VINTAGE HAND GRENADES: Family finds World War II grenade in grandfather’s basement.
October 28, 2026
THE FOUNDERS BET ON REASON, NOT ALGORITHMS, TO HELP AMERICANS FIND THE TRUTH. In the latest Blessings of Liberty, Jeffrey Rosen explores the competing visions of Jefferson and Hamilton and why social media and AI are putting the Founders’ faith in open debate to the test.
WASHINGTON WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE MUCH MORE THAN A PART-TIME SWAMP DWELLING:
One of the most important priorities of the past two years should have been to break Washington DC’s monopoly over the adjudication of virtually anything that can be connected to the capital, however remotely.
The system is totally dysfunctional and fundamentally unfair,… https://t.co/hAkwW2lV6D
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) October 28, 2026
“The system is totally dysfunctional and fundamentally unfair, whereby anyone who is not a Democrat has no chance of receiving a fair hearing, let alone justice, while Democrats themselves are completely shielded from accountability.”
GOODER AND HARDER, MINNESOTA?
The rule of thumb is not to make too much of any single election poll.
But this one, by @NYTimes/@SienaResearch, is certainly exceptional#outlier https://t.co/PZ5EGdFSPu— W. Joseph Campbell (@wjosephcampbell) October 28, 2026
Though Real Clear Politics’ polling aggregate shows a much tighter race: 2026 Minnesota Senate – Tafoya vs. Flanagan.
KDJ: Big Trouble in Little China: Bad News for the Bolshies Just Before Election Day. “Next week’s elections are seen by many as determining the direction the nation will take: capitalism or communism. These last-minute defeats for the Democrats might make a difference for people who still haven’t decided which way to vote, which seems insane to me because one side promotes liberty and the other pushes misery, followed by starvation and a Holodomor-like death.”
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NETANYAHU DEFIES EXIT POLLS TO TAKE LEAD IN ISRAELI ELECTION — WHAT IT MEANS FOR IRAN WAR:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in the lead following a pivotal election Tuesday — making a third act for the Iran war almost certain.
The prime minister’s coalition was in the lead Wednesday with 53 seats after Gadi Eisenkot’s Change bloc failed to deliver a knockout blow following the highest election turnout in decades.
Eisenkot had 49 seats with more than 90% of the vote counted. Both sides were notably well short of the 61 seats needed for a majority.
However, Netanyahu’s apparent comeback — after exit polls Tuesday showed him behind the opposition — will give him room to launch a new campaign against Iran with American forces following the US midterm elections, observers say.
“The Iranian regime did not expect that Netanyahu would be the biggest party. They are afraid of him because he talks against Iran about attacking Iran again,” Beni Sabti, an Iran expert at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Israel, told the Post.
Netanyahu has long pushed to topple mullahs in the Islamic Republic. Eisenkot agrees that Iran must never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon, but has said regime change is unrealistic.
That’s unfortunate: Iran’s Leaders Are Openly Threatening a Nuclear Strike. We Must Finish the Job.
UPDATE: Trump backs Netanyahu as Israel readies for new Iran strikes.
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Wannabe tyrants fall to the ‘Streisand effect’ — because censors deserve our mockery.
21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Bank of America kindly asks that you don’t share your banking password with your AI assistant.
In an email blast to customers titled “Protecting your finances in the Al World,” Bank of America urged customers to never share their username and password with another person or an outside service, “including an Al-enabled tool or agent that offers to act on your behalf.”
You can practically sense the frustration in the person sending the email. Still, customers are increasingly handing over their log-ins as personal AI assistants grow more popular. Sharing your banking username and password with an AI assistant runs the risk that it could do something with your finances without your knowledge, or that your bank thinks someone’s raiding your account and locks you out of it. Worse, a security flaw in the AI assistant could result in it leaking your banking credentials elsewhere, giving financially motivated hackers a way into your bank account.
People give their banking passwords to bots?
WE NEED A NEW COROLLARY TO CONQUEST’S SECOND LAW:
BREAKING: Switzerland suspends funding to Doctors Without Borders after it failed to report that its staff exploited refugee women and girls for sex—in exchange for aid, jobs and money. Previously, 🇨🇭 called MSF “a source of best practice and inspiration.” https://t.co/p8NopVkGuG
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 27, 2026
“Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes sex-trafficking racket.”
BUCKLE UP:
Here is the Democrat plan to steal the election & the country – Sen Markey lays it out gleefully. When he speaks like this, it means this plan is already in motion. They have prepped the battlespace for a massive show of people on the streets to support their false narrative that… https://t.co/cIoNwmdRHx
— Lara Logan (@laralogan) October 28, 2026
“So there you have it – this is how they plan to screw the President & the people of this country. And all those eating their own side alive every day are playing right into their hands.”
A field organizer for Democratic Socialist of America-aligned (DSA) candidate William Lawrence in Michigan—despite saying that it was “bad” that Charlie Kirk was assassinated—justified the shooting, claiming that Kirk “incited a lot of violence, and sometimes you get what you f*cking get.” Lawrence is running in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District and has billed himself as an average progressive.
In video obtained by The Post Millennial, Adrian Slear, a field organizer for Lawrence, told an undercover journalist that Charlie Kirk’s murder was essentially justified. “Someone gets shot with a gun: violence bad,” the man with a “Decolonize Palestine” shirt said.
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“So it’s like, my parents, like when I talk to them about it, it’s like, ‘Well violence is not good. We shouldn’t be allowing it.’ I’m like yes, but the violence happens. It happens. Sorry it happens. This is a world full of f*cking violence and Charlie Kirk incited a lot of violence and he encouraged a lot of violence. And sometimes you get what you f*cking get.”
When they tell you they approve of assassinating their political opponents, believe them.
AT SOME POINT, THE EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM…:
10k Starship launches/year is just from Starbase Louisiana https://t.co/1fWbmUR7zG
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2026
…is just a constant rumble.
FIGHT THE POWER: How to Fight Back in the Surveillance Pricing Wars With This 1 Weird Trick. “The bot army my wife raised to automate work and household chores went public two weeks ago, but now she’s unleashed it on a new and most sinister target: surveillance pricing at her favorite online retailers.”
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REQUIRED READING:
"It is impossible to overstate how wrong BLM and reform activists were on this count."
I have been a successful propagandist, and I have thoughts about this. Believing your own propaganda too much is risky even when it's true, and extremely dangerous when it's false.
This is a… https://t.co/jQko8ja21B
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) October 28, 2026
Key takeaway:
This is a chronic problem with left-wing propaganda. In an ideal world, or at least an ideal world from the point of view of a left-wing organizer, propaganda would usefully deceive and demoralize everyone outside the movement while the movement itself remains in contact with reality.
But it doesn’t work that way. Really skillful propaganda has the emotional hooks to deceive everybody, including your own people. This divorces them from reality and sets them up for rude shocks when the divorce is no longer deniable.
The result seems to manifest itself as increasingly violent temper tantrums at best, and outright authoritarianism at worst.
Or, “At worse… so far,” as Homer Simpson might say.
DON’T DO IT. DON’T GET COCKY: If This Poll Is True, Democrats Are Going to Have a VERY Disappointing Midterms.
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Colorado Ballot Puts ‘Tax The Rich’ And ‘Trans The Kids’ To The Test. “The midterms will show whether Colorado’s leftward shift continues by default, or whether enough residents have decided it’s gone far enough.”
Amendment 87 would eliminate the state’s flat tax and gut another provision of the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights. Propositions 134 and 135 would make boys compete on boys teams and prohibit sex “change” surgeries on minors, respectively.
DISPATCHES FROM ORWELL’S EURASIA:
The Kremlin has ordered Apple and Microsoft to store and hand over Russian users’ data to security services
Roskomnadzor, Russia’s state censorship and communications watchdog, added Apple and Microsoft to the registry of information dissemination organizers.
Under the law,… pic.twitter.com/5YujoBFpmY
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 28, 2026
“Under the law, they must store data on users’ actions and communications inside Russia for three years and provide it, including the content of messages, to Russian special services on request.”
