Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - October 15, 2025 [TRex]
—Open Blogger
Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another random assortment of interweb debris. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.
Best wishes to those in transit to the TX MoMe X. The concentration of Morons in one place will likely cause the earth to wobble on its axis. Prepare accordingly. Special thanks to all who labor to make it happen.
[Top photo: Cackle Hatchery, Lebanon, Missouri]
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Hypersocial Cafe
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A dangerous polar bear is relocated in ca. 1970 Canada
The polar bear was a Gentle Giant who was
just turning his life around. He was thinking about
enrolling in CUNY and becoming a rapper.
The hero Gotham neither wants nor needs.
Cats being straight savages.
Dog jumps around like a goof. For those of you who say you never heard Taylor Swift, the clip contains one second of her song Shake It Off (repeated ten times).
Baby elephant being an absolute bandit.
Grooming your chinchilla, if you take my meaning.
Border collie tries to train the baby.
Good dog takes his asthma inhaler like a champ.
Senior dachshund is A+++ at agility.
Golden approaches a scared kitten carefully to make frenz.
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Quick Hits
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What are the Clintons hiding?Bill and Hillary Clinton were supposed to sit down with the House Oversight Committee and answer some long-overdue questions about their connections to Jeffrey Epstein. Funny thing, though -- they didn't show up.
AdvertisementAnd now nobody seems to know when they will.
Hillary was supposed to testify on Oct. 9. She skipped it. Bill was set to testify on Oct. 14. That got postponed, too. The committee says it's working with the Clintons' attorney to accommodate their schedules, which is a polite way of saying the power couple is stalling.
These depositions are part of a much larger inquiry into how the federal government fumbled the Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases. House Oversight Chairman James Comer issued subpoenas back in early August, demanding answers about potential lapses at the Justice Department.
Hamas is slaughtering Palestinians but the rule remains in place: No Jews, No News.
Hamas has carried out a mass execution in the streets of Gaza as part of a series of bloody reprisals following the withdrawal of Israeli forces from key urban areas.Footage has emerged appearing to show around eight kneeling, blindfolded men, bearing signs of beatings, being shot dead in front of a crowd.
The Palestinian terror group, although still capable of inflicting casualties on the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), had largely been overwhelmed on the battlefield.
But since the IDF's withdrawal from Gaza's cities, under the framework of the Trump peace plan, Hamas has quickly reasserted its presence and is seeking to re-establish control.
This has involved targeting "clans", the non-Hamas-aligned family-based armed groups that gained strength during the later stages of the conflict.
The violent scenes will fuel fears disarming Hamas, the key next phase in Donald Trump's plan, will not be straightforward.
Trump is threatening Hamas to disarm or die, but I don't think they believe that threat.
President Trump warned Tuesday that Hamas will either follow through on its pledge to disarm under his 20-point Gaza peace plan or meet a violent end. "They're going to disarm because they said they were going to disarm--and if they don't, we will disarm them," Trump told reporters while hosting Argentine President Javier Milei at the White House. "They know I'm not playing games."The president said Hamas had "misrepresented" how many bodies of deceased hostages it held after turning over just four on Monday. "If they don't disarm, we will disarm them--and it'll happen quickly and perhaps violently," he said before a Cabinet Room luncheon. Trump explained that he had conveyed the warning to Hamas through emissaries, adding, "They told me, 'Yes, sir, we're going to disarm.' They will disarm or we will disarm them. Got it?"
Obviously US troops aren't going in to Gaza, so I don't know what he's actually saying the punishment would be.
Update: What Trump probably means is just that if (WHEN) Hamas again refuses to honor the terms of the ceasefire, Trump will just give the go-ahead to the IDF to take out the trash.
Meanwhile, the antisemitic Hollywood Jew-hater club is boycotting "Israelis" to stop the "genocide." Now that the "genocide" has ended, you might think that the boycott would, logically, end.
Nope! From the River to the Sea, the terrorists of Hamas will reign free!
What do you do when you demand a ceasefire -- and Donald Trump actually gets one? If you're a normal human being with a decent moral compass, you celebrate the freedom of 20 hostages, the pause in an armed conflict, and at least stop punishing one of the parties to the conflict.Of course, if you demanded a ceasefire but really wanted something else, you have to recalculate your professed goals while still demanding capitulation. That's the position that 5,000 celebrities and other Hollywood elites face, now that the "ceasefire" failed to become "the destruction of Israel" and the death of the Joooos. The Hollywood Reporter checked in on the Tinseltown blacklist of Jewish filmmakers, and discovered that it will continue even with the ceasefire these blacklisters demanded:
Since its launch in September, the Film Workers for Palestine (FWP) campaign has attracted more than 5,000 signatories, including actors and directors such as Emma Stone, Olivia Colman, Yorgos Lanthimos, Mark Ruffalo, Tilda Swinton and Ayo Edebiri, who have pledged not to work with Israeli film institutions "implicated in genocide and apartheid." Supporters say the boycott is a form of nonviolent protest and not discriminatory because it targets institutions, not individuals....
Film Workers for Palestine, at least, has no plans to stop its campaign. "We share in the relief of Palestinians in Gaza that Israel's relentless slaughter may be coming to an end," a FWP spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter, responding via email. "However, its genocide continues, since Israel has systematically destroyed the necessary conditions for sustaining life. Hospitals, basic services, water treatment and food production have been utterly decimated, which means the genocide will not end with a ceasefire, nor does this ceasefire bring about justice or accountability."
So what do they want? "From the river to the sea," clearly:
The boycott, the spokesperson added, "would only cease to be relevant once Israel's illegal occupation and apartheid in Palestine has been dismantled and the necessary conditions to sustain life have been restored, as required by international law."In other words, they don't want a ceasefire. They want Hamas to conquer Israel.
Yes, when Muslims say they want "peace," they always mean the same thing: They want the "peace" that follows after the unbelievers are conquered and brought into the Dar-al-Islam, the "house of peace," the domination by Muslim warlords.
Meta (FaceBook) was only too happy to deactivate conservatives' accounts for spreading "election misinformation."
But only after a year are they finally shutting down the ICE doxxing accounts.
Meta has shut down a large Facebook group that was being used to dox and target U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Chicago, following intervention by the Justice Department. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the removal Tuesday on X, writing that "following outreach from the Department of Justice, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target ICE agents in Chicago." Bondi added that the takedown was part of a broader effort to combat online movements that have incited violence against federal law enforcement.A Meta spokesperson confirmed the removal to Breitbart News, saying the group was taken down for violating company policies against "coordinated harm." Meta's "Coordinating Harm" policy prohibits content that exposes the personal information or identities of individuals performing official duties, including law enforcement, military, or undercover agents. The policy specifically bars posts revealing an officer's name, photo, badge, or details of their operations, as well as any coordination of or threats involving "swatting" or similar harassment.
The Rutgers University professor who wrote The Anti-Fascist Handbook has fled the country.
A professor at Rutger's University in New Brunswick, New Jersey nicknamed "Dr. Antifa" has announced he is relocating to Europe after a student-led petition called for his firing and a series of threats targeted his home.Mark Bray, an assistant teaching professor and author of "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook," told students he would move his classes online "for safety reasons," according to Fox News.
"My situation has gotten worse recently," Bray wrote in an email. "I received another death threat and a separate threat that included my home address. The University and the authorities have been notified."
The decision follows a petition launched by the campus chapter of Turning Point USA, which called his employment "a threat to conservative students."
"We, the students of Rutgers University, are deeply concerned to learn that an outspoken, well-known antifa member, Dr. Mark Bray, is employed by the university," the petition begins.
"With the current trend of left-wing terrorism, having a prominent leader of the antifa movement on campus is a threat to conservative students on campus," the petition continues. "Dr. Bray has regularly referred to mainstream conservative figures such as Bill O'reilly [sic] as fascist while he calls for militant actions to be taken against these individuals."
According to his profile on the Rutgers website, Bray has previously taught classes on anti-fascism, anarchism, communism, and terrorism.
Bray's "Anti-Fascist Handbook" traces the global history of "anti-fascism" from its roots opposing Mussolini and Hitler to its alleged resurgence against the "alt-right."
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Another Surprise: The Grifter Who Traded Defense Stocks While Serving on the House Armed Services Committee and Who Cheated at Annapolis Turns Out to be Taking Money from a Chinese Communist Party Agent, Too
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A perfect Democrat candidate for governor in the corrupt state of New Jersey.
Just so you know: Commenters asked why we're talking about the NJ and Virginia races now. Well, remember, those races occur off-cycle -- in three weeks, to be precise. These are live elections that will be decided on November 3rd or whatever.
A Chinese auto executive and an active member of the Chinese Communist Party donated over $65,000 to New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rep. Mikie Sherrill's campaign, according to state campaign finance disclosures. Those donations may very well be illegal: The law bans foreign nationals from donating to U.S. political campaigns.The executive, Pin Ni, leads the U.S. subsidiary of the Hangzhou, China-based automotive and industrial powerhouse Wanxiang Group. He wrote two checks in the amount of $30,000 in February and July, respectively, to the super PAC supporting Sherrill's campaign. In June, Ni made a maximum contribution of $5,800 directly to Sherrill's campaign.
The Federal Election Campaign Act prohibits foreign nationals from donating to state and federal political campaigns, and Chinese law prohibits CCP members from holding foreign citizenship.
Ni's donations, which were reported in filings with the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission this week, make him one of the top contributors to Sherrill's election effort and represent the only donations he has made in New Jersey.
Ni has been very active in federal elections in recent years. Since 2020, he has made 152 contributions worth more than $1 million, the majority of which have benefited Democrats, according to Federal Election Commission data. The two largest recipients of his political contributions are the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and Biden Victory Fund.
He has also given tens of thousands of dollars to members of the House Select Committee on the CCP, including Sherrill. For example, Ni has donated $92,500 to Rep. Darin LaHood (R., Ill.); $14,500 to Sherrill's federal campaign; $13,400 to Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D., Ill.), the ranking member of the select committee; and $3,000 to Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.).
"Republican" Darin LaHood is the son of the "Republican" who defected to work for Obama. My friend Mike Flynn ran against him, but then-Speaker John Boehner invited him to one of his million-dollar corporate oligarch fundraisers and destroyed Flynn at the polls.
A spokeswoman for Sherrill's campaign declined to comment.
More from Beege Wellborn, as the grifter-cheater attempts to claim her Republican opponent is the one driving up energy costs.
The schmolls are looking good for Ciattarelli:
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🚨New Poll (Neighborhood Research)🚨Head-to-Head
🔴 Jack Ciattarelli: 44% (tied)
🔵 Mikie Sherrill: 44%Unaffiliated Voters
🔴 Jack Ciattarelli: 49% (+19)
🔵 Mikie Sherrill: 30%Definitely Voting
🔴 Jack Ciattarelli: 46% (+4)
🔵 Mikie Sherrill: 42%
Meanwhile, the Ugandan Muslim Communist Hamas-Supporting Terrorist Zohran Mamdani is a funder of the Hamas support organization UNRWA.
Mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani fundraised for an infamous United Nations relief agency with well-documented ties to Hamas over the weekend -- drawing outrage from Republican North Country Rep. Elise Stefanik. ...Mamdani had proudly posted an image of himself running the "New York City Gaza 5K" to raise money for the notorious UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) on Sunday.
The Big Apple mayoral frontrunner billed UNRWA as a benevolent organization that "delivers critical humanitarian aid and services to Palestinians in Gaza."
Zohran Mamdani was just chased out of a NYC park and branded a dirty foreign Jew-hating antisemite.
A protester chased Democratic socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani out of a downtown Manhattan park Friday, shouting "antisemite" as security rushed him into his car.The confrontation at Foley Square turned heated when the irate man followed Mamdani and demanded he denounce Hezbollah and Sharia, according to a video on X. Security personnel intervened to escort the candidate away from the scene.
The incident comes as Mamdani faces growing scrutiny over his campaign funding sources. The political newcomer has raised close to $16 million, far outpacing his opponents in private donations, the New York Post reported.
With $5 million cash on hand, he has built a substantial war chest heading into November's general election.
New York City's public financing system matches local contributions up to eight times the first $250, amplifying small-dollar donors. Mamdani has received contributions from controversial organizations and individuals, according to reports.
Five staff members from the Islamic Circle of North America contributed $1,300 to his campaign, generating $7,700 in total funds through matching. The Council on American-Islamic Relations donated $100,000 to a Mamdani-aligned political action committee, the outlet reported.
College and university workers provided more than 2,000 individual donations to the candidate. New York academics at various institutions contributed just over $105,000, or up to $690,000 when boosted by matching funds.
Mamdani has refused to condemn calls for violence against Israel. He used this week's Oct. 7 anniversary to accuse Israel of "genocide."
The candidate's supporters reject accusations of extremism. Vox recently described Mamdani's agenda as "not-so-radical," portraying him as a neighborhood activist and champion of the working class.
Mamdani is following the Obama playbook to the letter: He just got caught taking over $13,000 in illegal donations from foreigners.
New York City's leading mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdani, raised nearly $13,000 from donors with addresses outside the United States, a Fox News review of New York City Campaign Finance records show -- raising questions about campaign compliance and transparency.As of Oct. 3, at least 170 of the nearly 54,000 contributions to the Mamdani campaign may violate campaign finance rules, as only U.S. citizens or permanent legal residents are permitted to contribute to American political campaigns. Candidates are expected to return illegal donations.
As of Tuesday, records revealed that 91 of the foreign donations have been refunded. According to data from the New York City Campaign Finance Records contribution refunds, $5,723.50 of the nearly $13,000 has been returned to foreign donors.
I think most people have now accepted that he will win and turn America's formerly-greatest city into Gaza City 2.0.
American Psycho Author Brett Easton Ellis: Critics Are Overpraising One Battle After Another Out of Ideological Sympathy; the Pro-Antifa Film Will Age Like Milk
—Ace
One Battle After Another was received ecstatically by left-wing critics. Although it's reportedly a well-directed film, the ecstasy comes from the film "meeting the moment," rallying the left to take violent means to undo the Trump Revolution.
The film is explicitly in favor of left-wing terrorists blowing up and killing "right-wing" cartoon characters. I would say it's explicitly pro-Antifa, but the film is careful to never call the terrorists it glorifies "Antifa." But it's also clear that's who the terrorists are.
It's expected to be nominated, and win, just about every Oscar in every category at this year's Academy Awards. Partly because Hollywood just isn't making many worthy movies any more, partly because they can't stop virtue signalling for every Current Year cause, but mostly because they're left-wing psychopaths with a keen interest in encouraging violence against the right.
And so they'll virtue signal this pro-Antifa-Terrorist movie into a historic sweep of the Oscars.
Christian Toto wants to know if we'll get all the Oscar nominations if we produce a film that explicitly glorifies right-wing violence against left-wing government officials.
Here's a timely thought experiment.What if director Paul Thomas Anderson dropped a far-Right movie into this year's awards season mix?
He then rewrites the actual One Battle After Another, flipping left to right and right to left, to see how the left might react to a movie celebrating right wing terrorists blowing up left wing government officials.
The project, dubbed "One Battle After Another," features alt-Right radicals battling it out with government officials during a Democrat administration.
The protesters ignite incendiary devices around a center where January 6 defendants are being held in solitary confinement, even those who merely entered the Capitol during the "insurrection." A few milled around outside the building that day, never joining the riot.
Some radicals in the film detonate bombs in government buildings, unsure if any people are still inside. They don't seem to care.
One radical kills a security officer in a heated moment, helping several J6 activists escape in the process. She's a heroic figure, sultry and uncompromising in her beliefs. A triumphant image of her firing a machine gun while very pregnant causes a stir.
Her beta male beau (Leonardo DiCaprio) can only hope to keep up with her revolutionary pluck.
By all accounts, the couple and their colleagues represent the film's complicated but unabashed heroes. If they ever regret their murderous ways, it isn't captured on screen.
Anderson's visceral filmmaking has never been better. Sean Penn delivers a blistering turn as a Democrat-appointed colonel who will stop at nothing to capture DiCaprio's on-screen daughter.
The storytelling is intense. The performances are all above reproach. It's alternately scary, humorous and ripped from today's headlines. Oh, and the film relentlessly paints Democratic officials as racist, hateful and, often, murderous in nature.
Would that film's Rotten Tomatoes score stand at 96 percent "fresh?" What if its release coincided with real-world violence that eerily reflected the film's messaging?
Doubtful, at best.
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Critics are fawning over the film, suggesting the Best Picture race unofficially ended with its debut. Trade publications like Variety and The Hollywood Reporter are cranking out stories about the movie, pushing its awareness factor as far as it will go.
Variety cries that the film could "rule the cultural conversation," giving the term "wish-casting" an extreme close-up.
American Psycho author Brett Easton Ellis knows something about provocations in art, and says that this dismal movie will win all the awards -- but be forgotten as a "musty" relic of TDS leftism in a couple of years.
"If there was ever a movie to kind of do a deep-dive on, it would be One Battle After Another," the American Psycho and Less Than Zero author said in a recent episode of his podcast. "I just didn't really like it. It has nothing to do with any kind of ideological shit. I know there are a lot of people on the right who hate the movie and I guess that's kind of fair because I think the liberal, the very liberal entertainment press--I'm not painting them black or anything with that, it's just a fact--have severely overrated it."Ellis went on to argue that the film will one day be considered "a kind of musty relic of the post-Kamala Harris era of, you know, that thing that everyone gathers around and pretends is so fantastic and so great when it really isn't, just to make a point."
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"Overall, yeah, there's a liberal mustiness to this movie that already feels very dated by October 2025. Very dated," Ellis said, as heard here. "It just doesn't read the room. It reads a tiny corner of the room but it does not read what is going on in America. It thinks something else is going on."
Despite the leftist media's insistence on willing this pro-terrorism piece of shit into a hit, it's a certified flop, which even the left-wing Variety must concede after just a couple of weeks in theaters.
'One Battle After Another' Projected to Lose $100 Million Theatrically as 'Smashing Machine' and Others Also Struggle Due to Oversized Budgets...
Even Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another," led by Leonardo DiCaprio, struggled to break out despite being hailed as a generational masterpiece. Though the global haul of $140 million is impressive for a film that's original, R rated and nearly three hours long, "One Battle" requires roughly $300 million to break even. That's because Warner Bros. spent more than $130 million on production and $70 million on promotional efforts, and ticket sales are typically split 50-50 between studios and theater operators. Meanwhile DiCaprio typically gets first-dollar gross on his movies, meaning he gets a percentage of box office revenues before the studio recoups any costs.
"These prestige-type movies have failed to create a sense of FOMO among audiences," says Fandango's box office analyst Shawn Robbins. "They weren't event-ized enough."
Here's another explanation: If I wanted to watch hardcore pro-terrorist propaganda, I could see it for free just by turning on CNN and MSNBC.
Update:
7 Allan Ng of Film Threat pissed off a bunch of loser critics when he called out the politics of One Battle After Another. His response was great. "Why did you refuse to review or even watch 'Sound of Freedom?'"Posted by: buzzion
In related woke Hollywood news: A Doctor Who writer declares the show "as dead as we've ever known it."
It has been "dead" before, but it was actually just mostly dead. The Doctor's adventures continued in books, and sales of DVDs and merch remained brisk even after the original series' cancellation.
Now, this writer pronounces Doctor Who dead-dead and incapable of being revived.
In the opinion of Doctor Who franchise writer Robert Shearman, the season-ending regeneration of the 15th Doctor into actress Billie Piper, who herself previously played fan favorite companion Rose Tyler, has effectively "put a full stop" on the series' long-running narrative.Shearman, whose Who writing credits include a number of Big Finish's audio dramas, The Frozen Wastes novel, and the 2005 reboot episode Dalek, wherein he reintroduced the public to the titular metal terrors, offered his thoughts on the Time Lord's current state of suspension while being interviewed for Doctor Who Magazine #622, the publication's most recent issue.
Per transcripts of the interview provided separately by Radio Times' Morgan Cormack and Bleeding Cool's Adi Tantimedh, when asked about the aforementioned regeneration, the writer opined, "At the moment I'm in a 'pull' phase. It's weird because the show is probably as dead as we've ever known it."
"After 1989, we had, for years, a current Doctor. Now, everything that is ever going to be produced in Doctor Who terms is going to feel retrogressive. At least with the New Adventures [novels] and then the BBC Books, you thought, 'It's the current Doctor -- McCoy or McGann.'"Drawing his thoughts to a close, Shearman ultimately declared, "No one's going to start writing Doctor Who books with a Billie Piper Doctor, because no one knows what that means.
Because the show was ending and Russell T. Davies wanted to tease some kind of cliffhanger, they filmed a bullshit post-credit ending featuring former companion Billie Piper suddenly becoming the new Doctor. No one believes this is a real casting decision, as Billie Piper hasn't signed on to do a show that no longer exists. And it wouldn't make any sense anyway.
The gay propagandist Russell T. Davies got made that the public rejected his all-gay all-the-time racebent woke Doctor and so he just burned the show down. If you don't appreciate nonstop gay and trans propaganda targeted at children, then you can't have Doctor Who.
Fine by me!
Meanwhile, the BBC's official position is that they just haven't made up their minds about the Disney-funded show.
And although concrete word on Doctor Who's future has yet to be given by either the BBC or the series' international distributor Disney, the fact that it remains in 'cancellation limbo' five years after its last season finale speaks volumes to just how far the iconic sci-fi series has fallen out of favor with the general public.
Bonus: Keira Knightly says, in so many words, "no, I'm not going to be bullied into your trantifa boycott, go f**k yourself, next question."
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Surprise! The Gang-Member Carjackers That Beat the Shit Out of "BigBallz" Aren't Going to Spend a Single Day in Jail
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"Teens" will be spared actual punishment for carjacking and a violent gang assault.
Two teenagers who jumped former DOGE staffer Edward "Big Balls" Coristine have avoided jail after pleading guilty to simple assault at a Washington, DC, court.The boy and girl, both 15, from Hyattsville, Maryland, were sentenced to probation at a DC court on Tuesday, just over two months after the pair were arrested for the savage Aug. 3 attack, WUSA9 reported.
The boy was handed a 12-month probation and allowed to return home under strict house arrest, while the girl was given a nine-month probation and remanded to a local youth shelter.
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Coristine was left with a concussion and a broken nose after he and a female companion were jumped by "a group of 10 guys," the ex-DOGE employee previously said.
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Haxios: Democrats Are Afraid to Sue Trump Over His Shutdown Manuevers
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Trump and Scott Bessent are prioritizing paying the military and paying welfare payments for single mothers. They are de-priortizing paying bureaucrats.
An Axios piece reporting that while Democrats want to force Trump to pay their bureaucrat friends first and foremost, they're too afraid to sue Trump and to make their own priorities clear.
Democrats in Congress say President Trump's methods for paying military service members and funding food stamps for vulnerable communities are clearly illegal. But they're not keen to fight him on it.Why it matters: It's a rare instance where Trump is going mostly unchallenged as he ignores Congress' constitutional role in controlling federal spending.
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Several House Democrats in battleground district said privately that it would be a massive political headache for them if party members challenged the payments.
"The legality is questionable, but politically I hope Democrats don't do it," said one lawmaker who spoke on the condition of anonymity to provide candid thoughts about the political dynamics around the shutdown.
Said another vulnerable House Democrat: "I'd say that it's a good thing we're helping poor people who are facing food prices and it's good that we're paying the troops."
From Ed Morrissey, who also writes that Joni Ernst is proposing that Russ Vought's Reductions in Force be made permanent.
If they're "non-essential employees" during a shutdown, doesn't that mean they're also non-essential employees outside of a shutdown?
[Fox:] "Schumer's Shutdown shenanigans have already wasted $4.4 billion paying 750,000 'non-essential' federal employees not to work for more than two weeks," Ernst told Fox News Digital."My Non-Essential Workers Transparency Act will expose the lost productivity and true cost of Democrats' political stunt," she said. "It will also help expose which parts of the bloated bureaucracy are truly 'non-essential' and should be put on the chopping block to increase efficiency in Washington for taxpayers."
More at the link.
Schumer has denied that he is keeping the shutdown going to show the "No Kings" cultists that he's a Serious Tough Left-Wing Guy. They're staging a protest/riot for this weekend (the 18th), and Schumer reportedly wants to keep the shutdown going at least through the weekend to show off for his Antifa/anarchist palz.
The fact that he's denying it is conclusive proof that it's true.
The protests are set to come amid a government shutdown that has left large parts of the federal workforce furloughed or fired. Several prominent Republicans in recent days have accused Democrats of prolonging the government shutdown to align with the upcoming "No Kings" protests. House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Fox News that Democrats wouldn't vote to reopen the government until after Saturday's "hate America rally" because "they can't face their rabid base."
But protest leaders say the movement's tone will be festive and peaceful, and that their protest is not a factor in the shutdown negotiations. "What this is about is everybody coming together and demonstrating--we don't do kings in America," Indivisible's executive director Ezra Levin told MSNBC last week. "They're going to have funny signs, there's going to be chanting, there's going to be dancing, there's going to be singing."
Oh great, more ancient creaky bediapered hippies singing out of tune.
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Rates of Child "Transgenderism," Which Is Totally a Real Thing and Not an Evil Psyop By the Deviant Communist Left, Are Suddenly in Freefall Now That the Government and NGOs Aren't Proselytizing Transgenderism to Children
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You. Don't. Say.
This study is actually about college students but obviously the same thing must be happening with the children the evil anti-human left has been pushing on children for a decade.
A new survey of published polling data by Eric Kaufmann, a professor of politics at the University of Buckingham in the United Kingdom and an adjunct fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute, shows a nearly 50% drop in the number of college students who identify as transgender. Kaufmann believes the data shows the gender identity trend is going "out of fashion."The surveys include polls from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) poll, which samples more than 50,000 students each year, and the Higher Education Research Institute's (HERI) annual freshman survey.
"The annual Andover Phillips Academy survey showed 9.2% of students identified as neither male nor female in 2023, a figure that plummeted to 3% in 2025," according to a report in the Washington Times.
At Brown University, 5% of students said they were nonbinary in 2023, but just 2.6% did so two years later.
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Trump Posthumously Awards Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom
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He also declared Kirk's birthday (yesterday, October 14th) a National Day of Remembrance of Kirk.
President Donald Trump honored the late conservative leader Charlie Kirk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday, calling him a "martyr for truth and for freedom" during a moving Rose Garden ceremony held on what would have been Kirk's 32nd birthday.Standing beside Kirk's widow, Erika, Trump said the Turning Point USA founder's courage and conviction placed him among the greats of history. "From Socrates to Saint Peter, from Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King, those who change history the most--and he really did--have always risked their lives for causes they were put on Earth to defend," Trump said. He added that Kirk was "looking down on us right now," calling his assassination "a reminder of how far the radical left will go when their ideas fail." The president condemned the political violence gripping the country, pointing to the murder of Kirk on September 10 during a campus speaking event in Utah. "We've watched legions of far-left radicals resort to desperate acts of violence and terror because they know that their ideas are persuading no one. They have the devil's ideology, and they're failing," Trump said.
The president recounted how he "raced back halfway around the globe" from the Middle East--where he had just finalized the Israel-Hamas peace deal--to attend the ceremony. "I didn't have the courage to call Erika and say, 'Can you move it to Friday?'" he said. "But I heard it was Charlie's birthday, and I said, 'We're going to have to forget about some of those very big, very rich countries that expected me to be there.'"
Now we know why Trump immediately hopped on Air Force One to race back to the States.
Trump spoke warmly of meeting Kirk as a young man, recalling, "When I first met him, he was 22, and I thought he was older. He was special." He continued, "Instead of turning 32, Charlie is attaining a far more important milestone--we're entering his name forever into the eternal roster of true American heroes."
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Erika Kirk, standing beside a portrait of her late husband, thanked the president and spoke through tears about Charlie's humility and purpose. "I have spent seven and a half years trying to find the perfect birthday gift for Charlie," she said. "He wasn't a materialistic man, so that made it difficult. But now I can say with confidence, Mr. President, that you've given him the best birthday gift he could ever have."
It is important to remember and celebrate Charlie Kirk, not just to honor the man and his message, but to send a warning to future left-wing assassins: Your bullets will not stop your enemies. It will immortalize them.
That's the only way to push back against the left's constant justification and valorization of political assassins. If the left is allowed to continue normalizing violence, assassinations of rightist figures will increase. Unless we make it clear that the assassinations will result in blowback to the left.
The left is further encouraging assassins by insisting that Charlie Kirk be forgotten and that the right stop talking about him. The left is, essentially, demanding that its leftwing assassin be delivered a Double Victory -- not only is Kirk dead, but so too is his legacy.
That's what they want. And every lefty griping that "we're still talking about Charlie Kirk" is in fact creating the circumstances for the next murder by telling their fellow extremist left-wingers that they can have the Perfect Victory of 1, eliminating an important and persuasive voice on the right, plus 2, insulating the left from any blowback or political damage from the assassination.
And the only way to push back against the left's incitement and justification of murder is to make it clear their murders will result in the further destruction of the left.
Sorry, Gabe: We're not going to let you and your left-wing assassin allies score your Perfect Victory.
MXM hints at that:
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Wednesday Morning Rant
—Joe Mannix
The American press is the most dependable institutional complex in the history of man. It can be counted on to lie, no matter what. Whatever topic, whatever issue, whatever place, whatever time, the American press will always engage in deceit. Whatever story any given press whore is telling, it will be incomplete, inaccurate, wholly fabricated or some combination of these. There was a truly splendid example of this earlier in the week. This story came out of Boston, but the place is irrelevant. They're all the same, this just happens to be a local story.
The story is about the current boogeyman of the Left: ICE. The Boston Globe article decides to engage in lying by omissions, rather than outright fabrication. It starts with the attention-grabbing headline:
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
The story itself is about the baffling injustice of it all.
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The Morning Report — 10/15/25
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. And so with the ceasefire so-called "peace" agreement signed and delivered in Gaza, President Trump laid down the law.
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Hamas terrorists would lay down their weapons, or the United States would “disarm them.”Speaking to reporters during a roundtable with Argentinian President Javier Milei at the White House, Trump said that Hamas has already promised to disarm, which was a major demand in the president’s 20-point peace plan. “They’re going to disarm because they said they were going to disarm,” Trump said. “And if they don’t disarm, we will disarm them.”
“How will you do that?” a reporter asked. “I don’t have to explain that to you, but if they don’t disarm, we will disarm them,” Trump reiterated. “They know I’m not playing games.”
With all due respect to the President, color me highly skeptical. Even if this ceasefire holds for any appreciable length of time, the problem isn't necessarily Hamas nor its caches of weapons. The issue was and always will be Islam. You can disarm Hamas and every other armed Muslim, unless and until you deprogram them and successive generations of Muslims from what the Koran tells them is their duty on this Earth — the death or submission of every infidel on Earth — then despite the blessed liberation of the innocents they held captive and abused for two years, All of this is destined to happen again, perhaps even worse than before.
As I've stated many times, I hold no illusions about Islam reforming itself but perhaps, this next item might hold out a kernel of hope, however subatomic it may be that even some segments of the much talked about Muslim/Arab street might be ripe for change.
With the U.S.-brokered ceasefire providing a breather, Hamas terrorists have crawled out of their tunnels and fanned out into the streets of Gaza — massacring political rivals and opposing Arab clans to reestablish their reign of terror. It is worth noting that the massive Hamas tunnel network was exclusively for terrorist warfare, and not to shield a single Gaza civilian during the two-year-long war.
Despite the 5 times a day yammering of the Imams and even louder and harder on Fridays about how evil the Jews are, perhaps the truth of who really is the source of their misery as illustrated by this piece, might one day have the salutary effect of breaking through and raising some consciousnesses . Tribalism, xenophobia and hatred are unfortunately a part of human nature. In fits and starts we have somehow managed over the past 2,000 years to generally advance to a level where most people do believe or at the very least aspire to the goal of Live and Let Live. Of course, wars and revolutions and other base desires notwithstanding in that time have dragged us backwards, but the direction has nevertheless has always been towards the light of God and truth.
Evil persists as it always has and human nature being what it is, always will. We must always be on our guard to fight it as well as protect whatever sparks of humanity there are the crop up in the most unexpected place, to try and encourage them.
President Donald Trump will award Charlie Kirk the Medal of Freedom today at 4 PM ET. You can watch the livestream below. Today would have been Charlie’s 32nd birthday.Erika, Charlie’s widow, will attend the ceremony along with those associated with his organization Turning Point USA.
God bless Charlie Kirk's memory. We sure could use a whole lot more like him. And that said, Kirk came onto the sene during the dark days of the Obama years when we seemingly thought we had lost his generation to the insanity of Leftist/Socialist/progressivism and yet he came to the fore and inspired many young people to return to God and also to open their eyes and minds to the insanity all around us. And he along with others helped propel Donald Trump and the MAGA movement forward. That momentum I hope and pray is still with us.
Have a good day!
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- Erika, Charlie’s widow, will attend the ceremony along with those associated with his organization Turning Point USA.
Trump Awards Medal of Freedom to Charlie Kirk
- Honoring an American hero.
Charlie’s Courage - A new level of coercion in the climate war.
Weaponizing Ticks: Academics Propose Meat Allergy to Fight Climate Change
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Daily Tech News 15 October 2025
—Pixy Misa
Top Story-
Are AI agents compromised by default? Yes. (Computer)
Well, that's awkward for the brand new multi trillion dollar industry.
Also awkward is the web page: You have to load the page and then download the PDF to read it. You can't statically link to the PDF.
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Are the people using AI agents compromised by default? Apparently also yes. (404 Media) (archive site)
A lawyer appearing before the New York state supreme court was ordered to show why he shouldn't be sanctioned after presenting multiple AI generated citations of cases that don't exist.
His filing in the sanctions hearing... Contained multiple AI generated citations of cases that don't exist.
At least he's consistent.
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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - October 14, 2025 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Tuesday ONT time. Glad you decided to visit. Won't you hang out for a while and drop some wit and wisdom into the gray boxes?
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Grandmaster Cafe
—Ace
Fossils look like baby xenomorphs
The creature is Australian Crinoid (Jimbicrinus Bostocki)
A pure white squirrel.
ICYMI: Dog packs for the big trip.
Man saves a baby swan from a fishing line, and the swan-mom and swan-dad thank him.
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Trump Blows Up Another Venezuelan Drug-Smuggling Vote While Rand Paul Cries His Short Little Heart Out
—Ace
Trump blew up more drug smugglers.
The United States struck another small boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela, killing six people, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday.Those who died in the strike were aboard the vessel, and no U.S. forces were harmed, the Republican president said in a social media post. It's the fifth deadly strike in the Caribbean as Trump's administration has asserted it's treating alleged drug traffickers as unlawful combatants who must be met with military force.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the strike Tuesday morning, said Trump, who released a video of it, as he had in the past. Hegseth later shared the video in a post on X.
Trump said the strike was conducted in international waters and "Intelligence" confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with "narcoterrorist networks" and was on a known drug trafficking route.
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Quick Hits
—Ace
The savages who wracked campuses with vandalism and violence, supposedly to compel a ceasefire and "stop the genocide," say that they're not going to stop the vandalism and violence.
Because "peace" was never the goal -- only Islamic Conquest.
[LATimes:]"While the news of a ceasefire is welcome, nothing fundamentally changes at UCLA or colleges in general," said Dylan Kupsh, a doctoral computer science student at UCLA who was part of an encampment last year that was attacked by pro-Israel vigilantes.
"Our university is still invested in the oppression of Palestine. Students won't rest until the university divests," said Kupsh, who has faced student discipline procedures for participating in actions that the university alleges violated campus policies...
Amanda, a student at USC who participated in pro-Palestinian encampments, said concerns remain on her campus.
"We see that our school, like all the others, is very worried about being seen as antisemitic by the government, so they are even stricter about protests and speech than they used to be," she said.
Speaking of Islamic Conquest, Islamic propagandist Christiane Amanapour claimed that the Israelis held illegally as hostages by Hamas terrorists for two years were treated better than "the average Gazan."
See, you can't blame Hamas for taking hostages because Israel is holding all of Gaza hostage, don't you know, and Hamas treats its hostages better than Israel treats its hostages.
CNN chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour claimed Israeli hostages, who were tortured and starved for two years by Hamas, were treated better than Gazans."They're probably being treated better than the average Gazan because they are the pawns and the chips that Hamas had," Amanpour said Monday morning on CNN News Central.
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Videos released over the past two years have shown malnourished Israeli hostages enduring brutal treatment. Survivors have said they were starved, tortured, electrocuted, and forced to dig their own graves. One freed hostage, Ron Krivoi, said "ordinary Gazans" beat him. Another, Evyatar David, was forced to dig his own grave in a Hamas propaganda video released in August.
Yes But Jews.
NBC "News" attempted the same gambit, claiming that Israel's capture of terrorist and battlefield fighters is exactly like Hamas taking civilian prisoners at a music festival.
"I remember distinctly a UN official already describing Gaza as a graveyard for Palestinian children and here we are two years later, nearly 20,000 children dead and much needed aid. They have nothing to go back to, but they have their land. And for Palestinians, boy, that is what they have fought for -- for -- for decades. I myself right now am outside Ofer prison. This is the largest prison in the West Bank."...
"But over to Gaza, 1,700 Palestinians detained in Gaza will be released. They are in some cases minors, doctors, nurses, journalists who have never been charged. It's really important for people to remember that they've been held under what's called administrative detention. It's a controversial practice that allows Israel to detain people for an indefinite period of time without charging them. These people do not know why they have been detained and so, in the eyes of many Palestinians, you ask them, they consider those people held without charge also as hostages. And Palestinian officials will tell you that they believe Israel has been arresting them, arresting as many as they can to gather to amass as many bargaining chips as possible for these negotiations."
This little angel didn't do nuffin'. He is a Gentle Giant who was just turning his life around when the Racist Israeli Police arrested him (for ten bombings including of a schoolbus which killed seven children).
Human disaster area Alec Baldwin crashed his car while illegally passing a truck on the right and immediately blamed the other driver.
Newsmax has obtained exclusive dashcam footage that appears to contradict Alec Baldwin's account of how he and his brother Stephen Baldwin were involved in a car crash Monday afternoon.
The 1-minute, 29-second front-facing video, taken from the commercial truck Alec Baldwin claims cut him off, shows the truck making a legal right turn onto Montauk Highway in East Hampton, New York, before Alec Baldwin's white Range Rover comes into view -- and moments later, slams into a tree along the roadside.
The footage begins with the truck exiting a parking lot and making a routine right turn.
Roughly 30 seconds in, Alec Baldwin's vehicle appears to attempt to pass the truck on the right, before veering onto the shoulder and striking a large tree head-on.
The video then captures the aftermath, including the Range Rover's crumpled front end.
In a video posted to Instagram late Monday, Alec Baldwin claimed a "garbage truck the size of a whale" cut him off, forcing him to swerve to avoid a collision.
"To avoid hitting him, I hit a tree. I hit a big fat tree and crushed my car -- my wife's car," he said.
But the dashcam footage obtained by Newsmax tells a different story.
The truck Alec Baldwin blamed for "cutting him off" does not appear to impede his path.
Instead, the footage shows Alec Baldwin's vehicle attempting to maneuver around the truck after it had already completed its turn.
There is no visible indication that the truck forced Alec Baldwin from his lane, nor any sudden obstruction requiring evasive action. Seconds later, his SUV loses control and crashes into the tree.
He's not being investigated, of course.
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CNN: Sadly, The "Male Gaze" Is Back, and Heterosexual Men Are Attracted to Attractive Women Once More
—Ace
Colin Duffy @TheRightDuffOct 13
Leftism, at its core, is nothing more than deeply internalized jealousy of people who are more traditionally attractive, socially competent, physically capable, or financially productive.
Get ready to hear some Home Truths you haven't heard every single day from the debut of Ally McBeal.
This summer, I got cultural whiplash.
As a child of the '90s and early 2000s, I grew up with my mother's and grandmother's generations' fight for legal and workplace equality helping shed social misogyny.
In the past decade in particular, I saw the evidence of progress in my media diet. The movies, shows, books and advertisements I consumed were increasingly giving women a seat at the table. Heroin chic fell away, and body positivity entered the fashion world.
Those are the only two options: Heroin chic (which, by the way, has not been a trend since the mid-nineties, and was barely a trend even then) or "body positivity," meaning the celebration of morbidly obese women (and never obese men or even short men).
Stories about a woman stealing your man were traded for celebration of the "girl's girl" who resisted the competition for men's attention.
Yes we know. Hollywood has avoided romance -- I mean, heterosexual romance -- for fifteen years due to the demands of feminists/political lesbians who insist that no woman should ever fall in love with a man.
And when my husband and I got married earlier this year, our vision of what our life could be included wide-ranging possibilities, influenced in part by the movies and shows we grew up with. We saw, read and listened to stories of involved fathers, successful mothers and well-matched partners who supported one another.It seemed like women were taking a deeper breath without such heavy cultural restrictions.
I have a sneaking suspicion that her "wide-ranging possibilities" are actually an extremely narrow range of woke-approved possibilities.
From women fighting to end child marriage in Africa to women demanding equal pay, to women teaching other women to love their bodies regardless of shape, color or size, women are empowering women all over the world.
There it is: the "wide-ranging possibilities." Current Year Netflix.
Then there was a shift.
Enter the heroes -- Sydney Sweeney's calcium cannons.
Was it around the 2024 presidential election? Or since the overturn of Roe v. Wade? Maybe when men's rights activists pushed back against #MeToo? Whatever the catalyst, a change in the political environment seemed to connect with a social change that brought back narrow, and at times constrictive, ideas of womanhood depicted in media.
She claims this is a "constrictive" vision, when it fact it is simply allowing "wide-ranging possibilities" that she and her hysterical neurotic lunatic ideologues made forbidden for fifteen years.
The recent rise of weight loss medications coincided with social media influencers sharing ways to get smaller and no longer celebrating bodies of all sizes.Advertisements followed suit, making men's desire once again a dominating factor in how stories are told, and how women are portrayed.
How had these discarded ideas made their way back into circulation? Didn't we all agree we were through with them?
LOL. No we didn't. You just #cancelled pretty women without asking the guys about it or the conventionally-attractive women that you shamed out of the public square.
The culprit, I have learned, is the male gaze.
The problem is always the male gays.
And the female gays are even worse.
It was always there, but now it has stepped back into the spotlight.The male gaze came roaring back this summer.
American Eagle ---- whose partner brand Aerie has been known for marketing underwear to women with imagery that celebrated stretch marks, cellulite and a range of body sizes -- ran a controversial ad campaign starting in July. The ads sell jeans to women featuring actor Sydney Sweeney, who many men see as a sex symbol, insinuating the clothing would make men find them more attractive.
The horror of selling clothing with the suggestion that you might look better in a particular cut of dress!
..."Most typically, the male gaze is about representing women in media solely to satisfy heterosexual men," said Dr. Linda Tuncay Zayer, professor of marketing and John F. Smith, Jr. Chair in Business Administration at the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University Chicago.
In movies and entertainment watched primarily by men, then yes, I think such fare should "satisfy" men by pleasing them. I know that the idea that any man in the world might take pleasure in anything is toxic and horrifying to you.
You left-wing lunatic bitches and stuff your crap with all the 300 pound diabetic amputees that you like. (Sorry, female Morons, I've got to look out for the lads first and foremost.)
If you are observing women in movies, TV, fashion, social media and marketing and they don't feel as fully materialized as their male counterparts, that is the male gaze."The woman's value is reduced in so far as existing for pleasure or basically an object," Zayer said.
It's Bond girls. And a long, lingering shot panning up a woman's body in an advertisement for soda. It's when an action movie accessory is running through explosions in tiny shorts and flowing curled hair before collapsing helplessly in the hero's arms. And a social media star making a recipe while all dolled up and explaining her steps in a soft, sultry voice.
What is amazing about this piece is that it's so Basic Bitch. She is explaining to us the concept of "the male gaze" in the Year of Our Lord 2025. We already heard all of this absurd anti-human bullshit in 1998.
But this world-beater imagines she's breaking new ground here.
I like how they always claim that James Bond girls are just for "the male gaze" and have no agency. It's such an empty-headed cliched trope. What's the last James Bond movie these bimbos actually watched?
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The male gaze has always been around -- art in the eye of the male beholder -- but the term came into modern existence as a feminist theory coined by film critic Laura Mulvey in 1975.
Yes, so why are you telling us about it fifty years later?
Her next article will be about the Miracle Fastener: Velcro.
Although it started as a lens through which to view film, Mulvey specifically calling out Marilyn Monroe's appearance in "The River of No Return" and movie director Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window," it has expanded to encompass cultural perspectives that keep men's stories, experiences and interest as the societal priority and treat women as objects rather than active participants.
In entertainment primarily consumed by men, yes, men will be the most important characters, the stories will be appealing to men, and the POV will reflect men's assumptions.
Whose assumptions should they reflect? Lunatic feminists?
You have your bullshit chick flick nonsense where the female characters are the heroes and the male lead is merely the object of desire to be won. No one bothers you about that.
But you are determined to Colonize Men's Spaces.
The male gaze includes stories told about women in relation to a male character (think wife, daughter, victim) and media in which the camera angles and visual storytelling make the audience feel like they are viewing the women from a heterosexual male's perspective, Zayer added.
In a James Bond movie?! How awful for you.
It may even be hard to recognize when media is coming from the male gaze because it is so pervasive, Zayer said. "We're kind of a goldfish in the water where this is part of our culture," she added.As you try to identify it, Zayer stresses the male gaze is not just about the way something looks -- it's about power. And media matters.
Have you noticed that this world-beater has located and interviewed one single "expert"?
And here's her preference: All movies and TV shows and advertisements should be directed by the female gaze.
The dominance of the male gaze hasn't gone unchecked. Storytellers have been presenting alternative ways of viewing women for many years.
Often when women are shown as sexy or sexual on screen, it is a performance for men and doesn't include their own search for pleasure or complex storylines. On the other hand, there is the female gaze, with shows and movies like "Bridgerton" and "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" demonstrating how women can be sexual without being objectified.
Mothers and daughters weren't accessories to the men in their lives when Greta Gerwig joined the ranks of the few female Academy Award-nominated directors -- for the 2017 film, "Lady Bird." The film's focus on the mother-daughter relationship helped audiences explore coming of age and the experience of womanhood.
Related articleOpinion: The female gaze is taking over page and screen, and it is hot
I just wanted to include that link for a related article. It gives the game away. Equality is not sought -- domination is the goal.
...Take the Bechdel test, coined by cartoonist and graphic novelist Alison Bechdel in a comic strip. To pass it, a book, film or show must have at least two women; they must talk to each other, and about something other than a man. Failing the test is a good sign that media is part of the male gaze ---- and you can probably think of plenty that can't check any of those boxes.
Oh wow, she's talking about the Bechdel test.
She should write about her life story. That would make for a compelling article. Imagine being the first woman on your block to have AOL and the spending three months straight reading articles on Jezebel and the Mary Sue and then getting flash-frozen in Cold Fusion mishap (just like in that Keanu Reeves science-fiction movie that's currently in theaters) and not being revived and woken up until thirty years later in 2025.
Whereupon you send an "e-Mail" (that is short for "electronic mail" ) through the "World Wide Web" to the new cable news channel CNN and ask them if they would like an explanation of your Vintage Windows 95 hot-takes on feminist media criticism.
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Ex-Staffer: Katie Potatey Focused on the Quiet, Shy Staffers for Bullying and Humiliation
—Ace
Psychopaths develop a skill for choosing victims.
I'm talking about Katie Porter but I heard someone, I think one of the guys on the Ruthless podcast, call this gourd-shaped monstrosity "Katie Potatey" and that's the only name I'll use for her going forward.
I will also correct the NYPost, which erroneously refers to Katie Potatey as "Katie Porter."
Katie Potatey targeted 'softer spoken' underlings for abuse, was 'downright mean', ex-staffer warns votersBy Chadwick Moore
Katie Potatey was exposed for berating a staffer and throwing a tantrum during an interview in two video clips this week.
And the California governor candidate is even worse when cameras aren't rolling, one ex-staffer told The Post Friday.
One of the lawyer and politician's cruelest tactics is dehumanizing her young underlings by referring to them in the third person -- while in their presence.
"It was easier for her to do these things to the quieter ones, the more soft-spoken ones, who wouldn't be like, 'hey, that's not okay,' " Sasha Georgiades, a former Wounded Warrior Fellow and Navy veteran who served in Porter's office from 2020--2022, told The Post.
"Going after the people you think aren't going to fight back -- I think it speaks a lot about a person's nature when they do that.
"Especially in arena like politics, which you're here to serve people. Actually, you're here to serve those quiet people more, at least that's my viewpoint on it," she added.
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Georgiades described a Jekyll and Hyde boss, never knowing which Katie would show up.
"If anything went wrong, she would flip on a dime," Georgiades said, recalling one incident where her young team had setup a Facebook video shoot but picky Potatey didn't like what they had done.
"She's talking to me while the other girl is in the room, telling me, 'I don't even know why she's here. I can do this job better than her.' And this is, like, very inappropriate. The girl's in the room with us," Georgiades said.
"It is dehumanizing and it's demoralizing. It makes you question: why am I even doing this?" Georgiades reflected.
In July 2022, Georgiades released text messages with Potatey exposing her shockingly toxic work environment. Potatey and Georgiades had both tested positive for COVID-19 after attending an in-person staff meeting. Porter then sent angry text messages blaming the asymptomatic Georgiades for infecting her--and then fired her.
Potatey's campaign didn't immediately return The Post's request for comment.
The explosive former congresswoman was also accused of having a short fuse by her ex-husband, with whom she has three children, who described in a restraining order how she had once allegedly dumped steaming mashed potatoes on his head and had chastised him with swear words in front of their kids.
Oh! So maybe that's why Ruthless called her Katie Potatey. I assumed it was just due to her figure, which resembles a sack of spuds with a gland issue.
Below, Katie Potatey speculates about Trump's "demise," fantasizing about him having a heart attack.
Katie Potatey, maybe you should worry about your own cardiovascular health.
Or don't. Healthy at any size!
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Schmolls: Jay Jones Now Trails in Virginia, with Winsome Earle-Sears Now Behind By Just Two Points
—Ace
Jay Jones' sick fantasies about watching children die in their mother's arms, and Deep State Operative Abigail Spanberger's absurd dodging of the transgender question, have suddenly made Virginia competitive in all three statewide races:
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: Virginia Democrat Jay Jones, who wants Republicans and their children to die, FALLS WAY BEHIND Jason Miyares (R) -- and Winsome Sears (R) is within striking distance for governor
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🔴 Miyares: 49% (+6) [WOW]
🔵 Jones: 43%Governor:
🔵 Spanberger: 47.7% (+2.6)
🔴 Sears: 45.1%REPUBLICANS - GO VOTE!
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In New York, Governness Kathy Hochul is very "vulnerable."
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2026 New York Governor Election Poll
🔵 Kathy Hochul: 48%
🔴 Elise Stefanik: 43%Grayhouse/Landon Wall | 1,250 LV
This race doesn't go to the polls until next year, but it's still interesting to see Democrats flailing even in the bluest of blue states.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul retains just a five percentage-point lead against potential 2026 Republican challenger Elise Stefanik -- and loses that advantage when likely voters first hear about both candidates' records, according to a new internal poll.Stefanik trails behind Hochul, 48% to 43%, on an initial ballot but narrowly beats the incumbent Democrat, 46.4% to 45.9%, when voters leaning toward voting in the 2026 race hear about the governor endorsing New York City mayoral front-runner and socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani, the poll found, among other issues.
If Mamdani wins Gracie Mansion, up to 47% of independent voters also said they'd be less likely to vote for Hochul or other Democrats up and down the ballot in the midterms.
The survey, paid for by Stefanik's leadership fundraising committee E-PAC, showed likely gubernatorial voters also downgraded Hochul for her record on supporting bail reform in New York and other cost-of-living concerns.
Hochul's job performance rating is also underwater, 56% to 39%, and at least half of the likely voters polled strongly disapprove of the Democrat.
Meanwhile, just 34% of the likely voters said as of this month they were ready to re-elect Hochul, while 59% said it was time for someone new.Pollster Landon Wall, of the firm Grayhouse, said his survey of 1,250 likely 2026 midterm voters reveals Hochul is in a "deeply vulnerable position."
In New Jersey, Jack Ciattarelli is tied with the sinking cheater and swindler Mikie Sherril. (Ignore Scott Pressler's typo about Ciatterelli being the governor of Pennsylvania.)
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