Archive for 2025
November 4, 2025
ANTIFA IS JUST AN IDEA…:
Oh wow. Check out this indictment. The clinical-style definition of "Antifa" is pure gold. It's probably a good idea to screenshot that section and lay it on whomever you next hear say "Antifa does not exist." https://t.co/sEGFYU9IFK
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) November 4, 2025
…and idea with leadership, organization, goals, planning, weapons, etc.
GET RID OF PESTS: Upgraded Solar Ultrasonic Animal Repellent Outdoor. #CommissionEarned
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Congressional Perks: House account spending jumped 21% in 2022.
The Members’ Representational Allowance (MRA) provides each of the 435 U.S. representatives in Congress about $2 million a year to pay staff, travel, buy equipment and run their Washington, D.C., and district offices, giving members wide latitude on how to spend the money within House ethics and administration committee rules. Districts receive different amounts depending on cost of living and distance from Washington, D.C., but lawmakers aren’t required to spend all of it – and some do not.
Each member is required to disclose his or her spending, and The Center Square found significant spending on private jet travel, luxury car leasing, meals and catering, questionable mileage reimbursements and subscriptions to news outlets that were recommended for cuts in the executive branch under the Department of Government Efficiency. There was also at least $50 million spent on partisan and issue-specific caucuses.
On top of about $810 million in 2024 for individual lawmakers’ office accounts, the House appropriates billions more for other operations of the House, including perks like a childcare center and an office of attending physician so members didn’t have to deal with waiting for a primary care.
David Williams, president of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, a non-partisan, nonprofit that looks out for the use of taxpayer money, said there needs to be a review of all the Congressional spending after The Center Square told him about some of the disbursements detailed in the House office accounts.
Yes, please.
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE TOOK THE MORNING OFF: The Halloween Dearborn Terror Plotters Are Muslim and Support ISIS (Surprise, Surprise).
SETTLER COLONIALISM:
Arab colonisation wiped out countless indigenous languages and civilisations, and drove many to near extinction.
Arabs are some of the most prolific colonisers in all of history. pic.twitter.com/GXBNXraU9p
— 𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) November 2, 2025
I DON’T REMEMBER IF I SHARED THIS: The Sound Track grows, it grows!
For those who are confused: what happened was this: I wrote a book. Okay, I’ve written a lot of books, but over the last two years I wrote this book that had to be published in three volumes because Amazon POD can’t bind a book 900 pages long. That book is No Man’s Land, and yes, it’s a fairly odd book, thank you for asking. (It’s also, in a sideways way the book that made me an sf writer.) But then my mom died, and for reasons known only to the psychiatrist I don’t have and don’t intend to get, I started writing lyrics (well, the first few were in the book, actually) and running them through a clanker (oh, for heaven’s sake, people, it’s a slur for a robot, aka AI) for music and singing. These I shared with my fans, who then decided it was a good idea to say I should write a sound track. As if they didn’t know my compulsive nature. Anyway. So, there it is. Reading the blurb of the book might explain some of the songs. Or not. Actually, wait, one of the songs (About the book, not the sound track) is the best explanation of the book: Skip Hayden’s No Man’s Land. I think the fact that the singer kind of looks like Charlie Martin caused Charlie to write this review. Maybe.
Anyway, that’s what it is. And I’ll probably take the first ten songs and give them free to my subscribers. meanwhile, I have another book that’s overdue to be done.
SHOULDN’T WE BE CALLING IT THE PHOENIX NEBULA: Webb captures spectacular false-color image of planetary nebula.
EARMARKERS GOTTA EARMARK: They renamed earmarks “Congressionally Directed Funding” (CDFs), but an earmark by any other name is still an earmark. The Washington Stand offers multiple examples from the current Congress.
THEY CAN’T HELP THEMSELVES: Democrats Attempt To Bully Erika Kirk Again.
HE’S RIGHT, YOU KNOW? IT’S THE 21ST CENTURY, OUR CHOICES ARE NOT FASCISM OR COMMUNISM: Ben Shapiro: Tucker Carlson is the “main agent” in “normalizing Nazism within the Republican Party”.
Or if you prefer black fascism and red fascism. Those were, objectively, two sucky choices.
ALWAYS FOLLOW THE MONEY: On Climate, Follow the Money.
THE ATLANTIC IS A SCURRILOUS RAG WHO SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF ITSELF: The Atlantic Says It’s Trump Officials’ Own Fault They Have To Flee Homes For Safety.
THEY NEED TO CHECK THEIR STARS, THAT’S WHERE THE ANSWERS ARE: Ukrainians turn to tarot readings to find out if they’ll ever get ‘famous’ US Tomahawk missiles.
SOME OF US ARE STILL PRAYING FOR A MIRACLE: The Socialist Nightmare: You Asked For It, New York — The City That Never Sleeps May Never Wake Up Again.
HE’S RIGHT, YOU KNOW? Guest Author: John Konrad V, American on Canada.
YOU CAN’T REASON PEOPLE OUT OF A POSITION THEY DIDN’T REASON THEMSELVES INTO: There’s no reasoning with people like this.
And in case you missed it, Tilting at Windmills is having a fifth anniversary sale.
HE MAKES A POINT: Mew, mew, mew! Evangelical Christians Bad!
No, his point is not the title.
AS IT SHOULD BE: Gun Control in the U.S. is Futile.
November 3, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.