DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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Within minutes of the Democrats retaking power in the House of Representatives, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the expected chair of the House Oversight Committee, just posted a menacing two-word message: “Lawyer up.”

Across the country, far-left politicians and pundits immediately demanded a spasm of investigations and impeachments as soon as they assume control of both houses. Like a nation of Madame Defarges, activists are eagerly knitting the names of targets into the lists of the walking dead, starting with Haley Stevens, who decided to test the “big tent” claims by splitting her ticket to vote against Abdul El-Sayed.

The conditions on the Hill are only likely to make such rage politics more appealing with the new Congress. Despite the large margin secured in the House, it is not enough to overcome a veto requiring two-thirds of both houses. While impeachment also requires a two-thirds vote for conviction, investigations will be a delivery item to offer the base as proof of action in the deadlocked conditions that will unfold on the Hill.

Say what you will about Democrats, they (a) never forget which side they’re on and (b) never forget who their enemies are.

Republicans are prone to political Alzheimer’s. That’s why you often find RINOs but rarely find DINOs.

The American Mind.

The results of the midterm elections are clear; their meaning is not. The blue tsunami apparently has not budged either of the dominant intellectual factions on the Right. The so-called “doomers” see fresh support for their conviction that the republic is sliding more or less inexorably into ruin. The more conventional Old Guard, who find such talk alarming, continue to insist that “you win some, you lose some,” and that Republicans will live to fight another day.

What makes the current political scene so perplexing is that both sides can point to certain undeniable facts to support their position. The United States is, for now, neither all one thing nor all the other. James Madison’s Constitution, though beaten and bruised, is still functioning, according to the conventionalists. American politics remains fundamentally “normal.” In reply, the pessimistic wing accuses the “normie-cons” of naivete and complacency. The original Constitution, they argue, has by now been almost entirely pushed aside by a new, second Constitution, based on a new understanding of justice and human nature, and fanatically devoted to implementing the ideological Left’s agenda.

It is hard to deny that virtually all aspects of our public life have become distorted and dysfunctional in a way the founders would hardly recognize. Yet the Old Guard does seem to be correct to insist that elections—the most important safeguard of popular consent—are still respected by both sides, however tenuously.

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Many people are looking at the number of votes Democrat Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa received in Texas and wondering how it is possible. Hinojosa won more votes than Kamala Harris in ’24 and beat incumbent Governor Greg Abbott by almost a million votes. How is this possible?

Well, to understand why Texans voted blue, perhaps it is worthwhile listening to the candidate. I would challenge readers to set aside their expectations and just watch five minutes of a lengthy interview Hinojosa gave. She sounds like a much better candidate than Greg Abbott.

She may well believe in some stuff other social stuff that is completely looney, but in her presentation of the “economic populism” message, she is far more eloquent than most of the GOP candidates.

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Young students are often revolting – these days it seems they are being given a run for their money by the supposed responsible adults egging them on.

My, what a surprise.

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“Ronald Reagan used to warn about communism, he talked about it, but it was a distant threat across the world,” Speaker Mike Johnson said in a warning on the campaign trail. “And now the barbarians are inside the gate … This is not your father’s Democratic Party. That party’s long gone.”

The Foundry.

The American Mind.

Democratic candidates won races in Republican strongholds, flipping Senate seats in Kansas, Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, and even Texas. On a night shaping up as a Democratic romp, President Trump told The New York Times that he would accept the election results.

Per Grok, say hello to these DSA winners, whose number also includes Troy Jackson, who unseated Senator Susan Collins in Maine.

• Claire Valdez (NY-07, Brooklyn/Queens area; open seat formerly held by retiring Representative Nydia Velázquez)
• Darializa Avila Chevalier (NY-13, Upper Manhattan/Bronx; defeated incumbent Adriano Espaillat in the primary)
• Melat Kiros (CO-01, Denver area; defeated longtime incumbent Diana DeGette in the primary)
• Chris Rabb (PA-03, Philadelphia)
• Donavan McKinney (MI-13, Detroit area; defeated incumbent Shri Thanedar in the primary)

Incumbents who won reelection:

• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14)
• Rashida Tlaib (MI-12)?

This brings the DSA-aligned contingent in the House to roughly seven members (up from two). Most of these races were in deep-blue seats, so general election victories were expected after primary wins.

The New Neo.

Calling Iran a “forever war” about a month after it started was another factor, and the Tuckeresque right was very instrumental in disseminating that message as well, despite the fact that it’s been a war in which there have been very very few American casualties and pretty much no boots on the ground, against an implacable enemy that’s done much damage all around the world for almost fifty years. No matter. A lot of people on the right feel that Trump broke one of the promises on which they had relied, and that it’s the fault of his listening to the nefarious Jews.

Trump did promise ‘no more wars’, and that was stupid, because it’s a promise he couldn’t guarantee to keep. It only takes one side to make a war, and Iran has been making war on the U.S. since 1979.

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The author of Islam: An Evolutionary Perspective explains it all to you.

The difference between Bill Gates and Elon Musk.

New York Post.

As Californians anxiously await election results this morning, one ballot measure closely being watched by the industry’s one percent is Proposition 40 — which calls for a one-time 5% tax on any resident with a net worth exceeding $1 billion.

As of press time, Prop 40 was losing 55.6% to 44.4% with 60% of the votes counted.

Still, Page Six Hollywood hears that Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri quietly left California anyway as just the latest mogul to flee the state, and one knowledgeable source says the exec relocated “to escape the billionaire tax.”

Even if the ballot measure loses, insiders say it has set a precedent that uber-wealthy Californians are in for a rough ride in the state.

That this would even be a thing in California is the finger of God pointing. Time to leave.

How bad is it? People are moving from California to New York to save on taxes. That’s how bad it is.

New York Post.

Anti-Israel activists in Philadelphia are demanding that Jewish-owned businesses get out of town ahead of a Sunday protest scheduled for the eve of the anniversary of the Kristallnacht Nazi night of terror.

The Philly Bike On Your Left group, along with two other anti-Israel activist organizations, is calling for a bicycle protest targeting Jewish-owned stores in Philly’s ritzy Rittenhouse Square neighborhood.

Marti Lieberman, 37, co-owner of Mac Mart, told The Post she was stunned to learn that her business was among those being targeted — along with K’Far Cafe, Huda Burger, Goldie, Dizengoff, and Schlesinger’s.

The Telegraph (UK).

The Health Secretary is creating a new NHS agency after ministers struggled to dismantle “the world’s biggest quango”.

Sir Keir Starmer promised last year to abolish NHS England, bringing its functions and thousands of staff back under direct government control.

But the Government has run into difficulties with transferring employees into the Civil Service, where average pay packages are significantly lower.

Yvette Cooper has now announced that thousands of NHS England staff will remain outside the Civil Service, employed by a new public agency.

Quango: “From the initial letters (the first two letters for the first word) of quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization. Coined by American president of the Carnegie Foundation Alan Pifer in 1967.” —Wictionary

The Telegraph (UK).

That’s what happens when you pick the bear over the man.

The Telegraph (UK).

A 14-year-old girl has told a court that commuters stared at their phones while two Afghan men sexually assaulted her on a train.

Baryalai Rahimi, 25, and Mirebadurahman Sadat, 29, followed the teenager onto a London-bound train at a Kent railway station on Feb 4, the Inner London Crown Court heard.

Mr Rahimi allegedly kissed and sexually assaulted her in the carriage while other passengers gazed at their phones.

He then lured her into a lavatory and raped her three times, before handing her to Mr Sadat, it was alleged. Mr Sadat also sexually assaulted her after that.

I can see this happening in Mamdani’s New York.

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

The Telegraph (UK).

The Environment Secretary has appeared to lose her cool about smoky bacon crisps, telling an interviewer to “get a life”

Dame Angela Eagle made the remark when asked about the meat-flavoured snack facing a ban from British supermarket shelves under Andy Burnham’s post-Brexit deal with the EU.

During her morning media round on Thursday, Dame Angela was asked by Stig Abell, the Times Radio breakfast show host, whether she would be happy for smoky bacon crisps to be banned if it meant closer alignment with the EU.

She replied: “Oh, Stig. I mean really? I mean we’ve had EU straight bananas and now we’re talking about banning smoky bacon crisps. I think you should get a life.
“This is actually about ensuring that we can do business with our closest neighbours. We’ve got huge potential growth in our economy if we allow our farmers and food producers to be able to export into Europe again without all the huge uncertainty and costs of frictions that Brexit brought us.”

She continued: “This will be a deal that improves that situation and enables our economy to grow and for us to have higher levels of prosperity than we’ve had before. If you want to obsess about smoky bacon crisps, I suppose that’s just your choice.”

Dealing with hazy abstractions while ignoring actual cases is signature of Leftist government.

Curtis Yarvin (Mencius Moldbug)

Republicans can win easily. They can win the next election easily. They could have won this election easily, if they were living in reality. Instead, from top to bottom, from voters to pundits to politicians to donors, they decided to live in la-la land. With what results, we see.

The whole theory of the postwar Republican Party is that Republicans take governance seriously, whereas Democrats only care about power. True enough. But not true enough to win. Just true enough to lose.

Republicans win a little bit of power and do some small things. The second Trump administration is real. It has done real things. Some have been screwups. Most have been good things. Yes, the White House actually needs a ballroom. Obviously our informed, concerned citizens can see that, and vote for the President who finally gave America the ballroom it deserves.

But all the pundits who blame this on “the divisive MAGA agenda,” and all the other pundits who blame it on “not executing the MAGA agenda,” are profoundly out to lunch. There is no “agenda” that will fix this. There are no “issues,” like “affordability.”

Republicans lost this election because they believe that elections are won by motivation, and motivation is about “issues” and “agendas.” This is indeed how a republic works.

The reality is that the United States is not a republic—a “res publica.” It is not a government of informed, concerned citizens coming together to govern themselves better. It is a Third World democracy in which parties are armies. It is the late Roman Republic.

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Carl Benjamin (Sargon of Akkad) has some inconvenient truth for Republicans.

Not the Bee.

We all know James “six-gender” Talarico and “Ab-Dual Citizen” El-Sayed, so here are some lesser-known figures on the radical left who won big.

Newsweek has a list of eight new socialists who won their races last night, a number of whom are from New York and are allies of Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

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As Republicans suffered a landslide defeat and Texas elected its first Democrat governor in more than three decades, one of the biggest losers of the U.S. midterms was not on the ballot: billionaire Elon Musk.

The world’s richest man spent nearly half a billion dollars to back Republican candidates and keep Texas red—a state home to his automaker Tesla, rocket-to-artificial intelligence company SpaceX, and a planned chipmaking venture between the two.

Those bets unraveled as Democrats seized both chambers of Congress and Gina Hinojosa defeated Greg Abbott in the Texas governor’s race, in a stinging rebuke to President Donald Trump, a close Musk ally whom the billionaire helped elect.

One Democrat Governor does not a Blue state make—not even a Democrat Governor and a Democrat Senator. Still, Democrats have never been shy about pushing government power to its limits and beyond, so Elon is going to have multiple activist busybodies attempting to crawl up his butt with a microscope. I’m sure he’ll have a plan to cope with that, and I have no doubt that he will come out of the experience with some new tricks to try in the next election. The thing about highly successful entrepreneurs is that they are highly successful entrepreneurs—they’ve survived the swamp, and the alligators don’t faze them.

The American Mind.

Kevin Portteus’s essay, “Congress and the Collapse of Constitutional Republicanism in America,” is nominally a meditation on congressional dysfunction. But it’s much more than that. He offers a deep reflection on the administrative state and the breakdown of our institutions under its weight.

Portteus begins by accurately noting that Congress’s favorite activity is not legislating. Instead, it follows the other two branches of the federal government in governing by decidedly extra-constitutional means, including executive orders and actions, administrative rulemaking, and judicial meddling. As he says, “Through both positive action conferring legislative power on others, and the failure to address important issues through legislation, legislative power has steadily passed from its constitutionally-designated home to other actors.” Congress has voluntarily ceded its own authority. So much for James Madison’s argument in Federalist 51 that ambition will counteract ambition.

Legally speaking, any congressional delegation of power that articulates an “intelligible principle”—that is to say, anything that is not absurd—tends to be upheld by the courts. Portteus puts it forcefully: “As it is, there isn’t much reason for Congress to exist. They don’t legislate in the constitutional sense. [And] they lack the independence and expertise to serve as legislators in the Progressive sense.”

Furthermore, the power Congress delegates is brought to bear not by natural or hereditary aristocrats, but by those who have merely “credentialed” in our “elite” institutions of higher learning. These institutions simply serve to replicate progressive modes and orders, including hubris and incompetence. “From botched disaster responses to the inability of our military and foreign policy establishments to win wars or influence people, we have the worst elites. What they excel at is navigating the system and making it work for themselves and their friends.” Portteus cites Aristotle’s regime science: “aristocracy deteriorates into oligarchy: the rule of the few, for the sake of themselves, rather than for the sake of the whole. The progressives, though they did not intend it, set the nation on this path.”

The Left loves to chatter on about ‘oligarchs’, attempting to draw a parallel between the kleptocrats who profited from the dissolution of the Communist regime in the Soviet Union and the American billionaires that they detest. The real ‘oligarchs’ are Democrat politicians who use the power of government to enrich themselves, their friends in the political NGOs and ‘aid’ agencies, and they Eternal Victim Underclass whose votes they buy with handouts (and a plethora of opportunities for fraud) in order to keep in power. Think of the ‘average’ people you deal with every day, and reflect on the fact that half of the population is below average (often significantly far below) in intelligence.

Tim Pool has an interesting and (in some ways) persuasive take on what just happened.

Highly recommended.

“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.”

1. Democrats will impeach Trump … again. It’s what they do. It won’t go anywhere, because they don’t have the necessary votes in the Senate, but it’s an itch that they can’t help scratching.
2. We will see more left-wing mobs and left-wing political violence. (Angry old liberal slaps TPUSA volunteer for disagreeing with his tolerant worldview)
3. Crime will increase in Blue states and possibly slop over into Red states. That kind of rot tends to spread.
4. Schools, especially government (‘public’) schools will become even shittier than they are now.
5. More illegal immigration, since Democrats will double down on it.

Time to stock up on guns, food, and bottled water.

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Why must leftists conquer entire nations? Why do they get so angry at anyone who resists their ideology? Why can’t they just build a new nation filled entirely with fellow leftists?

It really shouldn’t be this difficult for Marxist-socialists, communists, “green energy” fanatics, “diversity, inclusion, and equity” cultists, and bureaucracy-worshiping globalists to build a regulatory paradise based on the “woke” commandments of their secular faith.

There are more than enough power-hungry leftist politicians in the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States to construct the all-powerful central government that they desire. Career bureaucrats in the U.S. have filled the administrative state with so many sub-agencies, boards, working groups, and miscellaneous programs that nobody in Congress could create an organizational chart accurately diagramming the bureaucratic blob. The European Union – a supranational shrine to bloated bureaucratic incompetence – has so many committees within its ranks that there are surely a dozen such committees studying why the Union has so many committees!

There are more than enough lefty billionaires – including George Soros, Bill Gates, Neville Roy Singham, Michael Bloomberg, Tom Steyer, and Howard Schultz – to put up the seed money for their communist utopia. Heck, Western central banks essentially exist to manipulate markets in favor of the left’s pet causes, such as how best to funnel taxpayer dollars into the bank accounts of leftist billionaires who lecture the world about “global warming,” “white supremacy,” mandatory COVID shots, and the need for open borders and online censorship. Wall Street and City of London firms are more interested in companies’ “social credit scores” and ESG bona fides than the traditional metrics of whether a business can generate profit and a return on investment.

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With all these institutional forces at their disposal, it is a wonder why they can’t seem to seal the deal. How can you control the news, the universities, “woke” capital, the NGO network, the permanent government bureaucracy, and all the international agencies and not have already rebranded the United States as the “Union of Soviet Socialist Republics” or the “People’s Republic of America”? It’s embarrassing, really.

At the end of the day, there are just too many members of society who possess a modicum of common sense and refuse to buy what the commies are selling.

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As readers know by now, my favorite television show was made in the 1970s. It is called “The Waltons.” It’s about the experiences of one Virginia household in the Great Depression and how they found the good life not through money and prosperity but family, love, and a stable home on the land. It’s such an inspiration. Every episode offers an interesting life lesson of some sort and reinforces the values that made this country great.

You might not notice at first, but one unusual aspect is that this show features a multigenerational household. The father’s father and his wife live in the house with their seven grandchildren. The grandfather helps daily in the family business of lumber harvested from their own land. And the grandmother helps with all household chores of cooking, cleaning, laundry, plus dishes out wisdom at every turn. The grandparents provide an essential element of stability.

This model of living was not unusual at the time. It was a pattern. My grandparents on both sides of my family lived this way as children with several generations in a single household or, at least, very nearby. This shaped who they were. It was part of becoming civilized to learn what it is like to age, to have sickness and even death occur alongside new life, and to observe the cycles taking place right before one’s very eyes.

In the absence of these extended households, we have lost so much. The children no longer hear grand tales of the old days on a regular basis from the elderly. They are denied access to vivid accounts of what life was like in earlier times. The past doesn’t seem real; it seems like a book in which the kids are not interested.

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Marketing professor and anti-MAGA podcaster Scott Galloway launched an unhinged attack on Elon Musk, branding the billionaire a “traitor to the West” before invoking the infamous Rosenberg espionage case, which ended with the execution of two Americans during the Cold War.

Galloway spewed the incendiary comments during a discussion with former technology journalist Kara Swisher about Silicon Valley’s growing influence, arguing that the United States’ obsession with billionaire innovators has created a dangerous double standard.

However, what began as a familiar critique of Silicon Valley’s billionaire class quickly took a darker turn. Galloway compared Musk to aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh, whose sympathies toward Nazi Germany before America’s entry into World War II remain a controversial chapter in U.S. history. Galloway then invoked Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the American couple executed in 1953 after being convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union.

“We lined up the Rosenbergs against a wall,” Galloway said, before insisting Musk should be held to the same standards as other traitors.

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Almost 24,000 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions or charges have been released into communities since Jan. 20, 2025, due to California’s refusal to honor Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said.

“There are more than 81,000 criminal charges or convictions associated with these non-honored detainers,” the DHS said in a Nov. 2 statement.

This includes 3,295 burglaries, 1,097 assaults, 1,088 drug trafficking charges, 169 homicides, and 147 sexual assaults.

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In an era of clueless voters and profoundly dishonest candidates, cynicism is one of the last best checks on political power run amok. Regardless of the final vote count in Tuesday’s mid-term congressional elections, both Republicans and Democrats have earned all the distrust they will reap.

Any hope that elections would safeguard the Constitution should have perished after 9/11. Consider the race for a U.S. Senate seat in Michigan. Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed talks as if the Second Amendment only protects Americans’ right to own the type of antique flintlock muskets used to fight the British Army at Yorktown. Republican candidate Mike Rogers has devoted his congressional career to championing the Deep State and obliterating the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on warrantless unreasonable searches. After Edward Snowden exposed a vast National Security Agency crime spree, Rogers exonerated Uncle Sam’s secret surveillance: “You can’t have your privacy violated if you don’t know your privacy is violated.”

But whoever Michigan voters send to the Senate will take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, right? As former U.S. senator Bob Kerrey explained in 2013, “The problem is, the second your hand comes off the Bible, you become an asshole.”

The Antiplanner.

Construction is about to begin on 220 “affordable” apartments that average 635 square feet but whose construction will cost $900,000 each. Called Gateway Towers, the project will cost $197.8 million and the apartments will be available to people who earn up to 70 percent of median incomes.

Median income for a four-person household in San Jose is $205,500, so that means that people who earn $144,000 a year will be eligible to apply for housing built with taxpayer subsidies from the rest of the country where median household incomes are less than $88,000. Isn’t it wonderful to live in a country where people cheerfully pay higher taxes to subsidize the housing of others who earn 64 percent more income than they do?

Gateway Tower is so important for San Jose that the city council overrode the recommendations of the city’s Historic Landmark Commission and allowed the builder to demolish parts of historic Herrold College, an early electronics engineering school. Don’t worry: the developer promises to include a “permanent historic display” somewhere in the building.

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A culture-enriching Tunisian woman went into a nursery school in the French city of Nice yesterday and brandished a knife and a gun while attacking the principal and a teacher (although the gun was never fired). I don’t know if it has any relevance to the story, but everyone mentioned in the media report below is female.

The angry Täterin was the mother of two children enrolled at the school. Her reasons for attacking school personnel are not at all clear. She had previously been flagged by the state for terroristic affiliations and was ordered deported. However, she was so homesick for her beloved France that she later returned, and was residing in the country illegally at the time she blitzed the school. Deporting her now will be difficult, due to the fact that she has four children. Och, the puir wee bairns!

The Foundry.

Americans will soon learn what the Democrat agenda is really about, and it certainly isn’t about working with President Donald Trump to reduce the cost of living.

The blue tsunami came to be Tuesday night as a wave of Democrats took seats in the House and the Senate that seemed impossible not long ago. They will now have sizable majorities in both houses of Congress.

The big question is, what will they do with those majorities?

While Democrats may have ridden their message about “affordability” to a massive victory on Tuesday night, they don’t intend to limit their agenda to getting grocery bills down. Not that they were ever particularly good at that.

No, they fully intend to use their victory Tuesday night to dial up lawfare to 11.

The War Zone.

On Sunday evening, commentator Tucker Carlson made a chilling claim: U.S. President Donald Trump may soon use nuclear weapons against Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain facility. Carlson’s comments were posted on X just two days ahead of the Nov. 3 U.S. midterm elections, which Trump has frequently used as a timeframe for when he would conduct a new wave of airstrikes on Iran if he so decides. However, earlier on Monday, Trump downplayed that deadline, answering “no” when asked by reporters whether he was considering attacking after the election is over.

Regardless, Carlson’s claim runs counter to the president’s previous stance on the nuclear weapons issue. Trump has publicly eschewed their use, and while he has discussed attacking Pickaxe Mountain, he’s made it clear it would be by a conventional weapon if he made the call.

Monday afternoon, the White House dismissed Carlson’s asssertion.

Tucker Carlson is blowing smoke out of his ass, as usual.

Trump Uses Final Pre-Midterm Speech to Ramble About Reflecting Pool (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)

Election denial activists promote dubious database to catch supposed voter fraud (Alex Kaplan/Media Matters for America)

The bro-casts are barely talking about Trump or hosting his allies ahead of the midterms (Andrew Lawrence/Media Matters for America)

Trump Administration Said to Plan Rolling Back Pregnancy-Related Job Protections (New York Times)

How Elon Musk Bought the Midterms. We Did the Math (Zeteo)

Why Trump Is Entering His Worst-Ever Doom Spiral: Political Guru (William Vaillancourt/The Daily Beast)

Trump’s Election Fraud Reward Raises Fears of Vigilantism, Local Officials Say (Zolan Kanno-Youngs/New York Times)

The Next Congress Must Punish Trump’s Attempted Election Steal to Avert a Failed Republic (Andy Craig/The UnPopulist)

GOP’s midterm blame game starts early (Axios)

Talarico says he’d work with Trump to fulfill ‘promise’ of MAGA: ‘There’s still time’ (Claire Carter/Washington Examiner)  And if you believe that one, he’ll tell you another one.

Trump Delivers a Closing Midterm Message. Mostly About Landscaping. (Shawn McCreesh/New York Times)

Pete Hegseth Makes Over Half the Military Want to Quit Early (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)

Republicans Can Blame Trump for Their Midterm Woes (Jonathan Martin/Politico)  Certainly Democrats will.

Big majority of US voters disapprove of Trump’s handling of inflation: FT poll (Financial Times)  More fake polls.

I’ve spent years fact-checking Trump. Here are 5 election claims he’s already making — and the facts undercutting them. (Glenn Kessler/MS NOW)

Child Dies In New York’s First Measles Death In 30 Years; Hochul Blames Washington

‘We forgot what it’s like to be populist’: Republicans see Trump’s 2024 crumbling (Politico)

Murdochs’ MAGA Math (Oliver Darcy/Status)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

The Online Right’s Closing Campaign Argument: Fascist Anakin Skywalker Memes (Miles Klee/Wired)

Finally, the Beginning of Trump’s End (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)

Trump Was Right. He Is on the Ballot. (Mona Charen/The Bulwark)  Whether he’s running or not.

WashPost: Democrats Plan Flood of Probes Into Trump Business, Deals  It’s all about Trump and Trump cooties.

Ninth Circuit wipes out ruling allowing Trump administration to threaten election officials (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)

Trump’s midterm campaign has distilled his vile message (Sidney Blumenthal/The Guardian)

The GOP’s midterms meltdown has one author (Charles Lane/Washington Post)

Trump is going to get ‘trounced’ in the midterms — and knows it, Anthony Scaramucci tells CNBC (Chloe Taylor/CNBC)  After all, he’s been right so many times before.

Elitist Media’s Closing Midterm Argument: Vote Against Racist MAGA or America Will Be Sent to Hell

Will Trump or others interfere with voting? What to know about election security. (Washington Post)

ABC Fears Trump to Steal Midterms, Hint He’s Behind Thick NY Ballots

Election night opens with Trump in battle mode (Herb Scribner/Axios)  When is Trump not in ‘battle mode’?

Things Are Going to Get Ugly — Donald Trump is about to redefine the lame-duck presidency. (David Frum/The Atlantic)  Anything involving David Frum is already ugly.

Trump just said he was ending aid to Israel. He might actually mean it. (Eric Levitz/Vox)

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In an Election Day win for President Donald Trump’s administration, a judicial game of ping-pong in California has moved in his favor.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals cleared the way for the Justice Department to continue its probe of California voter rolls including a warning to election workers against counting illegal votes.

The appeals court reinstated its earlier ruling that allowed the Justice Department to continue its efforts to try to have the state set aside mail-in ballots from suspected noncitizens.

The Justice Department last month announced finding more than 20,000 “likely” noncitizens on California’s voter rolls. It did not ask the state to scrap the ballots. Rather, it asked that the ballots be set aside until the citizenship could be confirmed before counting.

This marks the 9th Circuit’s third decision on the matter in a day.

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A shadowy international group calling itself The Capytistas is preparing to expose the private homes of some of America’s wealthiest individuals in a new campaign, according to a dossier viewed by WIRED.

No doubt to give the Socialist Mobsters a target.

The Capytistas’ strategy is simple: Turn the private residences of the ultrawealthy into public information, potentially exposing properties their owners have gone to considerable lengths to keep out of the spotlight.

The group claims to have secured more than $1.2 million in financial backing and intends to publish over 150 residential addresses, many of which it says have never been publicly disclosed.

Billionaire Elon Musk, his brother Kimbal, and members of Tesla’s board of directors are among the group’s initial targets, and the group’s dossier contains 32 addresses associated with Musk and Tesla leadership.

If I were a billionaire, my house would look like Obama’s Presidential Library, only with machine guns.

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Many were excited when McDonald’s recently announced, “The McRib is back.” The question is whether it is really back or really a McRib. In an interesting decision out of Chicago, U.S. District Judge April Perry ruled that McDonald’s must go to trial on a class action lawsuit alleging that the popular McRib sandwich is made with non-rib meat.

The lawsuit alleges that McDonald’s merely shapes the meat to look like ribs but uses shoulder, heart, tripe, or stomach – making it sound more like McHaggis. McDonald’s vehemently denies the accusation and stands by its representation that the only ingredients are “pork, water, salt, dextrose, and rosemary extract.” The class action was filed under an array of tort, fraud, and misrepresentation theories. In the end, however, the impact on McDonald’s could have the same business impact that the “pink slime” stories had on Taco Bell.

The ruling comes just three days after the McRib’s return to McDonald’s menus across the country. It first debuted in 1981.

Serious business!

I know nothing of the McRib sandwich, for fear of discovering that I like it; and, since every restaurant I have frequented has, upon discerning that I like a particular dish, eliminated that choice from their menu, I deemed it a benefit pro bono publico to avoid such popular selections as would cause hate and discontent were I inadvertently to be the cause of their disappearance.

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Picture a baby named Leslie, Kelly, or Ashley, and you’ll probably picture a girl. But all three names were once given mostly to boys. Looking at US baby names from 1936 to 2025, we found that 42 shifted from mostly boys to mostly girls, while just 12 went the other way. Explore the charts below to see how each name changed and what drove the shifts in each direction.

It has been my experience that a lot of upper-class (and wannabes) give both male and female offspring last names as first names—as in the above Leslie, Kelly, and Ashley. When I was at Yale, the President was Kingman Brewster, and his most famous recent predecessor was Whitney Griswold. We went to sweat at the Payne Whitney Gymnasium. Endicott Peabody was a famous headmaster at Groton. Think of Princeton alum Brooke Shields.

New York Post.

All through middle school my son was, at least on paper, a numbers whiz. His report cards consistently showed A’s — his lowest grade was a B plus. But when he slid down to a 78 on his first exam at a top high school in Queens this fall, I pulled up a chair to help him review for his next test.

I’ll never forget seeing tears well up in my son’s eyes as he was only able to answer the first couple of questions on the worksheet.

He couldn’t solve basic algebra. He couldn’t do geometry. He couldn’t compute elementary-school fractions.

Not the Bee.

But they were Mostly Peaceful!™

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Presumably the dog is yellow….

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Nick Shirley is looking to earn his commission with this one.

The online influencer who exposed the “Learing Centers” and other major fraud rings is now investigating the supply chain of human trafficking into the United States.

It’s worth the whole 44 minutes.

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Let’s see: Nose Ring, expanded ear hoops, anti-Jewish violence  … Yup, a Modern Woman.

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Ethnicity? I thought you’d never ask:

I’m not sure what’s funnier: the useless overweight female cop, or the actual smack to the face!

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Ah, the state of Minnesota in autumn.

Crisp air, bright leaves, and … sounds of Somali tribal warfare?

A bunch of young Somali men caused thousands of people to flee the historic Union Depot building, ruining a private event with their fighting, but none of them were arrested?

Yup. No longer a Democrat.

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Bulk disclosure of the lists to states likely violates the Privacy Act, which prohibits disclosure of identifiable personal information unless officials meet one of the exceptions, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in the District of Columbia wrote in a 30-page ruling.

The law enforcement exception, for instance, does not apply because it requires the head of an agency to request records, and the government has not shown any such request, Chutkan said.

Officials also never published a systems of record notice, or SORN, which the act requires for new databases.

 

The Foundry.

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It is a truth, universally understood, that Europe does not want, nor does it need, another totalitarian dictatorship that uses terror and murder to subjugate its captive population. This was the sentiment behind the creation of the European Convention on Human Rights, and also the Court to administer its clauses and sections. This document has constitutional strength, such that it is regularly used to overrule constitutional settlements. It is highly likely that the reason the UK voted for Brexit in 2016 was not necessarily because of a desire to discard the directives and agencies of the EU, but actually to stop activist judges on the European Court of Human Rights from interfering in British legal affairs. The Convention and the Court are the primary reasons why the UK is unable to deport the man of combat age with base or zero sexual morality from invading our shores with a large degree of complicity from the EU.

The ECHR has also seen its scope creep, such that not just its signatories, but also the entire world is subject to its rule. If a country to which the UK wants to deport an illegal migrant does not adhere to the ECHR, then the UK cannot deport that illegal migrant, no matter what heinous crimes that migrant has committed in the UK. While these tinpot third world countries are indirectly subject to the ECHR through their breaches of the convention, there is no method to impose the ECHR on them so they will adhere to it. While the USSR did for several decades its level best to export its toxic and murderous ideology of Marxism-Leninism onto vulnerable former European colonies, Europe has been quite reluctant, but perhaps with good reason, to impose the benevolence of a full raft of human rights onto countries that rely on their breaches of these conventions to export successfully those elements of their populations for which they neither want nor care.