Jonathan Sacerdoti at Da Spec reports The Flydubai attacker’s motive was even darker than we thought. Cathy Salgado at PJM elaborates FlyDubai Hijacker Wanted to Crash Into Tel Aviv Airport to Maximize Casualties. I didn't think of the airport, but I figured it was somehow intended to be more than just the plane full of passengers. A "well, duh" moment from the Victory Girls, FlyDubai Co-Pilot Terrorist Should Never Have Been Allowed Into The Cockpit. Lots of red flags ignored.
Vic Nava at NYPo hears Trump approves firing squad for Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan’s execution after Pete Hegseth’s recommendation. "Hasan, who was sentenced to death by a military court in 2013, would be the first service member executed by the armed forces since 1961." It's only been 17 years. They should just sneak up and shoot him in the back and let him bleed out.Hat Hair's John Sexton reports Iran Launches More Attacks Against Tankers. Time to launch more attacks on Iran's mullahs. At the Telegraph, Iran trains women to take up arms against new US offensive. IranWire, Exclusive: Many Military and Government Officials Oppose Expansion of “Jan-Fada” Campaign. Didn't Hitler do something like that just before the fall of Germany? Why, yes he did! Sundance at CTH hosts Susan Kokinda Giving Background Context for the IRGC Appeal to the West for Defense Against Trump. Mike LaChance at LI cites Florida Republican Randy Fine: Democrats are Siding With Iran Because They Hate Trump. “Look, it’s been clear to me, based on my time in Congress, that the Democrats are on the side of Iran, and it’s simply because they hate Donald Trump.” Dan Greenfield at Front Page sees Iran Plans to Win the War by Helping Democrats Win "The old joke about the Russians was that their military strategy was to get invaded and wait for winter. The Islamic terrorist strategy is to get invaded and wait for leftists to win elections." Sarah at Insty say FINE IS WRONG. IT’S WORSE THAN THAT. SURE THEY HATE TRUMP. BUT MOST OF ALL THEY HATE AMERICA. Brad R. Torgersen @BradRTorgersen, "Hillary losing really did break them, didn't it? Like, their collective tree branch snapped. The impossible suddenly happened, and they were permanently outraged. Trump had to be punished. The voters had to be punished, too."
Dan Rivers @danriversitv, "Scoop: I have heard from a source familiar with the RAF Fairford story that the US feared a drone a attack similar to Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb last year which destroyed 10 Russian aircraft. They fear Iran might copy the tactics and that drones might even already be in UK, hence abrupt departure of B1s." Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy, "It brings me no joy to point out that at this point it’s hard to make a realistic argument for Britain as being a sovereign and self-governing nation state."
From RCD,
Russia – The Paper Tiger That Still Bites. Will Putin attack a NATO country just to find out if NATO is still a thing?
Kevin Esvelt
@kesvelt, "Russia's five-hospital quarantine, FSB involvement, and reported hazmat use
in response to the death of a single researcher at a weapons-lineage Irkutsk
lab are inconsistent with a lab-acquired plague infection, which would have
been treated with prophylactic antibiotics. 1/4" Kevin Esvelt
@kesvelt, "Russian authorities have surely
sequenced the Irkutsk pathogen, but refuse to identify it. Physical lockdown
indicates it cannot be controlled with prophylactic antibiotics, implying
engineered pan-resistance or that it isn't plague at all." From News Nation,
Woman accused of spying on Taiwanese president’s son arrested at LAX. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair VIP,
Oh Look, Another Pooh Honey Pot in California!
Alex Berenson at
Unreported Truths thinks Europe is in trouble
"And its crisis goes a long way to explaining why the American left remains a
longshot to take power durably, despite the big gains it will probably make
next month." Inevitable West
@Inevitablewest, "BREAKING:
Pedro Sánchez dissolves Spanish parliament and announces early elections on
November 29th The socialist tyrant has fallen." From sundance,
Enmeshed in Corruption and Failed Socialism Spanish Prime Minister Pedro
Sánchez Collapses Government and Calls for New Snap Election. Beege Welborn at Hat Hair hopes
First Round of Brazilian Elections Portends Sunbeams for Vampire Judge:
What a Lula. Ace says
Son of Former Brazilian President Cheated Out of a Win Tops Election
Results in Brazil, Garnering 47% of the Vote. "It requires 50% to actually win the election outright,
otherwise it goes to a two-person runoff. He almost got 50%. I bet he got well
over 50% -- but the left cheats, subverts, and destroys everything, including
democracy." Mike Benz
@MikeBenzCyber, "When I'm fully unleashed and get to tell this story in detail, country by
country, operation by operation, I don't think the world will ever view the
history of the past decade the same way again." Quote End Wokeness @EndWokeness, "8 elections in Latin America since USAID
got defunded The "far-right" won all 8 of them." Brandon Van Dyck at Am Mind
explains
Why the Populist Right Is Gaining Ground.
At Da Caller,
Senate Energy Bill Would Fine Any President Who Blocks A Whole Class Of
Energy Projects. Obviously aimed at Trump, who is opposed to most wind power. From WUWT,
Heartland Institute Experts Applaud Trump’s New, Realistic Automobile
Efficiency Standards. At RCP,
People’s Republic of Boulder Wants To Run Your Energy Policy
Reuters whines
Musk says he will rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI. Dave Harsanyi at NYPo has
The good news on federal workers you probably never heard about
"The federal government has reduced its workforce by 300,000 jobs since Jan.
20, 2025, bringing it down to a still-bulky 2.7 million employees." The lowest
since Lyndon. Greg Lukianoff at Insty wonders
WHAT IF TRUMP’S BIGGEST STRATEGIC WEAKNESS IS THAT HE CAN’T STOP HIMSELF?
The same instincts that made him a media phenomenon can become liabilities
when presidential power, government lawyers, and the First Amendment enter
the picture.
PJM's Bob Spencer thinks
Now THIS Would Be Fun: Kennedy Is Considering a Run for President!
"No, not the MAHA guy, and not, thank God, one of the gaggle of off-putting
leftists that the Secretary of Health and Human Services is unfortunate enough
to have as his relatives. No, the
Kennedy who may be running
for president this time is none other than the most riotously funny man in the
Senate, Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-La.), who is no relation to the famous
Massachusetts family, either in bloodline or political outlook." He's kind of
old, but he seems sharp, and the quote he would generate would be amazing.
From Ace,
Communist Jihadi Zohran Mamdani: I Will Combat Antisemitism In NYC by
Partnering Up With Aggressively Anti-Israel Arab Agitation Groups, "Oh perfect." The FOO
@PolitiBunny, "Holy Hell, Michigan Democrats. Did you lose your damn minds or what?" Quote Great Lakes HQ @GreatLakes_HQ, "Abdul’s mother cashed the checks for
bin Laden, his father is part of the Muslim Brotherhood, and his sister is on
a terrorist watch list." Quote DSA Watch @DSA_Watch, "Abdul El-Sayed’s Sister
appeared on a Terrorist Watch list, court documents show." You aren't
necessarily responsible for your family, but it certainly gives some insight
into how he was raised. Don Surber wonders
Can AOC win the Obama primary?
"He runs the party in his quest to Make America Communist Already." The
Manhattan Contrarian explains
How To Think Like A New York Progressive, if you really must. "Looking at New York’s official progressive orthodoxy
in action, these readers often see illogic and inconsistencies that seem to
make no sense at all. And yet, despite the apparent internal contradictions,
the New York progressives themselves generally achieve near or even complete
unanimity as to many of the important policies that they seek to implement.
How does this work?" Althouse hosts a Talarico video,
"We have to understand... that these violent hierarchies, these systems,
white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, economic exploitation, have colonized our
own minds,"
"... especially for the white educators..." TownHall's Amy Curtis thinks
Seattle's Minimum Wage Hike Will Be a Death Blow for City Business. Too bad. They voted for it.
Tom Knighton at TAW, says
So NOW elections are vulnerable?
Democrats are already complaining that if they don't get what they want in the
midterms, it was stolen.
Western Lensman
@WesternLensman, "Mark Ruffalo warns that Democrats need to be watchful for voting machine
manipulation and suggests Elon Musk could be involved: "We need to be on
guard for what we may not see coming -- ELON." "That's the cybersecurity of
these elections." "We know that these systems are vulnerable." We have been reliably informed for years that this kind of rhetoric
Undermines Faith In Elections and is Very Dangerous To Democracy." Mary
Chastain at LI reports that thing that never happens,
DOJ Charges 16 Aliens With Election Crimes, Including Illegal Voting. "Ten of the aliens reside in Minnesota."
The case of the Cornell 7 and the slutty sister is starting to heat up, as
Democrats and the media (but I redund) have started, as we expected, to try to
pin the blame on Donald Trump, in hopes of ginning up female rage for the
midterms. There's one major problem with that, though, the actual events
occurred during the Biden regency. WaEx,
Right on cue, left-wing media blame the Cornell rape case on Trump. EducatëdHillbilly™
@RobProvince, "Biden was president during this incident lady….." Quote Brent Baker @BrentHBaker, "“We can go to the President for this one.”
On @ThisWeekABC, @mcottle of NY Times blames Trump for Cornell incident: “You
can’t send those messages, no matter how drunk you are as a frat boy, without
having some kind of misunderstanding about what women are there for and
whether this is a real person you’re dealing with. And that, I think starts,
you know, we can go to the President for this one. I mean, we are in a moment
in this culture where the glorification of being thuggish and swaggering and
mistreating women is kind of making you a cool kid.”"
John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte
@NolteNC, "It should be pointed out that all of this is happening at one of the most
left-wing colleges in the country, at an institution run exclusively by
leftists, where almost all of the students are Democrats." John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte
@NolteNC, "And on one of the most left-wing colleges on the planet." Quote Tricia McLaughlin @TriciaOhio, "Except the events of the Cornell case
happened in October 2024, when Biden was President. Media and pundits fall all
over themselves trying to make everything and anything about Donald Trump.
It’s embarrassing and so incredibly lazy." Byron York at WaEx,
The political path of the Cornell rape allegation. From Breitbart,
Rapey Cornell University Is a Democrat Problem, Not an American Problem. Heather Mac Donald
@HMDatMI, "An unambiguous case of consensual sex. The aftermath of the Cornell group
sex episode is a peerless example of the hypocrisy of the feminist movement,
which proclaims the oppressiveness of any remaining traces the chivalric
code. Females deliberately drink themselves blotto in order to lower their
sexual inhibitions, voluntarily participate in sex, and then, after the
regrets set in, deny their agency and put exclusive responsibility for their
drunken encounter on their male partner, on the grounds that they are
helpless to take care of themselves. I've written about the campus rape myth in
@CityJournal: https://city-journal.org/article/the-campus-rape-myth From my interview on
@realDailyWire's Wired in Live with @cabot_phillips." Clay Travis @ClayTravis, "Plot twist!" Quote New York Post @nypost, "'Cornell 7' frat bro claims he was too wasted to consent to sex with accuser - and that he's the real victim: records, reports https://trib.al/bELjP8q." Bethany Cherisse @BethanyCherisse, "The fact that Cornell Jane did not pass out at any point during the gangbang, but she DID attempt to have sex with a man who was unconscious, is really a point that needs to be highlighted. Repeatedly. So the feminist rhetoric demands we believe that Cornell Jane was too incapacitated to consent to the activities she participated in, but NOT too incapacitated to take advantage of someone else who was incapacitated. If the argument is that intoxication nullifies consent, then that standard must apply to both (or in this case, all) parties." Quote andieiam @andieiamwhoiam, "Because Lucy Craig, AKA Jane Doe of the Cornell rape hoax, waited three weeks. 21 days, to go to police, we will never know how much alcohol she drank, we will never know how much ketamine she snorted, we will never know many of the details that she kept from the authorities. But what we do know is that she went to a frat house intentionally to have sex with two men and continued to have sex with other men and even attempted to have sex with a man who was unconscious. After that she claimed that the acts were consensual and that she was willing to do it again. The only reason she went to the police is because she was disinvited to a Halloween party at the same fraternity. This doesn't sound like a woman who was raped. This sounds like a woman who was scorned. She labored under the delusion that these men would form a friendship with her and that some might even consider forming a relationship with her. She discovered that men don't like bimbos. And that's when she retaliated."
@CityJournal: https://city-journal.org/article/the-campus-rape-myth From my interview on
@realDailyWire's Wired in Live with @cabot_phillips." Clay Travis @ClayTravis, "Plot twist!" Quote New York Post @nypost, "'Cornell 7' frat bro claims he was too wasted to consent to sex with accuser - and that he's the real victim: records, reports https://trib.al/bELjP8q." Bethany Cherisse @BethanyCherisse, "The fact that Cornell Jane did not pass out at any point during the gangbang, but she DID attempt to have sex with a man who was unconscious, is really a point that needs to be highlighted. Repeatedly. So the feminist rhetoric demands we believe that Cornell Jane was too incapacitated to consent to the activities she participated in, but NOT too incapacitated to take advantage of someone else who was incapacitated. If the argument is that intoxication nullifies consent, then that standard must apply to both (or in this case, all) parties." Quote andieiam @andieiamwhoiam, "Because Lucy Craig, AKA Jane Doe of the Cornell rape hoax, waited three weeks. 21 days, to go to police, we will never know how much alcohol she drank, we will never know how much ketamine she snorted, we will never know many of the details that she kept from the authorities. But what we do know is that she went to a frat house intentionally to have sex with two men and continued to have sex with other men and even attempted to have sex with a man who was unconscious. After that she claimed that the acts were consensual and that she was willing to do it again. The only reason she went to the police is because she was disinvited to a Halloween party at the same fraternity. This doesn't sound like a woman who was raped. This sounds like a woman who was scorned. She labored under the delusion that these men would form a friendship with her and that some might even consider forming a relationship with her. She discovered that men don't like bimbos. And that's when she retaliated."
Not unexpectedly, Lauren Conlin
@conlin_lauren, "BREAKING:
Judge William Sullivan has DENIED Lindsay Clancy’s motion for a finding of
not guilty on all three murder indictments. Kevin Reddington argued the evidence was insufficient on two issues:
whether prosecutors proved Clancy was the person who killed her three children
and whether she was criminally responsible at the time. Sullivan rejected both
arguments, finding there was enough evidence for a rational fact finder to
conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that Clancy committed the killings and was
criminally responsible. The motion is 5 pages, 5th page in the comments."
John Hinderacker at Power Line, discusses
Migration as Weapon. At Hat Hair, John Sexton sees
Leftists Lose Again, This Time on the Arizona Border, Beege Welborn calls it
Dirty Deeds After Dark: British Government Locks Down Entire Town to Import
More Migrants
and
Far-Left Violence Alert: Fuzzy Widdecombe Murder Suspect Charged With
Terror Plot Against Farage. Ace hears
ICE Nabs Another 15 "Worst of the Worst" Over the Weekend. "I voted for this." Newsweek,
New H-1B Bill Would Hit Employers With $250,000 Fines. Inspector General Anthony D'Esposito
@USLaborIG, "NOT SO FUN FACT:
Universities can avoid Social Security, Unemployment Insurance and Medicare
payroll taxes on qualifying J-1 researchers who are nonresidents for tax
purposes." From the College Fix,
Event at UC Berkeley mocking Charlie Kirk memorial draws scrutiny from
State Department. "Spokesman Tommy Pigott told The College Fix in a statement via email that
“people in the United States on visas are guests in this country, and we will
not tolerate people here on visas who break our laws, support terrorism, or
unlawfully incite violence, which ultimately led to the horrific assassination
of an American.”" From No ¡Pasaran!
This is the Best Pro-GOP Campaign Ad of the past 40 Years and Needs to Be
Broadcast 24/7 for the Next 4 Weeks (Must-See Video). OK:
Hat Hair's Dave Strom, hears
Macron: Shut Up, America's 1st Amendment the 'Opposite of Free Speech'. Reclaim The Net
@ReclaimTheNetHQ, "Emmanuel Macron says American free speech is "the opposite of free speech."
In his view, freedom only exists inside a "common framework" set by the
state. He compared posting an insult online to hitting someone in the
street.
Those are different things, because one is speech and the other is violence.
He wants people punished for posting "nonsense," with state-backed
fact-checkers deciding what qualifies. He wants a verified identity behind
every social media account. He has written to Ursula von der Leyen demanding
the DSA be enforced "much faster, much more forcefully."" Ace notes
Paris Police Report: Riots Are Being Incited by Far-Left Politician and
Perennial Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Melanchon,
"I mentioned this on Thursday, but the party "La France Insoumise" (France
Unsubmitted/Unbowed) or LFI
are openly cheering on the riots.
The Red-Green alliance is right out in the open, including in support for
anti-normie terrorism."
Steve Hayward at Political Questions takes on Our Unsustainable Universities. "That sucking sound you hear is higher education circling the drain." Buck Throckmorton at Ace's MORNING RANT: Trump’s Education Department Cuts Off Low-Paying Degrees from Federal Student Loan Program – Exploitative Universities Hardest Hit. NYPo reports US colleges slash tuition by tens of thousands as families balk at sky-high sticker prices. The market is working, albeit slowly. Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79, "A student notices a curious gap in the discourse at Harvard: “Examining the public comments of Harvard’s last four presidents, I was unable to find one reference to radical Islamism, even while they addressed major attacks.” “In my searches of Harvard’s course catalog, I found just one class mentioning either ‘Islamism’ or ‘Islamist.’” “Or take the offerings outside class…. When I searched for ‘Islamism’ or ‘Islamist’ in the Harvard Gazette, I found only a single event described across all of campus in the last two years.” “Why aren’t we talking about this?”" From Campus Reform, Michigan State, Rutgers faculty work to stall responses to McMahon’s higher ed reform letter. At the Martin Center, Higher Ed Is Still Muddling Through AI. "Universities need an AI strategy that prepares students and faculty for artificial intelligence while transforming teaching, research, and operations." One of the guys on the boat the other day worked in IT. When Pete asked him what he did, he said he used to code, but now, he just tells AI what to code.
Steve Hayward at Political Questions takes on Our Unsustainable Universities. "That sucking sound you hear is higher education circling the drain." Buck Throckmorton at Ace's MORNING RANT: Trump’s Education Department Cuts Off Low-Paying Degrees from Federal Student Loan Program – Exploitative Universities Hardest Hit. NYPo reports US colleges slash tuition by tens of thousands as families balk at sky-high sticker prices. The market is working, albeit slowly. Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79, "A student notices a curious gap in the discourse at Harvard: “Examining the public comments of Harvard’s last four presidents, I was unable to find one reference to radical Islamism, even while they addressed major attacks.” “In my searches of Harvard’s course catalog, I found just one class mentioning either ‘Islamism’ or ‘Islamist.’” “Or take the offerings outside class…. When I searched for ‘Islamism’ or ‘Islamist’ in the Harvard Gazette, I found only a single event described across all of campus in the last two years.” “Why aren’t we talking about this?”" From Campus Reform, Michigan State, Rutgers faculty work to stall responses to McMahon’s higher ed reform letter. At the Martin Center, Higher Ed Is Still Muddling Through AI. "Universities need an AI strategy that prepares students and faculty for artificial intelligence while transforming teaching, research, and operations." One of the guys on the boat the other day worked in IT. When Pete asked him what he did, he said he used to code, but now, he just tells AI what to code.
Tyler O'Neil at Da Signal signals Parents Who Treat Boys as Boys and Girls as Girls Are Not Abusers, New Bill
Declares.
The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: No Fishy Just Sexy and FMJRA 2.0: A Winning Homestand up and garnering clicks at The Other McCain.
