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TownHall's Kurt Schlichter asserts Your Vote for the Republicans Is a Vote Against Tyranny. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, This Is the Time for Choosing. And the First Choice Is ... "What kind of country do you want?" Roger Kimball at Da Spec warns Beware the false electoral prophets. Ace, Polls Are Made for Strippers and They Get Greasy and Slippery Around Closing Time, "The New York Times admits that Republicans are 30% less likely to respond to polls at all. And if a group disfavored by the media party refuses to answer at such high rates -- what is the skew within that group? That is, among the Republicans who do answer, is it the case that Republicans voting Democrat are the most likely "Republicans" to answer a leftwing pollster's questions?" W. Joseph Campbell @wjosephcampbell, has "Closing observations about polls and their prominence in 2026 midterms."

The Mayhem in Michigan is still getting the lion's share of the coverage. Dr. Maalouf @realMaalouf, "Mariam Odeh, a former staffer on Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign, is currently facing federal charges alongside 11 other anti-Israel activists accused of vandalizing the homes of members of Michigan’s Jewish and pro-Israel community and plotting to poison and murder them and their families. Jars containing noxious chemicals were thrown into family homes. Windows were smashed. Homes were marked with the Hamas red inverted triangle, designating them as targets for death. One of the accused allegedly threatened to slowly poison a victim once he became a doctor..." Matt Vespa at TownHall, An El-Sayed Supporter Went Crazy on a Jewish Woman at UM. Wait Until You See Her...

El Sayed shock troops getting violent now. When they tell you who they are, believe them. Pay attention Michigan.

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 2, 2026

Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman, "UNREAL: The University of Michigan student caught on video shoving Jewish conservative Liz Benichou to the ground is ALREADY BACK OUT. Police watched her do it. She resisted arrest. Then, as she was loaded into the cruiser, she screamed that she "should have f***ing killed" Liz. Campus police say she was processed and released pending warrant authorization. As of now, NO charges have been filed. Cam Higby says she was an Abdul El-Sayed supporter. A death threat on camera, and she's home by morning. Charge her!" Quote Cam Higby @camhigby, "Police say that the psycho who attacked @basedinmalibu HAS BEEN LET GO Prosecutors refused to hold despite the fact that she made terroristic threats, brutally assaulted Liz, smacked @teameffujoe in the face, tried to punch me." David Burge @iowahawkblog, "Her family were persecuted Mongolian immigrants, and as a young girl she spoke out against oppression by the Chinese Communist Party. What you're seeing here is not tribal wars, it's the result of brainwashing in American schools." Quote EducatëdHillbilly™ @RobProvince, "Democrats imported 3rd world tribal wars. Oh goodie." At ¡No Pasaran! The quisling DNC is real; The violent Islamo-left is real: The most brutal psychopathic illegals — rapists, human traffickers, fentanyl bosslings — will be hired as guards at the re-education camps the lefties have planned for you and me. Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "BREAKING: CT Governor Ned Lamont (D) just assauIted a journalist and tried slapping the camera out of her hands." Dave Strom at Hat Hair warns Threats and Condemnations Are the Wages of Crossing Jihadis. Clown World ™ @ClownWorld, "Threatening to murder someone's entire family over a book This is completely insane." Quote Back Channel @BackChannelQ, "Muslim tells Nick Shirley if any American burns the Quran or even attempts to burn one he will kill them, and kill their whole family “Burn of the Quran — attempted burning. F*ck that motherf*cker's life up and his family. — I'll kill him. Murder f*ckers”" At the Victory Girls, So Now Puppies in the Classroom are Islamophobic, Too?

At PJM, Ashli-Meghan Eskeldson hears an Expert Accuse El-Sayed of Hiding Muslim Brotherhood Ties Behind a ‘Modern’ Image and Tim O'Brien says Men Know That Abdul El-Sayed Is ‘That Guy,' Which Is Bad News for Him. "He’s the type who, every time he shows up, is likely to create one cringe moment after another. If he talks, he talks too much. If he brags, he brags too much. If he argues, he argues too much. You’d have to explain him to other people, sometimes apologize for him, but usually if you’re stuck in the group with him, you try to distance yourself from him. You try to send the “I’m not with him” vibe." Rusty Weiss at RedState thinks El-Sayed’s Answer on Men in Girls’ Locker Rooms Is the Worst Thing Any Sane Parent Could Imagine. Capt. Ed on El-Sayed: Men in Girls' Locker Rooms Is Totally Cool Because of the Internet. Plus: Israel, Maybe? From Althouse, The theory that since we haven't protected young girls from seeing photographs of penises, it's not important to protect them from a penis in the girls' locker room. Mike Rogers @MikeRogersForMI, "@AbdulElSayed says it’s ok for MEN to be in girl’s locker rooms. Why? “Well because they are going to find out about it on the internet anyway” Completely unacceptable."

Da Caller thinks the Democratic Coalition Appears To Break Down Days Ahead Of Michigan Senate Seat Election. Nick Arama at RedState has More Bad News for El-Sayed With Democrats in Michigan Senate Race. PJM's Scott Pinsker wonders about Haley Stevens’ Bombshell Endorsement: What Does She Know That the Polls Don’t? In a Larry video at Hat Hair, NYT Senate Polls Under Fire As Democrats Turn on Haley Stevens. Capt. Ed has a Word From the Party of Women: Haley Stevens Is 'A Used Condom.' Dave Rubin @RubinReport, "What Temu Skeletor here can’t comprehend is that the Republican Party is actually the party of free thought and true tolerance. That’s why it welcomed
@elonmusk @RobertKennedyJr me and many more. Stevens will be warmly welcomed and then decide for herself where she lands." Quote L A R R Y @LarryOConnor, "James Carville to Haley Stevens: "If you think that these Republicans are going to treat you as anything other than what they view you as...a used condom. The Democrats don't even think you're worth a used condom."" At Althouse: Byron York @ByronYork, ""It sounds like you're upset with me, too, Anderson." Indeed, it did. But did Haley Stevens expect that, by switching her support from a Democrat to a Republican, she would receive the media's Liz Cheney Country Over Party award? If so, she was badly mistaken." Quote Overton @overton_news, "Anderson Cooper is BIG MAD that Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens crossed the aisle to endorse Republican Mike Rogers. Listen to his tone as he speaks to Stevens during this CNN segment." Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt, "Hamas Piker: I HATE AMERICA! YOU DESERVED 9/11 DNC: Well, we have a big tent! Haley Stevens: I don't think we should blame Jews for produce DNC: YOU TRAITOR! YOU'RE NOTHING BUT A USED CONDOM! What a time to be alive.." Ace snarks The Objective and Completely Unbiased Media Attacks Haley Stevens for Not Endorsing the Candidate They Totally Aren't Supporting. "The Democrats are considering stripping Haley Stevens of all congressional powers she might owe to the party." Tyler O'Neil at Da Signal sees Socialism on the ballot: Races to watch in the DSA orbit as the ‘squad’ may expand, "The movement's national tracker lists 59 candidates for state legislative offices across 25 states, including several in Minnesota."

From Shooting News Week, Don’t Illinois Our Texas: Billionaire Governor Throws $1.2 Million at Abbott’s Democrat Challenger. Hat Hair's John Sexton hears The Top Fundraiser for the Midterms Is... Talarico. Mary Chastain at LI reports Collins Blasts Schumer, Democrats Over ‘Completely False’ Campaign Ads “So this is part of Chuck Schumer’s playbook, and it’s one thing to have a legitimate debate on policy, and there are a lot of differences between my opponent and me.” DC_Draino @DC_Draino, "Oh look - Katie Hobbs is trying to pull her stolen election bullshit again." Quote Leading Report @LeadingReport, "Power outage temporarily shuts down heavily Republican-leaning vote center in Mesa, Arizona, per Maricopa County Recorder’s Office.

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican, "PolicyLink is a creepy giant NGO which deserves a lot more attention." Quote Andrea Shaffer, Anti-Marxist Warrior @Andreafreedom76, "Policy Inc. Data Republican Drop 13: The Players Include DSA Linda Sarsour, and Others! The connection between DSA, RAD, and "Thriving Together" for a new post-constitutional society is clear." InfantryDort @infantrydort, "“Behold the final endgame of the progressive machine: the controlled demolition of a free people.” Damn…." Quote Saggezza Eterna @FinalTelegraph, "The Liberals are now communists, and they intend on staying in power forever to rule over the ashes. The Architecture of National Erasure: Inside the Left’s Blueprint for Permanent One-Party Rule." DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican, The Shadow Cabinet of Soros. "Inside the Soros-Funded Nonprofit That Hand-Picked Biden's National Security Team, Then Pretended to Dissolve." At Rest News, BREAKING: Fake Wisconsin Protest Groups Backed by Soros, Tides, Arabella Dark Money. Insty notices EVERYTHING IS FAKE: Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist @DeAngelisCorey, "BREAKING: Dallas Morning News just added an editor's note saying they were unaware that the author was paid $57,000 by Gina Hinojosa’s political campaign. They said they wouldn't have published it if they knew. Then take it down, now,
@dallasnews." Matt Vespa thinks This Tweet Perfectly Captures the Media Eating It on Voter Fraud.

From AMAC, a reminder, Peak Irony: Obama Complains About Health Insurance Premium Spike That He Caused, "The 44th president apparently forgot that he promised Obamacare would lower premiums - and that it was a miserable failure." From CJ, Drug Prices Are Finally Falling "The Trump administration’s policies are helping bring down prescription drug costs and expand access to popular medications like GLP-1s."

Don Surber says Poland belongs to the Poles, "A weekend battle against EU supporters for sovereignty." Ace has his take on The Coup In Poland, "The globalists launched another coup. When the right took power, they installed judges they liked, which the left could not abide." Sundance hosts Susan Kokinda Highlights CIA Operative Elissa Slotkin, the Midterm Color Revolution and Slotkin’s Role in Poland.

Dave Strom asks Will Trump Nuke Iran? Like T'qr suggests? I don't believe so. He doesn't have to. Driscoll at Insty reports DEVELOPING: US struck Iran’s Qeshm Island, Wall Street Journal reports.

From CDR Salamander, Russia’s Bloody Two Months of Losing Ground, "a fine grind" John Sexton hears Ukraine Struck Three Russian Oil Refineries in Three Days. Sundance at CTH, Zelenskyy Outlines Clouded Threats to Trump – Lukoil Remains a Target Until U.S. Gives Weapons. After the midterm, he loses that leverage.

Elsewhere abroad, the Free Bacon thinks It’s Not Just Taiwan: China Plots Indian Land Grab. Oh great, the worlds two largest nations going at it. At Fox, Colombia's 'El Tigre' takes fight to cartels as Trump alliance takes shape. "Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella wages war on crime, following through on law-and-order election promises." Sundance delights in Canada Manufacturing Contracted in October – U.S. Manufacturing Expanded.  

Bloomberg reports Valero to Buy, Restart Idled Texas Refinery as Fuel Rallies. zerohedge @zerohedge, "The AI math gets more insane every year: In Dec '24, Morgan Stanley estimated 57GW of data center power needs and a 36GW shortfall through 2028. In Nov '25, it was 69GW of power needs and a 44GW gap. Today, the est. total power needed doubled to 116GW and the gap is 70GW." If AI is worth it, AI needs to pay for the new power. Build nukes.

At Ace, In No One Is Above the Law News, Democrat Operative and Flake John Bolton Learns No One Is Above the Law. "He has pled guilty to illegal retention of classified information. He will pay a $2.25 million fine, forfeit his federal pension, and could spend 60 months in prison. But, of course, a plea deal means prosecutors have agreed to recommend far less than that, and probably zero time at all." Sundance reports Activist Judge Dismisses Charges Against FBI Officials who Lied to Congress During Hunter Biden Laptop Review. "U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui dismissed the criminal complaint against former FBI officials Nikki Cole Floris and Bradley Benavides from the bench, sharply criticizing the government’s handling of the prosecution. “What has transpired here cannot be described as anything other than weaponization,” Faruqui said, describing the case as a “rush job” directed by President Donald Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel."

Matt Vespa at TownHall thinks Ilhan Omar's Marriage Certificate Is a Trainwreck. "A certified copy from the Hennepin County, Minn., government shows that the Democratic congresswoman’s surname was initially written as Omar, before being crossed out and replaced with Elmi. A final edit reverted it back to Omar." 

At Am Mind, John Eastman discourses on The American Regime and the Meaning of Citizenship. At Crisis, Meet the Rising Young Catholic Group Pressing for Tougher Immigration Enforcement. "Young Catholics for Ordered Migration wants the bishops to hear another view on immigration, one rooted in the Church’s tradition. As its response to the USCCB put it, “We ask only that the second half of Catechism 2241 be preached with the same clarity as the first.”"

Da Fed's Chris Bray finds The Lazy ProPublica Hit Piece On Cleta Mitchell Is Full Of Howlers. Insty, A GALLON WEIGHS ROUGHLY EIGHT POUNDS, SO THAT’S A GOOD PRICE. OR, ALTERNATIVELY, SHE’S DRUNK. Bad Hombre @Badhombre, "The View’s Ana Navarro: “Ground beef is $6.30 a gallon. Guys, please vote these bums out.”"

VodkaPundit at Insty says I GOT NOTHIN’: Dave Strom, As America Heads to the Polls to Decide Whether to Be Europe, the Continent Is Falling Apart. Sarah at Insty, MOSTLY, A LOT OF RIOTS ARE BEING BOUGHT. NO THAT’S NOT WHAT THE ARTICLE SAYS. IT IS WHAT IT IS: "Catching up with what’s happening in a declining Europe. Yes, their supposed leaders abet this. You want to keep it out of here, get out and vote. Vote against the socialists and their islamist allies. And gain us a little time to get more people in politics that you actually want to vote FOR."

And still more at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 11.02.26.

Flotsam and Jetsam - Did Ilhan Omar Flunk Her DNA Test?

Well now, if this is true... At Twitchy, WHOA ... So THAT'S What the DNA Is for: Ilhan Omar Is Officially in DEEP and We Are ALL Here for It. Miranda Devine @mirandadevine, "Ahem. Five years ago I wrote a column about DNA test results that showed there was a 99.999998 percent chance that Ilhan Omar and her second husband Ahmed Elmi were siblings. A few hours before we went to press my informant was arrested by Biden's FBI. Funny that." Insider Wire @InsiderWire, "#BREAKING: DNA report says Ilhan Omar and her ex-husband are siblings; Biden DOJ refused to act." But did he preemptively pardon her? Ace sees the Report: DNA Proves Ilhan Omar Married Her Gay Brother, "Is that so." Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain, "WaPo, while attempting to exonerate Ilhan Omar, actually reported some incredibly new, damning information. Ilhan Omar's second husband - the one alleged to be her brother - applied for a green card, was asked about the marriage, and then withdrew his application." Quote Benjamin Weingarten @bhweingarten, "Lo and behold, it appears Ilhan Omar's alleged Brother-Husband had filed one of the same documents that her lawyers were seeking out back in 2019 regarding a petition to convert one's immigration status from conditional to permanent residency." PJM's Cathy Salgado wonders Did Ilhan Omar’s Husband Sell Empty Barrels of Wine? Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "HOLY CRAP Ilhan Omar and her husband's winery was SHUT DOWN for FRAUD after they reportedly sold EMPTY WINE BARRELS." To be fair, if you were shutting down a winery, you'd probably be able to see the empty barrels. Not the Bee @Not_the_Bee, "So if all the reports are true, Ilhan Omar lied about her age to make it seem like she naturalized through her father, who apparently she lied about being a citizen in the first place, then used her illegitimate citizenship to marry her brother so that he could inherit her fake naturalization before remarrying and starting a fraudulent winery that sold empty bottles of wine?" The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "Ilhan Omar Furiously Denies Immigration Fraud Charges, Says She Only Married Brother For Love."

Joe Chalfant at TownHall, Zelensky's Temper Tantrum May Have Just Cost Ukraine American Military Support. Hat Hair's John Sexton cites WSJ: Musk Ordered the Starshield Slowdown in Ukraine, but the evidence seems muddled. Sundance at CTH is all over Ukraine's woes, with Zelenskyy Calls Rubio as Witkoff Travels to Meet Him in Norway, Following 45 Minute Call with Zelenskyy, Secretary Marco Rubio Notes Ukraine Officials are Lying and Manipulative Which He Told Zelenskyy Openly "As noted, Rubio emphasized nothing substantive has changed in the U.S. support profile with Ukraine and President Trump has not modified any security arrangement at all. Zelenskyy is just making stuff up. Rubio noted that Ukraine is targeting U.S. commercial shipping in the Black Sea and that has to stop. That was part of the phone call. Additionally, Rubio emphasized how Ukraine officials are just “making stuff up” for some reason, that can best be considered a Ukraine political operation against the Trump White House. " And Interesting – Following the “Cut the BS” Confrontation by Rubio, Suddenly Zelenskyy Thanks USA and Says All Early Warning Systems “Working Great”.

AP claims China defends DeepSeek after US ban of its AI from government systems. Trent Telenko @TrentTelenko, "The ability to lay mines by drone-subs will be the biggest use case for them in a war with China. The problem is China can and will do the same to Western ports." Quote TWZ @thewarzonewire, "Ghost Shark Extra-Large Uncrewed Underwater Vehicles’ Payload Bay Seen For First Time Ghost Shark will deploy aerial drones, lay mines, and execute seabed resupply missions as part of Australia’s new undersea arsenal."

Sundance hosts President Trump Holding an Oval Office Press Conference Following Announcement from Fraud Taskforce. Ace, Trump Creates $25 Million Fund to Pay Bounties to Whistleblowers Who Alert the Government of Fraud, "If you want to stop foreign pirates, issue letters of marque and reprisal. This isn't quite that but it's good to incentivize people to report fraud. ... A 1% commission. That could be huge." From WaEx, Trump administration withholds $1.2 billion in federal Medicaid funding from California, over fraud concerns.

Roger Simon wonders Are the French Riots the Republicans’ October Surprise. "Don't be a “chi-en-lit” and vote Democrat." From State of the Day, the STATE OF MONDAY: The GOP Has Billionaires. But Where Are The Voters? "The people are souring, and the oligarchs are spending." A Larry video at Hat Hair highlights a Trump’s Pollster Explaining the Voter Turnout Gap That Could Decide the Midterms. Liz Mair at Not Quite Miss Congeniality says Matt Lewis is right: Ted Cruz could totally be a presidential contender in 2028. Yeah, but I'm still leaning Vance/Rubio or Rubio Vance. Put Cruz on the Supreme Court instead. At PJM, Sarah Anderson hears María Corina Machado Has a Message for Midterm Voters and VodkaPundit points out This TDS Sufferer Actually Left the Country, and the Schadenfreude Is Almost Unbearable. ""Annie," to name just one, complained about the "huge misconceptions about access to quality health care" in Britain, and she even admitted that "the quality of life is significantly lower than in the U.S.""

Amy Curtis at TownHall, Abdul El-Sayed's Events Are Astroturfed, and Here's the Proof. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair snickers at El-Sayed's New Pitch to Black Voters: I'm No 'Gas Station Abdul'! "Actually, it's tough to determine who's being racist in Michigan. Is it black voters who worry that El-Sayed has much more invested in 'Palestine' than Detroit? Or is it the candidate who thinks that "gas station Abduls" have poisoned voters' minds against him?" Kevin Downey at PJM calls him El-So Long: The Detroit News Throws Michigan's Jihaddy Daddy Under the Bus. Abe Greenwald at Commentary on The Disavowal Game. Dan Greenfield at Jihadwatch hears 1 in 3 Minnesota Gang Members are Somali Muslims.

At PJM, Ohio Dem Gubernatorial Candidate Has Mommy Issues That You Won't Believe. Beege Welborn at Hat Hair hears One of the Most Brutal Political Campaign Ads Ever Is Unleashed - 'My Daughter Is a Liar' . Kentucky Girl @Kentuckygirl1, "This is Dr. Amy Acton, the Democrat candidate for Governor. In 2019, there was a police visit to her home after she and her husband apparently got into a drunken domestic dispute. According to the police record, after drinking and taking an unknown amount of medication, she allegedly pulled a mirror off the wall, and was about to start driving until her husband talked her out of it. A medic was dispatched to the scene and advised that Acton be taken to the hospital to get checked out, but she declined. At the time, she was the director of the Ohio Department of Health. This is not a person who should be leading anything, except maybe an AA meeting." Ace, Ohio Democrat Gubernatorial Candidate Is a "Liar" Who "Needs Help" Says... Her Mom in Campaign Attack Ad, "Amy Acton is, reportedly, Kamalaesque in her passion for self-medication." Teri Christoph at RedState reports Hakeem Jeffries Walks Into a Cuban Bakery in Miami and All Hell Breaks Loose. "House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) walked into a Cuban bakery in Miami last week hoping to help a Democrat win a congressional seat, but instead set off a political firestorm that has ended with two Cuban bakeries publicly denouncing socialism."

At the NYT a Midterm Update: Bloomberg Gives $80 Million to Democrats as Election Day Nears. Money in politics is bad, except when it ours. Beege Welborn sees Gloom, Despair and Agony - when the Bulwark Discovers Some Dem Turncoats Financed by Republican Money. From Commonplace, Calling Elections Rigged Is Bad Politics and Worse Civics. "The habit that’s killing confidence in elections—and the party that keeps picking it up."

Eric Florack at PJM asserts Elissa Slotkin’s ‘Deterrence Message’ Has a Name, and It Isn’t ‘Defending Democracy’. Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrew, "You are an elected official. You made a public statement encouraging members of the Armed Forces to defy lawful orders. You chose to run for office and subject yourself to that scrutiny. What you are proposing, on the other hand, is a legal/political vendetta against persons for no reason other than they have political positions different than yours. Your goal is to drive them away from public service. That's a Stanlist/Maoist approach to political opposition -- your clearly stated desire is to create a one-party state where political opposition is not just to be rebutted, but to be imprisoned. You're a disgrace -- and I suspect your comments will haunt the rest of your political career. You've likely put a ceiling on any ability you might have had to climb higher." Quote Elissa Slotkin @ElissaSlotkin, "This isn't my first rodeo with President Trump. After calling for me to be arrested, tried, and hanged for a 90 second video he didn't like, he is now attacking me for saying that there will be accountability for people who commit crimes on his behalf." InfantryDort @infantrydort, "THE LAST GATE You may be wondering why there has been a full on attack against the War Department the past couple of years. Coupled with disturbing reports of communists planning some form of uprising, and the picture becomes clearer. Let's break it down so you can remain vigilant: If you want to break a republic without rolling tanks down Pennsylvania Avenue, you don't start with the center of power. You start with the men who guard it. That's the part people still don't seem to understand. The street is noise. The NGOs are scaffolding. The lawyers give the thing language. None of it matters if the military still answers to lawful civilian authority. So you work the force. You teach officers to distrust the chain. Telling them obedience is weakness and resistance is conscience. You turn every single hard order into a moral emergency. Making hesitation sound noble. You make defiance sound constitutional. You scare them, saying they'll be investigated. Sound familiar? You don't need a coup in the old sense..." Quote DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican, "THREAD: The true reason Pete Hegseth is being targeted is because he's standing between President Trump and a coup @PeteHegseth named the institutions... CFR, Brookings, the general class... in 37 seconds in a video by @Liz_Wheeler . Within 72 hours of his nomination, a color revolution planning document cited him as an insider threat. They didn't go after him because of drinking. They didn't go after him because of women. They went after him because every color revolution manual ever written says the same thing: you cannot topple a government unless the security forces defect. And a loyal Secretary of Defense is the one person who makes sure they don't. I have the receipts. Their own documents. Their own training sessions. Their own words on camera. As always, patience as I pull together the thread."

Ace has a Report: Debanking of Conservatives Was Driven by the KKK-Funding Race Grift Organization the SPLC, "Ben Whedon of Just the News... Hat Hair's John Sexton safely predicts More Lawfare on the Way if Democrats prevail in the midterms. Riley Rogerson @riley_rogerson, "NEW — Elon Musk is facing a gauntlet of Democratic oversight next term. Multiple committees — including Foreign Affairs, Oversight and Science — are looking at investigating Musk if they have the gavels. From DOGE to Ukraine, the uberwealthy GOP donor could be an irresistible target. “The sheer number of conflicts of interest are astounding,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren said. w/ @ChrisMarquette_ @adamwren" Althouse finds "Congress must demand a full accounting of the damage Mr. Musk and DOGE caused, and we will not let anyone obstruct our oversight." "Said House Foreign Affairs ranking member Rep. Greg Meeks, quoted in "Capitol agenda: Dem gavels are coming for Elon Musk/Democrats have long eyed investigating the world’s richest man and the GOP’s top donor. They may get their chance if they win back congressional power in November." That's in Politico this morning, along with this: "Democrats have a message for Elon Musk: Watch out/From DOGE to Ukraine, the uberwealthy GOP donor could be an irresistible target if House gavels change hands."" Hans Mahncke at Da Fed explains How Democrat Activists Conned The Country By Pretending To Be ‘Journalists.’

From Expression, Campus deplatformings hit record high. "For the first time, FIRE has recorded more than 200 attempts to block campus speakers in a single year." At Campus Reform, a Survey finds 45% of students say violence is justified if it stops 'hate speech'. "The Buckley Institute's 2026 undergraduate survey also found students prefer socialism to capitalism and that 22 percent say America deserved the Sept. 11 attacks." Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79, "“Such opinions simply should not be permitted, argued the Columbia Political Review.” Are these some of the kids who are supposedly always on the right side of history?" Quote Adam Lehodey @adamlehodey, "Last week, two Columbia students dared to offer a dissenting opinion on the Cornell case—they got death threats and were told they should not be allowed to speak. @Nikos_Mohammadi and Christina Ma argued no more than that students should think before arriving at sweeping conclusions about a complex case, and that it was infantilizing to suggest women could not make decisions they might later regret. None of their detractors have so-far been able to offer a coherent response to their arguments—except making personal attacks and saying they should not be allowed to speak. In that regard, they've already won the argument."

Sundance reports France Plans to Use Military to Control Riots and Support Police. CBS still going with "mostly peaceful riots": CBS News @CBSNews, "CCTV footage from Nice, France shows the moment a mob of looters broke into a phone case store over the weekend, destroying displays and stealing merchandise. The incident comes after largely peaceful anti-government protests in many cities across France descended into riots, with damage to historic properties and thousands of arrests." At Twitchy, Rob Schneider Lists All the Social Benefits France Has (and Is Burning Anyway). Rob Schneider @RobSchneider, "France has FREE health care, paid parental leave, paid family leave, FREE child care, FREE preschool, 5 weeks paid vacation, a 35 hour work week, generous unemployment and housing benefits, and heavily subsidized higher education. Everything the left says they want AND THEY'RE STILL PROTESTING AND BURNING SHIT DOWN." Matt Vespa at TownHall, Here's What Caused a Liberal Journalist to Suffer a Total Meltdown on Katie Pavlich's Show. Overton @overton_news, "Social justice journalist Lisa Durden MELTS DOWN on air after getting absolutely wrecked about the riots in France by conservative commentator Ben Ferguson. Durden claimed the riots were just “student protests,” but Ferguson wasn’t about to let that slide, and he had the receipts to back it up. Then he delivered a brutal reality check that sent Durden into a fit of RAGE. FERGUSON: “You either have to be incredibly incompetent or totally blind to look at the images and think that this is students that are doing this.” Durden immediately snapped. DURDEN: “What you’re not going to do is call me a pathological liar!” “I’m talking now! You’re not going to call me a pathological liar because you don’t know me, so stop that right now!”"“EXCUSE YOU!”" From Ace, Fox News Identifies 54 Marxist /Communist Organizations Funding and Directing the Riots in France, "Many of these are funded by CCP-connected Marxist tech billionaire, Neville Roy Singham and his awful communist wife," and Feminists: Rape Is a Weapon of White Supremacy. Also Feminists: If Our Revolutionary Islamic Brothers Threaten to Rape Women, That's Just "Collateral Damage" In the Cause of Socialist Justice. VodkaPundit at Insty, THAT’S GONNA LEAVE A MARK: "Sorry, but X’s autotranslate feature is so smooth that I don’t always notice — but which X doesn’t do for embeds. So here’s the English translation from the original Portuguese: “Europe will be destroyed by women who project onto those animals the motherhood that belonged to the children they aborted.”"

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Sidney Sweeney is back in the news, kinda, at The Telegraph, Feminist snobs who attack Sydney Sweeney’s naked body are hypocrites "Except… Boy oh boy, does Sweeney reap a different critical reception – especially from women – whenever she disrobes, or dresses daringly. Pugh's stance is widely commended as empowering. But when Sweeney chooses to pose naked for an ad, she is single handedly reversing women's rights by decades. The actress's recent participation in the prediction market platform Novig's "Just Sports" campaign, saw Marie Claire denounce her for a retrogressive step that "sexualised female bodies". Good thing Marie Claire has never, ever put a naked woman on its cover. Except, hang on, didn't Cara Delevingne "Bare All" on the front cover of their September 2019 "Obsession Issue" (to pluck one of many examples)? Meanwhile the Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer Ariarne Titmus called Sweeney's decision not just, "a kick in the face to every woman who has dedicated her life to perfecting her craft, but every woman who enjoys sport for what it really is". Beege Welborn is outraged (not unusual for her), Oh, Say, Can You See...WNBA Teams Scooting Off the Court Before the National Anthem? I Do. John Sexton wonders Could This Teen Wrestler's Case Be the Last Straw for Trans Athletes? Do trans girls have the constitutional right to feel up cis girls? Now it's Vicky Taft's turn to be outraged at PJM, Girls Are Forced to Compete With Boys in Washington. Now They Sleep and Bathe With Them. "Now the girls need to bunk in with the boys on the team, and the one dude on the team is hazing your daughter. He'd love to be in a "lesbian relationship" (heterosexual, if you're keeping book) with her. Wink, wink. Oh, yes, that happened too. And it's perfectly fine with the state superintendent of schools, who is a complete dyed-in-the-wool leftist whackadoodle, because he reckons there is such a thing as "chest feeding." Reminder, Chris Reykdal is in charge of school science departments too."

The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: Casual Friday Redux and FMJRA 2.0: Better Than Nothing up and garnering clicks at The Other McCain.

Flotsam and Jetsam on a Rainy Sunday Morning

As the remains of Hurricane Isaias blankets us with tropical moisture. 

Power Line's The Week in Pictures:
Electile Dysfunction Edition

Joe Chalfant at TownHall reports a Houthi Missile Strikes Saudi Arabian Airport, Resulting in 'Mass Casualty Incident'. 3 dead, and an Airbus A310-200 destroyed. It's time to get the players together and eliminate the Houthis. At Da Signal, the Great Victor Davis Hanson says the Iranian Regime Has Only One Way Out "they only have one chance, and that is now to call off the United States military and the United States financial architects of this embargo and somehow squeeze or slither out of the noose that they put their head in. Let’s hope that does not happen."

Loay Alshareef لؤي الشريف @lalshareef, "The Flydubai co-pilot was radicalized in Qandahar, Afghanistan. The Flydubai co-pilot was radicalized in Melbourne, Australia by a mosque linked to the Muslim Brotherhood organization. Let that sink in. People of Australia, wake up."

Rob Lee @RALee85, "In Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East, we are seeing early drone warfare. I would equate this to where Ukraine and Russia were in 2023. The diffusion of drone technology and tactics will increase, particularly whenever the Russo-Ukraine war ends. I doubt that we are prepared." Quote Ryan O'Leary @RyanO_ChosenCoy, "One thing that is becoming more common is “PMC” type and drone companies hiring foreigners who did drones in Ukraine for work. The main problem with that, is that anyone can learn to fly a drone in 14-21 days. Give them 6 weeks and they’ll be hitting targets. What they don’t learn in-depth typically is the tactics behind drones (especially for the 6 monthers) or get a good grasp on signals/frequency and all the overly nerdy shit involved in that realm...."

Jeremiah Fowler Security Researcher @yoda69, "According to Cloudflare Data Explorer the amount of russian bot traffic has dropped to 49% after Ukraine struck a yandex data center. Could this disrupt the midterm elections in the US?" Disrupt US election by cutting down Russian bots? Please explain that? At Da Caller, ‘It’s Time For Ukraine To Get A New President’: Trump Signals End Of Patience With Zelenskyy As War Stretches On. Sundance at CTH also hears President Trump Says It’s Time for Zelenskyy to Be Replaced. They could hold an election.... Also, Zelenskyy Urgently Attacks Russian Oil/Fuel Export Terminal "The intention of Zelenskyy’s targeting is obvious to anyone who has followed the conflict between Russia-Ukraine and the involvement of EU-NATO countries in keeping maximum conflict at the forefront. They do not want a strategic agreement between Putin and Trump." John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad, "Why are we importing ANY petroleum products? BUILD MORE DIESEL REFINERIES AND SHIPS TO MOVE IT This is a military priority. If Cali and Mass refuse then build DoW refineries on federal land. If Delta Airlines can own and run a refinery then the USAF can too."

Michael Ron Bowling @mrbcyber, "Disturbing news that the former German spy chief arrested for treason had close relationship to a Chinese general. Western intelligence appears to be deeply compromised. This comes shortly after a report that a senior CIA official had stolen millions from the agency. He also shared information with a foreign intelligence agency. Western democracies believed they had won the cold war and let their defenses down. The CCP never believed the war ended and has been compromising officials the whole time." And this is why you spy on allies (among other good reasons).

Althouse goes to the NYT for their coverage of Hassan's upcoming execution, "Legal experts say that Mr. Hasan could challenge the government’s decision to livestream his execution, perhaps by asserting..." "... that a public broadcast would violate prohibitions on cruel and unusual punishment in the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution." Well, you can find a legal expert to say anything you want. Also, "If Hegseth were not a musclebound intellectual void, he would know this." "He would know that the Fort Hood killer told the mental health panel that he wanted to die. Writes London Times columnist Matthew Syed." We should should help him along.

From Commonplace, The Gen Z Blue-Collar Jobs Boom "A new generational opportunity is taking shape in the skilled trades." At Hat Hair Steven Moore asks Why Are Americans So Pessimistic? "But it's weird that the richer and wealthier we get, the more people complain," and Larry Elder answers The Anti-Trump Media and 'Economic Pessimism'. Nick Arama at RedState, Bessent Goes Beast Mode on Elizabeth Warren in Letter That's Pure Gold — Especially the Note at End "Finally, my Offer of a Foreign Exchange for Dummies tutorial still stands, and if you receive a passing grade on the Yale metric, not the Harvard curve, I would be happy to also include a Fixed Income for Dummies. ... "Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day in advance to you and your family."" Da Caller, Secretary Bessent Wishes Heritage-Adopting Senator A ‘Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day’ Amid Flurry Of Snarky Affordability Letters.

Also from Da Caller, Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle Reportedly Boasts Of Elites Bankrolling Her Luxury Travel At Globalist Retreat. "A recording from the January World Economic Forum captured the comments, according to The Wall Street Journal. On it, Kimberly Guilfoyle flaunted her closeness to two Greek tycoons. She was lobbying to get into a dinner for Eric Trump." Isn't that what ambassadors do, fly around and put meetings together? And she's getting someone else to pay for it! But she has shown questionable judgement in the past; she did marry Gavin Newsom. Best occupant of "The Five's" leg chair ever.

At Twitchy, Manlet MI Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed Mocks Dave Portnoy’s Body After Being Called a Terrorist. Campus Reform reports a Conservative student says he was threatened after pressing El-Sayed on Iran "“Since that day, people have threatened me, doxxed my friends, even harassed my family,” Dashti said." Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt, "What’s terrifying about this clip isn’t their ideals…these sweet gals’ hearts are certainly in the right place. What’s terrifying is they have the civic, political, and economic literacy of a 9 year old. When a charlatan like Abdul comes along with the Jr High class president schtick of “no more homework and the vending machines are all free!”, they fall for it...." From RCP, Chicago Chases Away the Rich. Miami Says 'Thank You'.

Sarah Anderson at PJM, says Talarico Has Been Spotted. His Appearance Creates More Questions Than Answers. "Either Talarico is hiding something or whoever is running his campaign is a complete and total idiot. Possibly, both things are true." 

Dan McCarthy at Chronic says Liberal Doves Are No Answer to Liberal Hawks. "Liberal doves have failed almost as badly as liberal hawks over the past three decades, and their failures are inextricably related. The fundamental problem isn’t hawkishness or dovishness, but liberalism. It is incompatible with realism."

Bob Spencer at PJM, likes how Trump Mocks Hochul, and It's a Riot: ‘Hi, Gestating.’

Ben Weingarten at Da Fed asserts If Jack Smith’s Goons Don’t Pay For Their Crimes, Innocent Americans Will. Sundance hosts Former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard Delivers Speech Warning About the Modern Surveillance State and the Threat of Islamic Extremism.

Betsy McCaughey at Hat Hair, says it's Time to End Democrats' Lynch-Law Justice for College Boys. At Althouse, "You don't have to look at the facts and the law. All you have to do is study what they do." "Letitia James offers a gift to Saritha Komatireddy:" Amy Curtis @RantyAmyCurtis, "Because young men have learned that if they date a girl and it goes bad, she can come back and accuse them of rape two years after the fact. She can strangle his children and the media will circle the wagons to protect her. She can divorce him and take half of everything. That’s why." Quote Chris Hatch @Dirtdog, "Attention Young Men: I am surrounded by 20 year old girls in my life that are smart, capable, hard working and cute. Nobody is dating them. Not sure what the deal is, but I don’t get it."

Kyle Becker at RedState sees a Tech Titan Go Scorched Earth Over Hit Job on Trump's Sons, Even CNN Suspects Dirty Pool. Richard Grenell @RichardGrenell, "Editors need to stop assigning political reporters to do finance and economic stories. The WSJ now employs a bunch of former Politico and Huffington Post bloggers who don’t understand basic finance issues." Quote Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "Wow. Read the article. (Link below.) What a stunning set of mistakes by ABC News."

Dave Strom at Hat Hair looks at French Street Protests and sees It's Not Many Students, and Lots of Leftists and Islamists and She Got the Nobel Prize for Hating Israel; UPDATE: Elisha Wiesel Condemns. From Althouse, "Language and Linguistics for Decolonization and Liberation and for Peace and Community Building — From the River to the Sea in Palestine and Israel to the Mountaintops of Haiti and Beyond." "That's the name of the class discussed in "The Controversial Class That M.I.T. Is Paying a Professor Not to Teach/Michel DeGraff, a vocal pro-Palestinian activist, can’t be easily fired because he has tenure. But he has been kicked out of his department" (NYT)."

Driscoll at Insty thinks ELON MUSK’S ENEMIES MAKE HIS BEST CASE: "In 2023, Alex Gibney, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker, announced that he was working on a documentary about Elon Musk. He asked Musk for an interview. The answer was delivered on X: “Gibney,” Musk informed his 241.5 million followers, “is a douche.” You could take the world’s richest man at his word. Or you could spend three hours and 55 minutes watching Gibney do his best to prove Musk right. ... The real America, the one we know from discernible and observable facts, is nowhere on display. In Gibneystan, no record exists of Musk the champion environmentalist, hailed by the left until he refused to continue and parrot its platitudes. Nor is there any mention of Big Tech’s frequent and egregious collusion with Democrat-controlled administrations; the sin of seeking proximity to political power is unique to the devilish Musk himself."

From the College Fix, University of Kansas removes menstrual products from men’s bathrooms.

Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_, "Sophie responds to the article from @TheAthletic demanding Fever to drop her "If you're going to live by the praise, you'll die by the hate.....I'm going to continue to do me.....suck it" This is the appropriate response. We should all be more like this."

Flotsam and Jetsam - Where in the World is James Talarico?

Suddenly, someone noticed the Democrat candidate for Texas Senator has been missing from the campaign trail for more than a week, and his campaign has been substituting old footage for news to try and paper over his absence. At PJM, Chris Queen wonders Where in the World Is Jimmy Talarico? We Miss Our Favorite Heretic!, Matt Margolis asks Are We Really Supposed to Believe Talarico Has the Flu? and Cathy Salgado thinks Talafreako Is ‘Sick,’ Becerra Is Hiding, and Dems Know Their Candidates Are Too Dumb to Campaign. Jen O'Connell at RedState sees Paxton 'Milk Cartons' Talarico's Absence From the Campaign Trail As Dem's Staffers Let the Mask Slip. Matthew Foldi @MatthewFoldi, "#TXSEN NEWS: In the closing days of James Talarico's race against @KenPaxtonTX, Talarico's own staffers could cause major problems for the Texas Democrat -- in this exclusive footage, one of Talarico's Marxist field organizers explains how she views him as the "vehicle" to push Texas drastically leftward, and that Talarico is actually far more anti-Israel than he publicly claims to be..." Stephen Green @VodkaPundit, "10 days isn't the flu. 10 days is "caught in bed with a live boy AND a dead girl."" At Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog, Trump Texas Trip Targets Talafreako. Trans-Touter? Truant. America @america, "Democrat Nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas James Talarico: “I don't care where you get the revenue, I don't care what taxes you have to raise.”

Scott McLallen at TownHall reports Rogers, El-Sayed Clash in First Michigan Senate Debate. Cathy Salgado again, 'He's Lying!' Rogers Exposes El-Sayed’s Terror Ties and Deception During Debate. Hat Hair's Beege Welborn says If Snippets I'm Seeing of the MI Senate Debate Is How the Whole Thing's Going? YOICKS. RedWave Press @RedWavePress, "OH MY: Mike Rogers takes Abdul El-Sayed to the WOOD CHIPPER, CLAPPING BACK after the Muslim progressive hits him for owning a home in Florida: “He owns a home in the United Arab Emirates. At least Florida’s in the United States.” Alana Goodman @alanagoodman, "El-Sayed refuses to publicly support the assassination of Ayatollah Khamenei, because, as he admitted on leaked audio, he doesn't want to alienate radicalized pro-Khamenei/pro-Hezbollah voters in Dearborn. Great questioning from @AudreyFahlberg , one of the few reporters to press El-Sayed on this very important issue!" Quote Audrey Fahlberg @AudreyFahlberg, "There hasn’t been much reporting follow up on @alanagoodman’s scoop about a private Abdul El-Sayed campaign comms strategy call following the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during which he said "there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad" about his death." From Twitchy, OUCH! New Video of El-Sayed Roasting Obama Just Made the Upcoming Campaign Stop AWKWARD. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair cites El-Sayed: You Know Whose Health Care Policy Stunk and Gave Us Trump, Right? From Ace, El-Sayed, Ready to Campaign with Shit-Fingered Midas, Previously Said Obama Was a Failed President Who Left the Country Off Worse Than When He Found It. "We have something in common with Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed: We agree that the SCOAMF was a disaster." At PJM, VodkaPundit looks at Barack Obama and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad News Cycle. From Da Mail, an Embarrassing blow for Barack Obama as workers at his 'death star' presidential center are already so fed up they're leaving in droves... as stern letter is released.

Hat Hair's Dave Strom notices Mamdani Doesn't Hate Jews Enough for His Supporters... No, he really does, it's just an act. Jarvis @jarvis_best, "He’s gotta be concerned at this point about a primary challenge from his wife." Quote Peter Sterne @petersterne, "Mamdani is stone-faced as the protesters call him a traitor and sellout." The Drunk Republican @DrunkRepub, "You almost have to admire Mamdani. Dude just walks around NYC smiling and shitting on everything because the place is so far gone that he’s untouchable, and he knows it. Like John Gotti wearing a keffiyeh." PJM's Stephen Kruiser, October 7 vs. January 6 — Guess Which Date the Dems Think Is Worse. 

Steve Calabresi at the Volokh Conspiracy explains The Democratic Socialists of America Platform. "The DSA would abolish the police, open borders, socialize medicine, abolish the Department of War, and abolish the Senate." From Da Signal, Bill to Strip DSA of Party Rights Picks Up Steam in DC. “The DSA has made clear that it wants to abolish and fundamentally change the 250-year American experiment of self-government,” Fuller told the Daily Signal. “The organization’s co-chair has confirmed support for abolishing institutions like the Senate, presidency, and Supreme Court, abolishing ICE and our borders, defunding the Pentagon, and mass amnesty for illegal immigrants.” Wake me up when a Democrat signs on. At Quotulatiousness, Central planning also centralizes the importance of “who you know” "Maria Gabriela Chavez holds assets estimated at $4.2 billion, making her Venezuela’s wealthiest individual by a comfortable margin. Her father nationalized over 1,200 private companies between 2002 and 2012."

Matt Margolis thinks These Numbers Should Terrify Democrats Ahead of the Midterms. Which is why they're already talking about the election being stolen (I mean, aside from the usual projection). "when you take a look at how people are actually registering, this is not polling data, compared to where we were eight years ago, Republicans are doing considerably better in what are the swing states, at least normally in presidential elections," Enten said." Don Surber is hopeful Democrats may blow it. "There is a 13% chance they will pick up fewer than 3 seats in the House." "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.." From ¡No Pasaran! Vote Red — Or America's Dead: It's your year to save this country.

The inimitable Kurt Schlichter at TownHall, Trump Has Reset the Strategic Chessboard and People Are Blackpilling? "Oh no, gas is a little more expensive per gallon, and a bunch of Democrats haven’t been thrown into jail yet. I guess the only thing to do is vote for a bunch of communists." At Insty VodkaPundit says BUCKLE UP: "China’s Build Up of Nuclear Forces. ... The Pentagon called it a “strategic breakout” five years ago, and Beijing’s pace has only accelerated since then." Stephen Fleming @StephenFleming, "It’s possible that the First Space War has already started and they’re just not telling us." Quote LeoLabs @LeoLabs_Space "LeoLabs has detected another debris-generating event in orbit. This is the latest in a series of events we've seen over the last 6 months. Together, they point to a worrying trend for space safety and security, and underscore the critical need for persistent sensing."

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald, "The third-place finisher behind Bolsonaro and Lula -- Augusto Cury -- has just come out and endorsed Flavio Bolsonaro in the run-off. Lula's prospects for overcoming his first-round deficit grow dimmer by the day." Quote Sam Pancher @SamPancher, "Augusto Cury has decided to support Flávio Bolsonaro, according to an investigation by @igorgadelham Support video is expected to be released in the next few hours." Time for the lefty judge to jail the son! From Twitchy, European Parliament Displays Statue of Naked, Gold-Plated Trump Called ‘The Orange Plague.’ Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon, "The US should simply remove all military protections and aid to the EU and its member states. What is the point of all this if even the people who tell us loudly they are the good guys can't follow basic human decency?" Naomi Seibt @NaomiSeibt, "A German artist was allowed to display a NAKED TRUMP STATUE at the EU parliament. Meanwhile, it is ILLEGAL to “damage the reputation of a politician” in Germany. Imagine the uproar if Trump put a naked Angela Merkel statue in the White House!" Good idea, let's try it! Hat Hair's Dave Strom thinks Rubio's Excellent Speech on Western Civ Is a Rorschach Test. Mark Paolette at Da Fed swears Trump’s Triumphal Arch Completes A Longstanding National Aspiration. I can live with or without it. Just another thing to move when we make Fargo ND the capitol city. At Am Great, the Great Victor Davis Hanson wonders Are We Becoming Gondor? "J.R.R. Tolkien’s vision of a declining Gondor offers a warning for the troubled West—but also a message of hope that renewal remains possible."

Insty calls it SETTING AN EXAMPLE: Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will Be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says. Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "Must see TV. But yeah, there’ll be hating. More public executions please. More executions. Murderers, rapists, terrorists and traitors. (We have quite a few of the latter as yet uncharged. Not a good idea. Charges, executions, get people’s attention.) Gibbeting. Old American and English tradition. Let them rot in public view." Quote wretchardthecat @wretchardthecat, "The livestreaming of Hasan's execution is likely to generate strong emotions on all sides. Western societies now look away from death, sanitize it, medicalize it and move on. For all its negatives a firing squad puts it right in our face again. It was not always so. ..." InfantryDort @infantrydort, "This monster shot many people. Among them, a pregnant woman who cried out “My baby, my baby!” before she died. In case any of you are feeling sorry for this miserable fuck being executed in 1080p." At Althouse, "We'll make sure that people are able to watch it — that it's public — because people need to understand that there are serious consequences for these types of things.", "Said Pete Hegseth, promising a public execution. ... So we are called to contemplate something that we have long believed to have been abandoned. There is some excitement — I see it in Hegseth's body language — over the return of the spectacle of imposing the death penalty." Twitchy, TDS Accounts Try to Dunk on Pete Hegseth Running With Troops and Faceplant on the Previous SecDef. The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller, "This is the funniest shit of all time… wait for it… Quote FactPost @factpostnews, "Pete Hegseth trails behind the crowd while running with troops in San Diego." Bravo Charlie Mike @brent_maz, "Can you run? Or are you pointing out that the mid-40’s side doesn’t run as fast as the 20 something’s?"

505 days after Elon’s decline and fall… He’s the World’s first trillionaire and National Medal of Science Award winner. The Media truly does suck. https://t.co/9eceZ1x5Oz

— C3 (@C_3C_3) October 8, 2026

The Free Bacon highlights how Wall Street Journal vs. Treasury Secretary Bessent Erupts as Pre-Election Blood Feud. At Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog, Trump Tightens SNAP Requirements As Nick Shirley Demonstrates EBT Fraud.

The Chicago Boyz, About That Night in Cornell "Third, the timing of the claim is suspicious. I know her suit was technically filed in September, but coming as it does shortly before an election it qualifies as an “October Surprise.”" Amy Curtis @RantyAmyCurtis, "100% convinced that Cornell is little more than a Democrat psyop weeks before a midterm election that’s shaping up to be brutal for them." Quote Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog, "So the Cornell accuser called it a “gang bang,” specifically stated that nothing illegal occurred, and said “our body our choice.” Ok. Case closed. Let’s move on to the next hoax please." Lisa Britton @LisaBritton, "When I got into an argument with the late Senator Dianne Feinstein in front of a room full of constituents, accusing her and the party of using women (their pain and trauma) to get votes, this is the kind of stuff I was referring to." Quote Women's March @womensmarch "The epidemic of sexual violence holds auditions in the frat house and does prime time in the White House. Cornell and LSU are not exceptions, they are examples of rape culture on campuses and communities across the country. Thursday, we bring the rage about this case and many..." Matt Vespa at TownHall, sees The Cornell Case Takes Another Turn, and Letitia James Is Involved. Lauren Conlin @conlin_lauren, "SCOOP: CORNELL SEVEN: Gillio Lopes, one of the seven men accused in Jane Doe’s civil lawsuit, has filed an Article 78 challenge looking to REMOVE NY Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor in the criminal investigation. His attorneys argue James showed bias toward Jane Doe in a Sept. 28 social media post, three days before Gov. Hochul appointed her to lead the reopened criminal investigation. Lopes wants the appointment overturned and a different prosecutor assigned. A judge has not yet ruled. More details via @lamag shortly." alexandriabrown @alexthechick, "As someone who has spent 30 years *stares bleakly into the distance* serving defendants, it is basic, basic competence to make sure you have the right address for the defendant. In a case of this notoriety, there is no excuse for failing to make sure that is the right person." Quote Michael Tracey @mtracey, "Jane Doe lawyer Thomas Giuffra was already notorious for not doing basic due diligence to check stuff in his sensational rape-alleging lawsuits. Now he's got a random Marine he tried to serve, because he happens to have the same name as a defendant, begging the Court for relief..." AG @AGHamilton29, "This is part of why I said the public mob mentality on here based on allegations in a lawsuit was extremely inappropriate and unhelpful. The texts directly contradict claims in the lawsuit. We don’t know what’s true, but that’s why people should wait for the facts." Quote TMZ @TMZ, "EXCLUSIVE: Cornell alleged sexual assault, Jane Doe says "gangbang ... our body our choice." We can't wait for the facts! There's an election coming! Stacy McCain sees The Wrong Matthew Ingalls, the Correct ‘Jane Doe’ and the Cornell 7 Case and finds Amanda Marcotte ‘A Reliable Barometer of Wrongness’ on the Cornell case and just in general. He also outs 'Jane Doe.' Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630, "I almost literally cannot think of a worse idea than paying college women tens of thousands of dollars to make Cornell-quality rape claims." Quote New York Post @nypost, "NYS lawmaker pitches bill to give sex assault victims tuition reimbursement in wake of Cornell 7 case." From the Free Bacon, Cornell’s President Misses the Point—In a Telling Way; "'Body autonomy' is not the key issue." Lisa Britton @LisaBritton, "When you realize that most of “female empowerment!” is actually big business in many ways, then the escalating gender war starts to make more sense." Quote Christina Buttons @buttonslives, "She’s right of course. There really is a campus rape industry whose objective is to convince women they’ve been raped. There’s an entire ecosystem of advocacy groups, lawyers, researchers, victim-services programs, and the Title IX bureaucracy that has a financial and..." Quote Heather Mac Donald @HMDatMI, "A real rape victim is not going to initiate friendly (and possibly sexual) contact again with her alleged rapist, as Jane Doe did. ..."

Susie Moore at RedState hears ‘Make the Supreme Court Say It Twice’: Roberts Blocks 4th Circuit's Extraordinary Election Order. At Shooting News Week, With Yesterday’s SCOTUS Denial, Concealed Carry Reciprocity is Now Up to Congress. At Da Caller Harold Hutchinson says Anti-Gunners Reveal Motive Behind Their Under-The-Radar Involvement In Supreme Court Climate Case. They want lefty cities setting national policy. Also from Da Caller, DOJ Seeking Criminal Indictment Of Cassidy Hutchinson Over Jan. 6 Testimony.

At Twitchy, Norm Macdonald Meme Plays Out in MN As ‘Journo’ Frets Over Somali Gangs Being Called ‘Somali Gangs.’ Nick Sortor @nicksortor, "So basically, we took his family in from Somalia, cared for them, allowed them to stay here PERMANENTLY, and how does their son repay us? BY ATTEMPTING TO KlLL 60 NON-MUSLIMS AT THE MALL The “melting pot” experiment has failed. SEND THEM ALL BACK!" amanda @amandatalks__, with a Friendly reminder that the most ISIS recruits in the entire country during the height of the caliphate came from this cluster of buildings in Minneapolis." Ace says Don't Call Them Somali Gangs. Call Them Well-Armed Doctors and Engineers. "The Somali community, and the left generally, continues to rage that Somali gang members are called Somali gang members. They want them called "American" gang members. And they insist that the problem isn't Somalis, it's just guns. FoxNews..."

Mary Chastain at LI, Trump Admin Suspends Microsoft, Others From PERM Program Over Alleged Visa Abuse. "JD Vance: “In other words, if you do the math, for every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker with one and a half foreign indentured servants.”" From Da Caller, White House Suspends Microsoft From Green Card Program Over H-1B Fraud. Dave Strom says BOOM! Administration Shutting Down Foreign Worker Flow to Companies That Abuse Programs. Ace, Citing Microsoft's Practice of Laying Off American Workers and Replacing Them With H-1B "Indentured Servants," Trump Suspends Microsoft's Ability to Use the Green Card Program. "Niiiiice. Should have been done long ago. Hit Disney next. The terrorist-aligned AP is sad."

Mary Chastain, Trump Admin Investigating Nine Universities for Alleged Visa Fraud. “We will investigate whether foreign influence, improper financial relationships, or visa abuse are compromising federally funded research.” Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47, "@USLaborIG: "I am announcing a historic investigation into the J-1 visa fraud involving nine major American universities — Pit, Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Brown, UC Davis, Caltech, Arizona State, and MIT. Subpoenas have been served; investigations are underway.""

From Twitchy, WHOA. Never Seen THAT Before: ABC So SCREWED UP Their Trump and Sons Hit Piece They Just DELETED It. Brent Scher @BrentScher, "Damn, ABC completely took this down. No editor’s note, no nothing, just deleted." Quote Amy Siskind @Amy_Siskind, "ABC News reported that AI defense company Anduril Industries, a company in which Donald Jr.’s 1789 Capital has a major investment, was awarded a multi-billion deal announced by Trump on Tuesday, and had been awarded 135 other contracts with the government." John Sexton sees The NYTimes Offers a Defense of the Prairieland Antifa Gang. Adam Carolla @adamcarolla, "All the liars and hustlers want to move on." Quote Dr Charlie Ward @DrcharlieWardQ, "MUST WATCH : CNN’s Dana Bash: “I really want to move on [from talking about the mistakes during COVID] HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “Of course you want to move because you were part of the problem.”"

Althouse finds The Nobel Peace Prize as a "grotesque weaponization of an award to legitimize anti-Israel hatred and prejudice." "I'm reading "Live Updates: Human Rights Lawyer Navi Pillay Is Awarded Nobel Peace Prize/Ms. Pillay has served as a judge in her native South Africa and on international courts investigating war crimes. She led a U.N. panel that determined that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, a finding the Israeli government rejected" (NYT):" Cathy Salgado explains Why Anti-Israel Is Anti-American: We Face the Same Enemy. The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "Hamas Disappointed Leftists Don't Believe They Massacred Jews After They Went To All The Trouble To Livestream It."

At Da Signal, France Bowed by School Riots.This has very little to do with schools and a lot to do with mass immigration. The 74, wonders Do Americans Worry About Schools Becoming Too White? Too Asian? "Hartney: New survey finds Republicans and Democrats support merit-based admissions, but they react very differently depending on which groups benefit." Jonathan Turley dissects The Education Cartel and the Blue State School Scam. "Families and students have become largely irrelevant to an education cartel, a self-sustaining, self-perpetuating political alliance of unions and politicians."

Defiant L’s @DefiantLs, "British teen arrested after Facebook post criticizing British politician for being on his phone instead of working The new Britain ladies and gentlemen Illegals are murdering people in the street but Facebook posts can get you arrested." Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "Seems like a reasonable expectation, given…" Quote The English Crusader @andrewc44104127, "ARE THEY PLANNING TO PUT THE ARMY ON THE STREETS OF BRITAIN? Our Source | Warned us that a regiment that has been waiting to deploy all year abroad, has had their plans cancelled, and the whispers in the chain of command is it is because they think there is going to be major civil unrest. Meaning, they are keeping the regiment in the UK to deploy on UK streets if needed, and if there is their massive civil unrest. This is highly unusual and not normal. We went and did research and there are in fact multiple regiments that have been waiting to deploy abroad, having their plans cancelled..." Mrs. Rutter ™ @lindarutter, ""I never thought I'd live to see the day when the right wing would become to cool ones giving the middle finger to the establishment, and the left wing become the sniveling self-righteous twatty ones going around shaming everyone." ~John Lydon AKA Johnny Rotten The Sex Pistols"

Kyle Becker at RedState thinks Caitlin Clark Gets the 'Last Laugh' on WNBA After Her Team Is Eliminated. Christine Brennan @cbrennansports, "A bit of good news for the WNBA: Instead of losing 55% of TV audience when Fever go out (info below), the drop for semis Game 1 vs Game 1 of Fever-Aces a week earlier is 44-47%: 2.11M Fever-Aces ABC 1.17M Liberty–Dream ABC 1.12M Aces–Valkyries NBC/Peacock All Sun vs NFL games." Quote Christine Brennan @cbrennansports, "There’s joy among anti-CC WNBA fans but no joy among TV execs and sponsors. Sad reality hits the W with Fever now out: based on three seasons of viewership data, when Caitlin Clark leaves, half of W’s TV audience leaves as well. Maybe this month is different? From On Her Game:" But they don't really care because the WNBA is supported mostly by the NBA.

There's still more at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 10.07.26 and In The Mailbox: 10.08.26. The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: A Winning Homestand up and garnering clicks at The Other McCain.