THE FUTURE AND ITS ENEMIES:

Teamsters-backed bills in MA, IL, & DC would require a human backup driver in every driverless car, even though Waymo sees 94% fewer crashes causing serious or fatal injuries than human drivers.

That’s job protectionism at the price of safety policy. https://t.co/OsyITf5bf9

— NetChoice (@NetChoice) October 13, 2026

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Let’s Hope Enough Americans Are Sufficiently Afraid of Communism. “The commie threat from the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) was easier to dismiss when we were just talking about AOC and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. It was a New York problem. Abdul El-Sayed has made a name for himself in America’s heartland. If he wins, that’s a game changer that is filled with rolling dark clouds.”

OUT NATO ALLY: Turkish authorities seize control of popular pro-opposition Halk TV after police raid headquarters, stop live broadcasts.

Halk TV said on X that authorities assigned a trustee, or administrator, to take over the outlet, while news reports said the raid was linked to a criminal investigation into owner Cafer Mahiroğlu, whose other assets were seized as well.

Mahiroğlu, who lives abroad, said in a video message on X that seven of his relatives in Turkey were in police custody, and that the accusations against him were false.

“Seizing Halk TV strikes at the heart of press freedom in Turkey where the vast majority of news outlets are pro-government. Halk TV is one of the very few remaining broadcasters that criticize the government and this action is a devastating blow to the Turkish people’s right to freedom of information and expression,” said Özgür Öğret, CPJ’s Turkey representative. “Control of Halk TV must immediately be returned to its staff and this deeply alarming and damaging crackdown on journalism must end.”

Turkey is witnessing an intense and sustained crackdown on independent and pro-opposition media, with dozens of journalists arrested or detained so far this year.

Stay tuned — just not on Halk.

THE WAR ON NORMALCY (CONT’D):

Everything from COVID policy to the sexual hysterias to the paranoid fantasy of ‘implicit bias’ has shared the similar aim of pathologizing, surveilling, and punishing normal, healthy socialization. https://t.co/PgtVGrpNTx

— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) October 14, 2026

C’MON, PENNSYLVANIA:

Here’s how to do “On-Demand” voting for Pennsylvania:

1) Visit your county elections office
2) Fill out a mail-in ballot application
3) Give your application to an election official
4) You will be given your ballot
5) Fill out your ballot
6) Put your ballot in the proper…

— ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) October 14, 2026

Presler has moved mountains getting people registered, but he can’t vote in your place.

IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: The Middle Kingdom’s Middle Income Trap.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. The ‘Cornell 7’ Fallout Is Infantilized Women And Villainized Men

Another quote comes from Doe’s lawyer, Thomas Giuffra, who I’m half-convinced actually hates his client, given how absurd his arguments made on her behalf are. He told the Times that it was incumbent upon literally anyone but Doe to have ensured she never left the Tri Delta sorority house that night. “Somebody should have said: ‘Hey, no, you’re intoxicated. You’re not, you shouldn’t be going outside. It’s not safe,’” he said. “And that failed.” Doe reportedly said in investigation proceedings after the incident that she hid her intoxication from an authority figure at the sorority house that night. “I didn’t want to tell her I was drunk because she’s a mandated reporter,” she said, according to the Times.

So if she was hiding it, how is anyone supposed to stop her? And if they had tried and she insisted that she be let go to leave the house, then what? A sorority house isn’t a prison. (Though maybe it should be.) The only logical conclusion is that women, at least young ones, can’t be trusted to take care of themselves and therefore shouldn’t be permitted to attend college without a chaperone.

Make housemothers great again?

HEH:

The correct and honest segment from Dilanian would have been “our ‘sources’ make up shit all the time and you should never believe a damn thing you hear on MSNOW.” https://t.co/XCbHJlCIeV

— Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) October 14, 2026

Does Ms. NOW get anything right about Russia?

VOTE WITH YOUR FEET: Millions Are Fleeing Blue States, and It’s Not for the Sunshine. “It’s the taxes, stupid.”

Or maybe it’s the stupid taxes.

I HAD BEEN ASSURED CRYPTO MADE THIS KIND OF THING IMPOSSIBLE: Store-bought hardware crypto wallets had secret chips installed that enabled stealing crypto recovery phrases — $93 million and counting stolen thanks to implanted eSIM and LTE modules in Ledger wallets.

HE’S BEEN BUSY:

BREAKING: Lamar Cook, former aide to Democrat MA Gov. Maura Healey, has been arrested AGAIN on charges of SNAP and wire fraud after he allegedly "mistakenly" received over $30,000 in vacation pay and falsified his income to receive SNAP benefits.

Cook is already facing charges… pic.twitter.com/Xw2xFtjeCo

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 14, 2026

CHEATER: Runner Switches to Girls’ Track Midseason — School Says the Real Problem Is the Parent Who Noticed. “On September 5, the cross-country athlete finished 76th in a boys’ JV cross-country race, but on September 29, he magically finished first in a varsity girls’ meet against Union High. This could be the moment that this whole drama officially jumped the shark, because it’s almost impossible to argue that ‘changing genders’ right smack in the middle of the season is normal or reasonable.”

MUST-SEE TV? DJT: Dead Jihadi Television.

AFTER ALL, THEY DID NAME IT PERSEVERANCE: NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover breaks interplanetary driving record — and it’s far from done.

In a milestone achievement, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has broken the record for most miles driven on a world beyond Earth.

On Oct. 11, Perseverance hit 28.10 miles (45.22 kilometers) traveled on Mars, breaking the record previously held by NASA’s Opportunity rover which went 28.06 miles (45.16 km). It took Oppy 14 years to cover all that ground; Perseverance, by contrast, has been on Mars for just 5.5 years.

The new record is far from the end of Perseverance’s journey, however; the mission team thinks the rover could eventually more than double the distance it’s already traveled.

“Our original design was only planned to last for [about] 20 kilometers of driving,” Mark Maimone, a rover driver at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, told Space.com.

Impressive.

HIS SUPERVILLAIN POWERS INCLUDE THE ABILITY TO BE IN TWO PLACES AT ONCE:

🚨 JUST IN: MSNOW reports "KASH PATEL IS IN RUSSIA"

FBI Director Kash Patel is on camera, right now, going full tough on crime mode at Liberty University in Virginia, USA 🇺🇸

You literally can't make this up 🤣🤡

Which "sources" fed MSNOW total BS? pic.twitter.com/guCSjpevNb

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 14, 2026

HMM: Tesla’s ‘Security Protocols’ Stopped DHS From Installing a Tracking Device.

“Case agents believed that Stair is using the Tesla to assist with drug trafficking and traveling to locations associated with the DTO [drug trafficking organization] and DTO members,” the application said. “Case agents are still attempting to identify other locations used by the DTO, other members of the DTO, and the source of supply for narcotics and believe that the court order would be beneficial for the investigation.”

A judge issued the warrant the same day the application was filed, but agents never got the tracking device on the car. “Search warrant not executed due to security protocols active on Tesla,” the agent said in a court filing about the warrant.

The court documents don’t elaborate on the specific “security protocols” that stopped them from placing a tracking device on the car, but the Tesla may have been in “Sentry Mode.” Teslas have eight external cameras that provide a 360 degree view of the car’s surroundings. This makes the car’s self-driving features possible but also allows owners to keep track of what’s going on around the car.

If a stranger approaches a Tesla while it’s in Sentry Mode, the car will flash its lights, sound an alarm, and start recording through its exterior cameras.

Not a big fan of police being unable to execute a warrant, but that’s a great ad for anyone concerned about stalkers.

DEAR BLACK AMERICANS…:

Abdul El-Seyed’s surrogate Hasan Piker: “I don't give a fuck what Black people care about. Let's go back to a better time, when lynchings were happening.”

1.4 million black people live in Michigan. pic.twitter.com/EiEsKuuyrd

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 13, 2026

…today’s Dems just aren’t that into you.

BECAUSE OF COURSE: ‘Barbaric’? The Left Discovers Its Conscience — Right on Schedule.

OUT: “LEARN TO CODE.”

IN: An End To The Software Industry? “A whole lot of companies seem to have decided they don’t need to own their own software if they can simply have it in ‘the cloud’ and pay a subscription that means they have lower startup costs and can offload the support headcount to a vendor. And it seems that increasingly, that software will be written by AI, tested by AI, probed for security holes by AI, documented by AI, and supported by AI. I wonder if companies will give their AI tech support Indian accents to make them more believable?”

JUST WAIT UNTIL STARBASE LOUISIANA COMES ONLINE:

SpaceX is seeking approval for up to 456 Starship launches a year from Starbase, Texas.

• That’s more than 18 times the current annual limit of 25 launches.

• At the full proposed rate, that would average 38 launches a month, or more than one a day.

• The plan also includes… pic.twitter.com/4bMz6VvEnE

— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) October 13, 2026

CHRIS QUEEN: Whiskey Wednesday: A Toast to 30 Years of Woodford Reserve.

DRILL, BABY, DRILL (ARCTIC EDITION): Trump Announces “Massive” Greenland Oil Exploration Plans. “U.S. Greenland Energy Company has said it will fund 100% of the costs associated with up to two exploration wells in Greenland, designed to delineate the hydrocarbon potential of a project in the Jameson Land Basin.”

DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS:

James talarico says Texas oil and gas workers are "destroying the planet" and it's "time to transition" the industry. #TXsen pic.twitter.com/jCO7wBCo9W

— Lone Star Liberty PAC (@LoneStar_PAC) October 12, 2026

INCREASINGLY MURDEROUS, TOO: Andy Ngo’s ‘The Zizians’ — Like the Manson Family, but Trans, Vegan, and Weirder.

NIFTY: Powerus unveils fully autonomous drone interceptors.

According to analysis by the Congressional Budget Office, the U.S. used roughly two-thirds of its inventory of certain missile-defense interceptors by Aug. 1 to stop drones like Iran’s Shahed. Because rebuilding the supply could take years and cost billions, the government has sought quicker and cheaper solutions like those used in Ukraine, but implementing them hasn’t been easy.

“When you go to Ukraine, most of the interceptors, believe it or not, are manually controlled,” he said, explaining that Ukrainian operators are highly skilled at finding and stopping one-way attack drones in the air. “And that’s great for Ukraine, where you could probably throw a rock and hit a drone pilot.”

The problem with the government’s initial thinking, according to Velicovich, was that Ukraine has a “proper drone army,” as the country has “entire brigades that are pilots. So those guys have extreme combat experience in knowing how to take a drone and send it into another drone. In other countries, they don’t.”

With that understanding, Velicovich explained how Powerus provided the U.S. with the Guardian 1 — modeled after manually controlled Ukrainian drone interceptors — to the semi-autonomous Guardian 2, which, when paired with a radar to detect threats, will launch the interceptor in the direction of a drone.

“It’ll know the speed and the telemetry. It’ll launch it in that direction, but you still have to do that final phase of manual kill,” he said.

Guardian 3 is fully autonomous, but no word yet on pricing.