October 9, 2026
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Abdul El-Sayed Rakes in Thousands From Muslim Brotherhood-Linked Donors, Records Show.
I’M BEGINNING TO THINK WE NEED TO GO BACK TO SINGLE-SEX COLLEGES, CURFEWS, AND DORM MOTHERS.
I almost literally cannot think of a worse idea than paying college women tens of thousands of dollars to make Cornell-quality rape claims. https://t.co/lKP0CNP2AM
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) October 9, 2026
OLD AND BUSTED: The Seven Fat Years and How to Do It Again.
—Then-Wall Street Journal editor Robert Bartley, 1992.
The New Hotness? Wall Street Journal vs. Treasury Secretary Bessent Erupts as Pre-Election Blood Feud.
Too bad the Ultimate Fighting Championship stage has been taken down from the White House lawn, because if it were still there, it’d provide a venue for what is emerging as one of the bitterest and most consequential political and economic fights in the run-up to the midterm elections: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent versus the Wall Street Journal, and in particular the Journal’s Federal Reserve reporter and “chief economics correspondent,” Nick Timiraos.
Bessent targeted Timiraos in a social media post in August that has amassed nearly 4 million views. “One of the highlights of the Warsh Fed has been watching stenographers posing as journalists, like the WSJ’s Nick Timiraos, reduced to reporting Fed backroom gossip because they’re incapable of performing real economic or monetary policy analysis without being spoon-fed,” Bessent wrote.
The feud got even hotter this week, with the Journal publishing a breathless front-page news article on October 7 under four bylines with the not exactly earthshattering scoop that Bessent “can excoriate staff when he is frustrated”—as if no one in the Wall Street Journal newsroom, or Washington Bureau, or elsewhere in the media empire controlled by Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, has ever expressed frustration in direct terms at a staffer. Buried in the article is the disclosure that “the Treasury Department blocked a Journal reporter from attending a press conference” and “the department also revoked the credentials of reporters from the Journal … to cover a G-20 finance ministers summit in North Carolina.”
Roger Kimball responds:
It is Thursday, so it is time for another hit piece by @wsj on the Trump administration! Today's entertainment is a tongue-clucking piece about @SecScottBessent, the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton. You wouldn't know that from this column:…
— Roger Kimball (@rogerkimball) October 8, 2026
Exit question:
What has happened to the WSJ?
I’ve subscribed for years.
But the financial information is largely gone – and a concentration on markets, investing and economics has given way to Politico style blogging.
The Bureau Chief is a former Washington Post lefty who has hired former…
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) October 7, 2026
LIGHTNING DEAL: 6-in-1 1200W Rotatable Steam Mop. #CommisisonEarned
HEADLINE OF THE DAY: Trump Texas Trip Targets Talafreako. Trans-Touter? Truant. “Guy lives in Austin and can’t even make it to events in Austin? Something smells.”
Related: Where in the World Is Jimmy Talarico? We Miss Our Favorite Heretic!
YEP, IT TURNS EVERY SOCIETY INTO A NEPOTISTIC ONE: Central planning also centralizes the importance of “who you know”.
And remember, selecting people for any reason other than competence degrades competence. Every time.
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE (CONT’D): Teacher at elite $33K private school groomed, sexually assaulted boy on class trip: cops>,A?
YOUR BASE IS WHO YOU PANDER TO:
El-Sayed refuses to publicly support the assassination of Ayatollah Khamenei, because, as he admitted on leaked audio, he doesn't want to alienate radicalized pro-Khamenei/pro-Hezbollah voters in Dearborn.
Great questioning from @AudreyFahlberg , one of the few reporters to… https://t.co/ea8TUxlrlV
— Alana Goodman (@alanagoodman) October 8, 2026
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE:
100% convinced that Cornell is little more than a Democrat psyop weeks before a midterm election that’s shaping up to be brutal for them. https://t.co/DbthQLKhWG
— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) October 8, 2026
(Also, eschew all modalities of cocksuredness.)
THIS COULD PROVE TO BE AN OVERLY GENEROUS ASSESSMENT: Talafreako Is ‘Sick,’ Becerra Is Hiding, and Dems Know Their Candidates Are Too Dumb to Campaign.
FROM MARY CATELLI: Writing and Reflections Volume 3: Essays on the Writing Process from World-Building to Words.
Reflections on the many and far-flung fields that writing can touch upon, from original inspiration to the final work.
Magic and science. Talking birds and cats. Ideas and their origins. Magic, in schools, on the battlefield, and whether it is evil. Fairy tales. Exposition. Utopias. Wandering heroes in series. Wicked stepmothers and their motives. And more.
ROLL LEFT AND DIE: ‘The Social Reckoning’ – Sorkin’s Anti-Trump Sequel Stumbles.
WE CAN HOPE: Long interview with Jeff Bezos reveals he is become a born-again capitalist.
But I wish he hadn’t let Amazon go so completely.
NO SIREE, THIS AIN’T NO TIME TO GET WOBBLY: Not The Time To Give Up.
THE BIGGEST SIGN WE HAVE THAT THE DEMOCRATS AREN’T SURE OF WOMEN IS THE IMPORTANCE GIVEN THE CLANCY CASE AND THE CORNELL CASE: About That Night in Cornell.
Third, the timing of the claim is suspicious. I know her suit was technically filed in September, but coming as it does shortly before an election it qualifies as an “October Surprise.”
When I make this observation, I get criticized because the politicians who have shown the most interest in the case are Democrats running for office in deep-blue New York, and they are hardly in danger of losing their respective elections.
I think the critics miss the point. The timing and sensational nature of the claims about this case made by leftist pols force every other politician to take a public position on the case. No politician, even one cruising to re-election, wants to be seen equivocating on an issue like rape.
Now, it seems to have been mostly dropped, so it didn’t work. I’m almost in fear of what they come up with next to make women fall in line at the polls. Any bets? I hope it doesn’t involve a pregnant woman getting shot (by the police of maybe ICE) as is the old trick of communists everywhere.
MEANWHILE WE’RE CONFUSED AND ANGRY ABOUT EFFORTS TO SAVE THE LIFE OF A MURDERER: Pike Is “Confused And Angry” After Botched Execution.
PUTTING A PRICE ON HUMAN LIVES HAS WORKED SO WELL EVERYWHERE ELSE. JUST LOOK AT CANADA: Jessica Valenti: Democrats Need to Make Abortion About “Affordability” .
BECAUSE IN MANY WAYS IT BROKE THE WORLD: Three years after the pogrom.
THE KITTEN FITS ON TWITTER, OVER THIS, ARE NEXT LEVEL: Trump Admin Suspends Microsoft, Others From PERM Program Over Alleged Visa Abuse.
GUYS, VOTE AGAINST THE LEFT: AOC Memo Reveals What Democrats Plan for Unborn Babies in Their First 100 Hours.
A CHOICE WE SHOULDN’T MAKE IF WE HOPE TO SURVIVE: Post-Truth Is a Choice. The death of truth isn’t inevitable. It is the consequence of people deciding that what they want to believe matters more than what actually happened.
October 8, 2026
SETTING AN EXAMPLE: Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will Be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says.
Related:
Must see TV.
But yeah, there’ll be hating.
More public executions please. More executions. Murderers, rapists, terrorists and traitors.
(We have quite a few of the latter as yet uncharged. Not a good idea. Charges, executions, get people’s attention.)
Gibbeting. Old American… https://t.co/QWGcuVnsLR
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) October 9, 2026
UPDATE: I would not lose sleep over impalement, drawing and quartering, or burning alive.
This monster shot many people. Among them, a pregnant woman who cried out “My baby, my baby!” before she died. In case any of you are feeling sorry for this miserable fuck being executed in 1080p. https://t.co/DCS4lQXe9r
— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) October 8, 2026
The real injustice is that it took so many years.
OPEN THREAD: You know what to do.
