Good morning one and all to another amazing day!
Afghan resettlement program to be scrutinized after shooting, planned bombing of National Guard
Trump Says Pause on Asylum Decisions Will Be in Place for ‘A Long Time’
Bessent Moves to Completely Cut Off Illegals From U.S. Financial System
Electricity Bills to Skyrocket This Holiday Season
Black Friday Spending Surges Past Forecasts, Capping Strong Holiday Kickoff
China’s Factory Activity Shrinks Again in November, Services Activity Cools
Food stamp data show thousands of liquor, smoke shops are approved for EBT, raising fraud concerns
The Ohio State University beats Michigan 27-9
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Just in time for the end of Break #1.
Noted.
Are you from a place whose ideals are funidmentally incompatable with ours? Denied.
That’s pretty much everywhere. Better question would be – are your values more aligned to ours than to your native culture?
Denied.
*stamps paperwork*
Go back.
There are people we should allow in.
Undoubtedly, JI. And they will still be there in a few years when we have run off the current illegals and lift the moratorium.
Oh, I doubt we are actually going to get a sensible immigration policy – not sooner and not later.
So 80% of the world.
Bessent Moves to Completely Cut Off Illegals From U.S. Financial System
This won’t be abused by future administrations, no sirree.
“Treasury Secretary Scott Beis is moving to remove illegal aliens from the U.S. financial system entirely. If you are not allowed to be in the country, you certainly should not be receiving taxpayer-funded benefits.”
Looks like a bad headline. Nothing in the article about debanking. Also got the Treasury Secretary’s name wrong.
Just enforcing current patriot act requirements would do the trick in most cases. This is just more of the shit that gets routinely ignored for a certain sub-set of the population for their covenience.
I’m sure domestic demand in China will cover the slack as we decouple from their countfeit trash.
If it affects them too much they will just start a war.
Sanctions were enough to goad Japan into starting a war with the US. Should be good enough for the Chicoms too.
Does this mean we’ve been [aying for Pie’s Rye?
Queue up the articles on why EBT sould remain in use at Ed’s Liquor and Tabacco because of ‘food deserts’ or some bullshit.
Phillies are a digestive in some cultures.
Don’t forget the strip clubs.
So, I don’t have to select English on the ATM anymore?
English is no longer an option for ATMs. You need to learn Igbo.
That Ohio State victory has become such a rarity that it is noteworthy?
Be thankful Sloopy didn’t do today’s links.
I’m betting he couldn’t do the links, on account of being at the doctor. Something something 4 hours, something see your physician.
The background colors would be changed? He would use Ohio State font?
He would still try to make the case that OSU doesn’t mean Oregon State University?
I’m betting he couldn’t do the links, on account of being at the doctor.
Better than the alternative of a 72 hour vacation.
Ohio State can finally win because they no longer have to face JJ McCarthy.
You can’t expect any team to win when facing the elite skillz of JJ.
/Bitter Vikings Fan
“Former President Joe Biden oversaw massive energy cost spikes, with residential electricity costs rising about 25 percent from 2020 to 2024, according to IER research. During his tenure, Biden declared that he aimed to shut coal “plants down all across America,” blocked the Keystone XL pipeline project, froze new liquified natural gas exports, and allowed strenuous regulations on power plants that a top grid regulator warned would be “catastrophic” if they came into full effect.”
CWAA
They hate you and want you dead.
They want us to live like the Europoors.
“The Ohio State University beats Michigan 27-9”
I see what you did there.
Yeah, but did the fans show their support?
Ladies and gentlemen, we may well have reached peak Gruniad!
Both people gained and the writer sees this as a bad thing.
Actual well being is not important, only equalized misery matters! You want to eliminate actual poverty and reduce suffering, but your moral betters understand that comparative poverty is the real enemy, and are willing to reduce everyone (except themselves) to zero in order to bring the Jubilee!
If everyone has “fuck you” money, nobody needs elites to tell them how badly they have it.
“We need another annual junket for the elite.”
To verify that you are sufficiently expert to be on the panel, we will need to examine the brain. Step one is to relove the head so as to open it easier. Place head in guillotine slot and wait for the “kerchunk”
I don’t need to relove my head, thank you very much.
To be fair… the greed and envy that are typical of Grauniad readers often do lead to instability, violence, and authoritarianism – it’s just human nature.
FBI “self-criticism” – sounds like MSNOW more than NYP.
Anonymous sources are the most trustworthy.
“Sources say…”
Yeah, someone wants him out.
They need scalps. Patel would be an easy one.
“You’re everything we’ve come to expect from years of government training.”
He’s a dot not a feather you racist!
I wonder if Ed Soloman knew his movie would have such great and poignant quotes.
And how!
I have some reservations about that.
To be fair, that’s pretty much every politician these days.
Internet service providers warn of mass disconnections in Supreme Court battle with record labels
I hope “rootkit” Sony loses.
Quite interesting that it is just the music industry who is still fighting this battle and not the movie or much larger and successful industy…gaming.
IP is such bullshit for non-exclusive goods.
What’s a non-exclusive good?
You could have stopped after 4 words.
Something people can steal and profit off of without having deprived you of the original you put all of your effort into creating.
“What’s a non-exclusive good?”
I assume he meant Non-excludable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goods#Goods_classified_by_exclusivity_and_competitiveness
“without having deprived you of the original you put all of your effort into creating.”
So nothing was stolen from you.
Except all the profits from your effort.
Thanks robc, must’ve been between the first and second cup of coffee.
Except all the profits from your effort.
That why you still have a day job?
That wasn’t fair and also, hurtful. Like, should we not WANT to be paid for our WORK (yes, robc, it is) just because we know we probably WON’T be?
Personally, I find the notion that you can only own something you can touch to be both primitive and unrealistic.
“by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors”
Beyond the life of the originator is no longer limited.
you can only own something you can touch to be both primitive and unrealistic
Whereas you may be infringing a gene patent is realistic?
“should we not WANT to be paid for our WORK (yes, robc, it is)”
Of course it is work, and yes you should be paid for it. Get a patron, just like was done before IP law existed.
Shakespeare didn’t make anything from writing his plays, he made it from box office sales. Musicians make their money from concerts. Artists had patrons. So on and so forth.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15339775/Sydney-Sweeney-Friendsgiving-Scooter-Braun.html
Dragon or devil?
Good on her to not have ‘itty-bitty-titty’ friends.
That’s about as close as you could get without a big face mask or something.
Admittedly not trying too hard to look like Dragon.
Classic Mercedes-Benz Monobloco Bus. A look inside the iconic, unitized body design.
https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1995420529839460558
So chrome.
“Shirley MacLaine, 91, soaks up the sun and enjoys cocktails on rare outing to beloved Malibu hangout”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15340619/Shirley-MacLaine-hollywood-cocktails-Malibu.html
She was aging so well, but it eventually caught up with her.
If she can sip cocktails at 91 she’s doing OK.
I understand completely. At a certain point it doesn’t make much sense to continue to push back.
It ain’t wedding bells that are breaking up that old gang of mine.
She’s looked better but she looks fine. Most 91 year olds are way more skeletal.
“A 65-year-old man suffered burns to his legs after his pants were set on fire on a subway platform in Times Square early Monday, cops said.
The injured man was found on the platform at the 42nd Street station just after 3 a.m. after police responded to a 911 call about an assault.
Police are still probing whether someone attacked the man or if he set himself alight.”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/01/us-news/man-has-pants-set-on-fire-on-times-square-subway-platform-cops/
They ruled out lying?
Are you calling him a liar?
Hotpants are back?
“And Secretary of State Marco Rubio wants nothing less than the removal of Maduro and his cronies and the installation of the opposition leaders duly elected in July 2024.”
https://nypost.com/2025/11/30/opinion/trumps-push-on-venezuela-looks-to-be-the-safest-first-step-against-the-fentanyl-cartels/
So this has nothing to do with drugs.
“But if he keeps up the pressure campaign he has started, regime change is likely what we will be seeing in Venezuela later this month.”
No.
Well, many Americans were tired of fighting on the other side of the globe. So bring it closer and ramp up the idea its ‘in our backyard’ and we get our military adventure time once again!
That, or… a guerrilla war in a mountainous jungle country twice the size of Iraq – which eventually destabilizes the whole region.
And? /CIA
“which eventually destabilizes the whole region”
That’s the biggest risk and we’ll be morally obligated to let in all of the refugees because we caused the shitstorm in the first place. Trump really is a stupid man who needs to get Lindsay Graham’s dick out of his mouth.
get Lindsay Graham’s dick out of his mouth
Ewww. Besides, who’s hand is up Graham’s arse running him?
Make Jungle Warfare Great Again!
Enh, he’s purportedly running a “narco-state” so drugs are probably part of it.
Another part is we probably want their oil.
Well we can’t get regime change in Russia (even after we did in Ukraine), so let’s pick on someone else for a while!
If we put in the right people we can effectively steal their resources, that’s almost always what it’s about. IOW, oil. The drugs are a fig leaf. If they were the primary concern we’d be invading Mexico and/or Columbia.
So we failed in Iraq.
Didnt get a drop of their oil.
Good morning!
UnCiv: I don’t know how the revolver shooters at nats “clean” their guns, but they’re all stainless, 97% S&W and all have a very specific patina to them. It does look cool to me, but de gustibus.
🤷♂️
I have to see what it looks like as it goes along.
““For the first time, the US FDA will acknowledge that COVID-19 vaccines have killed American children,” Prasad said. “Healthy young children who faced tremendously low risk of death were coerced, at the behest of the Biden administration, via school and work mandates, to receive a vaccine that could result in death. In many cases, such mandates were harmful. It is difficult to read cases where kids aged 7 to 16 may be dead as a result of covid vaccines.””
There was absolutely no reason to “vaccinate” them in the first place.
Sure there was. How else can you run the Pavlovian experiment otherwise.
Sadly, my son who was never vaccinated against Hep-B doesn’t question why his child has been. The experiment is over, and the bastards proved their point.
Eh, pretty close to a Mengele experiment it was.
The saddest part about the whole thing is how easily Americans just rolled over and passively accepted the jackboot on their necks.
The saddest part about the whole thing is how easily Americans just rolled over and passively accepted the jackboot on their necks.
The real eyeopener for me was not how willing people were to passively accept the jackboot on their neck. I expected that. It wasn’t even that they were happy to go along when the jackboot asked them to report their neighbors. It was the extent to which they actually begged for more jackboots, and more punishment for their neighbors. It wasn’t just people going along with the tyrant to avoid punishment, or informing on their neighbors to curry favor, it was bottom up anger that someone would dare to object and desire to punish those who did.
bottom up anger that someone would dare to object and desire to punish those who did
How dare you not conform and threaten my own conformity!!!
@Jarflax:
Yep. The Leftists who were screaming about Trump’s authoritarianism were then complaining that governors were still “allowing” outdoor dining and church attendance. And their “healthcare is a human right” slogan went out the window as they cheered for unvaccinated people to be denied care at emergency rooms.
It’s sad, but also informative. We need to see the true colors.
There was absolutely no reason to “vaccinate” them in the first place.
Sure there was, to set a precedent to unconstitutionally control the population through “emergency” edicts.
Good they acknowledged that but it all started under you know who, not that the Dems wouldn’t have been worse.
The same guy who got the ball rolling on the inflation?
IT WAS A PANDEMIC!!!
THEY WERE DOING THE BEST THEY COULD WITH THE KNOWLEDGE WE HAD AT THE TIME!!!
Evil bastards.
They’re just stupid bastards under the first parameters, it is the refusal to admit they were wrong that really makes them evil.
Pretty sure the higher ups knew the first parameters were a lie.
Well, top of the heap we had Trump – who wanted no business reassuring the panicky masses, so he handed it off to the First Bureaucrat. Now he of course did know the whole story and lied his ass off about everything. I would too if I wasn’t going to be held accountable.
After the cruise ship and the Navy ship, and with the experience of northern Italy, everything was out in the open about what we were dealing with. There are zero excuses, in my book, for the way the pandemic was handled.
And, yes, that is on Trump’s head. I had serious reservations about voting for him in 2024 based on his handling of COVID.
RC remembers better than I did. The cruise ship was the best indicator and everyone ‘forgot’ the lesson of that unintended experiment.
I hate the “We didn’t know better at the time, we were doing the best we could”.
Look buddy, if you don’t have concrete proof that your hardcore plan is the only way to save everyone, then you don’t get to do it. By definition, not knowing better is a completely valid reason NOT to put your plan into action.
“I was driving at night without lights. My plan was to push the petal to the metal. Turns out that was a bad plan. But at the time I didn’t know better that the road curved!”
@ Jimbo:
Exactly. They lied about the level of certainty they had.
Things probably would have gone a lot better if they had just said, “This is a new virus and we’re working as fast as we can to find a solution. In the meantime, please stay home if you’re sick.”
The only thing that most pro-Covid regime people regret is the “loss of trust in public health institutions”, but they’re very hesitant to put any blame with those institutions themselves. They fucking did it with their blatant lying and corruption.
Anyone who suggested vaccinating children and healthy young adults should be sentenced to death. As it was alledgedly a pandemic (and at this point, I’m being very generous/charitable) and we just didn’t know, at-risk groups should have had the option to take the vaccines. Nobody should have been forced to take the clot-shots.
I was informally counseled at my old job because anytime anyone brought up vaccinating kids, I would pipe up that that was straight up child abuse.
Our project manager was a typical suburban mom who couldn’t get her kids jabbed fast enough. She took offense at my position. She complained to my manager and HR about it.
The manager and HR talked to me “off the record” about being more tolerant. I said, I only stated my opinion AFTER she had started lecturing everyone else about how great the vax was. My position was, if someone got to talk about their opinion, I got to talk about mine too.
Never heard anything about it again. The PM did stop lecturing others (at least when I was around). I think she got a talking to as well.
* That company was actually pretty good during the Rona lockdowns. They didn’t push anyone to get the jab. There were some people working of Fed projects who had to get the jab to stay on those projects. If they refused, they were just moved to a different project.
Remind me how many healthy American children died from covid. Last I checked the number was zero.
We don’t really know since we never distinguished between dying from and dying with.
The numbers of ‘children’ 15 and under who died with covid in the first year was low double digits. I think it was 27 or something.
Trying to find if they didn’t have comorbidities is impossible. Intentionally.
This is nothing but RFK anti-vax bullshit and I’m going to vaccinate my kids even harder now!
/everyone on the left
Once a bomb is dropped on your country without a declaration of war, I think it’s yours to keep.
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-876530
Does it have the “Property of the US Government” statement with return instructions?
“Acme Products”
Guess it doesn’t hurt to ask but I doubt they’ll be very receptive.
Of course there are ways to make that bomb (and whatever’s around it) go boom after the fact if they don’t want to return it.
Put it in a pager?
Finders keepers!
I have doubts about whether Russia and, especially, China need to get their hands on a GBU-39 in order to know all about their design.
They all subscribe to Jane’s and have the internet.
This. If it was guided, they might be curious about that package. The bomb itself isn’t significantly different than bombs dropped on Vietnam in the 60s.
I think it’s yours to keep regardless of whether war has been declared.
Yes, but if war were declared and someone set you up the bomb, you should move zig.
Huh? That is a change. We keep telling Germany, Japan, Vietnam, and nK that “Sorry we gave those bombs to you. If you want to render them safe it is up to YOUR explosive ordnance disposal services and not ours.”
SARC in part. We want the guidance parts of the munition. The parts that go BOOM are theirs to keep.
“Stuckey’s book “Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion” came out in late 2024, but the idea for it appears to have originated on a 2022 episode of her popular podcast “Relatable.” She hadn’t yet come up with the catchphrase “toxic empathy” — which, in true trolling style, appropriates the progressive use of the term “toxic” to describe unhealthy and cruel behavior — but her basic argument is right there.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/12/01/magas-war-on-empathy-was-started-by-a-woman/
The first known use of toxic was in 1664.
“It’s basically the same trick the right is pulling when they make women the face of anti-feminism. Because they’re perceived as going against their own self-interest, female misogynists tend to get more of a hearing, which isn’t true. There are ample financial rewards for being a female anti-feminist, far beyond what feminism has to offer. But the perceived novelty of the anti-feminist woman keeps working, even as it is objectively a tired trope. Stuckey’s spin is even more abstract, but the same tactic. “Toxic empathy” is a phrase that embeds the idea that women have too much power in our society — and that their alleged overabundance of compassion is destroying us.”
What?
“Toxic Empathy”
That phrase – I do not think it means what you think it means.
Oooohh! It’s a Salon article. Makes sense now.
alleged overabundance of compassion
It’s actually an overabundance of alleged compassion.
There are ample financial rewards for being a female anti-feminist, far beyond what feminism has to offer.
Um, what?? Feminism has large and influential organizations, numerous Women’s Studies departments at universities, and such ability to direct voters that every candidate has to speak specifically about what they’ll do for women.
There is no anti-feminist organization with any influence, no support from the university system, and no large voter bloc who will march on command. The most prominent anti-feminist woman is probably Janice Fiamengo, whose financial rewards are whatever she gets on Substack from paid subscriptions.
Emotional exploitation has long been in their SOP.
Stuckey can think for herself, thank you very much.
It’s like the feminine version of Marx’s false consciousness argument: “she’d be a true feminist if she developed the correct gender awareness.”
How many times must we be graced with Amanduh’s stupidity?
Twice a week?
Same as downtown?
First night on the job was 5 hours of online training. The break room has a good variety of free snacks. I guess they try harder to keep people quitting. The shift went by fast and quietly.
So it goes…
It seems one hour of minimum wage work is enough for a couple tall cans and a fast-food meal. Makes sense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7ANZ8Osnz4
I actually liked the first few seasons of Orphan Black. The sequel suffers from at least one of the flaws of the OG series which is that the writer(s?) consider wokeness at least as important if not moreso than the actual, you know, story. The particular flavor of wokeness makes me think that it’s a single-person driven effort, since the whole “genetics are not determinant of sexuality” is heterodox.
The sequel is set in 2050, the links to the OG being that Super-baby from the first series is a middle aged… whatever the academic/industrial crossover is that passes for “scientist” on TV who has learned how to 3D print organs and has naturally taken things one step further and is 3D printing people. ‘Cause clones are so passe now, 3D printing is the hip new technology. There was also a cameo by the actor who played Felix, and I spent all of his screen time being aghast at how badly his fake moustache was done. The politics are obnoxiously unsubtle, as in the original series (the protagonist is literally (non-ironically) mocked for being in a monogamous relationship with a cishet male (though at least he’s not white)) whereas literally every other character in the first five episodes is a lesbian. This also is the surprisingly retrograde idea about sexuality that the original had — if literal clones can have any sexuality, the sexuality is not genetic which means conversion therapy can work. I enjoyed the first four episodes, but it came to a screeching halt with episode five, which has been nothing but a grrl powah! love story about how all the important people are super-genius lesbians in love with each other. So Super-baby falls in love with other (older) super-genius lesbian they have a mixed race baby together (despite both of them being white), but then OSGL tragically comes down with Alzheimers, so Super-baby prints a 3D backup of older super-genius lesbian, but the printout doesn’t have the long-term memories so it doesn’t realize how much she is in love with Super-baby and is also somehow straight. I haven’t made it through that episode yet, jhad to stop and drink more. There is also an ominous bad guy who is one of the only three males in the show. The other two are the passive but hot (non white) guy 3D printout is into and the only white male who is of course a sadist hired killer working for ominous bad guy. Sadist hired killer is also deeply into Celine Dion, don’t know if that’s a Fuck You to the original show’s CanCon roots or what.
As a fan of the original…YUCK!
And I will not waste my time with the new one.
I thought/think that it’s a one-and-done season, so I had decent expectations that it wouldn’t meander off and go all Lost like the first series (and BSG and…) did.
However, since the big reveal has happened halfway through the fifth (of ten) episode, I haven’t the foggiest idea what the point of the rest of the series will be other than to show how bad ominously bad man is.
I enjoyed OB back when my wife and I watched it when it first came out on DVD.
The woke/gay thing drove us nuts. Hollywood (worldwide) thinks 20%+ is gay. They don’t live in the real world.
Tucker said 30% of England is gay.
The G20 inequality report lays out a comprehensive redesign of global economic governance reminiscent of 1944’s Bretton Woods settlement. What led to that overhaul is being identified again today: global rules and institutions that are generating crises, instability and inequality. Prof Stiglitz wants structural change – suggesting a rewrite of intellectual property rules as well as trade and investment treaties, a reform of global lenders, and an update of tax systems as well as sovereign debt arrangements.
Global socialist dictatorship is what we need.
Man, I never saw that coming.
a middle aged… whatever the academic/industrial crossover is that passes for “scientist” on TV who has learned how to 3D print organs
Product development at Campbell’s Soup?
Billboards, Donations and 6,000 Letters: Why Luigi Mangione’s Fans Won’t Quit
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/luigi-mangione-fans-unitedhealthcare-shooting-0ec6c4ad?st=aXeG9T&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Because elites don’t understand just how broken healthcare in the US is.
Also pay no mind to this…
https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/unitedhealth-acknowledges-federal-probe-medicare-advantage-practices
*raises hand*
They are communists. It has nothing to do with “health care”.
What do I win?
Just about every time I interact with UHC, I want to go full Luigi. Latest was a letter threatening to cut off FSA card unless we provided within 15 days full documentation for a card swipe. At a healthcare provider. From 3 months ago.
Pretty sure the higher ups knew the first parameters were a lie.
If those models had been wrong BY MISTAKE they would have been corrected as new information became available.
Also, when the death rates didn’t get to what the models thought they would, another response could have been, “wow, it’s good to see fewer people dying than we thought.” Instead, it was “yeah, well, just you wait, more people are going to die.”
See also, global warming; “if we don’t fight them over there, we’ll have to fight them over here” and so on ad nauseum.
When the death rate wasnt what it was guessed to be I still hold belief that aome cities made sure it got closer to the guess by enacting policies to encourage it to rise.
It’s almost like the feds were showering them with extra cash for each “case”.
We weren’t wrong. /the experts
TW:TOS
“For those who missed the internationally publicized brouhaha, a tabby named Kit Kat had lived in the city’s Mission, where he sauntered into bodegas and bars. Dubbed the Mayor of 16th Street, Kit Kat was by all accounts a charming character. Then on October 27, the unthinkable happened: a Waymo self-driving taxi ran him over. Kit Kat’s fans have erected memorials and taken to social media to mourn.”
https://reason.com/2025/11/28/self-driving-cars-will-make-the-world-safer-for-humans-and-cats/
Can we have self-driving cars run over more mayors?
I cannot wait until the first greenie who superglues himself to the street during a Just Stop Oil protest is slowly run down by a Waymo.
I can imagine it now. The shouts of people trying to stop the inexorable forward progress of a Waymo, the horrified death scream of the victim cut short as the Waymo crushes his ribcage, accentuated by the reek of half-digested vegan hot dogs exploding from his ruptured organs…
His man-bun forever stilled, soaked in his own iron-deficient blood.
It would be like Ken coming to k-k-k-kill Otto.
“R-r-revenge!”
How Austin Powers of you
WAS THAT A MAN BABY, YEAH!
Can we have self-driving cars run over more mayors?
Bug or feature?
AI slop goes to Washington
Now, one organization suggests artificial intelligence can go beyond making daily life more convenient. It says it’s the key to reshaping American politics.
“Without AI, what we’re trying to do would be impossible,” explained Adam Brandon, a senior adviser at the Independent Center, a nonprofit that studies and engages with independent voters.
The goal is to elect a handful of independent candidates to the House of Representatives in 2026, using AI to identify districts where independents could succeed and uncover diamond in the rough candidates.
In a time when control of the House balances on a knife’s edge, winning even a handful of seats could deny either party from getting a majority and upend the way the House currently operates.
Obviously, those “independents” will be enlightened discriminating devotees of the right kind of democracy, men and women who will put the whammy on those depraved MAGA Republicans and return the nation to sanity.
You totally could not analyze that data in a conventional fashion. Nosiree.
I hate where this is going.
Have they finally managed to create an AI that doesn’t hallucinate? The results here might actually be kind of funny.
“The rising price of gas and electricity comes amid a host of other worsening costs Americans are facing due to the climate crisis. Home insurance rates are rocketing in many parts of the country, amid an onslaught of severe weather impacts, with Realtor.com recently finding that premiums could surge by another 16%, on average, by 2027.
Flooding, meanwhile, is also set to become a larger financial liability for households. In the past decade, more than $45bn in flood damages a year, on average, has been inflicted upon American communities, with the Congressional Budget Office estimating that this cost could rise by as much as a third within the next 30 years.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/01/gas-energy-prices
Bullshit.
The “onslaught of severe weather” that… isn’t happening.
No hurricanes making U.S. landfall is so inconvenient, after the predictions and all.
They have a way to wave that away ji
So see!
We could reduce flood loss damages by stopping the subsidization of building in flood zones.
I wish it would get hotter.
I’d save on my heating bill.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/01/california-governor-candidates-democrats-republicans
CWABOA
Nice work…Katie Porter gets no mention of party affiliation…lol
It’s a mystery.
She’s just a crusader fighting her little people…er, I mean, fighting for the little people.
I love how almost all of them emphasis affordability. Because, you know, existing policies have nothing to do with the current lack of affordability.
They haven’t tried real Democratism yet.
Motor voter
Top two primary
Open primary
RCV
All designed to get the progs elected.
My kid goes back home to Washington on Thursday, and I’m sad about that, but I’m also happy to see the USS Nimitz is currently in Pearl Harbor (which in itself is awesome). She’s finally going to have her sailor back in a few weeks.
1. Perhaps one’s chromosomes might be useful in treating cancer.
2. I believe NYS is a one party consent state for telephone. I’m not sure how that applies within a hospital.
3. How the heck was the phone in OR?
The Transgender Cancer Patient and What She Heard on Tape
Jennifer Capasso had endured multiple tumors. She wondered what might be said during her next cancer surgery. So, she hit record on her phone.
https://archive.fo/8HUQz
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/nyregion/transgender-patient-records-during-cancer-surgery.html
There are many Jennifer Capasso, so no idea what this person looked like.
“Ms. Capasso, a Queens resident, became a patient at MSK after she was diagnosed with Stage 4 metastatic rectal cancer in 2020. During her five years as a patient, MSK providers and staff repeatedly referred to Ms. Capasso as a man, including by addressing and referring to her as “he,” “him,” “sir,” and “mister;” subjected her to offensive and degrading comments about being transgender, including during invasive medical procedures; and provided her with inferior care. For the first two years of her treatments, Ms. Capasso’s patient records at MSK accurately reflected her female sex. In early 2022, the hospital unilaterally changed Ms. Capasso’s sex designation to “male” without her knowledge or consent, and refused to correct her records for nearly three years.”
Her sex is male.
Jennifer *is* a man.
So he got the butt cancer.
What happens in the bath house is supposed to stay in the bath house.
Real name Ben?
No quantity of cosmetic surgery will make a man into a woman or vice versa.
Phones are not allowed in the operating room.
Any phones.
Yep, calling bullshit.
This person is already a narcissist of the highest order so getting xerself into a friendly outlet with a pile of lies is a no-brainer.
Narcissist? Whatever could give you that idea?
“I was going to be a pretty corpse,”
I can’t access it because the NYT thinks I’m a robot, but I doubt he will be a “pretty corpse”.
He said the people criticizing independents getting into races as spoilers have an entrenched interest in the current system.
“The Republican and Democratic establishments still live in a world that’s binary. It’s Coke or Pepsi, it’s Ford or Chevy, it’s MSNBC or Fox News,” he said. “That works for people that watch MSNBC and Fox News. Everybody else? We don’t live in that binary system anymore.”
Brandon said the only thing to do is lean in.
“We’re going to embrace the spoiler because what we’re spoiling is a pretty corrupt system.”
“Ford or Chevy”? Why not Trabant?
I like how he completely ignores the part where the “spoiler” candidate mostly siphons off votes from what would be the majority pool of voters. Maybe they’ll devise an AI ranked choice “correction” to reallocate votes to their preferred candidate.
The problem with democracy isn’t the parties/candidates, it’s the voters.
Yeah, if your Third Way, or whatever you are calling it, was popular it would have taken over one of the two parties, like Trump took over the dying Republicans.
“Record cold for 235 million Americans starting in just HOURS as polar vortex brings ‘most extreme cold on Earth'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15342083/Weather-Record-cold-235-million-Americans-polar-vortex.html
Where’s muh climate change?
Oh noes, cold weather in December?
😱
UNPRECEDENTED!!! Damn OMB and his denying followers!!!
I remember the days before the media put the words polar and vortex together.
I remember when they didn’t name blizzards.
I’m so old, I remember when global warming was mainly supposed to mean warmer winters.
Global Warming: it slices, it dices, it juliennes!
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Whoever here offers odds on relegation (robc? RC Dean?) can limit the odds in the English Championship to the second and third teams to go down.
Because Sheffield Wednesday are toast: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c62lg40me4po
Now on -10 points and already 27 points from safety.
Did they do anything worse than Man City?
Probably not, but the points’ deductions have been pretty bolierplate: auto 12-points in October for going into administration. This 6-point deduction is for payment failures. I know they’ve missed player payments a couple of times since October as well as a couple of other issues.
So, yeah, probably deserved. But it doesn’t excuse the BS foot-dragging on City.
foot-dragging on City
No one at the EPL or the FA want the Jamal Kashoggi treatment.
But, are they “beans on toast” toast?
Not me. I don’t follow Euro gayball.
Over 120,000 home cameras hacked in South Korea for ‘sexploitation’ footage
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj01q6p7ndlo
Based on fertility data I did not know koreans had sex
Sad.
Jumping in front of the parade
The World Health Organization on Monday recommended GLP-1 drugs as a tool to manage obesity in adults, marking a shift in the way the U.N. agency has historically framed obesity treatment.
The WHO said that GLP-1 drugs can be part of a long-term treatment strategy that combines medication with counseling on healthy diets and physical activity. Previous WHO recommendations focused on the latter.
You know what else really melts away those pounds? Subsistence farming.
This is going to be Adderall all over again. A new drug that provides great benefits to early patients that really need it, turns into a money-maker that every doctor prescribes to every “non-typical” person regardless of whether it is actually needed by that person or not.
Why do you hate doctors?
I’m waiting for the drug ads for blindness and stomach paralysis to drop.
Even if you get the magic injection that is Safe and Effective™, you still have to make lifestyle changes to keep the weight off, or else you just end up back at square one.
Unless the goal is to get people to believe that they can live on the couch eating sugar as long as they keep taking the injections…
Oh.
Was Stiglitz coaching them?
The proposal came from the youth wing of the country’s left-wing Social Democrats. Money raised from the tax would have been earmarked to fund policies to combat climate change, with the party saying it would “channel billions into climate protection every year while simultaneously combating extreme wealth inequality.”
Sounds legit.
So two non-existent problems?
Narrator: Those billions are not going to be “channeled” where you think they are.
The Swiss voted it down, decisively.
Which again proves – voters can’t be trusted!
Don’t worry, they’ll keep trying.
Why do you hate doctors?
No doctor ever got a new Jaguar by saying, “Get out of my office. There’s nothing wrong with you.”
There are no new jaguars. They have been discontinued
The problem with democracy isn’t the parties/candidates, it’s the voters.
That’s why we need to replace them with AI algorithms.
There were plotters, there was no doubt about it. Some had been ordinary people who’d had enough. Some were young people with no money who objected to the fact that the world was run by old people who were rich. Some were in it to get girls. And some had been idiots as mad as Swing, with a view of the world just as rigid and unreal, who were on the side of what they called ‘the people’. Vimes had spent his life on the streets, and had met decent men and fools and people who’d steal a penny from a blind beggar and people who performed silent miracles or desperate crimes every day behind the grubby windows of little houses, but he’d never met The People.
People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn’t that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.
“Great idea. Wrong species.”
“Appeals court disqualifies former Trump lawyer Alina Habba from serving as interim US attorney for New Jersey”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/01/us-news/appeals-court-disqualifies-alina-habba-from-serving-as-interim-us-attorney-for-new-jersey/
Oh come on, just look at her boobs.
https://babylonbee.com/news/trumps-strategy-of-hiring-lawyers-based-on-bust-size-not-working-as-well-as-anticipated
The journalo should have followed up that by asking King Walz how many people he has locked up for fraud. The answer is ZERO! Every single prosecution has been by the Feds. I’m not aware of any state or city prosecutions.
Ya that story about fraud SHOULD open everyone’s eyes…but instead we will collectivley double-down on our demise.
I always thought that food stamps started as part of the ‘war on poverty.’
Not shocked to know they were a government program to alleviate the damage caused by government under FDR.
Rot in hell commie scum.