FUNNY THAT THIS IS NOW CONTROVERSIAL: Ben Shapiro praises Western values, denounces Hamas at UW-Madison.

COME OUT TOMORROW NIGHT IN MIAMI to join FIRE, me, Rikki Schlott, & Jim Brady from the Knight Foundation to talk about Rikki & my new book The Canceling of the American Mind.

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MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Live from Miami, It’s (Almost) Debate Night. “I’m in Miami — along with WMAL’s Larry O’Connor, Townhall’s Katie Pavlich, and Red State’s Jennifer Van Laar — for an in-person drunkblog, followed by a chance to speak with various candidates.”

WELL, IT WORKS IN BRITAIN: Campus Reform went to the DC pro-Palestine rally. Activists tried to get us arrested.

ANOTHER WARNING SHOT FIRED BY POLITICO: 6 warning signs for Biden in new battleground state poll.

The poll results have already prompted tons of handwringing among prominent Democrats within half a day of their release. But it’s not just the topline numbers that should make the party wary of next year — and potentially uneasy about the off-year elections this week.

It’s also what’s buried in the crosstabs and the other questions — specific areas of weakness for Biden on policy, personal attributes and among key segments of the electorate central to his bid for a second term.

Short version: Bidenomics isn’t working, Biden is too old, and youth and Hispanic voters are losing faith.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Democrats Hate Israel Because Israel Loves America. “President LOLEightyOneMillion can pretend to be a staunch ally of Israel all he wants, but if he doesn’t publicly denounce Rashida Tlaib and her anti-Semitic nouveau Nazi Squad friends, he’s complicit in all of the pro-‘Palestinian’ violence that is currently happening.”

ABOLISH THE IVY LEAGUE: “Cornell really needs to get a handle on the poisonous ideology which has now inflicted campus.”

JOHN LUCAS: Courage, Cowardice and Leadership: Two Case Studies.

OVERDUE: The Government Surveillance Reform Act Would Rein in Some of the Worst Abuses of Section 702.

WHEN YOU LEAVE IT TO THE STATES, STATES GET TO DECIDE: Ohio voters enshrine right to abortion in state constitution.

Not many people noticed, but Trump saw this coming.

OH TO BE IN ENGLAND: Revealed: Hard-Left activist who led ‘from the river to the sea’ chant at pro-Palestine rally is Met Police adviser — while ‘leadership coordinator’ at Scotland Yard says support for Israel should be investigated as a ‘hate crime.’

THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME A CIVILIZATION HAS FACED PLUNGING BIRTH RATES: Ancient Fertility Quotes. “This graph of European urban population over history shows some dramatic declines, suggesting that there may have been historical analogue to our upcoming world population decline. And there have long been rumors that at least elites often had low fertility during such declines. Searching for quotes, I’ve found these.”

Meanwhile, women — at least fashionable women — are still pushing back against suggestions they should have kids.

SHE’S A MONSTER: ‘Can’t Fool Me’: Arab-Speaking Israeli Slams Rashida Tlaib For Lie About ‘From the River To The Sea’ Chant.

DON’T GET COCKY, KIDS: Don Surber: 3 reasons why Trump is leading. The first two don’t count because it is the mugshot, stupid. “The prosecutions are numerous and unfair in a manner that crosses party lines.”

HOW IT STARTED: “‘Hamas and Putin represent different threats, but they share this in common: They both want to completely annihilate a neighboring democracy, completely annihilate it,’ Biden said.”

—Biden makes the case for wartime aid to Israel and Ukraine in primetime address, CNN, October 19^th.

How it’s going: Ukraine war: Zelenskyy rules out wartime elections:

“Now is not the time for elections,” Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday, trying to put to rest a growing debate amid Russia’s grinding invasion.

“Now is the time for defence, for battle, on which the fate of the state and people depends, and not for farce, which only Russia expects from Ukraine,” Zelenskyy said in a speech. “I think this is not the time for elections.

“We must come together, not divide ourselves, not disperse ourselves in quarrels or other priorities,” he added.

—Euronews, yesterday.

As America’s Newspaper of Record puts it: Zelensky Cancels Elections To Focus On Fighting For Democracy.

(Via Ace of Spades.)

THIS IS A BIG LOSS, AND AS FAR AS I CAN TELL YOUNGKIN DIDN’T DO ANYTHING WRONG: Democrats regain control of Virginia House of Delegates in rebuke to Youngkin.

SAD: San Francisco’s Post-Apocalyptic Hellscape Is on Full Display in This Viral TikTok Video.

WHY ARE ALL OUR INSTITUTIONS FULL OF IDIOTS AND MORAL CRETINS? Meet the Nike Marketing Specialist Who Says Israel, Not Hamas, Is ‘Massacring Civilians:’ Nike’s James Rehwald: Israeli claims of Hamas atrocities are ‘pure projection.’

WHY YOUR TIKTOK FEED IS FULL OF ANTI-ISRAEL VIDEOS:

Now, the company insists that it’s not algorithmically advantaging one side over the other. And, unfortunately, we have no way of knowing whether they’re telling the truth or not. It’s possible that the pro-Palestine skew of TikTok’s content is simply a natural result of its user and creator base, which is dominated by younger and more liberal people, who lean toward the Palestinian side to begin with. It’s also possible that TikTok, whose parent company ultimately answers to the Chinese Communist Party, is putting its thumb on the scale to show viewers more of the side that China aligns itself with and against the side of Israel, a key U.S. ally.

Flashback: TikTok May Be A Chinese Superweapon.