DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

Newsbusters.

We had a midterm election in which the Democrats and the Left were wildly successful. There is one way in which this makes some of them look either deeply stupid or dishonest. Many of them who rejoice now tried to claim there wouldn’t be any more elections if Trump won in 2024, or that he might cancel the midterms.

On October 18, 2023, Rachel Maddow plugged her new book about American fascism on ABC’sThe View, claiming that Trump is “basically portraying a future for America, if he is put back in the White House, in which we don’t have another election after that.” Then it got even dumber. Co-host Sara Haines claimed Trump would “cancel the news. Like, the news, you’re done.” Maddow agreed and added: “He wants to put MSNBC on trial for treason so that he can execute us.”

Insert the Twilight Zone theme song here. But there’s more.

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Thursday’s selloff in hyperscaler and neocloud stocks deepened as investors reassessed the mounting risks that the Democratic sweep in the US midterms poses to the AI infrastructure boom. By midday in New York, the Nasdaq was down more than 5%, while Morgan Stanley’s neocloud index had plunged 12%, reflecting concerns that Democratic-led moratoriums could delay projects, disrupt spending plans, and even undermine the US economy. We’ve extensively detailed where state-level restrictions could put the buildout most at risk (read here and here).

Earlier today, the doom headlines started pouring in. The Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI leaders were discussing whether to reset expectations for next year’s data center buildout after the blowout election results signaled dire straits for the AI boom.

WSJ said AI insider concerns surfaced Tuesday night at San Francisco’s Opera House, where Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hosted executives for “The Marriage of Figaro.” Attendees discussed how midterm election results and mounting local opposition could put immense pressure on the planned expansion of computing capacity.

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The mother of a California police officer killed in the line of duty accused Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday of timing his decision to commute the death sentences of all 548 condemned inmates in the state to serve his presidential ambitions, calling it “the worst day of my life.”

Phyllis Loya, whose son, Pittsburg police Officer Larry Lasater, was shot and killed in 2005, told the California Post she felt “immense anger.”

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“Does Gavin Newsom ever talk about the victims? No, he doesn’t,” she added.

And why would he? Murder victims don’t vote … and, if they do, it’s for Democrats.

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We don’t have time to process the Islamic riots across France before turning our attention to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s attempted judicial coup d’état. While President Trump seeks peace between Russia and Ukraine, the United Kingdom prepares its citizens for WWIII and a Russian invasion. The United States has elections, but Democrat seditionists and subversive members of the American Intelligence Community push for a “color revolution” to topple the Trump administration.

Big events happen every day, and we have scant opportunity to understand what they mean before another comes across our screens. The issue of “screens” is important. If you’re reading this, you are not likely a hermit living self-sufficiently in the woods. Unless you limit your “screen time,” televisions, computers, tablets, and phones are pumping your brain full of information all day long. Even when we’re not consciously reading or watching something on our screens, our brains are picking up signals about the events playing out in the world.

If you are a fan of science fiction, it is not difficult to understand that we are now living in a version of the dystopian worlds that writers such as Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Ray Bradbury, and Philip K. Dick envisioned. People who possess power in this world have a strong incentive to shape our minds, and they use every available tool to condition our way of thinking.

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There are about $2.3 trillion in multifamily commercial real estate (CRE) loans out there, backed by buildings with rental apartments. The US government, via Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, holds about $1.2 trillion of that. Fannie and Freddie have become very aggressive multifamily CRE lenders. So, dear taxpayer, you’re on the hook for about half of the multifamily CRE debt.

The rest is held around the globe by banks, insurance companies, real estate funds, alternative asset managers – a melted-down mortgage just hit Bridge Investment Group, a unit of PE giant Apollo (more on that in a moment) – holders of Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS) and Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs).

All of them have gotten hit by melted-down mortgages as the higher interest rates make it just about impossible to refinance the balloon payments when they come due on fixed-rate loans, or even make interest payments on variable-rate loans pegged to SOFR, which jumped when the Fed started hiking its policy rates. The result has been wave after wave of multifamily defaults, and it keeps getting worse.

Fannie Mae (FNMA) and Freddie Mac (FHLMC) are government entities designed to promote home ownership. What they mainly promote is mortgage fraud. As with most such government programs (like student loan guarantee programs), they only make things worse.

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A federal grand jury in Chicago has indicted Annette Johnson, the former president of the East Aurora School District 131 Board of Education, on charges that she entered the district into a $2.7 million air purifier purchase in 2021 in exchange for a $1.3 million payment. Johnson, 63, of Aurora, faces two counts of honest services mail fraud and one count of honest services wire fraud, each punishable by up to 20 years in federal prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois said. She remains a member of the board.

Prosecutors say that Johnson, then board president, voted for the purchase, and that the district paid for the purifiers with COVID-era federal grant money. Unbeknownst to the other board members, they say, Johnson and the vendor had agreed that the vendor would pay more than $1 million of the sale proceeds to a company owned by her boyfriend, where she served as chief financial officer.

Within days of a board vote in which Johnson participated and approved payment, prosecutors say, the vendor mailed a $1.3 million check labeled “commission” to that company. Later, she allegedly pushed the board to approve a $201,077 payment to the vendor in 2023 for an “extended warranty” on the purifiers. The US Attorney’s office does not name the vendor nor the company in the complaint, and Johnson was the only person indicted.

Whaddaya think? Republican or Democrat?

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As reported in last night’s news feed, a migrant from Gambia walked into a Hamburg police station on Tuesday and said that he wanted to report a woman with a bodily injury. He then guided officers to a nearby apartment building, where they found the body of a 70-year-old woman with her head cut off.

Since then the police have denied that the woman was in fact beheaded. Perhaps as long there is still a tendon or strip of skin still connecting the two relevant body parts, the incident is not officially considered a decapitation.

All we get from the two news stories below are references to “extreme violence” and “massive cuts to her throat”.

Are there any indications that the alleged murderer comes from a “beheading culture”? According to my database of Islamic population statistics, Gambia is 90% Muslim. Those data are from 2004, but I doubt the Islamic percentage of the population has declined in the interim.

It’s also worth noting that the accused perpetrator is thought to be mentally ill. What a surprise!

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The Council on American-Islamic Relations has suspended operations in Florida after a federal court rejected its request to block the state’s designation of the organization as a domestic terrorist group.

Earlier Thursday, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier posted on X: “This morning, a federal court upheld Florida’s Domestic Terrorist Organization law and rejected CAIR’s attempt to stop the designations.”

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To be clear before I go further – I’m not against living longer. If humans gradually trended toward lifespans of 120, 150, even 200 years, I don’t think that’s a problem. What I’m pushing back against is the removal of the horizon entirely. Death doesn’t need to come at any particular time, but it does need to exist, looming just around the corner.

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What I’m realizing is that both of these are the same thing. Being fully yourself requires accepting limits – who you are, how much time you have. You can’t be everything to everyone, and you can’t be forever. The constraint is part of what makes you, you. Choices that cost nothing aren’t really choices.

In that same vein – your choices being what you really are – Bernard Williams wrote this essay in 1973 arguing that immortality would actually be bad for us. His argument is precise: the desires that give you reason to keep living (he calls them categorical desires) would either eventually exhaust themselves, leaving you in a state of “boredom, indifference and coldness”, or they’d evolve so completely that you’d become a different person anyway. Either way, the You that wanted immortality doesn’t get it. You just die from a lack of Self rather than through physical mortality.

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Nowadays, Horn & Hardart is merely a meme from PDQ Bach.

New York Post.

A Michigan nephew and four others were convicted of abducting and ruthlessly beating his uncle — then leaving him tied up next to his burning truck — in a plot to steal $100,000 he received for helping a seemingly blind influencer.

Roland Chatmon, 37, pleaded guilty to kidnapping conspiracy and federal gun charges related to the September 2025 attack on his uncle Curtis Dixon, federal prosecutors in Detroit announced Wednesday.

Leica Lopez Martinez, 33, Ieasha Stroman, 38, and Dneiqua Stroman, 43, face the same charges while Kenneth Anderson, 54, previously pleaded guilty to money laundering for his role, prosecutors said.

Blue States are alive … with Criminals of Color….

New York Post.

A Bronx woman who was stabbed 22 times by her “monster” friend as her daughter was in the next room vomited as she learned her attacker would spend less than a decade in prison for the bloody attack.

Kaitlynn Berman, 23, faced Christopher Joseph in Bronx Supreme Court Wednesday as a judge sentenced Joseph to eight-and-a-half years in prison for the March 2025 knife attack inside her Wakefield apartment.

“This man, this monster, Christopher Joseph, should be doing 22 years to life — one year for each stabbing. No remorse, no anything,” Berman’s advocate, Bishop Boyde Singletary, said outside the courthouse, NBC 4 reported.

My advice: Avoid New York.

ScienceDaily.

Full-fat dairy may not be the health villain it has long been portrayed as, according to a new study finding that three daily servings did not worsen weight, cholesterol, or insulin resistance over 12 weeks. Researchers also observed improvements in blood pressure and nutrient intake, raising questions about longstanding recommendations to choose low-fat dairy.

‘Follow the science!” they said … and then The Science changed.

If I had a nickel for every time The Science has been flipped on its head—I still wouldn’t have much, due to inflation….

Eat what your grandparents ate. That’s always the best plan.

The Telegraph (UK).

Oh,  ya think?

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Steve Crowder has some more inconvenient truth for Republicans.

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In 1913, journalist Helen Todd talked to hundreds of 14- to 16-year-olds working in American factories. Most of their fathers were dead or had crippling health issues thanks to decades of work in unsafe factories, and their mothers were supporting an average of five children on low wages. By doing piecemeal work for excruciatingly low pay in dangerous factories, the teenagers were keeping their families afloat.

Todd asked these teenage laborers whether they would choose work in the factory or school if their families were rich enough that they didn’t need to work.

Overwhelmingly, they chose the factory.

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When the Department of Transportation’s September 29, 2025 emergency rule exposed 200,000 fraudulently issued non-domiciled CDLs—many held by individuals with no legal work authorization—most of the trucking industry braced for a painful but necessary correction. The U.S. Postal Service did something far worse: it threw a tantrum and refused to comply.

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Reparations are simple when the perpetrators and the victims, or their immediate descendants, are still around. The many churches built by the Normans, including an altar on the very spot where King Harold was killed, may show that the conquerors realised they had sinned. But today? Perhaps my ancestors were enserfed by William of Normandy as were those of the homeless man on the street corner. Would we both be equally deserving of cash from the French treasury? Or equally undeserving?

The problem of reparations is less one of theory than of practice. Who exactly should receive them, and who exactly should pay them? Some conscience-stricken descendants of slave-owning families have made substantial donations to Caribbean charities. But this is not what is being demanded. Governments of several states are demanding trillions of pounds unconditionally from the British taxpayer for themselves, however undemocratic, incompetent and corrupt they may be.

Leading the international campaign – which is, in effect, being directed only against Britain – is Ghana. This in itself shows the cynicism of the whole operation. Ghana was one of the biggest slave-trading countries, and many of its people took part in the traffic. It is now demanding, in fact, to be compensated for its own crimes against humanity. It was West African countries that enslaved and sold people, and made big profits. This was the original act of violence, which made human beings into property.

As for those who exploited the people thus enslaved, the Muslim world was probably the biggest and arguably the cruellest: it made women into sex slaves and castrated men to be servants (many young boys died in agony from the effects). In the Atlantic world the biggest buyers were Brazil, France (in its colony of Saint-Domingue, later Haiti) and the United States. If reparations are due, all these should pay them.

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The people who put their money where their mouths are react to the Woke Blue Wave.

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A hundred years after the death of its architect and 144 years after the start of construction, the Sagrada Família’s main spire was completed this February, making it the tallest church in the world.

In addition to being the tallest, it is also one of the most bizarre. It looks like no other building, anywhere. The Sagrada Família is an expression of Antoni Gaudí’s very personal view of architecture, which incorporates Gothic elements into Modernisme,1 the Catalan version of Art Nouveau. The whole thing vaguely resembles a termite mound. The two completed façades are covered with countless sculpted ornaments in multiple styles (the third and main façade’s construction is still pending, and it will require demolishing some apartment blocks). The interior is an airy forest of stone columns that rise to meet a vaulted ceiling like the branches of trees in a canopy, bathed in the multicolored light of the stained glass windows. Trencadís, a mosaic technique that uses irregular pieces of glass, is used abundantly. Since 2005, the church has been recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

I’ve visited it when I was in the Navy. It belongs right alongside the Black Death and Auschwitz. I don’t accept that it is an example of Art Nouveau, which I happen to love, whether in the Paris Metro or Rivendell.

Alma Boykin.

I write in cursive and draw to print. This is because, thanks to two English teachers in 5th and 6th grade, cursive is ingrained in muscle memory. I take notes in script, because it is easier and faster. I write stories in script, for the same reason. Printing is hard for me, cursive has become easy.

Cursive writing, like everything it seems, developed over time and out of necessity. You will not find cursive on monuments or stone inscriptions, with perhaps the exception of hiretic on the Rosetta Stone. If you are using a chisel on stone, curved letters and connected letters won’t work well. The Greeks found ways around it, but the Romans? Capital letters, with straight lines for the most part, separated so that words are clearer (as long as you know all the abbreviations they used). However, if you are a scribe taking rapid dictation on a scrap of papyrus, or a wax tablet, you can link your letters, make more curves, and develop smaller characters since space is important, and you know what you have written. Official documents tend to keep separated letters, well spaced (material permitting) even when on parchment instead of stone. Readability by officials was important.

As the centuries passed, and paper, different types of pens, and literacy all spread, more people needed to write more quickly. Charlemagne had tried to standardize official writing with what is called Carolingian minuscule, which was indeed clear and legiable. However, people would let the letters connect when they wrote for their own use. The 800s or so is also when standard lowercase letters developed in the Roman alphabet. Greek already had them, however, until the influx of scholars from Constantinople into western Europe in the early 1400s, Greek was less common than Latin. Arabic, written on paper almost from the beginning, used cursive. When your script doubles as decoration and calligraphy truly is a fine art, flowing letters are the rule, not the exception. However, despite Charlemagne’s attempt to standardize written language, local and regional scripts flourished. Each teacher had a slightly different hand, and over time “Paris School” or “Fluda School” styles grew more distinct, and harder for outsiders to read. If you are keeping notes for your own use to be transcribed later, unique or regional styles are OK. When those crept into official documents that left the region, problems developed. Political and theological language are complicated enough as it is without “is that an a, an o, or something else?” adding moments of excitement.

Alma Boykin is one of the best writers of speculative fiction living. Get and read her books.

If you are one of the Deprived Moderns and would like to get in to cursive writing, you could do worse that learn the Library Hand.

BBC, a Voice of the Crust.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has commuted the death sentences of all 548 people on death row in the state, changing them instead to life in prison.

“We can now let these offenders die in obscurity while we forever remember and honour the victims,” he said in a letter.

The decision to spare death row inmates is largely symbolic in a state that has not executed an inmate since 2006, though experts say it could save millions of dollars in court costs each year. Only 13 inmates have been executed since voters reinstated the death penalty in 1978.

Certainly clears the way for Trump to blanket-pardon the people who served in his administration on his way out the door.

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Today, after 31 years, we are saddened to announce that Salon is ceasing publication.

It’s difficult to find the right words for the end of something that has meant so much to so many people. Salon was never just a website. It was an idea about what journalism could be, born at a moment when the internet was still a largely unexplored frontier.

When Salon launched in November 1995, the web was a very different place. A small group of journalists set out to create something original: a publication with a strong voice, a curiosity about the world and a belief that the internet could bring journalism and readers together in new ways. They helped pioneer a form of journalism that would come to define an entirely new era of publishing.

Indeed it did—along with Slate and MSNBC, they took the concept of ‘news media’ that didn’t even pretend to be objective journalism from the fever swamps of Mother Jones and Rolling Stone into a pretense of being mainstream.

But, inevitably, it fell prey to the ancient principle Get Woke, Go Broke. It will not be missed.

The New Neo.

I said “first up,” but it’s perhaps second and third and fourth up, too. It’s what a great many voters want, and the Democrats will do their best to deliver it.

Something similar was true with the Biden victory in 2020, and J6 was used to justify it. Don’t forget that it was reasonable to think that, instead of being elected president in 2024, Trump would be wearing an orange jumpsuit by that time.

But I think the potential for damage is worse now and probably far worse. Back then – even though the Democrats also had the presidency – their Senate margin was small enough that moderates such as Sinema and Manchin were still able to stop the drive for permanent power. I think some people forget that back then Congress tried (and narrowly failed) to pass the same things people on the right are worried about now: packing the Court, nationalizing relaxed rules for voting, statehood for DC and Puerto Rico.

But now, nothing stands in their way except Trump, and the idea is that he’ll be gone in two years at most and a Democrat president will be giving the green light to those measures.

At this point, much of the electorate has become even more vicious and filled with hatred – witness the reaction to Charlie Kirk’s murder as well as that of Brian Thompson and several others who had aroused the ire of the leftist social media crew and therefore deserved to die. Their deaths were openly celebrated by the left and even by many “ordinary” Democrats.

I’ve written before (can’t find it at the moment) that the Trump near-assassination and the Kirk assassination were bookends of a sort. Trump’s close call seemed to start a good cycle for him and the right that culminated in his 2024 election. But Kirk’s death started a different and much darker cycle that persists to this day, a time in which violence and hatred on the left flourish and are flaunted and celebrated and rewarded electorally, and the right is riven by discord and to a certain extent even by Jew-hatred (that latter sentiment is legion on the left).

All of that has led to these election results, and the Democrats’ plan is to fully vent their spleen and gain permanent power rather than lose it in 2028 or ever again. The “burn it down” folks on the right don’t seem to mind.

There’s also – as I wrote in this recent post – the phenomenon of Trump fatigue, which I feel is widespread and even affects many of his previous supporters.

My friend Richard Vigilante (classmate at Yale) suggests that if Trump is impeached, Republicans ought to go ahead and help to unseat him. His rationale is that Trump goverened well during his first term and poorly during his second term, with results as you see them; dumping him from office would give J.D. Vance two years to show what he can do at very little cost, since the split Congress-Presidency means that nothing much will get done during that period, so we can afford to experiment.

I think that the Republican Presidential field in 2028 will be Vance, Rubio, and de Santis (who came out of the Blue Wave a hero for holding the line in Florida). Interesting times.

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Feeling confident and smug after the results of the American midterm election, Iranian terrorists are threatening to assassinate Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and to rain missiles down on Europe. It is long past time for Donald Trump to obliterate these pigs once and for all.

The Iranian Fars News Agency labeled Bessent “Captain Corruptor” and claimed that “if corruption and depravity were superpowers, Scott Bessent, alongside Trump, could be a superhero.” Ironic from a regime always torturing, imprisoning, and murdering its own people while sabotaging foreign nations and sponsoring terrorism, but the Iranian regime is always thoroughly hypocritical.

The video makes a series of extreme accusations against Bessent, not only condemning his homosexuality but accusing him of pimping kids to Jeffrey Epstein and illegal business practices before an “unholy war” on Iran. Remember that jihad means “holy war,” so this is justification for jihad on America. “Captain Corruptor has booked himself a first class ticket to Hell and his ride will soon arrive at his door,” the video threatens, warning that Bessent and his “husband” John cannot hide from the deadly alleged justice of the “Yahya Movement” which will track them to their homes. A Grim Reaper is shown coming for Bessent.

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Democrats are reviving proposals to tax wealthy Americans after winning control of Congress, setting up a potential confrontation with President Donald Trump over how to finance their affordability agenda.

Federal wealth taxes, surtaxes on millionaires, and higher taxes on stock buybacks are among the proposals gaining attention as Democrats prepare to take charge of both chambers, Politico reported on Thursday.

The Party of Tax and Spend is hard at work … taxing and spending.

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Intuition goes beyond superstition, serving as a sophisticated form of intelligence operating largely beneath conscious awareness.

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Studies have found that when chess grandmasters are given just five seconds to evaluate a position, they can make accurate predictions despite lacking time for conscious analysis.

Due to the thousands of hours of experience under their belts, their brains can make rapid decisions through pattern recognition, without requiring deliberate thought. This experience, similarly reflected among experts across many fields—doctors, military personnel, and firefighters—points to the possibility that intuition may emerge from a rich substrate of prior experience.

Emma Seppälä, psychologist and science director at Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, told The Epoch Times that in these instances, intuition is “a fast, instinctive form of intelligence that operates separately from our conscious thoughts.”

Yet, this kind of intuitive, rapid processing isn’t limited to professional skills. Going with your gut may be especially true in complex situations in your own life. Research shows that when people face complex decisions, such as selecting a home or making major life choices, those who focus on their feelings rather than painstakingly analyzing every detail often make better decisions and, perhaps even more importantly, are more satisfied with the outcome.

The Guardian, a Voice of the Crust.

Scientists have identified five major “epochs” of human brain development in one of the most comprehensive studies to date of how neural wiring changes from infancy to old age.

The study, based on the brain scans of nearly 4,000 people aged under one to 90, mapped neural connections and how they evolve during our lives. This revealed five broad phases, split up by four pivotal “turning points” in which brain organisation moves on to a different trajectory, at around the ages of nine, 32, 66 and 83 years.

“Looking back, many of us feel our lives have been characterised by different phases. It turns out that brains also go through these eras,” said Prof Duncan Astle, a researcher in neuroinformatics at Cambridge University and senior author of the study.

“Understanding that the brain’s structural journey is not a question of steady progression, but rather one of a few major turning points, will help us identify when and how its wiring is vulnerable to disruption.”

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Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts. Are we born with a pre-configured brain, or do thought patterns only begin to emerge in response to our sensory experiences of the world around us? Now, science is getting closer to answering the questions philosophers have pondered for centuries.

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are using tiny models of human brain tissue, called organoids, to study the earliest moments of electrical activity in the brain. A new study in Nature Neuroscience finds that the earliest firings of the brain occur in structured patterns without any external experiences, suggesting that the human brain is preconfigured with instructions about how to navigate and interact with the world.

“These cells are clearly interacting with each other and forming circuits that self-assemble before we can experience anything from the outside world,” said Tal Sharf, assistant professor of biomolecular engineering at the Baskin School of Engineering and the study’s senior author. “There’s an operating system that exists, that emerges in a primordial state. In my laboratory, we grow brain organoids to peer into this primordial version of the brain’s operating system and study how the brain builds itself before it’s shaped by sensory experience.”

Not the Bee.

At long last, a true warrior of Allah has infiltrated the US Senate.

BBC, a Voice of the Crust.

An Italian chef sacked from a Brisbane restaurant had refused to put pineapple on a pizza because it was an “insult to his culture”.

Can’t say he’s wrong.

Davide Tamburella was fired from the now-closed La Costa restaurant in May, a fortnight after a meeting with management who had a string of complaints about the chef’s behaviour.

Among them were Tamburella’s refusal to provide ham and pineapple pizza for guests at a function. At the time, the chef had stated that any direction from management “need not be followed when it is offensive to his culture”.

The Woke we have always with us.

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Well-meaning people who mistake guardian dogs for strays in rural pastures are taking them to animal shelters. The growing problem has Wyoming ranchers scrambling to find missing animals — and leaving their livestock without protection from predators.

Get a llama instead.

Not the Bee.

The mainstream media is corrupt, they’re dishonest, they’re biased.

But let’s never forget that they’re also very dumb.

I understand if you’re not into online lingo, so let me explain.

White pill and black pill are plays on a Matrix meme. “Red pill” generally means to open your eyes and become right-wing. “White pill” is, essentially, a reference to optimism, and “black pill” to pessimism.

I can forgive you for not knowing the memes. But if you’re a New York Times writer or editor, you have to know that the “white pill” doesn’t mean suicide by cyanide.

Not the Bee.

Nick Pringle is a social media influencer in Detroit with 379,000 followers on Instagram. He gifted Abdul El-Sayed a pair of prop claws from the X-Men character Wolverine, and is now calling on his Muslim friend to use them to slash the throat of a Jewish White House official.

Which, to be fair, would be pretty on brand as far as stereotypes go!

Not the Bee.

Well, I doubt that other people want him to be ‘white’ either, so that sounds like a win-win.

God will just have to get over it, I guess.

Not the Bee.

Well, here’s some food for thought for you.

Newsbusters.

All four midterm ballot measures recognizing the biological differences between males and females appear to have passed Tuesday, as even voters in Blue states chose to protect girls’ and women’s sports.

In the Blue state of Washington, for example, Initiative 638 prohibiting biological males from competing in girls’ sports will be approved by a wide margin, capturing nearly 60% of the vote. It requires students wishing to compete with girls to provide a health care provider’s statement verifying the student’s sex.

Likewise, in solidly Blue Colorado, Proposition 134, a measure requiring student athletes to participate only on those teams designated for their biological sex is on course to pass with about 52% of the vote. Additionally, it requires schools, colleges and athletic associations to designate whether sports teams are male, female or coeducational.

Similar measures banning males from female sports in Nebraska (Initiative 442) and Arizona (Proposition 318) enjoy wide margins of voter support. In both cases, the measures strengthen already-existing protections for female sports.

Consider the state of a nation in which actual legislation is required to keep boys out of girls’ sports.

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Within minutes of the Democrats retaking power in the House of Representatives, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the expected chair of the House Oversight Committee, just posted a menacing two-word message: “Lawyer up.”

Across the country, far-left politicians and pundits immediately demanded a spasm of investigations and impeachments as soon as they assume control of both houses. Like a nation of Madame Defarges, activists are eagerly knitting the names of targets into the lists of the walking dead, starting with Haley Stevens, who decided to test the “big tent” claims by splitting her ticket to vote against Abdul El-Sayed.

The conditions on the Hill are only likely to make such rage politics more appealing with the new Congress. Despite the large margin secured in the House, it is not enough to overcome a veto requiring two-thirds of both houses. While impeachment also requires a two-thirds vote for conviction, investigations will be a delivery item to offer the base as proof of action in the deadlocked conditions that will unfold on the Hill.

Say what you will about Democrats, they (a) never forget which side they’re on and (b) never forget who their enemies are.

Republicans are prone to political Alzheimer’s. That’s why you often find RINOs but rarely find DINOs.

The American Mind.

The results of the midterm elections are clear; their meaning is not. The blue tsunami apparently has not budged either of the dominant intellectual factions on the Right. The so-called “doomers” see fresh support for their conviction that the republic is sliding more or less inexorably into ruin. The more conventional Old Guard, who find such talk alarming, continue to insist that “you win some, you lose some,” and that Republicans will live to fight another day.

What makes the current political scene so perplexing is that both sides can point to certain undeniable facts to support their position. The United States is, for now, neither all one thing nor all the other. James Madison’s Constitution, though beaten and bruised, is still functioning, according to the conventionalists. American politics remains fundamentally “normal.” In reply, the pessimistic wing accuses the “normie-cons” of naivete and complacency. The original Constitution, they argue, has by now been almost entirely pushed aside by a new, second Constitution, based on a new understanding of justice and human nature, and fanatically devoted to implementing the ideological Left’s agenda.

It is hard to deny that virtually all aspects of our public life have become distorted and dysfunctional in a way the founders would hardly recognize. Yet the Old Guard does seem to be correct to insist that elections—the most important safeguard of popular consent—are still respected by both sides, however tenuously.

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Many people are looking at the number of votes Democrat Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa received in Texas and wondering how it is possible. Hinojosa won more votes than Kamala Harris in ’24 and beat incumbent Governor Greg Abbott by almost a million votes. How is this possible?

Well, to understand why Texans voted blue, perhaps it is worthwhile listening to the candidate. I would challenge readers to set aside their expectations and just watch five minutes of a lengthy interview Hinojosa gave. She sounds like a much better candidate than Greg Abbott.

She may well believe in some stuff other social stuff that is completely looney, but in her presentation of the “economic populism” message, she is far more eloquent than most of the GOP candidates.

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Young students are often revolting – these days it seems they are being given a run for their money by the supposed responsible adults egging them on.

My, what a surprise.

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“Ronald Reagan used to warn about communism, he talked about it, but it was a distant threat across the world,” Speaker Mike Johnson said in a warning on the campaign trail. “And now the barbarians are inside the gate … This is not your father’s Democratic Party. That party’s long gone.”

The Foundry.

The American Mind.

Democratic candidates won races in Republican strongholds, flipping Senate seats in Kansas, Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, and even Texas. On a night shaping up as a Democratic romp, President Trump told The New York Times that he would accept the election results.

Per Grok, say hello to these DSA winners, whose number also includes Troy Jackson, who unseated Senator Susan Collins in Maine.

• Claire Valdez (NY-07, Brooklyn/Queens area; open seat formerly held by retiring Representative Nydia Velázquez)
• Darializa Avila Chevalier (NY-13, Upper Manhattan/Bronx; defeated incumbent Adriano Espaillat in the primary)
• Melat Kiros (CO-01, Denver area; defeated longtime incumbent Diana DeGette in the primary)
• Chris Rabb (PA-03, Philadelphia)
• Donavan McKinney (MI-13, Detroit area; defeated incumbent Shri Thanedar in the primary)

Incumbents who won reelection:

• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14)
• Rashida Tlaib (MI-12)?

This brings the DSA-aligned contingent in the House to roughly seven members (up from two). Most of these races were in deep-blue seats, so general election victories were expected after primary wins.

The New Neo.

Calling Iran a “forever war” about a month after it started was another factor, and the Tuckeresque right was very instrumental in disseminating that message as well, despite the fact that it’s been a war in which there have been very very few American casualties and pretty much no boots on the ground, against an implacable enemy that’s done much damage all around the world for almost fifty years. No matter. A lot of people on the right feel that Trump broke one of the promises on which they had relied, and that it’s the fault of his listening to the nefarious Jews.

Trump did promise ‘no more wars’, and that was stupid, because it’s a promise he couldn’t guarantee to keep. It only takes one side to make a war, and Iran has been making war on the U.S. since 1979.

Watch it.

The author of Islam: An Evolutionary Perspective explains it all to you.

The difference between Bill Gates and Elon Musk.

New York Post.

As Californians anxiously await election results this morning, one ballot measure closely being watched by the industry’s one percent is Proposition 40 — which calls for a one-time 5% tax on any resident with a net worth exceeding $1 billion.

As of press time, Prop 40 was losing 55.6% to 44.4% with 60% of the votes counted.

Still, Page Six Hollywood hears that Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri quietly left California anyway as just the latest mogul to flee the state, and one knowledgeable source says the exec relocated “to escape the billionaire tax.”

Even if the ballot measure loses, insiders say it has set a precedent that uber-wealthy Californians are in for a rough ride in the state.

That this would even be a thing in California is the finger of God pointing. Time to leave.

How bad is it? People are moving from California to New York to save on taxes. That’s how bad it is.