“President Donald Trump, our dealmaker in chief, has scored big in Asia. And not just with China’s President Xi Jinping. By wielding the strength of America’s economy, Trump is overturning globalism with fresh bilateral trade deals, record-setting direct investment in the U.S., and a path to dominate artificial intelligence (AI). Even before his meeting with Xi, Trump was racing to reset economic security. His bilateral trade deals with Asian nations deals go a long way toward repairing damage done after the West naively let China into the World Trade Organization’s no-tariff zone way back in 2001. Then in Busan, South Korea, Trump got action on soybeans, rare earths, fentanyl restrictions and maybe even increased oil sales to China. Xi had to feel the walls closing in. America has allies and friends. China’s got Russian President Vladimir Putin.” (10/30/25)
“For those who’ve been looking for a new way to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, political nonprofit the Indivisible Project has some advice: Cancel your Spotify account. The nonprofit organization best known for helping to organize recent No Kings protests across the country released a statement Tuesday announcing a campaign called ‘Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify’ in response to the revelations that the music streaming platform has been hosting recruiting ads for ICE on its platform. ‘Spotify is exploiting the work of artists to line their pockets while recruiting for ICE — a secret police force that is terrorizing American communities. Spotify is actively amplifying the Trump regime’s drive to authoritarianism,’ Indivisible wrote in a statement explaining the campaign. SFGATE reported on the ads in mid-October, noting that they promise signing bonuses of up to $50,000 as well as benefits like tuition reimbursement.” (10/30/25)
“A Swedish appeals court’s decision not to deport a convicted rapist because his assault on a 16-year-old girl was not deemed ‘exceptionally grave’ has ignited outrage, fueling a backlash against Sweden’s justice system. The Court of Appeal for northern Norrland confirmed to Fox News Digital that the defendant, an Eritrean national and illegal immigrant, Yezied Mohamed, was sentenced to three years in prison for raping the 16-year-old girl from the northern town of Skellefteå, on Sept. 1, 2024. The court acknowledged that while the crime was serious, it did not meet the threshold for deportation because of its nature and short duration. The ruling prompted swift condemnation from Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, who released a video promising stricter deportation laws.” (10/30/25)
“On a cold October morning, heavy equipment commenced destruction of the 123-year-old East Wing of the White House. In place of rooms where presidents rehearsed the words that would steady the nation and First Ladies wrote to grieving families, we are offered glass and spectacle, a ballroom scaled to diminish the original house, a monument to appetite where once stood service. This is not modernization. This is erasure. The destruction matters because process matters, and process was murdered alongside memory. The 1942 shell that sheltered the nation’s continuity in crisis, the offices where Rosalynn Carter pioneered the modern First Lady’s role, the theater where words found their gravity before facing the nation: all of it stripped away while the National Capital Planning Commission and the Commission of Fine Arts were reduced to bystanders.” [editor’s note: Yet another “progressive” pundit who never reads history – SAT] (10/30/25)
“The Justice Department has stripped references to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack from court papers and punished two federal prosecutors who filed the document seeking prison time at sentencing Thursday for a man arrested with guns and ammunition near former President Barack Obama’s home. The prosecutors from the U.S. attorney’s office in the District of Columbia were locked out of their government devices and told they were being put on leave Wednesday morning shortly after they filed a sentencing memorandum describing the crowd of President Donald Trump supporters who attacked the Capitol as ‘a mob of rioters,’ according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss personnel issues. Later Wednesday, the Justice Department replaced the court filing with an updated version that stripped references to the Jan. 6 riot.” (10/30/25)
“Dear former President Barack Obama: During former Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign, you chastised ‘the brothers’ for what you perceived as their reluctance to vote for a black female. You said: ‘We have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all corners of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running. Now, I also want to say that that seems to be more pronounced with the brothers.’ Did you tell ‘the brothers’ who, for the sake of racial solidarity, you tried to shame into voting for Harris that you only believe in left-wing racial solidarity? You starred in an attack ad for the white opponent of the Republican black man, who would have become the first black governor of California. You didn’t tell ‘the brothers’ to vote for him. In fact, you wanted ‘the brothers’ to vote against him.” (10/30/25)
“Mind the gaps! A passenger’s laptop dropped through the passenger cabin into the cargo bay, forcing a United Airlines flight bound for Rome to return to Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia. ‘We have a minor situation here with a passenger who has somehow dropped a laptop that was on … down the sidewall into the cargo pit area of the airplane,’ one of the pilots told Air Traffic Control (ATC) when they were notified. Data from Flightradar shows that a United Airlines Boeing 767-400ER made an unusual U-turn right off the coast of Boston less than an hour into the eight-hour flight on October 15. The laptop, which was lithium-ion powered, presented a safety concern to the other passengers, since it fell near a sensitive area of the plane.” (10/30/25)
“In the seven years since the U.S. Supreme Court gave a green light for states to legalize sports betting – 39 have done so – dozens of professional and collegiate athletes have been punished for gambling violations. Last week, the National Basketball Association was engulfed in a scandal after the federal indictment of a current NBA player, a retired one, and a current head coach. They allegedly gave inside information to illegal gamblers. How has the NBA responded? In a memo to its 30 teams, it called for several reforms, such as curbing bets on certain aspects of a game. Most of all, it seeks to improve the education of players and other NBA personnel. That could be a big step for American athletics as more sports leagues now grapple with legalized betting – and with the tendency to see fans as valuable gamblers rather than as valued spectators.” (10/29/25)
“A Mississippi deputy sheriff was arrested Thursday morning by the FBI, one of several arrests it made across multiple law enforcement agencies in the state, a local sheriff said. Sunflower County Sheriff James Haywood confirmed the arrest of his deputy, Marvin Flowers, and said without giving details that the FBI has made other arrests among law enforcement. The county is in the northwest part of the state. The FBI office in Jackson, the state capital, said it planned a major announcement later Thursday together with the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of Mississippi. It did not elaborate on the nature of the planned announcement. Multiple Mississippi law enforcement agencies have faced federal scrutiny in recent years. In 2023, six law enforcement officers pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for torturing two Black men.” (10/30/25)
“One of the things you used to hear conservatives say a lot is that they don’t want the government to ‘pick winners and losers’. That sentiment has been muted for the past nine months, because such choices have become the prime directive of the Trump administration. From taking stakes in companies, to dictating what kind of energy can get permitted, to going to bat for Big Tech in international trade deals, Trump has treated the U.S. economy like a personal plaything, and corporate success increasingly depends on proximity to the king. He didn’t raise $350 million for that White House ballroom because corporations think state dinner event spaces are a worthwhile investment. Last week, a rumor emerged revealing another example of Trump stage-managing the business world. Warner Bros. Discovery … has publicly announced that it is for sale.” (10/30/25)
