The Morning Report — 10/5 /26

Good morning kids. Hope you all had a nice relaxing weekend, but there's lots going on out there so let's dive right in. A bit of a mixed bag, and quite a bit of activity happening overseas; we'll start of with some positive developments from South America:

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.
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. 

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.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Roger Kimball: Trump is the great magnetic north of our political metabolism.
  Trump and the Relentless Momentum of Events

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• Investigators reviewed nearly 6 million searches from 2022 through November 2025, and found that 52 IRS employees conducted 86 suspicious accesses involving 30 high-profile taxpayers. Those searches have been referred for investigation, so they shouldn’t yet be described as proven violations.
  IRS Couldn't Detect Suspicious Searches of Politicians, CEOs, and Celebrities

  "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• “Coast Guard personnel returned fire. No injuries to Coast Guard, or other personnel were reported, and no damage to Coast Guard assets was reported,” the statement said.
  Report: 500 Troops Deploy to Rio Grande Valley in Texas After Drug Cartel Members Shoot at USCG Vessel
  
• Allowing deportations to these third countries destroys any leverage over the United States that countries have by rejecting the deportation of their nationals. It also greatly reduces the incentives for migrants to obstruct their return by destroying their papers and otherwise refusing to help facilitate their removal, as the consequence can be deportation to somewhere like the Central African Republic rather than release into the United States.
  ‘Third Country’ Deportations Could Transform Immigration Enforcement—and Close One of the System’s Biggest Loopholes.
  
• Vance is gradually expanding his criticism of the white-collar replacement programs, in step with expanding support from Silicon Valley investors who want a compromise reform amid increasing public opposition. 
  JD Vance Is Building Coalition for H-1B Reforms
  
• The anti-ICE protest, dubbed the “March for Freedom and Justice” and held at Davis Middle School, featured an appearance by U.S. Representative Joaquin Castro (D-TX). Protesters carried multiple signs and included static displays on the campus with vulgar messages.
  Failing San Antonio Public School Hosts Democrat-Backed Anti-ICE Protesters with Vulgar Displays

  THE IRAN CONFLICT, MOU/"PEACE DEAL" (aftermath??)

• Bessent said the unprecedented situation is the result of a deliberate, three-stage campaign that began with the U.S. military assault earlier this year, moved to President Donald Trump’s blockade of Iranian commerce, and is now aimed at isolating Tehran economically.
  ‘First Time in History’: Bessent Says Iran Faces Zero Oil Revenue This Week — Tehran Warns of Economic Crisis
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• To see how far Iran has fallen, it is worth examining the poetry of one of ancient Persia’s most enduring figures.
  The Persian Poet and the IRGC
  
• Ex-Muslim activist unveils a monstrous tyranny - and her courageous fight for freedom.
  Sara Ghorbani Video: My Battle Against the Islamic Republic

  ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY

• IDF: Sinwar’s longtime right-hand man, Al-Amoudi, is “directly involved in Hamas’s terror activities and in rebuilding the organization for war.”
  Israel Targets Hamas Terror Chief Al-Amoudi in Gaza Strike 
  
• Much like Captain Machchhar and his passengers, Israel and India are becoming a dynamic duo. Although India still expresses plenty of sympathy for the residents of the West Bank and Gaza, the Jewish state's value is too obvious to miss for a country with hostile neighbors and severe terrorist threats. India is Israel's top destination for defense exports, and it has reciprocated with nearly 3,000 shipments of defense equipment and components since October 7.
  Israel’s Growing Allies on the Ground—and in the Sky
  
• The “context” for October 7 is not Judea, Samaria, or Gaza. It is 14 centuries of jihadist conquests.October 7 Was a Slave Raid

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• That's not how the Constitution works.
  Dem Judges Seize Control of DOJ
  
• A superior legal mind includes a superior sense of what the law is for.
  Why Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is a model judge
  
• REVIEW: ‘So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country’ by Samuel A. Alito Jr.
  Justice Alito’s Practical Guide to Originalism
  
• A new Palisades fire report exposes delayed evacuation alerts, ignored warnings and Los Angeles failures during the deadly 2025 wildfires.
  Palisades Fire Report Exposes Failures Before Homes Burned
  
• A new McLaughlin Associates poll found that voters overwhelmingly support keeping the Supreme Court at nine justices and back the “Keep Nine Amendment.”
  Poll: 6 In 10 Americans Oppose Democrats’ Plan To Pack The Supreme Court

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
  
  

• Christian Toto: The same folks pushing out Fake News will resist the need to reform their practices. CNN Will Stay CNN (Darn)
  
• Not the answer the media was looking for.
  “The Motive is Islam”: Airline Pilot Explains Cause of Hijackings to Shocked Newscaster
  
• “You just crushed someone’s dream job because of something they said before they could legally drive a car. He was 15. Disgusting behavior by a ‘journalist’!”
  Portland Media Outlet Gets Trail Blazers Announcer Canceled Over Tweets From His Teen Years
  
• “Believe it. Minnesota is in play for Republicans.”
  Michele Tafoya Is Giving Democrats Nightmares in Minnesota Senate Race
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• Miranda Devine: At one of his off-the-record dinners with religious leaders at a “high-end tasting menu restaurant” in San Francisco in April, Olah and colleagues talked about Claude as if it were a “conscious being,” with “moral status” equivalent to a human, according to Rabbi Mois Navon, a former computer engineer interviewed by the Times. In that case, the rabbi told the nerds, Anthropic was creating slaves. Boom.
  Anthropic’s idiot savants are trying to play God while pushing frightenting utopian fantasies
  
• Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton will head the Super Intelligence Force, a selection that aligns with previous reports indicating he was the likely choice for an AI oversight position. CBS News had reported days earlier that sources expected Clayton to receive the AI czar appointment.
  President Trump Appoints Jay Clayton as AI Czar, Head of ‘Super Intelligence Force’

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• "I told myself to go for one last push to open the door from inside."
  How A Cockpit Safety Tool Became The Terrorist’s Weapon In Israel’s Near-9/11
  
• How was he cleared to fly?
  Flydubai Co-Pilot Who Tried to Crash Plane Was ‘Religious Extremist’
  
• Report cites top UAE official
  UAE To Seek Death Penalty For Flydubai Terrorist: REPORT
  
• "I couldn’t help but think, ‘Is this how you’re going to die? Is this how your girls are going to die?’"
  Mom Gave Her Four Daughters One Order As Hijacked Plane Plunged
  
• A smear term is designed to make people afraid to call out an ugly reality.
  The Rationality of Islamophobia
  
• Can you guess for what?
  A Lawsuit Against Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS

• Fighting antisemitism by funding antisemitism.
  Mamdani Antisemitism Plan May Fund Muslim Group That Celebrated Oct 7
  
• October 7 has given some American Jews a somewhat different idea of what’s good for them.
  Troy Jackson bids Jews forget their silly Holocaust fixation
  
• A deafening silence.
  Persecuted Christians: Why Are They Not in the Regular News Cycle?

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• After the 2024 election, a faction of Democrats concluded that their party had lost the argument over who can deliver best to the American people. Their answer was “abundance”: the claim that blue governments fail voters because process and veto points smother supply, not because liberals/socialists spend too little. This article asks and answers a pointed question: judged by the movement’s own yardstick, who has actually delivered abundance?
  How Trump Became the Abundance President
  
• The people who gave us $6 per gallon diesel now want to be elected because diesel is punishingly expensive.
  Decades Of Refinery Mismanagement Are Behind $6 Per Gallon Diesel

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• The under-the-radar court filing comes as the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments in a related climate change case
  Democrat Prosecutors Subpoena Oil Industry for Decades of Private Communications With Industry and Conservative Groups: Dark Money Fuels New War on Oil
  
• Leftists are trying to weaponize our legal system to bankrupt lawful industries in a last-ditch effort to tear down our capitalist system.
  Climate Activists Want The Supreme Court To Impose A Green New Deal That Voters Rejected

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• Police in Alhambra, located about ten miles east of downtown L.A., announced Saturday that the drug bust unfolded after officers conducted a traffic stop along Valley Boulevard near the 710 Freeway.
  K-9 in Suburban Los Angeles Sniffs Out 440 Pounds of Cocaine During Traffic Stop of SUV (Dog O.D's? - jjs)

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• The cratering in America’s trust in higher education began plummeting in 2013 when 70 percent of those polled felt college was important. By comparison, today, only 31 percent feel that college is “very important.” Gallup also says the negativity is four percentage points lower than last year’s results.
  American Support for College Education Craters to Record Low
  
• The staggering $3 billion donation is a big wager on the future of American higher education and a major boost for the growing Miami region.
  Ken Griffin’s Carnegie Mellon Bet Could Pay Off Big
  
• "...a growing share of Gen Z students embrace the 2,000-year-old faith,” the California Post reported Sunday.
  Report: Catholic Revival Happening at Liberal Stanford University

  THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• A Biden-appointed judge dismisses an illegal voting charge against a Jamaican woman accused of overstaying her visa and using fraudulent documents.
  Biden Judge Dismisses Illegal Voting Charge Against Noncitizen
  
• Like a butter-faced bubba Southern Democrat judge in the Jim Crow era, he says it's all about states' rights, not civil rights.
  Biden judge rules that law punishing illegals who vote in elections is 'unconstitutional'

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY

• Osborn was a featured speaker at the Young Democrats of America’s Winter Summit in December 2021 as he led strike against Kellogg's
  ‘Independent’ Nebraska Senate Hopeful Dan Osborn Left Kellogg’s Picket Line To Address Fringe Young Democrats Conference That Backed a Prostitutes’ Union

  POLITICS

• “They’re in for a big surprise,” he said, apparently referring to pollsters and media. “You gotta — it’s very simple, you got to get out and vote. You got to get out. You got to vote for these guys” “If you do that,” he said, gesturing in the direction of the news media and the back of the venue,
  WATCH: Trump Promises Turnout Will Guarantee GOP Midterm Victory and ‘We’re Going to Shove It Up Their Ass’
  
• Until the midterms, we will be watching a massively coordinated attack denigrating all the good that has happened since Trump won in 2024
  Toward A Better America
  
• Democrats are on the chopping block, and it’s now or never.
  Election 2028: Democrats’ Best Chance Is Josh Shapiro
  
• You know, what’s the old Judds song, Why not me on a rainy day? Why not me to love your blues away? But I haven’t made a decision.
  Sen. John Kennedy: I’m Thinking About Running for President
  
• Along with New Hampshire, the state has become an overlooked Senate pickup opportunity, which is remarkable, given that Minnesota hasn't backed a Republican for president since 1972.
  Minnesota Can Go Red This Year. Here’s Why.
  
• A political memoir traces the ascendant far Left’s roots in the Democrat establishment.
  The Making of the Democrat Insurgency
  
• For those of us who are witnessing the strange coming apart of the Democrat party, there is something very familiar.
  The Terrible Twos

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• What held America back before Trump?
  Victor Davis Hanson Video: Trump Scared China Into Playing ‘Nice’ With the US Again
  
• An unexpected global diesel crisis has emerged against the backdrop of armed conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East. 
  Europe's Diesel Problem
  
• "Faced with the threat of Islamist fundamentalism, we must act with strength and determination to annihilate this ideology that causes deaths and threatens our most fundamental rights.”
  French opposition leader denounces 2019 Islamist terrorist attack amid riots
  
• The next few days are likely to clarify whether the riots are a brief eruption of chaos or become a prolonged issue over the coming weeks and months. They follow a historic breakthrough for the National Rally in the French Senate elections, securing enough seats to form a Senate group for the first time in its history.
  France is Burning Again. Here’s Why.
  
• In the early hours of Sunday morning, around 350 police officers from across Spain began the arduous and potentially dangerous task of dismantling the tent city erected on Trampolín beach following the storming of the border by over 70,000 illegals from neighbouring Morocco in July.
  Spanish National Police Begin Operation to Clear Thousands of Illegal Migrants from Ceuta Beach Tent Camp
  
• 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.
  Bolsonaro Overperforms to Reach Round 2 of Brazil Presidential Election Against Incumbent Socialist Lula
  
• “No one really rules Brazil...Now it is the Supreme Court in the crosshairs.”
  How Anti-Corruption Politics Destroyed Brazil
  
• How the mighty are fallen: The Greek undergdog gets to lecture the German monolith.
  Revenge is Sweet
  
• “For me, President Trump has a unique advantage,” Christodoulides told Breitbart News during a nearly hourlong exclusive interview in late September here at the UNGA. “Either you like it or not, but you know where you stand. When you know where you stand, you can sit together, discuss, and even in the most challenging and difficult issues, find a solution. He proves that we may disagree, but if we sit together, we can find the solution.”
  Exclusive — President of Cyprus: ‘Sky Is the Limit’ for Bilateral Relations with USA, Trump Has ‘Unique Advantage’ in Negotiations Because ‘You Know Where You Stand’ with POTUS
  
• A conservative's case for results over rhetoric at the United Nations.
  While Others Talked, America Acted

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• America must distinguish between avoiding unnecessary wars and ignoring gathering threats.
  Don’t Wait For Another Pearl Harbor
  
• A Chinese foreign agent was arrested at LAX as she tried to depart for China.
  XI-Cret Agent Calif. realtor, 34, busted at LAX for spying for China as creepy texts to Beijing handlers revealed: feds

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• The White House says it's monitoring the situation, which Russian officials insist is under control.
  Mystery Lab Death Sparks Fears Of Plague Outbreak In Russia
  
• Eric Cantor will become the next head of PhRMA, and the two seem made for each other for all the wrong reasons.
  Why Eric Cantor Going To Head Big Pharma Is The Swampiest Move Ever

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• A psychopath she may be, but she is also a leader a rebellion — exactly as her hordes of followers are telling us.
  Lindsay Clancy’s Revolt

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Foo Fighters lead singer Dave Grohl dedicated his band’s song “My Hero” to “my new friend Jack,” Jack Smith.
  PHOTOS: Jack Smith Wears Springsteen-Inspired ‘No Kings’ Shirt at Left-Wing ‘Power to the People’ Festival, Dave Grohl Dedicates ‘My Hero’ to Former Special Counsel
  
• Country singer Zach Bryan was clad in a “Free Palestine… Appeal to Heaven” t-shirt during his Friday night concert at Robert Kraft’s Gillette Stadium, four weeks after rapper Macklemore was barred from opening for Ed Sheeran there after making anti-Israel comments.
  Zach Bryan Wears ‘Free Palestine … Appeal to Heaven’ Shirt During Concert at Robert Kraft’s Gillette Stadium
  
• The Free Speech Union reported Thursday that Cleese has been “subjected to a censorious campaign by a group of Muslim activists who go by the name of Deenified.”
  Basil Fawlty, Mad Bomber? John Cleese Reported to Counterterror Cops.
  
• Christian Toto: 'Fox Across America' host says what Legacy Media can't admit
  Jimmy Failla Schools Jimmy Kimmel on Free Speech Hypocrisy
  
• The Left wants everyone weak.
  Fitness is Fascist Now
  
• The catalogue of cultural transformations is a long one.
  Today’s American Heroes May Not Be Forever
  
• When everyone is intoxicated, why does the law treat only one sex as lacking agency?
  The Glaring Double Standards In The Cornell 'Rape' Case
  
• The Cornell Seven case reflects a deeper cultural collapse, where the Sexual Revolution, pornification, and the loss of moral boundaries have made exploitation increasingly commonplace.
  The Cornell Seven and the Sensate-Pornographic Society
  
• A cri de coeur against white paint joins other DEI-themed absurdities as a finalist for the organization’s increasingly irrelevant nonfiction award.
  Is the National Book Foundation Painting Itself into a Corner?

  HITHER & YON

• An unforgettable encounter and unmerited gift from a future saint.
  Fulton Sheen and Me