So why is this such a noteworthy thing?  Who is this guy?

The man truly has a stunning resume.  He’s a 9-11 truther who claims that Israel perpetrated the attacks on the World Trade Center.  He was appointed to head the Iranian Navy’s “Political-Ideological Office” by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the despotic ruler who first branded America “the Great Satan”.  He’s head of a foundation sanctioned for supplying funding to Hezbollah, and now he’s fundraising for an “American” Senate candidate.  (I put “American” in quotes because, as it ALSO turns out, El-Sayed has admitted in the past, although he denies it now, that he has a dual citizenship: America and Egypt.)

NEW: Abdul El-Sayed has campaigned *3 times* with Imam Ali Elahi, a 9/11 truther who served in Iranian navy propaganda unit and helped lead the Martyrs Foundation, a think tank sanctioned for funding Hezbollah https://t.co/phVjtvRx33 https://t.co/pAdGWys2GG

— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) October 6, 2026

Try to imagine a group of people sneaking into a Muslim country, taking LESSONS from the Muslims, then using what they learned to kill 3,000 of that country’s civilians while screaming, “Jesus is Lord!!”

THEN try to imagine other Christians who have been allowed to stay in that Muslim country, a HUGE number of which are being supported by the taxpayers of that country, standing up in front of those taxpayers and proclaiming, “You know who the REAL victims are in this? CHRISTIANS. We can’t even wear a cross around our necks without getting dirty looks. ” This is similar to a tearful claim made by Zohran Mamdani, another radical Islamist we’ve elected, that his aunt felt uncomfortable wearing a hijab on public transportation after 9-11.

I didn’t see as many Muslims condemning 9-11 as I saw them standing in front of boards and councils and proclaiming THEMSELVES the victims.  Some of our leaders were brave enough to call them out on it.

I guarantee you that if Christians were behaving like these radical Muslims, in these numbers, no one would be shy about pointing it out, starting with me.  I would be the first one to say, “Don’t you DARE claim to represent my Lord and Savior when you MURDER thousands of people. That’s not what Christianity is!”  And if I lived in a Muslim country where Christians were acting like this, I wouldn’t blame them for deporting ALL of us.  I wouldn’t LIKE it, but I wouldn’t be mad at the citizens or the government; I would be mad at the other Christians who had so mistreated the country that had allowed me to call it home.

Everyone has probably seen, by now, the videos of Muslims in America outlining how they’re planning on taking over our country and turning it Islamic against the will of our citizens, although for some reason I’m having a very hard time finding them online.  Just about everything that comes up when I search this are articles stressing how American Muslims DON’T feel this way, and to think otherwise means you’re a bigot and an Islamophobe (our completely unbiased search engines at work, I’m sure).  This video is the best I could find:

The plan seems to be to tell us that their home countries are dangerous crapholes (which is true), use our compassion for oppressed people to infiltrate America by the millions, breed like rabbits, and use their superior numbers to elect other radical Muslims.  It’s already happened in so many other countries that we don’t even have to take their word for it at this point. Just ask Brigitte Gabriel, who spent her childhood in a bomb shelter in her once-peaceful home country of Lebanon after radical Islamists infiltrated their legislature.

Which is where El-Sayed comes in, and not only him.  There’s also Zohran Mamdani and Ilhan Omar, off the top of my head, and their numbers will only grow.  They like to hold rallies in foreign languages that most American citizens can’t understand, promising that the countries they came from, many of whom are hostile to the United States, are more important to them than the country they’re supposed to be serving. They’re joined by the radical leftists in our government, who only see them as a useful tool to bring down Western civilization so their beloved communism can replace it.

Our candidates aligning themselves so publicly with radical Islamists signifies that they’re so far along in their plans that they don’t even have to keep it secret any longer.

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ChatGPT Isn’t Filling Out My Ballot

I’m not sure why using ChatGPT to research a ballot should raise red flags on its own. It’s a tool. I’ve used it to help me figure out a quilt pattern, find a healthier recipe, create a garage gym workout, clean up grammar and punctuation, and research things I want to know more about. Political research isn’t some giant leap from there.

Voters are turning to ChatGPT and other AI chatbots to compare candidates, check claims and work through races that get little traditional coverage. That makes political research faster, but the same conversational style can quietly mirror what someone already believes. Experts warn that a voter can leave more confident in a position without actually learning more. The ballot is becoming a conversation with a machine.

— DARKCOM (@DARKCOMBUZZ) October 5, 2026

And no, that doesn’t mean I blindly believe everything ChatGPT tells me. I don’t blindly believe everything Google tells me either. If something matters, I check it. Show me the source. Let me read it for myself. ChatGPT can help do some of the research. It doesn’t get to do my thinking for me.

That’s pretty much what NPR’s Adam Johnson appears to be doing. The 40-year-old West Virginia voter spent hours using ChatGPT to work through the races on his ballot and compare candidates on issues that mattered to him.

Well, Welcome To The Internet

People have been seeking out information that confirms what they already believe since long before ChatGPT showed up. We pick news outlets, follow people on X, watch YouTube channels, and scroll social media feeds that tend to give us more of what we already like. Some people are getting their news from TikTok, for crying out loud. How do you think AOC and Mamdani got elected? And maybe that’s the point NPR is trying to make.

ChatGPT can get things wrong, and it can be too agreeable. But if it gives me accurate information that happens to reinforce something I already believe, I’m not sure that’s the problem. Maybe the facts simply backed me up.

None of these concerns are exactly new. Back in 2023, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was questioned in the Senate about ChatGPT and elections, including the possibility of it producing false information about polling places. Altman acknowledged the concern, but he also made an important distinction: ChatGPT is a tool being used by a person.

Of course, plenty of people won’t bother to check. We already have people forming political opinions from a 30-second video somebody chopped up and tossed onto social media. Giving those same people a chatbot that can produce a confident-sounding answer in seconds doesn’t suddenly make them better researchers.

Do Your Homework

And that’s where I will give NPR some room. ChatGPT shouldn’t be treated like an oracle. Neither should Google, TikTok, X, cable news, or your Facebook friend who suddenly became a constitutional scholar last Tuesday.

I also have to remember that most of the general population (GenPop) isn’t made up of news junkies like those of us who write and read sites like Victory Girls. A lot of people aren’t following politics every day or keeping track of who’s who. Then election day rolls around and suddenly they’re looking at a ballot full of names they’ve barely heard of.

NPR also points out that information about smaller, down-ballot races can be hard to find. That’s very true, just think about tthe lack of local news these days. And no more newspapers. So if I’m staring at three names for county commission and know nothing about any of them, why wouldn’t I ask ChatGPT to help me start digging?

Because if I go to their campaign websites, I already know two things are going to happen: a donation box is going to pop up before I can read anything, and every candidate is going to tell me exactly what they think I want to hear.

And we’re worried about ChatGPT being a people pleaser?

Use it. Ask questions. Make it show you where the information came from. Then go look for yourself.

ChatGPT can help you research your ballot. It doesn’t get to vote. You do.

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Well now, even as gas prices aren’t as high as they were during the Biden Administration, or during the Carter era, President Trump is wanting to do something to ease the pain at the pump. 

President Donald Trump said that he is weighing a potential suspension of the federal gas tax, as his administration looks for ways to ease high energy costs ahead of November’s midterm elections.

“Well, we’re thinking about that,” Trump said Tuesday when asked by a reporter if the tax would be suspended. He did not offer any additional details about how seriously the idea is being considered or any steps to further the proposal in Congress.

Trump has voiced support for a temporary suspension of the federal gasoline tax before, but pausing the 18.4 cents-per-gallon levy would require lawmakers to act, an unlikely prospect before the midterms this year with both the House and Senate having left Washington already to campaign. A handful of governors have already moved to suspend or ease state taxes on gasoline.

That’s where the sticky part comes in. Congress would have to get its poop in a group and pass a law or resolution agreeing to this move. More on that in a moment.

Gas and diesel prices are tough to deal with right now. Especially when you consider the trucking companies that move goods and services across the country, in metro areas, and around regions. Quite a number of those companies are paying nearly $5 a gallon in diesel while others are doing a combination of paying for that and around $4 per gallon in gas for their trucks. Then add in the companies that have fleets of trucks. Such as shower doors, plumbing, electrical, construction, school bus fleets (not electric), city bus fleets, and more.

Then let’s add in the agriculture component. I grew up on a ranch that also had a dirt construction business. We had pickup trucks, tractors, swathers, stacker, loaders, road graders, and dozers. When the ranch is in full summer swing with the hay and sometimes corn crops, we had tractors and trucks going 12 hours a day for nearly three solid months. And we were a small to medium-sized operation.

He’s already made a move to help truckers and the ag industry with one portion of the issue. 

The president on Monday signed an executive order allowing truckers to purchase tax-free “red dye” diesel through Dec. 31 — allowing the fuel that’s typically used for tractors and construction equipment to be used more broadly.

G-7 nations, including the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan, collectively agreed Friday to release 100 million barrels of oil and diesel from strategic reserves to tamp down prices.

Keep in mind, the Biden Administration drained the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. So much so that one critical site was left inoperable.

WTF?! It's been exposed that the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve has been DESTROYED by the Biden admin, with one site left "INOPERABLE," forcing President Trump to clean up the mess and surge investments to fix everything

"The previous administration also left one of the four… pic.twitter.com/DZba0zLd2n

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 20, 2026

And now, it’s having to be refilled, against Democrat wishes.

Meanwhile, the Strait of Hormuz is now operating at near capacity. However, as we all know, it takes time to refill and re-fuel after the tanks were run dry. Does that mean that all is good there? No, because Iran is desperately trying to keep power and their hold on The Strait.

But shippers are ferrying crude through Hormuz at high cost to the lives of their crews and in freight and insurance rates, Bockmann said. Since July, at least nine sailors have died, 18 injured and three are missing, according to the International Maritime Organization, a United Nations agency.

“Volumes are getting through but they’re getting through at a time of extremely high maritime risk,” Bockmann said. As security has deteriorated, the cost of shipping crude from the Persian Gulf to China has skyrocketed to $1 million per day for each tanker.

“Oil flows have recovered because the market participants have accepted greater operational complexity and higher costs,” said Richard Meade, editor in chief of Lloyd’s List, a London-based maritime industry trade publication, in a briefing last Thursday.

But the threat to tankers remains the same, Meade said. Brent oil prices, the international benchmark, are still hovering near $100 per barrel, even as more crude makes it out of Hormuz.

This is why energy independence is so critical for the United States. Whether the climate hacks like it or not, we need oil to keep the lights on. We need oil to build the widgets that are part of our computers, our kitchens, our air conditioners, medical devices, tires (including bicycle tires), medicines, and more.

The folks in California would be THRILLED if this comes to pass. Why? 

On July 1, California’s gasoline excise tax went from 61.2 cents to 63.4 cents a gallon. Diesel went from 46.6 cents to 48.2 cents. That’s before sales taxes.

Gavin can “try” to blame the Trump Administration all he wants, but it’s the Democrats in that state who piled on with MORE fuel taxes.

Would this pause in gas taxes help. Absolutely, IF Congress has the stones to make this move. And they’d have to come off of vacation to do so.

A reminder that congress would have to approve a suspension of the federal gas tax. House and Senate are out until after the election.

The House leadership thought about doing it before they left, but there was internal dissent.

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) October 6, 2026

But then, once it’s reimposed, because it would be, the problems will reappear. It’s a double-edged sword.

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Dude. Your internals must SUCK. Lol. He couldn’t shame black men into voting Kamala. I wouldn’t count on it. https://t.co/FQVhb92PZt

— Stacey (@ScotsFyre) October 5, 2026

El-Sayed once tried to tell Michigan voters that he was African because his parents are from Egypt. Apparently, that didn’t go over so well.

Black Michiganders feel abandoned by Abdul El-Sayed:

“He’s taking advantage that we, as black people, are Democratic – and he thinks we’re gonna vote for him anyway, and I’m like, NO!” pic.twitter.com/IZ9zwkZKfb

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 6, 2026

Even Slate – yes, THAT Slate – is admitting that El-Sayed is having problems reaching the black voters of Michigan.

At 3 p.m. on a recent Saturday afternoon, in a conference room inside Fellowship Chapel in Detroit, Abdul El-Sayed looked different from the Senate candidate I had been watching at rallies around Michigan. He dipped his head. His voice seemed softer. This was not a room he commanded.

Almost everyone in the room besides El-Sayed was Black. He quickly tried to make inroads. “Many folks in this room are people I worked with in the city of Detroit,” he said at one point. Then, turning toward one woman he knew from those years: “Ms. Pam, have I changed at all?” he asked her. “No.” “Still talking about the same things, right?” he asked, smiling. “Yes, sir,” she said.

Some in the room already liked El-Sayed. But most had voted for his Democratic primary opponent, Rep. Haley Stevens. Before El-Sayed spoke, the moderator, Monica G. Anthony, had already indicated part of the reason why: his support for the “uncommitted movement” in 2024, which many Black Democrats believed had weakened Harris on her way to losing Michigan. Some Black Democrats experienced that campaign, which demanded an end to U.S. support for Israel’s assault on Gaza, as an attack on a historic candidate they desperately wanted to elect. (Last month, in an apparent effort to help mend the wound, Harris traveled to Michigan to campaign for El-Sayed.)

Now questions still surround his campaign about whether he can win over the Black voters who largely rejected him in the primary. El-Sayed won the primary by a single percentage point. He lost in Detroit by 28 points; Stevens won the city handily.

There was also a more complicated tension with the long and sometimes fraught relationship between Black and Arab communities in metro Detroit. Arab-owned gas stations, liquor stores, and other small businesses have for decades operated in predominantly Black neighborhoods, even as many of their owners lived elsewhere, producing what some Black Detroiters describe as a relationship that can feel extractive in a way that hurts their community. At a press conference in August in Detroit, an older Black man shouted, “He’s an Arab—he don’t care nothing about Black folks.” At a September roundtable with Black elected officials, Michigan state House candidate Kimberly Fisher warned that Black voters in her district brought up his race repeatedly. “Why would I vote for an Arab? Arabs don’t like us. He’s Egyptian, y’all. We don’t care. And when they see you, that’s what they see,” she said. “I’m fearful because I’m seeing more John James signs and Mike Rogers signs in the hood,” referring to El-Sayed’s Republican opponent in the Senate race.

And now old video and biographical information is being uncovered that will certainly not help El-Sayed’s attempt to win over black Democrat voters. Back in 2014, Abdul El-Sayed claimed that he had dual citizenship with the United States and Egypt.

El-Sayed was born in Michigan to Egyptian émigrés. He graduated from Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons in 2014 and joined Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health the same year. Around that time, El-Sayed published his résumé on an academic networking site. It lists his “citizenships” as “USA, Egypt.” El-Sayed’s résumé was removed from the site he published it to, Academia, after the Washington Free Beacon sent it to the campaign.

When the Washington Free Beacon asked the campaign about this, a spokesperson claimed that it was a mistake due to what he had been told by family members. Except that in 2014, El-Sayed was thirty years old. By that point in his life, he certainly should have known the truth about his own citizenship status… right? Was he attempting to fluff his resume? Or was he telling the truth?

Well, now we have video from 2016, where Abdul El-Sayed has the words coming out of his mouth.

Uh-oh.

El-Sayed made the remark about his dual citizenship onstage at a GlobeMed conference in Detroit, where the far-left Democrat served as the city’s health director at the time.

“I carry dual citizenship, and I grew up spending most of my summers in another country where I understood what it meant not to have the right to self-govern,” said El-Sayed, whose parents emigrated from Egypt to the Detroit area in 1978.

El-Sayed went on to tell a story, one he still tells on the campaign trail a decade later, that he was questioned by Egyptian police during one of those summer visits for publicly cursing Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s president at the time.

In 2014, El-Sayed was working as a public health scholar, and false statements on a résumé, including ones about ethnic identity, are considered a grave offense in academia.

El-Sayed’s campaign did not respond to questions about his 2016 statement. The Democrat has repeatedly attacked his Republican rival, Mike Rogers, for owning a home in Florida.

Born in Michigan in 1984, El-Sayed has said his father, an engineering professor at Eastern Michigan University, left Egypt to pursue his academic studies and because he was a “democracy agitator” who had run afoul of Egyptian authorities.

El-Sayed’s biological mother, who divorced his father when El-Sayed was three years old, settled in Missouri and works in the health care field. She worked for years at a nonprofit group, the Islamic American Relief Agency, that was sanctioned in 2004 for funneling money to al Qaeda.

Here’s the problem for Abdul El-Sayed: he told a lie, and he’s inviting speculation about which lie was the truth. He either lied about having dual citizenship, or he lied about NOT having dual citizenship. Twelve years ago, he said he did, and repeated that same claim ten years ago. Now, when asked, his campaign is trying to pass it off as an “oopsie” that he just believed because a family member told him so. Except, by his own reckoning, he spent a LOT of time in Egypt. Which passport was he using to get in and out of Egypt? The claims of dual citizenship were made when he was very much an adult. El-Sayed either lied then, or he lied now. (And let’s not even get into the property that his wife owns in Dubai.)

Having Barack Obama come to campaign isn’t going to paper over these problems. El-Sayed has spent a lot of time running away from his radical ties and buddy-buddy bro-ship with Hasan Piker. It’s going to be hard for him to outrun his own mouth, even if the media chooses to ignore it for the sake of the “D” after his name.

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Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia has declared October 2026 LGBTQ+ History Month. In its proclamation, the district encourages staff, students and the community to honor and celebrate the history and contributions of the LGBTQ+ community during October and throughout the school year.

Throughout the school year only makes it worse, but October isn’t the issue either. The issue is why a public school district has decided that sexuality and gender identity are things students should be taught. Much less encouraged to honor and celebrate.

.@ClayTravis joined @willcain, reacting to Loudoun County, VA schools declaring October LGBTQ+ History Month — and Justice Alito’s bombshell on the Dobbs decision leak. https://t.co/mNzmoixFGV

— The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show (@clayandbuck) October 5, 2026

Didn’t We Already Deal With This?

I could have sworn President Trump signed executive orders aimed at getting gender ideology out of public schools. He did. The problem is those orders deal largely with federal policy and federal funding. They don’t magically stop every local school district from doing things like this.

So here we are. Loudoun County can declare LGBTQ+ History Month, encourage students to celebrate it and keep pushing the subject throughout the school year.

Which brings me right back to the same question: Why?

These are public schools. Or maybe state-owned schools is more fitting these days. Teach kids to read. Teach them to write. Teach them math, science and history. Their sexuality and gender identity can be left off the lesson plan.

June Isn’t Enough For Them Anymore

We already have Pride Month to deal with every June. There are Pride flags, parades, corporate logos and celebrations everywhere you look. But I guess June presents one little problem for the schools. The kids are out for summer. Well, we certainly can’t have them missing out, can we?

And remember, they aren’t simply acknowledging that LGBTQ people exist or teaching about someone who happens to be gay and also happens to be part of history. The district specifically wants students to honor and celebrate LGBTQ+ history. There’s a difference between teaching something and telling kids they should celebrate it.

If someone belongs in a history lesson, teach the history. We don’t need to sort everyone who ever did something important by who they slept with.

I’d like to suggest Christian History Month next. We can encourage all the students to learn about it, honor it, and celebrate it throughout the school year. Maybe we could create these too: Traditional Family Month, Mother-Father-Family Month, Religious Freedom Month, or even American Founding Month.

I’m sure nobody would have a problem with that.

Can Parents Opt Their Kids Out?

That was one of my first questions. If Loudoun County wants LGBTQ+ History Month in its schools, can parents simply say no thanks and have their child sit this one out?

According to the district, there is nothing to opt out of because the proclamation doesn’t require students to participate in anything.

Well, that’s convenient.

If nothing is required, then what exactly does honor and celebrate mean once it makes its way into classrooms? Parents might want to pay very close attention to that.

Well, This Is Interesting

Meanwhile, new CDC numbers show LGB identification among teenagers is dropping. Among ninth-grade girls, it fell from 30 percent in 2021 to 17 percent in 2025.

That’s quite a drop.

And while those numbers are heading down, Loudoun County schools are heading in the other direction, making sexual identity an even bigger part of school life. They have to create those liberal leaning demographic groups for future voting blocs, after all.

Just Teach History

Here’s a thought. Just teach history. All of it.

If someone did something important, teach it. I don’t need to know who every historical figure slept with any more than kids need to know who George Washington found attractive. Not everything needs to be sorted by race, sex, sexuality or whatever other box we’ve decided everyone belongs in.

History is history. Teach what happened, who did it and why it mattered.

Then get back to reading, writing and arithmetic. We could probably use a little more of that.

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Retired Army veteran Alonzo Lunsford was serving at Darnell Hospital on Fort Hood when, then Major Nidal Hasan, was waiting in the soldier readiness processing center.

“While I was at the front checking soldiers in, Major Hasan was sitting in the chair,” said Lunsford. “He was sitting in the by himself and rocking like this.”

Lunsford said Hasan opened fire after telling a civilian employee that someone wanted to see her.

“When I decided to leave out, something said turn around and check your six,” said Lunsford. “When I turned, he had the weapon on me like this right here. I turned my head to the side this way and the first round went in above my left eye, between my brain and my skull, and came out my left ear.”

He was then shot in the back twice before running to his vehicle to get a weapon and being shot several more times.

The news of Hasan’s possible execution is good news according to him.

“It’s ok to agree to disagree but to take somebody’s life that can’t defend themselves, that’s the lowest form of cowardice that I ever can imagine and he’s still living,” said Lunsford.

Lunsford found out later that he was in the same medivac helicopter with Hasan as they were taken to Scott & White Medical Center for treatment.

Hasan survived and Lunsford spoke with us on behalf of those who didn’t, like Francesca Velez.

“She was pregnant,” said Lunsford. “She told that man no, no, no, I’m pregnant, I’m pregnant, I’m pregnant. I heard the shots and the last thing that girl said was Oh my God, my baby, my baby, my baby.”

Lunsford went on to testify at the trial and attend all appeal hearings.

Private Francheska Velez died that day, along with her unborn child. That child should be at least 16 years old now. Instead, Nidal Hasan got those years to live in his prison cell – first waiting for his sentence, and then waiting over 13 years for his execution.

On Monday evening, the Pentagon announced that the execution had been approved by President Trump. And it will be a death by firing squad.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recommended — and President Donald J. Trump has approved — death by U.S. Army firing squad for convicted terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan, the jihadist who opened fire on unarmed American soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009. He killed 13 people and wounded…

— Sean Parnell (@SeanParnellASW) October 5, 2026

Hasan killed 12 US service members, one civilian and wounded 32 others during his November 2009 rampage at the Texas Army base.

Parnell noted the Army-officer-turned-terrorist was “shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ during the attack.”

“The Secretary of the Army will set the time and place of the execution,” the Pentagon spokesman added. “Judgement day for Hasan has finally come.”

Hasan, who was sentenced to death by a military court in 2013, would be the first service member executed by the armed forces since 1961.

In February, Army officials reportedly circulated a plan to coordinate with the Federal Bureau of Prisons to carry out the executions of Hasan and the military’s three other death-row inmates.

Under the plan, dubbed “Operation Resolute Justice,” the death-row prisoners would be transferred to a facility in Indiana, where the executions would take place, according to ABC News.

Hasan, a former Army major and psychiatrist, opened fire on troops who were standing in line to receive immunizations at Fort Hood.

The attack ended when Hasan was shot in the back and left paralyzed by a responding police officer.

At trial, Hasan told a military judge that he was defending “the leadership of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the Taliban.”

And just in case one might think that Hasan has repented at all for his actions since the terror attack or the trial, the answer is no.

In 2021, amid the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan, Hasan wrote a letter cheering on the Taliban.

“We Have Won!!!” Hasan wrote in the missive, according to Fox News.

“All-Praises be to All-Mighty Allah! Congratulations on your victory over those who hate for the Laws of All-Mighty God to be supreme on the land,” he added. “I pray to Allah that He helps you implement Shariah Law fully, correctly, and fairly.”

Secretary Hegseth only needed one word to express himself regarding the news.

Justice. https://t.co/MR9P2KBFPW

— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) October 5, 2026

According to the law, now that the president has given his approval, the clock is officially ticking.

The time and place of the execution have not yet been announced, but Army policy outlines that executions must happen within 150 days of the president approving it, but no sooner than 60 days.

The other issue at hand is who will make the final decisions regarding the execution. Adam Telle became acting secretary at the beginning of September, and it is unknown if he would be the person to make these arrangements, or if there will be a wait until a new secretary is formally approved by the Senate. With as narrow a window as the law dictates, there may be no time to get a confirmation hearing done, which would mean Telle would be the secretary setting the date.

For those who lost loved ones, or were wounded, at Fort Hood, it has to feel that the path to justice has taken forever. With this decision, the end of the road is now in sight. Let’s hope that within the next two months, we will know the end date of this story.

UPDATE 7:50 PM PDT
December 3rd.

The execution of Nidal Hasan by firing squad will take place at Fort Hood, Texas on Thursday, December 3rd, 2026, at 1 p.m. CT. pic.twitter.com/re7BpqkSN4

— Acting Secretary of the Army (@SecArmy) October 7, 2026

Interestingly, the execution will take place at Fort Hood instead of in Indiana – which I’m sure is completely intentional.

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Before Hamam al-Hammami stood behind his captain on FlyDubai Flight 1073 and raised an emergency ax to begin the assault that nearly brought down the plane, there had been ample opportunity for authorities in three countries to keep him from getting anywhere near that cockpit.

Oman had scrutinized his online habits and decided he showed too much interest in radical ideology to trust as a pilot at state carrier Oman Air, where he worked. They banned him from flying, sent him to a deradicalization program and put him in a desk job but didn’t flag their concerns more broadly, people familiar with the matter said.

When FlyDubai hired him in February, it didn’t contact Oman to vet his experience. The company did do a criminal-background check, a person familiar with the process said. The airline later put him on the sensitive route to Tel Aviv, where he flew multiple times, people familiar with the matter said.

Emirati authorities are currently investigating FlyDubai staff who were involved in the hiring process, people familiar with the investigation said. FlyDubai said it wouldn’t comment while the investigation was ongoing.

Let’s break this down. The authorities in Oman KNEW this guy was a danger to everyone around him. and yet, they didn’t can his ass?

Who at FlyDubai decided it wasn’t necessary to contact al-Hammami’s former employer for a reference?? Furthermore, why the hell did FlyDubai go against standard policy and put al-Hammami on the Dubai to Israel flight … MULTIPLE times??!!

Why was that a problem? Two reasons. One, Oman does not have diplomatic relations with Israel, so he should never have been put on that route. Secondly, there’s also this issue.

Israel’s own security protocols should’ve prohibited al Hamami from ever flying to Tel Aviv, according to Eytan Ben David, a former deputy head of aviation security at El Al, Israel’s flagship airline.

The Sept. 30 flight was approaching Israel when the co-pilot allegedly attacked the captain with the plane’s crash ax and attempted to crash the aircraft, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, passengers on board the plane and the flight captain.

Israel receives lists of passengers and crew for all flights into the country in advance, and, at least in the past, each individual was checked by a security division inside the transportation ministry to make sure they posed no threat, Ben David told CBS News.

An Omani pilot should never have been permitted to fly into Israel under its current guidelines, as Oman does not have formal diplomatic relations with Israel, said Ben David, who is also a former deputy head of Israel’s National Security Council.

In other words, al-Hammami should’ve been flagged the very first time he co-piloted a plane into Israel. He wasn’t. Someone or several someones really screwed the pooch on this one. Especially given what he has supposedly admitted during interrogation. 

The Omani pilot said during his interrogation that he had planned to crash the plane into Ben Gurion Airport.

That is why he attacked the other pilot only while over Jordan, near Israel.

He planned to make a normal landing approach and, in the final seconds, when interception would no longer be possible, crash the plane into the terminal.

The plot was thwarted only thanks to the fateful decision of the injured Indian pilot to open the door at all costs.

As is now being found out, those previous flights into Israel were for information gathering and reconnaissance. And he planned that the plane would crash into Ben Gurion Airport at peak travel time, thus killing and injuring thousands.

As is being reported, there is a possibility that al-Hammami had dual citizenship. That should not matter. What DOES matter is that this was a cascade of security failures starting with the airline in Oman. It is only thanks to the pilot, Captain Smit Machchhar and the passengers who rushed the cockpit, that this terror attack was averted.

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Damien Neva, was cited for dropping in a “Long live Yahya al-Sinwar” to the Park Slope Food Coop’s group chat.

A bit of background on the story. The member-run food market voted in May to ban Israeli products from their shelves.

In the coop chat, Mr. Neva, dumba$$ that he is, made the al-Sinwar comment. Hold onto your hats, ladies and gents. This brainiac is-wait for it-an educator at a Brooklyn public school.

Neva, who was described in the legal filing as a leader of the boycott movement, also said, “That lot does not have the votes to block our campaign” — referring to the pro-Israel and Jewish members.”-Carl Campanile, NY Post

It seems like there's something in the water in Park Slope… a TEACHER praising a terror architect who helped massacre dozens of children.

Instead of paying all teachers more, lets weed out the terror supporters and pay their salaries to teachers who deserve the moniker.

— Crosscurrents (@Crosscurrents21) October 5, 2026

Neva’s social media included a post of a sticker with Israel on it being shredded, another showing the Star of David painted over the Statue of Liberty and a post comparing Warsaw in 1944 to Palestine in 2024. This person is in a classroom. Roughly 157,000 Jewish children live in the Park Slope area.

Pack his bags and send him to Palestine.

— Lori Seabolt (@Fussygal1) October 5, 2026

But don’t forget to first give him his paid administrative leave first.

Antisemitism and support for terrorist organizations have absolutely no place in our school system. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, respectful, and welcoming environment for every student and member of our school community.”-DOE representative

The irony? Neva, who posted on his social media hatred for Israel was, once-upon-a-time a fashion photographer and videographer who advised models on what to post (and what not to post) on their social media platforms. Yep. New York Public Schools only hire the brightest and the best. He became a teacher as part of a “enforced career change”, apparently.

I wonder if any of the Jewish parents called the NYC Public Schools’ anti-hate hotline on this guy? I mean, he thinks Yahya al-Sinwar is a stud.

At university, Sinwar became a disciple of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Hamas’ co-founder, whose extremist ideology—advocating for jihad against Israel—shaped Sinwar’s worldview. However, he earned the nickname “Butcher of Khan Younis” not for killing Israelis, but for brutally torturing and killing Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel. His enthusiasm for such acts cemented his grim reputation.”-Hadar Galron, YNet Global

Whatta guy!

Imagine this person lecturing your children on, well, whatever. Damien Neva is a principled, (AHEM) educator. He cheers on mass-mutilation of civilians but refuses, flat out refuses, to buy Israeli hummus. He also refuses to believe that if he were to come face-to-face with al-Sinwar, his “hero” would probably throw his ass off of a building, but that is besides the point. The white cat ladies and beta males of Park Slope are doing their part to not support Israel at their food coop. One bite of “terrorist tahini” at a time. The frozen herbs of hate shall not pass through their lips.

But long live the guy whose career was spawned by hate! The guy who literally butchered HUMAN BEINGS. Nothing to see here, Park Slope liberals. Keep funding public schools. Inclusion is a beautiful thing, am I right? Now, kiddies, settle in for Circle Time and a reading of The Sandwich Swap. Just make sure that sandwich is not made with racist, Zionist hummus or the teacher reading said book may have an aneurysm and need a paid sabbatical. Yay. Here comes more funding for public schools.

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Well, his odds are still good, but there is no excitement attached to his candidacy. In fact, his debate performance a few nights ago highlighted just how much Becerra is mailing this in, and how valiantly Republican candidate Steve Hilton is trying to make this an actual race. And the debate performance is important, because it is the only one scheduled between the two candidates.

Hilton has been holding a steady string of public events to try to attract voters’ attention, while Becerra has run a lower-key campaign.

He thanked CNN “for bringing Xavier out of hiding,” a dig at his rival as the debate got underway.

Hilton has Trump’s endorsement, but that could be a liability at a time when the president’s popularity has been sliding while voters grouse over climbing gas and grocery prices. Trump has had a long-strained relationship with California, where he was trounced in his three runs for the White House.

Hilton has vowed to bring down the price of gasoline to $3 a gallon, about half the current cost; cut in half residents’ utility bills, now among the nation’s highest; and eliminate state income taxes on the first $150,000 in earnings.

Becerra has been leaning into his long resume in government as he maneuvers to take charge of the state. He spent more than 35 years in state and federal office, including leadership roles in the U.S. House, as California’s attorney general, and as former President Joe Biden’s health secretary. “The governor’s office is not a place with training wheels,” he likes to say.

Yeah, Becerra’s record at HHS is nothing to brag about.

One of Hilton’s most pointed attacks accused Becerra of putting migrant children in danger during his time as health secretary.

“You dismantled the vetting that should have made sure that they were with a safe, protective family or sponsor,” Hilton said. “You sent thousands of young children directly into the clutches of child sex and labor traffickers.”

Hilton went further, saying hundreds of thousands of children were still missing, and that 100,000 of them were under the age of 10.

Becerra, who led the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from 2021 to 2025, dismissed the attack as “retread Trump talking points.”

He said the first Trump administration had left behind a broken system for migrant children, and that he improved it. “We changed all that,” he said. “I’m proud of the record we have when it came to providing care to these kids.”

The accusation traces to a 2023 Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times investigation. It found that as shelters near the southern border overflowed in 2021, Becerra’s agency pushed to release unaccompanied children to sponsors quickly and missed or ignored signs they were being funneled into illegal, dangerous jobs. Reporters found children working overnight in slaughterhouses, roofing homes and running machinery in factories.

A February 2024 report from the HHS Office of Inspector General found that in 16% of cases it reviewed, required sponsor safety checks went undocumented. In more than one in five cases, the agency failed to make a required check-in call a month after a child was placed. In some cases the first call came months later, or as long as a year.

Becerra has said any exploitation happened after children left his agency’s care. “What employers did after they left our care, after they left our jurisdiction … was not on my watch,” he told CalMatters in May.

The missing migrant children should have been a high priority for Becerra. It seems like he simply didn’t care, and he still can’t be bothered to care. In July, a whistleblower came forward to give details of what was happening in California during the Biden administration and Becerra’s tenure.

A caseworker at the Pomona Fairplex alleges children faced abuse and chaotic releases, were separated from young siblings, and sent to unverified addresses or secretly moved in the dead of the night — some never to be seen again — while the complex also accepted fake documents from sponsors.

During his time as Biden’s health secretary from 2021 to 2025, the U.S. faced an overwhelming border crisis, with just under 480,000 unaccompanied minors crossing the border. The HHS was the federal agency legally mandated to care for and protect unaccompanied migrant children.

The whistleblower, who brought the allegations to rival gubernatorial Republican candidate Steve Hilton, is a first-generation American and mother of two who’s family moved from El Salvador and was raised in Southern California.

The caseworker also called the vetting process for sponsors “ridiculous.’’ She claimed selfies were accepted as ID, sponsors communicated through WhatsApp and their addresses often could not be verified.

The whistleblower also described horrific allegations of sexual harassment and abuse inside the Fairplex, with 16 and 17-year-old boys sexually harassing young female employees caring for children in the facility’s pods — and said employees who reported the incidents were fired.

Workers received inadequate training, she alleged, while children slept on cots in makeshift pods of roughly 20 to 35 minors with little privacy for sensitive interviews.

The whistleblower blamed Becerra’s leadership for failing the children, claiming basic welfare checks could have prevented the harm.

“We failed, and I think we should all take responsibility, he should take responsibility,” she said.

With allegations like these, it’s little wonder that Hilton was quick to point out during the debate that even Becerra’s former colleagues aren’t impressed with him.

Becerra's former Democrat colleague Susan Rice once called him an "idiot" and a "bitch-ass." Why?

Find out: https://t.co/O4Hcpre2zB pic.twitter.com/hkk7NeOIu6

— Steve Hilton (@SteveHiltonx) October 1, 2026

And when Susan Rice complained over X, Hilton had quite the comeback.

Notice you're not denying you called Becerra an "idiot" and "bitch-ass", @AmbassadorRice

I will keep reminding Californians that someone who worked closely alongside Becerra for four years thinks he's an "idiot." And you're not the only one…he is obviously not fit for office. https://t.co/p5dTmnaVjR

— Steve Hilton (@SteveHiltonx) October 3, 2026

Still, Becerra has led Hilton handily in the polls, and is widely expected to simply waltz into the governor’s mansion, because California. But Becerra now has a problem unrelated to his job performance. It seems that he lied about his parents’ background as poor immigrants.
https://twitter.com/anthonycabassa/status/2106541391593746903
The entire thread details that Becerra’s father was actually born in California – which would make him a U.S. citizen – and then moved back to Mexico as a child with his family. And now his mother’s immigration story has some interesting twists, including that she moved to the United States at age 11, in 1943. This can’t simply be a family story on par with Elizabeth Warren’s “high cheekbones” – the information about Becerra’s father comes straight from his obituary. But the California media is doing their usual job. Becerra has a “D” after his name, so if he lied about his family’s background, so what?

But are the voters of California reconsidering?

Xavier Becerra’s lead over Steve Hilton has shrunk to just 5.6 points in a new post-debate poll — with nearly 1 in 7 voters still undecided.

The California governor’s race has tightened dramatically, with Democrat Becerra holding a slim 5.6-point advantage over Republican Steve Hilton in a new poll conducted immediately after the candidates’ first debate.

The poll, commissioned by Hilton’s campaign and conducted by pollster David Wolfson on Oct. 1-2, surveyed 1,020 California voters and found Becerra with 45.7% support to Hilton’s 40.1%, while another 14.1% remain undecided.

The numbers mark a striking shift from an earlier poll commissioned by Hilton that showed Becerra with a 52%-37% lead, according to a poll previously reported by the Post.

The new Wolfson survey also suggests Californians are far from thrilled with the direction of their state.

Nearly six in 10 voters — 58.8% — said California is headed in the wrong direction, compared with just 28.1% who said the state is moving in the right direction. Another 13.1% were unsure.

According to that same poll, neither Becerra nor Hilton is actually liked, with both of them having higher unfavorability ratings than favorability ratings. The question then becomes three-fold: first, just how mad are Californians about the direction of the state; second, who do they actually blame; and third, can the Republicans push a huge “get out the vote” campaign to make a difference?

The second question may determine the other two. Becerra was determined to blame Trump during the debate for all the things that are wrong in California.

Becerra invoked Trump repeatedly, as prominent California Democrats have to their advantage for years, arguing that Hilton’s fiscal policy amounted to a retread of Trump’s tax cuts. “Believing you’re getting better results than Trump has gotten to date,” he said, “is insane in the same way as doing the same thing and expecting different results.”

Hilton gleefully threw that back at Becerra: In that case, why keep voting for Democrats? Every California Republican in the Trump era has faced the same bind: They need Trump to consolidate the GOP vote to get through a primary, even as the president remains deeply unpopular here. All Hilton could do was cast Becerra as overly focused on the president.

“All you ever say is Trump, Trump, Trump, and that’s nothing but an insult to every Californian,” Hilton said.

“You chased his endorsement,” Becerra responded.

Is that going to be enough, even though California has had a Democrat in the governor’s office for more than 15 years, and that previous Republican was Arnold Schwarzenegger. It could very well be, as this is the same state that re-elected Gavin Newsom after he survived a recall election. If Los Angeles burning wasn’t enough to get Karen Bass out of office, then nothing short of unprecedented GOTV numbers is going to help.

If Hilton does manage to scare Becerra on Election Day, it won’t be because Californians are suddenly willing to vote for him. It will mean that Xavier Becerra is such an underwhelming dummy that there is simply no enthusiasm for him as a person. He will be Nancy Pelosi’s proverbial “glass of water” with a “D” after his name, and nothing will change. And if, by some miracle, he loses, it won’t be because California turned red. It will be because he screwed up his own cakewalk. Running as a Democrat in California should be easy. If Becerra blows it, he will have no one to blame but himself.

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The prominent Islamophobe John Cleese is to tour the UK in September and will visit cities with large Muslim populations such as Birmingham, Manchester, Bradford and Leeds.

One of Britain’s best-known comedians and actors, Cleese, 86, has been involved in a sustained campaign of Islamophobia and misinformation about Muslims on his social media.

He is due to appear at 18 venues across England during September as part of his John Cleese and The Holy Grail tour, which features a screening of the classic Monty Python film followed by a live conversation and audience Q&A with the comedian.

~Snip

For several months, Cleese has posted hostile comments about Islam and Muslims on his X account, which has five million followers.

Among the most inflammatory was a post in March in which Cleese claimed that the Qur’an’s teaching was “ALL about acquiring power, killing ‘infidels’ and imposing Islam on everyone.”

He contrasted the Qur’an with the teachings of Jesus and went on to claim that Britain’s Christian tradition was consequently “vastly superior” and more respectful of human dignity.

5Pillars is a prominent, and yes virulent pro-Muslim organization in the UK. And they made it clear they want protests and, if possible, his tour shut down. Well, Cleese wasn’t backing down.

I am Islamosceptic not Islamophobic.

I hope people will enjoy the evening

But no Salman Rushdie stuff please !

For years now, Cleese has been making pointed jabs at progressives, woke scolds, the damage that political correctness brings, and the dangers of pandering to Muslims who refuse to assimilate and instead demand British culture bows to them. He’s gone on record many times blasting radical Islam.

He’s not wrong in calling out the Muslim religion of Islam. That religion does teach hatred of anyone not Islamic, forces women to be subjects of men, forces young girls into marriage, believes rape is fine, and advocates for killing anyone who is not a follower of Islam.

Britain has caved to all of this over the years. So much so that people with their shorts in a knot about Cleese, including the fine Islamic folks at 5Pillars, have referred him to a program called Prevent.

Prevent operates in what the British government calls the “non-criminal space,” with referrals assessed to determine whether someone may need intervention.

Cases can be closed without further action, while those deemed appropriate can be referred to Channel, a voluntary intervention program for people considered vulnerable to radicalization.

There is no public evidence that Cleese has been placed in Channel or subjected to a criminal investigation. But the extraordinary complaint nevertheless put one of Britain’s most famous comedians into a government system created to head off radicalization.

Read that again. The Prevent program just screams Orwell doesn’t it?

Evidently speaking out against rape, female genital mutilation, and radical Islam as a whole means John Cleese is in danger of becoming a radical himself. Keep in mind, what they are really saying is that Islam is fine and anyone who speaks out against Islam is the dangerous radical who must be taken off the streets and airwaves.

The Prevent and Channel programs are essentially in place to deprogram someone who dares to go against the favored political narratives.

You see, he’s the one guilty of saying “hurty words.”

That’s where we are. In Britain, no one is allowed to say truthful things about Islam and voice concerns about how pandering to that is changing England, and not for the better.

Ward Clark at RedState nails it. We are in a clash of civilization vs barbarity.

Needless to say, John Cleese isn’t cowering in a corner. No, he’s essentially, to channel Monty Python and The Holy Grail, farting in the general direction of the butthurt woke scolds.

The Islamic male ego becomes so bloated by its lack of restraint that it believes any criticism is blasphemy

I look forward to being arrested

Let’s take a look at some of Cleese’s statements that are full of hurty words.

“To criticize a culture whose holy book advocates the killing of all the people they disagree with … is not racist. It’s culturalist.”
“Traditional British values are under attack from Muslim belief systems, especially the Koranic demands to kill ‘infidels.'”
“I personally prefer a culture that does not approve of female genital mutilation, child marriage, and killing infidels.”

There’s not one thing factually wrong with anything Cleese said. He essentially held up a mirror to what Islam is. And in today’s Britain, that must not be allowed. It’s wrong speak.

I know he and the rest of the Monty Python crew had no idea how prescient this from The Life of Brian would be all these years later.

John Cleese isn’t backing down. Neither should we.

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