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Germany’s interior ministry has sounded the alarm over a growing threat to members of the right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), following a series of arson attacks and physical assaults carried out by far-left extremists.

In the latest incident, a car belonging to Bernd Baumann, the AfD’s parliamentary group leader, was set on fire outside his Hamburg home in the early hours of Monday morning. The blaze destroyed three nearby vehicles.

State security officials are investigating the attack as politically motivated, and an online statement posted on a far-left, Antifa-linked platform and ending with a death threat against Baumann and other AfD members is believed to be authentic.

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A senior academic has threatened legal action against the London Mathematical Society (LMS) over its new transgender-inclusion policy, accusing the organisation of discriminating against members with gender-critical views.

John Armstrong, a lecturer in financial mathematics at King’s College London, has issued a pre-action letter through lawyers claiming the policy breaches the Equality Act and restricts free speech. The guidance warns that repeatedly using incorrect titles, pronouns or names for transgender people could lead to suspension, and affirms support for individuals using facilities aligned with their “affirmed identity”.

Armstrong argues this conflicts with an April Supreme Court ruling defining sex in law, and says requiring members to use pronouns such as “they/them” or “xie/xer” is discriminatory. He further alleges the rules effectively ban humour relating to transgender issues.

LMS trustees have rejected his claims, saying pronoun use does not limit expression and that offensive conduct should not be tolerated.

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Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., is calling on the Department of Justice to investigate Code Pink, alleging the left-wing activist group has ties to a terrorist front organization and the Chinese Communist Party, The Washington Free Beacon reported Friday.

The Beacon cited a letter Cotton wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi on Friday, in which he made claims of “potential violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and material support to foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs).”

Code Pink — notorious for disrupting Congress with anti-Israel outbursts — has advocated for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a U.S.-designated terrorist group, raising “serious questions about whether it has provided material support,” Cotton wrote.

Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts (ProPublica)

Judge Berates Justice Dept. in Its Prosecution of Comey (New York Times)

Trump goes on posting frenzy a day after Democrats win key elections (Jenna Amatulli/The Guardian)

Pope Leo offers his strongest criticism of Trump yet (Sarah Rainsford/BBC)

The DOJ has been firing judges with immigrant defense backgrounds (NPR)  They wouldn’t be biased, no siree.

The Hideous Symbol of MAGA Corruption (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Ever notice how “The Contrarian” always parrots the latest Woke Narrative?

Trump adviser to Germany’s far-right AfD: ‘We are in this together’ (Politico)  To Politico, there is no right but the far-right.

Eric Trump: ‘The Left wanted my father dead’ (Tim Stanley/Telegraph)

Rioters tried to kill me on January 6. Trump pardoned them.

Confirmed: ICE Is Arresting American Citizens–and Lying About It (Harry Litman/New Republic)

MSNBC’s Wallace Show: ICE Agents, ‘Monster’ Trump ‘Using Chemicals’ on Schools

CNN’s Phillip Rips Trump For Wanting To Help Christians In Nigeria And White South Africans

Trump’s Lilly And Novo Deal Slashes Monthly Weight-Loss Drug Costs By Up To 90%  Compare that to what’s going on with Obamcare.

Trump’s Tariffs Are a Massive Money Grab. That’s Why They Are in Trouble. (Greg Ip/Wall Street Journal)

Trump Officials Admit Math Error in Plan to Gut SNAP Funding (Rachel Kahn/New Republic)  Gut!

Trump makes an overdue discovery: ‘They have this new word called affordability’ (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Trump taps DEI critic to lead workplace civil rights agency (Claire Savage/Associated Press)

Maryland Sues Trump Over Location of FBI HQ

DOJ Admits to Republicans That Epstein Files Are Even Worse for Trump (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)

“Against humanity”: World leaders slam Trump at COP30 climate summit (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)

Former DOJ lawyers switch sides (Politico)

Deep in Trump country, coal miners with black lung say government is suffocating the ‘working man’ (Margie Mason/Associated Press)  I’ll bet you didn’t know that Trump had his own country.

Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced (Regina Garcia Cano/Associated Press)

America Begins Clapping Back at Donald Trump (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)  Clap!

Serbian Lawmakers Approve Luxury Trump Hotel on Historic Bombing Site (New York Times)

The softest Nazis you ever did see (Lisa Needham/Public Notice)

The Founders Would Abhor Trump’s Domestic Deployments (Philip Allen Lacovara/The Bulwark)

Two-Faced! Biden-Boosting Associated Press Pushes Trump as ‘Face of Economic Discontent’

Top Trump Officials Moved Into Military Housing Due To Left-Wing Political Threats

Students and faculty at over 100 US universities protest against Trump’s attacks (Alice Speri/The Guardian)

GROSS: ABC Claims Trump WH Is Using Flight Cuts, Hungry Americans as Partisan Tools

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A conservative watchdog group has accused Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., of being delinquent on up to $50,000 in federal student loans and has asked House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to garnish her congressional wages.

Thomas Jones, founder and president of the American Accountability Foundation, also accused the progressive lawmaker in a Wednesday letter to Johnson of using her position in Congress to “bully” the Department of Education into not collecting past-due payments from her.

Omar has consistently backed policies to forgive student loan debt, including former President Joe Biden’s executive action that was ultimately overturned by the Supreme Court.

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Federal prosecutors in Washington are conducting a corruption investigation into Mayor Muriel E. Bowser, examining a foreign trip she took with staff that was paid for by Qatar, according to people familiar with the inquiry, The New York Times reports.

The investigation is being overseen by the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington and has been underway for months.

Bowser, who has served as Washington’s mayor since 2015 and is a Democrat, has not been formally notified of the investigation.

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A U.S. appeals court on Thursday revived President Donald Trump’s bid to dismiss his business records criminal conviction, ruling the president can move his case out of a New York state court.

A panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed an order from a lower court judge, saying the judge had “bypassed what we consider to be important issues bearing on the ultimate issue of good cause.”

The panel of judges on the appeals court signaled that it did not weigh in on the merits of Trump’s lawyers’ arguments to dismiss the conviction. His lawyers filed court papers earlier this year to try to move the case out of New York so he could seek a ruling from a federal judge on whether the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity allows him to toss last year’s Manhattan jury verdict convicting him of falsifying business records.

Newsbusters.

Let’s hope the owners of The New York Times send a big chunk of their wealth to Washington annually. You can count on this leftist newspaper to channel the “popularity” of soaking the rich like fervent socialists like to do.

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Austrian intelligence has uncovered a suspected Hamas-linked weapons depot in Vienna, seizing five handguns and ten magazines believed to have been smuggled into the country for potential attacks on Jewish or Israeli targets in Europe.

The cache was discovered inside a suitcase in a rented storage unit following weeks-long, internationally coordinated investigations by Austria’s state security and intelligence service (DSN). Officials said the matériel has been confiscated.

A 39-year-old British citizen—identified in Germany as Mohammed A.—was arrested in London on Monday. Prosecutors allege he twice met Abdel Al-G., who was detained in Germany last month on suspicion of planning attacks, and transported the weapons to Austria. He is expected to be extradited to Germany.

A British crime agency confirmed the arrest. Hamas has denied any connection to the suspects.

European services warn the case suggests the group had pre-positioned arms in Europe for possible operations.

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The Supreme Court delivered a victory to the Trump administration regarding a policy that passports should identify people based only on biological sex.

“Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment,” the high court’s unsigned order says.

The three liberal justices dissented.

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The new Virgin Amazon Rainforest highway appears to connect the upmarket end of town to the conference center, via the Red Light District.

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The Democratic Party never stops talking about accountability. But when it comes to its own history of supporting slavery and enforcing Jim Crow, the silence is deafening.

For all its moral posturing, the Democratic Party has never issued a formal apology for its direct role in some of the darkest chapters of American history. That’s not a small detail. It’s a glaring double standard.

From the early days of the Republic through the Civil War, Democrats were the party of the slaveholding South. Its leaders defended slavery as an economic necessity and a moral good. They fought to protect it politically and, eventually, militarily. And when the war ended and slavery was finally abolished, Democrats didn’t seek redemption—they found new ways to keep power.

Southern Democrats built the Jim Crow system, a web of laws designed to control and humiliate Black Americans. These laws segregated schools, blocked voting rights, and enforced second-class citizenship through intimidation and violence. For nearly a century, the Democratic Party was the political engine behind racial oppression in the South.

This isn’t opinion. It’s historical fact. Yet despite all the talk about “equity” and “justice,” the Democratic Party has never said the simple words that matter: We were wrong. We’re sorry.

And reparations! Don’t forget reparations!

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An 18-year-old man has been charged in Sweden for planning a terrorist attack on a cultural festival in Stockholm in the name of the Islamic State.

Prosecutors say he studied how to make explosives, bought materials and a body camera and scouted the attack site. Authorities believe the arrest in February prevented a major attack.

The suspect, who had repeatedly sworn allegiance to IS, will go on trial next week alongside a 17-year-old also accused of terrorism-related crimes.

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Is polygamy a human right? This is the question currently being pondered by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg. The case has been brought by a Yemeni refugee, Khaled Al-Anesi, a lawyer who was granted asylum in the Netherlands following the Arab Spring. He arrived in the country with his first wife and their eight children, deciding not to request reunification with his second and third wives, as polygamy is illegal under Dutch law. He did, however, demand that the five children he had with his other wives join him in the Netherlands. At this point, the Dutch government refused, noting that the children were perfectly safe with their mothers in Turkey, where they enjoyed refugee status.

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The chief executive officer of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), Kari Lake, informed lawmakers in a letter that Washington will terminate the Hungarian-language service of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), known as Szabad Európa.

In the letter, Lake wrote that USAGM will no longer use American taxpayer dollars to produce or distribute content to audiences of NATO allies, and will instead dedicate resources to other purposes determined by the administration.

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President Macron said he was “shocked” by the November 5th vehicle-ramming attack on the island of Oléron, off the Atlantic coast. As evidence mounts against the perpetrator, the authorities are increasingly embarrassed by the suspect’s ‘religious’ motives.

On Wednesday, at around 9:30 a.m., a man in his thirties injured ten people by deliberately crashing his vehicle into them in an incident that lasted around 35 minutes. He was eventually arrested and taken into custody after setting fire to his car and opening a gas cylinder.

This time, the press was quick to point out that the suspect was “of Caucasian origin”—a description that has no particular legal significance in France, but which serves to dispel any suspicion of ‘racism’ regarding the attacker’s possible foreign origin. He is indeed a French national, goes by the name of Jean Guillot and has a ‘European’ profile: he is tall, white and blond.

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This paper — The Aesthetics of Climate Misinformation by Anton and Petter Törnberg — is an extreme example institutional navel-gazing. It’s an academic attempt to psychoanalyze anyone skeptical of climate orthodoxy, dressed up in AI jargon and sprinkled with the self-assured tone of a priest lecturing on heresy. The irony is almost poetic: a study accusing others of aesthetic manipulation while itself performing the very act it condemns — turning dissent into pathology through rhetorical theater.

The Foundry.

The CBS News program “Sunday Morning” has been hailed as one of the “crown jewels” of the network—which means it’s larded with liberal bias. Last year, it was a conveyor belt of Democrats.

It aired puffball interviews with Pete Buttigieg, Doug Emhoff, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Kamala Harris. So, it was typical when CBS reporter Seth Doane traveled to Italy for this week’s show to get the hot interview with “Hollywood icon” George Clooney.

Things got spicy when they discussed what went wrong in 2024. Doane asked Clooney if he still felt good about his New York Times op-ed calling for Biden to step aside.

“Yes. We had a chance,” Clooney answered. “I wanted there to be—as I wrote in the op-ed—a primary. Let’s battle-test this quickly and get it up and going. I think the mistake with it being Kamala is that she had to run against her own record. And it’s very hard to do if the point of running is to say, ‘I’m not that person.’ You know, it’s hard to do. And so, she was given a very tough task. I think it was a mistake, quite honestly.”

So, Clooney wanted a primary, which obviously did not happen. It could have happened if Democrats had pressured Biden out in 2023, but they denied and delayed until the disastrous debate, and then it was too late for a primary. It left them with the irony of being the Democrats without any actual democracy.

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Nearly 800 students were suspended from Vienna’s schools in 2024, with more than 600 cases linked to violent behavior, according to new data. Police were called to intervene in almost 600 of these incidents, more than double the number recorded in 2015.

Children can be excluded from school for up to four weeks if they pose a risk to others, and from 2026, mandatory supervision will be introduced for students who have been suspended. However, many teachers warn that the measure may come too late.

Education officials link the surge in violence to wider social tensions, language barriers and cultural conflicts. Nearly 45% of Vienna’s first-graders reportedly lack adequate German language skills.

Importing Turd World people means also importing Turd World problems. ODF.

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Build decision matrices! These are grids with a small set of proposed options or courses of action on one axis, and a comparably small set of criteria or goals on the other. Each cell is then filled with some quantity or adjective. If the latter, you – or your underlings – can discuss ‘em indefinitely. But even numbers can be debated. In the end, not that there’s much expectation of reaching one, you either tote up those numbers or just color-code the most positive descriptors and, uh, I don’t know, Go Green or something.

Not having worked anyplace with a strong affirmative-action impulse, I do not know if companies that do honor or obey such fashions do things this way. Anyway, I was motivated to look up what such graphical tools are called because I had, indeed have had several times over the years, a similar idea, that of drawing 2×2 grids and laying out all possible consequences – presumably 4. What has interested me is, there aren’t always even that many!

Which suggests that I make my own decisions just too darn complicated. Or, the decision to use this sort of tool was itself a bad one. Such appeared to be the case when, a few months ago, I planned my drive into Mexico with Big Bend as the target. There seemed to be two routes, one west, the other south and then northwest. Which to choose? Or could I choose both? If I got way out on one and then found it was impracticable, would I be willing to backtrack and then try the alternative? Here is the real art of the graphical solution: deciding what exactly is on each axis. I never did. I wound up simply going and looking!

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has reported its lowest number of encounters with illegal immigrants on record for October, while achieving six months of zero releases under current enforcement policies.

Apparently President Stork can get stuff done for which President Log was entirely incompetent.

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In case you hadn’t noticed how brazen far-left Democrats have become since President Donald Trump won the 2024 election, allow me to introduce you to a woman who previously admitted that she was living in the U.S. illegally and who just won an election to become the next mayor of St. Paul, Minn. The left isn’t even hiding the fact that illegals are participating in our political/governmental systems anymore.

How bold do you have to be to declare, openly, that you’re in the country illegally and then run for political office while not being a citizen? And the government is allowing this to happen right out in public, without much, if any, pushback.

Democratic State Rep. Kaohly Vang Her took home a big victory on Tuesday night, defeating incumbent Democratic Mayor Melvin Carter after a tabulation of second-choice votes. She, who was born in Laos and entered the country as a refugee, once stated during a public debate that both she and her family were illegal migrants. She later walked the comment back, but obviously, if she previously admitted this, it’s likely true.

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There’s always a plan.

A group of eight centrist Democrats who want to end the government shutdown – now the longest in US history – have been approaching their colleagues about a deal to reopen the federal government this week or next week, however progressives within the party are pushing back hard, according to The Hill, citing people familiar with the discussions.

To refresh your memory, the crux of the shutdown is that Democrats want to extend pandemic-era Obamacare enhancements, which include coverage for illegals – and they’re unwilling to kick the can down the road with a “clean” (free of new pork) continuing resolution while congress debates a larger package (again).

According to one senator, the centrist Democrats include Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Gary Peters (D-MI) – and apparently have the ‘contours of a deal’ and are “whipping” more of their colleagues to sign on.

Newsbusters.

Google News is the only major Big Tech news aggregator that consistently highlights Al Jazeera, a network so sympathetic to radicalism that MRC’s Dan Schneider refers to it as “Hamas News.”

Google propped up the leftist Qatari-funded media outlet Al Jazeera a staggering 15 times in recent weeks. MRC analysis found that Google News was the only major news aggregator that consistently included Al Jazeera. Google’s persistent promotion of Al Jazeera, a network known for its hostility towards Israel, serves as yet another example of the tech giant’s disdain for the Jewish state.

Schneider commented on Google’s pattern of radicalism. “Every scientific evaluation of the major AI platforms shows that they are all biased to the left. But Google seems desperate to win the gold medal for being the most radical of them all,” he said. “This is just the latest example of how it pushes its agenda. It is no wonder that several Congressional committees and regulatory agencies are investigating it.”

The New York Times, the Paper of Record for the Crust.

The episode immediately raised questions about the president’s security, and set off conversations among women about their own experiences.

It also caused concern among many over the apparent lack of progress for women as a whole: Ms. Sheinbaum, Mexico’s first female president, made ending violence against women a cornerstone of her campaign, but only a year after being elected, she was groped by a stranger in public.

Such harassment is not considered a crime at the federal level, Ms. Sheinbaum said Wednesday, nor is it a crime in all Mexican states — a point that Ms. Sheinbaum said she would ask officials to examine, so that all women could press charges as she had.

Can you imagine anyone groping Kamala Harris?

Neither can I.

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The answer is they aren’t cheaper…

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To paraphrase and utterly subvert one of Karl Marx’s best-known quotes, a “spectre” is haunting Silicon Valley—the spectre of authentic abundance. All the powers of woke California have entered into an unholy alliance to exorcise this spectre: public sector unions, the environmentalist lobby, the crony capitalists, Antifa radicals, and Reddit trolls.

They’re going to lose. For all the power the state’s ruling unholy alliance still wields with its “No Kings” populism, its partisan Prop. 50 redistricting, and its absolute grip on state and local governance, it is now in conflict with a far greater historical and cultural momentum. Innate to California and irrepressible, the forces of innovation and creativity that have defined the state for nearly two hundred years are asserting themselves in new domains. Authentic abundance is on the way, and nothing can stop it.

I hope that’s true, but I’m not sanguine. There are plenty of Democrats in Silicon Valley, and You Cain’t Fix Stupid.

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Elections this week that energized Democrats and drew a reaction from President Donald Trump have added uncertainty to efforts to end the record-breaking government shutdown, raising fresh doubts about the possibility of a breakthrough despite the ongoing toll of federal closures on the country.

Trump has urged Senate Republicans to resolve the shutdown — now at 37 days, the longest in U.S. history — calling it a “big factor, negative” in the GOP’s recent election outcomes across the country.

Democrats saw Trump’s comments as a reason to hold firm, believing his involvement in talks could lead to a deal on extending health care subsidies, a key sticking point to win their support.

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In the German town of Overath (North Rhine-Westphalia), this year’s Christmas market has been cancelled. The cost of protecting visitors from potential terrorist attacks exceeds the organizer’s budget. The city refuses to cover the expenses. A capitulation to Islamism.

It wasn’t long ago that Christmas markets were among the social highlights of the year. Whether in small towns or major cities – they were meeting points for friends and family, for mulled wine, sausages, and quiet conversations wrapped in winter’s cold and early darkness.

The Telegraph (UK).

The BBC’s “gender and identity correspondent” sought to block coverage of a campaign group aiming to protect women-only spaces, The Telegraph can reveal.

Megha Mohan, who has held the specialist role since 2018, emailed a co-worker raising concerns about their plans to film a debate by the group Woman’s Place UK.

In the email – sent months after she started her role – Ms Mohan wrote: “There’s some concern from LGBT+ about giving this group a platform, they are seen as a more extreme organisation that we would be legitimizing (sic).”
In a follow-up email, she added: “A couple of LGBT contacts have told me about Woman’s Place and called them transphobes in the past.”

Woman’s Place UK was set up in 2017 by a group of women from the labour and trade union movement to defend women’s rights and safeguard single-sex spaces and services. It closed down last year after stating it had largely achieved its original aims.

The BBC’s proposed coverage of the group in 2018 was never published.

The Telegraph (UK).

A newsreader who went viral after she made a face while changing the word “pregnant people” to “women” during a live broadcast has been found to have broken BBC impartiality rules.

Martine Croxall made the expression as she changed her script in an introduction to an interview with an assistant professor about groups most at risk during UK heatwaves.

Croxall won a legion of fans following the live broadcast, including author JK Rowling.

The broadcaster’s Executive Complaints Unit (ECU), however, considered her facial expression expressed a “controversial view about trans people”.

The War Zone.

Two days after passing through the Strait of Gibraltar en route to the Caribbean, the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford has not moved significantly from a position just west of Morocco in North Africa, the Navy confirmed to us Thursday. The flattop and elements of its strike group were ordered by President Donald Trump to join the ongoing enhanced counter-narcotics mission in the region, but it is unclear if plans have changed.

The relatively static position of the Ford and at least two of its escorts comes as reports are emerging that the Trump administration has decided, for now, not to carry out land strikes against Venezuela. It is unknown at the moment if there is a correlation, and the possibility remains that the carrier could still soon sail westward. We have reached out to the White House for clarification.

The War Zone.

A special operations team is pinned down in a valley deep inside contested territory. Ammo is running low, and close air support is nonexistent. Extraction forces are still hours out. The operatives have kept the enemy at bay, but their ability to do so is dwindling with every round they fire. Their stocks of 40mm grenades have long been exhausted; now their rifles will soon run dry too. The sky cracks with a sonic boom, which echoes across the valley, and fighting pauses for a split second as fighters on both sides look up. Soon after, the shooting resumes, but out of the blinding sun comes a capsule stuffed with ammunition hanging on a parachute and flying right toward the special operations team.

Help has arrived… From orbit.

The above is a scene that sounds like it’s ripped right out of a Call Of Duty: Modern Warfarevideo game, but one company is working to make it a reality.

California-based space startup Inversion has unveiled its design for a fully reusable, lifting-body spacecraft named Arc. The spacecraft is intended to deliver critical cargo from space to any point on Earth within an hour, landing on water, snow or soil with a precision of around 50 feet, the company says. The concept, aimed squarely at the defense sector, reflects longstanding U.S. military interest in using space-based systems to rapidly move cargo around the globe to meet commanders’ urgent needs.

Chicago residents say immigration enforcement is leading to children getting tear-gassed (Natasha Korecki/NBC News) If they’d stay home, it wouldn’t be a problem.

The resistance is ascendant — Donald Trump may still have a firm grip on the three branches … (Dan Froomkin/Heads Up News)

The Supreme Court’s Tariffs Arguments Were a Bloodbath for Trump (Mark Joseph Stern/Slate)

Jeffrey Epstein claimed prosecutors offered his freedom if he agreed to implicate Donald Trump: cellmate (Andy Tillett/New York Post)

Trump Really Was on the Ballot — The magnitude of the GOP rout is a bad sign for holding Congress in the midterms. (Wall Street Journal)  No matter who is involved, it’s all about Trump.

When Storytelling Is Called ‘Terrorism’: How My Friend and Fellow Journalist Was Targeted by ICE (Sam Judy/The Barbed Wire)

Gallup Poll: Americans More Positive About Drug War

Donald Trump enters his lame duck era (Politico)  You’ll look pretty silly when this lame duck kicks your ass.

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A man has been arrested in the UK and faces extradition to Germany, where he is accused of playing a “key role” in a Hamas-linked terror cell planning attacks on Israeli and Jewish institutions. Three other men thought to be part of this group were arrested in Germany in September and are accused of procuring firearms and ammunition.

Britain’s ITV makes note of the rather important fact that the newly-arrested 39-year-old man “is the son of a senior Hamas official” in its fifth paragraph, describing him four times before this as “British.”

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Last week, Britain’s comedy treasure, Ricky Gervais, took to social media to rant about how his proposed billboards for Dutch Barn Vodka had been rejected.

Each banner featured a dark but hilarious slogan that would have inevitably won the applause of Britain’s disillusioned masses.

Its rejected lines include:

• “Dutch Barn, drugs this good are usually illegal.”
• “Dutch Barn, your tube driver’s favourite drink in the morning.”
• “Dutch Barn, one day you’ll be underground for good.”

Ironically, the slogan to cause the most amusement of all among social media followers was the following:

• “Welcome to London, don’t forget your stab vest.”

Brits particularly appreciated this version as it bravely stood as a dark, tongue-in-cheek nod to Britain’s knife-crime epidemic.

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In yet another example of the massive foreign crime wave engulfing Europe, new data shows that foreigners in Italy are vastly overrepresented in violent crimes and predatory crimes such as robbery and sexual assault.

The 2024 data shows that a significant number of arrests in Italy are targeting foreigners, making up 34.7 percent of arrests.

However, when it comes to more serious predatory crimes, the figure is much higher. For public street robberies, foreign make up 60.1 percent of suspects and for robberies in total, it is 52.3 percent. Foreigners are responsible for 61 percent of burglaries, and 69 percent of pickpocketing cases, according to new crime data analyzed by Italian newspaper Il Sole 24.

For sexual assault, foreigners are responsible for 43 percent of all such cases.

This is despite foreigners making up only a small share of the Italian population. According to the Ismu Ets report, as of Jan. 1, 2024, there were 5.7 million foreign people in Italy. Of these, 5.3 million were residents, making up 9 percent of the Italian population. This is compared to 8.2 percent in 2014.

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A two-day operation led to the arrest of 70 illegal immigrants in Oklahoma, which included 34 drivers operating a semi-truck or a commercial vehicle, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said in a Nov. 4 statement.

The arrests were made in partnership with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol between Oct. 28 and 29, said the agency. It is part of Operation Guardian, which has “resulted in the arrest of many illegal aliens driving trucks that had been issued Commercial Drivers Licenses in states with sanctuary policies such as California, Illinois, and New York,” the agency said.

In places that follow sanctuary policies, local officials refuse to enforce immigration laws or comply with federal authorities.

Out of the 34 illegal immigrant truck drivers, 26 were issued a commercial driver’s license (CDL) while eight were “dangerously driving” vehicles without such licenses, ICE said.

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The Houston Police Officers’ Union made a recruiting pitch to New York Police Department cops in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral election victory Tuesday night.

In posts to Facebook and X, the union appealed to New York City cops who might be “disgusted” with Mamdani.

“NYPD, are you disgusted with the election of Zohran Mamdani? Join Us! The Houston Police Department is Hiring Police Officers!” read the posts.

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In late October 2025, the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched a decisive assault on the city of El Fasher in North Darfur, marking a grim turning point in the ongoing war in Sudan. After an 18-month siege, the city’s last remaining hold-out of the national army in Darfur finally fell, sending tens of thousands of civilians fleeing and leaving behind a scene of carnage. ?

The RSF had surrounded the city with earthen berms and embargoed supplies for months, cutting off access for humanitarian aid and escape routes for civilians. ? On October 26 2025 they announced they had full control of the army’s 6th Division headquarters and other key positions inside El Fasher. ?

Once the RSF took control, multiple credible sources reported mass killings, summary executions, house-to-house raids, and attacks on hospitals and fleeing civilians. Satellite imagery and video footage show clusters of what appear to be bodies in public spaces, and large red stains on the ground consistent with mass fatalities. ? One hospital—the Saudi Maternity Hospital in the city—was reported to have been stormed and dozens of wounded, civilians and soldiers alike, were killed while lying in beds. ?

According to medical networks and human rights monitors, the death toll is likely in the thousands. A conservative estimate put the number at at least 1,500 civilians killed in the space of a few days, with some claiming over 2,000 fatalities. ? Ethnic motivations are also alleged, with the RSF targeting non-Arab sedentary communities in the Darfur region, prompting rights groups to call the assault a “true genocide”. ?

Victor Davis Hanson.

There’s been a lot of recent controversy over the indictments of former national security adviser John Bolton, former FBI Director James Comey, and now New York Attorney General Letitia James.

And people are arguing that President Donald Trump had promised not to have a so-called revenge tour and use the law, in a weaponized fashion, against his political enemies, given what they did to him. And now he’s doing it.

I think it’s time to pause.

First, there’s a question of magnitude. Donald Trump was indicted 91 times in four different jurisdictions, local, county, federal. Those were coordinated.

Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis’ main prosecutor, Nathan Wade, met with the White House counsel just three days after Donald Trump announced his 2020, Nov. 15, reelection bid. That same day, Jack Smith was appointed by Merrick Garland, the Biden Justice Department attorney general, to be special counsel, to go after Donald Trump at the federal level. That same day, Matthew Colangelo, who had come from the Letitia James state prosecution of Donald Trump, resigned his blue-chip job—No. 3 in the DOJ—to go to work for whom? Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

And that was 91 indictments. So far, we’ve only seen three key people indicted. In addition to that, we’re not even talking about the SWAT raid on Donald Trump’s home or the effort to get 25 states to de-ballot him.

Divided Democrats Hope Attacking the Trump Economy Unites Party (Aaron Zitner/Wall Street Journal)

Trump’s China Trade Policy Is a Hot Mess (Thomas L. Friedman/New York Times)

The Workers Left Out of Trump’s Drug-Manufacturing Renaissance (New York Times)

The Big Smirk — The cruelty is the point, party edition — There’s been plenty … (Paul Krugman)  This from the guy that took $50,000 from Enron for doing absolutely nothing.

The White House’s Plan A is winning its Supreme Court tariff case. It also has a Plan B. (Politico)  The mind-readers at Politico are on the case.

Trump just loves the revamped CBS. Here’s the ugly backstory. (Margaret Sullivan/American Crisis)

Threatening Nigeria? Leaving Romania? The Chaos of Trump’s Foreign Policy (Mark Hertling/The Bulwark)

Inside the billionaire network shaping MAGA’s post-Trump future (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post)  There’s that MAGA guy again. (MAGA is the New Nigger.)

As Trump’s approval rating sinks, Republicans have a decision to make (Steve Benen/MSNBC)  Yeah; To listen to the Narrative Media, or to ignore it.

Colbert Claims Trump Wants Kids To Go Hungry To Pressure Democrats  As with most proglodytes, you have to turn it around to get the truth.

Why Trump’s agenda is on voters’ minds even if he’s not on the 2025 ballot (Phillip M. Bailey/USA Today)

Revolutionary Escalation, Semi-Authoritarian “Normalization,” or a Democratic Turnaround? (Thomas Zimmer/Steady) Whatever happens, it’s Trump’s fault.

Conservatives erupt on social media over ‘absurd’ Pelosi comment calling Trump ‘worst thing’ on earth (Fox News)

Media Elitists Rage Against Trump and His ‘Nazi’ ‘Stormtroopers,’ Praise Antifa

Trump Says He’ll Defy Court Order And Won’t Give Out SNAP Benefits (Arthur Delaney/HuffPost)

Administration hints furloughed workers may not be paid after shutdown (Washington Post)

CNN Hypes Nancy Pelosi Calling Trump ‘WORST Thing on the Face of the Earth,’ No Rebuttal

Trump threatens to withhold SNAP funding until shutdown ends (Politico)

Trump Lost the Politics of the Shutdown (David Dayen/American Prospect)

Trump suggests U.S. won’t pay any SNAP benefits during shutdown, contradicting court filing (Dan Mangan/CNBC)

Maryland Governor Pushes For Redistricting to Counter Trump Gerrymanders: ‘Come Next November, We Will Have Fair Maps’ (Jen Rice/Democracy Docket)

White House Says Administration Will Partially Fund SNAP After Trump Suggests Otherwise (Anna Kramer/NOTUS)

Trump White House snubs ex-VP Dick Cheney, offers no condolences on his death (Steven Nelson/New York Post)  Considering what an anti-Trumper he was, and the pain in the ass his daughter turned out to be (which he supported), this ought to come as no surprise.

A White House Ballroom Fit for a Bribe (Joe Perticone/The Bulwark)

Facing difficult questions about his use of an FBI jet, Kash Patel pitches weak defense (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Cash-strapped Americans signal rising costs could be Trump’s midterm headache (Avery Lotz/Axios)

Trump’s imperial presidency is Dick Cheney’s final legacy (Ian Millhiser/Vox)

NBC News Exit Poll: Voters disapprove of Trump in New Jersey, Virginia and other key races (Stephanie Perry/NBC News)  No matter who’s on the ballot, it’s All About Trump.

White House slams Mamdani’s ‘completely irresponsible’ comments linking Trump to threats against voters (Fox News)

From groceries to gas, Americans say they’re spending more under Trump (Washington Post)  Gas today is $2.29 at Walmart, the lowest I’ve seen in a decade.

White House scrambles to limit fallout of Trump threats to withhold SNAP food aid benefits (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)

CNN exit polls find voters in key races dissatisfied with Trump, concerned with economy (Ariel Edwards-Levy/CNN)

Cheney’s death highlights GOP shifts under Trump (Brett Samuels/The Hill)

Texas Turns Its Sprawling State Police Force Into Immigration Agents for Trump (Francesca D’Annunzio/The Texas Observer)

Republicans Reprise Unfounded Claims of Widespread Election Interference (Steven Lee Myers/New York Times)

Judge orders White House to restore sign language interpreters at briefings by Trump, Leavitt (Kyle Cheney/Politico)  How is this the business of a judge?

Democrat Spanberger Wins Governor Race As Virginians Reproach Trump (Jim Saksa/Democracy Docket)  “Reproach”? Hardly. Virginia has been going steadily Blue as the Deep State expands out from DC, and Democrats have always voted Democrat even if Jesus were the Republican on the ticket. It’s about demographics, not Trump. (Virginia’s Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Muslim woman elected statewide in the U.S. (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News))

Trump’s IRS kills program that let Americans file taxes for free (Robert Davis/Raw Story)  Don’t blame Trump for what the IRS does–the Deep State reaches there as much as anywhere, and putting Trump in the White House doesn’t immediately turn everything around.

BBC Busted Doctoring Trump’s J6 Speech To Smear Him As Violent

Tuesday’s races were a quiet rebuke of Trump for many voters, AP Voter Poll finds (Associated Press)  So quiet that only the Narrative Media could hear it, much like the Nazi dog-whistles they hear everywhere.

The Anti-MAGA Majority Reemerges (David A. Graham/The Atlantic)  There’s that MAGA guy again. (MAGA is the New Nigger);

Trump Considering Menu Of Venezuela Attack Options, Including Oil-Field Seizures

Jonathan Turley

In Shakespeare’s Richard III, Queen Elizabeth — whose husband King Edward IV was overthrown and her twins taken to the Tower — asks the older Queen Margaret (widow of the murdered King Henry VI) to “teach me how to curse mine enemies.” The Queen responds that it is easy: “Think that thy babes were sweeter than they were, And he that slew them fouler than he is.”

The lesson: The key to hate is to decouple it entirely from reason and reality. Only then can you hate completely without restraint or regret.

It seems that the left has learned how to hate. Hateful speech is in vogue as Democratic leaders ramp up violent rhetoric and political violence rises. The key is to get voters to hate your opponent so much that they forget how much they dislike you.

The irony is crushing. For years, liberals have sought to criminalize hate speech while expanding the range of viewpoints considered to fall within this category. Democratic leaders, from senators to former presidential candidates, have falsely claimed that hate speech is not protected under the First Amendment.

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis posted an online survey late Tuesday evening asking residents of the Sunshine State how best to respond to New Yorkers fleeing the city following the election of democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani.

“Floridians – response to the Mamdani election in NYC should be to,” DeSantis wrote on X, attaching a poll with three options: “Build an FL border wall,” “Tariff all transplants,” and “Recruit new transplants.”

DeSantis was responding to a post from Republican Florida State Representative Peggy Gossett-Seidman, who wrote, “Florida should tariff everyone fleeing NYC, Gov @RonDeSantis.”

Florida has been dealing with ‘fleeing New Yorkers’ for over a century. This ought not to be a difficult question.

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The longest U.S. government shutdown in history certaintly hurt Republicans, as Democrats scored victories in Tuesday’s elections, including socialist Zohran Mamdani becoming New York City’s next mayor, and Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill winning their respective gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey. However, none of that momentum rolled into the Democratic Party’s color revolution-style operation on Wednesday to surround the White House under the banner “The Trump Fascist Regime Must Go Now.”

Refuse Fascism, a “No Kings” partner funded by dark-money NGOs, planned sentiment-shaping operations aimed at swaying public opinion and undermining the Trump administration ahead of the 2026 midterm cycle. One might have expected, given the momentum from last night’s election results, that this front group of unhinged leftist boomers would have managed to rally more supporters out of the retirement homes – but like the last No Kings protest, it fell entirely flat…

The Left  has this delusion that they live in an Eisenstein movie, that every Republican loss in an election will inevitably lead to the storming of the Winter Palace White House, and the Red Hordes will sweep the land.

New York Post.

Lefty luminary Van Jones was among those raising alarm at Democratic socialist mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s rage-filled victory speech, noting his instant “character switch” at winning power.

A roaring Mamdani wasted no time in claiming a mandate for his potentially budget-busting progressive agenda and taunting President Trump as he rallied his fired-up supporters soon after winning Tuesday night.

Jones was quick to note live on CNN that the 34-year-old’s triumphant demeanor was a far cry from the cool, calm and collected candidate seen on the campaign trail.

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The IDF continues operations against Hamas infrastructure inside the Yellow Line, conducting targeted strikes on Hamas violations of the ceasefire agreement in recent days.

Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz stated on Wednesday that “Israel’s policy in Gaza is clear: the IDF is acting to destroy the tunnels and eliminate Hamas terrorists without any restrictions within the yellow area under our control.”

“The goal alongside the return of all the hostages, the casualties, is to disarm Hamas of its weapons and demilitarize Gaza.”