UM, CHANGE? Apple To Replace Own Crappy AI With Google’s Crappy AI “Naturally, right after I post about how crappy Google’s AI is, Apple decides that it’s going to replace it’s own crappy AI with Google’s theoretically less crappy version.”

GAME CHANGER? Kash Patel Just Scored a Big Win With China.

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ABOLISH THE ATF: ATF Admits RPGs Aren’t Firearms…So Why Did They Modify One to Convict a Virginia Man?

KEEP AN EYE ON THIS ONE: Minnesota, Where It’s Easy to Claim Your Support for Gun Bans is a Product of ‘Bipartisanship.’

PRESSTITUTES: NPR/PBS and Now the BBC: The Problem of Government-Funded Media.

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BLUE ON BLUE: ‘No Kings’ activist group Indivisible will only support Dem Senate candidates that call to cancel Chuck Schumer.

Indivisible has announced that they are targeting Schumer as a single-issue. They say that the “two criteria for Indivisible’s support” are for Senate candidates, to oppose Schumer as Majority Leader and for every Democratic primary candidate to make “a clear commitment to abandon the status quo of feckless leadership, and use every tool available to fight MAGA attacks on our communities, our health, and our democracy.”

“Chuck Schumer and a critical mass of Senate Democrats surrendered,” said Indivisible’s Ezra Levin. “For nearly six weeks, Republicans held the government hostage while threatening health care, food assistance, and basic services for millions of Americans. In these six weeks of the shutdown, Democrats had their best election night in over a decade, polls showed Republicans were losing this shutdown fight, and their base turned out for the largest protest in modern U.S. history with a resounding rejection of Trump and Republicans.”

If Levin’s name sounds familiar, it might be because I wrote about him and his wife earlier this year: There’s Something Very Suspicious Going on With Those Tesla Protests.

Indivisible Project’s parent organization — more on that in a moment — was founded and is run by the husband-wife team of Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin. Greenberg is your typical NGO type — nice upbringing, good schools, brief Capitol Hill career (with Tom Perriello [D-Va.] and at State). She followed up with the creation of an online anti-Trump publication called “Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda,” and the establishment of the Indivisible Civics organization.

While DataRepublican doesn’t show Indivisible Civics receiving any taxpayer money, it has received $5,424,005 from somewhere, with about half of those funds going to wages and salaries and another 10% to benefits.

But here’s where it gets fun. The fine print disclaimer at the bottom of the since-deleted signup page reads, “Indivisible.org is a joint website of Indivisible Project and Indivisible Action. Indivisible Project is a registered 501(c)(4). Indivisible Action is a Hybrid Polítical Action Committee. They are separate organizations.”

That’s legalese for “the parent organization (Indivisible Civics aka Indivisible.org) is legally and financially shielded from any stupid stuff people do with the money and encouragement of the new organization (Indivisible Project).” But again, money is fungible — so wink-wink, nudge-nudge, comrade.

Back in the ’80s, we called that “plausible deniability.”

And now they’re going after Schumer. Pop plenty of corn.

REDACT THIS:

Why did Democrats cover up the name when the Estate didn't redact it in the redacted documents provided to the committee?

It's because this victim, Virginia Giuffre, publicly said that she never witnessed wrongdoing by President Trump.

Democrats are trying to create a fake… https://t.co/vd7gw3kJl0

— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) November 12, 2025

More from Bonchie:

And the other emails are 1) Epstein admitting Trump booted them, and 2) Michael Wolff suggesting blackmail over flying on the plane.

I know I criticize Trump sometimes (a lot the last day), but I do so out of honesty.

And the honest answer is people are misleading with these. https://t.co/lat89guXTd

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) November 12, 2025

Looks like a cheap effort at distracting the base from Schumer’s shutdown cave.

IT’S SAD: You won’t believe the excuses lawyers have after getting busted for using AI.

EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Johnny Can’t Add, but He’s Getting a College Degree.

PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE? 2025’s strongest solar flare triggers global radio blackout.

SAVING THE PLANET, ONE CLEARCUT AT A TIME: Brazil carves through Amazon rainforest for new highway to ferry global climate conference elites.

“We’re looking at eight miles of a virgin tropical Amazon rainforest were clear cut there, so that they could put in this highway to allow the private jets and to allow all the SUVs and limousines of all the world leaders and celebrities that are pumping in here the next two weeks, they could have a freer time getting around the city,” Marc Morano, Director of Communications for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow, told the Just the News, No Noise TV show.

CFACT promotes a “positive, alternative voice” on the environment and advocates for market forces and technological innovation to overcome environmental challenges. “So they had to cut, in other words, they had to cut the forest down so they could bring more people to show…you can’t make these kinds of absurdities up,” he added.

Even those on the other side of the climate debate spectrum, slammed the move.

Probably because they couldn’t afford to go.

RECORDS THAT WILL BE FURTHER BROKEN: SpaceX Starlink launch breaks record for Florida spaceport.

HE’S EVERYWHERE: Trump Joins the World of Sports. Democrats Most Hurt.

GOOD NEWS FOR ME SINCE I DON’T LIKE RUNNING: Weightlifting may be more effective than running for averting diabetes.

REVIEW: Sydney Sweeney shines as trailblazing boxer in Christy.

BUT ALL THE BEST PEOPLE ASSURED ME THAT THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT MADE INSURANCE, YOU KNOW, MORE AFFORDABLE: Jeffries, Democrats will offer 3-year extension of ObamaCare subsidies.

HERE’S WHY THE X-FILES STILL LOOKS AMAZING 30 YEARS LATER.

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HMM: Poll: Newsom leads Vance in potential 2028 presidential matchup.

UGH: Using Your Credit Card at the Checkout Is Set to Get a Lot More Complicated.

A settlement between Visa, Mastercard and U.S. merchants announced this week could usher in a new era of tiered pricing at the register, giving businesses more power to charge fees depending on the credit card you use. The agreement comes after a two-decade antitrust battle over interchange fees, the charges banks collect from merchants every time a customer pays with plastic.

The settlement still needs court approval, and is likely to be contested by some merchant groups, which have disagreed over the fees and other terms in the past. A deal last year fell apart after lawyers for some merchants objected.

Here’s what else to know:

Merchants have always had the right to refuse to do business with a payment network entirely. Costco, for example, only accepts Visa credit cards in stores. But current network rules say that if a store accepts one Visa credit card, it has to accept all Visa credit cards.

The settlement could change that practice by allowing merchants to pick and choose which categories of cards to accept within a network. Analysts say the groupings are broad enough that merchants are unlikely to start refusing any one of the categories, including those that offer rewards. The categories would lump in midmarket cards with more premium cards, meaning they would get blocked together, TD Cowen analysts wrote in a note.

The settlement doesn’t affect debit cards.

A more likely outcome is that people will start to see more fees, according to analysts. Some merchants already tack on small fees when customers pay with a credit card instead of cash, but those tend to apply broadly across credit cards.

The settlement would go a step further, allowing different surcharges depending on the category the card falls into. A basic, no-frills credit card, for instance, might come with a surcharge of 2.5% of the transaction amount, versus 3% for a rewards card.

Plus this gem: “For merchants, adding a surcharge would help offset their costs, but it also risks alienating customers.”

You don’t say.

GOOD OLD-FASHIONED FAMILY FUN: Stars of ‘Wicked for Good’ Hail Film as LGBTQ Story: ‘The Gayer the Better.’

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I’M PRETTY SURE THIS IS THE PART OF STAR TREK THEY DIDN’T DISCUSS ONSCREEN: Space food made from astronaut urine to be tested on ISS.