Flotsam and Jetsam - Terrorist Attack on US Military Assets in UK Thwarted, Terrorists Get Bail?

There's something very strange going on in England, where 5 "British citizen" of Muslim extraction were arrested outside of a joint UK/US airbase that serves the mid-east in several vans, after being reported by a local farmer. After the arrest, they were released on bond. Ace, Five Middle Eastern "UK Nationals" Arrested In Plot to Bomb Fairfield, UK Air Force Base Used by B-1 Bombers, "Five Middle Eastern and, for some reason, shirtless men were spotted by farmers acting suspiciously near the Fairfield, UK air force base." Patrick Christys @PatrickChristys, "Major update from counter terror police about RAF Fairford arrests - all UK nationals: Male, 24, Resident of Borough of Camden Male, 24, Borough of Westminster Male, 25, Borough of Westminster Male, 23, Borough of Westminster Male, 24, Borough of Willesden," Ramon Agusta @ramonagusta, "The former Hamas bodyguard also was a "British National". It's meaningless now." Hat Hair's Beege Welborn, RAF Fairford Plot, Day 2: Public Demanding Answers - Officials, Media Channel Norm MacDonald UPDATE. The Telegraph reports RAF base terror suspects released on bail. Sundance at CTH, British Justice System – Five Terrorists Detained at RAF Fairford Base Released on Bail. PJM's Cathy Salgado hears the UK Farmer Who Exposed Terror Plot Near U.S. Operations Speaks Out. Tommy Robinson @TRobinsonNewEra, "The farmer who called 999 over the suspects near RAF Fairford says she is "100% certain" she saw 8-10 men, not just the 5 that were arrested. She says she is surprised the police haven't contacted her to ask what she saw. She also revealed the message she sent to the village WhatsApp group after encountering the men." Darren Grimes @darrengrimes, "The farmer who called in the RAF Fairford incident has spoken. And she's not having Wes Streeting's spin. There were "definitely more than five," she says. Eight to ten. Faces covered. All dressed the same, "almost you'd have thought perhaps it was what they'd been told to wear." Five were arrested. All five are now out on bail. Streeting went on the telly to say she only had a "partial picture." Her reply? Nobody in any official capacity has even been in touch with her. So: a declared major incident. The one witness from that night says more men were there than were ever arrested. Not one official has picked up the phone to her. But the Defence Secretary found time to go on the BBC and mark down her account. Something doesn't add up." A practice run? Were they infiltrated and give dud explosives?

From NYPo, Trump’s Iran strategy is working — the ayatollah suffers as oil flows again. Beege Welborn reports Middle East Crude Running at 80 Percent of Pre-War Levels. Still, 20% is a big gap to cover with something as important as oil. Frack, baby, frack! VodkaPundit at Insty, LAST WEEK, THE WHITE HOUSE SQUASHED THIS RUMOR: Trump ‘very seriously’ considering diesel export ban as global supply crunch worsens. “The idea of the world’s largest diesel exporter implementing an outright ban has prompted firm pushback from the U.S. energy industry, while analysts have warned that the move could backfire and exacerbate the global fuel crisis.” The CO2 Coalition fears California Is Falling Into An Unrecoverable Deficit Of Refineries. I would say they cut off their nose to spite their face, but their nose is long gone. At the Auto Blog, Trump Approves Fuel Economy Rollback That Gives Gas Cars More Room. "The U.S. president said the decision will make cars more affordable and bring back jobs."

Don Surber explains how he thinks How Trump befriended and owned Xi. "Peace through strength. Trump’s the strength." Tom Kolbe at Am Spec, sees the Clash of the Money Giants: China Lays the Groundwork to Rival the Dollar "China builds a dollar killer — with one fatal flaw ...Yet a problem shimmers through in the background: there is a lack of trust in the  political integrity of the dictatorship in Beijing." Sundance hears Europe Asks China to Voluntarily Limit EV Exports. Yeah, that'll work. 

Sundance, Last Call – Imported Canadian Alcohol Ban Starts Tomorrow "Tomorrow, September 29th, the U.S. ban on most Canadian alcohol imports begins. [XO Link]" I guess I have to give up Canadian Whiskey. Oh, that's right, I don't drink Canadian whiskey. I don't have anything against it, I just don't have anything for it either. "The Crown Royal brand of Canadian Whiskey will not be impacted as it is shipped in bulk raw liquid to the U.S. where it is bottled, packaged and distributed." 

Brian  Kennedy and Joe Schmitz on Bosnia and Herzegovina: What Is the American People’s Interest? Other than the history that world wars tend to start in the neighborhood?

Leslie Eastman at LI, sees Data Centers Face Fines, Permit Delays as States Weigh AI Growth Against Local Impacts. "AI development should not be allowed to suffer death by 1,000 permits and 10,000 regulations….especially as the Chinese are linked so closely to environmental lawfare in this country." Beege Welborn hears Senate Democrats Seem Determined to Protect Data Centers and Everyone Should Know It. Kacee Allen @KaceeRAllen, "The House just voted 417-3 to stop making families eat the electric bill for giant AI data centers. The Ratepayer Protection Act tells states to consider forcing those 100-megawatt server farms to cover the full extra cost of the new plants and power lines they need, instead of passing it onto households. Both parties piled on because people are tired of watching their rates climb so a computer warehouse can sit next to a suburb. It still has to get through the Senate, and states can refuse the standard." Senate Republicans @SenateGOP, "Senator Schumer says the Ratepayer Protection Act is “a fraud.” Last week, Democrats blocked this bipartisan bill that would shield Americans from higher costs related to data centers. Democrats are standing in the way of lower prices." They prefer having an issue to having a solution. Sundance sees President Trump is Looking for an AI Czar – Then This Happens: Breanna Morello @Breanna Morello, "Tulsi Gabbard is visiting the White House today! Please bring her back!!!!" Superman @thesupermannx, "Researchers proved AI has deleted every reason universities exist. Harvard University ran a controlled experiment pitting a custom AI against their own top-tier classrooms. And the results are going to collapse the higher education bubble. They took 194 undergraduates and split them up. One group learned physics in one of Harvard’s best hands-on, active-learning physical classrooms. Group work. Instructor support. The premium university experience. The other group went home and learned the exact same material with an AI tutor. The AI didn't just win. It embarrassed the institution. Students using the AI learned more than twice as much as the students in the elite Harvard classroom. They scored 30% higher on the final assessment. And they did it in less time. Let that sink in..." Look for the teacher and faculty unions to lean even harder into their anti-AI stances. Hat Hair's Dave Strom call it the Same Narrative™: Selling Doom and Selling Stock Are Complementary.

Insty at his NYPo gig writes Media manipulates economic gloom — and it’s all about the midterms. They would downsell the economy during any Republican administration, but the fact that it's Trump and the midterms are looming certainly adds some fervor to their weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. Eric Matheny @ericmmatheny, "We have an obligation to hold GOP Congress members accountable, and when they fall short, we need to primary the living hell out of them. But to sit out the midterm? You’ve already seen how Democrat power works. Did you not live through the Biden administration?" Sundance, President Trump Announces Largest Steel Plant in U.S. History Being Built in Iowa. Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling, "what Elon Musk has done to make my life better: - electric cars - satellite internet - saved free speech what Jeff Bezos has done to make my life better: - nationwide next-day delivery - architecture that powers the internet what Larry Page and Sergey Brin have done to make my life better: - made the internet searchable - online email and documents platform what Mark Zuckerberg has done to make my life better: - social media to keep me connected to friends - online ads platform what Larry Ellison has done to make my life better: - database software for my businesses - data centers for AI and cloud computing what Jensen Huang has done to make my life better - hardware that powers the AI revolution what Bernie Sanders has done to make my life better Absolutely Nothing."

From State of the Day, State of Friday: AMERICANISM ISN'T BAD. IT'S SIMPLY REPUBLICAN."

At Hat Hair a Larry vid, AOC's Political Future Crumbling? Democrats Warn Her To ‘Stay Away.' and Mitch Berg, Minnesota Senate Candidate: "She's Just Like Us!" and John Sexton, Some Dems Take a Different Approach to Trans Issues This Year. I have no doubt they doublecross their voters once in office. Matt Vespa at TownHall hears a Liberal Podcaster Had the Lamest Excuse for the Alaska Dem Who Called Her Staffers F****ts. "There's not a gay guy from Austin to underneath the docks in Provincetown who wouldn't be happily called a c*m guzzling f*g to have a Democratic Senate. Just a mincing butt munching pirate. You may call us whatever the f*ck you want if you win this seat." To be fair, they almost certainly are faggots, being Democrats. At NYPo, How Kathy Hochul’s admin handed firm a $1B Medicaid contract without competitive bidding. Sister Toldja at RedState reports A Nasty Incident at Susan Collins' Maine Office Has People Pointing Fingers at Troy Jackson. Chris Queen at PJM hears Virginia Pastors Sound the Alarm Over Ballot Amendments on Abortion and Marriage. Virginia DEQ, DEQ RELEASES UPDATED DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN THE PERMITTING PROCESS GUIDANCE

Via the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 09.28.26, Doug Ross has the  Top Ten Reasons To Vote Democrat in November, and a whole lot more. 

Unleash Prosperity says This Is What Happens When the Government Runs Health Care. Steve Forbes @SteveForbesCEO, "760,000 ObamaCare enrollees had no Social Security or immigration numbers, paid no premiums and filed no medical claims. Yet taxpayers were footing their bills. ObamaCare has a fraud problem, not a coverage problem. Glad to see the Trump administration cleaning up the mess."  The View From North Central Idaho thinks Democrats can be Unintentionally Hilarious Sometimes. "Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) reposted a chart on X Tuesday claiming housing prices are “the most unaffordable in history,” and that it was Trump’s fault. There was just one huge problem. The chart Newsom shared showed that the housing affordability gap actually widened during Joe Biden’s presidency, and X users noticed almost instantly, flooding his replies with screenshots of the very data he’d just posted as though it helped his argument. It didn’t take long for the pile-on to turn Newsom’s own post into a meme about his reading comprehension. But the funny thing about it is that Democrats keep doing this."

John Sexton looks at Portland's Long-Running Experiment With Homeless Autonomous Zones.

Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo, Quote Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias, "DC crime has fallen enough that the CVS by my house has stopped locking the locks on the cases they installed during Peak Shoplifting and it’s such a quality of life upgrade." Elvon @_Elvon_, "He admits his mistake. I think that’s admirable." But he won't credit Trump. The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "Batman Unable To Keep Up With Rising Crime As Gotham City Elects Another Democrat."

John Sexton hears Justice Alito Recuses Himself From Climate Change Case "Conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito will no longer participate in a major climate change case after facing calls that he recuse himself because of his stock holdings in oil companies. ... Presumably, they wouldn't be doing this without a game plan, so it's a good bet they have some reason to hope a tie is possible. Again, I don't see how or have any idea which conservative justice they see as the weak link but maybe we'll get more on that in the coming days." The Indomitable Margot Cleveland at Da Fed asserts Everything About The Catherine Herridge Contempt Case Stinks, "presiding over the case is a federal judge whose wife represented (or represents) multiple high-profile subjects whose misconduct Herridge exposed in her reporting, such as Lisa Page and Joe Biden."

Dave Manney at PJM thinks Your SEO Guy Should Probably Not Be Fabricating Federal Court Orders, Google. PJM's Vicky Taft predicts The Pressure on Lindsay Clancy Holdout Juror Is About to Go Nuclear. "The attorney for Lindsay Clancy, whose triple murder trial ended recently in a mistrial, wants the holdout juror to be investigated for some kind of crime. He doesn't know what crime, but that hardly matters. This is still a public relations gambit and not a search for truth. That ideal left the building a long time ago."

At Hat Hair, Beege Welborn wonders Is Donald Trump Finally Tired of Maria Salazar?, Dave Strom cites a Saint Louis NGO: Let's Become 'Little Kabul' and asks Why Would Anybody in a Swing District Say This? RNC Research @RNCResearch, "INSANE Democrat Tom Suozzi says his biggest goal in politics is mass amnesty for criminal illegals: "My biggest goal of what I want to accomplish in politics right now is I want to legalize 7 or 8 or 9 or 10 million people in our country."" From Restoration News, the Violent History of Criminal Illegal Aliens in Jersey is Ignored by Democrats and News Media. Shipwreckedcrew writes the Democrat Priority Is Keeping Illegal Aliens In The Country And Out Of Jail -- Even If Pardons Are Necessary, "NY. Gov. Hochul pardons a violent illegal alien felon rather than risk the Supreme Court ruling that such illegal aliens do not have a “due process” right to a bail hearing." Christopher C. Cuomo @ChrisCuomo, "No accountability...just "they are worse"...this guy is going to have a lot to answer for when he flees maga." Quote Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY, "As you struggle to pay your own bills, are you prepared to pay the bills for millions of non-citizens, too? That’s what Democrats are proposing - and every GOP campaign ought to be all over it."

At the Hahvahd J of Law and Pubic Policy, The Supreme Court’s Error in Trump v. Barbara: Citizenship, Consent, and the Self-Governing Republic.

Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10, "1,000+ military-age men broke into Britain last week… Only one person got arrested…the man who tried to stop it… Today, the Prime Minister went on TV and called him a racist…"

Ace cites Liberal Media Hack Terry Moran: I Tried to Report on Biden's Mental Decline, Which I Saw First-Hand, but the Disney Groomer Network "Shut Down Very Hard" My Pitch, "This is a six-day old story but I don't know if I covered it. Moran got fired from the Disney Groomer Network last year. He's now free to tell tales out of school."

From Twitchy, CBC News 'Is Well on Its Way to Becoming a Judenfrei (Jew-Free) Broadcaster', O Canada! Dave Strom notes BBC Suddenly Discovers That It Has Been Pushing Hamas Propaganda and Is 'Shocked.'

U.S. Department of Education @usedgov, "Fixed it for you." Quote The Hill @thehill, "Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students " Michael Tracey @mtracey, "This is how Cornell University is getting the figure that 35% of undergraduate women experienced "nonconsensual sexual contact" in 2025. Or in other words, that over a third of all undergraduate women were "raped," to use popular parlance" PJM's Eric Florack is amused by The Last Ditch: Cancel Culture Comes for the Bar It Built.

YNet reports Sydney Sweeney converting to Judaism? Rosh Hashanah outing fuels rumors "Rumors intensified after the ‘Euphoria’ star attended Rosh Hashanah services with Scooter Braun, as reports say their relationship is becoming increasingly serious." Ace asks Hollywood: Shit or Garbage? Why not both? TownHall's Amy Curtis wants to know if you can Guess Who New York Magazine Featured in Its Men's Style Issue,"Elliot" Page. Isabel Brown @theisabelb, "So just so I understand this… New York Magazine releases its first ever issue on men’s style, and features a woman pretending to be a man on the cover. What message does this send?" No picture needed.

Joanne Jacobs sees Teach for America veered left and lost its way: Can it refocus on achievement? It's doubtful. "Applications for TFA slots peaked in 2013, then began a long slide as mission creep set in, he writes. The size of the teaching corps declined. And, Chu writes, TFA’s “public messaging began weighing in more directly on policing, structural racism, gender, and identity.”" VodkaPundit at Insty says Went Woke, going broke. Steven Crowder @scrowder, "Steven Crowder asks Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy directly if he would have signed Harvard's DEI pledge to get tenure. Watch him try to answer." NYPo, Nikole Hannah-Jones ignores who failed her daughter — the teachers union. From Da Blaze, BBC gets CRUSHED over woke article claiming new fingernail trend is white supremacist 'erasure'.

From Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog says A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Caliphate… Dearbornistan sued for discriminating against Christians and Jews. NYPo, hears Masked vigilantes are raiding neighborhoods in England because the government has become so spineless. Ace, Three Years After a Gang of Immigrants Stabbed Innocent People While Declaring "We Are Here to Stab White People," French Judges Finally Charge the Killers with Murder -- and Anti-White Racism. "The attack occurred three years ago. I do not know why the decision to finally charge them with murder comes three years after the crime."

Flotsam and Jetsam - Weekend Cleanup

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

At Power Lines The Week in Pictures:

Xi’s Gotta Have It Edition

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Flotsam and Jetsam - Come Saturday Morning

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

More at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 09.25.26!

Linked at Pirate's Cove in the weekly Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup and links.

Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump Having Xi for Tea

A day after Trump stomped through the UN, China's President Xi arrived in the US to be met planeside by President Trump. Liberals are up in arms that he would do the courtesy. News Wax, Xi Kicking Off D.C. Visit With Rare Planeside Welcome From Trump.

Nick Arama at RedState thinks the US Delegation Has Perfect Response to Iranian President's UN Speech, Then Rubio Finishes Him "The U.S. delegation had the perfect response — they walked out of the room when Pezeshkian dared to try that spin, telling him and the rest of the world exactly what they thought of that lie. ... Rubio said he thought the Iranians were "under this illusion that Democrats were going to win in November and the president will no longer be able to do things against them." PJM's Stephen Kruiser says It's a Shame Trump Couldn't Shut Down the UN for Good. News Wax claims Munitions Account for $28.1 Billion of $43.6 Billion US-Iran War Cost and Board of Peace to Unveil $2.45 Billion Gaza Recovery Plan. They could just shower the place with gold coins.

Also at News Wax, Mark Meadows to Newsmax: Greenland Deal 'Snuck Up on All of Us'. Am Con asks Is the Greenland Deal a Win? "Not for the reasons the White House is saying" Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand, "Ok, we now have the actual text of the Greenland deal (https://whitehouse.gov.../), so we can say how it compares to the existing 1951 arrangement and who, between Trump and Denmark, lied the most in their framing of it. Long story short - which may surprise some - the Danes lied the most: Trump is pretty much correct in saying that this new deal grants the US control of Greenland. Let's look into what changed compared to the 1951 deal ... So, to sum up:- The US secured a permanent military foothold that even an independent Greenland would inherit whether it likes it or not - The US now has veto power over any non-NATO military presence in Greenland, and over who can invest in its strategic infrastructure and resources (beyond NATO and the EU) - Denmark signed away its say over the principle of new US bases, with only the right to discuss the "implementation details" - Danish authorities no longer set the rules for US military movement across the island - And all of it is now justified by the defense of "the American continent" I don't know in which universe this even remotely "recognizes the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Kingdom and the Greenlandic people's right to self-determination," as Danish PM Mette Frederiksen put it (https://stm.dk/e...). Yes, the preamble of the text cynically "reaffirms" Danish sovereignty but, in my book, when you let a foreign country put bases on your soil, move its troops without following your rules and veto who else can come in, in perpetuity, after it spent two years threatening to take you by force, the word for that is anything but "recognized sovereignty""

PJM's Sarah Anderson is not happy, Venezuela: Trump and Delcy Pose for a Picture. María Corina Machado Denied Entry. At Hat Hair John Sexton considers Is Another Russian Mobilization Coming? and Beege Welborn reports Mr. Trump Meets the Incredibly Squirmy Burnham.

From VodkaPundit at Insty, MAKE OF THIS WHAT YOU WILL: Mark Kelly Says US military ‘doesn’t need more testosterone.’ "“The retired Navy captain rebuked the secretary as ‘a guy who runs around on the stage, yelling about killing people and maximum lethality and testosterone’ during an appearance on MS NOW’s ‘Morning Joe’ show.” Tell that to these guys: Airmen can’t get enough of new, warlike basic training, leaders say."

PJM's Scott Pinsker thinks AI and Data Centers Are Politically Losers. That’s Why Trump and the GOP Should Go All In and VodkaPundit says Hey, Xi — Good Luck Keeping AI on a Communist Leash. At News Wax, Gallup Finds Strong Support for AI Globally. Ken Klippenstein reports Feds Target AI Critics As “Foreign Agents” "Trump admin sees China behind opposition to AI data centers." Reason finds California Wants to Write America's AI Rules, "Newsom's expert panel has two months to consider new AI rules, including "kill switches," that could spread nationwide." At Politico, Democrat blocks fast-track passage for data center ratepayer bill. "Overwhelming House approval on the Ratepayer Protection Act wasn’t enough to secure quick passage in the Senate." Showing they want issues, not solutions. 

Eric Spracklen @EricSpracklen, "This might be the most brutal and deserved community note I’ve ever seen." Roger Kimball at Am Great smells something, The Political Weather Is Changing, "There is something in the air—a budding crispness, fresh scents, valedictory echoes—that tells us that a change is nigh." Matt Margolis at PJM notices Fake Trump Approval Numbers Are Coming. Like, REALLY Fake. Drew @AllegedlyDrew, "The primary elections are when you remove RINOs. The general elections are when you prevent communism." If only it were that simple. 

PJM's Rick Moran hears Hospitals Strike Deal With Trump Administration to Shutter Youth Gender Affirming Care Facilities. WBIR, cites a Source: President Trump will be attending Texas vs. Tennessee game, "President Trump will attend the historic Texas vs. Tennessee SEC game at Neyland Stadium, as excitement builds nationwide for this first-ever clash." Liberals whine.

Breitbart Bus Dig approves of The Fed's Secular Acelerationist Stance "Even while the American public remains in quite a sour mood about the American economy, the Federal Reserve has become increasingly bullish."

Dave Strom at Hat Hair thinks Hasan Piker Has One Great Virtue... "He inevitably says exactly what he thinks, and by extension, since Democrats love him, tells us what Democrats are really thinking or fantasizing about." Rep. Andy Ogles @RepOgles, "This is what the Left wants." Quote Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt, "I will throw you in prison. I want Chinese style communism to happen inside of the democratic party right now. I want to do cultural revolution shit." Hamas Piker just flat out admits he wants to imprison and kill democrats in a literal communist revolution. These are animals." Amy Curtis at TownHall hears 'Everybody Else Can F-Off': Dan Osborn Reveals His True Agenda in Undercover Video "I can go and I can be the voice for LGBTQ and immigration and all of these issues. Then I lose the election," Osborn said, reportedly to a transgender supporter. "It feels good in the moment. At the end of the day, I'm gonna win this election. And then I'll be the Senator for six years and everybody else can f-off." Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "OMG "Independent" candidate for U.S. Senate in Nebraska Dan Osborn, was just caught on undercover video admitting to TRICKING voters about his views "I can go and I can be the voice for LGBTQ and immigration... Then I lose the election... At the end of the day, I’m gonna win this election. And then I’ll be the Senator for six years and everybody else can F-off.” Nebraska, don't believe a thing this he says. He wants to deceive you and push gender ideology if he wins!" PJM's Stephen Kruiser finds Campaign Poison Kamala Harris Hopes DSA Commies Can Make Her Popular. In a Larry vid at Hat Hair, Hidden Camera Catches Talarico's Mom Planning Move to DC to Keep Him in Line. She probably has more sense than he does. 

From Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog Oopsie! Democrat Convicted Felon Drops Bid. Dave Strom, For Some Reason, Liberals Think 'Oops' Is a Good Political Slogan with examples. 

Gina Milan @ginamilan_, "HOLY SMOKES! The New York Times reports that a Democratic-aligned group, Project Bullhorn, paid more than 100 creators through SideShift to flood social media with “affordability” content ahead of the 2026 midterms. $25–$30 PER VIDEO. Many didn’t disclose they were being paid. Some weren’t even from the states they claimed to represent. ... NYPo reports a ‘Palestinian Rachel Dolezal’ outed as white woman of ‘significant privilege and wealth’. Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry @pegobry_en, "Libertarianism has disappeared because it is a sub-species of liberalism, and liberalism is disappearing across the West because people only feel the liberal impulse within the context of a high-trust society (which liberals have destroyed)." Quote The Spectator @TheSpectator, "Libertarians have disappeared from American politics. Their think tanks and magazines are richly endowed but irrelevant, their ideas exhausted. What happened to champions of free markets and free people?" Mediaite whines JD Vance’s Anti-Fraud Task Force to Boot More Than Half a Million Americans From Obamacare.Deep Leaks. Bob Hoge at RedState highlights A Male Karen Tries to Harass Nick Shirley at Airport, Is Summarily Exposed As Know-Nothing Ignoramus @DeepLeaksHQ, "Since the Obamas are trending, here’s a video of them thanking Harvey Weinstein. Don’t share this This will make Barack and Michelle Obama upset." John Sexton at Hat Hair hears Support for California's Wealth Tax Is Shrinking.

At Da Caller, Jack Smith Violated Constitution To Spy On Republicans In Lawless ‘Arctic Frost’ Investigation, Committee Alleges. News Wax sees Trump DOJ Ramps Up Voter Fraud Enforcement Ahead of Midterms. Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain, "We’re getting wins we didn’t even know we were getting Fergie Chambers, a communist failson heir to the Cox Enterprises fortune, is under federal indictment and is being extradited from Spain He was a big time funder of Antifa." Quote Drop Site @DropSiteNews, "Spain’s Council of Ministers decided on Tuesday to allow the Trump administration’s extradition request against Fergie Chambers—a pro-Palestine American activist and heir to the Cox Enterprises family fortune—to proceed to the Spanish courts." Eric W. @EWess92, "A Wisconsin judge was convicted of a felony-- hiding a criminal accused of domestic assault from immigration enforcement. Bar license revoked? No, not even suspended, per 5-2 Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling. The felonious judge's law license is "active" and in "good standing" Can we swap Wisconsin for Alberta?

From Twitchy, ‘Proud Anchor Baby’ Congresswoman Introduces Legislation to Abolish ICE and 'Dismantle' DHS.

At RCP, Natalia Hidalgo Martínez looks at Morocco’s Grey-Zone Strategy in Southern Spain.

MAZE @mazemoore, "2023. Chuck Schumer appears on CNN to discuss a letter that he and Hakeem Jeffries wrote to Rupert Murdoch DEMANDING that Murdoch instruct Fox News hosts to stop spreading "falsehoods." Schumer: We have a right and an obligation to tell Rupert Murdoch and Fox what to do." Jonathan Turley doubt Trump will be able to banish CNN et al from the White House, Fake News or Viewpoint Discrimination: Can the President Ban Disfavored Media? I do too, but it's fun trying. TownHall's Matt Vespa says Not So Fast, My Friend: Lib Hopes of Trump's WH Media Ban Getting Tossed Got Trashed Today. Paul Thacker at RCP, '60 Minutes' Airs Misleading Report on Trump Pardons.

Matt Margolis reports Sunny Hostin Proudly Admits She Single-Handedly Spared a Killer Cannibal From Prison. From Ace, Sonny Hostin is Beaming With Pride About Being the Holdout Juror That Got a Literal Cannibal Killer Off. "A literal cannibal killer killed and then butchered victims and served their meat to the homeless." Dave Strom calls it Main Character Syndrome and Suicidal Empathy: a Toxic Mixture. At Althouse, When Sunny Hostin was the holdout juror: A lesson in insanity. From Twitchy, Where's the Love? The View Asks the Single Most Idiotic Question (yet) About the Clancy Case. Natalie Jean Beisner @NJBeisner, "“How did the marital love end so quickly…in sickness and in health.” Sarah Haines of The View gripes that Patrick Clancy isn’t still married to Lindsay Clancy, the woman who murdered his kids." 

Tim O'Brien at PJM says Watch How Fast the Media Disappears This Story of a Black Woman Found Dead by Hanging, after it was determined black men did the hanging.

Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "That would make the world that much freer." Quote Gina Milan @ginamilan_, " OHH BOY! Paramount is reportedly considering asking Elon Musk to join a group of equity investors as it moves forward with its massive Warner Bros. Discovery deal."

Minding the Campus asserts Graduate Schools of Education Are Poisoning the Well. "They need to stop because America’s children are drinking from it."

Althouse discovers The racial inequity of beer gardens. Tom Tiffany @TomTiffanyWI, "David Crowley says beer gardens contribute to “racial inequity” because they are “predominately supported by white users.” Since when did enjoying a cold one become about race?"

Driscoll is ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: What’s the Best Line in the Boston Globe Lesbian Bar Story? "Can the story get any better weirder? You bet it can!" At NRO, The Quiet Dissidence of the Boston Globe. "In the Globe‘s after-the-fact reappraisal of the case, they came as close as the liberal-paper-of-record of Boston could to calling the whole thing bullsh**." Wesley Yang @wesyang, "You see, when you make note of the fact that violence against trans-identified people has gone down under Trump, (and frame this as a welcome development), that is "anti-trans." Being "pro-trans" means terrorizing people into baseless panic over non-existent threats because it leads to more donations flowing to trans NGO's." Quote Colin Wright @SwipeWright, "I legitimately can't stand the lies. Transgender activist Andrea James is upset that @DavidMastio's op-ed was featured on The Boston Globe's front page. "There is a longstanding journalistic convention that newspapers generally keep opinion columns...off the front page.""

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