Target Fixation

Wombat-socho has some thoughts on the bent of the social media platform, Gab. Andrew Torba’s Plan To Reenact The Fall of Singapore

Andrew Torba has accomplished a lot. You don't have to agree with him to acknowledge that. He survived being debanked. (We can't have a conservative social media platform!) Apple and Google kicked his app off the app stores. (See comment on conservative social media.) But he seems to have lost his way.

Like General Percival, he has all his guns pointed in the wrong direction. He has fallen prey to the faulty logic of Father Coughlin, inveighing against an imaginary threat while the real threats sneak through the jungles and prepare to slit his throat.

I will let Wombat-socho handle the heavy lifting.

Torba seems to have a major problem with the priorities of President Trump and the Republican Congress (which as any intelligent person knows, aren’t necessarily the same) and certainly, I agree that the Administration seems to be repeating Bush the Younger’s mistake of putting foreign affairs before domestic issues. On the other hand, straightening out the mess created by Joe Biden’s handlers while contending with assholes in the judiciary and neo-nullificationist ponces like Newsom, Priztker, Kotek, Healey et al -to say nothing of obstructionist scum in the Federal bureaucracy- is a full-time job by itself, and in the meantime things keep happening beyond our borders that we have to pay attention to.

Click thru for the details, some analysis, and more.

Fall of the Berlin Wall - 9 November 1989

At least some media organizations are noting this anniversary. Berlin commemorates fall of Berlin Wall 36 years ago

Berlin, the once-divided city that epitomized the Cold War, commemorated the fall of the wall 36 years ago on Sunday with a memorial ceremony on Bernauer Strasse, a street that was split in two when the Berlin Wall was erected in 1961.

I don't think people recognize what that meant. I know the younger generations don't understand the cold war, or the evil that is communism.

The official name in East Germany/the Warsaw Pact countries was "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart," or "Antifaschistischer Schutzwall" in German. The propaganda was that it was to protect the people of East Germany from the evil capitalists that wanted to prevent them from creating a communist/socialist utopia. It is an abject lesson in the idea that you are not "anti-fascist" just because you say you are. The East Germans, and the Stasi in particular, were some of the biggest, meanest, evilest fascists in history. (Look up the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit.)

The wall stood for 28 years, from 1961 to 1989. It has been longer than 28 years since it was torn down.

While the fall of the Berlin Wall, didn't mark the end of the Cold War, it was definitely the beginning of the end. And while the threat of thermonuclear annihilation has not dropped to zero, I believe the risks are substantially less than they were in my youth.

While some media outlets are remembering the day, The Washington Post, The NY Times, The LA Times, The Chicago Sun Times, and The Chicago Tribune have apparently ignored the day. To be fair, a couple of them did notice that this is the anniversary of Kristallnacht, which a lot of people mark as the start of the Holocaust.

Prosecutors Hate Self-Defense

Even in Florida they hate self-defense. Judge drops charges in Bradenton Stand Your Ground case | Bradenton Herald

Prosecutors said they charged 49-year-old Kevin Richard Armstrong with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after they say he fired a shotgun at his girlfriend during a shootout at Sunny Shores Mobile Home Park in Cortez.

Except that isn't the whole story.

In the filing, Armstrong says one of the men with the woman called ahead and told him they were coming to retrieve her belongings and that, “if he didn’t cooperate they were going to kill him.” He said that when they arrived, she shoved him and the two men with her displayed firearms from a golf cart.

Armstrong said he fired a single shotgun blast into the air as a warning before one of the men shot back, hitting the woman and also shooting him in the foot.

SO he didn't shoot AT her. He didn't shoot her at all. "Don't clutter the issue with facts."

Then the DA switched to "he escalated the situation." Really. Two men show up with guns and threaten you, and he escalated the situation. Though this is why I don't like warning shots.

The judge dismissed the case. Though as "the process is the punishment" this happened in 2024.

Sunny Shores Mobile Home Park in Bradenton, Florida is about 25 miles south of Saint Peterburg, or about 18 miles from the south end of the Sunshine Skyway bridge. It is located on Palma Sola Bay, just off the Intercoastal Waterway.

Cops, Temptation, and The War on (Some) Drugs

Cops breaking the law? I'm shocked that cops are involved with the drug trade. FBI Arrests 14 Law Enforcement Officers in Delta Drug Sting

A wide-ranging FBI sting has ensnared some of the top law enforcement officers around multiple Mississippi Delta counties, in what the agency is calling a “Delta drug conspiracy.” FBI officials allege that over a dozen different law enforcement officials across Mississippi have been engaged in a complex and long-running drug trafficking operation.

Click thru for the details, including the officers and sheriffs charged, and what they are charged with.

This is the Guns & Gadgets 2nd Amendment News video SHOCKING! FBI Busts 14 Cops In Stunning Drug & Gun Conspiracy!

This is about corruption, power, and what happens when the guardians of liberty become the facilitators of crime. For gun owners this matters because firearms crimes are entwined in this case.

OK, so no one is shocked.

Chicago Is a Failed City-State

Or so says Ken Griffin, hedge fund manager. Billionaire hedge fund manager calls Chicago 'a failed city-state' from new home in Miami - CWB Chicago

Ken Griffin moved his company, and his employees, to Miami from Chicago in 2022. Primarily because of crime. (Or that is when he announced the move, anyway.) I would have to look at what was written at the time, but I'm guessing taxes were a part of it too.

Griffin frequently criticized Chicago’s crime and political climate before moving his company’s headquarters to Florida. He has said that employees and their families grew increasingly concerned about safety.

CWB Chicago goes on to compare crime rates between the two cities. Click thru.

Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 8 November

Animal Magnetism starts us off with Animal’s Hump Day News

Yeah, and it’s too bad. I used to like Boston.
No shit, Sherlock.

The Right Way - Top of the News

Election results: blue states remain blue - The New Neo
Climbing Up - According to Hoyt

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 11.05.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Stoic Observations: Hurricanrana
Cedar Sanderson: MOTE Prompt

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 6 November 2025: Packed Dirt Edition

The password for the Louvre's video surveillance system was "Louvre". (PC Gamer)
Oh.

EBL - Charlie Kirk: Conservatives Must Go On Offense

Great advice from Charile Kirk
Instapundit: We need more real heroes...

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 11/5/2025

German Politician’s Car Torched; No Mainstream Outrage
The German establishment has already shown the public that it is willing to commit crime to limit the AfD’s ability to govern—that is, to abuse democracy so as to ‘defend democracy.’

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 11.06.25

Dana Loesch: Cancel Culture on the Right?
Don Surber: Replacing the gerontocracy with an infantocracy

Political Hat - Quick Takes – Meanwhile, In Academia: Forcing DEI On Future Teachers; Student Government For DEI; Universal Locker Rooms

Can’t teach indoctrinate if you’ve not been taught indoctrinated yourself, right?
Student governments are just as Leftist as they ever were.

Vlad Tepes - Scientism and demoralization: Links post #1 for Nov. 7, 2025

1-year risks of cancers associated with COVID-19 vaccination: a large population-based cohort study in South Korea

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - About Tuesday's Elections . . .

Dave Strom, Democrats: I Hope You Are Proud That You Elected Jay Jones. So, should we call him "2 bullets Jones, or just 2 tap? Matt Margolis, Virginia Elects Democrat Who Fantasized About Shooting Children.

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 10.06.25 (Evening Edition)

Transterrestrial Musings: Orion, also, Here We Go Again
Victory Girls: Crockett Gets An Ethics Complaint For Hiding Stocks

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - LinkSwarm For November 8, 2025

“FBI stops Islamic terror attack on Detroit Arsenal that was planned for Halloween night.”
Democrats have been importing unassimilated Muslims into America for, what, 30 year now? 40? Who initiated the plan, and why?

Small Dead Animals - Thursday On Turtle Island

The Democrat Party’s America: British envy of US. White woke warriors. Social media hype. Victor Davis Hanson – Trump’s indictments. Escape from New York.
Carnival Carney’s Canada: No DEI cutbacks.

Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism – Election Postmortem! 11/07/2025

Christians & Jews of New York better unite and start pushing back. Or get out now, because the people who hate you are emboldened and that won’t be improving any time soon.
Democrats: I Hope You Are Proud That You Elected Jay Jones

Once again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 11.07.25

Chicago Boyz: Fuentes Furioso
Dana Loesch: Disaffected Young Men Are At The Core of the Right’s Civil War

The Glibertarians - Friday Afternoon Links

I really don’t need it, but I will say I want it.
So which one of you lot is this?
Made of plastic?

Maggie's Farm - Wednesday morning links

Duke University plans to push climate change in every discipline
Why are we sending illiterate high school grads to college?

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 11/5/25

Her syllabus has suddenly disappeared from the university website.
UCSD Platforms Oct. 7 Rape-Denier to Teach Mandatory Ethnic Studies Course

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Mamdani’s socialist and Muslim backers, including Sarsour and Wahhaj, take victory lap

• The Election Blues - Robert W Malone
• Republicans Need to Wake Up - Walter Curt

I leave you with Thursday's memes from Wirecutter, Midweek Memes from Granite Grok, Thursday Memes …, and Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #3108 from 90 Miles from Tyranny.

How Is That Criminal Justice Reform Working Out?

From CWB Chicago we get a story about the failures of electronic monitoring. Red Line robbers were both wearing ankle monitors: officials - CWB Chicago

Two men who who teamed up to mug a passenger aboard a Red Line train were both wearing ankle monitors for pending cases, officials say, and one of them successfully beat a robbery charge just hours before the attack.

Prosecutors said Shannon Stephens, 23, and Jamari Gray, 21, confronted a 41-year-old man while riding a southbound Red Line train near 47th Street early on September 12. During the holdup, Stephens allegedly cut the victim’s left wrist and palm while Gray struck him in the face. The men allegedly pulled out a chunk of the victim’s beard and got away with his bookbag.

One suspect was detained fairly quickly. The other was arrested when he returned to the train station with the victim's bookbag.

Click thru for the details. One of these guys kept ignoring the rules around ankle monitors, and despite that a judge kept releasing him on electronic monitoring.

Judge James Murphy III ordered both men detained on charges of robbery and aggravated battery, citing their ankle monitors as a point of concern.

Judge Murphy is NOT the judge who had been releasing this guy.

So when do we admit that electronic monitoring does nothing, and go back to keeping bad guys in jail AND provide a speedy trial?

Self-Defense in Oklahoma

Oklahoma has, or at least had, a strong version of the Castle Doctrine, or that is my understanding. Tulsa police investigate fatal shooting at Silver Oaks Apartments; self-defense claimed. I'm not clear on whether or not Oklahoma has a version of Stand Your Ground, covering self-defense outside the home, but that wouldn't be an issue here in either case.

A guy kicked in an apartment door. Not a good thing to do in Oklahoma.

Tulsa police are investigating a deadly shooting late Friday night after a man reportedly forced his way into an apartment near 71st and Yale.

When police showed up they found the guy who forced his way in, dead of a gunshot wound. They spoke to the guy who did the shooting, but did not arrest him.

Self-defense is a human right.

Chicago Rapper Tried Robbery and Failed

Things didn't work out. Rapper Glizzy The Tweaker fatally shot during Chicago robbery attempt on 19th birthday

Chicago drill rapper Mekhi Moore, known professionally as Glizzy The Tweaker, was killed on September 26, 2025, during what police say was a botched robbery attempt in the city’s Chatham neighborhood. He was 19 years old.

So why is it important that he was a rapper, or why is his age important? "Legal adult dies while breaking the law." I guess that wouldn't be as impressive a headline.

Authorities said Moore, along with at least three others, allegedly attempted to rob a construction worker at a renovation site. The worker, who was legally licensed to carry a concealed firearm, reportedly fired four shots in self-defense, striking Moore. The other suspects fled the scene in a vehicle.

The construction worked was questioned, but not charged, because Illinois law does allow for concealed carry and self-defense.

Self-defense is a human right, and it might be your legal right in Illinois, though you can never be sure.

The reason for not covering this incident sooner? Well it only showed up in my feeds by way of USA Concealed Carry.

Because We Believe

Beautiful singing in any language is beautiful. And Floor Jansen, currently lead singer for Nightwish, has a wonderful voice. Maria Fiselier is a Dutch mezzo soprano, who sings more classical and operatic music. Opera is not kind to mezzo-sopranos; there are limited staring roles. I hope you enjoy it, even if it isn't all in English. (Yes, some of it is in English.)

Here is a link to the lyrics, including a translation of the part in Italian.

This song is "Because We Believe" preformed by Maria Fiselier & Floor Jansen at the Beste Zangers (Best Singers) Special on the German TV channel KiKA.

Friday Links - 7 October

A somewhat truncated Links post today... Real Life can suck.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove is up first with Surprise: BBC Doctored Trump Jan 6th Footage

And the Credentialed Media wonders why they are not trusted and called partisan

Stately McDaniel Manor - Embracing Reality And Self-Defense, 2025

American Jews—and Israeli Jews—are also realizing the Democrat Party hates them, won’t protect them, and arguably wants them dead, so they’re buying their first guns

Miguel Gonzalez - When you base your Military Tactics on WWII Movies.

There is the usual passel of Lefties and Libertarians (but I repeat myself) in social media and a few outlets losing their minds about Trump getting ready (so they say) to invade Venezuela to get rid of Maduro and his Socialist regime.

The Other McCain - Crazy People Are Dangerous

How crazy is this? Jeffrey had just gotten out of prison, and is not legally able to possess firearms, yet he’s riding around with a pistol and gets in a shootout with cops after they pull him over.

Italy Embraces Self-Defense

This is an encouraging sign. Italy's Meloni hails self-defence after homeowner shoots intruder

Italian premier Giorgia Meloni [the Italian Prime Minister] on Wednesday said that self-defence is "always legitimate", commenting on the case of a man who shot and injured an intruder during an attempted robbery at his home near Rovigo in northern Italy.

It was the 2nd time this guy's home had been invaded. While the police did find blood at the scene, the amount seems to indicate that the wound was not serious.

Rovigo police have been investigating the attempted robbery by two or three individuals, one of whom was injured by a gunshot fired by the homeowner.

Police alerted local hospitals to see if anyone had sought medical treatment for gunshot wounds however so far the search has been unsuccessful.

It seems that the European press is following the lead of the American media. Anyone not on the Left is "Right Wing." I mean my God, they support Individual Action, and don't expect you to rely on The State, even for the things The State cannot provide.

Italy's deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini echoed the comments by Meloni, stressing that the new rules were pushed through by his right-wing Lega party to "protect decent citizens", adding: "As we have maintained for years, self-defence is always legitimate."

Good for the Italians. Self-defense is a human right.

A New Selection of Homemade Firearms

Impro Guns brings us the latest round of homemade, and craft-made guns.

First up: Hybrid DIY DB-40

A 3D printed / square tubing hybrid seized on the 30th of October in Varginha, Brazil. According to police it’s chambered in .40 S&W

Second: Subgun 23/10/25

A spectacularly horrific thing spawned from the Brazilian mind.

Lastly we have the following: MAC-11 type SMG (Brazil)

The magazine looks to be from a PAM-2 (Brazilian M3 Grease gun copy)

Click thru for the photos.

Third World Villages Destroyed for the Climate

The Left will Kill you to save you. Or something. From Watts Up With That. Ugandan Villages Destroyed To Fight Climate Change

The £33m aid project was designed to help poor Ugandan farmers deal with the impact of climate change.

But the reality saw their crops and homes destroyed in an “inhuman” project that left them “on the brink of starvation”.

That will save them. Or maybe not.

Meanwhile Ugandan farmers seem to be doing pretty well “despite” climate change.

There is a link to the original article at The Telegraph.

Hat tip to William Teach at Pirate's Cove. Good News: Climate Cult Now Destroying Villages In 3rd World.

Of course, the ones pushing this in the 1sst World are able to keep their hands clean and never pay a price, or even lose sleep, over this.

UPS #2976 Crash in Louisville

There has been much "coverage" of this incident, but most people are not professional pilots. Juan Browne is; he flies commercial airliners for a living.

The left engine detached from the wing during takeoff, apparently after reaching velocity V1, which means the crew was committed to takeoff. The resulting fire from the left wing was causing the right engine to stall. You cannot fly with the loss of 2 engines. (That type of aircraft has 3.)

There are few photos, and some video.

Juan Browne also touches on the 1979 crash of a similar (not the same) aircraft in Chicago, when an engine detached from an American airlines DC10, causing an awful loss of life.

This is the Blancoliro video NTSB Brief UPDATE UPS #2976 5 Nov 2025

Self-Defense Stabbing in Indianapolis

This also seems to be a case of Crazy People Are Dangerous. Man claims self-defense in deadly Indianapolis gas station stabbing | WTHR

Tyron "Ty" Holder was on the job for the US Postal Service, and stopped at a gas station, where a guy was causing problems.

When confronted, he told the guy to "just leave."

Holder said the man opened the door again and spit on him, so Holder reached for his mace. Holder said that’s when the man pulled out a six-inch knife and stabbed him in the side.

"I lost feeling in my legs, and I fell into him," Holder said. "It was like a balloon, like I got deflated."

A struggle for the knife ensued. Eventually the other guy, 37-year-old John Bouvier Green Jr., was stabbed. He did not survive.

Indianapolis PD says the initial investigation indicates self-defense, but police don't make the final determination.

I hope Mr. Holder recovers, and I am glad he was able to defend himself. This story highlights the fact that self-defense is about attitude. Mr. Holder didn't give up, despite being injured. He also has psychological injuries to deal with.

"That's something that I got to have on my conscience the rest of my life," Holder said. "Regardless of the circumstances."

I don't think I can say, Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0 on this one. Self-defense is a human right.

Open Fields and the 4th Amendment

People are finally coming to understand the limits that the courts have put on the 4th Amendment. You only have an expectation of privacy near your home. The rest of your yard, or farm acreage, or woods, are fair game for law enforcement unless those acres are fenced in.

This is Buddy Brown's video Law Enforcement Caught SNOOPING on PRIVATE LAND!

The Next Republican Will Always Be Scarier

The story never changes, only the name changes. And another thing ... has some thoughts on The Democrats and the Media (but I repeat myselft), and their view of upcoming Republicans. The next Republican will always be 'scarier' than the last

In this world, nothing is certain except that the next Republican will always be characterized as “scarier” and more extreme than his predecessor, who was characterized in his time as “scarier” and more extreme than his predecessor, and so on.

The Left has already started in on J.D. Vance, because they can't get Trump out of office. They tried that and failed last time around. So they are starting to smear the next guy.

Former White House mouthpiece Jen Psaki warned recently that Vice President JD Vance, who will almost certainly make a play for the Oval Office in 2028, is “scarier” than President Donald Trump.

Click thru for the history of what the next Republican was going to do to be worse than the last Republican. (Hat tip to Instapundit: EVERGREEN.)

320,000 Jeep Hybrids Must Be Parked and Not Charged

Jeep Hybrids are at risk of a "Thermal Event." Jeep Warns 320,000 Owners To Park Outside After Samsung Battery Scare | Carscoops

"Thermal Event" is a journalistic weasel word for "one scary ass fire."

In the US, a total of 228,221 Jeep Wranglers built for MY20-25 and 91,844 Grand Cherokees that rolled off the line for MY22-26 are caught up in a recall related to a fire risk. Only models with a 4xe plug-in hybrid powertrain are a problem because the issue has been traced to the hybrid system’s Samsung battery pack.

Stallantis doesn't have a fix. They HOPE to have a fix in December. Hope.

Until the fix is ready, Jeep owners are being asked to keep their electrified adventurers parked outside and away from garages, carports, or anything else flammable. They’re also being told not to charge them until the recall work is complete.

So from November 4th, until some date in the future, (December is the earliest) you basically cannot drive your Jeep. Model years are 2020 thru 2026 are impacted. So if you can't drive it, do you still have to pay for it? Of course you do, and you will probably need a rental as well, which I'm guessing that your insurance won't pay for either.

This is the second Jeep hybrid recall we’ve written about in as many weeks. Late last month, the brand issued a recall for almost 25,000 Wrangler 4xe SUVs after an OTA update gone wrong caused their hybrid systems to go haywire, in some cases losing drive altogether.

The future is stupid.

Hat tip to MGUY Australia and his video Jeep RECALLS 320,000 Hybrids over risk of "THERMAL EVENT". The video is 6 minutes.

Wednesday Link Roundup - 5 November

William Teach at Pirate's Cove is up first with Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

The View from Lady Lake has twisted hillbetty. And lots more fun all week.
Theo Spark has dollar store communists.

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 11.04.25

The Abbey of Misrule: Of Slugs & Saints
Draw & Talk Comics: You Won’t Believe What They Said About Me

EBL - Balfour Declaration Song

2 November 1917: Balfour Declaration published by British Government
EBL: Hava Nagila

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 2 November 2025: Lunch Facility Edition

Bluesky has reached 40 million users and unveiled a "dislike button". (Tech Crunch)
Nobody posts on Bluesky but that's a separate problem.

Don Surber - Highlights of the week

ITEM 20: Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson tried to hijack the conservative movement this week with a podcast. The Heritage Foundation defended them from criticism by warning against becoming the Woke Right.

Small Dead Animals - Saturday On Turtle Island

Conman Carney’s Canada: Ontario’s CUPE president. Residential school denialism. Trudeau 2.0
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Paul Joseph Watson – Everyone is scared.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 11/1/2025

A new report by watchdog group Americans for Public Trust (APT) alleges that billions in foreign funds have flowed into U.S. organizations engaged in policy and advocacy work, blurring the lines of political influence.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump Returns to CBS

Also from Sundance, President Trump Outlines Stakes in Next Week SCOTUS Tariff Case. From ET, China ‘Made a Real Mistake’ With Rare Earth Threats: Bessent

Political Hat - News of the Week (November 2nd, 2025)

Pearse on Armed Citizens
John Adams was famously interested in the well-regulated militias of Switzerland for their ability to repel invasions and also for their ability to deter tyranny

The Glibertarians - Saturday Morning Scandal in the Gulch Links

It’s sometimes difficult to distinguish between a kid and a midget.
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn’t stop to think if they should.

Vlad Tepes - Canada has no opposition, and the methods being deployed to guarantee that: Links post 1 for Nov. 1, 2025

1. Unfortunately, a lot of people better connected than I to the political elite in Canada, are coming to the same depressing conclusions we at this site did a year or so ago. The Conservative Party of Canada does not appear to want a political solution for any of the issues

Maggie's Farm - Saturday morning links

Halloween decor in Greenwich Village
Thank God the feds have come to clean up Washington Square Park

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 11/3/25

Even persons familiar with RFK Jr.’s damning statistics about American health might be surprised by this documentary.
Vaccines, autism, and An Inconvenient Study

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: New York Reruns: What Mamdani Means for New York

• Are Democrats Trying To Start A Civil War? - Brandon Smith
• New York Reruns: What Mamdani Means for New York - Roger Kimball

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 11/01/2025

The O’Keefe Media Group on Friday released an undercover video of a nonprofit executive instructing an illegal alien to vote in the New York City Mayoral race, “for the guy that starts with ‘M’.”

I leave you with Sunday Funnies For 11-02-25 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Sunday Funnies from Flopping Aces, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #3099 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, and Fucking Mondays..... gifdump from Wirecutter.

Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0

First he got shot. Then he was arrested. Titusville Police Make Arrest in Oct. 6th Garden Street Shooting; Victim Cleared in Self-Defense | TalkOfTitusville

The encounter took place at a local restaurant after business hours. Detectives found that Carlson had armed himself with a firearm and, in the presence of the victim, began waving and pointing the weapon while demanding money.

The victim, acting in an act of self-defense, armed himself and subsequently shot Carlson.

Carlson was treated at a local hospital, and then arrested on charges of...

• 1 count of Attempted Armed Robbery
• 1 count of Aggravated Assault with a Firearm

Titusville, Florida is solidly part of the Space Coast, being about 15 miles north of Cocoa, Florida or about a 25 mile drive from Cape Canaveral.

Self-defense is a human right. Floridians are heavily armed, and have the legal right to defend themselves. It is not a good place to be a bad guy. And this guy is lucky he didn't get shot in the head.

Harvard Is Still Proving It Is Out of Touch

Of course Harvard is private, so they can (try) to enforce any rules they want. But I believe they are a "public accommodation" and so can't discriminate against religious people. Campus Reform | Students caught using wrong pronouns at Harvard may violate harassment policies

Students at Harvard University were told that failing to use a person's preferred pronouns could be a violation of the university’s sexual misconduct and harassment policies during a mandatory online Title IX training last month.

DEI lives on at Harvard.

“To me, it’s nothing more than virtue signaling, written with plausible deniability in mind… you can’t punish someone for using ‘wrong pronouns,’ but [Harvard] wants to misleadingly imply so.”

Hat tip to Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit: HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE

The End

I'm really enjoying acoustic versions of songs from Five Finger Death Punch. Actually I enjoy acoustic versions from all kinds of Metal and Hard Rock bands, but FFDP put out a couple of albums recently that include some acoustic versions.

This is "The End (Acoustic)" by Five Finger Death Punch from the 2024 album AfterLife (Deluxe).

Trump Cancels Green Energy Grants

The government should not be picking winners and losers in the market. From Watts Up With That? President Trump Cancels $700 Million of Battery Manufacturing Grants. The usual suspects are affected the most.

But two companies have vowed to push forward anyway.

What's this? The Market chasing ideas for technology development without government handouts?

Cancelling the grants pruned away the companies which weren’t confident in their business plan, and left the two companies which believe their battery investments will pay off.

Bringing sound economics to the renewable industry, or at least letting private investors carry the entire risk of green speculation, sure sounds like a win for US taxpayers.

The original article referenced by Watts Up With That?, is out of Australia. The author of that article, Joshua S Hill, is bent out of shape over the fact that the US isn't doing what the he wants.

Does anyone remember the battery-company grants handed out by Obama? I'm sure that Australian author doesn't. But then Joshua S Hill wasn't hit with a part of that the bill.

Tuesday Links - 4 November

William Teach at Pirate's Cove starts us off with a story from my home state. Illinois Governor Asks DHS To Pause Immigration Arrests During Halloween

Can you guess what the response was?

Warner Todd Huston at Chicago Contrarian - Chicago Mayor: “We Don’t Have Illegal Aliens”

Mayor Brandon Johnson is at it again, wallowing in his insurrectionist tendencies, absurdly attacking Chicago's left-wing press for being too confrontational, and imputing "racism" into everything, this time by claiming there is no such thing as an "illegal alien" in Chicago.

Miguel Gonzalez - This is very old and very ignored by Pols & Media.

Ladies and gents, we are talking about miscreants that prostitute themselves and their kids to maintain a lifestyle at taxpayers’ expense. They do not think twice about defrauding you or me as long as they can get the latest I-Phone and the acrylics at the end of their fingers.

The Other McCain - Has Tucker Carlson Lost His Mind? (And Is This Kind of Insanity Contagious?)

Certainly we’re doomed if the Republican Party returns to being a neocon/uniparty swindle with an agenda of empty slogans, open borders and “forever wars.” Given a choice between Bushism and Trumpism, I choose Trumpism for the simple reason that Bushism has proven to be a losing formula, both in terms of politics and policy.

Impro Guns - 3D Printed Magazine Springs

Glock magazines can now be 100% 3D printed thanks to recent work done by Booze and Bullets in developing a printable spring.

Bearing Arms - Third Circuit Makes Unusual Move in 2A 'Prohibited Person' Case

For the second time in recent months, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals is taking the unusual step of hearing Second Amendment litigation en banc before a three-judge panel has handed down its ruling.

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: Another Fine Mess

What a wretched week to be a Senators fan. [SNIP]

Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - Bill Maher: Democrats Are Spirit Halloween

Bill Maher noted how Democrats are in danger of going the way of other “ghost brands” like Sears and Playboy.

Again from Wombat-socho - Rule 5 Sunday: Barbara Eden

Jeannie gets a little witchy for her Master.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

A Mother Protects Her Children

As she should Mississippi woman kills escaped monkey fearing for her children's safety - ABC News

Jessica Bond Ferguson said she was alerted early Sunday by her 16-year-old son who said he thought he had seen a monkey running in the yard outside their home near Heidelberg, Mississippi. She got out bed, grabbed her firearm and her cellphone and stepped outside where she saw the monkey about 60 feet (18 meters) away.

Bond said she and other residents had been warned about diseases that the escaped monkeys carried so she fired her gun.

Don't mess with this woman.

“I did what any other mother would do to protect her children,” Bond, who has five children ranging in age from 4 to 16, told The Associated Press. “I shot at it and it just stood there, and I shot again, and he backed up and that's when he fell.”

The powers that be are claiming that the monkeys are not contagious, but they are aggressive.

Click thru for the details.

Concealed Carry in NYC

NYC is still not obeying the law, or so says a lawsuit. OSD 349: What’s going on with gun carry in NYC?

It has been three and a half years since the Supreme Court struck down may-issue carry permit regimes in NYSRPA v. Bruen. How are things going in New York City, which ran the final boss of may-issue regimes?

Things are so bad that they stopped reporting on the statistics around gun permits. They didn't do that because they were doing such a great job of cutting through the red tape.

And our final useful data comes from Milani et al v. New York City (PDF), a federal lawsuit from a group of New York gun owners arguing that NYC’s permitting process remains unconstitutionally burdensome.

You can read all of the ways that NYC and NYPD drag their feet to delay permitting.

They had to stop releasing the statistics on the length of time it takes to process permits. It would have fueled more lawsuits.

Layers Of Editorial Oversight

This is certainly the funniest thing I've read in a week or so. Or the funniest media screw up anyway. Double de Blasio: Most Wonderful Journalistic Disaster of the Year | National Review

So the Times of London wanted to interview Bill de Blasio about the upcoming mayoral election. In the words of Maxwell Smart, "Missed it by that much."

I would love to give you a link to this story, but alas I cannot. You see, the Times has removed it from its website, because as it turns out the paper never actually spoke to Bill de Blasio. The real Bill de Blasio took to Twitter almost immediately after the article was published to state that he had no idea what the heck was going on and that he’d never spoken to anyone with the Times of London. And he hadn’t!

Yet there was no fraud at play, only reputation-torching irresponsibility. Get this: the Times in its infinite wisdom apparently interviewed the wrong Bill de Blasio. The reporter emailed an address he believed to be the former mayor’s but that belonged instead to a random Long Islander of the same name. And the paper never bothered to confirm that its reporter was actually communicating with the real de Blasio — because after all, he was. (“I’m Bill DeBlasio. I’ve always been Bill DeBlasio.”)

But it didn't end there. Red State brings us the following: That Times of London-Bill deBlasio Controversy Keeps Evolving - and Keeps Getting Funnier

Spelling is so important. The Times of London spoke to Bill DeBlasio, not, Bill de Blasio. The ToL claimed they were duped. No. They were just lazy.

So what we are left with is not a news outlet falling victim to an aggressive trolling effort, but a case of either mistaken identity or journalism sloth, leading to a man having some mirthful fun at the expense of the paper.

It is a hard lesson to be learned in being comprehensive in the execution of our journalism. It may also be a good time to reflect on the importance of vetting your contact lists and being sure you are in contact with the proper officials in your correspondence.

Layers of editorial oversight failed to stop fake news. Again.

Flames Were 3 to 4 Meters High

A tragedy in New Zealand. One person confirmed dead after electric bus blaze in Auckland. Not sure why this was stuck in the drafts folder for so long... Still worth a look.

Large lithium-ion batteries burn when deformed.

Fire and Emergency Assistant Commander Chris Lind said crews arrived at the scene last night to find a serious head-on crash and the electric bus on fire.

A Fire and Emergency spokesperson said the fire was still “ongoing” this morning and the road remained closed between Ngapipi Rd and The Strand.

After the fire is out, there will need to be ecological remediation. (See this link for some details. Back to the link above...)

Photos show the car wedged under an Auckland Transport bus. A witness said he saw flames “about 3 or 4 metres high”.

Others described frantic attempts to rescue those involved before emergency services arrived, amid screams for help.

“There was a girl, but then she got out through the back of the bus,” one said.

“They got the lady out of the car...

There are many more details; click thru. Another article noted that the woman who didn't make it out was apparently the bus driver.

Hat tip to MGUY Australia and his video New Zealand: One DEAD in ELECTRIC bus crash

Guns Are Loaded

Daron Malakian is an Armenian-American from California. He is the guitarist, composer and second vocalist of the band System of a Down. Daron Malakian and Scars On Broadway is his solo Alternative Metal project.

Today's song is by way of the Tidal streaming service.

This is "Guns Are Loaded" by Daron Malakian and Scars On Broadway from the 2018 album Dictator.

Free Speech and Idiots

From The Other McCain we get some thoughts on free speech. Keep Giving Nick Fuentes More Rope

One of the great arguments in favor of free speech is that it allows fools to discredit themselves, and Nick Fuentes is an excellent example of why the First Amendment guarantees that even the most ridiculous fool should never be censored.

Speech is only free if people you don't like, say stuff you disagree with. I'm not sure when we lost sight of that. It also lets the idiots prove that they are idiots.

The best thing to do with Nick Fuentes — legally, that is, since it would be a felony to shove him feet-first into a wood chipper — is to ignore him, which is what I would still be doing had it not been for the fact that Tucker Carlson interviewed Fuentes for two hours this week, and the entire conservative movement has gone crazy because of it.

Click thru.

Self-Defense Is Legal in Wyoming

From Wyoming News Now: Deadly summer shooting in Laramie County ruled as self defense.

This incident took place in June of this year in Laramie County, Wyoming.

On the morning of the shooting, [Laramie County Sheriff's Office] says Hefley threatened Gross via text message, saying, "I shoulda kicked your ass right in your own home." Later, Gross was parked in his driveway when Hefley drove rapidly towards him. Just prior to being rammed by Hefley, Gross shot Hefley's radiator in an attempt to stop the vehicle. Later crash reconstruction indicated that Hefley hit Gross's truck at approximately 60 miles per hour constituting the threat of deadly force.

Laramie County, Wyoming is about a 120 mile drive north of Denver, Colorado.

There are more details from the day of the incident; click thru.

The investigation seems very complete.

The scene was meticulously examined, including advanced crash reconstruction analysis and digital evidence from phones and social media. Hefley's blood alcohol content was found to be nearly twice the legal limit (.143).

Four months is longer than I would have expected such an investigation to take, but maybe it was only this clear once all of that work had been done.

In any event, after reviewing everything from the investigation, the District Attorney determined that no charges would be brought. The article does list the relevant laws in Wyoming relating to self-defense.

Small(ish) Towns Can Be the Worst

You are either part of the in-crowd, or not.

He had to defend himself against a drunken deputy fire chief. The chief had friends in the PD. They arrested this guy, and charged him with felonies, and made his life hell.

Eventually the charges were dropped, but he lost his job, his house, and had more troubles.

This is Liberty Doll's video Felonies for Self-Defense Against Town Official

This Makes Me Say "Don't Buy Samsung Refrigerators"

Maybe not buy Samsung ANYTHING. Worried About Ads On Your Samsung Smart Fridge? Here's How To Disable Them

So you bought a $2000 or $3000 fridge, and now Samsung is going to show you ads on your fridge. So far there is a way to "opt out." Do we believe that will remain the case?

In September, Samsung announced that it would be bringing ads to some of its most expensive smart fridges. The announcement came out as part of a changelog, with the company later confirming that the patch notes weren't fake, as some users hoped. While Samsung doesn't initially plan on bringing ads to all of the smart fridge's different themes, those who use the Weather or Color themes will start to see ads now along the lower-third of the screen

So go ahead and follow the instructions to opt out. I believe they will eventually get rid of the "opt out" option.

Or you will need to watch the ad before you can open the fridge.

Stop. The. Madness.

Meep and the Charity for Men's Health

Movember Foundation raises money to raise awareness of men's health during the month of November. Meep lost her husband to cancer last year, so this means something to her. The Week in Meep: All Souls Day, Movember, Obra Dinn, Down with DST

Here are the places you can donate to the Movember Foundation, which supports men’s health, specifically focusing on prostate cancer, testicular cancer, and men’s mental health.

Click thru. There is probably someone in your life who could take better care of himself. Please consider donating.

Meep also has links to past years' Memento Mori posts. (That is Latin, for "remember, you must die.")

Hollywood Box Office Crashes to 1997 Levels

Get Woke. Destroy an entire industry. October Box Office Collapses to 27-Year Low as Hollywood Faces Dire Straits and a Major Reality Check - Geeks + Gamers

As much fun as it is to dunk on Disney, they are not the only movie studio in trouble this year.

Hollywood just lived through a horror this month — and it had nothing to do with Halloween ghosts, slashers, or masked killers. The October Box Office has officially cratered to its worst performance in 27 years, excluding the global shutdown in 2020. According to The Hollywood Reporter, domestic revenue for the month is expected to land around $425 million, the lowest since 1997.

The entire year hasn't ended of course. Wicked for Good and the next iteration of the Avatar franchise are still due. Both will do well. But they are the outliers, like Disney's Lilo and Stitch.

People show up for excitement, escapism, and genuine cultural buzz — not formulaic risk-avoidance or projects green-lit for symbolism instead of story.

I have a theory as to one of the things, aside from the Woke insanity, that has killed Hollywood. It is the 3 hour movie. When movies were 90 minutes, it was possible to have a date that consisted of dinner and a movie, followed by coffee or a drink. When you make the movies 3 hours, there simply isn't time. There is only time for the movie, and nothing else.

It is too bad, really. I always liked going to the movies, but the theaters cannot survive under the current circumstances.

And yes I know that some of you hate the experience because of people and their phones. When I go to movies, it is at times when kids are in school and young adults are - mostly - at work. A few retirees in a theater doesn't create a bad environment.

Disney and the 2025 Box Office

From W. D. W. Pro at That Park Place, we get the following. From Snow White to Tron: Ares — Disney Has Record-Breaking Year of Box Office Failures

In 2025, The Walt Disney Company is enduring what might go down as its darkest theatrical year in memory—accumulating a cascade of box-office disappointments that arguably outstrips any distributor in a single calendar year. In fact, Disney has likely broken the record for most financial failures at the box office in a single year… beating its own previous record in 2023!

A string of headline projects, Captain America: Brave New World, Snow White, Thunderbolts, Elio, Fantastic Four (in its latest iteration), Freakier Friday and now the underwhelming debut of Tron: Ares, have each fallen short of expectations to various degrees.

In 2023 Disney lost about $1 billion on 4 flops, including The Marvels. A movie no one asked for about 3 characters that no one likes.

2025 has been filled with DEI. Rachel Zegler as Snow White. Captain Falcon American. The Fantastic Four with the Pedro Pascal, a guy everyone is starting to hate, turned about to be a story about 2 girlbosses. Elio was an animated disaster, that after it was cut apart and put back together apparently made no sense, though they did pull some DEI out of it. There was a sequel that no one asked for, Freaker Friday. And then there is Tron: Ares. A Tron film without Tron. It has as much hope as making money as the Mad Max film without Mad Max, or the Spider-Man films that didn't include Spider-Man. In other words, somewhere between slim and none.

Hat tip goes to Valliant Renegade and his video Disney's 2025 Box Office Is SPECTACULARLY Bad | Snow White | Fantastic Four | Tron Ares

It's one of the worst years that Disney has ever had at the box office.

The video is 6 minutes.

There are Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics

And then there are anti-gun and government statistics. Ben and Bawb's Blog: Bear Spray Versus Firearms

There are other old adages which are also apropos, such as, “Figures don’t lie, but liars figure.” And my personal favorite: “Torture numbers and they will confess to anything.”

Although the pepper spray advocates always say studies or even numerous studies prove the effectiveness of bear spray, when you seek out this plethora of studies (plural) they pretty much boil down into a single study (singular) that has appeared in a couple of different forms. The 2012 study that started it all was researched primarily by BYU professor Tom Smith and author Stephen Herrero and published in the Journal of Wildlife Management under the title of “Efficacy of Bear Deterrent Spray in Alaska.”

And there are problems with that study. Click thru of the details. I will note, as Bawb does...

Consider that the researchers found fewer than 200 incidents of bear attacks involving guns in Alaska over a 126-year period to counter-balance the pepper spray accounts. Nor were these incidents random samples; they were deliberately, carefully, and selectively cherry-picked.

It isn't hard to find more firearm v bear incidents. Those details are presented.

If I lived in an area where bears were an issue, I would carry something really big, like a BFR (that's an actual firearm, that is not called Big F-ing Revolver, but Big Frame Revolver) in something like .45-70 government. (Bears are tough, or so I've been told.)

Anyway, click thru. (A photo of a random bear is above.)

The Entire UK Is a Defenseless-Victim Zone

A whole country where the law-abiding citizens cannot defend themselves from attack, and a sizeable minority that wants to attack them. UK DYSTOPIA: Mass Stabbing in Train Sees at Least 10 People Wounded at Huntingdon – Police Now Says It Was NOT a Terrorist Attack – 2 Suspects in Custody (VIDEOS)

A Saturday night train commute turned into hell as a couple of men – said at this point to be ‘British citizens’ but who victims heard shout ‘Allahu Akbar’ – went on a stabbing spree that reportedly left ten people wounded, with two fighting for their lives.

The UK police are useless. The government is worse than useless.

Government Should Not Be in the Business of Commanding Markets

Have we ever seen a command economy work in the long run?

This is the MGUY Australia video 😱 EV sales CRASH after incentives end 😱

It's not surprising that such a retrograde step requires a huge amount of market manipulation to force people to buy them. And nowhere is this better demonstrated than in the United States, where the Biden administration, driven by misguided climate change ideology, lavish billions of dollars to tip the scales in favor of electric vehicles

The video is 8 minutes.

The first of 2 articles referenced: Car Scoops - EV Sales Will Collapse 60% In October, J.D. Power Forecasts

The 2nd article: PR Newswire - Electric Vehicle Sales Plummet as Federal Government Rolls Back $7,500 Sales Incentive; EV Inventories Cut Nearly In Half Since June

Chicago’s Public Transit Problems

There are a lot. From Chicago Contrarian: Chicago’s Transit Crisis

In 2026, the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) projected a $771 million operating shortfall across the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), Metra, and Pace. Of that gap, roughly $605 million belongs to the CTA alone, a deficit large enough to swallow the entire budgets of many midsize cities. The pandemic’s federal lifeline money will expire, ridership remains well below pre-2020 levels, and the system’s labor and pension obligations continue to grow faster than its farebox revenue.

As a result, transit is facing some hard times, and hard choices. I have no doubt that they will just raise taxes on the people who don't use those transportation modes. (When I last paid any attention to the RTA, it was funded mostly be a tax on gasoline.)

CTA consists of the Chicago buses and the L trains, though they are not all elevated. There are plenty of subways, and once out of downtown, a fair number of trains run at ground level. Metra is commuter rail, running mostly on Amtrak lines to the suburbs, and Pace (if memory serves) are the buses that connect Cook County to the "collar counties." The counties surrounding Cook County pay into the slush fund that is the Regional Transportation Authority, which provides a lot of the funding.

In 2026, the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) projected a $771 million operating shortfall across the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), Metra, and Pace. Of that gap, roughly $605 million belongs to the CTA alone, a deficit large enough to swallow the entire budgets of many midsize cities. The pandemic’s federal lifeline money will expire, ridership remains well below pre-2020 levels, and the system’s labor and pension obligations continue to grow faster than its farebox revenue. In a city that still relies on its century-old idea of “public transit,” its finances now look increasingly unsustainable even with many firms now mandating five days in person workdays.

An interesting (to me) part of the article is the history. Once upon a time, transit was privately run in Chicago. The city capped fares, and kept those caps in place for decades, driving the firms out of business.

This was part of a broader post-war American trend. Every major city including New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles took its private transit monopolies and made them public monopolies instead. Economists called it “municipalization.” Politicians called it “progress.” Either way, the discipline of the market was replaced by the inertia of government. As Ronald Reagan said, “If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it.”

This issue is only one "fiscal cliff" facing Chicago, and I have no faith that Mayor Brandon Johnson is up to the task.

Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 1 November

The Right Way starts us off with Top of the News

Fiscal sanity is bigotry - Viking Pundit
Bill Gates: Hotcoldwetdry “will not lead to humanity’s demise” - The Pirates Cove

Animal Magnetism - Animal’s Hump Day News

I’ll believe it when I see it.
Donald Trump, Peace President.
Probably not.

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 10.29.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Don Surber: Victory lap
STUMP: Chicago Head Tax (& Other Taxes) Proposal Reactions

EBL - Frank Crumit: A Tale Of The Ticker (1929 Stock Market Song)

28-29 October 1929: Stock Market Crashes
AoSHQ: Morning Report 10.29.25

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 29 October 2025: Aoi Sora Edition

The US Senate is hard at work... On a bill that would ban AI tamagotchis for children. (NBC)
Priorities, people.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 10/30/2025

Germany: Volkswagen Group Posts €1 Billion Loss for Third Quarter
Volkswagen Group, Germany’s biggest vehicle manufacturer, lost €1.07 billion between July and September, according to an earnings release.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Will the Shutdown Shutdown?

John Sexton hears Democrats Are Still Running With This Lie About the Ballroom. From the Free Bacon, Counterpoint: Calm Down, No One Cares About the White House Renovation

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 10.29.25 (Evening Edition)

Transterrestrial Musings: Bloggus Interruptus
Victory Girls: Karine Jean-Pierre Is So Delusional Even The Left Can’t Ignore It

Political Hat - Quick Takes – Killing The Mentally Ill: Death Is The Cure; Killing When The Family Desires Death; Killing When They Don’t

Apparently there is a surefire way to stop the suffering of dementia: Kill the patient.
Sometimes all it takes to kill someone with dementia is the family say so.

Don Surber - Democrat Devolution forces U.S. officials into hiding

Rachel Bovard tweeted, “Only the Atlantic could spin violent threats against Trump administration officials and their families (with young children!) as the fault of Donald Trump. Really gross.”

Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism – 2025 Elections and Crazy, Racist, N@zi Democrats!10/31/2025

Jay Jones’ ‘Community Service’ Scandal Is Worse Than You Think
Possible criminal prosecution? Well, he is a Democrat

Small Dead Animals - Friday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America: VDH – Are Americans better off? The Snap crowd. Brennan busted.
Carnival Carney’s Canada: Indians want money again. Gay North Dakota.

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 10.30.25

Victory Girls: Jennifer Welch Is A Whole New Level Of Ugly
Watts Up With That: Guardian Ramps Up Efforts to Ban All Climate Dissent

Lawrence Person's Battleswarm Blog - LinkSwarm For October 31, 2025

Federal Reserve drops interest rates by a quarter point. Feel the excitement…
David Weigel is shocked, shocked to discover that Democrats embracing social justice policies has made them super unpopular.

Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism – 2025 Elections and Crazy, Racist, N@zi Democrats!10/31/2025

Vlad Tepes - Trump Trade, Sam Cooper reveals massive corruption and foreign influence as he always does, and as always happens, nothing at all, and Jewish communists in rabbi costumes pimping for Mamdani: Links 1 for Oct. 30, 2025

4. The Land Claims acknowledgement we have always felt was a rhetorical device with which to shift legacy Canadian’s values on our place in Canada. More specifically, to stop us from objecting to the COMINTERN state governing Canada

Once more from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 10.31.25

Shark Tank: FL House GOP Campaign Committee Endorses Jon Maples For HD87
Shot In The Dark: It’s SCIENCE!

Maggie's Farm - Wednesday morning links

Major White House Renovations Through the Years
VDH: The Left is ‘Bleeding Kansas’

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 10/29/25

We’d better start learning from history.
Vladimir Lenin and the Foundations of the Democrat Party

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Democrat Devolution forces U.S. officials into hiding

• Boasberg’s Senate Spying Gag Order Violated Federal Law - Breccan F. Thies
• Out-of-Control, Rogue, Weaponized F.B.I. Opposes Push for Gabbard to Take Lead on Counterintelligence - NYT

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 10/31/2025

FBI Director Kash Patel reportedly ousted one of the leading special agents who oversaw the Arctic Frost investigation into President Trump and his associates and allies.
Six Attorneys Who Signed Arctic Frost Subpoenas Are No Longer At DOJ.

I leave you with Wednesday's gifs from Wirecutter, Friday Meme Thing from Granite Grok, and Friday Memes … from MaddMedic.