KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Democrats Lie and People Die. “I was at a well-attended memorial event on Saturday and kept scoping out the entrances, so the fear factor is working. I’m sure that I’m not the only one who’s been on heightened alert out in public. Now that they’re attacking churches, there literally is a war on religion. Families should feel safe when worshipping, but we know that the Dems are trying to ruin families too.”
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September 29, 2025
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: ‘They’re Going To Florida’ — How Mamdani Will Change NYC.
In an online version of Mamdani’s “Homeowner Policy Memo,” the mayoral frontrunner says he plans to “shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and white neighborhoods,” a dive into racial politics that may undercut his objective of being seen as a unifying figure.
In the memo, Mamdani explicitly puts forward a plan to “effectively lower tax payments for homeowners in neighborhoods like Jamaica and Brownsville while raising the amount paid in the most expensive Brooklyn brownstones.”
Both Jamaica and Brownsville are known for their large majority populations, while Brooklyn brownstones are of course popular investments for wealthier, whiter New Yorkers seeking more space at lower prices than what might be available in Manhattan.
I also came across this report from Union Bank of Switzerland claiming that Miami has the highest real estate bubble risk of any city in the world. Maybe that’s true now, but if Mamdani wins…
ANGRY HE WON’T GET HIS CUT? Another Hypocritical Dictator Attacks Trump for Striking Drug Boats. “And now, it’s time to add yet another dictator to the tally: Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega.”
NEVER CHANGE, BARACK: Obama Presidential Center deposits just $1M into $470M reserve fund aimed to protect taxpayers.
When the Obama Foundation snagged a sweetheart deal to build its beleaguered Obama Presidential Center on a Chicago public park, it pledged to create a $470 million reserve fund to spare taxpayers should the project ever go belly up.
But new tax filings show the foundation has only deposited $1 million into the fund and has not added to it in years, with critics saying the empty promise could potentially leave Chicagoans on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars.
Under its agreement with the city, the foundation was required to create the fund, known as an endowment, in order to take control of the sprawling 19.3-acre section of Jackson Park — often described as Chicago’s Central Park equivalent — where the complex is now slowly rising.
The foundation ultimately secured the public land for just $10 in 2018, under a 99-year deal.
But when former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama turned the sod at the site in September 2021, just $1 million — or 0.21% of the pledged funds — had been deposited into the endowment, and that figure has remained unchanged ever since.
Exit quote: “It comes as the Obama Foundation’s latest tax return shows its finances under strain with revenue swinging wildly year to year, fundraising shortfalls and unfulfilled donor pledges.”
Th Obama Foundation has spent about $600 million on the $350 million brutalist monument to the Anointed One’s ego — with a reported $250 million to go.
At last count, anyway.
JAMIE K. WILSON: DEI vs. Story: How Publishing Lost the Plot. Part 1 of 7: The Gatekeepers.
Once upon a time, an aspiring fiction writer had a fighting chance. If you wrote a good story, polished your manuscript, and braved the slush pile, you might just get picked up. The system wasn’t perfect, but it was meritocratic enough that talent sometimes slipped through the cracks and found its way into print.
That world is gone.
Today, agents and editors, the self-appointed gatekeepers of publishing, increasingly use submission guidelines not as a way to filter for quality, but as ideological purity tests. Want to query an agent? You’d better make sure your story features “marginalized voices,” that your characters are “diverse,” and that your personal identity matches the preferred checklist. Otherwise, don’t bother. Some agencies explicitly state they will not consider manuscripts by authors from “overrepresented groups.” Some agents state baldly that they will not be able to represent white males. Others signal subtly or overtly that unless your work advances the current ideological line — the one centered on race, gender, or sexuality — they are not interested.
This isn’t just rumor.
And here’s Part 2.
September 28, 2025
IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH:
NEW: An anti-ICE protester in Massachusetts forgot to put her car in park while yelling at agents making an arrest of an illegal alien in Upton, MA, and her vehicle went into a lake and sunk, an ICE source tells me. pic.twitter.com/W5GI3h0bBy
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) September 28, 2025
September 27, 2025
CELEBRATING A COMMUNIST REVOLUTIONARY COP-KILLER WHO WAS BROKEN OUT OF PRISON AND THEN FLED TO CUBA IS JUST SOMETHING TEACHERS UNIONS DO FOR THE CHILDREN:
By the way, how many Democrats who take teacher union money (that’s all of them) are going to get tough press coverage until they condemn this?
We know the answer. https://t.co/24PsyL8aEx
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) September 27, 2025
Related (From Ed): Meanwhile, the London Telegraph has 830 “unexpectedly” glowing words on “Sara Jane Moore, attempted assassin of Gerald Ford who campaigned for fellow prisoners’ rights,” who died at age 95 on Monday:
Remarkably, it was the second attempt on the US president’s life that month. On September 5 Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, a follower of the Charles Manson cult, had aimed a pistol at Ford at point-blank range at a rally in Sacramento. Officials had disarmed her before a shot was fired. Both women spent more than 30 years in prison, with Moore paroled in 2007 and Fromme securing her own release in 2009.
While reports at the time of Sara Jane Moore’s arrest and sentencing focused on her “ordinariness” of her life as a suburban mother and housewife, subsequent revelations painted a more complex picture. She herself gave conflicting accounts of the thinking behind her actions on September 22.
Early on she claimed to be motivated by anger against the government and the Marxist ideology of her radical friends. She saw her actions as “a protest against the system” which, had they been successful, “could have triggered a revolution in the country”. “I’m not sorry I tried,” she said at her sentencing in federal court. Thirty years later, however, she expressed some measure of regret to a US television network, saying: “I am very happy I did not succeed. I know now that I was wrong to try.”
In 2024 she was the sole interviewee on a documentary about her life, Suburban Fury (she had agreed with the filmmaker, Robinson Devor, that no one else would appear on camera). Insisting once again that she was not insane, she gave a strikingly matter-of-fact account of her early life, from her time in the Women’s Army Corps to her dive into revolutionary politics. Uninterested in introspection, at times hostile to the interviewing process, she proved a frustrating and fascinating subject.
Devor intercut her testimony with archival footage illustrating the protest movements of the day: tensions arising from the Vietnam war, racial and economic discrimination, and the political fall-out from the Watergate scandal. The events of September 1975 continue to reverberate across America today, with political violence once again the subject of fevered discussion in the wake of the two attempts on the life of President Donald Trump, and the murder of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk earlier this month.
Nixon had pursued a policy of massively scaling up the amount of South Vietnamese soldiers, and thus greatly reducing the number of American troops in Vietnam. He had expanded LBJ’s affirmative action program for minorities. Ford was a liberal Republican and as a congressman for a quarter of a century, a go-along to get-along RINO. Curiously though, NBC’s nascent Saturday Night Live viewed him as the antichrist, as did Moore and Fromme. What could have fueled their rage? In 2022, Glenn wrote of “Nixon’s Revenge:”
It is difficult for people accustomed to today’s media environment to appreciate what a monoculture the media was back then, in that pre-Internet, pre-Cable, pre-Limbaugh era. The press still pretended to be neutral and objective, and was determined enough to maintain that pretense that it would at times even actually be so. There were more limits to what the ruling class was willing to tolerate, in terms of peculation and revealed dishonesty among its own, than there are today. There was in some ways more tolerance for opposing views, with people like William F. Buckley and Billy Graham receiving respectful hearings on mainstream programs in a way that would be impossible today.
But ultimately, that tolerance—and even the ruling class self-policing—was the product of deep-seated security in power. The liberal establishment of that era, which had crushed Sen. Barry Goldwater’s campaign like a bug, saw no one who might challenge it.
This is why Nixon’s election was so traumatic for them. Like Donald Trump’s 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton, the election of a Republican seemed somehow fundamentally wrong. Republicans in Congress could do things, and could even occasionally snatch a short-lived majority. But after four Roosevelt inaugurations, and a string of Democratic presidents interrupted only by Dwight Eisenhower, who could have had the nomination of either party and who showed no inclination to interfere with the post-New Deal federal gravy train, the presumption was that the Executive and the bureaucracy would stay essentially Democratic forever.
Then, Nixon. Not the Camelot-redux hoped for with Bobby Kennedy, or even the party-establishment regime promised by Hubert Humphrey, but Nixon. A man from a small college instead of the Ivy League, a sometimes-awkward introvert, a fervent anti-communist when anti-communism was seen as declassé, Nixon was very much not our kind, dear.
Plus ça change.
YES, PLEASE DO SHARE:
Please share https://t.co/FR6bGba5Pg
— Adam Carolla (@adamcarolla) September 27, 2025
HOPELESSLY DEVOTED: Kamala Harris’ Alternate Reality Book Tour. “I spoke to three audience members after the event, and they all said they wouldn’t hesitate to vote for Harris in the 2028 Democratic presidential primary, should she choose to run. Few seemed interested in even acknowledging the campaign’s failures.”
That would be three more votes than she got during the 2020 Democrat primaries, having dropped out before they began.
THEY PREFER NOT TO SAY THINGS DIRECTLY:
This is a weird way to admit ensuring white people don’t have jobs is an explicit goal of the diversity regime https://t.co/mQYek5Zhyw
— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) September 27, 2025
September 26, 2025
GUN-GRABBERS NEVER QUIT: Anti-Gun Weaponization of Three-Letter Regulatory Agencies May be Down but It’s Not Out.
ICE SHOULDN’T WEAR SUCH SHORT SKIRTS: Former FBI Official Says Left-Wing Terror Will Continue Unless ICE ‘Changes Tactics.’
Former Senior Executive (SES) FBI agent Christopher O’Leary, whose two-decade career focused on counterterrorism probes for the bureau, appeared blame Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for inviting attacks against its officers – urging the agency to overhaul its enforcement strategies such as ‘wearing masks’ (a nod to California) – to curb violence from radical leftwing extremists.
During an appearance on MSNBC’s “Katy Tur Reports” Wednesday, O’Leary weighed in on the brazen shooting at an ICE facility in Texas, conceding that overheated rhetoric should be dialed back while shockingly pinning the blame on ICE’s own playbook.
I can’t wait to see what happens when MSNBC becomes MS-NOW and has to start earning its keep.
HONESTLY, I THINK SOROS-BACKED DISTRICT ATTORNEYS DO WANT VIGILANTISM:
You want vigilantism? Because this is how you get vigilantism.
— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) September 26, 2025
“The worse, the better,” Lenin said. And Soros-backed DAs do understand how to make things worse.
AND NOW FOR SOME GOOD NEWS FROM THE EDUCATION FRONT:
wrote today about how even if you've heard of Mississippi's surge in reading scores, you're probably underestimating it: pic.twitter.com/BlpueB1ARj
— Kelsey Piper (@KelseyTuoc) September 25, 2025
Exit quote: “We could do this everywhere. Not doing this everywhere is a policy choice, and it is a policy choice that condemns hundreds of thousands of children to never being able to read. It’s unforgivable.”
Yes.
Related: To win back public-school parents, be like Mississippi.
CHANGE:
BREAKING: Transportation Secretary Duffy announces terrifying findings of audit
– States are issuing CDL’s to people who are in our country illegally
– Thousands of licenses issued that should never have been issued
– Newscum’s California was the WORST offender
– eligibility… pic.twitter.com/f323WNlxog— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 26, 2025
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: My Invisible Imaginary Husband Was Driving the Car, Officer. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn how to pin the blame on your imaginary husband, why you don’t want to make the hooker angry, and what that thing is the police just wrapped around the axel of your stolen car.”
ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: How Many Immigrants Have Left the Country?
About a month ago, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem held a press conference to announce that about “1.6 million illegal immigrants have left the United States population.”
That’s a fraction of the number of people who arrived in the years that the Biden administration essentially opened the border. But it’s a lot of people, and it engendered much eye-rolling among journalists who compared Noem’s claim to Attorney General Pam Bondi’s declaration that President Trump’s drug interdiction policies had saved 258 million lives, roughly 75% of the U.S. total population.
However, in the weeks since Noem’s announcement, several data points have come in that suggest her estimate may be reasonably accurate. It might even be too low.
In August, the Pew Foundation released an estimate that the foreign-born population in the U.S. declined from 53.3 million at the beginning of the year to 51.9 million by the end of June – a decline of 1.4 million in just six months. The Pew report notes that the January count of 53.3 million was “the largest number ever recorded,” and that the decline this year will be the first decline in the immigrant population since the 1960s.
About the same time, the Center for Immigration Studies estimated that the foreign-born population fell by 2.2 million in the first seven months of the year. CIS estimates that 1.6 million of those who left were in the country illegally. If this estimate is correct, it would indicate that about 600,000 immigrants left, despite having the option legally to stay.
The CIS report indicates that it relied in part on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which tracks the number of foreign-born workers. The BLS data show that the number of foreign-born workers peaked in March at 32.2 million, before falling to 30.8 million by August – a decline of 1.4 million. Even so, the level remains historically high, and numbers appeared to stabilize in late summer.
There’s a long way to go, but what’s been achieved in eight months is impressive.
WE NOT ONLY HAVE THE WORST MEDIA, WE HAVE THE WORSE POSSIBLE MEDIA: Massachusetts police chief backs DHS’ claim that news video of ICE interaction fell short. “A Massachusetts police chief is backing the Department of Homeland Security’s claim that a video aired by a news outlet fails to reflect that an illegal immigrant locked his 5-year-old daughter alone in a car as he tried to evade ICE.”
HONOR CODES, HOW DO THEY WORK? Shaky on That ‘HONOR Code’ Thing – Jersey Mikie Sherrill aka Sub Par Annapolis Grad.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Sierra’s Dream Chaser is starting to resemble a nightmare.
Although the NASA news release does not detail the space agency’s concerns about allowing Dream Chaser to approach the station, sources have told Ars the space agency has yet to certify the spacecraft’s propulsion system. The spacecraft is powered by more than two dozen small rocket engines, each capable of operating at three discrete levels of thrust for fine control or more significant orbit adjustments. Certification is a necessary precursor for allowing a vehicle to approach the orbiting laboratory.
Sierra said it is now targeting a “late 2026” debut for Dream Chaser, but that date is far enough in the future that it is likely subject to Berger’s Law, and probably means no earlier than 2027. This all but precludes a cargo mission to the International Space Station, which is scheduled to be deorbited in 2030, and presently has two more-than-capable supply vehicles with SpaceX’s Dragon and Northrop’s new, larger Cygnus.
It is possible that Dream Chaser could serve a future market of commercial space stations in low-Earth orbit, but to do so, Sierra will have to get the vehicle flying reliably, frequently, and at a relatively low cost to compete with Dragon and Cygnus.
What a shame.
PLANETARY DEFENSE: Scientists eye nuclear options as asteroid barrels toward moon.
Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4% chance of hitting the moon in December of 2032, according to The European Space Agency.
Such a collision could have devastating consequences for satellites and astronauts in space, prompting a group of scientists to develop plans to prevent it from happening.
The asteroid made global headlines last year when it was reported to have a 3% probability of hitting Earth, but further observations led NASA to conclude that the building-sized asteroid “poses no significant impact risk to Earth in 2032 and beyond.”
A new, yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper proposes options to prevent asteroid 2024 YR4 from colliding with the moon.
One option presented in the paper is a “kinetic disruption mission” to blow up the asteroid using “nuclear explosive devices.”
We could certainly use the data.