HARDBALL: Trump Gives Democrats Deadline For When Permanent Government Firings Will Begin.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the majority of his caucus again rejected a continuing resolution Monday, extending the government shutdown. Trump, who’s administration previously teased mass firings as a result of the shutdown, told reporters Tuesday that such could happen if the government shutdown continues for four to five days.

“How many permanent jobs are you talking about eliminating?” a reporter asked Trump.

“I’ll be able to tell you that in four or five days. If this keeps going on, it’ll be substantial, and a lot of those jobs will never come back,” Trump responded. “You’re going to have a lot closer to a balanced budget.”

Exit quote: “We have a lot, I’m not going to tell you, but we’ll be announcing it pretty soon. But we have a lot of things that we’re going to eliminate and permanently eliminate.”

VICTORIA TAFT: My Shocking Undercover Experience at Portland’s Antifa-Besieged ICE Building “The entire phalanx of elected officials in Portland announced mere days ago that there was ‘only’ one block of protester activity. They were downplaying the violence that had taken place there. Like robots, they announced to their citizens that visuals from the ICE facility were years old or unrepresentative of the current situation. What was the truth?”

ICYMI: This Isn’t Your Father’s Weed — and It’s Tied to 40 Percent of Fatal Crashes.

CORNYN STALKING HORSE? Wesley Hunt Joins Texas Senate Race.

GOOD LORD: Anti-ICE, Anti-Catholic Arrestee Had 200 Explosives to Target D.C. Catholic Church.

IT’S (D)IFFERENT NOW BECAUSE REASONS:

By the way, @timkaine who is standing by Jay Jones after wishing murder on Children, once thought that Republican George Allen calling someone "macaca" was disqualifying. pic.twitter.com/ZZ2SFrUCnD

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) October 7, 2025

Remember: Double standards are the best standards because you get twice as many of them.

AND YET I’M STILL DYING TO SEE WHAT IT IS: The Biggest Names in Tech Can’t Build the AI Device You Won’t Want to Buy.

THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS: NYSE-owner Intercontinental Exchange rises after it takes $2 billion stake in Polymarket. “The deal comes as prediction markets become more mainstream, with Polymarket rival Kalshi enjoying sharp trading volume increases thanks to the implementation of sports-related contracts. Prediction markets industry revenue may climb to $8 billion by 2030 as it takes market share from the sports gambling industry, according to analysis by Piper Sandler.”

MAYBE SHE’S NOT THAT BRIGHT. MAYBE SHE’S EVIL. MAYBE BOTH:

Greta Thunberg is using a photo of Israeli Evyatar David as an example of Israeli cruelty towards Palestinian Arabs.

This is the most “Every allegation is a confession” post I’ve ever seen. pic.twitter.com/AweNzgJRDC

— Max 📟 (@MaxNordau) October 7, 2025

HMM: Is the Left’s Provocative Behavior a Trap? “Perhaps the left has come to understand that its only hope for any success at keeping the GOP in check is to prod the country into reactionary violence against itself and its excesses.”

Of course. “The worst, the better,” was Lenin’s succinct summary of his own program for destroying Czarist Russia so his Communists could pick up the pieces.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: U.S. Space Force Flags China’s Expanding Web Of On-Orbit Assets.

Beijing began consolidating its military space portfolio under the newly established Aerospace Force in 2015. A decade later, China has deployed more than 1,189 satellites to orbit, according to a September space threat fact sheet published by the Space Force. It has a breathtaking range, spanning global satellite communications networks; position, navigation and timing spacecraft; and inspector satellites that could support wartime operations.

Among recent launches is Yaogan-45, a reconnaissance satellite that was placed in medium Earth orbit (MEO) on Sept. 8 by a Long March 7A rocket. Yaogan-45’s location in MEO—rather than the more common low Earth orbit (LEO)—is a “very unusual” choice for a remote-sensing platform, said Chief Master Sgt. Ron Lerch, Sidari’s senior enlisted advisor.

In 2024, China began launching satellites for Smart Skynet, a new broadband constellation in MEO, to establish data relay infrastructure in that orbit, Lerch noted. The network is planned initially to include eight spacecraft operating at 20,000 km (12,430 mi.) but could grow to as many as 32, with space-to-space connectivity to networks in higher and lower orbits, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. (CASC).

“That starts to paint a picture . . . that they value remote sensing to the point where they want resiliency, and layers of it,” Lerch said.

China still can’t match SpaceX for sheer lift or cost to orbit, but they’re working very hard at it.

HE’S A GENUINELY FUNNY GUY:

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump causes the ENTIRE Oval Office to BURST into laughter – again 😂

CANADIAN REPORTER: What's holding things up? If he's a great man and you want to do a deal with Canada, why aren't you?

TRUMP: Because I want to be a great man TOO.

*Entire room… pic.twitter.com/m2Ui2jYBui

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 7, 2025

It might be what the sanctimonious left hates most about him.

INDEED: Two Years After October 7, We Cannot Look Away.

REPUBLICANS POUNCE! Trump’s GOP seizes on violent rhetoric from Virginia AG candidate as high-stakes elections loom.

Republicans are seizing on recently unearthed violent rhetoric from Virginia’s Democratic candidate for attorney general in a push to re-shape the state’s governor’s race — and tarnish the Democratic Party nationally — less than a month before Election Day.

President Donald Trump, like Republicans across Virginia, called for Democratic state attorney general candidate Jay Jones to quit the race over the weekend. The Republican president described Jones as a “radical left lunatic” and sought to link him to former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, Virginia’s Democratic candidate for governor.

“Abigail Spanberger, who is running for Governor, is weak and ineffective, and refuses to acknowledge what this Lunatic has done,” Donald Trump wrote on social media.

The clash over Jones’ violent rhetoric, shared in a 2022 private text message exchange published on Friday, comes just four weeks before voters in Virginia and New Jersey choose new state leaders. History suggests that the party that holds the White House — Trump’s Republican Party in this case — struggles in off-year elections, but Republicans hope the scandal might tilt next month’s elections in their direction.

How dare Republicans notice that the Democrats’ candidate for attorney general wants to murder their children.

I HAD BEEN ASSURED IT WAS TOTALLY SAFE: This Isn’t Your Father’s Weed — and It’s Tied to 40 Percent of Fatal Crashes.

COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM:

Democrats simply cannot stop fantasizing about assaulting and/or murdering prominent Republicans https://t.co/K9vQETQmjZ

— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) October 7, 2025

WHEN YOU’RE A DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE WHO HAS LOST MSNBC…: MSNBC Panel: Jay Jones Should Do Everyone A Favor And Quit; “Who Says That?”

MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” panel did not circle the wagons around Democratic candidate for Virginia Attorney General, Jay Jones, who was reported this weekend to have texted some extremely violent things about killing a GOP colleague.

“He should probably be forced to withdraw from the race,” Joe Scarborough said. “And ‘probably’ is doing a lot there.”

“Republicans and Democrats alike” are criticizing Jay Jones, Mike Brzezinski said. “NBC News is reporting that Jones did not deny the accuracy of these texts on Friday night, and says he takes full responsibility for his actions.”

“Horrible, I didn’t want to read them out loud.”

“Congresswoman Spanberger, the gubernatorial candidate, did very quickly denounce them,” Jonathan Lemire added. “But it’s unclear whether this attorney general candidate will stay in the race. I think there’s a growing sense that he probably should not… This is just way beyond the line.”

Translation: They’re afraid Jones will lose.

SARAH ANDERSON: 10 Reasons the U.S. Can’t Afford to Ignore Venezuela Anymore.

SO IT TURNS OUT THAT THE 20% SIDE OF AN 80/20 ISSUE IS VIOLENCE:

Which is why Democrat activists are using violence. https://t.co/56E8LS3Dg5

— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) October 7, 2025

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Utilize the ISS as a resource: a common sense, fiscally responsible plan leveraging the International Space Station. “Technical disposal alternatives for an individual satellite resolve to two choices: either deorbit it as debris or to consolidate it in orbit to leverage new infrastructure construction. Transforming those materials into feedstocks that can be used in manufacturing new hardware and infrastructure in orbit would kickstart a new commercial economy. However, there is currently no matured technology solution for this kind of processing on orbit, so deorbiting is thus far the only viable option.”

That’s a shame. But if Starship really does end up reducing launch costs by 90-99%, I wonder if orbital recycling would make economic sense.

FAIL, BRITANNIA: Not ONE Ex-Anglican Is Surprised by the New Archbishop. Including This One

DOG BITES MAN: Gun control group gave six-figure donation to Dem candidate who fantasized about shooting GOP lawmaker.

Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones, running alongside gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger, received $200,000 from Everytown for Gun Safety in August, campaign finance records reviewed by Fox News Digital show.

Jones has been facing calls to drop out of the race after a National Review report exposed text messages in 2022 where Jones compared one of his Republican colleagues, former Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert, to Hitler and Pol Pot and said that if he was given two bullets, he would use both against the GOP lawmaker.

Jones also made remarks suggesting his desire to see violence happen against Gilbert’s young children.

Everytown for Gun Safety endorsed Jones in June.

“Ghazala Hashmi and Jay Jones are committed gun sense champions, and we’re proud to endorse them today,” John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety, said in a press release at the time.

“Preventing gun violence is a winning issue in Virginia, and Everytown will go all out to make sure voters know which candidates are making public safety a top priority.”

When will Everytown ask for their money back from this proponent of gun violence against children?

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Biden J6 Goons Were Worse Than We Thought. “It’s tough to pick out the worst of the execrable rogues’ gallery of people who perverted the justice system in service of Joe Biden’s handlers, but Jack Smith is definitely in the top five. Not only is he a serial abuser of power, he was also turned into a media darling by the Left. His weaselly mug was on television constantly for a while.”

KASH PATEL, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Why Won’t the FBI Correct Its Flawed Data on Who Stops Active Shooters?

In 2022, the FBI reported that only 11 of the 252 active shooter incidents it identified for the period 2014-2021, or 4.4%, were stopped by an armed citizen. However, an analysis by my organization identified a total of 281 active shooter incidents during that same period and found that 41 of them – or 14.6% – were stopped by an armed citizen.

Academic articles dating back to 2015 have flagged similar problems, and even the researchers who collected data for the FBI admitted that “our data are imperfect.”

The FBI report compiled for the Biden administration for 2023 and 2024 contains worse errors.

Of course.

ICYMI: Bari Weiss Named CBS News Chief, Progs Lose Their… You Know.