BEYOND CENSURE: I Saw Slotkin Threaten GOP Staff. She Deserves An Ethics Probe.

While free speech is absolutely an American bedrock, our society and law have long recognized that threats of harassment and other potentially illegal behavior do not constitute free speech. Here is what I would like to see instead of censure that would protect these basic free speech norms forbidding government intimidation of law-abiding citizens.

First, the Senate Select Committee on Ethics should open a preliminary inquiry based on the complaints of myself, the Center to Advance Security in America (CASA) formal filing, and anyone else who has come forward about this threat.

Second, Sen. Slotkin should publicly answer these three questions: Was the purpose of the “deterrence message” to discourage young people from taking lawful jobs in the executive branch? Does she believe a senator may use investigations, or the threat of them, for that purpose? Would she say the same if a Republican senator said it about staffers in a Democratic administration?

Third, the committee should reach a clear determination based on the facts presented. If the committee concludes Sen. Slotkin did not breach the Ethics Manual, it should say so and explain why. Make the line explicit for senators and citizens alike.

Sounds great. Won’t happen.

IT’S BEEN A PROBLEM FOR MOST OF MY LIFE: Jarrett Stepman: Democrats Put Patriotism Last. That’s a Problem for America.

CONSERVING CONSERVATISM MOST CONSERVATIVELY…:

"SpaceX isn’t a tech company. It’s an aerospace and communications company. It is vital to America’s national security and it must be brought to heel and aligned with America’s interests."https://t.co/0CyFiky1bH

— The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline) November 3, 2026

…by nationalizing the assets of those who have fallen out of political favor.

VERY OUTGOING: ‘Outgoing and Friendly’ California Engineer Wanted to Kill Infidels and ‘Die in the Cause of Allah.’ “On LinkedIn, Ammaad Akhtar describes himself as a ‘mechanical Engineering graduate. Outgoing and friendly with a strong motivation for success.’ And he was no doubt all of those things, but there was another side to Ammaad Akhtar as well. The Department of Justice revealed that Akhtar pleaded guilty on Friday to ‘attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.'”

DIRTY MONEY FOR A DIRTY CANDIDATE: Abdul El-Sayed’s Bagmen: Inside the Shadowy Network of Anti-Israel Donors, PACs, and Super PACs Funding His ‘Grassroots’ Campaign.

FINALLY:  My new book—WHY WE WALK ON EGGSHELLS:  How Our Civil Rights Laws Stifle Our Civic Discourse–is being officially released TODAY!

Here’s the way the book is described in on the Amazon web site:

What happens when left-of-center ideas on matters of race or sex can’t be challenged in polite company? Free from criticism, they slowly grow increasingly extreme, eventually losing touch with reality. This is how we find ourselves in the Woke Era. In Why We Walk on Eggshells, Gail Heriot sketches out the practical incentives created by our civil rights law and policies that caused the woke ideology to develop and flourish. One of the most important of those incentives was the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which for the first time made employment-discrimination lawsuits–including those based on harassment–lucrative for plaintiffs. Employers understandably panicked and started requiring what came to be called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training to ensure that employees would never say anything, no matter how trivial or even how true, that might be considered offensive. Employees were urged to walk on eggshells. Even statements like “I believe the most qualified person should get the job” were often forbidden. Slowly workplace culture (and eventually American culture in general) evolved to resemble the culture that had taken hold on college campuses more than a decade earlier as a result of another of the many wrong turns in civil rights law–the Supreme Court’s fateful decision in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke(1978).Why We Walk on Eggshells is a masterful treatment of the legislation and judicial decisions that helped give birth to the Woke Era. It is for anyone who wants to grapple with how we arrived at our present woke crisis and discover a way out of it.

I hope you find it worthy of a read.

JOEL KOTKIN: The Restoration of the Democratic elites: After Trump, America’s establishment is ready and waiting to take its revenge.

SETH MANDEL: Democrats’ Day of Rage.

The background to this is the intra-Democratic Party explosion over Haley Stevens endorsing a Republican.

Until Sunday, Democrats had managed to avoid projecting the same convulsive anger that has come to define the campaign of Abdul El-Sayed, the grouchy left-wing bureaucrat running for Senate in Michigan against the former GOP congressman Mike Rogers.

El-Sayed’s hair-trigger temper has dogged him all campaign but especially since his ties to extremists have come to light and even landed in the New York Times, albeit couched in terms that obscure their significance. Those revelations filled in the picture that was outlined earlier in the campaign when El-Sayed made excuses for a terrorist who attempted to murder dozens of Jewish children in Michigan—“hurt people hurt people,” he said—and then refused to apologize for his justifications of horrific attempted violence. These days he spends his time snapping at reporters who ask him questions.

All of this made El-Sayed’s defeat of Haley Stevens in the Democratic primary the beginning, not the end, of his troubles.

Still, Democrats backed El-Sayed, a fanatically obsessive anti-Zionist with a temper.

That certainly tells you where the party is now — particularly since El-Sayed’s primary win seems to have been due to dirty tricks on his behalf: Sick trolls fess up to making fake polls that helped Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan: ‘Far too easy.’

TRYING TO ROW BACK THE CRAZY: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Begins Her Sista Souljah Tour.

APPARENTLY THIS AUTHOR IS HAVING TROUBLE GETTING REVIEWS:  BOOK REVIEW: The Operators – Monster Makers, by Sean Rowland.

LOL, TOM NICHOLS.

The Democratic party of the United States tried overthrowing the constitutional order after losing the presidential election of 1860.

It was an event commonly known as “The American Civil War”.

I hope this helps, retard. https://t.co/rq4wAa9qAD

— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) November 2, 2026

DECLINE IS A CHOICE: As America Heads to the Polls to Decide Whether to Be Europe, the Continent Is Falling Apart. “That’s not metaphorical; the European Union’s project is hanging by a thread as riots break out across the continent, and there is a quasi-coup unfolding in Poland as I write this.”

“CONSPIRACY THEORY” NOW JUST MEANS “SLIGHTLY AHEAD OF THE NEWS CYCLE”:

🧵Thread🧵

Of all the dumb things the media does, one of the worst is claiming that something the Left finds hard to believe is a “conspiracy theory.”

Eventually such suggestions fall apart, as has been the case with the idea that it was a racist conspiracy to say Ilhan Omar…

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) November 2, 2026

Good thread. Check it out.

TAKING STOCK OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S VICTORIES:

The Trump administration has delivered on a long list of conservative priorities, many of which seemed like pipe dreams for lonely academic discussion for decades.

These are not small policy tweaks, they are major structural changes: shrinking and controlling the administrative…

— Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ (@InezFeltscher) November 2, 2026

Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan, who endorsed Obama in October of 2008 and praised Kamala Harris in the summer of 2020, is “unexpectedly” displeased by the developments of the last two years:

Peggy Noonan wants Republicans to lose big so the GOP will have to rebuild. But not so the old GOP establishment can return. "It will never return. The GOP establishment of 1990-2016 ran things into the ground, is discredited and over. Also, they're 80." https://t.co/wJ6xaViwIS pic.twitter.com/GJk2aI4Js4

— Byron York (@ByronYork) November 3, 2026

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Haley Stevens showed that Democrats are the biggest threat to democracy and women.

INDEED: Your Perfect Candidate May Not Be on the Ballot, but America’s Future Is.

IT’S A SELF-INFLICTED INJURY, AND FULLY EARNED: “As a lifelong economist, I am distraught at what is happening to my profession. What I observe is economists losing status.”

WHAT HE SAID:  Go Vote — When you vote today, don’t forget: He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat.

VOTE SO YOUR KIDS (AND YOURSELF) CAN HAVE DOGS:  So Now Puppies in the Classroom are Islamophobic, Too?

FIRST WE WIN A COUPLE MORE ELECTIONS AND CLEAN UP THE COURTS:  When Will the Violent Left Be Held Accountable?

IT’S VERY INTERESTING THAT COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD ARE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO HAVE THREE DAYS OF FOOD AND ESSENTIALS ON HAND:  Yes, I’ve Noticed…

Look on your way back from voting, swing by the grocery store, grab your essentials. I don’t think things will go spicy that fast. (Note I’m not say “I don’t think things will go spicy.) But you never know, and better safe than sorry. There’s f*ckery abroad (literally) and it’s being financed by someone. And the someone, self-obviously does not wish us well.

AN UNWILLINGNESS TO HAVE GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS FOR EVERY PROBLEM IS NOT LAZINESS:  Try These, Numbnuts.

It’s respect for freedom and the individual. And yes, if you don’t see that, you deserve to be called Numbnuts. Well, you deserve to be called worse, but Kim is a gentleman, malgre hanging out with the likes of me.

THAT’S BEEN DEMOCRATS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY:  Collins Blasts Schumer, Democrats Over ‘Completely False’ Campaign Ads.

Including the endless prattle about affordability from the same people who called us “treatlers” because we wanted to be able to afford eggs, just three years ago. Don’t be fooled. Vote against the lying bastards. And vote even RINOS like Collins in. Who has the majority matters. The RINOS we’ll deal with by the by, on our own. Recruit, primary, educate. But tomorrow, just VOTE.

THIS IS AN ENGINEERING PROBLEM. THE CONTROLS SHOULD NEVER BE NET LINKED:  Pentagon Probes Suspected Freezer Hacks as Europe’s Refrigeration Crisis Spreads.

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.