Archive for 2025
November 11, 2025
CAN MUSK RESCUE THEM? Chinese Astronauts Left Stranded in Orbit as Space Debris Hits Return Module.
NOT ALL HEROES WEAR CAPES: He was attacked by a mob that came to threaten Jewish students and smashed the door and he stood his ground, protecting everyone in the room.
And for the X-Communicated.
November 10, 2025
FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!
One of the finest speech deliveries you will see https://t.co/JYGMBwgQA4
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) November 10, 2025
OPEN THREAD: mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. These are nice. Little Roquefort cheese morsels rolled in crushed nuts. Very tasty. Very subtle. It’s the way the dry sackiness of the nuts tiptoes up against the dour savor of the cheese that is so nice, so subtle, especially when attending that Radical Chic Open Thread at Lenny’s.
WHEN POLITICS BREAKS YOUR BRAIN: Left-Wing Radio Host Literally Kisses Feet Of Jasmine Crockett In Deranged Act Of ‘Worship.’
Progressive radio personality Stephanie Miller took political fandom to a bizarre new level after boasting online that she literally kissed the shoes of Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett.
Crockett has emerged as a leading voice among Democrats, positioning herself as one of the party’s most aggressive critics of President Donald Trump as she signals she might expand her influence with a potential Senate bid. Her growing prominence reached a high point over the weekend when liberal radio host Miller gushed on social media that she kissed Crockett’s sneakers.
“Why, yes I DID kiss the sneakers of @JasmineForUS and I DO worship the ground she walks on! And she was LOVELY about it! 🤣,” Miller wrote.
Leftists in 2025 are too crazy for even the Babylon Bee to satirize:
🚨 Liberal radio host Stephanie Miller literally KISSED the shoes of Jasmine Crockett and said "I DO worship the ground she walks on"
What kind of liberalism is THIS? pic.twitter.com/fxx0giAdUW
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) November 10, 2025
KURT SCHLICHTER: Maybe Totally Legalizing Vice Was Not Such a Great Idea After All.
We stamped out regular smoking pretty effectively; I freak young people out with tales of the smoking section and theaters where you couldn’t see the screen through the haze of burning tobacco. But somehow pot is different. You walk down any urban street and it’s like a Cypress Hill concert; you’re lucky if you don’t wander off the sidewalk and into traffic from the contact high. Even in the most conservative states, you will find dispensaries passing out supercharged ganja with 10 times the THC of the old skunk weed that stoner guy in your dorm used to fire up. Medicinal my tush; the only things it’s treating are boredom and ambition. Really, the smart play would have been legalizing cocaine, since people would at least be motivated to do something useful, like clean up their condo, sell junk bonds, or greenlight “Caddyshack.” Just what America needed – a drug designed to make our citizens lazier, dumber, and less interesting.
Related:
Elon says the homeless issue’s a “drug zombie” problem that some orgs profit from. Is it really that hard to fix this?
So many of my friends struggle to live here because of it pic.twitter.com/KkgCWrgooy— Rapael Kalandadze (@RaphaelKalan) November 5, 2025
THE CRITICAL DRINKER: Production Hell — Groundhog Day.
No doubt, the movie was the very definition of “production hell,” so much so that Bill Murray ended his longtime friendship with director Harold Ramis before the shoot was even over. But whatever the hell of making it, the results showed luminously on the screen.
QED: Jonah Goldberg from 2006 on Groundhog Day: A Movie For All Time. “When I set out to write this article, I thought it’d be fun to do a quirky homage to an offbeat flick, one I think is brilliant as both comedy and moral philosophy. But while doing what I intended to be cursory research–how much reporting do you need for a review of a twelve-year-old movie that plays constantly on cable?–I discovered that I wasn’t alone in my interest. In the years since its release the film has been taken up by Jews, Catholics, Evangelicals, Hindus, Buddhists, Wiccans, and followers of the oppressed Chinese Falun Gong movement. Meanwhile, the Internet brims with weighty philosophical treatises on the deep Platonist, Aristotelian, and existentialist themes providing the skin and bones beneath the film’s clown makeup. On National Review Online’s group blog, The Corner, I asked readers to send in their views on the film. Over 200 e-mails later I had learned that countless professors use it to teach ethics and a host of philosophical approaches. Several pastors sent me excerpts from sermons in which Groundhog Day was the central metaphor. And dozens of committed Christians of all denominations related that it was one of their most cherished movies.”
DAVID MARCUS: Nancy Pelosi’s legacy is the socialist takeover of her party.
The year was 1987 and the Democrat speaker of the House of Representatives was a moderate Texan named Jim Wright, the Senate majority leader was West Virginia’s Robert Byrd, and socialism was a dirty word in the Party of Jefferson and Jackson.
This was the year that San Francisco’s Nancy Pelosi would begin her career in Congress, and regarding both her and her Democrat Party, we can surely say, you’ve come a long way, baby.
Former Speaker Pelosi announced this week that she would not be seeking a 900th (or whatever it is) term in the House, and at 85 years old, she leaves a Democrat Party that has all but fully embraced socialism. She is arguably the biggest reason why.
Last month, amid growing pressure from the left, Pelosi’s hand-picked successor to hold the House gavel, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., endorsed a full-on socialist to be mayor of his hometown of New York City in what looked like a hostage video.
Pelosi is praised to high heaven by both parties for her ability to rule her conference with an iron fist and brook no quarter to opposition, but in practice, this clearly alienated moderate Democrats. In the case of New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew, he became a Republican.
There is no indication that Pelosi is upset that hers is now the Democrat Socialist Party in all but name. We can imagine former GOP Speaker John Boehner ruefully deploring how the Tea Party and Trump captured his party over a cigarette and glass of red wine, but Pelosi seems pleased as punch.
Who will replace Pelosi in Congress? Two names have been floated so far, California State Sen. Scott Wiener and Saikat Chakrabarti, AOC’s former chief of staff. First up, Wiener: Scott Wiener Makes Pelosi Look Normal, and He Wants to Fill Her Seat.
A sanitized, family-friendly Wiener biography would show that he’s a Harvard‑trained lawyer and longtime San Francisco resident who began his public career on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 2010. There, he built his reputation as a progressive advocate on issues ranging from civil rights to public health. In 2016, San Franciscans promoted him to the California State Senate. As with Pelosi herself, the state’s government unions, especially firefighters, love Wiener.
But in the legislature, Wiener has established a record that might have given Pelosi a case of the fantods. Of course, Wiener’s success there is not his alone. He has operated in a political environment shaped by Governor Newsom, progressive state legislators, and a San Francisco electorate that repeatedly sends him to office.
But the record he’s built there is entirely his own — a made-for-Netflix tragicomic collection of utterly bonkers legislation that would almost certainly weigh on Democratic candidates everywhere, offering proof that their party cannot be trusted around children.
In 2019, Wiener authored SB 145: “Ending Discrimination Against LGBTQ People Regarding Sex Offender Registration.” The bill amended California’s sex offender registry law so that judges have discretion in cases involving sex between minors as young as 14 and adults within ten years of that. Wiener claimed that he was merely bringing parity to the way in which judges handled cases involving sex between straight adults and their under-18 sexual partners. He might more reasonably have simply said there should be no judicial discretion when it comes to adults, whatever their gender or self-declared “identity,” having sex with kids.
Wiener’s SB 107 made California a sanctuary state for kids seeking medical support for their desire to transition, regardless of where they live in the United States or what their parents say. Team Wiener says the law, which Newsom signed in 2022, protects vulnerable kids from bad parents and regressive red-state policies. You might say it violates parental rights, encourages runaways, and makes those kids vulnerable to abuse, including sex trafficking. In 2023, Wiener championed SB 407, which required foster homes to provide explicit support for LGBTQ youth and regular assessments of their putative needs.
Then there’s Chakrabarti: Who will replace Nancy Pelosi after she leaves Congress in January 2027?
[F]ormer Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur Saikat Chakrabarti, had well beforehand launched a primary campaign against Pelosi.
Chakrabarti was New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign manager during her 2018 primary upset against incumbent Joe Crowley, which kicked off Ocasio-Cortez’s meteoric rise. He got his start in politics working on Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign and is a founding engineer of the online payment platform Stripe.
Chakrabarti told ABC News in April that he felt he could beat Pelosi in the primary because he saw echoes of the 2018 “blue wave” in 2025: a post-Trump election environment marked by frustration among Democrats over their party’s defeat. “That moment of change, in my opinion, is dwarfed by the moment of change you see right now. The level of anger at the Democratic Party for failing is huge,” Chakrabarti said.
In a statement on Thursday, Chakrabarti thanked Pelosi “for your decades of service that defined a generation of politics and for doing something truly rare in Washington: making room for the next one. Our campaign is ready to build on that legacy by fighting to create a San Francisco and an America that works for everyone.”
The filing period for California’s congressional primary does not open until February 9, 2026 and closes on March 6, so there is still plenty of time for other challengers to enter the ring.
Chakrabarti carries a fair amount of baggage of his own. In addition to ghostwriting the infamous “farting cows and airplanes” first draft of the Green Nude Eel in early 2019, Chakrabarti was tossed overboard by AOC later that year, possibly in order to distance herself from this story: Feds probing AOC’s chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti after sudden resignation.
The brash Chakrabarti, who masterminded Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign and steered her proposed Green New Deal, had caused uproar in the halls of Congress with a series of combative tweets that contributed to a rift between his rookie boss and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“People were not happy that he used his Twitter account to comment about members and the bills that he and his boss oppose,” a senior House Democratic staffer said. “There was a series of colliding and cascading grievances.”
The two PACs being probed, Brand New Congress and Justice Democrats, were both set up by Chakrabarti to support progressive candidates across the country.
But they funneled more than $1 million in political donations into two private companies that Chakrabarti also incorporated and controlled, according to Federal Election Commission filings and a complaint filed in March with the regulatory agency.
Then there were his sartorial excesses: AOC chief of staff criticized for wearing shirt touting Nazi collaborator:
Chakrabarti’s choice of apparel is receiving a fresh round of criticism after Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, positively quoted Nazi sympathizer Eva Perón, the former first lady of Argentina.
Saikat Chakrabarti, the chief of staff for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, came under scrutiny for having worn a T-shirt that featured Nazi collaborator Subhas Chandra Bose.
In December 2018, following his boss’s congressional victory, Chakrabarti did a video with NowThis News, titled “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Chief of Staff on Acting Fast in Congress,” in which he wore a T-shirt with Bose’s face.
If he wins and takes office at the beginning of 2027, I assume Chakrabarti would want to pack in as much legislating as possible before it’s too late (possibly working with potential Senator Graham Platner, another enthusiast of Germany’s post-Weimar era, if he’s elected as well). While Chakrabarti was serving as AOC’s ghostwriter, she assured us all that the world would be coming to an end in 2030.
UPDATE: Christine Pelosi passes on bid for retiring mother’s House seat.
TRUMP TAKES ON THE BRITISH DISINFORMATION COMPLEX:
The Trump administration has taken an interest in free speech in Britain as a cautionary tale of how the left’s obsession with policing “digital hate” and “misinformation” can lead to imprisonment for social media posts, as in the case of Lucy Connolly. The resignations over the weekend of two of the BBC’s highest executives, director-general Tim Davie and CEO Deborah Turness, are major victories in Trump’s war on Britain’s censorship complex.
Davie and Turness both resigned after revelations about the BBC’s bias against the President. Britain’s national broadcaster was exposed by the Telegraph for doctoring a speech Trump gave on January 6, 2021. The edited clip, which aired in a TV program a week before the 2024 election, made it sound like he was urging supporters to storm the Capitol, rather than telling them to “peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
The two snippets which were spliced into one – “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be there with you” and “We fight. We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not gonna have a country anymore” – occurred nearly an hour apart in the actual speech Trump gave. When BBC executives were presented with the now-leaked internal report, which voiced concerns about this program and other distortions in reporting, they ignored it.
Spiked editor Tim Slater mischievously asks, “Have you heard? There’s been a right-wing coup at the BBC.”
Apparently, a ‘cabal’ of ‘populists’ has just succeeded in ousting director-general Tim Davie and CEO of news and current affairs Deborah Turness. That, remarkably, is the high-status take following the shock resignations of Davie and Turness last night, following the outrageous, flagrant examples not simply of BBC bias, but of it pushing flat-out misinformation, detailed in an internal memo leaked to the Telegraph.
To call this a misreading of the situation is generous. It’s totally demented. BBC Panorama was caught out doctoring footage of Donald Trump’s ‘January 6’ speech, stitching together two bits, an hour apart, to make it appear as if he had explicitly incited the mob that later attacked the Capitol on that grim day in 2021. Unsurprisingly, the White House has taken a dim view of this – as has the British government. And yet our national, ‘impartial’ broadcaster being found to have spread lies about a politician – who we all know is loathed by those who work there – is being treated as if it’s a big fat nothing cooked up by a blood-scenting right.
It would be bad enough if the usual suspects were simply ranting – tinfoil hat at a jaunty angle – into their X feeds, like Belsize Park’s answer to Alex Jones. But they were also all over the BBC this morning. Former Murdoch newspaper man turned BBC podcaster David Yelland was on Today, airing his conspiracy theory that a ‘cabal of toxic plotters with links to the BBC board’ had ‘designed and executed a coup’, as he had put it on social media. When pressed, he couldn’t present a scrap of proof for this. But this claim was revisited time and again throughout the show.
At the London Times, Tom Peck describes this as something out of Monty Python and the Holy Grail: The BBC announces the BBC has launched a coup against the BBC.
Traditionally, you know there’s been a coup when a man in military fatigues turns up on the state broadcaster to announce that there hasn’t been a coup.
So when the familiar voice of the state broadcaster, that of the BBC’s Nick Robinson, keeps waking you up at 7am to warn that a coup at the BBC is under way, you know it’s probably OK to go back to sleep.
Not just OK, but positively encouraged. If you try to actually understand what’s going on at the BBC you might not sleep again until you’ve sat in a dark room for quite some time, with a wet towel wrapped around your head.
All we can know for sure, at this point, is that the director-general, Tim Davie, and the chief executive of BBC News, Deborah Turness, have resigned. Technically this was because last year, without anyone actually noticing until now, someone on BBC Panorama casually snipped out a minor, inconsequential, 50-minute-long segment of President Trump’s notorious speech on January 6, 2021, and welded together the front end and back end of what was left. What was broadcast was a cut-and-shut of a speech, which, with terrible inevitability, has now been involved in a horrific accident.
But it’s far more complicated than that. In fact if the BBC would like, at this point, to produce some genuine public service broadcasting, it could do worse than commission an eight-part series explaining the coup at the BBC, ideally featuring Professor Brian Cox, possibly standing on the slopes of a supervolcano on one of Saturn’s more hostile moons.
The main reason the coup is hard to understand is because the BBC is, according to itself, in on it. The implication from the BBC’s Nick Robinson, made live on the BBC Today programme, seems to be that the BBC’s Sir Robbie Gibb wants to bring down the BBC. Sensing opportunity, the BBC board, which gives the appearance of hating the BBC, wouldn’t let the BBC just admit it made a mistake and move on, and so the BBC has forced itself into full-blown crisis instead.
In one grim way, suddenly it all makes sense. For a lot of the last year, a lot of people have been looking at the BBC and just asking, why? Why did it accidentally have a documentary on Gaza narrated by the son of a Hamas official? Why did it accidentally broadcast an apparent Hamas rally live from the West Holts stage of Glastonbury? Well now we know. They were all in on it. Mission accomplished. Bob Vylan has pulled off the unthinkable.
Meanwhile back in the States, “none other than Brian Stelter weighed in on this weekend’s developments. Instead of looking critically at the actions that have ensnared these top-rung executives, Stelter tried to recast the editing as a mere error that somehow flummoxed those putting together this documentary, timed to be released just days ahead of the election.”
Stelter tweeted, “In a vacuum, a more-than-a-year-old editing misstep by unnamed producers would not cause the very top heads of the BBC to roll. But…”
This is the man who hosted Dan Rather for years on his CNN program titled “Reliable Sources,” so naturally, he’s perfectly fine looking the other way when it comes to the Beeb’s “editing misstep.”
THE SHUTDOWN FOLDED BECAUSE DEMOCRATS CAUGHT HELL FROM THEIR DONORS ABOUT THIS: Private jets banned from landing at major airports as FAA struggles to cope with air traffic during shutdown.
Hey, it could be.
I BLAME RFK, JR. Canada loses measles elimination status after ongoing outbreaks.
REMINDER:
We need young, smart, well-spoken, passionate voices on the Right who can mobilize young Conservatives to turn out and vote like Mamdani did for the Left.
Oh wait, we did have one. But the "tolerant" radical Left assassinated him. And celebrated it. Because that's who they are.
— Damani Felder (@TheDamaniFelder) November 5, 2025
SPIRITUAL STEWARDS OF THE LAND:
— DTDavis (@DTDavisPhD) November 9, 2025
YOU GOTTA LEAVE THAT KIND OF THING TO THE PROS: Drunk United Airlines attendant was 10 times legal limit after chugging vodka to ‘calm down.’
LOL, I REMEMBER WHEN PEOPLE ON THE RIGHT RESPECTED JAKE TAPPER. HE SQUANDERED THAT.
Or you know, referring to a man as a “woman,” which your network does every day as a matter of course.
You have no moral authority to talk about exact definitions, and the reality is that alternate electors is a valid constitutional theory that was used in the 1960 election. https://t.co/uHXbwAap0e
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) November 10, 2025
TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP: A Tale Of Two VW Vans.
Based on recent auction prices and AutoTrader listings, a 2019 VW 2.0L TDI Diesel Highline van lost £4,000 in depreciation.
The 2021 VW ABT Etransporter T32 ADVA electric van lost £47,000.
The hard details (including auction results) are real, though the stories of how each were used seems invented for amusement value.
The EV van has only 8,064 miles, the diesel has 23,699.
“The price when new for my diesel van in 2021 was £32,997 and [the] EV was £55,717.”
Caveat emptor.
OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH SNAP: Gavin Newsom’s Tone on Ending the Shutdown (and Families Going Hungry) Sure Changed Quickly. What a difference a week and half makes:
ACTUALLY, HER NAME IS MEGHAN: But the Prince, You See, Was Under Duress.
Solo Stove Bonfire with Stand. #CommissionEarned