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Saturday, October 17, 2026

Flotsam and Jetsam - Hello, I Must Be Going DIY

Trump, Republicans and Foreign Affairs

It Looks Like President Trump Is Kicking Katie Zacharia to the Curb – PJ Media
Today's Deep Question: Is Zacharia 'Cooked' After Tough Hannity Interview? UPDATE: Out, Per Fox – HotAir
Is Katie Zacharia a Lawyer? - Power LineKatie Zacharia dropped as press secretary after one week on the job - Fox News
Althouse: I don't know, and I don't like that language. I just want her to withdraw back into obscurity. Please.
Rumor Has It Skittish EU Leaders Want Zelensky to Stuff a Sock in It – HotAir
How Dumb Is Canada? Carney Spent Nearly $1 Million for Gaza Elections That Were Never Happening. – PJ Media
Oilfield Rando on X: "Top tier geopolitical troll"
Breitbart Business Digest Prescription Drug Prices Just Saw the Biggest Decline Ever
Elon's Forgotten Success: DOGE – HotAir
In The Mailbox: 10.16.26 : The Other McCain

The Disloyal Opposition

The Morning Briefing: El-Sayed Goes Full Talarico. Never Go Full Talarico. – PJ Media
Ace of Spades HQ - MSNOW Of All Outlets Challenges Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed's Lie About Having No Familial Connections to the Muslim Brotherhood
The Left’s Choreographed ‘Lifelong Republican’ Demoralization Campaign Is Underway – PJ Media
Next News Network on X: "AOC gets roasted in a brutal new meme as Tesla's flying Roadster soars right past her. The internet showed no mercy on this one. Somewhere, the Green New Deal just got lapped. 
Compassionate Socialism? It’s Time to Have a Sit-Down With That Young Socialist You Know. – PJ Media
Two-thirds of Americans want government help with surging healthcare costs — but 'Medicare for All' isn't it
Dem Challenger Tells Collins to 'Shut Up.' Nevertheless, She Persisted. – HotAir
Alaska Senate Candidate Cues Viral Reaction With Embarrassing Thing She Brought to Live Debate – RedState
Sherrod Brown Wanted Our Vietnam POWs Kept Captive to Protect Hanoi From US Bombs – HotAir
RNC Research on X: "White House instructions to Biden: "YOU take YOUR seat."

Matters of Just Us

Ace of Spades HQ - Ilhan "Omar" Disappears; Husband Asked If She's Fled the Country
Ilhan Omar Sure Sounds Worried With What She Says and Does in Latest Remarks – RedState
The Drunk Republican on X: "Ilhan Omar’s staff deleting her “no one is above the law” posts
Instapundit  - I LOVE COMMUNITY NOTES: There are more Notes where that one came from, if you’d like to rate
Wall Street Apes on X: "White liberals gathered in a Minnesota park to demand “Hands off Ilham Omar” and “Hands off the Somali community” Look at this crowd, there is literally zero diversity, they’re all white liberals This event was organized by an NGO, its name is Freedom Road Socialist
The Babylon Bee on X: "Ilhan Omar To Be Deported To Dearborn, Michigan

Immigration Legal and Otherwise

How Many Foreign Workers at US AI Firms Are Spies? – HotAir
The 'Nonissue' Of Noncitizens Voting Is Becoming A Bigger Issue

Freedom of Speech and Media Bias

Brit Hume on X: "Sometimes bias gives itself away in the most subtle, but telling ways."
C3 on X: "513 days after Elon’s decline and fall… He’s the World’s first trillionaire, National Medal of Science Award winner and just unveiled his flying car. The Media truly does suck.

Culture, Education and Entertainment

Campus Reform - Columbia Journalism School hosts discussion of book arguing 'White America' was conditioned to lynch black children
Penn State may cut 47 programs over low interest, weak employment opportunity - The College Fix
Defiant L’s on X: "Resurfaced clip of Kathy Griffin in 2004 talking about muslims "It's such a wonderful culture for women, unless you have a clitoris and you're 13... the muslims are not your friend" I guess this is before TDS took over
The Babylon Bee on X: "'Ugh I Can't Believe Men Are Looking At Me At The Gym,' Says Woman Who Went To The Gym Specifically So Men Would Look At Her
The Problem With Cornell Is That Men Never Hear That Women Are Victims – HotAir
Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 on X: "Imagine being in a coma for the past 20 years and waking up to read this headline."

Actually, this was what I was looking for. It's funny what the internet turns up.

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

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. 

William Teach at Pirate's Cove notes the Credentialed Media Has a Hissy Fit Over Trump’s New Assistant Press Secretary. "This is the same media who painted Trump and anyone associated with him as a Nazi, hence, it was OK to assault them, try and kill them, and actually kill them. "Right-wing TV personality who praised Charlie Kirk and wore f*** Biden shirt, lands White House press role. President Donald Trump’s new assistant press secretary — a former reporter for Real America’s Voice — once posed for a photo with a rifle while wearing a “f*** Joe Biden” T-shirt and was a fan of slain conservative influencer Charlie Kirk." Oh my goodness, a fan of Charlie Kirk? I fear I might faint!Kyle Becker at RedState, sees Usha Vance Has Close Call Aboard Marine Two. The Hair-Raising Video Is Concerning. A missed step off Marine Two while carrying the new baby. That's quite a pair of heels for a helicopter ride. 

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.

Joel Pollak @joelpollak, "As Newsom leaves office without any achievements, running for president based on opposition to Trump, his real legacy remains the lockdowns he now says he regrets. Florida had the same death rate, but didn't harm its economy. California's economy grew, but lost its middle class." Shipwreckedcrew hears Gavin Newsom’s Gambit To Push Kamala Harris Out Of The 2028 Race -- “It’s Her or Me, You Have To Choose.” "They have never been friends and they have two separate power bases in California -- but Newsom can’t win the nomination if Harris remains in the race." Beege Welborn hears his wannabe successor, 'I Was Born a Poor $12 Mexican Immigrant's Child' Anthony Cabassa @anthonycabassa, "REPORT: During CNN's Gubernatorial debate, Xavier Becerra stated that his parents "came to this country with $12". This is a line he has repeatedly used during his campaign for Governor. The only problem? His dad was born IN California, and the timeline is not adding up." VodkaPundit at PJM, You'll Never Believe How L.A.'s 'Ambitious Effort' to Fix Homelessness Totally Failed. It didn't fail, the plan was never to fix homelessness, but make it worse, and have Democrat allies get rich off the grift. It was a tremendous success! Hat Hair's Dave Strom looks at Raman's Legacy: L.A. Housing and Commercial Real Estate Squeezed by Pet Policy. If she wins to become LA's mayer, will they call her "Top Ramam?" Tyler O'Neil at Da Signal, New California Law Shields Taxpayer-Funded Entities. "Don't turn on the lights 'cause I don't want to see!"

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."

At WaEx, Samuel Alito warns ‘concerted’ effort to intimidate Supreme Court threatens its future. Eric Florack at PJM notes The Supreme Court Opens Monday. Here's What's Worth Watching. Shipwreckedcrew reports The Supreme Court Takes Up Issue Of What “Process” Is Required To Remove Illegal Aliens to Third Countries. "The conditions imposed by D.Mass. Judge and upheld by the First Circuit were all presented -- and rejected -- by the Supreme Court when it stayed an injunction imposing the same conditions." Hat Hair's John Sexton, Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in a Major Climate Change Case "Progressive lawfare aimed at oil and gas companies reached the Supreme Court today in the form of Suncor Energy Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County. This is an attempt by Boulder County to sue Exxon and Suncor over the effects of climate change on the county." From WUWT, Heartland Institute Experts Comment on Big Climate Case at Supreme Court Today. Susie Moore at RedState is happy SCOTUS Wipes Away 9th Circuit Ruling Against Trump Admin in Venezuelan TPS Fight.

In a Hat Hair video Larry says Trump Just Got Everything on Jack Smith. John Solomon and Steve Richards at JTN, Jack Smith team tracked Trump defense lawyers’ calls by monitoring his chief of staff's phone. "Declassified memos reveal that Jack Smith's secret dragnet, codenamed "Plasmic Echo," monitored senior Trump associates and staff's contacts with lawyers, staff, and journalists during the 2024 campaign." Sundance, White House Declassifies DOJ and FBI Documents Highlighting Susie Wiles Targeting by Main Justice. Matt Margolis at PJM, Jack Smith Just Proved He Lied to Congress. Non-partisan my ass. Ace, Jack Smith Spied on Trump's Lawyers and Advisors to Find Out Who They Were Talking to In Response to Their Prosecution, "They slapped Trump with an absurd investigation, and then essentially criminalized his use of lawyers to defend himself. They spied on his lawyers and advisors as if they were mafia capos."

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."

Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate, "I sat my 7-year-old down and explained to him that dying industries (legacy media, academia, DNC politics) ride algorithmically driven cultural hysterias both because it’s the only way they can stay relevant and because their business models demand it. He looked up at me and with a tear in his eyes asked, ‘so, for the sake of the journos, the assistant professors, and Dem Politics Inc, we’re obligated to attest to the moral urgency of the hysteria and act completely emotionally dysregulated?’ ‘Yes,’ I answered him. ‘Yes, that’s right.’ And then we both sat quietly." Peachy Keenan @KeenanPeachy, "Note that you will never see a liberal magazine asking mothers to talk to their college-age daughters about it." Quote David Polansky @polanskydj, "Kids, turn off Paw Patrol right now—I need to talk to you about sexual assault." Michael Tracey @mtracey, "NY Post claimed to "exclusively" report that the University of Utah is the most rape-plagued campus in the USA, but failed to note that 81% of these purported rape reports were made by a single "survivor/victim" who reported being "raped by their intimate partner" 260 times."

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:



Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet, "The New York Times? Yeah I'm not even the least bit surprised. When that paper doesn't have a terrorist or a Communist to valorize it has no idea what to do with itself." Quote Visegrád 24 @visegrad24, "The New York Post just revealed that the Gazan doctor who wrote two opinion pieces in the New York Times, accusing Israel of genocide after October 7th, is actually a Hamas terrorist himself. It turns out that Dr. Hussam Abu Safyia is a Hamas Colonel."

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.



The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: No Fishy Just Sexy and FMJRA 2.0: A Winning Homestand up and garnering clicks at The Other McCain.

Sunday, September 20, 2026

Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump Gets Greenland

In all but name. And, hey, we didn't get their welfare state or the Democrat votes. At Da Caller, Trump Announces U.S. Will Have ‘Permanent Control Over Security’ In Greenland. Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump, "BREAKING NEWS: I am pleased to announce that the United States of America has entered into an Agreement with The Kingdom of Denmark, and Greenland, that gives the United States permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland, completely addressing ALL of our many U.S. concerns. There will be NO COST to the United States! ...." At PJM Matt Margolis says Trump Secures a HUGE and Historic Deal with Greenland and Scott Pinsker asks What Happens When Pacman Rescues the Princess?: The Great Greenland Gaslight. Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, ""OK, that's nice but Trump has not yet made all of my heart's wildest dreams and desires come true, so I'm sitting out the midterms." /sarc off This is a geopolitical masterstroke. In an era of aggressive Chinese economic and military expansion, this pact between the USA and Denmark is vital. Great job Mr. President and Secretary Rubio." Matt Morse @MattMorseTV, "“Trump’s new deal with Greenland is exactly the same as the old one!” Not true at all. Key new details: Duration: The 1951 deal lasted only as long as NATO existed and Greenland remained part of NATO. Trump’s 2026 deal lasts indefinitely, even if NATO implodes or Greenland becomes independent. ..."

Theresa Fallon @TheresaAFallon, "There has been a prevalent optimism bias in Europe. Even at the #MSC in 2022, shortly before the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, US officials warned that Moscow was about to make a move. Despite all the mounting evidence that war was near, European strategists would not accept this conclusion." Quote Gandalv @Microinteracti1, "For two years the official line is that Russia might be able to attack a NATO country in five to eight years, which is the kind of warning that lets you roll over and go back to sleep. In August American intelligence quietly moves the start of that window to this autumn...." From sundance at CTH, President Vladimir Putin Gives Remarks on Europe’s Preparations for Expanded War Against Russia. FWIW, I don't see Europe wanting war with Russia, but they are getting increasingly fearful the US won't support them in the way they've become accustomed. Good.

VodkaPundit at Insty cites CONRAD BLACK: Canada must mature as a nation. “Carney is pushing a “war” against the country to which we sell about 70 per cent of our exports, the country upon which we are completely dependent for our own military security. And Carney appears to be much more the continuator than the reformer of the helter-skelter immigration policies that have put terrible pressure on housing costs for Canadians of modest incomes. The fact that nearly 45 per cent of Canadians are foreign-born or the children of foreign-born parents heaps tremendous social costs on the country. Canada’s fertility rate of 1.25 is among the lowest in the Western world and we are the assisted suicide capital of the world with the beaming encouragement of our terribly inadequate public health-care system.” From sundance, Barbara Boyd Reviews Shield of Americas, Rubio and Trump’s Moves Against Canada/EU and President Sheinbaum and President Trump Agree on Terms for Bilateral Trade Deal.

Matt Cookson at RCW thinks it's Time for MBS to Finish Off the Houthis. Sundance thinks China Leverages Pressure on Iran to Stop Strikes on Saudi Oil Fields. Guy Benson @guypbenson, “The blockade proves the success of sanctions. If the U.S. keeps its chokehold, Tehran will likely break.” Max Abrahms @MaxAbrahms, "This has less to do with Israeli behavior than the onslaught of disinformation about it." Quote Dominic Michael Tripi @DMichaelTripi, "NEW: Israel’s net favorability in the US reaches new all-time low, falling an unprecedented -67 points from +51 in Trump’s first term to -16 now, with approval continuing to fall across all polls."

Pro America Politics @proamericapol, "President Trump secured 65 billion barrels of oil from Venezuela. He just secured military and economic control over Greenland. Poverty in the US just hit an all-time low. We have net negative immigration to the US for the first time in 75 years. Do you see why they have to desperately obsess over the temporary increase in gas prices? It's all they have." RightWI @RightWI1776, "Wow I can't believe Diesel is over $9/gallon Wait nevermind this was 2022 under Biden." John Hinderacker at Power Line, A Booming Economy: Who Cares? From Breitbart Bus Dig, The World Still Loves the American Economy. Dave Manney at PJM says The $6.7 Billion DOGE Headline Is True. It Also Leaves Out Half the Story. "Spend $6.7 billion once to reduce annual spending by more than $20 billion, and suddenly the story sounds rather different."

Sundance reports President Trump Announces AI Task Force and Pending Appointment of AI Czar. Kevin Killough at JTN hears California Gov. Newsom signs order demanding federal government regulate AI 'before it's too late' "Newsom's statement cites an incident where an Anthropic AI model escaped a containment system to hack into another platform, and says the federal government hasn't responded to the concerns." From the NoTricksZone, Economic Masterminds: German Socialists Suggest Taxing Productivity Gains Stemming From Using AI. mike bski @BskiMike22802, "If You Were Born Before 1980, The Left Has Killed You With Climate Change At Least 17 Times!" ZitoSalena @ZitoSalena, "There are times when I cover an issue in politics/culture on the ground that is seen so wildly different than what either polling shows, social media dictates or the manufactured fear demands it should be. AI/data power centers is one of them The story..."a

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson, "Stephen Miller delivered the greatest on-air masterclass on why you have to vote Republican in the midterms “Democrats’ policies aren’t just wrong; their policies are evil.” “You cannot sit on the sidelines when we are trying to save this country from an agenda that is sinister and wicked and morally indefensible.” Republicans are delivering results: a thriving country under President Trump, secured borders, falling crime, and an America First agenda. The second Democrats take power, they will open the borders again and the mass invasion of our country will continue. This is a fight for the future of our nation. Vote." Chip Roy @chiproytx, "Republicans looking at polls - in Texas or anywhere - and accepting defeat are engaging in self-fulfilling prophecy. Be proud of what we’ve done, admit where we need to do better, expose the radical Democrats, & decide to win. Sports Psychology 101."

The College Fix does a DEEP DIVE and finds Abdul El-Sayed’s sister is a radical university professor. Twitchy ws amused when Abdul El-Sayed Got Heightmogged by an Average Sized Female State Rep. and Became the Weekend’s Meme. War Correspondent @warDaniel47, "OMG. Stunning resurfaced footage shows Ugandan Mayor Mamdani saying the plan is to manipulate white leftists into electing 3rd worlders like him Spoken in his 3rd world accent: "You need someone to be a validator, tell them to TRUST US." "Minority communities, because we've never had representation, we are tied to identity. White communities...are more ideology...voters think of themselves first as progressive." Muslim invaders PURPOSEFULLY position themselves as "validators" to manipulate the public into handing over control TERRIFYING. He needs to be deported." Twitchy sees Jessica Tarlov Saying Dems Are on the Side of Sanity Nearly Made Bill Maher Fall Out of His Chair. RedWave Press @RedWavePress, "Bill Maher: “There are things in history that absolutely do compare to the Holocaust. But lots of people just love to throw that term around. I mean, this country is so antisemitic now…” David Foster: “What turned the Democratic Party antisemitic?” Bill Maher: “Israel. It's what turned them. It's a question I explore a lot on my show.” David Foster: “I don't know the answer. And you don't either?” Bill Maher: “I do. Again, it's lack of education…" and RedWave Press @RedWavePress, "Bill Maher: “Greta Thunberg. She's a professional useless idiot and I would like to talk some sense into her.” David Foster: “How did she get to be so Greta?” Bill Maher: “How did that whole generation get there? My short answer: lack of education. We stopped teaching kids things. They don’t know anything… Ignorant is different than stupid… And it’s not their fault that the schools stopped teaching them things..."

Chef Andrew Gruel @ChefGruel, "Funny thing, this doesn’t even include federalized national guard troops, so Newsom basically just signed a bill making it harder for other states to help us with riots, wildfires, earthquakes or any other major emergency. Great job." Quote California Globe CaliforniaGlobe, "Newwsom Signs Bill Barring Out-of-State National Guard Deployments into CA. Because we don’t want military help with our riots?" Carol Roth @caroljsroth, "Actually, it was insane in real time. It was also intentional and evil." Quote Polymarket @Polymarket, "JUST IN: Gavin Newsom says closing California beaches during COVID was “insane, in hindsight.”

Kyle Becker at RedState reports Minnesota's Anti-Ice Fraud Fund Was Just 'Shut Down.' The Reason Couldn't Be More Ironic. "A $2 million "anti-ICE" fraud fund that was intended to help those who were "harmed" by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers enforcing the law was recently frozen because of — you guessed it — fraud."

Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2, "Mike Davis @mrddmia confirmed this morning that Article III Project plans to file a judicial misconduct complaint related to the NYT article published yesterday profiling Judge Patrick Schiltz and including comments from 6 other federal judges: declassified.live Courthouse Coup, Minnesota Style In a recent interview with the New York Times, Patrick Schiltz--the former chief judge of the Minnesota district court--described a collective effort to block the administration’s deportation plans."

SCOTUS Wire @scotus_wire, "BREAKING: In a 2-1 vote, the Fifth Circuit ruled that the federal ban on direct interstate handgun sales violates the Second Amendment."

From Da Caller, DHS Cracks Down On Immigration Attorneys Who File ‘Meritless’ Asylum Claims. Sundance reports President Trump Identifies H1B Visa Abuse as a “National Security Threat.” Jonathan Turley sees Sen. Paul Introduces a Birthright Citizenship Amendment, which, of course, won't happen anytime soon. "Most countries in the world reject this controversial policy. Our closest allies in Europe reject birthright citizenship and follow the common practice of “jus sanguinis,” or right of blood. We are part of a smaller number of countries following “jus soli,” or right of soil. Various countries that once followed the practice later amended their constitutions or laws to get rid of it. That is what would need to be done with a 28th amendment." Beege Welborn is disappointed by a Dem in RINO Clothing: SoFL Rep Salazar's Message for President Trump.

Lara Logan @laralogan, "The situation in Ceuta is turning worse & worse. The Spanish government has been exposed lying to the people as it is obvious tens of thousands of illegal immigrants are still there. Perhaps more importantly the world is seeing what globalism & open borders really mean: invasion & conquest. This is happening across the western world to differing degrees - you just don’t get to see it. But the effect is the same: over time your culture, country & identity are overwhelmed & replaced." Quote Reuters @Reuters, "WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Spanish police began moving hundreds of migrants from beaches in Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta to temporary facilities at the city's port, sparking tension as migrants vied for limited spots at the new location." Twitchy sees a Migrant Charity in Scotland Gives 'Asylum Seekers' Lessons on the Age of Consent. Lee Anderson MP @LeeAndersonMP_, "Importing Savages. ASYLUM seekers arriving in the UK are being handed booklets warning them that sex with children is illegal and men and women are equal under UK law."

Nick Arama at RedState laughs as CNN Left on the Sidewalk After Being Booted From WH, Then a Passerby Hilariously Chimes in Live. "Tell the truth! If you tell the truth, then you won't get revoked. Tell the truth." Twitchy, Kaitlan Collins Calls CNN White House Ban an ‘Illegal Assault’ on Their Constitutional Rights. TownHall's Matt Vespa likes how Sarah Huckabee Sanders Easily Shut Down the Media's Outrage Over CNN's WH Ban by Making This Point. Jack @jackunheard, "CNN got banned for telling lies about the president. Conservatives got banned for telling the truth about the covid vaccine. We are not the same." Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84, News flash: Biden also changed the White House press pool and he cut off more than 440 reporter’s credentials. Zero outrage. I don’t know about y’all but the hypocrisy gets to me sometimes." Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt, "This is straight up commie shit, BTW. The State is going to enforce political content restrictions? California is indistinguishable from a communist country." Quote Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt, "According to this anon reporting, Bob Bonta is demanding that he get content oversight over CNN. LMAO after all of his denials that this bullshit lawsuit "wasn't about CNN", the cat is out of the bag. We all knew it...this was always just about politics. What a scumbag."

At Althouse, "Following a 19-month effort by President Donald Trump to take control of the arts center, its board voted to close the building Tuesday..." ""... as Trump, who has demanded his name be added to the institution, threatened to cancel a more than $250 million renovation. The president said Wednesday that without his intervention the building could be 'ripped down.'" I'm reading "What Washington lost when the Kennedy Center closed/We asked Washington Post readers to share memories of the storied arts hub. Hundreds responded" (gift link so you can see the selected memories)." Let it fall down. 


The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "No One Notices As Entire Cast Of 'The View' Replaced With Shrieking Feral Pigs."

Marina Hyde at the Guardian asks Are you outraged by Sydney Sweeney – again? More fool you. "Forgive me. Life is, in fact, very, very boring, because yet another Sydney Sweeney-advertising-centred firestorm has been ignited by this ad." Jonah Goldberg weighs in at the Dispatch, by Cashing In on Sydney Sweeney’s Cash-In, "Media bias shows itself in the bazonga discourse." He can think a little when his TDS is shove aside. The New Yorker whines Have Conservatives Taken Sexy Back? "The culture wars have come for lingerie as the right, once the advocates of promise rings and purity culture, embarks on a crusade to “Make America Hot Again.”"

The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: Oktoberfest and FMJRA 2.0: An Awful Road Trip up and garnering clicks at The Other McCain.

Saturday, September 19, 2026

Flotsam and Jetsam - Saturday Morning Fever

Another day without a big new story to tell. I&I examines Who’s Orchestrating The AI-Hysteria Campaign? "We’re not conspiracy mongers here, but it sure looks as though big AI companies have teamed up with Democrats and the mainstream media, probably with an assist from Chinese interests, to embark on a textbook anti-competitive regulatory push. And they didn’t need AI to dream up this plan." Emir M | Type-F Capital @em013L, "$PLTR Karp says that Anthropic is desperate to move liability to the government through regulation of AI, since customers are about to start knocking on the door with countless lawsuits for intellectual property theft. On CNBC." Miranda Devine @mirandadevine, "Well what a surprise. Ro Khanna, Mr Google. And the top 10 are Democrats." Quote Kevin Bass @kevinnbass, "Many of the most vocal politicians now calling for government regulation of AI companies are also among those receiving the most money from the AI companies themselves. What an intriguing coincidence." Rusty Weiss at RedState thinks you should Watch: AI World Takeover Hits Snag As Fake Actress Glitches and Starts Speaking Chinese on Live TV. Not quite ready for prime time.

Ace's Buck Throckmorton rants By the Logic of Free Traders, Shouldn't Trump's Tariffs Be Good for Canada and its Consumers? Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, ""Ursula von der Leyen" descends directly from European nobility, and she married into European nobility. Her great-great grandfather was the German noble and industrialist Baron Johann Ludwig von Knoop. Her husband, Heiko von der Leyen, descends from the Prussian baronial line of "von der Leyen zu Bloemersheim." (Source: Grok) The EU is just another way for the ancient nobility of Europe to continue to exercise their illegitimate, unelected, hereditary power and avoid the voice and vote of the masses. European immigrants came to America to escape the despicable vise grip of bloodlines controlling destiny. The EU should come nowhere near America." Quote Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen, "Dear @MarkJCarney we want to bring the relationship with Canada to the highest level possible. I would like to work with you on opening the door for Canada to being the first associate member of the EU." Mark Noonan @Mark_E_Noonan, "Chesterton pointed out more than a century ago that the Duke of Norfolk would happily become the Administrator of Norfolk. Emir of Norfolk is also acceptable. It’s all about keeping the pig snout in the trough."

Navarro to Newsmax: Warsh Rate Hike a 'Rookie Mistake' "Do not raise rates into the teeth of an oil price shock," Navarro said. "That's the Greenspan-Bernanke rule." According to Google AI, The Federal Reserve raises interest rates to make borrowing more expensive, which slows down spending and cools off rising prices." But I don't see how that applies when the cause of inflation is largely to cost of oil rising due to external events. Mike Bales @MikeBales, "Y’all were quiet at $5.02 a gallon and 9.1% inflation. Now gas is $4.06 and inflation is 3.4% and suddenly it’s a crisis. The numbers didn’t change sides. You did." Jack @jackunheard, "Gas can come back down. A communist government does not. I’m voting Republican."

At NYPo, Houthi attacks expose Iran’s desperation — here’s how Trump must respond, declare war on them. Semafor says Somaliland’s president puts everything on the table for Trump. Note, Somiland is not Somalia, and it wants good relations with Trump. News Wax claims Trump Weighs Russia Deals Before Ukraine Peace. "A U.S. official told the Times the administration believes early economic agreements could demonstrate to Russian President Vladimir Putin and other officials that Washington is committed to improving relations, potentially creating incentives for Moscow to end the war."

From Ace, British Medical Journal: The FDA and CDC Used a Faulty Algorithm to Understate Vaccine Injuries. When One Researcher Pointed Out the Flaw, She Was Told to Mind Her Own Business. "I'm not willing to assume "just an accidental oversight." In fact, I'm very much assuming enemy action." Never underestimate the power of stupidity. Also, MAHA: Get Your Kids Off Their Screens and Make Them Live Actual Life, Says RFKJr. "I mean, it's obvious, but it's good that someone in authority is saying it."

Hat Hair's Mark Judge claims Jazz Fans Stunned by Cassandra Wilson’s MAGA Views. It's not uncommon for musicians and actors to get more conservative when they see the money they make being expropriated for the undeserving. Dead at 70.


From Shipwreckedcrew, the lawsplainer, The Standing Problem With Regard To The White House Ballroom -- Blame the Tree Huggers. "A series of idiot cases in the 1990s-2000s are responsible for the idea that individuals have rights enforceable in federal court to sniff flowers and watch worms crawl in the dirt." Done.

At Twitchy, Napoleonic Syndrome: Stepstool Abdul Challenges Vance to a Beard Inspection and Weightlifting Duel and You KNOW It's Getting Bad for El-Sayed When Even Morning Joe Is Calling Him Out Right to His Face. Hat Hair's Beege Welborn hears MI Voters are 'Just Gross' for Not Wanting the Anti-American, Anti-Breast Cancer Research Anti-Semite. Mitchy Berg at Hat Hair VIP calls Minnesota Polling: Too Good To Factcheck. OR Get Cocky About. Tafoya almost even. Ace woke up and found out James Talarico Super PAC Caught Paying $25 Per Vote -- and Admitting Doing It on Hidden Camera Video, "Texas Democrats have come up with a scheme to pay voters to cast ballots for their candidates, a video obtained exclusively by Townhall Media shows." At Da Fed, Brianna Lyman argues There Is No Such Thing As A Moderate Democrat Anymore.


PJM's Matt Margolis has even More Humiliating News for Kamala Harris. Nobody wants her, but they fear backlash if they don't pick her.

At CJ, Charles Lehman reminds us Progressive Prosecutors Have a Crime Problem All Their Own. "Philadelphia D.A. Larry Krasner’s scandal is just the latest in a long line." Ace sees York PA Police Repeatedly Refuse to Shut Down a Black "Teen Takeover" Near Campus Housing, Even After Four 911 Calls; Eventually the Thugs Drag White Female College Students by the Hair and Beat Them Senseless, ""Decarceration" plus "equity in justice." You can't send young thugs to jail because that's just the "school to jail" pipeline. And we must generally empty the prisons, because prisons are racist." From Da Caller, Dem Lawmakers Demand Federal Probe Into ‘Modern-Day Lynchings’ That Are Anything But, suicides or black on black crime. 

At Althouse, "I didn’t have any doubts. As I tried to explain different possible theories during deliberation, I kept getting cut off as if I had doubts based on the evidence present." ""Based on all the physical evidence, key witnesses, and what the prosecution presents, I thought it was enough proof that she [Clancy] knew exactly what she was doing and planned." Said Michael P. Desronvil, quoted in "Holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy mistrial, Michael P. Desronvil, speaks out for first time after intense backlash" (NY Post)."



TownHall's Matt Vespa is happy to announce President Trump Just Banned Three Outlets From the White House, CNN, MSNBC, and Politico. Shouldn't that be MSNOW? Why yes, Beege Welborn, Trump Bans CNN, Politico and MS-Now From the White House. If you're just going to make shit up, you can do that from anywhere. Dave Strom laughs FINALLY! Totally Objective Journalism! "Just kidding." And notes Democrats Need Not Fear the Fact Checkers. Matt Vespa also notes 'The View' Suggests That Donald Trump Might Have Sexual Affinity for Animals. Are they so desperate for clicks they're trying to get sued? Ace sees Jimmy Kimmel, Steven Colbert Whine About How Hard Their Jobs of Not Being Funny Are, "The two anti-talent lottery winners whine about how hard it is failing at your job every single night."

Johnny Kampic at RCP thinks Satellites Have Made This Costly Broadband Subsidy Obsolete. "In a recent FCC filing, SpaceX calls for the Commission to “wind down outdated and redundant High Cost programs that now clearly provide diminished – or even negative – returns and redirect these resources to an enhanced affordability program that will deliver clear and impactful benefits to consumers.”"


Dave Strom wonders Do the Women Excusing Murder Because of 'Hormones' Know What They Are Saying? Are women too hormonal to vote or serve on juries, too? Lisa Britton @LisaBritton, "A viral conversation started after a woman claimed she couldn’t get her heavy suitcase into an overhead bin on an airplane and the man boarding next to her refused to help. ““He flat out said, ‘No, I’m good. You can get it,’ and I was holding up the whole plane while he just stared,” says the woman. I believe everyone should help each other in any way they can out of love, but I really don’t blame the man for his reaction after everything society has put men through. How can we shame and blame them for even something like chivalry and then expect them to do it? El Jacobo @eljacoboaqui, "What, precisely, obligates men to perform physical tasks at the behest of woman in our vicinity?

Capt. Ed cites Psaki on Sweeney Bodd: It's Misogynistic to Get Naked While Not Progressive, or Something. Ingrid Jaque at USA Today knows The real reason people are mad at Sydney Sweeney's new ad. "Sydney Sweeney's new ad for sports betting app Novig has sparked backlash from athletes and critics alike. But the real issue isn't the ad – it's that she's a registered Republican."


And still plenty more at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 09.18.26. Linked at The Pirate's Cove in the weekly Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup and links. 


The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: Oktoberfest and FMJRA 2.0: An Awful Road Trip up and garnering clicks at The Other McCain.