THE BIDEN PRESIDENCY IS GOING OUT WITH A BANG.

I hope we don’t have to find out the hard way. I wish we had a FBI that cared more about finding them than they do about finding American citizens who walked through the capital on J6.

— Creature of Habit2 (@CreatureHabit2) January 1, 2025

UPDATE: BREAKING: LA State Police Intel Bulletin 3 Men, 1 Woman Seen Placing IEDs. “That’s five people altogether…so far.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Not a battery fire, apparently:

🚨BREAKING: Authorities are looking into the Cybertruck explosion at Trump Hotel in Las Vegas as a possible terrorist attack. pic.twitter.com/Nn2Q36RkGI

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 1, 2025

This looks like a planned attack.
Not a battery fire. Notice all the small concussion explosions after the initial boom.

This looks like a bomb in the bed of the truck. https://t.co/YXBUke6Wmz

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 1, 2025

Using a cybertruck probably is intended to throw shade at Elon Musk. Or to send a message.

Legacy media already getting ready to bury this story pic.twitter.com/tbAQNLNbQz

— The Big Picture (@Big_Picture_89) January 1, 2025

This is starting to feel like Kurt Schlichter’s The Attack.

21ST CENTURY INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS: Harmful fungus in bat feces used to fertilize marijuana plants found to have killed two growers.

I DO NOT TRUST THE INTERNET OF THINGS: Whistleblower finds unencrypted location data for 800,000 VW EVs.

THERE’S A PMS CONNECTION I BET: Study suggests estrogen may trigger binge drinking.

JESSE SINGAL: Yale’s “Integrity Project” Is Spreading Misinformation About The Cass Review And Youth Gender Medicine.

Yale and integrity have been a poor fit in recent years.

I ALREADY SUPPORT HIM, YOU DON’T HAVE TO SELL ME:

More FBI staff are allegedly threatening to resign if the Senate votes to confirm Kash Patel as FBI Director. pic.twitter.com/xQfh4RnwQG

— Leading Report (@LeadingReport) December 31, 2024

STANDING UP TO HATE AND BIGOTRY: George Mason U. must denounce ‘antisemitic, pro-terrorist sentiment’: law professors.

ROBIN HANSON: What Culture Can You Trust?

Of these variants, the most trustworthy are probably those that were carried along to success by winning cultures. Over the last few centuries a few cultures have had far more success than others in influencing the world. That probably reflects good things about them. So features that were rare centuries ago, but common early on in the cultures that came to win, and are now common due to them winning, those are more likely to be adaptive features. Like maybe freedom of religion, speech, and commerce?

Among common cultural features today, the most suspect are values and norms that must be shared by many, but which arose in the last few centuries, and thus probably didn’t arise mainly via cultural selection. Most such changes were pushed by cultural activists, and won due to some activists winning out over others to control widely shared social pressures. So most “modern” norms and values seem suspect.

By its fruit the tree is known.

I MISSED THIS, BECAUSE WHOSE IDEA OF NEW YEAR’S FUN IS IT TO WATCH CNN, BUT DAMN:

I mean please list the lies I told? https://t.co/pkXyiInUp3

— Whitney Cummings (@WhitneyCummings) January 1, 2025

this is what I said at the end of my roast set on CNN tonight that I zoomed through beacause I was running out of time (and scared) : Since I only have a minute left and I’m live on an establishment media, I figured I’d list some of things mainstream media will never cover:…

— Whitney Cummings (@WhitneyCummings) January 1, 2025

YES: In Praise Of Faithful Trump Supporters – Fight, Fight, Fight.

UGH:

BREAKING:

At least 10 killed & 30 wounded after a man drove a pick-up truck into people celebrating New Year’s Eve on Bourbon Street, French Quarter in New Orleans.

According to witness statements, the attacker also opened fire on survivors.

Nobody arrested yet pic.twitter.com/sgQJXM7dyJ

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) January 1, 2025

WASTED OR STOLEN. AND MOST OF THE “WASTE” IS REALLY JUST A SPECIES OF THEFT. Politico Wonders: What Happened to $50 Billion in Biden’s ‘Green New Deal’?

HE’S BEEN A BIT OF A DISAPPOINTMENT: “As is tradition, Chief Justice Roberts released his year-end report. On page 2, there is a glaring error.”

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN RESPONDS to a rather absurd claim in The Hill that Congress should block Donald Trump’s election.

Should this foolish plan be followed and succeed, the result would be a well-deserved civil war. And only part of that is because it’s legally absurd.

UH, NO: Naval War College: A Gender Studies N-Code for Everyone! Who doesn’t need a little Oberlin College Gender Studies Dept. to win our nation’s wars? “What is so lovely here is that it captures perfectly what WTS is all about at the end of 2024. It is about what their co-confessionals in the Diversity Industry are all about; finding jobs for otherwise highly credentialed but unemployable people in the productive economy and increasing their unearned bureaucratic power.”

Related: Calling Pete Hegseth…

HOPE FOR 2025: The Argentine Miracle: Javier Milei’s administration in Argentina provides a blueprint for politicians looking to uproot entrenched left-wing interests.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE, EVEN THE LOSERS AND THE HATERS!

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OPEN THREAD: Happy new year to everyone, even the losers and the haters!

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s space agency faces leadership change amid shake-up.

PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Northern Lights Could Ring in New Year Following Massive Solar Eruptions.

SARAH HOYT: We win, they lose. “The last four years we were hunching our shoulders and just enduring the blows, and that will take a long long time to fade. And sure, there are things that won’t go our way. But you shouldn’t worry too much about that.”

WHAT HOPE BRITAIN HAS LEFT:

SCIENCE: Drinking Half to One Glass of Wine Daily Linked to 50% Lower Heart Complication Risk.

I BELIEVE THIS: Increased exercise duration linked to decreasing results in weight and waistline.

MORE THAN I USED TO BE, LESS THAN I’M GOING TO BE: How Worried Are You About Car Hacks?