Archive for 2025
October 7, 2025
LIGHTNING DEAL: Levi’s 501 Original Fit Jeans. #CommissionEarned
AN EMPIRE OF LIES: Why Won’t the FBI Correct Its Flawed Data on Who Stops Active Shooters?
IT’S (D)IFFERENT NOW BECAUSE REASONS:
By the way, @timkaine who is standing by Jay Jones after wishing murder on Children, once thought that Republican George Allen calling someone "macaca" was disqualifying. pic.twitter.com/ZZ2SFrUCnD
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) October 7, 2025
Remember: Double standards are the best standards because you get twice as many of them.
AND YET I’M STILL DYING TO SEE WHAT IT IS: The Biggest Names in Tech Can’t Build the AI Device You Won’t Want to Buy.
PRIME DEAL: Crest 3D Whitestrips Professional Effects. #CommissionEarned
BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS WALLETS: “The school (allegedly!) ‘self-financed thousands of temporary employment opportunities for their graduates through schemes with non-profits and paid-off vendors to give the false impression to incoming students and federal regulators that their graduates were gainfully employed.'”
THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS: NYSE-owner Intercontinental Exchange rises after it takes $2 billion stake in Polymarket. “The deal comes as prediction markets become more mainstream, with Polymarket rival Kalshi enjoying sharp trading volume increases thanks to the implementation of sports-related contracts. Prediction markets industry revenue may climb to $8 billion by 2030 as it takes market share from the sports gambling industry, according to analysis by Piper Sandler.”
$2 TRILLION IN SHUTDOWN SAVINGS: Sen. Joni Ernst, the retiring Iowa Republican who is head of the Senate DOGE Caucus, handed OMB Director Russ Vought an eight-page, single-spaced list of documented waste and fraud problems whose elimination could save as much as $2 Trillion.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
Bill Cosby Joins Hamas So Feminists Will Stop Condemning Him For Rape https://t.co/Qadwonzt4X pic.twitter.com/CAVTMtwPg6
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 7, 2025
FIRST SHARKNADO, THEN THIS: Earth has a space tornado problem: ‘This is a matter of national security.’
MAYBE SHE’S NOT THAT BRIGHT. MAYBE SHE’S EVIL. MAYBE BOTH:
Greta Thunberg is using a photo of Israeli Evyatar David as an example of Israeli cruelty towards Palestinian Arabs.
This is the most “Every allegation is a confession” post I’ve ever seen. pic.twitter.com/AweNzgJRDC
— Max 📟 (@MaxNordau) October 7, 2025
MEDIA ‘WHAT THE F—?:’ CBS News Staffers Melt Down Over New Boss Bari Weiss.
Paramount formally announced the onetime New York Times opinion writer turned Free Press founder Bari Weiss as its editor in chief on Monday. Staffers at the perennially third-place network and their allies in the mainstream media are not taking it well.
Inside CBS News, employees did the courageous thing: They started anonymously leaking their incensed reactions to left-wing outlets like the Guardian and Mehdi Hasan’s Zeteo. Some encouraged Weiss not to “mess with the Golden Goose(s) of ’60 Minutes’ and ‘CBS News Sunday Morning,'” the network’s most prominent programs. As far as we understand it, that’s, like, her new job. Outside the network, a trio of Times columnists voiced their displeasure. Progressive news site Salon went so far as to cite former CBS anchor Dan Rather—who was unceremoniously fired in 2006 after he humiliated the network when he broadcast a false report on 60 Minutes II about George W. Bush’s military service records in an attempt to throw the 2004 election to John Kerry—as the type of heroic journalist who would oppose Weiss and her “political interference.” No, seriously.
Power Line’s Scott Johnson has further thoughts on “The New Regime at CBS News:”
The distraught reaction of Salon “senior writer” Sophia Tesfaye is unintentionally funny: “From Dan Rather to — Bari Weiss? How far CBS News has fallen.” Ms. Tesfaye claims “over eight years of experience in the political journalism field.” She may have been 9 in 2004.
Conan, what is best in life?
Related: Update to the swarmy New York Times profile of Weiss we linked to last night:
HMM: Is the Left’s Provocative Behavior a Trap? “Perhaps the left has come to understand that its only hope for any success at keeping the GOP in check is to prod the country into reactionary violence against itself and its excesses.”
Of course. “The worst, the better,” was Lenin’s succinct summary of his own program for destroying Czarist Russia so his Communists could pick up the pieces.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: U.S. Space Force Flags China’s Expanding Web Of On-Orbit Assets.
Beijing began consolidating its military space portfolio under the newly established Aerospace Force in 2015. A decade later, China has deployed more than 1,189 satellites to orbit, according to a September space threat fact sheet published by the Space Force. It has a breathtaking range, spanning global satellite communications networks; position, navigation and timing spacecraft; and inspector satellites that could support wartime operations.
Among recent launches is Yaogan-45, a reconnaissance satellite that was placed in medium Earth orbit (MEO) on Sept. 8 by a Long March 7A rocket. Yaogan-45’s location in MEO—rather than the more common low Earth orbit (LEO)—is a “very unusual” choice for a remote-sensing platform, said Chief Master Sgt. Ron Lerch, Sidari’s senior enlisted advisor.
In 2024, China began launching satellites for Smart Skynet, a new broadband constellation in MEO, to establish data relay infrastructure in that orbit, Lerch noted. The network is planned initially to include eight spacecraft operating at 20,000 km (12,430 mi.) but could grow to as many as 32, with space-to-space connectivity to networks in higher and lower orbits, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. (CASC).
“That starts to paint a picture . . . that they value remote sensing to the point where they want resiliency, and layers of it,” Lerch said.
China still can’t match SpaceX for sheer lift or cost to orbit, but they’re working very hard at it.
EVERGREEN HEADLINE: Is Taylor Swift’s album really full of white supremacy and homophobia, or has everyone lost their minds?
Taylor Swift’s new album “The Life of a Showgirl” is barely three days old, and already woke killjoys are tearing it apart, finding offensive lyrics where there are none.
Overly-online social media critics of Swift instantaneously apparently decided the new album is rife with racism and homophobia, as well as secret messages of support for the patriarchy, eugenics, and Donald Trump.
Forensic “investigations” have uncovered “dog-whistles,” but only woke detectives themselves are capable of hearing them.
Either Swift is a covert alt-right influencer, or her young critics have been taught to see oppression everywhere, including where it quite clearly is not.
Didn’t the left get this all out of their system before Trump’s first term?
● Can’t Shake It Off: How Taylor Swift Became a Nazi Idol.
—Vice.com, May 23rd, 2016.
● White Supremacists Call Taylor Swift An Aryan Goddess.
—NPR, May 27, 2016.
● Neo-Nazis Are Really Into Taylor Swift.
—KQED, May 25th, 2016.
Dominic Green had fun deflating that weird obsession of the legacy media in 2018: Taylor Swift, Nazi Barbie? “Really, the only Nazi Barbie was Klaus Barbie, a model long out of production. Pop’s echoes of fascist propaganda testify not to pop’s pretend radicalism, but to its merciless commercialism.”
Flashback to last year: Grammy Host Trevor Noah Mocks Taylor Swift Conspiracy Theories — As She Arrives Late for Ceremony.
I agree, I thought the lefties at the Atlantic were also pretty out there, way back in 2013: Who Said It, Adolf Hitler or Taylor Swift? “Can you tell the difference between a quote from one of history’s most infamous revenge-seeking megalomaniacs and Adolf Hitler?”
Ultimately though, I’m pretty sure Swift is shaking all of this off: “And that’s the life of a showgirl. Taylor Swift‘s ‘The Official Release Party of a Showgirl,’ a cinematic complement to the pop star’s 12th studio album, ‘The Life of a Showgirl,’ sauntered to No. 1 at the worldwide box office with an estimated $46 million over the weekend. Those ticket sales — including $13 million from 54 international territories as well as $33 million domestically — represent a massive turnout for a release that wasn’t on anyone’s radar until a few weeks ago.”
RABBITS NEED HELP BREEDING? Queens Zoo breeding program helps restore vulnerable rabbit species.
HE’S A GENUINELY FUNNY GUY:
🚨 JUST IN: President Trump causes the ENTIRE Oval Office to BURST into laughter – again 😂
CANADIAN REPORTER: What's holding things up? If he's a great man and you want to do a deal with Canada, why aren't you?
TRUMP: Because I want to be a great man TOO.
*Entire room… pic.twitter.com/m2Ui2jYBui
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 7, 2025
It might be what the sanctimonious left hates most about him.
JEFFREY BLEHAR: Jay Jones’s Texts Are a Frightening Peek into a Bleak Moral Worldview.
And it turns out that he is also a moral monster of the first degree — and an eerily familiar degree at that. National Review’s own Audrey Fahlberg broke the story nationally with her blockbuster reporting about texts and phone conversations Jones had with state Republican delegate Carrie Coyner back in 2022. (Jones had already retired at this point — he was shooting the breeze with an ex-colleague from the opposing party.) Jones’s friendly chit-chat about how – should his opponents predecease him – he would “go to their funerals and piss on their graves” to “send them out awash in something” was eyebrow-raising, but also nothing a historically-minded reader would have put past Lyndon Johnson.
It was when he continued to muse out loud to Coyner that he revealed the scorpions lurking inside his brain: He declared that if he was trapped in a room with a gun and two bullets, alongside Hitler, Pol Pot, and Todd Gilbert (then the Republican speaker of the state house), he would shoot Gilbert — twice. Again, you might say: This is merely but a variant on an old and crude joke.
But lest you think that Jones merely sent a bad text in haste — okay, make that a series of bad texts — he then called Coyner, explaining himself all too clearly. You see, Jones was not speaking lightly. He wasn’t even “kidding on the square,” in that joking-but-not-really-joking manner people often use to passive-aggressively voice their true thoughts. No, he proceeded to make an impassioned argument in defense of the slaughter of innocents. In his call with Coyner, he declared that he thought at least some Republicans deserve to die for their politics, and he extended his death warrant to their children as well — for punitive, persuasive, and societally hygienic reasons.
According to the source, the Democratic former legislator doubled down on the call, saying the only way public policy changes is when policymakers feel pain themselves, like the pain that parents feel when they watch their children die from gun violence. He asked her to provide counterexamples to disprove his claim.
Then at one point, the source said, he suggested he wished Gilbert’s wife could watch her own child die in her arms so that Gilbert might reconsider his political views, prompting Coyner to hang up the phone in disgust. . . .
Rather than deny that he had wished death on the children, Jones responded by saying, “Yes, I’ve told you this before. Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy.”
This is not the behavior of a psychologically healthy person. A normal person — if we are being charitable, a ruinously drunk person — who has texted something so barbarous would eventually follow up by saying something like, “My God please forgive me I was just making a sick joke.”
The left circling the wagons around Jay also speak volumes about their priorities in 2025 as well:
Look. There are only a few ways Jay Jones can lose support among Virginia’s Democrat voters.
1. Say that trans women aren’t women.
2. Denounce Hamas.
3. Say something nice about Trump.Literally anything else makes no difference to them. https://t.co/cUe01A1w5L
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) October 7, 2025
CHANGE: FDA weighs warning label change for menopause hormone therapy. The black box warning was based on shoddy research.
REPUBLICANS POUNCE! Trump’s GOP seizes on violent rhetoric from Virginia AG candidate as high-stakes elections loom.
Republicans are seizing on recently unearthed violent rhetoric from Virginia’s Democratic candidate for attorney general in a push to re-shape the state’s governor’s race — and tarnish the Democratic Party nationally — less than a month before Election Day.
President Donald Trump, like Republicans across Virginia, called for Democratic state attorney general candidate Jay Jones to quit the race over the weekend. The Republican president described Jones as a “radical left lunatic” and sought to link him to former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, Virginia’s Democratic candidate for governor.
“Abigail Spanberger, who is running for Governor, is weak and ineffective, and refuses to acknowledge what this Lunatic has done,” Donald Trump wrote on social media.
The clash over Jones’ violent rhetoric, shared in a 2022 private text message exchange published on Friday, comes just four weeks before voters in Virginia and New Jersey choose new state leaders. History suggests that the party that holds the White House — Trump’s Republican Party in this case — struggles in off-year elections, but Republicans hope the scandal might tilt next month’s elections in their direction.
How dare Republicans notice that the Democrats’ candidate for attorney general wants to murder their children.