Chris Rock: Wokeness is Like Old Testament Morality -- Lots of Rules and No Grace for Violating Any of Them

—Disinformation Expert Ace

The comedian claims it's "great" that we never stop talking about the "marginalized," but says there has to be forgiveness for transgressions. Or, I'd call them, fake and gay non-transgressions.

Actor-comedian Chris Rock continues to blast wokeness, and is now accusing left-wing scolds of running a Salem Witch Trials-like campaign with their cancel culture attacks.

Rock has been taking shots at wokeness for a while, of course. He targeted the woke culture in his 2023 special Chris Rock: Selective Outrage . But in a recent interview on The Dailypodcast, Rock got explicit about woke culture and what it is doing to our country.

"The problem with wokeness is we're in the Old Testament right now," he said. "And the Old Testament has no forgiveness. The Old Testament didn't work. So they had to write a remix called the New Testament."

When asked if he felt there was anything "redeeming" that has come out of the last decade of woke leftism, he was not upbeat and noted that when things are "institutionalized" they often go badly.

"The Salem witch hunts. I'm sure the first three witches they caught were actually fucking witches," Rock said. "But then you open up a witch office and now you've got to start lying. Now you've gotta fucking make s-hit up because you've got overhead. You've got to justify the witch hunters fucking pensions and shit."

He added that the media is fake and full of liars, and that Trump is right to declare that.

Rock recently raised eyebrows during his press tour for his new film, Misty, when he said that Trump was right that the news media is filled with lies and fake news.

"I'm not a fan," Rock said of Trump last week. "But it's weird when somebody gets one thing right, and the one thing almost clears them of all their other sins. The news is fake. He got that right."

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Saudi Arabia Joins Yemen's Government in Attacking Iran's Houthi Proxy Army

—Disinformation Expert Ace

The IRGC's proxy army in Yemen, the Houthis, struck two Saudi airfields, with light damage. More seriously, they had also seized key positions on the southern tip of the Yemeni coast on the Red Sea, opening a second front for the IRGC to attack the export of oil in an effort to force the world to stop Trump from destroying them.

The terrorist-aligned AP:

Saudi Arabia's General Authority of Civil Aviation said airports in the cities of Najran and Jizan were hit on Monday, damaging both facilities and leaving three lightly injured. The statement didn't say who was responsible, but followed an announcement by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels that they fired missiles and drones at the kingdom.

Houthi Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree said in a statement on Tuesday they had fired toward a third airport on Tuesday. The Associated Press could not confirm whether the Houthis had hit Abha International Airport. Saudi authorities did not immediately comment.

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said Tuesday it intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by the Iran-backed Houthis toward Khamis Mushait, a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia that's home to a major Saudi military base.

Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey have sent their own troops to assist the Yemeni government in driving the Houthis back out of the coastal areas.

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The Houthis were fighting Tuesday around Dhubab, a strategic town in Yemen that its internationally recognized government had previously said it had retaken, a senior Yemeni military official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporters.

Saudi Arabia and its allies in Yemen's government have launched a military campaign to reclaim Houthi-controlled territory near the southern tip of the Red Sea to prevent disruptions to oil being exported out of the region.

AP is excited that Iran managed to hit a tanker moving out of the Strait of Hormuz, though the hit does not seem to have killed anyone, stopped the tanker from moving, or caused any oil to spill.

An outbound tanker transiting the Strait of Hormuz was struck by an "unknown projectile" on Monday, the British military said in a late report Tuesday. There were no immediate reports of casualties or environmental impact.

Even as Iran has lost its near-complete chokehold on the strait, the ongoing risk of Iranian attacks keeps overall ship traffic well below prewar levels.

Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey have activated the "Mecca Defense Alliance" to evict the Houthis.

Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey have agreed to "activate collective defense commitments amid ongoing threats," Saudi Arabia's Arab News said on October 6. This is an important step.

The new alliance has emerged over the last several months. The Houthi offensive in September in Yemen presented the coalition with its first major test. This is because the Houthis launched missiles at Saudi Arabia and directly harmed Saudi citizens.

Arab News said that "Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey on Monday agreed to immediately implement collective-defense commitments under the previously agreed Mecca Defense Alliance, including the swift deployment of agreed forces and other military capabilities to the Kingdom amid ongoing threats."

Saudi Arabia has been working over the last month to prepare a counter-offensive in Yemen. This initiative came after setbacks hit the forces of the internationally recognized government of Yemen, which lost ground around the Bab el-Mandeb strait.

Many observers wondered whether Pakistan and Turkey would come to Riyadh's aid. All of these countries are either partners or close allies of the US, and they have access to advanced military equipment, partly as a result of their US affiliation.

However, it was not clear that Turkey would want to get involved in a conflict in Yemen. In part, this is because Ankara tries to balance relations with Iran, with which it shares a border. Pakistan also has ties with Iran and shares a border with Iran.
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Now, Turkey and Pakistan appear to be increasing their support for Riyadh. "The decision was announced following an emergency meeting of the alliance's Strategic Political and Defense Committee in Riyadh to discuss security developments and threats Saudi Arabia is facing during the regional conflict with Iran and its proxies. The alliance was formed by an agreement signed on August 7," Arab News observed.

Update: More details on the fighting from Duane Patterson.

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Germany Arrests Its Former Top Spymaster for Treason, Accusing Him of Spying for a Foreign Power

—Disinformation Expert Ace

The foreign power is reportedly not Russia.

Germany's former spy chief, August Hanning, was arrested on Tuesday for alleged treason, with Berlin accusing him of gathering sensitive documents for a foreign spy service.

"Hanning is strongly ⁠suspected of treasonous espionage, obtaining state secrets, attempted treason and espionage," German prosecutors said in a statement, according to Reuters.

Hanning previously served as president of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND).

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His arrest marks a major scandal for the German state, with prosecutors alleging that Hanning's espionage occurred over multiple years and involved more than 2,000 documents.

China, maybe? Surely not Iran.

I'm afraid it will turn out to be a western nation.

Speaking of treason, a watchdog agency concludes that Biden deliberately risked the country's national security by allowing known security risks to remain in the country on expired visas.

The Biden administration risked national security by letting millions of foreigners illegally overstay their nonimmigrant visas, including 104,000 who posed threats, while launching fewer than 500 investigations to remove violators, according to a bombshell report by the Homeland Security Department's internal watchdog.

"From fiscal years 2021 to 2024, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) took few enforcement actions using targeted leads concerning foreign nationals who overstayed or otherwise violated their nonimmigrant visa terms of admission," the inspector general reported.

"As a result, foreign nationals who potentially posed threats to the United States remained at large despite their illegal status," the report added.

The report laid bare a Biden strategy that de-emphasized tracking down foreigners overstaying their permission to stay in the country, leaving a staggering statistical mess that included:

3,145,375 nonimmigrant visa overstays

104,049 foreigners who were deemed national security and public safety concerns

ICE conducted just 496 investigations and arrested just eight foreigners

The watchdog traced the crisis to a September 2021 policy change that directed Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) "to only investigate "Priority 1" leads -- those potentially posing the highest threat to national security or public safety.

"Of the 1,769 viable Priority 1 leads, HSI initiated only 84 investigations (about 5 percent), resulting in two arrests," it added. "The other 3,041,326 (96.7 percent) overstay leads were deemed Non-Priority."

Trump Gives Order to Subject Fort Hood Terror Shooter Nidal Malik Hasan His Own Bout of State-Sanctioned Workplace Violence

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Last week I linked an article asking rhetorically, why is this terrorist murderer, who killed 13 people, still drawing air, despite having been convicted and sentenced to death?

Why has Trump not given the execution order yet?

Well, Trump signed the order.

This is the AP, so expect some bias in reporting this.

President Donald Trump has approved the execution by firing squad of Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas.

The U.S. military has not carried out the death penalty since 1961. The Army secretary will decide a time and place for the execution, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell wrote in a post on X.

"Judgement day for Hasan has finally come," Parnell wrote.

Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, walked into a medical building where soldiers were getting medical checkups, shouted "Allahu akbar" -- Arabic for "God is great!" -- and opened fire with a laser-sighted handgun. Thirteen people were killed and more than 30 injured.

He said it was an effort to stop them from going to Afghanistan and killing his fellow Muslims and made almost no effort to defend himself at trial. He told jurors that evidence would show he was the shooter and described himself as a soldier who had "switched sides."

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Death sentences are extremely rare in the military justice system, and executions even rarer.

It is also rare for a "soldier" to murder 13 of his fellows and wound 30 others while shouting terrorist murder-slogans.

The AP adds another irrelevant factoid to show How Terrible This All Is.

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Trump approved the firing squad execution days after a failed attempt to execute Christa Pike by lethal injection pushed Tennessee's governor to halt further executions this year and order an independent review.

What has that got to do with anything?

Since AP added that unrelated factoid to show how barbaric it is to punish murderers with death, I'll mention that the prison official overseeing Christa Pike's botched execution has resigned.

The head of Tennessee's prison system is set to resign after the botched execution of Christa Pike earlier this week, Gov. Bill Lee announced Saturday.

Lee said that Tennessee Department of Correction Commissioner Frank Strada will step down this month, but did not offer any other specifics.

Strada said in a statement that he believes "the Department carried out its responsibilities in accordance with the established protocol," but that "stepping aside is in the best interest" of the state's residents as an independent review ordered by Lee begins.

"I believe this review is entirely appropriate and necessary, and I look forward to doing everything I can to help determine exactly what occurred," Strada said. Strada was named commissioner by Lee in January 2023.

Pike was set to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, but the process failed twice. Pike's attorneys said Friday that she is unconscious and intubated in a Nashville-area hospital. She is using a ventilator to breathe and has significant injuries to both arms, her attorneys said. Hospital staff is working to clear the pentobarbital from her body.

Cornell 7 Frat Brother: I Was Too Drunk to Give Consent, She Raped Me

—Disinformation Expert Ace

It is true that almost everyone involved was drunk and drugged (by themselves).

Why isn't it true that the accuser raped the boys, who, per the new feminist theory that being drunk negates any concept of consent, also could not consent to the female attacker's advances?

A "Cornell 7" frat bro accused in the alleged gang-rape of a young woman claimed to campus cops that he was too wasted to consent to sex with her -- suggesting he was the real victim, according to records.

Matthew Ingalls -- one of the seven Chi Phi fraternity brothers at the center of the explosive Ivy League case -- told Cornell University police that he was the one too intoxicated from booze and ketamine to consent to sex that fateful 2024 night, records obtained by ABC News showed.

Ingalls suggested that the alleged victim -- a then-20-year-old student only identified as Jane Doe in court papers -- was the one who therefore assaulted him during the debauched and drunken night and not the other way around, as she has claimed.

Ingalls has previously been identified as the frat brother who told his friends through a fraternity group chat to "come whip it out" after another had announced there was "free p--sy" to be had in the house, referring to the accuser.

"Like you can walk in and whip it out," he wrote in the chat, which had nearly 60 people in it. "Boys come whip it out."

Ingalls was the brother who first invited Doe over to the house and propositioned her for a threesome that allegedly devolved into various brothers coming into the room to take turns having sex with her.

They are accused of plying her with booze and ketamine during the encounter, which she claimed later incapacitated her to the point that she couldn't consent to anything beyond that.

Ingalls allegedly fell asleep at one point during the sexual encounter -- prompting another brother to reportedly take his place -- before he woke again later and rejoined the sex, documents released by the Tompkins County District Attorney's Office showed.

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Ingalls' reported comments to cops were just the latest twist in the confusing case, which has seen contradicting claims from all parties involved -- including Doe herself, who originally assured Ingalls everything they did together was consensual, Cornell documents showed.

But that idea slowly began to shift in the ensuing weeks as she kept thinking about how the night transpired and after rumors began swirling around campus and people suggested Doe had been raped. She reportedly began to feel the same way.

I insist that if it takes you weeks of reflection and rumination to "realize" you were raped -- you were not raped at all.

The daydrinking emptyheaded leftwing housewives of TikTok are bored and so they need something new to shriek about:

Byron York @ByronYork

The political path of the Cornell rape allegation:

1) Initial police/DA investigation finds woman's participation was "voluntary, conscious, and consensual." No criminal charges filed.

2) Cornell University Office of Civil Rights investigation reaches finding consistent with police/DA, but concludes fraternity members violated school policies. Expels two frat members, suspends two others, bars one from campus, and shuts down fraternity permanently.

3) Seemingly settled, case fades.

4) Woman changes story, files much-publicized lawsuit blaming incident on fraternity, members, Cornell University, local bar, and her own sorority.

5) Case explodes politically. Local DA re-opens criminal investigation. NY governor appoints AG Letitia James, famous for pursuing President Trump, as special prosecutor.

6) Media narrative emerges blaming Trump for alleged "glorification of being thuggish and swaggering and mistreating women is kind of making you a cool kid."

Everything I Don't Like is DRUMPF!!!

The woman also sued her own sorority, Delta Delta Delta, both the local chapter and the national organization. The lawsuit says that before she arrived at the Chi Phi fraternity house that night, she had "consumed about 10 standard drinks within the past 3 hours." Looking at the lawsuit's timeline, it appears nearly all of that drinking took place at the Delta Delta Delta sorority house.

The lawsuit said that Delta Delta Delta "held itself out to the public, and more particularly to [the woman] herein, as possessing the proper degree of safety measure to adequately protect its members and to use reasonable care and diligence in its monitoring and policing of the [local chapter's] house and those living in and utilizing said house." In other words, the woman is suing her sorority for allegedly not putting a stop to her heavy drinking.

I am Stronk and Empowered and Capable of Making My Own Decisions but also I want an infinite number of female nannies and male authority figures to tell me what, or who, I can put into my body.

You know, the feminists are always complaining that in Victorian times, women were treated "like children."

And they're demanding we return to that system -- when they want that system in place, at least.

They may wind up getting their wish, because people have had enough of this shit.

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The governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, then named state Attorney General Letitia James as a special prosecutor for the case. James, of course, is legendary for campaigning for office on a platform of pursuing President Donald Trump, and then, once elected, concocting an elaborate but embarrassingly thin fraud lawsuit against Trump....

The lesson of the Trump case is that if Letitia James wants to get someone, she will figure out a way to get someone, whether or not it's a case that will hold up in court. The Chi Phi members will need to prepare for that.

When the accuser's lawyers released her lawsuit, a number of observers pointed to the evidence that authorities originally gathered in the days and weeks after the 2024 incident. It seemed clear that the woman had consented to what took place, a conclusion supported both by the county district attorney and the Cornell Office of Civil Rights, which conducted the university's investigation. Some predicted the case would go nowhere.

But now the matter is in a new realm -- the realm of politics....

It seems likely the case will become even more political in coming days and weeks. And, as with everything else in our society, it will become to some degree about Trump. A media narrative, and a social media debate, will emerge in which the fraternity members become associated with Trump, and the woman becomes associated with the forces of good and decency standing up to Trump.

On ABC News's This Week on Sunday, the New York Times's Michelle Cottle pointed to a series of noxious social media messages the fraternity members sent about the woman. "You can't send those messages, no matter how drunk you are, as a frat boy without having some kind of misunderstanding about what women are there for and whether this is a real person you're dealing with," Cottle said. And who might be to blame for that? Cottle pointed to Trump. "And that, I think, starts, you know, we can go to the president for this one," Cottle continued. "I mean, we are in a moment in this culture where the glorification of being thuggish and swaggering and mistreating women is kind of making you a cool kid."

It took just a couple of weeks from the lawsuit being filed to a newscast explaining that Trump was somehow involved. And it's likely that the politicization of this case is just getting started.

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The Morning Rant: The United States Senate: Theater Of The Absurd

—CBD

The klown kar that is the United States Senate regularly belches forth a gaggle of meticulously coiffed morons in $2,000 suits who spout carefully crafted non sequiturs and focus-group-tested punch lines about the topic de jour. Then, without another word they pile back into the kar to be driven to a corporate cocktail party to drink $300 bourbon and try to f*ck the hottest lobbyist.

The Senate has always believed its own press, but the current group of sub-wits we have might be the least impressive in history. At least as far as intellectual heft and the ability to craft and pass good legislation. At fund raising and graft they are without peer!

Senate Leadership In Both Parties Dragging Feet On Using Force Of Law To Rein In Flock

Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley opened an investigation into Flock cameras and held a hearing on the mass surveillance technologies. None of the technology CEOs, including Langley, appeared for the hearing.

Hawley did not respond to the DCNF's question about whether he was frustrated with leadership's lack of response to Flock cameras.

He did not respond because he has no interest in doing anything substantive, because he is a hack, whose motivation is pecuniary, not legislative. His popular reputation as a fierce questioner at hearings is true, but that ferocity does not extend to anything else! He is the Republican equivalent of Chuck Schumer, but without the clout!

I wonder whether his reticence about Flock is connected to their large lobbying budget?

Flock tracks your license plate. We tracked the $2M it spent on lobbying.

The company spent nearly $1.3 million between January 2025 and July 2026 on federal lobbying and at least another $1 million in statehouses across the U.S., according to OpenSecrets’ federal lobbying data and an analysis of lobbying disclosures across all 50 states. Flock has hired lobbyists in dozens of states – often former government employees passing through the political “revolving door” – including in places where weak disclosure laws mean spending totals are not publicly reported.

This is why Flock seems to be a juggernaut, barrelling down the road, destroying what is left of our civil liberties. Their lobbying efforts are bearing fruit...even with Republicans who pay lip service to the Constitution and the Bill Of Rights.

I wonder if Senator Hawley recalls the text of the 4th Amendment? You know...something about protection against searches?

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

It's adorably anachronistic in this world of total surveillance, but it is an anachronism that needs to return to the forefront of our lives. Our politicians are of course venal and grifting in the extreme, but the plain text of our governing document needs to be thrust in their faces...they need to be reminded of it when they scurry back into their offices and cash those lobbyist checks.

So forgive me if I am wholeheartedly in support of anyone who feels like taking the law into their own hands and cutting down those Flock cameras, and short-circuiting the burgeoning police/surveillance state that is being created around us!

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

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

Study of a Female Nude
Henri Lehmann

The Morning Report — 10/6 /26

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. Let's kick off the day with a bit of good if not bittersweet news.

“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.

While we're on the subject of treason and traitors in our midst . . .

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.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Hasan killed 12 US service members, one civilian and wounded 32 others during his November 2009 rampage at the Texas Army base.
  Trump approves firing squad for Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan’s execution after Pete Hegseth’s recommendation

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Daily Tech News 6 October 2026

—Pixy Misa

Top Story

• Hacking group Shiny Hunters hacked the FBI. So the FBI arrested them. (The Register)
  
  What did they think was going to happen?

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Monday Night ONT - October 5, 2026 [TRex]

—Open Blogger

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]

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Unbearable Cafe

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Corgi took the biggest branch in the woods.

Close encounter of the ursine kind.

Little girl plays with her doggos.

Cats don't want toys you buy for them. They want to steal your stuff and make it their toy.

Waterfall in Ibaraki, Japan.

Puppy in a ball pit.

Stray kitten adopts a human.

Bears: A Continuing Concern.

The winner of last week's Fat Bear contest.

This mama buffalo understands the subversive menace of bears.

Bear enjoys a free blow-out.

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ICE Nabs Another 15 "Worst of the Worst" Over the Weekend

—Disinformation Expert Ace

I voted for this.

Deb Heine for American Greatness:

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.

Quick Hits

—Disinformation Expert Ace

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.

Trump is "closely monitoring" the escape of the plague from a Russian bioweapons lab.

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.

Karoline Leavitt has become a Fox News contributor, and will debut by November 1. Good. That's a more forgiving job for a mom of very young children.

What a surprise -- Ahmadrahman Mohamed El-Sayed's sister-in-law was on a terror watch list.

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.

This is not an accident, it's the plan.

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Son of Former Brazilian President Cheated Out of a Win Tops Election Results in Brazil, Garnering 47% of the Vote

—Disinformation Expert Ace

It requires 50% to actually win the election outright, otherwise it goes to a two-person runoff.

He almost got 50%.

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.

Battleswarm blog quotes Military.com:

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.

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Communist Jihadi Zohran Mamdani: I Will Combat Antisemitism In NYC by Partnering Up With Aggressively Anti-Israel Arab Agitation Groups

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Oh perfect.

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.

This was predicted:

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Jack Smith Spied on Trump's Lawyers and Advisors to Find Out Who They Were Talking to In Response to Their Prosecution

—Disinformation Expert Ace

They slapped Trump with an absurd investigation, and then essentially criminalized his use of lawyers to defend himself. They spied on his lawyers and advisors as if they were mafia capos.

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.

"On 3 November 2023, FBI Washington Field Office (WFO) and Special Counsel personnel met with former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John BRENNAN at CIA Headquarters in McLean, Virginia," a typed FBI summary of the meeting states.

"The purpose of the meeting was to discuss expert testimony to National Defense Information in the forthcoming captioned investigation," the summary written five days after the Brennan interaction added. "No documents were shown in this meeting. The original Agent notes will be maintained in the attached IA."

Two agents' notes are attached to the memo, but they are entirely blank except for the date of the meeting, the location, Brennan's name and the government attendees.

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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".

I thought that maybe that video of an immigrant using a spray can to make an improvised flame-thrower and burning a woman's face was AI. Nope. As real as death.

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?"

Over 500 French schools are closed due to rioting, arson, and attempted murder.

The Islamist-Communist media is justifying these riots by saying the students, who are burning down their schools, just want their schools better "resourced."

Note that the immigrants burning down the schools left countries that spend far, far less on schooling than France does:

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

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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....

Article at Public here.

Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger

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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.

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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

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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

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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 New Republic (@newrepublic) September 28, 2026

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.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

At the Seaside
William Merritt Chase