DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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

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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.

Not the Bee.

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

Not the Bee.

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!

Not the Bee.

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.

 

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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.

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Apparently they have no faith in the ‘blue wave’ currently being touted in the Narrative Media.

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What would happen to a city if its government effectively stopped enforcing laws protecting public space and private property? Oakland, California, has been testing the proposition. Many have heard about Oakland’s extraordinarily high violent-crime rate, which, despite recent declines, remains roughly four and a half times the national rate and the worst among California’s big cities. But in recent years, the city has also struggled to enforce laws against illegal dumping, burglary, car break-ins, and squatting.

As a result, much of the city is “buried under trash,” according to a recent government report, which found that the city collects some 20 million pounds of illegally dumped debris – 47 pounds per resident – annually. Oakland also has the highest level of property crime of any large U.S. city. It solves these crimes at a rate of just 0.1 percent – meaning that one in every 1,000 property crimes reported to the Oakland police produces an arrest – compared with rates of about 10 percent in San Francisco and 13 percent in Berkeley, respectively. And the city has become home to a shadow industry of “squatter removal services,” including one whose sword-wielding operators promise to help landlords reclaim homes from unauthorized occupants, since the sheriff’s office often takes months to act.

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What explains this apparent paradox? At a macro level, the same thing that explains much of the dysfunction afflicting the rest of California: a kind of resource curse, whereby a state blessed with abundant natural bounty and a booming economy is bled dry by self-serving elected officials, union bosses, and nonprofit activists. Books could be written analyzing this dysfunction, but a handful of statistics will suffice. California ranks at or near the bottom of the country in adult literacy and has more homeless people than any other state. Fewer than one-third of its fourth-graders read at the NAEP “proficient” level, while the University of California is confronting a sharp deterioration in students’ performance in foundational math courses. The state has spent $14.6 billion on a high-speed rail system that has yet to carry a passenger and lost an estimated $20 billion to pandemic unemployment fraud.

The Foundry.

In April 2016, Gov. Terry McAuliffe committed an act of populism so transparent that it was overturned by the Supreme Court of Virginia that July. He claimed that since the Virginia Constitution gave his office the role of restoring individuals’ voting rights after their sentences were completed, he could issue an executive order restoring civil and voting rights to more than 200,000 Virginians with completed felony sentences.

Needless to say, the press covered the story as if he were the U.S. Army liberating France. What he left out, and what the press left out of the story, was that the existing process already made it possible to get your voting rights restored after undergoing a review to be sure you had truly reformed. Terry’s way did it without any review, and that was when the trouble began.

I bring this up because, since then, the idea that felons cannot get their voting rights back has put down roots like a weed in your driveway. Then the Virginia General Assembly put automatic restoration on the ballot in 2026 as Question 3, the third proposed constitutional amendment. And, as a tribute to Terry, Virginia’s current governor, Abigail Spanberger, restored the rights of about 66,000 Virginians in time to vote in the midterms and, presumably, for the constitutional amendment.

Ten years ago, reports emerged almost immediately about people covered by McAuliffe’s mass voter amnesty, including many who had been rearrested and two who were then on the FBI’s most wanted list.

This year, because history might not repeat itself, but it rhymes, former Del. Tim Anderson found one voting-rights restoration letter addressed to “Betty No Last Name.” He told Fox News Digital that it proves that Spanberger’s office isn’t even reading these before sending them out.

Apparently convicted felons are part of the Democrat base.

The Telegraph (UK).

Donald Trump had said he may restart bombing following the Nov 3 vote but on Monday night struck Qeshm Island.

Iranian state media reported five explosions on Qeshm, a strategic target home to an underground missile site and naval base located in the northern part of the Strait of Hormuz.

During rallies in recent weeks, the US president has repeatedly threatened to launch a new offensive against Iran but touted the possibility of a deal to end the war.

The Telegraph (UK).

Hundreds of parents, schoolchildren and staff have staged a protest outside a private school that closed without warning at the half-term.

Leweston School, which was founded in 1891, announced that it would not reopen after the break, and said Labour’s VAT raid on private education had been partly to blame.

The decision to shut the £38,000-a-year school without notice has affected almost 600 pupils and 180 staff. One teacher who lost their job is now working behind the bar at a local pub.

The community is rallying to try to save the school, with a pledge of around £700,000 and a petition with 3,000 signatures.

The War Zone.

At least one AeroVironment LOCUST laser counter-drone system is part of the array of anti-air defenses that have popped up around President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, in recent weeks. Versions of LOCUST have been seeing steadily increasing use within the U.S. military in recent years, including deployments now along the border with Mexico. Though there has been much progress in the development of practical laser directed-energy weapons in recent years, the technology has continued to face hurdles to more widespread adoption.

Hegseth Digs In as Dems Plan Probes After Midterms

Federal judge dismisses Trump attempt to interfere in Alaska Senate race (NBC News)

A Pro-Russia Strongman at Mar-a-Lago (Isaac Stanley-Becker/The Atlantic)

Bulgaria Elects First Woman, Pro-Trump President

Trump launches racist diatribe against Abdul El-Sayed at Iowa rally (Roque Planas/The Guardian)

Trump Searches for a Fall Guy to Blame for Iran (The Atlantic)

Republicans are privately blaming Trump, even if they won’t say it out loud (Politico)  The mind-readers at Politico are on the case.

We Called Back Young Men Who Voted for Trump. He’s Losing Them. (Claire Cain Miller/New York Times)  That phone booth must have been pretty crowded.

How Trump destroyed his own dictatorial ambitions (David R. Lurie/Public Notice)

Oligarchy is on the Ballot — Can a handful of plutocrats buy an election? (Paul Krugman)  Says the man who was bought by Enron.

The media blackout of the new rape allegation against Trump (Judd Legum/Popular Information)  *YAWN*

Petrol prices set to hit record high under Trump on eve of US elections (Financial Times)  Gas where I live is $3.25, lower than under Biden. I wonder where they got those numbers, and whether they bothered to wipe the fecal matter off first.

Trump Has Gotten Richer — It’s Not Going to Republican Campaigns (Dave Levinthal/The Washington Sun  Two words: Hunter Biden.

CBS SLAMS Stevens’s ‘Shocking’ ‘Betrayal,’ Rips ‘Islamophobic’ Trump, Touts ‘Moderate’ Talarico

45 of 87 Trump Headlines on Google News Were Negative, 1 Positive  Not really news but a useful reminder.

Trump approval near record low ahead of elections, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds (Jason Lange/Reuters) *YAWN*

Newsbusters.

Leave it to the hacks in the liberal media to dress up Democrat consultants as virtue-signaling Republicans supposedly choosing country over party by voting left-wing.

The Dallas Morning News published an anti-Greg Abbott op-ed by author Suzanne Bellsnyder October 31 headlined, “I’m a Republican, but Gina Hinojosa has my vote,” presumably to illustrate party crossover in the Texas gubernatorial race.

However, it was later revealed that Bellsnyder was a paid consultant of the Democratic Hinojosa campaign, which wasn’t disclosed by The Morning News prior to publication. According to Transparency USA, the Hinojosa campaign paid at least $57,000 to Bellsnyder for consulting services, adding to the egregiousness of the newspaper’s acute negligence.

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It isn’t the climate crisis that needs to be fixed, or the fossil fuel industry that needs to be investigated; it’s the epic level journalism malfeasance which must to be investigated after the ‘industry disinformation campaigns’ accusation is properly labeled as the hoax that it is.

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Since March 17, 2026, the federal government has implemented a months-long Jones Act waiver. This waiver allows foreign-flagged vessels to transport specified cargo between U.S. ports, easing shipping disruptions caused by the Iran conflict. As such, the waiver offers an opportunity to examine the Jones Act’s effectiveness in safeguarding and growing American shipping using recent shipping data.

Under federal law, two primary pathways exist for obtaining a Jones Act waiver. First, the secretary of war may request a waiver when it is necessary to address an immediate adverse effect on military operations, while certifying to Congress that qualified U.S.-flagged vessels are unavailable to meet the need. Second, the president may determine that a waiver is necessary in the interest of national defense, but only after the maritime administrator finds that sufficient Jones Act-qualified vessels are not available.

Jones Act waivers have been used most often during natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina, which caused significant loss of life and destruction.

Maritime industry groups have argued that the extended waiver has displaced U.S.-flag vessels and harmed American maritime employment. However, the Kirby Corporation, the only publicly traded Jones Act operator to discuss the effect directly with investors, panned the waiver’s impact.

“We haven’t really seen a big impact for Kirby,” explained Kirby CEO David Grzebinski, in the company’s second quarter 2026 earnings call. “We have heard of a couple participants losing some contracts because of non-Jones Act equipment. So far, it’s benign,”

The number of ‘U.S. flag vessels’ in world maritime commerce is vanishingly small, chiefly due to the Jones Act.

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No problem—they’ll just sneak over the border into a Blue state, like all of the other illegals.

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Over 50 years of communist anti-colonialism in the third world, aided by some liberal governments in the west, has provided uncomfortable truths about what works and what doesn’t when it comes to human civilization. The first and most controversial truth is that, in many cases, third world societies are self destructive and incapable of maintaining the most basic of necessities.

The second controversial truth is that these same societies run by western interests function far better. All vital infrastructure is maintained and the people have upward mobility. In other words, western colonialism works. No matter what leftists and anti-colonial activists claim, time has proven them wrong.

Case in point: South Africa.

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An NHS hospital group in southwest England has pitched its staff a £250 anti-racism course meant for “individuals who are white and live in the world as white people,” as part of its Black History Month offerings.

The course, From Allies to Disruptors, is run by the Birmingham equality charity brap and consists of six half-day online workshops running from November until April 2027. It appeared in a staff newsletter sent to employees of Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Swindon, The Telegraph reported. The newsletter came from the equality, diversity and inclusion team at the Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) Hospitals Group, which also runs the hospitals in Bath and Salisbury.

“By understanding more about racialised dynamics, the programme will help you become a more confident disruptor of racism,” the newsletter says. The course’s tagline says it “invites you to disrupt injustice – not just around you, but within you.” It is aimed at NHS leaders but open to anyone interested.

I don’t suppose they mean anti-white racism.

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it identified roughly $29.1 million in government benefits fraud in Minnesota over a one-month period.

Between Sept. 30 and Oct. 30, the DOJ’s National Fraud Enforcement Division and the District of Minnesota charged, convicted, or sentenced 13 individuals for proven or alleged schemes that caused nearly $83 million in intended losses to the federal government.

The DOJ said in an Oct. 30 statement that it uncovered $29.1 million in fraud in newly charged cases, which is part of the total $83 million.

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group of illegally offering gift cards to Kansas voters just days before the midterm elections, citing evidence obtained by Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach.

Trump’s warning came after Kobach ordered Bluestem Kansas to stop offering monetary incentives to voters and preserve records related to its canvassing operations.

“I have just been informed by the Great Attorney General of Kansas, Kris Kobach, that a Radical Left PAC operative was caught on camera going door to door in Wichita offering gift cards to people for votes,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“We have photographic evidence. This is a Criminal Offense!” the president added.

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Attorney General Ken Paxton announced over the weekend that convicted felons accused of illegally casting ballots in Texas have been arrested.

According to the Texas Attorney General’s Office, a concerned citizen reported that convicted felons who were incarcerated, on parole, or on probation allegedly voted in Harris County.

Harris county … where have we heard of that recently?

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The same judge who said the DOJ was being too hard on the assassin who attempted to gun down people at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner has now dismissed the charges against the FBI officials who lied to congress about the Hunter Biden laptop investigation.