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— Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 (@KarluskaP) October 3, 2026
Thank you Yaniv pic.twitter.com/Hc1agaqKZe
Ed: He's my kind of guy, too. So is Smit Machchhar, and so are all of those who helped take back the flight and ensure that the terrorist failed in his mission. And we finally know his name ...
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Times of Israel: The copilot of flydubai flight FZ1073 attempted to carry out a “terrorist attack” with an ax during Wednesday morning’s Israel-bound flight, the United Arab Emirates prosecutor general said on Saturday as the country continued its investigation into the incident.
The attacker was identified as Hamam al-Hammami, an Omani national who had previously been banned from flying by Oman over concerns that he had been radicalized, officials told the Associated Press. UAE authorities did not immediately respond to a request for confirmation of his identity. ...
“Investigations into the incident involving flydubai flight FZ1073 found that the copilot had attempted to carry out a terrorist attack,” Prosecutor General Hamad Saif Al Shamsi said in a statement carried by the UAE’s state news agency.
Ed: At least the UAE is calling a spade a spade. When will the American news media do the same? And why didn't Oman alert FlyDubai about al-Hammami's issues? It seems exceedingly unlikely that FlyDubai didn't have some level of curiosity as to why al-Hammami was suddenly available after being employed in Oman. Again, one has to wonder whether al-Hammami was a sleeper agent, and whether he was the only one at FlyDubai.
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This is the co pilot who attempted the terrorist attack. We should be using normal pictures of Hamam al-Hammami and others.
— Jordan Domingue (@DomingueJordan) October 3, 2026
Too often we think Islamist as militant, uneducated, barbaric individuals. When more often than not they are young, well socialized, educated, and very… pic.twitter.com/jjFRtMT28h
... and very much normal.
On many college campuses and in many cities in this country, you could find thousands who share similar views, and have the same heroes as Hamam al-Hammami does.
They may not act on concepts of Islamist martyrdom, they may never commit an act of violence, but the line between their views and an act of terror are very thin.
Ed: Astute observations. Those observations have very serious implications, especially in relation to Michigan's Senate race, but definitely in future elections as well. I have another concern after seeing these pictures, which is that al-Hammami will be the next idol of the "Free Luigi" AWFL set, especially on college campuses. What's the difference between Mangione and al-Hammami, except for scale?
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ABC News: Officials investigating the incident are still trying to determine how the suspected attacker was subsequently permitted to fly for FlyDubai and how he ended up as the first officer in the cockpit of a plane headed for Israel, the sources said.
Al Hammami -- who was transferred Thursday from Saudi Arabia to the United Arab Emirates -- is said to be "cooperating" with authorities investigating the incident and has indicated that his intent was to crash the aircraft in Israel, according to sources briefed on the investigation. ...
The officials told ABC News that Al Hammami, while working as a co-pilot trainee for Oman Air in 2024, was found to be in possession of extremist materials. The suspect was allowed to continue working for the airline in an administrative role, the sources said. ...
Royal Air Maroc -- Morocco's national carrier -- confirmed to ABC News that Al Hammami completed a three-month theoretical training period with the airline in 2025 as part of its pre-employment process. At the end of the training, he was not selected for employment, the airline confirmed, but it wouldn't say why.
Ed: So yes, he wanted to follow the 9/11 pattern and turn the plane into a guided missile aimed at Tel Aviv's urban center. That's precisely why Israel insists on restricting pilots to those from friendly countries only. The passengers certainly understood what would happen without an intervention. However, there are multiple organizations that saw red flags with al-Hammami, and yet FlyDubai still assigned him to that flight. Will we ever get an explanation for that series of events?
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NEW: Flydubai Pilot Smit Machchhar Testimony:
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) October 3, 2026
“The co-pilot stood up to pray, and out of respect for him, I didn’t look back.
A few minutes later, I felt a strong impact and thought something had happened to the plane. But then I was hit again and realized it was him.
I opened…
I opened the cockpit door once, but he closed it, and I fell to the floor. I realized I had one more chance.
When I opened it again, I saw people waiting to rush inside.”
Ed: That'll be the last time that a pilot takes his eyes off a copilot who stands up to pray in the middle of a flight. Hopefully it will be the last time it happens.
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The College Fix: Rutgers University professor Roxane Gay called for the liberation of Luigi Mangione, the man accused of murdering the United Healthcare CEO, at a fat liberation panel hosted at Harvard Medical School.
When asked a question about the healthcare industry, Gay responded, “Free Luigi, for one,” according to a video of the panel posted to X.
Mangione is on trial after allegedly murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024.
Gay also told the audience, “The health insurance industry is equal opportunity evil.” She serves as an artist-in-residence for the Master of Science in Media, Medicine and Health and the Media and Medicine Certificate Program at Harvard Medical School.
“They are terrible for thin people, for fat people, for white people, for black people … They just want to prioritize profit over bodies and health,” she said.
Ed: 'Artist-in-residence' for a medical school? What kind of featherbedding is that? That's the first problem. The second problem is nepotism, because Gay is the cousin of disgraced former Harvard president Claudine Gay, which likely explains why that position exists at all. I'd also take note from the video that 'researcher' Ragen Chastain wore a mask throughout despite the lack of medical evidence of effectiveness in these kinds of applications, and that none of the panelists were actually doctors or nurses. Only one is even studying medicine. Want to guess how they feel about al-Hammami?
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In a very short period of time we’ve seen the left go from being ok with burning Teslas, to being ok with murdering CEOs, to being ok with murdering children.
— Stacy is Right (@PoliticalStacy) October 2, 2026
Their spiritual decline and decay has been an alarming thing to witness and it appears to be accelerating.
Ed: Indeed, and it's accelerating primarily because of the moral and intellectual rot in Academia.
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Caitlin Flanagan at The Free Press: I don’t need to read one more text message or police report about what happened in the Chi Phi house at Cornell University two years ago. I don’t need any of that because I know this: A member sent out a text to all of the brothers advertising “free” sex in one of the rooms, and there wasn’t a single member of that outfit who was man enough to shut it down. There couldn’t really be a simpler test of manhood: If you got that text, would you go to the house to get your bit of free sex, or would you go to get her out of there?
I do, however, wonder how the campus newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, would receive the news of a man busting into that room during the early, consensual part of the event. “Slut-Shaming Chi Phi Tells Sophomore: Enough!” Or, worse, “Chi Phi ‘Rescues’ Sophomore Woman—From Herself.” But the headlines this week have been starkly different, and the eyes of the world are on Ithaca, New York. ...
Women are in a tough spot where fraternities are concerned. They know that they don’t want to be rescued or protected by men; they know that they can take care of themselves. But they really can’t—not in a fraternity house. And yet, decade after decade, they go to fraternity parties. What are they looking for? It’s the very force they claim to be “so over”: masculinity.
That’s the saddest thing about these old rituals. What attracts women to those parties—late at night, like Jane Doe—to walk alone to a fraternity house and take her chances? What she’s really looking for is a man. And she has no idea how to find a good one.
Ed: It's a very interesting essay; I don't think I agree with Flanagan's take on the case, although like her, I'm inclined to wait for more data before reaching a conclusion. However, her larger point on the toxicity between the sexes and the extremely bad formation for both of them in modern times is well worth considering.
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“Had Biden just stayed in the White House and said, ‘I’m not gonna debate this man because he’s morally bankrupt,’ Biden might be the president today.”
— Natalie Jean Beisner (@NJBeisner) October 2, 2026
Sunny Hostin is back to her absolutely garbage takes. Biden was clearly unfit for office; some of us saw it years in advance… pic.twitter.com/dg1BB5KK4L
Sunny Hostin is back to her absolutely garbage takes. Biden was clearly unfit for office; some of us saw it years in advance because we didn’t have blinders on; ALL of us saw it that debate night. He should’ve not just rescinded his campaign for re-election, but he should have also immediately resigned from the presidency.
To sit here over TWO YEARS LATER and suggest that you wish Biden would’ve not deigned to debate a “morally bankrupt man” like Trump so that he could still be in the Oval Office today TWO YEARS LATER is patently partisan psychosis.
Ed: It's certainly partisan, but it's not psychotic. It's more sociopathic. There are no morals involved – all Hostin wants is power. She is endorsing a crime against the Constitution rather than the truth emerging about the Biden Regency. Also, it wouldn't have mattered. If Biden refused the September or October debates, his goose would have been cooked because he was also terribly unpopular and everyone knew he was getting senile. The early debate actually gave Democrats a chance to recover, which they then blew by anointing Kamala Harris rather than using the convention for an open process. If a Democrat convention had nominated nearly anyone else, and had the assassination attempt in Butler never taken place, Trump might have lost the election.
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NBC News: The head of Tennessee’s prison system is resigning after the failed execution of Christa Pike, Gov. Bill Lee announced Saturday.
Lee said that Department of Correction Commissioner Frank Strada will step down this month.
Strada said in a statement that stepping aside “is in the best interests” of the state as an independent review is carried out to determine why Pike’s execution failed Wednesday.
Pike was placed on a ventilator and remained unconscious in a hospital, her attorneys said in a court filing Friday.
Ed: Accountability – what a concept. The state legislature needs to mandate a return to the firing squad. Enough of lethal injection, a method fraught with potential issues and demonstrable failures. Also, if Pike is on a ventilator, don't expect her to be subject to another execution. She's probably suffered brain damage and may never regain consciousness, but even if she does, it's a safe bet that the politics involved will be too risky for another governor to sign a death warrant.
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🚨Scott's Scoreboard (October 3)
— Scott Rasmussen (@ScottWRasmussen) October 3, 2026
✅House: Safe/Likely/Lean Dem 215
✅Safe/Likely/Lean GOP 205
✅Tossup 15
✅In our ratings, races favoring a candidate 60% - 70% are considered as leaning towards that candidate. This is a much tighter band than traditional forecasters such as… pic.twitter.com/w5gcm3UnH7
... such as @CookPolitical and @LarrySabato. Historically, races they rate as lean win about 94% of the time.
✅This means we will have fewer tossups.
Ed: No matter who wins, the majority margin will be excruciatingly small.
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Lebanese 🇱🇧 journalist and author Brigitte Gabriel:
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) October 3, 2026
“When I was born, Beirut was considered the ‘Paris of the Middle East.’ Today, Paris is considered the Beirut of Europe.” pic.twitter.com/HybA8wN51T
Ed: It has been for decades. It's just getting bad enough now that no one can ignore it.
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Friends can disagree right @JDVance? https://t.co/A0h0d0mMaa
— John Ondrasik (@johnondrasik) October 3, 2026
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Last night's lyric: "Undercover Angel" by Alan O'Day.
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