WELL, CERTAINLY SCHIZOPHRENICS, AT LEAST: Feminist snobs who attack Sydney Sweeney’s naked body are hypocrites.

You get the sense from interviews with [Florence] Pugh that she’s a whip-smart free spirit, who trusts her instincts on how far to push boundaries, just as she resisted the industry bigwigs who suggested she could lose some weight early on in her career. She often sports risqué dresses on the red carpet (like the “naked”, nipple-revealing floral Rodarte dress she wore this month at the Klara and the Sun premiere) and once told Louis Theroux, “I’m quite confident. I’m quite happy in my skin. I’ve always been able to make sure that I’m heard.” I applaud her unapologetic ownership of her lovely body and exuberant style, which reminds me of that other gung-ho blonde goddess, Sydney Sweeney.

Except… Boy oh boy, does Sweeney reap a different critical reception – especially from women – whenever she disrobes, or dresses daringly. Pugh’s stance is widely commended as empowering. But when Sweeney chooses to pose naked for an ad, she is single handedly reversing women’s rights by decades. The actress’s recent participation in the prediction market platform Novig’s “Just Sports” campaign, saw Marie Claire denounce her for a retrogressive step that “sexualised female bodies”. Good thing Marie Claire has never, ever put a naked woman on its cover. Except, hang on, didn’t Cara Delevingne “Bare All” on the front cover of their September 2019 “Obsession Issue” (to pluck one of many examples)? Meanwhile the Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer Ariarne Titmus called Sweeney’s decision not just, “a kick in the face to every woman who has dedicated her life to perfecting her craft, but every woman who enjoys sport for what it really is”.

C’mon—this was the news cycle two weeks ago. Last week it was dominated by this story: Shane Gillis Must Be Stopped! (But Not Hasan Piker?)

Woke is conditional, and if “SNL” needed a ratings boost, so be it.

Gillis’ most recent “SNL” appearance found him teasing women who dress in barely-there shorts in public gyms.

“I haven’t been to the gym in so long I didn’t know that women just dress like whores now [emphasis added]. I’m sorry, there’s no other way to describe— have you seen it? I’ve seen it. The shorts? Have you seen the shorts? Those neon — they’re like artificial bait colors. The wrinkles go around the cheeks and all combine at the butthole. And don’t look, you’re not allowed to look — for real don’t look because they are filming. I’m in the background of like 10 TikToks right now.”

That’s it. That’s the joke that launched a culture war crusade, with “Schitt’s Creek” alum Dan Levy leading the faux outrage parade.

For that, Gillis must be punished. Article after article after article said as much, coming from major institutions like The Hollywood Reporter, Today.com, Deadline and more.

Imagine the backlash Gillis must be facing!

Jimmy Carr comes to Shane Gillis' defense and finishes it with a fat joke, which is great https://t.co/2O3WImsW0V

— Sunny (@sunnyright) October 20, 2026

AVOCADO OIL MAYO: Good for your heart.

CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN:

We've gone from cans having over a year wait & fingerprint requirements

to

getting a silencer free with an optics purchase

And y'all are talking about staying home in November. We've never been so back. pic.twitter.com/W2NjvqZJj5

— Louis vil LeGun (@LouisvilleGun) October 20, 2026

From the replies: “Prices haven’t come down. I guess demand has skyrocketed.”

I know this isn’t easy, but give it time.

NOW THAT WOULD BE A CRIME: Did Ilhan Omar’s Husband Sell Empty Barrels of Wine?

DON’T DO THIS: “I see this every shift”: ER doctors share the risky habits they want you to quit now.

HOW ABOUT AMERICANS WHO ARE STILL KIDS AT HEART? Elon Musk says he’s giving SpaceX stock to every kid in America.

Kids will soon have a financial interest in the future of space.

“Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX (SPCX) shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many,” SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said in an X post on Monday.

Musk didn’t specify an age range for the proposed gift, but a Bloomberg report indicated he could use Trump Accounts as the vehicle for his stock donations.

What a guy.

THE DAILY PARASITE is a blog devoted to parasitology.

ROGER SIMON: Are the French Riots the Republicans’ October Surprise?

Our ex-president Barack Obama is fairly fanning the flames of disruption, coming out in loud support of the noxious Ilhan Omar. It’s as if he wants to relive the glory days of the Ferguson or the Trayvon Martin shootings. Where is this leading, and what is he really trying to do? I don’t think it’s just winning a midterm election, and it’s certainly not saving Omar.

I hope we never find out. Actually turning the tables and winning the midterms is one way to stop this in its tracks. The French red-green rioters may have given us a gift by providing absolutely every Republican a great talking point in the waning days of this campaign, a talking point most normal people will respond to. As I type this, Trump is using it in Kansas. Every candidate should too. And so should we with everyone we talk to.

Read the whole thing.

Related: How bad is Europe these days? So bad that even Condé Nast’s Wired has noticed: They Fled Trump’s America. Now They Regret It. The internet told them Europe was a social paradise. Turns out the trains are awful, the health care isn’t free, and people can be really mean.

GO FIGURE:

Netflix is firing all of its top creative leadership after their strategy of make every character gay and trans and every white person black failed to produce strong subscriber growth.

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) October 20, 2026

It’s been a long time since I looked at the “Netflix Original” tag without suspicion.

FASCISM? COMMUNISM? Elissa Slotkin’s ‘Deterrence Message’ Has a Name, and It Isn’t ‘Defending Democracy.’

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Throuples are turning to ‘AI-poly’ chatbots — but experts warn it could cause psychosis.

THE DEVIL HATES TO BE MOCKED: Larry David mocks the Democratic Socialists of America. Some are not amused.

JAMES MADISON ON WHAT SHAPES U.S. FUTURE: James Madison was the chief author of the U.S. Constitution, thanks to his work at the convention and then subsequently in gaining its approval by the states, a task achieved in great part due to his contributions to “The Federalist Papers.” Oh right, he was also our fourth President.

And, as you can see with the “Faith of the Founders” post on HillFaith today, Madison did not beat around when it came to pointing out what the future of the nation he so crucially helped found and then survive growing pains and the War of 1812. Check it out here. 

The FOFT posts appear every Tuesday.

NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA…: 1 person killed in shooting near Columbus, Ohio mosque, police say.

One person was killed in a shooting near a mosque in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday afternoon, but the shooting was not connected to the mosque or those who were inside, police said.

“We want to make it clear this was not an attack on the mosque,” said Sgt. James Fuqua.

The Columbus Division of Police said they received multiple calls of shots fired in the area shortly after 2 p.m.

“This incident occurred in the parking lot of an apartment complex adjacent to a mosque,” the police statement said. “While we are still in the preliminary stages of the investigation as to the details regarding this shooting, this was not a targeted attack on the mosque, nor did this incident occur at the mosque.”

So why put it in the headline, CBS?

Seriously, Bari Weiss has a lot of work left to do.

CBS IS STILL DOING THE “MOSTLY PEACEFUL” MEME:

CCTV footage from Nice, France shows the moment a mob of looters broke into a phone case store over the weekend, destroying displays and stealing merchandise.

The incident comes after largely peaceful anti-government protests in many cities across France descended into riots,… pic.twitter.com/8Xn2OMxZRy

— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 20, 2026

Bari Weiss needs to hurry up with that cleanup effort.

VICTORIA TAFT: Girls Are Forced to Compete With Boys in Washington. Now They Sleep and Bathe With Them. “Boys are officially allowed to compete against girls in Washington state. And, if that’s not ridiculous enough, now they sleep and take baths with them.”

ALLERGY RELIEF: PATADAY Once Daily Extra-Strength Relief Allergy Eye Drops. #CommissionEarned

YOU CAN ELIMINATE A THIRD OF MINNESOTA GANG ACTIVITY WITH THIS 1 WEIRD TRICK: 1 in 3 Minnesota Gang Members are Somali Muslims. “Somalis may only be between 1% and 2% of the state, but they’re between 30% to 15% of its gang members. That’s an overrepresentation of between 650% and 2,900%.”

MAKE THEM PAY: Rutgers student sues school over arrest for hanging ‘anti-Hamas fliers.’

COMMUNITY NOTES FOR THE WIN:

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CAMPUS CENSORSHIP JUST HIT A NEW RECORD, AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ARE INCREASINGLY GETTING IN ON THE ACT. FIRE has documented more than 200 attempts to deplatform campus speakers in 2026 alone, with pressure coming from across the political spectrum and raising serious concerns about freedom of expression and government interference in academic life

IT GOT WEIRD: Ohio Dem Gubernatorial Candidate Has Mommy Issues That You Won’t Believe. “The 1980 election was when 11-year-old me first got heavily into all things political, and I can tell you that in nearly five decades of political activism, political engagement, and writing about it as a career, I’ve never seen anything like Arthur’s video today.”

READER FAVORITE: Feyachi Reflex Sight – Adjustable Reticle. #CommissionEarned

OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM HAS FAILED: Survey finds 45% of students say violence is justified if it stops ‘hate speech.’

CYBERSECURITY: How one hacker used AI agents and a few thousand dollars to break into scores of sites.

Over the past couple of weeks, a cybersecurity researcher watched as a Chinese-speaking hacker broke into websites belonging to more than 100 companies, including farm equipment maker Deere, home appliance ​company SharkNinja, and engine manufacturer Cummins.

Yet the hacker did almost none of the work.

The cybercriminal instead outsourced the hacking spree almost entirely to artificial intelligence, tasking AI agents ‌with spending hours autonomously probing and breaking into targeted sites, according to Snorre Fagerland, principal threat researcher at the cybersecurity company NorForge.

In a report provided to Reuters ahead of publication on Monday, opens new tab, Fagerland said the hacker was one of several he discovered while scanning the web for inadvertently exposed instances of Cairn, an open-source AI problem-solving platform popular with hackers.

Where are the counter-intrusion bots?