REMEMBER WHEN THE PRESS AT LEAST GAVE LIP SERVICE TO OBJECTIVITY?

WATCH: Kristen Welker bravely intervenes on behalf of the moderate Muslim who might feel alienated by Mike Rogers' denunciation of the media's refusal to cover Abdul El-Sayed's personal and familial ties to the Muslim Brotherhood pic.twitter.com/MzkWVbBygj

— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) October 25, 2026

Me, neither.

VICTORIA TAFT: The Real Target of the Paris Riots Comes Into Focus — and It’s Not ‘School Funding.’

SOME SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Top LA journalist had fling with Dem SoCal lawmaker, let her write his stories.

The publication said it gave Torres multiple opportunities to take responsibility and improve, insisting his departure had nothing to do with its immigration coverage.

“The rumor that we’ve turned our back on ICE coverage is a lie. And a dangerous one,” the statement said.

But according to the outlet, sources have raised questions about Torres’ coverage of Democratic state Sen. Sasha Renee Pérez, 34, including allegations that the pair had a personal relationship while he reported on her political agenda.

The most serious allegation is that Pérez was allowed to edit and write portions of stories published under Torres’ byline.

I just wish most of the press and the entire Democrat party weren’t figuratively in bed together — but that isn’t a firing offense, apparently.

CORRECT:

You can vote your way into communism, but you can't vote your way out

— The Joe (@jsmith68abq) October 26, 2026

IMPRESSIVE:

Full duration 33-engine static fire for the Super Heavy booster preparing for Flight 15 pic.twitter.com/7eqbC4h0Fh

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 25, 2026

November 8 is currently the “no earlier than” date for the next launch.

TIM O’BRIEN: The Lindsay Clancy Effect and How the Democrats Are Courting the Psycho Vote.

REMIND ME AGAIN WHAT BILL CLINTON DECORATED THE OVAL OFFICE WITH:

Did a memo go out to Dems: "We're going to win this mid-term on Design!" https://t.co/PjPDQuma2u

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 25, 2026

HOW CAN WE MISS HIM IF HE WON’T GO AWAY?

Democrats and Barack Obama told us American manufacturing jobs “are just not coming back.”

President Trump just announced Audi is building a $4.2 billion manufacturing plant in the United States.

Turns out putting America First works! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/CZsxv1FgsQ

— Lance Gooden (@Lancegooden) October 25, 2026

REQUIRED VIEWING:

Marshawn is perfect.

"Is there a man here with you?"

Sons need fathers. We men speak to each other, and learn, differently. Not bad or good, just is.

More Marshawn. Well done. https://t.co/dE6imiDtav

— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) October 24, 2026

RESIST:

More footage of Scottish locals disrupting an Antifa meeting where they're plotting Paris style riots.
pic.twitter.com/bCpsEu6Ttq

— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) October 23, 2026

Italy, too:

This is Lecco, Italy. North Africans threatened on social media to do here what they did in Milan, destroy everything. The Lecco football ultras showed up to defend the square and the shops. Result: none of the North Africans showed up. Honor to Lecco ultras—true patriots, true… pic.twitter.com/1EQR0OIRnk

— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) October 23, 2026

I HAD BEEN ASSURED THIS KIND OF THING WAS NOTHING BUT RIGHT-WING PARANOIA: Treasury traces SPLC to debanking of Christians after group dismissed it as conspiracy.

Federal finance authorities have identified the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate group” labels as the driving force behind the debanking of conservative individuals and organizations, particularly clients that were giving to Christian causes.

The explosive findings directly discredit a recent proclamation from the SPLC declaring, as part of its “Hatewatch” monitoring project, that anti-Christian debanking was a conspiracy theory spread by the “Christian supremacy movement.”

Though only a regulatory audit, fulfilling an executive order from President Donald Trump to ensure that banks were not discriminating against customers on the basis of their political or religious beliefs, the government’s findings add to the SPLC’s latest woes.

Let this serve as your occasional reminder that “conspiracy theory” these days usually means “slightly ahead of the news cycle.”

WE SAW THIS BEFORE IN FEBRUARY, SO WHO KNOWS?

This is close to one my "impending fall of the Mullah Regime" indicators.

A major Russian aerial/ground evacuation from Tehran with lots of people and records, like we saw from Baghdad to Syria immediately before Operation Desert Storm, is at the top of my indicator list. https://t.co/sQW4r50PBk

— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) October 23, 2026

IT’S A TERRORIST GROUP: Georgetown Law student association denounces Ted Cruz staffer over Muslim Brotherhood lecture. “Erielle Azerrad, Cruz’s deputy chief counsel, spoke to students about the Brotherhood’s origins and how the group had expanded its operations in the US. She also noted the Muslim Students Association’s ties to the Brotherhood, though she disputed that such ties meant all Muslim students, or even all MSA members, were connected to the terrorist group.”

Plus, what Mollie said:

Shameful news out of Georgetown Law. https://t.co/jc8jITYKIz

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) October 23, 2026

IT’S AN INVASION:

“The schoolchildren just want nicer classrooms”

“Hide the Mona Lisa from rampaging third world hordes” https://t.co/PaUIMe88JO

— Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) October 23, 2026

SOME SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Feds Arrest FBI Deep Staters Who Lied to Congress (and America) About Hunter Biden Laptop.

GEORGE MF WASHINGTON: Adapt or Die: Netflix Edition.

The question around conference tables and in the air at every Hollywood meeting these days is “what does it mean that Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos schwacked all of his senior content chiefs and replaced them with Peter Rice?”

Well, no one who isn’t Ted Sarandos or Peter Rice can know for sure, but here’s what I think (hope?) it means. Peter Rice is an old school theatrical movie guy who built his reputation on working with brilliant young filmmakers like Danny Boyle to make great movies with budgets that were respectful of fundamental economics and which made everyone involved a lot of money… and because I know that, I believe Netflix is hoping Rice can shepherd them into a near future where the majority of their original films enjoy a real theatrical run.

I say I “hope” this is the case because if he doesn’t, and they don’t, then Rice’s proven eye for identifying good stories and great young talent will be wasted and Netflix risks becoming nothing more than a modern-day Blockbuster video without the brick-and-mortar stores and the after-hours drop boxes. And that would be very bad for business… Hollywood simply cannot afford to lose another buyer on the motion picture side.

Read the whole thing.

FINALLY: Authorities capture a second loose emu in California city.

CRIMINAL MASTERMIND:

She wrote a check?

— MountainMama (@mtnmamapatriot) October 23, 2026

Previously: Feds Arrest Corrupt Virginia Dem — and Her Family Members, Too.

I DID NAZI THAT COMING: Mein Home Team Goose-Stepped in It With a Throwback Profile Pic.

BUCKLE UP:

Yes, he is.
1. The videos explicitly name the Illinois governor as one of the two that were willing to buy into the illegitimacy memo.
2. He’s co-chair of Governors Safeguarding Democracy which apparently liked the memo and presentation.
3. I believe Democracy Funders Network…

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) October 22, 2026

“A republic, if you can keep it,” the wise man once said.

ROCKET REPORT: SpaceX says no thanks to Space Force launches.

The Space Force recently tried to book rides for three future satellite missions, but SpaceX declined to offer its services, Politico reports. No other rocket companies offered to take them either, the publication reported. A top Space Force official, Brig. Gen. Eric Zarybnisky, the acting portfolio acquisition executive, acknowledged growing pains for the government and space industry as demand for rockets increases. “Temporarily, there are some things we’ll need to work through, again, as we get new providers flying,” he said. SpaceX has been declining to sign new Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch contracts for all kinds of customers.

No one else has capacity … The three Space Force missions that didn’t find a ride were listed through the National Security Space Launch initiative. Two of the missions were for the Space Development Agency. The agency is a branch of the Space Force that’s building a network of hundreds of military satellites in low-Earth orbit to provide expanded data services, and missile warning and tracking capabilities. Other potential launch providers, United Launch Alliance and Blue Origin, are both working through setbacks with their launch vehicles. Zarybnisky remained optimistic that Blue Origin and ULA will work through their technical problems and that new competitors will get up and running in time.

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

FINALLY, PERHAPS SOME CLARITY:

Addendum: To be clear, I don't blame the Ukrainians at all. They're literally fighting for their survival and one has to admire the ingenuity. And the Russians also hacked Starlink. But if it's all true, it does seem a bit harsh to pound Musk for it. Remember also that he took…

— Chamberlain's Ghost (@RSA_Observer) October 23, 2026

SCOTT PINSKER: The 3 Rules for Lying to the Media — And Why Republicans Keep Losing at Roulette.

WHY WOULD THEY WHEN THEY BELIEVE THEY STAND TO BENEFIT?

Not a single Democrat member of Congress has condemned this. https://t.co/haYHPNKnUS

— Tim Burchett (@timburchett) October 23, 2026

CYBERSECURITY: PHP Vulnerability: It’s Really, Really Bad. “This is a huge, huge issue because PHP is everywhere. A vast number of websites use a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP), and PHP is in all of them. This is worse than the log4j vulnerability (which was bad enough), since in a pinch you can live without logging for a while. Remove PHP from your web server, and just about everything breaks. In theory, you could still serve up static web pages, but I’m betting most sites have PHP involved in that task as well, and anything serving up dynamic content (database call, stock prices, etc.) on a LAMP setup is going to break.”

“Folks, this is a bad one. If you run any sort of website, you need to get this one updated ASAP.”