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November 27, 2025
November 26, 2025
THANKS A LOT, JOE: DC National Guard shooting suspect identified as Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal who came to US during botched 2021 withdrawal.
UPDATE: According to AP, “FBI Director Kash Patel and Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser said [the two National Guardsmen] were hospitalized in critical condition,” contradicting initial reports that both had been killed. “West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey earlier said the two Guardsmen were killed, but he later backtracked and affirmed they are in critical condition,” UPI added in an update.
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FLASHBACK: Email obtained by @HawleyMO shows the Biden admin ordered them to fill up planes with Afghan “refugees” even without vetting them.
Troops on the ground said they were shocked by Biden’s failure to vet these Afghans before bringing them into our country. pic.twitter.com/JMDrI6O7zU
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 27, 2025
UPDATE (10:45 PM): I’ll take tweets that have aged like fine milk for $500, Alex:
Almost every Afghan refugee will turn out to be so much better an American than Charlie Kirk. https://t.co/CdKZCCm2BO
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) August 16, 2021
OPEN THREAD: Hump day.
WHEN WILL ENOUGH BE ENOUGH FOR AMERICA? Today’s vicious terrorist attack in the nation’s capital should focus everybody’s mind on the reality that more such attacks are all but certain. I’ve been away from Substack for awhile, but this day cries out for courage, common sense and a willingness to face cold, hard, terrifying facts.
PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Satellite data reveals a huge solar storm in 2024 shrank Earth’s protective plasma shield.
SCIENCE MARCHES ON: AI Blood Cell Analyzer Outperforms Human Experts in Detecting Leukemia.
BLACK FRIDAY SALE: Pulse Oximeter, 4 Color OLED Display Oxygen Monitor Fingertip with 20 × Memory. #CommissionEarned
A GUN ROOM? CONTINUE. There’s Now a $650,000 Range Rover That’s Pretty Much Its Own Gun Room. A bit pricey, though.
CHANGE? Cornyn Now Running Third In Texas Senate Race. “If you’re a long time incumbent, you’re not supposed to be running in third place in a three man race, especially after you’ve dumped a whole lot of money into the race, yet that’s exactly the position John Cornyn finds himself in.”
It’s not a great poll, however, and comes with serious caveats.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
Nation Wonders Whatever Happened To The Guy Who Made 'Aliens' And 'Terminator 2' And Then Just Completely Stopped Making Movies https://t.co/59YNxIOAmz pic.twitter.com/KwU7YyNev0
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) November 23, 2025
The Critical Drinker recently explored “The Avatar Paradox — Why Nobody Talks About These Movies:”
HMM: What Young Voters Really Think About Free Speech, the Economy, and America’s Future “Young conservatives feel less comfortable sharing their political views than they did in January. Nearly two-thirds said they were comfortable expressing their opinions earlier in the year, yet that number fell to 51% in this latest survey.”
BREAKING: Two National Guardsmen Shot Near White House.
UPDATE:
Breaking news: Both National Guardsmen who were shot near the White House have died, officials confirm. They were from West Virginia.
D.C. police say they have the suspect in custody.
Follow updates: https://t.co/tm8EhnjyaB
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 26, 2025
BLACK FRIDAY DEAL: Apple AirTag 4 Pack. Keep Track of and find Your Keys, Wallet. #CommissionEarned
GIRLS WILL BE BOYS AND BOYS WILL BE GIRLS. IT’S A MIXED UP, MUDDLED UP, SHOOK UP WORLD, EXCEPT FOR LOLA:
Calling him a her in the same sentence as saying it’s a man.
Sadly this is the style guidance at 98% of news outlets in America. https://t.co/x0UasGsAql
— Brent Scher (@BrentScher) November 26, 2025
It’s news, so TMZ probably feels somewhat obligated to report it. But they have to do so in a way that won’t cause their leftist base to break out the pitchforks and light up the bonfires. In 2023, Jeremy Clarkson wrote thusly about his longtime former employer:
Remember, what everyone on every BBC platform fears more than anything is a Twitter backlash, so to try to keep that festival of left-wing madness happy, they have to be even more left wing and even more right-on. And they have to make sure that every show is pitch-perfect to the BLT+ community and the ethnic minority communities and the community communities, and when you’re thinking defensively like that, the concept of informing and educating and entertaining pretty much goes out of the window. Could I do Top Gear there now? Not a chance.
Or as America’s Newspaper of Record reported on the New York Times back in 2019 (likely not knowing how true this headline would become the following year):
IT’S ALWAYS SOMETHING: GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere. “It’s not a bad time to upgrade your gaming PC. Graphics card prices in the 2020s have undulated continuously as the industry has dealt with pandemic and AI-related shortages, but it’s actually possible to get respectable mainstream- to high-end GPUs like AMD’s Radeon RX 9060 XT and 9070 series or Nvidia’s RTX 5060, 5070, and 5080 series for at or slightly under their suggested retail prices right now. This was close to impossible through the spring and summer. But it’s not a good time to build a new PC or swap your older motherboard out for a new one that needs DDR5 RAM.”
THANK YOU, ELON MUSK FOR THE X LOCATOR: Did you know the Times of Gaza, which has a huge following on the Internet, is actually based nowhere near the embattled sliver of land formerly controlled by Hamas. Richard Pollock has much more on the significance of the availability of a site locator feature on X.
STOCKING STUFFER: 360° Rotating Toenail Clippers. #CommissionEarned
EXCLUSIVE: Is Corporate America Finally Seeing the Light on the Southern Poverty Law Center? “Salesforce, a software company with more than 75,000 employees, became the latest firm to announce it will no longer use the Southern Poverty Law Center’s ‘hate map’ to determine eligibility for its employee giving program.”
“PUBLIC SPEECH INVITES PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY:”
For the deaf and hard of hearing referencing what the 6 lawmakers SPECIFICALLY said that deviates it from an innocent civics reminder:
1.” Trust is at risk” — No event or threat justifies this.
2. “Pitting troops against citizens” — An unfounded, destabilizing claim.
3. “We… https://t.co/IxhU3zq6fn
— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) November 26, 2025
Related: CNN Melts Down As Scott Jennings Shreds Left’s Latest Anti-Trump Narrative.
UPDATE:
Communists have used this tactic since the inception of that demonic religion.
1. Do/say something terrible to move the Revolution forward.
2. Face backlash cause you pushed too far.
3. Claim victimhood to shield the Revolution from consequences.
4. Repeat. https://t.co/HZ9hojFGOv— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) November 26, 2025
ALTERNATIVE SWEETENERS ARE BAD: Alternative sweetener sorbitol linked to liver disease.
T. BECKET ADAMS: When crazy is too crazy even for the base.
We stopped being a scientific people,” [Bill] Maher lamented of the left.
Insisted [Patton] Oswalt, “But the left certainly stayed scientific.”
“No, they didn’t,” the HBO host replied, “We started to teach: ‘Every baby is, I don’t know, let’s not even put [male or female] on the birth certificate’!”
“When were we teaching that?” asked an incredulous Oswalt, who is otherwise extremely online and opinionated about politics and the culture wars.
“Teaching it?” Maher shot back. “It was a law here in California!”
“I don’t remember that,” his guest replied, sounding genuinely surprised.
When it comes to the Democratic base, Oswalt’s reaction is not so uncommon.
During the 2024 presidential election, supporters of Democratic nominee Kamala Harris often scoffed at the allegations lobbed by Republican nominee Donald Trump. Harris’s boosters in the press and elsewhere claimed confidently that the things Trump said about Harris were merely inventions of the right-wing fever swamps.
The funny thing is: more often than not, Trump was accurately quoting Harris’s own positions back to her. It’s just that the positions themselves were too incredible for even her supporters to believe.
During a debate, Trump cited Harris’s documented support for taxpayer-funded sex-changes for illegal immigrants. This is a completely insane position for anyone to stake out, let alone a candidate hoping to win a general election. Don’t take my word for it. The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser, a reliable Democratic backer, thought the same thing. After the debate, she accused Trump of fabricating the attack line from thin air.
“What the hell was he talking about?” she wrote. “No one knows.”
Well, some of us did know, because Harris had indeed taken such a position, explaining both in writing and on camera how she had worked to get taxpayer-funded sex changes for prison inmates in California.
Read the whole thing.