ANARCHO-TYRANNY:
The Democratic Party wants,
1. A thousand rules, and more every day, micro-detailing how you must live your life or operate your business.
2. "Oh, you're a new arrival / favored group X? Do whatever the heck you want, we don't care."
It cannot last. https://t.co/JUj70TNeoe
— David Shane (@david_shane) October 23, 2025
FROM ONE OF MY LAW STUDENTS: Pixels to Property: Copyright in an Era of AI-Generated Art.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s first reusable rocket aces key engine test to challenge Elon Musk’s SpaceX. “If all goes to plan, the launch of Zhuque-3, China’s first reusable rocket, is just a few weeks away, as LandSpace aims to fly its stainless steel launcher before the end of the year. It’s another strong indicator that China’s space industry is ready to challenge the best of the US.”
DANGEROUS FANTASIES: The Democrats’ Civil War Is Funded by Fantasies.
LIMITED TIME DEAL: Airmoto Tire Inflator Portable Air Compressor. #CommissionEarned
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EXCLUSIVE: Federal authorities are targeting Antifa domestic terror groups across the nation and are now going after their funding sources.
But investigators are also being urged to scrutinize the underground subculture where militants plan, recruit, and hide in plain sight.
In… pic.twitter.com/F3U0U9Yp0F
— FRONTLINES TPUSA (@FrontlinesTPUSA) October 22, 2025
IF YOU’VE EVER WONDERED: Speaking of the Issues & Insights (I&I) crew, a critical comment from one of their many readers prompted a lengthy explanation of why they don’t like the Democratic Party. The explanation is full of interesting insights, including these two:
“The Democratic Party’s intersectional politics are why Greta Thunberg can shift from climate warrior to a Hamasnik wearing an Arafat keffiyeh (also known as the ‘hipster swastika’) and no one on the left blinks. They furnished the stage for Barack Obama to promise that if elected, he’d get busy ‘fundamentally transforming the United States of America,’ and be cheered as if he were a deliverer having descended from Olympus.
“The revolution that the Democratic Party has been pressing for at least six decades would abolish capitalism and free markets, seize the means of production, destroy the nuclear family, erase Christianity and Judaism, defund law enforcement, reopen the borders, censor speech, pack the Supreme Court, ration energy and health care, overturn our civil order and uproot Western civilization.”
There’s more, much more, worth your perusal.
BEND OVER, NEW YORK: Beards, protests and ‘addiction of revolution’: Mamdani’s time in Muslim Brotherhood-ruled Egypt.
Mamdani wrote an article in August 2013 for the Bowdoin College student newspaper about his time in Egypt that summer, explaining how he had grown (and then soon shaved off) a thick beard that he was repeatedly told made him look like a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, how he grew to understand the “addiction of revolution [and] of protest” as he saw groups gather against the failed rule of the Muslim Brotherhood, how his Arabic language professor in Cairo was a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, and how he left Egypt in the wake of the ouster of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi out of concern that he — as a foreigner — might be targeted by the Egyptian military or its supporters.
He seemed critical of the Muslim Brotherhood’s rule during his time in Egypt, but seemed even more critical of the Egyptian military — particularly the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF). He was also critical of the “fulool” — described as remnant supporters of the former regime of longtime Egyptian president and military strongman Hosni Mubarak — and urged people not to be fooled by their efforts.
The future mayoral candidate also seemingly questioned the wisdom of the decision by the Egyptian Revolutionary Socialists to join in protests against the Muslim Brotherhood, asking if a socialist revolution would really be easier with the Egyptian military back in charge.
Everything always circles back to the revolution.
YOU THINK ICE IS BAD NOW? The Issues & Insights guys provide a lengthy list of reminders about the conduct of ICE agents when Barack Obama was in the Oval Office.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY:
Democrats have quite a menu of candidates to choose from.
A Nazi in Maine
A communist in NY
A Navy cheater in NJ
A guy who wants to murder children in Virginia. pic.twitter.com/2MTj2djwZv— Big Fish (@BigFish3000) October 22, 2025
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The tattoo on his chest was a representative symbol of the unit that guarded actual concentration camps during a genocide.
This is one of the most amazing posts this website has ever seen. https://t.co/H1pKrVKIri
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 22, 2025
HMM: Meta slashes jobs in its AI operations.
The company concluded that its long-standing AI efforts had become overly bureaucratic and hopes the reorganization will create a more agile operation, according to an internal memo seen by Axios.
“By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be required to make a decision, and each person will be more load-bearing and have more scope and impact,” Meta chief AI officer Alexandr Wang wrote in the memo.
Driving the news: Meta is cutting roughly 600 positions out of the several thousand roles within Meta’s superintelligence lab.
The cuts will affect the company’s FAIR AI research, product-related AI and AI infrastructure units, while sparing the newly formed TBD Lab unit.
U.S. employees will learn by 7am Pacific time Wednesday whether their jobs are affected, Wang said in the memo.
The company is encouraging affected employees to apply for other jobs within Meta and expects most will find another position internally.
More:
Between the lines: CEO Mark Zuckerberg grew concerned several months ago that the company’s existing AI efforts weren’t leading to needed breakthroughs or improved performance.
That conclusion led to this reorganization, the launch of TBD Labs, and the pricey hiring binge that coincided with Meta’s $15 billion investment in Scale AI and the hiring of Wang.
Meta doesn’t seem to know quite what it’s doing.
WHERE’S THE BEEF?
A lot of talk about beef lately. But no one is flat-out saying what the issue is: government.
The U.S. beef market is a rigged system
1️⃣ USDA regs crush small processors
2️⃣ Big 4 packers act as a cartel
3️⃣ Interstate rules block competition
4️⃣ Trade quotas raise prices
5️⃣…— Will Ricciardella (@WillRicci) October 23, 2025
THE NYT OF A FEW YEARS AGO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THIS WAS GOOD: How China Raced Ahead of the U.S. on Nuclear Power.
The big news here is that the across-the-board mainstream left reflexive resistance to nuclear power has largely vanished.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Too Bad ICE Agents Can’t Round Up Dems Who Are Trying to Get Them Killed. “There were always elements in the Democratic Party that fancied turning the occasional criminal into a cause célèbre. Those Dems were on the fringes of the party back in the day. As we are all aware, the Democrats are all fringe these days. They’re also not at all selective about the criminals they support anymore — they like almost all of them, especially if they come from other countries.”
CRIMINAL ATTORNEY: Jay Jones Is Now Under Criminal Investigation.
PEACE IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS: Treasury Sanctions Major Russian Oil Companies, Calls on Moscow to Immediately Agree to Ceasefire.
As a result of today’s action, all property and interests in property of the designated or blocked persons described above that are in the United States or in the possession or control of U.S. persons are blocked and must be reported to OFAC. In addition, any entities that are owned, directly or indirectly, individually or in the aggregate, 50 percent or more by one or more blocked persons are also blocked. Unless authorized by a general or specific license issued by OFAC, or exempt, OFAC’s regulations generally prohibit all transactions by U.S. persons or within (or transiting) the United States that involve any property or interests in property of blocked persons.
Violations of U.S. sanctions may result in the imposition of civil or criminal penalties on U.S. and foreign persons. OFAC may impose civil penalties for sanctions violations on a strict liability basis. OFAC’s Economic Sanctions Enforcement Guidelines provide more information regarding OFAC’s enforcement of U.S. economic sanctions. In addition, financial institutions and other persons may risk exposure to sanctions for engaging in certain transactions or activities with designated or otherwise blocked persons.
In addition, foreign financial institutions that conduct or facilitate significant transactions or provide any service involving Russia’s military-industrial base, including any persons blocked pursuant to E.O. 14024, run the risk of being sanctioned by OFAC.
That ought to pinch, but maybe not as much as Ukraine’s “kinetic sanctions.”
DON SURBER: Maine Kampf: Democrats silent on Nazi running for the Senate.
UPDATE: Heh.
“Oh man. For twenty years I thought my tattoo was Charlie Chaplin. You can imagine my embarrassment when I found out who it was today”
-some lefty today probably pic.twitter.com/q6rkmrR2Yt
— The Dank Knight 🦇 (@capeandcowell) October 22, 2025
DAVID STROM: Blue Governments Exist to Facilitate Fraud.
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The Democrats created the Homeless Industrial Complex because it channels hundreds of millions of dollars into their left-wing nonprofits. The homeless are just pawns in this shameless and cruel scheme. https://t.co/7pJeQrNHht
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) October 23, 2025
ADHERING TO THE ENEMY: Rockefeller Brothers Fund Gave Millions to Terror-Tied Extremist Groups in 2025.
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