DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

Steve Graham.

Maybe we Should all Choose the Bear

I have been thinking more about women, feminism, and abortion.

The other day I learned that globally, women murder about 1/3 of their unborn babies. This does not include the children they murder after they are born. This amounts to about 73,000,000 children. I wrote it out in numerals so people would see all the zeroes.

The population of the UK is about 69,000,000. Women are murdering almost 1% of the world’s population every year.

It wasn’t until this morning that it occurred to me to compare the murder number to the number of people who die because of war every year. That number is believed to lie between 250,000 and 500,000.

In other words, women kill at least 75 times as many people as soldiers. The figure may be closer to 150.

Worse, every victim is innocent, and there is no justification for over 99.5% of their killings. You can’t say that about people who die in wars.

The highest estimate for deaths caused by coronavirus in a single year is 10,400,000. That’s less than one seventh as many people are murdered by women in a typical year.

We think terrorism and war are dangerous. We worry about pandemics. Add it all up, and it doesn’t come close to the number of murders committed by women.

Women are the most dangerous people on Earth, by far. No contest.

This is where feminism took us.

Life is less about who we want to be—which is a hard question to answer—and more about who we don’t want to be—which is in every case easier to determine.

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury:

“A party whose mission is to live entirely upon the discovery of grievances are apt to manufacture the element upon which they subsist.”

Speech at Edinburgh, 24 November 1882.

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Sponsors are fleeing “I’ve Had It,” the progressive podcast hosted by Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan, after the two laughed on Thursday’s episode at a joke about digging up Charlie Kirk. Cash App, Casper, Zenni and others have said they are out, and the hosts’ apology has not slowed it.

The hosts were reading posts reacting to Tuesday’s midterm results, Yahoo News reported, when Welch read one that said, “We’re digging up Charlie Kirk and doing it again.” Both women laughed out loud for more than 20 seconds. As we reported, a 39-second clip of the moment spread across X that day.

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The Foundry.

The Trump administration has the green light to continue building a border wall in the Big Bend region of Texas after a Supreme Court ruling Monday.

Plaintiffs seeking to block construction of the wall argued that it threatened the landscape of Big Bend National Park, which historically did not have high rates of illegal immigration, and that the area could instead be protected through surveillance technology, The Associated Press reported. The project was going to include 30-foot-tall steel barriers in some areas.

The Justice Department argued in an emergency appeal that illegal border crossings and drug seizures in Big Bend made the region vulnerable.

In the case of Markwayne Mullin, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. v. Friends of the Ruidosa Church, the justices paused a ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas that sided with opponents of the wall and determined that Congress likely did not authorize the broad waivers for speedy construction.

The high court agreed with the administration that federal law limits judges’ powers to intervene when the government decides swift border barrier construction is necessary.

The lower court’s order “bars the Secretary from exercising his statutory authority to waive applicable laws” to expedite construction, the court wrote. “The injunction thus impedes the Government from advancing its ‘compelling interests’ in border security and integrity.”

Plaintiffs included a river guide, an environmental nonprofit, and a nonprofit dedicated to preserving a historic church in Ruidosa, Texas.

The border wall is a signature issue for President Donald Trump. Congress approved $46 billion for construction of the wall, and the Texas portion in question was just one section. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has built about 12 miles of wall per week across the United States, and the Department of Homeland Security has issued waivers for certain environmental rules in various locations.

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Newsbusters.

Reds of a feather flock together.

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In practice, the measures represent another step toward subordinating private property, free markets, and national sovereignty to UN-approved priorities.

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The European Union has discovered the source of their social unrest problem, RUSSIA and the American MAGA movement! According to internal documents from an EU intelligence assessment, Russia -along with MAGA- tricked France into importing violent migrants that then began to destroy Paris. A rather devious explanation for the ongoing European crisis; it’s Russia’s fault.

Rory Sutherland:

“You will get better coffee in an Italian prison than in a French restaurant.”

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Of course it does.

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The 100,000 participants will fly home, and the world’s energy system will carry on much as before, governed by the arithmetic of cost, reliability and security rather than the theology of climate conferences.

Wouldn’t it be great if, among the many ways that proglodytes can destroy modern life, climate alarmism is no long available to them?

What if you can’t break the glass? It’s not as easy as it sounds.

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It’s funny how ‘progressives’ always want to take the country back to 1900 every time they get a little power. (Don’t believe me? Investigate their perennial fetish for trains.)

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They can do that. There’s only so far you can drive on the British islands, so the big drawbacks of electric vehicles—limited range, sparse infrastructure, tedious refueling—are less of a constraint than in large contiguous land masses.

Don’t try that in North America or Eurasia.

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Global corporate media outlets ran a synchronized information operation over the weekend to twist reality, claiming that the gunman in Poland, who killed six and injured more than a dozen, had far-right links.

Spanish MEP Hermann Tertsch challenged the MSM narrative and pointed out the cover-up by the globalists inside the Polish government.

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It’s only when the spin is revealed, and everyone can see through the nonsense, that the globalists, who turned a blind eye to far-left extremism, have a very serious problem across the bloc: This has been most visible in the communist revolution in France, which is spreading to other countries.

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As problems spread and involve more moving parts they generally do become harder to solve, though the reason is usually due to complexity rather than size alone.

Indeed many massive, complex problems don’t become unsolvable because of the problem itself. They become unsolvable because of the scaffolding we build around them.

When a social crisis emerges, our instinct is to build support systems: initiatives, funding streams, non-profit networks, and oversight agencies. In theory, this scaffolding is temporary infrastructure designed to hold a collapsing system together while we fix the problem. But over time, something else happens. Scaffolding becomes an industry. It develops its own bureaucracy, its own executive payrolls, and its own political constituency.

Eventually, the scaffolding stops being a temporary fix and becomes a permanent, self-reinforcing ecosystem. Many of the systems and institutions of today were originally envisaged as temporary safety nets.

This is why socialism always drowns in bureaucracy. Proglodytes almost invariably pursue an agenda that is primarily composed of Band-Aids: Health care problems? National Health Service! Medicare for All! Poverty? Universal Basic Income! They are perennially treating symptoms without addressing root causes.

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Traditional lenses and mirrors focus light using curved surfaces. Metasurfaces can achieve similar functions with a flat layer of nanoscale structures that locally control the phase of light. Extending these flat optics into the ultraviolet could support compact systems for high-resolution imaging, spectroscopy, and sensing, but it introduces a fundamental materials problem: many of the materials used to make metasurfaces strongly absorb UV light.

Researchers at the University of Stuttgart have developed an alternative approach that turns this limitation on its head. Rather than trying to make an absorbing material transparent, their metasurface confines much of the light inside tiny air-filled cavities etched directly into silicon.

The device focuses reflected ultraviolet light at a wavelength of 325 nm and demonstrates a new approach to controlling light in wavelength ranges where suitable transparent materials can be difficult to find.

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The British state is openly preparing the public for multi-day blackouts while lining up the BBC to broadcast pre-scripted government messages once the lights, water, and internet fail.

A so called “Black Sky” contingency now sits on the books: roughly 100 BBC staff would man a hardened radio studio stocked with its own fuel, food, and water for at least three days, pumping out official instructions over FM if the grid collapses.

This arrives weeks after the government launched an official “Be Ready” campaign ordering every household to stockpile three days of bottled water (three liters per person per day for drinking alone), non-perishable food, cash, a torch, and a wind-up or battery FM radio.

Newsbusters.

With an incoming Democrat Congressional majority upon us, the Elitist Media is picking up the pace and very quickly carrying their water. In this case, justifying and downplaying the weaponization of government against Republicans and conservatives who dare to work for the Trump administration.

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Blanche makes an argument detailing his legitimate concerns over the potential weaponization of congressional oversight against young conservatives entering the Trump administration, as exposed by Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin, and Bash’s first response was to gaslight Blanche.

Blanche stops her and details the potential persecution via abuse of congressional oversight, and Bash’s response is to ask what the crime is. There is no interest in considering Blanche’s arguments. There is only the instinct to deflect, deny, downplay and gaslight.

The Elitist Media never did cover Slotkin’s statements wherein she clearly threatened weaponization of government against the political opposition. This goes for CNN, as well. But the Attorney General of the United States defending innocents against wanton persecution is the real problem.

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Regardless of what people might think happened during the midterm elections (there’s some real weird post-election numbers coming out of certain states right now), wokeness is not an effective selling point for the political left. James Talarico had to renounce his insane woke statements from the Biden era to get any kind of traction in Texas. Abdul El-Sayed had to begrudgingly claim that he no longer supports the Muslim Brotherhood. Clearly, someone sent out a memo to turn down the volume on the Cultural Marxism.

The reason is obvious – Get Woke, Go Broke. And nowhere is this rule more apparent than the online media industry. In the case of left-wing web media, the result has been a well deserved bloodbath.

Ultra left-wing news outlet Salon launched in San Francisco in 1995 in the early days of the internet, proving yet again that nothing good has come out of the Bay Area for at least a century. Their stated ideological mission was to provide an “unapologetically progressive” and liberal “counterweight” to mainstream, corporate media. A hilarious notion given that the media was already brutally left-wing in the 1990s, but hey, Salon wanted to push that line even harder.

Quillette.

The Middle East—widely, and perhaps a bit perversely, defined by historian Simon Sebag Montefiore as stretching from Morocco to Iran—underwent two major, historic social-geopolitical revolutions in less than a century, a unique feat in the modern age. First came decolonisation and the emergence of real or artificial nation-states amid the rubble left by the receding imperial powers: the Ottomans, the Italians, the French, and the British. Then, a few decades later, came the explosion of Islamism across the region, which the saner rulers of the Middle East are now battling, in their different ways. In surveying the years 1900–2026 in this vast geographical and political landscape, Montefiore acknowledges the Herculean nature of his labours. It is, he tells us, a “daunting task,” and I am not sure any historian could have done it better. He looks, often in great detail, at what transpired during these years in Morocco, Algeria, Libya, and Egypt, in the Arabian Peninsula, and in the Middle Eastern heartland of Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, and Israel-Palestine, as well as in Turkey and Iran. A daunting task, to be sure.

The Telegraph (UK).

Gas boilers will be allowed in some new homes after Labour’s latest about-turn.

Net zero rules introduced under Sir Keir Starmer would have forced developers to ensure the homes they built were fitted only with electric heat pumps or non-gas alternatives.

But Andy Burnham’s administration has brought forward a loophole allowing housebuilders to make limited exceptions.

The Telegraph (UK).

In photographs, Alice Huang appears to be just another glamorous face in the crowded life of the AI billionaire Jensen Huang.

As boss of Nvidia, until Friday the world’s most valuable company, Mr Huang constantly meets contacts, customers and businesspeople.

Yet allegations about the personal importance and motivations of the Chinese businesswoman have contributed to a nightmare week for a tech titan at the centre of geopolitical rivalry for a potentially world-changing technology.

Media reports surfaced at the weekend that Donald Trump’s administration was briefed with intelligence that Ms Huang was allegedly recruited by a Chinese intelligence agency to spy on the Nvidia boss.

Ms Huang, who is unrelated to Mr Huang, is alleged to have gone on to form a close relationship with the Nvidia chief executive, which the US officials alleged was part of an audacious industrial espionage sting.

ATQUE: Nvidia stock falls 5% as scrutiny turns to Jensen Huang’s relationship with alleged Chinese spy (CNBC)

The Telegraph (UK).

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Two chartered party buses and about a dozen cars pulled up outside Elon Musk’s West Lake Hills, Texas, compound on Saturday, and roughly 60 people spent an hour dancing in the street to celebrate Election Night losses by the candidates Musk’s money backed, according to the Austin American-Statesman.

Time to let the dogs out.

Newsbusters.

The Big Blue Wave washed over the Republican Party on Election Day, and the PBS News Hour on Friday confidently proclaimed President Trump’s “immigration agenda….has become a liability,” while demanding that Democrats enforce “accountability” on the administration. PBS already has its enemies list in hand last week.

But first, co-anchor Geoff Bennett stretched to make immigration control off-limits for Republicans going forward, even though his colleague anchor Amna Nawaz admitted on Election Night that immigration was “The only issue [exit poll respondents] said Republicans could handle better right now….”

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Georgia Democrats spent the week celebrating their first state House majority in more than two decades. Then the secretary of state’s office found an Election Day memory card in Seminole County that had never been uploaded.

Republican state Rep. Gerald Greene went from trailing Democrat Harry James by 58 votes to leading him by 262 once the card’s votes were added on Friday, according to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office, which has opened an investigation into the county’s late upload. By Saturday, the state’s results page had Greene at 10,193 votes to 9,932 for James in House District 154, a nine-county seat in southwest Georgia.

The state’s elections staff caught it in a routine post-election check. In Seminole County, approximately 388 more voters were recorded as having checked in at polling places on Election Day than ballots were reported as cast, the office said. It alerted the county, which then realized it had missed a memory card, state elections director Blake Evans told the AJC.

“Our office identified a significant discrepancy, alerted county officials, and uncovered a failure to properly upload election results,” Raffensperger said in a statement. “This oversight didn’t just affect the numbers – it changed who was leading an election.”

“That is unacceptable, and we intend to find out exactly how it happened,” he added.

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Authorities on Sunday arrested a man in a shooting during homecoming weekend at a historically Black university in North Carolina that left one person dead and at least one other person injured.

Assistant Police Chief Jason Swaim of the Winston-Salem Police Department said officers responded after hearing gunshots around 9:45 p.m. Saturday at Winston-Salem State University. They found a 19-year-old man with a gunshot wound, but life-saving measures were unsuccessful.

Officers also found a 22-year-old woman at the scene who appeared to have a gunshot wound. She was taken to a hospital, where she was treated and later released.

Imagine how peaceful it would be if young black males were prohibited from possessing firearms.

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Attorney General Todd Blanche declined Sunday to rule out prosecuting Democratic lawmakers who have vowed to investigate the Trump administration, a day after President Donald J. Trump ordered the Justice Department to look into what he called extortion.

Asked on CNN’s “State of the Union” whether Democratic lawmakers could face prison, as Trump had urged, Blanche said, “It depends on what the – what the crime is and what they have done.” He named no criminal statute and did not say whether an investigation had begun.

Two can play the threat game.

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This is a really interesting video of cause, consequence and the anticipated solution. As you watch it, keep in mind this is 100% American. No other nation on the planet is working on this problem, let alone being capable of delivering the solution in the actual logistics that Elon Musk , SpaceX and Starlink are capable of.

We are familiar with the terms “soft power” and “hard power.” However, what do you call the power carried by America when the world becomes dependent on the United States for the operation of their AI agents? When you have the time, watch this. The video includes Musk and Ron Baron’s own remarks, including the qualifications around their forecasts.

The Atlantic, a Voice of the Crust.

My, what a surprise.

Where is Tom Swift when you really need him?

Not the Bee.

The greatest evidence we have of God being slow to anger is that we get clips like this coming out of heretical churches every single day.

The Foundry.

ech megabillionaire Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s newly appointed White House chief of staff, Stephen Miller, will likely be targets of congressional probes when Democrats take control of Congress in January, a senior lawmaker said on Sunday.

California Representative Robert Garcia, who is in line to chair the powerful House Oversight Committee next year after Democrats’ sweeping midterm election victory, said investigations will focus on Musk’s involvement in the Department of Government Efficiency’s firing of federal workers last year, and Miller’s role in Trump’s hardline immigration crackdown.

“I think there’s a lot of interest, not just from our committee, but from committees across the Congress to speak to Mr. Musk,” Garcia told CNN’s “State of the Union.”

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The removal came under the third phase of Operation Highway Shield, which targets unqualified truckers and related criminal activity on U.S. roads. In addition to putting 393 drivers and vehicles out of service, the operation identified 183 English Language Proficiency violations, referred 74 immigration violations to federal enforcement, made 44 criminal arrests, and recovered one stolen trailer, the Department of Transportation (DOT) said in a Nov. 4 statement.

“Gone are the days of dangerous – and many times illegal and foreign – drivers putting American lives at risk on our roads,” Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy said in the statement. “Under the Trump Administration, we are restoring law and order.”

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Texas Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa (D-TX) has asked the state’s parks department to hold off on a proposed sale of state land to SpaceX until she takes office, contacting the department’s executive director before she is sworn in this January. The move puts part of Elon Musk’s expansion plans in South Texas on hold.

Investors reacted the morning after the vote. Tesla and SpaceX each fell nearly 6% in premarket trading on Wednesday. Musk had spent heavily to prevent that outcome. The billionaire, one of the Republican Party’s largest donors, had given more than $445 million to Republican candidates and causes this cycle and urged his followers on X to vote against Democrats. About $190 million of it went into Ken Paxton’s (R-TX) race for the U.S. Senate, most of it through the Senate Leadership Fund, the super PAC aligned with Senate Republican leaders.

The sale under discussion covers about 1,300 acres of public land in Cameron County, including Boca Chica State Park, which covers about 1,055 acres and sits next to SpaceX’s Starbase rocket facility. Acquiring the land would allow SpaceX to expand its operations at the site, which serves as the company’s main launch and production hub for its Starship program.

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Comedian Dave Chappelle told a Madison Square Garden crowd this weekend that he has felt better “ever since that guy Charlie Kirk got murdered,” a remark that has drawn fast condemnation from conservatives.

Finding out that Dave Chappelle got murdered wouldn’t make me unhappy.

The Foundry.

Texas has built a reputation as a bastion of freedom. No state income tax, a low cost of living, and huge corporate growth have drawn millions of people, adding 2.6 million residents since 2020 alone. The Dallas area has even taken the moniker “Y’all Street,” championed as a capitalist refuge from socialism in New York City.

But now, the policies that made the Lone Star State prosperous are under attack.

In the midterm election, Democrat Gina Hinojosa defeated three-term Republican incumbent Gov. Greg Abbott, becoming the state’s first Democrat governor since Ann Richards in 1990. Democrat James Talarico defeated Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, delivering the state’s first Senate Democrat victory since 1988.

Unfortunately for Texas, Hinojosa and Talarico are much more radical and unhinged than their predecessors.

Unfortunatly, all of those blue state refugees have brought their California ideas with them.

Newsbusters.

The leftists are not feeling satisfied and charitable in victory. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart have united in virtually accusing Stephen Miller, President Trump’s new chief of staff, of murder.

Democrat Jeffries, the presumptive next Speaker of the House, made the most explosive charge. On X he wrote:

“Stephen Miller is a dangerous xenophobe and reckless extremist who has American blood on his hands. His presence in government should be eradicated like a malignant tumor.”

Jeffries gave himself a tiny fig leaf by limiting the eradication call to Miller’s “presence in government.” But pairing “American blood on his hands” with “eradicated like a malignant tumor” is not ordinary political criticism. It reads more like someone putting out a hit— not a call for bureaucratic reshuffling.

If a conservative had used this “eradicate the tumor” terminology and applied it to Jeffries or any other Democrat, the elitist media would erupt and see it as an appeal to violence.

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Undersea telecom cables are critical civilian infrastructure and are increasingly under threat. The wars in Ukraine and Iran have shown how civilian infrastructure can become easy targets.

On Friday, the Financial Times, citing maritime intelligence firm Windward, reported that several Iran-linked vessels slowed or lingered over cable routes in the Gulf of Oman as cable-cutting threats rise. For Gulf-allied states, the challenge is both to protect the cables from sabotage and to keep data centers humming amid Iranian drone threats.

It’s not just cable-cutting threats in the Gulf. Remember in 2024 when Baltic undersea cables were severed between Finland and Germany, causing weeks of “disruption.”

There must be a solution to cable sabotage that could bring parts of the internet down for days, if not weeks, and that solution might be Elon Musk’s Starlink.

It is an inconvenient truth that left-wing people cause problems and right-wing people solve problems.

Sometimes it’s hard to keep up.

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Politically and also in real terms, leftists don’t build anything of value. Instead, their focus is always to tear down the things built by others. From monuments to ideas, leftists are destroyers.

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The massive mostly peaceful riots that have engulfed much of Europe over the past few weeks have recently hit major cities in Germany. I must report that I was shocked — shocked! — to learn that many of the rioters in Frankfurt had a “migration background”.

As it happens, the exact number of culture-enrichers among those arrested in Frankfurt cannot be determined with any certainty, because statistics on such matters are not recorded. The only information the police collect is whether or not the perp has German nationality. The Bundesrepublik is notorious for handing out German passports like candy, so that any swarthy Urdu-speaker lurking in the back alleys of Frankfurt is identified as a “German”.

New York Post.

Brazen train robbers are increasingly targeting Southern California’s vast rail network to pull off sophisticated heists and quickly traffic their loot — even flaunting their crimes on social media.

More than 65,000 train heists occur nationwide each year, with anywhere from a 25% to 40% of the thefts hitting Southern California annually, investigators told The California Post.

The value of the bandits’ plunder reaches into the tens to hundreds of millions of dollars, according to sources with knowledge of the crimes.

Time to leave.

New York Post.

Four French men are speaking out after they were targeted by what they say was a Muslim mob in a racist attack along with their friends for singing Catholic songs in public in the northern city of Rouen.

The victims, who were all white, said roughly two dozen attackers, dressed in black sweats and balaclavas, approached from behind, surrounded and pelted them with stones last Saturday in what one described as an “apocalyptic scene.”

The group had just finished dinner for one of the men’s birthdays and was heading toward a fair when they say they heard the attackers shout: “Come on, there are fascists here!”

Apparently being white is considered fascist in France these days.

New York Post.

Three teenagers and an adult have been charged with murder in Georgia after a mother found her 15-year-old son shot to death inside an abandoned residence following Halloween night.

The Albany Police Department said investigators arrested 22-year-old Detravion Parke, as well as two 15-year-olds and a 16-year-old in connection with the death of Austin Payne, 15.

All four suspects were charged with murder and transported to the Dougherty County Jail, according to police.

Officers responded to the 800 block of Cameo Lane in Albany on Nov. 1, where they discovered Payne dead inside an abandoned home, police said.

His mother found him by tracking his location via cellphone after he failed to return home on Halloween, according to WALB.

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A North Dakota judge has denied Greenpeace a new trial in the Dakota Access Pipeline case, leaving the $345 million judgment for Energy Transfer standing. Greenpeace says it will appeal to the North Dakota Supreme Court.

Babylon Bee.

Democrats proudly announced that they had already delivered on their campaign promise to improve affordability, having made stock prices far, far cheaper in just a few days.

Now do it with eggs and gasoline.

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Secret Service agents arrested a heavily armed illegal alien from Venezuela down the street from the White House who, according to the federal government, “heard voices in his head telling him to kill President Trump.”

A new report from the Department of Homeland Security said the illegal alien had an AR-15-style rifle, a MAC-10, a Glock 43X, and ammunition in his vehicle at the time of his arrest near the White House grounds.

Federal agents approached Ronny Yordrix Guanipa Chrinos on Thursday evening after observing suspicious behavior in a car parked on Constitution Avenue in Washington. The vehicle had been reported stolen, and he admitted to federal agents that he had weapons inside.

Whaddaya think? Democrat or Republican?