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Several Americans are believed to have been injured in a high-speed train collision that killed at least 68 people in Spain on Wednesday when one train collided with another that had stopped on the tracks. The crash took place in Spain's Castilla-La Mancha, with the regional government confirming the death toll and adding that another 58 people required medical treatment in hospitals. Several Americans are believed to have been hurt in the crash, according to the State Department.
Prayers go out for all the victims and their loved ones. Yikes, having traveled extensively in Spain many years ago via their rail system, I can just imagine the carnage. Of course with everything else going on in Spain and Europe vis a vis the violent riots with its roots in Islam and their allies of convenience in and of the Left whose common enemy is Western civilization itself and the possibility of terrorism immediately comes to mind. You may recall the attack in Madrid at the Atocha train station shortly after 9/11 as well as the fact that Spain has been dealing with the terrorist Basque separatist group ETA for decades and so Terrorism cannot be ruled out, unless of course you're the Media channeling the specter of Yasser Arafat correcting that word as Tourism, which no doubt they're doing as we speak sincerely one day later and there's but one link I can find to this story. No doubt the Media and the Left but I repeat myself has its hands full trying to preserve protect and defend the election thievery in Brazil and more importantly run cover for whatever they have planned for next week here in the USA. The mass bloody carnage of a grisly train wreck, what a perfect metaphor...
Investigative journalists James O’Keefe and Cameron Higby have been hit with felony charges by left-wing Minneapolis prosecutors for their video exposing vulnerable loopholes in Minnesota’s elections. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty accused conservative media personalities O’Keefe, 42, and Higby, 26, of “try[ing] to sow doubt about Minnesota’s secure voting systems” on Wednesday . . . “Mr. O’Keefe and Mr. Higby filmed themselves and posted the videos to social media to try to sow doubt about Minnesota’s secure voting systems,” a press release from the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office reads.
I'm not familiar with Minnesota's state criminal code, so will someone kindly enlighten me to the exact law or laws that these gentlemen broke? I ain't no F. Lee Bailey or Ironsides but I can't seem to find “try[ing] to sow doubt about Minnesota’s secure voting systems” anywhere in my dog-eared copy of "Understanding the Minnesota Criminal Code For Dummies/Dhimmis."
Meh, let's not lose our heads over this. They're will be plenty of time for that under Potus El-Sayed and VP Omar! Over the top? You tell me; the battle lines are being drawn, "For What It's Worth?!"
And yet after the DOJ identified illegal voters in Washington state, Gov. Robert Ferguson decided to invoke the National Guard. Gov. Bob Ferguson on Tuesday criticized a federal request that Washington state set aside the ballots of more than 400 voters over citizenship concerns, calling the move “disappointing” a week before Election Day... Department of Homeland Security investigators claim, with a “high level of confidence,” that the voters in question are not U.S. citizens, according to a letter sent to Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs... National Guard personnel in plain clothes? What police state nonsense is this.Someone set three ballot drop boxes on fire back in 2024 and destroyed a few hundred ballots. Not sure how unarmed Guardsmen in civies are supposed to stop this. . .
These bastards are playing with fire. Meh, we've been saying this since forever and yet the Democrat Party and Leftists have metastasized like a cancer all over the place. Even if we the people of WE THE PEOPLE turn out like never before next week, there's just no way in hell that these bastards are going to allow their power to be denuded if they can help it?
But it raises a broader and more serious point that we touched upon in the latest episode of the podcast (linked here) as well as in the sidebar and on the popular outlets listed at the bottom of this post.
Western Civilization and arguably its high water mark the American Revolution and the Republic it spawned are on a knife edge of being destroyed. So, my fear is that we can vote for Donald Trumps all up and down the line all for election after election And Make No Mistake, we Must!!! but at what point will voting harder and harder and harder just not cut the mustard?! Horrid as the prior two stories are, we have already witnessed and lived through many more since before Trump descended the golden Trump Tower escalator 11 years ago now?
So Psaki-Psircling back to the podcast, when do we the people of WE THE PEOPLE dare "take arms against a sea of troubles?" and as I pondered (not necessarily weak and weary) is resorting to the tactics, specifically the violence (albeit in true self defense) of our enemies, who as we have seen are in every sense of the word mortal enemies, isn't the negation of the very things we are trying to preserve? The Democrat Party and Leftism must be completely removed from every position of power and influence in and out of government and society at large and never be permitted to rise again. We must fight evil remorselessly and relentlessly lest it once again rise to hold a rusty hacksaw to our neck!
It's us or them. And that's the plain unvarnished truth, like it or not. And so with that bitter pill I nevertheless bid you all to have a good day.
ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
The crash took place in Spain's Castilla-La Mancha, with the regional government confirming the death toll and adding that another 58 people required medical treatment in hospitals. Several Americans are believed to have been hurt in the crash, according to the State Department. Spain: 68 Dead in High-Speed Rail Crash Points to a Systemic Problem
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Victor Davis Hanson: 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. Why Do They Despise Musk?
FOR SIX YEARS, THE RULE HAS BEEN SIMPLE: IF YOU QUESTION AN ELECTION, YOU ARE A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY. IF YOU QUESTION IT LOUDLY, YOU ARE AN INSURRECTIONIST. IF YOU QUESTION IT WITH A FLAG AND A BAD IDEA ABOUT WHERE TO PARK, YOU ARE A DOMESTIC TERRORIST. Democrat-Aligned Groups Increasingly Threaten To Undermine Democracy
Woke media and politicians are already bewailing the death of Oscar Daniel Isaya Corrales, the 27-year-old man whom an off-duty FBI agent shot on Monday. In fact, Isaya Corrales was a Venezuelan illegal alien with a lengthy rap sheet who was firing into a homeless encampment, hence why the off-duty agent killed him. Leftists Claim to Love the Homeless Until an Illegal Alien Tries to Murder Them
Both arrests are part of a nationwide operation the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rolled out last week. The first round brought in five people – four Haitian nationals and one Cuban national – and DHS called it the “opening salvo” of a much larger push. ICE Arrests 2 More Haitian Illegal Aliens in Ohio Food Stamp Crackdown
According to Stanford University’s 2026 AI Index, the computing costs associated with developing and operating advanced AI systems have increased dramatically. OpenAI’s reported annual computing expenditure reached approximately $16.3 billion in 2025, compared with $5.8 billion in 2024. Anthropic’s equivalent spending reached approximately $6.8 billion in 2025.The economic consequences are substantial. Unlike software development, building the physical infrastructure necessary to operate advanced AI systems requires enormous upfront investment. Is the AI Boom Hiding a Manufacturing Slump?
According to the outlet, while Peltola’s campaign “has repeatedly denied any involvement” in Daniel J. Sullivan entering the race, the effort to find a second Dan Sullivan “involved the Peltola campaign’s lawyers, as well as senior aides at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee”: Trump: Democrats’ Fake Alaska Senate Candidate Scheme ‘A Fraud on the American Public’'
The DSA has already signaled its intention to use its leverage within the House to extract concessions from Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D), the current House Minority leader, in his bid for the speakership. Specifically, the DSA aims to lower the thresholds for both discharge petitions and vacating the chair to make it easier to force votes on DSA-aligned objectives and topple the House leadership. The DSA Could Quadruple Its Congressional Representation in the Midterms.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen criticized the decision to engage Putin independently, questioning what the Norwegian and Finnish leaders hoped to accomplish and insisting that European governments must maintain a united position.The disagreement comes as Russian forces continue their offensive in eastern Ukraine, Moscow targets Ukrainian infrastructure, and tensions surrounding Russia’s Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad raise fears of a wider confrontation. European NATO Members Break Ranks to Hold Talks With Putin on Ending the War.
The Dart probe impacted Dimorphos in 2022, shortening its orbit around Didymos by about 32 minutes and reshaping the asteroid’s overall shape. Hera is aimed at documenting more precisely the changes in this asteroid binary. It will also deploy two small cubesats for closer observations, Juventas to make radar observations and Milani to obtain multispectral mineral data. Europe’s Hera probe sees both Didymos and Dimorphos for the first time
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
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Good evening Horde! The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety. The bar is open and fully stocked. Step up and place your order. JQ has the bar keys, so be nice.
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.
If you're a troll, go away.
This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Please.
[Top photo: Half price pumpkins before Halloween at Home Depot? Sign of the end times for sure.]
I know what you're thinking: "It is almost Halloween and I have opinions on candy. Wouldn't it be great if there was somewhere on the interweb that I could defend the honor of my favorites and rain scorn on those with incorrect opinions on their favorites?" Yeah...anyway, I gathered all the names of all the candy I could think of or find on the interweb and put them into a virtual randomizer. The results are below.
1) Reese's Pieces - after Mars turned down the product placement opportunity for M&Ms, ET made Reece's Pieces famous in the 1982 film. They had only been introduced in 1978. The candy color mix is reportedly a mix of orange (50%), brown (25%), and yellow (25%).
2) Reese's Peanut Butter Cups - these consistently rank at or near the top by sales volume and revenue. They are the top candy by ounces sold and the top seller in 40 of 51 states plus Washington, D.C. Pretty good for a candy that was created in 1928. Remember the famous commercial: "You got chocolate in my peanut butter!/ You got peanut butter in my chocolate!"
3) Baby Ruth - Snickers is the top selling candy bar in the US but Baby Ruth is the plucky underdog with a loyal following. The official company claim is that it was named after Ruth Cleveland, the daughter of President Grover Cleveland. Others have plausibly claimed it was inspired by Babe Ruth, the baseball player.
Baby Ruth bars are similar to Goo Goo Clusters from Nashville. Baby Ruth comes in bar form and Goo Goo Clusters feature more marshmallow. If you like one, you'll likely enjoy the other.
4) Crunch (the bar formerly known as Nestle Crunch) - a Hershey's chocolate bar is good, but adding crisped rice makes the "crunch." The origin story dates to Nestle's factory in Fulton, New York in 1938 when an employee added Rice Crispies to a batch of chocolate at home. Nestle sold the business line in 2018 (including Crunch, Butterfinger, Nerds, Baby Ruth and others), so that is why it is currently known only as Crunch.
Honorable mention for the Nestle Alpine White Chocolate bar with almonds which (I think) was the first widely sold white chocolate candy bar. The interweb says it was discontinued in 1994.
5) Twizzlers - The National Licorice Company was based in Brooklyn, New York. It was formed in 1902 by the merger of Young & Smylie (itself founded in Brooklyn in 1845) with two other licorice makers. Twizzlers were originally introduced in 1929 as black licorice. Fruit-flavored versions (especially strawberry and cherry) were added in the 1960s and eventually overtook black licorice as the best-sellers. The classic red "Twists" most people picture today are strawberry-flavored and do not contain actual licorice extract. Hershey acquired ownership in 1977 which gave Twizzlers marketing and distribution muscle.
6) M&Ms - milk chocolate M&Ms were introduced in 1941 and still outsell peanut M&Ms which were introduced in 1954. M&Ms does not publish enough specifics to know the breakdown between them. M&M stands for Mars & Murrie. The name comes from the two men who created the candy: Forrest Mars Sr. (son of Mars company founder Frank C. Mars) and Bruce Murrie (son of Hershey Chocolate president William F.R. Murrie). Mars bought out Murrie's share around 1949 (war-time chocolate rationing ended and candy sales and distribution grew). The single printed "m" on each piece was added in 1950.
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I asked the interweb for well known local candies in the US. Can anyone confirm these?
Arizona - Cactus Candy - Pink gummies made with prickly pear cactus juice by the long-running Cactus Candy Company.
California - Abba-Zaba - Thick vanilla taffy with peanut butter center (Annabelle Candy Co.)
I recently heard someone the interweb suggest that "Caught Somewhere in Time" was a good introduction to Iron Maiden for a newbie. I can't find the video, so I can't validate the rationale but I think it was something along the lines that the song echoes a lot of signature Maiden tempo changes and galloping bass line. The subject matter is also less aggressive than other Maiden songs. Yes, it is a little more synth and a little less gritty than earlier work and it is a lengthy piece, but interesting suggestion. If I was asked, I probably would have gone with "Wasted Years."
What would you suggest? Remember - the question is not the best, most well-known or most typical but the best introduction for a beginner.
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Niche YouTube Channel of the Week
Tonight's feature is a YouTube channel called bigstackD casting. A recurring theme of this feature is my endless fascination that a relatively niche interest - if done well - can find and sustain an audience. Tonight's channel is a great example. It is a YouTube channel dedicated to showing recovery and casting from scrap metal. That's it.
This is one guy in Australia that dumpster dives and visits the scrap yard for trash to melt. He melts almost anything and casts copper, brass, aluminium, silver, and more. Sometimes the end result is a coin or bar. Other times the end result is sculpture.
The intrigue each week is seeing scrap like a compressor or outboard motor or motorcycle and then seeing how much metal he can recover from it. Some lots are things like padlocks, aluminum cans, and bullet casings. He shows each project but keeps track over time as well.
Zero commentary or graphics. No music. All sounds - including the furnace - are natural. He has 1.56 million subscribers and video views in the hundreds of thousands and millions.
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Pittsburgh Scanner
The Pittsburgh police scanner is an internet treasure. Thank you people of Pittsburgh and thank you Pittsburgh scanner!
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Old school deep cut AC/DC for the big ONT finish:
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More than 85m beneath the famous fairy chimneys of Cappadocia lies a massive subterranean city that was in near-constant use for thousands of years.
Violent gusts whipped loose soil into the air as I hiked through Cappadocia's Love Valley. Pink- and yellow-hued hillsides coloured the rolling landscape scarred with deep red canyons, and chimneystack rock formations loomed in the distance. It was arid, hot, windy and devastatingly beautiful. Millennia ago, this volatile, volcanic environment naturally sculpted the spires surrounding me into their conical, mushroom-capped shapes, which now draw millions of visitors to hike or hot-air balloon in the central Turkish region.
But beneath Cappadocia's crumbling surface, a marvel of equally gargantuan proportions lay hidden away for centuries; a subterranean city that could conceal the whereabouts of up to 20,000 inhabitants for months at a time.
The ancient city of Elengubu, known today as Derinkuyu, burrows more than 85m below the Earth's surface, encompassing 18 levels of tunnels. The largest excavated underground city in the world, it was in near-constant use for thousands of years, changing hands from the Phrygians to the Persians to the Christians of the Byzantine Era. It was finally abandoned in the 1920s by the Cappadocian Greeks when they faced defeat during the Greco-Turkish war and fled abruptly en masse to Greece. Not only do its cave-like rooms stretch on for hundreds of miles, but it's thought the more than 200 small, separate underground cities that have also been discovered in the region may be connected to these tunnels, creating a massive subterranean network.
According to my guide, Suleman, Derinkuyu was only "rediscovered" in 1963 by an anonymous local who kept losing his chickens. While he was renovating his home, the poultry would disappear into a small crevasse created during the remodel, never to be seen again. Upon closer investigation and some digging, the Turk unearthed a dark passageway. It was the first of more than 600 entrances found within private homes leading to the subterrestrial city of Derinkuyu.
The Mob Lawyers for Cuba's Kleptocrats Attempt to Intimidate US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz, Who Informs Them He Has Chunks of Guys Bigger Than Them In His Stool
US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz got into a shouting match Tuesday with Cuba's foreign minister on the floor of the UN's General Assembly hall while detailing the communist regime's ill-gotten wealth.
Waltz called out the Havana government for profiting off of the forced labor of its own citizens sent to concentration camps while using confiscated "businesses, farms, factories, homes and the savings of generations of hardworking Cubans" to line the pockets of its leaders.
As Waltz spoke, Cuba's delegation banged on the table near their seats to express disapproval before Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla charged toward the rostrum and accused Waltz of lying, causing the US envoy to shout: "Back up!"
"He doesn't like hard truths," Waltz told the delegates. "You can come and intimidate all you want."
"He's not going to intimidate me in the United States of America -- like he tries to intimidate political prisoners," said Waltz, raising his voice at Parrilla as UN officials tried to restore order.
"I know that you don't like to hear these hard truths, but I am speaking for the Cuban people," Waltz added. "And ever since 1959, this government in Havana would have you believe that everything in Cuba has just disappeared; that they are the victim; that it's someone else's fault."
A video obtained by The Post showed fellow US diplomat J.P. Freire being assaulted by another member of the Cuban delegation who tried to grab Freire's iPhone as he was recording the confrontation.
Hey, that's a Jim Acosta move. And Acosta is, in fact, of Cuban descent.
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The broadside against "corrupt Cuban elites" at one point featured Waltz displaying a photo of late dictator Fidel Castro wearing two Rolex watches worth around $40,000 in today's money.
"According to the regime's own statistics, that would pay for 55 years of an average Cuban wage," Waltz noted, before showing a photo of Miguel Díaz-Canel and saying, "It didn't just start with Castro. This is the current Cuban president, also with a Rolex on."
The former Florida congressman highlighted reports on the Cuban military-run conglomerate GAESA amassing $18 billion in assets that have enriched regime elites, showing further photos of them flaunting their wealth.
The Castro regime has profited at the expense of the Cuban people with luxury cars, expensive watches and a private island resort. As I shared this with the world, regime thugs rushed the stage to interrupt my speech.
They can intimidate their own people in Cuba but think again about trying that nonsense in the United States of America.
Lawmakers in the French National Assembly will vote on a Socialist Party proposal to grant amnesty to an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 unauthorized immigrants employed in France.
The measure is expected to be supported by center-left presidential candidate Raphaël Glucksmann, whose campaign is eager to find some breathing space between centrist candidates like Gabriel Attal and Edouard Philippe, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, his rival on the radical left. Glucksmann has previously expressed support for such a step in multiple interviews.
The proposal, introduced by Socialist lawmaker Paul Christophle, hails Spain's Pedro Sánchez for having "chosen to provide foreign nationals with the legal means to settle and work" instead of "trying -- in vain -- to control migration flows."
The U.S. has told several allied nations in the Gulf to be prepared for a short, intense military campaign following the midterm elections next month.
The communications went through diplomatic and military channels, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed sources.
The claims are among other indications that the U.S. and Israel are preparing to launch a new round of combat operations in Iran.
The U.S. military is sending an additional Patriot system to Israel from Texas, which will improve missile defenses. The U.S. has also moved troops off bases in the Middle East based on U.S. intelligence suggesting Iran is preparing to attack Americans.
Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed's top campaign aide called Biden a "dipshit" and a "rapist" and said America is "cringe."
Two out of three ain't bad.
A top aide to Abdul El-Sayed has publicly called former president Joe Biden a "dipshit" and "rapist" and blasted the United States as "cringe" on July 4, a Washington Free Beacon review of now-deleted posts shows.
It's not the first time Roxie Richner--a far-left operative who, as El-Sayed's communications director, often hovers just behind him when he's speaking to reporters--has made news over her fiery X account, though the most recent posts unearthed by the Free Beacon have not been previously reported.
"#IBelieveBiden raped tara reade and needs to be held accountable," Richner said in May 2020 as then-candidate Joe Biden faced allegations of rape by a former congressional aide, Tara Reade.
"He's a rapist," she told a Democratic activist who urged his party to unite around Biden for the general election.
El-Sayed, by contrast, has been walking a tightrope when it comes to Biden. Black voters--whose support El-Sayed badly needs--are strong Biden supporters, while El-Sayed's Arab base despises the 46th president for providing Israel with financial support after Oct. 7. El-Sayed has kept his public criticism of Biden limited to Gaza.
Richner showed no such hesitation. While Biden made history by elevating the first woman to the vice president's office, Richner made it known that she was unimpressed.
"Yeah but does it matter if his vp is a woman if he's literally a rapist?" she asked in April 2020. In March 2020, she said she "cried" after hearing the Reade allegations.
"I'm sad for her because she tried to tell her story and no one listened," Richner said.
Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed -- who has no terrorist links or terrorist sympathies, Racists, and you should be ashamed for documenting his clear terrorist links and frequently expressed terrorist sympathies -- objected to the drone strike that eliminated the Al Qaeda mastermind who planned 9/11.
Abdul E-Sayed wrote that it was "troubling" that the United States killed the al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri--who is widely considered the mastermind of 9/11--in a 2022 targeted drone strike. Killing al-Zawahiri was "a fig leaf" to cover up the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, El-Sayed wrote in 2022, the Washington Free Beacon can reveal.
In the piece, "Projecting Strength Abroad Isn't Simply About Killing Terrorists. It's About Standing Up to Despots, Too," which was published in the New Republic on Aug. 5, 2022, El-Sayed spoke out against the CIA drone strike that successfully took out al-Zawahiri, a fellow Egyptian who'd joined the Muslim Brotherhood as a teenager and ultimately rose to lead al Qaeda.
Hey wait, Abdulrahman Mohamed Al-Sayed is an Egyptian with strong family connections to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Small world!
"President Biden is using the strike to bolster his approval here at home. It is troubling to watch yet another American president flog 'War on Terror' themes to resurrect a laggard term," El-Sayed sniffed in the article.
Maine Absentee Ballot Envelopes Ended Up at a Soros-Tied Organization in Maryland
The state of Maine seems reluctant to look further into a 2025 case in which hundreds of absentee ballot envelopes ended up in a different state and at a location with ties to the Soros family money machine. A local outlet says state officials closed the case, even though they had not produced any answers or solutions.
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UPS told Attorney General Aaron Frey's (D-Maine) office that it required a subpoena before it would release any details about the envelopes, and Frey decided he would rather not know. He didn't think there was sufficient evidence to justify a subpoena, according to The Maine Wire. Why worry about 500 ballot envelopes ending up at a sketchy NGO headquarters in another state?
It is not clear why the NGO might have wanted the envelopes, of course. And it's strange that the envelopes were separate from the ballots.
The Maine Wire's Steve Robinson already put out a detailed examination of the case and the records he was able to obtain, noting that the NGO, which operates out of a residential home in Maryland, has lobbying connections to more than one Maine Democrat official.
The New York Times: Yes, the shifty Democrat socialist whore Mary Petola is behind the recruitment of a nobody loser named "Dan Sullivan" to run against the incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan.
Operatives aligned with Democratic Senate nominee Mary Peltola spent months recruiting candidates in an effort to dilute support for Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan on Alaska's crowded ballot, according to The New York Times.
The effort, internally dubbed the "ballot composition project," included an early directive to a Peltola staffer in the summer of 2025: find as many people named Dan Sullivan as possible in the state.
The goal, the report says, was to land another Dan Sullivan on the ballot to create confusion and siphon votes from the incumbent.
The White House communications department weighed in with a firm rebuke of the reporting that has come out after nearly 60,000 early votes have been cast in that election thus far, according to The Associated Press
The staffer complied, combing through voter records to produce a list of Dan Sullivans from across the state.
This was no random request. Dan S. Sullivan is the name of the state's Republican senator. And if the Peltola campaign or its allies could track down and persuade another Dan Sullivan to run for Senate, the confusion could cost the senator crucial votes on the state's unusual, four-person ballot.
The plan worked. This spring, a retired teacher from a tiny fishing village along the Alaska Panhandle, reachable only by air and sea, announced his candidacy for Senate. His name was Dan J. Sullivan.
The Peltola campaign has repeatedly denied any involvement in his candidacy. But The Times has found, based on interviews and text messages, along with documents prepared for a potential lawsuit against the campaign, that not only did Ms. Peltola's team work with people trying to recruit Mr. Sullivan to run for Senate, but the effort was much broader. The group worked to coax other would-be spoilers into the race, to dilute the incumbent's support and help catapult the Democrat to victory.
Lisa Murkowski just endorsed -- get this -- the Democrat cheater.
🚨 BREAKING: "Republican" Sen. Lisa Murkowski just ENDORSED Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins for Governor of Alaska — stabbing President Trump's endorsed candidate, Bernadette Wilson, in the back just 7 days before Election Day
THIS IS RIDICULOUS!!
There are THREE Republicans on the November ballot — Trump-endorsed Bernadette Wilson, Dave Bronson, and Treg Taylor — and Murkowski passed on ALL of them to back the lone Democrat in the race
Her father, former Gov. Frank Murkowski, also joined Democrat Tony Knowles and Bill Walker in endorsing Kreiss-Tomkins today
At this point, why does Lisa Murkowski even pretend to have an "R" next to her name?!
She's representing a heavy Trump state like a Democrat. Unreal.
Democrats keep trying to change the subject, but the subject is Somalis and, by extension, the Democrats' deep ties with and advocacy for their community despite all the trouble they are causing.
"'The Republicans have their best shot in 20 years at winning the state,' Hamline University professor of political science and legal studies David Schultz told Newsweek, crediting the state's issues with corruption and 'Democratic Party fatigue' as reasons why Republicans might secure a win. He added that he would not be surprised if Tafoya won the election."
arlier this month, CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten pulled the final polling averages for Senate races decided by five points or fewer, using surveys conducted in the last 21 days of each campaign. Those aggregates missed the final margin by an average of 3.7 points. Almost every race Enten examined fell within that range.
"This, to me, is the big siren warning sign for Democrats right here," Enten said. "Because I know you feel like it's Lucy and the football. You've seen yourselves ahead before. And then Election Day, the votes are cast and counted, and the Republicans come out ahead."
That's an uncomfortable message for a party that has spent months convinced it's headed for a big win. If the polls miss again, a lot of Democrats are going to learn on election night that they've lost.
Enten also gamed out what that would look like. If Republicans beat their polling averages by 3.75 points, the map transforms. The GOP wins in Maine, Michigan, Texas, Kansas, Iowa, and Alaska, and leaves with a 52-48 Senate majority.
UNDERCOVER: GAVIN NEWSOM SAYS THE DSA IS "GOING TO BE DOMINANT" AND "MAINSTREAM" IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY!
"The DSA, the energy and the desire and demand for bold change, not incremental change, is very much going to be dominant. I mean, that's going to be a mainstream Democratic movement. Absolutely. No question about that."
That's California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a likely 2028 presidential candidate, speaking to an undercover journalist while campaigning in New Hampshire.
Asked by a "younger voter" who said "we don't want Kamala Harris, we want more democratic socialist policies":
"No one is arguing to manage the status quo and fail more efficiently."
"You can't play in the margins anymore. The system's broken. It's completely unbalanced, and we can't manage the decline. We have to completely reimagine."
Doctors, Engineers, Flying Car Mechanics From Well-Run and Peaceful Countries Continue Culturally Enriching Americans One Murder At a Time
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
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NEW: Multiple federal law enforcement sources tell @FoxNews that the man who was shot and killed by an off-duty FBI agent in Chicago last night was a Venezuelan illegal alien who was seen shooting into a homeless encampment. Per sources, the FBI agent was driving alone when he saw 27-year-old OSCAR D. CORRALES shooting at people in the encampment, and the agent stopped and shot CORRALES, killing him.
Fox is told CORRALES was previously caught and released at the southern border by the Biden administration in October 2023, and he has a previous arrest in California in which he was released from custody with an ICE detainer ignored.
Bill Melugin:
NEW: Multiple DHS sources confirm to @FoxNews that the suspect charged w/ murdering a Walmart manager in Philadelphia, PA on Wednesday is a Haitian illegal alien who flew into the U.S. via former President Biden's CHNV mass parole migrant flights program in 2023. Per sources, 23-year-old Destino Jean-Louis flew into the US on 11/24/2023 via Fort Lauderdale International Airport, and his legal status was revoked on 6/12/2025 after President Trump terminated the program.
According to investigators, Jean-Louis had previously been married to the victim he killed as part of an immigration-related sham marriage arrangement that was designed to help get him get a green card in the US. But after DHS denied the application in July, the victim, Latosha Cooper, withdrew the petition and cut off contact with him, and Jean-Louis became angry. He is accused of shooting Cooper in the head outside of the Walmart on Wednesday after finding out about her work schedule. He previously worked at the Walmart with her. The DA in Montgomery County, PA has now charged him with murder.
NEW: Multiple DHS sources confirm to @FoxNews that the suspect charged w/ murdering a Walmart manager in Philadelphia, PA on Wednesday is a Haitian illegal alien who flew into the U.S. via former President Biden's CHNV mass parole migrant flights program in 2023. Per sources, 23-year-old Destino Jean-Louis flew into the US on 11/24/2023 via Fort Lauderdale International Airport, and his legal status was revoked on 6/12/2025 after President Trump terminated the program.
According to investigators, Jean-Louis had previously been married to the victim he killed as part of an immigration-related sham marriage arrangement that was designed to help get him get a green card in the US. But after DHS denied the application in July, the victim, Latosha Cooper, withdrew the petition and cut off contact with him, and Jean-Louis became angry. He is accused of shooting Cooper in the head outside of the Walmart on Wednesday after finding out about her work schedule. He previously worked at the Walmart with her. The DA in Montgomery County, PA has now charged him with murder.
So many law-abiding Cultural Enrichment Officers being bullied by Drumpf:
ICE is pushing back heavily on this story from @WTOP. ICE says this "youth baseball coach" is a Venezuelan illegal alien who has a deportation order after his green card was revoked following immigration fraud proceedings and he also has a prior arrest for gun & drug offenses.
DHS released a partial list of Doctors and Engineers arrested and deported to third-party countries due to Excessive Cultural Enrichment:
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
19h
NEW: In wake of 60 Minutes segment on ICE's deportations to third party countries, DHS has released a list of some of the most egregious illegal aliens they've removed to third party countries because their own countries wouldn't take them back, including murderers, pedophiles, and rapists. Via DHS, some include:
Yosmel Luis Palomino Galan, an illegal alien from Cuba, deported on August 15, 2025. His criminal history includes convictions for two counts of premeditated murder with a deadly weapon in Florida.
Roberto Mosquera-Del Peral, an illegal alien from Cuba and Latin Kings gang member, deported on July 14, 2025. His criminal history includes convictions for first-degree premeditated murder, aggravated battery causing bodily harm or disability, aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, vehicle theft, andreckless driving in Florida.
Thongxay Nilakout, an illegal alien from Laos, deported on May 20, 2025. His criminal history includes convictions for first-degree murder, attempted murder, and second-degree robbery in California.
Tuan Thanh Phan, an illegal alien from Vietnam, deported on May 20, 2025. His criminal history includes convictions for first-degree murder and second-degree assault in Washington.
Jesus Munoz-Gutierrez, an illegal alien from Mexico and Brown Pride Aztecas gang member, deported on May 20, 2025. His criminal history includes a conviction for second-degree murder in Florida.
Jose Manuel Rodriguez-Quinones, an illegal alien from Cuba, deported on May 20, 2025. His criminal history includes convictions for first-degree murder with a weapon, firearm possession by convicted felon, possession of paraphernalia, cocaine trafficking, and arson in Florida.
Orville Isaac Etoria, an illegal alien from Jamaica, deported on July 14, 2025. His criminal history includes convictions for murder and robbery: forcible armed theft with a deadly weapon in New York.
Luis Vieira Andrade, an illegal alien from Cape Verde, deported on August 15, 2025. His criminal history includes convictions for rape of a child with force and assault and battery of a child under 14 in Massachusetts
Dung Tien Nguyen, an illegal alien from Vietnam, deported on July 14, 2025. His criminal history includes convictions for indecent or lewd act with a child under 16 andsecond-degree rape in Oklahoma.
Zakaria Farah Abdi, an illegal alien from Somalia, deported on August 15, 2025. His criminal history includes convictions for second-degree murder while committing a felony and receiving stolen property in Minnesota.
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DHS statement to @FoxNews
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"Thanks to these third-country agreements, we have been able to deport some of the worst criminal illegal aliens from the United States, including those who are so barbaric that even their home countries won't take them back, such as murderers, pedophiles, rapists, and drug traffickers," said DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. "For far too long, illegal aliens ordered removed by a judge have avoided deportation simply because DHS had no place to send them. Through engaging in fully legal third country removals, the days of avoiding deportation are over. We will continue to use every tool at our disposal to make America safe again. The Trump Administration will NEVER apologize for putting the American people first and deporting dangerous criminals from our country. America is no longer a safe haven for the world's criminals."
Meanwhile, the Islamist UK government continues promoting the most energetic of Cultural Enrichment Officers.
Yes. Capable of learning he can get away with attempted murder.
Note stories give no details on the stabbers. Just Regular Englishmen, eh?
cc: @AceofSpadesHQ https://t.co/u6HD9dpl2j
Communist Dictator Lula Orders Arrest of the True Winner of the Presidential Election and Demands His Passport be Seized; Marco Rubio Quarterbacks Operation to Evacuate Him from the Shithole Country
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Will Chamberlain
@willchamberlain
Flavio Bolsonaro's passport was cancelled and he was forced to flee the country by Lula, Alexandre De Moraes, and the insane Brazilian regime.
His brother Eduardo has an arrest warrant out for lobbying the US. His father, Jair Bolsonaro is serving 27 years. Victims of political persecution, all of them.
It's time for the Brazilian left to face the full force of American diplomatic and economic sanctions until they stop acting like a banana republic.
The Trump administration lifted Magnitsky Act sanctions on de Moraes, his wife, and his holding company last December. They should be immediately reimposed.
Further, visa bans should be imposed on every government official who has touched the Bolsonaro investigations - and their families too.
Finally, Section 301 tariffs on Brazilian goods should be quadrupled.
The Brazilian regime should look carefully at what has happened to Venezuela and Cuba, and remember that this hemisphere belongs to the United States of America.
Simón Levy
@SimonLevyMx
As I reported hours ago, Flávio Bolsonaro has arrived safely in United States.
The mastermind behind this operation is U.S. Secretary of State @SecRubio.
From the United States, free and safe, Flávio will lead the opposition against Lula.
A PT congressman, member of Lula’s far-left party, incredibly admits today on the House floor: “I have information from the Federal Police that they’re going to arrest many Bolsonaro supporters.”
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump indicates Brazil and Lula likely STOLE the election from Flavio Bolsonaro
"[Democrats] cheat SO WELL...although, BRAZIL's doing a pretty good job, also, aren't they? Did you see that one? That was not nice...I did NOT like, it did NOT look too good."
And now, reports say Flavio is coming to FLORIDA and he will be granted asylum in America
Brazil is being taken over by fraudsters and cheaters, and it COMES TO AMERICA if we let Dems win!
Let me break down the Flavio Bolsonaro situation and why he is in the United States just hours after the election...
First, they imprisoned his father. They sentenced Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years and placed him under house arrest after he challenged the 2022 results and was accused of plotting to overturn the election.
In this recent election, Bolsonaro was ahead. Lula and his thugs, including his former corruption lawyer, who now sits on Brazil's Supreme Court, requested a two-hour extension that miraculously produced enough votes for Lula to win. That extension added only about 35,000 votes, roughly 0.03 percent of the total, which is nowhere near enough to explain Lula's final margin of roughly 4.4 million votes.
Bolsonaro immediately challenged the election because anyone who is not a communist and has a brain could see that the election was stolen from him if they actually paid attention to what was happening. President Trump called the outcome a rigged election and said it looked very bad.
Hours later, they accused him of trying to overturn the election, EXACTLY as they did to his father, and accused him of inciting "violence" in the streets. Then they prohibited him from leaving the country, even though he had committed no crime, and canceled his passport to make sure he could not leave.
Fortunately, Bolsonaro had been working with the United States. They extracted him in an undisclosed operation before the authorities could throw him in prison just like his father.
Meanwhile, while ALL of this is unfolding, Lula's little tranny lover, Erika Hilton, who is a "Congresswoman," is publicly calling for the Brazilian government to seize Bolsonaro's and his wife's assets and freeze ALL their bank accounts.
DOES THAT SOUND NORMAL TO YOU? A man challenges an election, and suddenly the Brazilian government is coming after him for doing exactly that.
THIS IS COMMUNISM.
So while you see Democrats across our country congratulating Lula on his victory, including Alex Soros, the biggest demon of them all, understand exactly what you are looking at. These are the people cheering on a government that is targeting its political opposition. They are the enemy, and they will attempt the SAME thing against a Republican here in America, just as they did to Trump.
This is EXACTLY why it is essential to vote RED and make absolutely sure our country NEVER becomes what Brazil has become.
ONCE YOU GO COMMUNIST, YOU CAN NEVER GET OUT OF IT.
The Economist Publishes Chart Showing That Immigrants, Especially From Afganistan, the Middle East, and North Africa, Commit a Grossly Disproportionate Amount of Sex Crimes in England, Wales, and Denmark (But Then They Try to Hide the Ball)
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Here's the thing, though: Because the discrepancies were so enormous, they attempted to hide just how grossly disproprtionate the rates of sex offense are.
They put the numbers on a logarithmic scale --which deliberately squashes numbers together to disguise just how great the differences are -- to hide the full extent of the disparity.
But people normalized the scale into a simple and clear linear graph.
Here's the graph the pro-open-borders Economist published. Note the scale at top shows rates of sex offense jumping from 1, to 2, to 5, to 10.
There it is, ladies and gentlemen. The Economist has finally published a graph on migrant crime levels. I’m sure the usual suspects will be absolutely furious to discover that the data has once again refused to cooperate with their preferred narrative. https://t.co/6Wh9sQSUhg
Here's what the scale looks like when the numbers go, as numbers usually do, from 1, to 2, to 3, to 4, etc.
By the way: The Economist originally posted this graph with a normal linear scale, but then deleted it and replaced it with the deliberately-misleading logarithmic scale when lefties and open borders advocates (but I repeat myself) complained that the graph was accurate and therefore racist.
Here was the first graph they published:
The Economist article this chart comes from (https://t.co/LCDzKKfW5L) tries to play down the discrepancy. But the data (shown on a linear rather than log scale as in the original article) is alarming indeed. The Economist's conclusion, that in absolute terms the difference in sex crimes is not alarming, hides the fact that migration is a real issue and there is a clear impact. 🤷♂️
This figure from the Economist looks bad, but reality is in fact even worse.
Sexual offences is a broad category. And as a rule, the more severe the crime, the higher the over-representation of perpetrators from the Middle East and Africa.
We can see this in the data from Denmark, which has the best quality crime data in the world. Here we can break down both by ancestry and by severity of offence.
The figure shows that in Denmark people from Middle East and Africa are vastly more over-represented for rape than for sexual offences. The same is likely the case for England as well, so if they had the data available to draw the red rape circle, it would be much further to the right.
This figure from the Economist looks bad, but reality is in fact even worse.
Sexual offences is a broad category. And as a rule, the more severe the crime, the higher the over-representation of perpetrators from the Middle East and Africa.
We can see this in the data from Denmark, which has the best quality crime data in the world. Here we can break down both by ancestry and by severity of offence.
The figure shows that in Denmark people from Middle East and Africa are vastly more over-represented for rape than for sexual offences. The same is likely the case for England as well, so if they had the data available to draw the red rape circle, it would be much further to the right.
Do immigrants from some countries commit more sex crimes?
A hard look at Britain’s data suggests so. But it is hardly an epidemic
Tren de Aragua only took over a few apartment buildings in Colorado.
The article is paywalled and conspicuously absent from Archive.is, but here are some quotes found on a Reddit thread about the article:
This suggested Afghans are convicted of sex crimes at seven times the British rate--a far cry from Mr Timothy's "over 20 times", but disturbing nevertheless (see chart)."
"here age-standardised analysis exists for those countries, the over-representation shrinks, as in Britain, but it does not vanish.
"And the numbers need to be kept in perspective. In 2010-12 Afghan nationals were convicted of 92 sex crimes; in 2022-24 the total was 102. Ten additional sex crimes, after the Afghan population has roughly tripled, is not an epidemic."
Ten additional rapes = no big deal.
But we should also hang the Cornell 7, who are guilty of zero rapes.
The Economist attempts to make the numbers look better by weighting for age. Now, it is true that men aged between 17 and, say, 35 commit the great majority of crimes, and most of the immigrants coming over from these shithole countries fall into that age range.
An invasion of "military aged men," as they say.
But this does not help their case, because they're advocating for a continuing flow of men from these countries at the exact ages most likely to rape or commit violent crimes. The anti-immigration or immigration-slowdown crowd makes the case that we cannot absorb so many military-aged men -- or, perhaps we should say, rapist- aged men -- in so short of time.
And also: This kind of numbers-massaging doesn't make the great disproportion in sex offenses go away. It just reduces it from "terrifying" to "highly alarming."
The Economist says we can and should and that the additional rapes and sex attacks are just the cost of boosting our GDP (by importing huge numbers of nonworking males with no skills who will be on the dole their entire lives).
My citation for that? Why, another graph prepared by the gonzo open borders woke magazine The Economist, showing that immigrants from the "MENAPT" countries -- Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan, Turkey -- contribute the least to the Danish economy by far.
Note the second lowest line represents other immigrants -- also a small contribution.
Also note that this is based on age, so all groups drop to very low levels of economic contribution as they go past retirement age, as of course they would.
But look at the very low levels of economic contribution for immigrants in what are, in the West, considered the "productive years" of a man's life:
Even during their peak "earning" years, immigrants from MENAPT nations are still a net drain on the economy and it gets worse after that.
Explain to me how the west gains economically by allowing the free migration of people who offer barely any contribution to the economy at all but are huge consumers of welfare and social services paid for by the economically-contributing natives?
The Economist, in another article, says that riots in Europe have nothing to do with culture:
The Economist
@TheEconomist
Oct 24
Donald Trump's diagnosis of the protests is plain wrong. The problems facing Europe's liberals are not about race or religion--and are much harder to fix
Rule of Law ⚖️
@MovetheWorld9
Oct 26
The Economist and The FT have been left-wing publications for 20 years. They are not pro-capitalist publications at all. That ship sailed decades ago. They are left-wing on every other issue not just on immigration.
Netanyahu's Party Wins More Seats Than Opposition, Garnering a "Clear Majority" of Jewish Votes; Left Wing Coalition May Cross the Rubicon and Ally with Arab Parties Which Support Hamas
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Explaining a bit: Netanyahu's party won the most parliamentary seats, but not an outright majority of parliamentary seats, which means the next government will be supported by a coalition of various parties.
The Arab parties won a highest-ever 19 seats-- which would be enough, if combined with the left wing Jewish parties, to take a majority.
But the Arab parties are, get this, pro-Hamas, and there is a longstanding taboo in Israel against allying with terrorist-supporting groups. For some reason. I don't know why.
Netanyahu survives another day with unexpectedly clear backing of Israeli Jews
By Steven Scheer, Rami Ayyub and Lina Obeid
JERUSALEM, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Benjamin Netanyahu won the support of an unexpectedly clear majority of Israeli Jews in an election billed as a major turning point in his nation's history, apparently ensuring he will survive as prime minister at least in a caretaker role.
With nearly 86% of votes tallied on Wednesday morning, Israel's three main broadcasters reported Netanyahu's bloc of right-wing, far-right and ultra-Orthodox parties on course to win 53 seats in parliament, well ahead of the 48 for the opposition bloc of rival Gadi Eisenkot.
Huh, polls overstated support for the left and understated support for the right.
Must be the first time that has ever happened.
Parties representing Israelis of Arab descent would win an unprecedented 19 seats, following high turnout from passionately motivated voters.
The results could still change as counting continued, but a victory for Eisenkot appeared increasingly out of reach, as his bloc of anti-Netanyahu parties from centre-left to hard-right underperformed pre-election polls that forecast a tight race.
While Netanyahu lost his bloc's narrow majority in the 120-seat Knesset, his opponents were left with scant hope of unseating him without an unlikely deal to accept broad backing from Arab parties, which many Jewish leaders reject.
I wish I believed that. But the left is now untethered and is increasingly comfortable with supporting actual terrorism and murder against their opponents.
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Trump, who had called on Israeli voters to keep Netanyahu in power so the two leaders could "finish the job" in Iran, said Netanyahu had done "very well" thanks to his own endorsement that "helped him a lot".
Of course.
The election was the first held in Israel since Hamas-led fighters killed 1,200 people and carried off 251 hostages in attacks that shattered the country's sense of security and plunged it into war in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran.
The war in Gaza, which flattened the territory and killed 74,000 Palestinians, has left Israel increasingly isolated on the world stage, with a decisive shift in global public opinion against it, including in its closest ally the United States.
None of the Arab parties will declare Hamas a terrorist group, nor will they stand for Israeli policies in either Gaza or the West Bank. While Israeli politics is famously fractious and far more to the Left than the US, those positions are far enough to the extreme that most other parties will not abide a coalition that includes the Arab parties. That may be even more true after the October 7 massacres; voters blame Netanyahu for ignoring the threat, but they are not going to back a government that has to let Hamas off the hook to boot Netanyahu out of office, either.
'I lost everything': Ex-MIT scientist David Sabatini goes on camera for first time since $6M verdict
By Ted Daniel, Boston 25 News
BOSTON -- A Boston jury has awarded former MIT biology professor Dr. David Sabatini $6 million after finding that a former colleague, Dr. Kristin Knouse, defamed him. The verdict came years after her sexual misconduct allegations cost the renowned scientist his lab, his job, and his reputation.
Women never lie about rape or sexual harassment.
Never, h8rz. Never never never.
Do better, h8rz. #DoBetter.
The jury's verdict was announced on Oct. 16 after a three-week trial. Sabatini had sued Knouse for defamation and that she wrongly interfered with his job and his future career opportunities, according to court documents. Knouse filed a counterclaim accusing Sabatini of sexual harassment, creating a sexualized hostile environment and retaliation. The jury rejected her counterclaims.
"I lost everything. There was nothing left of my normal life," Sabatini told 25 Investigates' reporter Ted Daniel in his first on-camera interview since the verdict.
A leading scientist's fall
For about 24 years, Sabatini led a research lab at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, which is affiliated with MIT. His work focused on cell biology and its connections to cancer, aging, diabetes, and neurodegenerative diseases. His breakthroughs once made him a potential contender for the Nobel Prize.
His downfall began in 2020, when Knouse, an early career postdoctoral researcher at the Whitehead, accused him of sexual misconduct and harassment. She claimed Sabatini coerced her into a sexual relationship that lasted more than a year. Arguing before the Supreme Judicial Court, Knouse's attorney, Ellen Zucker, said Sabatini had sex with Knouse while she was a student and "continued having sex with her in a way that made her uncomfortable."
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On TikTok and across social media, Sabatini was labeled a "predator," an "abuser," and a "creepy dirtbag." When New York University considered hiring him in 2022, students and faculty protested, chanting, "What do we want? Safety!" NYU did not offer him a job.
"It was horrible," Sabatini said. "'Rapists roaming the halls of MIT' was basically what was said."
Sabatini's sued Knouse over the accusations and his firing. In court, Sabatini and his legal team, led by Lisa G. Arrowood, argued the relationship was consensual. They also presented evidence they said showed Knouse had become jealous of another woman Sabatini was interested in and had sought to have him fired.
"She took what to me was very apparent from all our messages, a fully consensual relationship," Sabatini said. "She converted that into a coercive relationship, which then you can also sort of see the escalation of that to claims as horrible as rape, and then sexual assault."
Text messages entered as evidence show some of the exchanges between the two. On Jan. 5, 2020, Knouse wrote that she would "fixate on how I'm being held as a backup and competed against other women," adding that the anxiety was "not healthy for me, my science, or our relationship." On Jan. 17, after Sabatini told her he had kissed another woman, Knouse replied, "I'll be honest and say it definitely hurts to validate some of my anxieties in light of our closeness and discussions over the past few weeks."
Here comes her #HeToo admission: A text in which she admits she was "quite aggressive" in entering his hotel room for sex, and then joking she nearly raped him: she called it a #HeToo encoujnter.
In a video deposition, attorney Arrowood questioned Knouse about other messages. Knouse confirmed that she had written, "I know what I want, and I go after it." Asked about a message in which she wrote about visiting Sabatini's hotel room late at night during a work retreat, "In hindsight, it was quite aggressive, #hetoo," Knouse said she "was just making a joke about how I was being forward in that moment."
Women never lie about rape. Never. They never use such allegations for vengeance against a lover who has rejected them.
Documents from the case show Knouse called her campaign against Sabatini "Covert Operation Dethrone." In one message, she joked about buying a "Lambo" if she won a settlement.
Below: The lying criminal who defamed him and ruined his life attempts to explain away a text in which she wrote that she was "aggressive" when she went into his rom to seduce him and then joked that she almost raped him, writing #HeToo.
In other words, he was a #MeToo victim, but he's male, so it's #HeToo.
She's joking about the rape but this casts rather a lot of doubt on her claims of being relentlessly sexually stalked by this man and "coerced" into a sexual relationship against her will.
"In hindsight, it was quite aggressive, / #hetoo."
That’s MIT based biologist Dr. Kristin Knouse being asked about text messages she exchanged with Dr. David Sabatini, a world renowned former MIT biomedical scientist.
Sabatini was once considered a potential Nobel Prize candidate for his breakthroughs in understanding cancer and aging.
The deposition is part of the evidence I reviewed in a defamation and work interference lawsuit Sabatini brought against Knouse.
Sabatini watched his career, his lab, and his reputation collapse under the weight of campus protests and social media attacks after Knouse accused him of coercing her into a sexual relationship that lasted more than a year, according to court documents.
🚩Sabatini gave me his first television interview since a Boston jury delivered a stunning $6 million defamation/interference verdict in his favor.🚩
The interview airs on #Boston25 News during our 6pm newscast.
I will post the full report after it airs.
#25Investigates
Y'know how every so often there will be some new "scientific" craze about something we all just have to do to save something? "To save the environment we must ..." or "to save lives we must ..." or "to save the whales we must ..." or whatever? The promised outcome is always grandiose, usually some kind of large-scale salvation, and the required change is almost always something that appears to be small but is actually very big, very difficult, very expensive, very complicated or very disruptive. It's almost a game at this point for something to come up and kick off a moral panic, then the state imposes a "small" solution that everyone ends up hating, then it turns out to be pointless at best or destructive at worst.
A recent and really big example of this was the "social distancing" push in the COVID era. "Keep your distance" was the small thing that was actually a monumental pain in the butt that would bring about salvation at scale in the form of infection reduction. The Science said so, the media softened up the public, the state imposed the solution, and it worked as well as these things always do. What they promised was infection control. What they delivered was reduced liberty, compliance costs, social destruction and loss of trust. This is what always happens, and it happens like clockwork. In that case, it even came out that the "scientific solution" was nothing of the sort, and there was never any real basis for it. Sometimes, that last piece is optional.
One example of the "scientific" part of it being optional is the moral panic over plastic drinking straws. You probably remember this one. In 2015, a video showing what was alleged to be a plastic drinking straw being removed from a sea turtle's nose spread on the internet. It was fairly unpleasant, the turtle was obviously suffering and the then-current boogeyman of "single-use plastics" was enthusiastically blamed. The normal cries of "SOMEBODY NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING" went out and then the special interests, virtue signalers, press organs and of course the state came to the rescue.
There was a "simple fix" for this "major problem:" eliminate plastic drinking straws. Don't stop to think about whether it's actually sensible. Don't consider any other consequences. Don't consider the public. Just implement the simple fix and save the :: spins wheel :: sea turtles. So we did. It started, as it usually does, with the virtue signalers and media organs. After all the stories of the horrors of drinking straws and the inevitable social media amplification, outfits like Starbucks and American Airlines loudly announced that they would eliminate the modern-day horror of plastic drinking straws. Countless other places followed suit, spurred on by social media, NGOs and lobbyists.
Then came the state actions. States like California and its little sister Colorado started prohibiting automatic distribution of plastic drinking straws (the customer must ask for one) and so helped the product to get crowded out, with Colorado going further more recently. Countless municipalities banned straws and often extended those bans to other "single-use plastics" like shopping bags. The little thing was in fact very big, had huge effects on the market and the substitute good - usually, paper straws or bags - was wildly inferior and people hated it.
It was only a matter of time before the revelation that this is all pointless at best came to the fore. As anti-straw fervor spread widely, including to Korea, that country's government commissioned a study on drinking straws. They commissioned the study after taking action, of course, but what they found will surprise nobody who has seen this wheel turn a time or two:
Conventional plastic straws had the smallest impact in 10 of the 16 categories, including climate change, acidification, particulate matter and human toxicity.
Bio-PE straws had the largest impact in 10 categories, including ozone depletion, acidification and smog.
Paper straws had the largest impact in three categories, while biodegradable plastic straws did so in two.
So, as usual, the response was worthless at best and destructive at worst - and disruptive and expensive regardless. The sea turtle incident was used to flog a global movement against "single-use plastics," with the turtle-maiming plastic straw as the whipping boy. They got their way. In many places - including places where it can never make sense, like landlocked Colorado - they are no more. All they did was forcibly exchange plastic straws for an inferior substitute that is no better and may be worse.
This is what always happens and this incident followed the normal progression. They achieved nothing but compliance for its own sake. Don't expect facts to get in the way or for the bans to be rolled back, though. It was the "right thing to do" and the right kind of busybody mini-tyrants feel far too good about it.
The cause and effect are obvious: The Trump team made fighting crime a top priority — a reversal from the “criminal justice reform” emphasis of Joe Biden and #Defund Democrats — and got the expected results. Per Justice Department’s National Crime Victimization Survey, 2025 saw 2.16 million violent incidents — down from 2.83 million in 2024, for the largest single-year drop since 1973. . . . Democrat mayors are trying to claim credit for last year’s marked decline in violent crime, yet the staggering 25% drop was nationwide and came in the first year of President Donald Trump’s new term. The cause and effect are obvious: The Trump team made fighting crime a top priority — a reversal from the “criminal justice reform” emphasis of Joe Biden and #Defund Democrats — and got the expected results.
And despite the ups and downs of oil and energy prices as a result of the ongoing conflict with Iran, it ultimately will stabilize and no doubt drop to lower costs as it has always done in the past in the wake of the geopolitical crisis du jour that caused the spike in the first place. So on that note, there's this item.
President Donald Trump will announce an EPA proposal on Tuesday evening gutting Biden-era regulations that placed strict limits on methane emissions from oil and gas drilling operations, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
Methane is released during the flaring of natural gas, which takes place at oil drilling operations that lack expensive capture technology. For years, environmentalists and Democrats have called for stricter regulations, including rules barring flaring, that target methane, which activists refer to as a "super pollutant" and is more potent than carbon dioxide.
Overall, Tuesday's action removing methane regulations—which represents the latest major energy-related announcement Trump has made in the run-up to the upcoming midterm election—is projected to save Americans $45 billion in energy costs and lead to an extra 210 million barrels of oil and 1.41 trillion cubic feet of natural gas produced nationwide, a Trump EPA official briefed on the announcement told the Free Beacon.
Oh please. This is an abject crock of shit. If methane were so lethal then how is it that the human population jumped to roughly 8 billion from an estimated 1.25 billion in 1850, which was about the start of the Industrial Revolution, when oil, coal and natural gas were produced and burned wherever civilization and human progress progressed!
Here’s a question someone should ask climate expert Greta Thunberg today. What if global warming is preventing the next ice age? Wouldn’t that be a good thing for children everywhere?
Turns out, a new study published in the highly respected journal Science says that might be exactly what’s happening right now.
The study, which goes by the unassuming title of “Late Holocene re-expansion of the Laurentide Ice Sheet,” asks whether “anthropogenic warming prevented the next glacial cycle” and finds that “it may have done just that.”
Of course all of this sanity could come screeching to a halt should the midterms be whole or in part taken by the Dems and certainly should a non-MAGA aligned Republican not come out on top in 2028 and for every election afterwards and our educational system not be purged of the Leftists from Pre-K through Post-Graduate.
In a 2-1 decision handed down Monday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Justice Department’s emergency request to pull those ballots out of the count while the voters’ eligibility is reviewed. The majority wrote that the government’s urgency was partly of its own making. Judge Patrick Bumatay dissented, arguing the federal government has a sovereign interest in protecting federal elections.
The fight started October 15, when the DOJ sued California over a list of more than 20,000 registered voters that federal agencies had flagged as likely noncitizens. Prosecutors wanted the state to verify each name or keep those ballots separate from the rest. California refused, disputing both the underlying data and the short deadline it was given.
Federal prosecutor Bill Essayli said the state made a stunning admission at a hearing a day earlier. According to Essayli, California told the court it does nothing to independently check the citizenship of its voters, and that any ballot already cast by a noncitizen would be counted if the judges did not step in. He said that is why his office asked for the emergency order, arguing that illegal votes dilute legal ones.
A free people keeps the means to defend its own, and the Second Amendment is the insurance policy I'm glad we never cancelled. . . My oldest son graduated from West Point, and the other two are still in college. I’d like all three to inherit a country that still knows what it is and still enforces its own rules. The studio always releases the trailer before the feature. Europe’s trailer is playing now, and we still hold the pen on the sequel. A free people keeps the means to defend itself, and the Second Amendment is the insurance policy I’m glad we never canceled.
On that somewhat mouth-watering essay I bid you all to have a good day.
Democrat mayors are trying to claim credit for last year’s marked decline in violent crime, yet the staggering 25% drop was nationwide and came in the first year of President Donald Trump’s new term. The cause and effect are obvious: The Trump team made fighting crime a top priority — a reversal from the “criminal justice reform” emphasis of Joe Biden and #Defund Democrats — and got the expected results. Crime’s way down thanks to Trump — Dems will fight to send it back up
Leftism is reducing America to a self-hating, government-dependent, multicultural mess that still believes it has the wealth and moral authority to change the world. The Fairytale Of An America Without Limits
Betsy McCaughey: His message to fellow Muslim-Americans is clear: Live in America, but do not become American. In a 2011 paper published in the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, El-Sayed warned of the hazards of “interethnic mating” — that is, having a child with a non-Arab. Abdul El-Sayed’s toxic ‘academic research’ reveals his anti-American Muslim supremacy
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Glenn H. Reynolds: You can bet that such a censorship regime, sold under anodyne terms like “safety” or “civility,” will in fact be about protecting politicians’ egos from mockery — and their crimes from exposure. Free speech and a free press place the public’s right to know — essential in a democracy where the people are, at least in theory, the rulers — above politicians’ interest in maintaining their dignity and their phony-baloney jobs. Wannabe tyrants fall to the ‘Streisand effect’ — because censors deserve our mockery
The full extent of the job loss among the company’s 179,000 employees is not yet clear and the company’s various departments are just beginning to make assessments on where cuts might be effective, the paper added. Comcast Headed for Major Layoffs Ahead of NBCU Spin-Off of NBCUniversal
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Make the case for data centers on their merits. Then let the citizens who must live with them decide whether those benefits justify the sacrifices. SI Data Center Reality Check
Cameron Hickey, CEO of the National Conference on Citizenship, estimates that approximately 25 percent of eligible American voters have consulted an AI chatbot about a political candidate when deciding how to vote. AI is being adapted as a search and query tool by more and more voters, but just how reliable is it? The Next Election Battlefield Isn’t Television or Social Media, It’s Artificial Intelligence.
Automated license plate readers have become a political flashpoint. No one talks about the dozens of children they’ve rescued. The Children Saved by Flock
The Justice Department sought to prosecute Hutchinson for reasons that have not yet been made clear due to the confidentiality of the case, but President Trump and Republicans had previously accused her of lying under oath during her testimony about January 6 before the House committee. Sources close to the case confirmed to the Associated Press (AP) that the grand jury declined to prosecute while providing few details. . . Grand Jury Declines to Indict Cassidy (Madison Cornbread) Hutchinson for Her Jan. 6 Testimony
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
In a 2-1 decision handed down Monday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Justice Department’s emergency request to pull those ballots out of the count while the voters’ eligibility is reviewed. The majority wrote that the government’s urgency was partly of its own making. Judge Patrick Bumatay dissented, arguing the federal government has a sovereign interest in protecting federal elections. Ninth Circuit Won’t Order California to Set Aside Noncitizen Ballots (Dems must not be allowed lose, so of course not! - jjs)
What the Dem media propagandists are never curious about is how people in Congress and the White House amass wealth just from their "public service." For example, we're supposed to believe that Barack Obama increased his net worth by almost $11 million in eight years from book royalties. The most egregious example, as we all know, is former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who is the Warren Buffett of career politicians. There is an app called Autopilot which is an AI-driven investment platform. You just pick an AI curated portfolio, throw in your money, and let HAL 9000 be your financial guru. Autopilot's most popular portfolio is called — I kid you not — the "Pelosi Tracker+." Dear Leftists: Shut the Hell Up About Trump 'Profiting' From Politics
Next week’s elections are seen by many as determining the direction the nation will take: capitalism or communism. These last-minute defeats for the Democrats might make a difference for people who still haven’t decided which way to vote, which seems insane to me because one side promotes liberty and the other pushes misery, followed by starvation and a Holodomor-like death. Big Trouble in Little China: Bad News for the Bolshies Just Before Election Day
The GOP has abandoned the Centennial State, but a looming left-wing civil war might reopen the frontier. Can Republicans Reclaim Colorado?
California’s November ballot could signal a taxpayer revolt, as voters weigh wealth taxes and spending measures that could reshape the state’s fiscal future and influence tax policy nationwide. How California Voters Could Surprise the Machine
The polling industry has not merely failed to fix itself; it has become an electoral virus, surging through America’s body politic with almost no effective immune response. Polls Are The AIDS Of American Politics
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
The reports followed a similar claim overnight from the Argentine news network Infobae, which initially reported that Bolsonaro, son of imprisoned former President Jair Bolsonaro, had flown to Argentina en route to the United States. Infobae has since issued an update that the private jet it had first reported would carry Bolsonaro appeared to have canceled its flight. Rumors Claim Flávio Bolsonaro Refused to Hand Over Passports and Fled Brazil
The projections, released after polls closed at 10:00 p.m. local time following the highest voter turnout in more than a quarter-century, showed Netanyahu’s Likud narrowly ahead of Eisenkot’s Yashar party in the major television exit polls, even as neither political camp secured the 61 seats needed for a majority in Israel’s 120-member Knesset. Israel Election Cliffhanger: Exit Polls Show Netanyahu, Eisenkot Deadlocked as Arab Parties Surge
The decision to call a snap election came after mounting pressure on Sánchez, including a slew of corruption scandals and allegations affecting prominent figures in his government and domestic and international criticism of his handling of an illegal immigrant amnesty and migrant border influx into Ceuta, a Spanish exclave on the coast of North Africa, bordering Morocco. Spain’s Conservatives and Populists Are Negotiating an Electoral Pact.
The first round of voting is scheduled for April 18, while the second round has been scheduled for May 2 in the event no candidate wins the first round outright. A victory for Le Pen next year would not only represent the first-ever presidential victory for the National Rally, but the culmination of 15 years of presidential campaigning. Marine Le Pen’s Road to the 2027 Presidential Race.
. . .a new planet in the outer solar system beyond Neptune, joining Pluto, Eris, Haumea, and Makemake as the five known large Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNO) so far discovered. Rubin Telescope discovers a new solar system planet
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Texas Children’s Hospital has officially opened a medical clinic for patients seeking care after undergoing gender-transition interventions, fulfilling a requirement of a legal settlement that also required the hospital to pay $10 million, as Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) and Democrat James Talarico compete in a U.S. Senate race with contrasting records on transgender policies. EXCLUSIVE–Paxton’s Historic Settlement with TX Children’s Hospital Leads to 1st Detransition Clinic
ALSO: The Morning Report cross-posts at CutJibNewsletter.com usually within an hour or so of posting here, if you want to continue the conversation all day.
The Four Awakens: If you have a device running the GoAhead embedded web server - which you might be, because there are reportedly hundreds of millions of these, though less than a million connected directly to the internet - there's an unwelcome surprise on one of the security modes: Four. (FoxIO)
Yes, it's back. Though this time it's a bit of a guessing game; instead of using a 2048-bit (256 byte) key, it actually uses an 8-bit key.
Oh, and it only really uses three of those eight bits; only eight values are possible - 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, and 128.
Overpriced as always, but a good bit faster than the previous M4 model. Not only is it one of the fastest CPUs around for single-threaded tasks, but it has two more cores than the M4, which combine to deliver about 40% better performance.
In the 1940s and '50s, Route 66 was one of America's most popular highways, driving business to small towns from Chicago to Santa Monica. But today, the road and its people have been largely forgotten. Ghost towns, empty motels, and abandoned gas stations line its path. Chief correspondent Abby Narishkin grew up along the road. In celebration of its 100th anniversary, she drove down the old route herself to visit the people and businesses still keeping this Americana legacy alive.
U.S. Highway 66, also known as “the Mother Road,” was built in 1926 to connect Chicago to Los Angeles. Historians say Route 66 became a lifeline during the Great Depression, a major corridor during World War Two, and later a symbol of freedom for postwar families traveling west.
As the interstate system expanded, it gradually replaced Route 66, leaving many mom-and-pop stops behind.
But the Wigwam Motel in Holbrook, Arizona is one of the businesses still standing along the historic highway.
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“It’s America, it’s amazing, they don’t write songs about I-10, they write songs about Route 66,” Richards said.
Richards said fewer places like the Wigwam Motel remain today.
“These we’re losing more of these places -- we’re not really gaining them,” Richards said.
Video segment at that link too.
As for the well known song about Route 66, I'm partial to this version
Sometimes travelling through the sugar-maple forests of Vermont feels faintly absurd. I was canoeing across a blue-green lake, deep in the Green Mountains, in the pearl glow of sunset. My paddle sang through the water as flutelike birdsong filled the silence. Blue jays whistled. Damselflies hovered. This was prime black bear habitat, but I saw no signs. Instead, a bass breached the surface.
Zoom out to a drone’s-eye view — above the water, above the beaver dam, above my lakeshore log cabin at Sterling Ridge Resort in Jeffersonville — and you’d see that there was no one else around
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Five days earlier, in late June, I had flown to Boston, picked up a rental car and driven 150 miles northwest into the Green Mountain State, the mercury nudging 30C [86F], to begin my journey along Route 100, which would eventually end up here. I was chasing the most wholesome road trip possible, one with historic inns, misty mountains and dairy farms reached by slow, radio-static country roads — an anti-Route 66, if you like. It’s easy to find that here, plus hippy-dippy liberalism, fierce small-town identity and an almost suspicious amount of cheese. We all pine to hide in the woods sometimes, and I wanted the jazzy moo of dairy cows, the burble of waterfalls and nowhere much to be. If Vermont is beautiful in summer, I could only imagine how spectacular the state’s sorbet-shaded foliage, abundance of pumpkin farms and explosive mountain light would be in leaf-peeping season.
Nice photos at the link. Article is from a Brit but is decent, nonetheless.
September dominates the top of the ranking, claiming eight of the first 10 spots. September 9 takes first place, followed by September 20, September 19, and September 14. July 7 breaks the pattern in fifth place, while December 28 ranks sixth despite falling during the year-end holiday period.
This has been hitting my X feed a lot recently. I don't think this is from an actual episode of The Flintstones. Or is it??
Anyway, it's kinda funny - I think.
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Halloween is just a few days away. Perhaps something related that you've never seen before?
The infamous banned Halloween cold open from The Office that you won’t find on @peacock or @netflix. Michael Scott really had no boundaries. https://t.co/vppKA1PWbv
Noted True Conservative David French says that the public's revulsion over fraud will cause them to vote for the Democrat Party he supports, despite being so Conservatively Conservative.
Once you start looking for blue state fraud, you can't stop finding it. It's everywhere. Pretty famously, HHS shut down 800 hospices and home health agencies in Los Angeles that were suspected of fraud, including billing Medicare but having no patients. Name something more obvious about blue states in 2026: Fraud is everywhere, and everyone knows it.
So here's how David French guesses the upcoming elections will end, writing his groveling cuckold newsletter in The New York Times yesterday: "Imagine that it's January 2027 and Democrats hold both chambers of Congress. They've been elected in a wave of public outrage over inflation, the war in Iran, and -- crucially -- public corruption. In fact, a Fox News poll taken shortly before the election showed that 'corruption in government' was the top concern of voters, even greater than inflation."
Yes, voters outraged by corruption will punish the Republicans who are causing it, and turn instead to the brave Democrats who stand so passionately committed to eradicating it.
As a strong liberal who voted for Obama and Biden three times each, I am very concerned about the radicalism of many Democrat candidates and will, for the first time ever, vote for the Republicans all up and down my ballot.
I didn't want to but I feel my principles leave me with no choice.
As you know, I'm a lifelong liberal Democrat myself. I've voted for Kamala Harris six times, three times in the 2024 election alone.
But now I am scandalized by the Democrat Party and will do something I have never before done: vote for a Republican.
I'm sure that most of you are also Lifelong Liberal Democrats who are feeling the same way.
Some Biblical scholarship:
Aelfred The Great
@aelfred_D
Oct 26
"Sodom and Gomorrah" leans real hard on Sodom
Everyone refers to Sodom, sodomy is a thing, sodomite, etc etc
Gomorrah's just slowly tiptoeing away like "who's to say what we did"
NY Governess Kathy Hochul: Jews are sympathetic when they are being blown up and raped by Muslim terrorists, but the moment they fight back, they lose the sympathy of the left.
Gov. Kathy Hochul insisted Tuesday that her job governing New York would be "a lot easier" if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lost the high-stakes election in the Jewish state.
The Democratic governor, who is also facing a challenge this year, said in an interview with Politico Magazine that Netanyahu's "overreach" in response to the horrific Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack has created issues here in New York.
"I went to Israel right after Oct. 7. I saw a lot of pain there. But I actually cautioned the government there, in private conversations, not to overreach," Hochul said.
"The world is with you when it comes to the brutal assault by a terrorist organization known as Hamas on innocent Israeli people. An overreach could change that dynamic, and that's what's happened."
"Overreach" = fight the implacable terrorist army that has been trying to exterminate you for generations
Republicans lead Democrats by 31 points among Jewish voters on the congressional ballot, according to a McLaughlin & Associates poll that points to a potential shift among a group that has long favored Democrats.
The poll found that 64 percent of Jewish voters backed Republicans for Congress, while 33 percent supported Democrats, pollsters John and Jim McLaughlin wrote in an article published by the firm Monday.
The result would mark a major shift from the large margins by which Jewish voters have traditionally favored Democrats, though pollsters John and Jim McLaughlin warned that the sample of Jewish voters was small.
The journal "Men and Masculinities" will no longer refer to individuals as being "male."
🚨ALERT: The editors of the journal Men and Masculinities will no longer allow authors to refer to individuals as being "male."
If an author uses the term, they should "specify which dimension(s) of sex are at issue, since sex itself refers to several only loosely correlated dimensions rather than a single underlying fact."
For example, trans-identifying male swimmer Lia Thomas must be referred to as a woman, and his maleness, if mentioned at all, must be attached to specific traits, like genitals, hormones, and chromosomes.
You cannot call Lia Thomas a "male" in this journal, but a woman with "male genitals" and "male sex chromosomes."
The first author of this editorial--the Managing Editor of Men and Masculinities, Tristen Kade--is a woman who identifies as a man.
The model of biological sex this editorial is pushing is what I refer to in my scholarly article "Why There Are Exactly Two Sexes" as the "multi-level" sex model. This model is not merely wrong--it is self-refuting.
From my article:
"Traits are labeled 'male-typical' or 'female-typical' only because they correlate with organisms already identified as male or female--an identification that, in anisogamous species, is made ultimately by reference to gametes."
Wesley Yang responds to one of the tranny Wachowski brothers' latest claims that there's a "trans genocide" going on and just reading a JK Rowling book contributes to it.
Wesley Yang
@wesyang
21h
Things that are not genocide:
-- When a man seeks to join a woman's rugby team and is told he cannot join because he is a man but is eligible to join the team corresponding to his sex.
-- When a man is told he cannot use the ladies changing room but must use the changing room that corresponds to his sex.
-- When a male murderer who says he is a woman is told he must remain in a prison with other men rather than be transferred to a women's prison based on his claim to be a woman.
-- When the state declines to pay for a man's castration
-- When the state declines to pay for a man's mandibular reconstruction surgery.
-- When a passport or driver's license lists the material fact of a man's sex instead of his private reverie to be a woman
-- When a person remains free to refer to the material fact of a person's sex rather than being coerced by state power into joining in a person's attempted falsification of this fact
-- When a 9-year old child is judged ineligible to be prescribed an off-label cancer drug in order to freeze him in a pre-pubertal state so as to better mimic the appearance of a member of the opposite sex
Not only are none of these acts genocidal, none of them violate any right that any person has.
If they were granted, as they have been in many states, they would simply be discretionary entitlements being handed out by the state to a legally privileged caste of person at the expense of the rights of others.
Where they are being removed, it is simply a reversion to a status quo without a legally privileged caste being rewarded with special rights that come at the expense of the rights and finances of others.
Glad to clear this confusion up, guys -- I expect you will now desist from claiming that you are victims of a genocide when you are not victims of rights violation of any kind.
Some left wing Democrats in the US are finally backing away from the madness and saying radical things like “women deserve their own sports” or “taxpayers shouldn’t pay for plastic surgery in prisons”. Let’s check in on the Bluey place and see how they are taking this: https://t.co/HNO79eVyFZ
BREAKING: Despite allegedly lying to Congress about her role in the Hunter Biden laptop probe; falsely labeling (in coordination w/ Dems) a GOP inquiry into Biden-Chinese graft as "Russian disinformation;" and covering up evidence of Chinese election interference in 2020, now-arrested FBI official Nikki Floris was nonetheless promoted by FBI chief Chris Wray in 2022, making her the first person to hold the position of Intelligence Analyst in Charge at an FBI field office (D.C.).
In 2020, FBI agents warned Floris "China's trying to influence the election in favor of Biden," but Floris (who recently joined Obama Russiagate conspirator Lisa Monaco at Microsoft) told them to stand down and later bragged in an internal FBI message: "i'm basically running a shadow government."
An Obama spinner says don't count out Kamala Harris, because they counted out Muhammad Ali too.
Mary Katherine Ham translates Muhammad Ali's famous quote into Kamalaspeak.
"When we think about floating, truly floating, we have to look at the butterfly, don’t we? And the butterfly, it doesn’t just float. It operates within the context of the air around it. You have to look at the significance of the passage of time when the bee decides to sting. Because a sting is not just a moment. It is a process. It is time for us to do what we have been doing, and that is stinging, and that time is every day. it’s about the capacity of the float and the significance of the sting. (Cackles). It really is."
Europe's answer to Islamic and communist violence is always the same: We have to censor people posting video of Islamic and communist violence and Elon Musk must be prosecuted for allowing such videos to be posted.
🚨🇫🇷 Macron says social media is "damaging French democracy" – as riots tear France apart.
The man with 17% approval is blaming the internet for the chaos his own policies created.
Marines at Quantico are very proud of their monuments and their museum, and of course when Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano took a sledgehammer to it and beheaded one of the statue Marines, it launched a firestorm of controversy. Then, Chief Judge Petula Metzler of the Prince William County Circuit Court granted Soriano bond at a mere $2,500.
WJLA reporter Nick Minock reported Monday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had issued a detainer request for Soriano, which is probably why Metzler hurried to release Soriano. Northern Virginia authorities have a track record of releasing criminals, even murderers, just to avoid complying with ICE detainer requests. Fortunately, the DOJ was not going to let Soriano's release go unchallenged.
The article notes that many corrupt propaganda organizations refer to the illegal alien, who has received a final order of deportation, a "Virginia man," which is a lie, because we all know the custom is to refer to such foreign criminals as "Maryland man."
There's a bit more news of woke judges being squashed. The Supreme Court previously sharply limited Lawless Lowly District Court Judges from blocking deportations, noting that immigration courts had the primary jurisdiction over such cases.
But lefty federal judges kept insisting that they could ignore the immigration courts and set deportation policy from the benches.
The Supreme Court rejected that.
Leftwing judges also relied on a Biden-era executive order allowing them to interfere in deportations.
Trump nullified that order.
So lefties sued, claiming that Trump's executive order should be set aside so that Biden's executive order could continue.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to reinstate a Biden-era regulation that allowed immigration judges to suspend certain deportation proceedings.
The decision came in an unsigned order and followed a request from immigration groups to block an agreement that eliminated the regulation, according to SCOTUSBlog.
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The federal government and Texas reached an agreement to end the rule as part of a court case earlier this year, prompting immigration groups and three cities with large immigrant populations to bring the challenge.
In its unsigned order, the high court rejected an emergency application by three Democrat-led cities to pause a consent judgment between the Justice Department and Texas. As described by SCOTUSblog, the agreement ended a Biden-era regulation that permitted "immigration judges to suspend some deportation proceedings -- when, for example, a crime victim or witness is seeking immigration relief, such as asylum -- while the challengers' appeal in the lower federal courts is ongoing."
Texas initially sued to end the rule in a lawsuit against the DOJ, which agreed with the Lone Star State and subsequently requested a federal judge to invalidate it. The agreement to end the regulation was approved by Texas-based Chief District Judge Reed O'Connor, a Bush 43 appointee.
Three cities -- Baltimore, Maryland; Columbus, Ohio; and New Haven, Connecticut -- joined the legal battle along with Centro Legal de la Raza, a leftist-funded immigration group, in an attempt to uphold the Biden-era rule. O'Connor rejected their request to do so on the grounds that they lack standing. He more specifically dismissed the cities' argument that "the elimination of the rule would cost them money because their taxpayers are likely to be deported," according to SCOTUSblog.
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals also rejected the challengers' emergency request to pause the DOJ and Texas' consent judgment.
And more news of woke judges being checked:
If you remember, a jury convicted a Somali of many counts of fraud.
The woke judge, who looks like Greta Thunberg's younger retard sister, set the jury verdict aside and entered her own verdict: Not Guilty.
She argued that the Somali Pirate didn't Knowingly Know what he Doingly Did when he cashed checks obtained by fraud.
But an appeals court has set her verdict aside and reinstated the jury verdict.
Blue Lives Matter
@bluelivesmtr
18h
SHE SHOULD BE FIRED!! The Minnesota Court of Appeals has reversed Hennepin County Judge Sarah West and reinstated all six guilty verdicts against Abdifatah Abdulkadir Yusuf for a $7.2 million Medicaid fraud scheme.
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A Hennepin County jury convicted Yusuf in August 2025 on six counts of aiding and abetting theft by swindle after a seven-day trial.
Prosecutors showed that Promise Health Services submitted more than 40,000 fraudulent claims between 2019 and 2022, operated for years out of a mailbox with no physical office, and funneled over $1 million into Yusuf's personal accounts while he and his wife spent tens of thousands on luxury clothing, furniture, and vehicles.
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West threw out the unanimous jury verdicts in November 2025 before sentencing. She ruled that the largely circumstantial evidence failed to eliminate a reasonable possibility that Yusuf's brother Mohamed had run the fraud without his knowledge or help.
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On October 26 2026 a unanimous three-judge appeals panel reversed her. The court held that the evidence did not support any reasonable alternative explanation and that Yusuf knew of and intentionally aided the fraud.
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The case returns to district court for sentencing, where aggravating factors found by the jury remain in play. West was appointed by Democratic Governor Mark Dayton in 2018.
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Her decision to nullify a jury's finding of guilt in a multi-million-dollar fraud case against a Medicaid provider, only to be unanimously overturned months later, raises questions about whether the ruling reflected the evidence or a preference for a different outcome.
SHE SHOULD BE FIRED!! The Minnesota Court of Appeals has reversed Hennepin County Judge Sarah West and reinstated all six guilty verdicts against Abdifatah Abdulkadir Yusuf for a $7.2 million Medicaid fraud scheme.
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A Hennepin County jury convicted Yusuf in August 2025 on six counts of aiding and abetting theft by swindle after a seven-day trial.
Prosecutors showed that Promise Health Services submitted more than 40,000 fraudulent claims between 2019 and 2022, operated for years out of a mailbox with no physical office, and funneled over $1 million into Yusuf’s personal accounts while he and his wife spent tens of thousands on luxury clothing, furniture, and vehicles.
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West threw out the unanimous jury verdicts in November 2025 before sentencing. She ruled that the largely circumstantial evidence failed to eliminate a reasonable possibility that Yusuf’s brother Mohamed had run the fraud without his knowledge or help.
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On October 26 2026 a unanimous three-judge appeals panel reversed her. The court held that the evidence did not support any reasonable alternative explanation and that Yusuf knew of and intentionally aided the fraud.
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The case returns to district court for sentencing, where aggravating factors found by the jury remain in play. West was appointed by Democratic Governor Mark Dayton in 2018.
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Her decision to nullify a jury’s finding of guilt in a multi-million-dollar fraud case against a Medicaid provider, only to be unanimously overturned months later, raises questions about whether the ruling reflected the evidence or a preference for a different outcome.
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#Minnesota #MedicaidFraud
60 Minutes Commits Immigration Fraud by Presenting Yet Another Fake Deportation Sob Story
—Disinformation Expert Ace
60 Minutes
@60Minutes
Within five days of being deported from the U.S., Moussa Diawara says Ghanaian officials forced him onto a flight to Mali, the very country a U.S. immigration judge ruled he could not be deported to. Diawara says he was homeless and went into hiding.
So, what they're talking about is the practice of deporting asylum-claiming immigrants to "safe third countries."
Sometimes those safe third countries then evaluate the asylee's claims and determine them to be fake or overblown, and deport them to their country of origin.
This is completely permissible in the law:
Shipwreckedcrew
@shipwreckedcrew
Oct 24
This is referred to in the law as "refouling."
DHS is not allowed to send a illegal alien to a country where it believes that country will commit "refouling".
But, it is up the Sec. of State to negotiate the agreements with the government of that foreign country on this issue.
That's what Rubio did with Pres. Bukele of El Salvador with regard to Venezuelan illegals sent to CECOT.
But case law is nearly iron-clad -- authored by CJ Roberts -- that it is beyond the expertise and lawful authority of the judiciary to second-guess the agreements negotiated with foreign governments in this kind of circumstance.
That's they law.
60 Minutes can run all the hit pieces they want but the Trump Admin. is following the law as established by Congress.
In other words: the third countries we send deportable aliens to have their own courts to evaluate asylum claims, and if they find, through their own processes, that these claims are invalid or contrived, they can deport the alien as well.
Is leftist 60 Minutes so racist that they would say that Ghana's courts are entirely incompetent and corrupt? Do they not believe that Proud African People can serve as judges?
And: is this poor migrant really at risk if he is sent back to Mali?
His big claim of persecution is.... "I claim I'm gay, so I get to stay."
James Percival
@DHSGenCounsel
This illegal alien is @60Minutes poster child for what it claims are wrongful deportations. I pulled his file. His claimed reason for fearing Mali was that he is "gay," just in case you're wondering how bad the immigration fraud problem is.
David Strom points out that, before he claimed asylum for being "gay," this father-of-two committed immigration fraud:
Of course, our model (non)citizen has a backstory that 60 Minutes carefully downplayed, including the fact that he was deported after having committed immigration fraud.
This father of two wonderful children, you see, is "gay," and his whole case for asylum was based on the fact that his homosexuality made him a target.
Among this homosexual's complaints: Upon arrest, he was not allowed to call his female wife.
It seems to me that of all the "homosexuals" in the world, this married father of two would be among the most equipped to "blend in" with the straights.
Diawara has been fighting deportation for 14 years based on a false claim; he got his final deportation order in 2012, and obviously has enough money to live just about anywhere he wants to. He wanted to live here, though, illegally, and after 14 years of delay, he forced an unnecessary deportation. As the Supreme Court said in its ruling on bail for illegal aliens, they are not being detained by the government so much as choosing to stay in government custody rather than departing as ordered.
At any time, he could have gone anywhere. This was his choice.
It gets worse: The DHS official "interviewed" by 60 Minutes did extremely well in the debate -- and 60 Minutes did treat this like an adversarial prosecutorial interrogation, not a news report -- so 60 Minutes cut out all the parts where the official exposed the "reporter" as an agenda-slinging propagandist.
🚨 UPDATE: 60 Minutes CAUGHT RED-HANDED leaving this BRUTAL exchange out of the aired interview after DHS General Counsel James Percival dismantled their 3rd-country deportation narrative
They CUT THIS OUT!
PERCIVAL: "And then when they got to their home country, are you suggesting that they were persecuted or tortured?"
60 MINUTES: "Some have faced violence, but that's not what I'm alleging. No."
PERCIVAL: "So you're suggesting that Ghana is not accurately adjudicating whether they fear persecution or torture in their home country. If that were true, you would expect those people to return to their home country and then face persecution or torture... And if they're going to their home country and you're not hearing claims that they're being persecuted or tortured, then that suggests that Ghana's procedures are adequate...And it doesn't sound like you're making that claim."
60 MINUTES: "I'm not saying that I have cases that I'm going to show you where this is happening, mostly because, you know, this is all very recent."
No wonder CBS cut this out — the reporter flat-out admitted on camera that she didn't have a SINGLE case of anyone actually being tortured! 🤯
Thankfully they got their OWN TAPE of this very interview.
Every Republican must continue doing this. Always have the full tape on hand! https://t.co/RiK43YRI2z
DHS's James Percival OBLITERATES 60 Minutes host trying to portray illegal aliens as "law-abiding folks"
"You're suggesting that people in this country ILLEGALLY are law-abiding?... It is virtually impossible for [illegals] to live in this country and not commit additional legal violations" https://t.co/PQvOFNGNeF
Amy Klobuchar issued over 1,000 press releases during the period when Feeding Our Future fraud was happening, without mentioning fraud once.
Now she's claiming she fought to secure additional federal prosecutors.
But DOJ records show that Minnesota's U.S. Attorney's Office added five positions focused on Tribal public safety and missing or murdered Indigenous people, not to fight fraud.
The office had 59 attorneys in 2022 and reportedly 64 before the departures in 2025.
So where are the additional fraud prosecutors Klobuchar says she fought for?
And why isn't the local media pressing her for answers?
Although Brazil's presidential election took place more than 4,000 miles away, the baseless conspiracy theory that it was stolen raced through the American right-wing media.
Podcast: The Brazil and Israel elections, the evil left, and more!
We call on France to exercise restraint when dispersing the freedom fighters on the streets of Paris. These brave warriors for justice must receive immediate humanitarian aid, and their safety must be guaranteed in accordance with international law. Failure to comply will leave us no choice but to bring a case before the ICJ, in close cooperation with that renowned champion of human rights, Afghanistan.
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click: Garrett's Sus iPod Edition Everybody wants you
Everybody wants your love
I'd just like to make you mine, all mine Just imagine he's singing that to a dude. BTW I thought this was a completely different band from Garrett's Sus iPod, the Bay City Rollers.
Podcast: The Nobel Peace Prize farce, Ilhan Omar in hot water, Talarico's disappearance, Guilfoyle is a crook, Should Nidal's execution be streamed, Bugs Bunny, and more!
Our very own "Weasel" has won the Nobel Prize For Physics:
A Rigorous Investigation into the Quasi-Static Equilibration of Shoulder-Fired Ballistic Platforms: Rear-Bag-Mediated Suppression of Angular Perturbations and Its Implications for Sub-MOA Precision.
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Podcast: A sea change in Israel? France might fall before the UK! Trump's Iran rhetoric is manipulated by the commie media (film at 11!), Brazil looks good, and Rubio looks even better (maybe)!
Christian Toto Roasts Digger: "We have an A-list star (Tom Cruise) stretching his talents in ways we haven't seen in some time. The story has something to say about the world (Climate Change) and human nature in all its complexities." Sounds...boring! [CBD]
