DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

“Melting Wax-Faced Goblin” Calls For “Pistols Firing At All Times” At Vance

The Woolly Mammoth Billionaire’s New Startup Is Genetically Engineering War Dogs For The Military (Forbes)  Dunh dunh DUNHHHHHHH….

Kushner Denies Bombshell Book Claims Of Secret Gulf-Funded Accounts  Surprise! It’s October!

Trump Is Already Building His Excuse for Losing the Midterms (Amanda Carpenter/The Bulwark)  Amanda Carpenter loses her shit.

Trump’s Repudiation Is at Hand, Right? (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)

Trump Calls for Omar’s Resignation Over Name Dispute  Good luck with that.

Trump administration stopped sharing evidence in Good and Pretti killings, Minnesota officials say (Hannah Schoenbaum/Associated Press)

“High Likelihood Of Error”: Judge Halts DHS Voter-Fraud Door-Knocks In Nine States

Trump Administration Asks Appeals Court to Intervene in California Ballot Suit (Zach Montague/New York Times)

More Democrats are voting in person after Trump’s threats about mail ballots (Washington Post)

CBS Pushes Voter Intimidation Fears Over Trump Voter Fraud Crackdown

Trump’s Battle With the Media Ramps Up (Ayah Ali-Ahmad/The Washington Sun)

Kushner Phone Hack Reveals How Middle East Dictators Bought Him Off (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)

Democratic socialist set to become D.C. mayor — and face Trump’s pushback (Irit Skulnik/CNBC)

Poll: Trump is mobilizing more Democrats against him than Republicans for him (Politico)  Pushing the Narrative ahead of the election.

Poll: Low-information voters have turned hardest against Trump and the GOP (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)  Of course they are.

In the Wisconsin Governor’s Race, Another Case of Trump Avoidance Syndrome (Robert Draper/New York Times)

Animus on the left; Trump fatigue on the right

Trump’s ‘Immigration Crackdown’ Driving Jobless Claims Down to 57-Year Low, Economists Say

Democrats ask judge to fast track lawsuit to block Trump admin’s midterm threats (Jim Saksa/Democracy Docket)

Everything Hegseth Touches Breaks (William Kristol/The Bulwark)  Everything Kristol touches stinks.

The Trump Administration May Have Just Lied to Judge About an ICE flight to Equatorial Guinea (Gillian Brockell/American Prospect)  ‘May have’ means ‘we don’t have any evidence but we’re going to publish a smear anyway’.

Here’s What Democrats Plan to Do With Their Power if They Win Back Congress (Annie Karni/New York Times)

Trump’s immigration crackdown disrupts U.S. food supply, agriculture leaders say (Lauren Kaori Gurley/Washington Post)  Agricultural leaders! That proves it!

Democrats Demand “Unredacted Log” of Attendees at $TRUMP Meme Coin Dinner (Russ Choma/Mother Jones)

The Trump-Putin love story’s next chapter: selling out Ukraine (Sidney Blumenthal/The Guardian)  Sid Vicious finds a home at the Guardian.

The DOJ Just Telegraphed Trump’s Biggest Election Target (Richard L. Hasen/Slate)

Appeals court rules Trump unlawfully deployed National Guard to California (Zach Schonfeld/The Hill)

House Democrats Target Hegseth for Impeachment Push (Maya Davis/Wall Street Journal)

Democrats Will Impeach Trump Again, But It’ll Help His Popularity, Politico Poll Finds

Sen. Padilla questions U.S. attorney over threat to ‘hunt down’ Texas voters (Jen Rice/Democracy Docket)

THUD: NPR Host A Martinez Gets an ‘F’ on Trump’s Popularity In Israel

Appeals Court Backs Trump on Constitutionality of Detentions (Mattathias Schwartz/New York Times)

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Finishing a data center in America has become a logistical nightmare. Now just starting one is turning into a problem too, even in the one county that was supposed to say yes to everything.

Back in April, when we reported that “Half Of US Data Centers Scheduled To Start In 2026, Will Be Canceled Or Delayed,” the blame was spread across the usual suspects: power, transformers, permitting and a vague, growing sense that the locals were getting restless. Two months later, Blackstone sold its stake in three Northern Virginia data centers amid grassroot outrage, cashing out of a bet it made less than three years earlier, in the heart of what is known, with zero irony, as “Data Center Alley.”

And now the restless locals have claimed their biggest scalp yet.

According to the Washington Post, Amazon has scrapped a plan to build data centers on the site of George Washington University’s former campus in Ashburn, Northern Virginia, after reaching an agreement with local officials amid widespread opposition from residents. Under the deal announced Tuesday by Loudoun County Board of Supervisors Chair Phyllis J. Randall, Amazon will repurpose the majority of the 122-acre campus for mixed-use and residential development, and commit to never building data centers on the land. It will also donate 25 acres to the county for a community arts center and recreational facility, and hand $5 million to the county’s housing fund.

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“The Left has always preferred the ashes of its own making to the inheritance of better men.” – Celina101 on X

By now, everybody and his uncle interested in public matters has probably read that a claque of current-and-former agency officials, ex-USAID busybodies, military officers, activist academics, Democratic Party paladins, and freelance communist jihadis has been exposed plotting the overthrow of the US government. The plot was reported by the diligent “X” blogger Jennica Pounds under her nom-de-plume “Data Republican,” who lately received an enormous document-and-recording dump courtesy of careless color revolutionaries who recorded themselves and saved doc files against orders, the dumb bunnies.

Ms. Pounds, an experienced software engineer turned political detective, came to public attention early in 2025 when she assisted Elon Musk’s DOGE operation in building a database of NGO money trails emanating from the colossal USAID grant matrix – after which her identity was “doxed” by Rolling Stone and she underwent a harassment campaign.

Of course, USAID was abolished early in the Trump 2.0 admin, and a lot of the “activists” defenestrated from it moved into scores of NGOs, with their salaries switched from taxpayer funding to the bank accounts of George Soros-connected orgs and sundry other shady characters like Shanghai-based Neville Roy Singham. These are the NGOs forever puling about “our democracy,” meaning their drive to punish, persecute, and push around Americans who demur from a communist future. Data Republican says her reporting so far is “only the beginning” of much more detailed and alarming disclosures.

The Foundry.

Sen. Jon Ossoff has railed against wealthy elites, billionaires, and “corruption” dozens of times out on the campaign trail, but the Democrat seems to keep quiet about the nearly 50 out-of-state billionaires who have funded his race for Senate.

Back in July, the Washington Free Beacon reported on 39 billionaires who have donated to Ossoff in his race against Rep. Mike Collins. Between July and September, campaign filings show he has added at least eight new billionaire donors, with each one giving the maximum contribution.

“The vast sums of corporate and billionaire money in our political system, with or without [President Donald] Trump, are why ordinary people are so ill-served by elected officials and by Congress,” Ossoff said on the “Pod Save America” podcast a little more than a year ago.

Jonathan Turley

Harvard University is facing another controversy after its medical school held an event on “the Pathology of Unruly Bodies.” The most surprising part is that it was not a reference to the Harvard faculty itself. Rather, a panel composed of non-medical experts was railing against anti-obesity drugs as part of “indoctrination” to support the ills of “empire and imperialism.” Welcome to the state of higher education in America.

The panel was devoid of actual medical experts. It was dressed up in medical terms with the use of the word “pathology.” It could have easily been billed as “GLP-1 Anti-Body.” The panel included such experts as Da’Shaun L Harrison, who recently drew notoriety for claiming at the Socialism 2026 conference in Chicago that GLP-1 medications constitute “genocide” against fat people.

Another headliner was Roxane Gay, the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University – New Brunswick and the artist-in-residence at Harvard Medical School. Professor Gay (the cousin of former Harvard University President Claudine Gay) had called for the release of Luigi Mangione, who murdered Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, two years ago.

Not the Bee.

You can’t make this shit up.

A commie named Da’Shaun L. Harrison, who is not a scientist or medical expert, claimed that weight loss drugs are a plot by “imperialistic” forces to get people ready for military service.

You may recall that the same Da’Shaun took the stage at Socialism 2026 and claimed weight-loss drugs are a plot to “genocide fat people.”

Didn’t know that ‘fat people’ were a genos.

Da’Shaun is truly the peak of woke, describing xemself as “a queer and trans afropessimist and anarcho-communist.” Jonathan Turley refers to Da’Shaun as a “she,” and I honestly have no idea if Da’Shaun is a man or a woman.

If you are confused by all of this, let me explain.

This new breed of commies thinks being unhealthy is the way they fight the tyrannical systems of oppression. The “fascists” want to use your body for service to the government, whether that be paying taxes or serving in the military.

Therefore, the “good guys” must become as fat and lazy and ugly as possible in order to fight against tyranny.

I’ve gotta say, judging from the video, they’ve got a handle on it….

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As they do.

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Maybe they ought to require the defense to use competent lawyers.

This seems an obvious stalling tactic, presumably so that people will forget about it.

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If you merely paid attention to the legacy media in recent weeks, you’d think that the French riots were only a bit of a scuffle between students and police, with perhaps a few “ultra-left” agitators, and that the only negative takeaway from the whole thing is that—horror of horrors—this could help the Right.

Let’s get this out of the way. What’s happening in France has been quite remarkable. These aren’t your usual French union-led protests that seemingly break out every summer in Paris and maybe lead to a car or two being overturned.

These are large-scale violent riots taking place across the country. Historic buildings have been torched. Statues have been defaced. And the country is dealing with the existential problem of mass agitation by leftist groups supercharged by the large numbers of mostly unassimilated Muslims who have little investment in France as a French country.

When you combine cultural disintegration with a stagnant economy and buckling social welfare system, this is what you get. The globalist order peddled and propped up by EU elites is simply going up in flames as its torn apart by its own contradictions.

And that’s why the media have gone into spin mode.

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A publicly funded advert from the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre’s We-Consent campaign shows grandparents arriving at the front door. One grandchild rushes in for a hug. The other winces and recoils as the older couple lean in. The voiceover declares: “Not everyone wants a hug. Even from the people who love them. Awkward? Maybe. Important? Absolutely.”

The Telegraph (UK).

A Scottish museum has removed its Egyptian mummy exhibition because it does not have “consent from the deceased individual”.

Visitors to the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow found signs explaining that managers had “removed human remains from this display as a mark of respect”.

The items removed include a coffin with the remains of Nekht, a priest, a mummified right hand recovered from the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt, and a mummified male head and right foot.

The Daily Mail reported that Glasgow Life, a charitable organisation funded by the SNP-led Glasgow city council, said it planned to remove further human remains from Kelvingrove as well as from St Mungo Museum.

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If you want to know the deepest and darkest dreams of the feminist cult, you don’t have to look very hard. All you have to do is watch their movies and read their books, which put their mental illness and hypocrisy on full display for the world to see.

A now infamous example of this is a romance novel called “Morning Glory Milking Farm”, a feminist inspired sex fantasy book about a broke woman trying to pay off her student loans who takes on the job of “milking” a Minotaur to collect sperm to be used for pharmaceutical products. In other words, she’s a whore working for Big Pharma in a world where monsters exist at the same time as student loans.

But her favorite Minotaur respects her agency and treats her like a queen, so they fall in love.

Newsbusters.

Far-left Democrat, Resistance hero, Virginia State Senate pro tempore Louis Lucas and her family were hit with a bevy of charges — including drug trafficking, money laundering, and racketeering — Thursday morning as part of a years-long criminal investigation into their family’s marijuana businesses.

Far-left Democrat, Resistance hero, Virginia State Senate pro tempore Louis Lucas and her family were hit with a bevy of charges — including drug trafficking, money laundering, and racketeering — Thursday morning as part of a years-long criminal investigation into their family’s marijuana businesses.

Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil even had the Lucas indictment in the opening teases: “An 82-year-old state senator hit with criminal charges linked to a family-run marijuana business. What she is saying.”

The two-minute-and-two-second segment began with Dokoupil saying the “state senator is facing criminal charges, federal criminal charges tied to racketeering, drug trafficking, and money laundering, among other offenses,” and “accused of using her political power to protect a marijuana ring run by her own family.”

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A California county sent duplicate mail-in ballots to thousands of voters in what officials have characterized as a printing error, raising questions about election security amid heightened federal scrunity.

Tulare County, which includes part of Sequoia National Park, acknowledged the “error” in a statement posted on its website, blaming a government vendor for security lapse.

“As a result of a printer vendor error during the ballot replacement procedure, some Tulare County voters received duplicate vote-by-mail packets,” county officials wrote.

The California officials said that the issue affected a portion of voters centered in the City of Tulare. According to ABC 30, nearly 7,800 voters were sent the duplicate ballots.

Sure, I believe that.

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In an unsigned order, the justices paused Oct. 2 and Oct. 5 orders by U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante, a George W. Bush appointee, that prevented the state from enforcing its restrictions on student IDs as a valid form of voter identification.

Justices cited past precedent, noting, “This Court has repeatedly emphasized that lower federal courts should ordinarily not alter the election rules on the eve of an election.”

They added, “Here, the District Court did not point to anything that would justify deviating from that principle.”

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the lone dissenter, writing, “Consequently, here, the District Court’s injunction was reasonably designed to address alleged misinformation, not to change the law.”

The Foundry.

Voters are angry about the cost of living, and they have every right to be. With Republicans in full control of Washington, they expect a fast reversal of the Biden years.

But voters’ anger should not be mistaken for amnesia. Americans clearly remember who started the affordability fire burning through families’ wallets.

My new League of American Workers poll of likely Arizona voters, conducted earlier this month, captures the mood. A 44% plurality of voters say their personal finances got worse over the past year, while just 17% say they improved. Among independents, it’s 48% worse versus 16% better.

Yet here is the key caveat the corporate media keeps missing or deliberately ignoring. Despite their frustrations, only 38% of voters say they would be better off with Kamala Harris as president. Ten percent say it would make no difference and 44% believe they would be worse off with a Kamala Harris in the Oval Office. Moreover, Congressional Democrats, meanwhile, sit at a dismal 34% approval against 64% disapproval.

The Biden-Harris record was truly awful, which is why Democrats are counting on short memories at the ballot box this Nov. 3.

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A legal fight over election integrity is playing out in Los Angeles courts this week, with LA officials admitting that they have no way to check citizenship beyond what voters write on the form.

Monica Flores, an assistant registrar-recorder at the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s office, told a federal court Tuesday that their citizenship check stops at whatever a voter writes on the form. That admission came just a day after the Department of Justice charged 28 people with lying on that exact form to register and vote.

“The Registrar has no authority under state or federal law to withhold or set aside the ballot of a registered voter on the basis of a third party’s assertion that the voter may not be a citizen, has no information beyond the voter’s own attestation with which to determine citizenship, and has no lawful means of obtaining such information,” the filing states.

“Finally, I do not believe the Registrar has authority to or can comply with either the government’s proposed injunction that it ‘confirm the citizenship of [each] person who sent a segregated vote-by-mail ballot’ or that it do so beyond relying on a ‘person’s registration-related attestation’ of citizenship as designated in state and federal law,” the filing adds.

The admission leaves the county with a simple problem. Just last week the DOJ delivered a list of over 20,000 names to the LA County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, claiming the individuals on the list were likely noncitizens who are registered to vote in the state. The county declined to set those ballots aside, arguing it has no authority to act on a third party’s assertion and no independent way to check the names itself.

And he’s watchin’ them close.

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Ilhan Omar is not the “real name” of the Minnesota congresswoman, Fox News Digital has learned.

Her real name is Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, according to two people familiar with the ongoing investigation into the Somali-born congresswoman, including a law enforcement source.

And if proven in court that Omar has lived her “entire life under an alias,” a former Minnesota federal immigration judge tells Fox News Digital that every single form she ever filled out could be “called into question.”

This seems like something of a stretch.

“Before the Court are three Applications to unseal ex parte materials and proceedings related to a federal search warrant for the personal residence in the District of Columbia of Congresswoman Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar…” the motion begins.

“That’s not her real name,” one source said when asked why the motion used the “a/k/a Ilhan Adbullahi Omar” language.

What is a ‘real name’? By this standard they would have to arrest every other person in Hollywood.

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October Surprise Season is back, right on schedule. The phenomenon is simple and well documented. Basically in the final weeks before a high-stakes election, an event, leak, crisis, or carefully timed disclosure appears that is meant to shift momentum, freeze the narrative, or force voters to reassess. The classic modern example remains 1980, when the Iran hostage crisis and the fear of a last minute Carter breakthrough gave the phrase its name. Bill Casey, running Reagan’s campaign, used the term explicitly.

Decades later the pattern repeats with variations:

• · George W. Bush’s 1976 DUI surfacing days before the 2000 election
• · The Trump Access Hollywood tape and the late Clinton email revelations in 2016
• · Hurricane Sandy in October 2012 and Obama’s response was positive for his campaign
• · Assorted foreign policy or scandal drops that dominate cable and social media for 72 hours

The common thread is timing. With early voting, mail-in ballots, and compressed news cycles, an October event has maximum leverage and minimal time for full scrutiny or counter narratives. Whether organic or engineered, the incentives favor dramatic movement right before ballots are finalized.

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Each deep state participant has a footprint and the only way to make sense of their assembly is to track their former and current pathways – that takes a lot of time to assemble.

Erica Chenoweth, Rear Admiral Michael E. Smith (Ret.), Danielle M. Reiff, Dr. Paul Zeitz, Maria J. Stephan, Julia Roig, Walt Roberts, Brendan Halloran, Laura Adams and Zoe Marks appear to represent the core leftist group. These interests appear to be the ones defended by The Washington Post.

Former CIA operatives who entered congress in 2018 and 2020, ex. U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin – part of the IC freshman class, also seem to represent the action group, executing the agenda of the planners.

Former ODNI Chief of Staff to Tulsi Gabbard, Alexa Henning, has a good name for the group overall, “The USAID Alumni Network.” That representation is the best encapsulation, as the motives and intents of the group seem to center around former USAID funding, NGO’s and direct finance.

This USAID commonality appears to be the central component that triggered the leftist opposition toward a more forward stance on action against the Trump administration, and by consequence toward the 2026 midterm election. Factually, if you want to determine the motives of people within any organized system, track their finance component.

Quillette.

“They want to read Sex and the City.”

That’s what a friend, a famous New York City literary agent, told me a few weeks ago when we were on the phone talking about editors at the five biggest publishing houses in the world: Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, Hachette, and Macmillan. These are the editors who determine what books end up at Barnes & Noble and what books remain unpublished PDFs.

Right now, it looks like a masculine novel he represents will never see the light of day. It’s a novel that is praised by a National Book Award winner, a famous war veteran, and other giants. It’s a novel that would have sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars in a competitive bidding war in the 1990s. But a lot has changed since then.

Today, the Big Five publishers are staffed almost entirely by women. According to the most recent data, more than 70 percent of staffers are women. More than 70 percent of editors are women. Even 70 percent of all interns are women. At the executive level, more than 60 percent of leaders are women. In 2026, American publishing looks like lululemon.

The single biggest transformation in the history of American publishing has been its utter takeover by women. How did we get here?

Quillette.

The author is dead, the French philosopher Roland Barthes famously declared in 1967. Now it seems the book is, too. Surveys from across the world show an ever-decreasing appetite for literature. In the US, the percentage of thirteen-year-olds who claimed to never or hardly ever read for pleasure rose from 8 per cent to 29 per cent over the four decades between 1984 and 2020. In the UK, the percentage of children who said they enjoy reading in their free time fell 36 per cent between 2005 and 2025. The stats are not much more encouraging for older generations, with nearly half of all adults in the UK and a quarter in the US claiming to have read no books at all in the past year.

This is not a new or sudden development. As early as 1985, the media theorist Neil Postman was writing about how the rise of television had relegated reading to a distant second place on the podium of recreational entertainment. But the decline of the book has, until recently, remained steady, not to mention masked by the fact that literacy rates have continued to improve across the globe. Text is, after all, everywhere: on our social media sites, on our subtitled TV shows, on the countless placards and signposts and advertisements that have saturated the modern world. If reading is good because it stimulates the mind, as the advocates of literature often say, then our brains are more engaged than ever before.

Quillette.

A Belgian entity called Unia (The Interfederal Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism and Discrimination) is preparing a criminal case against the philosopher Nathan Cofnas. If successful, a jail term of between six months and three years is possible under a new criminal code that came into force on 1 September 2026. Articles 250 and 251 of that code deal, respectively, with “incitement to discrimination or racial hatred (including denial of genocides)” and “dissemination of racial ideas.”

It is uncommon for a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy to be threatened with prison. What has Cofnas done?

WIRED, a Voice of the Crust.

I’m astonished that they actually printed this.

The Telegraph (UK).

The leader of an activist group behind pro-Palestine protests in the UK met with two individuals later sanctioned over their links to Iran, The Telegraph can reveal.

In 2014, Medea Benjamin, the co-founder of anti-war organisation Code Pink, was in contact with men later identified by US officials as facilitators for the Islamic Republic’s foreign intelligence. They were sanctioned by the US treasury five years later.

An intelligence source claimed Ms Benjamin had been viewed by Iran as an “asset” to the regime by pushing “Iran’s influence and narratives” in both the US and UK.

The Telegraph (UK).

Piddington village is suing the Home Office, alleging it acted unlawfully by failing to consider the threat a new asylum camp could pose to wildlife.

The community campaign group Wrong Plan, Wrong Site is seeking a judicial review of the plan to turn the disused Bicester Garrison in Oxfordshire into a camp for up to 1,256 asylum seekers.

In papers filed at the High Court, the village claims the Government failed to consider endangered wildlife around the site, including some of Britain’s rarest bats, great crested newts and badgers.

In its submission, it claims that the Home Office “erred in law” by concluding that the camp was unlikely to damage the environment without carrying out a full wildlife assessment.

Hoist with their own proglodyte petard.

The Telegraph (UK).

The secretary-general of the Commonwealth has suggested that the King should apologise for slavery.

Speaking before the King’s visit to the Caribbean, which begins next week, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey said that an apology for slavery “wouldn’t hurt” and that the “time has come” for a discussion about reparations.

Asked whether the monarch should apologise, the Commonwealth chief told Sky News: “That’s what the countries have asked for… It wouldn’t hurt to have that. Not at all.”

Perhaps the nations of West Africa, who sold the slaves to the Europeans on the coast, or the Arab countries, who enslaved more Africans than the Europeans did, might go first.

“Us as countries sit around the table to discuss, as difficult a subject as it is, I believe that countries will come to some conclusions. So whether it takes the form of financial reparations or reparations in kind, that is for the countries to decide on.”

When pushed on what she meant by “reparations in kind”, Mrs Ayorkor Botchwey said it could involve “concessional financing”, “return of artefacts” and “climate issues”.

In other words, GIVE US FREE STUFF.

The Telegraph (UK).

The Church of England is “heading for financial disaster” because of net-zero targets and slavery reparations, a report has warned.

Academics believe “significant costs” from “extravagant” social-justice projects are contributing to the Church’s financial malaise, with 37 of its 42 dioceses operating with budget deficits.

Most people shoot themselves in the foot. These guys decided to go for the kneecap.

The Church has been told to slash bureaucracy, make parishes its “first priority” and cut the number of diocesan bishops by almost a third to give “deeply dispirited” parishioners and clergy hope for the future.

The report, written by Canon Robin Gill and Prof John Craven, says the “crisis” of declining attendance, donations and ordinations can be halted only through “ruthless” reforms. It cites net zero and Project Spire as “costly” initiatives viewed by churchgoers as “unrealistic, extravagant, unsustainable and deeply depressing”.

Perhaps they ought to try returning to Christianity.  Just sayin’….

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Steven Crowder takes on Alex Cooper, Call Her Daddy, and the hypergamy that undermines modern life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Not the Bee.

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

Not the Bee.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The New Republic, a Voice of the Left.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Just sayin’.

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

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

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

She has surrendered to federal authorities yet remains defiant.

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

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

Pretty high, I would guess.

The Foundry.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Meet the criminal illegal immigrants apprehended by DHS.

The American Mind.

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

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

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

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

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

Freeberg does a deep dive.

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

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

Now why is that?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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