YOU FAMILY HISTORY IS NOT COMPLICATED. THIS IS COMPLICATED:  They Lived in Infamy.

TRUMP’S SINFULNESS IN A NUTSHELL: Trump’s National Security Strategy Commits an Unforgivable Sin: Telling the Truth.

THE 21ST CENTURY I HOPED FOR:  SpaceX launches 29 more Starlink satellites, sets new record for Falcon 9 reuse, dominates the world in rocketry.

FOR CHRISTMAS:  Review: The Joyous Season, A Play by Philip Barry.

PUSHBACK WITH SPIKES!  Some Pushback Required.

TRUMP’S ELECTIONS FORESTALLED THIS HERE, BUT WE MUST — MUST — MAKE SURE THEY CAN’T FRAUD US ONTO THAT PATH ONCE AGAIN:  If Britain’s political leadership were trying to destroy the country, what would they have done differently?

WE CAN HOPE:  Supreme Court Poised to Restore Constitution?

SEE DATA REPUBLICAN, READ DATA REPUBLICAN:  Americans have stepped away from NGO-crafted “freedom” indices that always crown the same governments as enlightened. We see the pattern. We no longer treat these rankings as neutral data or as credible authority, because they are not. Their metrics shift to suit their narrative, and the narrative always protects their preferred states — the compliant states of globalists.

YOUR HANDY DANDY: X-cancel link.

NO SH*T SHERLOCK:  Watchdog finds DEI, CRT baked into accreditation rules for hundreds of university social work programs.  The body tasked with accrediting social work programs has raked in over $40 million in fees since 2016.

COUGH IT UP!  Plaintiffs win $10M settlement against CU Anschutz School of Medicine over COVID-19 vaccine exemption denials.

IT’S NOT LIES. IT’S DOGMA. THEY’RE A RELIGION:  The lies they believe.

GOVERNMENT MATH ISN’T REAL MATH:  QotD: Austerity versus “austerity”.

I KEEP THINKING OF THE BOOK “THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE”:  Guest Author: Dr. Simon Goddek on the Reality in Europe Today.

The problem is their media lies even more than ours, so they think we’re more controlled than they are. The arguments I get into when I visit….

A SOUND AROSE AS THOUGH A MILLION CHOCOHOLICS CRIED OUT IN ONE VOICE: Take my money.  Cocoa Piles Up At Ivory Coast Ports As Buyers Face Cash Shortage

FADING IN TIME:  An Inconvenient Memory.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED:  Mamdani Drops New Video Teaching New Yorkers How to ‘Stand Up to ICE’.

YOU DON’T SAY:  Nature Journal Retracts Climate Alarm Study After Data Errors Surface.

IT’S A FOREIGN PSYOPS, TRYING TO SELL THIS TO THE RIGHT IN THE US:  America Last: How Fuentes’s Coordinated Raids and Foreign Fake-Speech Networks Inflate His Influence.

I knew that, because only leftists and foreigners think that the American right is the same as the hard European right. It’s stupid, and insane, but they think they know this.

IT’S ONE OF THE STUPIDEST THINGS YOU CAN DO:  Threatening to Prosecute Your Opponents When They Give Up Power Is a Bad Idea.

SOMETIMES I THINK THAT I’M NOT SO MUCH A WRITER, AS A THING WRITING HAPPENS THROUGH:   The Stars in the Sky – Free, complete Short Story.

I mean one minute I’m writing along and the next minute a Spatine appears. What the heck is a Spatine? Eight hours later I have a short story and just as much writing in notes on what Spatines are as a branch of the Space Force of Britannia. Also my head hurts. I’d just very much like to know why me.

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

REALLY, REALLY FIRST-WAVE FEMINISM: Female gladiators shocked the ancient Roman world — but not for the reason you think.

PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Sun unleashes intense X-class solar flare, triggering radio blackouts across Australia: The powerful X1.1 solar flare from sunspot region 4298 sparked strong radio blackouts on the sunlit portion of Earth at the time of eruption.

YES, NEXT QUESTION? Were the late ’80s and early 1990s “the best time in recent years to be alive?”

RE: A Golden Age

Mrs. Dr. Publius and I were just discussing how awesome the mid-to-late ‘80s and early '90s were, in general, as the best time in recent years to be alive (full disclosure, for each of us this was our favorite time to be alive), and we were wondering if:

"Are…

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) December 8, 2025

ACE OF SPADES: Supreme Court Seems Likely To Rule That the President Has Control Over, Get This, the Executive Branch.

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Repeat after me. There is no 4th branch of government. There is no such thing as an "independent" agency. https://t.co/bD0mUaqiTR

— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) December 8, 2025