DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

Not the Bee.

This is the most “Minnesota” thing that could ever happen.

On October 2, two people were shot outside of a homecoming game in a fancy Minnesota neighborhood, and it turned out to be Somali gang violence.

The man charged with pulling the trigger is already back on the streets!

Yeah, sounds like Minnesota to me.

Newsbusters.

Monday may have been a government holiday but breaking news revealed that investigator with the Department of Homeland Security were on the clock as they raided the D.C.-area residence of Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D). The late-hour reaction on CNN News Central was to clutch their pearls over the raid happening so close to the midterms, and to scoff at accusations that Omar might have committed marriage or immigration fraud by allegedly marrying her brother to get him in the country.

“Kate [Bolduan], we’re learning bits and pieces of what’s happening here,” announced crime and justice correspondent Katelyn Polantz. “But there is a search that was going on this morning or is going on still at the home of Ilhan Omar, the Democratic representative from Minnesota, who is also running again for Congress in the middle of this election season.”

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A man was shot and killed on a light-rail train in Minneapolis early in the morning on October 3. While rail officials were quick to call this “an anomaly,” in fact, there has been about one murder on board a Twin Cities light-rail train each year since the beginning of the pandemic.

Sacramento Bee, a Voice of the Crust.

Dave Regan, the hard-charging president of a healthcare union, wanted to raise $100 billion to address looming federal healthcare cuts. What about a one-time wealth tax on billionaires?

He doesn’t give a shit about health care, except insofar as it brings money to the members of his union. If he were the head of a pharmaceutical company, he’d be chased into the sea.

He’d come to the right group: a quartet of academics led by UC Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez. The French economist was an academic star who has spent years studying inequality and taxation.

More than a year later, the tax is on the ballot as Proposition 40. Regan, never a household name, has become less visible in the campaign after accusations of workplace misconduct that he’s strenuously denied.

That’s left Saez and three other drafters of the tax — University of Missouri law professor David Gamage, UC Berkeley law professor Brian Galle and UC Davis law professor Darien Shanske — as some of Prop. 40’s loudest defenders, cramming debates and editorial board meetings in between classroom responsibilities.

Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, ya know.

Outspent more than 5-to-1 by billionaire-backed critics, Saez says Prop. 40’s best argument is its simplest: it’s time to tax the rich. Saez’s research found California billionaires’ wealth is 25 times what it was in 1982. On the left, billionaires are regularly invoked as oligarchic overlords whose wealth and influence have helped erode the foundations of democracy.

Yeah, because everybody else is tapped out, and the politicians have to find new pockets to pick. Nobody is so invincibly ignorant as a proglodyte who is sure and certain that he knows how to spend your money better than you do.

The debate has at times gotten personal. Earlier this year, Gamage said a critic created a website that included photos of the academics as well as their contact information and social media accounts, resulting in a deluge of angry messages. It was later taken down.

Proglodytes hate being treated the way they treat their opponents EVERY DAY.

“These billionaires are not going anywhere; they’re just going to a different state, and my concern is that they’re bringing with themselves a lot of the jobs that could have been in California,” Moretti said. “It just strengthens the economy of red states and weakens the economy of the most progressive blue state.”

Gee, who could have predicted that?

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The exodus of the uber-rich from the UK has become a $160 billion problem. Bloomberg calculates that figure using data from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, revealing the scale of wealth behind those leaving Britain. It represents the total wealth of individuals tracked by the index who have loosened their ties with the UK – or cut them entirely — over the past two years. Armand Arton, CEO of Arton Capital, joins Bloomberg Radio’s Caroline Hepker and Tiwa Adebayo to discuss what’s driving wealthy individuals to reconsider where they live and invest.

ATQUE: Britain’s Great Wealth Dilemma.

Individuals behind a combined $160 billion are leaving London as UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham tries to balance tax fairness with the nation’s significant revenue needs. This billionaire exodus has raised questions about the city’s future status as a global wealth hub.

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A newly enacted law in California that requires virtually all employers to give employees “anti-hate speech” training is raising red flags, as experts say that the mandate could force churches to provide training that conflicts with sincerely held biblical beliefs regarding sexuality, gender, and marriage.

Late last month, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, signed into law AB 1803, a measure that requires all employers with five or more workers, including all churches and other nonprofit religious organizations, to provide employees with “anti-hate speech” instruction.

But as observers like the California Family Council (CFC) are pointing out, the legislation does not define “hate speech,” instead handing the job to the state’s Civil Rights Department. The bill mandates that the training must confront workplace speech that “vilifies, humiliates, or incites hatred” against individuals based on what the state has already deemed a protected characteristic, which includes sex, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation.

The CFC goes on to observe that the statute, which will go into effect on January 1, 2028, never mentions churches or religious nonprofits and their First Amendment rights to hold sincerely held religious beliefs about sexuality and gender. It also “fails to separate protected expression from unlawful conduct,” noting that the Supreme Court held in 2017 that “the First Amendment has no hate speech exception.”

Greg Burt, who serves as vice president of CFC, further pointed out the problems with AB 1803’s vague language regarding key terms that it says constitute “hate.”

“What does it mean to vilify? What speech actually humiliates?” he wondered during “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins” Tuesday. “[M]any times legislators consider many Christian beliefs when they’re expressed — especially regarding sexuality or gender — they accuse us of hating people. That’s [the] farthest thing from my mind. But we are simply advocating for our view that sex is determined by biology, and God created us both male and female. Well, to many people that is humiliating and that incites hatred. And so that’s the problem with this legislation.”

Burt went on to clarify that AB 1803 is being folded into a previously enacted statute that mandates sexual harassment training, which already specifies that using accurate biological pronouns constitutes “harassment.”

Navarro: Without Dem Congress, Trump Creates ‘Dante’s Circles of Hell’

CNN’s Cornish Knocks Hegseth for Not Joining the Hasan Firing Squad

The possibility that Trump will cost the GOP the Senate is coming into focus (Aaron Blake/CNN)  Pushing the Narrative for the mid-terms.

Bracing for the midterms, Trump says he will be blamed if Republicans lose (Peter Nicholas/NBC News)  Certainly by the Narrative Media.

Voters are connecting the dots — and it’s bad news for Republicans (CNN)  Pushing the Narrative for the mid-terms.

Republicans face midterm backlash from factory workers squeezed out of jobs by Trump’s tariffs (Bernard Condon/Associated Press)

“Trump doesn’t rate anymore”: Is Fox News giving up on Trump as an entertainer?

Abdul El-Sayed says Democrats must ‘win by massive numbers’ to fend off GOP election denial (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News)  Meaning they need to steal enough to swamp the legitimate vote.

Welcome to the ‘Neporuption’ — The fathers wield the power. The sons cash in. (Amanda Carpenter/The Bulwark) Oh, you mean the way Bill Kirstol, founder of the Bullshitwark, cashed in on the reputation of his father Irving Kristol?

New White House press secretary is a Pizzagate conspiracy theorist (Judd Legum/Popular Information)  Scraaaaaaape that barrel….

PBS Slimes Elon Musk and His ‘Darkest Hard-Right Policy Prescriptions’

More School Cafeterias Are Getting A MAHA Makeover

Sen. Thom Tillis says he believes Trump’s fuel deal with Russia could be breaking the law (Megan Brand/NBC News)

Tillis says Trump’s Russian diesel deal may be illegal (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)

Trump is failing to arrest decline in popularity, FT poll shows (Ian Hodgson/Financial Times)  A poll! That proves it!

Trump Is an Easy Mark for Putin (David Frum/The Atlantic)  Says the guy who started out working at National Review and then was drawn to the sound of the cash register.

Robb Report.

Elon Musk is not a funny man. Well, not the sort of funny that makes you laugh until your ribs ache. Forward-thinking people in the U.S. and beyond initially embraced Tesla for its all-electric foresight, and techy types recognized the genius of its software integration. But did anyone notice the company’s tongue-in-cheek naming strategy? There was the Model S, followed eventually by the 3, X, and Y. Arrange them in Musk’s preferred order and you get S-3-X-Y. See what he did there? Never mind the pesky numeral—or, for that matter, the actual order in which the cars arrived. Musk isn’t the sort of guy who’s lets a minor linguistic or chronological irritation get in the way of a grand plan. The aberrant digit only crept in because Ford owned the rights to Model E and wasn’t interested in selling. Still, 3 works, right… ?

It’s conceivable that all the great automotive names have been taken. Let’s hope not, but inspiration is increasingly difficult to come by. I was in the room—the Sky Lounge of San Francisco’s Transamerica Pyramid, in fact—when Ferrari executive chairman John Elkann revealed that the company’s first electric car would be called Luce. In Italian, it means “light,” as in “seeing the light,” rather than the opposite of heavy. Quite clever, really, although English speakers invariably pronounce it “Lucy” when, in fact, it’s “LU-chay.” Judging by the online reaction to the car’s launch, pronunciation issues are the least of its challenges. Turns out Ferrari’s ardent fan base is curiously conservative. Still, I admire the bravery.

I like the name ‘Bumbershoot’. I would buy such a car.

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Fools. I doubt that one of them know as much about Shari’a as they know about breakfast cereal.

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ODF. Vote for Democrats, get more crime. Always happens.

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We don’t have the technology … yet….

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Claudius had native informants, a practising priesthood, imperial money and a library at Alexandria endowed to read his Etruscan history aloud once a year, forever. Not one sentence of it survives.

Discretionary Review.

It is January 2015. San Francisco is short of housing in the middle of a tech boom, and most of its land has a 40-foot height limit. You are a developer with investors, three project teams and a list of parking lots.

Pick a site, draw up a proposal, and shepherd it through pre-application meetings, environmental review, the Planning Commission, appeals to the Board of Supervisors, lawsuits, and the permit counter.

Then find out whether it still pencils.

The rules change as the years pass, on the same dates they changed in real life. So do interest rates.

Your investors review you every two years. The bar under the clock shows what they want and whether you are on track. Miss three reviews and they take the fund somewhere easier. Run out of cash and the lenders take everything.

Survive to January 2031, when the state’s deadline for 82,069 new homes arrives, and build as many as you can.
Every site on the map is a real fight. When you finish one, the game tells you what really happened there.

Looking for a housing crisis? Look no further than your city / state / national government.

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In the middle of a conversation about her future children, it dawned on Leah Robbins that the school she imagined for them did not exist.

Robbins envisioned a Jewish school where children studied Jewish texts, history and observance, as she did at the school run out of her Conservative synagogue in northern Florida. But having long ago rejected the allegiance to Israel that was entwined with her education, she could not fathom sending her children to a school that promoted Zionism — which ruled out all the Jewish day schools she knew.

“I was just overwhelmed with a sense of grief that my kids could be less Jewishly educated than I was,” Robbins, who has lived in Boston for 10 years, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “I would never ever consider sending my kids to any of the local day schools because of total values misalignment.”

Four years after that conversation, Robbins is building her own institution for the children she hopes to have. She plans to open Achvat Olam, a “diasporist” day school whose name translates to “global solidarity” in Hebrew, in the Boston area in fall 2029. The school aims to launch with eight to 10 families, starting with a kindergarten and adding grade levels until ultimately becoming a K-8 school.

Newsbusters.

The American left always congratulates itself as “First Amendment advocates,” even as they campaign to shut conservatives up. The foundation of Harper’s magazine announced they are giving their 2026 “First Amendment Award” to NPR CEO Katherine Maher. She runs a network that won’t give conservatives a right to speak on their formerly taxpayer-funded airwaves.

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As usual, “journalism’s essential role” is to make society as “progressive” as possible. Harper’s has no embarrassment about the Maher’s notoriously censorious pre-NPR views on freedom of speech, as she proclaimed in a 2021 TED Talk when she was CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation that the internet needed to be stopped from amplifying “bad information.”

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A Washington state high school wrestler, Kallie Keeler, asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 5 for an emergency order letting her wrestle on the girls’ team without facing male athletes, after she was allegedly sexually assaulted by one during a match. She argues the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association violated Title IX by allowing male athletes in girls’ sports, and wants her mother notified of any male opponent.

Avoid Washington state.

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The Evans family threw a Halloween party every year in their backyard on Linden Avenue. Neighbor Jeannine Fisher told WPXI, the local NBC affiliate, that she remembers “tons of people and kids” there. She also remembers the first time she met Idris Evans: He helped carry her groceries from down the street to her house.

It’s the kind of street where that still happens. It’s also the kind of street where people don’t think much about whether the kitchen window is open on a warm September night.

Just after midnight on Sept. 24, police say someone came through that window.

Evans, 46, and his wife, Gina, woke up in their third-floor bedroom to find a man in his underwear attacking them with a kitchen knife. Gina Evans later told police, according to the criminal complaint, that the man was “psychotic” and kept talking about God and being God. She yelled for their boys, 8 and 12, to run to a neighbor’s house, and they did. Then, badly wounded, she ran to another neighbor’s house herself.

Her husband died in the hospital. He was a pediatric critical care physician at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, co-medical director of its pediatric transport team, and an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Police found the suspect hiding in neighbor Sandra Trappen’s garden, bleeding from deep cuts on his hands.

His name is Elijah Hemingway. He is 32 and from Pittsburgh’s Hazelwood neighborhood. He is charged with criminal homicide, attempted homicide, burglary and aggravated assault. He is presumed innocent.

What has unsettled people well beyond this block is what came out over the next 72 hours. Hemingway had been arrested in Allegheny County in July on a felony burglary charge and released without posting a dime. He had spent most of 2025 in a Florida jail and a court-ordered mental-health commitment after allegedly beating a girlfriend and fighting sheriff’s deputies. And on Saturday, county police charged him with raping a woman on a footpath in Wilkinsburg, a working-class borough bordering Pittsburgh, about 14 hours before the Evans family was attacked.

Here is what the record shows about how Hemingway ended up on the street.

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Pro-terrorist activist Mahmoud Khalil was asked by CNN the other day if he would condemn Hamas. He, of course, would not, calling the question “silly” and “disingenuous.” It is not “black and white,” he whined.

Even if you oppose Israel’s reaction to the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, the answer is still black and white for any person with a conscience. Certainly, it should be for any person who wants to become a naturalized citizen of the United States. After all, Hamas is designated by the State Department as a terrorist organization for, among other things, murdering Americans.

But the fact that Khalil can’t condemn Hamas—and anyone paying attention understands that he supports the terrorist army—not only tells us that he deserves to be deported but also that it’s imperative we deport him.

The Telegraph (UK).

Sweden was predicted to become entirely cashless by 2030.

As the country developed its own mobile payment system, called Swish, banks slowly stopped handling cash, and tills disappeared from shops.

With cash circulation the lowest as a share of GDP in the world, Swedish progress was lauded, and observers wondered how it had forged so far ahead of the rest of Europe so quickly.

Note the assumption that becoming a ‘cashless society’ represents progress, and that such progress is an unqualified good.

It all changed when Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine.

Realising that reliance on an electronic payment system left Sweden vulnerable to blackouts or sabotage, the Riksbank – Sweden’s central bank – urged civilians to keep 1,000 Swedish kronor (£80) per adult at home.

The government issued a brochure entitled “If Crisis or War Comes” to every household, advising Swedes to use cash regularly to “strengthen preparedness”.

A stark lesson in the universal law: Not every new idea is a good one, and not every good idea is a new one.

The Telegraph (UK).

Andy Burnham is rushing through laws to scrap photo ID checks in polling stations amid mounting speculation he will call an early general election, The Telegraph can reveal.

The Prime Minister has been accused of “ramming through” the controversial changes, which mean people will be allowed to vote with only a bank card as identification.

The Prime Minister has been accused of “ramming through” the controversial changes, which mean people will be allowed to vote with only a bank card as identification.

But the new proposals, drafted in the Representation of the People Bill, intend to expand the type of eligible ID to include bank cards with no photograph of its owners. The Electoral Commission has raised concerns about the plan.

The Left loves cheating in elections, and eliminating effective safeguards against cheating is always their program.

The bill also includes a crackdown on political donations – which has raised suspicions Labour wants to outlaw two donations Reform received from crypto billionaires – and the introduction of votes at the age of 16. It is expected to enter committee stage in the Lords in the coming weeks.

They want electors to be poor and unintelligent. Ponder why that is.

The Telegraph (UK).

A man killed by a tiger appeared to “dance” while listening to music before jumping into the animal’s enclosure, a witness claimed.

In footage of the incident shared online, the man was heard crying “no, no” during the fatal attack and screaming “stop” as he pointed his finger at the animal.

Obviously a progressive.

Visitors also heard gunshots fired and shouting at the animal in an apparent attempt to distract it.

Yup, definitely a progressive.

Think of it as evolution in action.

Rollo Tomassi.

All politics are gender politics. Since the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, female emotionalism has defined US social, legal, and international policy. Women are the largest sex-based voting group in the United States, both in number of ballots cast and in turnout rate. In the 2024 presidential election, about 91.3 million women voted versus 82.6 million men, and women’s turnout was 66.9%, compared with 63.7% for men.

But Woke progressives don’t hold power in presidential elections. They win in the midterms. Each midterm is an effort to emotionally agitate women into going to the polls to decide “the most important vote of our lives” at the midpoint of every presidential cycle. It makes no difference whether the President is on Team Woman. The narrative is always rooted in the fear of men (always white men) killing, raping, controlling, or oppressing women.

In 2014, the midterm fem-rage was inspired by the 7 fraternity brothers at UVA who were falsely accused of a brutal gang rape of “Jackie,” written by feminist Sabrina Erdley and published in Rolling Stone Magazine. The story was later proven to be a hoax Erdley deliberately fabricated, and Rolling Stone was held liable for $4.5M. But the story’s similarities and timing eerily match the Cornell 7 story that will be in the news until the November 3rd elections.

Hegseth Wants Americans to Watch Executions Like Those in Iran and North Korea (Brett Meiselas/MeidasTouch) Shooting one Muslim mass murderer is not ‘like those in Iran and North Korea’. The inability to grasp that essential distinction is why proglodytes are accurately considered idiots. (Why not make it pay-per-view, with the money going to the victims’ families?) (Elitist Media Find Real Scandal is Not Nidal Hasan’s Jihad but His Livestreamed Execution)

The Dumocrats Are Coming for Trump, and All He Can Do Is Call Them Names (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)  Gee, it seems as if all the Narrative Media can do is call him names, too.

Trump online: A burst of anti-Somali and anti-Muslim rhetoric (Kanishka Singh/Reuters) And rightly so.

Lawrence O’Donnell Proclaims Trump’s Stories Prove His ‘Mind Is Crumbling’  On the contrary, I suggest that O’Donnell’s stories prove that his mind is crumbling.

Northern Virginia county sues to block Trump from building his arch (Washington Post)  SUE! SUE! IT’S WHAT WE DO!

ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests (Wired)  Alleged! That proves it!

How Trump’s Revenge Campaign Descended Into Turmoil (New York Times)  Pushing the Narrative for the mid-terms.

Trump’s meme coin grift hits a new low (Lisa Needham/Public Notice)  Bias? What bias?

Even some Republicans want this watchdog agency to sue Trump (Jennifer Scholtes/Politico)  Play Spot The RINO!

Even Trump voters think Republicans should split from the president to win (Myah Ward/Politico)  Pushing the Narrative for the mid-terms.

Tech industry warns Trump’s visa crackdown risks driving talent abroad (Katherine Long/Politico) Really? How? Unless they’re talking about the ‘talent’ that’s coming from South Asia and taking jobs Americans could fill.

“Not a fetish, not a taboo”: Democrats weigh another Trump impeachment (Axios)  Sounds like a fetish to me.

How Texas landowners are fighting back against Trump’s border wall (Rebecca Santana/Associated Press)  It’s not Trump’s border wall, it’s the country’s border wall.

Dems Have A ‘Once In A Generation’ Opportunity To Hasten The Fall Of Trumpism (Kevin Robillard/HuffPost)  There is, of course, no such thing as ‘Trumpism’, except in the fever dreams of the left.

‘Blah Blah Blah’: Kimmel Dismisses The Truth Behind Trump’s Iran-L.A. Remarks

The media lied to you, again. Trump did not say Iran should ‘take out’ Los Angeles and San Diego (Peter Cordi/Washington Examiner)

And the Nobel Peace Prize Goes to … the Opposite of Trump (Andreas Kluth/Bloomberg)  Yeah, pretty much.

New Trump rules will make it harder for farmers to access US funds for energy projects (Reuters)  ‘Energy projects’ pushed by proglodytes. That’s a feature, not a bug.

Trump approval sinks to 30 percent in new survey (Mira Bhakta/The Hill)  The pretense that a Narrative Media survey is worth a shit is growing increasingly threadbare.

Trump Didn’t Politicize The Smithsonian; He’s Responding To Those Who Did…

ABC News Deletes ‘Biased Hit Piece’ on Trump Sons’ Business and the Pentagon

Fauci Diary Exposes Anti-Trump Rants, Praise for China

If Dems Win, Inscribe This Chart on Trump-MAGA’s Political Gravestone (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

Whistleblower: N.Y. AG James Pushed Staff to Extend Trump Probe

Elitist Media Wish Death on Trump, Predict He Will Cause the Apocalypse

For Trump, a Firing Squad on Livestream Becomes the Latest Spectacle (Peter Baker/New York Times) As compared to the livesreamed racial and political rioting that the Democrats hold every week?

Trump asks Supreme Court to revive his 2016 election lawsuit against Hillary Clinton (John Fritze/CNN)

The Deleted Tweets of the New White House Press Secretary (Brendan Hartnett/The Bulwark)  The Mean Girls at the Bullshitwark are on the case!

The Trump Censorship Industrial Complex is real. This ABC lawyer just admitted it. (Anthony L. Fisher/MS NOW)  A case of mote and beam.

‘Ship has sailed’: New poll shows even an end to the war or lower gas prices may not save Republicans (Politico)  A poll! That proves it! (The big unknown behind Democrats’ polling leads (Axios)

Democrats explode over Trump’s Russia diesel deal (Sarah Davis/The Hill)  Oy, what a mess….

Frank Rich Fantasizes Vengeance Porn on Trump ‘Collaborators’  More violence from the TDS crowd.

Trump’s DOJ Is Hiring Only the Best MAGA Wing Nuts (Jason Linkins/New Republic)

GET LOST! CNN Turns ‘Billionaire’ Trump Wearing ‘Cheap Suit’ Into Phony Scandal

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Federal and Louisiana state authorities dismantled a network of Hamas financiers in late September who were accused of committing fraud against the state’s Medicaid program totaling more than $224,000 between 2021 and 2025.

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced the arrests Wednesday of Abdel Adhami, Iman H. D. Srour, Omar Adhami, Amani Abu Zenah, and Mohammad I. Adhami, residents of St. Tammany Parish. The suspects face state felony charges of government benefits fraud and theft for allegedly underreporting their income between 2021 and 2025 to receive taxpayer-funded benefits.

“While terrorist sympathizers were funding the death of American citizens and countless others across the world, the hard-working men and women of Louisiana were funding their medical care. No matter where you are or who you are, if you steal from the people of Louisiana, you will face Louisiana justice,” Murrill said in a statement shared with the Daily Signal.

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Modern visions for the future of human-computer interaction are excessively focused on smart glasses and headsets – devices that are constraining & socially awkward.

This project explores an alternative direction – a speculative device called the Lightbulb Computer that uses modern projector technology & computer vision advancements to blend ambient computation & spatial information display in everyday spaces.

I wouldn’t mind having one of these.

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On October 8, 2026, Vice President JD Vance and Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling announced that the Department of Labor will not accept any new PERM applications (Permanent Labor Certification) or process any pending applications involving a list of prominent tech firms. The action is being enforced amid ongoing federal investigations into alleged abuse of employment-based immigration programs.

This decision elicited outrage from a myriad of Democrats, but the group most flustered by the situation is undoubtedly Indian migrant workers and representatives. India is by far the greatest beneficiary of America’s H-1B migrant worker program, and it’s not even close.

Over the past ten years alone, over 8.7 million H-1B visas have been given to Indian nationals. Roughly 70% of all H-1B approvals every year go to Indians.

I retired from building data warehouses in 2016. Every manager I had for the last ten years before retirement was Indian or Pakistani.

There are a number of reasons why this level of targeted immigration is a problem. The first reason is that these visas are often exploited as a stepping stone to gain a green card and permanent residency in the US.

H-1B visas are supposed to last for only a few years at most, but migrant workers can remain in the US for far longer. This is done through the PERM certification process, which allows employers to sponsor migrant workers for a green card, which can then be used to gain full citizenship after a few years. Trump’s suspension of PERM extends to a number of major tech firms including: Microsoft, Adobe, and Capgemini, along with Indian companies like Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys, Wipro, HCLTech, and Cognizant.

The tech industry has been used as a pipeline for third world immigration for decades – Corporations have systematically eliminated hundreds of thousands of American jobs in favor of migrant workers because these workers take 17% to 40% less pay to fill certain rolls.

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An anti-corruption group has filed a bar complaint demanding New York Attorney General Letitia James exit the “Cornell 7” case over a post she wrote before becoming special prosecutor, the New York Post reported.

The nine-page complaint went to the Attorney Grievance Committee, the state court system’s lawyer-discipline panel, the Post reported.

Its author, the National Legal and Policy Center, is a Falls Church, Virginia, group that says it works to expose corruption in government and business.

The complaint argues James compromised herself by publicly siding with Jane Doe, the pseudonym of a former Cornell University student who says seven members of the school’s Chi Phi fraternity, since dubbed the “Cornell 7,” drugged and gang-raped her in October 2024.

Judging by the published texts I’ve seen from the ‘victim’ to the ‘perpetrators’, I think ‘Jane Doe’ is going to have an uphill climb….

Babylon Bee.

Shake it, shake it!

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I made a game where you try to build some. every site is a real project and every law is real. See how far you get.”

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In a college psychology course, my class studied an experiment.

This is an oversimplification, but experiment went as follows. A group of college students were shown a paper on which a 6-inch line was drawn. The paper was passed to the students sitting around table. They were asked to estimate the length of the line. Now, this experiment was rigged. The instructor, and all but one of the students, were told to say, “About 3 inches.” Again, the line was clearly longer than 3 inches.

The point was to determine whether these obviously wrong guesses would cause the unsuspecting student — the one not in on the scheme and the last one at the table to offer a guess—to also say, “About 3 inches.” In the overwhelming majority of cases, the unsuspecting students also said, “About 3 inches.”

Now there are a few ways to look at this. But one explanation is that the consensus, though clearly wrong, altered the way the final student viewed the length of the line, as in, “If everybody sees it that way, I must be wrong.”

How much of current pessimism about the economy is driven by what the media tells us about the economy and how we should feel about it?

Josh Pray.

Can’t say he’s wrong.

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The Protestant Anglican Communion has witnessed the largest schism in its near five hundred-year history after a body representing between one half and 85% of its total members has broken with the Church of England.

On October 15, the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (GAFCON) announced that it has severed ties with the Archbishop of Canterbury and formed a new “Global Anglican Communion”. The decision, GAFCON said, was necessary after the Church of England “abandoned the Scriptures” through its endorsement of same-sex blessings and theological revisionism—an accusation marking the most serious rupture in Anglican unity in a century.

The announcement followed days of escalating controversy surrounding the October 3 appointment of Dame Sarah Mullally as Archbishop of Canterbury. Her elevation to the post—the first woman to hold it—antagonised conservative Anglicans who reject the possibility of women’s ordination and episcopal leadership. The move provoked condemnation from clerics such as Archbishop Henry Ndukuba, primate of the (Anglican) Church of Nigeria, which counts some 18 million members.

Ndukuba described the appointment as “devastating,” warning that it ignored the convictions of the majority of Anglicans who reject female episcopal leadership and same-sex marriage. He called Mullally’s selection “a double jeopardy” owing to her promotion of LGBT-friendly initiatives and female leadership as evidence of the Church of England’s “embrace of moral error.” N

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Plausible meeting audio: workplace self-defence against people stealing your time. Pick a meeting, press play, and let the background noise do the talking.

I’d like one that has a jungle firefight going on in the background.

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Hours after Zelensky accused Washington of using Ukraine’s negotiators as a “smokescreen” for a backroom deal with Moscow, Axios reported that Trump decided to let Russia sell diesel after Zelensky ignored half a dozen US requests to stop attacking Russian oil refineries. The alleged source was a US official with direct knowledge, who did not hold back:

“Zelensky is misreading the room. By continuing to hit refineries, he is eroding the good will that he has built with Trump over the last six months.”In other words, the sanctions waiver was as much a message to Kyiv as a gift to Moscow. So how did we get to this latest geopolitical twist, what is Trump actually got for lifting sanctions (spoiler: less than nine days of fuel), and why is the deal is on a collision course with the one Ukrainian policy Kyiv says it won’t give up. Let’s dig in.

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Aren’t you glad you don’t live in Europe?

In evolutionary biology this is called ‘mate choice copying’ and it has been monetized by Michael Sartain for his Men of Action program.

The last woman who hit on me while I was wearing a wedding ring was my wife. Can’t say it doesn’t work.

Not the Bee.

Wow, who could have seen that coming?

I fail to see why progs call Trump a misogynist—he’s employed more hot women than any Democrat administration in this century.

For all you traditionalists out there, she apparently has four kids.

Babylon Bee.

It’s not as easy as it looks.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Men all want Barbie.

Women all want the stuff that comes with Ken.

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Harden uses this autobiographical episode as a springboard into deeper philosophical questions about what it means to be responsible in an era when science can predict who is more likely to commit a crime based purely on their DNA. She ponders whether we should take people’s genetics into account when deciding “whether and how they should be punished for the sins they commit.” She asks, “Does science let us off the hook … or is science, in the end, as accusatory as a bad acid trip…?” Importantly, she tackles these questions about causation and responsibility as someone who was “raised religious and fled the church as an adult,” addressing her book to “modern, enlightened” readers like herself who “don’t believe in God anymore.”

Harden made a first attempt to grapple with these questions in her previous book, The Genetic Lottery, in which she sought to put a progressive spin on the finding that current social inequalities are partly due to genetic differences between people. Unfortunately, both of Harden’s books fail to confront the hard choices that a naturalistic worldview presents us with, though each fails to meet this challenge in a different way. The naturalistic worldview implies that all human behaviour has non-supernatural causes of one kind or another. Insofar as that view is accepted, there are only two possibilities: either moral responsibility is compatible with the comprehensive causation of human behaviour or moral responsibility cannot exist. We might call this the “determinist’s dilemma.”

It doesn’t matter whether our genes determine our behavior: The body, like an economy, is a system so complex that it is effectively unpredictable, and therefore the results are exactly the same as if we had free will. Do some reading on chaos theory and it will open your eyes. (Or just go watch the first 15 minutes of Jurassic Park.)

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In Muslim countries (and in some infidel countries that habitually appease their Muslim minorities), every day, five times a day, a muezzin ululates the adhan, the Islamic call to prayer, from a minaret. The call includes La illaha ila Allah, wa Muhammadun rasul Allah(“There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah”), which is the basic short form of the shahada, the Islamic declaration of faith. It also includes the well-known proclamation Allahu akhbar (“Allah is greater”), known in Arabic as the takbir.

Both of those assertions of faith have recently been heard in Christian churches in German-speaking parts of Europe. Last November an imam was invited to yodel the adhan in a church in Baden-Württemberg. Earlier this week a group of “teenagers” invited themselves into a church in Vienna to shout out the takbir while a priest was saying mass.

In either case, whether the adhan and the takbir were invited or uninvited, once they have been uttered inside a church, that church has become a mosque. The same process took place — albeit after violent conquests — at the Mezquita (formerly the Cathedral) in Cordoba, and at the Cathedral of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, which became the Grand Mosque of Istanbul. These church-to-mosque conversions in 21st-century Europe are occurring without bloodshed, because the formerly Christian infidels of Europe are such gullible fools.

Once the shahada has been publicly declared inside a structure, and Muslims have prayed there, the property becomes waqf, a charitable endowment that is owned by the whole of Islam. Its status as such is granted in perpetuity, and cannot be revoked. This is the way Muslims understand the situation, even if their foolish Western infidel patsies have no idea what has happened. This is also why the Iberian Peninsula is viewed as the lost Islamic territory of Al-Andalus. Muslims consider it to have been usurped by the filthy kuffar, and it must be reclaimed by the faithful using any means necessary.

Such is the background of this week’s incident in the church in Vienna. As it happens, it is also the background of the current invasion of Ceuta.

The Foundry.’

Sounds like a no-brainer to me.

“DEI training actively undermines workplace harmony, and it causes hostility, distrust, and division,” the amicus brief, exclusively obtained by the Daily Signal, states.

Young’s “complaint identifies myriad examples of how the [Department of Corrections’] training program endorsed treating and viewing Caucasians worse than other races,” the amicus brief notes.

According to Young’s lawsuit, “the training insisted, among other things, that all Caucasians are racist, that they perpetuate white supremacy, that the very notion of race was invented by white people to justify the oppression of people of color, that white supremacy is an ever-present feature of daily life in the United States, and that Caucasians who deny their own racism are merely ‘fragile’ racists who cannot accept their own prejudice.”

However, Young claimed the training’s effects reverberated afterward, shaping how the prison operated and leading him to conclude that he could not advance in the department.

New York Post.

The Dominican Republic native shot by ICE agents in The Bronx was a migrant with an alarming rap sheet — who apparently benefited from New York’s lax bail and sanctuary laws, allowing him to remain on the streets, according to sources and court records.

Oscar Belgal, 28, is believed to have entered the US illegally around 2022, robbed someone at gunpoint in Fordham Heights a year later, allegedly sold dangerous drugs within months of his conviction in 2025 and was even allegedly connected to a violent street gang.

None of that stopped Mayor Zohran Mamdani from referring to Belgal as “a New Yorker” in a raging tribute Thursday against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement — a label some Bronx locals took offense to.

Why is anybody surprised by this? To Democrats and other socialists, once you set foot in a place you become a native of that place, as much as anybody born there or whose family has been there for a hundred years. The poster child for this mental illness is Britain, where people who originate in Africa and Asia are claiming to be ‘English’, in which claim they are supported by the ruling class.

Fortune, a Voice of the Crust.

Which is what it is intended to do. Duh. Democrat hunger to spend other people’s money is insatiable.

California’s revenue is notoriously top heavy, leaving state coffers vulnerable to boom-and-bust cycles as the wealthiest residents see their incomes rise and fall with the stock market.

In recent years, the top 1% of California households have accounted for about 40% to 50% of all personal income tax revenue, according to the conservative Hoover Institution.

In fact, the top 1% paid more than $60 billion in California personal income taxes in 2021, when the stock market soared. The flip side is that the state suffers crippling deficits when the market tanks, as during the Global Financial Crisis.