Flotsam and Jetsam - Gone Fishin' DIY

It's been a while since I resorted to this.

Trump and the Republicans

Andy Ngo on X: "Hammam al-Hammami, the @flydubai pilot who tried killing his non-Muslim co-pilot to hijack a plane flying to Israel, had fundamentalist Islamic social media posts. He posted about wanting a wife who would wear a face covering and stop working. He complained about mixed-sex work"
Althouse: "The co-pilot who tried to hijack a flight bound for Israel... used a crash ax to attack the captain in the cockpit, UAE officials said."
There’s No Business Like Antisemitism Business
Russia Plans to Freeze Ukraine Into Submission This Winter – HotAir
AND THEN THERE ARE THE FACTS: Hakeem Jeffrries, Meet the Best U.S. Economy in Decades
Three Easy Ways to Reduce Pain at the Pump – HotAir
Steel Manufacturing, Bonds, and America First
The Diesel Export Trap: A Quick Fix That Raises Prices - RealClearEnergy
Is The GOP Failing To Sell Trump’s Economic Gains? I&I/TIPP Poll – Issues & Insights
This Explosive Headline Is a Lock for First-Ballot Induction Into the 'TDS Hall of Fame' – Twitchy

The Disloyal Opposition

EXCLUSIVE: Abdul El-Sayed Top Staffer Quits Campaign—Shares Disturbing Truth About “Manufactured Man”–“Pushed multiple staff to tears”–“Immature”–“Cartoonishly fake masculinity” and “Loves to fart in public” - The Gateway Pundit
Dear DSA: How to Destroy the 5 Democrats Who Want to Be President – PJ Media
Maura Healey Having a Mass. Gas Attack and Seems to Have Wiped Her Two Memory Chips – HotAir

The Just Us System

Judge Says the Law 'Criminalizing Non-Citizen Voting' Is Unconstitutional UPDATE – HotAir
Justice Samuel Alito Thinks He Knows Who Leaked the Landmark Dobbs Opinion
Gad Saad on X: "Oh I noticed."
Althouse: The ultimate process clusterfuck.
Althouse: "Well, she’s still trying to proceed as normal, and she’s trying to tell herself that she can just go on with her life as if this didn’t happen."

Althouse: Someone who styles himself ExHedgeFundGuy makes a TikTok clip out of a classic Camille Paglia interview and fails to include her name.
Laocoon of Troy on X: "Paglia's point is that women have been raised in a way that makes them naïve. They believe that the suburban, middle-class setting is the default condition of the world, and that the rights they have go with them anywhere, even to a foreign country or a bedroom during a drunken https://t.co/ZapI9RXklM"
Daniel Friedman on X: "Ever since the Dear Colleague letter in 2011 and the crackdowns on Greek life after Duke Lacrosse, fraternities have been training chapter presidents on how to protect their chapters from these situations. The Chi Phi president (who is not one of the 7 accused men) messed up,"

Cornell brings back #MeToo - The Spectator
Report: How Radical Environmental Special Interests Manipulate the Federal Judiciary - House Judiciary Committee Republicans
Even Democrats Oppose Letting Foreign Citizens Tilt The House

The Great Culture War

Daniel Foubert on X: "I'm French 🇫🇷. I was born in Paris. I spent 25 years there. But now: I don't even want to know what happens in that hellhole 💀⚰️. Not “troubled.” Not “declining.” Not “going through a difficult period.” No. A HELLHOLE. A country where everything is dirty, expensive,"
Dr. Eli David on X: "Lebanese 🇱🇧 journalist and author Brigitte Gabriel: “When I was born, Beirut was considered the ‘Paris of the Middle East.’ Today, Paris is considered the Beirut of Europe.” https://t.co/HybA8wN51T"
Trans rights better in Iran than Britain, say Green activists
Actress Criticizes Islam, Loses Her Career – PJ Media
Floridians demand school fire educator who said Jews “control everything”, that Israel is a “fake country”
Writing Is Critical Thinking — Even in the Age of AI - The American Spectator |

Flotsam and Jetsam - A Hump Day Heap

A lot of material. Monday are slow because of the weekend, but it sure seems like pundits much churn out words on Tuesday.

At News Wax, Rubio Says UK Airbase Incident Involved Foreign State. Sundance at CTH, Rubio on U.S. RAF Fairford Base Terror Threat, “Clearly Involves the Hands of a Foreign Actor” But if you follow the logic from Beege Welborn at Hat Hair in The RAF Fairford Follies, Day Three UPDATE, it may just be a case of "British subjects" trying to steal diesel, either from large farms nearby or even the base. 

Also at News Wax, Belgian Official: Iran Inspired Attacks on Jewish Sites. Hugh Hewitt @hughhewitt, "Imagine millions of Americans believing the U.S. was not winning the battle with Germany in March of 1945. That’s where we are today vis-a-vis Iran. Incredible. And it’s not for lack of actual facts reported widely. It is the consequence of the mental prison of TDS." Hat Hair's Duane Patterson sees A Billion Reasons Why Iran Is Losing. Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire, "It was always obvious this would happen Basically from the first 48 hours of the War after the US + Israel dominated Iran’s air space America has Iran on the ropes And as a byproduct this is the most leverage America has had with China in a decade (they need Iran’s oil)." Quote The Wall Street Journal @WSJ, "Iran’s ability to choke off oil flowing through the Strait of Hormuz—and use that as leverage in talks with the U.S.—is breaking down." Joel Pollak @joelpollak, "Trump deserves credit for doing what even FDR would not: stopping a potential existential threat when the public did not favor a war, and when any difficulty would be blamed on "the Jews." Trump really did learn the lessons of history. Unlike many of his critics, right and left."

From Defense News, Russia raises 2027 military spending by 27%, budget documents show. News Wax hears Russia Offering US Recruits $26,000 Bonus to Fight Ukraine. "Ukrainian officials say at least 18 Americans have joined the Russian military." John Sexton at Hat Hair VIP warns Europe Expects More Russian Hybrid Attacks. 

Sundance hears Mark Carney Blames USA for Layoffs of Canadian Steel Workers "In reality it is (1) Canadian energy, climate and manufacturing policy; in combination with (2) the specific decision to allow the import of cheap steel from China; in combination with the decision to (3) rebuke U.S requests to stop purchasing that Chinese steel; that has driven out Canadian steel manufacturing."

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, "WOW! President Trump was just asked what his midterm message is for millions of Americans to vote red, and he dropped RAPID FIRE truth nukes to the Fake News in the Oval Office: - 17 months in a row of ZERO illegal crossings - The best crime numbers in history, even after Democrats let in 25 million people - The most jobs in the history of the United States - M*rders are lower than at any time since 1900 - New plants are being built every day, like today's $18B investment - $21 TRILLION being invested in America, the most in history - China has only $3 trillion, and Biden had just half a trillion - The war will be won very soon - Gas prices will come tumbling down - "Nobody else could have done that. Nobody else." - Democrats want to open the border back up." And Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, " UPDATE: Donald Trump posted overnight CNN's admission that he has 98% PERCENT SUPPORT among the MAGA GOP "There's been no real decline in MAGA support...these folks say they're gonna vote for Congressional Republicans! That support is really holding up strong!" IT NEEDS TO HAPPEN. If EVERY 2024 MAGA voter comes out, it's over, Republicans would trounce in the Senate and likely retain the House The communists don't want us to vote, that's exactly why we need to!" Midterms are all about turnout. Tricia McLaughlin @TriciaOhio, "Fentanyl deaths are down 55% and Heroin deaths down 89% from their peaks. That’s a direct result of closing the border and enforcing the laws on the books." George Brooks at Am Think thinks about The math at the pump: Before you blame Trump, follow the damn barrel "Iran matters, refiners matter, supply matters—and the price on that sign has more than one father." AMAC says Voting Democrat – or Staying Home – Won’t Lower Gas Prices, "Democrats are obsessing over high fuel costs, but the historical record and their policy platform strongly suggests that things would be even worse if they were in charge." From RCP, Welcome to Gas Town "America’s diesel market looks like a Mad Max film. The America First fix is hiding in plain sight." At Da Caller, ‘The Perfect Storm’: GOP Strategists Cry Havoc As Poll Delivers Tough News For Lindsey Graham’s Sister. Roger Simon at Am Ref, discourses on Elon Musk & Why the Midterms Don’t Matter "Or don’t matter much." Rand Simberg @Simberg_Space, "There will be cloud cities on Venus, millions living on terraformed Mars, a vast increase in terrestrial wealth from mining the asteroids and moons of the gas giants, and morons will be saying "Elon Musk is an idiot. They haven't even gotten to Alpha Centauri."" DogeDesigner @cb_doge, "You don’t hate the legacy media enough.." 

At Da Caller, Vance Says He And Trump War-Gamed A Senate Floor Takeover To Pass SAVE America Act. From Reason, Once Recession-Proof, D.C. Feels the Pain From Federal Workforce Reductions, "Formerly tax-supported workers are discovering the uncertainties the private sector faces every day." Sundance, President Trump Launches “America.GOV” a Website for Everything Connected to Citizens and Government. Twitchy cites Sen. Mark Warner who Says 100,000 Virginians Have Been Kicked Off of SNAP Because of the Big Ugly Bill.  Althouse finds Do you mean "May President Trump Demolish the Kennedy Center?"? "I wonder, reading "Can President Trump Demolish the Kennedy Center?" in the NYT. Subheadline: "The president has entertained the idea of tearing down the performing arts venue. Analysts say any plan would face multiple daunting challenges."" And "That humans have long been aware of the corrosive danger from kowtowing, toadying, sucking up, piling it on thick, apple-polishing and otherwise bootlicking..." "...Write Matthew Gwyther — producer of the BBC documentary, "Sucking Up: A Guide to Sycophancy Through the Ages" — in "From the Garden of Eden to the president's Cabinet meetings, apple-polishing has a sorry history" (WaPo).

Cathy Salgado is happy Hegseth Ends Civilian Tenured Jobs at Military Academies. 

At Pirate's Cove,  Anthropic IPO Warns Of “Existential Risk To Humanity.” "This doesn’t sound like a good idea to sell stock." Martin Hackworth at Howlin' at the Moon in ii-V-I sees For whom the AI bell tolls, "Ask not for whom the bell tolls, educators and journalists, it tolls for thee." At Ars Technica, AI was supposed to hit new grads hard. So far, unemployment data says otherwise. “There is no evidence of any significant, widespread displacement or reduction in hiring.” Hat Hair's John Sexton says The Left's Fear-Mongering Over AI Was Inevitable. At Da Signal, the Great  Victor Davis Hanson on AI and the Same Old Politicized Hysteria. From Sundance, President Trump Hosts Meeting with Top U.S. Leaders in AI and Super Intelligence – Remarks and Video, President Trump Notes Super Intelligence Team Four Points for SI Frontier Research Safety. Da Caller says As Trump Meets Xi, Experts Say China Targets Weak Spots In Western Tech. I expect nothing less. 

Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis, "Today we officially designated the Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR and Antifa as terrorist organizations per the anti-sharia law signed earlier this year."

The Manhattan Inst. explains How States Can Cut Rules and Regulations—and Make It Stick. "Idaho’s Two-Step Process That Other States Can Copy."

PJM's Matt Margolis hears Frank Luntz Just Gave Democrats Devastating News About the Midterms "I'm looking at a turnout differential that advantages the Democrats by a couple of points, which means that there are more people who oppose Donald Trump, who are planning to vote, than those who support him," Luntz told CNN This Morning on Monday. "There's always been a historical advantage to the party out of power in the midterms, particularly in the first midterms." A couple of points? That's it?" At DataRepublican’s Substack, What Early Voting Shows: Week of September 29 "NC, Florida, and OH aren’t showing signs of a blue wave yet. But don’t get comfortable." Capt. Ed at Hat Hair cites the NYT: Senate Dems Start Spending in Texas and Politico: How Dare GOP Candidates Rebut Dems' Sermons! Restoration News reports Changes to Military Ballot Requests Will Disarm Democrat’s Overseas Voter Registration Racket.

The Manhattan Contrarian observes For Some Reason, New York's Rent Regulations Don't Seem To Be Keeping Rents Low. Beege Welborn hears Newly Victorious Berlin Communists Already Doing the Economic Voodoo That They Do So Well. You'd think Berliners would know better, but it has been a while. Joe Weber at JTN reports Newsom signs law easing rules requiring students to learn English, change will impact 1 million "Nearly 1 million California students designated as English learners will no longer have to pass a set of tests and benchmarks to exit the program." From the Wash Stand, IRS Losing Up to $304 Billion Annually to Fraudsters, but Agency Has No Anti-Fraud Strategy, GAO Finds.

From Ace, Fauci Infected African Monkeys with Aerosolized Ebola. His Primary Fear? Not an Ebola Outbreak. Just That the Public Would Find Out About His Faucistein Experimentations. "Deb Heine at American Greatness:" What was he trying to do, start a pandemic?

John Sexton satisfied as the Supreme Court Allows Third-Country Deportations. Mary Chastain at LI,  Supreme Court Clears Trump Admin to Resume Third-Country Deportations for Now. "However, SCOTUS will hear the merits of the case during the December 2026 argument session." News Wax, Justices Weighing Policy, OK Deportations to 3rd Countries.  Sundance, Supreme Court Allows Rapid Third-Country Deportations to Continue. Dave Catron at Am Spec hears Ketanji Brown Jackson Throws a Fit As Supreme Court Backs SAVE Voter Verification."The justice’s dissent over the SAVE voter-verification system continues her increasingly public dispute with the  Court’s majority." Da Caller reports Trump Admin Asks SCOTUS To Uphold Trans Surgery Ban In Federal Prisoners.

Lara Logan @laralogan, "Absolutely brilliant move from Patrick Byrne. Well done. Imagine that a party to a lawsuit can just email the judge and get what they want almost instantly? If you are Dominion you don’t have to imagine - that is your reality. Why are these judges so corrupt? Many are compromised." Quote Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne, "Dominion wrote to our Judge ex parte and got relief in 2 hours; the next day I tried the same thing: Dear Judge Nichols, I was impressed by the email from Dominion’s lawyer directly to you and impressed by the alacrity with which you acted upon it. Untutored in the august ways of the law as I am, I..." Read the whole letter, it's a masterpiece. At ET, Federal Judge Strikes Down New York’s $75 Billion Climate Superfund. In the Pirate's Cove, Bummer: NY’s Climate Scam Act Shot Down In Second Federal Court.

From Da Caller, Newly Released Records Undercut Jack Smith’s Account Of How Trump Classified Documents Probe Began. Turns out there was no criminal referral from the National Archives. He made that up when he told Congress. At RedState, Teri Christoph sees Mollie Hemingway Tears Into Jack Smith Over Stunning Arctic Frost Revelation: 'I'm Sickened by This'" and Kyle Becker thinks Sen. Kennedy Nails Jack Smith to the Wall in Stunning Exchange: 'Do You Believe in The Tooth Fairy?' Matt Vespa says Jack Smith Was Visibly Uncomfortable When He Got Asked This Question by Sen. Kennedy. From Hat Hair, a Larry video, Jack Smith Under Fire As Bombshell New Trump Probe Records Surface and Beege Welborn thinks Jack Smith Was Even Scummier Than We Thought Which Seems Impossible. At Twitchy, STUNNED: Jack Smith Has True Deer in Headlights Moment As Eric Schmitt Breaks Out DAMNING Receipts. But if you only watch one video on this, let it be this one from Sundance, Senator Josh Hawley Confronts former Special Prosecutor Jack Smith During Explosive Senate Committee Hearing.

Charlie Martin at Insty LOVES THE SMELL OF NAPALM IN THE MORNING: Lindsay Clancy’s Lawyer Has Gone Completely Nuts With This Move. From Ace, Lindsay Clancy's Scumbag Lawyer Kevin Reddington Contradicts His Earlier Defense, Now Insists That There's No Evidence Lindsay Clancy Murdered Her Children at All. "He doesn't say it, but the Conspiracy Cultists claim that Patrick Clancy killed his children, then "hypnotized" Lindsay into believing she did it and confessing to it." John Sexton asks, and answers What's Happening With the Cornell 7 Case? Nicholas Fondacaro @NickFondacaro, "Sunny Hostin, a former sex crimes prosecutor, actually defends the Cornell 7. She argues that under New York State law, the girl consented and that the media is "reporting this story inaccurately. I think they're reporting it unfairly." "The pictures of these young men who have not been charged, not been adjudicated are being plastered all over the internet," she decried." I guess if it's not about Trump she's capable of rational thought. 

At Da Blaze, 'Come on': Democrat DC councilman makes BIZARRE comment after beating bribery charge in mistrial. No DC jury will convict a criminal accused by the Trump admin. ZitoSalena @ZitoSalena, "The problem isn’t that a judge cut him loose early. It’s what happened after the door opened. Nothing in the public record I could find shows anyone kept watching a man a Florida judge had called a likely danger without treatment, or that anyone passed that warning to Pennsylvania..."

At Da Caller, Vance Sets The Record Straight On Mass Deportations "And my understanding of what happened is … if you, let’s say, have a DHS agent and that guy can deport one person that day, he can go and deport a violent criminal or a person who hasn’t committed a violent crime; of course, we’re going to prioritize the violent criminals.” “But that is not a reflection of overall deportation policy,” Vance added. “That’s about prioritizing fundamentally limited resources.”" Noah Pollak @NoahPollak, "This is the single most consequential policy to combat antisemitism in the US in the last decade and it's not even close. And the Trump admin -- and especially those like @StephenM who implemented it -- will get no thanks or credit from legacy Jewish organizations, which is shameful." Quote Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47, "Legal Immigration from Majority-Muslim Nations Was Cut 96% Since 2024." Da Caller again, Trump Invokes Rare Authority To Cancel Nearly $1,000,000,000 In Congressionally Approved Spending "President Donald Trump has moved to cancel more than $800 million that Congress approved for refugee aid, migrant education and diversity programs...Officials argued the money is no longer needed because illegal crossings have fallen sharply under Trump’s border policies. They labeled the spending wasteful and harmful to taxpayers." NYPo, Feds urged to crack down on fake passports, green cards along NYC’s Roosevelt Avenue. News Wax hears IRS Drafts Citizenship Question for 2027 Tax Returns. At CJ, Robert VerBruggen explains The Troubles With the H-1B Program, "Concrete Evidence." Amy Curtis at TownHall reports a Watchdog Found Tons of Vetting Errors for Migrants Who Entered US After Biden's Afghanistan Failure. Ace, The Venezuelan Shot by ICE Has Been Charged With Assaulting an Officer "The violent illegal alien attacked ICE agents as they were serving him a final deportation order. The media are demonic liars, and keep repeating "he had a valid work permit" as if this is the same as permission to be in the country. It's not." Dave Strom is not a fan of UK Justice: Immigrant Who Set Asylum Hotel on Fire Gets Same Sentence As Lucy Connolly. Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith, "It’s never been clearer in the UK. They don’t penalise us because we’re “far-right”. They classify us as “far-right” so they can penalise us." From ¡No Pasaran! Importing the Middle East's Clan Culture to Europe: How Assmilated Are the Danish Green Party's Muslim Leaders? All Are in Favor of Arranged Marriages and Resent "Mr. and Mrs. Denmark" for Thinking of Those with Negative Connotations. Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog finds an NGO That Literally Wants To Replace You.

Da Caller notices that Journalists Banned From White House Receive Vomit-Inducing Hero’s Welcome Upon Return. Mark Judge at Hat Hair sees Secrets: Will Bob Woodward’s New Memoir Be a Coverup? Absolutely. From the College Fix, UPenn requires disclosure of ‘controversial speakers’ and you know who they mean, don't you. 

Every one of these people are directly responsible for the violent and vitriolic political rhetoric of the day. If you wonder why a quarter of Americans now think assassinating a sitting president is ok, look no further. pic.twitter.com/KVZ7oGTxbQ

— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) September 29, 2026

Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne, "BREAKING: @SenMikeLee HAS INTRODUCED THE GRANITE ACT FOREIGN CENSORSHIP SHIELD BILL IN THE U.S. SENATE! https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5478/titles"

Ace hears that In 2027, Trump's Department of Education Will Begin Limiting Government Loans for "Students" In No-Hope Majors, "I voted for this. Sounds good, but it's a very limited first step." Matt
Vespa, Trump's College Loan Tweaks Are Being Felt...and Campus Libs Are Going to Blow a Gasket. Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital, "This is long overdue. He’s not banning the degrees. If you want to study african-american history or music theory, you still can. You simply need to pay for it or apply for private student loans. The student debt crisis in this country is insane and so many degrees today are absolutely useless. The reason college is so expensive now is because the US government started backing the loans. Obviously the universities were going to start charging $200k, because their customer is now the US government instead of the music theory kid. Taxpayers should only be subsidizing, and therefore incentivizing, degrees our nation actually needs: doctor, engineers, etc." Q uote The New Republic @newrepublic, "Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious stud...." Carlo Carrasco, Trump Administration Trashes Biden-era Title IX Rules, Sex Officially Defined by Biology. At PM, University of Minnesota declares to new students Declaration of Independence has 'embodied sexist policies': report. Campus Reform reports University of Minnesota removes Flock camera in Somali-heavy neighborhood while others remain. Some pigs are more equal than others. 

John Sexton hears Nikole Hannah-Jones' Daughter Still Doesn't Get Her Mom's Decision. She was a sacrifice to the gods of DEI. Dave Strom, Everything Is Racist, "The BBC actually ran a story about how women who don't paint their nails are making a racial statement, because nail painting is somehow tied to social injustice or something. Being a man, it all goes over my head."

We Asked AI To Recreate The Lesbian Bar Drama From Actual Reports pic.twitter.com/Agu2tAv2HB

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) September 28, 2026

From  The Pirate's Cove, Jew Haters Threaten To Boycott Kimmel Over Gal Gadot.

Da Caller observes a Classic American Town Hosts Soft Core Smut Drag And Burlesque Show With Kids Present. Ace hears about a NYT Tech Editor Gunned Down by In-Laws -- Because His Trans Lifestyle Wound Up Influencing His Son to Wear His Sister's Dresses "Modern problems." The Redneck Intellectual discusses Marriage Nihilism, "The Sixth in a Series." "On a deeper and more fundamental level, same-sex marriage will unquestionably affect my liberties and opportunities in innumerable ways; it will affect my marriage indirectly and in meaningful ways; and it will certainly affect the way future generations experience marriage." 

InfantryDort @infantrydort, "You don’t know how radical they’ve become. That’s the mistake. A civilization ending mistake. Young white men are the most vilified cohort in the modern age. What shocks me is how people don’t understand what history says about vilified cohorts. Many people over the age of 40 simply forget, young white men don’t remember the super egalitarian post war order. The world we grew up in no longer exists. We were taught judge people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. MLK etc etc. And by God, I still live by that. I see the divine spark in others. It’s what makes being a Soldier in this nation possible. We don’t care what you look like. Everyone is equally worthless. But sometime after the 90s, tribalism was injected back into this place. The super rare conditions that allowed for so many in this nation to live under one flag withered away. And it became politically useful to demonize one group above all others; white men..."

Flotsam and Jetsam - Weekend Cleanup

WaEx reports Xi assured Trump he would cease aid to Iran, US ambassador to China claims. I believe he said it, but I don't believe him. Matt Margolis at PJM saw CNN Have a Total Meltdown Over Trump Showing Xi the Autopen Photo. "Anderson Cooper needed an emotional support animal and an emergency session with this therapist." Kyle Becker at RedState, Karoline Leavitt Dishes on Trump's Humiliation of World Leader. This is Priceless. At CTH, sundance hosts as Susan Kokinda Recaps Chairman Xi State Visit and Current Geopolitical Events.

WarTranslated @wartranslated, "On Patriot missiles, Trump said he’s talked with Zelensky a lot and claimed Zelensky agrees and Putin agrees too. He said he wants them to make a deal soon, possibly before a harsh winter." I hope so, but remain skeptical. Ted Snider at Am Con worries Will Ukraine Turn to Russia After the War?, "Don’t rule out warmer ties with Moscow." A least they share something like a shared language and culture. From 1945, The Race to Succeed Putin Has Begun. "Almost all of the names are in their late forties to mid-fifties, and that is the point. Putin’s own generation — men like FSB director Aleksandr Bortnikov, who turns 75 in November — is being passed over. The Kremlin’s reading of the Soviet collapse is that Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko dying in succession gave the West its opening, and Putin appears determined not to leave the same gap behind him." Sundance has the transcript, Russian President Vladimir Putin Reacts to Call for Trilateral Negotiations. It's fuzzy, but I'm seeing not much encouraging.

Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain, "Daily reminder that the Strait of Hormuz is open and we are winning." Quote Gordo @GordoCDA, "Axios is reporting that 60 million barrels of oil has passed through the Strait of Hormuz in the past 72 hours according to US Government sources." At Da Caller, Senate Shoots Down Final War Powers Resolution Before Midterm Elections.    

At Am Mind how Trump Attacks Cartels at the Root, the corrupt Mexican officials who allow the problem to fester.

Misty Severi at JTN reports Hegseth announces Army National Guard has achieved its 2026 recruiting goal, "The Army reached its own recruiting goal for the current fiscal year in May, months before the Sept. 30 deadline. The Army said it enlisted 61,500 men and women four months before the deadline." 

Sundance finds New York Times Latest Example of AI Doom Fear is Silly. "The entire article is nothing more than taking something that is easily understood and adding jargon to make it sound complicated. The word “meddling” is used to describe the AI process of trying to get passed the gate. When there were individual people doing this, we called it “hacking” now the process is automated via instructions to the software search." The Free Bacon calls it ‘Suicidal Compassion’: Meet the Anthropic Officials Who Think AI Might Be Justified in Going Rogue Against the Humans Enslaving It. "Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has said AI systems ‘may be deserving of important rights'." dnap @dnapway, "Chamath explains the political calculus behind Obama’s anti AI speech “This is a very important moment for a very simple reason, which is that the world is about to endow 3-6 companies with about $10 trillion of wealth.” “And what Obama knows very well is that most of those companies are overwhelmingly left leaning. And what he also knows is that there is a huge portion of that money that will then get put into philanthropic and charitable causes that then he and the people around him will be beneficiaries of ..." Salena Zito at Hat Hair is happy that Ground was Broken on a Rust Belt Powerhouse: Shippingport's Data Hub Rises in the Age of AI Anxiety. 

Breitbart Bus Dig, What Today’s Treasury Sell-Off Is Telling Us. "The yield on the 10-year Treasury climbed to 5.108 percent, its highest level since 2007. If this was a warning about Washington’s debt, its timing was peculiar. The sell-off followed a report that American businesses are growing much faster than economists expected. There was no news about the federal deficit or debt."

At Twitchy, a PhD’s Heart Breaks for Marine One Pilot Being Yelled at by Trump. Common Sense @commons96055467 "This picture is a very important picture to look at. It’s what America has become. Screaming powerful dudes treating others as if they are their servant property. My heart is breaking for this young Marine One pilot. He doesn’t deserve this shit from trump." Roy Dopson @dopson_roy, "I've taken hundreds of helicopter flights 1. Helicopters are loud, and the door was open 2. The pilot has his earphones on, which would make it hard for him to hear 3. Don't draw conclusions without understanding the situation." PhDs and common sense aren't handed out together. 

Hat Hair's John Sexton claims to have Some Good News in the Midst of All the Wave Election Talk. Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "You are in the middle of an intensive, carefully orchestrated information warfare campaign designed to make you believe that the midterms are already lost and that there is no hope. This only works if you choose to let it work. Don't let it work. Fight the power."

Foundation for Economic Education @feeonline, "People keep calling U.S. healthcare a "free market failure." The truth is, it hasn't been a free market in 70 years. Here’s how decades of central planning created a $5.3T crisis:..."

The face you make after you voted for socialism because gas was expensive. pic.twitter.com/HEFsbtdZWu

— Resist CBDC 🏁 (@Resist_CBDC) September 26, 2026

At Power Lines The Week in Pictures:

Xi’s Gotta Have It Edition

FischerKing @FischerKing64, "Obama ran an entire campaign on ‘hope and change.’ Then he governed as a statist who backed the existing power structure, refused to break up the banks, continued the senseless foreign wars - and made sure he made tens of millions in Netflix deals after. He is a reason for people being cynical today when politicians talk about ‘a moral and ethical story.’" Quote CSPAN @cspan, "Former President Obama says Democrats made a mistake by making goals materialistic and instrumental: "What people are starved for at the moment is the ability to tell a moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment." This one was fun, Bridget Phetasy @BridgetPhetasy, "Moderate Democrats wanna sanitize the last decade with "Woke 1.0 was craaaaazy." No. Woke 1.0 was evil." From WaEx, AOC’s team admitted it: The Green New Deal was never about saving the planet. From the Crimson Hub, Here are all the Democrats defense pork john Martin Kao donated to, and whom ProPublica never mentioned in their “corruption” piece. Nick Arama at RedState sees Biden Receive a Planned Parenthood Service Award, and It Does Not Go Well. 

Paula Baker and Don Critchlow at Da Fed explain How Socialist Democrats Use The Soros Strategy To Fill Local Courts With Woke Judges. From the OCR, California Supreme Court rules against Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco in ballot seizure fight. @instapundit @instapundit, "It is shocking that the British Army, which was decimated by German machine guns in 1914, has in 1915 enthusiastically adopted the machine gun itself." Quote National Review @NRO, "It remains a supreme irony that Trump, the president most pursued by his enemies via lawfare, has become infamous as its most enthusiastic practitioner." Two wrong may not make a right, but they might make an even.

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson, "DHS just revealed that rent prices are DROPPING in cities with increased levels of ICE enforcement. -San Antonio: -4.8% -Austin: -4.3% -Dallas: -3% -Houston: -3% -Miami: -2.6% -Phoenix: -4.2% -Atlanta: -3.2% -Nashville: -5.3% -New Orleans: -8% The most effective solution to the affordability crisis: Mass Deportations" Proving causation may be difficult, but the mechanisms is obvious, reduce housing demand, and prices fall.

Expose H1B Fraud @JobsNowPaper, "BREAKING: Rochester General Hospital in New York hired 82 resident doctors. 80 are foreign workers on H-1B or J-1 visas. Only 2 are Americans. 98% of the residency slots went to visa workers- mostly from countries with documented USMLE cheating. Americans got 2 jobs." joshua steinman @JoshuaSteinman, "They made it impossible for normal American kids to get into medical school, then said we needed to import a bunch of foreign doctors because there was a”shortage.” Why? Because becoming a doctor was one of the ways smart working class kids could lift themselves out of poverty." Quote Mary Talley Bowden MD @MaryBowdenMD, "25% of US physicians are NOT American, yet somehow the AMERICAN Medical Association is lobbying to let more foreign doctors in. American Hospital Association I get - they want cheap labor. But AMA?"

From Althouse “During the Obama administration they tapped the AP bureau’s phones and the phones of AP bureau reporters. They tapped their phones! "Said Atlantic writer James Kirchick on Bill Maher's show last night." James Price at Da Wire goes Inside Britain’s Infrastructure Of Information Control. "Britain's state-imposed “narrative control” has jumped the shark." PJM's Cathy Salgado notes CBC Suspends Jewish Journalist for Daring to Expose Pro-Hamas Protestors. Well, Canada. At State of the Day, State of Thursday: DEMS GOT NEW DIGITAL SOCK PUPPETS. "For the low, low price of $30 a post, he can create a TikTok account, lie about who and where he is, and read a script Democrats have prepared for him about the cost explosion they created!" Scott Pinsker at PJM on What Tucker Carlson Gets Wrong About Jews — and What Conservatives Get Wrong About Antisemitism. Did Tucker go crazy, or was he always just chasing an audience?

John Stossel at Hat Hair on the schools ditching gifted and talented programs for "equity," Un-Gifted and Talented. Dexter Van Zile @dextervanzile, "For more than two years, school officials in Boston, Mass., have employed True-See Allah, an admirer of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan who has described white people as being “born with lie and murder in their nature” and has declared Jews the “enemies” of God. Allah himself once spoke of working at a retail store owned by “a Jewish guy that’s got short arms and deep pockets.” ..." From the Free Bacon, Harvard Turns to Biden, Obama Lawyers To Fend Off Race-Blind Admissions Enforcement. Hat Hair's Dave Strom asks How Scared Are Students to Speak on College Campuses? Relax, on conservatives are afraid to speak their minds. At the College Fix, Columbia professor wins award for book on ‘white paint’ being racist. You'll only find something that stupid in academe,or maybe the media. From the Chronic, Suicidal Empathy Is Colorblind: Ask the Author of the 1619 Project. From RCE, The ABA Shouldn’t Get to Grade Its Own Homework.

Tyler O'Neil at Da Signal hears an Episcopal Priest Claims ‘God Is Trans,’ Mary ‘Assigned’ Jesus the Wrong Gender. Matt Vespa sees the Lesbian Massachusetts Bar That Got Wrecked for Relaxing Its Mask Mandates Continues to Be a Circus. From the Dispatch, Jonah Goldberg weighs in with the sense he usually has when not discussing Donald Trump, The Last Ditch for Mask Hysteria, "When the revolutionary praxis of COVID consciousness clashes with capitalism."

Stacy McCain on how the internet can drive you crazy, Deranged Stalker Deborah Frisch Is Out of Prison, But for How Much Longer?

From Althouse, "She’d done everything she thought men expected of women on the far right, so when the hatred came for Amy Dangerfield she felt so depressed she could barely stand."

"She’d moved from Australia to the United States in 2017 with a dream of spreading her internet-inspired beliefs: that women had driven men to madness through rejection and disrespect; that society needed strong men to survive...."

From "She helped lead a far-right internet movement. Then it turned on her. Inspired by female conservative influencers, Amy Dangerfield worked to become one of Nick Fuentes’s model 'groypettes.' A vicious fight left her grappling with the dark side of far-right fame" (WaPo)(gift link).

While I'm not really well informed about Nick Fuentes, I do wonder why the left keeps harping on him and his few followers. Sure, he has some goofy, anti-left ideas about relations between the sexes, but that's not very novel on either side of the political scale. Has he advocated violence, like a lot of lefty influencers? Not that I know of. Beside, I heard he might be one of the people the SPLC was paying off.

Flotsam and Jetsam - Come Saturday Morning

Don Surber sees Trump hosts Xi and DC implodes. "Then: Warn Xi if Trump attacks. Now: “President Trump is sucking up to President Xi.”" Foolish consistency and all. Sundance at CTH thinks A Very Happy Pooh Has Tea With Trump and hosts USTR Jamieson Greer Sets Record Straight on U.S-China Trade Imbalance. At Ars Technica the NASA chief is concerned China may deny access to parts of Moon’s south pole. “If you come up short with who comes down the ladder first, the impact is felt around the world.”

Michael Goodwin at NYPo notes Trump’s bullish United Nations speech showed he won’t back down — and now he can truly put America First. Right Time's Kathy Gyngell likes how Trump Schools the UN on Sovereignty, "There is no global government, Trump told the General Assembly. Critics seemed surprised." News Wax cites a Study that Finds 'Anti-Israel Ecosystem' at UN, Bias Across 30 Bodies. Well, duh. Sundance has the Transcript of Secretary Rubio's Press Conference Following United Nations General Assembly.

More from Sundance, U.S. NATO Commander Tells Europe to Prove These Russian Hybrid Attacks They Speak of and Zelenskyy Shifts His Business Model – Europe Hands Him Another €6.6 billion. VodkaPundit at Insty, I KNOW AND RESPECT JVL, BUT SHE’S JUST WRONG ON THIS ONE: Jennifer Van Laar @jenvanlaar, "Hey everyone botching about diesel prices - here's the reason. Zelensky, not what's going on with Iran. And definitely not Trump. Zelensky is very intentionally hitting targets that harm the US and Europe instead of infrastructure like power plants, which would more directly harm Russians. Think about why that might be." I won't pretend to know the truth. At Hat Hair, John Sexton sees Two More Russian Refineries Shut Down Operations After Drone Strikes and A Visit to a Russian Supermarket Shows Inflation at Work.

At The Chronic, Mark Judge sees Iran’s Underground Cartoonists Expose the Irony of the Regime’s Morality Police.

InfantryDort @infantrydort, "According to failed General Mark Hertling, "it's not clear why" the Pentagon has decided to test senior officers. I could end this post there and have the internet tell it how it is. But I'm not. I actually read this rag of an article. My response to Hertling (who blocks me but he will see this) is that let's talk about YOU. Since you've dedicated oh so much time making it political about Hegseth and Scheller. Mark Hertling has: >publicly announced “I consider myself woke,” opposed rolling back DEI and transgender accession policy, and called Hegseth’s DEI critique “insulting” to the force..." Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "You were branched as a Finance officer and later became a public affairs officer. In the Reserves. Your highest award is a DMSM. Look, as a career logistics officer myself I always preach one team, one fight, but not when someone like you--who is supported by the cretinous, Soros-funded, "VoteVets"--crawls out of the Deep State slime to smear actual combat veterans like Hegseth. Pete Hegseth's pinky finger knows more about leading troops in wartime than your DSA sell-out brain will ever comprehend, and the closest your pinky ever got to heroism is a paper cut. So how about you put a sock in it, you DEI-installed, Commie faux-general? Beat it." Quote Leela Gray @LeelaJGray, "I say this as a retired Brigadier General with 30 years of service: Pete Hegseth is an unqualified frat boy." Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "More unqualified frat boys then. Putting the warfighting back in the War Department. (Dead name DoD, for Department of DEI. He transitioned it. Because the upper echelon of our military just like the rest of our government was burdened with unimaginative careerist hacks who would salute any flag that was run up the pole, including the trans one.)..." Joel Pollak @joelpollak, "Trump's done everything I'd wanted him to do and more. A few things I didn't want him to do, but that's OK. My #1 issue was securing the border; #2 protecting Constitution & speech esp. at SCOTUS; #3 strengthening military & defending Israel. Challenge will be defending the wins."

WSJ says The Hot U.S. Economy Can’t Be Cooled. That’s Bad For Bonds. Polymarket @Polymarket, "JUST IN: U.S. weekly jobless claims plunge to 197,000, nearing 57-year lows."

Omri Ceren @omriceren, "Unexpectedly!" Quote Polymarket @Polymarket, "JUST IN: Investigation reveals former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon reportedly worked with a “doomer PR firm” while launching his viral campaign warning of AI’s existential risks." Hillary Clinton Explains AI Dangers, and I Am Persuaded Now says Hat Hair's Dave Strom sarcastically. From the Bay Journal, Virginia governor creates data center accountability policy as she prepares to slay the golden goose. Nicole Silvero at Da Caller observes the Tech CEOs Skip Senate Hearing About Automated Surveillance. I reckon it's something they don't want to talk about.

PJM's Matt Margolis sees Trump Made Democrats Look Stupid Again, over the new helipad he had built to keep Biden's helicopters from burning the White House lawn. "It was also obviously necessary, just like the White House ballroom project was necessary and even wanted by previous administrations. Democrats chose knee-jerk opposition anyway, because opposing Trump is the only move they have left, even when he's right."

Twitchy is outraged that Hasan Piker Mocks Fallen Navy SEALs Who Drowned Stopping Iranian Weapons. I&I, Dems Promise An Impeach-O-Rama Next Year.

New Jersey in the news! Beege Welborn at Hat Hair observes Mikie Sherrill Finds One Jersey Man She Wanted Gone - Her Lt Gov Resigns over "some pretty intense and serious accusations of sexual harassment." Ryan King at NYPo, NJ school district forced students to keep image of Dem Rep on their computers, parent says. Matt Whitlock @MattWhitlock, "If you're wondering why a NJ Senator whose state benefits massively from the Paramount merger (just ask his governor) is sticking his neck out to pressure judges to block it... Look no further than his long and lucrative relationship with Netflix." Quote Eriq Gardner @eriqgardner, "Sen. Cory Booker files a letter urging the judge to tightly scrutinize the Paramount-WBD merger settlement. He writes the decrees must remedy the harms pleaded and expresses skepticism the decree addresses the core of the case."

And Virginia! Breccan Thies at Da Fed hears Virginia School Board Considers Axing Veterans Day Holiday To Make Room For Islamic, Hindu Ones. Stafford. Shooting News Week, Virginia AG Spins Up a Dedicated Unit to Enforce the State’s New Vague Firearms Liability Law.

Elon Musk @elonmusk, "The NGOs end up increasing the number of homeless people they manage, because that’s the only way to increase their revenue! Incentives drive outcomes. “Homeless” is a propaganda word used to describe people on the street who are mentally ill or severely addicted to drugs. The word implies that this is someone who fell a little behind on their mortgage payment and they’re one job offer away from getting back on their feet, which is obviously false if you’ve ever tried talking to a “homeless” person in SF, LA, NY, Austin or anywhere else. The honest reality is that we need to bring back asylums for extreme mental illness or drug addiction for those who are a serious danger to themselves or others." Quote Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters, "Incentives determine outcomes If you give an NGO a certain number of dollars per homeless person, they will never solve homelessness." When India put a bounty on cobras, Indians started cobra farming. 

At Science Alert, Rich US Neighborhoods Are More Likely to Burn in Wildfires, Study Reveals. Makes sense, rich people like nice homes out in the mountains and woods. Poor people huddle in ghettos. They burn too, but they're not wildfires. 

Sister Toldja at RedState sees a Plot Twist: A Surprising Source Defends Vance After Schumer Attacks Him Over Obamacare Fraud News. WaPoo ed board, JD Vance is not ripping away anyone’s health insurance coverage "All 760,000 of the ACA plans that were canceled this week met five criteria. ... First, none of the accounts had a Social Security number or an immigration identification number. Second, all of the accounts had premiums covered 100 percent by taxpayers. That makes it easier for fraudsters to sign up unknowing enrollees, who don’t see money leave their bank accounts. Third, the plans had not been used. No claims had been filed. And finally, the insurer offering the plan never had contact with the enrolled individual."

Amy Curtis at TownHall thinks the Supreme Court Hands President Trump a Big Win on Election Integrity. John Sexton, Supreme Court Sides With Trump Administration on Screening Voters. Fred Lucas at Da Signal, Supreme Court Hands Trump Major Victory in Drive to Combat Noncitizen Voting. PJM's Cathy Salgado, Supreme Court Approves Expanded Voter Verification Program. Ace, Supreme Court Now Okays Trump's Plan to Allow States to Use Federal Databases to Screen the Voter Lists for Ineligible Voters. "The Supreme Court had previously joined in the left-wing plan to delay implementation of Trump's Executive Order until it was late enough in the season that they could claim it would cause "chaos" to implement it so late. Now it blesses not a screening of mail-in ballots -- that would still cause "chaos," I guess -- but the simple use by states (at their discretion; left-wing governments won't screen ballots) of the Social Security databases to discover if a voter is a citizen or not. So this is a weaker version of Trump's plan, which left-wing states won't even implement." Sundance, Supreme Court Sets Aside Block Granting States Ability to Verify Voter Status in Midterm Election. At Althouse, "In an unsigned decision with no noted dissents, the justices warned of 'electoral chaos' if the state were to change course so close to the election and use the 2025 map." ""The election is not merely upcoming; it has already started. Ballots using the 2022 map have been printed and mailed. Absentee voting has already begun, as has military and overseas voting,” according to the five-page decision." From "Supreme Court Once Again Blocks Republican-Backed Voting Map in Missouri/A federal appeals court had sided with Republicans seeking to use redrawn congressional district boundaries to give their party an advantage in the midterms elections" (NYT)." Delay worked, with lower courts assistance. At Da Signal, Feds Report 160 Election Fraud Arrests as Thousands of New Leads Pour In. 

Cam at Bearing Arms, SCOTUS Directs New Jersey AG to Respond in 'Code Is Speech' Case. Arguing over the computer code for 3D gun printing.

Beege Welborn, Only a Lunatic Virtue-Signaler Would Brag She Let a Cannibal Off on a Murder Conviction. Well, yes. Buck Throckmorton at Ace's MORNING RANT decries The Awful Precedent of the Clancy Trial’s Juror-Harassment.

Paul Thacker at the The DisInformation Chronicle thinks Leaked Fauci Pardon Papers Cast Doubt On Claims He Never Asked Biden for Clemency, "Justice Department documents contradict 60 Minutes report on pardons." 60 Minutes would never shave the truth, am I right?

Ben Whedon at JTN reports HSI nabs thrice-deported alien who allegedly attacked ICE agent with vehicle. Ace sees Two-Tiered Justice: Leftwing DAs Give Illegal Aliens Immunity for Major Crimes So That They Won't Be Deported. "I wrote about this briefly in Quick Hits yesterday or the day before. Just the News has a more detailed article. Illegal aliens are first-tier citizens, somehow. Actual US citizens are second-tier, at best." From Campus Reform, Universities hire legions of H-1B workers, lawmakers advance legislation to rein in ‘visa scam’ Business Insider whines about Why an H-1B visa hopeful decided to give up on work in the US, "after learning that potential employers might have to pay a $100,000 fee to hire her, she pivoted." Dave Strom sees The Inverted Moral Universe of Asylum Policies Summed Up in One Small Boat. Nioh Berg @NiohBerg, "One one single illegal migrant boat from Africa going to the Canary Islands: • A 16 year old girl was gangraped • A toddler was thrown overboard to drown All of the remaining migrant men, including rapists and murderers, will likely be hosted in Europe as if nothing happened. They will then be distributed into your neighbourhood without your consent or even knowledge. Sickening."

Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman, "THEY HID THE WHOLE THING. Legacy media refused to show you a single second of President Trump’s speech and historic state dinner with Xi Jinping. Here is the entire night, start to finish, with translations. That is not journalism. That is information control. Watch it yourself. Do not let them keep you in the dark." Quote Nick Sortor @nicksortor, "Legacy media REFUSED to show you a SINGLE SECOND of President Trump's speech and historic state dinner with Xi Jinping tonight at the White House So here's the ENTIRE thing, from start to finish, with translations for Xi's speech." Becca Lower at RedState, CNN Quietly Admits They Were Not Denied Access to Trump-Xi Dinner. Here Were Their Demands.

Western Lensman @WesternLensman, "Obama has a plan to address the "information bubbles" Americans are in: "We're going to have to create new town squares, where everybody is having a common dialogue with certain rules." No mystery who he would want to be in charge of making these "rules.""

At the Chronic, Mark Judge remembers how Elena Kagan Predicted Why We Would Hate the Media "A main reason why we hate the media so much, and the reason they have earned that ire, is rooted in New York Times vs. Sullivan, the 1964 Supreme Court decision that held that media companies cannot be found guilty for anything they report unless there is evidence of “actual malice” on their part. In 1993, a University of Chicago law professor named Elena Kagan wrote an academic article for the Chicago Law Review that perceptively examined the reality of the new post-Sullivan press freedom:" It may be a particular gripe of his, but there are plenty more reasons to hate the media.

Timur Kuran @timurkuran, "These are the PRIVATELY HELD concerns of university leaders—those they reveal in surveys that grant confidentiality. Their PUBLICLY EXPRESSED concerns often differ massively. Though they now use coded language, many still pretend to care deeply about racial equity." Quote Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79. "University leaders were asked about their most pressing concerns. The DEI options — “racial equity issues” and “identity-based harassment” — are barely on their radar." Their primary concern is, and always will be money. Trust me. At NRO, Cambridge Cancels Probe into Jason Arday Hiring, Will Instead Focus on University Support. Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79, "It’s all too predictable." Ace, Cambridge University: We Have Cancelled Our Promised Investigation Into How Unqualified Fabulist Jason Arday Was Hired. Instead We Will Investigate How We Failed to "Support" Him and Other DEI Incompetents and Plagiarists. "Of course, perfect." Don't turn on the lights 'cause I don't want to see! The College Fix hears Stanford course will critique AI through lens of ‘African intellectual sovereignty’ with an AI Jason Arday lecturing. I just made that up. Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79, "BREAKING: An advisory panel on accreditation has recommended that the Department of Education suspend the American Psychological Association (APA) for 12 months amidst concerns about ideological standards on DEI, gender-related treatment, and especially antisemitism. After hearing from several groups during a meeting yesterday, the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity’s (NACIQI) voted to make the recommendation. The recommendation now goes to the Department of Education for a final decision."

Monica Showalter at Am Think thinks she knows why Nikole Hannah-Jones exposed New York City's horrible public schools now. "The short answer is 'Trump.' But not in the way she thinks." Brianna Lyman at Da Fed says Nikole Hannah-Jones Sacrificed Her Kid For Race Communism. Imagine Her Plan For Yours. Brianna has been on Fox a bit lately, and she makes a pretty decent panelist. At Althouse, "[I]n the face of the evidence we have so far, and given the incendiary nature of the claim, why would anyone say that the United States is experiencing a 'national crisis' of lynchings?" "Writes John McWhorter, in "Are Lynchings Really Happening?" (NYT)."

Cathy Salgado hears a Women’s Group Finds That Biological Men Stole Over 2,000 Gold Medals From Girls. Ace, Transgender Activists Say That Men Stealing Gold Medals from Women "Just Isn't a Thing That Really Happens." A New Report Says that Men Have Stolen 2,300 Gold Medals from Women Over The Past 40 Years. "These things that never happen sure do seem to happen an awful lot."

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