OH MY: Hegseth firing Sylvia isn’t office politics — he smoked out a wartime mole.

The explosive fallout dominating today’s news cycle over War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s firing of Army Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia — the Pentagon’s top military planner accused of leaking classified information related to the Iran war — proves that internal subversion remains an active threat to national security. According to reports breaking on Fox News, Sylvia was ousted after failing three polygraph examinations concerning unauthorized disclosures to reporters.

The timing of this rapidly unfolding development could not be more dangerous. With the critical midterm elections days away and President Donald Trump openly weighing whether to resume major military operations or broker a peace deal, the alleged leaking of classified strategic options directly undercuts the commander in chief at the exact moment he needs total operational cohesion.

This institutional resistance is a chronic affliction of the modern executive branch, long utilized by disgruntled bureaucrats to sabotage the agendas of duly elected presidents.

It’s been more than 30 years since Col. David Hackworth wrote “Nuke the Pentagon” for Playboy, and it’s still a great idea.

¡NO PASARÁN! A Trojan Horse? What Nobody Tells You About Muslim Gimmigrants and the Islamic Caliphate: “Our number one and top priority is to protect and defend our community, it is not to assimilate.”

GREAT MOMENTS IN PRIORITIES:

The UN is fubar

— The Female Nature Channel (@NatureOfWoman) October 29, 2026

GOOD: Two Florida Men With Guns Stop Illegal Alien With Knife At Dollar General.

VLADIMIR PUTIN CALLED AND TOLD LULA TO DIAL IT BACK A FEW NOTCHES:

Did you know…

2014: the candidate who ran against Lula’s party died.

2018: the candidate who ran against Lula’s party was stabbed and nearly killed.

2022: the candidate who ran against Lula’s party is serving a 27-year sentence for a “coup” that never happened.

2026: Flávio…

— Sassafrass84 (@Sassafrass_84) October 29, 2026

CORN, POPPED:

…Daniel J. Sullivan reportedly answered questions without doing so under oath. If those answers were false, it could still qualify as part of a pattern of conspiracy or fraud, depending on what investigators find in the coming weeks.

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) October 29, 2026

ICYMI: Another Day, Another World-Changing Milestone From SpaceX.

IT’S ALWAYS LIKE THIS: After Shaming Conservatives for ‘Seizing’ on ‘Rumors,’ NYT Finally Concedes Ilhan Omar (Probably) Married Her Brother.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: CelerSport Men’s Athletic Work Crew Boot Socks. #CommissionEarned

“DO YOU REALIZE THAT EVERY YOUNG PERSON IN THIS ROOM IS A TRAGEDY TO SOME FAMILY OR OTHER?”

Want some truth?

Dems are a 30% party of social outcasts.

Commies, young freaks, race baiters, mentally ill men, feminist Karens, old hippies and grifters.

Propped up by the Media, USAID, ActBlue, Illegals and election fraud.

They’re one HONEST election away from withering…

— C3 (@C_3C_3) October 29, 2026

(Classical reference in headline.)

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX no longer needs NASA, and that’s a problem for America’s space agency.

The signs point to at least a partial breakup. Consider the following data points:

SpaceX has told NASA it will stop flying Crew Dragon, the space agency’s only reliable astronaut transportation to the International Space Station, by or before 2030. Shotwell said in September that NASA should rely instead on Boeing for astronaut transportation. “We’re just gonna let them have some business,” she said of Boeing. “They should fly their capsule. The government paid a lot of money for that.” As a result, NASA is investing more in Boeing.

Ars reported in October that SpaceX had stopped selling commercial launches on the Falcon 9 rocket for missions after the year 2028.

SpaceX may also still stop flying Falcon 9 for NASA missions. In late October, during a meeting of NASA’s Safety Advisory Panel, Kent Rominger said if the US Deorbit Vehicle (a modified Dragon spacecraft) launches to the International Space Station after 2030, “it may require” a rocket other than the Falcon 9.

Politico reported last week that SpaceX told the US Space Force it would not bid on three new launch contracts in the late 2020s that would have gone above and beyond its existing commitments to the US military.

SpaceX previously provided “Rough Order of Magnitude” estimates, or ROMs, for launch costs to US companies building small landers for NASA’s Moon Base as part of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. But according to three sources, SpaceX recently told these lunar companies they will not provide launch services.

To be clear, SpaceX is still fulfilling its existing contracts with NASA, the US Space Force, and other government entities. And it continues to do so at a lower cost and generally higher level of reliability than pretty much anyone else.

But the company is no longer signing many large new contracts for spaceflight services, at least in the traditional launch and in-space flight domains.

A longer article, but I found it well worth my time.

Previously: How in the Actual Hell Can We Be Running Out of Space Rockets?

THEY WANT EVERYTHING TO BE WORSE, NOT BETTER: The Surreal War Against America’s Manufacturing Boom.

THE NEXT SPACE RACE:

Our civilization would be winning wondrously if we are exploring the galaxy with Von Neumann probes by 2100!

Larry Page might be right. He has correctly predicted many things. https://t.co/SPnghcd2Tt

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 29, 2026

CHOOSE WISELY ON TUESDAY:

US GDP growth figures out this morning show a robust 3.4%, exceeding all expectations.
That is more than double the anemic 1.6% in poor beleaguered Australia, and well above Europe (2.4%) and the UK (2%). Beats me how anyone with any ambition for a better life could vote for…

— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) October 29, 2026

I TRY NOT TO THINK ABOUT IT: Democrats Just Made Election Fraud a National Midterm Issue. Will the GOP Blow it?

COMMAND PROBLEMS:

Generals? What Generals?

The bar for becoming a general officer is in the fucking basement. You can see a trend in my posts as of late. I've gone full bluntness on this topic since nothing else seems to work.

We spent twenty years losing wars while rewarding the people who…

— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) October 29, 2026

WHILE UNPACKING BOXES, I’VE BEEN LISTENING MY WAY THROUGH JIMMY AIKEN’S BACK LIST:  Who or what in bob’s name is Jimmy Aiken? you ask. Glad you did. He has a podcast. If you’re a Catholic or even vaguely interested in Catholicism, you might like his apologetics podcasts, as they’ve managed to teach me stuff I’d somehow never stumbled upon. But I really like Jimmy Aiken’s mysterious world which careens all over weirdness from aliens to strange events to near death experiences to…. well. All sorts of strange stuff.  So, just for the heck of it, here’s one of the episodes (and trust me, no, it’s not actually stupid):  Can Aura Cameras Photograph Your Soul? Science & Faith Investigate – Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World.

THAT ALWAYS HAPPENS TO PEOPLE CAUGHT BETWEEN THE LAW AND THEIR POLITICS:  NYC’s DAs go quiet when pressed on claims they told staff to downgrade illegal immigrants’ charges.

GAY MAN MARRIES SISTER. HONESTLY, THE DEMOCRATS NOW ARE JUST FRAUD AND A JERRY SPRINGER SHOW:   llhan Omar’s alleged brother she wed in ‘sham marriage’ says he is a gay man in academic paper.

SEEMS LIKELY THE SUBPOENAS WERE IN THE OFFING AND TRIGGERED THE TIMES EFFORT TO GET AHEAD OF THE STORY:  The Dems’ Election-Rigging Nonsense In Alaska Might Have Triggered Subpoena Wave.

THE ONLY GOOD THINGS MURKOWSKI DOES IN TYPICAL TERM END WITH VOTING FOR REPUBLICANS TO ORGANIZE THE SENATE:  Lisa Murkowski Did Something Remarkable Yesterday…and It Wasn’t Good.

Which, as AIs would say “isn’t nothing.”

YOU CAN ONLY FOOL ALL OF THE PEOPLE SOME OF THE TIME:  Is America Getting Over Its Data Center Panic? The First Crack in the Backlash Has Just Appeared.

THAT BATTLE WAS LOST WHEN WE LET THEM ENACT OBAMACARE:  Healthcare Costs Too Much. Voters Want Patients Back in Charge.

IF IT WERE ONLY THE COAST THAT LABOUR IS NEGLECTING:  Labour’s neglect of Britain’s coast is a national embarrassment. From fishing to defence, we are neglecting a vital strategic asset.

The truth is leftist parties hate the West and want to destroy it. In Britain as anywhere else.

I’D SAY IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE IN COLORADO, BUT GIVEN COLORADO IS OCCUPIED TERRITORY MAYBE NOT?  Tennessee joins the herd lobbying for the United States Space Academy.