France has FREE health care, paid parental leave, paid family leave, FREE child care, FREE preschool, 5 weeks paid vacation, a 35 hour work week, generous unemployment and housing benefits, and heavily subsidized higher education.

Everything the left says they want AND THEY'RE… pic.twitter.com/SKq4KQtOtT
— Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 (@RobSchneider) October 19, 2026

‼️JUST IN: Macron presented evidence of Russian involvement in the protests in France. pic.twitter.com/rrhoNM8pon
— Olga Bazova (@OlgaBazova) October 19, 2026

A lot is now being explained

The BBC has betrayed the British public

Shame on them ! https://t.co/AOJwOvN1mD
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) October 20, 2026

KABOOM: Trump says he is set to release how NATO working with the deep state started the Ukraine-Russia proxy war.

TRUMP SAYS HE WILL RELEASE DETAILS ON HOW THE UKRAINE WAR REALLY STARTED ONCE HE ENDS IT

REPORTER: “You want Zelensky out. Have you forgotten that President Putin… https://t.co/el5fZ0EEsx pic.twitter.com/vxCWufHh7J
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) October 19, 2026

Europeans,

Seeing what is going on in France, I have just one question:

Do you get it now?

This isn’t going to get better on its own. Sign the @SaveEuropeAct pic.twitter.com/CRru7a8MLh
— Eva Vlaardingerbroek (@EvaVlaar) October 18, 2026

But Europe put all its money on the little man.

That money has little value left.

Because Trump wants peace, and Europe wants a war that is only feasible with Trump’s support..

“The Ukrainian leader could have ended Kiev’s conflict with Moscow “a long time ago,” the US president has said..”

• Time For Someone Other Than Zelensky To Speak For Ukraine – Trump (RT)

It is high time Ukraine found itself a new representative to negotiate peace with Russia, US President Donald Trump has said, adding that Vladimir Zelensky “doesn’t know what he’s talking about.” He also stated that he was ready to discuss a resolution to the conflict with Russia and China.

The statement comes amid a deepening rift between Trump and Zelensky over the Ukrainian military’s continued targeting of Russian refineries at a time when the American president has struck a deal with Moscow aimed at reining in skyrocketing global energy prices through Russian diesel exports. “Zelensky’s a man that should have this war settled a long time ago,” Trump told reporters on Monday when asked about the Ukrainian leader’s criticism of his deal with President Vladimir Putin.
“Zelensky doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” Trump said. “To be honest, I think it’s time for someone else to negotiate on behalf of Ukraine. Maybe it’s time for Zelensky to get someone else to negotiate.” The agreement between Trump and Putin, reached earlier this month, involved the US easing restrictions on Moscow’s diesel exports and waiving the “bone-crushing” sanctions, including 500% tariffs on imports from Russia and 100% tariffs on major buyers of Russian oil and gas, in exchange for Moscow supplying diesel to the global market and potentially to the US as well.
Kiev has continued to target Russian oil infrastructure despite repeated requests by Trump to curb the attacks, which he blames for surging global energy prices. On Monday, the US president reiterated that Kiev was acting ungratefully towards America. “We’ve given a lot to Ukraine, they’ve given nothing to us… We’ve given hundreds of billions of dollars,” he said.
When asked if he would be ready to negotiate a settlement of the Ukraine conflict with Moscow and Beijing, without Zelensky present, Trump said he just wanted the conflict to end and would do “anything I can do to end the war, whether somebody is there or not.” Earlier on Monday, the Kremlin said that Putin, Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping could potentially meet on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit next month.
Trump’s remarks on Monday follow a series of similar statements he has made in recent days. Over the weekend, the American president accused Zelensky of being unwilling to ever end the conflict. “He doesn’t want to end this war, and probably never did,” Trump stated at the time.
On Sunday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also suggested that Zelensky has “no desire” to reach a settlement because his government would collapse if Ukraine signed a deal acceptable to both the US and Russia. Moscow has long accused Ukraine’s Western backers, including former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, of sabotaging the 2022 peace talks in Istanbul. Russia has also identified the stance of Ukraine’s European backers as one of the key obstacles to resolving the conflict.

Witkoff laid out Trump’s vision for them. They did not like it.

Witkoff travels, Kushner hooks up via video.

Presser without Witkoff is interesting: it’s only for political leaders..

Norway and Finland are not important countries, not much voice, sorry.

• Suddenly Zelenskyy Thanks USA: All Early Warning Systems Working Great (CTH)

This is a very interesting public presser from Ukraine President Zelenskyy, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere and a subdued Finnish President Alexander Stubb. This press event follows President Trump Emissary Steve Witkoff meeting with Zelenskyy, Stoere and Stubb. Steve Witkoff leaves Norway and is going to St Petersburg to meet with Russian Federation Vladimir Putin tomorrow.

When asked why Witkoff was not present {10:00}, the host PM Jonas Stoere says, “this is a press conference among political leaders,” and then quickly moves on. Both Stoere and Stubb are very subdued from their prior public statements that put themselves in opposition to the U.S. Trump administration and now suddenly reverse and say it is important for them to remain engaged with the USA effort and for all EU nations to support discussions with Russia.
Following Stubb {@13:00} Zelenskyy notes that Witkoff traveling to meet with Putin tomorrow is very important, and he is very happy that “early warning systems” are working and “it’s great.” Zelenskyy repeated referenced the call with Secretary Marco Rubio in outlining a shift in tone that is suddenly very appreciative of the USA support. A very curious shift. WATCH:

As previously noted, there is an early plan for China (Xi), Russia (Putin) and the USA (Trump) to meet on the sidelines of the APEC summit next month in China. Little man Zelenskyy clarifies his prior comments about a trilateral meeting by saying that his comments were directed to a possible U.S, Russia, Ukraine trilateral meeting and not the APEC sideline.
At 16:00 Peter Baker (NYT) obviously notes the tone change visible in this presser and asks about what is going on? Baker was taken aback when Zelenskyy, Stubb and Stoere affirm the positive and constructive meeting with Steve Witkoff, and “there is nothing to gain” by looking at things said yesterday, said Stoere.
Finland President Stubb joins with very complimentary statements of Steve Witkoff affirming his belief this meeting has clarified a lot of issues that now lead toward peace. “Today was a big success” Stubb emphasized as the press conference concludes.
It sounds to me like Secretary Rubio used his linguistic battle skills to pin Zelenskyy on the issue of stirring up trouble and that set up Steve Witkoff for a solid meeting without the political drama and narrative constructs of recent weeks.
The trio of Zelenskyy, Stoere and Stubb looked considerably smaller in this presser perhaps realizing their miniscule stature in the grand scheme of geopolitical affairs. It will be very interesting to see how the U.S. media react to this shifted tone from today – particularly as it relates to the New York Times and Peter Baker’s narrative engineering effort.

“Following 45 Minute Call with Zelenskyy, Secretary Marco Rubio Notes Ukraine Officials are Lying and Manipulative Which He Told Zelenskyy Openly”

• Rubio Notes Ukraine Officials are Lying and Manipulative (CTH)

Secretary of State Marco Rubio answers questions from media while visiting India. The major focus of the questions to Rubio surrounded Ukraine and the conflicting stories from Zelenskyy.

Secretary Rubio noted he had just completed a 45-minute phone call with Zelenskyy where Rubio talked to the Ukraine President about his continued promotion of false reports to media about U.S. support and assistance. As noted, Rubio emphasized nothing substantive has changed in the U.S. support profile with Ukraine and President Trump has not modified any security arrangement at all. Zelenskyy is just making stuff up.
Rubio noted that Ukraine is targeting U.S. commercial shipping in the Black Sea and that has to stop. That was part of the phone call. Additionally, Rubio emphasized how Ukraine officials are just “making stuff up” for some reason, that can best be considered a Ukraine political operation against the Trump White House. WATCH:

Where and how did they get a photo that makes Zel almost look of normal height?

• Zelensky Lobbies US Senators To Pressure Trump – Axios (RT)

Zelensky meets with US lawmakers on Capitol Hill, July 28, 2026

Vladimir Zelensky has appealed to a bipartisan group of US senators to pressure President Donald Trump into lifting alleged restrictions on American military assistance and intelligence sharing, Axios reported on Monday.
During a virtual meeting with lawmakers led by Republican Senator Thom Tillis and Democrat Richard Blumenthal on Monday, Zelensky complained about alleged disruptions to weapons deliveries, satellite communications and early warnings of Russian missile attacks, according to a transcript obtained by Axios from Ukrainian officials.

The Ukrainian leader suggested that Washington had deliberately “slowed down support” to force Kiev into accepting a negotiated settlement with Moscow.
The lobbying effort comes as Trump has grown increasingly frustrated with Kiev’s refusal to halt attacks on Russian oil refineries, which the American president has blamed for worsening a global diesel shortage and driving up fuel prices for US consumers.
The dispute escalated earlier this month after Trump struck a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin to ease restrictions on Russian diesel exports and increase supplies to the global market. Kiev publicly condemned the agreement, accusing Washington of making concessions to Moscow behind Ukraine’s back.
US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner reportedly reminded Ukrainian negotiators during talks in Miami that Washington was supplying Kiev with weapons and intelligence and that Ukraine should not pursue attacks that hurt American consumers. Ukrainian officials interpreted the remarks as a threat to suspend that assistance unless the refinery strikes stopped.
Washington has denied issuing any such ultimatum. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has rejected claims that Washington deliberately restricted intelligence sharing or Starlink access. The Pentagon has likewise denied changing its intelligence-sharing policy.
Yet Zelensky continued to challenge the administration, telling senators that SpaceX’s Starlink and the US military’s Starshield satellite systems remained partially restricted and that Ukraine had missed US early warnings about Russian ballistic missile attacks on three occasions over the past week.
He also accused Secretary of War Pete Hegseth of holding up Patriot interceptor missiles and AIM-9X missiles that NATO countries had already purchased for Kiev. The Washington Post separately reported that the Pentagon had yet to authorize certain transfers of Patriot missiles from third countries.
Following the meeting, Blumenthal pledged further congressional action, saying bipartisan support for Kiev remained “clear and unequivocal.”
Trump, meanwhile, lashed out at Zelensky on Monday, accusing him of obstructing efforts to end the conflict and suggesting that someone else should negotiate on Ukraine’s behalf.
“Zelensky doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” Trump told reporters. “Maybe it’s time for Zelensky to get someone else to negotiate… We’ve given a lot to Ukraine, they’ve given nothing to us.”

“The Ukrainian leader, whose term expired two years ago, wants to run again despite promising that he would only serve one term..”

• Zelensky Says He Wants To Run For President Again (RT)

Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has said he wants to run for president again if an election is held before the conflict with Russia ends. His five-year term expired two years ago, prompting Moscow to question his legitimacy, while US President Donald Trump has called for him to be replaced. Zelensky has refused to call a new election since his term expired in May 2024, citing martial law, which was imposed after the conflict with Russia escalated in February 2022. During his 2019 election campaign, he promised to only serve one term.

Speaking to NBC News’ ‘Meet the Press’ on Sunday, Zelensky said he would seek another term if an election is held while the fighting continues. “If it will be during the war – of course. It’s my responsibility, because I have to defend my country from the very beginning to end of this war,” he stated. Zelensky once again demanded a ceasefire of at least 60 days to prepare for the election, claiming that the country needs time to amend its laws and put election infrastructure in place.
Moscow has rejected the demand. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Kiev could use an election as a pretext to secure a 60-day ceasefire to “regroup,” recover its military losses, and resume the fighting. He added, however, that Russia is prepared to suspend strikes on election day.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has argued that Zelensky’s presidential powers should have passed to the parliament after his mandate expired, and questioned whether he can sign binding peace agreements. He called Zelensky’s refusal to hold elections a “strategic mistake.”
Zelensky’s ambitions also face opposition at home. A survey in September by the Kiev International Institute of Sociology found that 53% of respondents believe he should only serve one presidential term, up from 46% in December 2025.
Trump has stepped up pressure on Zelensky, accusing him of prolonging the conflict while receiving billions in Western assistance. Earlier this month, he called for a new president, arguing that Zelensky has repeatedly rejected opportunities to end the fighting.
“I suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal,” Trump told reporters.
He also blamed Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries for the worsening global diesel crisis and rising prices which hurt American farmers, accusing Zelensky of creating “problems for the world” despite his repeated demands to stop the attacks.
In a Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump said Zelensky “doesn’t want to end this war, and probably never did,” arguing that he could have secured a better deal with Russia two years ago. He added that Ukraine is “in shambles,” describing its male population as “low, wounded, and/or dead.”

“At the end of every anti-Trump voice, is an alignment with Ukraine. At this point it’s impossible to ignore. Once you see it you can never unsee it.”

• Zelenskyy Calls Rubio as Witkoff Travels to Meet Him in Norway (CTH)

Many Americans wonder why Ukraine is a central issue in the USA midterm election. To those voices I would remind them that all aligned individuals and organizations who support the premise of Ukraine are core adversaries to the America-First doctrine. At the end of every anti-Trump voice, is an alignment with Ukraine. At this point it’s impossible to ignore. Once you see it you can never unsee it.

There is a very specific way that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy publicly describes contacts with the U.S. administration when he is unable to manipulate the narrative within the conversation. What follows below is an example of that. Note the difference in Zelenskyy’s tone.

The reality of dealing with a person skilled in diplomatic clarity (Rubio) is unnerving to those who are skilled at diplomatic political theater (Zelenskyy); their tone retreats, because the conversation is no longer swirling around pretense. Zelenskyy, feeling empowered due to the anti-Trump elements that support him, speaks in a passive-aggressive tone and a disrespectful manner when generally talking about the Trump administration.
Zelenskyy’s prism is very narrow, self-centered, combative and bitter when he anticipates not getting his demands met. The most common reference for this expressed mindset is a teenage daughter who wantdaughter’ss something indulgent, but her Mom/Dad is not willing to give in to the demands and expectations. The daughter’s sympathetic friends are codependent enablers.
In the latest development, Zelenskyy is traveling to Oslo, Norway, where he will be surrounded by his codependents as he meets yet again with President Trump’s Emissary Steve Witkoff. Why Norway? Why does Zelenskyy need to be surrounded by EU enablers when discussing terms and conditions? The media always pretends not to notice this pattern.
In Norway Zelenskyy will be supported by Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere and Finland’s President Alexander Stubb. I would remind readers that it was Norwegian PM Stoere who previously claimed Russia had attacked Zelenskyy’s airplane in Moldova with a drone strike – that nonsense was entirely made up yet spread by EU media quickly.

Meanwhile Finland (bordering Northern Russia) has recently been supporting 1,000+ drone flights from Ukraine that crossed Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia on the way to strike St Petersburg, Russia. Now, reasonable people will notice that’s a long route for small drones over EU-NATO countries to avoid Russian anti-drone defenses.
Such a reasonably minded person will also note that’s a very long distance for drone propulsion (fuel) to last, and that reasonable person will likely then realize the 1,000+ drones that targeted St Petersburg didn’t originate in Ukraine at all.
The most likely scenario was the 1,000+ drones were launched by Ukraine operatives from inside NATO countries including Estonia – which happens to be the home country of Kaja Kallas the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission.
CTH will also emphasize the timing here. Presumably, if you accept the NATO narrative, the 1,000+ drones took off from western Ukraine, flew north through Poland, crossed Lithuania (a few crashed there) and then Latvia, and finally turned east toward St Petersburg from Estonia at the very end; again, presumably, to avoid Russian air defenses.
This complicated 1,000+ drone operation happened at exactly the same time Zelenskyy was creating a very specific narrative about being allowed to use Starshield for these types of targeting operations.
Stand back and look at this construct. Zelenskyy’s NATO friends (Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, Norway, etc., continue to provoke a counterattack by Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin. EU-NATO is openly arming, supporting and now assisting in launching direct attacks against a nuclear-armed superpower.
Ultimately this is why the lying liar who lies, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, must constantly be surrounded by his EU defenders as he meets with President Trump’s Emissary for peace, Steve Witkoff. If Zelenskyy stands alone in the discussion he runs the risk of exposing EU-NATO fraud, manipulation and ultimately control by his EU-NATO handlers.
This twisted network of schemes and conniving interests is why Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy needs Norway to protect him from direct inquisition by Witkoff. Standing on the truth doesn’t need support or even a memory. Standing on a mountain of lies requires lots of help to remain stable.
OSLO, Oct 20 (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will fly to Oslo to meet US special envoy Steve Witkoff on Tuesday, trying to repair ties with Washington that have deteriorated sharply over the past two weeks as President Donald Trump has increasingly courted Moscow.
Trump, who has waived sanctions on Russia in what he says is an effort to lower US fuel prices, has repeatedly rebuked Zelenskiy. Kyiv says Washington has lately failed to provide early warning notification of Russian missile launches, and has throttled SpaceX satellite links that guide Ukrainian drones.
On Monday, Trump said “Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine” and “Zelenskiy is not helping matters much”. He called on Kyiv to find “somebody else to negotiate”.
Zelenskiy said he had spoken with Secretary of State Marco Rubio on issues including ballistic missile interceptors, early warning of Russian missile attacks and “the situation with Starlink/Starshield, which needs to be restored”, referring to the SpaceX satellite system.
[…] Western European countries consider defending Ukraine from Russia’s invasion to be an existential issue for the continent’s security and have strongly backed Zelenskiy, seeking to head off a deeper rupture between Washington and Kyiv.
The United States under Trump has already largely stopped providing weapons to Ukraine, but allows European countries to buy them on Kyiv’s behalf and provides intelligence and technology that Europe can’t match.
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said the goal of hosting Tuesday’s meetings was “to steer the diplomatic efforts onto a more constructive path”.
Finland’s President Alexander Stubb said he would attend meetings with Zelenskiy and Stoere to discuss “Russia’s illegal war of aggression against Ukraine and the overall security situation in Europe.”

Trump is very right: “The people that came in do not love France or these other countries under attack. They don’t love the people. They don’t love the art. They don’t love the architecture of the buildings. They don’t love anything that surrounds them.”

• Rubio Warned About Left-Wing Terrorism. Now It’s Burning Down France (ETM)

Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned about left-wing terrorism threatening Western Civilization. Now, Europe is seeing what these groups are capable of.

“Antifa militants and their comrades travel from across Europe and to the Americas to participate in each other’s attacks, to funnel propaganda and training, materials, and target information through shared encrypted channels—moving through underground networks of safe houses, and finance and sustain their operations through transnational funds,” Rubio warned in July.
On Monday, the Louvre in Paris had to be shut down due to protesters barricading the entrances. This followed a weekend of violent riots that caused damage to government buildings and thousands of businesses and led to nearly 2,400 arrests across France. Almost 1,000 police officers and gendarmes were injured during the violence on Saturday, and at least 3,000 businesses were damaged or looted over the weekend. Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu blamed far-left groups for causing “profound unrest in the country in the run-up to the presidential election,” Reuters reported.
“The violence unfolding in France underscores the threat Secretary Rubio warned about at the Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism: political violence and extremist networks pose a growing threat to public safety and stability,” a State Department official told the Daily Signal on Tuesday. “Governments must take seriously the consequences of failing to secure their borders and enforce their immigration laws, particularly when it comes to identifying and addressing security threats.”
In November 2025, the State Department designated four European far-left groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. These include Antifa Ost, the Informal Anarchist Federation/International Revolutionary Front, Armed Proletarian Justice, and Revolutionary Class Self-Defense. When the riots began, they were led by students protesting the conditions in schools. They have broadened into a wider revolt against the cost of living, dissatisfaction with the government, and cuts to public spending.
President Donald Trump said the violence in France will spread to America if Republicans lose the upcoming midterm election. “If you want to see what is at stake in this election, just look at what’s happening in France, a once great nation that is being conquered, looted, and burned to the ground by migrants, jihadists, and communists who hate Christianity and they hate, frankly, the Western civilization itself,” he said Monday at a rally in Kansas. Trump has said that the unrest is an “immigration problem.”
“They’re losing Europe. That’s never happening to the United States of America,” he said. “The people that came in do not love France or these other countries under attack. They don’t love the people. They don’t love the art. They don’t love the architecture of the buildings. They don’t love anything that surrounds them.” Vice President JD Vance said Monday he warned French President Emmanuel Macron to close the borders to prevent the current unrest, but Macron didn’t listen.
“I told him a long time ago, you’re making a big mistake in France. You’re letting everybody from the world come in. The whole world was coming in, and you know, as you know, Paris is going to be a Muslim city very soon, and that wasn’t the deal,” he told reporters during his travels to North Carolina for a campaign rally. “That wasn’t the deal. I told Emmanuel, you should close up your borders, and let’s see. I’ve known him for probably eight or nine years. I told him as soon as I met him. I said, ‘You’re making a big mistake.’ We closed our borders. He didn’t.”

“A king doesn’t stand for midterms. A king doesn’t watch courts block his executive orders week after week, or answer to a Congress that can defund him, or leave office on a date fixed in the Constitution.”

• No Kings: The Only One Telling The Truth Wore a Clown Suit (Eric Florack)

I won’t say where, but I ran across yet another gaggle of “No Kings” idiots lining the shoulder of a major highway. What made the whole thing comical was the guy in the clown suit, about a half mile back, carrying a sign that read “Caution: Stupid People Ahead.” I tell you, it made my morning.

Here’s the thing. That clown was the most honest participant in the whole production. He knew he was wearing a costume. He owned it. The folks up the road with the hand-lettered signs decidedly did not.
I’ve watched these gatherings of useful idiots roll across the country for well over a year now. I’ve even written about it a time or two. Yesterday marked round four. Indivisible, MoveOn, and the 50501 Movement kicked this off on Donald Trump’s birthday in June 2025, then returned in October, again in March, and again this weekend. And this time the organizers decided to drop the pretense. According to coverage of the planning, they billed the October 17 events as nonpartisan voter-participation activities rather than protests.
Nonpartisan? Yeah, right. About two weeks before a midterm. Organized by MoveOn. Yeah, I don’t think so. A movement built from the ground up to oppose one Republican president, run by groups that exist to elect Democrats, now wants you to believe its Saturday highway rallies serve civic hygiene. That’s not a protest anymore. That’s a get-out-the-vote operation wearing a protest costume, and it fits about as well as the clown’s polka dots.
Then there’s the name itself: “No Kings.” Organizers say the country doesn’t belong to kings, dictators, or tyrants. Fine. I agree. So does every conservative I know, and so did the Founders, who handled the actual king business in 1776. But a king doesn’t face voters. A king doesn’t stand for midterms. A king doesn’t watch courts block his executive orders week after week, or answer to a Congress that can defund him, or leave office on a date fixed in the Constitution. This president does all of those things.
The people on that highway shoulder know this, or at least the ones running the show do. Even if you’re dressed in a turnip suit like a contestant on The Price Is Right, you can’t simultaneously claim we live under a monarch and organize a voter drive to throw out his party in November. Pick one. Either the elections mean something, in which case “No Kings” is hysteria, or they don’t, in which case why bother with the voter drive?
They won’t pick, because the slogan was never about kings. It’s about branding. Somebody in a consulting shop figured out that “No Kings” tests better than “We lost in 2024 and we’re still having a tantrum” and that a nice patriotic-sounding phrase gives cover to people who otherwise spend their time explaining why the Constitution is outdated.
I think what we’re seeing here is evidence that the left has already taken its shot. It is desperately trying to be relevant in a world that not only doesn’t see any relevance in its cause, but sees it in a negative light. Even the leftist fishwrappers have started to admit that the Democrats are not doing so well, after all. But these protesters act as if they know none of it. They keep going on with this nonsense because it’s all they have left. They keep the chants going because that’s the only arrow still in the quiver.
The organizers love to brag about numbers. After last October’s round, they claimed that more than 7 million people showed up at 2,700-plus events, and boasted that the turnout dwarfed both of Trump’s inaugurations combined. Maybe. Crowd counts from the people selling the crowd deserve the same skepticism you’d give a used-car lot’s “best prices in town” banner. But grant them the number. Seven million people standing on curbs and highway shoulders in a nation of 340 million is still a rounding error. And it still loses to the 77 million who walked into a voting booth and made the choice the No Kings crowd keeps trying to relitigate on Saturdays.
Now, that clown suit guy? I’ll give him credit. He didn’t block anybody. He didn’t claim to save democracy. He walked a half mile back from the main event, held up a sign, and warned the rest of us about what lay ahead. Public service, plain and simple. The No Kings people spent their Saturday telling America it lives under a tyrant. The clown spent his time telling America the truth.
I know which one I’d vote for.

“.. the recent raid on Omar‘s home was specifically related to her and her father‘s citizenship status..”

• No Record of Ilhan Omar’s Father’s U.S. Naturalization? (Catherine Salgado)

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) herself previously stated that she received her American citizenship through her father, whom she said became a naturalized citizen while she was still a legal minor. But a Trump administration investigation indicates that her father might never have obtained naturalization officially, making her citizenship likewise suspect.

While this report about Omar’s father has been circulating for a while, Libs of TikTok’s Chaya Raichik and former candidate AJ Kern, who ran against Omar, claim to have obtained official letters from the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) revealing no record of naturalization papers for Omar‘s father. USCIS has not yet confirmed this fact publicly, and the investigation into Omar and her family remains ongoing.

OMG

Letters from the USCIS and DHS appear to verify that citizenship records for Ilhan Omar's father DO NOT EXIST.

No record of his naturalization exists.

Ilhan Omar claimed citizenship through her father. If no record exists, how can she be a U.S. citizen? https://t.co/vKYq8rNQoF pic.twitter.com/pFjyLgUXUZ
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 19, 2026

The New York Post reported last week that the recent raid on Omar‘s home was specifically related to her and her father‘s citizenship status. At the same time, the Post acknowledged that Kern had requested information about Nur Omar Mohamed — originally Nur Said Elmi Mohamed — which is how Kern claims she ended up with the letters.
Incidentally, Nur Said Elmi allegedly participated in genocide in Somaliland before coming to America. The family was not “refugees” so much as foreign war criminals seeking shelter here from the consequences of their crimes.

This is a Facebook post by her father, Col. Nur Said Elmi (who participated in the Isaaq Genocide). Many of his family and friends refer to him as Nur Said—the real family name, not “Omar”—and as “Commandante” or “Colonel.”

So her full name is Ilhan Nur Said Elmi.
Same as her… pic.twitter.com/QkZTjScj5q
— REPUBLIC OF SOMALILAND (@RepOfSomaliland) March 19, 2026

Even if Omar’s citizenship were legitimate, there is evidence that she lied so she could run for Congress. Article III Project founder Mike Davis explained that Article I, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution requires American citizenship of at least seven years before being eligible to serve in the House of Representatives. The Trump administration is investigating the possibility that Omar requested a change in her birth year so that she could claim she was a minor who received citizenship from her father, when in fact she was already 18 at that time.
So she not only tampered with records of her age, but she might have also done so on the false premise that her dad was, in fact, a U.S. citizen. Multiple members of Omar’s family are also under scrutiny for potential immigration or USAID fraud. Talk about an illustration of exactly why immigration from fundamentalist Muslim nations, especially chain migration of entire families, is such a disaster for America.

This is about her American husband, not about the brother she allegedly married.

• Did Ilhan Omar’s Husband Sell Empty Barrels of Wine? (Catherine Salgado)

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and her family seem to have abandoned their life as murderous warlords in Somalia only to become professional fraudsters in America.

Omar’s husband, Tim Mynett — the one to whom she is currently married, not her brother, whom she pretended to marry for immigration fraud purposes — used to run a winery. Because, you know, she’s a super devout Muslim and all that. The winery abruptly closed earlier this year amid official scrutiny. Turns out part of the problem might’ve been that Omar’s husband was selling investors empty barrels of wine. It’s absolutely incredible how these people seem incapable of running a business or holding a job that is not a front for crime.

#BREAKING: Ilhan Omar's former winery sold completely empty barrels of wine, Rep. Comer says.
— Insider Wire (@InsiderWire) October 19, 2026

In fact, Not the Bee sums up all the latest allegations against Omar very succinctly:
So if all the reports are true, Ilhan Omar
lied about her age to make it seem like she naturalized through her father, who apparently she lied about being a citizen in the first place, then used her illegitimate citizenship to marry her brother so that he could inherit her fake…
— Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) October 20, 2026

Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), House Oversight Committee chairman, made the revelation about the empty wine barrels during an interview Monday on Fox News. “From our initial investigation of Omar and her financial disclosure form, there are multiple fronts where you could get a search warrant issued,” he said. The Trump administration recently raided Omar’s D.C. home.

Comer continued, “Not only was there a huge discrepancy in the financial disclosure form, there was the winery that was the big base of her $25 million listing on her financial disclosure form.” He added, “That winery has, according to the press, been shut down because of fraud. They were apparently selling investors barrels of wine to be aged, but there was nothing in the barrels.”
This would explain why the winery suddenly shut down. Omar and Mynett made a killing off a business that either didn’t have anything to sell or didn’t have as much to sell as it claimed, and then they just shuttered the business and cut their losses, expecting no consequences.

HOLY CRAP

Ilhan Omar and her husband's winery was SHUT DOWN for FRAUD after they reportedly sold EMPTY WINE BARRELS pic.twitter.com/jUJCtA9yWi
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 19, 2026

Comer also referred to Omar’s numerous connections to the Somali fraud network in Minnesota, including through earmarking taxpayer money for an alleged substance abuse clinic that was actually a fraud scam run out of a restaurant. Omar’s sister Sahra Noor likewise seems to be connected both to the $250 million “Feeding Our Future” scam and a USAID fraud scheme. It’s all in the family.

When all else fails, you can always blame the Supreme Court.

• Senator Says Biden et al Too Chicken To Pack The Court (Turley)

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., has added schoolyard taunts to his call to pack the Supreme Court with an instant liberal majority. Last week, Whitehouse denounced former President Joe Biden and other Democrats for being “too chicken” to pack the Court and, in the view of many of us, destroy the institution that has been critical to the success of this Republic for 250 years.

The Lever’s David Sirota, a former speechwriter and adviser to Bernie Sanders, set the table for Whitehouse by asking him about how the public can join the resistance to the Court, which is “enabling an anti-democratic project.” With that, Whitehouse was off to the chicken races:
“Well, I think it starts with truth telling and I think the chief executive of the United States has the proverbial bully, the bulliest of all pulpits, and should be prepared to make the argument about what has gone wrong with the courts. The Biden administration was highly reluctant to do that. They completely chickened out. Biden set up that lame committee commission on the Supreme Court and then squelched both Judge Gertner and Professor Tribe when they wanted to describe some of the actual problems at the court so that they couldn’t even get that into the report.”
He then added: “The Biden people didn’t want to go there. They were completely chicken about all that. They wanted no part of that. And it — really wasn’t until the very end, in his last speech after he and Harris had both lost that Biden seemed to have at least somewhat awakened to the fact that the Supreme Court had a real integrity problem.”
The one thing upon which we agree is that the Biden commission was a sham. At the time, I wrote a piece entitled “Is Biden’s Supreme Court Commission Packed to Fail?” I wrote about how the Administration assembled an array of far-left faculty to debate radical changes to the Court. It was breathlessly followed by the press and many on the left as figures like Tribe denounced the Court as fundamentally broken. Of course, few of these voices, including Tribe, held those views when the Court ruled their way with a liberal majority.
The commission appeased the rising radical left in the Democratic Party in a classic Washington death-by-commission strategy. They produced a report that few read and then went back to their respective faculties as happy social warriors.
It is also not surprising that Whitehouse would single out Laurence Tribe, who has attacked conservatives in vulgar terms (as well as other professors like myself). This has included religious attacks and false statements that required public corrections. He has also called for Trump and others to be charged with an endless array of crimes from attempted murder to treason.
Whitehouse was an early champion of the partisan court-packing scheme. His obsession with the plan is telling. Whitehouse has actively spread the false narrative that the justices are, to use Dean Erwin Chemerinsky’s description, partisan “hacks.” (Chemerinsky was also a member of the ill-considered commission).
It is a narrative that is entirely unconnected to reality. As I discussed in a recent column, the Court continues not only to rule against this president in major cases but also to rule unanimously or nearly unanimously in the vast majority of cases.
The portrayal of the voting pattern of conservatives as raw politics is an old saw on Capitol Hill. In the confirmation hearing for Kavanaugh, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse raised this issue, asking, “When is a pattern evidence of bias?” Whitehouse noted a voting pattern by the five conservative justices who “go raiding off together.” Whitehouse denounced how the “Roberts Five” of “Republican appointees” join in such decisions and “no Democratic appointee joins them.” He simply ignored the “Ginsburg Four” on the other side of most of those opinions. Those liberal justices are not ideologues because they are treated as manifestly right.
The false narrative is part of a concerted effort by Democratic politicians to condition voters into accepting court packing. Professors and pundits are now demanding that court-packing be an actual litmus test for Democratic candidates.
The reason is a sad statement about the state of American politics. Presented with the prospect of guaranteeing power for years by rejecting our constitutional values and traditions, politicians like Whitehouse are choosing power.
James Carville wants Democrats to hide this intended move from the public (which continues to oppose court packing). Carville told Democratic candidates: “If the Democrats win the presidency and both houses of Congress, I think on day one, they should expand the Supreme Court to 13. F—k it. Eat our dust. Don’t run on it. Don’t talk about it. Just do it.”
Former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder has put packing the Supreme Court front and center, explaining, “[We’re] talking about the acquisition and the use of power if there is a Democratic trifecta in 2028.” It is the Nike School of Constitutional Law. Democratic leaders are pledging to “just do it” to appease the mob.
Years ago, Harvard professor Michael Klarman laid out a radical agenda to change the system to guarantee Republicans “will never win another election.” However, he warned that “the Supreme Court could strike down everything I just described.” Therefore, the court must be packed in advance to make these changes possible.
Notably, the far left is now turning on those establishment politicians who are not showing commitment to this agenda, even when they are mouthing the same rhetoric. It is the historic problem with pandering to the left. These demands create an insatiable appetite for radical change, and figures like Whitehouse will continue to fuel the rage against those, even in his own party, who show any hesitation or qualms at this moment.
Whitehouse is right that many in the Democratic Party do not “want to go” where he wants to lead them. After 250 years of the most successful Republic in history, Sheldon Whitehouse wants others to join him in a fevered demolition project. If you even pump the brakes, you are chicken in Sheldon Whitehouse’s mad rush for the constitutional cliff.

“.. a feeling by European ethnics that they are losing their own countries and suffering lower living standards and higher crime rates because their governments do not represent them.”

• The French Protests Are Being Misunderstood (Paul Craig Roberts)

The French protests that are spreading over Europe are not receiving proper attention. The explanation that students all over France, with the disturbances spreading into Italy and Belgium, are burning down historic buildings and looting businesses because they are dissatisfied with the conditions of their school buildings is not a convincing narrative.

Some suspect the violence is connected with the immigrant-invaders, and it is, but it is a different connection than suspected. My take on the events is that the uprising, which seems to be what it is, is the result of many years of frustration and disappointments suffered by European ethnicities because of their rulers’ disregard of them..nEuropean and British governments have spent their energies on matters that negatively impact their populations.
Matters such as globalism which serves a few corporations and international bureaucracies at the expense of people; such matters as complying with Washington’s sanctions against Russia which has destroyed business relationships between Europe and Russia, the values of companies, and, as a result of Washington-imposed sanctions on Russia and Russia’s business partners, high energy prices in Europe and hundreds of thousands of labor force reductions in the German auto industry; matters such as no thought for the employment of European ethnic youth, especially those with university educations, a problem magnified by the permitted influx of millions of invaders, the presence of whom further jammed employment markets, drained Europeans of funds to support children, thus the low birth rate and ongoing replacement of Europeans, and, more importantly, a feeling by European ethnics that they are losing their own countries and suffering lower living standards and higher crime rates because their governments do not represent them.
This is what I meant when I said that the rebellion is connected to immigrant-invaders. It is the French themselves who are rebelling whatever the participation of the immigrant-invaders.
The failure of European and British democracy to represent European and British peoples is demonstrated by the extraordinary low approval rates all European and British governments have. If polls are believable French President Macron is supported by 10% of the French people. This is not a democracy. It is a dictatorship but without the power.
My conclusion is that Europe and America are in crisis and that the political beneficiaries of ruling positions in government are trying to hold their own governments and the EU together by emphasizing “the Russian threat.”
American unity is also at risk. People elsewhere in the world think of Americans as rich, but they are not. A rich person is a person who has disposable income–income that is not committed to debt payments such as home mortgages, credit card debt, car and truck payments, monthly utility (electric and fuel oil) bills, and transportation costs. In America such people are limited to the few top percentage points in the income and wealth distribution. The rest are suffering as several New York Times reports have recently emphasized.
The insouciance of “democratically elected governments” to their own citizens, and to the politicians’ own survival, is illustrated by US President Donald Trump’s refusal of Iran’s offer on a silver platter to provide him with a reelected Republican Congress in the midterm elections by opening the Strait and permitting the resumption of oil flows if Trump will call off the war and accept Iran’s right to control its own waterways.
Donald Trump and his regime, like the regime of George W. Bush and so many others, is so aligned with Israel and the Israel Lobby that the President cannot put the interests of the American people and his own interest before Israel’s interest. In keeping with Trump’s and America’s subservience to Israel, Trump declined Iran’s offer to rescue him.
Every ethic European country is having the interests of Israel and the interests of immigrant-invaders jammed down their throats. And there is nothing they can do about it but rebel and roll out the guillotines, the opening stage of which we might be seeing in France. A cold dark winter without energy will further radicalize Europeans.

Alberta won’t seceed; Québec might. one day.

• The USA Dodges a Bullet – Alberta Independence Votee Fails by 3:1 Ratio (CTH)

Voters in Alberta, Canada rejected an independence referendum to become independent. As the results are announced approximately 76% of Albertans voted to remain a province within Canada, with 23% voting for independence.

While we have sincere respect for those who sought to get free of the Canadian madness, it is ultimately a good outcome for the USA. A successful exit would have likely begun a process to merge with the USA as a 51st state. Obviously adding another million+ progressive voices to the USA landscape would have been detrimental.
CANADA – Voters in Canada’s oil-rich province of Alberta have rejected a proposal to begin a process toward independence, results showed early Tuesday, delivering a victory for Prime Minister Mark Carney and supporters of Canadian unity amid President Trump’s trade war and annexation threats.
The vote was not a direct referendum on independence but would have set oil-rich Alberta on a path toward a future vote on separation from Canada. With more than 1 million votes counted, about 76% supported remaining in Canada, compared with 23% who backed beginning a process that could lead to separation. (read more)
There is already an existing process for sane Canadians to exit the ‘mass formation psychosis’ that is worsening their condition. Canadians can apply for legal immigration to the United States.

51st state was Trudeaus idea? 💡 pic.twitter.com/DznGe4TQn6
— jeska 🇨🇦🦅🇺🇸 (@jezscacuzz) July 13, 2026

“The immortal jellyfish can beat ageing. It could inspire treatments for diseases of old age..

“Adult cells become ‘undifferentiated’ and become something else that is needed to form the polyp..”

• The Immortal Jellyfish Can Beat Ageing (BBC)

The immortal jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii)

The immortal jellyfish is capable of winding back its lifecycle to become young again. Scientists are unlocking its cellular secrets to find ways human cells could rejuvenate too.

The tiny translucent jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii is surprisingly hard to kill. The marine biologist Maria Miglietta of Texas A&M University at Galveston has cut them, boiled them, starved them, overloaded their tanks with salt or plopped them in fresh water – but the nifty creatures seem to cheat death every time.
Under duress, they stop in their tracks and fall to the bottom of their tank. Then something astonishing happens: the animals transform into balls of cells that bear no resemblance to the tentacled umbrella shape of adult jellyfish, known as the medusa. Within one to three days, a structure called a polyp – an early jellyfish life stage – buds off from this ball of cells and then grows into a colony, which will eventually sprout new medusae.
“From one jellyfish that doesn’t die, then you get this colony that can form hundreds more,” Miglietta says. And each one of these new jellyfish can, in principle, rejuvenate the same way – exhibiting a seemingly endless capacity to wind back to the clock to youth.
Miglietta and other scientists are now studying the genetic and molecular processes that make Turritopsis dohrnii’s death-defying feat possible. By unlocking these secrets, scientists eventually hope to explore whether they can trigger similar kinds of processes in humans. The goal is not to turn elderly people back into babies, Benjamin Button-style – an idea that’s firmly in the realms of science fiction – but to coax cells and tissues into more youthful states to heal wounds and treat age-related maladies.
It’s comforting to think that nature has found a solution to one of the main problems of humans: ageing and death – Maria Miglietta
“The holy grail of this kind of thing, I think, would be regenerative biology: trying to reverse ageing-related degeneration or degradation,” says Michael Koldobskiy, a pediatric oncologist and physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins. “We’re a long way away from harnessing that for human benefit, but I think understanding these organisms that evolved these processes millions of years ago could potentially really pay off.”

A 19th-Century image depicts T. dohrnii, before the extraordinary nature of its lifecycle was discovered (Credit: Alamy)

Turritopsis dohrnii’s regenerative talents were first reported in 1992 by an Italian scientist who was keeping the animals in the lab and forgot to feed them over a weekend. Expecting to find them dead when he returned, “instead he found new polyps in the container”, Miglietta says.
Soon, the biologist Stefano Piraino of Italy’s University of Salento started to take an interest in what made this feat of rejuvenation possible. As embryos develop, so-called stem cells multiply and morph into the nerve cells, muscle cells and various other cell types that make up the body. Usually, they’re stuck in that particular cell type until they age and die. But Piraino discovered that, during the immortal jellyfish’s rejuvenation, certain tissues in the medusa undergo a “transdifferentiation” process where they revert back to a stem cell-type state and then specialise into other cell types.
“Adult cells become ‘undifferentiated’ and become something else that is needed to form the polyp,” says Miglietta, who used to work in Piraino’s lab.
Turritopsis dohrnii’s ability to rejuvenate earned it the nickname “immortal jellyfish”. It is – as far as scientists know – unique in the animal kingdom. While some lizards, worms and amphibians can regrow lost or injured body parts, none come close to reverting adult bodies back into babies. Turritopsis dohrnii is a remarkable demonstration that ageing and mortality is not always a biological inevitability (though scientists can’t rule out that it doesn’t eventually die naturally).

UNBELIEVABLE: Roughly 60,000 fewer Americans A YEAR died of drug overdoses because Trump closed the border.

It's an astounding accomplishment. https://t.co/eXBQLrpbQJ
— Tara Servatius (@TaraServatius) October 20, 2026

John Pilger, a man of immense intelligence & honestly wrote this in 2014.

A factual article, its contents never acknowledged today.

"Ukraine has been turned into a CIA theme park. In Orwellian style, propaganda in the west has inverted this to Moscow." pic.twitter.com/2UsvlpXFMt
— Daniel Lambert (@dlLambo) October 19, 2026

❤️ WOW! President Trump just gave a huge Thank You & shoutout to a “Legendary Friend” Elon Musk

THE DEEP STATE COULDN’T KEEP THESE 2 AWAY

WE ARE SO FREAKING BACK 🔥 pic.twitter.com/I16AgzVeUI
— MAGA Voice (@MAGAVoice) October 19, 2026

SpaceX at $20T to $50T is Ron Baron's call, and he says Elon thinks that's way low.

Starlink alone could be worth about $14T to $15T within 10 years by his math, and data centers in space could become several times bigger than Starlink.

Elon has gone further: unless there's a… pic.twitter.com/9NrJLRMt2e
— Herbert Ong (@herbertong) October 19, 2026

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