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For the better part of a decade, we've watched violent activists operating under the Antifa banner attempt to intimidate political opponents, shut down free speech, disrupt public events, and substitute mob violence for civil debate. And now, with scenes of political unrest and clashes involving militant activists in France, Milan, and elsewhere in Europe, the dangers of political extremism are impossible to ignore. But sometimes the best way to expose the absurdity of a movement is to LAUGH AT IT! 😂 Enjoy the song, share it with your friends, and let me know what you think in the comments!

BREAKING: Brazil's election could be annulled, according to the New York Times. Electoral lawyers say Brazil's current situation is "extremely serious" and a "critical situation." The NYT reports that confusion over a last-minute voting extension by Justice Cristiano Zanin, who was appointed by Lula, could lead to the election being annulled. "This is an extremely serious, critical situation," said electoral lawyer Priscilla Sodré Pereira to the New York Times. When Zanin made the last-minute decision to extend voting hours, some polling stations had already closed and shut down their voting machines. They could not reopen. "Fernando Neisser, an electoral law...

The FDA has recently approved Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine. The vaccine, known as mFLUSIVA (mRNA-1010), is designed to protect adults ages 50 years and older. *snip* Moderna expects that mFLUSIVA will be available in the United States for the 2026 to 2027 respiratory virus season.

SEOUL, South Korea — The U.S. military, citing unspecified “risks to our personnel,” on Monday banned electric vehicles manufactured by Chinese automaker BYD from Kadena, a key U.S. air base on Okinawa. “These vehicles present an unacceptable and unmitigable risk to our personnel and our mission,” spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Alli Stormer said, per Reuters. She did not say what specific concern had prompted the move against vehicles produced by BYD, the largest global supplier of EVs, but the firm had, in June, been put on a Pentagon black list of 188 Chinese companies. Japanese media speculated that the presence of...

Little man syndrome. Four foot ten inch Robert Reich called for Democrats to steal Elon Musk's businesses and nationalize them on Sunday. The guy talking to Bill Clinton is calling for the Government to confiscate SpaceX and Starlink from Elon Musk. Robert Reich. (Those are not AI photos) https://t.co/AvRruXXxqF — C3 (@C_3C_3) October 25, 2026 Reich is taking a page directly from Joseph Stalin and all of the communists since then. Former labor secretary Robert Reich on Sunday called for Democrats to "defund" Elon Musk and take control of his companies. Robert Reich: "We've got to defund Musk. And when...

2006 From Interview with Vitali Tretiakov, Moscow News MOSCOW NEWS: What is your perspective on the situation in Ukraine? In this context, what do you think about the problem of the division of the Russian nation (the largest divided nation in modern Europe)? Should Russia—if not politically, at least intellectually—ponder the possibility of reunification of ethnic Russians and Russian lands if Ukraine joins the EU and especially NATO? SOLZHENITSYN: I am pained by what has been going on in Ukraine—ever since the 1991 referendum. The fanatical suppression and persecution of the Russian language (which, according to previous polls, was used...

In 1967 Louis Armstrong sang “What a Wonderful World!”, a call for optimism as an antidote to the social and political strife of the Sixties. Today he would probably be silenced by the left for hate speech. How dare he extol contentment while the masses struggle to seek relief from oppression? This is a time for vengeance and payback! Global unrest prevails: Despite periodic peace accords, Palestinian intifada with Israel continues unabated. Iran pledges “death to America!”, the Great Satan, precipitating open warfare. The EU (aka “Eurabia”) is on fire at the hands of the aggrieved. Terrorist attacks, epitomized by...

BRASILIA — After a late-night ballot dump and several emergency court rulings, Joe Biden was declared the surprise winner of Brazil's presidential election, securing 81 million votes. Brazilians were left in disbelief by the result as Joe Biden did not run for President of Brazil, wasn't on the ballot, and is probably dead. "I don't want to come off as an election denier, but I can't help but feel like there's something fishy here," said local man Miguel Santos. "There were only two choices on the ballot, and neither one was Joe Biden. In the latest polls, Bolsonaro was leading...

As the northern winter approaches, Scandinavia’s Catholic Church is witnessing unprecedented growth, with more people turning to the faith in reaction to the region’s highly secularized culture. “The Church is gaining strength thanks to an upsurge in Catholic conversions,” “And where there was once anti-Catholic feeling, public prejudices are now much diminished. Young people are finding each other in parishes across the country, while others show a positive interest in ways we haven’t seen before,” The lay Catholic spoke as Bishop Fredrik Hansen of Oslo marked World Mission Sunday Oct. 18 by unveiling plans for his diocese’s first-ever synod on...

[snip] Scarborough: “Mike Rogers had one of the worst days I've seen a Senate candidate have yesterday. Just a horrific performance live. Kristen Welker asked him some very basic questions. He couldn't say if he supported Donald Trump. He couldn't say if he supported MAGA politics. He couldn't say anything. And he just stood there stumbling for three minutes. “He would have had about 15 seconds on this show. But I guess Kristen is more patient.” Tough stuff, Macho Joe! So tell us, Joe: how many seconds would you have granted Abdul El-Sayed before giving him the boot for failing...

Walter Koenig, the boyish actor who remains an integral part of Star Trek lore thanks to his portrayal of the Russian crewman Pavel Chekov, has died. He was 90. Koenig, also known for playing the scoundrel Alfred Bester on another sci-fi space series, Warner Bros. Television’s Babylon 5, died Sunday of natural causes in his home in North Hollywood, his rep announced. Raised in Manhattan as a son of Lithuanian immigrants, Koenig joined Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek for the start of its second season and appeared on 36 of the 50 episodes that aired in 1967-68 and 1968-69. He also...

🚨 JUST IN: In a bombshell statement, Brazil's President of the Superior Electoral Court Justice Kassio Nunes Marques just SOUNDED THE ALARM that there was absolutely NO RULE that allowed the voting to continue an extra +2 hours — an unprecedented order from Lula's Supreme Court flunky that helped his regions "The preliminary decision given after the voting closing time generated DIFFICULTIES in the electoral process...there [were] no regulations authorizing any extension." 🤯 "Never, in the history of the TSE, has there been ANY extension." "It would not be possible, in a few hours, to form a judgment with certainty...

Florida’s early-vote numbers just made a dramatic move — and Republicans were the ones driving it. A live tracker snapshot at noon Monday showed registered Republicans accounting for 48.8% of the day’s early vote, compared with 31.2% for registered Democrats. That is a stunning 17.6-point Republican advantage for the day. The surge was strong enough to erase the Democrats’ statewide ballot lead and briefly put Republicans ahead by roughly 6,300 ballots when vote-by-mail and in-person early voting were combined. Eric Daugherty posted the fast-moving numbers: 🚨 JUST IN: Florida Republicans are winning today's early vote by R+17.6 POINTS as of...

The judge wrote that the Trump administration’s defense of her firing “flies in the face of nearly two centuries of Supreme Court precedent.” A federal judge in New York ruled Monday that the Justice Department unlawfully fired Maurene Comey, daughter of former FBI director James B. Comey, from her job as a federal prosecutor. Comey had argued in her federal lawsuit that she was fired because of her father, whom President Donald Trump fired as head of the FBI during his first term, and because of her perceived political beliefs. The Trump administration has brought federal charges against her father,...

NEW YORK, NY — LGBTQ+ has just gotten a little more inclusive with the addition of an "S" for "Sibling." Officials with the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) announced guidelines to add the letter "S" to the popular LGBTQ acronym, noting a rise in sibling love they say is worth celebrating. "With one of our nation's congresswomen being outed for marrying her brother, it's high time we recognize the beautiful subset of our community that embraces sibling love," said GLAAD spokesperson Amby Feelmoore (she/they). "There's nothing wrong with it and the extra 'S' in "LGBTQ' proves it."...

Anthony Rivers III, 15, was detained after 11 people, including six children, were wounded during Florida A&M University homecoming festivities. Police said none of the victims appeared to have been the intended targets. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW Police detained 15 year old Anthony Rivers III after a Florida A&M University homecoming shooting wounded 11 people, including six children. Authorities said Rivers had been involved in a physical altercation with someone he knew before the shooting. Police said none of the wounded victims appeared to have been the intended targets. Rivers faces 11 attempted second degree murder counts and a...

Los Angeles’ top federal prosecutor just laid it out plain. Noncitizens are already voting in California’s midterms, the state has confirmed it will count those ballots, and that will corrupt the election. Bill Essayli, First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District, said it after an emergency Sunday hearing that ended without a ruling. The Department of Justice is fighting to sequester roughly 20,000 ballots from people federal investigators have identified as noncitizens. California’s answer, in essence, is that citizenship is irrelevant once the envelopes are open. Mail ballots started processing on Saturday ahead of the November 3 election. Los...

The 2026 midterms aren’t even over yet, and Vice President JD Vance has already dropped a bomb into the 2028 presidential election cycle: he might not run. Vance told the audience at a Michigan town hall that he had not yet made a decision about whether or not he would seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2028 — and said it was certainly a possibility that he would sit the election out. Host Tony Dokoupil started the ball rolling by jumping on a comment Vance had made earlier in the evening — namely that he might be “out of a...

Investors had hoped for friendly overhauls such as spending cuts and deregulation Brazilian financial assets were swept by a historic rout Monday after the surprise election victory of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wrong-footed investors who had bet on his defeat.The Brazilian real slid more than 10% against the U.S. dollar while the country’s benchmark stock index fell nearly 17%, which would mark a record daily loss. The index’s plunge triggered a circuit breaker, leading Brazil’s stock-exchange operator to temporarily halt trading.Global investors had piled into Brazilian markets in recent weeks after Flávio Bolsonaro—the eldest son of former President...

A report by Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) president John Lott shows armed citizens stopped a third of all “active shooter incidents” from 2014 through 2025.Lott then presented the CPRC data as a correction to FBI reports which claim armed citizens only topped 3.9 percent of the incidents.He noted that during his time in the Department of Justice during President Trump’s first term, his duties “included evaluating the FBI’s active-shooter reports.” In so doing, he “discovered that the reports omitted or misclassified numerous cases in which armed civilians stopped attacks.”Lott noted the FBI identified 418 “active shooter incidents” from 2014...