The Morning Report — 12/18/25

Good morning kids. First we have reports of wildfires with near hurricane force winds spreading in the high plains. Prayers for the safety of all of those affected as well as for the firefighting crews and first responders who will hopefully be able to get the situation under control as rapidly as possible.

Elsewhere in the news, we have two separate shootings on two of the nation's top campuses, Brown University and at MIT.

At Brown, two students were slain, one of them was evidently a prominent conservative on campus. And that the Providence RI PD cannot or will not confirm that the shooter shouted that popular phrase that all the hep cats dig Hold that Tiger! Allah Akbar it means that he probably did and so as not to offend the delicate sensibilities and cause "backlash!" they have kept it dark.

Meanwhile up in the Boston area, an MIT professor was shot and killed in his home. He taught nuclear science and engineering.

Are these incidents all connected somehow. Given the assassination of Charlie Kirk and several failed attempts on President Trump as well as the violent rhetoric and actual violence and acts of terrorism by the Left cheered on and encouraged by the Democrat propagandist media and the Democrats themselves not just in the Trump era but virtually throughout our history. Well anything is possible, and maybe the MIT Professor had links to Academia's bête noire The State of Israel or was targeted by the Chi-Coms or other foreign state actors? Meh, just spit-ballin' here. Don't cost nuthin'. . .

And then of course, in the wake of the Islamic butchery against Jews celebrating Chanukah in Australia, this happened just the other night in the most Jewish neighborhood of America's and perhaps the world's most Jewish city outside of Israel itself.

A Jewish New Yorker described Tuesday how he was stabbed just centimeters from his heart by a hateful sicko — who made a chilling promise before lunging at him on a Brooklyn street.

“I’m going to kill a Jew today,” the knife-wielding goon seethed before launching the antisemitic attack, said victim Elias Rosner, 35, in an interview with The Post on Wednesday.

Rosner, a member of the Lubavitch Hasidic community in Crown Heights, had just left the temple on Tuesday afternoon when he came across the still-at-large attacker spewing antisemitic slurs.

“I was waiting in a crowd of Jewish people and this guy started spouting stuff,” Rosner recalled. “I’m going to kill Jewish people, I’m going to kill a Jew today, I don’t give a f–k … We wouldn’t be in this mess if the Holocaust had happened,” the unhinged man ranted, according to Rosner.
The man “looked very serious” — but Rosner refused to cower in the face of the ugly threats, he said. “I guess I was the one guy that had the bravery to look him in the eye,” he said.

“So, he was waiting. He set a trap up for me a block ahead. He came around the corner and it just started happening.”

Rosner was stabbed once in the chest, at the corner of Kingston Avenue and Lincoln Place around 4 p.m., by the madman, police said, adding the NYPD was investigating the attack as an antisemitic hate crime — on the third night of the Hanukkah Jewish holiday.

The Brooklynite only narrowly escaped with his life — miraculously saved by his sweater, he said.. . Rosner said the attack was part of the uptick in antisemitic sentiment following Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, with the anti-Jewish hate trickling down to Big Apple neighborhoods, including on college campuses and in the subways.

If the neighborhood of "Crown Heights" sounds somewhat familiar to some of you, it was the scene of a car accident back in 1991 involving a young black child who was hit by a car being driven by a Hassidic man. Sadly with tensions already (historically) running high between the long-standing Hassidic community and their black neighbors, Al Sharpton was on the scene faster than you can say "White Interlopers and Diamond Merchants" and a near full scale race riot and pogrom broke out resulting in the beating death, at the hands of a mob of black youths of one Yankel Rosenbaum, an orthodox Jewish student who was visiting the US from, of all places Australia!! For three straight days and nights Jewish homes and shops were attacked, and two weeks later, another man was killed by the mobs, who wasn't even Jewish but mistaken for one, having been in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The Crown Heights pogrom and the sheer ineptitude of then mayor David Dinkins in allowing it to happen by handcuffing law enforcement, ultimately led to his ouster two years later and the temporary reprieve of the Big Apple from doom with the glory years of Rudy Giuliani. Yet, here we are 34 years on and the city has decided that a Muslim Communist is what NYC needs.

Quite a few of Australia's Jews have decided that the land down under will send them six feet under so they have decided that enough is enough after witnessing Bondi Beach.

The attack has left Sydney’s Jewish community shaken, with some members now considering emigrating to Israel. Chavi, a 27-year-old mother who was at the event with her baby, described using her body as a shield to protect her child during the attack. “I love Australia, I was born here, and I know [Israel] is in the Middle East… but we were just sitting ducks here,” she told the Sydney Morning Herald.

And yet New York and far too many of its Jews by birth only just shoved a thermonuclear enema up its collective keister.

But you better not complain!

British authorities sentenced a Dorset man to 18 months in jail for inciting hate and violence on X in the heated aftermath of the 2024 Southport stabbings that left three children dead and another 10 people injured. . . There's no denying the nasty nature of Yarwood's posts, sent to X before the identity of the killer — 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana — was known, but was widely misreported to have been a Muslim immigrant. Rudakubana was born in Cardiff, but his parents were evangelical immigrants from Rwanda. . . Even a veteran of intemperate tweets like myself would never post anything like Yarwood did, but still, 33 views? This guy barely incited more racial hatred than Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh in all three Lethal Weapon movies combined. See, that's funny because one is black and the other is white and they're basically family and race hardly comes up. I miss movies like those. 

But oh no, President Trump said nasty things about Rob Reiner. As CBD and I discussed on the latest episode of the podcast, linked here and in the sidebar and posted on the usual outlets listed below, there are far more crucial things the President can and should be communicating to the American people than his personal animus towards the late Mr. Reiner.

In any case as VIctor Davis Hanson notes, we are (are we?) in danger of heading towards a new dark age.

Contemporary Americans do not believe that our current civilization could self-destruct a third time in the West, followed by an impoverished and brutal Dark Age.

But what caused these prior returns to tribalism and loss of science, technology, and the rule of law?

Historians cite several causes of societal collapse—and today they are hauntingly familiar.Like people, societies age. Complacency sets in.

Meh, professor, in the immortal words of Nick Lowe, "You've got to be cruel to be kind!"

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• Rapidly spreading wildfires have triggered evacuations in South Dakota and Wyoming, fueled by hurricane-force winds from a widespread storm system affecting the entire country.According to the FOX Forecast Center, wind gusts reaching as high as 70 mph have been recorded in the Pennington County region of South Dakota, driving the rapid expansion of the wildfire.
  South Dakota, Wyoming See Evacuations Due To Wildfires Erupting From Hurricane-Force Winds

• Victor Davis Hanson: History suggests civilizations fall when complacency, debt, and tribalism replace unity, discipline, and reform—prompting fears the West may be nearing a familiar decline.
  Can the Dark Ages Return?

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• Col. Allen West: The leftist heart of darkness.
  Leftists Say the Strangest Things
  
• National Guard troops have been deployed across the country by President Trump.
  National Guard Under Attack From ‘Deranged Individuals’ In U.S. Cities, Senator Says

  "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS

• If you like the place you live, the odds are that refugee resettlement will ruin it.
  Mohamed Gets Into Standoff With Cops in South Dakota
  
• On December 9, 54-year-old illegal alien Yisong Huang of China allegedly crashed the tour bus he was driving at the time into the vehicle in front of him, causing a multi-vehicle crash that ultimately killed Kerry Smith and injured two other Americans.
  Biden’s Catch and Release: Chinese Illegal Alien Bus Driver Accused of Killing Woman in Tennessee Crash
  
• Amid the partisan polarization, there is a two-to-one plurality for less migration vs more migration. Just 18 percent of citizens want legalized migration to be increased, while 35 percent want it decreased or zeroed.
  Poll: Plurality Want Less or Zero Legal Migration

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• How many more must die before our leaders confront Islam?
  The Betrayal of the West
  
• During a sermon delivered earlier this month at the North Miami Islamic Center in Miami, Florida, Islamic preacher Dr. Fadi Yousef Kablawi told congregants that the United States has committed so much injustice globally that it warrants divine punishment, arguing that the only reason such judgment has not occurred is due to the presence of righteous Muslims within the country. (High time Kablawi went Kablooee, IYKWIM - jjs)
  Miami Imam: U.S. Deserves Divine Punishment, Trump ‘Human Garbage’ — ‘The Foot of the Dirtiest Somali Is Cleaner Than Your Face’
  
• “Germany’s Christmas markets opened this year under the tightest security seen in peacetime Europe.”
  Germany Fortifies Christmas Markets With Armed Guards, Security Barriers as Anti-Christian Violence Surges
  
• It's not about Israel. It's about convincing Jews everywhere to let themselves be killed by Muslim terrorists. (Muslims period, terrorists is a redundancy - jjs)
  Anti-Israel Group Urges US Jews Not to Defend Synagogues Against Islamic Terrorists

• Elias Rosner was attacked by a knife-wielding man in Crown Heights in an antisemitic incident on Tuesday afternoon. (scumbag who did it has a distinct Sharptonian complexion - jjs)
  Jewish New Yorker recounts stabbing just centimeters from his heart by antisemitic sicko: ‘Going to kill a Jew today’

  BONDI BEACH CHANUKAH BLOODBATH

• A man caught on video rushing an alleged gunman and seizing a firearm thanked supporters from his hospital bed in footage posted Monday
  Wounded Hero Breaks Silence On Deadly Australian Terror Attack From Hospital
  
• The attack has prompted members of Sydney’s Jewish community to consider leaving Australia.
  Jewish Businesses Are Shutting Down in Australia Following Bondi Beach Massacre.

  NATIONAL GUARDSMEN GUNNED DOWN IN DC, by Biden-Imported Islamic Savage

• It will be decades before the alleged assassin is executed—if ever.
  Don’t Expect Swift Justice in the National Guard Member’s Murder

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• “There is a perception that forcefully tackling this issue would cause political backlash from the Somali community, which is a core voting block for Democrats.”
  Sen. Kennedy Reveals Damning Minnesota AG Office Memo on Somali Fraud
  
• Lawmaker-led investigation discovers that Feeding Our Future fraudsters are
  Minnesota Is Currently Paying An Indicted Somali Fraudster To Run ‘Assisted Living’ Homes

• The emergence of “ghost apartments” reveals a fundamentally broken housing market.
  Why Are 50,000 New York City Apartments Vacant?

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• Andre Zeitoun, CEO and founder of Ionic Mineral Technologies: “A watershed moment for American resource independence.”
  Utah’s Desert Yields Rare Earths Motherlode, Challenging China’s Grip on Critical Minerals
  
• ‘While American families and businesses find a way to do more with less, the government does less with more,’ said OpenTheBooks’ John Hart.
  Buried In Debt: Report Finds Government Spending Per Person Soared 10,000 Percent Over Last Century

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• The grainy images show a person in a coat and hoodie walking through a yard on what appears to be a residential street.
  Police Ask For Help Identifying A Second Person In Brown University Shooting Investigation

• Trump's comments suggest that Bongino is soon to exit the Department of Justice after joining the bureau in February.
  Trump: Dan Bongino ‘Wants To Go Back To His Show’

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• Standing with persecuted Christians this season.
  The Dangerous Joy of Christmas

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• When it comes to hit jobs, the 10,000-word Vanity Fair spread on Susie Wiles is a classic of the genre.
  Miranda Devine: The Vanity Fair interview was a ‘targeted’ hit job on Susie Wiles, entire Trump admin

• Yarwood's posts called for "slaughter in the streets" of Muslims and encouraged people to "Head for the hotels housing them and burn them to the ground." 
  UK Imprisons Man for 17 Days — for Each X View of His 'Hate' Speech

  
  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,

• The documents contradict claims from Abrams distancing herself from the controversial Biden-era grant (Best way to do that is hand back the cash, fatso! - jjs)
  Stacey "Tank" Abrams' Climate Group Banked $5M in Taxpayer Funds Before Trump Admin Axed the Grant, Tax Docs Show
  
• Allowing a mere 10% to be sold after 2035 may not seem like much, but I expect that percentage to steadily increase.
  European Union Surrenders to Reality on 2035 Ban on Gas-Powered Cars
  
• The automaker lost tens of billions of dollars on electric vehicles.
  Ford’s Felonious Failure
  
• The case could shape how future administrations handle federally funded programs and determine whether the executive branch can withhold congressionally mandated funds.
  Dems Are Suing Trump for Ending Biden’s EV Charger Boondoggle.
  
• Experts promised polar bears would be extinct by 2050. That’s a problem.
  Polar Bears Beat Global Warming

  
  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• This year has marked another period of significant growth in school choice.
  Parental Freedom Update

  THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH

• ‘When the law demands three signatures on tabulator tapes and the county fails to follow the rules, those 315,000 votes are, by definition, uncertified.’
  Fulton County: ‘We Don’t Dispute’ 315,000 Votes Lacking Poll Workers’ Signatures Were Counted In 2020

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• ‘Only someone who is a complete idiot’ would do this, said former Larry Hogan communications director Doug Mayer
  EXCLUSIVE: ‘The Height of Hypocrisy’: Wes Moore Filmed Campaign Ad Praising Maryland Public Schools Inside His Kids’ Elite Private School 

  POLITICS

• Trump tells America: ‘I’m fixing’ Biden’s mess in chart-filled primetime address President Trump came out swinging against his predecessor in his address to the nation while touting the progress he’s made over the past year.
  FIXER-UPPER-IN-CHIEF
  
• Democrats responded to President Donald Trump's year-end address by insisting he sounded panicky, defensive, and even scared. That claim spread quickly across the left, only to collapse under basic listening. President Trump spoke like a president reviewing progress, not a man searching for cover.
  Trump's Speech: Panic Is What the Left Wants to See

• Trump’s capsule histories of his predecessors are a bracing reminder of how accustomed we have all become to leftists writing our history books, and would make a pointed and funny book. However, many who support Trump are saying that it’s time he cut out the endless carping at his leftist predecessors, and step up his efforts to undo the damage they left in their wake.
  Trump Adds Captions to Presidential Portraits and — Well, You Just Have to See Them

• A massive fraud scandal is rocking her state, but Democrat Minnesota Rep. Angie Craig has been conspicuously silent. (More vintage Yvonne, much less Angie - jjs)
  Senate Hopeful Praises Tim Walz After Fraud Engulfed State On His Watch
  
• Tim Walz is as Tim Walz does, after all.
  President Trump is Right About Tim Walz

• The Democrat party is well and truly infiltrated. The question is what to do about it. More
  Will Socialism Sweep the Midterms?

• What Pennsylvania and the nation are being shown is not a strong candidate buoyed by organic support, but a carefully engineered projection. More
  Josh Shapiro: The Hologram Candidate

  ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND LEFTISTS

• Guess who now openly identifies with Israel - and supports the Jewish state.
  Israel’s Minorities Joining the IDF

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• European Union leaders will gather in Brussels Thursday for a summit that could expose deep fractures in the bloc.
  Trump To Test Europe’s Feebleness In High-Stakes Meeting With World Leaders

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• The move by the Maduro regime marks a significant escalation in the simmering conflict between Venezuela and the United States, with the risk of armed confrontation between the naval forces rising significantly.
  Venezuelan Navy Begins Escorting Oil Tankers After Trump’s Blockade Order.
  
• The protesters, much like current socialist President Xiomara Castro, claim that “fraud” was allegedly committed in the yet-to-be finalized results despite international observers stating that they found no evidence of fraud. The National Electoral Council (CNE) attributed new delays in the counting process to the protests, which have continued as of early Wednesday morning.
  Honduras: Leftist Riots Slow Presidential Vote Count Showing Socialists Out of Power (I smell Pelosorosi - jjs)

• Yemen’s complex web of warring factions boils down to three major powers: the Iran-backed Houthis in the north, the STC in the south, and the Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) in between them.
  Yemen’s Anti-Houthi Separatists Expand Territory, Threatening Houthi Control
  
• The West’s mass importation of Third-Worlders with no emphasis on assimilation has been, is, and will continue to be a complete failure.
  The West’s Embrace Of Mass Third-World Migration Is Civilizational Suicide

• Trump and Xi Are Talking — But the U.S. and China Are Headed for an AI Collision
  U.S. and China Are Headed for an AI Collision

  
  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• NATO’s increased defense spending aims to counter long-term threats such as Russia and terrorism.
  NATO Chief Says Alliance ‘Stronger Than Ever’ Thanks to Trump.

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• Four moderate House Republicans — Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, Ryan Mackenzie and Rob Bresnahan of Pennsylvania and Mike Lawler of New York — signed a discharge petition to force a vote on a clean three-year extension of the Obamacare subsidies slated to expire at the year’s end. The petition was sponsored by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and is supported by every Democratic lawmaker. (RELATED: ‘Absolute Bulls–t’: GOP Moderate Nukes Party Leaders As Obamacare Cliff Nears)
  4 Republicans Sign Democrat Obamacare Petition To Force House Vote On Subsidies
  
• The decision has sparked criticism from some lawmakers on Capitol Hill with deep ties to the pharmaceutical industry.
  CDC Ends Universal Hepatitis B Vaccine Mandate for Newborns.
  
• ‘The doctors who advocate for it call it compassion, but ethical doctors are healers, not killers.’
  State-Sanctioned Suicide Is The 4th Leading Cause Of Death In Canada

  
  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• The comet is being closely studied for its interstellar origins and behavior, but seemingly poses no danger to Earth.
  Interstellar Object Dubbed ‘Alien Mothership’ By Harvard Physicist Is Accelerating Due to ‘Non-Gravitational’ Forces.
  
• The Senate today finally confirmed Jared Isaacman to be the next NASA administrator, by a vote of 67 to 30. All of the opposition came from Democrats, who fear Isaacman will eliminate several NASA centers in their states, centers that for decades have accomplished little but be jobs programs sucking money from the American taxpayer.
  Jared Isaacman confirmed as NASA administrator

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• This ruling shields communities from activist librarians and organizations pushing agendas.
  Supreme Court ruling allows public libraries to remove trans books from children's collections

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• “He loves Israel too,” Levin said, prompting Trump to respond, “It’s true.” Levin then recalled a previous moment, saying, “Six years ago, I was up here and I said, this is our first Jewish President.” Trump again replied, “It’s true.”
  (Old Yeller) Mark Levin Calls Trump ‘First Jewish President’ Again at White House Hanukkah Celebration
  
• The national broadcaster responsible for hosting the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest announced on Wednesday that audience members will be allowed to bring “all official flags,” presumably including the 'Palestinian' flag, and that booing will not be censored out of the live event, emboldening pro-Hamas protesters who have made the non-political event a major target.
  Eurovision Song Contest to Allow Booing, 'Palestinian' Flags After Refusing to Boot Israel
  
• If you want a happier human society, meritocracy is the way.
  Renewing The American Merit Ideal
  
• Melania covers the twenty days leading up to President Donald Trump’s second inauguration and will debut in theaters on January 30 2026. In coordination with the world-wide release, Amazon will release a documentary mini-series after the film’s debut.
  ‘Melania’: Amazon Releases Trailer for the Feature Documentary About the First Lady
  
• "Nothing silences demons like the mother of God."
  ANGELS VS DEMONS: Angry Leftist protesters run away as Ave Maria choir sings Salve Regina at them in DC
  
• The findings challenge previous, politically driven narratives about “diversity” in ancient Britain.
  DNA Shows Woman Pushed by Academics, Media as ‘First Black Briton’ Was Actually White.

  HITHER & YON

• Christian Toto: FLOTUS doc sure to stir debate, rancor following Jan. 30 release
  FIRST LOOK: ‘Melania’ Trailer Takes Us Inside Trump 2.0
  
• “She’s always been in our heart. I can’t explain that moment of walking in and getting to put my arms back around my daughter,” Joseph told WLKY.
  Missing Kentucky girl found alive with new identity 42 years later — and she had no idea

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