Israel would like interceptors. We would like interceptors. Every country in the world would like interceptors. And many parts of the world are asking for that.”

It’s a real sellers’ market for anyone who can ramp up.

Posted at 7:19 am by Stephen Green

EVERYTHING’S BOTTOMS, ISN’T IT? Peggy Flanagan and Tim Walz Steered Millions To Pay for Disgusting ‘Booty Bumping’ Kits that Help Junkies Take Drugs Through ‘the Rectum.’

Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan’s (D.) administration spearheaded the awarding of millions of dollars in grants and contracts to a “harm reduction” group that supplies “booty bumping” kits to drug users to help them safely ingest drugs through “the butthole.”

The controversial funding was part of a $100 million grant—announced by Flanagan and Gov. Tim Walz—for “Minnesotans facing homelessness,” including so-called harm reduction for drug users. In the announcement, Flanagan, now running for Senate, said that “These grants will ensure that everyone can access the supports they need to find and secure safe, stable housing.”

The administration highlighted grants to Southside Harm Reduction Services, a nonprofit that “promotes the health and wellbeing of drug users” through “harm reduction” supplies like syringes, sterile water, and drug cookers to help junkies get high “safely.”

A key “harm reduction” offering from Southside is free lube and other supplies to help users in the “booty bumping” scene to ingest all kinds of drugs—including heroin, meth, and ketamine—”through the rectum (anus, butthole).” Southside is also required by the state of Minnesota to give the junkies voter registration materials.

Plus actual “boofing” takes place!

Southside Harm Reduction offers other instructions.

“Try to poop before. This is so your drugs are absorbed better,” Southside Harm Reduction Services advises in a pamphlet contained in the kits. “Stand, squat, or lay on your side in a comfortable position. It never hurts to have a boofing buddy!”

Boofing is controversial among harm reduction advocates. Because the drugs bypass the digestive system and enter the bloodstream quickly, it can increase the likelihood of fatal overdoses.

That’s a word I’ve not heard for a long time. A long time.

Flashback: The Democrats’ Insanity Defense.

Oh, and speaking of Flanagan, she seems to be doing her best impersonation of Jon Lovitz’s Tommy Flanagan character as well:

(Classical reference in headline.)

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll

THIS WAS NO ACCIDENT:

Posted at 7:10 am by Glenn Reynolds

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: I’m Fascinated By The Sex Gurus Of Cornell University. “I came across these materials because as the Cornell alleged frat-house rape scandal has percolated, so too have takes attempting to link the event to Cornell Health. Wesley Yang, for example, noted that ‘Cornell health educators, like health educators at colleges and high schools across America, promote pornography, group sex, open relationships, bondage, and S&M as normal and healthy in chipper instructional materials bearing the school’s official endorsement.'”

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

IN MY CASE, I GAVE UP SLEEPING*. MAY YOU HAVE BETTER LUCK:  How can we sleep while…everything is burning.

*Call it anticipated lent. Depending on how this goes with the elections and after, it might be a very long lent….

Posted at 5:00 am by Sarah Hoyt

SHOT:  This is how you know my recordings are real and they’re scared. Washington Post already doing counter-messaging. “A small group of U.S. national security officials has been discreetly advising state governments and congressional lawmakers on how to prepare for the possibility that the Trump administration will attempt to interfere in November’s midterm elections, according to people involved in the effort. The group includes about 10 current and former officials with experience in the Defense Department, some of whom have previously focused on countering authoritarianism abroad.”

CHASER: AN HELLO FROM DATA REPUBLICAN: Hello Washington Post, Are these people in the group of 10 officials you mention? Because they’re all over my files where they’re working with the same ex-USAID officials plotting to rewrite the Constitution.

Posted at 4:29 am by Sarah Hoyt

A PURITY SPIRAL IS NO WAY TO FIGHT A CULTURE WAR:  The Way Back.

Posted at 3:33 am by Sarah Hoyt

I WAS ONCE VOUCHSAFED A VISION, OR IF YOU PREFER A FEELING OR A CERTAINTY: It was the last day before the lockdowns went into effect in Colorado, (though of course I didn’t know that) and I woke up with a strong feeling I should go to mass (on a weekday). And early enough that I could. So I told my husband where I was going, got in the car and went. And while at mass I was vouchsafed a feeling with absolute certainty that things would get very bad indeed, but that at the end they would be better and the Republic closer to restored than its been my whole life. (I was born in the sixties. This is not as difficult as it sounds.) I didn’t know why I needed that feeling, but over the year plus of lockdown I came to see it as a gift to help me hold it together. (As much as I did.) I’m not a prophet, though, anymore than laughing wolf is. I don’t claim to know the details and what for. Was the “very bad” the lockdowns? Is there worse to come. I don’t know. All I can do is pray. And it seems I’m not alone.  Probabilities 2026.

Posted at 1:00 am by Sarah Hoyt

LOOK, FOR VARIOUS REASONS I’M IN A POSITION TO SPEAK ON ACCULTURATION AT A GUESS BETTER THAN  90% OF HUMANITY:  Borders.

Among other things, because I always examine my own thought processes to near-destruction. But mostly because of my history.

Posted at 12:27 am by Sarah Hoyt

October 21, 2026

AND NOW A WORD FROM “SYDNEY SWEENEY” ON THE IMPORTANCE OF VOTER ID:

UPDATE:

Posted at 10:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds