ABE GREENWALD: The Disavowal Game.

There’s a stronger response to El-Sayed’s “Why are you asking me?” jiu-jitsu, and it goes like this:

Well, Abdul—may I call you Abdul?—to begin with, there are the verified Brotherhood, Islamist, and terrorist connections of most of your immediate family. 

Your father-in-law, Tayeb Jukaku, the largest individual donor to your campaign, is a member of the Islamic Society of North America and a founder and board director at the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Both groups are unindicted coconspirators in the USA v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development case, in which Holy Land Foundation leaders were convicted of terrorism-related charges. Federal prosecutors also linked both groups to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Read the whole thing.

Related: El-So Long: The Detroit News Throws Michigan’s Jihaddy Daddy Under the Bus.

21^st CENTURY NON-RELATIONSHIPS: Bricklayer, 49, travels 1,200 miles for dream girl — only to discover she’s AI-generated.

A Brazilian man sold all his belongings and traveled more than 1,200 miles to meet the woman he hoped to marry — only to discover his dream girl was an AI-generated persona.

Edimar Martins, 49, told TV Mirante that he initially came across a social media account under the name of Jéssica Oliveria in 2020.

The bricklayer said he never had the suspicion that he had been in contact with an AI-generated character and came to the decision that it was time to meet the love of his life last week.

Probably should have checked its hands first, although I assume AI programmers will eventually fix this issue, if they haven’t already: Deepfake vs. the Three-Finger Test.

SO UNFAIR. THEY SHOULD HIRE PUBLICISTS TO DUB THEM “DREAMY SPAGHETTI WORMS.” New Genus of Nightmare Spaghetti Worms Found Deep Under The Indian Ocean.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Scientists Discover Why Eating Fat Before Carbs Reduces Blood Sugar Spikes.

GLP-1s: The problem isn’t the medication itself. It’s that we’ve built an elegant on-ramp for GLP-1s—and almost no off-ramp at all.

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE LEFT EARLY TODAY:

#BREAKING: DNA report says Ilhan Omar and her ex-husband are siblings; Biden DOJ refused to act.

— Insider Wire (@InsiderWire) October 20, 2026

LOOKS: Alfa Romeo’s New Giulia Shooting Brake Looks Too Good to Be True.

SHOT: F-22 Pilot Directs CCA in Flight as ‘Airborne QB.’

The human F-22 pilot acted as an “airborne quarterback” for the YFQ-44 drone by sending it high-level tactical directives, according to the Air Force statement. The YFQ-44’s on-board autonomy software then interpreted and carried out those orders in real time to carry out “dynamic flight maneuvers and simulated combat tasks,” the statement reads.

Anduril Industries, the manufacturer of the Fury, said in follow-up statements that the flight took place out of Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., during the week of Oct. 5.

Mark Shushnar, Anduril’s vice president of autonomous airpower, said the Fury and F-22 both took off at Edwards, and then joined up midair. The Raptor pilot then sent an updated mission plan to the Fury CCA using a tactical data link, “commanding Fury through operationally relevant maneuvers from the cockpit of the crewed quarterback” fighter.

For this demonstration, the F-22 was controlling a single YFQ-44A. But the Air Force’s plan is to eventually have each fighter pilot capable of controlling multiple CCAs as a formation—extending the service’s combat mass and reach.

Very cool stuff, but here’s the chaser: World’s fastest AI-powered racing drone outflies the best human pilots.

The human QB will likely do less and less until he’s replaced, too — no matter how often certain folks insist on keeping a human in the loop.

WELL, GOOD:

"If foreign courts decide to… try and get in our way, there will be a point at which we have to accept that we won't be able to recover that money.”

Ofcom admits defeat in the 4chan case. https://t.co/3afeqTiibN

— Preston Byrne (@prestonjbyrne) October 20, 2026

Britain’s Ofcom is just another way to spell Minitrue.

ICYMI: Ohio Dem Gubernatorial Candidate Has Mommy Issues That You Won’t Believe.

YALE IS FINALLY ADMITTING THAT HIGHER EDUCATION HAS SOME SERIOUS PROBLEMS. I was thrilled by its unusually candid report, along with new reports from Harvard, Vanderbilt, Washington University, and Cornell. But after 25 years at FIRE, I know exactly how defenders of the status quo can bury reform. My new Substack series explains why we can’t afford to let that happen again.

UPGRADE YOUR SHEETS: King Sheets by Pure Bamboo. #CommissionEarned

STALINESQUE:

You are an elected official. You made a public statement encouraging members of the Armed Forces to defy lawful orders.

You chose to run for office and subject yourself to that scrutiny.

What you are proposing, on the other hand, is a legal/political vendetta against persons… https://t.co/yTZbjXPGzx

— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) October 20, 2026

“You’re a disgrace — and I suspect your comments will haunt the rest of your political career. You’ve likely put a ceiling on any ability you might have had to climb higher.”

WELL, THEY’RE LEFTIST PARASITES: Don’t Look Now, But Yet Another Chicago ‘Violence Interrupter’ Has Committed Violent Felonies.

MORE NUKES IS GOOD NUKES: Amazon to fund 12 small nuclear reactors at former Indiana coal plant.

Amazon is funding development of a proposed 960-megawatt nuclear plant in Indiana and would be the first customer to buy its power, the companies announced Monday. Utility company American Electric Power (AEP) would operate the plant. X-energy, which designs small modular nuclear reactors and went public in April, would supply the reactors.

The new power plant would consist of 12 Xe-100 small modular reactors and be located on the site of a demolished coal power plant just south of Terre Haute. The deal is the second commercial agreement between Amazon and X-energy, and it’s three times larger than the first, which was announced two years ago.

Amazon has invested heavily in X-energy, leading a $700 million Series C-1 round in October 2024. The two companies have said they ultimately plan to build 5 gigawatts of new nuclear generating capacity in the U.S. by 2039.

Faster, please.

WHAT A GUY:

25 Years ago today I was honored to perform "Superman" at Paul McCartney's Concert for NY, surrounded by @FDNY heroes, at MSG.

On 9/9/26 I was again deeply honored to perform at the @FDNY 25 year Memorial Ceremony in Staten Island. My remarks and performance. #NeverForget 🇺🇸❤️ pic.twitter.com/AdfNLCT4CA

— John Ondrasik (@johnondrasik) October 20, 2026

Still sounds great, too.

CHRIS QUEEN: Remembering Lewis Grizzard, the Man Who Made Southern Writing an Art Form.

NARRATIVES DON’T ESTABLISH THEMSELVES, YOU KNOW:

Spoiler: His mom had him in the car when she tried to run over the cops.

Weird how you’d have no indication of this from the headline. https://t.co/Y4FLzadAQK

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) October 20, 2026

PROTECT YOUR HEARING: Walker’s Razor Slim Electronic Muff. #CommissionEarned

THE ENEMIES WITHIN: Iran, China, and Cuba are directing protests inside America.

The Network Contagion Research Institute, whose work in these areas has been indispensable for years, recently published another groundbreaking study that blows the lid off how this foreign network operates.

The report indicates that an Iranian influence node that takes orders from the Islamic Republic regime, the House of Latin America, conducts what NCRI calls “high-impact domestic U.S. influence operations.”

“For nearly two decades,” NCRI says, HOLA “has functioned as a primary bridge between the Iranian regime, Latin American socialist governments, and U.S. anti-war coalitions, with its American-based operatives acting as undeclared agents of a foreign government on U.S. soil.”

It gets much worse. HOLA, it says, “has now formally merged with Neville Roy Singham’s Chinese Communist Party-linked Tricontinental network to form a unified Iran-China operation targeting the United States from the south.”

Much more at the link.

MORE POWER? ON TAP:

Elon just confirmed they’re pushing Raptor thrust toward 330–335 metric tons.

That puts Super Heavy at roughly 10,000 tons of thrust at liftoff. About three times Saturn V.

22 million pounds of thrust from one vehicle. And they’re still iterating.

This is the kind of scaling… pic.twitter.com/xb3HQuSft6

— X Ethan (@XEthanai) October 19, 2026

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Wash your hands. There’s probably poop on them. They may look clean, but not from a microbial perspective.

DAY, MADE: This TDS Sufferer Actually Left the Country and the Schadenfreude Is Almost Unbearable.

THAT’S GONNA LEAVE A MARK:

Savage take. https://t.co/V4xrMEeaj9

— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) October 20, 2026

UPDATE: Sorry, but X’s autotranslate feature is so smooth that I don’t always notice — but which X doesn’t do for embeds. So here’s the English translation from the original Portuguese: “Europe will be destroyed by women who project onto those animals the motherhood that belonged to the children they aborted.”

IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Duct tape kept out more flood water than sandbags in laboratory tests.