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Good morning kids. It's Christmas EVE and here's wishing all of you a very Merry Christmas. I'll try to keep it as brief as I can today. First we have reports of some kind of gas explosion at a nursing home just outside of Philadelphia in Bucks County. There are two confirmed fatalities as well as numerous injuries from the explosion and subsequent partial collapse of the structure that has left many elderly residents trapped. And with another major cold front set to sock in the northeast, the timing is perfect. Prayers for all those affected, and for those involved in rescue, recovery and emergency services.
The Supreme Court refused to issue a stay requested by President Donald Trump after lower courts blocked him from sending the National Guard to Illinois.
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued the restraining orders.
Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Neil Gorsuch dissented.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh did not join the majority’s explanation. .. Alito, with Thomas, in his dissent, slammed the Court for “unnecessarily” and “unwisely” departing from standard practice.
It is high time that President Trump drove a stake through the heart of the undead vampire that is Marbury v. Madison. Deploy the damned Guard and do what the Left have always done and instead of seeking redress in the courts, let the Democrat insurrectionist treasonous traitors waste their time with that and for once just do what needs to be done and declare "Catch Me If You Can" while axing the question "How many divisions do you have?!" And that would put the issue of that video of Mark Kelly, Abigail Spamburger et al sowing mutiny in the ranks front and center in a very glaring spotlight.
Do the safety and security of America's citizenry take precedence over respecting a completely corrupt justice system that in its behavior represents as much of an existential threat to America's citizenry as that of gang bangers, illegal aliens and drug dealers, if not more of a threat in that the lack of faith and trust in the rule of law results in total societal collapse and subsequent chaos followed shortly thereafter by tyranny. And that tyranny will be a combination hardcore Marxist/Maoist variety with more than a soupçon of Islamic influence.
Of course the latter will ultimately gain the upper hand when their useful idiot hosts/cohorts are no longer of use to them.
Minnesota Dem Tearfully Apologizes To Somalians After They Were Busted Stealing Billions — Organizer Asad Aliwed put together the event Dec. 12 at the Irshad Islamic Center in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Eden Prairie Local News reported. Democratic state Sens. Ann Johnson Stewart and Steve Cwodzinski tearfully shared their apology and offered support to a mosque full of Somalians on Friday. They were accompanied by Eden Prairie Mayor Ron Case, who ran in a nonpartisan election.
Describing British society as “low trust, highly fractured, and highly politically factionalized,” Betz warned that “civil conflict” is “increasingly inevitable.” Then Betz directly accused U.K. authorities of hiding the true intentions behind their overhaul of domestic security forces: “What they’re concerned about is domestic conflict ... but that’s completely politically toxic for them to say so publicly, hence the convenience of saying, ‘We need to develop ... a citizen’s militia for the protection of critical infrastructure.’ To say that we’re doing this against the potential of Russian attack ... is convenient as a pretext.”
. . . Fast-forward to this week, and Lane has written another piece that sharply articulates the disconnect between the government officials preparing Britain for war and the ordinary Britons who will be expected to do the fighting. With talk of military conscription filling the airwaves and a glut of hyperventilating government officials assuring citizens that war with Russia has already begun, Lane notes “the reality that many young Britons feel the government has actively sabotaged their interests and are wondering why they ought to risk their lives for such a state.”
. . . Lane highlights the argument from another op-ed in The Times in which that author correctly observes that “defending one’s homeland is a question of societal mass mobilization ... in the sense of a shared belief in the nation and the culture that is at stake, an awareness that it is at risk and a commitment to defend it. Without a united population it is difficult to make the trade-offs necessary to transform Britain and its European allies into thoroughly indigestible military targets for our enemies.”
It is as if corporate news institutions are finally awakening to this reality: When you actively destroy national unity, shared history, tradition, and cultural heritage by importing foreigners on an industrial scale, you also destroy national identity. Young British lads have no interest in fighting and dying for “multiculturalism.” British parents have no interest in sacrificing their children for “diversity.” No sane country is interested in sacrificing everything in order to preserve costly “climate change” regulations and safeguard the criminalization of so-called “hate speech.” No patriot charges up a hill to raise an Antifa or LGBT flag in defense of censorship, government bullying, demographic replacement, and mass surveillance.
Apologies for hitting you with these stories of woe, especially on Christmas eve and at the close of Chanukah, the festival of light and a celebration of the victory over both literal and figurative darkness. Let's remember the meaning of both of these holidays and resolve to continue to live our lives fully and with hope for a better future and a renewed determination to do what we must to make it a reality.
God bless each and every one of you and let me wish you and yours a very MERRY and BLESSED CHRISTMAS.
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We have intersectionality to thank for the widespread rot in higher education, as it works to “dismantle the persistent colonial structures and Eurocentric biases” of academia. Worse, intersectionality has become the ideology of terror — the next logical step for a worldview that pits people against each other based on group identity. Toxic ideas fueling far-left terrorists came straight from our college campuses
Statistics from media, academia, and law suggest meritocracy has given way to ideology—reshaping institutions, sidelining men, and raising hard questions about the West’s long-term viability. (this right alongside Islam - jjs) Feminism, Anti-racism, and the Unraveling of Western Civilization
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
On Tuesday, SCOTUS ruled in a 6-3 decision that the Trump administration “has failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois,” and therefore the administration’s application for a stay was denied:
Bastards, time to burn Marbury - jjs SCOTUS Rules Against Trump Sending National Guard to Sanctuary Chicago
. . .Saadaoui, 38, and Hussein, 52, have just been found guilty of plotting a jihad massacre with the Jews of Manchester, England as its target. The plot had gone well beyond the talking stage: “They had bought assault rifles, handguns and ammunition for the suicide attack they planned on Jewish targets. They saw any Christian victims ‘as a bonus.’” Cops Avert the ‘Deadliest Terrorist Attack in UK History’ — Guess Who the Target Was
An FBI raid of a Secret Service agent tied to JD Vance’s detail spotlights an alleged charity fraud scheme that could deepen scrutiny of an agency already struggling to restore trust. FBI Raided Secret Service Agent’s Home in Tax Fraud Probe
Organizer Asad Aliwed put together the event Dec. 12 at the Irshad Islamic Center in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Eden Prairie Local News reported. Democratic state Sens. Ann Johnson Stewart and Steve Cwodzinski tearfully shared their apology and offered support to a mosque full of Somalians on Friday. They were accompanied by Eden Prairie Mayor Ron Case, who ran in a nonpartisan election. (Filthy scumbag needs to be horsewhipped in public -jjs) Minnesota Dem Tearfully Apologizes To Somalians After They Were Busted Stealing Billions
As millions of dollars in more fraud and theft of state and federal welfare funding are uncovered in Ohio, Minnesota, and other places committed at the hands of Somali migrants, democrats are falling all over themselves to show their unmitigated support for the fraudsters. Democrats from Minnesota, Ohio, Maine, and Boston Embrace Somalians
The Commerce Department said U.S. gross domestic product—the government’s official economic scorecard—rose at a seasonally and inflation-adjusted 4.3 percent annual rate in the third quarter. The report on the July through September period was delayed due to the shutdown. Trump Boom: U.S. Economy Grows 4.3%, Fastest in Two Years, Smashing Expectations
In that case, his bond was set at $15,000 but a nonprofit group called The Bail Project reportedly paid some of the bond a few days later and he was released. However, Allen was charged with murder in the shooting death of Ben McComas on December 14 at a different transit station, the Puritas and West 150th Street Rapid station, and his bond has been set at $1 million. ‘Bail Project’ Leftist Org Freed Career Criminal in Ohio, Days Before He Allegedly Shot & Killed a Stranger
The Trump administration is preparing to crack down on student loan defaulters starting next year. This will be interesting because you can bet Democrats are going to flip out about this. The Education Department confirmed it will begin withholding wages from borrowers who fail to pay their debts. Trump Makes Huge Move on Student Loan Debt, and Democrats Are Gonna Flip
“The United States of America brings this lawsuit to protect the rights that have been guaranteed for 234 years and which the Supreme Court has explicitly reaffirmed several times over the last two decades” Trump Administration Suing D.C. Over Restrictive Gun Control Laws
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
It’s worth noting just how well Trump has fared, even if you consider yourself a traditional liberal. A word of caution if you count yourself in this group: By the end of this piece, you’re going to realize you’re a Trumpist. The Liberal Case for President Donald Trump
Hageman also highlighted her success in securing $15 million in federal infrastructure funds for Wyoming projects, her opposition to federal land management policies, and her work with President Trump to secure border funding and deliver tax relief. She also committed to further immigration enforcement, saying, “We work together to secure the border and fund efforts to remove and deport those in the country illegally.” President Trump’s endorsement on Truth Social came swiftly thereafter: WY Rep. Hageman Launches Senate Bid Backed by Trump, GOP Senators
Israel’s “Ministry of Tourism is preparing to welcome an estimated 130,000 visitors this December, including about 40,000 Christian pilgrims expected to celebrate Christmas at holy sites across the country.” Israel Welcomes 40,000 Christian Pilgrims This Christmas
For decades, the Cuban regime and its allies around the world have incessantly presented a false narrative that the United States’ “embargo” on Cuba is the one and only cause of all of Cuba’s shortcomings — and not the decades’ worth of failed communist policies, brutal repression, and gross mismanagement of the country’s infrastructure that has pushed the island-nation to the brink of complete ruin. Report: Cuba Has Purchased over $8 Billion Worth of Food from the U.S. Since 2001
…The impressive height of these features wasn’t the only thing that captured the attention of scientists. The new images revealed that vertically imposing filament-like features appear on just one side of the disk, while the other side appears to have a sharp edge and no visible filaments. This peculiar, lopsided structure suggests that dynamic processes, like the recent infall of dust and gas, or interactions with its surroundings, are shaping the disk. Hubble images gigantic protoplanetary disk
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Alex Baber — a 50-year-old West Virginian with autism — used AI programs and his codebreaking prowess to whittle down the Zodiac killer’s infamous 1970 clue he sent to newspapers and identify a single suspect with an overwhelming connection across all the murders: a late Chicagoan named Marvin Margolis. “It’s my autism. Once I start on something, I have to see it through. The deeper I go, the harder I push. My mind’s wired differently,” Baber told the LA Times, explaining he’d spent up to 20 hours a day on the code for months at a time. Zodiac and Black Dahlia killer may have been same man, amateur codebreaking whiz claims: ‘Irrefutable’
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When all you have is an LLM, everything looks like a chat room.
This morning, I asked my Alexa-enabled Bosch coffee machine to make me a coffee. Instead of running my routine, it told me it couldn't do that. Ever since I upgraded to Alexa Plus, Amazon's generative-AI-powered voice assistant, it has failed to reliably run my coffee routine, coming up with a different excuse almost every time I ask.
It's 2025, and AI still can't reliably control my smart home. I'm beginning to wonder if it ever will.
You know what this reminds me of?
Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is Bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via Alexa! I love the future!
Programmers / Engineers: The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise.
And a second gun to shoot the first one if worse comes to worst.
The airline has confirmed it will no longer automatically reimburse “customers of size” who need to buy an extra seat for space.
The benefit had previously been in place for more than 20 years at Southwest Airlines.
Under the original policy, passengers who “encroached upon any part of the neighboring seat” were eligible for a complimentary adjacent seat, with the airline clearly stating that armrests were the “definitive boundary” between seats.
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Starting January 27, 2026, any customer flying on Southwest who needs additional space will be required to purchase a second seat, with fewer guarantees they’ll get their money back.
In a statement, the airline urged travelers to buy both seats at the time of booking to avoid “last-minute purchases or rebooking at the airport.”
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Media bias shows up in a multitude of ways. See if you can spot the bias here.
Two months after releasing a song in honor of Charlie Kirk, Journey keyboardist and guitarist Jonathan Cain is opening up about his relationship with the late conservative activist.
“Charlie’s one of a kind,” he said during an appearance on “The 700 Club,” a Christian talk show hosted by Wendy Griffith on the Christian Broadcasting Network. “He was irreplaceable.”
Cain spoke about his single, “No One Else,” dedicated to Kirk, on the show released Tuesday, Dec. 16, and recalled first meeting Kirk at the Republican National Convention in 2016.
OK so far, I'd say. Let's keep reading.
“He was all excited telling us about how he was going to go to campuses and just change everybody’s mind and give conservative kids the good news, a voice,” Cain said, adding that Kirk inspired him to openly speak of his conservative and religious values.
“He brought a lot of people to Jesus,” Cain went on. “He was unafraid. … You can’t silence us.”
Kirk was a polarizing figure in American politics, known for his incendiary rhetoric about gender identity, race, gun rights and religion. In 2012, he founded Turning Point USA to mobilize conservative students on college campuses against what he deemed “woke” ideology. The organization was widely criticized for spreading misinformation.
On Sept. 10, while speaking at Utah Valley University, he was shot and killed. A recent report by the Washington Post revealed that the man accused of the murder, Tyler Robinson, allegedly sent messages about the shooting on Discord about 80 minutes after it happened.
The musician explained that he was writing a pastor appreciation song at the time of Kirk’s death, set to be part of a larger EP. Upon revisiting the music, he instead decided to dedicate the track to his slain friend as a standalone single.
Cain performed “No One Else” at the end of the televised interview while a series of clips of Kirk flashed across the screen.
I'm sure you noticed that completely unnecessary paragraph in there. It did nothing to improve the point of article, but it sure did signal the author's liberal bona fides. Complete garbage in an otherwise decent factual article.
On Saturday, Dolly Parton’s beloved Dollywood theme park announced an “unscheduled” indefinite closure.
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On December 20, Dollywood posted a press release to its official Instagram story, explaining that the Dollywood Express attraction had indefinitely closed due to “unscheduled” but necessary maintenance work.
What a misleading headline! It sure did make it seem as though the whole park was closing. Anyway, garbage "journalism" once again.
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Epstein Files Bombshell! Trump Was an Acquaintance of Jeffrey Epstein During the Period We Already Knew They Were Acquaintances and Trump Once Flew on an Epstein Plane With a 20-Year-Old Adult Woman On Board
—Ace
An adult woman? Wow.
You had my curiosity, but now you have my attention.
Note their is no allegation that Trump had sex with the adult woman, hit on the adult woman, received a massage from the adult woman, or even spoke to the adult woman.
The big disclosure being pushed is that there was a plane, and Trump was on it, and also, as if that's not enough, there was a 20-year-old adult woman aboard too!
Justice Department officials said Tuesday the latest publicized Epstein files contain "false" accusations against President Trump.
The department released 30,000 additional documents related to its investigation and prosecution of sex offender and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
The material includes claims that Mr. Trump was involved in the scheme and raped a young woman who was allegedly later found murdered.
Democrats have seized on the unverified accusation as evidence of Mr. Trump's involvement and a motivation for the department's resistance to making all of the files public.
But Justice Department officials said the claims against the president were politically motivated and were lodged against him just before the 2020 presidential election.
"To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already," Justice Department officials said.
SEE ALSO: 30,000 more Epstein files released, a few with Trump's name
The files include a claim by an unnamed limo driver who said an unnamed female told him, "Donald J. Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein."
The female allegedly told the driver she could not call the police because "they will kill me," but ultimately reported the incident to law enforcement. The limo driver claimed he later found out the woman had been discovered with her head "blown off" in Kiefer, Oklahoma.
It's not the first time Mr. Trump faced unverified claims of rape.
In 2016, an unnamed woman abruptly dropped a lawsuit claiming Mr. Trump and Epstein tied her to a bed and raped her in Epstein's Manhattan home. Her lawyer did not explain dropping the lawsuit, but Mr. Trump and Epstein denied the claim.
Tuesday's document dump also included a handwritten note Epstein wrote shortly before he committed suicide in a New York City jail cell while he awaited prosecution on sex trafficking charges. He wrote to fellow convicted sex offender Larry Nassar that "life is unfair" and that Mr. Trump, whom he described as "our president," "also shares our love of young, nubile girls."
People are such morons. This letter was postmarked August 13, 2019 -- after Epstein was dead -- and was sent from Northern Virginia. Other than that, totally legit https://t.co/oPt2AgVmi7
So that letter, in addition to proving nothing (as it was allegedly written by a known Trump hater who was constantly attacking Trump), turns out to be a hoax.
This is one problem with releasing all the files -- the files include a lot of straight-up bullshit. The DOJ accumulates straight-up bullshit and adds it to the file, as they're required to do. But they don't give it credence.
Then it gets released, and retards all think this must be the straight dope because the DOJ released it!!! It was in their files!!! Anything in a file must be true!!!
‼️🇺🇸: The US DOJ just released what was supposed to be a video of Jeffrey Epstein attempting to commit suic1de. 👀
HOWEVER it is a FAKE that was published on YouTube 5 years ago by user chadchaddington5164.
No, the document shows unverified allegations from a 2020 tip. The Justice Department, in its recent Epstein file releases, describes these claims as "untrue and sensationalist" due to inconsistencies. No evidence of guilt has been confirmed by official sources.
If I had quickly scrawled off a "tip" to the DOJ that Kamala Harris sat on Ghilaine Maxwell's face, that would be "in the files" now, too.
Oh and by the way, Kamala Harris is a decrepit party-girl whore.
🚨NEW: Kamala Harris gives dating advice to single women🍷
"There are different phases in your life ... maybe you're going to choose that you want to have that kind of Friday night relationship — or you want that Sunday morning relationship."
Axios: Insubordinate CBS Liar Sharyn Alfonsi Told Viewers That Trump Officials Had Refused Comment On the Story. In Fact, They Provided Comment -- She Just Refused to Air Their Denials.
—Ace
For those wondering "How can this insubordinate liar not get fired?," I've got great news: I think she will be fired. I thought she would probably be fired before this for insubordination. I'm pretty sure she wrote her "Bari is a Trump censor" email with the knowledge that a confederate would leak it for her (or she leaked it herself).
If I had to guess, I'd guess she already knew she was on the list of candidates for firing and decided on the Jimmy Kimmel strategy of raising a stink among her left-wing allies to create pressure on the network to keep her.
But this new report from Axios means that no amount of pressure from her left-wing allies can save her. The media still pretends that straight-up lying is a fireable offense. Of course it's not; lying is the soul of their soulless profession.
If you lie and the right people notice -- like your boss, who you just tried to #Cancel -- then the pretense that lying is a fireable offense becomes reality.
The other side: The segment ends with Alfonsi saying the Department of Homeland Security "declined our request for an interview and referred all questions about CECOT to El Salvador. The government there did not respond to our request."
The segment included previous comments made by President Trump, who said El Salvador's prison system has "very strong facilities, and they don't play games."
It also includes a clip of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt previously saying, "These are heinous monsters, rapists, murderers, kidnappers, sexual assaulters, predators who have no right to be in this country, and they must be held accountable."
Between the lines: According to a source familiar with "60 Minutes" correspondence with the administration, the "60 Minutes" team reached out to press officials at the White House, State Department and DHS, all of which provided comment to CBS News.
None of those comments, which varied in length and substance, were included in the piece viewed by Axios.
CBS declined to comment.
Axios was able to view it, of course, because despite the piece being held up by Bari Weiss, somehow it wound up airing in communist Canada.
Which is almost certainly another case of gross insubordination.
BREAKING: A significant amount of CBS News employees are considering quitting after they feel like the company has become Pro- Trump.
Most won't. As Chuck Ross noted yesterday, there are fewer and fewer jobs for unskilled, unethical media "reporters." These filthy degenerates will cling to their unearned checks until security drags them out the front doors.
But as for Alfonsi: I think she'll "separate" from CBS days after the New Year.
Ed Morrissey reminds us that Sharyn Alfonsi has played these games before. When she ran her lying hit piece on Ron DeSantis, which even DeSantis' Democrat opponents told her wasn't true and warned her not to run the false defamation, her package neatly clipped out DeSantis' detailed denial of the charges.
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Oh hey, Sharyn Alfonsi. I remember her.
From a failed 2021 "60 Minutes" hit job that went unanswered and unexplained:
"In the 60 Minutes segment that aired this weekend, CBS News's Sharyn Alfonsi tells DeSantis, 'Publix, as you know, donated $100,000 to your campaign, and then you rewarded them with the exclusive rights to distribute the vaccination in Palm Beach.'
The popular grocery store chain donated $25,000 to the Friends of DeSantis political committee on Nov. 13, 2019, and again on Jan. 28, 2020. Later, between Dec. 7-Dec. 31, 2020, it donated a total of $100,000 to the committee. Then, in January 2021, DeSantis announced the state had paired with Publix to make vaccines available to the public.
'How is that not pay for play?' Alfonsi asked the governor this weekend.
'What you're saying is wrong," DeSantis answered. "It's wrong. It's a fake narrative.'
That's all CBS showed of his response -- a straight denial with no substantive explanation.
However, there's more to the story. DeSantis actually offered a detailed explanation for Publix's involvement in vaccinating Floridians. These exculpatory remarks were left on the cutting room floor. Additional facts regarding Florida's vaccine program were likewise omitted from CBS's report, as were denials of this bogus conspiracy theory by even state Democrats."
Yes, she kept in five word denial -- but without allowing DeSantis to explain why her phony charges were so clearly fake. She denied the audience their right to hear from the Accused.
Even left-wing Politi"Fact" noted that this kind of edit, omitting someone's substantive defense of his actions so that the public may not hear it, can be considered "deceptive editing."
"Deceptive editing" means a clip "has been edited and rearranged," according to the Washington Post's guide to manipulated video. Deceptive editing can include omission ("editing out large portions from a video and presenting it as a complete narrative" to "skew reality") and splicing ("editing together disparate videos (that) fundamentally alters the story that is being told").
By omitting DeSantis' remarks on why the state partnered with Publix to distribute vaccines in Palm Beach County, the "60 Minutes" clip could fall into the former category.
So I don't think she'll be at CBS much longer. But she is attempting to make herself a Victim who is always owed a job at another left-wing media company.
Related: The Washington Post cuts more opinion columnists.
They’re having a really bad day at the Washington Post.
Honestly, this latest news should come as no surprise.
When you fabricate quotes and deceive your readers, it’s no wonder people are canceling their subscriptions.
Hunter Biden: Of Course My Father's Calamitous Bug-Out from Afghanistan Was a "F***ing Failure;" And Of Course We Shouldn't Allow In Immigrants That "Drain Our Resources"
—Ace
Is Hunter Biden now a racist?
Wait a sec, he already was -- "no yellow." (Who doesn't like Asian chicks? Only a Nazi.)
The former president's son admitted this week that his father's handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan was an "obvious f**king failure," putting a blunt, unsparing label on what many Americans have long viewed as one of the most humiliating and deadly episodes of Joe Biden's presidency.
Hunter made the remarks during an appearance on the Shawn Ryan Show, where he also broke from Democrat orthodoxy on immigration. While arguing in favor of legal immigration, Hunter criticized policies that elevate illegal entrants over Americans who served the country. "We need vibrant immigration," he said, "but we don't want immigrants that are coming here illegally draining us of resources and also being prioritized above people that are actual literal heroes that are coming home" after decades of war. The comment echoed a core argument advanced repeatedly by Donald Trump, who has framed Biden-era border policy as both reckless and morally inverted.
But it was Afghanistan that drew Hunter's sharpest verdict. Asked directly what his father got wrong in office, he pointed to the August 2021 withdrawal that left Americans and allies scrambling as the Taliban swept back into Kabul. "I think one of the failures was the way in which they executed the withdrawal from Afghanistan," Hunter said. "I think it was an obvious f**king failure." Thirteen U.S. service members were killed in a suicide bombing at Abbey Gate during the evacuation, a loss that became a defining symbol of the administration's collapse overseas.
That assessment stands in stark contrast to Joe Biden himself, who insisted in 2023 that he made no mistakes in the withdrawal despite bipartisan criticism, military testimony, and the visible chaos that unfolded on the world stage. The administration has long resisted accepting responsibility, even as the consequences linger.
So what's going on here? Let's put aside the idea that Hunter Biden has suddenly embraced honesty.
As we've seen, Democrats are now pushing the idea that out-of-control illegal immigration isn't Democrat policy, but was all Biden's fault, and only Biden's fault. The Democrat policy is perfect -- the Real Villain Here is Biden's faulty implementation of that policy, and now that Biden is out of office and will probably be dead within the year, it's time to throw that weight out of the sinking ship.
As to why Hunter Biden would participate in the Democrats' scheme to claim that Biden is the Devil who Deceived them -- I read someone on X stating that Hunter Biden is $15 million in debt. Daddy's not going to be able to get him million dollar checks from Chinese spymasters and Russian oligarchs any longer. He needs a new patron, and that patron will of course be in the Democrat Party.
And the Democrat Party network of bribery is currently shutting its wallets to the Bidens. Joe Biden will almost certainly not be able to fund a Biden presidential library.
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BREAKING: Biden's presidential library fundraising has hit rock bottom, per New York Times reporting.
Key details from IRS filings:
- Zero new donations in 2024, Biden's entire final year in office.
- Foundation seeded with just $4M leftover from his 2021 inauguration.
- Projects only $11.3M total by end of 2027, a tiny fraction of the $200M goal aides have discussed.
- Far below what recent presidents raised for their libraries.
Insiders now say discussions are underway to merge the project with existing Biden institutes at the University of Delaware to make it viable.
BREAKING: Biden's presidential library fundraising has hit rock bottom, per New York Times reporting.
Key details from IRS filings:
- Zero new donations in 2024, Biden's entire final year in office. - Foundation seeded with just $4M leftover from his 2021 inauguration. -… pic.twitter.com/RQ2HgTvfFr
I foresee one Amtrak train sporting a "Cafe Car and Biden Presidential Library Nook." Right next to the sporks and packets of mustard and relish.
Mmm, train hot dogs with train mustard and train relish.
Biden raised zero dollars in 2024. They refuse to say what they raised in 2025.
From @nytimes: 'Biden Has Raised Little of What He Needs to Build a Presidential Library.' Raised exactly $0 in new donations in all of 2024. https://t.co/5vCi6pCXAt
Biden Has Raised Little of What He Needs to Build a Presidential Library
His library foundation has told the I.R.S. that by the end of 2027 it expects to bring in just $11.3 million -- not nearly enough for a traditional presidential library.
Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has raised only a small fraction of the money needed to construct a presidential library, leaving uncertainty about when a library might be built and its viability as a stand-alone project, according to public filings and interviews with his donors.
In filings with the Internal Revenue Service, Mr. Biden's library foundation revealed that it had not received any new donations in 2024, the final year of his presidency. The foundation was instead seeded entirely with $4 million left over from his 2021 inauguration.
The library foundation declined to say what it had raised in 2025. It said that Mr. Biden was only now beginning to actively raise money. He is holding the first event for potential library donors on Monday in Washington's Georgetown neighborhood.
Still, Mr. Biden's foundation told the I.R.S. this year that it expected to bring in just $11.3 million, total, by the end of 2027. That would be far below the pace set by other recent presidents, and far less than the $200 million that Mr. Biden's aides say they want to raise eventually.
Partly because of that poor fund-raising, discussions are underway about consolidating a potential Biden library with pre-existing Biden institutions at the University of Delaware, according to four people who were granted anonymity to talk about the private planning process. That might allow the library to take advantage of the millions of dollars that the university, the former president's alma mater, has already raised to build a "Biden Hall."
So far, some of Mr. Biden's most loyal contributors said they had not been contacted by anyone about giving to the library. Other Democratic donors have said that even if Mr. Biden asks them, they are unlikely to give money because they are focused on fighting President Trump or are embittered by Mr. Biden's term in office.
John Morgan, a longtime Democratic donor who was one of Mr. Biden's top bundlers, said he would not give "a penny" to the former president's library, citing poor treatment from Mr. Biden's staff.
"The Biden staff, they ruined any type of good library for him," Mr. Morgan said. "He'll be lucky to have a bookmobile."
Huntie's other obvious source of money is grifting from the publishing industry, which is always eager to give leftwing tyrants absurd amounts of money for books that will never sell more than a couple of thousand copies. It's all illegal campaign donations and influence-buying.
But they're not going to give Huntie that. They are taking out their anger for their 2024 loss on the Biden Crime Family.
Though... Huntie could maybe get a modest deal if he, get this, showed that he was now ready to be candid and spill the real secrets.
He won't, of course. But he needs to put out the idea that giving him $500,000 for a book would be a defensible decision by a publishing executive.
Trans Teaching Assistant who Flunked a Christian Student for Rejecting Trans Propaganda Has Now Been Fired
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I would say that the student's essay could be docked some points for relying so heavily on non-academic sources -- the Bible -- but then, the trans TA's rejection of all her arguments was based exclusively on quasi-religious fantasy and myth-making, wasn't it?
And, in addition, the trans bully was attempting to compel a Christian to renounce her faith and accept the trans pseudoreligion as the one true religion. So a bit of citation of the Bible is appropriate. If someone pushes their garbage mental-illness religion on you, you have every right to reject it and defend your own.
A transgender graduate teaching assistant at the University of Oklahoma has been removed from instructional duties after failing a conservative student's Bible-based essay on gender -- a grading decision the university later concluded was arbitrary following an internal review.
The controversy erupted in late November when Samantha Fulnecky, a 20-year-old junior, submitted a written response for a psychology course that rejected modern gender ideology through a Christian lens. The assignment asked students to write a 650-word analysis of an academic article examining whether conformity to gender norms was associated with popularity or bullying among middle school students.
Instead of echoing the paper's progressive framing, Fulnecky grounded her response in faith, writing that she does not believe there are more than two genders "because that is how God made us."
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The paper was failed by her instructor, Mel Curth -- a transgender graduate student who uses she/they pronouns -- who told Fulnecky she did not properly address the academic prompt and relied on "personal ideology" rather than empirical evidence. Curth also characterized portions of the essay as offensive, objecting to Fulnecky's use of the word "demonic" and arguing that strict gender norms, by definition, create stereotypes.
"To call an entire group of people 'demonic' is highly offensive, especially a minoritized population," Curth wrote in written feedback, while also pointing out what Curth described as internal contradictions in the essay's reasoning.
"Minoritized"? Like you really weren't a minority, but oppressors forced minority status on to you?
Jesus save us from these heathens and their corrupt gutter language.
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On Monday, the university announced it had completed its investigation and determined that Curth's grading of the paper was not applied fairly. In a statement, the school said the decision was based on a review of Curth's own statements and concluded the graduate teaching assistant would no longer have instructional duties.
As far as applying rigid academic standards to this essay: It was a 650 word essay. This is an assignment we used to give to middle-schoolers. It's basically an opening argument, two paragraphs, and a conclusion that merely restates the opening argument. It's not as if this was a real essay. It's a time waster.
The student was being compelled to accept the framing that we have two sexes merely because of "gender norms." She has every right and duty -- particularly as a believing Christian -- to refute that assumption. A Jewish student cannot be required to write an essay affirming the assumption that Jews deserved the Holocaust.
It's very clear that this tranny is not interested in actual academic work. He's interested in forced prosyletization to a captive audience.
The University of Oklahoma confirms that Mel Curth, the teaching assistant who gave a student a failing grade on a psychology essay, will no longer be teaching. pic.twitter.com/DAF8vFYFLk
BOOM! US Economy Grows By Big 4.3% In Third Quarter
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4.3% is the annualized growth rate. What "annualized" means is "if we took this quarter's actual growth rate and multiplied it by four to find the growth we could expect over an entire year, if it continued."
The actual growth rate for the quarter is then something like 1.08%, but don't worry about that, because we always talk about the annualized growth rate. There is no mathematical manipulation going on to make the number seem bigger than it is. This is how we always measure it.
Just to know how to evaluate GDP growth, here's a quick but Expert primer, because I'm an Expert in literally anything I talk about:
Less than 0% (negative "growth"): the economy shrank. Recessionary.
0%: No growth, and pretty recessionary, because the population always grows. Zero growth thus means that everyone lost a little.
1%: Weak, barely perceptible growth. Either a poor economy or maybe even one about to fall into recession.
2%: Growth, and not really a sign of a recession, but sluggish and unimpressive growth that no one will brag about. Also nothing to panic about. Very meh. To put it terms you can understand, if we were using the Hustler boner meter to rate the economy rather than pornography, it rates one erect penis and one droopy one (out of a possible four erect penises, obviously). It's the "garrett" of economies, then. At this level, the economy is a vaguely unwelcome presence that won't shut up about its bike but you just shrug and just think about the blissful oblivion of death.
3%: Solid growth. No one can dispute the economy is growing. No one would dispute that this is a good solid economy. People's moods will naturally be a little elevated during a period of this level of growth. Think "Jack Straw smoking a bone while steering his yacht with his bare foot and listening to a 15 minute double drum solo." I know that sounds like the Holocaust, but I mean, think about this from Jack Straw's perspective. He likes 15 minute double drum solos because he was raised wrong and don't know no better.
4%: Very high growth. Starting to get into actual "BOOM" territory, if sustained, if it's not just a one-quarter wonder. Think: Me riding down the street on my Vespa, carrying my J. Crew messenger bag, looking at the world with optimism and cheer and thinking of all the vertical surfaces I can stick shelves on.
5%: Outstanding growth. This level is rarely seen and means the economy is running on all 12 cylinders. (Yes, 12 cylinders, it's now a sportscar.) Sustained 5% growth means Golden Times. Think "Sydney Sweeney wearing a low-cut top with beads of golden honey sweat trickling down between her breasts as she washes and details your Camaro." (Artist's conception.)
Clinton had some of this during the internet bubble and the deficit actually fell (despite his best efforts to increase it) because tax takings were so large and welfare spending fell.
This level of extraordinary growth can't be sustained forever, maybe just a year or two. This is about the best level of growth you can realistically hope for.
You occasionally see 6% or 7% quarters -- or even higher -- but usually only in like Latin American countries when they recover from one of their frequent recessions/depressions, or China up to about ten years ago. When it happens in America, it's a one-quarter wonder. I think GWB had one 7.2% quarter but I think that was like six months after the economic apocalypse of 9/11 -- so a one-quarter wonder, with the American economy rebounding back from a deep shock-recession, like Latin American countries do with their always-volatile economies.
Apart from some weird one-off circumstances, like recovering from 9/11, advanced, stable economies almost never grow in a sustained way at these levels.
So, the 4.3% growth is very high and not too far away from "It's Morning in America again."
And it's not even a one-quarter wonder -- the last quarter showed strong 3.8% growth. It looks like it's real and building.
Is the economic turn we desperately need for 2026 and 2028, too, finally here?
The US economy grew 4.3% in real gross domestic product in Q3 (annualized), the best quarter of growth in the past two years. It exceeds the 3.8% growth in Q2 that had largely been seen as driven by rebalancing of the trade deficit. It's the first BEA analysis of overall economic activity since September, thanks to the Schumer Shutdown:
Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 4.3 percent in the third quarter of 2025 (July, August, and September), according to the initial estimate released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the second quarter, real GDP increased 3.8 percent.
Due to the recent government shutdown, this initial report for the third quarter of 2025 replaces the release of the advance estimate originally scheduled for October 30 and the second estimate originally scheduled for November 26.
The increase in real GDP in the third quarter reflected increases in consumer spending, exports, and government spending that were partly offset by a decrease in investment. Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, decreased.
Just to clarify: "real GDP" already accounts for inflation. This is growth above the rate of inflation, annualized for comparative purposes. The last six months of economic activity has shown a combined growth of 4.0% or a bit better, which is a fantastic momentum by anyone's reckoning.
Previous growth was explained away by experts by claiming that the apparent growth was mostly due to technical factors due to Trump's tariffs. (Imports reduce GDP, so reducing them "increases" GDP, at least on paper.)
But Ed Morrissey explains that the new numbers appear to be unaffected by changes in tariff policy. See his post for that. It's dangerously close to math and you know that we do not do that here.
He also notes that the WSJ breaks out my favorite leftwing buzzword: "Unexpectedly."
The U.S. economy grew at an unexpectedly robust pace in the third quarter, powered by strong consumer spending.
Gross domestic product, the value of all goods and services produced across the economy, rose at a seasonally and inflation-adjusted 4.3% annual rate for the July through September quarter, the Commerce Department said Tuesday in a shutdown-delayed report.
It was the highest growth rate in two years, and reflected robust spending by consumers on services like healthcare as well as spending on recreational vehicles. Growth picked up from 3.8% in the previous quarter, and beat the 3.2% forecast among economists polled by The Wall Street Journal.
There is a chance this number will be revised down after a time. "Big numbers" are often revised back to be closer to the mean (that is, back to a more moderate level, whether up or down).
But even if it's revised down a touch, it's still a big number.
And it could also be revised up, of course. The leftwing bureaucrats in the BEA always seem to produce bigger initial numbers for Democrats and worse numbers for Republicans than time eventually reveals to be the accurate numbers.
HASSETT: "It's a fantastic [GDP] report — 4.3%. It's just about as good as GDP numbers get... these numbers are showing that @POTUS' trade policy, and his supply-side policy... is having a big effect." pic.twitter.com/TpL6mdeKNZ
Mr. CBD is on a remote scouting mission. Something about Bourbon, snails, maple syrup and unsalted butter.
Lately life has been happening here in the Frozen Tundra and current events and politics has taken a back seat. I know there are multiple problems around the world including here in the Good Old USA.
For the first time in my *life* the USA has a president who is not a politician. Of course that would be Donald J. Trump. The nearest example of a president who was not a full-time, life-time politician was Ronald Reagan.
This country is poised to become a bigger and better light on the shining hill. However, the GOP Stupid Party and the new "Pundits" are in the process of soiling their beds and stepping on some type of appendage.
The first two years of Trump 1.0 and Trump 2.0 could have been terrific legislative sessions. Just imagine every Trump Executive Order becoming codified law? True, those laws could have been reversed with a Democrat Communist administration. But, it would have been work and would have slowed down their stupidity.
Yes the Stupid Party and Paul Ryan had how many years to draft a better health insurance plan? It was easy to piss and moan about it. But, they had no intention of repealing it let alone come up with something better.
Now 14 years after that Affordable Health Care Act Obamacare Bullshit is still forefront in the Washington DC fight between the Commies and the Estupidos. In the long run the Commies will win.
We know the Commies claim they love and cherish democracy. We know it's a lie. But the likes of John Thune and Gary Johnson would rather let the Commies walk over them when it comes to the silent filibuster and judicial blue slip shenanigans to name just a few.
Johnson should be leading impeachments against the sitting federal magistrates and judges who have been playing whack a mole with Trump's agenda. Granted, the senate will not convict them. But Judas Fvcking Priest, fight. Expose the leftist judges.
And that is why you have President Trump.
Now, we got rid of the "pundits" such as Bill Kristol, Rick "PenisHead" Wilson, Charlie Sykes with the 2015 Trump run - 2016 Trump election.
But, nature hates a vacuum and now we have Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro to name just a few who have replaced the Never-Trumpers. I'm not sure what we should call this group, perhaps NutCasesTM But whatever it is called, I want to be part of the Never-NutCases.
Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes can go and have their Third Reich love fest without me and the Conservative movement.
Candace, no one. And I mean no one cares about the genitalia of a French woman. And the ONLY person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk has been arrested.
Ben Shapiro, I support Israel. I always have and always will. But, the USA interests come first and should always come first. We are $38 trillion in debt. We need to put America First not Israel First.
I live in a high gas sales tax state. So many of you may have seen lower prices. But, I'm enjoying the $2.67 gallon gas. I've seen the grocery prices coming down. It looks like prescription drug prices are going to come down significantly.
Mike Johnson, John Thune, govern! You have 9-10 months to make significant inroads to restore common sense. Mike Johnson, John Thune, (I won't ask MTG or Mitch McConnell for example) Are you ready and willing to run with the MAGA platform or is your new leadership, same as the old leadership?
And lastly to the Nut-Cases, shut your mouths. Take your fingers away from your key boards. And take some time to read and comprehend President Reagan's 11th Commandment. Take your problems behind closed doors.
Good morning kids. It's Christmas eve EVE, and so with that in mind I'm going to try to keep the editorials through the end of the week a bit shorter if at all possible, breaking and/or critical news items deserving of further exploration notwithstanding.
President Donald J. Trump has revealed plans for the U.S. Navy to develop a new line of “Trump-class” battleships, starting with the construction of two vessels. The America First leader shared the news from his Mar-a-Lago resort, where he is vacationing over the holidays, joined by War Secretary Pete Hegseth and Navy Secretary John Phelan. Trump described the vessels as components of a new “Golden Fleet,” with ambitions to produce up to 25 such battleships. He stated that these would be the “largest we’ve ever built.”“They will have 100 times the force, the power, and there’s never been anything like these ships,” Trump said. “We envision that these two ships will be the first of a whole new class of battleships that will be produced in the years to come.”The lead vessel in the class will bear the name USS Defiant. This development follows shortly after the Navy abandoned efforts to develop a different, smaller warship due to escalating expenses and extended timelines.
Hey, I ain't no Alfred Thayer Mahan but in the immortal words of Isoroku Yamamoto via Toshiro Mifune "R-U-F-K-M?! don't bogart the wasabi, Nagumo!"
Will dressing up like Teddy Roosevelt and running up a White House stairway as if it were San Juan Hill (watch Arsenic & Old Lace), while deploying a great white, er Golden, fleet really deter Xi and the Chi-Coms? Will it help get out the vote 11 months from now? Maybe in Newport News or Pascagoula (assuming they still build ships there?).
Mayor Brian DePena appeared in court on Friday, where he required a translator to participate in proceedings at a Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Commission proceeding on Friday.
The hearing concerned former Lawrence Police Chief William Castro, a political ally of DePena, who was stripped of his policing credentials following an improper police chase. Castro was accused of driving the wrong way down a city street during the chase and filing a false police report, claiming he was responding to an armed bank robbery when he had actually been responding to someone attempting to cash a bad check . . . DePena testified on Castro’s behalf during the commission proceeding, but it was the mayor’s request to use a translator that drew significant attention. . . DePena is a native of the Dominican Republic and immigrated to New York in the early 1980s before settling in Lawrence in 1989. Over 80 percent of the city’s population is now Hispanic, according to the US Census.
The mayor of an American town cannot even speak English. Forget illegal immigration, this fool is a Legal Immigrant. both my parents' families (my father's side escaping the pogroms of Ukraine at the turn of he last century and my mother's side barely surviving the death camps of the Nazis,) came here to embrace and become fully American. Initially they barely spoke English but quickly learned enough to find work and support families while instilling the ideals and culture of this ountry on their children.
That an illiterate unassimilated foreigner was elected to public office by an equally alien electorate in our country is among if not its greatest failings in its history.
And Mike Pence and George Conway can go pump each other.
And more "Walzing Muh shill dough" this time up in Maine. Funny how these desert dwellers all wind up living here in states that can get about as cold as the Arctic Circle.
Ebenezer Scrooge has nothing on Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is thwarting cancer treatment for kids in a possibly futile attempt to get Congress to pass his priorities.
Last week, the Vermont socialist was the sole vote opposed to fast-tracking legislation that will make it easier for kids with cancer to access treatments and clinical trials and incentivize companies to develop pediatric therapies.
His complaint: the Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act, named for a teen cancer patient who died while advocating for its passage, is a pared-down version of a previous package that included other health-care measures as well, including funding for community health centers.
Without those add-ons, he’s withholding support of a bill that was teed up to pass easily — and that even he otherwise supported.
Yet without his vote, it didn’t win unanimous backing, so it’ll now have to make its way through a much more arduous procedural process when Congress reconvenes next year. . .Pray it doesn’t cost the lives of any kids who could’ve benefited. But make no mistake: This is super-villain behavior, as more rational lawmakers pointed out.
Right-wing Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who also supports funding community health centers, fumed: “To say that you’re not going to give a chance for children to have a cure for cancer if you don’t get what you want” is “selfish” and “tragic.” Amen to that.
Dentists refuse to provide free dental care creating a major dentist shortage.
Just wait until we have "Free" healthcare here and free housing, education and food like every other "civilized nation" such as Cuba does as I have seen posted too many times by a bevy of scumbag leftists on Twitter and elsewhere. Yeah, life is such a paradise in Havana and Pyongyang but you insist on staying here in evil and illegitimate America.
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CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Finally, the multiculturalism cult is dying as the predictably wretched results are becoming painfully clear beyond what the leftist media could hope to hide. The death of multiculturalism will save America
The small expense is far less than the cost of chasing and deporting migrants — and it comes amid growing economic pressure on migrants who are losing jobs and housing amid President Donald Trump’s enforcement of the nation’s popular migration laws. DHS Offers Illegal Immigrants a $3,000 ‘Holiday Stipend’ for Self-Deportation
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
“In other words, James Burnham was wrong. . . The JQ absolves America. . . The JQ begs the GQ. . . There are good arguments for and against continuing Israeli aid.” The Return of the Jewish Question
South Korea is using “fairness” laws as economic weapons—targeting U.S. firms with raids and threats—turning a key alliance into a test of whether free trade still means fair play. South Korea’s Betrayal of American Companies
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Though Google already owns a majority stake in the company, the deal will further support the Big Tech company’s build-out of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure while keeping Intersect’s operations separate, according to Alphabet. As America’s energy demand climbs while projected AI data center needs skyrocket, Big Tech has been searching for reliable electricity sources — with some companies looking to resurrect nuclear plants. Tech Behemoth Gobbles Up Power Company In $5 Billion Deal To Juice Data Centers
“The InsiderAdvantage poll shows stronger numbers for the president than those reflected in RealClearPolling’s national average, which shows him with a 44 percent approval rating and a 53 percent disapproval rating as of early Monday afternoon,” Breitbart explained. Trump Just Got Some Good News About His Approval Numbers
Midterms punish complacency, and without turnout, message discipline, and an affordability agenda, Republicans risk a 2026 defeat that hands Democrats Congress and the future. How Trump Can Turn the Midterms Around
Conway, who lives in Bethesda, Md., an affluent Washington, D.C. suburb, will vie in a crowded Democratic primary to represent a deep-blue Manhattan district to succeed Democrat New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, who is retiring. The vocal Trump critic is likely to frame his congressional run around his top attorney credentials and willingness to serve as legal pitbull against Trump in Congress. (RELATED: George Conway Comes Out As Antifa At ‘No Kings’ Rally) George Conway Officially Running For Congress Months After Coming Out As Antifa
Ebenezer Scrooge has nothing on Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is thwarting cancer treatment for kids in a possibly futile attempt to get Congress to pass his priorities. Last week, the Vermont socialist was the sole vote opposed to fast-tracking legislation that will make it easier for kids with cancer to access treatments and clinical trials and incentivize companies to develop pediatric therapies. Bernie Sanders is blocking cancer treatment for kids for his own selfish reasons
Paramount announced that Ellison — whose son, David Ellison, serves as the company’s chairman and CEO — “had agreed to provide an irrevocable personal guarantee” for the bid in a Monday press release. The elder Ellison’s cash-backing comes days after WBD asked its shareholders to reject a $108 billion Paramount offer to assume control of all of WBD’s assets, Reuters reported. Pro-Trump Billionaire Larry Ellison Puts $40,000,000,000 On Line In Battle With Netflix
Her apology was insufficient, because for an apology to be true, it must be done face-to-face with the injured party. Posting something on line accomplishes nothing. The right way for Ponce to have apologied would be for her to find Beeman, to apologize to her personally and publicly, to shake hands, and then to work to encourage a dialogue between them. If Ponce's employer demanded that from her -- instead of firing her -- we might actually be moving back to a society of good will. And demanding such in the Christmas season would have been wholly appropriate and fitting. There is little good will on the left, and the right seems eager to lose it too
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Bought the Minisforum DEG1 to go with my Minisforum AI X1-255.
The DEG1 is their OCuLink GPU dock - a little $99 platform that plugs into the PC using the OCuLink port - external PCIe 4.0 x4 - and lets you run any regular graphics card. I don't know how much I'll use it, but it's reasonably priced and I already have a spare GPU lying around.
"Unfortunately, it sounds like this is what that bear has potentially found under the homeowner's house in the crawlspace. It's unfortunate. We want to see the bears in the woods, not in people's homes." Cort Klopping, with CDFW.
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“We support LGBTQ rights fully. This has nothing to do with identity. Providing powerful hormones to a person in a psychiatric crisis without proper psychiatric safeguards is not affirming care. It is reckless. In this case, it acted as an accelerant, intensifying instability, impairing judgment, and compounding risk.”Dustin Bailey
A Rescue Report from New Hampshire Tees Off on Two Lost Hikers
A recent report published by the state’s Fish and Game Department pulls no punches in its assessment of two hikers who got stuck on a mountain and required lifesaving
The report of the mission passes more than a little judgment on the two hikers at the center of the ordeal. Here are a few highlights
They lost their composure and would not listen to any advice being given to them.
The two were ill-equipped for a hike of this magnitude and had departed for a nearly 9-mile loop at 1:00 p.m.
They lacked appropriate clothing for a hike in the weather conditions they encountered and were navigating with a phone when they lost the trail.
Chris McKee, a conservation officer with the Fish and Game Department, shared a few more details about the hikers in a story with New Hampshire Public Radio. McKee said the two were wearing work boots, not hiking boots, and lacked the gear you might take on a night hike in winter, such as crampons, snowshoes, or functional lights.
“These individuals just didn’t have the proper gear or experience to be out there hiking in this,” he said.
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Brown Custodian: I Warned Security About the Sketch Guy "Casing" the School Who Would Ultimately Shoot It Up
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Is this something? I don't know. There are often dropped balls in cases like this. I don't know if this is just a normal dropped ball or an ideologically-dictated dropped ball.
I think it might the latter. After all, apparently Brown knew all about the homeless man illegally squatting in the basement of the building where the killer struck. (Yes, I know that homeless man turned out to be one of the few heroes in this story, but obviously Brown didn't know that when they chose to allow him to live in their basement.)
In yet another case of "authorities" dropping the ball, someone saw something, someone said something, and the "authorities" did nothing.
A Brown University custodian just dropped a bombshell by claiming he flagged the man who murdered two students to the authorities multiple times before the deadly shooting occurred.
Derek Lisi has worked at Brown University in Rhode Island for 15 years, and if he is telling the truth, the horrible and tragic shooting that cost the lives of two young students and injured multiple others could have been avoided. Lisi said in comments that The Boston Globe published that he saw a man walking through the hallways, looking into classrooms, and trying to avoid being seen by suddenly darting into a bathroom -- all weeks before the shooting. Lisi saw the suspicious man at least 10 times and notified the campus security at least twice, but it appears that nobody took the behavior seriously.
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"I knew there was something off with him," Lisi recalled of the man whom he saw casing the university building and whom he later recognized in photos of the accused shooter. "He'd been casing that place for weeks."
Brown seems to believe that fake Social Justice "safety" is more important than the actual physical safety of the deluded marks paying $100,000 per year to be miseducated there.
They had already been questioned about their failure to warn the campus about the shooter, and then, later, told everyone that there was no further danger, despite having no idea if there was a continuing threat or not.
Brown University is facing questions over its security policies after its emergency sirens never sounded in response to Saturday's shooting, while taking nearly 20 minutes to send an alert out to students. The scrutiny comes after campus cops passed no-confidence votes against their police chief and questioned the school's emergency response capabilities.
Rodney Chatman, the university's director of public safety and emergency management, blamed the lack of sirens on the hectic nature of the crisis. He said police became aware of the incident when an officer saw students fleeing the scene.
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From there, Brown issued and retracted a series of alerts. It sent one at 4:51 saying a suspect was in custody, then another 20 minutes later walking back that claim. A 5:27 alert warned that there was another shooting, but a 6:10 message said that was actually "unfounded."
As you know, 34 "human rights" organizations, which I assume are all funded by George Soros, sent a letter demanding that Brown disable its security cameras so that criminal leftist agitators, some in the employ of foreign governments or terrorist organizations, couldn't be photographed committing their crimes.
As originally reported in August 2025, a group of far-left human rights advocates sent a letter to 150 U.S. colleges and universities asking them to disable the CCTV systems to protect "free expression and academic freedom across the country," because "the Trump administration has launched an aggressive campaign against US academic institutions."
The motive for the request to disable CCTV systems as stated: "Right now these tools are facilitating the identification and punishment of student protesters, undermining activists' right to anonymity----a right the Supreme Court has affirmed as vital to free expression and political participation."
The letter from 'Fight For The Future' (August 2025) came after an earlier campaign by the same group seeking to stop the use of facial recognition cameras on college campuses.
The Brown University President and school officials have been giving ridiculous answers to questions about the 800 cameras on the campus and the fact that no current footage exists of the shooter walking around inside the campus or inside the buildings therein.
Brown refuses to say if they disabled the cameras or not. I think we all know this is an admission.
BREAKING - Brown University officials are now facing mass calls to step down after it was revealed that not only were CCTV cameras removed at the request of activist groups, but a university janitor saw and reported the killer stalking the area numerous times and they did nothing pic.twitter.com/61TLq1utHm
🚨 DISGRACEFUL: Brown University President Christina Paxson, smiling: “I don’t think a lack of cameras in that building had anything to do with what happened.”
Just days later, the same shooter — Manuel Neves-Valente — murdered MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro. pic.twitter.com/cpshPXWwgW
'60 Minutes' Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, Who Cried Foul Over Delayed Immigration Piece, Was Behind 'Intentionally False' Hit Piece on Ron DeSantis That Even Democrats Said Was Wrong
Alfonsi's immigration piece needed additional reporting, Editor in Chief Bari Weiss told CBS staff
A 60 Minutes correspondent is up in arms after CBS management delayed a story decrying the deportation of illegal aliens from the United States to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, accusing CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss of caving to political pressure and betraying sacred journalistic principles. The correspondent, Sharyn Alfonsi, was behind an embarrassing 2021 flub at 60 Minutes in which she falsely reported that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R., Fla.) gave preferential treatment to a campaign donor to distribute coronavirus vaccines.
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In her leaked email to her colleagues, Alfonsi accused CBS News and Weiss of engaging in "corporate censorship" and of "betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism." Reporters at CBS News are threatening to quit over the Weiss decision, CNN's Brian Stelter reported (it's unlikely that anyone will actually quit due to the fast-shrinking job market for television reporters).
LOL.
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There's precedent warranting additional legwork on Alfonsi's segments. Alfonsi was the lead correspondent on a debunked story in 2021 that DeSantis gave preferential treatment to the supermarket chain Publix to distribute coronavirus vaccines because the company donated $100,000 to DeSantis's campaign.
"How is that not pay-to-play?" Alfonsi asked DeSantis when she confronted him after one of the governor's press conferences.
Several Florida officials, including Democrats, blasted the 60 Minutes report, saying that DeSantis's office was not involved in awarding contracts to Publix.
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D., Fla.), who oversaw Florida's emergency management division in 2021 and is known for tangling with the GOP, said that the division recommended Publix for the contract because other pharmacies were not equipped to distribute vaccines.
"No one from the Governor's office suggested Publix. It's just absolute malarkey," he said.
Then-Palm Beach County mayor Dave Kerner (D.) called the story "intentionally false." Publix said the story was "absolutely false and offensive." And DeSantis said the story provides an example of "why nobody trusts corporate media."
"They are a disaster in what they are doing," the governor said. "They knew what they were doing was a lie."
Poynter, a media watchdog group funded largely by liberal charities, called the report a "sloppy moment" that "misses the mark." The Publix donations to DeSantis's campaign were "neither illegal nor unusual," according to Poynter.
CBS did not correct or apologize for the segment, only issuing a narrow statement defending why it edited down DeSantis's comments to Alfonsi and pointing out that DeSantis declined 60 Minutes' offer for a full sit-down interview.
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Alfonsi never weighed in on her faulty DeSantis report beyond the narrow statement issued by CBS. 60 Minutes rarely apologizes for or corrects its reporting unless confronted with widespread public opprobrium and overwhelming evidence that its reporting was false.
In more propaganda news: NPR is warning its reporters from continuing to cite a "law professor" named Carl Tobias, who is apparently on dozens and dozens of reporters' cell phones as someone willing to give them whatever quote they need to sell the main political point they're trying to make.
Apparently he's almost always cited as "an expert," and an expert in many different fields. Whatever you need an "expert" to comment on, Carl Tobias is your one-stop shop.
I know what you're thinking: this self-declared media-friendly "expert" in all matters that the media is obsessing about in Current Day must be a conservative.
In 2016, for example, he was offering Politico quotes about Trump's list of possible Supreme Court picks being "known for political activism," despite none actually having any such history.
University of Richmond law professor Carl Tobias is quoted in Politico characterizing Donald Trump's list of putative Supreme Court "candidates" as "fairly notable people but more for their active politics than maybe their jurisprudence." Tobias is not quoted as providing any evidence for this claim.
It's not worth a great deal of time debating the makeup of Trump's list. Like most of Trump's policy statements, it won't bind Trump should he ever be in a position to nominate a Supreme Court justice. It's more of an olive branch to conservatives worried about the future of the court than a real short list for a vacancy. Trump's actual list may be completely different if the opportunity ever presented itself.
This is from National Review, thus the intense anti-Trump animus. And also, the intense being-wrong-about-everything-ness.
I do think, however, that Professor Tobias's statement does a great disservice to those judges who -- through no fault, wish or desire of their own -- ended up on Trump's list. The overwhelming majority of the eleven judges on the list have had little to no involvement in elected politics (of the non-judicial election sort). Many are names that 99.9 percent of Americans have never heard of -- jurists who have had distinguished careers in academia, public service and the judiciary
Take, for instance, the federal judges on the list. Steve Colloton, Tom Hardiman, Diane Sykes, Ray Kethledge, and Raymond Gruender were all appointed to the bench by George W. Bush after careers in private practice (Kethledge and Hardiman), as United States Attorneys (Colloton and Gruender) or as state court judges (Sykes). Bill Pryor, now on the Eleventh Circuit, served as the Attorney General of Alabama before he was recess appointed by President Bush after being filibustered by Senate Democrats. (He was later confirmed by the Senate). But Judge Pryor has hardly been a political activist from the bench. In fact, he was appointed by President Obama to serve on the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which you might think would not have happened if he were a conservative political activist.
The first trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, due in theaters next July.
Matt Damon looks too stupid to be Shrewd Odysseus, and Nolan is doing the Industry Standard race-swapping, but... I do like most Nolan movies, and hope this is good.
How about some superhero slop? Some people are knocking the Supergirl trailer because the character is apparently a nihilist party-girl. I don't think that's necessarily a bad move because, 1, who cares about Supergirl, and 2, you need to differentiate your heroes from each other. If Superman is a golly-gee optimistic boy scout, it isn't a bad call to make a being with his exact same powers and nearly his exact same costume the opposite of Superman.
Ethan Van Sciver also justifies the take, reasoning that, unlike Superman, Supergirl actually lived through the destruction of Krypton and thus is scarred by the episode. Superman, on the other hand, was sent to earth as a baby and didn't know of the destruction of Krytpon until he was told about it as an adult. (I should note that Supergirl was born before Superman, but, due to time dilation shenanigans over the long trip to earth, arrived later than he did and is now younger than he is.)
But now here's some more Slop Superhero Content: Wonder Man. They did a race swap on Wonder Man which I don't care about because, get this, literally no one cares about Wonder Man. The character was invented for purely cynical reasons -- it was practice back then to steal another company's IP by just flipping the gender of a character. Thus, Marvel created Wonder Man just because DC was making some money with Wonder Woman. (And Stan Lee created She-Hulk because he knew that someone, likely DC, would create a female Hulk if he didn't do so first.)
If you never heard of Wonder Man, don't sweat it. He's a D-list team member on whichever Avengers team needed a spare body in the 80s. He was one of those characters I would actively avoid by not buying a comic if he was on the cover or if I knew he was on the team. Like Captain Mar-Vell or Quasar or a dozen other generic Superman-derivatives.
Wonder Man also seems to be yet another attempt to make a superhero show for bored women. It seems to be a workplace comedy set in Hollywood where all the jokes deliberately undermine the conceit of superheroes. This is all silly stuff, ha ha, do you get it?
I mean, yes, I get it, and that's a fine thing for nerds to joke about amongst themselves, but it's a bad idea to make mockery of the concept of the superhero a central theme of actual superhero medium. The suspension of disbelief is like a soap bubble. It takes very little to burst it.
I've said this before: I've hated this trope since they did it to death during Roger Moore's run as James Bond. It's hard to enjoy the fantasy of the superhero spy when the makers of the movies keep screaming at you "This is all stupid and you're stupid for liking this."
I think they put this crap into movies to appeal to Filthy Casuals, who went into the theater agreeing it was all stupid nonsense, and enjoy seeing the movie itself confirm that it's all stupid nonsense. These Filthy Casuals might even be in the theater under protest, dragged to the show by their boyfriends or husbands. The problem is, that only barely appeases the Filthy Casuals, whose business you don't need and wouldn't get if not for the social obligation to go out with one's male partner, and it actively alienates the actual fans who business you actually do need.
Anyway, I also do not care about this. I care less about Wonder Man than I do about Supergirl. At least Supergirl is an older character which, to my conservative mind, makes her more of a cultural artifact worthy of some limited respect.
I finally saw Weapons over the Thanksgiving weekend. It's pretty good. The first half is a grounded and realistic movie about what would really happen if a bizarre tragedy -- an entire class of 11 year old students, save one, running out into the night for no reason to disappear completely -- struck a town. Angry and desolate parents lash out looking for answers and scapegoats.
And this isn't even done in a heavy Message type way, about Us being the Real Villains After All -- it's just what would really happen. You can hardly blame the bereft parents.
I was kind of dreading the second half because I knew there would be a monster and the monster part would ruin the weird-but-realistic tension and mystery of the first half. But it's pretty good. Instead of giving you a plausible explanation, which they probably realized was impossible, they go in the other direction and hit you right in the WTF? button, and it's a pretty square hit.
If you're not a horror fan, I would skip it. The first half is a tense and well-done weird drama without any gore -- just dread -- but the second half does get bloody and disturbing.
The U.S. Coast Guard is pursuing a sanctioned oil tanker near Venezuela as President Donald Trump intensifies his pressure campaign against Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro with a sweeping blockade targeting illicit oil shipments.
"The United States Coast Guard is in active pursuit of a sanctioned dark fleet vessel that is part of Venezuela's illegal sanctions evasion," a U.S. official said in a statement to Fox News' Lucas Tomlinson. "It is flying a false flag and under a judicial seizure order."
Reuters reported that another official noted the tanker was operating under sanctions and that it had not been boarded thus far. The official also said interceptions could be taken by flying or sailing near vessels of concern.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the officials did not provide the name of the vessel or where it was operating while being pursued.
The pursuit comes days after Trump announced a "total and complete blockade" of sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela.
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A second tanker was seized by U.S. forces on Saturday, again, off the coast of Venezuela.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on X that the U.S. Coast Guard, with assistance from the Department of War, apprehended the oil tanker during the early morning hours. The ship had last been docked in Venezuela.
This may result in Maduro's downfall.
It might also result in the downfall of the Castroist regime in Cuba. Venezuela has been sending its communist ally Cuba shipments of very subsidized oil for decades, and now those shipments are less than one-third of what they had been.
Cubans are going hungry, suffering from spreading disease and sleeping outdoors with no electricity to power fans through the sweltering nights. A quarter of the population has fled during the island's most prolonged economic crisis.
And it's about to get worse.
The U.S. is ratcheting up pressure on Havana's key benefactor, Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro's regime, which has kept the Communist-ruled nation afloat with cheap oil. Now Venezuelan oil exports are at risk thanks to a partial blockade targeting sanctioned tankers--the kind that carry about 70% of the country's crude.
One tanker that the U.S. has already seized was en route with almost two million barrels of Venezuelan oil.
The blockade adds to a U.S. pressure campaign on Maduro that also includes a major military buildup in the Caribbean, airstrikes on boats allegedly connected to Venezuelan drug trafficking and threats of bombing the country itself.
Were Venezuela's oil shipments to stop, or sharply decline, the Cubans know it would be devastating.
"It would be the collapse of the Cuban economy, no question about it," said Jorge Piñón, a Cuban exile who tracks the island's energy ties to Venezuela at the University of Texas at Austin.
Venezuela has been vital for Cuba's economy since 1999, when then-President Hugo Chávez described the two countries as bound together "in a sea of happiness." Cuba deployed sports trainers, doctors and counterintelligence agents to Venezuela, the latter to root out traitors who might overthrow Chávez.
Venezuela responded with 100,000 barrels of oil shipped to Cuba daily.
The heavily subsidized oil shipments have fallen to 30,000 barrels a day. Agents from Cuba's vaunted intelligence service remain in Venezuela, where they have worked to purge disloyal military officers and government officials, helping ensure Maduro remains ensconced in power.
Cuba's deep reliance on Venezuela means Cuba's Communist government is doing all it can to prevent Maduro--who trained in Cuba as a young man--from being forced from office in his greatest challenge after nearly 13 years in office. That means ensuring he is always surrounded by security and loyal aides, with no one carrying cellphones or other electronic devices.
"They are taking very good care of Nicolás Maduro and his immediate successors," said Thomas A. Shannon Jr., a former high-ranking U.S. diplomat who engaged frequently with the Venezuelan regime. "The Cubans are not going to go quietly into the dark night."
Is this good or bad? I'll reserve judgement until Tucker Carlson explains to me how communists are really just Friends We Haven't Met Yet.
Podcast: Will Ukraine be a flashpoint for a Korean conflict, Trump's intemperate Reiner comments, it's the economy stupid! the Monroe/Trump Doctrine, Bondi, Brown, MIT, and more!
Megyn Kelly finally calls out Candace Owens
Whoops, I meant she bravely attacks Sydney Sweeney for "bending the knee." (Sweeney put out a very empty PR statement saying "I'm against hate." Whoop-de-doo.)
Megyn Kelly claims she doesn't want to call people out on the right when asked about Candace Owens but then has no compunctions at all about calling people out on the right.
As long as they're not Candace Owens. Strangely, she seems blind and deaf to anything Candace Owens says. That's why this woman calls her "Megyn Keller."
She's now asking her pay-pigs in Pakistan how they think she should address the Candace Owens situation, and if they think this is really all about Israel and the Jews.
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]
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