THE REICH STUFF: After warning about fascism, the Left proposes seizing private corporations.

The endless cries of creeping fascism from the Left have become exhausting, particularly when progressives keep reminding us that their problem isn’t authoritarianism itself, but who gets to wield the authority.

The most recent example? Robert Reich, the former secretary of labor under Bill Clinton – a man who routinely warns about fascism – advocating for the government to seize control of private companies.

NEW: Robert Reich calls for the "defunding" of Elon Musk, calls for Democrats to go after Musk's companies.

"Democrats ought to [start] laying the groundwork for nationalizing Starlink & SpaceX… It should be a public corporation."

Does he want Musk to drop another $50M on the… pic.twitter.com/0jiljf0CtG

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 25, 2026

Reich wants a Democrat-controlled government to cut off Elon Musk’s government contracts and prepare to nationalize SpaceX and Starlink if they regain power. In the spirit of Marx himself, Reich wants the state to take ownership of Musk’s lucrative companies.

This isn’t all that new a development, though:

● Nationalize Greyhound.

—Jacobin, December 2023.

(If only there was a preexisting nationalized passenger transportation system that has existed for decades that we could use as a benchmark to see how nationalizing Greyhound would likely proceed.)

● “Let’s nationalize Fox News: Imagining a very different media…Excerpted from ‘Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA.’

—Salon.com, January 18, 2014.

● “Like [the late communist Pete] Seeger and the FDR cargo cult, Salon also harbors turn-the-clock-back fantasies of their own: Last month, the publication called for the nationalization of the news media because it was uncomfortable with the glut of right-leaning news and opinion led by — you guessed it! — Fox News. (Hmmm — I wonder if someone in the FCC read that article?) Now the Website wishes to turn the clock back on the film industry because of a perceived glut of independent films.”

—Easy Riders, Raging Stasists, Ed Driscoll.com, February 22, 2014.

● “Let’s nationalize Amazon and Google: Publicly funded technology built Big Tech. They’re huge and ruthless and define our lives. They’re close to monopolies. Let’s make them public utilities.”

—Salon.com, July 8, 2014.

THE OCEANS AREN’T GETTING ANY SMALLER:

I rise to remind everyone that this is not a new development.

Longer than 6-month deployments became a normal occurrence well a decade and a half ago and became normalized in 2013 after years of seeing them.

At the time: "Eight-month deployments are becoming the fleet… https://t.co/N0cANVVyil

— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) October 30, 2026

“We have to either retreat from world commitments and leave civilization to the tender mercies of the PRC and other bad-faith actors, or step up and build and support the fleet that is required.”

The world was a pretty decent place when the Royal Navy and later the USN were big enough to make it that way.

Jonathan Turley: “YOU ARE WHITE-PRESENTING:” Texas Judge Ordered to Undergo Psychiatric Testing After Bar Complaint.

Judge Ada Brown of the Northern District of Texas has been suspended pending psychiatric testing and the resolution of a bar complaint after a bizarre hearing in April 2026. In the hearing, Brown, a Trump appointee, went on a racial diatribe against a lawyer, Ezra Young, over his race. Young was accused of being White. When Young informed her that he is Hispanic, Judge Brown went on to say that he is “white-presenting” in continuing her racial browbeating.

Judge Brown was also accused of abandoning her work, but the hearing has caused the most chatter among lawyers.

Young filed a complaint against Brown following the hearing in Dallas. In the hearing, Brown, a Black woman with Native American ancestry, accused Young of mistreating Black attorneys. She barred Young from practicing in her courtroom after an unhinged tongue-lashing.

It appears Young, a Columbia Law School graduate and solo practitioner, has had previous run-ins with Judge Brown.  At the hearing, Brown accused Young of “racial bullying” toward Black attorneys in the case.

Judge Brown apparently had an axe to grind over an article that appeared in an earlier case involving a black professor. Brown referenced an article that quoted a brief filed by Young that referenced another law professor apparently comparing what happened in the tenure denial to a “lynching.”

Exit quote: “I’m not White, Your Honor.”

SCOTUS PREVIEW: Amish Vs. Public Health™ Showdown Over Vaccine Mandates Nears Climax at Supreme Court.

TO BE FAIR, HE’S ALWAYS BEEN A DICK…:

Obama got caught with his pants down by telling a really stupid "joke", and it backfired tremendously. Then he lied about "they mobilized a whole government response to that joke". No they didn't, BO. You just got caught being a d!ck. https://t.co/uH9k9rD5bg

— General™️ (@TheGeneral_0) October 30, 2026

…he just doesn’t hide it as well when he’s frustrated.

MEAT, MEAT, MEAT. Steak for cramps, liver for beauty: How meat became all the rage in women’s wellness.

THERE DOESN’T SEEM TO BE A SINGLE GUN CONTROL ADVOCATE WHO KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT GUNS: Virginia AG: AR-15s Are Really Just Machine Guns That Shoot Semi-Automatically… Or Something. “AR-15s are machineguns, except that they — at least to start — have semiautomatic fire rather than automatic fire.”

ACCOUNTABILITY WORKS:

You are moving to a different point now, which is fine. But I want you to know that I was respectful in my reply, as I have been to the critics. You were not correct about the public display of the Moon rocks or about prior presidents having rocks in the Oval Office. Now you have…

— NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman (@NASAAdmin) October 29, 2026

More:

The President submitted a budget request that challenged NASA to do more with less. I provided testimony on the budget because, as you would see in OIG reports, there are examples where NASA was not the best at resource allocation and outcomes suffered. But ultimately, Congress appropriated funding, as is its responsibility.

Then we had a year like 2026: the Artemis II mission went very well and we immediately press on to Artemis III, not wasting time or money, six astrophysics missions set records; we held “too big to fail” programs accountable for being over budget and behind schedule; and we launched new initiatives in a logical, iterative way, like Moon Base and SR-1 Freedom. A flagship mission like Roman launched ahead of schedule. X-planes are actually flying again (and on their way to KSC at this moment). We have dramatically rebuilt the workforce, added thousands of civil servants, and put our machine shops back to building hardware. We have taken control of our destiny and put NASA back in the driver seat. And as a result, we have a President who has clearly taken notice and is showing a lot of interest in America’s space program, from Artemis to Roman.

This is how you go from being asked to do more with less to being asked to do more with more.

That last line deserves a monument somewhere in Washington.

KRUISER: Trying to Ignore France’s Muslim Problem, WaPo Stumbles Onto Truth About Socialism. “The leftist bent of the WaPo board shows up not in what was written, but what wasn’t.”

WHATEVER YOU DO, DON’T TAKE THE BLACK PILL:

Verifiably, Trump has the largest effort of de-legalization, denaturalization, visa revocation and real deportations, on top of the greatest cuts to overall legal immigration in over a century. https://t.co/SczgY6fXRX pic.twitter.com/3Kkylgaarn

— Prowler (@derzum_) October 30, 2026

SCIENCE! Does AI help students learn? We have no clue.

SOCIALISM IS JUST PEOPLE WHO NEVER DID ANYTHING ORDERING AROUND THE PEOPLE WHO DO THINGS UNTIL NOTHING GETS DONE:

Notice that not a single person on that cover has ever held a real job.

— Greg Scott (@greg_scott) October 30, 2026

I’m old enough to remember when Newsweek was the more-or-less centrist of the big newsweeklies.

UPDATE (From Ed): I’m old enough to remember when the then-Washington Post-owned Newsweek declared at the dawn of the Obama era:

WAS THAT WRONG? California High-Speed Rail Chief Quits Over Spending Scandal. “Earlier this month, the board voted to strip Choudri of his authority to sign or manage contracts under $25 million, and also required in-house legal review of contracts, which must have taken most of the fun out of the job — but more on that below.”

UPGRADE YOUR GUEST ROOM: C CUSHION LAB Deep Sleep Pillow. #CommissionEarned

BUCKLE UP: Taiwan 2027 conflict window remains valid, Army Pacific commander says.

Known as the “Davidson window,” the timeline is named for retired Adm. Phil Davidson, former head of US Indo-Pacific Command. In 2021, Davidson told the Senate Armed Services Committee that China could develop the capability to invade Taiwan within the following six years.

The 2027 date has since served as a planning benchmark for US and allied forces preparing to deter potential Chinese aggression against the self-governed island, which Beijing claims as its territory.

Clark, who served as Davidson’s chief of staff when he made the proclamation, said Army Pacific is working to move forces and equipment in the region to deter conflict during that period.

“We’ve embarked upon a strategic approach to setting the theater that we refer to as Army Ready Forward,” Clark said. The effort involves positioning equipment, materiel and personnel on a rotational basis across the first and second island chains west of the international date line.

The goal is to be ready by April 2, 2027, he said.

It’s been surreal, the Pentagon openly talking about this risk for six years, and until recently, doing so little about it.

THE COLLEGE FIX: No identified Republican professors found in Georgia Tech’s public policy department.

VOTE AS THOUGH YOUR LIFE, LIBERTY, AND PROPERTY DEPEND UPON IT:

My biggest concern is that if there is a clean sweep by Democrats of the House, Senate and Presidency in 2028, they will:

1. Make DC and Puerto Rico states to gain a strong majority in the Senate.

2. Open the borders and legalize everyone living in America illegally to cement…

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 30, 2026

NOVEMBER PREVIEW: Trump Calls for Disqualification and Prosecution of Peltola, ‘Decoy Dan’ in Alaska Senate Race.

WHAT’S UP WITH UTAH? Trans student cited for assault after saying Republicans ‘should be shot’ at University of Utah.

SHE NEEDS TO FIRE A LOT MORE PEOPLE. A LOT MORE: Bari Weiss faced ‘significant resistance’ from CBS News staffers about Alaska ballot scandal, insiders say.

#JOURNALISM:

The Ilhan Omar "married her brother" story was originally broken by @realDSteinberg at the @powerlineUS blog and @PJMedia_com in 2018. Media covered it only to try to bury it.

It was treated as a conspiracy theory. Now we know the feds knew it in 2016.https://t.co/gjgpvH4Rx0

— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) October 29, 2026

CHANGE?

I’ve never ever seen a sign like this at a California gas station. Not once until today. The times, they are a changing. pic.twitter.com/ftBL52v2oc

— Kira (@Kiradavis) October 29, 2026

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: NYT — Yeah, Obama Totally Knew About Omar’s Immigration Incest. “The New York Times usually only trots out the unnamed ‘officials’ when it wants to run a hit piece on Trump. That throws an interesting twist into this convoluted story. Yeah, it’s big news that the Obama DOJ was onto Omar’s brotherwife immigration scam, but the fact that The New York Times is the news organization informing us of that fact brings up more than a few questions.”

WHAT’S THIS, A BABY BOOM AMONG HILL AIDES? Could very well be, judging from the latest Hill Staff Views post on HillFaith. Given the average age of Hill staffers is 27, could this mean a new Baby Boomer generation is coming into focus?

AND YOU CAN TELL THE TROOPS LOVE HIM FOR IT.

To say nothing of the fact that he's experienced the most hostile media treatment imaginable.

— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) October 30, 2026