MAKE POACHING GREAT AGAIN: HPD To NYPD: Come On Down. “Now that police-hostile Mamdani has been elected, just what are honest NYPD cops supposed to do? The Houston Police Department has a suggestion: Come on down!”
Florida knows how to play this game, too: Ron DeSantis Has the BEST Solution for Police Officers Who Want No Part of Mamdani’s New York.
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUES ZONES: Self-Deporting Dad Wants to Bring His Kid With Him, School District Said No — to Defy ICE.
Solo Stove Bonfire with Stand. #CommissionEarned
FAFO:
July 3rd: UN's Francesca Albanese calls to sanction U.S. companies
July 9th: U.S. sanctions Francesca Albanese
Albanese now: “U.S. sanctions are very, very heavy. The implications are enormous. It his me in the heart. I suffer great limitations. I find it horrible, horrible!” https://t.co/xgFwNbJAmv
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) November 7, 2025
WHY WEREN’T THEY DOING THIS SIX MONTHS AGO? Thune Says GOP Needs To Craft ‘Winning’ Message On Economy, Cost Of Living Ahead Of Midterms.
THE NEW MONROE DOCTRINE: Maduro Thinks He’s Taylor Swift and Mexico’s Uprising.
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Half a Skull, Full of Trouble. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn when half a head is better than none, why you don’t impersonate Tommy Chong, and where to ride a bull in Ohio.”
LIMITED TIME DEAL: 12×56 High Power Monocular Telescope for Adults. #CommissionEarned
IT’S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME — AND MAYBE NOT THAT MUCH: Space Force astronauts? New report says guardians in space would be asset for future ops.
“The adaptability and flexibility of human decision-making, as well as their ability to conduct a variety of mission operations, could present fundamental challenges to an adversary’s decision calculations,” the report said.
Thursday’s report, titled “A Broader Look at Dynamic Space Operations: Creating Multi-Dimensional Dilemmas for Adversaries,” says the Space Force must make all of its systems, not just its satellites, more maneuverable, flexible, and survivable amid China’s rapid push to improve technology for tracking and targeting U.S. military forces.
Charles Galbreath, the former Space Force officer and current senior fellow at the Mitchell Institute who wrote the report said putting guardians physically in space may also give the military an advantage.
“It is important to remember the fact that the most flexible system ever launched into space by the United States is the human being,” the report said. “Just as human astronauts were essential to the repair of and upgrades to the Hubble Space Telescope and the rescue of several other satellites, guardians in space may be essential for future Space Force missions.”
Yes.
GOOD AND HARD, FUN CITY: “New York City is About to be Governed by the Columbia University Student Body.”
William F. Buckley Jr. once quipped that he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than by the Harvard faculty. New York City is about to be governed by the Columbia University student body. A city that used to think of itself as grown up has just elected a mayor who seems the very embodiment of the American college student: uninformed, entitled and self-important, enjoying a regal quality of life that depends parasitically upon a civilization about which he knows nothing, yet for which he has nothing but scorn.
American college students regularly act out little psychodramas of oppression before an appreciative audience of diversity deanlets and associate vice-provosts of inclusion and belonging. Zohran Mamdani, the quintessential product of the academy, is poised to take such performative grievance to one of the biggest stages in the world. The results will not be pretty.
No they won’t (see also: New York in the de Blasio era), but: Let Them Burn It Down.
Let the left run their lab. Then, quietly and strategically, build alternatives. Offer lower taxes. Sharpen school choice. Rebuild neighborhoods. Attract employers with sensible rules. Invest in once-neglected towns that still believe in American possibility.
If Democrats want a crumbling, socialist, failing society in certain places, give them one. Let it be contained. Let it be visible. America will not fall because one city chooses differently. It will rise where people choose opportunity over ideology. That is the conservative playbook. That is our hope. And in the end, success will not be measured by who shouts the loudest. It will be measured by where people choose to live, work, and raise their kids.
Let them have their experiment. We will build the rest.
Regarding New York, Shana, they bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into…
As for the rest of us:
State Department Issues Travel Advisory For New York City https://t.co/bHhIHN2Bid pic.twitter.com/SaN9BxSqsL
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) November 5, 2025
IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™ — Nancy Bows Out, But Meet the Even Worse Guy Who Could Replace Her.
SCAMS ALL THE WAY DOWN: Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI.
GOODER AND HARDER, VIRGINIA: As Virginians Brace for an All-Out Assault on Their Gun Rights, an Appeal From the Left for a Little Sanity.
“I made a mistake and I let you down and I let down this institution. Period. Full Stop,” Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts told the staff of the conservative think tank on Wednesday, a week after he posted a video decrying a “venomous” coalition attacking the right-wing podcast host Tucker Carlson—and declaring the Heritage Foundation would always defend him against “the slander of bad actors who serve someone else’s agenda.”
Roberts said he was willing to resign but felt a “moral obligation” to repair the situation and had told the organization’s board of directors: “I made the mess, let me clean it up.”
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While Roberts stated unequivocally in his original video that the Heritage Foundation would never cancel “our friends,” he said Wednesday he should have made clear there was a “limiting principle.”
“You can say you’re not going to participate in canceling someone … while also being clear you’re not endorsing everything they’ve said, you’re not endorsing softball interviews, you’re not endorsing putting people on shows, and I should’ve made that clear.”
He added that he wasn’t actually very familiar with the white nationalist, Stalin fan, and J.D. Vance critic Nick Fuentes, with whom Carlson conducted a friendly interview last week on his podcast, though Roberts has spoken several times in recent days about the size of Fuentes’s audience and argued that “canceling” him, given his listenership, which Roberts pegged at 5 million people, will simply make him more popular.
“I didn’t know much about this Fuentes guy,” he said. “I still don’t.”
Norm Macdonald, call your office!
https://t.co/mtxc1bPebF pic.twitter.com/DgCuxGI984
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) November 6, 2025
In sharp contrast to playing footsie with white nationalists: BEASTMODE: ‘Everyone In His Country Is Eating Dog:’ Ben Shapiro Savages Tucker Carlson’s Defense of Commie Drug Lord Nicolas Maduro.
“Who gives a shit!” That was Ben Shapiro’s response to Tucker Carlson’s argument that Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro has some great qualities, like his opposition to gay marriage.
“Who gives a shit!” Shapiro said. “The guy’s a communist dictator. Everyone in his country is eating dog. He’s shipping fentanyl to the United States to kill Americans. I don’t give a shit whether he’s anti-LGBTQ rights. This is the number one thing about Nicolas Maduro? Do you know how far down the list you have to get before you can get to anything remotely recommendable about Nicolas Maduro?”
Shapiro, appearing with Megyn Kelly for a live taping of The Megyn Kelly Show in Jacksonville, Fla., was responding to Kelly’s summary of Carlson’s argument: “Tucker has made the point—I’m not going to be here to be Tucker’s defender—but he’s made the point that Maduro is culturally conservative,” she said.
“There is a long pattern of him ideologically laundering terrible ideas over the course of the last two years, ranging from traveling to Russia to sniff the bread and explain why the Russian regime is actually wonderful, to saying last week that the Venezuelan regime of Nicolas Maduro is actually not that bad because they’re being attacked by, in his words, ‘Globohomo,'” Shapiro said.
Exit quote:
"Who gives a shit?" is the exact response that has been missing as the Fuentes/Carlson/Smith/Cooper brigade tries to hedge behind false nuances of debate.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) November 7, 2025
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Tom Brady said new dog is clone of late pet.
COLBERT SAYS THE ROLE OF LATE NIGHT TV IS TO TELL YOU HOW TO THINK ABOUT THE NEWS: Following The Late Show’s Cancellation Drama, Stephen Colbert Weighs In On Why Late-Night Talk Shows Should Continue To Exist. “Well, we are like your friend who at the end of the day paid attention to what happened today more than you did. And then we curate that back to you at the end of the day. But it’s really more about how we feel about—or I, as the person who is the vehicle for that—how we felt about today.”
🚨 NEW: Stephen Colbert Says the Role of Late Night TV is to Tell You How to Think About the News
“We're like your friend who … paid attention to the news more than you did … and then we curate that back to you at the end of the day. But it's really more about how we feel… pic.twitter.com/w2PNiOL7Gz
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) November 7, 2025
We’ve come a long way from when Johnny Carson told 60 Minutes’ Mike Wallace the exact opposite in 1979:
Incidentally, the GQ scribe interviewing Colbert seems to have quite a different approach to his subject than Sydney Sweeney’s interlocutor, who was desperate to finally be the one who got Sweeney to cancel herself: Sydney Sweeney Is Repeatedly Badgered by a Woke Ugly Karen “Journalist” To Apologize for Being White and Pretty, and Keeps On Not Apologizing.
The woke left media is still demanding Sydney Sweeney apologize for her “great genes/jeans” ad. They are still after her to admit it was a Race Crime to make so many neurotic, hysterical, internet-addicted Karens upset by making a dumb pun Brooke Shields made in her jeans ads in 1980.
This gross, manipulative cow interviewing her even demanded she apologize for being “white” and speaking, she claims, of “genetic superiority.”
This was the same leather helmet-era playbook the DNC-MSM tried on Taylor Swift a decade ago and similarly crashed and burned, but hey, keep flucking that chicken, I guess.
We got lady Version of this meme pic.twitter.com/K0w8Dfni1c
— Abhishek Singh (@IAbhi_s) November 6, 2025
ASHLEY MCCULLY: Welcome to the Real World, Former Food Stampers. “This is what happens when we take these basic life skills out of schools. Cooking, gardening, food preservation, and basic butchery are, in fact, survival skills. Without this knowledge, is it any wonder people have this reaction to receiving a box of canned and dry goods?”
MAKE AMERICA ATTRACTIVE AGAIN: Trump announces deal to lower prices for obesity drugs.
COLD WAR II: The Computing Arms Race of Cold War 2.0. “The late-stage Cold War arms race initiated by President Ronald Reagan against the USSR in the early 1980s was so expensive that it eventually led the Soviet Union to the edge of bankruptcy and brought down the Communist regime. Today, both the spending required and the emergent risks of the AI and computing wars threaten to make the stakes of that era feel like child’s play.”
THERE WERE A LOT OF VICTIMS, WE SHOULD HAVE ONE IN MAY AND ONE IN NOVEMBER: November 7 as Victims of Communism Day – 2025.
GOOD QUESTION: Will There Be Any Purple States in 10 Years? 5 Years?
AMAZING VOTER RESPONSE: Something Doesn’t Add Up in New Jersey’s Election Results — and Pollsters Know It.
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