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Monday, November 2, 2026

Flotsam and Jetsam - Mohammed Abdulrahmen El-Sayed Betrayed!

PJM's Matt Margolis reports on this HUGE Development in Michigan that Could Be the Nail in the Coffin of El-Sayed’s Campaign. Fox News @FoxNews, "BREAKING: A surprise political twist in Michigan as Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens appears alongside Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers at a Detroit church, abandoning plans to attend a unity event with Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed. @GarrettTenney reports the Rogers campaign reached out to Stevens at the last minute following a dispute over a controversial pro-El-Sayed PAC ad that Stevens criticized as antisemitic. El-Sayed has since said he disagrees with the ad, but Stevens has also demanded an apology for his own past remarks about Israel. The unexpected appearance comes just two days before voters head to the polls." Capt. Ed at Hat Hair notes Stevens Appears With Rogers After El-Sayed Snub; UPDATE: Full Endorsement. At Althouse goes to the NYT for "The Democratic representative who lost a primary fight against Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the progressive Democratic Senate nominee in Michigan, endorsed his Republican opponent on Sunday...." NYPo, El Sayed courted voters at mosques where speakers dubbed US ‘House of Satan’ and called for ‘final annihilation of Jews.’ From Spiked, Abdul El-Sayed: tribune of America’s Islamo-left, "Palestine brain rot has corrupted the Democrats." Sarah Hoyt at Insty says IF YOU VOTE IN MICHIGAN, STOP LAUGHING AND GET OUT THE VOTE FOR ROGERS: The El-Sayed-Haley Stevens Campaign Event Has Devolved Into Total Blood Sports. Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman, "JUST IN: Another Michigan Democrat just crossed over. State Rep. Karen Whitsett is endorsing the Republican, Mike Rogers, and rejecting El Sayed. When Democrats in Detroit start walking away, the party has a problem. Michigan, go finish it." Hugh Hewitt @hughhewitt, "Superb question by Ross Douthat and his dismissiveness of the El-Sayed go-to party trick —asking a question instead of answering one— leads AES into a meandering and absurd answer which leaves everyone aware that he will support boys in girls’ sports." Quote Mike Rogers @MikeRogersForMI, "@AbdulElSayed says it’s ok for MEN to be in girl’s locker rooms. Why? “Well because they are going to find out about it on the internet anyway.”" Matt Vespa at TownHall sees The Left Has a Complete and Total Meltdown Over Haley Stevens Endorsing Mike Rogers. Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY, "But there’s more - here’s James Carville: “The Democrats don’t even think you [Stevens] are worth a used condom.” Never seen anything like the anti-woman crash out going on rn. Wow." Quote Western Lensman @WesternLensman, "Carville is having an unhinged crash out over Haley Stevens: "If you think that these Republicans are going to treat you as anything other than what they view you as...a used condom. The Democrats don't even think you're worth a used condom." Gina Milan @ginamilan_, "BREAKING: Teamsters President Sean O’Brien just voted for Florida Republican Senator Ashley Moody. Yikes. Democrats aren’t having a great day."

Jonathan Turley says “Alaskan Voters Need to Know”: Times Alleges Peltola Campaign Conspired to Confuse Alaskan Voters With Decoy “Dan Sullivans”. Of course she did, with at least a wink and a nod. TownHall's Joe Chalfant notices NYTimes Readers Aren't Happy With the Peltola Piece. John Reese - Person of Interest @Rickisback_ON_X, "Don't worry Alaskans, it's totally normal for a guy running for the US Senate to; not actively campaign, raise only $35K and give most of it to his campaign lawyers, and then when questioned about his authenticity, he flees his home and refuses interviews with anyone." Liz Mair @LizMair, "Did you draft him to run for Senate as Dan B Sullivan?" Quote Mary Peltola @MaryPeltola, "Look who I ran into in Juneau this morning." Ed: Don't be silly. The bear didn't register for the election. Dan Moose Sullivan, however ... The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "Alaska Democrats Caught Busing In Thousands Of Dan Sullivans."

MAZE @mazemoore, "In 2016 The NY Times did a video on the 2000 election and how crazy it was to not have the results on Election Day. Now the MSM tells us that not having the results on Election Day is normal." Quote PBS News @NewsHour, "If you go to bed on election night and don't know who won a midterm congressional race, that's normal. And if you wake up the next morning and find that a candidate who was behind hours earlier has since pulled ahead, that's normal, too." The Associated Press @AP, "BREAKING: More than 4 in 10 names flagged as possible noncitizen voters in California cannot be found on voter rolls, according to a legal filing." streiff @streiffredstate, "that means 60% are, correct?" Jen Van Laar at RedState thinks it Looks Like The 'Analysis' Slamming DOJ's Noncitizen Voter List Is Coming Back to Haunt CHIRLA, CA. Roger Kimball @rogerkimball, "This is true." Quote Eric Metaxas @ericmetaxas, "You'll notice that Trump's attempt to have free and fair elections is being presented by the Left as his attempt to STEAL the election. Don't buy the lie. They are desperate. A fair election will spell their demise & they know it." From News Wax, Mullin to Newsmax: Noncitizens on Voter Rolls Top 300,000. From Fox, 'Biscuit' the dog is latest dead felon to get their voting rights back from Spanberger, confused owner says. "Del Tom Garrett demands an independent audit of Abigail Spanberger's restoration process before Election Day ballot measure."

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Will Thibeau at Am Mind on The Midterms’ Two Defining Issues. "Democrats are using the Iran War and AI to boost their electoral prospects." Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet, "Here's how this will work if the Democrats retake the house: There will be a big push for AI regulations that lock out open-weight and open-source AI models. The lie that will be told is that they're legislating for "safety". The reality will be massive amounts of money flowing from the cloud AI providers and AI-doomer nonprofits in a move actually designed to put a regulatory moat around the cloud providers' business models. "They want to put off the day when they're obsolescent as long as possible. Even if it means forfeiting the lead in the AI race to the Communist Chinese." Quote Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_, "NYT: 'the lawmakers also signaled that if the Democrats retook the House in elections on Tuesday, the chamber was likely to shift away from its largely hands-off approach to artificial intelligence companies.'"Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet, "I warned you all about this. They will be lying. The actual goal of the big AI providers will be to outlaw open-source and open-weight AI in order to create a regulatory moat around their business, and have some hope of earning out their astronomical capital expenditures. The claims will be about safety and equity, the reality will be a money and power grab. Brace for the bullshit avalanche that's coming." Quote Choblin @choblin29, "BREAKING: OpenAI is preparing a policy and PR blitz immediately after Tuesday’s midterm elections, Axios reports. As public backlash against data centers grows, it wants to rebrand them as “AI compute campuses” and push Congress for mandatory “speed limits” on the most powerful."

Julio Rosas @Julio_Rosas11, "'Everybody [is] waiting for the Democrats to win': Another migrant caravan left southern Mexico in October and some migrants we interviewed said they hope for a Democrat victory in the midterms so the U.S. starts shifting away from Trump's immigration policies. W/ @Phase2Deport:"


Jordan Boyd at Da Fed sees Trump Rallies For ‘Best Ever’ AG Paxton At Packed Lubbock Rally. At Althouse, "I came as Donald Trump. I didn’t have time to get — people spent a lot of time and money. Rich people. They spent nine hours getting ready. I had 10 minutes, so I came as Donald Trump." "Said Donald Trump, quoted in "'I Came as Donald Trump': The President Hosts a Luxury Halloween at Mar-a-Lago/President Trump attended his jungle-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago dressed as a distinctly recognizable figure" (NYT)." SheThinksFreely @L08818, "No president since Truman has cut 300,000+ federal jobs while adding a million private-sector jobs, all in under two years. That was 80 years ago and driven by the end of WW2. Trump is a once in a lifetime President! MAGA" From I&I, a First-Of-Its-Kind Poll Finds TDS Is Real, And It’s Shockingly Widespread.

InfantryDort @infantrydort, "And now we understand the absolutely rabid obsession with destroying Pete Hegseth. I’ve been in the Army since before 9/11. Served under many secretaries. Only in the past 18 months have I experienced: >politicians warning me not to follow illegal orders >billboards outside military bases telling me to report war crimes >the media attacking anyone who has a positive thing to say about the man, and defending anyone who hates him >stunning volume of leaks from senior officials trying to undermine him, and the lionizing of the leakers by the press >being called a war criminal myself, hundreds of times a day >a sustained media narrative portraying virtually every firing or senior officer removal as a “purge” >public efforts by retired officers, advocacy groups, and political figures to mobilize service members and military communities against administration policies >influential “Americans” publicly cheering for Iran This is just to name a few...." Quote Diomedes Appreciator @HomericFuturist, "Almost like it’s important to hold the authority to deploy the security forces." InfantryDort @infantrydort, "A sitting U.S. senator and a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General having an open discussion about how to get out of “authoritarian” rule." Quote Erikaaa @ErikaCA47, "Last month, Elissa Slotkin brags about how she went to Poland and Hungary and "brought home the playbook to get out of 'authoritarian' governments." WTAF. The Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland, Radosław Sikorski is celebrating the globalist coup. Here he is last month alongside Elissa Slotkin. Are you awake yet?!..." Andrea Shaffer, Anti-Marxist Warrior @Andreafreedom76, "Markey Reveals Color Revolution Plan: Unions & Workers to Shut Down Nation? Senator Markey must have participated in the organized Ed Holder Election War Game Exercises. In a interview conducted today, Senator Ed Markey stated that lawyers were already drafting an emergency case to bring before the U.S. Supreme Court both before and immediately after the election. He added that thousands of lawyers were being prepared for deployment to key polling stations across multiple states. Markey further said preparations needed to include readiness for a national strike on Election Day, with millions of people taking to the streets to protest what he described as an attempted electoral crime. He specifically called for workers, unions, and businesses to shut down in a manner similar to the response in Minneapolis following the deaths of Alex Freddi and Renee Goode. ..."

At Resp. State, Why is Egypt jumping into Houthi war? First, follow the money. "Cairo buys an increasing amount of fuel from abroad, owes billions to foreign lenders, and depends on open Red Sea-Suez traffic, among other pressures."

From Sundance at CTH, Following EU Assembly Rejection of “Associate Member” Status, Carney Wants U.S. Trade Deal Again and European Commission Begins Reevaluating Emissions Trading System, to Restore EU Oil Refining Capacity. At Oil Price, Europe's Natural Gas Prices Soar to Four-Year High as Winter Looms. Sucks to be them. A fun, slightly Rule 5ish AI video from Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog, “America Innovates, Europe Regulates”. "Finally, a suitable use for AI-generated videos: Making fun of the EU choosing regulation over innovation."



Dave Rubin @RubinReport, "This is the guy Democrats want to destroy. Sheer insanity." Quote Elon Musk @elonmusk, "Our second product is called Blindsight and it will, as the name suggests, enable even those who are completely blind or have never seen to see. It is ready from an engineering standpoint. Just waiting on regulatory approval." The Great Victor Davis Hanson at Am Great answers the question Why Do They Despise Musk?, "Elon Musk’s shift to the right, support for Trump, and defense of free speech have turned a former liberal darling into a target of the Left’s growing hostility toward billionaires." He didn't shift right; they shifted far-left.

Eric at Security & Cigars hears Common Use Comes to December. "It isn’t about common use. It’s about what the Bill of Rights put beyond government’s reach."

The Manhattan Contrarian sees the New York Times Breaks the Taboo On Mentioning That Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother. A random act of journalism. From the Chronic, ‘60 Minutes’ Still Frames Deportation as Cruelty, Not Correction. We warned you Bari Weiss was a liberal. A fairly fair liberal, but still a liberal.

Greg Lukianoff at The Eternally Radical Idea sees the Halloween costume police strikes again, Mbappé’s Mao meme, MSU gags its own trustee, & more!, "Bringing you the latest free speech news (11/1/26)."

Twitchy takes note that the Student Who Took GREAT PLEASURE Reciting Poem Celebrating Charlie Kirk Murder Suddenly VERY SORRY, and questions her sincerity: From Mazelit Airaksinen, NY Violin Teacher Calls Jews “Nazis” and “Gremlins”— Threatens Jewish Journalist, "“Jesus Christ you gremlins don’t stop” said violin and golf teacher Drew Martin Youmans of Kingston New York."

Saturday, October 31, 2026

Flotsam and Jetsam - Halloween Edition

I'm going as Dan Sullivan. No middle initial. PJM's Cathy Salgado hears Trump Calls for Disqualification and Prosecution of Peltola, ‘Decoy Dan’ in Alaska Senate Race. Twitchy notes Chuck Todd Defends Dem Name Trick in AK—Until He's Reminded When the GOP Did It They Went to Prison. Chuck Todd @chucktodd, "Careful assuming only one side does these things. See FL GOP and the state senate in 2020. The question is whether there is a big enough constituency that either believes politics should be better than this or whether most folks assume politics is this cut throat and it’s just..." Quote Dan McLaughlin @baseballcrank "The Kennedys doing underhanded things is an old American tradition." pmcallFreeAafia FreeKhan Pardon Assange/Snowden @pmcall, "Those Republicans in Florida were also arrested, tried & sent to prison. Thank you for letting us know what should happen to the Democrats who were involved in this scheme in Alaska." The Federalist @FDRLST, "Lyman: Dems Claim Voter ID Is Too Confusing But Not ‘Decoy Dan’ Ballot Trick." Drew Holden at Holden Court says Stop Pretending Voter Fraud Doesn’t Exist. "It isn’t a conspiracy theory, and voters know it."At Althouse, Darkness on the eve of election, "The view from Memeorandum — where I've gone for many years to see an overview of the day's talked about headlines — is a non-view:"  Shipwreckedcrew is the Lawsplainer: California Officials Will Be Federal Prosecuted If They Ignore Evidence Of Ineligible Aliens Voting In Federal Elections "The Ninth Circuit Appeals Court has recognized that ”deliberate ignorance” when “aiding and abetting” others to commit crimes satisfies the “knowledge” element in criminal cases."

VodkaPundit at Insyt says SOCIALISM IS JUST PEOPLE WHO NEVER DID ANYTHING ORDERING AROUND THE PEOPLE WHO DO THINGS UNTIL NOTHING GETS DONE.  At the Victory Girls, Haley Stevens’ Fiancé Goes Red and Leaves Her Seeing Blue. "Michigan Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens is in quite the political pickle. Her fiancé, Jason Turkish, is a lifelong Democrat. But he’s voting for Republican Mike Rogers in the Senate race. Turkish accuses Democratic nominee Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed of putting Michigan’s Jewish community at risk. El-Sayed also happens to be the man who defeated Stevens in the primary. And she’s still backing him. Talk about a house divided." The NYPo Ed board is concerned; Hochul just confessed: She’ll give Mamdani his tax hikes next year. America @america, "Democrat Texas Senate Nominee James Talarico: “The Supreme Court needs to be overhauled… I am open to a discussion about expanding the number of justices.”" PJM's Matt Margolis says come and get it, And Here It Is: Proof That Talarico Is a Pervert! On Friday, our sister site Townhall reported that an email address belonging to Talarico appears in leaked records from the 2011 breach of Fling.com, an adult dating site. The profile tied to that address used the username "mohawk787" and listed its interests as "FETISH," "GROUPSEX," "SEXUAL RELATIONS," "ONLINE FLIRTING," and "OTHER." He'd be far from the first perv in Congress. Talarico's campaign claims it was a computer hack. 

Stephen Kruiser at PJM, NYT — Yeah, Obama Totally Knew About Omar's Immigration Incest. Joel Pollak @joelpollak, "The Ilhan Omar "married her brother" story was originally broken by @realDSteinberg at the @powerlineUS blog and @PJMedia_com in 2018. Media covered it only to try to bury it. It was treated as a conspiracy theory. Now we know the feds knew it in 2016." The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "DHS Agents Seize Ilhan Omar's Phone But Decide To Let Her Keep Pager."

Elon Musk @elonmusk, "My biggest concern is that if there is a clean sweep by Democrats of the House, Senate and Presidency in 2028, they will: 1. Make DC and Puerto Rico states to gain a strong majority in the Senate. 2. Open the borders and legalize everyone living in America illegally to cement a permanent majority. 3. Increase the size of the Supreme Court to gain an immediate majority. This would result in America becoming a permanent one-party state and the end of democracy in any meaningful sense of the word. All that is needed to ensure this doesn’t happen is 51 Republican senators in 2029. That is why you should vote for Republican senators this election. Other reasons are irrelevant compared to this one."

General @TheGeneral_0, "Obama got caught with his pants down by telling a really stupid "joke", and it backfired tremendously. Then he lied about "they mobilized a whole government response to that joke". No they didn't, BO. You just got caught being a d!ck." Quote Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins, "Obama tonight on his Cheesecake Factory line: "They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke. The White House even called the Secretary of the Treasury. This is the man who is in charge of the economy. The person who's supposed to..."

From Shooting News Week, Virginia AG: AR-15s Are Really Just Machine Guns That Shoot Semi-Automatically…Or Something. That is kind of the key distinction.

At WaEx, Hegseth firing Sylvia isn’t office politics — he smoked out a wartime mole. InfantryDort @infantrydort, "I think Pete Hegseth saved the U.S. military from falling into the ideological abyss. I also think he's done it with every single card in the deck stacked against him. A calcified bureaucracy and screeching "civil servants" who gnash their teeth any time "merit" is mentioned." Quote RationalActor @RationalActR, Replying to @infantrydort, "I am curious what you think of what Hegseth is doing. It’s been awhile since I was active duty. Since leaving it’s obvious that they commenced with a social experiment and they also politicized the institution. The warriors were ousted and professionally destroyed. And Now?? InfantryDort@infantrydort, "To say nothing of the fact that he's experienced the most hostile media treatment imaginable." cdrsalamander @cdrsalamander, "I rise to remind everyone that this is not a new development. Longer than 6-month deployments became a normal occurrence well a decade and a half ago and became normalized in 2013 after years of seeing them. At the time: "Eight-month deployments are becoming the fleet standard, with some stretching much longer. For instance, destroyers Barry and Gravely returned from nine-month cruises in November that were extended due to the Syrian crisis...." Quote Brent D. Sadler @brentdsadler, "A feature of a too small Navy in a too dangerous world… this was predictable decade plus ago and we need to fix this and return deployments to nominal 6 months." Quote U.S. Naval Institute @NavalInstitute, "Long Deployments to Be Navy Standard For Next Couple Years, MCPON, CNO Say — USNI News."

So, is NATO ally Poland's democracy about to go tits up in a color revolution orchestrated by the Eurocrats? Beege Welborn at Hat Hair, Holy Smokes - Looks Like Poland Might Be in the Middle of a Tusk-Orchestrated Coup UPDATE and MORE. Mario ZNA @MarioBojic, "COUP UNDERWAY IN POLAND! PM Donald Tusk has just sent police to storm Constitutional Tribunal building in Warsaw in the middle of the night. Tusk waited until President Karol Nawrocki left the country before ordering the police takeover. Nawrocki was halfway to Senegal when he abruptly turned his plane around and rushed back to Poland to confront the unfolding crisis. The EU, which backs Donald Tusk, has STILL NOT issued a statement on this unprecedented crisis or condemned the attempted coup." At EuroNews, ECB President Christine Lagarde to step down next February, months before her mandate ends "As Euronews reported, rumours first emerged in February that Lagarde planned to leave early so that French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz could oversee the choice of her successor before France's presidential election in April of next year." From Ace, Candidate of Germany's Far-Left Party "Die Linke" Confesses that Islamists Control Her Party and That She Fears They Will Kill Her.

Open Source Intel @Osint613, "An Israeli airstrike in Nuseirat yesterday killed two commanders from Hamas's military wing, the IDF said. One of them, squad commander Ihab Jamil Abu Takiya, was involved in holding many hostages early in the war, among them Noa Argamani and Emily Hand. Platoon commander Ibrahim Jihad Muhammad Abu Ashiba was also killed. According to the IDF, both men were advancing attacks on Israeli troops and civilians in violation of the ceasefire."At Am Think, Monica Showalter thinks about the Barbaric election aftermath in Brazil. "Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes reared his ugly head again." At Insty, VodkaPundit warns BUCKLE UP: Taiwan 2027 conflict window remains valid, Army Pacific commander says.

Insty hisself at substack worries about Life today under Late Democracy, "Can a system survive when so many people don’t believe in it?"EducatëdHillbilly™ @RobProvince "It’s quite telling that democrats keep screaming about who they’re going to investigate and send the Feds after but never a mention of what crime? Usually you mention the crime or act you want investigated." Quote Senator Alex Padilla @SenAlexPadilla, "INVESTIGATE ELON MUSK." Collin Rugg @CollinRugg, "NEW: Robert Reich calls for the "defunding" of Elon Musk, calls for Democrats to go after Musk's companies. "Democrats ought to [start] laying the groundwork for nationalizing Starlink & SpaceX... It should be a public corporation." Does he want Musk to drop another $50M on the midterms?" Look for spare change in the couch in his office. He doesn't have a home. Karol Markowicz @karol, "Concerned about fascism so they're picking people at random to prosecute when they get power. To protect against fascism." Quote Western Lensman @WesternLensman, "Kara Swisher adds DOGE's "Big Balls" to the Democrat target list. "They could just pick a few people. To me, that's the way you go. You pick like a Hegseth, a Musk, and I don't know, Big Balls.""


Bob Hoge at RedState hears a Not Smart Florida Woman Threatens to Shoot Trump at Rally, Learns a Hard Lesson Indeed. She can go as a clown for Halloween.

Prowler @derzum_, "Verifiably, Trump has the largest effort of de-legalization, denaturalization, visa revocation and real deportations, on top of the greatest cuts to overall legal immigration in over a century" and "So far the Trump administration has terminated TPS for 1.1 million aliens, ended the parole of 500k, overseen removal orders against over 440k asylum seekers, revoked more than 300k visas, facilitated over 200k self-returns, and secured more than 130k voluntary departure cases," and "Confirmed cases of voluntary departure have soared to the highest levels in history. Illegal aliens are increasingly giving up in immigration courts, in fear of mass deportations. There have been more voluntary departures in 21 months of Trump than in 6 years of Obama, combined."

Noah Pollak @NoahPollak, "I wish more Republicans understood this. Education is one of our country's few genuinely existential problems. Our K through PhD system is a vast communism factory. It barely gets mentioned in our political debates." Quote Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC, "“Why does this keep happening on college campuses?” Universities are not a side quest for communist revolutions. They are the headquarters. They are the brain trust. They are the recruiting farm. Communist revolutions are spawned on campus." Quote Utah College Republicans @UtahCollegeReps, "College Republican attacked while peacefully tabling at the University of Utah."

Matthew Harwood at Expression, Government officials admit his Halloween decorations are legal. Why won't they leave him alone? "In Bristol Borough, a Halloween display tests what “voluntary” means."

Inez Stepman @InezFeltscher, "So true, UN, the real problem with men being maimed and killed in war is that women have to pick up their slack with the housework." Quote UN Women @UN_Women, "Conflict places more of the care burden on women and girls' shoulders. #Peace and security require more than their unpaid labor. Women and girls must be at the heart of peacebuilding."

Of course, there's still more at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 10.30.26 (Morning Edition) and In The Mailbox: 10.30.26 (Evening Edition). Linked at The Pirate's Cove in the weekly Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup and links. 

Sunday, October 25, 2026

Flotsam and Jetsam - "Gone are the Days When the Ox Fell Down"

At PJM Scott Pinsker asserts There Was Only One Way the Democrats Could Blow the Midterms — and Lord Help ‘Em, They’re Doing It! and Matt Margolis thinks If Democrats Aren't Panicking About Minnesota Right Now, They Should Be. Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "I get tired of Democrats claiming to be on the “right side of history” when both their past and their present are so utterly sordid and destructive. So, if you are a Democrat, let me tell you about MY side of history and YOUR side of history. My side of history is Cato the Elder, John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Irving Babbitt and William F. Buckley. Your side of history is Thomas Hobbes, Karl Marx, Josef Stalin, Mao’s Little Red Book and Noam Chomsky...." In a TownHall vid, Mike Johnson Warns America Could Face France-Style Riots if Democrats Take Congress. Or even if they lose. Hon. Vickie Paladino @VickieforNYC, "None of the conversations taking place by Democrats and leftists in anticipation of retaking Congress are about the ways they’re going to make life more affordable for Americans. The conversations are exclusively about how they’re going to use power to take revenge on their political enemies. There is no strategy to lower gas prices or grocery prices. No strategy for the budget. No talk about hearings on affordability or inflation or the stock market. Just revenge. That’s all they’re talking about, two weeks before an election they believe to be sewn up. They mindlessly chant ‘affordability’ during the campaign, but they have zero plans or interest in making anything more affordable. ‘Affordability’ was always a cheap lie to get them power. And they’re not even hiding it anymore." Quote Western Lensman @WesternLensman, "The Bulwark crew is absolutely ecstatic over the idea of investigations and prosecutions of Elon Musk. Can barely contain themselves." From Twitchy, Come Get Some! Elon Musk Fires Back HARD at Bulwark Dweebs Wetting Themselves Over Imprisoning Him."

TownHall's Matt Vespa sees Obama Really Went There at the Dem Rally in Michigan, Huh? Christian Heiens @ChristianHeiens, "The Iranian economy is in shambles, the country has Great Depression levels of unemployment, inflation is over 100%, oil exports and revenue have dropped to $0, the Iranian Rial has collapsed over 60% of its value vs the Dollar since March, almost its entire navy has been sunk, virtually the entire upper echelons of the government were decapitated in the opening salvo of the war, and there now appears to be a growing rebellion against the central government in Balochistan. In what universe does this put Iran in a stronger strategic position now than in January?" Quote Disclose.tv @disclosetv, "NOW - Obama says that Iran is "in a stronger strategic position now than before the war started." TMK @themagaking, "Remember when Barack Obama said Donald Trump would never be president, then dropped the microphone like he was the coolest guy in the room? Yeah, look at him now. Desperately campaigning to stay relevant. Trump has been living rent-free in his head ever since." Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY, "Makes speeches for 500k a pop. Hasn’t eaten dinner that costs less than $250 in years. Has never been in a Cheesecake Factory. Undefeated at condescending to regular folks. Will always be known for a presidency that ushered in the Trump era to begin with." Quote Aaron Rupar @atrupar, "“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama."

From WaEx, Out of arguments, el Sayed resorts to crying ‘Islamophobia.’ Susie Crabtree at RCP, In Michigan, Bitter Final Debate Over Trust and Trump. Deroy Murdock at Da Signal signals Gender Fluidity Fuels James Transarico. Which of his six genders is he today?

Dave Strom at Hat Hair on the revelation of several fake polls boosting Democrats, Once Is Happenstance. Twice Is Coincidence. The Third Time It’s Enemy Action. At RCP Carl Cannon explains Why RealClearPolitics Didn't Fall for the Fake Polls. Don't believe the polls. Vote like your safety and freedom depend on it; it does. From the Free Bacon, Arkansas Dem Senate Candidate Says Requiring Proof of Citizenship To Vote 'Disenfranchises 22 Million Americans' "Shoffner, on election integrity, said the government shouldn't 'stick its nose into our business.'" theGAnerds @theGAnerds_Real, "GA Early Voting REAL TIME ELECTION FRAUD Only two weeks in, and the GA 2026 General can not be certified. Again, this is REAL TIME analysis. We have documented (so far): - felons dropped in for a vote that weren't on the voter roll - swapped votes from a person's primary Reg ID to their clone that resides in the secondary dark database - back dated Registrations that were not there in time to vote but were made to look they were there all along - deleted votes - voter suppression by "theft" of a Reg ID for a vote - double voting duplicate Reg IDs @potus - WHO is going to lock up @GaSecofState ? @ODNIgov @AGToddBlanche @FBIDirectorKash @KurtOlsen_USA."

From NYPo, Hunter Biden threatened sex worker after 2020 election while embroiled in laptop scandal: new FBI emails.

Trent Telenko @TrentTelenko, "This is close to one my "impending fall of the Mullah Regime" indicators. A major Russian aerial/ground evacuation from Tehran with lots of people and records, like we saw from Baghdad to Syria immediately before Operation Desert Storm, is at the top of my indicator list." Quote WarMonitor @WarMonitor3, "BREAKING: Russian airforce TU-134 used to evacuate high ranking personnel has just left Iran with its transponder off rumoured to be picking up Russian scientists from Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant. We saw similar evacuation flights before US strikes on Iran in February..." From CEPA, Deepening Black Sea Crisis Demands US Involvement, "Russian strikes on Black Sea shipping are probing NATO’s tolerance for attacks on allies. The US and Europe must reinforce the region." From Campus Reform, COL. MANESS: The Pentagon just put the 'war' back in our service academies. 'Tenure breeds stagnation, complacency, and a curriculum that drifts from educating warfighters toward the research priorities of tenured academics.' At RCD, It’s Not President Trump but Thomas Friedman Who Should Be Ashamed.

Sundance at CTH grins at the First Tremor – British Columbia Premier David Eby’s Anti-Trump SNAP Election Backfires, Canadian Conservatives Win Big. "I’m not going to extrapolate too much into this outcome against the backdrop of a U.S. midterm sentiment; however, it would be foolish not to notice the hidden vote base that turned out for Lorne Doerkson."

Nick Arama at RedState hears Bill Maher and Karoline Leavitt Drop Some Big Truth Bombs About Trump That Dems Should Listen To.

1776 reports Ilhan Omar Hires Biden’s Personal Attorney As Feds Probe Her Immigration History. “It is going to be a very expensive and challenging time.” Matt Margolis hears This Liberal Lawyer Says Ilhan Omar Is in Serious Trouble. The Dersh.

Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius wonders Why the Silence Over the Uncovering of the Color Revolution Plot? "5. The FBI is Quietly All Over This, We Do Not Want to Compromise Their Investigation. If in fact the FBI is already building a case against the seditionist plotters, going widely public about it now will drive them further underground and harm the investigation. With Trump staying silent now, the FBI can go about their business unimpeded, with arrests to arrive after the midterms (and likely after the new Congress is already seated, so the “Trump is trying to overturn the election!!!!” narrative will be stale). The Trump team is smart, and they have learned how to navigate indictments in a hostile media environment, and an environment where the courts, the FBI and the DOJ all still harbor mendacious “resistors.” I think this scenario is quite likely." PJM's Vicky Taft echos Steve McGarrett, Book 'Em: Feds Arrest FBI Deep Staters Who Lied to Congress (and America) About Hunter Biden Laptop.


Leslie Eastman at LI, Supreme Court to Review Constitutionality of 1868 Home-Distilling Ban. "After the Civil War, Congress banned home distilling to protect federal tax revenue."


At CIS, White House Makes Bold Claims on Immigration Enforcement, Border, " ‘How President Trump Ended the Border Invasion and Restored American Sovereignty’. More worksite enforcement promised, but please show us the stats." From Da Mail, My son was killed by an illegal immigrant. Now I'm exposing the chaos of the system that failed him... and why it MUST be the topic on which the midterms turn.

Dave Strom sees Cenk Dives Into the Sewer and Decides It Smells Sweet. Yeah, Lindsey was gay. So what?

From Da Signal, France Is Burning and the Media Is Most Concerned that the Right Is Right. AG @AGHamilton29, "Missed this. Paris police invited shopkeepers to hire their own security for riots. This is a state that has one of the highest taxation levels in the world, but apparently can’t afford to protect business owners from the criminal radicals the state has allowed to run wild." Peachy Keenan @KeenanPeachy, "“The schoolchildren just want nicer classrooms” “Hide the Mona Lisa from rampaging third world hordes”" Quote Musée du Louvre @MuseeLouvre Translated from French, "Dear visitors, Following the recommendation of the Paris Police Prefecture, the Louvre Museum will be exceptionally closed this Saturday, October 24." Althouse finds "That [burned Limoges] City Hall is at the epicenter of generations of struggle. It's not connected to how I fancy croissants and brie..." ""... and red wine but all I can find now is kebab in a shop blaring rap.... We should be alert to how the history of struggle is obscured by the reactionary and racist commodification of nostalgia and tourism."" Dave Strom hears 'X Is the Only Thing Keeping Democracy Alive' in France'. RadioGenoa @RadioGenoa, "This is Lecco, Italy. North Africans threatened on social media to do here what they did in Milan, destroy everything. The Lecco football ultras showed up to defend the square and the shops. Result: none of the North Africans showed up. Honor to Lecco ultras—true patriots, true men." Tommy Robinson @TRobinsonNewEra, "More footage of Scottish locals disrupting an Antifa meeting where they're plotting Paris style riots." wretchardthecat @wretchardthecat, "British article. 'We used to laugh at American preppers. Who is laughing now?' My comment: Does anyone get the feeling Godzilla has been reported swimming toward land but nobody wants to alarm the public until someone verifies it?"

The College Fix reports a U. Michigan project that aims to ‘resist’ Trump’s patriotic portrayal of U.S. history. Mollie @MZHemingway, "Shameful news out of Georgetown Law." Quote Emily Jacobs @emilyfjacobs, "New from me: Georgetown Law’s Student Bar Association passed a resolution this week condemning a Jewish attorney on Sen. Ted Cruz’s staff and accusing her of Islamophobia after she appeared on campus to discuss the Muslim Brotherhood and her work representing victims of." Jonathan Turley was probably not surprised that the Cornell Faculty Completes a Self-Study and Concludes that Their Ideological Bias Requires No Corrective Action.

The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: Last of the Autumn Light up on time and under budget.


Friday, October 23, 2026

Maryland, My Maryland

Scott McLallen at TownHall, Maryland Woman Indicted in Alleged $7.5M Pandemic Loan Fraud Scheme

A Maryland woman faces indictment for submitting fraudulent applications for millions of dollars in federal loans. Kara DiPietro, 49, of Towson, faces bank fraud charges for allegedly filing fraudulent applications to obtain Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans in the names of multiple businesses.

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act — a federal law enacted in March 2020 — provided emergency financial assistance to Americans suffering from the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. It authorized up to $659 billion in forgivable loans to small businesses for employee retention and certain business expenses through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was administered by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). The business needed to use PPP loan proceeds on payroll costs, mortgage interest, rent, and utilities.

According to the six-count indictment, between April 2020 and May 2021, DiPietro, who served as president and CEO of multiple Maryland companies — including H.M.C., Inc., Holdings Management Company Inc., and Kinetic Capital LLC — submitted more than 20 fraudulent PPP applications in the name of HMC, Holdings, Kinetic, and similarly named and/or spelled entities. These applications listed false and fraudulent Employer Identification Numbers (EINs) not assigned by the IRS to the entities listed on the applications. The applications also failed to disclose prior PPP loan applications associated with DiPietro; the applying entity; and/or other entities owned, controlled, created, and/or used by DiPietro as required under PPP rules. DiPietro further caused the submission of PPP applications that falsely certified that the applicant business did not already receive a First Draw PPP loan and other PPP applications that falsely certified that the applicant business did not already receive a Second Draw PPP loan.

The indictment alleges that, during 2020 and 2021, DiPietro caused the submission of PPP loan applications seeking more than $7.5 million. Eight of these applications were funded. Bank accounts under DiPietro’s control subsequently received more than $2.5 million in PPP funds. DiPietro then caused the transfer of PPP loan proceeds that were used for expenses that are not permissible under the PPP, including renovations to DiPietro’s personal residence.
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Kelly O. Hayes, U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland, announced the indictment with Special Agent in Charge Jimmy Paul, FBI Baltimore Field Office, and Inspector General William W. Kirk, U.S. Small Business Administration – Office of Inspector General (SBA-OIG). This prosecution is part of the Trump administration’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud.

If convicted, DiPietro faces a maximum sentence of 30 years in federal prison for each of the six counts of bank fraud.
We'll never be completely over Covid.


Flotsam and Jetsam - Are Democrats Planning A 'Color Revolution' for the US?

Serious people are starting to seriously worry that Democrats, with the aid of disgruntled ex-military officers, ex-spies, and ex-USAID officials (but I redund) are planning to stage a bloodless coup or "color revolution" in the United States if they don't get all they hope out of the midterms, and maybe even then. Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "The Color Revolution in Our Midst." If you are not already aware of the treasure trove* of seditionist materials that @DataRepublican has uncovered, please stop now and review them, or at least listen to this audio describing the seditionist plot in the seditionists’ own words. Please come back to this article after you listen." Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "America currently has a cabal of ~1,600 former military officers/NCOs and ex-State/USAID/CIA employees who are members of the National Security Leaders for America, an organization currently involved in an active plot to overthrow our Constitutional order via an American Color Revolution. Meanwhile, "National Security Reporter" Dan Lamothe and his employer, the Goebbelsesque Washington Post, are entirely focused on the fact that the friends who are helping you move let your convertible sofa pop open in the stairwell. Their willful blindness feels intentional, doesn't it? I mean, after all every good Color Revolution requires a co-opted media, right?" Quote Dan Lamothe @DanLamothe, "EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth wanted Gen. Dwight Eisenhower’s globe for his office. His staff broke it. We have photos." Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet, "It's all fun and games until they screw with the Second Amendment. Here's an underappreciated fact about the philosophical and legal theory behind the Constitution: the 10 Articles of the Bill of Rights are special. They do not grant rights that can be revoked, even by later amendments. Rather, they are considered to describe "natural" rights which are prior to the Constitution itself, and which no government may revoke without forfeiting its legitimacy. (Supporting rant about the Federalist papers, English classical liberalism, Blackstone, and the revolution of 1688 is here omitted.) Why does this matter in 2026? Because there's a rumor abroad that a shadowy constellation of left-wing groups has a plan to engineer a color Revolution after the 2026 midterms." Kurt Schlichter at TownHall sees Dem Hack Drops the Mask and Lets Her Fascism Freak Flag Fly. Could you be more specific? Which Dem hack? The Raw Egg Nationalist at Am Great says Bank on It: Elissa Slotkin Was Speaking for the Entire Democrat Party, "The unfinished work of ensuring there will never be another Donald Trump will be a total effort." Kyle Becker at RedState hears Hillary Clinton Issues Chilling Statement About Dems' Intentions After the Next Election. "I think instead, we should seriously look at expanding the court while the Democrats are in power," Clinton said. "You know, it used to be that you'd have one justice for each circuit. We now have 13 circuits. We should have 13 justices. So I would be in, you know, favor of looking at that and see if we could, you know, make it work." She probably really thinks the cabal will appoint her; after all, it was her turn first! 

At Althouse the question is "Did Elon Musk decide by personal fiat to cut off Ukraine's access to vital communications?" "Memeorandum organizes the links about Starlink:" I see the Democrat plan to "nationalize" and therefore destroy Starlink, X, Space X and Tesla is underway. We've seen NASA under government control fail to achieve much of anything for many years now. I don't pretend to know what the truth is in the Starlink vs. Ukraine story actually is, and I suspect it's much more complicated than it's being portrayed. PJM's Matt Margolis believes Elon Musk Will Have His Revenge on Democrats, and I Can’t Wait. Owen Lewis @is_OwenLewis, "I believe Elon Musk is planning on using the Retaliator strategy to deal with aggression from the Democrats. The Retaliator strategy is a behavior in evolutionary game theory that begins peacefully but fiercely defends itself if attacked. A Retaliator always starts an encounter acting like a cooperative 'Dove,' but if its opponent escalates the conflict, it immediately switches to an aggressive 'Hawk' tactic to fight back. If the opponent backs down and becomes peaceful again, the Retaliator matches that shift and reverts to a Dove. This conditional flexibility allows Retaliators to cooperate efficiently with peaceful neighbors while successfully punishing bullies and predators without being exploited. It combines a preference for peace with a credible willingness to retaliate, and in competitive terms outperforms both indiscriminate aggression and unconditional submission..." The Everyman Commentary notes Elon Hasn’t Given Up Yet. You Shouldn’t Either. "Tesla’s new flying Roadster may currently be an overpriced piece of novelty tech, but its spectacular demonstration proved something- Elon has not given up on life, America nor the future."

At Da Signal, the Great Victor Davis Hanson forsees Ukraine Is Becoming Another Verdun and Declassified Documents Show Ukrainian Diplomat Was Set to Testify About Hunter Biden Before US Revoked His Visa.

WSJ reports Iran’s Fleet of Shadow Tankers Has Run Out of Oil After Monthslong U.S. Blockade. No more oil to sell to China. Their oil may not be getting out, but as Capt. Ed at Hat Hair notes a Crisis Point: IRGC Officially Hits Zero As Hormuz Shipments Peak. More oil is being exported from the area than before the 'war.' So why are gas and diesel prices still high? Da Caller, EPA Extends Emergency Diesel Waiver For Texas As Fuel Supply Crisis Drags On. We have limited refining capacity, thanks to Democrats.

Althouse has the vapours, "That was great. Man. Wow. Man. I love that. I watched that. I saw that. That was incredible." The Mirror @DailyMirror, "Trump said “Man, I loved that,” after a man allegedly punched a protester during a midterm rally in South Carolina." We don't know what happened before the punch. Note that police and security took out the "protester" and not the puncher.

Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby, "BREAKING: A polling site has just admitted that they falsely inflated numbers for Abdul El-Sayed. These polls were then used by the New York Times and other polling aggregators." Ben Shapiro @benshapiro, "A pollster faked all his data and just got caught months later. So, here’s the lesson: people don’t know how to read polls, poll aggregators are garbage-in-garbage-out, and every major Senate race right now is a statistical dead heat. So go vote." What Ben said. At PJM, Scott Pinsker has a Midterm Shocker: The Polls Are Full of Crap — and Black Voters Just Might Save America. Rasmussen Reports @Rasmussen_Poll, ""Armando" here - with the BLOCKED replies - should know that ABC, CBS, ABC & Fox broadcasting networks have blacklisted our polls for well over a decade. On cable, which isn't FCC regulated, Fox News, CNN and MSNOW also blacklist our polls. @BrendanCarrFCC knows this already."

From AMAC, “Minnewisowa” Is Upset, "Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa are once again poised to play a major role in the future political direction of the country." Capt. Ed interpretes ABC: Other Than the Letter and the Money, What Evidence Does Rogers Have on El-Sayed? Democrats For Mike Rogers @DemsForMike, "WOW: Asked about his message to undecided Jewish Democrats, Abdul looks at the report, rolls his eyes, and walks away. Absolutely shameful." At Hannity, 'A BIG DEAL': NYT Reporter Says Lifelong Democrats Are Crossing Over for Mike Rogers. A Larry vid at Hat Hair finds Three Democrats Face Political Turmoil As Midterm Elections Approach. From Da Signal, Socialism Isn’t Just Deadly—It’s Soul-Crushing. MD Kittle at Da Fed warns The Unholy Marriage Between Marxists And Islamists Is ‘The Most Dangerous Partnership’ In U.S. Politics. From the Free Bacon, EXCLUSIVE: Socialist Angie Nixon Has Received $70K in Unexplained Wages This Year From Obscure Company Run by Anti-ICE Activist, "Building Blocks Strategies, which appears to be housed at a shared workspace in Miami, has ties to the Nixon campaign, which does not pay her a salary". BBC News (World) @BBCWorld, "Bush clan members back Democrat James Talarico in Texas Senate race." At WSJ, That’s Not Funny, "Larry David shows the DSA can’t take a joke."

PJM's Stephen Kruiser notes Golly — Fraud Sure Is Easy to Find When It's Being Looked For. Hat Hair's Dave Strom says Close the Barn Door! The Horse Escaped! The Epoch Times @EpochTimes, "JUST IN: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has directed the state Department of Health to consider ending the state’s Medicaid social adult day care benefit. The directive came on the same day that state and federal investigators carried out a crackdown on providers suspected of fraud, and on the same day that Hochul announced 16 arrests in a separate auto insurance fraud investigation. Hochul, a Democrat, stated at an Oct. 20 press conference that she had told the department to look at “all options to eliminate continued fraud, waste and abuse.” Those options include phasing out the benefit and moving participants to other services for older New Yorkers. The department’s recommendations are due by Dec. 31." Steve Ferguson @lsferguson, "Why isn't this the lead story on every news outlet, both broadcast and cable? The citizens need to know why they need to work two or three jobs to survive." Quote HHS Rapid Response @HHSResponse, "15 of 15 New York Social Adult Daycares audited yesterday showed no record of a single meal, activity, or hour of supervision — just attendance sheets. These daycares are receiving millions from our Medicaid system and providing NOTHING in return —this is FRAUD! x.com/HHSResponse/st…"

Capt. Ed calls it NEW: DOJ Indicts VA Dem Leader in Drug Trafficking RICO Case. "Louise 'Ten F****n One" Lucas? The Democrat president pro tempore of the Virginia state senate..." From Da Caller, ‘I’ve Gotten Too Old To Not Be Greedy’: Feds Hit Louise Lucas With Pot-Fueled Racketeering Charges. At Twitchy, What PANIC Looks Like: Abigail Spanberger's Statement on Louise Lucas Arrest Only Makes Things WORSE. Governor Abigail Spanberger @GovernorVA, "I have read the charging document alleging a series of criminal acts by a member of the Virginia Senate. In our American system of justice, people are presumed innocent until proven guilty, and that is true for Senator L. Louise Lucas. She and her family deserve the opportunity to present their defense and speak to the allegations presented. The timing of this indictment undermines the U.S. Department of Justice’s previously longstanding policy of not taking legal actions — to include indictments or significant investigative steps — close to an election and sadly, this timing further erodes the trust the American people deserve to have in the Department of Justice." Benjamin Domenech @bdomenech, "Any comment on this from CNN?" Quote Curtis Houck @CurtisHouck, "CNN’s Jake Tapper opens his show Wednesday by blasting the FBI raid on sites in Portsmouth, Virginia connected to state Senate Democrat leader Louise Lucas, insinuating there might not be evidence to prove she did anything wrong and therefore it’s probably just another Trump."

From Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog, Forget LA to SF: California Democrats Can’t Even Build A 2.25 Mile Rail System, but a lot of people got paid along the way. John Sexton explains This Is Why LA Can't Have Nice Things. Homelessness jumped 8%. You get more of what you subsidize. Reason reasons France Is a Warning to California's Tax-the-Rich Crowd, "The French economist pushing California's billionaire tax should instead see his country as a cautionary tale."


Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes, "WOAH Organized marriage fraud businesses are being discovered all over America Foreigners are paying $30,000-$100,000 each to have a fraud marriage arranged with a US Citizen to gain citizenship in America ..." At CIS, BIA: Asylum Seekers Who Go Home Abandon Their Applications, "More common sense on protection claims, but let’s see what the federal courts have to say," If it was bad enough you had to leave, why are you going back?

Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain, "Judge Henry Wingate just received the most vicious benchslap I've ever seen in an appellate opinion: "The district court—or perhaps, being charitable, its AI agent—ignored and manipulated governing law, apparently to satisfy a policy agenda." He was removed from the case."

Shanaka Anslem Perera @shanaka86, "JUST IN: A crime group used Claude, Grok and Kimi AI agents running in parallel to attack more than 400 banks and financial firms across Latin America, per security firm Straiker. They got past the guardrails by posing as an authorised red team. When models refused, it switched to pre-written attack code. The Ai agents appear to have stolen passwords and customer data and accessed bank accounts with minimal human input. Anthropic has cut off its access, and xAI is investigating." Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck, "If the AI bot swarms are in the banks, they’re likely already nested into voting machines, or will be very soon and will then work within the network to change votes. It’s a matter of when, not if this will happen. Elections should immediately be moved to ONLY paper ballots. Our $ and elections are at risk," Quote Madison Mills @MadisonMills22, "SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios. The findings have alarmed banking executives, ..." Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt, "Starting to make sense why they wanted government to clamp down on AI..." Quote Polymarket @Polymarket, "JUST IN: Anthropic recorded a staggering $80,000,000,000.00 net loss in the first half of 2026."

Navarro to Newsmax: Fox Is RINO, Not Trump Republican, I see a lot of Fox, and various commenters range from RINO to MAGA, with Jessica Tarlov thrown in for amusement.

Driscoll at Insty thinks THE LEFT OUTED ITSELF BY TRYING TO SMEAR THE LATE LINDSEY GRAHAM: "Jesse James Rose, a writer for The Advocate, argued that those he considers “hostile” to LGBTQ rights do not deserve privacy and defended exposing Graham. That’s a fun new standard by which to invade privacy. I don’t particularly like politicians who undermine my First and Second Amendment rights. Can I violate their privacy? Somehow, I’m guessing Rose would say that’s (D)ifferent. The other thing is this: Swamp Watch says this project was a year in the making; Graham died July 11. Who did it serve to out a dead man, save their own egos? Absolutely no one." First, the left was already out as despicable hacks. Second, most of us assumed Lynsey was gay. We just didn't give a shit. Jennifer Van Laar @jenvanlaar, "Meanwhile, we have a sitting US Senator from CA, Adam Schiff, whose buddy Ed Buck is in jail for drugging and murdering his young male prostitutes. Did Adam ever participate in sex parties at Ed Buck's house? Did he get drugs from Ed? Be useful, Harry." Quote Harry Sisson @harryjsisson, "I have been given exclusive information about a closeted Republican Senator who used male escorts and covered it up. I will be dropping a video about it this morning. Stay tuned. This is certainly an October surprise."

Dave Strom reports Macron Using Curfew and Helicopters to Fight the 'AI Insurrection'. Scott McKay at Am Spec sees Paris Is Burning, Wonders Is Washington Next? "The riots in France may be a preview of the Left’s plans for America." See the section on 'color revolution' at the top. Visegrád 24 @visegrad24, "BREAKING: The first rioters and looters have been sentenced in France. The judges practically refuse to hand out prison sentences: Toulouse – Ylan, 18 years old. Throwing a Molotov cocktail at police officer - Sentence: 12 months suspended + 140 hours of community service + deprivation of voting rights for 3 years. - Max. sentence: 10 years in prison..." Jonathan Turley notes French Police Identify Antifa as the “Ideologically Distinct Group” Behind the Riots Despite Democratic Denials, while Democrats continue to insist there's no such thing as Antifa. Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee, "Antifa, like noncitizen voting, “does not exist” Oddly, both keep … seeming to exist." Dave Strom looks at That Which Must Not Be Named...


Murray Hill Guy @MurrayHillGuy1, "Walking home today and a homeless guy is going absolutely nuts. He spits on some white girl walking by. She starting to freak out “did you just spit on me?” This chad was also in the commotion and said: “This is what you voted for.” I started cracking up. She gave Chad a dirtier look than the guy who literally spit on her. Everyone just walked away. NYC is a sitcom."


The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: Better Than Nothing up and garnering clicks at The Other McCain.