GARBAGE:

“Pretty good October Surprise right?” pic.twitter.com/ZEAbNJEMzs

— Mostly Peaceful Memes (@MostlyPeacefull) October 30, 2024

DON SURBER: End income tax, starve the beast: It is your money, not the government’s. “The tax code is used to punish earners, reward the workless through tax credits and pay back political donors through an endless stream of tax loopholes. It is your money, not the government’s. If Americans keeping $2 trillion of the money they earn causes problems for the government, that is the government’s problem and not ours. We elect these geniuses to Congress. Let them figure out what to cut because they were the ones who pumped the air into the balloon we call the federal government.”

SHOCKER: ‘Zero change’ among Pennsylvania Hispanics over Puerto Rico ‘joke.’

LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY:

Breaking: I can exclusively report that a handwritten note declaring “ALL DROP BOXES WILL BURN. FREE GAZA" was discovered in a Clark County, WA ballot drop box shortly after hundreds of ballots were burned in WA & OR through the use of incendiary devices. https://t.co/5upwn3G5ot

— Andy Ngo 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) October 30, 2024

LOVING THIS: Journalists Still Freaking Out and Quitting Their Jobs Because They Can’t Endorse Kamala.

THE ONLY ENEMIES ARE DOMESTIC POLITICAL ENEMIES: Uh, Oh, Again: Homeland Security Role in Bizarre Election Day “Tabletop Exercise” Denied: Organizers of a Election Day cyber exercise suddenly repudiate their own announcement of Homeland Security involvement. What gives? Plus, a peek at new DHS FOIA material.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, has been the subject of multiple Racket stories in recent years. A year ago, we followed up a House Weaponization of Government Committee report with Twitter Files documents detailing the Homeland Security agency’s help forming the Election Integrity Partnership at Stanford, which mass-flagged social media content in the last presidential election.

Now, a week before another presidential vote, the agency again stepped in it, in a seeming effort to quell conspiracy theories that are almost certain to achieve the opposite.

CISA went unintentionally viral in recent weeks when its participation in a “large scale” cybersecurity exercise on Election Day in Atlanta was announced by the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA). When Kentucky Senator Rand Paul sent DHS chief Alejandro Mayorkas a WTF letter, CISA said the event was canceled. Now, despite both DHS and CISA being listed as “pivotal organizations” at the event, with the Election Day exercise scheduled to be led by a CISA official named Klint Walker, the organizers, i.e. the people who wrote the brochure below, are reportedly telling reporters DHS/CISA had “no involvement” with the event.

CISA, meanwhile, has just sent a letter to Paul’s office. “While conference organizers invited Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) officials to attend this year,” Director Jen Easterly writes, “no CISA employees will be attending either the conference or preconference exercise.”

Surprised staff in Paul’s office are responding to media queries by sending out copies of original documents showing scheduled DHS/CISA participation. You can expect new denials to hit large news organizations as soon as tonight, with the result that a tale once destined to be a footnote to Election Day may now blow up into something larger and weirder.

Trump supporters need to be ready to defend democracy, I guess.

OPEN THEAD: This is where the magic happens.

WOEING: ExoAnalytic observes 500 pieces of debris from Intelsat 33e breakup.

I THOUGHT BLACK-BAG JOBS WENT OUT WITH HOOVER: Report: Whistleblower Claims There Was an Off-Book FBI Investigation Into Trump Ordered by Comey. “The existence of this investigation, which preceded Crossfire Hurricane, was never entered into any FBI system and was later hidden from Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz.”

There is a Deep State, and it was violently opposed to Trump from thet beginning. Democrats used to pretend both ideas were conspiracy theory, now they just praise them.

CLIMATE CHANGE: ‘Exceptional’: Intense Rainfall Has Transformed The Sahara Desert. I’m sure this is awful for some reason, though the Sahara has been wet before.

IT’S THE PARTY’S HISTORY:

Look at all those democrats

— Sara Rose 🇺🇸🌹 (@saras76) October 29, 2024

Democrats started the Racist KKK.

This photo was taken at the
1924 Democratic National Convention.

It was known as the “KLANBAKE”.
(just in case you want to google it) pic.twitter.com/jvWmlxQQL6

— Rose Renner (@RoseRenner50) October 24, 2024

THE CLIMATE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED: New Study Reveals Oceans Absorb More CO2 Than Previously Thought.

HMM: Scientists can reverse brain aging in fruit flies by preventing buildup of a common protein.

THE E.V. BUBBLE IS DEFLATING: Porsche Now Considering Gasoline Variants of EVs. “Porsche already builds an all-electric version of the Macan and the brand has the Taycan EV — not to mention a slew of hybridized models — with an electrified version of the 718 soon to follow. However, the business has noticed that plug-in vehicles aren’t seeing the same kind of demand as vehicles that continue to rely on gasoline. This came up during the Q3 call for investors, with leadership hinting that one future strategy could be to build combustion variants of electric models.”

SHOOTING: My Guns Don’t Suit Me Anymore: As an older shooter, your accuracy is not what it used to be with your favorite pistol.

ABOUT TIME: Some of Apple’s last holdout accessories have switched from Lightning to USB-C.

I AM THE KEYMASTER: Sperm Can’t Unlock an Egg Without This Ancient Molecular Key. “They’re the original odd couple: One is massive, spherical and unmoving. The other is tiny, has a tail and never stops swimming. Yet the union of egg and sperm is critical for every sexually reproducing animal on Earth. Exactly how that union occurs has long been a mystery to scientists. A study published Thursday in the journal Cell that relied on Nobel Prize-honored artificial intelligence technology shows that an interlocked bundle of three proteins is the key that lets sperm and egg bind together. That crucial bundle is shared by animals as distantly related as fish and mammals, and most likely including humans.”

THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA identifies 9 possible landing regions for Artemis III moon mission.

I BELIEVE THIS: Rapid defibrillator use saves lives from cardiac arrest, study finds.

CDR SALAMANDER: Serious Nations Do Serious Things. Unserious Nations Waste Their Inheritance. Ignoring the Arctic is strategic malpractice.

LOL, DIVERSITY IN HIGHER ED: Faculty Presidential Election Survey: 78% Harris, 9% Trump.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China to send 14th crewed mission to space on Shenzhou-19.

WELL, PROFESSORS. Trump ‘violent rhetoric’ needs ‘close monitoring’: political scientists.

Monitor this, bitchez.

Look at this display that the Democrats put up.

This is clearly a threat and message to President Trump.

They aren’t even hiding it. pic.twitter.com/WD6ohvNayF

— Jack (@jackunheard) October 27, 2024

TELL THE LITTLE TWERPS TO SHUT UP AND STUDY: ‘#StopAsianHate’: UMich dean caves to left, changes book covers amid claims of racism.

CHANGE: Virginia trending for Trump, second poll shows race nearly tied.