THEY KEEP USING THAT WORD; I DO NOT THINK IT MEANS WHAT THEY THINK IT MEANS:  Hakeem Jeffries’ Plan for Affordability Includes Returning DACA Recipients to the US and Paying Them.

Never change, Temu Obama!

LIBERALS ARE FOREVER DENYING AGENCY OF THEIR TOOLS, EVEN WHEN THEY INTERFERE WITH LAWFUL ENFORCEMENT OF LAW:  Watch Scott Jennings Call Out a CNN Host for Trying to Blame Alex Pretti’s Death on Stephen Miller.

JUST MY IMAGINATION, RUNNING AWAY WITH ME:  Questions Mount Over Texas Election Data as Republicans Call for Answers.

THE SAME, BUT MORE SNOOTY AND DESPICABLE:  How do you say “useful idiots” en français?

IS THAT THEY WORK AGAINST WHAT THEY CLAIM TO WANT:  The Irony of Useful Idiots.

TRUMP IS NEITHER LAME, NOR A DUCK:  Trump warns Democrats. You can investigate us, we can prosecute you.

LET’S BE CLEAR: WHAT JENSON DID WITH HIS HUANG IS LESS IMPORTANT THAN THE MONEY FLOWING IN AND OUT OF NVIDIA AND BIG AI IN GENERAL:  The Bubble of Jenson’s Huang. Jenson’s Indiscretions With His Huang Is NOT The Big Story, NVIDIA’s finances is the big story.

ETSY GOES FOR THE “WE CAN MINE YOUR DATA AND RE-SELL” IT MOVE:  Etsy Has Lost Their Damn Mind. AI for me, but not for thee.

YEAH, I NOTICED THAT BEFORE:  Reminder: A curious Texas election story from last week below Almost like someone forgot to ‘deprogram’ this race.

BE HONEST! THAT’S THE MOST INNOCENT THING YOU EVER READ ABOUT AN ILLNESS IN CALIFORNIA:  Pumpkins, Baby Goats, and E. Coli Infections at Farms in California, Illinois.

Sure, the infection itself is horrifying, but when I read the headline I expected much worse.

HONESTLY, THEY’D LIKE TO SUE ALL OF US:  Dem Rep. Yassamin Ansari is now pushing to launch lawfare investigations against the TROOPS who followed orders underneath SecWar Pete Hegseth She straight-up said it: “People down the chain at the Pentagon who carried out these orders NEED to be investigated.”

BEST OF LUCK TO THEM. IT’S STILL VENEZUELA:  ExxonMobil inks preliminary deal to return to Venezuela after calling the country ‘uninvestable’.

THERE’S ALWAYS SOMETHING YOU CAN DO, IF YOU’RE METAL ENOUGH:  Shannen Rossmiller was a retired judge-turned cyber vigilante who infiltrated jihadi groups after 9/11. Shannen was living a quiet life in rural Montana when she watched in horror as the events of 9/11 unfolded. Unlike most people though, she was determined to join the fight. In her spare time, she learned Arabic, studied the Koran, and located potential jihadi chat rooms online. Over the course of the next five years, Shannen built multiple personas online with in-depth backstopping, using them to fully identify and report jihadis to the FBI and other agencies. She taught herself techniques such as sending keyloggers to her contacts hidden within JPEGs so as to pass their online activities over to the FBI.

ELECTIONS — EVEN MASSIVELY FRAUDED ONES — SURE HAVE THEM:  Consequences.

IT’S NOT SHOWING UP BECAUSE OF HOW THE STATISTICS ARE CALCULATED:  AI May, Or May Not, Be Improving Productivity. It’s one of those little things, d’ye see?

SORRY ABOUT THE SONG BUT THIS IS WHAT COMES AFTER THE WHITE PILL:  Staying Alive.

THIS IS THE FUNNIEST TIMELINE:

The world’s going to shit. AI may destroy us or make slaves of us or turn us into desperate predatory hordes. Even before the Democrats can manage that.

But in the meantime, this delightful app never fails to make me laugh my ass off. https://t.co/kGCSqD17WD

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) November 13, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Because I love you and I want you to be happy.

GOTHAM CITY’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

Experts Confirm 'Batman: The Animated Series' Was Pinnacle Of Human Civilization https://t.co/GAkfO5O9sm

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) November 12, 2026

5:45 PM ET: What time will SpaceX launch Starship Flight 15, its 1st double landing test, on Nov. 13? (Full mission timeline).

IT’S SATIRE — OR IS IT…?

UPDATE: Microsoft says they cannot fix the Outlook outage because engineers are getting too many Authenticator prompts. https://t.co/KX3Zpy9qLI

— Cantaloupe News (@CantaloupeNews) November 12, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM WOKE 2.0:

If you actively wanted to destroy Hollywood and you somehow got control of Variety, what would you do differently from what they’re already doing?

— George MF Washington (@GMFWashington) November 13, 2026

Earlier from George MF: How Hollywood Lost the Hollywood Press. The economic incentives of the two camps have begun to fatally diverge.

DESERVES GOT NOTHIN’ TO DO WITH IT: Pete Hegseth doesn’t deserve to be impeached.

But it’s okay. Impeachment doesn’t mean anything anymore. And yes, the GOP started this with the Clinton impeachment, which was stupid. If it had succeeded Al Gore would have been the incumbent, which would probably have pushed him over the top in 2000.

JOHN NOLTE: Skydance Fears James Gunn’s Superman Sequel will Lose $100M, Report.

A report now says Skydance is so worried that James Gunn’s Superman (2025) sequel, Man of Tomorrow, is a loser that it might not even warrant a theatrical release.

The report adds that the best the studio is able to hope for is cutting its losses at $100 million.

Unceremoniously firing DC Studios’ co-CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran five months before their contract was up and eight months before Man of Tomorrow — which probably cost $300 million — was scheduled to hit theaters next July, is an insight into how little faith Skydance CEO David Ellison has in Man of Tomorrow.

Ace of Spades adds:

Matt McGloin has scoops about the upcoming James Gunn Superman sequel, Man of Tomorrow, being canceled, Batgirl-style, with all money spent so far being taken as a tax write off.

Or, he suggests, Man of Tomorrow might be given a cheap post-production budget and just dumped on HBO Max.

I don’t think this is true.

But if it is true, I have a theory about it. Grace Randolf, an idiot SJW biased critic who was nevertheless right that James Gunn was a very poor fit for DC, has been predicting that the new regime at Skydance wants to give Gunn “notes” about the movie — demands about what must be cut (for example, Supergirl’s presence) and what new scenes need to be shot in reshoots.

But James Gunn’s contract states that he gets final cut over the movie.

So: Is it possible that Skydance is putting out word they will straight-up cancel the movie (which has already been almost completely shot) if James Gunn does not give up on his final cut power and accept studio notes?

That’s a scenario that seems plausible to me.

That said, I still don’t know if we can credit any of these “scoops” as true. This seems like a really, really big decision to make. This is an expensive movie. Canceling it saves the money for post-production (editing, music, and of course special effects and marketing), but cancelling it locks in the substantial money already spent as a loss.

I know, I know:

They write it off, Jerry. They write it off.

Posted by: Kramer

If Gunn calls their bluff and says “Fine, cancel it,” do they go forward with the threat?

I don’t know.

Like I said, I don’t know how much of these claims, from a fairly obscure geek-culture news site, are true.

I could see the movie being dumped to streaming, but I would doubt David Ellison wants to begin his tenure as CEO of Skydance’s combined Paramount/Warner Brothers behemoth by doing what David Zazlav became infamous for during his time as Warner’s CEO and taking the tax write-off by Batgirl-ing a perceived dud of a movie: Art Is Dead and David Zaslav Has Killed It: The Dangerous Precedent Warner Bros. Sets by Shelving Completed Films.

100 BUSES: AMERICANS WILL DO ANYTHING TO AVOID USING THE METRIC SYSTEM. Incredible Coral 100 Buses Long Discovered in The Indian Ocean, Could Be One of The World’s Largest.

As we should.