WELL, GOOD: Data Show There’s No ‘Epidemic Of Violence’ Against Trans People. “Looking at each of 29 such reported cases in 2024, the three most common categories are domestic violence (6), altercations (6), and accidents (4). Of all cases, four did not have sufficient information reported by authorities to make a determination on what kind of violence occurred. The deaths also included a suicide, the highly publicized death of Dagny (Nex) Benedict, a victim of a mass shooting, and a random act of violence.”

Whatever you do, don’t upset progressives with statistics and facts.

CONSERVING CONSERVATISM MOST CONSERVATIVELY BY SEXUALIZING A COLD-BLOODED MURDERER:

From the replies: “If they are comfortable sharing this kind of thing in public, what the hell kind of nefarious shit goes on behind closed doors.”

You probably don’t want to know.

From Mussolini to Che to Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, there’s nothing new about leftists getting turned on by murderers — they just didn’t use to call themselves conservatives.

DEMOCRATS: ActBlue Bombshell: Dem money platform tells Congress it didn’t block foreign gift cards until fall.

ActBlue, the massive online fund-raising platform for liberal causes, has informed Congress it did not automatically block donations made with foreign-bought gift cards until recently, a potentially significant revelation in an ongoing investigation into whether China, Russia, Iran or Venezuela routed illicit money to Democrat candidates.

House Administratrion Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., whose panel oversees election integrity, told Just the News on Tuesday that ActBlue turned over documents under subpoena showing a major change in September to its donor verification policies designed to protect against illicit money flowing into political campaigns.

ActBlue disclosed that it updated its policies on Sept. 9 to “automatically reject donations that use foreign prepaid/gift cards, domestic gift cards, are from high-risk/sanctioned countries, and have the highest level of risk as determined,” by its solution provider, Sift.

The change occurred just three days after Steil introduced the Secure Handling of Internet Electronic Donations (SHIELD) Act on Sept. 6 to ensure foreign money stayed out of online political fundraising. Before the change, Steil said, donations made with foreign gift cards were not automatically rejected by ActBlue before the change.

Good reporting but I don’t know how much of a “bombshell” the story actually is. Barack Obama opened the foreign money floodgates for his 2008 presidential run and wasn’t seriously punished for it. Why wouldn’t ActBlue do the same?

I GUESS YOU COULD SAY THE DEMOCRATS TRIED TO MAKE HIM INTO BRETT KAVANAUGH — AND SUCCEEDED. Pete Hegseth Will Be Confirmed.

Well, Kavanaugh was confirmed, too, so maybe this was a bad strategy.

BROUGHT TO YOU BE THE SAME PEOPLE WHO WON’T STOP YAMMERING ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY:

Something that can’t go on forever will stop.

HILLARITY ENSUED: What Happened When Oxford Anti-Semites Were Exposed to Facts.

The point here is not just the behavior of anti-Israel maniacs at the union or the fact that Sacerdoti, representative of the pro-Israel side of the public debate more broadly, showed grace and respect while standing his ground. It’s that the parts that drove the crowd to the brink of insanity were merely Sacerdoti’s reciting of statistics—i.e., facts. The mob’s contact with reality produced a chemical reaction that ought to be studied for decades to come.

About eight minutes in, Sacerdoti notes, in objection to the idea that Israel is purposely starving Gazans: “Israel has provided 700,000 tons of food to Gaza during this war. That is a daily average of 3,200 calories per person.”

To which a woman in the audience yelled: “You sick motherf***er!”

I don’t know if I’ve seen an exchange that so perfectly encapsulates the public debate over this Israel-Hamas war.

In the official Oxford Union video, you don’t get to hear that response at all. That is when the sound is cut out for 110 seconds, the length of time it takes the presiding official to regain order and allow Sacerdoti to continue.

This eruption was not caused by Sacerdoti saying something provocative or even delivering his opinion. It was his recital of statistics that sent the crowd into convulsions of fury.

You can watch the unedited video on X, naturally.

CLASS CONFLICT IN AMERICA:

AGAIN, DON’T RAGE AT INSURANCE. RAGE AT THE GOVERNMENT:   The Daily Chart: The Failure of Obamacare.

Second, the dirty secret of health policy since the failure of Hillarycare in 1994 is that the government demands that private health insurance systems do cost containment, so that they, and not the government, will take the heat. One of the superficial claims you hear from the left is that Medicare has something like a 1% administrative cost, while private insurance has something like a 25 to 30% administrative cost, the lesson being “See, government health care is cheaper!”