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In Astounding Coincidence the "Experts" Cannot Explain, US Oil Production Hits Record Highs as Gasoline Prices, Inexpicably, Fall to Lowest Levels Since the Chinese Engineered Bioweapon
Natural gas production also hit record highs in August before slipping a bit.
NEW YORK, Nov 28 (Reuters) - U.S. oil production rose to a record high in September, data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) on Friday showed, despite oversupply worries.
Oil production in the U.S. has continued to hit record highs this year despite a weak price environment, further weighing on global prices. Benchmark Brent crude was trading just below $64 on Friday, about 14% below the same time last year.
U.S. crude oil output rose 44,000 barrels per day during the month to a record 13.84 million bpd, according to EIA data.
In 2025, that all changed.
Oil output in New Mexico, the second-largest oil-producing state, hit a record 2.351 million bpd, while output from the federal offshore gulf region rose to 1.983 million bpd in September, the highest since February 2020.
Unaccountably, and probably due to Something The Democrats Did, gas prices are falling across the nation.
This week, there was a minor traffic accident in San Francisco. Two cars bumped into each other at low speed, and a third stopped for the accident and further blocked traffic. A mere nothing. This happens all the time, and we all know what happens next: the drivers exchange insurance information (and if they're thinking, they move their cars out of traffic first) and leave. Maybe they call the cops and file a report. But not this time.
This time, the three cars just sat there, deadlocked. Nobody moved, nobody talked, nobody took any action. This is because there was nobody to take action. No humans were involved. All three cars were autonomous vehicles operated by Waymo. Following the minor crash, none of them could figure out how to proceed and so just sat there, patiently waiting. They're good at that. Machines are very patient.
Eventually, someone (presumably from the company) came down and got things cleared up, but it exposed an obvious gap in how driverless cars handle fairly routine problems. In this case, the cars (or a car - the company's statement is unclear) got snarled up in a dead-end street and had a collision while one or more of them was trying to do a multi-point turn to get out of it. Per the company:
In a statement, Waymo officials said that while making a multi-point turn on a dead-end street, two Waymos made "minor contact at low speed."
"We are looking into this further, and when we encounter situations like this, we are able to learn from them and make improvements," a Waymo representative said.
Low points for clarity, but there we have it. A very simple problem left the machinery unable to respond effectively, so they just stopped. And blocked traffic.
A third Waymo, traveling downhill, is unable to get through.
Then a man comes out of his garage, dubbing the white cars stuck in the middle of the street as a "Waymo standoff."
"I'm just trying to get out of here," the man said ...
Yes, it's kinda funny. But it's also a great example of just how far all of this stuff has to go. Both vehicles were driverless and operated by the same company. This should be a "best-case scenario" for a collision. It's akin to you and your wife driving home and hitting each other in the driveway. Everybody knows everybody and can just move on. It's perhaps the simplest possible scenario - if humans are involved. Humans can come up with solutions like, "move the cars."
Machines can't. They need to be programmed to make decisions. This was clearly a decision-making condition that hadn't been adequately predicted or handled. There were several weird variables here. Both cars were driverless. There was a dead-end street. At least one of the cars was doing a complex maneuver. There was cross-traffic. Tricky indeed, unless you're a person. If you're a person, you can cut through it and go with, "there's only minor damage. Give me your info and let's move on with our lives." To a person, one minor wreck is much like another. Machines, not so much.
It's amazing that this stuff works at all, but incidents like this show just how complex the real world is, and how hard it is to deal with when you have to program ersatz intelligence into a machine with no real knowledge of the world. These are really hard problems to solve, and sometimes tiny little unpredictable problems expose that.
They also expose just how far away we are from the dream of autonomous vehicles. We're a long way off from "feel free to take a nap in the back seat while the car takes you home."
I hope team Trump will not try to seek redress in the courts, considering the judiciary is so utterly corrupt and stacked against him as well as the Constitution as founded. No, this quote-unquote "law" is a shot across the bow of the rule of a just and stable law as intended by the founders and demands only one response. A show of force that Prtizker, Johnson et al cannot resist. Along with the wielding of executive authority via the purse-strings to force them to cease and desist.
Pritzker’s signing of the bill comes after Illinois lawmakers passed the bill during the government shutdown, according to the New York Times. Under the bill, places like hospitals and daycare centers are restricted from sharing certain information with ICE agents.
While the legislation has been praised by Democrat lawmakers in the state, Republicans in the state, such as Illinois state Sen. John Curran (R), have taken “issue with the law’s ban on civil immigration enforcement at state courthouses or within 1,000 feet of those courthouses,” according to the outlet.
“We’re pushing this more and more, with these prohibitions, into uncontrolled settings,” Curran said. “And with uncontrolled settings, there are heightened risks.”
During a press conference on Tuesday for the signing of the bill, Pritzker claimed that “the Chicago region has been subjected to a relentless campaign of cruelty and intimidation and abuse at the hands of ICE” under the Trump administration.
Well the fat sleazy bastard needs to be ejected and imprisoned. But he is correct when he declared “the Chicago region has been subjected to a relentless campaign of cruelty and intimidation and abuse..."
Chicago could lose federal funding after a 26-year-old woman was set on fire on the city’s train system in what the Trump administration described as a “preventable attack.”
Federal Transit Administration Administrator Marc Molinaro sent letters on Monday to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Democrat Governor JB Pritzker, directing them to immediately enhance safety on public transportation. Molinaro said that officials had failed to take the necessary steps to keep the public safe.
It's a waste of time, energy and paper, gentlemen. Just cut off the funds until they cry uncle. Seriously, Jonson and Pritzker should be sharing a cell in a federal lockup for criminal malfeasance, endangering the public welfare and the fomenting of insurrection in openly calling for law enforcement to be resisted and issuing edicts to interfere with the lawful enforcement of our federal laws.
The modern expression of what psychiatrist Dr. Judith Orloff calls “toxic empathy,” is found in political terms, in order to express policy positions and actions that are suicidal in their effect. For example, “toxic empathy” includes protests and interference against officers tracking down criminal illegal aliens, and fabrications of charges and distortions of the law by the Dems, including military brass, attacking Trump and Hegseth. In other words, a partisan political weapon––one as narcissistic as virtue-signaling. . . This fantasy pretends that war can be something other than what Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest defined it: “War means fighting, and fighting means killing.” And what Abraham Lincoln called the “terrible arithmetic.”
The other reason to attack Hegseth at least in my view is that his is seen as a future MAGA leader who, in my estimation if he continues to burnish his credentials might have a real shot in the near-ish term for a Veep slot and then potentially a real shot to be POTUS and then continue the path charted by President Trump and please God whoever his successors may be, Vance, Huckabee Sanders, as both CBD and I would like to see as we have mused on recent podcasts, though YMMV or whomever. This of course notwithstanding the usual Democrat/Leftist criminality and election meshugas as well as the alarming trend towards socialism of the younger generations.
And speaking of podcasts, a new episode should be posting sometime around midday today so be on the lookout for that in the sidebar and the outlets listed below.
We'll just have to wait and see, as President Trump might say. Much rides on an improving economy that will be a crucial boost for the upcoming midterms and then two years from now to cap off the second half of Trump 2.0
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How the Hegseth smear exposes a civilization that cries for killers and handcuffs its defenders. Tears for Injun Joe
Victor Davis Hanson: It is hard now even for Democrats to defend illegal immigration, given that the Biden junta allowed in more than 10 million entrants. Among them were an estimated 500,000 criminals. No one believes that was wise or should ever be repeated. Citizens are fed up with Dem-invited migrants that have disdain for US law and culture
Ricardo Antonio Roman-Flores and Emilio Roman-Flores, both American citizens, were arrested in Absecon, New Jersey, after the pair allegedly threatened to kill McLaughlin and said they would “shoot ICE on sight” in social media posts. New Jersey Twin Brothers Charged with Threatening to Kill DHS Spokeswoman
While the legislation has been praised by Democrat lawmakers in the state, Republicans in the state, such as Illinois state Sen. John Curran (R), have taken “issue with the law’s ban on civil immigration enforcement at state courthouses or within 1,000 feet of those courthouses,” according to the outlet. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker Signs Bill Preventing ICE from Arresting Illegal Aliens near Courthouses (How is this legal? It isn't. Trump should immediately station ICE agents at every Illinois courthouse - jjs
Zohran Mamdani’s pledge to end homeless-encampment sweeps may thrill the activist Left, but it flouts New Yorkers’ preferences and threatens a showdown with President Trump. Tent City, Here We Come
“To introduce permanent renting is to take away political freedom. . . We can never be free from necessity when our place in the world is insecure.” A Nation of Subscribers
A fake airline heiress has landed on the FBI’s Most Wanted list after allegedly scamming multiple banks out of nearly $30 million by falsely posing as a family member of a multibillion-dollar aerospace empire. (Idea: shmear myself in rancid goulash wearing a swastika armband and traipse into JPM Chase as J.J. SOROS, talking like Zsa Zsa Gabor... Vinning my dahlink? - jjs) Fake aerospace empire heiress, 74, lands on the FBI’s Most Wanted list for defrauding millions from banks
Like the other thirty-odd copycat climate lawsuits filed by states and localities from Honolulu to my hometown of Charleston, Boulder’s suit weaponizes tort law to try to transform state courts into vehicles for deploying sweeping climate mandates. If Boulder gets its way, the casualties won’t be confined to the energy companies it endeavors to bankrupt; American consumers and the U.S. economy writ large will be caught in the crossfire. SCOTUS Can Stop Blue Cities From Forcing Energy Diktats On The Rest Of The Country
Fansly, described as a subscription-based platform where creators share exclusive content with fans, is a competitor to OnlyFans and allows creators to post content that is described as being “from mild to spicy.” The 24-hour video, uploaded on Friday to Twitch by internet personality Paymoney Wubby, was labeled “24 HOUR TAG PRESENTED BY Fansly,” showing four men playing a tag-style game while participating in game show activities, eating segments and other small tasks. California High School Hosted Adult Livestream With Drag Queens, Foot-Licking And A Mock Crucifixion
“A new survey from the Public Policy Institute of California finds that both the governor, a likely presidential candidate, and the heavily Democrat Legislature surged to majority support in the final months of this year,” reports the far-left Politico. “The approval jump comes after Newsom and fellow Democrats championed a gerrymandered new House map explicitly to counter Trump in next year’s midterm elections.” Gerrymander Scheme Boosts Gavin Newsom’s Favorability Rating in California
But what makes this resurfaced exchange even funnier is the timing. Months after recording that conversation, Gavin Newsom’s own “manhood” became a punchline following a widely circulated clip from the New York Times DealBook Summit. He is sitting awkwardly on stage, legs crossed in an odd, testicle-crushing pose. And then you have Tim Walz crying to the media about how Donald Trump called him “retarded.” This Viral Clip of Walz and Newsom Talking About 'Masculinity' is Comedy Gold
Crockett’s announcement came just hours after former Democratic Texas Rep. Colin Allred suspended his campaign to unseat Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn on Monday, saying he wanted to avoid a divisive primary that could weaken the eventual Democrat nominee. (RELATED: Failed Democrat Candidate Calls It Quits Hours Before Jasmine Crockett Makes Senate Announcement) Jasmine Crock(O'sh)ett’s Vain Senate Run Already Tearing Democrats Apart
But the Democrat’s victory wasn’t much of a nail-biter. Higgins had led Gonzalez 36% to 19% during the first round of voting amid a crowded field in November, and was the favorite to win this time. Still, her triumph in a city with a considerable Cuban population — a group that’s often swung right in the past — will be perceived as another ding in the GOP’s armor going into the 2026 midterms. Far left-wing reptilian-Muslim Zohran Mamdani’s ascension to New York City’s mayorship has also been perceived as a voter answer to Trump, as has a Tennessee US congressional special election that went Republican by far closer margins than had been expected. Democrat wins Miami mayoral race for first time in nearly 30 years, marking major GOP loss
I think it’s an important time to hold an election,” Trump said. “They’re using war not to hold an election, but, I would think the Ukrainian people would–should have that choice.” “And maybe Zelensky would win. I don’t know who would win, but they haven’t had an election in a long time. You know, they talk about a democracy, but it gets to a point where it’s not a democracy anymore,” he added. Trump Believes ‘It’s Time’ for Ukraine to Hold Presidential Election
There are ways to box in China. The question is whether the United States will actually do it. (should've nuked them back in '51 when we had the chance - jjs) What Do We Do About China?
What are the ethical concerns behind autonomous systems making their own decisions to take human life? Conversely, what are the benefits of being able to send unmanned systems into warzones in order to save the lives of American troops? Hegseth: AI Autonomous Warfighting Systems Are The Future, And They’ll Be Made In America (Meh, this too will ultimately be ooutsourced to the Chi-Coms like every other damned thing - jjs)
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
On Friday, Trump directed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and acting Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Jim O’Neill to conduct a review of vaccine schedules of peer nations like Japan and Denmark, which have fewer childhood vaccines on their schedules than the United States. If other developed countries’ childhood vaccine schedules are found to be superior, Kennedy and O’Neil are directed to align the United States’ schedule with them. Exclusive–Dr. Oz: ‘We’re Going to Kick the Tires’ on Childhood Vaccine Schedule
Even more important, the study doesn’t assume the future missions will be unmanned, as all previous NASA reports have done. In fact, it does the opposite, proposing multiple 30-day manned missions, as shown in the graphic. One set of three missions would go to three different locations, while another set of three missions would focus on one place in particular. Academia makes its first comprehensive attempt to plan science missions to Mars using Starship
In the hunt for other elements, the team used the Resolve instrument aboard XRISM to look at the remnant twice in December 2023. The researchers were able to pick out the signatures for chlorine and potassium, determining that the remnant contains ratios much higher than expected. Resolve also detected a possible indication of phosphorous, which was previously discovered in Cas A by infrared missions. New data detects potassium and chlorine in Cassiopeia supernova remnant
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Men are being emasculated by attention-seeking women bragging to their friends about going to see Christmas lights with a dude whose name they will not remember come next summer. Young men must stay frosty and avoid 'cuffing season'
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On December 10th, most major social media platforms will boot children in the country under 16 from their services. Under the law, social platforms will also need to implement a "reasonable" age verification method there - while critics argue kids will get around it anyway.
The critics are, of course, correct. The age restrictions are about as robust as The Verge's paywall.
Useful tidbit: SK Hynix - one of the big three memory makers - is investing $500 billion dollars in new factories, with the first set to go into operation in 2027.
Half a trillion dollars. That's a lot of money. Whether it will be enough is an open question, but I'm not sure we can criticise them for not expanding faster.
Which is good, because The Verge is squarely on the side of disinformation. They only get through two paragraphs here before they start actively lying.
In rural North Dakota, where neighbors are more like family, an incredible act of kindness unfolded after a beloved farmer’s sudden passing. Near the small town of Antler, dozens of farmers came together to make sure their friend’s final harvest was completed.
Randy Fyllesvold, a well-known farmer in the area, tragically lost his life in a crash near Maxbass back in September. Wanting to ease the burden on his family, friends and neighbors quickly stepped in. Led by Wyatt Thompson and Andy Gates, the group organized a large-scale harvest to gather Randy’s remaining crops — including soybeans, canola, and more than 1,000 acres of corn.
Earlier this month, roughly 75 volunteers, 12 combines, and help from more than 10 communities worked together to harvest about 1,400 acres of corn in just a matter of days. The effort required careful coordination and teamwork, including working with local grain elevators to handle the massive amount of crops coming in all at once. It was truly a “divide and conquer” operation — and it worked beautifully.
Randy’s widow, Kharra Fyllesvold, shared a deeply emotional message thanking everyone who showed up. She described the scene as “nothing short of breathtaking,” saying the sight of so many people harvesting her husband’s final crop was both heartbreaking and beautiful. Through their grief, she and her two sons felt overwhelmingly blessed by the love and support surrounding them.
"Thank you to each and every person that had a part of today. Special thanks to Andy Gates, Kevin Tyler, and Wyatt Thompson for organizing something I will never forget," she shared on Facebook.
Lotsa good folks in the upper midwest, don't ya know! Video clip at the link.
You sit on the floor for movie night, and just when you think your role is done, your toddler shuffles over and cuddles up next to you… so wholesome 🥹 pic.twitter.com/FolLesQ3UA
A Florida man faces multiple charges after he told police he had a “dirty bomb” in his truck following a crash, according to a news release.
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According to the release, officers made contact with the driver, identified as 43-year-old Benjamin Donald Johnson, who refused multiple commands to exit the vehicle. Officers physically removed Johnson from the truck, where multiple firearms were seen in plain view.
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“Through investigation with the assistance of representatives from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, ATF, and an FBI bomb technician, it was advised that the device inside of the yellow container was a Moisture Density Gauge, which is commonly used for soil testing and contained less radioactivity than a medical x-ray,” the release said in part.
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In addition, a search of Johnson’s truck a led to police finding a “multitude of firearms and ammunition,” firearm magazine speed loaders, thermal scopes, knives, a battering ram, night-vision goggles, cannabis, and gummies that tested positive for THC.
Go big or go home, right?
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Ripped From The Headlines
The algorithm keeps giving me this stuff, so I have to share it with you!
Everybody farts, and we are okay with that, even when they smell a little off.
But a 1998 study concluded that, on average, women’s gas smelt worse than men's for a pretty simple reason.
Dr Michael Levit, a gastroenterologist, conducted the study way back then and managed to get a reputation as the ‘king of farts’ for his work.
So how did the study work?
Well, the doctor recruited 16 healthy adults with no history of gastrointestinal issues and had each of them strap on a ‘flatus collection system’, which is basically a rectal tube connected to a bag.
While it is estimated that people fart up to 23 times a day, the doctor didn’t fancy waiting around for those moments.
Instead, participants chowed down on pinto beans and took a laxative, with researchers collecting their farts.
These farts were then analyzed as researchers ran a gas chromatographic–mass spectroscopic test to figure out what was essentially inside those bags.
"Flatus collection system"?? A vanvera?!? After pinto beans and a laxative?? How much would you have to be paid to be a sniffer / judge in this experiment?
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OK - one more related item, then hopefully I won't have any more of this type of content. At least for this year.
What's the common thread / common meaning / common leitmotif?
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Andrew Stiles has expert reaction to Newsom's "Crotch Clutch" manner of sitting.
Newsom baffled experts who assessed that his posture appeared to defy the conventional scientific understanding of the human form. Gender scholars were just as perplexed. Several noted that Newsom, despite being born a male, was exhibiting a form of self-compressed emasculation or "crotch clench," while conveying an unmistakably female-coded body language. Political historians argued that Newsom's unusual posture was characteristic of failed candidates and sniveling cowards. It was, these experts contended, the seated equivalent of former President Obama's obsequious bow.
That is why American voters could never trust Newsom to stand up to "wide-stance" authoritarian rivals such as Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping.
He is certainly no match for Donald Trump, and no amount of snarky tweets is going to change that.
Did you hear the news? Super-masculine and Fiercely Heterosexual lisping theater kid Cory Booker got "married" to a "woman" he just happened to meet and fall madly, heterosexually in love with a couple of weeks after he decided to run for president again.
Must just be Fiercely Heterosexual Cupid timing things perfectly!
Cory Booker Obtains Female Wife in Boost to 2028 White House Bid
Notorious bachelor ties the knot in 'private' ceremony shared exclusively with the New York Times
Cory Booker married a female woman over the weekend, closing the book on idle speculation about a man often described as "the Leonardo DiCaprio of American politics." The Democratic senator from New Jersey wed his recently acquired fiancée, Alexis Lewis, at an intimate ceremony in Washington, D.C., over the weekend. The move satisfies a major public relations need for Booker and arrives with exquisite timing as he prepares to launch his 2028 presidential campaign.
The happy couple shared exclusive details about their relationship and "private" wedding ceremony with the New York Times. Booker, 56, and Lewis, 38, reportedly met in May 2024, several weeks after the senator pre-launched his White House bid with a record-breaking (and utterly pointless) filibuster that went viral on Bluesky. Most Democrats celebrated Booker's stunt even though they denounced the filibuster as a "Jim Crow relic" that should be abolished.
Booker, who has described himself as "Spartacus," met his future bride through a "mutual friend known for matchmaking." Knowledgeable sources tell the Washington Free Beacon that the mutual friend is Anna Wintour, the fashion maven and Democratic megadonor who orchestrated the brief "romance" between Bradley Cooper, the Hollywood beefcake, and Huma Abedin, the longtime personal servant of Hillary Clinton. Wintour also hosted an engagement party for Abedin and Democratic billionaire Alex Soros in 2024.
After their first meeting, the couple enjoyed a second date that Booker, a normal adult male, described as "magical."
Read the whole thing. Stiles is obviously impressed by the sheer force of Cory Booker's fiercely heterosexual desire for this rando woman supplied to him by a gay icon.
First-year U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego of Arizona is facing intensified scrutiny after leaked text messages showed the Democrat deriding the appearance of women and men in his own party. The comments mirror far-right rhetoric about gender and deepen concerns about his recent repositioning on LGBTQ+ issues.
In the messages, first circulated by a conservative outlet and reported by People last week Gallego, who started his first term in the U.S. Senate in January after previously serving in the House, complained that Democrats are "not allowing men to be men" or "women to be hot," and wrote, "Dem women look like Dem men and Dem men look like women." He also lamented that Democrats had become "the not fun party" and no longer embodied "sex, drugs, and rock and roll."
No lies detected.
Below, two Men's Men talk about manly things like fixin' trucks and coachin' football and, of course, what men always talk about -- our gender identities.
Tim Walz: "I think I scare them a little bit [on masculinity]... My identity is not hunting, my identity is not football coaching, my identity is not a beard and a truck."pic.twitter.com/EmquLbhHQ1
Trump Chief of Staff Suzie Wiles Promises That Trump Will Campaign In 2026 Like It's His Name on the Ballot
—Ace
Which it effectively is. Trump's impeachment begins one minute after a new Democrat House is installed.
President Trump is gearing up to storm the 2026 midterm map, with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles saying Monday that the president is preparing to hit the trail with the same force and stamina he brought to his 2024 comeback run. Appearing on "The Mom View," a YouTube show from Moms for America, Wiles said Trump is already laying the groundwork to help Republicans hold the House and expand their Senate edge -- and that he plans to do it the only way he knows how: by showing up everywhere.
"I haven't quite broken it to him yet, but he's going to campaign like it's 2024 again," Wiles said with a laugh, describing a president who remains the GOP's most powerful turnout magnet. "All these people that he helps -- he doesn't help everybody -- but for those he does, he's a difference maker, and he's certainly a turnout machine."
Wiles, who managed Trump's victorious 2024 bid, said the White House is deliberately rejecting the old playbook that urged presidents to stay out of midterms and let local candidates dominate the spotlight. Instead, she said, Trump will insert himself directly into the fight -- a sharp pivot meant to energize the voters who showed up for him last November.
"Typically in the midterms, it's not about who's sitting at the White House. You localize the election, and you keep the federal officials out of it," she said. "We're actually going to turn that on its head, and put him on the ballot, because so many of those low-propensity voters are Trump voters."
She pointed to recent Democrat wins -- capped by the shock election of socialist Zohran Mamdani as New York City mayor -- as a warning of what happens when Trump isn't out front driving Republican enthusiasm. "We saw what happens when he's not on the ballot and not active," she said.
The national average for a gallon of unleaded gasoline slipped below the $3 mark this week, continuing a months-long trend that's easing pressure on drivers heading into the Christmas season. New data from GasBuddy shows the average price falling to just under $3, fueled by what analysts describe as broad declines across most regions of the country. The update notes the national average is down 17.6 cents from a month ago and 7.3 cents from this time last year, based on more than 12 million price reports pulled from over 150,000 stations nationwide. Diesel prices also dipped, dropping another 5.1 cents to $3.671.
Patrick De Haan, GasBuddy's head of petroleum analysis, said Monday that the country is "now at multi-year lows heading into Christmas" and predicted prices will hold steady through the early weeks of the new year. AAA's latest survey reached the same conclusion, pegging the national average at roughly $2.952 on Monday -- down from $3.001 a week ago and $3.073 a month ago.
Drivers across the South and Midwest are seeing some of the steepest savings. Oklahoma's statewide average sits around $2.36, Texas is hovering near $2.50, and Missouri is clocking in at roughly $2.61. Florida, Alabama, both Carolinas, Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, and Montana have all fallen below the $3 line as well. But coastal blue states continue to stand out on the other end of the spectrum. California's statewide average remains an eye-popping $4.46 -- about $1.57 higher than the national price -- with New York, Washington, Hawaii, and Nevada all posting averages above $3.
🚨NEW: Susie Wiles says Trump will "CAMPAIGN LIKE IT'S 2024 AGAIN" for Midterms🚨
"He'll work very hard to keep the majority ... Nobody can outwork him. So there's every reason to be confident — but we have to actually get it done."@DailyCallerpic.twitter.com/C4GevJYCxH
"Intentional Negligence"? FBI Had J6 Bomber's Cell Phone Putting Him at the Scene of the Crime... Five Years Ago
—Ace
If the FBI had cell phone records of 10,000 people's cell phones sending signals from near the RNC and DNC on the night the bombs were planted, I could understand not finding the suspect. With a suspect list of 10,000 people, I guess I could understand the claim, "We just didn't have the manpower to run down every phone."
Guess how many cell phones they actually had records of in the vicinity of the RNC and DNC at the time when the bombs were being planted?
Fewer than 200.
No, i do not believe the FBI "just didn't have the resources" to look into 186 suspects -- not when they showed they could mobilize every agent to track down every grandma within ten blocks of the Capitol on January 6th.
Surely there's more to it than that. Director Kash Patel hinted Friday at a reason the FBI under Biden administration Director Christopher Wray may not have wanted to solve the case: "intentional negligence."
'Corrupted' cell data
This, after all, was the FBI that managed to round up and charge 1,500 supporters of President Trump who set foot anywhere vaguely near the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, tracking them down through cellphone pings and video footage.
Yet with all its technical ability, Wray's FBI somehow missed the phone used by the suspect in the vicinity of the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee headquarters on the evening of Jan. 5 when the pipe bombs were planted. Surveillance footage shows the suspect, wearing a gray hoodie and COVID-style white mask, seemingly talking on the phone while walking around that night less than half a mile from the Capitol.
According to an FBI document presented to the DC District Court during his arraignment Friday, Cole's cellphone "engaged in approximately seven data session transactions with [his cellphone provider's] towers between 7:39 p.m. and 8:24 p.m. ... in the area of the RNC and DNC on January 5, 2021," locating him in the right place at the right time.
That information was obtained by the FBI within weeks of the discovery of the pipe bombs the next day. Investigators found 186 cellphone numbers "of interest" and 130 "devices of interest," according to the congressional report released this January by the chairmen of the House Oversight and Judiciary subcommittees, Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.).
By early February 2021, according to the subcommittees, FBI agents had been assigned to interview people associated with 36 of the 186 phone numbers; 98 still "required additional investigative steps." A further 51 phone numbers were identified as "not needing further action" because, curiously enough, the phones "belong[ed] to law enforcement officers or persons on the exclusion list."
The FBI never told Congress what came of those leads.
They only bothered looking into 36 of the 186 phone numbers?
Let me guess - the 36 they looked into were Trump supporting Republicans, right?
Then there is the curious tale of the "corrupted" cellphone data that turned out not to be corrupted at all.
The story came from Steve D'Antuono, head of the FBI's Washington field office until his retirement in December 2022, who was in charge of the crucial first year of the pipe bomb case as well as the Capitol riot investigation, which has been described as the biggest in FBI history.
He was assigned to Washington one month before the 2020 election from his previous role in Detroit, when he ran the disastrous Gretchen Whitmer "fednapping" case that resulted in multiple mistrials and acquittals, amid claims of FBI entrapment of patsies.
D'Antuono, who has since found a job at KPMG, also led the controversial FBI raid on Trump's home, Mar-a-Lago, in August 2022. He claims he opposed the raid but was overruled by then-Deputy FBI Director Paul Abbate.
In any case, in June 2023, D'Antuono testified before Congress, claiming that the FBI had received "corrupted data" in the pipe bomb case from one of the three major cellphone carriers and that may have been the reason it couldn't find the culprit.
"We did a complete geofence. [But] there's some data that was corrupted by one of the providers, not purposely by them," he said.
"It just [was an] unusual circumstance that we have corrupt data from one of the providers ... I can't remember right now which one. But for that day, which is awful because we don't have that information to search. So could it have been that provider? Yeah, with our luck, you know, with this investigation it probably was, right."
Yet all three of the cellphone carriers contacted by Loudermilk's subcommittee confirmed that they "did not provide corrupted data to the FBI and that the FBI never notified them of any issues with accessing the cellular data."
It gets worse. The FBI didn't release any pictures of the suspect that could identify him -- and one investigator claims that the FBI deliberately blurred out the one part of his face that was clearly visible in the surveillance footage, his eyes.
Why would they do that, if not to conceal his identity?
I don't know if I'm ready to believe that. It's a claim made by someone looking at the video and determining that he sees "pixelation" added to the video to obscure Brian Cole, Jr.'s eyes. I remember other claims about "chromatic aberrations" not turning out to be true.
But I would like this investigated further.
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But by the end of February 2021, according to Loudermilk and Massie's report, the bureau actively began diverting resources away from the pipe bomb investigation. At the same time, Wray and Abbate were ramping up resources to track down and aggressively prosecute trespassing J6 grandmothers.
Miranda Divine concludes that the political operators of the FBI didn't want to taint their Trump Did the J6 Insurrection narrative with any information that might undermine it, and started winding down the investigation when it looked like the main suspect was not a MAGA grandma.
ABC has extended Jimmy Kimmel's show for at least one year after the late-night comedian was suspended in September for his controversial comments about Charlie Kirk's assassin, The Post has learned.
"Jimmy Kimmel Live!" will continue to air on the Disney-owned network until at least May 2027 under the new deal, a source told The Post.
Kimmel, 58 -- whose current contract expires in May 2026 -- told his staff on Monday that the show was renewed, according to Bloomberg, which earlier reported the news.
The agreement was reached months ago, but Kimmel and Disney held off making the announcement out of respect for late-night host Stephen Colbert, according to the report.
Oh, the agreement was reached during the woke freak-out? Not surprising at all.
CBS in May announced Colbert's show would end in May 2026, and Kimmel did not want to leave at the same time as Colbert, the report said.
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His suspension came just a few hours after FCC Chairman Brendan Carr warned the network and Disney that "we can do this the easy or the hard way."
As I said at the time: Carr does in fact have the right to threaten that. There is a category of show called a "bona fide news program" which is allowed to be partisan without any "equal time" requirements. Any show that is not a "bona fide news program" cannot openly propagandize for a party without invoking the still-existing "equal time" rules.
Obviously Jimmy Kimmel (and The View) are emphatically not "bona fide news programs" so they either have to be balanced and avoid outright lying or else the GOP is entitled to run their own "equal time" propaganda shows on ABC's airwaves.
"There will be a marble bust of me in Congress. I am a historic figure like any Vice President of the United States ever was." 🤣 pic.twitter.com/EQWLjgnlQO
Via Ed Driscoll of Instapundit, who links it with the amazing quote of this historic figure: "It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day."
More amazing wisdom from this Philosopher Poet:
“It is time for us to do what we have been doing and that time is every day…”
Paramount/Skydance Launches Hostile Takeover Bid for Warner Bros.
—Ace
For those just joining the story in progress:
David Ellison -- son of the Oracle founder and multibillionaire Larry Ellison, and himself worth millions -- owned Skydance, and then used that company to purchase one of the smaller major studios, Paramount.
Then he made a bid to buy Warner Bros. studios from Warner Discovery. That offer was rejected. Then Warner Bros. advertised that it was for sale and would entertain other offers.
Netflix made a bid to buy it, and this bid was accepted.
By management, I mean.
David Ellison still wants Warner Bros. So he's making a hostile takeoever bid. That just means that unlike the Netflix bid which was arranged with the current management of Warner Discovery and has their blessing, this bid is made against current mangement's wishes and so is "hostile" to their intentions.
But it's the shareholders who get to decide. Ellison is offering shareholders a competing bid.
Ellison's bid is $30 per share, in cash. Neflix's bid is for less cash per sale -- $27 -- but shareholders would also get shares in whatever spin-off corporation they create out of the the parts of Warner Discovery they don't want. Which is I think the "Discovery" part, all the cable channels like The Murder Channel (aka Investigative Discovery or ID).
Paramount Skydance is launching a hostile bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery after it lost out to Netflix
in a monthslong bidding war for the legacy assets, the company said Monday.
Paramount will go straight to WBD shareholders with an all-cash, $30 per share offer. That's the same bid WBD rejected last week and equates to an enterprise value of $108.4 billion.
The offer is backstopped with equity financing from the Ellison family and the private equity firm RedBird Capital as well as $54 billion in debt commitments from Bank of America, Citi and Apollo Global Management, Paramount said in a news release.
A portion of the equity financing comes from outside Middle Eastern financing partners including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, Abu Dhabi's L'imad Holding Company PJSC, and the Qatar Investment Authority. Another portion derives from Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners. Kushner is U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law.
Those partners have agreed to "forgo any governance rights," including board seats, as part of their non-voting equity investment, according to a Paramount filing. The modifications allow the deal to be outside of the jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., or CFIUS.
Shares of Paramount gained 9% Monday. Warner Bros. Discovery's shares rose about 4% while Netflix was down 3%.
"We're really here to finish what we started," Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison told CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" on Monday. "We put the company in play."
There are antitrust questions about any mergers between tech giants, of course. I think the Netflix bid will face more scrutiny, because while Netflix makes movies, it makes movies for streaming, not for exhibition in physical theaters. Yes, sometimes it exhibits a movie in theaters but only in a small number of theaters and only for a weekend or two before it puts it on Netflix exclusively. (They chiefly show movies in theaters just to meet the minimum requirements for theatrical exhibition to qualify them for the Oscars and such.)
So what antitrust lawyers in the government will be looking at is not just the diminution in competition that will occur if one media company swallows up another one, but the real possibility that if Netflix buys Warner Bros. it will use Warner Bros. movie production to make movies for its streaming service, not for theaters.
And antitrust lawyers do not like it when a reduction of competition in one industry causes disruptions in another industry.
And yes, movie production is a separate industry form movie exhibition. In fact, it was antitrust action by the government that forced this separation -- movie studios used to own their own movie theaters and play their movies in their own theaters. But the government considered this illegal vertical integration and forced the movie companies to sell their theaters to independent owners.
I don't think Netflix will be necessarily blocked from buying Warner Bros. A common result in these cases is that the government approves the merger but extracts a promise from the merged company that it will not take certain steps. Like Netflix would agree that it would continue showing Warner Bros. movies in physical theaters.
(Though that's hard to police -- Netflix could just move a lot of Warner Bros. production to the Netflix production side of things and just produce few official "Warner Bros."-branded movies.)
I think the NFL's monopoly on professional football was allowed only because the NFL agreed to never schedule games on Saturday when college teams were playing, to avoid using the professional football monopoly to damage the college football market.
This is a very perilous time for theatrical exhibitors. Hollywood is producing crap movies and consequently exhibitors don't have much product to show that the public is willing to pay for. Any reduction in the number of movies going to physical theaters could, possibly, kill the industry, or cull half of all movie theaters.
I don't know what the government will decide.
David Ellison is reportedly trying to induce Trump to block the Netflix buyout by promising that if he gets hold of Warner Bros. -- and its failing "news" channel CNN -- he'll remake CNN into a fair and balanced network.
Paramount CEO David Ellison assured Trump officials that if the government OKs his company's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) he would overhaul the president's media arch nemesis -- CNN.
Netflix announced last Friday it reached a deal to acquire Warner and HBO properties for $72 billion - but Paramount immediately launched a hostile counterbid, taking its case directly to shareholders.
The Netflix-WBD merger is facing a stiff challenge from Paramount, whose majority shareholder is the billionaire Donald Trump ally, Oracle founder Larry Ellison.
On Monday, Paramount made its move, offering $77.9 billion in all-cash and urging Warner shareholders to reject the Netflix deal.
On a recent visit to Washington, DC, Ellison's son David told Trump's team he would impose sweeping changes at CNN if he purchased its parent company WBD, sources told the Wall Street Journal.
David's father Larry discussed firing hosts like Erin Burnett and Brianna Keilar - figures Trump dislikes - with White House officials during takeover bid talks last month, the Guardian reported.
Is that true? No idea. I do know that if you really were making this offer you would want to do it privately, not publicly, with the Wall Street Journal notified. Because the president isn't supposed to approve or nix mergers based on his personal or political self-interest. By making this supposed offer so public, it basically stops Trump from even considering taking the alleged "deal."
It could be that Netflix, not Ellison, is pushing this story out there to pressure Trump to approve their own bid.
Leftwing movie review Grace Randolf claimed that Warner Discovery shareholders are faced with two repellent options -- accept Netlix's deal and "kill the theater business," or accept Ellison's deal and (horrors!) put two movie studios under the control of a "conservative" man friendly to Trump.
The fact that she sees each of these possibilities as equally calamitous is what makes me think it's plausible that members of the left will just lie to stop Ellison from acquiring Warner Bros., and push Fake News stories about Ellison offering to fire Kaitlin Collins if Trump blocks Netflix's bid and approves his own. The left was horrified that Paramount was bought by (horror!) a conservative. It is offended and horrified that the much-bigger Warner Bros. might be purchased by the same conservative man.
Any thoughts? Do you buy this very-public offer of bribery to Trump from David Ellison?
I don't know about you, but if I were bribing the president, I would probably do it quietly.
Through a trusted intermediary.
Such as... well, as the article noted, Jared Kushner is part of the group putting up billions to back Ellison's bid.
So instead of just quietly telling Kushner to carry that message to his father-in-law, everyone blabs about it to the Wall Street Journal?
Seems unlikely to me. Sounds more like political partisans or Netflix executives trying to poison Parmount's pill so that Warner Discovery can't swallow it.
The job post for LanceSoft, an IT staffing firm committed to "diversity, equality, and inclusivity," began innocently enough.
The $60-per-hour role would be based in Santa Clara, Calif., focus on "technical support," and entail a 3--10 p.m. shift. Posted on Nvoids, an IT jobs aggregator, the ad described LanceSoft as an equal opportunity employer and said that the firm, one of the largest staffing agencies in the country, strives "to be as diverse as the clients and employees we partner with."
"We embrace people of any race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender identity, and sexual orientation," the Nov. 25 post read.
This particular job, however, would not be open to a very large group of people: citizens of the United States.
In a section titled "Visa requirement," LanceSoft recruiter Riyaz Ansari wrote that "candidates must hold an active H1B visa"--and stated explicitly that American citizens need not apply.
"No USC/GC for this role," Ansari wrote, using the acronyms for U.S. citizens and green card holders. He added that "LanceSoft is a certified Minority Business Enterprise"--a status the firm has used to secure public contracts--and touted the company's "diversified team environment."
Federal law bars employers from discriminating based on citizenship status. But in the industries most reliant on the H-1B program, which provides visas to more than 700,000 immigrants, advertisements like LanceSoft's litter online recruiting boards.
The Washington Free Beacon identified over two dozen job postings since 2024 that appear to bar applications from U.S. citizens. The posts were made on a variety of platforms, including Glassdoor and LinkedIn, and typically indicate a preference for H-1B visas, though some allow for other visa types as well. Several of the firms are minority-owned businesses, meaning they receive preferential access to government contracts even as they exclude U.S. workers.
The posts illustrate what Trump administration officials say is a common form of hiring discrimination that has long been underpoliced. They come as conservatives are debating the merits of the H-1B visa program, which some argue has been abused by employers to hire foreign workers--especially Indian outsourcers--at the expense of American ones.
"A shocking number of covered entities, especially recruiters, continue to express explicit preferences for visa guest workers," said Andrea Lucas, the chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). "In the shadows of under-enforcement, this type of discrimination has festered."
Read the whole thing.
Trump needs to put together a squad of employment-discrimination Untouchables and begin suing these companies into bankruptcy.
Below: The owner of a small construction company in Louisiana says that his phone is ringing off the hook now that illegal alien construction workers aren't showing up for work due to fears of being deported. With the illegals being deported, actual US citizens are getting hired again.
As he says: This shows "just how bad" it's gotten. It's no longer the case that illegals are hired to supplement or fill out a work force. No, they've completely pushed out almost all US citizens from entire industries.
Jasmine Ratchet Makes It Official: She's Running to Win the Primary to Lose the Election for Texas Senator
—Ace
Remember the Atlantic's profile of her, revealing her to be an absolutely self-obsessed narcissist? That the lock screen of her phone shows a glamor shot of her smiling chubby face?
Her video announcement for her candidacy also focuses on her self-believed beauty.
Oh, and Trump knocking her as "low IQ," which she says proves the GOP is terrified of her charisma and power. It's a variation of the Rush Limbaugh chestnut "They'll tell you who they fear," which I never believed, and I sure don't believe it as regards Jasmine Ratchet.
Her announcement press opportunity featured her coining the terms "Crocket Crew," for her supporters, who she claims will paint Texas blue.
She also said she could deliver victories and results via "the JC way," which I guess supposedly means "Jasmine Crocket," but it sure sounds like she conflates herself with Jesus Christ. Which is, mwah, very on-brand for her. Her media strategy remains fixed on the Perfection of Jasmine. And you always want to have a clear media message.
She also babbled about Trump and Greg Abbott not being able to keep her name out of their mouths -- I gotta tell you, I hate this particular black cliché -- proves that they understand she is The One.
And of course: The most notorious narcissist in politics claims "This was never about me."
Sure.
JUST IN: Jasmine Crockett starts crying during her announcement that she is running for the United States Senate.
"I just want to be clear that this was never my intention. This was never about me. I never put myself into any of the polls."
Jasmine Crockett kicks off TX Senate bid: “There are those that say ain’t no way, we done tried it 50 times already. Let me be clear, y’all ain’t never tried it the JC way!" pic.twitter.com/XADIiCuVCW
It's so easy to blame the Democrat machine for this ridiculous outcome, but the reality is that it is the feckless, spineless, gutless, traitorous Republican leadership in the United States Senate that is holding up confirmations.
The Democrats are doing what they always do...use every means at their disposal (fair or foul) and vote as a bloc to deny even obviously qualified and competent nominees to be confirmed. Yes, the Republicans will occasionally use some of the same maneuvers, but in general, as we can see by the flood of hard-left lunatic judges on the federal bench, that it is the Democrat Party that always uses whatever power is available to it.
President Trump had tapped Habba, who previously served as his personal attorney and later a White House advisor, for the role in an acting capacity in March.
Trump blamed the Senate tradition of blue slips for Habba’s inability to be confirmed to a permanent post, given the power of home state senators — in this case, New Jersey — to object to nominees before the Judiciary Committee. He urged Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to no longer honor the practice.
“It’s a very sad situation. We’re losing … a lot of great people,” Trump said of Democrats’ objections. “We have about seven US attorneys who are not going to be able to keep their jobs much longer because of the blue slip.”
Oh yes! The "Blue Slip!" Is it a law? No.
It is tradition, nothing more. You know, the same tradition that allows congressmen to pull fire alarms, and suggest that violence against ICE personnel is appropriate, and molest congressional pages, and enrich themselves with insider trading, and allow pimps to operate out of their homes, and to sexually harass at will, and molest and rape and who knows what else...all without penalty.
President Trump needs to make this a priority, and push the Senate to ignore the blue slips and go full steam ahead with every single one of his nominations for every position available. Thom Tillis, the consummate GOPe apparatchik, supports this tradition, and has considerable clout. Until the Senate is cleansed of him and others like him (backstabbing corporate shills), this will be a constant issue. To avoid the blue slip in committee, the Senate requires a "discharge petition," whatever that is, and that is a 60 vote hurdle that will never happen.
This is a constant reminder that it isn't just a majority that is important in the Senate...getting rid of pathetic RINO senators is far more important than simply electing any Republican without a live boy or a dead girl in the back seat. That's how we get Tillis and Collins and Cornyn and Murkowski and....
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Shout Your Abortion has been promoting a book aimed at children five to eight years old called “Abortion is Everything,” which will begin shipping to purchasers in January 2026. A description on the organization’s website says the book tells children “about what abortion is, how it might feel, and why people have abortions.”
Stories like this remind me of that line from Apocalypse Now that charging someone for murder out here is like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500
The underlying rationale of this vile tract and its purveyors, ipso facto turns Josef Mengele into an Olympian Deity, nein? He helped abort hundreds of thousands of 5-8 year olds, and 1-100 year-olds.
Still, the act of abortion itself along with the concomitant devaluing of human life and the reduction of the individual to insignificance, and merely as part of some mass that is to be shaped and molded at the whim of who or whatever sits at the top of that mass, is the sine qua non of the Left as well as its current partner in the Axis of Evil, ISLAM.
We are dealing with people in our midst, be they imported foreigners or worse native born citizens, who see themselves as on a mission from God, or Karl Marx, and given the SUPER DUPER POWER of moral superiority to Lord over and therefore weed out all of us who do not submit to their will to perfect Humanity in their image. Because they are Super Duper Supermen as the late great Spike Jones once crooned (about "Der Furher's Face")
Trump v. Slaughter, about the removal of an FCC commissioner with the unfortunate ‘slaughter’ name, looks set to roll back more of the bureaucratic state.
“You’re asking us to destroy the structure of government and to take away from Congress its ability to protect its idea that the government is better structured with some agencies that are independent,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor complained.
Well yes. Destroying the structure of a gargantuan government with unlimited powers and no constitutional basis is an essentially conservative project.
Independence from elected officials also means independent of the electorate. That’s the realm of philosopher kings. And these days the philosopher kings are all lefties. That’s not to say that there shouldn’t be more limitations on executive power. There should. And Congress should exercise more oversight over the monstrous size and power of the government. But the solution isn’t a fake independence, it’s direct engagement, and the ability of the public to also litigate when its interests are legitimately threatened.
Bingo to the estimable Daniel Greenfield. While the wide-ass Wiseass Latina was at least accidentally honest in proclaiming the existence of "independent agencies" that essentially form an unelected and virtually unaccountable fourth branch of govvernment that via its abilities to issue regulations that carry with them the force of law if they are disobeyed, completely contrary to the founding of this nation and the reason why this nation declared its independence in the first place by breaking away from a totalitarian overbearing tyrannical monarchy.
During an exchange with U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer, Jackson expressed confusion about the Trump administration’s argument that, as she summarized, these independent agencies “aren’t answering to Congress.” Under the current constitutional framework, she reasoned, “Congress established them and can eliminate them. Congress funds them and can stop.”
. . .“So,” Jackson continued, “having a president come in and fire all the scientists, and the doctors, and the economists, and the Ph.D.s, and replacing them with loyalists and people who don’t know anything is actually not in the best interest of the citizens of the United States. This is what I think Congress’s policy decision is when it says that ‘these certain agencies we’re not going to make directly accountable to the president.’ So, I think there’s a pretty significant danger that Congress has actually identified and cares about when it determines that these issues should not be in presidential control.”
She's not only a clueless, rude imbecile, but utterly ignorant of the Constitution that she allegedly studied, which forms or is supposed to form the basis of our entire legal and governmental system. Or is she really clueless? No, it's more nefarious. To the extent that Leftists study American law and our traditions and precedents, they do so to more effectively use them as weapons to enslave us and wrest absolute power.
It's why Adolph Eichmann learned Hebrew, So as to better be able to ultimately destroy Europe's and ultimately the world's Jews.
Psaki-Psircling back to my remarks on that abortion story. Sotomayor and Jackson are part of that group that view themselves as intellectually, morally and perhaps evolutionarily superior to the rest of us, and therefore do what they do with a smugness reflected in the slogan on the belt buckles of the SS troops "Gott Mit Uns" God is with us, or more likely in the case of the Left, We Are God.
And one way or another, God has a way of dealing with apostates. Soon enough we are all going to find out which one is which.
In the handful of establishment media stories that bothered to cover the arrest of Luqmaan Khan at all, most make no mention at all regarding Khan’s immigration status. Only WHYY, which operates in Philadelphia and its environs, including Delaware, bothers to note that Khan was born in Pakistan, and is now a citizen of the United States. In other words, he is another indication that Trump, for all the abuse he is getting for terming some migrants “garbage,” was entirely correct.
NBC Philadelphia reportedTuesday that the drama began at 11:47 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 24, when “police initiated a traffic stop after Khan was, allegedly found operating a white Toyota Tacoma in Canby Park West after hours.” When the cops stopped him, Khan was “visibly nervous.” Police ordered Khan to step out of his car, but he refused and resisted arrest.
Once police searched his car, they could see why Khan was so uncooperative: “In an investigation into the vehicle, police said, officers discovered a loaded .357 Glock handgun with 27 rounds of ammunition, along with three additional fully loaded 27-round magazines. Police also found ammunition for a 9mm handgun along with an armored ballistic plate in the vehicle.”
Along with that, the cops found “a notebook in the vehicle that included handwritten details of additional weapons and ammunition and how they could be used in an attack.” This notebook was filled with “information on how someone could hide from law enforcement following such an attack.” It also “referenced a member of the University of Delaware Police Department by name and included a layout of a building with entry and exit points marked.” That map bore the label “UD Police Station.”
As Captain Kirk might say KHAAAAAAN!!!!"
We're at the point of a Khan almost every other day of the week now.
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The deportations align with the Trump administration’s intensified focus on enforcing immigration laws and reversing illegal immigration. They come despite heightened tensions between the U.S. and Iran, with President Donald J. Trump having ordered strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities in June. Trump Increases Deportations of Iranians.
If Monday’s Supreme Court argument is any indication, the days of “independent” agencies acting as a fourth branch of government are numbered. In Trump v. Slaughter, a solid majority of the justices seemed ready to confirm what the Constitution already implies: If an official is exercising executive power, the elected president has to be able to say, “You’re fired.” Supreme Court win for Trump in FTC case would restore the Founders’ design
Christopher Bernardini, a former “billing guru” at Gateway Community Services, said that the company falsified documents to obtain payment from Maine’s Medicaid program for services to low-income and disabled clients, NewsNation reported. Abdullahi Ali, the owner of the company, reportedly ran for office in Jubaland, a region of Somalia, and boasted about funding a militia there, according to The Maine Wire. (RELATED: Minnesota Democrats Attempted To Derail GOP Lawmaker Discussing Somali Scandal Months Before Story Blew Up) Whistleblower Claims Somalians Committed Mass Medicaid Fraud In Maine
“The national average is down 17.6 cents from a month ago and is 7.3 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The national average price of diesel has fallen 5.1 cents in the last week and stands at $3.671 per gallon,” according to the update, which noted that it gleaned its data from “12 million individual price reports covering over 150,000 gas stations across the country.” Winning: U.S. Average Gas Price Dips Again, Under $3 a Gallon
Multnomah County prosecutors charged Gary Edwards, 43, with second-degree assault for the July 7 knife attack on Gregory Howard Jr. near the Union Station MAX stop, according to Oregon Live. Edwards faced five years and 10 months in state prison under Oregon’s Measure 11 sentencing law. Edwards testified he acted in self-defense after Howard yelled the slur at him. Howard denied using the word before the stabbing. Portland Jury Decides Stabbing White People Is Okay If They Use A Racial Slur
MSNSDAP's ousted DEI host, Joy Reid has the audacity to call America's founding fathers "leeches" after bragging that she got into every Ivy league, because of their race-based Affirmative Action quotas. Joyless Reid Calls America’s Founders Leeches
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
The end of the technocratic illusion and its eco-socialist command system arrives the moment the first domino in the debt chain falls. The Eco-Socialist Dream Is Going to End Ugly
Christians at COP30 risk preaching climate panic over the gospel, confusing God’s providence with manmade weather salvation. Religious COP Out 2025
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
A woke Vermont school district hoisted a Somali flag on Friday, as Democrats around the country defend Somali migrants amid President Trump’s immigration crackdown and a growing fraud scandal in Minnesota’s Somali community. Left-Wing Vermont School District Raises Somali Flag Next to American Flag
Shout Your Abortion has been promoting a book aimed at children five to eight years old called “Abortion is Everything,” which will begin shipping to purchasers in January 2026. A description on the organization’s website says the book tells children “about what abortion is, how it might feel, and why people have abortions.” Book Aimed at 5-Year-Olds Claims Abortion Is ‘Superpower’ (Logic that turns Josef Mengele into an Olympian Deity, nein? He helped abort hundreds of thousands of 5-8 year olds - jjs)
SECOND AMENDMENT
Jay Jones, the man who fantasized about shooting a conservative lawmaker and his family, isn’t even sworn-in yet, but he’s already on a crusade against the citizenry and their right to firearm ownership. A question for Virginia AG-elect Jay Jones
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
“This is such a great time for him to be in office,” Wiles said. “He’s such a patriot. He loves it so much. He’s going to have a fun next year, but, we’re going to put him on the campaign trail, too. Typically — just a little bit of campaign speak, if I may.” Susie Wiles: Trump Will Campaign for 2026 Midterms ‘Like It’s 2024 Again’
In a recent October meeting, Trump and Xi held a high-stakes talk on, among other things, the export of rare earth metals, all without Europeans in the room. The United States agreed to lower some tariffs on Chinese products, and in return, China committed to removing its export limits on rare earth minerals and restarting its importation of American soybeans. (RELATED: China Brushes Off Trump Tariffs With Jaw-Dropping $1 Trillion Surplus) Trump Proves How Feckless Europe Is As Continent Caught In Limbo, World Leader Cries For Help
In Iran, as in many Islamic nations, homosexuality is illegal and can be punishable by death. A ton of LGBTQ+ Iranians have fled persecution, seeking asylum in countries such as the U.S. or elsewhere in the Middle East. Although Egypt does not explicitly criminalize homosexuality, LGBTQ+ individuals routinely face violence, harassment and discrimination under morality laws. Two Muslim Nations Forced To Play In World Cup ‘Pride’ Game, And Boy Oh Boy, This Couldn’t Be More Hilarious
No doubt, if the miners in West Virginia and Pennsylvania were to start claiming they were women, leftists would regard them more favorably. If America is unfortunate and unwise enough to elect another Democrat president, coal miners would be well advised to start wearing dresses. Then they will not only avoid losing their livelihoods; they’ll be celebrated as heroes in the next Netflix blockbuster. Yet again, the heroic and much-lauded Carla Antonella Rodríguez demonstrates that he is a hero indeed, the veritable King of Coal. Netflix’s New Movie Is Its Wokest and Craziest Yet
HITHER & YON
A team of Chinese scientists has used CRISPR gene-editing tools to modify a species of fungus that can supposedly replace the protein provided by chicken, and purportedly even tastes like meat. (I like CRISPIER Chicken, or Soylent HOP SING!!!! - jjs) Chinese Genetics Lab Modifies Fungus Protein to Replace Chicken
Robert Zimmerman: "This is the nature of almost all wars. They are started by power-hungry political leaders for their own gain, with a remarkably detached and disinterested view of the harm that ambition imposes on innocent third parties. On one side the cry was “I want to unify England and Scotland! Destroy those who oppose me!” while on the other side the chant was “I want a free and independent Scotland! Destroy those who oppose me!” In neither case is this effort productive for either nation, in any way. Instead, it caused death and destruction in both Scotland and England, for decades." The war-mongers are always those in power
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“Perhaps, we should be a little less fearful and look for ways to promote authentic dialogue and respect. I know that, in practice, this has not always been the case. I know that fears persist in Europe.” Pope Leo XIV
New York City’s Democratic Socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is telling illegal immigrants in his area how to “stand up” to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (ICE) agents.
The news comes as President Donald Trump’s administration has been working to safeguard American communities from illegal alien crime and as federal officials have been arresting the “worst of the worst” criminal illegal aliens.
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Notre Dame withdrew from the bowl selection process after it missed out on the College Football Playoff, the Fighting Irish announced. Notre Dame landed at No. 11 in the final set of playoff rankings, which made it the first team out of the 12-team bracket.
The selection committee's decision to exclude Notre Dame in favor of Miami, which ranked 10th and snagged the last at-large bid, came after weeks of ranking the Fighting Irish ahead of the Hurricanes. Notre Dame and Miami were both idle during conference championship weekend.
HHS changed the name of transgendermentally ill health leader on her his official portrait.
As you walk down a particular hallway on the seventh floor of the Humphrey Building in Washington, D.C., you'll find a line of photographic portraits of all the people from years past who have led the Public Health Corps at the federal Department of Health and Human Services.
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What part of "Leave me the fvck alone" don't you understand in Beareneese? Genius Award Winner>
Bear attacks trainer in front of audience after being forced to ride hoverboard
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Podcast: Pete Hegseth is everything the left hates...and we love! Illinois is the next flashpoint for federal supremacy with regard to our borders, Trump's communication leaves something to be desired, and more!
I have happily forgotten what Milo Yiannopoulos sounds like, but I still enjoyed this impression from from Ami Kozak.
Well, bamboo is actually a type of grass, and underground, it's all connected in a sprawling network, just like the parts of this story I never wanted to tell. I wish I hadn't been put in this position, that I didn't have to write about any of this, that I didn't have to subject myself or my loved ones to embarrassment and further loss of privacy.
We're back to the fucking bamboo. Guys, I don't think I can pay for bamboo ruminations.
I think he added that because he was embarrassed about all the bamboo imagery from Part 1. He's justifying his twin obsessions: His ex, and bamboo. Which is not a tree but a kind of grass, he'll have you know.
On Tuesday, the book arrived in stores. At lunchtime, in the Midtown Manhattan nexus of media and publishing, interest in Nuzzi's story seemed more muted. The Barnes and Noble on Fifth Avenue had seven copies tucked into a "New & Notable" rack next to the escalator, below Malala Yousafzai's "Finding My Way." Not many had sold so far, a store employee said.
A few blocks uptown, at a branch of the local independent chain McNally Jackson Books, a few volumes lay on a table of new and noteworthy nonfiction near the front of the store. No one was lining up to get them, or even browsing. Bookseller Alex Howe told CNN around 3 p.m. that though the store had procured "several dozen" copies, not a single one had yet sold -- a figure he said was surprising, considering how many people in media and publishing work in the area.
"We ordered a lot and so far, people have not been beating down the door," Howe said. "I'm not sure where we're gonna put them because right now, supply is outpacing demand." (A manager at McNally Jackson noted that Howe was speaking only in a personal capacity, not as a representative of the store.)
She trashes Ryan Lizza for his "Revenge Porn" here. Emily Jashinsky says that when the Bulwark's gay grifter Tim Miller asked why she didn't report on the (alleged) use of ketamine by RFKJr., she broke down in tears and asked to end the interview.
Podcast: Sefton is back with CBD to discuss killing narco-terrorists (we are both for it!), the TN special election, Trump's communication skills, and more!
Incumbent Senator John Cornyn (RINO - TX) betrayed his party and his country by voting in favor Biden's Afghan resettlement bill in 2021. Cornyn voted to bring in the Afghan who shot two National Guard soldiers on US soil. A vote for Cornyn is an endorsement of importing unvetted, radicalized murderers. [Buck]
Podcast: Jim Lakely of Heartland Institute joins CBD for a discussion of their recent polling that shows a majority of 18-39s want socialism, the Epstein files, what will Mamdani do, and more!
