Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy, 10/30

[SVPete]

ICE Rioters Had a Very, Very Bad, 'Find Out' Kind of Day

https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2025/10/29/you-can-run-but-it-turns-out-if-you-attack-ice-officers-you-cant-hide-n4945402

This was a bad week for the bad guys who wanted to kill or maim Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in two raids last summer. There are now more of them in custody and looking for lawyers.

Over the past few days, federal officers have rolled up key bad guys who were involved in ambushing ICE and other federal officers during two notorious raids—one in California and one in Texas—and in the violent attack on state patrol officers during the latest L.A. ICE riots. One involved an Antifa perpetrator, and the other involved angry activists who were called to riot at the site of a notorious pot farm raid by using phone apps to vector them to the scene.

Early Wednesday morning, Department of Homeland Security officers arrested a man in connection with the notorious pot farm raid in Ventura County, California, in July. The scene of the raid, the Glass House marijuana farm facilities, is where ICE and other federal officers discovered underage workers and detained more than 300 people.

Before the July 10 raid got underway, dozens of people, who were part of a social media collective, identified the raid was happening and descended on the facility. Some of them had weapons.

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The U.S. Attorneys Office in Central California revealed that some of these people were part of an organized group formed to attack and block the officers who were arresting criminal aliens.

During the operation, numerous protesters – some of them were members or associates of “VC Defensa,” a volunteer group whose members follow, chase, agitate, and impede federal agents enforcing immigration laws – arrived in and around the area of the Glass House Farms.

VC Defensa “Rapid Response Network” members also conduct surveillance of DHS office buildings and alert the community to the presence of federal agents within their neighborhoods. During the Glass House Farms enforcement operation, protesters, including VC Defensa members, built a roadblock using farm equipment at the primary entrance and exit to the Glass House Farms.

One man brought a handgun and shot at officers. Another man, arrested on Wednesday, could be seen throwing large rocks at federal cars on another road where protesters had formed another barricade ambush site.

Hopefully they get a heaping serving of FAFO.

[SVPete]

Don Lemon: Megyn Kelly Looks Trans

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2025/10/29/don-lemon-megyn-kelly-looks-trans-n3808357

I'm starting to think Don Lemon doesn't like women. I know that's shocking but hear me out. Lemon hosted a podcast on his You Tube channel featuring two guys who I think work for him, John Cotter and Chris Miglioranzi. They call it the Clip Famers Podcast and I guess the idea is that Lemon is reacting to things online with a couple of guys who are 30+ years younger than he is.

Most of the 30-minute show was just the two young guys mocking right-wing people in various ways and Lemon chiming in and agreeing with them. Lemon's YouTube channel has just under a million subscribers and after three days this podcast has nearly 13k views.

In any case, at the end of this clip one of the guys is trying on Lemon's glasses (it's riveting content) and he makes a joke saying "I'm Don Lemon, hey Megyn Kelly." Lemon laughs and asks him where that is coming from. The the other guy says he has a real question. "Is Megyn Kelly chopped?" Chopped is slang for unattractive. That leads to this exchange:
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After agreeing Kelly is "chopped," Lemon adds "I think she looks trans." He went on to say she was "clockable" which is apparently slang meaning someone is identifiable as trans.

IRL, Megyn Kelly is a pentagenarian and has 3 children. Lemon's beauty-shaming is a fail. And alongside her obvious womanhood, when did "Trans" become denigration among Progs? Is it because strong women are more macho than he is?

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Trump embarrassed on world stage as Chinese leader delivers fact-check to his face

Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a diplomatic rebuke to President Donald Trump during their bilateral meeting in South Korea, dismantling Trump's claims about resolving the border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia.

Xi, speaking through an interpreter, carefully acknowledged Trump's presence at the peace signing while subtly undermining his narrative. "During your visit to Malaysia, you witnessed the signing of the Joint Declaration on Peace along the Cambodia-Thailand border, and you provided your support," Xi stated, before asserting China's central role.

" China has assisted Cambodia and Thailand in our own way to resolve the border dispute, and we continue to promote peace talks to address other pressing issues in the region."

Winnie the Poo didn't say anything different than what Trump had said about the deal, yet Raw Story (and countless clueless moonbats) lap up what the commie dictator says as absolute truth.

[SVPete]

RawStory is shilling for X-the-Pooh? Trump-Hatred really makes strange bedfellows.

[SVPete]

Nolte: Mean Girl AOC Tells Full-Time Mom Riley Gaines to ‘Get a Real Job’

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/29/nolte-mean-girl-aoc-tells-full-time-mom-riley-gaines-to-get-a-real-job/

Mean girl Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) used her verified X account to tell women’s rights activist and full-time mother Riley Gaines to “get a real job.”

It all started on Monday when Gaines posted a photo of AOC, socialist U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and the next mayor of New York, communist Islamist Zohran Mamdani. Gaines added the caption, “We’re being destroyed from within.”

The next day, an obviously angry AOC chimed in with this bizarre personal attack on Gaines: “Maybe if you channeled all this anger into swimming faster you wouldn’t have come in fifth.”

What?

Is AOC really mocking Gaines for coming in fifth in… all of America? Additionally, Gaines is a 12-time All American swimmer. She’s a five-time SEC champion. If that’s not impressive enough, at an age when most activists lose their composure or are destroyed by youthful hubris, Gaines has become a composed and respected activist to protect women’s rights in sports, specifically against the cheating men who say they are women so they can use their massive biological advantages to steal medals and opportunities from females.
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“I have a real job. I’m a mom. It’s the most important & rewarding job in the world,” Gaines fired back. “I think if you had a baby girl like I do, you’d understand my positions a little better.”

It takes a speh-shul kind of moronic feminazi to set herself up for that retort.

[SVPete]

Trump Administration Overhauls Biden’s DEI Broadband Program that Connected Zero Households in 4 Years

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2025/10/29/trump-administration-overhauls-bidens-42-5b-broadband-program-that-connected-zero-households-in-four-years/

Trump’s Assistant Secretary of Commerce and administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Arielle Roth, outlined the Administration’s policies for reforming the wasteful Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program in a speech at the Hudson Institute this week. According to Roth, “For years, BEAD was weighed down by red tape and extralegal conditions that slowed down states, deterred providers, and sidelined innovative technologies.”

As Breitbart has previously reported, BEAD was filled with DEI mandates, climate-regulation burdens, and a fiber-technology bias that virtually banned viable satellite and fixed-wireless solutions — despite fiber being inefficient in sparsely populated areas. Rather than prioritizing connecting rural Americans most cost-effectively, BEAD under Biden became an ideological vehicle — so much so that the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) admitted four years after the bill’s passage that it hadn’t connected a single household.

The $42.5 billion federal program prioritized woke corporate mandates and handouts to the politically connected fiber and broadband lobby, while discriminating against far more efficient Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellite technology, such as SpaceX’s Starlink. Four years after it passed, it proposed spending tens of thousands of dollars per household, but failed to connect a single American.

Bureaucratic regs, pay-to-play politics, and tech-ignorant bureaucrats and political minions making decisions resulted in zero households being connected in 4 years? Who could have foreseen that?

[SVPete]

Mamdani Under Fire for Claiming NYPD and Israel Are Linked in ‘Conspiracy’ Over Police Brutality

https://wokespy.com/mamdani-under-fire-for-claiming-nypd-and-israel-are-linked-in-conspiracy-over-police-brutality/

New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani is facing renewed scrutiny after a resurfaced video from 2023 showed him suggesting that the New York Police Department (NYPD) and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are connected through a “conspiracy” tied to police brutality in the United States, as reported by The Western Journal.

The remarks, first reported by The New York Post, came during a panel at the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) national convention, where Mamdani served as a keynote speaker.
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In the resurfaced clip, Mamdani — a Democrat representing Astoria, Queens — claimed that international solidarity helps reveal connections between what he described as capitalist systems abroad and domestic law enforcement practices.

“The importance for me of international solidarity is that it takes me out of the American political landscape and reminds me just how tame some of the things are that I’m actually calling for,” Mamdani said.

He continued, “We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it’s been laced by the IDF. We are in a country where those connections abound. Especially in New York City, you have so many opportunities to make clear the ways in which that struggle over there is tied to capitalist interests over here.”

I've not posted a lot wrt Mamdani. He seems to have a Teflon coating that shields him from consequences of destructive policies and past idiocy and bigotry, so there isn't much point, as best I can see.

[SVPete]

Wall Street Journal: ‘Easing’ Rent Prices Coincide with Less Immigration to U.S. Under Trump

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/29/wall-street-journal-easing-rent-prices-coincide-less-immigration-u-s-under-trump/

The “easing” of rental prices coincides with a slowdown of illegal and legal immigration to the United States, the Wall Street Journal admits.

The Wall Street Journal piece, titled “Renters Have the Upper Hand. And They Are Probably Keeping It,” details rent prices dropping across the United States as the market is tilted toward renters rather than landlords.

Immigration, the Journal admits, has played at least some role in rent dropping, as less demand has decreased housing prices:

Renters across much of the U.S. have enjoyed easing prices and months of free rent this year. Now, this tenant-friendly environment looks poised to extend deep into next year, and perhaps beyond. [Emphasis added]
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Remote workers who once helped power the Sunbelt’s population boom are getting called back to the office. And as President Trump cracks down on international immigration, the influx of new foreign residents is also slowing.

Reducing demand while supply is unchanged results in reduced prices? Who could foresee it?

[SVPete]

Abby Zwerner: 'I Thought I Was Dying'

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2025/10/30/abby-zwerner-i-thought-i-was-dying-n3808399

The civil trial filed by former teacher Abby Zwerner against former assistant principal Ebony Parker is taking place this week. Zwerner filed the $40 million lawsuit after she was shot by a 6-year-old student and nearly killed. Evidence and testimony so far in the case confirms that Parker was warned four separate times that the 6-year-old boy might have brought a gun to school.

An education expert testified yesterday that Parker had a duty to respond to those warnings.

Ann Shufflebarger, an expert on school administration called by Zwerner’s attorneys, testified that people alerted former assistant principal Ebony Parker four times to the gun they believed the student brought in a backpack...
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Shufflebarger testified that it was Parker’s job to confiscate the backpack, secure and search the student and contact law enforcement.

Not only did Parker not take these steps herself, she prevented anyone else from doing so.
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Parker's defense has argued that she did nothing wrong that day, but as I argued yesterday, I think there is likely a racial issue at play in this case that no one wants to talk about. Why didn't Parker act? I believe it's because the child, who had been in trouble at school before including choking a teacher the previous year, was black. Parker, as a black principal, was probably concerned about the so-called school to prison pipeline. If she had searched the backpack and found a gun she would have been obligated to call the police and this incident would have followed that student for years to come. I think she was hoping to avoid all of that, essentially for equity.
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I get that this is the defense's job but it seems wrong that any efforts to move forward with her left are essentially being framed as proof that she's not telling the truth about the impact of being shot. Zwerner spent two weeks in the hospital. She has had multiple hand surgeries and the bullet is still lodged next to her spine. She left teaching and has no plans to ever return to a classroom. The idea that she's overselling the impact of this because she went to a concert seems pretty far-fetched.

I had to leave out quite a bit, for Fair Use reasons, but the defense is trying to use Zwerner's attempts to rebuild her life as evidence that she was not severely impacted.