I ACTUALLY LIKE PLUG-IN HYBRIDS: The Plug-In Hybrid Lexus TX550h+ Has Been Discontinued for 2027.

I had a Lexus TX as a loaner a couple of years ago, though, and it drove like a minivan.

YES: Let’s Thank France for Producing Such an Effective Campaign Ad for Preserving Second Amendment Rights.

ASK THOR HEYERDAHL: Genetic study shows seafarers from Easter Island settled Hawaii.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Creatine is no longer just a gym-bro supplement. After taking it daily for three months, I noticed changes I didn’t expect.

YES, NEXT QUESTION: Does Sex Help You Sleep Better?

BRIAN WANG: AI Demand for 20 GW of SpaceX AI in 2027? Boom or Bust?

MY BURGER REVIEWS ARE BETTER: In-N-Out Vs Shake Shack: Which Burger Is Actually Healthier?

FEBRUARY 26-28: ConFinementCon. Run by Mike Williamson. Tom Kratman will be the guest of honor. FYI, I was the GOH there last year and had a great time.

I GUARANTEE YOU ELON KNOW MORE ABOUT HER DOINGS THAN SHE DOES ABOUT HIS:

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

Sounds like Swisher really wants to go to prison.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 21, 2026

And if this was an effort to intimidate him, it clearly failed. Which is no surprise.

CDR SALAMANDER: Royal Navy Submarine Legacy’s Sad Deathbed: Collapse and irrelevance happens slowly, then all at once.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Wisconsin principal busted for alleged sexual misconduct with student. “Kaitlyn Hintz, the 32-year-old associate principal at Bonduel Middle/High School, was arrested Monday, a little over a week after a tip was sent to the state’s Speak Up, Speak Out reporting system, the district told parents in a letter to parents shared by WBAY.”

CORNELL IS ONE BIG FAILURE AT THIS POINT: Cornell ‘Future of the American University’ report rejects hiring conservative scholars.

OBSOLETE IN THE AGE OF OZEMPIC: University of Illinois health institute promotes ‘fat liberation’ through DEI resources.

DESTINATION: COLOR REVOLUTION.

Even before Trump entered office, although well after the Obama administration, Hillary Clinton and the FBI had already begun working on destroying Trump. Chuck Schumer gleefully told Rachel Maddow that the intelligence community was going to go after Trump and that they knew how to do it. . . .

DataRepublican has been doing a very deep dive into the current Deep State project to take Donald Trump out after the Midterm elections, dropping chunks of her investigation, including receipts from an insider who leaked video, audio, and documents from a wide-ranging, shall we call it a “plot,” to amp up resistance to Trump and to create a Constitutional crisis that would, they hope, reshape the entire political landscape.

Including the Constitution.

The core groups involved are military alumni, various intelligence agencies, and, of course, the USAID folks. You may recall that as Trump closed down USAID, a bureaucrat walking out the door darkly insinuated that it was the biggest mistake Trump ever made.

Seditious conspiracy is a federal felony.

CONSCIOUSNESS OF GUILT: UC Berkeley Law Review Poised To Delete All Application Records After Editors Pledged To Select Applicants Based on Race. “The flagship law review at the University of California, Berkeley, is poised to delete all internal application records after the Washington Free Beacon reported on the journal’s use of personal statements to promote a ‘diverse membership,’ sparking concerns that the journal is attempting to destroy evidence that could be used against it in the event of a discrimination probe.”

SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT:

Translation:

‘Our propaganda apparatus is crumbling, only the most credulous are receptive to our dissembling, we have lost our powers of persuasion.’ https://t.co/SKlGTsKazl

— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) October 20, 2026

TRUE:

The ability to lay mines by drone-subs will be the biggest use case for them in a war with China.

The problem is China can and will do the same to Western ports. https://t.co/tccV6r2IlE

— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) October 20, 2026

THIS WAS NO ACCIDENT:

Myriam was a 7-year-old French Jewish girl. She witnessed a terrorist break into her school and kill two of her classmates.

She tried to run but tripped while grabbing her schoolbag, causing her ballet slippers to fall out. She stopped to pick them up. He chased her and grabbed… https://t.co/tJZAegpdby pic.twitter.com/dQz8EFGXeA

— Dr. Maalouf ‏ (@realMaalouf) October 21, 2026

I REMEMBER WHEN HIGHER EDUCATION WAS JUSTIFIED ON THE GROUNDS OF OPENING PEOPLE’S MINDS:

“Such opinions simply should not be permitted, argued the Columbia Political Review.”

Are these some of the kids who are supposedly always on the right side of history? https://t.co/ROzqFIWlRH

— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) October 20, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

THE ORIGINAL EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Did a giant object collide with Earth to form the moon?

SO UNFAIR. THEY SHOULD HIRE PUBLICISTS TO DUB THEM “DREAMY SPAGHETTI WORMS.” New Genus of Nightmare Spaghetti Worms Found Deep Under The Indian Ocean.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Scientists Discover Why Eating Fat Before Carbs Reduces Blood Sugar Spikes.

GLP-1s: The problem isn’t the medication itself. It’s that we’ve built an elegant on-ramp for GLP-1s—and almost no off-ramp at all.

LOOKS: Alfa Romeo’s New Giulia Shooting Brake Looks Too Good to Be True.