I’M SO OLD, I REMEMBER WHEN DEMS WERE ACTUALLY GOOD AT POLITICS:
This release blew up in Dems' faces https://t.co/aXer1kiGfr
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) November 13, 2025
And:
Is… is this a bad thing to you??? https://t.co/cZMGla7Ifx
— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) November 13, 2025
Today’s Dems play well inside their blue bubbles, but they’re pretty clueless about the way normies think in the rest of the country.
21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Solar flares pause Blue Origin-NASA Mars probe launch.
EPSTEIN FILES: Johnson says vote on Epstein files to take place next week after discharge petition. “The petition itself will not force the release of the files, but is merely a vote that will force lawmakers to go on the record with their position on the release. A discharge petition forces a bill or resolution to be brought directly to the House floor for consideration, even if it’s previously been held up in the committee process.”
VITAMIN D UPDATE: Vitamin D in tailored doses found to reduce heart attack risk.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: The Tyranny of the Female-Orgasm Industrial Complex. Note that men who don’t care if a woman has an orgasm are “pigs.” So are men who try too hard to ensure that a woman has an orgasm.
MILE MARKERS ON THE ROAD TO DETROIT: Once-bustling mall worth $1.2b is sold for fraction of the price after being laid to waste in crime-ravaged blue city.
An iconic mall in San Francisco foreclosed for a fraction of the billion-dollar valuation it once commanded as Covid shutdowns and out-of-control crime left the seven-story behemoth a shell of its former self.
Valued at $1.2 billion nearly a decade ago, the San Francisco Centre Mall, previously known as the Westfield Emporium, was sold at an auction on Wednesday to lenders Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan Chase.
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, the mall served as a shopping hub in San Francisco, with residents and tourists flocking to its vibrant energy and big-name brands.
As consumers turned away from the city’s sketchy downtown and toward online shopping, however, the mall’s value declined drastically. An appraisal at the end of 2022 valued the property at only $290 million, a 76 percent drop from its height before the pandemic.
But lenders purchased the property for even less than appraisals, with the final sticker price for the sprawling 1.5 million square-foot mall only $133 million – or just 11 percent of its top valuation.
CTL-F “Shoplifting” brings up zero results, though the Daily Mail article does note, “Westfield blamed ‘unsafe conditions’ and ‘lack of enforcement against rampant criminal activity’ for the mall’s decline,” not to mention the decline of San Francisco as a whole.
AT THIS POINT, I’M TEMPTED TO SUGGEST WE SHUT DOWN CIVILIAN INTELLIGENCE AND LET THE MILITARY HANDLE THE VITAL STUFF: New Docs Show More Connections Between Wuhan Lab and U.S. Intelligence.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: It’s Official: ‘South Park’ Duo Has Trump Derangement Syndrome.
If anyone deserved the benefit of the doubt, it’s Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
The rebels behind “South Park” have spent decades putting comedy first. Silly, raunchy, outrageous and crass comedy, to be exact.
But comedy always mattered most. And that meant “South Park” punched up and down, Right and Left sans apology.
That seemingly ended a few months ago, roughly 28 years after the show’s 1997 Comedy Central debut. Suddenly, Cartman and co. attacked President Trump and various GOP figures nonstop.
Fair and balanced? Not even close. They contracted Trump Derangement Syndrome, or TDS.
Read the whole thing. I’d just add that it would be a damned shame if Parker and Stone lost their edge over TDS.
WATCH WHAT THEY DO, DON’T LISTEN TO WHAT THEY SAY:
BREAKING: Gazans who left Gaza are stuck on a plane because South African authorities refused to let them enter the country.
Yes, the same South Africa that blames Israel for “genocide” doesn’t want Gazans in their country.
You can’t make this up, lol.
— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) November 13, 2025
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DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Zohran Mamdani: The Far Left’s New Anti-Gun Golden Boy.
The corporate press is branding him as a “visionary reformer,” but gun owners can see what’s coming: another smooth-talking radical working to erode freedom, one executive order at a time. But Mamdani’s platform reads like a wish list for Everytown, Giffords, and the rest of the billionaire-funded gun-confiscation machine.
He has already called for a nationwide ban on so-called “assault rifles.” And, as a New York State Assembly member, Mamdani voted in favor of red flag gun confiscation laws, and a ban on civilian body armor. He voted to require disclosure of social media accounts for those applying for handgun licenses. He also voted to require a license to not just carry, but to own a firearm, something far more restrictive than nearly every state in the country.
But probably the most damning statement came from a 2022 tweet when Mamdni said the quiet part out loud: “We need to ban all guns,” making it that just like the rest of the gun confiscation lobby, he actually wants you fully disarmed.
None of this is news, and New Yorkers voted for it.
JUST ISSUE DIRECTIVE 10-289:
Seattle’s new mayor Katie Wilson: "We will not allow grocery chains to close stores at will" pic.twitter.com/YQUpJyWy0H
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 13, 2025
WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF HATE? Students paint over pro-life message, threaten to ‘pee on the floor’ at U. Mary Washington event.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: How MSU’s mandated DEI course trains future teachers in conformity.
HMM: The sharks are circling UK PM Keir Starmer as crunch points loom.
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is looking increasingly vulnerable this week amid mounting speculation that he could face a leadership challenge after the Autumn Budget later in November.
Economists expect Starmer’s right-hand in the Treasury, Chancellor Rachel Reeves, will be forced to break Labour Party manifesto pledges not to raise taxes on workers when she unveils her fiscal plans in the budget on Nov. 26.
Reeves finds herself in an unenviable position as she tries to fill a fiscal black hole caused by Labour spending pledges, U-turns on reform spending cuts and her own rules on limiting borrowing.
Raising taxes on working people is likely to upset not only voters, who have expressed disappointment with Starmer’s leadership since Labour’s landslide election win in July 2024, but also prominent members of the PM’s top team in the Cabinet.
The BBC reported Wednesday that there are a number of high-profile names — and Starmer allies — are being circulated as potential replacements for the PM if a leadership challenge is mounted, including Health Secretary Wes Streeting and Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood.
Even a successful challenge to Starmer wouldn’t amount to rearranging the Titanic’s deck chairs.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Jasmine Crockett Is Totally Down With the Ritz-Carlton Struggle. “Maybe she’s the Democrats’ most effective messenger because she spreads the horse manure around better than any of her colleagues. That’s quite an achievement if you think about it. Being disingenuous is a way of political life among the Democrats. Cynics would say that all politicians are like that but, trust me, it’s a dark art form with the Dems.”
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: The WaPo’s admission about Zohran Mamdani’s dark side comes a bit too late.
IT ALL KINDA MAKES SENSE ONCE YOU REMEMBER THAT LEFTISTS ARE BASICALLY GARBAGE PEOPLE:
Matt Taibbi on his disgust at Mehdi Hassan, Jamal Bowman, and Hasan Piker doing USSR nostalgia at Mamdani’s victory party:
‘I could fill a whole book with stories of horrible things I heard and saw from eyewitnesses to the Soviet history. And to see people laughing about that… pic.twitter.com/Tf4UChDdQw
— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) November 13, 2025
TOO IMMATURE FOR COLLEGE: Students paint over pro-life message, threaten to ‘pee on the floor’ at U. Mary Washington event.
I’m on the leadership team of Students for Life of America’s University of Mary Washington chapter. Throughout the weeks leading up to that event, our flyers advertising it were frequently taken down by other students.
In light of that, we focused on a longer lasting way of getting our message out: The Spirit Rock, a boulder on a high-traffic route on campus that clubs recognized by UMW’s Office of Student Engagement and Activities can paint to advertise their upcoming events.
UMW Students for Life initially painted the Spirit Rock on Saturday. However, the rock was painted over with non-latex paint that night by a group of people. The use of non-latex paint on the Spirit Rock is against school policy.
UMW Students for Life repainted the rock the next day. Within hours, however, our chapter president debated a group of students who decided it needed to be spray-painted a second time.
A clip of that debate was posted on Davis’s Instagram, which received over 4,600 likes at the time of this writing.
In the video, one of the spray-painters said, “If someone I care about wants to get an abortion, I will stick a coat hanger up them if they want me to.”
That’s the first protest I’m aware of in favor of coat-hanger abortions.
WHOOPS!, BUT IN MANDARIN: China’s Hongqi Bridge Just Collapsed Into River Months After Opening.
A newly completed 758-meter bridge in China’s Sichuan province partially collapsed into a river Tuesday after landslides hit the mountainside above the Hongqi Bridge, with local authorities reporting no casualties.
Police in Maerkang shut the bridge on National Highway 317 on Monday after cracks appeared on nearby slopes and roadways, then conditions worsened Tuesday and the approach span and roadbed gave way, according to Reuters. Dramatic videos circulating on Chinese platforms show the deck breaking and plunging into the river.
Crazy footage shows China’s Hongqi bridge collapsing months after opening https://t.co/pxcLcg32aL pic.twitter.com/B65Pb4rCDE
— New York Post (@nypost) November 11, 2025
Did someone try to drive a hulking Hongqi limo over the shonky Hongqi Bridge?
“NOTHING SAYS CHRISTMAS QUITE LIKE ‘DAD GOT FIRED BECAUSE AI REPLACED HIM TO DO ANIMATION.'” Just one of the many savage comments on this AI generated Coke Christmas commercial.
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