DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

Not the Bee.

That’s not a typo. That’s not fake news. 2.2 million immigrants let in under President Biden are now eligible for deportation.

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Today, the top Trump administration officials announced new anti-fraud investigative results and ongoing measures to locate and identify more. The announcement comes from Minnesota as the White House steps up its crackdown on fraud involving federal assistance and healthcare programs.

The Foundry.

The most obnoxious lie that erupts routinely in the “independent media” is that President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice is weaponized in a way that no Democrat has ever contemplated. It’s like they all observed everything that the Biden Justice Department did to put Trump and his allies in jail and considered it to be the most nonpartisan thing imaginable.

Team Biden going after the opposing party is nonpartisan? This is the thoroughly partisan prism the leftist media use to distort our politics. Democracy is healthy when Democrats win. Autocracy is descending when Democrats lose.

See the latest claims of The New York Times editorial board: Trump “has dismantled the Justice Department’s legacy as an impartial enforcer of federal law, turning it into an instrument of retribution against his adversaries while canceling investigations into his allies.” Team Biden’s lawfare against Trump and prosecution of over 1,500 people over the Jan. 6 riot were implausibly presented in this argument as “impartial enforcement,” not former President Joe Biden’s “retribution.”

You could see this reflexive reasoning in the analysis of the Trump Justice Department announcing it would be investigating the election in Alaska over the prank candidacy of “Daniel J. Sullivan,” put on the ballot to ruin the reelection chances of Sen. Daniel S. Sullivan.

Judge blocks Trump administration’s Medicaid rule forcing sick recipients to prove frailty (Fatima Hussein/Associated Press)

Trump hypes New York Times hack job about Alaska Senate race (Oliver Willis/Daily Kos)

Trump ‘Front Row Joe’ Arrested on Vile Sex Crime Charges (Julia Ornedo/The Daily Beast)

Report: House Dems Plan Bills to Limit Trump’s Powers  Which is just political theater, because it has no chance of passing. But Democrats love to signal that ol’ virtue….

The Midterms May End the Trump Era. Here Are 10 Takeaways. (David Wallace-Wells/New York Times)  Pushing the Narrative ahead of the election.

Democrats Demand Trump Preserve AI Chat Records  They can demand all they want.

Obama’s Great Skewering of Trump (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)  A legend in their own minds.

RFK Goes Off On Muslims And The Media Is Outraged

PBS: Trump-Supporting Christians ‘Literally Demonize’ Political Opponents  Perhaps because they are?

Democratic divisions linger in Michigan Senate race. Will frustration with Trump outweigh them? (Associated Press)

GOP lawmakers start contemplating a diminished Donald Trump (Politico)  Pushing the Narrative ahead of the election.

Is This the End for Trump’s Princelings? Or Just the Start? (Noah Shachtman/New York Times)  Bias? What bias?

‘It could be quite a brutal evening:’ GOP braces for some once-unthinkable losses (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)  Certainly not ‘unthinkable’ by Democrats; that’s all they’ve been thinking about for the last six months.

Corporate America’s Trump trap (Zachary Basu/Axios)

The Elitist Media Are Terrible Guardians of Democracy

Brash architect of Trump’s midterm strategy could become midterm scapegoat (Nancy Cook/Washington Post)

The Case for a Historic Wave (Peggy Noonan/Wall Street Journal)  Peggy turns RINO.

High Inflation Haunts Trump and Republicans on Eve of Election (Tony Romm/New York Times)

How Republicans lost voters’ trust (Lakshya Jain/The Argument)  Pushing the Narrative ahead of the election.

Democrats Are Ready to Run Hegseth ‘Out of Town’ (The Atlantic)  Talk’s cheap, and Democrats are cheaper.

Senator Rips Trump’s ‘Insane’ Plan For Iran Escalation, As Pentagon Transport Planes Land In Israel

Ohio’s Jon Husted, object of Trump’s leering, is just an empty pair of pants (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  Amanda Marcotrte loses her shit.

The Real Stakes of the Ilhan Omar Case (Rozina Ali/New Yorker)  As usual, all the sympathy is for the enemies of America and the breakers of the laws.

Inside Donald Trump’s Secret Plan To Restart The Iran War After The Election (Brian Beutler/Off Message)  The war was never over, and so can’t be ‘restarted’; and that’s hardly a secret, although the Narrative Media (in which literacy is vanishing) disagree.

The Wild Rise of a Trump-Backed Drone Company (Wall Street Journal)

Pressed on affordability at town hall, JD Vance says all the wrong things (Steve Benen/MS NOW)  From a Democrat standpoint, that  is.

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A Minnesota man convicted of orchestrating a $44 million taxpayer fraud scheme has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison, increasing scrutiny of Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar and her connections to individuals involved in the massive Feeding Our Future scandal.

Salim Said, who operated Safari Restaurant in Minneapolis, received the sentence Wednesday after being convicted in March 2025 of exploiting a federally funded child nutrition program during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prosecutors said Said falsely claimed his restaurant distributed 6,000 meals daily, allowing him to collect millions in fraudulent reimbursements; prosecutors put his personal take at about $13 million of the $44 million stolen by Safari and those tied to it.

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Days before the midterm elections, Senate Democrats are pushing for the Trump administration to drop guidance aimed at preventing ballot harvesting or coercive voting practices in nursing homes.

Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Alex Padilla, D-Calif., along with six others, wrote to Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, asking him to rescind a July memo to nursing homes.

“We write to reiterate our request that you rescind the July 2026 memorandum and seek clarification about any connections between CMS and these election denial groups. This is a particularly urgent matter given that Election Day is only one week away,” the letter says.

Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Cory Booker, D-N.J., Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., joined in signing the letter.

As previously reported by the Daily Signal, ballot harvesting and voting coercion in nursing homes have been longstanding problems.

And attempting to correct these problems apparently constitute ‘election denial’, the New Genocide.

The Foundry.

California Democrats have spent months insisting the state’s elections are free and fair. But progressive groups that spend heavily on Democrat voter outreach walked into a Los Angeles courtroom this month almost as soon as the Department of Justice sued the state over a list of more than 20,000 names it says are likely noncitizens.

The legal fight this month started with the DOJ requesting California to set aside 20,000 ballots it believes are likely tied to noncitizens. Despite 28 federal charges last week, Clinton-appointed Judge David O. Carter denied the DOJ’s expedited request on Wednesday evening, with a handful of outside groups tied to Democrats and progressives having joined the case.

“Our elections are safe and secure. Yet the federal government is continuing its efforts to put up barriers to the ballot box by spreading misinformation and relying on faulty and unreliable data to disenfranchise voters,” Campaign Legal Center’s vice president for voting rights and rule of law Danielle Lang wrote on Oct. 16. “We’re moving to join this case to ensure that all eligible voters can make their voices heard in the 2026 midterm elections.”

Campaign Legal Center (CLC), which describes itself as a “nonpartisan legal organization,” is co-counsel for the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the NAACP in the case, along with Democracy Defenders Fund (founded by Norman Eisen), the NAACP’s Office of General Counsel, and Altshuler Berzon LLP.

Both LULAC and the NAACP, along with its California/Hawaii State Conference and the Los Angeles Branch, intervened on Oct. 16, a day after Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network (SIREN) and Mi Familia en Acción filed their own motion. Common Cause filed as an amicus.

The groups that have joined the case have long records of registering and mobilizing immigrant, Latino, and Black voters in California, typically within communities that lean heavily Democrat.

And said ‘communities’ contain large numbers of illegal immigrants and non-citizens that attempt to vote illegally.

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The violence, looting and burning in France over the weekend of October 24th-25th was somewhat less intense and widespread than it had been on the previous weekend, but it was still significant. Demonstrations comprising an estimated 400,000 people took place across France on the Saturday; in Paris the march was confined to the south-eastern edge of the city, and this was followed by violent clashes with police near Porte de Vincennes, about a 45-minute walk from the Place de la Bastille. Water cannon and tear gas were used. Around 500 rioters were estimated to have broken off from the main protest. There were more clashes, as well as bin fires and looting in Marseille, Lyon, Bordeaux, Lille, Toulouse, Nantes, Grenoble, Rennes and several other parts of France. There were around 1,000 arrests nationwide (1,300 by some reports), with 70,000 police having been deployed to the streets, which was a substantial increase on the previous weekend’s deployment. Activists have called for further action on October 31st, and it’s clear that the sentiment behind the unrest hasn’t gone away. The weather on the 31st is forecast to be mild and dry, more similar to that of the 17th than the wetter, colder 24th, so it remains to be seen how much the tensions have been defused, and to what extent the less dedicated were put off by the weather.

Be careful what you wish for….

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The Spanish National Police have submitted video footage to the National Court that allegedly features undercover Moroccan agents during the late-July border crossing into Ceuta.

According to documentation from the National Center for Immigration and Borders (CENIF), the footage suggests the mass illegal crossing was a coordinated operation involving both uniformed police and plainclothes operatives rather than a spontaneous event.

As part of the evidence submission, as reported by The Objective, CENIF provided Judge María Tardón with 34 visual files tracking Moroccan personnel. Ten files show uniformed officers, while the remaining 24 document individuals whose behavior differed significantly from the migrants.

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A Department of Homeland Security memo from July noted more than 400,000 deceased individuals were on the voter rolls across 25 states that were using the SAVE system, a federal database short for Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements. That total is out of about 68 million voter records reviewed.

Control of the U.S. Senate could hinge on several competitive contests in Ohio, Texas, North Carolina, Georgia, and Kansas. The Homeland Security memo shows each of these states identified tens of thousands of deceased people on voter registration rolls, but officials from those states and data from the Public Interest Legal Foundation assert that improvements have been made.

Two federal laws—the Help America Vote Act, passed in 2002, and the 1993 National Voter Registration Act—require states to update their voter registration rolls and clear ineligible registrants.

Maine, a state with one of the most closely watched Senate races in the nation, had 3,181 dead people on its voter rolls, according to a Help America Vote Act complaint filed Wednesday by the Public Interest Legal Foundation. That’s down from 18,000 after a July review, but still a significant tally. The election watchdog found 693 duplicate registrations in the state.

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If woke businesses can’t survive in Berkeley, California, then they can’t survive anywhere. It’s a lesson learned far too late for many companies over the past few years as American society continues to shift away from progressive ideology. The tolerance for “inclusive capitalism” is stretched thin and revenues are drying up fast, even for businesses that have been openly left-wing for a long time.

American Thinker.

There aren’t enough rich people even in America to cover the spending that politicians do.

For more than sixty years, I have listened to politicians repeat the same familiar promise: tax the rich. Every election cycle, the message returns, wrapped in new slogans and delivered with renewed enthusiasm. Millionaires and billionaires, we are told, have more than their fair share. If only government would tax them more aggressively, America could afford an endless assortment of new programs, benefits, and government services. It is a politically attractive argument. After all, who wouldn’t prefer someone else to pay the bill?

But this promise has a fundamental problem, one that rarely gets the attention it deserves. The wealthy represent a relatively small population, while the middle class represents an enormous tax base. And when politicians promise expansive government programs funded exclusively by taxing the rich, basic arithmetic deserves more attention than political rhetoric.

Consider the numbers. America has approximately 1,000 billionaires and more than 23 million millionaires, measured by net worth. Yet millions of these millionaires are not extraordinarily wealthy individuals living extravagant lifestyles. They are homeowners, retirees, and working professionals who have spent decades accumulating savings, retirement accounts, and home equity.

More importantly, wealth and taxable income are very different. A billionaire may own billions in appreciating stock while reporting comparatively little taxable income. A middle-class worker earning $100,000, by contrast, has income reported directly to the IRS, with taxes withheld from every paycheck. And herein lies the distinction politicians conveniently overlook.

Newsbusters.

In addition to securing a spot on Alaska’s Senate ballot in an obvious attempt to dupe voters meaning to vote for incumbent Republican Senator Daniel S. Sullivan, Daniel J. Sullivan tried to be listed using his opponent’s middle initial, instead of his own, Governor Mike Dunleavy (R-Alaska) reported Thursday.

Amid the growing scandal exposed Wednesday by The New York Times, in which the campaign of Democrat Senate candidate Mary Peltola sought out and recruited Daniel J. Sullivan to enter the race, Gov. Dunleavy detailed the fake initial scheme to Fox News.

“When we did our initial investigation in late Spring, early Summer, the Dan Sullivan from Petersburg, Alaska, his initial emails to the Division of Elections wanted him put on the ballot as Daniel S. Sullivan

“His middle initial is not ‘S’ – that’s the initial of our incumbent state U.S. senator.”

“And so, we knew that the intent was questionable then,” Gov. Dunleavy recalled, adding “We really, really believe it is incredibly questionable, very questionable now.”

At the time, the governor said, Dan J. was questioned, but refused to testify under oath.

The fake-initial ploy wasn’t Dan. J. Sullivan’s only scheme to confuse voters, however – he also tried to be listed on the ballot as a Republican, The Alaska Beacon reports.

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Two of America’s largest teachers unions spent more than $930 million on political activism, lobbying and progressive advocacy over the past decade, raising questions about how union dues are being used beyond traditional education priorities.

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It turns out that more suffocating regulation in one of the most aggressively regulated cities in the U.S. is not helpful to businesses…go figure…

In fact, rising operating costs, bureaucratic delays and persistent inflation are putting growing pressure on New York City businesses, with restaurant owners warning that operating in the five boroughs is becoming increasingly difficult, according to MSN/NY Post.

The strain is now showing up in employment figures. A new report from City Comptroller Mark Levine found that New York City’s private sector lost approximately 30,000 jobs in August and September, bringing total losses over the past year to roughly 32,000. September accounted for about 23,000 of those cuts, following another 7,400 in August.

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A lawyer for one of the men accused in a civil rape lawsuit at Cornell University has asked a New York judge to remove Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor of the renewed criminal investigation, arguing that her own social media post shows she had already taken the accuser’s side. Justice James R. Farrell was due to hear the petition Thursday in Monticello, the Associated Press reported.

A reasonable request, and one that Democrats would be pushing if the sides were reversed.

Newsbusters.

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host of the week, Jordan Klepper, was the only one of the late night comedy hosts to discuss the Wednesday report from The New York Times that Alaska Democrats did, in fact, recruit a random guy named Dan Sullivan to challenge incumbent GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan in order to confuse voters in the state’s ranked choice voting system.  Klepper admitted to not being a fan of the move but also claimed it was “the kind of shit that Mitch McConnell” would pull even though McConnell never did any such thing.

Klepper introduced a clip of CNN’s Dana Bash by sarcastically declaring, “Just because there’s a guy running with the same name as a Republican senator doesn’t mean the Democrats recruited him to confuse voters.”

New York Post.

Embattled Rep. Ilhan Omar’s ex-husband and rumored brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, referred to himself as a “gay man” in an academic paper published earlier this year.

Elmi’s self-described sexual orientation adds to the mounting evidence that his 2009 marriage to Omar was a sham to obtain legal immigration status for her alleged brother.

“As a gay man of the East African diaspora, my fieldwork was never neutral,” Elmi, a doctoral researcher at the University of Bristol, wrote in an August 2026 paper titled, “Out in the Field: Notes on Researching Queer Violence in Kenya.”

New York Post.

I have no idea who ‘Mrs. Rachel’ is, but obviously she’s famous to some people.

Parents are undefeated when it comes to ruining youth sports.

But we have first ballot hall of shamers in the parents of 3-year-old soccer player Nevada Pierre.

As the viral story went, the Florida tot — who is black — was so darn good at soccer that people on the sidelines called the police on the wunderkind.

Ah, yes, America — where our budding elite athletes are sent to gulags and their playing time managed by the po-po. I recall LeBron James’ many stories about being detained for dominating his middle school AAU games.

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Two Florida residents walk into a Dollar General. They see a drunk woman waving around a knife, and they calmly decide that this is not good, so they pull their guns on her and hold her at gunpoint until police arrive.

In Europe, somebody would have gotten stabbed.

The Foundry.

A new AI-generated California voter ID ad depicts black and Hispanic Americans pushing back against the common Democrat argument that requiring identification to vote is racist.

In the ad, a focus group leader reads a statement opposing voter ID requirements on the grounds that they discriminate against minorities: “Voter ID is racist because African Americans and Hispanics have a hard time getting an ID.”

But focus-group participants push back, with one asking, “You don’t think I can get an ID?” Another responds, “I’m Hispanic, I have an ID.”

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Before we analyze that, just remember certain data that’s not in dispute. The last three days, about 24 million barrels have left the Gulf’s exporting countries. In other words, they’re leaving through the Strait of Hormuz primarily at a level at or higher than during the period before the war, and they’re also leaving the Red Sea, and they’re also going out of the Strait of Oman.

The problem is not oil. It’s making up for the dearth of distillery. The distilleries in Russia have been hit by Ukraine. We don’t have enough in Western countries, so there’s a bottleneck on the refinement end, not on the supply.

We may have a kind of a short period where we have to catch up, but there is enough oil going out now, as much as there was in the pre-war. That suggests that this war is not going to affect oil prices into next year. It may have an effect on the midterms.

More importantly, though, we think that a strike is coming right after the midterms. We think that because Iran is preparing for it. They are trying to fortify their bunkers for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commanders. There are rumors they’re threatening us with new weapons. They promise to destroy the oil fields of the Gulf, all of this rhetoric. And [President] Donald Trump says he wants to end this war after the midterms.

That raises a lot of questions that we don’t have the answers to. We’ve been talking about how many drones and missiles, we can call them the numerator, that we have destroyed, but we’ve never really known the denominator, how many existing drones and missiles were in the Iranian fleet before the war started. And we’re finding out that they were preparing for years for this war, and all through the Iranian mountain ranges, there are bunkers with mobile launchers almost everywhere.

The New Neo.

For this woman and former Democrat, who had believed Obama would be a fabulous president, it was Obamacare that started her political change experience.

The Foundry.

When violence and destruction broke out this month in France and soon spread to other European nations, many looked for a politician or a policy to blame. But they forgot that a very real culprit is what’s taught in the classroom.

Every major crisis today raises a question about education: What kind of people are we raising? We can pass new laws and elect new leaders, but we will keep inheriting the same heartbreak if we neglect the character of rising generations.

The events in France should shake Americans awake. Activists there are upset, but people should be able to face disagreements without resorting to arson, vandalism, and violence to solve them.

An Unpredictable President, a Grim White House: Trump Faces Down the Midterms (Katie Rogers/New York Times)

Cabinet Officials on the Campaign Trail? Ethics Experts Say Some Are Breaking the Law. (Karoun Demirjian/New York Times)

Elon Musk Is Trying To Buy Texas. It Might Earn Him ‘Retribution.’ (HuffPost)

Trump accuses Democrats of perjury in Dan Sullivan race (Josephine Walker/Axios)

The Hispanic Voters Who Turned on Trump and Put Texas in Play (Wall Street Journal)

Judge Rejects Trump Officials’ Bid to Set Aside California Ballots (Shawn Hubler/New York Times)

Top House Democrats demand Trump preserve conversations with Grok (Chris Marquette/Politico)

Trump’s anti-Muslim attacks dominate Michigan’s election homestretch (Politico)

Trump clashes with Maryland over golf project on a Superfund site (Miranda Willson/Politico)

Democrats Seek to Close the ‘Elon Musk Loophole’ in Campaign Spending (Igor Bobic/The Washington Sun)

Watch: Store Refuses Service Because They “Hate Trump”

The Trump Aide Trying to Stop a Blue Wave (The Atlantic)

Trump-Vivek Ad Ploy Backfires as GOPers Leak Humiliating Private Poll (New Republic)

Before You Vote, Remember That They Tried to Kill Trump for a Reason (Tim O’Brien/PJ Media)

MAGA’s Alaska response paves the way for a new Trumpian subversion campaign (Matt Gertz/Media Matters for America)  Matt Gertz loses his shit.

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Federal investigators found evidence during the Obama administration suggesting that Rep. Ilhan Omar’s 2009 marriage to a man suspected of being her brother was intended to help him obtain a green card, but the case stalled chiefly because prosecutors concluded the suspected offense fell outside a five-year statute of limitations, according to a new report.

The FBI and Department of Homeland Security investigated the marriage in the summer of 2016, current and former officials told The New York Times in a report published Thursday.

The officials’ account challenges Omar’s characterization of the earlier inquiry as having debunked allegations that she married her brother to help him obtain a green card.

Newsbusters.

On Wednesday, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel continued his efforts to help Democrats win next Tuesday in two ways. First, Kimmel used his monologue to defend Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed and Texas’s James Talarico from accusations of radicalness. Second, Kimmel welcomed California Gov. Newsom to spread conspiracy theories about the election and to resurrect the myth that Trump wants Iran to bomb the state.

Kimmel introduced a clip of El-Sayed by suggesting Republicans have no legitimate criticisms of him, “This guy, Abdul el Syed, is a very strong candidate. He’s very smart, he’s strong, he’s an excellent speaker, and so what do you do in a situation like that? Well, if you’re Donald Trump, you call him a terrorist.”

After a clip of Trump claiming El-Sayed would have to be given “the metal detector test,” Kimmel retorted, “Remember when racism was supposed to be a secret? Like, they’d whisper this stuff in their foursome on the golf course to each other, while they were looking around like this. Now it’s your grandpa’s Facebook page live on stage every day.”

Despite El-Sayed’s known affinity for the Muslim Brotherhood’s Egypt takeover over a decade ago, Kimmel claimed the concerns were dumb, “They keep saying El-Sayed is part of the Muslim Brotherhood. This guy was born in Rochester Hills, Michigan, and played high school lacrosse. He played lacrosse, football, and hockey, the three whitest sports there are. Oh my god, what is he hiding in those goalie pads? Give him a metal detector test!”

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GB News has released exclusive analysis of British police data showing a clear spike in reported crime in areas around three hotels used to house illegal migrants.

Between September 2023 and August 2026 there were 673 crime and antisocial behavior reports at map points right by the sites in Bournemouth.

Violence and sexual offenses formed the largest category, with 259 reports. Across the road from one hotel those offenses ran at almost three times the local average.

To be fair, it would solve the problem—although you’d have to wait a bit….

Victor Davis Hanson.

As the midterms approach, the Left has gone nearly berserk in its hatred of trillionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk. Yet its escalating venom would have been almost inconceivable before 2022, when Musk publicly declared that he would be voting Republican.

Before Musk’s recent political reversal (he voted for both Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020), he was beloved by the Left as the first successful upstart challenger to the century-long dominance of the Big Three fossil-fuel automakers. Liberals once loved his revolutionary, electrically powered Teslas and drove them proudly as a green virtue signal.

Not now. Far-left podcaster Jennifer Welch has run out of Nazi epithets for Musk. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—ironically, given her own limited talents—trashed Musk as “probably one of the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever met or seen or witnessed.”

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Conservative voices have long raised concerns over the demographic shift arising from high sustained migration from the Middle East and Africa, and new data confirms these fears.

According to data published by La Razón, cited by La Gaceta, the number of Muslims in Europe has jumped from roughly 15 million around the year 2000 to approximately 32.5 million today (excluding Russia and Turkey).

Statistics from the Pew Research Center align with this upward trajectory, reporting that Europe’s broader Muslim population – including Russia – climbed to 46 million in 2020, a 16 percent increase from 2010.

 

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The Holodomor (meaning death by hunger) was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932-1933 that killed millions of people, primarily Ukrainian peasants. It was part of a wider Soviet famine (roughly 1930-1934) that also affected parts of Russia and Kazakhstan, but the Ukrainian famine was intensified by specific policies directed at Ukraine.

Under Joseph Stalin, the Soviet leadership forcibly collectivized agriculture starting in the late 1920s. Peasants were compelled to join collective farms, “kulaks” (better-off farmers). Resisters were deported or repressed. Whole villages were blacklisted and their grain confiscated. An internal passport system and border controls were created that prevented peasants from leaving famine areas.

Mortality was hideous, peaking in the spring and summer of 1933. Today we have all the evidence of widespread starvation, mass deaths, and cases of cannibalism. All told, as many as 5 million died. It was a genocide.

What is especially remarkable about this historical fact is that no one in the West knew anything about it while it was happening. U.S. newspapers had reporters on the ground in Russia but they consistently wrote stories that either ignored or debunked the claims of famine.

Newsbusters.

Seldom are the Elitist Media as eager to act as a Praetorian Guard for Democrats than when there is a scandal to suppress. Such is the case with the Elitist Media Evening News, which took active measures to soften the impact of the bombshell report from The New York Times which revealed the depths of the conspiracy to deceive Alaskan voters into voting for a Dan Sullivan other than the incumbent Republican Senator.

Worst among these is the most Trump-deranged among the network newscasts: ABC World News Tonight. Watch as Mary Bruce performs industrial-grade firefighting.

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A youth softball game in Sugar Land, Texas, turned violent Saturday, and a father is still in the hospital with a broken jaw, a fractured skull and three brain bleeds, according to his attorney. Police arrested Kiarious Marshun Hall and his wife, Jazmine Hall, after the fight at Imperial Park during a game between two 12-year-old select teams, ABC13 reported.

Charging documents say the dispute began over Hall’s behavior while the opposing team was at bat. Hall told officers another man from the Timbergrove Thunder approached him and said he “couldn’t cheer before the players pitched the ball.” Hall’s daughter plays for Illusions Gold 2033.

Investigators say witness video shows what happened next. Court records state Hall struck another father in the face with a metal water bottle, knocking him unconscious, then swung the bottle at a second man before the confrontation turned into a brawl. Hall claimed the men had “elbowed and poked his chest” and that he acted in self-defense, but court documents say the video does not show that.

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China’s military is developing directed-energy weapons to attack U.S. military satellites in a future conflict, according to a new Defense Intelligence Agency report on space security threats.

The report made public this week states that the People’s Liberation Army views laser and other beam weapons as “ideal counterspace weapons” based on their ability to cause both reversible and nonreversible damage to orbiting enemy satellites.

“China has multiple ground-based laser weapons with varying power levels to disrupt, degrade, or damage satellites in [low earth orbit],” the report said. “By the late-2020s, China may field space-based directed energy systems and higher-powered ground-based directed energy systems capable of threatening satellites in higher orbits.”

Quillette.

Last year, China recorded a goods trade surplus of US$1.2 trillion: a world record. The country staggers beneath perhaps history’s fastest-growing debt burden; meanwhile it faces the century’s largest absolute population loss (a projected 786 million people between 2024 and 2100—surely a figure without precedent). The ruling Communist Party boasts that its family-planning officials carried out 336 million abortions between 1971 and 2012. I could go on, selecting figures relating to culture, to the economy, to politics: each one of which is head-spinningly absurd.

This is what Napoleon meant when he is said to have warned of a sleeping lion that would one day wake to shake the world. He never foresaw the Communist Party, but he understood scale. In his day, of course, those numbers were still making little difference outside of China. The region was largely isolated (even the ancient Great Silk Road was mostly a modern fabrication), its sclerotic leaders forever freezing the people’s potential. Karl Marx observed a “giant empire … vegetating in the teeth of time.” When had it ever done anything else? Today, however, we live with the shocking historical anomaly of a globally interconnected Middle Kingdom. Now what happens in China matters to everyone.

And a totalitarian state can move at terrific speed. The People’s Republic conjures skyscrapers from the soil as if by magic, like some tremendous attempt to make up for China’s millennia of stasis. At the beginning of the pandemic, new hospitals sprang up in days. These scenes were reflective of the bigger picture: the PRC’s rise was one of the fastest in the historical record. Its fall could be similarly rapid. The combination of vast numbers and accelerated pace means the Chinese experience can show us our own future writ large: a bold-text, headline version of what will happen in the rest of the world; a vision seen in fast-forward.

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Italy’s contribution to the wave of violent riots sweeping Europe has been a new initiative known as the “October 17 Movement”. According to Nuntiatoria,

The October 17 Movement emerged from the riots in Milan, aiming to challenge Giorgia Meloni’s Government through a rhetoric of proletarian expropriation.

The alleged mastermind behind the movement is a pro-Palestinian “activist” named Youssef Siher. Mr. Siher was hauled before a magistrate yesterday with an eye towards a possible prosecution. But it seems that’s not going to happen — at least not yet.

Not the Bee.

By shari’a that makes their country commission building a mosque.

Former Rep. Tom Perriello Pledges to ‘End War,’ Remove Trump’s Tariff Authority If Elected

ABC Seems to Imply MAGA Could Carry Out Violence Against Election Workers on Tuesday  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Trump and Epstein’s intrasexual competition (Julie K. Brown/The Epstein Files)  EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN!

Trump officials say men face a testosterone crisis. Experts say numbers tell different story (Joseph Choi/The Hill)  Experts say! That proves it!

Republicans Are Driving the Most Racist Election Cycle in a Generation (Jack Crosbie/Rolling Stone) RACIST! RACIST! RACIST!

Trump escalates anti-Muslim rhetoric before midterms (Josephine Walker/Axios)

Fox’s Trump Fatigue (Oliver Darcy/Status)

Just In: Judge Warns Trump DOJ to Stop Threatening Election Workers (David Kurtz/Talking Points Memo)

Kennedy Makes Bigoted Remarks About Arabs at Michigan Campaign Event (Bayliss Wagner/New York Times)

Joe Rogan Turns More Critical of Trump Ahead of 2026 Midterms (Ted Mann/Bloomberg)

Jen Psaki Warns of Authoritarianism, Compares Trump Admin to Serbia Government

Dear Leftists: Shut the Hell Up About Trump ‘Profiting’ From Politics (Stephen Kruiser/PJ Media)

Kimmel Conspiracy Theorizes About Votes Not Being Counted

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Elon Musk? (William Kristol/The Bulwark)  Kristol would put him in a camp.

Morning Joe Pushes Conspiracy That Elon Musk Has and Will Hack Elections

Senators Demand to Know if Dr. Oz Collaborated With Election Denial Groups (David Gilbert/Wired)

Here Are the U.S. Attorneys Who Are Carrying Out Trump’s Grievance Agenda (Devlin Barrett/New York Times)

Jared Kushner Got Secretary of State Fired After Dictator Paid Him Off (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)  Allegedly! That proves it!

Kamala Harris Warns Dems Against Trump Impeachment  Impeaching Trump: An idea so stupid that even Kamala Harris sees it.

The Founder of Arab Americans for Trump Has Some Regrets (Isaac Chotiner/New Yorker)

Trump could be a ‘super-lame duck’ if things go badly for the president on Election Day (Zack Stanton/MS NOW)

Trump is using tariffs as a ‘tool for grift,’ Raskin says in demand for donor records (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)

MS NOW, CNN and Politico amend lawsuit, seeking to restore access to Oval Office and Air Force One (Fallon Gallagher/MS NOW)

How Cleta Mitchell Turned Trump’s “Big Lie” Into a Movement (Doug Bock Clark/ProPublica)

Not the Bee.

Remember that cruise line that offered a 4-year escape package after Trump won the 2024 election?

They just dumped all their passengers in autocratic Cambodia and stranded them there.

Best laid plans of ‘they’ and ‘them’….

They did offer the passengers a parting gift to fuel their hatred of POTUS:

The cruise line blames Trump’s war in Iran for their closure.

Read it.

The New York Times reported Wednesday that operatives around Democrat Mary Peltola’s Senate campaign spent months looking for a second Dan Sullivan to put in Alaska’s race against Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, a plan the paper says worked. Peltola’s campaign denies recruiting anyone.

Newsbusters.

On Wednesday morning, The New York Times released a bombshell story admitting Alaska Democrats conspired with their Washington handlers to find a second Dan Sullivan to run for a Senate seat in hopes of confusing enough voters to back him and not incumbent Republican Dan S. Sullivan, which would throw the race to Democrat and former Congresswoman Mary Peltola.

Shamefully but unsurprisingly, CNN openly defended Alaska Democrats on Wednesday’s Inside Politics, repeatedly asserting “it’s not illegal” and “not new” for both parties to engage in “dirty tricks,” and that “the law is the law” that settles in the favor of Democrats.

The Foundry.

Legacy media have been sounding the alarm about deportations in Texas, but they are leaving out key details, painting law enforcement as criminals—and criminals as the victims.

One recent example is an investigative article on police in the small town of Ingram, Texas. The Ingram Police Department joined Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s 287(g) program in 2025, which offers funding in exchange for enforcing immigration law—a major boost for a department with just two officers.

The Texas Tribune profiled Officer Jaron Alexander, who made traffic stops that caught illegal aliens and sent them to federal authorities. As a police officer, he enforced the law. Within a year, he and the town’s only other officer referred a whopping 10% of the town’s population as illegal aliens. The worst thing the outlet dug up about Alexander was allegations of affairs, which he denied.

The real shocker is that illegal aliens allegedly make up at least 10% of Ingram’s population. In fact, Latinos make up 45% of the town’s population—to the point that some have begun calling it “mini Guanajuato,” after the central Mexican state from which many of them came. But this wasn’t the headline for The Texas Tribune. Its story line was that Alexander enforced the law. Since when is a police officer doing his job newsworthy? Many communities across Texas participate in the 287(g) program, including Tarrant County, home to Fort Worth. One wonders why left-wing media would pick on a small town like Ingram.

The Texas Tribune is the house organ for Woke Democrats in Texas.

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In the past five years the institutional discussions surrounding climate change have shifted noticeably from “net zero” goals (zero net carbon emissions from target countries) to a more mercenary debate over carbon taxation. The question on everyone’s mind is this: Who gets the most access to those delicious climate funds?

Who gets access to the cash is less important than who gets to manage the cash, but we’ll get to that issue in a moment.

The recent COP30 event held last week in Brazil was largely focused on wealth redistribution with a lesser emphasis on carbon reductions. Climate “financing” is the name of the game, and COP30 was largely a squabble over which countries will get the most access to the various carbon taxes and donations collected by global intermediaries. In fact, the conference was largely considered a failure.

Read it.

Leftist Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota should be investigating the claims of a sprawling welfare-fraud network tied to the state’s Somali community – schemes that reportedly funneled taxpayer dollars overseas, including at least one terrorist group. Instead, her office’s social media team attempted, one day before Thanksgiving, to launch a propaganda campaign on affordability on X that backfired spectacularly, culminating in a humiliating Community Note that exposed her sheer cluelessness.

Klobuchar’s X post attempted to blame the entire power bill crisis on President Trump, with a graphic showing a parabolic line rising to the right that would alarm anyone.

“Under President Trump, electricity prices are surging — up 11%! — leaving millions behind on their utility bills, with past-due balances at an all-time high,” Klobuchar wrote on X, adding, “American families deserve better.”

The Community Note read, “Joe Biden was President from January 20, 2021 – January 20, 2025. Also, this chart is not representing the cost of electricity. It is showing the average past-due balances of Americans, which soared since 2022 under Joe Biden’s presidency.”

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Certain myths survive from a period of trauma. They can be wholly incorrect and yet widely believed by nearly all living experts. The myth keeps moving from generation to generation and becomes doctrine, one which we dare not question for fear of contradicting the settled consensus. It so happens that “everyone knows” something that is entirely incorrect.

Not the Bee.

Reason 1,569,036 to never, ever, ever let Democrats be put in charge of anything (sorry, not sorry).

They’re literally taxing and regulating businesses out of the city while encouraging Antifa and BLM-style lawlessness on the streets.

Read it.

Asian-American students make up a record 43.2% of Harvard’s incoming freshman class, more than double their share when Students for Fair Admissions first sued the school alleging racial discrimination in admissions.

Perhaps the day will come when the Harvard student body consists of Asians and Jews rather than Brown People and Blue Haired White People.

I’m certainly looking forward to it.

Read it.

Take out a pencil, draw a line down the center of the page and on the left hand-column write out every individual, nation, organization, institution and political movement that is aligned with, and advanced the global warming/climate change agenda.

Then, on the right-hand column, write out every individual, nation, organization, institution and political movement that is aligned with, advances the interests of, and support for Ukraine.

Notice something in the commonality?

They are a perfect match.