JONATHAN TURLEY: ‘We’re coming after you’ — how the left found peace through hate.

This week, Bravo star and liberal podcast host Jennifer Welch praised footage of a “No Kings” protester celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk, holding her up as an example for all liberals.

In the clip, the elderly woman said, “Charlie Kirk is horrible. Yes. I’m glad he’s not here.” When pressed if she was actually happy that the husband and father of two had been murdered, the woman said “Yes…because he was horrible on the campuses. Horrible person.”

After playing the clip, Welch laughed with joy and declared, “So listen up, Democratic establishment. You can either jump on board with this s—, or we’re coming after you in the same way that we come after MAGA. Period.”

Celebrities like Jamie Lee Curtis certainly got that message. The actress was facing a social and professional meltdown after openly mourning Kirk’s death in a podcast interview. “I disagreed with him on almost every point I ever heard him say,” she said. “But I believe he was a man of faith, and I hope in that moment when he died, that he felt connected to his faith, even though his ideas were abhorrent to me.”

It appeared to be a moment of weakness that briefly overrode wokeness. Curtis quickly found herself persona non grata in Hollywood, as an angry liberal mob began to circle her. Curtis quickly saw the light and effectively retracted her fleeting expression of humanity, claiming it had been “mistranslated.” It is said that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. But that does not apply if you then gouge out your own eye. Now fully and comfortably blinded by her own hand, Curtis is back as a member of good standing in Hollywood.

Related: Left-wing podcaster sparks outrage with meme depicting Erika Kirk as ‘fake grieving widow grifter.’

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Wikipedia: Disney continued the Star Wars saga in 2015 with the launch of a new sequel trilogy.

Grokipedia: The final chapter of the Star Wars saga was released in 1983.

I’d go with 1980 myself. As James Lileks once wrote:

I went to [Return of the Jedi] alone in the afternoon, and desperately tried to convince myself that I liked it. But I didn’t. Carrie Fisher looked about as a radiant as a brown dwarf; Billy Dee Williams continued to confuse grinning with acting; Mark Hamill looked as though Luke had spent the last few years on Skid Row, Boba Fett was killed off for no good reason, the creatures looked like Muppets (there was a blue three-fingered elephant that looked like a plush toy) and the plot was THE SAME  AS  THE  FIRST MOVIE. Blow up the damn Golf-Ball-O’Doom. Except this time we had Luke and Vader fighting as in the second movie, while the Emperor cackles and uses the words “join” “dark” “side” “inevitable” and “die” in every possible combination.

And there were Ewoks. I’d read that Lucas intended for the forest moon to be populated with Wookies, but they settled on Ewoks, the very name an inversion of Wookie. God, I hated the Ewoks. I was ready to join the Empire if it meant I could kill Ewoks.

Of course, none of us knew that there would be infinitely worse horrors to come for the franchise.

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HOWIE CARR: Add ‘aide busted for coke trafficking’ to Healey’s distinctions. 

Gov. Maura Healey just keeps shattering those glass ceilings.

She’s tied (with the angry old crewcut lady in Oregon) for the distinction, if you can call it that, of being the first lesbian ever elected governor in the US.

But this week, Healey grabbed a first all by herself — first governor ever, Sapphic or otherwise, to have 18 pounds of cocaine delivered to her own personal office.

Granted, the blow was ticketed for the thug DEI $115,668-a-year deputy director of her regional office. But the contraband was addressed directly to Maura’s office, not to some anonymous “state office building,” as regime-controlled Boston media would have it.

The facts were all laid out in court in Springfield this week, not once but twice.

On Wednesday, the prosecutor (who works for a Democrat district attorney) pointed out that the haul had been, and this is a direct quote, “delivered to the governor’s office.”

On Friday, she elaborated on the address, 436 Dwight Street, Suite 300.

“In fact,” the prosecutor said, “suite number 300 is the governor of Massachusetts’ western Massachusetts office.”

This is indeed a historic time here in the Commonwealth. And to think that Gov. William Weld was once criticized for serving “amber-colored fluids” in the Corner Office.

We’ve come a long way from a fifth of Jack Daniel’s in the office to multiple kilos of Bolivian Marching Powder…

Every few days, the Healey administration trots out a new poster person for the corruption that is created when all hiring is based on DEI box-checking, and little else.

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JONATHAN TURLEY: ‘We’re coming after you’ — how the left found peace through hate. “The key to hate is to decouple it entirely from reason and reality. Only then can you hate completely without restraint or regret. It seems that the left has learned how to hate. Hateful speech is in vogue as Democratic leaders ramp up violent rhetoric and political violence rises. The key is to get voters to hate your opponent so much that they forget how much they dislike you. The irony is crushing. For years, liberals have sought to criminalize hate speech while expanding the range of viewpoints considered to fall within this category. Democratic leaders, from senators to former presidential candidates, have falsely claimed that hate speech is not protected under the First Amendment.”

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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION? TOO SOON TO SAY: Did We Just Win the Vietnam War?

Over 50 years since America’s withdrawal from the Vietnam War, history has legitimized and vindicated its sacrifice in the Vietnam War.

While few Americans have noticed, Vietnam’s new General Secretary of the Communist Party, To Lam, has replaced Marxist-Leninism as the Party’s governing ideology with something more authentically Vietnamese: Truong Ton Dan Toc, or “Vietnamese nationalism.”

That is a bombshell. Hanoi has just abandoned its Communist ideology, which governed it since 1954 and sustained it in its wars against the United States and its ally South Vietnam, and with its Communist neighbors, Cambodia and the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

Marxist-Leninism came to the Vietnamese from France. Thus, Communist Vietnam was actually a neocolonial state, its ideology imported from Europe to rule the Vietnamese, first in the North and, after 1975, the entire country. Now freed from the yoke of Communism, the Vietnamese have returned to the nationalism that was theirs all along.

To be fair, we sorta did win it, the first time: “In my view, on December 30, 1972, after eleven days of those B-52 attacks on the Hanoi area, you had won the war.  It was over.”

(Classical reference in headline.)

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NATE SILVER: Is New Jersey the next swing state? Probably not. But a Republican win on Tuesday would make the state worth watching in 2028.

GREAT MOMENTS IN SELF-REFLECTION: Jon Stewart Laments How We Got to the Point of Not Seeing Conservatives as Human Beings.

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— Jason D (@iamjasond) November 1, 2025

And yet the sneer is right in the quote, dismissing a conservative uncle as worse than “Attila the Hun.” Perhaps like the Big A himself, he’s merely trying to escape a food desert: Atila The Hun Attacked Rome to Save His People From Starvation, New Study Suggests.

Earlier: Never Forget What Jon Stewart Did To America.

ROGER KIMBALL: New York Reruns: What Mamdani Means for New York.

The thing to remember is, a poor, crime-ridden New York that drives out the well-off and middle class isn’t an accident. It’s the goal. It’s easier for leftist politicians to rule and rape an unhealthy polity than a healthy one. See, e.g., Detroit, Memphis, etc.

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If you watch one thing today, let it be this…

Elon Musk goes on Joe Rogan and tears the mask off, exposing exactly why Democrats are prolonging the government shutdown and fighting to keep the money flowing to criminal aliens:

“The Democratic Party wants to destroy democracy… pic.twitter.com/YJSgfi3Egv

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 31, 2025

NICK GILLESPIE GOES OUT ON A LIMB: Mamdani’s Socialist Mayorship Will Make New York a Worse Place To Live and Do Business.

If you live outside New York, your biggest worry should be what effect a landslide win might have on the Democratic Party nationally. If Mamdani crushes Cuomo and Sliwa as seems likely, expect a big push from allies like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.) to revive the worst excesses of the populist identity politics that helped cost Democrats the White House in 2024 and caused much of the discord, overspending, and stupidity of the past decade. (If the centrist Democrats running for governor in New Jersey and Virginia win as currently expected, expect a ton of articles about the fight for the soul of the Democratic Party.)

As Reason‘s Zach Weissmueller recently explained, Mamdani’s appeal goes beyond playing Santa Claus to large blocs of voters. He personifies the symbolic grievances of college-educated and relatively well-off Millennial and Gen Z voters who don’t really understand how capitalism works and what creative destruction entails. They take wealth production for granted, focusing instead on what they perceive as its morally just distribution, while overlooking the challenge of maintaining, much less expanding, economic and social opportunities for all.

For New York City, what Mamdani’s mayoralty will absolutely do is hurry along the slowly decaying orbit of the country’s largest city that commenced with the election of groundhog manhandler Bill de Blasio to two terms in Gracie Mansion and continued with the mediocre-at-best performance of Turkish Airlines enthusiast and cheese-detractor Eric Adams. We’re already a dozen-plus years into having the city run by bums or buffoons and, if you read histories like Richard E. Farley’s Drop Dead, you know this is how things go in New York City. There are long cycles of mediocre-to-terrible mayors (think of the years of Richard Wagner, John Lindsay, and Abe Beame, a period lasting from 1954 to 1977) that are interrupted by periods of better-than-average governance (think Ed Koch, Rudy Giuliani, and Mike Bloomberg, a span lasting from 1978 to 2013, exclusive of David Dinkins’ single term in the early ’90s).

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