HOW TO SAY YOU HAVE APPROVE HAMAS WITHOUT SAYING YOU APPROVE HAMAS: Mamdani Doesn’t ‘Really Have Opinions’ on Hamas — But Doubles Down on Call for Netanyahu’s Arrest.

Earlier:

New Yorkers are about to elect a man who openly sympathizes with the ideology of those who took down the Twin Towers. https://t.co/Y4YPkVtsor

— Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) October 15, 2025

THE NEW SPACE RACE: K2 Space Corp, SpaceX ink Falcon 9 rocket deal for 2027 mission.

JOEL KOTKIN: Why God Came Back.

HAVING A PULSE CERTAINLY DIDN’T HURT: How Did Trump Get a Peace Deal Done Where Biden Could Not?

Will Trump actually win a Nobel? There are too many open questions when it comes to the future of Israel and Gaza. It is hard, at the very minimum, to justify such an award when so many Palestinians are dead, thousands of them shot and bombed and starved after Trump took office. Trump, at least, was not president when the war began and first spiraled out of control. Biden had a chance to wrench history in a different direction and failed. If he is cognizant at all of the events over the past week, he should feel regret and shame.

“Cognizant at all?” It was only last year that Joe Scarborough assured me that “This version of Biden intellectually, analytically is the best Biden ever. And I’ve known him for years.” What on earth happened in the months that followed?

I VOTED SO HARD FOR THIS: The Trump Administration Might Shake Up the IRS and the Left Is Freaking.

WHERE DID IT COME FROM? New York confirms first locally acquired case of chikungunya virus.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: LEXIVON 2 in 1 Digital Laser Tape Measure. #CommissionEarned

HARDBALL: Netherlands Seizes Chinese Semiconductor Firm. “The fact the Dutch government so readily acceded to U.S. requests suggests that the case against Nexperia was pretty substantial, and the specter of possibly open conflict with an increasingly bellicose Russia may have played a factor in their decision making. Nailing down key supply chain components, no matter how lowly, is both far-sighted and suggests there’s more to this situation than meets the eye.”

ALL THE BEST PEOPLE TOLD ME THIS WASN’T TRUE:

California did indeed give comprehensive Medicaid benefits to all illegal immigrants, free of charge, making it harder for our own citizens to get an appointment.

The cost tripled to $10 billion in just the first year, literally driving the system insolvent. pic.twitter.com/3R9zYtKV3F

— Rep. Kevin Kiley (@RepKiley) October 15, 2025

Previously: Gavin Newsom says California faces a $12 billion deficit and wants to freeze undocumented immigrant health program access.

“Freeze,” not “eliminate.”

TRUE.

While the Left is nude on bikes defending illegals in Portland, Trump just released all the hostages and negotiated the end of a war.

And they wonder why their party is in the trash heap of history?

— Brilyn Hollyhand (@BrilynHollyhand) October 13, 2025

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Education Secretary: Shutdown Shows Department’s Uselessness.

More agencies and departments should be run by people who want to shut them down. Close to all of them.

CORRECT:

The U.S. has more rare earth minerals than any nation on Earth—an estimated $12 trillion worth.

But thanks to endless permits, lawsuits, and land bans, we depend on China and Russia for critical materials.

We don’t have a mineral shortage—we have a leadership shortage. pic.twitter.com/MX61aQrlx3

— Stephen Moore (@StephenMoore) October 15, 2025

Or as the wise man once said, “Get the hell out of my way!“

AXIOS: Dems plot Fetterman ouster.

Top Democrats in Pennsylvania are maneuvering to run against Sen. John Fetterman in a 2028 primary contest, threatening to tear the party apart in the biggest battleground state in the nation.

Why it matters: Democrats haven’t flipped a GOP Senate seat since Fetterman did it in 2022. He’s still popular with Pennsylvania voters, even as Democrats turn on him over his softened approach to President Trump.
Potential Democratic challengers are already bashing Fetterman — and each other — years ahead of schedule.
Some Democratic officials are openly contemplating running against Fetterman or keeping the door open to a Senate bid in the event he retires.
The big picture: Democrats who could run against Fetterman include Reps. Brendan Boyle and Chris Deluzio and former Rep. Conor Lamb, according to multiple political insiders in Pennsylvania.

1️⃣ Boyle has been loudly critical of Fetterman on TV and social media, calling him “Trump’s favorite Democrat” and accusing him of visiting the president at Mar-a-Lago to “kiss the ring.”
2️⃣ Deluzio has been cultivating a national brand as a young populist leader from the Rust Belt.
3️⃣ Lamb has won the praise of progressives like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) for repeatedly attacking Fetterman, who beat Lamb in the 2022 Democratic primary.
The other side: When Axios began reporting on this story, Fetterman texted, “Enjoy your clickbait!”

Asked a follow-up question, Fetterman said, “Please do not contact.”

Maybe more people should reply to Axios with a non-reply.

But this from X is priceless:

Democrats thought it was awesome to have a scalloped potatoes brain in the Oval Office for four years but heaven forefend Senator Fetterman pivot to being something like a 1990’s Democrat.

— Corpo Scribe (@NightCityTimes) October 16, 2025

Indeed.

A GREAT INTERVIEW WITH SOME ROCK AND ROLL GENIUSES: Traveling With Balboa.

THE ACTUAL GENOCIDE THE PRESS DOESN’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT: Christians Murdered and Jailed in Iran, Nigeria, and Congo.

NOW OUT: From John Kennedy, How to Test Negative for Stupid: And Why Washington Never Will. #CommissionEarned

THIS FEELS CORRECT:

re: voting rights act stuff. i think many of us feel that "the long 1960s" is over, and BLM ~2020 was its last hurrah. racially gerrymandered districts in the south exacerbated what was already a racial duopoly and it is "progressives" who want eternal racism to be fixed in law

— Razib Khan 🧬 ✍️ (@razibkhan) October 16, 2025

LESS THAN HOPED FOR BUT NOTHING TO SNEEZE AT: DOGE says that it has created $210 billion in taxpayer savings. “The site breaks down savings from various categories like asset sales, contract and lease cancellations or renegotiations, fraud elimination, grant terminations, interest savings, programmatic changes, regulatory relief, and workforce reductions. Roughly 30% of this total is detailed in DOGE’s ‘wall of receipts,’ which lists specific actions such as the termination of 13,440 contracts worth approximately $61 billion, 15,887 grants worth $49 billion, and 264 leases worth $113 million. The remaining savings are unitemized, with DOGE noting that full documentation is delayed due to regulatory requirements and lags in public databases like the Federal Procurement Data System.”

AAUP: VIEWPOINT DIVERSITY IS A MAGA PLOT: Adam Goldstein, Sam Abrams, & I dismantle this out of touch and wrongheaded idea.

HOW THE MEMES GET MADE:

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was making you think he was an organic social media response to current issues rather than an Islamist terror-linked propaganda network with command-and-control procedures, extensive coordination, and a content pipeline to @Reddit

Rooted… pic.twitter.com/yyLxVdFN8l

— Ashley Rindsberg (@AshleyRindsberg) October 16, 2025

SPREADING FEAR AND HATE: Black people could be ‘in danger’ at ‘white churches,’ Oklahoma professor says.

THREE TERM PRESIDENT PARACHUTES INTO GUBERNATORIAL RACE TO RESCUE FELLOW RADICAL DEMOCRAT: Panic At The Demsco: Obama Jumps In to Save Spanberger in VA.

Virginia Democrats find their prospects in a tailspin in the last couple of weeks. Their Attorney General nominee, Jay Jones, turns out to be stupid enough to commit death wishes for opponents’ children in text format. Gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger froze in a debate with Winsome Earle-Sears when challenged on it. Now polls show a sharp decline in both races, and Democrats need to change the narrative — fast.

He’s fit. He’s rested, coming off his third term in office during the Biden Regency. And now Barack Obama will put himself back in the game — to rescue Democrats from themselves in Virginia:

Former President Barack Obama is endorsing Democratic former Rep. Abigail Spanberger in the Virginia governor’s race and starring in two new digital ads for her campaign.

“Virginia’s elections are some of the most important in the country this year,” Obama says in both ads, shared first with NBC News, which focus on the economy and abortion rights. He also says in both ads, “Every vote counts.”

How desperate is this move? Well, let’s Psaki back four years, when this exact same scenario unfolded. Remember when current governor Glenn Youngkin started to overtake Terry McCauliffe in polling?

This time around, Obama will be tacitly endorsing Spanberger’s radical positions:

WOMEN'S RIGHTS: Spanberger Won’t Condemn School Board Member For Sympathetic Emails To Sex Offender Using Girls’ Bathroom. A spokeswoman refused to address the then-candidate’s exchange of sympathetic emails with sex offender Richard Kenneth Cox.https://t.co/1iEMbhXDBG

— @amuse (@amuse) October 14, 2025

And he’ll be tacitly endorsing Jay Jones’ nihilistic racialism: Spanberger Refuses to Withdraw Support of Jay Jones Over Violent Texts Scandal.

Winsome Sears called Spanberger’s bluff on this topic: Slay Queen! Winsome Sears DROPS VA Dems Turning What They Thought Was a GOTCHA Into a LEGENDARY Self-Own.

Easy, they absolutely must step down.

Now it’s your turn, Abigail. https://t.co/Fatu6PoJym

— Winsome Earle-Sears (@winwithwinsome) October 15, 2025

That’s how it’s done. Because otherwise:

Some of you have spent the last two days obsessively going to bat for some no-name losers in a group chat who are completely inconsequential to anything electoral, and for some reason, you can’t see that’s *exactly* what the left wanted you to do.

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) October 16, 2025

CONSTITUENT SERVICES: About Those ICE Detainees: Why Are Democrats Working so Hard to Defend Hardened Criminals?

NO WONDER IT’S NO LONGER FRONT-PAGE NEWS: Democrats Just Got Some Bad News About the Schumer Shutdown.

RE-EDUCATION CAMPS: Oakland student required to attend DEI networking event to graduate. “A student whistleblower has alleged that students at Oakland University are required to attend a DEI networking event in order to pass certain business ethics and finance courses. The student’s advisor confirmed that the course is one of two mandatory courses for graduation.”