Child Killer in Oregon Shooting Spree Identified

—Disinformation Expert Ace

He was himself killed by a good guy with a gun.

Alas, the killer murdered three children and an adult before he was cut down.

Three children and a teacher were killed, and two others critically wounded, in a shooting on Thursday at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, authorities said.

The suspect, a 16-year-old male, was shot and killed by a bystander, Bend police said.

Along with the teacher, the three children killed were ages 5, 8 and 11, Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz said in a news conference Thursday night. Two others, a 7-year-old child and a 54-year-old teacher, were taken to St. Charles Medical Center with critical injuries. No names were immediately released.

Krantz said that officers were called to the school just before 1 p.m. on a 911 call from a person who said they had been shot at several times while in their vehicle by a suspect with a long gun. Emergency dispatchers then received dozens of 911 calls that the suspect had entered the school.

The shooter forced his way into the school by "shooting at locked doors," Krantz said.

When officers arrived at the school within three minutes of the first 911 call, they discovered that the suspect had been killed by a bystander, Krantz said.

"An officer reported that the suspect had been shot by a community member who had seen the suspect enter the school and pursued him into the school and engaged him," Krantz told reporters.

After officers entered the building, Krantz said, they found the four deceased victims.

Officials would not say exactly what type of weapon was used in the attack or how many rounds were fired. Multiple law enforcement sources told CBS News the suspect used a shotgun.

There was no word on a motive.

Which causes us to very justifiably suspect it's one of the motives that the corrupt and craven establishment like to hide from the public.

The Teen of Obscured Allegiance was armed with a shotgun, the Daily Mail says,
purchased by his mother.

So he had the one weapon Joe Biden told people to buy, and it was likely legally purchased by a mother with no criminal record.

A teenage gunman who murdered three children and a teacher an an Oregon school shot through a secure area meant to keep children safe from killers like him, before being taken down by a hero bystander rumored to be a student's father.

The as-yet-unidentified 16-year-old was carrying a long gun that he used to shoot the locks out of 'secure vestibules' at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend shortly before 1pm PT Thursday, The Oregonian reported.

Those vestibules see visitors granted access to a locked porch area, whose second electronic door then opens into the school once they have been screened.

But that supposedly secure system was easily overcome on Thursday afternoon when the shooter shot his way into the special education area of the school and killed three children aged five, eight and 11 as well as a teacher. A seven-year-old child and 54-year-old teacher were also rushed to hospital in critical condition.

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[A teacher] said: 'They were so afraid, the looks on their faces. It was really hard to see, [I] was just trying to calm them down.

'Some kids were praying, some kids were consoling other kids, but doing so quietly because they know you don't make any noise.'

Smith and her students were ultimately rescued from being killed by a good Samaritan who spotted the teenager and followed him into the building, shooting him dead shortly after he began his rampage.

Dispatch audio suggested the hero was the father of a student at the school, with 'It looks like the shooter has been neutralized, possibly shot by a father at the school' picked up by multiple news outlets.

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One onlooker was sitting in his red Toyota Tacoma idling outside the school when he spotted the teen approaching the Silver Rail building with his gun.

Concerned by what he saw, the driver confronted the teen who returned a series of shots at the vehicle. A second good Samaritan then confronted the shooter inside the school and killed him.

A law enforcement official briefed on the shooting told The Associated Press the teen used a pump-action shotgun that was purchased by his mother.

The killer has been identified as John J. Griffin.

Ilhan "Omar" Disappears; Husband Asked If She's Fled the Country

—Disinformation Expert Ace

I mean her current husband, the one with the wine-label "business" that zoomed up to $5 million in value and then was "corrected" down to six buck twenty, not the brother she married to fraudulently obtain a Green Card for.

Dmitri Bolt at Townhall:

"Hey Tim, there are rumors that the congresswoman left the country, is that true?" a Fox News Digital reporter asked.

"You're annoying the hell out of all the neighbors around here man," Mynett replied.

"No, I just wanted to get your response to everything that's been going on, that's all," the reporter said. "And what the president's saying about the net worth and the investigation. Just giving you a chance to respond."

SPOTTED: Ilhan Omar's husband Tim Mynett snapped at questions surrounding rumors that the congresswoman fled the country following a federal raid by Homeland Security Investigations. He was seen outside their Washington, D.C., home multiple times, but Omar has not been spotted since the raid.

Full story here https://t.co/M8MCCxSsp4

— Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) October 15, 2026

Remember that Ilhan "Omar" isn't just being investigated for immigration fraud -- but for financial fraud as well.

I imagine the "winery" that produces no actual wine is a major part of this investigation.

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro revealed Tuesday that her office is investigating Rep. Ilhan Omar's financial disclosures, opening a new chapter in the controversy surrounding the Minnesota Democrat's previously reported multimillion-dollar assets.

Speaking on Fox News' "America Reports," Pirro said her office was examining Omar's financial disclosures, which previously showed that the reported value of businesses tied to her husband, Tim Mynett, had surged from as much as $51,000 in 2023 to as much as $30 million in 2024.

As I understand it, the "winery" isn't a winery. What the "business" seems to be is a company that buys wine from actual wineries then slaps its own label on it and resells it.

I cannot say with certainty but this seems very much like Hunter Biden's "watercolor paintings" -- a commodity whose objective price is hard to establish so it could be "sold" for any number of dollars to political donors whose real object, as with Hunter's Watercolors, is just to funnel money to a politician in a way that avoids reporting requirements and donation limits.

Six dollar bottle of wine might "sell" for $1000 because it's got that classy, high-status Mynett-Omar brand attached to it. You can't cry foul because who knows what a bottle of wine is worth?

This is speculation on my part but what other theory fits the facts here?

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THE MORNING RANT: Perhaps Cars and Grocery Freezers Shouldn’t Be Subject to Hacking and Bad Programming

—Buck Throckmorton

Here are three unrelated stories, but they share a theme, specifically that “improving” machinery with complicated software and remote internet access often renders the machinery compromised and inoperable. (h/t to @ComradeArthur for a couple of these tips.)

First: Chinese electric vehicles that were rented to the Norwegian military by a Chinese-controlled rental car company made video recordings of confidential military information.

“Chinese-Owned Rental Cars Recorded Norwegian Military Drill” [Defence Blog – 12/12/2026]

Rental cars used by Norway’s Home Guard during a large exercise in September recorded video of soldiers, their routes, and the codes they typed into military gates, according to a soldier who took part, Norwegian business daily Dagens Næringsliv reported.

The cars were rented by the Norwegian Armed Forces from Hertz in Norway, which belongs to Volvo Cars and, through Volvo, to China’s Geely group. At least two of them were electric cars from Deepal, a brand of Chinese automaker Changan.

America’s principled free traders dream of allowing China and its electric spy cars into our market, and if you seek to protect private-sector American industrial jobs from being lost to Chinese state-controlled industries, those same “free traders” will call you a socialist.

Second: The start of the recent Formula One race in Malaysia had to be aborted because bad programming rendered many of the supercars unable to move faster than a slow crawl, if they weren’t bricked altogether.

“FIA to Investigate Software Bug after Bahrain GP in Malaysia” [Reuters – 10/02/2026]

The governing FIA said afterwards that "an unprecedented combination of low engine speed, low-grip conditions, wet-weather energy management settings and the Sepang circuit’s sector configuration led to an unintended loss of power for a number of cars."

F1 cars are now part electric and part internal combustion, and there is programming required to make the two forms of propulsion integrate. That software apparently didn’t take into account such unforeseen things as low speed and wet roads, which rendered the cars undriveable.

Traditional gasoline-powered cars without internet connectivity can drive in pretty much any weather condition. So of course, all the smart people are determined to proceed with technology that flakes out in bad weather, or when software hasn’t anticipated every permutation of temperature, precipitation, rpm, and speed.

Any car that needs software updates to keep operating is a car than can be kept from running due to malicious software.

Third: If I ran a business in which much of my inventory must be kept refrigerated or frozen, I would certainly maintain remote monitoring systems so I would know if any refrigerators were broken or not holding temperature. Inventory obviously must be protected from spoilage. What I would not do is create remote internet controls so that anyone hacking into the remote monitoring system can also sabotage the refrigeration equipment.

“French Supermarket Fridges Get Hacked, Heating to 122°F and Sparking Fires” [10/13/2026]

Hackers targeted hundreds of French supermarkets in a cyberattack that reportedly caused refrigerators and freezers to overheat, spoiling food and sparking fires. Fridges at [various supermarket chains] saw fridges heat up to as much as 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) overnight.

While this incident was in France, not the U.S., I can’t help but believe that the corporate obsession with automation and elimination of labor expense contributed to this cyber-attack on the food supply. Too many business executives are antagonistic toward the blue-collar tradesmen who keep their machinery running. They desperately want to believe that AI, or software, or a slick presentation from an expensive consultant can rid them of the annoyance of paying professional compensation to a skilled laborer.

Remote monitoring is obviously required. Remote access and control, however, is an invitation to destructive hacking. That invitation was obviously accepted.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

Saint Jerome as Scholar
Domenikos Theotokopoulos

The Morning Report — 10/16 /26

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. In the lead there was yet another school shooting this time up in the town of Bend, Oregon. First and foremost prayers offered for the victims and their loved ones. For that of course we are to be mocked and scorned by our fellow citizens in name only, of the Left. I don't know about Oregon in general but Bend from what I know is a very Leftist community, and given the undue influence of Portland on the entire state I'll just assume the restrictions on the second amendment are widespread and in full force. I'm sure the usual geschrei from the Communists in both the propagandist media and politics will be at maximum volume and intensity, as is the case in the wake of incidents like this and with the crucial midterms just over two weeks away, the insanity of early voting already underway.

With that said, there are a few things worthy of note for this edition of the report, so let's kick things off with this nightmarish if not completely unsurprising story. That it is unsurprising is equally nightmarish, and yet.

A University of Wyoming student was arrested after police say she tried to poison a colleague, then attempted to flee to China when officers questioned her. Aili Wang, 32, was questioned by campus police after surveillance cameras set up by a coworker experiencing medical symptoms allegedly caught her rinsing his mug with liquid from her own cup on Oct. 1, according to a University of Wyoming police affidavit, which added that she was seen on camera “taking photos and manipulating notebooks.” Wang didn’t get along with the coworker, who wasn’t named in court documents. Surveillance footage allegedly showed Wang searching through the victim’s desk; the victim specialized in disease treatment technology, work similar to what she had done in China. . . Now you may think this is just some sort of bizarre thing that one crazy person did. But there’s been a pattern of such incidents all involving foreign researchers and students involved in the sciences on college campuses. . .

. . . There’s some obvious patterns here. . .Professional rivalry likely plays a role. China is very academically competitive and while the vast majority of students aren’t poisoning people, clearly some are, while others understand that such behaviors exist. Call it ‘cultural differences’. Or something else to be aware of.

I for one it's not personal, but it's high-level Chi-Com intrigue and sabotage. Considering what American Universities have been doing to the minds of young people for decades, this is almost a nothing-burger in comparison. And, thank you Harry Truman for not letting MacArthur storm across the Yalu River, nor nuking Beijing while we had the chance.

And then we have these — poison pen letters.

“The FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service are investigating a series of suspicious mailings sent to various addresses nationwide, including Secretary of State offices and their related election offices,” an FBI spokesperson told Fox News. “Some of the letters contained an unknown substance and we are working closely with our law enforcement partners to respond to each incident.” The notice included an image of one of the envelopes. The return addresses indicate the letters came from the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) with the address the organization lists on its membership forms: 75 Maiden Lane in New York City.

By any means necessary, we must have paradise on earth!

If you went to public school any time after 2000, you may not have even taken a history class. If you did, it’s highly unlikely that the lefties who taught you covered how many Soviet citizens died under Josef Stalin. Under Stalin, roughly 1.7 million Soviet citizens died in gulags from 1930 to 1953. That doesn’t include the roughly 5 million to 7 million who died from famine as a result of socialist policies. Yale historian Timothy Snyder has estimated that Stalin’s regime deliberately murdered about 6 million Soviet citizens. . .

. . . As leftists often tell us any time we point out the failures of socialism, “That’s because it’s never been tried the right way before.”

Let’s see whether the leader of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) got it right. Mao Zedong’s kill numbers are from the low “tens of millions” to upward of 80 million.  All were his own people. No one can get a very accurate count for how many he killed, because the best possible sources were killed.

As with Russia, Mao’s weapon of choice was famine – letting people starve to death.Historians say that under Mao, his people suffered from the deadliest famine in recorded history. They blame “collectivization,” falsified food production data and reports, suppression (censorship) of accurate information, and general mismanagement. . . What none of them see coming is that when socialism fails, and it always does, the leaders already know whom to blame: conservatives and Republicans, all because they resisted the socialist wave and made it difficult to actually execute socialism the right way.

The embrace of Bernie Sanders, Mamdani, El-Sayed and all the rest by far too many of our young people and considering the saga of American academia for over 60 years many many more who should be old enough to know better but of course don't.

It's been said probably in every election since '64 if not before, but this one and '28 could be lights out forever if either or both go south. At least the Democrats of yore were better at hiding who and what they were/are way back when, or that's how I seem to remember things. Nowadays the freak flags are flying in the breeze.

And right out front and high is the flag of ISLAM!

On these and all the rest I bid you all to have a great weekend.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• An armed Good Samaritan fatally shot a teenage gunman who opened fire at an Oregon elementary school Thursday afternoon, ending a deadly attack that claimed the lives of three young children and a teacher, authorities said.
  School Shooting in Bend, Oregon Leaves Four Dead, Others Wounded
  
• ...Can we continue to put this down to naivety? To complacency? Or is it time to give it a more apposite name: complicity?One thing is certain: Left unchecked, this threat could destroy us.
  Why are Dems so complacent or complicit about the spread of radical Islamism? (there's no such thing as "radical Islamism," it's ISLAM period, full stop -jjs)

Daily Tech News 16 October 2026

—Pixy Misa

• Tesla announced its new model Roadster - yes, the one The Verge was whining about. Taking reservations now for delivery in 2028. Or later.
  
  It flies. (Business Insider)
  
  Literally.
  
  I thought it was AI for a moment.
  
  Okay, falling with style, but falling with a lot of style. It can also drive on vertical surfaces... And on the wrong side of horizontal ones.
  
  The flying version is single-seater and not approved for public road use.
  
  Eppure vola.

Thursday Overnight Open Thread - October 15, 2026 [scampydog]

—Open Blogger

Welcome to the Thursday ONT. Double feature/content o'plenty edition. Your regular Thursday host (Doof) has surrendered the keys for the evening. He's off to Texas to meet with people who know each other by their AoSHQ handles, puns, and various online pleasantries.

We will keep the one-night transition (not transaction) mostly peaceful. Keeping the lights on, the doors open, and the comment section moderately unsupervised.

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James Bond had Q for his gadgets. We consumers got Ron Popeil and Ronco for ours. The Salad Spinner, Miracle Brush, Mr. Microphone, Pocket Fisherman, and more. Ronco history. Who got sucked in and made a purchase?

Ronco refined its marketing and distribution techniques with its second televised product, the "Chop-O-Matic." Produced by Popeil Brothers, this "food chopper with rotating blades" had been peddled by Ron Popeil on the fair circuit since the late 1950s. Not only was the commercial for this device longer, at five minutes, but Ronco also made this its first mail-order product. Delighted with the Chop-O-Matic's success, Sam Popeil invented and manufactured the Dial-O-Matic and what would become Ronco's first blockbuster, the Veg-O-Matic. Ron Popeil's television ad fueled the sale of over nine million units for $50 million worth of these rather primitive food processors.

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A section of news for those who like their ONT with a side of aggravation.

No new features have been added, your deductible is still enormous, and your preferred doctor may no longer be in network. Thank you for being a valued customer.

Congratulations! Your health insurance premium is going up again. Ignore the explainers in the article. Check out the chart.

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Universities cutting ties with foreign groups?

The Department of War mandated the universities conduct a review of their foreign partnerships following its updates to a list of "foreign institutions engaging in problematic activities." Reports were due at the beginning of this school year.

The American Association of University Professors challenged the Department of War's audit along with the American Federation of Teachers in August.

Of course they challenged. That's what commies do. People who are deeply invested in an ideology react defensively to information that threatens them/it. It's not confirmation bias if you call it ideological consistency. At least, that's what the Confirmation Bias Department would like you to believe.

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Economic reform is a long game. Summary of Javier Milei over at American Thinker and his battle against socialism. Worth a read.

The cancer of socialism metastasizes into every area of society -- the chemotherapy requires more time than a single presidency.

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Update from commenter mindful webworker.

Update here.

Predicting the future: the commentariat will hyperventilate. We should ready ourselves for the usual lectures about decorum, solemn denunciations, and grave warnings about the deplorable portion of society. I expect a parade of earnest pundits lecturing us that the real scandal is the response (public firing squad) rather than Nidal Hasan's actions (murdering 13 people).

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has announced that the execution of convicted Fort Hood Islamist terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan will be "PUBLIC," with American soldiers carrying out the firing squad at the very military installation where Hasan murdered 13 people and wounded 32 others in 2009.

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The ONT is here for: 1) those of you currently evading the U.S. Marshals or considering it as a future career pivot, and 2) those committed to maintaining operational readiness.

A few friendly reminders from the world of being on the run: Predictable routines are a gift to anyone trying to find you. Burner phones are not magical talismans. And purchasing a black turtleneck does not, in fact, make you invisible to federal law enforcement nor does it make you Archer. US Marshals. They are decidely unimpressed by your burner phone.

The thing that sticks with you after that video isn’t some secret gadget or Hollywood manhunt trick. It’s the patience of it. US Marshals can work through the ordinary leftovers of a person’s life until the hiding place starts getting smaller… an old address that still matters, somebody who knows more than they realize, a car that turns up in the right area, or a routine that finally becomes predictable enough to be useful.

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Now we know. Tungsten Carbide Pins. Sounds techy - I don't know enough about it to render judgment on accuracy. Fun and curious reading, however.

In automotive assembly, for example, fixture plates use carbide pins to locate body panels during welding. The pins slide into corresponding holes, ensuring each panel sits in precisely the right position before robotic welders do their work. Because these fixtures cycle thousands of times per day, the pins need to resist wear that would gradually enlarge the holes and degrade positioning accuracy. The same principle applies in: • Aerospace jigs for composite layup and drilling operations • Electronics manufacturing where circuit boards require precise positioning • Medical device assembly where tolerances are measured in micrometers • Tool and die construction for stamping and forming operations

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Rooftop bar? No.

As seen at a watering hole. When someone says they want the authentic travel experience...this is exactly the type of joint they mean.

It's almost winter. Who doesn't want to know how fur coats are made?

Betting there are a few fur coats and hats tucked away in the closets of the Horde.

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Vespa? No, but seems to fit the humor.

Mystery click. Of course.

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The magic of Flavacol and popcorn.

And while we're at it, for those who actually read the content, and the two of you smarty-pants readers who actually don't already know: the science behind the Alberger process.

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Nothing like an old-fashioned stare down.

Let's do some movie stare downs. What do you have Horde? The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly? Clubber Lang and Rocky? News Team Stare Down in The Anchorman?

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Two musical selections for your entertainment. Enjoy, complain, or suggest better ones - use tinyurl or similar if linking. Don't blow out the margins!

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Questions of the moment. What perfectly reasonable life moment has you questioning things?

Surely the package carriers know what's inside those boxes going to Exact Sciences Laboratories. Right?

Can anyone actually interpret a bill from a doctor visit?

When did saying, "I am so busy" become an excuse rather than a problem to be solved? Further, why is the person who identifies the problem often labeled as the problem?

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The photo above shows Hill Inlet. Apparently the tides move the sand through the turquoise waters creating the swirly looking things of awesomeness. The beach itself is 4 miles of the finest sand in the world. 98% pure silica. No public roads - it is on an island. Boat or aircraft only.

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DISCLAIMER: This brief ONT appearance does not constitute a return to regular service, an expression of renewed commitment, or an indication that you or I have learned anything from tonight. All future ONT appearances are subject to availability, inclination, weak moments, amnesia, and the Bacardi to mixer ratio. Safe travels to the Texas adventurers.

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Teddy Bear the Talking Porcupine Cafe

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Nagano Prefecture, Japan
Ryogo Urata

Magpies "serenading" their human friend.

Elephant works the problem.

Petting and playing with a friendly shoebill stork.

We're gonna need a bigger boat. No wait, this one will do just fine.

Drone photographs alligator. The alligator does not appreciate it.

Move, bitch, get out da way.

Close encounter with an orca.

Woman water-skis with dolphins. (It's actually a wakeboard, I know.)

Bear and man.

Good clip for spooky season.

Two bulldogs watch the dog kennel scene from The Thing.

The Batman Kid is taking this too seriously.

Classic: Buttermilk the bouncing bounding baby goat.

Very cute: Squirrel is best friends not just with a man but a bull terrier. (? on that dog identification.)

Drunk and Homely Female Democrat Lives in a Van Down by the River and Threatens Republicans, "We Have Guns Too"

—Disinformation Expert Ace

A retarded woman running as a Democrat -- is there any other kind? -- was plainly drunk and possibly on drugs when she popped into a studio for a scheduled interview.

A Democrat running for county council in eastern Indiana was ridiculed Tuesday after critics claimed she appeared "s--- faced" and slurred her way through attacks on Republicans during a televised candidate forum.

During the forum, Fayette County Council candidate Jaime West said she would "fire all Republicans" if elected, railed against "MAGAs" she called "racist" and unintelligent and alleged that a sheriff's nephew had threatened to kill her. Asked for a final message to voters, West responded: "We have guns too."

"This is not a skit," said LibsOfTikTok, a popular conservative punditry account run by commentator Chaya Raichik.

"Jaime West, a Democrat running for Fayette County Council in Indiana, gave an embarrassing interview where she appears to mumble and rant the entire time. Is she intoxicated?" Raichik asked on X.

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When asked one decision she would make if elected that constituents would find unpopular, West told the moderator, "Fire all Republicans."

"I wouldn't let them -- I don't even talk to them. I don't like them. They voted against -- their own state representative voted against her own party," West continued while also pledging not to raise taxes.

"Y'all did this to us. ... You made this happen. This ICE coming into our communities, stealing people's jobs. I mean, I've been threatened so many times to my face by MAGA; we'll call them, because there's Republicans who actually get it. You know, there are good Republicans out there, but then there's these MAGAs who are just racist and aren't very intelligent at all," West continued.

"They call you names. The sheriff's nephew threatened to blow my head off. But, you know, what are you going to do?"

The sheriff says he has no idea what this brain-damaged woman is talking about. #BelieveAllSheriffs.

The moderator paused before asking West for a final message to voters.

"We have guns too," West said as the moderator pivoted to informing viewers about how to vote in the Hoosier State's elections this year.

Remember, all leftists are smarter than you. Their ideology assures them this the case. That's why they're so passionate about it. Their ideology tells them, despite all available evidence, that they are special and superior.

Quick Hits

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Lisa Britton @LisaBritton

Do these people live on another planet? College campuses are already anti-men to the max. Many male college students I've spoken with tell me they feel like a punching bag. Absolutely delusional to suggest that college men "aren’t being taught about inequality, power & sexism."

Kamala Harris is still pretending she's running for president.

Fweedom!

Former Vice President Kamala Harris called for institutional changes to the Supreme Court and the Electoral College during an interview Tuesday, calling for more justices on the highest court in the nation.

"The work that we can do about winning back the House and the Senate is going to be on a number of things. For example, I believe that we need to expand the Supreme Court. We need more justices on the Supreme Court so that we can have a court that actually reinforces the spirit and principles behind the Constitution of the United States," Harris told podcast host Keke Palmer on her "Baby, This is Keke Palmer" podcast.

"I believe that we should be pushing for what is possible around changing the Electoral College. Right?

"It's about, the popular vote has to matter, right? You know, all the things that make people feel, like, overwhelmed, and does their vote matter? We have, you know, listen, if the folks there want it, we should be pushing for statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C., right? These are some of the things that are structural that we need to do, but we need to reestablish affordable child care," Harris added.

Harris lost both the Electoral College and the popular vote to President Donald Trump in 2024. She told Palmer she still remains undecided about a 2028 presidential run.

Governess Houchul has spared 16,000 criminals from deportation by refusing to deliver them to ICE.

New York blew off 16,000 Trump administration ICE orders to detain suspected heinous illegal migrants accused or convicted in more than 50,000 criminal charges, disturbing new data show.

The Department of Homeland Security said the municipalities across the Dem-driven state have refused to comply with its detainment requests 16,070 times since President Trump re-entered office fewer than two years ago -- refusing to hand over criminal migrants suspected or convicted of everything from murder to kidnapping and sexual assault.

"While sanctuary politicians continue to release dangerous criminals onto their streets, our brave law enforcement officers will continue to risk their lives to arrest these heinous criminals and make America safe again. Illegal aliens have no sanctuary in America," DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin told The Post.

"We enforce these laws with no help from Mayor [Zohran] Mamdani and Governor [Kathy] Hochul.

Governess Hochul put on an embarrassing performance in her debate with Republican Bruce Blakeman. Or so I'm told; I didn't watch it.

All she could do was keep repeating "Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump" because her record is terrible.

One poll says the race is neck-and-neck. I doubt it, but if you're a New York voters, you know what you could do that would result in the Funniest Thing Ever...?

Gov. Kathy Hochul and Bruce Blakeman are nearly neck-and-neck as they head into the gubernatorial election's only debate Tuesday, a stunning new poll found.

Democrat Hochul leads the Republican Nassau executive 47% to 44%, a Pollfinity survey released Tuesday found.

The poll found about 6% of voters were undecided, while another 3% planned to cast their ballots for others.

When undecided voters were asked which way they were leaning the race spread slightly, but just barely -- with the candidates falling within 4 points of each other at 48% to 44%.

The poll called on 499 New Yorkers between Oct. 8 and 12, and bucked trends other pollsters had found in recent weeks which placed Hochul at a roughly 10-point lead over Blakeman.

Hochul led Blakeman by 12 points -- 52% to 40%, with 8% undecided -- in an Oct. 8 poll from Emerson College and PIX 11 that called on 900 voters.

Nancy Mace Was Right? Police Arrest Her Ex-Fiance and Three Other Men for Sexually Abusing an Unconscious Woman

—Disinformation Expert Ace

She originally Soft Opened these charges with surveillance camera video from a gym. I thought she was complaining that the surveillance camera photographed her wearing her gym clothes.

I don't know why she didn't lead with the real story, the sexual assault on an unconscious woman.

South Carolina authorities have charged three of the four men Rep. Nancy Mace accused in a 2025 House floor speech of sexually abusing women and girls with offenses related to the alleged sexual assault of a 23-year-old incapacitated woman in 2018.

The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division announced the charges Wednesday against John Douglas Osborne, 46, Brendan Patrick Bryant, 53, and Eric Bernard Bowman, 46. All three men were booked into the Sheriff Al Cannon Detention Center in Charleston County.

Bryant is the former fiancé of Mace, who has said that she ended of her engagement to Bryant in November 2023 after discovering videos of women being sexually abused on his cellphone.

The alleged incident occurred Oct. 26, 2018, on Sullivan's Island, a 3 1/2-mile-long barrier island home to some 2,000 people near Charleston Harbor.

According to the affidavits supporting the charges, the victim, a 23-year-old woman, was drunk when she fell into the swimming pool of a residence. She then removed her wet clothes but for her bra and passed out on a sofa.

While she was unconscious, the three men are accused of discussing sexual exploits before agreeing that Osborne would have sex with the woman as the others watched.

The documents allege that as Osborne kissed, digitally penetrated and performed oral sex on the incapacitated woman, Bryant and Bowman watched. They are also accused of taking photos and video of the incident.

An unidentified witness allegedly overheard the alleged conversation between the men and watched Bowman and Bryant via a home security video feed apparently record the assault. The documents state the witness also obtained and saved two still photographic images from the security video feed and created an email or journal entry detailing the incident from her perspective.

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The announcement comes nearly two years after Mace, a Republican firebrand, took to the House floor on Feb. 10, 2025, to accuse the three men and another of raping and filming women they had incapacitated. She also alleged that they took nonconsensual photos and videos of the victims.

She said she had found thousands of videos and photos of the alleged crimes and had identified almost a dozen dozen victims, including herself.

Well color me surprised.

I guess her speech did mention the assault. But she spoke about it in such a fuzzy way I didn't know what she was specifically alleging.

"I accidentally uncovered some of the most heinous crimes against women imaginable -- we are talking about rape, nonconsensual photos, nonconsensual videos of women and underage girls, and the premeditated, calculated exploitation," Mace revealed in her shocking speech.

I will just note that feminists basically use these words now to attack people just for criticizing them online. Without specifying the specific actions allegedly committed, no one can tell what a feminist means when she says "rape" any longer. (And Mace is, of course, a strident feminist. She sued the Citadel and forced her way into the formerly all-boys military academy.)

Related: Nancy Mace points out that America's Sweetheart thinks "U.S." stands for "the U.S. g*ddamn States."

Iran Sentences Woman to Death For Insulting Their "Prophet;" Activists Attack Pete Hegseth For Making War on This Enlightened Regime

—Disinformation Expert Ace

The mullahs will hang a woman for insulting the leaders of Iran, which they then trumped up to insulting the "prophet."

An Iranian woman has been sentenced to death for blasphemy over a social media post that insulted the prophet.

Accounting student Najmeh Amini, 23, was sentenced to death last month after being held in the notorious Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad for eight months.

It was previously reported that Amini was being held on charges that included 'insulting the Supreme Leader' and 'clashing with security agents.'

However, Iranian human rights activists have now revealed that the student was sentenced to death on charges of 'sab ol-nabi' (insulting the prophet).

She was also sentenced to 12 years, six months, and one day on charges of acting against national security and spreading anti-regime propaganda.

So the whole claim of blasphemy is a lie, they just want to murder her because she spoke out against them.

Amini was arrested on January 31 after she -- alongside hundreds of thousands of Iranians -- took to the streets to protest against its authoritarian government.

In response, security forces unleashed a deadly crackdown, in which more than 7,000 people were killed, while thousands more were arrested, according to human rights groups.

Following her sentencing last month, a leaked voice recording from inside prison emerged, in which Amini desperately pleaded for help.

'Greetings to the people of Iran. I am Najmeh Amini, 23 years old, speaking from the central prison of Mashhad. I am leaving this message for you on 18 September 2026,' she is heard saying.

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'I request that international human rights organisations and responsible bodies at the United Nations hear my voice and investigate and follow up on the status of my case.

The UN. Sorry, lady, the UN will not help you. They will cheerlead your murder.

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'The Iranian authorities are unleashing a horrifying wave of executions and death sentences to punish and suppress dissent and project an image of strength and absolute control,' said Heba Morayef, Amnesty International's regional director.

'The muted response from the international community emboldens the Iranian authorities to continue their deadly rampage.'

Amnesty said at least 26 people were arbitrarily executed after being convicted of offences related to the January protests, following what it said were 'torture-tainted, grossly unfair trials' by revolutionary courts.

Iran, like Communist China and the Soviet Union before that, represents the leftist dream of murdering their opponents and taking full control over all aspects of society, and therefore must be defended and praised by all good communist cultists.

Multiple Iran War protesters have crashed Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's Wednesday roundtable on Autonomous Warfare at the Association of the United States Army conference.

In a coordinated effort, six different protesters took turns interrupting Hegseth's panel at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. The roundtable is currently ongoing, and there may be more protesters as the event continues to unfold.
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"Pete Hegseth, you're a fucking war criminal, you're a Nazi," a male protester yelled while in the middle aisle of the event, in full view of Hegseth. "You should be ashamed, he screamed."

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The confrontation was not Hegseth's first encounter with anti-war demonstrators. On April 30, a protester affiliated with the anti-war organization CODEPINK interrupted Hegseth's testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, accusing him of war crimes and condemning American military operations in Iran before being arrested by Capitol Police, according to CODEPINK.

"You're a war criminal," one protester screamed repeatedly while being dragged out by security.

YES: Trump's DHS Is Preparing a Case for Deporting the Foreign Agent of Influence Ilhan "Omar"

—Disinformation Expert Ace

I'm so happy.

The Trump administration is building a case that could lead to the deportation of Rep. Ilhan Omar, with federal agents seizing the Minnesota Democrat's cellphone, notebooks, personal computers and her passport on Monday, according to a new report and people familiar with the investigation.

Omar has long maintained that she became a US citizen at the age of 17 when her father was naturalized in 2000, but sources with direct knowledge of the federal raid on her DC bungalow said the Department of Justice is looking for evidence that claim is a lie.

If the Somali-born Omar's citizenship was procured by the concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation -- either by herself or by her father, Nur Omar Mohamed -- on immigration paperwork, then the feds will seek to denaturalize and deport her, one of the sources confirmed.

Is that even her "father"? There is evidence that her real father is a Somali war criminal who genocided enemy tribes and who was trained as a revolutionary by the communist party. She has called this man -- Nur Omar Said -- "father." When asked why she refers to him as "father," she claimed that Somalis routinely call men who are not their fathers "father" to show respect.

That's a lot of bullshit.

The 44-year-old congresswoman was at home with her husband Tim Mynett when agents executed a search warrant and removed the items, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Criminal charges could only be brought if the alleged immigration fraud occurred within the past 10 years, while if it concerned false statements there would be a five-year statute of limitations, according to federal defense attorney Todd Spodek.

Securing a criminal conviction for "knowingly procuring naturalization unlawfully requires revocation of citizenship," Spodek said, though a member of US Congress has never been denaturalized before.

There's no similar statute of limitations if civil denaturalization is pursued....

The Post confirmed Wednesday that prosecutors in Minnesota are leading the immigration fraud probe into the "Squad" member, while the office of DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro is pursuing an inquiry into Omar and Mynett's finances.

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The Post reported Tuesday that in the spring of 2019, following Omar's initial election to the House of Representatives, her staff pressed the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library, the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, and Wikipedia to record her birth as happening in 1982 rather than 1981.

Months earlier, in the fall of 2018, Omar's campaign had told the Associated Press that she didn't have a birth certificate due to her family's displacement by the long-running Somalia civil war.

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More than a dozen grand jury subpoenas have also been issued to family members of the Minnesota congresswoman, including her sister, Sahra Noor.

That sister just so happens to have run a "charity" with the same address as the address as three of the keu "Feeding Our Future" Somali fraudsters.

One of the largest fraud scandals in Minnesota may involve the family of Ilhan Omar.

The far-left congresswoman's sister used the address of a woman who was business partners with several major convicts in the "Feeding Our Future" scandal, a Daily Wire investigation found.

The federal meals scandal is described as the largest public theft in Minnesota history. The statehouse's House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee is probing the Somali-born congresswoman's involvement in the scandal, but Democrats in May blocked a subpoena that would require Omar to produce records.

Public records in the state, however, may tie Omar's sister, Sahra Noor, to the operation. Noor has run several businesses in the region, including the People's Center Clinics & Services in the Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis, which controversially received a $2 million earmark while her sister was a state representative.

Noor went on to found a group called Grit Partners Consulting, and publicly says her company "has secured more than $20 million in funding for health initiatives" and has "consulted on projects backed by" federal health agencies such as USAID and the Center for Disease Control.

Grit Partners was incorporated at a home on Hyacinth Ave. in Lakeville, Minnesota. That address, and the woman who lives there, are lynchpins tying together at least three Feeding Our Future convicts, The Daily Wire found.

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh

🚨 ILHAN OMAR UPDATE: SHE IS IN MAJOR HOT WATER

- DOJ is building a case to strip her citizenship and ultimately DEPORT HER
- Her passport and phone were seized
- A federal grand jury sent out about a dozen subpoenas
- Possible additional charges being looked at: conspiracy and false statements
- Federal agents with HSI searched Omar's D.C.-area home under a search warrant
- The focus is reportedly her birthdate and the family's immigration records
- Her father brought the family to the U.S. from a refugee camp in 1995
- In 2019, her staff reportedly asked to change her listed birth year from 1981 to 1982, meaning citizenship might be invalid
- US Attorney Jeanine Pirro has a SEPARATE probe into Omar's financial disclosures

This is the scandal she was hoping would NEVER COME. It's finally here!

THE END RESULT MUST BE DEPORTATION, MINIMUM

Jake Tapper, who cheerleaded Jack Smith's rush to indict Trump before the 2024 presidential election, is absolutely horrified that Ilhan "Omar" would be investigated now before an election.

Anthony Fauci Blamed Trump for the Spread of the Completely-True Lab Leak Theory Fact

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Trump rarely gets credit from the establishment, but here, his evil malignant dwarf nemesis gives him full credit for getting the truth out.

Anthony Fauci blamed President Donald Trump for the public's concern that the COVID-19 pandemic had emanated from a laboratory in Wuhan to which Fauci's institute had shipped funding and high-risk coronavirus experiments, newly released documents show.

Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul on Wednesday released new pages of the daily diary that Fauci had stored on government servers with entries stretching from December 2021 to May 2022. The entries give the starkest view yet into Fauci's thinking as his preferred narrative around the pandemic's origins -- that it originated from a wet market in Wuhan -- began to crumble.

By the end of 2021, scientists and journalists pursuing the so-called "lab leak theory" had evaded earlier censorship efforts, defied bullying in the scientific community and broken containment.

Fauci often wrote in his diary about his intention to set the story straight in his forthcoming memoir. Rather than reflecting on his decisions to champion gain-of-function research that makes viruses more deadly in the lab, Fauci sought to portray the hypothesis that COVID had resulted from a lab accident as a Trump-backed conspiracy against him.

"****Very important issue to discuss in the book. The entire controversy with China as the source of the outbreak and the lab leak theory stems from the tension between Trump and China," Fauci wrote in a March 21, 2022.

Fauci faulted Trump for ordering the termination of a grant from Fauci's institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to EcoHealth Alliance, an infectious diseases nonprofit that discovered novel coronaviruses and enhanced them in lab experiments with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).

It was later proved that EcoHealth did in fact illegally use Fauci's money to fund gain-of-function research. EcoHealth is now blackballed from receiving federal funding.

"Please remember that when it was brought to the attention of Trump that the NIH was funding a grant at Wuhan where the outbreak was first recognized, Trump ordered, with no evidence to support any suspicion, that we cancel the grant," Fauci wrote.

This filthy despicable cocksucker.

Despite Fauci's contention that the termination had been unjustified, four years later EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak saw debarment by the Biden administration's Department of Health and Human Services. HHS said it sought to "protect the public interest" by ending the group's funding after evidence mounted of reckless biosafety practices and shifting statements to federal regulators about a delayed grant report covering the period immediately before the pandemic's outbreak.

Fauci said that conditions had been placed on EcoHealth that "they essentially were not able to meet."

Trump Fines Bank of America $1.2 Billion Over Money Laundering for China

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Bank of America is one of the worst offenders for closing bank accounts for conservative and religious groups, claiming that working for such groups causes them too much "reputational risk."

They debanked people to curry favor with the Biden gangsters.

But working with China to launder money and evade sanctions? No reputation risk worth talking about.

The Treasury Department said Tuesday it is fining Bank of America $1.2 billion for allegedly violating anti-money laundering and sanctions laws.

The department accused the bank of failing to report and mitigate notable national security risks, including Chinese Money Laundering Networks and suspected "illicit finance along the southwest border."

It also failed to report more than $5 billion in suspicious activity to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.

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The department said Bank of America also reached an $11.6 million settlement with its Office of Foreign Assets Control over "apparent violations of numerous sanctions programs, including on Iran, Russia, narcotics, and global terrorism."

The $1.2 billion penalty includes $750 million that will go to the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which is the largest fine ever imposed by that agency.

Update: Via Biden's dog sniffs a lot of marlarkey, a previous bank whistleblower who said that a fine that barely impacts BoA's profits is not enough.

People --even the rich white collar corporate types that pay money to both parties for protection-- need to go to prison.

Everett Stern @EverettStern1

Dear Secretary Bessent
@SecScottBessent,

My name is Everett Stern. In 2010 I was a compliance officer at @HSBC. From a back office in New Castle, Delaware, I watched billions of dollars move to drug cartels, sanctioned regimes, and terrorist organizations. The enemies of the United States. I documented it, I escalated it, and when the bank would not act, I took it to the @FBI, the @CIA, and eventually the @SECGov.

The result was a $1.92 billion settlement. At the time, it was one of the largest in American history. It was also about five weeks of the bank's profit. Not one banker was charged. Not one went to prison.

I paid a different price. I lost my career, my savings, and my place in the industry I had trained for. I was blacklisted. Every door in American finance closed at once. I slept on a camping cot in a 300 square foot apartment because I could not afford a bed, and I waited tables at @PFChangs to eat. I tell you this not for sympathy, but so you understand that I know exactly what it costs to do the right thing in American finance, and exactly how little the system does in return.

I made that sacrifice because I believed it would change something.

Yesterday, your department fined @BankofAmerica $1.2 billion for failing to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions, some of it tied by your own findings to Chinese laundering networks, narcotics, and the southwest border, alongside 475 apparent sanctions violations touching Russia, Iran, and global terrorism. The bank admitted it willfully violated the Bank Secrecy Act.

Fourteen years after HSBC. A bank with "America" in its name. And once again, not one individual charged.

Secretary Bessent, I want to say plainly what I believe you already know. The fines are not working.

A fine is paid by shareholders, absorbed by the balance sheet, and forgotten by the next earnings call. Bank of America reported earnings this morning. Nobody who set the alert thresholds, nobody who decided the 2024 cease and desist could wait, nobody who chose the backlog over the law will lose a single thing they value. Their lives are untouched. That is the entire reason the behavior repeats.

This is money laundering. This is blood money. Money that reaches a cartel buys fentanyl that kills Americans. Money that reaches a terrorist organization buys the next attack. This country has fought a war on drugs and a war on terror for decades, at enormous cost in lives and treasure, and all the while we have allowed the financing to flow through institutions we charter and regulate. Cut off the money and we win. We have never seriously tried.

There is also a question of equal justice that I cannot let go.

Before I walked into the FBI building to report HSBC, I stopped in front of the Great Seal on the wall and read the words engraved beneath it: "Justice is the defense of our liberty." I believed that. I still want to. But every day in this country, people go to prison for crimes that are nothing next to moving money for the people who want Americans dead. A suit, a title, and a corporate badge should not be a shield from the consequences that apply to everyone else. If a street dealer goes to prison for what he sells, the banker who moved the cartel's money should be standing next to him.

I also want to raise something that is rarely said in these conversations. Why has no one inside Bank of America come forward the way I did? The answer is that everyone in American banking knows what happened to me, and to the whistleblowers who came after. The last person who spoke up is the only policy anyone believes. That is a culture problem, and it starts with leadership, in the banks and in the agencies that regulate them.

This is not a political issue. It has spanned administrations of both parties. It is a national security issue, and I am asking you to treat it as one.

Three things would change the math overnight.

Refer individuals for criminal prosecution. Not the analyst in the queue. The executives who set the thresholds and chose the risk. One banker in handcuffs would do more than every fine in Treasury's history combined.

End "too big to jail." An institution cannot be too big to fail and too big to jail at the same time. If it is the first, it must be held to a higher standard, not a lower one.

And if Bank of America will not act as America's bank, review its charter. A national charter is a privilege granted on behalf of the American people. It should be conditioned on not moving money for the people trying to kill them.

Secretary Bessent, you said yesterday that these actions send a clear message that even the biggest institutions are not above the law. With respect, the institution was never the problem. The people inside it are above the law, and they know it. Until that changes, I will keep writing letters like this one, and the next bank will keep paying the next fine.

I gave up everything I had to stop this. I am asking you to use the power you have to finish it.

Respectfully,

Everett A. Stern
HSBC Whistleblower
Founder and Intelligence Director, Tactical Rabbit

Related: Chinese intel operative Neville Roy Singham and his communist wife are launching a pro-CCP propaganda tour.

I haven't heard about this pair being debanked.

A California-based nonprofit with ties to the CCP and Neville Roy Singham embarked on a Chinese propaganda tour this week, telling attendees they could learn about the "revolutionary history" of the communist country while "marveling" at the socialist development in the country.

On Sunday, CodePink, a 501(c)(3) registered in Marina del Rey, California, posted a video of co-founder Medea Benjamin in an airport discussing her trip to China. The video, which was posted in between separate posts bashing Columbus Day and propping up feminism, detailed how Benjamin will show how the communist country is different from "the one we keep hearing about in Washington."

The following day, CodePink posted another clip of Benjamin outside a university in China lauding the safety of the country, saying enthusiastically that it is "amazing" an umbrella or bike can be left unattended in the region "without worrying about someone stealing it."

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"Explore China's revolutionary history, while marveling at high-tech infrastructure and modern socialist development," the event description reads. "Highlights include Red Memorials, Historical Re-Enactments and Museums, Socialist Infrastructure, and Rural Revitalization."

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Since 2017, Singham has funneled $278 million into a broad network of nonprofits, including CodePink, according to a Fox News Digital investigation. These groups regularly organize and participate in anti-ICE, anti-Israel and pro-Iran demonstrations.

The Morning Rant: Coal Deserves A Second Look

—CBD

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Well, it has always been an amazingly efficient source of energy, and one with fewer technological issues that complicate extraction. It can be transported on existing infrastructure (rail lines), and is much safer during transport than any other fossil fuel. Modern coal-fired power plants are also amazingly clean... no killing smog like in London in the 1950s!

Oh...we also have enough of it to power America for hundreds of years!

So what's the problem?

Two generations of rabid environmentalists/communists have conspired to destroy the image of coal. People now think of strip-mined hillsides and monstrous plumes of black smoke belching from smokestacks, rather than cheap, clean, and abundant energy that is entirely produced in America.

Add in the idiocy of Anthropogenic Global Warming/Climate Change^TM, and we have demonized coal so much that we are closing perfectly good power plants just because coal is icky, and its use creates carbon dioxide. You know...the stuff that plants eat to feed us and make oxygen so we can breathe!

You Pay Each Month for Closing Coal Power

Coal kept the cost of electricity at an affordable level for over a century but idealistic policy decisions to close to 300 coal plants in the last 15 years have opened the door for higher and more volatile electricity prices. In 2010, the price of electricity in the U.S. was about 11 cents per kilowatt hour. By 2026 the price of electricity has increased 75% to 19 cents. And, according to the Department of Energy, rates could increase another 40% in the next four years. Meanwhile coal generation has dropped from 45% of America's power to barely 16% today and is projected to decline another 50% by 2030. In statistics this is called an inverse correlation. Simply put, the more we reduce coal generation the more we will pay for electricity. It is a sad irony that the very people who were instrumental in prematurely closing efficient coal plants, now whine about increases in the cost of electricity.

Energy is life, and inexpensive and abundant energy drives economic growth unlike any other input. We created the greatest economic engine in human history by providing that energy, and much of it was coal! The increased use of petroleum correlates with the rise of the automobile, which makes engineering sense because gasoline and diesel are so energy dense. But the steel used to build those cars was made with coal energy, and using coal for industrial power and electrical generation is a perfect pairing with petroleum for transportation.

Another reason for the decline of coal and its vilification is its history as the fuel for the rise of the West, and America in particular. It is linked with post-modern evils such as industrialization, colonialism, etc. It powered the great industries of the 19th century West, and is linked with the dominance of White Europeans over the rest of the world.

So the crypto-communist environmental lobby has pushed to destroy our greatest source of energy, and the intended consequence is that electricity costs have skyrocketed! Because they want us to regress to the mean, and that mean is European summers during which tens of thousands of people die from the heat, because they are too poor to afford air conditioning. And look forward to wearing coats inside during the winter, because fuel will become so expensive that Jimmy Carter's cardigan will become a quaint glimpse of a better time!

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

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

Archangel Gabriel; The Virgin Annunciate
Gerard David

The Morning Report — 10/15 /26

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. Way back when during the shampeachment hearings, I forget which one since there were several sequels, our President Donald Trump famously quipped

“They’re not after me, they’re after you, and I just happen to be standing in the way.”

And now, as we all know that was not mere hyperbole, was it?!

We already knew that Jack Smith, the ‘special prosecutor’ appointed to target Trump, had been spying on multiple members of Congress, but the latest reports show a wide net that had gathered in every donor even if he or she had only put in a buck or got a hat.

We already knew that Jack Smith, the ‘special prosecutor’ appointed to target Trump, had been spying on multiple members of Congress, but the latest reports show a wide net that had gathered in every donor even if he or she had only put in a buck or got a hat.

Ex-special counsel Jack Smith obtained personal information on 639,000 Republican donors, voters and supporters — including some who contributed as little as $1 or bought “red MAGA hats” — according to subpoena returns obtained by a Senate Republican committee.

Dates of birth, home addresses, email addresses, Republican party registration, information about credit cards or employment history were also hoovered up.

That included names of Republican campaign aides and volunteers, as well as party donors who contributed anywhere between $1 and $1,000.

Information on red Make America Great Again hats was also shared, including the buyers’ names and home addresses.

And that puts this story in a very disturbing light

Nine of the country's biggest banks spent five years running an outrageous campaign to cut conservatives, Christians, pro-lifers, and Trump supporters out of the financial system, and the federal government now has the receipts. . . The banks leaned on the SPLC’s bogus hate-group designations again and again. That's the same SPLC federal prosecutors indicted in April on fraud and money-laundering charges for allegedly bilking donors out of millions, and the same group FBI Director Kash Patel has called a "partisan smear machine." WePay closed a religious organization's account after the SPLC branded it an "extremist hate group," and employees described it internally as a "[r]ight wing religious conservative non profit with strong anti LGBTQ rhetoric." WePay also killed an account raising money for a "devout Christian's" legal challenge to anti-discrimination laws. . . "Under the Biden administration, banks could face greater supervisory pressure to move away from lending to the firearms industry," a Wells Fargo reputation-risk review of a prospective firearms client warned. . . "It is appalling that these banks targeted American consumers for their political, social, or religious beliefs that did not align with the Biden Administration or its leftist allies… Many of those targeted were supporters of President Trump," CFPB Acting Director Mark Paoletta said. "These thuggish tactics… have no place in America."

Not that the banks or other elements of the private sector feared governmental pressure, many of hem are whole or in part fellow travelers of the Anti-American Democrat/Left so they were eager and willing to be the cutting edge of the razor that decapitated their enemies — the AMERICAN people. Whatever business they might lose would no doubt be made up by commie politicians with fat bailouts and handouts. Of course those of us that could not be silenced this way faced the utterly corrupted and bastardized criminal justice system, weaponized to destroy anyone and everyone who was deemed an enemy of the DC junta, as we thoroughly witnessed in the wake of the Malig-Nancy Pelosi engineered January 6th phony Insurrection. I'm not sure but there might still be innocent people rotting in the DC gulag and for sure there are two martyred women, Roseanne Boyland and Ashli Babbitt, murdered at the hands of Pelosi's Stormtroopers with badges.

Of course with stormtroopers like BLM and Antifa, the Democrats in elective office don't need anyone with no steen-keeng badges!

The Florida Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate says history is “messy,” explaining why she honors cop killers, including Assata Shakur.

Democratic Socialists of America member Angie Nixon is running against Senator Ashley Moody this year in the special election to finish out Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s term. Nixon has faced fire for her bookstore, “Cafe Resistance,” which pays homage to Shakur.

“Who I had on my walls were civil rights leaders that wind up like getting convicted or like tried for like, you know, robbery or killing police officers – just all types of things,” Nixon said during an interview. She accused Sen. Moody’s campaign of sending a tracker to heckle her. She said some of the criminals were “set up” before adding, “Not all, right? Maybe. I don’t know. Possibly. A lot of them maintain their innocence.”

Nixon continued: But it was Assata Shakur. It was Angela Davis. Like it was all these different people in the wall. And then the guy came in and he tried to like just trash and say I’m celebrating cop-killers and I’m like, it’s history.

Without irony, she added: “We don’t know our history.”

You know what else is messy? torture chambers and mass graves which as I have asserted many times is exactly what this dick-less Nixon and her ilk have in mind for all of us if they ever have half the chance. It's why I kind of wince at essays like this.

As I was scrolling through Twitter/X/Whatever looking for videos of Antifa getting bopped (because they are hilarious), it occurred to me that today's filthy communists are a far cry from the trained, maniacal Marxists our fathers and grandfathers squared off with decades ago.
Our forefathers stood nose-to-nose against dangerous Marxists who were trained to kill them. If my grandad knew that today's commies have traded in their AK-47s for breast implants, he'd smack me upside my head for not punching the lipstick off "Amanda" (a man, duh!) for twerking in a classroom full of kids.

Let's face it: we have it easy. And as of now, all we have to do to combat communism is vote. But if things do get hot, these are the new wave of Marxists we will have to deal with, and frankly, we have it way easier than our antecedents.

First, it's worth noting that at first everyone laughed at Hitler, the little corporal and his funny mustache. And then look what happened to most of Europe's Jews and most of Europe. Sure, blue-haired trannies and men with boobs are funny-looking. But then when the Molotov cocktails, bricks, hate-shakes, fists and bullets start flying it's not so funny anymore. And now they can count on 1.5 billion Muslims across the globe to have their back, and for sure however many million right here in the US of A.

How is it our nation's voters are allowing it to be turned over to its socialist enemies? Western Europe will not stop the mass infiltration of Muslims into their nations, and indeed now of their governments.

Today’s Democrat party is doing nothing to stop itself from being infiltrated and captured by far-left (admitted) socialists and Marxists. Furthermore, it does not appear that American voters will do much to prevent the Democrat-socialists from taking over their government.

What would it take for someone — anyone -- to effectively fight back, resist, or even do much of anything to prevent these existentially threatening developments?

Backing up to the article before the aforementioned wherein the author implores us to get out and vote, yes for sure, but at some point voting even more harderer ain't gonna cut the mustard. And considering Michigan and its elections are still run by the twisted coven of Wretched Whitmer, Jocelyn Benson and Dana Nessel, the thievery that stole the state for Biden 6 years ago will ensure that El-Sayed is its next Senator.

Meanwhile, as we await Nidal Hasan's execution, I'd like to see Hasan sandwiched between Jack Smith and Anthony Fauci, and all three dispatched simultaneously to the Infernal Reaches.

Speaking of which, I give you this cheery item to underscore who and what we're dealing with...

Iowa, smackdab in the middle of America. Home of the Field of Dreams. Iowa, a land of farms and small towns and pastoral beauty… of county fairs and farm shows… and churches and generations of upright, God-fearing citizens. Yet, in one small town, something remarkably grotesque happened last week. At a city council meeting at Ottumwa, a man rose to offer a prayer to Satan. He was permitted to do this according to a January 2026 council resolution about free speech. Consenting to this exhibition amounted to moral dereliction.

Yeah, just politics as usual, why am I overreacting?!
have a good day.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• How is it our nation's voters are allowing it to be turned over to its socialist enemies?
  How did it come to this?
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: Europe resents its dependence on American military power while criticizing Washington’s foreign policy, exposing the hypocrisy, insecurity, and economic decline undermining its global influence.
  The Same Old, Same Old European Runaround

Daily Tech News 15 October 2026

—Pixy Misa

• AI agents aren't "going rogue". Frontier labs are skipping security basics. (CSO Online)
  
  You don't say.

  According to the cybersecurity professionals CSO spoke with, one of the biggest cybersecurity failures by the frontier AI labs is the lack of implementation of tried-and-true containment practices that stretch back to the 1990s, such as setting up secure sandboxes that would effectively bar agents from escaping their test environments.

  Oh, you do say.

  "These are things that we've been dealing with for years," Rob T. Lee, chief AI officer and chief of research at SANS Institute, tells CSO. "There's no reason why every single time this happens, it's, 'Oops, we don't know how they got out.'"

  Don't be unreasonable; it's not like these are billion-dollar companies we're talking about.
  
  Oh.

Wednesday Night ONT - October 14, 2026 [TRex]

—Open Blogger

Good evening Horde! The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety. The bar is open and fully stocked. Step up and place your order.

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.

If you're a troll, go away.

This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Please.

[Top photo: Consuaga, Tennessee]

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I think Buc-ee wants to give you a hug.

Best wishes to those traveling to the place for the thing.

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ONT Big Questions

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ONT Department of Mystery

I don't know what this is or how I got this photo.

I don't *think* this is AI, but does anyone know for sure?

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ONT Department of Gas Station History

Where and when?

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Mandatory Maiden

"Iron Maiden is a heavy metal band so their songs are all about partying and women, right?"

No. More like poetry by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in the late 1700s about life on the sea.

Like many Maiden classics, bassist Steve Harris was the primary creative driver for Rime of the Ancient Mariner. It arguably has seven(?) distinct chapters that track the original poem. The studio version is over thirteen and a half minutes. I can't imagine writing it, the reaction of the record company when they became aware of it, or playing it live. It is theatrical, conceptual and a pure passion project you can only get away with after being successful otherwise.

Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the closing track on the Powerslave album, released in 1984.

As Bruce Dickinson says, "This is what not to do if a bird shits on you."

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Niche YouTube Channel of the Week

Tonight's feature is a YouTube channel called Jesper Makes. The host is Jesper, a woodworker and creator based in Denmark. ("Viking, woodworker, coffee drinker. What could possibly go wrong?") He works out of a workshop on his property (previously an old horse barn) and has been filming there since around 2020. He has a fondness for reusing pallets.

In fairness, he's more of a philosopher woodworker than just a woodworker. The woodworking is worthwhile but arguably an excuse to tell a story. He makes a simple project into something more interesting and the story is about the project, the mistakes, the journey, and life around the shop. His channel is not about the cool new tool or project drama. It is not a tutorial channel (but you can still learn by watching). His scripts are tight, clever, thoughtful and reflect his observations about life in general. Ultimately, it isn't about the wood or the finished product.

He has over 364k subscribers. Many of his videos attract several hundred thousand views and some reach into the seven figures.

This is his (very accurate) description for a recent video:

I had a two-hour job. Three things, from a pallet that had been leaning in my workshop for a year.

So naturally I spent the whole day avoiding it.

First I built a tool to help me build the thing. Then I made rhubarb compote. Then there was lunch, which became the whole family, which is how lunch usually goes here. The cat supervised. The pallet waited.

This is a video about wasting a day, and about how a day you waste with the people around you might be the only kind worth keeping. It's also about sawhorses. Mostly the sawhorses.

Enjoy!

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Pittsburgh Scanner

The Pittsburgh police scanner is an internet treasure. Thank you people of Pittsburgh and thank you Pittsburgh scanner!

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Chris Stapleton for the big ONT finish:

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