In France, It's Officially Now a Crime to Criticize Islam, Even for a Major Author Who Was Permitted to Blaspheme Just Ten Years Ago
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Michel Houllebecq, author of Submission -- about France under Islamic rule -- was just charged with the crime of offending violent Muslim colonizers.
Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra
FRENCH AUTHOR CHARGED FOR CRITICISM OF ISLAMMichel Houellebecq is a French novelist, filmmaker and singer.
He is known for his 'controversial' views on Islam and demographic replacement.
He has said that Islam is "the dumbest of religions" and has warned "when entire territories come under Islamist control ... [violent] acts of resistance will take place"
He has also said:
"the wish of the population with French roots" was "for the violence to decrease, for [Muslim immigrants] to respect the law and people. Or, another good solution, for them to leave."
The Union of Mosques of France filed a legal complaint alleging Houellebecq of "encouraging violence" through his remarks.
In 2015, he published a novel titled 'Submission', imagining France under a Muslim president whose election leads to sweeping political and social changes.
He did this just a day after the the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris. One of the victims of that murderous terrorist attack on freedom of speech just so happened to be a friend of his.
A judge has now charged him with "complicity in incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence"
Houellebecq's attorneys told Le Monde that the "[incriminating] remarks have no dimension of incitement, not even implicitly" and said their client
"[regrets] the increasing judicialization of intellectual debate."When far left groups and Muslim organisations take people to court to get a politically motivated judge to charge them for speaking freely, that signs the death knell for feedom of speech.
Resist them while you can with every ounce of determination and with every resource you have, or risk losing those freedoms forever.
Houllebecq is a major author and public intellectual. So this isn't a case of the censors going after a minor-league rabble-rouser they decide people won't fight for.
This is the censors coming straight at the heart of free speech. Political speech and art are now officially crimes.
David Strom points out he's even chickened out and backtracked as the Muslims ginned up the state to punish him. It wasn't enough.
They want the coercion. They want the blasphemy laws enforced.
And the guy is hardly Tommy Robinson, who is more confrontational. He used to be, but has become far more circumspect. When he got pushback on his comments, he chickened out and said the problem wasn't Islam, but juvenile delinquents who just happen to be, by some strange coincidence, Muslims.He learned his lesson from the previous trial: couch your words in vagueness if you might offend a Muslim.
Worst of all, he said he worried not so much about Muslims becoming violent, but about the French reaction to Muslims [after the French became] tired of the crime.
In other words, Strom notes, he did the Norm MacDonald joke, but for real, hoping that if he couched his words in terms of his fear of backlash against peaceful Muslims after they blow up a dirty bomb, his speech would be deemed legal.
It wasn't.
KS-MVultra @kevinskilesNov 10
I'm so relieved the west won the Cold War. If the Soviets had of prevailed we'd be living under constant photo survelience, all our phones would be tapped, going to a political protest could get you financially sanctioned, writing a critical book could get you jailed and there would only be one political party to vote for. What a relief none of that happened.
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Hollywood: Trash or Garbage?
James Gunn Edition
—Disinformation Expert Ace
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.
The first article from Matt McGloin:
Man of Tomorrow's release is an open question inside Skydance."All options are on the table," per what our Skydance Paramount insider was told Tuesday night from inside the company.
That covers the Superman sequel's July 9, 2027 theatrical date, and everything short of it.
It comes a day after the same insiders told us Skydance expects the movie to lose up to $100 million, with David Corenswet out as Superman.
The math is the problem.
"Now Ellison and Latcham have a $250M pile of ass sitting there waiting for post production, VFX, reshoots, and at least $125M in marketing. Total easily over $400M if they release it."
"BIG HUGE IF," said the insider's friend inside the company.
The movie wrapped filming in August, and James Gunn finished the assembly cut in early October.
Post-production, effects, and any reshoots now happen under the regime that fired Gunn to take over the final cut.
And what is on the screen is its own problem. Our insiders trashed the plot itself, down to what Wonder Woman is doing in it.
The same read is now circulating outside the company.
Columnist Dan Marcus, host of The Film Frontier, posted Tuesday night: "My friend predicted to me earlier today that MAN OF TOMORROW might just get dumped on the new HBO MAX/Paramount Plus streaming platform, and I hate to say it, but I think he could be right."
Shown the post, our insider replied: "I was told tonight all options are on the table."
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Then there is Enty, the lawyer behind the Crazy Days and Nights blind item site, who ran this as Blind Item #5 dated November 10: "The comic studio heads were fired. They didn't quit. Their boss wants to sell off the entire comic book universe to help get rid of some of that $100B debt."
So that kind of makes sense -- except for the fact that due to the collapse of DC on Film, the entire DC pile of intellectual property is currently at a low value. You'd want to bring in a Fluffer to get its value up a bit before selling.
Still, some talk about DC being "cursed" and maybe the thinking is that its value will never increase.
Oh, and it should be pointed out that due to copyright protections finally being allowed to expire, Superman and Batman (at least in their earlier forms) will become public domain in the 2030s. And then a whole bunch of characters start dropping into public domain: Wonder Woman, Joker, Captain America, Flash, etc. All the characters created in the initial burst of of the golden age of comics.
(Most of the characters created by Marvel, except for the early ones like Cap, Human Torch, and Namor the Sub-Mariner, will be protected for a while longer, as they were mostly created in the early sixties.)
McGloin also claims that James Gunn is "setting fire" to DC on his way out the door.
Some of these claims seem dubious, but McGloin tells him that his Warner Bros/Discovery sources previously tipped him, accurately, that Hal Jordan would be killed in "Lanterns" and that Gunn was slated to be fired.
UPDATE: Variety confirms our report on Man of Tomorrow. Two sources now describe Gunn "setting fire" to DC on his way out, screaming matches over the cut included. The plot details leaked: a simp Superman and a lesbian Wonder Woman. Insiders reports are stating Man of Tomorrow may not get a theatrical release. We're told David Corenswet is done. Variety says Lanterns is canceled. THR reports David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz fired Gunn and Safran in person on the Warner Bros. lot; plus, Puck reports Skydance is already dismantling the Gunn DCU slate. TheWrap also says the goofy DCU is over and Ellison is mandating a return to Justice League....
They're the same insiders who first told us back in October 2025 that Gunn would be out, who told us that Hal Jordan would die in Lanterns, and even that Daredevil: Born Again would be retooled.
His report from yesterday about "screaming matches" over the direction took Man of Tomorrow.
"MOT is dog s--, confirmed, bunch of random nobodies cameo without rhyme or reason. Plot is stupid, Superman is a simp again, and Wonder Woman is a lesbian. You heard that right. She and Hawkgirl 'meet cute' and bond while punching white straight 'evil' dudes."That is our Skydance Paramount insiders, relaying word from inside the studio as the new regime decides what to do with the movie.
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Per this leak, that is the pairing: a meet cute, a bond, and "evil" dudes to punch.
We have also been told Arjona's Wonder Woman is a one-and-done, so whatever happens in this movie, the character starts over under the new bosses.
The "random nobodies" complaint has a paper trail.Our insiders said Man of Tomorrow is Gunn's last hurrah and Gunn was "kitchen sinking cameos and fan service, a lot of which may not even make it to the screen".
Script leaks described an event movie stuffed with two teams and characters DC has never put on screen.
A word about these rumored "kitchen sink cameos:" 1, they would make Superman a mere co-star in his own movie again, and 2, it would further goofify the DC universe by featuring Gunn's favorite type of character, misfit joke-characters, and 3, it would also reduce excitement for what Skydance hopes would re-invigorate the brand, a Justice League team-up. If you have Superman teaming up with half of the DC universe in every movie, it's not really a big deal when he teams up with other characters.
Variety confirms that Skydance wants to remove many of the cameos and "easter egg ephemera" from the film.
You might say, "But Gunn would use marginal/minor characters for his cameos and reserve the 'big guns' for a future Justice League movie."
But here's the thing: To a normie, any characters besides Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman are marginal/minor characters. The Flash is one of DC's top heroes but to a normie, he's just another weird side-character. Especially after Ezra Miller played him.
And on Monday, the insiders behind the Gunn firing exclusive said the new bosses call the movie "too bloated" and are not excited about it.
Although I almost can't believe they'd make Wonder Woman -- the most iconic female superhero in the world -- a lesbian, it should be remembered that leftists, feminists, and gay activists have been demanding she be made a lesbian (or at least bisexual) for a long, long time, and leftwing "creatives" have been bowing to that pressure to make many B- or C-list characters gay for a decade now.
Even if the "meet cute" were just a Star-Wars-like hint/suggestion that they might be gay, that would still establish Wonder Woman as canonically lesbian. The straight-to-gay sexuality-bending pipeline only goes in one direction. It never goes in the other direction.
Feh. Maybe Skydance should take Alfred's advice about how to deal with mad chaos agents: "Burn the whole forest down."
Update: It's also reported that Skydance asked Gunn and his partner Safran about their plans for the future and their progress on their alleged "ten year plan" of movies but the pair were secretive and evasive, which made up Skydance's minds for them.
Meanwhile, Jim Caviziel's action movie Ghost Soldier opened Tuesday for Veterans Day.
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DC Shooter Identified as a Doctor Who Was Angry About Black Mold in His Apartment, So He Shot Four People Instead of Hiring a Fucking Cleaner
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Libs don't do maintenance or self-sustenance.
His apartment is worth $1.1 million. I think he could have hired someone to clear out the mold.
He shot up the gym because he thought its ventilation might be giving him mold.
The gunman in the early morning Washington, DC, gym shooting has been identified as a well-heeled doctor who was battling his homeowners' association over black mold in his $1.1 million penthouse and railed about it on X.Dr. Matt Lambert, an emergency room doctor, had sued Metropole Condominium Association in March 2025, alleging that repairs to the building, which involved it being surrounded by scaffolding and drapes, led to mold festering in his home.
"Two years of living in luxury (and the start of 6 months with no shower, dryer, HVAC, and cooking)," an X account linked to Lambert posted Wednesday, along with pictures showing renovations in the Logan Circle unit.
Lambert, who lived on the seventh floor of 1515 15th St. NW, opened fire Thursday morning inside the ground-floor gym, killing at least one person. He then ran back up to his apartment and barricaded himself for nearly an hour before he killed himself.
Emergency personnel are pictured working at the site of a shooting in Washington, DC, with police cruisers, fire trucks, and ambulances surrounding the area, with an overlay of an emergency response team standing on the roof deck of a building in Logan Circle.
DC police said they were investigating a conflict with the homeowner's association as the reason behind the shooting, which left one dead and four others injured.
Lambert filed his suit in March 2025, alleging that his home experienced "no significant water intrusion, mold, moldy smells, moisture accumulation, or related damage," prior to the remediation efforts overseen by the association.But, after the building was enveloped, his unit "experienced suspected water intrusion, mold, significant moisture accumulation, and/or related damage," the suit said.
Lambert described himself as "a board-certified emergency physician with over two decades of clinical experience" and a medical tech executive on his personal website.
"He has a deep understanding of health care regulations and their impact on technology adoption," the site says.
He also said he split his time between the "mountains of West Virginia and the Logan Circle neighborhood of Washington, DC."
I mean, it sucks-- but murder? He is wealthy enough to move.
You might wonder where I'm getting the idea that he's a shitlib from.
Well, from his picture:
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Update: The Twice-Deported Honduran Terrorist Who Panicked a Plane by Claiming He Had a Bomb and Rushing the Cockpit... Was Allowed to Stay In the US by a Judge Because He Claimed He Was "Transgender"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_BREAKING: DHS confirms to @FoxNews that the reason this 2x previously deported illegal alien was released into the country after his third illegal crossing in 2019 is because he claimed to be transgender and claimed fear of being killed in his home country on his asylum application, which was approved in early 2020. DHS has provided that section from his application 👇🏻
DHS alleges that this was a blatant case of asylum fraud and the "gaming of a weak asylum system."
This detail first scooped by @JennieSTaer
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Nvidia's CEO Resigns After His Affair with a Chinese Spy Is Revealed
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Nvidia makes the crucial chips that power almost all AI machines.
China is obviously interested in keeping those chips flowing to China, and perhaps picking up some details about how they're made and how they can be exploited.
And Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang, was just caught bang-banging a Fang Fang.
AF Post @AFpostNvidia CEO Jensen Huang has admitted to having an affair with a suspected Chinese spy in a message to his company amid media reports.
The company has announced an independent investigation into the matter, with the intent of determining whether Huang was the target of a foreign intelligence operation. Huang has apologized to his wife and children and says he takes "full responsibility" for his actions.
OSINTdefender @sentdefenderNvidia announced in a statement Sunday that it is opening an independent investigation of CEO Jensen Huang, following reports that he had been targeted by a long-term foreign intelligence effort led by the Chinese Communist Party aimed at weakening the chip manufacturer's relationship with the United States and strengthening it with China.
Nvidia's Board of Directors said as part of the statement: "A committee of independent directors, assisted by outside independent counsel, will oversee the investigation. The Board prioritizes U.S. national and economic security, which is paramount to the interests of NVIDIA and its shareholders. While the Board has no reason to believe that either national security or NVIDIA secrets were compromised, the Board's inquiry will examine all available information."
I don't know if the suspected honeytrap used her affair with Huang to move chips to China. But she sure did move a lot of Nvidia chips to China:
Kalshi @KalshiBREAKING: Jensen Huang's lover helped move $7,500,000,000 in restricted Nvidia AI chips into China during affair
43% chance Jensen leaves as CEO before 2028
Seven and a half billion dollars' worth of AI chips. That's a lot.
She ran a front company whose mission was to evade restrictions on sales of AI chips to China.
The abrupt departure follows days of melodrama over Huang's admitted affairs -- two have been acknowledged by Huang, so you know there are more out there -- and the fact that his most recent paramour has all the appearances of being a ChiCom intelligence officer in addition to running a front company designed to bust U.S. restrictions on China's access to Nvidia chips. This has cost Nvidia about 30% of its stock value, or about $1 trillion- yes, that was with a "t"- since the affair broke on October 29....
Ms. Huang was an executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed, a major Nvidia customer that U.S. authorities have investigated for suspected diversion of advanced chips toward China. A recent New York Times investigation found that Megaspeed had no offices, facilities, or apparent employees despite accounting for between 10 and 15 percent of Nvidia's revenue. It ran from leased space inside an accounting firm that specialized in managing shell corporations.
And now Huang has resigned, so that Huang can spend more time with his Fang Fang Bang Bang.
Ed Ludlow @EdLudlowBREAKING: Jensen Huang has resigned as Nvidia CEO. CFO Colette Kress will act as Interim CEO and earnings go ahead next week. The board will consider external candidates for CEO longterm.
Nvidia stock prices fell 13% on news of the resignation, but had already fallen a bunch since the disclosure of the scandal at the end of October.
Update: It's now reported he had two extramarital affairs, but I assume it's only the suspected Chinese spy they really care about. The second acknowledged affair was with Kimberly Powell, a Nvidia executive handling health care.
Ed Ludlow @EdLudlowBREAKING: Jensen Huang has resigned as Nvidia CEO. CFO Colette Kress will act as Interim CEO and earnings go ahead next week. The board will consider external candidates for CEO longterm.
Below: China's own chip industry is rapidly catching up to our own.
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At Least Five Shot In DC Near the White House;
Shooter Takes Own Life?
—Disinformation Expert Ace
He should have led with that.
An active shooting situation Thursday morning near Logan Circle in Washington, D.C. has left at least five people injured, D.C. Metro Police tell Fox News Digital.Police say they no longer consider the shooter to be at large, telling Fox News Digital the shooter has been "contained" and is currently barricaded by law enforcement officers.
"MPD is on the scene of an ACTIVE SHOOTING in the area of 15th and P Street, Northwest. MPD's Emergency Response Team is on scene," D.C. police wrote on X.
"AVOID THE AREA," police added.
In a post on X, D.C. Council member Brooke Pinto said the shooting occurred outside of Vida Fitness, adding that multiple people were injured.
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The Morning Rant
—CBD
Shifting cultural norms have consequences that take years to appear, and while the conceit of the left is that behavior can be guided, that is laughably incorrect. Man's social behavior is far too complex to assume that changing X will lead to Y and Z. The real goal of the left is simply to change behavior for the worse...moving it away from traditional roles and toward the chaos that they seek.
The destruction of the perceived differences between men and women, while simultaneously crediting women with all of the physical and martial skills of men may be their greatest triumph. Shifting the default of women away from their natural behavior -- child-bearing and rearing -- and toward some simulacrum of clownish masculinity has produced a culture that is hilariously ignorant of reality. That five-foot tall, 110 pound woman who kicks the crap out of multiple attackers is amusing to watch in a movie, but has no link to the real world. It simply doesn't work that way!
But even more ridiculous is the expectation among the woke ignoramuses that women have the capacity and right to confront men physically, but men will be handcuffed by the traditional mores of a bygone era, and will not respond in kind. Of course those traditional rules apply only to women who behave traditionally.
So we have women behaving like men, and men expected to behave like women.
Except when it doesn't work out quite as planned.
Liberals are mad because ICE removed this woman that was blocking law enforcement https://t.co/f6Y22lqkAG
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) October 31, 2026
I watched that clip about 17 times, because it makes me chuckle. This middle-aged AWFL was confident that the social construct of the empowered woman was sufficient to protect her from the real-world consequences of her actions which, when examined, were nothing more than a physical confrontation with law enforcement.
And she lost.
Which is to be expected in about 99% of these cases. The time and place for confrontation with law enforcement is when one is before a judge, not on the street. Oh, she thought that because her cause was just and good and approved by the bien-pensants that she would be safe from the physical consequences of her physical act. She was wrong, but her expectation was reasonable because that is what our culture has taught her!
And those lessons can be seen across the country in thousands of these sorts of interactions. The earnest but deluded leftist who knocks over a pro-life organization's table at a demonstration is shocked...SHOCKED...to be handcuffed and taken to jail. The septuagenarian lunatic in NH who slaps a Turning Point Action volunteer is stunned by the perfectly reasonable result...arrest!
In the old America, most people understood that physical confrontation often led to a punch on the nose or a trip to jail, and that is why girls and women shied away from that sort of behavior. But the rules have changed, and not for the better. Perhaps America needs to return to a time when violence was allowed to develop according to those ancient and rather clever rules.
Does that mean that traditional roles are better than the chaos we have today? Absolutely, and those roles were a big part of keeping our society reasonably civil, at least in comparison to the current insanity.
Now get off my lawn!
[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. And if you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow me it would be much appreciated!
The Morning Report — 11/12 /26
—J.J. Sefton
A Brooklyn building collapsed into a massive pile of rubble Wednesday, killing at least two people and injuring 17 — including four critically — as firefighters desperately search for more victims buried underneath the wreck in a harrowing scene. Loved ones made frantic calls for help after the three-story apartment building at Newkirk and Flatbush Avenues fell into an active construction site next door at around 4 p.m., witnesses said. Officials warned that the number of victims would likely increase. Rescue crews don’t know how many people from the building are still missing as the dire and dangerous search for any survivors continued into the night and is expected to stretch for days.
As many of you know, I am a former New Yorker, so this story really hits close to home in that I not only hail from Brooklyn but my childhood home is not even a mile from the site of the collapse.
And speaking of collapses, the hits just keep on coming for NYC.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed a law giving nonprofit organizations the first opportunity to purchase distressed residential buildings. . . Covered properties include multifamily buildings with four or more units that are in significant disrepair, as well as buildings with affordability restrictions governed by HPD regulatory agreements. By creating a pathway for responsible community-based ownership, COPA will ensure that these properties are repaired, maintained and operated in partnership with tenants rather than left to deteriorate by negligent owners.
Obviously given the players involved here, the terms "responsible" and "negligent owners" are quite fungible. You better believe that property inspectors will be fully vetted for their political allegiances to no one but the Democrat Socialites. That means that a distressed property will be defined as one whose owner is the Trump organization or someone similar.
The Democrats believe that having a home is a human right. Not for the rightful owner of a property but every indigent, layabout, vagrant and illegal alien in our midst. After all America was colonized by white supremacist foreigners and so the other favorite Leftist word is in equal force: Liberation
Thanksgiving Is a 'Day of Mourning,' Lesson Plan Recommended to Loudoun County Second Graders Says. . . Public school teachers in Loudoun County, Virginia, looking to teach their students about American holidays can draw from a list of district-approved lesson plans, including one recommended for second graders that declares Thanksgiving a "Day of Mourning" and another that calls Columbus Day a "Debated Celebration," documents obtained via a public records request and shared exclusively with the Washington Free Beacon show.
My own personal view is that Thanksgiving is a day of Liberation, in that civilized, advanced, cultured superior people liberated a continent from savage heathen rapists, pedophiles, and subhuman cannibals and bringing them the priceless benefits of civilization. In any case if you think what's going on in Loudon County is a one-off, you better think again. Because what happened to us on Election Day and really since the Swinging 60s if not earlier, get ready for your kids and grandkids to get it right in the head! Because the revolution must be generational and forever.
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) made huge political gains in the midterms. Having already captured the mayor’s office in New York City, the group is now working their political message into school classrooms. American education is already rife with left-wing political indoctrination, but it’s about to get even worse. . . The New York City DSA chapter also established Comrades With Kids, a family-focused organizing group that seeks to be a “political and social home base for working-class families.” The group posted photos of DSA-themed coloring pages for children provided at a Zohran for Parents event in September 2025.
FORGET a lousy tenement in Flatbush, the Berlin Wall fell on top of us and from where I'm lying, I can't see anyone coming to dig us out! But wait, there's more, as the hits just keep on coming.
Democrat Scott Colom Wins Mississippi Senate Seat Defeating Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith . . . that gives Democrats their 55th seat in the U.S. Senate following the November midterm election.
Despite all this misery, I nevertheless hope that all of you have a good day
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Victor Davis Hanson: The MAGA divide over Iran isn’t a neoconservative revival but a clash between Jacksonian interventionists and isolationists, with accusations of neocon influence obscuring the real debate.
Neocons, Neocons, Neocons!
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Daily Tech News 12 November 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Softbank has totally not defaulted on an order for 13 gigawatts of gas turbine generators as Elon Musk claimed. (Tom's Hardware)
Did it cancel the order? Yes.
Did it lose $3.7 billion in the process? Also yes.
- Elon Musk meanwhile wants to build a $24 billion data center in Starbase, Texas, with 10 gigawatts of gas turbine power plants. (Tom's Hardware)
The article does note that he's likely to face resistance from the incoming Khmer Bleu state administration.
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Wednesday Night ONT - November 11, 2026 [TRex]
—Open Blogger
Good evening Horde! The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety. The bar is open and fully stocked. Step up and place your order.
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.
If you're a troll, go away.
This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Please.
Early morning coming here at Casa Dino, so apologies for being more low profile than usual in the comments. Please don't make a mess of the place. I'd like to get my security deposit back.
Today is Veteran's Day. Thank you to all who serve.
[Top photo:Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.]
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Dogs, Cats, and Birds Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Coast Guardsmen on the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Spencer
watch the explosion of a depth charge which blasted a Nazi U-boat's
hope of breaking into the center of a large convoy.
Sinking of U-175, April 17, 1943.
Via The Art of Manliness's collection of
50 Amazing Rarely-Seen Photos from WWII
Old but fun.
Dogs getting in on cats' roles as Chaos Agents.
The fundamental flaw with cat toys is that cats are demons. They speak in strange tongues.
Honoring the veterans of the meme wars.
We need the Ludarcis "Move bitch, get out da way" clip here.
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Kennedy Nepo Crones Sue Trump to Block Construction of National Cemetery Arch, Whining That It... Might Cast Shadows on the Graves of Kennedys
—Disinformation Expert Ace
It's at times like this where I think, maybe the French Revolution was a good idea.
RFK Jr.'s siblings sue Trump to stop 'Triumphal Arch' from 'casting shadows' on family graves Robert and Ethel Kennedy, President Kennedy, Senator Ted Kennedy, WWII casualty Joe Kennedy were all laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. Arch would "also cast a shadow over our democratic principles," family says.
Well we can't have shadows falling on the graves of aristocrats!
Seven of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s siblings, plus his nephew and cousin, are suing President Trump, the Interior Department and National Park Service among others to stop Trump's planned "Triumphal Arch," citing its unavoidable blocking of light over their family's graves at Arlington National Cemetery, which are "sacred spaces.""Our parents, Robert and Ethel Kennedy, and our uncles, President John F. Kennedy and Senator Edward M. Kennedy, are laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. Our uncle Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., who lost his life serving our country in World War II, is also memorialized there," RFK Jr.'s siblings Rory Kennedy and Maxwell Kennedy said on behalf of the family in a statement released by their lawyers at Democracy Defenders Fund.
"We believe Donald Trump has violated the laws and procedures established by Congress to protect this most sacred national memorial," they said, portraying the arch as an attack on democracy itself.
"A towering arch casting shadows across the graves of our father, mother, and uncles, as well as the graves of so many who have served our country, would also cast a shadow over our democratic principles, undermining the safeguards established by our elected representatives to protect this hallowed ground for generations to come," they said.
The fund makes clear the family sees Trump's plan as a personal affront.
"The arch would block views of the Kennedy Gravesites and Eternal Flame from Arlington Memorial Bridge -- a sightline specially chosen by the Kennedy family," it says. "The arch would also cast a shadow over the Kennedys' graves, especially in the early morning when the family traditionally visits."
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Though the "activist" U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan temporarily blocked the start of construction for at least two weeks in response to Virginia and D.C. legal action, the Trump administration is "confident we will be fully vindicated as this litigation proceeds," Ingle said.
Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Joe Biden: My debate debacle wasn't very "consequential," you know.
Steve Cortes @SteveCortesJoe Biden now claims his 2024 presidential debate against President Trump, which forced him to drop out of the race, was not very consequential:
"To me it was not very consequential. First of all I thought there would be another debate, which there wasn't. Notwithstanding the fact that there wasn't another debate, it didn't disturb me because it wasn't consequential."
Just 24 days after the "not very consequential" presidential debate, Joe Biden ended his campaign for President.
Video here. He doesn't sound a day over 10,000.
Happy Election News:Don't know if this got commented on previously or not, but Illinois SuperMayor Tiffany Henyard's bid to become a Fulton County (GA) Commissioner as the Republican choice fell just a bit short.
Henyard (R) 5.40%
Willis (D) 94.60%Posted by: Count de Monet has opinions
Teeeee-riffic:
Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_BREAKING: Sen. Majority Leader John Thune has been re-elected by Senate Republicans and will serve as Senate Minority Leader in the new Congress when Dems take power. Senators Barrasso, Cotton, Capito, and Lankford have all also been re-elected to their positions. Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) will now serve as NRSC Chairman instead of Sen. Tim Scott.
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_THUNE STATEMENT:
"I appreciated the opportunity to have an open, honest, and transparent conversation with my colleagues today, and I am honored to have their continued trust and support to lead the Senate Republican Conference in the 120th Congress," said Thune. "I'm proud of what this Republican team has accomplished together, and we remain united in our commitment to advancing conservative priorities, working with President Trump and our colleagues in the House, and holding the line against Democrats' efforts to enact their far-left, liberal agenda. We have important work ahead of us, and I look forward to serving alongside my colleagues on behalf of the American people."
Fuck you.
Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just promised "many, many investigations" to round up the huge number of "criminals" that Democrats see in their political opponents. None of this bodes well for the Republic as we restart the type of J6 show trials that marked the prior Democratic House.
Preston Byrne
@prestonjbyrneOfcom [The UK's big brother censorship organization] indicated in a hearing today that it is going to start pushing for arrest warrants for American refusers of the Online Safety Act.
It is wildly inappropriate for a foreign country to threaten Americans for exercising our constitutional rights.
The GRANITE Act would shield an American from extradition, and any time Ofcom threatened an American in this way, the American would be able to drag Ofcom - the UK's Internet censor - into federal court to confirm the order is unenforceable.
Congress: pass the GRANITE Act!
Voters aren't allowed to be their authentic selves...
Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸
@BubblebathgirlSeattle Mayor Katie Wilson doesn't care that voters passed Initiative 638 on Election Day to keep biological males out of girls' sports. On Tuesday, a week after the election, she posted that she supports the Seattle Public Schools Board's decision to challenge the measure because "every young person in Seattle deserves to thrive as their authentic self."
That's not governing. That's ignoring the result. Washington voters approved the initiative to protect girls' sports with a clear majority--about 57 percent--even while Democrats made gains elsewhere on the ballot. I-638 requires medical documentation confirming biological sex for girls' competition. That law takes effect in December. Wilson and the school board are moving to fight it in court anyway.
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Lefty Hipster Doofus and King of Nepotism James Gunn Replaced by Skydance With a... Christian Normie
—Disinformation Expert Ace
As you can imagine, there is much freaking out about this by the very-normal people who literally freak out about everything.
First: Why were Gunn and his business partner Peter Safran fired from co-leading DC on Film?
And note that it has been confirmed that he was fired, or instructed to "resign."
After "Superman" landed in theaters last summer, former Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav was ready to pop Champagne. Although the movie had only been playing on the big screen for three days, he touted the "bold 10-year plan" of DC Studios co-chiefs James Gunn and Peter Safran and promised "the DC vision is clear" and "the momentum is real."Fast forward a year and a half, and those plans have imploded. Gunn and Safran were dismissed from the top of the comic book empire, with Marvel Studios alum Jeremy Latcham taking over as president and chief creative officer of DC Studios.
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The executive shuffle is yet another setback for DC Studios, which has struggled for years to compete with Disney's Marvel Cinematic Universe. Their short-lived leadership stint at DC follows multiple turnovers over the past decade, starting with comic book veterans Geoff Johns and Jon Berg and then Walter Hamada....
Gunn's "Superman," starring David Corenswet -- the duo's first big swing as bosses -- was touted as a hit with $618 million against a $225 million budget. Those ticket sales were promising enough, given the general decline in popularity of comic book movies. But they didn't necessarily signal the kind of lasting enthusiasm that spawns an interconnected universe. Momentum all but evaporated with July's money-loser "Supergirl," which flopped with $126 million globally against a $170 million budget. And while October's "Clayface" performed modestly with $109 million against a $44 million budget, sources suggest the body-horror thriller won't break even until the studio factors in downstream revenues.
I really liked -- maybe loved -- Gunn's reboot of The Suicide Squad. Some objected to him being put in charge of DC on Film -- the only thing he knows how to do, they said, was make crude jokes, inappropriate for young or normie audiences, and remake Guardians of the Galaxy, making every movie, even ones about a singular hero, into another story of a team of misfits learning together.
I dismissed that. Just because someone is good at one thing doesn't mean they aren't good at other things.
But I was wrong: He is incapable of writing anything but Guardians of the Galaxy Part IV.
And this is weird: Instead of focusing on DC's best-known heroes, he announced he'd be making movies about the third and fourth and fifth string heroes like -- and I know only stone-cold DC fans will even know what I'm talking about here -- Creature Commandos, Booster Gold, and The Authority.
If you're not a DC fan, you just read a bunch of words that mean absolutely nothing.
Let me tell you that as a DC fan myself, they only mean slightly more than nothing to me, too.
Insiders have raised eyebrows at Gunn and Safran's decision to focus on lesser-known characters, like Superman's cousin Kara El-Zor, aka Supergirl, and the Batman villain Clayface, rather than building out the franchise with marquee names.
I will give Gunn a half-pass for this choice, because the prior regime ruined many of the top DC characters, like Flash and Wonder Woman. (If you're thinking "But Wonder Woman was good," then I know you didn't see Wonder Woman '84. It was a disaster.)
Television efforts, too, were uneven. DC's main small-screen success was "The Penguin," a "Batman" spinoff led by Colin Farrell that was greenlit before Gunn and Safran took over. But the rest of the slate has generated less fanfare. Gunn's "Peacemaker" series, anchored by John Cena, debuted in 2022 before he stepped into the studio job. Although the initial season was popular, the second season -- which launched three years later -- failed to match the buzz of the first. "Lanterns," their first live-action TV show, had strong viewership and averaged 19 million viewers globally per episode going into the finale. Yet an insider at the company suggests the crime drama isn't quite capturing the zeitgeist, pointing out the show has yet to be renewed for a second season.
That one was also a disaster -- an anti-white woke screed about black supremacy.
Here's the good news: The Ellisons have decided to move away from the tasteless trashy woke hipster towards... a stone-cold normie who used to work for Marvel, when --- wait for it -- Marvel was good. He was part of Marvel from Iron Man through Spider-Man: Homecoming, which was just before the end of Marvel's golden age.
Internally, there's hope that Latcham -- an executive who helped shape the MCU -- will get back to basics with DC.
"Jeremy is the kind of guy who would go to Comic-Con to get an autograph from someone," says another source, "not someone who wants to be there signing autographs."
When Latcham was at Marvel, he'd question some edgy or divisive material, stating, "I don't think my grandmother would like this." Other executives would joke and propose things "if that would be all right with Jeremy's grandmother."
But apparently Jeremy's Grandmother was a good proxy for 85% of the normie audience.
Apparently Jermey Latcham is a Christian whose entire family lives near him on a giant spread in Texas, and who is dedicated to "mainstream, family-friendly, Christian-friendly" movies.
You can smell the artificial hormones burning over this.
It was Jeremy Latcham, a mild-mannered producer who was once a key member of Marvel Studios' exec team before moving to Texas to go independent.An occasional foray into big-budget moviemaking such as Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves notwithstanding...
Which is a really solid movie, despite failing at the box office.
...Latcham was focusing on inspirational movies such as the Wright Brothers feature Flyer for the faith-focused studio Wonder Project, where he also helped make House of David, a TV show about the biblical figure. The producer is known to be vocal about his Christian faith and his desire to make uplifting projects."I had this nagging feeling that I needed to do more movies that had deeper meaning to me," Latcham said of Wonder Project during an appearance on the Bible Bros podcast while promoting the Nate Bargatze comedy The Breadwinner. "Let's be the HBO for the faith and family audience. Let's try to make movies and television shows that restore faith in things worth believing in."
Despite being Christian, Latcham apparently fought with Marvel to give James Gunn the Guardians of the Galaxy gig.
So he's not against edgy or trashy material -- in the appropriate case.
In a twist, Latcham was instrumental in Gunn's rise, advocating for the niche director's hiring on Marvel Studios' Guardians of the Galaxy, which turned Gunn into an A-list filmmaker who commands eight-figure paydays for his directing work.
DC's heroes, who are intended to play to broad, traditional normie audiences including children, are not the right characters for the Gunn treatment.
There is speculation he might also clean house at DC comics itself, which has been on a mission to forefront homosexuality and sexuality-bend characters like the most popular Robin, Tim Drake, and the formerly-popular Superboy, into gays and bisexuals.
This, of course, is causing all sorts of shrieking and screaming.
Some of the people who have lobbied and demanded for every other DC character to be turned gay are complaining that the Latcham might jam his personal beliefs down our throats.
Can you even imagine such a thing??!!>
But no he won't, because he's a professional, not a bent and twisted activist.
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CNN Director: We Focus on the Race of the Criminal When He's White But Hide It When He's a "Minority"
Plus: The Media Gins Up a Fresh Race Hoax
—Disinformation Expert Ace
You don't say.
You do not say.
This is a hidden-camera sting admission, of course. He would never admit this publicly.
This is standard CNN practice. Jake Tapper is very big on reporting crimes committed against Jews -- but, when black men were playing the knockout game with Jews in NYC, he did not report it, or if he mentioned it, he made sure he didn't run the video or name the perpetrators.
But he would generally complain of violence against Jews while avoiding any mention of the actual perpetrators of what he was talking about.
But then came the Tree of Life attack, where a synagogue was attacked by an Acceptable and Approved Villain, a white man. And then Jake Tapper really talked up the problem of violence against Jews, with the none-too-subtle suggestion that White Men, Republicans in particular, were responsible for it.
You see the same thing with rapes. White feminist women love to complain about rape... so long as it's a made-up allegation about presumably white Cornell students. (Note: It turns out most of them weren't white, but they assumed they were.)
Russell Brand, safely white, makes for an excellent Morality Play about concent.
Muslim rape gangs, on the other hand? Never heard of them. What are you talking about, Racist?
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Trump and Hegseth Honor the Heroes on This Veterans Day
—Disinformation Expert Ace
In addition to honoring the heroes, Trump also made the case for the war with Iran, although he also promised it would be over "soon."
During a speech at Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday, President Donald Trump thanked U.S. service members for their ongoing sacrifices and argued that the U.S. has been pitted against Iran since 1979, when the Islamic Revolution happened.President Donald Trump defended the war in Iran and said it will be over "soon" during his Veterans Day address on Wednesday.
Trump made the statement while speaking to a crowd of veterans and their families at Arlington National Cemetery. He highlighted the 1983 Iran-backed bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut and argued that Iran has been at war with the U.S. for decades.
"America did not start a war with Iran. Iran has been waging war on America since 1979. They should have been taken care of a long time ago," Trump said.
A brief background on Veterans Day:
The First World War killed as many as 22 million people worldwide and left some 23 million more wounded. An estimated 53,000 of those killed were American service members. Another 204,000 Americans would return home wounded.World War I ushered in a new age of warfare: industrial and mechanical innovations killed, wounded, and maimed troops on the battlefield in ways previously unimaginable. Tanks, machine guns, and poison gas forever scarred the men in the trenches in ways they could never forget -- and Americans back home took notice.
On the anniversary of the armistice, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the first commemoration of Armistice Day, saying:
"To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations."
From Armistice Day to Veterans Day
From that day until 1926, Armistice Day became a day Americans recognized unofficially, closing shops at 11 a.m. so people could line the streets for parades, public meetings, and prayer. By 1926, 27 states had already recognized the day as a holiday, so Congress decided to call it Armistice Day for the entire country. In 1938, November 11th became an official public holiday.
But "The War to End All Wars" didn't end any wars. It was just a prelude to World War II, the largest and costliest war in human history, in terms of both money and lives spent fighting it. World War II didn't end wars, either. After the Allies defeated the Axis Powers, the Cold War began, and in 1950, its first battles were fought on the Korean Peninsula. The United States, less than 40 years after the end of World War I, was suddenly filled with millions of war veterans, all of whom had fought for American freedoms and ideals.
The National Recognition of Veterans Day
In 1954, a year after the end of the Korean War, veteran service organizations lobbied Congress to amend the Act of 1938 to change "Armistice Day" to "Veterans Day" and make November 11th a day to honor all veterans.
banner"I have today signed a proclamation calling upon all of our citizens to observe Thursday, November 11, 1954, as Veterans Day," President Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote in a letter to the administrator of Veterans Affairs. "It is my earnest hope that all veterans, their organizations, and the entire citizenry will join hands to ensure [sic] proper and widespread observance of this day."
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Arkansas "Republican" Says He Might Vote to Impeach Pete Hegseth
—Disinformation Expert Ace
A Republican congressman who narrowly won a seventh House term in deep-red Arkansas refused Sunday to rule out voting to impeach War Secretary Pete Hegseth."I want to hear the debate on it to see if it merits impeachment versus some other disciplinary action or action by the president, if he's not getting the job done in leading the Department of War," Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.) told CBS News' "Face The Nation."
Hill, 69, answered "no" when host Margaret Brennan asked if he was "satisfied with how the war has been handled."
"But, I mean, I think the commander in chief has to take the responsibility for the strategy of conducting the war and how it's been conducted," he added. "But I will tell you one thing. There's nobody in America that wants Iran to have a nuclear weapon."
The House is expected to vote sometime this week on a resolution to impeach Hegseth promoted by lame-duck Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who has vowed to force the issue unless the former Fox News host resigns.
"Not prosecuting a war perfectly" is not a grounds for impeachment. It's just a policy difference. And it's not really a policy difference at all because this pussy doesn't offer any of his own war policies that he can even claim would have been more effective.
As Jonathan Turley points out, the Democrats are admitting openly that they have scrapped the Constitution's requirement of high crimes and misdemeanors for impeachment and are now using it simply as a tool to fight for policy changes.
Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurleyRep. Jason Crow (D., Co.) just told Martha McCallum that the impeachment of Hegseth is "not really about impeachment" but rather just a desire to remove him. He said that this is just another means. That is precisely what the Framers did not want impeachment to become...
...Rep. Crow is speaking of impeachment as a way of forcing "a course change." It is exactly the cavalier attitude toward impeachment that can be so destabilizing for our country...
...He added "we have a tool called impeachment" that allows them to remove cabinet members like Hegseth if the President will not do so. When Martha pushed him on such "amorphous" objections, Crow said, "I would love to end the impeachment proceedings...just fire Pete Hegseth."
As Hegseth says: This sham impeachment is just their opening shot in using lawfare to get rid of anyone they don't like -- and that will eventually include ordinary civilians.
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Perfect: Twice-Deported Illegal Alien Arrested for Making a Bomb Threat Against a Plane In Flight
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This guy gets Cultural Enrichment right.
The deranged passenger who claimed he had a bomb aboard a New Orleans-bound United Airlines flight and then tried to rush the cockpit, has been identified as a Honduran illegal migrant twice kicked out of the US, immigration officials told The Post.
I have a scoop: He was deported once for saving too many lives as a heroic doctor, and deported a second time for being such a brilliant engineer he created limitless energy, but Big Energy wanted it kept secret.
Rony Alexander Gomez-Alberto, 34, was arrested on three separate occasions by Border Patrol for illegally entering the United States, years before he threatened to blow up the United flight 2174 plane out of New Jersey Monday night, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said.Immigration officials said that Gomez-Alberto, a Honduras native, was arrested twice in the US and deported -- first in September 2011 near El Indio, Texas, and again in October 2014 in Columbus, New Mexico.
The slippery migrant made his way back into the US a third time in 2019 near California's San Ysidro border town, where he was nabbed again, according to DHS.But Gomez-Alberto was freed from ICE custody in January 2020 after a judge ordered his release pending removal proceedings, authorities said.
Ah, even though he'd committed multiple crimes of sneaking into the country and then sneaking back, a leftwing judge ordered that he be released to flee again while he set a new clock on the potential years of procedure necessary to deport him again.
Those leftwing judges need to be purged and possibly prosecuted. Maybe they should be prosecuted as co-conspirators for all the crimes the illegals they set free subsequently (inevitably) commit.
His criminal history includes felony bomb threat, felony threat--terroristic state offenses, and disorderly conduct, according to the DHS spokesperson."Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin, criminal illegal aliens are NOT welcome in the United States," the spokesperson said in a statement.
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Wednesday Morning Rant
—Joe Mannix
Of all the things this midterm election was about, "climate change" - remember that? - wasn't one of them. Middle-aged or older lefties still care, and a lot the youth still care (or say they do), but virtually nobody was voting climate change this year. It was not an electoral issue and practically nobody even mentioned it on the campaign trail. The Democrats weren't trumpeting how important "fighting climate change" is and the the Republicans weren't even bothering with their typical limp-wristed "sure it's a problem, but won't someone please think of the share prices" response because they didn't have to. It never came up.
Despite being muted this year, however, "climate change" remains a powerful weapon and with the communists surging into commanding majorities next year, it absolutely will be a legislative pursuit. It won't be as big as the headline-grabbers like "impeach everyone" or "turn USAID back on" or "open the border" or the virtually inevitable "government shutdown" will be, and that might be helpful to the cause. They can - and will - move on it even if they don't talk much while dismantling everything they can in the name of Mother Gaia. The Party used the increasingly-ghoulish John Kerry to telegraph is intent. At a UN climate change junket in Turkey, he made the preposterous assertion that the recent election demonstrates that the American public sees "climate change" as a "voting issue." It was an election where the issue basically didn't exist, but whatever. Any port in a storm.
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