DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A woman who previously declared she was living in the U.S. illegally won the election to become the next mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota. Democrat State Rep. Kaohly Vang Her emerged victorious late Tuesday night in the St. Paul mayoral election, defeating incumbent Democrat Mayor Melvin Carter after a tabulation of second-choice votes, according to election results. Her, who was born in Laos and entered the U.S. as a refugee, once claimed during a public debate that she and her family were illegal migrants, but later walked those claims back. “I am illegal in this country. My parents are illegal here in this country,” Her said in June during a Minnesota House of Representatives floor debate over Medicaid eligibility for illegal migrants. “I tell you this story because I want you to think about who it is that you are calling illegal,” Her continued. “My family was just smarter in how we illegally came here.” Kaohly Vang Her. YouTube screen grab. Later that day, the state representative told the Minnesota Reformer, a local news outlet, that she and her parents were actually American citizens, but made the stunning claim in an attempt to inspire empathy from her GOP colleagues. However, Her maintained that her father technically broke the law when filling out refugee paperwork for her family. “Technically, you would say my father broke the law, right? But we would have come anyway,” Her said to the Minnesota Reformer at the time. Her will begin leading St. Paul, a city of more than 300,000 people, in January 2026, becoming the first woman and first member of the Hmong community to do so, according to MPR News. A member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, she previously served in Carter’s office before challenging him for his seat. In nearby Minneapolis, Mayor Jacob Frey is still fighting off a challenge from Minnesota State Senator Omar Fateh. While Frey accumulated the most first-choice votes Tuesday night, he fell short of the majority needed to win in the first round, pushing the election into a count of the second and third-choice votes, according to Fox 9 [Update: Frey has defeated Fateh, winning his third term as mayor of Minneapolis]. Democrats made major gains across the country on Tuesday night. Virginia Democrat State Rep. Abigail Spanberger handily won the state’s gubernatorial election, Republican Jack Ciattarelli lost his bid to flip the New Jersey governor’s seat, while socialist darling Zohran Mamdani emerged victorious in New York City’s mayoral election, defeating both former governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa. Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation The post Woman Who Straight Up Claimed to Be Illegal Wins Mayoral Election in Major City appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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The PBS News Hour devoted the first 14 minutes of Monday’s show to the supposedly dire emergency that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP benefits, known colloquially as food stamps) ran out two days ago during the ongoing federal government “shutdown” before a ruling that the government must fund the food aid. First up, a Lisa Desjardins report from various food banks across the country and found long food lines just two days afterward, after a month of harbingers that this might happen. Desjardins: As SNAP benefits went into limbo Saturday, that line was not unique. This is a nonprofit in Somerville, Massachusetts. Tom Boucher, Food Pantry Manager: We have seen about approximately 15 to 20 percent uptick in a number of guests that we have seen in our pantry. A lot of people have donated to us in the past couple days, which is very helpful. Desjardins found one unfortunate SNAP recipient interviewee Ronald Lubrant, who said “I just want to have the government know, don't take away from me. Otherwise, you're sentencing me to death!” They edited this nonsense into the story.  Co-anchor Amna Nawaz next spoke with Cindy Long, former deputy undersecretary of the USDA's SNAP program, to speak about the nationwide picture. Nawaz invited Long to use emotional blackmail, and Long responded with the usual liberal template concerning the awful choice between buying food and [other vital thing]. Nawaz: Big picture, when you look at what we're dealing with here, the USDA, we know, cited the government shutdown as the reason for its decision to freeze those SNAP funds. That's the first time it's happened in six decades of that program being in place in this country. And families are now dealing with this at a time of rising food prices, rising power bills. How would you describe the situation that people who rely on this program now find themselves in? Cindy Long: ….I imagine that they're under tremendous stress and already thinking about how they're going to trade off things like, do I fill my prescription this month or do I feed my kids or grandkids? Do I pay the rent this month or do I try to put a little more money of whatever limited resources I have aside for food? It's a horrible situation…. The next segment, hosted by co-anchor Geoff Bennett, featured the chief resource officer at a food bank in Kansas City. Bennett asked Elizabeth Keever, “Even before the shutdown, with higher inflation and a tighter job market, what kind of need were you already seeing?” Keever replied with dubious statistics. Keever: You know, that's something that a lot of people didn't realize even before this shutdown is that, in this region that we serve and, frankly, in a lot of places across the country, food insecurity and hunger was higher than it's been in a decade. Year over year, last year, we saw a 10 percent rise. We went from having one in eight folks in our region facing hunger to now one in seven…. Bennett invited Keever to neutralize a conservative point about taxpayers funding people who don’t need it. Bennett: There can be a misconception about who relies on food banks, who relies on food stamps, or SNAP. Who are you really serving? Like Nawaz before him, Bennett coaxed out emotional blackmail from his expert guest. This time the answer was a choice between food and dental hygienist school. There were no tough questions or statements pointing out that Senate Democrats could keep the gravy train going by voting to open up the government, but instead kept voting “No” on continuing resolutions. The thrust of the News Hour’s ongoing partisan shutdown coverage is encapsulated by Bennett’s question to former Trump official Marc Short on October 28: “Is that message landing, do you think, the Republican argument that, even though they control every lever of power in Washington, that this is somehow a Democrat shutdown?” It is of course a Democratic shutdown, given that the Democrats are the ones demanding the extension of COVID-era Obama-care subsidies (which Bennett admitted to earlier in October). These segments were brought to you in part by Letsmakeaplan.org.

Here’s a serious question: Who on God’s green earth made CNN believe it has the credibility to finger-wag at President Donald Trump over inflation after salivating over Bidenomics for four years? CNN Executive Editor David Goldman and Senior Reporter Matt Egan positioned themselves to lecture Trump over his recent 60 Minutes appearance on CBS where he said “We have no inflation” and “Our groceries are down,” which the network castigated as false. Of course, any journalist who’s been following Trump around for any length of time knows he almost always speaks in hyperbole like a second language. But even so, the authors railed that “Trump is repeating a political mistake that haunted his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, and contributed to the Democrats losing the White House: Trump appears to be denying the economic reality that people are experiencing in their everyday lives.”  We had to rub our eyes a few times before we realized Goldman and Egan actually wrote that with a straight face given CNN’s incessant love affair with former President Joe Biden’s economically illiterate spending agenda.  “Denying economic reality?” Is that what Goldman was doing when he ran this stupid headline just before the presidential election October 24, 2024: “America won the war on inflation. You still think the economy stinks.” Goldman tried to reprimand those plebeians who were still reeling from the disaster wrought on them by former President Joe Biden’s outrageous stimulus agenda: “Inflation has been tamed. Consumers are spending like crazy. Companies have more jobs available than job seekers to fill them. What more could you want, America?” How about a little humility in admitting that you did the very thing you’re accusing Trump of doing now? How about that, you flaming hypocrite? Then again, this is the same “Executive Editor” who bent logical reasoning into a pretzel by claiming in April that Trump’s so-called “fiction” about tumbling egg prices was now “reality.” Does that make sense to you? Don’t worry. It didn’t make sense to us either.  Oh, but this wasn’t a one-off for the Bidenomics-simping network. CNN published an August 15, 2024, item by Senior Writer Allison Morrow headlined, “The war on inflation has been won. It’s OK if you’re still angry.” At that time, headline inflation sat at 2.9 percent year-over-year, nearly identical to the latest Consumer Price index reading for September 2025 at 3.0 percent.  For goodness’s sake! CNN was trying to claim victory for Biden on inflation even as early as December 2023, just after America was still suffering the disastrous effects of the 40-year high inflation spike it endured in 2022 that carried over well into 2023. Senior Economy Writer Alicia Wallace published a story then headlined, “Inflation is nearly back to normal. But high prices have changed Americans’ lives.” To be clear, near “normal” for Wallace at that time was when prices were increasing at a 3.1 percent year-over-year rate, 0.1 percentage points higher than the 3.0 percent rate that’s currently on the books for 2025.  See the problem yet? So CNN can make stupid claims about Bidenflation that any person with two eyes, a few brain cells and a bank account could see was false. But now Trump executes his typical off-the-cuff exaggerated communication techniques and now CNN wants to play truth gatekeeper? Someone get us a bucket so we can throw up. STAT.  It’s worth noting that Trump can absolutely take a victory lap on inflation due to the fact that his economy repeatedly stupified the doomers who prophesied economic chaos under his leadership at this point, including Egan.  CNN has about as much legitimacy on the inflation issue as a chimpanzee working as a car mechanic.

On his Tuesday show, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel sought to explain why ticket sales for the Kennedy Center have fallen since President Trump named himself chairman. Through a satirical ad from Trump, Kimmel claimed the answer lies in anti-woke programming that is also pro-Nazi. Kimmel introduced the ad with one of his usual negative nicknames for Trump, “When Trump took over, he promised he would get rid of all the woke programming at the Kennedy Center and make it hot again, and I have to say, Fatty LuPone has lined up an absolutely MAGA-nificient lineup of new shows.”     In the ad, Fake Trump began by promoting some Nazi projects by Kanye West: Hello everyone, it’s your favorite president and Kennedy Center Chairman, me, with major news. We've got some fantastic new shows lined up, but I made a few minor changes just like I did to the East Wing. And they're going to be great shows. Like Kanye West Side Story. We love Kanye and this one's going to be too good to not see. Get it? ‘Nazi.’ Kanye is also directing our next project, Hitler On The Roof. Hitler goes up on the roof and turns out to have some very reasonable things to say. Fake Trump then rolled on to the next bit of programming, “Next, we've got a classic: Guys and Dolls: Are The Only Two Genders and we don't want guys in the dolls’ locker room, do we folks? Unless it's me, then it's fine.” Is Kimmel honestly trying to suggest that believing there are only two genders is somehow on the same level as Hitler apologia? Gross inferences aside, the ad concluded with some more upcoming attractions: Then I'm excited for White Hamilton. The first Hamilton with an all-white cast. The Founding Fathers were all white. A lot of people don't know that. But it's true. We've got Shut Up About The Rent, Kristi Get Your Gun, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying Because My Dad Is President, Chicago Is A Hellhole, The Really Long Wiz. Thirteen Diet Cokes is a lot. That road didn't start out yellow. Aladdin Lives in El Salvador now. Back where he belongs. And my personal favorite: The King Is I. So, come check out the full season, and I'll see you at the theater. Right after the renovations. Despite what some people may say, conservatism or anti-wokeness has nothing to do with Nazism. They never have, and they never will, and no amount of bad puns will change that. Here is a transcript for the November 4 show: ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live! 11/4/2025 11:40 PM ET JIMMY KIMMEL: When Trump took over, he promised he would get rid of all the woke programming at the Kennedy Center and make it hot again, and I have to say, Fatty LuPone has lined up an absolutely MAGA-nificient lineup of new shows. FAKE DONALD TRUMP: Hello everyone, it’s your favorite president and Kennedy Center Chairman: me, with major news. We've got some fantastic new shows lined up, but I made a few minor changes just like I did to the East Wing. And they're going to be great shows. Like Kanye West Side Story. We love Kanye and this one's going to be too good to not see. Get it? "Nazi." Kanye is also directing our next project, Hitler On The Roof. Hitler goes up on the roof and turns out to have some very reasonable things to say. Next, we've got a classic: Guys and Dolls: Are The Only Two Genders and we don't want guys in the dolls’ locker room, do we folks? Unless it's me, then it's fine. Then I'm excited for White Hamilton. The first Hamilton with an all-white cast. The Founding Fathers were all white. A lot of people don't know that. But it's true. We've got Shut Up About The Rent, Kristi Get Your Gun, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying Because My Dad Is President, Chicago Is A Hellhole, The Really Long Wiz. Thirteen Diet Cokes is a lot. That road didn't start out yellow. Aladdin Lives in El Salvador now. Back where he belongs. And my personal favorite: The King Is I. So, come check out the full season, and I'll see you at the theater. Right after the renovations.

On October 20, 2025, in a room scrubbed clean for statecraft, the leaders of the United States and Australia announced a pact. The numbers were large, commitments of $1 billion each, a pipeline worth $8.5 billion, and another $2.2 billion in letters of interest. The language was of strategic reassurance: “securing critical minerals,” “building an allied supply chain.” They spoke of a gallium plant in Western Australia, of the Nolans project in the Northern Territory.What was stated only in the careful argot of diplomacy was the anxiety. The pact was not a gesture of optimism. It was a $10.7 billion hedge against a future held hostage. The objects of this anxiety are the rare-earth elements. They are the “vitamins” of modern technology, a group of 17 soft, silvery metals that, while not strictly rare, are rarely found in concentrations that make extraction anything but a geologic and chemical trial. We seldom see or think about them, yet they are the invisible underpinning of the contemporary world. For all our talk of the virtual, our civilization runs on materials.We carry them in our pockets, these bits of refined earth. Neodymium and praseodymium form the tiny, powerful magnets that make an electric vehicle motor turn and a wind turbine spin. Lanthanum and cerium provide the optical clarity for a camera lens. Europium and yttrium are the phosphors that make a smartphone screen vivid. They are virtually indispensable to the high-tech, high-speed, high-definition life we have constructed for ourselves. They are also indispensable to the machinery of modern defense: the precision-guided missiles, the jet engines, the radar systems. There is a profound cultural dislocation at work here. We have come to believe in the immateriality of our age. We speak of the “cloud,” of data, of software, as if these things were weightless, existing only as light and logic. The rare-earth scramble is a reminder that the most ethereal digital experience is tethered to the physical crust of the Earth. The cloud has a body, and that body is dug from the ground, often with toxic solvents and radioactive tailings. China has become the center of this industry, not by accident, but by design, and by a failure of Western imagination. Decades ago, Beijing designated rare earths as “protected and strategic minerals,” while the United States, under the sway of environmental regulation and market efficiencies, allowed its own production to atrophy. The Mountain Pass mine in California, once the world’s leader, went dark in 2002, while China embraced the dirty, complex, and unprofitable “downstream” work: the refining and processing of these rare earths.The result is a near-monopoly. RELATED: This city bought 300 Chinese electric buses — then found out China can turn them off at will Photo by VCG / Contributor via Getty ImagesBy 2025, Chinese firms controlled perhaps 90% of global rare-earth refining and 93% of magnet manufacturing. And with control comes leverage. In 2010, a territorial dispute with Japan was punctuated by China’s abrupt halt of rare-earth exports, sending global prices into panic. By 2025, the mechanism was more refined: new export rules targeting high-performance magnets, rules that, when briefly tightened, shut down supply chains for automakers. This is the power to turn off the assembly line. This is the power to ground the jets.We have seen this story before. We call rare earths “the new oil,” and in doing so, we betray a certain exhaustion. We are merely rerunning the script of the 20th century. The 1973 oil embargo revealed the strategic peril of relying on a single region for the nonnegotiable fuel of the economy. The current scramble, the U.S.-Australia pact, the Pentagon-funded reopening of Mountain Pass, the talk of “urban mining” to reclaim neodymium from old hard drives, is the same reflex. It is the belated, frantic effort to diversify, to stockpile, to rebuild what was lost, to avoid being held hostage. The script is older even than oil. It is the story of the Bronze Age, defined by the desperate, sprawling trade networks required to secure tin. It is the story of the Iron Age, where mastery of a new metal conferred dominance. It is, as Plato observed in the Republic, the inevitable story of the “luxurious city.” A simple society, Socrates argued, a “city of pigs,” lives in peace. But the moment a society desires more (fine furniture, luxuries, or, for us, a high-speed data plan), it must expand. It “inevitably goes to war to secure resources.” Our digital city is the luxurious city. We crave the wind turbine and the EV motor, what we call the “green” transition, but we find it relies on the same “rare green.” We crave the vivid screen and the smart missile. And so we are compelled to scour the globe, to make pacts, to engage in resource diplomacy. This quest is not a move into a new technological future but a return to the oldest imperatives. It is the hard reminder that for all our talk of the virtual, our civilization runs on materials. The hunt for rare earths forces us to confront the weight of our lightness, to see the shadow that our digital lives cast upon the actual, finite earth. It is, and always has been, a scramble for the dirt.

Blaze News investigative reporters Steve Baker and Joseph Hanneman have spent years working to identify the masked individual who placed pipe bombs near the headquarters of the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5, 2021.Baker, whom the Biden FBI arrested over his January 6 reporting, revealed to Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on Wednesday that they have finally locked in on a suspect. What's more, Baker hinted that the suspect's imminent identification will implicate and shame at least one federal agency.'It is monstrous.'Baker told Beck, "When I pulled this thread, I was so shocked by what I saw, I immediately took it to a source in one of the most important, highest-level investigative federal agencies in the country. I immediately took it to our sources there, and I said, 'You have to see this.'""After they looked at it for about two hours, the response that I got back was, 'Holy F,'" continued Baker. "And then the follow-up response was, 'She's one of us!'" — (@) When pressed by Beck about his confidence level in the suspect ID, Baker said, "I will tell you that from gait analysis — that's the analysis of the hoodied bomber ... compared to the gait analysis of this individual in private life and at work — that the actual software hit at a 94% accuracy.""Human analysis from the experts in intelligence is much higher," continued Baker. "They looked at it and went, 'My God, that's it. We got it.'"RELATED: Analysis: FBI’s Jan. 6 pipe bomb update omits key evidence, withholds video FBIForensic gait analysis — the scientific study of patterns in an individual's style of movement in walking or running — is regarded as one of the most sophisticated approaches to identifying an individual from CCTV footage or video recordings and as especially valuable in the absence of other biometric identifiers.The American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Magazine noted in 2023 that gait analysis, which has been used to help secure criminal convictions throughout the Anglosphere for decades, "can be compelling, corroborating evidence," especially since "criminals cannot hide their gait."Baker indicated that he left some "breadcrumbs" in recent reports.Hanneman and Baker reported last week, for instance, that the 8.5-minute video about the Jan. 6 pipe bombs released by the FBI in October contained footage edited to exclude showing a U.S. Capitol Police SUV pull up directly across the street from where the suspect stood at 8:15 p.m. on January 5, 2021.In addition to raising suspicion about the selective edit, the investigative duo claimed that the FBI also deliberately chose not to publicly acknowledge the theory that the pipe bombs were part of a poorly timed training exercise.Baker told Beck on Wednesday that while the FBI and the Metropolitan Police Department are offering a $500,000 reward for evidence that leads to an arrest in the case, he didn't take the new evidence implicating the yet-to-be named suspect to the agencies "because we believe that they were actively engaged in the cover-up."Baker indicated that there are national security-related briefings under way, and Beck said that the suspect's name will be released after the relevant agencies have "battened down the hatches."Beck said, "This is one of the biggest stories — I think it is the biggest scandal of my lifetime, maybe in the last 100 years. It is monstrous."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Coca-Cola has responded to criticism over its AI-generated commercials with even more AI-generated art.Following backlash for its AI-generated 2024 "Holidays Are Coming" ad, the company says that this year consumers should react more positively, as AI generation is "going forward."'Real hard work writing some prompts for AI.'For 2025, Coke has not only doubled down with its commercial, but tripled down amid criticism. The recent ad, created with Real Magic AI, depicts hosts of anthropomorphized squirrels, rabbits, dogs, and the brand's traditional polar bears. While the ad showed significant improvements since last year, it still has the usual AI follies of non-spinning wheels on Coca-Cola trucks and overdrawn hairlines that could still fool the naked eye.However, Pratik Thakar, Coca-Cola's head of generative AI, says not to believe the haters."Last year people criticized the craftsmanship. But this year the craftsmanship is 10 times better," Thakar said, per Hollywood Reporter. "There will be people who criticize — we cannot keep everyone 100% happy."Thakar added, "But if the majority of consumers see it in a positive way, it's worth going forward."One place Coke was certain to receive positive reinforcement was from its own team, which it showcased in a behind-the-scenes video praising its own hard work on the ad.RELATED: AI can fake a face — but not a soul The commentary video praised five of Coke's AI specialists for parsing through 70,000 video clips in just 30 days to create the ad. Production used programs like OpenAI's Sora, Google's Veo 3, and Luma AI."It really feels like this work is, you know, actively shaping how storytelling is evolving. It shows Coca-Cola really reimagining the creative workflow, especially in this AI era," a female voiceover said. "They landed on this super expressive hyperrealism, really cinematic scenes," a male voiceover added.The video poured praise over Coca-Cola's team, which wrote prompts into AI programs about generating a "hyperrealistic panda animation," for example, scouring through generated videos. Refinements and filters were then shown as further examples of the hard work."Post-production is the new pre-production. Advanced reasoning models let artists plan and solve them early and making scenes feel real before production locks in," the female voiceover continued. "Combining human creativity with AI to turbocharge expression and imagination, giving creatives more freedom, speed, and control than ever before."Viewers did not respond with the same positivity, though, even accusing the voiceovers of being AI themselves.RELATED: How H-1B hires broke USAA’s bond with veterans "Real hard work writing some prompts for AI," a viewer wrote."They're acting like this is something they should be proud of," another said. One viewer called the idea of an "AI voiceover praising this ad compared to the actual human comments who dislike it" the beginning of a dystopian world.Lost in the criticism of Coca-Cola's shift to nonhuman artists is its continued refusal to mention Christmas. Despite depictions of Christmas trees, Christmas lights, and, of course, Santa Claus, the word Christmas is never displayed or uttered.Both videos happily displayed all the Americana related to the holiday but were careful never to mention the forbidden words: Merry Christmas.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The boxed set features a newly remastered version of the original album on both CD and vinyl; rarities; previously unreleased studio and live recordings; and several new mixes by Steven Wilson, including a Dolby Atmos version. The post YES’ Epic ‘Tales From Topographic Oceans’ Gets (Super) Super Deluxe Edition appeared first on Best Classic Bands.

Dem Rep's Attempt to Prove Prices Have Gone Up Under Trump Is the Lefty BACKFIRE of the Day