Spooky Scary ONTs
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Happy Halloween everyone! See any good costumes tonight?
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Halloween Friday Cafe
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T-1000 costume. I'll post a few more below, thanks to the Massimo/@RainMaker1973 account.
Beware of deceitful children tricking you into giving them triple treats.
Here's a scary scene for you: The Devil himself, confronting none other than Mr. Rourke.
KISS's first appearance on TV, from 1974.
Baby elephant keeps close to her mama's skirts.
Carrie costume:
Super Dave Osborne's first stunt. This is history right here.
Garret sent this over. It's another one of his favorites. More clips from Garret's favorite Center Square Halloween Special.
So I had those links yesterday, but then Soothsayer one-upped me and linked the entire Paul Lynde Halloween Special. I think I saw that. I remember this stupid joke about KISS, something about them fighting as kids, so their moms told them to "kiss and make up." I'm guessing that terrible joke is from this special.
Adorable Caddyshack costume. The kid has no idea what's going on but I'm sure it's fun for his father.
Possum gets a good spooking. And a cougar also gets a good spook.
This is my favorite Halloween costume. First I thought it was just fake. Now I think it's real, and ingenious.
Halloween party snacks. More snacks.
Halloween nachos.
The Japanese lead the world in the Cute/Nightmarish aesthetic.
I rate this as my least favorite costume. You were warned.
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The Week In Woke
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UK Glamour has chosen its "Women" of the Year.
They also honored a couple of actual women, including... Rachel Zegler.
The feds are investigating -- prepare yourself -- BLM's founders of defrauding donors to the tune of ninety million dollars.
The Department of Justice has reportedly launched an investigation into whether the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation misused millions of dollars in donations collected during the 2020 George Floyd protests. According to the Associated Press, federal agents have issued subpoenas and executed at least one search warrant as part of the probe, which is being run out of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California.Sources familiar with the matter told the AP that the inquiry began under the Biden administration but has recently gained new momentum under President Trump. The Justice Department has declined to comment publicly, but the investigation centers on allegations that BLM defrauded donors who contributed during the nationwide unrest following Floyd's death in Minneapolis.
The Black Lives Matter Foundation raised more than $90 million in the months after Floyd's death, when cities across the country were rocked by protests that in many cases turned violent, resulting in deaths, fires, looting, and widespread property destruction. Critics of the organization have long accused its leadership of withholding information about how those funds were spent.
Remember when CBS morning show host Tony Dokoupils interviewed racist radical Ta-Nehisi Coates about his pro-Hamas screed against Israel (and Jews)? He pushed back against Coates, which is, you know, illegal. All media personnel are required to pretend that this low-IQ racist's every stupid statement is received wisdom from God Herself.
Dokoupils was forced to attend a struggle session by CBS. He probably would have been fired or suspended, save for the fact that Paramount's owner at the time, Shari Redstone, is Jewish and thought he acted like an actual journalist.
During the interview, Dokoupil asked some pointed questions to Coates about the book, including "Why leave out that Israel is surrounded by countries that want to eliminate it?"He also told Coates: "I have to say, when I read the book, I imagine if I took your name out of it, took away the awards, the acclaim ... the content of that section would not be out of place in the backpack of an extremist."
After the interview, CBS News executives fielded complaints from staffers and then held a meeting on the unfortunate date of Oct. 7, the one-year anniversary of Hamas' attack on Israel. At meeting, CBS News CEO and her number two, Adrienne Roark, called out Dokoupil, who is Jewish, for the interview, saying it did not meet the network's editiorial standards.
Those words were questioned internally by supporters of Dokoupil at the meeting, as well as by Shari Redstone, the chair of CBS-parent Paramount Global, who backed the anchor, saying he had done a "great job" with the interview. Redstone added that CBS made a "mistake" in reprimanding Dokoupil and in saying it did not meet their standards.
Paramount co-CEO George Cheeks rushed to the defense of McMahon, backing her decision, while also saying the company needs to have "substantive dialogue" about perceptions of bias and "inconsistent treatment."
I bring that up as background to the new news: The "Race and Culture Unit" that Bari Weiss fired en masse (save for a single guy) was the group conducting that Struggle Session. They attacked Dokoupils for challenging Coates, and even faulted him for his... "tone and posture."
As you know, truth is a defense in defamation. Though that's not why the case was thrown out. To defame someone, you have to make a factual claim about them which is derogatory and untrue. Opinion doesn't count.
Note that leftwing judges routinely claim that factual claims that liberals make about conservatives -- like that Nick Sandmann approached and bullied the "Native American elder" -- are just "opinion," while they simultaneously argue that clear statements of opinion by conservatives, like that someone is "woke," are factual and thus defamatory.
In this case, the left-wing censorious judges claimed that her speech was so "hyperbolic" that it somehow transmuted opinion into fact.
A Moms for Liberty activist in Wisconsin described a onetime "social justice coordinator" in the local high school as a "white savior" and "woke" woman with a "god complex."She said the employee is emblematic of diversity, equity and inclusion specialists who earn more than the district's teachers, "woke lunatics ... bullying you into silence and compliance," and should "forfeit her job to a person of color" if she "really wants to promote equity."
Scarlett Johnson spent nearly 1,100 days defending herself against a defamation suit by the coordinator, Mary MacCudden, before a divided state appeals court cleared her name this week, overturning a lower court that said a jury should consider whether Johnson's hyperbolic language implied factual assertions about MacCudden.
The duration of the litigation shows the ongoing legal and financial peril for parental rights activists who criticize government employees using language typical of conservatives against those they consider progressive, authoritarian and hypocritical.
I can personally attest that conservatives accused of defamation will be destroyed by any left-wing judge hearing their case.
"The defamation lawsuit against her was meritless and should have been promptly dismissed," Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty deputy counsel Luke Berg, whose group represented Johnson on appeal, said in announcing Tuesday's verdict, three years to the day after MacCudden filed the complaint in Milwaukee County Circuit Court.
But the process is the punishment, as I can also attest.
Canada's top general, everybody. She literally cries about "structural racism."
The University of California system -- taxpayer supported -- now employs a test to determine if you can even enroll in the school. A quiz asks you what pronouns you should use to refer to a transgender, and if you don't say whatever fake pronouns the transgender wants you to use, you're scolded for "harrassment" and blocked from registering.
Read this. A woke Fairfax County, VA prosecutor appears to have deliberately engineered a constitutional violation to set free a repeat sexual felon who accosted a "heavily pregnant" mom and her daughter in a women's bathroom.
When I finally took the stand, the attorney for the Commonwealth asked me if the man who was in the bathroom that day was in the room.I paused, confused--because I knew what was going to happen next.
The courtroom had been packed all day but as case after case was handled, ours was the last one--now it was just the judge, court reporter, bailiff, the defendant, his lawyer, the Commonwealth attorney, and I.
The arresting officer wasn't in the room. The other victim and her husband had been given a new court date and sent home.
I adjusted my baby against my chest and looked at her as she repeated the question: Do you see the man you reported to police in this room today?
Why was she doing this? What was she doing?
I was sweating in my oversized cashmere nursing sweater and I felt prickles down my back. Everyone was staring at me. I'm not a lawyer. She asked me a question... and she was "on my side" so I should answer it, right?
I adjusted my baby again to give myself a free hand--and I pointed to him.
And just as I expected, his lawyer immediately pointed out there was nobody else present in the courtroom who it could be and therefore we had violated his constitutional right to due process.
The judge agreed. Hell, *I* agreed--but then I asked WHY hadn't the Commonwealth given me a photo array to choose from? Why did she ASK that?
Too late. It didn't matter that he was on surveillance footage entering the bathroom before us and pushing past us as we fled.
He was set free.
As I walked out of the court room the arresting officer spotted me from down the hall and ran over to me "Is it back in this courtroom? Is it starting?"
No, I told him, it's already over. He had been sent to another courtroom "by mistake." He didn't even get a chance to testify. He looked horrified.
The Commonwealth attorney and "victims advocate" that morning assured us they were going to fight for us. They were SO SORRY this had happened to us. They were SO GRATEFUL that I had come to testify in my condition.
Instead they seemingly intentionally let the monster walk free.
It's been two years.
Yesterday he was released on bail for yet another crime--one of at least THIRTEEN he's committed since that day in court--including sexual abuse of a child under 15.
His arrest record from just the last 5 years spans four pages on the Virginia court website.
Look at how many women--and CHILDREN--he's victimized since that day.
Look how many times his victims have gone to court just as I did only to see him set free again and again and again.
This is NOT happening by accident.
This is deliberate.
More here. The guy is constantly sexually assaulting women and masturbating in public and flashing women.
Steve Descano, the prosecutor who keeps setting him free is, get this, a Soros prosecutor.
Virginians 4 Safe Communities @VA4SafeComm22h
THIS WEEK: Sex Predator Walks Free
Fairfax Soros DA Steve Descano FREED Child Sex Offender Demetrius Anthony Anderson
40 Charges, 13 Sex Offenses from 2021-2025 including:
* Indecent liberties with child < 15, [PENDING but he's out on bail]
* Peeping Tom x2 [dropped + not guilty]
* Indecent exposure x4, [ 2 dropped, 2 guilty but NO jail]
* Simulated masturbation x5, [4 dropped + 1 dismissed]
OTHER: 9x failure to appear/probation violation, Assault, Trespassing, Disorderly Conduct, Drunk in Public, Forgery, Grand theft etc.
A black principal was suspended (or fired, they won't say) from a Dallas-area high school for taking black students aside and telling them that they're the reason the school is getting mediocre ratings from the accreditation boards. You're not allowed to say this.
You're allowed to scold white children for things they never did, like owning slaves, but you're not allowed to take black students aside and tell them they're bringing the school's averages down.
In a letter Monday to parents and teachers at Woodrow Wilson High School, Dallas ISD officials named an interim principal and said they are investigating a "recent incident" at the campus.The letter comes after Principal Chandra Hooper-Barnett held a meeting with the school's Black students about their academic performance, two parents told The Dallas Morning News.
Hooper-Barnett acknowledged she held a meeting during an advisory period last week that "caused concern within our school community," according to a letter she sent to families Monday.
"The decision to hold that meeting and subsequent discussion that transpired was not appropriate. I take full ownership and responsibility for what occurred, and I want to assure you that it was never my intent to single out or cause harm to any group of students," Hooper-Barnett wrote.
In the letter, she said she is "committed to learning from this and rebuilding the trust that has been shaken."
Woodrow Wilson, located in East Dallas, served nearly 2,000 students last school year, per state data. Black students made up 6% of the campus population in the 2023-24 school year. The school received a B in this year's academic accountability ratings.
Neither letter addressed the status of Hooper-Barnett, who has led the school for three years. Danielle Petters -- who served as principal of J.L. Long Middle School for seven years and H. Grady Spruce High School for four -- will serve as interim principal of the campus, according to a letter from Aaron Aguirre-Castillo, executive director of Dallas ISD's Woodrow Wilson vertical team.
In her letter, Hooper-Barnett said she would "do what is best for our campus, even if that means stepping aside to allow for healing and growth."
Speaking of grades: A Harvard report faulted professors for giving 60% of students "A's" in their classes, stating that the grading system no longer served the purpose of distinguishing between students in terms of achievement.
Harvard students are crying about it.
Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79Harvard reports that it is "failing to perform the key functions of grading."
Its grading practices are "damaging the academic culture of the College."
"Faculty newly arrived at Harvard are surprised at how leniently our courses are graded."
Students say academics feel "fake."
Jack Mac @JackMacCFBHarvard just released a fascinating study that shows they've made their school too easy.
They've been giving out too many A's and passing too many students. In 2005, 25% of grades were A's. In 2025? 60%!!!!
How did this happen? They forced their professors to adjust to "less prepared students" and those with "imposter syndrome" or other forms of stress.
Everything is fake...including grades at Harvard.
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"Rising Democrat Star" Arrested for Covertly Filming Two Political Opponents Having Sex to Blackmail Them
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This is the Democrat-Antifa-Media Party.
A Maryland state senator once seen as a rising Democrat star is facing explosive allegations that she conspired to secretly record and blackmail her political critics. Federal prosecutors have charged State Sen. Dalya Attar, her brother Joseph "Yossi" Attar, and Baltimore Police Officer Kalman Finkelstein with conspiracy, extortion, illegal wiretapping, and violations of the Travel Act -- a slate of federal offenses that could bring decades in prison if convicted.According to a newly unsealed 20-page federal indictment, Attar and her co-defendants allegedly set up hidden cameras disguised as smoke detectors inside an apartment belonging to two of Attar's critics -- one of them a former campaign consultant who had worked on her 2018 campaign but later supported her political rivals. The second target was reportedly in a romantic relationship with the consultant and married to someone else at the time. Prosecutors say the trio not only filmed the pair in bed together but used the footage to intimidate them into silence.
Investigators claim the covert operation was designed to protect Attar's political standing as she eyed re-election and higher office. WhatsApp messages cited in the indictment suggest the senator herself discussed the scheme and its potential leverage. "We have a very easy ... simple way to get her to just shut up and leave us alone," Attar allegedly wrote in one message. "She's worried about her kids' shidduchim." In another message, she added, "I'm not saying we leak this anywhere or ever do that ... but I'm saying we warn her ... 'If you go ahead and screw with me, we're going to leak it.'"
The intimidation campaign allegedly escalated in December 2021, when Joseph Attar met one of the victims at a Baltimore shopping center and issued a chilling threat: "I have hours of footage of you in bed with [Victim 1] ... Go to [Victim 1] and say leave Dalya alone ... or I'll share this video with everyone you know -- every Rabbi in town, your kids, your wife, her daughters." Federal prosecutors say the threats continued into 2022 as Attar's team sought to keep both victims quiet ahead of her re-election effort. To cover their tracks, the indictment alleges, the defendants coordinated through encrypted WhatsApp messages and routinely deleted their communications.
Attar, a Democrat and former Baltimore prosecutor, was first elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 2018 and appointed to the state Senate in January 2025. She had been viewed as an emerging figure within Maryland's Orthodox Jewish community, where she built a reputation as a tough prosecutor and vocal progressive on local issues.
Bonus: Kamala Harris shares the heart-breaking moment when she learned she had lost the presidential race. She said there were 200,000 votes she needed to win that her campaign manager "couldn't find."
She uses the same word -- "find" -- that Fatty Fanny Funstuff claimed proved a criminal intent to order Georgia's election officials to fake the vote. Seems like it's a normal bit of campaign jargon.
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WSJ Op-Ed: "Transgenderism" Is a Social Contagion, Science Shows
Trans Extremists Push Suicide of a Trans Athlete As Proof Women Should Allow Men In Women's Sports and Changing Areas
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Colin Wright wrote an op-ed for the WSJ. He says that the trendlines for transgender identification show that the phenomenon is, as has long been suspected, a social contagion spread by tweens much like many other viral contagions.
The article is paywalled, but Outkick the Coverage digests it.
"If transgender identity were an innate trait, like left-handedness, we would expect identification rates to rise at first when it became socially acceptable, then plateau and remain stable at a fixed level," Wright wrote. "If the phenomenon were instead driven by social contagion, we might expect a boom-and-bust pattern: a spike followed by a rapid decline once the social forces driving it weaken."But Wright notes that the data doesn't support the idea that trans identity is an innate trait.
"An analysis of campus surveys by Eric Kaufmann of the University of Buckingham and the Center for Heterodox Social Science found that the share of college students identifying as transgender fell 50% between 2023 and 2025," Wright noted. "Psychologist Jean Twenge's analysis of the annual Cooperative Election Study, administered by YouGov, found that transgender identification among 18- to 22-year-olds declined by nearly 50% between 2022 and 2024. She concluded that 'it looks like the peak of trans identification is in the past.'"
While transgender activists argue that transgenderism is inherent in humans, data shows that most cases are much more likely to be a social contagion or cultural fad.
Wright's cited surveys are consistent with a recent pattern among newly released data.A recent study out of England showed that "incidence rates of recorded gender dysphoria/incongruence increased from 0.14 to 4.4 per 10,000 person years" from 2011 to 2021, which represented a 3,000% increase.
That came on the heels of a German study that showed "for most young people, the gender-identity related diagnosis (F64) does not persist after 5 years."
Essentially, trans identity suddenly spiked in the middle-to-late 2010s, and it's now starting to fall. That pattern more closely resembles a cultural fad or social contagion than the discovery of a new disorder, as Wright argues.
"The overwhelming majority of those driving the trans craze fall into the 'nonbinary' category--adopting identities which are said to be neither, both, or somewhere between male and female. These include labels such as 'demiboy,' 'genderfluid' or 'two-spirit.' These are social identities, not biological ones," Wright said.
Trans enthusiasts reacted to the article by stating that the author "needs to be hunted down."
Meanwhile:
A trans pyrsyn has committed suicide. It's getting press because despite the claim that this always happens, it doesn't actually always happen, so the trans extremists have to milk every actual suicide for all it's worth.
Trans extremists are using the suicide to, get this, pressure women into letting men beat the shit out of them in sports and change in their locker rooms.
Kim Shasby Jones @KimJonesICONSThis post from @AriDrennen infuriates me.
For so many reasons.
First, any taking of life is tragic. This is a sad ending for Lia Smith.
It is grotesque and depraved of Drennan to use this tragedy to emotionally blackmail women and the public into holding women responsible for a man's suicide bc they didn't want to undress with him or let him compete in women's sports.
Women are NOT responsible for the mental health of men and certainly not required to give up their rights and bodies for a man's emotional well-being.
The age-old threat used against women trying to stop abuse, "if you leave, I'll kill myself", is exactly what Mr Drennan's message is.
Emotional blackmail is NEVER acceptable, not in elite sport, not in "just D3" sport, not in elementary school.
Not in locker rooms at the Y.
To tell a young man that he can be accepted as a woman, that he should get to compete against women, that he should be allowed into womens spaces, that he can become a woman - this is setting him up to fail. It is NOT a failure of women to accommodate his desires, it's a failure of medicine, leadership, and culture for not holding firm the boundaries of reality and helping him figure out how to navigate them.
Women are not tools of affirmation for the emotional support of men.
As a black woman of color and gender, let me add that if your "solution" to trans suicide is just to make every person in the world pretend that men are women, you've failed.
That. Is NEVER. Going. To Happen.
Trans extremists are selling confused mentally-ill people on the idea that one day straight men will have sex with them and marry them because, goshdarnit, they're 100% women and it's their right to insist that everyone acknowledge this "fact."
And when this doesn't happen, they get more depressed and sometimes kill themselves.
So stop selling them on an absurd fantasy that straight men (or lesbians) are going to treat men with dicks-and-balls as if they're Real Women. We're not, they're not, and you are setting up mentally-ill people for a crushing disappointment they're not mentally or emotionally equipped to handle.
Only about 10% of men are willing (or eager) to pretend that men are women. We call this the "Jonah Goldberg Cohort."
Trans advocates are deliberately over-promising the results of "transitioning" and then turning around to the rest of us and telling us, "Well we already promised them they would be accepted without question as literal, real women, so now you have to make good on the promise we made or else they'll kill themselves out of remorse!"
Instead of demanding the rest of us make good on your absurd promise, how about you just stop making that absurd promise?
Maybe trans people wouldn't be so suicidal if you stopped setting them up for the massive fall.
Meanwhile, the world's loudest and crappiest bartender doesn't feel she's getting enough attention.
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Trump: Nuke the Filibuster, Pass the CR
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Around the country, air flights are facing 2-3 hour delays because air traffic controllers aren't being paid.
The heads of United and Delta demanded the Democrats pass the clean CR.
Delta and United Airlines are demanding that Democrats stop holding the government hostage and vote for the clean continuing resolution Republicans already passed, warning that the standoff is punishing federal workers and starting to rattle the economy. Speaking to reporters Thursday, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby praised air traffic controllers, TSA agents, and FAA staff for keeping flights running under crushing pressure but said Democrats' inaction is pushing them to the brink. "They've minimized delays. Fewer than two percent of flights have been delayed so far because of air traffic control shortage," Kirby said. "They've done a great job, but it's putting stress on people. It's not fair to those people. It's also putting stress on the economy." Now at Day 30, Kirby said, the Democrat-led shutdown is beginning to show real economic fallout. "The first couple of weeks had no impact on the economy, but as every day goes by, the impacts start to grow," he said. "Airlines are a pretty good real-time indicator of the economy, and we're starting to see minor but steep booking impact. We put the whole economy at risk."Kirby said he has no interest in Democrats' attempts to spin the fight into a healthcare debate, calling instead for Congress to "pass a clean CR" and hash out policy differences "behind closed doors, without putting American workers and the economy at risk." Delta issued a similar demand, urging lawmakers to "immediately pass a clean continuing resolution," adding that "missed paychecks only increase the stress on these essential workers, many of whom are already working mandatory overtime to keep our skies safe and secure."
The CBO estimates that the Democrats have already succeeded in shaving $14 billion out of the US economy due to the chaos they've caused.
Trump now says: Nuke the filibuster, and pass the CR with a simple majority.
President Trump is done letting Democrats hold the government hostage. On Thursday, he called on Senate Republicans to "play their Trump card" and invoke the nuclear option -- scrapping the filibuster and ending the month-long shutdown with a simple majority vote."It is now time for the Republicans to play their 'TRUMP CARD,' and go for what is called the Nuclear Option -- get rid of the filibuster, and get rid of it, NOW!" Trump wrote in a fiery Truth Social post after returning from a five-day swing through Asia. He said world leaders kept asking how "the Democrats SHUT DOWN the United States of America" and why Republicans allowed it to happen.
"Majority Leader John Thune, and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, are doing a GREAT job," Trump said, "but the Democrats are Crazed Lunatics that have lost all sense of WISDOM and REALITY." He blamed the standoff on a "sick form" of Trump Derangement Syndrome -- the obsession, he argued, that's driving Democrats to damage the country rather than give his administration a win.
As expected, Thune is refusing to nuke the filibuster, because he believes, naively and insanely, that the Democrats will not themselves end the filibuster the moment it becomes useful for them to do so.
Republicans are quickly tamping down President Donald Trump's call to eliminate the Senate filibuster as they try to keep pressure on Democrats to end the 31-day government shutdown.GOP leaders believed Thursday they were on track to reopen agencies as soon as next week. Then Trump threw a fresh complication into their laps overnight when he revived calls for Republicans to invoke the "nuclear option" and eliminate the 60-vote threshold for passing most legislation. Without it, Republican senators could reopen the government on their own.
But many GOP senators have vocally defended the filibuster, including Majority Leader John Thune, calling the 60-vote rule a fundamental feature of the Senate and one that works to conservatives' benefit in the long run.
Thune has defended the filibuster multiple times during the shutdown, calling it a "bad idea" to suggest eliminating it. "The 60-vote threshold has protected this country," he said earlier this month.
The Democrats have eliminated the use of the filibuster every single time the Republicans used it to block them. Republicans used it to block federal court nominations; Harry Reid nuked it.
It's crazy to think the Democrats would ever allow Republicans to pull their own shutdown stunt in the future. The GOP is always being taught lessons, but never, ever learns.
It might not matter. Sources say that Democrats plan on ending the stupid shutdown after election day. So shutting down the government is officially, admittedly just a base-stoking electioneering stunt.
Stephen Neukam @stephen_neukamNEWS -- There's a sense within the Senate Democratic caucus that next week will bring significant movement toward ending the government shutdown, multiple sources told Axios.
Likely after election day on Tuesday. Lawmakers have made progress on talks around packaging approps bills with a CR.
The major sticking point remains around ACA subsidies.
Dems know it's incredibly unlikely any extension passes the House.
Working group and a floor vote on ACA extension are potential offramps.
Some unrelated matters:
A Mexican senator says Trump esta dijando la verdad.
A prominent Mexican lawmaker has delivered a stunning rebuke of her country's leadership, agreeing with President Trump's long-standing claim that Mexico is effectively controlled by drug cartels. In a video message posted this week, Mexican Senator Lily Téllez declared, "He is not lying -- it's the truth, and the people of Mexico know it."Téllez, a leading member of the opposition National Action Party (PAN), said that Trump's assessment "doesn't shame us as good, honest Mexicans -- it exposes the corrupt ruling class of MORENA," the leftist party led by former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his successor, President Claudia Sheinbaum. "Claudia, you don't represent the Mexican people," Téllez said bluntly. "You represent the MORENA Cartel. You lack any dignity."
The senator accused López Obrador and Sheinbaum of colluding with powerful drug syndicates to secure political power and then allowing them to expand their grip on the nation. "The cartel problem didn't begin with MORENA, but under them, it has exploded," she said. "They surrendered national sovereignty and absolute power to organized crime."
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Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy Cancels 7,200 Truckers' Licenses for Failing to Meet the Requiremnt of Speaking English
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More than 7,200 commercial truck drivers have been taken off America's highways since the Department of Transportation (DOT), under Secretary Sean Duffy, began enforcing new English language proficiency standards in May -- part of a Trump administration effort to strengthen safety rules gutted under Barack Obama."[DOT] requires commercial truck drivers to speak and understand English to operate a big rig -- or they will be taken out of service," Duffy wrote on X. "This is about [President Trump] and his administration making America's roads SAFE again!"
According to the DOT, roughly 7,250 truckers have been placed out of service for failing the reinstated English standards, which the Obama-era DOT had weakened to accommodate foreign drivers -- many of whom, officials say, lacked even a basic ability to read road signs or communicate with law enforcement. Duffy said the new standards are designed to crack down on the black market trucking industry that relies on cheap foreign labor with limited or no English proficiency.
The announcement follows a series of deadly highway crashes involving foreign or illegal alien truck drivers. In one recent case, an illegal alien from India allegedly killed three Americans in California -- a sanctuary state that issued him a Commercial Driver's License (CDL) without enforcing the federal English language requirement. "My prayers are with the families of the victims of this tragedy. It would have never happened if Gavin Newsom had followed our new rules," Duffy said. "California broke the law, and now three people are dead and two are hospitalized. These people deserve justice. There will be consequences."
Duffy is reportedly weighing penalties, including withholding millions in federal funds from California, for failing to follow the Trump administration's CDL standards.Another similar case occurred in Florida, where an illegal alien -- also from India -- is accused of killing three people after making an illegal U-turn on a highway. Investigators discovered the man had failed a written driving test 10 times but was still granted a CDL in both Washington and California, two sanctuary states. After the crash, DOT officials administered an English proficiency assessment, which the driver failed -- answering only 2 of 12 verbal questions correctly and recognizing just 1 of 4 traffic signs.
No more Third World Assassins driving their Murder Rigs over American citizens.
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Prince Andrew Now Stripped of All Titles and Honors Over His Friends-with-Benefits Relationship With Jeffrey Epstein
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He'll now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, which... sounds an awful lot like a royal name.
I see this as mostly a lateral move.
Except the part where he's kicked out of his free 30-room mansion.
Andrew will no longer be known as a prince and is to leave Royal Lodge, Buckingham Palace has confirmed.In a bombshell statement released tonight, Buckingham Palace said he will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor - with immediate effect.
It comes as the palace said the 'censures are deemed necessary' amid the ongoing scandal over Jeffrey Epstein, whom Andrew lied about cutting ties with.
'His Majesty has today initiated a formal process to remove the Style, Titles and Honours of Prince Andrew,' the statement said.
A commenter yesterday wondered about this, stating that he didn't think they could take away the "prince" title, as it is conferred by birth not granted by grace of the king.
But you know the thing about kings-- they kind of make up their own laws as they please.
'Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. His lease on Royal Lodge has, to date, provided him with legal protection to continue in residence.'Formal notice has now been served to surrender the lease and he will move to alternative private accommodation.
'These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him.
'Their Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been, and will remain with, the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse.'
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Although the former duke has been stripped of all his remaining titles those of his daughters, Princess Beatrice, 37, and Princess Eugenie, 35, will remain.
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It is understood Prince William and the Royal Family fully support the King's leadership on the recent move.
Andrew's recent departure from the Royal Lodge, where he paid 'peppercorn rent' over 20 years', comes amid an ongoing row over the residence since his dukedom title was stripped earlier this month.
Per Google AI, "peppercorn rent" is...
... a nominal, token, or symbolic rent, often as low as one peppercorn per year, used in a lease to meet the legal requirement for a two-way exchange to make a contract binding.
So essentially he was given a 30-room mansion for free.
Update: Via the NY Post, he did plow his own money into renovating the mansion:
Andrew has not paid rent on Royal Lodge for the past 22 years, according to UK reports, because he paid a large sum -- around $10.7 million -- to renovate the residence.
I don't know what 30-room mansions usually rent for.
However as of today, it is understood Andrew has been served notice to surrender the lease at the 30-bedroom mansion and will move out of the residence as soon as practically possible.
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The move was entirely down to the King and his advisers, without pressure from the government or other family members, such as Prince William, sources told the Daily Mail.
...It comes as His Majesty had made it clear he would not hesitate to take 'further action' if his younger brother continued to cling on to his dukedom and other honours after he lied about cutting ties with paedophile financier Epstein, the Daily Mail previously revealed.
And despite the tsunami of growing evidence mounting against him, the 65-year-old was understood to still be 'digging his heels in' with a 'startling lack of contrition', in a situation the King deemed 'intolerable', sources previously said.
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Earlier today, anti--monarchy campaign group Republic said it has instructed lawyers to investigate the prince and, if appropriate, press ahead with legal proceedings.
The Daily Mail understands the allegations it is focusing on relate to allegations he sexually assaulted Giuffre, that he asked a royal protection officer to look into her background and impropriety when he served as an official UK trade envoy.
But Republic said it is mounting its own bid to take him to court because the legal and political response to the claims has been 'weak and inadequate' to date.
The British site GBNews says that this also serves as a warning to Prince Harry and his awful SJW influencer wife.
The fact that the King was able to bypass Parliament, with the support of the Government, to take action against a fellow royal is incredibly significant.It could even have set a precedent that future monarchs use to sanction other members of the Royal Family.
The King's eldest son and heir to the throne, Prince William, fully supported the action taken against his uncle.
The Prince of Wales is known to have a strained relationship with his brother, Prince Harry, with the pair avoiding each other at several events over the last two and a half years.
The current bitter and broken relationship between the King's two sons stems from the Duke of Sussex's decision to launch multiple public attacks on the Royal Family from 2021 to 2023.
Prince Harry did several TV interviews, firing digs at the monarchy alongside his wife, Meghan Markle, with the most notable taking place in March 2021 with Oprah Winfrey.
The Sussexes' interview with Ms Winfrey sent shockwaves across the world and led to Prince William telling journalists: "We're very much not a racist family."
The Prince of Wales's frustration with his younger brother grew stronger over the following two years as Prince Harry discussed royal matters in a Netflix documentary in 2022 before issuing a tell-all autobiography in January 2023.
Prince Harry did several TV interviews, firing digs at the monarchy alongside his wife, Meghan Markle, with the most notable taking place in March 2021 with Oprah Winfrey. |
The memoir, which contained several attacks on key members of the Royal Family, including William's wife, Princess Kate, was the most damaging blow in the feud between the brothers.
Since then, Prince William has kept his distance from Prince Harry and has not been involved in talks with the Duke of Sussex when he has visited the UK.
Update:
Daily Mail has had several articles on this quoting a handful of palace insiders saying the de-Princing of Andrew by Charles was at the request of the future King, William so that he wouldn't have to do it, which he would have.Chuck obliged.
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I know this is a controversial #HotTake here in America, but I think that kings and princes are silly.
Except... if...
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FBI Foils Halloween Terrorist Attack in Michigan; Bloated Blood Sausage JB Pritzker Demands Trump Suspend Deportation Operations So That Illegals Can Enjoy the Noted Religious Holiday Halloween "In Peace"
—Ace
UPDATE: The planned terrorist attack originating in Dearbornistan was "ISIS-inspired."
CNN -- The FBI averted a potential terrorist attack planned for Halloween weekend, the agency said.The plot was inspired by ISIS, two law enforcement officials with knowledge of the case told CNN.
The two law enforcement officials who spoke to CNN said the plot unfolded in online chatrooms.
An FBI undercover person was introduced into the chatroom in the early stages of discussion, one of those officials said. Two participants have been arrested, and three others are being questioned, that official said.
Agents became concerned that the plot might be imminent around the Halloween weekend when a reference to "pumpkin day" came up in discussions with the group that law enforcement was surveilling, and a decision was made to go in, one official said.
H/t Captain Fantastic.
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So, I like Halloween well enough, but it's just absolutely preposterous that Governor Supersize JB Pritzker is demanding an end to deportations so that illegal alien criminals can enjoy the sacred Joke Holiday of Halloween.
In NYC, they call Halloween "Gay Christmas" because of the largely-gay Halloween parade. I guess that the Democrat-Antifa-Media Party has officially sacralized this pagan/gay holiday as among the holiest of the year.
For those of you too young to remember religious holidays: Think of the Islamic holiday of Eid. I know you know that one because the Islamic-dominated government never shuts up about it. Democrats always claim we cannot attack our terrorist enemies on Eid. Just like now they claim we can't deport illegals on Halloween, which, to the extent it's a holiday at all, is only a holiday to the English and Irish and that's pretty much it.
llinois Gov. JB Pritzker has once again revealed his misplaced priorities--this time pleading with the Trump administration to suspend immigration enforcement so that illegal aliens can "enjoy the holiday in peace." In a letter dated October 29 and addressed to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons, and CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott, Pritzker demanded that all ICE operations be halted from October 31 through November 2. The Democrat governor argued that immigration enforcement during Halloween could "traumatize children" and "force families to live in fear," citing unverified reports that federal agents deployed tear gas at a children's parade in northwest Chicago.According to Politico, Pritzker's letter accused federal agents of "targeting Black and Brown people" and violating constitutional protections. He wrote that "families deserve to spend Halloween weekend without fear," and insisted "no child should be forced to inhale tear gas or other chemical agents while trick or treating." But ICE officials have not confirmed the alleged incident. Federal authorities said their agents had been "boxed in by agitators" and only used tear gas after warnings were ignored. No credible evidence has yet surfaced to support Pritzker's claims.
Incredibly, the Healthy At Any Size Influencer Pritzker called ICE operations an "imminent threat," like they're terror attacks being conducted by law enforcement.
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THE MORNING RANT: Periodic Roundup of the EV Follies – 10/31/2025
—Buck Throckmorton
September 30, 2025 was a monumental day for American taxpayers and for freedom-loving Americans, as the $7,500 federal credit toward the purchase of new electric vehicles was terminated. (Along with it, the $4,000 tax credit toward the purchase of used EVs also went away.) This had served as a $7,500 taxpayer transfer of wealth to EV buyers, who tend to already be an affluent demographic.
For anyone still interested in buying an EV, September 30 effectively served as the cutoff date. For manufacturers drowning in a glut of unsold EVs, that date also served as their drop-dead date to make whatever deals possible, because their loss per unit sold was about to get $7,500 higher in October.
While I await the Q4 2025 (October through December) sales results, which should be catastrophic, auto manufacturers are already re-trenching.
This first headline is a story that I’ve been eagerly waiting to report on for several years:
“Ford to End Production of Failed F-150 Lightning” [Yahoo Finance – 10/24/2025]
Ford’s management shows wisdom in shutting down Lightning production. The electric pickup never sold well, suggesting its launch was a terrible mistake. Additionally, the U.S. EV market is dying and will not bounce back soon. The $7,500 EV tax credit expired at the end of the third quarter.
[h/t to Ace of Spades reader “Tad P.” who not only emailed me this headline, but his subject line also properly referred to the F150 Lightning by my preferred moniker, the “F150 Conflagration.” Good job, Tad!]
The F150 Conflagration Lightning was supposed to be Ford’s flagship vehicle as it transitioned its customers from gas pickups to electric pickups. In fact, Ford built an entire new plant (Blue Oval City) near Memphis just to build electric pickups. The plant was originally scheduled to commence production in 2025, but Ford is now saying production has been pushed back to 2028, even though the facility has been built. Ford knows, and I know, that EV production will not happen by then. Donald Trump will still be President, and there will not be a return of federal subsidies for EVs during his administration. Ford owes its Directors and shareholders an update on what it’s going to do with its never-used, mothballed EV plant.
Fortunately, Ford’s customers never abandoned Ford, even when its executives were trying to abandon those loyal customers. The traditional gas-powered, internal combustion (“ICE”) F150 is still selling like crazy. In fact, Ford is re-allocating pretty much all of its workers who had been assembling electric F150s to a nearby plant that produces ICE F150s.
“Ford F-150 Lightning Production Halted Indefinitely After Supplier Fire” [EV.com – 10/24/2025]
Ford plans to boost F-150 output by 45,000 units in 2026 through workforce redistribution and plant upgrades. Roughly 1,200 [Rouge Electric Vehicle Center] employees will transition to the Dearborn Truck Plant, supported by 90 new hires at Dearborn Stamping and 80 at Dearborn Diversified Manufacturing. The Kentucky Truck Plant will also add 100 employees to raise annual production by about 5,000 units.
Regarding the supplier fire in that headline, Novelis supplies aluminum to several manufacturers, and its Oswego plant had a fire that put it out of commission for a while. This is a handy excuse as to why Ford is suspending production of its electric pickup truck. But Ford is not suspending production of the ICE F150, which also uses plenty of aluminum. And coincidentally, the entire Lightning workforce is being repurposed to assemble 50,000 additional gas and diesel F150s per year. The suspension of EV production is not a supplier issue, it’s a lack-of-customers issue.
I’ve noticed over the years that pretty much every time a manufacturer suspends production of an EV, the official reason is that there is a supplier issue or a supply-line problem, when the reality is that there is a glut of unsold inventory.
Ford has lost $3.6 billion on its EV program through the first three quarters of 2025, with the full-year loss expected to exceed $5 billion. This comes on top of losses of $9.8 billon over the previous two years for Ford’s EV unit.
The best time for Ford to pull the plug on its disastrous EV program was several years ago. The next best time is now.
The next end-of-an-era headline I’m waiting for is Rivian to announce its bankruptcy. We’re not there yet, but we’re getting closer….
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The Morning Report — 10/31/25
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids, and Happy Halloween. So, madness like this is bad enough.
If you’re not familiar with Democrat influencer Jennifer Welch, co-host of the popular I’ve Had It podcast, you will be, because as conservative activist and author Allie Beth Stuckey put it on X, Welch “holds the fate of the West in her hands.” On the Monday edition of the show she hosts with former attorney Angie “Pumps” Sullivan, Welch unloaded with a typically profane commentary in which she not only reveled in the politically motivated assassination of late Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, but demanded that her fellow Democrats “get onboard” with this murderous agenda or else they’ll be targeted too.
Jennifer Welch Is Proof the New X Platform Algorithm Is Messing with Conservatives — It’s been more than a month, and more than a few conservatives have been complaining about a major algorithm shift on the X platform. Instead of seeing posts from people they follow or may like, the “For You” feed is serving up to conservatives all of the most hard-core leftists who didn’t take their ball and go home when Elon Musk bought Twitter.
A federal grand jury in Chicago indicted six people, including a Democrat congressional candidate and other local politicians, on charges of interfering with a federal agent during a chaotic protest outside an immigration detention site last month.
For those who think what she did was no big deal, to date we have had ICE and other law enforcement officers assaulted and even firebombed and shot at. And it's not just some random podcaster inciting violence, it is major and minor Leftist political figures and Democrat party leadership itself that is shrieking loudest and shrillest in calling for the heads of their political enemies up to and most of all that of President Donald Trump.
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, whose Day One memo had ordered prosecutors to give armed robbers a pass, has announced that he’s looking into prosecuting ICE agents.While Bragg had let a man accusing of raping a teenage girl go with 30 days and probation so that he went on a “sex-crime spree” attacking four different women until one of his victims hit him on the head with a hammer, he aggressively pursued President Trump and subway hero Daniel Penny who had prevented a crazed homeless man from attacking fellow passengers. . .. . . The move by the California state government to create the legal infrastructure for trying to arrest federal law enforcement personnel marks a major escalation that could easily tip into violence. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has recognized the dangerous futility of local prosecutions now, threatening ICE personnel, “that maybe they’re not gonna get prosecuted today, although we’re looking at doing that, but they may get prosecuted after the Trump administration.”
. . . California, Chicago or Manhattan are no more entitled to protect their insurrectionist ‘sanctuaries’ for illegal alien criminals from federal law enforcement than Confederate forces were to shell Fort Sumter. Complaints about how ICE agents go about their work are a fig leaf that may pass muster with the type of federal district court judges that the ACLU has on speed dial, but won’t work at either a higher legal level let alone in an armed military confrontation. Sanctuary state Democrats are playing a foolish game that can only end in a civil war.
With all due respect to the estimable Daniel Greenfield, it can only end in a civil war if President Trump, whatever allies he has in government and the vast majority of the citizenry stand shoulder to shoulder with him when and IF he decides to wield a terrible swift sword of justice against Pritzker, Newsom, and the Democrat Party as a whole by removing them from office by force of arms, abolishing their party and putting this insurrection down, once and for all.
Likelihood of that happening is slim to none. So some time down the road, when Democrats assume control of the Executive and Legislative branches (likely by more election thievery) they will not let go and what was unleashed on candidate Trump and then President Trump starting 10 years ago and then on all of us who put him in office will be repeated by orders of magnitude. Evil never rests and on top of attempting to ensure they have absolute power forever, they will seek revenge and retribution against all of us.
Trump or no Trump, and whether the MAGA movement is a force to be reckoned with or if the miracle of Donald Trump's ascendancy is merely a temporary setback for the forces of darkness and evil that have been on the march for 200 years to destroy the American experiment is TBD.
IF you thought what we've experienced was nightmarish enough, the next 5 to 10 years and beyond may well be worse. God help us.
On that note, and also as a bit of tease, stay tuned for the podcast where our friend the estimable Robert Spencer will join us to discuss the rise of Zorhan Mamdani and the nightmare it portends not only for NYC but for America and the wider world. Should be posting later this afternoon in the sidebar and at CJN as well as the usual platforms below.
Have a great weekend, and a fun and safe Halloween for all the kids, of all ages, out there.
And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.
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Daily Tech News 31 October 2025
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Sorry, doomsayers. The trade war and crippling rare earth element shortages have been pushed back to 2026. (Tom's Hardware)
And the US had already forged agreements to obtain rare earth elements from other sources.
Always doom tomorrow, never doom today.
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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - October 30, 2025 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
What kind of mischief are you up to tonight?
Howdy Hordelings! The "mischief night" ONT is here. Or "moving night" as we called it in Charm City when I was growing up. Did you partake of Halloween-eve pranks in your neck of the woods back in the day? Do kids even do that stuff anymore? Our big things were soaping car windows, throwing eggs at houses, and the TP stuff like in the photo above. What about you?
Anyway - content below if you're into that sort of thing. Open thread otherwise.
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Haunted Cafe
—Ace
Lambely Viaduct, Northumberland by Jim Scott Photo
I've always preferred the original Spider-Man, Nicholas Hammond. (Who apparently was one of the kids in The Sound of Music.)
Self-solving Rubik's Cube.
The forgotten candies of the 1970s. Some Halloween connections.
Man walks his pet donkey around town as if he were a dog.
Flashback: An American mall in 1978. If you're young, and don't know what a "mall" is, ask your parents. Or grandparents. They were places where you could buy shoes, soft pretzels, and Fart Machines from Spencer's Gifts.
I'm 99% sure I linked this before, but if I didn't, or you missed it, here's colorized film from 1930s Depression-ravaged Ohio.
Leggy Aussie adopts baby kangaroo.
Total crap flashback: Tough guy actor Robert Conrad tries to bully Gabe Kaplan at The Battle of the Network Stars.
Shelter dog fast-talks his way into adoption.
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Quick Hits
—Ace
Trump and Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi
Trump says he's succeeded in China, too, striking a deal on trade and fentanyl.
President Trump declared "we have a deal" Thursday after meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea, describing their nearly two-hour summit as "a 12 out of 10." Speaking aboard Air Force One, Trump told reporters the two leaders reached a sweeping agreement to stabilize trade relations and address the deadly fentanyl crisis. "We have a deal. Now, every year we will renegotiate the deal," Trump said. "But I think the deal will go on for a long time."According to Trump, Xi agreed to suspend for one year China's export restrictions on products made with rare-earth and critical minerals -- materials essential to the production of semiconductors, batteries, and high-tech magnets. "There's no roadblock at all on rare earth," he said. "It's a one-year deal that I think will be very routinely extended." In exchange, Trump said the U.S. would lower the average tariff rate on Chinese imports from 57.6% to 47.6%. Trump emphasized that Xi also committed to intensifying China's crackdown on fentanyl exports, which have been a major driver of overdose deaths in the United States. "We agreed he's going to work very hard to stop the flow," Trump said. "I think you're going to see a big difference."
Beijing also pledged to resume "tremendous" purchases of American soybeans, reversing its earlier retaliatory halt. In a Truth Social post later Thursday, Trump said China had additionally agreed to begin purchasing U.S. oil and gas, noting that "a very large-scale transaction may take place concerning the purchase of oil and gas from the Great State of Alaska." The president confirmed that Taiwan was not discussed during the meeting but said both sides talked about working together to bring an end to the war in Ukraine. "We didn't really discuss the Russian oil," he added. "We discussed working together to see if we can get that war finished."
I don't know quite how to tell you guys this, but Rosie O'Donnell's daughter is a criminal fuck-up.
A Wisconsin judge reportedly sentenced Rosie O'Donnell's daughter to jail time Oct. 22 after she failed to meet the terms of her probation.Court records showed that Chelsea O'Donnell was accused of being in violation of probation, according to Us Weekly. A drug treatment program official said it was the result of sexual assault allegations but no further information was disclosed in the documents. The official said Chelsea had not demonstrated significant improvement in the treatment drug program.
She's sexually assaulting people? While in drug rehab?
What kind of a woman has to resort to sexual assault to gratify herself?
Oh right: someone who shares DNA with Rosie O'Donnell.
Sentencing details pertaining to the length of time she will remain behind bars were not publicly disclosed."The facts surrounding this request have been staffed with the Marinette County Treatment Drug Court Team and have been deemed sufficient grounds to warrant termination from the Marinette County Treatment Drug Court Program," the filing read, according to US Weekly.
The Marinette County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) officer told the outlet Chelsea has been in custody since Sept. 9 and has received a prison sentence.
And I hate to pile on with another shock, but it turns out O'Donnell's other "child" is, get this, "nonbinary."
She said: "I have a little one who is nonbinary -- 12 years old -- and it was the most interesting thing. They said to me, 'Mommy, I'm nonbinary. I'm not a boy and I'm not a girl.' I said, 'Okay, fantastic'. "They go, 'My pronouns are they/them, and I'd like them respected.' I will do my very best, right? Who are they, Harvey Milk reincarnated?."
The obesely unfunny Rosie O'Donnell is asking people for "prayers" for her drugged-up sexual-assailant daughter.
Ahoy! Porcine pundit Bill Kristol is now endorsing an avowed communist as part of his "Principled Conservatism" grift.
From weft-cut loop: The journey from Marxist to post-Marxist to neocon and back to Marxist again.
Update: Goldberg is distancing himself from Kristol because Kristol is too brazen, too open that he's simply a left-wing shill being funded by hard-left billionaires like Pierre Omidayr.
Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatchI like Bill and consider him a friend. But I just have no idea why -- even given all his other changed positions etc. -- he would say he'd vote for Mamdani. I can't think of a single angle where it makes sense as a strategic or tactical or messaging thing and I don’t see a reason on the merits given the things I’m pretty sure he still believes. It's just strange. Particularly given that he doesn’t have to have an opinion since he doesn't live there.
psst, jonah: It's because you're all being funded by hard-left agitators like Pierre Omidyar to run ops against the only available opposition to the islamist-communist left
Bill Kristol is like MSNBC where Jonah is like CNN from ten years ago. Jonah is pretending he's not a shill for the left whereas Kristol knows he's only got a couple of years left so YOLO!
Corporate America is the forgotten beneficiary of food assistance programs.A quick search for "EBT eligible food" on Amazon returns a pantry of non-essential items.
Red Bull energy drinks.
Raw, premium, unpasteurized Manuka honey.
Organic ground coffee containing some amount of lion's mane mushroom.
Oreo Sticks 'N Creme, a product which contains no actual cream.
2.2 lbs of nutella hazelnut spread.
Enormous bags of halloween candy.Walmart captures nearly a quarter of the money spent through Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on consumer packaged goods and general merchandise, according to a June report from Numerator. Other companies which capture a high percentage of SNAP dollars: Kroger (8%), Costco (6%), Amazon (5%).
That's money from your paycheck, into the hands of the supposedly needy, into the hands of Walmart.
A sizable percentage of Walmart's own employees are on food stamps, according to a 2020 study from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) conducted at the behest of independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
"Walmart was one of the top four employers of SNAP and Medicaid beneficiaries in every state. McDonald's was in the top five of employers with employees receiving federal benefits in at least nine states," The Washington Post summarized.
Sanders accused companies like Walmart and McDonald's of depending on "corporate welfare from the federal government by paying their workers starvation wages," according to the Post.
Sanders would likely balk at weakening our "corporate welfare" system by simply decreasing the number of welfare beneficiaries. About 42 million Americans receive SNAP benefits. Those benefits are set to freeze come November, due to the government shutdown.
Um, most of those receiving the benefits in America are not actually Americans.
Per Newsmax, 60% of people receiving US SNAP benefits are... foreigners, many of them illegal aliens:
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Having Succeeded in Destroying a Fourth Beloved IP, Disney Ends Its Financial Backing of Doctor Who (Is Gay)
—Ace
Doctor Who veered left under Steven Moffat and Peter Capaldi, then went full identity politics with the "first female Doctor" under Chris Chibnal. Turns out, Jodie Whitaker wasn't even the first female Doctor -- they retconned many earlier doctors, including, of course, a never-before-seen First Black Female Doctor.
As a black woman of female, I had never felt more validated.
Having turned Doctor Who into yet another Princess brand, of course Disney couldn't miss out on getting in on the action and ushering the immortal Doctor into the grave.
And it just so happens that for the two seasons Disney funded the show, the Doctor was now black and gay. And not just gay. Super-Gay.
The Doctor's sex life was never part of the show before. Yes, he'd had sex -- he had had children, and grandchildren -- but he was a grandfatherly figure of wisdom who had little interest in sex and considered it a boring distraction from the real marvels of the universe.
This changed in the rebooted series, where the Doctor sometimes flirted with female companions. But this never went beyond a chaste fondness.
Then the first gay Doctor came in, and he was gay all the way. The previous heterosexual Doctors had never been straight-all-the-way. He didn't gawk at women. At most, he'd make an offhand quip about having once been in a relationship with Queen Elizabeth I or something.
But when he went gay, he was full-on in-your-face gay. He even wore a skirt and went disco-dancing.
Point is, Disney swooped in to "save" Doctor Who when its ratings were already among the lowest they had ever been due to its egregious and incessant woke messaging. They "rescued" the show, which the BBC was no longer willing to fund.
And then the show turned even woker. And its ratings went from among the worst in the show's sixty year history to the very worst in the show's sixty-year history.
And now, having accomplished its mission of destroying yet another formerly male-skewing property, Disney says they're done and satisfied with a job well done.
It has been rumored for months and now it has become reality.Disney+ will be exiting the TARDIS and will no longer be involved with Doctor Who after partnering on two seasons with the BBC plus an upcoming spin-off titled The War Between The Land and the Sea.
The BBC just confirmed that the show will continue and will return with a Christmas special in 2026 penned by showrunner Russell T. Davies. Details of future seasons will be announced in due course along with more information on an animation for pre-school children.
Nope! The plan was always to do a sixtieth anniversary "holiday special" (the show stopped doing Christmas shows a while ago; wouldn't want to give any kind of exposure to the Christian ideology.)
That doesn't mean the show is "continuing." It means only that they're doing the one additional episode they already contracted to doing.
There is no current Doctor to continue the show. The actor playing the ultra-gay black Doctor angered the BBC when he refused to honor a commitment to be some kind of presenter for the BBC's broadcast of the Eurovision song contest. Ncuti Gatwa boycotted the event due to his extreme hatred of Israel (which was featured in the show, and, as usual, getting no votes due to Euorpe's high levels of antisemitism, both domestic and imported).
So he's out.
But that's okay, because anniversary specials usually feature the return of actors who have played the Doctor in the past. So the show will just be whoever is willing to come out of the retirement home to pick up an easy check.
And that will be that.
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"The BBC remains fully committed to Doctor Who, which continues to be one of our most loved dramas, and we are delighted that Russell T Davies has agreed to write us another spectacular Christmas special for 2026," she added. "We can assure fans, the Doctor is not going anywhere, and we will be announcing plans for the next series in due course which will ensure the TARDIS remains at the heart of the BBC."
If that were true, you could just commit to additional seasons of the show now, instead of declaring that at some point in the future you will fund new seasons.
The Groomer BBC and Groomer Disney Corporation teamed up to kill the Doctor, once and for all, and I'm glad he's dead. Or she's dead. Or they's dead.
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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."
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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.
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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...
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.
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.
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