KURT SCHLICHTER: Woke 2 Is Here, and It’s Failing Hilariously. “Now there’s a reason that woke people are so often fat, ugly, and stupid. It’s because they’re the losers. Woke is the tool of the losers; they’ve got nothing else. Its efficacy exists only because of the grace of the winners, and if we stop giving them that grace, it stops being effective. And we give that grace in large part because we’ve been convinced, falsely, that those claiming oppression have some sort of moral edge over the rest of us. . . . We’re still at the endless nagging phase. Examples are all around us, including the Cornell 7 case, where they are demanding that the men who, as the evidence shows, simply acknowledged and affirmed the frisky young lady’s erotic empowerment are being held up as evidence of how the patriarchy is out of control.”

There’s no better argument for patriarchy than woke feminism.

MASSIVE RESISTANCE: Colleges Are Still Discriminating by Race.

MY LATEST NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Elissa Slotkin’s threats to prosecute conservatives move America closer to civil war.

CDR SALAMANDER: Yes, a gun on top of a gun, and more of them, is your solution. “Not that there is anything wrong with a good 30mm chain gun. Those will fit in places where 50 mm and larger guns just can’t squeeze in. We also love ‘ole Ma-Deuce. In the military version of a Turducken, what if we mounted a .50 cal on top of a 30mm?”

When the war starts, we always wind up adding guns to our ships that they should have had already. Especially antiaircraft guns. Which this time around will probably be antidrone guns.

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

SPACE: Army Building Up New Space Operations Branch.

I DON’T THINK THAT “DISUNION” IS AN ALTERNATIVE for the United States. As with Britain and Ireland since the days of Spain, we can’t allow a country where our enemies could have a base next door. A seceded California — even without Oregon and Washington State — would immediately become a Chinese satrapy — I mean, more than it already is. We can’t allow that on our continent. Canada and Mexico we can dominate. A peer nation we could not.

MY LATEST NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Elissa Slotkin’s threats to prosecute conservatives move America closer to civil war.

SCIENCE: A New Injection Makes Fat Cells Self-Destruct, And Might Prevent GLP-1 Weight Regain.

SCIENCE: Scientists Discover a Surprising New Effect of a Popular Blood Pressure Drug.

FLASHBACK: Media manipulates economic gloom — and it’s all about the midterms.

SO PLAUSIBLE: Deregulation Can Make Medications Cheaper.

NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW! Lawsplainer: California Officials Will Be Federally Prosecuted If They Ignore Evidence Of Ineligible Aliens Voting In Federal Elections.

JEEP RELIABILITY HAS ALWAYS BEEN BAD; WHY DON’T THEY FIX IT? Jeep Reliability Is Worse Than Average, but 3 Models Stand Out.

STILL TRUE: Leftists’ masks are coming all the way off — revealing the ugly truth.

LOL:

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— Zalmi U (@ZalmiU) October 19, 2026

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Silencer 101: Here’s What to Know Before You Buy Your First Can.

LOVE IS LOVE: The remarkable bond between a man and a deer: In his new book ‘Penelope,’ author Paul Bochner recounts ‘one of the greatest loves I have ever known.’

JODY FELL OFF OF HIS TRACTOR, COULDN’T BELIEVE WHAT HE’D SEEN. Minnesota resident finds a jagged metal object with a burnt underbelly in a cornfield. Then deputies call it ‘presumably a space object.’

SALT ISN’T ALWAYS BAD: 5 surprising signs your body may actually need more sodium, according to dietitians.

HMM: One Blood Type Seems to Carry a Higher Risk of Type 2 Diabetes.

THIS PREDICTION SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT:

This is the funniest announcement I've seen in weeks:

"The European Union is working toward fast-track antitrust approval for a satellite joint venture between Leonardo SpA, Airbus SE, and Thales SA, which is positioned as Europe's response to SpaceX"

We know pretty much how… https://t.co/1uW8fUfv9i

— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) October 19, 2026

The funny thing is, I don’t think Elon would much mind if Europe were actually able to produce a company as formidable as SpaceX. His goal is settling the Solar System; SpaceX is a means to this goal, not an end.

I REMEMBER WHEN HIGHER EDUCATION WAS TOUTED AS REDUCING IGNORANT TRIBALISM: Cornell faculty members indifferent to actual evidence in Jane Doe ‘rape’ case.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Census study: AI-exposed college grads face 13% earnings drop.

DAVID HARSANYI: Why The Law Must Apply to Ilhan Omar.