DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

As Trump fans the flames of a world on fire, can diplomacy take back control? (The Guardian).

Judge Launches Investigation Into Trump DOJ Attorneys in Explosive Golf Course Hearing (Brett Meiselas/MeidasTouch)

Musk Says Gates Funding His Attackers As Democrats Ready Post-Midterm Witch Hunt

Jamie Raskin Is Not Afraid to Impeach Trump Again (David Remnick/New Yorker)

Will the Progressive Insurgency in NY-17 Oust MAGA Loyalist Mike Lawler? (Joan Walsh/The Nation)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Inside Trump’s Dark Plot to Keep Senate in GOP Hands Even If Dems Win (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

Locked in close Senate race, Iowa Republican pledges to be a thorn in Trump’s side (Theodoric Meyer/Washington Post)

Elon Musk Made Off With $16 Billion of Taxpayer Money (Timothy Noah/New Republic)

Judge orders Trump administration to stop threatening election officials with criminal charges (Gary Grumbach/NBC News)

The New York Times invents a Democratic scandal while ignoring a new Trump rape allegation (Jamison Foser/Finding Gravity)

As Midterms Near, Top Law Firms That Capitulated to Trump Are on the Sidelines (New York Times)

Led by Trump, Republicans Close Midterms With Ugly Personal Attacks (New York Times)

How Trump Is Dismantling America’s Scientific Research Machine (New York Times) Because, as we all know, scientific research is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer.

Capehart Thinks Trump Is ‘Why We’re Even Talking About Alaska’  I’m sure they would rather nobody were talking about Alaska.

D.C. and Virginia sue to block Trump’s proposed triumphal arch (Washington Post)

Libs decorate for Halloween by hanging Donald Trump and Elon Musk effigies from porch and that’s not the worst part

In a New Jersey House race, Trump is putting a centuries-old family legacy at risk (Politico)

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Not the Bee.

A Canadian school bus driver using only the initials L.Z. is suing St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Elementary School in Woodbridge, Ontario, and Landmark Bus Lines over his firing.

He was fired from his job as a bus driver because he dressed as a sexy school girl and posted a sign in the window, labeling the school bus “Lolita’s Line,” a reference to Vladimir Nabokov‘s book sexualizing a 12-year-old girl.

(The “Lolita Express” was also the nickname of Jeffrey Epstein’s jet.)

Parents confronted the bus driver outside the school back in 2025 and contacted the school to make sure their kids were safe.

It being Canada, he’ll probably win, too.

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October 14 wasn’t the first time Carolyn Marvin put herself in front of an autonomous delivery robot. It had become, since the wheeled little food vessels were unleashed upon certain parts of Philadelphia, a habit for the 78-year-old: standing in front of one of the robots when she encountered it rolling on the sidewalk, delaying it for a few minutes from delivering its precious lunchtime cargo.

But it was the first time that Marvin, a retired University of Pennsylvania communications professor, was arrested for doing it — in a case that she says raises profound questions about public space and the legal protections extended to robots in our increasingly tech-dominated world.

“I was under the impression that I had more rights than the robot did,” Marvin said, laughing.

Okay, Karen.

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What began in late September as student blockades of overcrowded, understaffed high schools in the Paris suburbs exploded on October 17 and 18 into some of the worst violence France has seen in decades. More than half a million people marched against rising living costs and failing public services. Rioters, many carrying Palestinian flags, torched cars and a town hall, damaged or looted at least 3,000 businesses, and injured about 1,000 police officers, gendarmes and firefighters, according to the interior ministry. Nearly 2,400 people were arrested, and the government imposed curfews in parts of Paris and other cities. Similar protests spread to Belgium and Italy.

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This isn’t your grandfather’s socialism, featuring factory workers waving red flags and professors droning on about dialectical materialism. The new socialists are young, college-educated, and racially diverse. They talk about intersectionality, pronouns, and microaggressions. They may not think the USSR was on the right side of history, but they’re sure America’s on the wrong side of it.

Curtis Yarvin (Mencius Moldbug).

A self-driving computer is a computer which writes all its own apps. Every app is an agent which develops itself.

Sure you can download other peoples’ code. You can drive your own self-driving car. You don’t have to, though.

Like with agents now, if you know what you want your computer to do, just tell it what to do. But unlike with agents now, a self-driving computer doesn’t just do things. It makes tools that do things, then uses these tools. As you use your private computer, it becomes your universal tool.

If you ask for a task in the chat, the computer will do it. It may have to build a new tool. Next time, you can ask again. Or you can use the UI. You’re a customer base of one. Your computer has every feature you want and none you don’t. For the first time ever, it fits you.

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The US Department of Justice has announced the first arrests in an ongoing investigation launched in April called “Operation Ghostbusters”, and the results are not surprising.

Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald held a press conference this week detailing the discovery of a fraud pipeline exploiting US college loan programs. The underlying fraud relies on “ghost-student” schemes using stolen identities for FAFSA/aid, and has been ongoing since at least 2021.

The investigation that grew into Operation Ghostbusters was opened by the FBI’s Richmond Field Office after a referral from the Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General. According to the Justice Department, criminal actors allegedly stole or used personal information of U.S. citizens (often people who had never attended college) to create fraudulent FAFSA accounts.

The scammers enroll “ghost students” at colleges and universities as fake enrollees, often through online programs. Then, they apply for federal grants and loans and divert the aid to controlled bank accounts.

Five suspects have been arrested in a fraud that has operated since at least 2021. The DOJ has flagged roughly 830,840 potentially fake FSA IDs so far, though it is not yet clear how many such accounts are active vehicles for theft. The FBI is pursuing more than 40 open cases in 2026.

Newsbusters.

On Friday, all of the evening broadcast networks previewed the upcoming midterm election by fretting over changes to President Trump’s rally schedule as election day neared. While CBS and NBC continued to put focus on the backlash controversy of the Decoy Dan Sullivan in Alaska’s Senate race, ABC avoided the topic and instead pushed Democratic hopes for candidate Adam Hamilton to win Kansas’s Senate election.

ABC World News Tonight anchor David Muir led off by worrying about “abruptly canceled rallies in Kansas” that were then “suddenly back on.” Reporter and co-anchor of ABC’s This Week,Jonathan Karl began his report by saying Trump was “bristling” at a reporter when asked about the rally schedule changes yesterday.

Karl turned the rally-scheduled talk into a promotion of Hamilton in the Kansas race.

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The Department of Justice is investigating CCTV video from Lewiston City Hall that appears to show dozens of instances of NGO workers — operating as “interpreters” — coaching illiterate Somalis on how to vote and even filling out ballots for them.

The shocking footage was obtained by The Maine Wire under the Freedom of Access Act and shows left-wing NGOs running an industrial-scale ballot stuffing scheme, using non-English-speaking migrants to obtain ballots and then instructing them on how to vote a party line ticket for Democrats.

“We review all evidence concerning complaints of voter intimidation and election interference, including the video from Lewiston’s early voting at City Hall,” U.S. Attorney for Maine Andrew Benson told The Robinson Report.

ATQUE: Maine Voting Videos Draw DOJ Scrutiny

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Nearly half of Seattle businesses surveyed by the Downtown Seattle Association and Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce have seriously considered moving operations, jobs, or investment out of the city, putting pressure on socialist Mayor Katie Wilson in her first year in office.

The new findings show Wilson and her socialist comrades are failing to close the deficit and address persistent public-safety problems. On top of that, prioritizing left-wing policies has been an absolute disaster for businesses, as conditions are deteriorating and mounting concerns over public safety, high taxes, homelessness, regulatory barriers, and affordability have crushed confidence.

Newsbusters.

MS NOW once again warned viewers about Trump’s efforts to manipulate elections. During Wednesday’s The Weeknight, the panel’s discussion of alleged Republican election “cheating” left out some significant history from the Democratic Party’s own redistricting battles.

Co-host Luke Russert claimed Republicans were moving toward “malfeasance” because they were “getting clobbered at the polls.”

Followed with a profanity-laced dismissal of President Donald Trump, co-host Michael Steele called out how Americans “cannot be disenchanted from the act that we are called upon by the Constitution in this moment to do,” “despite whatever hiccup or roadblock or BS Donald Trump wants to put in front of us…”

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A federal judge faces a judicial misconduct investigation after repeatedly making racially charged remarks toward a lawyer, accusing him of “White mediocrity” and “White privilege” in a contentious court hearing, Bloomberg Law reported.

U.S. District Judge Ada Brown of Dallas has had her cases temporarily reassigned and was ordered to undergo a psychiatric examination following a judicial misconduct complaint filed by attorney Ezra Young.

The complaint centers on an April 24 hearing involving Young, who represents a Black female law professor suing Southern Methodist University after she was denied tenure there.

“I think what’s happening here, quite candidly, is you are very intimidated for some reason, Mr. Young, with Black excellence, in light of your White mediocrity. Yeah. Right?” Brown said, according to a transcript reviewed by Bloomberg Law.

“You should write that down. I mean, you — I’m — you look like a White man, right?” Brown continued.

“I’m not White, Your Honor,” Young responded, explaining that he is Latino.

Brown, who is Black and has Native American ancestry, nevertheless described Young as “White-presenting” and accused him of benefiting from “White privilege,” according to the transcript.

Anti-white racism on the hoof.

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A top Washington state official said on Oct. 29 that the state has no way to confirm whether people are U.S. citizens when registering them to vote.

“We don’t have a system that can identify whether someone is an actual noncitizen,” Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs said during a press conference in King County.

Hobbs also said that “it’s not unusual for noncitizens to actually be on voter rolls” and that “we never said that there are none on there.”

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Before 7 October 2023, the English-language Wikipedia article on Zionism opened by describing a movement that emerged to “espouse support for the establishment of a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine.” Since then, the opening has been reworded to say that this homeland was to be established “through colonization,” immediately followed by a new sweeping claim: “Zionists wanted to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinian Arabs as possible.” The sentence is backed by an unusually large bundle of 17 citations, drawn from historians including Benny Morris, Rashid Khalidi, Avi Shlaim and Ilan Pappé, and to the casual reader it looks like the settled verdict of scholarship. It is not. The editor who introduced it in August 2024 has since been banned from the entire Palestine-Israel topic area for non-neutral editing. Yet the sentence survives, and for a year Wikipedia formally barred its editors from even discussing whether to remove it.

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Last Monday night there was a little kerfuffle near the German city of Hanover that involved gunshots and running over people with a BMW — just a routine evening in Modern Multicultural Germany. The mainstream media eschewed any mention of cultural enrichment — see, for example, this dpa story via Yahoo News, which only refers to a conflict between “extended families”. Occasionally such battles are described as being between “clans”, but that word, unfortunately, has gradually become synonymous with “Arabs”. So “extended families” will have to do.

New York Post.

ATQUE: Ilhan Omar’s Ex-Husband And Alleged Brother Describes Himself As ‘Gay Man’ While Frey Aide Says Allegations ‘Almost Certainly True’

The Guardian, a Voice of the Crust.

The New York City police department (NYPD) received a report on Thursday morning about a shooting near Crotona Park in the Bronx, a police spokesperson said on Friday. At about 9.24am, responding officers found Javits Frimpong, 15, with a gunshot wound to his stomach.

Javits was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police have not made any arrests and an investigation is ongoing as authorities search for three teenage boys in connection to the shooting.

Surveillance footage reportedly captured Javits running, as a person wearing all black trailed behind. Another angle of video footage appeared to show masked individuals in dark clothing fleeing the site of the shooting.

Stay away from New York City.

ATQUE: One dead, 6 injured in shooting inside Spirit Halloween store filled with last-minute shoppers at mall (New York Post)

Newsweek, a Voice of the Crust.

A nearly unprecedented number of Americans have voluntarily renounced their citizenship or relinquished their U.S. residency status since the start of the year.

A total of 4,574 names appeared on the Federal Register’s U.S. expatriation list over the first three quarters of the year, representing individuals whose loss of U.S. citizenship or long-term permanent resident status was reported to the Treasury Department. The latest quarterly update, issued on Thursday, shows that 1,331 names appeared on the register between July and September alone, although the number was down from 1,462 between January and March and 1,781 between April and June.

Despite this modest quarterly dip, it is clear when comparing these numbers to previous years that 2026 has seen an unusually high number of Americans renounce U.S. citizenship or give up their permanent residency.

Go Where You’re Treated Best.

ScienceAlert.

If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

ScienceDaily.

Scientists have created a miniature universe in the laboratory that could help answer one of the biggest mysteries in physics: What is time, and where does it come from? Using 24,000 ultracold atoms, a University of Birmingham researcher built an isolated quantum system that repeatedly expands and contracts, mimicking the Big Bang and a possible Big Crunch. Remarkably, the experiment showed that time could emerge from changes happening inside the system, without relying on an external clock.

The Telegraph (UK).

An Oxford University college has been accused of neglecting the welfare of its female students by allowing a male lecturer to teach while wearing large prosthetic breasts.

St Hilda’s College has received complaints about Matt Rattley, a lecturer in biochemistry, but has cited the need to “protect and promote freedom of expression”.

Bearded Mr Rattley often posts pictures of himself at work on social media, wearing low-cut tops, red lipstick and nail varnish.

Not the Bee.

That’s not a typo. That’s not fake news. 2.2 million immigrants let in under President Biden are now eligible for deportation.

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Today, the top Trump administration officials announced new anti-fraud investigative results and ongoing measures to locate and identify more. The announcement comes from Minnesota as the White House steps up its crackdown on fraud involving federal assistance and healthcare programs.

The Foundry.

The most obnoxious lie that erupts routinely in the “independent media” is that President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice is weaponized in a way that no Democrat has ever contemplated. It’s like they all observed everything that the Biden Justice Department did to put Trump and his allies in jail and considered it to be the most nonpartisan thing imaginable.

Team Biden going after the opposing party is nonpartisan? This is the thoroughly partisan prism the leftist media use to distort our politics. Democracy is healthy when Democrats win. Autocracy is descending when Democrats lose.

See the latest claims of The New York Times editorial board: Trump “has dismantled the Justice Department’s legacy as an impartial enforcer of federal law, turning it into an instrument of retribution against his adversaries while canceling investigations into his allies.” Team Biden’s lawfare against Trump and prosecution of over 1,500 people over the Jan. 6 riot were implausibly presented in this argument as “impartial enforcement,” not former President Joe Biden’s “retribution.”

You could see this reflexive reasoning in the analysis of the Trump Justice Department announcing it would be investigating the election in Alaska over the prank candidacy of “Daniel J. Sullivan,” put on the ballot to ruin the reelection chances of Sen. Daniel S. Sullivan.

Judge blocks Trump administration’s Medicaid rule forcing sick recipients to prove frailty (Fatima Hussein/Associated Press)

Trump hypes New York Times hack job about Alaska Senate race (Oliver Willis/Daily Kos)

Trump ‘Front Row Joe’ Arrested on Vile Sex Crime Charges (Julia Ornedo/The Daily Beast)

Report: House Dems Plan Bills to Limit Trump’s Powers  Which is just political theater, because it has no chance of passing. But Democrats love to signal that ol’ virtue….

The Midterms May End the Trump Era. Here Are 10 Takeaways. (David Wallace-Wells/New York Times)  Pushing the Narrative ahead of the election.

Democrats Demand Trump Preserve AI Chat Records  They can demand all they want.

Obama’s Great Skewering of Trump (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)  A legend in their own minds.

RFK Goes Off On Muslims And The Media Is Outraged

PBS: Trump-Supporting Christians ‘Literally Demonize’ Political Opponents  Perhaps because they are?

Democratic divisions linger in Michigan Senate race. Will frustration with Trump outweigh them? (Associated Press)

GOP lawmakers start contemplating a diminished Donald Trump (Politico)  Pushing the Narrative ahead of the election.

Is This the End for Trump’s Princelings? Or Just the Start? (Noah Shachtman/New York Times)  Bias? What bias?

‘It could be quite a brutal evening:’ GOP braces for some once-unthinkable losses (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)  Certainly not ‘unthinkable’ by Democrats; that’s all they’ve been thinking about for the last six months.

Corporate America’s Trump trap (Zachary Basu/Axios)

The Elitist Media Are Terrible Guardians of Democracy

Brash architect of Trump’s midterm strategy could become midterm scapegoat (Nancy Cook/Washington Post)

The Case for a Historic Wave (Peggy Noonan/Wall Street Journal)  Peggy turns RINO.

High Inflation Haunts Trump and Republicans on Eve of Election (Tony Romm/New York Times)

How Republicans lost voters’ trust (Lakshya Jain/The Argument)  Pushing the Narrative ahead of the election.

Democrats Are Ready to Run Hegseth ‘Out of Town’ (The Atlantic)  Talk’s cheap, and Democrats are cheaper.

Senator Rips Trump’s ‘Insane’ Plan For Iran Escalation, As Pentagon Transport Planes Land In Israel

Ohio’s Jon Husted, object of Trump’s leering, is just an empty pair of pants (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  Amanda Marcotrte loses her shit.

The Real Stakes of the Ilhan Omar Case (Rozina Ali/New Yorker)  As usual, all the sympathy is for the enemies of America and the breakers of the laws.

Inside Donald Trump’s Secret Plan To Restart The Iran War After The Election (Brian Beutler/Off Message)  The war was never over, and so can’t be ‘restarted’; and that’s hardly a secret, although the Narrative Media (in which literacy is vanishing) disagree.

The Wild Rise of a Trump-Backed Drone Company (Wall Street Journal)

Pressed on affordability at town hall, JD Vance says all the wrong things (Steve Benen/MS NOW)  From a Democrat standpoint, that  is.

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A Minnesota man convicted of orchestrating a $44 million taxpayer fraud scheme has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison, increasing scrutiny of Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar and her connections to individuals involved in the massive Feeding Our Future scandal.

Salim Said, who operated Safari Restaurant in Minneapolis, received the sentence Wednesday after being convicted in March 2025 of exploiting a federally funded child nutrition program during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prosecutors said Said falsely claimed his restaurant distributed 6,000 meals daily, allowing him to collect millions in fraudulent reimbursements; prosecutors put his personal take at about $13 million of the $44 million stolen by Safari and those tied to it.

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Days before the midterm elections, Senate Democrats are pushing for the Trump administration to drop guidance aimed at preventing ballot harvesting or coercive voting practices in nursing homes.

Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Alex Padilla, D-Calif., along with six others, wrote to Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, asking him to rescind a July memo to nursing homes.

“We write to reiterate our request that you rescind the July 2026 memorandum and seek clarification about any connections between CMS and these election denial groups. This is a particularly urgent matter given that Election Day is only one week away,” the letter says.

Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Cory Booker, D-N.J., Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., joined in signing the letter.

As previously reported by the Daily Signal, ballot harvesting and voting coercion in nursing homes have been longstanding problems.

And attempting to correct these problems apparently constitute ‘election denial’, the New Genocide.

The Foundry.

California Democrats have spent months insisting the state’s elections are free and fair. But progressive groups that spend heavily on Democrat voter outreach walked into a Los Angeles courtroom this month almost as soon as the Department of Justice sued the state over a list of more than 20,000 names it says are likely noncitizens.

The legal fight this month started with the DOJ requesting California to set aside 20,000 ballots it believes are likely tied to noncitizens. Despite 28 federal charges last week, Clinton-appointed Judge David O. Carter denied the DOJ’s expedited request on Wednesday evening, with a handful of outside groups tied to Democrats and progressives having joined the case.

“Our elections are safe and secure. Yet the federal government is continuing its efforts to put up barriers to the ballot box by spreading misinformation and relying on faulty and unreliable data to disenfranchise voters,” Campaign Legal Center’s vice president for voting rights and rule of law Danielle Lang wrote on Oct. 16. “We’re moving to join this case to ensure that all eligible voters can make their voices heard in the 2026 midterm elections.”

Campaign Legal Center (CLC), which describes itself as a “nonpartisan legal organization,” is co-counsel for the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the NAACP in the case, along with Democracy Defenders Fund (founded by Norman Eisen), the NAACP’s Office of General Counsel, and Altshuler Berzon LLP.

Both LULAC and the NAACP, along with its California/Hawaii State Conference and the Los Angeles Branch, intervened on Oct. 16, a day after Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network (SIREN) and Mi Familia en Acción filed their own motion. Common Cause filed as an amicus.

The groups that have joined the case have long records of registering and mobilizing immigrant, Latino, and Black voters in California, typically within communities that lean heavily Democrat.

And said ‘communities’ contain large numbers of illegal immigrants and non-citizens that attempt to vote illegally.

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The violence, looting and burning in France over the weekend of October 24th-25th was somewhat less intense and widespread than it had been on the previous weekend, but it was still significant. Demonstrations comprising an estimated 400,000 people took place across France on the Saturday; in Paris the march was confined to the south-eastern edge of the city, and this was followed by violent clashes with police near Porte de Vincennes, about a 45-minute walk from the Place de la Bastille. Water cannon and tear gas were used. Around 500 rioters were estimated to have broken off from the main protest. There were more clashes, as well as bin fires and looting in Marseille, Lyon, Bordeaux, Lille, Toulouse, Nantes, Grenoble, Rennes and several other parts of France. There were around 1,000 arrests nationwide (1,300 by some reports), with 70,000 police having been deployed to the streets, which was a substantial increase on the previous weekend’s deployment. Activists have called for further action on October 31st, and it’s clear that the sentiment behind the unrest hasn’t gone away. The weather on the 31st is forecast to be mild and dry, more similar to that of the 17th than the wetter, colder 24th, so it remains to be seen how much the tensions have been defused, and to what extent the less dedicated were put off by the weather.

Be careful what you wish for….

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The Spanish National Police have submitted video footage to the National Court that allegedly features undercover Moroccan agents during the late-July border crossing into Ceuta.

According to documentation from the National Center for Immigration and Borders (CENIF), the footage suggests the mass illegal crossing was a coordinated operation involving both uniformed police and plainclothes operatives rather than a spontaneous event.

As part of the evidence submission, as reported by The Objective, CENIF provided Judge María Tardón with 34 visual files tracking Moroccan personnel. Ten files show uniformed officers, while the remaining 24 document individuals whose behavior differed significantly from the migrants.

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A Department of Homeland Security memo from July noted more than 400,000 deceased individuals were on the voter rolls across 25 states that were using the SAVE system, a federal database short for Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements. That total is out of about 68 million voter records reviewed.

Control of the U.S. Senate could hinge on several competitive contests in Ohio, Texas, North Carolina, Georgia, and Kansas. The Homeland Security memo shows each of these states identified tens of thousands of deceased people on voter registration rolls, but officials from those states and data from the Public Interest Legal Foundation assert that improvements have been made.

Two federal laws—the Help America Vote Act, passed in 2002, and the 1993 National Voter Registration Act—require states to update their voter registration rolls and clear ineligible registrants.

Maine, a state with one of the most closely watched Senate races in the nation, had 3,181 dead people on its voter rolls, according to a Help America Vote Act complaint filed Wednesday by the Public Interest Legal Foundation. That’s down from 18,000 after a July review, but still a significant tally. The election watchdog found 693 duplicate registrations in the state.

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If woke businesses can’t survive in Berkeley, California, then they can’t survive anywhere. It’s a lesson learned far too late for many companies over the past few years as American society continues to shift away from progressive ideology. The tolerance for “inclusive capitalism” is stretched thin and revenues are drying up fast, even for businesses that have been openly left-wing for a long time.

American Thinker.

There aren’t enough rich people even in America to cover the spending that politicians do.

For more than sixty years, I have listened to politicians repeat the same familiar promise: tax the rich. Every election cycle, the message returns, wrapped in new slogans and delivered with renewed enthusiasm. Millionaires and billionaires, we are told, have more than their fair share. If only government would tax them more aggressively, America could afford an endless assortment of new programs, benefits, and government services. It is a politically attractive argument. After all, who wouldn’t prefer someone else to pay the bill?

But this promise has a fundamental problem, one that rarely gets the attention it deserves. The wealthy represent a relatively small population, while the middle class represents an enormous tax base. And when politicians promise expansive government programs funded exclusively by taxing the rich, basic arithmetic deserves more attention than political rhetoric.

Consider the numbers. America has approximately 1,000 billionaires and more than 23 million millionaires, measured by net worth. Yet millions of these millionaires are not extraordinarily wealthy individuals living extravagant lifestyles. They are homeowners, retirees, and working professionals who have spent decades accumulating savings, retirement accounts, and home equity.

More importantly, wealth and taxable income are very different. A billionaire may own billions in appreciating stock while reporting comparatively little taxable income. A middle-class worker earning $100,000, by contrast, has income reported directly to the IRS, with taxes withheld from every paycheck. And herein lies the distinction politicians conveniently overlook.

Newsbusters.

In addition to securing a spot on Alaska’s Senate ballot in an obvious attempt to dupe voters meaning to vote for incumbent Republican Senator Daniel S. Sullivan, Daniel J. Sullivan tried to be listed using his opponent’s middle initial, instead of his own, Governor Mike Dunleavy (R-Alaska) reported Thursday.

Amid the growing scandal exposed Wednesday by The New York Times, in which the campaign of Democrat Senate candidate Mary Peltola sought out and recruited Daniel J. Sullivan to enter the race, Gov. Dunleavy detailed the fake initial scheme to Fox News.

“When we did our initial investigation in late Spring, early Summer, the Dan Sullivan from Petersburg, Alaska, his initial emails to the Division of Elections wanted him put on the ballot as Daniel S. Sullivan

“His middle initial is not ‘S’ – that’s the initial of our incumbent state U.S. senator.”

“And so, we knew that the intent was questionable then,” Gov. Dunleavy recalled, adding “We really, really believe it is incredibly questionable, very questionable now.”

At the time, the governor said, Dan J. was questioned, but refused to testify under oath.

The fake-initial ploy wasn’t Dan. J. Sullivan’s only scheme to confuse voters, however – he also tried to be listed on the ballot as a Republican, The Alaska Beacon reports.

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Two of America’s largest teachers unions spent more than $930 million on political activism, lobbying and progressive advocacy over the past decade, raising questions about how union dues are being used beyond traditional education priorities.

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It turns out that more suffocating regulation in one of the most aggressively regulated cities in the U.S. is not helpful to businesses…go figure…

In fact, rising operating costs, bureaucratic delays and persistent inflation are putting growing pressure on New York City businesses, with restaurant owners warning that operating in the five boroughs is becoming increasingly difficult, according to MSN/NY Post.

The strain is now showing up in employment figures. A new report from City Comptroller Mark Levine found that New York City’s private sector lost approximately 30,000 jobs in August and September, bringing total losses over the past year to roughly 32,000. September accounted for about 23,000 of those cuts, following another 7,400 in August.

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A lawyer for one of the men accused in a civil rape lawsuit at Cornell University has asked a New York judge to remove Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor of the renewed criminal investigation, arguing that her own social media post shows she had already taken the accuser’s side. Justice James R. Farrell was due to hear the petition Thursday in Monticello, the Associated Press reported.

A reasonable request, and one that Democrats would be pushing if the sides were reversed.

Newsbusters.

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host of the week, Jordan Klepper, was the only one of the late night comedy hosts to discuss the Wednesday report from The New York Times that Alaska Democrats did, in fact, recruit a random guy named Dan Sullivan to challenge incumbent GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan in order to confuse voters in the state’s ranked choice voting system.  Klepper admitted to not being a fan of the move but also claimed it was “the kind of shit that Mitch McConnell” would pull even though McConnell never did any such thing.

Klepper introduced a clip of CNN’s Dana Bash by sarcastically declaring, “Just because there’s a guy running with the same name as a Republican senator doesn’t mean the Democrats recruited him to confuse voters.”

New York Post.

Embattled Rep. Ilhan Omar’s ex-husband and rumored brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, referred to himself as a “gay man” in an academic paper published earlier this year.

Elmi’s self-described sexual orientation adds to the mounting evidence that his 2009 marriage to Omar was a sham to obtain legal immigration status for her alleged brother.

“As a gay man of the East African diaspora, my fieldwork was never neutral,” Elmi, a doctoral researcher at the University of Bristol, wrote in an August 2026 paper titled, “Out in the Field: Notes on Researching Queer Violence in Kenya.”

New York Post.

I have no idea who ‘Mrs. Rachel’ is, but obviously she’s famous to some people.

Parents are undefeated when it comes to ruining youth sports.

But we have first ballot hall of shamers in the parents of 3-year-old soccer player Nevada Pierre.

As the viral story went, the Florida tot — who is black — was so darn good at soccer that people on the sidelines called the police on the wunderkind.

Ah, yes, America — where our budding elite athletes are sent to gulags and their playing time managed by the po-po. I recall LeBron James’ many stories about being detained for dominating his middle school AAU games.

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Two Florida residents walk into a Dollar General. They see a drunk woman waving around a knife, and they calmly decide that this is not good, so they pull their guns on her and hold her at gunpoint until police arrive.

In Europe, somebody would have gotten stabbed.

The Foundry.

A new AI-generated California voter ID ad depicts black and Hispanic Americans pushing back against the common Democrat argument that requiring identification to vote is racist.

In the ad, a focus group leader reads a statement opposing voter ID requirements on the grounds that they discriminate against minorities: “Voter ID is racist because African Americans and Hispanics have a hard time getting an ID.”

But focus-group participants push back, with one asking, “You don’t think I can get an ID?” Another responds, “I’m Hispanic, I have an ID.”

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Before we analyze that, just remember certain data that’s not in dispute. The last three days, about 24 million barrels have left the Gulf’s exporting countries. In other words, they’re leaving through the Strait of Hormuz primarily at a level at or higher than during the period before the war, and they’re also leaving the Red Sea, and they’re also going out of the Strait of Oman.

The problem is not oil. It’s making up for the dearth of distillery. The distilleries in Russia have been hit by Ukraine. We don’t have enough in Western countries, so there’s a bottleneck on the refinement end, not on the supply.

We may have a kind of a short period where we have to catch up, but there is enough oil going out now, as much as there was in the pre-war. That suggests that this war is not going to affect oil prices into next year. It may have an effect on the midterms.

More importantly, though, we think that a strike is coming right after the midterms. We think that because Iran is preparing for it. They are trying to fortify their bunkers for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commanders. There are rumors they’re threatening us with new weapons. They promise to destroy the oil fields of the Gulf, all of this rhetoric. And [President] Donald Trump says he wants to end this war after the midterms.

That raises a lot of questions that we don’t have the answers to. We’ve been talking about how many drones and missiles, we can call them the numerator, that we have destroyed, but we’ve never really known the denominator, how many existing drones and missiles were in the Iranian fleet before the war started. And we’re finding out that they were preparing for years for this war, and all through the Iranian mountain ranges, there are bunkers with mobile launchers almost everywhere.