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Good morning kids. Of course the main story remains the fallout over his past Tuesday's Election Day insanity. Yes, the most high profile race was of course New York City deciding that a full on Bloodthirsty communist Jihadist was the ideal choice to be mayor. Other significant races included the passage of California's gerrymandering law that will effectively eliminate five GOP congressional seats and Virginia electing a thug with homicidal fantasies as its top law enforcement officer.
what I cannot understand are the mixed signals whereby we have all kinds of polls and indicators that younger generations are turning away from the Democrat Left "brand" as it were and that in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination many seem to be returning to traditional religion and church, rejecting wokeism and on and on and on. And yet there are polls (yeah, I know) showing that the aforementioned youths are embracing socialism with a vengeance, of course not really knowing or understanding it's bloody legacy and toll of human life approaching over 200 million in little more than a century. Of course this goes hand in hand with the brainwashing and malediction and inculcation of hatred of country and society.
ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
Two more suspects have been arrested in connection with a foiled Halloween terror plot, according to a law enforcement source. The individuals, identified as Tomas Kaan Jimenez-Guzal and Milo Sederat, were taken into custody on Tuesday as part of an ongoing investigation that could lead to additional arrests. The New York City Police Department (NYPD) Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau assisted federal authorities in locating and apprehending the suspects. It remains unclear whether the two are among the unnamed co-conspirators mentioned in earlier court documents. Feds Catch Two More in ISIS-Linked Halloween Plot.
Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats wield chaos as a strategy, overwhelming voters with nonstop turmoil that obscures blame and rallies key groups—leaving Republicans scrambling to counter before the clock runs out. Does the Democrats’ Chaos Strategy Work?
In case you hadn't noticed how brazen far-left Democrats have become since President Donald Trump won the 2024 election, allow me to introduce you to a woman who previously admitted that she was living in the U.S. illegally and who just won an election to become the next mayor of St. Paul, Minn. The left isn't even hiding the fact that illegals are participating in our political/governmental systems anymore. Illegal Immigrant Wins Mayoral Election in Major City
The DHS enacted a rule on Wednesday titled “Protection of Federal Property” that allows more law enforcement action against rioters, the agency told the Daily Caller News Foundation in an exclusive statement. Officers guarding DHS buildings may arrest those wearing a mask while committing a crime, using “unmanned aircraft” such as drones to damage federal property, tampering with government tech systems, obstructing access, impeding federal employees from performing official duties, disorderly conduct and threatening to commit any violent crime. EXCLUSIVE: Feds Find New Ways To Show Anti-ICE Rioters Who’s Boss (call me when ICE responds with machine gun fire and flamethrowers - jjs)
Marxism targets the disillusioned with the lofty-sounding idea of the working class controlling the political, economic, and social structures and thereby the means of production—no more working for The Man! Mamdani's win is a tribute to mass migration
Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair told Politico the GOP fumbled the 2025 elections because they did not talk about affordability, something Trump will be focusing on for the midterms. Democrats won a series of high profile elections Tuesday, a year after Trump won the presidential election. Blair reacted to the results in an interview with Politico, telling the outlet that Democrats won because they focused on affordability. (RELATED: Unhappy With Election Results? Blame Women) Top Trump Advisor Admits GOP Fumbled Tuesday Elections, Must Focus On Affordability For 2026
If there is a downside in this for Alvin Bragg, it’s that a soon-to-be neutered NYPD will be less likely to pull his chestnuts out of the fire by keeping crime under control through stepped-up enforcement, as it has over the last few years. The truth is that Bragg and Mamdani are two sides of the same coin. But it’s going to be hard for the public to point a finger at anyone other than Mamdani when public safety begins to deteriorate. With Alvin Bragg’s re-election under a Mayor Mamdani, ‘justice’ in NYC is about to get worse
What observers have called an “Islamist” or “Jihadist” attack, the kind long known in French cities, has struck ‘La France Profonde’, or deep France, with at least ten injured by a man driving a car into members of the public on a picturesque island best known for its fishing community and slow pace of life. ‘Allahu Akhbar’: Suspect Arrested After ‘Deliberately’ Running Down Pedestrians
A young revolutionary is about to come face-to-face with political reality. (He's the entire perpetually Leftist NY city council rolled into one man stuffed inside an Ayatollah - jjs) The Clock Now Ticks on Zohran Mamdani
Kelsea Bond in Atlanta, Georgia, Denzel McCampbell in Detroit, Michigan, Danny Nowell in Carrboro, North Carolina, Ayah Al-Zubi in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Frankie Fritz in Greenbelt, Maryland, and four Minneapolis, Minnesota, candidates won city council races after receiving DSA endorsements, according to multiple reports. The results show that DSA-style radicals bucking the establishment left through Mamdani marked a wider trend. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Mamdani Ally’s Name Mysteriously Ends Up On Hamas-Linked Group’s Guest List) Mamdani’s Socialist Org Makes Progress Flooding Local Offices With Radicals Across US
Jacob Frey secures a third term as mayor, continuing his (fake-as-a-3-dollar-bill) moderate approach to governance and rejecting the more progressive policies championed by Fateh. Somali-American Fails in Bid to Become Wokest Mayor.
Maduro, during an event with members of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) broadcast by his regime’s flagship propaganda television channel VTV, claimed that he finds himself “still surprised” to see coverage of himself in U.S. media. As such, he said that he feels “more famous” than Taylor Swift and other international artists. Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro: ‘I’m More Famous than Taylor Swift’ (Big deal, as John Lennon quipped, the Beatles were bigger than Jesus! - jjs)
Another month has passed, and so it is time for my monthly update on the never-ending sunspot cycle on the Sun. using NOAA’s own monthly update of its graph of sunspot activity and annotating it with extra information to illustrate the larger scientific context. Sunspot update: Solar activity continues to decline as predicted
Just as Trump had given no reasons why he had withdrawn Isaacman’s nomination in late May, in his announcement Tuesday Trump made no effort to explain why he had changed his mind. Trump renominates Jared Isaacman for NASA administrator
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Christopher F. Rufo: The racialist influencer represents a spectacle that demands cool analysis rather than emotional reaction. What Everyone Misses About Nick Fuentes
On his Tuesday show, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel sought to explain why ticket sales for the Kennedy Center have fallen since President Trump named himself chairman. Through a satirical ad from Trump, Kimmel claimed the answer lies in anti-woke programming that is also pro-Nazi. Kimmel Skit Claims Nazi Programming To Blame For Decline In Kennedy Center Ticket Sales
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In a survey of over 300 executives from large US and UK game companies, 72% either slightly or strongly agreed that Steam constitutes a monopoly over PC games.
So by "developers" you mean... Not developers.
Many customers are so adamant about only purchasing games through Steam that the industry's largest publishers, including EA, Ubisoft, and even Microsoft, have tried - and failed - to withhold their titles from the service.
Because Steam works. The competitors less so.
The one standout is GOG, which gets in your way even less than Steam.
"Client" product sales - that is, the CPUs normal humans buy - were up 46% to $2.8 billion. Gaming revenue soared by 181% to $1.3 billion, though the market is still dominated by Nvidia and AMD's gains are a result of moving from "adequate" to "pretty good" rather than stealing the market lead.
Total revenue was $9.2 billion for the quarter, up 36% from last year, and profits were up 61% to $1.2 billion.
Pricing problems aside, DDR5 is going to be with us for a while. DDR6 is not expected until 2029 or 2030. Updates like MRDIMM Gen2 are set to double the speed of DDR5 by the simple trick of using two banks of chips at once, so we'll probably be fine.
(A footgun is a gun designed explicitly for shooting yourself in the foot.)
I've said before that Unicode is a semantic Superfund site, and Python has been around longer than Unicode - though not by much - so it's not surprising that some things are painful.
I do wonder though if there are any programming languages where Unicode is not painful. Unicode attempts to create a single character set merging every human language in history despite the fact that the rules resolving said characters are often mutually contradictory.
This is where you boot your PC up and are met by a demand for your BitLocker password, usually despite you never having heard of BitLocker in your life and certainly not having consciously set it up with a password.
Meaning - if you don't have another PC handy to research the workaround this time - your data is being held ransom by your own computer.
Microsoft had a similar bug back in May. And July last year. And August of 2022.
Windows 10's lack of updates looks better every day.
Not At All Tech News
My house has artificial turf at one side and the rear (between the house and a retaining wall) which the builders told me they put in because keeping a lawn alive in those areas would be too much work.
I tried to talk them down a bit on the price because I knew I wanted to replace it with something less plastic, but they weren't having it, and it was a sellers market right then with a big chunk of NSW under water.
Anyway, I had a sudden thought today that the surface under the fake grass was rather hard underfoot, and if for some reason they had concreted it that would drastically limit my options. (I'm thinking of a mix of pavers and pebbles, maybe a couple of strategic shrubs, but shrubs don't grow well in concrete unless you really don't want them to).
Peeled back a segment.
Nope. Just packed earth. All good.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: Need some rain here, to be honest. Ground is as hard as a window pane.
Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - November 5, 2025 [TRex]
—Open Blogger
Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another random assortment of interweb fodder and mystery clicks. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Good will offerings of amusing puns are happily accepted. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.
[Top photo: Lost River Butcher Block, Lost River, West Virginia]
"Barron, it's Dad. I know you're studying hard and getting good grades. Keep it up. Just calling to make sure you don't miss the Wednesday ONT. Your mother always says that ONT knowledge is just as important as book knowledge. She's a smart woman."
The odds of a flying triple cat attack from the bushes in Japan is low, but is never zero.
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Since Doof ended the ONT last night with a magazine for Morons, question for Horde wisdom: are there any good print magazines left?
Not so long ago, there was a magazine for every niche interest. Almost everything that existed in real life, history, hobbying, the working world, or even science fiction had a following and at least one magazine. Magazines are a rich time capsule treasure trove of source material for the anthropologist and sociologist.
Many magazines have gone away, gone online only, shrunk in size, gone woke, or otherwise failed the signal to noise test (or some combination of those). Are there any good ones still out there? On any subject? At any price?
This is not a dig at magazines in general (other than Teen Vogue). The world of print advertising has changed and the interweb is a difficult competitor. Advertising dollars have largely gravitated to social media of various forms. Online is fine, but there is no substitute for flipping the pages between your fingers.
Is any magazine still publishing that should be known among the Horde? Think broadly and include magazines that are worthwhile, even if they're not in your particular area of interest.
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Her: "Where would we put a giant sized TRex? We don't have room."
Me:
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What could go wrong? This sounds like something an evil villain would conjure. Why do I envision being beneath a giant magnifying glass and fried like a bug?
California-based start-up Reflect Orbital has applied for a government license to launch a giant mirror to space next year. The mission is meant to be the first step in the company's ambitious plan to operate a constellation of more than 4,000 solar reflectors to boost solar power production in twilight hours on Earth.
According to the company's application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Reflect Orbital wants to fly its demonstration satellite EARENDIL-1 next year, with an expected launch date in April. Once in orbit, the satellite will unfold a mirror that measures 60 by 60 feet (18 by 18 meters) in order to demonstrate its ability to direct sunlight down onto targets on Earth. The company, which won a $1.25 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the U.S. Air Force in May, says its future constellation will deliver light on demand after sunset and before sunrise to paying customers on Earth, effectively extending the daytime hours.
Reflect Orbital claims on its website that its constellation will enable solar power generation at night, make crops grow better and stronger, possibly replace urban lighting, provide emergency illumination in disaster zones and enable people to work into the night.
Reflect Orbital's spokesperson told Space.com in an email that by 2030, the company envisions a constellation of 4,000 of such satellites, circling Earth in a sun-synchronous orbit following the boundary between day and night.
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Food thread adjacent:
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The World Series may be finished but the quest for baseball knowledge continues:
Sammy Hagar's Eddie Van Halen tribute for the big ONT finish:
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Freaky: A double amputee tests her bionic arms, and her wireless, remote-controlled, detachable bionic hands. Is this real? I don't know, it's a long day and I'm dead.
Sen. John Fetterman tore into Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday after the former House Speaker unleashed yet another unhinged attack on President Donald Trump, calling him "the worst thing on the face of the Earth." Speaking on Fox News' The Story with Martha MacCallum, the Pennsylvania Democrat said Pelosi's rhetoric was "way over the line" and proof that his party has lost all sense of proportion.
"The worst creatures on the face of the earth are Hamas or like the leadership of Iran -- there's a lot of people on that," Fetterman said. "I would never use those kinds of terms, and I wouldn't describe our president -- you can really disagree with him, and I do disagree, but I don't think that's really entirely appropriate. But that's her words for that. So for me, that's just a different kind of a Democrat."
Pelosi, who's reportedly weighing retirement after Tuesday's elections, made her remarks on CNN, sneering that Trump is "a vile creature" and "the worst thing on the face of the Earth." When pressed by reporter Elex Michaelson, she claimed Trump had "turned the Supreme Court into a rogue court," "abolished the House of Representatives," and "chilled the press." She even accused him of "scaring people who are in our country legally."
NEWS: Speaker Mike Johnson Warns Tucker Carlson, Conservatives Against Amplifying Antisemitism
Pressed by @NRO about whether Carlson’s views and voice in particular have a place in the conservative movement following his decision to give Fuentes the opportunity to air his… https://t.co/XiFaacVJpXpic.twitter.com/SgkblcgWF2
Heritage President Kevin Roberts, Who Defended Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes: I Was Misled, I Didn't Know the World's Most Famous Internet Nazi Nick Fuentes Was a Nazi
—Ace
Before getting to that: There is an idea being pushed by Nick Fuentes -- and now by Tucker Carlson and his various simps and cucks -- that it is absolutely crucial to the conservative movement that we accept in Nazis like Nick Fuentes.
Where did this idea come from? Nick Fuentes has been attacking the actual conservative movement for years and telling his "Groyper" supporters to vote for Kamala Harris.
Nick Fuentes, who noted World War Two Revisionist Scholar Tucker Carlson attempted to mainstream, told his supporters to vote against Trump and for Kamala Harris. He also vowed to destroy Turning Point USA and Charlie Kirk.
I have avoided even learning about Fuentes because 1, I'm not super-interested in "speech patrolling the right," 2, I'm tired of the left-wing media telling me who my thought leaders are (hint, it's not Nick Fuentes) and 3, he's a loudmouthed, crude, moronic asshole who routinely praises Adolf Hitler and he's just not worth my time.
HOWEVER, now that Tucker Carlson gave him a fluffer interview mainstreaming his views (while avoiding talking about what his views actually are), I'm forced to discuss him.
Here's what Nick Fuentes says about JD Vance:
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OUCH! #MAGA is eating its own.
Here's what Nick Fuentes says about VP JD Vance...
"He is literally a fat, gay, race traitor that married a jееt."
From context, I understand "jeet" to be a slur for an Indian.
I am not upset he is insulting Vance or his "jeet" wife.
I am pointing out that, contrary to the claims of Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and even Matt Walsh, who says we must stop fighting about Nick Fuentes and simply "unite" with him for the good of the party, Fuentes and his Gay Nazi fans are not part of the party, and they actively campaign and vote for Democrats, and fight to destroy MAGA and the GOP so that his version of a reconstituted Nazi Party can rise up in his ashes.
In other words: We have won many elections without Fuentes and his Nazis, and in fact we won 2024 despite Fuentes urging his supporters to vote for Kamala Harris.
So why, exactly, do we need to turn the GOP into the New Nazi Party to win? How can Tucker Carlson claim that Nick Fuentes is vital to our futures?
In terms the Nazis would use: The Nazis are not looking to assimilate into the party.
They are looking to replace the party.
The Nazis have a replacement theory of their own.
And I say: "They will not replace us!"
Candace Owens, meanwhile, is telling her supporters to not vote at all "until we find out who killed Charlie Kirk." Who she's pretty sure is Binyamin Netanyahu and also, All Jews, Generally.
As Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly and Matt Walsh instruct us: It is important to form a coalition with these rock-ribbed Republican and conservative stalwarts to avoid "dividing the right."
If you criticize them, remember, you're "cancelling" them, and you wouldn't cancel a Nazi, would you? Hypocrite!
I'm not the biggest fan of Ben Shapiro but his exposé of Fuentes and his frequent utterance of "Heil Hitler," Holocaust denial, and constant claims that a cabal of "occult" demonic Jews rule the world, is outstanding.
Watch at least the first five minutes. No, Fuentes is not just "trolling the libtards" by saying he's a Nazi. He's an actual Nazi.
The back half of this takedown is even better, as he demonstrates that Fuentes has been attacking Tucker Carlson for a long while, and Carlson fears that Fuentes is stealing his base of antisemitism-curious conspiracy theorists away from him. So, Shapiro says, the "coward" Tucker Carlson -- who will not speak the antisemitic conspiracy theories that drive him, but instead has on guests whom he gives tongue-baths to who will speak the words that Tucker Carlson will not -- just interviews people with Interesting Theories about Jews, and then says "It's important we have these 'discussions,' about which topic I will not specify."
He means "the JQ" -- Nazis' shorthand for the "Jewish Question" that Hitler answered in 1940-1945. What shall we do with these Jews who live among us, subverting us?
Well, if it's important to have discussions about whether or not Jewish Warlocks are hypnotizing gullible Christians into selling their souls for them, that it's also important to have discussions about whether Tucker Carlson is now simply a Nazi.
Either we can have these controversial yet "important" "discussions" about all controversial matters, Tucker, or we can't have them at all. It's not just you who gets to decide who will be demonized and have hate-mobs whipped up against them.
Bonus points to Shapiro for repeatedly stating, correctly, that Tucker Carlson is a "cuck" who "cucked out" to Nazis.
No to the groypers. No to cowards like Tucker Carlson, who normalize their trash. No to those who champion them. No to demoralization. No to bigotry and anti-meritocratic horseshit. No to anti-Americanism. No. pic.twitter.com/71TModtGWq
Shapiro also calls out Carlson for something I've repeatedly pointed out myself: Tucker Carlson has a big problem with the pro-Israel Trump, but he knows his audience is pro-Trump, so he attacks Trump's positions by assigning them to MAGA enemies like Lindsey Graham and then attacking Lindsey Graham.
Yes, Graham is odious. And yes, Graham said "Bomb Iran."
But Trump said "Bomb Iran" too, and when Trump said it it was more important, because Trump said that as a command to the US Air Force.
But Tucker Carlson is a wormy, sniveling coward, so when he attacks the pro-Israel Trump he pretends he's talking about other people.
Be a man, Tucker. You want to take on Trump? Then stop hiding behind Lindsey Graham and take on Trump.
But you won't. Coward.
We're getting a lot of "Just stop arguing, unite the right even if it means uniting with Nazis" from people I have lost a lot of respect for, like the formerly stellar Jesse Kelly.
Kelly acts as if it's the Dirty Jews who are provoking this dispute and that "both sides" are equally to blame, the Nazis who say "Jews Will Not Replace Us" and the Jews who object, "We're not replacing anyone."
Especially if that kid wasn't my kid in the first place, but some snotty teenage hitchhiker in an SS uniform who broke into the station wagon while we stopped for lunch at Stuckey's
People will claim this is "just about Israel." It's not. Tucker Carlson has, over the past couple of years, repeatedly accused Jews of murdering Christians, platformed Nazi sympathizers who say the US entered World War Two on the wrong side, stated that there was no one on earth he hated more than "Christian Zionists" -- Christians who think the Jews should have a home of their own (funny, no one ever questions whether the British should have a home of their own, or the Irish), attacked Mark Levin and other politically-active Jews of "dual loyalty," etc.
If you haven't noticed, an awful lot of people, including Hamas terrorists, claim "I just opposed the government of Israel" but then attack non-Israeli Jews. Tucker Carlson is now a proud member of that group.
He also, of course, gave a tongue bath to Putin and claimed that Akshually Russia is a Super-Advanced High-Functioning Democracy.
And he claimed that Hamas was not a terrorist group, pleading ignorance on the subject, claiming that while other people (Jews) claim it's a terrorist group, he has no evidence of this, and that Hamas "seems like a political organization to me."
And then: Platforming the Nazi and agreeing with everything the Nazi said.
This was inevitable. This is where the Tucker Carlson Train was always headed. He knows people aren't ready for full-on Nazism yet, so he's using the tactic of boiling the frogs little by little so they barely notice they're in a warm bath of Nazism.
He claims "of course I didn't allege the Jews did it" before immediately laying out a trail of bread crumbs that, when followed, leads directly to "The Jews did it."
I joined the Republican Fucking Party to traffic in the old "Loose Change" Bush Blew Up Tower 7 conspiracy theories? I now have to co-sign Rosie O'Donnell's "Fire Doesn't Melt Steel" metalurgical proofs?
If this is the Republican Party, or this is what the Republican Party becomes, then I'm not part of it. So Tucker and Steve Bannon can scheme about how many more "Republicans" we have when we mainstream Nazism and white supremacy, but they had better count on millions and millions of people fleeing the party.
I did not sign up for this bullshit. I will not become a Nazi to "own the libs."
With that ugly backstory out of the way -- and I have avoided discussing this on this site for a while; this is not a fight I sought to have, with anyone -- we now come to Kevin Roberts, president of Heritage, who really threw gas on this fire by claiming that anyone who had a problem with Tucker Carlson's turn towards Nazism is just a dirty "Cancel Culture" wokester and we shouldn't cancel anyone, including Fuentes, including any other out-and-proud white supremacist Nazi.
This fight raged all through the weekend, with Heritage's anti-semitism task force resigning rather than continue employment at an organization which has officially declared that antisemitism to be a respectable position in rightist thought.
Dana Loesch as been a star on this issue. She interrogated Kevin Roberts and left him babbling like a baby. Heritage's public statement spoke of a "venomous coalition" -- Jews, non-anti-semites -- that organized to say "Enough" to Tucker Carlson.
She asked him if it was also "venomous" for Tucker Carlson to say that there was no one on earth he despised more than Christian Zionists.
(0:02:26) Do you still stand by the views in your posted video? (0:04:08) Does criticism equal cancellation in this context? (0:05:11) Was there enough pushback… pic.twitter.com/EVJUE83BYs
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Dana Loesch Calls Out Conservative Influencers for Sacrificing Principles to Social Media Stardom!
"You pay attention to who talks about this and who doesn't because the people that don't talk about it are the people that are trying to guard their ass."
In a fiery segment on the Dana Loesch Show, the conservative commentator lambasted prominent figures on the right for their reluctance to confront controversial ideologies within their ranks, attributing it to a fear of jeopardizing lucrative platforms and audience access.
Loesch highlighted how many have remained silent on divisive issues, driven by a desire for "adjacency to that influence," such as sharing stages with high-profile personalities like Tucker Carlson or embarking on campus tours for personal acclaim. "That's why a lot of these people don't speak out," she asserted, urging listeners to scrutinize the quiet ones: "You pay attention to who talks about this and who doesn't because the people that don't talk about it are the people that are trying to guard their ass."
I admit I'm one of the people who ducked this issue, at least on the blog. I did talk it up on X. As I said, I wasn't eager to get into this fight -- but I'm also not going to run cover to Tucker Carlson, who plainly has something wrong with him. (He's slurring his consonant clusters just like Biden did, now. "Abstract" gets pronounced "abstack." S's frequently become Sh's.)
I'm pissed at people like Matt Walsh and Jesse Kelly. If you want to remain silent -- THEN STAY SILENT. Don't peddle this bullshit that the Nazis and the people the Nazis are slurring and saying should be "given the death penalty" are both equally to blame.
On with Dana Loesch:
Loesch dismissed excuses for avoiding criticism of figures like Candace Owens, mocking the notion of her as a "young mom" at 36 years old as mere deflection, and warned that such silence prioritizes "the lifespan of their digital economy more than the health of the movement on the right."
Loesch expressed hope that her words would "convict them in their hearts and minds," labeling their timidity "shameful" in 2025, when some conservatives hesitate to denounce admiration for figures like Stalin due to backlash from online "troll armies." She defended the right to distance oneself from harmful ideas as "free association," not cancellation, and scorned those who cry foul as "a bunch of sensitive snowflake sissies who should be disbarred from any other contributions to conservative discussion."
And now, as Heritage is at the crossroads of either officially becoming Stormfront Central or just closing up shop, Kevin Roberts decides that he was misled by a junior staffer who misled him about the content of Nick Fuentes' beliefs and Tucker Carlson's warm welcome of those beliefs. That staffer has now resigned, and Roberts would like to keep his Grifter Job Please and Thank You.
The Washington Free Beacon obtained video of a meeting today at the august conservative think tank after Roberts asked the board to address the staff. Referring to his defense of Tucker Carlson and his interview with Nick Fuentes, whose Stalinophilia blew up the final weeks of the election season. "I made a mistake," Roberts told his staff, and in the process admitted to a series of them:
"I made a mistake and I let you down and I let down this institution. Period. Full Stop," Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts told the staff of the conservative think tank on Wednesday, a week after he posted a video decrying a "venomous" coalition attacking the right-wing podcast host Tucker Carlson--and declaring the Heritage Foundation would always defend him against "the slander of bad actors who serve someone else's agenda."
Roberts said he was willing to resign but felt a "moral obligation" to repair the situation and had told the organization's board of directors: "I made the mess, let me clean it up." ...
While Roberts stated unequivocally in his original video that the Heritage Foundation would never cancel "our friends," he said Wednesday he should have made clear there was a "limiting principle."
"You can say you're not going to participate in canceling someone ... while also being clear you're not endorsing everything they've said, you're not endorsing softball interviews, you're not endorsing putting people on shows, and I should've made that clear."
One limiting principle would be to research the issue before issuing statements on behalf of the organization. Admitting that he still "didn't know much about this Fuentes guy," Roberts explained that he simply trusted his now-former chief of staff to do his thinking for him. "This is an explanation, not an excuse," Roberts told Heritage staff:
Roberts said his former chief of staff, Ryan Neuhaus, who has since resigned, wrote the script for the video and deceived him into believing colleagues had approved the message. "Our former chief of staff had the pen," he said. "When the script was presented to me ... I understood from our former colleague that it was approved, it was signed off on by the handful of colleagues who are part of that. Still my fault, I should have had the wisdom to say, 'Time out, let's double check this.'"
Bull. Shit. As I said, I have avoided the bother of looking into Nick Fuentes because he's literally nothing to me and I do not feel the need to research anyone the left claims is one of my "thought leaders." However, I have seen enough little clips of Fuentes saying "Heil Hitler" and questioning how many Jews were killed in the Holocaust (in a very cute, very clever little speech in which he refers to Jews as "cookies" and wonders how many ovens you'd need to bake six million "cookies") to know that he is not someone I should rush to defend.
Again, if you want to stay silent, stay silent. Do not rush to defend people who sure seem to be actual Nazis -- not fake Nazis as the left is always alleging, but real, bona-fide, "Heil Hitler" Jews should be "given the death penalty" Nazis) and claim you're just being a Free Speech Angel.
By the way, Ed Morrissey mentions Stalin. During Tucker's "interview" -- really his puff-piece promotion -- Fuentes avoided mentioning his open admiration of the "bad ass" and "cool" Adolf Hitler, but he did confess his admiration for Josef Stalin.
Sensing this would be a bridge too far for the audience he is bread-crumbing towards Nazism, Tucker expressed surprise and changed the subject, saying "We'll circle back to that."
But just like Jen Psaki, he never did. He didn't want to show any disagreement with Fuentes, so he just cucked out for his bull and changed the subject to something more agreeable. Like the "heresy" of "Christian Zionism" or something.
I know some people still like Tucker Carlson and so I'm not eager to get into fights with you. I will, however, not cuck myself out for Tucker Carlson like he cucked himself out to appeal to Nick Fuentes' Nazi audience. I will not lie for him, I will not minimize his evil, and I will not urge that we "united" with him so that he continue mainstreaming Nazism without anyone kicking up a fuss.
If he wants to keep having these "important discussions," then you better bet I will be right here ready to have these "Important discussions" right beside him.
The United States job market did better than expected in October in terms of job growth, with over 40,000 new private sector jobs.
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It is important that these jobs were in the private sector, a marked contrast to the Biden administration's job market, when all the touted "job gains" were either in the federal government or going to immigrants.
In contrast, as of July, under the Trump administration, employment of American-born workers had reached a record high while jobs for foreigners declined. While legal immigrants can strengthen our economy, the decline in employment of U.S.-born men -- particularly blue collar workers -- was a serious Biden administration crisis which the Trump administration has corrected, partly by discouraging employment of illegal aliens.
Remember, the government is shut down which is causing economic disruption and decline. So 42,000 private sector jobs is a win.
We are approaching America’s Golden Age under President Trump.
Jobs are booming, inflation is falling, and Main Street and Wall Street will rise together in an era of Parallel Prosperity. pic.twitter.com/bAA49pid7u
— Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (@SecScottBessent) November 4, 2025
(And women -- a 22-year-old woman is in intensive care, as is a 69-year-old man.)
They're your fellow countrymen.
Right?
Right, "French Man"?
Driver rams into pedestrians in western France, five injured
There's another descriptor for this "French man." Apparently he's a "driver."
No additional facts needed nor wanted!
SAINT-PIERRE-D'OLERON, France, Nov 5 (Reuters) - A French man rammed his car into pedestrians and cyclists on Oleron island off France's Atlantic coast on Wednesday, injuring five people and shouting "Allahu Akbar" when arrested by police, officials said.
I wonder if that tips the authorities to the motive of "French Man"/"Driver."
Officials including Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said the motive for the attack on a quiet island popular with summer tourists remained unknown, adding that the suspect was not on a watchlist of radicalised individuals.
Motive unknown! Perfect. May it always be unknown. We cannot risk backlash against Muslims, even if that means consenting to the murders of tens of thousands of non-Muslims.
"This morning, starting at 8:40, an individual driving his vehicle went on a journey during which he deliberately hit several people who were in his path, either on bicycles or on foot," Nunez told reporters on the island.
"Five people were hit during his journey, which lasted about 35 minutes." The suspect's car struck pedestrians and cyclists in various areas of the island, officials said.
It was a journey of self-actualization for this Austere Religious Scholar.
Nunez confirmed media reports that the suspect shouted "Allahu Akbar" (Arabic for "God is Greatest") when arrested, but said that was only one element in a broader investigation.
Just one single element. Probably means nothing. Just something one says, you know. Like "Gesundheit."
Two of the victims were seriously injured, including the parliamentary assistant of a far-right National Rally lawmaker, Nunez said.
Probably deserved it.
Note that the National Rally is identified as "far right" while the "French Man" is identified as "Driver."
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Nunez said the anti-terrorism prosecutor's office was not in charge of the inquiry at this stage...
One of Biden's Inner Circle Had Four Million Reasons To Cover Up Biden's Galloping Dementia: A $4 Million Bonus if Biden Were Re-Elected
—Ace
This is from last week, but I only saw it Friday night.
Mike Donnilon was one of the five people gatekeeping access to Biden, and hiding Biden in the basement, and running the government as Sundown enjoyed his 19 hours a day of "naps."
He had reasons beyond mere partisanship to hide Biden from the world (and hide the world from Biden).
A longtime aide to former President Joe Biden admitted that he stood to gain up to $8 million if the Democratic leader won re-election in 2024, newly released video shows.
Michael Donilon served as senior advisor to the president for the entirety of Biden's four-year term. Their relationship goes back decades, however. Donilon first worked for Biden in 1981 when he was a U.S. senator from Delaware.
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Donilon was then asked whether there were any circumstances under which he would have received a bonus, to which he acknowledged there was.
"What were those circumstances?" House Oversight Committee staff asked.
Mike Donilon walks to Marine One
Donilon said, "That Joe Biden would have been re-elected president of the United States."
That sum would have been $4 million, Donilon acknowledged, in addition to the $4 million he was already paid.
He defended it as "fair agreement" when asked if he believed it was a significant sum of money.
Donilon was then asked, "Do you think that the prospect of a significant payday, say $4 million, could impact someone's judgment in general?"
"Well, I think under the circumstances you're discussing, the incentive was to keep the president in the race. I, at the end, gave him the judgment that he should withdraw," Donilon responded.
"At the end." When the Democrat Party and Democrat-Antifa-Media Party all demanded Biden withdraw, he means.
The House Oversight Committee released video of Donilon's interview and others on the heels of its final report into Biden's autopen use.
The GOP-led report accused Biden's inner circle of actively conspiring to keep signs of diminishing mental acuity from the American public up until when he dropped out of the 2024 presidential race.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., heaped doubt on whether Biden actually signed off on all of his executive actions when the autopen was used -- in particular, the thousands of clemency orders he authorized during his term.
Comer said Biden's autopen-authorized actions should be considered "void" and called on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to review the matter.
Watch Mike Donilon, Biden's former senior advisor, squirm as he admits he made $4 MILLION from the campaign and stood to get a $4 MILLION BONUS if Biden won re-election.
Virginia voters just handed the state's top law enforcement job to a man who fantasizes about shooting Republicans in the head. Democrat Jay Jones, a former state delegate with a history of unhinged remarks, narrowly defeated Republican incumbent Jason Miyares on Tuesday, winning 51.6% of the vote with 80% of precincts reporting, according to the Associated Press. His victory marks a stunning comeback for a candidate who spent the final stretch of the campaign explaining away violent threats and a sketchy community service arrangement tied to a reckless driving case.
Jones's troubles began when 2022 text messages surfaced in which he told then--Republican colleague Carrie Coyner he'd give former House Speaker Todd Gilbert "two bullets to the head" and "piss on his grave." Coyner also recalled Jones remarking in 2020 that "the deaths of a few police officers could save other lives."
Just two days before those texts leaked, court records revealed that Jones had satisfied a reckless driving sentence -- after being caught going 116 mph in a 70 -- by logging half of his required 1,000 hours of community service with his own political action committee, Meet Our Moment. Prosecutors later appointed a special investigator to look into whether Jones misrepresented those hours. The deal spared him jail time and left him with only a $1,500 fine.
Miyares, whose mother escaped communist Cuba and who made history in 2021 as Virginia's first Hispanic attorney general, ran on law and order. But Democrats rallied around Jones despite the violent rhetoric and ethics questions, proving once again that partisan loyalty trumps basic decency.
I hope you are proud of yourselves. You sure "owned" Donald Trump and MAGA.
Yep. We hear all the time about decency being on the ballot and how "grab 'em by the pussy" was totally disqualifying. Trump is mean. He doesn't conform to the country's norms.
Women, in particular, are all about decency, norms, and kindness I am told, and the vote totals clearly show that. [Sarcasm. See exit polls below. -- ace]
I don't know what to say anymore to you guys, except that I don't recognize the country I grew up in. Virginia Democrats elected a governor who encouraged people to embrace their rage and gave the nod to a man who said that he would put two bullets in the head of one of his colleagues and be happy to see his children die in their mother's arms.
Only 46% of Virginia voters thought that was disqualifying, and as far as I can tell, every single one of them was a Republican.
BTW, I did something yesterday that I'm not sure was the right thing. About midday, I saw the betting markets moving slowly, and then more decisively, to predict Democrat wins across the board. I know some of you saw them too. But I didn't want to mention them because, in case they were wrong, I didn't want to pull a Dan Rather Florida call and depress voting.
I don't know if just embargoing information was the right call. I did say I was feeling negative about our chances, without saying why.
As you can probably tell, I'm in a rancid mood. This is the one race I thought we'd win.
How are you? Do you have more perspective and equanimity than I'm managing to show?
NOTE: This piece was written before final election results came in last night. As a result, this is not about yesterday's winners and losers, though it is election-related. Feel free to go off-topic to the news of the day
On one of the weekend threads, I saw a comment that enraged me. Not because the commenter was wrong or offensive or because he was dishonest or anything like that, but because his comment underscored a very real problem that surfaces in nearly every election: the powers that be playing language games to con the public:
We voted early last week here in Texas. 17 constitutional amendments on the ballot. I skipped one because I could not understand what they were trying to accomplish the language was so convulated.
This is so common with ballot language that you can set your watch by it. Somebody wants to put one over on the public, and so writes something so confusing that they get the outcome they want through pure inscrutability. It isn't even as simple as "vote for or against or sit it out," because depending on how it is written, any of those things can be what the con men who wrote it actually want. The "see who's for it and decide accordingly" approach is usually better, but even that is still fraught with peril.
Here's an example from the great state of California:
Eliminates Recently Enacted Road Repair and Transportation Funding by Repealing Revenues Dedicated for those Purposes.
Repeals a 2017 transportation law's taxes and fees designated for road repairs and public transportation.
What does that mean? If you concluded, "repeals a tax cut and raises taxes," go collect your winnings. You're one of the few who would read, "tax hike" instead of "tax cut" based on that language.
There are countless examples, and it is representative of one of the most opaque and corrupt part of the elections process. But what to do about it? Law is complicated (on purpose, but nonetheless it is complicated) and consequences can be hard to judge. Differences of opinion are real, and many are valid. It's a tricky problem. I have periodically thought about this problem, usually when confronted with appalling ballot language in Colorado (that state is terrible on this front).
One idea I've had is what I call the "C-Average Standard." First, create ballot language according to whatever rules apply today. Then, the finalist language is distributed to high schoolers at schools within the jurisdictions subject to the ballot measure, at least one high school per school district. The students to whom the ballot language is distributed must have a "C" average - a GPA of 2.0-2.75. Not the total dumbasses, but also not the top students. The "average" students. Have them read it and then describe its effects. No computers. No phones. Test-taking rules.
If more than 5% or 100 students - whichever is smaller - fails to accurately interpret the effect of the ballot measure, the language is rejected and the sponsors have to try again. Do it until C-average high school students can understand the issue. If the ballot writers fail to develop comprehensible language before the ballots are printed, the measure is canceled and does not go to a vote at all.
The "C-Average" standard would have resulted in a total rewrite of the example above. It looks like a tax cut, and that's what a lot of people would say about it. If you don't know in advance that the "recently enacted road repair and transportation funding" law that was to be repealed was a cut to the gas tax, there's no way you would know. The ballot language makes sure of that, because it was written by con men looking to put one over on the voting public.
What would you do about deceptive ballot language? Is it a solvable problem at all?
Before getting started, PLEASE NOTE: Ace has warned and with great justification for the sake of his personal safety and the sake of this site, that there is an individual whose name and identity are absolutely forbidden from writing and or discussing, regardless of context. At least one commenter ignored that rule yesterday and so has been banned. Forever. No excuses no second chances.
Good morning kids. First, a UPS cargo jet crashed in Louisville last night so prayers for all those affected and the victims.
The results from Election Day are not necessarily surprising but nevertheless completely disgusting and horrendous in their implications for the nation and our society going forward. Yes, NYC decided that it wanted to get high on new and improved Zyklon C, instead of returning to some form of relative sanity with Sliwa or even criminal lout Cuomo, who at least isn't a jihadist or a Stalinist but merely a corrupt mobbed up mass Mom-mom and Pop-pop killer.
Also, that the commonwealth of Virginia has decided to make a twisted scumbag thug who openly fantasized about putting two bullets in the head of his political opponents and in so doing effectively encouraged his supporters to do so, the top law enforcement officer of said commonwealth is in my view one big-ass paving stone on the road to Hell. Jay Jones, should only be on the receiving end of what he wishes on his enemies. But would never be because only he and his ilk rely on subversion, violence and terrorism to gain and maintain power.
With that as a preamble, if you will, I share what an old college buddy of mine posted on Facebook along with a stock photo of the Empire State building:
Politicians come and go. Two iconic Manhattan buildings (Empire State and Chrysler) have stood above it all for 95 years. This is my favorite of the two.
My dear sweet Lord in Heaven, Master of the universe and creator of all things, did you have to inflict such a braindead asshole on me so early in the morning. To my otherwise dear yet braindead knee-jerk liberal friend, I wonder if you had this sentiment in mind back in 1993 when Rudy Giuliani the first Republican, and for sure non-leftist/liberal mayor in New York City probably since forever was elected probably to your great disappointment. And then as his second term was coming to a close, two other iconic buildings which were only standing for about 30 years were reduced to smoldering ruins, the smoke plume and flames actually visible from space. Just to clarify, this happened not because of Rudy Giuliani, but because of the ineptitude and pig ignorance about the dangers of Islam by successive Democrat and Republican presidents.
Yeah, politicians come and go which is probably what many Germans thought in 1933 when that funny little corporal was elected, ditto what the citizens of Zimbabwe/Rhodesia were thinking in 1980 when Robert Mugabe with the help of Jimmy Carter was installed as president, only to wind up victims of mass starvation and political repression due to the ineptitude, corruption and tyrannical brutality of the regime they thought was freely elected (pfft!) and would be voted out of office in the next election (double plus pfft!).
So to my friend Steve, kindly get your head out of your ass and un-Fuck yourself after you and whoever else supported or voted for Mamdani because Democrat good/Republican evil go fuck yourself. Seems counterintuitive but appropriate nonetheless.
The results of the key races are in the links and you can also peruse the usual websites for their full coverage and wrap-ups.
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Gavin Newsom’s reparations agenda is divisive identity politics disguised as justice, risking trillions to buy votes in a state that never practiced slavery. Gavin Newsom’s Divisive Racial Pandering
On Tuesday, voters in California, New Jersey, and New York City told NBC News exit pollsters that they like their state government’s sanctuary state policies that prevent local jails, sheriffs departments, and local police from cooperating with ICE agents. Exit Polls: Voters in NYC, California, NJ Want to Keep Sanctuary State Policies
Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s final budget allocates $348 million to law enforcement while the state’s own budget experts in an October report estimate the tab for giving full health benefits for illegal aliens amounts to $10 billion. The new report by the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) reveals a 35% higher figure than the $7.4 billion cost Newsom estimated in his January 2025 budget proposal. Report: Democrat-Run California to Spend Billions on Illegals’ Healthcare While Undercutting Police
SNAP corrodes self-reliance, burdens taxpayers, and erodes civic character—Congress should use the shutdown to end the program and restore voluntary charity and consent of the governed. Of Food Stamps and Tyranny
In the U.K., some things, such as the motive of a knife-wielding attacker on a train, are not to be known by the public. Terrors and Warnings on an English Train
Ibrahim Dremali denies Hamas family ties despite overwhelming evidence. Lies My Imam Told Me
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
We must reclaim educational institutions from the clutches of radical ideologues and ensure that colleges produce patriots, not pawns in a communist takeover. Michigan State is teaching future teachers to hate America (like every other teachers' college has been doing since the 50'S - jjs)
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
In addition to Pfizer’s revenue drop, Wall Street analysts are also forecasting a steep decline in sales for Moderna’s Spikevax shots, with expectations of a 50 percent drop in third-quarter revenue. Pfizer Covid Vax Sales Plunge After RFK Changes Guidance. (Pfuck Pfizer - jjs)
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
Given that Republicans typically vote in greater numbers on Election Day and Democrats lean toward early or mail-in ballots, any polling-place disruption tends to work to Democrats’ advantage. Bomb Threats Disrupt Voting in Seven Key New Jersey Counties
If García withdraws, Patty Garcia would be the only Democrat on the ballot in a heavily blue district, sparking criticisms of a “coronation” rather than a genuine open primary process. Dems Caught ‘Rigging’ House Primary.
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
“I would say that’s part of the worst creatures on the face of the earth are Hamas or like the leadership of Iran or there’s a lot of people on that,” Fetteman said. “I would never use those kind of terms and I wouldn’t describe our president.” “You can really disagree with him and I do disagree, but I don’t think that’s really entirely appropriate. But that’s her words for that,” he continued. “So for me, that’s just a different kinds of a Democrat for me.” John Fetterman Pushes Back Hard On Malig-Nancy Pelosi’s Wild Claim About Trump
The behavior has reinforced concerns that Jones may be hiding darker, more abusive impulses, as previously illustrated by his threats against former Virginia Republican House Speaker Todd Gilbert and his children. Jay Jones Just Tried to Kick a Dog, Literally. (Lowlife degenerate fekete - jjs)
“Mamdani’s dispassionate assessment of Amin will scandalize many readers...Mamdani offers an indirect critique of several dogmas popular among young progressives.” Why Mamdani’s Ugandan Roots Matter
Republican Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, who won a major upset in 2021, was barred by Virginia law from running for a consecutive term. Earle-Sears largely centered her campaign on criticizing Spanberger’s record on transgender issues in K-12 education. The Republican candidate also ripped Spanberger during the final stretch of the race for failing to distance herself from Jay Jones, the Democratic attorney general nominee, who sent violent text messages fantasizing about murdering a political opponent in 2o22. Democrats Flip Virginia Governor Seat, The First Of Trump’s Second Term
With Election Day drawing to a close in New York City, veteran Democrat operative Hank Sheinkopf warned that a victory by socialist frontrunner Zohran Mamdani would mark not only the end of Jewish New York but the hijacking of the Democrat Party’s remains by radical forces determined to export their revolution nationwide. Exclusive — Veteran Democrat Operative: Mamdani, Radical DSA Seized Democrat Party ‘Carcass’
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
The presence of the flag raises questions about Ukraine’s ongoing issues with neo-Nazism in its military, which was one of the stated reasons for Russia’s military invasion of the country. Zelensky Awards Medals with Nazi SS Symbol Behind Him. (Or it was a Platner campaign rally! - jjs)
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
It was actually filled with 1.7 metric tons of cocaine and four men on board who reportedly have ties to a criminal organization. Authorities say it was headed for the Iberian Peninsula with plans to distribute the drugs throughout various countries in Europe. Well, Well, Well... Look What They Found in Portugal. (in the immortal words of Don Victor Stracci, They're animals anyway, let them lose their souls! - jjs)
Rather than an unhealthy, outdated colonial relationship, acknowledging Puerto Rico’s standing as a nation would benefit both America and Puerto Rico. Sovereignty: The Common-Sense Solution For America And Puerto Rico (Cut it loose, cut them off from foreign aid and keep the Chi-Coms and cubans out - jjs)
“What we’ve heard from both sides of the aisle is that Obamacare is not affordable. But what we’ve not heard is Democrats acknowledge the waste, fraud, and abuse that’s been enabled by these temporary subsidies — including massive handouts to big health insurance companies and expanded taxpayer subsidies to the wealthiest Obamacare enrollees,” Guthrie told Breitbart News in a written statement. Exclusive — House Republican Healthcare Leaders: Democrats Blocked GOP Measure to Lower Premiums by Nearly Double
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
In other words, some scientist or someone at SpaceX is researching the idea of loading a helicopter onto one of the early Starship Mars missions, and requested this image because this would be a great place to send it. And based on Elon Musk’s preliminary Starship Mars plans, announced in May 2025 and shown in the graphic below, there will be plenty of opportunities in the next decade to do so. Someone is apparently considering putting a helicopter on Starship when it goes to Mars
[W]ho runs NASA next is becoming increasingly unimportant. The real American space program is being run by SpaceX, using its own revenue to produce the only spacecraft and rockets truly capable of exploring and colonizing the solar system. What NASA plans to use for its manned program — SLS, Orion, and the proposed Lunar Gateway station — are badly
conceived, over-priced, and incapable of accomplishing much. And NASA’s space station, ISS, is on its final legs, due to be retired
in only a few years. By that time the rumored proposal by Duffy to fold
NASA into the Department of Transportation might make sense. NASA itself
won’t be doing much by then. More Washington shenanigans over who will be NASA’s next administrator
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
In court filings, Buckingham claimed that being unable to access previously provided “gender-affirming” treatments, like hormone therapy, had worsened his depression and suicidal thoughts, The Post Millennial reported. Attorneys for Buckingham argued the sex change procedures were “medically necessary” to treat gender dysphoria and that denying Buckingham access to them is a violation of his Eighth Amendment rights. Judge Orders Bureau of Prisons to Provide Sex Change Surgery to Transgender Pedophile Inmate
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The idea being that on the ground, maintaining a hard vacuum is difficult and expensive but essential for chip production. In space, though, you can just open a window.
The tricky part - and a key point in these experiments - is seeing if wafers can be launched into orbit and returned intact.
You know what else has been launched into orbit? Memory prices. (Tom's Hardware)
It's a good thing I bought my 128GB of DDR5 RAM when I did, because the price of those high-density high-speed modules has doubled.
The price of low-density and low-speed modules has also doubled.
The price of older DDR4 modules has - you guessed it - doubled.
Their patent on capturing monsters and putting them in your pocket was recently rejected by the Japanese patent office for being unoriginal.
Now the company's US patent on summoning monsters from your pocket and making them fight is being re-examined by the USPTO and could end up being revoked.
Hundreds of teenagers, sometimes strong-armed by their parents, have trooped through the doors of Britain's National Centre for Gaming Disorders since it opened in 2019. Yet lately the publicly funded clinic has admitted a steady trickle of rather different patients. Its specialists in video-game addiction have so far treated 67 people over the age of 40.
The PSF is facing a funding shortfall of $1.5 million.
The PSF recently cancelled its own grant request for $1.5 million from the National Science Foundation because the funds would have come with a requirement that it abandon DEI.
The PSF can also die in a fire. Python will survive.
Musical Interlude
This is apparently another recovered Scopitone reel. The original Scopitone machines are museum pieces now, but they used regular 16mm film and most of the original library has been recovered and converted to digital form.
Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - November 4, 2025 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
How are YOUR pumpkins holding up?
Tuesday night ONT time is here. Content? Yeah, there's content? Open thread? Yup - talk about whatever you want! Lurkers encouraged to de-lurk? Absolutely!
A broke Frenchman was able to cover the cost of his wedding by selling advertisements on his tuxedo jacket to 26 startups and becoming a human billboard.
French salesman Dagobert Renouf had long been dreaming of marrying his then-fiancée, Anna Plynina, but he was too poor to afford a proper wedding. To put it plainly, he was completely broke and on the verge of homelessness. But that was no reason to deprive his beloved of the wedding she had been dreaming of. Back in July, he posted on X, announcing that he had decided to try and cover the expenses of his nuptials by becoming a human billboard. Any company willing to promote their products or services was willing to buy a slot on his suit jacket. His post went viral, and he ended up with 26 brand names on his jacket and a total of $10,000 in advertising fees.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers made a major wildlife trafficking bust last week, seizing a truck carrying 163 animals, many of them exotic reptiles, at the Anzalduas International Bridge.
On October 22, CBP officers encountered a silver Toyota truck attempting to exit the U.S. into Mexico. A secondary inspection revealed dozens of reptiles, amphibians, and arachnids concealed within the vehicle. Officials say the animals were hidden in an apparent attempt to smuggle them across the border illegally.
Among the seized wildlife were 24 royal pythons, multiple species of milk snakes and king snakes, various lizards, tree frogs, tarantulas, and several rare python morphs. The driver was arrested, and both the vehicle and the animals were taken into custody. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is now handling the investigation.
Not related, yet somehow related
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DJ Doof - This Date in Music History Edition
(from thisdayinmusic.com)
On this date in 1977: The Last Waltz, the movie of The Bands final concert premiered in New York. The Martin Scorsese movie also featured Joni Mitchell, Dr John, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Neil Diamond, Eric Clapton.
Born on this date in 1957: English rock guitarist, songwriter James Honeyman-Scott who was a founding member of the English-American rock band The Pretenders.
Born on this date in 1954: English singer, musician, songwriter Chris Difford, who was a founding member of Squeeze.
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I guess use this thread to talk about election results. Results, I fear, which are negative. I would stick around if I anticipated good news but I do not. Red Eagle Politics is covering it, if you want to watch someone as the results come in.
Rescuing and raising an orphaned otter pup, who is then released into the nearby lake but who jumps into his rescuer's kayak every time he goes out on the lake. I believe this is an evil river otter, but, thanks to human influence, it has "transitioned" to be a sweet-natured sea otter.
Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) will formally introduce articles of impeachment against radical left-wing U.S. District Judge James Boasberg for what he calls the judge's "corrupt and unethical" role in the so-called Arctic Frost investigation.
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The articles of impeachment accuses Boasberg of authorizing unconstitutional subpoenas and nondisclosure orders as part of the FBI's Arctic Frost probe, which, of course, was signed off by Special Counsel Jack Smith. These orders targeted Republican members of Congress--including Sens. Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and Marsha Blackburn--while they were engaged in their official legislative duties, violating Article I protections.
Boasberg is also accused of allowing the DOJ to bar AT&T from informing Senator Cruz about a subpoena for his records for at least a year, citing baseless claims that Cruz might destroy evidence or intimidate witnesses. The resolution argues Boasberg's actions directly violated 2 U.S.C. sec. 6628, which protects Senate offices from such secret orders.
The resolution further alleges that Boasberg enabled politically motivated subpoenas against conservative organizations like the Conservative Partnership Institute and America First Policy Institute, as well as individuals such as Jeffrey Clark, Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Jenna Ellis--suggesting the court was weaponized to suppress political opponents.
The resolution concludes that Boasberg's conduct demonstrates a "pattern of impropriety" and a failure to uphold constitutional limits, making him unfit to serve and warranting removal from office. Amen!
Boasberg has faced mounting criticism for months over his blatantly partisan injunctions against the Trump administration--rulings that many legal experts say have no constitutional foundation. Previous attempts to rein in his judicial overreach and impeach Boasberg earlier this year fizzled out, but this latest effort has real momentum behind it.
Nothing will happen until Congress begins subpoenaing these courts to determine how the alleged "random assignment of judges" ALWAYS results in hard-left judges being assigned to the most politically-sensitive cases.
If they do so, they will find the courts and clerks are conspiring to very non-randomly assign the Democrats' most cherished lawsuits to their most reliable communist judges.
In a few short months, the National Counterterrorism Center says it's helped prevent 6,525 known or suspected terrorists (KSTs) from entering the U.S.
This is after U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Border Patrol officers apprehended a record more than 3,000 KSTs in the U.S. illegally in fiscal 2025, according to CBP data.
Until this year, the greatest number of KSTs CBP and Border Patrol agents were apprehended during the Biden administration: 1,903.
The majority, 64%, totaling 1,216, were apprehended at the northern border coming from Canada between fiscal years 2021-2024, according to CBP data, The Center Square first reported.
Huh, the Biden Administration barely stopped any terrorists from entering via the southern border. What a surprise. I am shock.
The Stop ANTIFA Act has been introduced by U.S. Sens. Ashley Moody, R-Fla., Rick Scott, R-Fla., and Mike Lee, R-Utah, which would direct the National Joint Terrorism Task Force to investigate Antifa.
The president's executive order designating Antifa a domestic terror organization came a week after The Center Square posed the question to Trump in the Oval Office, following a rise in left-wing violence, including the assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk.
The president's executive order describes the group as a "militarist, anarchist enterprise," which calls for the overthrow of the federal government, especially targeting law enforcement.
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Moody echoed the president's executive order, underscoring the group's continual targeting of law enforcement.
"Violent extremists who target our law enforcement officers and destroy our communities must be held accountable. It's far past time to designate Antifa a terrorist organization. The Stop ANTIFA Act makes it clear that organized violence has no place in America," Moody said in a news release.
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
BREAKING: New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli says he will UNDO LGBTQ indoctrination in schools in favor of "reading, writing, math, civics, science"
"My opponent said not only will she keep [LGBTQ], she won't allow parents to opt out of that lesson! That's CRAZY."
"We're getting rid of other sensitive subject matter that I believe belongs at home at the kitchen table, which is parents of the kids."
Riley Gaines
@Riley_Gaines_
Both Democrat candidates for governor in New Jersey and Virginia:
-- are women
-- have served their country
-- have daughters
Yet they consistently vote against measures that protect girl's & women's opportunities, privacy, and safety. Remarkable.
Commenters wondered about this:
Hans Mahncke
@HansMahncke
The fact that highly incriminating documents, including Comey's handwritten notes showing he knew from the start that the Russia collusion story was a Clinton campaign hoax, were found in burn bags inside a locked, unused SCIF at FBI headquarters is deeply strange and has bothered me since it first came to light. There are a few possible explanations. One is that a quiet "whistleblower" deliberately preserved them, knowing they were too explosive to destroy. Another is a straightforward bureaucratic failure, where destruction was authorized but never actually carried out. Yet another possibility is that the "unused" SCIF was secretly serving as an off-the-books storage site to hide sensitive materials from oversight, allowing them to disappear without being formally destroyed, and that when the old guard left, the stash was simply forgotten. There may be other explanations too. My best guess is that this was a bureaucratic blunder of the same kind that once worked in their favor, like when they forgot to close the Gen. Flynn case, which allowed them to target Flynn in January 2017 without having to open a new one. This time, the mistake caught up with them.
Chip Roy
@chiproytx
CAIR must be stripped of 501c3 status
Exclusive: Chip Roy introduces bill to strip 'absurd' tax-exempt status from CAIR, other groups with terrorist ties
Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas is leading the charge to ensure Americans are no longer "inadvertently subsidizing" groups with terrorist links, Blaze News learned.
Roy introduced legislation Tuesday that would eliminate the tax-exempt status for extremist groups with close ties to terrorist organizations, according to bill text obtained exclusively by Blaze News. Roy is setting his sights on groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which has been found to have ties with the Muslim Brotherhood and even Hamas.
'This must end.'
"It is absurd that the U.S. has provided organizations with ties to terrorism tax-exempt status in the U.S. -- resulting in the American people inadvertently subsidizing terror against themselves," Roy told Blaze News.
"It is ridiculous, and we should have ended this long ago," he continued.
Elon Musk: New York, Illinois, and California would go completely BANKRUPT without the massive Fraudulent Payments that go to those states in Medicaid Funds for Illegal Aliens
More surprises: When men outnumber women in an industry, it's called "inequality."
When women outnumber men, it's called... "parity." Equality.
“If women are behind on a metric, it’s recorded as inequality. If men are behind, it’s recorded as parity. You read that correctly: The index is explicitly designed so that men cannot be seen as disadvantaged, no matter how far behind they fall.”
I didn't know this: the UK is so totalitarian they prosecuted Tommy Robinson for terrorism, for exposing Muslim rape gangs.
He was acquitted today (or yesterday).
🚨Tommy Robinson acquitted of all charges under the Terrorism Act.
The judge was blistering in his criticism of the police, saying their testimony lacked “credibility” and that they had in fact targeted Tommy for political reasons, which is illegal.
Prayers for Scott Adams, and I hope Trump can get him the experimental drug he's requesting.
Scott Adams
@ScottAdamsSays
On Monday, I will ask President Trump, via X, to help save my life. He offered to help me if I needed it.
I need it.
As many of you know, I have metastasized prostate cancer.
My healthcare provider, Kaiser of Northern California, has approved my application to receive a newly FDA-approved drug called Pluvicto. But they have dropped the ball in scheduling the brief IV to administer it and I can't seem to fix that.
I am declining fast. I will ask President Trump if he can get Kaiser of Northern California to respond and schedule it for Monday. That will give me a fighting chance to stick around on this planet a little bit longer.
It is not a cure, but it does give good results to many people.
Americans who rely on broadcast networks for honest journalism suffered a painful loss this week, as CBS News -- fresh off its acquisition by Skydance Media and the installation of anti-woke opinion writer Bari Weiss as editor in chief -- fired most of the reporters who specialize in covering climate change.
CBS owner Paramount began laying off about 1,000 employees across the broader company Wednesday, delivering a big chunk of the cost savings that Skydance CEO David Ellison promised investors. The CBS climate team's decimation was confirmed to me by three people who requested anonymity. Not all of them work at Paramount.
Of the six-person team, four lost their jobs, effective Friday. A fifth person may yet be reassigned to non-climate stories, my sources believed. National environment correspondent David Schechter kept his job.
The layoffs are especially devastating because CBS was a climate leader among the national TV networks, becoming an early member of the global media collaboration Covering Climate Now and producing vital work.
In June, for instance, CBS Evening News aired a segment on worsening heat-related health dangers for pregnant women.
Let me guess: Pregnant women people hardest hit?
AI Overview
Pregnancy heat risk days on the rise, new report finds ...
CBS reported in June 2025 that climate change is increasing the risks for pregnant women due to hotter temperatures, with a specific focus on a report that found climate change has nearly doubled the number of "pregnancy heat-risk days" in the U.S.. These risks include dehydration, heat stroke, and a higher chance of complications like preterm birth. The report highlighted that many states offer little to no guidance on heat safety for expectant mothers.
Key points from CBS reports
Increased heat-risk days: A Climate Central analysis discussed by CBS found that climate change has nearly doubled the number of days each year that pose a risk for pregnant women due to heat.
Specific risks: Extreme heat can increase the risk of dehydration, heat stroke, and heat exhaustion in pregnant women. It can also lead to more serious complications, such as preterm birth.
Why pregnant women are more vulnerable: Pregnancy puts added stress on the heart, increases blood volume, and makes women more prone to dehydration, which is exacerbated by high temperatures.
Lack of state guidance: A CBS News report noted that most states provide little to no specific heat safety guidance for pregnant women.
LOL. How did I guess that?
Just this month, the network partnered with KFF Health News to show how hospitals are facing increasingly severe flood risks.
Oh, they "partnered" with the left-wing organization Kaiser Family Foundation, which plants left-wing story in the "nonpartisan" media?
And was the story, by any chance -- Hospitals, sick people hardest hit?
At least 170 U.S. hospitals face major flood risk. Experts say Trump is making it worse.
October 1, 2025 / 6:00 AM EDT / KFF Health News
Louisville, Tenn. -- When a big storm hits, Peninsula Hospital could be underwater.
At this decades-old psychiatric hospital on the edge of the Tennessee River, an intense storm could submerge the building in 11 feet of water, cutting off all roads around the facility, according to a sophisticated computer simulation of flood risk.
Aurora, a young woman who was committed to Peninsula as a teenager, said the hospital sits so close to the river that it felt like a moat keeping her and dozens of other patients inside. KFF Health News agreed not to publish her full name because she shared private medical history.
"My first feeling is doom," Aurora said as she watched the simulation of the river rising around the hospital. "These are probably some of the most vulnerable people."
Beautiful. Perfect.
No notes.
I guessed accurately again. I'm on fire!
Back to the sob story about the Climate Change Unit being fired.
The climate team also arranged training sessions for local CBS affiliates, hosting virtual seminars where CBS journalists across the country could learn to cover global warming. Mb>In the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election, the climate team worked with local CBS affiliates to produce a series of web stories and TV segments exploring why congressional Republicans had voted against clean energy investments, even as polling showed strong local support for climate action.
That kind of journalism matters -- in part because the people who watch broadcast news tend to be older and more likely to vote.
"CBS is one of the most important voices in the American media. If they're not going to be covering climate change, that's a problem," Hertsgaard said.
So the main point of the unit was... electioneering and propagandizing people to vote for Democrats?
Yes, I agree. Thank you for admitting it.
A Paramount spokesperson didn't respond to my request for comment about why the company gutted the network's climate team, and whether CBS will still prioritize climate coverage going forward.
Here is the Real Logo of the CBS Climate Change unit.
CBS News fired its entire "Climate Unit" after producer sent climate attribution explainers from political advocacy group Climate Central to entire company during Melissa coverage.
Women's Soccer League Player Says That the Women's Soccer League Should be Reserved for Women; Her PC Woke Beesh Teammates Attack Her Plus: Actress Isn't Sure Her Deep Political Thoughs Sway Voters
Just kidding, a local Dallas middle school boys' team -- 15 and under -- absolutely wrecked the women's national team in two straight games. You won't even be riding the bench, you'll be in the stands, watching, hoping that the cute boys notice you.
Keep the W in the National Women's Soccer League.
That was a simple ask from Angel City FC veteran Elizabeth Eddy in an op-ed for The Post last week.
The pro athlete argued, with both common sense and compassion, that her league needs to develop a standard -- as many other athletic governing bodies have -- to ensure the NWSL only fields biological women.
The issue of keeping female sports female has become an 80/20 issue in our country, so I don't think people understood just how ballsy it was for Eddy to enter the fray.
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And so Eddy's teammates quickly denounced her op-ed.
But did they debate her proposal by using reason and substance? Nah, they just accused Eddy of being transphobic and racist.
Angel City captains Sarah Gordon and Angelina Anderson both addressed the piece in a press conference -- and the team's X account shared the video from that, posting: "Our captains spoke with courage and clarity. No one in our community should be questioned, harassed or targeted because of their identity."
What identity has to do with keeping fairness in women's sports is beyond me. Are you a biological woman, or are you a biological man?
None of that mattered to Gordon, who said the team is "hurt."
"And they are harmed by the article. And also they are disgusted by some of the things that were said in the article ... We don't agree with the things written for a plethora of reasons," she said, adding that the "undertones come across as transphobic and racist."
As a person of mixed race, Gordon added, it particularly hurt her.
Um, why would being of a "mixed race" mean genetic testing for sex be particularly hurtful?
I think this idiot means that any genetic testing -- like, to determine your race -- is racist. But this isn't about testing for race.
Adam Carolla played a clip of these idiots talking. Amusingly -- before he viewed the clip -- Carolla predicted that she would say "speaking as a mixed race woman..." and then, boom, she did just that.
If women, blacks, and "mixed race women" are so "marginalized," why do they rush to play their Identity Trump Cards as if those cards confer on them massive advantages?
Related: A Kennebukport Karen, and "member of the Select Chair Board," whatever that is -- some kind of school body -- objects to people who want to reserve girls sports and girls locker rooms for -- get this -- girls.
She claims that anyone who disagrees has, get this, "pedophilic tendencies."
AOC and the rest of the morons are fond of this argument. They claim that people who don't want transgender men showing their dicks to their little daughters are just "obsessed with what kids have between their legs." They claim that there is no way to verify someone's sex apart from forcing them to strip for a close visual inspection -- thus, the claim that anyone who wants to keep men out of girl's changing areas is someone with "pedophilic tendencies" who just wants to look a little girls' and little boys' genitals.
No matter how many times it is pointed out that it is easy to determine someone's sex without inspecting their genitals -- 1, look at their birth certificate and the sex they were "assigned" at birth by a doctor who already inspected the genitals, 2, simple cheek-swab test for sex chromosomes, 3, just by simply looking at them because these people DO NOT PASS AS THE OPPOSITE GENDER, EVEN UPON CASUAL VIEWING -- they continue to insist the only way to tell if a girl is a girl is to have her strip naked and look up her vagina.
This is their retard-level attempt at an UNO reverse on the "groomer" label.
Kinda sort barely related: Idiot woke actress Jennifer Lawrence says she thinks she's done talking about politics because it alienates the audience. She reasons that if she makes a film that is so powerful in its messaging it will "change the world" -- note, no movie is so powerful, and such a movie would not star Katniss Everdeen/Reboot Mystique even if it did exist -- she wants people to be open to its mesmerizing message and not discounting it just because Dis Bitch Can't Shut Her Mouf About Trump.
Jennifer Lawrence understands that her view of politics Will not sway voters.
All it will do is make the people who disagree with her, often not want to see her movies.
Note that the beginning of the Adam Carolla clip I linked above is about Jennifer Lawrence's sudden realization that if she wants to remain employable, she should stop insulting half of the potential audience.
Podcast: The elections! NYC, Virginia, New Jersey, Texas, California, and the future prospects of the Republican party...
Update on Scott Adams:
Scott Adams had approval for this cancer drug but they hadn't scheduled him to get it. He was taking a turn for the worse. Trump had told him to call if he needed anything, so he did. Talked to Don Jr (who is in Africa) , then RFK Jr, then Dr Oz. Someone talked to Kaiser and he was scheduled. Shouldn't have needed it but he did and he says it saved his life.
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Podcast: Historian and Pundit Robert Spencer joins us for a wide-ranging discussion about the Islamists in our midst: Mamdani in NYC, all across Europe, and others.
Schmoll: 53% of New Jersey likely voters say their neighbors are voting for Ciattarelli, while 47% say the cheater/grifter Mikie Sherrill The "who do you think your neighbors are voting for" question is designed to avoid the Shy Tory problem, wherein conservative people lie to schmollsters because they don't want to go on record with a likely left-winger telling them who they're really voting for. So instead the question is who do you think your neighbors are voting for, so people can talk about who they themselves support without actually having to admit it to a left-wing rando stranger recording their answers on the phone.
Interesting football history: How the forward pass was created in response to the nineteen -- 19! -- people killed playing football in 1905 alone The original rules of football did not allow forward passes. The ball was primarily advanced by running, with blockers forming lines with interlocked arms and just smashing into the similarly-interlocked defensive lines. It was basically Greek hoplite spear formations but with a semi-spherical ball. As calls to ban the sport entirely grew, some looked for ways to de-emphasize mass charges as the primary means of advancing the ball, and some specifically championed allowing a passer to throw the ball forward.
