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New Jersey Governor Bans “Illegal Russian Fuel” Inbound To Ports

New Jersey Democratic Governor Mikie Sherrill warned port and terminal operators in the state against “purchasing or unloading the illegal Russian fuel currently bound for the east coast of the United States.”

Sherrill’s move threatens to complicate President Trump’s efforts to bring Russian diesel into US markets to ease high industrial fuel prices amid a severe global refining squeeze fueled by Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian refineries and disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz.

In a Monday letter, Sherrill urged operators to turn away tankers carrying Russian diesel and said the state would use its legal and regulatory powers to prevent the shipments from entering through New Jersey.

Sherrill said, “Russia has since dispatched multiple diesel oil tankers to the United States, including at least one that may be headed for the New Jersey coast.”

“The Russian Oil Act does not grant the President or Treasury Department blanket authority to waive these sanctions through licenses,” the governor added.

She concluded, “Any effort to profit from the illegal trade in Russian fuel will be met with harsh penalties.”

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Incoming House Oversight Committee Chairman Threatens Trump World After Democrats Flip the House

The incoming House Oversight Chairman threatened Trump and Trump’s circle after the Democrats flipped the House on Tuesday evening.

Democrat Rep. Robert Garcia (CA) fired off an ominous social media post.

“LAWYER UP.” Garcia said.

The Democrats seized control of the House of Representatives on Tuesday.

According to NBC, Democrats are on track to secure 248 House seats, compared to just 187 for Republicans, a massive 61-seat advantage for the Democrat Party.

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Crazed Leftist Reportedly Assaults Turning Point Action Volunteer at Polls

An unhinged elderly man was caught on video shouting at a young Turning Point Action volunteer before appearing to backhand him at a polling place in Laconia, New Hampshire, during Tuesday’s midterm elections.

“An 18-year-old stood his ground at the polls in New Hampshire today and was assaulted for it. He stayed calm. The left got violent,” Turning Point Action, founded by slain conservative icon Charlie Kirk, said in a Tuesday X post, sharing the footage.

In the video, the elderly man angrily declared, “You have no idea who I am, so how dare you say I don’t know much?” to which the conservative volunteer calmly replied, “You haven’t presented a single statistic.”

“Neither have you!” the senior citizen shouted. “God damn! I cannot believe that bullshit! You sit there and dare to look me in the face and say I don’t know anything?”

The elderly voter then raised his middle finger toward the Turning Point Action representative’s face, adding, “That’s what I know,” before appearing to backhand the young man across the head.

“I’m out of this place. Fuck that shit! Fuck him!” the unruly elderly man can be heard shouting as he walked away.

Notably, the Turning Point Action volunteer was wearing a white hat and black hoodie, both printed with the word “FREEDOM” on them — the same attire Charlie Kirk wore on the day he was assassinated last year.

The conservative volunteer was staffing a Turning Point Action booth with his brother at the Ward 5 polling location throughout Election Day, according to a report by the Laconia Daily Sun.

Laconia Police Chief Matt Canfield told the newspaper that officers responded to the polling center at Woodland Heights Elementary School, just after 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, after receiving a report of an assault.

“We are investigating, and we will go from there,” Canfield said, adding that it remains unclear if the victim plans to press charges.

Nonetheless, police have identified the assailant and plan to interview him — though the elderly man has not yet been named.

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‘You’ll Be Killed… Snake’: Ilhan Omar’s Somali Backers Using Death Threats and Street Attacks to Silence Critics Who Speak About Her Secrets, According to New Report

A campaign of intimidation inside Minnesota’s tight-knit Somali community is using online death threats, physical assaultsS, and pressure campaigns to stop people from talking about Rep. Ilhan Omar’s past, according to a new report published on Tuesday.

Sources told the New York Post that people who have questioned Omar’s background, her 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, or her personal life have been assaulted in Minneapolis and Kenya, bombarded with daily death wishes, and warned they will be killed if they continue speaking out.

The paper states the protective network is not officially connected to Omar and it is unclear whether she is personally aware of the actions. Her office did not respond to a request for comment.

One man who spoke critically about Omar said he was jumped by roughly 15 people outside a Kenyan restaurant in Minneapolis, pepper-sprayed, thrown to the ground, and left with a concussion plus multiple cuts and bruises.

“I got jumped by 15 people and was pepper-sprayed,” the man, who was not named, told The Post.

“After that I don’t really remember what happened. All I know is I was thrown to the ground and had so many punches and kicks thrown at me.”

He told The Post he believes a popular Somali TikTok personality set followers on him by sharing his location after calling him a “fool” and threatening to “punch him in the face.”

“I was attacked because of this man. He set his followers on me after sharing my location,”‘ he said.

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Evidence Suggests Alaska’s ‘Decoy Dan’ Illegally Colluded With Democrat Dark-Money Group

Americans for Public Trust outlined in a Federal Election Commission complaint how “Decoy Dan,” a purported spoiler candidate with the same name as Alaska’s incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, may have violated federal election laws by coordinating with a dark money group. Recent reporting by The New York Times alleges that Democrat candidate Mary Pelota’s campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee actively recruited candidates to confuse voters and manipulate Alaska’s U.S. Senate race.

Together, this suggests a more complicated scheme to influence that race and possibly tip the balance of control of the U.S. Senate. Americans deserve answers about what happened in Alaska and whether federal election laws were in fact violated.

The New York Times reported last week that in the summer of 2025, Mary Peltola’s aides directed a staffer to search for every Dan Sullivan in Alaska. Jerid Kurtz, an operative introduced to the Peltola campaign by aides at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, called a Peltola aide in late May to say he had just arrived in Petersburg, the hometown of Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. (“Decoy Dan”), shortly before he filed to run for Senate.

The Times describes Petersburg as “a tiny fishing village along the Alaska Panhandle, reachable only by air and sea.” Kurtz was not the only notable visitor that spring. Peltola held a campaign event on May 26, three days before Decoy Dan filed his candidacy. Decoy Dan denies any connection, telling KFSK, “I have not been in contact with her or her campaign.”

The Times also reported on texts in which Peltola advisers, watching a focus group, wrote, “Do we have a scheme for you.” The Peltola campaign and the DSCC deny recruiting anyone. Decoy Dan has maintained, including through his attorney in court, that his campaign is genuine.

Public discussion has largely coalesced around the view that ballot-stacking is not illegal. That view misses the bigger legal story. That story is found in Americans for Public Trust’s Sept. 8 complaint.

The complaint describes how Decoy Dan’s only known campaign consultant, who was only made known after metadata revealed her relationship with the campaign, also held a leadership role at a dark-money group that spent more than half a million dollars attacking Sen. Dan Sullivan in the three months leading up to the August primary. Holding both a role within the Decoy Dan campaign and an outside group that attacked the campaign’s primary opponent could have violated federal election rules on coordination.

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Tusk Cries ‘Russian Interference’ As Opposition Pushes No-Confidence Vote For Court Takeover

Recent days have seen Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk thrust into the international spotlight after what’s been widely dubbed a forced takeover of what’s supposed to be an independent top court, the Constitutional Tribunal.

Another key official, Poland’s Supreme Court First President Zbigniew Kapiński, has joined the growing chorus of those condemning Tusk’s actions as tantamount to orchestrating a coup d’état.

“These actions bear the hallmarks of a coup d’état,“ Kapiński declared Monday, in reference to the chaotic events kicked into motion Friday night.

According to more of Kapiński’s remarks as quoted in The Hungarian Conservative:

Kapiński insisted that Bogdan Święczkowski remained the legitimate president of the Tribunal and warned that the government could attempt a similar takeover of the Supreme Court itself. Appointed to his current position by President Karol Nawrocki in May, he argued that nothing comparable had happened since the introduction of martial law in communist Poland.

The Supreme Court chief has also convened an extraordinary General Assembly of judges for Tuesday, 3 November, to discuss threats to Poland’s constitutional order and adopt an official position on the crisis.

When The Economist notes that democracy is being blown up…

Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal is supposed to embody democratic stability, but has spent the past decade as a battleground for fights between populists and liberals. The latest conflict looks like a full-blown constitutional crisis.

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Campaign Worker for Abdul El-Sayed Among Those Arrested by the FBI in Michigan for Terrorizing Jewish Community Leaders and University Officials

Back in June, the FBI arrested eight people at the University of Michigan for engaging in an ongoing campaign of terror against Jewish community leaders and officials at the University of Michigan.

Over this weekend, four more people were arrested as part of the same investigation.

It has now been revealed that one of the original eight arrested by the FBI was a campaign worker for Abdul El-Sayed.

Anyone surprised?

From the New York Post:

A former Abdul El-Sayed campaign worker was among the dozen anti-Israel activists accused of terrorizing members of Michigan’s Jewish community, according to feds.

Mariam Odeh, 24, was one of eight included in the original rounds of indictments by the US Attorney’s Office for allegedly threatening University of Michigan officials in an attempt to force the school to cut ties with Israel, the US Attorney’s Office in Eastern Michigan said.

The number of conspirators grew to 12 Friday when four more alleged co-conspirators were indicted, federal prosecutors said.

Odeh, who was charged in June for her alleged role in the scheme, did a stint working for El-Sayed’s Michigan Senate campaign, The Detroit News reported that same month.

She had been paid twice by the lefty candidate’s campaign, records obtained by the outlet showed.

An El-Sayed spokesperson later confirmed Odeh’s position as an hourly employee on the campaign for two weeks to the outlet.

The Dearborn, Michigan native left the campaign gig on April 15, after raking in nearly $750, El-Sayed spokesperson Roxie Richner told the paper.

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White House Exploring Options to Keep Netanyahu in Power Under Unity Government, Report Says

The White House is exploring ways to keep Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in power under a proposed unity government, according to a report published by The Cradle on Oct. 27, 2026.

The report cited unnamed officials and stated that Netanyahu may remain in power with U.S. backing even if he loses the Israeli general election held that day. The report did not specify a timeline for the discussions or provide further details on the options under consideration [1].

The reported discussions come amid ongoing Israeli political negotiations and international attention on the Gaza war. Voting was underway across Israel on Oct. 27 amid what The Cradle described as the highest turnout in decades and attempts by Netanyahu to incite against Palestinian voters [1]. The report offered no official confirmation from Washington or Jerusalem.

The Cradle report did not identify the officials cited or provide specific details on the proposed U.S. role in a unity government framework. It stated that no final decision had been made and that the discussions were ongoing and could change [1].

Report Details and Attribution

According to The Cradle, the options under consideration include political support for Netanyahu as he faces coalition pressures. The report stated that a unity government framework would involve power-sharing arrangements among Israeli political factions. It did not specify what form that support might take or which factions would participate [1].

The report attributed its information to unnamed officials and provided no further sourcing. The White House has not publicly commented on the report.

The Cradle published the report on the day of the Israeli election, when voting was underway across the country. The report linked the timing of the discussions to the election outcome and the possibility that Netanyahu could lose [1].

Israeli Political Context

Netanyahu is on trial on corruption charges, which he has denied. He has been charged with bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, and he will testify three times a week despite the war, having previously received delays [2]. Israel has held multiple elections in recent years, and coalition governments have been unstable.

The report said unity government talks have followed domestic protests and the Gaza war. The Cradle report did not provide details on the current status of the protests.

The political instability has been compounded by the war in Gaza. The Cradle reported that the election took place amid high turnout and that Netanyahu had made attempts to incite against Palestinian voters [1]. The report did not elaborate on those attempts.

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Poland’s Would-Be Globalist Coup

While Poland’s conservative president, Karol Nawrocki, was flying to Senegal, police dispatched by Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s justice minister took control of the grounds of the country’s highest constitutional court. Tusk, a pro-EU liberal and former president of the European Council, governs with a coalition that includes Poland’s left-wing parties.

Police locked out the court’s chief judge, Bogdan Święczkowski, while a judge allied with Tusk declared herself in charge. Nawrocki turned his plane around, returned to Warsaw, and denounced the operation as a forcible takeover of a constitutional body. Poland’s conservatives are calling it a coup, accusing the ruling coalition of using the justice ministry and police to seize control of the court that can strike down its laws.

Shortly after 6 p.m. on Friday, orders signed by Judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska appeared on the court’s website. They suspended the chief judge and his deputy for one month and named Korwin-Piotrowska acting head of the court, on the grounds that she has the longest judicial career of any sitting judge.

Korwin-Piotrowska heads Themis, a judges’ association that challenged the previous conservative government over her removal from office. That government’s justice minister, Zbigniew Ziobro, removed her as vice president of the regional court in Opole in 2017. Tusk’s justice ministry appointed her president of the same court in October 2024, and his parliamentary majority elected her to the constitutional court in March 2026.

Polish law requires incoming constitutional court judges to take their oath before the president, but she took hers at a ceremony in parliament. Nawrocki has never accepted that oath, and neither he nor the court’s leadership recognizes her as a judge.

Police said they acted on letters from Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek and Korwin-Piotrowska. Żurek, who also serves as Poland’s chief prosecutor, is a former judge and was a prominent critic of the previous conservative government’s judicial reforms. After taking office in 2025, he removed 46 court presidents and vice presidents.

In January, Poland’s Supreme Court ruled that he had acted unlawfully in dismissing three judicial officials. Korwin-Piotrowska’s letter warned of possible threats to the lives and health of judges and staff. Officers in riot gear secured the grounds inside the court’s fence and prevented the chief judge from entering. Police said they did not enter the building.

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