Here's a pretty good breakdown of how the Ukraine Starlink kerfuffle probably happened. Long story short Ukrainian's were hacking Starlink to allow it to do things it wasn't supposed to (like offensive attacks). But then, so was Russia. Starlink changed the software to prevent that, and Ukraine got bent out of shape (the Russians probably did to, but they were too polite to complain). Chamberlain's Ghost @RSA_Observer, " Now this is something! This technical thread suggests (explains) that the entire Starlink/shield slowdown issue is not a consequence of a political decision in the US or by Musk but the result of Ukrainian engineers hacking the system to bypass it's controls and do something they are not permitted to do - and when Starlink took steps to prevent the bypassing and ensure the controls remained effective, suddenly the system stopped working in 'bypass mode' - and Zelensky then set out to politicise matters. The explanation makes the bits of the puzzle fit together and fits with the New York Times article in which Ukrainians explained that although the system is formally limited to 100 mph they have managed to exceed it..."
From the JPo, Netanyahu orders Iranian regime's downfall, Katz warns 'Iran will burn' at IDF cadets' graduation. "Speaking at the IDF officer cadets' graduation ceremony, Netanyahu declared regime change in Iran a military objective, while Defense Minister Katz warned that "Iran will burn" if it attacks Israel." Are we surprised, or shocked?
Katie Bergh @Katie_Bergh, "In the wake of unprecedented cuts in last year's Republican reconciliation law, SNAP participation & spending have been falling — and the decline is much deeper than the Congressional Budget Office initially projected."
Nick Arama at RedState says
Hoo Boy: Baier Nails El-Sayed on Multiple Points - His Incredible Defensiveness Is Something to See. From the Crimson Hub,
Is The Con On? Meet the Pastor Behind the Defunct Group Helping Abdul El-Sayed Court Black Voters. "According to
Federal Election Commission records, AES' campaign has paid $82,500 to the Ecumenical Ministers Alliance (EMA), a Detroit-based organization headed by Rev. Horace Sheffield III. There's just one rather significant problem. Michigan corporate records show the organization was dissolved all the way back in 2014."
Ari Fleischer @AriFleischer, "
Abdul is not the only Muslim to run for the Senate. Mehmet Oz ran in 2024. No one ran against Oz because he’s a Muslim. That’s because Oz didn’t call Israel Bloodthirsty. Oz didn’t write an oped urging support for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Oz didn’t have donors who belonged to the MB. Oz didn’t blame terrorism on the policies of the US. And Oz didn’t justify a terrorist on a synagogue. This race isn’t about Abdul’s faith. It’s about his extremist ideas." Quote Aaron Rupar @atrupar, "El-Sayed: "We had a little debate. Or I had a debate and he just pointed at me and said, 'He's Muslim.'" Hat Hair's Capt. Ed cites an
M-SNOW Host: I'm Getting Skeptical About Talarico Polling After ... visiting Texas. PJM's Matt Margolis asks if you
Still Think Talarico Will Flip Texas? You Might Want to Read This. Chris Watts at Am Spec reminds us
The DSA Wants to Overthrow Our Constitutional System. "They are openly calling for a worker’s revolution, the overthrow of our constitutional system, and a socialist republic." At Am Great, Chris Toto has high hopes,
Is Hollywood Waking Up to the DSA Nightmare? Don't mistake moment of lucidity for a trend. The College Fix reports
95% of Michigan faculty donations go to El-Sayed over Rogers in Senate race. Are you surprised. I'm not.
Tony Kinnett @TheTonus, "
Here are 3 of Nate Silver's own Silver Bulletin aggregates which literally assigned major “influence” to Wedgewood." Quote Nate Silver @NateSilver538, Replying to @NateSilver5383. "I think there's been a tendency to overstate the influence of Wedgewood. They were pretty obscure, though fairly prolific. It's almost always best not to give any individual pollster undue attention, especially if they have no track record."
unseen1 @unseen1_unseen, "
Look at who is outing these fake pollsters and ask yourself why they are doing so at this time? It's not conservatives outing them. The people outing them are trying to get ahead of something and set a narrative. You be the judge of what they are trying to get ahead of and what narrative they could produce from outing their own fake pollsters 2 weeks before an election....."
Dustin Grage @GrageDustin, "
The polls make a lot more sense when you realize Democrats’ only path to taking the Senate depends on Republicans staying home. The goal is to demoralize you into sitting on the couch instead of showing up on Election Day. Don’t fall for it. If Republicans show up, we win. It’s that simple."
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, " BREAKING:
A judge has just THROWN OUT Democrats' lawsuit seeking to let Wisconsin voters take back mail-in ballots they'd already returned and vote AGAIN Hold on, they were going to let people vote AGAIN? This is why we needed an army of GOP lawyers! When their preferred primary candidate dropped out, Democrats went to court to get those votes redone The RNC fought it twice and won both times. The court REFUSED to change the rules in July, and today a Dane County judge tossed the case entirely Wisconsin law is clear, once you return your ballot, it's FINAL. Big win for GOP!" PJM's Vicky Taft has another
West Coast, Messed Coast™: Woke Governor to Send National Guard to Ballot Boxes. "Ferguson says he's making the offer to send the out-of-uniform, unarmed National Guard Soldiers to any of the state's 39 counties because the Washington secretary of state received an envelope containing an unknown white powder inside. Ferguson also mentioned concern about the unsolved 2024 firebombing of a ballot receptacle in southwest Washington. One or more leftist saboteurs were believed to have been behind that firebombing, since it was believed to have been linked to two other cases of ballot box vandalism the year Trump was on the ballot." PJM's Stephen Kruiser wants
Somebody Please Get the Democrats an Ativan and an Election Defeat.
Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker, "
The whole ethos of Washington, D.C. these days is: let's keep the racket going as long as possible. This is every agency, every Congressional office, every lobbyist, every think tank. Idealism is gone. Public service is gone. The notion of government as servant of the people is gone. We hardly even hear these cliches anymore." John Sexton at Hat Hair hears a
Federal Contractor Sues Government After James O'Keefe Video "ATI Government Solutions, the company featured in this video, has now filed a lawsuit against the government claiming that they were unfairly cut off from all government contracts as a
result of the video."
NOVA Campaigns @NoVA_Campaigns, "Turns out
@SenLouiseLucas is nothing but a cheap low life hood rat asking her drug dealer if they’re actually a cop. “
On or about April 19, 2022, LOUISE LUCAS asked ICC #1 if they were a member of law enforcement before purchasing between 3-5 pounds of marijuana from ICC #1.”"
At his substack, Insty does a good job of condensing Democrat's plans for a 'color revolution' after the midterms,
The Coming Insurrection, "And what to do about it." "This isn’t some fever dream, it’s right there in the extensive files that DataRepublican has provided. Here’s an article by Chuck DeVore in The Federalist. The goal is sustained mass violence and street clashes designed to push President Donald Trump into invoking the Insurrection Act. Once invoked, Democratic governors and progressive organizations would treat the order itself as evidence of “fascism” and a reason to undermine federal authority. Groups including the United Democracy Alliance, invoking Erica Chenoweth’s 3.5 percent rule, appear ready to coordinate the street actions, legal support, and media framing. Neville Roy Singham, operating from Shanghai and connected to the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department, is positioned to amplify the disruption from abroad."
Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "RE: The Democracy Files/Illegitimacy Playbook
The problem with @DataRepublican's Democracy Files is that the truth they expose sounds so outrageous that anyone who points out what is actually going on initially sounds like a foaming-at-the-mouth, lunatic conspiracy theorist. So if anyone thinks that, I encourage you to go and watch the videos for yourself..."
bye bye @johoromero, "One must admire the confidence required to mistake constitutional vigilance for insurrection, particularly when one has evidently devoted so little effort to understanding either." Quote Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "America currently has a cabal of ~1,600 former military officers/NCOs and ex-State/USAID/CIA employees who are members of the National Security Leaders for America, an organization currently involved in an active plot to overthrow our Constitutional order via an American Color x.com/DanLamothe/sta…"
Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "
Did you happen to catch the part of the plot where Democrat governors will declare the Constitutionally-elected Presidency invalid and seize control of American governance? That's literally in the videos, idiot, and I am not exaggerating. Go watch the videos and report back and let us know if you still support the Democrat coup plot."
Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "Hey
@JBPritzker! What are you doing hanging around with the National Security Leaders for America (NSL4A)? Are you part of their plot to launch a Color Revolution in America by creating a "legitimacy crisis" after the midterms where Democrat governors declare our duly-elected..."
DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican, "
Yes, he is. 1. The videos explicitly name the Illinois governor as one of the two that were willing to buy into the illegitimacy memo. 2. He’s co-chair of Governors Safeguarding Democracy which apparently liked the memo and presentation. 3. I believe Democracy Funders Network is involved in a lot of the funding and his sister chairs that."
Tim Burchett @timburchett, "
Not a single Democrat member of Congress has condemned this."
John Sexton at Hat Hair,
Former FBI Officials Charged With Lying to Congress. Kevin Killough at JTN reports
Two ex-FBI officials charged with making false statements about Hunter Biden's laptop. "According to the affidavit, Floris and Benavides made "materially false statements" in a House Judiciary Committee probe in the FBI' now-dismantled Foreign Influence Task Force." From Ace,
Biden Stripped the Visa From a Ukrainian Witness So That He Couldn't Testify to Congress About Burisma and Hunter Biden, "
Trump is such a corrupt authoritarian you guys." Helen Raleigh at Da Fed notes
Feds Say Bank Of America Choked Conservatives’ Accounts Harder Than Drug Cartels.’ Jonathan Turley wonders about
A Game of Chicken? Whitehouse Taunts Biden and Other Democrats For Being Too “Chicken” to Pack the Court.
At TownHall, Amy Curtis gloats
The New York Post Got a Hold of a Document That Further Proves Ilhan Omar Isn't Who She Says She Is.
Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain, "
The New York Post has obtained and published an official copy of Ilhan Omar's sister's marriage certificate. It describes their father as "Nur Said Elmi," and his profession as a "military officer. More evidence that she is not who she says she is."
Mark Hemingway @Heminator, "
If only someone had spent 15+ years warning people "fact checkers" were arrogant, explicitly dishonest, censorious, and actively partisan!" Quote
Pirate Wires @PirateWires, "
Allegations of the Minnesota congresswoman marrying her brother aside… Ilhan Omar’s father was a high-ranking military official in Somalia’s genocidal Marxist-Leninist Barre regime. This fact would have likely disqualified him from immigrating to the U.S. as a Somali refugee — and, by extension, prevented Omar from becoming a U.S. citizen through her father’s naturalization. Snopes and Politifact buried the truth about Omar’s father, averting a scandal that could’ve been disastrous for her political career; @ashleyrindsberg reports." PJM's Stephen Kruiser wonders
Dare We Dream That Ilhan Omar Has Finally Run Out of Brothers to Marry? At Twitchy,
WHOA: Ilhan Omar’s Marriage Timeline Is a Mess PLUS HER Sister’s Marriage License Proves PROBLEMATIC,
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar Claims She Drives a 2016 Camry … Then This Photo Drops and
'No Phone, Who Dis?' Spencer Pratt Knows Why Ilhan Omar Wants 'Less Scrolling, More Strolling'. She makes Don Surber's
Highlights of the week. "Asked my wife if she is my brother. She said no. I was relieved until she added, I am your sister." RedState's Nick Arama sees
Omar Creates Media Storm When She Shows Up to Vote, Comments on Her Name. Dave Strom interpretes the
NYTimes: If Ilhan Omar Broke the Law, She Should Get Away With It Because Muh Democracy. "The New York Times admits that Ilhan Omar may be a criminal, but since she is an opponent of the president, democracy itself is at stake if she is investigated." From Matt Vespa at TownHall,
The Amount of Evidence Against Ilhan Omar Could Scale Everest. Here's the List.
Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain, "
HUGE: The en banc Fifth Circuit just held, 11-6, that illegal aliens caught in the interior can be detained without bond for the duration of their removal proceedings. Judge James Ho in a concurring opinion: "A nation ceases to be a nation if it can't protect its borders." At Da Caller,
Trump Zeroes In On Immigration As Midterms Near. Ace,
Trump's DHS is Knocking on Doors to Ask People About Their Immigration Status and Voter Status as the Left Continues Lying About Its Legions of Illegal Voters Update: Big Win in Court for Border Enforcement, "
Tuq'r Qarlson will continue lying about "Trump not doing anything" because, of course, he's a Democrat/Qatari operative. "Charles Schumer and Democrats are
suing to keep illegal aliens on the voter rolls." Dave Strom,
1) It Isn't Happening; 2) Yeah, but Isn't a Big Deal; 3) It's Actually a Good Thing...:
Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrew, "
You've got the numbers wrong. I'm not saying Lee is right -- he's not. The 20,000 names are ACTUAL Green Card holders with California addresses with USCIS who match names and addresses with registered voters in California's publicly available voter registration list. DOJ never said they all voted in the past. It only asked California to independently verify their eligibility to register because if they were Green Card holders they are ineligible. It is not exculpatry to say, as LA County has said, "Only 28% have vote." That's actually a confession. 0000.00% should have voted if they are Green Card holders...." Quote David J. Bier @David_J_Bier, "Only 28% of a sample of DHS's bogus list of 20,000 voters that it claimed were "verified" noncitizen voters actually voted. So that's 5,600 out of 5 million California noncitizens. That'd be 0.1% (if they are noncitizens, which they probably aren't based on DHS's record)." Quote Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee, "“Noncitizens don’t vote,” they said."
WaPoo,
Virginia man charged in damage of Iwo Jima statue near Quantico, "Prince William County police said the violence, enacted with a sledgehammer, left one of the statue’s Marines without a head." "Virginia man" heh.
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, " BREAKING:
Outrage erupts after man named "Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano" took a SLEDGEHAMMER to the historic Iwo Jima statue at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia and knocked the head off one of the Marines HE LITERALLY BEHEADED IT. Dig into his history and find out if he's an illegal! Should be deported regardless! Police caught Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano, 27, of Stafford, in the act around 10 PM Wednesday. They say the damage runs into the HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of dollars The 9-foot limestone statue was carved by Felix de Weldon, the same sculptor behind the famous Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington. It honors the Marines who raised the flag over Iwo Jima. He's charged with felony destruction of property, trespassing, and felony injury to a monument, and he's being held without bond. Throw the book at him." Yes,
he's illegal. Sentence him to mowing lawn at Quantico for the next 30 years. Then deport.
Am Con asks
Is Europe Doomed? "Shocking scenes out of France show a continent in crisis." At Jihad Watch,
Muslims Desecrate Statues of Joan of Arc With Hijab and ‘Palestinian’ Flag, but they didn't behead her, at least. VodkaPundit at Insty,
LE CHANGEMENT: "Testimony from a friend of mine, a shopkeeper in Paris. “My shop was looted on October 17. A motorcycle shop, right in the heart of Paris. Twenty-one years I’ve poured everything into it. I pay my taxes, I’m a family man,” and last night he called all his friends, including me. Tomorrow we’ll be about twenty of us inside the shop, doors locked. If it comes down to a confrontation, we’ll face it. I won’t let myself get looted a second time. Enough with the complaints that lead nowhere, enough waiting for someone else to protect what I’ve built. “Tomorrow, it won’t be the police watching over my store anymore. It’ll be us.” When the State abandons protecting the property of hardworking citizens, all that’s left is this: friends who organize and refuse to take it lying down. Call it a militia if that suits you. To us, it’s just not getting looted again." Lionel Schriver at Da Spec asks Can we be surprised that
France has descended into nihilism? Dave Strom,
Tell Me This Isn't Totalitarian... "In Germany, the police will start a manhunt for a person who calls a politician "fat." Friedrich Merz, the German Chancellor, has filed somewhere between "hundreds" and thousands of complaints, with attached criminal penalties possible, over people insulting him online."
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