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Honestly, the ancient pagans that sacrificed their children to demons were way cooler than our modern demonic heresies.

Luther is no doubt rotating in his grave had high speed.

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The departure of more than 10,000 federal lawyers has left some agencies without sufficient staff and has boosted the ranks of state attorneys general offices and advocacy group

Raise your hand if you think that the Federal government needs more lawyers.

Babylon Bee.

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The Babylon Bee can’t compete with this.

Seriously, imagine being Seth Dillon and Kyle Mann over at The Bee. How do you make a joke that’s crazier than this? How do you keep up with reality?

Still, Christians (including the prophets at The Bee) have longed warned that reality and satire would merge.

If Scots will elect this sort of travesty, they deserve what they get. Think of it as evolution in action.

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I needed a laugh and here’s Australia being a joke of a country:

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Watch carefully as Britain flushes itself down the toilet….

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Sometimes, unintentional humor is the best humor.

Reality has limits. Human greed has none.

Give them ‘reparations’ including shipping them all back to Africa and barring them from returning except as tourists.

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Every once in a while you wander across some news that makes you wonder if this isn’t, after all, the worst timeline.

For example, a radio station in Cincinnati will literally be able to sing the words to the old sitcom title song, and it will be true.

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The Volo Museum in Illinois installed a permanent Titanic display three years ago and the display immediately flooded.

Then, on the anniversary of the Titanic sinking, it flooded again.

According to FOX 32, museum curator Brian Grams is convinced the display is haunted.

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Sometimes you don’t really need any sobriety tests to figure out when someone is hammered.

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This is quite the ambitious headline revealing the latest ‘plan’ for Hormuz to come out of Europe, as it sits on the sidelines watching the US get potentially bogged down in the region following a month of heavy airstrikes on Iran: Europe drafts postwar plan to free up Strait of Hormuz without US, WSJ reports.

This is apparently a plan for after the main crisis is over, amid the strait still being blockaded (with the each warring side insisting it is they in control of the strategic chokepoint waterway). It seems the main idea is to eventually take the United States out of the equation, allowing only for the ‘neutral’ countries to free up and clean the Hormuz Strait.

The problem with socialists is that they spend too much time breathing their own exhaust.

The reality is that this supposed plan brings things back full circle to problem #1… as it’s not as if either Iran, or the United States, will simply shrug and cede control so that a European military coalition can step in and take over.

Which side will ever actually agree to this? The obvious answer, at least for the time being and foreseeable future is… nobody.

And then there’s the question of what leverage or force will Europe employ to assert its military presence in the strait in order to keep all parties in line… some mere harsh language and strong words?

Maybe if they wish hard enough Tinkerbell will return to health.

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For the record, as Jim Treacher helpfully points out, it stands for “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, and “additional identities (“+”).

The excitement was started by a Canadian New Democratic Party member of parliament, Leah Gazan, who complained that not enough money was being spent to “deal with the ongoing genocide of MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+.”

I didn’t know that MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ was a ethnic group. Perhaps someone might lend her a dictionary and point out that ‘genocide’ doesn’t mean what she apparently thinks it means.

Treacher tried and failed to keep a straight face in reporting on this phenomenon.

I’ll bet.

The Telegraph (UK).

A pastor has been charged with gross negligence manslaughter following the death of a man during a paddling pool baptism.

Robert Smith, 61, from Brixton, London, died during the ceremony held in the back garden of an address in Erdington, Birmingham, on October 8 2023.

Cheryl Bartley, 48, who is the pastor for the Life Changing Ministries church, has since been charged with one count of gross negligence manslaughter in relation to her role in the baptism, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.

Daily Record (UK).

Father Adelir Antonio de Carli, a priest from Brazil, had a rather unconventional idea to raise money for charity.

Natural selection is working overtime these days.

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The mayor of America’s third-largest city wants you to know his priorities.

(I’ll give you a hint, it’s not the residents of Chicago.)

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There is perhaps nothing more revealing about the desperate state of Hollywood than its obsession with digging up old franchises in a futile race to capitalize on audeince nostalgia. In fact, it has been widely understood in the film industry for the past decade that almost no project will be greenlit unless it is a reboot, remake or “re-imagining” of a previously popular story property.

The problem, which everyone except Hollywood executives understands, is that you cannot recapture the magic of older hit movies, especially when your stable of writing talent is populated by an army of left-wing, pill popping ideological lunatics with no moral standards to speak of. These kinds of people are simply incapable of relating to the common moviegoer.

This dynamic has led Hollywood down a path of financial destruction, with dozens of big budget films bombing at the box office in the past year alone. Some projects have lost hundreds of millions of dollars and the smell of napalm is heavy in the air.

One disastrous reboot attempt that set Hollywood on the path of total defeat is Amazon’s ludicrous Lord Of The Rings project, “The Rings Of Power”. A non-canonical adaptation of limited parts of The Silmarillion, the show turns Galadriel, the personification of the pure feminine, into a spitting, angry feminist girl-boss that slaughters orcs by the barrel. The show’s writing was saturated with sad approximations of Tolkien-style dialogue written by people with no life experience or wisdom.

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The very serious nation of Canada is going to get to the bottom of this incident.

No, not the Air Canada plane crashing into a truck on the La Guardia airport runway in New York earlier this week. We’re talking about the REAL incident.

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Newly released CIA documents reveal that the Biden regime identified “motherhood,” and “homemaking” as indicators of so-called “white racially and ethnically motivated violent extremism” (REMVE).

The Trump administration recently retracted an October 2021 intelligence assessment, titled “Women Advancing White Racially and Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremist Radicalization and Recruitment” that branded average women as domestic terrorists.

The Biden CIA invented the term “white REMVEs” to describe people they claimed “incite, facilitate or conduct violence because they believe their perception of an idealized white European ethnic identity is under attack from people who embody and support multiculturalism and globalism.”

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The Chicago City Council has approved a plan to boost tourism marketing by raising hotel taxes. Under Ordinance 2026-0022544, the total tax rate on hotel rooms will increase from 17.5% to 19% in downtown and nearby areas, according to Fox News.

The higher rate will apply to hotels with more than 100 rooms that choose to participate.

The report says that alongside the tax increase, the council created a Tourism Improvement District (TID) to fund Choose Chicago, the city’s tourism marketing organization. Revenue will support promotional campaigns and help cover bids for major events and conventions.

“How can we bring more tourists to Chicago?”
“I know! Let’s charge them a 19% tax on their hotel rooms!
“That’s brilliant!”

The Telegraph (UK).

Drawings at an “anti-Semitic” art exhibition allegedly showing Jewish people eating babies are not “directly abusive or insulting” to Jews, a police force has decided.

Kent Police has ruled that art in the exhibition condemned by leading Jewish figures and politicians for portraying anti-Semitic tropes has not reached the threshold to be considered either a hate crime or a non-crime hate incident.

The force was responding to a complaint after the exhibition, called Drawings Against Genocide, prompted an outcry from Jewish campaign groups and politicians who said the artwork was “grotesque” and “not just sickening, but dangerous”.

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Yep, Karen here allegedly took a piece of lumber with a rusty nail and attempted to scratch the crap out of the dude’s Cybertruck. The owner was shocked because this happened well after all of the Tesla attacks last year.

Looks transgender to me…

The Telegraph (UK).

Zack Polanski’s claim that he could enlarge women’s breasts through hypnotherapy has put people off voting for the Green Party, polling has shown.

Gee, I wonder why.

A poll by More in Common found that a third (33 per cent) of voters would consider voting for the Greens.

These people are simply insane.

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More than 80 human rights and sport advocacy groups have called on the International Olympic Committee to abandon reported plans to introduce universal genetic sex testing for female athletes and impose a blanket ban on transgender and intersex competitors.

A joint statement released on Tuesday by the Sport & Rights Alliance (SRA), ILGA World, Humans of Sport, and dozens of other groups warned that the measures that will reportedly be recommended by the IOC’s Protection of the Female Category Working Group would set back gender equity in sport.

“Multiple sources have said the group has advised the IOC to require all women and girl athletes to undergo genetic sex verification and to bar transgender and intersex athletes from competing in women’s events. The IOC has not publicly confirmed the recommendations,” the statement said.

The SRA’s executive director Andrea Florence said sex testing and a blanket ban policy would be a “catastrophic erosion of women’s rights and safety.”

War Is Peace—Freedom Is Slavery—Sex Testing Violates the Rights and Safety of Women

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While flames engulf Iranian oil depots following U.S. and Israeli strikes, and Iran retaliates with missiles targeting the UAE and Israel, the UK Ministry of Defence has sparked backlash by circulating a survey to troops about relaxing appearance standards. The questionnaire asks if male soldiers should be allowed to wear makeup, nail polish, and longer hair, ridiculously framing it as a push toward “gender-free” policies.

The Telegraph (UK).

The British gay icon Quentin Crisp was transgender, activists have claimed.

Pro-trans campaigners appear to have edited the author and raconteur’s entry on the website Wikipedia to describe him as a “she” throughout.

It has sparked a row with gender-critical gay rights activists, who have lambasted the online encyclopaedia for allowing history to be “rewritten”.

In a 1977 interview, Crisp, who lived his life as an effeminate gay man, said sex was immutable and that he was not a woman, even though he wished he had been one.

However, just before he died at the age of 90, he said he was a “woman trapped in a man’s body” and accepted he was transgender.

He said he knew he was not “physically a woman” and did not ask to be referred to as “she”.

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Faced with that, I’d just stay home. He can shovel the snow himself.

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Barack Obama’s infamous Presidential Center in Chicago, already slammed as a dystopian “prison-like” monstrosity, has just received a bizarre new update that’s ignited widespread mockery online.

Actually, I wouldn’t mind having one. In Chicago, you probably need something like this.

The addition of disjointed words from one of Obama’s speeches has been dubbed “headache-inducing,” amplifying the backlash against this $830 million behemoth that’s overrun budgets, displaced locals, and turned a public park into a narcissistic shrine.

A shrine to The Magic Negro. (uh uh uh)

As construction drags on toward a June 2026 opening, the former president’s ego-driven tweaks have only fueled the fire, with X users unleashing savage roasts and memes comparing the structure to everything from a Soviet-era bunker to a “concrete porta potty.”

The latest fiasco stems from Obama’s decision to etch excerpts from his 2015 Selma speech onto the building’s facade. But instead of inspiring awe, the disjointed lettering has sparked hilarity and disgust.

Much like Obama himself.

From the Telegraph (UK):

Police officer sacked for striking violent suspect as he resisted arrest

Headteacher left in wheelchair after attack by special needs student

Small-boat migrants awarded £210k after border agents seized their phones  (Note: These are illegal immigrants.”Confiscating mobiles and SIM cards was a breach of human rights, High Court judges ruled”)

Democracy ‘denied to 15 million’ if elections delayed again

The Birmingham ward where a convicted terrorist is running for office

The Telegraph (UK).

The Green Party is set to vote on legalising heroin in an attempt to make society more “inclusive”.

A motion drafted ahead of the party’s spring conference next month aims to update its existing policy to call for an end to the “prohibition of drugs”.

At the last general election, the Greens promised to set up a commission that would produce an “evidence-based approach” to changing the law around substance use.

However, Zack Polanski, who became the party’s leader last autumn, has since gone further and said he wanted to legalise all drugs.

Heroin and cocaine are included in the motion that calls for a blanket legalisation.

Some people have minds so open that their brains fall out.

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It should not come as a surprise to see the Senator who lost her 2010 primary, then refused to leave congress and ran as a write in candidate; then supported changing the state voting system to a ranked choice structure; who then lost again in 2022 but ultimately won because Democrats all listed her as their second choice in the new structure; come out against anything that would lead to stronger voting requirements.

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“These scientists say the world is closer than ever to ‘doomsday,’” blared the Washington Post. “Atomic scientists set ‘Doomsday Clock’ closer to midnight than ever,” fussed Reuters. “Doomsday Clock hits record, nears midnight. What it means for Alabama,” the Montgomery Advertiser advertised.

Every year, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (who are not atomic scientists and don’t have a bulletin) announce that the world is closer to destruction than ever as long as Trump is here.

After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Bulletin (which back then at least had both a ‘bulletin’ and ‘atomic scientists’) set the ‘Doomsday Clock’ at 12 minutes to midnight. By 2020, the clock of doom had run out of minutes and was down to seconds. Last year the fake clock ticked down to 89 seconds, and now it’s down to 85. When it finally hits zero, Ed McMahon will return from the dead to tell us we’ve all won the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes award.

The Telegraph (Uk).

Schoolgirls will be banned from wearing skirts as part of an equality drive that requires all children to wear trousers.

The 1,600-pupil Brynteg School in Bridgend, South Wales, will impose the new policy at the beginning of the next school year in September.

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“The entire population of Gaza is facing the risk of famine,” Sigrid Kaag, the UN’s coordinator for Gaza, falsely claimed, echoing Hamas propaganda. “Israel must halt its devastating strikes.”

Kaag (Pictured above, left), a leftist Dutch politician and UN official, had been picked for the role in Gaza by the Biden administration. And she had all the right credentials including the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO), the World Economic Forum and leftist politics. She had cheered the BLM race riots and claimed that America was systematically racist because New Yorkers had mistaken her husband, who worked for a Muslim terrorist group, for a janitor.

Now she’s been picked for a seat on the Gaza ‘Executive Board’ by the Witkoff team.

Sigrid Kaag had been ousted from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1994 after she secretly married a top member of the PLO, Anas Al-Qaq. The same behavior that made her untrustworthy however qualified her for a job at the UN. There she worked for the IOM, the UN’s mass migration group, and UNRWA, the UN’s ‘Palestinian’ agency: known as a front for Hamas.

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Aging rocker Neil Young has encountered perhaps the most boomer of leftist boomer issues, and of course it’s all President Trump’s fault.

He can no longer use his ancient flip phone because orange man bad.

In a rambling post on his website, Young details his epic struggle to ditch Verizon service, convinced that every dollar he spends fuels a “Trump Fascist regime.”

It’s peak boomer leftist TDS paranoia, where everyday consumer choices somehow morph into grand acts of resistance.

Young kicks off his diatribe with the revelation that his flip phone bears the Verizon logo. “Mornin’ folks….It’s a new day….a big day for my Flip phone. I noticed it says VERIZON on it. Of course I can’t use a Verizon phone. Verizon is a supporter of TRUMP with big $!” he writes, as if discovering a hidden swastika etched into the device.

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NHS staff at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust have been advised to stop addressing patients as “sir” or “madam” to avoid offending transgender individuals.

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Conspiracy nuts have had a field day over the delayed release of work compiled by the British Intelligence Services warning of possible eco-collapse, mass extinctions, food shortages, conflicts and mass migration. In fact, the flimsy 14-page report is little more than a cutting job from the Guardian. Twenty-six mostly usual suspect sources are named, and highlights of the most extreme scenarios are cherry-picked in yet another Net Zero Blob effort to create population panic. Who knows how much taxpayer money was wasted on this compilation – AI could have done the job in under a minute. The obvious reason for the delay in publication was that someone intelligent in the Intelligence Services said something along the lines: ‘We can’t publish this BS, we will look complete idiots.’

The claim is that the original report was blocked at the top of the British government for being too negative. This is obvious nonsense. No claim of eco-system collapse and devastating climate change would ever be considered too extreme by almost the entire British political class, at least if past evidence is anything to go on. It appears that the report was compiled by the Joint Intelligence Committee, which coordinates the work of MI5 and MI6. It only saw the light of day with publication by the Government’s environment department following a Freedom of Information request from the Times newspaper. Green author and activist Rupert Read was suitably affronted by what was seen as a cover up.

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On Wednesday, January 21st, the French High Council for Equality published a new report on sexism, identifying “masculinism” as one of the new dangers to national security.

Masculinism constitutes a “real threat” and must be recognised as a public security issue, according to the report. This hateful and anti-feminist ideology, spread on social media, is likely to generate violence and radicalisation and, according to the document’s recommendations, should be the subject of a national strategy to combat it.

The High Council for Equality, which reports to the prime minister’s office, even refers to “misogynistic terrorism” and calls for intelligence services to be trained to deal with this new danger. According to the report, 17% of French people subscribe to “hostile sexism,” which “devalues women” and could lead to violence against them.

The report expresses alarm at France’s delay in addressing this public danger, compared to other countries that are much more ‘advanced’ in this area, such as Canada and the United Kingdom.

Unsurprisingly, once it has identified the masculinist enemy, the High Council for Equality is careful not to define the terms precisely. It notes a radicalisation against women that could lead to violence or terrorist acts but never questions the possible origins of such a social drift. Immigration of Muslim origin and the importation into France of predominantly male immigrants from cultures that traditionally place women in a position of inferiority or even encourage the habitual use of violence against them is obviously not called into question here.

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This is actually true: a Utah senator is sponsoring a bill that would see Android adopted as an official state mobile operating system for absolutely no reason at all. In the history of dumb ideas, this is pretty high on the list.

I don’t know where they find these people, much less vote for them.

Roughly half of the US likes Android, half like the iPhone, and from time to time people try out each. You do you. And if Senate Majority Leader Kirk Cullimore (R-Sandy) is an Android fan, that’s a fact of totally no interest to anyone whatsoever.

But it apparently matters a lot to Cullimore, so given his position, he is taking time in the Utah 2026 legislative session to try to get it done. According to KSL local news, Cullimore said it was also about the green and blue bubbles complaint.

Democracy at work resembles nothing so much as a human colon.

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environment. At the same time, it is sending the message that it wants the world to be awash in fossil fuels sold by America, no matter the consequences.

Under President Trump, the United States has become the only nation to renege on a pledge to try to keep warming to 1.5 degrees. Its actions will make the global fight harder, scientists said.

“Emissions will be higher,” warned Justin S. Mankin, an associate professor at Dartmouth College who researches climate variability. “Trump’s greenhouse gas emissions will cause Trump’s heat waves, Trump’s droughts, Trump’s floods, and Trump’s wildfires.”

Trump! Is there anything he can’t do?

The Other McCain.

It’s been nearly 12 years since #GamerGate happened, and I’ve got grandchildren nearly that old. Must we rehash the whole thing — which began with the Tattoo-Covered, Mentally Ill Ex-Stripper Whose Real Name Is Chelsea Van Valkenburg — to explain the comic role played in that saga by John Walker Flynt a/k/a “Brianna Wu”?

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A Waymo was caught on camera driving down Phoenix light rail tracks this week, forcing a passenger to flee the car before it continued along the tracks near an oncoming train.

Video taken by a bystander near Central and Southern avenues shows the moment the self-driving car stops on the tracks just before an oncoming light rail approaches. The passenger runs out of the vehicle before the car continues to drive down the tracks near another train.

“I actually felt a little sorry for the car. It obviously made a bad decision and got itself in a difficult place,” said Andrew Maynard, an emerging and transformative technology professor at ASU.

Maynard said while these situations are rare, they do happen. “This is exactly one of those edge cases, what we call them. Something unexpected where the machine drove like a machine rather than a person,” Maynard said.

Not yet ready for prime time.

The Telegraph (UK).

New toy has eyes that gaze slightly off-centre and bendy wrists for hand-flapping.

Sounds like a lot of Democrat Congresswomen.

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“. . .the Minnesota protests look less like a local eruption and more like the latest deployment of an international revolutionary machine.”

– Insurrection Barbie on “X”

Chrump, Chrump Chrump… He’s come to occupy the Left’s minds like an infestation of weevils chawing away the ligaments of civilized society.

But, of course, the whole wicked, Cluster-B, anomie-driven, insurrectionist extravaganza is a made-for-video production bought and paid for by a tiny coterie of super-wealthy megalomaniacs untouched by consequence — George and Alex Soros (The Open Society Foundations), Shanghai-based American Neville Roy Singham (Codepink and more), Reid Hoffman (funder of Trump prosecutions and more), Lauren Powell Jobs (The Atlantic and the Emerson Collective), Hansjorg Wyss (Berger Action Fund), Bill Gates (of course). . . .

Their main client in all this mischief is the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Party’s chief motivation, its raison d’être going on at least ten years now, has been to hide its multifarious crimes, its vast racketeering operations now garishly on display in the state of Minnesota, where the grift just went too far and was done right in America’s face.

The Telegraph (UK).

An Islamist double killer who took a prison officer hostage has won a court case on human rights grounds because he was depressed after being put in solitary confinement.

David Lammy, the Justice Secretary, has agreed to pay £7,500 in compensation and foot a £234,000 legal bill for Fuad Awale, a convicted double murderer, after a judge ruled that his treatment in jail breached his human rights.

Awale was transferred to a special separation unit for the country’s most dangerous prisoners after he and another inmate ambushed the prison officer and threatened to kill him unless Britain released the hate preacher Abu Qatada.

Naval Gazing.

This week has seen the announcement by the Trump Administration that they are going to be building “battleships”, a subject that is well within my beat, so I figured I would take the time to start by saying that these are nothing of the sort. Defining the battleship is slightly tricky, but the best version I have is that it is a large, gun-armed armored warship. This proposal is certainly large, but it doesn’t really classify as gun-armed, in that the guns are clearly secondary weapons, and there’s been no discussion of armor at all. So whatever these are, they aren’t battleships. Their closest cousin in the Soviet Kirov class, which likewise are somewhat hard to classify, but in the finest tradition of the USN, I’m going to go with “Large Missile Cruiser” for these. But the fact that they’re being called by the wrong name, while personally extremely annoying, is just the tip of the iceberg.

First, a look at the announced specs, as given above. The dimensions are somewhat large given the displacement, as they’re a pretty close match for Iowa, which is 50%+ heavier at full load, although they’re also not too far from the Alaskas, of roughly the same displacement. The length might make sense if they were going for nuclear power, because a very long hull would minimize power requirements, but it seems that it’s IEP instead. But then we get to armament, and things get weird. It starts with the new ship-launched nuclear cruise missile that Trump has been pushing since his first term. This is basically a replacement for the nuclear Tomahawk, and whatever the logic for or against such a program might be, there’s the problem that I’m pretty sure there’s no need to have this new “battleship” to use the missile. Details on the missile are very sketchy, but given that the base program is targeted at submarines, it probably can just go in the VLS with everything else. If it can’t that’s a requirements problem, and we should change those instead of spending money on this thing. I’m sure the crews will love it, too, given the need to guard the VLS all the time to avoid letting anyone know if there are actually nukes aboard.

Second, there are cells for Conventional Prompt Strike, which is the current hypersonic weapon that they’re pushing. It’s not in service yet, and I’m skeptical how much real value it will deliver. I’m also not entirely sure how many missiles will actually be aboard. Zumwalt recently got four tubes in place of her forward gun, each of which carries three missiles, and I could see either four tubes/12 missiles or 12 tubes/36 missiles, with the latter maybe making more sense given the size of the ship. The graphic provided by the Navy (below) is curiously unhelpful about this, almost like it was put together by someone who doesn’t understand any of this stuff.

Such as the people currently in charge of our naval procurement.

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A Christmas Eve screed from Politico has ignited online mockery, with the outlet claiming ‘far-right’ leaders are weaponizing the holiday by emphasizing its Christian origins amid secular pressures and immigration debates.

The article spotlights Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and others for framing Christmas as a “marker of Christian civilization” being under threat. It accuses far-right parties in Italy, France, Spain, and Germany of repurposing seasonal cheer into a culture war tool, positioning themselves against a “hostile, secular left.”

Roberts highlights Meloni’s defense of traditions, quoting her past remarks: “How can my culture offend you?” in reference to nativity scenes in public spaces. The piece notes Brothers of Italy’s lavish Christmas festival, complete with Santa and ice-skating, as a “spectacle” to rally supporters.

The Times (UK).

Santa Claus and his naughty list should be decolonised in the name of diversity, according to a museum.

Brighton and Hove Museums, a public museum and art gallery, suggested that the tale of Father Christmas should be amended so that he works alongside elves to promote equality, adding that a Mother Christmas could help tackle the patriarchy.

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The state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt has approved a renewed corona emergency for the seventh consecutive year, allowing the regional government to continue drawing on a special pandemic fund in 2026, despite the COVID-19 crisis having largely subsided.

The decision, passed on December 16th, follows approval earlier this month by the cabinet led by Minister-President Reiner Haseloff of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Under the renewed emergency declaration, the state plans to spend up to €790 million next year, including on hospital renovations and digitalisation projects.

Saxony-Anhalt has declared a corona emergency every year since 2020. All other German federal states ended comparable emergency measures by no later than 2024. The corona special fund was initially set at around €2 billion, more than half of which had been spent by October 2025. Hundreds of millions of euros more are earmarked for 2026, with repayments scheduled to begin in 2029 in annual instalments of €100 million.

And the hunt for the storied German Totalitarianism Gene continues.

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If you asked, ‘Name a top Democratic contender for president in 2028 who has a nepo-baby, transgender godson,’ pretty much everyone would immediately say Gavin Newsom… and they’d be correct. A few might throw out Tim Walz as a guess, but let’s be real—it’s Gavin, and the only real debate is which of these two is the bigger clown.

The Telegraph (UK).

University of Cambridge students allegedly carved the word “Terf” into a fellow undergraduate’s door after she showed interest in gender-critical books.

Thea Sewell, 20, says she was ostracised by friends at Christ’s College and condemned as a “bigot” for possessing literature which disputed gender theory – the notion that gender is changeable.

The second-year philosophy undergraduate, who is a survivor of childhood sexual assault, says she continues to be shouted at in the street for allegedly holding “reprehensible” beliefs on gender.

Ms Sewell has now co-founded the Cambridge University Society of Women (CUSW) with other gender-critical students to fight for the right to express their views.

Good luck with that.