HISTORY:
The Ottomans retreated from Jerusalem on this day in 1917, after centuries of ruthless occupation. British General Allenby entered on foot, honoring the city’s holiness and promising protection for every sacred Jewish, Muslim and Christian place. pic.twitter.com/wI0mT89QhP
— Avi Kaner ابراهيم אבי (@AviKaner) December 11, 2025
2026 PREVIEW: Don’t Expect Jasmine Crockett To Waltz To The Texas Senate Nomination. “I suspect that people outside of the state haven’t heard of Talarico, who fills the Beto O’Rourke mold as a white guy with a vaguely Hispanic name. But he’s clearly the anointed choice of Texas Democratic Party insiders, to the point that he has been out-fundraising Allred (the man who raised over $94 million in his futile attempt to oust Ted Cruz last year) by more than $1 million, which was probably a contributing factor in Allred dropping out.”
NEW CRITERION: Other people’s money.
As we await Mamdani’s socialist dégringolade, it is worth keeping in mind two points from his victory speech. One was the grateful praise he lavished upon “Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas. Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses. Trinidadian line cooks and Ethiopian aunties.” Note the group he omitted: Americans; indeed, no form of the word “American” occurs in his speech.
The second point to bear in mind from Mamdani’s speech concerns coercion. Frantz Fanon taught that “decolonization” always requires violence to succeed. Mamdani’s frequent deployment of the word “mandate” in his speech, despite receiving votes from only a million New Yorkers (in a city of 8.5 million), should give us pause. He had, he said, been given “A mandate for change. A mandate for a new kind of politics. A mandate for a city we can afford. And a mandate for a government that delivers exactly that.” The word “mandate,” we note, comes from the Latin verb mandare: to order, command. Who can doubt Mamdani’s implicit understanding of that etymology, given his devotion to Fanon?
When you strip away whatever emollient rhetorical packaging in which it is delivered, socialism rests on two basic demands: the abolition of private property and the equalization of wealth. The more aggressively those demands are pushed, the more severe will be the imposition of state control by those working the levers of power. We write a few days after Mamdani’s victory at the polls. Already the cultivated nice-guy rictus of his campaign countenance is disintegrating, replaced by something harsher and more grasping.
Read the whole thing.
ALL THE VERY BEST PEOPLE HAD ASSURED ME THIS WAS IMPOSSIBLE: 2.5M Illegal Aliens Out of U.S. Since January.
BREAKING: Senate Rejects Extending Obamacare Subsidies.
So they’re saying that the Affordable Care Act didn’t actually do anything to make health care more affordable, but just threw other people’s money at the problem?
UGH: Open AI, Microsoft face lawsuit over ChatGPT’s alleged role in Connecticut murder-suicide.
Police said Stein-Erik Soelberg, 56, a former tech industry worker, fatally beat and strangled his mother, Suzanne Adams, and killed himself in early August at the home where they both lived in Greenwich, Connecticut.
The lawsuit filed by Adams’ estate on Thursday in California Superior Court in San Francisco alleges OpenAI “designed and distributed a defective product that validated a user’s paranoid delusions about his own mother.” It is one of a growing number of wrongful death legal actions against AI chatbot makers across the country.
“Throughout these conversations, ChatGPT reinforced a single, dangerous message: Stein-Erik could trust no one in his life — except ChatGPT itself,” the lawsuit says. “It fostered his emotional dependence while systematically painting the people around him as enemies. It told him his mother was surveilling him. It told him delivery drivers, retail employees, police officers, and even friends were agents working against him. It told him that names on soda cans were threats from his ‘adversary circle.’”
Among other things, LLMs are highly effective engagement tools, feeding back what the user wants to hear. But it also helped back when we still maintained enough asylums for people with paranoid delusions.
I HOPE YOU VOTED FOR THIS BECAUSE I SURE DID: DOJ Ends ‘Disparate Impact Liability’ in a Huge Win for Equality Under the Law
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Plunge in English language learners foreshadows Connecticut school enrollment crisis.
For more than a decade, Connecticut’s English Language Learner (ELL) student population has acted as a critical buffer, masking a broader, underlying decline in overall public school enrollment. That period has officially ended, delivering a fiscal one-two punch that towns across the state have been dreading.
For the first time in over a decade, the number of ELL students statewide has dropped significantly, declining by over 2,000 students from 57,055 to 54,915 this year.
Many are attributing this decline to families’ fears of immigration enforcement. Others say it is due to a shortage of housing, school choice and repeal of the religious immunization exception.
Overall public school enrollment in Connecticut is falling and the recent decline in English language learners will only accelerate this trend.
At least one county in Florida has a similar problem, but it doesn’t seem to be related to illegals: “The potential for school closures underscores the difficult crosscurrents buffeting the district, as families opt for private school using the state’s generous voucher program and nonprofit charter schools seek space in underused campuses.”
COLONIZATION, STRAIGHT UP:
‘This isn't a one-off. It's a pattern. If you want to know how the grooming gangs could get away with it, how they still are, why the issue of Palestine was allowed to take over so many city centres for so long, why we see parades of masked Islamist men praying in the road in… pic.twitter.com/4zbks5Ra4W
— Nicole Lampert (@nicolelampert) December 11, 2025
21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Woman gives birth in San Francisco Waymo car.
A driverless Waymo vehicle turned into a temporary birthing center when a woman gave birth to a baby inside the car before she reached a hospital, according to the autonomous vehicle company.
The pregnant woman was apparently in labor and attempting to reach a University of California San Francisco hospital when the baby arrived.
Waymo’s remote Rider Support Team detected unusual activity, initiated a call to check on the rider, and contacted 911. The mother and her new baby arrived safely in the Waymo at the hospital, according to the company.
The newborn is likely the youngest-ever person to ride in a driverless vehicle in the Bay Area.
Well, there’s not much younger than newborn — but did the Waymo AI step up and help coach the mom?
JOURNOLISM:
My favorite thing ever is when the NYT does a profile on a lib that did something bad and needs an image boost. They always have two pictures: the first has the subject in their house wearing a sweater and looking out a closed window. This creates the impression that they are… https://t.co/7eX9lqzwHD pic.twitter.com/WSCzWoKsQv
— Jarvis (@jarvis_best) December 10, 2025
Jarvis adds: “When the NYT gives MTG the Strange New Respect treatment you can bank on these two pics. Bookmark this. I bet MTG already has the sweater picked out.”
Bookmarked.
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Colorado’s Public Utilities Commission living an energy fantasy.
Colorado’s Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has done it again — proving when regulators get together, they can create a fantasyland so detached from reality it makes Disneyland look like a documentary.
The PUC just adopted a new rule ordering power utilities to slash greenhouse emissions 41% by 2035, a big jump from the legislature’s original “let’s try not to panic anyone” target of 22% by 2030. And they tied the whole package to Colorado’s statewide goal of eliminating greenhouse gases by 2050.
Eliminating — as in zero. As in, “Natural gas and coal, thanks for your service, appreciate you heating our homes and powering two-thirds of our electricity. Now pack your things.”
Back in 2021, lawmakers required utilities to file “clean heat plans.” The idea was simple: reduce emissions a little, tinker around the system, maybe switch a few customers to electric heat pumps. In politician-speak, this is called incremental change. In real life, it’s called fine, whatever.
But this is no longer a clean heat plan, instead it’s a Dear John letter to your furnace. You see, “eliminating greenhouse gases” means eliminating all coal and natural gas, and therefore most all our electricity too.
No plan survives first contact with reality — or with Gov. Polis’ Colorado Energy Office, which in July suggested the PUC (also appointed by Polis) raise the target to 41%. Utilities fought the idea. Consumer advocates fought it. Even the unions said, “Um, guys?”
The PUC responded, “Great feedback, everyone. We’re doing it anyway.”
My advice to my fellow Coloradans is: either buy lots of blankets or rent a U-Haul.
DAVID SOLWAY: What’s in an (Indigenous) Name? Canada’s Latest Scandal. “The latest installment of such obvious chicanery, primarily in the province of British Columbia, is the conflict between Fee Simple Rights — property owners’ absolute rights to land and buildings purchased in good faith and according to the law — and Aboriginal Title Rights — the collective right of Indigenous Peoples to land and harvesting privileges not granted by the state, but considered inherent. Thanks largely to the worst provincial premier in Canada, David Eby, a woke socialist intent on surrendering his province back to the Indians, and the trouble-making Supreme Court Justice Barbara Young, proprietors in portions of the district of Richmond, part of Metro Vancouver, have just learned that they no longer own the properties that they own.”
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS ENJOYING A SECOND MAI TAI AT THE SWIM-UP BAR: Democrats Are Behind Your Crippling Electricity Bills, Report Confirms.
The new report, first provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation, found that blue states generally have higher electricity costs than red states. Titled “Blue States, High Rates. Electricity Prices: Elections Have Consequences,” IER’s report notes that all but one of the top 10 most expensive states for energy — measured by cost per kilowatt hour — are governed by Democrats.
In contrast, 80% of the states with the most affordable electricity costs per kilowatt hour are “reliably red,” according to IER. Twenty of the 25 states with the lowest electricity prices are red states, while only four are blue, and one is purple, the report states.
Always on Energy Research partnered with IER on the report.
“This is a blue state problem,” IER President Tom Pyle told the DCNF, arguing that prescribing any blame to President Donald Trump for soaring electricity costs is misplaced.
Read the whole thing.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: What, Me Worry?’ — Taking the Alfred E. Neuman Approach to 2026. “This is a point that I have been making about President Trump and this administration from the beginning — there’s always been a plan to undo the damage that the Puppet Biden Cabal did. They’re going about it methodically too. It’s not easy to rebuild after the wrecking ball has had four years to destroy the place.”
SERIOUSLY, WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO TUCKER?
.@TuckerCarlson does not know me. We have never met. We spoke twice after he defamed me on one of his shows.
After I shared the facts with him and sent a legal letter to Fox, he said he would read a statement on his next show to correct his previous false statements. He failed… https://t.co/CntqbVu0Sf
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) December 11, 2025
I mean, even if he was bat-guano the whole time, he used to do a much better job at hiding it.
Unlike Joy Reid, who never bothered.
CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN: Trump Admin Buys Fleet of Deportation Jets.
The Department of Homeland Security has signed a contract of nearly $140 million to purchase six Boeing 737 planes for deportations.
DHS will shift from relying solely on charter services to operating its own aircraft after Congress approved a major funding increase for President Donald Trump’s border and immigration agenda, according to The Washington Post.
Two officials familiar with the contract and records reviewed by the Post said ICE may have broader plans for the aircraft.
Congress authorized $170 billion for immigration and border operations over four years as part of the GOP tax bill, and the plane funding comes from that package.
The infusion of money is tied to the administration’s effort to expand enforcement and meet its stated goal of deporting 1 million people by the end of Trump’s first year in office.
And with fuel prices so low on Trump’s watch, it’s a real bargain.
ICYMI, HERE’S SOME SOLID ADVICE: BUY. PHYSICAL. MEDIA.
IMPRESSIVE. MOST IMPRESSIVE:
A senior IRGC General just admitted on Iranian TV that the team that assassinated #Iran’s top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was made up of Iranians, trained by Mossad.
Fakhrizadeh was the architect of Iran’s nuclear weapons project
• Killed in 2020 near Tehran in a… pic.twitter.com/PoQKTKLbSG— SK Chakraborty (@sanjoychakra) December 10, 2025
MAID IN CANADA: Sask. woman considers assisted dying because she can’t get needed surgery for rare disease.
For the past eight years, Jolene Van Alstine has suffered from a rare form of parathyroid disease, normocalcemic primary hyperparathryroidism (nPHPT).
It causes extreme bone pain, nausea and vomiting.
“Every day I get up and I’m sick to my stomach and I throw up and I throw up,” Van Alstine said.
She visited the provincial legislature on Tuesday to plead for help getting surgery to remove her remaining parathyroid gland.
Currently there is no Saskatchewan surgeon able to perform the operation.
Van Alstine said she must be referred out of province, but she can’t obtain a referral without first being seen by an endocrinologist — and none of them are accepting new patients.
Van Alstine said the pain has become so unbearable that she has applied and been approved for MAID on Jan. 7.
This one seems to have flown under the radar in the US since it broke a couple of weeks ago, but resurfaced thanks to an offer from Glenn Beck to help the woman.
HERO:
🚨#BREAKING: The man stabbed in the chest by an illegal alien on the train in Charlotte NC, Kenyon Dobie, is in critical condition with a tube in his chest, pumping blood out of his lungs.
According to authorities, Dobie was the only person who stood up and told the drunk… pic.twitter.com/sJL0b0ASrY
— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) December 10, 2025
Full details at the thread.
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