CHRISTIAN TOTO: Jimmy Carr Has Perfect Response to Faux Shane Gillis Outrage. “Comedians don’t have to like or laugh at their fellow stand-ups, but they should lock arms when they come under fire for telling jokes.”
October 21, 2026
ABUSING THE SYSTEM:
Let me get this straight:
Purdue is bringing in someone on an H-1B visa to teach…….. ENGLISH literature and writing to AMERICAN students?
There are American English PhDs looking for work, but this position is being filled through a foreign-worker visa pic.twitter.com/Wq2676vm2t
— indy reporter (@Indy_reporter_) October 21, 2026
Of course, it seems more and more the system was designed for abuse.
WHITEN YOUR TEETH: Lumineux Teeth Whitening Strips, Peroxide Free. #CommissionEarned
I ACTUALLY LIKE PLUG-IN HYBRIDS: The Plug-In Hybrid Lexus TX550h+ Has Been Discontinued for 2027.
I had a Lexus TX as a loaner a couple of years ago, though, and it drove like a minivan.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. The NFL in Paris Is a Fat Man in a Tutu. “Secretly being football’s Dr. Jack Kevorkian is the only plausible explanation I can think of for Goodell’s insistence that regular-season NFL games be played hither and yon about the globe. I’ve traveled around the world, so I know for a fact that most of yon sucks.”
HAVING SOLVED ALL OF THEIR MYRIAD OTHER PROBLEMS, THE IRISH GOVERNMENT FINALLY TAKES ON AFFECTIONATE GRANDPARENTS: ‘How is This Real!?’ Irish Gov’t Has a Warning for Grandparents Who Want to Hug Their Grandkids.
HOW IS THIS REAL https://t.co/6Im6IF1WXq
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) October 21, 2026
THE FUTURE OF SEARCH & RESCUE:
Look at what the Air Force Research Lab packed into its test pods on SpaceX's Starfall capsule.
Sensors, a satellite tracker, batteries, a water desalinator, survival gear and a medical kit. Engineers also checked that a life raft fits inside.
Every item on that list is for… pic.twitter.com/mEVzByY1a3
— Joe Hansen (@joehansen) October 21, 2026
DISPATCHES FROM THE CHEESE-EATING, GASLIGHTING SURRENDER MONKEYS: Macron slams as ‘stupid’ claims by Trump and others blaming Muslim migrants for French riots.
Protests over soaring living costs have led to widespread rioting and looting that have drawn worldwide attention and shocked many French citizens. U.S. President Donald Trump has used the violence to rally his political supporters, making unsubstantiated claims that Muslim migrants are responsible for the unrest, and urging Macron to “close your borders and take control before it is too late!”
Macron responded by saying there “has been foreign manipulation of information in the aftermath” of the looting in Paris and other French cities last weekend. “And that has led to comments that are as unacceptable as they are stupid, from many people, including foreign leaders,” he said.
Asked by a reporter if he was referring to Trump, Macron replied: “Among others.” He added that there have been “AI-generated images depicting scenes that never actually happened in France. We’ve had people claiming that we were invaded by hordes of migrants and Islamists, which is completely false.”
Macron did not specify which AI-generated images he was referring to, nor how he knew the content was false.
Perhaps Macron is auditioning for a French Led Zeppelin tribute band:
Gaslight level: Hindenburg pic.twitter.com/f641ko80pU
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) October 21, 2026
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Russia Just Did Something Menacing in Orbit That Satellite Trackers Say Is a First.
Russia has drawn renewed scrutiny following a series of reportedly unprecedented orbital maneuvers, in which one of its government-owned satellites operated in extreme proximity to a U.S.-operated satellite, highlighting growing concerns over the risks of confrontation in space.
The Russian satellite, designated Cosmos 2612, carried out a series of close-proximity maneuvers toward ICEYE-X36, a U.S.-registered commercial radar-imaging satellite, between October 15 and 19, based on data by space-tracking company LeoLabs. Cosmos 2612 spent two days at a close proximity of less than 3 miles (5 kilometers) with ICEYE-X36 before moving away to 62 miles (100 kilometers), according to Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist who tracks ongoing space activities.
Experts deemed it an unprecedented proximity operation and potentially dangerous, yet the intent behind it remains unclear. The ICEYE-X36 satellite is believed to be providing synthetic aperture radar imagery to Ukraine, according to Breaking Defense.
There’s plenty going on on the ground, too:
MAP: Russia's "Hybrid War" on NATO 2026
Update: 21/OCT/20266 newly reported incidents added to the map over the last week, comprising:
– UAVs over French military bases including Toulon naval base during Exercise TYPHOON
– M/V YARA J and M/V WINE TRADER hit in separate… pic.twitter.com/UKRk8sdIKG— DefenceGeek 🇬🇧 (@DefenceGeek) October 21, 2026
Buckle up.
SPACEX JUST HAD A YUGE QUARTER:
BREAKING: SpaceX posted its first quarterly profit as a public company on Tuesday with revenue more than doubling, driven by its artificial intelligence business
– Revenue: $14.6 billion, up 161% year-over-year.
– Net Profit: $4.4 billion, compared with a $1.1 billion loss a… pic.twitter.com/0oIHoPmxdF
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) October 20, 2026
RABBI MICHAEL BARCLAY: Iran Restarts Its Blustering, and Israel Is Ready. “Three Iranian officials told Reuters early on Tuesday that Iran is deliberately dragging out talks with the United States specifically in an attempt to politically weaken President Donald Trump and his supporters ahead of the November midterm elections. They also said, ‘Iran is preparing for renewed attacks from Israel and the United States, not for an agreement to end the war.'”
Previously: “If there’s one thing I’ve learned from 40 years of serious history nerd-dome, it’s that nothing beats a speedy victory. Time gives the other guy room to adapt, move, reload, or just learn to deal with the damage. It also gives them opportunities to stir up distractions — like the current Houthi offensives at sea and against Saudi Arabia.”
LIMITED TIME DEAL: ALORAIR Air Scrubber with 3 Stage Filtration. #CommissionEarned
NOW THIS IS MORE LIKE THE 21ST CENTURY I WAS PROMISED: A supercomputer is about to launch to the moon for the 1st time, aboard a rover named FLIP.
Later this year, Astrolab will launch its uncrewed moon rover FLIP to the lunar south pole as part of the Griffin Mission 1, or Griffin-1. The California company is one of two that NASA has selected to develop a drivable rover for the agency’s Artemis program. On board FLIP will be Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) Spaceborne Computer-4, an advanced computer module built to be used in space.
This will be the first time that high-performance computing and artificial intelligence will be tested on the lunar surface. As NASA gets closer to landing humans back on the moon with Artemis, advancements like this aim to support future human habitation as well as economic activity on and around the moon.
“We’re sending the first supercomputer from HPE to the lunar surface later this year, doing the first GPU [graphics processing unit] on the moon [and the] first AI experiments on the moon,” Jaret Matthews, founder and CEO of Astrolab, said during an Oct. 14 media event here at Astrolab’s headquarters. “They’re breaking new ground, and they’re ahead of the curve.”
Last week we got a flying car and now a roving supercomputer on Luna?
Somebody pinch me.
YOU DON’T HAVE TO OPPOSE HIGHER EDUCATION REFORM. YOU JUST HAVE TO MAKE SURE IT NEVER HAPPENS. Demand more evidence, question the methodology, convene another committee, and move the goalposts until everyone demanding reform has retired. I call it the Academic Filibuster, and my new Substack series explains how it works.
DISPATCHES FROM THE OCCUPIED ZONES:
This “NYC man’s” name is Dawood Faisal. He is a Muslim, and he intentionally ran over a Jewish woman, killing her. He was driving 75 mph in a 35 mph zone in a heavily Jewish area.
He had already vandalized the Jewish bagel shop in the neighborhood.
Never again is now. https://t.co/9qhnbfrsDj
— Jaimee Michell (@JaimeeUSA) October 21, 2026
ASK THOR HEYERDAHL: Genetic study shows seafarers from Easter Island settled Hawaii.
DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE AND THE NEWSPEAK DICTIONARY: California Elementary Schools Teach ‘Cisheteropatriarchy’ and ‘Decolonization,’ House Probe Finds.
In some instances teachers and National Education Association union leaders discouraged colleagues from sharing certain controversial lessons “directly with families.” One such lesson aimed to teach Berkeley students about Israel and Palestine. Lesson plans obtained by the committee claimed that “from the river to the sea” — a popular activist slogan that calls for the elimination of the state of Israel — can be “a call for freedom and peace.” The same lesson avoided describing Hamas as a terrorist organization.
Berkeley’s ethnic studies curriculum offers several examples of how these political themes enter the classroom.
In fourth-grade ethnic studies, Berkeley Unified School District teachers asked nine-year-olds to define “covert resistance” and “overt resistance.” Teachers also introduced the terms of “colonization,” “decolonization,” and “settler.” With these new definitions in mind, the curriculum explained that history “is often presented from a colonizer’s perspective” and expressed the importance of “decolonizing historical narratives.”
The district’s fifth-grade ethnic studies curriculum takes a similar approach to civics. A unit titled “defining democracy” sought to “critique empire and its relationship to white supremacy, racism, patriarchy, cisheteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, anthropocentrism, and other forms of power and oppression at the intersections of our society.”
Tomorrow’s Outer Party bureaucrats today!
THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX will attempt 1st-ever double Starship rocket catch on next test launch, a ‘profound technology milestone,’ Elon Musk says.
The company will try to catch both stages of its Starship megarocket during the vehicle’s next test flight, which is targeted for next month, founder and CEO Elon Musk announced during SpaceX’s quarter 3 (Q3) earnings call today (Oct. 20).
If SpaceX succeeds, this “will be the first time that an orbital launch vehicle has been fully recovered,” Musk said. “The only way that we can extend consciousness beyond Earth on a sustained basis is with a fully reusable orbital launch vehicle. So this is, I think, a profound technology milestone in the history of civilization and consciousness.”
Starship is the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, standing more than 400 feet (122 meters) tall when fully stacked.
You want hourly launches of 100-200 tons to Low Earth Orbit? Because this is how to get to hourly launches of 100-200 tons to Low Earth Orbit.
YES, NEXT QUESTION: Does Sex Help You Sleep Better?
SPOILER: Yes, they think that.
He's on an air-conditioned bus at a checkpoint.
I wonder if the rest of the Cait Conley/Tom Suozzi/Laura Gillen Democrat Party thinks voters are this stupid as well. https://t.co/tqTYOp9f1D
— Brodigan (@brodigan) October 21, 2026
But that doesn’t mean they’re correct:
New York Times national reporter: Lifelong Jewish Democrats in Detroit suburbs say they’re voting Republican for the first time.
"That’s a big deal. I don’t know of any other marquee race in the country right now where the Republican candidate is converting Democrats." pic.twitter.com/QXi4Upbg70
— Bobby LaValley (@Bobby_LaVallley) October 20, 2026
Vote Republican, they don’t want you dead.
