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ROGER KIMBALL: Trump’s Second Term Resets Washington’s Playbook. Remember the good old days when the FBI would hang out in the parking lots of Catholic churches where the traditional Latin Mass was celebrated? The Bureau claimed that such churches were a breeding ground for what the Biden administration called “domestic extremism” and offered plenty of scope for what the FBI called “mitigation opportunities.” Hence, they jotted down the license plate numbers of the parishioners who just got done reciting really dangerous things like “Sanguis Christi custodiat me in vitam aeternam.” “See? See? They’re talking about blood!” Those were the days. You could go to a school board meeting and watch hapless parents being tackled and hauled off by the police for complaining that they didn’t want little Johnny battened on books like Gender ***** or, come to that, they didn’t want that bloke Jack, who called himself Jill, moseying about the girl’s bathroom or playing touch football on the girls’ team. Wot larks! That’s all over now. Sure, here and there, you will discover some pasty-faced feminist festooning her classroom with pride flags and banners instructing us to “globalize the intifada” or whatever. But those pathetic eructations are like the twitching of a frog’s legs after the dissection has begun: vestigial motor movements produced by stimulus, not life. The magnificent address by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth last week was evidence of the new dispensation: “No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses,” Hegseth said to the hundreds of senior officers he had summoned. “No more climate change worship. No more division, distraction, or gender delusions. No more debris.” https://amgreatness.com/2025/10/05/trumps-second-term-resets-washingtons-playbook/ Read the whole thing.

Hakeem Jeffries demands you “pay your fair share” with higher taxes when he only pays just $213 in property taxes each year since buying his $1.2M Brooklyn condo in 2007. He’s exploiting a tax abatement program meant for low income affordable housing. He supported expanding this loophole during his tenure in the New York State Assembly even though the program now costs the city approximately $1.4 billion annually in lost tax revenue.

NC Gov Signs New Criminal Justice Measure, 'Iryna’s Law' Ward Clark On Friday, North Carolina's Democratic Governor, Josh Stein, signed "Iryna's Law," a criminal justice measure named in honor of the young Ukrainian refugee who was senselessly murdered on a Charlotte light-rail commuter train. The new law, among other things, eliminates cashless bail for most violent offenders and streamlines the death penalty process. https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/10/04/cracking-down-nc-gov-signs-new-criminal-justice-measure-irynas-law-n2194737 .

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Statute: The Insurrection Act. “Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.”

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Over the last 5 days, agencies terminated and descoped 94 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $8.5B and savings of $546M, including a $533k Dept. of Commerce consulting contract for “editing support services to the Fisheries Resource Division” and a $61M HHS research contract for “solutions to support innovation in pursuit of affordable and better healthcare”.

And his same threads, even when the new post doesn't match the thread. Deranged. MEANWHILE in the SCHUMER SHUTDOWN THREAD.

Transgender Man Who Planned To Assassinate Brett Kavanaugh Gets Off Easy, Will Serve Just 8 Years The man who planned to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022 in an attempt to change the court’s balance of power was sentenced by a Joe Biden-appointed judge on Friday to 97 months in prison, granting the defendant’s request for an eight-year sentence. Judge Deborah Boardman, a Joe Biden appointee to Maryland federal court, acknowledged there was “a whopping 22-year difference” between that and the minimum of 30 years called for by federal sentencing guidelines. Prosecutors had asked for sentencing guidelines to be followed. https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-man-who-planned-to-assassinate-brett-kavanaugh-gets-off-easy-will-serve-just-8-years .

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They sure don't here at PPP Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul Joins Democrat Shutdown Blame Game In Hopes That Nobody Knows How the Senate Works A DNC memo has definitely gone out to Democrat governors all around the country in the hopes that a lack of adequate civics instruction in public schools over the many years will pay off when it comes to their Schumer shutdown finger pointing. That's where New York Gov. Kathy Hochul comes in to push the same thing. The government is not funded because the Democrats are choosing to keep it shut down, it's just that simple, but Hochul can't help but join the parade of Dem liars: https://twitchy.com/dougp/2025/10/03/dem-gov-kathy-hochul-joins-dem-shutdown-blame-game-in-hopes-that-nobody-knows-how-the-senate-works-n2419867

LOL. Libs always go too far. HMM: Rebellion brews against nanny state in deep blue Denver. Of all places to find a growing citizens’ rebellion against the nanny state, who’d guess it’s happening in woke Denver? Take note — if Denverites can claw back a little freedom from their elite, it can happen in your city too. In this city of 70 breweries, 2,000 liquor establishments, some 300 cannabis dispensaries and now mushroom clinics, it was pure poetry when the city council and Mayor Mike Johnston passed a ban on adults buying flavored tobacco and nicotine products, you know, for the kids. A hint of cherry in your beer — sure. Peach-infused vodka — bring it on! Any bit of flavor in the product you’re using to help you quit smoking — a perversion that must be stamped out. I imagine the city council members who voted to disempower people from their own bodily autonomy also spout “my body, my choice.” The cognitive dissonance required for this type of selective maternalistic fascism is monumental. After all, those elite took away the personal decisions of 730,000 Denverites because, well, they know what’s right for others. What they don’t say aloud, but we hear perfectly, is, “your body, our choice.” And constituents are finding that offensive. Fortunately, some feisty business owners who didn’t appreciate potentially watching their shop be put out of business as pot shops spring up around them decided to do something. They delivered more than 17,000 signatures to repeal this bit of intolerance. And they’re starting to get some interesting allies. https://completecolorado.com/2025/10/01/rebellion-against-team-nanny-denver-ballot/ Flavored vapes is where Denverites finally, maybe drew line?

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Meet the Syrian Migrant Named Jihad Who Killed Manchester Jews Catherine Salgado No one grounded in reality will be shocked to discover the background of the terrorist who attacked a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur. Jihad Al-Shamie, whom Greater Manchester Police describe as a “British citizen of Syrian descent,” took his name so seriously that he decided to wage jihad (“holy war”) on the congregants of Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue. After all, Islamic sacred texts command the killing of Jews. Jihad thought he was on his way to Paradise for running over and stabbing Jews, so he was in for a fiery surprise after law enforcement shot him. The police tentatively identified the killer as Al-Shamie but noted that other individuals were also in custody in connection with the ongoing investigation. The police were also, of course, reluctant to admit that there could be any obvious motivation for a Syrian to attack a synagogue. What a mystery. Al-Shamie drove his vehicle into the synagogue and stabbed a man to death in an attack that killed two and injured multiple people. The synagogue was full at the time due to service for Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/10/02/meet-the-syrian-migrant-who-killed-manchester-jews-n4944410