JAPANESE SILK INDUSTRY (AND CATS!):  “The Silk Industry of Japan”.

FROM CEDAR BEGLEY (CEDAR SANDERSON):  Wonderland: Follow the White Rabbit to Murder.

A white rabbit. A discarded gun. A detective who won’t stop digging.

When Detective Shelby Carroll follows a mysterious white rabbit to a suburban hit-and-run, she uncovers more than a simple crime. A mummified body in a red velvet room. Cryptic messages about a “Red Queen.” Neighborhood cameras watching every move. As cold cases collide with fresh murders, Shelby races through a twisted Wonderland of extortion, surveillance, and organized crime. Someone wants her silenced permanently. In this gripping police procedural, one detective must dethrone a ruthless crime boss before she becomes the next victim.

Perfect for fans of gritty female detectives, hard-boiled mysteries, and Alice in Wonderland thrillers.

SUFFERING FOR YOUR ART DOESN’T MEAN THAT:  Artists in Garrets.

JUST WHEN I’D GIVEN UP EXPECTATION OF EVER AGREEING WITH HALLE BERRY ON ANYTHING: Halle Berry bashes Gov. Gavin Newsom at NYT summit just before he takes stage: ‘Should not be our next president either.’

IT’S ABOUT MILKING THE PUBLIC TEAT WHILE INSULTING THE BODY POLITIC:  The Pakistani sex pest and the British university revenue chasers.

HE THAT HATH FAMILY HATH GIVEN HOSTAGES TO FORTUNE:  If This Is What Motivated the National Guard Shooter, the Blowback Could Be Terrifying.

IT ISN’T AS IF MOCKING THEM IS HARD:  These Franklin the Turtle Posts That Mock Liberal America Are Pure Gold. Hegseth’s Remains the Best.

NOW YOU TELL US (VIDEO):  ‘Therapy culture’ partly to blame for people who justify cold-blooded murder, psychotherapist says.

Also, you don’t say. Who has my shocked face? I need it.

STOP SEMANTIC MANIPULATION:  I’m coining a term today: “bludgeonspeak”. Bludgeonspeak is the use of invented terminology, or historical terminology that has been hijacked and corrupted, and then emptied of all meaning except as an attempt at moral blackmail.

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HORRIFYING:  Dept. of Transportation Review: 44% Trucking Schools Get an “F” in Compliance.

FOR THE TIMES, THEY ARE ACHANGING:  The wake up call.

NO. THEY’RE NOT. AND THEY’RE WONDERFUL TOOLS. JUST DON’T GO THINKING THEY’RE MAGICAL:   The clankers aren’t going away.

THEY’RE NOT MAGICAL:  It’s Not The AI.

WAIT. YOU MEAN PEOPLE DON’T KNOW OF HIM?   Introducing Someone You Ought to Know: Geert Wilders from The Netherlands, Fights Islam in Europe.

GREAT BRITAIN IS OUT OF CONTROL:  About that poor bastard in Britain arrested for a photo.

UK LABOUR PARTY SLEAZE UPDATE:  An anti-corruption minister convicted for corruption is Starmerism summed up.

AT THIS POINT WE NEED A RIVER:  Clean-up Isle 47.

I DON’T KNOW HOW MUCH MORE THEY CAN POISON IT. YOU KNOW WHAT IT WAS LIKE 10 YEARS AGO:  Poisoning the groundwater of the internet: Wikipedia and Reddit.

AS WITH ANNULLING MARRIAGES THE IDEA OF REVOKING CITIZENSHIP MAKES ME VERY UNEASY:  Your recent proclamation that “Somali Americans are here to stay” is a mendacious assertion, a fabrication woven from the threads of delusion and despair. It is a lie, plain and simple, and one that will not withstand the relentless march of truth and justice.

But as with annulling marriages, it all hinges on a vow taken, and whether or not people took it in good faith. We know Ilhan (“bro fo) Omar didn’t. Nor did many of her compatriots. And people who become citizens by fraud and never intend to assimilate didn’t do what they promised to. (Forsaking all other loyalties and allegiances.) No, I don’t actually care if our benighted government thinks we can have dual citizenship. That’s not in the oath. It’s like your husband approving of adultery. It’s still adultery. And if you intended to continue sleeping around, you didn’t swear the oath in good faith. Much less when like Ilhan you say your real citizenship is where you came from!

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FROM ROSS HATHAWAY:  Rule 13.

In Ashburn, the city doesn’t sleep—it twitches.
It grinds men down, chews through their souls, and spits out what’s left with a crooked grin.
Once, Robert Tucker wore a badge polished bright with idealism. Fresh out of the academy, he thought he could make a difference in a city built on vice, velvet lies, and rain-slick corruption. But a decade under the neon hum and coal-smoke skies of Ashburn turned that badge into a paperweight and that hope into bourbon.
Now he’s a private eye working out of a one-room office with a bottle in his drawer, a secretary who files extortion notices under “routine,” and a conscience held together by the rules his dead partner left behind—Fallon’s Rules. Twelve of them. Not one guarantees survival.
The syndicate boss Vincent Crowe owns the city’s shadows, but when Crowe gets in over his head the rot only deepens. Tucker’s caught between crooked judges, dying reporters, and a government experiment that makes the fog itself lethal. Everyone’s selling something in Ashburn—even redemption.
In a city that eats its own, Tucker knows you don’t fight to win. You fight because you’re still breathing.
Rule 13 — a hardboiled descent through smoke, blood, and brass where justice is a rumor, truth burns like cheap whiskey, and the only clean thing left in Ashburn is the rain that never stops falling.

YOU DON’T INVESTIGATE WHAT YOU DON’T WANT TO FIND:  Minnesota’s Somali scammers scandal is what happens when officials blindly believe the ‘racism’ grift.

IF YOU HAVE TO ASK …  Why we must ban the Muslim Brotherhood.

LABOUR’S ENERGY POLICIES WILL MAKE THAT UNNECESSARY, BUT SOMEBODY SHOULD BLOW OUT THE CANDLE:  Will the last Briton to leave please turn out the lights?

MAYBE SHE SHOULD HAVE JUST STUCK TO, Y’KNOW, ACTUAL CRIMINALS:  Letitia James’ Lawfare Against Pro-Life Groups Just Crashed and Burned.

GOOD:   Make Highways Safe Again: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Announces Crackdown on Trucking Schools.

TODAY’S DATE MUST END IN A ‘Y’:  Grinches: Democrats Caught Lying About Melania Trump and Christmas.