#JOURNALISM:
It is not surprising that the WashPost, which originated the Russia collusion hoax, the Kavanaugh hoax, and the first Trump impeachment hoax, would run another false info op. It IS a bit surprising that the NYT isn’t going along with it in their normal manner. https://t.co/7bPNMO1ISY
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) December 2, 2025
NO SURPRISE: Apple AI chief steps down following Siri setbacks.
Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down from his position, according to an announcement on Monday. The change comes as Apple struggles to get its AI-powered Siri back on track after delaying its launch earlier this year.
Now, Amar Subramanya will serve as Apple’s vice president of AI. Subramanya spent 16 years at Google before joining Microsoft’s AI division as the corporate VP of AI in July. While at Apple, Subramanya will oversee the development of the company’s AI models, machine learning research, as well as AI safety and evaluation.
Embarrassing but overdue.
DON SURBER: Tim Walz, bagman for Somalia.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dems Really Should Break Their Addiction to Voting for Scumbags. “Here’s the thing, though — unless Walz ends up in a federal penitentiary, his political career isn’t going to take a hit. The Dems in Minnesota have been electing this corrupt moron to office for 20 years now. Because Democrats love entrenched corruptocrats, Walz is running for his third term as governor.”
“FRAUD: IS MINNESOTA THE NATION’S MOST CORRUPT STATE?” Thinking Minnesota Poll: Voters set to hold Walz accountable for fraud.
HMM: Hong Kong Contractors Used Unsafe Netting at Fire Site, Officials Say.
Hong Kong officials said on Monday that contractors at the ill-fated housing estate where a fire killed more than 150 people had blanketed buildings with substandard scaffolding netting, and then tried to conceal the unsafe material.
The Independent Commission Against Corruption said that after a summer typhoon, some of the scaffolding netting used at the Wang Fuk Court housing estate in northern Hong Kong was replaced with cheaper material that did not meet fire-safety standards.
To fool inspectors, netting that met the standards was installed at the base of the scaffolding, where samples are usually taken.
The findings emerged as the death toll from Wednesday’s blaze rose to 151, with the police still combing the towers for bodies and evidence of identification. More than 40 people were still missing. The work of locating and identifying remains would take another three weeks, officials said.
For what it’s worth, I had GPT perform a deep search for similarly deadly corruption before the CCP clamped down on Hong Kong, and it came up with nothing.
SHE’S A LEFTY KOOK: Aftyn Behn Keeps Revising Her Resume. We Set The Record Straight. “The congressional candidate has tried to bury some of her radical views. That’s just the tip of the iceberg.”
COOL, NOW DO NYC: Even When They Cheat They Lose: Another Country Rejects Communism.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Harvard Hires Divinity School Graduate Who Assaulted Israeli Classmate.
Harvard’s self-marginalization continues.
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STEFAN PADFIELD: Striking at the Legal and Conceptual Core of “Woke AI.”
L’ÉTAT, C’EST TOUT LE MONDE:
This is probably the scariest chart you'll see today. Let me translate it for you: only one-third of French people have a private-sector job.
How are they supposed to feed the remaining two-thirds with their taxes? It’s starting to feel like a failed state. pic.twitter.com/HLIHfG1PHo
— Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) December 2, 2025
Previously:
Europe’s economic decline is becoming more painful. In 1995 European productivity was 95% of America’s; today it is less than 80%, which is a big enough gap for holidaymakers to notice.
The continent’s failure to exploit its scale is a problem https://t.co/zSMUX2NMB3 👇
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) September 11, 2024
Decline is a choice.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Color Revolution Playbook.
THEY’RE NOT SENDING THEIR BEST FOR THE #RESISTANCE:
Even by the obscenely low standard set over the last decade, this has to be one of the stupidest ops yet against Trump.
A bunch of people who were positively orgasmic over videos of kids getting droned in Afghanistan and entire cities being carpet-bombed in the Middle East have… https://t.co/jC40im8pc5
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) December 2, 2025
SILVER LINING: Strange Chernobyl dark fungus may ‘eat’ radiation and even help astronauts in space.
But Chernobyl’s fungi weren’t just adapting to the radiation — they were feeding off it. In 2007, Ekaterina Dadachova, a nuclear scientist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, built on Zhdanova’s research after revealing that the organism increased while in the presence of radiation. This indicated they were harnessing it — a phenomenon she dubbed “radiosynthesis.”
One could think of it like plants feeding off sunlight — but far more powerful. “The energy of ionizing radiation is around one million times higher than the energy of white light, which is used in photosynthesis,” said the researcher Dadachova. “So you need a pretty powerful energy transducer, and this is what we think melanin is capable of doing — to transduce [ionising radiation] into usable levels of energy.”
Radiosynthesis remains just a theory as scientists have yet to discover the exact mechanism by which the fungi convert radiation into energy.
However, if true, this has major ramifications for a variety of crucial applications, from radiation cleanup at sites like Chernobyl and Fukushima to space exploration — specifically shielding astronauts against harmful cosmic radiation.
Stay tuned.
EVERY COMMUNIST COUNTRY IS A SLAVEHOLDING STATE:
There are allegations that, just like the scam cities, these far flung fishing vessels are sometimes manned by slave crews, like North Korean forced labor.https://t.co/w16lxbRV1R
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) November 30, 2025
IG EXPOSED BIDEN AFGHAN REFUGEE ‘VETTING’ 3 YEARS AGO: With one National Guardsman dead and another in critical condition, the lethal damage inflicted by the Biden era continues to accumulate. We can’t say we weren’t warned.
JOEL KOTKIN: Slouching Toward Gavin Newsom. “Newsom is also audaciously recasting himself as a working-class hero. He has said he spent his childhood ‘hustling’ and that he ‘raised himself.’ That rather downplays his rise as a protégé of the Getty family, which employed his father as its lawyer. In 1991, a young Newsom was photographed with the Getty children as part of a newspaper story titled ‘The Children of the Rich.’ It’s unlikely that the San Francisco elite, who have financed his ruse, are fooled; nor is anyone else for that matter. Yet the act goes on, without a hint of shame.”
NIXON’S THE ONE! NOW MORE THAN EVER! NBC News gets the vapors over “The campaign to make Richard Nixon great again:”
Beyond [Christopher] Rufo, the conservative media personalities Tucker Carlson, Michael Knowles and Steve Bannon have pushed this revisionist Watergate narrative in the past year. Hillsdale College, a conservative college in Michigan, promoted and endorsed a Carlson podcast episode that described Watergate as a “scam.” Even actor Bill Murray suggested this year on Joe Rogan’s podcast that Nixon might have been “framed.”
Republican-controlled states like Idaho and Louisiana have approved a video for use in public school social studies classes that was produced by the conservative media organization PragerU, in which the conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt quotes a historian who argues that Watergate was the media’s attempt to reverse an election.
Hewitt, who serves on the board of the Nixon Foundation, contends that the media and the “East Coast liberal elite” had it out for Nixon in part because of his “staunch anti-communist” views.
PragerU worked over the past two years with many Republican-led states to get its content into public schools, and it recently partnered with the Trump administration on a civics education initiative. After Rufo’s proclamation on HBO, Marissa Streit, PragerU’s CEO, said he is “right about Nixon!” and directed people to watch Hewitt’s video on X.
Woodrow Wilson was invariably presented as a “Progressive” giant for decades before it was obvious he was so terrible a president (and man) that reality eventually began to catch up. But Wilson aside, every 20th century president has a team working to enhance his reputation. And sometimes, they can produce astonishing results for their man. Harry Truman left office with poll numbers absolutely underwater, but a cadre of Democrat historians made it their life goal to depict him as an absolute titan among presidents, and their efforts stuck. Amity Shlaes has done yeoman’s work to boost Calvin Coolidge’s stature. In his later years, even Jimmy Carter got into the act, beginning with Ezra Klein’s 2009 efforts to salvage the reputation of his infamous “malaise speech.”
As for Nixon, it was Democrats themselves who began to prop up his reputation, beginning decades ago, in part to attack the then-current Republican president. Timesmen Paul Krugman and Thomas Wicker each praised Nixon for his Rockefeller Republican big government “echo not a choice” worldview, and in 2008, Roger Ebert similarly rehabilitated Nixon to attack Dubya. That was 16 years before Kamala desperately sought GWB’s endorsement last year, as a reminder how the left’s eternal cycle of Republican presidential rehabilitation works.
But it was with their never-ending efforts at impeaching Trump during his first term that arguably did the most to tilt the needle for Nixon. Because the last time impeachment hearings occurred against a president was in 1868 against Andrew Johnson, the Democrats’ assault on Nixon could be presented by their operatives with bylines as blockbuster, once in a century stuff. The Republicans’ impeachment effort against Clinton was a reminder that these are simply partisan efforts at smashmouth politics, and the left’s continuous meltdown over Trump cemented this perception among everyone except those with terminal cases of TDS.
THE THING IS, LEFTISTS LIKE ECONOMIC STAGNATION BECAUSE IT ENHANCES GOVERNMENT CONTROL OVER THE GOODIES:
Atlas shrugged in Canada. https://t.co/cdMRHxhBml
— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) November 27, 2025
FROM TIMOTHY WITCHAZEL: .
From author and poet Timothy V. Witchazel comes the story of Joshua and the Battle of Jericho in alliterative verse. Tracing the story of the Israelites from the parting of the Red Sea to the fall of the walls of Jericho, the story is retold in the style of Beowulf, Piers Plowman, and other Anglo-Saxon poems.
JOHN LUCAS: The Insurrectionist Democrats Endanger the Troops with Their Incompetent and Dangerous Legal Advice.
Many Democrats and their media allies have tried to scare service members into submission by threatening to prosecute them for war crimes when the Dems regain the power they crave, if they obey orders of which the Dem disapprove.
Democratic members of the Senate judiciary committee sent a letter to Attorney General Bondi claiming that those participating in military strikes against drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean may be guilty of “premeditated murder.” CNN echoed that, with threatening allusions to the Nuremberg war crimes trials. . . .
The Gang of 6’s carefully choreographed video builds on those threats, especially with their emphasis to service members that, “You MUST refuse!” and “Right now!”
But with their over-simplistic legal advice about disobeying orders, these esteemed public servants put well-intentioned service members at great risk. And they doubtlessly know of the risk they are inducing. But they are willing to sacrifice some pawns if they can bring down the king.
They’re actually creating an environment in which members of the military will need to ensure that Democrats never return to power.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT EARLIER, PART OF THIS YEAR’S CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE: What Child Is This, Complete Short Story.
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