Wednesday, October 8, 2025

October 8, 2025

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Trump Extends Deadline for Firing Federal Workers . . . President Donald Trump has extended the decision on when to fire federal workers as a result of the Democrat government shutdown. Trump on Tuesday told reporters he will know which permanent jobs are being eliminated "in four or five days," if the shutdown continues. "It'll be substantial," he said, "and a lot of those jobs will never come back." On Oct. 1, presidential press secretary Karoline Leavitt said layoffs would start to occur within two days. The Daily Signal

Is he going to do it, or have Democrats called his bluff?

Politics

Ted Cruz Wants to Make It Easier to Sue the Government for Censorship . . . Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) is calling for changes to the legal system to better protect consumers from government censorship, a move that comes weeks after he criticized the Trump administration's push to have late-night host Jimmy Kimmel taken off the air. Cruz plans to introduce a bill in the coming weeks that would codify protections against government-driven censorship, and make it easier for consumers to win monetary damages in lawsuits, he said in an interview. Cruz, the head of the Senate Commerce Committee, said he also plans to focus on the topic in a series of hearings that are expected to include Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr. Wall Street Journal

The answer to the left's lawfare and censorship is not more of it.

Kavanaugh Assassination Plotter's Lenient Judge Has History of Controversial Rulings

Bondi Clashes With Illinois' Durbin Over Sending National Guard Troops to Chicago . . . Durbin, the ranking member of the committee, questioned Bondi about the legal justification for President Donald Trump's deployment of the National Guard to restore law and order in Chicago. "You voted to shut down the government, and you're sitting here. Our law enforcement officers aren't being paid. They're out there working to protect you," the attorney general said. "I wish you loved Chicago as much as you hate President Trump," the attorney general told the Illinois senator. Daily Signal

Veteran defense lawyer turned judge oversees case against ex-FBI Director Comey, who will be arraigned today

Ex-Trump lawyer Ty Cobb: Bondi Most 'Reprehensible' Attorney General In U.S. History . . . "She tried to mislead the the MAGA faithful with regard to Epstein by saying, well, we'll try to get the grand jury minutes knowing that there was nothing in the grand jury minutes that would shed any light on this," he said. "It is just all a deception game. This is basically designed to affect the credibility of various institutions, the Justice Department the Congress today. The lack of respect that's being shown for the institutions that have driven America to the leadership of the world is shocking, but it is right out of the authoritarian handbook." Breitbart

Cheryl Hines: 'Disappointing' Kennedy family has split with RFK Jr. . . . Cheryl Hines says she finds Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s falling out with his relatives "disappointing," speaking out against the public "attacks" coming from members of what she thought was a close-knit family.

"It was hard. I found it to be hard," Hines said when asked by "CBS Mornings'" Natalie Morales in a Tuesday interview if it was difficult for the "Curb Your Enthusiasm" star, to witness the "rift" with her husband's family over politics. The Hill

Another reason to like RFK Jr.

Republicans Slam Spanberger's History Teaching at School Tied to Hamas . . . Republicans are condemning Virginia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger for her history teaching at an Islamic school funded by Saudi Arabia and tied to Hamas, which graduated students who went on to commit acts of terror. "While Winsome Earle-Sears wore the uniform to defend America, Spanberger worked for a Saudi-funded school tied to terrorism. Virginians deserve a governor who stands with our country and our Commonwealth," press secretary for Spanberger's Republican opponent Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears. The Daily Signal

Culture

1619 Project's left hand fingerprints are all over African American Museum at Smithsonian . . . The museum's mission is to tell the whole story of African Americans. An added bonus would be if, in casting that light, it helped heal racial rifts that have characterized that history. However, many, though by no means all, of the exhibitions at the African American museum have a political bias, and all lean in the same direction: They cast a pall over, or outright delegitimize, America, its history, capitalism, the West, and even the nation-state. Washington Examiner

Why are America's taxpayer-funded museums denigrating America with pseudo-history written by the New York Times?

SCOTUS skeptical of Colorado's last-ditch effort to save 'conversion therapy' ban . . . Oral argument Tuesday suggests Solicitor General Shannon Stevenson is headed for another loss after the high court's rulings for Colorado baker Jack Phillips and website designer Lorie Smith in First Amendment cases on compelled participation in same-sex weddings. Stevenson faced Rockies-sized legal hurdles in the Centennial State's quest to save its six-year-old ban on so-called conversion therapy for minors, struggling to convince skeptical justices that Colorado wasn't trying to circumvent their jurisdiction,. Just the News

National Security

Texas National Guard members are staged outside of Chicago . . . Members of the Texas National Guard have been spotted at an Army Reserve center in Elwood, Illinois, about 55 miles away from Chicago. The soldiers were getting settled there after President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of the National Guard to Chicago and to other Democrat-led cities. Washington Examiner

Trump called for Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Johnson to be arrested for failing to protest ICE.

GOP senators increasingly uneasy about Trump's aggressive use of National Guard . . . Republican senators are increasingly uneasy about President Trump's standoff with Democratic governors over deploying National Guard troops from other states to Portland, Ore., and Chicago. The conflict between federal and state authorities escalated dramatically over the weekend when Trump moved to send National Guard soldiers to Oregon and Illinois despite opposition from their respective governors, Tina Kotek and JB Pritzker. The Hill

Man With 200 Explosives And Leftist Manifesto Arrested Outside Supreme Court Event At Church . . . Washington, D.C., police on Sunday arrested a man with hundreds of explosive devices outside a church holding a Mass in honor of the Supreme Court. The man had a manifesto that suggested he was targeting the Supreme Court and Catholics, according to court papers obtained by The Daily Wire.Louis Geri, a 41-year-old from Arizona and New Jersey, was apprehended outside the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle on October 5. Daily Wire

International

US special envoy and Trump's son-in-law to join Gaza peace talks in Egypt . . . US special envoy Steve Witkoff and US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner will join Gaza peace plan talks between Israeli and Hamas negotiators in Egypt on Wednesday. Their arrival comes as a second day of indirect talks on Tuesday ended without tangible results, a senior Palestinian official familiar with the negotiations told the BBC. BBC

New Footage Shows Hamas Terrorists—and Gazan Civilians—Kidnapping Israeli Women and Children on Oct. 7

Money

America's Soybean Farmers Are Panicking Over the Loss of Chinese Buyers . . . American soybean farmers are in panic mode as they harvest what is expected to be a bumper crop without their biggest customer: China. "We'll see the bottom drop out if we don't get a deal with China soon," said Ron Kindred, who farms 1,700 acres of corn and soybeans in central Illinois. "There doesn't seem to be any urgency on China's side, and more urgency coming from the farm community in the U.S." Wall Street Journal

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Air Traffic Staffing Shortages Disrupt Travel for Second Straight Day . . . Air traffic staffing shortages were disrupting air travel around the nation Tuesday for a second consecutive day, with delays at airports in Nashville and Chicago. The disruptions came a day after the transportation secretary warned that the government shutdown could lead to delays and cancellations, but neither the cause nor the severity of the shortages was immediately clear. The Federal Aviation Administration said in an advisory that air traffic control facilities in Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Nashville, Chicago, Houston and Boston were short-staffed. New York Times

This is what ends shutdowns. When lawmakers have to wait in airports.

'Unusual' new side effect of drugs like Ozempic becoming 'increasingly common' . . . From sagging jowls and sulfurous burps to deflated breasts and surprise pregnancies, the side effects of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs have ranged from subtle to strange. Now, new research suggests that these wildly popular medications may also be throwing off critical medical imaging scans, interfering with doctors' ability to detect serious — even deadly — diseases. Experts say this could lead to delayed diagnoses and treatments for some patients, while others might undergo tests and procedures they didn't need in the first place. New York Post

Guilty Pleasures

AOC runs into own political correctness with "body shaming" remark about Stephen Miller . . . After significant backlash on social media with accusations of body-shaming and height-shaming, the congresswoman walked back her comments on Tuesday, claiming that she meant Stephen Miller is short on the inside, in a metaphorical sense. "I want to express my love for the short king community. I don't believe in body shaming. I am talking about how big or small someone is on the inside. If you're a good dad, if you stand with women, if you're not belittling immigrants, you're like 6'3 spiritually," she said. Breitbart

Now she is "spiritually" body shaming people. Why is it better to be taller "on the inside?" She is so dumb.

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