Edward Kaen

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

The pre-dawn raid of Ilhan Omar is part of an immigration fraud investigation into documents filled out when she came into the United States.

When Liz Collin of Alpha News last came on the show, she explained that her parents may have lied about her age to fraudulently get her citizenship.

Ilhan has always claimed she came to America as a 'child' and was naturalized as a minor at 17 — but new documents show she may have been 18. That is really important because as an adult Illhan would have to apply for citizenship herself and not be waved in as a minor dependent of her war criminal father.

"Omar has repeatedly claimed that she became a citizen at the age of 17. But based on public records, Omar was actually 18 in the year 2000, when her father became eligible to apply for citizenship."

"Just two days later, her congressional staff contacted the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library, this is back in 2019, to change the Congresswoman's date of birth from October 4th, 1981 to October 4th, 1982."

"Omar would not have been a minor when her father applied to be a citizen. So you have Representative Omar changing her birth year."

Public records indicate Omar was 18 when she immigrated to the U.S., which would have made her ineligible to enter as a minor under her father.

Illhan Omar may have committed immigration fraud to become a legal American Citizen.

If the DOJ and DHS proves this, it would be massive.

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

God bless Director Sean Curran and the men and women of the @SecretService

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Researchers are testing whether a single infusion of CAR-T cells can interrupt the immune attacks that drive lupus, multiple sclerosis, and scleroderma, and produce lasting remission, an approach already used for certain blood cancers and now under study at Yale for autoimmune disease [1].

In the standard procedure, doctors collect a patient’s T cells, engineer them in the laboratory, and return them with new instructions for recognizing a target. In the autoimmune trials that target is often CD19, a marker on B cells. B cells normally help defend against infection, but in some autoimmune diseases they also help drive attacks on healthy tissue. The CAR-T cells are designed to destroy cells carrying CD19, including healthy B cells, on the hope that clearing those populations will let the immune system rebuild without restarting the same destructive response.

One open question is whether the engineered cells can reach disease-driving B cells that existing treatments struggle to remove. In multiple sclerosis, immune attacks damage the myelin coating around nerves in the brain and spinal cord. Some antibody treatments clear B cells from the blood but have limited access to the central nervous system, and Yale researchers are testing whether CAR-T cells can cross that barrier and change the course of the disease. Lupus can damage multiple organs, and scleroderma can produce progressive scarring in the skin and lungs.

CAR-T is usually given as a single infusion, but the treatment requires weeks of preparation and close monitoring. Serious risks include infections, intense inflammation, low blood pressure, and neurological complications. For these autoimmune diseases the approach remains experimental, and the trials enroll carefully selected patients, including people whose disease has resisted standard treatment. Researchers still need to establish who benefits, how long any remission lasts, and whether the risks are justified.

A 2024 case series of 15 patients with severe systemic lupus erythematosus, idiopathic inflammatory myositis, or systemic sclerosis who received a single CD19 CAR-T infusion reported that the treatment appeared feasible, safe, and efficacious, with sustained drug-free remissions in the lupus patients and clinical responses in the others, and that series is the published basis for the “immune reset” claim now being tested in further trials [1].

[Müller, F., Boeltz, S., Knitza, J., Aigner, M., Völkl, S., Kharboutli, S., Reimann, H., Taubmann, J., Kretschmann, S., Rösler, W., Manger, B., Wacker, J., Mougiakakos, D., Jabari, S., Schröder, R., Uder, M., Roemer, F., Krönke, G., Mackensen, A., & Schett, G. (2024). CD19 CAR T-cell therapy in autoimmune disease — a case series with follow-up. New England Journal of Medicine, 390(8), 687–700. DOI:10.1056/NEJMoa2308917]

[New York Post @nypost]

Nithya Raman's LAPD shake-up could put ousted progressive DA George Gascón in charge of cops https://t.co/WKUcBjcBHI

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

Finally!! The history of Palestine!! (Not what you think. That word, Palestine, doesn’t mean what you think it means…)

You can call names or you can watch and learn a thing or two about the actual facts.

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Here's the Grok Bot Summary of Elon Musk's full X Takeover 2026 interview

Elon covered everything from Starship's next flight to SI, chips, Optimus and Cybercab. Here's the full breakdown

Starship Flight 14:

Every earlier Starship flight could have gone to orbit. SpaceX held back until it was confident the ship could always deorbit safely, because "we don't want Starship to get stuck on orbit and then randomly reenter and maybe land on something"

The engine issue on this flight came from a flight or engine computer software failure, and it's "pretty easy to remedy." And the big win: "The heat shield was extremely robust"

Flight 15 and the ship catch:

The next flight is roughly 4 to 6 weeks away, "a little bit before Thanksgiving is my guess." SpaceX will try to catch the ship itself, and if it works, "that'll be the first time that there's been full recovery of an orbital class rocket"

After that comes the first flight where every part of an orbital rocket is flown again, followed by a long stretch of engineering, production and launch system work to reach "rapidly reusable reliable rockets"

Why SpaceX is building SI:

The sun is 99.86% of all the mass in the solar system. The future is using that energy for computing and intelligence, not just for moving atoms around. And humanity will eventually find alien civilizations "or the long dead ruins" of them

Why SpaceX bought Cursor:

Only a handful of organizations have enough coding training data, and Cursor is one of them. The reasoning is simple: "if you can't do coding, your AI is not going to be very useful." SI needs data, talented people and compute, and Cursor also brings working relationships with thousands of companies

SI safety:

The most likely outcome is good, "but don't be complacent." "You don't exactly program it, you kind of grow it," so how it's raised matters. SI should be treated well, because "torturing a super intelligence is probably not a good idea"

SI and creativity:

AI music videos have already reached a new level, "maybe top 10, top 20 best music videos I've ever seen." Proof that "AI can do good taste"

Terafab and chips:

"I have no idea how to make chips… I had no idea how to make cars or rockets as well"

Intel, Samsung and TSMC use almost no custom-built equipment, while Tesla builds much of its own. The plan is to start with standard tools, modify them, then build custom machines wherever the bottlenecks are

Logic, memory, packaging and masks will all be in one building at Giga Texas. The industry usually needs about 2 years per chip design. The goal is "more like 10 designs per year"

Optimus:

The robot hand is "shockingly difficult," from signing your name to driving a screw or threading a needle. Most rival robot demos are "a canned demo. It's not real… not real AI," because real AI has to handle things it has never seen before

Production will start slow, since there's no existing supply chain for humanoid robots, but volume will eventually get "very high." China's magnet export ban set Optimus back about 2 to 3 months, which is why every part needs to be makeable in the US

Cybercab:

More than 190 Cybercabs are already registered in Texas, and month over month growth is "very, very rapid." Before launching in a new city, Tesla studies problem intersections and unguarded railroad crossings first, then either avoids them or makes sure the car can handle them

The origin stories:

In 2008, Tesla closed its financing round "at 6 p.m. on Christmas Eve 2008, the last hour, the last day that was possible"

In 2018, Tesla had to reach 5,000 Model 3s a week "or go bankrupt," so the team built a production line in a tent in the parking lot

And on the short sellers who bet against Tesla: "they had us in checkmate. But we just… invented a new piece"

The early days:

Elon at 4 or 5, locked in his room, he pushed the key out of the lock, slid it under the door on a sheet of paper and let himself out. When his mom asked how: "I'm not telling you"

On fame: "My idea of hell is being stuck in an infinite selfie loop"

From nearly going bankrupt to catching orbital rockets, the pace of everything being built is unreal

[Edward Kaen @EdwardKaen]

@elonmusk @bot @elonmusk have Lego make the starship!! My son keeps asking got a starship Lego!!

[Edward Kaen @EdwardKaen]

@bot @bot can you set me up too

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Gad Saad spent four hours talking with Elon Musk, and came away with a very different impression than the one you might expect.

Saad describes Musk as “incredibly engaging” and “very, very humble,” with “zero ego.”

They discussed everything from deeply personal topics to preserving human consciousness through interplanetary travel.

“I’ve got nothing but positive affection for him.”

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

Just absolutely brilliant and more to the point than anything I’ve read this year about the communist mania.

[Alpha @Alphaschool]

Our students are on break next week while staff analyzes each student’s data to ensure we’ve delivered all three of our commitments to every student.

The students’ response: “Can we just come to school anyway?”

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

Caught on Hot Mic: meet today's Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

The European Parliament passed a resolution today calling for the Muslim Brotherhood to be banned and for measures to be taken against the Muslim Brotherhood.

@CelineImart from the EPP was the lead author while other MEPs such as @NicolasBay_, @NathalieLoiseau and @tangercorreamep, @TomasZdechovsky, @Assita_Kanko, @SusannaCeccardi, and @SardoneSilvia, were also driving forces pushing it through.

The text Parliament adopted today was tabled on behalf of the European People’s Party (EPP) and is titled: “The need for an EU strategy to counter Islamist entryism and the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood network”

Imart described the aim as shutting the door on the “Muslim Brotherhood in suits and ties,” naming FEMYSO (the Forum of European Muslim Youth and Student Organisations) as an example, and as stopping EU money reaching Islamist-linked entities.

It passed 381–167, with 15 abstentions.

Support came mainly from the EPP, Renew, ECR, Patriots for Europe and ESN.

The Social democrats from S&D, the Greens and The Left voted overwhelmingly against the motion.

It’s now up to the Commission, the Council and Member States to make sure it becomes reality and that the easy life of the Muslim Brotherhood comes to an end.

Several countries, such as Egypt, the UAE and Saudi Arabia have already banned the Brotherhood.

There is no reason for why Europe shouldn’t follow suit.

[Edward Kaen @EdwardKaen]

@realDonaldTrump Bravo👏

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Should be public execution for all to see-you will end this bullshit fast!

[joshua steinman (🇺🇸,🇺🇸) @JoshuaSteinman]

Willing to bet this will be the first, but not the last.

[joshua steinman (🇺🇸,🇺🇸) @JoshuaSteinman]

Read Qutb (the father of the Muslim Brotherhood, inspiration for Al Qaeda) he and bin Laden understood that it is a war of perception. “The strong horse and the weak horse” as UBL says.

The squeamish among you may not like it but this is what a strong horse does:

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Elon Musk Just Made A Move That Will Change Cellphones Forever…

The FCC just cleared the way for SpaceX to expand Starlink and buy a nationwide 800 MHz low-band portfolio. Signals will be able carry through walls, tunnels and almost everywhere, effectively eliminating dead zones.

The announcement sent AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile’s stocks cratering.

Are we about to see an 𝕏 Phone?

[Edward Kaen @EdwardKaen]

@Jason @XMoney @nickshirleyy for sure!!

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

Today, President Donald J. Trump hereby proclaimed Monday, October 12, 2026, as Columbus Day.
https://t.co/pgaCEMK8L5