SOUNDS MORE LIKE LACK OF AIR CONDITIONING KILLED PEOPLE: Unbearable Summer Heat Linked to More than 50,000 European Deaths: Report.
You’re not going to change this by “climate action,” you’ll just enrich politicians and grifters.
October 24, 2026
THE 21st CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: The Lucrative World of Literary Scams.
“Hello Professor Snigdha Poonam,” the email began. I read that again. Nobody has ever called me “professor” for the obvious reason that I am not a professor. Bracing myself, I read on.
The email was from Timothy Firth, organizer of a Seattle-based life-drawing community with 1,943 members that regularly has “thoughtful discussions inspired by creative works.” A recent inspiration was my first book, Dreamers: How Young Indians Are Changing Their World. The group wanted to discuss it, the email said, at one of its upcoming meetups. Attendees would be encouraged to post reviews on Goodreads and Amazon after.
I looked up CAM Life Drawing and found an events page and an Instagram account. The latter had some photos of Timothy Firth — white, male — as well as testimonials from members who said he worked “day and night to create more community space.” Something told me this wasn’t the man who had reached out to me.
Why would a hyperlocal life-drawing community in Seattle be interested in a nonfiction book about the shifting aspirations of young people in India’s small towns? The book was published seven years ago. What did they want from me?
I accepted the invitation. The next email had a slick poster promoting the Zoom event, with the book cover as the backdrop and blurbs from the Economist and other publications. My attention was drawn to something more intriguing: a request for a “contribution fee,” with no amount specified. It would cover promotion, coordination and administration. But, oddly, this email didn’t come from Timothy. Signing off this time was Stephen — “Organizer, Community Improv LA,” another group in another city. According to the improv community’s Facebook group, Stephen is indeed the name of the organizer. However, Stephen had written to me using Timothy’s email address. To add to the chaos, Stephen/Timothy had also left what I suspect was an AI prompt in the email, which included the line: “MAKE IT MORE PROFESSIONAL.”
This was undoubtedly a scam. Genuine book clubs don’t ask for money from authors. But who was behind it?
Read the whole thing.
I DON’T THINK FITNESS IS THE PROBLEM, I THINK ADDICTION IS THE PROBLEM: Fitness became an addiction that left me anxious and sleep deprived.
BIEN ET DUREMENT, PARIS:
Missed this.
Paris police invited shopkeepers to hire their own security for riots. This is a state that has one of the highest taxation levels in the world, but apparently can’t afford to protect business owners from the criminal radicals the state has allowed to run wild. pic.twitter.com/jnsxtKHFv0
— AG (@AGHamilton29) October 24, 2026
Meanwhile, Roger Simon asks: Are the French Riots the Republicans’ October Surprise?
NONE SO BLIND:
This must be a joke.
Literally thousands of leftists have railed on the record about the over-representation of whites, men, and 'model minorities' like Jews in power.
How could anyone straight-facedly say this? https://t.co/N1zj3jV4Fw
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) October 23, 2026
LIMITED TIME DEAL: Hanes Men’s Hoodie. #CommissionEarned
A TALE OF TWO BILLIONAIRES:
His hero is billionaire George Sorros, a guy who bankrupted economies and bankrolled activist judges. Our hero wants flying cars and cheap space travel. So let that sink in https://t.co/arJ0I4frmq
— Adam Carolla (@adamcarolla) October 24, 2026
REQUIRED VIEWING:
Marshawn is perfect.
"Is there a man here with you?"
Sons need fathers. We men speak to each other, and learn, differently. Not bad or good, just is.
More Marshawn. Well done. https://t.co/dE6imiDtav
— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) October 24, 2026
INCENTIVES MATTER:
America spent decades teaching decent men to fear the consequences of defending others while teaching bullies and predators they could get away with damn near anything.
A young punk reportedly slaps a pregnant woman. A bystander steps in and delivers consequences. People cheer.…
— Flopping Aces (@FloppingAces) October 23, 2026
IT’S NOT 1939. IT MIGHT BE 1933: A Final Appeal to Michigan’s Jewish Voters on the Fence About El-Sayed.
UPDATE:
🚨 BREAKING: This Michigan Sheriff just FLED the Democrat Party and is now going full Mike Rogers mode on national TV
This is incredible! He's NO on Abdul.
SHERIFF WILLIAM FEDERSPIEL: "18 years of being sheriff as a Democrat. Been a lifelong Democrat…I'm a Kennedy Democrat… pic.twitter.com/qgwrzdDUv9
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 24, 2026
RESIST:
More footage of Scottish locals disrupting an Antifa meeting where they're plotting Paris style riots.
pic.twitter.com/bCpsEu6Ttq— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) October 23, 2026
Italy, too:
This is Lecco, Italy. North Africans threatened on social media to do here what they did in Milan, destroy everything. The Lecco football ultras showed up to defend the square and the shops. Result: none of the North Africans showed up. Honor to Lecco ultras—true patriots, true… pic.twitter.com/1EQR0OIRnk
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) October 23, 2026
THE EPITOME OF NOT GETTING COCKY: If Democrats Aren’t Panicking About Minnesota Right Now, They Should Be.
GET YOUR VITAMINS: Ensure Max Protein Milk Chocolate Shake. #CommissionEarned
I HAD BEEN ASSURED THIS KIND OF THING WAS NOTHING BUT RIGHT-WING PARANOIA: Treasury traces SPLC to debanking of Christians after group dismissed it as conspiracy.
Federal finance authorities have identified the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate group” labels as the driving force behind the debanking of conservative individuals and organizations, particularly clients that were giving to Christian causes.
The explosive findings directly discredit a recent proclamation from the SPLC declaring, as part of its “Hatewatch” monitoring project, that anti-Christian debanking was a conspiracy theory spread by the “Christian supremacy movement.”
Though only a regulatory audit, fulfilling an executive order from President Donald Trump to ensure that banks were not discriminating against customers on the basis of their political or religious beliefs, the government’s findings add to the SPLC’s latest woes.
Let this serve as your occasional reminder that “conspiracy theory” these days usually means “slightly ahead of the news cycle.”
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: The Coming Insurrection: And What To Do About It.
WE SAW THIS BEFORE IN FEBRUARY, SO WHO KNOWS?
This is close to one my "impending fall of the Mullah Regime" indicators.
A major Russian aerial/ground evacuation from Tehran with lots of people and records, like we saw from Baghdad to Syria immediately before Operation Desert Storm, is at the top of my indicator list. https://t.co/sQW4r50PBk
— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) October 23, 2026
IT’S A TERRORIST GROUP: Georgetown Law student association denounces Ted Cruz staffer over Muslim Brotherhood lecture. “Erielle Azerrad, Cruz’s deputy chief counsel, spoke to students about the Brotherhood’s origins and how the group had expanded its operations in the US. She also noted the Muslim Students Association’s ties to the Brotherhood, though she disputed that such ties meant all Muslim students, or even all MSA members, were connected to the terrorist group.”
Plus, what Mollie said:
Shameful news out of Georgetown Law. https://t.co/jc8jITYKIz
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) October 23, 2026
IT’S AN INVASION:
“The schoolchildren just want nicer classrooms”
“Hide the Mona Lisa from rampaging third world hordes” https://t.co/PaUIMe88JO
— Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) October 23, 2026
AS THEY SAY IN TEXAS, SOMETHIN’ ABOUT THAT BOY JUST AIN’T RIGHT: Gender Fluidity Fuels James Transarico.
CARL CANNON: Why RealClearPolitics Didn’t Fall for the Fake Polls.
The first episode involved an obscure outfit calling itself “Median Strategies,” which claimed that its August poll showed Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass with a double-digit lead over challenger Nithya Raman. There was no such survey. It was a sham carried out by a 21-year-old recent college graduate named Rahil Prakash. He briefly copped to the scam, then disappeared without revealing where he lived, who he really was, and what he hoped to gain.
This week, a much more ambitious con job came to light. “Wedgewood Polling” admitted it was a bogus operation hours before it was about to be exposed. Its proprietors promptly claimed (as did Rahil Prakash) that it was all a social science experiment designed to alert gullible news organizations, news consumers, and polling aggregators to the dangers out there.
“The polling industry needs major reform,” Wedgewood posted on X. “Having previously worked in the polling and research sector, we watched as the public’s trust in polling eroded alongside a rise in unverifiable, low-quality methodology. We wanted to test a simple hypothesis: How easy is it for an entirely fabricated polling firm to gain traction, be taken seriously and expose how little scrutinization exists in media and public commentary?”
The statement continued: “Despite having no history, formal credentials, or real data behind the vast majority of our releases, Wedgewood Polling was added to major polling aggregators, including The New York Times, FiftyPlusOne, and VoteHub, and repeatedly treated as a legitimate data source.”
Well, not everyone treated Wedgewood as legit. RealClearPolitics, the pioneer poll aggregator, never included these bogus polls – either in the RCP Poll Average or in the voluminous number of surveys cited daily on our polling pages.
Read the whole thing.
STANDING UP AGAINST SEGREGATION AND BIGOTRY: Portland-Area County To Eliminate All Race-Based Housing Programs as Part of Agreement With Trump Administration.
