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November 24, 2025

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Elon Musk’s zeal for truth reveals the online frauds aiming to divide us. Key bit:

We’ve heard a lot in recent years about “misinformation” and “disinformation” on the Internet, which officials in both the United States and the increasingly totalitarian European Union have used as an excuse to censor ideas they don’t like.

Inevitably, the ideas they dislike are those coming from their political opponents.

But Musk on Friday didn’t censor people for lying. He revealed them as liars.

Rather than repression, he chose illumination. . . .

Musk chose transparency over “security,” and in so doing he ripped the masks off tens (hundreds?) of thousands of fake accounts that have been doing real harm to America’s political discourse — without silencing anyone.

More effectively, too: Censoring deliberately divisive accounts makes it look like you’re hiding something.

Exposing fake ones makes clear who’s doing the hiding.

Learn from Elon. He’s a smart guy.

But read the whole thing.

Posted at 6:46 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Nov 24th, 2025

I WAS GOING TO ADD SOMETHING, BUT RHONDA SUMMED IT UP WELL ENOUGH:

Posted at 5:10 pm by Stephen Green on Nov 24th, 2025

WAYMO ROBOTAXIS EXPAND TO MORE CITIES. This will revolutionize things, but not as much as the Tesla robotaxis will.

Posted at 5:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Nov 24th, 2025

ROGER SIMON: 82? … Be Grateful to God, Roger!

Anyone who makes it into their eighties has a lot for which to be grateful.

My father, a physician, died at 70 from an aneurysm while sitting in his car about to see a patient in jeopardy. He never made it out of the garage.

I’m still here, twelve years older than that, playing tennis*, doing imperfect pushups, and, more importantly, still writing, this Substack and even a new novel that I hope to be the first of a series.

Most importantly, I have been married to a wonderful woman for over thirty years.

Man, do I have a lot to be grateful for!

And when I read about Dennis Prager’s incredible courage, his ability to write a new book after being paralyzed from a horrific accident, I am humbled. Dennis, who has been kind to my work on several occasions, was the first to seriously pique my interest in exploring my religion as an adult. I attended his High Holy Day services in Los Angeles.

Nevertheless, I didn’t pray much at all until the last few years. I wasn’t anti-religious. It just wasn’t central in my life.

This has changed. You could say that’s what being 82 will do to you, but my increasing interest comes from more than that.

* I’m glad Roger is eschewing Pickleball; it’s rapidly becoming an outlaw sport in America.

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 24th, 2025

GREAT MOMENTS IN LAW ENFORCEMENT: Somali Sheriff in Minnesota Just Called American Officers ‘Foreigners’ and Said He Serves Somalis First.

A Minnesota Sheriff gave a speech (not in English) making it very clear who he believes he is obligated to protect.

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Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 24th, 2025

SHOOTING NEWS: Taking the Temperature of the Hard Left Gun Culture at a Brutality Shooting Match.

EVEN BEFORE KIRK’S death, right-wing personalities like Andy Ngo were sharing images of trans people taking up arms on social media, implying they present a threat. Following the arrest of Kirk shooting suspect Tyler Robinson, that paranoia reached a fever pitch, with many ostensible supporters of the Second Amendment suggesting trans people be stripped of their arms. “How much do you want to bet we are going to find out there is a Trans terror cell that groomed Tyler Robinson and possibly even provided him with the gun to kill Charlie?” asked MAGA influencer Laura Loomer on X on September 13, following up with a slur. “There are literally shooting clubs now where Trannies meet up to learn how to shoot rifles and they wear shirts that say ‘Kill fascists’ and ‘the 2nd Amendment is for shooting cops.’ They are training for war. It’s very dangerous.”

READER, THEY ARE not training for war. Certainly not at this event.

Instead, I’ve been getting the tea about how Brutality matches are a kink-friendly space from Deviant Ollam, a 48-year-old hacker and guntuber with an “arm trans women” patch above his right butt cheek and “Abolish ICE” stickers he’s handing out freely. Ollam is poly, pansexual, and currently figuring out his status with Gun Bunny. The two of them, who have 180,000 and 22,000 YouTube subscribers, respectively, affectionately hold each other throughout the weekend. Bunny’s boyfriend, who is married, poly, and wearing a “Pro Gun, Pro Gay, A Better Way 2A” shirt, is also here.

From there, things get weird.

Posted at 2:46 pm by Stephen Green on Nov 24th, 2025

BLOTTING OUT THE SUN? WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

Oh, yes, anthropogenic climate change isn’t completely a fraud. The climate does change, and our activities do affect that. The question sensible people ask is this: Is our impact worth changing our modern, comfortable lifestyles over? The answer sensible people arrive at is “no.”

But that doesn’t stop the scolds from cooking up bad ideas, like scattering stuff in the upper atmosphere to partially block out the sun. We’ve seen this proposed before, but now there’s a company that’s actually talking about doing it.

They’re calling this “Project Stardust.”

Janos Pasztor was conflicted. Sitting in his home office in a village just outside Geneva, he stared into the screen of his computer, where a bizarre Zoom call was taking place. It was Jan. 31, 2024. The chief executive of an Israeli-U.S. startup, to whom Pasztor had only just been introduced, was telling him the company had developed a special reflective particle and the technology to release millions of tons of it high into the atmosphere. The intended effect: to dim the light of the sun across the world and throw global warming into reverse. The CEO wanted Pasztor, a former senior United Nations climate official, to help. The company called itself Stardust Solutions.

Pasztor, a deliberate and self-assured Hungarian with thick, arched eyebrows that give him the appearance of a mildly perturbed owl, was stunned by the seriousness of Stardust’s operation. He had long been expecting that some company would try this. But the emergence of a well-financed, highly credentialed group represented a shocking acceleration for a technology still largely confined to research papers, backyard debates and science fiction novels.

Science fiction novels are where this stupid idea should stay — as a precautionary tale, only.

Flashback to 2023: Why Billionaires are Obsessed With Blocking Out the Sun.

At the Munich Security Conference last week, George Soros got onstage to talk about the existential risk that climate change poses to human civilization, as well as what appeared to be the 92-year-old Hungarian-American billionaire’s preferred method of addressing it: brightening the clouds over the Arctic to reflect the sun’s energy away from the melting ice caps. But questions aside as to whether Soros—ludicrously maligned in conspiracy-minded right-wing circles—is the best advocate for solar geoengineering, he’s not the only billionaire who’s recently become interested in bouncing the sun’s rays back into space. Among the world’s ultra-rich, plans to swat back the sun’s rays like they’re capital gains taxes (to, as it were, apply a generous helping of sunblock to the earth’s atmosphere) have seemingly been all the rage.

Note that this is an idea so out there, even Obama, at the peak of his Hopenchange, “We Are All Socialists Now,” “Sort of God” first year, didn’t deign to implement it, despite his “science” “czar” bringing up the topic in a 2009 AP interview:

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 24th, 2025

“TWILIGHT OF THE PAKISTANI RAGE FARMER:” Foreign Rage Farmers Exposed by X in Major Update.

For the most part, the fraud appears to be incentivized by basic economics, as evidenced well by this intra-Nigerian soccer-based slop farm, for example, which basically just interacts with itself, farming engagement in a fairly straightforward grift. Attention is money on social media, and politics is just a good way to get it. Then, the reality of global economics naturally pushes this shit to the third world. A few hundred dollars for content doesn’t get you very far in California, but for a Bangladeshi who doesn’t care about the devolving political climate in America? That money is life changing. So here we all are, in Slop World hell.

Now, internet sleuths are uncovering new frauds every minute or so, and I will undoubtedly, even with the enormous list I am about to present, miss important accounts. A few of these people may possibly have some sort of believable defense, which they haven’t yet provided. But let’s take a first look at what we’ve learned so far.

Revealed frauds, which is to say specifically an account that frames itself as operating from one country actually operating from another, have fallen into a handful of embarrassing buckets.

I’ll start with one of the most popular genres, and the genre that seems to have most badly burned the press: Gaza content.

This Palestinian news network is operating out of Egypt. This huge influencer “from Palestine” is living in North Africa. Here we have a Palestinian, reporting on the war, who is actually living in Ireland. Here’s another living in Indonesia (he’s alive, he helpfully reported back in July, in case you were wondering). Here we have a live-tweeting father in Gaza… who is actually living in Poland. This one appears mostly a grift for money, which is an entire repulsive genre of content (with another example from Canada here, and another from India here). Though I guess we should have seen the “Gaza dad’s” exposure coming after he posted just two days ago that he and his kids were freezing to death in a tent in Gaza in… 60 degree weather.

Earlier: Whoa: Major Foreign Propagandists Utterly Exposed After X Glitch Reveals Account Locations.

“The above was posted when it was 65 degrees at night (and 80 during the day), just to give you an idea of the kind of propaganda being spewed. For years, the above account has claimed to be reporting from the ground in Gaza. He’s made hundreds of posts pushing fake claims about genocide, famine, and his own supposed hardships. In reality, his account was created in the United Kingdom, and he’s currently residing in Poland.”

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Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 24th, 2025

#JOURNALISM:

Posted at 1:45 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Nov 24th, 2025

IT SURE FEELS THAT WAY BEFORE THE COFFEE KICKS IN: Aging Is Not Something We Have to Accept as Inevitable. “I actually call it a meta-disease, in the sense that it is the cause behind almost every other disease. So it’s like the molecular damage, the DNA mutations, the telomere loss, even the epigenetic changes accumulate over lifespan and lead to these diverse diseases. But they’re all really being caused by aging. So it’s like the generative mechanism behind all of them. It’s the cause and the diseases are the effect.”

Posted at 1:44 pm by Stephen Green on Nov 24th, 2025

ILLEGAL ALIEN STOLE A MAN’S IDENTITY AND MADE HIS LIFE HELL; NEW YORK TIMES CALLS THE ILLEGAL A VICTIM:

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Obviously, Vincent is the victim. The whole community, which has never met his victims, rallies around Vincent. Because they are kind.

This is the logic of the liberal mind, which focuses on the sob stories of the “victims” they choose to care about, and only those people. It is because of such people that career criminals walk the streets and terrorize others.

“Sure, that guy has 72 arrests and eventually throws gasoline on a woman and lights her on fire, but he had a tough childhood!”

In recent pieces, I have written about the necessary cruelty that makes society possible. It is true enough that Vincent came here for a better life than he could have had in Guatemala, and that he has not been intentionally cruel as far as we know (although, really, do you trust the Times to tell us if he were a wife-beater?), but society has rules for a reason.

Exit quote: “And Kluver is white, so really, he is the privileged one and should be happy to help out his brown brother, who suffers from oppression that is almost as bad as Michelle Obama’s.”

As Pinch Sulzberger was quoted as saying in 1991, “alienating older white male readers means ‘we’re doing something right.'”

Note the framing of the Times’ headline:

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 24th, 2025
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