THIS IS PROBABLY TRUE: Republicans Have a Year to Make Progress on Affordability or Republicans Are (Probably) Toast.

XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT! Ex-top NY aide accused of being secret agent for China in exchange for lavish perks as fed trial begins: ‘Linda Sun was for sale.’

Linda Sun “was for sale,” federal prosecutors charged Wednesday as the former top aide to Govs. Kathy Hochul and Andrew Cuomo went on trial for allegedly betraying New Yorkers in favor of the Chinese government.

Sun, 42, sat calmly as Assistant US Attorney Amanda Shami launched into withering opening statements outlining the feds’ case that the ex-official acted as a secret agent for China in exchange for a shower of payoffs and lavish high-end goodies.

“Her loyalty was for sale, and the Chinese government, which wanted to influence the New York government, was willing to pay her to do their bidding,” Shami said in Brooklyn federal court, dramatically pointing in Sun’s direction at one point.

Exit question:

How is it not a bigger story that a senior aide to the last 2 New York Governors was secretly an agent for the Chinese government? pic.twitter.com/UZ9ykajKVz

— AG (@AGHamilton29) November 13, 2025

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: “Law professors spend a lot of time worrying about the structure of the courts and who should be a judge or Justice. I worry more about who should be a prosecutor.”

ICYMI: Patel Just Scored a Big Win With China.

UM: Have American Institutions Become Overly Feminized? Seven women discuss.

ANDREW STILES ON CAMELOT’S LAST GASP: Jack Schlossberg, ‘Obviously Disturbed’ Scion of Hitler Apologist, Enters the Family Business (Politics, Not Sexual Predation).

Jack Schlossberg, the sentient boat shoe and semi-employed TikTok user, is running for Congress in New York. It was bound to happen. The 32-year-old Democrat belongs to the Kennedy dynasty—that inexplicably beloved menagerie of goon-faced Habsburgian freaks, Nantucket douche bros, chronic alcoholics, and bloated sex pests. Schlossberg, a mentally deranged internet addict who cracks jokes about guzzling “Jew blood” and “male jizz,” has sought to inject the storied Kennedy brand with Gen Z flare.

Schlossberg is undeterred by the fact that no one really wants him to run for Congress—not even his own mother. Why shouldn’t he be in politics? He has a family pedigree that most mainstream journalists would consider impressive. He is the great-grandson of Joseph P. Kennedy, the notorious Nazi sympathizer. He is the sole grandson of John F. Kennedy, the famed pervert who preyed on teenage interns while serving as president of the United States. His mother, Caroline Bouvier Kennedy, is the cousin of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ex-wife. His great-uncle, former senator Ted Kennedy (D., Mass.), killed a woman with his car and sexually assaulted a waitress with former senator Chris Dodd (D., Conn.) in 1985.

Exit quote:

If he gets a Nazi tatt, this guy's a shoo-in. https://t.co/Po7Rod0hxx

— Jon Gabriel (@exjon) November 12, 2025

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Irony: ‘No Kings’ Dems Try Desperately to Revive Kennedy Dynasty … Again.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: HP 15.6 inch Laptop, HD Touchscreen Display. #CommissionEarned

PARTY LIKE IT’S 1939: Germany’s rearmament upends Europe’s power balance.

For decades, the European Union ran on an unspoken understanding: Germany handled the money, France handled the military. Now, the tables are turning.

As Germany aims to become Europe’s predominant military power, the political balance is shifting. In France, there’s a scramble to stay relevant, while in Poland, Germany’s rearmament is stirring old ghosts and creating a sense that a Berlin-Warsaw alliance might be the most effective way to keep Russia at bay.

“Everywhere I go in the world, from the Baltics to Asia, people are asking Germany to take on more responsibility,” said Christoph Schmid, a German Social Democratic lawmaker on the Bundestag’s defense committee. “The expectation is that Germany will finally step up and match its economic weight with defense power.”

A Germany with Europe’s largest army, equipped with cutting edge tanks, missiles and jets, is a far cry from the shambolic Bundeswehr derided for its low morale and outdated equipment. That military power is tied to political and economic heft — and Europe will have to adapt to a dominant Germany.

But you have to read halfway through the long-ish report to get to this: “The main caveat is whether German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will manage to fill the Bundeswehr’s personnel gaps.”

That’s one helluva caveat.

MATT TAIBBI: Big Story on Pandemic Origins? Newly released documents again point to American complicity in developing the Covid virus.

Related: Alex Berenson: Ralph Baric, the world’s top coronavirus researcher, discussed “human adaptation” of coronaviruses with the CIA before Covid began. “Does that mean the CIA caused Covid? Well, no. But it does mean Baric needs to answer publicly about his relationship with US intelligence agencies before and during Covid – and his silence since.

A REMINDER:

No.

The BBC was trying to change the outcome of the US election by consciously lying.

If you don’t understand why that might piss Americans off, I don’t know what to tell you. https://t.co/kfWt6inNGn

— Freedomain – with Stefan Molyneux, MA (@StefanMolyneux) November 12, 2025

IT’S NOT ENOUGH FOR HIM TO FALL, BRITAIN NEEDS NEW ELECTIONS: Starmer Could Fall Soon.

YES: The Speed At Which Federal Judges Are Waging Lawfare To Stop The Trump Administration is Jaw-Dropping.

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS IN A RECLINER, LISTENING TO SMOOTH JAZZ: Elitist Hypocrite Jasmine Crockett’s List of Luxury Expenditures.

YES, I KNOW I HAVE NO SHAME WHEN IT COMES TO AI CLANKERS:  Betrayal! Lyrics Video.

LARRY GOLDBERG: The Economic Impact of Elon Musk on the US Economy. “Few understand that quite apart from making himself rich, Elon Musk is a job-creating, tax-paying, economy-boosting force. Through his companies – Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, The Boring Company, and Neuralink -Musk has funneled hundreds of billions into American pockets over the past five years (2021-2025). This isn’t abstract Wall Street stuff; it’s real money circulating in communities, from factory floors in Texas to engineering hubs in California. Let’s break it down with hard numbers, showing how Musk’s ventures pump lifeblood into the US economy.”

Related:

Tesla employs around 125,000 full time workers worldwide.

Amazon employs around 1.5 million full time and part time workers.

Microsoft employs approximately 213,000 full time workers worldwide.

Intel employs approximately 84,000 full time workers worldwide.

Isn’t it funny… https://t.co/LqfecwqEuc

— Jeffery Mead (@the_jefferymead) November 12, 2025

MORALE: DHS, USCIS report record job applications under Trump administration.

I HAVE REASON TO BELIEVE THIS IS BEING DRIVEN BY FOREIGN ACTORS WHO WANT US TO FALL:  Much of the politics and discourse of the so-called dissident right, or Postliberal right, whatever, is based on the assumption (hope) that America is going to collapse and it’ll be a Spanish Civil War situation. Some are more open about it than others. They’ll even go on podcasts and talk about “their roles” in the “new regime.”

And for the Xculpated.

I’d liek to point out they’d have a better chance of bringing this off if they could find reality with two hands and a seeing eye dog. But, of course, if they could do that, they wouldn’t want something this crazy. Or even be the type of people who’d want it.

WHAT HE SAID:  Most of the financing is equity based. Transformative technologies are always accompanied by malinvestment to a greater or lesser extent because investors are not psychic and cannot predict with certainty which businesses will win. This happened with railroads, with the telegraph, with automobiles, and with the internet. It’s healthy; if there wasn’t a considerable amount of malinvestment it would mean that people were too scared to put capital on a giant society-improving opportunity.

And for the X-cused.

SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO:  Embracing the Suck.

SELLING PRESTIGE WHICH THEY NO LONGER PROVIDE, TO THOSE WHO KNOW NO BETTER:  The universities that survive by hawking visas to migrants.

THEY MEAN ‘UNITY FOR US, NOT FOR OUR OPPOSITION’:  How ironic that ‘unity’ is the mantra of the intellectual midgets intent on sowing division.

I UNDERSTAND AL JAZEERAH IS HIRING:   Top BBC Staffers Resign After Getting Busted Editing Trump’s J6 Speech, But That’s Not All.

A GOOD START:  White House Declares ‘Anti-Communism Week’ Honoring 100 Million Lives Lost.

UNTIL THE HAMMER AND SICKLE IS AS MUCH ANATHEMA AS THE SWASTIKA WE WON’T BE OUT OF DANGER:  Useful Idiots Dept.: His TV Star Mother’s “love for Russia was real, visceral”; a French writer admits that she “was particularly blind”.

HARD TO BELIEVE ANY GOP SENATOR HAS COME UP CLUTCH IN YEARS:   How This GOP Senator Reportedly Came Up Clutch During the Talks to End the Schumer Shutdown.