SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS CURRENTLY NETFLIX AND CHILL: Care to Comment, Ilhan? Feds Find Rampant Immigration Fraud in Minneapolis-St. Paul.
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October 1, 2025
YOU GET LESS OF WHAT YOU STOP SUBSIDIZING: Ford CEO expects EV sales to be cut in half after end of tax credits.
Farley on Tuesday said he “wouldn’t be surprised” if sales of EVs fell from a market share of around 10% to 12% this month — which is expected to be a record — to 5% after the incentive program ends.
“I think it’s going to be a vibrant industry, but it’s going to be smaller, way smaller than we thought, especially with the policy change in the tailpipe emissions, plus the $7,500 consumer incentive going away,” he said during a Ford event about promoting skilled trades and workers in Detroit. “We’re going to find out in a month. I wouldn’t be surprised that the EV sales in the U.S. go down to 5%.”
Farley said the industry learned that “partial electrification,” such as hybrids, are easier for customers to accept for the time being.
They also make a lot more sense — practically and economically — and don’t require Big Government incentives to juice sales.
THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN IS NOT ANOTHER 80/20 ISSUE… YET:
…Some 65 percent said Democrats should not shut down the government. Among Democrats, 43 percent said they should not shut down the government. That is at the start of the shutdown. These things tend to become less popular with time. Fighting for such items as funding your…
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) October 1, 2025
Schumer is tap-dancing in clown shoes across a field full of rakes.
I ALWAYS LEARN A LOT FROM RAYMOND IBRAHIM’S VIDEO PODCASTS: The REAL Reason Muslims Love Jesus.
WHAT THEY’LL GET IS A SHUTDOWN DEMAND FOR FREE HEALTHCARE FOR ILLEGALS: Democrats Need a Reset on Immigration, Crime, and Social Order.
During the Trump era, the Democratic Party has stumbled on a number of issues, perhaps none more than immigration and crime. Back in February, I outlined how the party has shifted markedly leftward on the former topic in recent years, shedding the more moderate, balanced approaches of presidents like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama in favor of one that was more in vogue with advocacy groups. Many high-profile Democrats essentially endorsed, tacitly or explicitly, an open-borders policy.
But as the country faced an unprecedented surge in migration under Joe Biden’s presidency, Americans swiftly rebelled against this thinking. Polling showed that after decades of growing support for increasing immigration levels and waning support for decreasing them, each trendline reversed—hard—during Biden’s term. His handling of immigration was ultimately a key reason why Trump won last year, and voters today say they overwhelmingly trust Republicans over Democrats on the issue.
Though Americans typically do not consider crime and public safety to be as big a problem as immigration, it has become yet another albatross for Democrats under Trump’s reign. As he has ramped up an anti-crime push in cities and states across the country, they have found themselves in the position of defending relatively lower levels of crime—levels that still are not acceptable to many people. Americans today trust Republicans over Democrats to handle crime to an even greater degree than they do immigration.
All this points to a broader issue for team blue: they’ve lost the confidence of the public on issues related to social order.
To be fair, at least since Ayers acolyte Barrack Obama destroyed the DLC, Democrats came to believe that their path to power required trampling on the social order.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Schumer Shutdown, Schumer Tantrum…Same Thing. “We’ve been discussing the Democrats’ complete lack of something positive to offer the American people after their spectacular defeat last November. All they’ve had is rage, f-bombs, and RESIST. This shutdown is more of the same.”
President Donald Trump’s administration found the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) and the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) in violation of Title IX after two months-long investigation into state policies and a transgender pitcher leading a girls’ high school softball team to a state championship.
A Department of Education (ED) press release obtained by Fox News Digital cites the pitcher’s performance in the 2025 season for the recent crackdown, stating “the male pitcher overpowered female athletes during five consecutive matches, only giving up one earned run over the course of 35 innings and striking out 27 female batters.”
“For too many years, Minnesota’s political leadership has found itself on the wrong side of justice, common sense, and the American people. Now the Minnesota Department of Education and the Minnesota State High School League find themselves on the wrong side of Title IX by allowing males to compete in women’s sports,” said DOE Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor.
“The Trump Administration will not allow Minnesota or any other state to sacrifice the safety, fair treatment, and dignity of its female students to appease the false idols of radical gender ideology. Once an education program or entity takes federal funds, Title IX compliance becomes mandatory. And the federal government will hold Minnesota accountable until it recognizes that fact.”
The DOE and DHHS have now given the state and its education agencies a 10-day deadline to amend its policies to comply with Title IX and President Donald Trump’s “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” executive order.
The Biden Cabal thought they could rewrite Title IX by fiat, but Trump changed it right back.
DAVID HARSANYI: Chuck Schumer’s bad shutdown bet.
One can certainly appreciate Schumer being tempted by a shutdown. It allows him to show a little “fight.” Polls continue to find Republicans leading on every issue that matters to voters, including the economy, immigration, and crime. Democrats still want to make the fight about President Donald Trump, who, at a 46% job approval rating on the RealClearPolitics average, is faring slightly better than the recent historical average for second-term presidencies.
At this point, if Democrats agree to a deal without any concessions from Republicans — or at least, the government partially closing for a few days — they risk looking weak and feckless to the activists. But empty gestures aren’t always harmless. One of the self-destructive habits of the pre-Trump GOP was overpromising the base, creating the impression it could achieve things that were never going to happen, among them overturning Obamacare. Democratic leadership is now engaged in the same cycle.
In every one of the 21 government shutdowns since the passage of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the opposition party has controlled at least one house of Congress or the White House. The Democrats do not. The opposition party in Congress can’t really do much but attempt to obstruct. Though the Left endlessly grumbled about “obstructionism” during the Obama years, it’s a perfectly legitimate tool. But the leverage Democrats hold today is minimal. The upside of the shutdown, negligible.
I suppose “negligible” was also Schumer’s only possible upside, so he went for it.
The best part, however, is watching Schumer walk eyes-open right into the trap Dems used to set for Republicans.
September 30, 2025
HMM:
BREAKING: Another Senator has broken away from the Democrats and voted yes for the spending bill.
Senator Angus King has defied the leadership of the party. pic.twitter.com/50JvXWpb4T
— James Hirsen (@thejimjams) September 30, 2025
Probably just a show vote, but maybe Schumer really is losing control of his caucus.
THAT’S GONNA LEAVE A MARK:
Retired Army colonel here. Three combat tours. 60% disabled per the VA. Spent most of my tactical career in the 82nd Airborne.
Please read what I am about to say with the sneering condescension with which I intend it:
Mr. Kristol, you are a grifter. Worse, you are a lying… https://t.co/FNE9cJsX9D
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) September 30, 2025
If you’ve been on X at all today, you might have noticed that reaction from enlisted guys and lower-ranking officers seems almost universally supportive of Trump and Hegseth.
Related:
SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: How Department of State v. Aids Vaccine Advocacy Coalition Should Be Resolved (But Probably Won’t Be).
A key issue in this federal case is: What are the legal consequences when Congress appropriates funds by statute? Here, Congress has appropriated funds for named organizations, but the President or his officers have chosen not to segregate and remove the appropriated funds from the Treasury.
Many believe, including some federal judges and legal scholars, that when Congress appropriates money by statute, it follow that those funds must be spent (leaving aside the possibility of any express discretion designed into the statute at issue). There are reasons to reject this position as a settled rule of law.
First, an appropriations statute authorizes the Executive Branch to segregate funds in the Treasury (if such funds are available) and to remove those funds from the Treasury, and, then, further authorizes that the funds be spent for the purposes or in the manner approved by Congress, and in no other fashion. See generally Paul Einzig, The Control of the Purse (1959). But it is not clear that an appropriation commands the segregation, removal, and spending of such funds. Whether a particular statute mandates the segregation, removal, and spending of such funds will depend on the words of the statute. In other words, a naked appropriation (even where made for a particular purpose) does not without more imply that Congress has left the Executive Branch without discretion not to spend the appropriated funds.
Much more at the link, including a little colonial-era history I didn’t know.
“SHUT UP,” THEY EXPLAINED: UT Dallas faces censorship claims after shutting down student newspaper, barring speakers.
MARK JUDGE: Columbia Journalism Dean Celebrates Man Who Beat, ‘Tortured’ Women.
In his new book, Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here: 2012-2025, Columbia Journalism School Dean Jelani Cobb has high praise for late New York Times columnist David Carr. Cobb met Carr in 1996, when Carr was the editor of the Washington City Paper, and writes that Carr had a deep influence on him.
Carr was also a crack addict who, by his own admission, “was a fat thug who beat up women and sold bad coke.” In his appreciation for Carr, Cobb downplays his awful backstory. It’s worth remembering that Cobb, a New Yorker magazine writer, is the same man who expressed moral outrage because Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh defended themselves against dubious sexual assault allegations by Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford, respectively. Cobb compared the two Supreme Court justices to Jeffrey Epstein.
In short, Jelani Cobb celebrates men who maul and torture women while condemning innocent men who defend themselves. He’s kind of a perfect exemplar of modern American journalism. For $124,000 a year you can sit at his feet and absorb his wisdom.
I’m so old, I remember when journalists at least pretended to “afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.”
But I’d be happy if they’d just stick to the facts.
CORN, POPPED (LIGHTLY SALTED, NO BUTTER):
And we are here for it. https://t.co/OH9ucE34eD
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) September 30, 2025
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS ENJOYING MIMOSAS AND A PEDICURE: You’ll Totally Believe Who’s Secretly in Charge of the Gaza ‘Relief’ Flotilla.
THE ENEMY WITHIN:
Hamas flags flying in Gothenburg, Sweden’s 2nd-largest city.
Europe is full of supporters of Islamist terrorist organizations, ranging from Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis to Al-Qaeda, ISIS and the Taliban.
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— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) September 30, 2025
THEY NEVER LOVED HER — THEY JUST LEARNED TO FALL IN LINE: Are Democrats Finally Getting Sick and Tired of Hillary Clinton, Too?
HEH: Everytown’s Sham Gun Training Program Caused a Fight Within in the Org Because It Admits There’s a Place in Society for Gun Ownership. “A revealing article in USA Today last week reported that Everytown for Gun Safety’s new ‘firearms training’ program, Train SMART, ‘met stiff opposition from [Everytown’s] own members and longtime supporters.’ The reason, as the article made clear, is simple. Gun control advocates don’t want ‘harm reduction’ when it comes to gun ownership; they want ‘abstinence.’ In other words, they see Everytown’s firearm safety training as a betrayal, because it tacitly acknowledges there is a place for firearms in America. What Everytown’s supporters want, however, is to put an end to gun ownership, period.”
JAMIE K. WILSON: DEI vs. Story, Part 3: The Market Disconnect.
According to the American Time Use Survey, the share of Americans reading for pleasure has collapsed by about 40% in the past two decades. In 2003, more than a quarter of adults read on a typical day. By 2023, that number was down to 16%.
Even among people who do read, the intensity is falling. Gallup reports that in 2016, the average American read 15.6 books a year. By 2021, that number had dropped to 12.6. The National Endowment for the Arts found that fewer than half of adults read even a single book in 2022 — down from more than half a decade earlier.
And most new releases don’t sell at all. In 2020, a shocking 98% of books published sold fewer than 5,000 copies. Those numbers would be fatal in any other industry.
Meanwhile, revenues keep sliding. Trade book sales were down 7.5% in May 2025 compared to the year before. Publishers Weekly has reported similar drops month after month, with fiction and nonfiction alike shrinking in double digits.
Yet even in this shrinking market, certain books break out. What do they have in common? Not what the industry insists on.
A Part 4 is here.
FINALLY: Biden’s Abusive Anti-Gun Small Arms Export ‘Pause’ Is Now Finally a Thing of the Past.
Remember the 90-day firearms export “pause” that whoever was pulling the levers of power during the Biden presidency put in place in March of 2024? The 90-day pause that was yet another thinly-veiled shot at America’s firearms manufacturers? The 90-day pause that lasted until the decrepit cadaver was finally wheeled out of the White House?
Yeah, well, after a change in management at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and a lot of bureaucratic rearranging of deck chairs, the “pause” is finally history. And now, nine months after the Trump administration began to dismantle the infiltration of the Gun Control Industry into the last administration’s policymaking and its “whole of government” assault on gun rights, that “pause” is now — finally — history.
Details at the link.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Instant Karma’s Gonna Get You — With ICE and Friggin’ Laser Beams “I want you to picture yourself as an illegal alien living near a Portland ICE facility right now, today, during President Donald Trump’s crackdown on people just like you. This, you must imagine, would be a good time to drive like that old acquaintance of mine, metaphorically and literally speaking. Or — hear me out on this one — maybe you could take a slightly different approach.”
MAYBE THIS IS HOW AI FINALLY BECOMES PROFITABLE: OpenAI Lets Users Buy Stuff Directly Through ChatGPT.
The San Francisco-based AI company said Monday that U.S.-based ChatGPT users will be able to buy goods from online marketplace Etsy’s domestic sellers, as well as some merchants on Shopify’s e-commerce platform. The service, called Instant Checkout, currently only supports single-item purchases.
OpenAI also unveiled an open-source technical standard for merchants to build integrations with ChatGPT, called Agentic Commerce Protocol, which the company hopes will draw more merchants onto its chatbot platform. The protocol allows merchants to make their products shoppable inside ChatGPT.
Amazon and Walmart, the nation’s two largest digital retailers, aren’t currently using the protocol, OpenAI said.
OpenAI’s announcements come as the company continues expanding the capabilities and reach of its flagship chatbot, which ignited the AI boom in late 2022. Over one in 10 people who use ChatGPT have some intent or interest in making a purchase, said Michelle Fradin, OpenAI’s product lead for commerce in ChatGPT.
That makes ChatGPT an ideal place for users to actually complete their purchases, rather than needing to leave the platform to finish buying something, OpenAI said.
I already have enough trust issues with LLMs even when they aren’t using all my data to try and sell me stuff.
GLEICHSCHALTUNG: NBC’s ‘Law & Order: SVU’ Pushes Anti-ICE Message in Season Premiere.