KRUISER: My Endorsement for Speaker: Whoever Can Get Nancy Mace to Shut Up.

LIKE TRUMP, HE ALIGNS WITH WORKERS: JD Vance’s Support for UAW Should Surprise No One.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY (CHINA EDITION): China’s Home Prices Drop at Faster Pace in Blow to Sentiment.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: ICE Tries to Make Utah a Sanctuary State on the Sly.

NICE SHOOTING: US Navy warship near Yemen intercepts multiple missiles, US officials say.

Later Thursday Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder confirmed that the USS Carney shot down three land attack missiles as well as several drones that were launched by Iran-backed Houthi forces in Yemen.

“This action was a demonstration of the integrated air and missile defense architecture that we built in the Middle East and that we are prepared to utilize whenever necessary to protect our partners and our interest in this important region,” he said at a news briefing. “There were no casualties to US forces and none that we know of to any civilians on the ground.”

Ryder said the Pentagon cannot say for certain at this point what the missiles and drones were targeting, but said they were launched from Yemen and were heading north along the Red Sea, “potentially toward targets in Israel.”

The only problem with Arleigh Burke-class destroyers like the Carney is we don’t have enough of them.

WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF HATE? Calif. professor’s post threatens violence against ‘zionist journalists’ and their children.

MAID IN CANADA: Addicts Can Soon Exchange Their Needles for the Government’s.

HAVE YOU NO SENSE OF DECENCY? NO DECENCY AT ALL? WATCH: ‘Why should I condemn anything?’ – Students for Justice in Palestine president refuses to condemn Hamas.

UNACCOUNTABILITY IS THE ENTIRE POINT: Congress Raises Alarms About $27 Billion Green Energy ‘Slush Fund.’ “Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee said the short deadline for doling out the money will make it difficult for the agency to conduct proper vetting of grantees. They also noted that some EPA officials previously worked for nonprofit groups that stand to benefit from the funding and questioned how the EPA will prevent money from going to Chinese companies that dominate the solar industry.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: It’s No Coincidence That Democrats Are in Sync With China on Israel. “For anyone who may happen to be new here and in need of a scorecard: the ChiComs and anyone they throw in with are the bad guys.”

DEAL OF THE DAY: Survival First Aid Kit. #CommissionEarned

I SUPPOSE IT’S TOO MUCH TO HOPE THAT THEY’LL JUST DO AWAY WITH QUALIFIED IMMUNITY: “The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider what kind of evidence is needed to defeat a qualified immunity claim by government officials accused of engineering the retaliatory arrest of a new city council member who criticized the city manager. . . . Gonzalez is represented by the Institute for Justice. One of the group’s attorneys, Anya Bidwell, said in the press release Castle Hill, Texas, officials should not be allowed to use criminal laws “to launder First Amendment violations and create backdoor censorship.”

OUR INSTITUTIONS ARE RUN BY GARBAGE PEOPLE: American Federation of Teachers Affiliate Endorses Violence Against Israel.

THIS PREDICTION WAS SPOT-ON:

Also, worth keeping in mind that the "they-only-beheaded-some-of-the-babies" crowd will be quick to cite the death toll of Gazans with no "verification" other than from reports by the Gaza Health Ministry, an arm of Hamas.

— Adam Rubenstein (@RubensteinAdam) October 11, 2023

BECAUSE THEY’RE GARBAGE PEOPLE? How the educated elites became Hamas apologists: America’s top universities are consumed by Israel Derangement Syndrome.

2024? Gavin Newsom — Who Insists He is NOT Running for President — Announces He’s ‘On His Way’ to Israel ‘Offering California’s Support.’

WELL, THAT’S BECAUSE IT IS: Most say terror threat up under Biden.

ROBERT SPENCER: Rabbi Claims That Hamas Has ‘Perverted Islam.’ Alas, No.

HE’S NOT WRONG: GOP Rep Calls Rashida Tlaib ‘Disgusting Person’ Who ‘Has No Business Serving’ in Congress.

COLD WAR II: China is building up its nuclear weapons arsenal faster than previous projections, a US report says. “The 2023 report finds that Beijing is on pace to field more than 1,000 nuclear warheads by 2030, continuing a rapid modernization aimed at meeting Xi’s goal of having a ‘world class’ military by 2049.”