FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Meet the World’s Worst Best Bank Robber. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn how to earn an F for Effort, the worst place to shoot a man, and how they serve time in style in the Great White North.”
October 23, 2026
WELL SAID:
Abdul is not the only Muslim to run for the Senate. Mehmet Oz ran in 2024. No one ran against Oz because he’s a Muslim.
That’s because Oz didn’t call Israel Bloodthirsty. Oz didn’t write an oped urging support for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Oz didn’t have donors who… https://t.co/WDyFipmW5c
— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) October 23, 2026
“This race isn’t about Abdul’s faith. It’s about his extremist ideas.”
EVERY TIME I SEE BILLIE EILISH, SHE’S EITHER LECTURING ME ABOUT CAPITALISM OR TRYING TO SELL ME SOMETHING.
Anti-capitalist socialist Billie Eilish just dropped a jewelry line selling silver chains for over $2,000 pic.twitter.com/fQCUn5CunZ
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 23, 2026
READER FAVORITE: Walker’s Razor Slim Electronic Muff. #CommissionEarned
LOTS OF THINGS HAPPENING THIS WEEK:
HUGE: The en banc Fifth Circuit just held, 11-6, that illegal aliens caught in the interior can be detained without bond for the duration of their removal proceedings.
Judge James Ho in a concurring opinion: "A nation ceases to be a nation if it can't protect its borders." pic.twitter.com/nvnnmaeW8d
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) October 23, 2026
MACRON GETS AMERICAN FREE SPEECH WRONG AMID FRENCH RIOTS. The French president misses a crucial distinction: The right to offend isn’t the right to commit violence. The First Amendment isn’t the problem, and abandoning its principles won’t make France safer.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA Safety Panel Concerned About Artemis IV, Future Access to LEO.
Reporting on their fourth quarter 2026 meeting today, the panel praised NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman for the many positive changes he’s making at the agency. They do have some concerns, however.
The Artemis program to return astronauts to the lunar surface scored a huge success in April with the successful Artemis II mission that flew around the Moon. Next up is Artemis III and the panel is very pleased that shortly after taking office, Isaacman modified that flight, changing it from a lunar landing mission to an earth-orbital flight to practice rendezvous and docking with test articles of the two Human Landing Systems — SpaceX’s Starship and Blue Origin’s Blue Moon MK2.
But ASAP is worried about Artemis IV, now envisioned as that first Artemis lunar landing. Not only has it been more than 50 years since NASA landed anyone on the Moon, but it was with a different type of vehicle and in comparatively safe areas closer to the equator. Artemis IV is headed to the Moon’s South Pole, an entirely dissimilar environment with steep slopes, low Sun angles, and temperature extremes.
The South Pole is where the water is. Are we going to plant another flag and come home, or are we going to stay?
I’M SO OLD, I REMEMBER WHEN SILVER WAS MERELY BIASED:
Nate Silver got caught with his pants down; watching him gaslight about it has been pretty epic. I have never liked Nate Silver… this confirms everything we should know about him and his methods.
— LDSLawyer (@LDSLaw) October 23, 2026
WELL, WHO WAS GOING TO TELL HIM NOT TO: Horse-Sized Saber-Tooth Lived Millions of Years Past Its Deadline.
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS IN A MEDICALLY INDUCED COMA: Iwo Jima Statue’s Beheader Is an Illegal Alien.
“RECYCLE,” THEY TOLD ME. “IT’LL SAVE THE PLANET,” THEY SAID:
Wait until you see what most countries do to the Pacific Ocean. A single trawler carrying garbage dumps about a million thousand times more “toxic sh*t” than a single spent rocket booster. But you won’t hear any outrage over that. Natural gas isn’t toxic by the way, and all of… https://t.co/1WqdlzeWqI
— Ian Miles Cheong (@ianmiles) October 23, 2026
The morality and/or toxicity of reuse depends entirely on the politics of the re-user.
Also, the replies to the original post are entertainingly brutal.
SPACE JUNK: BETTER PUT UP MY UMBRELLA. Rocket Debris Landed on Two Continents Within Days. Cumulative Risk Is Growing.
PEOPLE WANT TO LOOK GOOD: L’Oreal says weight loss drugs are impacting beauty and skincare sales. “Hieronimus said L’Oreal’s brands SkinCeuticals and Kiehl’s have products ‘that have been designed to work alongside and complement GLP-1 and its side-effects on skin sagging’ and other effects related to rapid weight loss.”
SNOPES EXITED THE FACT-CHECKING BUSINESS YEARS AGO IN FAVOR OF LEFTY NARRATIVE ENFORCEMENT:
If only someone had spent 15+ years warning people "fact checkers" were arrogant, explicitly dishonest, censorious, and actively partisan! https://t.co/mIPmvZZ7aT
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) October 23, 2026
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Cooked Tomatoes Boost Lycopene and May Lower Prostate Cancer Risk.
IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: Woke Governor to Send National Guard to Ballot Boxes.
POLLING IS/AS AN OP:
Look at who is outing these fake pollsters and ask yourself why they are doing so at this time? It's not conservatives outing them. The people outing them are trying to get ahead of something and set a narrative. You be the judge of what they are trying to get ahead of and…
— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) October 23, 2026
GET ENOUGH MAGNESIUM: BIOptimizers Magnesium Breakthrough 500mg. #CommissionEarned
TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE: Is Hollywood Waking Up to the DSA Nightmare?
THE TAKEAWAY IS THAT THE FRAUD WAS EVEN WORSE THAN BELIEVED:
In the wake of unprecedented cuts in last year's Republican reconciliation law, SNAP participation & spending have been falling — and the decline is much deeper than the Congressional Budget Office initially projected. https://t.co/CRy2eEJ8bc pic.twitter.com/jiN44g5npn
— Katie Bergh (@Katie_Bergh) October 22, 2026
DEEP STATE? WHAT DEEP STATE?: Just the News breaking story that two ex-FBI officials have been charged with making false statements about Hunter Biden’s laptop:
“Two former FBI intelligence officials appeared in federal court Friday on charges of making false statements to Congress about their roles in investigating Hunter Biden’s laptop in the closing weeks of the 2020 presidential election cycle.”
KRUISER: Dare We Dream That Ilhan Omar Has Finally Run Out of Brothers to Marry? “I hesitate to use the phrase, ‘the walls are closing in,’ because it’s been roundly abused by the Democrats’ flying monkeys in the mainstream media regarding President Trump since the moment he was first elected in 2016. There definitely is a ‘walls closing in’ vibe around Ilhan Omar lately though.”
GOOD NEWS ABOUNDS:
Two facts to brighten your morning:
Murder rates in the US are at record lows.
Civilian firearms ownership is at a record high.
Gun owners know why this is. If you have trouble understanding it, some of your premises need a rethink.
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) October 23, 2026
