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Bulk disclosure of the lists to states likely violates the Privacy Act, which prohibits disclosure of identifiable personal information unless officials meet one of the exceptions, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in the District of Columbia wrote in a 30-page ruling.

The law enforcement exception, for instance, does not apply because it requires the head of an agency to request records, and the government has not shown any such request, Chutkan said.

Officials also never published a systems of record notice, or SORN, which the act requires for new databases.

 

The Foundry.

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It is a truth, universally understood, that Europe does not want, nor does it need, another totalitarian dictatorship that uses terror and murder to subjugate its captive population. This was the sentiment behind the creation of the European Convention on Human Rights, and also the Court to administer its clauses and sections. This document has constitutional strength, such that it is regularly used to overrule constitutional settlements. It is highly likely that the reason the UK voted for Brexit in 2016 was not necessarily because of a desire to discard the directives and agencies of the EU, but actually to stop activist judges on the European Court of Human Rights from interfering in British legal affairs. The Convention and the Court are the primary reasons why the UK is unable to deport the man of combat age with base or zero sexual morality from invading our shores with a large degree of complicity from the EU.

The ECHR has also seen its scope creep, such that not just its signatories, but also the entire world is subject to its rule. If a country to which the UK wants to deport an illegal migrant does not adhere to the ECHR, then the UK cannot deport that illegal migrant, no matter what heinous crimes that migrant has committed in the UK. While these tinpot third world countries are indirectly subject to the ECHR through their breaches of the convention, there is no method to impose the ECHR on them so they will adhere to it. While the USSR did for several decades its level best to export its toxic and murderous ideology of Marxism-Leninism onto vulnerable former European colonies, Europe has been quite reluctant, but perhaps with good reason, to impose the benevolence of a full raft of human rights onto countries that rely on their breaches of these conventions to export successfully those elements of their populations for which they neither want nor care.

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Apparently they have no faith in the ‘blue wave’ currently being touted in the Narrative Media.

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What would happen to a city if its government effectively stopped enforcing laws protecting public space and private property? Oakland, California, has been testing the proposition. Many have heard about Oakland’s extraordinarily high violent-crime rate, which, despite recent declines, remains roughly four and a half times the national rate and the worst among California’s big cities. But in recent years, the city has also struggled to enforce laws against illegal dumping, burglary, car break-ins, and squatting.

As a result, much of the city is “buried under trash,” according to a recent government report, which found that the city collects some 20 million pounds of illegally dumped debris – 47 pounds per resident – annually. Oakland also has the highest level of property crime of any large U.S. city. It solves these crimes at a rate of just 0.1 percent – meaning that one in every 1,000 property crimes reported to the Oakland police produces an arrest – compared with rates of about 10 percent in San Francisco and 13 percent in Berkeley, respectively. And the city has become home to a shadow industry of “squatter removal services,” including one whose sword-wielding operators promise to help landlords reclaim homes from unauthorized occupants, since the sheriff’s office often takes months to act.

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What explains this apparent paradox? At a macro level, the same thing that explains much of the dysfunction afflicting the rest of California: a kind of resource curse, whereby a state blessed with abundant natural bounty and a booming economy is bled dry by self-serving elected officials, union bosses, and nonprofit activists. Books could be written analyzing this dysfunction, but a handful of statistics will suffice. California ranks at or near the bottom of the country in adult literacy and has more homeless people than any other state. Fewer than one-third of its fourth-graders read at the NAEP “proficient” level, while the University of California is confronting a sharp deterioration in students’ performance in foundational math courses. The state has spent $14.6 billion on a high-speed rail system that has yet to carry a passenger and lost an estimated $20 billion to pandemic unemployment fraud.

The Foundry.

In April 2016, Gov. Terry McAuliffe committed an act of populism so transparent that it was overturned by the Supreme Court of Virginia that July. He claimed that since the Virginia Constitution gave his office the role of restoring individuals’ voting rights after their sentences were completed, he could issue an executive order restoring civil and voting rights to more than 200,000 Virginians with completed felony sentences.

Needless to say, the press covered the story as if he were the U.S. Army liberating France. What he left out, and what the press left out of the story, was that the existing process already made it possible to get your voting rights restored after undergoing a review to be sure you had truly reformed. Terry’s way did it without any review, and that was when the trouble began.

I bring this up because, since then, the idea that felons cannot get their voting rights back has put down roots like a weed in your driveway. Then the Virginia General Assembly put automatic restoration on the ballot in 2026 as Question 3, the third proposed constitutional amendment. And, as a tribute to Terry, Virginia’s current governor, Abigail Spanberger, restored the rights of about 66,000 Virginians in time to vote in the midterms and, presumably, for the constitutional amendment.

Ten years ago, reports emerged almost immediately about people covered by McAuliffe’s mass voter amnesty, including many who had been rearrested and two who were then on the FBI’s most wanted list.

This year, because history might not repeat itself, but it rhymes, former Del. Tim Anderson found one voting-rights restoration letter addressed to “Betty No Last Name.” He told Fox News Digital that it proves that Spanberger’s office isn’t even reading these before sending them out.

Apparently convicted felons are part of the Democrat base.

The Telegraph (UK).

Donald Trump had said he may restart bombing following the Nov 3 vote but on Monday night struck Qeshm Island.

Iranian state media reported five explosions on Qeshm, a strategic target home to an underground missile site and naval base located in the northern part of the Strait of Hormuz.

During rallies in recent weeks, the US president has repeatedly threatened to launch a new offensive against Iran but touted the possibility of a deal to end the war.

The Telegraph (UK).

Hundreds of parents, schoolchildren and staff have staged a protest outside a private school that closed without warning at the half-term.

Leweston School, which was founded in 1891, announced that it would not reopen after the break, and said Labour’s VAT raid on private education had been partly to blame.

The decision to shut the £38,000-a-year school without notice has affected almost 600 pupils and 180 staff. One teacher who lost their job is now working behind the bar at a local pub.

The community is rallying to try to save the school, with a pledge of around £700,000 and a petition with 3,000 signatures.

The War Zone.

At least one AeroVironment LOCUST laser counter-drone system is part of the array of anti-air defenses that have popped up around President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, in recent weeks. Versions of LOCUST have been seeing steadily increasing use within the U.S. military in recent years, including deployments now along the border with Mexico. Though there has been much progress in the development of practical laser directed-energy weapons in recent years, the technology has continued to face hurdles to more widespread adoption.

Hegseth Digs In as Dems Plan Probes After Midterms

Federal judge dismisses Trump attempt to interfere in Alaska Senate race (NBC News)

A Pro-Russia Strongman at Mar-a-Lago (Isaac Stanley-Becker/The Atlantic)

Bulgaria Elects First Woman, Pro-Trump President

Trump launches racist diatribe against Abdul El-Sayed at Iowa rally (Roque Planas/The Guardian)

Trump Searches for a Fall Guy to Blame for Iran (The Atlantic)

Republicans are privately blaming Trump, even if they won’t say it out loud (Politico)  The mind-readers at Politico are on the case.

We Called Back Young Men Who Voted for Trump. He’s Losing Them. (Claire Cain Miller/New York Times)  That phone booth must have been pretty crowded.

How Trump destroyed his own dictatorial ambitions (David R. Lurie/Public Notice)

Oligarchy is on the Ballot — Can a handful of plutocrats buy an election? (Paul Krugman)  Says the man who was bought by Enron.

The media blackout of the new rape allegation against Trump (Judd Legum/Popular Information)  *YAWN*

Petrol prices set to hit record high under Trump on eve of US elections (Financial Times)  Gas where I live is $3.25, lower than under Biden. I wonder where they got those numbers, and whether they bothered to wipe the fecal matter off first.

Trump Has Gotten Richer — It’s Not Going to Republican Campaigns (Dave Levinthal/The Washington Sun  Two words: Hunter Biden.

CBS SLAMS Stevens’s ‘Shocking’ ‘Betrayal,’ Rips ‘Islamophobic’ Trump, Touts ‘Moderate’ Talarico

45 of 87 Trump Headlines on Google News Were Negative, 1 Positive  Not really news but a useful reminder.

Trump approval near record low ahead of elections, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds (Jason Lange/Reuters) *YAWN*

Newsbusters.

Leave it to the hacks in the liberal media to dress up Democrat consultants as virtue-signaling Republicans supposedly choosing country over party by voting left-wing.

The Dallas Morning News published an anti-Greg Abbott op-ed by author Suzanne Bellsnyder October 31 headlined, “I’m a Republican, but Gina Hinojosa has my vote,” presumably to illustrate party crossover in the Texas gubernatorial race.

However, it was later revealed that Bellsnyder was a paid consultant of the Democratic Hinojosa campaign, which wasn’t disclosed by The Morning News prior to publication. According to Transparency USA, the Hinojosa campaign paid at least $57,000 to Bellsnyder for consulting services, adding to the egregiousness of the newspaper’s acute negligence.

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It isn’t the climate crisis that needs to be fixed, or the fossil fuel industry that needs to be investigated; it’s the epic level journalism malfeasance which must to be investigated after the ‘industry disinformation campaigns’ accusation is properly labeled as the hoax that it is.

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Since March 17, 2026, the federal government has implemented a months-long Jones Act waiver. This waiver allows foreign-flagged vessels to transport specified cargo between U.S. ports, easing shipping disruptions caused by the Iran conflict. As such, the waiver offers an opportunity to examine the Jones Act’s effectiveness in safeguarding and growing American shipping using recent shipping data.

Under federal law, two primary pathways exist for obtaining a Jones Act waiver. First, the secretary of war may request a waiver when it is necessary to address an immediate adverse effect on military operations, while certifying to Congress that qualified U.S.-flagged vessels are unavailable to meet the need. Second, the president may determine that a waiver is necessary in the interest of national defense, but only after the maritime administrator finds that sufficient Jones Act-qualified vessels are not available.

Jones Act waivers have been used most often during natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina, which caused significant loss of life and destruction.

Maritime industry groups have argued that the extended waiver has displaced U.S.-flag vessels and harmed American maritime employment. However, the Kirby Corporation, the only publicly traded Jones Act operator to discuss the effect directly with investors, panned the waiver’s impact.

“We haven’t really seen a big impact for Kirby,” explained Kirby CEO David Grzebinski, in the company’s second quarter 2026 earnings call. “We have heard of a couple participants losing some contracts because of non-Jones Act equipment. So far, it’s benign,”

The number of ‘U.S. flag vessels’ in world maritime commerce is vanishingly small, chiefly due to the Jones Act.

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No problem—they’ll just sneak over the border into a Blue state, like all of the other illegals.

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Over 50 years of communist anti-colonialism in the third world, aided by some liberal governments in the west, has provided uncomfortable truths about what works and what doesn’t when it comes to human civilization. The first and most controversial truth is that, in many cases, third world societies are self destructive and incapable of maintaining the most basic of necessities.

The second controversial truth is that these same societies run by western interests function far better. All vital infrastructure is maintained and the people have upward mobility. In other words, western colonialism works. No matter what leftists and anti-colonial activists claim, time has proven them wrong.

Case in point: South Africa.

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An NHS hospital group in southwest England has pitched its staff a £250 anti-racism course meant for “individuals who are white and live in the world as white people,” as part of its Black History Month offerings.

The course, From Allies to Disruptors, is run by the Birmingham equality charity brap and consists of six half-day online workshops running from November until April 2027. It appeared in a staff newsletter sent to employees of Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Swindon, The Telegraph reported. The newsletter came from the equality, diversity and inclusion team at the Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) Hospitals Group, which also runs the hospitals in Bath and Salisbury.

“By understanding more about racialised dynamics, the programme will help you become a more confident disruptor of racism,” the newsletter says. The course’s tagline says it “invites you to disrupt injustice – not just around you, but within you.” It is aimed at NHS leaders but open to anyone interested.

I don’t suppose they mean anti-white racism.

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it identified roughly $29.1 million in government benefits fraud in Minnesota over a one-month period.

Between Sept. 30 and Oct. 30, the DOJ’s National Fraud Enforcement Division and the District of Minnesota charged, convicted, or sentenced 13 individuals for proven or alleged schemes that caused nearly $83 million in intended losses to the federal government.

The DOJ said in an Oct. 30 statement that it uncovered $29.1 million in fraud in newly charged cases, which is part of the total $83 million.

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group of illegally offering gift cards to Kansas voters just days before the midterm elections, citing evidence obtained by Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach.

Trump’s warning came after Kobach ordered Bluestem Kansas to stop offering monetary incentives to voters and preserve records related to its canvassing operations.

“I have just been informed by the Great Attorney General of Kansas, Kris Kobach, that a Radical Left PAC operative was caught on camera going door to door in Wichita offering gift cards to people for votes,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“We have photographic evidence. This is a Criminal Offense!” the president added.

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Attorney General Ken Paxton announced over the weekend that convicted felons accused of illegally casting ballots in Texas have been arrested.

According to the Texas Attorney General’s Office, a concerned citizen reported that convicted felons who were incarcerated, on parole, or on probation allegedly voted in Harris County.

Harris county … where have we heard of that recently?

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The same judge who said the DOJ was being too hard on the assassin who attempted to gun down people at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner has now dismissed the charges against the FBI officials who lied to congress about the Hunter Biden laptop investigation.

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In 2003, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) had 703,000 students. “The district had been running year-round schedules, with the school year shortened by nearly a month, to accommodate its burgeoning student population,” reports the Los Angeles Times.

Over the last 23 years, district enrollment has declined by more than 50%. When it became obvious that enrollment had passed its peak, the LAUSD canceled 18 construction projects for new schools in 2007.

But one of those projects, zombie-like, came back from the dead. A charter school, Camino Nuevo Charter Academy, won approval from the school board to build a school at 1215 Miramar Avenue. The state had already earmarked the funds for a charter school, so LAUSD gave the project the green light.

The Antiplanner.

The average car in the United States used 2,914 British thermal units (BTUs) per passenger-mile in 2023, while the average light truck (pick-ups, vans, SUVs) used 3,364, according to the 41st edition of the Transportation Energy Data Book, which the Department of Energy released last week. This book was several years late; normally, they are issued annually but this is the first one since 2022.

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In any case, even at the reduced occupancies, cars and light trucks are still more fuel efficient than transit in every urban area except New York, whose transit systems used 2,903 BTUs per passenger-mile, a virtual tie with cars but lower than light trucks. As shown in my analysis of the 2025 National Transit Database, transit in every other urban area used more than 4,000 BTUs per passenger-mile.

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For the last few weeks Italy, like other Western European countries, has been afflicted with mass “student” riots, with all the customary burning and looting that accompanies them. I reported last Wednesday on the emergence of a violent revolutionary initiative in Milan known as the October 17 Movement.

A few days ago Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini answered press questions about the government’s response to the rioting in Milan and other Italian cities. The assembled reporters seemed to be alarmed by Mr. Salvini’s description of the actions planned for the defense of Milan, which include beefed-up police patrols and the deployment of La Folgore paratroopers to protect public spaces, but the deputy prime minister was unfazed, and remained adamant about what must be done.

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The following incident involves the beat-down of a Jew in Rome back in August. The case will presumably be coming to trial soon. Thus far there seem to be no indications of ethnicity concerning the alleged perps in the attack.

The Foundry.

Only 6% of Democrats think that “patriotism” is important for the country.

That was one of the unnerving findings of a recently released Gallup national survey about American values that highlighted the conflict of visions that defines modern politics.

Gallup led its report on the survey with the seemingly heartening idea that three-quarters of Americans can “identify at least one value most Americans share,” but that’s grasping at straws a bit, as the summary admits.

The list included 12 values, most of which seem so universal they would be shared by pretty much any group of people the world over. The summary writers noted that the findings show that “there is little consensus on which values are widely shared, or which the country needs more of.”

On the list of 12 values, Democrats ranked patriotism as the lowest value and “equality” as the highest. Republicans were essentially the reverse, ranking patriotism as the highest value needed for the country and putting equality near the bottom of the list.

The Left has always been internationalist, which is why nationalist socialism like the Nazis and Fascists and Falangists are unaccountably considered ‘right-wing’ even when their programs and those of the Left are pretty much the same.

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Bill Kristol is not the only guy who can stab his own side in the back.

UPDATE: Some House Dems are now pushing to kick Haley Stevens out of their caucus (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)

UPDATE: Haley Stevens’ staff and colleagues erupt at her “betrayal” (Andrew Solender/Axios)

Curtis Yarvin (Mencius Moldbug).

My view is that the second Trump administration has had 10x the impact of the first, easily. Almost all of these impacts have been positive. Nonetheless, the overall impact (domestically) is negligible. This is easy to show: you could easily imagine 10xing it again—at least twice. Probably three times. Somewhere in those orders of magnitude, for example, is the executive power of FDR—the founding emperor of our republic, whose personal monarchy survived his death and became our permanent bureaucracy.

My view is that a Republican administration should deprioritize “good government” entirely, and focus on reducing the capacity of the enemy to resist. A compromise might be to focus directly on winning elections—rather than focusing on winning them indirectly through the popular approval created by acts of good government. Note that the impact of governance on popularity remains mediated by the media.

Note also that this fundamentally military attitude has been the political lodestone of the Democratic Party for the whole lives of those now living. When right-wing boat people wanted to escape from communist Vietnam in the mid-70s, Democrats like Jerry Brown and even Joe Biden were the loudest voices screaming about “our jawbs.” The “lib” has no shame and no belief system at all: he can be all about blood and soil in the Ukraine, and full globalist “It’s a Small World After All” in Hungary. He is just a power junkie; watch his actions, not his words; if power lie in the west, never shall his feet take him east. In South Africa in the “Rand Rebellion” in 1922, communists carried signs reading “Workers of the World Unite—To Keep South Africa White.”

New York Post.

Funny how the Left complains about ‘right wing terrorism’ but all of the violence seems to come from the Left.

CNN Accuses Trump of Fueling Conspiracy Theories About Election Polls In marked contrast to CNN’s ‘conspiracy theories’ about Trump…?

Scarborough Accuses RFK Jr. of ‘Lurching to Bigotry,’ ‘Disgracing’ His ‘Extraordinary’ Dad

Smile More? USA Today Champions Kaitlan Collins and the Brave Anti-Trump Women of CNN

Gaffes and Men’s Bodies: Analysis of Trump’s Speeches at Age 80 (New York Times)

The corruption election: Democrats link Trump’s wealth to voters’ economic pain (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)  I guess nobody is interested in how socialists like Bernier and Fauxcohantas got so rich.

‘Screwed Up’: Latino Voters In Texas’ Rio Grande Valley Regret Backing Trump In 2024 (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)  Pushing the Narrative ahead of the election.

Baked Alaska — This week, in the latest attempt to gin up outrage before next Tuesday’s election … (Sam Wang/Fixing Bugs In Democracy)

Both parties tried to game Alaska primary field (Matthew Choi/Washington Post)  Look! Squirrel!

Vance road tests 2028 campaign as Trump’s midterm sideshow (Julia Manchester/The Hill)

Trump Says He May Be ‘Mr. Veto’ If Democrats Win Midterms (Bloomberg)  This is news?

Poll: Voters demand change and a check on Trump, fueling a steep Democratic midterm advantage (NBC News)  More fake polls pushing the Narrative before the election.

Trump Has Found the Attorney General of His Dreams (David French/New York Times)  David French surrenders to his Inner TDS.

Why a MAHA mom who loves RFK Jr. is backing Democrats who don’t (Politico)  Took them long enough to find one….

What a Decade of Pizzagate Has Done to America (Anna Merlan/New York Times)  Don’t call them ‘conspiracy theories’—call them ‘spoiler alerts’.

The U.S. Is Bullying Europe Like Never Before (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)  Anne Applebaum jerks some tears.

NPR Reveals Democrat Scheme To Rig AIs Into Deceiving Voters

Not the Bee.

More inspiring behavior from the ‘black community’.

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Police in Dallas say four people are dead and 15 are injured following separate shootings in a Dallas neighborhood.

Police Chief Daniel Comeaux said police are still trying to determine if the shootings in the Deep Ellum neighborhood were related. It was among several violent incidents nationwide on Halloween weekend.

Comeaux said three separate shootings occurred and it wasn’t immediately known why they started. He added that some arrests were made but he didn’t specify how many or what charges were involved.

“This is a really big scene. It’s spread out,” Comeaux said. “We are interviewing some individuals right now that we have arrested, still trying to figure out exactly how it ties into all the shootings out here.”

Deep Ellum is the Greenwich Village of Dallas. Because of the large ration of wounded per dead, I predict that the perps will be discovered to be Children of Color. Dallas is, of course, a Blue pustule in Red Texas.

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This is an interesting potential shift in energy position for the European Union. There has been zero investment by the EU nations in oil refining capacity. Simultaneously, Europe is now realizing they need diesel and jet fuel.

Gee, I gess we need those fossil fuels for a bit longer yet….

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It was in the mall’s dining area, adorned with the Somali, Palestinian and American flags flying at the same height, that Omar dined among friends in the Somali community for lunch on Friday. State Attorney General Keith Ellison was also present. The ceiling of the food vendor area is painted light blue and emblazoned with a white star resembling the Somali flag.

Not the Bee.

Election season is upon us, so the news media wants you to know that there’s nothing to worry about, no one is stealing the election, and it’s perfectly normal to take days or weeks to call the results.

Nothing suspicious happening here.

Happy Birthday to My Brother the Socialist.

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Crossings from northern France restarted this week after the longest pause of the year, and the first footage to come out of them shows a man wading toward a packed dinghy off Hardelot with a knife raised, shouting “I will kill you.” Press Association video shows him in waist-deep water as a man aboard the boat tries to hit him, with French rescue boats hovering a short distance away, according to the PA’s report.

The man drew his arm back and the knife went into the sea behind him. The PA’s updated report says he then climbed aboard and the dinghy left; its first version said he did not appear to board. He has not been identified, and we could find no word from French or British authorities on whether he was stopped, arrested or reached England. Downing Street said it was not aware of the specific dinghy and that “we are not complacent.”

Note that the ‘French rescue boats’ are doing nothing to stop the invasion of Britain by illegal migrants.

Ordinarily this would be considered an act of war, but it’s obvious that the British government is in on the act.

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Raymond Christian Garcia and Isiah Angelo Garcia, both of Waller, Texas, were sentenced Thursday to at least 15 years in prison each for holding a Minnesota family at gunpoint for more than nine hours to force the transfer of more than $8 million in cryptocurrency, the Justice Department said. Raymond received 180 months and Isiah 186.

Think of how peaceful life would be in America if People of Color had been sent back to Africa when we had the chance.

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Philadelphia has once again been named the poorest major city in the United States, reclaiming an unwanted title after briefly losing last year.

A whopping 20.4% of Philadelphia residents lived below the poverty line in 2025, according to newly released U.S. Census Bureau data, marking the city’s first increase in poverty since 2011.

The figures, first reported by The Philadelphia Inquirer, put Philadelphia ahead of Houston and New York City, which both recorded poverty rates of 17.7%.

The reversal comes after Philadelphia briefly surrendered its unwanted title to Houston in 2024, when its poverty rate dropped to 19.7%, its lowest level since at least 1979.

Houston, one of the Blue pustules on the rosy Red cheek of Texas. Even in Red states, metro areas are run by Blue morons.

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Sometimes you need to wear a costume to get what you want.

Today, this lesson forms the basis of the Democrats’ general election strategy.

In their primaries, many successful Democrat candidates won by appealing to their party’s extreme, America-loathing, socialist wing. It was an authentic approach, for they were making a legitimate appeal to like-minded left-wing extremists. Being and articulating exactly who they are, these radical candidates received what they sought from their fellow travelers – the Democrat Party’s nomination.

Yet, while a necessary step, the nomination was not the ultimate destination. Thus, on the cusp of the general election, these far-left, extremist Democrats in competitive seats resembled the gaggle of restless youths from that Halloween back in the 1970s.

Were these Democrats to wage general election campaigns by remaining true to their radical selves, some citizens may well begrudgingly admire their gumption for admitting they are “21st-century Bolsheviks” and, in some socialist circles, reward them with a vote or two. But the bulk of voters would find these radical Democrats unpalatable. As a result, these extremists would not get the treat they sought – namely, enough votes to win the general election.

Their cynical solution? The Democrats’ “all trick, no treat” political strategy.

The Foundry.

As Americans see chaos and rioting on the streets of Paris, we are not immune to that happening on streets across America.

For decades, France has provided “free” health care, paid family leave, free childcare, free preschool, generous unemployment and housing benefits, and heavily subsidized higher education. This has bred a culture of entitlement and an insatiable desire for the government to do more, while many demand to work less—if at all.

As the government subsidizes these sectors, the price of goods and services rises. More housing aid and blocked building permits cause rents to rise, which precipitates a demand for the government to impose rent control. That diminishes housing supply and the spiral continues. Education subsidies prompt universities to raise tuition; students then take to the streets to protest the “injustice” of unaffordable housing, education, and other services.

France has one of the world’s highest tax burdens, yet they have an enormous public debt. The International Monetary Fund estimates that France’s gross domestic product in 2026 will be a mere 0.4%, compared to 2.3% in the United States.

What France is doing is unsustainable, and if Americans elect candidates who embrace that kind of socialist agenda, it won’t be long before we reap the whirlwind.

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The 2024 Democratic Party Platform celebrated this party’s transgender agenda. Former President Joe Biden, it said, “reversed [President Donald] Trump’s un-American ban on transgender servicemembers,” “has protected transgender Americans’ access to health care and coverage, including medically necessary gender-affirming care,” and “is fighting book bans that censor LGBTQI+ content.”

It also celebrated the Democratic Party’s commitment to killing unborn children—or what they call “reproductive rights”—and forcing American taxpayers to pay for the killing of those children.

“Democrats are fighting back to restore reproductive freedom for every woman in every state,” said their platform.

“We will repeal the Hyde Amendment,” it said.

The Hyde Amendment was initially enacted into law in 1976 and has been renewed every year since then; it marked its 50th anniversary in September. It prohibits federal funding of abortions. If Democrats were to succeed in repealing the Hyde Amendment, every American who pays taxes would be forced to pay for the deliberate killing of innocent human beings.

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America has walked out of the UN climate racket. The rest of the world hasn’t gotten the message.

Next month, some 100,000 politicians, bureaucrats, functionaries, activists and other grifters will descend on Antalya, Turkey (COP folks prefer Türkiye) for COP31, the UN’s annual climate Conference of the Parties. They will fly in, talk endlessly, and enjoy the best hotels, food, beverages, and hospitality Recep Tayyip Erdo?an can offer. Then they’ll fly home having plotted how to pry trillions more out of whatever wealthy nations are still willing to pay.

Even now, after real-world scientific, energy, and economic realities have bashed the UN’s fraudulent science, garbage-in/garbage-out climate models, anti-fossil-fuel activism, and renewable energy fantasies, climate crisis assertions still dominate news cycles, policy, and spending.

Türkiye will serve as a “bridge” between developed and developing countries. Co-host Australia will push global “clean energy acceleration” — the very policies that are crippling its own citizens’ energy reliability, jobs, economy, and living standards.

Curtis Yarvin (Mencius Moldbug)

When you see clips of masked DHS goons hauling off some equally masked anarchist, you may be tempted to cheer. Don’t. Yes, charges will be filed. No, it will not harm the anarchist—it will make his day, his year, and maybe his life. All the money and power in the world will be at his defense. He will not even need to lift a finger to organize his own lawyers, much less pay them. In the end, as with many of the BLM rioters, he will probably be well compensated, with taxpayer funds, for his trouble. Not to mention all the pussy and/or dick s/he will, as a martyr, be entitled to! For the Islamist, this reward is only in heaven. But for the leftist it comes on earth.

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One: there is no risk of a Republican one-party state, because there is no actual Republican party. It is a label, not a party. To the extent that the Republicans are organized, it is only for election theater. There is not even a remote, nascent equivalent of the venerable and gigantic progressive institutions which have been running our country for a century.

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Two: it is not possible to remove the “Democrat judges,” etc, because there is no label sufficient to the purpose. Every time the Republicans attack a disposable label, I want to grind my teeth to powder and spit them out my nose. This is pure grift.

All that happens if you attack “woke,” “communist,” “politically correct,” etc, is that they stop saying these words. Then they label you as a rube who says these words. In biology, this is called “antigenic escape.” If you want to attack a word, take on a “conserved antigen,” like “progressive.” They have a lot of trouble not saying “progressive”—but they would probably manage.

CBS News, a Voice of the Crust.

Masked rioters smashed storefronts and looted goods late Saturday in Frankfurt, Germany amid a protest against the rising cost of living.

The largely peaceful demonstrations were led by a youth initiative called “Gen Z regelt” – roughly translated to “Gen Z’s got this” – rallied in more than 30 cities “for education, health, climate protection and an affordable life,” and against any return of military conscription. Organizers said that tens of thousands participated in the protests across the country, but official figures weren’t immediately available.

Tensions peaked in the evening as some groups of protesters refused to disperse, sparking clashes and violence in major cities including Berlin, Cologne and Hamburg.

Socialism + Unrestricted Immigration = Riots and Crime. You’d think they’d be able to connect the dots.

ATQUE: Looting And Chaos Erupt In Germany As Europe Slides Deeper Into Crisis

ATQUE: A Third Weekend of Protests in France as Youth-led Rallies Sweep Europe

ScienceAlert.

Actually, the next of these ice ages may have already begun about 2,000 years ago, only to be cut short by human-driven climate change, a new study published in the journal Science suggests.

“It was just getting started, everything was normal, the next glaciation was about to happen – and yet it stopped,” says Nicolás Young, a geochemist at Columbia University and the study’s first author.

As Trump fans the flames of a world on fire, can diplomacy take back control? (The Guardian).

Judge Launches Investigation Into Trump DOJ Attorneys in Explosive Golf Course Hearing (Brett Meiselas/MeidasTouch)

Musk Says Gates Funding His Attackers As Democrats Ready Post-Midterm Witch Hunt

Jamie Raskin Is Not Afraid to Impeach Trump Again (David Remnick/New Yorker)

Will the Progressive Insurgency in NY-17 Oust MAGA Loyalist Mike Lawler? (Joan Walsh/The Nation)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Inside Trump’s Dark Plot to Keep Senate in GOP Hands Even If Dems Win (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

Locked in close Senate race, Iowa Republican pledges to be a thorn in Trump’s side (Theodoric Meyer/Washington Post)

Elon Musk Made Off With $16 Billion of Taxpayer Money (Timothy Noah/New Republic)

Judge orders Trump administration to stop threatening election officials with criminal charges (Gary Grumbach/NBC News)

The New York Times invents a Democratic scandal while ignoring a new Trump rape allegation (Jamison Foser/Finding Gravity)

As Midterms Near, Top Law Firms That Capitulated to Trump Are on the Sidelines (New York Times)

Led by Trump, Republicans Close Midterms With Ugly Personal Attacks (New York Times)

How Trump Is Dismantling America’s Scientific Research Machine (New York Times) Because, as we all know, scientific research is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer.

Capehart Thinks Trump Is ‘Why We’re Even Talking About Alaska’  I’m sure they would rather nobody were talking about Alaska.

D.C. and Virginia sue to block Trump’s proposed triumphal arch (Washington Post)

Libs decorate for Halloween by hanging Donald Trump and Elon Musk effigies from porch and that’s not the worst part

In a New Jersey House race, Trump is putting a centuries-old family legacy at risk (Politico)

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