IT WAS ALWAYS A GOVERNMENT- AND NGO-ENABLED SOCIAL CONTAGION:

More evidence that the phenomena of rising trans identification is a social fad, not the result of a "more tolerant society" as some social scientists have argued.

Boys wanting to put on dresses and girls wanting to wear boys clothes is as old as antiquity. https://t.co/tDEhGzsAJD

— Rich Baris The People's Pundit (@Peoples_Pundit) October 14, 2025

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2/ Non-conforming sexual identity (queer, questioning, etc) is also in sharp decline.

Gay and lesbian are stable while heterosexuality has rebounded by around 10 points since 2023. pic.twitter.com/fKD4G1rwi5

— Eric Kaufmann (@epkaufm) October 14, 2025

But, wait — it gets better: After years of progress on gender, the male gaze is back.

Trump brought back Columbus Day, and he’s even made T&A great again.

Is there anything he can’t do?

PRIORITIES: Oregon Now Spends More On Program Offering Free Health Care For Illegal Immigrants Than State Police. “Oregon officials expect to spend $1.5 billion in combined state and federal taxpayer dollars on a program that offers health benefits to illegal aliens from 2025 to 2027. They expect to spend $717 million on Oregon State Police over the same period, the documents indicate.”

THEY CAN’T LET GO OF THOSE HIGH SCHOOL GLORY DAYS: Sad New York Times Keeps Beating What’s Left of the J6 Dead Horse.

At the moment, the Dems are in political exile in Washington, D.C. Not by much, but it’s exile nonetheless. As we have discussed many times, they aren’t making much of a case to the American people to be brought out of it. Who knows? Maybe their “raining f-bombs on the Republicans” strategy will pan out. I remain skeptical about that.

They’re also struggling with the government shutdown. The public knows that it’s Chuck Schumer’s Senate Democrats who are mucking up the works.

Now, the man who they have been calling Literally Hitler for the better part of a decade just brokered a peace deal that brought Israeli hostages home after two years in torturous Hamas captivity. What ever is a struggling opposition party to do?

Why, keep leg-humping the ghost of J6, of course.

Sad!

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CHANGE (IT BACK): Gen Z is desperate for landlines — and creating their own makeshift versions with cellphones.

Uhls, the UCLA researcher who often works with members of Gen Z and Gen Alpha, said young people are acutely aware of how much time they spend on their phones, and often make efforts to spend less time on them. She said even though they spend a lot of time on social media, they recognize that it’s not particularly deep or fulfilling.

“They’re craving connections and craving more meaningful experiences,” she said.

Some Gen Zers are so desperate for connection that they’ve embraced the Luddite movement. At an anti-technology rally in New York City last month, dozens of young people put Apple on a mock trial and smashed iPhones. Others are embracing “appstinence,” a term coined by a 24-year-old grad student at Harvard.

Chaining her phone to a wall was one of several experiments Ng has done as part of her newsletter, Cyber Celibate, which she uses to explore our relationship with technology. She’s also printed out her TikTok “For You” page to read like a newspaper and sent carrier pigeons instead of texts.

Previously: I started buying DVDs and CDs again in 2025 and it changed my mind about streaming.

Maybe someday we’ll look back at the tech that GenX came of age with as something special — high quality and generally affordable, but not yet all-encompassing.

FRPM THE DEPARTMENT OF FAFO: What Christiane Amanpour Said About Israeli Hostages Was So Bad, CNN Made Her Apologize.

WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF ANTISEMITISM AND HATE: Memorial for Israeli hostages vandalized, Jewish students threatened at Lewis & Clark College.

SPACEX DID IT AGAIN: Was That One Small Step Or One Giant Leap? “With the success of IFT-11, that’s it for Version 2 (V2) of Super Heavy and Ship. The company has learned enough over the course of the last few missions to move on to V3 of both stages — and the improvements are nothing short of radical.”

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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Rutgers professor known as ‘Dr. Antifa’ flees to Europe after petition to remove him.

WHAT PETE HEGSETH HAS TO DEAL WITH:

Wow.

Just…wow. pic.twitter.com/lfY0zr6Kf8

— Undercover Brother (@RealUCBfosho) October 13, 2025

HMM: Dad charged with killing his 14-year-old daughter’s rapist now running for sheriff: ‘It’s about restoring trust.’

When we are “shocked” by someone’s outrageous comments, sometimes a look at their history says it all.

JustTheNews reports on the details of Jay Jones:

“Jones pushed for police reforms which echoed the “Defund the Police” mantra of BLM, and repeatedly claimed that he personally felt the knee on his neck and the bullets in his back when watching videos of Floyd and Blake. Jones frequently spoke of the “systemic racism” and the “remnants” of Jim Crow in Virginia, and pushed to get a Virginia cop fired for donating to the legal defense fund for Kyle Rittenhouse.”

Here’s hoping that “Vote for me because I’m a member of an aggrieved group” has run its course.

WHEN CRIMINALS RUN YOUR STATE GOVERNMENT: Letitia James’ ‘Tenant’ in Mortgage Fraud Home Is a Niece Who Is a Fugitive From North Carolina.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: After Unspeakable Darkness, a Time for Joy and Celebration. “Once it was announced last week that Hamas had agreed to release the remaining living hostages and send home the bodies of those who died, I didn’t need to think about the other points of the peace plan. Most of what I have seen written leads with skepticism about long-term prospects for peace in the region but, as I told our VIP Gold friends on the last couple of episodes of ‘Five O’Clock Somewhere,’ the whole thing would be an unqualified success as far as I’m concerned if all of the hostages came home.”

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: ASA, NRA, SAF, FPC File Lawsuit Challenging the Constitutionality of the National Firearms Act.

You have to love the strategy. If you’ll remember, back in June when the Big Beautiful Bill was being haggled over, there was much sturm und drang over the existential nature of the National Firearms Act, and how the Senate Parliamentarian would treat efforts to pull items like suppressors and SBRs out as part of the reconciliation process. Again, reconciliation measures can sidestep the Senate’s 60-vote requirement and pass with a simple majority.

As many pointed out, the courts and the DOJ had for decades made the case that the NFA is tax measure. That’s how its primary champion justified it as not infringing on Americans’ gun rights when the NFA was being considered back in 1934. That being the case, inclusion of both the SHORT Act and the Hearing Protection Act in the B³ should have been a no-brainer.

The Senate Parliamentarian, however, saw things differently and ruled them out. That’s why, instead of pulling suppressors, SBRs and SBSs out of the NFA and regulating them like any other firearm you can buy today, the only step forward included in the final version of the B³ was the elimination of the $200 tax stamp (which will take effect on January 1).

But wait. Zeroing out the tax stamp isn’t nothing. As we and others have pointed out, eliminating the tax stamp undercuts any remaining argument that the NFA is a tax…because there is no longer a tax involved. On top of that, cans and SBRs are in common use. That means they pass the Heller test. There’s also no text, history or tradition of regulating them which means doing so doesn’t pass the Bruen test.

More at the link.

WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS, LLOYD AUSTIN? NJ Gov disappears as state of emergency declared.

WHAT WOULD HENRY THINK? ‘Black Radical’ Group Funded by Ford Foundation To Hold Teach-In Honoring Cop Killer Assata Shakur: Attendees will ‘learn how to continue the work of Assata,’ who was on the FBI’s ‘most wanted terrorist’ list.

I REMEMBER WHEN DEMOCRATS WERE ACCUSING REPUBLICANS OF “EPISTEMIC CLOSURE.”

I checked in on BlueSky to see how people there are reacting to the release of the Israeli hostages, and it’s the eeriest thing. It’s not trending. There’s no mention of it on the “Explore” tab. I started scrolling the feed and went through hundreds of posts without seeing a…

— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) October 14, 2025

VICTORY!!!:  I’m declaring victory in the fight against the California Legislature’s efforts to shove slavery reparations down the throats of Californians.   (Yes, I know that California was not a slave state.  Try telling that to our honorable legislators).

Governor Newsom has now vetoed AB7 (which would have allowed California universities to give preferences to the descendants of American slavery), AB57 (which would have set aside housing funds for the descendants of slaves), and AB742 (which would have given the descendants of slaves priority in seeking licenses)

This is a new tactic by those who seek to avoid Proposition 209’s ban on racial preferences.  Our opponents think they can avoid both the state and federal constitutions by converting racial preferences to preferences for the descendants of slavery. I believe they are mistaken on that.  But for AB7, AB57, and AB742, we won’t needed to put that to the test, since they are now vetoed.

This is only a partial victory.  These folks are sure to be back.  They always are.  And they did manage to get a program at Cal State University to study how to implement a reparations program in the future.  But for now, thanks to everybody who helped by sending postcards and letters to the Governor and by preparing for litigation!!!!

ICYMI: Trump’s Middle East Moment. “For his part, Trump seems to take it all in that odd combination of pride and stride that is uniquely his.”

TO REPEAT, WHEN HAS THE WOKE LEFT TOLD THE TRUTH ABOUT ANYTHING?

Woke Left: ‘He’s the new Hitler.’ https://t.co/Od8ixpysII

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) October 13, 2025

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VIRGINIA SHAKEUP: Earle-Sears surging, Miyares overtakes Jones.

Virginia’s races for governor and attorney general, newly jarred by a turbulent debate and a texting scandal, have suddenly changed three weeks before Election Day, giving new hope to Republicans.

After sitting in a holding pattern for months, Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears has cut Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger’s lead in half, and Attorney General Jason Miyares, running for reelection, has overcome Democrat Jay Jones’ lead.

In a new Trafalgar Group poll of likely general election voters completed Friday, Earle-Sears trailed Spanberger by just 2.6%, 47.7% to 45.1%. And Miyares has overtaken Jones, 48.9% to 43.1%.

That Friday poll couldn’t include the full effect of Spanberger’s Thursday debate performance.

Previously: Watch Spanberger’s Super-Cringeworthy Semi-Demi-Backpedal. “If you watch the clip, you’ll see a candidate who would be in panic if she weren’t a total sociopath incapable of basic human emotion.”

WELL, YES:

Awards that have lost their credibility due to woke:

The Oscars
The Pulitzer
The Emmys
And now the Nobel Peace Prize

These are nothing but Leftist awards given to Leftist activists by Leftist elites who want to celebrate Leftism https://t.co/7NLPxWHyAz

— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) October 13, 2025