The Incident

Walt Zerod, whose job it is to stock stores with Red Barron products, was approached by online prankster Carter Robert Porter. Porter interrupted Zerod’s work to ask him for the time, and when Zerod pulled his phone out to check, Porter pointed his own phone at Zerod’s and triggered the pre-recorded sound of an ApplePay transaction, then thanked Zerod for “giving” him $10.00. All this was recorded on a pair of eyeglasses fitted with a hidden camera. What happened next is a master class in FAFO.

Zerod tried explaining to the kid that he didn’t have time for this crap, and when the kid gave him nothing but attitude, Zerod walked off to report him to management. It could have ended there, but Porter apparently FOLLOWED Zerod, still recording, and told him, “Thanks for the $20.00.” That’s when Zerod lost ALL of his cool and invited Porter to come with him outside.  Only THEN did Porter belatedly try to de-escalate the situation, explaining that it was just a joke and that “It’s not that deep.”

What Zerod said to this kid, voice shaking with unshed tears of frustration, resonated with anyone who’s ever had to work hard for a living:

No, it’s not a joke to me, okay? I don’t have time for this in my life. My life is hard enough as it is, okay? I don’t need this! I got kids at home that went to bed without me right now! And I was supposed to be at home an hour ago, and I’m still out here working! And I gotta get up at 5 in the morning and do 10 more stores. So this is not a joke to me. And now I’m probably gonna get kicked out of the store because of you. Not funny! You’re probably making money off this. I can’t even pay my mortgage! And I got four kids at home! So not funny!

‘MY LIFE IS HARD AS IT IS, I DON’T NEED THIS CRAP!’ — Grocery store worker SNAPS at clout-chasing kids

Teens tried to apologize to the man with four kids and a mortgage, but it didn’t look sincere to him https://t.co/5fl7NWrZdA

— RT (@RT_com) October 28, 2026

The Reaction

The public is outraged on Zerod’s behalf because we can relate to him. Many of us know what it’s like to work hard all day and sometimes all night while others raise our children. And what’s waiting for us at the end of all that work? What’s the reward, besides the privilege of getting up the next morning and doing it all again? It USED to be a slow climb out of poverty into self-reliance and a legacy for our kids, but what is it now? A greedy bureaucracy with its hand out perpetually, berating us for not giving them MORE, while the same influencer class that spawned people like Porter posts videos bragging about all the delicacies they just bought with their food stamps as the tax burden on the working class continues to rise. Our ancestors fought the Revolutionary War over a tax rate of 1.5%.  They would be turning over in their graves if they knew that the average worker these days pays 26%.

Zerod is such a sympathetic figure that the left and the right are in agreement on something for once:

The Aftermath

What happened next is becoming a very familiar series of events. Internet sleuths got to work, finding out the identity of the overworked dad and setting up a crowdfunding account which has so far raised over half a million dollars. He won’t have to worry about making his mortgage payments for the foreseeable future. He’s also not going to lose his job as he feared; Red Barron has jokingly nominated him “Employee of the Month.”

Another fun wrinkle in the story involves the guy who set up the crowdfunding account for Zerod.  Turns out, he’s a homeless veteran named Luke Okanshield and the crowdfunding account set up for HIM has generated over $9,000.00.  As much as I hate this “victimhood for profit” culture we currently find ourselves in, this case demonstrates that it’s not ALL bad.

As for Porter, he tried to completely scrub his internet presence, but the internet is forever. We now know that he’s been arrested for assault in his recent past (probably ANOTHER of his pranks gone wrong). I think his influencer career is probably over before it ever got off the ground.

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CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss and “60 Minutes” boss Nick Bilton were kept in the dark about a deported migrant’s claim on immigration documents that he was gay ahead of a controversial segment that aired on the TV news magazine show last Sunday, The Post has learned.

Weiss and Bilton “went ballistic” when they learned from the Department of Homeland Security’s post on X on late Sunday that “60 Minutes” producers ignored information that Moussa Diawara appeared to have claimed he was gay on immigration documents in order to gain asylum in the US, a source close to the situation said.

Instead, the program, which aired last Sunday, reported that in 2012, a US judge ruled that Diawara could not be deported to Mali, a Muslim-majority nation, because he “converted to Christianity” eight months earlier.

For your bosses to find out via Social Media that you left a lot on the table when reporting about this poor sad illegal who was deported to Mali. Really a bad decision. HUGE.

Here’s the entire segment.

What I love about this is that the Trump Administration is learning. They themselves when meeting with “journalists” are recording as well. Which definitely helped when DHS General Counsel James Percival caught wind of their games. He went looking so he could verify, and then dumped it on X.

Diawara was deported to Ghana in July, more than a decade after he overstayed a tourist visa and claimed refugee status that barred him from being sent back to Mali.

After the segment aired, DHS General Counsel James Percival revealed in an X post that he pulled Diawara’s immigration file and discovered “his claimed reason for fearing Mali was that he is ‘gay,’ just in case you’re wondering how bad the immigration fraud problem is.”

Exactly. Too many are gaming the system. And when they have a sympathetic media and Democrats eager to get their vote, they’ll try anything. See all the fraud in Minnesota.

I joined @RobFinnertyUSA on @NEWSMAX to discuss my @60Minutes interview, immigration fraud, and the way the Left manipulates statistics to hide how dangerous the illegal aliens we are deporting are. pic.twitter.com/PPrM8L4Exs

— James Percival (@DHSGenCounsel) October 30, 2026

The so-called journalists at CBS have had their shorts in a knot over Bari Weiss from the get. Now, they are not only sneaking in false information in major 60 Minutes segments, they have evidently been refusing to report on the Mary Peltola and 2nd Dan Sullivan scandal in Alaska because reasons or some such crap.

Fox is reporting that CBS's Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan was one of those objecting to pursuing the Peltola scandal. Brennan allegedly compared a decoy candidate to voters being confused by different Sununu brothers who have run for office… https://t.co/MApUbExtrQ

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) October 29, 2026

The 60 Minutes segment was bad enough when it came to massaging Diawara’s deportation woes, but they also tried the ‘some crimes committed by illegals aren’t THAT bad’ gambit.

Sure, they traffic heroin and solicit child abuse material, but besides that, what have these people really done wrong?
– CBS, probably.

— MRC NewsBusters (@newsbusters) October 27, 2026

First of all, illegals BROKE THE LAW to get into this country. Secondly, illegals who are child abusers or wife beaters are just as much a criminal as the drug traffickers, rapists, and murders. Period.

"If someone commits a misdemeanor, why take the chance?" is such a pathetic rebuttal.

— Media Research Center (@theMRC) October 27, 2026

Needless to say, while those involved scramble to come up with excuses as to why they refused to tell viewers that Diawara claimed he was gay in order to avoid deportation, some are covering for them while others understand that 60 Minutes stepped on massive rakes last week.

Ben Bogardus, Professor and Chair of the Journalism Department at Quinnipiac University, called the episode a “self-inflicted wound for journalists at a time when people think journalists are pushing an agenda.”

“It’s very disappointing to see something like this,” he said. “I would have erred on the side of including the information. To me, this is a big part of the story.”

A fourth CBS source chalked the whole thing up to inexperience.

It is unclear if there will be any fallout from the latest snafu, or if “60 Minutes” will update the story on this Sunday’s show.

Inexperience? Horseshit. The producer, who is not a newbie to the industry, made the choice to leave that information out.

If I were Bari Weiss, I’d devote an entire hour of 60 Minutes cataloguing what the show has gotten wrong over the years. Let’s start with Dan Rather shall we?

By the way, there’s another significant problem with this particular 60 Minutes episode. The source they used has a not so stellar background.

Turns out Ms. Yoon spent years as an attorney for the radical SPLC, who smeared conservatives for decades and whose former leadership is now under federal indictment for funding the Neo-Nazis they claimed they were going after.

What did Bari Weiss know about this and when did… pic.twitter.com/lE943Du5yu

— Jeremy Carl (@realJeremyCarl) October 27, 2026

Oh yeah, someone who spent quite a bit of time with the Southern Poverty Law Center is by no means credible.

All in all, 60 Minutes is still a problem. And now that those there specifically kept THEIR bosses in the dark, what is Bari Weiss to do?

My take? The media and the so-called journalists still believe that they are the ones who decide what the story is. We aren’t letting them play that game anymore.

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Because once these people get to Congress, they’re not just arguing politics on television. They’re helping make decisions about our military, our national security, and the future of this country.

And some of them may have no business being anywhere near those decisions.

An Election Certificate Isn’t A Character Reference

In a Friday article for The Federalist, Armani Gracia raises serious questions about Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.

Outside the campaign trail, no one ever asks who they’re affiliated with or who they answer to. After taking the oath of office, they can walk into a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), sit through a briefing on threats to the United States, and question the Department of War on the state of our munitions stockpile. Election Day is the only background check they ever get.

The reality of DSA- and Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated potential members makes this a real concern, especially in some districts where winning the primary is winning the seat. Come January, they won’t need a clearance to sit in the SCIF. They’ll just need a certificate of election.

Take Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat nominee for Senate in Michigan. If he is elected, he won’t fill out an SF-86 or sit for a polygraph. Unlike House members, senators aren’t required to sign a chamber-wide secrecy oath. Yet El-Sayed has repeatedly declined to condemn the Muslim Brotherhood and has refused to dissociate from individuals tied to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). He has also repeatedly called himself a physician despite records showing he never held a medical license in Michigan or New York.

There is so much more, too. In 2012, El-Sayed signed a statement defending Egypt’s Mohamed Morsi, a Muslim Brotherhood leader who became president. Then there’s Hasan Piker, the streamer who said America deserved 9/11 and made inflammatory comments about Hamas and Israel. El-Sayed knew about the controversy and campaigned with him anyway.

After an attack on a Michigan synagogue, El-Sayed talked about how hurt people hurt people and violence being a cycle. Excuse me? A Jewish congregation had just been attacked, and little man here wants to excuse it away?

Oh, and now this from The Free Beacon: Abdul El-Sayed’s Father Sits on Board of Charity With Muslim Brotherhood Ties That Got Caught Funneling Cash to Saddam, Was Raided by FBI and US Military.

Despite all of this, there are apparently people who look at Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed and see a future President of the United States.

He’s going to be President one day if he wins the Senate. I don’t think the Republicans have anyone that can match him.

— Rupa Subramanya (@rupasubramanya) October 29, 2026

Dear Rupa, take your Canadian maple leaf, shove it where the sun don’t shine, and keep American politics out of your mouth.

And then there’s Omar, of course. Good grief, what a mess we’ve gotten ourselves into with that one. Will anything come of the allegations against her? Who knows.

The Front Door Is Wide Open

We spend billions protecting America from foreign enemies, yet what happens when someone willing to serve those interests gets elected to Congress? Suddenly, they’re helping make decisions about our military, foreign policy, and national security, with potential access to sensitive intelligence.

That’s a hell of a lot of power to hand someone simply because they won an election. And if credible evidence shows they’re working for a foreign enemy, Congress needs to act. Not hold another hearing, issue another report, or pat itself on the back. Act.

And don’t tell me they are in this position because they were elected fairly. No. We all know what is happening with our elections and fraud. It’s not a conspiracy anymore.

The Constitution Has Rules. Congress Has Excuses.

The Supreme Court’s 1969 ruling in Powell v. McCormack involved allegations of financial misconduct against an elected congressman. What we’re talking about today is potentially far more serious: the possibility of someone working for America’s enemies gaining a seat in Congress.

Okay, so Congress can’t simply refuse to seat someone it considers unfit. But is the Constitution the supreme law of the land or not? And if credible evidence of foreign allegiance exists, shouldn’t protecting this country be a priority before we hand over the keys?

We may not need to worry about our enemies launching some massive attack when they can gain power through our own elections. Europe has been conquered as well as fighting its battles in the streets. Here in America, those who wish us harm could simply put their names on a ballot, win a seat in Congress, and gain a hand in running the very country they despise.

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A couple of days ago, Obama riffed on the gold “everything” in Trump’s White House, likening it to “Saddam Hussein opening a Cheesecake Factory“. Critics, right on cue, clapped back at the former President (and shadow President in the Biden years), by pointing out his Presidential Library eyesore over Chicago.

Now, BHO has flip-flopped on his snobbery. He likes The Cheesecake Factory, after all.

I am the father of two daughters. Do you think I could have survived their childhood without going to the Cheesecake Factory?

I lived at Chuck E. Cheese and California Pizza Kitchen and the Cheesecake … Factory. That was my jam for about a decade.”-Barack Obama

Was he dining at Cheesecake Factory whilst Michelle was wrecking school lunches and Popcorn Fridays because “no oil”? I do remember those days of dread, thinking the PTA Moms were going to have to sell soy nuts to the kids at recess.

We won’t discuss the personal chef who mysteriously died paddle boarding in Martha’s Vineyard. The Obamas were nowhere to be found on that day.

Still, the left will stand up for the former president they still pine over. Enter Amanda Marcotte of Salon, because we can always count on her to get things so incredibly wrong.

The president has covered every corner of the Oval Office with cheap-looking gold-paint and elaborate carvings. The once-stately decor now has a cluttered and claustrophobic feel — an embarrassing departure from the dignified appearance that all modern presidents, regardless of party, adhered to, which had a simplicity meant to reflect the sober responsibilities of the citizen-leader.”-Amanda Marcotte, Salon

Go ahead, hide that cheap-looking, gaudy Winston Churchill bust. He wasn’t your jam, either.

As I wrote in 2019 about Hallmark films, schmaltz creates a safe space the right can escape to — a cavern where they can wallow in fake feelings and nostalgia, without having to face complex realities that might challenge them.”-Amanda Marcotte, Salon

Schmaltz. A cavern where we (Conservatives) can wallow in our feelings without having to face complex realities that might challenge us? For realzies, Amanda? This does not sound like a Conservative. We’re too busy with our real jobs, thank you. Wallowing in feelings without having to challenge complex realities sounds like a very liberal approach to life to me. These were the people screaming at the sky in 2016. These are the people with the safe rooms and stuffed animals. These are the people who cannot tell you what a woman is. So, spare us the condescending, holier-than-thou tone.

This is not the first time Barack Obama tried to throw in a few barbs about the very people he disdains. The very American folks that he feels morally and intellectually superior to. Remember his “bitter clingers” remark?

Maybe it seems like a small comment, but just like the ‘cling to their guns or religion’ remark during his campaign, it’s a window into how Obama and Democrats view themselves and how they view the rest of us. To this crowd of effete snobs, guns, God, and gold are just so déclassé. Unless, of course, you’re Muslim, in which case your faith is in favor with the Dems.

Those peons, you can almost hear Obama saying, wanting to ensure their ability to protect themselves, their families and their land, believing in a divine creator who made all mankind in his image and sent his only son to die for us, wanting to splash around a little luxury when they can instead of living in beige Millennial austerity. How dare they!” -Libby Emmons, Human Events

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— Jonas Cord (@JonasCord1961) October 29, 2026

Barack Obama now says The Cheesecake…Factory is his jam, but we know the truth. Barack Obama is an elitist who despises anything mainstream Americana and The Cheesecake Factory is one of these places. Michelle would never be caught dead in a Cheesecake Factory, we all know this, so to say he took the kids there (and to Chuck-E-Cheese) is preposterous. But, Obama’s snobbery goes beyond the over-the-top, gold-embellished decor and gargantuan portions of cake. It is a contempt for America in general. Obama’s attitude sums up why the Democrats thumb their noses down on the other side. Exhibit B from Marcotte of Salon as my case-in-point:

During the 2024 campaign, Trump’s love of kitsch mostly endeared him to his voters, who saw themselves in his corny preferences for the musical ‘Cats’ or faux-baroque interior design. The president may be rich, but he connected with his fans in their shared resentment of smarter tastes, which require the very curiosity and intellectual engagement that the president fears. Instead, as Sam Adler-Bell wrote in New York magazine at the time, they craved the ‘evocative empty calories’ of ‘[s]chlock and sentiment and melodrama.’ Real art, on the other hand, makes you think and can even inspire empathy for people who are different.”-Amanda Marcotte, Salon

What exactly is, “smarter tastes”? A vote for Kamala Harris? And, it seems to me Ms. Marcotte should take a look at some real art because she sure as hell does not have any empathy for gun-toting Christians.

Can’t wait to hear what these fools have to say about Christmas.

My favorite part is when she sprinkles all of the shredded subpoenas everywhere to mimic snow falling #ImpeachmentTaskForce https://t.co/xShebboxGA

— Tara Dublin (@taradublinrocks) December 2, 2019

Stay tuned. In the meantime, give me some Jesus and a big, ol’ slice of cheesecake because, yes, that’s my jam.

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I’ll start with a story …

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My grandparents built their cottage in 1925, and I spent many summers growing up there. I was a young wife and mom when I inherited it. The white clapboard needed paint, the front porch listed, and the backyard was choked with weeds and blackberry bushes. As we stacked moving boxes in the parlor, I could see days, if not weeks, of work to bring the house back.

But, first things first. The next morning, I got busy in the kitchen … thank goodness O’Keefe and Merritt built a stove that would last a thousand years … and made several batches of grandma’s oatmeal cookies.

Holly pulled her wagon and we visited every home on the block with plates of cookies. “Hi, I’m Stephanie, my grandparents were the Johansens at the end of the block. We just moved in …”

I found most families had moved on, a few were on third generation and one original resident – Mrs. Larsen at number 25.

She barely opened the door when I knocked and didn’t open the screen. I placed the plate on a porch table and moved on.

My husband set the BBQ up in the front yard one Saturday and started grilling burgers. We got 3 families that day. 6 the next month, each bringing a side, stories, and laughter while all our kids played nearby.

Except for Mrs. Larsen. Once a week I took cookies and left them on the porch. I once saw her looking through curtains during one of our BBQs.

I knocked and was ready to set down the plate when she opened both the door and the screen.

“Thank you, Stephanie” in a voice so soft I almost missed it.

“You’re welcome, Mrs. Larsen. I’m so glad to talk to you.”

She barely nodded, “I remember you. Your grandparents.”

“I hope you can come join us next Saturday. Mr. Larsen, too.”

She closed her eyes, “He died ten years ago.”

“Oh.” I was stunned, all the neighbors had referred to them both. I stepped towards her with a hug, “I’m so sorry.”

She stood frozen for a moment, then reached towards me and hugged me back. Hard.

And on Saturday, everyone at the BBQ turned and cheered as Mrs. Larsen walked up with a bowl of German potato salad. She was shown a chair, handed a glass of sweet tea and was chatted up while being offered plate after plate of food. She answered around mouthfuls while tears streamed down her cheeks.

Now Mrs. Larsen never eats Sunday dinner at home alone.

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This 3-Star General screwed up royally.

The U.S. military said it has made a criminal referral to the Justice Department in the case of Army Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia, a top officer who was suddenly ousted after Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth accused him of leaking classified information.

Hegseth fired Sylvia on Oct. 28 in a decision that was initially announced without explanation. Sylvia served on the Joint Staff as the director for strategy, plans and policy, a role known as the Pentagon’s chief military planner.

Pentagon chief spokesperson Sean Parnell wrote in a post on X that “the Department took necessary personnel action to protect sensitive information.”

Does the Department of War have to offer an explanation for this? No. And Sean Parnell’s statement was blunt. 

The Department of War has zero tolerance for the intentional, unauthorized disclosure of classified information. Anyone who compromises sensitive national security information puts the lives of our Warriors at risk and undermines every military operation that keeps our country safe.

Following an extensive Air Force OSI investigation, the Department took necessary personnel action to protect sensitive information. To protect the integrity of the investigation, no further comment will be made regarding the individual or the circumstances of this action.

This matter, along with others, have been referred to the Justice Department for potential further legal action.

Classified information is not personal property. Leaking it for personal, political or professional gain is a betrayal of the trust placed in those responsible for keeping it.

Our commitment was not an empty promise. We vowed to find you, and we meant it.

What part of this stems from is that Secretary of War Hegseth put new rules in place for the Pentagon “journalists.” As we all know, they threw tantrums and fled for their fainting couches. Well, it seems that a few of the Generals were also butthurt over this.

As Beege tells us over at HotAir, over 800 Generals and Admirals are in the ranks. 800. That’s insane. One shudders to think of how many are in the officer ranks.

Beege also points out that, thus far, only around 25 of those vaunted Generals and Admirals have been kicked to the curb. But one of the ones who REALLY cleaned house was General George Marshall. He booted 600, yes 600 to the curb.

Are some of the officer ranks along with the Generals and Admirals dead weight? Yes indeed. Are a few earning their keep? Absolutely.

But it’s the ones who game the system to get where they are, as Streiff points out here at RedState. They are the ones who put ego, not country, first.

It seems that is what Army Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia has done.

According to some, including retired military, Sylvia “pushed back” against Hegseth, which is why he got fired.

Nope, that ain’t it chief. It turns out that Sylvia likely thought he was untouchable and continue leaking info to reporters. Which includes sitting down at a diner and reading classified information OUT LOUD to a reporter. OUT LOUD!

A three star general sitting in a diner in Arlington with notes he took from a classified report, reading them out loud to a reporter who was writing a book… think about that for a second.

According to the internal investigation report Axios got its hands on, Lt. Gen. Brett… https://t.co/o0X0cszzRm pic.twitter.com/WHoNWNDixQ

— Joe Oltmann (@Joeoltmann) October 30, 2026

Yeah, think about that for a second. They sat in a diner and he read that information OUT LOUD to a “journalist.” 

Per Axios, it seems Sylvia has been doing this since 2025, prior to Hegseth kicking the media out of the Pentagon.

Army Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia was fired this week by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for the alleged misconduct, which the career soldier acknowledged on video after he failed four polygraph tests, a U.S. official said.

“He had trouble passing multiple polygraph interviews,” the report said.

The report accused the general of making “unauthorized disclosures to the media,” and said he “was cooperative with answering questions about interactions with the media to resolve this, and provided his personal phone for a forensics examination.”

Zoom in: The report and U.S. officials said that Sylvia’s leaking began as early as June 2025 — before mainstream media outlets were removed from the Pentagon — and continued afterward via secure Signal app and once at a Silver Diner in Arlington, Va.

“The meeting at the diner occurred because [redacted’s] access to the Pentagon was revoked between meetings,” the report says.

Sylvia’s leaking, as far as anyone knows, began in 2025. Really? One does have to wonder what else he leaked and how many years was he doing this? If he thought he could do this during President Trump’s 2nd term, what was he doing during Trump’s FIRST term?

Infantry Dort is correct. The Army leadership is getting upset about a guy’s reputation. What they SHOULD be upset about is that Sylvia leaked classified information regarding Ukraine and Iran, and he ADMITTED he did so. They should be upset about one of their own putting the entire damned country in danger because of his ego.

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— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) October 29, 2026

Cynical nails it about the rot within. Two prime examples: Austin and Milley. 

Sylvia lost sight of the mission. He kicked his oath to the curb. He betrayed the American people. Consequences must follow. An example must be made.

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A woman wearing a burka was escorted out of a Florida county commissioners meeting on Tuesday after playing a recording of the Islamic call to prayer during the public comment period where residents spoke against the potential expansion of a local mosque amid concerns from some over its wording on zoning and agenda materials.

The incident occurred as the Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners was listening to residents address the board. A woman covered head-to-toe in black, with only her left eye visible, and approached the podium. Rather than making a verbal statement, she activated a recording of the call to prayer.

Here, watch the segment (via FoxNews):

The NPC female (and we’re assuming the “female” descriptor here) was told by Board Chairman Dave Eggers that playing taped testimony wasn’t allowed per rules. He/she refused to voice any comment and she was subsequently removed by a sheriff’s deputy.

Cue the ensuing kerfuffle.

Her removal sparked immediate friction in the room, with several audience members shouting and arguing with Eggers over the decision.

“Please. Just please exercise some decorum and kindness of your own,” Eggers told the audience. “We’re all people living together here.”

That’s the rub. How much togetherness is actually going on Pinellas County? That night’s meeting was about zoning to allow a rebuild and expansion of a local mosque and many residents in the community felt that the Pinellas County Commissioners had been hiding the ball on the proposal.

The incident came during a public period where multiple residents decried an Oct. 13 vote in which the board voted 4-3 to approve a land-use amendment for the expansion of the Masjid Al Rahman mosque, which was referred to in presentations and documents as a “community assembly facility.”

The vote changed the property’s land use from residential rural to public and semi-public, which would allow the facility’s owner to replace the building with a newer structure 1,000 feet larger.

Ruh-roh. “Community Assembly Facility”? Looking at that agenda item, people should be excused for assuming a … you know … a community assembly facility. Something like a county-owned or leased auditorium that would hold community events or be available to rent for any number of private events. But how much “community” will be allowed inside such a space that is really an expanded mosque?

:::cough::::Dome of the Rock :::cough:::Hagia Sophia:::cough::::

So what was the purpose of the Burka Person? Was it a subversive protest by clearly demonstrating what could easily happen with the expansion of mosques akin to New York City where the call-to-prayer has grown in frequency and volume.

Or was it merely a prank, a way to thumb a nose at people who dared to object to the rezoning?

And there is the intimidation factor … a call to the kaffir in the county that their days are numbered and not accepting the inevitable will bring righteous intimidation.

New York City Councilwoman Inna Vernikov (R-District 48) has sparked intense debate after posting video footage of dozens of Muslim men performing prayers on the sidewalk directly in front of an all-girls Jewish school in Midwood, Brooklyn.

The incident occurred on Friday, May 15, which coincided with Nakba Day, a date marked by pro-Palestinian observances.

The incidents of Muslims deciding to make a spectacle of spreading rugs to pray in public has been on the rise.

Tonight, as I was leaving a restaurant on 14th Street in New York around 10 p.m., this Muslim woman took a prayer rug and a niqab out of the trunk of her car, put the niqab on, laid the prayer rug down, and started praying on the street.

I grew up as a Muslim in the Islamic world, and let me tell you: this is absolutely part of an organized effort to flood the public square in the West with Islamic symbolism.

And we can easily look to Dearborn, MI, of what happens when these alleged good community members gain a majority.

At a Dearborn City Council meeting last week, Mayor Abdullah H. Hammoud told local resident Edward “Ted” Barham, a Christian, that he was “not welcome” in the city after Barham raised concerns about new street signs honoring Arab American News publisher Osama Siblani.

Barham introduced himself as “Ted Barham, Dearborn resident,” and objected to two intersections being renamed after Siblani.

He said, “He’s a promoter of Hezbollah and Hamas” before quoting past remarks from Siblani, including, “He talks about how the blood of the martyrs irrigates the land of Palestine … whether we are in Michigan and whether we are in Yemen. (snip)

Mayor Hammoud responded with remarks that shocked many in attendance. “The best suggestion I have for you is to not drive on Warren Avenue or to close your eyes while you’re doing it. His name is up there and I spoke at a ceremony celebrating it because he’s done a lot for this community,” Hammoud said.

He went further, accusing Barham of being “a bigot, and you are racist, and you’re an Islamophobe,” before declaring: “Although you live here, I want you to know as mayor, you are not welcome here. And the day you move out of the city will be the day that I launch a parade celebrating the fact that you moved out of this city.”

Whatever the real motivation of Florida Burka Woman, the warning is clear. Pay attention to what happens locally least you wake up to a nation you don’t recognize.

featured image original graphic by Darleen Click

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Down here in the South, when we talk about a house divided, we usually mean somebody married an Auburn fan. Or maybe a Georgia Bulldog. One spouse yells Roll Tide, the other yells War Eagle or Go Dawgs, and Saturdays during football season become a test of the marriage vows.

Up in Michigan, Congresswoman Haley Stevens’ fiancé might as well have announced he’s an Ohio State Buckeyes fan.

But Jason Turkish isn’t talking football.

Jason Turkish, fiancé of U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens, explains why he’s voting for Republican Mike Rogers in the U.S. Senate race over Abdul El-Sayed, who defeated Stevens in the Democratic primary.

More from @nannburke: https://t.co/zkdwsjfWfi https://t.co/s4ZO7WG8zS

— The Detroit News (@detroitnews) October 29, 2026

Turkish is raising serious concerns about Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed and what he believes is dangerous rhetoric toward Michigan’s Jewish community.

And he’s not the only Democrat sounding the alarm.

A former Democratic official from the Senate campaigns of Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) and Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) said he is voting for former Rep. Mike Rogers, a Republican, in Michigan’s 2026 Senate race.

David Kramer, an alumnus of several Michigan Democratic campaigns and a board member of the Democratic Majority for Israel, told Jewish Insider on Tuesday that he would vote for Rogers over Democrat Abdul el Sayed in Michigan’s Senate race. Kramer’s defection from the Democratic candidate in favor of Rogers comes as el Sayed has struggled to shore up the Jewish Democratic vote throughout much of the race.

Stevens’ fiancé isn’t some Republican looking to stir up trouble. He’s a Jewish civil rights attorney and longtime Democratic donor. He’s spent years supporting Democrats. But Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed is one Democrat he won’t support.

And he’s got his reasons. He says El-Sayed’s rhetoric about Israel has gotten worse since the August primary. He accuses the Senate nominee of putting Michigan’s Jewish community at risk.

Then there’s El-Sayed’s refusal during a debate to say whether Israel or Iran poses the greater threat to America. That didn’t exactly help his case with Turkish.

And What Does Abdul Have to Say?

El-Sayed’s response to Turkish’s concerns was practically a verbal shrug. A Jewish Democrat accuses him of rhetoric that puts his community at risk, and Abdul goes right back to whining about Donald Trump. It might as well have been, “Yep. And?”

Little man syndrome plus an inflated sense of self-importance equals pure arrogance.

Turkish is talking about death threats against Jews, and Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed is busy rattling off his memorized lines about fighting Trump instead of answering for himself.

Meanwhile, Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed has plenty of young progressives eating up his promises. Just watch the voters in this NewsNation report. They want big changes, more government programs, and somebody to stick it to the rich. But there’s another side to this race. Jewish Americans concerned about El-Sayed’s rhetoric aren’t asking for another campaign sales pitch. They’re asking for their concerns about safety to be taken seriously.

Meanwhile, Back at the Stevens Household…

Stevens got beat by El-Sayed, and now she’s expected to smile, play nice, and vote for him. Her fiancé and former campaign chairman aren’t playing along. They’re voting for Rogers.

So is Haley genuinely sold on Abdul, or is she just unwilling to tick off the Democratic Party? Funny how party loyalty gets complicated when the people closest to your campaign start jumping ship.

Country Before Party. Terms and Conditions Apply.

We’ve spent years hearing about the courage of Never Trump Republicans who crossed party lines to support Democrats. They told us they were putting country before party, standing on principle, refusing to fall in line. Now people like Tim Miller of The Bulwark want to dismiss Jason Turkish’s decision as sour grapes because his fiancée lost the primary. Funny how standing on principle suddenly becomes a problem when a Democrat decides to vote Republican.

So which is it, Tim? Country before party, or country before party only when you’re voting for a Democrat?

Now Jason Turkish, a lifelong Democrat, says he can’t support his party’s nominee because of his concerns about Jewish safety. Does he get the same respect? Or does the fact that his fiancée lost to Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed make it easier to write him off as a sore loser?

Oh, do crawl back under your Bulwark, Tim.

The applause for crossing party lines seems to come with one little condition. You’d better be crossing from right to left. Go the other way, and suddenly nobody wants to talk about principles anymore. It’s straight to the personal attacks and accusations of being “butthurt.” Quite the sophisticated response to someone taking a stand.

Feature Image: AI-generated illustration.

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And thanks to Alaska’s convoluted ranked-choice ballot voting, and the fact that the top four candidates make it to the general election ballot, there are two Dan Sullivans – Dan S. Sullivan, the incumbent senator, and Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., on the ballot. But if you listen to certain Democrat strategists, the whole thing is no big deal, because… Republicans supported Robert F. Kennedy Jr. against Joe Biden. Say what again?

Democratic strategist Adrienne Elrod chalked up Wednesday’s revelations about an alleged Democratic scheme to influence Alaska’s Senate race as something that “happens all the time,” comparing it to Republican support for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s 2024 presidential bid against then-President Joe Biden during the 2024 election cycle.

“Some of this stuff happens all the time,” Elrod reacted. “Let’s not forget that … RFK Jr., when he ran against Joe Biden, Republicans propped him up, a lot of Trump donors were giving him money because they thought he would dig into some of Biden’s supporters. And then he ran as an independent. They thought he would draw away supporters from Biden. It actually had the opposite effect.

“The bottom line is this stuff happens all the time. There are tactics that both campaigns can use. … It is very clear, as you mentioned, who is the incumbent. So, if you’re a Republican or any voter in Alaska, and you want to support the incumbent, you know who you’re voting for,” Elrod added noting she hadn’t read the Times report.

Uh, no, that wasn’t anything like this. And you know who can tell the difference? Lisa Murkowski. Yes, THAT Senator Lisa Murkowski, who endorsed a Democrat for governor of Alaska, but is now pointing out that the allegations against the Peltola camp deserve some answers from the candidate herself.

While some may try to write this off as just how politics works now, ballot-stacking should have no place in our electoral process. Run and win on your merits: your views, your policy ideas, and your accomplishments. By contrast, recruiting candidates to manipulate the field and…

— Lisa Murkowski (@LisaForSenate) October 28, 2026

The full post reads:

While some may try to write this off as just how politics works now, ballot-stacking should have no place in our electoral process. Run and win on your merits: your views, your policy ideas, and your accomplishments. By contrast, recruiting candidates to manipulate the field and influence voting outcomes is simply wrong. Alaskans deserve the honest truth from Mary and her campaign—what has been revealed is a pattern of lies and coverups and a culture of deception that belongs nowhere in our elections or among our elected officials.

Well, guess what? Mary Peltola says that the New York Times is just creating a “distraction” for attention. Is that your final answer? Because it stinks.

Per @MattTunseth Peltola responds to the NYT Dan J Sullivan story by attacking the Times.

"This is all stuff to sell newspapers. This is all stuff to get subscriptions. Nobody at the New York Times cares about affordability in Alaska. This is just another distraction." https://t.co/66a4oLiNmx

— Alan He (@alanhe) October 28, 2026

That wasn’t a denial, that was a deflection. And everyone else involved is trying to deflect, as well.

Washington Post politics reporter Matthew Choi has been in contact with Sen. Sullivan’s campaign, as well as Peltola’s campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee after the report was published.

Both Alaskans for Mary and the DSCC denied they were involved with Dan J. Jr.’s campaign, and sought to push attention onto Republicans, whom they say have a “long history of recruiting and propping up candidates in an attempt to boost their own campaigns.”

Sen. Sullivan’s campaign said in a statement that Peltola and her campaign “colluded” with the DSCC and other operatives “to recruit a candidate to deliberately deceive and confuse voters, and then repeatedly lied about it.”

President Trump, naturally, wants to go one step further.

“Mary Peltola should resign from the race. I think she should be prosecuted criminally for what she did,” Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews ahead of his trip to Ohio to campaign for Republicans there.

He said any of her allies who worked to recruit Daniel J. Sullivan into the race to compete against incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan should also face criminal charges.

“They said they didn’t do it, and they did do it, and they got caught. And in fact, it was a plot by the Democrat Party, and frankly, they should be, I think they should be prosecuted. To me, that’s voter fraud at the highest level,” the president said.

The president repeated himself onstage in Ohio on Wednesday evening.

.@POTUS: "This is voter fraud at the highest level — and the Democrat candidate who was involved in the scheme, Mary Peltola, who said she didn't know anything about it in court, should be removed from the ballot and prosecuted — and so should the FAKE Dan Sullivan." https://t.co/aKwWTbi2Ts pic.twitter.com/bianwEGDlg

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 29, 2026

President Trump, reportedly, might get what he is asking for.

Fox News learned Wednesday that federal prosecutors are conducting an “aggressive criminal investigation” into how the second Sullivan secured a spot on Alaska’s ballot, according to two sources familiar with the probe. Investigators are preparing grand jury subpoenas and examining potential violations of voters’ rights, with the investigation expected to continue beyond Election Day. The DOJ declined to comment.

Although Attorney General Todd Blanche has suggested that officials could examine ranked-choice ballot patterns for signs of confusion, the Justice Department has not explained how those patterns could establish that individual voters mistakenly selected the wrong candidate. Voter privacy protections pose a major obstacle to a potential federal case, as it would be nigh impossible to tie specific voters to specific ballots to serve as evidence of confusion.

Blanche, in interviews with the press, has provided some insight into how he would like the DOJ to go about solving this problem.

“So, because of rank-based voting, voters… they write not just one, not just two, but multiple names on the ballot. And so there are a number of scenarios where it could be obvious that a voter was confused by the way they wrote down candidates,” Blanche told CNN’s Dana Bash.

Blanche’s comments suggest that the Justice Department could examine ranked-choice ballot patterns for potential signs of confusion, although such patterns alone would not establish whether voters intended to support a different candidate.

“It will be obvious from the results and from the ballots that voters were confused, and that could be obvious from the way that they rank the Dan Sullivans or not including a Dan Sullivan on the ballot,” he said in a later interview with CBS.

If it looks like a dirty trick, and feels like a dirty trick, then it’s a dirty trick. But is it enough for the DOJ to actually file criminal charges? Unfortunately, it feels like that would be quite the stretch. The race is a dead heat within the margin of error, and having the second Dan Sullivan on the ballot could have an effect in the general election – but proving that to a grand jury is no easy task, despite how the Trump DOJ would like to see this play out.

Senator Sullivan is in no way, shape, or form, happy about this.

“This is a scandal at the highest order,” Sen. Sullivan said during an interview on “Hannity” Wednesday.

“She and her team, and at the highest levels of the DSCC, spent over a year scheming in a secret operation to trick Alaskans to get them to throw away their vote,” Sullivan said. “It’s remarkable. The Democrats will do anything to gain power.”

“They’ve been lying for almost a year about it, and now they’re caught,” Sullivan told Fox News host Sean Hannity.

Republican Sen. Sullivan called out what he described as Peltola’s hypocrisy, saying the alleged election scheme shows her “total contempt” for the people of Alaska.

“She’s run a campaign about supposed corruption. She’s the corrupt one working with D.C. insiders to trick Alaskans,” he said.

“[Peltola and the DSCC] think so little of Alaskans that they thought they can trick them,” he added.

You know who used to agree with Senator Sullivan? Mary Peltola.
https://twitter.com/NRSC/status/2115510798240141812
Of course, Peltola said this in the context of attack ads, but it sure has a different meaning now, hmmmm?

While the NYT did commit an act of actual journalism, is it too little, too late? It could be, and ironically, it might backfire on Peltola, if voters who are still confused on which Dan Sullivan (even though the general ballot clearly marks the incumbent) to vote for simple choose both of them and then let ranked-choice take effect. The race is a toss-up, which makes the stunt even dirtier, but here is hoping Alaska simply reads their ballots correctly, and votes for the correct Dan Sullivan, and hands Mary Peltola a loss.

Featured image: Mary Peltola, cropped, Congressional photo in the public domain

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According to the professional activist class, failing to transition your child the moment he (or she? or neither? or both?) indicates an interest in it is tantamount to causing their suicide.  Although this has been widely debunked, transing themselves or their kids has become the new Pomeranian-in-the-purse for has-been celebrities and never-have-beens alike, anyone desperate to be, or remain, in the public eye. The latest example of this is actor Elliot Page, who recently used a Gender Liberation Front protest in front of NYU Langone Health in New York to condemn, in apocalyptic tones, resources being made available for members of the LGBT community who regret their medical gender transitions. This is particularly scummy because people in this situation, unlike the transition-for-applause crowd, currently have no resources and are vilified as traitors by the same people who, either directly or through their advocacy, pressured them into transitioning in the first place.

Here’s Page, looking and sounding as if every word he says causes him physical pain (a common side-effect in female to male transitions), explaining why helping gender-confused youth isn’t actually what we should be doing in ALL cases:

“Assault on healthcare” and it’s because they are not allowed to make children undergo irreversible medical procedures

Children need to be protected, not pushed toward an irreversible path

https://t.co/4by0ckj3vN

— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) October 3, 2026

If you don’t have footage from this protest burned into your retinas forever, then you must not have watched all of it. It involved some, ahem, LARGE individuals lifting up their shirts, exposing their pendulous breasts (and I think those were the MEN), and sticking needles into their love handles. I think this footage should be required watching for anyone thinking of transitioning. I also think being as physically repulsive as possible is actually a deliberate tool of many leftist protestors, because there sure does seem to be a theme going on here.

Conservatives are constantly being accused of loving the fetus but not giving a damn about the child (just do a quick search to get a list of all the charities we fund to help struggling mothers), but trans youth are just one of many demographics libs pretend to care deeply about UNTIL they are no longer politically useful. When a trans person discovers that transitioning was the wrong treatment for them, their gender confusion doesn’t just go away and they don’t stop needing help. They need it more than ever.

But a detransitioner is about as politically useful to a liberal as an udder on a bull. How can they keep browbeating worried parents and young people into this super-lucrative transitioning pipeline if transitioners are being public about their regrets? And believe me, there is a pipeline.  It starts in school, where many of the teachers seem more concerned with their students being able to name all the categories and sub categories of their gender and sexual proclivities than teaching them anything that leads to success in life. It starts in the kids sections of public libraries and in schools, where kids as little as kindergarten age can check out a book on how much fun it is to transition, complete with the number to the Trevor Project hotline in the back. Mothers have reported calling the TP while pretending to be minors and being pressured by the staff to transition while keeping it a secret from their parents.

To hear these liberals talk, you’d think Ken Paxton (along with that evil emperor Donald Trump) just sentenced every trans person to death, rather than providing them with the medical care they desperately need when they discover that the decisions they were pressured into making, often when they were too young to legally consent, weren’t the right ones for them.

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