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NEW VIRGINIA POLL FROM @atlas_intel, the most accurate pollster nationwide AND VA last year:
— Chaz Nuttycombe (@ChazNuttycombe) November 1, 2025
Governor | 🔵Spanberger +8.7
Att. General | 🔴Miyares +1.5
Ed: This is actually disappointing news in both races. How can Jay Jones be within the margin of error after having texts exposed that proclaimed his desire to see the children of his political opponents murdered? Has the Commonwealth really fallen that far, morally and spiritually? Sick.
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Axios: President Trump's political operation is digging into its massive war chest to bankroll a multimillion-dollar voter turnout effort in the final days of the New Jersey and Virginia governor races, Axios has learned.
- Each state is getting a $1 million-plus microtargeting effort aimed at Trump supporters and other Republicans who usually skip off-year races.
Why it matters: The White House knows it's much harder to turn out pro-Trump voters and other Republicans when Trump himself isn't on the ballot.
Ed: Let's hope it's not too late to bury Jones, at least. Both of these are truly blue states, so it's not as though Trump or the national GOP had much to lose here. Virginians, on the other hand ...
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I am told hundreds of these flyers just got sent all over Jay Jones’ neighborhood in Virginia warning of an adult man who desires to see children murdered pic.twitter.com/CQcuCD1Yy5
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) November 1, 2025
Ed: Totally fair. Jones is despicable, and so are the Democrats who refused to denounce him and kept their endorsements in place.
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Newsmax: "The energy this time around is electric all around the state," Ciattarelli told Newsmax's "America Right Now."
"The reception of minority communities has been overwhelmingly positive, and I just picked up this morning another prominent Democrat who has endorsed my candidacy.
"When Democrats start endorsing the Republican candidate, it tells you how badly people want change."
Ed: Polls do show this to be a much closer race heading into Election Day than in Virginia. The RCP aggregate average has Mikie Sherill ahead of Jack Ciattarelli by 3.3 points, but Atlas Intel has the Republican behing by just one point, 49/50.
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HOLY SHIT: Biden White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre ADMITS that they pushed the "cheap fakes" scandal because they were parroting media talking points
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 31, 2025
"We were just elevating essentially what the media was saying, what the press was saying."pic.twitter.com/VN5a2jlNAw
Ed: I don't think that's the truth, however. I believe that the White House cooked up the "cheap fakes" narrative, fed it to the Protection Racket Media narrative minders in the Briefing Room, who then published it. KJP et al then amplified it. She's still lying about the corrupt Biden Regency, her role in it, and how they covered it up until the Bidens insisted on challenging Trump to an early debate.
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Audrey Fahlberg at NRO: Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, under fire for a video he posted defending Tucker Carlson for his friendly interview with white supremacist talker Nick Fuentes, has reassigned his chief of staff to another position.
In an email to the conservative think tank’s staff on Friday, Roberts announced that Heritage’s executive vice president, Derrick Morgan, had been tapped to replace Ryan Neuhaus as chief of staff, National Review has learned. ...
As the video took heat on social media, Neuhaus added fuel to the fire by reposting a number of messages about the controversy, including one suggesting that any Heritage employees who had problems with the statement should resign.
Ed: I put this attempt at damage control at the same level of integrity as KJP's explanation of the "cheap fakes" narrative. Neuhaus may deserve his share of the blame for this debacle, but Roberts made the decision to go down this road and play footsie with Fuentes and Carlson.
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Mediaite: A special Friday episode of South Park continued satirizing President Donald Trump and members of his administration, including Attorney General Pam Bondi, but the main characters of the show — Stan, Kyle, and Kenny — went off and launched their own meme coin called, “South Park Sucks Now.” ...
According to Stan Marsh:
How many weeks has it been now dealing with one stupid thing after another? The truth is, I think a lot of people are just afraid to admit that South Park sucks now. Everyone knows it. South Park sucks now, and it’s because of all this political s**t. We’re just getting totally bogged down in it. Remember when we used to do stuff? Just us guys? Ever since all this political crap took over, it’s like, what happened to us? Like, Kenny, I haven’t even heard you say anything in like four months.
Ed: Well, the first step in fixing a problem is admitting it exists. To some extent, Parker and Stone got caught up in being too online and addicted to the Cult of Politics. While they didn't go Antifa like the late-night hosts have done for the last decade or so, they have become too obsessed with politics to the exclusion of everything else. I wonder if that's why they delayed this episode by 48 hours; did they do a different, more political episode again, and finally realized it's too much?
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Concerned parents just sent us this image of what's believed to be teachers in @vailschools in Tuscon, Arizona mocking Charlie's murder with costumes that read "Problem Solved" and blood down the left side of their shirts.
— Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) November 1, 2025
They deserve to be famous, and fired. pic.twitter.com/bs95p2lkU0
Ed: Parker and Stone at least had a moment of self-reflection. Millions of idiots still have not.
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Shipwreckedcrew: What is obvious from the limited information below is the allegations that led to the opening of “Arctic Frost” are the allegations at the center of the indictment of President Trump in the District of Columbia — a significant portion of which was later thrown out by the Supreme Court on the grounds of Presidential immunity for acts within the scope of his official duties.
But that indictment named only President Trump as a defendant, with six individuals referred to as “Unindicted Co-Conspirators” but who were not charged.
Is that the first clue as to what this was all about from the very start? Seven co-conspirators — but only one was running to be the next President?
Ed: Clearly, yes. Be sure to read it all from Ship.
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They only find purpose in cruelty. The more depraved, the better they feel about themselves.
— Chad Felix Greene 🇮🇱 (@chadfelixg) November 1, 2025
They laugh with giddy euphoria at the gasps of disbelief in their inhumanity because they don't see us as people. They only see objects to destroy.
They are true sociopaths. https://t.co/zJz8lTpIKK
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I know the whole point of this is to garner a tut-tutting reaction, but I do think Kyle is effectively screaming "I don't care about persuading normal people -- I'm just trying to maximize my audience/revenue through hyperpartisanship!!" https://t.co/80Igld0gbR
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) November 1, 2025
Ed: Sociopaths or grifters? I prefer to choose ... both.
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Mary Eberstadt at The Free Press: To the shock of those who stand in solidarity with our Jewish brothers and sisters, the attacks of 2023, followed by a war in the name of Israeli self-defense, have unleashed antisemitic warfare in critical corners of the West—on campuses, in the streets, and on social media. Some perpetrators protest that they aren’t anti-Jewish, only anti-war. A word about that. Catholics are heirs to a longstanding tradition of just-war theory. It holds that wars committed in self-defense are justified. This does not mean that war is always justified. Nor does it detract from war’s horrors. Monstrosities happen in every war. That’s exactly why starting one is so grave. Hamas should not have started this war. Those who cheered the brutalized captives being carried into Gaza should not have exulted in starting this war. By the standards of just-war theory, those who willingly hid hostages in their homes and tormented them some more are also culpable in this war. And so are other people who are nowhere near Gaza—namely, those influencers who shed crocodile tears over the war, beneath which they rejoice in something else: the toxic new fumes being breathed into antisemitism.
The message needs to be heard as well by young, tradition-minded Catholics—including those called traddies, to whom I would say: You and your families and communities, you and the priests and the worshippers who walk with you, are critical to the American Church—today and to come. You are being counted on. And you are being watched, closely, not only by those who stand with you in faith but by those who don’t. And for that reason, the fact that a few in the ranks of Catholic traditionalists have dirtied their hands with antisemitism, particularly and mostly online antisemitism, is a problem not only for Jews, but for your fellow brothers and sisters in Christ.
Ed: This is a must read, especially for my fellow Catholics, but I would argue for all Christians.
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A few days ago, I posted a brief statement of what I, as a conservative, seek to conserve. The first item on the list was what I regard as the foundational principle of all sound morality: the profound, inherent, and equal dignity of each and every member of the human family.…
— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) November 1, 2025
Everything else I believe about ethics and politics in one way or another stands upon or presupposes that principle. Any form of “conservatism” (or “liberalism”) that denies it in principle or transgresses it in practice is alien to me.
That is why I believe that the conservative movement, though it can and should be a broad tent, simply cannot include or accommodate white supremacists or racists of any type, antisemites, eugenicists, or others whose ideologies are incompatible with belief in the inherent and equal dignity of all. As a conservative, I say that there is no place for such people in our movement.
So, while I understand and appreciate that politics is about “adding and multiplying, not subtracting and dividing,” and though I welcome conservatives representing a range of viewpoints on a wide swath of issues, I will not—I cannot—accept the idea that we have “no enemies to the right.” The white supremacists, the antisemites, the eugenicists, the bigots, must not be welcomed into our movement or treated as normal or acceptable.
Ed: Amen, Professor.
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Nine biological men being declared ‘Women of the Year’ by Glamour magazine is beyond parody even by ludicrous woke virtue-signalling standards… and, I suspect, the beginning of the end for Glamour magazine. pic.twitter.com/1w2ZZ64dbn
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) October 30, 2025
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