October 05, 2026
Quick Hits
Unfortunately this means the bombers will have to take off and land in the US during bombing runs.
The judge in the Lindsay Clancy triple child murder trial has denied scumbag lawyer Kevin Reddington's motion to toss out the mistrial and simply declare the murderess not guilty. So the DA, who is probably Woke AF, will have to decided if he's going to half-ass another fakey-fake attempt to convict the murderess against the wishes of his woke Karen voters.
Justice Alito says he knows exactly who leaked the Dobbs decision, but he says he doesn't have enough proof to take it to court so he won't say who it is. A rare cuck-out from Alito. The US has pulled all bombers from the Fairford, UK air force base that was menaced by some very British shirtless men who were not doing anything bad and if they were, then they are culturally justified in doing it.Unfortunately this means the bombers will have to take off and land in the US during bombing runs.
All U.S. Air Force bombers in the U.K. were returned to their home bases in the United States following a suspected terror plot that U.S. officials have suggested may be linked to Iran targeting a U.S. military facility last week, officials said. About a dozen B-1 bombers were among the aircraft removed from Royal Air Force (RAF) Station Fairford in Gloucestershire, England, a U.S. official told Fox News. The base is the only European forward operating location for American heavy bombers. "We can acknowledge now that all U.S. bombers that were deployed to RAF Fairford have re-deployed to their home stations in the United States," a department official said. The Pentagon emphasized that despite the relocation, the bomber fleet remains fully prepared to launch long-range strike missions directly from the continental United States whenever needed. "The Airmen that operate America's bomber force, including B-1s, B-2s, and B-52s, remain ready to deliver precision global strike capabilities -- including through operations that launch and recover from the continental United States -- anywhere, anytime," the official said. RAF Fairford functions as a key European base for heavy American strategic bombers and has supported U.S. military operations, including missions targeting Iranian sites. Last Sunday, U.K. officials said three suspicious vehicles containing fuel accelerants were found near RAF Fairford. "We can confirm that no improvised explosive devices were found. However, a quantity of petrol was recovered," officials said.I'm really questioning what NATO delivers to the US any longer. All we counted on them for was a few acres of land here and there where we could launch and land planes from. And now they can't even supply dirt. An ITV reporter says...
Dan RiversTrump is "closely monitoring" the escape of the plague from a Russian bioweapons lab. I'm sorry, I mean "bio lab." I'm sure they deny researching the plague for weapons purposes.
@danriversitv Scoop: I have heard from a source familiar with the RAF Fairford story that the US feared a drone a attack similar to Ukraine's Operation Spiderweb last year which destroyed 10 Russian aircraft. They fear Iran might copy the tactics and that drones might even already be in UK, hence abrupt departure of B1s.
The Trump administration is closely watching reports of a suspected fatal plague infection in Russia and is urging Moscow to be transparent, officials said Sunday night. The Moscow Times reported this weekend that health officials in Siberia's Irkutsk region placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from the plague. Alexei Tsydenov, head of the neighboring republic of Buryatia, confirmed that a lab worker who broke a test tube of live bacteria had died from an unspecified form of plague, the Times reported. State Department officials told NewsNation and Fox News that U.S. officials were monitoring the situation and details were still vague. "We are aware of reports of a fatal case of suspected pneumonic plague in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. We are monitoring the situation closely with the CDC and our other interagency partners," one official told NewsNation.Karoline Leavitt has become a Fox News contributor, and will debut by November 1. Good. That's a more forgiving job for a mom of very young children. What a surprise -- Ahmadrahman Mohamed El-Sayed's sister-in-law was on a terror watch list.
Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed's sister-in-law appeared in the Terrorist Screening Database, court documents filed in 2016 indicate. Mariam Jukaku, the sister of El-Sayed's wife, Sarah Jukaku, was a participant in two suits the Council on American-Islamic Relations brought against U.S. government officials on behalf of individuals disputing their alleged placement on the watch list, according to court filings. One suit sought an injunction removing the plaintiffs from the database and a declaratory judgment that their Fifth Amendment rights had been violated. The other was a class action lawsuit the plaintiffs filed to obtain compensatory damages and recover legal fees from the government. Jukaku appeared in a Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) press conference announcing the suits. Texas and Florida recently designated CAIR a terrorist organization. Before joining the suits, Jukaku filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security after she reportedly noticed in 2012 that "her boarding pass was stamped with the 'SSSS' designation, indicating that she had been designated as a 'known or suspected terrorist.'" Jukaku, who is Muslim, said the designation triggered "extensive searches, pat downs and chemical testing" and speculated that she was added to the watch list because of racism or religious discrimination, according to the suit. She also said she believed she had been removed from the list following her DHS complaint, though the government reportedly never confirmed either the removal or her presence on the list.Aww: Stephen Colbert's cucked-out fanfiction script for a Lord of the Rings mid-quel (it would take place during the timeline of the Lord of the Rings) has been put on hold under the new Skydance regime overseeing Warner Bros.
Looks like the insufferable Stephen Colbert got canceled twice in 2026. First, his basement-rated Late Night show ended on CBS. Today, we are learning that his face-saving project, scripting a Lord of the Rings movie, has, at best, been put in turnaround. Tee hee. If you recall, back in March, just weeks before his humiliating cancellation became real, Colbert showed up in a video hosted by director Peter Jackson to humble-brag about how he's writing the next Lord of the Rings movie. The message was clear: Colbert wanted everyone to know, especially us MAGAtards, that his career isn't over. Oh, no! It's bigger and better than ever! So, take that! And that! And THAT! At the time, Colbert's movie, Shadow of the Past, was looking like a sure thing. As soon as filming ended on The Hunt for Gollum (which is filming now), Colbert's movie was all set to start filming. Yes, Colbert's triumph was a "go picture." Well, no more... ... Colbert's "film hasn't been fully canceled, but it has hit major development speed bumps. They are still working on drafts, but filming isn't expected anytime soon," reports Knight Edge Media [emphasis original]. "The new studio simply doesn't see Lord of the Rings as profitable as it once did and wants to see how The Hunt for Gollum does before greenlighting more projects." ... Colbert blamed David Ellison's takeover of CBS for cancelling his Late Night show (even though it was canceled before the merger was complete). And now, just days after Ellison's merger with Warner Bros. was finalized, Colbert's comeback movie stalls, sputters, and will likely die. If this episode is ever made into a movie, I'd like to suggest the following title: The Desolation of Smug.I wouldn't mind seeing a similar movie -- Colbert's "big idea" was to just film four chapters omitted from Peter Jackson's edited-down version of the story -- but I don't want this nasty woke gaywad anywhere near it.
This is not an accident, it's the plan.
Timur Kuran
@timurkuran The biggest issue raised by Jane Doe vs. the Cornell 7 isn't simply who is responsible. It is what the controversy could do to relations between men and women at a moment when American social life is already in trouble. Young Americans are increasingly lonely and unhappy. Marriage is down, sex among young adults is down, fertility is at a record low, and men and women continue to polarize politically. A toxic blame game could make all this worse. Women may retreat further into the belief that they live in a "rape culture." Men may retreat into the belief that intimacy with women poses a potentially catastrophic reputational risk. Both fears can become self-reinforcing. The result is predictable: less trust, less interaction, less dating, less intimacy, fewer marriages, and more lonely, resentful people looking for movements that blame the opposite sex. A vicious cycle of mutual gender radicalization gains fresh fuel: each side's fears and grievances become evidence of the other side's hostility. However the legal case unfolds, turning it into another chapter in the war between men and women would further damage a country already struggling with social fragmentation. We desperately need more trust and interaction between the sexes, not less.
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Son of Former Brazilian President Cheated Out of a Win Tops Election Results in Brazil, Garnering 47% of the Vote
Battleswarm blog quotes Military.com:
It requires 50% to actually win the election outright, otherwise it goes to a two-person runoff.
He almost got 50%. I bet he got well over 50% -- but the left cheats, subverts, and destroys everything, including democracy.Meawhile, US special forces joined with Ecuadorian forces to raid homes controlled by the very violent Jalisco cartel, which surged into Ecuador from Mexico.
Conservative Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro won Sunday night's presidential election in Brazil, defeating incumbent socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva -- but did not pass the 50 percent threshold necessary to win the presidency outright, triggering a runoff election. Brazilians took to the polls on Sunday for general elections for the presidency, local state leadership positions, and seats in the Brazilian Congress. Bolsonaro and Lula were among 13 candidates competing for the chief executive position, though polling prior to the election did not indicate that any of the other candidates were attracting any meaningful levels of support to vie for first place. At press time, Brazil's electoral officials have counted 99.57 percent of the vote. Bolsonaro is in the lead with 47.12 percent support, or nearly 56 million votes, while President Lula obtained 45.05 percent of the vote, or about 53.5 million votes. The third-place candidate, self-help author Augusto Cury, obtained only 2.89 percent of the vote, or about 3.4 million votes. ... Brazilians will return to the polls for the runoff election on October 25. Lula, 80, is running for a fourth term as president of Brazil, an especially notable feat given that he was convicted of misappropriating government funds while president following his second term and banned from running for office. He attempted to run for president from prison in 2018 but failed to make it to the ballot. The Brazilian top court, the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF), overturned the ban on public office and allowed him to run in 2022 against then-incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, narrowly defeating him. ... The two frontrunners arrived at the top of the polls following an arduous and typically chaotic presidential campaign season in Brazil that arguably began in late 2025, when Brazil's top court sentenced Lula's expected rival, former President Bolsonaro, to 27 years in prison on dubious "crimes against democracy" charges and banned him from running for public office for 35 years, or until he is 105 years old. The Bolsonaro family, with several members already in politics, mobilized rapidly to shift away from the original plan of patriarch Jair running against Lula. Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro announced in late December 2025 that he would challenge Lula, cementing support from potential rivals such as Sao Paulo Gov. Tarcísio de Freitas. Tarcísio was reelected on Sunday.
Battleswarm blog quotes Military.com:
Battleswarm Blog adds:
Fifty U.S. troops assisted Ecuadorian officials in arresting more than 30 members of a Mexican drug cartel. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and U.S. troops participated in an early-morning operation on Thursday to arrest members of a branch of Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), Ecuadoran Interior Minister John Reimberg wrote on X.
Below, Cappy Army discusses the move against the Mexican cartel in Ecuador. Cartel gunmen recently fired on US ships.
CJNG is widely reported to be among the most lethal and brutal of all the Mexican drug cartels.
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Communist Jihadi Zohran Mamdani: I Will Combat Antisemitism In NYC by Partnering Up With Aggressively Anti-Israel Arab Agitation Groups
When I think about casting a Theater Kid fake anti-antisemitism initiative, my mind immediately goes to Palestinian terrorist cheerleader Linda Sarsour.
A New York City program that Mayor Zohran Mamdani says will combat antisemitism involves a partnership with aggressively anti-Israel activists. The city's "historic" plan to stop hate crimes will include increased funding for Partners Against the Hate, an initiative launched in 2021 with six leading advocacy groups, Mamdani's office said Tuesday. One of them is Arab American Association of New York, or AAANY, which had Palestinian firebrand and Mamdani supporter Linda Sarsour as its leader for over a decade. It also cheered on a violent 2024 encampment demonstration at Columbia University and other pro-Gaza protests following Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, even when they led to arrests, its social media posts show.
This was predicted:
Mamdani faces growing pressure to address antisemitism as city police report increasing hate crimes targeting mostly Jews since his January inauguration. The self-described socialist mayor faced rebuke throughout his 2025 campaign over anti-Israel advocacy, which was driven in part by Sarsour, his close political ally.
Mamdani's office and AAANY did not respond to the Washington Examiner's requests for comment. ...
Sarsour, AAANY's executive director until 2017, came under scrutiny during her tenure for comments perceived as antisemitic, such as declaring that "nothing is creepier than Zionism." She repeatedly denied the accusation.
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Jack Smith Spied on Trump's Lawyers and Advisors to Find Out Who They Were Talking to In Response to Their Prosecution
They slapped Trump with an absurd investigation, and then essentially criminalized his use of lawyers to defend himself. They spied on his lawyers and advisors as if they were mafia capos.
Jack Smith was asked at his recent Senate perjury session if being a Republican was illegal in his eyes. Here's one of the predicates for that question: Smith's team treated a Trump National Security Advisor's endorsement of Republicans as an avenue for criminal investigation.
Jack Smith team tracked Trump defense lawyers' calls by monitoring his chief of staff's phone Declassified memos reveal that Jack Smith's secret dragnet, codenamed "Plasmic Echo," monitored senior Trump associates and staff's contacts with lawyers, staff, and journalists during the 2024 campaign. By John Solomon and Steven Richards Already in the crosshairs for spying on Congress, ex-prosecutor Jack Smith and his team monitored the activities of President Donald Trump's legal defense team, journalists and campaign advisers using a pen register device that tracked the calls coming to and from his chief of staff Susie Wiles' phone, according to newly declassified memos that reveal some of the FBI's invasive tactics used to target Trump. Just the News reported last week that Smith obtained the phone records of several senators through a subpoena and secured a non-disclosure order from the court preventing the mobile carrier from notifying the lawmakers affected. One of those senators, Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., filed a lawsuit against Smith arguing his spying constituted an unauthorized intrusion into her civil rights. ... The three-year probe of the ex-president -- which put Joe Biden's administration in charge of the legal fate of his GOP rival in the 2024 election -- was approved at the highest levels of the Biden Justice Department, including by Attorney General Merrick Garland, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco and FBI Director Christopher Wray, the memos show. ... The probe also made FBI agents at times uncomfortable, with a senior official at the bureau's Washington, D.C. Field Office (WFO) counterintelligence unit and his team raising concerns that they did not have a justification to raid Trump's Florida home and wanted to use a less invasive solution than a search warrant, the documents show. "WFO does not believe (and has articulated to DOJ CES), that we have established probable cause for the search warrant at Mar-a-Lago. DOJ has opined that they do, requesting a wide scope including residence, office, storage space," one Assistant Special Agent in Charge wrote in a July 13, 2023, update on the Plasmic Echo probe. In that same memo, the agent laid out alternative methods for resolution, rather than executing a search warrant on Mar-a-Lago, President Trump's Palm Beach, Florida estate, including by asking "to speak with" the former president and his counsel directly. ...
The newly released memos show an intense focus on two constitutionally protected activities -- Trump's right to a legal defense and the normal activities of a presidential campaign. After the Justice Department and the FBI began their investigations into the then-former president, Trump announced his third campaign for the Oval Office in November 2022 and appointed Wiles to serve as co-campaign manager.
The memos released Monday by the White House show that FBI investigators were tracing Wiles' phone calls and text messages with at least 21 lawyers affiliated with Trump, numerous campaign staff, political advisors, and at least five journalists from at least February to May 2023. ... In one instance, the FBI specifically targeted Wiles' communication records to understand who she was in contact with before and after her interview with FBI agents on April 7, 2023, in Jacksonville, Florida. "On 10 April 2023, WFO [redacted] reviewed WILES's telephonic activity to determine contacts of interest on the date of her FBI interview," one memo reads.
The records also show agents combed through entire filings of Trump's political action committee with its donors and campaign expenses, set up a social media monitoring effort and even used personal political endorsements as leverage against a key witness.
Jack Smith secretly met with the criminal architect of RussiaGate -- and the FBI left blank the pages that were supposed to document this meeting.
One memo recounts how the FBI sought to pressure former Trump National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien when he was declining to volunteer for an interview by checking his political endorsements of candidates. "I'm going through all of it, and it looks like O'Brien is active in endorsing Republican candidates," one member of Jack Smith's team wrote on February 6, 2023. "Can FBI please look at his social media and see if there's anything of relevance we would want to ask him about? Has he endorsed Trump again? Thanks."
"On 3 November 2023, FBI Washington Field Office (WFO) and Special Counsel personnel met with former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John BRENNAN at CIA Headquarters in McLean, Virginia," a typed FBI summary of the meeting states. "The purpose of the meeting was to discuss expert testimony to National Defense Information in the forthcoming captioned investigation," the summary written five days after the Brennan interaction added. "No documents were shown in this meeting. The original Agent notes will be maintained in the attached IA." Two agents' notes are attached to the memo, but they are entirely blank except for the date of the meeting, the location, Brennan's name and the government attendees.
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Paris Police Report: Riots Are Being Incited by Far-Left Politician and Perennial Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Melanchon
The Islamist-Communist media is justifying these riots by saying the students, who are burning down their schools, just want their schools better "resourced." Note that the immigrants burning down the schools left countries that spend far, far less on schooling than France does:
I mentioned this on Thursday, but the party "La France Insoumise" (France Unsubmitted/Unbowed) or LFI are openly cheering on the riots.
The Red-Green alliance is right out in the open, including in support for anti-normie terrorism.A report from the Paris Police's intelligence branch has reportedly found that radical presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon's far-left La France Insoumise party instigated the youth riots which plunged much of the country into chaos this week. Over 5,000 people were arrested this week as mayhem broke out around the so-called student actions at over a thousand high schools across France, in which multicultural youths ran roughshod, engaging in mindless destruction and wanton violence, including attacks on police and innocent bystanders, arson, and vandalism According to Interior Minister Laurent Nunez, some 85 per cent of the arrests made during the riots were under the age of 18. However, a report from the Paris Police Prefect claimed that other forces were likely pulling the strings behind the scenes, finding that "the origins of the movement clearly lie in the manipulation of student union structures and political movements close to the far left." The report, obtained by Le Figaro, claimed that members of political organisations such as the Young Revolutionary Communists and the La France Insoumise (LFI/France in Rebellion) party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon may have a "strategy of igniting unrest on the part of the most radical union and political structures to impose their ideas as national elections approach." While the students largely displayed "a clear desire for disorder, notably through the commission of urban violence, without any specific social demands," the police report said that "clearly, high school students are being pushed into these actions by far-left elements identified both within student union structures at Paris 8 University (Le Poing levé, FSE), or Paris Nanterre (FSE)." The police report noted that some of the actions taken by youth rioters pointed to "remote control" from left-wing unions, including prompt mobilisation outside of police stations following arrests of rioters for mortar attacks, protests which they said were "common for these organisations but quite rare among young people." Meanwhile, of the forty arrests detailed in the report, around a quarter were identified as far-left activists who had left high school long ago, having been born between 1999 and 2005. ... Rather than backing down, LFI leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon appears intent on doubling down. In a blog post on Saturday, Mélenchon, who participated in the 1968 student riots in France, called on his supporters to join the planned "Act III" student protests this week. The 75-year-old presidential candidate claimed that the involvement of his party over the past week on the ground at protests was necessary to protect the students from police violence. "Our duty is to help and protect our young people. That's why I proposed, like others, deploying "white helmets" or white armbands around and within the demonstrations on October 6th, as was done in the past after the death of Malik Oussekine or to protect the high school student demonstrations of the 1990s," he wrote. The youth riots have already proved costly, with initial estimates of damages ranging into the tens of millions. According to the leader of the Île-de-France regional council, Valérie Pécresse, some "seven million euros already gone up in smoke". The president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Fabrice Pannekoucke, said that his area likely saw between 25 and 30 million euros in damages. However, this may be outweighed by the human toll, with some victims suffering life-altering injuries, including a woman who had her face burned with a homemade flamethrower while she was waiting for a bus in Marseille. On Sunday, local prosecutors announced that a 15-year-old had been arrested over the incident and "was brought before an investigating judge for formal charges of acts of barbarity".I thought that maybe that video of an immigrant using a spray can to make an improvised flame-thrower and burning a woman's face was AI. Nope. As real as death.
Speaking to BFMTV, the victim said: "I didn't expect such violence... To see a kid you don't know, someone you were talking to normally, deliberately aiming at your face... He didn't aim for your clothes, he didn't aim for your legs. He aimed for my face. Why?"Over 500 French schools are closed due to rioting, arson, and attempted murder.
The Islamist-Communist media is justifying these riots by saying the students, who are burning down their schools, just want their schools better "resourced." Note that the immigrants burning down the schools left countries that spend far, far less on schooling than France does:
I expected the coverage to change after Public, Le Point, and Le Figaro and many people on X had pointed out the contradiction between rioters saying they wanted more money for schools while burning them down. I pointed out on Friday that spending per pupil across all levels has nearly doubled in constant euros since 1980. And, since then, I noted on X that the French government provides $14,204 per secondary student in constant purchasing-power dollars compared to $6,643 in Algeria, $2,834 in Morocco, $1,490 in Senegal and $712 in Mali. Algeria and Morocco are the two largest sources of France's immigrants, and Senegal and Mali are among the largest in sub-Saharan Africa. Instead, establishment news organizations continued to promote a leftist and globalist account of the protests as a response to insufficient funding for schools, which simply isn't true. CNN headlined its report "Police and high school students clash across France in protests over underfunded education" and gave no spending figure of any kind. Euronews listed the pupils' complaints on October 4 without once naming LFI. National Public Radio ran its report on the 5,000 arrests with the summary "High school students say their classrooms are overcrowded, teachers are missing and buildings need repairs." The Associated Press today described the protesting pupils as focused on "perceived inequalities in the school system." The AP article gives no figure for spending per pupil and does not mention the Paris police intelligence note that Le Figaro had published three days earlier. "Mélenchon, a fiery anti-capitalist," waxed AP, "says his party supports the movement but isn't organizing it and wants it to be non-violent." Why the double standards? Why do reporters who warned for a decade about online incitement describe riots that a political party promoted on TikTok as a protest over school budgets?
Michael Shellenberger
@shellenberger 16h The media have spent the last decade demanding online censorship of right-wing populists to avoid "real-world harm." Now, they're promoting left-wing disinformation -- including that migrant students are "deprived" -- that's driving street violence. For more than a decade, the news media and establishment politicians have demanded that social media platforms censor "far right" and anti-migrant voices in order to prevent "real-world violence." In a 2019 hearing at which representatives from Facebook and Google testified, the New York Democrat who chaired the House Judiciary Committee said, "White nationalism and its proliferation online have real consequences...Americans have died because of it." After a gunman killed 10 people in Buffalo in 2022, the state's attorney general asked Congress to make the platforms' legal immunity depend on how they policed such content. "Online platforms should be held accountable for allowing hateful and dangerous content to spread on their platforms," New York's attorney general said in 2022. In Europe, politicians stepped up their demands for censorship during the 2015 migrant wave. A live microphone at a United Nations luncheon caught German Chancellor Angela Merkel pressing Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg about anti-immigrant posts. "Are you working on this?" she asked. Zuckerberg confirmed he was. Eight months later, the European Commission announced that Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft had agreed to review flagged hate speech within 24 hours. Over the next several years, the European Commission would secretly dictate terms to social media companies for what they would censor, which Americans only discovered earlier this year. The media emphasized that the violence came from anti-migration forces. "Facebook Fueled Anti-Refugee Attacks in Germany," read a 2018 headline in The New York Times. When riots followed the murder of three girls in Southport, England, in 2024, Prime Minister Keir Starmer told social media companies that the disorder had been whipped up online. "It's happening on your premises," said Starmer. "And the law must be upheld everywhere." But when courts, prosecutors and legislatures trace violence to social media, the trail often leads to Islamists and the radical left.... Article at Public here.
Michael Shellenberger
@shellenberger 4h If you're curious why the media is spreading so much false information about the riots, consider: -- The French Culture Ministry paid [euros] 204.7 million in direct aid to the news media in 2023, of which Le Monde received [euros] 8.3 million, L'Humanité [euros] 6.5 million and Libération [euros] 6.3 million -- The @afpfr runs "fact-checks" in 26 languages, received [euros] 120 million from the French state in 2025, against [euros] 200.3 million in commercial revenue. @AFP is French government propaganda and disinformation -- European governments are committed through a UN agreement to spread pro-mass migration propaganda by funding it directly. The "migration compact," which 152 governments voted for in the UN General Assembly in 2018, commits them to "stopping allocation of public funding... to media outlets that systematically promote intolerance, xenophobia, racism and other forms of discrimination towards migrants," which is broadly interpreted to cover criticism of mass migration policies -- To maintain control over news media, the European Commission funds a network of 15 fact-checking hubs with tens of millions of euros, and its rules require platforms to give priority to notices from "trusted flaggers." -- Governments fund think tanks to produce reports, including ones demanding censorship, that the news media cover sympathetically and editorialize in support of. -- The @ISDglobal in London -- which demands censorship of people it disagrees with on climate change, gender, and migration, refuses to speak with journalists, and lists a phony address -- lists among its funders the British Foreign Office, the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and Justice, the German Foreign Office and the European Commission, along with Google and Microsoft. https://isdglobal.org/partnerships-and-funders/
-- Public reported in 2024 that ISD and the German fact-checker Correctiv, both government-funded, had spread false claims about German farmers and opposition politicians.
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Tucker Carlson Says that Britain Did Not Gain from Defeating Hitler; When It's Put to Him That If They Had Not Beaten Hitler They'd All be Speaking German, He Says "So What?" and Adds "At Least They'd be Speaking a European Language"
The demon scratches infected him with full-blown diabolism.
Jon Levine
@LevineJonathan 20m Have to say I watched the full Tucker-Rees Mogg discussion and I've never seen Carlson so publicly owned in my entire life -- It was significantly more brutal than Crossfire / Jon Stewart
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THE MORNING RANT: Trump’s Education Department Cuts Off Low-Paying Degrees from Federal Student Loan Program – Exploitative Universities Hardest Hit
Universities have been enriching themselves by financially exploiting naive teenagers with unconscionable levels of student debt. It is evil how the predators in financial aid offices have been saddling teenagers with six-figure debt loads for degrees that won’t even produce jobs that can repay those loans.
President Trump is finally pushing back on this abuse. His Department of Education is going to use IRS data to gauge income for the first four years after graduation. For degrees that don’t produce a baseline compensation equal to high school graduates’ income, those degrees will no longer be eligible for federal student loans. These targeted degrees will likely include social work, teaching, and various artistic degrees.Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. https://t.co/6tV30STfyc
— The New Republic (@newrepublic) September 28, 2026
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The Morning Report — 10/5 /26
Conservative Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro won Sunday night’s presidential election in Brazil, defeating incumbent socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – but did not pass the 50 percent threshold necessary to win the presidency outright, triggering a runoff election. . . In Brazil, for a candidate to be elected president in the first round, he or she must obtain over 50 percent of the vote. Sen. Bolsonaro did, on occasion, appear to be over the 50 percent threshold as the votes rolled in, but his lead over Lula dwindled as votes from the leftist strongholds in the nation’s northeast rolled in. The winner of the runoff election is the candidate who receives the highest number of votes, regardless of how many. . . The two frontrunners arrived at the top of the polls following an arduous and typically chaotic presidential campaign season in Brazil that arguably began in late 2025, when Brazil’s top court sentenced Lula’s expected rival, former President Bolsonaro, to 27 years in prison on dubious “crimes against democracy” charges and banned him from running for public office for 35 years, or until he is 105 years old. The Bolsonaro family, with several members already in politics, mobilized rapidly to shift away from the original plan of patriarch Jair running against Lula. Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro announced in late December 2025 that he would challenge Lula, cementing support from potential rivals such as Sao Paulo Gov. Tarcísio de Freitas. Tarcísio was reelected on Sunday.As you may know, Bolsonaro has historically been a staunch ally of President Trump and as such Leftists here and abroad, especially Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants henchmen and minions in and out of Foggy Bottom have spent much time and effort over the years attempting to destroy Bolsonaro. Democrat/Leftist election fraud and thievery is their stock in trade and given Brazils weird election laws, they could potentially derail Bolsonaro if not foisting criminal commie Lula on the Brazilian people and staving off the wipeout of Communists in Latin America that President Trump has engendered or at a bare minimum helped to bring about these past few years, which is arguably one of if not his greatest foreign policy accomplishments in his second term. Restoring true small "d" Democracy across vast swathes of Latin America might very well at long last result in the liberation of the Island gulag of Cuba, after close to 70 years of hellish Communist tyranny. And that would make all the right wrong heads explode. We've written and talked about this here and elsewhere, and that would be just incredible to witness, especially as the Anti-American Left does everything it can to "transition" America into a Communist gulag via the DSA and Democrat Party itself. All one has to do is read and listen to its platform to understand what they have planned should, God-Forbid, they gain any kind of electoral/political majority either nationally or at the State level. Even locally, as we can see with Mamdani among others, the disaster that would befall us would be the final nail in Uncle Sam's coffin. Elsewhere, here's a story that doesn't exactly fill me with strength and confidence, for a number of reasons as we shall explore.
More than 200 people have entered forced quarantine after a Russian laboratory worker died from reported exposure to the plague in an incident evocative of the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. . . At least one prominent Russian epidemiologist has cast doubt on this narrative, according to The Moscow Times, claiming that the broken test tube story is evidence of a cover-up. . .So, a few things come to mind with this "story," first is that the Russians perhaps are prepping a coup de grace against the Ukrainians who they were supposed to roll over in 48 hours and yet here we and they are Four Years Later, humiliated and exhausted. That is they're the ones humiliated and exhausted. And we're just here watching the spectacle play out. Or else, this is Russian disinformatsitya targeting the Ukrainians and their allies in the West, or perhaps even vice versa, as a way for them to generate political, financial and even military assistance that has been on the wane, despite their holding the Red Army at bay for a long while now. And of course, speaking of Russia, lest we forget this crap right here at home:
The FBI knew the Trump-Russia collusion narrative was utter bunk even as it suggested otherwise to Congress, the courts and the public early in 2017. Evidence revealed by special counsel John Durham proves it beyond dispute... For years, the media lionized these people as saviors of the Republic, even after special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe turned up zero evidence in support of their claims. . . Of course, most media have no interest in sharing the truth. They won Pulitzers and endless clicks from hyping Russiagate, using it to kneecap a president they despised.So with the heat being turned up on Jack Smith, and the revelations that are in fact confirmations of the evil corruption and criminality of the Deep State in the form of federal law enforcement, Intelligence and the Judiciary and their attempts to overthrow the will of the people as expressed by their election twice if not THRICE of Donald Trump, and the exposure of the Russia Collusion Hoax as concocted by them and Hillary, what better way to derail them than by engineering a so-called lab leak in Russia, as if to underscore the threat from them that Trump is either too inept or worse, uncaring about and so he must be removed from office along with everyone associated with him and their preeminence restored. Naturally, if what's happening with this outbreak is for real, as it might very well be given Russia is capable and quite willing to develop any and all forms of WMD, let's hope they get a handle on this ASAP. On that nightmare note, I bid you all to have a good day.
At this point, it’s up to Durham to keep exposing this unprecedented abuse of power for nakedly personal partisan ends, though Congress may help out once Democrats no longer run it.
Until the plotters are held accountable, there actually is good reason to worry about the future of democracy in America.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Roger Kimball: Trump is the great magnetic north of our political metabolism.
Trump and the Relentless Momentum of Events
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Daily Tech News 5 October 2026
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- Sam Altman says you have to accept some bad with the bad when it comes to AI. (Politico)
I'm sure he does.
- Oh, forgot to mention: Daylight saving time has kicked in here, so I'm back to posting at 4AM ET.
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October 04, 2026
Sunday Overnight Open Thread - October 4, 2026
Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday ONT. Appreciate you stopping by. Open thread, as always. Fashion and music, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday ONT. Appreciate you stopping by. Open thread, as always. Fashion and music, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
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Gun Thread: It's October and October Means TXMoMe Edition!
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Food Thread: Fat! Fire! Not Necessarily A Bad Combination
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First World Problems...
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Reverse Assimilation...70 Years Old And Going Strong
The standard -- and correct -- complaint about the immigrants of the last few generations is that they do not assimilate. Never mind the illegal ones...even legal immigration policies have lost sight of the basic concept that preservation of our traditional culture is a good thing.
We need no justification to try to protect traditional American culture; that is the right and obligation of every sovereign nation. But if one were to attempt it, a cursory glance at the stupendous achievements of America would be enough. American Exceptionalism, which can be used as a placeholder for traditional American culture, is unparalleled in world history. No country has achieved nearly as much, especially with massive legal immigration that demanded only one thing! And that one thing was to embrace American Exceptionalism and become American. Tens of millions of people came to our shores and accepted that arrangement, and the results speak for themselves. But starting in the 1960s with the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, Assimilation became secondary, as did maintaining the approximate ethnic makeup of the country. So we were flooded with immigrants from countries that had none of the cultural basis that created American Exceptionalism. And LBJ's "Great Society" took away the social pressure to succeed...expanding welfare and other government support programs far beyond their original intent. With no pressure to assimilate, these immigrants created their own worlds within America. But that wasn't the most destructive aspect of this sea change in immigration. Our feckless governments began to cater to each of these foreign enclaves within our cities. Don't speak English? No problem! Comfortable with multiple generations on welfare? Fantastic! Vote for us! And if that sounds bad, these anti-American-Exceptionalism cultural norms began to creep into the larger American culture. Black America, which before LBJ's destructive policies was entering the American middle class at an astounding rate, was destroyed by the creation of a cradle-to-grave welfare state. We now have embedded foreign cultures, plus Black American culture that is functionally identical to a foreign culture. And instead of assimilating and embracing American Exceptionalism, these cultures have co-opted large swaths of traditional American culture. Black American and Hispanic slang has degraded normal English among many people, as has clothing and other cultural markers. Even smaller immigrant population's behavior has entered American culture. For instance, the odd Muslim affectation of a beard but no mustache can be seen on the streets of American cities, and even among professional athletes, in particular in the NBA. More destructive is the modes of behavior, in particular the casual violence of the ghettos, which once was confined to the inner city, but has now exploded into much of America. What we have done is not only allowed large immigrant populations to maintain their own cultures, which are empirically less successful than American culture, but we have embraced some of the worst aspects of those cultures...thus the term "reverse assimilation." We are in an existential fight for the future of our country, and these large populations of of supposed Americans who nonetheless are completely foreign is bad enough, but accepting those cultures' worst excesses as some sort of post-modern talisman of moral superiority is, frankly, insane!Posted by: CBD at 12:00 PM | Comments (253) | Trackbacks (Suck)
Sunday Morning Book Thread - 10-04-2026 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]
Welcome to the prestigious, internationally acclaimed, stately, and illustrious Sunday Morning Book Thread! The place where all readers are welcome, regardless of whatever guilty pleasure we feel like reading (dedicated to TRex). Here is where we can discuss, argue, bicker, quibble, consider, debate, confabulate, converse, and jaw about our latest fancy in reading material. As always, pants are required, unless you are wearing <these pants...(be sure to brush and floss!)
So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, and dive into a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning?
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Daily News Stuff 4 October 2026
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- East during the spring and west during the fall: You know you're in for a ride when you read an article that includes the sentence Most magnets have two poles: north and south. (Phys.org)
Most?
Most.
They've found a new type of magnetic material that has eight poles.
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October 03, 2026
Saturday Night Club ONT - October 3, 2026 [Disco & Dino]
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Saturday Evening Movie Thread - 10/03/26
I'll be honest: I've tried to have this discussion before, and every time I did, I found myself constantly trying to intellectualize what I was feeling. I would try to come up with some grand theory about why old movies were better, or why I was somehow more interested in movies from the past than movies being made today. But that isn't really what I think. It's not that I think old movies are inherently better than new movies. There are plenty of films from the last twenty years that I genuinely love and that I think hold up. Moneyball is a great movie. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a great movie. There are great films being made recently. The difference is somewhere else.
When I look out into the future and see what is coming, I don't feel that much. When I look backwards and think about what I'm going to discover, I feel a lot more. That's the strange thing I've been trying to figure out. The prospect of discovering something that already exists is much more exciting to me than anticipating something that doesn't exist yet.
I've done some pretty big experiments with this. I watched all of the Best Picture winners. I watched all of John Ford. I watched all of Alfred Hitchcock. Right now, I'm watching all of Hammer Films-not just Hammer horror, but everything Hammer made. That's roughly 170 movies. And no, all of Hammer Films is not great. Most of it is mediocre. A lot of it is perfectly passable content. It's cheap, it's quick, and most of it isn't very good. There is definitely good stuff in there, and there are movies that I've really enjoyed, but there is also a tremendous amount of stuff that is simply bad. And that doesn't bother me.
Old Movies vs. New Movies
I'll be honest: I've tried to have this discussion before, and every time I did, I found myself constantly trying to intellectualize what I was feeling. I would try to come up with some grand theory about why old movies were better, or why I was somehow more interested in movies from the past than movies being made today. But that isn't really what I think. It's not that I think old movies are inherently better than new movies. There are plenty of films from the last twenty years that I genuinely love and that I think hold up. Moneyball is a great movie. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a great movie. There are great films being made recently. The difference is somewhere else.
When I look out into the future and see what is coming, I don't feel that much. When I look backwards and think about what I'm going to discover, I feel a lot more. That's the strange thing I've been trying to figure out. The prospect of discovering something that already exists is much more exciting to me than anticipating something that doesn't exist yet.
I've done some pretty big experiments with this. I watched all of the Best Picture winners. I watched all of John Ford. I watched all of Alfred Hitchcock. Right now, I'm watching all of Hammer Films-not just Hammer horror, but everything Hammer made. That's roughly 170 movies. And no, all of Hammer Films is not great. Most of it is mediocre. A lot of it is perfectly passable content. It's cheap, it's quick, and most of it isn't very good. There is definitely good stuff in there, and there are movies that I've really enjoyed, but there is also a tremendous amount of stuff that is simply bad. And that doesn't bother me.
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Hobby Thread - October 3, 2026 [TRex] 
Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. For this week, the Wheel of Hobbies (TM) is feeling spooky and decided on a Halloween hobbying theme for this Hobby Thread.
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