DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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After “defund the police” sparked a political backlash in 2020, Democratic candidates largely stopped using the slogan, but the movement behind it has hardly gone away.

Before you can defund the police, you first have to convince the public that the police themselves are the problem.

In New York City, that is precisely what the Democratic Socialists of America are trying to do. They have turned a federal immigration shooting into a campaign against the Big Apple’s own police department.

On Oct. 8, ICE agents shot and wounded Oscar Belgal during an attempted arrest in the Marble Hill section of Manhattan. Belgal had a prior conviction for grand larceny and was facing a separate drug charge. His 5-year-old son was in the car.

The NYPD had no role in the operation. Its officers arrived afterward and rushed Belgal to the hospital.

But that did not prevent the socialists from seizing on the incident to bash New York’s finest. Their response? Demand that Mayor Zohran Mamdani fire Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch.

The Foundry.

A Michigan health care organization has received tens of millions of dollars in government grants despite donating to a political nonprofit that targets Republican state lawmakers through ad campaigns.

According to recent nonprofit grant disclosures, the Michigan Health & Hospital Association represents $22.3 million in government grants in the 2025 fiscal year and has annual revenue of $62 million.

However, the organization’s tax filings show that it has donated at least $1.15 million to the Michigan Citizens for Better Health, a politically active nonprofit that has spent $2.49 million in advertising targeting seven Republican state lawmakers in Michigan House districts.

2024 tax filings also show that the politically active nonprofit gave $100,000 to a Michigan Democratic Committee administrative account.

The nonprofits’ opposition to Republicans comes after the state Speaker of the House, Matt Hall, questioned hospital pricing practices and called for greater accountability in the health care industry. The speaker’s questions arose after state House Democrats advocated for the passage of the 340B program, which would offer hospitals and medical patients discounted prices, but fails to specify how hospitals would adequately demonstrate that the financial benefits reach each patient.

The nonprofit has previously defended the 340B program, arguing that it increases health care access and offers essential hospital services.

Michigan Citizens for Better Health and Michigan Health & Hospital Association did not respond to the Daily Signal’s request for comment.

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Although that won’t discourage them from raping non-Muslim teen girls, I suspect.

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This is a real thing that happened.

After a week of Democrats griping about Trump’s “political persecution” of Ilhan Omar and his supposed attempts to “lock up” his political opponents, Angie Nixon, the Democrat running for Florida’s open Senate seat, reminded us that the Dems want to lock you up (or worse).

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Man, they should’ve been a little more careful when they wrote the 14th Amendment. Look how much it’s cost us.

They did not anticipate that crooks and fools would be in charge of the government in the 20th century.

But yeah, according to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the annual bill for educating, doctoring, and feeding the U.S.-born kids of immigrants comes out to a cool $150.7 billion — half of which is spent on education (so making them dumber and teaching them about gay stuff).

Serves ’em right.

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Don’t mind the AI. It’s the times we live in.

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Gee, imagine that.

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Folders is a non-textual language, where code is expressed in containment and order alone. The names of the folders are ignored, apart from alphabetical ordering. In other words, they are pure ordered trees.

Inspired by the Whitespace language, Folders is devoted to the idea of dematerialized code. It began with the question What is more empty than a file with no visible text? The empty folder is clutter, an appendage with no purpose. In git, it is ignored entirely (for this reason, it is suggested that Folders programs put .gitignore files in their deepest reaches).

Folders began as a Windows language. In Windows, folders are an even more extreme measure of emptiness: they take up no disk space at all. For proof, create 352,449 folders and get properties on it. In this way, Folders offers not only a dematerialized approach to code but also infinite storage capacity. Keep all your data encoded in folder names and never worry about running out of space again.

For those who use other operating systems, the emulator below gives some of the experience of how Folders manages data and code.

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A Center City woman was arrested after allegedly refusing to move out of the path of a delivery robot.

The confrontation was captured on video and has since drawn online attention.

Philadelphia police said officers responded to the 1200 block of Filbert Street after witnesses reported a disturbance involving Carolyn Marvin and an Uber delivery robot near Reading Terminal Market.

According to police, Marvin repeatedly blocked the robot’s path and ignored multiple commands from officers to move.

She was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.

I guess asking to see its manager didn’t work.

“I know they’re taking the jobs of human delivery workers and so, I have been protesting them whenever I saw them by standing in front of them and preventing them from going forward,” Marvin said.

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She felt comfortable saying this on TV. Think about that.

Her number one priority! Nothing is more important to her than this!

Not crime reduction. Not the economy. Not affordability. Not jobs. Not even giving the Wisconsin Badgers the NIL money to become relevant in college sports again.

Just your regular reminder that the average Democrat candidate, even in the conservative-leaning Midwest, wants to invite the entire world to live in America and fundamentally destroy the land built by our forefathers.

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He certainly seems perfectly integrated with modern German culture.

An African man, who was described as “perfectly integrated,” is on trial in Bonn on charges connected to the strangling murder of his wife, whom he then dismembered. The woman’s remains were later found in several locations across Germany, according to court proceedings.

Asmerom G., 42, an Eritrean national, faces the charges in Bonn Regional Court in North Rhine-Westphalia. The case stems from events in mid-November 2025 involving his wife, Weghata A., 32. The couple had married in Ethiopia in 2019, and she arrived in Germany in 2024 through family reunification.

The defendant allegedly met his wife, 32-year-old Weghata A., inside his car, where they began arguing on their way back from a church visit. According to Bonner Generalanzeiger newspaper, Asmerom G. later told police that his wife told him their 3-month-old girl was not his biological child. He reportedly could not remember what happened next.

Yeah,  right.

The American Mind.

The Obama Presidential Center, located on Chicago’s South Side, opened in June 2026, nine years and five months after Barack Obama’s term in office concluded. The politicians who build these centers force themselves to run one final fundraising gauntlet, not to finance an election campaign but to leave behind an edifice that makes an enduring case for their probity, sagacity, and historical importance.

What sets Obama apart is that he began publicly discussing the greatness he hoped for prior to occupying, winning, or seeking the nation’s highest office. “My attitude about something like the presidency is that you don’t want to just be the president,” Barack Obama told journalist Jacob Weisberg in 2006. “You want to change the country. You want to make a unique contribution. You want to be a great president.” Later in the interview he said, “There are, what, maybe 10 presidents in our history out of 40-something who you can truly say led the country? And then there are 30 who just kind of did their best.”

At the time, having been elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004 after serving eight years in the Illinois state legislature, Obama was still a Washington, D.C. newcomer. The author of The Audacity of Hope (2006) lived up to his book’s title in October 2006, during an appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press. “When I think about great presidents, I think about those who transform how we think about ourselves as a country in fundamental ways,” Obama said. Specifically, “they transformed the culture” rather than “simply promoted one or two particular issues.”

By that measure, Trump is one of the greatest U.S. Presidents of all time.

Notably absent from the latter takes, however, were claims that Obama had fulfilled the lofty expectations he had set before being elected. His admirers, rather, had long since concluded that he was a capable leader but not a world-historical figure. Jacob Weisberg, reflecting in 2017 for Slate on the career of the young politician he had interviewed eleven years before, wrote that Obama’s “legacy of integrity, eloquence, and patient commitment” qualified him as an “inspirational” president. But not a “transformational” one.

He was a legend in his own mind.

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Funny how that works … or doesn’t….

Quillette.

On 24 September, a self-described founder and “adviser to CEOs” posted on LinkedIn about Gucci and Dior withdrawing their handbags from the Australian department store David Jones. After describing the store’s financial difficulties, she suggested that David Jones’s female chief executive was experiencing the “glass cliff.” The “glass cliff” refers to the idea that, having broken through the glass ceiling, women are disproportionately appointed to lead failing organisations, where they are most likely to be blamed when things go wrong.

“What on earth does the management’s gender have to do with it?” asked fellow LinkedIn user Chris Bradley, a senior partner at McKinsey and a director of the McKinsey Global Institute (whom I interviewed for Quillette’s YouTube channel in July).

It was a relatively innocuous question. But the ensuing debate would have a cascade of consequences. Within three weeks, Bradley had been stripped of his directorship and other leadership responsibilities at McKinsey, and had his face plastered across Bloomberg, the Australian Financial Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, the New York Post, Fast Company, and other international publications. Meanwhile, Julia Carreon and Shannon Nutter, whose new book had been recommended in the original LinkedIn post, enjoyed an unexpected burst of publicity.

There is no realm of life that toxic feminism has not corrupted.

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In Australia, a policy debate has broken out following the federal government’s release of its long-promised internet regulation, the digital duty of care. The stakes may be nothing less than the future of freedom on the internet.

The proposed law, an amendment to the existing Online Safety Act 2021, would impose a broad obligation on almost all online services to protect all users, not just children, from harmful content and features, and to manage “reasonably foreseeable risks.”

The government has presented its motivations as being consumer choice and safety. At a press conference launching a draft of the proposed law, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese declared the digital duty of care a “sensible, pragmatic, practical reform” that “is not about giving government control [but] about giving people control.” Communications Minister Anika Wells likened the measure to other kinds of consumer protections: “The same way that we have safety standards for cars, for food, for appliances, Australia is setting basic standards for the online tools and online services within our digital duty of care.”

Thank God for the First Amendment.

Don’t go to Australia.

New York Post.

Young women in my generation were lied to.

We grew up in the era of “sex positivity” and were told that sex was a morally inconsequential pastime.

We were led to believe that by having sex like men, we could achieve liberation.

Guess that didn’t work.

New York Post.

Elon Musk couldn’t hide his delight after unveiling his new Tesla supercar “The Roadster” that could fly and hit 60 mph in under a second.

The SpaceX founder, 55, told guests at an event held at a SpaceX site in McGregor, Texas, on Thursday that the next-generation all-electric vehicle “can basically fly like a rocket”, can do “rolls”, and “crazy gymnastics” while it was being showcased.

“Well it worked,” Musk quipped alongside Tesla’s Vice President of Vehicle Engineering Lars Moravy and Tesla’s Chief Designer Franz von Wolzhausen after the demonstration passed without any accident.

Something you won’t get under socialism.

New York Post.

Two church non-profits have taken in at least $62 million to build the Somali community in Minnesota — leading to the rise of Ilhan Omar and the fraud scandals that have gripped that state, The Post can reveal.

Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services were at the forefront of reshaping the frigid Land of 10,000 Lakes thanks to generous government contracts stemming back generations.

“This is a very big pile of government money and a whole bunch of different groups have come to get their own slice of it,” Parker Thayer, an immigration expert at the Washington, DC-based Capital Research Center, told The Post.

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

At a moment when populist candidates and anti-billionaire sentiment are surging nationally, a campaign to tax the assets of California’s billionaires is faltering.

Opponents are hammering the airwaves with ads portraying the tax as an economic wrecking ball, and the measure’s poll numbers have steadily eroded. Multiple surveys last month found it drawing only a narrow plurality, with support in the mid-40s — a warning sign for a campaign that needs to expand its coalition.

Ballot initiative veteran Chris Lehman pointed to one telling shift: Independents now oppose the wealth tax while supporting a separate tax measure for public schools. That, he said, “should’ve rang every alarm bell on Earth.”

“The trendlines from the polling I’ve seen are all looking bad for the yes side,” said Lehman, who is not working for either campaign. “They’re all looking good for the no side.”

A labor union’s proposal to offset federal health care cuts with a one-time, 5% tax on the state’s fewer than 300 billionaires has convulsed California politics from the moment it was filed late last year. Now, as ballots are hitting voters’ mailboxes, Proposition 40’s supporters are getting knocked back by powerful headwinds — including an opposition alliance comprising some of the state’s most powerful political players and richest residents.

Newsweek, a Voice of the Crust.

Vegan diets have been growing in popularity in recent years. However, experts investigated the impacts of an all-plant based diet in mice and found that it had a worrying effect on their liver.

Researchers at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, saw that when mice were switched to an exclusively plant-based diet, within only a few days their liver function changed and they experienced a significant decrease in motivation to do physical activity.

Unlike human vegans, who are a pain in the ass wherever they go.

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I mean it. This might be the best thing on Instagram this week.

Trisha Fenimore, a conservative content creator, posted a series of videos on Wednesday theorizing about a “conspiracy” by the Left to break major sex scandals right before elections to sway female voters.

Rollo Tomassi made the same point on his podcast last Sunday. He predicted that on the day after the election the Cornell 7 will disappear into the void. Considering that the incident happened two years ago, I think he’s got a point.

Don’t call it ‘conspiracy theory’—call it ‘spoiler alert’.

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So can migrants—back where they came from.

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The Department of Justice is suing California after state officials failed to comply with a 48-hour ultimatum to review a list of suspected noncitizen voters and set aside their ballots pending citizenship verification.

On Tuesday, acting Deputy Attorney General R. Trent McCotter sent letters to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber and Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder Dean Logan, demanding action on a federal list of potential noncitizens.

The DOJ instructed officials to segregate ballots already returned, stop sending ballots to individuals on the list until their citizenship was verified, and refrain from counting ballots pending verification.

“Allowing noncitizens to vote cancels citizen votes,” McCotter wrote, according to a letter obtained by NBC News.

Gov. Gavin Newsom took to X, calling the demand “dangerous nonsense.”

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About a dozen girls on a Washington state high school cross-country team forfeited a race Tuesday rather than compete against a male runner who switched from the boys team to the girls team mid-season.

Footage of the meet between Camas High School and Battle Ground High School in southwestern Washington shows the starting signal sounding and some runners beginning the race while the protesting girls walk forward before leaving the course.

“I don’t see how it’s OK to discriminate against my daughter and the daughters of everyone else that is trying to fairly compete,” Kevin Burns, whose daughter Holly led the protest, told OutKick.

Last month, a Camas sophomore male switched to the girls team midseason. After finishing 76th in a boys race, he has since won a varsity girls meet and placed second in two others, Outkick reported. The story has gained national attention, with teammates and opponents staging protests.

Camas School District Superintendent John Anzalone said the girls will not be penalized for refusing to compete.

“The girls are entitled to handle this however is best for them, and I was at the meet and it was peacefully done,” he told Outkick. “This was really about supporting and providing that space for the girls who did walk off to do so and not feel any repercussions.”

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American taxpayer dollars were being used to prop up leftist candidates in the Western Hemisphere under former President Joe Biden, a top Brazilian politician who is now seeking refuge in the United States from incarceration under his country’s socialist government, told the Daily Signal on Wednesday.

Eduardo Bolsonaro, the son of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who is now imprisoned, and brother of current presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro, made his remarks after eight countries in the region elected conservative candidates for president since Secretary of State Marco Rubio defunded the U.S. Agency for International Development in 2025.

“Absolutely, after my dad left the presidency, there was an increase in American money via USAID, NED (The National Endowment for Democracy), and the Atlantic Council for Brazil- money that belongs to the American taxpayer. We are talking about $300 million Brazilian Reais ($60 million USD). Now we need to combat the misinformation that the money helped raise.

“For example, we know that at least $5 million USD reached Brazil in 2022 to create these agencies that combat any sort of public criticism of the socialist government, which these agencies referred to as ‘right-wing misinformation,’” Bolsonaro continued.

Sherrod Brown Taking Heat for Comments on ‘Trump Judges’

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Aubagne is a town on the Côte d’Azur in southern France. On Monday a troubled 14-year-old boy came to school in Aubagne with a shotgun concealed in a guitar case. Once inside, he opened fire, wounding his principal and a teacher.

It took awhile before any news story mentioned the ethnicity of the alleged gunboy. However, it eventually emerged that he was of Ethiopian origin, and had carried a keffiyeh in his guitar case. There are as yet no reports that “Allahu Akhbar” was heard during the incident.

Fortune, a Voice of the Crust.

At 23, Emil Barr is already a millionaire building a business in Columbus, Ohio. But San Francisco’s investors and AI scene caught his eye—enough that the Flashpass founder told Fortune he signed a lease to move there about a year ago.

He changed his mind after looking more closely at California’s regulatory and tax environment, including its proposed billionaire wealth tax, which helped persuade him to cancel the move entirely. He wouldn’t owe the tax under the current proposal, but fears it could pave the way for taxes on millionaires like him.

“I think it was less of a matter of immediate finances,” Barr told Fortune. Instead, he pointed to what he described as California’s “anti-entrepreneurial” political rhetoric.

Enter the Zachbot: Trump’s new press secretary malfunctions on podium debut (The Guardian) Of course they can’t say anything nice because Trump cooties.

US transport secretary’s war on ‘woke’ could make roads even deadlier, experts warn (Ryan Fonseca/The Guardian)

In Trump’s pardons for public officials, Republicans win most of the mercy (Reuters)

The rise and fall of a MAGA princess (Cameron Peters/Vox)

Trump administration cuts refugees’ deadline to contest status termination, raising fears (Gisela Salomon/Associated Press)

Don’t Stop at ICE, Says Progressive Dem: Abolish the Department of Homeland Security (Jessica Washington/The Intercept)

MAGA’s Talarico conspiracy theory has no “off” switch (Jeremiah Johnson/The Argument)  There’s that MAGA guy again. (MAGA is the New Nigger.)

The raid on Ilhan Omar’s house is dangerous political theater (Moira Donegan/The Guardian)  But the raids on Trump were perfectly legitimate.

Trump’s Midterm Rally Blitz Probably Won’t Work (Bill Scher/Washington Monthly)  Keep pushing that Narrative.

Trump plays Russian roulette on eve of midterms (Zachary Basu/Axios)

Trump administration offering migrant children $3,000 to self-deport (Laura Romero/ABC News)  Pretty cheap, considering how much they would cost if they stayed here.

Federal judge issues longer-term decision blocking Trump’s White House media ban (NBC News)

Hi, I’m Your New Press Secretary, and It’s My First Time Reading Words Out Loud (Alexandra Petri/The Atlantic)  The Mean Girls of the Narrative Media have their marching orders.

Texas DA says ICE intentionally hit immigrant with a car and may have withheld evidence (NBC News)  That’s the Harris County DA, a Democrat.

ICE Planning $100 Million ‘Nightmare’ Domestic Spy Program (Whitney Curry Wimbish/American Prospect) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHHHH….

Trump’s Strategic Flunky Reserve Is Running Low (Andrew Egger/The Bulwark)

Sara Haines Attacks New Press Secretary Zacharia Because She’s Pretty  Mean Girls ahoy!

Nets Use Trump’s Alaska Trip as Proof of GOP DOOM; NBC Hits Zacharia (But Not Abdul)

Federal court bars California law requiring ICE officers to wear visible identification (Rena Rowe/Washington Examiner)

Newsbusters.

The stark difference in media treatment a worse average inflation rate under Biden received vs. the Armageddon-level coverage a retrospectively tamer inflation situation under Trump got was first exposed via an analysis conducted by MRC Business and CNSNews.

Now, just before the midterm elections this November, the tale of two inflation rates just got worse for the furiously spinning partisan journalists who covered them.

Using Bureau of Labor Statistics data, MRC Business and CNSNews researchers analyzed inflation rates across the seven-month midterm election season span of the Iran War during President Donald Trump’s second year (March 2026—September 2026). For comparison, the data was then juxtaposed to the same timeframe during the midterm election season during President Joe Biden’s second year (March 2022 — September 2022). As MRC previously revealed, the disparity was massive, especially in light of the “transitory” media narrative voters were getting under Biden vs. the doom-and-gloom circling the Trump administration now.

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I can see how that would be a problem.

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Wow, you’d think they were Dearborn….

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Remember: It’s not discrimination if you’re discriminating against white men!

I can’t imagine any self-respecting straight white man wanting to work in Ed Markey’s office, but offering the job only to minorities is obviously discriminatory and should get you into a lot of trouble.

The word “encouraged” is doing the heavy lifting in Markey’s post.

White men can apply, but good luck getting the job!

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An appeals court Wednesday rejected California’s mandate that federal immigration agents wear identification, asserting it violates the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution.

California’s No Vigilantes Act, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last year, requires nonuniformed law enforcement officers to display their agency and name or badge number during arrests, detentions, and crowd control enforcement. The law, aimed at regulating Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, established misdemeanor penalties for noncompliant agents.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court ruling upholding the law.

“The Supremacy Clause prohibits States from directly regulating federal operations even when regulating state operations in the same manner,” 9th Circuit Judge Mark Bennett, a Donald Trump appointee, wrote for the majority.

California contends the law was permissible under the Supremacy Clause since it didn’t exclusively interfere with federal operations.

However, the 9th Circuit determined even minimal interference is a state directly regulating federal activity.

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And indeed he does.

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Four of America’s largest banks relied on the Southern Poverty Law Center in decisions affecting conservative and religious organizations, according to a newly released federal debanking report.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency report, released Wednesday, details instances involving JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, PNC Bank, and TD Bank, all of which referenced the SPLC while denying loans to organizations or closing their accounts. The SPLC‘s map of hate groups lists some mainstream conservative and Christian groups alongside Klan chapters, due to the groups’ views on marriage, immigration, critical race theory, or opposition to radical Islam.

“No American should be locked out of the banking system for being conservative or Christian,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., told the Daily Signal. “Reports that major financial institutions relied on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s politically motivated labels to deny services to conservatives are deeply troubling and demand answers.”

Critics have long argued that the SPLC’s accusations have real-world consequences—including debanking.

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Members of the Camas High School girls cross country team walk off the course at the start of a 4A Greater St. Helens League meet against Battle Ground on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026 at UL campus in Camas. The girls are protesting the inclusion of a transgender runner on their team.

Even on the Left Coast, girls have stopped putting up with Woke bullshit.

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One day after federal agents raided Ilhan Omar’s Washington home, we lear that her congressional staff got her birth year changed in Minnesota’s official legislative records in May 2019, moving it from 1981 to 1982 – months after she was sworn into Congress. Alpha News was first to the punchbowl on this one last December. In light of the federal raid on Omar’s DC home… well, check it out.

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Omar has said she derived citizenship through her father, Nur Omar Mohamed, when he naturalized in 2000, and the law then required the child to be under 18 when the parent naturalized. Born in 1981, she’d have been an adult all of 2000 – the year she says she became a citizen at 17, the NY Post reports.

For her two years in the Minnesota House and more than four months into her congressional term, the state’s Legislative Reference Library listed her birthday as Oct. 4, 1981, the same date carried by Wikipedia, the BBC and Congress’s own Biographical Directory.

Newsbusters.

The Elitist Media evening news continue on their mission to report as little as possible on the midterm elections unless there is a clear opportunity to prop a liberal Democrat up. Case in point, the latest White House roundup on the CBS Evening News.

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As we often say here at the MRC: if it weren’t for double standards, there’d be none at all. As we all know, Democrat candidate James Talarico was off the campaign trail for nearly two weeks reportedly due to a nasty bout of the flu. There was no journalistic curiosity as to this absence, unexplained until Talarico reemerged over the weekend. And even then, there is no acknowledgement of it. It is the literal tree falling in the woods with no one to witness it.

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A Philadelphia city employee with a long rap sheet ambushed police responding to a call, killed one officer and critically wounded another, then told investigators he did it because they were white.

My, what a surprise.

Newsbusters.

In a Monday appearance on The View’s Behind the Table podcast, ABC co-host Sunny Hostin doubled down on equating the upcoming execution of convicted terrorist Nidal Hasan, and its possible public view ability, as equivalent to public lynchings of black men in the South. She took it a step further and equated it to the recorded beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl by ISIS terrorists.

And in an additional example of Hostin seeing everything through the prism of chronic racial grievance, on Tuesday’s episode of The View, she suggested it was racist of President Trump to accurately describe Somalia as a failed state.

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A Democratic candidate for local office in deep-red rural Indiana delivered a rambling, apparently intoxicated performance during a televised candidate forum, responding to a standard policy question by declaring she would fire Republicans, calling MAGA supporters racist and unintelligent, and closing with the line “We have guns too.”

Jaime West, the Democratic nominee for Fayette County Council District 4, appeared on LocalTV3’s October 9 candidate forum, hosted by Connersville News-Examiner managing editor Amy Graham-McCarty. When asked what one decision she would make that might be unpopular with some voters but in the county’s best interest, West paused, asked the moderator to repeat the question, and then answered: “Firing all Republicans. I wouldn’t let them… I don’t even talk to them. I don’t like them.”

She continued that the county’s own state representative had voted against her own party, then shifted to blaming local voters for “this ICE coming into our communities, stealing people’s jobs.” West distinguished between “good Republicans” and “these MAGAs,” describing the latter as “just racist and aren’t very intelligent at all.” She also claimed she had been “threatened so many times to my face by MAGA,” including an allegation that “the sheriff’s nephew threatened to blow my head off.”

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Today the king of Spain, Felipe VI, paid a visit to Ceuta, the Spanish enclave in North Africa adjacent to Morocco. The king made a point of visiting a Christian cemetery to honor Spanish soldiers who were killed fighting the Moors during the Reconquista.

Haha, just kidding! Of course the king didn’t pay his respects to the heroes of Spanish history. No, instead he made a point of visiting a Muslim cemetery, where more than 140 of the recent invaders who drowned trying to enter Ceuta are buried.

The featured photos for tonight’s report show two of the “migrants” in the camp on the beach at Ceuta engaged in specifically Islamic activities: reading the Koran and practicing salat, or Islamic prayer. It’s a reminder that Morocco still doesn’t recognize Spanish sovereignty over the enclave/exclave. Muslims consider the territory to be part of the Ummah, subject to waqfrules. The young man praying inside a circle of drink bottles has created a rudimentary mosque, and by praying in it he is asserting its status as a piece of Islamic territory.