RABBI MICHAEL BARCLAY: In Memoriam: Yitzhak Rabin.

YOU DON’T SAY: Rivian’s CFO hints the end of EV tax credits means manufacturers are being forced to finally make more affordable electric cars.

DEVELOPING…

Fishy things going on in Pennsylvania https://t.co/DuO5KEINUH

— Patient Speculator (@ThePatientSpec) November 4, 2025

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Londonistan and the Death of Tolerance.

FINALLY, SOME GOOD NEWS OUT OF BRITAIN:

🚨Tommy Robinson acquitted of all charges under the Terrorism Act.

The judge was blistering in his criticism of the police, saying their testimony lacked “credibility” and that they had in fact targeted Tommy for political reasons, which is illegal.

Incredible outcome. pic.twitter.com/SdtpP5UqjM

— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) November 4, 2025

GOOD QUESTION: Why are we sending illiterate high school grads to college? “Graduating from high school is easier than ever. Most states have abandoned exit exams. Online ‘credit recovery’ is enabling students to pass classes they never attended. High schools brag about graduation rates and students who say they’re headed for college, but don’t track whether graduates are able to pass a college class or succeed in job training.”

Give them a diploma and get them out the door — then they’re somebody else’s problem.

That’s where our public schools are in terms of accountability.

LLMS LIE: AI Bias: Google AI Says GOP Senator Is a Sex Offender.

LIES, DAMNED LIES, AND WEF STATISTICS:

“If women are behind on a metric, it’s recorded as inequality. If men are behind, it’s recorded as parity. You read that correctly: The index is explicitly designed so that men cannot be seen as disadvantaged, no matter how far behind they fall.”

[Link below.] pic.twitter.com/Y4p2YO9OUg

— Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) November 3, 2025

JOEL KOTKIN: Mayors to Cities: Drop Dead.

Perhaps never in recent history have American cities so badly needed strong, pragmatic mayors—and gotten so few. Congressional Republicans, with few urban constituencies, won’t be of much help with mass transit or other city services; big cities will have to “go it alone.” But rather than realigning city budgets and working toward self-sufficiency, many mayors favor far-left policies on policing, rent control, education, and taxation that amount to what the late Fred Siegel described three decades ago as “a suicide of sorts.”

This autumn could well see a neo-socialist, Zohran Mamdani, win the mayor’s office in New York. In Minneapolis, a Mamdani clone, 35-year-old state senator Omar Fateh, won the endorsement of the dominant Democratic Farmer Labor Party (later rescinded, following allegations about voting irregularities at the party’s July convention). Leftists have also scored victories in smaller cities like Oakland, Cincinnati, Syracuse, Albany, and Buffalo. And Seattle, which suffered some of the most destructive effects from 2020’s “summer of love,” as its clueless then-mayor called it, appears likely to replace the moderates elected in the 2020 aftermath with a new slate of far-left politicians.

Cities cannot afford such choices. Today, major American metropolises constitute a smaller portion of the nation’s population than at any time in the past half century. Employment has steadily shifted away from cities since the 1950s. The production of great office towers, those temples of urban prominence, has fallen to levels a small fraction of those of the 1990s and may soon dip below the rate of spending on new data centers. According to the Financial Times, many global firms are planning to reduce their office footprints by between 10 percent and 20 percent. The industries that traditionally drive high-end employment, like finance and professional services, are also those most often receptive to remote or hybrid work.

I don’t think Walter Becker and Donald Fagen were referencing America’s big cities when they wrote, “Things may get a whole lot worse/Before suddenly falling apart.”

But they might as well have been.

WHAT SOROS REALLY WANTS:

I just came across this in an Open Society Foundations document about how to fix public “mistrust” of liberal "democracy," and I honestly feel sick reading it. I've read many alarming quotes, but few are so "mask off" like this.

"I believe the time has come for a responsible,… pic.twitter.com/aD1kd5H28j

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) November 4, 2025

Read the whole thing, but this part stands out: “This woman is not a raving Soros rando. She has been decorated with the highest civilian honors in multiple countries – Italy, France, Germany, Council of Europe for her democracy work.”

What the elites want is not what you want, and they are no longer shy about stripping you of your rights to get it.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: It’s Come to This — Republicans Rooting for Andrew Cuomo. “As is almost always the case with the Dems, when one we especially don’t like is finally gone, he or she is usually followed by someone much worse. Current New York Governor Kathy Hochul wasted little time proving that when she replaced Cuomo.”

BIG DAY, VOTE ACCORDINGLY:

Republicans, Go Vote!

California
❌ NO on Prop 50

Georgia
✅ Tim Echols & Fitz Johnson

Maine
✅ YES on Question 1
🚩 NO on Question 2

New Jersey
✅ Jack Ciattarelli

Pennsylvania
❌ NO to Wecht, Donohue, Dougherty, Dubow, & Wojcik

Texas
✅ FOR Proposition 16

Virginia
✅…

— ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) November 4, 2025

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Drones seen near air base storing U.S. nuclear weapons resemble ‘spy operation,’ Belgium’s defense minister says.

Defense Minister Theo Francken confirmed that drones had flown into the area near the Kleine Brogel air base in northeast Belgium in two phases on Saturday and Sunday night.

The first phase involved “small drones to test the radio frequencies” of Belgian security services, then later came “big drones to destabilize the area and people,” Francken told public broadcaster RTBF.

“It resembles a spy operation. By whom, I don’t know. I have a few ideas but I’m going to be careful” about speculating, he said. Last month, several drones were spotted above another Belgian military base near the German border. The operators were not identified.

Russia has been blamed for a number of airspace violations, notably in Estonia and Poland, in recent months. But the perpetrators of a series of mysterious drone flights in Denmark and Germany have been harder to pin down.

We are badly prepared for what’s coming.

ICYMI: Profiles in Courage, Democratic Edition: Hakeem Jeffries’ Vanishing Backbone.

ANTIFA IS JUST AN IDEA…:

Oh wow. Check out this indictment. The clinical-style definition of "Antifa" is pure gold. It's probably a good idea to screenshot that section and lay it on whomever you next hear say "Antifa does not exist." https://t.co/sEGFYU9IFK

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) November 4, 2025

…and idea with leadership, organization, goals, planning, weapons, etc.

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Congressional Perks: House account spending jumped 21% in 2022.

The Members’ Representational Allowance (MRA) provides each of the 435 U.S. representatives in Congress about $2 million a year to pay staff, travel, buy equipment and run their Washington, D.C., and district offices, giving members wide latitude on how to spend the money within House ethics and administration committee rules. Districts receive different amounts depending on cost of living and distance from Washington, D.C., but lawmakers aren’t required to spend all of it – and some do not.

Each member is required to disclose his or her spending, and The Center Square found significant spending on private jet travel, luxury car leasing, meals and catering, questionable mileage reimbursements and subscriptions to news outlets that were recommended for cuts in the executive branch under the Department of Government Efficiency. There was also at least $50 million spent on partisan and issue-specific caucuses.

On top of about $810 million in 2024 for individual lawmakers’ office accounts, the House appropriates billions more for other operations of the House, including perks like a childcare center and an office of attending physician so members didn’t have to deal with waiting for a primary care.

David Williams, president of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, a non-partisan, nonprofit that looks out for the use of taxpayer money, said there needs to be a review of all the Congressional spending after The Center Square told him about some of the disbursements detailed in the House office accounts.

Yes, please.

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE TOOK THE MORNING OFF: The Halloween Dearborn Terror Plotters Are Muslim and Support ISIS (Surprise, Surprise).

ICYMI: I’m Sorry, But HOW MANY Illegals Get Food Stamps?

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX launches private space station pathfinder ‘Haven Demo.’ “Among the 18 payloads on board the Falcon 9 is Haven Demo, a pathfinder for Haven-1, the private space station that California company Vast Space plans to launch to Earth orbit next year.”

MIDDLE EAST: Hamas Finally Releases Israeli-American Hostage’s Remains.

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Arctic Frost’ Prosecutor Could Use Cushy Big Tech Job To Target Conservatives, Watchdog Warns. “The Center to Advance Security in America (CASA) is demanding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) review its contracts with Microsoft after the tech giant hired former Biden Justice Department official Lisa Monaco, according to a letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The letter warns that Monaco’s senior position poses a national security risk, as she is privy to sensitive information between Microsoft and the federal government.”

There’s that fascism the Democrats keep looking for.

DON’T TRUST CHINA. CHINA IS ASSHOE:

🇮🇱 The Israeli army has started taking away Chinese-made service cars from officers — espionage risks officially confirmed

The military has strong reasons to believe that built-in cameras, sensors and communication systems in these vehicles could collect data and transmit it to… pic.twitter.com/fXEFqmOHHg

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) November 3, 2025

ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL: The Most Important Elections Are the Ones Nobody’s Talking About. “Two seats on Georgia’s Public Service Commission are up for grabs. Before you yawn and dismiss this vote as no big deal, keep in mind that the Democrats in these races are massive Green New Deal supporters, while Republicans Tim Echols and Fitz Johnson are focused on keeping utility costs low for customers across the Peach State.”

IMPRESSIVE: Feds prevented 6,525 known, suspected terrorists from entering U.S.

In a few short months, the National Counterterrorism Center says it’s helped prevent 6,525 known or suspected terrorists (KSTs) from entering the U.S.

This is after U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Border Patrol officers apprehended a record more than 3,000 KSTs in the U.S. illegally in fiscal 2025, according to CBP data.

Until this year, the greatest number of KSTs CBP and Border Patrol agents were apprehended during the Biden administration: 1,903.

It’s amazing what you can find when you bother to look.

YES:

This panic about food stamps (SNAP/EBT) is a national and international humiliation and disgrace.

This country's entire history and culture is about agronomy, enterprise, independence, and capacity of a people to feed themselves in a new land. That's the whole point of…

— Jeffrey A Tucker (@jeffreyatucker) November 3, 2025