KATHY GYNGELL PRAISES RUBIO, MOURNS THE FALL OF THE TORIES:  My Week In Review: Time To Fight The Deranged Brain Rot. While Rubio defended Western civilisation from the Acropolis, Badenoch offered soundbites and our universities carried on doing their best to dismantle what’s left of it.

ASTROTURF CAMPAIGNS GOTTA PAY THE FOG-MAKERS:  Influencers Got Payouts to Post Pro-Talarico Content.

And just like that he is reminding me of a less drunk (and less masculine, not that she’s masculine) Kamala Harris.

PROGRESSIVES SEEM TO HAVE JUST THREE SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS: RAISE TAXES, SUBSIDIES, AND STRIP AWAY OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS:  Nice Try, but the Solution to Somali Gang Violence Is Not the Destruction of the Second Amendment.

APPARENTLY IRAN IS GETTING… TESTY WITH US:  Terrorism-Related Encounters Surge at Southwest Ports of Entry, Analysis Finds.

AND STILL LOSING:  Gun Control Groups are Outspending Us Over Three to One.

Sic Semper Tyrannis.

THIS YEAR GIVES A NEW MEANING TO ENSHITTIFICATION:  America’s ‘Year of Diarrhea’ Now Features a Sexually Transmissible Superbug.

GOOD TO SEE A JUDGE DOING HIS ACTUAL JOB:  Pritzker Threatened Catholic Doctors Who Refuse Assisted Suicide Until a Federal Judge Stepped In.

… of course the next court could ignore the right of a doctor to follow his conscience….

LOOK, AT LEAST IT DIDN’T END IN FAMINE AND KILLING FIELDS:  QotD: The history of New Harmony, Indiana.

THE QUESTION IS, ARE WE TOO INFILTRATED ALREADY?  America’s Long History of Removing Threats. Why the Communist Ban Still Stands and How Sharia Could Be Stopped.

MAKING HEROES INTO VILLAINS IS THE MODUS OPERANDI OF OUR MEDIA:  Hating Our Heroes and Sympathy for Predators- A Review of Primetime. A24’s latest film, Primetime, is a moronic and unabashed hit piece on the highly popular NBC show “To Catch a Predator” and its host Chris Hansen.

ON SUNDAYS I DO A PROMO POST FOR (MOSTLY) INDIE AUTHORS:  Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

Read people who don’t hate you! Also, for readers of according to Hoyt, if it’s late tomorrow morning, it’s because there’s some kind of DDS attack going on. You can see the front of the blog but I can’t do anything in the back panel. It just spins on uselessly. Don’t know if me or WordPress.

GREAT MOMENTS IN THE RULE OF LAW: After Republican AG candidate Saritha Komatireddy says that you have to look at the facts and the law as attorney general, and that’s what she will do, incumbent Letitia James replies, “you don’t have to look at the facts and the law.”

REAL LIFE OUTDOES THE BABYLON BEE: Hamas praises selection of anti-Israel fanatic for Nobel Peace Prize.

OPEN THREAD: You know that I’ll do it again, yes there’s no stoppin’ me my friend.

KABOOM: Did the Soviet Union really fire a cannon from a space station?

WOODSHOP: Archaeologists Uncover Unprecedented Evidence of Neanderthal Woodworking Skills.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Your Gut Bacteria May Reveal How Cancer Treatment Will Affect You.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Adult acne is real, but there are ways to treat it. Here’s what to know.

REVIEW: In Roger Simon’s New Novel,A Rabbi Creates a Golem to Defend Jews After October 7. “Emet is fast, funny and morally clear, and its fantasy carries a practical instruction.” I’ve read it and I agree.

The book is Emet.

SPRINGTIME FOR HITLER MUSSOLINI:

Voters in the Peruvian town of Queropalca have chosen their new mayor: Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores.

The unusually named candidate for the center-left Ahora Nación party won 34% of the vote. According to local media, the top three candidates were separated by just 42 votes.

Simeon’s candidate application form gives few details (and none about his name), apart from the fact that he manages the Simeon Sac Investment Group.

There have been other politicians called Hitler. In 2018, also in Peru, Hitler beat Lenin in another mayoral race for the district of Yúngar, when Hitler Guesclin Alba Sánchez defeated Lenin Vladimir Rodríguez Valverde.

No wonder Paddington was so eager to escape from Peru.

HMM: Ford’s Beach Mode Idea Might Move Your Car Before the Tide Hits.

SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB: Engineers Gave a Mushroom a Robot Body and Let It Run Wild.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: Inspire Black Nitrile Disposable Gloves. #CommissionEarned

SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST: Millions face ‘winter storm battleground’ as new models predict heavy snow blasts in 19 US states.

Millions of Americans could see a harsh winter with multiple snowstorms and freezing temperatures that turn several states into an Arctic ‘battleground.’

A recent long-range forecast model from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) revealed a massive shift in the bands of heavy precipitation between December 2026 and February 2027.

That map shows a growing chance that the entire US East Coast will see above-average precipitation this winter, from southern Maine to the tip of Florida and stretching across the country into Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas as well.

On the West Coast, California is also expected to see above-average precipitation this winter, which likely means feet of snow in the Sierra-Nevada mountains and other high-altitude areas out west.

While more precipitation than usual does not always guarantee snow, several independent forecasters have predicted that at least 19 states should be bracing for a potential blockbuster storm season.

Greta’s protests and Al Gore’s PowerPoint charts worked; the Green New Deal has been a smashing success, but ending global warming comes with unfortunate side effects.

(Classical reference in headline.)

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: FPC Pushing 15 NFA Mandate States to Suspend Enforcement, Repeal Their Now Antiquated Laws.