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The latest lunacy in western Massachusetts sounded like a parody of the worst excesses of the self-absorbed LGTBBQ activist set that takes literally every human interaction and views it through their own, deeply disturbed lens.
But it was real, and it was spectacular! They couldn't help themselves! They dialed it to 11 and signaled to the rest of the country that the woke left is still around, still bat-shit crazy, and still dangerous.
It is actually important that these disturbed and strange people continue to voice their post-modern blather enough that it goes public. It's the quiet ones working behind the scenes who are dangerous, but their useful idiots like the patrons of this bar simply can't shut the f*ck up about their psychoses, and it keeps the danger in the spotlight.
“Woke 1.0 was craaaazy,” AOC said, laughing off teens getting destroyed for smirking.
For a brief minute it looked like the normies had wrested control of the culture back from the crazies.
I regret to inform you, we did not.
If you thought Woke 1.0 was crazy, Woke 2.0 is psychotic.
I think we ARE wresting control back from the crazies, but they aren't going to give up without a fight, because they are part and parcel of the left, and they never, ever give up.
Their quiet work in the schools was exposed during the Covid debacle, when parents across the country finally got a glimpse of what was really being taught to their kids. And the wannabe Mengeles in our medical establishment became a little too vocal about what they were doing to our children, and what they wanted to do, and they got caught!
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis said, "Sunlight is the best disinfectant," And continuing to expose these anti-American, anti-freedom, anti-Western-culture fiends is vitally important. The worst thing that can happen is if they shut up and continue their work to dismantle our culture, destroy our families, and usher in the supposed nirvana of the progressives.
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A federal judge ordered US President Donald Trump on Thursday to restore White House access for journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico, saying his ban on the three media outlets was likely unconstitutional. In a major setback for Trump in one of his biggest battles with the media, US District Judge Tim Kelly issued his order in a lawsuit that the news organizations filed contesting the ban that the Republican president announced on Sept. 18. Kelly ordered the Trump administration to immediately return the outlets’ press passes and blocked officials from enforcing the ban for 14 days.
“The President concluded that [the banned outlets] have failed to maintain basic minimum ‘standards of professionalism and decorum expected of those given access to the White House Complex, including’ by ‘publishing sensitive or classified information… In response, the President has preliminarily revoked their continued access to White House grounds… After all, access to the White House is a privilege—not a right.” – DOJ filing
Yeah, that'll really show 'em! To borrow a quote from Democrat Socialist Numero Uno Joe Stalin How many divisions does the Judiciary have?! If only President Trump and indeed all of us took that to heart and made it our slogan.
A Florida history teacher allegedly tried to “cancel” an eighth-grader enrolled at one of the state’s elite schools for his conservative beliefs – and now she’s facing calls to be fired.
Liz Ballard, a teacher at Pine View School in Osprey, Fla., is accused of singling out the boy as the “conservative perspective” in her classes before describing him as a “misogynist” and spreading the slur around the school, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said in a letter on Monday.
Ballard allegedly “harassed, disparaged and deliberately tried to ‘cancel’ an eighth-grade student for his conservative views” during her debates — even though he had previously warned her “his parents expressly forbid him to take part,” according to Uthmeier’s letter. She “singled out this student and in defiance of his parents’ express instructions, pressured him to defend political positions… in front of his classmates,” the pol said, engaging in what he described as the “reputational destruction of a child.” Ballard has been the subject of “multiple” HR investigations and at the center of parents’ complaints, according to Uthmeier, who has called for her to be dismissed if the claims are legitimate.
The investigation into the teacher has spanned several months, Jason Means, the President of the Sarasota Classified Teachers Association, said, according to WFLA. . . In 2023, the school was named a National Blue Ribbon School by the Department of Education — an award that recognizes excellence or schools that close achievement gaps among students.
Blue RIbbon? Meh this degenerate slag and everyone like her deserves a noose and the nearest lamp post rhetorically speaking of course wink-wink...
So, what are these unions doing with all that money they collect if not fighting to fulfill their stated missions?
Turns out, they are far more interested in getting Democrats elected and pushing far-left causes. Add it all up, and you have organizations that extort money from taxpayers to finance a protection racket for themselves, their Democratic patrons, and various far-left causes (which few taxpayers would support), while engaging in fraud by pretending to be looking out for the interests of public-school students
We’re not lawyers, but we’d say that classifies as a criminal racket under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
I know I had this a day or so ago but evil like cancer never rests. We cut it out or we die.
Trump, on the other hand, has cost China dearly. He has radically reduced China’s inroads into the Western Hemisphere, ousting its agents from Venezuela and the Panama Canal.
With the Cuban dictatorship apparently unable to keep the lights on, and China now permanently shut out of Greenland, Beijing’s losses in the Americas appear certain to keep piling up.
Add to this Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s “Economic D-Day” sanctions on Iran.
These are disrupting China’s financial ties with the Islamist regime, even as Iran’s attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and its threat of tolls hammer Beijing’s energy imports: China already pays $25 a barrel more for oil than the rest of the world. China’s leader also has major headaches back home — anemic consumer spending, a collapsing real-estate market, rising unemployment levels, an aging population and a national debt three times larger than our own (thanks, in part, to Trump’s tariffs).
Negotiating with Communists and terrorists (but I repeat myself) only ends one way. As the Xi meeting is being hyped, the People’s Republic of China is taking great care not to offend the United States of America by taking any drastic steps like… openly stealing our military hardware. Chinese authorities are reportedly in possession of F-35 stealth fighter parts after components of the aircraft were “inexplicably diverted to Hong Kong.”
Shipping giant UPS was sending a cockpit canopy and weapons bay door to the U.S. from Australia in late May when it was diverted, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing sources Both parts were coated with a radar absorbing material that enhances their stealth capabilities, the sources said, and it was not clear why the shipment was diverted to Hong Kong. Inexplicably! Were there any Mainland Chinese citizens in the decision loop working at UPS?
This is the problem with having normal commercial relations with a bandit state that takes every possible opportunity to rob everyone else. Looping them into a global commercial system just allows them to do things like this.
The case underlines concerns about the handling and security of mail-in ballots, particularly when large numbers of ballots are entrusted to individual postal workers. With investigators still determining whether affected voters were able to cast replacement ballots, the incident could fuel broader scrutiny of election-related mail procedures and ballot safeguards ahead of future elections.
On all this repulsiveness I nevertheless bid you all to
A grand jury has determined there is no evidence of criminal wrongdoing in the tragic death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells. Of course, that didn’t stop the left from dragging three white boys through the mud. Yet Another Race Baiting Narrative Busted
Many of the Democrats running this year aren’t the usual squishy socialists we’re used to. They are people who hate Americans, the U.S., and the Constitution. When Democrats Tell You Who They Are, Believe Them
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The dispute could have broader implications for the relationship between the Trump administration and corporate media organizations, with Fox News joining liberal networks in a television pool boycott in support of CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO. The administration has launched “Trump TV” in response, providing Americans with direct coverage of the presidency. Trump DOJ Hits Back at Corporate Media Lawsuit Against White House Bans: ‘Access is a Privilege, Not a Right.’
Merely wanting to make some photocopies at work in the old Soviet Union raised Brezhnev's considerable eyebrows, and actually getting them made was like something out of a Kafka story. Hey, Xi — Good Luck Keeping AI on a Communist Leash
Don’t get cocky, though. This non-presidential election cycle will come down to pure partisanship and voter turnout. The party with the energy will win. The Economy Won’t Win The Midterms For Democrats
California has gone far beyond merely encouraging residents to abandon gasoline and natural gas in favor of electricity. In time, it aims to make state residents solely dependent on the electrical grid. Mandating Grid Dependency
Maura Healey, the Democrat governor of Massachusetts, would have you believe she is focused on ordinary governance, but lately she seems to be dabbling in obstetrics and childcare. From the Womb to the Welcome Family Mat
THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
The case underlines concerns about the handling and security of mail-in ballots, particularly when large numbers of ballots are entrusted to individual postal workers. With investigators still determining whether affected voters were able to cast replacement ballots, the incident could fuel broader scrutiny of election-related mail procedures and ballot safeguards ahead of future elections. USPS Worker Indicted for Discarding Over 300 Mail-In Ballots.
The lawsuit seeks to uncover how noncitizens were added to voter rolls and whether they were removed following discovery. Congressional investigators are also probing these issues, raising broader concerns about election integrity and transparency ahead of the 2026 midterms. RNC Sues State Election Officials for Withholding Voter Rolls.
The agreement strengthens U.S. defense capabilities in the Arctic region, ensuring greater security against potential threats from Russia and China. It also underscores Greenland’s growing importance in global geopolitics and secures long-term cooperation with Denmark. Trump Secures Arctic Security Agreement With Greenland and Denmark, Two New Bases Planned.
So what did Xi do to deserve this unusual honor? A better question: Why is Trump flattering Xi’s ego by treating him as the world’s most important visiting dignitary? A decade ago, such ceremonial pomp might have been taken as a sign of American weakness and Chinese strength. Don’t be fooled — Trump’s red-carpet rollout for Xi is a strategic coup
“GMMTV and its competitors constructed a new business model...This sort of thing also used to happen in Western popular culture...Are BL dramas ‘queer’?” How ‘Boys Love’ Conquered Asia
The scale of Canada’s MAID program is likely to intensify debate over the country’s approach to assisted suicide, particularly as lawmakers consider whether eligibility should expand further. The figures are also likely to fuel scrutiny of safeguards and the circumstances under which Canadians can access MAID, especially for people with disabilities or other vulnerabilities. Canadian Euthanasia Deaths Surpass U.S. Gun Homicides Annually.
The far-left has been on a tirade since Monday when news broke that Paramount settled a lawsuit with the state’s radical, left-wing Attorney General. Hollywood critics are blasting Bonta as a “traitor” and a “coward” for settling the lawsuit and clearing the way for Paramount to complete its acquisition of Warners. Mark Ruffalo’s Antisemitic Attack on Paramount Helped Convince Calf. AG Bonta to Drop His Merger Lawsuit
...the book does an excellent job of describing a number of very fascinating off-beat British missions behind enemy lines to gain reconnaissance or to sabotage German operations. In two cases the missions got access to German facilities by having Free-French soldiers pose as prisoners, and Jewish Palestine refugees from Germany act as their German captors.
The first time the Nazi war machine lost in World War II
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The thread at Hacker News is a mix of idiots proclaiming their undying love for the regurgitated dog's breakfast that is VSCode and its SSH agent and despairing sysadmins and people with half a clue generally noting that not only will VSCode fork bomb the remote server, it allows the remote server to do the same to the client.
And it gets worse from there.
Got Nethack Hack ported to my 1980s 10-bit home computer. It didn't fit, though. The binary was 170k on a VAX - I found an original Usenet post reporting that - but compiled to 280k on my microcomputer architecture, and the emulator only gives it 256k. The VAX wasn't particularly fast which is why it was later eclipsed by RISC architectures, but the code was concise.
So I tried reinventing the UCSD p-System to see if that could solve the problem and it shrank the binary to just under 100k. So now I'm building a Pascal compiler written in Pascal that runs in the emulator and produces virtual instructions that are interpreted by a runtime on the emulated processor.
I did say I was going to give Claude Opus 5.5 a try, and this is what I'm doing with it.
Extended Musical Interlude Because There's No News
For those not swimming in this stuff, P(doom) is the probability that AI is going to kill us all. So this bright and cheerful mostly AI-generated song is... Not.
Good evening Horde! The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety. The bar is open and fully stocked. Step up and place your order.
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.
If you're a troll, go away.
This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Please. The monkey doesn't want to hear it.
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Champagne lovers may find themselves getting tipsy more quickly after French producers have been given the go-ahead to raise the alcohol content in a bottle of bubbly for the first time following this summer's record heatwave.
Winemakers can temporarily produce champagne with an alcohol content of up to 15% - above the 13% cap, industry officials have said.
The extreme heat and drought produced grapes with exceptionally higher sugar levels. Yeast converts sugar into alcohol during fermentation.
The temporary increase in champagne's alcohol content is only expected to affect a small number of wines, a spokeswoman for the Comite Champagne told the BBC.
During the second fermentation process, which gives champagne its bubbles, "a very small number of wines from this harvest could have slightly exceeded the regulatory limit of 13%, reaching around 13.1% or 13.2%."
"Therefore a decision was made to exceptionally and temporarily increase the regulatory limit to 15% - only for this year," she said.
I shouldn't be surprised but I did not know that French regulations set the max for Champagne. That being the case, I'm also surprised at the decision. Only a small number that might possibly go over by a tenth or two, so let's raise the limit by two percent. If you're going over, might as well go big!
Reader warning: reporting from BBC, so caveat emptor.
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Niche YouTube Channel of the Week
Tonight's feature is a YouTube channel called Project Farm. Todd is the YouTube modern day version of Consumer Reports. He takes a product segment, buys the products, evaluates them and shares the results.
The YouTube genre of product comparisons is crowded. "Buy this!" "Avoid this!" "Epic comparison of XYZ tools!" Most come across as shallow and clickbait. Todd has a formula that is not shouty, consistent, and infuses science and objective measures to reach concrete conclusions.
He started nine years ago with videos that mostly asked and answered "Does this work?" type questions. He accepts no sponsorships or promotional items from manufacturers. He relies on YouTube and Patreon for funding.
His niche is the shop and home - hand and power tools, lubricants, batteries, cleaners, flashlights, engine additives, paper shredders, etc. He tries brand names and no-names across the range from expensive to cheap.
The channel has over 3.93 million subscribers. Video counts vary by product, but often approach and exceed a million views each. He typically posts one new video a week.
This review of AA batteries is representative:
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The Pittsburgh police scanner is an internet treasure. Thank you people of Pittsburgh and thank you Pittsburgh scanner!
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These are reportedly the founders of The Last Ditch lesbian/covid panic bar. And yes, this is real. Reportedly. I didn't take the picture myself so I can't be 100% certain.
Yikes on bikes! These are Suburu Service Center 1's.
I don't even know if they deserve a 1-10 rating. What rating would I give to a bushbaby? Or a lawn rake?
But apparently this is what the one on the left looked like in the 2000s. Leftism is progressive mental and physical disease.
Is this Pride-colored UFO over Iran some kind of previously-unknown B-1B variant? The Gay Lancer?
Feds arrest, indict hundreds in Trump voter fraud crackdown: 'Catching it all over the country'
The Justice Department says its crackdown on noncitizen voting and election fraud has already produced more than 200 arrests and indictments, with that number possibly doubling soon and state election officials themselves now facing potential charges for looking the other way.
Since the Trump Justice Department warned state and local election officials that they could be charged with allowing fraudulent voting activities, more than 200 arrests and indictments have been secured in a crackdown on election fraud and noncitizen voting, and that number could double soon, a top official revealed to Just the News.
"I think there are a lot of nervous election officials because I think some of them know that they've been looking the other way when this is happening, and we're catching it all over the country," Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said Monday night in an interview on the Just the News, No Noise television show.
Dhillon also hinted at further developments in the coming weeks, suggesting her department has developed evidence calling into question New Jersey's claim that a computer glitch allowed thousands of foreigners to register to vote in that state and about 400 to actually cast ballots in violation of law.
"I'm not sure we have the correct numbers from New Jersey. They're not really cooperating with us, and so we will get to the bottom of what happened there. And you know, New Jersey tried to blame a vendor for a mistake or a glitch, quote unquote. But you know, I think there'll be another side to that story," she said.
The software vendor Dhillon referred to is IDEMIA, which told Just the News in July that it was the responsibility of New Jersey officials to verify voter registration.
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Dhillon further stated that in the past several weeks, her office has indicted or convicted 67 individuals for election-related crimes, while the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has made more than 160 arrests.
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Left-wing organizations, including the Brookings Institution, the Brennan Center for Justice, and the American Immigration Council, among others, have all claimed that noncitizen voting is either not happening or is incredibly rare.
Recent data suggests otherwise.
Over the weekend, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin told Fox News that his agency is investigating 1,620 cases of voter fraud involving noncitizens and has made 151 arrests. He said his department is also looking into an additional 300,000 cases based on states' voter rolls.
"We're scrubbing them. We're comparing them to those that are in the country illegally, those that are legal permanent residents and those that are citizens" Mullin told Fox News contributor and former White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany.
Much more at the link.
I shan't believe it. All I know is that America has the most secure elections in history, at least when Democrats win. When they don't win, Jake Tapper writes books titled: Down & Dirty: The Stealing of the Presidency.
And I know nothing about Swedish election procedures, but I know it must be the case that this is the Most Secure Election in History because someone from the Global South/Red-Green Alliance won.
PeterSweden
@PeterSweden7
Swedish election update.
There's now the possibility of a NEW ELECTION in the affected area after authorities are investigating possible ELECTION FRAUD.
A man from Somalia who got Swedish citizenship 7 months ago was elected to parliament for the Left.
It's reported that people were given money and pre filled ballots and were driven to voting location.
The constituency of Dalarna could see a rerun of the election take place with around 223,000 eligible voters.
With the confirmation that former CIA Director John Brennan received a subpoena to testify in the ongoing "grand conspiracy" weaponization probe based in Florida, prosecutors appear to be zeroing in on how the ex-spy was at the beginning, middle, and aftermath of the Trump-Russia collusion narrative.
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According to the filing, government prosecutor Kurt Olsen told Brennan's counsel the probe is "far-reaching" and includes "issues at Mar-a-Lago and beyond." It is aimed at assessing whether Trump's civil rights were violated. The prosecutor reportedly told Brennan's lawyer he was also the "subject" of a separate investigation for alleged false statements to Congress.
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Brennan's fingerprints were on the opening of the federal probe that became the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into Trump and his campaign. Brennan previously testified to Congress in 2017 that the U.S. Intelligence Community had gathered evidence of contacts between the Trump campaign and the Russian government by July 2016 to initiate an investigation. It was at that point, he told lawmakers, that the CIA set up a special group with both the FBI and the NSA to probe alleged Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election.
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What Brennan did not tell congressional investigators at the time was that he was personally made aware of intelligence that same month that then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton personally approved a project to gin up a bogus Russia scandal against her GOP opponent, according to Special Counsel John Durham. Durham had probed the handling of the Trump-Russia investigation. Brennan even briefed President Barack Obama and senior administration officials on Clinton's plan, but, not only did Obama's team fail to stop it, it allowed the FBI to push the investigation into the same allegations raised by the campaign, Durham noted.
Durham ultimately concluded in his final report that the FBI had no verified intelligence or evidence when it opened the Crossfire Hurricane probe of President Donald Trump's campaign in the summer of 2016. Durham also found the FBI and Justice Department failed to follow their own standards and allowed the probe to persist with a questionable basis under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
James Talarico's pastor says, on Easter of all days, that Jesus did not literally come back from the dead, which essentially nullifies all of Christianity. Except for the part about having to accept unlimited immigration because Joseph and Mary were Illegal Immigrants, didn't you know that, Bigot?
Kentucky Democrat Governor Andy Beshear says Democrats should defend men in girls' sports and locker rooms because you dont throw anyone under the bus. pic.twitter.com/NIPb7ZUD6C
There is an Army saying you hear dozens of times when you make full colonel: "Congratulations, that's the last promotion you will ever make based solely on merit."
The idea behind that saying is that when it comes time to compete for a 1-star promotion, you need a sponsor, and https://t.co/hocpfxUJUV
REPORTER: Why would more U.S. troops be sent to the region if ground troops are not being considered for deployment in Iran?
SECWAR PETE HEGSETH:
Look, son this is such a basic military lesson that even a reporter should understand it: Never reveal to your enemy what you pic.twitter.com/li8x5uB9oe
For 20 Years, Climate Alarmists Have Been Claiming That "Global Warming" Made Hurricanes More Numerous and More Severe. For the First Time in Over 100 Years, We've Had a Hurricane-Free Summer.
—Disinformation Expert Ace
For the first time in more than a century, there has been not one single hurricane by September 21st.
Chris Martz
@ChrisMartzWX
Sep 22
For the first time in 112 years, there have been ZERO Atlantic hurricanes by this point in the calendar year.
The last time this happened was in 1914, two years after the R.M.S. Titanic sank. 1914 was the year that my great-grandmother was born. It was also the year World War I broke out, and when the Panama Canal officially opened to traffic. Charlie Chaplin directed his first film, Caught in a Cabaret, that year too.
Year-to-date accumulated cyclone energy (ACE), an integrated metric that accounts for tropical cyclone frequency, intensity, and duration, is lowest on record in the satellite era (since 1966) with 6.3 units generated. Overall since 1851, North Atlantic ACE is lowest year-to-date since 1929 (although pre-satellite era data should be taken with a grain of salt).
To have a TOP FIVE end-of-year total overall, Atlantic ACE must remain below 18.1 units. To have a TOP FIVE satellite-era end-of-year total, ACE must remain below 34.4 units. The latter is almost certainly doable I think. A top five finish since 1851 is going to be hard to accomplish, but is possible. October will ultimately decide our ranking.
Interestingly and perhaps unsurprisingly, of the top ten lowest year-to-date ACE totals, all were either El Niño or ENSO netural.
Climate change makes hurricanes more frequent and intense, they said. But for the first time in 112 years, the Atlantic hasn't produced a single one. On storms, sea level, and droughts, manipulated models can show, under equally valid assumptions, the exact opposite trends.
For two decades, scientists have said that human emissions have made hurricanes stronger, seas rise faster, and droughts more severe.
"This combined PDI has nearly doubled over the past 30 yr," said the 2005 Nature paper by Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with PDI being his index of storm power. Warming raised the odds that a storm reached major hurricane strength by "about 8% per decade," said the 2020 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by James Kossin of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Climate change made a storm like Hurricane Melissa more frequent "by a factor of about 5," said the Nov. 6, 2025 report by World Weather Attribution (WWA).
The seas would rise "0.5 to 1.4 meters above the 1990 level" by 2100, said the 2007 Science paper by Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
The atmosphere's thirst had "made droughts 40% more severe across the globe," the University of Oxford said in June 2025 of a paper in Nature, which the journal retracted on Sept. 2. "It is likely that the global proportion of major (Category 3-5) tropical cyclone occurrence has increased over the last four decades," the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in 2021.
But in every case, the instruments directly measuring the phenomenon in question (storm strength, tide gauges, and rain gauges) show no trend, or no acceleration, beyond natural variability.
Atlantic hurricane counts rose across the 20th century only because ships and satellites found storms that earlier detection methods had missed, and the recorded increases "are consistent with changes in observing practices and not likely a true climate trend," concluded the 2021 Nature Communications paper by Gabriel Vecchi of Princeton and Chris Landsea of the National Hurricane Center.
Meanwhile, 2026 is the first year since 1914 that the Atlantic has produced six named storms and no hurricanes.
In terms of sea level rise, "There is no evidence for an apparent acceleration in the past 100+ years that is significant either statistically, or in comparison to values associated with global warming," found a 1992 study by Bruce Douglas.
That remains the case today. "In both datasets, approximately 95% of the suitable locations show no statistically significant acceleration of the rate of sea level rise," said an August 2025 paper by Hessel Voortman and Rob De Vos, which ran the test at 204 stations in one global network and 39 in another.
"Meteorological droughts do not show any substantial changes at the global scale in at least the last 120 years," concluded a 2022 review by Sergio Vicente-Serrano of the Spanish National Research Council, who co-wrote the Oxford paper. "We find no significant acceleration of drought trends across ~99% of quasi-global land area under either PET type," said a September 2026 paper in Communications Earth & Environment by Jiameng Xu, Kaighin McColl of Harvard and seven co-authors, PET being the atmosphere's potential to evaporate water.
Media misinfo, based on activist scientists manipulating models and formulas, caused people to believe insane things. A survey of 15,793 young Americans found that 63% believe humanity is doomed and 52% are "hesitant to have children." Total sample on left and Dems on right pic.twitter.com/2ZPp38e15I
When I said the climate mongers were silent, I meant they weren't reporting on the first hurricane-free summer in 112 years.
But they are predicting that the routine and recurring El Nino weather pattern, now called a "Godzilla-level phenomenon," is just building up in strength to deliver Super-Hurricanes later on in the season.
Hi there. Meteorologist here. ⛈️
Its called El Niρo, not a Godzilla-level phenomenon.
Its just a natural mode of internal climate variability. This year, we are in an unusually strong warm phase of it.
Non-Scientist Bill Nye the "Science" Guy has nothing to say about this, but now becomes a History Expert, and says Drumpf is Hitler. He's pored over the data and can now confirm this.
And deporting the illegal aliens signed up for the fraudulent Obamacare accounts will save even more money.
Vice President JD Vance and other Trump administration officials said Tuesday they plan to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees from public healthcare exchanges, alleging that the individuals were fraudulently enrolled in the program, or simply do not exist.
Vance said the discovery and canceled subsidy payments for hundreds of thousands of people from the exchanges, part of an administration-wide crackdown on fraud, would result in $2.2 billion in cost savings.
"We're actually making sure that the people receiving Obamacare subsidies are actually entitled to receive them," said Vance, who leads a government task force to eliminate fraud. He was flanked by Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, and other administration officials.
Vance said the cancellation of approximately 315,000 enrollments covering 760,000 people was done in part because the government was not checking whether people enrolled were eligible. Vance said another 419,000 enrollments will get additional verification to make sure they are eligible for the benefit.
The Trump administration also announced a six-month suspension on new agents or brokers who sign up enrollees for healthcare coverage, who officials say commit a disproportionate amount of the fraud they uncovered.
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Premiums doubled or tripled for many enrollees, prompting millions to downgrade their plans or exit the program entirely after the Republican-led Congress allowed the subsidies to expire this year.
The Government Accountability Office suggests fraud risks in the advance premium tax credit do exist - however it's unclear at what scale. The GAO conducted covert testing using fictitious ACA applicants enrolled in 2024 and 2025. A report released in December showed that the federal marketplace approved subsidized coverage for almost all of the GAO's 24 fake enrollees.
Democrats immediately demanded Trump reinstate the fraudulent accounts -- proving that they're all about the fraud as a means of paying off their (often illegal) voters and then later receiving kickbacks from them.
Democratic lawmakers criticized the move to remove enrollees from ACA coverage.
Richard E. Neal, a Massachusetts Democrat and ranking member of the Ways and Means Committee, said "Republicans have already created the worst healthcare crisis ever, but every decision by the Trump Administration is designed to keep making it worse."
"As if making coverage harder to access through skyrocketing premiums and more red tape wasn't painful enough, they're doubling down to take it away entirely," Neal said.
From fraudulent enrollees, who are illegal aliens, who you claim aren't eligible for Obamacare and aren't on it.
NEW: VP Vance announces a major fraud crackdown, stopping enrollment for roughly 750,000 people the administration believes are fraudulently enrolled in Obamacare.
Vance says the move will save taxpayers $2.2 billion.
🚨 JUST IN: In a STUNNING revelation, VP JD Vance says an Obamacare fraud ring had 40 brokerage agents that funneled 50,000 THOUSAND people into the system "FRAUDULENTLY"
And a deadly one, I'd add, because the vicious propaganda of a "trans genocide" is used to rile up the mentally ill to commit murder, as we have seen in the case of the "Ziz" transgender murder cult and, despite what simpleton narcissist Candace Owens says, the assassination of a Charlie Kirk by a gay trans-loving furry avenger.
The media attacks every "right wing conspiracy theory" they claim might lead to violence, while affirmatively pushing left-wing conspiracy theories like the "lynching" trend that does not exist.
But so what if some normies get murdered. The important thing is that we jack up Democrat voting enthusiasm.
It's a bit unexpected to see the liberal David Mastio writing about the "trans genocide" fiction in the ultra-lib Boston Globe, so I'll award Hufflepuff one credit.
Note, however, Mastio and the Globe cannot admit the truth -- that in fact transgenders experience violence at lower rates than normal people, which is pretty amazing considering they tend to work in dangerous fields like prostitution -- and still pretend that this is a big problem.
In Trump's America, violence against transgender people isn't going up -- it's going down
The data contradicts the popular narrative.
The notion that transgender people face soaring levels of violence is so ingrained in the public discourse, it gets little scrutiny even in the reddest and most trans-rights skeptical areas of the country -- like my hometown.
In a front page story this summer on the local Pride march, the Omaha World-Herald uncritically quoted a trans rights activist claiming that a proposed state ballot measure that would restrict transgender girls' and women's participation in school sports "won't actually protect" biological women and girls and "will increase violence" against LGBTQ people.
Stigmatizing transgender people, the argument goes, leads to attacks.
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But despite a hostile Trump administration and a barrage of anti-trans legislation across the country, the number of violent deaths the group documents has fallen nearly 50 percent from 53 in 2023 to 27 in 2025.
Advocacy groups insist the data is incomplete and shouldn't be used to draw any conclusions about the prevalence of anti-trans violence. That's due, they say, to the bigotry of families and authorities who misname and misgender the victims, making it hard to discern from public records how many transgender people are dying.
"The numbers show that trans people are not killed in higher rates than other groups, but for Reasons We're Making Up Right Now we should be allowed the 'real' number to be much higher."
Still it's hard to imagine that as awareness about the transgender community has grown, misgendering and pronoun-swapping have become more common in police reports and news accounts than they were a decade ago, when another prominent LGBTQ organization, the Human Rights Campaign, began publishing its own numbers on violence against transgender people. The HRC tallies, too, find a declining number of violent transgender deaths to mourn. The group found a peak in 2021 of 47 deaths falling to 27 last year. HRC described that 40 percent drop as an "ongoing onslaught of violence."
Federal FBI hate crimes data also shows a decline in the abuse of trans people between 2024 and 2025.
One hate crime is one too many, but for all the backlash against transgender people, an analysis by the conservative Manhattan Institute shows they actually have a lower murder rate than does the population as a whole.
Oh they do admit it late in the article. That's something, I guess.
I offered the Human Rights Campaign's key researcher, the transgender woman Charleigh Flohr, or anyone else with the organization an opportunity to rebut the Manhattan Institute finding, but they didn't reply to me. And I can find no evidence that they have disputed the report in the months since its publication.
He can now go into any female bathroom or change room he wants. Of course, its still illegal for this to physically sexually assault any girls in there, but he can watch. The only way for women & girls to ensure they are not in this situation is self exclusion. pic.twitter.com/aHUSoIJ9ft
US Democrats have declared forbidding any woman from drawing a boundary between herself and any man who says he is a woman to be the "civil rights movement of the 21st century. They join the center-Left parties across the Western world and Anglosphere in their unswerving commitment to this principle.
In the US, it meant allowing a convicted sex offender to loiter naked in a Fairfax County girls changing room for hours. In Australia, it means allowing a man who filmed a video of himself raping a five year-old girl to enter any female bathroom or changing room.
The House Judiciary Committee concluded in a report released Wednesday that the Biden-Harris administration wielded the Justice Department as a weapon and "ran roughshod" over constitutional protections and the separation of powers in order to spy on Republican members of Congress.
The report, which the committee released on Wednesday, summarizes several years worth of investigation conducted by the committee into the tenure of Special Counsel Jack Smith, his investigations into President Donald Trump, and how he used those investigations to obtain privileged phone records from lawmakers.
"The Biden-Harris Administration, including Special Counsel Smith, ran roughshod over key constitutional protections to spy on Republican Members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate," the lawmakers concluded.
"Contemporaneous documents and testimony to the Committee reveal a deliberate assault by the Biden-Harris DOJ on fundamental separation of powers between the Executive Branch and the Legislative Branch," the committee later added.
In all, the committee found evidence that the FBI and Smith's team got phone toll records from 17 GOP members of Congress and text messages from as many as 44, some including information privileged to Congress, the report said. Among those targeted were former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan.
The report concluded the DOJ "disregarded the separation of powers to spy on their political opposition."
In obtaining the phone records, without notice and ability to challenge in a court of law, "the Biden-Harris Administration violated the Constitution's Speech or Debate Clause, a core provision that protects the official actions and communications of Members of Congress and immunizes them from prosecution for legislative acts," the committee said in the report.
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The committee later found that more than 160 Republicans were targeted by Smith's probe, codenamed Arctic Frost. These included individuals like former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon, Rep. Scott Perry, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Trump DOJ official Jeffrey Clark, former Trump attorney John Eastman, and former Rep. Mark Meadows, who later served as Trump's chief of staff.
At the time, it was believed that Smith accessed toll records, which do not include the content of messages sent. However, new documents the committee published in July show that, in fact, Smith's team did access content by apparently bypassing the established Filter Team, which is responsible for evaluating and segregating privileged information.
This revelation has exposed Smith to possible perjury charges. During his prior testimony to Congress, the prosecutor told lawmakers emphatically, "no," that his team did not request the content of messages, only the toll records.
Before releasing the report on Wednesday, the Judiciary Committee made public the testimonies of five former prosecutors on Smith's team and a Justice Department agent during the Arctic Frost investigation.
Almost as if he knew what he was doing was illegal and wanted to limit the number of witnesses.
Retired Justice Department Inspector General Special Agent Brian Burnett was quoted in the transcript as saying that during his decades working at the DOJ's watchdog, he never once was asked to collect congressional phone data and did not learn until after he retired in late 2024 that he had unwittingly done so as part of his work for Smith's team prosecuting Trump in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol riot investigation code-named Arctic Frost.
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is accusing former special counsel Jack Smith and the former Biden administration of trying to "sway" the 2024 election with the Department of Justice (DOJ) probe into President Donald Trump and his allies.
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"The Special Counsel's prosecutors tried to silence President Trump with unlawful gag orders, threatened defense attorneys, mishandled key documents, and broke protocol to release a massive trove of alleged evidence just weeks before the presidential election to sway public opinion," the report said.
This is something special: Biden's/Garland's Public Integrity Section realized that this was all illegal and unconstitutional but decided it was no big deal because, owing to the illegal gag orders they would get liberal judges to impose to keep the victims from knowing their rights had been abused, there was little chance of actually getting sued over any of it.
"Internal documents show that Arctic Frost investigators, and later Smith's team, had only limited, perfunctory discussions with subject-matter experts in DOJ's Public Integrity Section (PIN) about the constitutionality of these seizures," the report said. "Although PIN cautioned that the subpoenas could be unconstitutional, PIN approved them nonetheless, asserting there was little 'litigation risk' because the gag orders that accompanied the subpoenas would prevent Members from ever discovering the seizures. As a result, Members of Congress were unaware of the Biden-Harris DOJ's spying for more than two years."
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NEW: Transcripts released by @JudiciaryGOP once again confirm collaboration between Biden DOJ/Special Counsel Jack Smith and the Biden White House.
Here is JP Cooney--who pushed for investigations into Trump and his circle immediately after Jan 6 then detailed to Jack Smith's team after his appointment in Nov 2022--admitting he communicated with Biden's WH counsel.
This aligns with my reporting a few years ago disclosing how Biden DOJ interacted with Biden WH Counsel Jonathan Su in late 2021 and into 2022 before he stepped down in Oct. 2022.
More evidence debunking media claims that the Biden DOJ acted independently of the Biden White House--and that somehow President Trump's engagement in DOJ matter is "unprecedented."
NEW: Transcripts released by @JudiciaryGOP once again confirm collaboration between Biden DOJ/Special Counsel Jack Smith and the Biden White House.
Here is JP Cooney--who pushed for investigations into Trump and his circle immediately after Jan 6 then detailed to Jack Smith's pic.twitter.com/r3x1btM6hJ
Sonny Hostin is Beaming With Pride About Being the Holdout Juror That Got a Literal Cannibal Killer Off
—Disinformation Expert Ace
A literal cannibal killer killed and then butchered victims and served their meat to the homeless.
That's not a pitch for an A24 horror movie. That really happened in New York City in the 1990s. The killer was called "the Butcher of Tompkins Square Park." I used to live around there (but I have an alibi).
Bursting with what David Strom calls "main character syndrome" -- the belief of narcissists that they are the star of the show called "reality" and that everything they do is justified and good because they're the main character of the show and therefore the hero -- Sonny Hostin glowed as she Karensplained that she was the lone holdout juror during the Butcher's trial and spared him a murder conviction.
Oh, she also says that Lindsay Clancy is not guilty because of course she does.
Hostin left no doubt about where she stood. "The insanity defense has been around in Massachusetts for 182 years, so I think it's well established," she said. "And I thought, absolutely, she was not criminally responsible by reason of insanity."
Then Hostin explained where her conviction came from.
Before she went to law school, Hostin sat on the jury in the early 1990s murder trial of Daniel Rakowitz, better known as "The Butcher of Tompkins Square Park." Rakowitz killed his roommate, a Swiss dancer named Monika Beerle, and cut up her body in a bathtub. He then cooked her remains into a soup, ate some of it, and handed it out to homeless people in the New York City park.
A New York Times article on the case described a lone holdout who "was principally responsible ... for preventing them from returning a guilty verdict."
"That was me," Hostin said. "And it was because I saw clearly that he was psychotic."
Then she offered her own version of the killing, and it sounded more like a closing argument for the defense than a confession of regret.
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Alyssa Farah Griffin couldn't let her finish. "And you got this guy off?!" she asked, clearly horrified.
"That's how much I believe in the insanity defense," Hostin said before wrapping up her account: "And he fed her body parts to the unhoused."
Meanwhile, fellow The View co-AWFUL Sarah Haines is appalled that Patrick Clancy divorced his wife just because she had a little Oopsie Moment when she cold-bloodedly manually strangled his three infant children to death.
Didn't he promise to remain with her in mental sickness and in health? 'till triple infanticide do we part?
How did the marital love end so quickly in sickness and in health.
Sarah Haines of The View gripes that Patrick Clancy isnt still married to Lindsay Clancy, the woman who murdered his kids. pic.twitter.com/cwTusxO4VI
Just for context: Left-wing women are constantly online telling women to divorce their husbands over minor dissatisfactions, including just finding some other guy more sexually exciting. AWFULs routinely make novels urging women to abandon their husbands and their children for the goal of selfish self-fulfillment national best-sellers and major Hollywood movies. Eat Pray Love, for example.
Meanwhile, of course, they insist that a (spit) man remain a slave forever to his evil murderess wife.
CNN Mood 'Like a Funeral' as Paramount's Warner Bros. Win Casts New Haze on Next Steps
Just when staffers at CNN thought the news giant's path to the future was becoming more clear, new fog has set in.
In recent weeks, the Warner Bros. Discovery outlet appeared to have found its groove. Yes, its linear ratings are down noticeably from the era when it won notice for its aggressive coverage of President Trump's first term, and there are serious questions about whether they will ever come back. But the company appeared to be making some gains with digital audiences with its recently launched "CNN All Access" subscription service, where CNN has been testing new programming formats.
LOL. Their ratings are in the crapper but they're making "some gains" with digital.
Like CNN Plus. You remember CNN Plus, right?
On the traditional side, despite the viewership challenges, CNN has seen personnel like Abby Phillip and Harry Enten gain some traction.
"Some" traction.
This propagandist is really straining to find ways to claim that CNN is performing well in "some" ways. They say that Warner Bros. claims that CNN will post a profit this year, but I've heard Disney's Bob Iger claiming everything is going great at the Groomer Network, so I don't put much stock in corporate predictions of plenty.
Now for the truth:
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The mood at CNN is "like a funeral," says one person familiar with the operation.
CNN personnel have reason to worry. Paramount's management of CBS News has been controversial, and has not been good for the business of the news unit. Changes made under Bari Weiss, installed last year as editor in chief, have brought unnecessary scrutiny to news reports, and anchors have made public entreaties on Instagram when people post notes suggesting that Weiss' background as a digital entrepreneur and provocative opinion writer have muddied the newsgathering at the network.
The right has brought "scrutiny" to left-wing media reporting for 40+ years but this was never before seen as a problem. Now that lefties are complaining about editorial decisions, it's a National Concern.
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But staffers are also concerned about the company's business plans being changed -- yet again. "What an enormous loss and disruption it would be to shuffle leadership for the umpteenth time in the midst -- finally -- of reshaping the business," says one CNN staffer.
Expert opinion: Companies that are performing well are not subject to frequent leadership changes, just as winning teams aren't frequently subjected to new coaching staffs.
CNN employees have reason to wring their hands....
Without a boost from new digital revenue, CNN's business will likely decline, according to projections from Kagan, a market-research unit of S&P Global Intelligence. CNN's cash flow is seen falling to $735.3 million in 2027, according to Kagan, down nearly 10% from $815.9 million in 2025. A projected spike in 2026 is due to midterm election coverage, which typically draws broader audiences. Advertising is projected to fall about 6.6% to $457.6 million in 2027, according to Kagan, compared with $489.8 million in 2025. Cash from distribution, however, is expected to keep rising.
CNN must also grapple with how much independence it will have under Paramount. Paramount Skydance CEO has put CBS News into unorthodox situations by holding a private dinner with personnel from the news division and the Trump administration and by hiring a factotum ombudsman to monitor CBS who has staunch partisan ties.
It's not unusual for "news" personnel to meet with politicians, as Jake Tapper could tell you of his fly-fishing with Gavin Newsom or freindship-building dinners with Anthony Fauci.
But what is unacceptable is meeting with conservative politicians.
News rivals wonder why CBS News seems so eager to put U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth into so many of its programs -- he was a big "get" interview during Tony Dokoupil's first "CBS Evening News" telecast and appeared on last week's season premiere of "60 Minutes" -- when Hegseth's Pentagon has been so hostile to traditional press outlets.
Yeah why would a "news" organization want to interview the Secretary of War during a war? Inconceivable!
Now on to the deal struck with the left-wing AGs -- which they admit is largely just a paper notion on a press release.
The solution -- for now -- is to be found in the formation of a board designed to govern both CNN and CBS News. Under the terms of an agreement unveiled Monday between Paramount and a set of attorneys general who were blocking the merger, this board is expected to set up guiding principles for "accuracy, independence, fairness and journalistic integrity."
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Such bodies have proven largely ineffectual in the past.
"People are very nervous," one CNN staffer told the outlet. "It's dark. It's like when you do hurricane coverage. You see the storm spinning off the coast of Haiti and moving towards Florida and you're just waiting and you're like, 'Oh, s--t'."
"Bloodbath coming, including at CNN," a TV executive confided. "That's the next big step -- slashing and burning," while others also drew death-by-takeover comparisons.
The outbreak of fear and loathing at CNN goes back as far as June this year when, as Breitbart News reported, many CNN employees were so worried over the evolving merger they turned their boss's office into a makeshift "psychiatrist's couch," according to a report.
CNN staffers were worried over Paramount boss David Ellison's connections to Trump -- as well as that of Ellison's father, Larry, who is a huge Trump donor.
At the personal scale, the destruction of a relationship is emotionally disturbing and painful. Whether it is some formal means of destruction like a divorce or something informal like just gradually or suddenly severing contact, the relationship is wrecked and there are bound to be hard feelings on both sides. Both sides will feel wronged, and neither side is likely to accept responsibility for whatever caused the failure. That's not fun for anyone involved, but it is rare that there is a big blast radius when an interpersonal relationship is destroyed.
That is not true when the scale increases and the relationship at risk is not inter-personal but inter-national. That failure of relationships between nation-states are usually complex phenomena and require careful management to avoid courting real harm as the relationship unwinds or - even worse - shifts into actual policy-backed animosity. The worst kind of adjustment is from "friendly" to "unfriendly," skipping the much more manageable condition of "neutral but sometimes cooperative." The conversion into unfriendliness or even hostility is particularly bad when the countries involved are geographical neighbors, and so managing the end of the prior era is even more important. That is the point we are now reaching with the country that has long been one of our most important allies: our neighbor to the north.
Canada is doing everything in its power to pivot the relationship with the United States from historical friendliness to active hostility (though Canada would surely swap the country names in that sentence). This is somewhat tragic given the long, rich history of US-Canadian cooperation, essential cultural compatibility and our mutual - if lopsided - economic dependence. Carney has doubled down on everything Trudeau was doing that the US considered untenable to maintaining the status quo. Earlier this year, Canada doubled down on alignment with the CCP, essentially ending any chance at the USMCA surviving - even with changes. As I put it at the time:
Unless something changes, the intermediate-term effects of this breakdown will go well beyond mere trading economics. For generations, Canada and the United States have been vitally important partners to each other. We have been two distinct countries with compatible cultures, economic integration, deep diplomatic ties, stalwart military alliance and general friendliness at the micro and the macro. That is fracturing in real time as Ottawa pursues ever-tighter coupling with Beijing. The obvious distaste Canada's ruling class has for the United States in general and Donald Trump in particular is secondary, but serves to add yet more strain to an already strained relationship.
This strain has likely ended the USMCA. Whether it is also the beginning of the end for generally good US/Canada relations remains to be seen.
It happened much faster than I expected, but it is the end of generally good US-Canada relations. Last week, Carney and the EU announced that they are working toward bringing Canada into the EU - sort of. Canada, not being European, cannot join the EU according to the EU's own rules. Not to worry, though - the EU is the floating the idea of creating an entirely new kind of EU membership just for Canada. They're calling it "associate membership:"
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has welcomed the European Union's ambition for Canada to become its first "associate member", calling for closer cooperation on defence, critical minerals and energy security.
Carney told the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Thursday that Canada and Europe were "stronger together" in the face of "geopolitical rupture".
His comments came a day after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed "opening the door" to Canada's associate membership, a status that does not currently exist.
This is about one thing: the pissing match between Red China and the EU and the US. Setting aside the laughable quotes like He said a Canada-EU alliance would create a "beacon for other democracies", while stressing the two sides were not seeking to form a new power bloc and "This is about sovereignty, our ability to live as we wish. We do not seek power to dominate others,", attempting to move Canada into the European empire - and the empire's enthusiasm for it - is a clear signal that our status quo ante is now over. Carney is CCP-first and Europe-second, and has helped transform Canada into an adversary.
If we accept that the recent historical norm of close US-Canada alignment is now over - and perhaps we shouldn't, though it looks that way to me - the question for the United States becomes how to deal with it and, by extension, how to deal with the EU. It's a tricky problem because it must balance the mutual pain we can deliver to each other while still marginalizing the other player. There is a lot of trade with Canada and much of it is important. We can live without it, but that would suck and be incredibly disruptive if it happens all at once. Canada is betting that it can replace the US in trade if it disregards its sovereignty and culture and allows itself to be spit-roasted by Beijing and Brussels. Time will tell whether that is true, but the damage will be done regardless.
The funny part of this is that most of the United States' actions to date have been around maintaining the status quo with Canada while implementing new policies more broadly. We want a couple of things from Canada, but most of our focus has been further abroad, mostly focused on Red China, Latin America and the EU. By working to help Red China circumvent US trade policy and by aligning with the both Red China and the EU in direct opposition to the United States' goals in those places, Canada has decided to change its status from "neighbor with generally good but sometimes strained relations" to "adversary."
Much as it pains me to say it - because, for what it's worth, I generally like Canadians and Canada itself - the US must seize the initiative. With Canada now an adversary, the US should preemptively and unilaterally start implementing policies that reflect the new reality. The US must take action to adjust to the new normal and control the terms of disengagement with Canada wherever possible. This US could consider, in no particular order:
- Secure the northern border. An enormous unsecured border with an ally is one thing, but it must not be permitted with an adversary. Border walls, fewer and more-secure border crossings, permanent increase in Coast Guard presence on the Great Lakes, full inspections of all commercial road and rail traffic, etc. all should be implemented.
- Withdraw from the USMCA and immediately replace it with a new deal - or, preferably, a series of bilateral deals - with Mexico and other Latin American countries.
- Forbid any product manufactured outside of Canada, or manufactured in Canada by foreign companies that are not based in the United States, from entering the United States from Canada. Any company found to be mislabeling goods is banned from any export to the United States, in perpetuity.
- If the EU and Canada work out an arrangement to bring Canada into the EU, withdraw from NATO. It is insane to be the military power guaranteeing the security of what is the new Warsaw Pact.
- Require visas from travel from Canada. Many Canadians actually like the United States and it would be stupid to forbid them to come here, but add friction and make it clear that this is a response to Canadian policy changes, not an attack on friendly Canadians.
- Sever cooperation between the Federal Reserve and the Bank of Canada on policy coordination and information exchange.
- Buy as much Canadian energy as possible. The energy-producing provinces are much friendly to the United States than the political power provinces are, and every drop of Canadian oil that flows here is not flowing to Red China or the EU - and it would build goodwill with potential change-agents in Canada.
Are any of those good ideas? I don't know. Most of them probably aren't. Given that Canada has now made its adversarial status crystal clear, however, the US should act first and seize the initiative. It sucks. It would be better for everyone in both countries if Canada's government wasn't doing everything in its power to subvert US policy goals and destroy our once-strong relationship while simultaneously exposing Canadians to tremendous economic pain, but it is. Canada no longer wants to be under the US umbrella, and the US cannot afford tight integration with an adversary - so it is time to begin disentanglement
Left-wing HBO late-night host John Oliver is justifying the outrageous love leftists have for admitted murderer Luigi Mangione, saying anger over UnitedHealthcare’s policies might excuse the devotion liberals show for the killer... “The very fact that one company controls so much of America’s healthcare is what makes it so infuriating when you see just how bad people’s experiences with it can be,” he added, noting that “telling UnitedHealthcare to go fuck itself has become an entire genre of internet video,” Oliver continued in his efforts to wave away any moral concern over the shocking murder.
In its latest edition, Liberal Currents asks, “What Are Democrats Thinking?” A lot of them are thinking about a dead President Donald Trump, according to a new poll featured in the left-wing digital magazine.
The poll, conducted in partnership with the Center for Strategic Politics, finds about one out of every three Democrats responding would like to see Trump assassinated while speaking at a rally. The survey of 683 Dem voters found 23 percent would feel “very positive” about the violent scenario posed. Another 8 percent would feel “somewhat positive.”
. . .So much for the peace-loving left. . . But apparently military coups are an acceptable way of restoring said democracy and upholding the Constitution, according to a majority of respondents. To “safeguard the Constitution,” . . . “These attitudes are not fringe — they reflect an emergent assassination culture, grounded in far-left authoritarianism and increasingly normalized in digital discourse,” states the report, titled, “Assassination Culture: How Burning Teslas and Killing Billionaires Became a Meme Aesthetic for Political Violence.”
And while Trump unabashedly puts America’s interests first, his emphasis on action is a clear indictment of the United Nations’ failure to carry out its primary mission: to confront threats to world peace, such as Iran.
The president was even more explicit about his disdain for Turtle Bay’s efforts to impose a “far-left agenda” and for its “globalists,” “rogue” International Criminal Court, Human Rights Council and UNESCO.
Yes, “the United Nations has great, great potential,” Trump allowed; his criticisms aim to save it.
But that requires a massive shift in UN culture — and leadership.
Apparently organized protests erupted in Austin shortly after an ICE officer shot and wounded a Venezuelan illegal alien, Breitbart Texas reported on Sunday. The Venezuelan man attempted to flee from the officer before being stopped. A video posted on social media shows the officer shooting into the vehicle, which attempted to drive off a second time. Austin Protesters Threaten President, ICE Officers in Wake of Illegal Alien Shooting
Biden’s agencies set the 125,000 target in his last year in office. Resettlement contractors put the long-run average at roughly 92,000 a year since the program started in 1980. Trump’s first term bottomed out at 15,000. Trump Cuts Refugee Inflow to 17,500, Down from Biden’s 125,000
The findings raise serious questions about the oversight of taxpayer-funded childcare programs in the Democrat-run city, particularly Seattle’s Child Care Assistance Program, which provides funding to daycares serving low-to-middle-income families. If confirmed, the fraud could undermine public trust in such programs and divert resources from families in genuine need. More Somali Daycares Under Investigation for $5 MILLION in Suspected Fraud.
The Post Millennial found dozens of Somali-run daycares in Seattle that rake in MILLIONS in taxpayer dollars per year. But when reporters showed up, there were no children. Again. Another Massive Somali Daycare Scam Ring in Seattle?
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The launch of Trump TV gives the administration a direct channel to distribute presidential remarks and official footage without relying on corporate broadcasters. The broader dispute is shifting toward the courts, with CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO demanding a right to White House access under First Amendment and due process claims. White House Launches ‘Trump TV’ Amid Clash With Corporate Media.
America must rapidly develop AI to maintain national security and stay ahead of China while ensuring data centers minimize their environmental and community impacts. Artificial Intelligence and National Survival
Even as our ideological enemies are poised to strike (or have already struck), the West still stands there, effectively blinded by its own ideology. The West Hasn’t Even Entered The OODA Loop
Although I consider myself a constitutional purist, I suspect that when the Founding Fathers wrote, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed," they hadn't considered the dangers of handing firearms to scrotum-phobic dudes in stilettos, sexual deviants calling themselves "furries," and even a crazy man dressed as Little Bo Peep. It's Time to Take the Guns Away from They/Them
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
Ossoff has been photographed with disgraced former Stockbridge Mayor Jayden Williams dating back to 2023, as seen in photos on social media. Breitbart News reported last week Williams was impeached by the Stockbridge City Council after he was accused of misusing city funds and exchanging sexually suggestive messages and explicit photos with an 18-year-old high school student. Democrat Jon Ossoff Campaigned with Alleged Sexual Deviant Georgia Mayor Impeached for Corruption
Cults are not defined solely by esoteric rituals or charismatic gurus; they are also defined by a mental structure. The Left Is A Cult (with an "n" - jjs)
Politico frames this as good news for Newsom with this headline — “California Democrats see Newsom as stronger 2028 contender than Harris” — but the difference among Democrats, the only group that matters in a presidential primary, is six measly points. There is plenty of excitement for both. California Voters Not Excited About Kamala or Newsom Running for President
The JWE represents a broader effort by Pentagon leadership, spearheaded by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, to promote officers based on merit and combat readiness, rather than on their ability to navigate the bureaucratic career ladder in Washington. It also reflects an intent to streamline the upper ranks and ensure top performers rise faster while underperformers are removed more efficiently. Trump Pentagon Introduces Reforms to Find Generals Who Are Combat Ready, Not Career Bureaucrats.
BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER AFTERMATH
The Pakistani government said on Monday that airstrikes against militant strongholds in eastern Afghanistan killed at least 28 enemy fighters. The Taliban government in Kabul disputed the claim, saying only three people were killed, all of them civilians. Taliban Protests as Pakistan Bombs Afghanistan Again
Present theories posit that cycles of climate and volcanic eruption laid down the layers. Later events warped and twisted those layers, but buried them also. Then the crater impacts occurred, exposing them to the surface again where wind and sublimation could carve the weird shapes we see today. Insane terrain on Mars
Once assembled, the NRL-designed [National Research Laboratory], tiles will collect solar energy, convert it into radio frequency microwave energy, and transmit that energy to Earth. This will be one of the largest demonstrations of on-orbit assembly and operation of power-beaming infrastructure. Katalyst wins military contract to test power-beaming from orbit
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
The findings, published by the right-leaning Manhattan Institute’s Vincent Lundgren and Colin Wright earlier this year, seemingly debunk claims by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and other nonprofit organizations that there is an “epidemic” of deadly violence against the trangender community driven by “transphobia” and even “white supremacy.” Murders of transgender people primarily motivated by ‘intimate partner violence’ — not hate: report
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Americans typically think of sports as entertainment. But sports also have a social function that makes sports part of that reservoir of communal affection called social wealth. Who Gets to Play?
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Antarctica's four-foot-tall Emperor penguin may be the best-known member of the penguin family, but it is far from alone. Seventeen other penguin species live across the Southern Hemisphere, and many inhabit isolated islands that are difficult for scientists to reach and study.
That remoteness may help explain how an entire species of gentoo penguin escaped recognition for so long. The birds live on the Kerguelen Islands, known in French as the Desolation Islands, nearly 2,000 miles from any permanently inhabited landmass. An international team led by researchers in Chile and at the University of California, Berkeley has now identified the population as a distinct species, making it the first new penguin species named in more than 100 years. The findings were published in Communications Biology.
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The newly recognized southeastern gentoo penguin, Pygoscelis kerguelensis, may face an uncertain future. Two of the other newly defined species could also be vulnerable as global warming reshapes the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic regions where they live. The southern gentoo, now known as Pygoscelis ellsworthi, is the only one of the four that lives in Antarctica. Climate projections suggest it may be affected relatively little and could even expand its range.
"In Antarctica, of course, other species, not the gentoo, are threatened by climate change," said Juliana Vianna, one of the paper's senior authors and a professor of ecosystems and environment at Andrés Bello National University in Santiago, Chile.
Of course - climate doom and gloom threatens them.
Norwegian chemical company Yara has inaugurated the largest industrial carbon capture facility in all of Europe this week. Set up at the company's ammonia and fertilizer plant in Sluiskil, the Netherlands, it can capture 800,000 tons of CO2 per year.
That carbon dioxide comes from its ammonia production process. Once it's captured, it's liquified, temporarily stored in those large white tanks you see in the photos, and subsequently transported by ship to Norway. This last bit is handled by Norwegian CO2 transport firm Northern Lights, which stores its cargo in a reservoir 8,530 ft (2,600 m) beneath the seabed.
Burying tanks of CO2 like it's toxic waste. These people are lunatics!
For the first time in more than 100 years, scientists have identified a new species of wild cat.
The diminutive feline, dubbed the tilcayo, lives in the Bolivian Yungas, the cloud forest where the eastern slopes of the Andes Mountains meet the Amazon basin. It’s smaller than a house cat, weighing just three to four pounds, and has large, irregularly shaped rosettes dotting its light brown fur.
How long until these kitties are threatened by the climate boogeyman?
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AI is asshoe. Government is asshoe. Together? Yeah - ASSHOE!!!!!
Hundreds of flights across New Jersey, Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston were delayed Monday afternoon after the US Federal Aviation Administration issued a massive ground stop impacting thousands of travelers — right as the government starts testing an AI air traffic control system, though there’s no current indication that the two incidents are connected.
According to early reporting by Reuters, over 600 flights were delayed across Newark and Philadelphia alone, in addition to hundreds more across four other east coast airports. Dozens of imminent takeoffs were likewise aborted across the busy flight corridor when the ground stops — which appeared to roll northward from Philadelphia — were issued.
Preliminary reports indicate some sort of air traffic control glitch at one of the major airports along the East Coast, with Bloomberg TV reporting a circuit malfunction at an air traffic control facility in Philadelphia, and Reuters noting that a fiber optics cable was accidentally clipped in New Jersey.
Meanwhile, the BBC reports that Boston’s Logan International Airport is warning travelers to expect extensive delays due to broad “equipment issues across the north-east.” As one FAA spokesperson told CBS21, the ground stop is due to “issues with some frequencies at Philadelphia TRACON,” also known as Terminal Radar Approach Control, the radar system that guides planes in and out of airports.
At the time of writing, it isn’t exactly clear what’s behind the turmoil. What is clear is that the region’s air traffic control system is a tangled mess — and unfortunately, this could just be a sign of things to come.
Strikingly, the massive air traffic outage comes right as the Trump administration moves ahead with a controversial AI air traffic control system known as “Strategic Management of Airspace, Routes and Trajectories,” or SMART.
Researchers have captured direct radio wave emissions originating from a planet outside our Solar System.
Using South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope array, an international team of astronomers successfully detected variable radio bursts coming directly from Beta Pictoris b, a massive gas giant exoplanet located about 63 lightyears away.
But while many of us may hear of radio signals detected at a distant planet in our Galaxy and instinctively imagine a detection of alien life, in this case the discovery is not a sign that E.T. has been detected.
>She/her shows up with a rainbow flag like it’s her own personal pride parade. The couple asks her to kindly put it away.
>She/her then tries to publicly shame them for “homophobia”.
Video at the link. Yeah - it's annoying.
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🚨 HOLY CRAP! President Trump just called out the UN globalists for attempting to FORCE mass migration to the west
"With your CEASELESS promotion of mass migration, these globalists are actively DESTROYING the greatest cultures and most extraordinary heritage in all of history."
"They want the worst people to come in from the WORST places on earth and we don't do it anymore."
"There is NO HUMAN RIGHT to illegal immigration, but there is a right to remain a SOVEREIGN NATION."
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump's FULL blockbuster UN speech is getting rave reviews -- where he RAILED against the globalist ICC, called out the persecution of Christians, REFUSED to apologize for America First and more
The whole thing was 10/10! 🔥
TRUMP DID THE FOLLOWING:
- Called out the UN for ignoring Christian persecution worldwide while obsessing over America
- Demanded every ICC member resign immediately from that rogue anti-American tribunal
- Called Communist Cuba a failed state that will fall, then watched officials storm out
- Declared there is no human right to illegal immigration, only the right to stay a sovereign nation
- Scorched UNESCO globalists for pushing mass migration that destroys Western cultures
- Said there is NO global government and there will be NO global taxes while he is president
- Bragged that America cut the UN budget 15% and killed over 4,000 bureaucracy jobs
- Boasted of the most secure border in American history with ZERO illegal aliens admitted
- Declared America is BACK, stronger than ever, and in a GOLDEN AGE after Biden's dark age
- Mic-dropped failed globalist leaders: while others talked peace, he MADE peace
- Vowed Iran will NEVER get a nuclear weapon and said the Middle East bully is finished
- Teased a huge post-election decision: strike a deal, or annihilate the Islamic Republic
- Exposed Iran as weak and desperate, not strong, and predicted Iranian terror's end
- Took a victory lap over capturing Maduro and signing the largest oil deal in history
- Laid down the Donroe Doctrine: no threats get a foothold in the Western Hemisphere
- Refused to apologize for crushing drug cartels, calling them the ISIS of the hemisphere
- Locked in permanent Greenland security rights that shut out China, Russia, and adversary investment
- Renamed Artificial Intelligence to Super Intelligence and vowed America stays #1 over China
Well he didn't coin that. People routinely speak of "AGI" -- "Artificial General Intelligence" -- and "ASI" -- "Artificial Super-Intelligence." Neither one has been achieved yet.
- Closed with a nationalist call to strengthen nations, grow economies, and God bless America
🚨 HOLY CRAP! President Trump just called out the UN globalists for attempting to FORCE mass migration to the west
"With your CEASELESS promotion of mass migration, these globalists are actively DESTROYING the greatest cultures and most extraordinary heritage in all of history." pic.twitter.com/JQicrWu7SA
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump's FULL blockbuster UN speech is getting rave reviews where he RAILED against the globalist ICC, called out the persecution of Christians, REFUSED to apologize for America First and more
Of course, Trump got the Greenland deal he was angling for. We don't own it, but we will be building bases there.
Most European security analysts can pick another job since they were totally wrong on how the Greenland crisis was solved. Gardening for example. https://t.co/3LtunL8Fk1
Podcast: CBD is solo and just checking in! Trump's UN speech is a success, the Last Ditch Bar in Western MA keeps their lunacy in the spotlight, and the White House plays hardball with the media and the judiciary...as it should!
Somebody should write a book about the greatest drinking stories of O'Toole, Burton, Harris, and Caine. One of my faves was Richard Harris went on a six week bender in the South of France without telling wifey. Upon return, she's screaming, and he simply replied "why didn't you pay the ransom"?
Podcast: Did the SCOTUS leftists slow-walk the USPS decision, Newsom's mendacious pledge not to run if Harris does, Canada's return to the trade negotiations, AI fear-mongering, The Goo Goo Dolls are adults, and more!
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click, Guitar Hero Edition Oh here it comes
That funny feeling again winding me up inside
Every time we touch
Hey I don't know
Oh, tell me where to begin cause I never ever
Felt so much
Okay, that was pretty easy. Here's one that's 3% harder. But still easy. Ooh, can you feel the static?
So many contacts being made
We've got up-front fanatics
Tearing down the barricade
To reach the stage
Can you feel the rage?
Podcast: Is the Iran situation reaching a steady state? The UK sides with the enemies of the West, Vance the Squish? France and Germany and their coming elections, Canada trade war is one-sided, and Clancy is evil incarnate!
Dear RNC; Go f*ck yourselves. I have gotten 56 texts in the last two weeks...all offensive and sneaky and all begging for money. At this point I would rather donate to AOC. [CBD]
"The irresponsible reports that have been published stating that Maria Bartiromo was fired or is no longer an employee of Fox are absolutely and unequivocally false," Freedman said Friday. "Make no mistake, we have the receipts and witnesses and they will come out whether through the courthouse or otherwise."
He added: "Those reporting her firing or the incredulous facts supporting that fiction have exhibited a complete and utter reckless disregard for the truth."
from anon2020 So what, she quit?
Megyn Kelly (accursed be her name) used to say all the time that Fox has a top female PR person who is a nasty pitbull and leaks nasty claims about anyone Fox is at war with, including those who have left the network. So I guess maybe she technically resigned? I don't know.
NEW: @FoxNews has obtained Lindsay Clancy defense attorney Kevin Reddington's appeal filing to the MA Supreme Court, which includes Reddington accusing the lone holdout juror of being "biased" against those with "debilitating mental illness", which he says is a protected category.
Holiday Break: I've had a rough couple of weeks -- the shoulder is healing now and I'm finally getting decent sleep -- and I've decided to take a long weekend.
I'm taking Friday off, and then Monday off, too. I have Open Threads for both days and I will post if big news breaks, but if it doesn't -- and it probably won't, news is slow before a holiday weekend -- I'm going to take a four day weekend.
