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Over the last 5 days, agencies terminated and descoped 94 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $8.5B and savings of $546M, including a $533k Dept. of Commerce consulting contract for “editing support services to the Fisheries Resource Division” and a $61M HHS research contract for “solutions to support innovation in pursuit of affordable and better healthcare”.

And his same threads, even when the new post doesn't match the thread. Deranged. MEANWHILE in the SCHUMER SHUTDOWN THREAD.

Transgender Man Who Planned To Assassinate Brett Kavanaugh Gets Off Easy, Will Serve Just 8 Years The man who planned to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022 in an attempt to change the court’s balance of power was sentenced by a Joe Biden-appointed judge on Friday to 97 months in prison, granting the defendant’s request for an eight-year sentence. Judge Deborah Boardman, a Joe Biden appointee to Maryland federal court, acknowledged there was “a whopping 22-year difference” between that and the minimum of 30 years called for by federal sentencing guidelines. Prosecutors had asked for sentencing guidelines to be followed. https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-man-who-planned-to-assassinate-brett-kavanaugh-gets-off-easy-will-serve-just-8-years .

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They sure don't here at PPP Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul Joins Democrat Shutdown Blame Game In Hopes That Nobody Knows How the Senate Works A DNC memo has definitely gone out to Democrat governors all around the country in the hopes that a lack of adequate civics instruction in public schools over the many years will pay off when it comes to their Schumer shutdown finger pointing. That's where New York Gov. Kathy Hochul comes in to push the same thing. The government is not funded because the Democrats are choosing to keep it shut down, it's just that simple, but Hochul can't help but join the parade of Dem liars: https://twitchy.com/dougp/2025/10/03/dem-gov-kathy-hochul-joins-dem-shutdown-blame-game-in-hopes-that-nobody-knows-how-the-senate-works-n2419867

LOL. Libs always go too far. HMM: Rebellion brews against nanny state in deep blue Denver. Of all places to find a growing citizens’ rebellion against the nanny state, who’d guess it’s happening in woke Denver? Take note — if Denverites can claw back a little freedom from their elite, it can happen in your city too. In this city of 70 breweries, 2,000 liquor establishments, some 300 cannabis dispensaries and now mushroom clinics, it was pure poetry when the city council and Mayor Mike Johnston passed a ban on adults buying flavored tobacco and nicotine products, you know, for the kids. A hint of cherry in your beer — sure. Peach-infused vodka — bring it on! Any bit of flavor in the product you’re using to help you quit smoking — a perversion that must be stamped out. I imagine the city council members who voted to disempower people from their own bodily autonomy also spout “my body, my choice.” The cognitive dissonance required for this type of selective maternalistic fascism is monumental. After all, those elite took away the personal decisions of 730,000 Denverites because, well, they know what’s right for others. What they don’t say aloud, but we hear perfectly, is, “your body, our choice.” And constituents are finding that offensive. Fortunately, some feisty business owners who didn’t appreciate potentially watching their shop be put out of business as pot shops spring up around them decided to do something. They delivered more than 17,000 signatures to repeal this bit of intolerance. And they’re starting to get some interesting allies. https://completecolorado.com/2025/10/01/rebellion-against-team-nanny-denver-ballot/ Flavored vapes is where Denverites finally, maybe drew line?

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Meet the Syrian Migrant Named Jihad Who Killed Manchester Jews Catherine Salgado No one grounded in reality will be shocked to discover the background of the terrorist who attacked a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur. Jihad Al-Shamie, whom Greater Manchester Police describe as a “British citizen of Syrian descent,” took his name so seriously that he decided to wage jihad (“holy war”) on the congregants of Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue. After all, Islamic sacred texts command the killing of Jews. Jihad thought he was on his way to Paradise for running over and stabbing Jews, so he was in for a fiery surprise after law enforcement shot him. The police tentatively identified the killer as Al-Shamie but noted that other individuals were also in custody in connection with the ongoing investigation. The police were also, of course, reluctant to admit that there could be any obvious motivation for a Syrian to attack a synagogue. What a mystery. Al-Shamie drove his vehicle into the synagogue and stabbed a man to death in an attack that killed two and injured multiple people. The synagogue was full at the time due to service for Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/10/02/meet-the-syrian-migrant-who-killed-manchester-jews-n4944410

That would be Shawn Farash, Trump’s Best Impersonator

CA Sec. of State Owns Up to Big Mistake on Newsom's Gerrymandering Special Election Ballots by Becky Nobel When they are in power, Democrats love to make up the rules as they go along. But when Republicans take over and decide to play the game by the rules Democrats made up, well, that's a problem. Former President Barack Obama was fond of chiding Republicans with a condescending "elections have consequences" reminder. Recently, Republicans on both the national and state levels have not been so subtle about returning that same rebuke in the form of an old Democrat "strategy": mid-decade redistricting, or gerrymandering, before the 2026 midterm election. Democrats are not happy, and the epicenter of their unhappiness is California. {snip} But because California Gov. Gavin Newsom is all about sticking it to Texas, and ultimately Donald Trump, the result is Proposition 50, which will be on the November 4 ballot in California. If passed, it could eliminate four to six Republican seats in a state that is already gerrymandered within an inch of its life. But there are a few problems: one, unlike Texas, California's state constitution prohibits mid-decade redistricting, and two, in 2008, voters approved a measure that would transfer power to redraw congressional districts from the state legislature to an independent "citizens" commission. Bypassing the law has never been an issue for Democrats, so fast forward to today. With a little over a month to go before the election, mail-in ballots have already been sent to millions of voters. However, on Tuesday, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber admitted to a big mistake regarding those millions of mail-in ballots that have gone out. A labeling error in the Voter Information Guide mistakenly labeled the proposed new congressional district 27 as district 22. https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2025/10/01/ca-sec-of-state-owns-up-to-big-mistake-on-newsom-gerrymandering-special-election-ballots-n2194619

DOE Takes a Scalpel to 'Nearly $8B' in Blue States' Green Energy Waste During Schumer Shutdown by Becca Lower The Democrats appear to have miscalculated on triggering a government shutdown by a vast measure, which we started to see in motion mere hours after the Schumer Shutdown began on Oct. 1. President Trump signaled in a Truth Social post he was eager to sit down with OMB head Vought in the afternoon, to dig into what extraneous government spending might get cut--especially anything prized by the Democrats. Anyway, sure enough, on Wednesday evening, the Energy Department chimed in, sharing in a press release posted on X that after a review that started in May, they had "determined that these projects did not adequately advance the nation’s energy needs, were not economically viable, and would not provide a positive return on investment of taxpayer dollars." Here are the offices and agencies that were awarded the money: Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Office of Grid Deployment (GDO) Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains (MESC) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) and Fossil Energy (FE). Long story short, the DOE said to the green energy scammers: Not on our watch. https://redstate.com/beccalower/2025/10/02/ombs-vought-takes-a-scalpel-to-nearly-8b-in-blue-states-green-energy-waste-during-schumer-shutdown-n2194674

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JOHN NOONAN: The Speech the Pentagon Didn’t Want, but the Military Needed. War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s headline-grabbing speech in Quantico this week has irked the professional commentary class but is drawing accolades from those who matter — the men and women on the frontlines of America’s defense. Hegseth’s remarks to every general officer in the U.S. military, which called for a force-wide military reset and realignment back to warfighting fundamentals, were derided in all the usual places. The Atlantic led with “hundreds of generals try to keep a straight face.” The New York Times wrote, “his address focused on the kinds of issues he would have dealt with as a young platoon leader in the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq or as a company commander in the Guard. He talked about grooming standards. . . . He preached the importance of physical fitness . . . [he said] without presenting any evidence, that standards had been lowered across the force over the last decade to meet arbitrary racial and gender quotas” (evidence of that here, should NYT researchers need assistance for future stories). MSNBC’s header proclaimed the speech “was even worse than expected.” Not one of the authors of these pieces was a veteran. None of them fought on combat deployments under the failed military leaders of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. And none of them were twice awarded the Bronze Star like Hegseth. My various interactions with military pals are hardly scientific, but credibly tell a very different story than the one bouncing around the usual echo chambers. One USAF fighter pilot and graduate of the service’s elite weapons school, on the cusp of separating from service, texted me that he “may have to reconsider leaving.” Another Air Force colleague, a quiet critic of this administration, admitted, “at least we’re getting serious again.” And an old infantry officer pal, now retired, offered me a relieved “finally.” A more scientific Congressional report in 2021 found that 94 percent of sailors interviewed said the string of high-profile operational failures was related to Navy culture and leadership problems. (Full disclosure, I worked on this report as a Senate staffer). The reaction to the speech was reflective of the wider disconnect between people who think for a living and people who do for a living. It was a microcosm of the 2016 and 2024 elections, with high-wealth, high-status coastal smarty-pants types utterly appalled at the national electorate’s rejection of weird political fads, their plea for common sense, and exhausted need for a return to the basics of good governance. This is a fair summarization of the Biden Administration’s treatment of the Pentagon. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas frames it as a widening ideological dichotomy between the “people who take a shower before work and the people who take a shower after work.” I always liked the French philosopher Michel de Montaigne’s quote, possibly apocryphal, “I prefer the company of peasants as they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.” In modern America, there seems to be an inverse relationship between educational credentials and common sense. https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-speech-the-pentagon-didnt-want-but-the-military-needed/

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