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

Tweet of the week. https://t.co/WuaAEz6Cwk

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) October 27, 2026

SPACE JENGA: About That Russian Air Leak on the International Space Station… “It’s official: A persistent air leak in the Zvezda module of the International Space Station forced Russia to permanently seal off the Transfer Chamber (PrK) to one of the structure’s few docking ports. In the movie version, this is when Tom Hanks would click on his radio to announce, ‘Houston, we had a problem. Now we just have a complication. Or two.'”

“FUNDING REPUBLICANS” IS JUST ANOTHER OF HIS MANY NON-OFFENSE OFFENSES:

democrats: if we take power we will seize elon musk's companies and put him in prison and no, we do not care if he technically committed any crime or not

also democrats, somehow: why is elon musk funding republicans? https://t.co/ow343Xko3a

— Mike Solana (@micsolana) October 27, 2026

DECOUPLING: EU Climbs Escalation Ladder With Beijing, Plans Wider Curbs On Chinese Imports.

Bloomberg reports that the EU is preparing restrictions on imports of chemicals, furniture, and machinery from China, expanding efforts to shield domestic manufacturers and narrow the massive trade deficit with China, which stands at $404 billion. The report cited people familiar with the matter.

“Our industries have called for action and we have heard them, and we will respond, including some more safeguards,” Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said earlier this month.

The proposed safeguards build on earlier news that Brussels aims to implement the Chinese hybrid vehicle cap in December to shield the EU’s crumbling automotive industry, as cheap overseas cars gain market share and leave domestic companies like VW laying off tens of thousands of workers.

Brussels has finally chosen to move up the “escalation ladder” with China, risking retaliation from Beijing as its own political power appears to be eroding across Europe after decades of backfiring globalist policies that have left the continent with a hollowed-out industrial base.

Perhaps too little, too late — and doesn’t address fundamental issues like German and British net zero policies hollowing out domestic production.

VOTE AS THOUGH YOUR LIFE, LIBERTY, AND PROPERTY DEPEND UPON IT: Another Election, Same Billionaire Funding the Same Anti-Gun Rights Agenda. “According to Moms Demand Action, part of Bloomberg’s Everytown conglomerate, the latest $10 million dollar ad campaign for U.S. House candidates exclusively funds the campaigns of former volunteers for Moms Demand Action. The Democrat candidates include: JoAnna Mendoza of Arizona, Pia Dandiya of Florida, Christina Bohannan, Sarah Trone Garriott and Lindsay James of Iowa, Christina Hines and Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet of Michigan, and Paige Cognetti of Pennsylvania.”

THAT DOES SEEM TO BE HER SPECIALTY: Ilhan Omar Finds the Most Outrageous and Offensive Possible Way to Brazen It Out.

ORWELL NOTED 80 YEARS AGO THAT WOMEN — PARTICULARLY YOUNG WOMEN — MAKE FOR FINE IDEOLOGICAL ENFORCERS:

“It’s not that liberals are more tolerant than conservatives, or vice versa. Liberal and conservative men are more or less equally tolerant, as are liberal and conservative women. It’s being a man, liberal or conservative, that makes the difference.” https://t.co/PdPkTRgVZ0

— Timur Kuran (@timurkuran) October 27, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM AL-BRIṬĀNIYĀ: Syrian Muslim Refugee Who Met With King Charles Then Raped Woman.

STILL A FEW BUGS LEFT IN THE SYSTEM(S):

The prophecy has been fulfilled https://t.co/IFz21uR3n8

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) October 27, 2026

HEALTH: Chronic Pain Can Steal Your Appetite, and I Wanted to Know Why.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. The Anti-Trump Left Has Descended Into A Persistent Hallucinatory State.

If you doubt that, go read the opinion pages of The New York Times, the agenda-setting newsletter of the government and nonprofit class. You couldn’t possibly do better than to start with Nicholas Kristof’s Oct. 24 column about Mean Orange Man, the journalistic equivalent of a street crazy babbling to himself on a bus bench. The theme of the essay is American norms. Trump is a deviation; Kristof is fighting for things that are normal.

To borrow from Mary McCarthy: Every word is a lie, including “and” and “the.” Pick any paragraph. Here’s one: “Norms of self-restraint historically made the system work. Presidents did not try to crush law firms or universities, nor did their administrations mislead federal courts or send armed officers into cities, where they shot people. Presidents quarreled with allies but didn’t threaten to invade Greenland.”

Every word is insane and overwrought, but “nor did their administrations mislead federal courts or send armed officers into cities, where they shot people” is very special. There have never been armed federal officers in American cities before? Federal agents never shot anyone until Mean Orange Trump?

Do NYT readers believe this stuff, or do they just play along?

THOSE CLIMATE NARRATIVES DON’T MAINTAIN THEMSELVES, YOU KNOW:

𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘆 𝗪𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿❓
Media claimed 111 mph winds battered Cornwall over the weekend.

The Met Office logged a maximum of 71 mph at Lizard Point.

London gusts hit just 42 mph at Northolt.

That pales against the 73 mph recorded there during the 1987 Great Storm.… pic.twitter.com/dsTTf7E5VP

— Watts Up With That (@wattsupwiththat) October 27, 2026

WILD: North Carolina Libertarian Candidate in Custody After Armed Standoff.

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: ICE plan to buy robot dogs spurs protest from hundreds of Boston Dynamics employees. “The ICE contract covers the purchase of four Boston Dynamics Spot robots that were modified by Radeco to be marketed as a robot platform named Cerberus. The contract describes these Cerberus robots as being intended to ‘detect radiation, toxic gas leaks and explosive threats in urban environments or disaster zones,’ along with enabling other remote observation and inspection missions.”

Do these people even realize what they’re protesting? Or does the word “ICE” activate their NPC script?

YEP:

Everyday is zero-day these days

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 26, 2026

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Modern Democrats Really Should Swap Out the Donkey for a Swastika. “There are only two ways to look at this. Either the paste-eating idiots on the left have never pondered the real consequences of the U.S. not having any friends of democracy in the Middle East, or they have.”

SOMEONE PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO ELON AND POTUS: Dutch government to cut 16 percent of workforce as part of AI efficiency push.

No job is secure from the advent of artificial intelligence’s rapid growth. In a lengthy post detailing how the Dutch government plans to improve efficiency, it announced that it would get rid of 25,000 full time jobs over the span of a few years as part of cost-cutting measures. As part of that effort, the government is also planning to lean on AI to contribute to productivity.

According to the Dutch government, the goal is to cut back 900 million euros, or around $1 billion, in costs by 2027, with that estimate rising to 3.5 billion euros, or approximately $3.9 billion, by 2035. The post detailed that not all government agencies will be affected, with police and defense being excluded.

It’s unclear how the government plans to deploy AI to reduce costs, but the post read that the Dutch cabinet will “come up with goals and savings plans for deploying AI to work more productively,” in the first quarter of 2027. The country’s state secretary, Eric van der Burg wrote in a letter to the Dutch parliament that this overall effort was part of a push to make the government “simpler, smart and smaller.”

DOGE helped shrink the federal workforce to its lowest level in 60 years, but there’s always room for AI-enhanced improvement.

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS STOCKED UP ON AMMO:

It’s official now:

DSA = DNC

Vote Republican! https://t.co/Nqt71H632A

— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) October 26, 2026

VICTORIA TAFT: Woke Oregon Governor’s Comments After School Attack Are Completely Disqualifying. “The unfortunately-named Tina Kotek, Oregon’s governor, is in a neck-and-neck battle for the right to park her and her “first lady’s” slippers under the bed at Mahonia Hall for another four years. Republican Christine Drazan is running an even race with the incumbent governor. The recent school shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, however, should be Kotek’s undoing.”

We’ll have to wait a week or so to see if her comments were disqualifying with Oregon voters.

LET’S START THE DAY WITH A LITTLE BLUE-ON-BLUE ACTION: Former Biden Speechwriter Accuses NY Times of Stealing News Startup’s Pollution Reporting Without Attribution.

The allegations followed the Times’ Saturday investigation into how Trump exempted more than 200 industrial facilities from stricter clean-air regulations. Hunterbrook claims portions of the report closely resemble two investigations it published months earlier into chemical pollution at plants in Texas and Virginia. The Times’ article now includes an acknowledgment of Hunterbrook’s previous coverage, though it does not specifically credit the outlet’s individual findings or reporting methods.

In a series of posts on X, Hunterbrook pointed to its May investigation into an April accident at Sterilization Services of Virginia, where a faulty valve released 580 lbs. of ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing gas. Both newsrooms used the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s HYSPLIT modeling system to illustrate how the chemical spread into nearby communities.

Hunterbrook also highlighted similarities between the Times’ reporting and its February investigation into Indorama Ventures’ chemical plant in Port Neches, Texas, which received an exemption from federal pollution rules despite a history of chemical releases.

When your ethics are seriously questioned by a former Biden speechwriter…

DITTO WITH ISLAMIC TERRORISTS — AND NOW THEY’RE ALLIED:

Crazy we thought this shit was over when the Wall fell.

Turns out Communism is a lot like herpes; you can’t cure it, you can only treat the flare ups.

— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) October 26, 2026

BECAUSE OF COURSE: Barcelona Burns, and Spain’s Left Blames Israel.

BRAZIL WENT FULL COMMIE:

BREAKING:

Flávio Bolsonaro has been summoned by the Federal Police to hand over his passport within 24 hours by order of Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes.

The Supreme Court Justice argues that there is a risk that Bolsonaro could flee abroad to avoid prosecution. pic.twitter.com/dfL55NPTlF

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 26, 2026

A flight risk — from WHAT?

THIS NEVER GETS OLD:

Never forget. https://t.co/drppCxnski

— L A R R Y (@LarryOConnor) October 26, 2026

HEH:

🚨 LMAO! Scott Bessent is TROLLING Obama by having lunch at the Cheesecake Factory today, after Obama threw shade at the restaurant yesterday

“This is the man who built the museum that looks like DARTH VADER’S TOMB! I would tell the Martha's Vineyard set to give it a try.”

What…

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) October 26, 2026