December 9, 2025
GREAT PANTS: G Gradual Men’s Sweatpants with Zipper Pockets. #CommissionEarned
PEOPLE: WHY IS SCIENCE SO MUCH LESS RESPECTED NOW?
“Science” in Nature: Crip guts, stomas, and the violence of ‘returning to normal’: a feminist queer crip approach to the gut.
Related:
Hmmmm …. Could it be the fault, in large part, of scientists?
“ Nearly three-quarters of biomedical researchers think there is a reproducibility crisis in science, according to a survey published in November”
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— Diana Villiers (@DianaVilliers1) December 9, 2025
CORN, POPPED:
I look forward to discovery — especially the CAIR finances. Should be illuminating! https://t.co/2ONFTrVnDh
— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) December 9, 2025
DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY:
Besides the underlying racism of the text of your meme you have repurposed a picture from a demonstration of one of the first uses of anesthesia. That would be generally known as a breakthrough that greatly reduced pain for human beings https://t.co/7tZxbD49cF cc @BoulwareH2 https://t.co/40MCx0vSD9
— (((Aaron Walker))) (@AaronWorthing) December 9, 2025
“YOU’RE NOT REALLY BLAMING IT ON WHITEY, ARE YOU? YOU’RE BLAMING ISLAM ON WHITEY?” Bill Maher ignites fiery clash with guest as he asks which Middle Eastern city would let her dress like that.
THAT WOULD EXPLAIN A LOT: Is Nick Fuentes A Foreign Op? New Evidence Suggests Maybe. “The study analyzed Fuentes’ social media activity. It found engagement patterns the researchers say are consistent with bot-farm amplification rather than genuine audience support. The Network Contagion Research Institute released the report Monday in partnership with Rutgers University’s Social Perception Lab.”
TURNS OUT, THERE’S A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY CREATED WHEN ILLEGAL LABOR IS REMOVED OR DISINCENTIVIZED*:
"Unexpectedly".
They really don't see the booming economy expanding under their feet. It's a great time to make money as most people believe the doomers in the media and aren't prepared for what is happening and what will happen. The smart ones are hiring now before they… https://t.co/eJBjJZby61
— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) December 9, 2025
*Who knew?
READER FAVORITE: Apple AirPods 4 Wireless Earbuds. #CommissionEarned
ROUTINE BUT NEVER BORING: SpaceX launches Starlink satellites on record 32nd re-flight of Falcon 9 rocket.
The company’s Booster 1067 lifted off on Monday (Dec. 8), accelerating an upper stage and 29 broadband internet satellites skyward. The 5:26 p.m. EST (2226 GMT Dec. 8) launch from Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida proceeded as planned after a one-day stand down due to poor weather conditions.
The first stage climbed towards space for about two and a half minutes before separating from the upper stage and then making a propulsive return to Earth. It landed on the autonomous droneship “Just Read the Instructions”, which as stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
The 32nd reuse is another step towards SpaceX’s goal of flying its Falcon 9 first stages 40 times.
I’m so old, I remember when rocket re-use was thought to be nearly impossible, or at least too uneconomic to pursue.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Mizzou professor accused of racism after she asked student for update on work.
ATHENA THORNE HAS AN EXCELLENT CHRISTMAS LIST: All I Want for Christmas From Team Trump.
ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Welfare Fraud In Blue Cities: How Pervasive Is The Kleptocracy?
The Times piece appears to have given the cue to the rest of the liberal establishment that it was now OK to break the omertà previously in effect against covering the Minnesota scandal. Suddenly the story is everywhere.
Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the Minnesota story has been the revelation of total abdication by the state’s Governor (Tim Walz) and Attorney General (Keith Ellison) of any role in catching or prosecuting the fraudsters. The frauds occurred in programs largely funded by the federal government, but administered by the State of Minnesota. The State is the one that actually paid the checks to the crooks. Yet all of the investigations and prosecutions have been done by the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s office. It appears that Walz and Ellison could not have been less interested in prosecuting.
One might ask whether allowing fraud like this to fester is actually part of the business model of Walz and Ellison, and of the Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party (as the Democratic Party is known in Minnesota). Somalis are a key voting bloc for Minnesota’s DFL. Of the billion plus dollars of government money going to the fraudsters, might any of it have been diverted to fund DFL electoral activities? Although I haven’t seen specific reporting on this aspect, it is hard to imagine that none of it did.
One hand washes the other.
“MAYBE COLLEGE STUDENTS NEED TO BE WARNED TO MOVE BEYOND CHILDREN’S BOOKS.” “Students at the University of Glasgow have been cautioned that Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone contains ‘outdated attitudes, abuse and language.'”
NOBODY WHO’S BEEN ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE:
Argument: Allowing the Prez to remove administrative officials will transfer an enormous amount of power to the Prez.
Question: Transfer from whom? Who currently has all that power?
— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) December 9, 2025
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: JB Pritzker Should Think About Resisting Sandwiches Rather Than Trump. “The Democrats can only demonize ICE by ignoring the preponderance of dangerous people who’ve entered the United States via clinically insane open borders policies. It is, once again, the modern Dem alternative reality approach to, um, governing. It’s mentally unbalanced and it’s getting people hurt and killed.”
JOURNALISM: 100 schoolchildren abducted in Nigeria are released but more are still held.
A total of 100 of the schoolchildren abducted from a Nigerian Catholic school last month and released over the weekend were hosted at a government-organized ceremony on Monday, many of them looking lost but relieved.
Details surrounding their release were not made public and the government has not said if any ransom — common in such abductions — was paid.
At least 303 schoolchildren were seized in Niger state together with 12 of their teachers when gunmen attacked St. Mary’s Catholic School in Papiri community on Nov. 21. Fifty escaped in the hours that followed and at least 150 are still held, together with the teachers.
The freed schoolchildren arrived at the Niger Government House in the state capital of Minna in several buses accompanied by military trucks. They were then received by officials who hugged and shook hands with some, before posing with them in front of cameras.
Readers might want to know what kind of “gunmen,” but Reuters failed to use the words “Muslim” or “Islamic” in the report.
ONE OF THE GREAT THINGS ABOUT BEING A LAWYER IS THAT YOU SOMETIMES GET TO WRITE LETTERS LIKE THIS ONE:
A client got their first letter from Australian eSafety.
This was our reply. The US government was copied. pic.twitter.com/ufxAiA3oRt
— Preston Byrne (@prestonjbyrne) December 9, 2025
WELL, IT’S BEEN A CATASTROPHE IF THAT’S WHAT YOU MEAN: Tony Blair’s ‘New Britain’ Hasn’t Worked Out So Well. “Chamberlain at least understood that Germany presented a serious threat to Great Britain. While his negotiations with Hitler and appeasement caused serious harm, he didn’t actually surrender England to Germany. He reversed course within fewer than two years of his attempts to reconcile with Germany and began rearming Britain, and declared war after Hitler’s invasion of Poland. Tony Blair, on the other hand, consciously chose to destroy his country and replace it with what he called “Global Britain.” He may have begun the process of surrendering the country to a mass of hostile migrants. Blair originally describes his vision as ‘New Britain,’ and upon leaving office, his focus is stated more clearly as ‘global,’ which describes his policies as PM just as well.”
Related: Just How Dystopian Can Starmer’s Britain Become? (Part 2).
UPDATE:
WOKIFICATION OF EVERYTHING IS MY CONCERN ABOUT NETFLIX CONTROLLING THE ENTIRE WARNER BROS. LIBRARY: Netflix’s New Movie Is Its Wokest and Craziest Yet. “Netflix describes its new movie, Queen of Coal, this way: ‘A trans woman dreams of working the coal mines — but in a town steeped in superstition and patriarchy, Carlita must fight to earn her place underground.’ Yes, this is real. It stars Lux Pascal, who used to be known as Lucas Pascal until he decided that he was really the woman of his dreams. That is a quick path to stardom in Hollywood these days, and so whatever else Lucas/Lux is, he has a good head for business.”
