DISPATCHES FROM ORWELL’S EURASIA:

The Kremlin has ordered Apple and Microsoft to store and hand over Russian users’ data to security services

Roskomnadzor, Russia’s state censorship and communications watchdog, added Apple and Microsoft to the registry of information dissemination organizers.

Under the law,… pic.twitter.com/5YujoBFpmY

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 28, 2026

“Under the law, they must store data on users’ actions and communications inside Russia for three years and provide it, including the content of messages, to Russian special services on request.”

AS P.J. O’ROURKE WROTE, COMMIES LOVE CONCRETE:

The left-wing future is not Blade Runner or anything even half as cool. It’s a global favela. Every inch of habitable space covered with low-rise concrete dwellings erupting like boils from the skin of the earth. Billions and billions and billions of stupid people.

— RAW EGG NATIONALIST (@Babygravy9) October 27, 2026

STOCK UP AND SAVE: Apparently, One Wife Isn’t Enough for This ‘Prophet.’

MASSIVE RESISTANCE: University of Northern Iowa faculty warned about undercover DEI questioning: A faculty union leader warned professors that visitors posing as prospective students may have attempted to record conversations about DEI.

ONE WAR, TWO FRONTS: Russian Satellites Help Iran’s Allies Strike Saudi Arabia, Data and Officials Say. “‘What we found is a 100% match’ between the satellite activities and strikes, said Nawaf Obaid, founder of Geneva-based AURORAH Geosignal Intelligence.”

AUTOMATE AS MUCH OF THE CHAIN AS IS FEASIBLE:

Watch out, Amazon. Tesla’s got its eye on the delivery space.

In a recent Munro Live interview, Tesla's Lars Moravy and Eric Earley shared some Optimus nuggets:

– Optimus's battery is a single ~2.5 kWh module, and unlike in a car (where the pack is a quarter to a third of the… pic.twitter.com/U5Hwq4ka8a

— The Humanoid Hub (@TheHumanoidHub) October 26, 2026

Someone in the replies called it “absurd” to use Optimus to plug in the charger, “as a robotic arm would be a much more suitable fit for that task.”

What’s absurd is putting a specialty arm on a car when there’s an android in the car with two perfectly serviceable arms.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: No, Really — There’s a Silver Lining If Dems Steamroll the Midterms. “Giving them the keys to the majority will lead to an impeachment frenzy, a lot of grandstanding, and precious little in the way of anything that looks like leadership. A couple of years of that — along with the resurrection of the J6 dead horse — will remind voters who abandoned the Dems in droves in 2024 of just why they did that.”

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Wannabe tyrants fall to the ‘Streisand effect’ — because censors deserve our mockery.

THE SCIENCE BEHIND “GREEN” EFFORTS IS USUALLY WRONG: Study: A Soggy Paper Straw Is Worse For the Environment Than a Plastic One.

But the goal isn’t so much saving the environment as it is making your life worse.

BANANA REPUBLIC. ALSO WHAT THE LEFT HAS IN MIND FOR THE U.S.

This doesn't sound like the actions of a legitimate winner. Lula needs to be Maduro-ed.

— Captain Obvious 😎 (@CaptainObv75200) October 28, 2026

I’VE BEEN TOLD REPEATEDLY IN RECENT WEEKS THAT THIS IS BASICALLY FASCISM: New Hampshire journalist says he was blocked from covering Kamala Harris political event.

A New Hampshire journalist said he was denied entry to an event Saturday featuring former Vice President Kamala Harris.

“The reception that I’ve gotten at past Democrat events from activists, from staff has mostly been positive… which is what makes this situation so disappointing,” New Hampshire Journal reporter Leonard Robinson told Fox News Digital in an interview Monday. 

Robinson wrote on X Saturday, “@NHDems often make access hard for NHJournal. I’ve been physically blocked by their operatives, they’ve hidden locations of their events from NHJournal. Nothing compares to Harris’s visit.”

The big networks will get right on this, yes?

FASTER, PLEASE:

Just your daily pre-midterm reminder that *5,000* Americans who would have statistically been homicide victims have not been murdered in the U.S. in the past two years because Donald Trump deported a whole bunch of criminals.

— Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ (@InezFeltscher) October 27, 2026

COMMIES ARE ALWAYS AFRAID OF THE TRUTH: Cuban goes viral for trying to stop US ambassador from telling UN about regime’s corruption.

MIKE WALTZ GETS IN SHOUTING MATCH WITH CUBAN DELEGATE AT UN AS AMERICAN DIPLOMAT ASSAULTED:

The broadside against “corrupt Cuban elites” at one point featured Waltz displaying a photo of late dictator Fidel Castro wearing two Rolex watches worth around $40,000 in today’s money.

“According to the regime’s own statistics, that would pay for 55 years of an average Cuban wage,” Waltz noted, before showing a photo of Miguel Díaz-Canel and saying, “It didn’t just start with Castro. This is the current Cuban president, also with a Rolex on.”

The former Florida congressman highlighted reports on the Cuban military-run conglomerate GAESA amassing $18 billion in assets that have enriched regime elites, showing further photos of them flaunting their wealth.

“It’s not just watches, colleagues, it’s also a vast real estate empire,” Waltz continued, sharing images of the Castro family’s 14,000-square-foot seaside retreat in Varadero with marble floors, a sauna and a private dock, as well as the ex-ruling family’s compound made “from cedar imported from the Brazilian Amazon rainforest.”

“But colleagues, even 20 homes and all of these lavish compounds aren’t enough,” Waltz added. “Why settle for mansions by the sea when you can have your own private island? That’s right. The Castro family has their own private island, Cayo Piedra.”

Exit quote:

BOOM: Mike Waltz just UNLOADED on a Cuban official trying to intimidate him at the UN:
“BACK AWAY. This isn’t Havana! Do you understand who you’re dealing with? This is the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!” 🔥
The communists are terrified of Trump and Rubio.
Strength is BACK in America!… pic.twitter.com/jGtqegmOYQ

— Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) October 27, 2026

WELL, WHAT IF THEY DIDN’T GET DELIVERED CORRECTLY?

An Illinois man allegedly mailed letters filled with white powder to four members of Congress — then put his own return address on every single one.

Matthew G. Unglesbee now faces two felony charges after the FBI says he sent the letters as a fake anthrax hoax, telling law… pic.twitter.com/IYM3rBsO7f

— Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) October 27, 2026

This should have been this week’s out-of-state Florida Man Friday closing item, but I couldn’t wait.

“TOWN HALL.” Ex-transgender woman says CNN town hall organizers banned her from Talarico event.

CDR SALAMANDER: The West’s International Order is on Borrowed Time. Clearly true. “The wheels will come off Europe first.”

EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE, A COMMUNIST ACCIDENTALLY TELLS THE TRUTH: ‘He’s Literally a Rapist’: Top Abdul El-Sayed Aide Slammed Joe Biden as ‘Dipshit’ Who Must Be ‘Held Accountable’ for Rape, Called America ‘Cringe,’ in Deleted Posts.

WHY ELISSA SLOTKIN’S THREATS TO TRUMP STAFFERS ARE PROBABLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL:

Slotkin’s comments show a blatant disregard for the separation of powers. Congressional investigations meant to deter people from joining or working with a presidential administration would give Congress enormous power over the executive, empowering it to hold the executive branch hostage. That investigative power would have a chilling effect on the executive branch’s operations because individuals and companies would refuse to work with any presidential administration for fear of being subjected to a congressional investigation.

Mazars left many questions unanswered, and the full scope of Congress’s oversight powers remains undecided by the Supreme Court. But Slotkin’s statements not only crossed a line but also make it harder for Congress to defend its oversight powers before the Supreme Court.

Read the whole thing.

LIGHTNING DEAL: Waykar 80 Pints 5000 Sq. Ft 2025 Energy Star Dehumidifier. #CommissionEarned

HMM: It Appears That the AI Bubble Has Just Burst in China.

A report from Reuters suggests that the AI bubble in China “has already burst.” Or it might be more apt to say that it shriveled like a rapidly deflating balloon: over the past four months, Reuters notes, the country’s STAR50 index of AI and semiconductor companies collapsed by 40 percent, wiping out $480 billion in market value. That is not a typo.

“The stock market later evolved into a speculative crazy bull,” Beijing-based fund manager Dong Baozhen told Reuters. “And now we see the bubble bursting.”

Shares of Unitree, China’s buzzy robotics company, have halved since the company went public in a much-hyped IPO in August, the reporting noted. The chipmaker CXMT, meanwhile, has lost more than a quarter of its value over the past month.

The vicissitudes of the stock market haven’t completely dampened AI investors’ spirits, though. DeepSeek, one of China’s top AI companies, recently raised $15 billion in one of the largest funding rounds in the country’s history, Bloomberg reported. The outlet also noted that Huawei clinched a $2.3 billion loan from Chinese banks to spend on more AI chips.

Maybe less of a popped bubble and more of the inevitable shakeout finally taking place.

HE JUST THINKS IT’LL STOP PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THEM. Macron: Censorship Is the Answer to Riots.

A whiff of grapeshot is the answer. Ask Napoleon.

STACY MCCAIN: Bad Boys, Bad Drugs, and Other Addictions. “She had tremendous potential, and all that potential went to waste because of the extended adolescence of the party scene that LA tolerates as normal. Grown-ups acting like teenagers without adult supervision consider themselves the height of sophistication, and sneer at those of us out here in the ‘conservative hometown’ environment of the American heartland. We’re a bunch of rubes and hicks, and the Hollywood degenerates are The Smart People — or so they tell themselves.”

Smart is as smart does.

IN WHICH WASHINGTON NOT-SO-SUBTLY TELLS BEIJING THEY KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON THINGS:

JUST IN: The Pentagon has published a remarkable image of China's secretive Shenlong spaceplane in orbit, captured by a Maxar satellite and featured in its newly released 2026 space threat assessment.

The reusable, uncrewed spacecraft launches aboard a rocket and returns to… pic.twitter.com/oihgAsMvSZ

— Outer Space Today (@outerspacetoday) October 27, 2026

“China has disclosed few details about the spacecraft’s missions or capabilities.”

To be fair, the Pentagon doesn’t say much about the X-37B, either.

MARTIN HACKWORTH: DataRepublican sees long, hard times to come.