IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™ — Nancy Pelosi Makes Us All Dumber for Having Listened to Her

MARK JUDGE:

We are $1,000 from theater rental. https://t.co/HedmTwTw02 @DLoesch @ChrisLoesch @ComfortablySmug @AGHamilton29 @amuse @CurtisHouck @NolteNC @willchamberlain @MattWalshBlog @andrewklavan @erik_lidstrom @VodkaPundit @JonathanTurley @FilmLadd @HansMahncke @QuinHillyer @TomBevanRCP

— Mark Judge (@markgjudge) October 24, 2025

Background here: The Anti-Communist Film Festival. “The Anti-Communist Film Festival, planned for the fall of 2026 in Washington, D.C., does not want to shut down filmmakers or tell them what kind of movies to make. We just want to offer the audience the truth about an evil pseudo-religious cult, which has caused more damage to the world than anything that could be depicted in a disaster movie.”

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Do NOT Take a Sip From His Thermos. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn the lyrics to ’40 Oz to Incarceration,’ the worst way to show appreciation to a firefighter, and where to take an excavator on a joyride.”

HOW’S THAT SPACE PROGRAM COMING ALONG? Astronomers discover skyscraper-size asteroid hidden in sun’s glare — and it’s moving at a near-record pace. “Most asteroid research finds these objects in the dark of night, where they are easiest to spot. But asteroids that lurk near the Sun can only be observed during twilight — when the Sun is just about to rise or set. If these ‘twilight’ asteroids approach Earth, they could pose serious impact hazards.”

UNDERREPORTED STORIES: BLM, Antifa, Hezbollah, and More: Inside Maduro’s Global Web.

YOU DON’T HAVE TO FALL IN LOVE, YOU JUST HAVE TO FALL IN LINE: Democrats Swallowing Hard to Embrace Nazi-Loving, Communist-Identifying Maine Senate Candidate.

HEY, BIG SPENDER: Trump says an anonymous donor has pledged $130 million to cover military pay amid shutdown.

The private donation comes the same day Senate Democrats blocked a Republican bill that would have covered the paychecks of servicemembers, Transportation Security Administration employees, and air traffic controllers.

Trump said the donor, who did not want his identity disclosed, has agreed to donate $130 million to the federal government to help cover the spending shortfall. The $130 million check has already been received, the Epoch Times reported.

“He called us the other day and he said, ‘I’d like to contribute any shortfall you have because of the Democrat shutdown. I’d like to contribute, personally, contribute any shortfall you have with the military, because I love the military and I love the country, and any shortfall, if there’s a shortfall, I’ll contribute it,’’’ Trump said.

It’s a pretty short list of conservatives with $130 million to spare in the checking account.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. What Conservatives Are Really Conserving Is Open-Mindedness. “You can’t preserve and conserve each of these pillars of American democracy without a deep appreciation for an open mind.”

FIREARMS TRAINING FROM PEOPLE AGAINST OWNING FIREARMS: I Took Everytown’s Training Class and It’s Everything You’d Expect it to Be. “Besides their missing last names, none of Everytown’s training staff list their actual instructor credentials or even where they were trained, but they’re all beautiful people and very diverse, which was probably much more important to the folks at Everytown than what’s in their CVs.”

BREAKING: Germans with a sense of humor.

The German company that built the forklift used in the Louvre robbery uses a photo of the heist to advertise itself: “When things need to be done quickly.”

😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/Ucd17nUm7X

— BowTiedMara (@BowTiedMara) October 23, 2025

WHEN LEFTISM NECESSITATED DECONSTRUCTING IT AND REPLACING IT WITH SOMETHING MORE PLIABLE. NEXT QUESTION? When Did It Become Taboo to Defend One’s Own Culture?

THAT’S CRAZY AND/OR RACIST: ‘Hey, How About We Limit Voting To Citizens?’ “[Texas] Attorney General Ken Paxton has joined with 13 other states in support of a rulemaking petition that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Dems Are Mad About Trump’s Ballroom Because They’re Miserable Scolds Who Hate Fun.

THEY’RE TOO KIND:

https://t.co/eERXzzBC5A And where the hell was the NY Slimes when Letitia James was weaponizing her office to go after 1 man? These biased lying whores have no shame, but now in the age of the Internet we can point out what biased lying whores they really are.

— John Bulkeley (@bulkeley_john) October 24, 2025

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS LOUNGING ON THE LIDO DECK: Students learn more, fight less after smartphone bans.

Test scores rose modestly when an urban Florida district banned smartphones, concludes a working paper, reports Erica Meltzer on Chalkbeat. In the first year of the all-day ban, more students — especially black males — were suspended. By the second year, students were learning more and suspensions returned to normal. Attendance improved.

Researchers compared schools with the highest cell phone use before the 2023 ban and those with the lowest. Test scores went up more in the high-use schools, especially for middle and high school students, and boys.

The test score increases were “meaningful but not game-changing,” said David Figlio of the University of Rochester. He thinks smartphones contribute to test score declines, but may not be the primary cause.

Well, then keep digging.

ROBERT SPENCER: They Just Can’t Help It: Now a Dem Makes a Throat-Slashing Gesture. “So few people watch CNN these days outside of airports and dentist’s offices that making the gesture on that leftist propaganda outfit is pretty much like making it in private, but nevertheless, Jones’ gesture is a matter for concern.”

WORST. NAZI REGIME. EVER: Sen. Marco Rubio arrives in Israel to ‘reaffirm America’s unwavering commitment’ to Jewish state.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio touched down in Israel on Thursday for a three-day visit “to support the successful implementation of President [Donald] Trump’s Comprehensive Plan to End the Conflict in Gaza,” according to a State Department statement.

“During his visit, the Secretary will reaffirm America’s unwavering commitment to Israel’s security and engage with partners to build on the historic momentum towards durable peace and integration in the Middle East,” it added.

Rubio arrives as U.S. Vice President JD Vance has been in the Jewish state since Tuesday, and after the arrival a day earlier of White House Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and former senior Trump adviser Jared Kushner.

Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, affected most.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Anti-Capitalism Progs Are Raking in the Money on the Dem Side. “As we are all painfully aware, the Democrats are finally openly embracing the socialism that they’ve had incubating in their dark little hearts for a long time. The ascendant progressive Left is decidedly anti-capitalism, loudly railing against the evil rich whenever they can. They’re also killing it when it comes to the money that’s flowing in the Democratic Party these days.”

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Trump approves contentious drilling, mining in Alaska.

The Trump administration is opening up more drilling in a contentious Alaskan wildlife refuge that was restricted under the Biden administration
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It’s also approving two other contentious projects in Alaska: Ambler Road, which will enable copper and cobalt mining; and Izembek Road, which will cut through a wildlife refuge to give a remote community airport access.

The Interior Department said in a press release that it was issuing a final approval of a plan to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s (ANWR) 1.56 million acres of the Coastal Plain for oil and gas development.

The Biden administration had limited the lands available to the 400,000 acres required by law.

The Trump administration also said that this coming winter, it will plan to auction off drilling rights there.

So “contentious” that it wasn’t restricted until just a couple years ago.

ICYMI, IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: You Only Think the ‘Trans’ Crisis Is Over.

THIS IS A REAL PROBLEM: Grassley announces judges’ use of AI leading to court order errors, implementing new policies.

Grassley released responses he received from U.S. Southern District of Mississippi Judge Henry T. Wingate, U.S. District of New Jersey Judge Julien Xavier Neals, and the Administrative Office of the Courts Director Robert Conrad regarding the two judges’ use of generative AI to draft factually inaccurate court orders.

Wingate and Neals admitted to Grassley that their staff used AI to draft orders riddled with errors. The errors included state law that was misquoted, references to people who didn’t appear in the cases, and quotes incorrectly attributed to defendants, among other inaccuracies.

“Honesty is always the best policy. I commend Judges Wingate and Neals for acknowledging their mistakes and I’m glad to hear they’re working to make sure this doesn’t happen again,” Grassley said.

“Each federal judge, and the judiciary as an institution, has an obligation to ensure the use of generative AI does not violate litigants’ rights or prevent fair treatment under the law. The judicial branch needs to develop more decisive, meaningful and permanent AI policies and guidelines. We can’t allow laziness, apathy or overreliance on artificial assistance to upend the Judiciary’s commitment to integrity and factual accuracy. As always, my oversight will continue.”

Wingate and Neals have since implemented new policies to verify the accuracy of their court orders.

Neals instituted a written policy that prohibits all law clerks and interns from using AI when drafting opinions or orders, in addition to a multi-level opinion review policy. Wingate is requiring all draft opinions, orders, and memos to be subject to a second independent review and that all cited cases be printed and attached to the final draft.

Shouldn’t that last part have been SOP even before AI?

IT’S AN OVERUSED WORD, AND PROBABLY NOT TECHNICALLY CORRECT, BUT I CAN’T THINK OF A BETTER ONE: Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Graham Platner: The Rise of the New Age Nazis.

BUT I HAD MY CORN POPPED AND EVERYTHING: Trump calling off plans for federal deployment to SF, mayor says.

WOW:

This is the wildest attack ad I’ve ever seen in politics. Andrew Cuomo pulling out all the stops. pic.twitter.com/rPQ77Z3bE7

— Stephen Taylor (@stephen_taylor) October 23, 2025

IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: You Only Think the ‘Trans’ Crisis Is Over.

Matt Walsh crowed last week that “Transgenderism is effectively over.”

“We destroyed it,” he went on, calling it the “clearest and most decisive cultural win that conservatives have ever achieved.”

Sorry, no — if Matt were any more wrong, he’d put on a dress and insist we call him Mathilda. But before you can understand where Walsh went wrong, you have to understand what’s really going on.

Much more at the link.