Schmock Schmoll: Ciattarelli Now Virtually Tied With Cheater and Grifter Mikie Sherrill for NJ Governor

—Ace

Sherrill 49%, Ciattarelli 48%, 2% undecided.

And this is via a public poll, and those tend to skew Democrat by three or more points.

Democratic nominee Rep. Mikie Sherrill and Republican nominee Jack Ciattarelli are polling evenly in the New Jersey gubernatorial race ahead of Election Day on Tuesday.

According to an Emerson College Polling/PIX11/The Hill survey released on Thursday, 49% of likely voters support Sherrill, compared to Ciattarelli's 48%, with 2% undecided. With the margin of error at +/- 3 percentage points, the two candidates are essentially tied in the race.

When undecided voters were asked which candidate they are leaning toward, Sherrill received 50% support, while Ciattarelli remained at 48%, which is still within the margin of error.

The gubernatorial race was tied last month, as an Emerson College Polling/PIX11/The Hill survey in September showed both nominees tied at 43%, with 11% undecided.

In the last New Jersey governor's race, Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy beat Ciattarelli by 3 percentage points, and former Vice President Harris won the state last year by about 6 points.

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Emerson College Polling Executive Director Spencer Kimball noted the significant gender gap in the polling.

"Heading into Election Day, the gender divide in the gubernatorial election has solidified: men break for Ciattarelli by 16 points, while women break for Sherrill by 18 points," Kimball said. "Since last month, Ciattarelli's lead among men increased by four points, and Sherill's lead among women grew by eight points."

In 2021, the polls understated Ciattarelli's support against the incumbent Democrat by 5.2%.

In more schmolling news: The public really doesn't care about "climate change."

Key Biden Advisor Ian Sams Previously Claimed that Biden Was Sharp as a Tack.
Only Now Does He Admit: I Only Met With Biden Twice In the Two Years I Worked For Him.

—Ace

Via Twitchy, he previously swore to the American people that Biden was, as they say, sharp as a tack.

He did not provide any caveats for this assessment. He did not mention, for example, that he really wouldn't know if Biden was in steep mental decline or not, because he only met the dementia patient twice.

Now that Trump is in office and prosecutions for lying to Congress are on the table, he gets around to finally mentioning that he only even saw Biden twice.

Some Democrats are still sticking to the "sharp as a tack" claims while making up stories about how Biden was just as available to the press as Trump.

Former Biden special assistant Ian Sams, the same one who went on to become a spokesman for Kamala Harris and lie about how her campaign was performing, has been called out for two very different answers about his interactions with Joe while he was in the White House.

GOP Oversight served up these shots and chasers featuring Sams during a Biden coverup hearing vs. what he was telling the media at the time.

Antifa Terrorists Are Being Arrested and Convicted

—Ace

Finally.

Andy Ngo reports that an Antifa terrorist, "Anarchy Marie, has been arrested on suspicion of aiding and abetting the sniper who shot an agent at an ICE facility in North Texas.

Janette Goering, 35, of Carrollton, Texas, was taken into custody on Oct. 21 and charged with aiding in the commission of terrorism, a state felony. Prosecutors allege Goering was part of the far-left cell that orchestrated a July 4 terrorist attack on the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado.

Investigators say the group used fireworks to lure staff and law enforcement outside before cell ringleader Benjamin Hanil Song opened fire. An Alvarado police officer was shot in the neck but survived. Dozens of additional rounds were fired at officers and staff.

This journalist previously identified the group as a North Texas Antifa cell whose members are affiliated with the John Brown Gun Club, an Antifa-aligned anarchist anti-government militia network.

"I know that individuals who affiliate with 'ANTIFA' ideology have or are willing to engage in acts of violence to affect a political change or influence governmental operation," wrote Detective William Reilly of the Johnson County Sheriff's Office in the criminal complaint.

Goering, described by prosecutors as a radical anarchist, is not accused of being present at the shooting. She allegedly provided Song with a Faraday bag to prevent his phone from being tracked electronically. After the attack, Song allegedly hid in a wooded area for a day before meeting Goering and other Antifa associates in Cleburne, Texas, to evade capture.

Recovered Signal chat messages show Goering used the aliases "biscuit" and "Marie" and expressed fear about her involvement:

"On a personal level, I'm terrified at what me doing the faraday stuff might do to me re: police questioning," Goering allegedly wrote.

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Goering's arrest comes one week after two other Antifa militants -- Cameron Arnold, a Trantifa suspect also known as "Autumn Hill," and Zachary Evetts -- were federally indicted on charges of providing material support for terrorism and attempted murder. It was the first time in U.S. history that accused Antifa militants were charged with federal terrorism crimes.

Federal prosecutors are expected to present additional suspects to grand juries in the coming weeks.

State Indictment

Fourteen suspects have already been indicted by a Johnson County grand jury on state terrorism and organized crime charges on Oct. 23. Eleven face the most serious counts...

Texas continues arresting and convicting woke criminals who threaten to kill federal agents and judges.

As deportation roundups and sometimes violent protests continue throughout U.S. cities, those threatening federal agents and judges continue to be arrested and convicted in Texas.

Lubbock resident Tristan Langston faces up to 15 years in prison during his sentencing hearing next week after a jury convicted him of threatening to kill U.S. Secret Service agents and their family members. He was charged in March with Transmitting Threats in Interstate Commerce and Threatening a Federal Law Enforcement Officer. By August, a four-day trial was held and the jury convicted him on both counts, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas said.

He was convicted after the jury heard evidence that Langston had been making online threats since 2023, leading to an investigation by Secret Service agents.

"Evidence in the case revealed that Langston's statements went well beyond mere political rhetoric or bluster and constituted true threats directed at specific federal agents," the U.S. Attorney's Office said. For months, Langston "targeted one of the agents and his family in online posts and memorialized the anger and resentment he harbored against the agents in videos and notes he maintained on his cellphone over a period of years."

In February, he criticized two agents on X, also stating, "2nd Amendment in full effect. Gonna slit the throats of agents and their families."

"Targeting federal agents and their families with threats of violence is not protected speech -- it is a federal crime," Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Nancy Larson said. "This verdict reaffirms our office's commitment to take all threats seriously and to hold accountable those who try to intimidate and terrorize our law enforcement partners."

In another case, a California woman, Dolly Patterson, was sentenced to the statutory maximum sentence after pleading guilty to transmitting an interstate threat to a U.S. District judge in the Northern District of Texas.

An investigation was conducted by the U.S. Marshals Service after she sent a threatening message through an online form to a federal judge in Amarillo in April 2023, stating, "Tell that anti-abortion judge he better watch his back . . . for the rest of his life!"

She was arrested, charged and acknowledged she sent the message "with the intent that it be perceived as a genuine threat and with knowledge that it would be viewed as such," according to court records. She also acknowledged that the interstate communication "constituted a true threat to injure another person under federal law."

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In another case, a Mexican national, Eduardo Aguilar, 23, who was illegally living in Dallas, was arrested for allegedly soliciting others to kill U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. At the time of his arrest, he had a loaded 9mm handgun in his vehicle. It is a felony for illegal foreign national to possess firearms in the U.S.

Aguilar was charged with Transmitting in Interstate or Foreign Commerce a Communication Containing a Threat because of an Oct. 9 TikTok solicitation he allegedly posted in Spanish.

The English translation reads, "I need 10 dudes in Dallas with determination (guts) who aren't afraid to [two skull emojis]. 10K for each ICE agent." The emojis represent death or "to die."

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Aguilar illegally entered the U.S. in 2018 as an unaccompanied minor, according to ICE records. On Feb. 8, 2019, a federal immigration judge issued a final order of removal, but he was never removed from the U.S. It would take another six years for him to be arrested.

Anti-ICE/antifa terrorists are being arrested in connection with the assault on officers busting a pot farm for employing both illegals and children.

This was a bad week for the bad guys who wanted to kill or maim Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in two raids last summer. There are now more of them in custody and looking for lawyers.

Over the past few days, federal officers have rolled up key bad guys who were involved in ambushing ICE and other federal officers during two notorious raids--one in California and one in Texas--and in the violent attack on state patrol officers during the latest L.A. ICE riots. One involved an Antifa perpetrator, and the other involved angry activists who were called to riot at the site of a notorious pot farm raid by using phone apps to vector them to the scene.

Early Wednesday morning, Department of Homeland Security officers arrested a man in connection with the notorious pot farm raid in Ventura County, California, in July. The scene of the raid, the Glass House marijuana farm facilities, is where ICE and other federal officers discovered underage workers and detained more than 300 people.

Before the July 10 raid got underway, dozens of people, who were part of a social media collective, identified the raid was happening and descended on the facility. Some of them had weapons.

The U.S. Attorneys Office in Central California revealed that some of these people were part of an organized group formed to attack and block the officers who were arresting criminal aliens.

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One man brought a handgun and shot at officers. Another man, arrested on Wednesday, could be seen throwing large rocks at federal cars on another road where protesters had formed another barricade ambush site.

The feds say Isai Carrillo, arrested Wednesday morning in Oxnard, was throwing rocks at federal agents' cars with Virginia Reyes. Though Reyes is still hiding from officers and considered a fugitive, she and Carrillo are both charged with conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer, a charge that could net them five years in federal prison.

Officers also arrested several people in L.A. and Las Vegas for dropping rocks, bikes, scooters, and flammable liquids on California Highway Patrol officers who were trying to stop other protesters from taking over the freeway.

Revealed: Jack Smith and Christopher Wray Subpoenaed the Donor Lists and Emails of Every Single Conservative Organization on "Biden's Enemies List"

—Ace

Trump is such a dictator he works backwards through time.

The subpoenas included nonpublic, confidential grand jury material that Grassley said he obtained through whistleblower disclosures.

They sought certain communications with media companies, including Fox News, CBS, Sinclair and Newsmax and with "any" members and aides in Congress. They also sought sweeping financial information from conservative entities.

Grassley has been releasing troves of documents related to Arctic Frost, a probe he says was politicized and lacked basis. Smith used the probe to bring criminal charges against Trump related to the 2020 election.

Lenny Breuer, a lawyer for Smith, said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital that Smith stands by his offer to appear publicly before the Senate and House to testify about his special counsel work.

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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, also raised at the press conference the controversial subpoenas for eight Republican senators' phone records, which did not include the contents of phone calls but rather details about when calls were place and to whom. Cruz said he was also among the targeted senators, but he said his phone company, AT&T, resisted complying with the request and that AT&T was ordered by a federal judge not to inform Cruz about the request for a year. Grassley said Verizon told him that Cruz's office's Verizon landline was also "affected" but did not elaborate.

"We are going to get the answers of every person who signed off on this abuse of power, and mark my words, there will be accountability," Cruz said, signaling that the senators' inquiry into Arctic Frost was far from over.

More from the NY Post: Guess which judge approved this unprecedented Kremlin-esque spying on the dissidents?

That's right -- Judge Boasberg.

And there are fresh calls for his impeachment.

"I've obtained through legally protected whistleblower disclosures," Grassley said. "197 subpoenas were issued by Jack Smith and his team. These subpoenas were issued to 34 individuals and 163 businesses, including financial institutions.

"The subpoena requested records and communications related to over 430 individual and organizations -- all of them appear to be aimed at Republicans," the Iowa Republican added, noting requests sent to the late conservative icon Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA and the Republican Attorneys General Association.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), one of the nine Republicans whose phone metadata was sought, said "Arctic Frost is Joe Biden's Watergate."

"Merrick Garland was a fundamentally corrupt attorney general. Jack Smith was a fundamentally corrupt prosecutor. This was a political enemies list from the beginning," he told reporters, brandishing the court order that demanded AT&T hand over his cell records to the feds.

The order was signed by US District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg and barred the cell carrier from letting Cruz know about the request "for at least one year," he said.

The Texas Republican and others called for Boasberg's impeachment in the House, with Cruz claiming the judge was "abusing his power" by asserting in the order there were "reasonable grounds to believe that such disclosure will result in destruction of or tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses and serious jeopardy to the investigation."

"We don't know that for a fact, but I feel confident that he concluded it's likely that Lindsey Graham would destroy evidence and Marsha Blackburn would destroy evidence, and Eric Schmitt would destroy evidence, and Chuck Grassley would destroy evidence," Cruz went on.

"If a judge signs an order reaching a factual conclusion for which there is zero evidence whatsoever, that judge is abusing his power. I am right now calling on the House of Representatives to impeach Judge Boasberg."

Boasberg issued a scathing order against the Trump administration earlier this year to halt deportation flights of alleged MS-13, Tren de Aragua and other gang members from the US to a Salvadoran mega-prison.

Jim Jordan says that Arctic Frost was just like Crossfire Hurricane -- there was never any legal justification to open an investigation, let alone spy on hundreds of conservative actors and organizations. It was simple authoritarian crushing of the opposition.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, who got the document from current FBI Director Kash Patel, told Just the News on Wednesday night that he believes the memo justifying the start of Arctic Frost was legally deficient and suffered from the same politicization and abuses as the 2016 Russia collusion probe code-named "Crossfire Hurricane" that also targeted Trump before it was widely discredited.

"Sure looks that way. ... and it looks like this was just the same old weaponization, same old political focus, focus on politics, going after your political enemies," Jordan said during a wide-ranging interview on the Just the News, No Noise television show. "Same mindset that said we're going to put the dossier in the intelligence community assessment, even though we know the dossier is garbage, we know there's no underlying intelligence support.

"That same mindset that was there in 2016 is the mindset we see now in 2022 with Arctic Frost, and then as it transformed into Jack Smith, special counsel later in 2022 -- same exact mindset. So yeah, that's what it sure looks like," he added.

This treasonous plot was hatched at the highest levels of Merrick Garland's DOJ, Christopher Wray's FBI, and Joe Biden's White House. (Though of course we cannot exclude the possibility that President Autopen was napping on the beach throughout all this.)

Recently-declassified revelations related to the FBI's "Arctic Frost" investigation chronicle the 2022 lawfare assault against then-former President Donald Trump and MAGA world, as criminal inquiries -- which would soon lead to criminal charges -- spun into high gear as Trump leaned toward running for president again.

New evidence shows that then-Attorney General Merrick Garland, then-Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, and then-FBI Director Christopher Wray signed off on the launch of the Arctic Frost inquiry into Trump related to the Capitol riot. Unearthed emails also show that the Biden White House Counsel's Office coordinated with an anti-Trump FBI agent to hand over phones which had belonged to Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, released a document this week from early April 2022 showing that Garland, Monaco, and Wray all signed off on the launch of the sweeping inquiry into Trump. The memo -- initialized by Garland, Monaco, and Wray -- was for the "Approval to Open a Certain Sensitive Investigative Matter [SIM] Investigation."

"WFO [Washington Field Office] seeks to open this SIM full investigation based on evidence that presents specific and articulable facts that individuals, both known and unknown, engaged in a conspiracy to obstruct Congress's certification of the Electoral College on January 6, 2020 [sic]," the launch document said.

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Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, in April released "FBI emails provided by legally protected whistleblowers" which he said showed "officials in the Biden White House, including then-White House Deputy Counsel Jonathan Su, personally assisted the FBI in securing the government cell phones of President Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence." The senator noted that "the cell phones were acquired before Trump was formally added as a subject of the investigation."

The senator said the disclosures also included "further evidence anti-Trump FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault played a central role in opening and advancing the Arctic Frost investigation, despite other agents' concerns that the evidence only supported a limited preliminary investigation."

Thibault, a former FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge at the FBI's Washington Field Office, retired from the bureau in 2022 amidst whistleblower allegations and after his anti-Trump social media postings were revealed.

An unearthed email from April 2022 showed Thibault approving the opening of Arctic Frost.

The emails showed that, in late February 2022, Thibault said that "I am working to get DOJ and FBIHQ to gain approval to open a case on the Trump campaign et al for conspiring to defraud the US Govt [Government] via the elector scheme. This case will be worked by CR15."

As I've mentioned, we can now use this incredibly vague charge of "conspiring to defraud the government" -- which can cover any corrupt, self-dealing political action -- to prosecute these people.

Let them argue that "conspiracy to defraud the government" charges are some made-up bullshit they used to criminalize non-criminal behavior.

And then let's convict them anyway.

The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

—CBD

Ah...it's a trifecta of failure! Biden's magic touch at turning everything he does into a massive, jiggling pile of excrement, the government's fantastic, wide-ranging skill at being absolutely awful at everything it does, and the delightful frisson of DEI, which always injects additional failure points!

Frankly, I'm amazed that they only pissed away $42.5 billion!

Trump Administration Overhauls Biden's DEI Broadband Program that Connected Zero Households in 4 Years

The $42.5 billion federal program prioritized woke corporate mandates and handouts to the politically connected fiber and broadband lobby, while discriminating against far more efficient Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellite technology, such as SpaceX's Starlink. Four years after it passed, it proposed spending tens of thousands of dollars per household, but failed to connect a single American.

Just do the math, and Starlink is by far the most efficient answer to providing connectivity to rural America.

But...why the hell are we spending one dollar on connectivity for anyone? Maybe I missed it in the Constitution, but as far as I can tell, it isn't the core mission of the United States government to make sure that every American has access to high-speed internet porn and cat videos. Why not also spend $42.5 billion on high speed trains, so people can get to work, or subsidize their cellular service and equipment? Oh...wait...we are doing that already.

We piss away oceans of money on stuff the government has no business supporting, while simultaneously doing a horrifically inefficient job at it. Welfare? Airport security? Education? Infrastructure? They are all fantastically expensive boondoggles that no doubt pump lots of money into the coffers of friendly corporations and fellow-traveler nonprofits.

But internet might be the silliest of the bunch! It is a perfect application of market economics, and the cost should be borne by the users. Why should I have to pay for someone else's access to the internet, when I am already paying for my own? Is it a natural right to surf busty lesbian porn and buy paper napkins and lipstick from Amazon?

What this typical mess of a government program represents is the inexorable creep of what government should do. We have moved from the basics in 1791, to an incomprehensibly complex labyrinth of spending for results that never come. President Trump's rational attempt to rein in spending is a laudable beginning, but it must accelerate and expand for it to have any long-lasting effect on our budgetary woes, and our ridiculous drift away from the core function of government.

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

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

To Garcia Lorca
John Bageris

This is an excellent example of the conceit of the left, and their fixation on raising minor celebrities to impossible, hagiographic heights. Lorca was a modestly successful playwright, an author with a thin biography, and of course the obligatory homosexual.

What? Of course he was a communist! All the cool kids were. And a layabout, and a dilettante, and luckily for his legacy, the victim of a private feud, or the much more exciting KILLED BY FASCISTS!

At least the art is interesting, although a better title would have made it much more accessible.

The Morning Report — 10/30/25

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids.

If there is such a thing as Divine justice or karma, then this scumbag's filthy running sewer will be shut by a tomahawk missile fired by none other than Barack Hussein Obama:

Wednesday on MSNSDAP’s “Chris Jansing Reports,” Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), who serves as the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said MAGA voters who cheer the Trump administration’s military strikes on alleged drug boats in the eastern Pacific would not like who a potential President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez chooses to kill.

Aside from the nightmare prospect of Titty Caca as Soros the Younger's Puppet, let alone any Democrat ever being elected President of the He-Man Woman-Haterz Klub let alone POTUS ever again, I trust President Trump and the Secretary of War's actions and intel in taking out these threats to the safety and security of our nation and people. But his fantasies about who Donkey Chompers might choose to kill are quite revelatory about his and his ilks willingness to kill any innocent party merely as an act of political retribution or simple naked aggression in the pursuit and maintenance of absolute power.

Between stealing a national election, and the installation of a mental defective stooge as their puppet, a cabal of Democrats and others utilized the instrumentalities of our intelligence, law enforcement agencies and the judiciary to persecute and represss their political opponents while usurping the office of the Presidency to issue four years of executive orders, directives, edicts and even signing legislation onto the books.
The gall of this degenerate and his entire party is beyond the pale.

In the immortal words to be uttered some 3,000 or so years in the future by an astronaut riding horseback along an alien yet oddly familiar stretch of beach "God Damn You (Democrats) All to Hell."

Operation Midway Blitz Commander Ordered to Meet With Chicago Judge Daily, Says He Looks Forward to Showing Her How Bad Things Are

Funny but this hack-in-black slag did not order the leader of this merry bunch to meet with her:

The increasingly dangerous conditions faced by Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Chicago continue to grow worse as activists for illegal migrants increase their violent attacks. And more video showing that is making its way to social media every day. Along with the use of rocks and bottles as weapons, violent activists are also increasingly using professional grade fireworks against ICE agents in Chicago, causing the risk of hearing loss, eye damage, and burns.

Were I the Midway Blitz commander, I'd tell this Sara Ellis shitwhore to go piss up a rope. The CBP is operating under the authority of President Donald Trump and his underlings at the DHS and Justice Department. None of them are accountable to her in the lawful performance of their duties in securing the safety of the citizenry and ultimately our national security and sovereignty.

Chicago among other hotspots are erupting in what can only be described as open revolt and terroristic insurrection. Personally, I want to see the bodies of anyone attacking federal agents and law enforcement stacked like cordwood. Brandon Johnson, JB Pritzker should be forcibly ejected from office and Chicago's government run by responsible individuals designated by President Trump.

The greatest threat to our republic was is and always will be the Democrat Party, its leaders and base. 200-plus years of history awash in the blood and wastage of life and human potential all in service to a satanic, evil will to power that is the hallmark of Leftism.

Elsewhere, the ridiculous geschrei about the cutting of SNAP benefits because of the Schumer Shitshow Shakedown Shutdown, is just that.

In the immortal words of 1970s comedian Richard Belzer: "Hey food stamps? Eat fucking tree bark!"

Have a good day!

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• The Biden FBI filed subpoenas seeking the bank records and communications of numerous conservatives and Republican-affiliated organizations as part of its lawfare against Donald Trump, new records show.
  Docs: Biden FBI Subpoenaed Records Of Major Conservatives, GOP Groups As Part Of Get-Trump Probe
  
• “As [so-called quote-unquote] President Biden’s health declined, Biden White House staffers usurped presidential authority by executing decisions without the president’s awareness — including misusing the autopen and bypassing proper documentation of decision-making processes,” says the report. It paints a grim picture of a president cocooned by his wife, Jill Biden, son Hunter Biden and three Svengali-style aides — Anthony Bernal, Jill’s chief of staff whom she reportedly called her “work husband,” Annie Tomasini and Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the White House doctor who gaslit the American public with “grossly misleading” medical assessments and “recklessly never conducted a cognitive exam” of Joe. All three invoked the Fifth Amendment when called to testify to the committee.
  Miranda Devine: Biden’s autopen presidency inked a legacy of failure and coverups

Daily Tech News 30 October 2025

—Pixy Misa

• Microsoft went down. (The Verge)
  
  The outage took out Azure, Microsoft 365, Xbox services, and most importantly, Minecraft, as well as a whole string of Azure customers like Starbucks, Costco, and Zoom. It even affected some services on AWS and Google Cloud.
  
  It was DNS.
  
  It is always DNS.

Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - October 29, 2025 [Spooky Rex]

—Open Blogger

Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another random assortment of interweb tricks and treats (some of the mystery variety). Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.

[Top photo: Does a giant inflatable peg-leg pirate TRex dressed up for Halloween really need a caption?]

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"So I told the South Korean President, "Sorry, I'd love to stick around for the big fancy dinner, but the Wednesday ONT is coming. Gotta go!" He's a star. He knows that's not fake news."

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Hard to argue:

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Calvin does Halloween as a dinosaur:

Embiggened in case you need a closer look at the last panel:

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How's this for scary?

The average price of a new vehicle in the US passed $50,000 for the first time ever in September, according to Cox Automotive's Kelley Blue Book

At $50,080, that's the highest industry average ever, reflecting the price hikes faced by new car buyers in recent years amid pandemic supply shortages, tariff-induced increases, and the high cost of EV production. The figure marks a 3.6% jump from the same month last year.

"Tariffs have introduced new cost pressure to the business, but the pricing story in September was mostly driven by the healthy mix of EVs and higher-end vehicles pushing the new-vehicle ATP into uncharted territory," Cox executive analyst Erin Keating said. Passing the $50,000 mark was inevitable, Keating said, especially considering that the country's bestseller is a Ford truck that "routinely costs north of $65,000."

Yikes and double yikes.

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fourseasons - this is for you. It is the closest thing I could find to dishwasher humor:

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Tomorrow, remember to pause for a moment to remember Peanut the Squirrel who was murdered on October 30, 2024. A racoon named Fred met a similar fate.

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The project for large scale dinos for Casa Rex has been...paused pending further marital diplomacy. In the meantime, there are Halloween dino decorations out there. Maybe that's an option?

This set includes one 9 foot TRex skeleton, two TRex babies in eggs, one 4 foot raptor skeleton, and two triceratops babies. I know what you're thinking. Where is the adult triceratops? No idea but this (used) collection is being offered on the interweb for the low, low price of $1,000. Pick up in New Jersey. [Update: checked before posting and the listing is gone. Boo.]

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No comment:

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Need a last-minute Halloween costume?

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Was waiting to see if this was real or parody but apparently it is real.

The German company that built the lift used in the Louvre robbery used a photo of the heist to advertise itself in both German and English:

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The Pittsburgh police scanner keeps giving. Thank you people of Pittsburgh!

For the grand finale:

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Thriller for the big ONT finish:

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The Humpday Before Halloween Cafe

—Ace

From the First Lady's twitter account

This cat might be a witch.

The "stop touching me/I'm not touching you" game, as played by dogs.

It is the natural drive of every living being to make things fall from great heights.

In a litter of cute puppies, she's the cutest.

Deer wants to join the pack.

When dogs go trick or treating.

Taking a lab puppy with you as you get your car washed.

Antifa the moment they don't have more bodies than the people they're bullying and attacking.

Gray skies are beautiful too. (Sometimes.)

They're rushing to get stars on their bellies.

Serenading a hamster.

I call this fish "Big-Faced Fish."

Humpback whale, with a Standard Half-Naked Woman for scale comparison.

Quick Hits

—Ace

Democrat candidate for Congress Kat Abughazaleh indicted for blocking ICE vehicles and impeding their enforcement of the law.

A Democratic congressional candidate in Illinois has been indicted for blocking a federal agent's vehicle during September protests outside an immigration enforcement building in suburban Chicago, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday.

The felony indictment, filed last week by a special grand jury, accuses Kat Abughazaleh and five others of conspiring to impede an officer.

"This is a political prosecution and a gross attempt to silence dissent, a right protected under the First Amendment. This case is a major push by the Trump administration to criminalize protest and punish anyone who speaks out against them," Abughazaleh said Wednesday in a video posted to BlueSky.

I don't remember the J6ers being afforded such a "right" to impede government officials.

Here's video of her committing the crime of impeding a federal officer.

Bill Melugin: There's a major shake-up of ICE leadership as Trump demands more deportations and wants leaders who will execute his agenda, not drag their feet.

Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_

BREAKING: Per four senior DHS & Trump admin sources, a mass removal of ICE leadership around the country is underway, with up to 12 ICE field office chiefs being removed & reassigned in an effort to increase deportation numbers. I'm told the move is spearheaded by Corey Lewandowski, and a handful of the ICE Chiefs will likely be replaced by Border Patrol & CBP officials, some of whom will be hand-picked by aggressive & controversial Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino. I'm told some of the ICE leadership removed from their positions include the ICE Field Office Directors in:

- Los Angeles
- Phoenix
- Philadelphia
- Denver
- El Paso
- San Diego
- Seattle/Portland
- New Orleans

Border Patrol officials taking over ICE leadership positions would be extremely significant, as Border Patrol and ICE do different things, and I've done numerous ride-alongs/embeds with both.

Generally speaking, ICE typically conducts very targeted operations, largely going after criminal illegal aliens or those with deportation orders, but almost always knowing who they are targeting for arrest, often conducting surveillance to learn their schedules before and waiting hours before arresting them if needed.

Border Patrol, under Trump 2.0, while sometimes doing their own targeted operations, has been extremely aggressive and has been at the forefront of some of the most controversial immigration enforcement operations we've seen so far, carrying out roving patrols in Los Angeles, Chicago, etc, often at Home Depot, car washes, flea markets etc, leading to a handful of federal judges around the country issuing injunctions against them. A majority of the viral videos you see online are Border Patrol agents, including the use of a Trojan horse style Penske moving truck at a Los Angeles Home Depot, an operation organized by Bovino.

ICE often gets blamed for what Border Patrol does, as the media and activists often cannot tell the difference between federal agents, and everyone is called "ICE". I'm told there are growing concerns about the political and PR fallout associated with some of the roving patrols Border Patrol is conducting as lawsuits continue to stack up and mid-terms approach next year.

I'm told there is significant friction within different wings of DHS and the administration, with Border Czar Tom Homan & ICE Director Todd Lyons preferring to prioritize targeting criminal aliens & the "worst of the worst" or those with deportation orders, while DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, and BP Commander Bovino prefer to use aggressive tactics to arrest anyone in the US illegally, including but not limited to criminals, to ramp up deportation numbers and achieve President Trump's promises of mass deportations.

I am hearing from both sides of this friction.

One senior DHS official tells me:

"ICE started with the worst of the worst, knowing every target they are hitting, but since Border Patrol started in LA in June, we've (DHS) lost our focus, going too hard, too fast, with limited prioritization. It's getting numbers, but at what cost?".

Border Patrol agents I've talked to defend their tactics, with one telling me:

"What did everyone think mass deportations meant? Only the worst? Tom Homan has said it himself, anyone in the US illegally is on the table."

It's quite a situation, as both sides of this are on the same team, with the same end goals, but different perspectives on how to get there.

Another DHS official confirmed the personnel changes to me on deep background, adding that the moves are based on performance and doing what is needed to achieve the best results.

Official statement to @FoxNews via @TriciaOhio:

"While we have no personnel changes to announce at this time, the Trump Administration remains laser focused on delivering results and removing violent criminal illegal aliens from this country."

Hegseth announced more strikes on four drug boats.

The Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, on Tuesday announced the 13th strike on a narco-terrorist vessel, this time in the Pacific Ocean. This marked the largest single operation against a drug-trafficking vessel to date, involving three separate strikes, four boats, and resulting in the deaths of 14 narco-terrorists.

"Yesterday, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out three lethal kinetic strikes on four vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations (DTO) trafficking narcotics in the Eastern Pacific. The four vessels were known by our intelligence apparatus, transiting along known narco-trafficking routes, and carrying narcotics," he wrote on X. "Eight male narco-terrorists were aboard the vessels during the first strike. Four male narco-terrorists were aboard the vessel during the second strike. Three male narco-terrorists were aboard the vessel during the third strike. A total of 14 narco-terrorists were killed during the three strikes, with one survivor. All strikes were in international waters with no U.S. forces harmed."

Hegseth concluded his post by stating that his department has spent over two decades defending other nations -- but now, it's time to defend America. He noted that illegal narcotics have claimed more American lives than any terrorist group the U.S. has ever fought.

Pro-terrorist "protester" sentenced to 17 months in prison after three separate incidents of physically attacking Jews as part of his "protest" jihad.

Bazrouk was charged with federal hate crimes in connection with the assault, which took place during three different pro-Hamas protests in the city. He kickeed and punched Jewish pro-Israel protester who carried Israeli flags, federal prosecutors said, according to The New York Times.

Prosecutors sought 36 months, stating that it was a "serious crime" which therefore demanded a serious penalty. Of course the judge disagreed and implemented Two-Tiered Justice.

You know you'd go away for ten years if you assaulted three protected-class Muslims.

Credibly-accused gay sexual assaulter Don Lemon used some kind of insider gay-culture slang to say that Megyn Kelly looks like a tranny who isn't passing for the gender they're pretending to be.

The unemployed failing podcaster keeps pushing out rage-bait to try to get Megyn Kelly and other people to talk about his little-viewed, no-account podcast, and alas, we keep falling for it.

So, as the NY Post asks: Is it officially approved to insult someone by saying they look like a tranny?

Axed CNN anchor Don Lemon has been blasted as two-faced after he said conservative commentator Megyn Kelly looked "trans."

"I think she looks trans," Lemon -- who has grandstanded against transphobia in the past -- declared on a recent episode of his new "Clip Farmers" podcast, as he and his co-hosts were crassly discussing the appearance of "MAGA ladies."

"Looks clockable," the lefty ex-anchor added, referring to a tactless term used to describe a trans person who is not "passing" or is identifiable as their biological gender.

The Post is tut-tutting the word as "tactless"? We have to pretend it's "tactless" to note that a tranny isn't passing?

I am so sick of leftwing assumptions in "conservative" media.

I have heard "to clock" to mean "to notice" or "to see," so I guess Lemon's use of gay slang here means that you can "clock" that someone is a tranny.

"Let's end on that note," his co-host awkwardly says at the end of the clip, which was widely shared online.

Lemon's comments drew immediate backlash from critics, who blasted him for using "trans" to insult the fellow former news anchor since he has stood up against transphobia in the past.

"For a man who praises trans people, #DonLemon sure feels comfortable using trans as an insult," Jeff Varner posted in response.

"The Left is using "Trans" as an insult now?" wondered another.

"Hypocrisy at its finest. When it's convenient, principles fly out the window," another user wrote.

The slur comes despite the lefty host being loudly outspoken about LGBTQ rights in the past.

Lemon railed against transphobia and anti-LGBTQ legislation at the Son Awards in 2023 -- an annual event celebrating the achievements of Black gay and queer men.

House Judiciary Committee Report: The Criminal Christopher Wray's FBI Put One Hundred and Fifty Republicans Under Surveillance In His Treacherous "Arctic Frost" Operation

—Ace

Trump is such a dictator, man. Don't you watch Stephen Colbert?

The House Judiciary Committee said Tuesday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) "Arctic Frost" probe potentially targeted more than 150 Republican officials and allies.

Newly released documents reveal the Biden-era Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI ran an investigation into Trump allies, according to the committee. Nearly 200 pages of records provide insight into the sweeping probe. The move reportedly started under FBI Director Chris Wray and later continued by Special Counsel Jack Smith under Attorney General Merrick Garland.

I don't believe any of those "men" have an Autopen Pardon. Or even a real pardon.

The committee, led by Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, alleged that "45 individuals," including former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon, Republican Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perry, former Republican North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Trump DOJ official Jeffrey Clark and former Trump attorney John Eastman "were potentially under investigation."

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Another email reportedly detailed the Arctic Frost team requesting about $16,600 from the DOJ Public Corruption Unit for June travel to carry out over 40 interviews, serve subpoenas and conduct multiple device search warrants. These targeted numerous GOP-linked officials across Arizona, Virginia, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and New Mexico, according to the documents.

The GOP-led committee claimed that "[a]nother 111 individuals," including White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino, senior adviser for trade and manufacturing Peter Navarro, current DOJ weaponization czar Ed Martin and former DOJ official Jeff Rosen "were also potentially under investigation."

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A September 2022 document called "Subpoena_Counsel_Matrix" included the names of dozens of activists connected to the GOP, public officials, alleged electors and government workers allegedly tied to events around the 2020 election, the outlet reported.

Evidence released by the Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley appears to indicate that Wray, Garland and then-Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco approved the launch of the Arctic Frost investigation into Trump's actions surrounding the Capitol riot.

Emails also reveal coordination between the Biden White House Counsel's Office and an anti-Trump FBI agent to obtain phones belonging to Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence, according to a Senate Judiciary Committee press release.

Arctic Frost targeted numerous GOP officials and organizations, according to a committee press release in September. FBI Deputy Director recently Dan Bongino alleged that Smith monitored the phone records of multiple GOP lawmakers, including Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee.

Hurricane Melissa Slams Into Jamaica and Cuba With 185 MPH Winds, Now Moves To the Bahamas

—Ace

Yes, it's a powerful hurricane. Which proves global warming.

But we've had a relatively peaceful hurricane season before this one. Which also proves global warming, because global warming is proven both by more severe weather and less severe weather. Any deviation from the norm, even towards milder weather, proves global warming.

Do you racists understand The Science (TM) I'm spitting at ya?

The storm ravaged the island nation.

Hurricane Melissa will leave Cuba and sweep through the Bahamas today, then Bermuda late tomorrow with strong winds, heavy rain and coastal flooding following its historic Category 5 landfall in Jamaica and southeast Cuba lashing.

The devastating hurricane made landfall early Tuesday afternoon near New Hope, Jamaica, as a Category 5 with winds of 185 mph and a pressure of 892 millibars, a historic strike that will lead to months and years of recovery. This landfall will go down in the record books as one of the strongest anywhere in the Atlantic Basin.

The video that hurricane-chaser planes are getting of the storm-form itself are incredible.

"BLOOD BATH," "WAR ZONE:" Purge Begins at CBS; Biased Trump-Deranged Anchor John Dickerson Out, Gayle King Says She's Leaving, Trump-Deranged and "Geriatric" 60 Minutes Facing Shake-Up

—Ace

CBS Evening News host John Dickerson -- who Steve Turley on YouTube told me was on the verge of tears when he appeared on Stephen Colbert to talk about the Sad! re-election of Donald Trump -- says he's out as anchor.

Update: Here's Dickerson holding back tears after Trump's re-election.

But he didn't leave of his own accord. He was bum-rushed out of the building.

#ShuterScoop can exclusively reveal that new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss has been quietly squeezing out veteran anchors as part of her radical overhaul of the network's culture -- and Dickerson was the first big casualty.

"Let's be clear -- he didn't quit, he was pushed," says one senior network insider. "Bari is making it impossible for the old guard to stay. She's cleaning house -- aggressively."

Weiss, who built her brand railing against "woke journalism," is clashing with long-time CBS personalities over editorial tone and coverage priorities. "She wants straight talk, not safe talk," says another source. "If you can't keep up with her vision, she'll make sure you want to leave."

The newsroom is now in open revolt. "It's a war zone," says one producer. "People are terrified, whispering about who's next."

Insiders say Weiss is hoping more will follow -- especially Gayle King, whose exit would mark the network's tipping point. "Once Gayle's gone," one exec admits, "the Bari era will be complete."

The Daily Mail says "Gayle King's days are numbered."

And that's just the biggest name mentioned -- 2,000 staffers are set to be fired across CBS as a whole, with 100 to be fired from the third-place basket-case "news" division.

Brutal layoffs are hitting CBS News after its parent company announced a plan to axe more than 2,000 staff across the organization.

New editor-in-chief Bari Weiss acknowledged the cuts on the network's morning editorial call Wednesday, Semafor's Max Tani reported.

Weiss called it a 'enormously difficult day' for the network, according to Tani.

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The layoffs will include an initial round of cuts on Wednesday that will impact 1,000 staffers across various departments. Another 1,000 are soon to follow, the New York Times reported.

At CBS News, nearly 100 positions will be eliminated, a person familiar with the matter told CNN. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the cuts were planned before Weiss arrived at the network.

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The news comes days after CBS Evening News co-host John Dickerson announced his resignation, ending a stint plagued by poor ratings.

The 16-year CBS veteran had been quietly negotiating his exit for weeks, Status reported. Paramount's merger with Ellison's Skydance in July led to the decision.

Well-connected sources told the Daily Mail earlier this year that executives will 'most likely' not renew longtime CBS Mornings host Gayle King's contract when it expires in May.

The show, hosted by King since 2011, has also suffered from poor ratings.

Wiess also "blindsided" the president of CBS News by picking a former WSJ editor as her top deputy, without consulting him.

CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss reportedly took the organization's president Tom Cibrowski by surprise as she tapped former Wall Street Journal editor Charles Forelle as one of her top deputies.

Weiss announced the move during a Tuesday morning editorial call, telling staff that Forelle will serve in a deputy editor role for at least a few months, according to a report by Breaker Media that cited unnamed sources.

One bureau and two streaming shows cancelled:

Scott Nover @ScottNover

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Here's what we know about how the Paramount layoffs are affecting CBS News:

• The South Africa bureau is closing,

• Mornings Plus and Evening News Plus, streaming-only extensions of the morning and nighttime broadcasts, are ending.

UPDATE! CBS Saturday Morning show canceled, hosts fired.

The fact that you didn't know there was a show called CBS Saturday Morning is a clue as to why it was cancelled.

The "Race and Culture Unit" -- which sounds like some DEI commie gobedlygook -- was "gutted."

Jeremy Barr @jeremymbarr

One CBS News staffer described the cuts as a "blood bath."

I've also heard that the Race and Culture unit was "gutted."

You might remember Scott Pelley giving a sanctimonious college graduation speech warning that free speech is dead because CBS settled with Trump over his 60 Minutes/Kamala Harris interview lawsuit.

Well, he's next on the list. Weiss is also looking to "shake up" the biased 60 Minutes -- and fire the sanctimonious left-wing Priest of Progressive Politics Scott Pelley.

The clock may be ticking for top talent at "60 Minutes".

CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss is looking to shake up the iconic TV news magazine -- and casualties could include any number of the show's star anchors, The Post has learned.

The 41-year-old newshound was tapped this month to restore "balance" to the Tiffany Network's news unit, according to David Ellison, CEO of CBS owner Paramount Skydance -- and insiders say she believes "60 Minutes" has drifted too far to the left, sources said.

Among Weiss's rumored targets, according to insiders, is Scott Pelley. The anchor slammed CBS's then owner Paramount in an on-air tirade this summer for inking a $16 million settlement with President Trump over allegations that "60 Minutes" "deceptively edited a Kamala Harris interview.

Likewise, Bill Whitaker, the correspondent who conducted the controversial Harris interview, may also be in the crosshairs after he was criticized for throwing softball questions and not vetting what was aired, sources said.

"Bari isn't wrong to try to bring in new people," said a CBS source, noting that Pelley and Whitaker are 68 and 74, respectively. "Most of the show's correspondents and its viewers are geriatric."

But don't worry, CBS isn't just firing people. They're also looking to hire people.

Last week a rumor went around that Bari Weiss, now editor-in-chief of CBS News, was looking to poach Bret Baier, presumably to anchor their basement-rated evening news cast.

I don't think that's true and I wouldn't want to see that happen anyway. Bret Baier? Is this the best we can do? We don't even like him on Fox.

But this might be more solid: the New York Post reports she's looking to poach CNN's sole Republican, Scott Jennings, to be a commenter on the network.

The two met at the Tiffany Network's New York headquarters last week, according to the news site Semafor.

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The Post reported on Monday that John Dickerson, co-anchor of the "CBS Evening News," is leaving the network at the end of the year.

Dickerson, who will continue to co-anchor the nightly newscast with Maurice DuBois until his departure, is set to exit as the entire news division at CBS braces for a round of painful job cuts.

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Given that Jennings is not a full-time employee at the network, he is free to meet with anyone, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.

A CNN spokesperson declined to comment. The Post has sought comment from Jennings, CBS News and Weiss.

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Earlier this year, Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong revealed that he reached out to [Jennings] about a possible role with the newspaper's "LAT Next" media venture.

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David Ellison-owned Paramount Skydance hired Weiss for the top editorial job at CBS News with the mandate of making the network more "balanced" and "fact-based."

The 41-year-old exec, who sold her Free Press newsletter to Paramount for a reported $150 million, is eager to put her stamp on the news division in the face of skepticism from rank-and-file staffers.

Norah O'Donnell, who left "CBS Evening News" earlier this year, met with Weiss and is being discussed as a possible candidate to reclaim her old job, The Post reported earlier this month.

Ugh. I sure hope that this "reformer" isn't looking for a retread.

Scott Jennings would be a great get for CBS.

And it would be good for conservatives. For one thing, many more people would actually see him dismantling libtards on TV.

For another thing, without Scott Jennings drawing eyeballs to CNN clips, Abby Philips would see what her real value is: None. None value. I would say that her ratings would fall but her ratings are already in the basement with Jennings. But with Jennings, her stupid retard-show gets internet eyeballs on Jennings clips.

"What the F*** Did You Just Do?!:" America's First Gay President Ripped Nancy Pelosi for Rushing to Endorse the Dickriding Dingbat Kamala Harris

—Ace

This is according to Jonathan Karl's new book, which I definitely do not suggest you buy. He's a dirty leftwing propagandist, and the title is Retribution. It's about Trump's retribution, known by normal people as "justice" or "turnabout is fair play."

Anyway, this Democrat symp says that Obama was womanishly peeved that he got one brain-damaged retard out of the race only for Nancy Pelosi to endorse the other brain-damaged retard.

Without so much as a by-your-leave-Your-Majesty. The gall!

'What the f*** did you just do?' Obama's furious call to Nancy Pelosi after election betrayal

Former President Barack Obama was not pleased that former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris the day after President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race.

In his new book Retribution, ABC News's Jonathan Karl provided new details on what had been widely known - that Obama didn't want a quick coronation of Harris, but rather 'a process' to determine who would become the Democratic nominee.

The Daily Mail obtained an advanced copy.

Obama called Pelosi shortly after her endorsement of Harris became public.

'The Obamas were not happy,' a Pelosi confidant told Karl. 'This person summed up Obama's message to Pelosi as, essentially, "What the f*** did you just do?"'

Pelosi told the former Democratic president: 'That train has left the station.'

The endorsement had come as a surprise to Obama because he and Pelosi had been in 'regular communication' as it appeared then 81-year-old Biden was nearing the decision to drop out of the race, and 'they agreed Harris should not simply be handed the nomination unchallenged,' Karl wrote.

'Therefore, Obama and Pelosi - arguably the two most influential figures in the Democratic Party - had privately agreed to abstain from making any endorsements,' the longtime ABC News reporter said.

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Around 1 pm the next day [after Biden's withdrawal], Pelosi endorsed Harris, leaving Obama miffed.

'The former president wanted to know what had happened. Why had Pelosi issued a statement endorsing Harris so soon? Hadn't he and Pelosi agreed days earlier that party leaders anointing the vice president as Biden's replacement would be a mistake?' Karl wrote.

A source close to Obama told Karl that the former president wasn't actually angry at Pelosi over the endorsement, characterizing the conversation as a 'good-natured ribbing'.

But the source close to the California congresswoman remembered it differently, believing Obama sounded 'genuinely irritated' by Pelosi's move, using the four-letter word to describe the tone.

A senior Biden adviser, who also worked in the Obama White House, told Karl that the real reason Obama didn't want Pelosi to endorse Harris so quickly was that the former president didn't think the vice president could win.

'There's only one Black Jesus,' the senior Biden adviser quipped.

Someone even closer to Pelosi was also surprised by the former House Speaker's decision: Pelosi's own husband.

'Kamala?' Paul Pelosi asked his wife, Karl reported.

'Don't start with me,' Nancy Pelosi replied in a conversation shortly after her endorsement of the vice president became public.

Pelosi had never been a big Harris fan and had privately told Biden in 2020 that she had reservations about him picking her fellow Californian as his running mate.

But with major Democrats like Bill and Hillary Clinton, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and potential challengers like Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, California Governor Gavin Newsom and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer quickly backing Harris, 'she had no choice,' Karl wrote.

'No other candidates had stepped forward - Kamala Harris was it. The only thing Pelosi could do was try to help her win the election,' Karl said.

The Democrat-Antifa-Media Party is still addicted to stopping all debate and discourse and instead presenting the Party Line and telling the peons to get in line.

The Man Arrested for Offering $45,000 to Anyone Who Could Kill AG Pam Bondi Turns Out To Be, Get This, a "Trans Nonbinary"

—Ace

I'm not going to rush into the details because I'm aware that most of you are in a state of absolute shock. A left-wing trans nonbinary extremist? Implicated in political violence?

Make it make sense! The world's gone mad!

Are you all comfortable? Are you sitting down? I wouldn't want you to collapse from shock when you hear the news.

Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo

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A Minnesota radical leftist who identifies as trans nonbinary was federally charged for allegedly posting a death threat to U.S. @AGPamBondi. The death threat came with a cash reward for anyone able to assassinate her.

Tyler Maxon Avalos was charged with interstate transmission of a threat to injure a person. He was released from custody. His social media has radical anarchist posts and a reference to John Brown. In Texas, members of the John Brown Gun Club and a local North Texas Antifa network were indicted on terrorism and organized crime charges related to an ambush shooting on an ICE facility. https://ngocomment.com/p/the-first-federal-terror-case-against

Avalos' social media avatar is of a character from the "Inglourious Basterds" film, which Antifa like for their fantasy of killing Nazis. http://ngocomment.com

I'm very surprised this mixed-up miscreant hails from Tim Walz's transgender state.

Also surprising: A leftwing judge immediately set him free on no bail.

@amuse @amuse · Oct 27 ANTIFA: Democrat judges simply refuse to take criminals off of the street. Tyler Maxon Avalos was arrested in Minnesota after putting out a $45K hit on General Pam Bondi. Judge Douglas Micko released Avalos without bail despite a lengthy violent criminal record. The judge has been critical of the Trump administration and ordered ICE to explain why it is detaining illegals.

It's almost as if the establishment left is deliberately enabling its Trantifa assassins to kill conservatives and normies.

Trump Scrapes Enough Federal -- and Private -- Money to Pay the Troops for One More Week

—Ace

Nick Sortor @nicksortor

BREAKING: The White House has found a way to make sure troops are PAID this week, despite the ongoing Schumer Shutdown, VP JD Vance has confirmed

Fantastic.

These heroes deserve every dime on time.

A "mystery donor" reportedly donated $130 million to help pay the troops, but surely that isn't enough to cover the military's personnel budget, even for a week.

An unnamed donor is giving $130m (£100m) to the Pentagon to help pay US troops during the government shutdown, sparking ethics concerns.

US defence officials confirmed the gift, which President Donald Trump said will make up for shortfalls in paying the country's 1.32m service members, but declined to identify the donor.

Trump provided a few clues, though, saying on Saturday that he was "a big supporter of mine" and a US citizen.

The NYT identified the donor as Mellon fortune heir Tim Mellon, and then, you'll never believe it, claimed it would be illegal for the US to use the money to pay the troops whose salaries the Democrats are blocking.

Timothy Mellon, a reclusive billionaire and a major financial backer of President Trump, is the anonymous private donor who gave $130 million to the U.S. government to help pay troops during the shutdown, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Mr. Trump announced the donation on Thursday night, but he declined to name the person who provided the funds, only calling him a "patriot" and a friend. But the two people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the donation was private, identified him as Mr. Mellon.

Shortly after departing Washington on Friday, Mr. Trump again declined to identify Mr. Mellon while talking to reporters aboard Air Force One. He only said the individual was "a great American citizen" and a "substantial man.

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Mr. Mellon, a wealthy banking heir and railroad magnate, is a longtime backer of Mr. Trump and gave tens of millions of dollars to groups supporting the president's campaign. Last year, he made a $50 million donation to a super PAC supporting Mr. Trump, which was one of the largest single contributions ever disclosed.

A grandson of former Treasury Secretary Andrew W. Mellon, Mr. Mellon was not a prominent Republican donor until Mr. Trump was elected. But in recent years, he has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into supporting Mr. Trump and the Republican Party.

Mr. Mellon, who lives primarily in Wyoming, keeps a low profile despite his prolific political spending. He is also a significant supporter of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who also ran for president last year. Mr. Mellon donated millions to Mr. Kennedy's presidential campaign and has also given money to his anti-vaccine group, Children's Health Defense.

The Pentagon said it accepted the donation under the "general gift acceptance authority."

Still, the donation appears to be a potential violation of the Antideficiency Act, which prohibits federal agencies from spending money in excess of congressional appropriations or from accepting voluntary services.

They're gearing up to challenge the payments to the military. As Democrat Whip Katherine Clarke admitted last week -- before she began backpedaling -- the Democrats want to inflict "suffering" on the American people for "leverage" in trying to get money for illegal aliens.

Democrats don't want to be blamed for suing to stop Trump from paying troops stuck overseas in warzones without pay. They're counting on the ACLU or Norm Eisen to sue on their behalf -- but everyone knows those are just Democrat-Antifa-Media Party catspaws.

From Ed Morrissey: John Thune says that Democrats are quietly praying for the shutdown to end.

"There are rank-and-file Democrats, we've had back-channel conversations...that have intensified."

"There are people who want to get this figured out on the Democrat side."

"There are. But the challenge is the Democrat leadership couldn't care LESS about this."

"Chuck Schumer, they're in a BOX. They are running SCARED of the far-left."

Video at the link.

It is speculated by Mark Halperin (I think) that what will eventually happen is that Chuck Schumer will tell some purple-state Democrats to "betray" him and vote to end the shutdown, so that Chuck Schumer can pretend playing the Tough Guy for his inevitable primary fight with -- and primary loss to -- Alexandria Donkey Chompers.

CNN's excitable schmoll analyst delivers the bad news to the Democrats: the GOP has gained popularity during the Democrat-Antifa Shutdown.

Wednesday Morning Rant

—Joe Mannix

The insanity surrounding Trump's renovation of the White House is truly remarkable to behold. The meltdown among the leftist establishment has beggared belief. Trump is doing a major renovation to the property. It happens from time to time. But this time, it is of course monstrous and an assault on decency, motherhood and the American Way.

This crazy overreaction is for two reasons. The first and most obvious, of course, is the simple fact that it is Trump doing it. It doesn't matter if the renovation is valuable and useful. It doesn't matter if Trump finagled a way to pay for it without taxpayer money. All that matters is that the Bad Orange Man is doing it. For many people, that's as far as it goes. Trump, therefore bad. It needn't be more complicated than that.

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

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Kurt Seligmann

The Morning Report — 10/29/25

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids.

So as a major Category 5 hurricane, reportedly more powerful than Chocolate City killer Katrina 20 years ago, currently roars across the Caribbean, slamming into Jamaica and Cuba, coincidentally, or not?, this little item made news and the timing is at least interesting if not perfect. I say that since Hurricanes regardless of their actual ferocity/destructiveness, which have been a natural phenomenon since Planet Earth's atmosphere first came into existence a couple billion years ago, have been used since Katrina to pimp the sham/fraud of Anthropogenic Global Warming, since renamed as Climate Change ever since the release of Al Gore's puerile sci-fi film school comedy"An Inconvenient Truth" which gave us 6 years to destroy the global economy and billions of lives in order to save the planet, or else after that time we'd have 10 years to do it and then 5 more years after that and so on and so on and scoobie doobie doobie. And so pardon the ramble, but with that I give you the crux of the biscuit:

In a recent memo, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has pushed back against what he calls a “doomsday outlook” on climate change, signaling a shift in his views on the risks posed by a warming planet. Despite the move, he remains an extremist on a variety of issues, including his belief that we need a new “god” for humans to worship in the age of AI. . .Despite Gates’ seeming change of heart on pushing climate alarmism, he remains dedicated to a variety of extreme leftist positions. . . the allure of these technologies could be so great that people may become addicted to them, spending more time in virtual worlds than in the real one. To counteract this risk, Gates suggested that a new spiritual framework may be necessary to keep humanity grounded and connected to one another. “You know, you can almost call it a new religion or a new philosophy of, okay, how do we stay connected with each other, not addicted to these things that’ll make video games look like nothing in terms of the attractiveness of spending time on them,” he said.

I was going to say that his sudden apostasy on Climate Change doomerism stinks to high heaven. For sure he senses that the public is no longer susceptible to the nonstop propaganda blitz every time there's a hurricane, earthquake, wildfire, flooding, cold snap or other natural disaster or even regular occurring phenomenon like the change of seasons.

To me like every con artist in history, when the audience can see the ventriloquist's lips move or the strings on the dummy or the pea in the shell game, then it's way past time to either give it up or come up with a new con. And it sure seems as if Gates is attempting to do just that. Most disgustingly is what he let slip that is more than just a tad alarming as a tell of what lies ahead for this bastard child of Blofeld and Frankenstein:

"A new religion or a new philosophy of, okay, how do we stay connected with each other, not addicted to these things that’ll make video games look like nothing in terms of the attractiveness of spending time on them"

Am I imagining things, or is he setting himself up to be some sort of Messianic figure who imagines himself and his ilk as the savior(s) of humanity, this time via AI or whatever other invention or idea they come up with that can be twisted and abused so that they and their ilk can divide and conquer for their own nefarious purposes of remaking humanity and society in their own image.

Doesn't that sound familiar . . . Democrats! Socialists! Leftists! Islam! cough-cough-cough...

Indeed it does.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) compared U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II while speaking Monday at the U.S. Capitol during a Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism hearing on immigration enforcement.

This would be comical were it not so disgustingly tragic on several levels. First it was a Democrat, FDR, worshipped to this day as a semi-deity by Leftists who via an executive order had Americans of Japanese ancestry, the Nisei, rounded up and put into internment camps, on the pretext that they presented an internal threat to American national security in the wake of the Pearl Harbor attack and subsequent declaration of war on Japan. Equally disgusting was the Supreme Court's Korematsu decision that upheld the order as constitutional.

The parallels to today's lawless judiciary that by itself or in cahoots with the Leftist/globalist/Democrat cabal hs usurped its authority to sabotage and derail candidate and then President Trump's agenda at every turn, as you can see in the links below vis a vis nixing his authority to send troops to Portland and his authority to fire federal idlers hacks and layabouts during the government shutdown, which as an aside is being blamed on Democrats much to the shock of the media propagandists.

As for FDR, recall that he was no fan of the Bill of Rights and Constitution as written and came up with his cockamamie Four Freedoms bullshit and some other set of rights that gave the government supremacy over the individual, contrary to the founding of this nation. This is one big reason why to this day we are trillions in debt and that Congress is competely dysfunctional and abrogating its oath and responsibility to legislate per the will of the people.

On top of all that, to this day Dick Durbin has yet to be fully investigated and held accountable for his connection and potential role in the near mass assassination of GOP politicians at a softball practice by Leftist gunman and Bernie Sanders acolyte James Hodgkinson. His continued presence in the hallowed halls of the Senate is an effrontery to decency on every level imaginable.

As we, or at least most of us lament the coming disaster that is this Zohran Mamdani to Gracie Mansion. While NYC may not survive the perfect storm of Communism and Islam, for those who are delighting in the Big Apple getting what its voting for good and hard, just a little whisper in your ears that it won't necessarily be limited to New York.

“Nazi bootlickers” are running rampant in Milford, Conn. — and apparently I’m one of them. That is, according to a local Democrat committee member who hurled invective at me and other Republican aldermen at a public meeting this month. The accusation reflected a growing national sickness: The harsh political rhetoric that led to Charlie Kirk’s assassination is eating away at the roots of American politics — our local town councils.  The ugliness exploded after our town’s elected GOP aldermen declined to approve Democratic nominee Toni Lombardi to temporarily fill a vacant seat on the board.  At that, Nadine Padowicz — a member of the Milford Democrat Town Committee — slammed us as “homegrown Nazis,” simply for our affiliation with President Donald Trump. In her remarks, Padowicz called Trump a “thug who is destroying our democracy” and said we Republicans “lick his boots.”

So, okay, it's Milford Connecticut which is close enough to NYC not to raise an eyebrow among many of you. And yet the hatred and invective is likely the same that can be found in, pardon the expression so-called "Flyover Country."

Cancer metastasizes, my friends. Remember that Charlie Kirk was shot in Utah, albeit on a college campus, but Utah nonetheless.

The Democrat Party and the Leftist movement must be dismantled and denuded of their ability to ever hold power and influence. How we are to do that within the limits of our ethics and morals with the least pain and suffering, and while maintaining the civil society and government that we crave to preserve is the big question.

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• “What we’ve learned is it was much broader, much more expansive, than we ever thought,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan said.
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