DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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

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

Fortune, a Voice of the Crust.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

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I can see how that would be a problem.

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Wow, you’d think they were Dearborn….

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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And indeed he does.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

My, what a surprise.

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trump’s Russia Diesel Deal Aids Putin’s War, Europe Warns (Bloomberg)

ABC News Retracts Trump Family Hit Piece, But Won’t Say Why

Trump’s Mental Decline Is Now a National Emergency (w/ Jim Acosta) (The Bulwark)  Pushing the Narrative for the mid-terms.

Pete Hegseth’s Firing Squad Livestream Is Finding Fans in the Defense Industry (Alex Nguyen/Mother Jones)

How Trump Just Became America’s Biggest Traitor: Political Guru (Vic Verbalaitis/The Daily Beast)

How Trump Just Exposed Himself as America’s True Enemy Within (David Rothkopf/The Daily Beast)

Trump census plan to cut noncitizens from 2030 count spurs critics toward legal fight (Justin Papp/CNBC)

GOP readies for an underwhelming lame duck (Politico)

FIFA’s Trump Tower Deal: 7 Years, $4 Million, One Mostly Unused Office (Tariq Panja/New York Times)

New White House press secretary has a history of conspiracy-laced social media posts (Andrew Kaczynski/CNN)  Trump cooties, must be destroyed.

The fascist spectacle of streamed executions (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)

I Went Home to South Carolina to Ask Young Voters About Trump and the Economy (Josh Dawsey/Wall Street Journal)  Hint: Orange Man Bad.

Trump says he cares for Americans. They think he’s more focused on his wealth, an AP-NORC poll finds (Associated Press)  Pushing the Narrative: Orange Man Bad.

What to know about the search of Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home (Nicholas Riccardi/Associated Press) Come and get your Narrative, right here.

Trump picks fight with GOP senators over Russia diesel deal (Alexander Bolton/The Hill) No, they picked a fight with him. Quit telling lies.

MAGA Voters Turn on Trump in Focus Group Bombshell: “Nothing but Lies” (New Republic)  ‘Nothing but lies’ very accurately describes the New Republic.

Trump’s New Mouthpiece Hit With Brutal Reviews for Big Debut (Julia Ornedo/The Daily Beast)  Of course—Trump cooties!

Elon Musk Shows Us Why Oligarchy is a Danger (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum speaks.

Elon Musk’s megaphone propels conspiracy theory about James Talarico (Washington Post)  Is Musk the New Hitler yet?

Sherrod Brown Opposes Another Trump Impeachment

Trump Hate Fuels Left’s Shift to Socialism and Jihad, GOP Senate Candidate Says  Who doesn’t know that?

CNN Mocks Zacharia’s WH Press Briefing, Praise Clinton Press Secretary  Bias? What bias?

New Hampshire GOP Senate Candidate Blasts Trump on Iran, Russia (Greg Ryan/Bloomberg)  Oh, if only Russia were still Communist, the left would embrace it.

MS NOW’s Alexander and Hillyard Freak Out Over Zacharia’s First White House Briefing

Choose Your Overlord ??? Musk vs. Bezos ??? The adriatic has been crossed by Odysseus and Caesar … (Josh Tyrangiel/The Atlantic)  People get paid to write this crap….

How a Far-Right Conspiracy About Talarico’s Campaign Absence Fell Apart (Michelle Del Rey/The Washington Sun)

Dunh dunh DUNHHHHHHH….

Nets Pummel GOP Over ‘Lagging Candidates,’ Trump ‘Attacking Immigrants’ at Rally

No Fake Makeovers For The Post-Trump GOP (Brian Beutler/Off Message)

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Quillette.

Ancient DNA has given historians a new archive, and in two decades it has settled long-running arguments about who migrated, who conquered, and who replaced whom.

Gallup.

Five measures of trust in the federal government are at low points in Gallup’s trends. One-third or less of U.S. adults have a great deal or fair amount of trust in the executive (33%) and legislative branches (28%) and the federal government’s ability to handle both international and domestic problems (both at 33%). More, 46%, trust the judicial branch, but its trust has never been lower than now.

Gee, I wonder why.

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To indoctrinate Leftists, of course. Ask me a hard one.

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Well, AsphaltGrowthGuy, that’s because you don’t just import taxpayers when you import foreigners to prop up your economy.

You import their gods too, as the lakes and rivers of Canada are learning.

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Ironically, after Canada tossed out Jesus Christ in favor of secular pluralism, it led straight back to the demon gods of the pagans, and the top leaders of the country now offer good wishes of a bountiful harvest from Baal and his consort.

He’d better watch out for Muslims. They are ordered to kill polytheists.

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Days after federal agents stopped an 18-year-old of Somali descent from buying an AK-47 to kill dozens at the Mall of America in an ISIS-inspired plot, another 18-year-old Somali is free after police say he opened fire outside a high school homecoming game.

Investigators linked the Eden Prairie shooting to rival Somali gangs. The accused spent just two nights in jail before posting a $100,000 bond with $10,000 cash down. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty had said he would be held accountable.

Sure, I believe that.

Newsbusters.

As they do.

Whether you call it the Department of War or still prefer to call it the Department of Defense, the military has used the same eagle logo since 1949, but NBC’s Saturday Night Live landed firmly in the realm of fake news on Saturday as it alleged Secretary Pete Hegseth’s design has “a Nazi vibe.”

During the cold open, Colin just portrayed Hegseth addressing sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln, “I also unveiled the new logo for the Department of War. Yeah, pretty sick, right? Check that out. Huh? Yeah.”

In real life, the “controversy” over the logo occurred because of a speech Hegseth gave at the Air Force Academy, during which Andrew Dismukes played a sailor who asked, “Sorry, is that a Nazi eagle?”

The new logo is different in some respects, but the eagle clutching three arrows is the same that has been in place since 1949. The DOW/DOD eagle is also strikingly similar to the eagle that officers at the O-6 paygrade wear. It is, simply put, not a Nazi logo.

The Foundry.

A recent documentary by former Virginia congressman Nick Freitas titled “The Immigration Crisis That Will Destroy the West” warns viewers about the risks created by the Islamification of Western civilization.

The film focuses primarily on the negative impacts of cultural norms related to the treatment of women and girls, with a reviewer noting allegations of “a significant problem of organized, industrial-scale rapes being conducted by mostly Muslim men” in the UK.

Relatedly, another recent column noted that “seven of the top 10 countries with the highest prevalence of child marriage have a Muslim-majority,” and went on to ask: “Why does Islam appear so frequently in discussions surrounding religious persecution, terrorism, and certain forms of sexual violence?” Similar concerns have also been raised about the cultural roots of rampant fraud we’ve seen in places like Minneapolis.

And even more recent fiery riots in France have left some “pointing to second and third-generation immigrant youths–many from Muslim North African and sub-Saharan backgrounds–as the core of the violence.”

Perhaps pulling all the foregoing together, Douglas Murray argues that “the West remain[s] at war with Islamic radicals.”

Importantly, while conservatives cherish individual liberty and religious freedom, those commitments are perverted when it is claimed that only a nihilistic multiculturalism properly embodies those values.

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A 14-year-old pupil walked into a middle school near Marseille Monday morning with a hunting shotgun hidden inside a guitar case and opened fire, wounding the principal and a teacher.

Both suffered non-life-threatening injuries to the lower body. Staff overpowered the shooter before police arrived. Education Minister Édouard Geffray stated on social media: “Two staff members from the National Education system, a principal and a teacher, were victims this morning of gunshot wounds at Lakanal middle school in Aubagne. A student is said to be the perpetrator.”

He added that the act was “yet further evidence of the rise of unchecked violence in our society.”

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The Antiplanner.

A recent Gallup poll found that 43 percent of Americans have a positive view of socialism, the highest share since the polling firm began asking the question in 2010. The greatest support, 57 percent, comes from people under age 35 who weren’t yet born when the fall of the Soviet Union uncovered how socialism treated the people of Russia and eastern Europe.

Decades of propaganda about how well socialism was working were swept away with the collapse of the soviet government revealing instead industries that made bad products in response to perverse incentives; grocery stores with only a handful of consumer goods on their shelves; and elite bureaucrats, or nomenklatura, who controlled the system for their own benefit.

We don’t have to look overseas to learn how poorly socialism works. The United States has its own experiment in pure socialism: the urban transit industry. This $100 billion a year industry produces about $10 billion in annual benefits to consumers (as measured by the amounts they were willing to pay in transit fares) and $90 billion in annual costs to taxpayers that end up in the pockets of agency bureaucrats, employees, and contractors.

 

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Nearly 80% of Arizona voters have an unfavorable opinion of public education in their state, one of the few areas of agreement between Republicans and Democrats in the weeks leading to Election Day.

The League of American Workers shared the polling data exclusively with the Daily Signal.

Only one-quarter of Arizona eighth graders are proficient in reading, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

With taxpayers footing the bill for public education, including through property taxes, 51.3% of survey respondents said Arizonans are getting a very poor return on their investment. Another 27.1% said it was a somewhat poor return.

Just 14.5% considered public education to be providing a good return for their spending, while 7.2% were unsure.

Majorities of conservatives, liberals, and moderates say they’re getting a poor return on public education spending, including 67.2% of Democrats.

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It seems that the European Parliament has finally decided to “fight” the Muslim Brotherhood. Now that the horse has long since been stolen, the EU wants to close the barn door!

I can’t tell you how excited that makes me.

Perhaps coincidentally, the news from Strasbourg comes at the same time as news that Abdul El-Sayed has been revealed as a Muslim Brotherhood operative. For our non-American readers, Mr. El-Sayed is the far-left (Democrat) candidate for the Senate to represent Michigan in next month’s election. As The Washington Free Beacon reported, Mr. El-Sayed recently denied in an interview (twice) that he was in any way involved with the Ikhwan, but its reporter discovered posts by his sister from social media in 2012 and 2013 where she had said that he and the whole family were affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.

I don’t know how one can reconcile those two contradictory statements. After all, everyone knows that devout Muslims always tell the truth when speaking to infidels.

It may be too little, too late, but the EP is finally attempting to deal with the “Islamist” Ikhwan problem.

Josh Pray.

October belongs to white women, and I’ve got five examples of why.

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White women have single-handedly kept the pumpkin industry alive on they own.

Financial Times, a Voice of the Crust.

Dutch dairy co-operative FrieslandCampina, for example, no longer sells whey proteins for animal feed. Instead, it intends to turn more of the whey left over from cheesemaking into concentrated proteins for human nutrition.

For centuries whey has been seen as a byproduct of cheesemaking and used for fertiliser or animal feed. Now, says Guus Aerts, the co-op’s global director of marketing and product strategy, “to some extent, cheese has already become a byproduct of whey.”

This turnaround reflects a protein boom that is reshaping the food industry. From dairy co-operatives to meat processors, companies are extracting more valuable ingredients from materials they once sold cheaply, while food manufacturers compete to secure supplies. The appetite for protein is driving billions in factory investments and acquisitions.

“Protein is increasingly [dictating] what food companies produce, where they invest capital, and how they differentiate and grow,” says Brian Earnest, lead animal protein economist at agribusiness lender CoBank.

Stanford.

In a Stanford Medicine-led clinical trial of a wireless retinal prosthesis, people with advanced macular degeneration regained enough vision to read books and subway signs.

Newsbusters.

After U.S. Homeland Security agents executed a judicially-authorized search warrant at Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) home Monday, the Minnesota Republican Party quoted the congresswoman’s own words reacting to the 2023 indictment of her political enemy, then-former President Donald Trump.

After U.S. Homeland Security agents executed a judicially-authorized search warrant at Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) home Monday, the Minnesota Republican Party quoted the congresswoman’s own words reacting to the 2023 indictment of her political enemy, then-former President Donald Trump.

Rep. Omar responded to the raid by accusing Pres. Trump of “an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement” and a “campaign of political intimidation.”

Omar’s reaction Monday was in stark contrast to her statement responding to the indictment of Trump, a Republican, in 2023 – prompting Minnesota Republicans to use her own statement against her.

“Rather than issue our own statement, we’ll defer to Rep. Omar. She said it best back in 2023, when the subject of a criminal investigation was someone else,” Minnesota Republican Party Chair Alex Plechash explained Monday in a X.com post:

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The woke leftists at The Athletic, which functions as the sports department of The New York Times, cannot stand Indiana Fever basketball player Sophie Cunningham for her defense of women’s sports, and keeping biological men off their court and out of their locker rooms.

On October 6, columnist Candace Buckner insisted the Fever brass needed to dump Cunningham over her objectionable politics. The headline was “Fever should part with Sophie Cunningham. She’s too turbulent to be paired with Caitlin Clark.”

Buckner isn’t going to find any female athletes who have racial “gutter debates” — as long as they side with wokeness. Liberals hate “divisions,” unless they’re doing the dividing — like removing Cunningham from her team.

On her “No Hesitations” podcast, when co-host Drew Hanlen brought up the article Cunningham told her and other haters to “suck it.”

I like this woman.

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Al-Qaida and its supporters are threatening to kill Americans, including U.S. soldiers, and hijack airplanes if Fort Hood mass murderer Nidal Hasan is executed.

Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula warned Monday that it would execute American hostages in retaliation for the scheduled Dec. 3 execution of Hasan, the former Army major who murdered 13 people and wounded 32 others at the Texas Army base in 2009, the Washington Examiner reported.

“The day America makes this decision,” the Islamic terrorist organization said in a statement, “it will have made a decision to execute whoever among you falls captive to us.”

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Mexican drug cartels are increasingly stealing rental cars and trucks from the United States and driving them across the southern border, exploiting legal loopholes and slow reporting procedures to supply criminal organizations with vehicles used for drug trafficking and armed confrontations.

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America has forgotten how to build, courtesy of a Byzantine permitting process that delays projects for years and often kills them altogether. A new bill could change that, though, and let the U.S. actually start building things again, including badly needed energy infrastructure that would reduce prices.

The current paralysis was made painfully evident this year when the Iran war disrupted tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, and oil jumped from about $70 a barrel to about $100 in a matter of weeks. Prices at the pump skyrocketed while costs for natural gas, fertilizer, electricity, and more also rose.

America has weathered the supply shock better than most countries because of our shale production, but the cushion is much thinner than it should be. Every stalled well, pipeline, port, and power line is a shock absorber missing from U.S. infrastructure. Energy security is national security, and a country that cannot build cannot be secure.

The problem, of course, is that every oil well and natural gas well is another stake in the heart of the proglodyte dream of our getting ‘net zero’, all of our energy electricity generated by wind, solar, and unicorn farts.

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This is the most “Minnesota” thing that could ever happen.

On October 2, two people were shot outside of a homecoming game in a fancy Minnesota neighborhood, and it turned out to be Somali gang violence.

The man charged with pulling the trigger is already back on the streets!

Yeah, sounds like Minnesota to me.

Newsbusters.

Monday may have been a government holiday but breaking news revealed that investigator with the Department of Homeland Security were on the clock as they raided the D.C.-area residence of Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D). The late-hour reaction on CNN News Central was to clutch their pearls over the raid happening so close to the midterms, and to scoff at accusations that Omar might have committed marriage or immigration fraud by allegedly marrying her brother to get him in the country.

“Kate [Bolduan], we’re learning bits and pieces of what’s happening here,” announced crime and justice correspondent Katelyn Polantz. “But there is a search that was going on this morning or is going on still at the home of Ilhan Omar, the Democratic representative from Minnesota, who is also running again for Congress in the middle of this election season.”

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A man was shot and killed on a light-rail train in Minneapolis early in the morning on October 3. While rail officials were quick to call this “an anomaly,” in fact, there has been about one murder on board a Twin Cities light-rail train each year since the beginning of the pandemic.

Sacramento Bee, a Voice of the Crust.

Dave Regan, the hard-charging president of a healthcare union, wanted to raise $100 billion to address looming federal healthcare cuts. What about a one-time wealth tax on billionaires?

He doesn’t give a shit about health care, except insofar as it brings money to the members of his union. If he were the head of a pharmaceutical company, he’d be chased into the sea.

He’d come to the right group: a quartet of academics led by UC Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez. The French economist was an academic star who has spent years studying inequality and taxation.

More than a year later, the tax is on the ballot as Proposition 40. Regan, never a household name, has become less visible in the campaign after accusations of workplace misconduct that he’s strenuously denied.

That’s left Saez and three other drafters of the tax — University of Missouri law professor David Gamage, UC Berkeley law professor Brian Galle and UC Davis law professor Darien Shanske — as some of Prop. 40’s loudest defenders, cramming debates and editorial board meetings in between classroom responsibilities.

Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, ya know.

Outspent more than 5-to-1 by billionaire-backed critics, Saez says Prop. 40’s best argument is its simplest: it’s time to tax the rich. Saez’s research found California billionaires’ wealth is 25 times what it was in 1982. On the left, billionaires are regularly invoked as oligarchic overlords whose wealth and influence have helped erode the foundations of democracy.

Yeah, because everybody else is tapped out, and the politicians have to find new pockets to pick. Nobody is so invincibly ignorant as a proglodyte who is sure and certain that he knows how to spend your money better than you do.

The debate has at times gotten personal. Earlier this year, Gamage said a critic created a website that included photos of the academics as well as their contact information and social media accounts, resulting in a deluge of angry messages. It was later taken down.

Proglodytes hate being treated the way they treat their opponents EVERY DAY.

“These billionaires are not going anywhere; they’re just going to a different state, and my concern is that they’re bringing with themselves a lot of the jobs that could have been in California,” Moretti said. “It just strengthens the economy of red states and weakens the economy of the most progressive blue state.”

Gee, who could have predicted that?