OPEN SOURCE CODES OF CONDUCT:
I'm about to do something I think I've never done before, which is assert every bit of whatever authority I have as the person who discovered and wrote down the rules of open source.
After ten years of drama and idiocy, lots of people other than me are now willing to say in…
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) September 27, 2025
NAILED IT! The FBI DID Send Hundreds of Undercover Assets Into the J6 Protest!
Yet another victory for the tinfoil hat, “conspiracy theory” crew: the FBI sent 274 “plainclothes” agents into the crowd of people protesting in and near the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to Just the News.
And many of those agents are not happy about how it all went down, not to mention the bureau’s liberal bias.
Bombshell FBI memo uncovered by Kash Patel’s team reveals widespread concerns among agents that bureau had become woke, biased against conservatives https://t.co/eRYy96R6nK
— Just the News (@JustTheNews) September 26, 2025
If true, the collective omertà of the FBI agents is astonishing:
The fucked up part isn’t that they had almost 300 FBI agents there on J6.
What’s fucked up about our country is not one of them came forward the past 4 years.
No way all of them align with far-left ideology, but they sold their country out anyway for a paycheck.
They’re…
— Matt Strickland (@MattForVA) September 26, 2025
America’s Newspaper of Record takes this development to its logical conclusion:
New Report Indicates Only 3 People In Jan 6 Crowd Were Not FBI Agents https://t.co/WfuRMNZw2Y pic.twitter.com/UVH5HYgHIf
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) September 26, 2025
IT’S COME TO THIS: Now Even Stay-At-Home Moms are Fascist.
There are many different ways to accuse conservatives of fascism.
You could, for instance, claim that the Federal Communications Commission is really just the punishing arm of a fascist government when it suggests that maybe late-night show hosts should try not to peddle obvious lies.
Or, you might insist that Sunday’s faith-filled and inspiring memorial for Charlie Kirk was really just “NOT-C PROPAGANDA,” as D.L. Hughley, a former CNN commentator, two-time New York Times bestselling author, and self-proclaimed comedian, did on Instagram. After all, Stephen Miller sounded an awful lot like Adolf Hitler’s chief propagandist, Joseph Goebbels, and the conservative response to Kirk’s death looks an awful lot like the Nazi response to the killing of Horst Wessel in 1930.
(READ MORE: The SPLC and the Radicalization of Charlie Kirk’s Killer)
Then again, you could take an entirely different tack. You could, as Adrienne Matei did in the pages of the Guardian on Monday, point to stay-at-home moms who are trying to clean up after a two-year-old while folding laundry and planning dinner and call them “fascists” — or at least consider them the victims of age-old fascist propaganda.
You see, Donald Trump, like Hitler, “touts pronatalist rewards, such as a $1,000 government-funded investment account for new babies, and has discussed others, including a ‘National Medal of Motherhood’ for women with six children.” Women who fall for such pressure? They’re simply the unwitting slaves of the rising authoritarian regime that depends on them “to keep society stable and operational on a household level, framing regressive policies in more approachable and alluring terms.”
Calling Just About Everything Fascist Obfuscates Its Definition
Where does one even begin unraveling this mess? On one hand, there’s the egregious cheapening of the term “fascism.” On the other hand, the Guardian’s argument fails to take into account the many incredibly successful women in the MAGA movement who hardly practice (or preach) the “trad-wife” lifestyle. Then, of course, there’s the very simple fact that Matei has it all wrong. To be a stay-at-home mother isn’t some kind of primitive slavery; rather, in the words of C.S. Lewis, it’s the living out of “the ultimate career” for which all other careers exist.
The international socialists at the Grauniad view everything they don’t like as National Socialism, but is being a stay-at-home mom more or less fascist than someone who boasts about working out in his or her local gym?
I assume a stay-at-home mom who reads her kids epic poetry is really redlining the Godwin meter:
By last November, even Van Jones had noticed how crazy his party’s purity tests had become:
“If progressives have a politics that says all white people are racist, all men are toxic, and all billionaires are evil it’s kinda hard to keep them on your side. If you're chasing people out of the party, you can't be mad when they leave.”
— Van Jones
— The Rabbit Hole (@TheRabbitHole84) November 7, 2024
RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: Middle Eastern Men Accused Of Shooting Baseball Coach During Prayer Were Let In To U.S. Under Biden.
IS THE BARI WEISS ERA BEGINNING EARLY AT CBS NEWS? Gayle King left stunned as CBS Mornings co-host Tony Dokoupil launches stinging attack on liberal Jimmy Kimmel.
Gayle King was left speechless on Thursday over her CBS Mornings co-host Tony Dokoupil’s blunt commentary about Jimmy Kimmel.
King had been discussing the TV presenter’s return to late night and how it drew his largest audience in years, despite it not airing in nearly a quarter of American homes due to TV operators Sinclair and Nexstar refusing to broadcast the show.
‘Which kind of makes the numbers even more extraordinary – a big chunk of the country couldn’t get it,’ she noted.
Discussing the many millions of views Kimmel received on YouTube and other social media platforms, Dokoupil cut in with a dose of reality.
‘But the 26million [views] on social media, most of that money doesn’t go to ABC,’ he said.
‘And the business is bad if you’re offending half the country – ones that voted for the guy he doesn’t like. So. Here we are. Good luck, late-night.’
Dokoupil’s frankness appeared to leave King momentarily stunned in her anchor chair.
Fortunately, CBS need not worry about its own late night host tanking their ratings ratings by insulting half the country and turning his show into MSNBC with an opening monologue and a horn section.
Flashback: How Is CBS Marking October 7? By Admonishing Tony Dokoupil.
QUESTION ASKED: Is the cult of Obama finally over? At the O2 Arena in London, the president sounded exasperated. His worldview had lost.
For people like Fran who wanted answers, Obama gave none. He just seemed depressed. He said that Britain, like America, is at a “fork in the road.” He said that we’re too materialistic, and have lost two historic defenses against consumerism: religion and counterculture. (Hip-hop used to have a purpose, now rappers just talk about money.) He said there was a “significant risk” that AI becomes a tool of oppression and censorship, and said that Donald Trump has committed “violence against the truth.” “Old men hanging on who are afraid of death” cause 80 percent of the world’s problems, he told the audience, with exasperated frankness. His world view had lost.
After an hour-and-a-bit he was done. [British historian David Olusoga] said “Mr President, thank you for your leadership,” and Obama smiled, waved and left. People ran for the doors. To get the train home, to rush to their friends and loved ones, to proclaim that their king was dead.
In 2013, Ace of Spades wrote of “The MacGuffinization of American Politics:”
American politics is now merely a MacGuffin, an important-sounding but ultimately inconsequential and disposable plot device for holding interest in the Hero’s Journey.
Ultimately the only thing that matters is the Hero itself. It doesn’t matter why the Hero Barack Obama wants the Lost Ark of Sensible Gun Control, or the Shankara Stones of Comprehensive Immigration Reform, or the Democratic Holy Grail of Affordable Health Care. These are very minor details and only matter to the extent the Hero exerts himself to achieve them.
The viewers of this film don’t really care about these things, but only Obama’s frustration at being denied them, or his joy in attaining them.
“This is a big f***ing deal,” his incompetent Comic Sidekick said as he signed Obamacare into law. What the “this” was didn’t matter then, as it scarcely matters now.
What counted was that the Hero had won.
Politics is now a MacGuffin in American politics, at least for the frothing fanbois of the Hero Barack Obama.
It doesn’t matter what his goals actually are — it only matters that he succeeds in those quests, whatever they might be.
Chris Matthews sums up, neatly, his only genuine interest in American politics for the past five years:
“We have real people in this country with real power and status who have used that status of power to hurt the country so they could hurt the president.“
Great moments in projection, considering what Chris’s fellow Democrats would be hurling non-stop at Obama’s successor, just three years later.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Barack Obama Admits Officials Ignored Negative Evidence on COVID School Closures.
Barack Obama claims that the government had evidence that the virus was not dangerous to children as early as the Spring of 2020. Indeed, Donald Trump first urged the schools to reopen in April of that year. He repeated his demand in July, tweeting “SCHOOLS MUST OPEN IN THE FALL!!!”.
But by then, the National Education Association (NEA) had politicized the school opening issue, and Democrats were saying Trump wanted to kill little kids.
Obama told a British reporter, “Sometimes we weren’t looking at some of the evidence that said: ‘You know what, most kids really need school.’” He added that “it got politicised and became ideological and was viewed as a Left versus Right issue.”
If only he had thought that during his third term in office: Never forget: It was Randi Weingarten and the Bidens who sacrificed a generation of kids.
LATE NIGHT LAUGHS AND ENTERTAINMENT: Colbert, Strong Blame George H.W. Bush For Impending Climate Doom.
No Republican is safe from CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s wrath, not even former President and quintessential moderate George H.W. Bush. According to Colbert and actor* Jeremy Strong on Thursday, “we risk losing essentially everything” to climate change, and it is Bush’s fault.
Colbert teed up Strong, “You have a documentary about our burning world.”
An appreciative Strong took the opportunity to promote the project, “Yeah, I executive produced an incredible documentary called The White House Effect that is coming out on Netflix at the end of next month. It’s coming out on Netflix on October 31, and thank you for giving me a chance to talk about it. You know, I really think it’s, like, mandatory viewing for anyone who cares about our planet, and… the film is a kind of origin story of the climate crisis and how we got into the, kind of, political quagmire that we are in now that has prevented any real action.”
“Mandatory viewing?!” The people who tell me the earth is doomed also tell me that if everybody tunes into Netflix, it’s very very bad for the environment: Your Netflix binge-watching makes climate change worse, say experts.
But how could it be that there are any humans still alive after Papa Bush’s administration?
In the late 1980s the U.N. was already claiming the world had only a decade to solve global warming or face the consequences.
The San Jose Mercury News reported on June 30, 1989 that a “senior environmental official at the United Nations, Noel Brown, says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if global warming is not reversed by the year 2000.”
That prediction didn’t come true 15 years ago, and the U.N. is sounding the same alarm today.
—“25 Years Of Predicting The Global Warming ‘Tipping Point,’” Michael Bastach, the Daily Caller, May 4, 2015.
* Always trust the actors on the environment. They know about such things: “Remember back in 1988 when this program debuted, Ted Danson predicted that we only had ten years to live because the oceans were going to be dead and, if the oceans died, then we would soon follow?”
Tricolor Auto Group, the nation’s seventh largest used car dealer (and 3rd biggest in Texas and California), just filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy – e.g. liquidation. Its target customer had been illegal aliens, and with President Trump deciding to start enforcing the nation’s immigration laws, there has suddenly been a major “market correction” in that market segment. Not only has the customer base largely evaporated, but so have loan repayments, which Tricolor also serviced.
The “tri colors” that the name references are the colors of the Mexican flag – red, white, and green.
While the sudden loss of customers and loan repayments was the catalyst that caused the final collapse of Tricolor, its failure has revealed so much more, including securities fraud, Wall Street ESG gimmickry, race-based federal programs, etc.
Tricolor has securitized more than $2 billion of its very high risk auto loans over the past seven years. The most recent issuance was in June of this year, with JP Morgan Chase and other money center banks peddling more than $200 million of “social bonds” to credulous investors. These securities are certified as “social bonds” by the US Treasury’s CDFI (“Community Development Financial Institution”) program because Tricolor focuses on selling its cars and financial services to underserved communities, specifically Spanish-speaking non-citizens. Tricolor’s CEO, Daniel Chu, was quoted by Barron’s in 2022 as stating, “No one else is providing meaningful dollar credit to an illegal immigrant.”
The key word there being “illegal.” Exit quote:
You may recall that a major contributor to the financial crash of 2008 was Wall Street wizards packaging up a bunch of sub-prime mortgages, securitizing them, and then selling those “mortgage backed securities” to investors as something other than perfumed garbage. That is effectively what Tricolor has been doing with its auto loans, with the help of Wall Street.
Read the whole thing.
OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS OVER: Sinclair, Nexstar end Jimmy Kimmel ban after sidelining host amid Charlie Kirk controversy.
MARK STEYN: Un Tour d’Horizon.
To be sure, Donald Trump has spent the last nine months demonstrating an energy in the executive unimaginable in France or Germany, Canada or Australia. However, he is stymied at every turn by the industrial-scale hollowing out of every institution from your local kindergarten to the Pentagon. A third-rate politicised judiciary – with an extraordinary number of foreign-born judges whose English comprehension does not apparently extend to the separation of powers – is confident it can stall the President’s drive and determination until the next election.
Furthermore, the United States is the fons et origo of every madness afflicting the core west, starting with mass trannification. Millions of apparently sane people, including your children’s teachers and your hospital management (and, in Minnesota, your governor), purport to believe that this is as much of a woman as the late Claudia Cardinale.
The American left gives the impression it won’t be satisfied till every middle-school boy is a girl and vice-versa. Why would they do such a thing? Because, as I’ve said for years to the despair of many “conservative” radio listeners, if you can abolish biological sex, what can’t you do? So we now have psychotrannies gunning down children at mass in Catholic schools and tranny boyfriends assassinating key conservative figures on stage before thousands of people. We are at the dawn of what is already being spoken of as the Age of Assassination.
It’s Mark Steyn, so read the whole thing.
FBI BOMBSHELL: 274 agents sent to Capitol for J6, many later complained they were political ‘pawns.’
The FBI secretly deployed more than 250 plainclothes agents to the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, an operation so disorganized it unleashed searing frustrations among many of the FBI’s rank-and-file that the bureau had lost its core competencies to “wokeness” and allowed its employees to become “pawns in a political war,” according to an after-action report kept from the public for more than four years.
Scores of FBI agents and personnel – many from the bureau’s premier Washington field office (WFO) – sent anonymous complaints to the after-action team detailing how agents were sent into an unsafe scenario without proper safety equipment or the ability to identify themselves readily as armed officers to other police agencies, the report obtained by Just the News shows.
The most persistent complaint was that the bureau during the James Comey and Chris Wray era had become infected with political biases and liberal ideology that treated the protesters from the summer 2020 Black Lives Matter riots far differently than those arrested in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 episode.
“The FBI should make clear to its personnel and the public that, despite its obvious political bias, it ultimately still takes its mission and priorities seriously,” one employee wrote in a stinging review. “It should equally and aggressively investigate criminal activity regardless of the offenders’ perceived race, political affiliations, or motivations; and it should equally and aggressively protect all Americans regardless of perceived race, political affiliations, or motivations.”
That agent urged FBI leaders “to identify viable exit options for FBI personnel who no longer feel it is legally or morally acceptable to support a federal law enforcement and intelligence agency motivated by political bias.”
Meanwhile, at America’s Newspaper of Record:
FBI Busts FBI Terror Plot pic.twitter.com/w2KdEFHLxD
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) September 26, 2025
Related:
Cool shell formation found on beach walk pic.twitter.com/VuouLGFG0m
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 26, 2025
OLD AND BUSTED: Broken Windows Policing Sharply Reduces Crime in Manhattan.
The New Hotness? Manhattan DA Declines to Prosecute NYC Woman Who Punched Pro-Life Activist During Street Interview.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office has declined to prosecute a woman who left a pro-life activist bloodied during a street interview in New York City earlier this year, according to attorneys from the Thomas More Society.
New York police arrested Brianna J. Rivers, 30, in April on one count of second-degree assault after she sucker punched activist Savannah Craven Antao during a street interview on abortion. The attack was caught on camera as Craven Antao asked Rivers questions about abortion on behalf of the pro-life organization Live Action.
But now, attorneys with the Thomas More Society say they plan to file a civil suit and seek damages on Craven Antao’s behalf after Bragg’s office declined to prosecute the felony assault charge.
Bragg’s office first downgraded the charge to a misdemeanor before ultimately dismissing the charge altogether, they said.
Just think of it as a sneak preview of life under Mayor Mamdani:
There is a reason why almost every bad case you hear about in NYC involves someone who has been arrested numerous times. There are no consequences for crimes like assault.
It’s going to get worse with Mamdani. If he wins, my sincere advice is for people who can leave to do so. https://t.co/lxD5HpukyQ
— AG (@AGHamilton29) September 26, 2025
JD VANCE MAKES THE RADICAL LEFT AN OFFER THEY CAN’T ACCEPT:
I call upon all of our supporters to stop the violence against innocent beer cans.
And I call upon all left wing radicals to stop inciting violence against innocent people. https://t.co/j5VZ7AK8fx
— JD Vance (@JDVance) September 26, 2025
Won’t somebody think of the innocent beer cans?!
GERMANY STILL PARTYING LIKE IT’S 1939: German Shop Owner Bans Jews From Store.
Sixty-year-old Hans Velten Reisch has been the owner of a small specialist shop at 63 Duburger Street in Flensburg, Germany, since 2016. The shop sells technical literature, focusing on original workshop manuals for cars and motorcycles. A week ago, on Wednesday, September 17, Reisch posted a sign in the front window of his store reading: “Juden haben hier Hausverbot!!! Nichts persönliches. auch kein Antisemitismus. kann euch nur nicht ausstehen.” (English: “Jews are banned from here!!! Nothing personal. Also no antisemitism. I just can’t stand you.”)
The sign posted by Reisch evokes a disturbing similarity to the signs that were placed in Jewish storefronts in Nazi Germany in the 1930s, before the outbreak of WWII. The public signs banning Jews after Hitler rose to power were the first stages of Nazi persecution, which eventually led to mass deportations and the systematic murder of six million Jews.
If you’re putting up signs that read “Jews are banned from here,” it’s definitely time to ask yourself, “Are we the baddies?”
IT’S COME TO THIS: Pregnant Liberal Women* Pop Tylenol to Rebel Against Trump’s Autism Announcement.
Reuters oof 🤦🏻♂️
2013: Tylenol during pregnancy could affect development
2025: Not backed by science pic.twitter.com/UPxn4RdYt1
— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) September 24, 2025
To be fair though, think of the benefits!
* Women?! This CNN article is far more inclusive:
OLD AND BUSTED: RAF wins Battle of Britain.
The New Hotness? RAF air crews win battle… for vegan uniforms.
MAKE THE RUBBLE BOUNCE:
Berlin looked nice in 1939, then it all fell apart because someone thought it would be a great idea to kill everyone.
There's a lesson in there if you care to think about it. https://t.co/iKlQRp5b94
— varifrank (@varifrank) September 25, 2025
YOU STAY CLASSY, GAVIN: Gavin Newsom Goes Too Far, Compares Stephen Miller to an SS Agent—Hitler’s Notorious ‘Schutzstaffel.’
We’ve mostly stayed away from the juvenile and unfunny “Governor Newsom Press Office” social media account, because even though it’s official, it’s frankly just insipid. Apparently, some staffers think it’s really funny to have the far-left governor talk like Trump, but it doesn’t work because it has none of the humor of Trump and is completely out of character with the wooden Newsom, who in reality talks like an AI chatbot.
But their silliness crossed the line of decency Monday when they made a post comparing White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, who is Jewish, to a member of the SS—the Schutzstaffel, Adolf Hitler’s sadistic personal police force. Although the post was made earlier in the week, it’s getting renewed scrutiny as domestic terror attacks continue throughout the country, including the fatal shooting at an ICE detention center on Wednesday night.
Exit quote: “Referring to a Jew as a Nazi is widely considered a form of Holocaust denial, as well as antisemitic, because it can — as in this instance — indicate an intent to invert the identities of the perpetrators and the victims of the Nazis’ crimes against humanity.”
65 YEARS AGO TODAY: Revisiting the first presidential debate — and its improbable audience split.
Over the decades, memories of Nixon’s baffling tactics have been obscured by enduring fascination with a phenomenon that has come to define the first debate — a phenomenon that almost surely did not occur.
The phenomenon is known as “viewer-listener disagreement,” which means that Kennedy won the debate among television viewers while Nixon won among radio listeners. It’s an optics-driven interpretation that serves to confirm the presumed decisiveness of visual cues. It also is useful shorthand for explaining the debate’s outcome — that Nixon lost because he was gaunt and sweated under the studio lights.
The notion of viewer-listener disagreement endures, even though it was thoroughly dismantled 33 years ago in a scholarly journal article that pointed out the phenomenon is supported by almost no empirical data. The little survey data collected about the debate’s television and radio audiences were flawed, incomplete, and wholly inadequate to support such a sweeping theory. The authors, David Vancil and Sue Pendell, wrote in the Central States Speech Journal that “the inference that appearance caused Nixon’s loss or Kennedy’s victory is classic post hoc fallacy.”
Even if television viewers “disliked Nixon’s physical appearance,” they added, “the relative importance of this factor in viewers’ selection of a debate winner is a matter of conjecture.”
Read the whole thing.
QUESTION ASKED:
Antifa wants an insurrection leading to a legitimacy collapse and a communist/left-anarchist revolution. But there's a very basic question: where's it going to find the troops, and how's it going to train them?
In one of my previous analysis posts I identified three overlapping…
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) September 25, 2025
TROLL LEVEL POTUS DJT: Biden’s Portrait in Trump’s New Presidential Walk of Fame is a Photo of an Autopen.
The Presidential Walk of Fame has arrived on the West Wing Colonnade
Wait for it… 🖊️👀 pic.twitter.com/ApWfdxfFQa
— Margo Martin (@MargoMartin47) September 24, 2025
2025: A RADICAL CHIC ODYSSEY. Political violence and the boredom of barbarism.
“Mangione’s fanbase seem to be mostly young women from well-off backgrounds, and while his looks play in part, there is notably a late tsarist tendency among younger American leftists to revel in political violence. Perhaps they genuinely believe they’re fighting ‘fascism’, or… pic.twitter.com/S490xFjPBq
— Zarathustra (@zarathustra5150) September 24, 2025
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