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“Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recommended — and President Donald J. Trump has approved — death by U.S. Army firing squad for convicted terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan, the jihadist who opened fire on unarmed American soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell wrote on X.
Hasan killed 12 US service members, one civilian and wounded 32 others during his November 2009 rampage at the Texas Army base. Parnell noted the Army-officer-turned-terrorist was “shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ during the attack.”
“The Secretary of the Army will set the time and place of the execution,” the Pentagon spokesman added. “Judgement day for Hasan has finally come.”
Hasan, who was sentenced to death by a military court in 2013, would be the first service member executed by the armed forces since 1961. . . Hasan, a former Army major and psychiatrist, opened fire on troops who were standing in line to receive immunizations at Fort Hood.
The attack ended when Hasan was shot in the back and left paralyzed by a responding police officer.
He should've been summarily executed within moments of being neutralized. considering Islam and the fact that our Commander-in-Chief at the time was for all intents and purposes an ideological fellow traveler of Hasan and the prevailing insane political winds in our nation since this incident and in reality blowing from Ground Zero since 9/11 and from College Campuses since the Vietnam War, were it not for President Trump and Secretary of War Hegseth and the patriots still in uniform, Hasan would likely have been spared and breathing our air for years to come.
Iran’s endgame became obvious when its IRGC terror bosses released a letter to American voters praising “the No Kings rallies that swept across the U.S. last year”, blasting President Trump and urging Americans to vote to “change the makeup of the government” to end the war.
The old joke about the Russians was that their military strategy was to get invaded and wait for winter. The Islamic terrorist strategy is to get invaded and wait for leftists to win elections. Iran hasn’t just been waiting. In 2020, Iranian hackers tried to hack into election databases and sent out false flag emails to voters in Florida. In 2024, they stole J.D. Vance’s voter file and peddled it to media outlets. Iranian fake news sites bashed Republicans and promoted the Kamala campaign. That’s not even counting active measures like a Trump assassination plot.
Interfering with traffic in the Strait of Hormuz was never going to bring the American economy to its knees, the way that our economic pressure campaign on Iran crushed its economy, and the terrorist regime wouldn’t have bothered if it expected the Democrats to hold the line. The letter to voters, however, reveals that the Iranian strategy is to wait for the Democrats to bail them out. . . Iran Plans to Win the War by Helping Democrats Win Is it time for a crackdown on the treason party?
The Treason Party is exactly who and what the Democrats are, regardless of whether so-called Moderates or the full-on freakshow of DSA members are running things. The crackdown, that is the utter dismantling, dissolution and destruction of the Democrat Party should have happened the moment they formed the KKK and attempted to and indeed thwart reconstruction, resulting with their alignment with every movement foreign and domestic that was anathema to America as founded. And here we are 160 years later with one of our two major political parties hell bent for leather to seize absolute power in the name of transforming America into a hells cape it was never meant to be, instead of the shining beacon of civilizational progress it was founded as. Hence the Nidal Hasans on top of the Squeaky Frommes Jane Fondas, Bernie Sanders and Planned Parenthoods that we must deal with. Lest they "deal" with us first! As the evil fishy bastards have been!
Five years ago today, then-Attorney General Merrick Garland released his memorandum laying out what his corrupt Department of Justice could do to assist in investigating and prosecuting the parents accused of being “domestic terrorists” for speaking out against far-left initiatives and draconian Covid policies at school board meetings. The Democrat AG’s memo followed a National School Boards Association (NSBA) letter begging President Joe Biden and his politically-driven Department of Justice to recognize the “immediate threat” these parents posed to America’s public schools and their leaders. The letter urged Biden to treat the parents’ confrontational behavior like it was “equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism.”
We know that the NSBA, after a wave of criticism from affiliates, was forced to apologize for the letter from School Boards Association President Viola Garcia and interim CEO Chip Slaven. The association acknowledged “there was no justification for some of the language included in the letter” and that the executive office had not consulted with state affiliates.
When Andrew Breitbart of blessed memory declared "Fuck You, WAR!" The above was yet to happen but did he realize where we were headed for before he drew his last breath?
Death to the Left and Islam. It really is us or them. I fervently pray that the Good Lord in Heaven open the eyes, hearts and minds of our fellow citizens (in name only) to see the evil that they praise and engage in and repent... As for all of you good people, stay strong and I bid you all tohave a good day.
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
The assassination attempts against President Trump, Charlie Kirk’s killing, an armed Antifa assault on immigration authorities, anarchist attacks on European infrastructure, and now allegations of a terrorist plot against Nigel Farage following the home invasion murder of his immigration spokeswoman demonstrate a broader reality: leftist political violence and acts of terrorism are becoming a serious security concern across Western democracies. The New Political Violence: Inside the Rise of Far-Left Terrorism.
The Biden Junta did attempt to prosecute parents federally for the crime of disagreeing with school boards in 2020 and 2021, says a new report from the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DoJ) Weaponization Working Group. How the Biden Junta tried to silence parents
The Red-Green alliance of leftists and Muslims is staging a show of force, rioting in the streets of France. Pay attention, we’re next. The Riots In France Are A Warning For America
On October 5, the top court reversed the Ninth Circuit’s January ruling that claimed the Trump administration did not have the authority to end President Joe Biden’s TPS policy, which would allow the president to end the status of more than 500,000 Venezuelans. Supreme Court Allows Trump to Deport 300,000 Venezuelans
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY
Maj. Gen. Turki al-Malki, a spokesman for the regional military coalition led by Saudi Arabia, said heavy airpower from the alliance destroyed 324 “high-value” Houthi targets over the weekend, paving the way for the advance. Yemeni Government Pushes Back Against Houthis Near Bab el-Mandeb Strait
Currently, the Trump government is doing great work cracking down on fraud, but the sad fact is that it’s everywhere, in ways not just big, but quite small. The costly immigrant fraud that no one sees
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
When the networks try to drive President Trump's approval rating as low as possible, they avoid presenting any positive news. In the first term, they routinely skipped good news. Now we've compiled “Five Economic Facts the Media Don’t Want You to Know” as we head into midterm elections. The good news is Not News. Any Good Economic News Is NOT News Under Trump
Despite Google receiving billions of dollars in federal multi-year contracts, and despite President Donald Trump’s 2025 AI Action Plan stating that “AI systems must be free from ideological bias” in order to receive lucrative federal procurement contracts, Gemini AI declared that the following seven Republican Senators, Vice President JD Vance, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are guilty of violating Gemini’s “hate speech policies.” Americans Turn to AI Chatbots to Decide How to Vote in Midterm Elections
“Either we hold every Republican seat or we hand the future of Texas to the other team. That’s why I’m voting for the Republican ticket on November 3.” Ken Paxton Gains Support From a Surprising Source
Yes, the midterms are just 29 days away. Yes, MAGA’s fate depends on turnout. Yes, 2028 is far down the road (politically speaking, at least). Want to Win in 2028? Let Rubio Fight Vance.
Saritha Komatireddy was a freshman in her first week at Harvard University when terrorists struck New York. She resolved, on 9/11, to become a prosecutor to protect her country and hometown. She’s been doing it ever since...Now a 41-year-old mother to two sets of twins under the age of 10 living in Manhattan, she’s mounting an insurgent statewide campaign against New York Attorney General Letitia James. Lawless Letitia James is in big trouble from Saritha Komatireddy
Until now, the State Department and Washington's foreign-policy elite have habitually thought our country isn't good enough and must prove itself equal to the professed — yet entirely fraudulent — ideals of left-wing regimes. The Trump administration has a different attitude: It's proud of America, and in the places around the world where hope and pride matter more than resentment and shame, that new attitude gets results. Latin America's Many Trumps
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya calls for a return to practices emphasizing reproducible results—not pronouncements from authorities—to determine scientific truth. The Replication Crisis in Medicine
Tom Cruise's first post-Mission: Impossible outing, Digger, dug down to a dismal $8 million opening weekend, despite appearing on more than 3,000 screens. Tom Cruise Just Dug Down to the Biggest Flop of His Career (Originally set to star Samuel Jackson, and first draft was spelled with an "N"- jjs)
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Which doesn't sound like much - and honestly isn't much - but given that Macs still ship with as little as 256GB of storage and Apple just added local AI that some people neither use nor want and removed the option to remove it, it is welcome.
Currently building an emulator for yet another nonexistent system, this time based on real hardware: The Zilog Z800 (which did exist, renamed as the Z280, though it had no major design wins), the WDC 65C816, which you can still buy today, two Yamaha V9938 video controllers as seen in MSX2 systems, and a Yamaha OPNA YM2608 sound chip.
I also have the emulators set up so you can use them via a web browser.
I plan to release the whole project before the end of the year. The suite of fantasy emulators is just one small component.
Good evening Horde. The time has come for Monday shenanigans. The bar is open and the refrigerator has been freshly re-stocked with A&W Rootbeer.
Welcome to the Monday night ONT which means vintage overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. Pants are optional. This ONT is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Fauci is fair game.
[Top photo: A helicopter is lifting a 34-foot animatronic brontosaurus over Boston toward the Museum of Science - July 1984]
The Monday ONT has dialed up the wayback machine tonight with very random results.
Hagen's Fish Market at 5635 W. Montrose Avenue, Chicago, IL in the Portage Park neighborhood - 1977.
Hagen's opened in 1946 when the area was still semi-rural. Brothers Don and Bennett Hagen, sons of a commercial fisherman, started the business with help from their father, who mortgaged the family home. It has remained family-owned across generations and is now run by the fourth generation. The fish market is still in business at the exact same address and is actively operating.
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Blue Blaze Coal Company store in the coal-mining camp of Consumers, Utah (Carbon County), in the Gordon Creek/Gordon Valley district roughly 17 miles northwest of Price - 1936. (Price is about 77 miles south east of Provo.)
Consumers is a ghost town today. A rough road (Consumers Road, off US-6/191 north of Price) reaches the site. Visible remnants include stone and concrete foundations along with scattered mine-related debris and traces of the old tipple area. No standing buildings from the 1930s town remain intact.
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Storage tanks (petroleum?), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - 1942.
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Salt Air Pavilion on the south shore of the Great Salt Lake, Utah - circa 1900.
Saltair opened in 1893 as a family-oriented resort promoted by LDS Church leaders - the "Coney Island of the West" - with dancing, bathing, and later amusement rides. The original pavilion burned in April 1925. A second was built and burned in 1970. A third structure was built in 1981 about one mile west of the original site, using a reused aircraft hangar. After flooding in the mid-1980s it was renovated and now operates as a concert and event venue.
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New London City Hall (built 1896) at 103 W. North Water Street, New London, Wisconsin - 1988 photo.
The building still exists, but is no longer city hall.
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Sign in front of the J.B. Brewer Five & Dept. Store, Crossville, Tennessee (Cumberland County) - 1937 photo.
The business is closed, but the sign lives in front of the Cumberland County Courthouse.
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Conference of judges at Bean Day in Wagon Mound, New Mexico (Mora County) - 1939 photo.
Bean Day is the town's long-running Labor Day weekend festival and rodeo, named for the region's pinto-bean farming.
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Demonstration of tracked vehicles near the Key Bridge in Washington DC - circa 1921-1923.
In the foreground is a Citroën-Kégresse half-track (autochenille) which has a car-like chassis, wooden-spoke front wheels, and flexible rubber tracks at the rear. Behind is a Renault FT-type light tank (or very similar WWI-era two-man tank) with a turret.
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U.S. Post Office in New Ulm, Minnesota, at the corner of Broadway and Center Street (2 N. Broadway) - 1981 photo.
The building still exists and looks mostly the same. Since 1984, it has been the Brown County Historical Society museum and headquarters.
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Walt Stuart's Texaco, West Yellowstone, 1956.
Alex Stuart opened the garage in the auto era (service for Yellowstone Park buses from 1917). Walt worked there from 1919. Walt Stuart bought the family station in 1936 and sold it in 1977. After the 1977 sale, the rustic twin-gable Texaco did not survive as that landmark.
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Elk Canyon in the Black Hills of South Dakota, on the narrow-gauge Black Hills and Fort Pierre Railroad - 1890.
The line was built by the Homestake Mining Company to haul timber from the hills to the mines at Lead. It ran toward Piedmont via Elk Creek. The sheer rock face is the "Giant Bluff." The BH&FP was sold to the Burlington in 1901 and the narrow-gauge system faded out by about 1930.
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For more than 20 years, Christian Moullec has flown with birds. With his microlight aircraft he guides migrating flocks of vulnerable species and orphaned birds
Bears: The Menace the Establishment Refuses to Name.
A bear broke into a house to steal food, but ended up getting completely humbled by a 3-pound Pomeranian. He was seriously out of touch with reality https://t.co/ZRiNgvJaJY
Among the arrests this weekend, provided exclusively to American Greatness, are criminal illegals convicted for the heinous crimes of murder, rape of a child, criminal sexual assault/force, aggravated assault, and possession of a controlled substance for sale.
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"While Americans enjoyed their weekend, ICE worked around the clock to remove murderers, pedophiles, sexual assailants, drug traffickers, and other illegal aliens from our communities," said Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin in a statement Monday. "Despite facing a more than 1,600 percent increase in assaults against them, the brave men and women of ICE will never stop working to fulfill President Trump's mandate to make America safe again."
There were more fruits of decarceration in Georgia:
Two people were shot dead and at least 35 more were injured after a homecoming block party in a Georgia town turned violent in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Over 1,000 people had gathered for a celebration near Pine Street in Vienna, Ga., when a shooter opened fire around 1:25 a.m., according to Dooly County Sheriff Craig Peavy.
The two victims were men, ages 20 and 23, according to the Dooly County Coroner Brett Walls. Their families and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) have been notified, but their names have not yet been released to the public.
The judge in the Lindsay Clancy triple child murder trial has denied scumbag lawyer Kevin Reddington's motion to toss out the mistrial and simply declare the murderess not guilty. So the DA, who is probably Woke AF, will have to decided if he's going to half-ass another fakey-fake attempt to convict the murderess against the wishes of his woke Karen voters.
Justice Alito says he knows exactly who leaked the Dobbs decision, but he says he doesn't have enough proof to take it to court so he won't say who it is. A rare cuck-out from Alito.
The US has pulled all bombers from the Fairford, UK air force base that was menaced by some very British shirtless men who were not doing anything bad and if they were, then they are culturally justified in doing it.
Unfortunately this means the bombers will have to take off and land in the US during bombing runs.
All U.S. Air Force bombers in the U.K. were returned to their home bases in the United States following a suspected terror plot that U.S. officials have suggested may be linked to Iran targeting a U.S. military facility last week, officials said.
About a dozen B-1 bombers were among the aircraft removed from Royal Air Force (RAF) Station Fairford in Gloucestershire, England, a U.S. official told Fox News. The base is the only European forward operating location for American heavy bombers.
"We can acknowledge now that all U.S. bombers that were deployed to RAF Fairford have re-deployed to their home stations in the United States," a department official said.
The Pentagon emphasized that despite the relocation, the bomber fleet remains fully prepared to launch long-range strike missions directly from the continental United States whenever needed.
"The Airmen that operate America's bomber force, including B-1s, B-2s, and B-52s, remain ready to deliver precision global strike capabilities -- including through operations that launch and recover from the continental United States -- anywhere, anytime," the official said.
RAF Fairford functions as a key European base for heavy American strategic bombers and has supported U.S. military operations, including missions targeting Iranian sites.
Last Sunday, U.K. officials said three suspicious vehicles containing fuel accelerants were found near RAF Fairford.
"We can confirm that no improvised explosive devices were found. However, a quantity of petrol was recovered," officials said.
I'm really questioning what NATO delivers to the US any longer. All we counted on them for was a few acres of land here and there where we could launch and land planes from. And now they can't even supply dirt.
An ITV reporter says...
Dan Rivers
@danriversitv
Scoop: I have heard from a source familiar with the RAF Fairford story that the US feared a drone a attack similar to Ukraine's Operation Spiderweb last year which destroyed 10 Russian aircraft. They fear Iran might copy the tactics and that drones might even already be in UK, hence abrupt departure of B1s.
I'm sorry, I mean "bio lab." I'm sure they deny researching the plague for weapons purposes.
The Trump administration is closely watching reports of a suspected fatal plague infection in Russia and is urging Moscow to be transparent, officials said Sunday night.
The Moscow Times reported this weekend that health officials in Siberia's Irkutsk region placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from the plague.
Alexei Tsydenov, head of the neighboring republic of Buryatia, confirmed that a lab worker who broke a test tube of live bacteria had died from an unspecified form of plague, the Times reported.
State Department officials told NewsNation and Fox News that U.S. officials were monitoring the situation and details were still vague.
"We are aware of reports of a fatal case of suspected pneumonic plague in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. We are monitoring the situation closely with the CDC and our other interagency partners," one official told NewsNation.
Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed's sister-in-law appeared in the Terrorist Screening Database, court documents filed in 2016 indicate. Mariam Jukaku, the sister of El-Sayed's wife, Sarah Jukaku, was a participant in two suits the Council on American-Islamic Relations brought against U.S. government officials on behalf of individuals disputing their alleged placement on the watch list, according to court filings.
One suit sought an injunction removing the plaintiffs from the database and a declaratory judgment that their Fifth Amendment rights had been violated. The other was a class action lawsuit the plaintiffs filed to obtain compensatory damages and recover legal fees from the government. Jukaku appeared in a Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) press conference announcing the suits. Texas and Florida recently designated CAIR a terrorist organization.
Before joining the suits, Jukaku filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security after she reportedly noticed in 2012 that "her boarding pass was stamped with the 'SSSS' designation, indicating that she had been designated as a 'known or suspected terrorist.'" Jukaku, who is Muslim, said the designation triggered "extensive searches, pat downs and chemical testing" and speculated that she was added to the watch list because of racism or religious discrimination, according to the suit. She also said she believed she had been removed from the list following her DHS complaint, though the government reportedly never confirmed either the removal or her presence on the list.
Aww: Stephen Colbert's cucked-out fanfiction script for a Lord of the Rings mid-quel (it would take place during the timeline of the Lord of the Rings) has been put on hold under the new Skydance regime overseeing Warner Bros.
Looks like the insufferable Stephen Colbert got canceled twice in 2026. First, his basement-rated Late Night show ended on CBS. Today, we are learning that his face-saving project, scripting a Lord of the Rings movie, has, at best, been put in turnaround.
Tee hee.
If you recall, back in March, just weeks before his humiliating cancellation became real, Colbert showed up in a video hosted by director Peter Jackson to humble-brag about how he's writing the next Lord of the Rings movie. The message was clear: Colbert wanted everyone to know, especially us MAGAtards, that his career isn't over. Oh, no! It's bigger and better than ever! So, take that! And that! And THAT!
At the time, Colbert's movie, Shadow of the Past, was looking like a sure thing. As soon as filming ended on The Hunt for Gollum (which is filming now), Colbert's movie was all set to start filming. Yes, Colbert's triumph was a "go picture."
Well, no more...
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Colbert's "film hasn't been fully canceled, but it has hit major development speed bumps. They are still working on drafts, but filming isn't expected anytime soon," reports Knight Edge Media [emphasis original]. "The new studio simply doesn't see Lord of the Rings as profitable as it once did and wants to see how The Hunt for Gollum does before greenlighting more projects."
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Colbert blamed David Ellison's takeover of CBS for cancelling his Late Night show (even though it was canceled before the merger was complete). And now, just days after Ellison's merger with Warner Bros. was finalized, Colbert's comeback movie stalls, sputters, and will likely die.
If this episode is ever made into a movie, I'd like to suggest the following title: The Desolation of Smug.
I wouldn't mind seeing a similar movie -- Colbert's "big idea" was to just film four chapters omitted from Peter Jackson's edited-down version of the story -- but I don't want this nasty woke gaywad anywhere near it.
Timur Kuran
@timurkuran
The biggest issue raised by Jane Doe vs. the Cornell 7 isn't simply who is responsible. It is what the controversy could do to relations between men and women at a moment when American social life is already in trouble.
Young Americans are increasingly lonely and unhappy. Marriage is down, sex among young adults is down, fertility is at a record low, and men and women continue to polarize politically.
A toxic blame game could make all this worse. Women may retreat further into the belief that they live in a "rape culture." Men may retreat into the belief that intimacy with women poses a potentially catastrophic reputational risk. Both fears can become self-reinforcing.
The result is predictable: less trust, less interaction, less dating, less intimacy, fewer marriages, and more lonely, resentful people looking for movements that blame the opposite sex. A vicious cycle of mutual gender radicalization gains fresh fuel: each side's fears and grievances become evidence of the other side's hostility.
However the legal case unfolds, turning it into another chapter in the war between men and women would further damage a country already struggling with social fragmentation. We desperately need more trust and interaction between the sexes, not less.
I bet he got well over 50% -- but the left cheats, subverts, and destroys everything, including democracy.
Conservative Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro won Sunday night's presidential election in Brazil, defeating incumbent socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva -- but did not pass the 50 percent threshold necessary to win the presidency outright, triggering a runoff election.
Brazilians took to the polls on Sunday for general elections for the presidency, local state leadership positions, and seats in the Brazilian Congress. Bolsonaro and Lula were among 13 candidates competing for the chief executive position, though polling prior to the election did not indicate that any of the other candidates were attracting any meaningful levels of support to vie for first place.
At press time, Brazil's electoral officials have counted 99.57 percent of the vote. Bolsonaro is in the lead with 47.12 percent support, or nearly 56 million votes, while President Lula obtained 45.05 percent of the vote, or about 53.5 million votes. The third-place candidate, self-help author Augusto Cury, obtained only 2.89 percent of the vote, or about 3.4 million votes.
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Brazilians will return to the polls for the runoff election on October 25.
Lula, 80, is running for a fourth term as president of Brazil, an especially notable feat given that he was convicted of misappropriating government funds while president following his second term and banned from running for office. He attempted to run for president from prison in 2018 but failed to make it to the ballot. The Brazilian top court, the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF), overturned the ban on public office and allowed him to run in 2022 against then-incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, narrowly defeating him.
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The two frontrunners arrived at the top of the polls following an arduous and typically chaotic presidential campaign season in Brazil that arguably began in late 2025, when Brazil's top court sentenced Lula's expected rival, former President Bolsonaro, to 27 years in prison on dubious "crimes against democracy" charges and banned him from running for public office for 35 years, or until he is 105 years old. The Bolsonaro family, with several members already in politics, mobilized rapidly to shift away from the original plan of patriarch Jair running against Lula. Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro announced in late December 2025 that he would challenge Lula, cementing support from potential rivals such as Sao Paulo Gov. Tarcísio de Freitas. Tarcísio was reelected on Sunday.
Meawhile, US special forces joined with Ecuadorian forces to raid homes controlled by the very violent Jalisco cartel, which surged into Ecuador from Mexico.
Fifty U.S. troops assisted Ecuadorian officials in arresting more than 30 members of a Mexican drug cartel.
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and U.S. troops participated in an early-morning operation on Thursday to arrest members of a branch of Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), Ecuadoran Interior Minister John Reimberg wrote on X.
Battleswarm Blog adds:
CJNG is widely reported to be among the most lethal and brutal of all the Mexican drug cartels.
Below, Cappy Army discusses the move against the Mexican cartel in Ecuador. Cartel gunmen recently fired on US ships.
A New York City program that Mayor Zohran Mamdani says will combat antisemitism involves a partnership with aggressively anti-Israel activists.
The city's "historic" plan to stop hate crimes will include increased funding for Partners Against the Hate, an initiative launched in 2021 with six leading advocacy groups, Mamdani's office said Tuesday. One of them is Arab American Association of New York, or AAANY, which had Palestinian firebrand and Mamdani supporter Linda Sarsour as its leader for over a decade. It also cheered on a violent 2024 encampment demonstration at Columbia University and other pro-Gaza protests following Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, even when they led to arrests, its social media posts show.
When I think about casting a Theater Kid fake anti-antisemitism initiative, my mind immediately goes to Palestinian terrorist cheerleader Linda Sarsour.
Mamdani faces growing pressure to address antisemitism as city police report increasing hate crimes targeting mostly Jews since his January inauguration. The self-described socialist mayor faced rebuke throughout his 2025 campaign over anti-Israel advocacy, which was driven in part by Sarsour, his close political ally.
Mamdani's office and AAANY did not respond to the Washington Examiner's requests for comment.
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Sarsour, AAANY's executive director until 2017, came under scrutiny during her tenure for comments perceived as antisemitic, such as declaring that "nothing is creepier than Zionism." She repeatedly denied the accusation.
$1 million for the physical protection of Jews in a city flared up by the mayor's rhetoric, $7.4 million (and probably far more) for vague "community-based organizations" that just means all the mayor's friends are gonna get PAID. https://t.co/b4MkZmbHzg
Related: Ten Hamas terrorists posed as journalists to claim that Israel targets "journalists."
The Israel Defense Forces posted a list of 10 individuals it alleges are terrorists in Gaza posing as journalists.
"The IDF has repeatedly been accused of targeting journalists, but a terrorist in a press vest is still a terrorist," the IDF said in a thread on X.
The list includes Mohammed Sami Abdullah Jarghoun, who worked as a journalist for Smart Media, but the IDF alleges he participated in the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks on Israel.
Another individual the IDF listed is Mohammed Manhal Ahmed Abu Armana, who reportedly worked as a journalist for Palestine Now, a news agency. According to the IDF, Armana case a comander in the military progaganda department of Hamas' Rafah Brigade.
And to be totally honest with you, I no longer care if "journalists" of all kinds are targeted. They are terrorist-promoting parasites -- even the ones not officially part of Hamas.
Jack Smith team tracked Trump defense lawyers' calls by monitoring his chief of staff's phone
Declassified memos reveal that Jack Smith's secret dragnet, codenamed "Plasmic Echo," monitored senior Trump associates and staff's contacts with lawyers, staff, and journalists during the 2024 campaign.
By John Solomon and Steven Richards
Already in the crosshairs for spying on Congress, ex-prosecutor Jack Smith and his team monitored the activities of President Donald Trump's legal defense team, journalists and campaign advisers using a pen register device that tracked the calls coming to and from his chief of staff Susie Wiles' phone, according to newly declassified memos that reveal some of the FBI's invasive tactics used to target Trump.
Just the News reported last week that Smith obtained the phone records of several senators through a subpoena and secured a non-disclosure order from the court preventing the mobile carrier from notifying the lawmakers affected. One of those senators, Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., filed a lawsuit against Smith arguing his spying constituted an unauthorized intrusion into her civil rights.
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The three-year probe of the ex-president -- which put Joe Biden's administration in charge of the legal fate of his GOP rival in the 2024 election -- was approved at the highest levels of the Biden Justice Department, including by Attorney General Merrick Garland, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco and FBI Director Christopher Wray, the memos show.
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The probe also made FBI agents at times uncomfortable, with a senior official at the bureau's Washington, D.C. Field Office (WFO) counterintelligence unit and his team raising concerns that they did not have a justification to raid Trump's Florida home and wanted to use a less invasive solution than a search warrant, the documents show.
"WFO does not believe (and has articulated to DOJ CES), that we have established probable cause for the search warrant at Mar-a-Lago. DOJ has opined that they do, requesting a wide scope including residence, office, storage space," one Assistant Special Agent in Charge wrote in a July 13, 2023, update on the Plasmic Echo probe.
In that same memo, the agent laid out alternative methods for resolution, rather than executing a search warrant on Mar-a-Lago, President Trump's Palm Beach, Florida estate, including by asking "to speak with" the former president and his counsel directly.
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The newly released memos show an intense focus on two constitutionally protected activities -- Trump's right to a legal defense and the normal activities of a presidential campaign. After the Justice Department and the FBI began their investigations into the then-former president, Trump announced his third campaign for the Oval Office in November 2022 and appointed Wiles to serve as co-campaign manager.
The memos released Monday by the White House show that FBI investigators were tracing Wiles' phone calls and text messages with at least 21 lawyers affiliated with Trump, numerous campaign staff, political advisors, and at least five journalists from at least February to May 2023.
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In one instance, the FBI specifically targeted Wiles' communication records to understand who she was in contact with before and after her interview with FBI agents on April 7, 2023, in Jacksonville, Florida. "On 10 April 2023, WFO [redacted] reviewed WILES's telephonic activity to determine contacts of interest on the date of her FBI interview," one memo reads.
The records also show agents combed through entire filings of Trump's political action committee with its donors and campaign expenses, set up a social media monitoring effort and even used personal political endorsements as leverage against a key witness.
Jack Smith was asked at his recent Senate perjury session if being a Republican was illegal in his eyes.
Here's one of the predicates for that question: Smith's team treated a Trump National Security Advisor's endorsement of Republicans as an avenue for criminal investigation.
One memo recounts how the FBI sought to pressure former Trump National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien when he was declining to volunteer for an interview by checking his political endorsements of candidates.
"I'm going through all of it, and it looks like O'Brien is active in endorsing Republican candidates," one member of Jack Smith's team wrote on February 6, 2023. "Can FBI please look at his social media and see if there's anything of relevance we would want to ask him about? Has he endorsed Trump again? Thanks."
Jack Smith secretly met with the criminal architect of RussiaGate -- and the FBI left blank the pages that were supposed to document this meeting.
- Appears to use FBI investigative tool known as a "Pen Register" to target phone calls of then campaign manager @SusieWiles47
- Allegedly tracked nearly two dozen defense attorneys, five journalists, @FLOTUS, political advisers including @FBIDirectorKash
- Administration official characterizes as "intrusive tactics" by special counsel Jack Smith team
- Probe laid groundwork for classified records case against President Trump
Pen Register Trap and Trace or PRTT
- Surveillance tool collects non-content routing data
- Phone numbers dialed or received
- Call times and duration
Two Scenarios
- Used for criminal and national security investigations
- lower standard than probable-cause warrant
Potential Violations
- First (Freedom of Speech) and Fourth Amendments (unreasonable search and seizure)
NOTE: Former Senior FBI agent says it looks like a classic FBI "tickle the wire" operation.
After FBI agents contact Wiles, the bureau tracks phone calls to identify who she immediately contacts
"On 10 April 2023, FBI WFO (Washington Field Office) reviewed WILES's telephonic activity to determine contacts of interest on the date of her FBI interview."
Declassified records via @WhiteHouse transparency task force
So Hack Smith got a pen register on Susie Wiles. This, according to records released today by @jsolomonReports, enabled Smith to track calls between Wiles and anyone including the president’s lawyers in real time rather than a backwards look in time.
I’m guessing this refers to conversations with Todd Blanche, who represented the president at the time in both the Alvin Bragg indictment and docs indictment in FLA.
Bragg announced the indictment against the president the following week.
Paris Police Report: Riots Are Being Incited by Far-Left Politician and Perennial Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Melanchon
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I mentioned this on Thursday, but the party "La France Insoumise" (France Unsubmitted/Unbowed) or LFI are openly cheering on the riots.
The Red-Green alliance is right out in the open, including in support for anti-normie terrorism.
A report from the Paris Police's intelligence branch has reportedly found that radical presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon's far-left La France Insoumise party instigated the youth riots which plunged much of the country into chaos this week.
Over 5,000 people were arrested this week as mayhem broke out around the so-called student actions at over a thousand high schools across France, in which multicultural youths ran roughshod, engaging in mindless destruction and wanton violence, including attacks on police and innocent bystanders, arson, and vandalism
According to Interior Minister Laurent Nunez, some 85 per cent of the arrests made during the riots were under the age of 18.
However, a report from the Paris Police Prefect claimed that other forces were likely pulling the strings behind the scenes, finding that "the origins of the movement clearly lie in the manipulation of student union structures and political movements close to the far left."
The report, obtained by Le Figaro, claimed that members of political organisations such as the Young Revolutionary Communists and the La France Insoumise (LFI/France in Rebellion) party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon may have a "strategy of igniting unrest on the part of the most radical union and political structures to impose their ideas as national elections approach."
While the students largely displayed "a clear desire for disorder, notably through the commission of urban violence, without any specific social demands," the police report said that "clearly, high school students are being pushed into these actions by far-left elements identified both within student union structures at Paris 8 University (Le Poing levé, FSE), or Paris Nanterre (FSE)."
The police report noted that some of the actions taken by youth rioters pointed to "remote control" from left-wing unions, including prompt mobilisation outside of police stations following arrests of rioters for mortar attacks, protests which they said were "common for these organisations but quite rare among young people."
Meanwhile, of the forty arrests detailed in the report, around a quarter were identified as far-left activists who had left high school long ago, having been born between 1999 and 2005.
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Rather than backing down, LFI leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon appears intent on doubling down. In a blog post on Saturday, Mélenchon, who participated in the 1968 student riots in France, called on his supporters to join the planned "Act III" student protests this week.
The 75-year-old presidential candidate claimed that the involvement of his party over the past week on the ground at protests was necessary to protect the students from police violence.
"Our duty is to help and protect our young people. That's why I proposed, like others, deploying "white helmets" or white armbands around and within the demonstrations on October 6th, as was done in the past after the death of Malik Oussekine or to protect the high school student demonstrations of the 1990s," he wrote.
The youth riots have already proved costly, with initial estimates of damages ranging into the tens of millions. According to the leader of the Île-de-France regional council, Valérie Pécresse, some "seven million euros already gone up in smoke". The president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Fabrice Pannekoucke, said that his area likely saw between 25 and 30 million euros in damages.
However, this may be outweighed by the human toll, with some victims suffering life-altering injuries, including a woman who had her face burned with a homemade flamethrower while she was waiting for a bus in Marseille. On Sunday, local prosecutors announced that a 15-year-old had been arrested over the incident and "was brought before an investigating judge for formal charges of acts of barbarity".
Speaking to BFMTV, the victim said: "I didn't expect such violence... To see a kid you don't know, someone you were talking to normally, deliberately aiming at your face... He didn't aim for your clothes, he didn't aim for your legs. He aimed for my face. Why?"
The Islamist-Communist media is justifying these riots by saying the students, who are burning down their schools, just want their schools better "resourced."
I expected the coverage to change after Public, Le Point, and Le Figaro and many people on X had pointed out the contradiction between rioters saying they wanted more money for schools while burning them down. I pointed out on Friday that spending per pupil across all levels has nearly doubled in constant euros since 1980. And, since then, I noted on X that the French government provides $14,204 per secondary student in constant purchasing-power dollars compared to $6,643 in Algeria, $2,834 in Morocco, $1,490 in Senegal and $712 in Mali. Algeria and Morocco are the two largest sources of France's immigrants, and Senegal and Mali are among the largest in sub-Saharan Africa.
Instead, establishment news organizations continued to promote a leftist and globalist account of the protests as a response to insufficient funding for schools, which simply isn't true. CNN headlined its report "Police and high school students clash across France in protests over underfunded education" and gave no spending figure of any kind. Euronews listed the pupils' complaints on October 4 without once naming LFI.
National Public Radio ran its report on the 5,000 arrests with the summary "High school students say their classrooms are overcrowded, teachers are missing and buildings need repairs."
The Associated Press today described the protesting pupils as focused on "perceived inequalities in the school system." The AP article gives no figure for spending per pupil and does not mention the Paris police intelligence note that Le Figaro had published three days earlier. "Mélenchon, a fiery anti-capitalist," waxed AP, "says his party supports the movement but isn't organizing it and wants it to be non-violent."
Why the double standards? Why do reporters who warned for a decade about online incitement describe riots that a political party promoted on TikTok as a protest over school budgets?
Michael Shellenberger
@shellenberger
16h
The media have spent the last decade demanding online censorship of right-wing populists to avoid "real-world harm." Now, they're promoting left-wing disinformation -- including that migrant students are "deprived" -- that's driving street violence.
For more than a decade, the news media and establishment politicians have demanded that social media platforms censor "far right" and anti-migrant voices in order to prevent "real-world violence."
In a 2019 hearing at which representatives from Facebook and Google testified, the New York Democrat who chaired the House Judiciary Committee said, "White nationalism and its proliferation online have real consequences...Americans have died because of it."
After a gunman killed 10 people in Buffalo in 2022, the state's attorney general asked Congress to make the platforms' legal immunity depend on how they policed such content. "Online platforms should be held accountable for allowing hateful and dangerous content to spread on their platforms," New York's attorney general said in 2022.
In Europe, politicians stepped up their demands for censorship during the 2015 migrant wave.
A live microphone at a United Nations luncheon caught German Chancellor Angela Merkel pressing Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg about anti-immigrant posts. "Are you working on this?" she asked. Zuckerberg confirmed he was.
Eight months later, the European Commission announced that Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft had agreed to review flagged hate speech within 24 hours.
Over the next several years, the European Commission would secretly dictate terms to social media companies for what they would censor, which Americans only discovered earlier this year.
The media emphasized that the violence came from anti-migration forces. "Facebook Fueled Anti-Refugee Attacks in Germany," read a 2018 headline in The New York Times.
When riots followed the murder of three girls in Southport, England, in 2024, Prime Minister Keir Starmer told social media companies that the disorder had been whipped up online. "It's happening on your premises," said Starmer. "And the law must be upheld everywhere."
But when courts, prosecutors and legislatures trace violence to social media, the trail often leads to Islamists and the radical left....
If you're curious why the media is spreading so much false information about the riots, consider:
-- The French Culture Ministry paid [euros] 204.7 million in direct aid to the news media in 2023, of which Le Monde received [euros] 8.3 million, L'Humanité [euros] 6.5 million and Libération [euros] 6.3 million
-- The @afpfr runs "fact-checks" in 26 languages, received [euros] 120 million from the French state in 2025, against [euros] 200.3 million in commercial revenue. @AFP is French government propaganda and disinformation
-- European governments are committed through a UN agreement to spread pro-mass migration propaganda by funding it directly. The "migration compact," which 152 governments voted for in the UN General Assembly in 2018, commits them to "stopping allocation of public funding... to media outlets that systematically promote intolerance, xenophobia, racism and other forms of discrimination towards migrants," which is broadly interpreted to cover criticism of mass migration policies
-- To maintain control over news media, the European Commission funds a network of 15 fact-checking hubs with tens of millions of euros, and its rules require platforms to give priority to notices from "trusted flaggers."
-- Governments fund think tanks to produce reports, including ones demanding censorship, that the news media cover sympathetically and editorialize in support of.
-- The @ISDglobal in London -- which demands censorship of people it disagrees with on climate change, gender, and migration, refuses to speak with journalists, and lists a phony address -- lists among its funders the British Foreign Office, the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and Justice, the German Foreign Office and the European Commission, along with Google and Microsoft.
https://isdglobal.org/partnerships-and-funders/
-- Public reported in 2024 that ISD and the German fact-checker Correctiv, both government-funded, had spread false claims about German farmers and opposition politicians.
🚨 INFO ALERT - Rioters set fire to the entrance of Vauquelin high school in Paris and block the exits while staff, students, and journalists are confined inside 😳🤯
We are witnessing an attempted murder live. All red lines have been crossed.
These images are terrifying.
🚨 ALERTE INFO - Des émeutiers mettent le feu à l’entrée du lycée Vauquelin à Paris et bloquent les sorties alors que du personnel, des élèves et des journalistes sont confinés à l’intérieur 😳🤯
On assiste à une tentative de meurtre en direct. Toutes les lignes rouges sont franchies.
France is in chaos ..
400 schools torched, mobs of immigrants going around trying to lynch police officers . 350 security guards injured . 2000 youths arrested ..
SO FAR !!
Stay tuned. https://t.co/zBJ07WvrRH
Tucker Carlson Says that Britain Did Not Gain from Defeating Hitler; When It's Put to Him That If They Had Not Beaten Hitler They'd All be Speaking German, He Says "So What?" and Adds "At Least They'd be Speaking a European Language"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The demon scratches infected him with full-blown diabolism.
Jon Levine
@LevineJonathan
20m
Have to say I watched the full Tucker-Rees Mogg discussion and I've never seen Carlson so publicly owned in my entire life -- It was significantly more brutal than Crossfire / Jon Stewart
Tucker Carlson said it was wrong to fight Hitler because Britain wound up losing her overseas colonies.
That's a morally deranged argument.
I should also point out that this is entirely an argument pressed with all vigor by Adolph Hitler. It is true that Hitler repeatedly said he didn't want to go to war with Britain, though he said that with the threat that if Britain didn't allow him to capture all of Europe from the Urals to the Atlantic, he would go to war with Britain.
The pitch Hitler made to the UK, repeatedly, was that if the UK gave Hitler a free hand in conquering Europe, Hitler would allow the UK to maintain its overseas colonies and might even help. Of course, Hitler intended to capture all of the overseas colonies of the European countries he conquered. He was reassuring the UK that if they let him take over Europe and all of the overseas colonies maintained by Europe, he would not take further action to capture the UK's overseas colonies.
Of course... Hitler had repeatedly promised to not invade Czechloslovakia and then Poland and Russia and he had lied about all of that, so I'm not sure why Tucker Carlson keeps saying "but Hilter said, Hitler said" as if Hitler's word means anything at all. Except for that fact that Carlson is clearly a fan of Hitler.
Tucker Carlson defends Hitler’s decision to invade Poland, arguing that Britain shouldn’t have fought the Nazis:
“The UK had nothing to do with it, at all, and they destroyed their empire and their country fighting this war that they still pretend was a good idea, but it wasn’t” https://t.co/P5HgeMizlx
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) October 2, 2026
This is also a strange and childlike claim because Germany also lost of all of its overseas colonies after the war (and they had a bunch). (As did France, Spain, Belgium, Italy, etc. -- one might begin to suspect that the age of empires and colonies was drawing to a close, and would not have survived much past the 1950s with or without WWII.)
Correction: Bulg points out my error-- Germany lost its overseas colonies after World War One, not World War Two.
But apparently the UK is to be condemned for giving up its domination of third-world peoples just to make war on Hitler, whereas Hitler is excused for losing its own domination of third-world peoples just to make war on Czechoslovakia, and Poland, and Russia, and Belgium, and Norway, and Denmark, and of course, ultimately the UK.
It's the same shifting standards again that communists apply to the Soviet Union, only Tucker Carlson is increasingly showing his Nazi ass by performing the same service to Hitler.
Here's more of those shifting standards: The UK should be condemned for fighting Hitler but Hitler, Tucker Carlson states, had a solid "justification" for invading Poland and must not be condemned for doing so.
Tucker also continues insisting that it was wrong to end WWII in the Pacific immediately with the dropping of two atomic bombs, claiming that it's always wrong to take innocent lives.
Is it? As Max Nordau points out, Tucker consistently justifies and defends Hitler and Putin taking innocent lives, saying that their starting of wars was just acceptable Great Powers jockeying.
But America and of course Israel are not allowed the same "Great Powers jockeying for advantage" leeway; no, for America and Israel, the standard is you must never harm an innocent life, ever, and if you do, you must be condemned forever.
Note of course that this is the same kind of standards-shifting communists do when they attack America for, say, spiriting Nazi scientists to America to assist in our rocket program, while justifying Russia's doing of the exact same thing. After all, Russia was just engaging in some Great Power jockeying for advantage.
🚨 Extraordinary exchange between Tucker Carlson and Jacob Rees-Mogg on Hiroshima.
Rees-Mogg says the bombs were justified because they ended the war and saved far more lives than it took. Carlson refuses to weigh the lives saved at all. When Rees-Mogg says WWII couldn't have been fought without innocent people being killed, Carlson's answer is "I don't know, no one tried."
Tucker Carlson's two rules of war:
1. Never do anything that could cause the death of an innocent, even if the action would ultimately save more lives.
2. Unless you're Nazi Germany or Russia. In the same interview, Hitler "did not want war," and Russia invading Ukraine is "the state of play for all great powers."
He is condescending the whole way through: "So you can behave like an animal once the war starts." "I don't even understand what you're saying."
Then he asks, disingenuously, whether it's Christian to kill children. "I'm not Catholic, so I'm not an expert," he says, right after ruling for himself that the bombing fails Aquinas' just-war test.
Below is a speech from Hitler in which he openly declares his intentions for world domination.
“No people had more right to the concept of ruling the world (Weltherrschaft) than the German people. We would have had this right, and no other nation.”
(Stormy applause)
"Not England, not Spain, not Holland - no other nation could have had an inborn right, on the basis of its energy and competence, and also its numerical strength, to claim the domination of the world.
In the first division of the world, we fell short, but we stand now at the beginning of a new great shake-up of this world. Today, some people claim that we are entering an age of peace, but I have to say to them: Gentlemen, you have a poor understanding of the horoscope of our times, which points, as never before, not to peace but to war.”
Adolf Hitler, addressing his followers on 5 November 1930 in the Rhenish town of Mannheim.
The fact that Tucker Carlson is historically illiterate isn't surprising. What is harder to dismiss is how consistently that illiteracy manifests in making Hitler and the Nazis look better.
— Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) (@TheMilkBarTV) October 2, 2026
Max Klinger
@MaxE2review
Oct 3
Here's a quote from Mehdi Hasan, arguably the most prominent Islamo-leftist influencer in the West: 'A lot of Muslims and Arab Americans... see him [Carlson] now as this great champion of Palestine...Wherever I go, literally, wherever I go in this country, I do a lot of live events, I do a lot of public events, people come up to me, 'When are you going on Tucker Carlson? When are you going to do an event with Tucker Carlson? Why don't you do a collab with Tucker Carlson? We love Tucker Carlson.' Wherever I go, people ask me more about Tucker Carlson, even in my own family, than they ask me about my wife and kids."
By the way: The Groyper/Hitler-adoring pseudoright keeps arguing that we must embrace a little bit of Naziism to attract younger voters, whom they assert are super Hitler lovers.
If you wish to understand the Groyper/Tucker Carlson phenomenon with data, this poll is very instructive.
- Yes, there's a rehabilitation of Hitler afoot, especially among younger people, and it should alarm you.
- That said, the so-called "Zoomerwaffen" is also a tiny and extremely disliked minority of young people: only 2% of 18-29 year olds, which maxes out at 14% if you include the Groyper-curious "somewhat favorable."
- Hitlerism is still extremely disliked among a 66% supermajority of Zoomers, and that percentage approaches unanimity among Gen Xers and Boomers.
- When stories break about "groyper interns" and Hitler chatgroup leaks implicating DC staffers on the right, it's not because there's a hidden voter army of these sleazeballs invading the conservative camp. Rather, it's the consequence of certain irresponsible persons on the right who have both failed to screen out the bigots from their hiring processes and, in some cases, have actively courted applicants from this tiny but vocal postliberal sewer.
What this means: if you hear people defending Tucker Carlson's talking points from the Jacob Rees-Mogg debate, or if you hear someone arguing that these sorts of viewpoints are representative of what the younger generation wants, you are almost certainly listening to someone who lives inside an echo chamber (or fuehrersewer) that is completely detached from political reality. And more often than not, the people who want to cater to the Zoomerwaffen crowd are engaged in postliberal wishcasting about an emergent right wing radicalism among the youth that only exists on its extreme periphery. That right wing radical element is also utterly despised by an overwhelming majority of young people and everyone else.
Accurate:
fe Heydel-Mankoo
@RafHM
7h
Here is what many are missing:
Tucker Carlson does not believe much of what he says
He is a clickbait grifter manipulating his audience to maximise earnings
Evidence: When he was at Fox he was 100% Team Trump & said the 2020 election was stolen
But, in private, emails and messages revealed that Carlson detested Trump and thought the idea Trump had won the 2020 election was a ridiculous conspiracy theory and accused Trump's lawyers of "lying".*
"I hate Trump passionately", he said, calling him "demonic". Yet, on camera Carlson was Trump's biggest cheerleader.
He is up to the same tricks again.
Lacking any scruples or principles whatsoever, he will parrot whatever line maximises engagement with his content, no matter how damaging the consequences.
He has calculated that being pro-Putin, pro-Hitler and most recently pro-Islam will generate more revenue than if he is anti-Putin, anti-Hitler and anti-Islam like most others.
This makes him a dangerous menace, as there are so many gullible people who believe what he says.
He's obviously a shapeshifting grifter but I don't think you can say "he doesn't believe what he's saying." I think he does.
I also think that he's a fairly stupid man with a imbecilic teenager's capacity for complete self-reinvention every half-year. Now I'm into Backstreet Boys. Now I'm into N'Sync and Backstreet Boys are lame. Now I'm into Green Day and all that kid stuff is for babies. Now I'm into real punk like Butthole Surfers and Green Day is for posers.
Except, you know, with more Hitler Adoration.
A serious man ought not be so promiscuous and changeable in his core beliefs. He changes his beliefs like a girl changes clothes.
"Clevinger was already on the way, half out of his chair with emotion, his eyes moist and his lips quivering and pale. As always occurred when he quarreled over principles in which he believed passionately, he would end up gasping furiously for air and blinking back bitter tears of conviction. There were many principles in which Clevinger believed passionately. He was crazy."
THE MORNING RANT: Trump’s Education Department Cuts Off Low-Paying Degrees from Federal Student Loan Program – Exploitative Universities Hardest Hit
—Buck Throckmorton
Universities have been enriching themselves by financially exploiting naive teenagers with unconscionable levels of student debt. It is evil how the predators in financial aid offices have been saddling teenagers with six-figure debt loads for degrees that won’t even produce jobs that can repay those loans.
President Trump is finally pushing back on this abuse. His Department of Education is going to use IRS data to gauge income for the first four years after graduation. For degrees that don’t produce a baseline compensation equal to high school graduates’ income, those degrees will no longer be eligible for federal student loans. These targeted degrees will likely include social work, teaching, and various artistic degrees.
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. https://t.co/6tV30STfyc
The left’s loyalty to the education cartel has them up in arms, as if this action is punishing social workers and teachers rather than protecting them. The New Republic echoes this view, ”While the Trump administration is framing the policy as ‘accountability’ for higher education, and some are welcoming the move, others see it as an attack on those whose work is important regardless of salary.”
This is actually just the opposite. Rather than being “an attack on those whose work is important regardless of salary,” Trump’s actions will stop the exploitation of those students by universities loading them up with debt.
It is also exploitative that many of these low-paying jobs require Masters degrees. While there is a real-world need for social workers, it is beyond preposterous that a social worker must have six years of higher education to get the masters degree necessary for a clinical position. An engineering, architecture, or accounting degree doesn’t require that much class time. It may feel flattering to a social worker that the job is deemed so important that it requires a masters-level education, but the reality is that the social worker is being bankrupted by a corrupt system.
Be it social work, teaching, accounting, or finance, there is no need for the legacy university model. I have hired plenty of people with accounting and finance degrees over the years. They went through the very expensive four-year (or longer) college credentialing process, even though they only took a handful of classes specific to their degree. A much better system would be specialized schools providing the core education in just 12 or 18 months. (Much of this could obviously be done online.) As for the fine arts, it is well past time to divorce them from universities and bring back conservatories.
The commercial pilot training pipeline is already pretty much divorced from universities, and it works well. It is not necessary to have a college degree to become a commercial airline pilot, and it is possible to get all the training, certification, and flight hours that are necessary within two years. Yes, there is a cost, perhaps $100k or so, but this compares favorably to the cost of college, especially when considering the compensation once employed. Entry-level pay for a commuter pilot is now about $90k, rising to about $200K as a First Officer at a major airline, and much higher than that when Captain level is achieved.
Trump’s ban on providing student loans for degrees that lead to low-wage careers is a start. The next step is to eliminate all federally-backed student loans. If universities believe that their students should be taking on debt to get a degree, those schools can go ahead and guaranty privately-funded student loans.
But what about “the college experience?” It should be considered another artifact of the post-war 20th Century. No matter how nostalgic Boomers and Gen-Xers may be about their college years, the modern version of “the college experience” (e.g. overpriced political indoctrination by day, and intoxicant-fueled bacchanal by night) is not worth the suffocating debt burden that will impede homeownership, family formation, and wealth accumulation.
It’s also preposterous that a Social Worker must have a Masters Degree for most positions. It takes more years of higher ed to become a social worker than to get a degree in architecture. That is unnecessary & exploitative.
Throckmorton’s First Law of Live Music: “If There’s an Upright Bass in the Band, It’s Probably Going to be Good”
If you were online over the weekend, there’s a good chance that Buddy Mac (the Ten-Gallon Troubadour) found his way into your feed.
If you haven’t heard him yet, take a listen to this short clip and you’ll understand why Buddy and his voice have gone viral, stirring a blood memory of America’s heritage for so many Americans.
I was in college in the ‘80s when I saw a campy cowboy band named Riders in the Sky perform at the university’s student union, bringing old western music to a new audience. The Riders have since become beloved members of the Grand Old Opry, but they are no longer young buckaroos. I wondered if anyone would come along with a style that could keep that music alive. I think we’ve found our man.
Here is another great clip of Buddy Mac performing with his band, The Ten-Gallon Troubadors.
My Ten-Gallon Troubadours and I are hitting the recording studio later this month to begin recording an EP of honky Tonk heartbreak songs. Here’s just a small snippet of our original song “Heaven Knows”. https://t.co/Fjgy6fRoOR
Conservative Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro won Sunday night’s presidential election in Brazil, defeating incumbent socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – but did not pass the 50 percent threshold necessary to win the presidency outright, triggering a runoff election. . . In Brazil, for a candidate to be elected president in the first round, he or she must obtain over 50 percent of the vote. Sen. Bolsonaro did, on occasion, appear to be over the 50 percent threshold as the votes rolled in, but his lead over Lula dwindled as votes from the leftist strongholds in the nation’s northeast rolled in. The winner of the runoff election is the candidate who receives the highest number of votes, regardless of how many. . . The two frontrunners arrived at the top of the polls following an arduous and typically chaotic presidential campaign season in Brazil that arguably began in late 2025, when Brazil’s top court sentenced Lula’s expected rival, former President Bolsonaro, to 27 years in prison on dubious “crimes against democracy” charges and banned him from running for public office for 35 years, or until he is 105 years old. The Bolsonaro family, with several members already in politics, mobilized rapidly to shift away from the original plan of patriarch Jair running against Lula. Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro announced in late December 2025 that he would challenge Lula, cementing support from potential rivals such as Sao Paulo Gov. Tarcísio de Freitas. Tarcísio was reelected on Sunday.
As you may know, Bolsonaro has historically been a staunch ally of President Trump and as such Leftists here and abroad, especially Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants henchmen and minions in and out of Foggy Bottom have spent much time and effort over the years attempting to destroy Bolsonaro. Democrat/Leftist election fraud and thievery is their stock in trade and given Brazils weird election laws, they could potentially derail Bolsonaro if not foisting criminal commie Lula on the Brazilian people and staving off the wipeout of Communists in Latin America that President Trump has engendered or at a bare minimum helped to bring about these past few years, which is arguably one of if not his greatest foreign policy accomplishments in his second term. Restoring true small "d" Democracy across vast swathes of Latin America might very well at long last result in the liberation of the Island gulag of Cuba, after close to 70 years of hellish Communist tyranny. And that would make all the right wrong heads explode. We've written and talked about this here and elsewhere, and that would be just incredible to witness, especially as the Anti-American Left does everything it can to "transition" America into a Communist gulag via the DSA and Democrat Party itself. All one has to do is read and listen to its platform to understand what they have planned should, God-Forbid, they gain any kind of electoral/political majority either nationally or at the State level. Even locally, as we can see with Mamdani among others, the disaster that would befall us would be the final nail in Uncle Sam's coffin.
More than 200 people have entered forced quarantine after a Russian laboratory worker died from reported exposure to the plague in an incident evocative of the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. . . At least one prominent Russian epidemiologist has cast doubt on this narrative, according to The Moscow Times, claiming that the broken test tube story is evidence of a cover-up. . .
So, a few things come to mind with this "story," first is that the Russians perhaps are prepping a coup de grace against the Ukrainians who they were supposed to roll over in 48 hours and yet here we and they are Four Years Later, humiliated and exhausted. That is they're the ones humiliated and exhausted. And we're just here watching the spectacle play out.
Or else, this is Russian disinformatsitya targeting the Ukrainians and their allies in the West, or perhaps even vice versa, as a way for them to generate political, financial and even military assistance that has been on the wane, despite their holding the Red Army at bay for a long while now.
The FBI knew the Trump-Russia collusion narrative was utter bunk even as it suggested otherwise to Congress, the courts and the public early in 2017. Evidence revealed by special counsel John Durham proves it beyond dispute... For years, the media lionized these people as saviors of the Republic, even after special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe turned up zero evidence in support of their claims. . . Of course, most media have no interest in sharing the truth. They won Pulitzers and endless clicks from hyping Russiagate, using it to kneecap a president they despised.
At this point, it’s up to Durham to keep exposing this unprecedented abuse of power for nakedly personal partisan ends, though Congress may help out once Democrats no longer run it.
Until the plotters are held accountable, there actually is good reason to worry about the future of democracy in America.
So with the heat being turned up on Jack Smith, and the revelations that are in fact confirmations of the evil corruption and criminality of the Deep State in the form of federal law enforcement, Intelligence and the Judiciary and their attempts to overthrow the will of the people as expressed by their election twice if not THRICE of Donald Trump, and the exposure of the Russia Collusion Hoax as concocted by them and Hillary, what better way to derail them than by engineering a so-called lab leak in Russia, as if to underscore the threat from them that Trump is either too inept or worse, uncaring about and so he must be removed from office along with everyone associated with him and their preeminence restored.
Naturally, if what's happening with this outbreak is for real, as it might very well be given Russia is capable and quite willing to develop any and all forms of WMD, let's hope they get a handle on this ASAP.
On that nightmare note, I bid you all to have a good day.
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Investigators reviewed nearly 6 million searches from 2022 through November 2025, and found that 52 IRS employees conducted 86 suspicious accesses involving 30 high-profile taxpayers. Those searches have been referred for investigation, so they shouldn’t yet be described as proven violations. IRS Couldn't Detect Suspicious Searches of Politicians, CEOs, and Celebrities
Allowing deportations to these third countries destroys any leverage over the United States that countries have by rejecting the deportation of their nationals. It also greatly reduces the incentives for migrants to obstruct their return by destroying their papers and otherwise refusing to help facilitate their removal, as the consequence can be deportation to somewhere like the Central African Republic rather than release into the United States. ‘Third Country’ Deportations Could Transform Immigration Enforcement—and Close One of the System’s Biggest Loopholes.
Vance is gradually expanding his criticism of the white-collar replacement programs, in step with expanding support from Silicon Valley investors who want a compromise reform amid increasing public opposition. JD Vance Is Building Coalition for H-1B Reforms
Much like Captain Machchhar and his passengers, Israel and India are becoming a dynamic duo. Although India still expresses plenty of sympathy for the residents of the West Bank and Gaza, the Jewish state's value is too obvious to miss for a country with hostile neighbors and severe terrorist threats. India is Israel's top destination for defense exports, and it has reciprocated with nearly 3,000 shipments of defense equipment and components since October 7. Israel’s Growing Allies on the Ground—and in the Sky
The “context” for October 7 is not Judea, Samaria, or Gaza. It is 14 centuries of jihadist conquests.October 7 Was a Slave Raid
Miranda Devine: At one of his off-the-record dinners with religious leaders at a “high-end tasting menu restaurant” in San Francisco in April, Olah and colleagues talked about Claude as if it were a “conscious being,” with “moral status” equivalent to a human, according to Rabbi Mois Navon, a former computer engineer interviewed by the Times. In that case, the rabbi told the nerds, Anthropic was creating slaves. Boom. Anthropic’s idiot savants are trying to play God while pushing frightenting utopian fantasies
Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton will head the Super Intelligence Force, a selection that aligns with previous reports indicating he was the likely choice for an AI oversight position. CBS News had reported days earlier that sources expected Clayton to receive the AI czar appointment. President Trump Appoints Jay Clayton as AI Czar, Head of ‘Super Intelligence Force’
After the 2024 election, a faction of Democrats concluded that their party had lost the argument over who can deliver best to the American people. Their answer was “abundance”: the claim that blue governments fail voters because process and veto points smother supply, not because liberals/socialists spend too little. This article asks and answers a pointed question: judged by the movement’s own yardstick, who has actually delivered abundance? How Trump Became the Abundance President
The cratering in America’s trust in higher education began plummeting in 2013 when 70 percent of those polled felt college was important. By comparison, today, only 31 percent feel that college is “very important.” Gallup also says the negativity is four percentage points lower than last year’s results. American Support for College Education Craters to Record Low
Until the midterms, we will be watching a massively coordinated attack denigrating all the good that has happened since Trump won in 2024 Toward A Better America
Along with New Hampshire, the state has become an overlooked Senate pickup opportunity, which is remarkable, given that Minnesota hasn't backed a Republican for president since 1972. Minnesota Can Go Red This Year. Here’s Why.
The next few days are likely to clarify whether the riots are a brief eruption of chaos or become a prolonged issue over the coming weeks and months. They follow a historic breakthrough for the National Rally in the French Senate elections, securing enough seats to form a Senate group for the first time in its history. France is Burning Again. Here’s Why.
The Cornell Seven case reflects a deeper cultural collapse, where the Sexual Revolution, pornification, and the loss of moral boundaries have made exploitation increasingly commonplace. The Cornell Seven and the Sensate-Pornographic Society
An unforgettable encounter and unmerited gift from a future saint. Fulton Sheen and Me
An Indian pilot and a handful of heroic Israelis performed a miracle in the skies that saved 182 people, a miracle that has made aviation history. Vichy France to the Miracle of Flydubai FZ1073
ALSO: The Morning Report cross-posts at CutJibNewsletter.com usually within an hour or so of posting here, if you want to continue the conversation all day.
It will work on a regular RTX 5070. Or indeed a Radeon 6700 XT from two generations ago. The Hacker News link has everyone talking about the RTX 4090 for some reason, but it's a lot more general than that.
You do need a good amount of system RAM for decent performance, but I have that, and it works on any Nvidia or AMD graphics card from the last few years with at least 12GB of RAM, something I also have.
Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday ONT. Appreciate you stopping by. Open thread, as always. Fashion and music, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
Bob Denver Refused to Let the Professor and Mary Ann Be “The Rest”
If you watched the first season of Gilligan’s Island, you may remember something odd about the theme song.
After naming Gilligan, the Skipper, the millionaire and his wife, and the movie star, it ended the roll call with:
“And the rest.”
“The rest” were Russell Johnson and Dawn Wells — the Professor and Mary Ann.
There was a reason. Tina Louise, who played Ginger, had a contractual billing arrangement that put her at the end of the opening credits. Johnson and Wells had signed later and wound up in the closing credits instead. So when the theme song was written, their characters were simply bundled together as “the rest.”
But before Season 2, Bob Denver decided that wasn't right.
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Years later, Dawn Wells said she hadn't even known the full story at the time. She remembered Denver as the one who went to bat for them.
Bob Denver didn't make a big production out of it.
He just refused to let two of his fellow castaways be treated like “the rest.”
It's that time of the week - when we turn the ONT over to our good friend Piper for a bit. Here's this week's fashion pr0n.
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What Paris is telling us to wear next
Spring/Summer 2027 week opened on September 28 and closes Tuesday with Nicolas Ghesquière at Louis Vuitton. The useful takeaway is not the spectacle. It is which ideas already translate: metallic shine, tailoring stripped of structure, color used as the whole outfit, and jackets that cinch instead of swamp.
Saint Laurent went all in on gold, and I am not mad at it.
Anthony Vaccarello staged the collection under the Eiffel Tower, beneath oversized chandeliers, in what was widely read as a possible farewell after a decade at the house. Almost everything was gold: crinkled metallic sahariennes and trenches, gilt brocade jackets and trousers, metallic lace cocktail dresses, broken up by classic Saint Laurent black.
The wearable version is not a head-to-toe lamé suit. It is one metallic or brocade jacket with denim and flat shoes, or a gold scarf against black. That is opulence a normal person can leave the house in. The rest is theater, and theater is fine, as long as you understand you will be the one paying for the chandelier.
Dior made the New Look weightless
At the Tuileries, Jonathan Anderson rebuilt Dior’s Bar jacket and full skirts in chiffon, silk mousseline, Chantilly lace, and gauze, with pinstripe and tweed effects printed onto sheer fabric. Tiny layered circle skirts, ribbon tailoring, pastel florals, striped shirting, and pajama pieces sat next to gardening clogs, which is a sentence I did not expect to type about Dior.
The idea to steal is the one I would actually wear. A soft jacket. A skirt that moves. One decorative thing, not twelve. Sometimes safe and pretty is exactly right. This is that, with the bones still visible.
Balenciaga answered with color and craft
A year into the job, Pierpaolo Piccioli is still pulling Balenciaga away from the joke this house became. The Summer 2027 show leaned on colorful tailoring, acid-bright City bags, oversized cummerbunds, capes, and dense stitching that turned a white shirt into a fitted waist and peplum.
Elsewhere, Stella McCartney built an ocean collection with floaty fabrics, bubble hems, wave motifs, and dolphin prints. Victoria Beckham went for liberation via sheer georgette dresses, open-arm volumes, and oversized suits with wide trousers. Hermès, under Nadège Vanhée, closed the weekend with airy knits and slit skirts.
Outside the tents
Paris has been warm, high 20s Celsius, so the pavements skipped heavy coats. What showed up anyway is the October wardrobe: blouson jackets with a cinched waist, balloon and cargo pants, dark-rinse denim, animal print, pinstripes, and red layered over pastels.
Five formulas worth copying before the week ends:
• A blouson or leather bomber over a sweater, with cargo pants and heels.
• Balloon pants, a white tee, an oversized jacket, ballet flats.
• Head-to-toe plaid, kept sleek rather than costume.
• One animal-print coat as the whole outfit.
• A cropped jacket with high-rise trousers, so the proportion stays balanced.
What will actually stick
Gold and brocade as a single statement piece. Sheer or fluid tailoring instead of rigid power dressing. Color worn loudly, not as an accent. And the blouson as the jacket of the season, sportier than a barn coat and easier than a bomber.
Gun Thread: It's October and October Means TXMoMe Edition!
—Weasel
Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!
Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be the October Means TXMoMe Edition? That's right folks - the big event is less than #two weeks away! I hope you are rushing your TXMoMe attendance preparations to completion!
With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?
Q: Weasel, I found a machine gun. Whatever shall I do?
A: See below
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2026 TXMoMe
They Mome'n down in Texas!
The time has come to begin the discussion of the upcoming TXMoMe in Corsicana, TX on October 16-17. This is the eleventh annual TXMoMe, or Conservative Burning Man as it's popularly known, and it promises to be a doozy. A double-doozy even. A bigly double-doozy! If you're in either the Northern or Southern Hemisphere of the Planet of the Earth, contact Ben Had for details on attending. The dates and email links for all MoMes are always helpfully included on the blog's main page, left sidebar.
What started years ago as a small get-together and informal plinking session lasting a couple of hours has matured into a full scale jamboree-hootenanny including a program of shooting activities for both handguns and rifles over two days. I have to thank Ben Had, Cow Horse Queen and RancherBob for making this whole thing happen and providing the opportunity for the shooting to comprise such a significant portion of the event.
But wait! There's more! Combine that with world class food and drink, and the even world classier company of your fellow Morons, and you have a weekend that legends are made of. For those not inclined to shoot (?), there are non-stop opportunities to relax in the shade of the carport or under a handy nearby tree with a beverage and visit with your online pals to your hearts content, which is really what the whole damn thing is about in the first place..
Allow me to be serious for a minute, and I have said this probably nine hundred and twelve times now. These gatherings are a really good time, and I know of no one who expresses regret after having attended one. Actually it goes beyond that. It's not just a weekend of laughs, it's an opportunity to connect with lots of like-minded people and create lasting friendships and priceless memories. No kidding. Think that's hyperbole? It snot. Would your ol' pal Weasel lie to you? Well, yes he would, but not about this. TXMoMe veterans will attest to the funness and completely laid-back nature of the event. Don't be a dork, do yourself a favor and get yo' ass to Texas!
TXMoMe veterans: please jump into the comments to encourage the scairdy-cats to join in the fun! What was your first MoMe like? What were you expecting? Were you surprised? Did you have a great time?
If you are attending the TXMoMe this year, and all the cool kids are, please keep an eye on this section for important information and updates in the coming weeks. I also want to reiterate the TXMoMe is not a gun thing with some socializing attached, but rather is a social thing with some shooting attached. If you aren't a shooter, I guarantee you will not feel out of place and will have a great time. No fooling!
Are all y'all getting excited? Weasel are!!
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10/04/26 Update/Reminders/New Stuff
No big changes this week. However, our pal Piper did such a fantastic job with a TXMoMe fashion Guide in last Sunday's ONT that I thought it should be included again here in case anyone missed it. Thanks Piper, very nicely done!
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What to Wear to the AOSHQ Texas MoMe
The short version: comfortable picnic clothes. The long version is below, because a Texas ranch in the sun will punish anyone who treats this like a cocktail reception, even those of us who are inclined to treat everything like a cocktail reception.
This is an outdoor meetup on a ranch. You will be standing, sitting, walking, eating, and possibly wandering toward whatever shade you can find. Dress for heat, dirt, grass, and a long stretch of being outside. If it looks good at a backyard cookout and you can still move in it after three hours, you are in the right neighborhood.
The basic uniform
Wear something you would actually picnic in.
• Breathable shirt: cotton, linen, or a light performance tee. Light colors help in the sun. A button-down you can leave open over a tee works if you want a little coverage.
• Shorts or casual pants: shorts, jeans you already know are comfortable, or lightweight pants. Remember, if you wear shorts, there are bugs and taller grasses out there. If this bothers you, think more light weight pants.
• Closed-toe shoes you can walk in: sneakers, trail shoes, or broken-in boots. Ranch ground is not a manicured lawn.
• A hat with a brim. Texas sun is not a suggestion.
That is the whole look. Comfortable. Outdoor. Picnic. Ranch.
What “comfortable” actually means here
Comfortable does not mean “I just rolled out of the car in pajama pants.” It means you can sit on a bench or the ground, stand in a cluster talking, walk to the next activity, and not spend the afternoon tugging at clothes that were a bad idea.
Bring a light layer. Even on a hot day, shade, wind, or evening can change the temperature. A hoodie or light flannel stuffed in the car is cheap insurance.
Sun, sweat, and ranch realities
Assume sun. Sunscreen, sunglasses, and a hat will do more for you than any outfit choice.
Assume you will get dusty. Do not wear anything you would be sad to see with grass stains or ranch dirt on it.
Assume bugs. If you are the person mosquitoes treat like a buffet, long sleeves in a light fabric or a bit of repellent.
What not to wear
The brand-new white sneakers you want to keep white, and anything that needs dry cleaning. When walking around the property, you don’t want open toed shoes, unless you are okay with surprises from the grass in the form of stickers or bitey things. This is not the moment to channel Johnny Cash. All black leather is cool, but not when it’s really hot!
A simple packing list
• Breathable shirt and comfortable bottoms
• Walking shoes, closed toe
• Hat and sunglasses
• Sunscreen
• Lip balm – guys too! The air can be VERY dry
• Light extra layer
• Water bottle
• Hearing protection if you are going to shoot
• Safety glasses if you are going to shoot
• Raincoat or poncho because you never know!
You are going to a ranch picnic with the Horde, not a photoshoot. In fact, we don’t even like to take photos! Dress like someone who plans to stay outside, eat, talk, and enjoy people outside of grey boxes.
Thanks again, Piper!
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Call for ideas: I have been doing the same class on rifles Friday morning for years now. Are you getting tired of it yet? I would like to have the session be more of an open forum where your particular questions can be answered with a discussion by the group. I am perfectly willing to keep doing the same presentation, or parts of it, but think a roundtable forum would be interesting and informative. Please let me know what you think in the comments.
Volunteers: If you are interested in helping out, please send me a note (gunthread at protonmail dot com) on when you plan to arrive (day and approximate time). It is really critical to have this information for scheduling and to make certain we have the proper coverage to make the shooting portion safe and enjoyable for all concerned. Thank you in advance!
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2026 TXMoMe Schedule
Here is an outline of the schedule of events. Times are tentative and subject to modification/change. This schedule will be included in the Gun Thread with any changes incorporated going forward until the event, so please check back weekly.
Friday, 10/16
Rifle Program
8am - 10:30am: Rifle Clinic (carport)
10:30am - 11am: Combined Range and Safety Briefing - Mandatory for Friday Shooters! (carport)
Noon: Light lunch provided (carport)
11am - 4pm: Live fire (rifle range - targets to 1,000 yds)
Handgun Program
10:30am - 11am: Combined Range and Safety Briefing - Mandatory for Friday Shooters! (carport)
11:00am - 12:00pm: Static live fire (pistol range)
Noon: Light lunch provided (carport)
1pm - 4:00pm: Static live fire (pistol range)
Saturday, 10/17
Rifle Program
9am - 10am: Combined Range and Safety Briefing - Mandatory for Saturday Shooters! (carport)
9am - 1pm: Live fire (rifle range)
1pm(ish) Lunch (carport)
Handgun Program
9am - 10am: Range and Safety Briefing - Mandatory for Saturday Shooters! (carport)
9am - 1pm: Live fire (pistol range)
1pm-ish Lunch (carport)
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Shooters: Bring your own hearing and eye protection, and wear sensible shoes as the ground on the ranges can be uneven! Also, please plan on stopping somewhere along your way to Texas and picking up some ammunition if you plan to shoot and aren't bringing your own weapons/ammo. Everyone is very generous with sharing, but please don't rely on the generosity of others to provide everything for you. You can really help out by grabbing a box of 9mm or 5.56mm or whatever you want to shoot. Here is a link to Brinson Power Sports in Corsicana which sells ammo. They also sell ATV's if you want to grab one of those while you're there.
Anyhoo...
For a while I have been conducting a Rifle Clinic on Friday morning followed by range time Friday afternoon and then again well into Saturday. Most of you (I think) have endured this presentation before, so if there are other topics you would like to have covered, speak up in the comments and I will try to address your request.
We have also been steadily refining the handgun portion of the program and this year will be focusing on the static pistol range as well as continuing to offer a separate setup for gun-curious beginners desiring one-on-one supervision and instruction. If you are a novice shooter, or even have never been to the range before and think guns are icky, you are welcome to shoot! Just see an RSO and they will set you up with an experienced shooter to help you.
These times are approximate and programs may change as weather conditions and participation warrant. We anticipate a hard stop on both ranges at 1pm on Saturday to allow everyone to participate in the bigly fun TXMoMe festivities.
Range Safety
You will note there are combined rifle and handgun range safety briefings both days and attendance is mandatory if you want to shoot. We take your safety seriously and ask everyone who wants to shoot plan on attending this important briefing. Again, we are conducting one combined safety brief each day. No exceptions.
At the conclusion of each day's safety briefing you will be asked to sign a general liability waiver, after which you will receive a color-coded wrist band. The color is different each day, and it is your ticket onto the range(s) for the day. No wrist band, no shooting that day. Don't want to sign the waiver? No problem, just do not expect to shoot. If you miss the mandatory range safety briefing which is mandatory and must be attended, you are welcome to watch the live fire activities from designated observation areas.
All shooters are asked to check in with an RSO (sporting an Orange Cap of Dorkiness for easy identification) upon your arrival at either of the ranges who will answer questions and direct you to an open firing position. The RSOs wield unspeakable power so it is in your best interest to be nice to them. Want to do things your way? I suggest that your own personal range on your own personal property is a good place for expressing your individuality.
IMPORTANT: I would hope this goes without saying, but anyone failing to immediately and politely follow RSO instructions will be removed from the range(s). Period. No exceptions. This means YOU.
I will probably think of more things to yell about in the coming weeks so please stay tuned.
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Our Pal The Steel Rule
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Trucks And Your Town
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Highway Patrol!
This week's episode: Desperate Men
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Flight to Mars!
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Here are some different online cigar vendors. You will find they not only carry different brands and different lines from those brands, but also varying selections of vitolas (sizes/shapes) of given lines. It's good to have options, especially if you're looking for a specific cigar.
A note about sources. The brick & mortar/online divide exists with cigars, as with guns, and most consumer products, with respect to price. As with guns - since both are "persecuted industries", basically - I make a conscious effort to source at least some of my cigars from my local store(s). It's a small thing, but the brick & mortar segment for both guns and tobacco are precious, and worth supporting where you can. And if you're lucky enough to have a good cigar store/lounge available, they're often a good social event with many dangerous people of the sort who own scary gunz, or read smart military blogs like this one. -rhomboid
Anyone have others to include? Perhaps a small local roller who makes a cigar you like? Send me your recommendation and a link to the site!
Please note the new and improved protonmail account gunthread at protonmail dot com. An informal Gun Thread archive can be found HERE. Future expansion plans are in the works for the site Weasel Gun Thread. If you have a question you would like to ask Gun Thread Staff offline, just send us a note and we'll do our best to answer. If you care to share the story of your favorite firearm, send a picture with your nic and tell us what you sadly lost in the tragic canoe accident. If you would like to remain completely anonymous, just say so. Lurkers are always welcome!
That's it for this week - have you been to the range?
Food Thread: Fat! Fire! Not Necessarily A Bad Combination
—CBD
Everyone knows that fat is flavor, and it certainly isn't the main culprit in the insidious expansion of our midsections.
But it also presents challenges in cooking, since it both flammable (all food is) and energy intensive, so that flame is going to burn hotter, start quicker, and will be more difficult to extinguish than an errant strand of pasta that falls into the burner.
But in moderation it adds marvelous flavors to food, and is the reason we grill things!
So how to manage that balance between combustion and cinders?
It is tempting to trim the exterior fat from meats that are to be grilled, because that will go a long way toward preventing those flare-ups and the occasional conflagration.
And I don't do that! Because those chunks of fat on the edges of steaks are absolutely delicious when properly grilled, and can be the highlight of a well-cooked steak!
Sorry, but I have no magic technique, other than being careful and moving the steak around the grill to avoid a beef bonfire. But that's really the point...being attentive, especially while grilling, is the best way to become a good cook!
Food and cooking websites are not immune to the ridiculous clickbait that other websites produce in their frantic desire to remain solvent. But this one was particularly stupid: The Best Way to Store Canned Tuna, According to Bumble Bee is actually, "The Best Way To Store Tuna If You Want It Cold."
Yes...that is it. The brilliant discovery made by this earnest retard (or the AI system they use to write articles) is that putting cans of tuna in the refrigerator will make them cold.
Do we really deserve opposable thumbs if this is what they have led to?
[Hat Tip: Misanthropic Humanitarian]
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Lurker "59X53" (really!) has decided to rub my nose in his obvious talent at growing garlic. He wasn't content to email me and say, "Hey ...dude... it's really not that hard." No, he had to send photographic evidence of his success!
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Wow!
He tells me that the crop has been improving because he selects the best and biggest from the previous year's crop for planting. No surprise, but I am still impressed!
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This recipe isn't going to win any awards, but it looks like it would be tasty, and easy. Oven-Baked Southwest Chicken is simple, although I would swap the boneless-skinless breasts for ... you guessed it ... thighs! And yes, I would skin them, although I don't think boning them is worth the trouble.
[Hat Tip: Misanthropic Humanitarian]
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Commenter (and grilling aficionado) "Gunslinger" sent this, along with calling me out for using bottled Ranch dressing as a marinade for chicken (See last week's Food Thread). He is, of course, incorrect about the bottled stuff, but he also demonstrates real skill with these pork tenderloins, which he says are moist!
Tie up the thin ends with butchers twine to join them into the main bulk of the cut.
Poke a zillion holes in it with a fork.
Slather with oil. I use avocado oil because it's Hi-temp, but olive oil should be OK here.
Cover with your favorite rub.
Grill /smoke at 225 for 1-2 hours. Use a temp probe and get to 145* internal.
Low temperature cooking for a long time? For a lean cut? And it turns out juicy? I am impressed.
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I know...I know...I am on a "Fallow" kick, but their cooking really appeals to me.
And I love Sticky Toffee Pudding!
I'm going to make it soon, and since I found a great vanilla ice cream recipe, I already know what I am serving it with!
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As much as I would like to chuckle over this photo, I must remind myself that I just had to clean some unknown food splatter off the top of a pass-through window in my kitchen.
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The great garlic experiment of 2025-2026 was a resounding...meh. Send all of your excellent home-grown garlic to: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com.
About the Bourbon Bubble...I think it has burst, but the category is also suffering from the inflation that affected everything else (Thanks Biden!). I think the sweet spot is still $40-$60 for excellent and interesting bottles, and bumping that to $100 gets you an incremental improvement in quality, but nothing mind-blowing. More than that and I think you are paying for hype and rarity, which may look good in your liquor cabinet, but doesn't translate to more quality in the bottle.
The problem...or the solution...is to buy lots of bourbon, take tasting notes, and eventually arrive at your favorites! It should take forty or fifty years, but it is worth it!
Reverse Assimilation...70 Years Old And Going Strong
—CBD
The standard -- and correct -- complaint about the immigrants of the last few generations is that they do not assimilate. Never mind the illegal ones...even legal immigration policies have lost sight of the basic concept that preservation of our traditional culture is a good thing.
We need no justification to try to protect traditional American culture; that is the right and obligation of every sovereign nation. But if one were to attempt it, a cursory glance at the stupendous achievements of America would be enough. American Exceptionalism, which can be used as a placeholder for traditional American culture, is unparalleled in world history. No country has achieved nearly as much, especially with massive legal immigration that demanded only one thing! And that one thing was to embrace American Exceptionalism and become American. Tens of millions of people came to our shores and accepted that arrangement, and the results speak for themselves.
But starting in the 1960s with the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, Assimilation became secondary, as did maintaining the approximate ethnic makeup of the country. So we were flooded with immigrants from countries that had none of the cultural basis that created American Exceptionalism. And LBJ's "Great Society" took away the social pressure to succeed...expanding welfare and other government support programs far beyond their original intent.
With no pressure to assimilate, these immigrants created their own worlds within America. But that wasn't the most destructive aspect of this sea change in immigration. Our feckless governments began to cater to each of these foreign enclaves within our cities. Don't speak English? No problem! Comfortable with multiple generations on welfare? Fantastic! Vote for us!
And if that sounds bad, these anti-American-Exceptionalism cultural norms began to creep into the larger American culture. Black America, which before LBJ's destructive policies was entering the American middle class at an astounding rate, was destroyed by the creation of a cradle-to-grave welfare state.
We now have embedded foreign cultures, plus Black American culture that is functionally identical to a foreign culture. And instead of assimilating and embracing American Exceptionalism, these cultures have co-opted large swaths of traditional American culture. Black American and Hispanic slang has degraded normal English among many people, as has clothing and other cultural markers. Even smaller immigrant population's behavior has entered American culture. For instance, the odd Muslim affectation of a beard but no mustache can be seen on the streets of American cities, and even among professional athletes, in particular in the NBA.
More destructive is the modes of behavior, in particular the casual violence of the ghettos, which once was confined to the inner city, but has now exploded into much of America.
What we have done is not only allowed large immigrant populations to maintain their own cultures, which are empirically less successful than American culture, but we have embraced some of the worst aspects of those cultures...thus the term "reverse assimilation."
We are in an existential fight for the future of our country, and these large populations of of supposed Americans who nonetheless are completely foreign is bad enough, but accepting those cultures' worst excesses as some sort of post-modern talisman of moral superiority is, frankly, insane!
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Nearly one thousand Roman silver denari found in woods near Cologne, Germany, probably deliberately buried in 125 AD It's about seven pounds of ancient silver. Alas, it's not an artifact of the massacre of the XIXth Legion at Teutonburg Forest, which is about a hundred and fifthy miles away.
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Forgotten 80s Mystery Click, Guitar Hero Edition Oh here it comes
That funny feeling again winding me up inside
Every time we touch
Hey I don't know
Oh, tell me where to begin cause I never ever
Felt so much
Okay, that was pretty easy. Here's one that's 3% harder. But still easy. Ooh, can you feel the static?
So many contacts being made
We've got up-front fanatics
Tearing down the barricade
To reach the stage
Can you feel the rage?
