They call it déjà vu, could it be the tab that I once knew …
This is the wildest attack ad I’ve ever seen in politics. Andrew Cuomo pulling out all the stops. pic.twitter.com/rPQ77Z3bE7
— Stephen Taylor (@stephen_taylor) October 23, 2025
Ed: Holy … cow. I can’t stand Cuomo, but this is a thing of beauty. “Daisy” was less nuclear than this. But did Cuomo’s campaign really put this together? It doesn’t have the usual disclaimer text at the end.
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Power Line: Minneapolis voters (who are 80-90% Democrats) face a Hobson’s choice next month at the ballot box. They could opt for the gradual (though accelerating) decline offered by two-term incumbent Democrat Mayor Jacob Frey. Or they could take the offer of a quick coup de grâce from sitting state Sen. Omar Fateh, another Democrat.
In this odd-year election for mayor and city council, few voters will actually turn up to make any choice. A low-turnout environment favors the challenger Fateh, whose base of support exhibits a far greater appetite for destruction.
For reasons I am unable to fathom, the city’s newspaper, The Star Tribune, is out today with its umpteenth puff piece on the youngish (age 35) state senator.
Ed: Bill Glahn offers this under the headline, “Gradually, then suddenly,” the Ernest Hemingway quote explaining how his main character in “The Sun Also Rises” went bankrupt. That is how American cities are also going bankrupt in every way possible: financially, politically, morally, and culturally.
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NSFW — language, violence, and death:
If Madani wins, a preview of New York’s future can be seen at 0:40 and 2:40 below. https://t.co/QOcG60nII8
— SweetLittleAngel (@SweetLitAngel) October 23, 2025
Ed: This is the end result of progressive urban governance. This is Portland, but as we know, this could be any major American city these days. We are done with the “gradually” phase. Get ready for “suddenly.”
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Reuters: Russian President Vladimir Putin remained defiant on Thursday after U.S. President Donald Trump hit Russia’s two biggest oil companies with sanctions to pressure the Kremlin leader to end the war in Ukraine, a move that pushed global oil prices up 5%.
The U.S. sanctions prompted Chinese state oil majors to suspend Russian oil purchases in the short term, trade sources told Reuters. Refiners in India, the largest buyer of seaborne Russian oil, are set to sharply cut their crude imports, according to industry sources.
Ed: I’m mildly surprised to see India comply with US and EU sanctions, but much more surprised that China might start suspending purchases. I wonder how long that will last. China can get its crude through rail and pipelines, at least to some extent, so they have ways to hide some of that trade if they choose. India doesn’t have those options and they know that the West will be watching carefully. Maybe China wants to press Putin on the Ukraine war.
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All the phonies clutching their pearls about the sanctity of @TheJusticeDept prior to this administration, can just sit down and shut up now that the sheer Constitutional carnage wrought by the Biden DOJ has been exposed. Hard to believe Merrick Garland was almost on SCOTUS! https://t.co/K2lVdLmKOj
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@HarmeetKDhillon) October 23, 2025
Ed: We owe Mitch McConnell a huge debt of gratitude for that. Garland was part of the most politically corrupt administration since Watergate, and perhaps ever.
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Ed: Problem solved? Not exactly. The new tat looks like a tic with distended limbs, although it’s supposed to be a … what is that, anyway? Apparently, it’s a Celtic wolf, but it looks more like Nero Wolfe.
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Free Beacon: Graham Platner, the bearded socialist running for U.S. Senate in Maine, has unveiled the new tattoo he got to cover up the Nazi skull on his chest. In place of the Totenkopf, or “death’s head,” symbol adopted by Holocaust perpetrators during World War II, Platner’s new tattoo depicts what might charitably be described as a morbidly obese Celtic wolf drawn by a six-year-old child.
Experts slammed the Nazi cover-up as one of the worst tattoo jobs they have ever seen, noting that parts of the skull and crossbones were still clearly visible. “Whoever did this is not particularly talented,” said Adam Kredo, 53, a degenerate blogger with numerous tattoos depicting the unspeakable. “It’s a horrible tattoo, and the quality is truly piss poor. The embellishments on each side are a sloppy mess.”
Ethan Barton, an egregiously tattooed liberal journalist who resides in the hipster cesspool of Denver, Colo., was also unimpressed. “The lines on the circle are especially bad,” he told the Washington Free Beacon. “Looks wobbly as hell.”
Ed: Kredo and Barton write for the Free Beacon, of course. Andrew Stiles’ essay is hilarious.
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Worse And Worse: Platner Also Has A Nickelback Tattoo https://buff.ly/FhRMGJF
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) Oct 21, 2025
Ed: Platner needs more than a nickel back from that tat artist, that’s for sure.
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Politico: Amid fallout from Platner’s controversial years-old social media posts, his campaign began sending non-disclosure agreements to staffers last week, according to his former top political director, Genevieve McDonald, who said she declined to sign one.
“The campaign offered me $15,000 to sign a NDA,” McDonald told POLITICO in an interview. “I did not accept the offer. I certainly could have used the money. I quit my job to work on Platner’s campaign, believing it was something different than it is.” …
Revelations of the staffing changes and non-disclosure agreements — which have not been previously — come as Platner’s campaign is in damage control. On Wednesday, the candidate confirmed to The Advocate that his Reddit posts included “homophobic slurs, anti-LGBTQ+ jokes, and sexually explicit stories denigrating gay men.”
Ed: Democrats have had a hell of a year in candidate-vetting, eh? Jay Jones wishes death on his political opponents’ children, and now their Senate candidate with the young-male vibe turns out to be a Nazi bigot on the QT. It’s so bad that they can’t even get disillusioned staffers to sign NDAs.
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HOLY SHIT: California has issued over 60,000 commercial driver’s licenses to ILLEGAL ALIENS
Americans are losing their lives to illegals on the road because of this.
Newscum did this.pic.twitter.com/lEk8vQlAw0
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 23, 2025
Ed: There’s no problem with issuing 62,000 CDLs to illegal aliens — who would have no right to work in the US? That’s absurd, not to mention the Real ID issue that Homan brings up here.
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Tyler O’Neil at the Daily Signal: Major tech companies are distancing themselves from the Southern Poverty Law Center, a leftist group that demonizes conservatives and Christians, after facing pressure over previous relationships with the SPLC in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
Kirk’s alleged murderer said he killed the Turning Point USA founder because he “spreads too much hate.” The assassination took place two months after the SPLC put Turning Point USA on a “hate map” with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan—a “hate map” that had inspired a terrorist attack in 2012. The SPLC condemned the assassination, but kept Turning Point on the map. …
“The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated October as Hate Crimes Awareness Month—but few organizations have sown more hatred against fellow Americans than the SPLC itself,” Heritage Chief Advancement Officer Andrew Olivastro previously told The Daily Signal. “It doesn’t fight hate—it manufactures it, embedding division into every press release they issue and every word they post; their business model is defamation, and America is finally waking up.”
Ed: It’s long past time to force accountability on corporate boards that have kowtowed too long to radical-progressive pressure groups. It’s just horribly sad that it took a political assassination to act as the catalyst for depoliticizing corporate America.
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Were it not for the ACLU’s past defense of child pornography, I would say this was the absolute nadir for the institution. https://t.co/FWUAlv428y
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) October 23, 2025
Ed: The ACLU should be next on the chopping block. They have long since abandoned defenses of civil liberties in favor of pushing the hard-Left political agenda.
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NY Post: Newly installed CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss had a phalanx of six bodyguards in New York City on Tuesday as she has faced heightened security concerns, a source with knowledge of the matter told The Post.
Weiss had guards described as “beefy” and “chiseled” as she attended a conference at the New York Historical Society put on by private equity giant RedBird Capital.
The source said the detail was hired because “there are enhanced security concerns.”
Ed: Was the call coming from inside the house?
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Mediaite: A host of top Democrats and left-leaning media figures ran wild with a misleading caption applied to a clip of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
During Thursday afternoon’s briefing at the White House, a reporter asked Leavitt, “In addition to the ballroom and the Rose Garden patio, is the president looking at any other renovations or significant kind of projects here at the White House?” She replied:
Not to my knowledge, no. But he’s a builder at heart, clearly. And so his heart and his mind is always churning about how to improve things here on the White House grounds. But at this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president’s main priority.
A clip of the exchange shared on X by Acyn Torabi — senior digital editor for the progressive outlet MeidasTouch — was captioned, “Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president’s main priority.”
Ed: Progressive media lies. The East Wing renovation is the silliest non-troversy in recent memory, and the coverage and reaction to is nothing short of embarrassing.
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The DNC is so mad that President Trump is building a new ballroom at the White House, they posted a sad Instagram video last night.
Too bad their intern put in a photo of the East Wing in Buckingham Palace, not the White House.
Cry more libs. pic.twitter.com/UKYpGGckLl
— GOP (@GOP) October 23, 2025
Ed: Great job, everyone. Four stars. No notes.
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