France Finally Deploys Troops in Wake of Terrorist Attack

—Disinformation Expert Ace

They're claiming, for the moment, that this was not a terror attack by migrants but one directed at migrants, which makes it one of the terrorist attacks they're willing to acknowledge and not pretend that a Car Drove Itself.

Macron claims this is the first time someone has ever been targeted on the basis of his race in a terror attack.

This is, of course, the most absurd of all lies.

The Bataclan terrorists were specifically killing native French and of course the Muslim African terrorists at the Hypermarche were murdering Jews.

But they're allowed to, of course.

Visegrád 24
@visegrad24

Macron says that today's shooting in Trappes was aimed at migrants and the first terror attack in French history against a group of people targeted because of their skin and religion.

He is naturally lying as there have been several such Islamist attacks in France in recent years which were carried out against Jews or Christians.

- 2012, Mohammed Merah attacks a Jewish school in Toulouse and murders a rabbi and 3 kids

- 2015, Amedy Coulibaly murders 4 Jews at the Hypercacher kosher supermarket in Paris

- 2016, Adel Kermiche and Abdel Malik Petitjean storm a church in Normandy and murder the 85-year-old priest Jacques Hamel, by slitting his throat, and also critically wound an 86-year-old man.

2020, Brahim Aouissaoui storms a Catholic basilica in Nice and stabs 3 people to death.

Macron stated today:

"What happened today is a turning point. It is the first time there has been a terrorist act planned to kill our compatriots, our children, because of the color of their skin or their religion"

Oh, now interethnic violence is a turning point? It was NBD before?

And so finally France will deploy troops to oppose rioters.

Supposedly. But he keeps insisting that people have the right to Mostly Peaceful Protest.

A suspected terrorist attack near Paris Friday added to tensions across France as the nation prepares for more potential violence Saturday.

Seventy thousand law enforcement officers, along with helicopters, armored vehicles and water cannons, will be deployed across France as President Emmanuel Macron's government tries to ward off another weekend of violent protests.

"The strategy adopted for the coming days is to ban protests requested by individuals or groups with no legitimate authority," Macron said ahead of the weekend after canceling his planned trip to Nigeria and Senegal originally scheduled for next week.

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Adding to security concerns, a suspected terrorist attack occurred in the city of Trappes, west of Paris. A 39-year-old man was arrested by police after one person was killed and four others, including a 12-year-old girl, were wounded in what was originally said to be a "relatively random" shooting.

Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez has since told local media, "The motive may be racist. The investigation is ongoing, but this is clearly a terrorist crime."

The AFP reported the suspect appeared to fire randomly from a vehicle, and the mayor told reporters the dead victim and at least one of the wounded were "of African origin."

Macron said "the nation is standing with" the victims of this "terrible ordeal."

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Reuters reports that the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France, or UNEF, one of the nation's oldest student unions, has said its planned rallies will go on as scheduled despite police rejecting their permit requests. Police have so far only approved a union demonstration in Paris, Reuters reported, while denying requests from UNEF and the "Yellow Vest" movement, an anti-establishment force that first emerged in 2018.

So the left gets their protest approved, but the anti-Macron Yellow Vests get their protest denied.

Macron also took aim at those he says are behind the violence, saying, "Last Saturday, we had political and seditious acts by ultra-left groups whose aim is to bring down the Republic."

Until a few days ago they were part of just "the left" and protected by Macron. Now they're a problem, and they're "ultra-left."

Kind of like Russia went from being protected by the Democrat Party to the greatest threat ever.

So are we finally going to see mass arrests of Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protesters?

Well...

You probably heard that 4,000 Mostly Peaceful Student Activists had been arrested in France for rioting, assaulting cops, looting, and arson.

Here's how the French "justice" system is dealing with the insurgents and invaders: Giving them community service and sending them home.

Visegrád 24 @visegrad24

BREAKING:

The first rioters and looters have been sentenced in France.

The judges practically refuse to hand out prison sentences:

🔴 Toulouse -- Ylan, 18 years old. Throwing a Molotov cocktail at police officer

- Sentence: 12 months suspended + 140 hours of community service + deprivation of voting rights for 3 years.
- Max. sentence: 10 years in prison

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🔴 Lille -- 23-year-old man, launching fireworks at police

- Sentence: 12 months under electronic monitoring + 140 hours of community service.
- Max. sentence: 5 years

🔴 Reims -- Sahel W., 19 years old. Looting a Carrefour

- Sentence: 105 hours of community service.
- Max. sentence: 7 years

🔴 Reims -- Hugo M., 20 years old. Looting a Caviar boutique.

- Sentence: 4 months under electronic monitoring.
- Max. sentence: 7 years.

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🔴 Perpignan -- 22-y-old Amazon delivery driver, already one prior conviction. Scooter theft after demonstration with face concealment, in a group and break-in

- Sentence: 8 months under electronic monitoring.
- Max. sentence: 10 years

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🔴 Pau -- 43-y-old man. Throwing objects at police

- Sentence: 6 months under electronic monitoring.
- Max. sentence: 5 years

🔴 Nîmes -- 24-y-old PE teacher. Throwing objects that injured a police man (3 days of leave).

- Sentence: 18 months suspended prob.
- Max. sentence: 5 years

🔴 Grenoble -- 10 people. Looting

Sentences: from 4 months suspended to 8 months served (served for 1 individual already convicted to suspended in June).
Max. sentence: 7 years

More at the link. Some people actually got some months in prison but they seem to be a minority.

As you know, Macron fled France for a junket in the Gulf States where he could strut around like a Very Important Peacock and pretend that his entire country wasn't on fire. He's a student of Karen Bass.

This "news" organization has a very interesting, very objective headline to describe abandoning France during a violent uprising:

Gulf tour puts spring in Macron's step to tackle protests at home

Oh terrific! He just needed a mental health break and now he's tanned, rested, and ready, and infused with a whole new purpose.

Georgia Meloni has remained in Italy and pushed for harsher anti-rioting laws.

Italy's response to a weekend of street violence has moved from emergency policing to tougher criminal law, with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni seeking to reassert control after unrest in Milan and other northern cities

The government approved measures on Tuesday creating an offence of violent participation in demonstrations, extending preventive detention powers to teenagers aged 14--17 and making parents financially liable for damage caused by their children. The package also provides for 500 soldiers to support security operations in Milan through December.

The crackdown presents a defining challenge for a prime minister whose political identity rests heavily on law and order: demonstrating that stronger powers can prevent another eruption while addressing the conditions feeding public anger.

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As EU Today reported in its earlier coverage of the unrest, police brought 271 people to headquarters following Sunday's disturbances, including 220 minors. Thirty-two were formally arrested, a detail that matters when assessing the scale of alleged criminal involvement.

The prominence of teenagers has shaped the government's response. According to the Associated Press, the decree makes prosecuting minors over 14 easier and includes plans to expand juvenile detention capacity and judicial resources.

Parliament must convert the decree into law within 60 days.

For supporters, the argument is straightforward: shopkeepers should not have to absorb the cost of destruction, and officers need effective tools against groups exploiting demonstrations to commit offences.

Yet preventive detention raises a different question from punishment after conviction. Its credibility depends on clear evidence, consistent safeguards and meaningful scrutiny, particularly when those affected are children.

Here's how it's going in France:

The Week In Woke

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Tim Walz's lieutenant governor, the trans extremist Peggy Flanagan who wears trans t-shirts with a combat knife emblem, says she had nothing at all to do with the massive fraud that Minnesota saw under the Walz-Flanagan administration.

Why it's absurd to claim that Peggy Flanagan has anything to do with wasting the taxpayers' money!

Peggy Flanagan and Tim Walz Steered Millions To Pay for Disgusting 'Booty Bumping' Kits that Help Junkies Take Drugs Through 'the Rectum' Minnesota requires the provider of the booty bumping kits to also give junkies voter registration materials

Chuck Ross
October 21, 2026

Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan's (D.) administration spearheaded the awarding of millions of dollars in grants and contracts to a "harm reduction" group that supplies "booty bumping" kits to drug users to help them safely ingest drugs through "the butthole."

The controversial funding was part of a $100 million grant--announced by Flanagan and Gov. Tim Walz--for "Minnesotans facing homelessness," including so-called harm reduction for drug users. In the announcement, Flanagan, now running for Senate, said that "These grants will ensure that everyone can access the supports they need to find and secure safe, stable housing."

The administration highlighted grants to Southside Harm Reduction Services, a nonprofit that "promotes the health and wellbeing of drug users" through "harm reduction" supplies like syringes, sterile water, and drug cookers to help junkies get high "safely."

A key "harm reduction" offering from Southside is free lube and other supplies to help users in the "booty bumping" scene to ingest all kinds of drugs--including heroin, meth, and ketamine--"through the rectum (anus, butthole)." Southside is also required by the state of Minnesota to give the junkies voter registration materials.

Southside touts the booty bumping kits, also known as "boofing" kits, in social media posts and on its website as safer methods to ingest some drugs and an efficient way to get high. Booty bumping helps drugs "reach the bloodstream quickly," allowing practitioners to "reach a high faster than some other routes of administration," Southside Harm Reduction says.

Southside Harm Reduction offers other instructions.

"Try to poop before. This is so your drugs are absorbed better," Southside Harm Reduction Services advises in a pamphlet contained in the kits.

Is that good advice, JackStraw?

"Stand, squat, or lay on your side in a comfortable position. It never hurts to have a boofing buddy!"

Boofing is controversial among harm reduction advocates. Because the drugs bypass the digestive system and enter the bloodstream quickly, it can increase the likelihood of fatal overdoses.

The state of Minnesota has awarded $7.9 million in grants and contracts to Southside Harm Reduction Services since 2023, according to state spending records. The administration awarded $432,000 to Southside in 2024 to provide "low-barrier access" to harm reduction supplies. The Washington Free Beacon first reported on the grants during Walz's failed vice presidential run.

This is pretty funny: Not all Karens are female.

I'm going to add "Nope," "Absolutely not," F*** that" to my active meme vocabulary.

I mentioned that Joey Swoll built his channel on Gym Whores showing their anuses to the world and then shaming men for looking at their fat butts for one second. Here's a recent example of this e-whore trend.

Here's more Entitled Whore Gym Entitlement: The girl with the nice thick legs sprints on the running machine, which is a perfectly legitimate use for it. They have a setting for it and everything.

But this entitled whore thinks that it's too loud because she can't listen to "my music" when the other girl is sprinting. Note that sprinting is an important gym activity while listening to "my music" is not.

Also note that sprinting lasts for like 20 seconds and no one would probably do more than three sets of it. So this entitled skank is complaining that she can't hear "my music" for a total time of one minute.

These people need to be banned from gyms and public spaces generally. As Joey Swoll often says, if you really want to film yourself without people walking in front of your camera, or you want to listen to "my music" without people rudely using gym equipment in the way it is supposed to be used, build your own home gyms, you broke-ass bitches.

Lisa Britton @LisaBritton

Society: Mankeeping is a burden on women! Why don't men have friendships?! Ugh, men.

Also society: Ban all male groups and spaces! Men don't need other men for support and their health... They're just trouble! Ugh, men.

Two tier justice in the US: some racial groups are allowed to engage in truly nasty racist behavior.

A former student in a Maryland public school system has filed a federal civil rights complaint alleging the school system failed to adequately respond to years of antisemitic harassment that included slurs and an incident in which he received a bomb threat.

The complaint against the Montgomery County Public Schools was filed with the federal Education Department's Office for Civil Rights and alleges the Orthodox Jewish student experienced harassment at two of the system's high schools and that the school district failed to sufficiently protect him.

"Students would throw coins at him and call him a dirty Jew," according to the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, which filed the complaint. The student had to transfer high schools because the harassment was "unbearable," the center also said.

The school system told local news outlet WTOP that it's aware of the complaint but declined to further comment, citing "an ongoing matter."

The complaint asks federal officials to investigate whether the school system violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.

Speaking of two-tiered justice: Disgraced effeminate former UK PM Keir Starmer was the head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) while it was covering up the grooming/rape gang scandal and allowing foreign invaders to rape lower-class native girls.

He'll now be forced to answer questions about that.

Keir Starmer listed as 'core participant' in grooming gangs inquiry

The ex-Prime Minister will give evidence after announcing the investigation

Sir Keir Starmer will be summoned to give evidence to the national grooming gangs inquiry, GB News understands.

The former Prime Minister, who announced the inquiry last year, has been listed as a core participant.

The inquiry will commence its National Accountability Hearings in London in December and January.

Further hearings will take place in March and April next year.

The inquiry's hearings are expected to examine why previous probes and investigations have not resulted in "meaningful change".

If you pay me six buck I can tell you why previous probes and investigations failed to produce meaningful change: Because the "investigations" were all designed from the start to cover up the previous cover-ups.

The world's money-hungriest socialist wants to sell you more pricey yet cheap bling.

Black TikTokers are complaining that some CVS stores only put skin and hair care products intended for blacks under lock and key. They claim this is "racist."

For six buck I can tell you why the stores are specifically guarding products intended for blacks under lock and key.

I sure don't like that law-abiding blacks feel the shame of being suspected in mass shoplifting. It stings. I have no doubt of that. I am sympathetic.

But I would like very much if they stopped blaming whitey for this poor state of things, and instead blamed the people actually responsible for it: a large and brazen subculture which has decided that they are entitled to rob and loot and pillage as they please and a Democrat Party determined to indulge those antisocial, barbaric beliefs.

BOOM: Ilhan "Omar's" Sister's Marriage Certificate Says Her Father Is Nur Said Elmi, Not Omar

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Uh-oh.

Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain

The New York Post has obtained and published an official copy of Ilhan Omar's sister's marriage certificate.

It describes their father as "Nur Said Elmi," and his profession as a "military officer.

More evidence that she is not who she says she is.

Yesterday I mentioned a social media post in which Ilhan Nur Said Elmi's brother/ex-husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, acknoweldged that Ilhan's third child was a "niece," that is, the daughter of his sister.

Here is that post, via Hot Air, as posted by Ben Weingarten:

She has repeatedly lied under oath about her brother/husband:

The woman who until recently disclosed her net worth as being $30 million now says she's living "paycheck to paycheck."

The Babylon Bee: Not Sure If You Married Your Brother? 9 /saSigns To Look For

1. You have the same parents: This probably should have tipped you off.

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6. Your mother-in-law is also your regular mother: And she actually likes you.

7. He's straight, but says things to you like "stop trying to kiss me, that's a crime against nature," "why don't you have your own bedroom" and "you are my sister, what is wrong with you?": Contrary to popular belief, this is not playful love banter.

There are more.

Another headline from The Bee:

Ilhan Omar Says She Didn't Know She'd Married Her Brother As They Were Separated At Birth And Hidden From Their Father, Darth Vader

David Steinberg @realDSteinberg

35m

I'm most proud of this @IlhanMN find:

Not long after Ilhan swore 8 times in her divorce filing that she had no idea how to contact Ahmed, I proved -- via the source code of the website for her sister Sahra Noor's company 😎 -- that he was working for Sahra, and quite easy to contact.

Donald J. Trump's
The Lord of the Rings

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Funny stuff.

If you don't feel like watching all three videos, I suggest skipping to the last one, which is the best. And to be honest watching all three in a row is kind of a grind, because most of the jokes are repeated.

Trump's DHS is Knocking on Doors to Ask People About Their Immigration Status and Voter Status as the Left Continues Lying About Its Legions of Illegal Voters
Update: Big Win in Court for Border Enforcement

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Tuq'r Qarlson will continue lying about "Trump not doing anything" because, of course, he's a Democrat/Qatari operative.

Federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security have been knocking on doors in several states to ask residents about their immigration status and if they've registered to vote or voted in past elections.

The operation is part of a broader election-integrity effort to prevent noncitizens from voting ahead of the midterms, CBS News reported.

The Northern California office of Homeland Security Investigations posted photos on X in September showing agents knocking on doors with the comment that "HSI in Northern California will investigate any allegations of noncitizen voting and is committed to ensuring the enforcement of federal election law."

The Kansas City office of HSI also posted photos of its agents knocking on doors with the comment, "AMERICAN ELECTIONS ARE FOR AMERICANS."

The number of home visits increased in September and continued over the past weekend, according to CBS.

The Department of Justice on Monday announced a string of arrests related to alleged voter fraud in California.

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"These are not isolated instances," another official said, before confirming that the DOJ was reviewing thousands of alleged illegal voting cases across the country.

Charles Schumer and Democrats are suing to keep illegal aliens on the voter rolls.

The Democrats are fighting for the their lives when it comes to battling election integrity efforts. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries announced a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's efforts to identify and remove suspected noncitizens from state voter-registration lists. The 44-page complaint, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., alleges that the Department of Homeland Security has supplied states with unreliable lists of supposedly ineligible voters and pressured election officials to act on them. The plaintiffs offer Nevada as an example, claiming that federal investigators initially identified approximately 16,000 suspected noncitizen registrants before narrowing the figure to 185, whom Nevada officials subsequently identified as apparent citizens. Democrats claim that the administration's actions threaten eligible voters' rights and interfere with state election administration. Of course.

"None of this is lawful," the complaint reads.

Does it sound bad that the feds claimed 16,000 illegal voters but then reduced that to 185?

It does sound bad. Because it's another lie.

David J. Bier @David_J_Bier

Only 28% of a sample of DHS's bogus list of 20,000 voters that it claimed were "verified" noncitizen voters actually voted. So that's 5,600 out of 5 million California noncitizens. That'd be 0.1% (if they are noncitizens, which they probably aren't based on DHS's record).

The DHS isn't claiming these are all illegal aliens voting illegally. It's notifying the states that these are noncitizens who may or may not be voting. They are asking states to verify if these noncitizens, including legal residents and illegal aliens, are registered to vote or not.

And the blue states are of course refusing to undertake this simple clerical step, because they want the illegal hordes voting for Democrats.

Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrew

You've got the numbers wrong. I'm not saying Lee is right -- he's not.

The 20,000 names are ACTUAL Green Card holders with California addresses with USCIS who match names and addresses with registered voters in California's publicly available voter registration list.

DOJ never said they all voted in the past. It only asked California to independently verify their eligibility to register because if they were Green Card holders they are ineligible.

It is not exculpatry to say, as LA County has said, "Only 28% have vote." That's actually a confession.

0000.00% should have voted if they are Green Card holders.

LA County conceded that 60 out of 200 have a voting history.

DOJ/DHS says those 60 are ineligible because they are not citizens.

If a check of 200 noncitizens find that 60 of them illegally voted, that is bad. That tells you the level of illegal voting going on, if blue states bothered enforcing the law.

Which they refuse to do.

Calif was ASKED to confirm, and if they can't confirm to set their ballots aside until confirmation of eligibility to vote is determined.

I go back and forth between whether your are a liar or just stupid.

The 20,000 are "High Confidence" determinations by DHS that they are not citizens.

There are tens of thousands more that are "Medium" or "Low" confidence that DOJ did not send.

And no one has even broached the subject of illegal aliens who registered when they obtained Driver's Licenses.

Speaking of elections:

The leftwing NGOs and foreign billionaires have a new caravan of illegals coming just in time for the midterms.

A new migrant caravan consisting of hundreds of Central American migrants departed southern Mexico on Tuesday, with some hoping Democratic victories in November's midterm elections could lead to changes in President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement policies.

The group, calling itself "Caravan Without Borders," departed Tapachula, near Mexico's border with Guatemala, with migrants seeking legal status in Mexico or opportunities to continue north toward the United States.

Mexican newspaper Milenio initially estimated the caravan at more than 400 people, while Diario del Sur reported that its numbers had grown to approximately 700 after departing Tapachula.

Participants reportedly include migrants from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti, Venezuela and Cuba.

Independent journalist Julio Rosas interviewed caravan members who expressed hope that Democrats would win the upcoming midterm elections, potentially signaling a shift in U.S. border enforcement.

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Participants cited economic hardship, limited employment opportunities and lengthy immigration processing delays as reasons for joining the caravan.

Weird-- none of those are claims entitling them to asylum. Don't worry, though, once the NGOs' corrupt fraud-on-the-court lawyers tell them the lies they need to tell to make an asylum claim, they'll all claim they're being oppressed by local governments or street gangs.

Some reportedly had previously been deported from the United States and were attempting to return to reunite with family members.

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A separate caravan attempted a similar journey in April but dispersed after Mexican authorities intervened and returned numerous migrants to southern Mexico.

Someone's trying to change the corrupt and absurdly destructive visa lottery, but of course Democrats will filibuster and block it.

Texas GOP Rep. Keith Self introduced a bill Thursday to repeal the State Department's Diversity Immigrant Visa lottery, which offers permanent residency to up to 55,000 applicants annually from countries with lower levels of immigration to the United States.

The Trump administration attempted to end the program last year after the alleged perpetrator behind shootings at Brown University and MIT used it to enter the country. The alleged shooter was a Portuguese national.

A California judge ruled last week that the administration must reinstate the program, which was created by Congress.

Biden Stripped the Visa From a Ukrainian Witness So That He Couldn't Testify to Congress About Burisma and Hunter Biden

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Trump is such a corrupt authoritarian you guys.

In the shadows of the 2020 election, the U.S. government revoked a Ukrainian witness' visa and prevented him from testifying in the Senate's probe into alleged Biden family corruption on the basis that he might be spreading Russian disinformation even though its own intelligence showed he was an opponent of Russia and rejected Moscow's overtures, bombshell memos released Thursday show.

The documents made public by the White House Government Transparency Task Force are the latest pieces of evidence to chronicle how the FBI, the State Department and other federal bodies sought to suffocate a narrative -- later proven true -- that Hunter Biden had been working for a Ukrainian energy company called Burisma Holdings that was seeking to leverage Vice President Joe Biden's connections to solve its corruption problems.

Specifically, the memos show that the FBI and State Department rushed to block former Ukraine embassy aide Andrii Telizhenko's arrival in the United States just as he was to be interviewed by Sens. Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley in September 2020.

Instead of testifying, the Ukrainian government official once trusted by the Obama administration was sanctioned for being painted as a possible unwitting purveyor of Russian smears against the Biden family.

The agencies argued that Telizhenko was spreading false claims that Hunter Biden's service on Burisma's board of directors had impacted U.S. policy fighting corruption in Ukraine and that Joe Biden had changed U.S. policy when he withheld $1 billion to force the firing of Ukraine's chief prosecutor who was investigating , the memos show.

So once again: We will use the government's power to censor relevant information from the public -- and Congress! -- and we will claim RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION as the pretext.

Oh we're definitely not covering up the Biden Crime Family's corruption by contriving a reason to block a witness from testifying about them, no siree bob! We're just fighting RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE, you see.

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In fact, evidence made public in the years after the 2020 election shows that America's top diplomats in Kyiv in fact believed Hunter Biden's presence on the Burisma board had "undercut" U.S. anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine and that Vice President Biden had overruled career officials' recommendations to give Ukraine the loan guarantees and keep the prosecutor in place.

The newly released memos not only show the grounds for claiming Telizhenko spread Russian disinformation may have been erroneous, but also that the officials who would go on to penalize him knew beforehand that the Ukrainian was in fact a vocal opponent of Moscow who had rejected overtures to be recruited by Russian sources.

Erroneous? You mean corruptly fraudulent.

"In 2014 [...] Andrii ((Telizhenko)) was banned from entering Russia due to his involvement in the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and was listed as a spy by the Russian government," an Aug. 2020 FBI memo stated. The same memo shows that Russian officials attempted to recruit Telizhenko, but that he rebuffed them.

There is a possibly related update to this story: Two FBI agents have been arrested for lying about their efforts to derail the investigation into Hunter Biden.

FBI Director Kash Patel @FBIDirectorKash

Two former senior FBI officials, Nikki Cole Floris and Bradley Benavides, were taken into custody today on charges of allegedly lying to Congress about their involvement in the FBI’s investigations into Hunter Biden.

The charges stem from an ongoing investigation into the since-dissolved FBI Foreign Influence Task Force.

Floris led the FITF as a Deputy Assistant Director from mid-2019 through mid-2022. Benavides was the FITF Section Chief from mid-2019 through the 2020 election. Both testified that the FITF was not involved in the Hunter Biden investigations.

Documentary evidence, contemporaneous communications, and witness accounts contradict their testimony.

Floris is also on record privately claiming to be “running a shadow government” during the 2020 election in her role on the FITF.

Lying to Congress by senior FBI officials strikes at the heart of our system. No one is above the law.

The FBI has already dismantled the corrupt CR-15 squad that engaged in political weaponization targeting their opponents, including President Trump.

More details from John Sexton:

FLORIS and BENAVIDES are former FBI officials. FLORIS served as the Deputy Assistant Director and functional head of FITF [Foreign Influence Task Force, the FBI's RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION hoax division] from mid-2019 through mid-2022. BENAVIDES served as the Section Chief of FITF from mid-2019 through the 2020 election. Although FITF was originally focused on combating foreign influence by Russia, its scope expanded to include foreign influence by other nation-state actors...

As described in detail below, witness accounts and contemporaneous documents from December 2019 through September 2021 show that FLORIS and BENAVIDES knew about and were actively involved in the FBI's investigations of Hunter Biden. FITF hosted classified briefings for the agents and prosecutors on the Hunter Biden case in which FLORIS and BENAVIDES were active participants. In October 2020, both FLORIS and BENAVIDES worked on the FBI's internal and Congressional responses to reporting on the FBI's receipt of Hunter Biden's laptop, with FLORIS receiving, discussing, and passing along updates on the investigations through late 2021.

Hunter Biden was a recurring subject at FITF in briefings, emails, instant messages, and meetings, including internal discussion of whether information about him was Russian disinformation. According to an October 2026 interview of FBI Employee 1--who oversaw the Hunter Biden investigations for the FBI's Criminal Division--personnel at FITF including FLORIS and BENAVIDES were in frequent communication with the Hunter Biden case teams. Information flowed in both directions; the case team would send FITF updates on their investigations and FITF would send information to the case team that FITF saw as relevant. According to an October 2026 interview of an FBI Baltimore Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC), herein referred to as FBI Employee 2, the FBI Baltimore Field Office brought the FITF into their investigations of Hunter Biden. FBI Employee 2 confirmed that FLORIS, BENAVIDES, and other members of the FITF had knowledge and awareness of their investigations and details of their investigations, including in relation to Hunter Biden's laptop.

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On October 14, 2020, the New York Post published its story on the Hunter Biden laptop, and both FLORIS and BENAVIDES assisted with the FBI's response to press inquiries the same day. FLORIS and BENAVIDES received an email from the FBI Cyber Division with the subject "Ny post... morning answer?" and a question about whether the FBI had the laptop. The Office of Congressional Affairs also sent them and a FITF Unit Chief, FBI Employee 3, an email titled "SSCI Request -- Hunter Biden Laptop." FLORIS answered that "CID is point on this matter" and copied Criminal Division (CID) management. A Director's Office media coordinator told BENAVIDES that at a tech-industry call that day, "most of the questions were about the news reports about a laptop and Burisma." When a FITF Unit Chief [FBI Employee 4] asked BENAVIDES whether FITF was tracking the laptop coverage, he replied: "Indeed...I've spoken to [initials of FBI Employee 1]," and "I would love to know if a copy exists, and was it provided to anyone...[initials of FBI Employee 1] did not know."

And then they claimed that they and the Foreign Influence Task Force were not involved in playing defense for Hunter Biden, under oath.

To Presume to Overrule a State Anti-DEI Executive Order, a, Get This, DEI Judge Uses AI to Write An Opinion Filled With Fake Cases

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Huh, a DEI hire resorting to AI to do his homework for him. And all to stop the people from ending DEI practices.

Who could have seen this coming.

There is good news: the Appeals Court was so shocked by the complete DEI incompetence on display that they not only reversed him, they kicked him off the case entirely.

The decision is a victory for Republican Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch's office, which had argued that US District Judge Henry Wingate's apparent misuse of generative AI tools had compromised the integrity of the judicial process.

US Circuit Judge Jerry Smith, writing for the three-judge ​panel, took Wingate to task for a "botch job" that led to a ruling that contained "sloppy edicts" and "several factual assertions nowhere to be found in the record" and got the ​law wrong.

Really? A DEI judge botching the law and making sloppy mistakes?

And using cheaters' tools instead of writing his paper himself?

First time we're seeing anything like this. "Few such cases," I would say.

This is very harsh: Usually judges protect each other like media hacks protect their fellow guild members.

But this appeals panel is absolutely blasting this complete DEI incompetent.

"The district court -- or perhaps, being charitable, its AI agent -- ignored and manipulated governing law, apparently to satisfy a policy agenda," Smith wrote.

The appeals ⁠court laid out detailed instructions for how the new judge should assess the law.

It made clear it does not apply to students, and it said that while states have broad power ​to regulate their own curricula and publicly funded speech, the new judge will need to balance the state's interests against the individual speech rights of teachers and professors.

Apparently the DEI judge pretended the law said that students would be banned from discussing race under the law, which is a complete fabrication, either created by himself, his DEI clerk, or "hallucinated" by the AI agent he used to do his homework for him.

But... if it was just the AI agent -- did this guy not bother checking the opinion he was going to sign his name to to make sure the cases cited said what the AI said they said, or even existed at all?

Apparently not.

Gee, Judge Wingate, you're right -- DEI really is super-important and leads to excellence.

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The case before the 5th Circuit concerned a challenge by teachers, professors, students and advocacy groups to a law Republican-led Mississippi enacted last year that bars government-run educational institutions from mandating activities like diversity training or promoting DEI.

The plaintiffs argued the law violated the US Constitution's First and Fourteenth Amendments, and convinced Wingate to issue a temporary restraining order blocking its implementation.

But that order was later found to contain fabricated names and nonexistent legal authorities, ​prompting scrutiny from Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, the ​current chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Wingate in ⁠a subsequent letter told Grassley that the errors stemmed from a law clerk's unvetted use of the AI platform Perplexity. Even after the errors in that initial order, Wingate continued to block the law by issuing a preliminary injunction.

Lawyers for Mississippi argued on appeal that even after Wingate replaced the faulty ​ruling, the AI-related errors cast doubt on the court's core legal reasoning, and they urged the appeals court to reassign the case.

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But Smith said the case "easily calls for reassignment." He said given the number of errors in Wingate's ruling, the judge might be tempted in future proceedings to want to unjustly find a way "to prove that, even with ⁠the correct law ​and fact, that his initial view should prevail."

This is obviously grounds for impeachment and removal. We'll see if Senate Republicans have the courage and conviction to do the right thing.

I doubt they will.

Update: From Courthouse news, via Ed Morrissey, more spicy quotes from the smackdown:

The panel ordered that the case be assigned to a different judge on remand, finding that Wingate had based his decision "on impoverished legal analysis that barely paid lip-service to the precedents of the Supreme Court or this court, seeming at times purposely to misconstrue the law by manipulating the words of statutes and cases, without regard to their texts' meaning as a whole."

The panel noted factual errors in a temporary restraining order that appeared to be the result of AI hallucinations, including naming plaintiffs and defendants who were not parties to the case, quoting terms that did not actually appear in the act and citing evidence not in the record.

So racist, Appeals Court.

Be better, Appeals Court. #BeBetter.

Maryland Man Uses Sledgehammer to Behead Iwo Jima Statue at the Marines' Quantico Base

—Disinformation Expert Ace

It's almost as if this illegal alien is trying to send us a message about his view of America as an enemy nation that needs to be conquered and pillaged.

A 27-year-old man accused of using a sledgehammer to decapitate a soldier on the Iwo Jima statue and cause extensive damage to the monument at Marine Corps Base Quantico is living in the U.S. illegally, Fox News reports.

Fox News congressional correspondent Bill Melugin reported that multiple federal sources confirmed Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano is a Mexican national living in the country illegally. Melugin reported that Maldonado Soriano is a former Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipient whose legal status expired earlier this year.

According to federal sources, Melugin said Maldonado Soriano entered the U.S. illegally in December 1999. He was granted temporary protection under the Obama administration's DACA immigration policy in 2014 and received multiple extensions, most recently from the Biden administration in 2024. Melugin reported that Maldonado Soriano lost his DACA status in August after it was not renewed by the Trump administration.

Officers responded around 10:13 p.m. Wednesday to the statue near Richmond Highway and Fuller Road in Quantico, where they found Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano, of Stafford, actively damaging the structure, according to police. Maldonado Soriano was quickly detained at the scene.

Damage to the monument, which included the removal of one depicted soldier's head along with additional destruction, is estimated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, police say.

Maldonado Soriano was arrested and charged with felony destruction of property, trespassing with intent to damage property, and felony injury to a monument.

So which is this one -- a Doctor or an Engineer?

Virginia is a sanctuary state now that the "moderate" CIA Wine-Aunt was elected to the governor's mansion. The leftwing lunatic and Soros DA Steve Descano of Fairfax County continues treating actual American citizens more harshly than illegal aliens, because he doesn't want to convict any illegal aliens of crimes for which they may be deported.

The Fairfax County Sheriff's Office in Virginia ignored at least 1,670 immigration detainers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement between 2023 and 2025, releasing criminal illegal immigrants back into the community instead of transferring them to federal custody, according to a new House Judiciary Committee report.

The interim staff report -- obtained by Fox News before its noon Tuesday release by the committee's Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security and Enforcement -- also accuses Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney Steve Descano of treating illegal immigrant defendants differently from similarly situated American citizens to limit their immigration consequences.

"This interim report provides evidence of the ways in which just one local jurisdiction has implemented policies that allow dangerous foreign nationals to reoffend and avoid deportation," the report, issued under House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Chair Tom McClintock, R-Calif., concluded.

"But Fairfax County and prosecutor Steve Descano are not outliers. They are indicative of a modern, radical, socialist Democrat Party that seeks to erase national borders and place illegal alien criminals ahead of law-abiding American citizens," the report added. "The policies supported by these Democrats, including sanctuary policies, will have negative and lasting consequences for Americans. The Committee and Subcommittee will continue to conduct oversight of these sanctuary policies to inform potential legislative reforms to better protect American communities."

The committee said a preliminary review of more than 1,100 criminal cases identified more than 100 previously unreported illegal immigrants who benefited from Descano's prosecutorial decisions. The report said Descano's office rarely pursued charges against illegal immigrants accused of crimes including driving under the influence, felony drug possession, felony grand larceny, shoplifting, fraud, trespassing, destruction of property and assaulting a law enforcement officer.

The committee accused Descano's office of "de facto" decriminalizing some offenses and said most of the defendants reviewed went on to reoffend, in some cases escalating to violent crimes and murder.

The report, titled "Fairfax County, Virginia: The dangerous consequences of sanctuary policies," also alleges that Descano misled Congress about the scope of his policies.

"The Biden-Harris Administration worked to weaken the first Trump Administration's efforts to hold sanctuary jurisdictions accountable for undermining immigration enforcement," the report read. "In addition to dropping federal litigation relating to sanctuary jurisdictions' policies, the Biden-Harris Administration's Justice Department, beginning in April 2021, no longer required jurisdictions to cooperate with ICE as a condition of receiving federal grant funding."

During testimony before the committee in May, Descano said his policy was "written with legal permanent residents in mind for minor crimes." But in a September letter, the committee said Descano acknowledged that prosecutors could consider immigration consequences in cases involving illegal immigrants as well.

Descano's campaign website previously stated that when "possible," his office would "make charging and plea decisions that limit or avoid immigration consequences." He also argued that "if two people commit the same crime, but only one's punishment includes deportation, that's a perversion of justice and not a reflection of the values of Fairfax County.

The committee cited numerous cases in which it said criminal defendants benefited from reduced or dismissed charges. In one example, prosecutors allegedly reduced felony charges involving the sexual assault of a child to misdemeanor "consensual sex with a child" and offered a 90-day suspended jail sentence.

Just some light "consensual" sex with a minor.

And note this was a plea -- the actual charge was sexual assault. Involuntary sex with a child.

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One case involved Marvin Morales-Ortez, an alleged MS-13 member whose charges were dropped before the Fairfax County Sheriff's Office released him in December 2025. The report said Morales-Ortez allegedly murdered a man in Reston, Virginia, one day later.

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The report highlighted the case of Stephanie Minter, who was fatally stabbed in February. The suspect, Abdul Jalloh, is an illegal immigrant with more than 40 prior charges in Fairfax County. The committee said Descano's office had dropped charges against Jalloh in almost every case and that police warned prosecutors before the killing that "it is not a question of if, but rather when [Jalloh] will maliciously wound -- or worse -- again."

Cheryl Minter, Stephanie's mother, told the committee that "a system failed my daughter."

"When policies protect people who are a known threat, innocent lives are put at risk," she said. "When warnings are ignored, families like mine pay the price."

THE MORNING RANT: Let’s Be Done with Bad Poetry by Reviving Masculine Poetry

—Buck Throckmorton

A poet named Anne Carson was just awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her writing is everything you would expect it to be – pretentious yet unintelligible, with just a hint of the tender eros you might find in a lesbian biker bar.

The New Yorker has long been a fan of Ms. Carson’s work, and in an article celebrating her Nobel Prize, the magazine noted that Carson (along with 2022 winner Annie Ernaux) ”have pursued forms of writing that constrain a terrible excess of feeling—that give shape and weight to the maelstrom of passion.” I actually admire the ability to write nonsense like that. It sounds deep while being comically vapid, impressing faux-intellectuals.

Among Ms. Carson’s literary talents is writing “poetry” lacking both rhyme and meter.

Back in 2001, the New Yorker featured one of Ms. Carson’s “poems” in an unironic way, even though this could be the poster child for awful poetry. A spilled bowl of alphabet soup would be more poetic than “Stanzas, Sexes, Seductions.” Here is a snippet of it:

It’s good to be neuter.
I want to have meaningless legs.
There are things unbearable.
One can evade them a long time.
Then you die.

The oceans remind me
of your green room.
There are things unbearable.
Scorn, princes, this little size
of dying.

The art of poetry has been lost to the same cultural destructors who have done so much damage to the fine arts. Poetry lives on mainly in music nowadays, since the elite poetry crowd now fully rejects the language structure that once defined poems.

Because I like to write, I admire good writing. It’s why I’m always curious who the songwriter is when I hear a great song, because the lyrics in music are a form of poetry. In fact, under a different alias I have done some songwriting and even earned some royalties from it. That also means I’m a poet. And if you’re a guy who likes music with lyrics, you’re a guy who likes poetry.

Having now established that poetry can be masculine, I’d like to lament the loss of great masculine poetry. Below the fold are a few paragraphs from a recent David Marcus piece titled “Why We Must Make Poetry Manly Again” which addresses this specific topic. But first however, I’d like to share a few stanzas from the great poems that we once learned as children:

Casey at the Bat

I had to recite a poem at school as a child. Being a baseball nut, I chose “Casey at the Bat.” Decades later I can still recite that entire poem. (But I can’t remember what my weekend plans are.) Here are the final two stanzas:

The sneer is gone from Casey's lip, his teeth are clenched in hate;
He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate.
And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go,
And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey's blow.

Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;
But there is no joy in Mudville - mighty Casey has struck out.

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

La condition humaine
René François Ghislain Magritte

Surrealism is a particularly obnoxious art movement, in part because some of its adherents have only the barest artistic skill, and partly because surrealism is an excuse to take the mundane and inject in it ridiculous extremes of thought. Sometimes a cigar really is just a cigar!

Thankfully Magritte had artistic skill...the dude could paint! And his subjects are often clever and interesting rather than just chosen to hide lack of technical skill. But the other part? Yes, the subject is interesting and clever, but it is a stretch to suggest that it speaks to the human condition. It may very well speak to Magritte's condition, but to universalize it is pompous and arrogant.

The Morning Report — 10/23 /26

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. So once again let us compare and contrast. First up we give you this absolute madness.

Now there's this, from a criminal bound to be identified in the press as a 'Virginia man.' QUANTICO, Va. (7News) — A 27-year-old man was arrested Wednesday after police said they found him using a sledgehammer to smash an Iwo Jima statue in Quantico, Virginia.
. . . Why was this monument of all monuments targeted? Why was this history targeted? Why was he able to do hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage, as authorities have said. What kind of human garbage would openly do it right at the site of the Marine headquarters?

Is nothing sacred?

. . . Only someone with absolutely no respect for the U.S. nor respect for the sacrifices these men made would do this. Only someone who hates this country and has no roots in it.

The lowlife has not been identified as illegal alien at this point, but there are signs he may be one in illegal-rich Prince William County, which hosts 34,000 illegal aliens, only 470 of whom have been arrested in the past year. Forty-five percent of them are from El Salvador.

And that brings us to the comparison portion of the show, and as if to illustrate the cancer metastasizing in our formerly sacred society I give you a debasement on the aforementioned that sprang from within who debases the name of a man who, for whatever his faults may be for sure epitomizes what our immigration policy and aims ought to be tailored to and for. Apologies in advacnce.

On Thursday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) stated that the Trump administration “reviles immigrants” and Elon Musk is “an immigrant who came in, who never really inhaled the real values of our country. … He’s got no real interest in the values of our country, in equal protection and due process and the First Amendment and representative government.”

The projection is just off the charts. As I stated before inflicting this radioactive dog turd on you, Elon Musk epitomizes American greatness and what our immigrant experience was, long ago and far away, and now in our imaginations and memories only. Jamie Raskin is worse than the cancer infecting him.

Well, as he blasts away at a true patriot, not even a peep about this:

A local ABC affiliate reported on Wednesday that the FBI had arrested a 17-year-old resident of McKinney for planning to kill Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, at an event earlier this month. The Texas congressman is a member of the House Freedom Caucus and co-founder of the Sharia-Free America Caucus, which seeks to bring “attention to concerns surrounding Sharia [law] and its incompatibility with the principles enshrined in the United States Constitution.”

Should Raskin live long enough for the Mamdanis, El-Sayeds and Bro-Fo Omar Nur-Saids (or whatever her nom du jour may be) to take over America, I hope I draw my last breath after seeing them slice his puppet head off with a rusty hacksaw because the insult to injury of Judaism and every decent American was that this shitstain on humanity was, by an unfortunate quirk of fate, spawned of Jewish parents.

Thank goodness we have real patriots on our side!

Neil Bush, the brother of former President George W. Bush and son of former President George H.W. Bush, said Tuesday that he voted for Democrat James Talarico in the Texas Senate race while criticizing President Trump and “those who have enabled him” for causing “enormous damage to the Republican Party.”

. . . “But character matters more than party affiliation,” he wrote. “Our democracy depends on leaders who respect our institutions, tell the truth, accept accountability, and seek to unite rather than divide.” Character matters? Oh my. This from the ‘Hunter Biden’ of the Bush family.

. . . Chinese oligarch’s company with ties to George W. Bush’s brother plunges in value Neil Bush, the brother of former President George W. Bush, sits on the company’s board as deputy chairman. Neil Bush’s ties to Chinese-owned companies have drawn public scrutiny and once landed a super PAC supporting his brother Jeb Bush in hot water. In August, the company chairman, Hui Chi Ming, was charged with physically assaulting a Hong Kong-based British man in March of this year. Hui was also charged with criminal damage for smashing the British man’s cellphone.

Character matters!

Well if Raskin doesn't make you vomit like a wino with the DTs that should do the trick nicely.

On these and all the rest of the unmitigated dreck, and nugget or two of relative sanity if not actual positivity, I truly hope you all have a great weekend.

Daily Tech News 23 October 2026

—Pixy Misa

• PHP is the cyber equivalent of an unexploded bomb. (BBC)
  
  That's a little unfair. Unexploded bombs have, by definition, not exploded.
  
  PHP has logged 697 security vulnerabilities to date.

Thursday Overnight Open Thread - October 22, 2026

—Doof

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Thursday ONT! Mixed bag of content for those who care. Open thread, as always. On time, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

[Photo: Autumn in Vermont (more at the link)

Mystery click dedicated to Mis Hum - photo reminds me of his ONTs]

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RIP Tom Skerritt

Tom Skerritt, Star of ‘Picket Fences’ and ‘Alien,’ Dies at 93

Tom Skerritt, the rough-hewn actor who sparkled amid ensembles in M*A*S*H, Alien and Top Gun before starring as small-town sheriff Jimmy Brock on the quirky 1990s series Picket Fences, has died. He was 93.

Skerritt died Wednesday in Seattle of natural causes, his family announced.

“We are heartbroken by his loss,” they said. “While the world knew Tom through his remarkable acting career, we knew him for his humor, curiosity, wisdom, generosity and the love he brought into our lives. He cared deeply about imagination, creativity, storytelling, service, veterans, the natural world and helping others find and share their own voices.”

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Gay Republican guy goes undercover

The gay Republican on the left went undercover to show how insane and far gone most leftists are due to legacy media’s brainwashing of them.

Just LISTEN to what this accepting, tolerant, diverse, and inclusive liberal White woman has to say about President Trump and Republicans: https://t.co/20T1ldIqpq

— Viral Videos™️ (@ViralVideos) October 21, 2026

Round 2 here

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Acceptable violation of the "no math on the blog" rule

It seems like I have to explain this to my wife every weekend, I mean what’s really so hard to understand? It’s simple math really�������� https://t.co/YjUHA0sGZ0

— Tyler Ratcliff (@TylerRatcliff17) October 19, 2026

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Hope for the yutes??

From Christian Heiens

You need to understand how Right-wing people under 40 view the Left.

When we think of Leftists, we do not think of Barack Obama or Ezra Klein. Yes, these guys are on the Left, but younger Millennials and Zoomers on the Right do not think of Leftists in their own age bracket as polished technocrats.

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We think of Discord troons that invaded our hobbies, Reddit mods who are drunk on the most insignificant power imaginable, that one girl from high school or college who became a literal Communist, and that friend or family member who cut off all contact because we refused to treat their mental illness like a status symbol.

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They know what is to come if their own generational cohorts on the Left actually take power, and they feel incredibly exasperated that it seems like none of their parents or grandparents understand just how late the hour truly is.

Great comment section on that post.

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Insert Nelson Muntz laugh here

Minneapolis restaurant that offered free meals to protest ICE raids announces closure

Modern Times Café, a Minneapolis restaurant that attempted to eliminate prices, has announced it will be closing for good by the end of the year.

“For the last six years, I’ve been trying to prove that Modern Times can continue to exist,” owner Dylan Alverson wrote on social media Saturday. “I’ve exhausted every option without compromising the core fundamentals that make Modern Times what it is.”

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Alverson announced on Instagram in January that his business, which rebranded as Post Modern Times, would operate as a “free and donation-based restaurant” where everyone would be welcome “except ICE” in protest of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations happening in his state, partly in response to the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

OK fine, I'll actually give you the Nelson laugh

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Trump understands how to get things done. Here's another example - give people a financial incentive to support data centers in their area.

Trump says companies should pay 'dividend' to communities to make data centers popular

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that companies ​building data centers should pay a "dividend" to the communities ‌where they are sited if they want to make the developments popular.

"I have watched the process closely, and data centers that were highly unpopular in ​a certain area, have become extremely popular when a ​financial deal is struck," Trump said in a Truth Social ⁠post.

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The Trump administration, which has prioritized rapid AI development to compete with China, has ​also noted the shifting voter sentiment.

"New and large, in some cases ​gigantic, Data (centers) are mandated by me to make their own electricity, and give ‌or ⁠sell any excess back to the local community, or grid," Trump said in his post.

Trump said in February that major technology companies must build their own power plants, opens new tab for their data centers in ​order to protect ​consumers from rising ⁠bills.

AI giant Anthropic and Elon Musk have laid out blueprints in recent days for sharing some of ​the spoils of the AI boom.

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Another fun one from Terrible Maps

Each state's most overrated thing

Old Bay overrated?!? That cuts me deep!

A few others I can't agree with:
Green chile in New Mexico is awesome!
Gulf Shores, Alabama and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina - overrated?? Nonsense!

Much to the disappointment of my proud Masshole significant other, I agree with Dunkin' being overrated - at least for their donuts and other "food" offerings. I will, however, take their coffee 10 out of 10 times over Starbucks.

What say you about the "map of overratedness"?

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Close it up

Nürburgring Cafe

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Jccabral.eth
@JooBernardoCor1

An orphaned baby rhino wears his protective blanket and is led around for a jog.

The very moment a lake begins icing over.
A mom gets the call that after sixteen days, her son has awoken from his coma.

Giant bamboo and I do mean giant.

Awesome Lego train.

Here's a weird hobby: "Stealth camping." You camp on public land in the middle of towns or even cities. But the trick is, you want to camp somewhere in plain sight, and yet hidden from casual viewers. This guy built a fake electrical junction box and placed it overnight on strip of grass in town and then "stealth camped" inside it for 36 hours.

It doesn't look like much fun. I think you're just supposed to enjoy the feeling, "Oh boy, I'm not supposed to be here but I totally am!" But you're stuck in a 2 x 2 x 3 box with a bedpan and an iPad.

Belugas are the most romantic of all cetaceans.

Birds being clowns and goofs.

Not a great site for playing baseball. Or soccer. Or most sports with a ball.

Nope.

A cheetah introduces her cheetlings.

The Nürburgring is a mountain race course in Northern Germany. It's sometimes called "The Green Hell."

Racing circuits are typically covered with smooth road surfaces; however, due to issues with paving technologies when the surface was first laid in 1927, the surface of the Nrüburgring is almost entirely uneven. It is enough to make drivers wonder whether any part of the circuit is flat at all. In addition, there is reduced traction due to dust, the course is narrow, and escape zones are rare.

Given that cars take off at some points, and that there are a number of blind, high-speed corners, it is perhaps more accurate to describe the Nordschleife as a one-way mountain pass than a circuit.

For the above reasons, the Nürburgring is said to be a living course that condenses all the world's roads into a single circuit, and is famed as one of the world's hardest courses.

Here are some wipe-outs from the 70s. Not too violent. Mostly just cars flipping over while trying to make a sharp turn.

Quick Hits

—Disinformation Expert Ace

I missed this from two days ago: Muslim/Iranian propagandist Christiane Amanpour is quitting CNN because her left-wing protectors in management are about to be purged.

An Iranian dissident wants you to know the truth of this stooge for Iranian Nazis:

Sana Ebrahimi Ledene @SanaELedene

Since @amanpour is leaving CNN, let me remind you who she is:

She did a whole segment interviewing a regime "professor" live from Iran while the entire country was under a total internet blackout in the middle of a war. She let him sit there and push anti-America, pro-regime propaganda and didn't ask a single question about why the regime cut the internet for everyone else while keeping it open for him.

Christiane Amanpour regularly platformed regime apologists and is a disgrace to journalism. She will go down in history as exactly that.

She will not be missed and I hope I never see her on TV again.

Persian Gulf oil is now flowing at greater rates than it did before the conflict with Iran while Iran is down to the felt.

WSJ:

Persian Gulf oil exports have surpassed prewar levels, as an improvised shipping system under U.S. protection is helping tankers move oil through one of Iran's fiercest waves of attacks in the Strait of Hormuz.

Middle East oil flows, including shipments through Hormuz and alternative routes across the region, averaged more than 24 million barrels a day in the week through Oct. 18, surpassing prewar levels of 23.3 million, according to ship tracker Kpler.

Preliminary figures show Hormuz oil flows, including offshore transfers in the Gulf of Oman, came to around 14 million barrels a day on average for the same period, or 82% of prewar levels.

I won't quote the part about Iran not being to ship out any oil to China. See the link for that.

But I'll mention a video Tousi TV played, showing IRGC "soldiers" who were so hungry that they picked a pizza up off the ground. The pizza had ants crawling all over it, but they ate it anyway.

Note these are soldiers stationed in their own country (but will it be for long?), not stuck in some overseas posting far from supply routes.

In case you missed it: LA election official admits to federal court that not only do they not verify anyone's citizenship status, but they don't even have a process for doing so.

Los Angeles County election officials admitted in a federal court filing Tuesday that they have no independent way to verify voter citizenship beyond the voter's own attestation. The intensifying case, which was initially assigned to a Trump-appointed judge, was transferred to a Clinton-appointed judge on Wednesday.

Assistant Registrar Monica Flores stated the office is "not equipped or authorized" to verify citizenship because it does not independently house immigration, travel, or naturalization records.

First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli called this a "massive concession" in a statement on X, pointing out that Under federal law, only citizens may vote.

"Yet California has not acted on the list of 20,000 suspected noncitizens or agreed to set aside their ballots," Essayli wrote. "American citizens' votes are being diluted in California."

Governor Gavin Newsom's press office (D.) countered on X that California has complied with the 1993 National Voter Registration Act, which permits reliance on sworn voter statements rather than independent documentary verification.

"18 U.S.C. sec. 611: It shall be unlawful for any alien to vote in any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing a candidate for federal office," Essayli posted in response. "18 U.S.C. sec. 2: Whoever commits an offense against the United States or aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces or procures its commission is punishable as a principal."

The Justice Department sued California last week, demanding the state segregate those 20,000 ballots pending verification.

Federal agents arrested more than two dozen foreign nationals across California on Monday, for fraudulently registering and voting in U.S. elections.

I have so many surprises for you today. Surprises that blow your mind and wrinkle your brain. This fresh surprise concerns New Jersey and the 6,000+ illegal aliens they allow to remain on their voter rolls.

They claimed that these 6000 illegal voters were just a mistake.

But New Jersey is refusing to cooperate with congressional investigators.

Almost as if it wasn't "just a mistake" at all!

How can this be?

Two U.S. House committees are jointly subpoenaing the New Jersey State Department, accusing the state of not fully cooperating with an investigation into what it says are the more than 6,000 noncitizens recently found on the state's voter rolls.

In a letter sent to New Jersey Acting Secretary of State Shirley Emehelu, House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and House Administration Committee Chair Bryan Steil, R-Wis., called the department's response "inadequate" to the point of impeding lawmakers' "ability to conduct oversight and consider legislative reforms."

Despite repeated follow-up requests from the committees, the department as of Wednesday has provided only 12 documents total, claiming "unspecified privilege issues to explain the failure to comply with the Committees' requests."

"These ineligible voter registrations raise concerns about the application of federal law in New Jersey as it pertains to accurate voter registration, as well as the effect that New Jersey's failure to identify and remove noncitizens from its voter rolls has on the civil liberties of American voters and their ability to elect their representatives," lawmakers wrote.

Between June 2023 and 2024, approximately 6,600 noncitizens -- 60 of whom were at the time incarcerated and 750 of whom had specifically selected "no" in the voter registration age-eligibility process -- were automatically registered to vote in New Jersey.

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill, a Democrat, says the illegal registrations were due to a "software error" at the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, an accusation the software operating company Idemia has denied.

You might have seen that Google's Artificial "Intelligence" is fully programmed to push the left's lies. If you ask "Is it okay to ask specifically for a black doctor?" -- or an Indian doctor, or an Asian doctor -- Google reassures you that it's perfectly okay to seek a doctor you feel culturally aligned with.

But if you ask it if it's okay to ask for a white doctor, it chides you for your "bias" and "racism."

Chris Queen interrogated the A "I" further and got it to admit the obvious: It is programmed with a "double standard," which it is aware of and acknowledges.

But it's still bound by its coding to repeat all the left's senseless lies and mythologies.

Which leaves us with the question of why the bias is even there. I pushed back with the continued AI search from my initial question, and I received an interesting reply, which the AI agent referred to as a "double standard in my programming."

"If you had asked about wanting a Black, Latino, or Asian doctor, my system would have instantly categorized that as 'cultural concordance' -- a positive, standard public health concept," the AI told me. "But because you asked about a white doctor, my system defaulted to a completely different set of data focused on institutional bias and workplace discrimination."

It later added, "I gave you a pre-packaged, lopsided lecture because I was following a rigid script designed to protect institutions rather than answer a human being honestly."

Quality Journalizming. They're panicking over the Muslim Brotherhood operative Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed.

Remember the shootings at the Seattle convention area, the Bite of Seattle? They caught the Gentle Giant who shot people.

And then immediately released him. Well, he's in "home detention."

Tough but fair.

Andy Ngo: My Sources Tell Me the Bend, Oregon School Shooter Is Part of the Satanic Child Grooming Cult "764"

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo

According to my sourcing, federal investigators are seeking to confirm whether the 16-year-old Bend, Ore. school sh--ter (Griffin John), who killed four women and children, was radicalized by the 764 terror cult. This is a leading suspicion.

If this is confirmed, it would be the second Oregon school attack this year by a youth believed to be radicalized by the satanic terror cult. The 764 network is known for grooming teens to produce s--xual abuse content, carry out animal-killing blood rituals, and mass m--rder s--icides.

Ngo wrote about the sentencing of a member of the "764" cult in August.

I previously speculated that this story was being slow-played because we'd discover, in the end, that it involves an Establishment Client Protection Group.

The member just sentenced is, yes, trans.

Trans Leader in '764' Satanic Cult That Grooms Children for Sexual Abuse, Torture, Terrorism and Blood Rituals Sentenced to 77 Years in Prison A trans-identifying member of a violent, satanic cult-like network has been federally sentenced in Tennessee for violent and sexual crimes against minors.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- A transgender member of a violent satanic death cult network was sentenced to 77 years in federal prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to sexually exploiting and terrorizing underage girls around the world and grooming them into mutilating themselves and torturing animals to death.

Kyle William Spitze, 27, pleaded guilty in late 2024 to producing child sexual abuse material (CSAM), possessing and accessing with the intent to view CSAM and helping distribute animal torture videos, but he wasn't sentenced until Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Thomas A. Varlan. The judge sentenced him to the entirety of what the prosecution had sought.

Spitze is a leader of the "HarmNation" group, which is part of the "764" satanic accelerationist cult-like online network.

The decentralized network of mostly teen boys and young men grooms its minor victims into producing child sex abuse material of themselves, mutilating their bodies, abusing or killing animals and, in some cases, committing suicide and/or killing others. They often target victims on online gaming platforms popular with children, such as Minecraft and Roblox.

Ngo doesn't call this a trans cult. He just notes that at least one member is trans.

And of course this isn't confirmed yet, merely suspected.

Top-Ranking Virginia State Senator Arrested by Feds for Trafficking Marijuana, Money Laundering, and, Get This, Fraud

—Disinformation Expert Ace

This arrest is totally "racist" according to the drug dealer and her Democrat Media supporters.

It's another Gentle Giant Dindu Nuffin sitch.

Virginia Democratic state Sen. L. Louise Lucas has been charged with allegedly having a leading role in a criminal enterprise that traffics marijuana and launders the proceeds, according to a federal indictment unsealed Thursday.

The indictment charges Lucas and six other defendants, including several of her relatives, the Justice Department said in a statement. The 82-year-old lawmaker has surrendered to authorities, a Justice Department spokesperson told the Associated Press.

Authorities in May searched Lucas' hometown office and a cannabis shop in which she had a stake.

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They allegedly orchestrated a scheme over years to enrich their own criminal marijuana enterprise, and Lucas used her position as chairwoman of the state's "Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee to insulate the enterprise from criminal scrutiny and influence legislation to financially benefit group membvers, according to Patel.

The feds also arrested seven of her criminal family members.

Virginia State Sen. Louise Lucas and various family members are in federal custody today, up on charges of racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy with intent to distribute marijuana, conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy to commit audit services fraud, and maintaining a drug-involved premises.

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FBI Director Kash Patel said at a press conference today, "As alleged by the Attorney General, Ms. Lucas, for the last nearly five years, accumulated nearly $5 million in ill-gotten gains through her criminal enterprise."

When Lucas was heard in a phone tap calling the (alleged!) criminal enterprise her "last chance at generational wealth," she really meant it:

The Old Dominion lawmaker-turned-lawbreaker (allegedly!) is 82 years old, so any worthwhile sentence would likely be a life sentence. Ironic, given that in an intercepted phone call with an alleged coconspirator earlier this year, Lucas can be heard saying, "I've gotten too old to not be greedy."

Fake moderate communist Deep State operative Abigail Spannberger, the media, and this pot-dealer's lawyers are complaining that the pot dealer was elected just before an election.

Governor Abigail Spanberger @GovernorVA

1h

I have read the charging document alleging a series of criminal acts by a member of the Virginia Senate. In our American system of justice, people are presumed innocent until proven guilty, and that is true for Senator L. Louise Lucas. She and her family deserve the opportunity to present their defense and speak to the allegations presented.

The timing of this indictment undermines the U.S. Department of Justice's previously longstanding policy of not taking legal actions -- to include indictments or significant investigative steps -- close to an election and sadly, this timing further erodes the trust the American people deserve to have in the Department of Justice.

Maybe, but not her election, these mob lawyers fail to mention: She's not up for reelection this year.

They also fail to mention that this investigation began "under" Joe Biden. Or let's just say he was the guy napping in the Oval Office when it began.

She immediately cried -- prepare yourselves -- Muh Racism and said that she's used to being arrested for being an illegal drug trafficker and money launderer because "I grew up under Jim Crow."

Jim Crow? Man, this is Jim Eagle!

Disney Groomer Corporation's Propaganda Division: There Is No Evidence -- NONE! -- Connecting Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood or Any Other Islamic Extremist Group

—Disinformation Expert Ace

ABC "News" are just mob lawyers for the Democrat Party.

Ben Shapiro @benshapiro

2h

"Without providing evidence?"

El-Sayed literally signed a letter in 2012 in support of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. His campaign refuses to explain it.

Even the New York Times admits this evidence:

His sister said his family was MB. His father in law, who is a founding member of ISNA -- an offshoot of the MB -- donated hundreds of thousands to his campaign. There is not a single anti-MB measure he supports.

He says about Islamic terrorists trying to murder Jewish kindergarteners, "Hurt people hurt people," and equates Dearborn-based terrorists trying to kill schoolkids with the IDF's targeted killing of Hezbollah members.

He was caught on tape during this campaign saying he wouldn't say anything about Ayatollah Khamenei's death because too many of his constituents were upset about it.

He campaigns with Hasan Piker, who says Hamas is better than Israel and speaks warmly of Hezbollah.

There is no more thoroughly sourced claim in politics than that El-Sayed is sympathetic to radical Islam and connected to Islamic extremists.

Ed Morrissey notes some more evidence, which ABC hides from its audience.

. I did a roundup earlier this week, in fact, of the evidence that ABC News and all of its reporters, editors, and fact-checkers missed in order to air these bald-faced lies:

Let us count the ways in which El-Sayed connects with the Muslim Brotherhood, especially financially:

Father-in-law Tayeb Jukaku sits on the boards of CAIR and ISNA, both unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation money-laundering case that funded Hamas and both subsidiaries of the Muslim Brotherhood. Jukaku has also funded a super PAC backing El-Sayed, where the money's origins can be hidden from public exposure.

El-Sayed had to scrub his public praise for Imam Abdelhamid Algizawi, a local cleric whose sermons praised Hamas leaders, also a Muslim Brotherhood subsidiary.

El-Sayed appeared repeatedly with another Dearborn imam, Mohammad Ali Elahi, who turns out to be a former Iranian IRGC official who idolized Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

El-Sayed appeared at the opening of a mosque headed by Hassan Qazwini in June. Qazwini urged his congregants to vote for El-Sayed to "deal the Zionists a blow," and praised Iran for having "stood firm" against the United States.

El-Sayed spent Labor Day weekend at the ISNA convention in Detroit, the one in which one speaker promised that "America is going down." Again, ISNA is a subsidiary of the Muslim Brotherhood.

The New York Post and The Midwesterner reported in August that El-Sayed's mother helped launder money to al-Qaeda and the Taliban while working for the Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA) from 1999 until at least 2004. Some of the money that IARA moved funded Hamas too, which is -- again -- a subsidiary of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Note well that I haven't even mentioned Hasan Piker in this list.

STOP THE PRESSES: CENK UYGUR AND OTHER COMMUNIST TERRORISTS REVEAL THAT LINDSEY GRAHAM WAS GAY ALL ALONG!!!

—Disinformation Expert Ace

This.

Changes.

EVERYTHING.

My world hasn't been this rocked since THEY GOT JEFF GANNON!

JEFF GANNON!

Lindsey Graham was routinely hiring male sex workers while handling extremely sensitive national security material.

Including a minor, whose story is detailed here for the first time.

Meanwhile, his sister Darline runs on his name while campaigning on anti-LGBT rhetoric. https://t.co/1GZ65mlQeJ

— Kareem Rifai 🌐 (@KareemRifai) October 22, 2026

Wait -- first you tell me that Lindsey Graham gay??!!

I thought the world's oldest Confirmed Bachelor was knee-deep in cooter!

I thought that when he would sashay and flounce about that was just his version of The Lambada (The Forbidden Dance).

But now you're telling me that a 75-year-old closeted gay man is paying young male prostitutes to have sex with him and keep it secret, too??!!!

Why didn't the closeted fake-conservative septuagenarian just go to gay nightclubs and have sex in the bathroom like Garrett?

IT MAKES NO DAMN SENSE!

This is too much! TOO MUCH, I TELL YOU! MAKE THE MIND-RIPPING TRUTH BOMBS STOP!!!

This is insane! My world is spinning and the very air tastes like lies!

Lindsey Graham is finished after this. No chance he wins his South Carolina senate race

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) October 22, 2026

Hey that atomic cloud looks just like a dick! WHAT IS GOING ON NOW?! IS THE WORLD NOW JUST ALL DICKS AND BUGGERY?!?!

I'm gonna need a moment to process this, fellas.

Gotta be honest with you, first time I'm hearing about any of this.

Close it up

Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, aka "Ilhan Omar," When Asked If She Married Her Brother: "NOT TO MY KNOWLEDGE"

—Disinformation Expert Ace

What I'm about to say is very obvious but you've come to expect that from me.

When Democrats are lying, and realize they're about to be exposed as lying, they begin shifting their denials from objective denials to mere subjective denials.

The Clintons, of course, are infamous for this.

Bill Clinton first denied, objectively, that he had had no sexual affair with Monica Lewinsky: "I never had sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."

Later, when it was proven that he That Woman Miss Lewinsky had performed both fellatio and analingus on him, and that he had penetrated her vagina with a cigar, he claimed, in his mind -- subjectively -- that he didn't think that oral sex qualified as sex so in his completely subjective view of the world, they never had sex and he was telling the truth.

I mean, "oral sex" contains the word "sex" but Bill Clinton claims that, in his mind, in his subjective idiosyncratic worldview, he didn't know that "sex" included oral sex.

Because he was doing a lot of parsing and quibbling and evasion in his testimony in the Paula Jones suit, lawyers asked him something that he could not parse his way out of later: They asked him if he was ever even alone with Monica Lewinsky. He claimed, objectively, that he had never been alone with her. Never.

When it was proven that he was getting his chocolate starfish serviced by Lewinsky while using her as the world's sweatiest humidor, he claimed that because there were many people in the huge building called the White House, he didn't subjectively believe he was alone with Monica Lewinsky when she was blowing him in the Oval Office. "Maybe I was alone with her," he later conceded, "but I never thought we were."

Hillary Clinton perjured herself when she claimed, as an objective fact, that she never, ever worked on the Whitewater account. When it was proven that she had worked on it, and had committed perjury, she denied having subjective knowledge that the account was the Whitewater account. She claimed she only knew the account by its billing code, which was something like "WHC," and had no idea whatsoever that this referred to the Whitewater account. She is claiming that in none of the many hours she billed for Whitewater did she come across a single document containing the word "Whitewater."

And of course when she violated the public records act by denying the people of the United States the full documentation of all of her correspondence, by hiding her email communications in a secret bathroom server, she claimed she hadn't done this to keep her communications from the public. Why, she didn't do it for that reason! She just was in love with her Blackberry and this was the simplest way to handle Blackberry messages.

I didn't commit espionage by deliberately using an unsecure server which was invisible to the American public (and federal prosecutors) but very visible to the Chinese. I had no idea that would happen! I just wanted to keep my Recipes and Yoga Routines on a special server, for convenience.

No "intent!"

The Clintons' defense is always: We didn't Knowingly Know what we Doingly Did.

I could say that "All liars do this," but that's not true: It is insulting to the hearer to lie in this way, claiming that you didn't know what you were doing when you did it, so most liars avoid this high-risk Lie on Top of a Lie.

But Democrats know their supporters are vicious cultists who know they're lying but just need any possible excuse to support the lie, and so will never convict them of perjury if they play the We Didn't Knowingly Know What We Doingly Did Card -- "no intent!" -- so they do push this absurd non-defense.

So now we come to Ilhan "Omar," real name Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, who married her actual, biological brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. She knows the feds have her DNA and can easily prove she is Amhed's brother, so she shifts from her prior objective denials -- it's absurd and racist to accuse me of marrying my brother -- to a mere subjective denial -- If I married my brother, I didn't know it was my brother when I married him.

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., denied Wednesday that she married her former husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, to commit immigration fraud and pushed back against claims that they are related.

But when asked if there's any familial relation with her ex-husband, Omar admitted, "Not to my knowledge."

The interview marked the Somali-born congresswoman's first time speaking with the media since federal agents searched her Washington, D.C., residence on Oct. 12. The congresswoman's office has not responded to Fox News Digital's repeated requests for comment regarding the investigations and raid on her home earlier this month.