MY SISTER JUST GOT BACK FROM A TRIP TO INDIA

By Howie Katz

 

    
 

      

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                         My sister at the Taj Mahal 

 

Like most tourists, my sister went to the Taj Mahal. She also saw a Bengal tiger in the wild. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                 My sister's tiger  

 

She said it was a really great trip. 

PRESIDENTE TRUMP, POR FAVOR, VENGA A VERME ...Y QUE SE JODA KRISTI NOEM

Trump golf club worker mistakenly deported to Mexico

 

By James Gordon 

 

Daily Mail

Nov 1, 2025

 

 

 

Alejandro Juarez, 39, a father of four and longtime worker at one of Donald Trump's golf clubs was accidentally deported to Mexico after immigration officers placed him on the wrong plane 

 

A longtime worker at one of Donald Trump's golf clubs was accidentally deported to Mexico after US immigration officers placed him on the wrong plane. 

Federal officials have since admitted the blunder violated standard deportation procedure and likely broke the law.

Alejandro Juarez, 39, a father-of-four who spent more than a decade working at Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County, New York, was supposed to be transferred to a detention facility in Arizona last month. 

Instead, ICE officers shackled him, flew him to Texas, and forced him to cross a bridge into Mexico - all before he ever appeared before an immigration judge.

After being unshackled, he was handed a bag with his belongings and made to walk over the bridge the Mexico.

'It was very hard, deported without giving me an opportunity to defend my case,' he said. 'And that's how my journey in the United States ended,' Juarez said in a phone interview from Puebla, Mexico.

Officials at the Department of Homeland Security later conceded that Juarez had been 'removed to Mexico early because he was put on the incorrect transport.' 

The mistake left his wife and four American-born children behind in New York and exposed procedural lapses within an agency under renewed pressure from the Trump administration to speed up deportations.

 

Juarez spent over a decade working at Trump National Golf Club in Westchester, New York

 

Internal ICE emails reviewed by The New York Times show officials scrambling to locate Juarez after realizing he had been placed on the wrong flight.

Juarez's case is an example of how the overburdened immigration system, rushing to meet political demands, can tear families apart in minutes. 

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), ICE's parent agency, initially denied that Juarez had been deported claiming he was simply detained because of a 2022 DUI conviction. Only later did the agency acknowledge its error.

A DHS spokesperson explained how ICE is now arranging Juarez's return to the United States to resume formal deportation proceedings.

Juarez's wife, María Priego, now works double shifts as a maid in Westchester County, New York, trying to support their four children alone. 

'We're sad and devastated for what my husband has gone through,' she said. 'We depended a lot on him and are waiting for any good news from our lawyer.' 

Their eldest son, 20, serves in the US Marine Corps. Their younger children, ages 10, 12, and 16, were born in America. 

 

Juarez's eldest son, 20, serves in the US Marine Corps. Their younger children, ages 10, 12, and 16, were born in America. He is seen here along with his wife

Juarez is pictured with other family members now he is back in Puebla, Mexico

 

'My 10- and 12-year-old children ask me on the phone, 'When are you returning, Papi?' ' Juarez said. 'We can't be without you.'

Juarez worked for more than a decade at Trump National Golf Club Westchester, serving food and tending grounds before being fired in 2019 when the Trump Organization purged undocumented employees amid scrutiny of its hiring practices.

He continued to build a quiet life in Yorktown, working two jobs, one at a hotel and another maintaining private estates in order to support his family. 

But his 2022 arrest for driving while intoxicated, with two of his children in the car, brought him to ICE's attention. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and received three years' probation.

That offense, ICE argued, made him a 'public safety threat.' 

Yet Juarez continued to comply with every scheduled check-in at ICE's Manhattan offices until September 15, when agents suddenly detained him. 

His wife, waiting in their car outside 26 Federal Plaza, had no idea he had been taken away.

Juarez's attorney, Aníbal Romero, learned of his client's deportation only when Juarez called him from Mexico five days later.

'I'm in Mexico,' Juarez told him. 

'This is unprecedented in my 20 years of practice - an individual being removed without any hearing, leaving even the court and DHS confused,' Romero said.

 

Several workers at the Trump property have been deported over the years 

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported along with thousands of other illegal immigrants in March as part of Trump's crackdown on border security 

Abrego Garcia is seen hugging his wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura at the ICE office in Baltimore 

 

At Juarez’s scheduled immigration hearing in New York, Romero told the judge that his client had already been expelled. Even ICE’s lawyer admitted he didn’t know where Juarez was.

The case has amplified criticism of ICE’s chaotic internal processes under the renewed Trump administration push to accelerate deportations. 

Similar blunders have surfaced before: in one case earlier this year, officials mistakenly deported Kilmar Armando Abrego García to an El Salvadoran prison; in 2022, a man was sent to Guatemala without a final removal order.

The DHS civil-rights office previously urged ICE to create a process for rectifying wrongful deportations, but advocates say little has changed.

For now, Juarez remains more than 2,500 miles away in Mexico, banished by bureaucracy and seemingly stuck there after an error ICE has reluctantly admitted.

TRUMP: THE WORLD'S TOP COP

Trump threatens military action against Nigeria over killings of Christians

 

By Melissa Koenig 

 

Daily Mail

Nov 1, 2025

 

 

President Donald Trump warned on Saturday that the United States would take military action in Nigeria if the killing of Christians continues

 

Donald Trump has threatened military action against Nigeria if the government continues to allow terrorists to kill Christians.

The African country is being roiled by internal violence, including a jihadist insurgency spearheaded by extremist group Boko Haram in the northeast since 2009.

Amid the various forms of bloodletting around the country - including ethnic rivalry and banditry - the Islamist militants have been slaughtering Christians as well as Muslims they regard as 'apostates' for failing to comport with their brand of Islam.

There has also been a separate onslaught by Fulani Muslim tribesmen against mainly Christian farming communities, a protracted crisis linked to a tangle of issues like religion, ethnicity and a scramble over the dwindling supply of arable land.

Trump has already designated Nigeria a 'country of particular concern,' but he took his condemnation of the situation in the country even further on Saturday, warning that the United States may strike Nigeria if the horrendous murders continue. 

'If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the USA will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria and may very well go into that now-disgraced country "guns-a-blazing" to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,' he wrote on X.

'I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action,' the president declared, noting that any attack would be 'fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians.'

'WARNING: THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT BETTER MOVE FAST!'

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth echoed the sentiment, as he announced his department is preparing for action.

'The killing of innocent Christians in Nigeria - and anywhere = must end immediately,' he wrote on social media.

'Either the Nigerian Government protects Christians, or we will kill the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities.' 

The Nigerian state and the Christian Association of Nigeria have denied claims that a 'Christian genocide' is unfolding in the country.

'For the avoidance of any doubt, and out of respect for all the victims and survivors around the world of this unique and appalling crime against humanity, let the record show that there is no genocide, now or ever, in Nigeria,' Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, the Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs told Newsweek. 

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu also argued on social media that the characterization of Nigeria as being religiously intolerant does not reflect reality, as the country's population of 220 million is split almost equally between Christians and Muslims.

'Religious freedom and tolerance have been a core tenet of our collective identity and shall always remain so,' he wrote. 

'Nigeria opposes religious persecution and does not encourage it. Nigeria is a country with constitutional guarantees to protect citizens of all faiths.' 

Still, the allegations have been gathering steam on the American right and was also leveled by liberal commentator Bill Maher on a recent episode of his political talk-show Real Time with Bill Maher.

Maher, a fervent supporter of Israel, slammed what he felt was the media's hypocrisy in focusing on Gaza while devoting scant attention to Nigeria, and rapper Nicki Minaj thanked Trump for recognizing the issue on social media.

 

Boko Haram has been slaughtering Christians as well as Muslims they regard as 'apostates' for failing to comport with their brand of Islam.

Coffins are seen arranged inside a hall during a mass memorial service for victims of an attack

Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has fought back against Trump's characterization that the country is religiously intolerant

 

US Senator Ted Cruz has also urged Congress to designate Africa's most populous country as a violator of religious freedom with claims of 'Christian mass murder.' 

By designating Nigeria as a 'country of particular concern' (CPC) Trump declared on Friday that the United States views the country as being engaged in 'particularly severe violations of religious freedom,' under the International Religious Freedom Act of the Clinton era.

While announcing the move, Trump said that 'Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria' and revealed he was also 'asking Congressman Riley Moore, together with Chairman Tom Cole and the House Appropriations Committee, to immediately look into this matter, and report back to me.'

He added: 'The United States cannot stand by while such atrocities are happening in Nigeria, and numerous other Countries. We stand ready, willing, and able to save our Great Christian population around the World!'

RABIN'S ASSASSINATION ENSHRINED THE OSLO ACCORDS AS A SACRED LEGACY OF THE LEFT, WHILE FOR THE RIGHT THE ACCORDS SYMBOLIZED DECEPTION AND NATIONAL ENDANGERMENT

Those who knew him know: Rabin's legacy is not peace

The Israeli Left loves to long for the prime minister who brought the Oslo Accords, but Yitzhak Rabin's true legacy was opposition to a Palestinian state, and a commitment to Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley – goals around which Israelis can still unite.

 

by Amnon Lord 

 

Israel Hayom

Nov 1, 2025

 

 

Yitzhak Rabin

 

 

The man who stayed close

Yitzhak Rabin was a chief of staff beloved by his soldiers. Looking back across the decades, it's striking to see him in an old Yoman Hatzahal newsreel from just after the 1967 Six-Day War, attending an officers' graduation ceremony. As the event ended, soldiers and their parents crowded around him, forming warm circles of admiration. You could see in their eyes the affection and respect he inspired. There were no such scenes around Moshe Dayan. He commanded admiration, but not closeness.

Looking back, Rabin was a military leader whose relationship with his soldiers felt almost intimate. He studied at Kadoorie Agricultural School, on the slopes below Mount Tabor. The old Chizbatron troupe once sang about the calf stolen from Kadoorie by the guys from Sejera as a gift for their beloved Hedva. Locals still recall stories of how, in 1942, Rabin and his men from the Palmach scoured the hills near Juara in a frantic search for his lost pistol. That says it all.

There are probably Israelis today who no longer recognize his distinctive voice. Years ago, when I asked a colleague to check a recording for me, he came back puzzled: "Who's speaking on this tape?" It was Moshe Dayan. I was stunned that someone could fail to recognize such a familiar sound. Rabin's voice was equally distinctive, a firm, authoritative baritone, clipped and decisive, lending him an air of analytical intelligence.

Behind that commanding tone, though, lay shyness and vulnerability. His role in the Six-Day War was less prominent than legend suggests, and the postwar struggle over credit soon began. Within the Israeli Labor establishment, the old Palmach elite, academia, and cultural circles, a battle raged between the camps of Rabin and Dayan. Levi Eshkol, the prime minister during the war, was largely forgotten, even though he was the one who declared, "We have returned to our holiest places, never to part from them again."

Later, the group calling itself "Citizens Supporting Eshkol" became "Citizens Supporting Rabin." Along with his achievements, the war left Rabin with a scar that would follow him for life, his breakdown after a bitter meeting with David Ben-Gurion, who accused him of having dragged Israel into the war through poor judgment. Ben-Gurion, curiously, always had a soft spot for Rabin. He despised the Palmach and Yigal Allon, yet liked Rabin deeply, perhaps because of Rabin's conduct during the Altalena Affair, when he acted according to Ben-Gurion's wishes.

Because of that Oslo

For three decades, memorial ceremonies and community events commemorating Rabin have drawn their meaning largely from the fact that Benjamin Netanyahu has dominated Israeli politics since his assassination. Some argue that the unspoken "charge" behind the legal campaign against Netanyahu has always been his supposed moral responsibility for Rabin's death, a kind of modern blood libel that reenergized the Left.

 

 

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meeting in Casablanca with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, October 30, 1994. 

 

Unlike other countries where leaders have been assassinated, in Israel an entire segment of society was blamed collectively. The tragedy is that Rabin's death enshrined the Oslo Accords as a sacred legacy of the Left, while for the Right they symbolized deception and national endangerment. Rabin himself had long resisted the idea of negotiating with the Palestine Liberation Organization. Only two months before the signing ceremony on the White House lawn did he agree to meet Yasser Arafat and accept the PLO as a partner. Until then, he remained committed to the official Washington talks with the joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation he inherited from Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir.

Many on the Right felt betrayed, that Rabin had concealed his true intentions during the 1992 election campaign. True, he repeatedly ruled out direct talks with the PLO, but he did say publicly that he planned to grant the Palestinians autonomy in the territories within nine months of taking office. That was his policy, not a capitulation to Shimon Peres or Yossi Beilin, except insofar as he later signed that autonomy agreement with Arafat.

I followed Rabin closely during that 1992 campaign as a reporter for Tel Aviv Weekly. I heard him speak about Palestinian autonomy at a house meeting in Beersheba and again at a gathering of Arab mayors in Shfaram. His spokesman, Gad Ben-Ari, who was a friend of mine from the army, got me in. Labor was betting heavily on Arab voter turnout, as Rabin was not especially popular in that sector. Four years earlier, at another rally, he had bluntly said: "No one expelled more Arabs than I did." But by 1992, he was conciliatory and pragmatic. To Tel Aviv's bourgeois voters he promised "to take Gaza out of Tel Aviv," a slogan born of the wave of stabbings that had struck the city.

"Rabinism" encouraged

Rabin's worldview embodied the spirit of the 1948 generation and the victory of 1967: peace would come, eventually, but only when the Arabs were ready. Israel would hold the territories until then. In his final Knesset speech, a month before his assassination, he insisted that "the Jordan Valley, in the broadest sense of that term, will remain Israel's security border" and that Jerusalem "will remain united under Israeli sovereignty." He declared repeatedly that Israel would never return to the pre-1967 lines.

But Rabin and his colleagues failed to foresee that the territories handed to the PLO, the Palestinian Authority, would become bases for rocket fire and terrorism. He dismissed warnings from Netanyahu and Ariel Sharon that rockets would one day be launched from Gaza toward Ashkelon. "From Gaza? Impossible," he scoffed.

During that same period, Meretz MK Yossi Sarid declared, "Rabin must be encouraged." And indeed, as Labor shifted leftward, the Israeli Left was already legitimizing contact with Hamas, the terrorist arm of the Muslim Brotherhood. In December 1992, Rabin's government expelled 415 Hamas leaders to southern Lebanon. The move was turned by the Left and by US President Bill Clinton into a propaganda victory for Hamas. Israel was forced to bring the deportees back, and left-wing activists, led by Uri Avnery, protested in solidarity with Hamas in Jerusalem. Avnery later boasted that their campaign had proven that Israel could never again carry out such expulsions.

That episode marked a turning point. The return of Hamas leaders from Lebanon inspired a wave of suicide bombings between 1994 and 1996 and signaled the collapse of the Oslo process. Ironically, Clinton, who sent Rabin off with the words "Shalom, chaver" – "Goodbye, friend" in Hebrew – helped undermine Oslo even before it began.

A battle over legacy

Today, Rabin's legacy has hardened into dogma. Figures like Prof. Uri Bar-Joseph, a leading voice in Israel's old defense establishment, still promote the formula of ending "the occupation" through a Palestinian state and land swaps, the same thinking that would bring Hamas tunnels within meters of Kibbutz Be'eri. To them, even the October 7 massacre was not a historical rupture but merely another large-scale terrorist attack, on a continuum with Maalot, Munich, or the 1978 Coastal Road attack.

The old Left still refuses to see the Palestinians as a jihadist, antisemitic enemy bent on Israel's destruction. Just as Rabin saw parts of the right "murderers of peace," the Left today brands "messianic annexationists" as the main problem for Israel's future.

After Rabin's assassination, the upper echelons of the IDF and the defense establishment were dominated by his loyalists, including successive chiefs of staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak and Ehud Barak. They passed down a worldview that dismissed military solutions to terrorism and treated the conflict as a "manageable confrontation." Settlers were framed as obstacles to peace. In later negotiations, Rabin was even willing to withdraw from most of the Golan Heights – back to the June 4, 1967 lines – when the Assad regime still appeared powerful.

Ultimately, Rabin's true directive was not peace, but the defense of the Jordan Valley and Jerusalem, and rejection of a sovereign Palestinian state. That is the mission facing Israel's next generation of leaders: to unite the nation across political lines in firm opposition to Palestinian statehood, and to accept the price, even sanctions, that such unity may entail. In that struggle, Israel can still draw on Rabin's spirit as a source of national strength.

THE HEZBOLLAH TERRORISTS ARE BETTER PAID AND EQUIPPED THAN LEBANON'S ARMY

Hezbollah has 40,000 operatives, 15,000 projectiles, says US envoy

Lebanon is a “failed state,” Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack says. 

 

JNS

Nov 1, 2025 

 

US ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria Tom Barrack at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, Lebanon, on August 26, 2025 

 

Hezbollah in Lebanon is 40,000 strong with 15,000 to 20,000 missiles and rockets at its disposal, U.S. Special Envoy for Syria and Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack said on Saturday.

He spoke during a panel discussion at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Manama Dialogue in Bahrain, regarding Lebanon’s failed attempts to demilitarize the Iranian-backed Shi’ite organization.

The Lebanese Armed Forces has 60,000 soldiers, he continued. “The only problem is, the Hezbollah soldiers make $2,200 a month, while LAF soldiers make $275 a month. … [Hezbollah has modern equipment and] LAF soldiers are driving old Jeeps [with] MK-47s. So which army is which?” Barrack asked.

Lebanon is a “failed state,” he said. “It has no central bank. The banking system is bust. Riad Salameh, the head of the central bank, has been indicted all across Europe. There are $60 billion missing from the Lebanese banking system. … The electric [company of Lebanon] is bust, it’s broke. If you want electricity, you need a private generator. You want water, you need private water. You want education, you need private education.

“So what is the state?” he asked. “The state is Hezbollah. You go south, Hezbollah gives you water, it gives you an education, it gives you a stipend.”

The envoy told Emirati state-owned daily The National that Jerusalem has intelligence that Hezbollah is rearming, which is why Israel cannot withdraw from the five points over the Lebanese border it took over during its latest war with the terrorist group.

“Israel’s point of view is … that Hezbollah is actually rebuilding all the way along the Bekaa [Valley],” Barrack noted.

Between Lebanon and Syria, the U.S. official said that Damascus could reach a normalization agreement with Jerusalem first.

“Syria is showing the way. Syria will get there first. Lebanon can draft in it or not, and Israel would react to them accordingly. We have nothing to do with it,” The National quoted the ambassador as saying.

Speaking with AFP at the conference, Barrack said that talks with Jerusalem need to be direct, with no intermediators. “The conversation needs to be with Israel. It just needs to be with Israel. Israel is ready. March to that door, to Israel, and have a conversation, it can’t hurt,” he added.

As for Turkey, the special envoy said that “If we hold together, if the momentum holds together—that Jared [Kushner] and Steve [Witkoff] and the great teams keep this moving in Gaza—in not too long of a time you’ll see a trade deal between Turkey and Israel.”

He added that the two countries “will not be at war with each other. … You’re going to get alignment from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean.”

Israeli-Turkish relations have taken a nosedive over the past decade, with Ankara under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan endorsing anti-Israel views while harboring members of terrorist groups such as Hamas.

Hezbollah’s leadership was largely decapitated over the course of September and October 2024, in a series of Israeli Air Force strikes in Beirut and elsewhere across Lebanon.

The unprecedented pagers operation carried out by the Israeli intelligence community maimed and killed thousands of Hezbollah terrorists.

HAMAS IS DELIBERATELY SLOW-WALKING THE RETURN OF THE DECEASED HOSTAGES TO AVOID ITS DISARMAMENT

Hamas again hands over remains that don’t belong to hostages

The terrorist group could immediately recover at least two bodies, Israeli authorities say. 

 

JNS

Nov 1, 2025

 

 

 

Hamas members search for the remains of deceased hostages, kidnapped by Hamas during the October 7, 2023, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, October 28, 2025.

 

Hamas transferred to Israel the remains of three individuals that do not belong to any of the 11 slain hostages still held by terrorist in Gaza, Israel’s broadcaster Channel 13 reported on Saturday.

The remains, which Red Cross intermediaries handed over to Israel overnight Friday, were examined by the National Institute of Forensic Medicine in Tel Aviv’s Abu Kabir neighborhood.

The Israel Defense Forces says that at least two bodies of deceased captives can be recovered immediately by the terrorist organization, while Hamas may truly not know the whereabouts of three to five others.

“We ruled out the possibility that the remains returned last night are linked to any Israeli hostage,” an Israeli official told Ynet on Saturday.

“Specifically, this incident does not constitute a violation, since from the outset we assessed with low probability that the remains belonged to hostages. We prefer that Hamas hand over findings so we can verify them. That said, Hamas continues its fundamental violation—the failure to return the bodies of the fallen,” the official added.

According to the ceasefire terms, in cases of uncertainty, remains should be transferred to Israel for verification.

However, Jerusalem believes that Hamas is deliberately slow-walking the return of the deceased hostages to avoid its disarmament, which is set to take place in the second phase of the ceasefire deal with a deployment of an international force in the Gaza Strip.

Instead, the Islamist group is buying time to reassert its control over territory from which the IDF has withdrawn, so it will have greater bargaining power in future talks regarding Gaza’s reconstruction.

The 11 bodies held in the Gaza Strip belong to nine Israelis—Sgt. Oz Daniel, Meny Godard, Lt. Hadar Goldin (whose remains were taken in 2014), Sgt. Maj. Ran Gvili, Col. Asaf Hamami, Staff Sgt. Itai Hen, Capt. Omer Neutra, Dror Or and Lior Rudaeff—Tanzanian agricultural intern Joshua Mollel and Thai agricultural worker Sudthisak Rinthalak.

This past week, the National Institute of Forensic Medicine identified the remains of Amiram Cooper and Sahar Baruch and notified relatives that the bodies were returned for burial.

Cooper, whom Hamas terrorists kidnapped alive from Kibbutz Nir Oz, where he lived, on Oct. 7, 2023, was killed in captivity at age 84. He leaves behind a wife, four children and 11 grandchildren, the IDF said.

Baruch was abducted alive from his Kibbutz Be’eri home on Oct. 7, and Hamas terrorists killed him in captivity on Dec. 8, 2023. He was 25. Baruch leaves behind parents and two brothers, the military said.

“The IDF expresses deep condolences to the families, continues to make every effort to return all the deceased hostages and is prepared for the continued implementation of the agreement,” it said.

“Hamas is required to fulfill its part of the agreement and make the necessary efforts to return all the hostages to their families and to a dignified burial,” it added.

MUSK MUST BE SUFFERING FROM SMOKING TOO MUCH WEED

Elon Musk lashes out at Democrats during an interview with Joe Rogan: "The Democratic Party wants to destroy democracy"

In his conversation with Rogan, the X owner also noted that one of the main reasons behind the current standoff between Democrats and Republicans is the financial incentive around the illegal immigration phenomenon that has plagued the country over the past few years. 

 

By Luis Francisco Orozco 

 

VOZ 

Oct 31, 2025 

 

Elon Musk (right) tells Joe Rogan that "The Democratic Party wants to destroy democracy"

 

The owner of X Elon Musk lashed out harshly at the Democratic Party during a interview with Joe Rogan published Thursday, by asserting that the latter wants more illegal immigrants to be able to enter the country, and even claimed that such a desire represented the major motivation behind his decision to shut down the government and repeatedly refuse to reopen it. "The entire basis for the government shutdown is that the Trump administration correctly does not want to send … hundreds of billions of dollars to fund illegal immigrants in the blue states — or in all the states, really. And the Democrats want to keep the money spigot going to incent illegal immigrants to come into the U.S. who will vote for them. That’s the crux of the battle," Musk said.

 

In his conversation with Rogan, the X owner also noted thatone of the main reasons behind the current standoff between Democrats and Republicans is the financial incentive that exists around the illegal immigration phenomenon that has plagued the country for the past few years. "The reason you have the standoff is because if the hundreds of billions of dollars to create a financial incentive — to have this giant magnet to attract illegals from every part of Earth to these states — if that is turned off, the illegals will leave. Because they’re no longer being paid to come to the United States and stay here. [I]n a nutshell, the Democratic Party wants to destroy democracy by importing voters,” he said.

 

 

Words about Trump

At one point in the episode, the conversation focused on President Donald Trump, with whom Musk has had a relationship that, while stable as well as positive at first, today seems to be full of ups and downs after their famous breakup a couple of months ago. About his persona, Musk explained that the Republican front-runner is "not perfect" as he is a "product of his time," adding that this is not the evil person that the media permanently tries to portray. "Some people still think, you know, Trump is like the devil, basically. And, I mean, I think, I think Trump actually is not perfect, but, but he’s not evil. Trump is not evil. I spent a lot of time with, with him, and he’s, I mean, he’s a product of his time, but he is not, he’s not evil," Musk said.

Similarly, the Tesla owner defended the president's immigration policy, going so far as to claim that"excessive" arrests of migrants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were nothing more than necessary byproducts of what needed to be done. "If Trump had lost, there would never have been another real election again, because Trump is actually enforcing the border. Now, you cannot point to situations where there’s been, you know, immigration, you know, enforcement has been overzealous, because they are not going to be perfect. There will be cases where they’ve been overzealous in expelling illegals. But if you say that the standard must be perfection for expelling legals, then you will not get any expulsion, because perfection is impossible," Musk said.

DOGE stays on track

When asked about the current status of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), of which Musk became its first in charge, the X owner commented to Rogan that it was still working and remains one of the pillars of the Trump Administration to end waste and thus materialize one of the main promises the Republican leader issued during his presidential campaign.

"DOGE is still happening… still underway. There is still waste being cut by the DOGE team. It’s less publicized. They don’t have a clear person to attack, anymore. As a special government employee, I could only be there for like, 120 days, anyway. Whatever the rule says. So, I could only be there for four months," Musk said.

THIS IS OBVIOUSLY JUST SOME GARBAGE FROM ANTI-GUNNERS

Gun safety advocates warn of a surge in untraceable 3D-printed weapons in the US

 

By Claudia Lauer      

 

Associated Press

Oct 16, 2025           

 

Ghost guns, provided by the New York City Police Department, are displayed in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025

        

As police departments around the country report a surge in 3D-printed firearms turning up at crime scenes, gun safety advocates and law enforcement officials are warning that a new generation of untraceable weapons could soon eclipse the “ghost guns” that have already flooded U.S. streets.

At a summit in New York City on Thursday, the advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety will bring together policymakers, academics, 3D-printing industry leaders and law enforcement officials to confront the growing challenge. They fear that as the printers become cheaper and more sophisticated — and blueprints for gun parts spread rapidly online — the U.S. could be on the brink of another wave of unregulated, homemade weapons that evade serial-number tracking and background checks.

Numbers collected by Everytown from about two dozen police departments show how quickly the problem is growing: A little over 30 3D-printed guns were recovered in 2020. By 2024, that figure had climbed above 300. While still a fraction of the tens of thousands of firearms seized each year by the nation’s nearly 18,000 police departments, the spike mirrors the early trajectory of ghost guns — build-it-yourself weapons assembled from kits that for years eluded federal regulation.

“We are now starting to see what kind of feels very familiar,” said Nick Suplina, senior vice president of law and policy at Everytown. “It’s now at a small number of recoveries in certain major cities, such that it’s doubling or tripling year over year. We’re seeing this very familiar rate of growth and that’s why we’re getting this group together to discuss how to stop it.”

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives imposed new rules in 2022 requiring serial numbers, background checks and age verification for ghost-gun kits, regulations upheld by the Supreme Court earlier this year. Lawsuits and state-level bans eventually pushed Polymer80, once the leading manufacturer of those kits, out of business in 2024.

But 3D-printed weapons present a thornier problem. They aren’t manufactured or sold through the firearms industry, and neither 3D-printer companies nor the cloud-based platforms that host gun blueprints fall under the ATF’s authority. That leaves much of the prevention work to voluntary action and new legislation.

In addition to seeking industry self regulations, the summit aims to bring together academics and policymakers to talk about possible legislative ways to address the issue such as creating statutes to criminalize manufacturing ghost guns or selling blueprints. 

In New York, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has pressed printer manufacturers and online platforms to take down gun designs and add safeguards against misuse. His office recently asked YouTube to remove a tutorial on printing a gun that a suspect said he found while watching a Call of Duty demonstration.

″So we reached out to YouTube and got their policies updated,” Bragg said. “If we were just prosecuting gun possessions rather than thinking about how to prevent these guns from getting printed and proactively talking to these companies, then we would be sorely behind the curve.”

A major digital design platform also agreed to implement a detection and removal program earlier this year after Bragg’s office found numerous gun blueprints being shared and available for download on its site.

Both Everytown and Bragg said companies have been receptive. Some printer makers have introduced firmware that recognizes gun part shapes and blocks the machines from producing them, an approach that advocates compare to safeguards added decades ago to prevent color printers from copying currency.

John Amin, founder and CEO of Spanish company Print&Go, said he became fascinated with 3D printing when he was an engineering student. He voluntarily implemented a series of checks to prevent illegal weapons from being made including human oversight and automated detections.

“We must focus on curbing misuse, not demonizing the tool. And we already have powerful ways to do just that,” Amin said.

IMPEACH JUDGE JAMES BOASBERG ?

By Bob Walsh

 

 

There has been an impeachment resolution against Judge James Boasberg for some months.  (I didn't know that.)  It is getting a new push.  Assuming the media are getting it right today back during the Biden administration Boasberg issued a judicial order to "the phone company" instructing them to NOT tell the United States Senate about the fact that a couple of dozen Republican legislators were being surveilled by the Biden justice department even if that august body inquired about the subject..  

The Republican caucus is not amused and now thinks that the impeachment may get some traction.  

WHILE KAMALA TOLD JON STEWART THAT BIDEN WAS FULLY COMPETENT, IN HER BOOK SHE WROTE THAT HE WASN'T

Carville issues rebuke to Kamala Harris: ‘No Democrat wants to hear from you’

 

By Ashleigh Fields

 

The Hill

Oct 30, 2025

 

 

Jame Carville told Kamala Harris to "Just get out of the way ... no Democrat wants to hear from you."

 

Democratic strategist James Carville on Thursday slammed former Vice President Kamala Harris for lashing out against party members while promoting her book that discusses life behind the scenes while on the 2024 campaign trail.

“Let me be very clear here. No one that had anything to do with 2024, no Democrat wants to hear from you. We all voted for you,” Carville told listeners on his “Politics War Room” podcast.

“OK, not Hunter Biden, not Harris, not Tim Walz, not the consultants, not anything. 2024 has left such a lingering bad taste in Democrats … just get out of the way,” he added.

His comments echo those of other Democratic strategists who said Harris’s new book picks fights with past supporters and the party as it takes new strides to move forward after a landslide November loss.

Garry South, a Democratic strategist based in California, previously told The Hill the book shows she’s “blaming everyone but herself for her loss.”

“It is a curiously negative and ungracious to me for someone who reportedly thinks she can run again in 2028,” South added.

Harris has said she’s not done with politics but has not confirmed whether she will run for president again in 2028.

The former vice president has shied away from directly pointing to former President Biden’s decision to step aside months after entering the race as a reason for her loss, but in her book, she wrote about Biden’s loss of mobility while aging in office.

“And of all the people in the White House, I was in the worst position to make the case that he should drop out,” Harris said in an excerpt for “107 Days.”

“I knew it would come off to him as incredibly self-serving if I advised him not to run. He would see it as naked ambition, perhaps as poisonous disloyalty, even if my only message was: Don’t let the other guy win.”

In another passage, she wrote, “at 81, Joe got tired. That’s when his age showed in physical and verbal stumbles.”

She also said that those close to the former president “should have realized that any campaign was a bridge too far.”