First World Problems...
—CBD
You can't see it? You can't see it. YOU CAN"T SEE IT!
That is the perfidy of the spider! The evidence, its web, is invisible to the camera, so a charge, trial, and execution is impossible.
But I know it is there. And there will be consequences.
Replace the fixture? Of course. That is the minimalist response. Also in the mix is a removal and replacement of the ceiling and wiring. And certainly replacement of the ceiling joists is a reasonable approach.
No...I did not ignore fire. Cleansing fire!
We Are A Generous People; Try Not To Be Scammed!
—CBD
I could rant for pages and pages about the evils of government largesse replacing private charity. It doesn't work, it never worked, and it will never work. A cursory glance at Europe and it sclerotic economy will buttress the argument that governments are horrendously inefficient at everything they do, so why not ensure that they do as little as possible?
Luckily, Americans are an amazingly caring and generous people outside of the cities, and there are many thousands of charitable organizations that do yeoman's work caring for those in need.
And as humans are wont, some are poorly run. Some are purposefully designed to enrich their staff. Some are flat-out scams.
And of course, because this is America, organizations have arisen to inform us of the relative quality of these charitable efforts. And that is a very good thing, because most of us will have difficulty reading IRS Form 990, which is just the beginning of the labyrinth that is financial reporting.
One website I use is called CharityWatch, and they seem to be rigorous and consistent in their evaluations. And that's nice, because I don't want to have to wade through some bullsh*t political screed just to see the cost to fund-raise compared to total revenue!
One of the things I think is important is the salaries of the administrators and board. It is glaringly obvious that there are some non-profit organizations that should be stripped of that designation and thrown into the general pile of companies in it for the almighty buck. And don't get me started on universities and hospitals that hide behind their non-profit status to evade the taxes that every other provider of a product or service has to pay!
Sadly, there are more ways for charities to obfuscate and redirect and flat-out cheat than there are watchers, so there is always a risk that the $25 you sent to XYZ charity is actually being funneled to some NGO that hides wetbacks from ICE. But careful reading of the materials provided by the charity will provide clues.
For me? I look for the most direct line between my dollar and the recipient. Tunnel to Towers Foundation is a good example of a well-run charity that doesn't piss away its donor's money on stupid sh*t. They used to send me stuff in the mail, which I think is a waste. So I called them, and a real person answered the phone! I asked that all communication be via e-mail to save a few bucks. And I have never again gotten anything in the mail! Is that a big deal? No, but it shows that they are serious about their work.
I am not touting CharityWatch or Tunnels To Towers. There are many fine organizations that are aligned with your charitable interests, and a bit of research into them will minimize the possibility of waste or fraud.
And speaking of charities! All of the profit from The Deplorable Gourmet goes to a couple of excellent and efficient charities.
What? You don't know what that is? It is the greatest cookbook of the 21st century! And a perfect Christmas gift, or even better a wonderful book to bring to your Thanksgiving host. It is elegant, well written, and everyone is wearing their best in the photos. It's even got original art! Plus, the food is great.
Sunday Morning Book Thread - 11-1-2026 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]
—Open Blogger
Welcome to the prestigious, internationally acclaimed, stately, and illustrious Sunday Morning Book Thread! The place where all readers are welcome, regardless of whatever guilty pleasure we feel like reading (sponsored by Big Penguin). Here is where we can discuss, argue, bicker, quibble, consider, debate, confabulate, converse, and jaw about our latest fancy in reading material. As always, pants are required, unless you are wearing these pants*...
So relax, find yourself a warm kitty murderfluff (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, snack on leftover Halloween candy, and dive into a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning?
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Daily Tech News 1 November 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- French lawmakers have decided to do what French lawmakers have always done: Make other people pay for the problems they created. (Tom's Hardware)
In this case, they are trying to charge the companies that send data over the internet to customers in France for the data they send - at an utterly absurd 6 cents per gigabyte.
Costs to send data from a server - except for the big three cloud platforms which are wildly overpriced - start at about one cent per gigabyte at the high end, so France wants to levy a tax of 600% - on people who don't live in France.
Also, tiny problem with the article:With approximately 154 million users and counting in France, the proposal's authors say such a tax could generate around €10 billion ($11.2 billion) in annual revenue for the government.
Yeah, I don't think so, mate. Even after being invaded by North Africa, the population of France stands at around 66 million.
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Saturday Night Club ONT - October 31, 2026 [Disco & Dino]
—Open Blogger
Welcome to Club ONT - a whelming collaboration of The Disco and The Dino.
Open thread - bar is open, too. Come in in, grab a drink or 2. Or 3. Keep it light and friendly. Be careful though. The Moose is wearing a Halloween costume, so you may not immediately recognize him.
[Top photo: Ladder Eight, FDNY]
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Music Thread: Rip Your Lungs Out Edition
—CBD
As Garrett's closet goes, these aren't the most offensive things in it!
Halloween is a silly and inoffensive pseudo-holiday that nonetheless has taken over America (and other parts of the world!). The best part is watching the wee little ones in their costumes, not particularly sure of what the hell is going on, but confident that people giving them candy is never a bad thing!
It's far better than Kwanzaa or National Executive Assistant Day or the other fake holidays that are much less fun, and almost always include a bit of hectoring and mandatory kowtowing to the demographic being celebrated.
Of course, I am an advocate for John Moses Browning Day, so maybe I am not impartial!
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Hobby Thread - October 31, 2026 [TRex]
—Open Blogger
Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. For this week, the Wheel of Hobbies (TM) is feeling sparkly and decided on a crystal and gem theme for this Halloween Hobby Thread.
Crystals and gems? Read on, fellow hobbyists...
[Top photo: why isn't there a picture of a crystal or diamond for a crystal or diamond theme? Answer - if you had a dinosaur Halloween photo, wouldn't you post it?]
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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, October 31
—K.T.
Courtesy Roy Rubright
Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.
Would you like a treat?
Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.
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Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Halloween!
—K.T.
Assortment of results from family pumpkin-carving night.
Don't be afraid of the pumpkins after the e.coli outbreak at a pumpkin patch in San Luis Obisbo County, though. Here are some photos from the pumpkin patch.
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Halloween Miscellany
—K.T.
Content remaining after some disappeared:
One of the greatest ironies of the COVID era, for me, was watching people whose self-concept revolved around championing multiculturalism, Indigenous wisdom, and respect for non-Western traditions suddenly demand absolute conformity to a single Western biomedical approach to health.Traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, and countless Indigenous healing traditions around the world emphasize the health of the whole organism, its environment, and the cultivation of balance and resilience over fighting a particular pathogen.
Yet during COVID, discussions of these perspectives—overall health, fitness, mental health, nutrition, and internal balance—were met with ridicule and even censorship, while people who refused the novel allopathic pharmaceutical intervention were excluded from most aspects of society.
It was so dark that it was hard to appreciate the parody. People whose entire cultural narrative revolved around multiculturalism were insisting that everyone conform to the dominant Western biomedical establishment—a system consolidated through Rockefeller-era reforms, backed by oil wealth, that marginalized traditional approaches to medicine.
Anyone who refused to conform to the system during the Covid era was treated as an ignorant savage, too stupid or dangerous to participate in society.
And anyone who practiced holistic medicine and rejected the novel allopathic intervention was labeled "hesitant"—someone who needed to be "educated." The colonial irony was breathtaking. Here were the self-appointed champions of Indigenous wisdom, assuming the familiar role of the enlightened colonizer, arriving to educate the ignorant savages out of their supposedly primitive beliefs.
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The Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
—Misanthropic Humanitarian
Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Denton.)
1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate. Don't forget to say a prayer or three.
2) Be kind, be nice. Vote early and vote often.
3) Running with sharp objects is really not a good idea.
4) Have a great weekend!!!
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Daily Tech News 31 October 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Binance was hacked by thieves who made off-ish with $6.3 billion. (Bleeping Computer)
I say "ish" for two reasons: First, half the funds were immediately frozen and cannot be transferred further; second, it's a bit like bank loans: When you lose $1000 in Bitcoin, you have a problem; when you lose $6.3 billion in Bitcoin the blockchain has a problem.
The attack was bootstrapped through a compromised devops laptop. The developer themselves didn't have access to do this, but they had access inside the corporate firewall so more sophisticated attacks could be launched bypassing that level of security entirely.
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Happy Hallow-ont
—WeirdDave
Hullo, everybody! So, you win an all expense paid vacation, but you have to stay in just one box. Which do you choose? I choose D
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Halloween Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
House tricked out with Ghostbusters themed projections.
The story of the Headless Horsemen, from the Disney cartoon, sung by Bing Crosby.
Creepy yard decoration. I'm not sure how it's done. I have a guess, but I'm not sure. Towards the end you can see a wire holding it down.
Michael Myers wants your attention.
The obligatory dog Halloween costumes.
The perfect costume for a yowly dog.
A local station used to run a Halloween Dance commercial. It's not good. Coincidentally, a commenter, maybe nurse ratched, linked this in the comments today. But I had already had it in this post. (I've been collecting Halloweeney links for a few weeks.)
Could this be real? I mean, I know it's not a ghost. But is it AI or a clever bit of crafting?
De children of de night... what sweet nose-boops they give.
Saturday morning commercials from October 25, 1980. Includes a commercial for Zany Zappers. Here's a direct link. I don't remember that particular ad. I think maybe I remember this one. And if you have Zany Zappers, you're gonna want to pick up Mr. Microphone too.
Spooky board game commercials.
"Cry Little Sister" from The Lost Boys. Don't blame me, Garrett told me to post it.
In True Stories of TikTok Witchcraft, a witch asked women (of course) to send in the names of the men who had wronged them. She intended a mass spell that would curse all of these male-factors in one fell swoop. Unfortunately, the women who submitted the names were cursed themselves -- getting fired out of the blue, having car accidents, even being diagnosed with serious maladies. Well, the real TikTok witches condemned the first witch for performing her witchcraft wrong so it Reverse Uno'd the women who wanted the men cursed.
Public service announcement: Only get your curse spells from TikTok witches approved by the Better Blasphemy Bureau.
Real, supposedly, and accomplished with pretty cheap materials:
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Case Closed: Deportations of Criminals Reduce, Get This, Crime
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Update to Ada Brown story: This account, @capablanca_92, says that Ada Brown was pushed on Trump by, get this, Severely Conservative Stalwart John Cornyn.
Well whoopdefreakin'do.
On to the headline story:
A heretical thought, but give the man a chance to make his case.
The U.S. has been running a real-time experiment on two approaches to criminal justice: the Biden-era emphasis on social justice versus the Trump administration's embrace of traditional law and order. The results are now in.The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported this morning that felony violent crime fell 25% in 2025. Rape declined 13%, robbery fell 27%, and aggravated assault dropped 31%. Property crime fell 19%. Except for rape, these are the largest one-year reductions recorded since data collection began 53 years ago.
The reductions followed substantial increases during the previous four years, when felony violent crime rose 59% and violent crime, including misdemeanor simple assault, increased 42%.
Murder also declined sharply last year. The U.S. recorded about 4.1 murders per 100,000 people in 2025, a record low, down from roughly 5.1 per 100,000 in 2024. The murder rate has continued to drop. If preliminary FBI data showing an additional 18.4% decline during the first seven months of 2026 hold for the full year, the murder rate would fall to approximately 3.36 per 100,000.
"We are witnessing a historic plunge in crime to levels never seen before in the United States," Professor Carl Moody, a crime researcher at the College of William & Mary, told RealClearInvestigations. "As a result, we are all safer in our communities than we ever have been. We should all thank our law enforcement professionals."
Lott notes two reasons for a decline in crime: Trump takeovers of law enforcement in two high crime cities, DC and Memphis, as well as greater prosecution of crime, even in leftwing cities like San Francisco, which replaced a Soros prosecutor who would not punish criminals with a somewhat less extreme liberal.
Read the article for that.
But I want to get to the deportation factor:
The crime decline has also coincided with increased immigration enforcement. While data indicate that legal immigrants commit fewer crimes than native-born citizens, illegal immigrants commit crimes at a far higher rate. The Department of Homeland Security says approximately 70% of illegal immigrants deported under the Trump administration had criminal convictions or pending criminal charges.The trend represents a reversal from the Biden years, when felony violent crime increased sharply as illegal immigration also reached record levels. During the Biden administration, at least 12.8 million illegal immigrants were encountered at the border, apprehended after illegal crossings, or classified as known gotaways. The total also excludes undetected border crossings. During some surges, officials pulled 80% or more of Border Patrol agents away from guarding the border, while 30% of the cameras in Border Patrol's main surveillance system were broken. These gaps potentially allowed millions more illegal immigrants to cross the border undetected.
State prison data also illustrate the potential relationship between illegal immigration and crime. At the end of 2025, 7,113 illegal immigrants were incarcerated in New York, accounting for 14% of the state's inmate population, at least 3.4 times illegals' share of the state population. That is the best data available, but even that data understates the total because New York does not systematically identify inmates' immigration status, and federal authorities can deport some illegal immigrants before they complete their sentences.
He also points out that law-abiding Americans are arming up, which is a huge deterrent to violent crime, at least in areas with a strong gun culture.
Researchers point out that the historic decline in crime coincided with more aggressive law enforcement, tougher prosecution policies, increased deportations of criminal illegal immigrants, and more Americans carrying firearms for self-defense. "The results are unmistakable," said professor Gary Mauser, who has extensively studied crime at Simon Fraser University in Canada. "Americans experienced unprecedented drops in crime rates in 2025, and rates are continuing to fall in 2026. The government's most comprehensive measure of crime shows that the improvement was far greater than the FBI's widely publicized figures suggested."
GDP Growth Surges to Strong 3.4%
—Disinformation Expert Ace
There's been some good economic news lately, despite the half-as-high-as-Biden-and-therefore-apocalyptic inflation.
October 1: Unemployment applications fell to the lowest level since July.
The four-week moving average was 200,000, a decrease of 2,500 from the previous week's revised average, the department also said.Unemployment claims are a proxy indicator for layoffs, and they signal to economists where the job market is headed. So far this year, claims have remained below 220,000, which is a historic low.
American paychecks grew faster than the rate of inflation, which was totally not the case under Biden. So obviously Trump is a disaster.
American households have seen the buying power of their paychecks grow under President Trump, a welcome change from years of watching real compensation fall thanks to runaway inflation.The average private-sector paycheck has grown faster than prices since President Trump took office, Bureau of Labor Statistics figures show. And in recent months, real pay is growing even faster.
From January 2025, the month Trump was inaugurated, through August 2026, average weekly earnings of all employees on private payrolls rose from $1,222.14 to $1,298.94, a gain of 6.3 percent. The Consumer Price Index rose 4.8 percent over those 19 months. Adjusted for inflation, the weekly paycheck was up 1.5 percent. In January 2025 dollars, that is a gain of about $18 a week, from $1,222 to $1,240.
The most recent three months were stronger. From May to August, the average paycheck rose from $1,285.91 to $1,298.94, or 1.0 percent, while prices were essentially unchanged, up 0.05 percent. Real weekly pay rose 1.0 percent in that span, about $12 a week. August is the latest month for which both earnings and prices are available. The September price index is scheduled for October 14.
Over the four years of the Biden administration, the paycheck shrank after inflation. From January 2021 to January 2025, average weekly earnings rose from $1,047.55 to $1,222.14, a gain of 16.7 percent. Prices rose 21.4 percent. Real weekly pay fell 3.9 percent. In the dollars of January 2025, the paycheck went from about $1,272 at the start of that administration to $1,222 at the end, a loss of about $50 a week.
The service industry grew at its fastest pace in five years. And exports grew, and hiring accelerated.
U.S. service-sector activity expanded in September at the fastest pace in more than five years, with technology businesses leading a broad advance as stronger demand encouraged companies to increase hiring, according to a survey released Monday by S&P Global.The Services PMI Business Activity Index rose to 58.8 from 56.5 in August, marking its fourth consecutive monthly increase and the strongest expansion since July 2021. Readings above 50 indicate growth compared with the previous month.
Activity increased across all five broad services sectors covered by the survey for the first time in ten months. Information and communication businesses reported by far the strongest expansion, while transportation and storage returned to growth.
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Export orders also increased for a second consecutive month, although their growth was much slower than the rise in total new business. The pace of export-order growth matched August's 20-month high.Companies responded to rising workloads by adding workers for a third consecutive month. The pace of services job creation was the strongest since June 2022. Some businesses reported that they had been able to fill previously vacant positions.
The latest advanced estimate for the growth: a high 3.4% increase in the nation's gross domestic product.
Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 3.4 percent in the third quarter of 2026 (July, August, and September), according to the advance estimate released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). In the second quarter, real GDP increased 2.2 percent....
Compared to the second quarter, the acceleration in real GDP in the third quarter primarily reflected an acceleration in investment and an upturn in government spending that were partly offset by a downturn in exports. Imports increased more in the third quarter than in the second quarter.
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The price index for gross domestic purchases increased 3.0 percent in the third quarter, compared with an increase of 5.6 percent in the second quarter. The personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index increased 2.1 percent, compared with an increase of 5.0 percent, and the PCE price index, excluding food and energy increased 2.5 percent, compared with an increase of 3.3 percent.
The conventional wisdom is that voters form their opinions about the state of the economy six months before an election. They do not update their opinions with late-coming information.
So this will not help us in the midterms. I guess maybe we could guess that people felt this growth before it was officially reported, but Gallup says economic confidence is low and has been for a long while.
The Week In Woke
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Via Instapundit:
The Bulwark, the most conservative and pro-America website on the planet, endorses the open antisemite Muslim Brotherhood supporter Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed and calls opposition to him "racist."
Stephen L. Miller @redsteezeSo just in case you're following along, the mostly public face of The Bulwark is endorsing a Muslim Britherhood adjacent proven Anti-Semite. Ok, sure but that's not even the best part of this.
He's claiming that the opposing candidate will usher in internment camps, which would be a really uncomfortable fact, if his coworker and podcast partner had not floated someone with an actual Nazi internment camp guard symbol on his chest for President in 2028 prior to that candidate dropping out.
AHOY!
It's racist to oppose this.
El-Sayed courted Muslim centers where clerics portrayed U.S as Satan, sought 'revenge' on ZionistsNewly surfaced recordings show the Democratic candidate courting votes at tax-exempt Islamic centers, where clergy and Islamic scholars called America the "House of [Satan]," asked Allah to support the fight against Israel, and prayed for vengeance against Zionists and their backers.
Why are you making a big deal about that you Racists?
Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed directly solicited support for his campaign inside Islamic centers whose imams and guest speakers called America the "the House of Shaitan [Satan]" and urged Allah to "take the worst revenge upon" Zionists, according to a review of their videotaped services.Experts said the video evidence, first uncovered by the Middle East Forum and verified by Just the News, could open the door to potential investigations into the nonprofit status of places of worship and provide a stark reminder to voters in the final days of the 2026 election about El-Sayed's ties to other controversial activists, who include Hasan Piker.
El-Sayed is locked in a close contest with former Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., for Michigan's open Senate seat. The contest is expected to be one of the most competitive of the cycle.
Throughout the contest, El-Sayed has taken flak for his ties to Piker, a prominent Twitch streamer who has said America "deserved" 9/11, among other sensational statements. President Donald Trump has called El-Sayed a "terrorist sympathizer."
The El-Sayed campaign did not respond to a request for comment from Just the News, and has denied his familial relationships to the Muslim Brotherhood and to radical Islam in general, with supporters such as former President Obama calling the issue "Islamophobic."
In March before the Democratic primary, El-Sayed visited the Islamic Center of Detroit, a nonprofit organization that offers both Muslim religious services and engages in charity work in the community.
El-Sayed was welcomed to the pulpit by one of the mosque's leaders during a Ramadan prayer service, during which he solicited signatures from the congregation so that he could qualify for the Michigan Democratic primary, according to a recording reviewed by Just the News.
The host introduced El-Sayed as "our beloved brother Dr. Abdulrahman," using his full first name, and El-Sayed spoke to the room in a livestreamed meeting and asked the congregation for their support.
Meeting ended with call for God to take "revenge" upon the Zionists
"I have to get on the ballot to be able to get your vote, inshallah [God willing]. So my team is here in the back. You'll see us on the outside [...] If you're a registered voter in the state of Michigan, we need your signature to get on the ballot, so I ask that you'll give us a signature," El-Sayed told the congregation. "Please don't leave here without doing that."
Later in the same Ramadan livestream, a leader reads the closing supplication in Arabic, which called for God to take "revenge" upon the Zionists and to foil their plans. It is not clear whether El-Sayed was still in attendance when this closing prayer was sung.
"O our Lord, the Zionists have spread corruption in the land. Your forbearance has deceived them, so show them Your power, O Compeller. They killed our brothers and sisters, so take the worst revenge upon them," the leader sang, according to the video.
"Lie in wait for them, our Lord. Raise no banner for them in the lands of the Muslims [...] and foil their plans in every time and place," he continued.
The Arabic language prayer was translated independently by the Middle East Forum and confirmed by Just the News using Google's translation application.
The Islamic Center of Detroit did not respond to a message submitted to its online contact portal.
The left has destroyed education and their next target is all of society.
Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol🚨WHAT ON EARTH?!!
A Nashville TEACHER OF THE YEAR walked away from her career because she says the district ORDERED HER TO FABRICATE A STUDENT'S GRADE.
She refused, so they went into the system and CHANGED IT THEMSELVES.
According to the teacher, a student didn't finish a project so Hardcastle (the teacher) gave the grade the student earned... a failing grade.
Then a parent came in and SAT IN THE OFFICE FOR HOURS until that grade changed.
Three administrators huddled up and decided the AWARD-WINNING TEACHER was the problem.
She still refused to change the grade.
So they overrode her and changed it ANYWAY.
She quit in May and put all of it in a three-page resignation letter. It's public. Read it yourself. She calls it GRADE FABRICATION.
The leftwing Groomer Media is very, very sad that it turns out the spike in "queer identification" was a social contagion all along, just like the Bigots said, and are coping over reduced teen identification as LGBTQ.
Are Fewer Teens Identifying as Gay or Bisexual? It's Complicated.New data have prompted questions about changes in teens' sexual orientations. But researchers disagree on how much the numbers can really tell us.
When they say the answer to a question they want to answer "no" to is "complicated," they mean "yes" but are too cowardly to say it.
Some of the most notable changes between generations have involved gender and sexuality, where there has been a steady increase in young people identifying as L.G.B.T. over the decades. But as culture and attitudes evolve over time, Dr. Twenge has wondered if that trajectory will hold.
Her analysis of new federal numbers on youth and sexual identity suggests there may be a change: In a recent post on her Substack, Generation Tech, Dr. Twenge argued that lesbian, gay and bisexual identification was in a "free fall" among high schoolers, with the clearest declines among ninth-grade girls. After peaking at 26 percent in 2021, the percentage of ninth-grade girls identifying as bisexual dropped to 13 percent in 2025.
Did the social contagion burn itself out resulting in the number of "queer" identifying youth falling by half?
Who knows, it's "complicated."
So now she's going to argue against the findings:
The change caught her eye, Dr. Twenge said, because "pretty much every other indicator for a very long time was going in the direction of more same-sex relationships, more acceptance of same-sex relationships, more identification."...
"It's a reversal of very longstanding trends," Dr. Twenge said.
No it's not, it's a reversal of a very suspect spike in young people -- in particular, young girls who have historically been the most susceptible to social pressure and social contagions -- suddenly deciding in 2015 that they were "queer."
Anything but straight. Straight is normal and normal is boring. Yuch!
This explosion in "gay" youth is ten years old. This is not a "longstanding trend," unless you're ten years old.
...Dr. Twenge's analysis immediately prompted speculation about the forces driving the change.
Conservative commentators argued the nation's rightward swing had swayed young people, suggesting that the prior rise in L.G.B.T. identities had been a product of progressive institutions promoting them. "Amazing what happens when you cut the Department of Education and USAID," Terry Schilling, the director of the American Principles Project, posted on X.
Others argued that the findings reflected an increasingly hostile climate for L.G.B.T. people in the United States, making teenagers afraid to disclose their sexual identities, especially in surveys conducted by the federal government.
LOL. Cope harder.
Meanwhile, the longstanding trend of increasing acceptance of the gay lifestyle also reversed, which I'm sure has nothing to do with progressives brainwashing young girls into being "queer" or "trans."
U.S. Support for LGBTQ+ Issues Remains Down From Peakby Jeffrey M. Jones
Story Highlights
* Support for legal same-sex marriage down six points from 2022-2023 high
* 62% viewing gay/lesbian relations as moral is lowest since 2016
* Perceived morality of changing one's gender down eight points since 2021WASHINGTON, D.C. -- After two decades of rising support for LGBTQ+ issues, U.S. attitudes have plateaued and begun to slide back modestly. Approval of same-sex marriage, moral acceptance of gay and lesbian relations, and endorsement of gender changes are all down from peaks reached in the early 2020s.
While most Americans still favor legal same-sex marriages, the 65% who do so today is down six percentage points from the peak in 2022 and 2023. Similarly, the percentage viewing gay or lesbian relations as morally acceptable, 62%, has not been lower since 2016. And the share of Americans who consider changing one's gender morally acceptable has declined eight points over the past five years, to 38%.
These items are from Gallup's annual Values and Beliefs survey, conducted May 1-17, 2026.
Between 1996 and 2022, the percentage of U.S. adults in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage increased by 44 points, from 27% to 71%. In 2024, the figure dipped to 69%, and it has shown a marginal decline each year since.
Gallup first asked about the morality of same-sex relations in 2001, when 40% said they were morally acceptable. By 2022, 71% held that view, before a sharp drop to 64% in 2023, holding at about that level during the past three years.
When Gallup first asked about changing one's gender in 2021, 46% found it morally acceptable, and 51% found it morally wrong. Today, those numbers stand at 38% and 57%, respectively.
Most of the recent changes in LGBTQ+ attitudes have occurred among Republicans. For example, in 2021 and 2022, 55% of Republicans said they favored legal same-sex marriage, but today, the figure is 37%. Among independents, support has dropped six points, to 67%, while Democrats' views are the same as in 2022 (87% in favor).
Partisans' views on the morality of gay or lesbian relations have shifted similarly. Since 2022, the high point for Republicans, the share who say such relations are morally acceptable has fallen 21 points to 35%, compared with an eight-point decline among independents to 64% and no meaningful change among Democrats (now at 81%).
As a result of the recent decline, Republicans' views of the morality of same-sex relations are now similar to what they were between 2005 and 2014.
Well, Republicans were willing -- eager, even -- to leave gays alone. But the Gay Movement did not return the favor, not even close.
So here we are now.
EXCLUSIVE: 'Decolonize Palestine' organizer for Michigan Dem William Lawrence claims Charlie Kirk 'got what he f*cking got'
"Charlie Kirk incited a lot of violence and he encouraged a lot of violence. And sometimes you get what you f*cking get."
A field organizer for Democratic Socialist of America-aligned (DSA) candidate William Lawrence in Michigan--despite saying that it was "bad" that Charlie Kirk was assassinated--justified the shooting, claiming that Kirk "incited a lot of violence, and sometimes you get what you f*cking get." Lawrence is running in Michigan's 7th Congressional District and has billed himself as an average progressive.
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"So it's like, my parents, like when I talk to them about it, it's like, 'Well violence is not good. We shouldn't be allowing it.' I'm like yes, but the violence happens. It happens. Sorry it happens. This is a world full of f*cking violence and Charlie Kirk incited a lot of violence and he encouraged a lot of violence. And sometimes you get what you f*cking get."
Remember when they claimed the Joker movie would spur the right into embracing psychotic nihilistic violence? The left is quoting the line Joker says before executing a man on television: "You get what you fucking deserve."
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The Spooktacular History of Halloween Traditions and Lore
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Halloween in the 1930s
Why is Halloween the "spooky season" in the first place? How did this nonsense begin?
Well as you've no doubt heard, supposedly this time of year is a "liminal," meaning "on the threshold." ("Subliminal" means "beneath the threshold (of conscious perception).)
Supposedly, during liminal times, the "walls separating the mortal realms from the 'other worlds' (both the spirit realms and the lands of the fairies) are lower."
I guess because this time is at the end of autumn -- in Germanic languages, "the fall" or "autumn" is just literally called 'harvest." Herbst in German, for example.
So this time is between two seasons and therefore between two worlds.
That's an idea with a lot of salience in folktales -- crossroads, for example, are also believed to be space between two worlds, which is why you might see ghosts or even the devil in a crossroads.
Crossroads are viewed in global folklore and legends as liminal "thin places" where the barrier between the living world and the spirit realm weakens.Folklore and Supernatural Beliefs
* Spirits and Lost Souls: Crossroads are often said to confuse wandering or restless spirits. Historical burials of criminals or people who died by suicide at intersections led to beliefs that their spirits would face four paths and get lost.
* Spectral Animals: The British Isles feature legends of spectral black dogs--such as the Black Shuck or Barghest--which are seen at crossroads as harbingers of death.
Halloween is a contraction of All Hallow's Eve. The following day, November first, is All Saint's Day, so the night before is the eve of all the hallowed, the sainted.
To hallow means "to set apart as holy."
Are the words connected? Yes they are:
The words hallow and holy share a direct and deep etymological connection, both coming from the same ancient root meaning "whole" or "healthy".Etymological Lineage
* Hallow: From the Old English verb hälgian ("to make holy, consecrate") and the noun hälga ("holy person or saint"). This evolved into Middle English halwe and modern hallow.
* Holy: From the Old English adjective hälig ("holy, sacred, or consecrated"), which developed directly from häl ("whole").
* Proto-Germanic Root: Both trace back to Proto-Germanic hailagaz / *hailagōn (holy, sacred, or set apart).
* Proto-Indo-European Root: Going further back, they stem from the PIE root *kailo- meaning "whole, uninjured, or of good omen".
Of course, this is probably a case of early Church syncretism, or the merging of pagan traditions with Christian ones. Mostly just the dates.
Because November 1st happens to be an ancient festival:
Samhain is an ancient Gaelic festival celebrated on November 1 that marks the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter.
Meaning and Timing
* Pronunciation: Commonly pronounced "sow-in" (rhyming with cow-in or sau-in).
* Dates: Celebrations traditionally begin at sunset on October 31 and continue through November 1, as the Celtic day starts and ends at sunset.
* New Year: It marked the Celtic New Year and the transition into the "darker half" of the year.
The origin of the Jack O'Lantern is interesting and very pagan.
Apparently it was a Druidic custom to light communal bonfires. I assume these bonfires had some religious/cultic purpose. Then, when the fire had died down, the embers or coals from the fire would be transported to the individual hearths of the worshippers, so that the later fires would be descended from the communal ones.
These coals were carried from the communal bonfire to the home hearth in... hollowed out turnips or gourds. Faces began to be carved into these fire-transporting turnips to ward away evil spirits. I don't know when pumpkins were used for this purpose, if ever, but the pumpkin with fire inside is clearly a direct descendant of the coal-toting turnip.
The actual name "Jack O'Lantern" emerged from later, Christian-age Irish folktales about someone who tried to trick the devil.
A grumpy bastard of a blacksmith by the name of Stingy Jack invites the devil for a drink but refuses to pay (hence, the "stingy" descriptor). He convinces the devil to shape-shift into a coin to cover the tab. But when the devil obliges, Jack sticks the coin in his pocket. And much to the devil-coin's dismay, there is a silver cross in that pocket, preventing him from returning to his original form. A deal is struck. Jack sets the devil free and, in return, the devil agrees A) to bar Jack from entering hell when he dies, and B) to leave Jack alone for a year.A quick aside: This seems like a bad deal. And it is a bad deal -- because guess what? A year later, the devil comes back to mess with Jack. Only Jack is ready for him. He convinces the devil to climb a tree so he might enjoy a delicious piece of fruit.
Note that this tale involves fruit. As you'll see, most Halloween traditions are fruit-based.
Once the devil is up in the tree, Jack carves a cross into the trunk. The devil can't come down. Another (bad) deal is struck, although this one does have the advantage of being slightly less bad than the previous one. Jack frees the devil in exchange for ten years of peace.Jack dies. (Don't be sad. He was an asshole.) The devil, true to his word, refuses to let Jack into hell. God, meanwhile, refuses to let Jack into heaven. So, what is Jack's fate? To wander forever in eternal darkness, of course. But because the devil is not totally heartless (wait...), he tosses Jack a lump of burning coal from hell so he can have a bit of light. Jack carves out a turnip and sticks the coal inside, creating a lantern. Hence, "Jack of the Lantern," which is later shortened to "Jack O'Lantern."
Kids have been dressing up in costumes for a long, long time.
I don't know when this began, but an early example of it is kids going out "guising" -- wearing disguises.
In the Shetland Islands, kids dressed as "skeklers," wearing dresses made of wheat stalks.
Etymology and Origins* Skekel / Skekle: The root noun in the Shetland dialect means a masked or disguised person, a guiser, or specifically someone wearing a straw dress at Halloween.
* Norn Roots: The term originates from the historical Norn language (a North Germanic language spoken in Shetland and Orkney until the 18th/19th century before being replaced by Scots).
* Skakling: Recorded in local almanacs to describe the start of the winter half-year around All Saints' Day (November 1st).
Kids dressed up in dresses made of straw is kinda creepy!
This custom involved what evolved into trick or treating:
* Costume: Made from local oat-straw woven into a skirt (gloy), a short cloak, and a tall, pointed straw mask or hat.* Tradition: Skeklers traveled from house to house (hoosamylla) in small groups between mid-October and late January, dancing and playing music in exchange for food or drink.
* Leadership: The group was traditionally directed or led by a figure known as the scuddler.
Apparently people used to put apples on the thresholds of their doors as an offering to evil spirits, who would be placated by the sweets and not trouble the family inside.
But kids became coming by afterwards and asking for the apples which had not actually been carried off by spirits, which I would imagine was most of them.
And from that: begging for candy in costume.
Bobbing for apples is closely associated with Halloween. Remember, this coincides with the final harvest of the year, so apples are significant. As I mentioned, fruit was central to many Halloween traditions:
In America today, Halloween is most often associated with pumpkins and candy. For centuries in the British Isles, though, this eerie night was linked with apples, nuts, and cabbage, all of which were given secret powers...Among all the food traditions of Halloween, apples appear most often. There are loose theories for why apples are so special on this day. They've long been thought to have an uncanny magic: in Welsh folklore, for instance, they carry a whiff of immortality. In the Book of Hallowe'en, an early 20th century study of October 31 traditions, Ruth Edna Kelley writes that apples came to Halloween through the colonizing Romans, who linked their fall apple festival with the Celtic Samhain.
But the game didn't start as bobbing for apples in water. Instead, the apples were bobbed for in between fire.
A stick was hanged from the ceiling by its middle so that it was suspended horizontally, and free to spin on the string holding it. On one side was stuck an apple. On the otherside, a lighted candle. Then the stick would be set to spinning and you would, without your hands, bob and bite at the apple as it spun around, trying to avoid being licked in the face by the flame or hit in the eye with hot candle-wax.
This "game" was called "snap-apple," and, if I might channel the noted ethnologist Donald Trump, it's a shit-hole tradition.
Oh, and winning the game -- eating the apple without taking a mouthful of flame -- would mean that you would be the first to marry or marry whatever person you liked.
Another version of the game involved suspending apples on strings from the ceiling, no sticks or candles involved. This is safer, though far less Mëtäl.
Another variation:
Sometimes the apples would be labeled or marked by young men and women before they were put in a tub of water: the person who caught your apple could be your mate. In another version of snap apple, a hoop is suspended from the ceiling, and different treats and tricks, including cake, candies, bread, apples, and peppers, are stationed along its rim. The one a player caught with their teeth would foretell the nature of their love--would it be sweet, spicy, too hot? Would it nourish or burn them?
A lot of fruit, a lot of eating, and a lot of promise of sex.
Even cabbages had sexual bend:
If none of these fortune telling methods went your way, you could still resort to cabbage. One tradition involved pulling kale stalks from a field: the nature of the stalk, its weight, length, girth, and taste, would hint at one's future spouse.
I'm not going to unpack that.
A lot of divinations were of the "ill fortune" type:
Some people would bake a ring and nut into the cake--the finder of the nut would be a widow or widower. In another version, the cake had a coin, a sloe berry and a bit of wood baked in. The coin meant wealth, the sloe meant you'd outlive all your friends and the wood meant you'd die within the year.
Yay!
This being a "liminal time" when the "walls between the worlds were lower" led to Halloween being a time for minor magics like divination of the future.
And this divination usually involved predicting your future spouse.
In one divination game, you would peel an apple all in one big peel, then throw the apple peel over your shoulder. When the peel landed on the floor, it would form a letter, which would be the first letter of the name of the person you would marry.
This magical divination predicts a lot of spouses with names beginning with I, J, G, S, Z, and C, and maybe a D here and there, but anyone whose name began with K, X, Y, R, B or any letter formed by multiple strokes was shit out of luck and would die a lonely spinster.
Another of these "see your future spouse" games involved going into a darkened, lonely room with only a candle for light and looking at a mirror. Supposedly, over your shoulder and behind you, would appear the dark, fuzzy form of the person you would wind up marrying.
Obviously this just relies on darkness and unsteady light and seeing what you want to see.
I read about this "candle in a mirror and your future spouse appears behind you" game in Agatha Christie's Hallowe'en Party, which also featured "snap-apple," but I'm pretty sure it was the safe version without the candle.
Oh, and the victim is killed by being drowned in the tub for bobbing apples. Oh, and also, despite the book being set in the 1960s, they casually mention that the village has a "village witch" like this is a normal thing that most villages have and needs no further explanation.
What? English villages all had a village witch, the same as they had a butcher or postman?
There were other variations.
In many variations, the seeker was forced to walk backward, which aided the tension. From a 1916 story in the Alaska Daily Empire out of Juneau, "Little girls duck for apples till they are wet from head to foot, walk down the cellar stairs backward, hold a candle before a mirror to see their future husbands."The opportunities for shenanigans are obvious. Friends stealthily followed behind mirror-toting players, or hid in the darkened destinations. At the right moment, they leaped from the shadows, screams stabbing the night before terror collapsed into giggles. Or, there was the potential for romantic assignations. A hopeful young man, yearning to make his feelings known, could plan to reveal himself in a mirror. As another postcard suggested, "of course this affair must be prearranged to be successful for the Witches are busy and can't tend to everybody."
This one, via Google AI (but I've read it elsewhere), is even more dangerous than snap-apple:
Walking Backwards Down Stairs: Some variations required a person to hold a hand-mirror and walk backwards down a dark flight of stairs at midnight to catch a reflection of their future mate.
That is a shithole tradition way to wind up in traction.
We've all noticed that Halloween has become, for older teenagers and young adults, a holiday all about sex. Girls dress like literal streetwalkers. It's a hookup holiday.
But I didn't realize until writing this post... it's literally always been a holiday closely associated with sex. Even stuff like the ripe, full apples suggest sexual maturation and pregnancy.
Sure, magical games to see your future spouse are the socially acceptable way to suggest sex, but it's still mostly about sex. This holiday has always had mating on its mind, from the early pagan days.
So: magic, pagan traditions, "lowering the veils" between the worlds, evil spirits and the devil. And on top of it all: the suggestion of sex.
No wonder religious people have such a problem with it.
Many of the ideas in this post came from this video about the folklore that may have inspired It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.
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Candidate of Germany's Far-Left Party "Die Linke" Confesses that Islamists Control Her Party and That She Fears They Will Kill Her
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Der Spiegel is a leftwing outlet in Germany.
Here's an example of how hard they'll lie on behalf of the Red-Green Alliance.
DER SPIEGEL @derspiegelOct 18
Translated from German
Right-wing ideologues claim a connection between the riot over the weekend and the ancestry of many of the troublemakers. That is a racist lie that conceals French failure. Link in X-Bio.
Uh huh.
So it takes an awful lot for them to report that the the far left's candidate for the mayor of Berlin admits that her party is controlled by Muslim extremists and that she feels her family is "in danger" due to them.
She's a candidate for "Die Linke," which just means "the Left."
Karina Mariani @KarinaLMarianiTranslated from Spanish
🇩🇪🚨MEGA-SCANDAL: The winner of the BERLIN elections, from the far-left party Die Linke, accidentally confesses that Hamas controls her party and fears for her life💣A mistake has just triggered an astonishing security crisis. The magazine Der Spiegel--a media outlet, it must be noted, with a marked leftist slant--has brought to light an internal document proving how Die Linke has been hijacked by Islamism.
Its candidate to govern Berlin, Elif Eralp, accidentally sent the newsroom her private notes from an interview where she confesses to being coerced and terrified by Hamas operatives within her own party.
It turns out that after an interview, the candidate's team reviewed the transcript. During this process, Eralp made internal comments that were meant to remain in the strictest confidentiality. However, the document with the un-erased annotations was sent back to the journalists.
The content of those notes is dynamite. When Der Spiegel asked her about Ibrahim Ibrahim--a pro-Palestinian Hamas sympathizer who celebrated the October 7 massacre--the public response was going to be evasive. But in the margin of the leaked document, Eralp wrote the truth: "There is a PROBLEM. [...] my husband no, and neither do I, want to name specific names, he is afraid of these people and so am I."
The leak exposes the raw reality of Islamo-leftism in Germany: Eralp even went so far as to compare the threat level of these pro-Palestinian militants to that of Organized Crime and implores to abort the publication: "I can't put myself and my family in danger for Der SPIEGEL. What do we do now? Do we scrap the whole interview?"
The biggest joke of the entire situation, however, was captured in one of the phrases that Eralp did want to publish. In a display of utter disconnection, the candidate states in the interview: "What I can say with total clarity is that, as governing mayor, I will ensure the safety of all Berlin women and all Berlin men." A promise that rings utterly ridiculous coming from a leader who, in the same document, secretly admits that she can't even protect her own family from the rank-and-file of her party.
The left's response to this is their usual response: They demand censorship of her admission of Islamist control over her party and fearing for the safety of her family,
In the wake of the scandal, Eralp has announced that she will take legal action against Der Spiegel and file a formal complaint with the Press Council for having quoted her internal annotations. This judicial maneuver immediately reveals just how sensitive and utterly overwhelmed these leadership cadres really are when faced with crisis situations.Berlin's radical left believed it could politically capitalize on Islamic extremism; today, the documents prove that it's the extremism holding them hostage.
So is this real? Well, Google's leftwing propaganda AI says it is:
The "Der Spiegel" and Die Linke Controversy (October 2026)* The Incident: In late October 2026, Der Spiegel published a report following an interview with Elif Eralp, the leader of Die Linke in Berlin who won the September 2026 Abgeordnetenhaus election.
* The Leak: When Eralp's office sent back the authorized interview draft, internal notes and remarks were accidentally left in the document.
* The Content: The leaked notes showed Eralp requesting to strike a question regarding Ibrahim Ibrahim, a pro-Palestinian activist who praised the October 7 Hamas attack. In her private comments, Eralp wrote that she and her husband were afraid of backlash and could not put their family in danger, stating: "I can't put myself and my family in danger for Der Spiegel" and "I should never have agreed to this interview".
* The Party's Reaction: Die Linke leadership accused Der Spiegel of publishing private notes that endanger the safety of Eralp and her family. The party announced plans to file a complaint with the Deutscher Presserat (German Press Council) and considered legal action.
* Political Impact: The leak has created friction during ongoing coalition negotiations in Berlin between Die Linke, the Greens, and the SPD, while drawing scrutiny over how the party handles antisemitism and radical associations within its ranks.
By the way: The lesson that Der Spiegel takes from this is that the problem is with this candidate, not the Islamists controlling the left:
DER SPIEGEL @derspiegelTranslated from German
Elif Eralp wants to become the governing mayor of Berlin. But in an internal memo, the Left Party politician reveals that she fears terror sympathizers with contacts to Hamas. Can such a person be responsible for security in the capital...
I mean, yes, if she's terrified pro-Hamas Islamists will kill her family she obviously will not crack down on these violent invaders, but aren't you missing the real problem here...?
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A Stronk and Empowered Black Female Democrat Judge Routinely Makes Racist Screeds Against Attorneys Before Her, Because She's So Anti-Racist
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Another DEI clown put into a position of authority by the left, and one that seems to have genuine mental health struggles on top of it.
By the way: This isn't new. Josh Blackmun wrote an article, which I'll link later, in which he reports that he has heard all about this nasty racist mentally-ill woman for a long time but didn't say anything, because no one made it official by filing a complaint.
Well now a complaint has been filed.
A lawyer's misconduct complaint against US District Judge Ada Brown stemmed from a hearing during which she repeatedly directed racial insults at him, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg Law.Attorney Ezra Young, who has represented a Black woman professor suing over a tenure denial, filed a complaint against Brown following the April 2026 hearing in Dallas, he confirmed in an interview with Bloomberg Law...
Throughout the hearing, the judge, a Black woman with Native American ancestry, accused Young of mistreating Black attorney took "judicial notice" of her own background in making findings against Young, and repeatedly referred to Young, who is Latino, as being White. Brown called the hearing months after she revoked Young's ability to practice in her courtroom to weigh whether the lawyer should face sanctions.
"Judicial notice" is when a judge enters a fact into the record without evidence or testimony. It's for simple matters of fact that can be found in, say, a dictionary or a calendar, like "I'm taking judicial notice that July the 25th was a Sunday."
This Nobel Prize Finalist takes "judicial notice" of her own background and the Racial Expertise it gives her in all things, especially in knowing Which Other Races Are Stupid and Evil.
She would have failed out of the Charlie Kelly School of Bird Law.
Filibuster!
"I think what's happening here, quite candidly, is you are very intimidated for some reason, Mr. Young, with Black excellence, in light of your White mediocrity. Yeah. Right?," Brown said, according to the transcript. "You should write that down. I mean, you -- I'm -- you look like a White man, right?"
He's intimidated by Black Excellence? Where might that be, DEI hire?
"Black excellence" is often -- but not always -- a racist meme asserting black supremacy and, here, people's discomfort with seeing the full power of black supremacy.
It doesn't have to mean that. It could just be a little racial boosting, talking up "black excellence."
But here it's plainly an assertion that she is superior due to her melanin ratio.
"I'm not White, Your Honor," Young replied, adding that he's Latino.
"Well, you are White-presenting; is that fair to say?" Brown said, according to the transcript. Young said that he's "fair-skinned," and Brown said that Young had "White privilege" when he argued his client didn't receive key evidence in the case.
I'm so glad that the black leftist political class, full of Black Excellence of the kind you see here, is on the job and ready to instruct us in aggressive anti-racism.
"You're the White savior, come to save all the stupid Black lawyers in Texas who need your help, from New York," Brown later said, according to the transcript.
Well you are in fact a stupid black lawyer who should be disbarred, and it does appear you need help -- both for your job performance and for your obvious mental illness -- so you should accept whatever help this White Latino Savior can offer.
During the hearing, Brown also implied that Young fabricated a quote in the case and indicated she'd gone through Young's public social media profiles before suggesting that the attorney may be tracking her on social media.
I wasn't kidding about the mental illness.
Young said he was "disgusted and mortified" by the suggestion of him having an anti-Black animus, and told Brown that he was concerned about her conduct during the hearing, according to the transcript.Soon after, Young filed a formal complaint against Brown, saying he believed the judge may be suffering from a mental health condition. The complaint helped launch a judicial investigation that resulted in her temporarily losing her docket earlier this month.
A special judicial committee has ordered Brown to undergo a psychiatric examination as part of that investigation.
Brown, a Donald Trump appointee who joined the court in 2019, didn't return requests for comment.
Yeah, forced on him by Democrats. I don't know why we allow that still.
Oh yeah I do -- because Nostalgia Republicans still think it's 1997.
Brown has said she won't participate in proceedings tied to complaints by Young and Chief Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod of the Fifth Circuit. Brown earlier defended her conduct toward Young in a 76-page written response viewed by Bloomberg Law.
Brown in that response denied having a mental health issue, as raised by Young in his complaint, and denied that any of her actions were inappropriate.
I'd like to have an undelicate conversation with this racist cow about how some extremely uneducated and unfit people get Socially Promoted into jobs they are completely unqualified for.
Andre Davis, a former Fourth Circuit judge who previously served as a federal trial judge in Baltimore, said the purported conduct -- at the hearing and since -- shows "a clear pattern of inappropriate and abusive behavior by Judge Brown that reflects violations of numerous provisions of the Code of Conduct for Federal Judges."
"If the investigation of the matters at issue were to conclude on the current facts, without consideration of any potential information bearing on mitigation, the case for removal of a judge, at the state or federal level, would be compelling," Davis said.
Braced for ConflictYoung, a Columbia Law School graduate and solo-practitioner who's litigated for over a decade, had tense interactions with Brown in the past. She issued two earlier orders raising whether he should face penalties in her court.
In an interview with Bloomberg Law, Young said he was prepared for the April hearing to be "bizarre," but that he found his experience with Brown to be "wildly disturbing."
"This was a degree of conflict and what seemed like a judge using her position of power on top of what I've come to believe is an obvious disability that I think is disqualifying, trying to go out of her way, in my belief, to prevent a civil rights litigant and her lawyer from using the civil rights laws to do what they're supposed to do," Young said.
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During the April 24, 2026 hearing, Brown accused Young of "racial bullying" toward Black attorneys in the case.
Brown also said that Young was acting like a "Chad," a term Young wasn't familiar with. The judge said it was the male version of a "Karen." "It's someone who calls the manager when they don't get their way. They stomp their foot when the rules are supposed to apply to them, right?" Brown said, according to the transcript.
In an unexpected twist, this angry and stupid black racist is "triggered" by any word she thinks gives her Special Racial Rights to lash out at other people for their racial make-up:
During the April hearing, Brown took issue with an article headline describing the case when it went before the Supreme Court of Texas. The article quoted a brief filed by Young that referenced another law professor apparently comparing what happened in the tenure denial to a "lynching."
So she sees the word "lynching" in an article submitted as evidence and she decides this is a coded dog-whistle against her so now she gets to freak out and scream at people:
The judge accused Young of making up that quote to "get a headline.""And so when I read a headline -- a sensationalized, very racialized headline that says, 'it's like I've been lynched,' and it's literally got no connection to this case, I have to ask you, Mr. Social Media, Main Character Chad, White Hero, Savior, Loves to Help Black People Be An Ally, where the lynching in this case came from?" Brown said, according to the transcript.
She also apparently gave Young a copy of a 1920 newspaper article that described a lynching. "So we don't find lynching jokes funny down here, sir," Brown said, according to the transcript.
This White Latino continued attempting to pound it into the thick head-bone of this bison-skulled woman that he is not in fact caucasian.
But she didn't understand.
Toward the end of the hearing, Young said that Brown seemed to be "using vicious stereotypes about White people, when I've repeatedly disclosed to this Court I am Latino."
He said that it appeared that Brown "is trying to tar and feather me for anti-Black animus, that has never been raised by anyone but this Court," according to the transcript.
"This Black woman?" Brown replied.
"No, Your Honor. This Court," Young responded.
He tried to tell her he has no anti-black animus and in fact, as a civil rights lawyer, has worked to vindicate the rights of many black people.
This racist lunatic was offended at that:
"Can I pause and just tell you, I appreciate, on behalf of Black people, your White saviordom," Brown said."Your Honor, again, I'm not White," Young replied.
The Bigger Problem With Judge Ada Brown's Woke Tirade: She Said The Quiet Part Out Loud About "White Saviors"Many lawyers and judges harbor the "anti-racist" views that Judge Brown spewed, but have the mental faculties to keep it private.
For some time, I've heard rumors about unusual behavior from Judge Ada Brown in the Northern District of Texas. I was hesitant to write about the situation, because my information was incomplete and some of it was revealed in confidence. Now, the accusations are public, in part, because Judge Brown personally disclosed items to the press and others.
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Now, onto the substance. There seems to be something seriously wrong with Judge Brown. Her behavior in court that has been reported in the press is extremely troubling. Her refusal to decide cases seems to be an abdication of her responsibility as a federal judge.
Oh, she doesn't even bother doing her job? Plot twist.
Next thing you'll say something Kah-razy like "she also created a fake charity and collected hundreds of thousand of dollars that she spent on trips and jewelry."
And she's also apparently refusing to participate in the disciplinary hearing over her action. I guess she's just relying on her Black Excellence to carry the day.
And her unwillingness to participate in any disciplinary proceedings suggests something is amiss. I will hold off on opining on these issues in more depth, as I suspect more facts will come out.
Here's the real scandal, as they say: What Brown is saying is not aberrant among the black leftist class.
It is their foundational ideology:
Some people may be shocked at what Judge Ada Brown said in court, but the truth is that she is parroting standard dogma from Anti-Racists and Critical Racial Theorists. The charges may be completely absurd for someone like Ezra Young, but imagine the black plaintiff was represented by a white lawyer. Would that person be a "White Savior"? Think of the most famous white lawyer in American literature. Could even Atticus Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird be derided as a "White Savior"? Yes.Welcome to the world of academia.
