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A Council official turned up at the home of YouTube pianist Brendan Kavanagh – better known as Dr K – to investigate his 12-year-old daughter Zoe’s pretend teddy bear cafe for illegal trading.

Yes, really. Stuffed animals, toy tea sets, play money, and a handwritten “prices” sign in a family property triggered a formal Bedford Borough planning department visit after a complaint about an “illegal cafe.”

Kavanagh filmed the arrival and the tour. The official showed ID outside, then walked through the setup of teddies around a table with cups and cakes. Obviously, no actual trading was happening with real customers. Just a child’s game in a private home. Threatening letters had already arrived from the council’s planning department.

Britain is determined to prove Orwell a prophet.

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A geothermal startup aiming to source energy directly from undersea volcanoes just hit a major milestone that could bring round-the-clock clean energy to cities on the northwest coast of the United States and serve as a critical proof of concept for other regions, with particular relevance for the other 14 countries situated along the Pacific Ring of Fire.

Seattle-based energy startup Endurance Energy just announced that it successfully created net-positive energy from its underwater geothermal plant in a world first. The company successfully demonstrated a full operations cycle from drilling to electricity generation in a major breakthrough for next-gen clean energy tech. Although the demonstration created less than 10 seconds of positive energy production, the implications of those ten seconds are hard to overstate.

Cue enviro-Nazi lawsuits and tons of government regulations.

New York Post.

A shocking new ad supporting Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed blames Israel for rising grocery prices, triggering allegations of antisemitism.

The spot shows a couple in a grocery store grumbling over the prices of eggs and bananas — and claiming that US aid to Israel is the reason they can’t afford the staples.

“Honey, you’re going to have to put those eggs back,” the woman says. “They like eggs, but we have to set that $7 aside for killing Palestinians.”

Newsbusters.

On Monday, The View continued its one-sided praise of the Democratic election candidate with just eight days to go until the midterm elections, as the show praised former President Obama and defended Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.

‘Islamophobic’ is a made-up word so that Muslims can claim to be victims. A ‘phobia’ is an irrational fear, and fear of Islam is entirely rational. Just read the headlines.

Hot Air.

Quelle surprise. On Saturday night, a mass shooting broke out at the Florida A&M homecoming game. Eleven people suffered gunshot wounds, with a twelfth injuring an ankle in the rush to flee the scene. Half of the victims are minors, with one just 11 years old.

Police arrested one alleged perp late yesterday and announced it this morning. They took a 15-year-old suspect into custody and charged him with attempted murder, but police say more arrests will come. The shooting started as a fight between two individuals.

By the incompetence of the shooting I suggest that the perpetrators were Children of Color, especially since race or ethnicity aren’t mentioned in the few reports one can find online..

UPDATE:

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Get this: the reason that a color revolution is underway at all in America is not really political anymore – if it ever even was. It’s because a whole lot of people have committed crimes against this country. And with each wave of attempted sedition, they have compounded their crimes with more seditious acts, arrant hoaxes, lawfare, election fraud, censorship, and wholesale looting of taxpayer dollars to keep themselves out of prison.

That’s what USAID was all about, and why it was taken down early in Trump 2.0. It was a nexus of racketeering and the home-base of the Deep State’s foot soldiers, bureaucrats who actually managed the money streams to NGOs that ran everything from election rigging operations to vast social services fraud in blue states, in concert with a Democratic Party that had nothing but rackets to keep it going.

That’s how the USAID’s defunct office of Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG) has morphed into the new Democracy Renewal Group (DRG). This new DRG operates under another project called Branch-4 – as in a fourth branch of government, the permanent bureaucracy – and Branch-4 operates under an NGO called the Action Center on Race and the Economy Institute (ACRE Institute), a 501(c)(3) public charity based in Chicago (EIN 82-1199695). Note, the ACRE Institute’s primary funders include the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. You see how byzantine this is, echoing exactly the hyper-complex administrative workings of government bureaucracy itself?

And so, that’s why, for instance, one Eric Manton, a former USAID employee now working with DRG said, “. . . we are also starting to consult federal workers on how to do some blocking inside the govt agencies during emergency situations.” Blocking? What they mean by that is federal employees lodged in the official agencies should “help run out the clock. . . develop selective hearing. . . forgetfulness. . . or blame your workload” for whatever it takes to block enforcement of any executive action proposed by the Trump administration.

Don’t call them ‘conspiracy theories’—call them ‘spoiler alerts’.

Quillette.

By the late 1960s, physician, sailor and navigator David Lewis had become increasingly concerned that a remarkable body of human knowledge was in danger of disappearing forever. Across the Pacific, the last generation of traditional deep-sea navigators—whose orally transmitted knowledge allowed them to guide canoes across thousands of miles of ocean—were ageing and dying. Determined to record what they knew before it was lost, Lewis spent years sailing with these master mariners, attempting to understand how they navigated.

The result was We, the Navigators, first published in 1972. Drawing on his research among traditional sailors in Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia, Lewis documented in meticulous detail the techniques by which Pacific sailors found their way across the open seas without the charts and instruments of modern navigation. This landmark account of how a traditional knowledge system worked in practice also helped illuminate one of history’s great puzzles: how ancient peoples had crossed and settled an ocean covering almost a third of the Earth’s surface. In the decades since Lewis’s original research, archaeology, linguistics and, most recently, genetics have revealed ever more detail about this extraordinary feat.

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Last Friday a 39-year-old gunman named Kevin T. went on a shooting spree in two suburbs of Paris (Trappes and La Verrière), killing one person and wounding seven others. The murderer reportedly selected persons of color as his targets.

As reported here last night French President Emmanuel Macron said that the attack was the first terrorist act in France committed for reasons of skin color or religion.

The photo at the top of this post shows the aftermath of the massacre that killed 90 people at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris on November 13, 2015. The killers were mujahideen for the Islamic State, and targeted their victims for religious reasons, i.e. because the latter were not Muslims.

However, the incident evidently does not count as an attack “for reasons of skin color or religion”. As we all know, Muslims and/or brown people who kill white non-Muslims can never be said to have racist or religious motives.

Those are just the rules of the game, even though they make no sense.

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Comey is already under indictment on charges that he threatened the president by posting a photo of seashells arranged to read “86 47.” A previous indictment accusing Comey of lying to Congress was dismissed.

The new charges allege that Comey, through one or more co-conspirators, directed an unnamed person to disclose national defense information to a reporter for a national news publication in 2016.

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What if scientists could turn back the biological clock of an 80-year-old human cell, making it behave like one from someone younger than 20? Researchers in Germany have accomplished just that, reversing more than 60 years of molecular aging while transforming blood cell precursors into neural stem cells capable of producing neurons.

The discovery, made by scientists at the University Hospital of Bonn and the University of Bonn, could provide new insights into one of biology’s biggest mysteries: how aging can be reversed at the cellular level. Unlike previous methods that reset a cell’s molecular age relatively quickly, this approach works gradually, allowing researchers to watch the rejuvenation process unfold over more than 100 days.

Published in Aging Cell, the study offers scientists an unusual opportunity to investigate what drives cellular rejuvenation, what slows it down, and whether those mechanisms could eventually help address age-related diseases such as Alzheimer’s.

Trump dials up Islamophobia against Abdul El-Sayed at Michigan Senate rally (Al Jezeera). ‘Islamophobia’ is a made-up term so that Muslims can claim to be victims. In truth, fear of Islam is entirely rational, based on 1400 years of history.

What Happens if Trump Doesn’t Like the Midterm Results? (New York Times)  Hand-wringing and pearl-clutching by the Narrative Media in the run-up to the election.

Trump’s Urban Approval Climbs 20 Points in Echelon Polling

Democrats take legal action against Trump bid ‘to rig’ Alaska Senate race (Clarissa-Jan Lim/MS NOW)

YIKES: Politico Admits They Promoted the Fake Wedgewood Polls

In Second Term, Trump’s Justice Dept. Submits to His Election Demands (New York Times)  Apparently they’re supposed to tell him No.

She Planned to Protest Trump. She Didn’t Plan on Getting Punched. (Jessica Contrera/New York Times)  They never do.

ICE’s Cruelty Is Becoming America’s M.O. (Adrian Carrasquillo/The Bulwark)

Obama describes Trump as an agent of ‘chaos and cruelty’ in midterm elections pitch (Henry J. Gomez/NBC News)

Obama Storms Onto Campaign Trail With Harsh Words for Trump (Wall Street Journal)  My, what a surprise.

CNN’s Cornish Falsely Claims Trump Didn’t ‘Back Away’ From ‘Access Hollywood’ Video

These are the midterm deciders: They voted for Trump and now disapprove of him (Washington Post)  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

The State Officials Defending the Midterms from the President (Barton Gellman/New Yorker)

Democrats ask judge to dismiss Trump administration’s challenge to Alaska Senate race (NBC News)

Pennsylvania House Race Tests If Republican Distance From Trump Works (Liz Skalka/Bloomberg)

Automating the Bribe State (Don Moynihan/Can We Still Govern?)

Obama Sharply Criticizes Trump on Campaign Trail (Julie Yoon/New York Times)

GOP Closes Campaign With Unapologetic Bigotry (Jonathan Cohn/The Bulwark)

PHOTO ESSAY: A Texas Trump voter, struggling with cancer and medical bills, breaks party ranks (Associated Press)  Hey, kids! Let’s push the Narrative!

Blanche: Alaska Senate race is ‘not a fair fight’ to Trump (Finya Swai/The Hill)

Epstein Haunts GOP in Midterms as Democrats Vow Fresh Probes (Josh Wingrove/Bloomberg)  EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN?! EPSTEIN! (Uh, Martha, I don’t think beating that dead horse is going to get it to move….)

Trump fails to change economic headwinds facing GOP candidates (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)

US voters worried about corruption under Trump — FT poll (Financial Times)  More fake polls.

House Dems Target Hegseth For Impeachment If They Win Midterms  Of course they do.

Trump’s Election Attacks Enter New Pre-emptive Phase (Zolan Kanno-Youngs/New York Times)

Trump leans into Islamophobic rhetoric at Michigan rally (Raquel Coronell Uribe/NBC News)

Rep. Crow: Ousting Hegseth Top Priority If Dems Win House  Political theater—they can impeach him, but it’s just virtue-signaling without the votes in the Senate to convict.

In Islamophobic Rant, Trump Seeks to Stir Republican Base in Michigan (New York Times)

Republicans struggle for an answer to Democrats’ Medicaid attacks (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)  Not a struggle at all, except inside of the Narrative.

“Zero” signs that Kennedy is leaving post-midterms (Caitlin Owens/Axios)  Although they’d love him to do so.

Obama Unleashes Attacks on Trump Over Corruption, Incompetence; Trump Fires Back

Trump failed to stop inflation. Now Republicans may pay the price in the midterm elections (Associated Press)  No President can ‘stop inflation’; that’s the job of the Federal Reserve, and one it does badly.

House Judiciary Democrats want a special counsel to investigate Trump’s ties to Epstein (Chris Marquette/Politico) EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN?! EPSTEIN! (Uh, Martha, I don’t think beating that dead horse is going to get it to move….)

House Judiciary Democrats release 50-page report on Trump’s alleged involvement in Epstein files (Lisa Rubin/MS NOW) EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN?! EPSTEIN! (Uh, Martha, I don’t think beating that dead horse is going to get it to move….) Gotta love those ‘unsigned staff reports’.

Exclusive: Democrats lay groundwork to probe Trump’s diesel deal (Ben Geman/Axios)

Trump’s Vile Persecution of Ilhan Omar Is About to Run Into a Wall (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sarggent loses his shit.

As Trump brags about U.S. oil and gas company profits, his stocks gained millions during Iran war (Kathryn Watson/CBS News)  As did mine. Go, Trump!

Trump’s Rallies Have Become What He Covets: Ass (William Kristol/The Bulwark)  You can’t get a much bigger ass than Bill Kristol.

Pete Hegseth Reportedly Angling For Blackburn’s Senate Seat To Avoid Impeachment (Ron Dicker/HuffPost)  That would be clever.

Anthropic to investors: Trump hates us so much (Maria Curi/Axios)  BOO HOO….

House Democrats Seek Trump-Epstein Special Counsel EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN?! EPSTEIN! (Uh, Martha, I don’t think beating that dead horse is going to get it to move….)

Powerful executives cozied up to Trump. Now they fear a reckoning. (Washington Post) Sure, I believe that.

Lula’s Upset Is a Win for the Rule of Law and a Blow to Trump (Perry Bacon/New Republic)

MAGA attacks on women voters are no joke (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  Amanda Marcotte loses her shit. (MAGA is the New Nigger.)

Trump DOJ unlawfully fired Epstein prosecutor Maurene Comey, judge rules (CNBC)

‘MAGA-Coded’ 60 Minutes Bashes Deportation of Illegal Immigrant, Promotes Colorado Democrats

Vanity Fair’s Kushner Conundrum (Natalie Korach/Status)

Trump admin illegally fired Maurene Comey, judge rules (Erica Orden/Politico)

DOJ unlawfully fired Epstein prosecutor Maurene Comey, judge rules (Avery Lotz/Axios)

Spurned by Trump, these outgoing Republicans aren’t helping their potential successors (Politico)  RINOs gotta RINO.

White House is sued again over media bans as press groups seek wider injunction (Scott Nover/Washington Post)

Lawsuit argues Trump’s media ban hurts news consumers (Josh Gerstein/Politico)

The US Government Is Hiding a Secret Court Ruling About How It Spies on Americans (Dell Cameron/Wired)

Donald Trump Is Bad at Politics (Chris Lehmann/The Nation)  And yet he keeps on winning. What a puzzle.

Massie says he’ll move to impeach Hegseth if he’s not gone after midterms (Ellen Mitchell/The Hill)  RINOs gotta RINO.

House Democrats call on DOJ to name special counsel in Epstein case (NBC News)

New Details of Rape Allegation Against Trump Revealed in House Democrats’ Epstein Report (Philip Wang/Time) EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN?! EPSTEIN! (Uh, Martha, I don’t think beating that dead horse is going to get it to move….)

On multiple fronts, the Trump administration faces accusations of data manipulation (Steve Benen/MS NOW)

Democrats Level New Rape Accusation Against Donald Trump (Arthur Delaney/HuffPost) EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN?! EPSTEIN! (Uh, Martha, I don’t think beating that dead horse is going to get it to move….)

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In partnership with Stanford University, we are developing transistors that use diamond as a semiconductor.

The Foundry.

The growing divide between men and women has been in the spotlight of cultural commentary for years now, but a unique aspect of it is often overlooked: That divide, while real, isn’t equally caused by both sides.

A recent survey from the Survey Center on American Life has found that while 26% of young Republican men say that women are to blame for men’s problems, a staggering 66% of young Democratic women blame women’s problems on men.

Perhaps this shouldn’t be surprising in a culture dealing with a dating, marriage, and sex recession, but it is disheartening. The reality is that we live in a world where bestselling books like “How to Date Men When You Hate Men,” and “dump him” sweaters aren’t so much controversial as they are superfluous. In many circles today, dating has been all but stamped out as a microaggression, annoying, or even … cringe.

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Chip Builder is a story-driven puzzle game about digital logic. Wire transistors into gates, gates into adders and memory, and memory into a working CPU you program yourself. Then take your design to the fab and make a real chip, design an AI accelerator, and finally run ChipCorp itself as its CEO.

If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

Not the Bee.

I regret to report that the Mohammedans are imitating their “prophet” again.

All the people crying “genocide” are pretty quiet when Christians are the target.

Babylon Bee.

After a late-night ballot dump and several emergency court rulings, Joe Biden was declared the surprise winner of Brazil’s presidential election, securing 81 million votes.

Not the Bee.

Hey, it’s in Chicago. Of course it’s going to look like a Star Wars fortress.

Not the Bee.

You can vote your way into communism, but you have to shoot your way out.

Brazil’s socialist president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, won a fourth term after his personal attorney, who was appointed to the country’s supreme court by Lula, ruled that polls in strategic areas could remain open for another two hours past closing.

Not the Bee.

450 Haitians arriving in their own country in one month?

Now imagine 20,000 Haitians plopped in small-town Ohio and Pennsylvania!

These people should be loving the opportunity to return to the promised land.

After all, Conan told me that Haiti is already great. Why wouldn’t they want to leave America, run by “Orange Hitler,” and escape to a beautiful land of diversity and democracy??

Newsbusters.

On Monday morning, the “Big Three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC each dedicated a news brief on their lead morning shows to the results of the Brazilian presidential election, with far-left incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeating Senator Flávio Bolsonaro by a razor-thin margin. The networks, though, framed it as Lulu “soundly defeating” Bolsonaro in a “clear” victory.

In reality, though, there was a litany of issues with the election, including a ruling by a justice on the Supreme Court — who also happens to be a former lawyer for Lula — that demanded polls reopen for two hours past closing time in pro-Lula precincts.

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The broadcast networks made vague allusions to the vote count, but only in the context of chiding Bolsonaro for not immediately accepting the outcome.

Starting with the rancorous corporate liberals at Disney-owned ABC and Good Morning America, weekday newsreader and weekend co-host Will Reeve boasted of “the surprise results of the presidential election in Brazil” with Lula “winning an historic fourth term, soundly defeating right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro.”

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Democrat-aligned influencers have flooded social media with near-identical videos accusing Elon Musk of trying to buy the midterm elections. The clips use the same phrasing, the same framing, and the same call to action. Accounts that normally post independent-sounding commentary suddenly received the same memo.

Imagine that.

Wall Street Apes highlighted the pattern, posting a compilation that shows multiple creators delivering the message in lockstep.

The videos hit the same beats: Musk is trying to buy the elections, the effort is funded through government contracts, and viewers should tell him the country is not for sale. Different faces. Same lines.

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Another day, another Omar scandal, another piece of evidence indicating foreign loyalties and domestic betrayal.

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) father participated in genocide in Somaliland, and Omar herself has connections to top Somali thugs, so unsurprisingly there is a natural antipathy between Omar and Somaliland. The latest (resurrected) accusation from the breakaway African republic against Omar is that she leaked classified information to Somali leaders.

Ali Hassan Mohamed, former Somaliland minister of information, originally posted his accusation against Omar in 2024, but the @RepOfSomaliland account, which Somaliland’s Foreign Ministry has said is not an official government channel, is highlighting the accusation again to emphasize why Omar is a threat to American security.

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That statement from Qiana Johnson is part of reported training material for residents to engage in “jury nullification,” whereby jurors ignore the law and incriminating facts in a given case to nullify any prosecution.

Notably, Johnson is the newly elected clerk of Prince George’s County Circuit Court in the Maryland suburbs of Washington. She is part of a growing left-wing movement gaining traction with voters that calls for radical changes to the U.S. legal system.

The effort is to engineer “Twelve Angry Men” scenarios on real juries – but unlike in the movie, the jurors are actually being trained to ignore evidence and deliberations in favor of political outcomes.

Of course, if Republicans were doing it, it would be 24/7 Threat To Our Democracy.

We already have ‘jury nullification’— from the O.J. trial to the mothers killing their children.

The New Neo.

Remember the old saying “There is no free lunch”? It was a popular phrase when I was young.

According to Google AI:

Science fiction writer Robert Heinlein popularized the acronym TANSTAAFL (“There Ain’t No Such Thing As a Free Lunch”) in his 1966 novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. …

Milton Friedman heavily used the phrase as the title of his 1975 book to argue against government-subsidized programs, price controls, and free-spending policies.

However, both then and now, the left’s favorite tactic is to promise free lunches in various guises, and then fail to deliver them. The hope is that the voting public won’t catch on. Here’s an example:

Democratic Senate candidates Troy Jackson (Maine) and Abdul El-Sayed (Michigan) have renewed the push for Medicare for All, a signature feature of Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign a decade ago. Now, as then, the issue has proven an effective vote-winner in Democratic primaries.

Among other things, “Medicare for All” makes use of the envy and anger of many in the younger generation towards the Boomers. They’ve got Medicare; why can’t we?

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A Harlem bagel shop that has servd The offense was a piece of local street art.

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani posted a Spanish-language video on Oct. 23 walking residents through what to do if immigration agents come to their door or stop them on the street, and Republicans reacted within hours. The clip went up on Instagram and X, according to Latin Times, and reaffirms the city’s sanctuary policies.

Mamdani told viewers that ICE needs a judicial warrant signed by a judge to enter a home, and that without one they can keep the door closed. In Mediaite’s translation, he tells them to look for the words “United States District Court” and a judge’s signature, and to say, “I do not consent to your entry.” If agents stop someone on the street, he says to ask, “Am I free to go?” He also urges viewers to speak with a lawyer before signing anything or making decisions about their immigration case.

Latin Times adds that the mayor says agents may misrepresent themselves or show official-looking papers that are not a court order, that everyone has the right to remain silent regardless of status, and that bystanders may film agents in public as long as they do not obstruct an arrest.

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In a packed courtroom in Leeuwarden, the official COVID story is being put on trial as Dutch plaintiffs demand personal liability from Bill Gates, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, former Prime Minister Mark Rutte and others for what their lawyer calls a coordinated global deception.

The civil case, filed in 2023, alleges the mRNA injections functioned as lethal biological weapons rolled out through unlawful public deception tied to the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset.

Two of the original seven plaintiffs have already died. Defendants’ lawyers rejected every claim, repeating that the shots were safe and effective and developed through normal science.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s re-election campaign has spent nearly $50,000 on luxury and upscale hotel stays across the country since April, according to a New York Post analysis of Federal Election Commission filings.

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British Columbians handed the Conservatives their first provincial election victory since 1928 on Saturday, ending nine years of New Democratic rule and setting the stage to dismantle a nation-killing climate agenda that sacrificed energy development and economic competitiveness.

Newsbusters.

On Wednesday evening, it got heated in the second and final debate between Michigan Senate candidates, Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers, over the issue of the Muslim Brotherhood, which many in the liberal media have wrongly claimed El-Sayed has condemned. That exchange was highlighted Wednesday night on CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, where the host falsely claimed El-Sayed has previously denounced the Muslim Brotherhood, and the term Islamophobia made an appearance.

Before Collins played a clip from the debate, her lead-in included an inaccurate defense of El-Sayed.

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The UK is on the verge of a political sea change, or, perhaps a mass rebellion. Everyone sees it, including the leftist political leaders currently running policy in the failing country. And when political elites feel threatened, they have a tendency to overreact to every perceived expression of mutiny.

To understand how far gone the UK is, one need only look at the long list of wrongful and politically motivated arrests over the past five years, including people who simply posted funny memes online. Not to mention all the police intimidation for displaying the British flag in view of people who don’t like it (migrants and leftists). However, the ugliest government actions revolve around the UK’s attempt to suppress or destroy Gen Z conservative boys.

British authorities have taken a special interest in the rise of conservative and nationalist ideals among teenage males. They have launched extensive propaganda campaigns to demonize conservative thinking among younger Brits and portrayed boys as “ticking time bombs” of racism and misogyny. This has culminated in an effort to utilize teachers as veritable secret police tasked with weeding out potential “thought criminals” in public schools.

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On Monday, AEP, X-energy and Amazon unveiled a 960 MW nuclear proposal in Sullivan County, and Canada’s AtkinsRéalis signed on to study up to eight CANDU reactors. On Tuesday, Radiant said the Navy had picked it to put a microreactor at Naval Weapons Station Crane.

That’s as many as 21 reactors floated in two days, in a state that has never had a commercial nuclear power plant. Its most serious attempt, Public Service Indiana’s Marble Hill, was abandoned half-built in 1984 after roughly $2.5 billion had been spent.

This time, the state is doing a lot of the courting itself. Since Gov. Mike Braun took office in 2025, Indiana has passed laws that let utilities recover most of the cost of developing small modular reactors before one is ever built and give a 20% tax credit to companies that manufacture them in the state.

In April, Braun signed a letter of intent with hometown drugmaker Eli Lilly to explore putting reactors at Lilly sites, and this summer the state launched a program to certify communities as “Nuclear Ready.”

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As reported in Friday’s news feed (see, for example, this New York Post report), a gunman in Trappes, a suburb of Paris, opened fire on a number of people, allegedly targeting immigrants. One person was killed and several others wounded.

Immediately after the incident President Emmanuel Macron said that the attack was the first terrorist act in France committed for reasons of skin color or religion, evidently forgetting all those Jews and white Christians who have been targeted by culture-enrichers in France over the past twenty years or so.

Or maybe Mr. Macron has dutifully absorbed the teachings of Critical Race Theory, which holds that people of color cannot possibly be racist, because they lack the power held by their white oppressors etc blah yak.

In any case, a number of critics (all of them presumably WAYCISTS of various stripes) have taken the president to task for his statement.

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Scientists in Japan have developed an experimental method that uses a chemical produced by cancer cells to manufacture anticancer drugs directly inside them. The approach relies on carbon monoxide, a toxic gas that certain tumors produce in unusually high amounts, to activate a chemical reaction designed to destroy cancer cells while limiting damage to healthy tissue.

In a proof-of-concept study published in Nature Communications, researchers at the RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute (PRI) demonstrated that their system could generate drug compounds selectively in cultured cancer cells. The findings suggest a possible alternative to conventional chemotherapy, although the technique has not yet been tested in animals or humans.

The Telegraph (UK).

A second village is to hold a referendum on leaving the UK in protest at plans to create an asylum seekers’ camp nearby.

Residents of Barnham in Suffolk backed the idea of a symbolic ballot at a meeting on Saturday, with 70 in favour of holding a vote and seven against.

Like residents who declared a republic in Piddington, Oxfordshire, villagers in Barnham strongly oppose government plans to house migrants at a former military base.

A day before the vote, the Home Office announced the numbers housed at RAF Barnham would be reduced from 1,250 asylum seekers to 930.

The Telegraph (UK).

A French man accused of a mass shooting with a submachine gun targeted “black people and Arabs” in revenge for looting during last weekend’s riots.

On Friday, one man was killed and five others were injured, including a 12-year-old girl, in a drive-by shooting in the Paris suburb of Trappes. The government has described the incident as a racially motivated terror attack. None of the victims were white.

The main suspect, identified as Kevin T, said he had singled out black and Arab people because he had been “fed up with them” after shops in Paris were ransacked during student and Yellow Vest protests, according to Le Monde.

Well, when the government doesn’t do its primary job of ensuring order and protecting its citizens, those citizens will do what they have to do on their own.

The War Zone.

U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack suggested on Friday that the U.S. could strike Iran as early as this weekend. His statement caps a week of growing speculation about whether America and Israel could resume major attacks on the Islamic Republic.

“Could there be a strike this weekend? Absolutely,” Barrack told online commentator Mario Nawfal when asked to explain the end game of efforts to seek a diplomatic resolution. “The president is very clear. He’s open and available and accessible to a deal. And we’ve been at the table for months and months and months… the nuclear proliferation and where we go with the enrichment and all those things are, are details, the punctuation in the chapter that needs to be finished.”

Interactive Map.

Every named land and sea battle fought by the Romans, from the wars of Romulus to the fall of Theodoro in 1475: the Kingdom, the Republic, the Empire, West and East as one state, and after 1204 its successor states. Where each was fought, against whom, who won, and who fought in the Roman army.

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An interactive model of how electricity is made, moved, priced and kept at 60 Hz.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, a left-leaning funding hub, received more than $50 million from federal agencies even as a former executive alleged serious compliance, accounting, and cybersecurity failures.

Unlike a traditional private foundation, RPA moves hundreds of millions of dollars both as a donor-advised-fund sponsor and as a fiscal sponsor for more than 100 projects, allowing donors to route money without revealing its ultimate source.

According to tax records, it has exchanged millions of dollars with other foundations in the Left’s ecosystem, such as the Tides network, the Open Society Foundations of Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros, and nonprofits previously associated with Arabella Advisors. Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors has also funded abortion, immigration, and climate activist groups.

“As a donor advised fund, RPA takes in funding from sources it need not name and then either sends the money out as grants to left-leaning NGOs or creates fiscally sponsored projects to do some of the same work in-house,” Ken Braun, director of content at the Capital Research Center, told the Daily Signal.

The Foundry.

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Elon Musk responded to an account on the X Platform [SEE HERE] that made a good point about how Zelenskyy’s unauthorized use of Starlink commercial satellites can create a downstream issue that is not being discussed.

“Analysts who have been bashing Elon Musk for days over this don’t get it. Russia has the capacity to blow up satellites in space. They proved this on November 15, 2021, by firing a PL-19 Nudol missile at an old satellite of their own.

The impact created a large debris cloud—more than 1,500 trackable fragments plus hundreds of thousands of smaller pieces. The International Space Station was forced to implement safe-haven procedures: the seven-person crew (including Russian cosmonauts) sealed hatches and sheltered in the docked Soyuz and Crew Dragon spacecraft for several hours as the debris cloud repeatedly crossed their orbital path.

The ISS even had to perform thruster burns on multiple occasions over the following months to avoid the debris cloud orbiting the Earth.

If Russia decides that the civilian Starlink satellite network is weaponized and fair game, we risk a serious Kessler syndrome. First modeled by NASA’s Donald Kessler and Burton Cour-Palais in 1978, it describes a scenario in which the density of objects in low Earth orbit gets so high that collisions start producing debris faster than natural processes (mainly atmospheric drag) can remove.

Each collision creates more fragments, which raise the odds of further collisions, leading to a self-sustaining cascade, a runaway cloud of satellite debris that can make certain orbital bands increasingly hazardous.

Space could become unusable for years to centuries.

You like driving around with GPS? Starlink MUST remain a civilian entity.”

Trump is pushing a massive AI buildout. His own voters are wary of what comes with it (Luke Fountain/CNBC)  The Narrative Media love to make sweeping statements that are backed by very little actual evidence.

This US House district was once a political battleground. Now it shows why Congress is dysfunctional (Nicholas Riccardi/Associated Press)  The complaint, of course, is that ‘gerrymandering’ has made the district ‘uncompetitive’ and therefore stinketh in the nostrils of a Narrative Media whose business model requires constant excitement and ‘horse races’.

How Trump Gave the Worst Polluters a Free Pass (New York Times) Bias? What bias?

Dems’ left flank sours on Trump impeachment “theater” (Andrew Solender/Axios) The surprise is that they admit it’s just theater.

Washington’s message to AI execs: Please shut up (Maria Curi/Axios)  God forbid people should speak their minds.

Troy Jackson’s Closing Argument: ‘A Vote For Susan Collins Is A Vote For Trump’ (Kevin Robillard/HuffPost)

White House Is Weighing Mass Pardons for Junior Staff (The Washington Sun)  Stirring up the dimwit base before the election.

Biden ‘autopen’ attorney and anti-Trump lawyer helping ‘Squad’ Rep. Ilhan Omar battle immigration probe (New York Post)

“A Nation Ceases To Be A Nation If It Can’t Protect Its Borders”: Fifth Circuit Backs Trump’s Mandatory Detention Policy

Facing an electoral wipeout, Trump goes after the system (Politico)

Maher Tells Trump Meeting Critics ‘F*** You’, Triggers Liberals With Leavitt Interview

Trump and the MAGA enthusiasm strategy (Byron York/Washington Examiner)  There’s that MAGA guy again. He sure gets around.

The MAHA-MAGA Alliance Is Fracturing Before the Midterms (Wall Street Journal) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHHHH….

Republicans Are Crude, Craven, Cruel. It’s Not Working Anymore. (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)  Bias? What bias?

The Other McCain.

Anyway, I was amused this week by the shocking revelation that fake pollsters were able to get away with their fakery, being cited as reliable by the New York Times and other media outlets.

Oh—say it ain’t so….