CANADA’S TOP GENERAL. CANADA’S. TOP. GENERAL.
She isn't crying from guilt or shame or sympathy. She is crying from religious ecstasy.
We are not dealing with a political philosophy here, but a faith, with gods, devils, saints, martyrs, doctrines, rituals, heaven, hell, and original sin.
Most people aren't capable of… https://t.co/UOdUlZzG8G
— Devon Eriksen (@Devon_Eriksen_) October 31, 2025
FALLOUT: A ‘war room’ mentality: How auto giants are battling the Nexperia chip crunch.
Global automakers are once again bracing for production disruptions due to a potential shortage of automotive semiconductor chips, this time sparked by the Dutch government amid geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and China.
Honda Motor became the first known automaker this week to reduce production due to the problem that involves chips from Netherlands supplier Nexperia, which is owned by Chinese company Wingtech Technology Co.
The industry was hopeful that a meeting this week between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Asia would provide some relief, but no resolution on the chips issue has been announced.
Volkswagen on Thursday reportedly said it has until at least next week before its supplies impact production, while other major automakers have said they are monitoring the situation around the clock, attempting to mitigate disruptions.
“The chip situation from Nexperia, we have a cross-functional ‘war room’ in the building where I’m sitting that has this as [a] primary job,” Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa told investors during a quarterly call Thursday. “And every day we are pushing actions and projects to extend our period. There is a day-by-day management of what is an industrywide global issue.”
Developing…
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Trump Effect — Thune Loses It on Shutdown Dems. “Honestly, Thune has surprised me. He was Mitch McConnell’s righthand man, which is why he got the job. McConnell had gotten squirrely again and I worried that we would get more of that once his closest confidante took over for him. We’ve been spared McConnell 2.0, though, and we can obviously thank Trump for that.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Colleges Face a Financial Reckoning. The University of Chicago Is Exhibit A. Decades of big spending, new federal funding cuts and a changing view of higher education created a perfect storm; ‘Spending Your Tuition On Its Mistakes.’
The school that produced Milton Friedman and 34 other Nobel Prize-winning economists is struggling to manage its pocketbook.
The University of Chicago ran budget deficits for 14 years straight, spending big on new labs, dorms and technology to raise its profile and enrollment. Now it’s facing a financial reckoning.
Over the summer, university leaders said they needed to cut $100 million in expenses. They decided to slow tenure-track hiring, scale back new construction and pause admissions to nearly 20 Ph.D. programs for a year. They’ve been aggressively fundraising and soft launched a new capital campaign.
By the time freshmen arrived in September with their minifridges and extra-long sheets, disgruntled faculty and graduate students had printed up flyers. Families—many paying $71,000 a year—were handed a paper that read “UChicago: Spending Your Tuition On Its Mistakes.”The university is an acute example of the financial woes plaguing higher education. . . . Ando thinks all research universities need to come to terms with what they’re selling and whether it still makes sense.
If only there had been some sort of warning.
DEARBORN, EH? FBI stops ‘potential terrorist attack,’ arrests multiple suspects in Michigan, Kash Patel says. “According to Patel, the suspects were allegedly plotting a violent attack over Halloween weekend. A spokesperson for the FBI Detroit office said agents in Michigan were in Dearborn and Inkster conducting law enforcement activities on Friday morning.”
“A TRUE SPACESHIP.”
HLS interior. A true spaceship. But here's my mindblowing take. This is by far the worst Starship interior we will ever see. I think this is a very bare bones cladding that will be blown out of the water by their LETS lander, and standard crew variant.
🧵 pic.twitter.com/JEf9xGw03m— Ken Kirtland IV (@KenKirtland17) October 30, 2025
Can you imagine what the Apollo guys would have done with all that volume?
HMM: Convicted would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh requests imprisonment in state with assisted suicide.
Routh, who was found guilty on all five counts in September, told U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon that he is a “constant failure” and asked to be imprisoned in a facility where assisted suicide is permitted, The Hill news outlet reported.
He said he “still hold(s) out hope” that he may be traded for U.S. prisoners being held by a foreign adversary, which he suggested ahead of his trial and claimed he had made requests to “countless Ministry of Foreign Affairs,” but has found his recommendations to be “ineffective.”
“Trade me for a Palestinian prisoner in Israel to have my spot in Hawaii, or a POW of Ukraine suffering in Russia or any prisoner anywhere that is suffering,” Routh wrote. “I’m unaware of prisoners in Sudan, Haiti, Myanmar or all the other places of conflict but trade meanywhere (sic).”
“Do not let me take my own life and it have zero benefit for humanity or mankind,” he added.
He’s nuts.
WELL, THAT’S BASICALLY HER JOB DESCRIPTION: Nicolle Wallace Is Blatantly Lying About Democrats’ Assassination Prep.
ICYMI, IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: What in the Actual Hell Is Wrong With the Democrats? “Democrats have done everything but write assassination into the party platform. Seriously, what in the actual Hell is wrong with them?“
IT’S IN SHORT SUPPLY ALL OVER: Women Are Getting on Testosterone and They Say It’s Absolutely Awesome.
MY LATEST LAW REVIEW ARTICLE: United States v. Rahimi: Five Takes. Coauthored with Brannon Denning. We talk about the Supreme Court’s departure from the Bruen framework, and what it’s likely to mean in the future. Download it early and often!
AND THOSE ARE THE BETTER PARTS OF HIS LEGACY: Biden’s autopen presidency inked a legacy of failure and coverups.
“As President Biden’s health declined, Biden White House staffers usurped presidential authority by executing decisions without the president’s awareness — including misusing the autopen and bypassing proper documentation of decision-making processes,” says the report.
It paints a grim picture of a president cocooned by his wife, Jill Biden, son Hunter Biden and three Svengali-style aides — Anthony Bernal, Jill’s chief of staff whom she reportedly called her “work husband,” Annie Tomasini and Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the White House doctor who gaslit the American public with “grossly misleading” medical assessments and “recklessly never conducted a cognitive exam” of Joe.
All three invoked the Fifth Amendment when called to testify to the committee.
Comer has submitted the report to the Department of Justice to conduct a review of “every executive action issued during the Biden presidency” and referred O’Connor to the District of Columbia Board of Medicine to review “any potential wrongdoing in the medical care of the former president.”
When you watch the videos of their congressional testimony, it’s striking how slow-witted and unimpressive Joe Biden’s brain trust was.
A players hire A players. B players hire C and D players.
Biden surrounded himself with F players.
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THE GREATEST GENERATION:
My parents were really old when they had me—mid-40s. Old enough that they were teenagers during The Great Depression.
They had so many insane stories about that time. Oatmeal for dinner. Kids sleeping 4 to a bed. My grandfather going out in the street at night looking for…
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) October 30, 2025
BOO:
JUST ANOTHER UNSOLVED MYSTERY:
Weird. Why? https://t.co/54x7HLEeec
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 30, 2025
EVERY INSTITUTION HAS BEEN CORRUPTED: The Corruption of the Sciences Is Devastating Our Disciplines.
I FEEL BAD ABOUT WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO DAVID FRENCH. Or more accurately, what David French has done to himself.
The Democrats are about to nominate a guy for Senate with a literal SS tattoo, but do go on about a minority population of very online dumbasses on the right. It’s what the audience you’ve created expects. pic.twitter.com/foQYrbiIJl
— Brother Seamus (@WaynePelota) October 30, 2025
OPEN THREAD: This thread’s for you.
MY LATEST LAW REVIEW ARTICLE: United States v. Rahimi: Five Takes. Coauthored with Brannon Denning. We talk about the Supreme Court’s departure from the Bruen framework, and what it’s likely to mean in the future. Download it early and often!
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
Democrats Vow To Starve As Many Food Stamp Recipients As It Takes To Get Free Healthcare For Illegal Immigrants https://t.co/QbPfrmwa2K pic.twitter.com/F3oUGA3EXb
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 29, 2025
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