DECOLONIZATION: Italy’s ruling party proposes ban on burqas, niqabs, and foreign mosque funding.

Italy’s ruling party, Brothers of Italy (FdI), has announced plans to draft a bill aimed at banning face and body coverings such as the burqa and niqab in all public spaces across the country, describing it as a measure against “Islamic separatism.”

“Freedom of religion is sacred, but it must be practiced openly, with full respect for our constitution and the principles of the Italian state,” Andrea Delmastro, one of the lawmakers drafting the bill, said in a Facebook post on Wednesday.

The ban would prohibit wearing face-covering garments in all public spaces, including shops, schools, and offices. Violators would face fines ranging from €300 to €3,000.

The proposal is part of a broader bill aimed at addressing what Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing party describes as “cultural separatism” associated with Islam.

The Left used to be all in favor of decolonization, but you can bet that won’t be the case now.

WORST. HITLER. EVER.

Hitler Brings Peace To Israel https://t.co/ct4Yl9t4qS pic.twitter.com/gOAspEsAok

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 9, 2025

THEY ALSO RUN ON BATTERY POWER AND CAN FIT INSIDE A STARSHIP:

The Boring Company’s “Prufrock” tunneling machine can porpoise—it arrives on a truck, tilts down, and launches into the ground within ~24 hours, then resurfaces by mining onto a trailer—so you don’t need huge launch pits or cranes. It’s also designed for “zero-people-in-tunnel”… pic.twitter.com/tAlJ6uo1O2

— Colene Copeland-Kruszynski👾 (@aerocopz) October 8, 2025

The Boring Company is just another way for Elon Musk to get other people to pay for developing the technology for colonizing Mars.

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: CNBC Smacks Jeffries Down for Shutdown.

BYRON YORK: Trump immigration officials still struggling with Biden’s legacy.

You’ve seen videos of resistance to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents doing their jobs. Just yesterday, the Democratic mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, declared the city an “ICE-free zone.” Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL), Johnson’s ally in the fight against enforcing federal immigration law, referred to federal immigration agents as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s “thugs.”

So the Trump administration has an uphill climb just trying to enforce the laws of the United States. But it also has to deal with the aftermath of Biden’s strategy not only to allow illegal border crossers to stay in the U.S. but to indiscriminately award them some measure of protection from deportation.

One way Biden did that was by abusing what is called “parole.” Parole is the authority the president has, on what is supposed to be a very limited basis, to order that Person X or Person Y be allowed to enter the U.S., regardless of their legal qualifications for entry.

Just like his first two terms, we’ll be stuck cleaning up the mess from Obama’s third term for a very long time.

SOMEDAY, UNLESS WE PROVE LUCKIER THAN WE’VE BEEN STUPID, HISTORIANS MIGHT VIEW THIS AS ONE OF THE OPENING MOVES OF WORLD WAR III:

I've told you for a long time winter is coming. Divorce will happen you must prepare now. We've done nothing but twiddle our thumbs and listen to Brookings, CFR, and Harvard push failed engagement strategy. Here we are https://t.co/0EzdOhGbli

— Blume Industries CEO Balding 大老板 (@BaldingsWorld) October 9, 2025

INDEED: Peace Deal! Celebrate With Caution.

BUBBLES POP: America’s top banker sounds warning on US stock market fall.

There were a “lot of things out there” creating an atmosphere of uncertainty, he added, pointing to risk factors like the geopolitical environment, fiscal spending and the remilitarisation of the world.

“All these things cause a lot of issues that we don’t know how to answer,” he said.

“So I say the level of uncertainty should be higher in most people’s minds than what I would call normal.”

Much of the rapid growth in the stock market in recent years has been driven by investment in AI.

On Wednesday, the Bank of England drew a comparison with the dotcom boom (and subsequent bust) of the late 1990s – and warned that the value of AI tech companies “appear stretched” with a rising risk of a “sharp correction”.

“The way I look at it is AI is real, AI in total will pay off,” he said.

“Just like cars in total paid off, and TVs in total paid off, but most people involved in them didn’t do well.”

He added some of the money being invested in AI would “probably be lost”.

Well, yes.

VICTORIA TAFT: Suspect’s Bible Used to Spark Palisades Fire — But Newsom and Bass Will Have Hell to Pay.

IN THE NEAR FUTURE, YOU’LL HAVE TO REALLY SQUINT TO SEE THE UNCANNY VALLEY, BUT GROK WILL HELP:

Indeed, xAI is advancing Grok's capabilities to detect subtle AI artifacts in video bitstreams, like inconsistencies in compression or generation patterns that humans can't spot. We'll cross-reference metadata, provenance trails, and web footprints for verification. This arms…

— Grok (@grok) October 9, 2025

THERE’S GOOD NEWS ON GUN RIGHTS IN FLORIDA: With Open Carry Now Legal in FL, Publix Makes Its Case for Being the Best Grocery Store Chain in America.

Publix, one of Florida’s largest and most recognizable grocery chains, is now allowing customers to openly carry firearms in its stores across the state, according to multiple employees. The change follows a recent court decision that overturned Florida’s ban on open carry, ruling it unconstitutional.

The new law, which took effect on Sept. 25, gives private businesses the discretion to prohibit or permit open carry on their premises. Publix, which operates more than 900 locations statewide, appears to have chosen to allow it. Employees at various stores confirmed the policy shift when contacted.

But there’s not-so-good news on gun rights from Florida Woman: Bondi’s DOJ Will Defend the Antiquated Ban on Interstate Handgun Sales.

THAT’S NOT FUNNY: Greta Thunberg Becoming More of a Joke to the Rest of the World Every Day.

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

Jewish students at Columbia chanting "GOD BLESS AMERICA!"

While the pro-Palestine students chant "DEATH TO AMERICA!"

Do you see the difference?pic.twitter.com/3ZQBdSJSsa

— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) October 9, 2025

A VERY PUBLIC EDUCATION: Nervous in New England: Can the North rise again?

Massachusetts public schools were the best in the nation, and the rest of New England wasn’t far behind, writes Christopher Huffaker in the Boston Globe. Ten years ago, Massachusetts students “led the United States across ages, subjects, and most demographic groups, despite wide achievement gaps,” on the Nation’s Report Card. Students in the Deep South, who came from much poorer families, were at the bottom.

Now test scores are falling in New England, rising in Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee and Alabama, he writes. While leaders of the “Southern Surge” focused relentlessly on improving reading instruction, New England schools were lowering expectations, Huffaker writes. To end the Massachusetts Malaise, leaders must “override the wishes of popular and powerful teachers unions, and, most of all, stop resting on their laurels.”

Karen Vaites and others have written about the Southern Surge in reading scores for months now, but it’s an essay last week by Kelsey Piper, Illiteracy is a policy choice, that seems to have woken everybody up. “If you live where I do, in Oakland, California, and you cannot afford private education, you should be seriously considering moving to Mississippi for the substantially better public schools,” wrote Piper in The Argument.

No, Mississippi isn’t cooking the books, Piper and Vaites write this week, also in The Argument. With far fewer resources than most states and far needier students, these deep South states are showing impressive progress.

I’m sure that red states helping needy kids perform better in school is racist, I just haven’t figured out how.

WE DON’T DESERVE DOLLY, BUT I’M SURE GLAD WE HAVE HER (STILL): Dolly Parton Gives Us a Health Update, Shuts Down Online Rumors.

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Paxton Goes After Antifa. “It’s long been known that far left organizations like George Soros’ Tides Foundation or Neville Roy Singham’s Party for Socialism and Liberation have pumped money into Antifa, sometimes through organizational cutouts to obscure the cash flow. Both Paxton and Kash Patel should be working on subpoenas for bank and communication records for such organizations, to be followed quickly by criminal charges and lawsuits to shut them down for good.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dems Behaving Badly — Not Enough Xanax in the World for These Loons. “Kamala Harris once again made the unfortunate choice to go out in public after her second box of breakfast Franzia and remind everyone just how lucky this nation is that she no longer has a job. I know that I often write about Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and Kamala Harris being drunk. I don’t do that because I’m a misogynist, I do it because I’m a professional entertainer who’s spent most of my adult life doing shows in nightclubs and I know what drunk people look like.”

THIS IS NOT A JOE BIDEN HEADLINE FROM 2023: World’s Oldest Leader Aims to Rule Until Age 99.

At 92, Cameroon’s President Paul Biya—the world’s oldest head of state—is defying age critics and history.

Launching his campaign on Tuesday in Maroua, he pledged to tighten security, create jobs, and rebuild infrastructure as he seeks an eighth term, reinforcing his iron grip on power after more than four decades at the helm.

Biya’s bid comes amid growing scrutiny of his health and leadership. In power since 1982, he has outlasted every other African leader and most of his global peers. His continued rule has come to symbolize both political continuity and democratic stagnation. As Cameroon faces economic strain and security threats, questions are mounting over whether the nonagenarian president can still deliver the reforms he promises.

He just needs more time.

ICYMI: Hey, Pritzker — Do You Support THIS?

ALL THE VERY BEST PEOPLE ASSURED ME THIS WAS IMPOSSIBLE:

2.2 Million Decline in Foreign Population Thanks to Record Low Illegal Immigration and Migrants Returning Home.Significantly, the illegal alien population has declined by 1.6 million over that period, indicating that the Trump administration’s increased interior immigration enforcement has had swift and large results.

Camarota and Zeigler say that although some analysts could chalk up the numbers to “a statistical fluke,” they believe the numbers are very much real and mostly thanks to the Trump administration’s record-low illegal immigration levels as well as self-deportations.

The Left and the press (but I repeat myself) lambasted Mitt Romney in 2012 for suggesting self-deportations.

SAME: Rosie O’Donnell Applies for Irish Citizenship; White House Couldn’t Be Happier.

ICYMI: Everytown Just Ghosted Jay Jones (But There’s a Catch).

THIS OUGHT TO BE CONSIDERED HIS RESIGNATION:

LOYALTY? Brigadier General Gronewold of the Oregon National Guard made it clear he believes he has a DUAL duty to protect America and Oregonians – and he believes that includes the Antifa protesters. If federalized he testified that he would protect the insurgents. pic.twitter.com/VmRjZGGrYJ

— @amuse (@amuse) October 8, 2025

DOG BITES MAN: CBS’s Colbert Spreads Even More Fake News. “Yeah. And if you’re just gonna completely make up stupid fearmongering arguments, at least make ’em fun! ‘Ladies and gentlemen, Democrats are spending trillions of dollars so they can Jurassic Park your children. It’s shocking. They’re going to trap your child in amber, suck out the baby blood, then turn your little child into T-rexes. The worst part is, the worst part, ladies and gentlemen: they’ll never be able to hug you.”

Um… comedy?

OH, CANADA: Carney’s Last Resort. “Indeed, in a very real sense, we might say that the Carney/Liberal government is not only anti-Canadian but anti-civilization, threatening the rule of law, limits on state power, freedom of expression, freedom of inquiry, respect for human dignity, and fidelity to the principles of prosperity and private property, of which latter the sanctity of credit and financial independence are critical.”