DO NOT GO QUIETLY INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT. IT AIN’T GOOD. AND IT’S AWFUL DARK:  The quisling DNC is real; The violent Islamo-left is real: The most brutal psychopathic illegals — rapists, human traffickers, fentanyl bosslings — will be hired as guards at the re-education camps the lefties have planned for you and me.

ENEMIES OF AMERICA AND ENEMIES OF CIVILIZATION:  Here’s the primer: USAID, the foreign aid agency, had a democracy office. Inside the agency, it was called DRG. Officially, DRG administered “democracy assistance.” They’d go inside countries they thought were sliding into authoritarianism and help the opposition there. That assistance included election monitoring, judicary support, independent media, and civil society building. You may have heard the term “color revolution.” The model comes from Serbia in 2000, where trained student activists brought down Milosevic with the help of Western governments, after sustained protests. With the help of USAID’s democracy office, this model was implemented in many other countries to topple governments: Georgia’s “Rose Revolution” in 2003, Ukraine’s “Orange Revolution” in 2004, and many more. Then last year, DOGE shut down USAID. But the USAID democracy office didn’t stop. They formed a group called the Democracy Renewal Group, the same initials as their office (USAID Democracy, Human Rights, Governance). Their goal: apply their own playbook to the United States itself.

WE’RE VERY CLOSE TO HAVING TIME FOR THE STARS, VOTE TO BUY US A LITTLE MORE TIME:  Time For The Stars.

VOTE AGAINST THE BARBARIANS WHO WANT TO TAKE OUR NATION DOWN:  When they tell you who they really are, listen.

INVESTIGATE ALL HIS OTHER STAFFERS:  Mariam Odeh, a former staffer on Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign, is currently facing federal charges alongside 11 other anti-Israel activists accused of vandalizing the homes of members of Michigan’s Jewish and pro-Israel community and plotting to poison and murder them and their families. Jars containing noxious chemicals were thrown into family homes. Windows were smashed. Homes were marked with the Hamas red inverted triangle, designating them as targets for death.

DESPITE MANY DESPICABLY CONFUSED BISHOPS, CATHOLICS ARE NOT ALL STUPID ON IMMIGRATION:  Meet the Rising Young Catholic Group Pressing for Tougher Immigration Enforcement. Young Catholics for Ordered Migration wants the bishops to hear another view on immigration, one rooted in the Church’s tradition. As its response to the USCCB put it, “We ask only that the second half of Catechism 2241 be preached with the same clarity as the first.”

MOSTLY, A LOT OF RIOTS ARE BEING BOUGHT. NO THAT’S NOT WHAT THE ARTICLE SAYS. IT IS WHAT IT IS:  Catching up with what’s happening in a declining Europe.

Yes, their supposed leaders abet this. You want to keep it out of here, get out and vote. Vote against the socialists and their islamist allies. And gain us a little time to get more people in politics that you actually want to vote FOR.

THE WEATHER CHANGES. HUMANS DESTROYING TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY BASED ON ENERGY MAKES NO DIFFERENCE:  Here Comes ‘Super El Niño’, Along with Another Season of Apocalyptic Weather Headlines.

From a friend’s report about New Mexico recently, I’m getting a feeling I should re-read John Ringo’s Last Centurion. Again.

PROGRESS: Drug Prices Are Finally Falling: The Trump administration’s policies are helping bring down prescription drug costs and expand access to popular medications like GLP-1s.

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

OPEN THREAD: Yeah, the night’s not over. You’re not trying hard enough.

THE GROUND ZERO OF POLLING DISASTERS:

#OTD in 1948, the most dramatic U.S. #pollfail, ever, in a presidential race: the Dewey "defeats" Truman election, 78 years on@chicagotribune pic.twitter.com/RiCKpOmNsc

— W. Joseph Campbell (@wjosephcampbell) November 2, 2026

Of course, Truman couldn’t have done it without dropping his share of F-bombs, a reminder of another element of American politics that never changes:

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Planetary defense: How military and civil satellites are watching fireballs to help keep Earth safe from space rocks.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Your Vote for the Republicans Is a Vote Against Tyranny.

You need to go vote for every Republican on your ballot. The election Tuesday isn’t going to be the breaking point for this little experiment we call the “United States of America,” but if the Democrats substantially improve their position, it could haul us a long way down the dark road they seem intent on following to its dead end. And it is a dead end, not only for the country but perhaps for a lot of people, as early as 2029. That may sound alarmist to the Color Revolution Deniers™, but facts are facts. I got grief recently from a glorified blog nobody reads because I was amplifying @DataRepublican’s horrifying research revelations about a potential color revolution here in the United States. Apparently, warning people not to do things that could lead to civil conflict is somehow the same as advocating civil conflict. It’s not.

Read the whole thing.

DEVELOPING: US struck Iran’s Qeshm Island, Wall Street Journal reports.

I DO NOT TRUST THE INTERNET OF THINGS: Shop freezers in seven European countries hit by cyber-attack.

Dozens of supermarkets across seven European countries have been hit by a cyber-attack affecting their refrigerators and freezers.

Around 40 Delhaize supermarkets in Belgium and Luxembourg were affected, while a smaller number of shops were hit in Sweden, Ireland, the Netherlands, Estonia and Finland.

Sabcobel, a Belgian company that manufactures some of the affected refrigerators, said the units’ evaporators were switched to defrost mode, causing them to warm up, in what is believed to be the same method used in last month’s incident that hit hundreds of French supermarkets.

Millions of euros worth of food had to be thrown away in October, local media reported at the time.

Stephan Moelans, the CEO of Sabcobel, which operates Delhaize’s systems, on Monday told the Belga news agency that the incident was a cyber-attack and that the company had been “working all night and morning to disconnect the affected units from the network”.

He said since the French attack in early October, the company had been working to “protect our customers fridges against this vulnerability” but that the units needed physical modifications, not just software updates.

Most supermarkets across Europe are linked to the internet, and maintenance and troubleshooting can be done remotely.

Bad things can be done remotely as well:

Today attackers remotely accessed freezers across 7 European countries and turned up the temperature, destroying loads of food.

There's been losses of millions of euros.

Maybe not a good idea to have freezers connected to the internet.

— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) November 2, 2026

THIS IS WHAT CAMPUS BIAS-REPORTING SYSTEMS ARE FOR, WHETHER UNIVERSITIES ADMIT IT OR NOT: An Oregon State instructor filed a bias report against a student for arguing there are only two sexes. Cases like this are why I changed my mind about these systems and why FIRE now judges them more harshly.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Former MIT scientist wins $6M defamation verdict against colleague who accused him of sexual misconduct.

A former Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) scientist won a legal victory this week after losing his position following sexual misconduct allegations made by a female colleague.

Dr. David Sabatini, a former MIT biology professor and prominent biomedical researcher, was awarded $6 million in damages Friday after a jury found that his former colleague, Dr. Kristin Knouse, had defamed him.

At the time of the allegations, Sabatini had led a research lab at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for approximately 24 years.

His work focused on cell biology and its connections to neurodegenerative diseases, diabetes, aging and cancer.

In 2021, Sabatini lost his position at Whitehead following an internal investigation into allegations made by Dr. Kristin Knouse, a younger colleague who worked at the institute.

The pair met in 2012 and began a sexual relationship in 2018, which ended the following year, according to court documents obtained by Fox News Digital. Knouse later alleged the relationship was coerced.

Read the whole thing. As Richard Fernandez says, “Lysenkoism is alive and well and its new name is Wokism. The immense prestige of the Ivy League, Oxbridge and les grand ecoles attract not only the tall trees, but growing in its shadow, also the malignant creepers of envy, deceit and greed.”

That a Nobel mooted institute director in a hard science field could be framed by a seeming cabal of Woke women causing not only the destruction of a leading cancer expert's life but also of the institute itself for the pettiest of motives at MIT is more horrifying than the…

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) November 2, 2026

THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: The Eerie True Story of The Nightmare Face Haunting The Internet. “Among the hundreds of Loab iterations Supercomposite has summoned into being, many feature dismembered or screaming children in the background. Some AI-generated images were so grotesque that the artist decided not to share them publicly.”

RICH-MOGGING BILL GATES:

Elon is The Master of His Domain 😂🤣 pic.twitter.com/w6THUp0dmY

— TheMastiffMafia (@mafia_mastiff) November 2, 2026

Elon is always amusing.

Also, “I made Microsoft!” isn’t the flex Bill seems to think it is . . .

UPDATE: It’s fake, but it’s funny.

A GALLON WEIGHS ROUGHLY EIGHT POUNDS, SO THAT’S A GOOD PRICE. OR, ALTERNATIVELY, SHE’S DRUNK.

The View’s Ana Navarro: “Ground beef is $6.30 a gallon. Guys, please vote these bums out.” pic.twitter.com/vLMjZNMbTN

— Bad Hombre (@Badhombre) November 2, 2026

NO, IT’S NOT METFORMIN THIS TIME. Scientists Say This Medication Could Be the Next “Wonder Drug.” “Researchers at Michigan Medicine also found that sotagliflozin suppresses excessive platelet activity, a process that can block blood flow to the heart or brain. Published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, the findings suggest a possible explanation for the drug’s ability to reduce heart attack and stroke risk beyond its effects on blood sugar.”

WELL, YES: Expert Accuses El-Sayed of Hiding Muslim Brotherhood Ties Behind a ‘Modern’ Image.

MUST-READ LONG-FORM PIECE FROM DATA REPUBLICAN: The Shadow Cabinet of Soros. “Inside the Soros-Funded Nonprofit That Hand-Picked Biden’s National Security Team, Then Pretended to Dissolve.”

I’m just getting into this one, but can already tell you’ll want to block off enough time to do it justice.

ICYMI: I READ IT, I BLURBED IT, AND I RECOMMEND IT: Kurt Schlichter’s new book American Warlord.

Vic Kinkaid is a middle manager at a trucking company, answering to HR Karens and reading Roman history at night.

Then the world ends, and it turns out he's exactly the man America needs. pic.twitter.com/3SDZ4sgreq

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) October 30, 2026