A new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) indicates that 56% of likely voters support Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Proposition 50, which would gerrymander the state’s congressional map to help Democrats.

The map — unseen by most voters — would replace the one drawn by California’ constitutionally-mandated independent redistricting commission, which voters put into place after passing a referendum in 2008.

The likely effect of the map, created behind closed doors by Democrats, will be to eliminate at least half of the nine seats held by Republicans, who are already underrepresented by half in the existing “independent” map.

Newsom and other Democrats argue that Prop 50 is necessary to “defend democracy,” though effectively it ends the ability of the opposition party to compete fairly for congressional representation within the state.

California’s voters are willing to disenfranchise themselves because Newsom has successfully convinced them that gerrymandering is the best way to fight President Donald Trump, who is deeply unpopular in the state.

Newsom claims that Prop 50 is a response to a move by Texas to redraw several “majority-minority” districts, which will remove five Democrat-held seats. Democrats hope to capture the U.S. House majority next year.

Asked what the biggest problem is facing the country, California voters — perhaps ironically — cited threats to democracy, though arguably eliminating the opposition is a far more direct threat to democratic elections.

“Californians continue to choose political extremism or threats to democracy (40%) as the most important problem facing the United States today, while far fewer choose economic conditions (19%) and immigration (12%) as the top issue,” the poll reported.

There was a sharp partisan split: self-identified Republicans oppose Proposition 50 by a whopping 89% to 10%, and Democrats support it 84% to 14%. Voters in Republican-held districts oppose it, 56% to 42% — nearly the inverse of the state as a whole.

The poll also found that Newsom had a 55% approval rating — far higher than that measured in other polls. It also suggested that Newsom had succeeded in moving the electorate off its initial opposition to Prop 50.

Newsom’s method in Prop 50, as in the 2021 recall election, has been to frame a state issue or election as a referendum on national politics, casting each vote as way of identifying as Democrats and opposing Trump.

The poll was conducted from October 7 to 14 among 1,707 adults and 943 likely voters, with a sampling error of 4% for the latter.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, “The Zionist Conspiracy (and how to join it),” now available on Audible. He is also the author of the e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.

Ronald Reagan was known for a typically cogent observation about government: “Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” As is so often the case, he was right. He likely didn’t foresee the onset of electric vehicles and the climate scolds’ touting of them to prevent the planet from catching on fire; those were subsidized before they ever moved in the first place.

But those subsidies are gone now, and so a bunch of people who worked on vehicles and batteries are finding themselves out of work.

General Motors is laying off thousands of UAW-represented workers at factories that make electric vehicles and EV batteries as it retrenches from EVs after the end of federal subsidies and the elimination of some emissions regulations.

GM plans to lay off more than 3,300 hourly workers at plants across Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee starting in January. Of those, more than 1,700 are being laid off indefinitely, while more than 1,500 are expected to be called back in mid-2026.

The automaker said that battery plants it jointly owns with LG Energy Solution in Ohio and Tennessee will be idled starting Jan. 5 and that it plans to resume production in mid-2026.

GM is also placing about 1,200 of the 3,400 workers at its dedicated EV assembly plant in Detroit on indefinite layoff.

If they’d asked me, I could’ve told ’em:

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Turns out that GM isn’t the only manufacturer hit by the loss of the subsidies.

GM isn’t alone in pulling back on EV plans. Ford is moving workers from the plant that makes the electric F-150 Lightning to a nearby factory that makes the more popular—and profitable—gasoline-burning version. Nissan has decided not to offer its Ariya EV as a 2026 model and Honda has halted orders of the electric Acura ZDX, which is manufactured by GM.

“In response to slower near-term EV adoption and an evolving regulatory environment, General Motors is realigning EV capacity,” the company said.

That’s a nice way of saying “The federal gravy train isn’t running anymore, so we will have to go back to making cars that people want to buy.” That’s how it should be, of course, but we should note that these subsidies were products of the previous administration, and if economic reality is here, as in, anywhere on the North American continent, then the Biden administration’s economic policy was somewhere out past the Horsehead Nebula, and lost in space.

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While we feel bad for the people who are out of work, some of them permanently, this was inevitable. Stein’s Law applies here; if a thing can’t continue, it won’t, and the flow of federal baksheesh into the builders and buyers of electric vehicles couldn’t go on forever. The fact that, absent subsidies, electric vehicle sales crumbled, well, that speaks for itself, doesn’t it? If these things were economically viable, they wouldn’t have required subsidies. People would have bought them on their own merits.

Now, because of a stupid policy out of Washington, a bunch of American auto workers are out of a job. Hopefully, they can get hired back on in the gas-engine car and truck side, where jobs are no doubt far more secure.

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Former President Barack Obama’s presidential legacy is crumbling before our eyes. While he works to perform the roles of former president and titular head of the Democrat Party, running interference for the flailing campaigns of Democrat gubernatorial candidates Abigail Spanberger (VA) and Mikie Sherrill (NJ), and propping up CA Gov. Gavin Newsom and his unconstitutional gerrymandering scheme, he has the looming threat of the government for whom he used to be the head, precipitating his legacy’s increasing demise. 

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In July, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard dropped evidence that exposed how then-President Obama and his intelligence apparatus created fraudulent documents that spearheaded the entire Russia Collusion hoax lodged against President Donald Trump 45. 

As DNI Gabbard stated,

The stunning revelations these intelligence documents expose should concern every American. There is irrefutable evidence detailing how President Obama and his national security team directed the creation of an Intelligence Community Assessment that they knew was false, promoting the contrived narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help President Trump win, as though it were true. The documents we released shows how they did it: manufacturing findings from shoddy sources, suppressing evidence that disproved their false claims, disobeying IC tradecraft standards, and withholding the truth from the American people,” said DNI Gabbard. “In doing so, they conspired to subvert the will of the American people and worked with their partners in the media to promote this lie to undermine the legitimacy of President Trump.

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DNI Gabbard Details More Jaw-Dropping Info on Obama’s Effort to ‘Subvert the American People’s Will’

Gabbard released this report on July 23, a month after Obama spoke at The Connecticut Forum, a non-profit organization which claims to “encourage the free and active exchange of ideas in forums that inform, challenge, entertain, inspire, and build bridges among all people and organizations in our community.” 

In looking at its past speaker events, it is a laundry list of every globalist, left-of-center, and Democrat activist, with very few (if any) conservative or right-leaning speakers. So much for a free and active exchange of ideas when the only ideas platformed are Democrat and leftist. These are the places Obama is most at home as he continues to burnish his increasingly tarnished reputation and positions himself as a leader in the free world, despite no longer being the leader of the free world. 

Obama’s remarks surrounding the government’s role were strangely aligned with the revelations of his manufacturing intelligence to take down President Trump.

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Curious word, “Experimenting.” Obama’s complaints about platforms that elevate “hateful voices,” and how “government is going to have to be involved…” are nothing new. 

In a 2022 address to the Cyber Policy Center at Stanford University, Obama presented a much fuller plan on how government could tightly control social media platforms and arbitrate what is and is not free speech. In a Tuesday Public News exclusive, independent journalist Michael Shellenberger exposed how Obama laid out the entire program, which the Biden-Harris administration gleefully tried to implement.

In the spring of 2022, former President Barack Obama gave a major policy address at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center, where he laid out a sweeping proposal for government censorship of social media platforms through the Platform Accountability and Transparency Act. Six days later, President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security announced that it had created a “Disinformation Governance Board” to serve as an Orwellian Ministry of Truth with the clear goal of controlling the information Americans could access online.

In April 2022, Nina Jankowicz, aka “Scary Poppins,” was tapped as the Executive Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Disinformation Governance Board. She thought it was a clever move to turn a song from the movie “Mary Poppins” into a disinformation ditty. 

What Jankowicz assumed would be seen as whimsical artifice, the rest of us saw for what it was: an attempt to use a spoonful of sugar to shove government censorship down our throats. Jankowicz was roundly mocked, and DHS’ disinformation agenda was dragged out in the open when they would have preferred it be kept behind the scenes. 

Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter (now X) and the release of the Twitter Files brought further revelations to the collusion between Big Tech and the Biden-Harris administration’s attempt to maintain a stranglehold. 

However, what is given less attention, particularly since Jankowicz resigned in disgrace three weeks after being appointed, is that as early as February 2022, shadow president Barack Obama had set those plans he had outlined in his Stanford speech into motion, as RedState reported.

In November 2022, my colleague streiff reported on an investigation conducted by Senators Chuck Grassley and Josh Hawley, which revealed that this same Disinformation Governance Board that DHS claimed had not even been launched yet, was actually up and running as early as February with a “steering group” holding weekly meetings to set policy and strategy. Jankowicz and her team were already partnering with Big Tech with a meeting with Facebook being scheduled, and they created a portal to share information with foreign governments. Omidyar Network, a prominent Democrat dark money group, was also coordinating with them on policy on how to censor speech.

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Thanks to Hawley, we found that social media outlets had created a “portal” where the FBI and other agencies could order the take-down of offending posts (Leaked Documents Show DHS, the FBI, and Social Media Platforms Worked Together to Stop Debate on COVID, Hunter’s Laptop, and Election Integrity). We also know that foreign governments had access to that portal, but we don’t know which ones.

Those 2022 remarks, and the additional information Public News has uncovered, aligned closely with what occurred under the Biden-Harris administration. From Shellenberger:

At the heart of Obama’s vision for Internet censorship was legislation that would have authorized the US government’s National Science Foundation to authorize and fund supposedly independent NGOs to censor the Internet. The DHS and Stanford Internet Observatory, which was part of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center, pioneered this censorship-by-proxy strategy as a way to get around the First Amendment in 2020 with posts raising concerns about the 2020 elections and in 2021 with “narratives” expressing concern about the Covid vaccine. 

Had Donald Trump not won the 2024 election, Obama’s efforts to embed government censorship through his shadow operators would have continued. The Disinformation Governance Board may have appeared to have been dismantled, but DHS would have found a way to repackage it as well as turn the screws further on the social media companies that had already bent the knee. 

Trump’s win was a win for free speech, but the president was also smart enough to rip out the wiring from the apparatus. Trump’s executive orders to dismantle USAID and orders targeting the funding of universities, places that should be incubators of free speech but instead have become hotbeds of leftist ideology and censorship, cut right to the heart of Obama’s vision to use NGOs and educational centers to further his aims.

The 2024 election of President Donald Trump significantly reduced the threat of Obama, DHS, and NSF censoring the American people. Trump defunded much of the Censorship Industrial Complex. The Platform Accountability Act is going nowhere in Congress. Elon Musk fired most of the censorship staff at Twitter and has allowed a significantly wider range of speech on the platform. And even before Trump’s election, Stanford donor Frank McCourt stopped funding the Stanford Internet Observatory after Public, Racket News, and House Weaponization Subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan exposed its central role in the DHS censorship-by-proxy scheme.

Sadly, while America is waking up and rejecting Obama and his fallacious ideals, Europe continues to give him a platform, a willing audience, and the tools for Obama to implement his vision of global censorship.

But now, foreign governments, including Europe, the UK, Brazil, Australia, and others are demanding censorship, including of the American people. The risk is that US tech companies will find it significantly less expensive to have a single global censorship regime and just go along with foreign censorship requests. Facebook complied with Biden administration demands to censor because it needed Biden’s help in dealing with European censorship officials. And the Brazilian government forced Elon Musk to continue censoring the Brazilian people after it froze Starlink’s assets.

Don’t think Obama’s shadow hand is not at work, as he has been working at it for quite some time, as one European publication revealed.

Barack Obama will come to the EU in May 2025. Former US President in Poland will speak at the economic panel Impact’25 in Poznan, where he will be one of the speakers. Last year, one of the speakers at the event was his wife Michelle Obama, as reported by the Polish edition. Gazeta.

The source clarifies that the May visit to Poland will be Obama’s fourth in a row.

On top of this May trip, at the end of September, Obama appeared in London and Dublin, Ireland, for “An Evening with President Barack Obama,” and traveled again to Poland and Hungary to speak with “democracy activists.” In seeming coordination with these European jaunts, Public News received an agenda for a September 24 secret dinner of top European censorship officials at Stanford Cyber Policy Center.

Public has discovered that the Stanford Cyber Policy Center, which is led by Obama’s former ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, is at the heart of a new, secretive, and possibly illegal censorship initiative that appears even more ambitious than the one Obama proposed in 2022.

On September 24, the Cyber Policy Center hosted a secret dinner between its leaders and top censorship officials from Europe, UK, Brazil, California and Australia. The meeting was titled “Compliance and Enforcement in a Rapidly Evolving Landscape.” Frank McCourt, the same person behind the Stanford Internet Observatory, financed the gathering through his “Project Liberty Institute,” (PLI), toward which he gave $500 million to “strengthen democracy” and “foster responsible technology.”

Crazy Nina Jankowicz has not gone gently into that good night either. In 2024, she started her own disinformation organization, “The American Sunlight Project.” Jankowicz regularly speaks as a witness or panelist on these European forums that also seek to tighten the censorship net. 

In April 2025, at the same time Obama was in Poland, Jankowicz appeared before a European special committee, maligning America and its president as the enemy of free speech and a danger to democracy. Rinse. Repeat.

On Tuesday, the European Parliament’s Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield held a hearing and asked Jankowicz to give “expert” testimony on Russia’s disinformation campaigns, cyberattacks, espionage, and other hybrid threats targeting Europe. Instead of focusing just on the subject at hand, Jankowicz chose in her remarks to sic the EU on America and on the tech organizations she herself attempted to control when she served the Biden administration.

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Shellenberger rounded out his expose with this warning:

All of this is happening in a context of global censorship intensifying. The UK government arrests 30 people per day for “offensive” social media posts, is attempting to censor 4Chan, which has no servers in the UK, and will mandate digital IDs for employment, which may give unprecedented control to politicians and bureaucrats to censor. The Brazilian government has, for year,s been censoring journalists and policymakers, incarcerating people for legal social media content, and threatening prosecution of journalists, including this author. And several European nations are censoring and arresting their citizens, preventing opposition political candidates from running for office, and preparing to implement digital IDs.

As Obama’s legacy falls apart in the United States, accountability may be coming his way. But in Europe, Obama gives all the appearances of setting himself up as a globalist leader and the premier voice of the European censorship industrial complex. 

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Several Democrats have attempted to blame President Donald Trump and Republicans for the ongoing government shutdown, as funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is set to expire at the end of the month, affecting millions of Americans.

Sens. Alex Padilla (D-CA), Andy Kim (D-NJ), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) were among the Democrats who criticized Trump for “letting kids go hungry.”

While Democrats are casting blame on Trump and Republicans for the government shutdown, which has stretched into its 28th day, Senate Democrats voted for the 13th time against a clean continuing resolution (CR) that would have reopened the government, according to the Hill.

Per the outlet, the CR, which needs “60 votes to advance,” received 54 votes, including votes from Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), and Sen. Angus King (I-ME).

“Trump has the emergency funding available to keep SNAP running next month, but he’s choosing to use food insecurity as a weapon in this government shutdown,” Padilla wrote in a post on X. “Americans are going to go hungry because Republicans want leverage. It’s cruel. Democrats will keep fighting to lower costs and protect health care.”

In a post on X, Kim responded to a post of a video in which House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) stated that “Democrats are required to open the government,” adding that since “60 votes control the Senate, not a bare majority,” Republicans are not in complete control of the government.

“Actually… they are,” Kim wrote in his post. “Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. The least the Speaker could do is bring the House back into session to work and negotiate for the people they claim to serve.”

“Trump has billions at his disposal to continue SNAP benefits, but instead he’s letting kids go hungry and using hardworking Americans as political pawns,” Kelly wrote in a post on X. “It’s time to quit the games and come to the table so we can reopen the government and stop health care costs from spiking.”

“This regime has the power to fund SNAP, and they are choosing not to,” Hirono wrote in a post on X. “USDA can legally reallocate its funding to ensure 42 million Americans don’t lose the food assistance they rely on. I wrote to @SecRollins demanding that SNAP be funded to ensure families do not go hungry.”

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Several Democrats have attempted to blame President Donald Trump and Republicans for the ongoing government shutdown, as funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is set to expire at the end of the month, affecting millions of Americans.

Sens. Alex Padilla (D-CA), Andy Kim (D-NJ), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) were among the Democrats who criticized Trump for “letting kids go hungry.”

While Democrats are casting blame on Trump and Republicans for the government shutdown, which has stretched into its 28th day, Senate Democrats voted for the 13th time against a clean continuing resolution (CR) that would have reopened the government, according to the Hill.

Per the outlet, the CR, which needs “60 votes to advance,” received 54 votes, including votes from Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), and Sen. Angus King (I-ME).

“Trump has the emergency funding available to keep SNAP running next month, but he’s choosing to use food insecurity as a weapon in this government shutdown,” Padilla wrote in a post on X. “Americans are going to go hungry because Republicans want leverage. It’s cruel. Democrats will keep fighting to lower costs and protect health care.”

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“Actually… they are,” Kim wrote in his post. “Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. The least the Speaker could do is bring the House back into session to work and negotiate for the people they claim to serve.”

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“Trump has billions at his disposal to continue SNAP benefits, but instead he’s letting kids go hungry and using hardworking Americans as political pawns,” Kelly wrote in a post on X. “It’s time to quit the games and come to the table so we can reopen the government and stop health care costs from spiking.”

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“This regime has the power to fund SNAP, and they are choosing not to,” Hirono wrote in a post on X. “USDA can legally reallocate its funding to ensure 42 million Americans don’t lose the food assistance they rely on. I wrote to @SecRollins demanding that SNAP be funded to ensure families do not go hungry.”

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“Millions of hungry families are about to lose SNAP benefits to buy food,” Schumer wrote in a post on X. “There are $5 billion in emergency funds that could be used right now to ensure that parents and kids don’t go hungry when SNAP runs out this Saturday.”

Schumer added that Trump has ordered his administration “not to use this funding” to address the SNAP funding issue.

Breitbart News’s Hannah Knudsen reported that on Tuesday, Johnson “laid out” several truths that Americans should know about the ongoing shutdown. The truths included the points that “Democrat votes are required to open government” and that “Democrats have voted 13 times to keep government closed,” among others.

“[You must] have 60 votes in the Senate,” Johnson said. “We only have 53 Republicans, so we must have Democrats to do it. The Democrats are out trying to claim that this is all on Republicans, because we control the government. We don’t control the Senate without 60 votes, so you have to have them now. They voted 13 times — those Senate Democrats, counting the House and the Senate together, they voted 13 times to keep the government closed.”

Johnson continued to note that Democrats were demanding “$200 billion in health benefits paid for the U.S. taxpayers to illegal aliens and non-citizens” be restored in exchange for reopening the government.

“We can’t do that,” Johnson added. “They want billions of dollars in wasteful programs to be returned to foreign countries, things that none of you would agree with. We’re not going to do that.”

Karine Jean-Pierre, the dolt who became Joe Biden’s White House Press Secretary through affirmative action (she’s black, gay, a woman, and learning disabled), has once again proven she’s every bit as stupid as everyone suspected.

Even the far-left New Yorker — an outlet inclined to fully embrace and protect black, gay, learning-disabled female Democrats — couldn’t protect her from herself.

You see, she’s selling a book about her time in the White House and her selling point is as nonsensical as those press briefings she used to deliver. It goes something like this… Karine Jean-Pierre is leaving the Democrat Party and becoming an Independent because the Democrat Party treated Joe Biden so poorly when he was forced out of his 2024 reelection race.

Actually, this might be why the New Yorker pushed her so hard in this interview. As a Democrat, she was a sacred cow, a precious. Now that she’s left the Democrat Party, she’s no longer a precious. Instead, she’s a black, gay, learning-disabled apostate.

Okay, this makes sense now.

Anyway, the probing conducted by the New Yorker was nothing much, but it didn’t take much for Jean-Pierre to prove that she 1) doesn’t know her own mind or why she thinks the way she thinks about Biden, and 2) is not capable of explaining her rationale for leaving the party or even writing the book.

“You feel like you had to leave the Democratic Party because of the way it treated Joe Biden. How did it treat Joe Biden?” asked the New Yorker.

“I call it a betrayal,” she says. Then she makes it all about herself before answering the question. “It was an all-out, full-on campaign to embarrass him, to push him out… And I thought to myself, This man is one of the most decent people that I know.”

She adds that “objectively, objectively [Biden] did more in one term than most Presidents do in two. So I just didn’t understand why this was happening.”

Okay, fair enough. But then the probing begins and she falls apart like, well — like Joe Biden did in that debate.

“Why do you believe the Democrat Party was undermining Biden?” she’s asked.

Her answer? I’m a gay, black woman. “This is very layered,” she explains. “There’s a period of time that I questioned what was happening and how do we treat our own, how do we treat people who are decent people?” Then it’s all about her: “And then you also have to think about how I’m thinking about this as a [b]lack woman who is part of the L.G.B.T.Q. community, and living in this time where I also don’t think Democrats right now, Democrats’ leadership, is protecting vulnerable people in the way that it should.”

The New Yorker then points out that after Biden’s disastrous debate, polls that had already shown Trump in a slight lead were showing Trump trouncing Biden. So, if she considers Trump such a threat, wasn’t it best to replace Biden with someone who could defeat that threat? Shouldn’t the country come before one man?

“Wait a minute, wait a minute. Treating somebody with dignity is not the same as loyalty,” she protests. “I mean, the way he was treated, I had never… if you had seen something like that in the Democratic Party, please, please, point that out.”

When asked for an example of this disrespect, she says, “I mean, it was nasty articles that were coming out daily.”

The New Yorker responds drily, “So you think asking him to step aside was O.K., but there shouldn’t have been nasty articles?”

And this is when it all comes apart…

“Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I don’t think [Biden being forced out] should have happened… I believe we should have fought to make sure that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won. That’s what I believed.”

When asked about Biden’s obvious mental decline, she said, “I did not see anything that would’ve given me concern.”

What about that debate?

“What I’m saying to you is the debate for me was one time. I had never seen him like that before.”

It gets worse.

Jean-Pierre says it was an insult to then-Vice President Kamala Harris that people thought it would be better to have an open convention than anoint her as Biden’s replacement:

I’m speaking also as a [b]lack woman and what I experienced myself as being a first. This is not just me. There are many [b]lack women who feel this. We are the backbone of the Party. We are on the front lines, and when it comes time to elevate us, or hear us, acknowledge our voice, we are largely ignored.

Here’s the killshot…

“So what I was confused by was you saying that you didn’t think Harris could win,” the New Yorker points out, “but then you attack other people who didn’t seem to think Harris could win by saying they were insulting her.”

Jean-Pierre’s answer is Woke Gold:

“Yes. Well, again, I wish you could walk in my body and live my life, and then I think you could understand what I’m saying,” is her response. “I really do, because I think any other [b]lack woman would understand what I’m saying.”

NEW YORKER: I’m not trying to discount what you’re saying about Harris, but Biden is not an L.G.B.T.Q. Black woman, and you have the same feelings about how he was treated. This is what you keep going back to in the book. Sometimes I worry about losing sight of the fact that we’re dealing with a Presidential election here, and the feelings of Joe Biden are less important than the fate of the country.

JEAN-PIERRE: You’re telling me about the feelings of Joe Biden, blah, blah, blah, but Joe Biden is out of the picture. He’s out of the picture.

What is she even talking about? Removing an old, senile white guy from the presidential race is an insult to gay, black women? Not disrespecting Kamala with an open primary is more important than winning the presidential race against a man she sees as a unique threat to the country? Look at that last quote. After basing her whole premise on how this good man Joe Biden was so poorly treated, she’s all, “You’re telling me about the feelings of Joe Biden, blah, blah, blah…”

She has no idea what she believes. None. It’s all status and buzzwords with her, and she believes the buzzwords will confirm or enhance her status in a Democrat Party that’s gone off the deep end of woke and only cares about those buzzwords.

Jean-Pierre’s mistake was leaving the Democrat Party under the arrogant belief others would follow her. She looks ridiculous standing out there all by herself, unable to explain herself.

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Party unity isn’t Republicans’ strongest trait — though they’ve pretty well stuck together through the Schumer Shutdown so far. 

Tuesday evening delivered a different story as five Senate Republicans opted to side with the Democrats and voted to block President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Brazil.

Senate Republicans offered a rare rebuke against President Donald Trump and his trade strategy on Tuesday, despite still remaining largely in lockstep amid the ongoing government shutdown.

A handful of Senate Republicans joined Senate Democrats to end Trump’s use of emergency powers to implement steep, 50% tariffs on Brazil. While the resolution, led by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., advanced from the upper chamber, it can’t be taken up in the House until early next year.

That’s because House Republicans recently passed a rule that would not allow the chamber to consider legislation dealing with Trump’s tariffs until January of next year.

So, who were the Republicans who broke ranks? 

I bet if I’d asked you to guess who the five were, you’d have come up with most — if not all — of them: 

• Susan Collins (ME)
• Mitch McConnell (KY)
• Lisa Murkowski (AK)
• Rand Paul (KY)
• Thom Tillis (NC) 

This followed a closed-door lunch between Vice President JD Vance and Republican senators during which Vance cautioned the senators not to thwart Trump’s tariff use. 

Vance argued after the lunch that tariffs give Trump leverage to craft new trade deals that benefit the country and urged Republicans not to break ranks against the president.

“To vote against that is to strip that incredible leverage from the president of the United States. I think it’s a huge mistake and I know most of the people in there agree with me,” he said.

As of this writing, President Trump has not commented on the vote (though he’s rather busy at the moment on the other side of the world). 

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As noted above, the House won’t be able to take up the measure until at least January. 

This is a developing story. 

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It may have begun before President Donald Trump arrived on the political stage, but his election and reelection have certainly brought front and center the ever-quickening slide of Democrats from just being left-wingers to straight-up socialists. They continue to champion issues and candidates that the American people told them last November they had absolutely no interest in. But now, with under a week to go in the New York City mayoral race, there is a handful of Democrats who are starting to figure out that, when it came to candidates to run the biggest city in America, maybe they should have spoken up a little sooner. 

There is a handful of Democrats, dare we call them “sensible,” that are beginning to sweat over the possibility that self-proclaimed democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani seems all but certain to become the next mayor of the Big Apple. Longtime Democrat strategist Fernand Amandi said this:

“It’s one thing for Republicans to use absurd attacks calling Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi socialists to scare voters. It’s another thing to use an actual socialist to scare voters about the Democrats being the party of socialists, and that’s the concern about Mamdani.”

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In an interview with The Washington Post, Democrat Rep. Josh Gottheimer (NJ-05) stated that Mamdani holds “extremist views,” which are not the views of the Democrat party as a whole (could have fooled us). He went on to say that he fears that Republicans will morph Mamdani into a bogeyman, and the 2026 campaign commercials will write themselves. Gottheimer added, “If we’re focused on playing defense on Mamdani, that will be a … major distraction.”

But some of those sweaty Democrats are doing what they always do: play word games. Rep. Tom Suozzi (NY-03) ran cover for Mamdani, calling him a “democratic capitalist, not a democratic socialist.” What does that even mean? He made sure to add that socialism is a “failed economic system” that “hasn’t ever worked in the history of the world. That’s just not something that we endorse or support.” Rep. Laura Gillen (NY-04) says she disagrees with many of Mamdani’s ideas and has called for her fellow Democrats to declare that “we are not socialists.” If you have to say you are not socialists…

In a bizarro world where Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has been a voice of reason, it turns out that HBO Host Bill Maher is also speaking some common sense. He recently made a statement that those Democrats not on board the Mamdani bandwagon know in their hearts are true. Maher said:

“I think the whole Democratic Party in the country is on the ballot, and the whole country will be looking at this race to see which way are the Democrats going to go.” 

National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) spokesman Mike Marinella says the instincts of those doubting Democrats are spot on:

So-called “Leader” Hakeem Jeffries’ signed a deal with the socialist devil, and now every House Democrat is dragging an anvil of radical socialism into 2026. The NRCC will make sure voters know what the modern Democrat Party now stands for.

DIG DEEPER: Zohran Mamdani ‘Clarifies’ Story About His Aunt With an Unbelievable Answer

Mamdani offers the socialist (communist) fairy tale of taxing richer, whiter neighborhoods, free everything, and has stated that billionaires should not exist. But he was also caught in quite a whopper. My colleague, Sister Toldjah, recently reported on the fact that Mamdani’s story about an aunt who, after 9/11, was afraid to ride the subway because she was wearing a hijab is patently false. The relative in question is actually a now-deceased cousin. But the next logical question is: what else is he lying about?

With a week to go, Mamdani is polling at 43.8 percent, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is at 33.6 percent, and Republican Curtis Sliwa is at a distant 10.8 percent. Democrats sure picked a fine time to panic. 

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New York City (NYC) mayoral candidate and Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani clarified that the aunt he claimed was a victim of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack due to her fear of wearing a hijab was actually his “father’s cousin.”

When asked by a reporter about how he had “referenced” his aunt and the alleged harassment she faced after the September 11th terrorist attack, Mamdani clarified that she was actually his “father’s cousin.”

“I was speaking about my aunt, I was speaking about Zehra Fuhi — my father’s cousin, who sadly passed away a few years ago,” Mamdani said. “For the takeaway, for my more than 10-minute address about Islamophobia in this race and this city, to be the question of my aunt tells you everything about Andrew Cuomo.”

The New York Post reported that “fuhi means paternal aunt in Urdu and Hindi.”

The outlet also noted that after Mamdani’s comments attempting to paint his “aunt” as a victim of the September 11 attacks, and how she was afraid to wear her hijab on the subway, people pointed out that Mamdani’s only aunt had “lived in Tanzania” at the time:

Internet sleuths later claimed that a public health consultant, Masuma Mamdani, was the Democratic nominee’s only aunt, posting photos of her in which she appeared without a hijab and noting that she lived in Tanzania on 9/11.

Mamdani’s explanation came after he stated, while speaking outside of the Islamic Cultural Center of The Bronx, that his aunt “stopped taking the subway” after September 11 “because she did not feel safe in her hijab.”

“I want to speak to the memory of my aunt, who stopped taking the subway after September 11th because she did not feel safe in her hijab,” Mamdani stated.

Breitbart News’s Amy Furr reported that Mamdani also stated:

“Over these last few days, these lessons have become the closing messages of Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa and Eric Adams. Yesterday, Andrew Cuomo laughed and agreed when a radio host said that I would cheer another 9/11,” he stated.

Mamdani’s comment was met with criticism from people such as Vice President JD Vance.

“According to Zohran the real victim of 9/11 was his auntie who got some (allegedly) bad looks,” Vance wrote in a post on X.

“He cried for his aunt’s fear of the subway,” Reza Chowdhury, the CEO and Founder of AlleyWatch wrote in a post. “Most New Yorkers cried for the associates, friends, family, sons, daughters, parents, parents of friends, colleagues, etc. they lost forever on that dreadful day.”

“Zohran, my mom was a detective on the NYPD’s Medical Examiner’s Office on 9/11,” Harrison Fields, a former White House spokesman, wrote in a post. “If you want to know the victims of 9/11, she’d be happy to fill you in.”

“You know what I think was the worst part of 9/11?” another person wrote. “The murdering of 3,000 innocent Americans by radical Islamic terrorists, but that’s just me.”

From the “I Voted For This” files comes the woeful story of Sami Hamdi, a Muslim political commentator from the United Kingdom who was detained over the weekend in San Francisco, California.

Hamdi was in the United States to take part in a nationwide tour speaking tour being held by the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which is a red flag unto itself. He had spoken at the annual gala of CAIR Sacramento on Saturday and was on his way to speak at a CAIR Florida event on Sunday when the long arm of federal law enforcement caught up with him.

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But, it’s not his association with CAIR that brought Hamdi to the attention of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in San Francisco, it was his history of inflammatory anti-Israel comments that led to his detainment and what looks like his one-way ticket back home. 

Days after the October 7 atrocity in Israel, Hamdi, who is the editor-in-chief of a news site called The International Interest, told a mosque in London to “celebrate the victory.” This so-called “victory” saw 1,200 Israelis raped and butchered and hundreds more kidnapped, including American citizens.

For context, here’s Sami Hamdi in his own words:

“We are pitying a people who brought a huge victory since 1948,” he said. “Don’t pity them, they don’t want your pity. Celebrate the victory,” he said.

“How many of you felt it in your hearts when you got the news that it happened? How many of you felt the euphoria? Allahu Akbari!”

Hamdi also claimed Israel’s accusations of sexual violence committed by Hamas were false, according to The Telegraph. 

This kind of incendiary rhetoric apparently earned Hamdi regular commentator opportunities on places like Al Jazeera, BBC, and Sky News.

Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin has confirmed that Hamdi’s “visa was revoked and he is in ICE custody pending removal.”

Thanks to the work of @Sec_Noem and @SecRubio and the men and women of law enforcement, this individual’s visa was revoked and he is in ICE custody pending removal. 

Under President Trump, those who support terrorism and undermine American national security will not be allowed to work or visit this country. 

It’s commonsense.

Our friends at CAIR are pitching a fit and accusing the Trump administration of “abducting a prominent British Muslim journalist and political commentator.” From their statement on Hamdi:

“Abducting a prominent British Muslim journalist and political commentator on a speaking tour in the United States because he dared to criticize the Israeli government’s genocide is a blatant affront to free speech,” CAIR said in a statement.

“Our nation must stop abducting critics of the Israeli government at the behest of unhinged Israel First bigots. This is an Israel First policy, not an America First policy, and it must end.”

It’s refreshing to see the U.S. finally take seriously who is allowed to come into our country … and who is not. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has previously said, “Coming to the United States on a visa is a privilege, not a right. The Trump Administration is determined to deny or revoke your visa if you’re here to support terrorists.” And they obviously mean it.

Sami Hamdi and CAIR are finding out the hard way that we only want the best of the best to have the privilege of entering the United States. And, yes, I did vote for this.

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Late in World War 2, in the European theater, the Germans hit the Allied air forces with something new: Jet fighters. Chief among them was the Messerschmitt Me-262, a big, brutal twin-engine beast packing four 30-mm cannons. It was considerably faster than the American P-51 Mustang, generally considered the best piston-engine fighter in the air at the time. It was near-impossible to defeat in the air, but it was slow and cumbersome on taxi, vulnerable during takeoff and landing, and required a long runway.

So we went after them when they were on the ground, destroying aircraft and bases alike. It worked.

It’s a good way to go after a foe with air superiority, or at least, better aircraft. Take them out on the ground. Take out their bases. And now, with long-range, accurate cruise missiles, that’s easier to do, even when the air base may be an aircraft carrier. But one company, Shield AI, has come up with a new AI-powered fighter that may be able to counter any such move.

The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has spent years building an arsenal of long-range precision missiles — including “carrier killers” like the DF-21D and DF-26 — capable of destroying U.S. aircraft carriers and striking American airfields across the Pacific. The goal: keep U.S. air power out of range before it can even launch.

Now, a U.S. defense technology firm says it has built a way to fight back. Shield AI, based in San Diego, has unveiled a new AI-piloted fighter jet designed to operate without runways, without GPS, and without constant communication links — an aircraft that can think, fly and fight on its own.

This new system, if it works as advertised, could bring about a whole new iteration of that great old American military truism: “Do unto others, first.”

Shield AI says the jet, called X-BAT, can take off vertically, reach 50,000 feet, fly more than 2,000 nautical miles, and execute strike or air defense missions using an onboard autonomy system known as Hivemind. It’s designed to operate from ships, small islands or improvised sites — places where traditional jets can’t. The aircraft’s dash speed remains classified.

“China has built this anti-access aerial denial bubble that holds our runways at risk,” said Armor Harris, Shield AI’s senior vice president of aircraft engineering, in an interview with Fox News. “They’ve basically said, ‘We’re not going to compete stealth-on-stealth in the air — we’ll target your aircraft before they even get off the ground.’”

China has advanced fighters, or at least, they claim to; everything that issues forth from the Chinese People’s Liberation Army should be taken with a huge truckload of salt. But quantity has a quality all its own, and China does have the capacity to build an awful lot of second-rate aircraft.

This new American system could have an answer:

X-BAT’s Hivemind autonomy allows it to operate in denied or jammed environments, where traditional aircraft would be blind. The system uses onboard sensors to interpret its surroundings, reroute around threats and identify targets in real time. “It’s reading and reacting to the situation around it,” Harris said. “It’s not flying a pre-programmed route. If new threats appear, it can reroute itself or identify targets and then ask a human for permission to engage.”

Of course, giving the keys to a robot would require making sure that its target-identification protocols were dialed all the way in. You wouldn’t want one shooting down a friendly – or an airliner.

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The axiom, “We solve today’s problems with tomorrow’s technology,” would seem to apply here as well. If the X-BAT is adopted, it could be in service as soon as 2029. It would allow the American armed forces to produce a capable aircraft at a fraction of the cost of an F-22 or F-35, and allow us to launch them from almost anywhere, flooding the skies with a bunch of smart drones with weapons.

This is a system that’s bound to give Chinese and Russian war planners some headaches, and any Chinese or Russian pilots who go up against a smart-bot swarm would no doubt come out of it feeling maladjusted – if this system works as advertised. And that, yes, is the big “if.”

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