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An Indiana man was killed after an illegal alien driving a semi-truck without a valid commercial license crossed into oncoming traffic and slammed into the victim’s car, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Federal officials say the suspect, Borko Stankovic, a native of Serbia and Montenegro, has been living in the U.S. illegally for more than a decade.

Stankovic’s semi-truck veered into the wrong lane on U.S. 20 in Portage, Indiana, hitting a Subaru Crosstrek driven by 54-year-old Jeffrey Eberly, who was killed instantly.

The New York Times, paper of record for the Crust.

n the outskirts of Wyoming’s capital, two advertisements about a minute apart offered starkly different paths.

A nonprofit group’s billboard promoted a way to earn money for college. The other, from Walmart, dangled pay exceeding $30 an hour.

The dueling choices underscored a fundamental tension for the nation’s teenagers and adults alike, one that has become vivid in the Trump era: Is college something all Americans need?

For decades, it was close to an article of faith among education leaders, scholars and politicians, regardless of political ideology, that most people should go to college. But in many places, most jobs do not require college degrees, and doubts over the value of higher education have metastasized as student debt has soared and the ranks of dropouts have grown.

College has become a sharp dividing line in American life, and the disconnect between higher education’s promises and its sometimes-frustrating reality has helped fuel a conservative movement to upend academia. Over the last decade, though, nearly every state tried to get more people to earn a certificate or a degree after high school.

Newsbusters.

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show is so desperate to prove that New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is not a communist that it sent Desi Lydic to interview Communist Party USA co-chair Joe Sims to insist that Mamdani is not, in fact, one of them. Of course, Sims had to propagandize as well as he lamented his movement’s “bad reputation” and that communism is actually all about freedom to do what you wish, which might have been the funniest moment on the comedy shows all year.

After a montage of clips of people calling Mamdani a communist, Sims asked, “You’re saying Mamdani’s a communist?”

Lydic insisted, “I’m not saying that. People are saying that,” which led Sims to again wonder, “Really? How come nobody told me? I’m the co-chair of the Communist Party.”

Just as you don’t need to belong to the Libertarian Party to be a libertarian, you don’t have to belong to the Communist Party to be a communist.

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On the afternoon of March 8, a petroleum tanker named Torm Agnes entered the Port of Ensenada on Mexico’s Pacific coast carrying almost 120,000 barrels of diesel.

Such a vessel was a rare sight in that port, which mainly hosts cruise liners, luxury yachts, and container ships. Ensenada lacks the infrastructure needed to unload cargos of flammable hydrocarbons safely – making what happened later that day odder still.

Waves of fuel-hauling trucks rolled up to the dock to cart away much of the Torm Agnes’ load. Workers scurried about filling the vehicles’ cavernous tanks, up to six at a time, using hoses springing from a larger hosepipe affixed to the vessel. The operation, while risky, ran like clockwork, according to an eyewitness and a photo and video from the scene shared with Reuters.

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The president-elect of the Oxford Union has been voted out of the role following comments he made celebrating the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.

In a leaked message in a WhatsApp chat, 20-year-old George Abaraonye wrote, “Charlie Kirk got shot, let’s (expletive) go,” while a story he shared on his Instagram account read, “Charlie Kirk got shot loool.”

Members of the influential student union voted in person on Saturday in a motion of no confidence in the incoming president, who will not be allowed to take up the highly prestigious position.

UPDATE: George Abaraonye deserves his downfall (The Spectator)

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A man was taken into custody late Tuesday after driving his car into a security barrier outside the White House, authorities said.

The U. S. Secret Service said the man crashed into the security gate at a White House entrance at 10:37 p.m. Tuesday. The man was immediately arrested by officers from the Secret Service’s uniformed division, the agency said.

Investigators searched his car and deemed it to be safe, Secret Service officials said in a statement.

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The Louvre in Paris reopened on Wednesday, three days after thieves made off with historic jewelry worth an estimated 88 million euros ($102 million) in a spectacular heist that has raised urgent questions over security lapses at the museum.

Visitors queued to enter through the Louvre’s glass pyramid for the first time since Sunday’s brazen robbery, in which hooded assailants broke through a second-floor window using a stolen movers’ lift before making off with jewels from the royal collection.

Later on Wednesday the museum’s director will appear before the French Senate to answer lawmakers’ questions.

Evidently both the director and the chief of security were female DEI hires with no relevant experience.

Newsbusters.

One of the more tiresome mantras of leftist media coverage is Trump allegedly paging through his “authoritarian playbook.” The media have their own protest playbook, as you could tell when leftists organized another mass protest titled “No Kings,” as if we’ve ever had a king.

The network newscasts slobbered all over this Saturday event, using very similar language. “Millions” took to the streets! A “massive” nationwide turnout to oppose “what they call creeping authoritarianism.” They sound like they’re reading a press release. “More than 2,700 rallies in all 50 states,” as “organizers estimate seven million people” turned out.

All of these newscasts carried no ideological labels – no “liberal,” no “leftist,” no “progressive,” and no whisper of extremism. You can tell from the crazy signs, like “Impeach Trump Again,” and also “Impeach, Remove, Convict, Repeat,” that these are some furious radical lefties.

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“Hair cortisol offers a non-invasive, easy-to-collect biomarker that could one day be used to screen children and track whether treatments or support programs are helping to reduce stress,” study co-author Mark Ferro, a professor in the University of Waterloo’s School of Public Health Sciences, said in a press statement.

An estimated 40 percent of children in Canada live with chronic physical illnesses (CPI)—a number that has been increasing over the past decades.

As George Citroner details below for The Epoch Times, those with higher cortisol levels are more likely to develop mental health problems at rates ranging from 20 percent to 50 percent, significantly higher than the prevalence in healthy children, researchers noted.

These conditions can lead to lower quality of life, suicidal thoughts, and greater use of health care services.

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Portugal’s parliament has approved a proposal to ban the wearing of burqas and niqabs in public spaces, with right-wing party Chega leading the initiative and its leader, André Ventura, telling those who disagree to “catch a flight back” to their countries of origin.

Newsbusters.

Once again, the legacy network newscasts come together to suppress a story that would be national news had it involved a Republican candidate for office. The latest instance of selective media outrage involves the suppressed shortcomings of via Maine Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner.

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A new national poll finds that 40% of Americans say illegal immigrants should be deported even if they have not committed any offense beyond entering the country illegally — a sign of firm public backing as President Donald Trump fulfills his border policy promises.

At least in the text they specify “beyond entering the country illegally” WHICH IS A CRIME. But you wouldn’t know that from just the headline. That’s how far the mind-rot has spread.

A new survey by The Economist and YouGov shows that immigration remains one of the most divisive issues among voters.

The poll found that 38% said illegal immigrants should be allowed to stay only if they meet certain requirements, while 14% said they should be allowed to stay without conditions; 8% were unsure.

L.A. Times, a Voice of the Crust.

The incident unfolded around 9 a.m. in a dense immigrant community where, according to Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, federal agents were carrying out “a targeted enforcement traffic stop” of an undocumented immigrant who “previously escaped from custody” and “attempted to evade arrest yet again.”

The suspect, Carlitos Ricardo Parias, was charged Tuesday night with assault on a federal officer, according to acting U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli. During the stop, the 44-year-old undocumented immigrant from Mexico “rammed his car into agents’ vehicles after they boxed him in and ordered him to submit to arrest,” Essayli said on X.

McLaughlin said ICE agents “fearing for the safety of the public and law enforcement … followed their training and fired defensive shots.”

Witnesses said the suspect was struck, and another bullet appeared to ricochet and wound a deputy marshal.

cLaughlin later confirmed that a law enforcement officer at the scene was hit in the hand by a ricochet and that the target of the operation was wounded.

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The National Guard will remain in the nation’s capital indefinitely — possibly through the summer of 2026 — according to a recent court filing.

The filing, submitted Friday by District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb, said internal documents show National Guard officials are planning for a “long-term persistent presence,” potentially lasting through the nation’s semiquincentennial celebration next summer.

News of the filing came after a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled Monday to allow the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon.

The Other McCain.

Think back to mid-November 2024. President Trump had just scored a decisive victory, winning all seven “battleground” states and, unlike 2016, winning the popular vote by a margin of more than 2 million votes.

In the wake of their shattering defeat — which not only put Trump back in the White House, but left Republicans with majorities in both houses of Congress — many Democrats, and their media mouthpieces, seemed willing to admit that maybe it was time to reconsider their general approach to politics. Perhaps taxpayer-funded sex-change treatment for prison inmates and DEI quotas in the Pentagon were not a winning policy agenda, some liberals were willing to confess. For a few weeks there, in November and December, it seemed that Democrats might be on the road to recovery from their long bout with Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Ah, fleeting hope! The brief prospect of a more sensible (or at least, more cautious) stance by Democrats did not last long, and they swiftly reverted to the shrieking rhetorical extremism — “Resist Orange Hitler!” — that had been their habit for more than eight years. So here we are, more than three weeks into a shutdown caused by the Democrats filibustering a spending bill in the Senate, and the No. 2 Democrat in the House can’t seem to understand why some people might be upset about it.

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Saturday to protest our extremely authoritarian—and definitely not democratically elected—“king,” President Donald Trump. It was the “No Kings” rally, and The Daily Signal team took the opportunity to get some fresh air and, of course, interview a few of them.

We started by asking, “What has Trump done to seem like a king to you?”

“He just disregards all the laws. … It’s all part of the plan … Project 2025,” an older woman replied.

When I asked her to describe Project 2025, a Heritage Foundation-led effort to create a blueprint for the administration of significant reforms in government, she replied, “I can’t remember. I’m lucky I remember my name some days, but I can’t remember. But just Google it for God’s sake. It’s 2025. There is no excuse for being ignorant in this day and age.”

We couldn’t agree with you more, ma’am. There isn’t any excuse: If you’re going to protest it, you should at least know what it is.

There are a lot of foolish and ignorant people in the Democrat base. Just sayin’….

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An immigrant has returned to the United Kingdom by small boat after being sent to France under the government’s ‘one-in, one-out’ pilot scheme, highlighting the collapse of the UK’s border policy.

The man, who said he sought asylum in Britain because France was unsafe for him, alleged that he had been a victim of modern slavery in northern France. “If I had felt that France was safe for me I would never have returned to the UK,” he said. After being sent back, “we were taken to a shelter in Paris,” but he “didn’t dare to go out because I was afraid for my life.” He described smugglers as “very dangerous,” saying they “always carry weapons and knives.”

Home Office sources confirmed that one person deported under the UK-France treaty has returned to Britain. His case comes amid a record surge in small boat arrivals, undermining claims that the pilot scheme is working as a deterrent.

Reports confirmed that more migrants have crossed the English Channel in small boats so far in 2025 than in the whole of 2024, hitting last year’s number more than two months early into the year. The ‘one-in, one-out’ agreement with France has seen just 42 illegal migrants removed, while the UK has accepted 16 asylum seekers in return.

Power Line.

Liberals tell us 1) that Charlie Kirk had it coming, but 2) hardly any liberals approved of his murder. Both of those assertions are false. At City Journal, the Manhattan Institute’s Christina Buttons reminds us of some basic facts.

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As the establishment political center in Germany clings to power, sociopolitical disunity and profound disaffection have created a new East-West divide.

The elites’ use of firewalls and miscounts against opposition parties perpetuates that divide and an unsavory two-tier society.

It’s been more than three decades since the German reunification of 1990. Between Kiel and Freiburg, Dusseldorf and Dresden, many today have no first-hand recollection of the country’s Cold War era—much less its division. A divided Germany is history; East and West are reunited—or are they?

October 3 was a public holiday in Germany, the Day of German Unity. And yet, not insignificant differences and palpable tensions between the former East and West Germanies persist.

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On the night of Tuesday, October 21st, a 10-year-old girl was allegedly raped by an asylum seeker in Dublin. The man—rumoured to be of African origin—was residing at the Citywest IPAS Centre, a hotel used to accommodate migrants. According to Irish media reports, the child—supposedly in the care of the Irish Child and Family Agency, Tusla—was attacked on the hotel grounds and is now receiving medical care.

The suspect, who has been living in Ireland for six years, was refused international protection in 2024 and has been subject to a deportation order since March. He has now been charged with sexual assault and provided with an Arabic interpreter and legal aid.

The incident sparked widespread outrage and led to an anti-immigration protest in West Dublin, where a police car was set on fire. More than 500 people gathered outside a local building, waving Irish flags and holding placards showing anti-migration messages. Some protesters also threw glass bottles and fireworks at police officers during the unrest.

Previous similar demonstrations against illegal immigration took place in June 2025 and July 2024 , reflecting growing public safety concerns over migration, as can be seen in this video.

The Irish have historically had a deep moral sense that is easily outraged, and when the Irish become outraged violence is likely to follow. Their political leadership, beguiled by the sweet Wokeness of Brussels, have lost touch with their country.

Report on Trump nominee’s “Nazi streak” text threatens Senate confirmation (Axios)

DHS Issues Warning After ‘No Kings’ Protester Calls for Killing ICE Agents

Trump-backed Gallrein officially launches bid to unseat Massie (Lisa Kashinsky/Politico)

Biden’s FEMA Denied Aid to Trump Supporters During Disasters: DHS Probe

What to know about Trump’s plan to build $250m White House ballroom (Al Jazeera)  Laying out the Narrative for the dimwitted.

Colombian President: World Should ‘Get Rid of’ Trump

Jon Stewart Calls Trump ‘Most Socialist President of My Lifetime’

No Kings and the Laws of Power (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)  Proglodytes love to rail against the “Republican will do power” but spend no time discussing the even greater Democrat will to power. I wonder why that is.

‘That punk’ is ‘going to want a security guarantee’: How Steve Bannon influenced Trump’s combative meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy (Benjamin Siegel/ABC News)

Trump refugee plan seeks 7,000 Afrikaners ??? and virtually no one else (Washington Post)

Ron Paul knocks ‘hysterical’ Trump ‘rant’ criticizing Rand Paul (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)

No Education Department? No Problem, Trump’s Education Secretary Says. (New York Times)  Because, as we all know, any time the government gets involved in an area, it is entitled to be involved in that area forevermore.

The View Whines White House Ballroom Proves Trump Is ‘a True Nihilist’

Nobel Loser Trump Wins Richard Nixon Booby Peace Prize (Farrah Tomazin/The Daily Beast)  The Daily Beast represents the best in American High School journalism.

SNL Claims Trump Admin Officials Will Flee To Argentina, Just Like The Nazis

The Real Target of Trump’s War on Drug Boats (Jonathan Blitzer/New Yorker)

ICE Still Won’t Answer Questions About Prosecutor with White Supremacist X Account (Steven Monacelli/The Texas Observer)

A new Supreme Court case could turn the National Guard into Trump’s personal army (Ian Millhiser/Vox)

Some Trump critics fear they could be the president’s next target for prosecution (NBC News)  Hey, you mess with the bull….

After clergy arrests, religious pushback to ICE expands in Chicago (Jack Jenkins/RNS)

Alarm Raised Over “An American KGB” Run Out of Gabbard’s National Intelligence Office (Jeff Stein/SpyTalk)

Watch: Colombian President Threatens To “Take Out” Trump

Trump fires another inspector general, raising fears about oversight independence (Sean Michael Newhouse/GovExec.com)

Military-Style Sweep Hits NYC as Masked Federal Agents Arrest Canal Street Vendors (The City)

What to know about the $250 million ballroom Trump is adding to the White House (Darlene Superville/Associated Press)  Laying out the Narrative for the dimwitted.

Republicans Are Making One of the Most Gerrymandered States in the Nation Even More Rigged (Ari Berman/Mother Jones)  As Democrats have done in California, Illinois, and Massachusetts, but somehow that doesn’t make it past the threshold for criticism.

Democrats call on ‘disengaged’ Trump to get involved to end shutdown (NBC News)  Why? He’s winning. They just want him to cave, has (historically) Republicans have always done. Not this time….

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Using observations from a NASA suborbital rocket, an international team of scientists has, for the first time, successfully measured a planet-wide electric field thought to be as fundamental to Earth as its gravity and magnetic fields. Known as the ambipolar electric field, scientists first hypothesized over 60 years ago that it drove how our planet’s atmosphere can escape above Earth’s North and South Poles. Measurements from the rocket, NASA’s Endurance mission, have confirmed the existence of the ambipolar field and quantified its strength, revealing its role in driving atmospheric escape and shaping our ionosphere — a layer of the upper atmosphere — more broadly.

Understanding the complex movements and evolution of our planet’s atmosphere provides clues not only to the history of Earth but also gives us insight into the mysteries of other planets and determining which ones might be hospitable to life. The paper was published Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024, in the journal Nature.

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A Democratic New York congressman is calling on the NYPD to arrest and prosecute ICE agents who engage in “unlawful actions” during federal immigration crackdowns in the city.

Democrats are lawfare central.

In a letter to NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch, U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman rips U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection officers’ “outrageous and unlawful conduct” in cities around the country, saying they have been “violently and improperly” arresting U.S. citizens.

That’s an assumption on his part, otherwise he would cite cases. There are ways to object to what LEOs so, and this isn’t one of them. It is, however, the way that empowers him to make spurious accusations, without the perceived need to cite any evidence, and grandstand for the news media, which I suspect is all it is.

Goldman said with the “likely possibility” that the Department of Homeland Security will “send armies of agents into New York City for civil immigration purposes” he urged the NYPD to be “prepared to strictly enforce state and local laws in order to hold federal agents accountable for any unlawful actions they engage in, including potentially through arrest and prosecution for felony violations.”

Said Commissioner will, if she (it’s always a she in a Blue state) knows anything about the law, ignore him, because of two little words: Qualified Immunity. (Feel free to look it up. Or, if you’re lazy, just ask your favorite AI.)

It’s astonishing the number of Congressmen, who are in charge of writing our laws, appear to know nothing about the laws to which they are attempting to add (or modify, as the case may be). This applies even to those who are lawyers (by training if not by trade) who one would expect to know better. In this particular case, he does know better, being a JD from Stanford; I suspect he’s traded his lawyer hat for a politician hat and never looked back.

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An immigration enforcement sweep targeting vendors on New York City’s famed Canal Street turned chaotic Tuesday afternoon, as bystanders and protesters confronted federal agents and tried to block their path.

Thus ‘obstructing justice’, which is a crime in every jurisdiction of which I am aware.

The confrontation between the agents and hundreds of angry New Yorkers took place along a busy commercial thoroughfare that has long been a hub of the city’s not-so-underground market for knock-off designer handbags, watches, perfumes, and sunglasses, as well as phones and other electronics.

So, it’s a hotbed of criminality.

An Associated Press reporter observed dozens of federal agents as they made one of a number of arrests in the area, detaining a street vendor who appeared to be selling bedazzled smartphone cases.

The reporter, a Tool of the Crust, no doubt attempted to portray the arrested street vendor as somebody just going about his normal life and suddenly being hassled FOR NO LEGITIMATE REASON by agents of ‘Trump’s totalitarian state’. That’s their Narrative, and they’re sticking to it.

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A federal judge in Oregon said during a hearing on Monday that she plans to issue an injunction stopping the Trump administration from requiring several Democratic-led states to remove references to gender ideology from their sexual health education curricula as a condition of receiving federal grant funding.

U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken, based in Eugene, made the comments in reference to a lawsuit filed by 16 states, including Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington, and Wisconsin, as well as the District of Columbia. The states of Oregon, Washington, and Minnesota are leading the group.

You will have noticed, as I have, that the vast majority of these anti-Trump judges are female.  Feel free to speculate.

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Sports commentator Clay Travis, appearing on Fox News with Jesse Watters, delivered a scathing 40-second assessment of the Democrats’ downfall during coverage of a “No Kings” rally in Boston. Travis’s remarks highlight a broader sentiment: the party has lost touch with mainstream America, particularly younger generations, and risks becoming a relic of the past.

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Good. I’m hoping they get around to Clapper soon.

UPDATE: John Brennan Hit With Criminal Referral Over Steele Dossier Lies

UPDATE: House Judiciary Refers Former CIA Director John Brennan to DOJ for Criminal Prosecution

Newsbusters.

On Sunday’s Velshi show, frequent MSNBC guest Elie Mystal charged that Chief Justice John Roberts is the “biggest enemy towards black people” on the Supreme Court since the pro-slavery Dred Scott decision from1857.

His typically hyperbolic attack on Justice Roberts came during a segment devoted to fretting over the possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court will strike down legal precedents that for decades have required that oddly shaped congressional districts be drawn to ensure the existence of black-majority districts, mostly filled by black legislators.

Host Ali Velshi suggested that a conservative court ruling would be as bad as taking voting rights back to 1964 as he posed his first question to the race-obsessed justice correspondent for the far-left The Nation magazine.

Newsbusters.

he New York Times came out with a story on rising car payment delinquencies that at first glance would make readers think it was President Donald Trump’s fault. But — as always — the devil’s in the details: This issue was a lingering carry-over from the Biden administration.

“Lower-Income Americans Are Missing Car Payments,” Times business reporter Sydney Ember’s October 20 headline read. She wrote that “Inflation and a tough job market are making it harder for some people to pay back the car loans they signed in better times.”

Sounds pretty bad, unless you’re a political opportunist looking to whack Trump with any political cudgel you can get your hands on. But the hidden plot twist would make anyone paying attention do a double-take: “The share of subprime auto loans that were 60 days or more past due reached a high of nearly 6.5 percent in January and has lingered near that level, according to Fitch Ratings.”

Hmm, who was president for most of January? Because it certainly wasn’t Trump. Ember never mentions Biden at all — of course —and proceeded to keep her story devoid of the necessary context.

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Federal agents have arrested 11 violent criminal illegal aliens in Memphis — including gang members, child predators, and drug traffickers — just days after President Donald Trump launched a sweeping federal crackdown to “Make Memphis Safe Again,” the Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday.

The arrests are part of a broader operation Trump launched last month, when he signed a presidential memorandum deploying federal law enforcement and National Guard troops to the Tennessee city.

The move followed his anti-crime initiative in Washington, D.C., which the administration said transformed the capital from a “nightmare of murder and crime” into one of the safest cities in America.

Associated Press, a Voice of the Crust.

When the Deep State is wounded, the Narrative Media squeal.

The essence of democracy, as Jonah Goldberg once said, is that 51% of the people get to pee in the soup of 49% of the people, without recourse. The chief drawback to letting the people’s representatives vote on stuff is that sometimes they will vote in ways that the Smartest People In The Room think are stupid.

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Students at the Oxford Union in England reportedly voted to oust their president-elect after he made controversial comments celebrating the assassination of American conservative leader Charlie Kirk.

The Oxford Union confirmed a successful vote of no confidence against its incoming president, George Abaraonye. The motion passed with the required two-thirds majority, receiving 1,228 ballots in favor and 501 against, the U.K.’s Independent reported Tuesday.

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During the 2018-2019 government shutdown (the longest federal shutdown in US history lasting 35 days), Donald Trump’s first term administration was ill prepared for the tactics used by the establishment media, Democrats and even saboteurs within his own cabinet. The narrative spin was highly effective in painting Trump as the villain, subverting his efforts to achieve lasting security at the southern border.

The 2018 shutdown hinged largely on the fight between Republicans and Democrats over funding for a border wall that would ensure far lower illegal immigration numbers well after Trump left office. The construction cost of $5.7 billion seems like a pittance compared to the projected cost of $350 billion to deport alien migrants over four years.

Currently, the US is enjoying the lowest immigration numbers in over 60 years as border encounters plummet, but this is largely contingent on Trump’s presence in the White House and cuts to subsides for illegals. His original wall proposal remains a necessary measure to help prevent future mass migrations.

Newsbusters.

On Tuesday, October 14, the cast of ABC’s The View whined on-air that Republicans didn’t want to come on the program to talk with them. According to co-host Joy Behar, Republicans were “afraid of us.” But after a clip of Behar’s suggestion went viral, Republicans and conservatives began to call out The View for repeatedly turning down their requests to appear on the show.

“I was going to say that I think we should have more Republicans on the show, but they don’t want to come on. They’re scared of us. It’s like Marjorie Taylor Greene says that she finds the Republican men afraid of powerful women,” Behar declared.

Newsbusters.

The trend of the late night hosts devolving from comedians into DNC talking heads continued on Monday as they gushed over the weekend’s No Kings protestors. According to them, the size of the crowds should discredit the idea they were actually quite radical.

On The Late Show, CBS’s Stephen Colbert excitedly wondered, “Do you feel that? Do you feel the vibe? It’s electric in here. You can feel the energy in this room because these folks are still high from the No Kings rally this weekend. That was beautiful! It’s a beautiful sight to see. On Saturday, 7 million people turned out in over 2,700 events in all 50 states.”

I doubt seriously that so many people were involved.

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Kohler is expanding its line of bathroom products with Dekoda, an iPhone-connected device that’s designed to be attached to a toilet rim (via The Verge). The device’s included “sensors” point into the toilet bowl, allowing it to analyze what goes on in the bathroom.

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Every time the US government has faced an existential financial crisis in its history, it has chosen to change the rules rather than honor its promises in full—usually by replacing gold or silver with paper.

From the War of 1812 when interest payments were missed, to the Lincoln’s Greenbacks, to Roosevelt voiding gold clauses in 1933, the end of silver redemption in 1968, and Nixon closing the gold window in 1971, Washington has defaulted five times before—often by shifting the terms of payment rather than admitting outright failure.

There’s no doubt these episodes were defaults. To claim otherwise would be like trying to unilaterally change the terms of your dollar-denominated mortgage or credit card bill so that you could pay your liabilities with Argentine pesos or Zimbabwe dollars—and then pretending that somehow it wasn’t a default.

The US government is essentially telling its creditors the same thing Darth Vader once said: “I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.”

Just like in Star Wars, the message is clear—Washington will change the rules whenever it needs to. Creditors may get paid, but not in the way they were promised, and certainly not in the way they expected.

Today, the US government is once again in an existential financial bind. The national debt is unmanageable, federal spending is locked on an upward path, and interest on that debt has already surged past $1 trillion a year. At this pace, interest could soon overtake Social Security as the single largest item in the federal budget.

The New Neo.

They won’t give up until they kill him, or die trying.

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Of couxrse it did.

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Several blue cities, led by Chicago, want federal money to keep flowing but aren’t willing to abide by the Trump administration’s condition of dropping diversity, equity, and inclusion policies to get it.

Joining Chicago in the lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency are Boston, New York, Baltimore, Denver, Minneapolis, St. Paul, and New Haven, Connecticut.

The cities filed the case of Chicago v. Noem in federal court in the Northern District of Illinois Monday. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is named in her official capacity as the defendant.

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The Palestinian Authority in Gaza has paid recently released terrorists the equivalent of millions of dollars as part of a “Pay for Slay” program, according to the Israeli Foreign Ministry.

The recent ceasefire and hostage deal between Hamas and Israel included the release of “250 Palestinian terrorists” in exchange for the hostages still being held in Gaza. Among the group, 160 terrorists received monthly payments out of the Palestinian Authority’s “Martyrs Fund,” which is estimated to have grown over time to $70 million, according to Palestinian Media Watch.

“The Palestinian Authority (PA) paid these same terrorists, many of them from Hamas, a collective $70 million. This is what is called Pay-for-Slay. This policy must stop, it fuels terror,” the Israeli Foreign Ministry wrote on the social media platform X Tuesday.

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A children’s summer camp in Spain has sparked a string of alarming safeguarding allegations. What should have been a fortnight of normal camp activities was, according to several attendees, more like a carnival of horrors. The camp, organised by non-profit youth group Sarrea Euskal Udalekua Elkartea, was held from August 8th to 23rd in the village of Bernedo, and was hosted by a controversial trans activist who had previously boasted about wanting to “indoctrinate” children.

The Foundry.

shutdown. They also voted against funding the military, thereby necessitating that the Pentagon initiate some innovative accounting in order to ensure service members are paid on time.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., defended his caucus’s latest vote, opining, “It’s always been unacceptable to Democrats to do the defense bill without other bills that have so many things that are important to the American people in terms of health care, in terms of housing, in terms of safety.” But to most Americans, such tendentious bloviating falls on deaf ears. Most commonsense Americans understand that there is no reason paying America’s warriors should be held hostage to arcane debates over housing policy.

As Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., one of three Senate Democrats who joined Republicans on Thursday in support of the defense appropriations bill, put it earlier this week: “You know, if you’re thinking about winning the election, now, that’s all going to come down to seven or eight states. … And a lot of the things, the extremism that people turned their back in ’24, and that’s how we kind of came up short.”

It’s wise advice. But Fetterman is likely to pay for being such a rare voice of (relative) reason within the party with an impending bruising Senate primary contest.

Why exactly are Democrats, who control neither chamber of Congress nor the presidency, continuing to insist on a protracted shutdown battle? It’s a more complex question than it ought to be. But the basic disagreement amounts to one over expiring Obamacare subsidies and the scope of Medicaid coverage—pertaining, to no small extent, to illegal aliens.

Democrats always have to act as it they are in charge, even when they aren’t, because they can’t admit that they aren’t without destorying the fantasy world in which they all live.

Read it.

Liberals always present themselves as smarter than conservatives. But even their attempts to “own” the conservatives can mangle the facts. On CNN‘s “NewsNight,” 22-year-old MeidasTouch Democrat Adam Mockler compared President Donald Trump to Hamas terrorists because they were both “elected democratically.”

Earth to Mockler: Hamas had one election and never allowed another. Trump won an election, then lost an election, and then won another election. America is a vibrant, contentious democracy. Meanwhile, Hamas marked its “peace deal” with Trump by executing people in the streets. Gaza fits all the Left’s constant talk of authoritarian demise.

“Public” radio is an ever-swirling cesspool of these wild-eyed authoritarian-conspiracy theories. They’re not QAnon—QAnon doesn’t have 1,000 stations that were until very recently taxpayer-funded.

Trump has constantly tested the boundaries of executive power, but all the comparisons to mass-murdering dictators just keep getting more ridiculous as democracy continues in America.

Popular Information, a Voice of the Crust.

Like most of the Narrative Media, this is mostly misinformation designed to distract people who are unaware of the “manosphere” from who really populate it.

Hint: It’s not Joe Rogan. It’s Not Theo Von. It’s not Andrew Schulze. It’s not Shawn Ryan.

It’s Rollo Tomassi, Mike Sartain, Fresh & Fit, Rich Cooper, Aaron Clarey, Rian Stone, and other’s who have inhabited that space since the millennium began.

The shutdown message lawmakers are hearing from constituents: ‘Keep up the fight’ (Kevin Frey/MSNBC)

‘Who cares?’ About 7 million people, that’s who (Margaret Sullivan/American Crisis)  Present company excluded, of course.

Why Trump Turned to the Sewer (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)

Shutdown Imperils Dozens of Head Start Preschool Programs  Which have been demonstrated to have exactly zero impact.

Trump reposts AI-generated video of plane dumping sludge on No Kings protesters (Lauren Aratani/The Guardian)  Trump says what we are all thinking.

MSNBC Struggles to Find Illegality with Government Stretching Dollars

CNN Anchor Whitfield Weirdly Questions Trump Making A ‘Deal’ To End War In Ukraine

Trump’s Plan To Remain on His Throne (Marc Elias/Democracy Docket)

BREAKING: Colombia’s President Petro Threatens To ‘Get Rid of Trump’

“A Nazi streak” — With help from Eli Okun, Bethany Irvine, Ali Bianco and Rachel Umansky-Castro (Politico)

I don’t see any reduction in TDS (plus, MSNBC rebrands itself) (The New Neo)

Putin’s mesmeric sway on Trump (Edward Luce/Financial Times)

Donald Trump Has Lost Touch With Reality (Paul Krugman)

A rickety dictatorship

How Trump Is Using Fake Imagery to Attack Enemies and Rouse Supporters (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)

The Subtle Genius of ‘No Kings’ (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)  So subtle that everybody missed it.

Stage 5 TDS: Deranged De Niro Calls For Leftists To “Fight It Out” With “Nazis”

Steve Bannon and the Murderers and Hitmen Who Became His ‘Besties’ (Jonathan D. Karl/The Atlantic)  “man who has Trump’s ear”? Presumably the one that was shot….

Trump’s Venezuela operation expands in the dark (Axios)

Why many transgender Americans are preparing to flee the country (Vox)  Good riddance. Let them afflict somewhere else.

MAGA’s cancellation spree (Axios)  There’s that MAGA guy again.

The Golden Age of Sh*tposters (William Kristol/The Bulwark)  Such as the Kristol Krew at the Bulshitwark.