DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

Not the Bee.

Quillette.

Ancient DNA has given historians a new archive, and in two decades it has settled long-running arguments about who migrated, who conquered, and who replaced whom.

Gallup.

Five measures of trust in the federal government are at low points in Gallup’s trends. One-third or less of U.S. adults have a great deal or fair amount of trust in the executive (33%) and legislative branches (28%) and the federal government’s ability to handle both international and domestic problems (both at 33%). More, 46%, trust the judicial branch, but its trust has never been lower than now.

Gee, I wonder why.

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To indoctrinate Leftists, of course. Ask me a hard one.

Not the Bee.

Well, AsphaltGrowthGuy, that’s because you don’t just import taxpayers when you import foreigners to prop up your economy.

You import their gods too, as the lakes and rivers of Canada are learning.

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Ironically, after Canada tossed out Jesus Christ in favor of secular pluralism, it led straight back to the demon gods of the pagans, and the top leaders of the country now offer good wishes of a bountiful harvest from Baal and his consort.

He’d better watch out for Muslims. They are ordered to kill polytheists.

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Days after federal agents stopped an 18-year-old of Somali descent from buying an AK-47 to kill dozens at the Mall of America in an ISIS-inspired plot, another 18-year-old Somali is free after police say he opened fire outside a high school homecoming game.

Investigators linked the Eden Prairie shooting to rival Somali gangs. The accused spent just two nights in jail before posting a $100,000 bond with $10,000 cash down. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty had said he would be held accountable.

Sure, I believe that.

Newsbusters.

As they do.

Whether you call it the Department of War or still prefer to call it the Department of Defense, the military has used the same eagle logo since 1949, but NBC’s Saturday Night Live landed firmly in the realm of fake news on Saturday as it alleged Secretary Pete Hegseth’s design has “a Nazi vibe.”

During the cold open, Colin just portrayed Hegseth addressing sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln, “I also unveiled the new logo for the Department of War. Yeah, pretty sick, right? Check that out. Huh? Yeah.”

In real life, the “controversy” over the logo occurred because of a speech Hegseth gave at the Air Force Academy, during which Andrew Dismukes played a sailor who asked, “Sorry, is that a Nazi eagle?”

The new logo is different in some respects, but the eagle clutching three arrows is the same that has been in place since 1949. The DOW/DOD eagle is also strikingly similar to the eagle that officers at the O-6 paygrade wear. It is, simply put, not a Nazi logo.

The Foundry.

A recent documentary by former Virginia congressman Nick Freitas titled “The Immigration Crisis That Will Destroy the West” warns viewers about the risks created by the Islamification of Western civilization.

The film focuses primarily on the negative impacts of cultural norms related to the treatment of women and girls, with a reviewer noting allegations of “a significant problem of organized, industrial-scale rapes being conducted by mostly Muslim men” in the UK.

Relatedly, another recent column noted that “seven of the top 10 countries with the highest prevalence of child marriage have a Muslim-majority,” and went on to ask: “Why does Islam appear so frequently in discussions surrounding religious persecution, terrorism, and certain forms of sexual violence?” Similar concerns have also been raised about the cultural roots of rampant fraud we’ve seen in places like Minneapolis.

And even more recent fiery riots in France have left some “pointing to second and third-generation immigrant youths–many from Muslim North African and sub-Saharan backgrounds–as the core of the violence.”

Perhaps pulling all the foregoing together, Douglas Murray argues that “the West remain[s] at war with Islamic radicals.”

Importantly, while conservatives cherish individual liberty and religious freedom, those commitments are perverted when it is claimed that only a nihilistic multiculturalism properly embodies those values.

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A 14-year-old pupil walked into a middle school near Marseille Monday morning with a hunting shotgun hidden inside a guitar case and opened fire, wounding the principal and a teacher.

Both suffered non-life-threatening injuries to the lower body. Staff overpowered the shooter before police arrived. Education Minister Édouard Geffray stated on social media: “Two staff members from the National Education system, a principal and a teacher, were victims this morning of gunshot wounds at Lakanal middle school in Aubagne. A student is said to be the perpetrator.”

He added that the act was “yet further evidence of the rise of unchecked violence in our society.”

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The Antiplanner.

A recent Gallup poll found that 43 percent of Americans have a positive view of socialism, the highest share since the polling firm began asking the question in 2010. The greatest support, 57 percent, comes from people under age 35 who weren’t yet born when the fall of the Soviet Union uncovered how socialism treated the people of Russia and eastern Europe.

Decades of propaganda about how well socialism was working were swept away with the collapse of the soviet government revealing instead industries that made bad products in response to perverse incentives; grocery stores with only a handful of consumer goods on their shelves; and elite bureaucrats, or nomenklatura, who controlled the system for their own benefit.

We don’t have to look overseas to learn how poorly socialism works. The United States has its own experiment in pure socialism: the urban transit industry. This $100 billion a year industry produces about $10 billion in annual benefits to consumers (as measured by the amounts they were willing to pay in transit fares) and $90 billion in annual costs to taxpayers that end up in the pockets of agency bureaucrats, employees, and contractors.

 

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Nearly 80% of Arizona voters have an unfavorable opinion of public education in their state, one of the few areas of agreement between Republicans and Democrats in the weeks leading to Election Day.

The League of American Workers shared the polling data exclusively with the Daily Signal.

Only one-quarter of Arizona eighth graders are proficient in reading, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

With taxpayers footing the bill for public education, including through property taxes, 51.3% of survey respondents said Arizonans are getting a very poor return on their investment. Another 27.1% said it was a somewhat poor return.

Just 14.5% considered public education to be providing a good return for their spending, while 7.2% were unsure.

Majorities of conservatives, liberals, and moderates say they’re getting a poor return on public education spending, including 67.2% of Democrats.

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It seems that the European Parliament has finally decided to “fight” the Muslim Brotherhood. Now that the horse has long since been stolen, the EU wants to close the barn door!

I can’t tell you how excited that makes me.

Perhaps coincidentally, the news from Strasbourg comes at the same time as news that Abdul El-Sayed has been revealed as a Muslim Brotherhood operative. For our non-American readers, Mr. El-Sayed is the far-left (Democrat) candidate for the Senate to represent Michigan in next month’s election. As The Washington Free Beacon reported, Mr. El-Sayed recently denied in an interview (twice) that he was in any way involved with the Ikhwan, but its reporter discovered posts by his sister from social media in 2012 and 2013 where she had said that he and the whole family were affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.

I don’t know how one can reconcile those two contradictory statements. After all, everyone knows that devout Muslims always tell the truth when speaking to infidels.

It may be too little, too late, but the EP is finally attempting to deal with the “Islamist” Ikhwan problem.

Josh Pray.

October belongs to white women, and I’ve got five examples of why.

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White women have single-handedly kept the pumpkin industry alive on they own.

Financial Times, a Voice of the Crust.

Dutch dairy co-operative FrieslandCampina, for example, no longer sells whey proteins for animal feed. Instead, it intends to turn more of the whey left over from cheesemaking into concentrated proteins for human nutrition.

For centuries whey has been seen as a byproduct of cheesemaking and used for fertiliser or animal feed. Now, says Guus Aerts, the co-op’s global director of marketing and product strategy, “to some extent, cheese has already become a byproduct of whey.”

This turnaround reflects a protein boom that is reshaping the food industry. From dairy co-operatives to meat processors, companies are extracting more valuable ingredients from materials they once sold cheaply, while food manufacturers compete to secure supplies. The appetite for protein is driving billions in factory investments and acquisitions.

“Protein is increasingly [dictating] what food companies produce, where they invest capital, and how they differentiate and grow,” says Brian Earnest, lead animal protein economist at agribusiness lender CoBank.

Stanford.

In a Stanford Medicine-led clinical trial of a wireless retinal prosthesis, people with advanced macular degeneration regained enough vision to read books and subway signs.

Newsbusters.

After U.S. Homeland Security agents executed a judicially-authorized search warrant at Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) home Monday, the Minnesota Republican Party quoted the congresswoman’s own words reacting to the 2023 indictment of her political enemy, then-former President Donald Trump.

After U.S. Homeland Security agents executed a judicially-authorized search warrant at Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) home Monday, the Minnesota Republican Party quoted the congresswoman’s own words reacting to the 2023 indictment of her political enemy, then-former President Donald Trump.

Rep. Omar responded to the raid by accusing Pres. Trump of “an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement” and a “campaign of political intimidation.”

Omar’s reaction Monday was in stark contrast to her statement responding to the indictment of Trump, a Republican, in 2023 – prompting Minnesota Republicans to use her own statement against her.

“Rather than issue our own statement, we’ll defer to Rep. Omar. She said it best back in 2023, when the subject of a criminal investigation was someone else,” Minnesota Republican Party Chair Alex Plechash explained Monday in a X.com post:

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The woke leftists at The Athletic, which functions as the sports department of The New York Times, cannot stand Indiana Fever basketball player Sophie Cunningham for her defense of women’s sports, and keeping biological men off their court and out of their locker rooms.

On October 6, columnist Candace Buckner insisted the Fever brass needed to dump Cunningham over her objectionable politics. The headline was “Fever should part with Sophie Cunningham. She’s too turbulent to be paired with Caitlin Clark.”

Buckner isn’t going to find any female athletes who have racial “gutter debates” — as long as they side with wokeness. Liberals hate “divisions,” unless they’re doing the dividing — like removing Cunningham from her team.

On her “No Hesitations” podcast, when co-host Drew Hanlen brought up the article Cunningham told her and other haters to “suck it.”

I like this woman.

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Al-Qaida and its supporters are threatening to kill Americans, including U.S. soldiers, and hijack airplanes if Fort Hood mass murderer Nidal Hasan is executed.

Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula warned Monday that it would execute American hostages in retaliation for the scheduled Dec. 3 execution of Hasan, the former Army major who murdered 13 people and wounded 32 others at the Texas Army base in 2009, the Washington Examiner reported.

“The day America makes this decision,” the Islamic terrorist organization said in a statement, “it will have made a decision to execute whoever among you falls captive to us.”

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Mexican drug cartels are increasingly stealing rental cars and trucks from the United States and driving them across the southern border, exploiting legal loopholes and slow reporting procedures to supply criminal organizations with vehicles used for drug trafficking and armed confrontations.

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America has forgotten how to build, courtesy of a Byzantine permitting process that delays projects for years and often kills them altogether. A new bill could change that, though, and let the U.S. actually start building things again, including badly needed energy infrastructure that would reduce prices.

The current paralysis was made painfully evident this year when the Iran war disrupted tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, and oil jumped from about $70 a barrel to about $100 in a matter of weeks. Prices at the pump skyrocketed while costs for natural gas, fertilizer, electricity, and more also rose.

America has weathered the supply shock better than most countries because of our shale production, but the cushion is much thinner than it should be. Every stalled well, pipeline, port, and power line is a shock absorber missing from U.S. infrastructure. Energy security is national security, and a country that cannot build cannot be secure.

The problem, of course, is that every oil well and natural gas well is another stake in the heart of the proglodyte dream of our getting ‘net zero’, all of our energy electricity generated by wind, solar, and unicorn farts.

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