NO MERCY FOR BIGOTRY: Cornell faces call for civil rights probe after Israeli student alleges discrimination.
Archive for 2025
October 21, 2025
SHE’S JUST GOING AFTER THE CRIMINALS STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS WON’T: Pirro Charges Two of ‘Big Balls’ Attackers, Including a Serial Criminal.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: DOJ urges probe into Nevada university’s alleged use of taxpayer funds to assist illegal aliens.
ANOTHER HEART OF STONE MOMENT: This Could Be the Worst News for Democrats About the Shutdown
BREAKING: Warner Bros. Discovery says it’s open to a sale; shares jump.
No details yet… developing…
UPDATE: Details coming in.
Netflix and Comcast are among the interested parties, sources told CNBC’s David Faber.
WBD decided to publicly announce it has had interest from multiple parties after rejecting several different bids from Paramount and an offer from another company that was higher than Paramount’s, according to a person familiar with the matter. The WBD board believed Paramount may go public with its bid, which one source described as “higher than what’s been in the press” but below $30 a share, according to the person.
For any buyer that just wants WBD’s studio and streaming assets, acquiring them after a split later this year is better for tax purposes.
Paramount declined to comment.
WBD has faced mounting financial challenges since the 2022 merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery Inc., which saddled the company with over $40 billion in debt. It has since undertaken aggressive cost-cutting, restructured its content pipeline and focused on profitable franchises like “Harry Potter” and “Game of Thrones” spinoffs.
What Hollywood really needs is reinvention, not just shuffling existing properties around between existing giant players.
PETRO’S MANIC MONDAY: El Presidente Throws a Tantrum, Threatens to ‘Take Out’ Trump.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Shutdowns Are Great Reminders of How Little Government We Need. “Despite the very public breakup between President Trump and Elon Musk, DOGE has been chugging along, trimming financial fat wherever it can. The work hasn’t been grabbing a lot of headlines — accounting isn’t very sexy and sensational — but it’s more important news than any of the No Kings diaper-filling.”
REAL AMERICA’S VOICE AND THE REAL COST OF FREE SPEECH:
Robert Sigg is a quiet man with a big voice.
His company, Real America’s Voice (RAV), is the platform for “The Charlie Kirk Show” and other populist voices leading the “dare not ignore” charts. I was introduced to Robert after a mutual friend shared a column I wrote for RealClearPolitics, “Prove Charlie Right.”
When we spoke, his son Parker – his right-hand man and a rising star in the industry who effectively manages all of RAV’s programming – was by his side. Parker is just four years younger than Charlie Kirk. He was working in the family business at 15 years of age, chasing hurricanes for another Sigg property, WeatherNation – a politics-free outlet. As Sigg described it, “a take-an-umbrella or wear-sunscreen business.”
I wanted to talk to Robert Sigg about the behind-the-scenes war against his business, a campaign that includes a pernicious form of censorship through shadow advertising bans and Big Tech algorithm manipulation that leads to traffic starvation. At RealClearPolitics, we’ve faced some of the same subversive tactics.
RAV seeks to bring a unique voice to the marketplace of ideas. It’s one of the sources RealClearMedia’s properties draws from when presenting our across-the-spectrum report each day. Charlie Kirk, in fact, was published on RealClearPolitics the day of his assassination.
My firsthand experience is that RAV’s approach is not welcomed by those who control access to advertising and traffic. RealClear’s advertising score, in turn, gets dinged for aggregating RAV content – irrespective of the fact that we usually pair its offerings with liberal counter-programming.
As Glenn noted a couple of years ago, “Some People Don’t Like the New Ads. Sorry, the problem is that InstaPundit has been demonetized by Google, for unspecified ‘dangerous’ content. Between the overall trend of ad revenue decline — which hits everyone — and the trend of cutting advertising to right-leaning sites, and now this, ad revenue is down about 90% from its high, I’d estimate, and it may get worse.”
DAN GAINOR: The England we love is lost. If we don’t change, America will be, too.
I went to England on a history vacation. It turned into an archaeological expedition, uncovering the bones of a once-great civilization.
All the tourist sites are still there. You can still see the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, recall the “V” for victory in the Churchill War Rooms or be inspired to pray at Westminster Abbey. But those are mere historical artifacts, like the pyramids of Egypt or the Acropolis in Greece. The ideals and most of the people who believe in them are long gone.
I was in London less than 24 hours before a terror attack killed two people in a Manchester synagogue. Police also killed the terrorist, a Syrian-born, 35-year-old immigrant named Jihad Al-Shamie, who they said had pledged himself to ISIS. Two innocent Jewish people are dead and a walking, talking metaphor was the cause. Jewish citizens admitted the assault was shocking but not surprising, given the rise of antisemitism in England.
As Mark Steyn warned 20 years ago: It’s the Demography, Stupid. “Most people reading this have strong stomachs, so let me lay it out as baldly as I can: Much of what we loosely call the Western world will not survive this century, and much of it will effectively disappear within our lifetimes, including many if not most Western European countries. There’ll probably still be a geographical area on the map marked as Italy or the Netherlands–probably–just as in Istanbul there’s still a building called St. Sophia’s Cathedral. But it’s not a cathedral; it’s merely a designation for a piece of real estate. Likewise, Italy and the Netherlands will merely be designations for real estate. The challenge for those who reckon Western civilization is on balance better than the alternatives is to figure out a way to save at least some parts of the West.”
OOPS: A common error appeared to cause a major AWS outage, bringing down platforms from Reddit to Snapchat. “Based on the AWS service status page, the outage started with an error with its Domain Name System at Amazon’s northern Virginia data plant, located in what is known as the ‘Data Center Alley,’ where hundreds of data centers are located.”
THE LEFT IN ACTION: ‘No Kings’ Protest Turns Into A Rallying Cry For Political Violence.
SECOND ORDER EFFECTS, HOW DO THEY WORK? Libya’s Fall and the Day the West Stopped Asking What Comes Next. “In a cruel irony the learned on the left will never admit, Gaddafi’s death was, and symbolized, the end of a dictatorship. It instead marked the death of Libya as a nation—today a marketplace of militias and foreign flags. Not a state. The Lesson the West Keeps Ignoring.”
SOMEONE WILL FIGURE OUT A WAY TO BLAME ISRAEL: Hamas Commandeers Schools and Hospitals To Interrogate Its Gazan Opponents.
PARTY OF YOUTH UPDATE: Old, White Boomers Like George Conway Dance and Sing at “No Kings” Protests, with Megyn Kelly and Emily Jashinsky (Video).
LIMITED TIME DEAL: BISSELL Pet Hair Eraser Allergen Lift-Off. #CommissionEarned
I HOPE THEY’RE RIGHT: Dem Senators Now Fear Fallout of ‘No Kings’ Absurdity.
BAD PEOPLE: Who Funds Antifa? “The Trump administration should be putting a high priority on investigating the funding of domestic terrorism, including, above all, the funding of Antifa. Happily, it appears to be doing so.”
BARI WEISS BEGINNING TO HAVE AN IMPACT? Ouch: KJP Gets Slammed by CBS Hosts for Defending Biden, Claiming to Be an Independent.
Even co-host and Democrat donor Gayle King participated, saying she also thought, based on the title, Jean-Pierre would be unsparing in her criticisms of the administration, Instead, King noted, Jean-Pierre wrote a book claiming she never saw anything — even leading up to the fateful June 27, 2024 debate — that gave her pause about Biden’s abilities:
[P]eople said, why didn’t members of his inner circle speak up about what many believe was the apparent decline of — of Joe Biden and you said you’re a member of the inner circle and you never saw the decline. After that I wrote, how? You even write, Karine, you were on the plane with him going to the debate and you didn’t see anything. It is so hard to understand.
Jean-Pierre tried to have it both ways, claiming she “didn’t see him until after the debate even though I was on” Air Force One.
* * * * * * * *
[Tony] Dokoupil cut in with this biting follow-up that blew holes in her fake move to become independent (which, if she lives in Virginia, doesn’t exist as there isn’t party registration): “Will you create a new party? Is that what you’re angling for?”
Jean-Pierre declared she’s not calling for a third party because “the history of third-party candidates in presidential” has never worked and she’s still “aligned with the values of the Democratic Party.”
Related: “Jean-Pierre revealed that she was leaving the Democratic Party in June while announcing her book. Before her high-profile White House role, she worked on multiple Democratic presidential campaigns and was an MSNBC political analyst,” and as her response to Dokoupil’s query illustrates, her talk of going “independent” was all a load of malarkey, to borrow one of her nominal former employer’s favorite words.
NEWS YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO USE: Review: Adventure Stories for Young Readers edited by Misha Burnett.
MONEY FOR LAWYERS INSTEAD OF BUILDING: Thread.
The average NEPA impact statement takes 4.5 years to complete. That's ridiculous.
Here's a list of things that took less time to BUILD than it takes to complete a 575 page impact statement…
1. Golden Gate Bridge – 4 years, 4.5 months https://t.co/FvwjMatJkX pic.twitter.com/LXC7KItYlX
— YIMBYLAND (@YIMBYLAND) August 27, 2024
THEIR VERY PROTEST PROVES THEM DELUSIONAL: Kings.
WHAT HE SAID: A Tale of Two Shutdowns: Who Was Really King.
THE REAL NAZIS: Schindler Factory Museum.