CHRISTIAN TOTO: Jimmy Kimmel to Face Ultimate Free Speech Test in U.K.

Jimmy Kimmel has failed one free speech test after another.

And, to be fair, he isn’t alone in La La Land.

Most Hollywood dwellers stood down rather than call out the serial speech attacks over the past decade. Consider:

The Twitter Files
Scary Poppins and her “disinformation” crusade
Cancel Culture
Woke thought police
Sensitivity Readers
Biden’s censorship regime
And so much more.

For every Rob Schneider, Bill Maher or John Cleese, there are hundreds of artists who stood down when it mattered most.

And, sadly, Kimmel’s nightly monologues missed all of the above. Night after night. Week after week. Year after year.

Why, it might just be on purpose.

Much more at the link.

THIS IS HOW THE ROGER CORMAN HORROR MOVIE BEGINS: 83K bags of frozen shrimp recalled over radioactive concerns.

UGH: One Test Short of a Pilot’s License — and a Catastrophe in a Major U.S. City.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: Airmoto Tire Inflator Portable Air Compressor. #CommissionEarned

“RELEASE IT ALL,” THEY TOLD ME. “BUT NOT THAT,” THEY SAID:

And the idiot congress critters that sponsored the bill wrote it so broadly that they’ll probably release post-it-notes before this is over. So now the same oxygen thieves ( @RoKhanna I’m looking at you) are complaining that they really only wanted certain documents. Theatre 🎭

— Steven R. Fields (@stevenrfields) December 24, 2025

WITH RUTHLESS EFFICIENCY: How Trump broke California’s grip on the auto market.

The Golden State’s power to shape the national car market is in tatters thanks to Trump 2.0. Where it took federal officials nearly 18 months in Trump’s first term to revoke the state’s nation-leading electric vehicle sales mandate, they accomplished it in less than five months this time around — and California has yet to come up with a way to counter it.

The result is a stark reversal from Trump’s first term, when California repeatedly slowed or blunted federal rollbacks — and often outmaneuvered a White House mired in internal dysfunction. Now, he is running roughshod over one of the signature policy priorities of this heavily Democratic state.

The infighting, sloppy rulemaking and a lack of clear policy goals that marked Trump’s first administration have been replaced by an aggressively overhauled government workforce stocked with MAGA loyalists and an eagerness to test the bounds of executive authority. Backed by more-seasoned agency staff, congressional Republicans in lockstep with Trump’s agenda and a playbook in the form of Project 2025 — the conservative Heritage Foundation’s comprehensive policy blueprint — Trump 2.0 has looked like a completely different animal.

It’s been a head-spinning 2025, and I can’t wait to see what this White House does in 2026.

WHY ARE LEFTIST-RUN INSTITUTIONS SUCH CESSPITS OF CENSORSHIP: CU Boulder suspends student journalist for covering protest without permission.

BOY, HE SURE SHOWED TRUMP: Outrageous: Boasberg Demands Trump Return 130+ Terrorist Illegals to U.S.

IS ANYONE SURPRISED AT THIS POINT? Georgetown professor says he works with ‘stupid white people’ as undercover video shows. To be fair, given the record of Georgetown students and faculty over the past decade, he may not be lying.

COMMIES STEAL: North Korean agents are trying to infiltrate Amazon, chief security officer says.

“Their objective is typically straightforward: get hired, get paid, and funnel wages back to fund the regime’s weapons programs,” Stephen Schmidt wrote in a LinkedIn post on Friday, adding that applicants were using fake or stolen identities to pursue remote IT jobs in the U.S. and worldwide.

“We’ve stopped more than 1,800 suspected DPRK operatives from joining since April 2024,” he said, using the acronym for the secretive communist state’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. “We’ve detected 27% more DPRK-affiliated applications quarter over quarter this year,” he added.

The fraud was detected by Amazon’s AI-powered application screening system combined with manual verification by its staff, he said.

Schmidt said that the agents often use so-called “laptop farms” — computers physically based in the U.S. but operated remotely from abroad — to conceal their true locations.

I’m less concerned with the money they took out than with the code they might have left behind.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Trump’s Economy Delivers Some Early Christmas Joy. “To the surprise of absolutely no one who has paid attention to the irresponsible, hostile hacks in the media, the word ‘unexpected’ was used a lot in the reporting of this news. It’s the same old thing: good economic news under a Republican president is unexpected, as is bad economic news when a Democrat is in the White House. They don’t even bother to avail themselves of a free online thesaurus to find a synonym. Thanks to the trademark lack of self-awareness on the left, the idiots don’t know that ‘unexpected’ is a running joke.”

CHANGE: Christmas Day Gasoline Prices Set To Fall To Covid-Era Levels.

MERRY CHRISTMAS, DAD: Hunter Biden rips dad Joe’s presidency over immigration, Afghanistan in stunning interview: ‘Obvious f–ing failure.’

IT’S IN THE CONSTITUTION AND EVERYTHING: Impeaching Judges Is Not an Abuse of Political Power.

COLE/COLLINS SPENDING DEAL: Only they and their staffers know the specific numbers, but House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.) and Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Susan Collins (R-Maine) have agreed on spending totals for the remaining nine appropriations for Fiscal Year 2026. Could a return to “regular order” actually be in the offing?

WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT LIKE THAT…:

You are the former communications director for the Lincoln Project, where your job was covering up for actual pedophiles! https://t.co/5UmH3NUYfW

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 23, 2025

EARLY THIS WEEK, IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: Trump’s Big, Beautiful Battleships Are… What, Exactly?

OF COURSE SHE DOES: 1619 Project’s Nikole Hannah-Jones Mourns Cop-Killer Who Escaped to Cuba.

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WAR AND PEACE: EU’s roughly $105B loan allows Ukraine to keep fighting Russia, changes dynamics of any peace deal.

The outcome, which was the result of difficult and uncertain negotiations, provides dramatic support to Ukraine’s medium-term fiscal viability. It means Kyiv can continue paying soldiers, maintaining domestic weapons production, and resist the temptation to accept an early and unfavorable settlement with Moscow.

The loan is structured so that repayment is designed to be covered by future Russian reparations or proceeds from frozen Russian assets.

The European Union and over 30 other countries signed what is known as the Council of Europe convention establishing an international claims mechanism for Ukrainian losses, a plan designed to increase pressure on Russia and reduce the possibility there could be a “normalization” of the country’s relations with Ukraine without consequences.

Exit quote: “The loans are likely to provide enough support for the Ukrainians to continue their fight for another year or more. And perhaps just as significant, they represent a rare example of European states acting in their own interests without any outsourcing to Washington.”

Trump’s tough-love approach to Europe is working.

INTELLECTUAL NEUTRALITY: Surprise! Duke Names Longtime Anti-Gun Advocate to Run Its Center for Firearms Law.

CHANGE:

🚨 HOLY CRAP! The U.S. military recruitment numbers under President Trump are the highest in 15 YEARS

Got what I voted for again!

SEN. MULLIN: "[Lloyd Austin] was more worried about DEI and having some dude in a dress…Hegseth said, no, we're talking about lethality, and we're… pic.twitter.com/y5pNIaPMCY

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 24, 2025

ROBERT SPENCER: Cops Avert the ‘Deadliest Terrorist Attack in UK History’ — Guess Who the Target Was.

WHY ISN’T IT NUCLEAR? CDR Salamander: So, we have a USS Defiant (BBG-1).

NO, REALLY:  Let It Go.