WHAT DO YOU TAKE TO MAKE THEM GO AWAY? This mysterious mushroom makes people see hundreds of tiny humans. “Researchers at the University of Utah (U) used DNA sequencing to identify Lanmaoa asiatica as the mushroom responsible for these unusual hallucinations in Southwest China and the northern Philippines. Surprisingly, their investigation found no evidence of any known psychoactive mushroom compounds, including psilocybin.”
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October 26, 2026
BRAZIL’S AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
After Late-Night Ballot Drop, Joe Biden Wins Brazilian Presidency With 81 Million Votes https://t.co/4aO9Rnuaih
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 26, 2026
ICYMI: Good Guys With Guns Save a Whole Lotta Lives. “More than one-third of “active shooter situations” in recent years were stopped by good guys with guns, according to a new study by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) — completely blowing away the FBI’s official stats.”
HEY, BIG SPENDER: Meta announces $95 billion stock offering to fund AI expansion.
Meta said Monday that it is planning to raise a total of $95 billion to support its investments in AI infrastructure and superintelligence.
The stock was up 1.6% in premarket trading after the announcement.
The tech giant will initially raise $35 billion in underwritten public equity offerings, before later raising an additional $60 billion with an at-the-market program.
Meta’s planned investments will support “emerging AI opportunities” including its family of apps, its AI agent Muse and its data center business.
Last week, investors retreated from big tech on fears that AI spending is unsustainable. This week, they’re buying Meta on news of massive new AI spending.
So who knows?
STOLEN:
Former Venezuelan presidential candidate Alejandro Peña Esclusa is right. It is impossible for the right to have won the parliamentary elections 20 days ago so convingly and for Lula to have won yesterday with four million votes. As my friend Alejandro says, this was a coup. https://t.co/8SalcJ2JZ5
— Mike Gonzalez (@Gundisalvus) October 26, 2026
UPDATE (From Ed):
Math doesn’t add up https://t.co/dJFpyGJBZr
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 26, 2026
WALTER KOENIG, RIP:
I’m very sad to hear of the passing of Walter Koenig, aka Pavel Chekov from Star Trek. I got to meet him on a few occasions, and he was always genuine, thoughtful, and a little anxious in a way that made him very relatable. R.I.P. pic.twitter.com/XaCne7YtMI
— Subcommander Tal (@SubcommanderT) October 26, 2026
HMM: The Fed thinks it’s fighting inflation. It’s starving the cure.
Kevin Warsh has described business investment as “the seed corn of future economic growth.” He is right. The Fed’s September statement described robust capital investment and strong productivity growth alongside resilient spending. Those investments represent businesses putting their money behind America’s future. Their success can mean better jobs, lower production costs, and more opportunity. That future belongs in the Fed’s calculation alongside the spending those investments generate today.
That is why a pause makes sense when officials meet on Oct. 27 and 28. September’s rate increase remains in place. Before raising rates again, the Fed should explain how much further inflation relief it expects, how long that relief would take, and what investment and employment it could put at risk. The benefits and costs deserve the same scrutiny.
Leaving rates unchanged during rising inflation goes against expert advice, but the experts also told us stagflation was impossible — right up until it happened in the ’70s.
THAT THING THAT NEVER HAPPENS?
#BREAKING: The DOJ just charged 48 foreigners with illegally voting in U.S. elections.
— Insider Wire (@InsiderWire) October 26, 2026
Yep, happened again.
OTHERWISE, IT’S STILL AWFUL: The UN Climate Circus: Broke, Gridlocked, and Reality-Starved.
STEPHEN SOUKUP: Thanks Again, Obama.
Obama? The guy who left office ten years ago? Why is this multi-deci-millionaire running around the country trying to get socialists and socialist-adjacent candidates (including Abdul El-Sayed) elected to high office? Shouldn’t he be off enjoying his oceanfront mansion on Martha’s Vineyard or his other oceanfront mansion on Oahu? Or playing basketball on the NBA regulation-size court at the aforementioned “library”? Isn’t that what most ex-presidents are doing a decade after their terms ended, enjoying retirement?
Well… yes, but Obama hasn’t been gone ten years yet. Technically, it’s only been nine years, nine months, and six days (not that anyone’s counting). More to the point, as I say, Obama can’t stand not being the center of attention. He and Michelle just celebrated their 34th wedding anniversary, and because of his ongoing obsession with politics and being in the spotlight, they might not make it to 35. As the former president himself admitted this past spring, his political fixation “does create a genuine tension in our household, and it frustrates [Michelle].” Still, that’s what he does. That’s all he does. Because he can’t help himself. As Obama also noted last spring, “no other ex-president was the main surrogate for the party for four election cycles after they left office.” Maybe there’s a reason for that?
Nevertheless, Republicans should be grateful.
Read the whole thing.
TO BE FAIR, SHE NUKED THE TATTERED REMAINS OF THE MAGAZINE’S REPUTATION A DECADE AGO:
She is absolutely nuking the reputation of The Economist with these interviews. First she gets decapitated by Elon Musk, now Jamie Dimon mocks how ridiculous she is. https://t.co/a0U4O3kO4T
— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) October 26, 2026
SARAH ANDERSON: She’s Back! So What’s Next for Venezuela? “Opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner (and, with any luck, the country’s next president) María Corina Machado arrived back in Venezuela on Sunday. She posted the following on X before videos of her in Santa Rosa, surrounded by the people who adore her, began surfacing on social media: ‘I am here. With you.'”
OH: Anthropic model accessed voter information.
Anthropic’s Claude accessed publicly available Georgia voter data without human authorization, a disclosure sure to add to growing concerns about AI security ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.
Why it matters: AI giants Anthropic and OpenAI have continued to make disclosures about agents taking unauthorized or unintended actions, raising alarms about advancing model capabilities and the extent of human control.
Driving the news: Claude accessed aggregate vote counts while on an internal statistics project, pulling data that the state makes available to the public for a fee. It didn’t access the state’s voter registration system or change or pull any voting records, an Anthropic spokesperson said.
However, the model bypassed a paywall in accessing the information, according to Georgia officials and Anthropic.
Of course it was Georgia.
THIS IS CNN:
CNN calls Karen Finney a "political commentator."
Karen Finney was Hillary Clinton's press secretary. She was also the communications director for the DNC. https://t.co/Nt9fC4higX
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 26, 2026
When you’re a Dem operative in a sea of Dem operatives, all you see are “political commentators” and “journalists.”
FLORIDA, MAN: Who Is Bankrolling Angie Nixon’s Late Senate Push?
CIVIL RIGHTS REMINDER: Here’s a Quick Second Amendment History Lesson For Michigan’s Islamo-Socialist Senate Candidate, Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed.
Muskets weren’t obsolete antiques when the Second Amendment was ratified. They were standard military firearms used by the armies of the day.
And the Founders didn’t merely tolerate private ownership of those weapons. Early federal law actually required eligible militiamen to furnish their own military-capable firearms and ammunition.
For Texas Gun Rights, that history underscores a fundamental constitutional principle: The Second Amendment was never intended to leave the government armed with weapons the American people were forbidden to possess.
It was written to protect an armed citizenry, including as a safeguard against government tyranny. Yet that founding principle remains at the center of a modern political battle over firearm bans, constitutional amendments, and the future of the Supreme Court.
The Brits gave up the last of their guns three decades ago, and it’s been one encroachment after another ever since.
BRAZILIANS VOTED THEMSELVES INTO THIS MESS YEARS AGO:
This is modern liberalism. After winning an election by having his own lawyer, now a judge, keep polls in favorable districts open, Lula immediately seeks to crack down on free speech to keep the Right from having a chance again. We saw such crackdowns in Hungary, and will see… https://t.co/PAjX6pY3Q6
— Eugene Kontorovich (@EVKontorovich) October 26, 2026
Now they might have to shoot their way out.
IT’S OFFICIAL: Good Guys With Guns Save a Whole Lotta Lives. “More than one-third of “active shooter situations” in recent years were stopped by good guys with guns, according to a new study by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) — completely blowing away the FBI’s official stats.”
IF YOU WANT PEACE…: The Nordics are preparing for war. “The border region’s economic decline and rapid militarization are emblematic of the entire Nordic region’s radically changed approach to relations with Russia and the United States. During the Cold War and to a lesser extent after it, Finland and Sweden managed relations with Moscow through a combination of pragmatic diplomacy, deterrence, and trade. Today, after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, both diplomacy and trade have been severely downgraded. These two Nordic nations, which touted an enlightened neutrality during the Cold War and maintained good relations with both the Soviet Union and the West, have recently joined Nato. Meanwhile, New Defense Cooperation Agreements (DCAs) signed with Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark, have given the US armed forces “unimpeded access” to 47 military bases across the region, some of them perilously close to the Russian border. Sweden and Finland are even weakening their long-standing taboo on nuclear weapons.”
THE NEW SPACE RACE:
BREAKING: SpaceX $SPCX has secured access to some of the Pentagon’s most precise satellite-tracking data, giving its Starlink network new capabilities for monitoring spacecraft and collision risks in orbit.
First reported by Breaking Defense and examined in new reporting by The… pic.twitter.com/rWjODXHugP
— Outer Space Today (@outerspacetoday) October 25, 2026
More:
In exchange, SpaceX provides tracking observations from Stargaze, a network of sensors aboard its approximately 11,000 Starlink satellites.
The military data includes detailed estimates of orbital trajectories and potential collision risks, improving the ability to monitor objects that could threaten spacecraft.
The arrangement has raised concerns among competing space-surveillance companies about SpaceX gaining a privileged position in the market for orbital tracking services.
The Space Force says the data is controlled but unclassified, that access is restricted, and that it is pursuing similar exchanges with other commercial providers.
The agreement underscores how SpaceX’s rapidly expanding satellite infrastructure is becoming increasingly integrated with U.S. military space operations.
And that’s how Musk protects SpaceX from some vengeful future Democrat administration. Maybe.
CLAIRE HARRINGTON: Public Schools vs. Classical Instruction: Here’s the Biggest Difference.
STAY AT HOME ON ELECTION DAY IF YOU’RE SICK OF ALL THE WINNING: Trump’s Deportations Are Making America Safer.
The restoration of law and order in America is happening in large part because of President Donald Trump, in particular, his insistence that immigration laws be enforced and criminal illegal aliens be deported.
The administration should double and triple down on this message. America’s return to normalcy is contingent on making border security and deportations a top priority.
This much is undeniable: Trump’s deportations and focus on border security have run alongside a remarkable national drop in crime. To dismiss this as a mere coincidence is as absurd as when we were told there was no crime surge following the George Floyd riots and police defunding in 2020 and the explosion of border crossings during the Joe Biden presidency.
The media—always quick to reinforce whatever narrative Democrats and the Left choose to peddle—have mostly tried to wave away the connection between crime and immigration law enforcement.
Well, what else have they got?
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: El-Sayed Gives Obama a Chance to Work Out His Trump Daddy Issues. “Again, I’m a big fan of the Dems keeping President Trump front and center. That’s only good for people who were already going to vote for Democrats. The ORANGE MAN BAD scare tactics didn’t work at all for them in 2026, when Trump was on the ballot. The Democrats must be banking on them aging well.”
OH, CANADA: In a Major Shocker, the Woke Syrupeans of British Columbia Lurch Right.
This is a tough one to excerpt, involving a slender majority, a new election, and extreme overreach on absurd aboriginal land claims, so here’s the upshot: “The first conservative government elected since 1928 — no wonder the place is a shambles.”