GAMBLING IS TO SPORTS MEDIA AS PHARMA ADS ARE TO NEWS MEDIA:
I for one am shocked that NBA employees are gambling. How did they get sucked into that kind of activity?
I really hope they address this on the FanDuel Pregame show sponsored by bet365, right before the big game at DraftKings arena
— Joey- Cade Smith enjoyer (@GuardsJoey) October 23, 2025
NORM MACDONALD, CALL YOUR OFFICE!
Literally this👇 pic.twitter.com/Pfb4Ok2EKU
— Izengabe (@Izengabe_) October 24, 2025
Related: Will Schumer endorse?
Six days after the slaughter on October 7th, Mamdani was arrested at a protest against Jews in front of Chuck Schumer's own home in Brooklyn. pic.twitter.com/c4fdghqVg5
— BigApplePhoenix (@BigApplePhoenix) October 24, 2025
UPDATE:
This is one of the ALL-TIME great answers from Scott Jennings reacting to Zohran Mamdani invoking Islamophobia after September 11:
"You're going to run for mayor, and invoke 9/11? You darn sure better start with the people who died in the Twin Towers. Thats what I think. He… pic.twitter.com/EYmjVz0Mno
— Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) October 25, 2025
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
Obama criticized men for not supporting a Black woman in the last election—now he’s heading to Virginia to urge people NOT to vote for a Black woman.
— Topher (@topheronx) October 24, 2025
I PREFER TUMORS TO BE ON A CHIP THAN IN ME: Living tumor-on-a-chip exposes how cancers block immune attacks.
BOOB BAIT FOR THE BOBOS: MSNBC’S Morning Joe: ‘Everybody’ Outside DC Finds Trump’s Ballroom Plans ‘Infuriating.’
Morning Joe‘s whine-a-thon over President Trump’s ballroom project has entered its second day.
Yesterday, we caught Jon Meacham emoting that Trump’s decision to proceed with the project “is in some ways a definition of why we had the American Revolution.” Don’t fire until you see the whites of their tablecloths, Jon!
In the same episode, Meacham disingenuously suggested that before starting, Trump should have brought in the White House Historical Association and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. But as Mika had already revealed earlier in the show, the National Trust has already gone on record opposing the project!
If Trump had submitted to the groups’ tender mercies, and their endless demands for redesigns, site reviews, hearings, solicitation of public commentary, etc., what are the odds the ballroom would have been completed before the end of Trump’s term — if ever?
Today, Katty Kay called the project “a let-them-eat-cake moment” given that it was happening during a government shutdown in which some food welfare benefits are on hold.
Meanwhile, let’s see what the Washington Post has to say about the remodeling:
Gosh, what terrible demons could have sponsored Drumpf’s fascistic vandalism? Oh wait, the company that owns MSNBC, and the company whose CEO owns the WaPo: Guess Who Donated to the White House Ballroom Project? The Left Is Gonna Flip!
UPDATE:
The people who rampaged through the country tearing down every priceless work of art and historical monument they could find are now pretending to be traumatized because Trump is renovating part of the White House https://t.co/5CPvmutBJT
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) October 25, 2025
President Harding, hardest hit!
You guys are fine removing and defacing statues, but remove a Warren G. Harding (you should read up on him) tree, and you all get the vapors. https://t.co/Fg4Kzbd3Ws
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 25, 2025
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IT’S NOT THE SCIENTISTS WHO NEED TO BE PREPARING: Scientists prepare for the next Carrington Event: ‘Should such an event occur, there are no good solutions.’
POPCORN. LOTS OF POPCORN: We Got New Juicy Details About the Obama-Biden Feud Last Year.
FLOURISHING AFTER THE ASTEROID IS THE HARD PART: Dinosaurs may have flourished right up to when the asteroid hit.
THE WEEKEND MEMES ARE HERE: Play Meme for me.
EUROPE NEEDS A LAUNCHER: Airbus, Leonardo and Thales aim to lead European space efforts.
RIDE THE COMCAST RECURSION: Guess Who Donated to the White House Ballroom Project? The Left Is Gonna Flip!
The donor list the White House released is packed with names you’d never expect to see supporting a Trump initiative: Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Meta, and—wait for it—Comcast. Yes, that Comcast. The parent company of MSNBC, NBCNews, and CNBC—the same outlets currently panicking about “Trump’s destructive vanity project”—is literally helping fund the thing they’re denouncing on air. You can’t make this up. The same talking heads wailing that Trump is “desecrating history” are doing it under the financial umbrella of one of his donors.
It looks like your parent company is helping to "DESTROY" the White House!!
Below is a list of donors who contributed to the new Big Beautiful Ballroom. 🤣 pic.twitter.com/Fxp3LhKNM0
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) October 24, 2025
Other contributors include Lockheed Martin, Caterpillar, Coinbase, Palantir, and a handful of individual donors. Big Tech companies, which are typically anti-Trump bastions of leftist virtue, are suddenly writing checks for his ballroom. Maybe those boardroom politics aren’t quite as ideological as they claim.
In the end, this ballroom isn’t about vanity; it’s about practicality. Trump is reshaping the White House the way he’s reshaped Washington—unapologetically, efficiently, and to the absolute horror of his critics. And the funniest part? His loudest detractors are, quite literally, paying for the walls that will echo with the next round of state dinner applause.
Why, it’s as if: No One Is Tearing Down the Trump Ballroom. “Spoiler alert: It will stand. Indeed, the next Democratic president will make extensive use of the ballroom without apology, if only because it is of immense and objective practical utility.”
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Spine docs alarmed over ‘tech neck’ hazard for young smartphone users.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
Elderly Lesbian Throuple Turns Out To Be Green Day https://t.co/LJIDsqHwNi pic.twitter.com/VVzsBxIVRN
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 24, 2025
MEDIA OUTLETS THAT REJECTED TRUMP PENTAGON GUIDELINES ACCEDED TO OBAMA-ERA CENSORSHIP AT GITMO:
Many large outlets such as The Washington Post, the Associated Press, Reuters, The New York Times, Fox News, NBC News, and CBS News were among those which refused to sign the Pentagon’s new media guidelines. At the same time, these outlets agreed to far more restrictive policies — including censorship — in order to cover Guantánamo Bay.
Carol Rosenberg of the Times, in particular, reported at the Cuban war court for many years — and all the reporters who traveled to Gitmo were required to sign severely restrictive agreements with the military before they were allowed onto the base.
Despite the opposition from news outlets to the new press guidelines instituted by the Department of Defense (now also called the Department of War), the media guidelines at Guantánamo Bay that have been in place for many years — and that have been signed by dozens of reporters — include promises by these news outlets to not publish certain sensitive information, to not interview certain subjects, to stay out of certain areas, and to allow military handlers to censor what photos and videos reporters are allowed to publish.
Read the whole thing.
THE LEARNING CURVE IS STEEP, AND IT’S NOT CLEAR THE U.S. ARMY IS ON IT:
You need your own and operate FPV's to appreciate this reality and the US Military has none.
The current generation of US flag ranks are COIN/LIC careerists who are simply incapable of adapting to this sort of change rapidly without a series of major high casualty defeats.
2/2 pic.twitter.com/Q1NHvOrqHa
— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) October 24, 2025
SOMETHING ELSE THAT’S GETTING DONE AFTER DECADES OF TALK: Army To Bring Nuclear Microreactors To Its Bases By 2028: The Army is highly concerned about its near total reliance on local power grids to energize its most critical installations.
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THE CRITICAL DRINKER: Disney Killed The Kylo Ren Movie (And That’s A Good Thing).
In his video, the Drinker mentions a recent Forbes article on the economics of Disney’s Star Wars: Revealed: The Star Wars Movie With The Highest Profits:
2019’s The Rise Of Skywalker only had a 9.9% ROI as its costs came to an eyewatering $593.7 million (£450.2 million) as this report recently revealed.
It was the second most-expensive of Disney’s Star Wars movies after 2015’s The Force Awakens, the first in its new trilogy of films. The Force Awakens teamed up rising stars Daisy Ridley and John Boyega with Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and the late Carrie Fisher who headlined the original movies more than 30 years earlier.
With costs of $638.9 million (£452 million), The Force Awakens is comfortably Disney’s most expensive Star Wars movie and one of the most expensive films in history. Remarkably it is also one of the most profitable. This is no mean feat.
I saw Sam Mendes’ 1917 and The Rise of Skywalker on Christmas and Box Day respectively during a holiday stay in Dallas in 2019. My review of the latter at the time is much more positive in retrospect than I actually remember the movie being nearly six years on, these days I think of the movie as basically and extended Industrial Light & Magic demo reel. But in any case, like everybody else at the time, I had no idea that what I took for granted — going to the movie theater on a regular basis to see the latest zillion dollar blockbusters from Hollywood — would cease to exist for two years. In June of 2022, I was glad Top Gun: Maverick was just good enough to make it a fun afternoon at the movie theater. Today, I wonder how many more of those there will be.
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