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ShoeOnHead explains it all to you, in her own inimitable way.

Stephen A. Smith Defends Trump Meeting, Tells Off Race Baiting Sunny Hostin

Top 2 Democrats on Intel say they’re preparing for Trump to claim foreign meddling (Eric McDaniel/NPR)  Since that’s what’s happening, this is predictable.

Americans who moved to Europe after Trump win now say they regret leaving (Alexander Hall/New York Post)  Heh.

Impeachment is back on the menu ??? Impeachment dominated much of Donald Trump’s first presidency. (Irie Sentner/Politico)

Democrats sue Trump over alleged voter intimidation campaign (Josephine Walker/Axios)

Democrats sue Trump for ‘intimidating’ state election officials (Julianne McShane/MS NOW)

Armed Federal Agents Go Door to Door to Hunt for Noncitizen Voters (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic)  Good.

MS NOW’s O’Donnell Claims U.S. Lost Cold War, Touts Trump-Russia Conspiracy

Peter Thiel breaks with Trump over Iran war: ‘We should not have done it’ (Calder McHugh/Politico)

Democrats gear up for offensive against Trump’s Treasury (Politico)

Just How Much Are Young Voters Backing Democrats Now? See the Shift. (New York Times)  Pushing fake polls in support of the Narrative.

It’s Time to Take Starlink Away from Elon Musk (Paul Krugman) Proglodytes can’t create so their first impulse is to steal.

‘Man, I loved that’: Trump cheers South Carolina rally attender who hit protester (Uwa Ede-Osifo/The Guardian)  If it had been a protester who hit a rally attender, they wouldn’t even have mentioned it.

As Vance Piles On, Ohio Governor’s Race Is Going Off the Rails (Damian Paletta/Wall Street Journal)  The ‘rails’, of course, being a straight line to a Democrat victory.

These 2024 Trump voters no longer admit to voting for him (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers) Pushing the Narrative ahead of the election.

The GOP’s harvest of discontent (Politico)  Pushing the Narrative ahead of the election.

Voters want the next Congress to focus on costs and Iran, not on Trump, a new AP-NORC poll shows (Associated Press)  Good luck with that.

Trump’s approval rating on economy hits all-time low as midterm looms: CNBC survey (Steve Liesman/CNBC)  Pushing fake polls in support of the Narrative.

Trump Says Iran ‘Making Up Fake’ Attacks In Hormuz To Drive Up Price Of Oil  They wouldn’t do that, would they?

Crypto shareholder sues Trump, family-backed crypto venture (Erica Orden/Politico)

Trump Tried to Get Google to Rename Atlantic Ocean After Him (Hafiz Rashid/New Republic) And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

They Believe 2020 Was Stolen. They Could Be in Charge of Elections in 2028 (David Gilbert/Wired)  Dunh dunh DUNHHHHHHH….

After Male-Physique Critiques, Morning Joe Can’t Stop Speculating Trump Might Be Gay

The Last Tour for Our Horny, Mad King (Jack Crosbie/Rolling Stone)  The best of American high-school ‘journalism’….

Pulse #016: The US Military’s Notorious ‘Heat Ray’ Is Headed for the Border (Jared Keller/Laser Wars)  Notorious!

MS NOW After Omar Interview: Trump Admin Is Most Racist Since 19th Century, Relates to Civil War  More racist than Wilson? These guys need to read a history book.

MAGA Media Learns to Love Vile Vivek Ramaswamy Ad (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)  Will Sommer loses his shit.

Not the Bee.

When you blame the gun instead of the shooter, I can see where this logic makes sense.

Not the Bee.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Masked groups in Paris are openly bragging on social media about the designer goods and electronics they just looted, turning what began as student complaints about school conditions into a free-for-all that media outlets have had to repackage as a cost-of-living cry.

It’s all just an excuse to steal other people’s stuff.

The clip shows looters displaying their take while the official story has shifted from teacher shortages and dilapidated classrooms to broader “economic hardship.”

Luxury stores, grocery shelves, and pharmacies became the practical target once the chaos spread.

Envy and greed. That’s the Left for you.

The New Republic, a Voice of the Left.

Your phone buzzes with a frantic text message. “DEMOCRACY IS ON THE LINE.” It’s not the first time you’ve gotten a fundraising text like this from the Democratic Party and its candidates. Nor the first time you’ve rolled your eyes. But the ask makes sense. Democracy really is on the line. You have asked yourself what you would have done if you had lived under the authoritarian regimes of the past, and volunteering some time and money seems like the least you could do. You click the ActBlue link and donate $100. The country must be saved, after all.

You, the ordinary American, are expected to step up. But are the party insiders stepping up as well? At the very same moment your $100 clears, the party leadership and strategists are at a donor retreat you were not invited to, walking a few dozen people who write seven-figure checks through the polling and the proprietary model that will set the party’s priorities for the cycle. You have a general sense that this is how the game is played, that winning elections requires money from big and small donors. You’re skeptical of the House and Senate leadership, who are increasingly unpopular with the base. But overall, you see a party apparatus that wants to win and oust the Republican Party from control of government, and you assume both tracks feed that goal.

We’re here to tell you that this view is wrong. The Democratic Party is being devoured by an ecosystem of consultants. Mostly out of view of the party’s voters and activists, political consultants are paid to raise the money, place the ads, and set the strategy. And they’re paid regardless of whether the party wins or loses.

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Iran has exhausted the offshore oil reserves that sustained its sales to China during the war, according to one energy-data firm, eliminating a critical financial cushion as a U.S. naval blockade intensifies pressure on its struggling economy.

The reserves were fully depleted by mid-October, according to analysts at energy data company Kpler, although other trackers offered varying estimates of the remaining supplies, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

“There’s no more oil to discharge to China anymore,” Homayoun Falakshahi, Kpler’s head of crude-oil analysis, said.

It was choking off Japan’s imports of oil in the 1930s that caused them to attack Pearl Harbor.

Just sayin’.

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A Mail on Sunday investigation has found that the BBC’s education website is pushing extreme Left-wing views on open borders, Net Zero and inequality to children as young as 11.

It is, after all, a Voice of the Crust.

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State Sen. L. Louise Lucas and six other people were charged Thursday with federal crimes involving an alleged conspiracy to sell marijuana and launder the resulting profits. Lucas, the president pro tempore of the Virginia Senate, was indicted by a grand jury on charges of racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to possess and distribute marijuana, and conspiracy to launder money.

She has surrendered to federal authorities yet remains defiant.

“Today, the FBI, the Department of Justice, and the full weight of the federal government have been wielded against an 82-year-old great-grandmother,” Lucas said in a statement. “I grew up under Jim Crow. I’ve seen what happens when people in power try to silence those who stand up to them. I spent my life fighting back, and I’m not stopping now.”

A crooked black female Democrat politician. What are the odds?

Pretty high, I would guess.

The Foundry.

Take Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, for instance. She suggested that the majority decisions of her conservative colleagues are undermining American democracy, citing cases involving gerrymandering, money in politics, and other decisions that give the president more authority over the administrative state.

“The court has kind of blinded itself to the very deleterious effect of their rulings on how the political system works and has created a democracy that does not work as well as it should,” the justice, nominated by President Barack Obama, said at Catholic University’s law school Tuesday night, Courthouse News reported.

“Over the last couple of years especially, both political parties have been engaged in a race to the bottom in terms of doing these partisan gerrymanders, … making what I think is unfortunately a too-polarized country even more so,” she said. “The people of America look around and think that all this money chasing all these political candidates is a nightmare, and they’re right.”

Kagan also reportedly criticized the majority for “clearing the way for President Donald Trump and other presidents to remove the heads of agencies that Congress set up to be independent of the chief executive,” The Washington Post reported.

Yet these decisions arguably return political power to elected officials and voters, restoring accountability and weakening the influence of judges, bureaucrats, and other unelected actors.

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As President Donald Trump prepares to campaign for GOP candidates in Iowa, the White House is highlighting the “worst of the worst” criminal illegal aliens who have been removed from the streets under his administration.

Trump’s Department of Homeland Security arrested illegal immigrants convicted of crimes including child prostitution, assault of a minor, and domestic abuse. Two of the aliens were previously arrested but later released into the country under the Biden administration, the White House claimed.

In his rally in Sioux City Thursday night, Trump will highlight the administration’s record on border security and contrast it with liberal policies in Europe, which he says have led to riots and chaos. He is traveling to Iowa to support GOP Senate candidate Rep. Ashley Hinson and GOP gubernatorial candidate Zach Lahn.

“The riots in France are a direct result of their leader’s open border policies. This is what will happen in America if radical Democrats have their way,” White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis told the Daily Signal. “They are the party of open borders, amnesty, lawlessness, and chaos, while President Trump and Republicans are the party of common sense and law and order.”

Though Trump won Iowa by 13 points in 2024, Hinson is running only 0.4 percentage points ahead of her Democrat opponent, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average. Lahn’s opponent, Rob Sand, leads by 6.7 points.

Meet the criminal illegal immigrants apprehended by DHS.

The American Mind.

Multiculturalism and feminism are more than a set of ideas—they are social technologies for administering society. Moreover, they claim the need to have absolute efficacy in every human activity. Anti-discrimination law cannot stop at the door of a privately funded school, business, or social club; it must pry its way in, enlisting state police power when necessary.

Feminism is the social technology that, by assuming men and women are the same and can contribute equally to the same order, renders them interchangeable in politics, work, and the home. In effect, it treats men and women as replaceable. Multiculturalism is the social technology that, by assuming all cultures are the same and can contribute equally to a liberal and democratic order, renders cultures and peoples interchangeable within a single administrative order. In effect, it treats all cultures as replaceable.

These assumptions of sexual and cultural replaceability were locked in by the development of information technology and a way of thinking about its effects.

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Federal authorities arrested a 17-year-old in Texas for allegedly plotting to murder Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, and carry out a terrorist attack on behalf of ISIS.

According to local reports, the unidentified teenager had been on the FBI’s radar for some time, but after he acquired a firearm, agents arrested him on Oct. 5. The FBI suspects the accused of plotting to murder the congressman this past Saturday when the congressman was supposed to judge a chili cook-off in McKinney, Texas.

Freeberg does a deep dive.

Seems every state in the union is red+blue the same way. All these vast sprawling acres of farmland, populated, sparsely, by sensible red-state voters with these super tiny super dense speckles of city voting blue. The elections are contests that determine whether these tiny dense speckles of blue voters can outvote these sparsely populated sprawling swaths of red voters.

And whether or not that happens, is determined in large part by how close to the coastline the state is. Check the map. The landlocked states, by and large, are “red” states…even though each and every single one has cities that vote blue. They just got outvoted by the red. And then the coastline states are blue states. They also have their red-state farmland, but it got outvoted by the cities.

Now why is that?

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Years ago, I called Antifa the Keyser Söze of the left, after the character in “The Usual Suspects.” In the film, the character Virgil explains how Söze stayed in the shadows to be portrayed as a myth: “becomes a myth, a spook story that criminals tell their kids at night.” The strategy was too simple: “the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist.”

Democratic leaders have long fostered the myth around Antifa, the largest and most violent group on the political left. For years, they have denied the existence of the group even as members were charged with crimes (including terrorism). Now, the French authorities have found that the nonexistent group is the largest of three “ideologically distinct groups” responsible for the violence in France. It appears that either the entire French security system is delusional or the trick is up for the American left.

I have testified before Congress about Antifa, run columns on the organization for over a decade, and written a book discussing Antifa. Yet, Democratic members continued to insist that there is no such group, while other leading Democrats have praised Antifa for instilling fear in MAGA.

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German Federal Police recorded 98,026 crimes at train stations and on trains in the first half of 2026, with foreign nationals substantially overrepresented among identified suspects in violent, property and sexual offenses relative to their share of the population. In the crime of sexual offenses, foreigners represented 53 percent of suspects.

My,  what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

What Germany needs is a version of the Sonno joi movement in Japan.

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In recent weeks, German and French politicians have denounced free speech, and especially the concept of “freedom of speech” as long envisioned in the libertarian tradition of natural rights. French President Emmanuel Macron on September 29 stated that”The so-called American ‘free speech’ today, which some people have promoted, is the opposite of free speech.” Macron compared speaking freely as comparable to walking down the street assaulting other people.

A week earlier, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz declared,”Don’t anyone come to me with free speech!” He asserted we must “still be able to protect citizens from false information.”

Both were speaking on issues related to online speech through social media and similar platforms. Both see a grave danger to the ruling class posed by the ability of unvetted or anonymous users to post opinions freely.

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A new migrant caravan of mostly Central American migrants left Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala on Tuesday. Many in the group, according to some reports, intend to posture near the U.S.-Mexico border in hopes that a Democratic win in the midterms might signal a return to a less secure border.

According to one report by Milenio Diario, a daily print media company based in Mexico City, the group calling themselves “Caravan Without Borders” is estimated at more than 400 migrants. The bulk of the large group of migrants hails from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. The group includes smaller numbers of Nicaraguan, Haitian, Venezuelan, and Cuban nationals.

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Over the years I have written frequently about what I call the “Pillager Class” and the “Producer Class” in an attempt to explore the reasons why certain people, groups and cultures always seem to turn to looting and destruction rather than building anything of value of their own.

It is a threat the west has been dealing with for thousands of years: We engineer and create and plan for the future, and instead of doing the same, the pillager class decides it’s easier to take what we have. Sometimes they are subtle like a parasite, and sometimes they’re not so subtle, like a swarm of locusts.

There are numerous theories on why this happens. Some think it stems from genetics, others from low IQ, others think it’s purely a cultural phenomenon, and some people argue that it’s a mere reactionary response to poverty. I suspect it’s a combination of all these things. At bottom though, it seems that certain groups are simply born with the pillager instinct; a subset of the populace perpetually stuck in scavenger limbo.

A good comparison to understand this is the classic “lottery winner” dilemma. Data suggests that around 70% of all lottery winners lose every dime they won in 5 years or less. It doesn’t matter if it’s thousands of dollars or millions of dollars; they can’t seem to keep their hands on wealth.

They go from cash windfall to bankruptcy and financial failure so quickly, winning the lottery is often treated like a curse rather than good luck. This happens because they are incapable of planning for tomorrow. Their brains are ostensibly stunted, and they can only think in terms of the present moment. They are doomed to live in poverty because they are incapable of growing beyond their most base desires.

The pillager class is very similar. You can take them out of the global ghettos, bring them to your home and give them every opportunity imaginable to improve their circumstances, and yet, they will always choose thievery and barbarism instead. The only thing that might change is the complexity of their crimes.

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Elon Musk has confirmed that Ndiaga Diagne, the 53-year-old Senegal-born naturalized citizen who opened fire outside a downtown Austin bar in March and killed three people, was a former Tesla employee at the company’s Gigafactory Texas.

Diagne was fired after he violently assaulted a female coworker who accidentally stepped on his prayer rug during a company-sanctioned break.

Months later he carried out the attack while wearing a “Property of Allah” hoodie and an Iranian-flag shirt.

New York Post.

It’s easy to take free speech for granted when it’s all you’ve known as an American — but look no further than the United Kingdom for a reminder of why our First Amendment is so important.

I thank God every day that I don’t live in Britain.

New York Post.

iHope you weren’t planning on getting away with it.

Looters who descended on a French Apple Store during the chaotic riots were reportedly greeted with warnings from their ill-gotten gains that the merchandise was being locked and tracked.

Viral video from the aftermath of the looting of the Lille Apple Store on Oct. 17 shows one of the thieves flashing the security warning on the stolen iPhone.

“Please return the device to Apple Lille. This device has been disabled and is being tracked. Local authorities will be alerted,” the alert read.

Apple’s products famously flash such warnings when they detect that they have been stolen from stores, with many on social media mocking the thieves who were seen rummaging through the seller over the weekend.

“Protesters raided an Apple Store in Lille France yesterday, dumbest move ever,” one person posted on X.

“Taking iPhones that will get blocked 2 minutes later, the morons,” another person added.

These guys are not the sharpest pencils in the box.

Fortune, a Voice of the Crust.

Supporters of California’s proposed billionaire tax say it could raise $100 billion, with 90% of the proceeds earmarked for health care. A pair of Stanford economists warn it could instead leave the state $39 billion worse off in today’s dollars.

Proposition 40, on California’s Nov. 3 ballot, would impose a one-time 5% tax on the net worth of the state’s few hundred billionaires who were residents on Jan. 1, 2026. The tax would be due in 2027, and those who choose to spread payments over five years would pay more. Real estate, pensions, and most retirement accounts would generally be excluded.

Benjamin Jaros and Joshua Rauh, economists affiliated with Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, see a much smaller payday. In a working paper published this month by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), they estimate the tax would collect about $30 billion, in a range of $28 billion to $36 billion. That is less than a third of what proponents expect.

Their main explanation is simple: Billionaires can move.

The researchers used Forbes billionaire rankings, real estate reports, and public relocation announcements. From those, they estimate that billionaire departures have already eliminated nearly 30% of the proposed tax base. Seven billionaires who have publicly moved out of California account for roughly $540 billion in wealth, CBS News redported, citing the study. They include Peter Thiel and Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The estimate also discounts what remains of the base for the risk that courts strike the tax down.

The new figure is a sharper downgrade than the authors’ earlier Hoover analysis. That analysis projected about $40 billion in revenue and a $25 billion net loss for the state.

Stop Appeasing Russia (New York Times)  A headline that never appeared in the NYT prior to the fall of communism in 1991.

CNN Vows Further Legal Action if Air Force One Ban Continues (Jenna Monnin/The Washington Sun)

Kansas Man Charged Over ‘Let’s Shoot Trump’ Posts

Trump sued over 50% tariffs on Canada in latest trade challenge (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)

MS NOW Decries Trump’s Response to French Riots While Blaming His Policies For Unrest

Trump Jr. Privately Breaks With His Dad (The Atlantic)

Trump finds ominous campaign message in French riots (Julia Manchester/The Hill)

Nets Gush ‘Struggling’ GOP Have ‘Combative’ Trump, Dems ‘Riding a Wave of Concern’

NPR Can Find No Labels for Left-Wing ‘No Kings’ Rallies, Only Joy

Trump Pushes to Evict the Press From the White House (New York Times)

A Billionaire Wanted a Trump Pardon. His Family Gave Alina Habba a $50 Million Deal. (Tyler Pager/New York Times)

MAGA Inc. Unleashes Millions to Turn Out Republicans At the Polls (New York Times)  There’s that MAGA guy again. And now he’s apparently incorporated!

Trump Can No Longer Mask His Real Agenda (Thomas B. Edsall/New York Times)  The mind-readers (and gaslighters) of the NYT are on the case.

Why Zelensky Took the Gloves Off This Time With Trump (Maria Varenikova/New York Times)  The mind-readers of the NYT are on the case. Too bad that they seem to forget that without Trump Zelensky wouldn’t have any gloves to take off.

Sen. Slotkin Hit With Ethics Complaint Over Trump Remarks

MS NOW’s O’Donnell Claims Trump Is Funding Wars Against U.S. Troops

CNN warns Trump White House: Restore Air Force One access or face further legal action (Brian Stelter/CNN)  Big talk from a very small man.

Trump keeps promising ‘goodies’ on the campaign trail ??? but only if Republicans win (NBC News)  As if that weren’t every Democrat platform ever.

The Secret Terms of Trump’s Venezuelan Oil Deal (ProPublica)  So secret that even ProPuiblica knows about it.

Some on DOJ’s 20,000 “likely” noncitizen list in Calif. appear to be U.S.-born (NPR)  Appear! That proves it!

Democrats Have a Wide Lead in Our New Poll as Trump Slides (Nate Cohn/New York Times) Of course—in their poll.

Trump Approval Hits New Low Two Weeks Before Midterms, Poll Finds (New York Times)

Fears of a post-midterms Trump rampage spur ‘brutal’ internal jockeying (CNN)

MS NOW’s Al Sharpton Sets Up Dem Congresswoman to Smear ICE, ‘Racist’ Trump

Trump lost control and ordered me to be ‘quiet’ in the Oval Office. Then it got personal (Andrew Feinberg/The Independent)

Trump is Destroying Americans’ Healthcare (Paul Krugman)  Obama already did that. Krugman must have missed it.

Desire for change, anti-Trump feelings fuel Democrats’ midterms advantage: CNN poll (CNN)  Mostly anti-Trump feelings and gaslighting by the Narrative Media in support thereof.

Trump leans into unprecedented power ahead of midterm elections (Franco Ordoñez/NPR)  Funny now Democrats are complaining about Trump acting like a Democrat President.

The Hunting of Ilhan Omar (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)  Pushing the Narrative ahead of the mid-terms. One hand washes the other.

Pentagon grants DHS permission to test heat ray weapon for potential use at border (CNN)  Cue hand-wringing and pearl-clutching.

Trump bulldozes a golf course and the rule of law (Liz Dye/Public Notice)  C’mon, Trump has built more golf courses than this chick has played.

America Needs to Reckon With What Trump 2.0 Has Done. Planning Should Start Now. (David Kaye/Slate)

Trump is the ‘principal enemy of the U.S.’ for helping Russia, veteran foreign analyst says (MS NOW)  They just wish they were in charge of foreign policy rather that, you know, the guy the Constitution put  in charge of foreign policy.

Spanish left-wing leader accuses Trump of denying her travel visa to Puerto Rico (Aitor Hernández-Morales/Politico)  Boo hoo….

How Low Can Vivek Go? — Trump and his cronies keep using slurs like they’re going out of style–which, to be fair, they are. (Jim Swift/The Bulwark)  Writers at the Bullshitwark are pretty handy with the slurs, as it happens, so I guess they’re the experts.

CNN Poll: Democrats Open 10-Point Congressional Lead  Sure, I believe a CNN poll that puts Democrats ahead.

Justice Department IG refuses to investigate botched Reflecting Pool case after Trump’s false vandalism claims (NBC News)  They have to put ‘false’ in the headline so you know what the Narrative is.

Socialists Condemn Elon Musk For Redistributing Wealth (Babylon Bee) There’s no pleasing some people.

George W. Bush’s Brother Backs Talarico and Bashes Ken Paxton (Michelle Del Rey/The Washington Sun)  RINOs gotta RINO.

Pollster Cited By NY Times, Other Outlets Admits It’s Fake

STUDY: Broadcast Networks Maintain Their Perfect 100% Negative Record on Kash Patel

Amanpour Uses Zacharia Firing to Warn of ‘Far-Right’ ‘Misogyny’  It wasn’t the ‘far-right’ that jumped all over her, but the Narrative Media. Get those blinders off, Amanpour.

In Trump’s World of International Diplomacy, Insults Are a One-Way Street (Peter Baker/New York Times)  Much like the NYT.

Ilhan Omar reappears to ask for cash donations “to fight Trump”

The Bill for Trumpism Comes Due (David Frum/The Atlantic) There is, of course, no such thing as ‘Trumpism’ except in the minds of Wokerati attempting to use Trump as a stick to beat everybody they don’t like.

The Foundry.

The New York Post cover on Oct. 19 summed it up in two words: “FRANCE BURNS.” Over the weekend, there was massive unrest in France from leftist extremists. So there were several interesting journalism patterns.

Labeling. Typically, reporters didn’t want to label protesters as “far left,” let alone “left.” Note to reporters: When Greta Thunberg shows up in solidarity, it’s a leftist protest. But some reporters stayed vague, like ABC’s Marcus Moore: “A protest that started with high school students now spiraling to more general concerns about the cost of living, and France’s future.” Anyone with eyes could see it wasn’t just “students” in the streets, and that it’s not just about economics.

Funny Riots? During his one-day work week, Comedy Central star Jon Stewart unfurled the whole “hey, the French are natural rioters” comedy: “They stormed the Bastille! Other than adultery, it’s the most French thing you can do! It’s like blaming immigrants in America for remembering the Alamo. Riots are just a part of the general ambiance in France!” Would this be funny to people whose cars and businesses were looted or destroyed?

Political Exploitation. After a few days of violence and destruction, the political implications inevitably break out. The New York Times front page on Oct. 20 lamented: “French Right Has Opening In Upheaval: Riots Fit Rhetoric as Election Approaches.”

NBC’s Richard Engel hit that message repeatedly. “Although French authorities and police have not linked immigrants to the rioting, it’s the same argument France’s far-right parties are using, hoping to capitalize on the chaos to win key elections in the spring.”

But that’s not as odd as CNN saying riots are being used by Trump for “fearmongering,” like they didn’t spend about four years fearmongering for political gain after the Jan. 6 riot. CNN reporter Alayna Treene lamented Trump used “some of this darker rhetoric … using this kind of fear mongering to try and convince voters to turn out for his party.” Then host Sara Sidner added the Democrat Helper spin: “And to be fair, no Democrat who was running or otherwise has said they want to burn America to the ground.”

Well, they’re not going to SAY it … watch what they do, not what they say.

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We all like free….

I use LibreOffice and Inkscape frequently.

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Because we all want to do that, don’t we?

Not the Bee.

If you don’t know, Somalis living inside the United States like to fly the U.S. flag upside-down.

This keeps happening in the great state of Minnesota-stan.

On July 3 of this year, a Somali man named Omar Podi raised an American flag the wrong way for a Somali Independence Day celebration in St. Cloud, but claimed he simply didn’t know better.

This week, a Somali woman who is running for office in Oregon took a different tack and tried to pretend it never happened.

Nafisa Fai is running for chair of Washington County. Last week, she was in Minnesota for a political rally (because of course) and spoke Somali to the crowd (because of course).

Babylon Bee.

This will be satire for about 6 more days, then it will be reality. Laugh while you can, monkey boy.

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The Women’s National Basketball Association declared two former male professional basketball players ineligible to join the league because they aren’t women. However, the league did not provide a definition of “woman” in its announcement.

While responding to an inquiry from several members of Congress about player safety and the league’s definition of a woman, WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert stated in an Oct. 16 letter, “only women are eligible to play in the WNBA and the individuals you cite in your letter are both men.” The dispute stems from August, when former National Basketball Association players Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White said they identified as women and were thus eligible to enter the WNBA’s 2027 Draft.

Announcing Engelbert’s decision on X, Kanter Freedom said in a Tuesday post, “Apparently, the WNBA still can’t define what a WOMAN is, but they’re absolutely certain they know what a MAN is! How convenient!”

“WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert has declared that I am a man,” he added. “Who gave her the authority to decide who I am? Who gets to define my identity? And how can the WNBA determine who is a man without explaining what qualifies someone as a woman”

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I have blogged every previous Cyan Kickstarter, so the foolish hobgoblin demands this post. Cyan is now crowdfunding the Myst Trilogy “Guild of Writers” Deluxe Collection.

These are the three Myst novels originally published 1995-1997, “by Rand and Robyn Miller with David Wingrove”. (But, everybody understands, really written by David Wingrove — then a new and modestly successful SF writer — based on story ideas and concepts by the Millers.)

The paper editions have been out of print since the 90s, except for a short on-demand run of the Book of Atrus in 2023. Ebook versions have been in and out of availability.

This Kickstarter is for a new super-fancy edition. “Foil-stamped, faux-leather cover” with all the trimmings. Slipcovered if you back at a high enough level. “Contextual D’ni footnotes,” ooh, nice.

MYST was a thinly-disguised IQ test.

Not the Bee.

Not really news, but a useful reminder.

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Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate campaign is in full-blown panic mode after an undercover O’Keefe Media Group video caught one of its field organizers claiming the candidate takes overseas donations.

The video dropped on Monday. By the end of the day, the Michigan Democrat Party had confirmed that the organizer who spilled the beans about the campaign’s illegal donations, Abdoul Beckwith, has been fired. No investigation, no review, no waiting to see how the story played out. Party officials cut him loose almost immediately, and the El-Sayed campaign rushed out a statement calling his comments “untrue,” “wildly misinformed,” and “not reflective of the campaign” while insisting it fully complies with Federal Election Commission rules.

Right. Sure. They would say that, wouldn’t they?

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Told ya so.

Newsbusters.

The useful idiots over at The Washington Post just inadvertently revealed to the world who Iran is pulling for in the 2026 midterms, and how the regime is interfering to shuffle the political deck in their favor.

Post global affairs reporter Susannah George published an absurd piece of Tehran propaganda October 20, headlined, “Tehran seeks to punish Trump in midterms with oil price pain, Iranian officials say.”

Sounds like a press release for “Iranian officials,” that is, Islamist autocrats.

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Persian Gulf oil exports have surpassed prewar levels as a makeshift shipping network operating under U.S. protection helps tankers navigate escalating Iranian attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, according to new reports.

Middle East oil shipments through Hormuz and alternative routes averaged more than 24 million barrels a day during the week ending Oct. 18, exceeding the prewar average of 23.3 million, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing ship-tracking firm Kpler.

Preliminary figures put flows through Hormuz, including offshore transfers in the Gulf of Oman, at about 14 million barrels a day, or 82% of prewar levels.

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As we approach the 2026 midterm elections, Americans concerned about public safety must confront a growing and dangerous trend: the increasing influence of the Democratic Socialists of America within the Democratic Party.

While the DSA markets itself as a movement for “economic justice,” its platform includes abolishing police, closing prisons, and opening national borders–policies that would dismantle the institutions that keep our communities safe.

For decades, the DSA’s impact on national politics was limited. But according to Brookings, the 2026 cycle has produced a series of high?profile wins by candidates aligned with or adjacent to the DSA’s far?left ideology, including victories in swing?state primaries.

In fact, of 282 DSA-supported candidates in local, state legislative and congressional races, DSA candidates won 43.6% (123) of the time. This surge has alarmed many centrist Democrats who fear that nominating candidates far outside the mainstream could cost the party winnable seats–and more importantly, put public safety at risk.

The DSA’s official platform calls for defunding and ultimately abolishing police and prisons, freeing incarcerated individuals, and eliminating immigration enforcement. These are not fringe ideas–they are central to the organization’s stated goals.

And their influence is spreading.

The Foundry.

The Foundry.

Sometimes a consequential immigration decision turns not on a new act of Congress or a ruling by the Supreme Court, but on whether an agency finally gives existing statutory language its full effect. That is the promise of Matter of A-V-O-, a Sept. 17 ruling by the Board of Immigration Appeals. The board concluded that an aggravated felony conviction can do more than make an alien removable: It can also make that person inadmissible as an immigrant because the conviction permanently forecloses citizenship.

That could prove quite helpful to the Department of Homeland Security. But promising precedent is not the same thing as a settled enforcement policy, much less a final judicial victory. How DHS uses this decision in charging cases—and whether the federal courts of appeals sustain it—will determine whether its promise becomes practice.

 

“We live in a world where you either order shit or you deliver shit. And you really don’t want to deliver shit.”

— Chris Rock

The Nation, a Voice of the Far Left.

The omnipresent consultant-cum-tantrum-thrower has long outlived whatever relevance he once had, but cable producers, podcast hosts, and Democratic campaigns haven’t got the memo.

Go against the Narrative, and you wind up under the bus.

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The New York Post cover on October 19 summed it up in two words: “FRANCE BURNS.” Over the weekend, there was massive unrest in France from leftist extremists. So there were several interesting journalism patterns.

Labeling. Typically, reporters didn’t want to label protesters as “far left,” let alone “left.” Note to reporters: When Greta Thunberg shows up in solidarity, it’s a leftist protest. But some reporters stayed vague, like ABC’s Marcus Moore: “A protest that started with high school students now spiraling to more general concerns about the cost of living, and France’s future.” Anyone with eyes could see it wasn’t just “students” in the streets, and that it’s not just about economics.

Funny Riots? During his one-day work week, Comedy Central star Jon Stewart unfurled the whole “hey, the French are natural rioters” comedy: “They stormed the Bastille! Other than adultery, it’s the most French thing you can do! It’s like blaming immigrants in America for remembering the Alamo. Riots are just a part of the general ambiance in France!” Would this be funny to people whose cars and businesses were looted or destroyed?

Political Exploitation. After a few days of violence and destruction, the political implications inevitably break out. The New York Times front page on October 20 lamented: “French Right Has Opening In Upheaval: Riots Fit Rhetoric as Election Approaches.”

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The BBC’s education platform, used by nearly 1.7 million schoolchildren every week, is gamifying open borders. In a Roblox-hosted game called Increasing Immigration aimed at pupils aged 11 to 14, choosing to deport migrants living in the UK without proper visas loses points on the economy and public health.

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Every time political anger spills into French streets – whether over pension reforms, fuel taxes, police shootings, or the annual ritual of Saint-Sylvestre on New Year’s Eve – the post-mortem follows a familiar script. The Ministry of the Interior tallies the arrests, insurers calculate the millions in property damage, and municipal crews sweep up the melted asphalt before morning commuters arrive. The rioters – who kicked this off in working-class banlieues (which has high concentrations of North African and sub-Saharan immigrants) are burning whatever they can get their hands on; cars, tires, plastic bins, buildings, etc.

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A public company in the UK was building a high-speed railway when it suddenly faced a regulation that few could have predicted: a £100 million ($132 million) bat tunnel.

The railway passed through Sheephouse Wood, an area inhabited by rare Bechstein’s bats. To comply with environmental regulations that protect the bats from colliding with high-speed trains, the company had to build a roughly one-kilometer covered structure alongside the railway. This structure has since become widely known in the UK as the “bat tunnel.”

If you think this is just one case, let me tell you about the fish disco.

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Good luck with that.

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Descendants of the Native American chief whose likeness inspired the Washington Redskins logo are pressing the Commanders to restore the NFL team’s name and image, and want the team’s new stadium named for him.

The estate of Chief John Two Guns White Calf, a Blackfeet leader born on Montana’s Blackfeet Indian Reservation, says the family was never consulted before the team, now the Washington Commanders, dropped the name and logo in 2020, amid long-standing objections from Native American activist groups that considered the name a slur, KRTV reported.

“They tried to erase us, like we didn’t exist anymore,” estate lead Kenneth Conway told the television station in Great Falls, Montana.