AS ANY NORMAL HUMAN SHOULD BE:  Fox News reporter Trey Yingst visibly shaken as he shares gruesome details of Hamas terrorist’s Israel massacre confession.

DEPORT ANY OF THEM WHO ARE HERE ON A “REFUGEE” VISA. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM:  Pro-Palestinian Agitators in Minneapolis Block Road, Fly Hamas Flag During Protest.

DOG BITES MAN:  Biden’s Oval Office Address Was A Disgrace.

DO NOT SEND YOUR KIDS TO COLLEGE:  The Sickness of Our Universities—and the Cure.

THEY’RE OF THEIR KIN, THEY’RE OF THEIR KIND:  Minneapolis City Council Candidate, Rioters Terrorize Old Man in Car at ‘pro-Palestine’ Rally.

HEY, HEY, HO, HO, THE AP HAS GOT TO GO:  Associated Press Reporters Can Only Describe Hamas Terrorists as Militants, ‘Fighters, Attackers, or Combatants’.

THIS WAS THEIR OBSESSION AFTER 9/11 TOO. BAH:  Hate Speech: Biden, Jean-Pierre Sometimes Mentions Anti-Semitism, But Always Mentions Islamophobia.

ANIMALS:  Multiple Hamas Terrorists: We Became Like ISIS, Admit To Beheadings, Stomping Heads, Sex With Dead Women,

WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING:

https://twitter.com/Endwokeness001/status/1716374618464747829

AIRBRUSHING: Coca-Cola Quietly Removes BLM References From Website.

I’M SURE IT WAS AN “ACCIDENT.” Chinese Coast Guard Ship Collides with Philippine Resupply Boat in South China Sea.

I WORRY THAT THE DEMS WILL FIND A WAY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS: Republican search for new US House leader returns to square one.

OPEN THREAD: It’s just a noisy hall, where there’s a nightly brawl.

IN THE ATLANTIC: HEY, IMMIGRATION MIGHT CONTRIBUTE TO INEQUALITY. The Hard Truth About Immigration: If the United States wants to reduce inequality, it’s going to need to take an honest look at a contentious issue. “The critics’ predictions—that annual immigration might soon triple, as one conservative congressman forecast, and eventually surpass 1 million, as another anticipated, ended up being more accurate.”

I guarantee, the people in today’s ruling class have zero interest in reducing inequality. “The second big question about immigration is how it has affected the living standards of people who were already in the United States. On the surface, the facts look damning. . . . Logic and history point to the same conclusion as the economic data. That is why CEOs long favored high levels of immigrants and labor leaders such as A. Philip Randolph and Samuel Gompers long opposed them.”

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Victoria’s Secret Quietly Cancels New Lizzo Lingerie Line.

HOW LONG UNTIL VARDA CHANGES ITS NAME TO ELBERETH INDUSTRIES? Varda partners with Australian range for capsule landings.

AMERICA’S PHARMACY DESERTS: Rite Aid, CVS and Walgreens will shut more than 1,500 stores due to crime and competition — leaving MILLIONS without access to healthcare.

The nation’s largest drugstore chains, Rite Aid, CVS and Walgreens, will shutter more than 1,500 stores, leaving millions of Americans without access to healthcare in ‘pharmacy deserts.’

Rite Aid said it will close 150 of its 2,100 US locations after they filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this month.

The pharmacy chain has been unable to settle hundreds of lawsuits that accused them of overprescribing opioids and has struggled to keep up with competitors.

A slew of drugstore chains slashing their locations has left millions of people living in areas where it’s difficult to obtain medication, areas known as ‘pharmacy deserts,’ according to JAMA Network.

As Lawrence Person noted last month: Defund The Police + Decriminalize Shoplifting = “Food Deserts.”  And “pharmacy deserts” as well. And where the drugstore is still open in an urban area, everything behind locked shelving, encased in plastic anti-theft containers, or both:

WHAT? Off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot hit with 83 counts of attempted murder after allegedly trying to turn off engines mid-flight.

An off-duty pilot has been charged with 83 counts of attempted murder — after he allegedly tried to crash a San Francisco-bound Alaska Airlines flight by shutting off the engines.

The pilot, identified by police as Joseph David Emerson, 44, was sitting in the cockpit’s jump seat — located behind the captain and the first officer — when he tried to activate the jet’s fire suppression system midflight, the airline said in a statement.

If he was successful, he would have cut off the flow of fuel to the engines.

“When pulled, a valve in the wing closes to shut off fuel to the engine. After they are pulled, some residual fuel remains in the line, and the quick reaction of our crew to reset the handles restored fuel flow and prevented fuel starvation,” an Alaska Airlines spokesperson explained.

The flight’s captain and first officer managed to subdue the suspect Emerson, who was off-duty but authorized to sit in the cockpit as an employee of the airline.

Flight 2059 was being operated by Horizon Air, a regional carrier owned by Alaska Airlines. It took off from Everett, Wash. shortly before 5:30 p.m. Sunday.

More here: Who is pilot Joseph Emerson? Pleasant Hill [CA] neighbors say he’s ‘very friendly.’

Emerson is currently in custody at the Multnomah County Detention Center in Portland with no bail, jail inmate records show. He was booked into jail on 83 counts of first-degree attempted murder, 83 counts of reckless endangerment, and one count of endangering an aircraft.

Charges were referred to the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office for review. He is slated to be arraigned in court at 2:05 p.m. Tuesday.

The Port of Portland Police Department, FBI, TSA, FAA, and Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office are investigating the incident.

I’ll be very curious to hear if a motive is ever released after the investigation.

THE DAY THE DELUSIONS DIED: A lot of people woke up on October 7 as progressives and went to bed that night feeling like conservatives. What changed?

When Hamas terrorists crossed over the border with Israel and murdered 1,400 innocent people, they destroyed families and entire communities. They also shattered long-held delusions in the West.

A friend of mine joked that she woke up on October 7 as a liberal and went to bed that evening as a 65-year-old conservative. But it wasn’t really a joke and she wasn’t the only one. What changed?

The best way to answer that question is with the help of Thomas Sowell, one of the most brilliant public intellectuals alive today. In 1987, Sowell published A Conflict of Visions. In this now-classic, he offers a simple and powerful explanation of why people disagree about politics. We disagree about politics, Sowell argues, because we disagree about human nature. We see the world through one of two competing visions, each of which tells a radically different story about human nature.

Those with “unconstrained vision” think that humans are malleable and can be perfected. They believe that social ills and evils can be overcome through collective action that encourages humans to behave better. To subscribers of this view, poverty, crime, inequality, and war are not inevitable. Rather, they are puzzles that can be solved. We need only to say the right things, enact the right policies, and spend enough money, and we will suffer these social ills no more. This worldview is the foundation of the progressive mindset.

By contrast, those who see the world through a “constrained vision” lens believe that human nature is a universal constant. No amount of social engineering can change the sober reality of human self-interest, or the fact that human empathy and social resources are necessarily scarce. People who see things this way believe that most political and social problems will never be “solved”; they can only be managed. This approach is the bedrock of the conservative worldview.

Hamas’s barbarism—and the explanations and celebrations throughout the West that followed their orgy of violence—have forced an overnight exodus from the “unconstrained” camp into the “constrained” one.

On the flip side, as Don Surber writes: The Nazis are winning — society accepts and promotes anti-Semitism again. “I was lectured long and often last year about how Ukraine was a fight for democracy even as Zelensky banned opposition parties and shut down elections. Here we have a legitimate democracy — Israel — facing an existential threat from rapists and executioners and I do not hear anyone in Washington talking about democracy. But they go on and on and talk about proportionate punishment as if Palestinians are just unruly children and not cutthroats who want to destroy Israel and kill Jews from the river to the sea. German Nazis used education camps to indoctrinate their youth. American Nazis use Harvard.”

Related:

Brief reminder that Jews are the second most frequently targeted group for hate crimes in the United States. Muslims are #15.*

*as measured by incidents reported to the FBI. https://t.co/xEOiACc087

— Charles Fain Lehman (@CharlesFLehman) October 23, 2023

Earlier: Reaction to Hamas massacre shows it’s time to decolonize the campus.

Iowahawk suggests something a bit more drastic:

This poll could be cited as justification for bulldozing every college in America https://t.co/eW91W8JcBP

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) October 23, 2023

UPDATE: KJP’s whataboutism was in accordance to the prophecy:

It's hard to stay ahead of reality at The Babylon Bee. We had this written last night only to wake up and see the White House doing exactly this before we had the chance to publish pic.twitter.com/Xheyvt2CrB

— Joel Berry (@JoelWBerry) October 23, 2023

I HOPE THE MISSION ISN’T IMPOSSIBLE:

As always, should you or any of your IM Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This message will self-destruct in 5 seconds. Good luck.https://t.co/Kfb3y2V5gd

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 23, 2023

CUE THE PMS JOKES: For The First Time, Scientists Show Structural, Brain-Wide Changes During Menstruation.

DEAL OF THE DAY: COOFANDY Men’s Casual Button Down Shirt Wrinkle Free Shirts. #CommissionEarned

VOTERS ARE TIRED OF “IMMIGRANTS:” Common Cause: Germany Waves “Auf Wiedersehen” and the Swiss Swing Right?

GROUNDBREAKING: Glamour’s ‘Women of the Year’ Are All Women.

What happened: A women’s fashion magazine, Glamour, honored its “Women of the Year” award winners at a swanky gala in London last week.

• All of the winners were actually women.
• The magazine’s “Women of the Year” honorees included female actress Millie Bobby Brown, female actress America Ferrera, female singer Leigh-Anne Pinnock, female actress Ariana DeBose, female singer Halle Bailey, female actress Lily Allen, female singer Olivia Dean, female actress Hannah Waddingham, female influencer Fats Timbo, female reality star Georgia Harrison, and a group of female soccer players.

Why it matters: It’s a courageous (and potentially problematic) departure from contemporary social trends. In recent years, most “women of the year” lists were considered—by the people who care about such things—to be insufficiently “inclusive” if no transgender individuals were represented.

Flashback: Bourgeois is the new transgressive.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Man skips out on paying tab after woman orders 48 oysters on first date.