WAY: No Way! Yet Another ‘Bearded Lady’ Busted for Attacking Kids?

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Build-A-Bear Employee Allegedly Refuses To Name Stuffed Animal After Charlie Kirk At Teen’s Request.

“She just didn’t agree with it. She didn’t support it and she told me, ‘We’re not doing this,’ folded it up in a force and threw it away,” McCormick said.

The teen gave her payment card to her friend Kailie Lang and left the register. “It definitely made us all very uncomfortable,” Lang said.

Amber McCormick, the teen’s mother, spent 45 minutes on the phone with Build-A-Bear’s corporate office. The company first offered a $20 gift card, then called back days later with an apology, the mother said.

Build-A-Bear acknowledged the incident shouldn’t have happened and promised to retrain staff in Seattle and nationwide to keep politics out of the workplace.

Unless the apology came from the employee who refused the request, it’s meaningless.

2026 PREVIEW: Collins in the Driver’s Seat: Fundraising Surge Fuels His Bid to Fire Jon Ossoff.

SHUT UP, THEY EXPLAINED: YouTube Continues Throttling Shooting News Weekly’s Videos.

Apparently we’ve violated the “Content that facilitates the sale of certain regulated goods, like firearms, ammunition, or prohibited firearm accessories” restriction.

To be absolutely clear, we are NOT “facilitating the sale” of any of these things. …Unless YouTube simply considers a positive review or any mild comment like saying something is a “good value” or stating the product’s MSRP or recommending the product is somehow “facilitating” its sale. I don’t believe that’s precisely what’s going on here, it’s just YouTube’s justification for the continuing the censorship of SNW’s videos (and other similar content creators).

In all cases I submitted an appeal, which is supposed to trigger a manual review. YouTube set expectations that an appeals review is likely to take up to 72 hours. In all cases our appeal was rejected within an hour — usually just a few minutes — and the content remained removed from any form of visibility on YouTube and/or deleted entirely from our library.

“There’s always Rumble,” except that hardly anybody watches Rumble.

MAID IN CANADA: Euthanasia Organ Harvesting ‘Surges.’ “It’s been my sad duty to write about MAID several times in the last three years, as the state euthanasia program slides down the slippery slope from ‘It’s just for the nearly dead’ to ‘Soylent Green is people.'”

JUST DEMOCRATS DOING DEMOCRAT THINGS:

I want you to realize how crazy this is. She is saying the Federal government has no jurisdiction to protect Federal property. The last time someone tried to argue this was Fort Sumter https://t.co/5QV0uwImxb

— Napoleon Bonaparte Appreciator (@NapoleonBonabot) October 6, 2025

CHANGE: Washington Post Goes On Firing Spree, Reportedly Terminates Over A Dozen Employees. “The Washington Post ignited a firestorm inside its own newsroom after reportedly axing more than a dozen editorial staffers, according to multiple reports. NBC News reporter Mark Segraves said that Marc Fisher — a 39-year veteran of the paper and one of its most recognized voices — was among those terminated.”

Update:

This is an amazing sentence to see in a @wapo editorial. I am truly impressed. pic.twitter.com/l9E82bMl0X

— Conn Carroll (@conncarroll) October 6, 2025

Change might actually be taking hold.

MICHAEL LETTS: As Antifa Protests Grow More Hostile, Trump Is Showing Why Order Is Needed in Cities Like Portland.

YES: Jeff Bezos agrees with OpenAI’s Sam Altman: We’re in an AI bubble. But Amazon’s founder says the benefits will be ‘gigantic.’

The similarity between this bubble and the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s worries investors and comes with high financial risks. But Bezos said the difference in nature of the current AI bubble should provide investors some solace.

“This is a kind of industrial bubble, as opposed to financial bubbles,” he said at Italian Tech Week on Friday.

Ultimately, industrial bubbles can be positive, Bezos added, pointing out that the biotech and pharmaceutical bubble in the 1990s led to the development of life-saving drugs—though in the process, many public companies that IPO’d during the boom went bankrupt or were acquired at a fraction of their starting value by the end. The cumulative net losses to public biotech companies’ bottom lines piled up to more than $40 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported in 2004.

But, Bezos said industrial bubbles are “not nearly as bad” as other bubbles.

“It can even be good, because when the dust settles and you see who are the winners, societies benefit from those investors,” Bezos said. “That is what is going to happen here too. This is real, the benefits to society from AI are going to be gigantic.”

The inevitable shakeout will be brutal, but the survivors will be the next Amazon or Google.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: ICE Is Real America. “In this part of the world, we are acutely aware of the problems associated with a porous border. New Yorkers talk about illegal alien restaurant workers; we deal with the Sinaloa Cartel.”

RE-SHORING: Sharpie Found a Way to Make Pens More Cheaply—By Manufacturing Them in the U.S.

Tucked in the foothills of Tennessee’s Smoky Mountains is a factory that has figured out a way to manufacture in America that’s cheaper, quicker and better.

It’s the home of a famous American writing implement: the Sharpie marker.

Pen barrels whirl along automated assembly lines that rapidly fill them with ink. At least half a billion Sharpie markers are churned out here every year, each one made of six parts. Only the felt tip is imported, from Japan.

It didn’t used to be this way. Back in 2018, many Sharpies were made abroad. That’s when Chris Peterson, who was the CFO of Sharpie maker Newell Brands NWL 3.55%increase; green up pointing triangle, challenged his team to answer a question: How could they keep Newell from becoming obsolete compared with factories in Asia?

“I felt like we had an opportunity to dramatically improve our U.S. manufacturing,” he said.

Peterson is now the CEO. And these days, most Sharpies—in all 93 colors—are made at this 37-year-old factory. Newell did it without reducing the employee count, and without raising prices. But to get to this place took close to $2 billion in investments across the company, thousands of hours of training and a total overhaul of the production process.

The result is a playbook for making low-cost, high-volume products domestically, albeit one that requires long-term planning and a lot of investment.

Very nice. Now do rare earths.

INSURRECTION: DHS Requires Special Ops Backup in Chicago Amid Domestic Terrorism.

ELECTION MONTH IS UNDERWAY: NJ Republicans are mailing in more ballots in ‘encouraging’ early sign for Jack Ciattarelli.

Garden State Republicans have so far notched an 18.61% return rate for their mail-in ballots, outpacing the Democrats’ 16.55%, according to data compiled and analyzed by DecisionDeskHQ’s director of political science, Michael Pruser.

GOP pollster Adam Geller, who has worked with the Ciattarelli campaign, told The Post that Republicans have historically been less inclined to vote by mail, meaning this lead in the rate of early ballot returns could be a hopeful sign.

“Clearly, it’s encouraging for the Republicans right now,” Geller said. “You could argue that, in addition to coming around to vote by mail, it could be a measurement of the enthusiasm for the candidate.”

Stay tuned.

BRING BACK LETTERS OF MARQUE: ‘Dangerous and Unprecedented’: Cartels Put Bounties on Heads of Federal Agents.

OOF: Ho, Boy – Massive Fire Erupts at Chevron’s El Segundo, CA, Refinery Last Night.

JUST CANCEL: Is Netflix Grooming Children? Absolutely.

HMM: Rebellion brews against nanny state in deep blue Denver.

Of all places to find a growing citizens’ rebellion against the nanny state, who’d guess it’s happening in woke Denver?

Take note — if Denverites can claw back a little freedom from their elite, it can happen in your city too.

In this city of 70 breweries, 2,000 liquor establishments, some 300 cannabis dispensaries and now mushroom clinics, it was pure poetry when the city council and Mayor Mike Johnston passed a ban on adults buying flavored tobacco and nicotine products, you know, for the kids.

A hint of cherry in your beer — sure. Peach-infused vodka — bring it on! Any bit of flavor in the product you’re using to help you quit smoking — a perversion that must be stamped out.

I imagine the city council members who voted to disempower people from their own bodily autonomy also spout “my body, my choice.”

The cognitive dissonance required for this type of selective maternalistic fascism is monumental. After all, those elite took away the personal decisions of 730,000 Denverites because, well, they know what’s right for others.

What they don’t say aloud, but we hear perfectly, is, “your body, our choice.” And constituents are finding that offensive.

Fortunately, some feisty business owners who didn’t appreciate potentially watching their shop be put out of business as pot shops spring up around them decided to do something. They delivered more than 17,000 signatures to repeal this bit of intolerance. And they’re starting to get some interesting allies.

Flavored vapes is where Denverites finally, maybe drew line?

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: That’s a MAN, Baby! “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn why you don’t want to cross Sheriff Grady Judd’s radar, where not to swing your machete, and what’s even nastier than a moose bite.”

I BET INSTAPUNDIT READERS COULD: How many Americans could pass the new citizenship exam?

Would-be U.S. citizens will face a much harder exam on civics and history, reports Ariana Baio in The Independent.

Until now, applicants had to answer six of 10 questions correctly from a test bank of 100 questions before the exam. For example, they might be asked to name one First Amendment right, know that the Constitution is “the supreme law of the land,” pick November as the month of presidential elections, identify George Washington as the first president or name one Indian tribe.

Now they’ll have to get 12 of 20 questions correct out of a test bank of 128 questions. There are fewer one-word answers.

Passing ought to be a requirement to graduate from high school. Or better yet, middle school and again in high school.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Maine Woman Finds Hundreds of Shrink-Wrapped Ballots Stuffed Into Her Amazon Delivery.

DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS: Abbott Creates Houston Crime Task Force. “President Trump has had great success in driving down crime rates in various crime-ridden Democrat-controlled cities by deploying inter-agency task forces of various law enforcement officers (along with some National Guard). Texas Governor Greg Abbott is taking a page of Trump’s own playbook to launch a multi-agency task force to tackle repeat felons in Harris County.”

BODYCAM: ‘MeToo’ Accuser Raided. “Unraveling in Maricopa County, Ariz., is one of the most important stories in the last decade of ‘MeToo’ injustice, when false accusers destroyed lives without consequence.”

OF COURSE: Guess Who Chris Murphy Doesn’t Want to Include In the ‘Big Tent’ Party He Says He Wants to Build. “Of course, for Sen. Murphy, there is no room in his big tent for the guns.”

HARVARD, LOL: Harvard Hires Drag Queen Named ‘LaWhore Vagistan’ as Visiting Gender Studies Professor.

A BILLION HERE AND A BILLION THERE…: Democrats ARE spending money on healthcare for illegal migrants — in California, it’s $6.4 billion. “In fact, last year, nationwide Medicaid spending on ’emergency care for undocumented aliens’ almost tripled — because the state of California used it as a method of laundering federal money to fund a comprehensive health benefit for its unauthorized residents.”