Look: Grok AI Leaves Only 1 Out of 40 Standing When Asked to 'Remove the Fake Gods' from Image

The Grok AI chatbot left just one picture when asked to remove the “fake gods” from an image with 40 religious figures.

And that one true God was Jesus Christ.

The image appeared to depict religious leaders and “gods” from faiths based in the Far East, the Middle East, India, Egypt, Greece, and Scandinavia — like Confucius, Muhammad, and maybe Buddha, Zeus, and Thor. Even Satan is there, standing just behind Jesus.

Grok responded to the query by leaving Christ standing alone and commented, “Done.”

To be fair, neither Confucius, Muhammad, nor Buddha claimed to be a god, but said they were teachers to help people reach the divine.

Zeus and Thor are certainly held out as gods in Greek and Norse mythology, respectively.

Satan, a fallen angel, tried to be God, but was cast out of heaven by God according to the Bible, proving he was not.

The book of Isaiah 14:12-14, which Bible scholars believed to be about Satan, records, “How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!”

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“You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’ But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit,” the passage says.

Jesus affirmed the event happened to His disciples in Luke 10:17-20, where He said, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.”

Jesus also claimed to be God, saying in John 10:22-39, “I and the Father are one.” He further stated in John 14:6-7, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”

A user on X asked Grok why Jesus was not removed like the others from the image.

“Jesus is not a fake God. He is a historical figure with strong contemporary attestation, claimed divinity through resurrection accounts that launched the world’s largest religion, and stands apart from the mythological figures in that image,” Grok said.

Grok further pointed to primary sources from the Bible, like the apostles Peter and Paul, whose firsthand accounts attest to Jesus’ life and divinity.

The AI chatbot noted that authors outside the Bible, such as first-century historians Josephus and Tacitus, wrote about Jesus.

“Virtually all historians accept [Jesus’] existence on multiple independent near-contemporary sources,” Grok said.

Grok got it right.

Jesus is the only one who should be left in the picture as the true God.

https://www.westernjournal.com/look-grok-ai-leaves-1-40-standing-asked-remove-fake-gods-image/

Not Again! Lab-Originated Plague Outbreak in Siberia

Whenever I watch a movie where people wear suits to enter a biohazard facility, my first thought is, "Are you CRAZY?!"

The answer is obviously yes, yes, they are. 

While everybody is fretting about whether expensive computer programs are planning to kill us all, real people are messing around with dangerous bugs that really could kill quite a few of us. Ask Dr. Fauci about that. He'll trot out the Fifth Amendment, of course, but you get the idea. 

Just kidding. Sort of. 

Well, it appears to have happened again, this time in Russia, and I am just waiting to find out that Western governments have somehow been funding research on plague bacteria, because one appears to have escaped a biohazard lab.

There are several forms of the plague, and nobody has said exactly which one was being studied. But it appears to be a form of pneumonic plague, which is transmissible through airborne droplets. 

A suspected plague outbreak has erupted in Russia — killing a young lab worker, forcing nearly 200 people into isolation and triggering accusations that Vladimir Putin’s regime is trying to keep the infection’s possible spread under wraps.

The alarm was raised in Siberia after a worker at an anti-plague laboratory died of the disease, which killed tens of millions in the medieval Black Death, according to a report from The Moscow Times.

Anna Popova, who heads Russia’s public-health watchdog, then rushed 2,600 miles from Moscow to the Irkutsk region as authorities quarantined a hospital and placed scores of people who had come into contact with the victim under medical observation.

There's no evidence the plague is spreading rapidly, and the Russian government seems to be acting aggressively to contain the incident. So far, we know of only one confirmed case, although we are relying on the Russian government for information, which isn't exactly comforting. 

🚨☣️More details on the Oct 1st pneumonic plague outbreak in Siberia, after a lab accident at a BSL-3 lab.  

"FSB units accompanying ambulances transporting people who had been in contact with [lab tech] Shipilova for medical examination," as per local news. This is significant. FSB is Russia's domestic security / counterintelligence service, tasked w/implementing the national security of Russia." (Its predecessor was the KGB). This suggests quarantine was not voluntary.

It also means Russian authorities are treating the lab accident and plague outbreak as a national security issue, involving a lot more than routine public health.

The plague is still studied because it is endemic to certain regions, including Russia, so it's important to track where it is emerging as a problem and whether drug-resistant varieties are developing. At first I thought this might be a bioweapons research incident, but likely not. 

“The situation in Shelekhov, Irkutsk region, where a plague quarantine has been declared, resembles the Wuhan case,” the Russian political insider channel Nezygar warned.

COVID-19 emerged in Wuhan, China, before spreading worldwide and killing more than 7 million people, according to global health estimates.

So far, however, officials say none of the identified contacts has shown symptoms, and their test results have come back negative.

She reportedly told medical staff that she had accidentally broken a test tube containing live bacteria while collecting samples for testing, according to news outlet Lyudi Baikala, or People of Baikal.

Before we get all our panties in a bunch, the plague, in all its forms, is bacterial in origin and, if caught early enough, treatable. The key is "early enough," since some varieties can kill quickly, as happened here. 

Also worth noting is that sources differ in detail beyond the researcher's death. The Russian government(s) has been closed-mouthed, but it's clear they are taking the incident seriously, as one would hope. But even the origin of the infection is in dispute. 

Plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and takes three main forms. Bubonic plague — the Black Death of history — spreads through flea bites and does not pass directly between people. Septicemic plague infects the bloodstream. Pneumonic plague infects the lungs, and it is the outlier: it can spread from person to person through respiratory droplets, and untreated it is almost always fatal, sometimes within 24 to 72 hours of symptom onset.

That distinction is the entire story here. Russian media reports have described Shipilova's infection as pneumonic plague, but regional officials have not publicly confirmed the exact form. If the pneumonic form is confirmed, the roughly 200 people under observation represent a genuine containment perimeter around a transmissible, fast-killing pathogen. If she died of bubonic or septicemic plague, the human-to-human risk to those contacts is minimal and the episode is principally a laboratory-safety failure rather than an outbreak threat.

Analysis: The two-day arc from hospitalization to death is consistent with fulminant pneumonic plague — which is precisely why Moscow reacted as if it were. Popova does not fly 2,600 miles for a routine case. But speed of death alone does not confirm the form; severe pneumonia has many causes, and officials' early vagueness (“particularly dangerous infection”) suggests they were waiting on laboratory confirmation before naming the disease. The honest position, and the one the evidence supports, is that pneumonic plague is suspected but unconfirmed.

Plague is still found in a number of wild reservoirs, and people still occasionally die from it even outside labs. One need not concoct a conspiracy theory about how this particular bacterium was created. 

It's hard to figure out what exactly is going on, since all governments get twitchy about subjects like this, and authoritarian governments like China and Russia quadruply so. 

But based on the current evidence, there's no need to panic, and there's a real need to find out why labs keep letting bugs out. 

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/10/03/not-again-lab-originated-plague-outbreak-in-siberia-n3819604

Iranian Top Dog Gives Trump the Best Review Any President Could Wish For

The Secretary of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council, Mohsen Rezaei, apparently styles himself something of a historian of American history, or is angling for a plum job as a professor in an Ivy League university, or both. On Friday, Rezaei warmed the hearts of leftist historians all over the U.S. when he proclaimed that President Donald Trump is the "worst" president in U.S. history. Numerous socialist internationalist academics would agree.

"After one failure after another,” Rezaei fumed, “the worst president in American history just keeps talking — and talking — and now his words have even outrun his own fantasies. You can win every day in your own imagination.” Well, yeah, Mohsen, but that can cut both ways, now, can’t it?

In concluding, Rezaei claimed that “reality is shaped by Iran — by its people, its soldiers, and its missiles."

Later that day, however, Trump painted a vastly different picture of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s achievements and current capabilities: "They lost one set of leaders. Then they lost another set of leaders. Then they lost half of a third set, and they had a little runoff for who wants to be president and there were no participants. Everyone said, 'I don't, I don't want to be.'"

Trump was being satirical; Masoud Pezeshkian has been president of Iran since July 28, 2024. Pezeshkian, however, is not the head of state; the supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, holds that position, and has not been seen in public even once since he attained the top job. The word is that he was disfigured in the February strike that killed his father and predecessor; others contend that he is actually dead, but Iranian leaders pretend he is alive to give their tottering regime some legitimacy.

In fact, it’s not at all clear who is running things in Tehran, and Trump pointed out that this made trying to achieve a negotiated settlement difficult in the extreme: "And it's part of our problem,” he said. “I don't know who the hell to deal with. There's nobody to deal with. Nobody wants to be president, I'd say 'Who do I speak to in Iran?' They're not nobody around. Knock, knock. Nobody home. But that war is going to be over soon. One way or the other, one way or the other. It's going to end very soon and probably right after the midterms."

All right. In the meantime, going into those midterms, Rezaei has given the president the best possible endorsement. Who wouldn’t want a top leader of a bloodthirsty, repressive regime whom the overwhelming majority of its own people hate calling him the “worst” ever to hold his job?

This is because Rezaei is, of course, looking at Trump through the prism of what is good for his embattled but ruthless regime. He never would have dreamed of calling Barack Hussein Obama or Old Joe Biden the worst president in American history when they were showering billions upon the Islamic regime in Tehran. He never bestowed that title upon any of the presidents who kicked the can down the road on Iran, either.

The fact that Rezaei has now given Trump this title is the clearest indication we have had in quite awhile that Trump’s stance toward the Islamic Republic is making it feel the pain. Rezaei, of course, likely has never heard the names of Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, or Andrew Johnson. He would be unlikely, given the international left’s high regard for the Islamic Republic, to give low marks to the likes of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt, as does the book Rating America's Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was An Absolute Disaster. Rezaei is simply venting his frustration at the man who has given the Islamic Republic such a hard time.

Trump promises that this hard time is going to continue. The Iranian people, and the free world, can only hope that the pressure on the Islamic Republic will finally cause it to fall, and to be replaced by a saner and more humane regime. Then Mohsen Rezaei can get a job as a professor of American history at Harvard, Yale, Georgetown, or some other America-hating university.

https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2026/10/03/iranian-top-dog-gives-trump-the-best-review-any-president-could-wish-for-n4957925

Fire Fighters Union in Michigan Quietly Pulls Endorsement of Abdul-El Sayed Then Scrubs Website

Abdul-El-Sayed appears on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday. 

A fire fighters union in Michigan has yanked their support for far left Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in the race for U.S. Senate.

They’re now chalking the original endorsement up as a clerical error. Either way, it’s not a good look for El-Sayed, who has come under increased scrutiny in recent months.

The people who run big unions often endorse Democrat candidates, but the rank and file members tend to vote Republican. We have seen this happen again and again.

The Midwesterner reports:

Michigan fire fighters union calls Abdul El-Sayed endorsement ‘clerical error’ — quietly erases from slate of supported candidates

The Michigan Professional Fire Fighters Union quietly removed U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed from its slate of endorsed candidates.

MPFFU President Matt Sahr told The Midwesterner the union’s slate of endorsed candidates initially went out to members on Sept. 11 or 12 with an endorsement for El-Sayed’s campaign prominently displayed at the top alongside Jocelyn Benson for governor and endorsements for the Michigan Supreme Court.

Fifteen days later, on Monday, MPFFU leaders sent out a revised slate of endorsements that replaced El-Sayed with an endorsement for Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist for Secretary of State.

“Our intention was to stay out of that race,” Sahr said, adding the initial slate of endorsements “got distributed out before it got approved” and dismissed it as a clerical error.”…

At least one MPFFU member disputes that.

“This was not a clerical error. What we are seeing now is MPFFU leadership trying to sweep this under the rug. If rank-and-file members had not voiced our concerns, I have no doubt this organization would still be supporting Abdul El-Sayed over Mike Rogers,” a MPFFU fire fighter from southern Michigan told The Midwesterner.

Pretty rough news for the El-Sayed campaign.

You probably won’t hear this reported on CNN.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/10/fire-fighters-union-michigan-quietly-pulls-endorsement-abdul/

It's Cartoon/Meme Time! #500c

Mexican Cartels Are Entering FAFO Territory in the Rio Grande Valley

If you take a shot at Americans, expect a response. In the Rio Grande Valley, Mexican drug cartels allegedly took shots at U.S. Coast Guard personnel. The incident occurred last Saturday near Garceno, Texas, and Coast Guard units reportedly returned fire. The incident remains under investigation. No casualties were reported, and no equipment was damaged. In response, 500 troops have been deployed to the area (via NewsNation):

Roughly 500 troops are deploying to Texas’ Rio Grande Valley this week, sources confirmed to NewsNation, as federal forces step up border operations following a shooting incident involving the Coast Guard.

[…]

“The Coast Guard works closely with U.S. Border Patrol, the Department of War and the Texas Military Department to secure the border, disrupt illicit activity and protect the American people,” the agency said in a statement.

[…]

From August to September, the military used a high-energy laser in the Rio Grande Valley to take down at least 11 cartel-linked drones, officials said. They said the effort supported activities that posed a physical threat to troops and Customs and Border Protection personnel.

The Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Sector spans more than 320 river miles, 250 coastal miles and 19 counties. Threats there include cartels watching the movements of agents and troops, using drones to guide groups and smuggling drugs.

President Trump has called Mexican drug cartels the ISIS of the Western Hemisphere. 

https://townhall.com/news/mattvespa/2026/10/03/mexican-cartels-are-entering-fafo-territory-in-the-rio-grande-valley-n2684050

Jeffries Dodges on If He Backs Mamdani’s Call to Join ICC, Arrest Netanyahu

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) responded to a question on whether he agrees with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s (D) call for the United States to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and join the ICC by saying that “we can never allow another October 7 to happen, and we can never allow the type of death, devastation, and destruction that has occurred in Gaza over the last three years to happen.”

Host Erin Burnett said, “So, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is doubling down on his call for the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to be arrested over the war in Gaza…urging the United States to join the International Criminal Court, the ICC, to help make it happen.”

She then played video of Mamdani saying, “I believe that the U.S. government should join the ICC, it should enforce its warrants for every one that has been issued. And when it comes to the Prime Minister, it’s been issued for crimes — alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes. … When you ask me about the Prime Minister, we’re talking about the architect of a horrific genocide.” And “If I had my say, the U.S. government would have joined the ICC, honored every single warrant that they’ve issued.”

Burnett then asked, “Do you agree with Mayor Mamdani?”

Jeffries responded, “Well, what I can say — I haven’t talked to him about this particular foreign policy issue, or, for that matter, any foreign policy issue — he’s done a great job, he’s gotten off to a great start as Mayor of New York City, keeping the city safe and fighting for a more affordable New York. When it comes to the issue in the Middle East, I think what’s clear to me is that, one, we can never allow another October 7 to happen, and we can never allow the type of death, devastation, and destruction that has occurred in Gaza over the last three years to happen. We need to figure out a path toward a just and lasting peace, with a safe and secure Israel, a Jewish democratic state, living side-by-side with a Palestinian state with dignity and self-determination for the Palestinian people.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/10/03/jeffries-dodges-on-if-he-backs-mamdanis-call-to-join-icc-arrest-netanyahu/