White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt reminded CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that, as a reporter, it was her job to get to the bottom of things rather than to simply accept whatever party line came from the people in power. While addressing the ongoing situation in Portland, Oregon — where Antifa rioters have squared off against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers while local police stand down and independent journalists get caught in the crossfire — Collins suggested that President Donald Trump’s plan to send in the National Guard was unnecessary. “I spoke to the police chief of Portland last week. He said that the president’s claims just don’t match up with what’s happening on the ground,” Collins said, asking Leavitt whether she’d spoken to anyone who was in favor of a National Guard presence. WATCH: .@PressSec smacks down Fake News @kaitlancollins for denying Portland crime: “I would encourage you, as a reporter, to go on the ground and to take a look for yourself… You’re probably talking to partisan Democrat officials who are opposed to everything this President does.” pic.twitter.com/ZVjKMBooVK — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 6, 2025 “I would encourage you, as a reporter, to go on the ground and to take a look for yourself, because there’s been many members of the press — not the press in this room but independent journalists — some of whom we’ll be inviting to the White House very soon to share their stories,” Leavitt said. “Because they have been in the middle of these riots, and they have witnessed the anarchy that is taking place night after night. It’s on video!” “You should play it on your show — you have a great opportunity in primetime on CNN to show your audience —” Collins started to interrupt, but Leavitt kept going. “You’re probably talking to partisan Democrat officials who are opposed to everything this president does.” She also encouraged Collins to speak to the people who live in Portland and ask them how they felt about the chaos that was unfolding on their streets every night. “These people are not there to peacefully protest, they are there to cause mayhem and havoc,” Leavitt said of the protesters.

When discussing the story of a Democratic Virginia attorney general candidate who fantasized about murdering a state GOP leader, we have to understand the reasons why this is happening. There are these gigantic thought structures that have been created and perpetuated generationally by the Left that say it is perfectly okay to talk about murdering your political opponents because they are your political opponents. According to The Daily Wire:   Democrat Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones, in recently uncovered text messages, fantasized about murdering a state GOP leader with “two bullets to the head” and “piss[ing]” on the graves of other Republicans. In text messages obtained first by National Review, Jones says to another lawmaker that he would use two bullets to murder then-GOP House Speaker Todd Gilbert. “Three people, two bullets. Gilbert, Hitler and Pol Pot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head,” Jones texted to Del. Carrie Coyner (R). “Spoiler: put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know and he receives both bullets every time.” Earlier in the text messages, Jones expressed that he would attend the funerals of Republican lawmakers in Virginia “to piss on their graves. … Send them out awash in something.” What apparently ticked him off at the time was that the Republican House Speaker, Todd Gilbert, attended the funeral of Democrat Delegate Joe Johnson, who passed away at the age of 90, and Gilbert said nice things about his late colleague. And this, of course, is what made Jones, the Democratic Virginia AG candidate, very, very angry. A follow-up message from Jones confirmed not only that he wanted to kill Gilbert, but also that he would like Gilbert’s children to die. The Republican state delegate wrote, “You weren’t simply asking questions and you know it.” Jones wrote back, “I genuinely was. I wasn’t attacking you, I was trying to understand your logic.”  The Republican delegate:  “You weren’t trying to understand. You were talking about hoping Jennifer Gilbert’s children would die.”  Jones: “Yes. I’ve told you this before. Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy.”  The Republican delegate: “I point blank asked you more than three times and you dug in that you meant it. I honestly am questioning a lot today.”  Jones: “I mean do I think Todd and Jennifer are evil and that they are breeding little fascists? Yes.”  This is all being revealed in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, and it is insane.  Winsome Earle-Sears, who is running for governor of Virginia and is currently lieutenant governor under Glenn Youngkin, put out a statement calling for the resignation of Jay Jones.  She wrote:   This is horrible to read and should be wholly disqualifying of someone running for an office that protects the people of Virginia. Jay Jones’ horrific comments are a symptom of the entire Democratic Party and his running mate, Abigail Spanberger, needs to call on him to drop out.   Attorney General Jason Miyares has served the people of Virginia with honor and dignity, and will continue to do so come November.  Jay Jones can never be Attorney General of Virginia. Now, the way the mainstream media have covered this is quite wild and also totally insane. First, they claim these are mere allegations that Jay Jones wanted to kill his political opponent.  These aren’t allegations. He literally said it.  If you text someone and then you confirm over and over again that you mean a thing, and then you say that children should die because they’re “little fascists,” at a certain point, don’t we have to take you at your word? POLITICO reported the story in the following manner, and it really demonstrates the madness of the legacy media:   A string of text messages from Jay Jones, Virginia’s Democratic nominee for attorney general, where he mused about violence directed toward a political rival is triggering widespread backlash and threatening to shake up the state’s November election. And this is how it always works with the legacy media. If Democrats do a bad thing, the story is,  “Republicans pounce.” If Republicans do a bad thing, the story is “Republicans did a bad thing.”  I love the language that POLITICO used about how Jay Jones “mused about violence.”  He was just musing. You know, it’s what you do when you call for someone’s murder.  It’s just musing about what would happen if something really bad were to happen to them. Pretty incredible. There’s no apology either. And so when we say the legacy media and Left have a soft spot in their hearts for murder and terrorism, it appears that there is a lot of truth to that statement. Get 40% off new DailyWire+ annual memberships with code FALL40 at checkout! 

Dame Sarah Mullally, the current bishop of London, is the new Archbishop of Canterbury designate. This is a landmark appointment, as she will be the first female Archbishop in the Church of England, often called “mother church” of the worldwide Anglican Communion (estimated to be around 85 million to 100 million members). It comes after a nearly year-long process of “discernment” by the Crown Nominations Commission, chaired by the former head of the security service (MI5), Lord Evans of Weardale. This story briefly made the news, but was nowhere to be found on the BBC News website homepage (more than 50 top stories) when I checked again 24 hours later. Will her tenure be as instantly forgettable? Or does it presage further troubles ahead for the embattled Anglican world? Reactions to the Appointment The initial response has been predictably mixed. Some have rejoiced to see a woman appointed to this historic role. Theological liberals have welcomed the elevation of someone known to support progressive theological positions. However, a comunique from the chairman of the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (GAFCON) Primates Council said that global Anglicans received the news with sorrow and that it left them abandoned. Representing the vast majority of the Communion, these primates no longer recognize the leadership of Canterbury “due to the failure of successive Archbishops of Canterbury to guard the faith.” The Council went on to say that “the majority of the Anglican Communion still believes that the Bible requires a male-only episcopacy,” and Mullally’s support for the revisionist position on same-sex marriage in the Church of England means she has failed to uphold her consecration vows (to hold, teach, and defend the “doctrine of the Christian faith as the Church of England has received it”). Similar lament came from the Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches. Australian Anglicans have called it a “disappointing decision” and in England, Church Society said that “we need a change of direction, not just of sex” and lamented that this was the third consecutive appointment to Canterbury of someone who does not uphold the church’s teaching on marriage and sexuality. Many in the Anglican Church of North America (ACNA) have been quick to remind the world that they have never been in communion with Canterbury. While she has opposed assisted suicide, the new Archbishop seems to be pro-choice as well as pro-gay blessings. She’s not a theologian or known as a gifted preacher. And she may well have certain safeguarding failures to account for on her watch in London according to many observers. All this does not bode well in a post-Welby world, and looks set to lead to further fracturing of the already fragile global communion. Who Is Sarah Mullally? Mullally, born in 1962, began her professional life in nursing, and rose to become the chief nursing officer in the UK’s National Health Service (the youngest person ever appointed to that role). She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her services to nursing and midwifery. After this distinguished nursing career, she trained for ordained ministry at the South East Institute of Theological Education, which provided part-time, non-residential ministerial formation for those ordained later in life. Her early ministry was in south London, first as a curate in Battersea Fields and then as team rector of Sutton. In 2012 she was appointed canon residentiary and treasurer of Salisbury Cathedral, before becoming Suffragan Bishop of Crediton (in the South West of England) in 2015. Three years later she was translated to London, becoming the first woman to hold that historic see and, from 2019, dean of Her/His Majesty’s Chapels Royal. Honored with several doctorates, Mullally will be officially “enthroned” next year, bringing to the office experience from both health-care leadership and senior roles within the Church of England. While for some this makes her a consummate and pragmatic civil servant, others have criticized her as “the lanyard class archbishop” and “the pure distilled essence of everything wrong with the Church of England.” What Lies Ahead for Anglicans? Mullally will be the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury since Augustine of Canterbury landed in England on a mission from Rome in the year 597. She follows in the footsteps of Anselm, Thomas Becket, Thomas Cranmer, and other distinguished former Archbishops. Not all of her predecessors were gospel-hearted preachers, reformers, or unifiers of the church. One was killed during the Peasants’ Revolt in 1381. Archbishop Laud (1633-1645) was executed after playing a polarizing role in the outbreak of the British civil wars. And Gilbert Sheldon (1663-1677) oversaw the persecution and marginalization of Puritans after the Restoration of the monarchy. How will history characterize the legacy of the first female primate of All England? The bishop of Ebbsfleet, who looks after conservative evangelicals in the Church of England (and is severely overworked because of the flourishing nature of this constituency), has pointed out the challenges this appointment creates for those with complementarian convictions. Having worked with Mullally in London, however, he points out that she “has a long track record of gracious engagement, and real understanding of the particular theological convictions we hold,” and has no doubt this will continue. He will need to seek alternative spiritual oversight for his own role, however, now that the Archbishop is to be a woman. The biggest challenge for the new Archbishop is the crisis of trust and credibility she faces. She has led the way in an attempt to institutionally gaslight the entire church, claiming that she and other revisionist bishops are not changing the doctrine of the church on marriage and sexuality, even while they attempt the most radical change to Church of England teaching and practice for 500 years. This has led to the collapse of confidence in Canterbury around the world and a severe split not just in General Synod but in every parish and chapel in the land. Whether Mullally will have the ability to heal these deep rifts or not, remains to be seen. I am hopeful (because Jesus reigns!), but not optimistic. To use Augustus Toplady’s phrase: she will certainly have our prayers, but her errors will have our opposition also.

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned from his post on Monday after only 27 days in power, marking his term as the shortest in France’s history since the Republic’s inception in 1958. Lecornu, a senior figure in President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist Renaissance party, resigned the government under pressure from conservatives just 14 hours after naming […]

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