MAKE WEST VIRGINIA GREATER VIRGINIA: Lawmaker urges Maryland and Virginia counties to secede and join West Virginia.
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November 20, 2025
I’M MORE CONCERNED ABOUT THE CRIMES THEY COMMIT IN OFFICE, HONESTLY: Dem Says His Disgusting Criminal Record Shouldn’t Influence Mayoral Run.
DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS: Abbott Comes Out Swinging Against Jihad. “EPIC City may have turned out to be mostly (not entirely) a nothingburger, more a prosaic speculative land deal than an actual Islamic City, but it seems to have lit a fire under Greg Abbott, as he’s come out swinging against any opportunity for Jihad to take root in Texas this week.”
RESTORING SOME SMALL MEASURE OF SANITY: HHS Slams ‘Sex-Rejecting’ Trans ‘Treatments’ in New Study.
PROCUREMENT MESS: Inside the XM30 program: The Army’s Bradley replacement. “After four decades of failed replacement attempts, the Army’s XM30 program is the closest it has come to retiring the Bradley, but challenges remain.”
The first major effort, Armored Systems Modernization, aimed to build a series of new vehicles across shared chassis designs. The program collapsed in 1992 when the Cold War ended and costs ballooned.
Future Combat Systems (FCS) followed in 2003, promising a fleet of networked, lightweight vehicles. Billions of dollars later, none could withstand the realities of Iraq and Afghanistan, where improvised explosive devices and RPGs shredded light armor. FCS was canceled in 2009.
The Ground Combat Vehicle effort launched soon after, promising a heavily armored troop carrier for a new era of mechanized warfare. But the prototypes were so heavy they barely fit on a C-17 and were more expensive than an Abrams. It lasted until 2014.
The Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle, born in 2018 under the broader Next Generation Combat Vehicle initiative, suffered its own false start when no contractors could meet the Army’s requirements. It was reset in 2020 with a more flexible acquisition strategy and renamed XM30 in 2023.
Today, the XM30 is the closest any program has come to crossing the finish line.
After four decades, maybe we should just skip ahead to starship troopers.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Expert Witness: ATF Prosecuted Collector Because He Didn’t Have an FFL.
Georgia gunsmith and technical specialist Len Savage is an expert witness who has been involved in 29 federal court cases over a 20-year span. He has been hired by defense attorneys, federal public defenders and sometimes the U.S. Department of Justice, which last asked him to verify government testing at $175 per hour.
Savage’s firm, Historic Arms, LLC, is a leading source for semi-auto Bren light machineguns and other unique items, and he also repairs full-auto weapons. “I haven’t had to testify in many, many years,” he said. “The last time I was summoned to examine the government’s evidence they dismissed the case.”
Savage has closely followed the ATF’s treatment of Patrick “Tate” Adamiak. “I am familiar with Tate’s case and I have even spoken to him,” Savage said Monday. “Was this a legit charge? Nope. This was part of Joe Biden’s anti-gun agenda. They were going after everything during that time period. They went after pistol braces—they went after everything you can imagine.”
Adamiak is just starting the third year of his 20-year federal prison sentence. A series of more than 30 stories revealed that none of the charges he faced were based on any actual violations. All were made up by the ATF.
How about a presidential pardon and a few presidential “You’re fired!” moments?
CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN:
Thank you for sharing your story. People underestimate how much of an improvement that accessibility tech makes for society.
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) November 20, 2025
THE POWER OF PRAYER, YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG: Maduro’s Backup Plan? Jesus, Apparently
IT MIGHT BE A BUBBLE, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE IT HAS MORE LIFE IN IT: Nvidia beats earnings expectations, even as bubble concerns mount. “Nvidia’s sales grew 62% year-over-year to $57 billion in the October quarter, ahead of the $54.9 billion Wall Street had projected, signaling that demand for AI chips remains strong even as more questions emerge about whether returns from the technology will keep up with the pace of infrastructure investments. It posted profits of $31.9 billion, up 65% from the year-ago quarter and also slightly above expectations.”
I ALWAYS LEARN A LOT FROM RAYMOND IBRAHIM’S VIDEO PODCASTS: How Islam Caused — and Is Again Causing — a Dark Age in Europe.
WOW:
Oh this is hilarious. Sad but hilarious.
This study finds (and others confirm) that a teacher earning a graduate degree has a NEGATIVE effect on student achievement
Attending a graduate school of education literally makes teachers WORSE at their job pic.twitter.com/Gyt8xSoS3k
— Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform” (@MrDanielBuck) November 19, 2025
And here’s a link to the study.
Maybe we’d be better off abolishing or restricting education degrees, and mostly just hire retired people to teach the things they used to do.
LATE-STAGE COMMUNISM: Cuba struggles to ease power cuts amid reduced fuel supplies from Venezuela, Mexico.
Between January and October, Cuba’s oil imports from Mexico – which emerged as a reliable provider in 2023 after regularizing shipments of light crude – declined to some 5,000 barrels per day, a 73% fall from the 18,800 bpd received in the same period of 2024, according to the shipping data.
Imports of crude and fuel from Venezuela, Cuba’s most important political ally, fell almost 15% over the same period to 27,400 bpd, with the reduction particularly hitting supplies of fuel oil for power generation, internal documents from Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA showed.
In total, Cuba’s imports of crude, liquefied petroleum gas and residual and motor fuels from all origins fell 35% to some 45,400 bpd in January to October, from 69,400 bpd in the same period last year.
Mexico and Venezuela are both dealing with output limitations and do not have much spare capacity to offer Cuba. Their lower availability of light crude and fuel oil for export, coupled with Cuba’s struggles to pay for purchases on the spot market, have put a ceiling on fuel imports.
Previously: Cuba’s power grid collapses again. Why does this keep happening?
The link goes to an NPR article that blames pretty much everyone and everything except for Cuba’s communist government.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Seriously, How Are the Big Blue Cities Still Standing?!? “There is a massive difference between being governed by 20th century and early 21st century Democrats and what the party has become in 2025. When Zohran Mamdani gets into office, he won’t be reminding any older Manhattanites of Ed Koch or David Dinkins. In Los Angeles, Karen Bass has more in common with the late Fidel Castro than she does with Tom Bradley.”
SO JUST DO IT ALREADY: Poll indicates Americans are supportive of eliminating Department of Education. “The poll highlights widespread frustration with federal overreach in education. Voters described the department as ‘disconnected from classrooms and bureaucratic,’ with 87% trusting parents to make the best decisions for their children.”
Even if it’s a BS poll, the GOP should hop on the chance to fully eliminate a Democrat slush fund and control center. It’s what they’d do, if the roles were reversed.
ICYMI: Endgame: Chicago. “There’s nothing hotter than a little blue-on-blue action, and things are getting steamy at Chicago’s City Hall as Mayor Brandon Johnson and his allies go to war with other Democrats over the scraps of the Windy City’s finances.”
THE ENEMY WITHIN: Mossad unveils network of Hamas terror infrastructure across Europe.
A network of Hamas terror-affiliated infrastructure across Europe was exposed by the Mossad, the spy agency said on Wednesday, as it revealed the prolonged investigation it had conducted with European intelligence and law enforcement to thwart planned attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets.
The Mossad said that already in September, it had assisted European authorities in identifying Mahmoud Naim – the son of a top Hamas official, Basem Naim, who is himself a senior adviser to Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya – as the orchestrator of this overall plot. According to the Mossad, Naim had met with his father in Qatar to facilitate the ploy, illustrating that Hamas, at its highest levels, was sponsoring terrorist schemes.
Hamas officials in Turkey have also been involved.
Since Hamas’s October 7 massacre, the terrorist organization has accelerated efforts to build cells and logistics in Europe, mirroring the activity of Iran and its proxies. The Mossad said it continues to disrupt “dozens” of varying attack plots worldwide regularly as part of Israel’s overseas counterterrorism mandate.
It credited “close, persistent cooperation” with European services for recent breakthroughs and said efforts are ongoing.
Good on Europe — I wasn’t sure they still had any resistance left in them.
November 19, 2025
RED ON RED: Embattled House Republican Faces House Censure From Nancy Mace. “South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace will introduce a resolution Wednesday to censure her fellow GOP colleague, Rep. Cory Mills of Florida, in a high-profile example of Republican infighting on the House floor.”
THEY’VE FOUND 30,000 SO FAR: ICE Has Found 30,000 Migrant Children Who Were Trafficked Under Biden
MATH: Today’s students will earn 8% less (but won’t know how much that is). “The decline in reading and math achievement since 2013 means today’s students will earn 8 percent less over a working lifetime, estimates economist Eric Hanushek in a Washington Post op-ed.”
JEFF BEZOS: Stuck in the Middle With Blue.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Franchise Fail: Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ Can’t Move Climate Change Needle.
The Oscar-winner has dedicated more than a decade to a film franchise promoting a healthier environment.
The “Avatar” saga is one long, extended hug for Mother Earth. The environment is near and dear to Cameron’s heart. He’s spoken tirelessly against Climate Change, embraced a vegan lifestyle and hoped the public wouldn’t hold his eco-hypocrisy against him.
It’s why he has spent so many years, and endless Hollywood resources, warning us to heed his Climate Change worries.
No regrets. At least, not yet.
“I’ve justified making ‘Avatar’ movies to myself for the last 20 years, not based on how much money we made, but on the basis that hopefully it can do some good. It can help connect us. It can help connect us to our lost aspect of ourself that connects with nature and respects nature and all those things. … Do I think that movies are the answer to our human problems? No, I think they’re limited because people sometimes just want entertainment and they don’t want to be challenged in that way. I think ‘Avatar’ is a Trojan horse strategy that gets you into a piece of entertainment, but then works on your brain and your heart a little bit in a way.”
That strategy isn’t working, apparently.
Read the whole thing.
And here are tangentially related thoughts from Critical Drinker: The Avatar Paradox – Why Nobody Talks About These Movies. “They’re some of the biggest movies ever made, and there’s another one, Fire And Ash coming out in just over a month, yet nobody ever talks about them. Why?”
IT’S AN EXTREMELY POWERFUL BUT ALSO STRANGELY LIMITED TOOL: AI May Be Making Some of Us Rich, but Why Is It Also Making Americans Unhappy?
THERE’S A LOT OF RUIN IN A CITY: Endgame: Chicago.