SLIGHTLY LATE:  History Friday: The Energetic Mr. Fulton and His Mansion.

THE CORRUPT LEADING THE BLIND:  Southern Poverty Law Center Has Been Indoctrinating Our Teachers.

PLEASE DON’T BOYCOTT US FOR SERVING THE PRESIDENT COFFEE:  Here’s Why a Milwaukee Coffee Shop Fears Backlash From ‘Tolerant’ Leftists.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED. IT’S ALMOST LIKE THIS IS NOT A NATURAL ALLIANCE! WHO KNEW?  That Gay Cruise Turned Away by Turkey Was Denied Docking in a Second Country.

SITUATION NORMAL:  Mojtaba Khamenei Vows to ‘Avenge’ His Father ‘Soon’ as Trump Warns of Swift Retaliation to Any Assassination Attempt.

SCORE A WIN FOR CITIZEN JOURNALISTS:  Minnesota daycare owner outed by Nick Shirley admitted to filing more than $4.6M in false claims.

NOT SURPRISING:  Rebels, Hospital Worker Strikes, and Ebola: How Fractured Governance Is Fueling Congo’s Outbreak.

AGAIN, RECONSIDER SENDING YOUR KIDS INTO THE INDOCTRINATION SYSTEM:  Facts are inconvenient and must be suppressed to protect the narrative; the narrative is required for re-creating feudalism’s class divisions, complete with sumptuary laws.

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DO YOU WANT YOUR KIDS NEAR THESE REPROBATES?  Teacher’s fake-marriage uproar hid another scandal— in-school lefty brainwashing.

NO. ALSO ROFL:  Ofcom Wants American Police to Collect Its Speech Fine. A foreign censor is demanding that US police override the First Amendment to finish its collection job.

OBVIOUS SURVEY SAYS OBVIOUS THINGS:  Almost half of Muslim Americans have favorable view of Hamas — and few support Israel, new survey shows.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED. BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE:  Explosive report finds $225M in alleged K-12 education fraud amid Trump’s crackdown: ‘Especially hideous’.  SFOF and Open the Books identified nearly 90 cases of embezzlement, fake invoices and inflated enrollment.

I THINK MICROSOFT NEEDS TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS, LIKE, WHO OWNS THEM? Fury erupts as US brand fires 1,600 employees after securing thousands of foreign worker visas. One lawmaker called to end the H-1B foreign worker visa program entirely to prioritize hiring American workers.

WELL, THAT’S THAT:  Hello Mrs. Owens.

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I KNOW YOU LAY AWAKE ALL NIGHT WAITING FOR SATURDAY MEMES!  Your wait is over. Rejoice:  Bring Out Your Memes.

SEND IN THE CLOWNS:  Here Are the Dems Running to Replace Graham Platner. It’s a Total Circus.

2026 PROMETHEUS AWARD WINNER:  A Kiss for Damocles: Book 1 of Shai (Tales From the Long Night).

The enemy is dead. Their guns still aim.

The Mutual Prosperity invaded Hesperides Colony centuries ago–dropped asteroids on the oceans, triggered a volcanic winter, killed millions. The invaders eventually died fighting. Their orbital artillery AI, Damocles, did not. It has spent three hundred years killing anything that looks like a threat: radio signals, powered vehicles, anything that might let humanity rebuild fast enough to strike back.

Seventeen-year-old Shaifennen “Shai” Roehe grew up in a mineshaft, scrounging salvage from the ruins of a dead civilization. Then she finds a crashed military shuttle from the Long Night buried in a highland ravine. It’s the biggest salvage find in living memory–and it comes with secrets. Traitors from the original war. A murdered alien marine who died fighting for humanity’s future. And enough battlesteel and fabrication equipment to turn her struggling homestead into something that scares the right people.

From there, Shai has to navigate a volatile trade mission to the nearest town, untangle a conspiracy that runs generations deep, survive assassination attempts, and figure out why every faction on Hesperides–the Riders, the Archive, the alien Imps, the new Trade Association that smells a lot like the old tyranny with better hair–seems to already know about a project she has only just stumbled into.

Shai’s universe is one filled with fallen empires, implacable war machines, lost civilizations, hostile xenos, the occasional ancient unspeakable horror, and she’s going to bring the ruckus to every corner of it.

A finalist for the 2026 Prometheus Award for Best Novel, A Kiss for Damocles is the first book in the Tales From the Long Night series. Post-apocalyptic science fiction with a ferocious protagonist, deep world-building, earned political stakes, and a genuine belief that humanity can take back what it lost — if it can stop fighting itself long enough to try.

SORRY, WE CAN’T POST SUCH WORDS:  What would Churchill think of the land of Lucy Connolly and Henry Nowak?

YES. NEXT QUESTION:  250 Years After Independence, New Index Asks Whether Government Is Stifling America’s Charitable Spirit.

THERE’S A DEAL TO BE HAD: UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER:  Iran Is Already Begging for a Deal. Don’t Give Them One.

MEN HAVE THE VIRTUES OF THEIR FLAWS:  Iran: “What Saves Us and the Free World Is the Ego of Donald Trump”.

INDEED!  Why Greenland? “China’s Desire to Dominate Global Waterways Is a Threat to Sovereign Nations”.

AH, BUT YOU SEE, THE IMAGINARY ARROW OF HISTORY IS WITH THEM:  Never left enough.

BECAUSE OF COURSE:  DEI Rebranding On College Campuses – New CriticalRace.Org Report Exposes Name Change Game.

WE ALWAYS KNEW IT WOULD COME TO THIS:  Iran, Persuasion, And The Limits Of Rational Actor Theory.