Flotsam and Jetsam - It's a Long Monday

 An amazing amount of stuff for a Monday. Don't those people have anything better to do on Sunday?

According to News Wax, UAE Had Shared Details about FlyDubai Flight with Israel, Including Pilots' Names and Nationalities. A failure in vetting for sure, but one whose part? PJM's Bob Spencer thinks a Veteran Pilot Startles Leftist Interviewer With the Truth About the Dubai Hijacking. "But how deep do you want to go into it? Because I, I hear, them saying, “Oh, we wonder what the motive is.” Well, excuse me, in Du— in the Middle East, the motive is, the fact that Islam calls for the death of Jews. All Jews. It's part of the core belief of Islam. This whole commission, this joke they had in Australia recently about antisemitism, just ignores the reality of what is the core belief of Islam that all Jews must die until the world becomes pure, free of Jews." Hat Hair's Josh Hammer warns Don't Let Flydubai Terror Scare Derail Abraham Accords Progress. At Response State, Reignited violence in Ethiopia threatens to engulf the entire region, "A tangled web of alliances, mixed with intense domestic conflicts in surrounding countries, will make it difficult to contain another civil war." Aggie at Althouse comments "Apparently, the Omani co-pilot asked the Indian pilot if he could leave his seat to go pray. The Indian pilot granted this permission, at which point the Omani co-pilot retrieved the rescue axe and proceeded to attack the pilot, in an attempt to crash the plane. Isn't that a terrific metaphor for what's going on in the West...."

At Da Signal, the Great Victor Davis Hanson shows that the Iran’s Regime Is Running Out of Options. At RCW, The Diesel Shock Came from Abroad; But the Missing Cushion Was Homemade. Failure to allow enough oil refining. We're looking at you, California, in particular. CTH's sundance hosts Barbara Boyd Outlines Trump Strategy Against Fuel Costs and Overall America-First Economy. From RCE, When All Else Fails, Start a War: Europe's Descent From Net Zero Folly to Military Mobilization.

A Driscolly post at Insty, US PULLS BOMBER JETS FROM RAF FAIRFORD AFTER TERROR PLOT: "The US has withdrawn all of its bomber jets from RAF Fairford after the base was the target of a suspected terror plot last weekend. The Pentagon said all B-1 bombers deployed to the base, which US forces have used to strike Iran, have returned to the US." Trent Telenko @TrentTelenko, "If this is true. We are seeing a massive USAF vote of no-confidence in the UK Labour government. If the "Special Relationship" between the US & UK depends on which political parties are in power simultaniously. We are post "Special Relationship."" Quote GMI @Global_Mil_Info, "It appears a mass withdrawal of B-1B Lancer bombers from RAF Fairford is underway, likely reflecting the ongoing security threat surrounding the airbase. The movement also appears to include aircraft from the most recent B-1B rotation, rather than being limited to the bombers." Insty says R.I.P. SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP: Eli Afriat @EliAfriatISR, "The Pentagon confirms that all B-1 bombers deployed to RAF Fairford in the UK have returned to the US: "Due to operational security considerations, we could not confirm the aircraft's movement in real time; however, we can now confirm that all US bombers deployed to RAF Fairford in the UK have returned to their home bases in the US."" The Globe and Mail @globeandmail, "Quebec on the cusp of electing separatist government promising referendum." When Canada falls apart on its own, we can take Alberta, and maybe BC.

7% NaCl (Salty) @TwoRulesOfWar, "This seems like the start to a survival horror game." Quote, Annie Jacobsen @AnnieJacobsen "BREAKING: Plague outbreak expands, Russia BSL-3 lab accident - FIVE hospitals now quarantined The plague outbreak in Siberia, Russia has expanded w/5 hospitals now under QUARANTINE: Irkutsk Hospitals No. 1, No.3, No.10, Ivano-Matreninskaya." Looks like another lab "leak." From News Wax, Germany's Merz Visits Kyiv as Russia Steps up Attacks on Ukrainian Cities.

Inevitable West @Inevitablewest, "BREAKING: Flávio Bolsonaro has officially WON the first round of the Brazilian Presidential Elections, with millions more votes than communist tyrant Lula The polls got it horribly wrong. CHANGE is coming to Brazil!" Aaron Stanley @AaronWStanley, "What is the probability that the STF will attempt to annul these election results due to alleged US interference? @ggreenwald" Quote Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald,"Brazil's election count coming to an end with the slimmest margin yet between Bolsonaro and Lula: now about 2%. Still: very hard to see how Lula will leap ahead for the Oct. 25 run-off given tonight's huge right-wing wave and the right-wing tilt of the 4 candidates." The Drunk Republican @DrunkRepub, "Americans were literally financing movements intended to destroy their way of life." Quote Mostly Peaceful Memes @MostlyPeaceful, "Since USAID was dismantled in 2025, no left-wing candidate has won a presidential election in Central or South America. x.com/kalshipolitics…"

Roger Kimball at Am Great discusses Trump and the Relentless Momentum of Events, "Trump is the great magnetic north of our political metabolism." Navarro to Newsmax: Trump Delivering on Manufacturing. At NYPo, Larry Kudlow and Stephen Moore explain Trump and Republicans can win the ‘affordability’ battle — here’s how. Sundance hosts Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Gives Lengthy Outline of His Role, National Security and the U.S. Economy with Anxious. Larry Correia @monsterhunter45, "As much as the black pilled doomers loved to cry about how the Trump admin hasn’t fixed every problem in America… I’d like to point our this is the current ATF director telling some Everytown For Gun Safety dude to fuck off. Keep in mind two years ago Biden’s ATF director was making literally millions of us felons overnight because we had the wrong shaped piece of plastic on our guns. Anybody who says these two sides are equal is dumb or an op trying to sell you something." Carson Holloway at Am Mind remembers George Washington’s Wisdom for the Midterms. "No political movement can succeed by ignoring its voters’ self-interest." Tim O'Brien at PJM wonders Are Republican Campaigns Forgetting About Their X Platform Advantage?. From Althouse, "I don’t know about anyone else, but a table full of very distinguished people just told me that they HATE, immediately after a mandatory time change, going home at night – and it’s DARK." ""It’s depressing! One of the gentleman stated that, 'I just hate going home in darkness.'" Writes Trump, who seems to believe Daylight Saving Time is a valuable political issue." No problem too small. And, "To understand the religious dynamics of the Texas race, it’s important to absorb the true depths of the 'God gap' in American politics." "Writes David French, in "The ‘God Gap’ Is Narrowing in Texas" (NYT)."

From Tech Crunch, OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’

Derek Hunter at TownHall sees Democrats Are Coming After You and It Won’t End Well. From Calling all Rush-Babes, *Hello, America! The Midterm Elections are a Month Away. Here’s what Chuck Schumer and the Democrats have planned. Da Signal is worried Muslim Migration Could Decide Key Senate Races. PJM's Stephen Kruiser thinks It Feels Like It Should Be Easier to Defeat Abdul El-Sayed. NYPo, Gavin Newsom signs Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha into law as new California state holidays, but of course, Christmas and Easter are billed as "seasonal" holidays. Becca Lower at RedState has a Report: Somali Gang Shooting Injures 2 at MN High School Game, Has Major Implications for Midterms. Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree, "People don’t seem to understand that the DSA is a convergence around a replacement moral order. It is an anti-imperial theory in which power is not restrained by constitutional limits, individual rights, or conduct toward civilians. Power is judged by who exercises it and..." quote DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican, "Correct. "Populist left" is a misnomer; the only thing that makes them "populist" is that they're anti-NATO and anti-Israel. It's always dangerous when the dissident right talks about allying with them. They're trading a fake perception of foreign control (Israel) for a very real set of foreign countries bent on destroying America. This includes China, Russia, Iran, Cuba, and many others. Just because they're anti-NATO doesn't make them anti-global-order. The populist left wants to abolish borders and install tyrants; it's their religion. Singham / CCP alone has routed 300 million dollars towards revolutionary disruption all over the world. There's no alliance with the populist left. They'll kill you first." Quotulatiousness quotes Those who are attracted to power are the ones least capable of using it wisely. At Da Signal, Pedro Rodriguez looks at Squad 2.0. Joe Chalfant at TownHall laughs when he finds out It Turns Out That Talarico's 'Latest' High-Profile Campaign Stop Is From February. 

Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes, "EXPOSED: This is how paid protest networks can secretly claim to be grassroots and not big donor funded - 2 paid protesters organizers are exposed as being paid $80,000 each per year each, both work for The People's Forum - On paper, they make $0 from The People's Forum, so it looks like the protest organizers are no paid - However if you look dig a litter deeper into their taxes you can see they are paid by a different NGO called the Justice and Education Fund - The Justice and Education Fund is the nonprofit funded by Neville Roy Singham, the billionaire China ... My opinion is everyone involved in these foreign funded paid mass protest networks should be criminally charged" Bob Bluey at Da Signal explains The Real Reason Some States Still Count Votes for Weeks. 

From Twitchy, Woman Mystified by Middle Eastern-Looking Men Filling Up Walmart Grocery Carts With Milk Jugs. Jack Trade @JackTradexx, "They shop for their convenience stores, using SNAP (food stamps) card to pay for all the food, then sell for cash at their store. Have 3 wives, 2 of them collect government funds and the men use the funds to buy inventory for their store." From Fox, ‘Phantom’ Obamacare accounts spark new crackdown as Oz targets broker fraud. "CMS administrator says 760,000 fraudulent accounts have been terminated, saving taxpayers $2.2B."

Gail Heriot at Insty, IT’S REALLY LONG: "I’ve been reading through the Report of the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans. It’s well over 1000 pages long (and printed in a way that makes it more like 2000 pages of an ordinary book). I probably won’t be able to read every single line of it, but I will try to read as much as I can. Somebody has to, and it’s up my alley, so I should be the one.." At Da Caller, Gavin Newsom Signs New Law Requiring Companies To Disclose Historical Ties To Slavery. From NYPo, California governor’s races sees another massive swing as nail-biting new poll released.

At Insty, WHO KNEW HE WAS “FAR RIGHT” DECADES AGO?

I just found the most brilliant bit by @JohnCleese He explains Leftism better in 90 seconds, than you could learn from any academic in 20 years. https://t.co/xtubCcbRdi

— Dr Manhattva (@Manhattva) October 3, 2026

To be fair, I think they probably left out the part where he looked at "far-right" extremism.

From Da Fed, Brianna Lyman sees a Poll: 6 In 10 Americans Oppose Democrats’ Plan To Pack The Supreme Court and Ben Weingarten like a Landmark Lawsuit that Pits The Sharia Regime Against The Constitution. From CIS, SCOTUS to Consider Legality of Trump ‘Mass Detention’ Policy. "More than 30 years after IIRIRA, we’ll finally find out what section 235(b)(2)(A) actually says."

At USA Today, The 'Cornell 7' haven't been charged. The mob doesn't care. "What's most troubling in the Cornell University rape allegations is that onlookers have already made up their minds about who is to blame." Eugene Kontorovich @EVKontorovich, "I didn’t think I would comment on the Cornell 7 matter, but there is an underlying culprit everyone is missing. It’s not “society,” it’s the government. The heavy partying at ultra-expensive institutions like Cornell is being financed by untold billions of non-market government-backed loans that let students take what amounts to a four-year cruise - parties, sports, even occasional lectures. I would guess none of the participants were electrical engineering majors. Most adults don’t have all-night ketamine bacchanals because they have to work in the morning. But 18-21 year olds are given all the privileges of adulthood without and of the responsibility. Don’t treat them like Roman aristocrats and then wonder at their decadence." Insty, I BELIEVE THE SOCIETAL/RELATIONAL DAMAGE IS ACTUALLY THE POINT: Timur Kuran @timurkuran, "The biggest issue raised by Jane Doe vs. the Cornell 7 isn't simply who is responsible. It is what the controversy could do to relations between men and women at a moment when American social life is already in trouble..." Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter, "My new @Townhallcom column takes no prisoners… “We don’t owe accusers anything except to treat the accusation seriously, to investigate both sides’ claims, and to test the admissible evidence against clear laws. But that’s not what the leftists and feminists want to do here. That’s not what New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wanted done by appointing New York Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor. Hochul had already framed the young woman as a victim who was “literally gang raped,” and said she deserves to have “justice pursued.” Her catspaw James is supposed to run an objective criminal investigation? That’s a travesty. She has her marching orders, and she will march accordingly.”

From Am Con, The Mysteries of Butler "A new book examines the assassination attempt that changed the course of our recent history." Something stinks, but it's not clear, who or what is rotten.

Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne, "If you want to see the GRANITE Act pass, and get foreign censors the hell off of America’s Internet, now is the time to take any and all action you feel appropriate. Call your reps, write an op-ed, tell your friends - literally anything."

At The 74, Parents Are Beginning to Grasp the Reality of Grade Inflation, New Data Shows. "Grades can give the false impression that students are on track. A Learning Heroes survey suggests parents are beginning to question what schools tell them." Atop Da Hill, Jonathan Turley says The blue-state model for education has failed, and the public has caught on. From the WSJ, The End of College as We Know It. "AI is wreaking havoc in universities, but higher ed’s woes long predate ChatGPT." Bob Graboyes at Bastiat's Window, says Plagiarize! Plagiarize! Plagiarize! Only Be Sure Always to Call It, Please, “Research.” "In the AI+internet Era, can plagiarism remain a meaningful concept, and will its prohibition be enforceable?" 

Charlie Martin @chasrmartin, "Not a history, major I see." Quote Ashok Kumar @comrade_kumar_ "It’s official: the Green Party is now the first major political party in the West to be explicitly anti-zionist. A historic moment." Steven Pinker @sapinker, "Yes, many critical-social-justice dogmas can't withstand intellectual scrutiny, so their proponents try to protect them via intimidation and walling off the university commons. Civil discourse and viewpoint diversity are threats to this tactic." Quote Jeffrey Flier @jflier, "This new "report" is an embarrassing example of politicized argumentation plus scholarly ineptitude. It reflects that the movement to increase civil discourse & viewpoint diversity is rapidly advancing, which worries these authors. This is the best they could do to fight it." Chicago Boys decry The Alien Transplant to The US, antisemitism.

David Mastio @DavidMastio, "TRUMP'S TRANS CIVIL RIGHTS TRIUMPH: New data show a predicted Trump-era targeting of trans people failed to materialize, even as LGBTQ leaders warned of an ‘epidemic’ of ‘danger,’ ‘violence,’ ‘murder’ and even ‘terrorism.’"

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.

Flotsam and Jetsam - New Jersey Registered 6600 Illegals to Vote

We're still dwelling on President Trump's speech on election integrity and the fallout thereof. CNN's Michael Smerconish hosted at Hat Hair, 'If It's Newsworthy Enough to Rebut, It's Worth Airing' From TownHall, Trump Was Right: NJ Gov. Mikie Sherrill Forced to Eat Crow Over Massive Voter Registration Error. Sundance at CTH sees New Jersey Governor Admits Over 6,000 Illegal Aliens Were Registered to Vote in Motor-Voter System Between 2023 and 2024r. Ace, Software "Glitch" in Democrat-Riddled NJ Allows That Thing the Media Democrat Party Says Never Happens to Happen 6600 Times, "A "glitch" permitted 6,600 illegal aliens to sign up to vote, and we know at least 400 did illegally vote. Deb Heine at AmGreatness," and cites JTN's John Solomon: The Same Media Who Proclaimed That China's Theft of 40 Million Voter Records from the UK Was a Major Breach Now Says That China's Hacking of 220 Million American Voter Files is NBD. Dave Catron at Am Spec sees Mail-In-Voting: Appeals Court Hands Trump Big Win "The court ruled that the USPS may require states to turn over voter rolls before mailing out ballots." Flopping Aces @FloppingAces, "The D.C. Circuit didn’t rule that fraud happened. It ruled that freezing a basic ballot-tracking rule would cause irreparable harm before the November election. Read that again. A federal appeals court just said the administration needs time to implement serialized barcodes and voter-list submissions for mail-in ballots. Not mass purges. Not voter ID theater. Simple chain-of-custody tools so the Postal Service can track what it carries. And the reaction? Full institutional meltdown..." Bob Hoge at RedState wonders What Are They So Afraid Of? CA AG Bonta's Slippery Title Switch Tries to Kneecap Voter ID Measure. Larry Correia @monsterhunter45, "The thousands of comments on my voter fraud post remind me of one very important thing. The issue isn't about Trump. It is about the perception of the citizens. But they need to make it about Trump. It is difficult to dismiss the valid concerns of millions of nervous or angry citizens. It is easy to dismiss one guy as a sore loser and make the whole thing about his ego. Hence any discussion of this topic inevitably devolves into them fixating on Trump and the details surrounding one election and one moment in time, and ignoring everything else in the universe, up to and including fundamental human nature (as in some people cheat)." Christian Heiens @ChristianHeiens, "If given enough time, the rules will always be gamed in order to subvert the game itself and defeat the purpose of the contest in the first place. This is inevitable because the rewards are too great. The point is never to have a good time or even to entertain the audience. The point is to win. So the rules will be maliciously “followed”, even as the animating spirit behind them dies. This tweet isn’t about basketball."

RealRobert @Real_RobN, "And here it is… USAID more than doubled its spending on Brazil as soon as Bolsonaro won the 2018 election. This wasn’t because Brazil suddenly needed twice the aid; the money was spent on operations aimed at overthrowing the Brazilian government. The 2022 Brazilian election was stolen from Bolsonaro just as the 2020 U.S. election was stolen from Donald Trump and from Kari Lake in 2022, with USAID and the CIA involved in installing election-rigging machines that Brazilians didn’t even want..." Polymarket @Polymarke, "BREAKING: Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega declares the country will no longer hold elections, eliminating any future electoral challenge to his rule."

Doug Burgum to Newsmax: 'Geopolitics of Energy Have Changed Forever'. CDR Salamander, looks at Cuba Libre, "The Department of State's Cuba Report," and Do You Know Why the PRC Has a Polar Strategy? "...do we?" Hat Hair's John Sexton notes Zelensky Reverses Course, Fires Ukraine's Top General. NOELREPORTS @NOELreports, "Russia's Defense Ministry recruited just over 8,000 drone operators for its Unmanned Systems Forces in the first half of the year, despite an annual target of 78,800. Analysts calculated that recruitment should have reached about 34,400 by then, leaving the ministry at roughly a quarter of its planned pace. Deputy Defense Minister Alexei Krivoruchko reported the figures."

Sundance is keeping us abreast of relations with our neighbor to the north, Trump Administration Announces Section 338 Tariffs at Rate of 50% Across Wide Range of Canadian Goods and Imports, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney Responds to Latest U.S. Tariff Increase, Ontario Premier Doug Ford Promises “to Dismantle the U.S” Economy in Retaliation for Tariffs ("Considering the economy of the USA is ten-times larger than Canada, that’s quite a threat from Premier Doug Ford") and USTR Jamieson Greer Outlines Details of Misleading Talking Points by Canadian Trade Officials. Beege Welborn at Hat Hair sings Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho and Trump Lit the Fires in Canada.

Dave Strom hears WaPoo whine Trump Is Putting Up Statues of Former Slaveholders! Bo Loudon @BoLoudon, "WOW: President Bill Clinton has COPIED President Trump's signature red 45-47 hat, now wearing a red 42 hat. Trump owns our culture and style, and if you can't beat them, join them! Even Bill Clinton can't deny it." Monica Crowley @MonicaCrowley, "THE TRUMP EFFECT." Quote Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman, "EPIC: Spanish soccer star Ferran Torres rocks a “MAKE SPAIN GREAT AGAIN” hat just one day after meeting President Trump! Socialist government in Spain, but real Patriots are still out here repping hard."

Stacy McCain takes on The Pro-Hamas Socialist Democrats. Seth Mandel at Commentary looks at The Normalizing of Mamdani’s Creepy Bibi Obsession. Scott Pinsker at PJM says Mayor Mamdani Is NOT Bluffing: The Revolutionary Upside to Arresting Netanyahu. From NYPo the Divine Miranda Devine thinks Mamdani and his DSA comrades have one goal — a communist revolution in America. Hat Hair's Dave Strom sees them Embracing Mao Now. Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "This is like a pro-terrorism Islamist privileged twat commie douchebag homerun derby." Quote Zeteo @zeteo_news, "Will the real Hasan please stand up? @hasanthehun joins @mehdirhasan to once and for all settle who the better Hasan is. Stay tuned for the latest episode of ‘We’re Not Kidding’ dropping on http://zeteo.com this Wednesday." James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames, "Fun facts about Mao's Little Red Book. Ok, so first of all, it's not even a book in the sense of making an argument or whatever. It's not even a piece of propaganda. It's acollection of quotations allegedly from Mao Zedong. It's basically Brainy Quotes Mao Edition..." Quote Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby, "Hasan Piker celebrates being given a copy Mao’s Little Red Book in China. His friend next to him: “This is more important than the Bible!” This is who Democrat Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is." TownHall's Matt Vespa thinks you should Watch a NYT Columnist Obliterate the Left's Main Obsession in Less Than Six Minutes and CNN's Jake Tapper Asked This Leftist Michigan Senate Candidate About Israel and Iran. It Didn't Go Well. Ilya Somin at The Volokh Conspiracy points out the Contradictions of Socialist Prison Abolitionism "Many "democratic socialists" want to abolish prisons. But this is in conflict with their objective of making many more activities illegal." Under real socialism, the penalty is often death. Nate Hochman @njhochman, "One of the many explosive revelations in this new State Department report is that the Venceremos Brigade—which has brought 10,000+ American left-wing activists to Cuba, including high-profile Democratic politicians like LA Mayor Karen Bass—was built and run by actual Cuban spies." Clay Travis @ClayTravis, "This is important. The far left in this country is mostly made up of people who spent a ton on their degrees and can’t make back what they spent. As a result, they hate capitalism." Quote Nate Silver @NateSilver538, "Income and education are usually positively correlated. But sometimes the relationship breaks down. What's the most Democratic voting group in America? People with post-graduate degrees but lower-to-middle incomes." Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt, "a black fourth grader in Mississippi is two and a half times as likely to be proficient in math and reading as one in California" Don't let communists run your state."

At Althouse, They should have stood by Platner. Now they have to stand by Jackson, the new guy who's being foisted on Mainers. ""Democrat set to replace Platner in Maine led state Senate with a temper/Troy Jackson, the presumptive Democratic nominee to challenge Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), yelled and cursed at fellow state lawmakers, interviews reveal" (WaPo)(gift link)." Team Cruz @TeamTedCruz, "In one four-minute, off-the-cuff answer, Talarico managed to advocate for or say all of the following: - Reparations are part of his faith tradition. - Race-based tuition relief. - Race-based homeownership grants. - Race-based baby bonds. - Slavery still defines modern Texas. - Government must “repair” the past. - When Democrats win the Senate they will enact reparations - The George Floyd Act was “transformational.” - Washington must protect Americans “from police violence.” - Shows like 'Cops' promote violence." Capt. Ed at Hat Hair looks at How's It Going for Talarico? BLM Activist Shouts Him Down at His Own Rally As He Simps for Crockett. From Ace, BLM Activists Bully James Talarico Into Admitting How Extreme His Leftwing Politics Really Are. At Twitchy, NOT YOU! Pete Buttigieg Asks, 'Then What?' After Trump ... and He's Not Gonna' Like the Answers.

Mediaite reports Republicans Gain Ground on Democrats Heading Into 2026 Midterms, New Washington Post Poll Reveals. At Da Mail, Morning Joe warns Democrats are doomed to more election failure in 2028 as party continues to embrace 'extraordinarily loony ideas'. TV News Now @TVNewsNow, "Fox’s @BretBaier: “If Van Jones and Bill Maher are sending up the red flares, is that what’s happening inside the traditional Democratic Party?” Former Biden senior advisor: “Yes, and there should be more of it to be honest. The opinions that are being taken up by these Democratic socialists are political non-starters in any of the places that we actually need to put together a Democratic majority,” adds @JohnWMcCarthy.

Althouse "Former President Joe Biden lost his bid Monday to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with his longtime ghostwriter..." "The NY Post reports." VodkaPundit at PJM, COURT: 'Smithers, Release the Biden Tapes!'

At the Washington Stand, Feds Recover Less Than 1% of $400 Billion+ in COVID Relief Funds Lost to Fraudsters. From NYPo, California city chief arrested on a yacht just three weeks after taking over top job "Sausalito’s new city manager was arrested early Saturday on suspicion of felony burglary after Marin County sheriff’s deputies responding to a noise complaint found her aboard a yacht that authorities say belonged to someone else."

OSINT613, The U.S. Campaign Against Iran Is Moving Inland: This Is No Longer a Coastal War. At PJM Rick Moran hears Trump Weighs Massive Escalation in Iran As Houthis Threaten to Close the Red Sea's Critical Strait and Cathy Salgado sees Trump Calls Out Dems for Helping Iran ‘Savages,’ Punishing U.S. Citizens. At Hat Hair, Capt. Ed wonders Will – and Can – Trump Target Pickaxe Mountain Next? and John Sexton cites Iran: Don't You Dare Strike Our Nuclear Facilities. The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter, "BREAKING: At least 8 oil tankers have aborted transit through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait following the Houthi naval blockade against Saudi Arabia, including 3 Chinese VLCCs carrying Saudi crude. Three tankers loaded with Saudi crude bound for China and one for India have made U-turns in the Red Sea and are now aborting their transit through the Bab El-Mandeb. 4 additional tankers turning north in the Red Sea have been identified as Agios Gerasimos, MICA, NAVIG8 Express, and Trust." IQ 594 | Cody Penn-Dent @codypd "So let me get this straight… China, who is an ally of Iran, has decided to participate in a magic show by not sending boats through a corridor that Iran and its ragtag psycho pals in Yemen say is closed From this I am to infer the ragtag psychos closed it?" Quote Martin Kelly @_MartinKelly_ "At least 4 (there are more) ships, including 3 Chinese VLCCs have aborted transit via the Bab al Mandeb after the Houthis implemented a blockade on Saudi ports. Interesting here that Chinese affiliation clearly does not provide immunity to those ships which meet the Houthi criteria.

Don Surbers sees The Boasberg boomerang, "He inadvertently led Trump to a court that may expedite deportations." From Ace, Michigan Appeals Court Reverses Two More Convictions in Fake-News Gretchen Whitmer "Fednapping" Prosecutions, "The Regime wants to prove that "right wingers" commit as much terrorism as left wingers. But they don't. So they have to manufacture offenses." And, the Border Patrol Wanted to Question Fauci's Catspaw Peter Daszak When He Returned from the Wuhan Lab in China. The FBI Blocked Them from Asking Fauci's Pal Any Questions, "We need a Truth and Reconciliation Committee to discover what was really going on in Wuhan and which government officials need to be in prison." At Da Caller, Hawaii’s Top Court Unleashes ‘Unserious Screed’ Against Conservative-Majority Supreme Court, it was kind of a hissy fit. From JTN, Conservative think tank wants Supreme Court to legalize home whiskey distilleries, "The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled recently that the federal ban against home whiskey distilleries is unconstitutional. However, the 6th Circuit upheld the federal ban."

The NYPo ed board wonders Why hasn’t Mahmoud Khalil been deported yet? At Chronicles No English, No Problem — Until the Crash Happens. Eric Florack at PJM, The Great American Demographic Shift.

Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo, "Hey @ABC News. How can Sunny Hostin be your Senior Legal Correspondent and Analyst when she was caught on video unethically abusing her power to help her son escape accountability with police and lying about being a current federal prosecutor? The latter is a federal crime."

Sister Toldja, Watch: Brandon Gill Shows Museum Director No Mercy During Hearing on Wokeification of the Smithsonian. Althouse, "Do you think that it's the goal of the Smithsonian Institution to promote white supremacy culture?" "Congressman Brandon Gill asks Smithsonian Museum director Anthea Hartig at the House Oversight Committee hearing today. It's quite an exchange. Gill has a very well-planned set of question designed to destroy Hartig, and Hartig's defense is almost entirely restricted to long silences and diligent note-taking, as if she's endeavoring to learn from Gill." Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, "OMG. Brutal moment as Rep. Brandon Gill embarrasses Smithsonian Director Hartig with this line of questioning GILL: Is it important to be polite? HARTIG: Yes GILL: Your organization says politeness is a defining characteristic of white supremacy culture. Ma'am, are you a white supremacist? HARTIG: No, sir. GILL: Why does your organization say being polite is part of being a white supremacist? ANOTHER ONE: GILL: Is objectivity important for history? HARTIG: We strive to be objective GILL: Your document says being objective is white supremacy. HARTIG: Mm... GILL: Are you promoting a white supremacy culture at the Smithsonian? Ma'am, is this a difficult question?" Ace, sees Democrats Push Unhinged Racialist Propaganda as Republicans Probe the Smithsonian for Its Rampant Leftwing Bias.""The museum does not take sides,' a Smithsonian official declared, perjuring herslef." Beege Welborn Excuse Me, Sir - Did You Perhaps Drop Some White Supremacy Here? Mark Judge at the Chronic, Gottfried is Right: Wokeness Is Not Communism, It’s Demonic Narcissism.

From Twitchy, Even Trans Host Can't Stop Making Faces As Trans Dem Ashley Webb Explains How He's MEDICALLY a Woman. At Althouse, "We want to prevent all the bizarreness and keep our state normal." Said Bruce Skaug, an Idaho state representative, "who is sponsoring legislation to bar cities and counties from adopting local nondiscrimination policies that extend protection to sexual orientation or gender identity." Quoted in "How a 911 Call Led to the Nation’s Strictest Trans Bathroom Law/People in Sandpoint, Idaho, don’t know how to characterize a woman’s brush with a transgender woman in a Y.M.C.A. locker room, but the emergency call that followed is still reverberating" (NYT)(gift link).

At Campus Reform, Denver SDS says TPUSA ‘needs to be smashed’ amid university investigation. "Denver Students for a Democratic Society, a left-wing student group, says it 'will not tolerate' TPUSA’s presence on campus."

More at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 07.21.26 (Afternoon Edition).

Flotsam and Jetsam - Time for Escape from New York?

This post inadvertently left in draft until this morning; I thought I'd just put it out there anyway.

In the wake of the Marxist's victories in NYC, Derek Hunter says Let New York Suffer. That's pretty much my take too. NYC has gone through these cycles before, electing wreckers before waking up and electing somebody to clean up. If they fail to do the latter this time, oh well. We don't really need it as a thriving financial hub anymore, it's all being done on the internet. Just don't force us to pay the bill. The Manhattan Contrarian notices In New York, The Democrats Go Completely Crazy. Nate Silver @NateSilver538, "Depending on the definition, maybe 3-5% of the US population is smart but seriously mentally unstable. That group heavily selects into politics, though. So maybe you're getting more like 10-15% among certain political types. That's enough to have a real influence on movements." Insty quips HONESTLY, THAT’S A LOWBALL NUMBER I THINK. Twitchy hears No Money for Schools? Mary Katharine Ham Schools the Commie on NYC's $40K-Per-Student Disaster Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer, "“No money for schools.” NYC has a $43 billion dollar school system whose funding has gone up as enrollment has gone down. It has the highest per-student expenditure in the nation of up to $40K a year. 28-29% of students test proficient in math and reading (NAEP)." Quote Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_ "Darializa Avila Chevalier: “What we need is a mentality of people over profit. You can’t tell me there is no money for schools, there’s no money to address childhood poverty, there’s no money to address this housing crisis, while voting time and time again to send billions to a war machine to a country that’s currently enacting a genocide”"

Erick Florack calls Joe Biden The Perfect Symbol of Today's Democrat Party. Hat Hair's John Sexton manages some faux tears over Scott Wiener's Struggle Sessions. Shipwreckedcrew says The Supreme Court Produced No High Profile Decisions Last Week -- So Lets Look At "Dead Man Walking" Graham Platner in Maine. "Lets consider the "Bernie Bro" communist running in a state with the oldest electorate and where the number of "Independent" voters who decide elections is the largest." Scott McKay at Am Spec, Where Are the Bill Kristols and Michael Steeles on the Democrat Side Today? "Democrats and Republicans are not flip sides of the same coin." At Shooting News Week, Oops: Dems Concede Gun Control Isn’t Top Issue For Them Any More.

Caleb Howe at Howe It Is, 'Just The Latest Blow': White House Rips Newsom Over New Burden On Families — EXCLUSIVE. "He's all about punishing Americans. Citizens and journalists, anyway." "His scheme, a monthly per-enrollee tax on Medicaid, ObamaCare, and health plans at work, is going to see higher premiums across the board for working residents in the state. Genius!! No wait, that other thing. Terrible! That’s it." Mark Tapscott at Insty, WHEN REALITY BITES … NEWSOM: "He mocked Justice Alito’s majority opinion in the Supreme Court’s Hawaii decision on individuals carrying firearms in public. The Chief Executive of the state with the highest poverty rate and the most tax-paying citizens fleeing to Texas, Florida, Arizona, etc. etc. ought to know better." Hat Hair cites Kaitlyn Schallhorn from Orange County Register "(I Dunno - Top Chef?) What’s Next for Katie Porter After Ca Gov Loss?" She's so well known for her "special" mashed potatoes. Cathy Salgado at PJM hears Hilton: Audio Seems to Capture Becerra Detailing an 'Assembly Line' for Migrant Children. Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes, "Leaked recording of Xavier Becerra at HHS under Biden saying he was putting illegal migrant children “in an assembly line” He clearly says the American people will be upset knowing how much Democrats were spending on children who shouldn’t even be here in America, and he’s instructing his staff to place them as quickly as they can without doing the proper checks How is this guy not rotting in prison “This is not the way you do an assembly line” “We need to get discharges up — Every time we have to go to the Hill and explain why we're spending so much money when most people are struggling to spend a little bit of money for their kids on a daily basis, we try to explain how we're spending more than $1,000 a day for kids who may not even have the legal right to be here” This is your reminder he was also called out in official testimony for placing children with sponsors using strip clubs as addresses Arrest him." Jen O'Connell at RedState sees Karen Bass Blames Environmental Racism For Boyle Heights, Spencer Pratt Nails Her to the Wall. Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt "Toxic soil, 6,000 homes destroyed, 12 people burned alive, 400+ excess deaths from toxic smoke exposure…but that was in the Palisades, so who cares about us, right? No, THIS is a turning point. This one structure fire. What a soulless goblin Karen is." Quote Mayor Karen Bass @MayorOfLA "People who are familiar with Boyle Heights know this fire did not happen in a vacuum. Environmental hazards have too often fallen on communities like this one. This moment must be a turning point. We will hold those responsible..."

Wokal Distance @wokal_distance, "Leftists claimed Elon Musk could end world hunger for only 6 Billion dollars, and then Mackenzie Scott spent 4 times that amount and it didn't do anything to solve world hunger." Quote Pubity @pubity, "Jeff Bezos' ex-wife MacKenzie Scott has given over $26,300,000,000 to charity, making her one of the biggest individual donors in history. She wants to spend the majority of her Bezos fortune on helping others and making the world a better place." Driscoll at Insty, WAIT, I THOUGHT NET NEUTRALITY AND GLOBAL COOLING, WARMING, CLIMATE CHANGE, CLIMATE CHAOS HAD KILLED EVERYONE ALREADY: Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630, "We pointed this out with global mortality data a weeks ago - but this is better and more region/state specific." Quote arctotherium @arctotherium42, "Did Elon Musk kill millions of people by cutting USAID? We now have preliminary 2025 mortality data from several African countries, and the answer may shock you: no. There is no detectable mortality signal at all. x.com/AldenWhitfeld/…" USAID was welfare for the credentialed class.

AMAC thinks President Trump’s Approval Rating Roars Back as Oil Prices Plummet. Sundance at CTH looks at USMCA Status – Canada in Recession, Mexico GDP Grows Double Expectations "Canada is combative. Mexico is collaborating." I&I says CAFE Kills, And Trump Is Doing Something About It.

MD Kittle at Da Fed thinks the Senate GOP Should Know Better Than To Ignore Trump’s Political Instincts On The SAVE Act. Jen O'Connell has another of her Hot Takes: John Cornyn Casts Shade at Americans Supporting the SAVE America Act—and It Boomerangs on Him. At RCM, Grassley and Klobuchar Have Created a Monster That Won't Die "The “monster” is the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA), which the two senators have recently reintroduced. AICOA would terrorize leading American technology businesses, as well as workers and consumers." Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter, "I AM MAD BECAUSE THE PROBLEMS DECADES IN THE MAKING THAT REALLY TROUBLED ME HAVE NOT BEEN INSTANTLY SOLVED BY DECREE DESPITE THE RESISTENCE OF THE LEFT SO I’M GOING TO GIVE UP AND ALLOW THE LEFT TO WIN." Quote Native Patriot @LaNativePatriot, "There’s been a sentiment not just from myself, but from many on the conservative side of “checking out” politically. I’ve been racking my brain trying to figure out what that could be, and I believe it’s been the results of the Trump Presidency so far..." At Twitchy, 'Hello, Mr. French': DataRepublican Turns Her Attention to David French and HOOBOY, YIKES, and HAAAAA.

Driscoll calls it ENDER’S GAME, WITH UKRAINIAN SUBTITLES: Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv, "A whole new level.. Russians complaining that Ukrainian Forces are now outsourcing drone operations to gamers all over the world by connecting hundreds of drones to a virtual server and inviting skilled drone operators to take out battalions, with cash prizes awarded for each." "If you ever get a war without any gore, well, I'll be the first to go" John Cleese @JohnCleese, "Is there one particular window that they are all falling out of, or it just any old window that happens to be large enough." Quote Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza, "The first one’s gone. In Moscow, Lieutenant General Sergei Kobylaš, commander of the Russian Air Force, accidentally fell out of a window."

Sundance at CTH has Ohio Governor with Deep Personal Ties to “Shithole Country”, Says It’s More Important to Protect Haitians Than Americans and on Sunday Talks – Jake Tapper Laments Deportation for Haitian and Syrian Migrants. Cathy Salgado likes how Brandon Gill Shows How Dems Used Temporary Protected Status to Change Red States. Steve Cortes @CortesSteve, "Exactly correct — the hordes of Third World “temporary” migrants did not settle in tony Ruling Class enclaves. They were sent to working class communities like Charleroi, PA, which I profiled as the town struggled to deal with the influx…" Quote Brandon Gill @realBrandonGill, "By the way, many of the Haitians who were given TPS under Joe Biden did not come from Haiti. They were living in nations like Brazil and Chile and came here to take advantage of Biden's open border. They were sent, not to Martha's Vineyard or Sherman Oaks, but to blue collar, midwestern towns like Springfield, Ohio. And the people there were called racist for objecting to the culture of the town they built being fundamentally changed overnight."

D_Hartley @DH_1997_, "The irony in a Muslim saying this is fucking insane" Quote Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan, "Maybe the Europeans should have thought about all that back when they were colonizing Africa in the 19th century. x.com/jasonlawlor100…" Twitchy finds a Woke CA Teacher who Brags About Marrying Gaza Resident Online for Green Card — 'It's for Palestinian Rights' "The odd couple tied the knot April 5 in Utah, which allows marriages to be conducted via Zoom, according to records posted online by the Utah County Clerk and obtained by Israeli nonprofit NGO Monitor."

Greg Lukianoff at the Eternally Radical Idea says the FCC won’t let ABC be, Gwar draws Secret Service ire, Battle for Your Brain wins Ashurbanipal award, & more! "Bringing you the latest free speech news (6/28/26)."

Hat Hair's Josh Hammer sees World Cup Tourists See What Too Many Americans Have Forgotten. J. @PresentWitness_, "We’re building frontier AI and catching reusable rockets while Europe is debating whether or not air conditioners are safe."

From the College Fix, ‘Fully substantiated’: Report says Biden leaders pushed ‘gender’ rule on schools despite court order. Jared Whitley at Am Spec want you to Meet the Secret Proponent of ‘Transing’ the Kids: Big Pharma, "The transgender ‘rights’ and ‘acceptance’ movements are the only civil rights movements in history where the primary driver has been corporate greed." There's plenty good money to be made, supplying the groomers with the tools of the trade.

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Flotsam and Jetsam - Hot Summer Day

And the country is getting ready for its 250th birthday tomorrow. The Victory Girls say Dear Democrats: Our National Party is Still On — Shut Up and STAY HOME and note Independence Day Gone Woke In San Diego County, California. Sounds like a blast! Beege Welborn at Hat Hair notes Anti-Trump States Wouldn't Fix Up Booths for the Fair - PA AMERICANs Took Matters Into Their Own Hands. Sore losers. Dr. Suneel Dhand's Newsletter gives 10 Reasons I'm PROUD to Be an American, "I left Britain and have been a citizen for over 10 years. Best thing I've ever done. An honest reflection this special July 4th." OTH, Hat Hair's John Sexton reports Man Charged with Felony for Damaging Reflecting Pool. "David Hearn, 67, of Maryland faces one felony count of destruction of property tied to a June 19 incident in which National Park Service employees say they caught him trying to rip a portion of sealant from the pool’s bottom. The charge carries a maximum sentence of up to 10 years in prison." It's DC, he won't be convicted. And at WaEx, Airman arrested during Capitol Hill protest urging Trump and Vance’s impeachment. "A Capitol Police spokesperson confirmed Watson’s arrest, noting that there are spots on Capitol Grounds where demonstrating is permitted, but “it is generally against the law for the public to demonstrate on the House Steps unless they are with a Member of Congress.” “Yesterday afternoon, a man was escorted to the House Steps by a Member of Congress,” the spokesperson told the Washington Examiner. “When the Member of Congress left the area, our officers gave the man lawful orders to stop the illegal demonstration or he would be arrested. The man refused our lawful orders. Jason Watson was then arrested for 22-1307 Crowding, Obstructing, and Incommoding.”" So he wasn't arrested for his speech denouncing Trump, he was arrested for unlawful conduct at the Capital, like the J6ers. I'm sure Pete Hegseth has plenty of grounds to toss him out of the Air Force, though. A Larry vid at Hat Hair says This Was All Trump Needed. They're Gonna Regret It.

At the Buckeye Firearms Assoc, Trump reiterates support for national right-to-carry reciprocity. As a fairly liberal New Yorker, I suspect Trump personally doesn't fell strongly pro-gun, but he knows his coalition. Mary Chastain is pleased to report the Energy Dept. is Moving to Drop ‘Green New Scam’ Appliance Mandates. "Thank you. THANK YOU. Make it happen!"

Hat Hair's Capt. Ed is worried that the US Adds Only 57,000 Jobs in June As Workforce Deflates. I gave up trying to make sense out of job numbers a while ago. The methodology is shitty, and manipulative. I also wonder how much of this is due to the ongoing self-deportation of illegals. The Wall Street Journal thinks it is.

Jenna’s Side is America Doesn't Have a Socialist Problem—We Have an Apathy Problem. "And apathy is how tiny, terrifying, highly motivated minorities end up running cities." At Hat Hair Dave Strom thinks Socialism in the West is Ignorance, Unearned Wealth, and Resentment,  Yes, The DSA Is a Communist Organization and Beege Welborn adds Commie Mamdani's Pied-à-Terre Billionaire Tax Attack Began Yesterday. Althouse notes "The DSA, in fact, seems to despise the Democratic Party. Darializa Avila Chevalier has called Joe Biden a 'rapist' and wrote 'Fuck Kamala Harris'...", ""... on social media. She proceeded to be nominated for a House race in New York last week by Democratic voters who presumably do not all share those feelings."  At Reason Kennedy recalls New York's Socialist Experiment Already Failed Once "Will Mamdani break New York City?" Leslie Eastman at LI hears NYC Mayor Mamdani’s Recommendation for ’78 Degrees’ Met with Frosty Reception. "The responses to his “78 degrees” suggestion included references to France and New York’s embrace of “Green Energy”." Capt. Ed hears from Fetterman: The One Thing That Would Force Me Out Of My Party Is ... being anti-Israel. Aren't we there already? Dave Strom thinks it might be AOC vs Vance?

Bonchie @bonchieredstate, "Every time. It’s never organic." Quote AG @AGHamilton29, "This is a major red flag. The CCP is funding/aiding left-wing groups and activism to try to push policies that discourage us developing energy independence."

From DataRepublican’s Substack, The 400,000 USAID Deaths That Nicholas Kristof Will Not Tell You About. "How USAID Built the South Sudan, Watched It Collapse, and Then Allowed China to Take Over."

Eric at Security and Cigars, explains Why Wolford Should Worry Big Gov Fans More Than Slaughter. "SCOTUS has now made clear that states and cities cannot simply designate broad categories of private property as “sensitive” and thereby ban the exercise of constitutional rights there. This has obvious and immediate implications for the Second Amendment, but it also reaches into First Amendment territory like speech, religion, and assembly. As well as many other rights protected by the Constitution." Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke, "Impressive ignorance. The unitary executive theory is about personnel; it confers no substantive powers on the executive branch that haven’t been delegated by Congress. The whole column is a bizarre non sequitur." Quote Dana Milbank @Milbank, "My latest column looks at how Democrats are drafting plans to to use the all-powerful, unitary executive that Trump has established (and the Roberts Court has blessed) to launch a new Progressive Era, in which a Democratic president imposes by executive fiat government-run health." At Da Caller, Clarence Thomas Laughs As MS NOW Reporter Barrages Him With Questions. Althouse says I don't believe Nina Totenberg's explanation for why she reported that Justice Alito was retiring. "I'm reading "'I am so, so sorry': NPR reporter explains SCOTUS retirement error" (CNN): "Say what really happened, " and "Democrats stopped talking about trans politics long before the court’s ruling this week." ""In June, which is L.G.B.T.Q. Pride month, no Democratic candidate mentioned the word 'transgender' in their TV ads, according to data from AdImpact, a media tracking firm. Their silence may be an attempt to deprive Republicans of campaign-trail ammunition.... A New York Times/Ipsos poll conducted in January 2025 showed that nearly 80 percent of Americans opposed allowing transgender athletes to participate in women’s sports...." At substact Insty recommends Ditching the Seventeenth. "Taking the Senate back to the Framers' Intent." Let State Legislators pick Senators? We could do worse, and have.

Gina Milan @ginamilan_ "Ruh Rho" Quote Paul Sperry @paulsperry_, "BREAKING: Here's the just-filed NLPC bar complaint against NY attorney Roberta Ann Kaplan. The basis for the complaint is that Kaplan failed to inform Trump’s lawyers + the court when she knew her client E. Jean Carroll provided false testimony by denying outside funding for her."

TownHall's Amy Curtis reports More Antifa Terrorists Were Just Sentenced in Texas "Antifa and their Leftist allies in the Democratic Party were not happy about these sentences. They really believed they were above the law, and are threatening the federal judges who put their comrades behind bars." Bob Spencer at PJM says Bravo: DeSantis Officially Calls Antifa and CAIR What They Really Are, terrorists. 

Dave Strom takes a look at The Immigrants Who Hate America. Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "BREAKING: The Somali flag flying over Buffalo City Hall has been reportedly STOLEN just hours after it was raised. Buffalo's Democrat Mayor Sean Ryan, claims that individuals cut the cable in the middle of the night and took the flag down. He then goes on a rant about "diversity." Police are currently investigating, and no charges have been filed." At NYPo, Andy Arthur opines ABC’s ‘3% delusion’ on criminal migrants turns the law on its head "ABC’s statistic is real — of the 438,537 illegal immigrants detained in the administration’s first 14 months, 13,018 of them had been convicted of a crime like homicide or sexual assault in the US. Yet its conclusion is utterly wrong, ignoring the impact of the most significant immigration law Congress has enacted in years: the Laken Riley Act.  Americans should remember why Congress passed that law. Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, was murdered in February 2024 by an illegal immigrant who had been apprehended for committing lesser offenses and released into the United States. Her vicious killing sparked outrage over a system that repeatedly ignored warning signs — until an innocent American paid the ultimate price." Dave Strom, Yes, The Activists Want to Protect Paedos From Deportation. Gov. Walz helped pardon a child rapist so he couldn't be deported. The feds may yet find a way. Visegrád 24 @visegrad24, "BREAKING British authorities have released the ringleader of a Rochdale grooming gang, Shabir Ahmed, from prison The Pakistani man was sentenced to 22 years for 30 child rape charges involving girls as young as 12. He was released after serving just 13 years & won’t be deported." Beege Welborn, Merz Scolds German Serfs Over Sick Day Slacking When There Are Immigrant Bennies to Support.

At Twitchy, Heavily Armed Would-Be Trans Terrorist Arrested for Planning Mass Shooting; Check out This Hardware. Shooting News Week, Cops Bust Would Be Casino Mass Shooter With An Actual Cache (This Time) of Weapons. Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck, "There needs to be a deep investigation into how this weirdo was able to afford this. Well over $100k of guns listed. Seems unlikely for a mentally ill trans activist to come up with that on their own." Quote New York Post @nypost "Trans gunman caught in alleged casino terror plot with huge cache of weapons - as cops release chilling footage." Capt. Ed reports a WI Activist Declares 'Trans Jihad': 'Kill Your Local Republican.' Dustin Grage @GrageDustin, "WOW: Wisconsin Democrat staffer, Teha Delaruelle is calling on activists to "K*LL YOUR LOCAL REPUBLICAN." “We’re going to make this the moderate position for the state of Wisconsin” WTF!?" They should be careful; Republicans tend to be better armed.

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