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October 07, 2026

Minnesota Under Siege By, Get This, Somali Gangsters

—Disinformation Expert Ace

See video here of tribal gangsters brazenly shooting automatic weapons in the suburbs. They're not running. They know no one will come to chase them.

I can't believe it.

Of all the things I can't believe this is the most can't believiest.

The Somali gangbangers shot up a couple of towns right after a community meeting to air grievances about the Somali gangsters shooting up towns.

It's completely unbelievable.

Gunfire in Eden Prairie, Bloomington follows Edina 'gun violence' community meeting
Sources told Alpha News that the shootings in Eden Prairie and Bloomington were also related to Somali gangs.

I am nonplussed. I have shed of all of my plusses.

A community meeting was held at Edina City Hall Monday night to discuss recent violent incidents in the city and surrounding areas.
The recent incidents include shots fired on the campus of Edina's Our Lady of Grace church and school late last month, which the police chief later said involved Somalis, and a double shooting at Eden Prairie High School's homecoming game this past Friday, which that city's police chief later confirmed was Somali gang violence.

The deuce you say. The absolute deuce!

Hours after the meeting ended, Eden Prairie police confirmed that shots had been fired in yet another incident in their city Monday night.
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Additionally, police are investigating a shooting in Bloomington that took place early Tuesday. Sources say that shooting was also related to Somali gangs.

For serious? This doesn't sound like the invaders from a warlord-controlled degenerate third-world hellscape of constant tribal warfare that I know.

Monday's community meeting in Edina, framed as a "community conversation addressing gun violence," began with a long prologue from Mayor Jim Hovland acknowledging the "Somali youth gang-type problem" in the metro area. Hovland followed up with comments about a potential "community cohesion problem" and urged people to avoid associating the violence with other people with Somali identity. "Somali families and other residents are understandably concerned" over being stereotyped or targeted, Hovland said.

Well that's the most important thing, worrying that the people causing the gangster shooting epidemic will be blamed for causing the gangster shooting epidemic. Let's not solve the gangster shooting epidemic, let's put all of our effort into making sure the people causing the gangster shooting epidemic don't feel bad about causing the gangster shooting epidemic.

One of the police chiefs from that video I linked at the top of the post stated that the Somali Gangster Shooting Epidemic isn't about poverty -- he said the "youths" shooting up neighborhoods live in "$3500 a month apartments" or in homes "worth more than my mortgage."

It's also not about money or drugs, surprisingly.

He says it's just about "social media beefs." Another way to say this is that foreign invaders come from a place where it expected and valorized that "youths" will form violent gangs to war with other violent gangs over nothing except position and advantage and reputation, and that Minnesota has imported the Somali warlord-and-gang problem.

What's amazing is that Doctors and Engineers would descend into such wanton violence.

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Members of the public lined up to comment and were given about three minutes each to speak. Several Somali or East African commenters said they lived in the area and were also concerned about the violence. However, some wondered why officials were using the word "Somali" in connection to the gang violence and asked officials stop using the word Somali. They also asked for more investment in Somali youth through programs and funding as a potential curb to the violence.

Oh, the Somalis want state "funding." Again, I am open-mouthed in disbelief as if smacked in the face with a frozen carp.

Other commenters included a married couple who are Edina school bus drivers, one of whom stated he believed the violence was due to "spillover" from Minneapolis crime, which was "brought on by the sanctuary policies of Gov. [Tim] Walz."

That's as racist as it is true.

Local police want to take more aggressive measures-- but the Somali Criminal Protection Racket that is the Hennepin County government refuses.

*Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher is backing calls for a regional task force to address Somali gang violence in the Twin Cities.
*Fletcher criticized Hennepin County leaders as he pushed for a stronger regional response to recent gang violence.

* Fletcher said law enforcement needs to arrest more suspected gang members to send a message that shootings and violence will not be tolerated.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher threw his support behind a regional task force to tackle Somali gang violence while blaming weak prosecution of crime for letting the issue fester, specifically calling out Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty.

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Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher is calling for a regional law enforcement task force to address what he describes as Somali gang violence across the Twin Cities.

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The sheriff made it clear that the individuals responsible for the violence are a small fraction of the greater Somali community.

"I've told you the number is about 300," said Sheriff Fletcher. "We sent 250 letters to known gang members for the state fair. That number still is a good number, but we need to arrest a big chunk of these kids and send a message to the groups as a whole that we're not going to tolerate this type of shooting and violence. And I do want to I want to mention this number again, because this gets really politically contorted. We're talking about a small number of 300 children. There are over 100,000 Somalis living in Minnesota."

Fletcher explained that arresting even just 50 of the estimated 300 gang members would "dramatically" cut crime. He says he'd like to see 25 of those 50 face federal RICO charges.

"We have to be honest, right?" added Ramsey County Deputy Jama Shine. "We do have a gang problem. We do have a Somali gang problem, and we know who these kids are. We know their parents. We know where they live. They're very mobile, and they're causing a lot of problems in the community. I have to say this, the Somali community are not the first immigrants that dealt with gang issues, right? If you look at the 80s and the 90s. The Hmong community, Asian communities, and the only way to overcome it is to address the issue."

This problem, like so many others, begins with an arrogant, ideological fanatical woke white lesbian with a body type resembling a beer truck.

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The sheriff also called out Hennepin County leaders for not taking enough action to confront the gang violence.

Specifically, he mentioned Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty and Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt. For Moriarty, the sheriff questioned whether the county attorney's policy on young offenders was effective.

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"I don't actually think it would take any money myself," said Sheriff Fletcher. "It takes commitment. You know, the commitment we made in Ramsey County to retask some of these bodies. Hennepin County Sheriff's Office, we need Dawanna Witt to commit to this project. It cannot succeed over there if the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office doesn't put bodies into this mix, because they're the biggest agency over there."

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Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt fired back at Sheriff Fletcher's comments during a press conference Tuesday afternoon in Bloomington. Witt was speaking about a shooting early that morning that police believe was also connected to gang violence.

Sheriff Witt said her department had already repurposed two task forces to focus on gangs that were working to provide information to regional partners. Speaking Tuesday, she told Fletcher to mind his own business.

"He just has a habit of talking about stuff he don't know nothing about," Sheriff Witt said. "He never called me and asked me that question. So just because he doesn't know doesn't mean it's not happening. So he shouldn't mind Ramsey County business."

Rich McHugh @RichMcHugh
12h

EXCLUSIVE: 'We need honesty'

There have been 3 Somali gang shootings in the past 4 days in Minnesota. Elected officials say there are no Somali gangs here, and yet, Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher says there have been a hundred shootings and 14 Somali gang-related deaths in the last year. He's created a unit devoted to Somali gangs, and brought us inside.

Several of his deputies are Somali. Deputy Jama Shine tells me "I'm from the community. This case doesn't represent me. It doesn't represent our community. We need it to stop, and we need to hold them accountable."

Sheriff Fletcher @RamseySheriff likens the situation to what's happened in Europe: "we better work our butts off right now to fix this problem in the Somali community, or we are going to launch into a 200-year legacy that won't be unlike what some of the European countries are seeing."

🚨 BREAKING OVERNIGHT: SOMALI-involved double SHOOTING in Minnesota at a high school homecoming game

Reportedly a HUGE SOMALI GANG ISSUE plaguing the region and American citizens are furious

This is insane. We are losing our PEACEFUL COMMUNITIES to foreign invaders who are acting just the same as they do in Somalia

Keep the deportations surging! https://t.co/t7VNpIQQS4
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 3, 2026

EXCLUSIVE: ‘We need honesty’
There have been 3 Somali gang shootings in the past 4 days in Minnesota. Elected officials say there are no Somali gangs here, and yet, Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher says there have been a hundred shootings and 14 Somali gang-related deaths in the last year. He’s created a unit devoted to Somali gangs, and brought us inside.

Several of his deputies are Somali. Deputy Jama Shine tells me “I'm from the community. This case doesn't represent me. It doesn't represent our community. We need it to stop, and we need to hold them accountable.”

Sheriff Fletcher @RamseySheriff likens the situation to what’s happened in Europe: “we better work our butts off right now to fix this problem in the Somali community, or we are going to launch into a 200-year legacy that won't be unlike what some of the European countries are seeing."
— Rich McHugh (@RichMcHugh) October 7, 2026

WATCH: Edina residents speak out amid recent Somali gang violence
"I don't go shopping at the Lunds to get shot at. I don't go to workout to get shot at. My two daughters that workout there have a rule now that when it comes to gym time, I'm with them," said one resident who listed off some of the violent incidents in the city in recent years.
— Alpha News (@AlphaNews) October 6, 2026

Oh, this is fun: Remember that Minnesota "sports journalist" who got fired from her TV gig? The severe-looking lesbian who looks like a transgender Egon Spengler?

She says the only real problem here is the "stereotyping."

KARE 11 (NBC Minneapolis) runs segment about recent Somali gang violence. The main worry?

"Stereotyping."

Because, of course.

The story is framed by woke host Jana Shortal as a conversation on "gun violence."

As always.

The segment features a (presumably) Somali man at Edina city meeting: "Gangs are gangs. So please, let's not mention the Somali name."

Sheriff’s Deputy counters: "Just being honest doesn't mean we're targeting or stereotyping our community."

Reporter makes sure to hammer the Somali victim angle: "But that hasn't stopped some from stereotyping..."

Local Minneapolis media is now running entire segments bringing the Norm meme to life.
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) October 7, 2026

Close it up

Posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:10 PM Comments

Wednesday Morning Rant

—Joe Mannix

Winning the Future

One of the obvious and glaring differences between the 2016 and 2024 Trump Administrations has been in the cabinet. This time around, Trump has some real fighters and loyalists doing critical work for his administration, and who can meaningfully "move the ball down the field" on key objectives. The person most people would probably mention first if asked is Marco Rubio. Sure, he is Secretary of State and doing a tremendous job there, he has also become something of a "minister without portfolio," jumping in wherever he's needed and whipping things into shape while wiping the floor with the opposition. Rubio is a key policymaker and much of what he is doing will pay dividends for years to come.

Looking past Rubio, there are other cabinet standouts. Linda McMahon has been doing meaningful work at Education, working to roll back much of the prior era's disastrous wokification of public education and working to cut some of the supports out from under the ideological sewer that is "higher education." Sean Duffy has been quarterbacking major initiatives around air traffic control and cutting back on Biden-era regulatory nightmares like the "green" highway construction requirements. Chris Wright has been a dynamo at Energy (pun intended, enjoy), clearing the decks for increased atomic power and helping to degrade the war on oil. There are various others doing the work to move the agenda and set the country up for success, but there may be no cabinet secretary who is doing more to secure the future of the Republic than Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

Hegseth burst into office promising to modernize the armed forces to respond to emerging threats and to refocus their efforts on actual warfighting and preparedness, shifting away from ideological loyalty and cronyism. Much of the woke crap is gone. The double standards in the armed forces for men and women are being rolled back. It's about war, being ready for war, being capable of war. He made a lot of waves in the press last year when he gave his address at Quantico, targeted squarely at senior officers and rank-and-file policy. There was much pearl clutching when he told them that they were expected to be fit, well-groomed and competent and they were expected to focus on the business of war instead of on progressive politics.

He's gotten to work on it, and has had a good year and an especially good month. The biggest press waves came from this year's address at Quantico, mostly because - horror of horrors - he was mean about progressive sacred cows and emphasized that major reduction in force for the top ranks will continue. There was much pearl-clutching because of two particular parts of the speech:

No more social engineering, no more weaponized IG policies. The complainers, the ideologues, and the poor performers are no longer in the driver's seat. No more silly PowerPoint trainings or drag queen shows. No more diversity quotas, no more gender pronouns, no more identity months, only the warrior ethos. And I know you feel it because I've been to your units and met with your troops. It has transformed entire formations as it was intended to do. But it's worth saying again, so that the fake news understands it. We are no longer the woke department or the weak department. Simple translation of that, no fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals, just warriors, just tough, ready, committed troops. The war department, as you know, is colorblind, gender-neutral, and merit-based.

You see, the number crunchers say we've fired 10% of the generals and admirals across the force, and that number sounds about right. And I know because I directed it that we've also reduced the overall number of general officer slots by an additional 10%. So yes, 20% reduction across the board. Now the media calls that a purge. I call it accountability and long overdue, and frankly, the bare minimum. As usual, what the media levels as an accusation, I wear as an accomplishment. You see, you can't change a culture with the same people who enabled it. Personnel is policy at every single level.

The first, whatever. It's good, of course, and it consumed most of the column-inches because he called trannies weird. Between that and the "FORTRESS America" announcement, most of the press only briefly mentioned the crucial part of Hegseth purging the higher office ranks, which is itself a follow-on to the huge reforms he implemented in the same area earlier.

A bit before the annual address at Quantico, Hegseth announced a new system for promotions to general or admiral ranks, called the "Joint Warfighter Evaluation." This new scheme will test colonels and captains in war games and simulations to ensure they can effectively manage combat and competently command forces as a condition of promotion. Making general or admiral will no longer be primarily a political game of loyalty and ideological purity, but an exercise in the demonstration of skill and competence. That is a major and important development to help ensure that the next set of flag officers know what they're doing. And that next set is going to be needed and needed soon, as the War Department starts cycling out flag officers installed under the old rules.

For 12 of the past 18 years, Obama and Biden headed the most ideologically ruthless administrations in modern history and had plenty of time to install loyalists throughout the government, and the military was no exception. Hegseth said that the press would call his reductions at the flag level a "purge" and I would call it that, too. Unlike the press, however, I am not criticizing it. While trimming out progressive ideologues from the highest ranks is crucial, Hegeth's work to help secure the military's future by making the promotions process less political and more focused on actual combat and military operations is even more important. Yes, it is a very good thing that the "trannies, beardos, weirdos, wimps and radicals" are being removed and that should not be downplayed, but this year's initiatives are about helping to secure that progress.

The groundwork Hegseth laid last year was more about the lower ranks. Last year's focus on eliminating double standards based on sex or rank, eliminating time-wasting, soul-crushing and nonsensical woke "training," eliminating ideological or identity-based promotions or carve-outs, etc. all help clean up the pipeline and ensure that the boots on the ground and those NCOs and junior officers who keep the gears turning are competent and ready. This year, he's targeting the higher part of the hierarchy, not just through eliminating personnel but through refilling those positions in a better, more reliable, more competent and less political way.

Trump's cabinet has been doing generally good and sometimes exceptional work day in and day out on the important business of winning the present. Of all the secretaries, however, Hegseth may be doing the most to win the future.

Close it up

Posted by Joe Mannix at 11:00 AM Comments

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

Above the Sea of Round, Shiny Backs the Thin Loops Swirled and Shot into Volumes of Dust
Newell Convers Wyeth

[Hat Tip: Pete Bog]

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The Morning Report — 10/ 7 /26

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. Today marks the third anniversary of one of the bloodiest, most barbaric assaults not just on Israel and Jews but on humanity itself. Anyone who doesn't see and understand that or worse who has cheered it on is as evil and twisted as the evil attackers themselves.

Three years have passed since the Hamas massacre of Oct. 7, 2023 — the wholesale murder, rape and torture of more than 1,200 men, women, children and infants in Israel. Yet as Jews everywhere gather to mourn, what should be a day of quiet reflection and prayer, of defiant cries of “Never again,” is being eclipsed by something dark and obscene.
The tragedy of 10/7 has ripped the veil off the antisemitism that has always bubbled below the surface. As the nation of Israel dares to defend itself against an existential threat, the gloves have come off.

Jew hatred is now more than a quiet obsession. It is cool. In Hollywood, Jew hate has emerged from the shadows and become a chic and trendy pastime. World-famous antisemites such as Susan Sarandon, Mark Ruffalo and Javier Bardem don keffiyeh in solidarity with bloodthirsty terrorists. Onstage, musicians Macklemore and Zach Bryan rant about fictional Palestinian “genocide” while snubbing their noses at Jewish agony. . . In Gracie Mansion, the mayor of the city second only to Israel in its concentration of Jews, entertains Holocaust deniers and 10/7 sympathizers, ramping up a record wave of anti-Jewish hate crimes. Instead of protecting all the people of this city, Mayor Zohran Mamdani agitates for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while surrounding himself with like-minded socialist staffers, advisers and adoring acolytes who share Hizzoner’s disdain and contempt for Jews.
The planet has turned upside-down.

To every sane person out there, yes the planet has turned upside down but considering we are barely a month past the 25th anniversary of 9/11/01, where perhaps we had imagined or deluded ourselves into believing that the world had righted itself when the rubble was removed and the smoke had cleared, and then the London Underground was bombed followed in short order by the attack in Madrid at the Atocha train station.

But of course the Freedom Tower was built, and yet Islam, and its ally of convenience domestic and international socialism continues its bloody rampage across Europe and the world...

The genocide of Nigerian Christians at the hands of Islamic Jihadists continues apace, although you wouldn’t know it from the mainstream media, which is myopically focused on its pet political project, the so-called Palestinian people.The X post... captures the heartbreaking loss of one innocent in particular, a schoolteacher who was a light for his students and community.

In the twisted words of Socialist demi-god numero uno Joe Stalin "The death of one is a tragedy, the death of a million is a statistic, and yet we have the death of one by one by one, sometimes one at a time sometimes dozens or even thousands at a time, and yet and yet and yet...
but then again, we have just passed the 84th anniversary of the wholesale slaughter at the Babi Yar ravine.

As Holocaust memorial institutions gathered on Monday to mark the 84th anniversary of the Babyn Yar massacre, in which Nazis and their collaborators murdered more than 33,000 Jews in a two-day rampage, the names of more than 1,000 previously unidentified victims were read for the first time thanks to new archival documentation.

And while we're speaking of 9/11 and the near insanity of the FlyDubai attempted hijacking and Islamikaze attack on Israel last week, we have this continuing insanity to contend with! Ho-Lee-FOOK are you kidding me?!

United Airlines has removed from service a pilot who called Hamas terrorists behind the October 7 massacre “brave,” pending a review, The Daily Wire can first report. Capt. Ibrahim R. Mossallam was first suspended with pay in November 2023, but Israel’s Channel 14 reported on Monday that United quietly allowed him to return to the cockpit just six months later. United told The Daily Wire on Tuesday that it has pulled the pilot from the skies
“We have withheld this pilot from service pending an ongoing review,” an airline spokesman said.The airline did not confirm whether Mossallam had resumed flying after it began investigating in late 2023.

Switching gears completely, this is something that I'd usually ignore but because my dear sweet wife and sister-in-law were yammering on about it endlessly yesterday evening, I just "can't get it out of my head," with all due deference and apologies to E.L.O...

California Democrats just hit a damning new low, bewailing how President Donald Trump supposedly invited Iran to nuke Los Angeles and San Diego.
As LA Mayor Karen Bass and others chimed in, Gov. Gavin Newsom posted: “The President is advocating for an attack on 10+ million U.S. residents in two of America’s largest cities.”

He added: “This is not normal. None of this is” — when in fact it’s an all too normal case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

From Dems’ accounts, you’d guess Trump had at least made some tasteless joke; after all, he did just give out a GOP senator’s personal cell number just because the guy won’t agree to end Daylight Savings Time.

But no; it’s a straight-up smear. Here’s what Trump said at Monday night’s Nebraska rally: “You want to see a tremendous victory [in Iran], because it verifies all the things we did. And again, remember, with the word, [the gas price rise] is just artificial, it’s a little bit high. “It’s a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe. They can take out a city. Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. That’s — this is a very small price to pay, and it’s gonna be over with very soon.”

Sloppy, sure; Trump was riffing on the stump. But no way was he inviting Iran to attack those cities, nor even joking about it.

He was arguing that the temporary spike in gas prices is a very small price to pay, compared to the terrible cost of Iran going nuclear and destroying an American city.

No, it wasn't sloppy at all. Anyone with more than Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants' two barely firing synapses, if that many, not only knows what the President said and in what context but understands that an Iranian nuclear warhead is an existential threat that must be neutralized. In no way did he cheer on or call for Iran to nuke San Diego or LA, though given who and what is running California and far too many other places in America and what they have planned for the rest of the nation should they gain control of the Federal government, and if they have their way never relinquish that control, the jokers twisting President Trump's words actually make the case.

And now let the trolls accuse me of calling for Iran to nuke America! Meh, why am I getting so exercised. It's puerile, infantile, amateurish and typical of the Trump-deranged Left, and yet too many seemingly intelligent people swallow this crap whole without even a mildly critical second thought.

Oh well, it is what it is. So Basta cosi and God bless the memory of all those slaughtered by Islam and protect us from their evil and that of their allies of convenience on the Left who seek our destruction so they can serve Satan by destroying and enslaving us. On these and all the other cheery news of the day, I nevertheless bid you all to

have a good day.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

“It’s a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe. They can take out a city. Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. That’s — this is a very small price to pay, and it’s gonna be over with very soon.” Sloppy, sure; Trump was riffing on the stump. But no way was he inviting Iran to attack those cities, nor even joking about it. He was arguing that the temporary spike in gas prices is a very small price to pay, compared to the terrible cost of Iran going nuclear and destroying an American city.
Trump Derangement: No, he didn’t ask Iran to attack LA or San Diego

Posted by J.J. Sefton at 07:32 AM Comments

Daily Tech News 7 October 2026

—Pixy Misa

Top Story

French AI company Mistral has unveiled - not released as yet, but announced - its latest open-weight AI model, Mistral Large 4. (CNBC)

At 1 trillion parameters it is aptly named.
Codename: Le Chonk. (Mistral)

I'm not even kidding.

Posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM Comments

Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - October 6, 2026

—Doof

Photo from nurse ratched

Howdy Hordelings! The Tuesday ONT has arrived. On time, as always. Open thread, as always. Ready to be whelmed?

Posted by Doof at 10:00 PM Comments

Tuesday Cafe

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Chongqing, China
(on the Yangtze)
by: by.harper

Some people crush other people's heads. Other people use their forced-perspective hands more constructively.

Holy crap this woman runs her mouth, amirite

Baby and cat bond over a mutual love affair with napping.

In a historic first, dogs and mailmen end previous hostilities and agree to "a new spirit of amity and cooperation."

You (the dumb one): Giant moth larvae are so cute!

Me (the smart one): No they're not, they're weird and gross you dum-dum.

Light show at a Prague church.

A giant lantern in Sri Lanka. Standard Reference Humans have been inserted for scale at 0:30.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Rescuing an injured jaguar drowning in a lake.

Rescuing a baby elephant trapped in deep mud. I think at the end he is reunited with his mother, who has been tranquilized so she doesn't freak out and go Mrs. Dumbo on the rescuers.

Mini pony is stuck at the edge of a giant precipice.

If you act like your belong there and walk with purpose, you can get past any security.

Bringing food for a stray mama dog's puppies.

But is it art?

Owl couple care for their eggs.

Posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:30 PM Comments

Man Sexually Assaults Women in a Planet Fitness Bathroom Even Though I Was Assured This Never Happens

—Disinformation Expert Ace

What they really mean is what some of them admit about little girls being forced to look at adult male perverts' dicks in changing rooms: Little girls will just have to get over their discomfort at viewing a penis.

And as far as women being brutalized or raped by men in women's bathrooms: You're just gonna have to suck it up, Karen.

A man was arrested Thursday morning after police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said he went into the women's locker room at a Planet Fitness in Porter Square and sexually assaulted people inside.
Police responded to an emergency call at the Massachusetts Avenue gym, just after 9 a.m. Thursday. According to Cambridge police, the suspect, later identified as Laquan Holland, was arrested at the scene. One victim was taken to a hospital for evaluation.

He does not "appear trans," and by "appear trans," of course I mean "looking obviously like a man attempting a grim parody of womanhood."

He just seems like the typical street hood rapist.

But of course, "trans" people aren't required to do anything to prove their Special Privileged Status, so maybe he is "trans," as he defines it.

At any rate, he had every right to be in those bathrooms, decided Planet Fitness.

The incident left frequent gym-goers shaken. "I've always felt safe. Now that I've heard that this had happened, I'll definitely have to look behind my back," said Dr. Yena Do, who works out frequently at the gym. "Which is not a great feeling. I'm going there to work out, undressing out of my scrubs and get into my workout clothes. I'm definitely going to think about that."
The Planet Fitness is located on the bottom floor of Lesley University's University Hall, a multi-use building that includes several private businesses accessible by the public.

Lesley University student Sophia Holloway said everyone should be able to feel safe in all public spaces.

"It's horrible. I feel like it's a big tragedy. Everyone should be able to feel safe and secure wherever they are. Women out here face such hardships, and I think that the world needs to know that it's not OK," Holloway said.

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Planet Fitness said the franchise group canceled Holland's membership following the incident.

Oh, you cancel rapist's memberships after attempted rapes? Awesome. That fixes everything, Planet Fitness.

And of course we know that "trans women" never attack and kill actual women.

Except for all the times they do.

A troubled one-time Marine recruit who was transitioning to live as a trans woman has admitted to stabbing a hiker to death -- having told cops she was "what I would want to look like."
Zion Teasley, 25, pleaded guilty to murdering beauty technician Lauren Heike, 29, in a deal that took the death penalty off the table.

Of course. The woke left won't allow women to be executed, so of course they won't allow "trans women" to be executed, either. Trans women are women, bigots.

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The felon, who had left the Marines just months after going through bootcamp, will instead spend the rest of his life in prison for killing the hiker, who was found dead by neighbors at the foot of a barbed wire fence with 15 stab wounds off a Phoenix trail in 2023.

Before the murder, Teasley wrote in his diary that he was "battling with my gender identity and sexuality," which he believed was conflicting with his Christian faith, according to a 400-page police report on the killing obtained by ABC 15 last year.

"I want to live a life of serving god, but how can I with these and other sins in the way," wrote the killer, whose attorney called "she" in court.

"[I know] I am forgiven for my sins, but it's still a lot of pressure and it's hard to maintain a good Christian mindset 24/7."

He said he was depressed by seeing "beautiful" women because he was stuck being "a man."

Let's keep encouraging and amplifying the delusions of the mentally ill and keep telling them that they can be Real Women, accepted as such and courted by heterosexual men, if they just remain militant enough about their "rights" and go through enough expensive, body-destroying, sanity-shredding surgeries.

Posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:30 PM Comments

Quick Hits

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Trump: The riots in France aren't about school "resources." It's about an invasion by a hostile force under the cover of "seeking asylum."

"What's happening in France is nothing less than out of control mass migration. This isn't about schools, this is about Islam wanting to take over a once great Country!" he posted on Truth Social.

Speaking of an invasion by implacably-hostile foreign actors, Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed.

Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, drew skepticism from voters in his own party during a pair of MS NOW focus groups this week.
It marks a glaring warning sign for the far-left candidate who polls indicate has allegedly been running neck-and-neck with his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers.

In one session, black voters said he was taking their support for granted. A woman in that group said she planned to mark uncommitted rather than vote for him.

"I think he's taking advantage [of] we as Black people are Democratic, and he thinks we gonna vote for him anyway," one woman explained. "And I'm like, 'No sir, I'm gonna put uncommitted down on that little circle and move on.' If you're going to Congress to represent me, I need you to talk about what's going on in this community."

Another participant said El-Sayed had "missed opportunities" to explain himself to black voters.

A separate group of committed Michigan Democrats focused on his comments about Israel. They said they wanted a clear statement that he supports Israel and the Jewish people, and questioned whether they would even believe it if he offered one now.

MS NOW contributor Elise Jordan prefaced the conversation by pointing out, "You're committed Democrats. All of you. You want to vote for the Democratic candidate. But you just can't."

Video below the fold.

And speaking more of implacably hostile foreign invaders: Mamdani's "wife" spent the weekend at an Islamic "wellness retreat" run by terrorist supporters.

Eat, pray, bomb.
New York City's first lady is currently wrapping up a week as an "artist-in-residence" at a luxury Islamic wellness retreat that has called for the destruction of Israel and openly celebrated Palestinian terrorism, the Washington Free Beacon can reveal.

While Rama Duwaji went from the river to the spa, her husband rolled out his own "strategy to combat antisemitism"--a move widely panned by Jewish New Yorkers.
(@placethedot/Instagram)

Duwaji's attendance at the spiritual wellness gathering in Porto, Portugal was previously reported by the New York Post, but the extremism of the group had not been previously known.

The retreat, known as the Women Sanctuary, is currently in its second session of the month at an 18th-century Portuguese castle that's now a high-end hotel and event space. The listed price for five nights in a private, single room at the Women's Sanctuary is $5,216.

Duwaji, who calls herself "a Syrian illustrator and animator" even though she was born in Houston, is believed to be doing Arabic calligraphy at the retreat. She is currently featured on the Women Sanctuary website as a member of the team, bizarrely under the fake name "Karl Holland."

France finally starts to begin to get slightly serious about deporting foreign Islamist terrorists.

The French Interior Ministry has vastly expanded the use of decrees stripping citizenship from convicted Islamist terrorists, with over five times the number of orders reportedly being logged over the past three years than the 30 years before.
According to figures obtained by French paper of record Le Figaro, over 70 decrees revoking citizenship from convicted terrorists have been issued by the Ministry of Interior, and around 100 have been handed down since 2015. This compares with just 13 during the entire period between 1979 and 2015. The paper reported that 15 have been issued so far this year, while 19 were issued in 2025, 37 in 2024, and 12 in 2023.

A senior official at the Hotel de Beauvau told the paper that there are "several hundred" more cases that are set to be dealt with over the next five years as convicted terrorists are released from prison. The Interior Ministry source said that around 45 per cent of those stripped of their citizenship have been French-Moroccan dual nationals, followed by French-Algerians, French-Tunisians, and French-Turks, all of whom represent around 10 per cent of cases.

So I guess that previously they deemed these Aspiring Doctors and Engineers valuable members of the state.

Trash nation of communist pedophiles Canada falls far behind the US in living standards as it rushes to join the Third World proper.

Obviously, Canada's relationship with the United States has deteriorated substantially since President Trump launched his tariff war and created real economic pain for Canadians. But our new study reveals more bad news, as Canada's economy has fallen further behind the U.S. during the first quarter of the 21st century (long before Trump's tariffs).
In fact, across every measure -- including incomes, investment, employment, etc. -- the U.S. clearly outperformed Canada.

But perhaps the most eye-opening statistic is the growing gap in living standards. In 1999, Canada's GDP per-person (an indicator of living standards) was $48,076 (all figures are inflation-adjusted in Canadian dollars) compared to $58,842 in the U.S. -- meaning by this measure, living standards in the U.S. were $10,766 higher than in Canada. And the economic fortunes of the two neighbours have since further diverged, considerably.

From 1999 to 2024, per-person GDP in Canada grew by 23.8 per cent to $59,529 compared to a 41.5 per cent increase (to $83,286) in the U.S. Put differently, living standards in the U.S. grew 1.7 times faster than in Canada. And the gap in living standards (again, as measured by per-person GDP) has more than doubled -- from $10,766 to $23,757 over the 25-year period.

Canadian incomes are also falling behind. From 2010 (the earliest year of comparable data) to 2024, the median employment income (median means half of workers earn more, half earn less) in Canada increased by 14.7 per cent, from $32,580 to $37,361, compared to 18.9 per cent in the U.S., from $38,706 to $46,024. Put differently, in 2024 the typical Canadian worker earned $8,633 less than the typical American worker.

DOJ brings a complaint against Minnesota lawless judges leaking to the NYT about how much they hate border enforcement.

The Department of Justice filed a judicial misconduct complaint on Wednesday against several Minnesota-based federal judges for "pander[ing]" to legacy media about ICE operations in the state.
"Seven federal judges in the District of Minnesota talked to the New York Times about cases, some of which are on-going, in a manner that the Department of Justice views as a clear violation of their ethical duties," Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement. "Their conduct has undermined public confidence in an impartial judiciary in Minnesota."

The complaint addressed to 8th Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Steven Colloton takes to task a Sept. 17 Times article, in which Senior District Judge Patrick Schiltz and his colleagues bashed the Trump administration's handling of cases involving its January 2026 deportation operations in the North Star State. The Times dutifully framed the judges' remarks as a concerted effort by the government to "defy" federal judges, but even Schiltz conceded that "most, if not all" of the alleged noncompliance "was due to incompetence" and "not due to conscious defiance of orders."

Equally notable about the Times article, however, is the apparent admission that these judges coordinated with one another on ICE-related cases being filed before them.

The Times noted how they "recalled seeking one another's counsel, meeting regularly and consulting in running email threads" as the "number of cases ramped up." While "some of their clerks made an informal spreadsheet showing whom to consult on particular legal questions," some judges "built templates of legal orders so they could respond quickly to some of the detention issues that were arising again and again," according to the outlet.

Trump will apply stricter standards to applicants for SNAP benefits, while boosting the benefits for those who actually are eligible and aren't just foreign scammers.

In other words, it's another Fascist Holocaust from DRUMPF!!!

Families applying for food assistance through the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will, beginning Thursday, face changes to payments, eligibility requirements and how the benefits are administered.
Most families will initially see a slight bump in their monthly payments to support grocery purchases from a cost-of-living adjustment, but in the coming months, households will face stricter eligibility requirements, meaning fewer people will receive the benefits, ABC News reported.

Under new work requirements imposed by the "The Big Beautiful Bill Act," able-bodied adults ages 18 to 64 who don't have dependents will be required to work. Previously, the age limit was 54. Families with children age 14 or older are no longer exempt from the work requirements.

The "The Big Beautiful Bill Act" also requires states to pay for a larger share of SNAP administrative costs, and states with SNAP recipient error rates above 6% will be required to fund a portion of the benefits themselves.

Here's another Fascist Holocaust -- the government has identified 10,000 US households with million dollar yearly incomes receiving unemployment insurance.

Ten thousand U.S. households that earned over $1 million collected unemployment benefits in 2024, receiving nearly $100 million in taxpayer money, according to data shared with The Washington Times.
The data was given to the newspaper by Iowa GOP Sen. Joni Ernst, who received it from the IRS and who has tracked this issue for years.

Among the most common millionaire claimants were engineers, software engineers, lawyers, executive managers and salespeople, according to the newspaper.

High-tax, Democratic-led states topped the list of locations in which the millionaires who collected unemployment lived. California ranked first, followed by New York, Massachusetts and New Jersey.

The payouts should end soon, as part of provision in last year's One Big Beautiful Bill Act barring individuals who earn $1 million or more from collecting unemployment benefits.

This seems to be less of a foreign scam and more of people taking money they're technically entitled to, but shouldn't have been entitled to it.

The Skydance/Paramount of Warner/Discovery is now official and Mark Rufallo is still a slack-jawed mope.

Black Michiganders feel abandoned by Abdul El-Sayed:

“He’s taking advantage that we, as black people, are Democratic - and he thinks we’re gonna vote for him anyway, and I’m like, NO!” https://t.co/IZ9zwkZKfb
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 6, 2026

Jim Jordan calls for Deep State Operative Jack Smith to be criminally prosecuted.

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, on Monday renewed his calls for former Special Counsel Jack Smith to be prosecuted for allegedly lying to Congress following revelations that the prosecutor's team monitored the phone records of future Trump administration Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. Jordan first brought the matter of Smith's possible perjury to the fore in July of this year.
Things are looking worse every week for Smith.

Smith's team used a pen register device to track phone calls coming to and from Wiles' phone in 2023, while the special prosecutor was probing President Donald Trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents, as revealed by new documents declassified by the president and released by the White House Government Transparency Task Force on Monday.
GOP lawmakers deprived of constitutional rights, and a judge kept in the dark

As he did in the past, Smith stands accused of legal legerdemain to not only hide the snooping from the lawmakers -- a likely violation of the Speech and Debate Clause of the Constitution -- but also failing to inform the judge he coaxed into signing a gag order that he was tracking communications from lawmakers. Lawmakers enjoy the right to be informed of subpoenas regarding their privileged communications, allowing them an opportunity to challenge (or "quash") the subpoenas. Wiles and other lawmakers never got that chance.

Smith was already in the crosshairs for spying on the communications of members of Congress. A House Judiciary Committee review of Smith's investigations showed that the prosecutor's team collected phone toll records from 17 GOP members of Congress and text messages from as many as 44 lawmakers, some including information privileged to Congress. Among those targeted were former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., Jordan and others.

One of those lawmakers, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., filed a lawsuit against Smith arguing his spying constituted an unauthorized intrusion into her civil rights.

"[I]t's getting almost redundant here. We keep saying it every time. The only thing we get wrong is that it's always worse than we thought," Jordan told the Just the News, No Noise TV show on Monday.

"And now we see Jack Smith not only getting the phone records of members of Congress, not only getting the phone records of the top top Republican legislative committee, not only getting the phone records of the Speaker of the House 16 days after he becomes Speaker of the House, second in line to the President. Now we find out he's getting the communication records of the President's Chief of Staff before she's Chief of Staff, but everyone knew that she was going to be, and she's one of the key people," he continued.

This is nonpartisan Special Counsel Jack Smith…

Wearing an anti-Trump shirt at an anti-Trump concert sponsored by an anti-Trump nonprofit which is funded by an anti-Trump billionaire.

What a scam. https://t.co/mfbIp4rfpd
— C3 (@C_3C_3) October 4, 2026

The Democrats and Media, but I repeat myself, have a new anti-Trump hoax.

Trump said that elevated gas prices for a temporary time was a "small price to pay" for permanent gains in security.

The left is claiming he said that an Iran attack that destroys Los Angeles and San Diego would be a "small price to pay."

As they did with the Very Fine People Hoaxes, they are splicing together different remarks from different points in the speech. He spoke of Iran's ability to destroy Los Angeles and San Diego as being a threat that justifies the temporary increase in gas prices to stop.

Trump on Iran: Let 'em take out Los Angeles and San Diego, it's a small price to pay https://t.co/Fc4BcjVDKj
— Headquarters (@HQNewsNow) October 6, 2026

This is such an outrageous and obvious hoax that even CNN's gayballs partisan "fact checker" gently chides the left about making this absurd claim.

Daniel Dale @ddale8
This isn't a direct quote from Trump, and I very much don't think it's a correct paraphrase. Trump has repeatedly argued that the consequences of the war, like higher gas prices, are a small price to pay compared to what an unchecked Iran could allegedly do. Last night, in especially rambling and incomplete fashion, he 1) claimed high prices are temporary and suggested they're "artificial"; 2) contrasted that to the damage of Iran supposedly taking out a city; 3) and then, in especially confusing style, repeated his old point that "this," as in the consequences of the war, is a small price to pay to avoid something like a a city being wiped out.

He then excuses the leftwing hoaxers and blames Trump for the hoax, saying that it's really Trump's fault that the left misunderstands him.

It's Trump's fault you kinda have to be steeped in TrumpRallySpeak to know what he was saying last night, and of course you can say it's inappropriate regardless for the president to casually float the possibility of a city being wiped out, but the context exists and is important.

Fuck you, Gayballz.

Black Conservative Perspective clips a bunch of other leftwing liars, including Joe Scarborough and Leonard Jeffries' deranged nephew, pushing this newest hoax.

Woke 1.0 was crazyyyy, man.

@nytimes @TheAthletic The NY Times is trying to get Sophie Cunningham canceled for having common sense.
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) October 6, 2026

Close it up

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Chris Rock: Wokeness is Like Old Testament Morality -- Lots of Rules and No Grace for Violating Any of Them

—Disinformation Expert Ace

The comedian claims it's "great" that we never stop talking about the "marginalized," but says there has to be forgiveness for transgressions. Or, I'd call them, fake and gay non-transgressions.

Actor-comedian Chris Rock continues to blast wokeness, and is now accusing left-wing scolds of running a Salem Witch Trials-like campaign with their cancel culture attacks.

Rock has been taking shots at wokeness for a while, of course. He targeted the woke culture in his 2023 special Chris Rock: Selective Outrage . But in a recent interview on The Dailypodcast, Rock got explicit about woke culture and what it is doing to our country.

"The problem with wokeness is we're in the Old Testament right now," he said. "And the Old Testament has no forgiveness. The Old Testament didn't work. So they had to write a remix called the New Testament."

When asked if he felt there was anything "redeeming" that has come out of the last decade of woke leftism, he was not upbeat and noted that when things are "institutionalized" they often go badly.

"The Salem witch hunts. I'm sure the first three witches they caught were actually fucking witches," Rock said. "But then you open up a witch office and now you've got to start lying. Now you've gotta fucking make s-hit up because you've got overhead. You've got to justify the witch hunters fucking pensions and shit."

He added that the media is fake and full of liars, and that Trump is right to declare that.

Rock recently raised eyebrows during his press tour for his new film, Misty, when he said that Trump was right that the news media is filled with lies and fake news.
"I'm not a fan," Rock said of Trump last week. "But it's weird when somebody gets one thing right, and the one thing almost clears them of all their other sins. The news is fake. He got that right."

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Saudi Arabia Joins Yemen's Government in Attacking Iran's Houthi Proxy Army

—Disinformation Expert Ace

The IRGC's proxy army in Yemen, the Houthis, struck two Saudi airfields, with light damage. More seriously, they had also seized key positions on the southern tip of the Yemeni coast on the Red Sea, opening a second front for the IRGC to attack the export of oil in an effort to force the world to stop Trump from destroying them.

The terrorist-aligned AP:

Saudi Arabia's General Authority of Civil Aviation said airports in the cities of Najran and Jizan were hit on Monday, damaging both facilities and leaving three lightly injured. The statement didn't say who was responsible, but followed an announcement by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels that they fired missiles and drones at the kingdom.

Houthi Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree said in a statement on Tuesday they had fired toward a third airport on Tuesday. The Associated Press could not confirm whether the Houthis had hit Abha International Airport. Saudi authorities did not immediately comment.

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said Tuesday it intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by the Iran-backed Houthis toward Khamis Mushait, a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia that's home to a major Saudi military base.

Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey have sent their own troops to assist the Yemeni government in driving the Houthis back out of the coastal areas.

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The Houthis were fighting Tuesday around Dhubab, a strategic town in Yemen that its internationally recognized government had previously said it had retaken, a senior Yemeni military official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporters.

Saudi Arabia and its allies in Yemen's government have launched a military campaign to reclaim Houthi-controlled territory near the southern tip of the Red Sea to prevent disruptions to oil being exported out of the region.

AP is excited that Iran managed to hit a tanker moving out of the Strait of Hormuz, though the hit does not seem to have killed anyone, stopped the tanker from moving, or caused any oil to spill.

An outbound tanker transiting the Strait of Hormuz was struck by an "unknown projectile" on Monday, the British military said in a late report Tuesday. There were no immediate reports of casualties or environmental impact.

Even as Iran has lost its near-complete chokehold on the strait, the ongoing risk of Iranian attacks keeps overall ship traffic well below prewar levels.

Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey have activated the "Mecca Defense Alliance" to evict the Houthis.

Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey have agreed to "activate collective defense commitments amid ongoing threats," Saudi Arabia's Arab News said on October 6. This is an important step.
The new alliance has emerged over the last several months. The Houthi offensive in September in Yemen presented the coalition with its first major test. This is because the Houthis launched missiles at Saudi Arabia and directly harmed Saudi citizens.

Arab News said that "Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey on Monday agreed to immediately implement collective-defense commitments under the previously agreed Mecca Defense Alliance, including the swift deployment of agreed forces and other military capabilities to the Kingdom amid ongoing threats."

Saudi Arabia has been working over the last month to prepare a counter-offensive in Yemen. This initiative came after setbacks hit the forces of the internationally recognized government of Yemen, which lost ground around the Bab el-Mandeb strait.

Many observers wondered whether Pakistan and Turkey would come to Riyadh's aid. All of these countries are either partners or close allies of the US, and they have access to advanced military equipment, partly as a result of their US affiliation.

However, it was not clear that Turkey would want to get involved in a conflict in Yemen. In part, this is because Ankara tries to balance relations with Iran, with which it shares a border. Pakistan also has ties with Iran and shares a border with Iran.
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Now, Turkey and Pakistan appear to be increasing their support for Riyadh. "The decision was announced following an emergency meeting of the alliance's Strategic Political and Defense Committee in Riyadh to discuss security developments and threats Saudi Arabia is facing during the regional conflict with Iran and its proxies. The alliance was formed by an agreement signed on August 7," Arab News observed.

Update: More details on the fighting from Duane Patterson.

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Germany Arrests Its Former Top Spymaster for Treason, Accusing Him of Spying for a Foreign Power

—Disinformation Expert Ace

The foreign power is reportedly not Russia.

Germany's former spy chief, August Hanning, was arrested on Tuesday for alleged treason, with Berlin accusing him of gathering sensitive documents for a foreign spy service.
"Hanning is strongly ⁠suspected of treasonous espionage, obtaining state secrets, attempted treason and espionage," German prosecutors said in a statement, according to Reuters.

Hanning previously served as president of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND).

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His arrest marks a major scandal for the German state, with prosecutors alleging that Hanning's espionage occurred over multiple years and involved more than 2,000 documents.

China, maybe? Surely not Iran.

I'm afraid it will turn out to be a western nation.

Speaking of treason, a watchdog agency concludes that Biden deliberately risked the country's national security by allowing known security risks to remain in the country on expired visas.

The Biden administration risked national security by letting millions of foreigners illegally overstay their nonimmigrant visas, including 104,000 who posed threats, while launching fewer than 500 investigations to remove violators, according to a bombshell report by the Homeland Security Department's internal watchdog.
"From fiscal years 2021 to 2024, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) took few enforcement actions using targeted leads concerning foreign nationals who overstayed or otherwise violated their nonimmigrant visa terms of admission," the inspector general reported.

"As a result, foreign nationals who potentially posed threats to the United States remained at large despite their illegal status," the report added.

The report laid bare a Biden strategy that de-emphasized tracking down foreigners overstaying their permission to stay in the country, leaving a staggering statistical mess that included:

3,145,375 nonimmigrant visa overstays

104,049 foreigners who were deemed national security and public safety concerns

ICE conducted just 496 investigations and arrested just eight foreigners

The watchdog traced the crisis to a September 2021 policy change that directed Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) "to only investigate "Priority 1" leads -- those potentially posing the highest threat to national security or public safety.

"Of the 1,769 viable Priority 1 leads, HSI initiated only 84 investigations (about 5 percent), resulting in two arrests," it added. "The other 3,041,326 (96.7 percent) overstay leads were deemed Non-Priority."

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Trump Gives Order to Subject Fort Hood Terror Shooter Nidal Malik Hasan His Own Bout of State-Sanctioned Workplace Violence

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Last week I linked an article asking rhetorically, why is this terrorist murderer, who killed 13 people, still drawing air, despite having been convicted and sentenced to death?

Why has Trump not given the execution order yet?

Well, Trump signed the order.

This is the AP, so expect some bias in reporting this.

President Donald Trump has approved the execution by firing squad of Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas.
The U.S. military has not carried out the death penalty since 1961. The Army secretary will decide a time and place for the execution, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell wrote in a post on X.

"Judgement day for Hasan has finally come," Parnell wrote.

Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, walked into a medical building where soldiers were getting medical checkups, shouted "Allahu akbar" -- Arabic for "God is great!" -- and opened fire with a laser-sighted handgun. Thirteen people were killed and more than 30 injured.

He said it was an effort to stop them from going to Afghanistan and killing his fellow Muslims and made almost no effort to defend himself at trial. He told jurors that evidence would show he was the shooter and described himself as a soldier who had "switched sides."

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Death sentences are extremely rare in the military justice system, and executions even rarer.

It is also rare for a "soldier" to murder 13 of his fellows and wound 30 others while shouting terrorist murder-slogans.

The AP adds another irrelevant factoid to show How Terrible This All Is.

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Trump approved the firing squad execution days after a failed attempt to execute Christa Pike by lethal injection pushed Tennessee's governor to halt further executions this year and order an independent review.

What has that got to do with anything?

Since AP added that unrelated factoid to show how barbaric it is to punish murderers with death, I'll mention that the prison official overseeing Christa Pike's botched execution has resigned.

The head of Tennessee's prison system is set to resign after the botched execution of Christa Pike earlier this week, Gov. Bill Lee announced Saturday.
Lee said that Tennessee Department of Correction Commissioner Frank Strada will step down this month, but did not offer any other specifics.

Strada said in a statement that he believes "the Department carried out its responsibilities in accordance with the established protocol," but that "stepping aside is in the best interest" of the state's residents as an independent review ordered by Lee begins.

"I believe this review is entirely appropriate and necessary, and I look forward to doing everything I can to help determine exactly what occurred," Strada said. Strada was named commissioner by Lee in January 2023.

Pike was set to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, but the process failed twice. Pike's attorneys said Friday that she is unconscious and intubated in a Nashville-area hospital. She is using a ventilator to breathe and has significant injuries to both arms, her attorneys said. Hospital staff is working to clear the pentobarbital from her body.

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Cornell 7 Frat Brother: I Was Too Drunk to Give Consent, She Raped Me

—Disinformation Expert Ace

It is true that almost everyone involved was drunk and drugged (by themselves).

Why isn't it true that the accuser raped the boys, who, per the new feminist theory that being drunk negates any concept of consent, also could not consent to the female attacker's advances?

A "Cornell 7" frat bro accused in the alleged gang-rape of a young woman claimed to campus cops that he was too wasted to consent to sex with her -- suggesting he was the real victim, according to records.
Matthew Ingalls -- one of the seven Chi Phi fraternity brothers at the center of the explosive Ivy League case -- told Cornell University police that he was the one too intoxicated from booze and ketamine to consent to sex that fateful 2024 night, records obtained by ABC News showed.

Ingalls suggested that the alleged victim -- a then-20-year-old student only identified as Jane Doe in court papers -- was the one who therefore assaulted him during the debauched and drunken night and not the other way around, as she has claimed.

Ingalls has previously been identified as the frat brother who told his friends through a fraternity group chat to "come whip it out" after another had announced there was "free p--sy" to be had in the house, referring to the accuser.

"Like you can walk in and whip it out," he wrote in the chat, which had nearly 60 people in it. "Boys come whip it out."

Ingalls was the brother who first invited Doe over to the house and propositioned her for a threesome that allegedly devolved into various brothers coming into the room to take turns having sex with her.

They are accused of plying her with booze and ketamine during the encounter, which she claimed later incapacitated her to the point that she couldn't consent to anything beyond that.

Ingalls allegedly fell asleep at one point during the sexual encounter -- prompting another brother to reportedly take his place -- before he woke again later and rejoined the sex, documents released by the Tompkins County District Attorney's Office showed.

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Ingalls' reported comments to cops were just the latest twist in the confusing case, which has seen contradicting claims from all parties involved -- including Doe herself, who originally assured Ingalls everything they did together was consensual, Cornell documents showed.

But that idea slowly began to shift in the ensuing weeks as she kept thinking about how the night transpired and after rumors began swirling around campus and people suggested Doe had been raped. She reportedly began to feel the same way.

I insist that if it takes you weeks of reflection and rumination to "realize" you were raped -- you were not raped at all.

The daydrinking emptyheaded leftwing housewives of TikTok are bored and so they need something new to shriek about:

Byron York @ByronYork
The political path of the Cornell rape allegation:

1) Initial police/DA investigation finds woman's participation was "voluntary, conscious, and consensual." No criminal charges filed.

2) Cornell University Office of Civil Rights investigation reaches finding consistent with police/DA, but concludes fraternity members violated school policies. Expels two frat members, suspends two others, bars one from campus, and shuts down fraternity permanently.

3) Seemingly settled, case fades.

4) Woman changes story, files much-publicized lawsuit blaming incident on fraternity, members, Cornell University, local bar, and her own sorority.

5) Case explodes politically. Local DA re-opens criminal investigation. NY governor appoints AG Letitia James, famous for pursuing President Trump, as special prosecutor.

6) Media narrative emerges blaming Trump for alleged "glorification of being thuggish and swaggering and mistreating women is kind of making you a cool kid."

Everything I Don't Like is DRUMPF!!!

The woman also sued her own sorority, Delta Delta Delta, both the local chapter and the national organization. The lawsuit says that before she arrived at the Chi Phi fraternity house that night, she had "consumed about 10 standard drinks within the past 3 hours." Looking at the lawsuit's timeline, it appears nearly all of that drinking took place at the Delta Delta Delta sorority house.
The lawsuit said that Delta Delta Delta "held itself out to the public, and more particularly to [the woman] herein, as possessing the proper degree of safety measure to adequately protect its members and to use reasonable care and diligence in its monitoring and policing of the [local chapter's] house and those living in and utilizing said house." In other words, the woman is suing her sorority for allegedly not putting a stop to her heavy drinking.

I am Stronk and Empowered and Capable of Making My Own Decisions but also I want an infinite number of female nannies and male authority figures to tell me what, or who, I can put into my body.

You know, the feminists are always complaining that in Victorian times, women were treated "like children."

And they're demanding we return to that system -- when they want that system in place, at least.

They may wind up getting their wish, because people have had enough of this shit.

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The governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, then named state Attorney General Letitia James as a special prosecutor for the case. James, of course, is legendary for campaigning for office on a platform of pursuing President Donald Trump, and then, once elected, concocting an elaborate but embarrassingly thin fraud lawsuit against Trump....

The lesson of the Trump case is that if Letitia James wants to get someone, she will figure out a way to get someone, whether or not it's a case that will hold up in court. The Chi Phi members will need to prepare for that.

When the accuser's lawyers released her lawsuit, a number of observers pointed to the evidence that authorities originally gathered in the days and weeks after the 2024 incident. It seemed clear that the woman had consented to what took place, a conclusion supported both by the county district attorney and the Cornell Office of Civil Rights, which conducted the university's investigation. Some predicted the case would go nowhere.

But now the matter is in a new realm -- the realm of politics....

It seems likely the case will become even more political in coming days and weeks. And, as with everything else in our society, it will become to some degree about Trump. A media narrative, and a social media debate, will emerge in which the fraternity members become associated with Trump, and the woman becomes associated with the forces of good and decency standing up to Trump.

On ABC News's This Week on Sunday, the New York Times's Michelle Cottle pointed to a series of noxious social media messages the fraternity members sent about the woman. "You can't send those messages, no matter how drunk you are, as a frat boy without having some kind of misunderstanding about what women are there for and whether this is a real person you're dealing with," Cottle said. And who might be to blame for that? Cottle pointed to Trump. "And that, I think, starts, you know, we can go to the president for this one," Cottle continued. "I mean, we are in a moment in this culture where the glorification of being thuggish and swaggering and mistreating women is kind of making you a cool kid."

It took just a couple of weeks from the lawsuit being filed to a newscast explaining that Trump was somehow involved. And it's likely that the politicization of this case is just getting started.

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The Morning Rant: The United States Senate: Theater Of The Absurd

—CBD

The klown kar that is the United States Senate regularly belches forth a gaggle of meticulously coiffed morons in $2,000 suits who spout carefully crafted non sequiturs and focus-group-tested punch lines about the topic de jour. Then, without another word they pile back into the kar to be driven to a corporate cocktail party to drink $300 bourbon and try to f*ck the hottest lobbyist.

The Senate has always believed its own press, but the current group of sub-wits we have might be the least impressive in history. At least as far as intellectual heft and the ability to craft and pass good legislation. At fund raising and graft they are without peer!

Senate Leadership In Both Parties Dragging Feet On Using Force Of Law To Rein In Flock

Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley opened an investigation into Flock cameras and held a hearing on the mass surveillance technologies. None of the technology CEOs, including Langley, appeared for the hearing.

Hawley did not respond to the DCNF's question about whether he was frustrated with leadership's lack of response to Flock cameras.

He did not respond because he has no interest in doing anything substantive, because he is a hack, whose motivation is pecuniary, not legislative. His popular reputation as a fierce questioner at hearings is true, but that ferocity does not extend to anything else! He is the Republican equivalent of Chuck Schumer, but without the clout!

I wonder whether his reticence about Flock is connected to their large lobbying budget?

Flock tracks your license plate. We tracked the $2M it spent on lobbying.

The company spent nearly $1.3 million between January 2025 and July 2026 on federal lobbying and at least another $1 million in statehouses across the U.S., according to OpenSecrets’ federal lobbying data and an analysis of lobbying disclosures across all 50 states. Flock has hired lobbyists in dozens of states – often former government employees passing through the political “revolving door” – including in places where weak disclosure laws mean spending totals are not publicly reported.

This is why Flock seems to be a juggernaut, barrelling down the road, destroying what is left of our civil liberties. Their lobbying efforts are bearing fruit...even with Republicans who pay lip service to the Constitution and the Bill Of Rights.

I wonder if Senator Hawley recalls the text of the 4th Amendment? You know...something about protection against searches?

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

It's adorably anachronistic in this world of total surveillance, but it is an anachronism that needs to return to the forefront of our lives. Our politicians are of course venal and grifting in the extreme, but the plain text of our governing document needs to be thrust in their faces...they need to be reminded of it when they scurry back into their offices and cash those lobbyist checks.

So forgive me if I am wholeheartedly in support of anyone who feels like taking the law into their own hands and cutting down those Flock cameras, and short-circuiting the burgeoning police/surveillance state that is being created around us!

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. And if you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow me it would be much appreciated!

Posted by CBD at 11:00 AM Comments

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

Study of a Female Nude
Henri Lehmann

Posted by CBD at 09:30 AM Comments

The Morning Report — 10/6 /26

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. Let's kick off the day with a bit of good if not bittersweet news.

“Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recommended — and President Donald J. Trump has approved — death by U.S. Army firing squad for convicted terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan, the jihadist who opened fire on unarmed American soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell wrote on X.
Hasan killed 12 US service members, one civilian and wounded 32 others during his November 2009 rampage at the Texas Army base. Parnell noted the Army-officer-turned-terrorist was “shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ during the attack.”

“The Secretary of the Army will set the time and place of the execution,” the Pentagon spokesman added. “Judgement day for Hasan has finally come.”

Hasan, who was sentenced to death by a military court in 2013, would be the first service member executed by the armed forces since 1961. . . Hasan, a former Army major and psychiatrist, opened fire on troops who were standing in line to receive immunizations at Fort Hood.

The attack ended when Hasan was shot in the back and left paralyzed by a responding police officer.

He should've been summarily executed within moments of being neutralized. considering Islam and the fact that our Commander-in-Chief at the time was for all intents and purposes an ideological fellow traveler of Hasan and the prevailing insane political winds in our nation since this incident and in reality blowing from Ground Zero since 9/11 and from College Campuses since the Vietnam War, were it not for President Trump and Secretary of War Hegseth and the patriots still in uniform, Hasan would likely have been spared and breathing our air for years to come.

While we're on the subject of treason and traitors in our midst . . .

Iran’s endgame became obvious when its IRGC terror bosses released a letter to American voters praising “the No Kings rallies that swept across the U.S. last year”, blasting President Trump and urging Americans to vote to “change the makeup of the government” to end the war.
The old joke about the Russians was that their military strategy was to get invaded and wait for winter. The Islamic terrorist strategy is to get invaded and wait for leftists to win elections. Iran hasn’t just been waiting. In 2020, Iranian hackers tried to hack into election databases and sent out false flag emails to voters in Florida. In 2024, they stole J.D. Vance’s voter file and peddled it to media outlets. Iranian fake news sites bashed Republicans and promoted the Kamala campaign. That’s not even counting active measures like a Trump assassination plot.

Interfering with traffic in the Strait of Hormuz was never going to bring the American economy to its knees, the way that our economic pressure campaign on Iran crushed its economy, and the terrorist regime wouldn’t have bothered if it expected the Democrats to hold the line. The letter to voters, however, reveals that the Iranian strategy is to wait for the Democrats to bail them out. . . Iran Plans to Win the War by Helping Democrats Win Is it time for a crackdown on the treason party?

The Treason Party is exactly who and what the Democrats are, regardless of whether so-called Moderates or the full-on freakshow of DSA members are running things. The crackdown, that is the utter dismantling, dissolution and destruction of the Democrat Party should have happened the moment they formed the KKK and attempted to and indeed thwart reconstruction, resulting with their alignment with every movement foreign and domestic that was anathema to America as founded. And here we are 160 years later with one of our two major political parties hell bent for leather to seize absolute power in the name of transforming America into a hells cape it was never meant to be, instead of the shining beacon of civilizational progress it was founded as. Hence the Nidal Hasans on top of the Squeaky Frommes Jane Fondas, Bernie Sanders and Planned Parenthoods that we must deal with. Lest they "deal" with us first! As the evil fishy bastards have been!

Five years ago today, then-Attorney General Merrick Garland released his memorandum laying out what his corrupt Department of Justice could do to assist in investigating and prosecuting the parents accused of being “domestic terrorists” for speaking out against far-left initiatives and draconian Covid policies at school board meetings. The Democrat AG’s memo followed a National School Boards Association (NSBA) letter begging President Joe Biden and his politically-driven Department of Justice to recognize the “immediate threat” these parents posed to America’s public schools and their leaders. The letter urged Biden to treat the parents’ confrontational behavior like it was “equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism.”
We know that the NSBA, after a wave of criticism from affiliates, was forced to apologize for the letter from School Boards Association President Viola Garcia and interim CEO Chip Slaven. The association acknowledged “there was no justification for some of the language included in the letter” and that the executive office had not consulted with state affiliates.

When Andrew Breitbart of blessed memory declared "Fuck You, WAR!" The above was yet to happen but did he realize where we were headed for before he drew his last breath?

Death to the Left and Islam. It really is us or them. I fervently pray that the Good Lord in Heaven open the eyes, hearts and minds of our fellow citizens (in name only) to see the evil that they praise and engage in and repent... As for all of you good people, stay strong and I bid you all tohave a good day.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Hasan killed 12 US service members, one civilian and wounded 32 others during his November 2009 rampage at the Texas Army base.
Trump approves firing squad for Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan’s execution after Pete Hegseth’s recommendation

Posted by J.J. Sefton at 07:10 AM Comments

Daily Tech News 6 October 2026

—Pixy Misa

Top Story

Hacking group Shiny Hunters hacked the FBI. So the FBI arrested them. (The Register)

What did they think was going to happen?

Posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM Comments

Monday Night ONT - October 5, 2026 [TRex]

—Open Blogger

Good evening Horde. The time has come for Monday shenanigans. The bar is open and the refrigerator has been freshly re-stocked with A&W Rootbeer.

Welcome to the Monday night ONT which means vintage overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. Pants are optional. This ONT is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Fauci is fair game.

[Top photo: A helicopter is lifting a 34-foot animatronic brontosaurus over Boston toward the Museum of Science - July 1984]