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.

NATIONAL POLLING COMPANY ADMITS IT’S TOTALLY FAKE — Crows it Was ‘Far Too Easy’ to Get Major Media Outlets to Bite.

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.

BRIAN WANG: AI Demand for 20 GW of SpaceX AI in 2027? Boom or Bust?

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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.”

THAT’S NOT FUNNY: Larry David Mocked Democratic Socialists of America. They’re Not Amused.

“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.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Asking Abdul El-Sayed About the Muslim Brotherhood Isn’t Islamophobic — It’s Patriotic!

CDR SALAMANDER: Royal Navy Submarine Legacy’s Sad Deathbed: Collapse and irrelevance happens slowly, then all at once.

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.”

SCRATCH A PROGRESSIVE, FIND AN AUTHORITARIAN:

On the Bulwak podcast, Kara Swisher says Elon might already be in jail under Kamala Harris, and "he knows what's coming for him."

Another one to put in the "what Democrats plan to do if they take power" file:

"If Donald Trump loses the House and the Senate, I would worry. I'd… pic.twitter.com/bCN7Eav5Np

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) October 21, 2026

More:

“If Donald Trump loses the House and the Senate, I would worry. I’d be worried if I were him.”

“So they’re going to start investigating again. You think he’s not on the list? He’s at the top of that list.”

“He has a very big sense of fate. And I think it’s coming for him. And real hard.”

Vote early and vote often.

THE FOUNDERS UNDERSTOOD THAT LIBERTY BEGINS WITH FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE, NOT PERMISSION FROM THE GOVERNMENT. FIRE’s Jeffrey Rosen joins three leading historians to examine what Madison, Washington, and Jefferson believed about religious liberty and the constitutional principles they helped establish.

KDJ: El-So Long: The Detroit News Throws Michigan’s Jihaddy Daddy Under the Bus. ‘The Detroit News has somewhat shockingly — and gloriously — thrown Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed to the wolves by suggesting Democrats leave the circle next to El-Sayed’s name blank. In other words, don’t vote for him.”

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OH MY: Trump Promises to Pay ‘Reporters’ a Commission For Finding Fraud: ‘Trillions’ Have Been ‘Stolen.’

If you turn somebody in you get a 1% commission. You may turn it down or you may say I’m not going to be a reporter any longer. This is too easy. So the reporter turns somebody in. We’re going to continue the same 1%.

So if somebody turns somebody in for a million dollars but the million dollars is very small potatoes. You get a 1% commission subject to the rules of the nation, subject to all the things.

We are going to let the reporters for the first time in many cases in your lives you’ve done a good job. Some are very professional journalists.

But it’s just not a very profitable thing to do but if it’s a very important thing to do. A few things are more important than good journalism.

I guess we’ll find out how many good journalists are out there.

CORNELL IS ONE BIG FAILURE AT THIS POINT: Cornell ‘Future of the American University’ report rejects hiring conservative scholars.