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October 5, 2025

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Iman said...: Very entertaining concert… one of Bowie’s best, IMHO:

https://youtu.be/oXHzek1CJ3E; 10/5/25, 7:19 PM
Fen said...: Freedom of Speech. All my heroes have strived to live up to it.. All have failed. It's hard and no one is perfect. So rather than dwell on the disappointments, I want to commend the one who came closest, Professor Ann Althouse. Thank you for setting the standard

https://x.com/FenOfSix/status/1972268597457436854; 10/5/25, 7:20 PM
Old and slow said...: No one has freedom of speech when they are in another person's house. But I'm sure you understand that.; 10/5/25, 7:23 PM
Old and slow said...: Here in northern Arizona, the mosquitos have finally found a climate they can enjoy. It will be another month before they freeze to death. I can drive 20 minutes and be at 7000 feet elevation where the weather is pretty cool already. Great for hiking.; 10/5/25, 7:31 PM
Old and slow said...: I found the posts on Althouse very interesting today, but the comments were pretty sparse. What, do you people have lives or something?; 10/5/25, 7:37 PM
tcrosse said...: The trolls have taken the day off.; 10/5/25, 7:45 PM
tpceltus said...: Well said, Fen!; 10/5/25, 8:01 PM
Big Mike said...: The other day Inga thought it was hilarious that I feel threatened by the Left's rhetoric. Matt Walsh speaks for a lot of us:

Matt Walsh Oct 5, 2025
@MattWalshBlog
·
Jay Jones is not going to drop out of the [Virginia Attorney General] race. Why would he? He knows that the majority of Democrat voters agree with what he said and are happy that he said it. Fantasizing about murdering conservatives and their children is not a scandal on the Left. That's how they all feel.

Hat tip to Instapundit; 10/5/25, 8:05 PM
Ann Althouse said...: Did you know that if you lose an AirPod out of its case, you can use the “find my” app to search for the individual AirPod? I only discovered this because I used AI for advice on how to find the AirPod that escaped from the case and seemed to have disappeared somewhere on the floor in the big room. It took me a bizarre amount of time to find it, and I only resorted to asking AI for help after I’d crawled around on the floor with the flashlight for long enough to discover many places where I could dust tomorrow if I became vigilant about dust. But forget the dust! I found the AirPod… and I had already opened up the box that contained new AirPods that I’d ordered the last time I lost my AirPods. I was ready to go with the next set of AirPods if and when I lost them again, but now I don’t need to use the new ones. I have reunited the old ones with their case and I’m now suitably podded.; 10/5/25, 8:07 PM
Big Mike said...: tcrosse said...

The trolls have taken the day off.

Perhaps their funding is on hold after Schumer shut the government down?; 10/5/25, 8:08 PM
Canadian Bumblepuppy said...: It's pretty obvious that envy and hatred are the emotions that drive our progressive 'friends'.

I was watching the baseball all weekend. A good weekend to be a Bluejays fan, but I'm not going to get ahead of myself; the Yankees are a tough team. Long way to go.; 10/5/25, 8:09 PM
Michael Fitzgerald said...: Wow, Fen is back. Long time no see.; 10/5/25, 8:19 PM
FullMoon said...: "...but now I don’t need to use the new ones. I have reunited the old ones with their case and I’m now suitably podded."

fifty bucks, if you ship 'em.; 10/5/25, 8:21 PM
john mosby said...: Big Mike: "Jay Jones is not going to drop out of the [Virginia Attorney General] race. Why would he? He knows that the majority of Democrat voters agree with what he said and are happy that he said it."

That, and there is a longstanding principle that no black notable ever resigns for anything. See, e.g., Holder, OJ, Kobe, congressmen that get convicted then elected again, etc. Pretty understandable rule for a minority group trying to climb the ladder. I kind of wish the Right would adopt it. CC, JSM; 10/5/25, 8:22 PM
FullMoon said...: Bottom pic
Thousands of years ago, a man entered the water and attempted to capture the rising sun.
He's dead now.; 10/5/25, 8:33 PM
Disparity of Cult said...: The talented and lovely Zdzisława Sośnicka

"Don't cry for me, Argentina" revised to "Don't wait for me in Argentina"

https://youtu.be/ig2dyzwZJiU?si=o46yoif2kuvKmq2p; 10/5/25, 8:34 PM
Fen said...: "Fen is back. Long time no see"

Thank you Michael. Probably not "back" though, I didn't leave on good terms so I don't deserve an open door. I just wanted to make sure she saw that. What she's accomplished with this blog is special and appreciated. You guys be kind to each other. Take care.; 10/5/25, 8:49 PM
Achilles said...: There have been several people banned from here and there is a discord channel that exists because Ann banned everyone at one point.; 10/5/25, 9:27 PM
Achilles said...: France just seized a Russian Oil tanker. Macron is justifying the piracy and trying to start a war with Russia.

Meanwhile France burns.; 10/5/25, 9:28 PM
gilbar said...: hey Madison Peoples!
where (what?) is The Annex, Madison WI?
a russian surf band (well, THE russian surf band) is touring the states, and will be at The Annex on Nov 12th.
That's the closest they're getting to Iowa; and i'm considering going..
But i don't know what sort of place it is.
Is it good? will it be the sort of place where seeing (and listening to) the best surf rock band from the former soviet union would be "cool"?
thanx in advance for y'all's help; 10/5/25, 9:32 PM
Achilles said...: Jay Jones is not going to drop out of the [Virginia Attorney General] race. Why would he? He knows that the majority of Democrat voters agree with what he said and are happy that he said it. Fantasizing about murdering conservatives and their children is not a scandal on the Left. That's how they all feel.

These masks have been off for a long time.; 10/5/25, 9:33 PM
gadfly said...: Trump acknowledged his tariffs are wrong when he proposed an aid package for soybean farmers because the foriegn market disappeared when China shut down agriculture purchases. China purchased virtually all of their beans from Brazil and Argentina buying out their entire 2025 soybean crops.

If you haven't heard, Trump is also bailing out Argentina's failed economy. But fuck the poor people in the states who need medical help.; 10/5/25, 9:39 PM
gadfly said...: Gilbar: Come on! Google Maps indicates that The Annex is located at 1206 Regent Street.; 10/5/25, 9:43 PM
Original Mike said...: Can't tell you much, gilbar. It seems to be associated with the Red Zone, which is always empty when we're looking for a bar pre-hockey games. That place has always puzzled me. I didn't know they did music.

It's a few blocks east of Camp Randall Stadium on Regent St. OK part of town.; 10/5/25, 9:46 PM
TeaBagHag said...: Donnie Dementia will win Nobel Peace prize for making California invade Oregon.; 10/5/25, 10:02 PM
Original Mike said...: It speaks volumes that Jay Jones has not withdrawn. Calling for the murder of your opponent's children does not disqualify you in today's democrat party.; 10/5/25, 10:02 PM
Michael Fitzgerald said...: "You guys be kind to each other. Take care."

Skoal, brother.; 10/5/25, 10:06 PM
TeaBagHag said...: Making bad Twitter joke > supporting GOP in open fascism; 10/5/25, 10:06 PM
Jupiter said...: "I found the AirPod… and I had already opened up the box that contained new AirPods that I’d ordered the last time I lost my AirPods."
Um. Do I want to know what an AirPod is? Or maybe not?; 10/5/25, 10:11 PM
Jupiter said...: Like .... what do you do with an AirPod? Do you put it somewhere? I guess you would have to, right? Naa, let's let this slide.; 10/5/25, 10:14 PM
Andrea said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/5/25, 10:23 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Overheard two teen girls conversation, one of them said
Chick-fil-A smells of chicken and air freshener.; 10/5/25, 10:34 PM
Dr Weevil said...: Achilles (9:28pm):
Try to keep up. France24 reported two days ago:

“A tanker from Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ detained by the French navy was heading towards the Suez Canal Friday with its captain back on board . . .”

There’s lots more, but I have no keyboard, so you’ll have to look it up yourself. But the fact is that your comment was hopelessly and inexcusably wrong. Please don’t waste our time with that kind of (to be polite) hogwash.; 10/5/25, 10:52 PM
wildswan said...: I for one am still thinking about some posts from the week past. I'm thinking about Ezra Klein, who might represent the Jews who have been pushed out of the Dem party talking about how the party is steadily losing ground and asking Ta-Nehisi Coates what he, as one representing the new power group, would suggest to reverse the decline. And Coates talking about how he felt he must align himself with those being pushed aside (such as the trans-people) or else his ancestors' eyes would fix on him and become more than disapproving. And that was his politics.

And I'm thinking about layoffs in the government if the shutdown lasts and Hegseth's speech at the Pentagon.

I'm thinking about how sagebrush used to blow across the prairie and you'd never notice but then there'd be a wire fence with sagebrush piled high against it.

I'm thinking how certain I am that the left is filled with people who are talking to try to get some fool to be violent but they avoid it for themselves to keep their good life. I'm wishing fools could see manipulation.

I'm thinking I support the Ukraine but I do not support EU-types manufacturing provocations to try to drag the US back into doing the EU's defense work.

I'm remembering walking home from grade-school in the rain because I'd spent the bus fare on candy and how you just had to keep one foot going after the other.; 10/5/25, 11:00 PM
TeaBagHag said...: DR.WEEVIL CORRECTING ACHILLES IS PROOF THAT COMMIE DEMOCRAT TRANTIFA HAS INFILTRATED OUR SAFE SPACE.
VIOLENT MURDER IS ALL LEFTIST SCUM THINK ABOUT.
WE CANNOT KEEP OUR REPUBLIC IF WE DONT ROOT THESE SCUM OUT AND REMOVE THEM LIMB BY LIMB.; 10/5/25, 11:05 PM
Dr Weevil said...: If only air freshener, or cockroach repellent, worked across web connections, the world would be a better place.; 10/5/25, 11:08 PM
Dr Weevil said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/5/25, 11:08 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Someone left the AirPods out in the rain
I don't think that I can order it
'Cause it took so long to hoard it; 10/5/25, 11:10 PM
TeaBagHag said...: Sorry, I’m just rehearsing for when the men in the white coats come and take Achilles to the booby hatch and we won’t be blessed with his violently paranoid musings anymore.; 10/5/25, 11:11 PM
Inga said...: Portland is burning… just kidding, they just had a pizza party. Oh and the California National Guard aren’t coming either.; 10/5/25, 11:17 PM
TeaBagHag said...: No, Inga. Didn’t you hear Donnie Dementia:

“Portland is burning to the ground. You have agitators, insurrectionists. All you have to do is look at the television, turn on your television, read your newspapers. It’s burning to the ground. The governor, the mayor, the politicians are petrified for their lives like that.”

What a doddering fascist cunt would say.; 10/5/25, 11:25 PM
Inga said...: Hey TeaBag, for the last two nights I’ve been watching a live streamer from Portland. It’s been entirely peaceful and even boring until the police and ICE or whoever they are come out to harass the protestors.; 10/5/25, 11:34 PM
TeaBagHag said...: So very true, Inga.
’m IN Portland. It’s so obvious if you’re seeing the situation in real time, what a con job this whole “we need to roll the tanks to restore order” narrative is.
If all you do is consume right wing propaganda however…………; 10/5/25, 11:44 PM
Jim at said...: ’m IN Portland.

No. You aren't.; 10/5/25, 11:47 PM
Jim at said...: for the last two nights I’ve been watching a live streamer from Portland.

A live streamer. A. Streamer.

Would it ever occur to you that streamer might have an agenda to portray the situation in a way that fits the leftist narrative?

Want to make this all go away? Maybe on Day 103 of attacking a federal facility, your leftist thugs can go find something else to do.

Stop being assholes and everybody goes home.; 10/5/25, 11:52 PM
Wa St Blogger said...: But fuck the poor people in the states who need medical help.

NOW Gadfly cares about the poor American. Didn't seem to care when it was illegal aliens draining resources.; 10/5/25, 11:55 PM
TeaBagHag said...: Jim, I live here in Portland, you MAGAt ninny.
But you are an unreasonable asshole who worships a demented fascist. So i almost forgive you for your unbelieble stupidity and gullibility in swallowing the kool-aid.; 10/5/25, 11:56 PM
Inga said...: The live streamer is videoing everything and everyone and does very minimal talking. He lets anyone talk to the camera, the counter-protestors or protestors. I’ve been subscribed to this steamer’s channel since 2020.; 10/5/25, 11:57 PM
TeaBagHag said...: And Jimmy the Dim, did it ever occur to YOU that Donnie and his far right media enablers have an agenda to portray the situation as out of control, so he can enact his authoritarian agenda?; 10/6/25, 12:00 AM
Inga said...: Jim believes that these protestors who show up to the one ICE facility in Portland are burning it down? There are no other protests in Portland other than in front of the ICE facility. With less than a few hundred people at most. No burning, no smoke unless it’s from the police, tear gas used also on peaceful protestors.; 10/6/25, 12:04 AM
LibertarianLeisure said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/6/25, 12:10 AM
TeaBagHag said...: I wonder if in 1939 Germany, did the people who saw what Hitler really was all about send articles to their German friends who licked his boots?; 10/6/25, 12:15 AM
LibertarianLeisure said...: * with me; 10/6/25, 12:16 AM
Michael Fitzgerald said...: "I live here in Portland."
That explains a lot.; 10/6/25, 12:25 AM
Michael Fitzgerald said...: This you?

https://www.foxnews.com/us/ice-video-goes-viral-agency-uses-cart-wheel-portland-protester-custody-refuse-walk-well-give-you-ride; 10/6/25, 12:27 AM
Inga said...: Big fat MAGA hat man who has been agitating and trying to incite violence for hours now, just got arrested by Portland police.; 10/6/25, 12:31 AM
LibertarianLeisure said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/6/25, 1:24 AM
rehajm said...: Watch parts ping off sometimes (Swiss Space Program) so I’m down on the floor. Part of the problem is I’m nearsighted so glasses on/off on/off. Helps if you get the room dark and hold
the flashlight on the floor to make the shadows long. Big dust bunnies and crumpled little spiders…; 10/6/25, 2:53 AM
rehajm said...: Vintage watches in this weird place- prices for cars real estate consumer resale all a bit soft but the tariffs have cut off some suppliers. I had to ask a colleague in Reims if he could forward some Rolex parts from a supplier in Netherlands that’s no longer shopping to the US. Now I’ve just had a little spike in vintage sales to US customers probably because the market for new from EU is so disrupted…substitution effect; 10/6/25, 3:00 AM
Michael Fitzgerald said...: Great video here of Portland Democrat Party terrorists getting knocked down, beat up, handcuffed, and dragged away by ICE. Absolutely hysterical and so, so satisfying to see these weaklings, queers, fatsos, losers, douchebags, shitheads, incels, pedophiles, lowlifes and Democrat Party members (birm) getting manhandled by law enforcement.
https://youtu.be/v7Z2FQpOik4?si=i2SRIrWuWfAGYoZT; 10/6/25, 4:21 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "Um. Do I want to know what an AirPod is? Or maybe not?"

I think standard-issue Boomers called the "AirBuds."

https://www.tiktok.com/discover/when-ur-parents-call-them-anything-but-airpods; 10/6/25, 5:24 AM
Dave Begley said...: Biden judge gives tranny only 8 years for attempted assassination of Justice Kavanaugh. US wanted 30 years. Judge upset that this guy will be in the Big House with men.; 10/6/25, 5:28 AM
Rusty said...: TBH found his soul mate. They can shop for dresses together.; 10/6/25, 5:33 AM
Jaq said...: It's a good thing that it's impossible for anybody who is not MAGA in his heart to buy a MAGA hat, or we would never be able to tell who was behind what!; 10/6/25, 5:41 AM
Jaq said...: "No burning, no smoke..."

Maybe today.; 10/6/25, 5:42 AM
Humperdink said...: Mark Sanchez idiot of the week. As my deceased father would say: “He had the world by the a** on a downhill slide”.; 10/6/25, 6:22 AM
Rocco said...: TeaBagHag said...
“I wonder if in 1939 Germany, did the people who saw what Hitler really was all about send articles to their German friends who licked his boots?”

Tea Bag & Inga in the previous year on Krystallnacht:
“What are they talking about? The shops in my neighborhood are fine. No damage whatsoever.”; 10/6/25, 6:25 AM
pacwest said...: The lefties bragging they've gone a whole day without rioting and looting! Sad.; 10/6/25, 6:50 AM
Marcus Bressler said...: LibertarianLeisure: I have similar issues with friends and "former friends". My regional director for the organization I work has been a friend for over 25 years. He is a quiet liberal. We have been chefs together in many settings. A few weeks ago he sent me a FB Messenger text asking me about something regarding Charlie Kirk (it was mild). I replied that I because I cherish his (and others') friendships, I would not discuss politics or religion. Sex, yes. He thanked me for my reply and it hasn't come up again. My only advice is to say that, and if your friend persists, they are no longer worthy of being your friend. Just disconnect.; 10/6/25, 6:57 AM
Humperdink said...: I disowned my SIL (teacher union lemming) after she accused me of wanting to kill school children by keeping schools open during Covid. When I confronted her with facts, she had no response. It was at that point I realized she was just a fool.

I have since relented and warmed back up to her. She’s still a fool.; 10/6/25, 7:19 AM
bagoh20 said...: If openly calling for the eradication of "whiteness" and destroying Israel called for on campuses, often by professors, is not racist then nothing is.

And this is not calling for the destruction of anyone. It's celebrating a culture and mocking political policy.; 10/6/25, 7:47 AM
gilbar said...: Original Mike said...
It seems to be associated with the Red Zone, which is always empty when we're looking for a bar pre-hockey games. That place has always puzzled me. I didn't know they did music.

Thanx oMike!
that's not much, but it's more than i knew..
and Thanx for seeing that when i said "where is it? what is it?" i did NOT mean, what are the driving directions.
It was clear to anyone on earth smarter than gadfly (7billion?) that i could my way since i knew the name.

i was hoping for a report like,
"that place is antifa, and the PA system sux"
or
"if you go, watch out for the redheaded bartender; she'll steal your heart"

i wasn't expecting, just hoping.; 10/6/25, 8:17 AM
Peachy said...: Inga - the Police In Portland protect violent Antifa-thugs(D); 10/6/25, 8:21 AM
Peachy said...: Democrats work with Antifa-nazi/ Modern Brownshirts; 10/6/25, 8:23 AM
Peachy said...: Why isn't the Portland Safe-house for cowardly violent racial leftwing antifa terrorists being raided?

Here is the address. 677 S Lowell St., #152. Portland.; 10/6/25, 8:25 AM
Peachy said...: racial = radical.; 10/6/25, 8:25 AM
Peachy said...: A fine example of Inga's party; 10/6/25, 8:29 AM
Peachy said...: Portland (Oct. 5) — Antifa, who call for the courts and rule of law to be abolished, celebrate the ruling from Judge Immergut blocking ALL National Guard from anywhere being used for federal service in Oregon.; 10/6/25, 8:35 AM
Peachy said...: That is insurrection; 10/6/25, 8:36 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: So I’m reading that a lawsuit is saying Trump is defying a federal court order and is relying on old footage (including from 2020), sometimes aired on Fox News, to justify sending troops to Portland because “it is burning down”.; 10/6/25, 8:49 AM
john mosby said...: Peachy: "Here is the address. 677 S Lowell St., #152. Portland."

Yeah, if the Right were really fascists, a bunch of blackshirts would burst into there at about 6 AM, pummel the inhabitants, make them drink castor oil, then set fire to the place.

But we have jobs to go to. CC, JSM; 10/6/25, 8:55 AM
Original Mike said...: gilbar - It occurs to me that maybe it's always empty because it actually is closed (though we did drink in there once before a hockey game, a long time ago). Maybe they're only open for music events and football games; I had a bar owner down there tell me that he made all his money for the year on the 6 home football games. And I know another bar a couple blocks away that is often closed except for football. And maybe The Red Zone + The Annex is bigger than it looks; I never even noticed The Annex before.

Sorry I don't know more. I haven't gone to live music in a long time.; 10/6/25, 10:04 AM
Rusty said...: It's a good thing not even a federal judge can tell the CinC what he can do with his troops.; 10/6/25, 11:15 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: So I’m reading that the Trump Secret Police are now tear gassing the Chicago Police Department.; 10/6/25, 4:32 PM
Leland said...: I read that not only did the Biden Administration put 3 members of Congress on a terrorist watch list, but they also had Jack Smith spy on 8 senators.; 10/6/25, 5:44 PM
Jupiter said...: 'I think standard-issue Boomers called the "AirBuds."'

So, it's like a hearing aid, except it hallucinates?; 10/6/25, 6:34 PM
Ronald J. Ward said...: What I’m reading seems considerably more verified. But, what the hell does that have to do with tribal loyalty?; 10/6/25, 6:50 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: The WORM turns House Speaker Mike Johnson does not want Democrats gaining ground in the House. He is delaying the swearing-in of Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva of Arizona.
Grijalva won a landslide victory in Arizona’s special election this week and expected to arrive in Washington, D.C. within days—but now she may not be seated for weeks.
Johnson could allow Grijalva to take the oath immediately and fill the vacant seat. Instead, he is using procedural tactics to stall.
His office suggested they might wait until mid or late October for Arizona officials to send the final certification.
A statement from Johnson’s office read: “As is standard practice, with the House now having received the appropriate paperwork from the state, the Speaker’s Office intends to schedule a swearing-in for the Representative-elect when the House returns to session.”
Just a few weeks ago, when Virginia Democrat James Walkinshaw won his special election, he was sworn in right away. Yeah right STANDARD PRACTICE..
Grijalva suspects Johnson is trying to keep her out of Congress because she would be the 218th signature needed to force a vote on the Epstein files—Walkinshaw was the 217th.
“I think that maybe it has to do with the fact that I am the 218th signer to push for a vote on the release of the Epstein files. And, you know, I don’t know. So there’s a lot of questions. I plan on going to Washington on Monday with to caucus with other Democrats. Leader Jeffries has asked us to be there, and so I am going, even though I have no official capacity there yet, it is very clear I won this election by nearly 40 points.” Grijalva told the press. Johnson=worm with no spine they guy is getting shorter by the minute..God is watching your antics Mike...

-; 10/6/25, 7:15 PM
Marcus Bressler said...: Chuck: "So I’m reading that the Trump Secret Police are now tear gassing the Chicago Police Department."
That would be SO rad! I hope it is true!; 10/6/25, 8:11 PM
Ronald J. Ward said...: If we’ve reached the point where tear-gassing police is considered ‘rad,’ maybe it’s worth asking what we’ve become loyal to.; 10/6/25, 8:35 PM