TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE: Is Hollywood Waking Up to the DSA Nightmare?
October 23, 2026
THE TAKEAWAY IS THAT THE FRAUD WAS EVEN WORSE THAN BELIEVED:
In the wake of unprecedented cuts in last year's Republican reconciliation law, SNAP participation & spending have been falling — and the decline is much deeper than the Congressional Budget Office initially projected. https://t.co/CRy2eEJ8bc pic.twitter.com/jiN44g5npn
— Katie Bergh (@Katie_Bergh) October 22, 2026
DEEP STATE? WHAT DEEP STATE?: Just the News breaking story that two ex-FBI officials have been charged with making false statements about Hunter Biden’s laptop:
“Two former FBI intelligence officials appeared in federal court Friday on charges of making false statements to Congress about their roles in investigating Hunter Biden’s laptop in the closing weeks of the 2020 presidential election cycle.”
KRUISER: Dare We Dream That Ilhan Omar Has Finally Run Out of Brothers to Marry? “I hesitate to use the phrase, ‘the walls are closing in,’ because it’s been roundly abused by the Democrats’ flying monkeys in the mainstream media regarding President Trump since the moment he was first elected in 2016. There definitely is a ‘walls closing in’ vibe around Ilhan Omar lately though.”
GOOD NEWS ABOUNDS:
Two facts to brighten your morning:
Murder rates in the US are at record lows.
Civilian firearms ownership is at a record high.
Gun owners know why this is. If you have trouble understanding it, some of your premises need a rethink.
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) October 23, 2026
YOU KNOW WHAT NOT TO DO: Still Think Talarico Will Flip Texas? You Might Want to Read This.
I DON’T WANT MY SURGEON TO HAVE GOTTEN INTO MED SCHOOL THROUGH THE SIDE DOOR: Ohio State’s Medical School Had a ‘Side Door,’ DOJ Says. “The department reviewed admissions records for entering classes from 2023 through 2025. It found that some applicants received admission without an initial screening score or review by the admissions committee. In 2024 and 2025, black applicants using this pathway had four times the admission odds of white applicants with comparable academic credentials. No Asian applicants were admitted through it.”
KEEP YOUR DISHWASHER CLEAN: Affresh Dishwasher Cleaner. #CommissionEarned
IF YOU LOVE SOUTHERN LIT: Todd Smith’s “Josie: A True Story of Race, Rescue and Resilience” will be a blessing. And I was honored to write the Foreward!
WE’LL GET RIGHT ON THAT:
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— Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ (@InezFeltscher) October 22, 2026
HAHA:
Ok this is hilarious
— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) October 23, 2026
THESE ARE THE ACTIONS OF A CONQUERING ARMY: Muslims Desecrate Statues of Joan of Arc With Hijab and ‘Palestinian’ Flag. “Images posted across social media from Toulouse show an unidentified masked man, who appears to be African, standing on the bronze statue located on Place Jeanne d’Arc after placing a yellow vest on the saint’s head in the shape of a hijab and the Palestinian flag on the statue’s side. Separate video from Paris shows another unidentified reportedly foreign rioter being cheered on by a mob after climbing on and placing political stickers on the statue of the country’s patron saint in the Place des Pyramides.”
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
Tucker Carlson Explains World War 2 pic.twitter.com/seFlgYlod8
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 22, 2026
Evergreen question: Seriously, What the Hell Is Wrong With Tucker Carlson?
I’M TIRED OF HEARING “THE CONSTITUTION IS NOT A SUICIDE PACT” EVERY TIME SOMEONE WANTS TO LIMIT OUR RIGHTS. The warning traces back to a 1949 Supreme Court dissent opposing a ruling protecting inflammatory speech, but the majority disagreed, America survived, and we should remember that constitutional protections matter most when fear makes them inconvenient.
DIVERSITY PROBLEM: 95% of Michigan faculty donations go to El-Sayed over Rogers in Senate race.
MICHAEL BÉRUBÉ AND JENNIFER RUTH CHANGED MY MIND ABOUT FACULTY GOVERNANCE, BUT NOT AS THEY INTENDED. Their book It’s Not Free Speech helped convince me that giving certain faculty factions more power could make academia’s problems worse. I’m exploring why in Breaking the Academic Filibuster, a new experiment in publishing directly on Substack that also raises money for FIRE.
YOU CAN JUST DO THINGS:
Fortunately, Tesla didn’t live in modern times; otherwise, someone like him who doesn’t even have a degree—I can’t imagine how these people would tear him apart and spin stories against him.
— Y.H (@YH62284741) October 23, 2026
IF CALIFORNIA STILL ENJOYS A REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT, IT’S IN THE FORM OF A BANANA REPUBLIC: 15 Los Angeles Fraudsters Stole Almost $2 Billion.
LIMITED TIME DEAL: BAMBOO COOL Men’s Underwear Breathable Boxer Briefs. #CommissionEarned
OF COURSE IT’S COMMIES: UW–Madison center that backs ‘progressive’ change promotes Marxist and activist-led events.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Pedal to the Metal: NASA’s Psyche Heads Toward Asteroid Belt.
“It’s now ‘pedal to the metal’ to the asteroid Psyche,” said Don Han, the Psyche mission’s navigation lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, which is managed for the agency by Caltech. “We will be running our propulsion system at every available opportunity, pausing only for necessary engineering activities. The thrusters will be operating nearly 90% of the time from now until we reach the asteroid.”
Where conventional spacecraft thrusters rely on large quantities of fuel to provide powerful bursts of thrust for relatively short periods of time, the Psyche spacecraft’s solar-powered propulsion system uses electromagnetic fields to steadily deliver up to 250 millinewtons of force — about the amount of force that you would feel from the weight of holding one AA battery.
Yes, but it adds up.
If the mission confirms Psyche’s potential, it could become the most valuable object in the solar system aside from Earth.
SUCCINCTLY PUT:
The whole ethos of Washington, D.C. these days is: let's keep the racket going as long as possible. This is every agency, every Congressional office, every lobbyist, every think tank. Idealism is gone. Public service is gone. The notion of government as servant of the people is…
— Jeffrey A Tucker (@jeffreytucker) October 23, 2026
THIS IS NO SURPRISE:
Another "fun" detail from today's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel meeting concerning the ISS. If the space station's lifetime is extended from 2030 to 2032, it is likely the US Deorbit Vehicle (a modified Dragon spacecraft) would launch on a non-Falcon rocket.
— Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) October 22, 2026
Not only is SpaceX retiring Falcon 9, but the overwhelming majority Starship launches will likely be devoted to in-house Starlink and Starmind deployments.
