“When a police officer in the United States yells ‘Cover me!’ to colleagues, that means to be prepared to shoot – if necessary. A member of the U.S. military, however, could interpret those same words as a call to unleash lethal firepower. This distinction is just one among many complexities of engaging combat-ready troops to ‘fight’ crime or civilian unrest domestically. Fundamental differences in the roles and culture of policing and warfare can create logistical and legal troubles. ‘Police officers are taught to use time, distance and de-escalation,’ a former Los Angeles Police Department chief wrote in The New York Times in June, when 4,000 National Guard troops were deployed to Los Angeles to protect immigration officers from protesters. ‘Military training, equipment and tactics are optimized for warfare – not for safeguarding civil liberties or managing peaceful protest,’ he observed.” (10/01/25)
“Randi Weingarten has taken to wearing a paper clip on her lapel as a bizarre symbol of her crusade against ‘fascism,’ aka Donald Trump. The president of the American Federation of Teachers is on tour to peddle her new book, ‘Why Fascists Fear Teachers’ (yet another example of prioritizing poisonous politics over education from this Marxist fossil). Not to mention fattening her own wallet. The paper clip, she likes to explain to anyone who will listen (mostly on MSNBC) symbolizes a Norwegian protest against Adolf Hitler in World War II. ‘Teachers in Norway when there was Nazi occupation, they started wearing paper clips … to bind people together as community,’ Weingarten told MSNBC. Pretty subtle analogy there — less than three weeks after Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a young leftist of the sort radicalized in Weingarten’s classrooms who engraved anti-fascist messages on his bullets.” (10/01/25)
Ours would be the normal story of imperial powers rising and falling on Planet Earth — nothing new there, of course — if it weren’t for one thing: the fact that this world, too, is now falling. Unfortunately, nothing is truly normal about this planet of ours anymore, as the slow-motion equivalent of atomic weaponry goes off in our already distinctly overheating atmosphere. And though he’s seldom thought of that way, President Trump, the — who would once have believed it? — second time around, should be considered an all-too-literal embodiment of some mad human urge to turn this planet into a (once almost unimaginable) disaster zone. He would, in fact, be truly unbelievable, if what’s happening to this planet at this very moment weren’t even more so. We’re distinctly in a twenty-first century from hell and yet ‘our’ president continues to act as if this were still the twentieth (if not the nineteenth) century.” (10/02/25)
“New York state’s Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac offices will permanently close in direct response to Attorney General Letitia James'[s] ‘corrupt and dangerous business practices’ in the state, Fox News Digital learned Thursday. ‘We are shutting down the two New York offices for Fannie and Freddie as a result of Letitia James'[s] corrupt and dangerous business practices in the state,’ a source close to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), which oversees government-sponsored enterprises, told Fox News Digital. A public announcement on the closures is set for later Thursday, Fox News Digital learned. ‘We’ll still employ New York residents, and we’ll still continue to do mortgage loans in New York, of course,’ the source continued. ‘But we are going to eliminate our physical presence.'” (10/02/25)
“Let’s get one thing straight: Vice President Kamala Harris didn’t singularly lose because of President Joe Biden. She didn’t lose because of so-called racism. She didn’t lose because of ‘misinformation,’ or because Mercury was in retrograde. Harris lost because millions of Black Americans like me abandoned both her and her party. And that’s the one truth she can’t stomach to say out loud. Her new memoir, 107 Days, is being sold as an inside look at the shortest presidential campaign in modern American history. But let’s call it what it is: a 320-page therapy session. A master class in finger-pointing.” (10/02/25)
“U.S. President Donald Trump said he will meet with his budget director Russell Vought on Thursday to determine which ‘Democrat Agencies’ to cut, as he looks to inflict pain on his political opposition in the second day of a government shutdown. ‘I can’t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity,’ he said in a social media post. Trump has already frozen federal transit and green-energy funding, opens new tab for Democratic-leaning states and has threatened to fire more federal workers during the shutdown, which began on Wednesday due to a partisan standoff in Congress. He is already on track to push out 300,000 federal workers by the end of the year. In his post, Trump mentioned Vought’s involvement with Project 2025, a plan by the conservative Heritage Foundation that calls for radically downsizing the federal government.” (10/02/25)
“California authorities have recently raided dozens of stores and distributors of kratom and related products, embargoing and seizing over $5 million worth of items in what appears to be a new crackdown on the widely used drug. The enforcement actions come as kratom and the related drug 7-hydroxymitragynine, commonly called 7-OH, undergo increased scrutiny across the country. Kratom is an herbal drug that has opioid-like properties and has been used for decades in the United States. The much more potent 7-OH drugs, which can be extracted from kratom or synthetically produced, have a high risk of addiction and can cause fatal overdoses, experts warn. Scientists estimate that 7-OH can be more than 10 times stronger than morphine. 7-OH has exploded in popularity in the past few years, and it is now widely available at gas stations and smoke shops in California, which means it can be easily accessible to minors.” (10/02/25)
“Texas Christian University (TCU) on Wednesday disputed claims it canceled a Turning Point USA event featuring de-transitioner Chloe Cole. TCU sent Fox News Digital a statement following reports and backlash that the university canceled the event, which prompted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Rep. Chip Roy [R-TX] to speak out. ‘On September 18, TCU successfully hosted a TPUSA event to honor the life of Charlie Kirk, who had previously spoken on TCU’s campus to students and the community. Separate from this event, an outside party, not affiliated with TCU, invited an external speaker to appear on our campus on Oct. 7,’ a spokesperson said. The spokesperson continued, ‘The student chapter of TPUSA then requested that TCU host the Oct. 7 event for 700 to 1,000 people. The requested space was already booked with another student event.” (10/02/25)
“At Quantico this week, US President Donald Trump addressed the nation’s top military leaders and delivered a statement that might have sounded like a joke: ‘If you do not like what I am saying, you can leave the room, of course there goes your rank and your future.’ Generals and admirals, mostly white men with a handful of women and people of color, laughed — some nervously. Yet beneath the levity lies a profound departure from established norms. Loyalty to the Constitution was implicitly optional; loyalty to him was emphasized as paramount. Obey, or be discarded. This was not overtly menacing, but the danger lay in the implications — a subtle drift toward personal allegiance rather than institutional fidelity.” (10/02/25)
“When Texas first proposed redrawing its congressional map earlier this summer, critics decried it as a political power-grab to appease the president, while state leaders claimed it was necessary after the Department of Justice raised concerns about some majority non-white districts. But now that the map is in federal court, the two sides have swapped stances. The state now claims they acted for purely partisan gain, which the U.S. Supreme Court has said is lawful, while a group of individuals and advocacy organizations argue the Department of Justice’s involvement reveals unconstitutional racial motivation. These plaintiff groups, who are also suing over the 2021 maps, have asked a district court in El Paso to block the maps from being used in the 2026 election. The nine-day hearing kicked off Wednesday, with state Rep. Joe Moody, a Democrat from El Paso, testifying that his Republican colleagues absolutely had partisan goals.” (10/02/25)
