World

• Israel greases Hamas leader and 10/7 mastermind: They poured into the streets and cheered the news in Tel Aviv, and rightly so. Whether through Providence or dumb luck, the Israel Defense Forces flushed out and dispatched Hamas leader and October 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar yesterday in southern Gaza, very near the Egyptian border. According to IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari, Sinwar left behind a gun and nearly $11,000. It’s safe to assume he was on the move, making his way toward safety outside of Gaza as the IDF continued to squeeze what’s left of his Hamas fighting forces. Former Bush foreign policy staffer Dan Senor captured the extraordinary nature of Sinwar’s death and what it means to the people of Israel: “He is the closest figure Israel has to Osama bin Laden. … What Sinwar and his team, and Hamas, orchestrated on October 7 was the equivalent, on a population basis, to 33 9/11s.” Justice has now been served, but only because Israel pursued a peace-through-strength approach rather than listening to the pro-Hamas voices in the Biden-Harris regime. Instead of bowing to the moral disgrace of this administration’s pressure, Israel grimly and resolutely escalated to deescalate in Rafah, in southern Gaza, thereby preventing Hamas from regrouping to fight and murder another day. And because of it, the Jewish state is now closer to peace than at any time in recent memory.

Leftmedia & Big Tech

• Meta engineer admits election interference: The undercover journalist outfit headed by James O'Keefe has once again exposed the radical Left. This time, it’s the social media giant Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. For a long time, we, along with many other conservative media outlets, have noted Facebook’s suppressive actions against us for daring to publish conservative views and analysis. While Facebook denies it engages in any political bias, the truth is the exact opposite. In O'Keefe Media Group’s latest undercover video, a senior Meta engineer states that any anti-Kamala Harris posts on Facebook or Instagram are “automatically demoted.” He explains, “Say your uncle in Ohio said something about Kamala Harris being unfit to be a president because she doesn’t have a child; that kind of sh*t is automatically demoted.” He further notes that the individual making the anti-Harris post would not be notified that their post had been demoted. He went on to say that these individuals are then “red-listed.” When asked if this meant they were shadow-banned, he answered, “Yes.” This confirms what we have long asserted. Meta is infringing Americans’ free speech rights.

• Free State of Florida sues Biden administration over voter rolls: Those of us who can remember back when Florida was a battleground state are happy to see that the Sunshine State isn’t resting on its red-state laurels. Yesterday, in the face of pre-election interference from Alejandro Mayorkas and the Department of Homeland Insecurity, Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody slapped the Biden-Harris regime with a lawsuit over its refusal to help the state purge the noncitizens from its voter rolls. If we didn’t know better, we’d say this is part of a pattern from the regime — especially when we consider its similar efforts to force Arizona and Virginia to keep their contaminated voter rolls rather than clean them up. “Voting,” said Moody, “is a right granted to American citizens — not illegal immigrants or other noncitizens. The Biden-Harris administration has allowed millions of illegal immigrants into the country, and we must ensure that only citizens are on our voter rolls. I am taking legal action against the Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Mayorkas to ensure Florida is able to maintain the integrity of our state’s voter rolls.”

• NYT withheld evidence in plagiarism story: Earlier this week, Christopher Rufo alleged that Kamala Harris plagiarized in her book Smart on Crime. Following Rufo’s report, The New York Times dutifully dismissed it as amounting to little other than what plagiarism expert Jonathan Bailey concluded was “an error and not an intent to defraud.” However, as Bailey has now received the full dossier, he said that his analysis was only his “initial reaction,” and “with this new information … I believe the case is more serious than I commented to the New York Times.” However, Bailey maintains, “The overarching points remain. While there are problems with this work, the pattern points to sloppy writing habits, not a malicious intent to defraud.” In other words, Harris plagiarized, but it doesn’t matter because it’s not as bad as some have played it up to be. Effectively, Bailey argues that because others have been forgiven “for much greater plagiarism sins,” holding it against Harris as anything other than simply being sloppy work is unfair. That’s what you get with a DEI hire like Harris.

• CBS hit with FCC complaint over edited 60 Minutes Harris interview (Washington Examiner)

Politics

• What Biden told Obama: Remember when, in the immediate aftermath of the Democrats’ coup against Joe Biden, Barack Obama dragged his feet on endorsing Kamala Harris? On Wednesday, at the funeral of Ethel Kennedy, we got a definitive sense of why. As the New York Post reports, “President Biden griped to former President Barack Obama that ‘she’ is ‘not as strong as me’ — with Obama agreeing ‘that’s true’ — in a stunning off-mic conversation deciphered for The Post by a professional lip reader.” Ouch. Joe Biden sets a pretty low bar for presidential strength and vigor, but Harris’s performance of late lends credence to his assessment. The Post continues: “Moments earlier, Obama said, ‘It’s important that we have some time together,’ in a possible reference to campaigning alongside Harris. The dialogue was translated for The Post by Jeremy Freeman, a London-based forensic lip reader who was born deaf and for 16 years has served as a University College London-certified expert witness for litigants, the police and journalists.” So, we can say with confidence that the democracy defenders within the Democrats’ high command are experiencing a serious case of buyer’s remorse.

• Border Patrol resignations? Does anyone really believe the border crisis will improve under a Kamala Harris presidency? She shifts the blame to Donald Trump for the Biden-Harris open border, but everyone knows the score. Should Harris win the election, the situation will get worse given that members of the agency tasked with securing the border promise to leave the job. “I’m not doing this … again,” said one agent who described working under the Biden-Harris administration as “four years in hell.” Another stated, “Lots of guys who can retire will go” if Harris wins, but “if Trump wins, they’ll stay.” Another agent explained, “Under this administration, they’ve done everything they could to make our job as inefficient as possible. They can’t outwardly tell us not to do our job, but when you’re watching criminals come in and get released, it sucks.” While Harris promotes herself as a “border state prosecutor,” the agents that have had to live under her and Biden’s leadership know better. As Yuma Border Patrol Chief Chris Clem observed, “The morale has never been as low in the Border Patrol, but under the Biden-Harris administration and her current ads, acting like she’s pro-border security is just putting salt on an already gaping wound for the morale of border Border Patrol agents and law enforcement.”

• DeSantis doesn’t take the climate bait: After two hurricanes hit Florida in a matter of weeks, Governor Ron DeSantis has once again demonstrated his competence as a leader in quickly responding and meeting the needs of Floridians. But that is not the story some Leftmedia reporters want to focus on; rather, they are more interested in pushing the climate change narrative. DeSantis refuses to placate this nonsense. A reporter asked, “When will the words ‘climate change’ come out of your mouth?” DeSantis responded, “The chance of me virtue signaling for people in the media is zero, so do not count on that. I don’t — I don’t subscribe to your religion.” DeSantis then went on to educate the reporter regarding the climate change agenda, stating, “I think you should be more honest about what that would mean for people, taxing them to smithereens, stopping oil and gas, making people pay dramatically more for energy. We would — we would collapse as a country. So this whole idea of climate ideology driving policy — it just factually can’t work. And so, in Florida, our energy is gonna be affordable and reliable. That’s what we’re gonna do.” Exactly.

Culture

• Seinfeld slinks away from reality: Back in April, comedian Jerry Seinfeld committed a grievous gaffe — defined as an accidental telling of an inconvenient truth — when he blamed the hard Left for the death of comedy. “This is the result of the extreme left and P.C. crap, and people worrying so much about offending other people,” he said at the time. Everyone knows this to be true, but something has happened to Seinfeld since then because he’s now walking back that bit of truth-telling. Speaking on his “Breaking Bread” podcast, Seinfeld said he “regrets” the remarks. “I said that the ‘extreme left’ has suppressed the art of comedy. I did say that. That’s not true. It’s not true. If you’re a champion skier, you can put the gates anywhere you want on the mountain, and you’re going to make the gate. That’s comedy.” That may be true, Jerry, but skiing is a lot more interesting when the slopes are steeper and when the skiers are bolder, braver, and unafraid of missing a gate here or there.

Economy

• Wealthier Americans are driving retail spending and powering U.S. economy (Associated Press)

• Kmart’s blue light fades to black with the shuttering of its last full-scale US store (Associated Press)

Sex Abuse

• Los Angeles Archdiocese reaches $880 million sex abuse settlement (Reuters)

• Harris took credit for this inmate sex change policy as a “transitioned” murderer will serve his time in a women’s prison (Washington Times)

• Under Tim Walz, Minnesota pays for kids to go on “queer” wilderness trips without parents (Daily Wire)

• Report exposes top 12 US hospitals that are transing the kids (Not the Bee)

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