Not the Bee.

Bernie, a millionaire communist with multiple homes (his net worth is at least $2.5 million), thanked his fellow communists for supporting the Muslim communist.

El-Sayed is apparently hard-up for cash, having only ONE multi-million-dollar vacation home in the United Arab Emirates.

El-Sayed and his wife earned $686,000 in 2025 and also own vacation rentals in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Bangalore, India. They are worth up to $2.1 million.

El-Sayed says he needs the money to help him defeat another millionaire named Mike Rogers who is wealthier than him.

The difference between Mike Rogers, Bernie, and Abdulrahman El-Sayed is that Mike Rogers is a Republican and loves America.

SCORECARD! GETCHER SCORECARD HERE! Can’t tell the millionaires without a SCORECARD!

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.

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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.

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.

Not the Bee.

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

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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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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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.

Fortune, a Voice of the Crust.

Supporters of California’s proposed billionaire tax say it could raise $100 billion, with 90% of the proceeds earmarked for health care. A pair of Stanford economists warn it could instead leave the state $39 billion worse off in today’s dollars.

Proposition 40, on California’s Nov. 3 ballot, would impose a one-time 5% tax on the net worth of the state’s few hundred billionaires who were residents on Jan. 1, 2026. The tax would be due in 2027, and those who choose to spread payments over five years would pay more. Real estate, pensions, and most retirement accounts would generally be excluded.

Benjamin Jaros and Joshua Rauh, economists affiliated with Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, see a much smaller payday. In a working paper published this month by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), they estimate the tax would collect about $30 billion, in a range of $28 billion to $36 billion. That is less than a third of what proponents expect.

Their main explanation is simple: Billionaires can move.

The researchers used Forbes billionaire rankings, real estate reports, and public relocation announcements. From those, they estimate that billionaire departures have already eliminated nearly 30% of the proposed tax base. Seven billionaires who have publicly moved out of California account for roughly $540 billion in wealth, CBS News redported, citing the study. They include Peter Thiel and Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The estimate also discounts what remains of the base for the risk that courts strike the tax down.

The new figure is a sharper downgrade than the authors’ earlier Hoover analysis. That analysis projected about $40 billion in revenue and a $25 billion net loss for the state.

Not the Bee.

If you don’t know, Somalis living inside the United States like to fly the U.S. flag upside-down.

This keeps happening in the great state of Minnesota-stan.

On July 3 of this year, a Somali man named Omar Podi raised an American flag the wrong way for a Somali Independence Day celebration in St. Cloud, but claimed he simply didn’t know better.

This week, a Somali woman who is running for office in Oregon took a different tack and tried to pretend it never happened.

Nafisa Fai is running for chair of Washington County. Last week, she was in Minnesota for a political rally (because of course) and spoke Somali to the crowd (because of course).

Babylon Bee.

This will be satire for about 6 more days, then it will be reality. Laugh while you can, monkey boy.

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Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate campaign is in full-blown panic mode after an undercover O’Keefe Media Group video caught one of its field organizers claiming the candidate takes overseas donations.

The video dropped on Monday. By the end of the day, the Michigan Democrat Party had confirmed that the organizer who spilled the beans about the campaign’s illegal donations, Abdoul Beckwith, has been fired. No investigation, no review, no waiting to see how the story played out. Party officials cut him loose almost immediately, and the El-Sayed campaign rushed out a statement calling his comments “untrue,” “wildly misinformed,” and “not reflective of the campaign” while insisting it fully complies with Federal Election Commission rules.

Right. Sure. They would say that, wouldn’t they?

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As we approach the 2026 midterm elections, Americans concerned about public safety must confront a growing and dangerous trend: the increasing influence of the Democratic Socialists of America within the Democratic Party.

While the DSA markets itself as a movement for “economic justice,” its platform includes abolishing police, closing prisons, and opening national borders–policies that would dismantle the institutions that keep our communities safe.

For decades, the DSA’s impact on national politics was limited. But according to Brookings, the 2026 cycle has produced a series of high?profile wins by candidates aligned with or adjacent to the DSA’s far?left ideology, including victories in swing?state primaries.

In fact, of 282 DSA-supported candidates in local, state legislative and congressional races, DSA candidates won 43.6% (123) of the time. This surge has alarmed many centrist Democrats who fear that nominating candidates far outside the mainstream could cost the party winnable seats–and more importantly, put public safety at risk.

The DSA’s official platform calls for defunding and ultimately abolishing police and prisons, freeing incarcerated individuals, and eliminating immigration enforcement. These are not fringe ideas–they are central to the organization’s stated goals.

And their influence is spreading.

The Foundry.

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Good luck with that.

Watch it.

Tim Pool does a deep dive.

Not the Bee.

In 2025, Laura Lee Yourex was arrested for illegally registering her dog to vote and casting a ballot in her dog’s name: twice.

The second time after the dog had died.

Lest you should worry that California had somehow reformed and would attempt to rein in illegal voting like this, you’ll be happy to know Yourex just had all her charges dropped.

Bear in mind, one of those votes was actually counted in the gubernatorial recall election, so this wasn’t a harmless act!

The New Neo.

Obama: knave, not fool.

Indeed.

Yes, many politicians hide things – sexual promiscuity, for example, or their academic records. And sometimes they change their minds on something or even several things. But I can’t offhand think of another president who ran for office in the first place on a lie about who he was and what he intended. Obama did exactly that.

When arguing with people on the topic of Israel, I’ve often brought up India and Pakistan. They all have looked at me blankly; they either have no idea what I’m talking about and/or they don’t care because to them analogies are dangerous because they threaten their entrenched views about Israel. Can’t have that.

Spot on.

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This November, California voters will decide whether a fraction of the state’s population should pay a 5% wealth tax to help fund public programs. Proposition 40 would make roughly 200 of the richest Californians bail out the state’s deficits and save the budget for another year of easy spending.

California is not the only blue “paradise” with this plan. Nationwide, at least 10 Democrat-run states facing pressure to deliver on promises to expand welfare programs have reflexively reached for the wallets of the wealthy. The appeal is obvious: These taxes fall on relatively few voters, while the resulting revenue can finance programs benefitting a far larger population.

However, taxing the rich is not a “get out of debt free” card. It’s a way for states to ignore their own financial mismanagement while forcing their highest earners and most profitable businesses to pick up the slack. When progressive taxes push high earners to relocate to more business-friendly states, they take with them investments, charity, productive businesses, job opportunities, and taxable income.

Despite these consequences, a wave of income tax revisions is hitting blue states. Connecticut Democrats aim to raise the top marginal rates to 7.5% for earners over $250,000 and 7.99% for those making over $500,000. Michigan’s ballot proposal would levy a 5% tax on individual income over $500,000. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani proposed a 2% income tax increase on residents making $1 million, creating a top marginal rate of nearly 17%. Rhode Island has even approved a 3% surtax on income above $1 million.

Although taxing the rich may appear to be an attractive source of revenue for government officials, it comes at a cost. Massachusetts provides perhaps the best test case.

Not the Bee.

Last week, Angie Nixon said she wanted to lock up her opponent.

She was then offered a chance to amend her statement on CBS Face the Nation.

This stems from a grand jury ruling that said funds were misappropriated, but no one was named as responsible. An appeals court then looked at the case and struck down the grand jury report.

This means there’s already been an investigation. There’s already been a legal ruling. Gov. DeSantis said the whole thing was an obvious hoax.

But Nixon says Republicans are guilty and AG Ashley Moody needs to go to prison because she allegedly “knew” about the scandal that turned out to be a non-scandal with no legal wrongdoing. Nixon claims this non-scandal will cause kids to die.

Even CBS’s Margaret Brennan was completely shocked and taken aback by her answer.

If you’re looking for fascists, Democrats have got you covered.

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A super PAC supporting a Republican candidate who shares a name with Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, has received millions of dollars from groups linked to progressive donors, according to newly disclosed campaign finance records.

Democrats are hoping that the Alaskan voters are too stupid to figure out which is which.

In a state that keeps returning RINO Murkowski to the Senate, I can’t say they’re wrong.

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On Columbus Day, Homeland Security Investigations executed a judicially authorized search warrant of Representative Ilhan Omar’s home. For several months, there have been rumors that she was under investigation for immigration fraud. A few weeks ago, White House Border Czar Tom Homan acknowledged that the congresswoman was the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro says her office is investigating Omar for potential financial crimes. The D.C. magistrate judge who authorized the search of Omar’s residence is a registered Democrat who donated to Hillary Clinton and received professional appointments from other Democrats.

Despite the fact that Democrats wholeheartedly cheered when President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland authorized FBI agents to use deadly force against the Trump family when they raided his Mar-a-Lago home in 2022 to retrieve evidence of the Department of Justice’s unlawful spying operations against Republican politicians during Barack Obama’s presidency, the people who repeatedly told us for years that “nobody is above the law” now insist that the raid of Omar’s residence is an “abuse of power,” “political retribution,” and the act of “a fascist police state.”

As news of the Omar raid broke, CNN’s Jake Tapper called it “vindictive” and questioned whether it was a “legitimate law enforcement action.” Tapper’s supposedly expert guest – a Democrat lawfare operative – responded to the host’s predetermined judgment of the investigation by calling it, “Partisan. Racism. Xenophobia.”

Bill Kristol – who, amazingly enough, was once regarded as a trusted public intellectual among Republican voters before revealing himself to have been a complete fraud who lied about almost everything he long claimed to believe – posted this urgent request on X: “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.” When FBI agents were pawing through First Lady Melania Trump’s undergarments back in 2022, Kristol encouraged Americans to be patient and to avoid any rush to judgment – even though the criminal targeting of an American president was unprecedented and shocking.

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The DOJ Civil Rights Division’s LGBTQI+ Working Group convened quarterly stakeholder meetings with organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Human Rights Campaign, Lambda Legal, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the National Women’s Law Center, and others while the department challenged state laws regarding transgender medicine, bathrooms, and women’s sports.

The newly revealed documents show advocacy groups asking federal officials to discuss “what the federal government can do to limit or stop anti-trans legislation,” “strategic involvement by DOJ,” litigation involving gender medicine, and other policy priorities.

“Under the Biden administration, far-left activist groups were given a seat at the table in shaping the Civil Rights Division’s priorities,” Justice Department spokeswoman Kiersten Pels told the Daily Signal. “Under this administration, the division enforces federal civil rights laws as written, for every American equally, and its litigation and enforcement decisions are not shaped by outside activists.”

The documents do not portray the meetings as one-way briefings by federal officials.

The Foundry.

One of the foundational ideals of a free nation is that all its citizens live under the same rules. Democrats know this. They’ve been lecturing us for years that “no one is above the law.”

So, what happens if a federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., provides incontrovertible evidence that she obtained citizenship by lying? Should we ignore it? Should Omar be given an exemption from the law because she’s in Congress? Or because she’s a Democrat?

Those on the left carping about the investigation into Omar being politically motivated can’t be taken seriously. Not after they spent a decade engaged in blatant lawfare—first by attempting to annul the 2016 election of Donald Trump by concocting one lurid conspiracy theory after the next, and then by trying to stop him from running for the presidency in 2024.

When you spend your time stripping away norms, you can’t expect the other side to unilaterally disarm.

Newsbusters.

As they do.

We’ve noted California Democrat gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra has lied repeatedly about his life story, for example, announcing in a September 30 CNN debate that his parents “came to this country with $12, and they settled in California.” He also told Ana Navarro his father came to America in his 20s with $12 in his pocket. But an obituary said his father was born in Sacramento.

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Later, they get it right — after getting it wrong twice: “Mr. Becerra’s father was born in Sacramento, and then moved back to Mexico as a child before returning to the United States. Though Mr. Becerra has not focused much on Latino issues during the governor’s race, he has invoked his family history at almost every public appearance.”

This is the whole point — that Becerra is lying in all these invocations. It’s still there on Becerra’s campaign website: “Two immigrants with 12 dollars and a dream. Come to California in pursuit of a better life.” Remember this when they lecture about campaign misinformation.

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After “defund the police” sparked a political backlash in 2020, Democratic candidates largely stopped using the slogan, but the movement behind it has hardly gone away.

Before you can defund the police, you first have to convince the public that the police themselves are the problem.

In New York City, that is precisely what the Democratic Socialists of America are trying to do. They have turned a federal immigration shooting into a campaign against the Big Apple’s own police department.

On Oct. 8, ICE agents shot and wounded Oscar Belgal during an attempted arrest in the Marble Hill section of Manhattan. Belgal had a prior conviction for grand larceny and was facing a separate drug charge. His 5-year-old son was in the car.

The NYPD had no role in the operation. Its officers arrived afterward and rushed Belgal to the hospital.

But that did not prevent the socialists from seizing on the incident to bash New York’s finest. Their response? Demand that Mayor Zohran Mamdani fire Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch.

The Foundry.

A Michigan health care organization has received tens of millions of dollars in government grants despite donating to a political nonprofit that targets Republican state lawmakers through ad campaigns.

According to recent nonprofit grant disclosures, the Michigan Health & Hospital Association represents $22.3 million in government grants in the 2025 fiscal year and has annual revenue of $62 million.

However, the organization’s tax filings show that it has donated at least $1.15 million to the Michigan Citizens for Better Health, a politically active nonprofit that has spent $2.49 million in advertising targeting seven Republican state lawmakers in Michigan House districts.

2024 tax filings also show that the politically active nonprofit gave $100,000 to a Michigan Democratic Committee administrative account.

The nonprofits’ opposition to Republicans comes after the state Speaker of the House, Matt Hall, questioned hospital pricing practices and called for greater accountability in the health care industry. The speaker’s questions arose after state House Democrats advocated for the passage of the 340B program, which would offer hospitals and medical patients discounted prices, but fails to specify how hospitals would adequately demonstrate that the financial benefits reach each patient.

The nonprofit has previously defended the 340B program, arguing that it increases health care access and offers essential hospital services.

Michigan Citizens for Better Health and Michigan Health & Hospital Association did not respond to the Daily Signal’s request for comment.

Not the Bee.

This is a real thing that happened.

After a week of Democrats griping about Trump’s “political persecution” of Ilhan Omar and his supposed attempts to “lock up” his political opponents, Angie Nixon, the Democrat running for Florida’s open Senate seat, reminded us that the Dems want to lock you up (or worse).

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Gee, imagine that.

Not the Bee.

She felt comfortable saying this on TV. Think about that.

Her number one priority! Nothing is more important to her than this!

Not crime reduction. Not the economy. Not affordability. Not jobs. Not even giving the Wisconsin Badgers the NIL money to become relevant in college sports again.

Just your regular reminder that the average Democrat candidate, even in the conservative-leaning Midwest, wants to invite the entire world to live in America and fundamentally destroy the land built by our forefathers.

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The Department of Justice is suing California after state officials failed to comply with a 48-hour ultimatum to review a list of suspected noncitizen voters and set aside their ballots pending citizenship verification.

On Tuesday, acting Deputy Attorney General R. Trent McCotter sent letters to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber and Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder Dean Logan, demanding action on a federal list of potential noncitizens.

The DOJ instructed officials to segregate ballots already returned, stop sending ballots to individuals on the list until their citizenship was verified, and refrain from counting ballots pending verification.

“Allowing noncitizens to vote cancels citizen votes,” McCotter wrote, according to a letter obtained by NBC News.

Gov. Gavin Newsom took to X, calling the demand “dangerous nonsense.”

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.

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.

Not the Bee.

I can see how that would be a problem.

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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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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.”

Not the Bee.

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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:

Not the Bee.

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.

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ODF. Vote for Democrats, get more crime. Always happens.

Rollo Tomassi.

All politics are gender politics. Since the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, female emotionalism has defined US social, legal, and international policy. Women are the largest sex-based voting group in the United States, both in number of ballots cast and in turnout rate. In the 2024 presidential election, about 91.3 million women voted versus 82.6 million men, and women’s turnout was 66.9%, compared with 63.7% for men.

But Woke progressives don’t hold power in presidential elections. They win in the midterms. Each midterm is an effort to emotionally agitate women into going to the polls to decide “the most important vote of our lives” at the midpoint of every presidential cycle. It makes no difference whether the President is on Team Woman. The narrative is always rooted in the fear of men (always white men) killing, raping, controlling, or oppressing women.

In 2014, the midterm fem-rage was inspired by the 7 fraternity brothers at UVA who were falsely accused of a brutal gang rape of “Jackie,” written by feminist Sabrina Erdley and published in Rolling Stone Magazine. The story was later proven to be a hoax Erdley deliberately fabricated, and Rolling Stone was held liable for $4.5M. But the story’s similarities and timing eerily match the Cornell 7 story that will be in the news until the November 3rd elections.

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An anti-corruption group has filed a bar complaint demanding New York Attorney General Letitia James exit the “Cornell 7” case over a post she wrote before becoming special prosecutor, the New York Post reported.

The nine-page complaint went to the Attorney Grievance Committee, the state court system’s lawyer-discipline panel, the Post reported.

Its author, the National Legal and Policy Center, is a Falls Church, Virginia, group that says it works to expose corruption in government and business.

The complaint argues James compromised herself by publicly siding with Jane Doe, the pseudonym of a former Cornell University student who says seven members of the school’s Chi Phi fraternity, since dubbed the “Cornell 7,” drugged and gang-raped her in October 2024.

Judging by the published texts I’ve seen from the ‘victim’ to the ‘perpetrators’, I think ‘Jane Doe’ is going to have an uphill climb….

Babylon Bee.

It’s not as easy as it looks.

The Other McCain.

Have you seen this guy lately? James Talarico is a Democrat, a previously obscure state legislator who is running for a U.S. Senate seat in Texas against the current state attorney general, Ken Paxton. Or rather, I should say, Talarico was running for the Senate until Sept. 26, which was the last time he was seen at a campaign event. He showed up in New York City for a fundraiser with Robert De Niro on Sept. 28, and made a virtual appearance on a teleconference Sept. 30, but no one in Texas has seen him in public for nearly two weeks, and wild rumors are now circulating as to the reason for Talarico’s mysterious disappearance.

The official explanation from the Talarico campaign is that the candidate came down with the flu, but nobody believes that because (a) everything the Talarico campaign says is a lie and (b) who ever heard of a two-week case of the flu? Yet the truth about Talarico’s whereabouts is unknown, and speculation has given way to wild rumors.

Perhaps he has returned to the Mother Ship for instructions.