NOT ONE MORE WORD OUT OF THE DEMOCRATS ABOUT “SAVING OUR DEMOCRACY.” NOT ONE MORE DAMN WORD:
Federal sources confirmed to @FDRLST that Biden’s DOJ deliberately chose the name “Arctic Frost,” rather than follow the customary procedure of using a randomly generated name from agency computers.
Why? Because Arctic Frost is also a type of orange tree cultivar that can… https://t.co/VRlXU7qn3b
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) October 29, 2025
MAKE DIPLOMACY GREAT AGAIN: South Korea gives Trump golden crown, medal conferring highest honor.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung presented his U.S. counterpart with the Grand Order of Mugunghwa, South Korea’s highest honor, as well as a replica of a historic gold crown. The honor was given to Trump for his efforts to bring peace between North and South Korea.
Trump said it was a “great honor” to receive the medal and said he “would like to wear it right now.”
The U.S. president, who is on the final leg of his Asia tour, attended the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Wednesday. Trump announced during his visit that Seoul and Washington had “pretty much” reached a trade deal.
“We reached a deal. We did a lot of different things. Great session,” he told reporters, according to the White House pool report. “We came to a conclusion on a lot of very different items.”
I’m so old, I remember when Trump was some sort of fascist/naif hybrid who was going to bumble his way into WWIII.
ICYMI: Jake Tapper Just Told the Truth, and Now I Need My Fainting Couch. “CNN’s Jake Tapper just put the screws to Democrat Congresscritter Melanie Stansbury after she tried to deny her party’s complete culpability for the Schumer Shutdown. If you’ve never heard of her, Stansbury is a backbencher from New Mexico who votes like AOC but sounds like your niece trying to bluff through AP Civics.”
UPDATE (FROM GLENN):
He’s losing. He was always going to lose. https://t.co/DoUMIVXrjp
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) October 29, 2025
“GIVE ME YOUR MONEY OR I’LL TAKE YOUR STUFF” IS SOCIALISM IN A NUTSHELL: Democrats In Democrat-Run Cities Threaten To Loot Supermarkets If Democrats Keep Welfare Benefits Shut Down. “Now, I am making the assumption that the people pledging to commit crimes to support their perceived absolute right to free stuff from American taxpayers are, in fact, Democrats. There may indeed be a few down-on-their-luck Republicans impacted by the lingering effects of the Biden Recession that have had to rely on government handouts to feed their children, but they don’t seem like the type threatening to break the law. I’m also assuming those would-be looters are not Libertarians, as none of them strike me as the sort to have Milton Friedman books in their apartments.”
ON-BRAND FOR NBC: ‘Undocumented’ Dad or Criminal? NBC Shills for Child Abuser Illegal.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Jon Stewart Betrays 9/11 Work with Fawning Mamdani Interview. “Why would someone so personally committed to helping 9/11 victims do such a thing? It’s a question best asked of Stewart directly. The chance that any journalist will do such a thing hovers between slim and none.”
BUBBLES POP: When The AI Bubble Bursts, What Happens To The Secondary Bubbles? “Companies like OpenAI may get the most ink, but a whole lot of other companies are getting boosted as well. Some of the names are even the same as the dotcom bubble: Microsoft, Oracle, AMD. Applied Material stock has gone through the roof now that I don’t own any. Cisco is just getting back to the level of their record stock highs during the dotcom era.”
Lots to chew on at the link.
NAH, IT’LL NEVER WORK: A radical idea to improve schools: Do what works.
We know what schools need to do to improve learning, writes Mike Schmoker, the author of Results Now 2.0. He lists three practices proven to be effective:
• The faithful implementation of a clear, sequential, knowledge-rich curriculum.
• Daily engagement in liberal amounts of purposeful reading, discussion, and writing across the curriculum.
• The routine (though not exclusive) use of explicit, step by step instruction — where each lesson has a clear goal and the teacher frequently “checks for understanding” — and re-teaches when students struggle.
Schools that do these things get excellent results, Schmoker writes. Yet many teachers have been told in training and professional development sessions that knowledge is unimportant and explicit instruction is outmoded.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Jake Tapper Just Told the Truth and Now I Need My Fainting Couch.
ALL THE VERY BEST PEOPLE ASSURED ME THIS WAS IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT AN ACT OF CONGRESS, AND PROBABLY AMNESTY: Illegal border crossings in September historically low — 92% drop from high of two years ago.
I VOTED SO HARD FOR THIS: DHS Deports Over Half a Million Illegals While Another 1.5 Million Self-Deport.
CHANGE: Tens of Thousands of White-Collar Jobs Are Disappearing as AI Starts to Bite.
A leaner new normal for employment in the U.S. is emerging. Large employers are retrenching, making deep cuts to white-collar positions and leaving fewer opportunities for experienced and new workers who had counted on well-paying office work to support families and fund retirements. Nearly two million people in the U.S. have been without a job for 27 weeks or more, according to recent federal data.
Behind the wave of white-collar layoffs, in part, is the embrace by companies of artificial intelligence, which executives hope can handle more of the work that well-compensated white-collar workers have been doing. Investors have pushed the C-suite to work more efficiently with fewer employees. Factors driving slower hiring include political uncertainty and higher costs.
Altogether, these factors are remaking what office work looks like in the U.S., leaving the managers that remain with more workers to supervise and less time to meet with them, while saddling the employees fortunate enough to have jobs with heavier workloads.
The cascade of restructurings has created a precarious feeling for managers and staff alike. It is also tightening the options for those who are looking for employment. Around 20% of Americans surveyed by WSJ-NORC this year said they were very or extremely confident that they could find a good job if they wanted to, lower than in past years.
Meanwhile, opportunities for front-line, blue-collar or specialized workers are growing.
LLMs can’t replace a skilled trade worker.
BUT IT’S STILL FUN TO TROLL LEFTIES WITH IT: Trump says ‘it’s pretty clear’ he’s ‘not allowed to run’ for third term.
JUDGE HIM BY THE COMPANY HE KEEPS: Mamdani Faces Criminal Referrals for Accepting Donations From Foreigners.
TALK ABOUT SHOOTING YOURSELF IN THE FOOT: The Socialist Rifle Association Has a ‘No Soldiers’ Membership Policy. “To be honest, I get it. With everything going on with how the military is being used currently, I understand not wanting to let servicemembers join an organization like that, but it’s really frustrating I got told AFTER paying for a membership, and wasting my time on the interview. Granted, I can still be a member of SRA as a whole, and participate in their online forums, but the whole reason I joined was to form some in-person relationships with my local chapter.”
I’m reasonably certain this isn’t satire.
IMPRESSIVE:
SpaceX is now launching roughly the same number of satellites in a year as the number of operational non-SpaceX satellites in orbit cumulatively https://t.co/I1Hb7hmBIA
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 29, 2025
Every launch SpaceX makes for the rest of the year breaks the record for launches in a single year.
The record set by SpaceX, of course — and they have a little over two months to go.
And while I can’t find the link, Musk also noted recently that SpaceX is responsible for something like 90% of 2025’s mass to orbit.
YES: Don’t Make Nuclear Power Another Failed Government Program.
Washington’s handouts aren’t what have unleashed today’s nuclear revival. The real engine is private investment. But old Washington spending habits die hard. What should be a golden opportunity is, in at least in one instance, turning into a taxpayer-financed boondoggle. Instead of trusting the private markets’ proven success, the federal government is reflexively reaching for subsidies, throwing billions of taxpayer dollars into demonstration projects that in the real world produce more delay than progress. What follows is a cautionary tale of how well-intentioned federal programs risk undermining the very market momentum now driving nuclear energy forward.
The Department of Energy’s Advanced Reactor Demonstration Project (ARDP) was launched with optimism near the end of President Trump’s first term, with the promise to deliver two commercial-scale reactors within five to seven years. The initial tranche of $160 million has since ballooned into a multibillion-dollar federal spending spree, with $2.4 billion embedded in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law enacted in 2021.
The clock is ticking, and the demonstration reactors are drifting off schedule. Meanwhile, this project is hemorrhaging taxpayer dollars faster than Congress can write checks. Rather than serving as a showcase of innovation, ARDP is veering toward becoming just another Beltway boondoggle with big promises and bloated budgets, leaving the taxpayers very little to show for it.
For conservative budget hawks, this arrangement should raise eyebrows, as should the names of its chief beneficiaries: Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. They are key backers of the two companies—X-Energy and TerraPower—receiving this government largesse.
Or as the wise man once said, “Get the hell out of my way!”
BASEBALL DIPLOMACY: Trump & Japan’s New Prime Minister Become Fast Friends.
HE’S ALSO CORRUPT AS HELL, BUT I’LL HAVE MORE ON THAT LATER TODAY:
The reason people hate Zohran is because he’s a spoiled retarded communist.
His parents are privileged, placeless global citizens and Zohran was able to float along without real jobs in NYC taking a swing at a ‘rap career’ while living in a Chelsea apartment owned by his mother.… https://t.co/mbVHcrjfYx
— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) October 29, 2025
Gooder and harder, New York City.
SCHUMER SHUTDOWN: Airlines are feeding air traffic controllers as they miss their first full paychecks.
United said that it’s feeding workers at the airline’s hubs across the country, including in Chicago; Denver; Houston; Los Angeles; Newark, N.J.; San Francisco; and Washington, D.C.
Delta Air Lines also confirmed to CBS News that it has “arranged for a limited number of meals for transportation sector workers,” while noting that it is operating “within the strict rules established for employees of federal government agencies.”
Additionally, JetBlue said it is working with its federal partners, including local aviation officials, “to offer meals at our airports as a gesture of support.” The airline said it’s working with the Transportation Security Administration, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and Federal Aviation Administration to coordinate those efforts.
At a press conference on Tuesday at LaGuardia Airport in New York, U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy highlighted air traffic controllers’ financial struggles as they go without pay.
“This is day one,” he said of controllers missing their first full paychecks. “Day two gets harder, [and] day three is harder after that, as expenses continue to roll [in].”
Duffy also noted that controllers are calling in sick in larger numbers than usual, as some look for side gigs with companies like Uber or DoorDash to pay the bills during the shutdown.
Schumer could make this right today. Or at any time in the last four weeks.
COME SEE THE ANTISEMITISM INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Mamdani says NYPD boots ‘on your neck’ were ‘laced by the IDF’ in vile video.
Mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani once made a vile, conspiracy-tinged statement tying the NYPD and the Israeli military, according to a shocking video that resurfaced Tuesday.
“We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it’s been laced by the IDF,” the Queens assemblyman said, referring to the Israel Defense Forces.
Mamdani made the comparison during the 2023 Democratic Socialists of America’s national convention, where he was the keynote speaker.
August 2023? A mere youthful indiscretion, and in no way representative of his more mature beliefs all of 26 months later.
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