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.”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
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
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.”
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.
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
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.
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.
DON’T GET COCKY: Democrats Pulling Money From House Districts They Hoped to Flip.
VITAL NOTICE FROM CYNICAL PUBLIUS:
I've been cranking all day on this.
Some things are so important that they need to be explored in depth, and in real time.
The shocking revelations from Data Republican regarding the plot to overthrow our Constitution is such a thing and now is such a time.
We are facing a… https://t.co/0QF4vuhpkx
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) October 21, 2026
More:
We are facing a color revolution. This article explains how color revolutions have worked overseas in the past at the hands of the CIA and USAID, and how those now ex-USAID employees, now ensconced in well-funded NGOs, are currently using the same tactics against our own nation.
It’s a long article, almost 2,500 words.
If you care about this, please read. It’s a very complex set of concepts, and takes more than a few words to explain adequately.
I won’t have a chance to read CP’s essay until later today, but if you don’t need to wait, then don’t.
So here’s the link.
THE RED HALF OF THE RED-GREEN ALLIANCE: The Communist Network Burning Down France. “It seems tendentious to include those international commies merely publishing encouragement to their Gauloises-smoking red brethren. But one wonders how one ostensibly capitalist nation can support so many different communist parties. And presumably numerous dissertations could be written on the conditions that resulted in such factionalization. Thinking back to the history of the French Revolution, factionalization seems to be one of the defining characteristics of the country’s politics.”
“CANADIAN MAN” ISN’T WHO HE USED TO BE:
"Canadian man."
Born in Kuwait. Moved to Canada in 2015. Arrested in May 2016 plotting ISIS bombings in Times Square and the New York subway.
Then he stabbed a prison guard in the eye. Note in his sock: "This is a terrorist attack for the Islamic State."
That's the part CP24… https://t.co/bSYOEj99LB
— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) October 20, 2026
WELL, YES: It Turns Out That Catch-And-Release Criminal Justice is Hazardous to Your Health. “While the accused has now been detained, that is obviously a bit late for the young girl and her baby who were shot.”
SCRATCH A PROGRESSIVE, FIND AN AUTHORITARIAN:
On the Bulwak podcast, Kara Swisher says Elon might already be in jail under Kamala Harris, and "he knows what's coming for him."
Another one to put in the "what Democrats plan to do if they take power" file:
"If Donald Trump loses the House and the Senate, I would worry. I'd… pic.twitter.com/bCN7Eav5Np
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) October 21, 2026
More:
“If Donald Trump loses the House and the Senate, I would worry. I’d be worried if I were him.”
“So they’re going to start investigating again. You think he’s not on the list? He’s at the top of that list.”
“He has a very big sense of fate. And I think it’s coming for him. And real hard.”
Vote early and vote often.
KDJ: El-So Long: The Detroit News Throws Michigan’s Jihaddy Daddy Under the Bus. ‘The Detroit News has somewhat shockingly — and gloriously — thrown Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed to the wolves by suggesting Democrats leave the circle next to El-Sayed’s name blank. In other words, don’t vote for him.”
OH MY: Trump Promises to Pay ‘Reporters’ a Commission For Finding Fraud: ‘Trillions’ Have Been ‘Stolen.’
If you turn somebody in you get a 1% commission. You may turn it down or you may say I’m not going to be a reporter any longer. This is too easy. So the reporter turns somebody in. We’re going to continue the same 1%.
So if somebody turns somebody in for a million dollars but the million dollars is very small potatoes. You get a 1% commission subject to the rules of the nation, subject to all the things.
We are going to let the reporters for the first time in many cases in your lives you’ve done a good job. Some are very professional journalists.
But it’s just not a very profitable thing to do but if it’s a very important thing to do. A few things are more important than good journalism.
I guess we’ll find out how many good journalists are out there.
HMM:
Huge. https://t.co/1ybWI9tYRu
— Mark Davis (@MarkDavis) October 20, 2026
Abandon cocksureness, all ye who read here.
IS THE PENTAGON REALLY ABOUT TO PASS ONE OF THESE THINGS? Hegseth Audit Shocker Seems Almost Impossible.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Deep Midterms.
The new Islamist-allied socialist Democratic Party is confident, largely because the party holding the White House has increased its share of House seats in a midterm election only three times since 1900. Each of those exceptions arose under unusual circumstances.
In 1934, FDR was still riding the wave of his New Deal promises to end the Depression.
In 1998, Bill Clinton enjoyed backlash support after the Republicans’ unpopular impeachment inquiry, at a time when the economy was robust, and the budget was finally being balanced.
In 2002, George W. Bush had united the nation after 9/11 and had not yet begun what proved to be an unpopular Iraq War.
In other words, the party in the White House has gained House seats in only about 10 percent of the 31 midterms over the past 126 years. Pundits also point to Trump’s approval rating, now below 40 percent in most polls, and the persistently high price of regular gasoline ($4.33). Uncertainty over the 33-week Iran war, they argue, makes it difficult for Trump to preserve his majorities in either the House or the Senate.
Those are the issues ostensibly at stake. But the choice goes much further than that: voters face a “deep” midterm election that will help determine the very future existence of the nation.
Vote as though your life, liberty, and property depend upon it — at least.
And do read the whole thing.
CONGRATULATIONS TO PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR HELPING NEWSOM ADVANCE TO STEP #2:
Remember, the communists always process their "myths" in 3 phases:
1) X is not happening, fascist.
2) OK, but X so small, it's insignificant, fascist.
3) X is happening a lot & actually it's a GOOD thing! Fascist.Every time. We now have Sparkle Beach Ken at phase 2. https://t.co/TgpbLsEBI1
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) October 20, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Lying, Stupid, and Viewer-less Is No Way to Go Through Life, CNN. “The number of half-truths, non-truths, and brain-dead statements that Abby Phillip makes in a week are difficult to track without NSA computers. It’s not surprising that she’s passionate about one of the most absurd spin attempts we have seen in a long time. Most of CNN’s on-camera personalities are immune to the smell of bull you-know-what.”