The Morning Report — 10/23/25

Good morning kids. As some of my classmates of a certain background might have phrased it, "Lemme axe you dis. . . Oh the benefits of a public school education (with all due respect to my parents now of blessed memory who were NYC teachers, and truly dedicated to their professions, but I digress.

So, lemme axe you — Is this something?

The Trump administration has agreed to cancel billions of dollars in federal student loan debt for as many as 2.5 million borrowers, following a federal court settlement in the case American Federation of Teachers (AFT) v. U.S. Department of Education. The settlement, filed on October 17, reinstates loan forgiveness provisions tied to income-driven repayment (IDR) programs, including Income-Contingent Repayment (ICR), Pay As You Earn (PAYE), and Income-Based Repayment (IBR). These plans cap monthly payments based on income and household size, and forgive remaining balances after 20 to 25 years of qualifying payments.The agreement comes after the AFT sued the Trump administration in March 2025, claiming it had unlawfully reversed Joe Biden-era loan forgiveness initiatives. According to the lawsuit, the Department of Education, under President Trump, removed IDR enrollment applications from federal websites and directed servicers to stop processing new enrollments and forgiveness applications. The AFT argued that this violated federal law by denying borrowers access to debt relief guaranteed by Congress.“For nearly a decade, the AFT has fought for the rights of student loan borrowers to be freed from the shackles of unjust debt—and today, a huge part of that affordability fight was vindicated,” said AFT President Randi Weingarten in a statement. “Our agreement means that borrowers stuck in limbo can either get immediate relief or finally see a light at the end of the tunnel. And, crucially, they won’t ever get taxed on that relief.

Yes, this was a lawsuit and was wending its way through our highly corrupted judicial system, but shouldn't President Trump have stuck to his guns? is his settling a sell out. I certainly did not vote for this and as we all were, disgusted in the extreme over having to bail out deadbeats whose education in the main consisted of being indoctrinated by Marxists, perverts, anti-Semites, and heathens intent on dismantling this nation and society and the past 2,000 to 10,000 years of human advancement and development.

I like that "Freed from the shackles of unjust debt." If only Weingarten were in fron of me so I can direct my projectile voimitus directly down her filthy pie hole. When little Susie or Johnny or their bastard-producing parents sign on the dotted line for that loan, It's not the moral equivalent of Luca Brazzi holding a gun to Johnny Fontaine's manager's head and Vito Corleone assuring them that either their signature or their brains will be on that paper.

So far, Linda McMahon's work as DoE Secretary along with President Trump's putting the screws to such vipers' nests of America and Jew-hatred as Harvard have been praiseworthy and long overdue.

But there is still much work to be done, because the Molotov cocktails don't make themselves nor are lit and hurled at ICE and cops all by themselves. Once again, to quote the great Rogers and Hammerstein, You've got to be carefully taught

. . . Education departments in every state are on radical autopilot when they make social studies standards. Americans expect blue states to use their state social studies standards to impose identity politics ideology and action civics (vocational training in progressive activism) on schools and students, strip out factual content, and ignore or slander the history of Western civilization and America, and call it “social studies instruction” — that’s what you get in states such as Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Minnesota. But radical activists embedded in state education departments do the same thing in red states whenever policymakers and citizens aren’t looking. That’s what just happened in Alaska. . .

The Alaska Social Studies Standards (2024), produced by Alaska’s Department of Education and Early Development, avoided the worst of the blue-state social studies standards’ extreme politicization, unprofessional vocabulary, and ideologically extreme content. That’s because there’s hardly any historical content. The standards’ absences include basic facts of American history, much of how our government works, and our foundational documents of liberty. The standards also introduced substantial new amounts of politicized material.

And while we're on the subject

48-page report released in September exposes the depth of the nation’s teachers’ unions’ hostility toward all things Jewish. “Breaking Solidarity: How Anti-Semitic Activists Turned Teacher Unions Against Israel,” published by the Defense of Freedom Institute in September, explains how unions have worked to embed anti-Semitism into K–12 education. . .

While the NEA handbook fails to mention the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, it manages to criticize Israel and Jews by promoting “Palestinian Nakba Education,” explaining that “the Nakba, meaning catastrophe in Arabic, refers to the forced, violent displacement and dispossession of at least 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland in 1948 during the establishment of the state of Israel.”

Additionally, there was harassment and intimidation of Jews at the NEA Representative Assembly held in July. Jewish educators who spoke out against a resolution that proposed to cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League were shouted down during the proceedings. Just over a week after the assembly’s conclusion, the executive committee of the NEA’s Jewish Affairs Caucus published a chilling letter to NEA President Becky Pringle, reporting that Jewish delegates attending the gathering “were vocally mocked, harassed, and threatened in ways that dishonor our union.”

Wait until they find out that Randi Weingarten is Jewish. Well, she's more Ish than Jew, but still.

On a not completely unrelated note given the greatest threat to the stability and continued existence of whatever remnants of he American Republic still remain and function as intended are the combined political thuggery of Democrat politicians and policy, the corruption now systemic and endemic in the unelected unaccountable bureaucracy and our legal/judicial system and the physical thuggery and violence of the aforementioned's openly violent base — I give you this item:

"On September 4," the narrative went on page 10, "a PPB officer reported seeing several older homeless people being coerced into approaching the ICE facility gate." Interesting. "Coerced" into doing something. As in being ordered to do something against their will?  Well, yes.  The 9th Circuit Court’s recitation of the facts continued: “The instigators told these people that they should create a distraction or simply rattle the gate,” the court noted. And it wasn't just some crackhead or tweaker telling the story. Indeed, the narrators of this story were the very same Portland Police Bureau officers who have been told not to help ICE keep the peace. The cops were dropping dime on Antifa, using homeless people to ... get arrested. . . "[PPB] Officers confirmed this was happening by watching 'the instigators escorting different [older homeless people] up to the gate,'” the opinion read.  And what were these "older homeless people" supposed to do? Why, they were told to "just come up to the gate and rattle it."  To accomplish what, exactly?  Well, the feds wanted to know. The opinion continued, "FPS took custody of an elderly man after he asked federal officers" watching the gate, who begged officers to be able to "just come up to the gate and rattle it so the antifa instigators would leave him and others alone.” 

This revolting story reminds of something an uncle of mine, now of blessed memory, told me of his experience at the hands of the Nazis and later among the Ukrainian partisans. When they learned he was a Jew fleeing Nazi captivity, they dragooned him into being a mine detector. No, they did not issue him with electronic gear but they gave him a long stick and ordered him at gunpoint to walk in front of their column on the road and start poking at the ground. If he blew up, as was the fate of many of his compatriots, then "mine detected."

And yet it's President Trump and all of us who support him that are the Nazis, fascists and racists.

Antifa: so anti-fascist that they are surprisingly (not) expert and eager utilizers of fascistic tactics across the spectrum.

If we do not completely dismantle and reconstruct the brainwashing mills of Pre-K through Post-Graduate into bastions of real learning as well as high temples of Western andJudeo/Christian morals and ethics, then we have no hope.

How we are to do that without employing the most dare I say it "radical" of solutions, is the question. But what must be done, must be done, and yesterday!!!

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats cry “No Kings” while wielding royal power—raiding rivals, silencing dissent, and crowning heirs without a single vote.
  Who Are the Real Kings?

CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• Well, the feds wanted to know. The opinion continued, "FPS took custody of an elderly man after he asked federal officers" watching the gate, who begged officers to be able to "just come up to the gate and rattle it so the antifa instigators would leave him and others alone.”
  Court: Antifa Uses Portland Homeless People as Expendable Cannon Fodder

• Stacey Patton, a journalism professor at the Washington, DC-based university, posted a blog post, “John Brown Didn’t Ask Enslaved People How to Be A Good White Ally.”
  Howard University Professor Urges White Allies to Emulate Pre-Civil War Violent Radical John Brown, Used by Antifa as an Icon (Larry, Shemp and Curly all disown Moe for his namesake alma mater - jjs)
  
• Ngo stated that footage from Portland doesn’t have a lot of people wearing the usual Antifa uniform and part of that is due to them staying away due to fear of law enforcement, but another reason is “they do not have the critical mass, they do not have people. Whereas, they did in 2020.”
  Exclusive — Andy Ngo: Antifa in Retreat, Weakest They’ve Been in Decade

• Antifa amassed significant attention during the Summer 2020 riots, playing a major role in several Democratic-led cities, such as Seattle and Portland. Carville said in a video of the podcast posted to Politicon’s YouTube channel that since Antifa lacks an official leader, it is not real, comparing it to “vapor.” (RELATED: Antifa Cop Fired Over Insane Social Media Posts)
  James Carville Literally Claims Antifa ‘Doesn’t Exist’ In Unhinged Rant
  
• The Democrats have clearly told us who they are
  Why We Don’t Like The Democrat Party

  
  ISRAEL AND USA vs Hamas, IRAN, et al

• Moulton joined Democrat Reps. Eric Yum-Yum Swalwell of California and Jim Himes of Connecticut on a 2020 congressional delegation to Qatar, where they toured the Qatar Foundation — a charity led by the royal family.
  Rep. Seth Jiz-lips- Moulton Rejects AIPAC Donations, Accepts All-Expense-Paid Trip To Qatar
  
• And it's worth just that.
  Condoleezza and Hillary Offer Their Two Cents on Israel and the ‘Palestinians’
  * * * * *

  "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS

• Mahmoud Amin Ya’Qub al-Muhtadi, who allegedly participated in the Oct. 7 attack, was indicted for being in the United States on a fraudulent visa
  Cotton Urges DHS To Review Biden-Era Visas After Indictment of Alleged Hamas Terrorist Living in Louisiana
  
• The operation highlighted tensions between federal law enforcement and local officials, sparking criticism from activists and politicians.
  African Illegals and Anti-ICE Rioters Arrested During NYC Raid.
  
• There's a big difference between sending someone here illegally home, and Hitler's concentration camps.
  The Left’s Reductio ad Hitlerum Obsession with ICE Raids
  
• Fox News’s Bill Melugin revealed in a post on X that “multiple ICE sources” said Singh, 21, the semi-truck driver allegedly behind the accident that left three people dead in an alleged DUI-related crash, had been “caught & released” at the California border under the Biden administration in March 2022.
  Truck Driver Allegedly Behind Fatal 8-Car Accident Identified as Indian Illegal Alien
  
• A look at the numbers reveals a very disturbing reality.
  A Hidden Tax: What Americans Are Really Paying for Illegal Immigration
  
• A border insider shines a light on the taboo truth.
  Prager U Video: Mass Deportation – the Fastest Path to Safety?

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• “Shutdowns are terrible, and of course there will be families that are going to suffer,” she told Fox News Thursday. “We take that responsibility very seriously. But it is one of the few leverage times we have.”
  Number Two House Democrat Admits Families Suffering Under Shutdown Create Bargaining Leverage

• We need leaders who are transparent with all of their citizens about matters in the community. What we don’t need is leaders who attempt to silence anyone who holds them accountable to the people they serve.
  I sued a Kentucky judge to prove you can’t silence whistleblowers

• Borrowers eligible for relief are being notified, with options to accept forgiveness or opt out, according to the Department of Education.
  Trump Admin Approves Student Loan Forgiveness for 2.5 Million.

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• 1,309 arrests, 72 missing children located, and 247 firearms seized, with a focus on dismantling gang activity and violent crime.
  Trump’s Memphis Crime Crackdown Dismantles Gangs, Recovers Missing Children.

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• The Treasury Department contends that if tariff revenues and current fiscal restraint measures are maintained, the federal government’s deficit-to-GDP ratio will fall below four percent, a number largely seen as acceptable in terms of an annual fiscal loss.
  Trump’s Tariffs and Spending Cuts Are Taking Chunks Out of the Budget Deficit.
  
• It’s a good time to slash the bureaucracy and return a little freedom to the people.
  Let’s shut down the IRS

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• The National Education Association and other teachers’ unions are rife with radicals who despise Israel and Jews.
  Jew-Hatred Is Rampant in Teachers’ Unions

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Six arrests were made, a police vehicle was set on fire, and tensions over Ireland’s migrant policies have escalated.
  Dublin Riots After Hotel Migrant Accused of Raping Ten-Year-Old.

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• If Weiss is already facing resistance for asking important questions about staff members' workload and their opinions, she could face an uphill climb in making a change. But it also underscores the need for change.
  The media panic over Bari Weiss exposes their fear of change
  
• America cannot survive without heritage Americans.
  The New York Times Wants An America Without Americans

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,

• The ID Buzz, a modern electric interpretation of the iconic Volkswagen Microbus, has been met with enthusiasm from both nostalgic fans and leftists eager to embrace the future of electric mobility. However, despite the initial excitement surrounding the vehicle, it appears that demand has not maintained its momentum.
  VW Pauses Production on ‘ID Buzz’ EV Bus Due to Slowing Demand
  
• Electric cars are not liberation — they are compliance devices.
  The Green Mirage: The Hidden Costs Behind the Electric Car Hype

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• Even in a red state like Alaska, bureaucrats have infiltrated the education department with ‘protest’ and ‘action civics.’
  Alaska Schools’ Social Studies Standards Omit Washington, Lincoln, And Christianity
  
• Chinese LSAT prep companies have allowed students to access stolen questions, the Free Beacon has learned
  How China Cheats Its Way Into US Law Schools

  ABORTION

• Right now, there are no abortionists in New Jersey who perform abortions past 28 weeks, according to the report. Babies can survive outside the womb at around 24 weeks of pregnancy, although there have been documented cases of babies born even earlier who have survived with medical intervention.
  Late-Term Abortion Clinic Expected to Open in New Jersey (I propose Phil Murphy, who's in about his 273rd trimester, to be first to experience the business end of a Kermit Gosnell turkey baster- jjs)

  THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH

• Schweizer summed up the counterargument to minority-majority districts as: “We shouldn’t create an injustice now because of an injustice in the past.”
  Peter Schweizer: How Race-Based Districts Rig Elections Before the First Vote Is Cast

  
  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• . . . calling out her organization for taking “blood money from China.” “I think the U.S. ought to investigate your organization and maybe you for the money that you’ve taken from Chinese donors who are persecuting Uyghurs,” Hawley said in a video obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
  EXCLUSIVE: Josh Hawley Gives Code Pink Activist A Taste Of Her Own Medicine
  
• What lawyers do when they have neither the law nor the facts on their side.
  Letitia James’ Histrionics are Lawyer Table-Pounding
  
• Were you aware that much of JB Pritzker’s growing wealth is coming from “gambling” winnings? (He's the Al Capone of Fredo Corleones - jjs)
  Governor Pritzker’s Gambling Profits ... or Mobster Payoff?
  
• Platner portrays himself as a 'working class Mainer' and is backed by Bernie Sanders, who says he'll 'fight for the working class'
  'Working Class' Graham Platner Attended Elite $75,000 a Year Prep School Known for Famous Government Alumni
  
• The contention has divided progressives and party insiders, with some hailing Platner as an outsider unafraid to speak bluntly and others warning he could become a political liability. Platner told the Associated Press he chose to cover the tattoo with a new design rather than remove it, citing limited options for removal in rural Maine. (Surely they can get Antifa to spare some gasoline and a broken bottle? - jjs)
  Democrats Are Being Torn Apart By Graham Platner’s Sh*tposting

  POLITICS

• "It’s a fact that we will send one more Republican to Congress from this great state.”
  Trump Scores Another Win: New North Carolina Congressional Map Boosts GOP’s Midterm Outlook

• California State Senator Scott Wiener announced his campaign on Wednesday.
  Pro Trans Leftist Launches Bid For Pelosi’s Seat Before She Has A Chance To Announce Retirement

• We’ve seen what the alternative to all of that looks like. It was called the Biden years. Or, if you made less than $250,000 per year, you might have more commonly known it as “Is this hell?”
  Democrats Keep Trying To Offer An ‘Alternative’ To Trump. That’s Their Problem
  
• The New York governor’s endorsement of Zohran Mamdani seems motivated by a desire for short-term political survival—but it will come at a high cost.
  Kathy Hochul’s Faustian Bargain
  
• But she supports the Communist.
  Mamdani Supports BDS While Governor Hochul Opposes BDS
  
• “It is about the survival of Chuck Schumer and his primary that he’s going to lose to AOC, and it’s about a party that has lost a message and has no messengers,” Sheehy said.
  Sen. Sheehy: Zohran Mamdani the Real Leader of the Democrat Party, Chuck Schumer Working for him

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• "President Putin has not come to the table in an honest and forthright manner, as we'd hoped."
  Trump Ramps Up Pressure On Putin, Hits Russian Oil Companies With Sanctions

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• The Japanese parliament elected “ultraconservative” 64-year-old Sanae Takaichi as the country’s prime minister Tuesday. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, Takaichi has already drawn comparisons to Margaret Thatcher, the famous conservative prime minister who led the United Kingdom during the 1980s.
  Japan Elects Conservative Politician With Interesting History And Road Ahead
  
• "These cartels are waging war on our border and our people."
  ‘A Lethal, Kinetic Strike’: Hegseth Says U.S. Has Taken Out Another Drug Boat

• One issue that South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Trump should discuss is business cooperation and the rule of law. As The Heritage Foundation noted, “South Korea’s relationship with the U.S. is rooted in shared values, people-to-people ties, and leading-edge business cooperation.” The strong relationship dates to the Mutual Defense Treaty signed in 1953 that locked down a strong alliance. South Korea can be a strong ally that will push back on adversaries in Asia while promoting security and freedom for Asia and the United States.
  South Korea Political Reforms Will Strengthen U.S. Alliance
  
• Canada's former princess, Justin Trudeau, spent his final days in office doing what a good communist opening act should: disarming his citizens so that his successor can "seal the deal" and hand Canada over to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-dominated New World Order.
  Oh Canada! Your Government Took Your Guns, Now Your Homes. Get It, Yet?
  
• A sweeping and unprecedented crackdown on Christians.
  Communist China Jails Christian Pastor, 30 Others, for Leading Underground Church

  
  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• When Americans were warned that government-run health care would eventually ration treatment, the political left laughed off the phrase “death panels.” But in states like New York, it’s not a conspiracy theory -- it’s official policy.
  New York Death Panels: Children are Dying
  
• America is a nation spending billions cleaning up after obesity, and zero on stopping it at the source.That’s not just stupid. That’s sabotage.
  The Stupidest Thing in American Health Care? Failing to Tackle Obesity Early.
  
• Many of those living on the streets aren’t veterans or schizophrenics.
  What I Learned Guarding a Homeless Shelter

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• NASA’s decision to redact every page as shown indicates NASA is hiding some really worrisome information, information that would make its decision to fly Orion manned around the Moon using this heat shield design very questionable, and maybe even insane... NASA is very clearly continuing its bad behavior from the Challenger and Columbia days:
  What bad news is NASA hiding about the heat shield it will use on the next Orion/SLS manned mission around the Moon?

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Christian Toto: Combative interview lets host duck responsibility for hiding Biden's decline
  Colbert Throws KJP Under Bus to Save His Skin
  
• Several artists have recently been trying to get their music taken down from Spotify in protest of the company allowing ICE recruitment ads to play on the streaming platform, according to a report by Stereogum.
  Spotify Says ICE Recruitment Ads Don’t Violate Company Policy, Leftist Musicians Melt Down
  
• James L Simon, a co-producer for 'Operation Mincemeat,' received positive coverage in at least one paid placement online, pushing his transgression off Google's home page
  Producer Who Tore Down Israeli Hostage Poster Back on Broadway
  
• When the long march through the institutions gives destructive and ridiculous people control of the institutions, the institutions become destructive and ridiculous, and then they become destroyed and ridiculous.
  The Left Isn’t Just Marching Through Our Institutions, It’s Imploding Them

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