• October 7 anniversary: Two years ago, Hamas broke a ceasefire, crossed the border with Israel, and carried out the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. In the two years since, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Iran itself have waged war under various guises against Israel, which has destroyed the leadership of its enemies several times over. In recent weeks, the UK, France, Canada, and Australia have rewarded Hamas for its evil by recognizing a Palestinian state. Donald Trump proposed a peace plan for the region that has been technically accepted by Israel and Hamas and should lead to the release of the remaining hostages, both living and dead. Hamas celebrated the anniversary of the attack, remembering it as “a glorious day,” while Israel mourned the brutally murdered victims.

• The sanctuary showdown: Following the incident in Chicago in which ICE agents found their vehicle rammed and boxed in by 10 vehicles containing anti-ICE activists, and no Chicago police showed up to assist, Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson has only doubled down. On Monday, Johnson announced that he was creating “ICE-free zones” around the city, and he couched this action as “reigning in this out-of-control administration.” Johnson explained that “city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as staging grounds for these raids.” Chicago has a long history with the mob, but it would appear that the Windy City’s government is, for all intents and purposes, the mob. Johnson’s actions protect illegality and lawlessness. Chicago isn’t the only city taking anti-ICE action, as Democrat leaders in blue states across the country have engaged in similar actions to resist the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement.

• Dems, media circle the wagons around Jay Jones: Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones’s vile comments about his desire to see a political opponent murdered should be enough to compel every lawmaker from both sides of the aisle to demand that he step aside. Instead, state Democrats and Leftmedia outlets have come rushing to defend him. A petition to stand with Jones has garnered the signatures of numerous Virginia Democrat lawmakers, and the Associated Press is framing the Republicans as disingenuously “seizing” on Jones’s violent rhetoric for political advantages before the election. Predictably, more has surfaced exposing his vile worldview. A fellow lawmaker notes that in 2020, in arguing over a bill to remove qualified immunity protection from law enforcement officers, Jones allegedly said, “Well, maybe if a few [police officers] died, that they would move on, not shooting people, not killing people.”

• Spanberger and the Islamic Saudi Academy: Abigail Spanberger, the Democrat gubernatorial candidate in Virginia, is “proud” of her time teaching at the Saudi-run Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA) in Northern Virginia during the 2002-2003 school year. In 1998, of the 185 Islamic schools in the United States, only one was entirely funded by a foreign nation — the ISA. In 2002, recent graduates of the Academy were suspected of seeking to commit a suicide terror attack in Israel. Hatred of Jews and non-Muslims was in line with the ISA’s teachings, which included the statement that the Day of Judgment couldn’t come until Jesus returned and converted everyone to Islam and Muslims started attacking Jews. As the Virginia gubernatorial race comes to a close, perhaps Spanberger should be pressed about what exactly makes her “proud” about training up radical Muslims.

• Waste, fraud, and abuse in the VA: The Department of Veterans Affairs, the healthcare system for the nation’s military service members, serves millions of America’s veterans, but it suffers from significant waste, fraud, and abuse. One particular concern is the VA’s disabled veterans compensation program, which shelled out some $193 billion to roughly 6.9 million disabled veterans last year alone. Millions of claims were related to relatively minor issues that rarely hinder employment. For example, issues like eczema, hemorrhoids, acne, and varicose veins. The crux of this problem is the VA itself, as it encourages veterans to file as many claims as possible to milk the system. There is also a growing problem of fraud, where the number of veterans filing multiple claims per person has increased significantly over the last two decades.

• Bad Bunny on “Saturday Night Live”: Puerto Rican musician Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, a.k.a. “Bad Bunny,” appeared on “Saturday Night Live” after he was picked to perform the halftime show at the next Super Bowl. Ocasio delivered part of his monologue in Spanish despite SNL historically being an English-language broadcast, and he mocked the majority of the country that doesn’t speak Spanish with his follow-up: “And if you didn’t understand what I just said, you have four months to learn.” His Spanish remarks were a self-aggrandizing tripe about the significant contributions of Spanish-speaking individuals to the U.S., as if that justifies anti-Americanism.

• Seattle schools dole out “gender-affirming supplies”: Seattle Public Schools (SPS) coordinated with Seattle Children’s Hospital this year to launch the Community Health Locker Project. The name sounds good, so what supplies were deemed necessary for a community health locker? As it turns out, these include makeup, Nair hair remover, chestbinders, TransTape, nipple guards, and tucking underwear. The student-led Garfield Gay-Straight Alliance group advised on the project, specifying which products would be necessary and in what quantities. Defending Education, an organization dedicated to preventing harmful activist agendas from infiltrating schools, obtained the emails planning the locker project in a Freedom of Information Act request. Also in the acquired emails was advice from the district’s LGBTQ+ support officer, priming the schools and the students to performatively “affirm” gender-confused students ahead of and after the holidays due to possible “non-accepting” families.

• Editor fired for seeking climate debate fairness: Fairness is anathema when it comes to media outlets peddling leftist propaganda, an editor recently found out. Marty Rowland had been working as special editor at the American Journal of Economics and Sociology (AJES) until he was recently fired. Rowland’s offense was that he dared to publish a paper that refuted the popular view of carbon dioxide’s impact on the global climate. To be clear, Rowland was not advocating for the “climate denier” view; rather, he was interested in promoting the ideal of free and fair debate on the issue. But free and fair was apparently a bridge too far for AJES, which told Rowland that publishing a view that challenged the anthropogenic climate change position was “dangerous.” Never mind the fact that the Department of Energy recently released a view on the effects of carbon dioxide that is surprisingly balanced and not ideologically driven. You know, like how science is supposed to be practiced.

Headlines

• CDC immunization schedule adopts individual-based decision-making for COVID (HHS)

• State of Illinois, city of Chicago sue Trump over National Guard (NewsNation)

• Gangbanger allegedly put bounty on Border Patrol chief (NY Post)

• Illegal crossings along U.S.-Mexico border plummet to lowest annual level since 1970 (CBS News)

• Supreme Court rejects Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal to reverse sex-trafficking conviction (National Review)

• Humor: Nine terrifying changes Bari Weiss is making at CBS News (Babylon Bee)

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