Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy Cancels 7,200 Truckers' Licenses for Failing to Meet the Requiremnt of Speaking English

Keep Americans safe.

More than 7,200 commercial truck drivers have been taken off America's highways since the Department of Transportation (DOT), under Secretary Sean Duffy, began enforcing new English language proficiency standards in May -- part of a Trump administration effort to strengthen safety rules gutted under Barack Obama.

"[DOT] requires commercial truck drivers to speak and understand English to operate a big rig -- or they will be taken out of service," Duffy wrote on X. "This is about [President Trump] and his administration making America's roads SAFE again!"

According to the DOT, roughly 7,250 truckers have been placed out of service for failing the reinstated English standards, which the Obama-era DOT had weakened to accommodate foreign drivers -- many of whom, officials say, lacked even a basic ability to read road signs or communicate with law enforcement. Duffy said the new standards are designed to crack down on the black market trucking industry that relies on cheap foreign labor with limited or no English proficiency.

The announcement follows a series of deadly highway crashes involving foreign or illegal alien truck drivers. In one recent case, an illegal alien from India allegedly killed three Americans in California -- a sanctuary state that issued him a Commercial Driver's License (CDL) without enforcing the federal English language requirement. "My prayers are with the families of the victims of this tragedy. It would have never happened if Gavin Newsom had followed our new rules," Duffy said. "California broke the law, and now three people are dead and two are hospitalized. These people deserve justice. There will be consequences."

Duffy is reportedly weighing penalties, including withholding millions in federal funds from California, for failing to follow the Trump administration's CDL standards.

Another similar case occurred in Florida, where an illegal alien -- also from India -- is accused of killing three people after making an illegal U-turn on a highway. Investigators discovered the man had failed a written driving test 10 times but was still granted a CDL in both Washington and California, two sanctuary states. After the crash, DOT officials administered an English proficiency assessment, which the driver failed -- answering only 2 of 12 verbal questions correctly and recognizing just 1 of 4 traffic signs.

No more Third World Assassins driving their Murder Rigs over American citizens.

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Prince Andrew Now Stripped of All Titles and Honors Over His Friends-with-Benefits Relationship With Jeffrey Epstein

He'll now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, which... sounds an awful lot like a royal name.

I see this as mostly a lateral move.

Except the part where he's kicked out of his free 30-room mansion.

Andrew will no longer be known as a prince and is to leave Royal Lodge, Buckingham Palace has confirmed.

In a bombshell statement released tonight, Buckingham Palace said he will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor - with immediate effect.

It comes as the palace said the 'censures are deemed necessary' amid the ongoing scandal over Jeffrey Epstein, whom Andrew lied about cutting ties with.

'His Majesty has today initiated a formal process to remove the Style, Titles and Honours of Prince Andrew,' the statement said.

A commenter yesterday wondered about this, stating that he didn't think they could take away the "prince" title, as it is conferred by birth not granted by grace of the king.

But you know the thing about kings-- they kind of make up their own laws as they please.

'Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. His lease on Royal Lodge has, to date, provided him with legal protection to continue in residence.

'Formal notice has now been served to surrender the lease and he will move to alternative private accommodation.

'These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him.

'Their Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been, and will remain with, the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse.'

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Although the former duke has been stripped of all his remaining titles those of his daughters, Princess Beatrice, 37, and Princess Eugenie, 35, will remain.

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It is understood Prince William and the Royal Family fully support the King's leadership on the recent move.

Andrew's recent departure from the Royal Lodge, where he paid 'peppercorn rent' over 20 years', comes amid an ongoing row over the residence since his dukedom title was stripped earlier this month.

Per Google AI, "peppercorn rent" is...

... a nominal, token, or symbolic rent, often as low as one peppercorn per year, used in a lease to meet the legal requirement for a two-way exchange to make a contract binding.

So essentially he was given a 30-room mansion for free.

Update: Via the NY Post, he did plow his own money into renovating the mansion:

Andrew has not paid rent on Royal Lodge for the past 22 years, according to UK reports, because he paid a large sum -- around $10.7 million -- to renovate the residence.

I don't know what 30-room mansions usually rent for.

However as of today, it is understood Andrew has been served notice to surrender the lease at the 30-bedroom mansion and will move out of the residence as soon as practically possible.

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The move was entirely down to the King and his advisers, without pressure from the government or other family members, such as Prince William, sources told the Daily Mail.

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It comes as His Majesty had made it clear he would not hesitate to take 'further action' if his younger brother continued to cling on to his dukedom and other honours after he lied about cutting ties with paedophile financier Epstein, the Daily Mail previously revealed.

And despite the tsunami of growing evidence mounting against him, the 65-year-old was understood to still be 'digging his heels in' with a 'startling lack of contrition', in a situation the King deemed 'intolerable', sources previously said.

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Earlier today, anti--monarchy campaign group Republic said it has instructed lawyers to investigate the prince and, if appropriate, press ahead with legal proceedings.

The Daily Mail understands the allegations it is focusing on relate to allegations he sexually assaulted Giuffre, that he asked a royal protection officer to look into her background and impropriety when he served as an official UK trade envoy.

But Republic said it is mounting its own bid to take him to court because the legal and political response to the claims has been 'weak and inadequate' to date.

The British site GBNews says that this also serves as a warning to Prince Harry and his awful SJW influencer wife.

The fact that the King was able to bypass Parliament, with the support of the Government, to take action against a fellow royal is incredibly significant.

It could even have set a precedent that future monarchs use to sanction other members of the Royal Family.

The King's eldest son and heir to the throne, Prince William, fully supported the action taken against his uncle.

The Prince of Wales is known to have a strained relationship with his brother, Prince Harry, with the pair avoiding each other at several events over the last two and a half years.

The current bitter and broken relationship between the King's two sons stems from the Duke of Sussex's decision to launch multiple public attacks on the Royal Family from 2021 to 2023.

Prince Harry did several TV interviews, firing digs at the monarchy alongside his wife, Meghan Markle, with the most notable taking place in March 2021 with Oprah Winfrey.

The Sussexes' interview with Ms Winfrey sent shockwaves across the world and led to Prince William telling journalists: "We're very much not a racist family."

The Prince of Wales's frustration with his younger brother grew stronger over the following two years as Prince Harry discussed royal matters in a Netflix documentary in 2022 before issuing a tell-all autobiography in January 2023.

Prince Harry did several TV interviews, firing digs at the monarchy alongside his wife, Meghan Markle, with the most notable taking place in March 2021 with Oprah Winfrey. |

The memoir, which contained several attacks on key members of the Royal Family, including William's wife, Princess Kate, was the most damaging blow in the feud between the brothers.

Since then, Prince William has kept his distance from Prince Harry and has not been involved in talks with the Duke of Sussex when he has visited the UK.

Update:

Daily Mail has had several articles on this quoting a handful of palace insiders saying the de-Princing of Andrew by Charles was at the request of the future King, William so that he wouldn't have to do it, which he would have.

Chuck obliged.

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I know this is a controversial #HotTake here in America, but I think that kings and princes are silly.

Except... if...

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FBI Foils Halloween Terrorist Attack in Michigan; Bloated Blood Sausage JB Pritzker Demands Trump Suspend Deportation Operations So That Illegals Can Enjoy the Noted Religious Holiday Halloween "In Peace"

UPDATE: The planned terrorist attack originating in Dearbornistan was "ISIS-inspired."

CNN -- The FBI averted a potential terrorist attack planned for Halloween weekend, the agency said.

The plot was inspired by ISIS, two law enforcement officials with knowledge of the case told CNN.

The two law enforcement officials who spoke to CNN said the plot unfolded in online chatrooms.

An FBI undercover person was introduced into the chatroom in the early stages of discussion, one of those officials said. Two participants have been arrested, and three others are being questioned, that official said.

Agents became concerned that the plot might be imminent around the Halloween weekend when a reference to "pumpkin day" came up in discussions with the group that law enforcement was surveilling, and a decision was made to go in, one official said.

H/t Captain Fantastic.

Back to original post:

So, I like Halloween well enough, but it's just absolutely preposterous that Governor Supersize JB Pritzker is demanding an end to deportations so that illegal alien criminals can enjoy the sacred Joke Holiday of Halloween.

In NYC, they call Halloween "Gay Christmas" because of the largely-gay Halloween parade. I guess that the Democrat-Antifa-Media Party has officially sacralized this pagan/gay holiday as among the holiest of the year.

For those of you too young to remember religious holidays: Think of the Islamic holiday of Eid. I know you know that one because the Islamic-dominated government never shuts up about it. Democrats always claim we cannot attack our terrorist enemies on Eid. Just like now they claim we can't deport illegals on Halloween, which, to the extent it's a holiday at all, is only a holiday to the English and Irish and that's pretty much it.

MXM news:

llinois Gov. JB Pritzker has once again revealed his misplaced priorities--this time pleading with the Trump administration to suspend immigration enforcement so that illegal aliens can "enjoy the holiday in peace." In a letter dated October 29 and addressed to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons, and CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott, Pritzker demanded that all ICE operations be halted from October 31 through November 2. The Democrat governor argued that immigration enforcement during Halloween could "traumatize children" and "force families to live in fear," citing unverified reports that federal agents deployed tear gas at a children's parade in northwest Chicago.

According to Politico, Pritzker's letter accused federal agents of "targeting Black and Brown people" and violating constitutional protections. He wrote that "families deserve to spend Halloween weekend without fear," and insisted "no child should be forced to inhale tear gas or other chemical agents while trick or treating." But ICE officials have not confirmed the alleged incident. Federal authorities said their agents had been "boxed in by agitators" and only used tear gas after warnings were ignored. No credible evidence has yet surfaced to support Pritzker's claims.

Incredibly, the Healthy At Any Size Influencer Pritzker called ICE operations an "imminent threat," like they're terror attacks being conducted by law enforcement.

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THE MORNING RANT: Periodic Roundup of the EV Follies – 10/31/2025

September 30, 2025 was a monumental day for American taxpayers and for freedom-loving Americans, as the $7,500 federal credit toward the purchase of new electric vehicles was terminated. (Along with it, the $4,000 tax credit toward the purchase of used EVs also went away.) This had served as a $7,500 taxpayer transfer of wealth to EV buyers, who tend to already be an affluent demographic.

For anyone still interested in buying an EV, September 30 effectively served as the cutoff date. For manufacturers drowning in a glut of unsold EVs, that date also served as their drop-dead date to make whatever deals possible, because their loss per unit sold was about to get $7,500 higher in October.

While I await the Q4 2025 (October through December) sales results, which should be catastrophic, auto manufacturers are already re-trenching.

This first headline is a story that I’ve been eagerly waiting to report on for several years:

“Ford to End Production of Failed F-150 Lightning” [Yahoo Finance – 10/24/2025]

Ford’s management shows wisdom in shutting down Lightning production. The electric pickup never sold well, suggesting its launch was a terrible mistake. Additionally, the U.S. EV market is dying and will not bounce back soon. The $7,500 EV tax credit expired at the end of the third quarter.

[h/t to Ace of Spades reader “Tad P.” who not only emailed me this headline, but his subject line also properly referred to the F150 Lightning by my preferred moniker, the “F150 Conflagration.” Good job, Tad!]

The F150 Conflagration Lightning was supposed to be Ford’s flagship vehicle as it transitioned its customers from gas pickups to electric pickups. In fact, Ford built an entire new plant (Blue Oval City) near Memphis just to build electric pickups. The plant was originally scheduled to commence production in 2025, but Ford is now saying production has been pushed back to 2028, even though the facility has been built. Ford knows, and I know, that EV production will not happen by then. Donald Trump will still be President, and there will not be a return of federal subsidies for EVs during his administration. Ford owes its Directors and shareholders an update on what it’s going to do with its never-used, mothballed EV plant.

Fortunately, Ford’s customers never abandoned Ford, even when its executives were trying to abandon those loyal customers. The traditional gas-powered, internal combustion (“ICE” F150 is still selling like crazy. In fact, Ford is re-allocating pretty much all of its workers who had been assembling electric F150s to a nearby plant that produces ICE F150s.

“Ford F-150 Lightning Production Halted Indefinitely After Supplier Fire” [EV.com – 10/24/2025]

Ford plans to boost F-150 output by 45,000 units in 2026 through workforce redistribution and plant upgrades. Roughly 1,200 [Rouge Electric Vehicle Center] employees will transition to the Dearborn Truck Plant, supported by 90 new hires at Dearborn Stamping and 80 at Dearborn Diversified Manufacturing. The Kentucky Truck Plant will also add 100 employees to raise annual production by about 5,000 units.

Regarding the supplier fire in that headline, Novelis supplies aluminum to several manufacturers, and its Oswego plant had a fire that put it out of commission for a while. This is a handy excuse as to why Ford is suspending production of its electric pickup truck. But Ford is not suspending production of the ICE F150, which also uses plenty of aluminum. And coincidentally, the entire Lightning workforce is being repurposed to assemble 50,000 additional gas and diesel F150s per year. The suspension of EV production is not a supplier issue, it’s a lack-of-customers issue.

I’ve noticed over the years that pretty much every time a manufacturer suspends production of an EV, the official reason is that there is a supplier issue or a supply-line problem, when the reality is that there is a glut of unsold inventory.

Ford has lost $3.6 billion on its EV program through the first three quarters of 2025, with the full-year loss expected to exceed $5 billion. This comes on top of losses of $9.8 billon over the previous two years for Ford’s EV unit.

The best time for Ford to pull the plug on its disastrous EV program was several years ago. The next best time is now.

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The next end-of-an-era headline I’m waiting for is Rivian to announce its bankruptcy. We’re not there yet, but we’re getting closer….

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Pumpkinhead - Self-Portrait
Jamie Wyeth

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The Morning Report — 10/31/25

Good morning kids, and Happy Halloween. So, madness like this is bad enough.

If you’re not familiar with Democrat influencer Jennifer Welch, co-host of the popular I’ve Had It podcast, you will be, because as conservative activist and author Allie Beth Stuckey put it on X, Welch “holds the fate of the West in her hands.” On the Monday edition of the show she hosts with former attorney Angie “Pumps” Sullivan, Welch unloaded with a typically profane commentary in which she not only reveled in the politically motivated assassination of late Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, but demanded that her fellow Democrats “get onboard” with this murderous agenda or else they’ll be targeted too.

I would assume that this beast, and that's putting it mildly when you see her headshot let alone hear the venom dripping from her reptilian maw and fangs, has been deplatformed everywhere. Of course that would be a completely foolish assumption given the nature of the media landscape.

Jennifer Welch Is Proof the New X Platform Algorithm Is Messing with Conservatives — It’s been more than a month, and more than a few conservatives have been complaining about a major algorithm shift on the X platform. Instead of seeing posts from people they follow or may like, the “For You” feed is serving up to conservatives all of the most hard-core leftists who didn’t take their ball and go home when Elon Musk bought Twitter. 

Well, it certainly seems as if some in her audience have heard what she said and took it as marching orders

A federal grand jury in Chicago indicted six people, including a Democrat congressional candidate and other local politicians, on charges of interfering with a federal agent during a chaotic protest outside an immigration detention site last month.

For those who think what she did was no big deal, to date we have had ICE and other law enforcement officers assaulted and even firebombed and shot at. And it's not just some random podcaster inciting violence, it is major and minor Leftist political figures and Democrat party leadership itself that is shrieking loudest and shrillest in calling for the heads of their political enemies up to and most of all that of President Donald Trump.

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, whose Day One memo had ordered prosecutors to give armed robbers a pass, has announced that he’s looking into prosecuting ICE agents.While Bragg had let a man accusing of raping a teenage girl go with 30 days and probation so that he went on a “sex-crime spree” attacking four different women until one of his victims hit him on the head with a hammer, he aggressively pursued President Trump and subway hero Daniel Penny who had prevented a crazed homeless man from attacking fellow passengers. . .

. . . The move by the California state government to create the legal infrastructure for trying to arrest federal law enforcement personnel marks a major escalation that could easily tip into violence. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has recognized the dangerous futility of local prosecutions now, threatening ICE personnel, “that maybe they’re not gonna get prosecuted today, although we’re looking at doing that, but they may get prosecuted after the Trump administration.”

. . . California, Chicago or Manhattan are no more entitled to protect their insurrectionist ‘sanctuaries’ for illegal alien criminals from federal law enforcement than Confederate forces were to shell Fort Sumter. Complaints about how ICE agents go about their work are a fig leaf that may pass muster with the type of federal district court judges that the ACLU has on speed dial, but won’t work at either a higher legal level let alone in an armed military confrontation. Sanctuary state Democrats are playing a foolish game that can only end in a civil war.

With all due respect to the estimable Daniel Greenfield, it can only end in a civil war if President Trump, whatever allies he has in government and the vast majority of the citizenry stand shoulder to shoulder with him when and IF he decides to wield a terrible swift sword of justice against Pritzker, Newsom, and the Democrat Party as a whole by removing them from office by force of arms, abolishing their party and putting this insurrection down, once and for all.

Likelihood of that happening is slim to none. So some time down the road, when Democrats assume control of the Executive and Legislative branches (likely by more election thievery) they will not let go and what was unleashed on candidate Trump and then President Trump starting 10 years ago and then on all of us who put him in office will be repeated by orders of magnitude. Evil never rests and on top of attempting to ensure they have absolute power forever, they will seek revenge and retribution against all of us.

Trump or no Trump, and whether the MAGA movement is a force to be reckoned with or if the miracle of Donald Trump's ascendancy is merely a temporary setback for the forces of darkness and evil that have been on the march for 200 years to destroy the American experiment is TBD.

IF you thought what we've experienced was nightmarish enough, the next 5 to 10 years and beyond may well be worse. God help us.

On that note, and also as a bit of tease, stay tuned for the podcast where our friend the estimable Robert Spencer will join us to discuss the rise of Zorhan Mamdani and the nightmare it portends not only for NYC but for America and the wider world. Should be posting later this afternoon in the sidebar and at CJN as well as the usual platforms below.

Have a great weekend, and a fun and safe Halloween for all the kids, of all ages, out there.

And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.

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• “Our state and local authorities may arrest federal agents if they break California law.”
  Daniel Greenfield: Will the Civil War Start in California, Chicago or New York?

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Daily Tech News 31 October 2025

Top Story

• Sorry, doomsayers. The trade war and crippling rare earth element shortages have been pushed back to 2026. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  And the US had already forged agreements to obtain rare earth elements from other sources.
  
  Always doom tomorrow, never doom today.

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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - October 30, 2025 [Doof]

What kind of mischief are you up to tonight?

Howdy Hordelings! The "mischief night" ONT is here. Or "moving night" as we called it in Charm City when I was growing up. Did you partake of Halloween-eve pranks in your neck of the woods back in the day? Do kids even do that stuff anymore? Our big things were soaping car windows, throwing eggs at houses, and the TP stuff like in the photo above. What about you?

Anyway - content below if you're into that sort of thing. Open thread otherwise.

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Haunted Cafe

Lambely Viaduct, Northumberland by Jim Scott Photo

Neat Halloween prop.

I've always preferred the original Spider-Man, Nicholas Hammond. (Who apparently was one of the kids in The Sound of Music.)

Self-solving Rubik's Cube.

The forgotten candies of the 1970s. Some Halloween connections.

Man walks his pet donkey around town as if he were a dog.

Flashback: An American mall in 1978. If you're young, and don't know what a "mall" is, ask your parents. Or grandparents. They were places where you could buy shoes, soft pretzels, and Fart Machines from Spencer's Gifts.

I'm 99% sure I linked this before, but if I didn't, or you missed it, here's colorized film from 1930s Depression-ravaged Ohio.

Leggy Aussie adopts baby kangaroo.

Trebuchet target practice.

Total crap flashback: Tough guy actor Robert Conrad tries to bully Gabe Kaplan at The Battle of the Network Stars.

Shelter dog fast-talks his way into adoption.

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Quick Hits

Trump and Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi

Trump says he's succeeded in China, too, striking a deal on trade and fentanyl.

President Trump declared "we have a deal" Thursday after meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea, describing their nearly two-hour summit as "a 12 out of 10." Speaking aboard Air Force One, Trump told reporters the two leaders reached a sweeping agreement to stabilize trade relations and address the deadly fentanyl crisis. "We have a deal. Now, every year we will renegotiate the deal," Trump said. "But I think the deal will go on for a long time."

According to Trump, Xi agreed to suspend for one year China's export restrictions on products made with rare-earth and critical minerals -- materials essential to the production of semiconductors, batteries, and high-tech magnets. "There's no roadblock at all on rare earth," he said. "It's a one-year deal that I think will be very routinely extended." In exchange, Trump said the U.S. would lower the average tariff rate on Chinese imports from 57.6% to 47.6%. Trump emphasized that Xi also committed to intensifying China's crackdown on fentanyl exports, which have been a major driver of overdose deaths in the United States. "We agreed he's going to work very hard to stop the flow," Trump said. "I think you're going to see a big difference."

Beijing also pledged to resume "tremendous" purchases of American soybeans, reversing its earlier retaliatory halt. In a Truth Social post later Thursday, Trump said China had additionally agreed to begin purchasing U.S. oil and gas, noting that "a very large-scale transaction may take place concerning the purchase of oil and gas from the Great State of Alaska." The president confirmed that Taiwan was not discussed during the meeting but said both sides talked about working together to bring an end to the war in Ukraine. "We didn't really discuss the Russian oil," he added. "We discussed working together to see if we can get that war finished."

I don't know quite how to tell you guys this, but Rosie O'Donnell's daughter is a criminal fuck-up.

A Wisconsin judge reportedly sentenced Rosie O'Donnell's daughter to jail time Oct. 22 after she failed to meet the terms of her probation.

Court records showed that Chelsea O'Donnell was accused of being in violation of probation, according to Us Weekly. A drug treatment program official said it was the result of sexual assault allegations but no further information was disclosed in the documents. The official said Chelsea had not demonstrated significant improvement in the treatment drug program.

She's sexually assaulting people? While in drug rehab?

What kind of a woman has to resort to sexual assault to gratify herself?

Oh right: someone who shares DNA with Rosie O'Donnell.

Sentencing details pertaining to the length of time she will remain behind bars were not publicly disclosed.

"The facts surrounding this request have been staffed with the Marinette County Treatment Drug Court Team and have been deemed sufficient grounds to warrant termination from the Marinette County Treatment Drug Court Program," the filing read, according to US Weekly.

The Marinette County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) officer told the outlet Chelsea has been in custody since Sept. 9 and has received a prison sentence.

And I hate to pile on with another shock, but it turns out O'Donnell's other "child" is, get this, "nonbinary."

She said: "I have a little one who is nonbinary -- 12 years old -- and it was the most interesting thing. They said to me, 'Mommy, I'm nonbinary. I'm not a boy and I'm not a girl.' I said, 'Okay, fantastic'. "They go, 'My pronouns are they/them, and I'd like them respected.' I will do my very best, right? Who are they, Harvey Milk reincarnated?."

The obesely unfunny Rosie O'Donnell is asking people for "prayers" for her drugged-up sexual-assailant daughter.

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Ahoy! Porcine pundit Bill Kristol is now endorsing an avowed communist as part of his "Principled Conservatism" grift.

From weft-cut loop: The journey from Marxist to post-Marxist to neocon and back to Marxist again.

Update: Goldberg is distancing himself from Kristol because Kristol is too brazen, too open that he's simply a left-wing shill being funded by hard-left billionaires like Pierre Omidayr.

Jonah Goldberg
@JonahDispatch

I like Bill and consider him a friend. But I just have no idea why -- even given all his other changed positions etc. -- he would say he'd vote for Mamdani. I can't think of a single angle where it makes sense as a strategic or tactical or messaging thing and I don’t see a reason on the merits given the things I’m pretty sure he still believes. It's just strange. Particularly given that he doesn’t have to have an opinion since he doesn't live there.

psst, jonah: It's because you're all being funded by hard-left agitators like Pierre Omidyar to run ops against the only available opposition to the islamist-communist left

Bill Kristol is like MSNBC where Jonah is like CNN from ten years ago. Jonah is pretending he's not a shill for the left whereas Kristol knows he's only got a couple of years left so YOLO!

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"Food assistance programs" are largely fast-food and junk food assistance programs for major corporations.

Corporate America is the forgotten beneficiary of food assistance programs.

A quick search for "EBT eligible food" on Amazon returns a pantry of non-essential items.

Red Bull energy drinks.
Raw, premium, unpasteurized Manuka honey.
Organic ground coffee containing some amount of lion's mane mushroom.
Oreo Sticks 'N Creme, a product which contains no actual cream.
2.2 lbs of nutella hazelnut spread.
Enormous bags of halloween candy.

Walmart captures nearly a quarter of the money spent through Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on consumer packaged goods and general merchandise, according to a June report from Numerator. Other companies which capture a high percentage of SNAP dollars: Kroger (8%), Costco (6%), Amazon (5%).

That's money from your paycheck, into the hands of the supposedly needy, into the hands of Walmart.

A sizable percentage of Walmart's own employees are on food stamps, according to a 2020 study from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) conducted at the behest of independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

"Walmart was one of the top four employers of SNAP and Medicaid beneficiaries in every state. McDonald's was in the top five of employers with employees receiving federal benefits in at least nine states," The Washington Post summarized.

Sanders accused companies like Walmart and McDonald's of depending on "corporate welfare from the federal government by paying their workers starvation wages," according to the Post.

Sanders would likely balk at weakening our "corporate welfare" system by simply decreasing the number of welfare beneficiaries. About 42 million Americans receive SNAP benefits. Those benefits are set to freeze come November, due to the government shutdown.

Um, most of those receiving the benefits in America are not actually Americans.

Per Newsmax, 60% of people receiving US SNAP benefits are... foreigners, many of them illegal aliens:

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Having Succeeded in Destroying a Fourth Beloved IP, Disney Ends Its Financial Backing of Doctor Who (Is Gay)

Doctor Who veered left under Steven Moffat and Peter Capaldi, then went full identity politics with the "first female Doctor" under Chris Chibnal. Turns out, Jodie Whitaker wasn't even the first female Doctor -- they retconned many earlier doctors, including, of course, a never-before-seen First Black Female Doctor.

As a black woman of female, I had never felt more validated.

Having turned Doctor Who into yet another Princess brand, of course Disney couldn't miss out on getting in on the action and ushering the immortal Doctor into the grave.

And it just so happens that for the two seasons Disney funded the show, the Doctor was now black and gay. And not just gay. Super-Gay.

The Doctor's sex life was never part of the show before. Yes, he'd had sex -- he had had children, and grandchildren -- but he was a grandfatherly figure of wisdom who had little interest in sex and considered it a boring distraction from the real marvels of the universe.

This changed in the rebooted series, where the Doctor sometimes flirted with female companions. But this never went beyond a chaste fondness.

Then the first gay Doctor came in, and he was gay all the way. The previous heterosexual Doctors had never been straight-all-the-way. He didn't gawk at women. At most, he'd make an offhand quip about having once been in a relationship with Queen Elizabeth I or something.

But when he went gay, he was full-on in-your-face gay. He even wore a skirt and went disco-dancing.

Point is, Disney swooped in to "save" Doctor Who when its ratings were already among the lowest they had ever been due to its egregious and incessant woke messaging. They "rescued" the show, which the BBC was no longer willing to fund.

And then the show turned even woker. And its ratings went from among the worst in the show's sixty year history to the very worst in the show's sixty-year history.

And now, having accomplished its mission of destroying yet another formerly male-skewing property, Disney says they're done and satisfied with a job well done.

It has been rumored for months and now it has become reality.

Disney+ will be exiting the TARDIS and will no longer be involved with Doctor Who after partnering on two seasons with the BBC plus an upcoming spin-off titled The War Between The Land and the Sea.

The BBC just confirmed that the show will continue and will return with a Christmas special in 2026 penned by showrunner Russell T. Davies. Details of future seasons will be announced in due course along with more information on an animation for pre-school children.

Nope! The plan was always to do a sixtieth anniversary "holiday special" (the show stopped doing Christmas shows a while ago; wouldn't want to give any kind of exposure to the Christian ideology.)

That doesn't mean the show is "continuing." It means only that they're doing the one additional episode they already contracted to doing.

There is no current Doctor to continue the show. The actor playing the ultra-gay black Doctor angered the BBC when he refused to honor a commitment to be some kind of presenter for the BBC's broadcast of the Eurovision song contest. Ncuti Gatwa boycotted the event due to his extreme hatred of Israel (which was featured in the show, and, as usual, getting no votes due to Euorpe's high levels of antisemitism, both domestic and imported).

So he's out.

But that's okay, because anniversary specials usually feature the return of actors who have played the Doctor in the past. So the show will just be whoever is willing to come out of the retirement home to pick up an easy check.

And that will be that.

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"The BBC remains fully committed to Doctor Who, which continues to be one of our most loved dramas, and we are delighted that Russell T Davies has agreed to write us another spectacular Christmas special for 2026," she added. "We can assure fans, the Doctor is not going anywhere, and we will be announcing plans for the next series in due course which will ensure the TARDIS remains at the heart of the BBC."

If that were true, you could just commit to additional seasons of the show now, instead of declaring that at some point in the future you will fund new seasons.

The Groomer BBC and Groomer Disney Corporation teamed up to kill the Doctor, once and for all, and I'm glad he's dead. Or she's dead. Or they's dead.

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Schmock Schmoll: Ciattarelli Now Virtually Tied With Cheater and Grifter Mikie Sherrill for NJ Governor

Sherrill 49%, Ciattarelli 48%, 2% undecided.

And this is via a public poll, and those tend to skew Democrat by three or more points.

Democratic nominee Rep. Mikie Sherrill and Republican nominee Jack Ciattarelli are polling evenly in the New Jersey gubernatorial race ahead of Election Day on Tuesday.

According to an Emerson College Polling/PIX11/The Hill survey released on Thursday, 49% of likely voters support Sherrill, compared to Ciattarelli's 48%, with 2% undecided. With the margin of error at +/- 3 percentage points, the two candidates are essentially tied in the race.

When undecided voters were asked which candidate they are leaning toward, Sherrill received 50% support, while Ciattarelli remained at 48%, which is still within the margin of error.

The gubernatorial race was tied last month, as an Emerson College Polling/PIX11/The Hill survey in September showed both nominees tied at 43%, with 11% undecided.

In the last New Jersey governor's race, Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy beat Ciattarelli by 3 percentage points, and former Vice President Harris won the state last year by about 6 points.

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Emerson College Polling Executive Director Spencer Kimball noted the significant gender gap in the polling.

"Heading into Election Day, the gender divide in the gubernatorial election has solidified: men break for Ciattarelli by 16 points, while women break for Sherrill by 18 points," Kimball said. "Since last month, Ciattarelli's lead among men increased by four points, and Sherill's lead among women grew by eight points."

In 2021, the polls understated Ciattarelli's support against the incumbent Democrat by 5.2%.

In more schmolling news: The public really doesn't care about "climate change."

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Key Biden Advisor Ian Sams Previously Claimed that Biden Was Sharp as a Tack.
Only Now Does He Admit: I Only Met With Biden Twice In the Two Years I Worked For Him.

Via Twitchy, he previously swore to the American people that Biden was, as they say, sharp as a tack.

He did not provide any caveats for this assessment. He did not mention, for example, that he really wouldn't know if Biden was in steep mental decline or not, because he only met the dementia patient twice.

Now that Trump is in office and prosecutions for lying to Congress are on the table, he gets around to finally mentioning that he only even saw Biden twice.

Some Democrats are still sticking to the "sharp as a tack" claims while making up stories about how Biden was just as available to the press as Trump.

Former Biden special assistant Ian Sams, the same one who went on to become a spokesman for Kamala Harris and lie about how her campaign was performing, has been called out for two very different answers about his interactions with Joe while he was in the White House.

GOP Oversight served up these shots and chasers featuring Sams during a Biden coverup hearing vs. what he was telling the media at the time.

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Antifa Terrorists Are Being Arrested and Convicted

Finally.

Andy Ngo reports that an Antifa terrorist, "Anarchy Marie, has been arrested on suspicion of aiding and abetting the sniper who shot an agent at an ICE facility in North Texas.

Janette Goering, 35, of Carrollton, Texas, was taken into custody on Oct. 21 and charged with aiding in the commission of terrorism, a state felony. Prosecutors allege Goering was part of the far-left cell that orchestrated a July 4 terrorist attack on the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado.

Investigators say the group used fireworks to lure staff and law enforcement outside before cell ringleader Benjamin Hanil Song opened fire. An Alvarado police officer was shot in the neck but survived. Dozens of additional rounds were fired at officers and staff.

This journalist previously identified the group as a North Texas Antifa cell whose members are affiliated with the John Brown Gun Club, an Antifa-aligned anarchist anti-government militia network.

"I know that individuals who affiliate with 'ANTIFA' ideology have or are willing to engage in acts of violence to affect a political change or influence governmental operation," wrote Detective William Reilly of the Johnson County Sheriff's Office in the criminal complaint.

Goering, described by prosecutors as a radical anarchist, is not accused of being present at the shooting. She allegedly provided Song with a Faraday bag to prevent his phone from being tracked electronically. After the attack, Song allegedly hid in a wooded area for a day before meeting Goering and other Antifa associates in Cleburne, Texas, to evade capture.

Recovered Signal chat messages show Goering used the aliases "biscuit" and "Marie" and expressed fear about her involvement:

"On a personal level, I'm terrified at what me doing the faraday stuff might do to me re: police questioning," Goering allegedly wrote.

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Goering's arrest comes one week after two other Antifa militants -- Cameron Arnold, a Trantifa suspect also known as "Autumn Hill," and Zachary Evetts -- were federally indicted on charges of providing material support for terrorism and attempted murder. It was the first time in U.S. history that accused Antifa militants were charged with federal terrorism crimes.

Federal prosecutors are expected to present additional suspects to grand juries in the coming weeks.

State Indictment

Fourteen suspects have already been indicted by a Johnson County grand jury on state terrorism and organized crime charges on Oct. 23. Eleven face the most serious counts...

Texas continues arresting and convicting woke criminals who threaten to kill federal agents and judges.

As deportation roundups and sometimes violent protests continue throughout U.S. cities, those threatening federal agents and judges continue to be arrested and convicted in Texas.

Lubbock resident Tristan Langston faces up to 15 years in prison during his sentencing hearing next week after a jury convicted him of threatening to kill U.S. Secret Service agents and their family members. He was charged in March with Transmitting Threats in Interstate Commerce and Threatening a Federal Law Enforcement Officer. By August, a four-day trial was held and the jury convicted him on both counts, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas said.

He was convicted after the jury heard evidence that Langston had been making online threats since 2023, leading to an investigation by Secret Service agents.

"Evidence in the case revealed that Langston's statements went well beyond mere political rhetoric or bluster and constituted true threats directed at specific federal agents," the U.S. Attorney's Office said. For months, Langston "targeted one of the agents and his family in online posts and memorialized the anger and resentment he harbored against the agents in videos and notes he maintained on his cellphone over a period of years."

In February, he criticized two agents on X, also stating, "2nd Amendment in full effect. Gonna slit the throats of agents and their families."

"Targeting federal agents and their families with threats of violence is not protected speech -- it is a federal crime," Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Nancy Larson said. "This verdict reaffirms our office's commitment to take all threats seriously and to hold accountable those who try to intimidate and terrorize our law enforcement partners."

In another case, a California woman, Dolly Patterson, was sentenced to the statutory maximum sentence after pleading guilty to transmitting an interstate threat to a U.S. District judge in the Northern District of Texas.

An investigation was conducted by the U.S. Marshals Service after she sent a threatening message through an online form to a federal judge in Amarillo in April 2023, stating, "Tell that anti-abortion judge he better watch his back . . . for the rest of his life!"

She was arrested, charged and acknowledged she sent the message "with the intent that it be perceived as a genuine threat and with knowledge that it would be viewed as such," according to court records. She also acknowledged that the interstate communication "constituted a true threat to injure another person under federal law."

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In another case, a Mexican national, Eduardo Aguilar, 23, who was illegally living in Dallas, was arrested for allegedly soliciting others to kill U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. At the time of his arrest, he had a loaded 9mm handgun in his vehicle. It is a felony for illegal foreign national to possess firearms in the U.S.

Aguilar was charged with Transmitting in Interstate or Foreign Commerce a Communication Containing a Threat because of an Oct. 9 TikTok solicitation he allegedly posted in Spanish.

The English translation reads, "I need 10 dudes in Dallas with determination (guts) who aren't afraid to [two skull emojis]. 10K for each ICE agent." The emojis represent death or "to die."

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Aguilar illegally entered the U.S. in 2018 as an unaccompanied minor, according to ICE records. On Feb. 8, 2019, a federal immigration judge issued a final order of removal, but he was never removed from the U.S. It would take another six years for him to be arrested.

Anti-ICE/antifa terrorists are being arrested in connection with the assault on officers busting a pot farm for employing both illegals and children.

This was a bad week for the bad guys who wanted to kill or maim Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in two raids last summer. There are now more of them in custody and looking for lawyers.

Over the past few days, federal officers have rolled up key bad guys who were involved in ambushing ICE and other federal officers during two notorious raids--one in California and one in Texas--and in the violent attack on state patrol officers during the latest L.A. ICE riots. One involved an Antifa perpetrator, and the other involved angry activists who were called to riot at the site of a notorious pot farm raid by using phone apps to vector them to the scene.

Early Wednesday morning, Department of Homeland Security officers arrested a man in connection with the notorious pot farm raid in Ventura County, California, in July. The scene of the raid, the Glass House marijuana farm facilities, is where ICE and other federal officers discovered underage workers and detained more than 300 people.

Before the July 10 raid got underway, dozens of people, who were part of a social media collective, identified the raid was happening and descended on the facility. Some of them had weapons.

The U.S. Attorneys Office in Central California revealed that some of these people were part of an organized group formed to attack and block the officers who were arresting criminal aliens.

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One man brought a handgun and shot at officers. Another man, arrested on Wednesday, could be seen throwing large rocks at federal cars on another road where protesters had formed another barricade ambush site.

The feds say Isai Carrillo, arrested Wednesday morning in Oxnard, was throwing rocks at federal agents' cars with Virginia Reyes. Though Reyes is still hiding from officers and considered a fugitive, she and Carrillo are both charged with conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer, a charge that could net them five years in federal prison.

Officers also arrested several people in L.A. and Las Vegas for dropping rocks, bikes, scooters, and flammable liquids on California Highway Patrol officers who were trying to stop other protesters from taking over the freeway.

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Revealed: Jack Smith and Christopher Wray Subpoenaed the Donor Lists and Emails of Every Single Conservative Organization on "Biden's Enemies List"

Trump is such a dictator he works backwards through time.

The subpoenas included nonpublic, confidential grand jury material that Grassley said he obtained through whistleblower disclosures.

They sought certain communications with media companies, including Fox News, CBS, Sinclair and Newsmax and with "any" members and aides in Congress. They also sought sweeping financial information from conservative entities.

Grassley has been releasing troves of documents related to Arctic Frost, a probe he says was politicized and lacked basis. Smith used the probe to bring criminal charges against Trump related to the 2020 election.

Lenny Breuer, a lawyer for Smith, said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital that Smith stands by his offer to appear publicly before the Senate and House to testify about his special counsel work.

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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, also raised at the press conference the controversial subpoenas for eight Republican senators' phone records, which did not include the contents of phone calls but rather details about when calls were place and to whom. Cruz said he was also among the targeted senators, but he said his phone company, AT&T, resisted complying with the request and that AT&T was ordered by a federal judge not to inform Cruz about the request for a year. Grassley said Verizon told him that Cruz's office's Verizon landline was also "affected" but did not elaborate.

"We are going to get the answers of every person who signed off on this abuse of power, and mark my words, there will be accountability," Cruz said, signaling that the senators' inquiry into Arctic Frost was far from over.

More from the NY Post: Guess which judge approved this unprecedented Kremlin-esque spying on the dissidents?

That's right -- Judge Boasberg.

And there are fresh calls for his impeachment.

"I've obtained through legally protected whistleblower disclosures," Grassley said. "197 subpoenas were issued by Jack Smith and his team. These subpoenas were issued to 34 individuals and 163 businesses, including financial institutions.

"The subpoena requested records and communications related to over 430 individual and organizations -- all of them appear to be aimed at Republicans," the Iowa Republican added, noting requests sent to the late conservative icon Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA and the Republican Attorneys General Association.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), one of the nine Republicans whose phone metadata was sought, said "Arctic Frost is Joe Biden's Watergate."

"Merrick Garland was a fundamentally corrupt attorney general. Jack Smith was a fundamentally corrupt prosecutor. This was a political enemies list from the beginning," he told reporters, brandishing the court order that demanded AT&T hand over his cell records to the feds.

The order was signed by US District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg and barred the cell carrier from letting Cruz know about the request "for at least one year," he said.

The Texas Republican and others called for Boasberg's impeachment in the House, with Cruz claiming the judge was "abusing his power" by asserting in the order there were "reasonable grounds to believe that such disclosure will result in destruction of or tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses and serious jeopardy to the investigation."

"We don't know that for a fact, but I feel confident that he concluded it's likely that Lindsey Graham would destroy evidence and Marsha Blackburn would destroy evidence, and Eric Schmitt would destroy evidence, and Chuck Grassley would destroy evidence," Cruz went on.

"If a judge signs an order reaching a factual conclusion for which there is zero evidence whatsoever, that judge is abusing his power. I am right now calling on the House of Representatives to impeach Judge Boasberg."

Boasberg issued a scathing order against the Trump administration earlier this year to halt deportation flights of alleged MS-13, Tren de Aragua and other gang members from the US to a Salvadoran mega-prison.

Jim Jordan says that Arctic Frost was just like Crossfire Hurricane -- there was never any legal justification to open an investigation, let alone spy on hundreds of conservative actors and organizations. It was simple authoritarian crushing of the opposition.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, who got the document from current FBI Director Kash Patel, told Just the News on Wednesday night that he believes the memo justifying the start of Arctic Frost was legally deficient and suffered from the same politicization and abuses as the 2016 Russia collusion probe code-named "Crossfire Hurricane" that also targeted Trump before it was widely discredited.

"Sure looks that way. ... and it looks like this was just the same old weaponization, same old political focus, focus on politics, going after your political enemies," Jordan said during a wide-ranging interview on the Just the News, No Noise television show. "Same mindset that said we're going to put the dossier in the intelligence community assessment, even though we know the dossier is garbage, we know there's no underlying intelligence support.

"That same mindset that was there in 2016 is the mindset we see now in 2022 with Arctic Frost, and then as it transformed into Jack Smith, special counsel later in 2022 -- same exact mindset. So yeah, that's what it sure looks like," he added.

This treasonous plot was hatched at the highest levels of Merrick Garland's DOJ, Christopher Wray's FBI, and Joe Biden's White House. (Though of course we cannot exclude the possibility that President Autopen was napping on the beach throughout all this.)

Recently-declassified revelations related to the FBI's "Arctic Frost" investigation chronicle the 2022 lawfare assault against then-former President Donald Trump and MAGA world, as criminal inquiries -- which would soon lead to criminal charges -- spun into high gear as Trump leaned toward running for president again.

New evidence shows that then-Attorney General Merrick Garland, then-Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, and then-FBI Director Christopher Wray signed off on the launch of the Arctic Frost inquiry into Trump related to the Capitol riot. Unearthed emails also show that the Biden White House Counsel's Office coordinated with an anti-Trump FBI agent to hand over phones which had belonged to Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, released a document this week from early April 2022 showing that Garland, Monaco, and Wray all signed off on the launch of the sweeping inquiry into Trump. The memo -- initialized by Garland, Monaco, and Wray -- was for the "Approval to Open a Certain Sensitive Investigative Matter [SIM] Investigation."

"WFO [Washington Field Office] seeks to open this SIM full investigation based on evidence that presents specific and articulable facts that individuals, both known and unknown, engaged in a conspiracy to obstruct Congress's certification of the Electoral College on January 6, 2020 [sic]," the launch document said.

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Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, in April released "FBI emails provided by legally protected whistleblowers" which he said showed "officials in the Biden White House, including then-White House Deputy Counsel Jonathan Su, personally assisted the FBI in securing the government cell phones of President Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence." The senator noted that "the cell phones were acquired before Trump was formally added as a subject of the investigation."

The senator said the disclosures also included "further evidence anti-Trump FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault played a central role in opening and advancing the Arctic Frost investigation, despite other agents' concerns that the evidence only supported a limited preliminary investigation."

Thibault, a former FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge at the FBI's Washington Field Office, retired from the bureau in 2022 amidst whistleblower allegations and after his anti-Trump social media postings were revealed.

An unearthed email from April 2022 showed Thibault approving the opening of Arctic Frost.

The emails showed that, in late February 2022, Thibault said that "I am working to get DOJ and FBIHQ to gain approval to open a case on the Trump campaign et al for conspiring to defraud the US Govt [Government] via the elector scheme. This case will be worked by CR15."

As I've mentioned, we can now use this incredibly vague charge of "conspiring to defraud the government" -- which can cover any corrupt, self-dealing political action -- to prosecute these people.

Let them argue that "conspiracy to defraud the government" charges are some made-up bullshit they used to criminalize non-criminal behavior.

And then let's convict them anyway.

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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

Ah...it's a trifecta of failure! Biden's magic touch at turning everything he does into a massive, jiggling pile of excrement, the government's fantastic, wide-ranging skill at being absolutely awful at everything it does, and the delightful frisson of DEI, which always injects additional failure points!

Frankly, I'm amazed that they only pissed away $42.5 billion!

Trump Administration Overhauls Biden's DEI Broadband Program that Connected Zero Households in 4 Years

The $42.5 billion federal program prioritized woke corporate mandates and handouts to the politically connected fiber and broadband lobby, while discriminating against far more efficient Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellite technology, such as SpaceX's Starlink. Four years after it passed, it proposed spending tens of thousands of dollars per household, but failed to connect a single American.

It's amazing that proven technology was carefully rejected because of its yucky connection to Elon Musk who, even back then was suspect because of his outlandish ideas that merit and skill should be the drivers of employment.

Just do the math, and Starlink is by far the most efficient answer to providing connectivity to rural America.

But...why the hell are we spending one dollar on connectivity for anyone? Maybe I missed it in the Constitution, but as far as I can tell, it isn't the core mission of the United States government to make sure that every American has access to high-speed internet porn and cat videos. Why not also spend $42.5 billion on high speed trains, so people can get to work, or subsidize their cellular service and equipment? Oh...wait...we are doing that already.

We piss away oceans of money on stuff the government has no business supporting, while simultaneously doing a horrifically inefficient job at it. Welfare? Airport security? Education? Infrastructure? They are all fantastically expensive boondoggles that no doubt pump lots of money into the coffers of friendly corporations and fellow-traveler nonprofits.

But internet might be the silliest of the bunch! It is a perfect application of market economics, and the cost should be borne by the users. Why should I have to pay for someone else's access to the internet, when I am already paying for my own? Is it a natural right to surf busty lesbian porn and buy paper napkins and lipstick from Amazon?

What this typical mess of a government program represents is the inexorable creep of what government should do. We have moved from the basics in 1791, to an incomprehensibly complex labyrinth of spending for results that never come. President Trump's rational attempt to rein in spending is a laudable beginning, but it must accelerate and expand for it to have any long-lasting effect on our budgetary woes, and our ridiculous drift away from the core function of government.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

To Garcia Lorca
John Bageris

This is an excellent example of the conceit of the left, and their fixation on raising minor celebrities to impossible, hagiographic heights. Lorca was a modestly successful playwright, an author with a thin biography, and of course the obligatory homosexual.

What? Of course he was a communist! All the cool kids were. And a layabout, and a dilettante, and luckily for his legacy, the victim of a private feud, or the much more exciting KILLED BY FASCISTS!

At least the art is interesting, although a better title would have made it much more accessible.

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The Morning Report — 10/30/25

Good morning kids.

If there is such a thing as Divine justice or karma, then this scumbag's filthy running sewer will be shut by a tomahawk missile fired by none other than Barack Hussein Obama:

Wednesday on MSNSDAP’s “Chris Jansing Reports,” Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), who serves as the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said MAGA voters who cheer the Trump administration’s military strikes on alleged drug boats in the eastern Pacific would not like who a potential President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez chooses to kill.

Aside from the nightmare prospect of Titty Caca as Soros the Younger's Puppet, let alone any Democrat ever being elected President of the He-Man Woman-Haterz Klub let alone POTUS ever again, I trust President Trump and the Secretary of War's actions and intel in taking out these threats to the safety and security of our nation and people. But his fantasies about who Donkey Chompers might choose to kill are quite revelatory about his and his ilks willingness to kill any innocent party merely as an act of political retribution or simple naked aggression in the pursuit and maintenance of absolute power.

Between stealing a national election, and the installation of a mental defective stooge as their puppet, a cabal of Democrats and others utilized the instrumentalities of our intelligence, law enforcement agencies and the judiciary to persecute and represss their political opponents while usurping the office of the Presidency to issue four years of executive orders, directives, edicts and even signing legislation onto the books.
The gall of this degenerate and his entire party is beyond the pale.

In the immortal words to be uttered some 3,000 or so years in the future by an astronaut riding horseback along an alien yet oddly familiar stretch of beach "God Damn You (Democrats) All to Hell."

Operation Midway Blitz Commander Ordered to Meet With Chicago Judge Daily, Says He Looks Forward to Showing Her How Bad Things Are

Funny but this hack-in-black slag did not order the leader of this merry bunch to meet with her:

The increasingly dangerous conditions faced by Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Chicago continue to grow worse as activists for illegal migrants increase their violent attacks. And more video showing that is making its way to social media every day. Along with the use of rocks and bottles as weapons, violent activists are also increasingly using professional grade fireworks against ICE agents in Chicago, causing the risk of hearing loss, eye damage, and burns.

Were I the Midway Blitz commander, I'd tell this Sara Ellis shitwhore to go piss up a rope. The CBP is operating under the authority of President Donald Trump and his underlings at the DHS and Justice Department. None of them are accountable to her in the lawful performance of their duties in securing the safety of the citizenry and ultimately our national security and sovereignty.

Chicago among other hotspots are erupting in what can only be described as open revolt and terroristic insurrection. Personally, I want to see the bodies of anyone attacking federal agents and law enforcement stacked like cordwood. Brandon Johnson, JB Pritzker should be forcibly ejected from office and Chicago's government run by responsible individuals designated by President Trump.

The greatest threat to our republic was is and always will be the Democrat Party, its leaders and base. 200-plus years of history awash in the blood and wastage of life and human potential all in service to a satanic, evil will to power that is the hallmark of Leftism.

Elsewhere, the ridiculous geschrei about the cutting of SNAP benefits because of the Schumer Shitshow Shakedown Shutdown, is just that.

In the immortal words of 1970s comedian Richard Belzer: "Hey food stamps? Eat fucking tree bark!"

Have a good day!

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• The Biden FBI filed subpoenas seeking the bank records and communications of numerous conservatives and Republican-affiliated organizations as part of its lawfare against Donald Trump, new records show.
  Docs: Biden FBI Subpoenaed Records Of Major Conservatives, GOP Groups As Part Of Get-Trump Probe
  
• “As [so-called quote-unquote] President Biden’s health declined, Biden White House staffers usurped presidential authority by executing decisions without the president’s awareness — including misusing the autopen and bypassing proper documentation of decision-making processes,” says the report. It paints a grim picture of a president cocooned by his wife, Jill Biden, son Hunter Biden and three Svengali-style aides — Anthony Bernal, Jill’s chief of staff whom she reportedly called her “work husband,” Annie Tomasini and Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the White House doctor who gaslit the American public with “grossly misleading” medical assessments and “recklessly never conducted a cognitive exam” of Joe. All three invoked the Fifth Amendment when called to testify to the committee.
  Miranda Devine: Biden’s autopen presidency inked a legacy of failure and coverups

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Daily Tech News 30 October 2025

Top Story

• Microsoft went down. (The Verge)
  
  The outage took out Azure, Microsoft 365, Xbox services, and most importantly, Minecraft, as well as a whole string of Azure customers like Starbucks, Costco, and Zoom. It even affected some services on AWS and Google Cloud.
  
  It was DNS.
  
  It is always DNS.

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Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - October 29, 2025 [Spooky Rex]

Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another random assortment of interweb tricks and treats (some of the mystery variety). Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.

[Top photo: Does a giant inflatable peg-leg pirate TRex dressed up for Halloween really need a caption?]

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