WHEN THEY SHOW YOU WHO THEY ARE, BELIEVE THEM: NYC First Lady Painted Portrait of Her ‘Inspiration’: A Jew-Hating Artist Who Said ‘Anne Frank’ Is a Hoax, Posted Hitler’s Paintings, and Celebrated Oct 7.

Sliman Mansour, a Palestinian artist, was also pleased when a warlike reinterpretation of one of his paintings was used as a backdrop for an angry press conference by future Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar, where he thanked Iran for funding Hamas.

Mansour died in August after spending decades propping up violent “resistance” movements against the State of Israel. Before that, Duwaji had animated a portrait of the painter and indicated he “inspired the work that I do.”

“Hi, I’m Rama, a Syrian illustrator and animator based in Brooklyn, and today I’m going to be animating a portrait of Sliman Mansour, who is a painter and sculptor that’s inspired the work that I do. Sliman is an artist of the Intifada,” said Houston-born Duwaji, the wife of Zohran Mamdani, in a video first posted online in April 2024.

Not quite three years ago? The press will dismiss this as youthful indiscretion, assuming the press acknowledges it at all.

DOUBLE STANDARDS ARE THE BEST BECAUSE YOU GET TWICE AS MANY:

Europe is lecturing the world about fossil fuels while continuing to buy Russian natural gas.

Now European leaders are criticizing President Trump for seeking lower fuel prices at home.

If buying Russian energy is wrong, shouldn’t the same standard apply to everyone? pic.twitter.com/Do9ibehxGF

— Stephen Moore (@StephenMoore) October 13, 2026

CAN CALIFORNIA AND COLORADO USE LAWSUITS TO MAKE CLIMATE POLICY FOR THE REST OF AMERICA? Apparently, letting Congress make national laws is too old-fashioned, so Jonathan Adler and Donald Kochan join FIRE’s Jeffrey Rosen on The Blessings of Liberty to discuss what the Constitution actually allows.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Lawlessness Is the Dems’ Most Coherent and Consistent Policy Pitch. “In my four-plus decades of political activism, I have never seen a party that is supposed to steamroll an election be in the kind of disarray that the 2026 Democrats are in. Their candidate slate is a motley collection of communists and buffoons. They’re embroiled in a power struggle between the young, loud and proud commies, and the establishment, more subtle commies.”

HOW MANY GOVERNMENT-PUSHED TECHNOLOGIES ARE LIKE THIS? The old light bulbs are coming back. “LED light is altogether different, making light through a narrow electronic process that spikes strong in the blue part of the light spectrum, and emits almost no infrared at all. Even worse, it flickers rapidly, switching on and off hundreds of times per second. The flicker is too fast to register with our conscious eye, but it is not too fast to wreak havoc on our nervous system.”

The government pushed incandescent bulbs out. Now the Department of Energy is backing their return. Why? The science around artificial light, blue-light exposure, and what it may mean for our eyes and health is becoming impossible to ignore..https://t.co/mNUS7m01oV

— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) October 13, 2026

I should say that the quality of the light doesn’t bother me, and I notice flickers — I can literally see the flicker in fluorescent lights even when they’re working properly — and I appreciate how long they last. The InstaWife, however, doesn’t much like any non-incandescent light.

BEEGE WELBORN: And Bye, Bye to Miss Kimberly’s Big Greek Slice of Pie.

This has been a sordid, classless, just ICK on the ICKter scale couple of days for a woman who was once nestled in the bosom of Republican power.

Kimberly Guilfoyle (whose good judgment could have been questioned years ago when she was Mrs. Gavin Newsom, but never was), the flashy former San Francisco prosecutor turned Fox News TV personality, Republican activist, former Donald Trump Jr. fiancée, and, lately, U.S. ambassador to Greece was the subject of an in-depth Wall Street Journal expose five days ago that was so appalling in the breathtaking avarice reported, you could hear the clock start ticking even in an administration known for flashy characters.

And it wasn’t simply the WSJ telling tales. They had the texts showing that, among other outrageous expectations, Ambassador Guilfoyle leaned on an extremely well-heeled Trump donor and former candidate to pay her American Express bill before her confirmation hearing, but hush-hush, you know? All so her financials would look tidy.

Now, there was a quid pro quo – she was nice enough to promise favors of the business-interests sort in return.

Full (and sordid) details at the link.

I’d just add that overall, Trump 47’s personnel choices are head and shoulders above Trump 45. Just a much smoother-sailing ship.

NOT WITHOUT REASON: Islamic Non-Profits Could Be Investigated for Terror Ties, Abuse of Taxpayer-Funded Grants.

JUST THE NYT PLAYING NARRATIVE GAMES:

James Talarico vanishes for 13 days, 3 weeks before Election Day.

His proof he was home sick? Photos the New York Times agreed NOT to show you.

The NYT's message to voters: "Trust me, bro."

If Talarico has nothing to hide, why is the NYT hiding it for him?…

— Siraj Hashmi (@SirajAHashmi) October 13, 2026

DAVID STROM: Does Reality Matter? Not in the ‘Mattress Girl’ Case, and Not in Cornell 7 Case Either. It’s all pre-election agitprop for lefty women. “What is striking about these cases, as with the case that Theo Jordan refers to (the hoax of residential school mass graves), is the willingness of the cultural elite institutions, and especially the media, to ignore the evidence and stick with a Narrative™ despite the complete lack of evidence to support it.” Truth-seeking isn’t their job, and they don’t see it as their job.

ICYMI: Florida Woman Arrested After AI Tattlebot Reported Her, and It Isn’t Funny.

BUT OF COURSE: NY Democratic Socialists Boss Railed Against Landlords. His Rich Parents Rented Out Their Florida Mansion for $18,000 a Month, Bought Him a $1 Million NYC Home.

WHO’S CREDIBILITY STINKS: World Health Organizations says it’s still unsure what caused pneumonia that killed plague-lab worker from Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia.

As a reminder, there was substantial evidence of a novel disease outbreak in Wuhan in early 2020. The escalating epidemic emergency of 2020 became unmistakable when authorities quarantined Wuhan and extended restrictions to eight additional cities, while Beijing canceled major Chinese New Year celebrations to curb transmission.

In the age of social media and satellites, it would be difficult to hide a rapidly expanding outbreak of the airborne version of the bubonic plague.

Furthermore, WHO is still investigating and has officially noted that no case of plague had been registered in Russia.

Stay tuned.

But as little as I think of WHO these days, it is hard to hide a plague.

LIGHTNING DEAL: Cordless Vacuum Cleaner, 60Kpa 650W 70 Mins Stick Vacuum Cleaners for Home with Hurricane Mode. #CommissionEarned

SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT: Socialism And Islam Are Both Religions Based On Pillaging The West.

DISPATCHES FROM AL-BRIṬĀNIYĀ:

Somali jailed for raping FIVE women wins a case against the NHS because his painkillers were dispensed during Ramadan fasting hours with the court ruling that his ECHR rights had been breached.

Five rape victims, and he’s the one winning a human rights case. https://t.co/liG1tP03vp

— Driftwood (@buc97552) October 13, 2026

Madeline Grant adds: “This landed on the same day we learnt a migrant raped a dead homeless woman, before a judge deemed him too low IQ to enter a plea. Tragedies and scandals that would once have attracted days/weeks of national attention are instead memory-holed when the next appalling thing happens.”

THE KIMCHI HAS HIT THE FAN: The South Korean stock market is in free fall, and these are the reasons*.

The Korean stock market is in free fall once again. Fears of cheaper Chinese competition making up ground and criticism leveled at investors in AI stocks by Broadcom’s chief executive combined to wipe more than 5% off its benchmark Kospi index.

After suffering heavy losses on Friday and Monday, the Kospi’s losing streak stretched to five sessions, and the market now languishes more than a third below the all-time high set in June of this year. Korea’s two largest companies by market capitalization, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix bore the brunt of the selloff with falls of 10% and 7%, respectively, and the pair was responsible for roughly half the market’s decline.

Korea’s stock-market fortunes are often taken as a proxy by investors for the AI trade as a whole. Nasdaq-100 futures fell by 0.5% on Tuesday.

*Additional reasons may apply:

This is what happens Larry. This is what happens when you elect a “progressive party” of communist sympathizers to government Larry. https://t.co/yjD4RUjG1K

— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) October 13, 2026

NOVEMBER PREVIEW (PERHAPS): Why the Midterm Polling Is Absolutely, Positively, 100% Wrong. (Maybe.)

FROM CELIA HAYES:  My Dear Cousin: A Novel In Letters (Adelsverein.)

When Peggy Becker married Englishman Tommy Morehouse in San Antonio in the spring of 1938, her cousin and best friend Venetia “Vennie” Stoneman was her bridesmaid. After the wedding, Peg and Tommy traveled across the Pacific to Malaya, where Tommy managed his family’s rubber plantation. There they expected to raise a family and live a comfortable and rewarding life among the British expatriates in the tropics, while Vennie returned to Galveston to continue training as a nurse.
The start of the Second World War changed those comfortable, settled lives: Tommy Morehouse became a prisoner of war, Peg barely escaped the fall of Singapore with her small son, and Vennie Stoneman was a nurse in the US Army Nurse Corps, tending to battlefield casualties in North Africa, Italy, and France. In Australia, Peg waits out the war, wondering if her husband will survive brutal captivity by the Japanese, and Vennie risks her own life as an air evacuation nurse. Throughout all, the two women write to each other, of their lives, loves, of Vennie’s patients and comrades, and Peg’s children and the woes of running a wartime household among rationing and shortages of shoes for her children.

THE USUAL PRE-ELECTION BS:

The funny thing is that this is ALL fake.

The Cornell 7 thing turned out to be scuzzy on all sides, but no kind of prosecutable rape. The other #NewMeToo cases ("62 million man rape academy") ALL fell apart or duly ended with the men in jail. Gillis didn't say women ARE working… https://t.co/DqgdVGg10C

— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) October 13, 2026

AH, YES, BUT THE MEDIA WILL KEEP LYING:  America Is Winning, Whatever the Media Tell You. Iran crushed, Maduro toppled, Panama reclaimed: far from being outsmarted by Xi Jinping, Trump has put America back on top.

THE LEFT DOESN’T WANT TO HEAR ANYTHING THAT DEBUNKS THEIR THEORIES:  Singapore Has a Lesson for America’s Affordability Crisis, and The Left Won’t Want to Hear It.

IT’S GDP THAT IS FLAWED, IT COUNTS GOVERNMENT SPENDING AS IF IT WERE PRODUCTIVE:  ‘I Dig a Hole, GDP Goes Up’: A French Socialist Just Revealed the Left’s Flawed View of Economics.

DEMS ONLY LIKE THE SUPREMACY CLAUSE WHEN THEY ABUSE IT:  Here’s How Many ICE Detainers Sanctuary State New York Has Rejected.

I ALSO DON’T BELIEVE THE NOW YOU SEE HIM NOW YOU DON’T HOMUNCULUS WILL CLOSE THE DEAL:  A Blue Ripple in Texas?

It appears that one James Talarico is the present big blue hope for Democrats who have a passionate interest in turning Texas blue by somehow wedging him into a seat in the US Senate. This in spite of being someone which hardly anyone seems to have heard of, six months ago. He’s young, slick-appearing, superficially polished, makes all the right noises and voices all the correct progressive platitudes … I swear, they must order up these candidates by the dozen, from some central Dem Party clone factory/distribution warehouse full of test tubes. They are all youngish, sleek, shallow, did all the right colleges and socially-responsible early jobs, have an appealing but not too exotic background, get fawning national press coverage, do fundraising events outside of Texas, raise the hopes that this time around they will get somewhere with Texas voters as a whole … and then somehow before the big day, it all goes flat. The air goes out of the bubble. It happened with Wendy Whats-her-name in the pink tennis shoes, to Robert Francis the Fake Hispanic O’Rourke, and it looks as if James Talarico is also about to fizzle out in a similar manner.

But Celia and I could be wrong. So kindly all y’all get off your duffs and vote. We don’t want to lose Texas like we lost Colorado.

OH, THIS AGAIN:  Activist Federal Judges Seek to Hamstring the President.