Tuesday, October 6, 2026
Beach Report 10/6/26
Flotsam and Jetsam - Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning
Jonathan Sacerdoti at Da Spec reports The Flydubai attacker’s motive was even darker than we thought. Cathy Salgado at PJM elaborates FlyDubai Hijacker Wanted to Crash Into Tel Aviv Airport to Maximize Casualties. I didn't think of the airport, but I figured it was somehow intended to be more than just the plane full of passengers. A "well, duh" moment from the Victory Girls, FlyDubai Co-Pilot Terrorist Should Never Have Been Allowed Into The Cockpit. Lots of red flags ignored.
Vic Nava at NYPo hears Trump approves firing squad for Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan’s execution after Pete Hegseth’s recommendation. "Hasan, who was sentenced to death by a military court in 2013, would be the first service member executed by the armed forces since 1961." It's only been 17 years. They should just sneak up and shoot him in the back and let him bleed out.Hat Hair's John Sexton reports Iran Launches More Attacks Against Tankers. Time to launch more attacks on Iran's mullahs. At the Telegraph, Iran trains women to take up arms against new US offensive. IranWire, Exclusive: Many Military and Government Officials Oppose Expansion of “Jan-Fada” Campaign. Didn't Hitler do something like that just before the fall of Germany? Why, yes he did! Sundance at CTH hosts Susan Kokinda Giving Background Context for the IRGC Appeal to the West for Defense Against Trump. Mike LaChance at LI cites Florida Republican Randy Fine: Democrats are Siding With Iran Because They Hate Trump. “Look, it’s been clear to me, based on my time in Congress, that the Democrats are on the side of Iran, and it’s simply because they hate Donald Trump.” Dan Greenfield at Front Page sees Iran Plans to Win the War by Helping Democrats Win "The old joke about the Russians was that their military strategy was to get invaded and wait for winter. The Islamic terrorist strategy is to get invaded and wait for leftists to win elections." Sarah at Insty say FINE IS WRONG. IT’S WORSE THAN THAT. SURE THEY HATE TRUMP. BUT MOST OF ALL THEY HATE AMERICA. Brad R. Torgersen @BradRTorgersen, "Hillary losing really did break them, didn't it? Like, their collective tree branch snapped. The impossible suddenly happened, and they were permanently outraged. Trump had to be punished. The voters had to be punished, too."
Dan Rivers @danriversitv, "Scoop: I have heard from a source familiar with the RAF Fairford story that the US feared a drone a attack similar to Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb last year which destroyed 10 Russian aircraft. They fear Iran might copy the tactics and that drones might even already be in UK, hence abrupt departure of B1s." Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy, "It brings me no joy to point out that at this point it’s hard to make a realistic argument for Britain as being a sovereign and self-governing nation state."
From RCD,
Russia – The Paper Tiger That Still Bites. Will Putin attack a NATO country just to find out if NATO is still a thing?
Kevin Esvelt
@kesvelt, "Russia's five-hospital quarantine, FSB involvement, and reported hazmat use
in response to the death of a single researcher at a weapons-lineage Irkutsk
lab are inconsistent with a lab-acquired plague infection, which would have
been treated with prophylactic antibiotics. 1/4" Kevin Esvelt
@kesvelt, "Russian authorities have surely
sequenced the Irkutsk pathogen, but refuse to identify it. Physical lockdown
indicates it cannot be controlled with prophylactic antibiotics, implying
engineered pan-resistance or that it isn't plague at all." From News Nation,
Woman accused of spying on Taiwanese president’s son arrested at LAX. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair VIP,
Oh Look, Another Pooh Honey Pot in California!
Alex Berenson at
Unreported Truths thinks Europe is in trouble
"And its crisis goes a long way to explaining why the American left remains a
longshot to take power durably, despite the big gains it will probably make
next month." Inevitable West
@Inevitablewest, "BREAKING:
Pedro Sánchez dissolves Spanish parliament and announces early elections on
November 29th The socialist tyrant has fallen." From sundance,
Enmeshed in Corruption and Failed Socialism Spanish Prime Minister Pedro
Sánchez Collapses Government and Calls for New Snap Election. Beege Welborn at Hat Hair hopes
First Round of Brazilian Elections Portends Sunbeams for Vampire Judge:
What a Lula. Ace says
Son of Former Brazilian President Cheated Out of a Win Tops Election
Results in Brazil, Garnering 47% of the Vote. "It requires 50% to actually win the election outright,
otherwise it goes to a two-person runoff. He almost got 50%. I bet he got well
over 50% -- but the left cheats, subverts, and destroys everything, including
democracy." Mike Benz
@MikeBenzCyber, "When I'm fully unleashed and get to tell this story in detail, country by
country, operation by operation, I don't think the world will ever view the
history of the past decade the same way again." Quote End Wokeness @EndWokeness, "8 elections in Latin America since USAID
got defunded The "far-right" won all 8 of them." Brandon Van Dyck at Am Mind
explains
Why the Populist Right Is Gaining Ground.
At Da Caller,
Senate Energy Bill Would Fine Any President Who Blocks A Whole Class Of
Energy Projects. Obviously aimed at Trump, who is opposed to most wind power. From WUWT,
Heartland Institute Experts Applaud Trump’s New, Realistic Automobile
Efficiency Standards. At RCP,
People’s Republic of Boulder Wants To Run Your Energy Policy
Reuters whines
Musk says he will rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI. Dave Harsanyi at NYPo has
The good news on federal workers you probably never heard about
"The federal government has reduced its workforce by 300,000 jobs since Jan.
20, 2025, bringing it down to a still-bulky 2.7 million employees." The lowest
since Lyndon. Greg Lukianoff at Insty wonders
WHAT IF TRUMP’S BIGGEST STRATEGIC WEAKNESS IS THAT HE CAN’T STOP HIMSELF?
The same instincts that made him a media phenomenon can become liabilities
when presidential power, government lawyers, and the First Amendment enter
the picture.
PJM's Bob Spencer thinks
Now THIS Would Be Fun: Kennedy Is Considering a Run for President!
"No, not the MAHA guy, and not, thank God, one of the gaggle of off-putting
leftists that the Secretary of Health and Human Services is unfortunate enough
to have as his relatives. No, the
Kennedy who may be running
for president this time is none other than the most riotously funny man in the
Senate, Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-La.), who is no relation to the famous
Massachusetts family, either in bloodline or political outlook." He's kind of
old, but he seems sharp, and the quote he would generate would be amazing.
From Ace,
Communist Jihadi Zohran Mamdani: I Will Combat Antisemitism In NYC by
Partnering Up With Aggressively Anti-Israel Arab Agitation Groups, "Oh perfect." The FOO
@PolitiBunny, "Holy Hell, Michigan Democrats. Did you lose your damn minds or what?" Quote Great Lakes HQ @GreatLakes_HQ, "Abdul’s mother cashed the checks for
bin Laden, his father is part of the Muslim Brotherhood, and his sister is on
a terrorist watch list." Quote DSA Watch @DSA_Watch, "Abdul El-Sayed’s Sister
appeared on a Terrorist Watch list, court documents show." You aren't
necessarily responsible for your family, but it certainly gives some insight
into how he was raised. Don Surber wonders
Can AOC win the Obama primary?
"He runs the party in his quest to Make America Communist Already." The
Manhattan Contrarian explains
How To Think Like A New York Progressive, if you really must. "Looking at New York’s official progressive orthodoxy
in action, these readers often see illogic and inconsistencies that seem to
make no sense at all. And yet, despite the apparent internal contradictions,
the New York progressives themselves generally achieve near or even complete
unanimity as to many of the important policies that they seek to implement.
How does this work?" Althouse hosts a Talarico video,
"We have to understand... that these violent hierarchies, these systems,
white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, economic exploitation, have colonized our
own minds,"
"... especially for the white educators..." TownHall's Amy Curtis thinks
Seattle's Minimum Wage Hike Will Be a Death Blow for City Business. Too bad. They voted for it.
Tom Knighton at TAW, says
So NOW elections are vulnerable?
Democrats are already complaining that if they don't get what they want in the
midterms, it was stolen.
Western Lensman
@WesternLensman, "Mark Ruffalo warns that Democrats need to be watchful for voting machine
manipulation and suggests Elon Musk could be involved: "We need to be on
guard for what we may not see coming -- ELON." "That's the cybersecurity of
these elections." "We know that these systems are vulnerable." We have been reliably informed for years that this kind of rhetoric
Undermines Faith In Elections and is Very Dangerous To Democracy." Mary
Chastain at LI reports that thing that never happens,
DOJ Charges 16 Aliens With Election Crimes, Including Illegal Voting. "Ten of the aliens reside in Minnesota."
The case of the Cornell 7 and the slutty sister is starting to heat up, as
Democrats and the media (but I redund) have started, as we expected, to try to
pin the blame on Donald Trump, in hopes of ginning up female rage for the
midterms. There's one major problem with that, though, the actual events
occurred during the Biden regency. WaEx,
Right on cue, left-wing media blame the Cornell rape case on Trump. EducatëdHillbilly™
@RobProvince, "Biden was president during this incident lady….." Quote Brent Baker @BrentHBaker, "“We can go to the President for this one.”
On @ThisWeekABC, @mcottle of NY Times blames Trump for Cornell incident: “You
can’t send those messages, no matter how drunk you are as a frat boy, without
having some kind of misunderstanding about what women are there for and
whether this is a real person you’re dealing with. And that, I think starts,
you know, we can go to the President for this one. I mean, we are in a moment
in this culture where the glorification of being thuggish and swaggering and
mistreating women is kind of making you a cool kid.”"
John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte
@NolteNC, "It should be pointed out that all of this is happening at one of the most
left-wing colleges in the country, at an institution run exclusively by
leftists, where almost all of the students are Democrats." John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte
@NolteNC, "And on one of the most left-wing colleges on the planet." Quote Tricia McLaughlin @TriciaOhio, "Except the events of the Cornell case
happened in October 2024, when Biden was President. Media and pundits fall all
over themselves trying to make everything and anything about Donald Trump.
It’s embarrassing and so incredibly lazy." Byron York at WaEx,
The political path of the Cornell rape allegation. From Breitbart,
Rapey Cornell University Is a Democrat Problem, Not an American Problem. Heather Mac Donald
@HMDatMI, "An unambiguous case of consensual sex. The aftermath of the Cornell group
sex episode is a peerless example of the hypocrisy of the feminist movement,
which proclaims the oppressiveness of any remaining traces the chivalric
code. Females deliberately drink themselves blotto in order to lower their
sexual inhibitions, voluntarily participate in sex, and then, after the
regrets set in, deny their agency and put exclusive responsibility for their
drunken encounter on their male partner, on the grounds that they are
helpless to take care of themselves. I've written about the campus rape myth in
@CityJournal: https://city-journal.org/article/the-campus-rape-myth From my interview on
@realDailyWire's Wired in Live with @cabot_phillips." Clay Travis @ClayTravis, "Plot twist!" Quote New York Post @nypost, "'Cornell 7' frat bro claims he was too wasted to consent to sex with accuser - and that he's the real victim: records, reports https://trib.al/bELjP8q." Bethany Cherisse @BethanyCherisse, "The fact that Cornell Jane did not pass out at any point during the gangbang, but she DID attempt to have sex with a man who was unconscious, is really a point that needs to be highlighted. Repeatedly. So the feminist rhetoric demands we believe that Cornell Jane was too incapacitated to consent to the activities she participated in, but NOT too incapacitated to take advantage of someone else who was incapacitated. If the argument is that intoxication nullifies consent, then that standard must apply to both (or in this case, all) parties." Quote andieiam @andieiamwhoiam, "Because Lucy Craig, AKA Jane Doe of the Cornell rape hoax, waited three weeks. 21 days, to go to police, we will never know how much alcohol she drank, we will never know how much ketamine she snorted, we will never know many of the details that she kept from the authorities. But what we do know is that she went to a frat house intentionally to have sex with two men and continued to have sex with other men and even attempted to have sex with a man who was unconscious. After that she claimed that the acts were consensual and that she was willing to do it again. The only reason she went to the police is because she was disinvited to a Halloween party at the same fraternity. This doesn't sound like a woman who was raped. This sounds like a woman who was scorned. She labored under the delusion that these men would form a friendship with her and that some might even consider forming a relationship with her. She discovered that men don't like bimbos. And that's when she retaliated."
@CityJournal: https://city-journal.org/article/the-campus-rape-myth From my interview on
@realDailyWire's Wired in Live with @cabot_phillips." Clay Travis @ClayTravis, "Plot twist!" Quote New York Post @nypost, "'Cornell 7' frat bro claims he was too wasted to consent to sex with accuser - and that he's the real victim: records, reports https://trib.al/bELjP8q." Bethany Cherisse @BethanyCherisse, "The fact that Cornell Jane did not pass out at any point during the gangbang, but she DID attempt to have sex with a man who was unconscious, is really a point that needs to be highlighted. Repeatedly. So the feminist rhetoric demands we believe that Cornell Jane was too incapacitated to consent to the activities she participated in, but NOT too incapacitated to take advantage of someone else who was incapacitated. If the argument is that intoxication nullifies consent, then that standard must apply to both (or in this case, all) parties." Quote andieiam @andieiamwhoiam, "Because Lucy Craig, AKA Jane Doe of the Cornell rape hoax, waited three weeks. 21 days, to go to police, we will never know how much alcohol she drank, we will never know how much ketamine she snorted, we will never know many of the details that she kept from the authorities. But what we do know is that she went to a frat house intentionally to have sex with two men and continued to have sex with other men and even attempted to have sex with a man who was unconscious. After that she claimed that the acts were consensual and that she was willing to do it again. The only reason she went to the police is because she was disinvited to a Halloween party at the same fraternity. This doesn't sound like a woman who was raped. This sounds like a woman who was scorned. She labored under the delusion that these men would form a friendship with her and that some might even consider forming a relationship with her. She discovered that men don't like bimbos. And that's when she retaliated."
Not unexpectedly, Lauren Conlin
@conlin_lauren, "BREAKING:
Judge William Sullivan has DENIED Lindsay Clancy’s motion for a finding of
not guilty on all three murder indictments. Kevin Reddington argued the evidence was insufficient on two issues:
whether prosecutors proved Clancy was the person who killed her three children
and whether she was criminally responsible at the time. Sullivan rejected both
arguments, finding there was enough evidence for a rational fact finder to
conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that Clancy committed the killings and was
criminally responsible. The motion is 5 pages, 5th page in the comments."
John Hinderacker at Power Line, discusses
Migration as Weapon. At Hat Hair, John Sexton sees
Leftists Lose Again, This Time on the Arizona Border, Beege Welborn calls it
Dirty Deeds After Dark: British Government Locks Down Entire Town to Import
More Migrants
and
Far-Left Violence Alert: Fuzzy Widdecombe Murder Suspect Charged With
Terror Plot Against Farage. Ace hears
ICE Nabs Another 15 "Worst of the Worst" Over the Weekend. "I voted for this." Newsweek,
New H-1B Bill Would Hit Employers With $250,000 Fines. Inspector General Anthony D'Esposito
@USLaborIG, "NOT SO FUN FACT:
Universities can avoid Social Security, Unemployment Insurance and Medicare
payroll taxes on qualifying J-1 researchers who are nonresidents for tax
purposes." From the College Fix,
Event at UC Berkeley mocking Charlie Kirk memorial draws scrutiny from
State Department. "Spokesman Tommy Pigott told The College Fix in a statement via email that
“people in the United States on visas are guests in this country, and we will
not tolerate people here on visas who break our laws, support terrorism, or
unlawfully incite violence, which ultimately led to the horrific assassination
of an American.”" From No ¡Pasaran!
This is the Best Pro-GOP Campaign Ad of the past 40 Years and Needs to Be
Broadcast 24/7 for the Next 4 Weeks (Must-See Video). OK:
Hat Hair's Dave Strom, hears
Macron: Shut Up, America's 1st Amendment the 'Opposite of Free Speech'. Reclaim The Net
@ReclaimTheNetHQ, "Emmanuel Macron says American free speech is "the opposite of free speech."
In his view, freedom only exists inside a "common framework" set by the
state. He compared posting an insult online to hitting someone in the
street.
Those are different things, because one is speech and the other is violence.
He wants people punished for posting "nonsense," with state-backed
fact-checkers deciding what qualifies. He wants a verified identity behind
every social media account. He has written to Ursula von der Leyen demanding
the DSA be enforced "much faster, much more forcefully."" Ace notes
Paris Police Report: Riots Are Being Incited by Far-Left Politician and
Perennial Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Melanchon,
"I mentioned this on Thursday, but the party "La France Insoumise" (France
Unsubmitted/Unbowed) or LFI
are openly cheering on the riots.
The Red-Green alliance is right out in the open, including in support for
anti-normie terrorism."
Steve Hayward at Political Questions takes on Our Unsustainable Universities. "That sucking sound you hear is higher education circling the drain." Buck Throckmorton at Ace's MORNING RANT: Trump’s Education Department Cuts Off Low-Paying Degrees from Federal Student Loan Program – Exploitative Universities Hardest Hit. NYPo reports US colleges slash tuition by tens of thousands as families balk at sky-high sticker prices. The market is working, albeit slowly. Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79, "A student notices a curious gap in the discourse at Harvard: “Examining the public comments of Harvard’s last four presidents, I was unable to find one reference to radical Islamism, even while they addressed major attacks.” “In my searches of Harvard’s course catalog, I found just one class mentioning either ‘Islamism’ or ‘Islamist.’” “Or take the offerings outside class…. When I searched for ‘Islamism’ or ‘Islamist’ in the Harvard Gazette, I found only a single event described across all of campus in the last two years.” “Why aren’t we talking about this?”" From Campus Reform, Michigan State, Rutgers faculty work to stall responses to McMahon’s higher ed reform letter. At the Martin Center, Higher Ed Is Still Muddling Through AI. "Universities need an AI strategy that prepares students and faculty for artificial intelligence while transforming teaching, research, and operations." One of the guys on the boat the other day worked in IT. When Pete asked him what he did, he said he used to code, but now, he just tells AI what to code.
Steve Hayward at Political Questions takes on Our Unsustainable Universities. "That sucking sound you hear is higher education circling the drain." Buck Throckmorton at Ace's MORNING RANT: Trump’s Education Department Cuts Off Low-Paying Degrees from Federal Student Loan Program – Exploitative Universities Hardest Hit. NYPo reports US colleges slash tuition by tens of thousands as families balk at sky-high sticker prices. The market is working, albeit slowly. Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79, "A student notices a curious gap in the discourse at Harvard: “Examining the public comments of Harvard’s last four presidents, I was unable to find one reference to radical Islamism, even while they addressed major attacks.” “In my searches of Harvard’s course catalog, I found just one class mentioning either ‘Islamism’ or ‘Islamist.’” “Or take the offerings outside class…. When I searched for ‘Islamism’ or ‘Islamist’ in the Harvard Gazette, I found only a single event described across all of campus in the last two years.” “Why aren’t we talking about this?”" From Campus Reform, Michigan State, Rutgers faculty work to stall responses to McMahon’s higher ed reform letter. At the Martin Center, Higher Ed Is Still Muddling Through AI. "Universities need an AI strategy that prepares students and faculty for artificial intelligence while transforming teaching, research, and operations." One of the guys on the boat the other day worked in IT. When Pete asked him what he did, he said he used to code, but now, he just tells AI what to code.
Tyler O'Neil at Da Signal signals Parents Who Treat Boys as Boys and Girls as Girls Are Not Abusers, New Bill
Declares.
A Tuesday Tune - LongMa
Nini, a distinguished musician hailing from Taiwan, has dedicated over two decades to mastering and performing traditional Chinese folk instruments. Her extensive experience has taken her on tours across Europe, the USA, Canada, China, Japan, and throughout her homeland. Nini's innovative approach to music involves playing genres such as heavy metal, rock, and EDM on traditional instruments like the Ruan, Liuqin, and San Xian. She also performs on a unique electric lute known as the DaoYu, which she uses to create a distinctive and modern sound that bridges cultural and musical boundaries.
During the 19th season of America's Got Talent, Nini delivered a jaw-dropping performance that left the judges and audience in awe. Her electrifying performance brought the entire crowd and judges to their feet, resulting in a standing ovation. Howie Mandel dubbed her "NiNi Van Halen" and "NiNi Hendrix", highlighting her extraordinary talent and flair. Simon Cowell was equally impressed, declaring, "Anyone would be mad not to immediately put you on tour with them. You are so charismatic, brilliant. It's one of my favorite auditions that I have seen for a long, long, long time."
Monday, October 5, 2026
EPA Still Supports Bay Cleanup
At the Virginia Mercury, EPA to give $90M for clean water and restoration projects in Chesapeake Bay watershed, 28 in Va. "Move comes just weeks after President Donald Trump rescinded a landmark order that established collaborative Bay pollution reduction efforts led by the federal agency."
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Deputy Administrator David Fotouhi announced Friday in Smithfield that the agency will disburse $37 million to localities to aid Chesapeake Bay pollution reduction and clean up efforts. An additional $53 million in matching grant funds will be awarded to 83 projects across the watershed, 28 of them Virginia-based.
“These awards will empower local towns to implement community level, clean water projects, and they will help fund regional partnerships to keep our soil healthier, restore habitats, and secure our thriving regional economy,” said Fotouhi, who was joined by U.S. Rep. Jennifer Kiggans, R-Virginia Beach.
As tiny fiddler crabs scuttled through mud beside an oyster mount that is part of a nearby marshland restoration project, Fotouhi explained that the money would be split between the Chesapeake Small Watersheds Grants Program and the Chesapeake Innovative Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Grants Program.
The former fuels projects that directly support clean water, habitat restoration and species protection. The latter consists of projects that help implement agricultural strategies, stormwater best practices, and other methods that prevent sediment, phosphorus, and nitrogen from ending up in the Bay.
Virginia’s chief Chesapeake Bay organization welcomed the collaborative funding opportunity. “Restoring this vital resource takes collaboration across political boundaries, between federal, state, and local governments. And it takes everyone. Industries, universities, nonprofits, small businesses, and individuals,” Chesapeake Bay Commission Executive Director Anna Killius said. “All of us are empowered with the knowledge and the resources to conserve our waters, our lands, and our living resources that we so care about.”
The grants are awarded once a year through the EPA and are coordinated by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, a nonprofit chartered by Congress. They are a key to achieving goals identified by federal, state, and local partnerships through the Chesapeake Bay Program.
In comparison to past years, before matching grants the agency awarded $44 million earlier this year and $22 million in 2024.
Small watershed projects that received grants include nature-based stormwater infrastructure across Richmond Public Schools, a process to enhance grazing management practices, living shoreline assessment and design for Leesylvania State Park. A total of 68 projects across the watershed have received awards.
Funding for the nutrient and sediment reduction grants will go towards projects like regional watershed roundtables, and riparian forest buffers and forest cover expansion on private lands and others totaling 16 projects.
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation was one of the organizations to receive a grant from this round of funding. Of their award, $737,000 will help create roughly 5.5 acres of sanctuary oyster reef in the Hampton River. The aim is to produce three million oysters to be planted in other reefs. “This grant will go a long way toward restoring and preserving oyster habitat in the Hampton River and surrounding areas,” Chesapeake Bay Foundation Virginia Oyster Restoration Manager Jackie Shannon said in a release.
This annual grant comes on the heels of President Donald Trump’s move to repeal Executive Order 13508, signed in 2009 under former President Barack Obama, which directed the EPA to bring state and local agencies together to identify sources of pollutants and ways to reduce sediment and nutrient loads running off into the Bay.
Trump said the significant progress made by states that are part of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement to reduce Bay pollutants deemed the old order unnecessary.
So, overall, funding was slightly less than 2025, but still considerably more than in 2024. I hope the money will be well spent, but I reserve judgement.
Beach Report 10/5/26
Flotsam and Jetsam - It's a Long Monday
An amazing amount of stuff for a Monday. Don't those people have anything better to do on Sunday?
According to News Wax, UAE Had Shared Details about FlyDubai Flight with Israel, Including Pilots' Names and Nationalities. A failure in vetting for sure, but one whose part? PJM's Bob Spencer thinks a Veteran Pilot Startles Leftist Interviewer With the Truth About the Dubai Hijacking. "But how deep do you want to go into it? Because I, I hear, them saying, “Oh, we wonder what the motive is.” Well, excuse me, in Du— in the Middle East, the motive is, the fact that Islam calls for the death of Jews. All Jews. It's part of the core belief of Islam. This whole commission, this joke they had in Australia recently about antisemitism, just ignores the reality of what is the core belief of Islam that all Jews must die until the world becomes pure, free of Jews." Hat Hair's Josh Hammer warns Don't Let Flydubai Terror Scare Derail Abraham Accords Progress. At Response State, Reignited violence in Ethiopia threatens to engulf the entire region, "A tangled web of alliances, mixed with intense domestic conflicts in surrounding countries, will make it difficult to contain another civil war." Aggie at Althouse comments "Apparently, the Omani co-pilot asked the Indian pilot if he could leave his seat to go pray. The Indian pilot granted this permission, at which point the Omani co-pilot retrieved the rescue axe and proceeded to attack the pilot, in an attempt to crash the plane. Isn't that a terrific metaphor for what's going on in the West...."
At Da Signal, the Great Victor Davis Hanson shows that the Iran’s Regime Is Running Out of Options. At RCW, The Diesel Shock Came from Abroad; But the Missing Cushion Was Homemade. Failure to allow enough oil refining. We're looking at you, California, in particular. CTH's sundance hosts Barbara Boyd Outlines Trump Strategy Against Fuel Costs and Overall America-First Economy. From RCE, When All Else Fails, Start a War: Europe's Descent From Net Zero Folly to Military Mobilization.A Driscolly post at Insty, US PULLS BOMBER JETS FROM RAF FAIRFORD AFTER TERROR PLOT: "The US has withdrawn all of its bomber jets from RAF Fairford after the base was the target of a suspected terror plot last weekend. The Pentagon said all B-1 bombers deployed to the base, which US forces have used to strike Iran, have returned to the US." Trent Telenko @TrentTelenko, "If this is true. We are seeing a massive USAF vote of no-confidence in the UK Labour government. If the "Special Relationship" between the US & UK depends on which political parties are in power simultaniously. We are post "Special Relationship."" Quote GMI @Global_Mil_Info, "It appears a mass withdrawal of B-1B Lancer bombers from RAF Fairford is underway, likely reflecting the ongoing security threat surrounding the airbase. The movement also appears to include aircraft from the most recent B-1B rotation, rather than being limited to the bombers." Insty says R.I.P. SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP: Eli Afriat @EliAfriatISR, "The Pentagon confirms that all B-1 bombers deployed to RAF Fairford in the UK have returned to the US: "Due to operational security considerations, we could not confirm the aircraft's movement in real time; however, we can now confirm that all US bombers deployed to RAF Fairford in the UK have returned to their home bases in the US."" The Globe and Mail @globeandmail, "Quebec on the cusp of electing separatist government promising referendum." When Canada falls apart on its own, we can take Alberta, and maybe BC.
7% NaCl (Salty) @TwoRulesOfWar, "This seems like the start to a survival horror game." Quote, Annie Jacobsen @AnnieJacobsen "BREAKING: Plague outbreak expands, Russia BSL-3 lab accident - FIVE hospitals now quarantined The plague outbreak in Siberia, Russia has expanded w/5 hospitals now under QUARANTINE: Irkutsk Hospitals No. 1, No.3, No.10, Ivano-Matreninskaya." Looks like another lab "leak." From News Wax, Germany's Merz Visits Kyiv as Russia Steps up Attacks on Ukrainian Cities.
Roger Kimball at Am Great discusses
Trump and the Relentless Momentum of Events, "Trump is the great magnetic north of our political metabolism."
Navarro to Newsmax: Trump Delivering on Manufacturing. At NYPo, Larry Kudlow and Stephen Moore explain
Trump and Republicans can win the ‘affordability’ battle — here’s how. Sundance hosts
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Gives Lengthy Outline of His Role,
National Security and the U.S. Economy
with Anxious. Larry Correia
@monsterhunter45, "As much as the
black pilled doomers loved to cry about how the Trump admin hasn’t fixed every
problem in America… I’d like to point our this is the current ATF director
telling some Everytown For Gun Safety dude to fuck off. Keep in mind two years
ago Biden’s ATF director was making literally millions of us felons overnight
because we had the wrong shaped piece of plastic on our guns.
Anybody who says these two sides are equal is dumb or an op trying to sell
you something." Carson Holloway at Am Mind remembers
George Washington’s Wisdom for the Midterms. "No political movement can succeed by ignoring its voters’ self-interest."
Tim O'Brien at PJM wonders
Are Republican Campaigns Forgetting About Their X Platform Advantage?. From Althouse,
"I don’t know about anyone else, but a table full of very distinguished
people just told me that they HATE, immediately after a mandatory time
change, going home at night – and it’s DARK."
""It’s depressing! One of the gentleman stated that, 'I just hate going home
in darkness.'"
Writes Trump, who seems to believe Daylight Saving Time is a valuable political issue."
No problem too small. And, "To understand the religious dynamics of the Texas race, it’s important to
absorb the true depths of the 'God gap' in American politics." "Writes David French, in
"The ‘God Gap’ Is Narrowing in Texas"
(NYT)."
From Tech Crunch, OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s
‘culture is broken’
Derek Hunter at TownHall sees Democrats Are Coming After You and It Won’t End Well. From Calling all Rush-Babes, *Hello, America! The Midterm Elections are a Month Away. Here’s what Chuck
Schumer and the Democrats have planned. Da Signal is worried Muslim Migration Could Decide Key Senate Races. PJM's Stephen Kruiser thinks It Feels Like It Should Be Easier to Defeat Abdul El-Sayed. NYPo, Gavin Newsom signs Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha into law as new California
state holidays, but of course, Christmas and Easter are billed as "seasonal" holidays.
Becca Lower at RedState has a
Report: Somali Gang Shooting Injures 2 at MN High School Game, Has Major
Implications for Midterms. Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree, "People don’t seem to understand that the DSA is a convergence around a
replacement moral order. It is an anti-imperial theory in which power is not
restrained by constitutional limits, individual rights, or conduct toward
civilians. Power is judged by who exercises it and..." quote DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican, "Correct.
"Populist left" is a misnomer; the only thing that makes them "populist" is
that they're anti-NATO and anti-Israel. It's always dangerous when the
dissident right talks about allying with them. They're trading a fake
perception of foreign control (Israel) for a very real set of foreign
countries bent on destroying America. This includes China, Russia, Iran, Cuba,
and many others. Just because they're anti-NATO doesn't make them
anti-global-order. The populist left wants to abolish borders and install
tyrants; it's their religion. Singham / CCP alone has routed 300 million
dollars towards revolutionary disruption all over the world. There's no
alliance with the populist left. They'll kill you first." Quotulatiousness
quotes
Those who are attracted to power are the ones least capable of using it
wisely. At Da Signal, Pedro Rodriguez looks at
Squad 2.0. Joe Chalfant at TownHall laughs when he finds out It Turns Out That Talarico's 'Latest' High-Profile Campaign Stop Is From
February.
Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes, "EXPOSED: This is how paid protest networks can secretly claim to be grassroots and not big donor funded - 2 paid protesters organizers are exposed as being paid $80,000 each per year each, both work for The People's Forum - On paper, they make $0 from The People's Forum, so it looks like the protest organizers are no paid - However if you look dig a litter deeper into their taxes you can see they are paid by a different NGO called the Justice and Education Fund - The Justice and Education Fund is the nonprofit funded by Neville Roy Singham, the billionaire China ... My opinion is everyone involved in these foreign funded paid mass protest networks should be criminally charged" Bob Bluey at Da Signal explains The Real Reason Some States Still Count Votes for Weeks.
From Twitchy, Woman Mystified by Middle Eastern-Looking Men Filling Up Walmart Grocery
Carts With Milk Jugs. Jack Trade @JackTradexx, "They shop for their convenience stores, using SNAP (food stamps) card to
pay for all the food, then sell for cash at their store. Have 3 wives, 2 of
them collect government funds and the men use the funds to buy inventory for
their store." From Fox,
‘Phantom’ Obamacare accounts spark new crackdown as Oz targets broker
fraud. "CMS administrator says 760,000 fraudulent accounts have been terminated,
saving taxpayers $2.2B."
Gail Heriot at Insty,
IT’S REALLY LONG: "I’ve been reading through the
Report of the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparations
Proposals for African Americans. It’s well over 1000 pages long (and printed in a way that makes it more
like 2000 pages of an ordinary book). I probably won’t be able to read every
single line of it, but I will try to read as much as I can. Somebody has to,
and it’s up my alley, so I should be the one.." At Da Caller, Gavin Newsom Signs New Law Requiring Companies To Disclose Historical Ties
To Slavery. From NYPo, California governor’s races sees another massive swing as nail-biting new
poll released.
At Insty, WHO KNEW HE WAS “FAR RIGHT” DECADES AGO?
To be fair, I think they probably left out the part where he looked at "far-right" extremism.I just found the most brilliant bit by @JohnCleese He explains Leftism better in 90 seconds, than you could learn from any academic in 20 years. https://t.co/xtubCcbRdi
— Dr Manhattva (@Manhattva) October 3, 2026
From Da Fed, Brianna Lyman sees a
Poll: 6 In 10 Americans Oppose Democrats’ Plan To Pack The Supreme Court
and Ben Weingarten like a
Landmark Lawsuit that Pits The Sharia Regime Against The Constitution. From CIS,
SCOTUS to Consider Legality of Trump ‘Mass Detention’ Policy. "More than 30 years after IIRIRA, we’ll finally find out what section
235(b)(2)(A) actually says."
At USA Today,
The 'Cornell 7' haven't been charged. The mob doesn't care. "What's most troubling in the Cornell University rape allegations is that
onlookers have already made up their minds about who is to blame."
Eugene Kontorovich
@EVKontorovich, "I didn’t think I
would comment on the Cornell 7 matter, but there is an underlying culprit
everyone is missing.
It’s not “society,” it’s the government. The heavy partying at
ultra-expensive institutions like Cornell is being financed by untold
billions of non-market government-backed loans that let students take what
amounts to a four-year cruise - parties, sports, even occasional lectures. I would guess none of the participants were electrical engineering majors.
Most adults don’t have all-night ketamine bacchanals because they have to work
in the morning. But 18-21 year olds are given all the privileges of adulthood
without and of the responsibility. Don’t treat them like Roman aristocrats and
then wonder at their decadence." Insty,
I BELIEVE THE SOCIETAL/RELATIONAL DAMAGE IS ACTUALLY THE POINT: Timur Kuran
@timurkuran, "The biggest issue raised by Jane Doe vs. the Cornell 7 isn't simply who is
responsible. It is what the controversy could do to relations between men
and women at a moment when American social life is already in trouble..." Kurt Schlichter
@KurtSchlichter, "My new
@Townhallcom column takes no
prisoners… “We don’t owe accusers anything except to treat the accusation seriously, to
investigate both sides’ claims, and to test the admissible evidence against
clear laws. But that’s not what the leftists and feminists want to do here.
That’s not what New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wanted done by appointing New
York Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor. Hochul had already framed the young woman as a victim who was “literally
gang raped,” and said she deserves to have “justice pursued.” Her catspaw
James is supposed to run an objective criminal investigation? That’s a
travesty. She has her marching orders, and she will march accordingly.”
From Am Con,
The Mysteries of Butler
"A new book examines the assassination attempt that changed the course of our
recent history." Something stinks, but it's not clear, who or what is rotten.
At The 74,
Parents Are Beginning to Grasp the Reality of Grade Inflation, New Data
Shows. "Grades can give the false impression that students are on track. A
Learning Heroes survey suggests parents are beginning to question what schools
tell them." Atop Da Hill,
Jonathan Turley says The blue-state model for education has failed,
and the public has caught on. From the WSJ,
The End of College as We Know It. "AI is wreaking havoc in universities, but higher ed’s woes long predate
ChatGPT." Bob Graboyes at Bastiat's Window, says
Plagiarize! Plagiarize! Plagiarize! Only Be Sure Always to Call It, Please,
“Research.” "In the AI+internet Era, can plagiarism remain a meaningful concept,
and will its prohibition be enforceable?"
Charlie Martin @chasrmartin, "Not a history, major I see." Quote Ashok Kumar @comrade_kumar_ "It’s official: the Green Party is now the first major political party in the West to be explicitly anti-zionist. A historic moment." Steven Pinker @sapinker, "Yes, many critical-social-justice dogmas can't withstand intellectual scrutiny, so their proponents try to protect them via intimidation and walling off the university commons. Civil discourse and viewpoint diversity are threats to this tactic." Quote Jeffrey Flier @jflier, "This new "report" is an embarrassing example of politicized argumentation plus scholarly ineptitude. It reflects that the movement to increase civil discourse & viewpoint diversity is rapidly advancing, which worries these authors. This is the best they could do to fight it." Chicago Boys decry The Alien Transplant to The US, antisemitism.
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