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An active shooting situation Thursday morning near Logan Circle in Washington, D.C. has left at least five people injured, D.C. Metro Police tell Fox News Digital.
Police say they no longer consider the shooter to be at large, telling Fox News Digital the shooter has been "contained" and is currently barricaded by law enforcement officers.
"MPD is on the scene of an ACTIVE SHOOTING in the area of 15th and P Street, Northwest. MPD's Emergency Response Team is on scene," D.C. police wrote on X.
"AVOID THE AREA," police added.
In a post on X, D.C. Council member Brooke Pinto said the shooting occurred outside of Vida Fitness, adding that multiple people were injured.
🚨 BREAKING: MASSIVE POLICE PRESENCE in DC after an active shooting with at least 4 shot, and the shooter is reportedly BARRICADED
Pray for the victims and the police who are RAPIDLY trying to get this scumbag mitigated 🙏🏻
"The incident has resulted in a barricade situation in the 1500 block of 15th Street, Northwest. MPD’s Emergency Response Team is on the scene. Please avoid the area as we work to resolve the incident."
Huge law enforcement presence has been spotted. The public is being told to avoid the area
Do we know the motive? Maybe. Supposedly this cowardly murderer posted his online manifesto, in which he complained about... building maintenance.
The account is called "OfMiceandMold," so, if this is him, his complaint is that the super didn't make the fixes he demanded.
So he shot four or five people. (I don't know if the fifth person shot in an innocent or they're counting the killer himself.)
Another tragedy occurred in Brooklyn late yesterday afternoon. A building collapsed, resulting in at least eight deaths and 17 injuries.
FDNY
@FDNY
At 4:01 p.m. Wednesday, the FDNY responded to 1321 Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn for a collapse of a three-story, multiple-dwelling building into an adjacent construction site.
Units arrived within one minute and immediately started search-and-rescue operations. Two people have been pronounced dead, and more than 15 others have been injured as of 8:30 p.m. Wednesday.
"Multiple people from the building and the construction site were trapped," FDNY Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore said. "This will be a prolonged operation. Collapse operations are extremely dangerous. Every move is choreographed and critically important to patient outcomes and member safety. Members have been working methodically and haven't stopped since they arrived this afternoon."
More than 250 fire and EMS personnel responded, and search efforts in coordination with the NYPD were ongoing Wednesday night.
The cause of the collapse is under investigation.
🚨 UPDATE: New York first responders have been desperately searching the rubble all night and EIGHT PEOPLE are confirmed deceased in the building collapse 💔
At least 17 injuries reported as of this morning 🙏🏻
It collapsed into a CONSTRUCTION SITE NEXT DOOR around 4 PM on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn
Several firefighters were hurt.
The cause is still under investigation. These heroes are still searching hard.
Shifting cultural norms have consequences that take years to appear, and while the conceit of the left is that behavior can be guided, that is laughably incorrect. Man's social behavior is far too complex to assume that changing X will lead to Y and Z. The real goal of the left is simply to change behavior for the worse...moving it away from traditional roles and toward the chaos that they seek.
The destruction of the perceived differences between men and women, while simultaneously crediting women with all of the physical and martial skills of men may be their greatest triumph. Shifting the default of women away from their natural behavior -- child-bearing and rearing -- and toward some simulacrum of clownish masculinity has produced a culture that is hilariously ignorant of reality. That five-foot tall, 110 pound woman who kicks the crap out of multiple attackers is amusing to watch in a movie, but has no link to the real world. It simply doesn't work that way!
But even more ridiculous is the expectation among the woke ignoramuses that women have the capacity and right to confront men physically, but men will be handcuffed by the traditional mores of a bygone era, and will not respond in kind. Of course those traditional rules apply only to women who behave traditionally.
So we have women behaving like men, and men expected to behave like women.
Except when it doesn't work out quite as planned.
Liberals are mad because ICE removed this woman that was blocking law enforcement https://t.co/f6Y22lqkAG
I watched that clip about 17 times, because it makes me chuckle. This middle-aged AWFL was confident that the social construct of the empowered woman was sufficient to protect her from the real-world consequences of her actions which, when examined, were nothing more than a physical confrontation with law enforcement.
And she lost.
Which is to be expected in about 99% of these cases. The time and place for confrontation with law enforcement is when one is before a judge, not on the street. Oh, she thought that because her cause was just and good and approved by the bien-pensants that she would be safe from the physical consequences of her physical act. She was wrong, but her expectation was reasonable because that is what our culture has taught her!
And those lessons can be seen across the country in thousands of these sorts of interactions. The earnest but deluded leftist who knocks over a pro-life organization's table at a demonstration is shocked...SHOCKED...to be handcuffed and taken to jail. The septuagenarian lunatic in NH who slaps a Turning Point Action volunteer is stunned by the perfectly reasonable result...arrest!
In the old America, most people understood that physical confrontation often led to a punch on the nose or a trip to jail, and that is why girls and women shied away from that sort of behavior. But the rules have changed, and not for the better. Perhaps America needs to return to a time when violence was allowed to develop according to those ancient and rather clever rules.
Does that mean that traditional roles are better than the chaos we have today? Absolutely, and those roles were a big part of keeping our society reasonably civil, at least in comparison to the current insanity.
A Brooklyn building collapsed into a massive pile of rubble Wednesday, killing at least two people and injuring 17 — including four critically — as firefighters desperately search for more victims buried underneath the wreck in a harrowing scene. Loved ones made frantic calls for help after the three-story apartment building at Newkirk and Flatbush Avenues fell into an active construction site next door at around 4 p.m., witnesses said. Officials warned that the number of victims would likely increase. Rescue crews don’t know how many people from the building are still missing as the dire and dangerous search for any survivors continued into the night and is expected to stretch for days.
As many of you know, I am a former New Yorker, so this story really hits close to home in that I not only hail from Brooklyn but my childhood home is not even a mile from the site of the collapse.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed a law giving nonprofit organizations the first opportunity to purchase distressed residential buildings. . . Covered properties include multifamily buildings with four or more units that are in significant disrepair, as well as buildings with affordability restrictions governed by HPD regulatory agreements. By creating a pathway for responsible community-based ownership, COPA will ensure that these properties are repaired, maintained and operated in partnership with tenants rather than left to deteriorate by negligent owners.
Obviously given the players involved here, the terms "responsible" and "negligent owners" are quite fungible. You better believe that property inspectors will be fully vetted for their political allegiances to no one but the Democrat Socialites. That means that a distressed property will be defined as one whose owner is the Trump organization or someone similar.
Thanksgiving Is a 'Day of Mourning,' Lesson Plan Recommended to Loudoun County Second Graders Says. . . Public school teachers in Loudoun County, Virginia, looking to teach their students about American holidays can draw from a list of district-approved lesson plans, including one recommended for second graders that declares Thanksgiving a "Day of Mourning" and another that calls Columbus Day a "Debated Celebration," documents obtained via a public records request and shared exclusively with the Washington Free Beacon show.
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) made huge political gains in the midterms. Having already captured the mayor’s office in New York City, the group is now working their political message into school classrooms. American education is already rife with left-wing political indoctrination, but it’s about to get even worse. . . The New York City DSA chapter also established Comrades With Kids, a family-focused organizing group that seeks to be a “political and social home base for working-class families.” The group posted photos of DSA-themed coloring pages for children provided at a Zohran for Parents event in September 2025.
Democrat Scott Colom Wins Mississippi Senate Seat Defeating Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith . . . that gives Democrats their 55th seat in the U.S. Senate following the November midterm election.
Despite all this misery, I nevertheless hope that all of you have a good day
ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
Victor Davis Hanson: The MAGA divide over Iran isn’t a neoconservative revival but a clash between Jacksonian interventionists and isolationists, with accusations of neocon influence obscuring the real debate. Neocons, Neocons, Neocons!
Co-host Luke Russert said, “Congressman Raskin, you mentioned that impeachment of the president is a possibility, but more as sort of something to keep in the constitutional toolbox, not necessarily something you’re going to run to anytime soon.” Raskin: Republicans ‘Practically Begging’ Us to Impeach Trump
White House Counsel Will Scharf is fighting back, telling Garcia: Cut the tough-guy act. His letter reminds Garcia that Congress can’t simply investigate whatever it wants: House and Senate investigations require some legislative purpose; law enforcement is an Executive Branch power. Democrats are already at risk of AGAIN overplaying anti-Trump lawfare
Everything appeared to be in place for a massive strike on Iran's oil and nuclear infrastructure after the midterm elections. Then, on Monday, Donald Trump met with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, and everything changed. Trump's Iran Strategy Could Be a War Winner if He Sticks to It
Mamdani’s new law gives qualified nonprofits priority to purchase roughly 2,100 distressed properties, limiting when and how landlords can sell to outside buyers. Mamdani Signs Law Giving Nonprofits First Dibs on Distressed NYC Buildings (soon to include all of Trump's real estate holdings - jjs)
John Stossel: "The heart of socialism," says Schrager, "is the exact same lie that's behind almost every financial scam: 'You will have everything guaranteed. But you'll also have growth and prosperity.' It just doesn't work that way ... Capitalism, it's brutal. It doesn't offer any guarantees. Bad things happen, you lose money, but you also have that promise of potential, of growth." Try, Try Again
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
If university administrators won't restore order on campus, dispatch ICE to disperse the foreigners disrupting undergraduate education Send ICE to Harvard
Florida is once again leading the way in securing elections, and the Trump administration should take note of the latest move that should be implemented across the country in order to prevent election fraud or other kinds of fraud by noncitizens who have IDs. Florida Passes Its Own SAVE Act
In failing blue states such as New York, Minnesota and California, decades of Democrat mismanagement seemed like they might serve as a countervailing force to the widespread dissatisfaction with the Republican-controlled federal government. California’s big mistake could pave the way for its big comeback
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There's more, but it's now commonly behind proxies or services like Cloudflare that mitigate attacks of various kinds.
In this case the bug is restricted to HTTP/2, so if you remove the entries for h2 and h2c from your configuration file so that it falls back to HTTP/1 you're safe and you shouldn't notice any difference. It will be a little slower, but if you're not Google you won't care.
Someone found and published 30 "zero-day" vulnerabilities all at once so they locked and bolted the door. And the windows, floor, ceiling, air ducts, and everything else, while they scrambled to fix them.
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.
Early morning coming here at Casa Dino, so apologies for being more low profile than usual in the comments. Please don't make a mess of the place. I'd like to get my security deposit back.
Today is Veteran's Day. Thank you to all who serve.
[Top photo:Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.]
One Southern California dinosaur is back in its natural environment on Monday after facing near extinction.
A large green dinosaur from a Sinclair gas station in San Joaquin County, California, was stolen on Oct. 27, per CBS News. Police investigated the stolen dinosaur, which left a trail toward Stockton, where it was found with a black bag over its head.
A suspect was arrested - albeit not the person the dinosaur was ultimately found with, who claimed they had no idea the dinosaur was stolen.
Deputies returned the dinosaur to the gas station it was originally stationed at on Monday. But before doing so, the deputies who rescued it took several photos to celebrate their achievement.
Big hat tip thanks to tankdemon. Next time he's late, I bet he blames the delay on a wayward dino.
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ONT Space News
SpaceX Starship is scheduled to fly again on Friday. This mini movie of the last one is very well done.
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ONT Shopping Guide
Some of you may have Morons on your shopping list and are wondering what to get them for gifts. Neither Ace of Spades or the Wednesday ONT officially endorse these personal hygiene products but who doesn't appreciate the aroma of gunpowder?
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ONT Department of Questionable Food
Spotted in the real world recently. This is not AI.
Anything this awful must be good for you, right? Can you imagine being a cherry or lemon and thinking you are destined for a pie and finding you've been re-assigned in a futile attempt to moderate the evil that is beet juice?
After thinking further, it all became clear. Maybe we're supposed to use them as ordinance against our enemies?
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Mandatory Maiden
The time has come for Aces High. The song is about the Battle of Britain in 1940, told from the perspective of a British RAF fighter pilot. I would wager a large amount of money that many people are familiar with Sir Winston Churchill's famous speech thanks to the introduction to Aces High that Iron Maiden uses when playing the song live.
June 4, 1940:
I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once again able to defend our Island home, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone.
At any rate, that is what we are going to try to do. That is the resolve of His Majesty's Government - every man of them. That is the will of Parliament and the nation.
The British Empire and the French Republic, linked together in their cause and in their need, will defend to the death their native soil, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength.
Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail.
We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.
Fun fact - the original speech given to Parliament was not recorded when delivered live. It was recorded for posterity after the war ended.
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Niche YouTube Channel of the Week
Tonight's feature is a YouTube channel from Boylei Hobby Time. Content from this channel has found its way to the Saturday Hobby Thread, but it may not be known more broadly. This is single hobbyist builder that makes amazing dioramas, often with very creative bespoke scenes (many with sci-fi themes).
The skill is remarkable. The creativity is impressive. In many cases, the final products are personal showpieces. In some cases, they are gifts for others. The channel description starts with a bible quote - "I hope my videos inspire you to create with the gifts you've been created with." (Ephesians 2:10)
The videos themselves are simple, methodical and well done. Modest voiceover and background music, but no graphics or clickbait. Most screen time shows his hands engaged in the specifics of crafting. It is not so much a "how to" channel as a "watch and learn" channel. Many projects use a kit as a starting point and add the magic of scenery and action to give them life.
The channel has over 1.15 million subscribers and view counts range from the hundreds of thousands in to the millions. He has been posting videos for six years.
Sample video to illustrate (yes, he had me at "dinosaur army"):
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Pittsburgh Scanner
The Pittsburgh police scanner is an internet treasure. Thank you people of Pittsburgh and thank you Pittsburgh scanner!
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Pat Benatar for the big ONT finish:
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Coast Guardsmen on the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Spencer
watch the explosion of a depth charge which blasted a Nazi U-boat's
hope of breaking into the center of a large convoy.
Sinking of U-175, April 17, 1943.
Via The Art of Manliness's collection of 50 Amazing Rarely-Seen Photos from WWII
RFK Jr.'s siblings sue Trump to stop 'Triumphal Arch' from 'casting shadows' on family graves
Robert and Ethel Kennedy, President Kennedy, Senator Ted Kennedy, WWII casualty Joe Kennedy were all laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. Arch would "also cast a shadow over our democratic principles," family says.
Well we can't have shadows falling on the graves of aristocrats!
Seven of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s siblings, plus his nephew and cousin, are suing President Trump, the Interior Department and National Park Service among others to stop Trump's planned "Triumphal Arch," citing its unavoidable blocking of light over their family's graves at Arlington National Cemetery, which are "sacred spaces."
"Our parents, Robert and Ethel Kennedy, and our uncles, President John F. Kennedy and Senator Edward M. Kennedy, are laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. Our uncle Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., who lost his life serving our country in World War II, is also memorialized there," RFK Jr.'s siblings Rory Kennedy and Maxwell Kennedy said on behalf of the family in a statement released by their lawyers at Democracy Defenders Fund.
"We believe Donald Trump has violated the laws and procedures established by Congress to protect this most sacred national memorial," they said, portraying the arch as an attack on democracy itself.
"A towering arch casting shadows across the graves of our father, mother, and uncles, as well as the graves of so many who have served our country, would also cast a shadow over our democratic principles, undermining the safeguards established by our elected representatives to protect this hallowed ground for generations to come," they said.
The fund makes clear the family sees Trump's plan as a personal affront.
"The arch would block views of the Kennedy Gravesites and Eternal Flame from Arlington Memorial Bridge -- a sightline specially chosen by the Kennedy family," it says. "The arch would also cast a shadow over the Kennedys' graves, especially in the early morning when the family traditionally visits."
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Though the "activist" U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan temporarily blocked the start of construction for at least two weeks in response to Virginia and D.C. legal action, the Trump administration is "confident we will be fully vindicated as this litigation proceeds," Ingle said.
Joe Biden: My debate debacle wasn't very "consequential," you know.
Steve Cortes
@SteveCortes
Joe Biden now claims his 2024 presidential debate against President Trump, which forced him to drop out of the race, was not very consequential:
"To me it was not very consequential. First of all I thought there would be another debate, which there wasn't. Notwithstanding the fact that there wasn't another debate, it didn't disturb me because it wasn't consequential."
Just 24 days after the "not very consequential" presidential debate, Joe Biden ended his campaign for President.
Don't know if this got commented on previously or not, but Illinois SuperMayor Tiffany Henyard's bid to become a Fulton County (GA) Commissioner as the Republican choice fell just a bit short.
Henyard (R) 5.40%
Willis (D) 94.60%
Posted by: Count de Monet has opinions
Teeeee-riffic:
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
BREAKING: Sen. Majority Leader John Thune has been re-elected by Senate Republicans and will serve as Senate Minority Leader in the new Congress when Dems take power. Senators Barrasso, Cotton, Capito, and Lankford have all also been re-elected to their positions. Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) will now serve as NRSC Chairman instead of Sen. Tim Scott.
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
THUNE STATEMENT:
"I appreciated the opportunity to have an open, honest, and transparent conversation with my colleagues today, and I am honored to have their continued trust and support to lead the Senate Republican Conference in the 120th Congress," said Thune. "I'm proud of what this Republican team has accomplished together, and we remain united in our commitment to advancing conservative priorities, working with President Trump and our colleagues in the House, and holding the line against Democrats' efforts to enact their far-left, liberal agenda. We have important work ahead of us, and I look forward to serving alongside my colleagues on behalf of the American people."
Fuck you.
Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just promised "many, many investigations" to round up the huge number of "criminals" that Democrats see in their political opponents. None of this bodes well for the Republic as we restart the type of J6 show trials that marked the prior Democratic House.
Preston Byrne
@prestonjbyrne
Ofcom [The UK's big brother censorship organization] indicated in a hearing today that it is going to start pushing for arrest warrants for American refusers of the Online Safety Act.
It is wildly inappropriate for a foreign country to threaten Americans for exercising our constitutional rights.
The GRANITE Act would shield an American from extradition, and any time Ofcom threatened an American in this way, the American would be able to drag Ofcom - the UK's Internet censor - into federal court to confirm the order is unenforceable.
Congress: pass the GRANITE Act!
Voters aren't allowed to be their authentic selves...
Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸
@Bubblebathgirl
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson doesn't care that voters passed Initiative 638 on Election Day to keep biological males out of girls' sports. On Tuesday, a week after the election, she posted that she supports the Seattle Public Schools Board's decision to challenge the measure because "every young person in Seattle deserves to thrive as their authentic self."
That's not governing. That's ignoring the result. Washington voters approved the initiative to protect girls' sports with a clear majority--about 57 percent--even while Democrats made gains elsewhere on the ballot. I-638 requires medical documentation confirming biological sex for girls' competition. That law takes effect in December. Wilson and the school board are moving to fight it in court anyway.
I can’t believe a Democrat is already exposing his own party like this
Don Leonard, the Democrat who just won Ohio’s 15th District, says senior House Democrats warned him what happens if he won’t back Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker:
“Making my life a living heII for the next two years here in Washington as well as being sure to lose my election”
He says they “expect you to wear the team jersey” and “be a good team player”
They don’t want representatives, they want obedience
Remember the latest trans-looking lunatic who violently attacked TP USA staffers?
HERE WE GO AGAIN!!
Another trans psycho assaults a TPUSA student earlier today at the UT campus in Tyler! The incident happened right in front of police and they arrested the attacker!
They always use the same language they’ve been taught by the liberal media and Democrat leaders! like “fascist!”
Zhe claims that he's allowed to physically attack conservatives because "free speech doesn't mean freedom from [violent] consequences."
And zhe says zhe was "backed into a corner" by people peacefully handing out leaflets.
Do these people understand that many of us are thisclose to agreeing, enthusiastically, that we are allowed to beat (or worse) people we disagree with?
Texas authorities have identified a man accused of attacking students at a Turning Point USA tent on the University of Texas at Tyler campus Tuesday in the latest attack on the conservative youth organization whose founder was assassinated last year.
Smith County booking records identify the suspect Ciro Tomlian.
Video of the incident shows a man wearing a cape and a round-brimmed hat as he threw an American flag on the ground and swung a cane at a group of people. He is a former student who was not enrolled at the school at the time of the attack, according to authorities.
Tomlian faces two charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and another of assault causing bodily injury after allegedly striking TPUSA students with a cane.
In the video, which shows the end of the encounter and Tomlian's arrest by campus police, the suspect grabs an American flag, throws it over his shoulder, gives the students the middle finger and can be heard saying "Back the f-- off you fascist pieces of s--."
A woman off-camera tells him to "stay away," and he raises the cane before taking a checked swing in her direction.
The man identified as Tomlian screams "back up!" again, and the woman tells someone else to "just back up."
Then a male voice, also off-camera, tells Tomlian, "No one's scared of you."
Charlie Kirk speaks at a TPUSA event
That's when he swings the cane again, apparently striking the speaker, before someone else runs over and grabs the cane. Police arrive moments later and place the suspect in handcuffs.
Once cuffed, he appears to paint the incident as self-defense and says, "freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences."
"I apologize officer," he says as he's led away. "I was backed into a corner."
We'll see if the school expels zhim.
Blake Carpenter
@BCarpenterBooks
Boys do not need to be socialized. They do not need to be taught the "right way" to read or the "right POVs" to enjoy. They do not need lectures or preaching. They do not need "the message."
Boys need dragons to slay and princesses to save (and ones who want to be saved, natch). Boys need danger. They need risks and stakes. They need to know what death is and what it means. They need to know what failure looks like so they know how to cope with it when Real Life comes calling. Most of all, they need stories that allow them to be who and what they are without being told why they should be something else.
Boys are not broken girls; they should not be treated as such.
If you REALLY care about getting boys to read again, pay attention to the stories being shared in other media that they like, and emulate those.
Make no mistake: this viewpoint is evil. It deserves no less than to be called out as such.
Boys do not need to be socialized. They do not need to be taught the “right way” to read or the “right POVs” to enjoy. They do not need lectures or preaching. They do not need “the message.”
Boys need dragons to slay and princesses to save (and ones who want to be saved, natch). Boys need danger. They need risks and stakes. They need to know what death is and what it means. They need to know what failure looks like so they know how to cope with it when Real Life comes calling. Most of all, they need stories that allow them to be who and what they are without being told why they should be something else.
Boys are not broken girls; they should not be treated as such.
If you REALLY care about getting boys to read again, pay attention to the stories being shared in other media that they like, and emulate those.
Make no mistake: this viewpoint is evil. It deserves no less than to be called out as such.
After "Superman" landed in theaters last summer, former Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav was ready to pop Champagne. Although the movie had only been playing on the big screen for three days, he touted the "bold 10-year plan" of DC Studios co-chiefs James Gunn and Peter Safran and promised "the DC vision is clear" and "the momentum is real."
Fast forward a year and a half, and those plans have imploded. Gunn and Safran were dismissed from the top of the comic book empire, with Marvel Studios alum Jeremy Latcham taking over as president and chief creative officer of DC Studios.
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The executive shuffle is yet another setback for DC Studios, which has struggled for years to compete with Disney's Marvel Cinematic Universe. Their short-lived leadership stint at DC follows multiple turnovers over the past decade, starting with comic book veterans Geoff Johns and Jon Berg and then Walter Hamada....
Gunn's "Superman," starring David Corenswet -- the duo's first big swing as bosses -- was touted as a hit with $618 million against a $225 million budget. Those ticket sales were promising enough, given the general decline in popularity of comic book movies. But they didn't necessarily signal the kind of lasting enthusiasm that spawns an interconnected universe. Momentum all but evaporated with July's money-loser "Supergirl," which flopped with $126 million globally against a $170 million budget. And while October's "Clayface" performed modestly with $109 million against a $44 million budget, sources suggest the body-horror thriller won't break even until the studio factors in downstream revenues.
I really liked -- maybe loved -- Gunn's reboot of The Suicide Squad. Some objected to him being put in charge of DC on Film -- the only thing he knows how to do, they said, was make crude jokes, inappropriate for young or normie audiences, and remake Guardians of the Galaxy, making every movie, even ones about a singular hero, into another story of a team of misfits learning together.
I dismissed that. Just because someone is good at one thing doesn't mean they aren't good at other things.
But I was wrong: He is incapable of writing anything but Guardians of the Galaxy Part IV.
And this is weird: Instead of focusing on DC's best-known heroes, he announced he'd be making movies about the third and fourth and fifth string heroes like -- and I know only stone-cold DC fans will even know what I'm talking about here -- Creature Commandos, Booster Gold, and The Authority.
If you're not a DC fan, you just read a bunch of words that mean absolutely nothing.
Let me tell you that as a DC fan myself, they only mean slightly more than nothing to me, too.
Insiders have raised eyebrows at Gunn and Safran's decision to focus on lesser-known characters, like Superman's cousin Kara El-Zor, aka Supergirl, and the Batman villain Clayface, rather than building out the franchise with marquee names.
I will give Gunn a half-pass for this choice, because the prior regime ruined many of the top DC characters, like Flash and Wonder Woman. (If you're thinking "But Wonder Woman was good," then I know you didn't see Wonder Woman '84. It was a disaster.)
Television efforts, too, were uneven. DC's main small-screen success was "The Penguin," a "Batman" spinoff led by Colin Farrell that was greenlit before Gunn and Safran took over. But the rest of the slate has generated less fanfare. Gunn's "Peacemaker" series, anchored by John Cena, debuted in 2022 before he stepped into the studio job. Although the initial season was popular, the second season -- which launched three years later -- failed to match the buzz of the first. "Lanterns," their first live-action TV show, had strong viewership and averaged 19 million viewers globally per episode going into the finale. Yet an insider at the company suggests the crime drama isn't quite capturing the zeitgeist, pointing out the show has yet to be renewed for a second season.
That one was also a disaster -- an anti-white woke screed about black supremacy.
Here's the good news: The Ellisons have decided to move away from the tasteless trashy woke hipster towards... a stone-cold normie who used to work for Marvel, when --- wait for it -- Marvel was good. He was part of Marvel from Iron Man through Spider-Man: Homecoming, which was just before the end of Marvel's golden age.
Internally, there's hope that Latcham -- an executive who helped shape the MCU -- will get back to basics with DC.
"Jeremy is the kind of guy who would go to Comic-Con to get an autograph from someone," says another source, "not someone who wants to be there signing autographs."
When Latcham was at Marvel, he'd question some edgy or divisive material, stating, "I don't think my grandmother would like this." Other executives would joke and propose things "if that would be all right with Jeremy's grandmother."
But apparently Jeremy's Grandmother was a good proxy for 85% of the normie audience.
Apparently Jermey Latcham is a Christian whose entire family lives near him on a giant spread in Texas, and who is dedicated to "mainstream, family-friendly, Christian-friendly" movies.
You can smell the artificial hormones burning over this.
It was Jeremy Latcham, a mild-mannered producer who was once a key member of Marvel Studios' exec team before moving to Texas to go independent.
An occasional foray into big-budget moviemaking such as Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves notwithstanding...
Which is a really solid movie, despite failing at the box office.
...Latcham was focusing on inspirational movies such as the Wright Brothers feature Flyer for the faith-focused studio Wonder Project, where he also helped make House of David, a TV show about the biblical figure. The producer is known to be vocal about his Christian faith and his desire to make uplifting projects.
"I had this nagging feeling that I needed to do more movies that had deeper meaning to me," Latcham said of Wonder Project during an appearance on the Bible Bros podcast while promoting the Nate Bargatze comedy The Breadwinner. "Let's be the HBO for the faith and family audience. Let's try to make movies and television shows that restore faith in things worth believing in."
Despite being Christian, Latcham apparently fought with Marvel to give James Gunn the Guardians of the Galaxy gig.
So he's not against edgy or trashy material -- in the appropriate case.
In a twist, Latcham was instrumental in Gunn's rise, advocating for the niche director's hiring on Marvel Studios' Guardians of the Galaxy, which turned Gunn into an A-list filmmaker who commands eight-figure paydays for his directing work.
DC's heroes, who are intended to play to broad, traditional normie audiences including children, are not the right characters for the Gunn treatment.
There is speculation he might also clean house at DC comics itself, which has been on a mission to forefront homosexuality and sexuality-bend characters like the most popular Robin, Tim Drake, and the formerly-popular Superboy, into gays and bisexuals.
This, of course, is causing all sorts of shrieking and screaming.
Some of the people who have lobbied and demanded for every other DC character to be turned gay are complaining that the Latcham might jam his personal beliefs down our throats.
Can you even imagine such a thing??!!>
But no he won't, because he's a professional, not a bent and twisted activist.
CNN Director: We Focus on the Race of the Criminal When He's White But Hide It When He's a "Minority" Plus: The Media Gins Up a Fresh Race Hoax
—Disinformation Expert Ace
You don't say.
You do not say.
This is a hidden-camera sting admission, of course. He would never admit this publicly.
This is standard CNN practice. Jake Tapper is very big on reporting crimes committed against Jews -- but, when black men were playing the knockout game with Jews in NYC, he did not report it, or if he mentioned it, he made sure he didn't run the video or name the perpetrators.
But he would generally complain of violence against Jews while avoiding any mention of the actual perpetrators of what he was talking about.
But then came the Tree of Life attack, where a synagogue was attacked by an Acceptable and Approved Villain, a white man. And then Jake Tapper really talked up the problem of violence against Jews, with the none-too-subtle suggestion that White Men, Republicans in particular, were responsible for it.
You see the same thing with rapes. White feminist women love to complain about rape... so long as it's a made-up allegation about presumably white Cornell students. (Note: It turns out most of them weren't white, but they assumed they were.)
Russell Brand, safely white, makes for an excellent Morality Play about concent.
Muslim rape gangs, on the other hand? Never heard of them. What are you talking about, Racist?
BREAKING: CNN director admits they only focus on the race of criminals when they are white, covers up when black assailants attack Asians https://t.co/zzuR7OZpzt
On ABC, the barely-closeted homosexual anchor decided that some key facts just weren't worth mentioning in the latest case of Airborne Cultural Enrichment.
Hey @ABC…
Why did you conveniently leave out that Rony Alexander Gomez-Alberto, the suspect who threatened to blow up a plane flying from Newark to New Orleans, is an illegal alien from Honduras who had ALREADY been deported TWICE?
That’s not a minor detail. That’s a HUGE part of the story. Why aren’t you reporting it? 🧐
But meanwhile: The media can't stop reporting on the latest race hoax. Some drunk and rowdy college girls knocked on doors at night and chimped out -- hooted like chimps. One door they knocked on belonged to a black girl, so it's a Racial Attack Like None We've Ever Seen Before.
Except... they knocked on doors at random. The media isn't interested in reporting on the white people bothered by the chimping-out.
The amount of outrage this story is generating is insane. Network TV is dedicated tons of airtime to the harmless antics of white coeds and pretending it's Mississippi Burning.
I'm not even sure this would've been national news during peak woke.
I saw a report from Milwaukee, very far indeed from the scene of the "crime," where the reporters attempted to shame the grandparents of one of the girls.
During a speech at Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday, President Donald Trump thanked U.S. service members for their ongoing sacrifices and argued that the U.S. has been pitted against Iran since 1979, when the Islamic Revolution happened.
President Donald Trump defended the war in Iran and said it will be over "soon" during his Veterans Day address on Wednesday.
Trump made the statement while speaking to a crowd of veterans and their families at Arlington National Cemetery. He highlighted the 1983 Iran-backed bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut and argued that Iran has been at war with the U.S. for decades.
"America did not start a war with Iran. Iran has been waging war on America since 1979. They should have been taken care of a long time ago," Trump said.
The First World War killed as many as 22 million people worldwide and left some 23 million more wounded. An estimated 53,000 of those killed were American service members. Another 204,000 Americans would return home wounded.
World War I ushered in a new age of warfare: industrial and mechanical innovations killed, wounded, and maimed troops on the battlefield in ways previously unimaginable. Tanks, machine guns, and poison gas forever scarred the men in the trenches in ways they could never forget -- and Americans back home took notice.
On the anniversary of the armistice, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the first commemoration of Armistice Day, saying:
"To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations."
From Armistice Day to Veterans Day
From that day until 1926, Armistice Day became a day Americans recognized unofficially, closing shops at 11 a.m. so people could line the streets for parades, public meetings, and prayer. By 1926, 27 states had already recognized the day as a holiday, so Congress decided to call it Armistice Day for the entire country. In 1938, November 11th became an official public holiday.
But "The War to End All Wars" didn't end any wars. It was just a prelude to World War II, the largest and costliest war in human history, in terms of both money and lives spent fighting it. World War II didn't end wars, either. After the Allies defeated the Axis Powers, the Cold War began, and in 1950, its first battles were fought on the Korean Peninsula. The United States, less than 40 years after the end of World War I, was suddenly filled with millions of war veterans, all of whom had fought for American freedoms and ideals.
The National Recognition of Veterans Day
In 1954, a year after the end of the Korean War, veteran service organizations lobbied Congress to amend the Act of 1938 to change "Armistice Day" to "Veterans Day" and make November 11th a day to honor all veterans.
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"I have today signed a proclamation calling upon all of our citizens to observe Thursday, November 11, 1954, as Veterans Day," President Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote in a letter to the administrator of Veterans Affairs. "It is my earnest hope that all veterans, their organizations, and the entire citizenry will join hands to ensure [sic] proper and widespread observance of this day."
🚨 JUST NOW: President Trump takes the podium at Arlington National Cemetery during a ceremony honoring our veterans
"We pay tribute to all of those who have won the wars and worn the uniform, who face the enemy, who have beaten the enemy at every turn, who have worn the burdens of fate and destiny to stand as our protection in battle."
"You are indeed our protection in battle. And we thank Almighty God for the noble warriors of the United States military who have always stepped forward so that America might always stay free." 🇺🇸
On Veterans Day we honor the courage, sacrifice, and unwavering dedication of the brave men and women who have defended our freedom and protected the American way of life. Our Nation is forever grateful.
God bless America's veterans! 🇺🇸 https://t.co/2xewr0IjWk
The Anthem Veterans Memorial in Anthem, Arizona, was mathematically engineered so that every single year on Veterans Day, November 11th, at precisely 11:11 AM, the sun aligns through five towering vertical pillars to cast a brilliant solar spotlight directly onto the Great Seal of the United States embedded in the pavement below.
Anthem Veterans Memorial is a striking tribute located within Anthem Community Park. Designed by local resident Jim Martin and engineered by a multidisciplinary team including architects and astronomers, the memorial was dedicated on Veterans Day in 2011.
The monument's core feature consists of five cylindrical, white marble pillars ranging in height from 17 to 30 feet, representing the five branches of the U.S. Armed Forces (Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard). Each pillar features precisely cut elliptical apertures designed to channel sunlight at a very specific solar azimuth and elevation angle.
When November 11th arrives, the sun reaches the exact point in the autumn sky where its rays pass straight through all five openings simultaneously, creating a dazzling solar spotlight effect over the bronze Great Seal medallion on the brick floor.
The Astronomical Engineering of the Monument:
How precise celestial mechanics and architectural design unite to honor veterans:
1. The Five Pillars
Structural Symbolism
Five graduated white marble columns represent the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard, arranged in Department of Defense order of precedence.
2. Elliptical Openings
Precision Apertures
Engineers calculated exact seasonal sun angles to carve specific viewing slots into the tops of the pillars, accounting for latitude and orbital tilt.
3. The Solar Illumination
November 11, 11:11 AM
At precisely 11 minutes past 11 o'clock on the 11th month, light rays converge seamlessly to illuminate the bronze Great Seal on the plaza floor.
4. Honoring Service Members
Commemorative Pavers
Surrounding the focal monument, thousands of engraved bricks bear the names of veterans from across the United States.
More Surprising Facts About the Memorial:
A. The Ordinal Sequence: The pillars are ordered strictly by military precedence, Army on the left, followed by the Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard on the right.
B. Sacred Paver Ground: The bricks that pave the memorial plaza are separated into distinct rings containing personalized inscriptions honoring living and deceased veterans, funded entirely by community donations and families.
C. Year-Round Solar Movement: While the precise spotlight effect only occurs once a year on Veterans Day, the shadow cast by the sun shifts continuously across the plaza throughout the day and year, functioning as a massive architectural sundial.
SUMMARILY!
The Anthem Veterans Memorial uses precise astronomical alignment to spotlight the U.S. Great Seal every November 11th at 11:11 AM through five marble pillars representing the military branches.
A Republican congressman who narrowly won a seventh House term in deep-red Arkansas refused Sunday to rule out voting to impeach War Secretary Pete Hegseth.
"I want to hear the debate on it to see if it merits impeachment versus some other disciplinary action or action by the president, if he's not getting the job done in leading the Department of War," Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.) told CBS News' "Face The Nation."
Hill, 69, answered "no" when host Margaret Brennan asked if he was "satisfied with how the war has been handled."
"But, I mean, I think the commander in chief has to take the responsibility for the strategy of conducting the war and how it's been conducted," he added. "But I will tell you one thing. There's nobody in America that wants Iran to have a nuclear weapon."
The House is expected to vote sometime this week on a resolution to impeach Hegseth promoted by lame-duck Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who has vowed to force the issue unless the former Fox News host resigns.
"Not prosecuting a war perfectly" is not a grounds for impeachment. It's just a policy difference. And it's not really a policy difference at all because this pussy doesn't offer any of his own war policies that he can even claim would have been more effective.
As Jonathan Turley points out, the Democrats are admitting openly that they have scrapped the Constitution's requirement of high crimes and misdemeanors for impeachment and are now using it simply as a tool to fight for policy changes.
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Rep. Jason Crow (D., Co.) just told Martha McCallum that the impeachment of Hegseth is "not really about impeachment" but rather just a desire to remove him. He said that this is just another means. That is precisely what the Framers did not want impeachment to become...
...Rep. Crow is speaking of impeachment as a way of forcing "a course change." It is exactly the cavalier attitude toward impeachment that can be so destabilizing for our country...
...He added "we have a tool called impeachment" that allows them to remove cabinet members like Hegseth if the President will not do so. When Martha pushed him on such "amorphous" objections, Crow said, "I would love to end the impeachment proceedings...just fire Pete Hegseth."
As Hegseth says: This sham impeachment is just their opening shot in using lawfare to get rid of anyone they don't like -- and that will eventually include ordinary civilians.
The deranged passenger who claimed he had a bomb aboard a New Orleans-bound United Airlines flight and then tried to rush the cockpit, has been identified as a Honduran illegal migrant twice kicked out of the US, immigration officials told The Post.
I have a scoop: He was deported once for saving too many lives as a heroic doctor, and deported a second time for being such a brilliant engineer he created limitless energy, but Big Energy wanted it kept secret.
Rony Alexander Gomez-Alberto, 34, was arrested on three separate occasions by Border Patrol for illegally entering the United States, years before he threatened to blow up the United flight 2174 plane out of New Jersey Monday night, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said.
Immigration officials said that Gomez-Alberto, a Honduras native, was arrested twice in the US and deported -- first in September 2011 near El Indio, Texas, and again in October 2014 in Columbus, New Mexico.
The slippery migrant made his way back into the US a third time in 2019 near California's San Ysidro border town, where he was nabbed again, according to DHS.
But Gomez-Alberto was freed from ICE custody in January 2020 after a judge ordered his release pending removal proceedings, authorities said.
Ah, even though he'd committed multiple crimes of sneaking into the country and then sneaking back, a leftwing judge ordered that he be released to flee again while he set a new clock on the potential years of procedure necessary to deport him again.
Those leftwing judges need to be purged and possibly prosecuted. Maybe they should be prosecuted as co-conspirators for all the crimes the illegals they set free subsequently (inevitably) commit.
His criminal history includes felony bomb threat, felony threat--terroristic state offenses, and disorderly conduct, according to the DHS spokesperson.
"Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin, criminal illegal aliens are NOT welcome in the United States," the spokesperson said in a statement.
NEW: DHS confirms to @FoxNews that a suspect arrested on a Newark to New Orleans United flight last night for allegedly storming the cockpit and claiming to have a bomb, leading to United putting out a hijack alert for the plane, is a 2x previously deported Honduran illegal alien.
Rony Alexander Gomez-Alberto was arrested by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s office once the flight landed at MSY (New Orleans airport) and he has been charged with felony bomb threat, terroristic threats, and disorderly conduct.
Per DHS - Gomez-Alberto crossed the Texas border illegally in 2011 and was deported, then illegally re-entered through the New Mexico border in 2014 and was deported a second time. He illegally re-entered the country a third time in 2019, was arrested by Border Patrol, but was released from custody after an immigration judge ordered his release.
He is currently being held without bond by law enforcement in Louisiana.
I didn't even see this one -- the communist media sure isn't reporting it:
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BREAKING:
A man armed with an AR-15 who said he had come to Washington to kill Trump was arrested by the Secret Service in front of the White House.
They noticed a suspicious man in a vehicle, which later turned out to be stolen. The illegal migrant in the car, who had an AR-15, a Mac 10 and a handgun, told the agents that he had been hearing voices who were telling him to come to Washington and kill Trump.
Ronny Yordrix Guanipa Chrinos was quickly arrested after the incident last night
BREAKING:
A man armed with an AR-15 who said he had come to Washington to kill Trump was arrested by the Secret Service in front of the White House.
They noticed a suspicious man in a vehicle, which later turned out to be stolen. The illegal migrant in the car, who had an AR-15, a Mac 10 and a handgun, told the agents that he had been hearing voices who were telling him to come to Washington and kill Trump.
Ronny Yordrix Guanipa Chrinos was quickly arrested after the incident last night
A tweet wondered if the "voices" he heard telling him to murder the president were those of the media, or those of the Democrats. But the voices repeat themselves.
Hello. Happy Humpday.
I don't like whining but I thought I'd ask: Is everyone okay? I'm kinda of depressed and Low Energy Jeb about the fact that America voted to self-extinguish.
Of all the things this midterm election was about, "climate change" - remember that? - wasn't one of them. Middle-aged or older lefties still care, and a lot the youth still care (or say they do), but virtually nobody was voting climate change this year. It was not an electoral issue and practically nobody even mentioned it on the campaign trail. The Democrats weren't trumpeting how important "fighting climate change" is and the the Republicans weren't even bothering with their typical limp-wristed "sure it's a problem, but won't someone please think of the share prices" response because they didn't have to. It never came up.
Despite being muted this year, however, "climate change" remains a powerful weapon and with the communists surging into commanding majorities next year, it absolutely will be a legislative pursuit. It won't be as big as the headline-grabbers like "impeach everyone" or "turn USAID back on" or "open the border" or the virtually inevitable "government shutdown" will be, and that might be helpful to the cause. They can - and will - move on it even if they don't talk much while dismantling everything they can in the name of Mother Gaia. The Party used the increasingly-ghoulish John Kerry to telegraph is intent. At a UN climate change junket in Turkey, he made the preposterous assertion that the recent election demonstrates that the American public sees "climate change" as a "voting issue." It was an election where the issue basically didn't exist, but whatever. Any port in a storm.
So expect more destruction in the name of "climate change" and less opposition to insanity that is already in the works. Reuters provides us with examples of both. First up is a UN-mandated - through the back door, so nobody has to actually pass it or sign a treaty - international wealth transfer scheme wearing the familiar vestments of the Church of Climate: the humble carbon credit. All members of the UN's International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) are on the hook for it, since it's an ICAO rule and applies to its members. Spoiler alert: everyone's a member. Like most agencies, the ICAO was invented for reasonable purposes like ensuring consistent navigation rules, airport names, aircraft and airport classification, maintenance standards, etc. Also like most agencies, it is a tool of revolutionaries to impose their will. The scheme imposed by the ICAO - called the "Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation" (CORSIA) - becomes mandatory next year and is expected to cost the commercial aviation industry at least 5% of its total annual profits. Dollars extracted from airlines will be transferred to those selling carbon credits. The carbon credit sellers are usually poor countries with jungles. Carbon credits are also usually naked fraud, but no matter.
That'll be fun. While I would like to expect domestic airlines - with the full support of the administration - to just ignore this stupid scheme and dare the ICAO to levy unenforceable fines, I don't think that will happen. I just expect to see a "carbon offset" fee on the receipt the next I fly internationally, if that ever happens. The one upside to the way the ICAO snuck this through is that it applies only to international flights. The average European passenger will get corn-holed by this much more than the average American passenger - at least until our domestic communists impose a national version of the same. You can be sure that it is on their list, and that they won't talk about it too much.
What will hit harder and worse will be the broader degradation of the domestic power situation. For a vision of the future, one needs only to look at Europe and specifically at Germany. Germany, one of the more retarded European countries when it comes to energy, is now reaping the consequences of its energy policy and the policies it has helped impose on the rest of the continent through the EU. Electricity prices there are surging as the "decarbonization" chickens come home to roost. The wind isn't blowing much, and Germany needs the wind to blow. The rest of Europe is also struggling, as hydroelectric production is down and most "renewables" aren't producing enough. Germany's generation capacity - and to a lesser but still significant extent, the rest of Europe's - is increasingly dependent on its increasingly strained natural gas infrastructure. Europe is stuck. They've built too much expensive, unreliable infrastructure. But it's okay, comrade - your chocolate ration will still be increased:
While renewables continue to displace fossil fuels, lower emissions and provide growing volumes of low-cost electricity, the latest market turmoil highlights that utilities still have work to do to ensure power systems remain fit for purpose.
See? The unreliable power that is spiking in price is nonetheless high in volume and low in cost. Reuters says so!
Expect the assault on gas, coal and nuclear to be reinvigorated next year. While they are loudly impeaching everyone and bleating about whatever comes up when they spin the wheel from day to day, expect the congressional committees to quietly advance as much energy destruction as possible. American energy must be destroyed, and it doesn't matter that "climate change" wasn't an election issue. The communists sweeping into office will treat it as a mandate to undo as much energy progress as possible. John Kerry just made that perfectly clear. He may be a wizened and largely disfavored old husk with a face stuffed full of cheap mattress batting by a plastic surgeon who clearly hates him, but that may be intentional. "Climate change" is not going to be front and center over the next two years, but it will be a continuous - and probably quiet - pursuit.
Whether Secretary Wright can stymie them for a year or two is an open question, but they will work manfully to accomplish their goals.
Good morning kids. First and foremost today is Veterans' Day,and so to all who have worn the uniform and most especially those who are still serving in our armed forces, I speak for all of us when I say I salute you and offer my gratitude for your service and sacrifices. My father and two uncles of blessed memory served their country during World War Two, one of whom did not return alive from the Pacific, and we honor him and all those who paid the ultimate price on Memorial Day. Today is set aside for all who served and still serve because without their selfless dedication and love of country we would not have made it to 250 years. So thank you and God bless you.
Surprisingly, or sadly I suppose as a reflection of the state of our nation and society for the first time in many years I'm finding a shocking lack of content reflecting on, let alone even acknowledging, what today is and what it means. But there is this one.
Veterans contribute to our communities in unique ways, with their training, leadership, ability to work as a team, and understanding of what it means to serve a cause bigger than themselves. Their military service may be over, but they still have so much to offer our churches, workplaces, neighborhoods, and families.
Our country doesn’t ask every soldier to give his or her life, but every one of them is willing to. Long before any deployment, service members give up time with their families, months of training away from home, and the stability of an ordinary career, stepping up so the rest of us don’t have to...
...What does honor look like in practice? It starts with how we raise the next generation. At American Heritage Girls, one area of focus for troop life is cultivating a girl’s citizenship as a member of her community, state, and country. That same instinct should shape how every family raises its kids. Teach your children why service members’ positions demand reverence, and why that reverence shouldn’t fade once they’ve retired from the service. At a time when we feel divided over nearly everything, Americans can build the kind of unity that begins by honoring those who have faithfully protected and served.
Well, that is a nice sentiment indeed, but as last week's midterms might very well foreshadow, this may be the last official Veterans' Day holiday we actually celebrate or are allowed to celebrate considering those who "WON" the majority last week view this nation and its armed forces as the moral equivalent of the Waffen SS!
In 2024, Kamala Harris won 4,835,250 votes in Texas. In 2026, Gina Hinojosa, the gubernatorial candidate from her party, picked up 5,230,929 votes and James Talarico, the Senate candidate, scored 5,445,156 votes.
Where did Texas Democrats find 395,679 more voters than in a presidential election?
In October, Texas Secretary of State Robert Howden announced the big news. Texas had hit a record 19 million registered voters or specifically, 19,041,684 voters.
Not only was Texas up a whopping 17,119,632, nearly 2 million from its 2022 numbers, but there were now 418,000 more voters than there had been in 2024.
. . . The outcome in Texas was the work of a giant political machine in which tax-exempt foundations passed along money to non-profit groups which then funded local non-profit community activist groups: some of which benefit from government funding aimed at helping minorities. Money moved, sometimes illegally, between C3s and C4s and PACs, violating laws against using non-profits for electioneering, while being focused on one thing: registering voters.
How many of those voter registrations were legitimate? How many of those registered were actually citizens? How many local community organizers ensured that they would be getting more grants by finding dead voters or voters who didn’t exist?
Not a smidgen of corruption or fraud and any suggestion that our elections aren't completely fair and free of fraud is MAGA republican propaganda!!!
With the stroke of a pen, California Governor Gavin Newsom has delivered a devastating blow to the rule of law and a cruel insult to the families of murder victims.
Well, looking to 2028, with Greaseball Newsom as a potential frontrunner to be at the top of the ticket in the Democrat Party, I had the thought that with this complete debasement of morality and the rule of law Newsom might have spawned a potential Willie Horton 2.0 advertisement!
Of course this presupposes that he actually does win the nomination and that the GOP along with whoever is at the top of our ticket has the brains to weaponize this and use it to devastating effect as Bush the elder did against Michael Dukakis.
It also presupposes that the Democrats won't steal 2028 like they did 2020 and now several key states last week, and if Texas' fully communized state government decides to join that insane national Poplar vote compact, the Electoral College is effectively abolished and we're screwed, seemingly, forever.
Senate Republicans chose current Majority Leader John Thune as minority leader in January. Oof. No one even challenged him, even though the Democrats flipped seven seats and will likely flip two more. Some senators tried to delay the leadership vote, but that failed.
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
. . .while expulsion of a sitting rep requires two-thirds of the House vote, exclusion of a representative-elect is a simple majority vote — and Republicans do, until January, hold the majority. It's certainly worth a shot, if for no other reason than to get the ball rolling. Let's Exclude and Expel These Representatives-Elect
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Gen. Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, on Monday insisted the United States “surrender” to Iran’s demands for unconditional concessions to allow for peace negotiations to begin. Diplomacy: Iran Demands U.S. ‘Surrender’ to All Its Demands
Trump’s declaration of what essentially amounts to the end of the conflict comes after sweeping Democrat wins and Republican losses in the U.S. midterm elections last week that both Trump and Vice President JD Vance have attributed in large part to public dissatisfaction with the war’s effects on the American economy. The U.S. economy is still recovering from the massive surge in inflation that happened under now former [so-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden, a Democrat. Exclusive — End of U.S.-Iran War Focuses Iraqi Kurds on Middle East’s Challenges, Opportunities at Slemani Strategic Forum
A senior intelligence official in the Trump administration warned in a memo seen by Reuters late last month that Iranian plots against US personnel and American citizens had reached an advanced stage. US Treasury chief Scott Bessent moved to military base after Iranian threats: report (with other Nidal Hasan wannabes out there, this might not help - jjs)
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS
“…politicians have joined a chorus of bad-faith and dangerous conflation of antisemitism with anti-Zionism and invoking comparisons to the Kristallnacht that trivialize trauma and suppress political Philly DSA Blames ‘Zionist Lobby’ for Jewish Boycott Backlash (Jews to blame for smoke condition over Auschwitz crematoria - jjs)
With the stroke of a pen, California Governor Gavin Newsom has delivered a devastating blow to the rule of law and a cruel insult to the families of murder victims. Gavin Newsom's Mockery of Justice
Gardaí arrested two people at the Dublin university, where the Bidens had watched their son Hunter Biden accept the College Historical Society’s Gold Medal for Outstanding Contribution for Public Discourse. Irish outlet RTÉ reported that some in the crowd moved forward and threw objects as the vehicles carrying the family moved through the college’s front square. Protesters Pelt Joe Biden with Milk Outside Hunter’s Dublin Award Event (Should've flung soiled Depends - jjs)
California’s Democrat political machine has gone national, while Republican messaging failures and strategic missteps helped fuel the 2026 midterm rout. California’s Democrat Machine Has Gone National
They’re a pack of privileged pups who’d fit right in at the Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club . . . except for the nose rings, chopped hairdos and other signifiers of earnest alienation. Even the nonwhites and non-Anglos have hidden elite pedigrees... The DSA has seen the enemy, and it is — them
The uncertainty of science: Using the Webb Space Telescope scientists believe they have discovered a binary pair of massive quasars that exist only 900 million years after the Big Bang, at a time and mass that defies all cosmological theories about the formation of the universe. Webb data detects a binary quasar pair only 900 million years after the Big Bang
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Only the server versions are shipping now, but that tells us pretty much how the desktop versions will perform, because the CPU chiplets used are identical; only the I/O die changes.
And what we see from the CPU chiplets is 27% better performance at the same clock frequency, 10% higher clock frequencies (and desktop chips may go higher than that), and 50% more cores - twice the total performance.
Also interesting is the Zen 6c low-power chiplet. Unlike Intel's low-power cores it is functionally identical to the full Zen 6, just implemented in a denser, power-optimised layout. But where Zen 5c had 16 cores with 2MB of cache per core - twice as many cores but half the cache per core of Zen 5 - Zen 6c has 32 cores per chiplet and 4MB of L3 cache per core. 128MB in total, which is more than a desktop 9800X3D chip.
And the 32 cores all being on a single die means there is no added latency between the cores and between the cores and the cache. Or not much, anyway; L3 cache accesses look to be about 10 cycles slower than Zen 6.
As to when we'll see Zen 6 on the desktop - that's unanswered. Engineering samples for the laptop versions are already circulating, so it's up to AMD's marketing, so somewhere between tomorrow and never.
All modern operating systems already have swap files, where unused pages in memory are written out to disk to free them up for other tasks. What MEXT does is try to read the pages back in before they are actually needed so this doesn't kill performance - and reportedly works pretty well. It's still slower than having enough DRAM, but it's faster than traditional swap mechanisms.
On the one hand, a 256GB M5 Ultra Mac Studio costs twice as much as the 128GB RTX Spark for twice the performance. On the other hand, there is a 96GB model that is only a little more expensive than the RTX Spark, and if your LLM fits it still delivers twice the performance.
Musical Interlude
Song is World's Smallest Violin by AJR. Anime is Spy x Family.
The SS Edmund Fitzgerald disappeared into Lake Superior during a brutal November gale. The 729-foot freighter, loaded with over 26,000 tons of taconite pellets and bound from Superior, Wisconsin, toward Detroit, went down about 17 miles north-northwest of Whitefish Point. All 29 crew members were lost. No distress call. No survivors. No bodies recovered.
Captain Ernest McSorley’s final radio message to the nearby Arthur M. Anderson: “We are holding our own.” Minutes later, the Fitz was gone.
The legend lives on. Gordon Lightfoot made sure of that. The lake never gives up her dead.
Fair winds and following seas to the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald. ⚓️
(Sound On)
— Blue & White Grit USMC Style (AKA Tom) (@TriPSU91) November 10, 2026
This works - I tried it earlier this evening
If you search, “The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald” on Google a bell will appear. If you click on it you’ll be able to ring it 29 times for each man that went down with the ship. https://t.co/Ksz9gdD2oq
Starting [Today] at 1 AM, we’ll be sharing the real radio transmissions from the night the SS Edmund Fitzgerald was lost on Lake Superior, 50 years ago.
These posts will follow the timeline as it happened, from the first reports of rough seas to the ship’s final transmission.
We share them in remembrance of the 29 men who were lost, and in respect for all who work the Great Lakes.
In 2025, we commemorated the final voyage of the Mighty Fitz and the 29 souls lost on board, on the 50th anniversary, and we will do so again this November
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You'll probably recognize most of these songs, but how many of their names do you know?
10 Songs You Recognize Instantly but Never Knew the Titles Of https://t.co/fpiqaN3ILM
Soon California drivers traversing the 101 freeway won't be the only ones commuting in comfort. As hundreds of thousands of people zoom down the multi-lane highway (assuming there's no traffic jam!), their animal counterparts — the wildlife population that lives in northern Los Angeles County — will be similarly at ease.
That's because officials will finally unveil the completed Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, a large, vegetated overpass that will help animals cross traffic safely and comfortably move across the land split by asphalt and vehicles. It is the largest wildlife crossing in the world.
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Over the last week, biologists have been installing a series of wildlife cameras near the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area to track animal populations before the crossing officially opens on Dec. 2. By the time of opening, scientists and nature watchers will be able to monitor its visitors via 50 cameras and four thermal video cameras.
Project leads told the Los Angeles Times that the cameras' photo stream will be available to the public. For now, live video feeds will only be available to researchers for security reasons.
The cameras are already picking up hopeful moments, including the path's first visitor: A single coyote trotting up the side of the currently unfinished path, shielded by the cover of night and the lack of blinding headlights.
Colorado officials have tracked herds of elk, bears, pronghorn and even northern leopard frogs ambling across its new wildlife overpass. According to a newly released report, the overpass, which acts as a bridge over a busy stretch of interstate, has helped cut wildlife-vehicle collisions by 91% since its completion 10 months ago.
The overpass is the centerpiece of a larger system built by the state to assist wildlife crossing the highway, which also includes miles of 8-ft-tall fencing and five large wildlife underpasses.
“One of the most heartwarming moments for me was when [Colorado department of transportation] sent me a picture of an elk mama taking her calf under [Interstate-25],” Brandon Marette, a wildlife biologist for Colorado parks and wildlife, told CBS News. “All came to fruition in that one moment. That elk with her calf was just standing there in safety.”
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This region of Colorado is known for high movement of large game. State officials say that wildlife underpasses and tunnels often don’t work for big animals, such as bull elk, because they restrict mobility and don’t accommodate their antlers.
“Elk and pronghorn like these big open structures where they can see for miles in each direction,” Chuck Attardo, the environmental manager for Colorado department of transportation, told CBS News. “For decades, pronghorn going from Trinidad to Greenland were looking for a place to cross on I-25. And when we open this up, we have pronghorn on video using the overpass, and for the first time in decades they’re coming over here to the west side.”
While large game animals have been taking advantage of the crossing, officials have also tracked smaller wildlife using the corridor, including mule deer, coyotes, rabbits, frogs and the threatened Preble’s meadow jumping mouse.
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Darn, I forgot to link this classic for Halloween.
In an update to a Halloween post, the yard decoration of a red-haired girl levitating spookily over a yard -- apparently a character in Stranger Things -- has been taken down due to a neighbor's complaint.
He wasn't just a Grinch. The neat Levitating Girl display drew lots of crowds of strangers to the neighborhood, and he feared the crowds were providing criminals and home invaders with an excuse to go into the neighborhood and case houses.
I don't know -- is that a good enough reason to ask that it be taken down?
Either way, this is what happens when a society decides it no longer wants the law and order of a high-trust society and instead wants the disorder, danger, and fear of a low-trust society.
Podcast: A quick postmortem of the savage beating suffered by the Republican Party and Donald Trump. And a new reason to hit the tip jar...Buy Guns For Sefton!
Email confirmed as once used by the Muskily Heterosexual James Talarico found in leak of emails of Fling.com sex dating site:
An email address that James Talarico's attorneys confirmed belonged to and was at one time used by the Texas Democratic U.S. Senate candidate appears in a database search result associated with the adult dating website Fling.com's 2011 data breach. A Fling.com account was created with Talarico's email address just before Talarico began teaching sixth graders.
The result lists the username "mohawk787" and an account creation timestamp of December 26, 2010, at 20:56:49. The profile's interests field lists "FETISH," "GROUPSEX," "SEXUAL RELATIONS," "ONLINE FLIRTING," and "OTHER."
Townhall shared the information described in this article with the Talarico campaign and requested comment Friday morning, and in response, a mere 35 minutes later, received a four-page, detailed letter from legal counsel for Talarico that addressed some, but not all of the information described in this report.
"Well I can't believe the trans-child-obsessed Confirmed Bachelor James Talarico is into group fetish shit," said noted void phantom Doctor Nullity, The Man Who Never Existed
I'm not the guy who noted this, I saw it on X (Razib Khan maybe), but The Bulwark could be "audience capture". It might have started as the Frum / 90s-Kristol / NRO classic Eisenhower Republicanism. But nobody was reading the Bulwark except leftists.
Tallyrand has a quote on this, "I am their leader so I must follow them".
Same goes for David French, Christianity Today, and the "Anxious Bench" side of Patheos. They may have started out Christian. But it wasn't Christians signing their checks.
Flashback: "trans man" Lawyer freaks out after a judge denies "his" motion. He's ultimately arrested. "He" makes so much drama he was just recruited to develop a new CW show.
I'm just wondering if this flighty high-calorie pyrsyn is also in the news today for other reasons....
Update: No, it's not. Zee/Zem says they's name is like "Rob Hopkins" or something. Story here, courtesy of The Blade
[Song title]
Don't breathe down my neck, no
I got no trophies on display
I sign them away
I mean what the heck
All of your promises
Don't fill me with pride no
I just wanna get out on the floor
And do the Cuban slide, slide, slide, slide
From Anonosaurus Wrecks:
@NBCNews
Although Brazil's presidential election took place more than 4,000 miles away, the baseless conspiracy theory that it was stolen raced through the American right-wing media.
Podcast: The Brazil and Israel elections, the evil left, and more!
