TOOLS: Biden-Harris Admin Promotes Pentagon Employee Tied to Iranian Influence Network: Ariane Tabatabai, outed as a member of the Iran Experts Initiative, will now lead DoD’s ‘force and education training.’

DON SURBER: The sham-didate: “Kamala participated in a one-person debate on CNN and she lost.”

NEW YORK, NY IS THE 21ST CENTURY VERSION OF SCOTTSOBORO, ALABAMA: Daniel Penny Jurors to Remain Anonymous Because of Threats. Racist prosecutors and angry mobs.

AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD NAILS IT:

LA Times Staff Resigns After Being Asked To Publish Facts https://t.co/3z8nJfbXan pic.twitter.com/1co3mwIeJU

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 24, 2024

WELL: Unsealed Title IX Complaint Against Columbia Now Available.

NOBODY BUT LEFTIE TOOLS BELIEVES THE “MISINFORMATION” PROPAGANDA:

POLL: Americans rank free speech second only to inflation on their list of 2024 concerns, according to a new poll by FIRE. That’s higher than other hot-button issues like crime, immigration, and health care. pic.twitter.com/hGATDPvEJD

— FIRE (@TheFIREorg) October 24, 2024

OPEN THREAD: Disport yourselves.

SO WHAT DON’T THEY WANT US TO NOTICE? THAT KAMALA’S AWFUL? TOO LATE FOR THAT, MUST BE SOMETHING ELSE.

I wonder if that wasn't the goal of the information operation to begin with? In a degraded information environment cui bono?

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 25, 2024

SOMETHING FISHY ABOUT THIS: A Shocking Amount of Seafood Isn’t What The Label Says, Study Shows. It’s not the first such study, either.

WAIT, HOW DID WE HAVE CLIMATE CHANGE BEFORE SUVs? Duke Scientists Uncover Stronger, Ancient Versions of El Niño and La Niña.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Halloween candy binges can overload gut microbiome, spooking helpful bacteria.

HMM: Stellantis Will Use Solid State Battery Tech in the New 2027 Dodge Charger Daytona.

WELL, GOOD: Armed Citizen Stops A Man Trying To Run Over Three People.

LIKE SPACESUITS? How Prada’s fancy Artemis III spacesuits work. I just hope that they’re compatible with SpaceX connections.

ENSHITTIFICATION: Streaming subscription fees have been rising while content quality is dropping.

WOEING: Space agencies tracking debris from Boeing-built satellite’s explosion in orbit.

SHOCKER: Poll: Most Americans stressed about election, future of nation.

NEWS FROM MY NECK OF THE WOODS: Tennessee AG Exposes Federal Release of Illegal Immigrants Convicted of Dangerous Crimes.

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti today announced that following a successful lawsuit by the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) was forced to produce previously undisclosed information about the agency’s release of thousands of detained migrants, including dangerous convicted criminals. The hundreds of pages of documents obtained shed light on federal authorities’ since-abandoned plan to transport potentially thousands of “single adult” immigration detainees into Tennessee.

The records show that ICE’s plan to release migrants into this State was derailed by pushback from Tennessee’s Governor and U.S. Senators and ultimately stopped through successful litigation by the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office and other States. The information further reveals that although ICE abandoned its failed plan for the mass release of detainees into Tennessee, the agency nonetheless released over 7,000 detainees directly from its Louisiana facilities at that time, including more than 30 who were assigned ICE’s highest security-threat level. Released detainees had criminal records, including homicide, sexual assault, aggravated assault with a weapon, armed robbery, kidnapping, smuggling aliens, drug trafficking, burglary, and fraud.

“The federal government’s single most important job is to keep dangerous people out of our country and instead it has let killers and rapists illegally cross our border and walk free on our streets,” said Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti. “While the urgent work to fix our broken immigration system continues in Washington, my Office will keep fighting for transparency and accountability.”

In December 2022, the Governor’s Office learned that ICE had been coordinating with local immigration-rights groups and Nashville officials to release large numbers of detainees into Tennessee before the anticipated termination of the federal government’s Title 42 public health order. With support from the Governor, the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office immediately worked to obtain answers from the federal government. When federal authorities failed to respond to Tennessee’s Freedom of Information Act requests, the Attorney General’s Office filed suit.

As a result of the litigation, ICE searched for and produced hundreds of pages of responsive records that revealed the following:

Coordination between ICE, Nashville city officials, and a Tennessee immigration nonprofit to arrange for the mass release of detainees into Tennessee
ICE originally planned to release thousands of single, adult, non-citizen detainees from its Louisiana detention facilities into Tennessee
Data from ICE showing the release from its Louisiana detention facilities of non-citizen detainees with violent criminal records, including murder, rape, and kidnapping
You can find the documents from ICE here.

Pathetic, and I think the nonprofits, city officials, etc. should face some accountability. But nice work from the Tennessee AG’s office, and from AG Jonathan Skrmetti.

CDR SALAMANDER: Lies, Damn Lies, and Shipbuilding Plans.

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: College that openly celebrates progressive ideology continues to face big budget woes.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: Columbia anti-Israel group echoes terrorist rallying cry to ‘besiege the embassies.’ Besiege the Hamas supporters. Turnabout is fair play.

DON SURBER: Gillette, Bud Light, Kamala: Calling an entire sex toxic is no way to sell blades, beer or candidates. “The problems are there. Women are 50% more likely to get into college and men are 9 times as likely to be in prison. The media and the government repeatedly try to emasculate men as they want to turn us into drones for these queen bees. The gender gap merely shines light on the problem. After decades of this stereotyping of men as evil and the constant discrimination against men, males have had it. The backlash may have begun with Hillary but it later torched Gillette, which launched a ridiculous ad campaign on attacking toxic masculinity.”

AND GIVEN WHAT HE’S DONE TO THE COUNTRY, THAT’S KIND: Biden will be remembered as a laughingstock.

IT’S A CLOWN SHOW WHERE MOST OF THE CLOWNS ARE CORRUPT AND ENTITLED: John Lucas: Fisking the Brass: Analyzing our self-proclaimed “National Security Leaders’” 2020 Presidential endorsement reveals their lack of expertise and reliability.

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: My chat (+transcript) with space journalist Eric Berger on SpaceX and America’s New Space Age.

Related: Two new anti-space books. For some people, the only invention they approve of is the wet blanket.

Also: Some Columbus Day Thoughts About Elon Musk: Big achievements and the hatred of the petty-minded.