save this to repost on Halloween
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1936417686932715

(worth reading – jlr)
White House Welcomes Rosie O’Donnell’s Bid for Irish Citizenship as ‘Great News for America’
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1734520580586620

RCD VIA E-MAIL
Agony for Ellen Greenberg’s parents as Philadelphia rules her death by 20 stab wounds ‘WAS a suicide’ in staggering ruling
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15188473/ellen-greenberg-philadelphia-suicide-stabbing-death-ruling.html
Despite the extent and nature of her wounds, the Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office ruled her death a suicide.

Federal Judges Blame Trump and SCOTUS for a Problem They Created; We Need to Fix It Now
https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/10/13/federal-judges-blame-trump-and-scotus-for-a-problem-they-created-we-need-to-fix-it-now-n2195021
The issue stems from the simple proposition that a nontrivial number of judges no longer see their job as ruling on conflicts of law. They see their job as ensuring the “correct,” and naturally progressive, outcome to cases. The very fact that Trump has had only one minor setback at the Supreme Court, despite having virtually every decision of consequence litigated, is an indication that the legal reasoning and arguments of his team are rock-solid; see SCOTUS Scorecard: How the Trump Administration Is Faring Before the High Court (So Far). With increasing frequency, courts are issuing rulings that amount to “I don’t like it.” So long as the President has legal authority to do so, that is not an argument that is a tantrum.

(Ruh Roh – jlr)
“We Want Our Entitlements”: In November, Food Stamp Money Will Run Out For 42 Million Very Angry Americans
https://michaeltsnyder.substack.com/p/we-want-our-entitlements-in-november
…And we do not want to see millions of very hungry people take to the streets. (or is that the Democrat plan? – jlr)

‘Executive fiat’: Biden-era rule change quietly permits H-1B visa holders to work remotely
https://www.theblaze.com/news/executive-fiat-biden-era-rule-change-quietly-permits-h-1b-visa-holders-to-work-remotely
On December 18, 2024, the DHS filed the “H-1B Modernization Final Rule,” which took effect three days before Trump was sworn in to office. This lengthy document reveals a months-long deliberative process in which Biden officials relaxed H-1B enforcement standards to explicitly permit remote work — all under the pretext of “modernization.” (Hummmmm – just how remote is remote? Here in the USA, or remote as in India? – jlr)

DOJ alleges State Dept employee removed classified docs, met with Chinese officials
https://justthenews.com/nation/crime/doj-says-state-department-employee-allegedly-removed-classified-docs-met-chinese
The employee, Ashley Tellis, is also a contractor with the Office of Net Assessment at the Department of Defense and is considered a subject matter expert on India and South Asian affairs, according to the DOJ,

Elderly woman beaten to death with a rock — police said they found her daughter ‘covered in blood’
https://www.theblaze.com/news/mom-killed-rock-daughter-milwaukee
(IF rocks kill people why are NONE of the usual gun control advocates wailing, screaming, and DEMANDING “Rock Control”? OH! Wait, it doesnt fit the template or the agenda of the left- jlr)

Snort…
https://oldnfo.substack.com/p/snort-736
Democrats are now demanding the removal of Dominion voting machines after a pro-Trump investor bought the company and rebranded them as Liberty Voting machines, with some Democrats even calling for paper ballots. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, it’s suddenly an issue??? Isn’t ‘that’ interesting…

DHS Confirms Sickening Plot ‘From Mexico’ Targeting ICE and CBP Agents
https://www.westernjournal.com/dhs-confirms-sickening-plot-mexico-targeting-ice-cbp-agents
DHS put out a blistering release that chronicled a sickening plot from south of the border that was targeting Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection agents — all the way in Chicago. headline: “Bounties Originating From Mexico Offered to Shoot ICE and CBP Officers in Chicago.”
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/10/14/bounties-originating-mexico-offered-shoot-ice-and-cbp-officers-chicago

‘Actual medical professionals’ are telling Jasmine Crockett that Trump has had a stroke, she claims
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/15/actual-medical-professionals-are-telling-jasmine-crockett-trump-has-had-a-stroke-she-claims-1592717/

On Saturday, while I was camped out at a lovely open air farmer and maker’s market for the afternoon, a Left friend reached out to people “on her feed” on Facebook. She said she was aware some of her followers and friends had voted for Trump, and asked if we were willing to explain why, and whether we feel Trump is doing an adequate job since getting into office. She made it crystal clear that no one was going to be dogpiled for responding (though I’m not sure how she intends to ensure that, since she can only control what’s on her wall, but the gesture was nice). She legitimately wanted to know.

I thought about it for a long time. I could have answered. I didn’t really want to do so in public, though. As I’ve said before, I’m still trying to keep my customers around, many of whom are on the Left. I don’t believe in mixing politics and business (other than what’s required by law… I mean that a business hanging a Trump or Dem sign out front is basically telling people that they value politics over business, and I might do so privately but not publicly). So I paged her privately and said I’d talk with her, but only in private.

She wanted to know why. I sat with that one for a good five minutes before finally explaining, “Because there’s been a lot of violence toward people on the Right of late, including a number of shootings. I don’t want to be shot, hun.” It took her a while to respond, and when she did, she admitted she understood now that it was explained, and that she was sorry if I felt threatened.

That led to me telling her I’d talk to her today or tomorrow (looks like tomorrow wins, as she’s busy today). I didn’t have time to get into long discussions with her while vending at a craft fair. She got it… she does the same thing (and well; she’s formed her own thriving business that is keeping her in her home, supporting her daughter, and paying for lawyers to keep her abusive ex out of her life). But I did explain to her that, while I didn’t think there was much chance of my being shot, it was something I thought about. A lot. Maybe Chris would get shot. Maybe one of my kids. I pointed out that an awful lot of Leftists and Liberals are talking freely right now, tromping around in front of ICE and the government, with no worry for their lives… and conservatives and Right leaning folk are wearing flak vests and standing behind bullet proof glass just to have simple conversations. After another long pause, she agreed. “Yeah…”

In the scattered long-distance chat we had over Saturday, she learned just how often I’d been called a Nazi of late, or a bigot, or a few other hateful names. She just couldn’t understand that. She’s known me since her girl was a little one, and left that little girl in my care on a few occasions during faire. She knows I support human beings living however they want, provided they’re consenting adults. She knows I’m poly, pagan, kinky, pansexual, all the things. She knows I’m not a Nazi, or a bigot. She knows, from personal experience, that I walk my talk.

What I intend to suggest to her is that, if we’d had the conversation in public, there might have come a moment when someone else used one of those horrid names for me. At that point, she would have had to either tell the person they were wrong (setting herself up as a target for her own people… ie largely how I ended up over here initially), be silent and let it happen (tacit approval), or engage in calling me names herself (open approval). Would she be willing to stand up for someone when it might put her at risk, or her kid? It’s a legitimate concern right now, after all. And that might lead to her asking herself why she’s involved with someone or a group of someones who would push her away because she had spoken with someone “like me.”

I think it’s going to be an interesting conversation…

Portland Antifa Operatives Planning Coordinated Action to Take Down Federal Aircraft
https://www.westernjournal.com/portland-antifa-operatives-planning-coordinated-action-take-federal-aircraft-report/

Dominion Voting Bought Out, Renamed in Effort to Restore Trust to Vulnerable Electronic Voting Systems
https://www.westernjournal.com/developing-dominion-voting-bought-renamed-effort-restore-trust-vulnerable-electronic-voting-systems/
will that restore any faith the public lost after 2020? – does this really change anything?

Melania Trump’s ‘MELANIA’ Documentary from Amazon MGM Studios Set for January 30 Release
https://americanjournaldaily.com/melania-trump-documentary/

Florida Woman Disarms Hostage-Holding Suspect Thanks to Gun of Her Own
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2025/10/11/florida-woman-disarms-hostage-holding-suspect-thanks-to-gun-of-her-own-n1230231

Democrat Party Set TO PARTY at Luxury Spa After Voting to Shutdown the Govt. 8 TIMES
https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/10/12/democrats-party-at-luxury-hotel-while-americans-gov-shutdown-n2420248

Islamic takeover of Texas? They don’t want you to see this
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/come-take-it-with-sara-gonzales/islamic-takeover-of-texas-they-dont-want-you-to-see-this

MEMO TO TRUMP: DON’T STOP – Is the NYT on my side?
https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/memo-to-trump-dont-stop

How do you say Schadenfreude in Mexicano?
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/how-do-you-say-schadenfreude-in-mexicano
more here – https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/10/automotive-chickens-coming-home-to.html
apparent original article – https://ace.mu.nu/archives/416621.php

OK, make up your mind. – Is it about all rights or only some of them?
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/ok-make-up-your-mind
Hell if anything, what they stand for is reason enough why you should have guns and a lot of loaded magazines.

I need to be callous here.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/i-need-to-be-callous-here

And that explains cats
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/and-that-explains-cats
embedded video – 00:00:09 – Even the Missus who is a Feline Fan found the video both funny and explanatory.

Neighbor Glows
https://areaocho.com/neighbor-glows/

Top immigration official warns naturalization fraudsters could be stripped of citizenship
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/agency-exploring-denaturalization-prosecution-mass-patterns-immigration-fraud

How Systems Collapse
https://gellerreport.com/2025/10/how-systems-collapse.html/?lctg=92233992
“When merit is replaced with ideology, fires rage unchecked, killers walk free, and fragile systems collapse—leaving lives and cities in ruin.”

HAMAS DOCUMENT REVEALS WAR PLAN FOR 10/7: Meticulous Planning of Wholesale Slaughter, Mass Rape, Mutilation, Crush Heads, Burn Neighborhoods
https://gellerreport.com/2025/10/oct-7-blueprint.html/?lctg=92233992

Newly Empowered Hamas Conducting Mass Executions As it Re-Seizes Power in Gaza
https://gellerreport.com/2025/10/hamas-mass-executions.html/?lctg=92233992

Zohran Mamdani Took Thousands in Illegal Foreign Donations
https://gellerreport.com/2025/10/zohran-mamdani-took-thousands-in-illegal-foreign-donations.html/?lctg=92233992

How to Attend a ‘No Kings’ Rally Saturday
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2025/10/13/how-to-attend-a-no-kings-rally-saturday-n2664845
(Don’t Do: stupid sh*t, with stupid people, in stupid places, at stupid times. – just saying – jlr)

Welcome to the TDS Zone
Unbelievable: Antony Blinken Gives Biden Credit for Gaza Deal, and It Gets Worse From There
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/10/12/unbelievable-antony-blinken-gives-biden-credit-for-gaza-deal-shows-he-is-incapable-of-shame-n2194995

Something a little different.

I have a number of Jewish friends, and I hear about brisket all the time. There was the running joke about Howard’s mother’s brisket in The Big Bang Theory. Brisket is one of those cuts of meat that is just scrumptious, if cooked right. So how do you cook it? It depends a lot on the cut you’re using. I’m going for slow cooked brisket at this point in my cooking career, because I love the convenience of the slow cooker (though I did cook this one in the oven). It’s a bit pricey (our 3lb brisket cost about $21), but it’s totally worth it. Also, it makes your whole house smell like heaven.

Ingredients:

• 3 lbs untrimmed flat-cut beef brisket
• 1/2 tbsp salt, plus more to taste
• 1 tsp freshly ground black pepper, plus more to taste
• 3 tbsp oil (olive or vegetable)
• 2 medium yellow onions, sliced
• 4 celery stalks, cut into 2-inch pieces, leaves coarsely chopped
• 6 garlic cloves, smashed
• 2 cups red wine (such as Merlot or Pinot Noir)
• 28 oz canned crushed tomatoes
• 1/4 cup ketchup
• 2 tbsp brown sugar
• 1 tsp dried thyme OR several sprigs of fresh thyme
• 3 bay leaves
• 4 medium carrots, halved lengthwise and cut on a bias into 2-inch pieces

Preheat the oven to 325°F.

Season the brisket with most of the salt and pepper. Heat the oil in a large dutch oven over medium-high heat. Brown the brisket, turning occasionally, until browned on all sides, 10 to 12 minutes. Transfer to a plate.

Place the onions, celery, and garlic in the pot, tossing it in the residual fat. Season with the remaining salt and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the onions are soft and translucent, about 5 minutes.

Add the wine, tomatoes, ketchup, brown sugar, thyme, and bay leaves, and stir to combine. Nestle the brisket down into the liquid, fat side up. You may need to move some of the onion mix to get it low enough. Most of the brisket should be covered with liquid, but it’s okay if the fat is out. Cover the pot and cook in the oven until the meat is fork-tender, about 3 hours.

Uncover the pot and add the carrots around the brisket. Cook, uncovered, until the carrots are tender (not soft) and the top of brisket is browned and crisp, 35 to 45 minutes.

Remove the brisket from the pot and let it rest while you make the sauce. Use a spoon to skim fat from the surface of the braising liquid and discard. Heat over medium-high heat and cook until the liquid is thickened to a sauce-like consistency, 5 to 10 minutes. Remove the thyme sprigs and bay leaves. Taste and season with salt and pepper as needed. When the sauce is mostly ready, cut up the brisket by slicing it against the grain. Place the sliced brisket on a deep serving platter. Pour the sauce over the brisket and serve!

For sides, you need to keep in mind that Jewish folk don’t mix dairy and meat. If you don’t care, feel free to go with whatever sides you like, but if you want to enjoy the full Jewish brisket experience, try some baked sweet potato drizzled with olive oil, a cabbage and apple slaw for a tart finish, or some hot cornbread.

Wolford is in an interlocutory state. They are appealing a preliminary injunction.

The purpose of the trial court is to gather evidence, hear legal arguments, and then decide based on evidence and the legal standing.

What the Supreme Court has said is that Second Amendment challenges do not need evidence. They are legal decisions, decided by the courts.

The law says “x”. The challenger says the plain text of the Second Amendment covers the conduct regulated by the law. The burden shifts to the state to show that the current law is consistent with this Nation’s historical tradition of firearms regulation.

There is no evidence to present. The court decides if the plain text covers the conduct. The court decides if the government has proven a history of firearms regulation that matches the current law. If the state fails to meet its burden, then the law is ruled unconstitional.

If the state wishes to bring in expert testimony regarding this Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation, that expert must be a lawyer. Not only must they be a lawyer, they must be part of the case.

Friends of the court can express their opinion, but the only place those opinions have any weight is if they are legal arguments regarding regulations from the time of the founding or somehow relevant to finding that the conduct is not covered by the Second Amendment.

At this point, everybody in Wolford has agreed the plain text of the Second Amendment is implicated. The state can present their arguments to the Supreme Court just as easily as to the trial court. There is no value the trial court will add to the analysis the Supreme Court will do.

Which leads us to, when will we hear back from the Supreme Court?

Cert was granted on October 3, 2025. Per rule 25 of the Supreme Court, the Petitioner (Plaintiff) must have their briefing in within 45 days. November 17, 2025. It is unlikely that this date will be pushed. Amici briefs supporting the Petitioner are due 7 days after.

The Respondent’s (defendant’s) brief is due 30 days after that, on December 17th. Again, Amici briefs the Respondent or neither are due 7 days after.

The Petitioner gets to reply to the Respondent’s brief. That is due 30 days after the respondent dockets their brief, putting us at January 10, 2026.

If everything goes as scheduled, oral arguments will be heard in February, with the opinion issuing in May.

I expect we will see at least one other Second Amendment case this term. If the Court is looking at Wolford to address sensitive places, then there will be no other sensitive places challenges heard.

That leaves a case dealing on what “arms” means. When that case is heard, they will address the proper usage of the “in common use for lawful purposes” shortcut to a Second Amendment win.

Winning the Battle

There are too many historical situations where a combatant won a battle, but it cost them the war. Little Big Horn comes to mind, though I don’t know enough to say if it is a true or good example.

The cost of winning might come with excessive loss of resources. A Pyrrhic victory.

The anti-gun people understand this. They are sometimes willing to lose a battle to maintain battlefield dominance. In N.Y.S.R. & P.A. v. New York City the city and state fought tooth and nail. They didn’t stop fighting. We lost in the district court. We lost in the Circuit Court. We appealed to the Supreme Court, and we were granted cert.

The anti-gunners looked at this and proceeded to remove the challenged regulations for New York City gun owners. The state of New York passed a law saying that New York City could never do it again. The state then told the Supreme Court the case was moot. The case was never heard. It died.

We “won” the battle; the anti-gunners won that war.

Rahimi

The anti-gun Biden administration saw a slate of cases moving towards the Supreme Court challenging §922(g)(8), Domestic Violence Restraining Order in Possession. The best case for us was the Range case. The worst for us was the Rahimi case.

Range was a case about a man who failed to claim income from his lawn care side hustle while he was receiving aid from the state. He was charged with defrauding the government. This was a felony. He pleaded guilty. He served no time. He was told to go forth and sin no more. And he kept his nose clean.

As a convicted felon, he is prohibited from possessing firearms. He went to court to get his rights back. His case would have been a wonderful opportunity to show that non-violent felons, under the 1968 GCA, cannot be prohibited from possessing firearms.

Rahimi, on the other hand, was a violent criminal. Witnesses saw him slam his girlfriend’s head into the car. He fired his gun at witnesses. He was arrested and was in prison for multiple felonies as well as being subject to a DVR while in possession.

After Bruen was decided, the Fifth Circuit court pulled the Rahimi case back after issuing their opinion. In their second opinion, they applied Bruen faithfully and declared §922(g)(8) unconstitutional.

Merrick Garland pushed Rahimi to the front of the line, and it was heard by the Supreme Court, which issued their opinion. Rahimi is a bad man. He needs to be in prison. He is precisely the sort of person that should not have access to arms.

This means that there are bad facts. Bad facts make for bad law. In this case we ended up with an opinion that was more easily twisted by inferior courts.

Garland v. Bondi

When Rahimi was requesting cert, the Garland-controlled DOJ pushed the Supreme Court to take the case. When the DOJ asks the Court to take a case, they are more likely to take the case requested by the DOJ than other similar cases. We did not want this to happen. Yes, we wanted the Court to hear a 2A case. This was not the one we wanted in front of the Supreme Court.

We are now looking at Rush v. USA. This is another case with bad facts. Mr. Rush is not a good man. He was doing bad things, and FO was applied to him.

He had his license revoked. He drove to his court hearing. He drove away after the court hearing. The cops stopped him to ask what he was doing driving on a revoked license. During the stop they smelled and observed pot. He was arrested. While searching his car, they found an SBR.

We don’t need to go into what he had done to be in court in the first place; needless to say, not a good fact pattern.

We do not want Rush in front of the Supreme Court. In the best of worlds, we are only going to get a lackluster result. In addition, there are other vehicles in the works attacking SBR, Silencers, and SBS remaining inside the NFA.

Damning With Faint Praise

My father explained this to me in terms of how a superior officer might praise a lower ranking member with faint praise. He said nothing that can be challenged, but everybody reading the report will know what is not said.

A pitcher might be praised for how far he can spit his tobacco juice. This likely implies he’s not a good pitcher.

The DOJ must make a good faith effort to explain why cert should be denied. It has to be grounded in legal reasoning. And they do that.

Their motion is darn weak. They rely on regulations from the 19th century. The whitewash Miller‘s findings. In short, it half hearted. But they use it as a method to say:

This is on point. It is a statement that the DOJ wants the Supreme Court to hear a 2A case, just not this one.

Final Note

As we have discussed, a circuit split is useful for getting the Supreme Court to grant cert. Getting a circuit split on anti-gun laws is very difficult because anti-gun states passing infringements exist within anti-gun inferior courts. The Ninth Circuit is many to zero in favor of California infringements.

The Seventh is nearly as bad. So are the Second, Fourth, Third, and First circuits. Well, sort of.

The Third Circuit, as of Friday, was 7-6 Republican appointees. In an upcoming en banc hearing, they will be 8-6. The problem is that if one of those Republican appointed judges flips to the side of infringement, we will lose in the Third Circuit, again.

On Friday, the Senate confirmed Professor Jennifer Lee Mascott to the Third Circuit. If President Trump signs the confirmation, and she is sworn in by a Supreme Court Justice by the morning of the 15th, she will sit and hear Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs v. Platkin (consolidated with Firearms Policy Coalition v. Platkin, Docket Nos. 24-2002 and 24-2003).

With Judge Mascott on the Third Circuit for this hearing, there will be a 10-6 balance. Even if we were to lose one judge to the dark side, we still win the case.

If we win in the Third Circuit, we will have the circuit split on “Assault Weapons” bans.

Conclusion

All is not as it seems on the surface. You have to look beyond what we are seeing and look to the future. Pam Bondi and Trump are good for the Second Amendment. If it looks like they are not, wait a minute. Take a deep breath and figure out what else is going on.

Yeah, it really was the judge being a clown. The state did not ask for membership lists.

On Friday the parties, the state, and the plaintiffs filed a joint motion to amend the final judgement.

October 9, 2025:

Media Smears Stay-At-Home Moms as Nazis
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/media-smears-stay-at-home-moms-as-nazis/
As birth rates continue to plummet and fewer young people are getting married, the liberal media is doing everything it can to accelerate those alarming trends by smearing women who embrace traditional family life as complicit pawns in an imagined fascist takeover of America. The Guardian’s Adrienne Matei, who claimed in a recent article that so-called “tradwives” are echoing Nazi propaganda and doing the bidding of President Donald Trump’s supposedly authoritarian regime.

50% of Americans Considering Buying Guns Out of Mass Shooting Concerns
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/10/08/survey-50-of-americans-buying-guns-out-of-mass-shooting-concerns-n1230185
(the devil is in the details – look at the sample size – jlr)

Nancy Pelosi has unbelievable response to Democrat candidate who issued death wish against Republican
https://www.theblaze.com/news/jay-jones-texts-pelosi-scandal

Nationwide: Muslims and Leftists Stage Violent Riots Celebrating the Mass Slaughter of Jews on October 7th, Police Hospitalized
https://gellerreport.com/2025/10/nationwide-muslims-and-leftists-stage-violent-riots-celebrating-the-mass-slaughter-of-jews-on-october-7th-police-hospitalized.html/?lctg=92233992
After what we’ve seen these past two years, perhaps it’s not a huge surprise. But decent Americans ought to be deeply disturbed … and worried.
LOTS of videos

Nick Freitas
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