A BIG WIN FOR BOLSONARO:

🚨BREAKING: Flávio Bolsonaro has officially WON the first round of the Brazilian Presidential Elections, with millions more votes than communist tyrant Lula

The polls got it horribly wrong.

CHANGE is coming to Brazil! 🇧🇷 pic.twitter.com/yrCEN2DgKl

— Inevitable West (@Inevitablewest) October 5, 2026

It's possible, but the huge popular wave in favor of the Bolsonaro movement across Brazil will make that kind of flagrantly anti-democratic behavior more difficult.

But the STF has been shameless and without limits, so I put nothing past them. I'm sure they're plotting.

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 5, 2026

Weird:

Americans were literally financing movements intended to destroy their way of life. https://t.co/AVMlQ4C0Xy

— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) October 5, 2026

UPDATE (From Ed): MMGA?

Looking at this map, how long until Trump demands regime change in Mexico?

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 4, 2026

USA TODAY BRINGS COMMON SENSE: The ‘Cornell 7’ haven’t been charged. The mob doesn’t care: What’s most troubling in the Cornell University rape allegations is that onlookers have already made up their minds about who is to blame. “The pictures of these young men who have not been charged, not been adjudicated, are being plastered all over the internet. I think people are reporting this story inaccurately. I think they are reporting it unfairly. And while this is something that we have to take very seriously, there is no way, according to her statement in 2024, that any prosecutor would have brought this court case.”

The important part is activating the Dems’ psychotic women base between now and election day.

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

SINGULARLY UNGRATEFUL: Supermassive black holes ‘kill’ their host galaxies using plasma jets as their murder weapons.

RETATRUTIDE: Ozempic Rival Delivers 25% Weight Loss at Highest Dose in Phase 3 Trial.

FIGHT THE POWER:

The people of Brazil are SWARMING the streets as Flavio Bolsonaro currently leads against the man who threw his father in jail.

What we are witnessing in South America is the total rejection of Communist tyrants and the embrace of freedom. pic.twitter.com/R1McEBwDnq

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 4, 2026

IT’S ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Scientists Directly Observe the Hidden Geometry of Electrons.

THE STARK WARNINGS ARE USUALLY WRONG:

TRUMP'S TRANS CIVIL RIGHTS TRIUMPH: New data show a predicted Trump-era targeting of trans people failed to materialize, even as LGBTQ leaders warned of an ‘epidemic’ of ‘danger,’ ‘violence,’ ‘murder’ and even ‘terrorism.’ https://t.co/4lZKr7G9oK

— David Mastio (@DavidMastio) October 3, 2026

Article:

This isn’t what was expected. When Mr. Trump began his second term by unleashing a barrage of policies that infuriated LGBTQ groups — on the military, identity documents, housing, health care and more — trans advocates thought that the “genocide” they had been warning of for more than a decade would soon arrive. They issued stark warnings. . . .

As the nearly 200 state laws piled up, one of America’s oldest civil rights groups, the American Civil Liberties Union, sounded the alarm. “Anti-transgender laws endanger LGBTQ+ people and their allies. Research also points to … [an] increase in antiLGBTQ+ violence as a result of these laws. Trend analysis of FBI crime data and social media harassment indicate an uptick in violence against LGBTQ+ people following anti-transgender legislation,” the group’s researchers warned.

That wave of violence didn’t happen, either, an absence attributed by an ACLU spokeswoman, Gillian Bransetter, to an overall pattern of declining crime across the country. “If violence is down for everyone else (and it is) it only makes sense that it is down for trans people, too, and that doesn’t change or contradict the impact of anti-trans laws on our risk for violence or our overall higher risk for violence when compared to our cisgender peers,” Ms. Branstetter told the Sun.

Well, Trump has brought down crime in major urban areas, which benefits everyone, but the alarmism of many “rights” groups in his administration has generally been bogus.

R.I.P. SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP:

The Pentagon confirms that all B-1 bombers deployed to RAF Fairford in the UK have returned to the US:

"Due to operational security considerations, we could not confirm the aircraft's movement in real time; however, we can now confirm that all US bombers deployed to RAF Fairford… pic.twitter.com/vwI4PwNJLW

— Eli Afriat 🇮🇱 (@EliAfriatISR) October 4, 2026

As Britain — and most of the rest of Europe — look to become Islamist/Communist nations, the US will be reconfiguring, as it should. I assume we’re planning a way to take control of or eliminate their nuclear arsenals, too, if it comes to that.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: The Obstacles of Low Range and High Price: 2026 Jeep Recon EV Tested.

CONFUSION TO THE ENEMY: The Start to a Great Weekend: Waking Up to Find that Everytown and ATF Have Been Sh!tposting At Each Other.

Related:

As much as the black pilled doomers loved to cry about how the Trump admin hasn’t fixed every problem in America… I’d like to point our this is the current ATF director telling some Everytown For Gun Safety dude to fuck off.

Keep in mind two years ago Biden’s ATF director was… https://t.co/HiXx6gXLcw

— Larry Correia (@monsterhunter45) October 3, 2026

HMM: The Aging Brain Isn’t Declining – It’s Adapting, Study Finds. “There might be an evolutionary purpose to all this: For those of us lucky enough to make it to old age, the priority becomes passing on information, rather than trying to remember the specifics of day-to-day life.”

I’ve often thought that the reason why old people repeat old stories and lose their distant memory last is because as tribal memory stores, they need to download their storage before they die.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How often should you actually replace your sneakers?. More often than you think.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Affordable ways to protect your gut microbiome from unhealthy changes.

I LOVE BENT-OVER ROWS: Skip the Shrugs: This Old-School Row Hammers Your Mid-Back Instead. But, you know, they’re different exercises and do different things.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Record-low three in ten Americans consider college ‘very important’: poll.

GRADE INFLATION; Ivy League’s Big Three ‘A’rms race leaves top grades increasingly meaningless.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Why Is Mark Carney Preparing for an American Invasion?

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Reality Slaps College Graduates In The Face. “A recent analysis from Burning Glass Institute found that unemployment among those 22-34 years old without a college degree is lower than it’s been in decades, but those with college diplomas are having a much harder time finding work than before.”

If only someone had offered some sort of warning.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Iran’s Regime Is Running Out of Options. Well, when you lack money or a functioning military…

ROGER KIMBALL: Trump and the Relentless Momentum of Events.

EVERYONE SHOULD: Even Democrats Oppose John Roberts Letting Foreign Citizens Tilt The House Of Representatives. “The survey, conducted by McLaughlin & Associates on Sept. 23, shows that of 1,000 likely voters, nearly two-thirds, 65 percent, believe the congressional apportionment base should be comprised solely of U.S. citizens. Strikingly, not only four in five self-identified Republicans, but also 54 percent of Democrats and nearly 60 percent of independents polled also somewhat or strongly agree with a policy that would necessarily exclude illegal aliens and other noncitizens from the count.”

BOB GRABOYES: Plagiarize! Plagiarize! Plagiarize! Only Be Sure Always to Call It, Please, “Research.”

CHANGE: What Iowa’s New Steel Mill Means for the Midwest.

OPEN THREAD: Party on.