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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Victor Davis Hanson.

As the midterms approach, the Left has gone nearly berserk in its hatred of trillionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk. Yet its escalating venom would have been almost inconceivable before 2022, when Musk publicly declared that he would be voting Republican.

Before Musk’s recent political reversal (he voted for both Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020), he was beloved by the Left as the first successful upstart challenger to the century-long dominance of the Big Three fossil-fuel automakers. Liberals once loved his revolutionary, electrically powered Teslas and drove them proudly as a green virtue signal.

Not now. Far-left podcaster Jennifer Welch has run out of Nazi epithets for Musk. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—ironically, given her own limited talents—trashed Musk as “probably one of the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever met or seen or witnessed.”

Former Rep. Tom Perriello Pledges to ‘End War,’ Remove Trump’s Tariff Authority If Elected

ABC Seems to Imply MAGA Could Carry Out Violence Against Election Workers on Tuesday  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Trump and Epstein’s intrasexual competition (Julie K. Brown/The Epstein Files)  EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN!

Trump officials say men face a testosterone crisis. Experts say numbers tell different story (Joseph Choi/The Hill)  Experts say! That proves it!

Republicans Are Driving the Most Racist Election Cycle in a Generation (Jack Crosbie/Rolling Stone) RACIST! RACIST! RACIST!

Trump escalates anti-Muslim rhetoric before midterms (Josephine Walker/Axios)

Fox’s Trump Fatigue (Oliver Darcy/Status)

Just In: Judge Warns Trump DOJ to Stop Threatening Election Workers (David Kurtz/Talking Points Memo)

Kennedy Makes Bigoted Remarks About Arabs at Michigan Campaign Event (Bayliss Wagner/New York Times)

Joe Rogan Turns More Critical of Trump Ahead of 2026 Midterms (Ted Mann/Bloomberg)

Jen Psaki Warns of Authoritarianism, Compares Trump Admin to Serbia Government

Dear Leftists: Shut the Hell Up About Trump ‘Profiting’ From Politics (Stephen Kruiser/PJ Media)

Kimmel Conspiracy Theorizes About Votes Not Being Counted

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Elon Musk? (William Kristol/The Bulwark)  Kristol would put him in a camp.

Morning Joe Pushes Conspiracy That Elon Musk Has and Will Hack Elections

Senators Demand to Know if Dr. Oz Collaborated With Election Denial Groups (David Gilbert/Wired)

Here Are the U.S. Attorneys Who Are Carrying Out Trump’s Grievance Agenda (Devlin Barrett/New York Times)

Jared Kushner Got Secretary of State Fired After Dictator Paid Him Off (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)  Allegedly! That proves it!

Kamala Harris Warns Dems Against Trump Impeachment  Impeaching Trump: An idea so stupid that even Kamala Harris sees it.

The Founder of Arab Americans for Trump Has Some Regrets (Isaac Chotiner/New Yorker)

Trump could be a ‘super-lame duck’ if things go badly for the president on Election Day (Zack Stanton/MS NOW)

Trump is using tariffs as a ‘tool for grift,’ Raskin says in demand for donor records (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)

MS NOW, CNN and Politico amend lawsuit, seeking to restore access to Oval Office and Air Force One (Fallon Gallagher/MS NOW)

How Cleta Mitchell Turned Trump’s “Big Lie” Into a Movement (Doug Bock Clark/ProPublica)

Axios, a Voice of the Crust.

A fight over Israel is fracturing the socialist movement just as it stands within reach of capturing the Los Angeles mayor’s office.

Why it matters: The same socialist movement celebrating its ascendancy through New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is now debating whether to disown Nithya Raman before Los Angeles voters can even weigh in.

By the numbers: Raman leads incumbent Mayor Karen Bass in recent polls ahead of the Nov. 3 election, though many voters remain undecided.

State of play: On Oct. 4, DSA’s National Political Committee found that the chapter violated endorsement rules by failing to ask Raman about BDS, but stopped short of invalidating its support.

Sticking point: The Democratic Socialists of America’s published endorsement requirements say candidates must actively support BDS and avoid affiliations with the Israeli government or “Zionist lobbying groups.”

Most of this is behind a paywall, but if you use the Safari browser you can reach it by using the Reader feature.

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Black Baptist parents in Maryland are suing local and state agencies after losing custody of their son in a transgender dispute. They say their son eventually attempted suicide while in foster care.

The parents, listed in the lawsuit as Mr. and Mrs. John Doe, sued the state’s Department of Human Services, Prince George’s County Department of Social Services, a social worker, the foster mother, and other officials earlier this month. They claim that officials treated their Christian faith as evidence of parental unfitness because they did not support LGBTQ identities.

“The Does’ faith and religious liberty brought the weight of their own government against them,” Amos Jones, the parents’ attorney, told the Daily Signal in a statement Monday. “We are calling on Governor Wes Moore and County Executive Aisha Braveboy to correct this affront to Christian families in a county full of traditionalist black megachurches.”

The son, who was diagnosed with autism, had engaged in self-cutting, and the parents took him to Children’s National Hospital, Jones told the Daily Signal. The staff there began referring to the son by a female name and referred him to Prince George’s County Child Protective Services.

According to the lawsuit, authorities removed the son from his parents’ custody and placed him with a foster mother. After some time with the foster mother, the son attempted suicide, and ended up in the hospital. The parents also claim their son had been carried across state lines without their knowledge.

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A Council official turned up at the home of YouTube pianist Brendan Kavanagh – better known as Dr K – to investigate his 12-year-old daughter Zoe’s pretend teddy bear cafe for illegal trading.

Yes, really. Stuffed animals, toy tea sets, play money, and a handwritten “prices” sign in a family property triggered a formal Bedford Borough planning department visit after a complaint about an “illegal cafe.”

Kavanagh filmed the arrival and the tour. The official showed ID outside, then walked through the setup of teddies around a table with cups and cakes. Obviously, no actual trading was happening with real customers. Just a child’s game in a private home. Threatening letters had already arrived from the council’s planning department.

Britain is determined to prove Orwell a prophet.

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The UK is on the verge of a political sea change, or, perhaps a mass rebellion. Everyone sees it, including the leftist political leaders currently running policy in the failing country. And when political elites feel threatened, they have a tendency to overreact to every perceived expression of mutiny.

To understand how far gone the UK is, one need only look at the long list of wrongful and politically motivated arrests over the past five years, including people who simply posted funny memes online. Not to mention all the police intimidation for displaying the British flag in view of people who don’t like it (migrants and leftists). However, the ugliest government actions revolve around the UK’s attempt to suppress or destroy Gen Z conservative boys.

British authorities have taken a special interest in the rise of conservative and nationalist ideals among teenage males. They have launched extensive propaganda campaigns to demonize conservative thinking among younger Brits and portrayed boys as “ticking time bombs” of racism and misogyny. This has culminated in an effort to utilize teachers as veritable secret police tasked with weeding out potential “thought criminals” in public schools.

The Foundry.

The Telegraph (UK).

Dr Sarah Redvers said she felt “silenced” after she passed on complaints doctors had brought to her about whether another GP was appropriately assessing the needs of young people who were questioning their gender identity.

Dr Redvers claimed that when she had made complaints about Dr Sam Hall, a transgender doctor whose care quality had prompted colleagues to raise concerns, she had been accused of transphobia and harassed out of her job.

Dr Redvers told an employment tribunal hearing that she had been put under investigation after raising issues about the quality of treatment and the prescription of puberty blockers at WellBN clinic in Brighton.

In June, nearly six years after she raised her concerns, a separate NHS investigation found that dozens of children aged 13 and above had been inappropriately prescribed drugs at the clinic, with 78 children having potentially been harmed by being prescribed puberty-blocking drugs and cross-sex hormones without proper checks.

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….

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?

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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.

New York Post.

It’s easy to take free speech for granted when it’s all you’ve known as an American — but look no further than the United Kingdom for a reminder of why our First Amendment is so important.

I thank God every day that I don’t live in Britain.

The Nation, a Voice of the Far Left.

The omnipresent consultant-cum-tantrum-thrower has long outlived whatever relevance he once had, but cable producers, podcast hosts, and Democratic campaigns haven’t got the memo.

Go against the Narrative, and you wind up under the bus.

The Race Is On for Trump Staffers to Hire Lawyers in Case Democrats Win Midterms (Wall Street Journal)

Obama calls Trump officials’ investigation of Ilhan Omar ‘appalling’ (Raquel Coronell Uribe/NBC News)  Mommmeeee! Donald hit me back!

Republicans already know who they want to blame if they suffer big midterm losses (Politico)  I’d be tempted to say ‘Politico’, but I’m pretty sure they mean Trump.

Republicans fall back to the red wall (Politico)  Politico is really pushing the Narrative as we get down to the wire.

Trump Presidencies See Return of Federal Executions  For all of you out there who are ‘triggered’.

Michigan senator wants to save democracy by bullying young people so they are terrified to work for her political opponents

Vance Went Off-Script. It Didn’t Go Well (Nia-Malika Henderson/Bloomberg)  Must have been all of those Trump cooties.

Meet the researchers leaving the US because of Trump’s funding cuts and politicization of science (Adithi Ramakrishnan/Associated Press)  It’s surprising how many people think that they’re entitled to spend their lives being supported by taxpayers while poking around into stuff that interests them. I’d love to have that job.

This Cybersecurity Agency Is Supposed to Protect U.S. Elections. Officials Fear It’s Been Compromised by Trump. (ProPublica)  Democrat officials, of course.

Donald Trump is Politically Bankrupt. Be Very Afraid (Paul Krugman)  If he’s so barnkrupt, why is The Vacuum so afraid of him?

Donald Trump Is Learning That He Can’t Steal This Election (Paul Blumenthal/HuffPost) The Paper of Record of Feminism is strongly pushing the Narrative.

‘Happy Birthday, Vlad. Yours, Always.’ – DJT. (William Kristol/The Bulwark)  One of the benefits of having Trump as President is that it flushes all of the RINOs out of the underbrush. The Kristol krew have revealed their Democrat souls, and it is not a pretty sight.

Trump’s Golf Empire Is A Billion-Dollar Tax Shelter (Dan Alexander/Forbes)  Of course, if he were a Democrat no word would be said.

Abdul El-Sayed’s fighting style terrifies MAGA (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  ‘Fighting style’? You mean ‘jihad’? (Amanda Marcotte loses her shit.)

To Russia With Love, Signed Donald (Wall Street Journal)  The WSJ has apparently fully embraced being a Voice of the Crust.

Sen. Slotkin Threatens Trump Supporters, Staff with ‘Ton of Problems’  Looking for authoritarianism? Democrats got you covered.

Trump says New Mexico should ‘immediately’ change name to New America (Dan Diamond/Washington Post)  Ah ah ah ah yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….

Trump approval falls to record low of 31% as midterms near, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds (Jason Lange/Reuters)  Pushing the Narrative as hard as they can.

The Atlantic, a Voice of the Crust.

new boogeyman arrived in Democratic campaign ads this year with such force that it was possible to forget it had ever been absent. Slotted between clichés about “rising costs,” the “rigged economy,” and the elusive “fair shot” for the middle class, the familiar villains of billionaires, insurance companies, and “MAGA extremists” were joined by a friend turned foe.

“Big Tech’s invading Ohio, driving up our electric rates, damaging our environment, destroying our farmland,” Representative Marcy Kaptur of Ohio warned in one ad. Roy Cooper, who is running in North Carolina for Senate, said in another: “My plan stops grocery stores from using AI to overcharge you.” A 30-second spot in Wisconsin features Rebecca Cooke, a congressional candidate, promising voters seated around a kitchen table: “I don’t want to be beholden to any of these Big Tech companies.” And the House Majority PAC, a group closely aligned with Democratic leaders that has been attacking Republicans for their proximity to the new baddie on the block, released an ad labeling the incumbent Republican in Wisconsin’s Third District “Data Center Derrick Van Orden”—and suggesting that he was designed by artificial intelligence to serve its interests.

The sudden Democratic revulsion toward Big Tech and all its offspring—data centers, artificial intelligence, tech oligarchs—has defined this midterm election and will likely continue through the early innings of the 2028 presidential campaign. For most of the past few decades, Democrats cast themselves as a futurist party heralding a digital utopia, a posture founded by Al Gore and solidified when Barack Obama traveled to Google’s headquarters in 2007 to announce his presidential campaign’s commitment to “use technology to reach ever-expanding horizons.” Republicans were the ones warning about censorship and centralized power, as corporate executives clumsily adjusted the levers of permissible speech on social media.

Quillette.

On 24 September, a self-described founder and “adviser to CEOs” posted on LinkedIn about Gucci and Dior withdrawing their handbags from the Australian department store David Jones. After describing the store’s financial difficulties, she suggested that David Jones’s female chief executive was experiencing the “glass cliff.” The “glass cliff” refers to the idea that, having broken through the glass ceiling, women are disproportionately appointed to lead failing organisations, where they are most likely to be blamed when things go wrong.

“What on earth does the management’s gender have to do with it?” asked fellow LinkedIn user Chris Bradley, a senior partner at McKinsey and a director of the McKinsey Global Institute (whom I interviewed for Quillette’s YouTube channel in July).

It was a relatively innocuous question. But the ensuing debate would have a cascade of consequences. Within three weeks, Bradley had been stripped of his directorship and other leadership responsibilities at McKinsey, and had his face plastered across Bloomberg, the Australian Financial Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, the New York Post, Fast Company, and other international publications. Meanwhile, Julia Carreon and Shannon Nutter, whose new book had been recommended in the original LinkedIn post, enjoyed an unexpected burst of publicity.

There is no realm of life that toxic feminism has not corrupted.

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In Australia, a policy debate has broken out following the federal government’s release of its long-promised internet regulation, the digital duty of care. The stakes may be nothing less than the future of freedom on the internet.

The proposed law, an amendment to the existing Online Safety Act 2021, would impose a broad obligation on almost all online services to protect all users, not just children, from harmful content and features, and to manage “reasonably foreseeable risks.”

The government has presented its motivations as being consumer choice and safety. At a press conference launching a draft of the proposed law, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese declared the digital duty of care a “sensible, pragmatic, practical reform” that “is not about giving government control [but] about giving people control.” Communications Minister Anika Wells likened the measure to other kinds of consumer protections: “The same way that we have safety standards for cars, for food, for appliances, Australia is setting basic standards for the online tools and online services within our digital duty of care.”

Thank God for the First Amendment.

Don’t go to Australia.

Not the Bee.

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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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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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.

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?

New York Post.

“Believe survivors,” the campus activists and leftist politicians admonish us.

But which “survivor” statements are we supposed to believe?

In the weeks following her alleged gang rape at a Cornell University frat house in 2024, “Jane Doe” was unequivocal: She had not been raped.

A day after the incident, she texted one of her sex partners, saying “non (sic) of the sexual stuff was illegal and honestly I really liked being with u” — and she suggested another get-together.

OnlyFans, here we come….

New York Post.

A Wisconsin congressional candidate has been arrested on hate crime charges after he went on a vulgar caught-on-camera rant against an Israeli dad with his young son in the car — after he was triggered by an anti-Hamas bumper sticker.

Matthew Arndt, 54, allegedly cut off the 41-year-old father on a road in the Milwaukee suburb of Mequon Thursday morning, flipping him the bird and cursing at him before pulling into a gas station, where the dad followed him and began filming the explosive encounter.

“Do you want to tell me something?” the father asked.

“Yeah, you’re a f–king piece of s–t! You’re a f–king traitor!” Arndt erupted, pointing an accusatory finger at the stunned motorist.

Wednesday Update: Camp Mar-a-David (Brett Meiselas/Meidas+)

Lawrence O’Donnell Claims Trump Welcomed Iranian Nuclear Attack on LA and San Diego  No, that was me. Trump just discussed the possibility.

Congress’ Watchdog Finds Trump Illegally Withheld More Than $1 Billion in Federal Funds (The Washington Sun)

DNC sues Trump administration, alleging taxpayer-funded ads violate propaganda law (Ali Swenson/Associated Press)

‘King of Injustice’: Golden naked Trump statue installed at European Parliament (Oscar Holland/CNN)  Guess they forgot about Putin.

Colleges seek answers amid Trump push to cancel tax exemptions over diversity programs (Brian Faler/Politico)

Trump Pick’s Campaign Hit With Explosive Staff Revelations (Laura Esposito/The Daily Beast)  Trump cooties!

Flight attendants’ union flags safety concerns over Trump’s Washington arch (Gary Fields/Associated Press)

Disaster relief funding is creeping into Trump’s midterm rhetoric. Critics say it has no place there (Gabriela Aoun Angueira/Associated Press)  Trump critics say a lot of stuff.

Biden’s FBI Spied On Trump Campaign Manager’s Communications And Trump Family Travel

Trump interrupted by protesters as he fights to rally Texas voters behind Paxton in US Senate race (Associated Press)

Trump administration paving way for temporary sale of some unapproved peptides (Rachel Roubein/Washington Post)  ‘Unapproved’ by whom?

Everything Is Bigger in Texas — Including the Number of Protests at Trump’s Rally (The Washington Sun)

Election Deniers Have Trump’s Ear on a Voting Machine Conspiracy (Gavin J. Quinton/The Washington Sun)

Trump Is Still Airing Campaign Ads With Your Money by the Way (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic)

Trump Pats Himself On The Back For Not Doing ‘Bad Things’ To Obama, Clinton, Biden (Kelby Vera/HuffPost)

Golden Naked Trump Statue Unveiled At European Parliament

Inside Trump’s push to bring Christopher Columbus to the White House (Washington Post)

The White House Has Unleashed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (The Washington Sun)

Inside Trump’s blow-up at Fox News over El-Sayed coverage (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)

Trump faces his worst bankruptcy yet (Tom Schaller/Public Notice)

‘He’s Not Making Sense’: How Trump Has Alienated Voters for the G.O.P. (New York Times)  Pushing the Narrative for the mid-terms.

Trump Rages, Rages Against the Dying of the Light (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)  A message from Delulu.

Slovak Premier Wants Statue Mocking Trump at EU Parliament to Go (Daniel Hornak/Bloomberg)

NBC Comedians Promote Conspiracy Theories Ahead of Midterms

On the Front Line of the Vaccine Wars (Katherine Eban/Rolling Stone)  There were no ‘vaccine wars’ until the left decided to start one with vaccine-skeptic RFJ Jr.

Our Big Fat Greek Bribery Scandal (Andrew Egger/The Bulwark)  Carrying water for Democrats.

A Month Before the Midterms, PBS Piles 94% Negative Spin on GOP, Trump

Republicans Have an Andrew Tate Eel-Sex Problem (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)  Will Sommer loses his shit.

Liberal Media Counting Dem Chickens: ‘Ass-Whooping, Big Night, Win House and Senate’

Daughter of Trump’s chief of staff works at firm that lobbies for Republika Srpska (Amy Mackinnon/Financial Times)  The old proglodygte Bank-Shot Smear.

Republicans need to bank votes right now. Trump made that harder. (Selena Kuznikov/MS NOW)

Democrat called anti-trans slur by Trump airs ad urging ‘No men in women’s sports’ (Fenit Nirappil/Washington Post)

MS NOW’s Jason Johnson Compares Justice Alito to ‘Burglar’ Who Stole People’s Rights  I guess Diversity Equity and Inclusion includes stupid black people.

ABC and NBC Continue to Push Midterm Doom for Trump and GOP in Texas

Democrats Zero In On Pentagon Contractors to Probe Trump Ties (Bloomberg)  Even if they have to make it up.

CNN’s Stelter: Fox Wants to ‘Turn Off’ Trump  As if Stelter has a clue as to what Fox wants.

The Democrats Who Let Trump’s Oligarchs Buy Hollywood (Harold Meyerson/American Prospect)

Golden naked Trump statue unveiled at European Parliament (The Telegraph)

Trump Derangement: No, he didn’t ask Iran to attack LA or San Diego (New York Post)

Fury in California After Trump Suggests Iran ‘Take Out’ L.A. or San Diego (Laura Chung/New York Times)

California officials condemn Trump for saying Iran could ‘take out’ Los Angeles or San Diego (Megan Brand/NBC News)

Morning Joe Insists Trump Wants Iran to Bomb LA, Claims Media Is Biased in Trump’s Direction  Unintentional comedy.

California Leaders Erupt After Trump Suggests Letting Iran ‘Take Out’ Cities (Ryan Bort/Rolling Stone)

October LIES: Networks Falsely Claim Trump Wants Iran to Blow Up LA, San Diego

Former NBC Journos on MS NOW Lie and Say Trump Wants Iran to Bomb California Cities

Kimmel Peddles Fake News That Trump Wants Iran To Wipe Out LA, San Diego

Despite its Own Fact-Check, CNN Insists on Pushing ‘Los Angeles-San Diego Hoax’

Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal voting rests on a shaky foundation (Kyle Cheney/Politico)

Trump administration unveils plan to tie high birth and marriage rates to transit funding (Sam Ogozalek/Politico)

Grandpa Trump Is Getting Desperate (William Kristol/The Bulwark)  Crazy Uncle Bill Kristol has been desperate ever since Trump got elected the first time.

Veteran conservative lawyer quits Trump’s interior department and warns of ‘assault on the rule of law’ (Jimmy Tobias/The Guardian)  Of course, for The Guardian ‘conservative’ means ‘not as Left as we are’.

US Senator Murphy says Pentagon denied him access to US base in Qatar (Timour Azhari/Reuters)  As it does with all enemies of America.

Trump says journalists should be ‘arrested’ for reporting on empty seats at rally (Jasmine Fernández/The Independent)  Sure, I believe that.

Trump Again Offers Govt Help to Address Chicago Crime  Sorry, they’d rather their citizens get robbed and killed than accept Trump cooties.

Trump Rages at ‘Loser’ Female Fox Host in New Tirade (Cameron Adams/The Daily Beast)  Of course, without Trump they wouldn’t have any readers.

As Trump Dithers, Ukraine War Is Approaching a ‘Fatal Point of No Return’ (Mac William Bishop/Rolling Stone)  And of course we take military and foreign affairs advice from Rolling Stone.

CNN’s Hunt Repeatedly Pushes Raskin On Blocking Trump SCOTUS Nominees for Years

‘He Tricked Us’: SNL’s Rubio Campaigns Against GOP In Midterms  Saturday Night Live is just another propaganda organ for the Wokerati.

FBI whistleblower says White House pushed unconstitutional probe of protesters (Ryan J. Reilly/NBC News)

Inside Trump’s Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (New York Times)

ABC Blames Trump for Cornell Incident, Hostin Brags Not Pushing Facts

MS NOW explores the relationship between election denier Tina Peters and the Trump administration and her calls to “get rid of voting machines” (Media Matters for America)

Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines (Matt Cohen/Democracy Docket)

Trump keeps demanding criminal punishment for reporting he dislikes ??? including about his crowd sizes (Matt Gertz/Media Matters for America)  Sure, I believe that….

Trump sons’ investments have won billions in Pentagon contracts since his election (Nathan Lee/ABC News)  Two words: Hunter Biden.

Donald Trump Is Buying Votes at $500 a Pop (Jonathan Cohn/The Bulwark)

Democrats push back on Trump administration’s ‘brazen’ attempt to roll back education standards (Arthur Jones II/ABC News)

Kimmel Wants De Niro To Be President After He Calls Trump a ‘F****** Piece Of S***’

ABC, NBC Cheer Democrats Scolding Republicans in Debates as Trump Stooges

From Iran to the U.K., Trump Is Being Forced Into Retreat (New York Times)  I doubt that he notices.

Dale Debunks Idea Trump Wants Iran to Bomb L.A., But CNN Doesn’t Have Him on Air

Naked statue of Trump named ‘Orange Plague’ unveiled at European Parliament (Suha Kidwai/The Independent)

October 6, 2026 ??? Judging from his social media posts, Trump is panicking. (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters …)  Mind-readers in the Narrative Media are coming out of the woodwork.

Ana Navarro Predicts Everyone Dying from Russian Plague Because of Trump

Robert De Niro accuses Trump of being ‘Epstein’s chief protector’ (The Telegraph)

New York Declares State of Emergency Over Measles Outbreak (Jessica Nix/Bloomberg)  There is, of course, no ‘measles emergency’; this is just another Mid-Term Democrat Hand-Wring aimed at RFK Jr. and by extension the entire Trump administration. Supposedly RFK Jr. is an anti-vaxxer and thus ‘putting children at risk’; unmentioned is the fact that parents are free to get their kids vaccinated for whatever floats their boat, and RFK Jr. has no power to bar vaccinations or interfere with the availability thereof. This is the same sort of panic-mongering that gave us the COVID-19 lockdown fascism. (RFK Is Gloating That His Changes to HHS Are Permanent (Anna Merlan/Mother Jones))

Trump approval at record low; Hispanic voters sour on Republicans, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds (Reuters)  Pushing the continuing Narrative. (Networks Giddily Promote Bad Polls, Seek to Depress GOP Turnout Ahead of Midterms)

MS NOW Claims Trump Threatens SCOTUS As It Labels Court As Right-Wing

Democrats Map Plans to Reverse Trump Actions After Midterms  Which they can’t do, even with control over both Houses of Congress, which they won’t have . Democrats, like Calvin in ‘Calvin and Hobbes’, are great on plans.

Appeals court weighs judge’s authority to restore Trump administration funding cuts to Harvard (Associated Press)

Trump hurls anti-trans slurs at Graham’s opponent as South Carolina race tightens (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)

Trump uses anti-trans slur against Democratic Senate candidate in South Carolina (Raquel Coronell Uribe/NBC News)

NewsBusters Podcast: Any Good Economic News Is NOT News Under Trump

ANTI-NEWS: Nets Push GOP Poll DOOM, Omit Becerra Family Story Crumble

Trump wants to rewrite the midterm lexicon (Avery Lotz/Axios)

More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown (ProPublica)

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Universities have decided the phrase “ethnic minority” is now an offence. The approved substitutes are “racialised minority” and “global majority.” The delivery system for this newspeak is a compulsory lecture for students.

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Nearly 12,000 instances of book bans were recorded in public schools nationwide during the 2025-2026 school year, the highest number recorded in a single year by free expression group PEN America.

Texas accounted for more than 8,100 of the reported bans and Florida more than 3,200, according to a report released Monday. The group attributed much of the increase to new state laws and pressure on school districts to remove books.

Florida had ranked first for the three previous years.

Of course, these are not book ‘bans’, merely exclusion of books with a tendentious political/cultural agenda from schools. People with strong feelings on the subject can get them from Amazon and have them the next day. The unspoken assumption is that government schools ought to be allowed to push any radical notion on their unwitting charges and their clueless  parents that they want to, without any accountability.

In a September post on X, the Florida Department of Education wrote: “SEXUALLY EXPLICIT and INAPPROPRIATE content has NO PLACE in Florida schools.

“Florida school districts will be held ACCOUNTABLE for failing to protect our children from this type of content. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.”

The post included a statement signed by Education Commissioner Henry Mack.

Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Feel free to send your kids to a Woke private school that can drill them in Marxism until quitting time.

Poll: Latino voters swing away from Trump and Republicans (NBC News)  And the ‘poll’-driven Narrative lives on.

He Wanted to Modernize the Military. Pete Hegseth Forced Him Out (Kevin Maurer/Rolling Stone)  ‘Modernize’ is Democrat-speak for ‘make more Woke’.

Inside Democrats’ efforts to secure Election Day and respond to fears of Trump interference (CNN)  ‘secure election day”‘means ‘cheat successfully’ and ‘Trump interference’ is ‘making sure only legitimate votes are counted’.

Trump won’t be in the White House during the next census. But his directives could outlast his presidency. (Elleiana Green/Politico)  Needless to say, Politico considers that a bad thing.

Trump Blasts Fox for Censoring Rallies, Says MAGA Could Abandon Network  You mess with the bull….

At Trump’s Rallies, a Familiar Mix of Rituals and a Plea to ‘Please Pretend’ (Katie Rogers/New York Times)  Bias? What bias?

Trumpism in Trouble on the Prairie (Lauren Egan/The Bulwark) There is, of course, no such thing as ‘Trumpism’ except in the fever dreams of the Narrative Media.

Democrats are divided over how hard to go after companies that courted Trump (Politico)  Not whether; HOW HARD.

Republicans in Safe Red States Are Breaking With Trump, Too (Avani Kalra/The Washington Sun)  Spooked by the Narrative.

The unmanly truth about Trump’s jobs record (Paul Waldman/MS NOW)  Bias? What bias?

The Trump Administration is a Cesspit of Corruption (Paul Krugman)  This from the guy who took $5o,000 from Enron for no work.

A Death. A Funeral. And the Trump Rally Down the Block. (Andrew Egger/The Bulwark)  Don’t forget ‘A Narrative’.

White House defends new press aide who posed with rifle in ‘Fuck Joe Biden’ shirt (Robert Mackey/The Guardian)  I like him already.

Trump’s Economic Meltdown Is the Ultimate Self-own (Matt Bai/Rolling Stone)  Sure, we all go to Rolling Stone for our economic analysis.

On ABC, New York Times Opinionator Bizarrely Blames Trump in Cornell Rape Case  Of course she does.

A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis (Andy Craig/The UnPopulist)  Democrats thrive in darkness.

Job numbers make clear that Trump has a reality problem, not a public relations problem (Steve Benen/MS NOW)  Although not a touch on the reality problem that MS NOW has.

Democrats Map Plans to Reverse Trump Actions After Midterms  Of course they do.

Using the Power of the Government to Win Elections (Paul Rosenzweig/The Atlantic)  Proglodyte Projection on the hoof.

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Biden Justice Department officials raised serious concerns about the DOJ treating concerned parents like domestic terrorists before Attorney General Merrick Garland released his memo directing investigations into school board protests in 2021, a new report from the Trump administration’s Weaponization Working Group reveals.

DOJ attorneys repeatedly questioned the proposal internally. One official called the effort “ridiculous.” Another complained that the department was deploying “an awful lot of federal manpower for what is currently non-federal conduct,” and that “almost all” of the conduct cited by school boards involved speech protected by the First Amendment.

The issue traces back to September 2021, when the National School Boards Association sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging federal action against alleged threats against school board members. The letter suggested the government could treat some conduct as “the equivalent of a form of domestic terrorism,” and cited disputes involving COVID-19 mandates, critical race theory, transgender orthodoxy, and other issues.

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Former special counsel Jack Smith monitored the phone communications of Susie Wiles when she was Donald Trump’s campaign chief in 2024, newly released documents show.

This included her communications with at least five journalists, 21 different defense attorneys, and several political advisers.

Smith’s team obtained the information through what is called a pen register, sometimes called a trap-and-trace device. This does not access the content of conversations. Rather, it’s a surveillance tool that records metadata, such as the numbers called and the times of the calls.

Most names were redacted, but the documents show the news outlets she was in contact with included CNN, The Washington Post, Politico, and Just the News.

This was part of the “Plasmic Echo” investigation of Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents.

Another Wet Kiss for Putin, but This One Puts Money in Trump’s Pocket

Republicans don’t have a clear boogeyman for this year’s midterms (Jessica Piper/Politico)  Bias? What bias?

Politico Publishes Trump-Obsessed Analysis of Upcoming Brazilian Presidential Election

Byron Donalds Walks a Tightrope of Trump Loyalty in Florida’s Race for Governor (Alex Leary/Wall Street Journal)

PBS Anchor Tosses the ‘No Evidence’ Card at Trump and Netanyahu on Flydubai Hijacker (Ax-Wielding FlyDubai Co-pilot Had Been Flagged over Extremism Concerns)

How Trump Moved Ethical Lines With His Ads, Businesses and Summits (Peter Baker/New York Times)  Two words: Hunter Biden.

How Democrats hope to reverse Trump’s changes to the presidency (Naftali Bendavid/Washington Post)  Bias? What bias?

With threats to midterms, states say Trump administration isn’t helping (Washington Post)  Easy to say, harder to prove.

CNN Panelist Rips Network For Free Accusatory Kushner Headline, With Story Behind Paywall

Why You Must Care About the Ballroom (Amanda Carpenter/The Bulwark)  Because we do, dammit! Wahhh!

RFK Jr. Wants to AI-ify Health Care. Claude Says He’s Full of Sh*t. (Jonathan Cohn/The Bulwark)

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I love it when Wokerati conduct a civil war about whose turn it is to be the victim.

New York Post.

“Monty Python” legend John Cleese is doubling down on his months-long string of incendiary posts about Islam after activists filed a complaint that asked Britain’s counter-radicalization program to scrutinize him over the missives.

“How exciting,” the 86-year-old comedian wrote after learning that a member of the public had referred him to Prevent, a British government program designed to intervene when authorities believe someone may be vulnerable to radicalization or becoming involved in terrorism.

The September 22 referral, first reported by Muslim-focused British news outlet 5Pillars, accused Cleese of a “sustained pattern” of online activity that “demonizes, dehumanizes, and collectively attributes violence and criminality to Muslims and Islam.”

That’s like saying ‘online activity that demonizes, dehumanizes, and collectively attributes violence and criminality to Nazis’.

Prevent operates in what the British government calls the “non-criminal space,” with referrals assessed to determine whether someone may need intervention.

Cases can be closed without further action, while those deemed appropriate can be referred to Channel, a voluntary intervention program for people considered vulnerable to radicalization.

There is no public evidence that Cleese has been placed in Channel or subjected to a criminal investigation. But the extraordinary complaint nevertheless put one of Britain’s most famous comedians into a government system created to head off radicalization.

In other words, hunting down Heretics and Sinners.

Friday (10/2) News Roundup: Trump “Is Not Well”; Russ Vought, “Shadow President”; Hegseth Needs to Be Impeached ASAP (Lowkell/Blue Virginia)

Mass. Resident Indicted in Katie Miller Stalking Case

How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights (NBC News)  Why should ‘disabled’ people have rights that other people do not?

Trump Tourism Effects (Kieran Healy)  Tell the truth, do we really need a lot of tourists in this country? Overstaying a ‘touris visa’ is a well-known scheme for remaining in this country illegally.

GOP senators warn Trump is hurting Republicans with independents (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)

JD Vance Says Black, Socialist Candidate for Senate Doesn’t ‘Belong in America’ (John Light/Talking Points Memo)  Which, indeed, he doesn’t.

How Low Can Trump Go? — Donald Trump’s job-approval numbers have steadily eroded throughout his second term as president. (Ed Kilgore/New York Magazine)  The continuing Narrative.

Here’s Who Democrats Want to Impeach Next (Matt Viser/The Atlantic)

The 2030 Census is in Trouble ??? A new proposed rule from the Trump administration … (Margo J Anderson/Can We Still Govern?)  The “We” in their name obviously refers to Democrats.

Not To Alarm You, But Trump’s Brain Is Melted (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

Who’s calling for the Trump administration to send federal agents to polling places? (Media Matters for America)

MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson sued for defamation over ICE ride-along videos calling protesters ‘terrorists’ (Brandy Zadrozny/MS NOW)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Is There Anything Kash Patel Won’t Do for Trump Before the Midterms? (Sarah Fitzpatrick/The Atlantic)

Amid rising diesel prices, Republicans turn against Trump for first time on handling inflation (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)  The continuing Narrative.

South Dakota Is Trump Country. Can This New Strategy Change That? (Paul Blumenthal/HuffPost)  Bias? What bias?

Bill Pulte Guts the IG Office That Investigated Him (David Kurtz/Talking Points Memo)  Guts!

Voters can stop MAGA from running elections in more than a dozen states (Stephen Wolf/The Downballot)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

BLACKOUT: Evening Networks Ignore Major Upward Revisions in GDP Numbers

Time magazine’s big interview with Trump was a huge missed opportunity (Dan Froomkin/MS NOW)

Trump’s powerful new friends are making MAGA uncomfortable (Julia Manchester/NewsNation)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

NBC Joins Network-Wide Pile-on Hyping ‘Struggling’ Trump, GOP Ahead of Midterms

Letitia James Indicts Trump In Cornell Case  (Babylon Bee) You know it’s comin’….

California, 6 Other States Sue Trump Admin Over Funding Cuts To Immigration, Race Projects

“Told You To F–k Yourself”: GOP Senator Tells Trump Off In Profanity-Laced Leaked Texts  With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?

Stelter on Trump and TIME: How Dare He Kvetch About His Hypernegative Press!

The View Whines Hegseth ‘Bullying’ Fatties in Military, Need to Be ‘Taking Anyone’

Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency (New York Times)

‘God made Trump’ ad and at least 12 others are part of controversial taxpayer-funded ad campaign (Betsy Klein/CNN)

Trump revisits the scene of his political ascent as Republicans struggle (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)

CBS Bashes Trump Over Polls Numbers and SNAP Changes Amid Midterm Campaigning

Trump visa policies weigh on Columbia journalism program as admissions pause (Reuters) Sounds like a win—fewer foreigners being trained to hate America.

Diesel Don is tanking the GOP (Tom Schaller/Public Notice)  The continuing Narrative.

Trump, Critic of Voting by Mail, Urges Republicans to Do It in Midterms (New York Times)  They say that like it’s a bad thing. For evil men to triumph, it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.

‘Trump? I think he’s a disaster’: Ohio voters aggrieved as president prepares to visit (Stephen Starr/The Guardian)  Beating the drum of the Narrative.

The New Neo.

Hochul and James are excellent examples of what happens when the left completely takes over a state, and there is no need anymore to even have a pretense of fairness or evenhandedness.

Trump Is in Denial About AI’s Danger  Peggy Noonan, in common with most of the Chattering Class, cannot conceive of the possibility that maybe, just maybe, Trump os smarter than she is.

Justices Take Up Trump Immigration Case That May Revive ‘Catch and Release’

Trump admin quietly changed overseas voter form at 11th hour to disenfranchise Democrats, lawsuit says (Alexandra Hutzler/Democracy Docket) Uh, the correct term is ‘disfranchise’, not ‘disenfranchise’

.Supreme Court Will Review Trump’s Mandatory Immigrant Detention Policy (Jackie Llanos/The Washington Sun)  “DHS wants to hold millions of immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally, even those who have lived here for decades and haven’t committed crimes.” Other than being here illegally, WHICH IS A CRIME, the penalty for which is deportation. The Narrative Media don’t seem able to appreciate the fact that just being here illegally IS A CRIME.

Hegseth puts the future of warfare in the hands of major Maga donors (Aram Roston/The Guardian)  There’s that MAGA guy again. (MAGA is the New Nigger.)

CBS Joins Gleeful ABC in Boasting GOP Has ‘Struggling’ Candidates, Wretched Polls  According to them, of course.

‘I feel hoodwinked’: In red states, some of Trump’s former supporters turn on the president (MS NOW)

Renee Good’s family sues Trump administration, ICE agent (Kyle Stokes/Axios)  Whose turn is it to be the victim?

Trump could target three Fed governors. Removing them may be harder than it looks (Matt Peterson/CNBC)

Trump illegally fired Seattle’s U.S. attorney, judge rules (Jeremy Roebuck/Washington Post)

Competitive Authoritarianism in America (Steven Levitsky/Journal of Democracy)  Funny how these concerns never arise during the Democrat administrations that have advanced authoritarianism in the U.S. since Wilson.

Pete Hegseth Just Declared Victory in the Wrong War (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)  Of course! Let’s just ask writers for the New Yorker how to run our military! It’s all clear to me now!

DNC: Trump Admin Move Impedes Voting by Americans Abroad

Lemire Hits Hegseth For Using ‘Explicitly Christian’ Psalm. It’s Actually Jewish

Households will pay more for energy because of Trump’s policy changes, think tank says (Jennifer McDermott/Associated Press)

Perpetual Paranoia Over CNN Turning ‘MAGA-Friendly,’ Like CBS!

Democrats are making huge gains in Trump country. The battleground states are a different story. (Mychael Schnell/MS NOW)

A “Who You Gonna Believe?” Election (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum speaks.

MeidasTouch, a Voice of the Deranged Left.

A perfectly defensible position, and one that I am prepared to argue.

QUOD ABIIT CIRCUM VENIT CIRCUM

Trump Signs Order to Significantly Reduce Mosquitoes and Ticks in D.C. (Justice Covert/The Washington Sun)  Bad news for Democrats.

Trump says ‘MAGA and REAL Patriots’ will never like Fox News over hosting Democrats (Tara Suter/The Hill)  He’s right.

Daniel Dale Scolds: ‘Mainstream’ Media Have ‘Regularly Failed’ on Trashing Trump’s Lies!

Trump’s Iran War Leaves Three More Tankers Struck as Husted Tries to Rewrite His Vote (Brett Meiselas/MeidasTouch)  Actually, it’s Jimmuy Carter’s Iran War. Trump is just the first guy willing to fight it.

FCC Chairman Doesn’t See Anything “Out Of The Ordinary” About White House Airing Of Taxpayer-Funded Trump Ads (Ted Johnson/Deadline)

FCC head says government-funded Trump ads are ‘normal’ and ‘don’t raise any red flags’ (Dareh Gregorian/NBC News)

FCC’s Carr brushes off concerns about Trump’s taxpayer-paid election ads (Steve Benen/MS NOW)

Trump Defends His Taxpayer-Funded Campaign Ads (Gavin J. Quinton/The Washington Sun)

Key allies left out of Trump’s new in-crowd NATO group (Politico)

Trump acknowledges bind he faces on immigration policies (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)

We Are DOOMED: ABC, CBS Melt Down Over No Gov’t Regulations From WH’s AI Summit

Hegseth details new initiatives in partisan address to troops (Washington Post)  Partisan!

Trump Orders Major Mosquito, Tick Cuts in D.C.  Democrats and government employees hardest hit.

Iran publishes propaganda letter urging US voters to punish Trump in midterm elections (Ronny Reyes/New York Post)  They know who their friends are.

Chuck Lorre Wishes Death on Trump, Insults Melania and Mocks RFK Jr.’s Speech Disorder

The Flailing President ??? Poll after poll shows that Trump’s presidency is not going well. (Jonathan Lemire/The Atlantic)

Trump, Big AI go all-in together (Zachary Basu/Axios)

Most Americans blame Trump for high prices as midterms approach, a new AP-NORC poll finds (Associated Press)

Scenes from a personality cult (Paul Waldman/Public Notice)

What Trump Has Built — Eric Cortellessa … Donald Trump struts onto the new White House helipad … (Eric Cortellessa/Time)

A high-stakes fight for state political power heats up, with Trump’s agenda on the line (Associated Press)

Most blame President Trump for higher prices and are unhappy with how he is handling the economy (Marjorie Connelly/AP-NORC)

Trump’s economic polling sinks, rivaling Biden’s worst (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)

The Daily Wire Is Quietly Shooting a Pro-ICE Movie. We Got the Script. (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)  Will Sommer loses his shit.

Fox News has spent almost two years claiming Trump’s deportations are targeting “the worst of the worst.” The administration just contradicted that narrative. (John Knefel/Media Matters for America)  So his beef is with Fox News. But he blames Trump, just because.

O’Donnell Compares GOP Senator To A ‘Drunk Joe McCarthy,’ Insists Trump Has Dementia

Judge rules Trump can’t fire court-appointed prosecutors (Erica Orden/Politico)

Trump looms over Becerra-Hilton debate in deep-blue California (Politico)

Cato Institute tries to attack Trump by noting he reduced legal migration from Muslim nations by 96%  Libertarians unfortunately tend to get stuck in the weeds when their eyes ought to be on the approaching dinosaur.

“Brace for losing everything”: Farm crisis fears grip GOP in Iowa (Axios)  OH NO WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!

Bill Gates’s Blunt Warning on A.I. (New York Times)  OH NO WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!

‘On a scale of 1 to 10, 10’: Trump’s midterm travel schedule underscores GOP troubles (Politico)

Trump personally helped orchestrate taxpayer-funded ads promoting himself and his policies, source says (Kristen Holmes/CNN)  Source says! That proves it!

Midterm pocketbook pain bites Trump (Courtenay Brown/Axios) Bites!

Trump’s municipal bond portfolio reaches as much as $1 billion as policy overlaps mount (Luke Fountain/CNBC)

The Beclowning of Scott Bessent (Paul Krugman  The vacuum speaks.

News Outlets Seek Court Block on White House Ban

GOP senator blocks bill to stop Trump from demolishing Kennedy Center (Jonathan Edwards/Washington Post)

“A Massive Power Grab”: White House Proposal Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote (Lisa Song/ProPublica)

How a Planned Steel Mill in Iowa Reveals Trump’s Midterm Strategy (New York Times)

Congratulations, You’re a Trump Campaign Donor (Will Saletan/The Bulwark)  Will Saletan loses his shit.

Taxpayers have funded nearly $1.5M in pro-Trump ads. Criticism is mounting, including from the GOP (Ali Swenson/Associated Press)

Newsom signs bills pushing back on Trump’s immigration agenda (Nicole Nixon/Los Angeles Times)

Abolish ICE Before Its Abusive Tactics Spread to Other Law Enforcement: A Conversation With Radley Balko (Shikha Dalmia/The UnPopulist)  Balko was a famous Communist apologist before the fall of the Soviet Union. Probably still is.

I Went Home to Miami to See How Hispanic Voters Feel About Trump and Immigration (Sabrina Rodriguez/Wall Street Journal)

Democrats Split On Whether To Impeach Trump Again If They Win The House

MS NOW’s Ruhle: ‘Nothing Unusual’ About Jack Smith Investigations Into Trump  Because, after all, it’s Trump.

The Art of Dealing With Trump (Chrystia Freeland/The Atlantic)

Trump’s Latest Appeal to Russia Could Outrage Even His Allies (Simon Shuster/The Atlantic)

Scoop: Trump’s hand-picked, taxpayer-funded ads about to ramp up (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)

In Nine Key Senate Races, Five Republicans Won’t Commit to Campaigning With Trump (Tim Balk/New York Times)

Appeals court weighs fate of judge’s contempt probe over Trump administration deportation flights (Michael Kunzelman/Associated Press)

The Forces of Trumpism Are in Disarray (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)  They hope, they hope, they hope….

Must-Win MAGA Senate Candidate Caught Secretly Trashing Trump (Ewan Palmer/The Daily Beast)

<Gulf Exports Roar Back To Pre-War Levels, Goldman Says; Blas Sees “Trump Has Advantage” On Hormuz>

<GDP Revised Up for Both 1st and 2nd Quarters, Inflation Measures Lowered>

DHS failed to provide records supporting Trump’s allegations of noncitizen voting, watchdog says (Alexandra Hutzler/Democracy Docket)  The ‘watchdog’ in question, self-appointed as usual, are CREW, a left-wing front group.

PSA: Trump Continues To Commit Crimes (Elie Mystal/The Nation)

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A Washington state computer science professor who won a First Amendment lawsuit against his university over its response to his mock land acknowledgement says the campus culture that fueled the controversy remains firmly entrenched.

“It’s kind of scary. They broke the law. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the “9th Circuit said you broke the law, and they’re saying, ‘Well, we think we behaved appropriately,’” Stuart Reges, the professor, told the Daily Signal in an interview Monday.

Reges sued the University of Washington, claiming it discriminated against his viewpoint when he published the mock land acknowledgement in a syllabus. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled in his favor, and the university agreed earlier this month to pay $600,000 to settle the case, without admitting wrongdoing.

We need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)  Will Bunch loses his shit—as he so frequently does.

The Mean Girls Presidency (Molly Jong-Fast/New York Times)

The Moves That Backfired on Trump and Drove Interest Rates and Inflation Higher (Wall Street Journal)

Trump says he has an off-ramp to his biggest political problem. He refuses to take it. (Dan Merica/Washington Post)

Trump’s Joes exit the front row (Politico)

Trump’s gimmicks aren’t working with voters anymore (Paul Waldman/MS NOW)

Trump loves Xi because he wants to be him (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)

At every turn, Trump’s ideas for aiding U.S. consumers run into resistance (Riley Beggin/Washington Post)

Trump dined with the Anthropic CEO who called for AI slowdown (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)

Trump asked Xi Jinping if China would like to buy US weapons, American ambassador says (Amy Hawkins/The Guardian)

Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It (New York Times)

California’s Newsom Signs Memecoin Ban And Calls It ‘The Opposite Of Trump’

The Trump-Loving Texas Republican Sounding the Alarm on Data Centers (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)

CNN, MS NOW See a Taxpayer-Paid Trump Ad and Cry Kim Jong Un and ‘Communism’  But I thought they liked communism?

The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting (ProPublica)

Trump’s press grievances are based in their refusal to do propaganda (Matt Gertz/Media Matters for America)

US Tax Dollars Now Used to Secure Deals for Trump Family Cronies (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)  Two words: Hunter Biden.

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The University of California tells students that using pronouns or names corresponding to a person’s sex assigned at birth rather than their gender identity can constitute sexual harassment. Now, an education watchdog has won an early victory in court to stop it from enforcing its misgendering policy.

The ruling comes amid a First Amendment challenge to University of California policies that classify certain instances of “misgendering” and “deadnaming” as potential harassment.

Training materials cited in Defending Education’s lawsuit included examples involving bathrooms, pronouns, and “deadnaming.”

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Washington state voters will decide in November whether to repeal a new 9.9% income tax on earnings above $1 million, setting up a major ballot fight over taxes, government spending, and the state’s business climate, The New York Times reported.

The tax, signed into law by Democrat Gov. Bob Ferguson in March, is scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, 2028. It imposes a 9.9% levy on Washington taxable income above a $1 million deduction for individuals and married couples filing jointly.

Initiative 26-645, certified for the Nov. 3 ballot, would repeal the tax before it takes effect and prohibit state and local governments from imposing taxes on individual income in the future.

Time to leave.

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I’m surprised it’s that low. I suspect that’s just the number who would admit it publicly to a pollster. Violence is pretty much the go-to response by proglodytes whenever they get frustrated by people who won’t get with their particular programs.

The Telegraph (UK).

Police officers were lectured about Nigel Farage in a publicly funded talk about Islamophobia, The Telegraph can reveal.

Of course they were.

Officers at a “hate crime conference” attended training sessions that compared the Reform UK leader’s opinions, specifically his doubts about the compatibility of Islam with British values, to a racially aggravated offence.

For the Crust, ‘hate crime’ is anything that disagrees with the Narrative.

The North Yorkshire Police officers were asked to consider the “harm” done by Mr Farage, and then told that the politician would be “locked up” if he were similarly critical of Jewish people.

This is what happens in countries without the free speech protections of our First Amendment.

I thank God every day that I don’t live in Britain.

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A parent’s first duty is not complicated. It is to love a child, form a child’s character, and prepare that child to be a productive member of society.

Schools exist to help with that work by teaching children. They do not exist to replace it.

That distinction is now under pressure. In some academic circles, a new language has taken hold. Adults are recast as “oppressors.” Children are recast as “the oppressed.” Ordinary parental guidance—to wait for mature intimacy, dress with dignity, respect the rules of the house—is treated as a kind of tyranny called “adultism.” Once that frame is accepted, the family is no longer the first school. It becomes the problem schools seek to correct.

Time to quit sending children to government (proglodyte-run) schools.

Amodei critics target Trump with hit piece before White House dinner (Maria Curi/Axios)

CNN’s Daniel Dale Pens Scathing Feature Recounting 10 Years Of Decoding Trump’s ‘Remarkable Number of Lies’ (Jennifer Bowers Bahney/Mediaite)  No mention of 40 years of CNN’s lies.