Author Archive: Stephen Green
October 28, 2025
CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN: Under Trump 2.0, colleges celebrate Halloween instead of warning against ‘offensive’ costumes.
Posters declaring “it’s a culture, not a costume” used to pepper quads nationwide, with special workshops hosted on campuses to hammer home the point.
For instance, Princeton University held its “Conversation Circles: Cultural Appropriation and Halloween” event in 2017, in which students learned about “the impact of cultural appropriation, Halloween, and why culture is not a costume.”
The University of South Indiana hosted a “Culture not Costumes” Halloween workshop that argued “clothing, symbols, music, art, religion, language, and social behavior” are all elements of cultural appropriation, warning students not to dress as “Pocahotties” and “sexy Indian Princesses” if they do not come from such cultures.
Furman University in South Carolina was put on the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s “Speech Code of the Month” in October 2019 after it threatened students with investigation if they “encourage people to wear costumes or act in ways that reinforce stereotypes or are otherwise demeaning.”
The University of Texas at Austin at one point even issued a 29-point checklist on offensive Halloween costumes and inappropriate party themes, telling students to avoid “exotic” or “unique” themes, warning against “Cowboys and Indians,” as well as “tropical” or “fiesta” concepts.
For 2025, The College Fix found one single university that chided students.
Nobody likes a scold.
JONATHAN TURLEY:
…The only silver lining is the possibility that the court system can now redeem itself and lay down new, important case law to prevent future lawfare abuses of this kind. https://t.co/0VZGzmZH8b
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) October 28, 2025
You can read the entire appeal here.
PLAN ACCORDINGLY: The Universe ‘Will End in a Big Crunch,’ Physicists Warns. “The universe is nearing the halfway point of what may be a 33-billion-year lifespan, according to new calculations by a Cornell physicist using updated dark energy data. The findings suggest that the cosmos will continue expanding for roughly another 11 billion years before reversing course, contracting back into a single point in a dramatic ‘big crunch.'”
YOU’D THINK JUST ONE OF THOSE WOULD BE ENOUGH: Zohran Mamdani’s Fatal Flaw Revealed — and It’s NOT Communism, Socialism or Radical Islam.
HMM: Did China Down Two U.S. Navy Aircraft in South China Sea?
Fortunately, all five U.S. crew aboard the two downed aircraft were rescued. While the USS Nimitz is our oldest carrier, commissioned 50 years ago and on its last deployment before decommissioning next year, experts say this is unlikely to be related to the two crashes.
Upon hearing of this rare occurrence many informed observers, and many uninformed ones, worried that the naval aircraft had been attacked with some sort of electronic warfare (EW) or Directed Energy Warfare (DEW) laser, or cyber weapon, causing them to fail and crash.
DEW, EW or cyber warfare, could all induce these crashes by disrupting flight systems subtly, including aircraft GPS, or frying electronics, especially in a contested area like the South China Sea where advanced Chinese surveillance ships and EW aircraft operate routinely.
China likely also has the capabilities to down aircraft, either through sabotage or flaws in our avionics that they have discovered through espionage.
All are part of China’s emphasis on ‘grey zone’ warfare.
Video at the link.
ROBERT SPENCER: New York Gov. Hochul Has Her ‘Let’s Go, Brandon’ Moment. “Now Hochul is trying to explain away the hostile reception she encountered from a gang of socialist Zohran Mamdani supporters in a similar way.”
HMM: John Cornyn Bet Texas Voters Would Forget His BSCA Gun Control Betrayal…He May Be Right. “The bill made it easier to remove guns from people threatening to kill themselves or others, as well as people who have committed domestic violence; clarified who needed to register as a federal firearms dealer; and earmarked $11 billion for mental health services and another $2 billion for community-based antiviolence programs.”
WOULD YOU BELIEVE SOME GOOD NEWS FROM BRITAIN?
BREAKING – The young Scottish girl, who was forced to brandish a knife and an axe to defend herself and her sister against a Romanian migrant and was arrested, has been vindicated after a Romanian grooming gang was jailed for sexually abusing women across Dundee. pic.twitter.com/r8EQvCbSFD
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) October 28, 2025
SAD TO SAY, BUT WE NEED THE HELP: Japan and U.S. Expected to Sign Shipbuilding Pact Amid China Challenge. “Japan’s public broadcaster NHK said the memorandum is expected to state that ‘it is necessary to reduce dependence on a specific country with a view to securing maritime transport in case of a contingency.’ The document is also expected to say that Japan and the US will set up a working group to strengthen cooperation, and that Japanese and US companies will invest in shipbuilding yards in both countries to boost competitiveness and improve efficiency.”
“Specific country,” heh.
WELL SAID:
Comparing a socialist politician to Jackie Robinson is a profound insult to history and courage. Robinson faced down real hate to prove a man should be judged on merit. The modern left elevates politicians who demand people be judged by their group. This isn't progress, it's…
— Kentucky (@KentuckyKOT) October 28, 2025
CORN, POPPED: House Oversight Nixes Biden Autopen, Refers to DOJ. “But there are at least three reasons not to pop all your corn at once.”
CHIPS ARE HARD: China Tries To Backward Engineer ASML Stepper, Wrecks It. “The fact that they couldn’t get the machine back together correctly rather belies the idea that China has world-class semiconductor technical knowledge.”
Read the whole thing.
SCHADENFREUDELICIOUS: Bari Weiss Sharpening Her Axe for ’60 Minutes’ Crew. “This is the same 60 Minutes that had to settle a lawsuit with President Donald Trump earlier this year to the tune of $16 million, after the ‘news’ program edited a campaign interview with Vice President Kamala Harris to make one of her infamous word-salad answers make sense. Edited? Did I write ‘edited?’ 60 Minutes hacked that answer with an axe like it was a half-naked teen in a slasher movie.”
BEEF PRICES ARE OUTRAGEOUS: Political peril spurs Trump to act on beef prices even as ranchers rage.
The near-term solution to boost supply — plans to purchase 80,000 metric tons of beef from Argentina, quadruple the typical quota — has spurred intense backlash from farm-state Republicans and agriculture industry groups who have felt burned by several Trump administration policies in recent months.
But Trump’s election was fueled, in part, by Americans’ concerns over high costs, an issue the president often hammered on the campaign trail as he promised food prices would fall if he returned to the White House. Ten months in, Trump and his top aides are scrambling to keep the campaign pledge, calculating that in the short-term it’s worth antagonizing ranchers, a loyal GOP constituency that benefits from elevated beef prices, if they can bring down costs for consumers.
“It’s kind of like eggs, part two,” said one person close to the Trump administration, who was granted anonymity to discuss private conversations. “This all kind of started with just concern over consumer prices.”
The average price for a pound of ground beef is $6.32, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
More trade with a friendly, liberty-loving nation like Milei’s Argentina seems like a no-brainer.
I’M SO OLD, I STILL REMEMBER WHEN DEMOCRATS AT LEAST PRETENDED TO BE THE PARTY OF COMPASSION: Chicago Mayor on Illegal Alien Rapist: ‘Let’s Move On.’
That makes me kinda old, actually.
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Why I no longer engage with Nature publishing group.
Dear Dr. Kuttner:
I am writing in response to your invitation to review the manuscript titled “Large circular dichroism in the total photoemission yield of free chiral nanoparticles created by a pure electric dipole effect” submitted for publication in Nature Communications.
Although the topic is within my field of expertise and I would normally welcome the opportunity to contribute to peer review, I must decline. Furthermore, I have decided not to engage with journals belonging to the Nature group in any professional capacity in the future because the group has adopted policies and practices that are incompatible with the mission of a scientific publisher.
Scientific publishers play a key role in the production of knowledge — they are a pillar of what Jonathan Rauch has termed the “the Constitution of Knowledge” (Rauch, 2025). The role of the publisher is to be an epistemic funnel: it accepts claims to truth at one end, but permits only those that withstand organized scrutiny to emerge from the other, a function traditionally performed by a rigorous peer-review and editorial process. This process should be guided by scientific rigor and a commitment to finding objective truth.
Unfortunately, the Nature group has abandoned its mission in favor of advancing a social justice agenda.
Much more at the link — and now do Scientific American.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Dem 2028 Speculation Is Entertaining Political Theater. “Yes, the 2028 presidential election is a long way off and we still have midterms to deal with more than a year from now. I also have never been a big fan of election speculation this far out, but the Democrats are struggling right now and I’m rather enjoying it. Things won’t always be this way, so I’m going to revel in their misery while I can.”
YOU DON’T SAY: Left-wing ideas have wrecked Democrats’ brand, new report warns.
Democrats have badly weakened their party with left-leaning ideas and rhetoric, growing only with self-described “white liberals” while losing ground with other voters, according to a new center-left group’s report shared first with Semafor.
The group, called Welcome, consulted hundreds of thousands of voters over six months for its broad findings, including that 70% of voters think the Democratic Party is “out of touch.” Most voters, the group found, believe the party over-prioritizes issues like “protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans,” and “fighting climate change” while not caring about “securing the border” or “lowering the rate of crime.” (Welcome began as a PAC in 2022, then founded a nonprofit with the same name for political research.)
Elected Democrats will receive copies of the report after its Monday publication, followed by events to promote it in DC and New York. The report urges party members to abandon some of the progressive language about race, abortion, and LGBTQ issues that Democrats began using after the 2012 election — and recommends the nomination of more candidates willing to vote with Republicans on conservative immigration and crime bills.
That’s probably solid advice, and nothing Bill Clinton didn’t run on in 1992. But it comes from the same people saying things like this further down in the report:
The report doesn’t urge Democrats to move fully to the right, reserving vocal praise for several progressive stars in the party with a more direct appeal to economic opportunity and lower cost of living.
“We have much to learn from the relentless focus of Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Zohran Mamdani” on those fronts, the authors write.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani — the moderate faces of the New Democratic Party!
DEAL WITH THE DEVIL: UK Muslim Tells UK Progressive This Brutal Truth. “This is where things get complicated, right before they get funny, which comes a short (?) while before the inevitable bloodshed.”
GRANNY-KILLER CUOMO TO THE RESCUE? Cuomo closes gap on Mamdani as NYC mayor race tightens dramatically in new poll.
With just over a week until Election Day, Zohran Mamdani holds a double-digit lead in the raucous race for the nation’s most populous city, but former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is narrowing the gap, according to a new public opinion poll.
Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist state lawmaker from the New York City borough of Queens who shocked the political world in June with his convincing win over Cuomo and nine other candidates to capture the Democratic Party’s mayoral nomination, stands at 44% support among likely voters in the most recent survey in the race, from Suffolk University.
Cuomo, who resigned as governor in 2021 amid multiple scandals and who is running as an Independent candidate in the general election after losing the primary, had 34% support in the survey.
The survey was conducted Thursday through Sunday, entirely after incumbent Mayor Eric Adams endorsed Cuomo in a bid to defeat Mamdani.
The only thing I’m certain of is that New Yorkers will come out the losers.
RADICAL CHIC: Antifa Announces Uniform Change to Look More Like This Hamas Terrorist. “Is it possible that now that Antifa is a terrorist group that its funding is drying up, and they need new grants from the billionaire Islamofascists?”