SOME GOOD POINTS: “Affordability”.
December 8, 2025
SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED: Study: Palestinian Textbooks Continue to Teach Jew Hatred, Promote Jihad Terrorism.
THE EW IS STRONG IN THIS ONE: DAILY ART FIX: Photos of Epstein’s Home Show Creepy Room Filled With Masks.
FOR THOSE TO BE TRUTHFUL, THEY’D GO ALL THE WAY BACK, AND NEVER END: Land Conquest and the Absurdity of Land Acknowledgement.
By right of conquest, it’s a thing.
THIS SHOULD EXIST: Muppet Pearl Harbor.
December 7, 2025
INDEED:
It was suicide by a group of scientist who wanted to be politicians and celebrities.
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) December 8, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China to return damaged spacecraft to Earth after sending up replacement for stuck astronauts. A return date has not yet been announced.
THAT’S CRAZY TALK: If Young People Want More Affordability, They Should Get Jobs.
Friends I know, investors who aren’t particular Trumpy, are very bullish on the 2026 economy. If so, the jobs may appear. But, of course, there are the countertrends of AI and downsizing, though set against the loss of illegal-immigrant labor.
COFFEE: IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? This Daily Coffee Habit May Help Slow the Aging Process.
WHY WAS HE USING A FALSE GRIP ON A BENCH PRESS? Dad dies after dropping barbell on chest in freak accident at the gym.
Also, it looks like he was lifting 315lbs, which is too much to bench without a spotter unless you’re Ronnie Coleman.
UPDATE: Link was bad before. Fixed now. Sorry!
OLD AND BUSTED: Is Paris Burning?
The New Hotness? When Isn’t Paris Burning? Paris is a city afraid.
This year what was once the [New Year’s Eve] celebration has been reduced to a simulation. Paris must now film a celebration in advance because it cannot trust itself to manage a real one. The city that staged the Olympics cannot handle a national holiday. Paris, a capital that used to defy threats, can no longer manage its crowds.
In recent years [the Champs Élysées] has become the predictable destination for trouble. Large groups stream in from the suburbs on major nights and the pattern repeats itself. Burning scooters. Smash and grab attacks on luxury shops. Running fights with police. Dozens of arrests. Last year there were more than two hundred in Paris alone. Television networks keep a running tally of the number of cars torched across the country. During the Champions League celebrations this summer there were hundreds.
The French state understands all of this. The problem has only gotten worse with the transport reform which cuts the price of public transport for residents of the suburbs while raising them for travel within central Paris itself. Presented as ‘social justice’, it makes it cheaper than ever for huge numbers to surge into the centre from the suburbs on major nights. Parisians now pay more to move around central Paris, while the journey in from the suburbs has never been more affordable. The consequences are obvious. The city and the police are no longer willing to face them.
France spent billions on Olympic security and deployed an army of police officers. The fireworks will still take place at midnight, but they will rise over a boulevard the authorities no longer consider safe for real celebration. The city knows where the pressure lies. It knows who floods into the avenue on nights like these. It knows how quickly things can turn.
Massive understatement alert: “France’s open-door policies have had consequences.”
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AT NETFLIX-WARNER BROTHERS, THE FUNDAMENTAL THINGS STILL APPLY:
Casablanca 2: Ilsa and Rick Boogaloo https://t.co/MYdxSTINSg
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) December 7, 2025
This can mean only one thing, and I’m eagerly awaiting a remastered surround sound 4K-upscaled edition of the 1983 NBC series starring David Soul as Humphrey Bogart:
WHEN OBJECTIVITY LOOKS LIKE A SHIFT RIGHT TO LEGACY VOICES:
Connie Chung spoke in a recent interview about what she views as a troubling move inside CBS.
Her comments sounded less like a warning about journalism and more like proof of a mindset that decades of a system that convinced itself it had no bias at all have shaped.
Chung — on Thursday’s episode of “Pablo Torre Finds Out” — described CBS as a “whole different organization” from the time she worked there before calling out Shari Redstone, who sold her majority stake in parent company Paramount Global to David Ellison’s Skydance Media in a $8.4 billion deal over the summer.
“Their greed has caused the venerable CBS to actually disassemble, to crash into crumbles,” said Chung, the second woman ever to anchor a major U.S. nightly news program.
She proceeded to chuckle before name-dropping Bari Weiss, the conservative journalist who recently became CBS News’ new editor-in-chief.
“I don’t know what to call Bari Weiss, I just don’t know,” she said.
Her reaction tells a larger story; when a newsroom leans left for generations, any push toward balance feels like a conservative wind. The ground under that newsroom never moved; the center, voters, and America moved.
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During the Cronkite years, executives never admitted any bias — to them, old Walter’s declaration that Vietnam was lost was objective. Yet entire generations of academics, analysts, and former producers noted how often CBS mirrored Democratic Party priorities. Major stories received heavy coverage when they helped one side, but when they harmed one side, they received softer coverage.
These patterns created a worldview that felt safe to the people inside the building, one with limits, by rewarding the same political group and treating dissent as unserious.
Chung’s comments reflect that comfort; she doesn’t want a CBS that welcomes voices she never saw as credible, or one that moves to the center. She needs the CBS she knew.
Chung’s reluctance to accurately define Weiss, despite Weiss being remarkably open over the years about her biases, is classic example of DNC-MSM myopia. We can see it in reverse, here: MS NOW Host Stephanie Ruhle Melts Down After Charlamagne Tha God and Andrew Schulz Point Out Her Network’s Left-Wing Bias.
During the New York Times’ 2025 Dealbook Summit roundtable event, Stephanie Ruhle, host of MS NOW’s The 11th Hour With Stephanie Ruhle, flipped out on Charlamagne the God after he said “when I turn on MSNBC [MS NOW] I know I’m going to get a left angle.” Ruhle, clearly bothered, interrupted her co-panelist and said “that’s an assumption.”
“That only continues that narrative, you know what you’re going to get here, you know what you’re going to get there,” Ruhle continued pushing back, “I challenge that. You don’t.”
“Oh that’s not true,” Charlamagne responded. “I know exactly what I’m going to get when I turn on Fox News. I know exactly what angles they’re going to come with. If I turn on MSNBC I know I’m getting a left angle.”
Comedian Andrew Schulz chimed in, asking Ruhle “are you shocked when you turned on MSNBC? Are you like ‘OH MY GOD! I didn’t see this take coming?’”
“Then I invite you to watch my show any night of the week,” Ruhle responded.
“We watch your show,” Schulz said shrugging his shoulders.
Why bother feign objectivity when you’re on the air at MSNBC (or as Ed Morrissey recently described it, M-SNOW)? The network has openly prided itself as being the leftist alternative to Fox News. Why not openly lean into your ideology? Particularly since Charlamagne and Schulz forced Ruhle to acknowledge that media designed to entertain and inform other worldviews actually exists.
I WAS WONDERING THIS VERY SAME THING:
Why are they telling the truth now? That’s the obvious question. https://t.co/hG8LFCI4GS
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) December 7, 2025
21ST CENTURY MEDICINE: American Cancer Society touts self-swab HPV tests.
REMEMBER WHEN DEMOCRATS THOUGHT D.O.G.E. WAS A RISK TO PRIVACY? Massive data breach at Dartmouth College exposes Social Security numbers, financial info of 40,000+. Well, I’m not sure they actually thought that. But they said it.
