AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
Hamas Disappointed Leftists Don't Believe They Massacred Jews After They Went To All The Trouble To Livestream It https://t.co/HIMgcvwJEA
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 7, 2026
Honestly, this one probably belongs at Not the Bee.
IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: Tucker Might Be Ignorant, but at Least He’s Evil. “How many times does someone get to make excuses for Hitler before they get labeled ‘evil,’ too?”
BUCKLE UP: China’s Build Up of Nuclear Forces. “China is currently embarked on a massive build-up of nuclear weapons and delivery vehicles. From a low-level force structure designed to support its strategy of minimum deterrence, China is now striving to establish a nuclear warfighting capability that would enable it to bolster its massive conventional forces with a substantial theater nuclear force, backed up by expanded nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). China’s objective, in the event of war, is to win a quick victory with its conventional forces, and to deter the use of U.S. nuclear weapons by threatening the employment of its large theater nuclear forces.”
The Pentagon called it a “strategic breakout” five years ago, and Beijing’s pace has only accelerated since then.
A SOLUTION DOES SEEM TO PRESENT ITSELF…:
Friendly reminder that the most ISIS recruits in the entire country during the height of the caliphate came from this cluster of buildings in Minneapolis. https://t.co/bhdFDDvwKz pic.twitter.com/GxmyV5ad5L
— amanda (@amandatalks__) October 7, 2026
…but the Ripley Method might be a bit too extreme for some.
THAT MAKES AT LEAST TWO OF US: The Botched Death Penalty Inmate Woke Up. We Know What Her First Words Were. “I think she is angry and confused about everything right now.”
HOUSING ISN’T QUEER, AND DOESN’T GET BUILT WITHOUT CAPITALISTS: Fresno City College ‘queer housing’ summit features ‘Anti-Capitalist Business.’
RABBI MICHAEL BARCLAY: We Remember.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: ‘The Social Reckoning’ – Sorkin’s Anti-Trump Sequel Stumbles.
We can connect with long-lost friends or make new ones on Facebook. New grandparents can instantly share adorable baby photos with a few clicks. And teens can watch their already wobbly self-image crater on Instagram.
That’s just the tip of the cultural iceberg, of course.
“The Social Reckoning” twists that truth into yet another attack on President Donald Trump and, in some ways, on free speech.
The delayed sequel to “The Social Network” is a far less interesting tale, one with a partisan chip on its shoulder. Director Aaron Sorkin’s film is never dull, but it’s so blinded by ideology it forgets what makes a killer story.
I get the feeling Sorkin wasn’t much interested in telling a killer story.
IMPRESSIVE:
Giga is about to get serious about building Starships! https://t.co/mOdXlFzq3r
— Space Intelligence (@SpaceIntel101) October 6, 2026
Those one million data center satellites aren’t going to launch themselves, you know.
BUCKLE UP: Drones sink ships near NATO countries in “unacceptable” attacks, EU says.
Drones sank two cargo ships and damaged a third in the exclusive economic zones of NATO member countries for the first time, killing at least two sailors. The attacks represent a notable escalation as Black Sea commercial shipping has increasingly come under attack during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with Russia also being accused of carrying out “hybrid warfare” incidents across Europe.
The Togo-flagged cargo ship Alfa Watan sank, and the Palau-flagged cargo ship Able was set ablaze after being attacked by multiple sea and aerial drones about 80 miles (128 kilometers) off the coast of Bulgaria on October 6, according to the Associated Press. In an interview, Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev described the incidents as “an unacceptable attack in Bulgaria’s exclusive economic zone” and “a blatant violation of international law and maritime law.”
The fate of the Alfa Watan’s crew was not immediately known after the vessel sank. A Bulgarian ferry managed to evacuate the 18 crew members of the Able, with two severely injured mariners being flown to a hospital in the city of Varna.
This comes one day after drones struck the Turkish-owned cargo ship named Royad Mammadov within Romania’s exclusive economic zone in the Black Sea on October 5.
Of course, I don’t know what “NATO” will do about it, other than complain.
NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA…:
Absolutely. Crap like this isn’t a ‘mistake’ or a ‘misunderstanding’ and no, Trump doesn’t need to ‘be clearer.’
It’s an op, a cynical, depraved op to ascribe malicious intent to Trump.
It’s the ‘fine people’ hoax all over again. It is literally the exact same playbook, and…
— Cruadin (@cruadin) October 7, 2026
…the media despises you even more.
TIM O’BRIEN: ‘Big Victimhood’ Brings the Circus to Cornell. “These days, to really rise in the ranks, you should be a card-carrying Democratic Socialist of America (DSA) member, and preferably Islamic.”
IT WAS A LITTLE AWKWARD, BUT IT WAS AN ENDORSEMENT: Angela Paxton Endorses Ken Paxton. “Paxton’s public record as Texas Attorney General has been absolutely stellar, filing lawsuit after lawsuit against both federal overreach under Obama and Biden and corporate malfeasance that violates Texas law. As I’ve said many a time before, I say about Paxton what Abraham Lincoln said about Ulysses S. Grant: ‘I cannot spare this man. He fights.'”
YOU REALLY SHOULD READ MAMDANI’S ENTIRE OCT. 7 STATEMENT:
Two weeks before the attack. pic.twitter.com/0Sj9XvMjkX https://t.co/fxMwNh80og
— MAZE (@mazemoore) October 7, 2026
This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.
The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.
Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.
To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity.
Translation: Maybe — maybe — the Jews didn’t exactly deserve Oct. 7, but they certainly brought it on themselves.
I LIKE THE CUT OF HIS JIB: Wow! Marco Knocks It Out of the Park — Again — With a Speech on Protecting Western Values.
More here from Overton News, who called it “one of the greatest speeches ever delivered by a Secretary of State.”
“Most importantly, it was a warning to the rest of Europe about what could be lost if the West forgets where it came from.”
I’d add just one more word: Reaganesque.
LEAVE THEM KIDS ALONE: UMinn institute shows young children coloring books with naked, gender-confused kids, videos reveal. “No one at the university responded to repeated inquiries from The College Fix about the videos, its research and clinical practices with children, or ethical concerns raised by the outside doctor.”
WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT THAT WAY…:
Elon Musk you fucking genius 🫡
Shoutout to the entire SpaceX team 💯That’s a 17 floor building dispersing satellites the size of a school bus in space btw.
(The satellites open up to the size of an airplane)
We are living in the craziest of times $SPCX @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/3gzIVzrumi
— Arshjit Singh (@Arshh1998) October 6, 2026
…Elon does seem kind of smart.
RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: Pakistani Christian Parents Demand Return of Kidnapped Son Forcibly Converted to Islam.
COME SEE THE ANTISEMITISM INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: ‘The Martyr’s Blood Is Fragrant’: Mamdani’s Wife Does Artwork for Terror-Loving, Anti-Israel Olive Oil Company That Celebrates Palestinian Terrorist Who Shot Down a British Plane.
Duwaji, the wife of New York City’s Israel-bashing mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has been doing illustrations for the company since at least October 2025, when her husband was the frontrunner for the mayoralty, records show.
“Rama Duwaji is a Syrian illustrator and animator based in Brooklyn. Her work explores sisterhood, closeness, and the subtle dynamics that shape our communities,” reads Duwaji’s page for the company, Olive Odyssey.
Duwaji, who was born in Houston but describes herself as Syrian, has provided illustrations for at least two offerings from Olive Odyssey—one of which sells for close to $100 a bottle.Not far from her bio and products on the Olive Odyssey website, the company sells its “Nazareth Picholine Cold Pressed: Floral [Harvest 2025]”—with art featuring “a hand-drawn portrait of Khalil Abu Osba, a Palestinian resistance fighter.” Abu Osba is hailed by his olive oil aficionado supporters as an anti-Israel militant who not only shot down a plane but was also condemned to death before breaking out of a fortress prison.
The highly active social media accounts for Olive Odyssey are almost cartoonishly anti-Israel, displaying a notorious antisemitic image of Israel as a skull with dead Palestinians in its teeth, deploying language about the olive trees watered with “martyrs’ blood,” and even accusing Israel of appropriating salad.
BEING PART OF BRITAIN’S UPPER CRUST USE TO PRESUME SOME SENSE OF NOBLESSE OBLIGE:
"opposing immigration, illegal or otherwise, is a class signifier in Britain, and most middle-class people—including most politicians—aren’t prepared to support a political cause that would see them associated with the lower orders." https://t.co/9RR2YgIby2
— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) October 6, 2026
Related:
The serenity of Kings Road in West London, 1967 ⏳️ pic.twitter.com/CJUYYZEThO
— Vinnie Sullivan (@VinnieSull1van) October 6, 2026
Now it’s just a justification for s***ing all over the untermenschen.
THE ENEMY WITHIN: ‘Inspirational’: Columbia Senate Member Praised Hamas, Appeared on Panel With Terrorist Financiers. “Eren’s election to the Senate, which has not been previously reported, underscores the degree to which anti-Israel activists have continued to influence Columbia despite the university’s deal with the Trump administration. Supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement were among those tapped to lead a Trump-mandated review of Columbia’s Middle Eastern Studies Department, and two professors who participated in the Spring 2024 encampment sit on the committee that proposed revising the protest rules. Another BDS supporter, Rosalind Morris, sits on a task force charged with reforming the University Senate.”
We need a total and complete shutdown of Columbia until we can figure out what the hell is going on.
SPOILER: FEW PEOPLE READ DOWN TO THE 13TH GRAF.
You have to read 13 paragraphs in to learn that they hitched a ride on Elon Musk’s rocket. https://t.co/PYqfOX74Xi
— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) October 7, 2026
And CTV knows this, of course.
WELL, GOOD: Trump Lowers the Boom on Huawei.
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