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Someone Bought the UTSA Student’s Domain Name After She Read a Giddy Poem Celebrating Charlie Kirk’s Murder, Now Anyone Who Googles Her Will Know Who They Are Dealing With

October 29, 2026 MMN Editor Filed Under: THE NEWS

Editor’s note: As founder and editor of The Gateway Pundit I approved of this report. We can not stay silent when we have groups of radicals mocking, joking and laughing about cold-blooded murder of our friends. They want us all dead. We will not be silent.
Jim Hoft
Editor The Gateway Pundit

The University of Texas at San Antonio student who stood up at a Turning Point USA “Pick Up the Mic” event and read a gleeful parody poem celebrating Charlie Kirk’s assassination has been identified as Isa Casahuga-Lemgruber, and someone bought the domain for her name so that everyone will know just what kind of person she is.
Casahuga-Lemgruber is reportedly a Class of 2029 student majoring in International Relations and Diplomacy, from Houston, and a graduate of St. Agnes Academy.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, the student, who introduced herself as “Pamper Baby,” told the crowd she had taken a Plan B that morning, felt guilty as an immigrant, and then launched into a parody of “The Night Before Christmas.”
After finishing the poem, which included the lines “as we solemnly remembered a shot to the neck” and an invitation to a “Squirt for Kirk” event, she told Texas Youth Summit founder Christian Collins he was “brave” for appearing on campus without neck protection.
WATCH:

At @UTSA for Pick Up the Mic, a student read a poem celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk with such glee, then told me I was brave to be out here without my neck covered.
I told her I’d pray for her.
This is the climate. We pick up the mic anyway. https://t.co/ZfipQsosaF
— Christian Collins (@CollinsforTX) October 27, 2026

What makes the video even more disturbing is that there were people there who cheered her on.
Kirk, of course, was fatally shot in the neck while speaking at Utah Valley University in September 2025.
Collins posted the video and said he would pray for her.
Now, someone has registered the domain IsaCasahuga.com and published her information and the poem’s full text so the record of what she said remains permanently available, including to potential future employers.
The page states she attends UTSA, lists her major, and notes she attended St. Agnes Academy in Houston, a Catholic school.

@gatewaypundit She’s got a website dedicated to her poem now.
https://t.co/Q0pwRSbhq6
— Josh Scandlen (@scandlenjosh) October 29, 2026

The website states:
She attends the University of Texas at San Antonio (class of 2029) and majors in International Relations and Diplomacy. Isa is from Houston and attended St. Agnes Academy. Her mother is realtor Paula Lemgruber Casahuga. Her father Guillem Casahuga is a partner at Arthur D Little.
Isa is “thrilled” to gloat about conservatives getting murdered.
The website also reprinted the poem in full, along with the video of her reciting it, under the heading “Poem written by Isa Casahuga.”
Speaking to The Gateway Pundit about the incident, TPUSA contributor and close friend of Kirk, Jack Posobiec, said, “It is plain for all to see. The Left wants us dead. I am not using hyperbole; they are openly celebrating murder, violence, and the slaughter of their political opponents.”
WATCH: Vile UTSA Student Reads Giddy ‘Kirkiversary’ Poem Celebrating Charlie Kirk’s Assassination, Then Tells Conservative Speaker He’s Brave for Showing Up Without Neck Protection

Online sleuths dug up her identity after the video went viral.
An account called ElectionMapsIF posted that her family is from Brazil and asked why foreigners are allowed into the country to “incite terrorism against American patriots,” tagging the Deputy Secretary of State.

Great question! Her name is Isa Casahuga Lemgruber
Her family is from Brazil
Why are we allowing foreigners to come to American and incite terrorism against American patriots?
Please look into removing the entire family @DeputySecState https://t.co/MvKwq0FbDR
— ElectionMapsIF (@ElectionMapsIF) October 28, 2026

The same account later noted that her mother has called Isa a “citizen of the world,” supports Occupy Democrats, and follows an immigration lawyer.

Isa Cayahuga (the poem celebrating Charlie’s murder girl) got her insufferable shitlib attitudes from her mother Paula, who calls Isa a “citizen of the world”
Paula supports Occupy Democrats and follows an immigration lawyer who she may be working with
Deport the whole family! https://t.co/C1mSFBRnSh
— ElectionMapsIF (@ElectionMapsIF) October 29, 2026

The identification has prompted calls for UTSA to discipline her and for immigration authorities to review the family’s status.

Anything less than an immediate expulsion is proof that univerisites are unsalvageable.
— Ben Larrabee (@Ben_Larrabee) October 28, 2026

Her mother appears to have worked in Brazil as recently as 2007.
Isa doesn’t seem “thrilled” anymore, as she has since deleted her Instagram account.
Her mother also set her Instagram to private when this reporter attempted to reach out for comment.
The Gateway Pundit contacted UTSA for comment and will update this article if it provides one.

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Barclays sees major Tesla upside for retirement investors

October 29, 2026 MMN Editor Filed Under: SUCCESS, The Street

Millions of Americans have indirect exposure to Elon Musk’s business empire through index funds in their 401(k) accounts, even if they have never purchased shares of his companies directly.

A potential merger could change that exposure before the end of the year.

Senior Equity Research Analyst at Barclays, Dan Levy, told clients that Tesla and SpaceX could merge before December 2026, potentially creating one of the largest publicly traded companies by valuation, The Wealth Advisor reported.

The prospect raises questions about how such a deal could affect passive index funds and the retirement savings tied to them.

Tesla is already part of the S&P 500, according to the S&P Dow Jones Indices’ SPY/SPX fact sheet, meaning its stock influences many broad-market and target-date funds held in workplace retirement plans. 

If a merger takes SpaceX public, index providers could adjust their holdings, potentially changing millions of Americans’ portfolio exposure without requiring them to take any action.

Also read: SpaceX is now in your 401(k), and Musk is the risk

Barclays maps a Tesla-SpaceX share-swap ratio before the December vote

Barclays laid out the share-swap arithmetic for a potential Tesla-SpaceX merger, The Wealth Advisor reported. Based on the analysis, Tesla shareholders could receive about 0.7 SpaceX shares for each Tesla share in an all-stock deal before any acquisition premium.

Barclays indicated the two companies combined would have a market value of roughly $3.6 trillion, with Tesla’s December 6, 2026, meeting as the possible approval window.

Each Tesla share would convert into a stake in the combined entity’s aerospace, artificial intelligence, and automotive revenue streams, which Barclays framed as a vertical-integration thesis.

Barclay’s ownership breakdown helps explain why SpaceX would likely be the acquiring entity in any proposed deal. Musk owns roughly 20% of Tesla and about 48% of SpaceX, but supervoting shares give him approximately 82% of SpaceX’s voting power.

Why passive index funds already own more Tesla than most savers realize

Tesla joined the S&P 500 in late 2020 and now accounts for about 2% of the benchmark powering millions of American 401(k) accounts, Quartz reported. 

That weighting means the stock’s daily moves ripple directly through target-date funds, total-market funds, and large-cap index funds that dominate workplace retirement menus.

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A Tesla-SpaceX merger would collapse two of the most-watched Musk-linked tickers into a single corporate structure, forcing mechanical adjustments across index funds.

S&P Dow Jones Indices would then determine how the new combined entity sits inside the benchmark, potentially expanding the Musk-related footprint across passive portfolios.

Pension managers across California and New York already flagged this concern before SpaceX even began trading on public markets this year.

The managers wrote to Musk, expressing concern that SpaceX could become an unavoidable holding in their public portfolios going forward, Quartz reported.

Passive index funds already expose retirement savers to Tesla, and a potential SpaceX merger could reshape their portfolios without their input.Nitat Termmee / Getty Images

Portfolio concentration risk now sits inside most retirement accounts

The merger math has direct implications for the broad-based benchmarks that currently dominate workplace retirement menus and brokerage portfolios across the country.

Advisors have begun flagging the combination as a dilution event with knock-on effects for anyone holding a market-weight index fund inside a retirement account.

Clint Sorenson, Co-Founder of Ascentis Asset Management, told InvestmentNews an all-equity merger would deepen dilution for portfolios heavy on tech names.

<strong>If it’s an all-equity deal, the whole game becomes dilution and position size. Most advisor portfolios are already overweight a handful of mega-cap tech names through their benchmarks, and a merger like this only compounds that,</strong>

Sorenson flagged a key-man risk inherent in portfolios holding Musk-linked positions, framing single-executive exposure as a concentration issue beyond standard sector weighting.

Barclays reinforced the structural concern by noting Musk would hold roughly 37% of the combined entity’s equity and 56% of its voting power.

Tesla and SpaceX each filed Form 8-K disclosures with the SEC on October 21, 2026, confirming their boards had formed special committees to evaluate a potential combination.

On SpaceX’s Q3 2026 earnings call, Musk told Tesla investors a merger would be “a good idea,” The Motley Fool reported

Jacob Tally, an advisor at Seattle-based Prospero Wealth, said Musk’s pattern of business consolidations leaves retirement investors more exposed to one executive’s decisions. The February 2026 xAI absorption by SpaceX pulled another large private valuation into the Musk footprint already tracked by index funds, as InvestmentNews noted.

What to check inside your 401(k) before any Musk deal closes

Each fund’s fact sheet, available through the plan portal, lists its ten largest holdings and the share of assets in each position, with the underlying data drawn from Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings on Form N-PORT that become public 60 days after each fiscal quarter ends.

Holding an S&P 500 fund alongside a Nasdaq-100, large-cap growth, or technology fund can mean investing in the same major companies multiple times, a layering effect Sorenson flagged as an underappreciated source of concentration risk in an InvestmentNews analysis.

Some 401(k) plans also offer a self-directed brokerage account, allowing participants to buy individual stocks beyond the plan’s standard fund options.

The plan’s summary plan description explains whether this feature is available, and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) requires plans to provide this document to participants.

A potential Tesla-SpaceX merger could change how some retirement portfolios gain exposure to Musk’s businesses, but the extent of that change will depend on the final transaction terms and how index providers respond.

Until S&P Dow Jones Indices and fund managers establish the combined entity’s benchmark treatment, reviewing existing holdings through each fund’s fact sheet remains a practical first step.

Related: Bank of America backs SpaceX stock that may be in your 401(k)

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Reportedly Targeted In Chinese Spy Plot

October 29, 2026 MMN Editor Filed Under: THE NEWS

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Reportedly Targeted In Chinese Spy Plot

U.S. spy agencies concluded that a Chinese businesswoman who had cultivated Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was passing intelligence to Beijing, and that President Trump was briefed on it roughly a year ago and took no action, according to claims in a Thursday report from the New York Times – which was based on interviews with people briefed on the surveillance, who spoke anonymously because the findings are classified. The woman is Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, a Chinese citizen and executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore-based data center company. 

Huida Huang Jen-Hsun and Megaspeed executive Huang Le (sound) at a party in Taipei, June 2024. This photo was posted by NetThunder on LinkedIn.

According to the report, US officials had already suspected Megaspeed of helping China get around export limits on advanced AI chips. Then, according to the paper’s sources, electronic surveillance of her showed she was in contact with an American citizen. The unmasking process, which lets agencies with a need to know identify Americans swept up in foreign surveillance, identified that citizen as Jensen Huang.

Alice Huang (screenshot: gigazine.net)

The Times’ sources said Jensen Huang has not been given a defensive briefing, the warning sometimes offered to Americans targeted by foreign spies. They said the surveillance of Alice Huang continues. U.S. officials did not believe at the time that Huang knew what she was doing, the paper reported, though it is unclear whether that assessment has changed, and some senior Trump administration officials doubt he could have missed it. The Times said it could not determine which agencies were watching her, what prompted it, or what she passed along.Nvidia disputes the implication. Spokesman John Rizzo told the Times that “Jensen’s interactions with Ms. Huang are not unusual or unexpected,” that Huang speaks with thousands of customer executives a year, and that Nvidia is confident the government would tell it if someone were a threat to American industry. He said Megaspeed receives ordinary business information and no national security material. The White House, the CIA and the NSA declined to comment. Alice Huang did not respond to requests for comment, and Megaspeed told the Times that it takes the matter “extremely seriously” and has hired outside counsel to investigate. The Chinese Embassy’s spokesman called U.S. accusations “groundless smears and slanders.”According to the Times, Trump has been wary of disrupting Nvidia’s chip sales, which are helping to drive the economy and the stock market, and of complicating trade talks with China, where he is due to travel next month. Current and former officials told the paper that investigations and proposed sanctions touching Nvidia or China have stalled at the Commerce Department, which regulates chip exports.Huang’s access to the president is the backdrop – with the Times reporting that he lobbied the administration to loosen AI rules and roll back tighter limits on chip sales to China, and negotiated a deal giving the U.S. government a 25 percent cut of certain China-bound chip sales. It also reported that Nvidia donated at least $20 million to Trump’s ballroom fund, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, and that Huang sat at the head table at Xi Jinping’s White House state dinner last month.

Mystery Singapore company Megaspeed under US probe over banned Nvidia chips (The Straits Times)

Megaspeed has been in the government’s sights since late 2024, when a Commerce official visited its Malaysian data center and found Nvidia equipment still packed in boxes. The Justice Department took over the Commerce investigation this year, administration officials told the Times, and Singapore’s own investigation brought Alice Huang in for questioning in 2025 before releasing her. In October 2025, Sen. Tom Cotton asked Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to investigate Megaspeed.Trade records from ImportGenius show, the Times said, that Megaspeed’s Malaysian sister company bought at least $4.8 billion of advanced AI equipment containing Nvidia chips between June 2024 and February 2026. Megaspeed rents computing power to Chinese firms including Alibaba, and investigators suspect some of its chips are reaching China illegally. Nvidia has said there is no evidence of its chips being smuggled to China, and still lists Megaspeed as a cloud partner on its website. Photos posted to LinkedIn show Huang and Alice Huang together at a Taipei bar in June 2024, weeks before Megaspeed’s purchases began.And for the record – no one has publicly charged Alice Huang or Megaspeed with a crime, and no one has accused Jensen Huang of knowing anything. The intelligence claim rests on anonymous sources describing classified material, and every party named has denied or declined to confirm it.
Tyler Durden
Thu, 10/29/2026 – 10:25

Panthers vs Packers Thursday Night Football Week 8 preview points to a low-scoring affair

October 29, 2026 MMN Editor Filed Under: THE NEWS

Football is back for Week 8, and it is hard to believe we are almost halfway through the regular season. I still feel like we don’t really know all that much about these teams. Are some of these teams that have good records actually bad (the Chiefs), or are some of the bad-record teams actually good (the Cowboys)? Maybe those two teams aren’t even the best examples of those situations. There are two teams on Thursday Night Football that are a bit hard to judge, as the Panthers and Packers take each other on.The Carolina Panthers are 3-3 for the season and 2-1 on the road. Bryce Young is searching for a contract extension, or maybe at this point a new home. The good news for him is that he has looked fantastic in his fourth year under center. He is on pace to have the best season of his career. The running game has been solid for the team, even if they don’t really use it as much as they probably need to. Chuba Hubbard is averaging about 4.5 yards per carry, but the team has attempted roughly 100 more passes than runs.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMDefensively, this team has struggled against the run, but has been very good against the pass. They have the worst defense in football when it comes to stopping the run. However, against the pass, they are ranked sixth. That might be a good thing against a Packers team that has struggled to run the ball this season. What is interesting to me is that, if you look at the schedule, the Panthers have won games against Bijan Robinson, Jahmyr Gibbs and Saquon Barkley. They lost to the Bears, Browns and Buccaneers. No knock on those three, but I don’t think their team’s running backs would be as feared as the ones they beat.The Green Bay Packers are 4-3 for the season and have done a good job of protecting their home field, entering with a 2-1 record. Jordan Love is having a really strong season and is arguably being asked to do more than ever before. The team was missing starting running back Josh Jacobs, who was away from the team due to legal issues. Without Jacobs, the Packers really struggled to find any traction on the ground this season. His return last week wasn’t transformational; Jacobs only had 36 yards on 11 carries.SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTERThe Packers will continue to rely on Love’s arm to get the job done. He’s already thrown the ball 270 times this season, which is almost double the number of times they’ve called a run play. That does make the offense a bit one-dimensional, and against the Panthers’ defense, they could struggle. The Packers, in general, don’t score all that many points. They are averaging 20.6 points per game, 25th in the NFL, putting them in the same company as the Cardinals and Broncos.It would be really hard to imagine that the Panthers and Packers play in a shootout tonight. Despite both of these teams excelling in the passing game, they aren’t exactly elite offenses. Both are pretty good at stopping the pass. I think this game is likely to be a slow-starting game with both trying to figure things out. I’d be surprised if it goes over 47.5 for the game, but I think the under in the first half is even more likely. Neither team is a fast-starting team. Give me the under 23.5 for the 1st half.For more sports betting information and plays, follow David on X/Twitter: @futureprez2024

DHS told ’60 Minutes’ weeks before segment aired that deported Malian national had once claimed to be gay

October 29, 2026 MMN Editor Filed Under: THE NEWS

“60 Minutes” was told weeks before the segment aired that a deported Malian husband and father, who was the subject of a sympathetic report on Sunday, claimed to have been gay in his asylum application, Fox News Digital confirmed.Fox News previously obtained records showing Moussa Diawara alleged in his 2009 asylum application that he would face persecution if he were sent back to Mali due to his sexuality.The “60 Minutes” segment depicted an anguished father deported to Africa with his wife and two children still living in the U.S. and noted that a U.S. judge said Diawara could be persecuted, pointing to fears over converting to Christianity. However, the show did not mention that Diawara’s application contradicted his family man narrative and the reason why he claimed he couldn’t return to his native country was because of his sexual orientation.DEPORTED MIGRANT WHO ’60 MINUTES’ PAINTED AS SYMPATHETIC FAMILY MAN CLAIMED HE WAS GAY ON ASYLUM APPLICATIONFox News Digital has since obtained a copy of an email sent to CBS News by the Department of Homeland Security informing the network about Diawara’s claim, which was first reported by The New York Post.The email was sent Oct. 6, nearly three weeks before Sunday’s segment aired.A spokesperson for CBS News declined to comment.FROM THE HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP TO KAMALA HARRIS EDITS: THE LONG HISTORY OF ’60 MINUTES’ CONTROVERSIESOn his 2009 asylum application, Diawara said he feared for his life as a gay man if he was forced to return to Mali.”My asylum application is based upon ground of well-founded past persecution and an undisputable fear of life-threatening [sic] to my person if I were to return to my country Mali. In fact, I had experienced extreme punishment and persecution based on the ground of my sexual orientation,” Diawara wrote in his asylum application.”Since I came to the USA I had the possibilities [sic] to express my feelings to men without any embarrassment no reserve. Indeed, my tribal group and community as a whole had reported my sexual orientation to my family back home because such behavior is unwelcome in my society,” he continued. “My life is hence worth threatened if I have to go back to my country because I could be executed either by the Islamic group or the community.”CBS SHOOTS DOWN ‘POLITICAL INTERFERENCE’ CLAIMS IN AFTERMATH OF ’60 MINUTES’ FIRINGSDHS General Counsel James Percival, who was interviewed in the “60 Minutes” segment, took to social media after it aired, saying the newsmagazine made Diawara the “poster child for what it claims are wrongful deportations.””His claimed reason for fearing Mali was that he is ‘gay,’ just in case you’re wondering how bad the immigration fraud problem is,” Percival wrote.The segment put a spotlight on Diawara, who was living in the U.S. for 25 years without a criminal record, overstaying his tourist visa and getting nabbed by ICE and sent to Ghana, which ultimately sent him to his home country of Mali. According to the report, Diawara has since fled to an undisclosed African country.During the segment, Percival noted there is “a lot of fraud” in the immigration system and many “fear claims” are untrue.A “60 Minutes” insider previously defended the integrity of the report, pointing to how Diawara’s claim that “part of the reason he didn’t feel safe” was for religious reasons did make the broadcast. According to the report, he had converted to Christianity, and Mali is a Muslim-majority nation.”The broadcast acknowledged DHS questioned the credibility of Moussa Diawara’s fear of persecution, which they’re claiming now on social media,” the insider told Fox News Digital.Fox News’ Brian Flood and Brooke Taylor contributed to this report.

Speaker Johnson rejects ‘nonsense narrative’ that GOP will refuse to seat Dem winners

October 29, 2026 MMN Editor Filed Under: THE NEWS

House Speaker Mike Johnson rejected a question from CNN chief congressional correspondent Manu Raju about seating newly elected Democrats as a “nonsense narrative.”While campaigning in Iowa for Republican Rep. Zach Nunn, whose seat is among those Democrats are targeting ahead of next week’s midterm elections, Johnson fielded questions from Raju about President Donald Trump and the GOP’s political strategy during the elections and beyond.”Will you vow to seat every Democrat who wins on January 3rd?” Raju asked, referring to the day elected members will be sworn in.”Of course, this is a nonsense narrative,” Johnson replied. “We are going to follow the law.”THUNE WEIGHS NIGHTMARE SCENARIO FOR GOP AS DEMOCRATS THREATEN TO FLIP HOUSE”What if Trump says ‘it’s a rigged election’?” Raju asked.”Look, I’m a constitutional attorney. I’ve always been steady and consistent about this. This is going to be a no-drama swearing-in ceremony, but we’re going to hold the majority, and I’m going to be the Speaker of the House,” Johnson said. “And when I administer the oath, there will be one on January 3rd. We’ll administer the oath to everybody.”Raju pressed Johnson, “If Trump says ‘don’t seat them,’ you’ll resist, then?””I’ll do my job as the Speaker of the House,” Johnson replied. “The president has vowed, of course, he wants to follow the law as well. That’s what’s going to happen.”Johnson also defended Trump’s involvement in midterm races, saying he is having “no drag at all” on Republicans’ chances.NEWSOM SPARS WITH TRUMP-APPOINTED PROSECUTOR OVER 20,000 SUSPECTED NONCITIZENS ON VOTER ROLLSSPEAKER JOHNSON PREDICTS DEMOCRATS’ FAR-LEFT SHIFT WILL ‘JUICE ENTHUSIASM’ FOR GOP IN MIDTERMS”I’ve seen the voters on the ground, and I’m telling you the polls are wrong, they are inaccurate, they’re underrepresenting Republicans and many of the pollsters have admitted that,” he said. “The polling isn’t accurate, the Republicans aren’t responding anymore.”Raju challenged that assessment, questioning why Republicans were spending heavily in traditionally Republican districts.”You’re spending millions in deep Republican districts,” Raju said.Johnson responded that Iowa is a state where Republicans “always win, but it’s close” and said battleground districts exist across the country, particularly following recent redistricting efforts.”We have to win in the districts that are presented, and we’re leaving everything on the field to get it done,” he said.CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTUREMary Marslender, a GOP consultant and former senior advisor to the U.S. Senate, criticized Raju’s questioning in comments to Fox News Digital.”CNN is once again pushing a fake narrative — color me shocked. Instead of chasing a nonexistent ‘Trump won’t seat Democrats’ story, Manu Raju should focus on reporting the news that matters,” Marslender said. “Americans are concerned about costs, wages, the border, and crime. If reporters covered those real issues, perhaps their audiences wouldn’t keep shrinking. Speaker Johnson’s answers were consistent with both the law and standard House procedure. Raju’s repeated hypotheticals reveal more about the story CNN wants to tell than any actual plan to block lawmakers.”Fox News Digital reached out to Johnson’s office and CNN for additional comment but did not immediately receive responses.

Here’s How to Get Around Costco’s Crackdown on Nonmembers

October 29, 2026 MMN Editor Filed Under: Money.com, SUCCESS

Costco is taking additional steps to prevent nonmembers from entering its stores, but there are still several ways to shop at Costco without paying an annual fee.
The retailer has added membership scanning devices at store entrances in recent years, and Costco also said it is enforcing photo identification requirements, meaning you’ll need to present a Costco card with a photo or a valid photo ID like a driver’s license.
Costco doesn’t want shoppers dodging its check-in process or freeloading off a friend’s account. Most of Costco’s profits come from membership fees, and the company says they’re what makes it possible for Costco to offer the low prices that draw crowds of customers to its stores.

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But if you’re not a regular Costco shopper, it could be hard to justify buying a membership, which will cost you at least $65.
The good news is there’s a trick involving gift cards that makes it possible to shop in-store without a Costco membership.
How to shop at Costco with a gift card
Under Costco’s policies, anyone can shop at warehouse locations if they present a Shop Card, which is just a gift card.
These cards can be purchased in-store, and electronic versions are available online. The catch is that Costco Shop Cards can only be purchased by members, so for this trick, you’ll still need to rely on a family member or a friend with a membership to buy a gift card for you.
You’ll likely have to pay your friend back because the company’s policies require the name on your debit or credit card to match the account name.
If you’re worried about using this strategy, rest assured that the gift card method is allowed: “Non-members as well as members may use Costco Shop Cards to shop at any Costco location in the U.S.,” a Costco customer service FAQ page reads.
In online forums, shoppers report that they’ve been able to use small denomination Costco gift cards (ex. $25) to get in the door. Then they can fill up a cart and pay for the rest of the total with other payment methods like cash or debit. Keep in mind, however, that the rules and enforcement may vary from store to store.
Other ways to shop at Costco without membership
If the gift card method is too much hassle, there are several other ways to shop at Costco without a membership.
Much of Costco’s inventory is available online, and the company has free shipping on many items. Unfortunately, online prices are sometimes higher to offset shipping costs — and nonmembers pay a 5% surcharge over what members pay for online orders.
Nonmembers can order items with same-day delivery using Instacart.com, however, the prices are higher than what you would find shopping in person. Costco has also teamed up with UberEats for delivery — available to members and nonmembers — though nonmembers still pay more.
Lastly, there are several things that anyone can get at Costco without a membership, including alcohol (in 14 states), prescriptions and eye exams.
But to get the full Costco shopping experience with the lowest prices — and to be able to order the famous $1.50 hot dog deal — you’ll either need to pay for a membership or try the gift card method.
How much is Costco membership?
Costco has two main membership options:

The standard Gold Star membership is $65 per year and it includes a “household” card that can be used by a second person who lives at the same address as the account holder.

The Executive membership ($130) gets you 2% back on all purchases, which pays for itself when you spend $3,000.

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‘I Don’t Know What the Problem Is’: The View Saw No Issue with the Fake Dan Sullivan Earlier This Week

October 29, 2026 MMN Editor Filed Under: Commentary Culture Investigations

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Before the bombshell New York Times report that revealed Democrats plotted to put a decoy Dan J. Sullivan on the Alaska Senate Ballot to confuse voters and siphon away votes from Republican incumbent Senator Dan S. Sullivan, the cast of The View saw no issue with the multiple on the ballot, and laughed away the issue and a Department of Justice lawsuit into the matter.Introducing the topic first with Attorney General Todd Blanche’s interview on CNN’s State of the Union, Goldberg stated, “Attorney General Todd Blanche is defending a DOJ lawsuit that’s trying to block Alaska from certifying Senate election results if Republican incumbent Dan S. Sullivan loses because another candidate who entered the race named Dan J. Sullivan.”She exclaimed, “I don’t know what the problem is, but here, take a look at the clip.” On Monday, before Wednesday’s NYT bombshell, ABC’s The View claimed there was no issue with the multiple Dan Sullivans on the ballot in Alaska’s Senate Election. Whoopi Goldberg exclaimed, “I don’t know what the problem is.” pic.twitter.com/TemzNE6ygX— Nick (@nspin310) October 29, 2026 Goldberg then instilled more Democrat midterm fears and claimed, “So just to put it in terms, you-know-who has been trying and failing to influence the midterms.”She then asked, “What is the problem here? Alaskans are unable to read? They don’t see an X next to somebody’s name?”As revealed by The New York Times on Wednesday, a couple of days after this segment aired on ABC, Democrats colluded to put a decoy Sullivan on the ballot to confuse voters. After playing a clip of AG Todd Blanche on CNN defending the Alaska lawsuit, ‘‘The View’ continued to minimize the possible confusion on the ballot and decried a DOJ lawsuit into the matter.Ana Navarro then added, “Trump said Alaskans were too dumb to understand the word… pic.twitter.com/abVro5eAvo— Nick (@nspin310) October 29, 2026 Still, after the DOJ lawsuit, the ladies of The View defended the ballot and claimed there was no problem, as they looked at the actual ballot on the screen behind them, led by the show’s supposedly conservative host, Alyssa Farah Griffin:FARAH GRIFFIN: Well, look, we have the ballot so people can see. GOLDBERG: Yeah. Pull it up.FARAH GRIFFIN: It clearly says “Dan Sullivan, Republican incumbent.” SO, it’s very clear. You know who you’re voting for if you vote for that Dan Sullivan.GOLDBERG: RightHOSTIN: Yeah.FARAH GRIFFIN: Listen, it’s pretty clear thereSunny Hostin then joined in and blurted, “This is extraordinary.” She added, “The extraordinary nature of the Department of Justice filing a lawsuit to not certify an election before a single vote is counted. That is extraordinary, and I think we all need to understand how extraordinary it is.”Hostin continued and called the DOJ lawsuit “unprecedented” because the Justice Department’s “job is to protect the integrity of our elections. The job isn’t to protect who wins.”Ana Navarro joined in the “unprecedented” talk and said, “What’s unprecedented is the president of the United States directing the Department of Justice to do this.”Sara Haines also joined in to bash the lawsuit: “Testing the results is fine, but you have to accept those results when they come back, and that’s the part they are not doing.”Navarro later implored the Republican incumbent Sullivan to concede if he loses the election, before Goldberg claimed the fake Sullivan story and DOJ lawsuit was a tool of voter suppression: Well, we’ll find out. You know,  It’s all of this stuff meant to keep you from not going out to vote because you are not going to recognize the difference between the two names.Navarro closed by claiming Trump was essentially calling Alaskans dumb:Well, he said – Trump said Alaskans were too dumb to understand the word incumbent.The View has yet to react to the New York Times report of Democrat operatives and Alaska’s Democrat Senate candidate Mary Peltola’s campaign influence in the decision to place Sullivan on the ballot, as the report was released after Wednesday’s show.The transcript from Monday’s show is below. Click “expand”:ABC’s The ViewOctober 26, 202611:17:01 AM EasternWHOOPI GOLDBERG: Welcome back. Well, Attorney General Todd Blanche is defending a DOJ lawsuit that’s trying to block Alaska from certifying Senate election results if Republican incumbent Dan S. Sullivan loses because another candidate who entered the race named Dan J. Sullivan. I don’t know what the problem is, but here, take a look at the clip.[Cuts to clip]AG TODD BLANCHE: The real wrong here is that Alaskans are going to be confused and will not have their vote heard. So, an Alaskan intends to vote for a candidate but is confused because of a second candidate with exactly the same name who has voted Democrat his entire life, who donated money to the other Democrat opponent is running.DANA BASH: This is a president who is saying Democrats are trying to steal this important seat. He’s admitting it’s political. Do you see your job as helping Republicans keep the seat?BLANCHE: He’s not admitting it’s political! Wait, you’re saying that a president saying that there’s something improper happening at the ballots is necessarily political? He’s the executive. He’s supposed to make sure that everything in this country is running right.[Cuts back to live]GOLDBERG: What? What, what, what, what?Okay. So just to put it in terms, you-know-who has been trying and failing to influence the midterms. A federal judge recently restricted his attempts to have Homeland Security investigators find evidence of illegal voting in states like California, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The administration has also sued 30 states and D.C. for refusing to hand over voter roles. So far, he has lost 27 of those cases. What is the problem here? Alaskans are unable to read? They don’t see an X next to somebody’s name?ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Well, look, we have the ballot so people can see. GOLDBERG: Yeah. Pull it up.FARAH GRIFFIN: It clearly says “Dan Sullivan, Republican incumbent.” SO, it’s very clear. You know who you’re voting for if you vote for that Dan Sullivan.GOLDBERG: RightHOSTIN: Yeah.FARAH GRIFFIN: Listen, it’s pretty clear thereGOLDBERG: Then Dan Sullivan Jr.. He’s junior, so you know he ain’t the other one.FARAH GRIFFIN: Here’s my thing -HOSTIN: It’s very clear FARAH GRIFFIN: I would guess that any Senate race that comes within like 25,000 votes the administration is going to contest legally, and states have different processes. Some do automatic recounts, some you can force them. So, I expect this to happen.HOSTIN: But I just think — think about it. This is extraordinary. The extraordinary nature of the Department of Justice filing a lawsuit to not certify an election before a single vote is counted. That is extraordinary, and I think we all need to understand how extraordinary it is. I mean, the Department of Justice — but I don’t know that everybody understands that this is almost unprecedented. It’s unprecedented because the Department of Justice, yes, the job is to protect the integrity of our elections. The job isn’t to protect who wins.(CROSSTALK )ANA NAVARRO: What’s unprecedented is the president of the United States –HOSTIN: Acknowledging it -NAVARRO: – directing the Department of Justice to do this.SARA HAINES: Testing the results is fine, but you have to accept those results when they come back, and that’s the part they are not doing. You can’t keep saying when Republicans win the system is fair, and when they don’t it’s rigged.HOSTIN: Correct.(CROSSTALK)NAVARRO: Let me just say this, I know Senator Dan Sullivan, the current — the incumbent Republican senator, and I hope that if he loses this election, he does what he should do for the dignity of the office, for the people of Alaska, and concede the loss and accept the results. Either way, if Pelota loses, same.GOLDBERG: Well, we’ll find out. You know,  It’s all of this stuff meant to keep you from not going out to vote because you are not going to recognize the difference between the two names.NAVARRO: Well, he said – Trump said Alaskans were too dumb to understand the word incumbent.GOLDBERG: Well, apparently. He couldn’t spell it. We will be right back.(…)

Kimmel Pushes El-Sayed and Talarico, Spreads Conspiracies With Newsom

October 29, 2026 MMN Editor Filed Under: Commentary Culture Investigations

On Wednesday, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel continued his efforts to help Democrats win next Tuesday in two ways. First, Kimmel used his monologue to defend Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed and Texas’s James Talarico from accusations of radicalness. Second, Kimmel welcomed California Gov. Newsom to spread conspiracy theories about the election and to resurrect the myth that Trump wants Iran to bomb the state.Kimmel introduced a clip of El-Sayed by suggesting Republicans have no legitimate criticisms of him, “This guy, Abdul el Syed, is a very strong candidate. He’s very smart, he’s strong, he’s an excellent speaker, and so what do you do in a situation like that? Well, if you’re Donald Trump, you call him a terrorist.” Jimmy Kimmel doesn’t like people pointing out El-Sayed’s affinity for the Muslim Brotherhood, “Remember when racism was supposed to be a secret? Like, they’d whisper this stuff in their foursome on the golf course together, looking around like this. Now it’s your grandpa’s… pic.twitter.com/e9tHZZeu4P— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) October 29, 2026 After a clip of Trump claiming El-Sayed would have to be given “the metal detector test,” Kimmel retorted, “Remember when racism was supposed to be a secret?  Like, they’d whisper this stuff in their foursome on the golf course to each other, while they were looking around like this. Now it’s your grandpa’s Facebook page live on stage every day.”Despite El-Sayed’s known affinity for the Muslim Brotherhood’s Egypt takeover over a decade ago, Kimmel claimed the concerns were dumb, “They keep saying El-Sayed is part of the Muslim Brotherhood. This guy was born in Rochester Hills, Michigan, and played high school lacrosse. He played lacrosse, football, and hockey, the three whitest sports there are. Oh my god, what is he hiding in those goalie pads? Give him a metal detector test!”Kimmel then introduced a second clip, “And then Trump diced into his bag of doddering disinformation about lash out at James Talarico.”After Trump warned that Timmy could come home from school as Sarah, Kimmel retorted, “Yeah, now that is true. That’s what happened to Sarah Palin. She was Timmy Palin. The doctors got hold of her. They made her a Sarah and the parents didn’t even know. Does anyone actually believe this? I mean if so, please trust me on this, if you drop off Timmy and he comes home Sarah, you picked up the wrong kid from school.”California is a state with such laws, but that never came up in Kimmel’s discussion with Newsom. Instead, Kimmel feared, “Do we feel confident that here in California, at least, your state, that voting will be — you’ll be able to vote, it will be counted, your votes won’t be thrown out?”Newsom played into the paranoia by answering, “He’s tried to disenfranchise votes. He’s tried to throw out 20,000 votes before they’re even counted in the state of California. We had to go to federal court on Sunday. We went to federal court on Sunday, back on Tuesday, and right now I am focused on getting over 1,000 poll workers, folks out there to monitor the DOJ monitors that Trump’s going to send to try to steal this election. No question in my mind he’s going to try to steal votes.” However, Kimmel did have time for some election conspiracy theories, “Do we feel confident that here in California, at least, your state, that voting will be — you’ll be able to vote, it will be counted, your votes won’t be thrown out?”Gavin Newsom claims “We went to federal… pic.twitter.com/Z20X8FUShl— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) October 29, 2026 The duo also tried to bring back a long-since debunked controversy with Kimmel wondering, “A few months ago when he kind of toyed with this idea that Iran might send nuclear weapons, missiles, toward L.A. and San Diego, is that something like at that point — do members of your staff come and get you when he says something like that? Or is it now just now babbling and noise?”Newsom mused that “Members of his cabinet should get him and then enact the 25th Amendment when it comes to comments like that. Let me nuke — it’s not that — again, none of this is normal. We can’t allow this to be normalized. He said it not once, he said it twice.” However, Kimmel did have time for some election conspiracy theories, “Do we feel confident that here in California, at least, your state, that voting will be — you’ll be able to vote, it will be counted, your votes won’t be thrown out?”Gavin Newsom claims “We went to federal… pic.twitter.com/Z20X8FUShl— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) October 29, 2026 Kimmel, still unaware of the concept of military R&D, further wondered, “Do you think he even knows Iran doesn’t have the capability to reach the West Coast of the United States?”Naturally, Newsom claimed he does not. On Wednesday, Kimmel spread at least four bits of misinformation, but he has the tenacity to say other people have a “bag of doddering disinformation.”Here is a transcript for the October 28 show:ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live!10/28/202611:39 PM ETJIMMY KIMMEL: This guy, Abdul el Syed, is a very strong candidate. He’s very smart, he’s strong, he’s an excellent speaker, and so what do you do in a situation like that? Well, if you’re Donald Trump, you call him a terrorist.DONALD TRUMP: With the guy up in Michigan, we’re going to have to do the, you know, the test, the metal detector test, before he’s allowed to sit every day. He’s going to have to go through a metal detector.KIMMEL: Remember when racism was supposed to be a secret?  Like, they’d whisper this stuff in their foursome on the golf course to each other, while they were looking around like this. Now it’s your grandpa’s Facebook page live on stage every day. They keep saying El-Sayed is part of the Muslim Brotherhood. This guy was born in Rochester Hills, Michigan, and played high school lacrosse. He played lacrosse, football, and hockey, the three whitest sports there are. Oh my god, what is he hiding in those goalie pads? Give him a metal detector test!And then Trump diced into his bag of doddering disinformation about lash out at James Talarico.TRUMP: Tala-freak-o stated he loves transgender children and that’s alright. Look, that’s not — but, you know, these children, if you check it out and see what happens, they take them as young children and Timmy leaves home and comes back Sarah.KIMMEL: Yeah, now that is true. That’s what happened to Sarah Palin. She was Timmy Palin. The doctors got hold of her. They made her a Sarah and the parents didn’t even know. Does anyone actually believe this? I mean if so, please trust me on this, if you drop off Timmy and he comes home Sarah, you picked up the wrong kid from school.…KIMMEL: I mean, he will anyway, we know that. But maybe not successfully, hopefully. Do we feel confident that here in California, at least, your state, that voting will be — you’ll be able to vote, it will be counted, your votes won’t be thrown out?GAVIN NEWSOM: Look. We were in court this weekend. This is — it’s an extraordinary thing. He’s tried to disenfranchise votes. He’s tried to throw out 20,000 votes before they’re even counted in the state of California. We had to go to federal court on Sunday. We went to federal court on Sunday, back on Tuesday, and right now I am focused on getting over 1,000 poll workers, folks out there to monitor the DOJ monitors that Trump’s going to send to try to steal this election. No question in my mind he’s going to try to steal votes.…KIMMEL: A few months ago when he kind of toyed with this idea that Iran might send nuclear weapons, missiles, toward L.A. and San Diego, is that something like at that point — do members of your staff come and get you when he says something like that? Or is it now just now babbling and noise?NEWSOM: Members of his cabinet should get him and then enact the 25th Amendment when it comes to comments like that. Let me nuke — it’s not that — again, none of this is normal. We can’t allow this to be normalized. He said it not once, he said it twice. He doubled down on stupid. He consistently does that. And by the way, San Diego is — I can’t even imagine. This is an overstatement, but it may be one of the densest, most militarized cities in the world. One of the most critical assets in terms of the military preparedness. And he’s quite literally threatened the city.What I think happened, though Jimmy, it’s interesting. He always says what he’s thinking privately, because it wasn’t just about nuclear Armageddon and it relates to encouraging Iran to go on those two cities are what he announced a few days later in L.A. and San Diego were large-scale ICE raids. So it was clear that he gave message, and he gave permission and directed those raids in those two cities, so it was on his mind, and typically of Trump, loose lips as it relates to what he said.KIMMEL: Do you think he even knows Iran doesn’t have the capability to reach the West Coast of the United States?NEWSOM: No.KIMMEL: Do you think he — I mean, honestly.NEWSOM: I literally do not believe he has that faculty.KIMMEL: You do not.

Meet The Breeders Cup Classic Entrants Running For $7 Million

October 29, 2026 MMN Editor Filed Under: Forbes, SUCCESS

The $7 million Breeders Cup Classic will be contested at Keeneland on October 31 and features a stellar eight horse field including two Kentucky Derby winners.

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