JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: The Age of AI is starting to bloom: Why AGI isn’t imminent, why an AI crash isn’t either, and why the economy is already showing signs of genuine AI-driven lift.

OPEN THREAD: Party on, dudes and dudettes.

QUOTH PROFESSOR CARRINGTON: SECOND STRONGEST SO FAR. Sun fires off 2nd-strongest flare of 2025, sparking radio blackouts across Africa.

AN ALIEN BASE. It’s Official: Scientists Confirmed What Is Inside Our Moon.

SCIENCE: After Decades, Scientists Have Finally Discovered Tylenol’s Secret Mechanism.

I THOUGHT SEX WAS SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED: Big sex differences found in how diet and insulin rewire muscle for better blood sugar.

21st CENTURY DEMOCRATS: Meet the Gay Furry Socialist Dem Candidate Who Celebrated Charlie Kirk’s Murder and Loves 9/11.

TRUE. THE REAL ANSWER ISN’T LAWSUITS, IT’S POLITICAL FIREPOWER. Reality Check: The Courts Aren’t Coming to Save Your Gun Rights.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Gut bacterium could be key to tackling obesity crisis.

EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN: Recent studies prove the ancient practice of nasal irrigation is effective at fighting the common cold.

POE’S LAW IS IN EFFECT:

WELL, POSSIBLY: Listening to music may lower dementia risk, study says.

TRUTH:

If you're born poor and succeed you're conservative.

If you're born rich and fail you're communist. https://t.co/0K5K1V6xeu

— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) November 14, 2025

SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER! U. Minnesota pregnancy course says white doctors treat white patients better.

FIGHT THE POWER: Beloit College student blasts school for blocking TPUSA chapter. “A student at Beloit College is speaking out after saying the school is attempting to stymie her efforts to start a TPUSA chapter on campus. She also alleges that she and her chapter members have been repeatedly harassed, and the school has taken no substantive action to protect them.”

BUT OF COURSE: DOJ lawsuit accuses California of racial gerrymandering in its redistricting plan.

CONSEQUENCES: Jay Jones’s Attorney General Election Could Lead to Virginia Police Exodus, Law Enforcement Leaders Say.

WHAT CORRUPTION LOOKS LIKE:

Biden showered half a billion dollars on @USCCB for resettling his foreign invasion force.

Trump took office and stopped it, and now @USCCB is doing a PR campaign condemning Trump’s immigration policies.

We all know what’s happening here. https://t.co/V1KwTEfkZa

— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) November 14, 2025

A CONSPIRACY SO VAST:

So Epstein was being counseled by The NY Times and was coaching Democratic members of Congress. Got it. https://t.co/CAFlxkK0qt

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) November 15, 2025

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE:

The degree of rot here is similar to that disclosed in the boardroom of the firm in the first act of Margin Call. In this case, there are no captive buyers to dump this ongoing human calamity onto — and it is not unique to one college. This is everywhere, everyone knows it,… https://t.co/J6nYpQRETh

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) November 13, 2025

Kids at university level require remediation because they didn't learn basic skills in high school, middle school, and elementary school. The UCSD study documenting drastic declines in student preparedness are an indictment of the entire K-12 educational system. https://t.co/nsDCUvikAl

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) November 14, 2025

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