MAX WHO?
I forgot that guy existed
— Sweet Willy Rollbar, excitable boy (@vorozab) October 15, 2025
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October 15, 2025
TEACHERS’ UNIONS, UGH: Despite the Holocaust, ‘competitive victimhood’ is a loser for Jews.
A previous version of the bill required that “instructional materials regarding Jews, Israel, or the Israel-Palestine conflict” be “balanced, accurate, don’t promote antisemitism and don’t label Israel as a settler colonial state,” she reports.
As amended, the law simply calls for all lessons to be “be factually accurate.” That doesn’t sound wild and crazy, but it could stifle learning, said a California Teachers Association official. “Teacher discourse on Palestine or the genocide in Gaza will be policed, misrepresented, and reported to the antisemitism coordinator,” Theresa Montaño with the California Faculty Association said in a statement.
Presumption of a genocide despite all evidence to the contrary.
STANDING UP AGAINST ENTRENCHED INSTITUTIONAL RACISM: Tenured Professor Sues College for Anti-White Discrimination.
TRUMP DUMPS ON HOUSE OF STEPHANOPOULOS:
Wow. Trump just refused to take a question from ABC News after they cut off his Vice President on their Sunday show and went to commercial break.
This is what a leader looks like. pic.twitter.com/DRuiYwTBwl
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) October 14, 2025
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Blue city ‘breaking point’: San Francisco wants Trump’s help on crime.
WHY ARE PUBLIC SCHOOLS SUCH CESSPITS OF HATE? Top Philadelphia Public School Official Posts Tributes to Fugitive Cop-Killer Assata Shakur.
BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Free tours of Obama Presidential Center to start soon in Chicago.
Construction is coming along on the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park.
The Obama Foundation will start offer free community tours to take a look at the property.
People can ask questions, see the renderings, and take a walking tour outside the fence of the construction site.
In 2019, Jon Gabriel described the library as looking like “A discarded Chinese take-out box. The backside of a Star Wars sand crawler. The Washington Monument with the interesting bits lopped off. That’s what sprung to mind when confronted with the initial design of the Obama Presidential Center.”
And as the library nears completion, we must face facts: thanks to the runaway inflation during Obama’s third term, $850 million doesn’t go as far as it used to:
Obama taking a lot of heat for his brutalist presidential library, but people forget that only this type of construction can withstand that tough Chicago weather of strong wind, big temperature swings, and near constant spray of stray bullets. https://t.co/NvnzI7xsgY
— Jarvis (@jarvis_best) October 14, 2025
Still though, in case we really do need to go to war with Canada, Chicago will have one heck of a flak tower once the library is completed.
YES. NEXT QUESTION? Faced with rising antisemitism and a radical would-be mayor, New York’s Jewish artists confront a once unthinkable question: Is it time to flee?
After Oct. 7, I was added to a group chat of Jewish artists from around the world whose communities and industries were being overtaken by antisemitic hate. As creative fields quickly became hot spots for demonizing Israel and demanding ideological conformity, this group became a rare place to vent, exchange ideas, collaborate, and, sometimes, to argue.
That weekend’s debate splintered the group in a way I’d never seen before. The topic: Is New York still good for the Jews, or is it time to flee? Several admitted they no longer felt safe. Some had already left town; others were making plans. They spoke of losing jobs, being disinvited from friends’ birthdays, and even being assaulted at a party for wearing a Jewish star necklace. To them, New York had already “fallen.”
On the other side were those whose connection to the city runs stubbornly deep. For them, abandoning the refuge their ancestors found here was unthinkable. As emotions flared, thoughtful debate gave way to arguments about who counts as a “real” New Yorker and whether leaving was prescient or paranoid.
As I observed the back-and-forth, I couldn’t shake one thought: Were these the same conversations our grandparents and great-grandparents had in Europe during the pogroms or in 1930s Germany as fascism rose?
Pretty much, although leaving New York City for, say, Miami is much simpler than departing Nazi Germany for New York.
But the real trick, no matter where you are, is to stop voting for bigger government that can and will be exploited by fascists, socialists, and commies.
DON’T WORRY, HE’LL BE LITERALLY HITLER™ AGAIN IN TIME FOR TONIGHT’S BROADCASTS: Late-Night Hosts Eat Crow, Give Trump Credit for Gaza Ceasefire.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. The Insurrection Act: Officials In Blue States and Cities Are “Running with Scissors” Expecting Nothing Bad Will Happen From Opposing DHS/ICE. “The factual preconditions for invoking the Insurrection Act have already been met — only President Trump’s forbearance in asserting his lawful authority has prevented it from happening.”
October 14, 2025
YES.
It's less important whether Hamas has really agreed to disarm and give up power than whether Egypt, Turkey, and Qatar have agreed that Hamas must disarm and give up power. Terrorist movements like Hamas facing much stronger enemies like Israel can't survive without outside…
— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) October 15, 2025
Trump strangles his enemies by cutting off their money.
OPEN THREAD: Be here now.
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Blue city ‘breaking point’: San Francisco wants Trump’s help on crime.
NEW CIVIL WAR IN GAZA: Multiple Palestinian clans or gangs are fighting against Hamas and it seems quite possible a final internal convulsion is at hand. Richard Pollock has details on Substack.
KURT VONNEGUT, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Ice That Freezes at Room Temperature Discovered in X-Ray Laser Experiment.
THIS:
— The Lunduke Journal (@LundukeJournal) October 14, 2025
Courtesy of Bigfire in last night’s open thread.
I learned COBOL in high school, after Fortran and Basic. Hated it.
UPDATE: Damn, I opened up a can of geeks in the comments with this post. Fun reading!
INDIA IS HAVING A BAD YEAR: WHO warns of contaminated India cough syrups.
PAGING MR. SLOPODOPOULOS:
🚨 LMAO! PRESIDENT TRUMP: "We'll take a couple questions. I'm sure they'll be extremely non-hostile and friendly, like JD went through a very friendly interview with George Slopodopolous, who's nice enough to pay me $16 million!" 🤣🔥pic.twitter.com/DCrBPjlUUZ
"It was worth having…
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 14, 2025
MEGYN KELLY: Viral “Diversity is Not Our Strength” Commentator Will Kingston on What’s Happening in the UK.
I GOT A NON-HYBRID LEXUS TX AS A LOANER AND WAS UNIMPRESSED: I Drove The 2025 Lexus TX 500h, Here’s My Honest Review.
To me, it felt like a minivan with (semi)plausible deniability.