OPEN THREAD: Ring in the Weekend (Cont’d).

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s Shenzhou 20 astronauts return to Earth after space debris scare: The trio returned to Earth more than a week late — and aboard a different spacecraft than the one that carried them up to orbit.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Middle school teacher allegedly had sex with student — then stalked him when he dumped her. “A Colorado middle school teacher is accused of having sex with a troubled teenage student for more than a year — and then stalking him when he dumped her. Teresa Whalin, a 28-year-old health teacher in suburban Denver, allegedly admitted to cops that she’d been in a sexual relationship with the student — as well as exchanging nude photos and making fake phone numbers to anonymously call him, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by the Denver Post. . . . She is charged with sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust, internet exploitation of a child and stalking, according to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE. The Canadian Political Class Is Ideologically Incapable of Rebuilding The Military.

BEWARE:

Read more here – the thread further down talks about the Dignity Index and how it spawned out of Biden's action plan after his infamous "Soul of the Nation" speech which labeled MAGA Republicans a threat: https://t.co/c7kug3ZyLf

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) November 14, 2025

CHANGE: AI predicts when donor livers are viable, potentially slashing canceled transplants by 60%.

SAY WHAT YOU WILL ABOUT SPUD, BUT HE’S A SHAMELESSLY DUTIFUL PARTY HACK:

Naah, no intent. They just literally spiced together two statements from Trump made 54 minutes apart. A “misstep” – as you called it.

It truly is a mystery why Brian was hired back but not also given back his show. Actually, it’s not at all… https://t.co/OOKkIlhYG8

— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) November 13, 2025

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Are Automated Tire Inflators Any Good?

NOBODY WANTED THE CASE BECAUSE IT’S A DOG: Special prosecutor assigned to Trump 2020 Georgia election case with uncertain future. “A special prosecutor was named to take over Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s (D) election interference prosecution of President Trump on Friday following Willis’s disqualification. Peter Skandalakis, the executive director of Georgia’s Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council (PAC), which was tasked with identifying a replacement, appointed himself after reporting an ‘inability’ to find someone else. ‘Several prosecutors were contacted and, while all were respectful and professional, each declined the appointment,’ he said in a statement. “

THAT’S A START: BBC Issues a Humiliating Apology to Trump for Deliberately Biased Edit of His J6 Speech.

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UM: You can now create AI avatars of your deceased loved ones so they can talk to your kids 30 years in the future.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Supreme Court May Consider the Age-Old Second Amendment Question. “Out of the Fourth Circuit comes West Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc. v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. At issue in this case is whether a federal law that bans licensed sales of handguns and handgun ammunition to anyone under the age of 21 violates the Second Amendment rights of 18- to 20-year-olds who otherwise can own firearms, in general. The 2022 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n, Inc. v. Bruen requires a “plain text” reading of the Second Amendment, consistent with the nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulations.”

IT’S FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Step Out of the Porta-Potty With Your Hands Up and Your Pants Down. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll never learn where the wooden stakes came from, why she wouldn’t go home with the cop, or how much Arizona Judge really had to drink.”

STAY SAFE: Super Bright Headlamp Rechargeable 4000 High Lumens. #CommissionEarned

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

To people who matter and are in charge of policy (ie not you), the Bataclan massacre was a powerful reason for increased Muslim immigration and government control over the Internet.

What you do with this knowledge is up to you. https://t.co/PDigNmB4XR

— James Kirkpatrick (@VDAREJamesK) November 14, 2025

A VERY PUBLIC EDUCATION: ‘No One Will Know’: Red State Schools ‘Openly’ Violate Law On Male Students In Female Spaces, Complaint Alleges.

THE STRUGGLE IS REAL:

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Psychotherapists are now seeing the effects of Trump DERANGEMENT Syndrome in their patients

"I had one patient who couldn't enjoy vacation because she saw Trump on her device or news, and felt triggered."

Omg…

"Some of the features of this 'disorder': They… pic.twitter.com/hX2GWZhajq

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 14, 2025

Spare a thought for the pressure they’ve created for themselves over the decades:

If they’re old enough, the same people who have TDS also suffered through Bush Derangement Syndrome twenty years ago, and have spent the last half century believing that the world was perpetually going to end in five years, and as a result:

HYPOCRISY: Jasmine Crockett Mocks MAGA Women’s Looks While Standing Next To Giant Drag Queen.

IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™ — Nancy Pelosi Is the Avatar of Everything Wrong With California.

SCIENCE MARCHES ON: German scientists discover that rats hunt bats in the dark.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: IRS unveils Roth IRA income limits for 2026. “In its release on Thursday, the agency increased the 2026 IRA contribution limit to $7,500, up from $7,000 in 2025. The IRS also boosted the IRA catch-up contributions for investors age 50 and older to $1,100, up from $1,000 in 2025.”

That applies to Roth and traditional IRAs.

GAMBLING DISCOVERED IN RICK’S CAFÉ: Corruption Is Slowly Engulfing Zelensky and His Allies.

Kyiv is keen to speed up EU accession talks and is preparing to bring top European leaders together to show force against those blocking the move. But the case of these opponents is growing stronger as more and more reports emerge about possible corruption within Volodymyr Zelensky’s administration.

Justice Minister German Galushchenko was suspended from his post on Wednesday morning amid a corruption investigation into the country’s energy sector. This was just two days after anti-corruption agencies announced their probe into a “large-scale” corruption scheme in the country’s energy sector, which is said to have taken place while Galushchenko was energy minister. The investigation is linked to money laundering of as much as $100 million (€86.4 million) through an office in Kyiv.

No word yet if the big guy got his ten percent, or when Zelensky, that paragon of democracy, will allow elections and open media again:

● Not Smart: Zelenskyy Just Blocked Truth Social in Ukraine.

● Ukraine’s Zelensky stays in power despite term expiring.

● Ukraine’s election day dawned with no vote in sight and little appetite for one – for now, anyway.

● Why hasn’t Ukraine held elections since the war began?

IS THAT WORSE THAN MURDER HORNETS: New ‘Lucifer Bee’ species discovered in Australia.

THE BBC ABANDONED IMPARTIALITY YEARS AGO. A reckoning for the Covid lockdowns is overdue:

The BBC’s editors and producers, like a majority of the lanyard class, seemed to take it for granted that these costs would be more than outweighed by the benefits, even though there was precious little evidence that locking people in their homes would stop the spread of the virus. Indeed, the evidence soon began to point the other way: Sweden, which imposed much more moderate restrictions, had the second lowest excess mortality in Europe between March 2020 and July 2022.

Such was the BBC’s enthusiasm for the lockdown policy, it pumped out nightly “Covid porn”, with Clive Myrie and other correspondents filing reports from “the frontline” where doctors and nurses struggled to contain the deadly virus. It’s no wonder the government’s draconian response commanded such widespread public support. This news footage gave the impression that anyone who breached the social distancing rules was at serious risk of dying. This was not the reality: in 2021 the global infection fatality rate was reckoned by John Ioannidis, Professor of Medicine at Stanford, to be 0.27 per cent.

But the Beeb went further than this, combining with other news organisations to discredit anyone casting doubt on the wisdom of the lockdown policy. It leveraged its status as the founder of the Trusted News Initiative (TNI), a partnership with Reuters, the Associated Press, Agence France-Press, the Financial Times, the New York Times and the Washington Post to suppress sceptical voices on social media – the subject of an anti-trust law suit in the US brought by various independent news publishers. Indeed, the founder of the TNI, a senior BBC executive called Jessica Cecil, was a member of the Counter Disinformation Policy Forum, a shadowy group of “experts” convened by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to monitor criticism of the government’s pandemic response.

But like America’s news media and healthcare professionals, come the summer of 2020, the Beeb went all-in on championing the George Floyd Riots both in America and in England, as this June 6^th, 2020 BBC headline illustrates: George Floyd death: Thousands turn out for UK anti-racism protests.

There’s not very much social distancing going on in the photos that accompany the article. As Glenn Greenwald tweeted about this Oceania-level pivot in December of 2021, “This was a pivotal moment in the pandemic’s history: For 4 months, the message was clear and unrelenting: everyone must stay home. Those who leave – even to go to a deserted beach – are reckless sociopaths. It flipped overnight to endorse a mass protest movement liberals liked.”

Not least of which, Britain’s current prime minister: George Floyd death: Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer takes a knee in support of Black Lives Matter movement.

—Sky News, June 9th, 2020.