I’M SURE THE DICTATOR WILL HAVE HER ROUNDED UP AND SHOT: Kathy Griffin Crowned Queen of Crazy: Calls Trump a ‘Fascist Dictator’ and Pushes ‘No Kings’ Protests.
Author Archive: Stephen Green
October 15, 2025
THERE THEY GO AGAIN: Judge blocks Trump from firing federal workers during government shutdown for now.
HEH:
🚨 BREAKING: This reporter just tried to 'gotcha' Scott Bessent and it failed MISERABLY
HOST: People are blaming the current government for the shutdown. I know YOU blame Democrats, but often, the blame goes to who's in power.
BESSENT: *Chuckles* How is that? Mike Johnson… pic.twitter.com/hrG3ObrHCM
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 15, 2025
Is there anyone in this administration not having the time of their lives while doing good work?
Well, maybe one person…
We don't need all these federal workers. Marco Rubio can do it all himself. He's fine. pic.twitter.com/4WMnp6d3tL
— Jarvis (@jarvis_best) October 1, 2025
MISSING: Milk Carton Diplomacy: Have You Seen These Two Men? “There are two big dogs that didn’t so much as whimper while President Donald Trump remade the Middle East (at least a little) in his own peace-loving image.”
SO HE’S A TYPICAL WHITE PROGRESSIVE THEN: Kimmel Shows Shocking Indifference to Plight of Young Black Men. “Propagandist Jimmy Kimmel is not just ignoring the tragically high death toll for young black men in Chicago, he’s making it a laugh line on his ABC showcase.”
GO BEYOND THE SCARY HEADLINES: Pentagon Reporters Are Losing Their Press Credentials Today: Here’s What’s Really Happening. “The new rules will restrict reporters’ physical access to people and locations within the Pentagon, reorganizing newsroom space in the building, and, in some situations, reporters will require an escort to move around certain parts of the building. This is standard procedure in most military installations, and, for that matter, just about any private company or organization in the country.”
“OH, SHUT UP” IS ABOUT ALL I HAVE LEFT TO SAY ABOUT OBAMA: Obama Accuses Trump of Wanting to ‘Steal’ and ‘Rig the Next Election’
PUT HASAN IN A CAGE:
Another Hasan Leak:
“I don’t give a shit if they bite Kaya, it’s hilarious when she’s afraid” pic.twitter.com/Qw5sAOXBxz
— TECTONE 🇺🇸 (@Tectone) October 15, 2025
WILD: Loon Launching Loving Lasso Lacks Legitimacy, Lands Litigation.
Loving County is not only the least populated county in Texas, but with 64 official inhabitants as of the 2020 census, it’s also the least populated county in the entire nation. (Kalawao County, Hawaii, on an island that was formerly a leper colony, comes in second.) Flat desert land up along the New Mexico border, Loving doesn’t have much to recommend it except splendid isolation.
And oil.
It’s that last little bit, Loving’s notable oil wealth, that probably inspired a carpetbagger gadfly from Indiana to try to take over Loving County.
Read the whole thing.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: You Realize, of Course, This Means War (With Trump). “The drug cartels basically said out loud this week that they want war. They might just get one. Before we get to war and other niceties, here’s why they might have just opened a can of military-grade whoop-ass directly into their own faces.”
SPOILER: HAMAS WILL DO NONE OF THESE THINGS.
Statement from Adm. Brad Cooper, CENTCOM commander: pic.twitter.com/9nhijzThvb
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) October 15, 2025
SPACE: How we sharpened the James Webb telescope’s vision from a million kilometres away.
Hubble started its life seeing out of focus – its mirror had been ground precisely, but incorrectly. By looking at known stars and comparing the ideal and measured images (exactly like what optometrists do), it was possible to figure out a “prescription” for this optical error and design a lens to compensate.
The correction required seven astronauts to fly up on the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1993 to install the new optics. Hubble orbits Earth just a few hundred kilometres above the surface, and can be reached by astronauts.
By contrast, Webb is roughly 1.5 million kilometres away – we can’t visit and service it, and need to be able to fix issues without changing any hardware.
This is where AMI comes in. This is the only Australian hardware on board, designed by astronomer Peter Tuthill.
It was put on Webb to diagnose and measure any blur in its images. Even nanometres of distortion in Webb’s 18 hexagonal primary mirrors and many internal surfaces will blur the images enough to hinder the study of planets or black holes, where sensitivity and resolution are key.
AMI filters the light with a carefully structured pattern of holes in a simple metal plate, to make it much easier to tell if there are any optical misalignments.
We wanted to use this mode to observe the birth places of planets, as well as material being sucked into black holes. But before any of this, AMI showed Webb wasn’t working entirely as hoped.
If you’re at all interested in the technical details behind the fix, there are tons of them at the link.
“THE WORSE, THE BETTER,” LENIN ADVISED: Doxing Law Enforcement Officers Isn’t How You Get Your Way, But It’s Getting Worse.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Public Health Destroyed Its Own Credibility Long Before RFK Jr. Arrived.
We need spend little time remembering the unscientific, patronizing and erroneous advice and dictums issued from the medical and scientific establishment regarding the coronavirus during the pandemic. Social distancing, masks, school and business closures — almost all of it was unnecessary. These totalitarian measures saved relatively few lives, cost our nation trillions of dollars, and imperiled the educational and social development of an entire generation.
Yet who, exactly, has admitted their errors or paid any serious price for their disastrous “expert advice” and “recommendations”? The unflappable and unrepentant Anthony Fauci has paid no price for his errors, nor has former Planned Parenthood president and WaPo contributor Leanna Wen.
Admittedly, I myself am a bit hesitant when it comes to RFK Jr.’s medical assessments and recommendations, which also seem to sometimes lack sufficient evidence and rely more on foregone conclusions about the harmful effects of certain drugs or foods than unbiased, longitudinal research. That said, to accuse him of eroding public distrust in our nation’s medical establishment is risible. RFK Jr. didn’t vitiate the medical establishment’s reputation. They did it to themselves.
Much more at the link, but I’d add one thing.
GenZ — including my sons, whose education and attitudes were deeply impacted by the lockdowns — trends much more conservative than any other postwar generation. Maybe there’s no better way to discredit big government than to have one — and let Dems go wild with it for a couple of years.
OUCH: Russia’s seaborne fuel exports sank 17% in September after drone attacks.
Russia’s seaborne oil product exports fell 17.1% in September from August to 7.58 million metric tons due to less fuel production as various refineries were impacted by drone attacks, data from industry sources and Reuters calculations showed.
Several major refineries were attacked by drones in August and September, including Surgutneftegaz’s Kirishinefteorgsintez refinery, Lukoil’s Volgograd refinery and Rosneft’s Samara group of refineries.
The resulting unplanned outages at a number of key refineries curtailed fuel exports and drove up crude oil shipments, market sources said.
Not bad, considering Ukraine’s strikes on Russian refineries only began in earnest around mid-August.
If anything can get Putin to the negotiating table, maybe it’s a loss of energy revenue.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Now the Big Question — Will Hamas Beg to Be Finished Off? “Perhaps Hamas leaders don’t have the internet and are completely unaware of how Israel and President Trump have said this is going to play out if they run afoul of the plan. Israel is going to systematically destroy what remains of the organization, and President Trump has promised the full blessing of the United States in its efforts to do so.”
TEACHERS’ UNIONS, UGH: Despite the Holocaust, ‘competitive victimhood’ is a loser for Jews.
A previous version of the bill required that “instructional materials regarding Jews, Israel, or the Israel-Palestine conflict” be “balanced, accurate, don’t promote antisemitism and don’t label Israel as a settler colonial state,” she reports.
As amended, the law simply calls for all lessons to be “be factually accurate.” That doesn’t sound wild and crazy, but it could stifle learning, said a California Teachers Association official. “Teacher discourse on Palestine or the genocide in Gaza will be policed, misrepresented, and reported to the antisemitism coordinator,” Theresa Montaño with the California Faculty Association said in a statement.
Presumption of a genocide despite all evidence to the contrary.
YES. NEXT QUESTION? Faced with rising antisemitism and a radical would-be mayor, New York’s Jewish artists confront a once unthinkable question: Is it time to flee?
After Oct. 7, I was added to a group chat of Jewish artists from around the world whose communities and industries were being overtaken by antisemitic hate. As creative fields quickly became hot spots for demonizing Israel and demanding ideological conformity, this group became a rare place to vent, exchange ideas, collaborate, and, sometimes, to argue.
That weekend’s debate splintered the group in a way I’d never seen before. The topic: Is New York still good for the Jews, or is it time to flee? Several admitted they no longer felt safe. Some had already left town; others were making plans. They spoke of losing jobs, being disinvited from friends’ birthdays, and even being assaulted at a party for wearing a Jewish star necklace. To them, New York had already “fallen.”
On the other side were those whose connection to the city runs stubbornly deep. For them, abandoning the refuge their ancestors found here was unthinkable. As emotions flared, thoughtful debate gave way to arguments about who counts as a “real” New Yorker and whether leaving was prescient or paranoid.
As I observed the back-and-forth, I couldn’t shake one thought: Were these the same conversations our grandparents and great-grandparents had in Europe during the pogroms or in 1930s Germany as fascism rose?
Pretty much, although leaving New York City for, say, Miami is much simpler than departing Nazi Germany for New York.
But the real trick, no matter where you are, is to stop voting for bigger government that can and will be exploited by fascists, socialists, and commies.
DON’T WORRY, HE’LL BE LITERALLY HITLER™ AGAIN IN TIME FOR TONIGHT’S BROADCASTS: Late-Night Hosts Eat Crow, Give Trump Credit for Gaza Ceasefire.
October 14, 2025
PAGING MR. SLOPODOPOULOS:
🚨 LMAO! PRESIDENT TRUMP: "We'll take a couple questions. I'm sure they'll be extremely non-hostile and friendly, like JD went through a very friendly interview with George Slopodopolous, who's nice enough to pay me $16 million!" 🤣🔥pic.twitter.com/DCrBPjlUUZ
"It was worth having…
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 14, 2025
A TRILLION HERE AND A TRILLION THERE…: JPMorgan Chase launches $1.5 trillion plan to bolster US economic and national security. “The effort — dubbed the ‘Security and Resiliency Initiative’ — will direct $1.5 trillion toward projects spanning energy, manufacturing and defense. As part of the plan, the financial giant will invest up to $10 billion in direct equity and venture capital to help select U.S.-based companies ‘enhance their growth, spur innovation and accelerate strategic manufacturing,’ the company said.”
Even JPMorgan Chase is on board with making America great again.