Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
October 30, 2026
#JOURNALISM:
The Ilhan Omar "married her brother" story was originally broken by @realDSteinberg at the @powerlineUS blog and @PJMedia_com in 2018. Media covered it only to try to bury it.
It was treated as a conspiracy theory. Now we know the feds knew it in 2016.https://t.co/gjgpvH4Rx0
— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) October 29, 2026
AND YOU CAN TELL THE TROOPS LOVE HIM FOR IT.
To say nothing of the fact that he's experienced the most hostile media treatment imaginable.
— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) October 30, 2026
THEY WANT EVERYTHING TO BE WORSE, NOT BETTER: The Surreal War Against America’s Manufacturing Boom.
COMMAND PROBLEMS:
Generals? What Generals?
The bar for becoming a general officer is in the fucking basement. You can see a trend in my posts as of late. I've gone full bluntness on this topic since nothing else seems to work.
We spent twenty years losing wars while rewarding the people who…
— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) October 29, 2026
October 29, 2026
A BIG FAIL IN BIGLAW. David Lat on the Weil, Gotshal collapse.
OPEN THREAD: Party on.
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED:
🇩🇪🚨MEGA-ESCÁNDALO: La ganadora de las elecciones de BERLÍN, del partido de ultraizquierda Die Linke confiesa por error que Hamás controla su partido y teme por su vida💣
Un error acaba de generar una crisis de seguridad impresionante. La revista Der Spiegel —un medio, cabe… pic.twitter.com/muTjM1My7Q
— Karina Mariani (@KarinaLMariani) October 29, 2026
TRANSLATION, which for some stupid reason doesn’t embed:
MEGA-SCANDAL: The winner of the BERLIN elections, from the far-left party Die Linke, accidentally confesses that Hamas controls her party and fears for her life💣
A mistake has just triggered an astonishing security crisis. The magazine Der Spiegel—a media outlet, it must be noted, with a marked leftist slant—has brought to light an internal document proving how Die Linke has been hijacked by Islamism.
Its candidate to govern Berlin, Elif Eralp, accidentally sent the newsroom her private notes from an interview where she confesses to being coerced and terrified by Hamas operatives within her own party.
It turns out that after an interview, the candidate’s team reviewed the transcript. During this process, Eralp made internal comments that were meant to remain in the strictest confidentiality. However, the document with the un-erased annotations was sent back to the journalists.
The content of those notes is dynamite. When Der Spiegel asked her about Ibrahim Ibrahim—a pro-Palestinian Hamas sympathizer who celebrated the October 7 massacre—the public response was going to be evasive. But in the margin of the leaked document, Eralp wrote the truth: “There is a PROBLEM. […] my husband no, and neither do I, want to name specific names, he is afraid of these people and so am I.”
The leak exposes the raw reality of Islamo-leftism in Germany: Eralp even went so far as to compare the threat level of these pro-Palestinian militants to that of Organized Crime and implores to abort the publication: “I can’t put myself and my family in danger for Der SPIEGEL. What do we do now? Do we scrap the whole interview?”
The biggest joke of the entire situation, however, was captured in one of the phrases that Eralp did want to publish. In a display of utter disconnection, the candidate states in the interview: “What I can say with total clarity is that, as governing mayor, I will ensure the safety of all Berlin women and all Berlin men.” A promise that rings utterly ridiculous coming from a leader who, in the same document, secretly admits that she can’t even protect her own family from the rank-and-file of her party.
In the wake of the scandal, Eralp has announced that she will take legal action against Der Spiegel and file a formal complaint with the Press Council for having quoted her internal annotations. This judicial maneuver immediately reveals just how sensitive and utterly overwhelmed these leadership cadres really are when faced with crisis situations.
Berlin’s radical left believed it could politically capitalize on Islamic extremism; today, the documents prove that it’s the extremism holding them hostage.
We all saw this coming.
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ELON SHOULD DO GOOD THINGS HERE ON EARTH! OH, WAIT:
Early Neuralink speech restoration data:
We are enabling speech to text and voice at conversational rates in participants with ALS. One participant achieved 75 WPM at 5.8% WER on a 125k-word vocabulary in their first week.
— Neuralink (@neuralink) October 28, 2026