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The UK is doomed under Labour, the boss of Ryanair has warned as he claimed wealthy people were scrambling to ‘get the hell out of London’ before being hit by a Budget tax raid.

Michael O’Leary said he had no faith in the Chancellor’s ability to restore growth and branded her tax policies ‘dumb’.

The comments came amid reports that Rachel Reeves is planning to target the wealthy with a mansion tax in the Budget later this month.

He told the Guardian: ‘The UK economy under the current leadership is doomed.’

‘The UK badly needs growth, but the way to deliver growth is through selective tax cuts… you are not going to grow the UK economy by taxing wealth or taxing air travel.’

Mr O’Leary’s comments add to a chorus of criticism of Labour from UK business leaders – following warnings about tax from the likes of Marks & Spencer boss Stuart Machin and Asda’s Allan Leighton.

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A federal judge ruled that the White House must restore real-time American Sign Language interpretation to all press briefings held by President Donald Trump or press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Amir Ali in Washington said the decision to end the interpretation illegally excluded deaf Americans from important updates on issues like the economy, public health, and matters of war.

“Given the nature of the programming at issue here — regularly scheduled briefings on critical topics implicating markets, medicine, militaries, and myriads of other issues — the court finds that denying deaf Americans access to and the benefit of it presents a clear, present, and imminent harm,” Ali wrote.

This is proglodyte bullshit. There are no deaf Americans present at these briefings, which are not open to the public, and deaf people must depend for their information on what the news media report.

What I would do if Trump, and what I hopes he considers doing, is not holding any public briefings at all. He is under no requirement to do so. Have the press secretary hold private briefings for members of the press corps, and tell the judge to go piss up a rope. Hell, start a YouTube channel.

Newsbusters.

As part of their breaking-news coverage of Dick Cheney’s death, NPR’s Morning Edition turned to Jonah Goldberg, who tweeted “Dick Cheney, a great man, has passed after an amazing life. RIP.” The “great man” part didn’t come up on NPR.

NPR morning anchor Steve “Obama’s Always Cool” Inskeep had to make Cheney’s death about Trump.

NPR didn’t exactly think that was Cheney flip-flopping on everything he ever believed out of personal spite. Pro-Trump analysts would have Inskeep that voting for an abortion-loving socialist who wanted to fund transgender operations for prisoners wasn’t “ironic,” it was two middle fingers at the Republican Party. But Goldberg said Yes to irony.

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Leaders should seek to unify people. Instead, California governor and likely 2028 presidential candidate Gavin Newsom is mired in identity politics, dividing his constituents into those entitled to privileges and subventions by reason of their melanin, sex, or sexual orientation – and those who are required to fund the largesse.

He opposed race neutral admissions to the California state university system (overruled by the people of California – twice), imposed gender and racial requirements on corporate boards (held unconstitutional – twice), required ethnic studies and ethnically dumbed-down math in K-12 curricula, and is carefully advancing a potentially multi-trillion dollar reparations plan for California’s black residents.

Newsom’s unconstitutional quest to curry favor with, undermine the confidence of, and potentially spend trillions of dollars on, California’s 2.5 million black residents began in 2020 when he signed AB3121 into law. That act required the state to study and develop reparation proposals for black Californians, with “special consideration” for descendants of slaves.

Scott Adams:

Five more rounds to go.

Six weeks apart

Not expected to feel any improvement until at least two rounds. Might actually feel worse in the short run.

1/3 chance of some improvement.

1/3 chance of miraculous improvement. (Cleared of tumors but not “cured”)

1/3 chance things get worse.

Synergistic with Dr. Soon-Shioh’s approach. Pluvicto attacks tumors with precision. His approach tunes your body’s natural defenses, and that could mop up what is left, in the best case scenario. And if the Pluvicto doesn’t work, the bodily defenses approach can potentially get the whole job done.

We shall find out. Will do both.

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A top bank watchdog said he was making sure big banks have finally ditched those “oops, we just destroyed your business because we don’t like your political beliefs” – er, debanking rather, policies. You remember those, right? We sure do. It happened around the same time Google, Paypal and Amazon all banned us due to our (correct) take on the origins of Covid-19 and because they didn’t like our (correct) take on the BLM movement.

For those that missed it, a slew of banks under the Biden administration outright cancelled people’s accounts and didn’t allow them access to a bank account based on the industry they worked in, or many times their political views (surprise, none of them were Democrats).

Jonathan Gould, head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, or OCC, told a conference that supervisors are double-checking banks really did stop blacklisting sectors like firearms from banks, according to Reuters.

This oversight follows a June executive order from President Donald Trump directing banks to avoid denying services based on industry type or political considerations. Reuters writes that supervisors are now ensuring that the largest banks are in compliance with the updated approach.

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Native American sovereignty and California’s policies that shield illegal immigrants have allowed Mexican drug cartels to swoop in on tribal lands of the Round Valley Indian Tribes, a confederation of several tribes, the sheriff said.

The valley, known for illegal marijuana grows on tribal lands, is remote and surrounded by forested mountainous terrain. It’s a patchwork of tribal lands and those sold off to private owners years ago.

I know how he feels.

Fox News.

Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, is formally introducing impeachment articles against U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on Tuesday for his role in the “Arctic Frost” probe.

Republican allies of President Donald Trump have been criticizing Boasberg after news broke that he was the judge who signed off on subpoenas and other measures in former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s probe.

“Chief Judge Boasberg has compromised the impartiality of the judiciary and created a constitutional crisis. He is shamelessly weaponizing his power against his political opponents, including Republican members of Congress who are faithfully serving the American people within their jurisdiction,” Gill told Fox News Digital.

“Judge Boasberg was an accomplice in the egregious Arctic Frost scandal where he equipped the Biden DOJ to spy on Republican senators. His lack of integrity makes him clearly unfit for the gavel. I am proud to once again introduce articles of impeachment against Judge Boasberg to hold him accountable for his high crimes and misdemeanors.”

Newsbusters.

More accurately, a communist touch.

Jonathan Turley.

This week, I ran a column on how many on the left have discovered the joy and release of unmitigated hate speech. Democratic Helena City Commissioner candidate Haley McKnight is under fire for messages left on the phone of freshman Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., in which she hopes for him to get cancer and die. It comes on the day that voters are going to the polls in Virginia, where the Democratic candidate for Attorney General, Jay Jones, admitted that he previously expressed a desire to kill a political opponent and his children.

Newsbusters.

Impossible to be otherwise.

The Federalist.

More than a year after the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding local rules banning homeless camps on public property, Grants Pass is still a mess. The southeast Oregon city is also Exhibit A of what Christopher Rufo calls the homelessness industrial complex.

Grants Pass won. In 2024, the Supreme Court struck down lower court decisions and held that laws regulating camping on public land do not violate the Eighth Amendment’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment. The ruling was a win for local control.

The win was short-lived.

The Nation, ancient Voice of the Crust.

Next to the Daily Worker, The Nation is perhaps the most anti-American and pro-Communist publication in the last century.

Not the Babylon Bee.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott threatened to impose a “100% tariff” on New Yorkers looking to escape to the Lone Star State if democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani wins the Big Apple’s mayoral election on Tuesday.

“After the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC,” the Republican governor wrote on X Monday afternoon.

Abbott did not elaborate on why he would penalize new residents of his state or how he would impose such a tariff.

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Most government-collected ‘economic’ data is incomplete, biased, and suffers from the Aggregation Fallacy.  Unfortunately, this trash is the Junk Science used to support stupid government policies, especially under Democrats.

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Hopefully they’re more sincere than the vast number of ‘celebrities’ who swore they would quit the U.S. if Trump were elected.

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During a speech on the Senate floor, Schumer blamed Republicans for refusing to maintain pandemic-era Obamacare enhancements that were always meant to be temporary. Remember this next time a Democrat says something is temporary…

“The only plan Republicans have for healthcare seems to be to eliminate it, and then to tell working people to go figure it out on their own,” said Schumer. “That’s not a healthcare plan. That’s cruel.”

That said, some Senate Democrats – 6 or so according to Fox News, are meeting behind closed doors to find a way out, with Sen. Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) optimistic that they can get something done by the end of the week.

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Iranians on Tuesday celebrated the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran — the first such commemoration since the U.S. bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities during a 12-day war with Israel in June.

On Nov. 4, 1979, Iranian students overran guards to take over the embassy, seizing dozens of hostages in a crisis that would last for more than a year.

In what is a yearly commemoration, thousands of people returned to the spot in downtown Tehran on Tuesday chanting “death to U.S.” and “death to Israel.”

If Jimmy Carter hadn’t been such a totally limp dick, we’d have formally declared war against Iran and cleaned their clocks once and for all.

The New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

Federal and state criminal investigations into a Virginia woman who distributed leaflets disclosing the home address of a White House official, Stephen Miller, have prompted a secret court fight over the balance between personal safety and free speech at a time of rising political violence, recently unsealed court documents show.

The records, which were reviewed by The New York Times, reveal that a local court approved the search of a cellphone belonging to the woman as part of an investigation that included multiple local law enforcement agencies as well as the F.B.I. and Secret Service.

The activist, Barbara Wien, has not been charged with any crime, though the Virginia State Police still have her phone. The investigation remains active, leaving it unclear whether law enforcement has since gathered additional evidence.
The dispute captures the fierce tensions over political activism that have become a defining feature of the second Trump presidency, pitting the Miller family’s concerns for their security against the First Amendment claims of a critic of the administration.

In an atmosphere in which political violence against Republicans and Democrats has become more common, administration officials have increasingly voiced worries about their security, citing in particular the assassination of the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk and two attempts in 2024 to kill Donald J. Trump.

“… and Democrats”? I know of no instances of somebody trying to kill a Democrat.

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Left-wing political violence is metastasizing across the Western world like stage-four cancer.

From the political assassination of Charlie Kirk by a furry-loving leftist, to the transgender extremist who massacred Christians in a Minneapolis church, to Antifa terror cells attacking ICE facilities and torching the vehicles of their political opponents in Europe, the West must come to its senses. These are not isolated events, but likely interconnected violent acts. Massive funding networks fuel some of these far-left pressure campaigns, as we’ve shown. EU-based billionaires have funneled more than $2 billion into U.S. nonprofits to fund part of the protest-industrial complex against President Trump to derail the ‘America First’ agenda.

All of this is unfolding as more Westerners reject “wokeism” and the Marxist power grip begins to crack under the Trump 2.0 era. The West must confront a very dark and grim truth: the modern far-left has normalized political assassination culture, targeting opponents with violence, arson, and even acts of sabotage, such as the 2024 power grid attack in Berlin that shut down Elon Musk’s factory.

Even the deep-state media outlet The Atlantic couldn’t ignore the alarming rise of what it called “left-wing terrorism.”

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Within a progressive controlled nation, who gets punished by the law is greatly dependent on their political and ethnic affiliations. Left leaning groups (and people like migrants who are useful to left leaning groups) enjoy a separate set of legal standards compared to people who oppose leftist ideology. This has become a clear trend within the UK in recent years.

This two tier legal system helps the encourage future crimes by leftists and their allies while the hammer is brought down on conservatives and patriots to ensure they are fearful of stepping out of line in the slightest.

This double standard is obvious once again in the recent acquittal of three Just Stop Oil activists who made headlines after they spraying down the historic site of Stonehenge with a mixture of powder and orange dye.  The dye cost around $1000 to clean but luckily did not leave lasting damage.  The stunt was allegedly designed to draw attention to JSO’s climate change agenda.

Newsbusters.

The legacy newscasts were all over the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, labeling his prosecution as part of an alleged “political retribution” campaign by President Donald Trump. These outlets were nowhere to be seen, though, as the Eastern District of Virginia dropped a multiple-warhead filing that decimated those narratives.

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Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has reiterated in fresh weekend comments to state media that the Islamic Republic is not seeking to build a nuclear weapons; however, he did say something sure to catch the attention the United States and Israel.

He asserted that Tehran will rebuild its nuclear facilities “with greater strength” following the US bombing of three nuclear complexes during the June war with Israel. “Destroying buildings and factories will not create a problem for us, we will rebuild and with greater strength,” the Iranian president stated.

If they’re not building nuclear weapons, why the insistence on building nuclear facilities? They don’t need nuclear power plants; they aren’t allowed to sell all of the oil they produce, so they ought to be set. This is a lie, and not even a  particularly good one.

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On November 3rd, a leaked memo revealed that the BBC’s Panorama programme had edited President Donald Trump’s January 6th, 2021 speech in a way that misrepresented his remarks, making it appear as though he was encouraging supporters to riot at the Capitol.

The programme–aired a week before the 2024 U.S. presidential election–showed Trump telling the crowd he would march to the Capitol to “fight like hell.” In reality, the President had said he would walk with supporters “to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”

According to the 19-page dossier, Panorama merged footage from the beginning of Trump’s speech with segments from nearly an hour later, creating the false impression that he said, “We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be there with you and we fight. We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell you’re not gonna have a country any more.”

The Antiplanner.

Congress sporadically handed out transit capital funds in the 1970s and 1980s, but in 1991 it made it systematic with creation of the transit capital investment grants program, also known as New Starts. Since then, federal, state, and local taxpayers have spent more than half a trillion dollars on transit capital improvements. Transit agencies have also spent nearly $1.2 trillion on transit operations, only $355 billion of which was covered by passenger fares.

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The Christmas season will be upon us shortly, which means that jihad attacks at Christmas markets in Germany may be expected soon. One such attack may have been forestalled by the arrest of a Syrian culture-enricher in Berlin.

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As you may have noticed, media reports on Kilmar Ábrego García generally referred to him as a “Maryland man” (or even a “Maryland dad”). Not an “illegal immigrant”. Not a “Salvadoran gangster”. Not an “accused human trafficker”. Just a “Maryland man”.

In a similar fashion, Fox News is referring to the recently arrested culture-enriching jihad suspects in Dearborn as “Michigan men”. However, I prefer to zoom in on their hometown. And, given their tender age, I’ll refer to the mischievous youngsters as “Dearborn boys”.

I can’t provide a complete Mohammed Coefficient for the arrested suspects, but of those who have been publicly named, the MC is 100%.

Most Americans Are Seeing the Dangers of Trump’s Authoritarianism (Robert P. Jones/The Contrarian)  Notice how writers for The Contrarian somehow always seem to parrot the Woke party line?

Trump readies US troops for ground invasion in Mexico to go after drug cartels: report (Andrew Feinberg/The Independent)

Trump approval rating falls to second-term low of 37% (Maya Yang/The Guardian)  Who cares? Certainly not Trump. He’s still in his first year of four. This must be some sort of left-wing security blanket.

Trump endorses Andrew Cuomo over the Republican candidate in NYC mayoral race (NBC News)  There’s a Republican candidate in the NYC election? How did that happen? How come nobody mentioned it?

Lauren Boebert’s racially charged Halloween costume sparks backlash (ABC News)

The Vacancy of the MAGA Mind (The Rational League)  There’s that MAGA guy again. (MAGA is the New Nigger.)

Nick Fuentes started a MAGA civil war — and it looks like he’s winning (Michael Edison Hayden/MSNBC)  There’s that MAGA guy again. (MAGA is the New Nigger.)

CBS’s interview with Donald Trump was an abdication (Dan Froomkin/Press Watch)

Trump tells New York ‘you must vote’ for Andrew Cuomo over Zohran Mamdani in NYC election — and ditch Curtis Sliwa (Steven Nelson/New York Post)  Trump is a practical man before he’s a Republican. Much as I admire Curtis Sliwa, I’d have done the same.

Groyper War Consumes the Biggest Right-Wing Think Tank (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)  And fantasy still consumes The Bullshitwark.

Report: Donors to Trump’s White House ballroom have $279B in federal contracts (Jonathan Edwards/Washington Post)  Of course, they don’t dare investigate who the donors were to Obama’s Presidential Bunker–or what federal contracts they had.

A Confederacy of Toddlers ??? The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children. (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic) And The Atlantic is written by patronizing self-righteous bigots.

Exclusive: Trump ousts watchdog of US housing regulator involved in mortgage probes of his foes, sources say (Reuters)  In the Narrative Media, ‘watchdog’ means ‘nosy proglodyte activists hunting for heretics and sinners’.

Pelosi: Trump is ‘worst thing on the face of the earth’ (Max Rego/The Hill)  This is news?

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Chances are, you’re already aware that birthrates are falling throughout the developed world, sagging well below the “replacement rate” and sparking worries about the implications of a future dearth of workers and consumers. However, the emphasis on economic implications has allowed a powerful political undercurrent to go almost entirely unnoticed: Birthrates are varying significantly by political orientation, a trend that has the potential to shape electorates and policies for generations to come — to the benefit of conservatives.

Replacement birthrates vary over time and place depending on shifts in related variables such as child mortality. In developed countries, sustaining populations without immigration currently requires reproduction at a rate of 2.1 births per woman of childbearing age. Except for an outlier replacement-level pace in 2007, the US birthrate has been sub-2.1 since the early 1970s. Last year, America hit a record-low 1.6, with even lower lows recorded elsewhere in the developed world: the birth rate in England and Wales fell to 1.41, while Scotland’s dropped to 1.25 and Italy’s to 1.2. Mainland France’s 1.59 was the lowest since World War I.

Media coverage has uniformly emphasized those top-line numbers. However, Financial Times columnist and chief data reporter John Burn-Murdoch recently waded deeper into the data and illuminated a sub-trend that could shape the future of the West. It turns out the drop-off in top-line birthrates is primarily the result of plummeting parenthood among progressive leftists, with conservative fertility slipping to a far smaller degree.

I’ve always said that people who have (and support) abortion are weeding themselves out of the gene pool. It’s only a matter of time (hopefully before they collapse civilization…).

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Straws, soda, now paper bags. Is there anything batshit insane Democratic government officials don’t want to tax or micromanage?

In Philadelphia, that answer is apparently ‘no’, according to 6ABC.

While drug ravaged Kensington remains an issue, homeless people litter the streets and violent crime remains a problem, Philadelphia’s City Council just voted 10–5 for a truly groundbreaking idea (eye roll): charging 10 cents per paper bag.

The bill is now on Mayor Cherelle Parker’s desk, and she hasn’t said if she’ll sign it.

Time to leave.

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Imagine reliving your entire life in the space of seconds. Like a flash of lightning, you are outside of your body, watching memorable moments you lived through. This process, known as “life recall,” can be similar to what it is like to have a near-death experience.

What happens inside your brain during these experiences and after death are questions that have puzzled neuroscientists for centuries.

However, a new study from Dr. Ajmal Zemmar of the University of Louisville and colleagues throughout the world, “Enhanced Interplay of Neuronal Coherence and Coupling in the Dying Human Brain,” published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, suggests that your brain may remain active and coordinated during and even after the transition to death, and be programmed to orchestrate the whole ordeal.

When an 87-year-old patient developed epilepsy, Dr. Raul Vicente of the University of Tartu, Estonia, and colleagues used continuous electroencephalography to detect the seizures and treat the patient. During these recordings, the patient had a heart attack and passed away.

This unexpected event allowed the scientists to record the activity of a dying human brain for the first time ever.

I imagine that it’s similar to what happens inside of a computer when you turn it off. It would be amusing on one’s deathbed to hide a slip of paper that would stick out on one’s tongue saying “Disk not ejected properly.”

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What happens when identical twins marry identical twins? Let’s find out.

The Financial Times.

A small start-up in New Zealand claims it has created plasma, the first step towards nuclear fusion, in under two years and for less than $10mn after experimenting with an unconventional reactor design.

OpenStar, founded by chief executive Ratu Mataira in 2021 in his Wellington apartment, said on Tuesday that it had created and contained a plasma cloud at around 300,000 degrees Celsius for 20 seconds in its first experimental reactor.

While much higher plasma temperatures are required to achieve nuclear fusion, OpenStar’s test stands apart for its unconventional reactor design, which the company said could be faster to scale and commercialise.

This was first published about a year ago, so they’re obviously not burning down the house turning it into a practical product.

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Since the framers of the Constitution created a federal government with three branches, not four, there are no Constitutional checks on the emergent fourth branch.

Currently, the fourth branch is in many ways the most powerful, and certainly the most destructive, arm of the government.

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All of this creates a Red Queen Effect.

Citizens must establish their own organizations, and raise donations to engage in constant lawfare, just to retain the rights they haven’t lost yet. And they must win every time to maintain the status quo.

Bureaucrats, on the other hand, can fight endless legal battles using money taken from their victims by the IRS, at no cost to themselves. Any victory they claim, they may keep permanently, while any loss may be refought endlessly simply by a slight variance of the attack.

Obviously, if this system is not changed, all power will accrue to the bureaucracy over time. They will constitute a totalitarian authority over every aspect of the life of every citizen.

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The republicans and democrats of the past no longer exist. They have been replaced by two entirely new parties. In the 20th century, the republicans were the party of classical liberalism, and the democrats were the party of social liberalism (the welfare state). These two parties no longer exist. This isn’t obvious because both new parties used the old names and infrastructures, which they infiltrated. This was easier than building something new, and allowed them inherit the resources and connections of the old parties. But they are not the same, because not only are the philosophies different, the new parties aren’t based on philosophies at all. The new parties represent communication technologies. The neo-democrats are the party of television. The neo-republicans are the party of the internet. This single relationship underlies all of their character and policies.

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Make no mistake, the 2024 vote split broke into People Who Believe What Their TV Tells Them vs. People Who Look Shit Up On The Internet.

Hollywood Reporter.

The union representing writers at Teen Vogue is slamming the youth-focused publication’s merger with the Vogue website and raising concerns about impacts on staff diversity and political coverage.

In a statement obtained by The Hollywood Reporter on Monday, Condé United and parent union The NewsGuild of New York said they “strongly condemn Condé Nast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue.” The labor groups claim the move was “clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most.”

Teen Vogue is aimed at teenage girls. Apparently they are a prime progressive demographic. (I wonder how many male staff members they have? I doubt that there are any. So much for Diversity and Inclusion.)

Per Wikipedia: “The NewsGuild-CWA is a labor union founded by newspaper journalists in 1933. Members now include the Democratic Socialists of America and left-wing activist groups unaffiliated with journalism such as Jewish Voice for Peace.”

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Really, you can’t make this stuff up.

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What goes around comes around.

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he Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley Sector received information about “a coordinated attack” in which criminal cartels are offering payments of $10,000 to those who shoot at Border Patrol agents at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to an internal memo.

The alert, which was obtained by NewsNation correspondent Ali Bradley, said that “additional reporting suggests that assailants may wear Mexican military uniforms to avoid raising suspicion while carrying long arms or machine guns.”

“While this threat specifically pertains to the RGV [Rio Grande Valley] Sector, it reflects heightened cartel frustrations that could extend across the southwest border,” the federal communication said.

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Illinois has now joined California and Connecticut in barring federal immigration agents from conducting “civil arrests” of illegal aliens in or around state courthouses. The sanctuary law appears largely performative since it also appears unconstitutional. It is difficult to see how a state can bar the exercise of federal jurisdiction, at least after the Civil War.

What is this ‘civil arrest’ nonsense? Illegal immigration is a felony. That is a criminal charge.

Gov. JB Pritzker has been ratcheting up the rhetoric against ICE and the Trump Administration for months, including analogies to the Nazis and claims that democracy is dying. The new law, however, crosses the constitutional Rubicon by not only limiting the operation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) but also establishing a 1,000-foot “buffer zone” outside of buildings.

‘Safe zones’ for criminals. Unbelievable.

The War Zone.

Even as the U.S. continues to build up forces in the Caribbean ostensibly for an enhanced counternarcotics operation that could include inland strikes, there are reported plans underway for attacks on cartels inside Mexico.

The San Antonio class amphibious transport dock ship USS Fort Lauderdale has left Mayport, Florida, and is returning to the Caribbean to rejoin the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group (ARG)/22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), a U.S. official confirmed to The War Zone Monday morning. The vessel left on Sunday and is now south of Miami in the Straits of Florida, according to an online ship tracker. It will provide additional air and troop support once it arrives on station. San Antonio class ships can launch and land two CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters or two MV-22 tilt rotor aircraft or up to four AH-1Z, UH-1Y or MH-60 helicopters at once. In addition, they can carry Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) hovercraft or other landing craft and boats in their well deck, and can transport up to 800 Marines.

Trump held ‘Gatsby’-themed Halloween party as SNAP benefits were due to be cut off (USA Today)  If USA Today ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.

President Donald Trump: The 2025 60 Minutes Interview (CBS News)

Democrats Urge Trump to Engage in Talks as Shutdown Closes In on Record (Wall Street Journal)  They want him to pressure Republican Senators to cave to Democrat spending demands, a trick that has often worked on Republican Presidents in the past. (Trump: I ‘Won’t Be Extorted’ by Democrats)(Trump says government shutdown ends when Democrats give in: “If they don’t vote, that’s their problem” (Norah O’Donnell/CBS News))

US accused of ‘bully-boy’ tactics to sink climate deal (Financial Times)

EXCLUSIVE: Trump May Send Deputy AG Michael Gates to “Monitor” California’s Prop 50 Election (Aaron Parnas/MeidasTouch News)

This Is the Way You Beat Trump — and Trumpism (Ezra Klein/New York Times)  To the Left, every time somebody does something they don’t like, it’s an ‘-ism’.

What it’s like being wrongly charged by Trump’s Department of Justice (Sidney Reid/MSNBC)

ICE Blamed for Drop in Chicago Holiday Festivities

Most Americans say country is on the wrong track, blame Trump for inflation: Poll (Emily Guskin/Reuters)

The Meltdown at Heritage–and the Fight for MAGA’s Future (Eli Lake/The Free Press)  There’s that MAGA guy again. MAGA is the New Nigger.

Trump’s Next Defense Strategy Risks Leaving the U.S. Underprepared (The Bulwark)

Sabotage? Portland ICE Building Plunged Into Darkness After Suspicious Power Blackout

Government Shutdown Could Become Longest Ever

Government shutdown could become longest ever as Trump says he ‘won’t be extorted’ by Democrats (Mary Clare Jalonick/Associated Press)

We’re Number Two! — Does Donald Trump realize that he has ceded world leadership to China? (Paul Krugman)  Does Paul Krugman realize that this is the first time he has ever shown that he gives a shit about America?

CBS Cuts Trump’s Corruption Tantrum From ’60 Minutes’ Edit (Cameron Adams/The Daily Beast)

In Redistricting Battles, Here’s How Trump, Republicans and Democrats Are Faring (New York Times)  I wasn’t aware that Trump had a dog in that  particular fight.

Supreme Court Confronts Trump and His Tariffs in Test of Presidential Power (Ann E. Marimow/New York Times)  Confronts! (Officials Expect Supreme Court to Uphold Trump’s Tariffs)

The Monthslong Legal Battle to Save Foreign Aid (Zach Montague/New York Times)  Proglodytes are deeply invested in giving away YOUR money.

‘Utterly shameful’: Congress to crush US record this week for longest shutdown (Politico).  Thank you,  Chuck Schumer.

Poll finds most Americans doubt Trump’s commitment to free speech, fair justice (Washington Post)  My, what a surprise.

Virginia and New Jersey can show that Trump isn’t inevitable (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)

Trump Administration Highlights: Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Guard Deployment in Portland (Anna Griffin/New York Times)

Democrats are more enthusiastic about the midterms as Trump’s approval hits a second-term low, CNN poll finds (Jennifer Agiesta/CNN)

? Factchecking Trump on ’60 Minutes’ (Mehdi Hasan/Zeteo)

How the U.S. Economy Has Defied Doomsday Predictions on Tariffs (Konrad Putzier/Wall Street Journal)

Why DOJ election monitors in California and New Jersey are setting off alarms (Hayes Brown/MSNBC)  They must be catching Democrats cheating.

“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force (ProPublica)  And being shot randomly by black teen gangbangers made youi feel safe?

Trump’s politicizing of the U.S. military is accelerating (Max Boot/Washington Post)

Dissecting the Trump Administration’s Effort to Circumvent the War Powers Resolution for Boat Strikes (Brian Finucane/Just Security)

Man hospitalized after violent federal immigration arrest in Melrose Park, family says (Adriana P??rez/Chicago Tribune)

‘If it was anybody else, we’d arrest him tomorrow,’ Justice Department aide said of Trump (MSNBC)

Under Trump, the Law Is Just a Speed Bump (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

7 of the Biggest Lies So Far From Trump’s Homeland Security Mouthpiece (Prem Thakker/Zeteo)

Trump’s university backlash drives US researchers towards Europe (Financial Times)  Fine. Let their taxpayers pay for Grievance Studies.

The Ballroom Blitz Should Be a Bigger Scandal (Jonathan Chait/The Atlantic)

NY Times 12-Part Anti-Trump Editorial ‘Are We Losing Our Democracy?’ FLOPS in Hypocrisy

Whistleblower Claims BBC Doctored Trump Footage to Skew Jan. 6 Coverage

Exploit The GOP’s Nazi Meltdown (Brian Beutler/Off Message)

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The Foundry.

bloodcurdling endorsement of political violence I have seen from an elected official—and none other than Barack Obama spent the weekend sidling up to him.

Brief recap: Jones has not denied reports that he sent text messages fantasizing about shooting Todd Gilbert, the Republican former speaker of the House of Delegates. He said he would rather shoot Gilbert twice than kill Adolf Hitler or Pol Pot. He later said he wished Gilbert’s young children would die in their mother’s arms. He sent these messages to a Republican and, when she asked him to stop, he sought to justify these violent thoughts with one sentence:

“Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy.”

That’s the key justification for political violence: our agenda is more important than your life, or in this case, than your children’s lives.

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On october 30th, a 36-year-old woman was sexually assaulted at a train station in Montpellier. The woman was trying to defend two teenage girls from the attacker, who is reportedly already facing a deportation order for a sexual assault charge and is in France illegally. The assailant was later arrested, according to the X post by Collectif Némésis covering the story.

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Because all they ‘know’ about it is what they read in the proglodyte media.

There’s no getting around it: Our “corporate media” is down on capitalism, and a new poll showing a growing disdain for the foundation of American economic thought shows the media tilt may be working — or the professorial tilt.

An NBC News poll of 1,000 registered voters found that support for capitalism fell under 50 percent for the first time in seven years. The chilling shift “comes as some democratic socialists, like New York mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani, gain prominence in the Democratic Party,” NBC News national politics reporter Ben Kamisar wrote in his November 2 item. Only 44 percent of registered voters — a mere plurality — now view capitalism positively. Previous NBC News polls “showed slim majorities viewing capitalism positively.”

Just seeing what the American people are inundated with on a day-to-day basis by rich media hacks denigrating the very system that gave them their prosperity in the first place.

New York magazine, a Voice of the Crust.

Last year’s election debacle, rooted in the rapid decline of the then-81-year-old Joe Biden, took a heavy toll on New Hampshire congresswoman Annie Kuster. “It was the most painful thing I’ve been through since my own parents aging,” she said of her up-close experiences with the former president. “Nobody wants to face incapacity.” It forced Kuster to look hard at her party. Months before the fateful presidential debate that exposed Biden’s frailty, Kuster, at a mere 68 years old, announced her retirement, having served in Congress for 12 years after turning a red seat reliably blue. Though fit and healthy, she was feeling her age on some issues. “We were dealing with AI, cryptocurrency,” she said of her work on the Energy and Commerce Committee. “I am not the person best situated to be dealing with these issues. I did my best to learn, but it’s just time for us to move over.”

Now, as debate rages among Democrats over how to improve their party’s abysmal reputation with voters, Kuster worries that the crucial lesson of 2024 has been forgotten, particularly by ancient officials clinging to their seats and seemingly doing everything in their power to prevent a younger generation of politicians from emerging. “People keep asking, ‘What’s wrong with the Democratic Party? What’s the right message?’” Kuster said. “They act like there are magic words. And it’s like, ‘It’s not a question of just getting the right words. It’s that we are too freaking old.’”

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This has no chance of going anywhere of course; Democrats on the coast aren’t going to give up any part of their population (tax base), any more than the Soviet Union allowed free emigration. But I like the fact that they feel about it strongly enough to make the effort. (The only reason West Virginia exists is because Virginia had seceded and was in a state of rebellion, so Congress felt free to ignore it.)