Archive for 2025

October 6, 2025

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACED TOOK A XANAX ABOUT AN HOUR AGO:

Posted at 2:58 pm by Stephen Green on Oct 6th, 2025

FAIL, BRITANNIA: Labour secretly sabotaged China spy trial.

Labour secretly sabotaged the trial of two alleged spies by refusing to brand China an “enemy”, The Telegraph can disclose.

Prosecutors dropped charges last month against Christopher Cash, 30, and Christopher Berry, 33, who were accused of passing information about the Government’s foreign policy to a high-ranking member of the Chinese government.

At the time, Sir Keir Starmer’s spokesman said that it was “extremely disappointing” that the two men would not face trial, adding that the charges were “gravely concerning”.

But The Telegraph can now reveal that the case collapsed because ministers withdrew a star witness who had been tasked with testifying that China was an “enemy” of the UK.

Does Starmer actually believe in Labour’s anti-British agenda, or is his government merely on Beijing and Qatar’s payrolls?

Posted at 2:46 pm by Stephen Green on Oct 6th, 2025

FLY BY NIGHT: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Will Tour as Rush in 2026.

Rush co-founders Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson will return to the road as Rush next year for a 50th-anniversary tour dedicated to the memory of their late bandmate Neil Peart, they announced today. German drum virtuoso Anika Nilles, who’s previously backed Jeff Beck, will join them for the 12-date, seven-city Fifty Something Tour, which kicks off June 7 at Los Angeles’ Kia Forum — the same venue where Rush played their last show with Peart in August 2015. “After all that has gone down since that last show, Alex and I have done some serious soul searching and come to the decision that we fucking miss it,” Lee said in a press release. “And that it’s time for a celebration of 50-something years of Rush music.”

Lee and Lifeson, best friends since high school, spent the past few years in a friendly public debate about the prospect of touring again without Peart, their drummer and lyricist, who died in 2020 after a quiet battle with brain cancer. Lee told Rolling Stone that he’d been working to persuade Lifeson to go out, and even Paul McCartney had told the duo that they needed to tour again. As recently as last May, Lifeson was still resistant, at least in public, telling Rolling Stone, “There’s no chance that we’re going to get a drummer and go back on the road as the rebirth of Rush or something like that.”

Finding Nilles, a widely acclaimed 41-year-old drummer — who happens to be known for playing in the kind of odd time signatures that are Rush’s specialty — to step into what may be the most intimidating open chair in all of rock may have made the difference. “As we all know, Neil was irreplaceable,” Lee said. “Yet life is full of surprises, and we’ve been introduced to another remarkable person; an incredible drummer and musician who is adding another chapter to our story while continuing her own fascinating musical journey. Her name is Anika Nilles, and we could not be more excited to introduce her to our loyal and dedicated Rush fan base, whom, we know, will give her every chance to live up to that near-impossible role.”

Given America’s rapidly declining birth rate, presumably Rush hitting the arenas once again is a devious Canadian plot to tank those numbers even further: An FAQ About Your New Birth Control: The Music of Rush.

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Oct 6th, 2025

MATT TAIBBI: Milken and Friends Build a $500 Million Monument to Their Version of the American Dream.

I almost fell off my chair a couple of weeks ago when I saw a Bloomberg article titled “The Junk Bond King Opens a Shrine to Capitalism Near the White House.” My thoughts instantly turned to an episode of “The Sopranos” in which Tony and the crew discuss building the Newark Museum of Science and Trucking.

The $500 million Milken Center for the Advancement of the American Dream (MCAAD) is funded by such titans as Citadel Enterprise America’s CEO Ken Griffin, Carlyle founder David Rubenstein, music mogul David Geffen, Walmart multi-billionaire Alice Walton, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates. MCAAD’s website highlights The David Geffen Hall of Dreams, The Kenneth C. Griffin Holodeck Experience, The Word Cloud and much more! I decided to see it for myself, but first, a quick story.

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The feel-great American dream vibe of the MCAAD differs quite a bit from a recent Wall Street Journal and NORC survey:

The share of people who say they have a good chance of improving their standard of living fell to 25%, a record low in surveys dating to 1987. More than three-quarters said they lack confidence that life for the next generation will be better than their own, the poll found.

Nearly 70% of people said they believe the American dream—that if you work hard, you will get ahead—no longer holds true or never did, the highest level in nearly 15 years of surveys.

Interestingly, soon after entering the MCAAD you can sit down at a little booth and pick videos from the “Foundations of the Dream Gallery” and listen to both everyday Americans as well as famous ones like Katie Couric and Elmo from Sesame Street. Yes, Elmo shares his American dream story. You could choose different themes or groups of people like “Walmart.” This option provides testimonials from Walmart employees who got their start at the company and have made a nice life and career. That jogged my memory that Alice Walton, a scion of the family that started Walmart, was a big contributor to the center.

Besides Elmo, Katie Couric and Walmart, Mike Milken is also Biden-approved; well, Jill Biden-approved at least:  Milken Institute Launches New Women’s Health Network, Former First Lady Jill Biden Joins as its Chair.

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Oct 6th, 2025

REMEMBERING THE HARD HAT RIOT:

Fifty-five years ago, in May 1970, a riot erupted at the corner of Wall and Broad Streets in Lower Manhattan. A few days after the killing of four students by National Guard troops at Kent State University, a large group of antiwar protesters gathered at the historic intersection. They stood on the steps of Federal Hall, next to the statue of George Washington, which commemorates the spot where the nation’s first president took his oath of office.

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Hard Hat Riot is notable for what it does not say. It does not use the word “fascism” to describe the rioters. It does not end with footage of the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, and it makes no mention of Donald Trump.

Yet the hard hat riot is relevant to today as a lesson in the failures of elite liberalism. Liberal political action, even when taken with the best intentions, often falters when its supporters engage in cultural warfare that alienates ordinary Americans.

A liberalism that looks down on people it perceives as inferiors economically, socially, and culturally, will end up losing electorally. Richard Nixon’s landslide reelection win of 1972 made this clear, as did Trump’s victory more than a half century later in 2024. Such a politics will worsen political tensions and polarization.

Today, some Democrats are desperate to find ways to relate to male, working-class voters without college degrees. It’s not a new challenge. As Hard Hat Riot shows, the Democrats’ problem has been decades in the making.

Their collective opinion about those who don’t share their worldview has been ossified for just as long. In January of 1970, Time magazine declared that “The Men and Women of the Year were the Middle Americans,” and condescendingly wrote about its subscribers in what would eventually be known as the “Gorillas in the Mist” style of journalism:

The Supreme Court had forbidden it, but they prayed defiantly in a school on Netcong, N.J., reading the morning invocation from the Congressional Record. In the state legislatures, they introduced more than 100 Draconian bills to put down campus dissent. In West Virginia, they passed a law absolving police in advance of guilt in any riot deaths. In Minneapolis they elected a police detective to be mayor.

Everywhere, they flew the colors of assertive patriots. Their car windows were plastered with American-flag decals, their ideological totems. In the bumper-sticker dialogue of the freeways, they answered Make Love Not War with Honor America or Spiro is My Hero. They sent Richard Nixon to the White House and two teams of astronauts to the moon. They were both exalted and afraid. The mysteries of space were nothing, after all, compared with the menacing confusions of their own society.

The American dream that they were living was no longer the dream as advertised. They feared that they were beginning to lose their grip on the country. Others seemed to be taking over–the liberals, the radicals, the defiant young, a communications industry that they often believed was lying to them. The Saturday Evening Post folded, but the older world of Norman Rockwell icons was long gone anyway. No one celebrated them: intellectuals dismissed their lore as banality. Pornography, dissent and drugs seemed to wash over them in waves, bearing some of their children away.

But in 1969 they began to assert themselves. They were “discovered” first by politicians and the press, and then they started to discover themselves. In the Administration’s voices–especially in the Vice President’s and the Attorney General’s–in the achievements and the character of the astronauts, in a murmurous and pervasive discontent, they sought to reclaim their culture. It was their interpretation of patriotism that brought Richard Nixon the time to pursue a gradual withdrawal from the war. By their silent but newly felt presence, they influenced the mood of government and the course of legislation, and this began to shape the course of the nation and the nation’s course in the world. The Men and Women of the Year were the Middle Americans.

Of course, at least back then, future Democrat state attorney general candidates at least didn’t openly fantasize about shooting those strange looming Republicans. But that’s progress, or at least progressivism, I guess.

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Oct 6th, 2025

VDH WELCOMES YOU TO Reactionary, Neo-Confederate Portland.

Left-wing protesters are swarming ICE headquarters in Portland to violently oppose all deportations, even those of known criminals and those who have already exhausted efforts to remain here illegally.

Why? The Democratic Party apparat knows that the public wants both secure borders and deportations of illegal aliens. Indeed, in part, it lost an election by its open-borders advocacy.

But Democrat officials feel that if street thugs like Antifa can surround and besiege ICE facilities in Portland, Oregon, then deportations will stop. Then, a de facto amnesty will follow for millions who entered the U.S. illegally—and will soon become Democratic constituents.

As a result, they do not fully enforce the law when thugs attack federal law enforcement. Antifa and its spin-off groups favor the night, when they try to block all entries and exits of ICE vehicles and personnel, and can commit their violence with greater anonymity.

The masked rioters assault anyone in their way. They count on exemption from punishment for committing violence against federal officers through the goodwill or indifference of kindred local and state officials who hate the Trump administration more than they respect the law. An Orwellian scenario follows in which federal officers are attacked by Antifa, which in turn counts on the non-intervention of local police.

Summed up: the city of Portland’s armed officers are in a de facto proxy war with their federal counterparts—in our version of something out of 1860, on the eve of a real civil war.

Insurrection, straight up — and do read the whole thing.

Posted at 1:44 pm by Stephen Green on Oct 6th, 2025

MARK SANCHEZ NOW FACING A FELONY CHARGE STEMMING FROM INDIANAPOLIS ALTERCATION:

It should be noted that Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears is the same prosecutor who recently downgraded an attempted murder charge against Courtney Boose, a man with 99 prior arrests, to “aggravated battery.”

Make no mistake: if Sanchez is guilty, he should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. The injuries he allegedly inflicted on the 69-year-old victim are horrific. Yet it will be interesting to see how this prosecution unfolds, given the other prosecutorial choices Mears has recently made.

Sanchez was released from the hospital yesterday and immediately taken to jail, where he posted his $300 cash bond.

To their credit, Fox Sports Radio gives a thorough writeup of what’s known about the incident so far:

“GRAPHIC photos of the man attacked by former NFL QB and sportscaster Mark Sanchez. My colleague @maxlewis talked with his wife. The victim is 69 and was working at the time he was attacked. His family says he was cut in the fight and it went through his cheek and hit his tongue,” Ganote wrote on her X account, along with two photos showing the grisly injuries but blocking out the man’s eyes.

Sanchez was reportedly “acting erratically” and attack an elderly grease truck driver before he was stabbed in Indianapolis early Saturday (October 4) morning.

“This guy is trying to kill me,” the 69-year-old driver told police while recounting the incident, according to court documents obtained by the New York Post.

Sanchez was initially charged with battery resulting in injury, public intoxication, and unlawful entry of a motor vehicle in relation to the incident, which resulted in the driver stabbing him. The FOX Sports broadcaster, who was supposed to call the game between the Las Vegas Raiders and Indianapolis Colts at Lucas Oil Stadium on Sunday, allegedly got into an argument with the truck driver just before midnight on Saturday when he complained that the truck was blocking a nearby alley, sources with knowledge of the situation confirmed to FOX 59.

Sanchez was reportedly doing “wind sprints” in the alley behind the Loughmiller’s Pub and Eatery where he was drinking and “acting erratically” prior to the argument. Video captured from the nearby Indianapolis showed the former NFL quarterback approach and open the driver’s door of the truck, talk to the driver and walk over to the hotel’s security office, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by the Indianapolis Star.

The two men then had another interaction before Sanchez began following the driver, who was seen backing away in the footage described by the charing documents.

“Sanchez is seen running after [the man] and the video shows Mr Sanchez grabbing and throwing [the man] towards the wall of the Westin,” the affidavit states.

The fight continued into the alley, at which point Sanchez allegedly threw the 69-year-old.

“Mr Sanchez is then seen throwing [the man] to the ground on the west side of the alley,” the affidavit states.

The grease truck driver told police that he used mace to protect himself from Sanchez but the attack continued before he stabbed the former quarterback two or three times, at which point Sanchez allegedly stared at him “with a look of shock” before turning around and walking up the alley, the affidavit states. Police found a trail of blood in the alleyway and Sanchez was rushed to the hospital in critical condition before later being upgraded to stable.

Sanchez was arrested, however, hasn’t been booked into Marion County Jail. The driver was reported to have suffered a laceration to his left cheek.

Based on the photos of the driver, which are indeed extremely graphic, that laceration is far more than just “reported.”

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Oct 6th, 2025

LIKE RATS FLEEING A SHIP THAT’S FINALLY STARTING TO RIGHT ITSELF:

That’s just one data point, but keep your eyes open for others.

Posted at 1:23 pm by Stephen Green on Oct 6th, 2025

ED MORRISSEY: Release the Hounds: SCOTUS Rejects Ghislaine Maxwell Appeal. “As long as her attorneys keep up the appeals, though, federal judges will have plenty of cover to keep those transcripts sealed. The Epstein case screams out for more accountability for the trafficking-ring participants, but that usually comes from trials rather than grand jury deliberations. If Maxwell drops all appeals, though, maybe the judges controlling those transcripts will have changes of heart — and maybe Maxwell will see that as her best move. About the only hope she has now is a commutation, and that’s a long shot at best. And even then, it won’t be forthcoming for at least another couple of years.”

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Oct 6th, 2025

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Build-A-Bear Employee Allegedly Refuses To Name Stuffed Animal After Charlie Kirk At Teen’s Request.

“She just didn’t agree with it. She didn’t support it and she told me, ‘We’re not doing this,’ folded it up in a force and threw it away,” McCormick said.

The teen gave her payment card to her friend Kailie Lang and left the register. “It definitely made us all very uncomfortable,” Lang said.

Amber McCormick, the teen’s mother, spent 45 minutes on the phone with Build-A-Bear’s corporate office. The company first offered a $20 gift card, then called back days later with an apology, the mother said.

Build-A-Bear acknowledged the incident shouldn’t have happened and promised to retrain staff in Seattle and nationwide to keep politics out of the workplace.

Unless the apology came from the employee who refused the request, it’s meaningless.

Posted at 12:42 pm by Stephen Green on Oct 6th, 2025

HERE WE GO: Bari Weiss: The Free Press is joining Paramount.

As of today, I am editor-in-chief of CBS News, working with new colleagues on the programs that have impacted American culture for generations—shows like 60 Minutes and Sunday Morning—and shaping how millions of Americans read, listen, watch, and, most importantly, understand the news in the 21st century.

And curiously, the legacy media is furious that someone who probably has a worldview comparable to that of Bill Clinton circa 1995 has a position of authority with CBS:

Oh no, not 60 Minutes, the home of Rathergate, Pallywood, and Scott Pelley in 2017 admitting on air the network was in bed with Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

Brian Stelter, whose Sunday CNN show, “Reliable Sources” was for years a safe haven for Dan Rather, tweets:

Not surprisingly, Stelter feigns the same cluelessness as all of his fellow Democrats at CBS right now:

Finally (for now), it’s obvious that there’s only one man who should be the new anchor of 60 Minutes: 

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll on Oct 6th, 2025

THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW WHAT’S ACTUALLY HAPPENING BECAUSE YOU MIGHT DRAW THE CORRECT CONCLUSION:

Posted at 11:48 am by Glenn Reynolds on Oct 6th, 2025

SHUT UP, THEY EXPLAINED: YouTube Continues Throttling Shooting News Weekly’s Videos.

Apparently we’ve violated the “Content that facilitates the sale of certain regulated goods, like firearms, ammunition, or prohibited firearm accessories” restriction.

To be absolutely clear, we are NOT “facilitating the sale” of any of these things. …Unless YouTube simply considers a positive review or any mild comment like saying something is a “good value” or stating the product’s MSRP or recommending the product is somehow “facilitating” its sale. I don’t believe that’s precisely what’s going on here, it’s just YouTube’s justification for the continuing the censorship of SNW’s videos (and other similar content creators).

In all cases I submitted an appeal, which is supposed to trigger a manual review. YouTube set expectations that an appeals review is likely to take up to 72 hours. In all cases our appeal was rejected within an hour — usually just a few minutes — and the content remained removed from any form of visibility on YouTube and/or deleted entirely from our library.

“There’s always Rumble,” except that hardly anybody watches Rumble.

Posted at 11:40 am by Stephen Green on Oct 6th, 2025

MAID IN CANADA: Euthanasia Organ Harvesting ‘Surges.’ “It’s been my sad duty to write about MAID several times in the last three years, as the state euthanasia program slides down the slippery slope from ‘It’s just for the nearly dead’ to ‘Soylent Green is people.'”

Posted at 11:09 am by Stephen Green on Oct 6th, 2025
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