THIS TOO IS WHAT I VOTED FOR:  Trump Admin has Arrested 1,296 Tren de Aragua Gang Members.

I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD SAY THIS, BUT YAY FOR RANDOM PENGUIN:  Palestine book by Alana Hadid and Jenan Matari pulled from Random House before release. Authors withdraw book planned for young readers after disputes with editors over characterizations of 7 October.

As for the authors, all enthusiastic about the Neolithic atrocities of October 7? I’m a fair woman. May it be done onto them as they admire. (What? Sometimes Team Heads on Pikes gets loud in the back of my mind.)

THIS IS WHO THE LEFTISTS ARE:  Florida Democratic Senate Candidate Wants Opponent ‘Locked Up and Punished in Jail’.

This one is just dumb enough to say it out loud.

OKAY, THIS WASN’T THE 21ST CENTURY I WANTED, BUT ONE I THOUGHT WAS POSSIBLE:  Feds Target North Korean Laptop Farms Allegedly Funding Nuclear, Missile Programs.

YES. BUT WE KNEW THAT:  UN inquiry member says some genocide claims against Israel unverified as Gaza reports population growth. Expert says latest data is further evidence against accusations of genocide. With the number of live births in 2025 far greater than the number of deaths.

TO NO ONE’S SURPRISE, MARXIST ECONOMICS DOESN’T WORK:  Republicans Dominate 5 Financially Healthiest State Governments, Democrats Run the 5 Worst.

NOW THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY I EXPECTED:  Japan wants to spend half billion to expand its both public and private spaceports.

I VOTED FOR THIS:  $1.5 Billion Obamacare Waste Targeted by Trump Administration.

THESE RULES FOR ARGUING ONLINE APPLY EVEN TO OTHER SUBJECTS:  What I Learned In Three Years of Being a Keyboard Warrior.

MOST FREE PEOPLE SEE IT:  We’re not the only ones seeing the threat.

OPEN THREAD: Show your work.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Scientists discover that some of the universe’s biggest explosions may have never happened at all.

EVEN MORE MOLOCH, ER, TALARICO: ‘The Bible Is Silent on the Issue of Abortion.’

SAY ANYTHING:

Tucker Carlson on watching b*stiality p*rnography:

"If you look at p*rnography enough or b*stiality videos all day: after a while, like, it's kind of an attractive horse, I get it. I'm not into it personally, but it's not crazy." pic.twitter.com/mSai5damcf

— Max 📟 (@MaxNordau) October 15, 2026

MISSION… ACCEPTED: meet the stunning new mid-engined Porsche Mission S.

Porsche is on the ropes. Its profits – once the envy of many a carmaker – fell off a cliff last year, plunging a whopping 93 per cent to €90m. Its bet on an EV future resulted in… two new petrol crossovers.

It’s now on a mission to turn the ship around. And this is part of the solution. Welcome to the stunning new Mission S supercar.

It’s not a limited-edition hypertoy conceived for the fortunate few (though no doubt it’d sell out in seconds), but a full-production car that’ll sit at the top of Porsche tree. Which means it’ll look down on Porsche’s halo car.

“The Mission S represents a mid-engined super sports car platform positioned above the 911 – not as a one-off hypercar, but as a permanent and versatile addition to our customer offering,” said boss Michael Leiters.

It was designed to be “recognisable as a Porsche at first glance”, and we’d say… mission accomplished. It’s very 911-alike at the front with that familiar headlight arrangement, a slatted bonnet, a clean front bumper, and what Porsche deems ‘torpedo’ wings.

Car and Driver says that it can be yours for a mere half a million dollars.

A GOOD GUY WITH A GUN:

🚨 BREAKING: A bystander had already KlLLED the shooter at the Bend elementary school before police even arrived

And even CNN is admitting this would've been MUCH WORSE had that good guy with a gun NOT been there:

"We can only imagine, had that person with a firearm NOT been… pic.twitter.com/XC6uOjbh0m

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) October 15, 2026

Remember, the true first responders are the ones already on the scene.

GOOD, I ALREADY TAKE IT: Creatine Could Protect The Brain From Gut Inflammation.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Antibiotic Resistance Is Making This Dangerous Gut Bacterium Even Harder To Kill.

FASTER, PLEASE: Yes — Trump’s DHS Is Preparing a Case for Deporting the Foreign Agent of Influence Ilhan “Omar.”

ANTI-TRUMP PROTESTERS TORCH ALBANIAN GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS:

Violent student protests have gripped Albania with government buildings torched, petrol bombs launched and calls for the prime minister to resign.

Riot police fired tear gas and used water cannon to disperse crowds in the capital, Tirana, on Thursday – the third day of unrest.

Protests started because of plans by Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, and her husband, Jared Kushner, to build a multi-billion-dollar luxury marina and tourism development on an uninhabited island and unspoilt stretch of coastline in the south of the country.

But the largely peaceful protests of the past few months widened this week to include tens of thousands of students who are furious with the poor state of the education system and a lack of jobs.

On Wednesday, demonstrators set fire to the education ministry and attacked other government buildings, including the prime minister’s office and interior ministry.

Albania, huh? Time to fire up the B-3 bombers:

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: How a Flawed Covid Study Tried—and Failed—to Discredit the Amish.

SOME OF THE HIGH SCHOOLS AREN’T ANY BETTER:

Do these people live on another planet? College campuses are already anti-men to the max. Many male college students I’ve spoken with tell me they feel like a punching bag. Absolutely delusional to suggest that college men “aren’t being taught about inequality, power & sexism.” https://t.co/z6NE2AW5BF

— Lisa Britton (@LisaBritton) October 15, 2026

NOW THIS IS MORE LIKE THE 21ST CENTURY I WAS PROMISED: Could the New SpaceX-Assisted Tesla Roadster Actually Fly? A Closer Look at What It May Actually Do. “According to the FAA, the resulting no-fly zone (which began on September 18 and ended October 2 and has presumably been extended to cover the rescheduled launch) covered a 1.5-nautical-mile radius around the facility and extended up to 10,000 feet. What could that tell us about the Roadster’s capabilities?”

ABORIGINAL SUVS TO BLAME: Ancient Indigenous people in New Mexico lived through extreme climate change 23,000 years ago, study suggests. “The White Sands footprints suggest that people from Asia reached the Americas via the region around the Bering Strait much earlier than scientists initially thought, challenging a long-held assumption that humans arrived on the continent around 13,000 years ago. While some scientists have disputed the methods used to date the footprints, evidence is building that they are around 23,000 years old.”

RAVING AND DROOLING: “He’s got an IQ of about three.” Roger Waters launches astonishing attack on James Hetfield over past political statements, following the Metallica frontman’s controversial words at The Sphere in Las Vegas.

Earlier this week, Waters, 83, appeared on a new episode of the podcast The Katie Halper Show, where the host, an American left-wing commentator, guided the musician through some of Metallica’s past politically conscious lyrics, including those on 1986’s Disposable Heroes and 1988’s …And Justice For All.

Halper then showed Waters an interview Hetfield gave in 2007, around their performance at the climate change charity concert Live Earth, where he said “politics drive me crazy”.

She went on to revisit the time in 2008 when Hetfield reacted to Metallica’s music being played during the US torture of Iraqi prisoners (he explained in a separate interview that he was partially “bummed” about it and didn’t want the band “being attached to some political statement”).

After this whistle-stop tour of Hetfield’s political history, Waters is asked for his reaction. “He’s just showing that he’s a complete prick,” he states. “He’s got an IQ of about three, and why we’re talking about him, I don’t even know, because he’s a nobody. He may have a few hundred million dollars or whatever, but he’s a prick.”

Why, it’s as if:

Metal heads are nice people dressing up and pretending to be mean people.

Hippies are mean people dressing up and pretending to be nice people. https://t.co/bea8NBMlam

— Marc J. Randazza 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇧🇷 (@marcorandazza) October 14, 2026