YOU DON’T HAVE TO OPPOSE HIGHER EDUCATION REFORM. YOU JUST HAVE TO MAKE SURE IT NEVER HAPPENS. Demand more evidence, question the methodology, convene another committee, and move the goalposts until everyone demanding reform has retired. I call it the Academic Filibuster, and my new Substack series explains how it works.
October 21, 2026
DISPATCHES FROM THE OCCUPIED ZONES:
This “NYC man’s” name is Dawood Faisal. He is a Muslim, and he intentionally ran over a Jewish woman, killing her. He was driving 75 mph in a 35 mph zone in a heavily Jewish area.
He had already vandalized the Jewish bagel shop in the neighborhood.
Never again is now. https://t.co/9qhnbfrsDj
— Jaimee Michell (@JaimeeUSA) October 21, 2026
ASK THOR HEYERDAHL: Genetic study shows seafarers from Easter Island settled Hawaii.
DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE AND THE NEWSPEAK DICTIONARY: California Elementary Schools Teach ‘Cisheteropatriarchy’ and ‘Decolonization,’ House Probe Finds.
In some instances teachers and National Education Association union leaders discouraged colleagues from sharing certain controversial lessons “directly with families.” One such lesson aimed to teach Berkeley students about Israel and Palestine. Lesson plans obtained by the committee claimed that “from the river to the sea” — a popular activist slogan that calls for the elimination of the state of Israel — can be “a call for freedom and peace.” The same lesson avoided describing Hamas as a terrorist organization.
Berkeley’s ethnic studies curriculum offers several examples of how these political themes enter the classroom.
In fourth-grade ethnic studies, Berkeley Unified School District teachers asked nine-year-olds to define “covert resistance” and “overt resistance.” Teachers also introduced the terms of “colonization,” “decolonization,” and “settler.” With these new definitions in mind, the curriculum explained that history “is often presented from a colonizer’s perspective” and expressed the importance of “decolonizing historical narratives.”
The district’s fifth-grade ethnic studies curriculum takes a similar approach to civics. A unit titled “defining democracy” sought to “critique empire and its relationship to white supremacy, racism, patriarchy, cisheteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, anthropocentrism, and other forms of power and oppression at the intersections of our society.”
Tomorrow’s Outer Party bureaucrats today!
THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX will attempt 1st-ever double Starship rocket catch on next test launch, a ‘profound technology milestone,’ Elon Musk says.
The company will try to catch both stages of its Starship megarocket during the vehicle’s next test flight, which is targeted for next month, founder and CEO Elon Musk announced during SpaceX’s quarter 3 (Q3) earnings call today (Oct. 20).
If SpaceX succeeds, this “will be the first time that an orbital launch vehicle has been fully recovered,” Musk said. “The only way that we can extend consciousness beyond Earth on a sustained basis is with a fully reusable orbital launch vehicle. So this is, I think, a profound technology milestone in the history of civilization and consciousness.”
Starship is the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, standing more than 400 feet (122 meters) tall when fully stacked.
You want hourly launches of 100-200 tons to Low Earth Orbit? Because this is how to get to hourly launches of 100-200 tons to Low Earth Orbit.
YES, NEXT QUESTION: Does Sex Help You Sleep Better?
SPOILER: Yes, they think that.
He's on an air-conditioned bus at a checkpoint.
I wonder if the rest of the Cait Conley/Tom Suozzi/Laura Gillen Democrat Party thinks voters are this stupid as well. https://t.co/tqTYOp9f1D
— Brodigan (@brodigan) October 21, 2026
But that doesn’t mean they’re correct:
New York Times national reporter: Lifelong Jewish Democrats in Detroit suburbs say they’re voting Republican for the first time.
"That’s a big deal. I don’t know of any other marquee race in the country right now where the Republican candidate is converting Democrats." pic.twitter.com/QXi4Upbg70
— Bobby LaValley (@Bobby_LaVallley) October 20, 2026
Vote Republican, they don’t want you dead.
DON’T GET COCKY: Democrats Pulling Money From House Districts They Hoped to Flip.
KEEP YOUR CAR CLEAN: USANOOKS Microfiber Cleaning Cloth Grey – 8 Pcs. #CommissionEarned
MY BURGER REVIEWS ARE BETTER: In-N-Out Vs Shake Shack: Which Burger Is Actually Healthier?
VITAL NOTICE FROM CYNICAL PUBLIUS:
I've been cranking all day on this.
Some things are so important that they need to be explored in depth, and in real time.
The shocking revelations from Data Republican regarding the plot to overthrow our Constitution is such a thing and now is such a time.
We are facing a… https://t.co/0QF4vuhpkx
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) October 21, 2026
More:
We are facing a color revolution. This article explains how color revolutions have worked overseas in the past at the hands of the CIA and USAID, and how those now ex-USAID employees, now ensconced in well-funded NGOs, are currently using the same tactics against our own nation.
It’s a long article, almost 2,500 words.
If you care about this, please read. It’s a very complex set of concepts, and takes more than a few words to explain adequately.
I won’t have a chance to read CP’s essay until later today, but if you don’t need to wait, then don’t.
So here’s the link.
DOJ TAKES U. OF DELAWARE TO COURT OVER IN-STATE TUITION TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. As the article points out, the University of Delaware has been home to some of the most ham-handed diversity efforts known to man, including the (in)famous Residence Life program that asked freshmen “When did you discover your sexual identity?” –and answering “none of your damn business” was not considered acceptable.
THE RED HALF OF THE RED-GREEN ALLIANCE: The Communist Network Burning Down France. “It seems tendentious to include those international commies merely publishing encouragement to their Gauloises-smoking red brethren. But one wonders how one ostensibly capitalist nation can support so many different communist parties. And presumably numerous dissertations could be written on the conditions that resulted in such factionalization. Thinking back to the history of the French Revolution, factionalization seems to be one of the defining characteristics of the country’s politics.”
“CANADIAN MAN” ISN’T WHO HE USED TO BE:
"Canadian man."
Born in Kuwait. Moved to Canada in 2015. Arrested in May 2016 plotting ISIS bombings in Times Square and the New York subway.
Then he stabbed a prison guard in the eye. Note in his sock: "This is a terrorist attack for the Islamic State."
That's the part CP24… https://t.co/bSYOEj99LB
— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) October 20, 2026
FEBRUARY 26-28: ConFinementCon. Run by Mike Williamson. Tom Kratman will be the guest of honor. FYI, I was the GOH there last year and had a great time.
I GUARANTEE YOU ELON KNOW MORE ABOUT HER DOINGS THAN SHE DOES ABOUT HIS:
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
Sounds like Swisher really wants to go to prison.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 21, 2026
And if this was an effort to intimidate him, it clearly failed. Which is no surprise.
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Wisconsin principal busted for alleged sexual misconduct with student. “Kaitlyn Hintz, the 32-year-old associate principal at Bonduel Middle/High School, was arrested Monday, a little over a week after a tip was sent to the state’s Speak Up, Speak Out reporting system, the district told parents in a letter to parents shared by WBAY.”
WELL, YES: It Turns Out That Catch-And-Release Criminal Justice is Hazardous to Your Health. “While the accused has now been detained, that is obviously a bit late for the young girl and her baby who were shot.”
