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Israel has dropped a new type of bomb in Gaza. Paleostinians claim it's a 'mini nuke'
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Valentina Gomez says she has been notified by the FBI that Muslims are making threats on her life
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
… Muslims wanna kill me. But the truth is, they wanna kill you and anyone who believes in scriptures other than the Quran”

“Islam has no place in Texas”

Posted by: Fred || 11/05/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1753 views] Top|| File under:


-Obits-
Dick Cheney Dead At 84
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]


Posted by: Fred || 11/05/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1747 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But, Liz has decided to remain behind.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/05/2025 1:46 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Mike Pence: "There's no room in the conservative movement for opposing American support for Israel, and there's absolutely no room in the conservative movement for antisemitism."
[X]
Tucker Qatarlson again, what a surprise. Just missing Marjorie Traitor Green.

Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 11/05/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1826 views] Top|| File under:

#1  While I agree with the words written for him.

I also feel, there is no place for him in the MAGA movement. Given his spineless traitorous deeds to protect himself.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/05/2025 1:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Mike Pence is as relevant as a Zenith television.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/05/2025 5:30 Comments || Top||

#3  The only Republican not investigated by the Democrats
Posted by: Clem+Elmish4239 || 11/05/2025 7:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Stopped clock.
Posted by: Crusader || 11/05/2025 9:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Oh shut up pencil dick. You can criticize Israel without being anti-Semitic.

For instance I am criticizing them for not going far enough in Gaza but am not being anti-Semitic.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/05/2025 10:28 Comments || Top||

#6  Last person any conservative should be listening to.
Posted by: Megabyses || 11/05/2025 12:49 Comments || Top||

#7  #5 For instance I am criticizing them for not going far enough in Gaza but am not being anti-Semitic.

Trump’s ability to counter Netanyahu’s spoiler tactics in public may have been key to advancing a ceasefire in Gaza
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 11/05/2025 12:59 Comments || Top||

#8  This part of a larger fissure campaign?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/05/2025 15:50 Comments || Top||

#9  Can anyone tell me what this man brought to the party ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/05/2025 16:15 Comments || Top||

#10  I agree that Pence is a non-entity but he has name recognition and all visible Republicans need to speak out against Tucker, Fuentes and Heritage leaders. There’s no middle ground on this.
Posted by: Remoteman || 11/05/2025 17:03 Comments || Top||

#11  Well, all except him. He discredits any cause he champions.

And let's face it, if the Party had thought that opposing Zandami was important someone else would have been running besides Mr. Vanity Candidacy and Mr. I-Killed-Grandma-During-Operation-Covid.

Fuentes and Tucker are one group of
Anvils around our necks. Many people can realize that.

The problem is, Cuomo was another. Less people seem to pick up on that.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 11/05/2025 17:18 Comments || Top||

#12  The normies who thought the problems with covid would only be used against Trump should be very very scared that the radicals like Mandami now apparently have permission to use their past sins against them.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 11/05/2025 17:34 Comments || Top||

#13  the bad guys are aligned only by what they hate - America. The good guys must align by what they love - America. the tent must be big and a nose will need to be held on occasion. days ahead will require more than 3%.
Posted by: jefe101 || 11/05/2025 17:39 Comments || Top||

#14  Cold day in hell that I respect or allow Fuentes or Carlson V2.0 in
Posted by: Frank G || 11/05/2025 19:10 Comments || Top||

#15  History called upon Mike Pence to stop a terrible crime. Mike hung up and did nothing.

Go away Mike - we don't need your counsel, and ".....may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
Posted by: Rob06 || 11/05/2025 20:14 Comments || Top||

#16  Agree or disagree, he sounds like an audition.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/05/2025 21:11 Comments || Top||

#17  You can criticize Israel without being anti-Semitic.

Of course, DarthVader. Which is not the same as refusing to support Israel.

the tent must be big and a nose will need to be held on occasion.

Up to the point, jefe101, that does not include race/sex/religion supremacists.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/05/2025 21:13 Comments || Top||

#18  Pence is still alive?
Posted by: Hellfish || 11/05/2025 22:39 Comments || Top||

#19  Pence isn't a race or sex supremacist.

He's a Smug Supremacist.

I don't think we want that either.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 11/05/2025 23:31 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Democrats in Los Angeles have been caught leading a group of Chinese immigrants to vote for Gavin Newsom’s Prop 50
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/05/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1779 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Prop 50 passed so now Newsom has carte blanche to gerrymander the crap out of California. They claim that the gerrymandering is only temporary and we'll revert back to the independent, non-partisan commission that an earlier ballot proposition provided. But I think we all know what will happen when the 2030 expiration date arrives.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/05/2025 11:27 Comments || Top||

#2  I understand that Democrats cheat, especially in places like LA, but I'm afraid a lot of people really are voting that way. Still, it's incredible just how stupid California voters are. All the Democrats have to say is "Stand up to Trump!" and they win. Well, AOC appeared in an ad where she claimed a vote for Prop 50 was a vote to "protect reproductive rights". That's total bullcrap but I know people who will swallow it hook, line and sinker.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/05/2025 11:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Donald Trump should have "whole heatedly" endorsed Prop 50 and encourage people to vote for it.

I mean using "liberal logic" if Trump is for it, then Prop 50 must be bad...
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 11/05/2025 18:25 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Alex Padilla, the first Latino to represent California in the U.S. Senate, will not run for governor in 2026
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]


Posted by: Fred || 11/05/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1746 views] Top|| File under:


Democrat Zohran Mamdani elected mayor of New York City
[GEO.TV] Assemblyman and Democrat Zohran Mamdani has been elected mayor of New York City, marking a historic shift in the city's leadership, according to unofficial results.
Good and hard. Just like you wanted it
Mamdani, supported by a broad progressive coalition, defeated candidates backed by the national party establishment and emerged victorious after a tense campaign.

In New York, Mamdani, who was a little-known lawmaker in the state legislature before his surprising rise, has led by double digits over Cuomo, with Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, 71, a distant third in most opinion polls.

His win signals a generational change and a dramatic pivot toward more left-leaning city governance.

Mamdani has proposed more ambitious left-wing policies, including freezing rents for nearly a million apartments and making the city's buses free.

For Republicans, Tuesday's elections test whether the voters who powered Trump's victory in 2024 will still show up when he is not on the ballot.

Analysts say this result could reverberate across US politics, particularly within the Democratic Party, which faces renewed internal divides.

Mamdani has pledged to immediately tackle issues of affordability, public transit, housing and social justice — promising to be a mayor for working-class New Yorkers. He will take office in January and begin implementing his agenda.
PJ Media adds:
NEW YORK CITY MAYOR GENERAL ELECTION
County Results
Last Updated: Nov 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM
84% est. reporting

Candidates Party Votes Pct.
Zohran Mamdani
DEM 999,313 50.5%


Andrew Cuomo
FaD 823,490 41.7%

Curtis Sliwa
GOP 142,632 7.2%

Eric Adams *
IND 6,020 0.3%

Irene Estrada
OTH 2,540 0.1%

Total 1,977,306


In first, suburb of Boston votes to divest from Israel
[IsraelTimes] A municipal ballot proposal to divest from Israel went before a popular vote in the United States for the first time yesterday — and pulls off a decisive victory.

Question 3 wins more than 55% of the vote in unofficial election results in the Boston suburb of Somerville, Massachusetts.

Local pro-Palestinian activists claim victory, with Somerville for Palestine — the group that gathered the signatures required to put the non-binding resolution on the ballot — posting a celebratory Instagram video alongside the Boston chapter of anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace.

However, as they are celebrating, the mayoral candidate best poised to enact the proposal in Somerville concedes his race to a rival who signaled he was far less likely to do so. Willie Burnley Jr., a democratic socialist who had endorsed Question 3, lost to fellow at-large city council member Jake Wilson, who did not.

Posted by: Fred || 11/05/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1807 views] Top|| File under:

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#4  Good one Bad!
Posted by: Oregon Dave || 11/05/2025 0:44 Comments || Top||

#5  Demographics, they do matter. 'The Villages' just gained renewed popularity.

“A republic, if you can keep it.”

--Benjamin Franklin's response to Elizabeth Willing Powel's question: "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/05/2025 2:58 Comments || Top||

#6  And you were making fun of EUrope!
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 11/05/2025 5:09 Comments || Top||

#7  I sill would have picked the Staypuff Marshmallow Man to destroy NYC. He didn’t even make the ballot.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/05/2025 5:42 Comments || Top||

#8  Mods need to add one of these to the image files. I suspect it will become useful in the near future.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/05/2025 6:31 Comments || Top||

#9  Eric Adams... "Miss me yet?"
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 11/05/2025 6:48 Comments || Top||

#10  #8 Mods need to add one of these to the image files. I suspect it will become useful in the near future.

Done
Posted by: badanov || 11/05/2025 7:19 Comments || Top||

#11  An NYC will be begging for US Taxpayer bailout $$$$ in 2 years like they did back in 1975
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/05/2025 7:41 Comments || Top||

#12  We also have these: Two under Escape, one New York, and finally something special for those waxing sarcastic:








Posted by: trailing wife || 11/05/2025 8:59 Comments || Top||

#13  Executives of the big financial corporations in NYC should be urgently planning to move from NYC; if not, they are not exercising their fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/05/2025 9:59 Comments || Top||

#14  Not as stupid as we feared:

Poll finds a third of NYC Jews voted for Mamdani, while Cuomo dominated Jewish neighborhoods

And from Red State, the process predates Mamdani:

Leaving Wall Street for Y'all Street - Big Finance Is Moving to Texas
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/05/2025 10:14 Comments || Top||


#16  Perfect space to fill with all the bad actors. Any pretense you can "win" it back with a vote is laughable. I am a little curious where all the election riggers fall on this one. Seems like we just accept this/these outcomes as normal, no one crying foul?
Posted by: jefe101 || 11/05/2025 11:01 Comments || Top||

#17  See what happens when illegal immigrants are allowed to vote? I suppose NY was one of the states that refused to report immigrants to DHS.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/05/2025 11:09 Comments || Top||

#18  Seen on X: “New York would never have voted for Mamdani if it was still full of New Yorkers.”
Posted by: Matt || 11/05/2025 11:56 Comments || Top||

#19  nyers/ners are no different than kalis. they created/allowed the problem then took their politics to a red state. ds party structure isint democratic, people are chosen, top down. The best place to rig an outcome is where everyone expects it and this is a big win for bad guys, not ds. We figured unclejoe was picked, we saw his vp get picked, barryo was picked, ergo Mami
Posted by: jefe101 || 11/05/2025 12:36 Comments || Top||

#20  Our political systems is broken!

I blame the teacher unions for this!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 11/05/2025 16:36 Comments || Top||

#21  The Chairman of the Board weighs in.
Posted by: Matt || 11/05/2025 17:33 Comments || Top||

#22  Move this to WOT background...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 11/05/2025 20:25 Comments || Top||


Abigail Spanberger (D) have won 5% of the governor's race in Virginia
[X]

From PJMedia:
VIRGINIA GOVERNOR GENERAL ELECTION
County Results
Last Updated: Nov 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
83% est. reporting

Candidates Party Votes Pct.
Abigail Spanberger
DEM 1,655,306 56.7%


Winsome Earle-Sears
GOP 1,264,260 43.3%

Total 2,919,566

Posted by: Fred || 11/05/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1756 views] Top|| File under:

#1  My wife knew Virginia would have a female governor, but not that Obama had endorsed the white candidate. Or even that the black candidate had been Lt. Governor.

Main Stream Media devotee, my wife.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/05/2025 0:29 Comments || Top||

#2  That’s where we are in Virginia. Winsome Earle-Sears Is a good candidate who doesn’t get along with Trump so she was left e we other the negatives from his policies but none of the positives.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/05/2025 5:38 Comments || Top||

#3  As a resident of Virginia I have experienced a weak VA GOP over the years. VA also has a tendency to go counter to the Whitehouse with Governor elections. With that, yesterdays election was not unexpected but it does not bode well for the future as Purple VA will turn very Blue with pending Gerrymandering.
Posted by: Airandee || 11/05/2025 6:50 Comments || Top||

#4  The potential for institutional destruction is incalculable. Northam was far Left, but he was/is also an imbecile incapable of original thought.

This creature is a sentient being with a profound case of white liberal woman's California envy and a pit viper at that. I'd sooner Reconstruction.
Posted by: Cesare || 11/05/2025 9:31 Comments || Top||

#5  They came for the liberals and others said nothing,
They came for the old machine Democrats and the others said nothing,
They came for the blacks and the others said nothing,

...can't wait for the Stalinist oust the Trotskyites.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/05/2025 9:55 Comments || Top||

#6  Maybe yesterday was like a mini midterm in which voters got all this left-wing crap out of their systems and will return to their senses for the real midterm next year. Well, I can dream can't I?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/05/2025 11:34 Comments || Top||

#7  How does a "good candidate" "not get along with Trump"? What are we missing?
Posted by: Crusader || 11/05/2025 12:38 Comments || Top||


New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Mikie Sherrill says parents should *not* be allowed to opt their kids out of LGBTQ indoctrination
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
… LGBTQ education into our schools. Parents have a right to opt out of a lot of things, but this is not an area where they should be opting out.

Vote for Jack!

From PJ Media:
NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR GENERAL ELECTION
County Results
Last Updated: Nov 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
93% est. reporting

Candidates Party Votes Pct.
Mikie Sherrill
DEM 1,792,580 56.2%


Jack Ciattarelli
GOP 1,378,218 43.2%

Vic Kaplan
LIB 11,190 0.4%

Joanne Kuniansky
OTH 7,633 0.2%

Total 3,189,621
Posted by: Fred || 11/05/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1788 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
As Public schools acknowledge a decrease in Students, as more move to normal and safer Private or Church ran school systems. Taking their EDUCATIONAL Tax $$$$ with them in many states.

There are also increasing reports that Liberal Board of Education officials are being replaced in greater numbers, with more conservative, more mainstream members.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/05/2025 5:29 Comments || Top||

#2  We are not as far down the road back to sanity as we had hoped. Maybe this is Bastogne.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/05/2025 5:33 Comments || Top||

#3  We can start by decertifying teachers unions!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 11/05/2025 18:08 Comments || Top||



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Wed 2025-11-05
  Israel has dropped a new type of bomb in Gaza. Paleostinians claim it's a 'mini nuke'
Tue 2025-11-04
  Russian troops have established a foothold in the Prigorodny microdistrict of Krasnoarmeysk
Mon 2025-11-03
  500 Firearms Bound for Mexico Seized at Texas Border ‐ 2 Arrested
Sun 2025-11-02
  Multiple people stabbed on train in England — 2 arrested, 12 injured
Sat 2025-11-01
  Al-Qaeda sub-group Jama'at Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM) attacked Nigerian forces in Nuku, Kwara state.
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  Pakistan, Afghan Taliban agree to maintain ceasefire: Turkiye
Thu 2025-10-30
  Sudan’s RSF paramilitaries kill hundreds of patients at hospital in Darfur, UN says
Wed 2025-10-29
  Sudan’s RSF accused of killing over 2,000 after capturing El Fasher
Tue 2025-10-28
  Horrific scenes from El Fasher, Sudan
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  Antifa In Shambles: Not a single person outside the ICE Portland facility after police RAID their encampment.
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  Heavy clashes between ISIS militants and Puntland forces in Baalade after intense coalition shelling plus US airstrikes
Fri 2025-10-24
  Le Figaro: France needs to prepare for war with Russia in three to four years
Thu 2025-10-23
  IDF strike in south Lebanon kills commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force
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