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How Wedgewood’s sham polls fooled the media

This week, polling firm Wedgewood Polls was exposed for fabricating data and subsequently shut down. The company had claimed to survey competitive primary and general election races, with its results feeding into prominent polling averages, from Decision Desk HQ to Nate Silver’s Silver Bulletin Substack. But the timing was suspicious: the announcement came only after an investigation by polling outlet FiftyPlusOne exposed it as fraudulent.

The scandal, breaking barely two weeks before voters go to the polls for the Midterms, follows the Median Strategies scandal in August, when another purported polling operation was revealed to be faking its data. Both Median and Wedgewood claimed their polling was merely a “social experiment” designed to show the weakness of safeguards against malicious actors in the polling industry. Many professional pollsters, like myself, rolled their eyes at this.

by Blazingcatfur•October 23, 2026October 22, 2026•0•USA

Ilhan Omar court documents reveal two clues about the feds’ case against Squad rep

WASHINGTON — The search warrant on “Squad” Rep. Ilhan Omar hasn’t necessarily been “fully” completed, court documents in a legal fight between the feds and the media indicated.

At dawn on Oct. 12, the feds executed a search warrant and raided Omar’s (D-Minn.) DC home as part of a probe into her immigration status in a stunning move less than a month out from the Nov. 3 election.

To justify keeping the details of the records for the warrant under wraps from numerous media outlets, US Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro cited concerns that it wasn’t fully completed.

by Blazingcatfur•October 22, 2026October 22, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, USA

Investigation Finds FDA May Have Covered Up COVID Vaccine Risk for Kids

By all accounts, Jacob Clynick was a healthy 13-year-old boy. Like most teenagers, he was obsessed with Pokémon and more than fluent in the language of internet memes. He was supposed to start his freshman year at his local high school in the fall.

Then, on June 15, 2021, he went to bed and never woke up.

by Blazingcatfur•October 22, 2026October 22, 2026•0•"China eats weird animals disease", USA

BUSTED: Feds Arrest Corrupt Virginia Dem — and Her Family Members, Too

Virginia State Sen. Louise Lucas and various family members are in federal custody today, up on charges of racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy with intent to distribute marijuana, conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy to commit audit services fraud, and maintaining a drug-involved premises.

by Blazingcatfur•October 22, 2026October 22, 2026•0•Crime, USA

Canadian woman accused of attacking teen on July 4 booted from U.S.

The Canadian activist who allegedly slapped a New Jersey teen last summer over the girl’s MAGA ensemble has officially been given the boot.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed to Shore News Network that it removed Kaitlyn Tracey from the United States on Aug. 15. It isn’t clear why the information has been withheld until now.

by Blazingcatfur•October 22, 2026October 22, 2026•0•Canada, USA

In San Francisco, a Family Earning $325,000 Qualifies for Government Aid

John Marman and Natsumi Makiyama work in health professions that would put them squarely in the upper middle class almost anywhere else in the United States.

He is a therapist, and she is a pediatric nurse. But they live with their two children in one of the priciest swaths of the country, San Francisco.

They feel squeezed — and perhaps surprisingly, City Hall agrees.

Adam Carolla DETONATES after San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie admits the city “lost its way” on progressive values.

“F**K YOU AND YOUR F**KING SH*TTY VALUES.”

He said what millions are thinking. The f-bombs are completely appropriate here.

CAROLLA: “Your ideas SUCK. Your progressive ideas SUCK. They ruin cities.”

“A whole bunch of people OD’d because of your sh*tty f**king values.”

His boat analogy nails it: One progressive captain lets the water in. The next one pumps HALF of it out. And you’re supposed to thank them because the boat is sinking slower.

CAROLLA: “Your plans always turn to sh*t. San Diego’s turned to sh*t. Austin’s turned to sh*t. LA’s turned to sh*t. Wherever you guys become captains, your boat’s turned to sh*t.”

“Why don’t we just get the guy who never lets the water in?”

“You’re running a f**king city. You have a budget. That’s it. Crime, statistics, school, education, traffic. I don’t give a f**k about your values.”

“MY VALUES ARE GET THE F**K UP AND GO TO WORK AND SHUT UP.”

Every progressive says “we lost our way” after the boat goes under. No. You steered it exactly where you wanted it to go.

— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) October 16, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•October 22, 2026October 22, 2026•0•California, USA, WTF?

Trumpism Is Backfiring Says Ukraine Bag Lady

No country right now better reveals the transformation in the way the world sees America — the way we’ve turned from ally and partner to bully and predator — than Canada.

In late August, Prime Minister Mark Carney, of Canada, walked away from trade talks with the Trump administration. He did so knowing that the retaliation could be ruinous for the Canadian economy.

OH Wow! Carney ruined our economy to save us!

It helped China because that was Carney’s orders.

by Blazingcatfur•October 22, 2026October 21, 2026•0•"Canada - China's 24th Province", "Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

Washington Post Accidentally Reveals More Evidence Implicating Ilhan Omar In Fraud

Buried in a report aimed at discrediting ongoing probes into Rep. Ilhan Omar, The Washington Post divulged fresh evidence suggesting her previous marriage to her alleged brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, was a sham.

In recounting the first Trump administration’s ultimately inconclusive investigation into some of the same issues federal officials are examining anew concerning the congresswoman’s background, the Post reveals that Elmi once filed a petition to have his residency status, derived from his marriage-based green card, shifted from conditional to permanent. According to the newspaper, U.S. Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) “requested additional evidence due to concerns over the validity of his marriage,” at which point Elmi pulled his application.

by Blazingcatfur•October 22, 2026October 21, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", USA

Canadian Officers Don’t Want to Serve in the U.S. Anymore

The shortest flight path from Russia to the United States would take an enemy bomber over the North Pole and across Canadian airspace. During the Cold War, that simple fact was the impetus for the creation of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, which forged an integrated radar network across the two countries, effectively treating North American airspace as a single defensive zone.

Link fixed! h/t BT

by Blazingcatfur•October 21, 2026October 21, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Canada, USA

New fake polling scandal riles Democrats ahead of midterm elections

Another fake polling scandal has hit less than two weeks before the midterm elections, ripping open old wounds about the Michigan Democratic Senate primary and renewing skepticism about pollsters as they increasingly forecast a blue wave on Nov. 3.

An outfit called Wedgewood Polls released a statement on social media Tuesday acknowledging most of its results were not legitimate, but rather some kind of experiment designed to show serious problems with how polls are conducted and then reported on by the media.

h/t XC

by Blazingcatfur•October 21, 2026October 21, 2026•0•USA, WTF?

U.S. embassy accuses Canadian politicians of interfering in American elections

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney and Ontario Premier Doug Ford both disputed the suggestion of Canadian interference in the U.S. midterms, after the U.S. embassy in Canada released a list of quotes from Canadian politicians which it claims indicate “plans to influence American politics.”

Industry Minister Mélanie Joly is quoted five times in the list the embassy released Wednesday.

The U.S. Embassy in Ottawa has just issued a fact sheet accusing Canadian politicians of trying to influence American politics. It ends with a rather pointed warning: “Americans decide America’s elections.” https://t.co/q5Y72MJMiP

— Rupa Subramanya (@rupasubramanya) October 21, 2026

I think the USA is just yanking Joly’s chain.

by Blazingcatfur•October 21, 2026October 21, 2026•0•Canada, USA

No Way! China Wants to Visit U.S. Nuclear Weapons Labs

China’s officials this year proposed to the Trump administration reciprocal visits to nuclear sites.

Specifically, the Chinese discussed visits to U.S. Department of Energy national labs. The U.S., a source told CNN, “would be open to discussing visits to nuclear testing sites.”

Unfortunately, China’s initiative looks suspect, and talks should not proceed until Beijing is ready to engage the United States meaningfully.

by Blazingcatfur•October 21, 2026October 21, 2026•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

Green Group Already Under Scrutiny Honors Leader of Foundation That Gave Millions to China-Linked Entities

An environmental group facing scrutiny for its ties to China honored a leader of a major left-leaning grantmaking foundation that has given millions of dollars to China-connected entities.

The Environmental Law Institute on Tuesday honored Julie Packard, vice chair of the board of trustees for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, with its 2026 Environmental Achievement Award. Packard’s group has funded a range of Chinese institutions including universities scrutinized by Congress, a public foundation, and a research institute.

They’re everwhere.

by Blazingcatfur•October 21, 2026October 20, 2026•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

Ilhan Omar reemerges to beg supporters for cash as probe into her immigration status intensifies

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) raised her head to beg for more cash as she vowed to return to the campaign trail and fight the federal investigation into her immigration status.

The lefty “Squad” member posted a minute-long video from the back of a car Tuesday night as she continues to lay low since her home was searched as part of the sprawling federal probe.

She thanked her supporters for sending donations that she said would help “fight Trump and his administration for trying to intimidate me and so many other people right before the midterm elections.”

h/t Mauser

by Blazingcatfur•October 21, 2026October 21, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islamization of the West, USA

“We Will Use Your Democracy to Destroy Your Democracy”

Years before ISIS existed, the Islamist cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed reportedly told journalist Patrick Goodenough something that seems to be willfully ignored by the vast majority of people in the West:

“We will use your democracy to destroy your democracy.”

In one sentence, Bakri identified the vulnerability at the heart of a free society.

by Blazingcatfur•October 21, 2026October 20, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA