The Morning Report — 10/28 /26

Good morning kids.

While there is certainly some good news out there to take heart in and cheer about. Firstly despite some of the savagery that we read about here on a frequent basis, there's this story:

The cause and effect are obvious: The Trump team made fighting crime a top priority — a reversal from the “criminal justice reform” emphasis of Joe Biden and #Defund Democrats — and got the expected results. Per Justice Department’s National Crime Victimization Survey, 2025 saw 2.16 million violent incidents — down from 2.83 million in 2024, for the largest single-year drop since 1973. . . . Democrat mayors are trying to claim credit for last year’s marked decline in violent crime, yet the staggering 25% drop was nationwide and came in the first year of President Donald Trump’s new term. The cause and effect are obvious: The Trump team made fighting crime a top priority — a reversal from the “criminal justice reform” emphasis of Joe Biden and #Defund Democrats — and got the expected results.

And despite the ups and downs of oil and energy prices as a result of the ongoing conflict with Iran, it ultimately will stabilize and no doubt drop to lower costs as it has always done in the past in the wake of the geopolitical crisis du jour that caused the spike in the first place. So on that note, there's this item.

President Donald Trump will announce an EPA proposal on Tuesday evening gutting Biden-era regulations that placed strict limits on methane emissions from oil and gas drilling operations, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

Methane is released during the flaring of natural gas, which takes place at oil drilling operations that lack expensive capture technology. For years, environmentalists and Democrats have called for stricter regulations, including rules barring flaring, that target methane, which activists refer to as a "super pollutant" and is more potent than carbon dioxide.

Overall, Tuesday's action removing methane regulations—which represents the latest major energy-related announcement Trump has made in the run-up to the upcoming midterm election—is projected to save Americans $45 billion in energy costs and lead to an extra 210 million barrels of oil and 1.41 trillion cubic feet of natural gas produced nationwide, a Trump EPA official briefed on the announcement told the Free Beacon.

Oh please. This is an abject crock of shit. If methane were so lethal then how is it that the human population jumped to roughly 8 billion from an estimated 1.25 billion in 1850, which was about the start of the Industrial Revolution, when oil, coal and natural gas were produced and burned wherever civilization and human progress progressed!

Therefore, If you love your children burn fossil fuels.

Here’s a question someone should ask climate expert Greta Thunberg today. What if global warming is preventing the next ice age? Wouldn’t that be a good thing for children everywhere? Turns out, a new study published in the highly respected journal Science says that might be exactly what’s happening right now. The study, which goes by the unassuming title of “Late Holocene re-expansion of the Laurentide Ice Sheet,” asks whether “anthropogenic warming prevented the next glacial cycle” and finds that “it may have done just that.”

Of course all of this sanity could come screeching to a halt should the midterms be whole or in part taken by the Dems and certainly should a non-MAGA aligned Republican not come out on top in 2028 and for every election afterwards and our educational system not be purged of the Leftists from Pre-K through Post-Graduate.

And when I say the midterms TAKEN by the Dems I mean that quite literally.

In a 2-1 decision handed down Monday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Justice Department’s emergency request to pull those ballots out of the count while the voters’ eligibility is reviewed. The majority wrote that the government’s urgency was partly of its own making. Judge Patrick Bumatay dissented, arguing the federal government has a sovereign interest in protecting federal elections.

The fight started October 15, when the DOJ sued California over a list of more than 20,000 registered voters that federal agencies had flagged as likely noncitizens. Prosecutors wanted the state to verify each name or keep those ballots separate from the rest. California refused, disputing both the underlying data and the short deadline it was given.

Federal prosecutor Bill Essayli said the state made a stunning admission at a hearing a day earlier. According to Essayli, California told the court it does nothing to independently check the citizenship of its voters, and that any ballot already cast by a noncitizen would be counted if the judges did not step in. He said that is why his office asked for the emergency order, arguing that illegal votes dilute legal ones.

And so it goes my friends...

A free people keeps the means to defend its own, and the Second Amendment is the insurance policy I'm glad we never cancelled. . . My oldest son graduated from West Point, and the other two are still in college. I’d like all three to inherit a country that still knows what it is and still enforces its own rules. The studio always releases the trailer before the feature. Europe’s trailer is playing now, and we still hold the pen on the sequel. A free people keeps the means to defend itself, and the Second Amendment is the insurance policy I’m glad we never canceled.

On that somewhat mouth-watering essay I bid you all to have a good day.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• From Omar to Michigan, the stakes are rising.
  The Obama Endgame
  
• Democrat mayors are trying to claim credit for last year’s marked decline in violent crime, yet the staggering 25% drop was nationwide and came in the first year of President Donald Trump’s new term. The cause and effect are obvious: The Trump team made fighting crime a top priority — a reversal from the “criminal justice reform” emphasis of Joe Biden and #Defund Democrats — and got the expected results.
  Crime’s way down thanks to Trump — Dems will fight to send it back up

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• Sen. Elissa Slotkin’s statements not only crossed a line but also make it harder for Congress to defend its oversight powers before the Supreme Court.
  Why Elissa Slotkin’s Threats To Trump Staffers Are Probably Unconstitutional
  
• Just which party is usually associated in the minds of voters with “perceived electoral irregularities”?
  When Is A Color Revolution Not A Color Revolution?
  
• Leftism is reducing America to a self-hating, government-dependent, multicultural mess that still believes it has the wealth and moral authority to change the world.
  The Fairytale Of An America Without Limits
  
• A free people keeps the means to defend its own, and the Second Amendment is
  the insurance policy I'm glad we never cancelled.
  Coming Attractions: Europe’s Trailer for America

  ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY

• Vicious propaganda set straight about October 7.
  Israel Produces ‘NAZA: The Real Story’ to Counter Propaganda in Guardian-Produced ‘NAZA’ film

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS

• “I never experienced antisemitism anywhere in America on a personal level”
  Woman Arrested in NYC After Allegedly Stabbing Rabbi With a Syringe

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Al-Zawahiri was behind the 9/11 attacks and also the bombings of the USS Cole and the US embassies in East Africa
  Abdul El-Sayed Criticized US Drone Killing of 9/11 Mastermind al-Zawahiri as ‘Troubling’ and ‘a Fig Leaf’
  
• Betsy McCaughey: His message to fellow Muslim-Americans is clear: Live in America, but do not become American. In a 2011 paper published in the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, El-Sayed warned of the hazards of “interethnic mating” — that is, having a child with a non-Arab.
  Abdul El-Sayed’s toxic ‘academic research’ reveals his anti-American Muslim supremacy

  THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE

• California’s “Compassion-Industrial Complex” takes another hit with loathsome fraud scheme involving “body brokers” locating drug users with good health insurance plans.
  Feds Charge California Father-Son Duo in Alleged $1.6 Billion Rehab Fraud

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

• Glenn H. Reynolds: You can bet that such a censorship regime, sold under anodyne terms like “safety” or “civility,” will in fact be about protecting politicians’ egos from mockery — and their crimes from exposure. Free speech and a free press place the public’s right to know — essential in a democracy where the people are, at least in theory, the rulers — above politicians’ interest in maintaining their dignity and their phony-baloney jobs. 
  Wannabe tyrants fall to the ‘Streisand effect’ — because censors deserve our mockery
  
• The full extent of the job loss among the company’s 179,000 employees is not yet clear and the company’s various departments are just beginning to make assessments on where cuts might be effective, the paper added.
  Comcast Headed for Major Layoffs Ahead of NBCU Spin-Off of NBCUniversal
  * * * * *

• Make the case for data centers on their merits. Then let the citizens who must live with them decide whether those benefits justify the sacrifices.
  SI Data Center Reality Check
  
• Cameron Hickey, CEO of the National Conference on Citizenship, estimates that approximately 25 percent of eligible American voters have consulted an AI chatbot about a political candidate when deciding how to vote. AI is being adapted as a search and query tool by more and more voters, but just how reliable is it?
  The Next Election Battlefield Isn’t Television or Social Media, It’s Artificial Intelligence.
  
• Automated license plate readers have become a political flashpoint. No one talks about the dozens of children they’ve rescued.
  The Children Saved by Flock

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• The American manufacturing sector’s renaissance was on clear display again in Tuesday’s durable goods release from the Census Bureau.
  The Surreal War Against America’s Manufacturing Boom
  
• The measure has garnered a massive amount of pushback, even from many Democrats, including California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who warn the measure could backfire and drive wealth from the state.
  Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna Defends ‘Wealth Tax’ on California Billionaires: ‘You Didn’t Build This Money Yourself’

  SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• The Justice Department sought to prosecute Hutchinson for reasons that have not yet been made clear due to the confidentiality of the case, but President Trump and Republicans had previously accused her of lying under oath during her testimony about January 6 before the House committee. Sources close to the case confirmed to the Associated Press (AP) that the grand jury declined to prosecute while providing few details. . .
  Grand Jury Declines to Indict Cassidy (Madison Cornbread) Hutchinson for Her Jan. 6 Testimony

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

• The president is expected to make the announcement during a campaign stop in Texas on Tuesday evening.
  Trump To Unveil Plan Curbing Oil Drilling Regulations in Action That Could Save Americans $45 Billion in Energy Costs
  
• If you love your children burn fossil fuels.
  Study Finds ‘Climate Change’ Stopped The Next Ice Age — Why Aren’t We Celebrating?
  
• After decades of predictions, we have something more valuable than alarming computer projections: actual observations.
  Why You No Longer Need to Fear Global Warming
  
• . . .when taking into account their full life cycle from manufacturing to landfill.
  Trump Was Right: Study Finds Paper Straws More Harmful to the Environment than Plastic, Contain Carcinogens

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• No one could have seen this coming.
  Philly Put a Man Tried 4X in Charge of Police Oversight. He Just Got Arrested

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• CriticalRace.org Report: “The schools, particularly the medical schools, are hanging on to DEI, like survivors on a shipwreck, and they’re hoping for a rescue…. They’re not giving it up.”
  Rebranding – Medical Schools Playing Hide The DEI Ball (Our Report)

  BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS & RELATED MESHUGAS

• Floris was seen sobbing in a courthouse hallway during a lunch break in the probable cause hearing in the district court for Washington, DC. 
  Ex-FBI official weeps as she appears in court to face charges of lying to Congress about Hunter Biden laptop

  THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• At least 6,600 non-citizens were registered via Motor Voter in New Jersey.
  Non-citizens are voting in my state—they could be voting in yours too
  
• In a 2-1 decision handed down Monday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Justice Department’s emergency request to pull those ballots out of the count while the voters’ eligibility is reviewed. The majority wrote that the government’s urgency was partly of its own making. Judge Patrick Bumatay dissented, arguing the federal government has a sovereign interest in protecting federal elections.
  Ninth Circuit Won’t Order California to Set Aside Noncitizen Ballots (Dems must not be allowed lose, so of course not! - jjs)
  
• Mitchell and her national Election Integrity Network have a big target on their back because they are over the target.
  Election Integrity Warrior Cleta Mitchell Drives The Left Crazy
  
• The public has a right to know.
  What’s Happening With the FBI’s Fulton County, Georgia 2020 Vote Investigation?

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY

• The mansion belongs to billionaire Stephen Cloobeck. He backed Swalwell’s run for California governor and allowed him to stay at the home.
  FBI Raids Beverly Hills Mansion as Part of Eric Swalwell Investigation
  
• What the Dem media propagandists are never curious about is how people in Congress and the White House amass wealth just from their "public service." For example, we're supposed to believe that Barack Obama increased his net worth by almost $11 million in eight years from book royalties. The most egregious example, as we all know, is former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who is the Warren Buffett of career politicians. There is an app called Autopilot which is an AI-driven investment platform. You just pick an AI curated portfolio, throw in your money, and let HAL 9000 be your financial guru. Autopilot's most popular portfolio is called — I kid you not — the "Pelosi Tracker+." 
  Dear Leftists: Shut the Hell Up About Trump 'Profiting' From Politics
  * * * * *

• Omar herself obtained citizenship on the basis of her reported status as a minor at the time, but statements in her book, as well as government records, indicate she was an adult.
  Either BRO-FO Omar Lied About Her Age In Her Autobiography, Or She’s Lying Now
  
• I don’t blame Ilhan for the sins of her father, but what she has done since then is entirely on her.
  BRO-FO Omar’s Odyssey

  POLITICS

• . . .according to a McLaughlin & Associates poll that points to a potential shift among a group that has long favored Democrats.
  Poll: Jewish Voters Favor Republicans over Democrats by Nearly Two to One
  
• Trump won Dearborn, Michigan, by 6 points, now some Arab residents aren't so sure they're aligned with the GOP.
  Shocker: ‘America First’ Arabs Are All-In For Abdul El-Sayed
  
• Next week’s elections are seen by many as determining the direction the nation will take: capitalism or communism. These last-minute defeats for the Democrats might make a difference for people who still haven’t decided which way to vote, which seems insane to me because one side promotes liberty and the other pushes misery, followed by starvation and a Holodomor-like death.
  Big Trouble in Little China: Bad News for the Bolshies Just Before Election Day
  
• The GOP has abandoned the Centennial State, but a looming left-wing civil war might reopen the frontier.
  Can Republicans Reclaim Colorado?
  
• The midterms will show whether Colorado’s leftward shift continues by default, or whether enough residents have decided it’s gone far enough.
  Colorado Ballot Puts ‘Tax The Rich’ And ‘Trans The Kids’ To The Test
  
• California’s November ballot could signal a taxpayer revolt, as voters weigh wealth taxes and spending measures that could reshape the state’s fiscal future and influence tax policy nationwide.
  How California Voters Could Surprise the Machine
  
• The polling industry has not merely failed to fix itself; it has become an electoral virus, surging through America’s body politic with almost no effective immune response.
  Polls Are The AIDS Of American Politics

  
  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

  
  

• The reports followed a similar claim overnight from the Argentine news network Infobae, which initially reported that Bolsonaro, son of imprisoned former President Jair Bolsonaro, had flown to Argentina en route to the United States. Infobae has since issued an update that the private jet it had first reported would carry Bolsonaro appeared to have canceled its flight.
  Rumors Claim Flávio Bolsonaro Refused to Hand Over Passports and Fled Brazil
  
• When will the people decide they’ve finally had enough?
  Another Suspicious Election in Brazil
  * * * * *

• Partial results projected Netanyahu’s bloc securing the most seats, with Likud the largest party, albeit without a clear path to a governing majority.
  Count it Netanyahu’s Likud leads Israeli election count with 27% of vote as ballots continue to be tallied
  
• The projections, released after polls closed at 10:00 p.m. local time following the highest voter turnout in more than a quarter-century, showed Netanyahu’s Likud narrowly ahead of Eisenkot’s Yashar party in the major television exit polls, even as neither political camp secured the 61 seats needed for a majority in Israel’s 120-member Knesset.
  Israel Election Cliffhanger: Exit Polls Show Netanyahu, Eisenkot Deadlocked as Arab Parties Surge
  
• And people wonder why Netanyahu keeps being in office.
  Why Israel’s Elections Are So Insane
  
• “Diplomats” representing the brutal Cuban communist regime, among them Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez, organized a mob to shout down U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz on Tuesday as the American presented an exposé on the corruption of the ruling Castro family.
  Cuban ‘Diplomats’ Form Mob Scene at U.N. as Ambassador Mike Waltz Exposes Castro Family Riches
  
• The decision to call a snap election came after mounting pressure on Sánchez, including a slew of corruption scandals and allegations affecting prominent figures in his government and domestic and international criticism of his handling of an illegal immigrant amnesty and migrant border influx into Ceuta, a Spanish exclave on the coast of North Africa, bordering Morocco.
  Spain’s Conservatives and Populists Are Negotiating an Electoral Pact.
  
• The first round of voting is scheduled for April 18, while the second round has been scheduled for May 2 in the event no candidate wins the first round outright. A victory for Le Pen next year would not only represent the first-ever presidential victory for the National Rally, but the culmination of 15 years of presidential campaigning.
  Marine Le Pen’s Road to the 2027 Presidential Race.
  
• A joint statement made plain the shared view of the future of NATO from a European perspective in response to President Donald Trump’s previous calls for more defence spending and shared responsibility aside from a constant reliance on Washington:
  Trump Effect: Top NATO Powers Pledge to Commit More to Defence, Reaffirm U.S. Alliance
  
• World leaders, combining citizen bribes in the form of socialization, mass immigration, and cultural hatred, are rapidly destroying the West.
  Rome Took Centuries To Fall. It May Take The West Mere Decades.

  FRANCE IS BURNING, And Europe With It

• Hasn't France already surrendered to the culture of death?
  Maybe France Deserves To Burn
  
• And the rioters are waving ‘Palestinian’ flags.
  Spanish Mayor Said Gaza Was Part of Barcelona. Now the City’s on Fire

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• Last week’s scares show that artificial intelligence holds promise for both attackers and defenders.
  How to Prepare for AI Cyberattacks
  
• An avoidable tragedy in Canada means the U.S. should be reevaluating the competence of the nation’s military leadership.
  Four Soldiers Died Because The Military Knew The Risks And Continued Anyway

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• Doctors are prescribing hormonal birth control to women as the fix-all solution due to various incentives.
  Birth Control Is Not A Solution To Teen Girls’ Period Problems
  
• The surgeon, Dr. Vipual Patel, operated the machine from a location in suburban Orlando, carrying out a prostatectomy while 66-year-old patient Mark went under the knife 35 miles away in Minneola, according to the Global Robotics Institute at Advent Health.
  Doctor-controlled robot removes patient’s prostate 35 miles away in first US telerobotic surgery

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• . . .a new planet in the outer solar system beyond Neptune, joining Pluto, Eris, Haumea, and Makemake as the five known large Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNO) so far discovered.
  Rubin Telescope discovers a new solar system planet

  
  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• Texas Children’s Hospital has officially opened a medical clinic for patients seeking care after undergoing gender-transition interventions, fulfilling a requirement of a legal settlement that also required the hospital to pay $10 million, as Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) and Democrat James Talarico compete in a U.S. Senate race with contrasting records on transgender policies.
  EXCLUSIVE–Paxton’s Historic Settlement with TX Children’s Hospital Leads to 1st Detransition Clinic
  
• Anyone confronting the maladies coincident with culture’s feminization should follow the money to see who is ultimately pulling the strings.
  The Great Feminization, Wokeness, And The Rule Of Law

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Raw Egg Nationalist: We’re stuck in a 2,000-year-old loop, repeating the same failed solutions with the same failed outcomes.
  The Road to Hell: Is There Really a Material Solution to Birth-Rate Decline?
  
• Christian Toto: Podcaster's personal anecdotes match larger, disturbing Hollywood discrimination.
  Adam Carolla Reveals More Proof of Hollywood Blacklist 2.0

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