BUCKLE UP: Taiwan 2027 conflict window remains valid, Army Pacific commander says.

Known as the “Davidson window,” the timeline is named for retired Adm. Phil Davidson, former head of US Indo-Pacific Command. In 2021, Davidson told the Senate Armed Services Committee that China could develop the capability to invade Taiwan within the following six years.

The 2027 date has since served as a planning benchmark for US and allied forces preparing to deter potential Chinese aggression against the self-governed island, which Beijing claims as its territory.

Clark, who served as Davidson’s chief of staff when he made the proclamation, said Army Pacific is working to move forces and equipment in the region to deter conflict during that period.

“We’ve embarked upon a strategic approach to setting the theater that we refer to as Army Ready Forward,” Clark said. The effort involves positioning equipment, materiel and personnel on a rotational basis across the first and second island chains west of the international date line.

The goal is to be ready by April 2, 2027, he said.

It’s been surreal, the Pentagon openly talking about this risk for six years, and until recently, doing so little about it.

VOTE AS THOUGH YOUR LIFE, LIBERTY, AND PROPERTY DEPEND UPON IT:

My biggest concern is that if there is a clean sweep by Democrats of the House, Senate and Presidency in 2028, they will:

1. Make DC and Puerto Rico states to gain a strong majority in the Senate.

2. Open the borders and legalize everyone living in America illegally to cement…

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 30, 2026

NOVEMBER PREVIEW: Trump Calls for Disqualification and Prosecution of Peltola, ‘Decoy Dan’ in Alaska Senate Race.

SHE NEEDS TO FIRE A LOT MORE PEOPLE. A LOT MORE: Bari Weiss faced ‘significant resistance’ from CBS News staffers about Alaska ballot scandal, insiders say.

CHANGE?

I’ve never ever seen a sign like this at a California gas station. Not once until today. The times, they are a changing. pic.twitter.com/ftBL52v2oc

— Kira (@Kiradavis) October 29, 2026

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: NYT — Yeah, Obama Totally Knew About Omar’s Immigration Incest. “The New York Times usually only trots out the unnamed ‘officials’ when it wants to run a hit piece on Trump. That throws an interesting twist into this convoluted story. Yeah, it’s big news that the Obama DOJ was onto Omar’s brotherwife immigration scam, but the fact that The New York Times is the news organization informing us of that fact brings up more than a few questions.”

OH MY: Hegseth firing Sylvia isn’t office politics — he smoked out a wartime mole.

The explosive fallout dominating today’s news cycle over War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s firing of Army Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia — the Pentagon’s top military planner accused of leaking classified information related to the Iran war — proves that internal subversion remains an active threat to national security. According to reports breaking on Fox News, Sylvia was ousted after failing three polygraph examinations concerning unauthorized disclosures to reporters.

The timing of this rapidly unfolding development could not be more dangerous. With the critical midterm elections days away and President Donald Trump openly weighing whether to resume major military operations or broker a peace deal, the alleged leaking of classified strategic options directly undercuts the commander in chief at the exact moment he needs total operational cohesion.

This institutional resistance is a chronic affliction of the modern executive branch, long utilized by disgruntled bureaucrats to sabotage the agendas of duly elected presidents.

It’s been more than 30 years since Col. David Hackworth wrote “Nuke the Pentagon” for Playboy, and it’s still a great idea.

CORN, POPPED:

…Daniel J. Sullivan reportedly answered questions without doing so under oath. If those answers were false, it could still qualify as part of a pattern of conspiracy or fraud, depending on what investigators find in the coming weeks.

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) October 29, 2026

UPDATE (FROM GLENN):

Something similar to this Dan Sullivan thing happened back in 2022, but in reverse: a "spoiler" candidate in a (way less consequential) Florida race had the same last name as the Dem incumbent.

Back then Dems and the entire media were screaming for arrests and investigations. pic.twitter.com/lMjYwtA5Gr

— Bill D'Agostino (@Banned_Bill) October 29, 2026

ICYMI: Another Day, Another World-Changing Milestone From SpaceX.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX no longer needs NASA, and that’s a problem for America’s space agency.

The signs point to at least a partial breakup. Consider the following data points:

SpaceX has told NASA it will stop flying Crew Dragon, the space agency’s only reliable astronaut transportation to the International Space Station, by or before 2030. Shotwell said in September that NASA should rely instead on Boeing for astronaut transportation. “We’re just gonna let them have some business,” she said of Boeing. “They should fly their capsule. The government paid a lot of money for that.” As a result, NASA is investing more in Boeing.

Ars reported in October that SpaceX had stopped selling commercial launches on the Falcon 9 rocket for missions after the year 2028.

SpaceX may also still stop flying Falcon 9 for NASA missions. In late October, during a meeting of NASA’s Safety Advisory Panel, Kent Rominger said if the US Deorbit Vehicle (a modified Dragon spacecraft) launches to the International Space Station after 2030, “it may require” a rocket other than the Falcon 9.

Politico reported last week that SpaceX told the US Space Force it would not bid on three new launch contracts in the late 2020s that would have gone above and beyond its existing commitments to the US military.

SpaceX previously provided “Rough Order of Magnitude” estimates, or ROMs, for launch costs to US companies building small landers for NASA’s Moon Base as part of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. But according to three sources, SpaceX recently told these lunar companies they will not provide launch services.

To be clear, SpaceX is still fulfilling its existing contracts with NASA, the US Space Force, and other government entities. And it continues to do so at a lower cost and generally higher level of reliability than pretty much anyone else.

But the company is no longer signing many large new contracts for spaceflight services, at least in the traditional launch and in-space flight domains.

A longer article, but I found it well worth my time.

Previously: How in the Actual Hell Can We Be Running Out of Space Rockets?

THE NEXT SPACE RACE:

Our civilization would be winning wondrously if we are exploring the galaxy with Von Neumann probes by 2100!

Larry Page might be right. He has correctly predicted many things. https://t.co/SPnghcd2Tt

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 29, 2026

I TRY NOT TO THINK ABOUT IT: Democrats Just Made Election Fraud a National Midterm Issue. Will the GOP Blow it?

SHAME IS IN SHORT SUPPLY OVER THERE:

If I worked at The New York Times after the paper got a Pulitzer for Russia collusion reporting, I would be too ashamed talk about “decisively forfeit[ing] any presumption of honesty.” https://t.co/wOpzMSjk6H

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) October 29, 2026

THAT’S NOT HOW THAT WORKS: NYPD: ‘Assault Weapons’ Must Remain Banned Because People In Dense Cities Need to Have Fewer 2A Rights Than Everyone Else.

FOR BRITAIN, WWIII MIGHT BE FOUGHT ENTIRELY ON HOME SOIL:

And suddenly all the pictures only have white men in them. pic.twitter.com/OuFIuho8UR

— Alice Smith (@TheAliceSmith) October 28, 2026

And against the invaders already arrived.

THAT ISN’T JOURNALISM: New York Times Increasingly Relies on Left-Wing Nonprofit Journalism.

Sunday’s New York Times Magazine cover story, which stoked fears about farmed salmon causing pollution, was attributed to “the Outlaw Ocean Project.” That’s a nonprofit organization that says its major donors include “the Bloomberg Ocean Fund and Oceans5, the Oak Foundation, the Packard Foundation, 11th Hour Racing Charitable, LLC/The Schmidt Family Foundation, Humanity United, the Philip Stephenson Foundation, the Moore Foundation, the McPike-Zima Foundation, the Hans Wilsdorf Foundation, the Drue and HJ Heinz II Charitable Trust, the Paul M. Angell Foundation, and the Becht Foundation…” Michael Bloomberg is a former Democratic presidential candidate and major Democratic political donor, and Oceans5 is fiscally sponsored by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, which a watchdog report recently identified as part of a far-left network of Rockefeller charities.

Wednesday, the Times followed up with an opinion section multimedia feature from Alissa Quart, “editorial director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.”

The Economic Hardship Reporting Project is a nonprofit organization with backing from left-wing donors including George and Alexander Soros’s Open Society Foundations, Pierre Omidyar’s Omidyar Network, and the Ford Foundation.

The “news” is an op.

HE SAYS THEY MANUFACTURE THE BEST CHEESECAKES:

🚨 DAMAGE CONTROL: Barack Obama is now on the campaign trail swearing he LOVES the Cheesecake Factory.

Days ago he mocked Trump's White House as looking like "Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory."

Now it's "my jam for about a decade."

He insulted millions of regular… pic.twitter.com/63PSJJBJzw

— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) October 29, 2026

OOPS, THEY DID IT AGAIN: Another Day, Another World-Changing Milestone From SpaceX.

GOOD CATCH:

If NYT is reporting that, the memo’s out. Everyone, back off. Step away from the Somali.

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) October 29, 2026

And just like that, she’s toxic.

PLEASE DON’T TAKE MEDICAL ADVICE FROM BOTS: Woman Dies After ChatGPT Coached Her to Decrease Dose of Medication Prescribed by Doctor.

TODAY, EISENHOWER WOULD WARN US ABOUT THE INTEL-MEDIA COMPLEX:

Parallel vote tabulation (PVT) is a common tool in color revolutions. https://t.co/iRwzo5lhZI pic.twitter.com/c1pMqRazWI

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) October 29, 2026

Plus this follow-up from Andy Campbell:

It’s why exit polls are so important – they set the table for disbelief in the actual vote count. Almost worked in Bush v Gore and Trump v Clinton…exit polls did lay the foundation for Trump v Deep State (Biden) to explain the sudden change in outcome.

One must admit, the communists never stop working to acquire power because their entire existence is supreme control of government while we never think about it because our lives are not about controlling others.

Everything is an op.

THE NEXT ENTRY IN CHRIS QUEEN’S THE COST OF AN ORDINARY LIFE: The American Dream Needs More Homes and Less Red Tape.

IT’S NICE TO SEE GREENWALD NOT COME DOWN ON THE SIDE OF THE COMMIES:

There are a bunch of ignorant American liberal pundits pontificating this week about Brazil even though they don't know the first thing about any of the relevant facts or dynamics (Naomi Klein with Mehdi Hasan was so confused as to be comical).👇https://t.co/9r9x9m4q8R

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 29, 2026

IF THEY COULD SEE IT, THEY’D HATE IT, TOO: Trump Is Building a New American Order in the Western Hemisphere. The Media Is Too Busy Hating Him to See It.

The [stakes] grew more serious as we approached 2026. In December, the White House had already added its “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine, which is like the original Monroe Doctrine except that this time we really mean it. On January 3rd, US forces snatched Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, and Trump announced that “ Under our new National Security Strategy, American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again.”

On January 25th, State slapped visa bans on members of Haiti’s unelected ruling council “for supporting gangs and other criminal organizations,” which is a sentence you would not expect to read about a sovereign government. On February 3rd, a US Navy destroyer and two Coast Guard cutters parked in Port-au-Prince Bay, “at the direction of the Secretary of War,” which in hemispheric etiquette is the equivalent of pulling into someone’s driveway, leaving the engine running, and watching them from the car.

Four days later, the unelected council’s mandate suddenly “expired,” and the US immediately backed Prime Minister Fils-Aimé as Haiti’s sole leader.

Much more at the link, but it did remind me to go back and find a lost browser tab from early this morning:

I think Trump is trying to conduct a last ditch effort to pry Russia away from China because he sees the war over Taiwan as inevitable.

Not sure if he factored in the North Korean question though, as they’ll likely take the Taiwan opportunity to reunify Korea with China’s help,… https://t.co/bBwKmbeHsW

— Unfiltered Artist (@EmpireEnjoyer3) October 29, 2026

The Trump Doctrine is loud and clear — this Russia hypothesis isn’t much more than conjecture.

But I do know I’d rather have a strong Russia part of the West (assuming that still means anything), than a weak Russia increasingly dependent on and beholden to China.

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA:

I like how it takes 10 years for the feds to leak out that Ilhan married her brother and that Swalwell had sex with a Chinese spy, but about 3 weeks for them to leak out that they were investigating Donald Trump's campaign for Russia "collusion" https://t.co/xLEHpTRKfk

— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) October 29, 2026