Archive for 2025

MORE NUKES IS GOOD NUKES: First liquid-fueled reactor in America: US firm readies to deploy Gen IV reactor by 2026.

“We are leading the race to deploy the country’s first Gen IV nuclear reactor,” said Doug Robison, Founder and CEO of Natura Resources.

He affirmed that the company is on schedule for the 2026 deployment thanks to several key achievements, including a construction license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), a completed reactor facility, a fuel commitment from the Department of Energy, and strong support from the State of Texas.

An advanced reactor that uses liquid fuel—molten salts—as both fuel and coolant is called a Liquid-Fueled Molten Salt Reactor (LF-MSR). High operating temperatures and distinctive characteristics set LF-MSRs apart from conventional solid-fuel reactors.

This design enhances safety and efficiency by operating at high temperatures and low pressure. It can also use recycled waste fuel, produces significantly less waste than conventional reactors, and allows for the harvesting of vital medical isotopes used in cancer treatment.

The 1-MW MSR-1 is a precursor to the commercial-scale MSR-100, a 100-MW system designed for grid-scale power generation and produced water desalination.

The MSR-100’s modular components can be factory-built and deployed as needed, significantly lowering capital costs and making it cost-competitive with other baseload power sources like natural gas.

Much more like this, please.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Mayors in America’s Gun Control Nirvana Now Want to Take a Supply-Side Approach Their Persistent ‘Gun Violence’ Problem.

Brady President Kris Brown said, “Let’s focus on the supply side.”

Brown said irresponsible gun dealers sell to straw purchasers, weapons traffickers, and often do it off the books.

“Here in California, it’s 10% of the dealers that are responsible for 50% of the guns recovered in crime,” Brown said. …

Richmond Mayor Eduardo Martinez said his officers have been researching the supply side of gun violence.

“We need to make sure that they are penalized for making our streets less safe by providing guns,” Martinez said. “In Richmond, we’ve had the Police Department start identifying the weapons and sourcing them just so that we have and idea of where they’re coming from.”

I suppose Democrat mayors could try arresting and prosecuting criminals, but that would go against every principle of constituent service.

TRON BOMBS: Why Is This Even a Franchise? “The Disney reboot that absolutely “no one asked for” is officially a box office bomb after less than two weeks on theater screens, with rapidly declining ticket sales of just $103 million on a $180 million production budget — and probably half again as much on marketing.”

BETTER PUT UP MY UMBRELLA: Something from “space” may have just struck a United Airlines flight over Utah. “Assuming this was not a Shohei Ohtani home run ball, the only other potential cause of the damage is an object from space. That was the initial conclusion of the pilot, but a meteor is more likely than space debris. Estimates vary, but a recent study in the journal Geology found that about 17,000 meteorites strike Earth in a given year. That is at least an order of magnitude greater than the amount of human-made space debris that survives reentry through Earth’s atmosphere.”

UPDATED: 4chan Tells UK Web Censor What a Hamster Thinks of Their Threats. “If Harris were in, I am 100% certain Ofcom would be far more aggressive and we’d be looking at least a dozen of these investigations. I’m also sure they’d use treaty procedure, like the Germans did under Biden, and the service would be waved through.”

Indeed.

MATT TAIBBI: FEMA Workers Improperly Collected Data About Politics of Disaster Victims.

Last November 8th, on the Saturday after Election Day, one of the more bizarre post-scripts to Donald Trump’s re-election emerged in the form of a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) decision to sideline one official accused of telling FEMA workers to “avoid homes advertising Trump” while canvassing for victims of Hurricane Milton in Florida. The Daily Wire spoke to multiple FEMA officials who produced screenshots of entries like “Trump sign, no contact per leadership”:

The most painful confirmation, however, came from then-FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell, who testified after the election that the episode was an “isolated incident,” as well as “unacceptable” and “heartbreaking,” suggesting the problem was limited to one eventually-terminated Disaster Survivor Assistance crew leader named Marn’i Washington, adding: “I do not believe that this employee’s actions are indicative of any widespread cultural problems at FEMA.”

Washington didn’t take the CYA maneuver lying down. She made a series of aggressive media appearances, saying repeatedly “my orders come from my superior” from above when instructing subordinates to avoid homes that made some FEMA workers “uncomfortable” by featuring Trump paraphernalia:

Read the whole thing.

Flashback to last November: Florida Trump Supporters Wearing Their Skirts Too High.

US AND THEM: David Gilmour says there is “no possible way” he would work with Roger Waters again.

The two creative forces behind the legendary rock band [Pink Floyd] have been publicly feuding for much of the time since Waters’ departure in 1985, with the dispute becoming political in recent years. Last year, Gilmour stated that he would rather “steer clear of people who actively support genocidal and autocratic dictators like Putin and Maduro” than reunite with Waters.

It appears that he has not softened his stance over the past 12 months. In a new interview with The Telegraph, he was asked what it would take for him to join forces with Waters again. “Nothing,” he replied. “There is no possible way that I would do that.”

Going into further detail in the 2024 interview, Gilmour explained: “Nothing would make me share a stage with someone who thinks such treatment of women and the LGBT community is OK. On the other hand, I’d love to be back on stage with [Pink Floyd keyboardist] Rick Wright, who was one of the gentlest and most musically gifted people I’ve ever known.”

Gilmour’s wife Polly Samson has also been vocally outspoken against Waters’ politics, accusing him in 2023 of being “anti-Semitic to [his] rotten core” and “a Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac”. Gilmour re-shared Samson’s post, adding that “every word [is] demonstrably true”.

Flashback: Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters accused of antisemitic behavior including swastika confetti, ‘Jew food’ remarks: report.

Pink Floyd co-founder and former frontman Roger Waters has been accused of sending an antisemitic email to his staffers proposing to write “Dirty k–e” on the inflatable pig habitually floated above his gigs.

London-based organization Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) has released disturbing emails and interviews in a documentary titled “The Dark Side of Roger Waters,” which uncovers a series of allegations of antisemitic behavior against the rocker.

In one email, the “Comfortably Numb” musician, 80, allegedly suggested “bombing” audiences with confetti in the shape of swastikas, Stars of David, and dollar signs.

“Hey Guys, Who’s going to make pig? Would it work to go out on the stuka truss? I imagine it black with crossed hammers logo as 1980, but covered with symbols from Good by blue sky,’crosses, stars of david( that’s king david not david gilmour) crescent and star, dollar signs, shell oil shell, etc and epithets,’my pig right or wrong’ ‘f–k you’ ‘no,f–k you’ ‘dirty k–e’ ‘follow the money’ ‘Scum?’ etc. Roger,” one alleged email, dated March 25, 2010, read.

Odd how these reports just keep happening:

CORN, POPPED: Patel Close To Cracking Antifa Funding Sources. “A lot of the names (George Soros, Tides Foundation, Alliance for Global justice, Open Society Foundations, ActBlue, etc.) are familiar, though he’s missing Arabella Associates, and Fidelity and Schwab are going to be a shock for some.”

I’M A FAN OF SALLY MANN, AND I THINK IT’S SILLY THAT NAKED CANDID PICTURES OF HER KIDS ARE TREATED AS PORNOGRAPHY. Kids used to be thought of as nonsexual, and naked pictures of kids in normal life were common. Now people get in trouble for bathtub pics. I swear, I’m surprised they haven’t banned the Coppertone girl yet. But if right-wing censorship is so bad, why doesn’t this NPR article on how bad it is include any of the photos that people objected to?

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

Shot: The ‘No Kings’ protests, like the tea party of 2009, are a warning to Trump.

—MSNBC, today.

Chaser: Rachel Maddow Shows Video of Man Being Teabagged in Gay Bar.

Rachel Maddow on Friday played a video of a man in underwear banging his genitals against another man’s forehead in a gay bar.

This was done to explain to her MSNBC audience the derivation of the term “teabagger,” the sexually-charged double entendre that sadly became popular this spring and summer as Tea Parties swept the nation.

According to Maddow, “This is where “teabag” comes from. This is a clip from a 1998 film by John Waters that`s called ‘Pecker.'”

As the dancer in the fictional gay bar squats to bang his genitals against a customer’s forehead, the emcee played by Martha Plimpton says, “Hey, Larry, no teabagging. You know the rules. No balls on foreheads.”

NewsBusters, December 5th, 2009.

A WAKE TO REMEMBER: MSNBC Bids Farewell to Its Dying Audience.

The Hammerstein Ballroom in midtown Manhattan hums with the sound of walkers, canes, and Medicare-approved stability sneakers shuffling on the brocade carpet. Several busloads worth of gray-haired radicals are milling about the historic auditorium. Some have shelled out thousands of dollars to be here for a chance to see their favorite MSNBC personalities denounce Donald Trump in person. Liquor drinks are extra. The exorbitantly priced bar opens at 10:30 a.m. We’re going to need it.

“MSNBC Live ’25: This Is Who We Are” is the failing left-wing network’s second live offering in as many years. Last year’s event was largely focused on how to stop Trump from winning the election and canceling democracy. This year’s summit is even more existential, if you can believe it. Two weeks after Trump’s decisive victory in 2024, MSNBC parent company Comcast announced it was cutting ties with the network. It will soon be required to ditch its NBC affiliation and rebrand as MS NOW (My Source for News, Opinion, and the World). The name change becomes official next month, but they’ve kept the old one so as not to confuse their elderly fans.

Other aspects of the event planning—spearheaded by Luke Russert, the boy-faced nepo baby—were less accommodating to a demographic that hates inconvenience and loves to complain. More than a few mobility-challenged attendees griped about having to walk down a flight of stairs to use the bathroom. Ushers were overheard discussing how to minimize injuries.

Both TV Insider and Cord Cutters News say that MS NOW name change will occur on November 14th. Left-leaning Hollywood bible Variety collates a surprising amount of snark about the name change: MSNBC Rebrand to ‘MS NOW’ Draws Derision, Confusion.

Social media users also immediately noticed the new name’s unfortunate association with the disease multiple sclerosis. “Sounds like a medical issue,” one user on X said about MS NOW. On Monday, “multiple sclerosis” was the No. 4 trending topic on X in the U.S.

In addition, some people read the “MS NOW” name as “Ms. Now.” And that continues “the problem they’ve faced since inception (that the ‘MS’ was an indicator that this was a network designed for women viewers ),” former MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann wrote in an email — an issue that “has now been doubled (‘NOW? Like the National Organization For Women?’).” Olbermann, who left MSNBC in 2011, claimed he told the network to change its name “when I got there in 1997… I’m glad to see that my interoffice mail envelope finally got to the 52nd floor of 30 Rock.”

Others inevitably compared the MSNBC-MS NOW renaming to Warner Bros. Discovery’s switch from HBO Max to Max and then back to HBO Max. “After MS Now will be MS Go, and then MS Max, and then just MS,” quipped Washington Post media reporter Scott Nover.

The popular LizaMinnelliOutlives account on X duly noted that Minnelli, 79, has outlived the MSNBC name.

Meanwhile, it isn’t clear what MS NOW’s web destination will be at this point. The current website at “msnow.com” includes the text “Motorized Snow vehicles (SnowMobile)” and says in Korean: “A snowmobile is a vehicle that travels on snow. Equipped with skis and tracked wheels, it is used for winter recreation and transportation. Also known as a motor sled or snow machine. In Korea, it is used for maintenance, rescue operations, and cargo transport at ski resorts and other locations.”

If you type “ms-now.com” into your browser, you are redirected to meal-delivery service Marley Spoon, which is affiliated with Martha Stewart.

It was quite a weekend for MSNBC. Are they trying to get all the craziness out of their systems as the iceberg hoves into view?

MSNBC Compares ‘No Kings’ Critics To Nazis.

Robert De Niro slams Stephen Miller — who is Jewish — as a ‘Nazi’ in MSNBC rant.

Enraging Bull: Actor Robert DeNiro Says Rural Americans Need the ‘Truth’ from MSNBC and Legacy Media.

Actor Robert De Niro drops f-bomb on MSNBC’s ‘The Weekend.’

BUBBLES POP: Chief investor urges people to quit chasing AI, says it’s not a matter of if but when it ‘breaks’ — how to prepare.

“We’re in the crazy stage,” Smead told Business Insider, comparing today’s market to the eve of the dot-com crash in late 1999. (1)

He points to valuations he feels are untethered from reality.

Since early 2023, Nvidia’s value has jumped twelvefold to $4.4 trillion, while Palantir has skyrocketed twenty-eight-fold to $420 billion.

Meanwhile, AI firm CoreWeave’s valuation just hit $60-billion on just $1.2 billion in quarterly revenue.

“We’re bumping up against history real hard now,” he warns, especially worried about many Americans have household wealth tied to Big Tech.

Palantir’s P/E is closing in on 600.