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Indicted Illinois congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh rage quits an interview after Tara Palmeri plays the video of her banging on the hood of a federal agent’s car and attempting to impede it. pic.twitter.com/hQwzFvc7BO
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 30, 2025
Ed: Welcome to the Democrat Party. The look on Tara Palmeri’s face when Abughazaleh just leaves rather than answer a question about her alleged crime is legit stunned. Tara herself explains …
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Tara Palmeri: When I brought her on, I did what I always do: I asked straightforward questions. How was she feeling? What happened that day? What does she make of the charges? How might this affect her ability to serve in Congress?
Pretty standard journalism. I didn’t expect hostility — but halfway through the interview, she ended it. Just sign off in the middle of a question.
It was genuinely shocking.
Before we started, she mentioned that there were some things she couldn’t discuss because it’s an ongoing legal case. That’s normal. I’ve heard that line hundreds of times. She could have easily said, “I can’t get into the details, but here’s what I can say.” Instead, she shut down.
Ed: Radical leftists don’t want to answer questions about their behavior. They want to act with impunity and without accountability, which is why Abughazaleh believes she can violate the law and write it off as “speech.” She’s about to miss her election, unless she cuts a deal with federal prosecutors. And right now, the DoJ just ain’t open for that kind of business when it comes to radicals obstructing federal law enforcement.
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POLITICAL VIOLENCE: Democrat political leaders like Katherine Abughazaleh pretend that blocking and beating on the vehicles of federal workers, obstructing ICE agents, trespass, vandalism, throwing frozen water bottles, and blocking roads are all forms of free speech while they… pic.twitter.com/o2Im8xazC9
— @amuse (@amuse) October 29, 2025
Ed: This wasn’t the first time, either, and it’s not even the incident for which she was charged. Abughazaleh was caught on video obstructing ICE vehicles in a different incident, resulting in the charge. And in what her defense attorneys will have to order extra Tylenol to handle, Abughazaleh posted the video of her obstruction on Bluesky. No, seriously.
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Breitbart News: “The FBI has zero tolerance for forcible criminal conduct against law enforcement officers engaged in their lawful functions,” added FBI SAC DePodesta. “Impeding federal officers performing their duties or conspiring to do so are criminal offenses. The people of Chicagoland deserve safe communities and peaceful streets and the FBI and our partners will continue to investigate and hold accountable those who undermine the rule of law through criminal activity.”
Abughazaleh, a former writer for the extreme, left-wing, activist outlet Media Matters, moved to Chicago from Washington, D.C a year ago and immediately launched a bid for Congress despite having no history or voting record in the Windy City or the state of Illinois. She only registered to vote in the state in September and doesn’t even live in the district she is supposedly running to represent.
The carpetbagger candidate was arrested after one of her numerous rounds of protesting against ICE in the Chicago suburb of Broadview after officials said she attempted to block an ICE vehicle in a federal facility’s driveway.
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Kat Abughazaleh – who cheered on the prosecution of a man for allegedly obstructing access to an abortion clinic – has now been federally indicted for obstructing a law enforcement officer in the performance of his duties https://t.co/GRi1froQVp
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) October 30, 2025
Ed: Sauce for the goose …
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Jim Geraghty at NRO: Where was all this when she was in the job? Criticism of Jean-Pierre outside of the conservative press wasn’t unheard of, but it was rare. More often, we got gushing profiles about how historic she was — as she endlessly reminds us — by being a “black woman who is part of the L.G.B.T.Q. community.” In October 2024, Vogue did a big glossy spread on how she was “always on the go.” It was her second glossy profile in the magazine in a bit more than a year!
I alluded to this earlier in the week on X, but it’s time to call it out directly: Everybody’s ripping into Jean-Pierre now, because it’s safe to do so. The Jean-Pierre of 2025 is not all that different from the Jean-Pierre of 2022, 2023, and 2024. If you’re reading this, you probably thought Jean-Pierre was an idiot long ago. But now that Jean-Pierre can no longer do favors for reporters who want to cover the president, she’s an easy, risk-free target for everyone in Washington. It’s amazing how her idiocy was coincidentally discovered about 15 minutes after every reporter in Washington no longer needed access or scoops from the Biden White House.
Ed: Sort of how reporters and cable-news hosts launched ‘exposés’ of Biden’s cognitive incapacity as soon as Donald Trump got sworn into office. That’s more or less SOP, but it’s more obvious with KJP because she’s exposing herself as an idiot, and that reflects poorly on all of the reporters who have kept quiet about it for two-plus years.
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Q: “Did you think you were going to win?”
KAMALA HARRIS: “Yes. I was in a state of shock. My campaign manager called me and said we need 200,000 more votes that we can’t find. I haven’t felt that emotion in quite some time.” pic.twitter.com/J6y0Y6sofO
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 30, 2025
Ed: As my pal Seth Leibsohn likes to say, she is the dumb person’s idea of a smart person. Almost no one thought Harris would win in the final two weeks, and really the race was more or less over after Donald Trump’s shift at McDonald’s. It was all but over after Trump’s defiance in Butler County, but between the McDonald’s shift and the garbage truck, the writing was so prominently on the wall that only a dolt could miss it.
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Mediaite: When Stewart clarified that his question was based more on policies more than “competence” and Harris declared she believes Biden was “fully competent” and ready to serve another four years. The former president is currently 82.
“I believe he was fully competent to serve,” Harris said.
“Do you really?” a shocked Stewart asked.
“I do,” Harris said.
“That surprises me, actually,” Stewart responded.
Ed: Stewart chickened out. It surprises everyone to hear it because it ain’t true, and yet Stewart never uttered a syllable to challenge her on it, despite the obvious incapacitation that got exposed on national television in June 2024.
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🚨 BREAKING: Chuck Schumer faces a stunning loss after being CALLED OUT for holding the government hostage by the presidents of Airlines for America, Southwest Airlines Pilots Association, Allied Pilots Association, Air Traffic Controllers Association, U.S. Travel Association.… pic.twitter.com/Ti7NOreTOb
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 30, 2025
Ed: Supposedly, the Senate Dem strategy is to wait to pass the CR until after the elections on Tuesday, so that the activist Left remains engaged in Virginia and New Jersey, but … I don’t know how that works, frankly. When Schumer has to cave anyway, millions of Americans who had their lives disrupted over this stunt are going to be furious over being exploited for Schumer’s political safety.
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Daily Wire: Democrat gubernatorial candidate Mikie Sherrill said she would push for New Jersey classrooms to mandate LGBTQ curriculum with no parental opt-out if she were to become governor.
Sherrill made the comments during a primary debate in May, but the controversial remarks have resurfaced in the days leading up to the New Jersey gubernatorial election between Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli on November 4.
“I believe that parents have the right to oversee their children’s education,” Sherrill said. “I would push an LGBTQ education into our schools. Parents have a right to opt out of a lot of things, but this is not an area where they should be opting out, because this is an area of understanding the background of people throughout our nation.”
Ed: Parents in New Jersey can opt on Tuesday by voting for Jack Ciatterelli.
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Ladies and gentlemen, “principled conservatism” has reached its final form pic.twitter.com/PcZThuI0lX
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) October 30, 2025
Ed: Of all strategies for conservatism, voting Socialist to pwn the MAGAs is … one of them, I guess. To be fair, I don’t think Republicans should vote for Cuomo either, but Curtis Sliwa is still on the ballot. If that means Mamdani wins, well, then New York City can learn H.L. Mencken’s definition of democracy firsthand.
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Free Beacon: Pro-Hamas activists Abdullah Akl and Mohammad Badawy have called to “strike Tel Aviv” and destroy “the illegitimate Zionist occupiers and all of their supporters.” Now they’re launching an initiative to form student chapters in dozens of New York City public high schools.
Akl, an advocacy director with the Muslim American Society (MAS) Youth Center in Brooklyn, recently announced the group’s “MAS in Schools” initiative, which aims to create prayer spaces and host Islamic events at 50 New York City high schools. The group will partner “for the first time ever” with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), the radical organization that earlier this month called for “death to all collaborators” of Israel, to do so.
Ed: Even if Mamdani somehow loses, the Big Apple is already lost. Y’All Street beckons.
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TRICK OR TREAT 🪇 pic.twitter.com/EnxiiVnp2S
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) October 30, 2025
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