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Archive for 2025
September 26, 2025
AND NOW FOR SOME GOOD NEWS FROM THE EDUCATION FRONT:
wrote today about how even if you've heard of Mississippi's surge in reading scores, you're probably underestimating it: pic.twitter.com/BlpueB1ARj
— Kelsey Piper (@KelseyTuoc) September 25, 2025
Exit quote: “We could do this everywhere. Not doing this everywhere is a policy choice, and it is a policy choice that condemns hundreds of thousands of children to never being able to read. It’s unforgivable.”
Yes.
Related: To win back public-school parents, be like Mississippi.
COLLEGE IS WORTH SAVING. I hope so, I’ve spent my career trying!
FBI BOMBSHELL: 274 agents sent to Capitol for J6, many later complained they were political ‘pawns.’
The FBI secretly deployed more than 250 plainclothes agents to the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, an operation so disorganized it unleashed searing frustrations among many of the FBI’s rank-and-file that the bureau had lost its core competencies to “wokeness” and allowed its employees to become “pawns in a political war,” according to an after-action report kept from the public for more than four years.
Scores of FBI agents and personnel – many from the bureau’s premier Washington field office (WFO) – sent anonymous complaints to the after-action team detailing how agents were sent into an unsafe scenario without proper safety equipment or the ability to identify themselves readily as armed officers to other police agencies, the report obtained by Just the News shows.
The most persistent complaint was that the bureau during the James Comey and Chris Wray era had become infected with political biases and liberal ideology that treated the protesters from the summer 2020 Black Lives Matter riots far differently than those arrested in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 episode.
“The FBI should make clear to its personnel and the public that, despite its obvious political bias, it ultimately still takes its mission and priorities seriously,” one employee wrote in a stinging review. “It should equally and aggressively investigate criminal activity regardless of the offenders’ perceived race, political affiliations, or motivations; and it should equally and aggressively protect all Americans regardless of perceived race, political affiliations, or motivations.”
That agent urged FBI leaders “to identify viable exit options for FBI personnel who no longer feel it is legally or morally acceptable to support a federal law enforcement and intelligence agency motivated by political bias.”
Meanwhile, at America’s Newspaper of Record:
FBI Busts FBI Terror Plot pic.twitter.com/w2KdEFHLxD
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) September 26, 2025
Related:
Cool shell formation found on beach walk pic.twitter.com/VuouLGFG0m
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 26, 2025
CHANGE:
BREAKING: Transportation Secretary Duffy announces terrifying findings of audit
– States are issuing CDL’s to people who are in our country illegally
– Thousands of licenses issued that should never have been issued
– Newscum’s California was the WORST offender
– eligibility… pic.twitter.com/f323WNlxog— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 26, 2025
OLD AND BUSTED: Broken Windows Policing Sharply Reduces Crime in Manhattan.
The New Hotness? Manhattan DA Declines to Prosecute NYC Woman Who Punched Pro-Life Activist During Street Interview.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office has declined to prosecute a woman who left a pro-life activist bloodied during a street interview in New York City earlier this year, according to attorneys from the Thomas More Society.
New York police arrested Brianna J. Rivers, 30, in April on one count of second-degree assault after she sucker punched activist Savannah Craven Antao during a street interview on abortion. The attack was caught on camera as Craven Antao asked Rivers questions about abortion on behalf of the pro-life organization Live Action.
But now, attorneys with the Thomas More Society say they plan to file a civil suit and seek damages on Craven Antao’s behalf after Bragg’s office declined to prosecute the felony assault charge.
Bragg’s office first downgraded the charge to a misdemeanor before ultimately dismissing the charge altogether, they said.
Just think of it as a sneak preview of life under Mayor Mamdani:
There is a reason why almost every bad case you hear about in NYC involves someone who has been arrested numerous times. There are no consequences for crimes like assault.
It’s going to get worse with Mamdani. If he wins, my sincere advice is for people who can leave to do so. https://t.co/lxD5HpukyQ
— AG (@AGHamilton29) September 26, 2025
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: My Invisible Imaginary Husband Was Driving the Car, Officer. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn how to pin the blame on your imaginary husband, why you don’t want to make the hooker angry, and what that thing is the police just wrapped around the axel of your stolen car.”
NOT LONG AGO, A CONSTELLATION THIS SIZE WOULD HAVE BEEN INCONCEIVABLE: SpaceX Seeks Approval for 15,000 Satellites to Use MSS Spectrum.
ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: How Many Immigrants Have Left the Country?
About a month ago, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem held a press conference to announce that about “1.6 million illegal immigrants have left the United States population.”
That’s a fraction of the number of people who arrived in the years that the Biden administration essentially opened the border. But it’s a lot of people, and it engendered much eye-rolling among journalists who compared Noem’s claim to Attorney General Pam Bondi’s declaration that President Trump’s drug interdiction policies had saved 258 million lives, roughly 75% of the U.S. total population.
However, in the weeks since Noem’s announcement, several data points have come in that suggest her estimate may be reasonably accurate. It might even be too low.
In August, the Pew Foundation released an estimate that the foreign-born population in the U.S. declined from 53.3 million at the beginning of the year to 51.9 million by the end of June – a decline of 1.4 million in just six months. The Pew report notes that the January count of 53.3 million was “the largest number ever recorded,” and that the decline this year will be the first decline in the immigrant population since the 1960s.
About the same time, the Center for Immigration Studies estimated that the foreign-born population fell by 2.2 million in the first seven months of the year. CIS estimates that 1.6 million of those who left were in the country illegally. If this estimate is correct, it would indicate that about 600,000 immigrants left, despite having the option legally to stay.
The CIS report indicates that it relied in part on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which tracks the number of foreign-born workers. The BLS data show that the number of foreign-born workers peaked in March at 32.2 million, before falling to 30.8 million by August – a decline of 1.4 million. Even so, the level remains historically high, and numbers appeared to stabilize in late summer.
There’s a long way to go, but what’s been achieved in eight months is impressive.
JD VANCE MAKES THE RADICAL LEFT AN OFFER THEY CAN’T ACCEPT:
I call upon all of our supporters to stop the violence against innocent beer cans.
And I call upon all left wing radicals to stop inciting violence against innocent people. https://t.co/j5VZ7AK8fx
— JD Vance (@JDVance) September 26, 2025
Won’t somebody think of the innocent beer cans?!
WE NOT ONLY HAVE THE WORST MEDIA, WE HAVE THE WORSE POSSIBLE MEDIA: Massachusetts police chief backs DHS’ claim that news video of ICE interaction fell short. “A Massachusetts police chief is backing the Department of Homeland Security’s claim that a video aired by a news outlet fails to reflect that an illegal immigrant locked his 5-year-old daughter alone in a car as he tried to evade ICE.”
HMM: Why Warm Countries Are Poorer. “Societies that live closer to the equator are warmer. Why are they also poorer?” Temperate climates are more invigorating.
GERMANY STILL PARTYING LIKE IT’S 1939: German Shop Owner Bans Jews From Store.
Sixty-year-old Hans Velten Reisch has been the owner of a small specialist shop at 63 Duburger Street in Flensburg, Germany, since 2016. The shop sells technical literature, focusing on original workshop manuals for cars and motorcycles. A week ago, on Wednesday, September 17, Reisch posted a sign in the front window of his store reading: “Juden haben hier Hausverbot!!! Nichts persönliches. auch kein Antisemitismus. kann euch nur nicht ausstehen.” (English: “Jews are banned from here!!! Nothing personal. Also no antisemitism. I just can’t stand you.”)
The sign posted by Reisch evokes a disturbing similarity to the signs that were placed in Jewish storefronts in Nazi Germany in the 1930s, before the outbreak of WWII. The public signs banning Jews after Hitler rose to power were the first stages of Nazi persecution, which eventually led to mass deportations and the systematic murder of six million Jews.
If you’re putting up signs that read “Jews are banned from here,” it’s definitely time to ask yourself, “Are we the baddies?”
HONOR CODES, HOW DO THEY WORK? Shaky on That ‘HONOR Code’ Thing – Jersey Mikie Sherrill aka Sub Par Annapolis Grad.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Sierra’s Dream Chaser is starting to resemble a nightmare.
Although the NASA news release does not detail the space agency’s concerns about allowing Dream Chaser to approach the station, sources have told Ars the space agency has yet to certify the spacecraft’s propulsion system. The spacecraft is powered by more than two dozen small rocket engines, each capable of operating at three discrete levels of thrust for fine control or more significant orbit adjustments. Certification is a necessary precursor for allowing a vehicle to approach the orbiting laboratory.
Sierra said it is now targeting a “late 2026” debut for Dream Chaser, but that date is far enough in the future that it is likely subject to Berger’s Law, and probably means no earlier than 2027. This all but precludes a cargo mission to the International Space Station, which is scheduled to be deorbited in 2030, and presently has two more-than-capable supply vehicles with SpaceX’s Dragon and Northrop’s new, larger Cygnus.
It is possible that Dream Chaser could serve a future market of commercial space stations in low-Earth orbit, but to do so, Sierra will have to get the vehicle flying reliably, frequently, and at a relatively low cost to compete with Dragon and Cygnus.
What a shame.
IT’S COME TO THIS: Pregnant Liberal Women* Pop Tylenol to Rebel Against Trump’s Autism Announcement.
Reuters oof 🤦🏻♂️
2013: Tylenol during pregnancy could affect development
2025: Not backed by science pic.twitter.com/UPxn4RdYt1
— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) September 24, 2025
To be fair though, think of the benefits!
* Women?! This CNN article is far more inclusive:
EVERY TIME I THINK SHE COULDN’T LOOK WORSE, SHE EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS: Kamala Actually Thought This Horrifying Story Made Her Look Good.
GOOD: IWI US, Inc. Selects East Tennessee for Headquarters Relocation. “Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Stuart C. McWhorter and IWI US, Inc. officials announced today the company is relocating its headquarters and all major operations from Pennsylvania to Tennessee. IWI US, Inc. will create 72 new jobs and invest $15.7 million in Andersonville, Tennessee. The additional investment and increased headcount will allow IWI US to increase its manufacturing capacity and ability to design and develop new technology for firearms.”
PLANETARY DEFENSE: Scientists eye nuclear options as asteroid barrels toward moon.
Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4% chance of hitting the moon in December of 2032, according to The European Space Agency.
Such a collision could have devastating consequences for satellites and astronauts in space, prompting a group of scientists to develop plans to prevent it from happening.
The asteroid made global headlines last year when it was reported to have a 3% probability of hitting Earth, but further observations led NASA to conclude that the building-sized asteroid “poses no significant impact risk to Earth in 2032 and beyond.”
A new, yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper proposes options to prevent asteroid 2024 YR4 from colliding with the moon.
One option presented in the paper is a “kinetic disruption mission” to blow up the asteroid using “nuclear explosive devices.”
We could certainly use the data.
TO ASK THE QUESTION IS TO ANSWER IT: Why Is Austin Trying To Sneak Purchase AI Cameras Without Giving Citizens A Say? “Turns out you have to sign up to speak 21 days before the meeting. The meeting they didn’t announce in advance for the item that’s not listed.”