Thursday, October 17, 2024

Thursday Tidbits

On a sunny but cool Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Biden cancels $4.5 billion more of student loan debt.

From FrontpageMag, the strange and mythological presidential campaign of Vice President Harris.

From Townhall, the woke mob comes for two Canadians who stated a Taiwanese boba tea company.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Israel confirms that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has been sent to his virgins.

From the Washington Examiner, oil producer Phillips 66 announces plans to end operations at its refinery in Los Angeles after California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) signs a bill mandating stringent new requirements.

From The Federalist, why "crunchy granola moms" and independent doctors are moving politically rightward.

From American Thinker, while being interviewed by Bret Baier of Fox News, Harris doesn't answer questions but tells voters to read her website.

From MRCTV, a teenage illegal alien gang member arrested 10 times is finally sent to jail.

From NewsBusters, CNN correspondent Brian Stelter calls the aforementioned Bret Baier "a Trump surrogate".

From Canada Free Press, voting this year by facts, not feelings.  (I'm reminded of the admonition often given by right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro, "facts don't care about your feelings".  While I agree with him, I also realize that the reverse is also true, as in feelings don't care about your facts.)

From TeleSUR, professors and other workers at Argentine universities go on strike.

From TCW Defending Freedom, lies, [bleep]ed lies and U.K. politician Michael Gove.

From Snouts in the Trough, how stupid or evil are the climate alarmists?

From EuroNews, right-wing Dutch politician Geert Wilders proposed sending failed asylum seekers in the Netherlands to Uganda.  (I vaguely remember the U.K. having a similar idea.  What do the Ugandan government and people think of this idea?)

From ReMix, Poland's baby bust is the worst in Europe.  (As a descendant of many Polish babies, who grew up to have their own babies, I find this development to be quite alarming.)

From Balkan Insight, a Belarusian dissident in Bulgaria fears being deported back home.

From The New Arab, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad "keeps his head down" amid the wars in Gaza and Lebanon.

From Arutz Sheva, more about the death of the aforementioned Yahya Sinwar.

From The Jerusalem Post, at a meeting of the European Parliament, Hamas's sexual violence and attacks on women are condemned.

From Gatestone Institute, Islamic militias operate in the Central African Republic.

From The Stream, one forgotten reason why Christopher Columbus sailed westward.

From The Daily Signal, "pay no attention to the gender activist behind the public school curtain".

From The American Conservative, the little-known war that made the U.S.

From The Western Journalaccording to the twice-aforementioned Bret Baier, four of Harris's staffers were "waving their hands" and forced him to end their interview.

From BizPac Review, Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) gets booed by striking Boeing workers after disparaging former President Trump.

From The Daily Wire, members of a violent Venezuelan gang are arrested in San Antonio, Texas.

From the Daily Caller, Harris will attend the Al Smith charity dinner via a pre-recorded video.

From the New York Post, the barn coat goes viral.

From Breitbart, 158 migrant children from South and Central America enter the U.S. illegally into Eagle Pass, Texas.

From Newsmax, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles agrees to pay $880 million to the victims of sexual abuse by clergy.

And from SFGate, when in San Francisco, beware the fake ads.

Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Wednesday Whatnot

On a cool and cloudy Wednesday, after I gave myself a day off, here are some things going on:

From National Review, hey government, I thought that you were good at spending money.

From FrontpageMag, the FBI makes crime "drop" by leaving out 1,699 murders.

From Townhall, a pro-Hamas woman vandalizes a restaurant over its Israeli flags that weren't.

From The Washington Free Beacon, senatorial candidate Reuben Gallego (D-AZ) sues the Arizona Supreme Court to keep the records of his divorce sealed.

From the Washington Examiner, the Nebraska Supreme Court rules that felons who complete their sentences may register to vote.

From The Federalist, four years after covering up Hunter Biden's laptop, the media are committing election interference worse than ever.

From American Thinker, whether we realize it or not, the current election is about "war".

From MRCTV, the University of Nevada Reno throws their women's volleyball team under a bus after they forfeit to a team with a mile player.

From NewsBusters, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas calls complaints about FEMA's hurricane response disinformation.

From Canada Free Press, so-called "experts" condemn Israel's military operations against Hezbollah.

From TeleSURColombian President Gustavo Petro signs a regulation giving indigenous people the power to sanction in environmental matters.

From TCW Defending Freedom, how many of the U.K.'s high-ranking government officials know Net Zero from their own elbows?

From Snouts in the Trough, do you believe in U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer's £63 billion conference success?

From EuroNews, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claims that North Korea is aiding Russia in its invasion of Ukraine.

From ReMix, conservatives in Poland are leading in a new poll for presidential elections.  (If you read Polish, read the story at wPolityce(dot)pl.)

From Balkan Insight, Albanian environmentalists "see red" over the green sludge on the surface of Park Lake in the capital city of Tirana.

From The New Arab, why are the residents of Jabalia, Gaza refusing to leave their homes as the Israeli army closes in?

From Memri TV, Canadian teenagers salute Hamas and Hezbollah officials with a new song.

From RAIR Foundation USA, four years after the murder of French middle school teacher Samuel Paty, his sister, a nurse, recalls seeing his body at the morgue.

From Gatestone Institute, the Biden-Harris administration has a misguided policy about the Palestinians.

From The Stream, a father writes a letter to former President Trump.

From The Daily Signal, the FBI quietly revise the aforementioned violent crime data.

From The American Conservative, no more money should be allocated to FEMA for funding illegal aliens.

From The Western Journal, top Democrats in Pennsylvania are not happy with presidential candidate Vice President Harris's campaign.

From BizPac Review, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announces charges against the man who allegedly tied a dog to a fence as the area was flooding.

From The Daily Wire, conservative lawyer Harmeet Dillon shreds Harris's record as San Francisco's district attorney.

From the Daily Caller, Harris hits Trump on alleged vulnerabilities which would be shared by President Biden.

From the New York Post, Disneyland and Disney World launch a new pass that will enable its holders to skip long lines - if they can pay for it.

From Breitbart, this year's election is making Americans of all political stripes more optimistic about the economy.

From Newsmax, according to a poll, 52 percent of American voters say that they'll vote early.  (Will any of them "vote early and often", as allegedly encouraged by mobster Al Capone or Mayor Richard Daley?)

And from News(dot)com(dot)au, the mysterious black balls that have been washing up on Coogee Beach in Sydney, Australia have been identified.  (via the New York Post)

Monday, October 14, 2024

Monday Links

On a sunny but cool Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, believe it or not, there's some good news about funding for Social Security.

From FrontpageMag, the party which hates men begs men for their votes.

From Townhall, even President Biden's Columbus Day message is at odds with that from the woman campaigning to succeed him.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) and congresscritter Elise Stefanik (R-NY) tell the FBI to "do your job" and investigate alleged terror threats from a student group at Columbia University.

From the Washington Examiner, according to a survey, voters shifting from former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (I) to former President Trump could help him win battleground states.

From The Federalist, a Maricopa County, Arizona elections official enlisted a foreign censorship group to target disapproved speech.

From American Thinker, some of the lies told about Trump.

From MRCTV, Vice President Harris's take on Columbus Indigenous People's Day.

From NewsBusters, the media who hid Biden's cognitive decline is now interested in Trump's cholesterol levels.

From Canada Free Press, something's fishy in Coachella, California.

From TeleSUR, Bolivian social and political organizations block roads in support of former President Evo Morales.

From TCW Defending Freedom, so quick to vaccinate against the coronavirus, so slow to apologize for vaccine-related injuries and deaths.

From Snouts in the Trough, U.K. energy official Ed Miliband's plan to cut energy bills.

From EuroNews, the European Commission tells the Polish government that suspending the right to asylum goes against E.U. law.

From ReMix, pro-sharia protests are becoming regular in Germany.

From Balkan Insight, Kosovo will allow Bosnians to visit without a visa starting in 2025.

From The North Africa Post, according to the French newspaper Le Monde, Tuareg rebels are using Ukrainian drones in their insurgency in Mali.

From The New Arab, a multinational agreement on managing the Nile enters into force despite objections from Egypt.

From Jewish News Syndicate, congresscritter Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) accuses Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of burning babies in Gaza.

From Arutz Sheva, Hamas allegedly beat Gazans with sticks to prevent them from evacuating from an area targeted by the IDF.

From Gatestone Institute, the Biden-Harris administration leaked all the information it had both Israel's exploding pager attack.

From The Stream, if Western laws against "hate" speech were enforced, the Koran would be banned.

From The Daily Signal, Colorado Governor Jared Polis (D) excludes a group from a state flag program for being the wrong type of gay group.

From The American Conservative, why no one in Washington, D.C. pays to ride the bus.

From The Western Journal, according to a conservative activist, Vice President Harris plagiarized parts of her 2009 book Smart on Crime.

From BizPac Review, Trump calls on Harris to take a cognitive test.

From The Daily Wire, how Roan Mountain, Tennessee survived Hurricane Helene after the emergency response floundered.

From the Daily Caller, Harris all but promises to distribute forgivable race-based small business loans.

From the New York Post, Mr. Bill stumps for Harris.  (Oh, nooooooo!)

From Breitbart, actress Lea Thompson goes onto the platform formerly known as Twitter and begs her fellow white women to not vote for Trump.

From Newsmax, according to a poll, most Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander adult Americans believe that legal immigration is good for the economy.

And from The Babylon Bee, The Babylon Bee acknowledges that its offices are located on land originally inhabited by Morton & Mayfield Accounting LLC.

Sunday, October 13, 2024

Sunday Stories

As the sunny and warm weather continues on a Sunday, here are some things going on:

From FrontpageMag, a city in California moves to allow non-citizens to vote.

From Townhall, Arizona will allow 218,000 people with "unconfirmed citizenship" to vote.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book by journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates.

From the Washington Examiner, former President Trump confirms that he will sit down for an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan.

From The Federalist, presidential candidate Vice President Harris's record shows that she will not be "tough on crime".

From American Thinker, the campaign ads which the Democrats won't make.

From NewsBusters, after years of media smears, illegal immigration is Trump's best issue.

From TCW Defending Freedom, as Winston Churchill said, never give in.

From EuroNews, watch a SpaceX launch pad catch a rocket booster as it returns to earth.

From The North Africa Post, Tangier, Morocco hosts the second edition of the Blue Africa Summit.

From The Sunday Times, a Moroccan journalist who was stabbed outside his home in the U.K. states that he feels safer in Israel.

From Gatestone Institute, the U.N. allegedly gave Hamas $1.3 billion in cash.

From The Daily Signal, what if journalist Bob Woodward wrote a book about Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff (which he won't)?

From The American Conservative, what I saw at Trump's October 5th rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

From The Western Journal, UFC CEO Dana White shares a video of Vice President Harris that "should scare everyone".

From The Daily Wire, Trump explains why he had to return to Butler.

From the Daily Caller, vice presidential candidate Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) is stunned after ABC host Martha Raddatz tries to downplay the takeover of apartment buildings by a Venezuelan gang.

From Breitbart, a UAW member calls Harris an "existential threat" to the auto industry.

From The Telegraph, DNA experts claim that the explorer Christopher Columbus was Jewish and came from Valencia, Spain rather than Genoa, Italy.  (via Breitbart)

From Newsmax, excerpts from a memoir written by the late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny reveal that he knew that he would die in prison.

And from the New York Post, an aircraft mechanic explains that what looks like duct tape on a plane really isn't.

Saturday, October 12, 2024

Saturday Stuff

On a sunny and unseasonably warmer Saturday, here are some things going on:

From FrontpageMag, California Democrats block launches by SpaceX from Vandenberg Air Force Base because they don't like the Chief Twit's politics.

From Townhall, the White House medical report on presidential candidate Vice President Harris has no surprises.

From The Washington Free Beacon, an Iowa congressional candidate runs as a moderate Democrat, but touted his "progressive" ideals at a conference with Senator Fake Cherokee (D-MA).

From the Washington Examiner, former President Trump makes a campaign stop in deep blue Coachella, California.

From American Thinker, why do Democrats want so badly to keep non-citizens on the voter rolls?

From NewsBusters, radio host Howard Stern tells Saturday Night Live to leave Harris alone.  (If I were in charge of SNL, my response would be to offer Stern a kite and say "go fly this".)

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K.'s Labour Party continues its spoilsport tendencies.

From Gatestone Institute, is the free world being betrayed?

From The Stream, former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter former congresscritter Liz Cheney (R-WY) try to save democracy by going Marxist.

From The Daily Signal, how the Hamas terror attacks of October 7th, 2023 underscore the stark foreign policy choice now faced by voters.

From The American Conservative, a mass migration crisis comes to a head - in Ireland.

From The Western Journal, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff doesn't deny striking his former girlfriend.

And from SFGate, the new movie from the aforementioned Saturday Night Live is not a comedy but a thriller.

Friday, October 11, 2024

Friday Fuss

As the sunny but cool weather continues on a Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, former President Obama accuses black men of sexism for not supporting presidential candidate Vice President Harris.

From FrontpageMag, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) mocks the Catholic communion ritual.  (I dare her to mock any Islamic ritual.)

From Townhall, to fight antisemitism, visit Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland.  (I did that in 2000.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, how Harris failed in her media blitz.

From the Washington Examiner, Providence, Rhode Island becomes the first city on the east coast to ban new gas stations.

From The Federalist, Oregon's online candidate lists and county voter pamphlets omit former President Trump and his running mate Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH).

From American Thinker, how Democrats have funded terrorism sponsored by Iran.

From MRCTV, video from the IDF shows a house in Lebanon used as a terror base.

From NewsBusters, the Chief Twit warns about what a Harris victory will mean for his platform X.

From Canada Free Press, former First Lady/Senator (D-NY)/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claims that a Trump victory will end the U.S. as we know it, and in a sense, she's right.

From TeleSUR, El Salvador hopes to have a nuclear reactor by 2030.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the BBC suppresses good news about monsoons in India.

From Snouts in the Trough, the great water rip-off in the U.K.

From EuroNews, the E.U. considers a plan to bypass Hungary's veto of €6.6 billion for Ukraine.

From ReMix, according to a poll, a majority of Germans want their Chancellor Olaf Scholz to renew talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on ending the war in Ukraine.

From Balkan Insight, reception centers run by Italy in Albania are "ready to accommodate migrants".

From The North Africa Post, Algeria wages a futile trade war on France.

From The New Arab, is Israel trying to push the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon out of Lebanon?

From GBN, police in Bristol, England detain a Christian pastor for expressing his views on the differences between Christianity and Islam in response to a question by a Muslim.

From Gatestone Institute, the Islamization of Bangladesh by interim government official Muhammad Yunus, supported by an array of American left-wingers.

From The Stream, was Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) right to burn a Koran?

From The Daily Signal, President Biden and Vice President Harris have different opinions about Governor DeSantis.

From The American Conservative, according to congresscritter Jim Banks (R-Ind), who wrote the article, Harris won't tell us about her core commitments, but they are clear from her record.

From The Western Journal, polling shows Trump ahead in two of Harris's "blue wall" states.

From BizPac Review, Trump responds to Harris's immigration rhetoric with an "epic takedown" by the National Border Patrol Council's vice president.

From The Daily Wire, Democrats are losing male voters, so the aforementioned President Obama tries to help by insulting male voters.

From the Daily Caller, Democrat strategist Dan Turrentine criticizes Obama for his attitude toward male voters.

From the New York Post, critics pan Harris's airbrushed photo on the cover of Vogue magazine.

From Breitbart, she's dooooooomed.

From Newsmax, former NCAA All-American swimmer Riley Gaines warns about what a Harris-Walz administration would do to female sports.

And from the Genesius Times, scientists isolate the substance "pure cringe" and start using it in the Harris-Walz campaign.

Thursday, October 10, 2024

Thursday Tidings

On a sunny but cool Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Democrats attack online free speech.

From FrontpageMag, radio host Howard Stern has a worship-fest with presidential candidate Vice President Harris, full of Trump derangement syndrome.

From Townhall, according to an opinion column, former President Trump and the Chief Twit are working class heroes.

From The Washington Free Beacon, how vice presidential candidate Governor Tim Walz (D-Min) ignored thousands of angry public school teachers.

From the Washington Examiner, what if Columbus had sailed, not for the Spanish Catholic monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella, but for the Islamic Emir Muhammed XII of Granada?  (The WE is allowing me to read this article without subscribing.  We'll see if that continues.)

From The Federalist, small businesses won't be able to deal with four more years of a Democrat-controlled IRS.

From American Thinker, the education of former President Trump.

From MRCTV, Disney creates a trans clone trooper for a Star Wars spinoff book.

From NewsBusters, The Washington Post denies the censorship of conservatives, but later tries to justify it.

From Canada Free Press, less than lethal self-defense weapons could mean less legal risk.

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro calls October 12th the beginning of genocide in the Americas.  (While he denounces colonialism, he neatly forgets that his country exists only because of that colonialism.  I'm pretty sure that he made his complaint in Spanish, the language of the colonizers.)

From TCW Defending Freedom, illegal aliens migrants fuel the U.K.'s biggest-ever population increase?

From EuroNews, a "small explosion" caused by a technical problem forces the evacuation of a train carrying europarliamentcritters from Strasbourg, France back to Brussels, Belgium.

From ReMix, Polish police struggle to deal with the rise of foreign gangs.  (If you read Polish, read the story at Wirtualna Polska.)

From Balkan Insight, the Serbian parliament rejects a proposed ban on mining lithium and boron.

From The North Africa Post, the Economic Community of West African States hosts a regional workshop in Lagos, Nigeria to finance an agreement for the Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline.

From The New Arab, how Palestinians look back on October 7th, 2023.

From The Jerusalem Post, UNWRA retains its candidacy for the Nobel Peace Prize despite evidence showing its ties to Hamas.

From Gatestone Institute, Israel is in danger from enemies both foreign and domestic.

From The Stream, an open letter to former First Lady Melania Trump.

From The Daily Signal, what's behind the claim made by a professor at the University of Kansas that men who don't vote for Harris should be lined up and executed?

From The American Conservative, illegal immigration is disastrous for the environment, but American environmental groups don't appear to give a rat's [bleep] about it.

From The Western Journal, Fox News makes a last-minute offer to both the Trump and Harris campaigns for another debate.

From BizPac Review, Harris gets some bad news on inflation.

From The Daily Wire, pro-lifers warn of "deceptive" abortion measures on the ballot in 10 red states.

From the Daily Caller, how Obamacare caused millions of Americans to lose their health insurance plans and their premiums to skyrocket.

From the New York Post, anti-Israel activists call for on-campus Hillels to be defunded or shut down.

From Breitbart, Hurricane Milton spawns tornados and leaves millions without power in Florida.

From Newsmax, Hurricane Milton causes nine deaths and destroys homes in Florida.

And from NBC News, Ethel Kennedy, human rights advocate, widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY) and mother of 11 children, passes away at age 96.  (via Breitbart)

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Appomattox Court House - Part 2

After leaving the main area of Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, I drove out to some of its remote areas.  First, I stopped at a Confederate cemetery, where 19 rebel soldiers are buried.  The cemetery is not run by the park, but by the Daughters of the Confederacy.

Appomattox Court House - Part 1

Today I visited Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, after giving myself a day off from blogging.  The main part of the park is located about two miles east of Appomattox, Virginia along state highway 24.  After going to the visitor center, the first place I went to was the McLean House, where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant.  (Two months ago, I visited his birthplace and boyhood home in southwestern Ohio.)  To my disappointment, this building is not original but was reconstructed after the actual McLean House was torn down in 1893.

Monday, October 7, 2024

Monday Mania

On a mild and sunny Monday falling on the anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel, here are some things going on:

From National Review, in protests against Israel, "antisemitism is the point".

From FrontpageMag, Afghans in Germany want to Islamize the country.

From Townhall, the headline at Politico about Vice President Harris's presidential campaign says it all.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the October 7th attacks, a year later.

From The Federalist, letting convicted criminals into the U.S. is precisely what the Democrats want.

From American Thinker, the similarities and differences in the paths to power taken by Harris and former First Lady/Senator (D-NY)/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.  (You might say that Clinton tolerated a bunch of "other women", while Harris started out as an "other woman".)

From MRCTV, FEMA is reportedly blocking private help and aid in places affected by Hurricane Helene.

From NewsBusters, congresscritter Adam Schiff (D-Cal) catches flak for his censorship wishlist.  (As I've said before and will say again, Schiff happens!)

From Canada Free Press, the change from September to October.

From TeleSUR, a Bolivian official calls for his country's border with Peru to be militarized due to "reverse food smuggling".

From TCW Defending Freedom, what Daily Mail didn't say about the latest vaccine from the U.K.'s NHS.

From Snouts in the Trough, bring on the stupidity.  (This post is a "Monday-Tuesday blog", for which I'll let the date of October 6th slide.)

From EuroNews, a U.K. doctor pleads guilty to attempted murder after having someone injected with a poison that was claimed to be a coronavirus vaccine.

From ReMix, Law and Justice party chairman Jarosław Kaczyński comes out swinging, but will the party ever return to power in Poland?

From Balkan Insight, Romania’s Permanent Electoral Authority refuses to reimburse the "far-right" party Alliance for the Union of Romanians for its campaign expenses.  (If your loyalty is to your country, and not to international bodies like the European Union, you might be "far-right".)

From The North Africa Post, Tunisian President Kaïs Saied appears to have won reelection.

From The New Arab, more about President Saied's projected reelection.

From Jewish News Syndicate, in the year since Hamas attacked, over 26,000 rockets, missiles and drones have been launched at Israel.

From BBC, two Chinese citizens have been killed and at least 10 people have been injured in a suicide attack at the Karachi, Pakistan airport.

From Arutz Sheva, Petah Tikva, Israel announces that hostage Idan Shtivi was murdered on October 7th, 2023.

From the Daily Mail, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar surrounds himself with dynamite and human shields.

From The Jerusalem Post, a restaurant in Haifa, Israel is struck by a rocket launched from Lebanon.

From RAIR Foundation USA, in Lebanon and elsewhere, mosques are used as military bases.  (The last six stories come via The Religion Of Peace.)

From Gatestone Institute, U.S. President Biden tells Jews "no" to defending themselves against Iran's potential nuclear weapons.

From The Stream, when Christians defeated Muslims on October 7th.  (As some have pointed out, Islamic terrorists do not choose the days of their attacks at random.)

From The Daily Signal, college students shamefully celebrate the atrocities committed by Hamas a year ago.

From The American Conservative, former naval officer/Senator (D-MA)/Secretary of State John Kerry gets confused about the Constitution.

From The Western Journal, vice presidential candidate Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) urges Americans to share a clip of Vice President Harris from her interview on 60 Minutes.

From BizPac Review, Vance highlights the "fundamental point" being missed about FEMA and illegal aliens under the Biden-Harris administration.

From The Daily Wire, families demand action as Hamas still holds almost 100 hostages since its attack on Israel a year ago.

From the Daily Caller, after her fellow Democrats panic, Harris goes on a softball interview tour.

From the New York Post, the Dow Jones Industrial Average drops about 500 points in response to economic data and worries about the conflict in the Middle East.

From ABC News, Biden promotes White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to senior adviser.  (Is this an example of the Peter Principle?  The story comes via the New York Post.)

From Breitbart, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) declares a state of emergency in 51 counties as Hurricane Milton approaches.

From Newsmax, how globalists endanger the 1st Amendment and freedom.

And from The Babylon Bee, 10 ways to smuggle humanitarian aid past FEMA.