HEY, BIG SPENDER: Meta announces $95 billion stock offering to fund AI expansion.

Meta said Monday that it is planning to raise a total of $95 billion to support its investments in AI infrastructure and superintelligence.

The stock was up 1.6% in premarket trading after the announcement.

The tech giant will initially raise $35 billion in underwritten public equity offerings, before later raising an additional $60 billion with an at-the-market program.

Meta’s planned investments will support “emerging AI opportunities” including its family of apps, its AI agent Muse and its data center business.

Last week, investors retreated from big tech on fears that AI spending is unsustainable. This week, they’re buying Meta on news of massive new AI spending.

So who knows?

STOLEN:

Former Venezuelan presidential candidate Alejandro Peña Esclusa is right. It is impossible for the right to have won the parliamentary elections 20 days ago so convingly and for Lula to have won yesterday with four million votes. As my friend Alejandro says, this was a coup. https://t.co/8SalcJ2JZ5

— Mike Gonzalez (@Gundisalvus) October 26, 2026

WALTER KOENIG, RIP:

I’m very sad to hear of the passing of Walter Koenig, aka Pavel Chekov from Star Trek. I got to meet him on a few occasions, and he was always genuine, thoughtful, and a little anxious in a way that made him very relatable. R.I.P. pic.twitter.com/XaCne7YtMI

— Subcommander Tal (@SubcommanderT) October 26, 2026

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WELL, THAT 60 MINUTES DEPORTATION SOB STORY SURE BLEW UP IN A HURRY:

A 2026 BBC undercover investigation documented a network of UK legal advisers and firms charging thousands of pounds to coach migrants, particularly those from Pakistan and Bangladesh, to falsely claim they are gay in order to obtain asylum.

The advisers provided guidance on fabricating evidence such as staged photographs, support letters, and medical reports, prompting arrests and Home Office action against those involved in the scheme.

In the United States, sexual orientation is a recognized basis for asylum or withholding of removal. Federal authorities have prosecuted attorneys and preparers for coaching clients to fabricate persecution claims, including those based on LGBT status.

Well into the 60 Minutes report, they acknowledge that “the U.S. had a right to deport him, but not to Mali.”

They didn’t. They sent him to Ghana. Aside from the entire premise being false, the outlet did a bang-up job reporting here.

By ignoring the fraudulent core of his asylum file to run a sympathetic family package, 60 Minutes got completely caught spinning a false narrative that collapsed rather swiftly.

And once again, a 60 Minutes story cannot survive contact with the real world.

UDPATE: Elderly former 60 Minutes anchor forgets why he hasn’t worked for CBS in over 20 years:

https://t.co/EqPt8PPvKa pic.twitter.com/UAbxwoO0hl

— Benjamin Domenech (@bdomenech) October 26, 2026

GET READY FOR THE HOLIDAY COOKING: MEATER Plus Smart Meat Thermometer. #CommissionEarned

HMM: The Fed thinks it’s fighting inflation. It’s starving the cure.

Kevin Warsh has described business investment as “the seed corn of future economic growth.” He is right. The Fed’s September statement described robust capital investment and strong productivity growth alongside resilient spending. Those investments represent businesses putting their money behind America’s future. Their success can mean better jobs, lower production costs, and more opportunity. That future belongs in the Fed’s calculation alongside the spending those investments generate today.

That is why a pause makes sense when officials meet on Oct. 27 and 28. September’s rate increase remains in place. Before raising rates again, the Fed should explain how much further inflation relief it expects, how long that relief would take, and what investment and employment it could put at risk. The benefits and costs deserve the same scrutiny.

Leaving rates unchanged during rising inflation goes against expert advice, but the experts also told us stagflation was impossible — right up until it happened in the ’70s.

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RIP: Walter Koenig, the Russian Crewman Chekov on Star Trek, Dies at 90.

ALIENS: New Pentagon UFO files detail FBI agents’ sighting of silent triangular object with no visible engines.

THAT THING THAT NEVER HAPPENS?

#BREAKING: The DOJ just charged 48 foreigners with illegally voting in U.S. elections.

— Insider Wire (@InsiderWire) October 26, 2026

Yep, happened again.

OTHERWISE, IT’S STILL AWFUL: The UN Climate Circus: Broke, Gridlocked, and Reality-Starved.

THE FIRST ONE IDENTIFIED…: The World’s First Corporate Psychopath May Have Just Been Identified.

STEPHEN SOUKUP: Thanks Again, Obama.

Obama? The guy who left office ten years ago? Why is this multi-deci-millionaire running around the country trying to get socialists and socialist-adjacent candidates (including Abdul El-Sayed) elected to high office? Shouldn’t he be off enjoying his oceanfront mansion on Martha’s Vineyard or his other oceanfront mansion on Oahu? Or playing basketball on the NBA regulation-size court at the aforementioned “library”? Isn’t that what most ex-presidents are doing a decade after their terms ended, enjoying retirement?

Well… yes, but Obama hasn’t been gone ten years yet. Technically, it’s only been nine years, nine months, and six days (not that anyone’s counting). More to the point, as I say, Obama can’t stand not being the center of attention. He and Michelle just celebrated their 34th wedding anniversary, and because of his ongoing obsession with politics and being in the spotlight, they might not make it to 35. As the former president himself admitted this past spring, his political fixation “does create a genuine tension in our household, and it frustrates [Michelle].” Still, that’s what he does. That’s all he does. Because he can’t help himself. As Obama also noted last spring, “no other ex-president was the main surrogate for the party for four election cycles after they left office.” Maybe there’s a reason for that?

Nevertheless, Republicans should be grateful.

Read the whole thing.

A MODEST PROPOSAL:

Men still account for 93% of industrial/workplace deaths. We’re serious about changing that. Are you? https://t.co/hmN6pHlyOK

— Rollo Tomassi (@RationalMale) October 26, 2026

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TO BE FAIR, SHE NUKED THE TATTERED REMAINS OF THE MAGAZINE’S REPUTATION A DECADE AGO:

She is absolutely nuking the reputation of The Economist with these interviews. First she gets decapitated by Elon Musk, now Jamie Dimon mocks how ridiculous she is. https://t.co/a0U4O3kO4T

— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) October 26, 2026

RED PILL IN OPERATION: Feminism Blinds Women to the Truth About Men.

BRAZIL CONTINUES TO GO SWIMMINGLY: Brazil Stocks Halted After Lula Win.

SARAH ANDERSON: She’s Back! So What’s Next for Venezuela? “Opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner (and, with any luck, the country’s next president) María Corina Machado arrived back in Venezuela on Sunday. She posted the following on X before videos of her in Santa Rosa, surrounded by the people who adore her, began surfacing on social media: ‘I am here. With you.'”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Sharpen memory and fight brain fog with simple 60-second trick from a neurologist.

I read that doing 30 pushups first thing in the morning would give you more energy and better focus, and surprisingly it really works, at least for me.

OH: Anthropic model accessed voter information.

Anthropic’s Claude accessed publicly available Georgia voter data without human authorization, a disclosure sure to add to growing concerns about AI security ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.

Why it matters: AI giants Anthropic and OpenAI have continued to make disclosures about agents taking unauthorized or unintended actions, raising alarms about advancing model capabilities and the extent of human control.

Driving the news: Claude accessed aggregate vote counts while on an internal statistics project, pulling data that the state makes available to the public for a fee. It didn’t access the state’s voter registration system or change or pull any voting records, an Anthropic spokesperson said.

However, the model bypassed a paywall in accessing the information, according to Georgia officials and Anthropic.

Of course it was Georgia.

“THE ENTIRE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WAS LIKE A CHAPTER OUT OF ATLAS SHRUGGED:” 

For anyone curious about what it actually looked like to kill a generation of functioning cars, here’s an actual video from 2009 and brief explanation:

The dealer first replaces the oil with sodium silicate solution. It’s a clear-ish liquid that crystallizes under extreme heat.… https://t.co/63PY2RvaQC pic.twitter.com/NHLiSHe9kE

— Richard “Beebo” Russell (@proverbs_14_23) October 26, 2026

THIS IS CNN:

CNN calls Karen Finney a "political commentator."

Karen Finney was Hillary Clinton's press secretary. She was also the communications director for the DNC. https://t.co/Nt9fC4higX

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 26, 2026

When you’re a Dem operative in a sea of Dem operatives, all you see are “political commentators” and “journalists.”

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