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Democrat candidate for Virginia attorney general Jay Jones is leaning into his Catholic faith on the campaign trail as recent polls show him slipping behind Republican incumbent Jason Miyares in a tightening race for the office.
A Virginia Commonwealth University survey released this week captured the shift, with Miyares holding a 45%-42% edge among likely voters, a reversal from September when Jones led 47%-41%.
The poll, conducted October 6-14 among 842 adults, carried a margin of error of plus or minus 3.95 percentage points.
Canadian Justice Minister Sean Fraser admitted that his new “hate crime” bill would indeed allow a person to be criminally charged for social media posts deemed offensive by the government.
Recently asked about Bill C-9, the Combating Hate Act, Fraser said the bill would indeed apply to certain online content that involves the “willful promotion of hatred.”
“Generally speaking, the law will apply equally online as it does in real communities,” he said, adding, “just in the limited circumstances where there is the willful promotion of hatred against someone.”
America again stands on the edge of betrayal, watching mobs assault federal officers while judges call it “restraint.”
This is not new. Between 1876 and 1878, the same script played out as those sworn to uphold the law were branded as tyrants and those undermining it claimed the mantle of freedom. When the federal government lost the will to enforce its own laws, violence filled the vacuum.
President Donald Trump’s administration is preparing to cut thousands of employees from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as the longest government shutdown in history continues with no end in sight.
The move is in accordance with Trump’s promise to cut federal workers if a government shutdown ensued, Breitbart reported.
The federal government has been shut down since October 1 as the Democrats continue to block Republican deals that would have kept the government open through the end of the year.
The October 16 poll from Trafalgar showed Democrat Abigail Spanberger had only a two-point lead over her Republican challenger, incumbent Lt. Governor Winsome Earle-Sears. Trafalgar was the closest in polling for the 2024 election, with their final poll being 0.01 points off from the actual election results.
With that in mind, we have to wonder if the Democrats aren’t a little concerned about this race. A recent panel on MSNBC seems to think Spanberger is struggling, although they totally miss the reasons why Spanberger might be in trouble.
Morning Joe: The reason Abigail Spanberger is struggling is because Americans are sexist; “other countries have no problem electing women” pic.twitter.com/3CmMLhQKKD
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 22, 2025
In case they were unaware, Earle-Sears is also a woman.
Are black women just not women to these Morning Joe idiots?
— Aldous Huxley’s Ghost™ (@AF632) October 22, 2025
That’s a video of Ted Cruz from 2013 warning of what was going to happen to healthcare under ObamaCare. It’s very important to point out that everything conservative said was going to happen to healthcare costs after Democrats rammed through ObamaCare has, in fact, happened.
Would it have been nice if conservatives did something about it at any point in the twelve years since this video? Sure. But that’s not the world we live in, and you have to fight your battles with the Republican Party you have and not necessarily the Republican Party you need.
Where we are now is the Democrat Party, after using the pandemic to blow up healthcare in America worse than they did with ObamaCare, is holding the government hostage unless Republicans vote to renew the “temporary” taxpayer-funded ObamaCare subsidies. To guilt the GOP into doing this, Democrats are rolling out sob stories. Of boomers. Who retired early. And want taxpayers to pay for their health insurance. While those taxpayers can barely afford their own health care. Because Democrats and ObamaCare have caused costs to skyrocket.
A 48-page report released in September exposes the depth of the nation’s teachers’ unions’ hostility toward all things Jewish. “Breaking Solidarity: How Anti-Semitic Activists Turned Teacher Unions Against Israel,” published by the Defense of Freedom Institute in September, explains how unions have worked to embed anti-Semitism into K–12 education.
This anti-Semitism was brought to light after Hamas’s horrific attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, the deadliest single attack on Jews since the Holocaust.
President Donald Trump has called off plans to meet with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, just days after he floated another round of Ukraine peace talks.
A White House official confirmed that Trump is not meeting his Russian counterpart “in the immediate future,” ABC News reported.
It comes after Trump suggested a summit in Hungary.
Trump’s reversal comes after a phone call on Monday between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Happy Thursday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Qwyzwelf felt that the McLean Stevenson Appreciation Society was finally ready for his take on blood sausage canapés at its annual silent auction.
Here we are again, another discussion about how far off the reservation the Democrats have gone when it comes to their everyday approach to politics. I mean, it’s really Cuckoo Land over there. I know that things started to get squirrely when His High Holiness the Lightbringer Barack Obama became president, but the combination of knowing that they had to throw in with the addled puppet Joe Biden, all the while worrying about the return of President Donald Trump, broke them in ways that I’m sure can’t be healed.
… We covered the situation in the Middle East and the ‘ceasefire’ deal, the possibility NYC will elect a socialist, immigration policy, and the rise of antisemitism particularly on the right.
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Shines (06:10):
And one of the things, William, I’m really concerned about is even here in our own country, I took a little heat for saying this. … Why would we allow individuals to come into our country whose objective is Sharia law that is antithetical to the constitutional republic that we have in this nation? Why are we not able to talk like this in a civil way and then at the same time prohibit individuals that would be so divisive that they’ll tear this nation apart if we don’t do something? Am I going too far, William, for making that assertion?
WAJ (07:18):
No. And we have not only almost 1400 years of history, we have current events. Look at what has happened in London. Look at what has happened in Paris. We don’t want to become London and Paris. We want to continue to be America.
And it’s a tension that we have because we do have a constitution and everybody has individual rights. On the other hand, the Constitution is not a suicide pact, and we’re entitled to maintain a republic that upholds that constitution. And so by allowing people in who are not committed to that, by allowing people in who do not view our constitution as valid, by allowing people in who come for the very purpose of subverting our society, we are committing suicide.
Student protesters labeled economics Professor Michael Ben-Gad a ‘terrorist’
Hundreds of scholars world-wide are backing an economics professor at the University of London after a pro-Palestinian student group called for him to be fired and labeled him a “terrorist” due to his service in the Israeli military.
A petition launched Tuesday in support of Professor Michael Ben-Gad has about 1,100 signatures from professors in the United States, Canada, Chile, Australia, and other countries.
The petition opposes the “targeted harassment campaign” by the Association of Student Activism for Palestine and City Action for Palestine against the Israeli professor. Ben-Gad also has ties to the U.S. He formerly taught at the University of Houston in Texas and serves on the U.S. National Academy of Sciences panel on the Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Immigration.
On Tuesday, October 14, 2025, Madelyne Arrowood and Lillee Dent were tabling at Abilene Christian University’s Wildcat Central campus center on behalf of their organization ACU for Life when they encountered opposition from a source they didn’t expect.
According to ACU’s website, “Wildcat Central provides tables in the McGlothlin Campus Center for on-campus groups and outside organizations seeking to advertise, demonstrate, collect information or provide resources to ACU students on campus.” On ACU for Life’s table was a handwritten sign that read, “Abortion is Murder. Disagree? Let’s talk.” While the students were expecting their sign to generate discussion, they never thought that discussion would be with ACU’s own faculty.
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Artificial intelligence is accelerating the scale and potency of the malicious activity in your email inbox. These threats no longer obvious; instead, they take the shape of professional and sophisticated messages tailored to your interests and current correspondence. But with the cybersecurity landscape quickly shifting due to AI-powered illicit activity, how can we ensure a secure inbox? And what would that practically look like?
Shane Tews spent some time discussing this and more with Cy Khormaee and Ryan Luo, co-founders of AegisAI. Cy and Ryan have spent a combined 12+ years at the forefront of cybersecurity, working to help reimagine and practically apply security on a personal level.
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Charlie Kirk’s killing last month has sparked fears that the United States is headed to an all-out second civil war or revolution. According to a YouGov survey earlier this year, “more Americans than not believe it is likely that the United States will see a civil war over the next decade” while several hundred political scientists and historians in an April 2025 survey saw the U.S. slipping into authoritarianism with Trump’s second term. Trump’s deployment of the military at home, combined with his vow to suppress “the enemy within” while his domestic advisor, Stephen Miller labels the Democratic Party a domestic extremist organization, can easily be seen as setting the stage for an authoritarian takeover.
Heavy teaching loads, shrinking university budgets and expanding workload expectations have fueled stress and burnout among professors and other university employees in recent years.
Now, an increasingly polarized political climate, as well as emerging concerns around university funding cuts, self-censorship and academic freedom, has created new pressures for university and college employees.
The result is an academic profession caught in the crosscurrents of culture and politics, with implications that extend far beyond the classroom.
Earth Is Getting Darker, Which Could Accelerate Global Warming
The planet’s brightness is dimming—changing rainfall, circulation and temperature
By Ryan Green edited by Andrea Gawrylewski
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The view of Earth from space is famously familiar—bright blue ocean, swirling gyres of white clouds, touches of terrestrial green. The luminosity of this image is the result of the sun’s rays shining on the planet, where they’re either reflected or absorbed by materials on Earth’s surface and in our atmosphere. But a new study that examined Earth’s overall brightness reveals that something eerie is happening to that familiar picture.
Scientists measure the planet’s brightness by factoring in how much light reaches earth and how much is reflected back out to space (as measured by orbiting satellites). This reflectivity is known as albedo, and Earth’s overall albedo has been decreasing for decades. But according to a new study published recently in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, that change isn’t uniform: the Northern Hemisphere is getting even darker than its southern counterpart. This loss of brightness could result in increased warming in the Northern Hemisphere, throwing Earth’s weather systems out of balance.
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Former President Barack Obama speaks during a live stream in support of California’s Proposition 50, October 22, 2025.YouTube/California Office of the Governor
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On Wednesday, former President Barack Obama joined California Gov. Gavin Newsom in a livestream for volunteers in support of Proposition 50, the governor’s redistricting measure, and the sole question on the ballot in the November 4 special election.
Federal immigration agents carried out multiple arrests in Little Village and suburban Cicero Wednesday, resulting in a crash that drew outraged protesters to the scene. Two staffers for a city alderperson, both U.S. citizens, were among those arrested.
The agents were joined by Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino, just days after a federal judge ordered him to sit for a deposition regarding the government’s handling of protesters during “Operation Midway Blitz,” President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation campaign in the Chicago area.
President Donald Trump has announced initiatives to expand access to in vitro fertilization and reduce associated costs — as each round of IVF can cost $12,000 to $25,000 — and one round is often not all it takes.
“In the Trump administration, we want to make it easier for all couples to have babies, raise children,” Trump said at the White House on October 16.
“That’s why today I’m pleased to announce that after extensive negotiations, EMD Serrano, the largest fertility drug manufacturer in the world, has agreed to provide massive discounts to all fertility drugs they sell in the United States, including the most popular drug of all, the IVF drug,” he continued.
The U.S. Military has carried out its first strike against a drug cartel boat in the Pacific Ocean. The attack, which took place on Monday, was announced in a bulletin posted by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on X.
Yesterday, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel being operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization and conducting narco-trafficking in the Eastern Pacific. The vessel was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking transit route, and carrying narcotics. There were two narco-terrorists aboard the vessel during the strike, which was conducted in international waters. Both terrorists were killed and no U.S. forces were harmed in this strike. Narco-terrorists intending to bring poison to our shores, will find no safe harbor anywhere in our hemisphere. Just as Al Qaeda waged war on our homeland, these cartels are waging war on our border and our people. There will be no refuge or forgiveness—only justice.
A leftist Howard University professor urged white allies to emulate a pre-Civil War violent radical, now used by designated terrorist organization Antifa as a revolutionary icon.
Stacey Patton, a journalism professor at the Washington, DC-based university, posted a blog post, “John Brown Didn’t Ask Enslaved People How to Be A Good White Ally.”
Patton wrote, “So when white allies ask, ‘What can I do?’ here’s the answer: Be like John Brown. Ask yourself, what am I willing to burn so somebody else can breathe?”
A Los Angeles high school history teacher who serves as a spokesperson for a local anti-ICE activist group appeared to welcome armed resistance against immigration authorities after a federal agent and an illegal immigrant were shot hours earlier.
Ron Gochez, a teacher at Dr. Maya Angelou Community High School and a spokesperson for Union Del Barrio, spoke during a news conference Tuesday night where he criticized U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
“Don’t forget where you’re standing — this is South Central Los Angeles,” he said. “They [ICE] are not the only ones with guns in this city. Don’t forget that. And I don’t say that because I’m calling for violence; I’m saying that because the people have every right to defend themselves against masked, unidentified gunmen.”
Journalist Nick Sortor just scored the first-known video recorded INSIDE an ANTIFA “safehouse” building in Portland, OR.
Something tells me it won’t be so “safe” for long, once Trump sends in Federal troops!
This cannot stand.
There cannot be mini “safehouses” in America in direct conflict with our Federal Government.
That’s called Treason.
Former Special Counsel Jack Smith is defending his decision to subpoena the private phone records of multiple Republican lawmakers during his 2023 “investigation” into President Donald Trump, insisting the move was “entirely proper” and consistent with Justice Department policy.
In a letter sent to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on Tuesday, Smith’s attorneys claimed the records were “narrowly tailored” and “carefully targeted” as part of the FBI’s “Arctic Frost” probe into what prosecutors alleged was Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election.
“As described by various Senators, the toll data collection was narrowly tailored and limited to the four days from January 4, 2021, to January 7, 2021,” Smith’s lawyers wrote.
Attorney General lashed out at Democrats who want to build a master “ICE tracker” website.
Bondi wrote on X:
Shutdown Democrats are already refusing to pay our law enforcement agents. Now, @RepRobertGarcia and @SenBlumenthal are trying to put ICE agents at risk just for doing their jobs.
@TheJusticeDepthas ZERO tolerance for violence against law enforcement — we will prosecute any person who physically assaults our agents.