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Author Archive: Stephen Green
October 2, 2026
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Abdul El-Sayed Billed County Taxpayers $9,000 a Month in ‘Consulting’ Fees While Running for Senate.
Michigan’s left-wing Democratic Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed billed county taxpayers $9,000 per month in consulting fees while running for Senate, according to public records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
The Wayne County Department of Health, Human and Veterans Services approved a contract to hire El-Sayed for “consulting services” on April 23, 2025, six days after El-Sayed announced he was running for Senate.
El-Sayed had previously served as director of the county health services department for two years, a post he resigned from on April 3, 2025.The contract, which extended through the end of the calendar year, stipulated that El-Sayed would be paid at a monthly rate of $9,000 for 30 hours of work—which amounts to around $300 per hour. Wayne County is run by county executive Warren Evans, a Democrat.
If I had to guess, calculating his actual hourly rate would return a divide-by-zero error.
DON’T FALL FOR THE OP:
In any competitive situation, winning requires two things:
1. The ability to win.
2. The will to win.MAGA has consistently shown the ability to win at the ballot box.
Thus, the mid-terms come down to MAGA's will to win.
This is why you are experiencing an epic information…
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) October 2, 2026
“This is why you are experiencing an epic information war campaign to convince you that you cannot win. That campaign’s singular purpose is to BREAK your WILL to win.”
IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: After Decades, Could This Political Earthquake Happen? Yes, If You Vote. “Could it be that after 40 years in the progressive oppressive wilderness, Oregon could elect the first GOP governor since Vic Atiyeh in 1982? Let’s grab the Magic 8 Ball. ‘Most likely,’ it reads.”
NOTHING THAT CABAL DID SHOCKS ME ANY LONGER: Biden Admin’s Office Of Refugee Resettlement Was A Fraud-Fueled ‘Smuggling Operation’ For Alien Children.
A memo obtained by The Federalist details six primary forms of fraud used by adult sponsors of UACs and says that intentional fraud made up 77 percent of reported Child Level Events (CLEs). The office also received 1,669 reports of fraud between Oct. 1, 2023, and Oct. 31, 2024. HHS further reviewed a portion of those reports and found 85 percent had intentional document fraud. On a phone call with reporters, ORR Senior Advisor John Fabbricatore said that 479,000 UACs went missing during the Biden administration.
“This is fraud that should have been caught by the Biden administration easily, but it was not because there was more of a want to get these kids out the door as quick as possible,” Fabbricatore said. He added that 70 percent of minors in ORR’s care are males over the age of 15, many of whom do not claim any sponsor in the U.S. and say they are simply here to work and be released into the country.
And that was just in 13 months.
VOTE AS THOUGH YOUR LIFE, LIBERTY, AND PROPERTY DEPEND UPON IT:
🚨 JUST NOW: The Trump White House just LAUNCHED a devastating tracker that calculates the exact cost of Democrats’ 2026 socialist policies would cost the U.S. if they win
$355,000 PER HOUSEHOLD. INCOME PLUMMETS. MORTGAGE RATES SURGE!
Vote red!
Add about $49T to the deficit… pic.twitter.com/OkG4XGNqFn
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 2, 2026
(Because they do.)
ROBERT SPENCER: Iran Touts Islam’s Teachings of Equality. Reality, As Always, Is Different.
You can see “equality” playing out right now in Britain and France.
BIRDS OF A FEATHER: Mamdani Will Be Honored Alongside Group with Alleged Ties to Iranian Regime. “New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani will be honored next Monday alongside the National Iranian American Council, an organization long suspected of being the unofficial lobbying arm of the Iranian government. Both Mamdani and NIAC will receive William Sloane Coffin Jr. Peacemaker Awards recognizing their advocacy for peace and diplomacy.”
ANALYSIS: TRUE.
They’ve destroyed their cities. https://t.co/sWCNTsGCU5
— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) October 1, 2026
THE ENEMY WITHIN: DOJ Charges Energy Department Employee for Helping Houthi Terrorists.
VERONIQUE DE RUGY: ‘When Will Markets React to Debt?’ Is the Wrong Question.
Federal debt held by the public now equals the size of the annual economy — and is growing. Yet investors continue buying Treasury securities. No government bond sale has really failed, no one has suddenly refused to finance Washington’s spending, and no unmistakable moment has forced Congress to change course.
That leads some people I cross paths with in academic life to conclude that despite decades of dire warnings, we’ve managed to go from a 35% debt-to-GDP ratio in 2007 to 100% today with no devastating consequences. Their implication is that we can keep going right up to 175% in 2056, which is the trajectory if Congress fails to reform Social Security and Medicare and if interest rates rise only modestly.
The idea that all this debt won’t bring a reckoning may sound tempting, but it’s questionable at best.
And that 2056 date assumes no black swan events between now and then, which on a 20-year timeline, seems (ahem) somewhat optimistic.
CITY JOURNAL DIDN’T MINCE ANY WORDS WITH THIS HEADLINE: San Francisco’s Frat Houses for Pedophiles.
According to this City Journal investigation, more than 25 percent of sex offenders in San Francisco with addresses in the Megan’s Law database live in taxpayer-subsidized buildings. Many live near a park, school, or daycare, or reside in a neighborhood with a high concentration of children. They do all of this despite statewide efforts to ban concentrating pedophiles so close to children. Instead of listening to California voters, San Francisco has become a taxpayer-funded dumping ground for sex criminals.
The Taylor Street Center is one of San Francisco’s most heavily populated sex-offender residences. Located in the Tenderloin, Taylor Street houses at least 31 registered sex offenders. The taxpayer-funded California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the federal Bureau of Prisons contract the private GEO Group to run the facility.
The reentry complex can house 240 people. It hosts specialized programs for residents like “cultural diversity education,” “gender-responsive groups,” and a “weekly meditation group.” The facility sits just 400 feet from a daycare center, 1,000 feet from a fourth-to-eighth-grade school, and five blocks away from a preschool.
Any sex offender housed in the Tenderloin is bound to encounter children. Along with having a high concentration of immigrant and low-income households, the neighborhood also has the highest concentration of kids in the entire city.
What could possibly go wrong?
FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN:
Amazing.
These researchers found that there's a spike in Bitcoin activity around the time foreign aid money goes out.
Somewhere between 2 and 6 cents of every dollar of World Bank foreign aid disbursements got siphoned off into crypto wallets: pic.twitter.com/GXlnm5P6kM
— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) October 1, 2026
Couldn’t they at least be a little less obvious about it?
MAKE GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY GREAT AGAIN: Venezuela 9 Months Later: Pressure, Protests, Power Outages… and a U.S. Military Base?
NO RELIEF IN SIGHT: Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028.
“For 2027, a large part of the volume is already sold out for 2027 for HBM, and the prices are much higher than 2026 prices,” Mehrotra said.
Micron doesn’t know when its supply will catch up with demand because the “demand trends of larger models, growing context, more concurrency, greater agents across enterprise, and consumer only continue to drive greater need for memory [and] greater need for memory content, as well as for higher performance memory,” Mehrotra said.
Mehrotra’s statements are supported by comments that Kim Taewoo, EVP at Micron competitor Samsung, made this week. He said HBM will account for almost 30 percent of DRAM manufacturers’ wafer capacity in 2027, compared to 20 percent this year, Reuters reported. That would limit the amount of DRAM made for consumer devices.
Ouch.
FRANCE:
A French woman tells one of the second and third-generation migrant rioter no to vandalize her city
He responds by trying to set her face on fire pic.twitter.com/1dkiVXmuhZ
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 1, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The United Kingdom Has Outlived Its Usefulness to the Free World. “The UK got to this point by doing exactly what American leftists do — screaming ‘ISLAMOPHOBIA!’ to condemn anyone who dares point out that there is one religion that tends to be a lot more murderous than any of the others. It’s boilerplate woke leftist groupthink now to assert that those who decry violence are far more dangerous than those who are committing the violence. They’re still insisting that the real terror threat in the United States comes from white Christian dudes. Like me.”
MORE FROM FRANCE: ‘Student’ riots rock France as masked men torch schools and douse teachers in petrol.
Rioters have unleashed chaos in major cities across the country after what started as largely peaceful demonstrations against the state of education descended into violent chaos.
Protests began last Monday, when students and teaching staff took to French towns and cities to demand the replacement of absent teachers, an increase of educational resources, school renovations and ‘decent’ learning conditions.
But disorder has spread since Tuesday with some 600 arrests and 85 police officers wounded.
The unrest gathered pace this week after the Left-wing mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, told protesters on Tuesday ‘violence can be legitimate’ in remarks that sparked fury across the country.
French Mayor Bally Bagayoko in action today:
And earlier today: “I want to salute the decision of the Communist Alternative movement to join the initiative carried by La France Insoumise and its candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the context of the upcoming presidential elections.”
OH NO, PLEASE DON’T SPARK WORRIES: Japan’s harsher permanent residency rules, hiked visa fees begin, sparking xenophobia worries. “The Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act sets three requirements for permanent residency: good conduct; assets or skills sufficient to make an independent living; and the person’s permanent residence being in Japan’s national interest. The government revised its guidelines Oct. 1, making the second and third requirements stricter.”
Those rules aren’t xenophobia — they’re just good sense.
I DON’T RECALL READING ABOUT ABSURDITIES LIKE THIS ONE INVOLVING FIRING SQUADS OR A HANGMAN:
Breaking news: Christa Pike is alive, in critical condition “and receiving lifesaving medical care,” her attorneys said, after Tennessee officials tried and failed to execute her by lethal injection the previous night. https://t.co/9O29VuKngt
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 1, 2026
I’D REALLY RATHER NOT: Meet the Child Abuser Sanctuary Fairfax County Released.
ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION: Utah’s VPN Law Demands a Technical Impossibility.
Signed into law earlier this year, SB 73 attempted to regulate adult websites by requiring them to block VPN users or to identify the physical location of visitors using them or similar tools that mask their network traffic. It even went so far as to prohibit websites from offering instructions on how to use a VPN to bypass these checks. This made Utah, to EFF’s knowledge, the first state in the nation to target the use of VPNs to avoid legally mandated age-verification gates.
The Utah federal court halted enforcement of the law’s VPN provisions last week, ruling that the law likely violates the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition on passing laws that significantly burden businesses and people outside Utah’s borders.
SB 73 burdens the rights of all internet users outside of Utah because it requires adult websites to either know every visiting user’s physical location, and then block those in Utah, or to verify every visitor’s age just in case they might be in Utah.
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The court recognized that the problem is that SB 73 “requires entities like Aylo to geolocate its website users with perfection to avoid liability.” But, at the same time, the court acknowledged “that geolocation perfection is not presently possible.”
Mere impossibility never slowed down a determined lawmaker.
TELL ME IT’S ALMOST NOTHING BUT GRAFT AND PAYOFFS WITHOUT TELLING ME IT’S ALMOST NOTHING BUT GRAFT AND PAYOFFS:
He’s planning to spend $607 MILLION to renovate…
Wait for it…
1,148 apartments.
That’s roughly $528,746 PER APARTMENT.
For renovations.
$607 million is an insane amount of money. Private developers renovate projects with thousands of apartments for a fraction of that.… https://t.co/aybJwdrTfo
— AP (@Average_NY_Guy) October 1, 2026