CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Another Win for Bruen: Judge Holds Ban on Carry in Post Offices is Unconstitutional. “Judge Reed O’Connor, a Trump appointee, said both the Post Office’s own regulation and a federal law barring firearms possession in a ‘federal facility’ cannot survive scrutiny after the Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling in the Bruen case. That ruling said that for firearms restrictions to stand, they must be consistent with what the founders who crafted the Second Amendment would have envisioned.”
Archive for 2025
October 1, 2025
JOHN ONDRASIK: Hollywood joins history’s shameful betrayals by blacklisting Jewish artists.
Over 3,900 film artists, including some of Hollywood’s most celebrated names, just signed a boycott of Israeli cinema institutions. They claim this is a principled stand. I call it what it is: a cowardly act that feeds antisemitism, punishes Jewish artists, and poisons the very spirit of creativity.
I am not Jewish. I don’t claim that heritage. But I don’t need to be Jewish to see right from wrong. Common sense alone tells us that when you single out the world’s one Jewish state, when you target its filmmakers and artists while ignoring brutal regimes across the globe, you are not standing for justice. You are standing for bigotry dressed up as virtue. You are empowering and legitimizing terrorists.
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To paraphrase Martin Luther King Jr., “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but, the silence over that by the good people.” Silence in the face of antisemitism is surrender. And surrender from within is the most dangerous betrayal of all.
Hollywood has always prided itself on standing up for the marginalized, the persecuted, the oppressed. But today, that standard is being abandoned. Instead, conformity and cowardice rule the day. It’s easier to boycott Israelis than to challenge fashionable lies. It’s easier to parrot slogans than to defend truth.
This is not just about Israel. This is about the soul of art itself. When you turn creativity into a political weapon, when you punish people not for their talent but for their identity, you kill art. You replace courage with cowardice, imagination with ideology, and beauty with blacklists.
I’m so old, I can remember when Hollywood produced anti-blacklist movies on a regular basis. What changed?
More from Ondrasik:
Many of us have wondered how the Holocaust could ever have happened. We need wonder no longer. It’s shades of 1938. Because if you can’t find the courage to defend Jewish artists and the Jewish state, don’t be surprised when history remembers this as the moment Hollywood lost its conscience, creativity, and credibility. We all know who you are.
Flashback: The Academy Museum ignores Hollywood’s Jewish founders.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Coming Soon From Bill Gates’s Lab of Horrors: FRANKENBUTTER. “If Savor’s ‘butter’ processing facility looked any more like an oil refinery, Ukraine would bomb it. They don’t even have a consumer-friendly name for Frankenbutter yet. So far, the company refers to their catalytically converted, bubble-column-reactor-induced butter-type product as ‘butter made from carbon’ or ‘animal- and plant-free butter.'”
SETH TILLMAN: Joel Klein’s World Class Kinsleyesque Gaffe. “Klein saved this story for when Bazelon is dead and cannot answer. In my mind, that’s a damn sight worse than what Bazelon is alleged to have done.”
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS CURRENTLY NETFLIX AND CHILL: Care to Comment, Ilhan? Feds Find Rampant Immigration Fraud in Minneapolis-St. Paul.
Toenail Clippers for Thick Toenails-Angled Head. #CommissionEarned
YOU GET LESS OF WHAT YOU STOP SUBSIDIZING: Ford CEO expects EV sales to be cut in half after end of tax credits.
Farley on Tuesday said he “wouldn’t be surprised” if sales of EVs fell from a market share of around 10% to 12% this month — which is expected to be a record — to 5% after the incentive program ends.
“I think it’s going to be a vibrant industry, but it’s going to be smaller, way smaller than we thought, especially with the policy change in the tailpipe emissions, plus the $7,500 consumer incentive going away,” he said during a Ford event about promoting skilled trades and workers in Detroit. “We’re going to find out in a month. I wouldn’t be surprised that the EV sales in the U.S. go down to 5%.”
Farley said the industry learned that “partial electrification,” such as hybrids, are easier for customers to accept for the time being.
They also make a lot more sense — practically and economically — and don’t require Big Government incentives to juice sales.
THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN IS NOT ANOTHER 80/20 ISSUE… YET:
…Some 65 percent said Democrats should not shut down the government. Among Democrats, 43 percent said they should not shut down the government. That is at the start of the shutdown. These things tend to become less popular with time. Fighting for such items as funding your…
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) October 1, 2025
Schumer is tap-dancing in clown shoes across a field full of rakes.
I ALWAYS LEARN A LOT FROM RAYMOND IBRAHIM’S VIDEO PODCASTS: The REAL Reason Muslims Love Jesus.
WHAT THEY’LL GET IS A SHUTDOWN DEMAND FOR FREE HEALTHCARE FOR ILLEGALS: Democrats Need a Reset on Immigration, Crime, and Social Order.
During the Trump era, the Democratic Party has stumbled on a number of issues, perhaps none more than immigration and crime. Back in February, I outlined how the party has shifted markedly leftward on the former topic in recent years, shedding the more moderate, balanced approaches of presidents like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama in favor of one that was more in vogue with advocacy groups. Many high-profile Democrats essentially endorsed, tacitly or explicitly, an open-borders policy.
But as the country faced an unprecedented surge in migration under Joe Biden’s presidency, Americans swiftly rebelled against this thinking. Polling showed that after decades of growing support for increasing immigration levels and waning support for decreasing them, each trendline reversed—hard—during Biden’s term. His handling of immigration was ultimately a key reason why Trump won last year, and voters today say they overwhelmingly trust Republicans over Democrats on the issue.
Though Americans typically do not consider crime and public safety to be as big a problem as immigration, it has become yet another albatross for Democrats under Trump’s reign. As he has ramped up an anti-crime push in cities and states across the country, they have found themselves in the position of defending relatively lower levels of crime—levels that still are not acceptable to many people. Americans today trust Republicans over Democrats to handle crime to an even greater degree than they do immigration.
All this points to a broader issue for team blue: they’ve lost the confidence of the public on issues related to social order.
To be fair, at least since Ayers acolyte Barrack Obama destroyed the DLC, Democrats came to believe that their path to power required trampling on the social order.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Schumer Shutdown, Schumer Tantrum…Same Thing. “We’ve been discussing the Democrats’ complete lack of something positive to offer the American people after their spectacular defeat last November. All they’ve had is rage, f-bombs, and RESIST. This shutdown is more of the same.”
YOUR SPEECH COUNTS AS VIOLENCE. THEIR VIOLENCE COUNTS AS SPEECH. That’s a Twist: Pritzker Says It is Dangerous to Call Democrats Fascist. Plus: “One does benefit by paying attention to the wild accusations Democrats make about Donald Trump’s dark plans. They are invariably a tell regarding what Democrats themselves are doing or plan to do. Censor people? Check. Lawfare? Check. Send the TSA after their political opponents? Check. Abuse the intelligence “community” to destroy opponents? Check.”
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE:
When asked about the three lawsuits that were settled by the Millcreek Township School District related to personnel complaints during Roberts’s tenure as superintendent, settlements that exceeded $330,000, district officials had nothing new to offer. https://t.co/WSblbzPvcx
— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) October 1, 2025
DON SURBER: Trump’s war and peace. “Despite the title, this won’t be a long newsletter.”
President Donald Trump’s administration found the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) and the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) in violation of Title IX after two months-long investigation into state policies and a transgender pitcher leading a girls’ high school softball team to a state championship.
A Department of Education (ED) press release obtained by Fox News Digital cites the pitcher’s performance in the 2025 season for the recent crackdown, stating “the male pitcher overpowered female athletes during five consecutive matches, only giving up one earned run over the course of 35 innings and striking out 27 female batters.”
“For too many years, Minnesota’s political leadership has found itself on the wrong side of justice, common sense, and the American people. Now the Minnesota Department of Education and the Minnesota State High School League find themselves on the wrong side of Title IX by allowing males to compete in women’s sports,” said DOE Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor.
“The Trump Administration will not allow Minnesota or any other state to sacrifice the safety, fair treatment, and dignity of its female students to appease the false idols of radical gender ideology. Once an education program or entity takes federal funds, Title IX compliance becomes mandatory. And the federal government will hold Minnesota accountable until it recognizes that fact.”
The DOE and DHHS have now given the state and its education agencies a 10-day deadline to amend its policies to comply with Title IX and President Donald Trump’s “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” executive order.
The Biden Cabal thought they could rewrite Title IX by fiat, but Trump changed it right back.
LOL, DAVID FRENCH:
“Pete Hegseth used an encrypted app first put into use by the Biden administration so we should have fat troops and no basic standards” is quite the argument there, Dave. https://t.co/Fvwvt6EkaN
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) October 1, 2025
UPDATE: Related:
What’s your statement on why you made sure your kids got Navy Academy appointments ahead of everybody else? https://t.co/EnH8mLGMGN
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) September 30, 2025
Also:
This is an insane take. Hegseth is (as he often does) doing a variation on the Roman / Latin adage “Si vis pacem, para bellum” (If you want peace, prepare for war). It’s a very common & popular military concept & it has nothing to do with Orwell nor fictional fascist governments. https://t.co/H8lsRZV91d
— Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) October 1, 2025
THEY STARTED A WAR AND THEY LOST IT.
For people that are undergoing „genocide“ they seem to be quite picky.
— facts about (@destinationXIX) September 30, 2025
OUT: TRUMP IS HITLER. IN: Harvard President Blamed Jewish Student for His Own Assault, Text Message Shows.
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DAVID HARSANYI: Chuck Schumer’s bad shutdown bet.
One can certainly appreciate Schumer being tempted by a shutdown. It allows him to show a little “fight.” Polls continue to find Republicans leading on every issue that matters to voters, including the economy, immigration, and crime. Democrats still want to make the fight about President Donald Trump, who, at a 46% job approval rating on the RealClearPolitics average, is faring slightly better than the recent historical average for second-term presidencies.
At this point, if Democrats agree to a deal without any concessions from Republicans — or at least, the government partially closing for a few days — they risk looking weak and feckless to the activists. But empty gestures aren’t always harmless. One of the self-destructive habits of the pre-Trump GOP was overpromising the base, creating the impression it could achieve things that were never going to happen, among them overturning Obamacare. Democratic leadership is now engaged in the same cycle.
In every one of the 21 government shutdowns since the passage of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the opposition party has controlled at least one house of Congress or the White House. The Democrats do not. The opposition party in Congress can’t really do much but attempt to obstruct. Though the Left endlessly grumbled about “obstructionism” during the Obama years, it’s a perfectly legitimate tool. But the leverage Democrats hold today is minimal. The upside of the shutdown, negligible.
I suppose “negligible” was also Schumer’s only possible upside, so he went for it.
The best part, however, is watching Schumer walk eyes-open right into the trap Dems used to set for Republicans.