RAYMOND IBRAHIM: AI Admits to LYING about Islam.

I always learn a lot from Ray’s video podcasts.

GREAT PANTS: G Gradual Men’s Sweatpants with Zipper Pockets. #CommissionEarned

GOODER AND HARDER, SILICON VALLEY:

I want to stress again that California is not in a situation where it's gaining tech jobs at a slower rate than the rest of the country (like 2021/2022), but is outright losing tech jobs as the rest of the US gains

Cali is down 75k tech jobs from peak & nearly 20k from pre-COVID pic.twitter.com/EiaZ4nrKdw

— Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 (@JosephPolitano) December 11, 2025

To revise and extend the remarks by the late P.J. O’Rourke, you can’t get good Chinese takeout in China, Cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba, and tech employees are fleeing California. That’s all you need to know about communism.

I VOTED FOR THIS: Coming to a School Near You: A Federally Funded K-12 Second Amendment Curriculum.

REMEMBER PACIFIC PALISADES? Newsom wouldn’t budge on his duplex ban for the Los Angeles wildfire rebuild. So, a YIMBY group is suing him.

The lawsuit, filed by YIMBY Law on Wednesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, alleges the governor unlawfully restricted homeowners’ ability to rebuild after the fires by allowing local governments to set aside Senate Bill 9, a 2021 state law that permits duplex construction and lot-splitting on single-family-home parcels.

Newsom issued his order in July in response to lobbying from property owners in the Pacific Palisades, the coastal L.A. community that was largely destroyed in the blazes. Palisades residents argued that allowing duplexes and spitting lots into two parcels would undermine the neighborhood’s character and worsen evacuation efforts in the event of future disasters. Following the governor’s order, all the jurisdictions affected — the cities of Los Angeles, Malibu and Pasadena and L.A. County — banned SB 9 rebuilds in high-risk fire areas. The suit includes each local government as a defendant as well.

YIMBY Law, which is based in San Francisco and sues public agencies to clear the way for more housing, had agreed in discussions with high-level Newsom staffers late last week not to file its suit if the governor allowed duplex construction again after a year, the group’s executive director Sonja Trauss told POLITICO.

When Newsom did not act, the group turned to the courts.

They f***** up — they trusted Newsom.

DOG BITES MAN: Judge Orders Criminal Kilmar Abrego Garcia Released AGAIN.

HISTORY:

The Ottomans retreated from Jerusalem on this day in 1917, after centuries of ruthless occupation. British General Allenby entered on foot, honoring the city’s holiness and promising protection for every sacred Jewish, Muslim and Christian place. pic.twitter.com/wI0mT89QhP

— Avi Kaner ابراهيم אבי (@AviKaner) December 11, 2025

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2026 PREVIEW: Don’t Expect Jasmine Crockett To Waltz To The Texas Senate Nomination. “I suspect that people outside of the state haven’t heard of Talarico, who fills the Beto O’Rourke mold as a white guy with a vaguely Hispanic name. But he’s clearly the anointed choice of Texas Democratic Party insiders, to the point that he has been out-fundraising Allred (the man who raised over $94 million in his futile attempt to oust Ted Cruz last year) by more than $1 million, which was probably a contributing factor in Allred dropping out.”

NEW CRITERION: Other people’s money.

As we await Mamdani’s socialist dégringolade, it is worth keeping in mind two points from his victory speech. One was the grateful praise he lavished upon “Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas. Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses. Trinidadian line cooks and Ethiopian aunties.” Note the group he omitted: Americans; indeed, no form of the word “American” occurs in his speech.

The second point to bear in mind from Mamdani’s speech concerns coercion. Frantz Fanon taught that “decolonization” always requires violence to succeed. Mamdani’s frequent deployment of the word “mandate” in his speech, despite receiving votes from only a million New Yorkers (in a city of 8.5 million), should give us pause. He had, he said, been given “A mandate for change. A mandate for a new kind of politics. A mandate for a city we can afford. And a mandate for a government that delivers exactly that.” The word “mandate,” we note, comes from the Latin verb mandare: to order, command. Who can doubt Mamdani’s implicit understanding of that etymology, given his devotion to Fanon?

When you strip away whatever emollient rhetorical packaging in which it is delivered, socialism rests on two basic demands: the abolition of private property and the equalization of wealth. The more aggressively those demands are pushed, the more severe will be the imposition of state control by those working the levers of power. We write a few days after Mamdani’s victory at the polls. Already the cultivated nice-guy rictus of his campaign countenance is disintegrating, replaced by something harsher and more grasping.

Read the whole thing.

I WOULD LIKE TO OWN SOME STOCK: After years of resisting it, SpaceX now plans to go public. Why? “Much of the AI race comes down to amassing and deploying assets.”

A LITTLE LATE TO THE PARTY GUYS: CNBC Admits That Biden Owns the Affordability Crisis: ‘Full Stop.’

ALL THE VERY BEST PEOPLE HAD ASSURED ME THIS WAS IMPOSSIBLE: 2.5M Illegal Aliens Out of U.S. Since January.

IT’S JOHNSON AND THIS DAMNED WAR: Blue State Govs Are Blocking ‘No Tax on Tips’ for Their Constituents to Resist Trump.

OOPS! Democrat Congressman Calls Assassination of National Guardsman an ‘Unfortunate Accident’.

I THOUGHT THIS WAS CONSPIRACY THEORY: Study shows why mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines can cause myocarditis.

BREAKING: Senate Rejects Extending Obamacare Subsidies.

So they’re saying that the Affordable Care Act didn’t actually do anything to make health care more affordable, but just threw other people’s money at the problem?

UGH: Open AI, Microsoft face lawsuit over ChatGPT’s alleged role in Connecticut murder-suicide.

Police said Stein-Erik Soelberg, 56, a former tech industry worker, fatally beat and strangled his mother, Suzanne Adams, and killed himself in early August at the home where they both lived in Greenwich, Connecticut.

The lawsuit filed by Adams’ estate on Thursday in California Superior Court in San Francisco alleges OpenAI “designed and distributed a defective product that validated a user’s paranoid delusions about his own mother.” It is one of a growing number of wrongful death legal actions against AI chatbot makers across the country.

“Throughout these conversations, ChatGPT reinforced a single, dangerous message: Stein-Erik could trust no one in his life — except ChatGPT itself,” the lawsuit says. “It fostered his emotional dependence while systematically painting the people around him as enemies. It told him his mother was surveilling him. It told him delivery drivers, retail employees, police officers, and even friends were agents working against him. It told him that names on soda cans were threats from his ‘adversary circle.’”

Among other things, LLMs are highly effective engagement tools, feeding back what the user wants to hear. But it also helped back when we still maintained enough asylums for people with paranoid delusions.

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I HOPE YOU VOTED FOR THIS BECAUSE I SURE DID: DOJ Ends ‘Disparate Impact Liability’ in a Huge Win for Equality Under the Law

SHOCKING: Experts warn TikTok advice about gout is misleading and inaccurate.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Plunge in English language learners foreshadows Connecticut school enrollment crisis.

For more than a decade, Connecticut’s English Language Learner (ELL) student population has acted as a critical buffer, masking a broader, underlying decline in overall public school enrollment. That period has officially ended, delivering a fiscal one-two punch that towns across the state have been dreading.

For the first time in over a decade, the number of ELL students statewide has dropped significantly, declining by over 2,000 students from 57,055 to 54,915 this year.

Many are attributing this decline to families’ fears of immigration enforcement. Others say it is due to a shortage of housing, school choice and repeal of the religious immunization exception.

Overall public school enrollment in Connecticut is falling and the recent decline in English language learners will only accelerate this trend.

At least one county in Florida has a similar problem, but it doesn’t seem to be related to illegals: “The potential for school closures underscores the difficult crosscurrents buffeting the district, as families opt for private school using the state’s generous voucher program and nonprofit charter schools seek space in underused campuses.”

DAVID MARCUS: Somali power surge raises the question Minnesota avoids — where’s assimilation?

BILL MARTINEZ: ‘For Christ and Country: the Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk’ Is a Lighthouse in the Storm.

SKYNET SMILES: Time’s 2025 Person of the Year: The architects of AI.

2025 was the year when artificial intelligence’s full potential roared into view, and when it became clear that there will be no turning back.

For delivering the age of thinking machines, for wowing and worrying humanity, for transforming the present and transcending the… pic.twitter.com/mEIKRiZfLo

— TIME (@TIME) December 11, 2025

Time magazine has unveiled its 2025 Person of the Year: The architects of AI.

“2025 was the year when artificial intelligence’s full potential roared into view, and when it became clear that there will be no turning back,” Time said in its announcement on Thursday morning. “For delivering the age of thinking machines, for wowing and worrying humanity, for transforming the present and transcending the possible, the Architects of AI are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year.”

The magazine released two covers for its Person of the Year issue.

One, created by digital artist Jason Seiler, is a recreation of the “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper” photograph from 1932, replacing its ironworkers with executives at leading tech and AI companies, including Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), Lisa Su (Advanced Micro Devices), Elon Musk (xAI), Jensen Huang (Nvidia), Sam Altman (Open AI), Demis Hassabis (DeepMind Technologies), Dario Amodei (Anthropic), and Fei-Fei Li (Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute). The other, by illustrator and graphics animator Peter Crowther, features the same leaders amid construction scaffolding that surrounds the letters AI.

The magazine has bestowed its Person of the Year title annually since 1927, though it was formally called Man of the Year (or Woman of the Year) until 1999.

“Person of the Year is a powerful way to focus the world’s attention on the people that shape our lives,” Time editor in chief Sam Jacobs wrote in an essay explaining the choice. “And this year, no one had a greater impact than the individuals who imagined, designed, and built AI.”

No doubt, AI’s potential is as bottomless as the PC was when it debuted in the mid-1970s, before Time declared it the “Machine of the Year” in 1982. But as usual in the post-Henry Luce era, the magazine plays it safe, and doesn’t wish to alienate its readers on the left. Because there was a far bolder option available to them:

The only one who should be the Time Person of the Year: pic.twitter.com/UPa9U8KRan

— Planet Of Memes (@PlanetOfMemes) December 10, 2025