Posts on Thursday, November 6, 2025

A convicted killer who was sentenced to a decade behind bars for suffocating a Canadian tourist with sand was elected to the city council of a Maine city that inspired Stephen King’s “It.” Angela Walker was elected as a Bangor councilmember on Tuesday, over two decades after she pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges alongside her brother, Benjamin Humphrey, in the 2002 death of Derek Rogers, the Bangor Daily News reported. Walker, who’s not affiliated with a political party, was one of three councilmembers elected to serve a three-year term. She was sponsored by the politically progressive Maine nonprofit organization Food and Medicine alongside the other two winning candidates,

There’s a cottage industry of investors who monitor former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s disclosed stock trades, match her every move, and usually make a profit along the way. That trend will now end in 2027. Pelosi announced Thursday that she is retiring after a storied four-decade career in Congress, and she won’t run for re-election in next year’s midterms. Once she leaves Congress, she won’t be required to publicly reveal anything about her family’s stock holdings. The California Democrat is one of the wealthiest members of Congress and one of the best-known investors on Capitol Hill. In the last three years, her disclosed trades had a volume of

Federal prosecutors have opened a corruption investigation into Washington DC’s Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser. According to The New York Times, the investigation has been underway for several months. The investigation is focused on Bowser’s $61,000 trip to Dubai for a UN Climate Change conference in 2023. Bowser’s trip was reportedly paid for by Qatar. Earlier this year 7News filed a FOIA request to uncover who paid for Bowser’s trip to Dubai and said there is no record of a donation agreement between DC and Qatar.

A federal jury has convicted a New York fiber laser expert of stealing military defense secrets to start a business in China. Ji Wang, 63, faces up to 15 years in prison for economic espionage after pilfering classified research on laser weapons technology. Wang’s conviction marks another victory in federal efforts to combat intellectual property theft linked to China’s state-sponsored recruitment programs. Wang stole hundreds of files containing trade secrets from a $11.4 million military project on or around July 1, 2016. The stolen data included manufacturing technology for specialty optical fibers used in high-powered laser weapons. Just ten days before the theft, Wang had applied for China’s Thousand Talents Plan Award.

Two U.S. Air Force heavy bombers have been tracked Thursday flying near the Venezuelan coast in what appeared to be a show of force linked to President Donald Trump’s latest regional pressure campaign. Both aircraft are conventionally armed Boeing B‑52H Stratofortress models, according to publicly available flight data on the website Flightradar24. The planes were flying under the call signs TITO41 and TITO42. The sorties are the latest in what the Air Force is calling "bomber attack demonstrations" in the Caribbean region. Last month, three groups of B-52H and B-1B Lancers flew similar publicly visible missions to within tens of miles of Venezuela's coast.

A "non-citizen” mayor in Kansas just won reelection. The state’s attorney general promptly slapped the foreigner with election fraud charges after he illegally voted for himself. Jose Ceballos just won reelection as the mayor of Coldwater, but if justice is served, he will be heading to jail instead of working in the mayoral offices. You see, Ceballos is not an American citizen, and he not only ran successfully for mayor, but he also voted for himself. It is, of course, illegal for non-citizens to vote in U.S. elections, and Ceballos is now facing charges of fraud. Ceballos is in America legally but is a Mexican citizen.

Tens of thousands of Americans have applied to join the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) as “homeland defenders” — the most applications received for any position in the agency’s history. “The Homeland Defender Campaign has already been a tremendous success and has resonated with the American people,” USCIS Director Joseph Edlow said in a statement: “I’m pleased to announce that in addition to seeing a historic number of applications, we are starting to bring on applicants at a rapid pace.” Homeland defenders will serve under USCIS and determine whether a foreign national is eligible for immigration benefits, including interviewing them and reviewing their applications.

Zohran Mamadani’s stunning victory as the newly elected mayor of New York was salt poured in the open wound of an even more titanic blue wave that swept aside any hopes that the nation had turned back to traditional sanity. He’s an old-school communist who made no effort to cloak his Marxist bona fides behind the charade of democratic socialism, and secured a victory that we could see coming from a mile away. It's a turning point for the nation as a disciple of the deadliest ideology the modern world has ever known is empowered to beset this terror upon Americans [snip]. Which begs the question, how did he do it?

Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine), dubbed the most conservative Democrat in Congress, has announced he will not seek a fifth House term next year. “I’m confident that were I to run again, I would win,” Golden said in a statement on X attached to an op-ed announcing his decision in the Bangor Daily News. “But recent events have made me reconsider whether the good I can do in Congress still outweighs the cost to my family.” (Snip) Notably, Golden, 43, was the lone House Democrat to vote to fund the government through Nov. 21. Senate Dems have blocked that bill 14

Tesla said shareholders voted in favor of CEO Elon Musk’s almost $1 trillion pay plan, with 75% support among voting shares. Board members recommended shareholders approve the pay plan, which they introduced in September. Top proxy advisors Glass Lewis and ISS recommended voting against it. Results of the vote were announced on Thursday at the company’s annual shareholders meeting in Austin, Texas. A separate proposal for investors calls for Tesla to be able to invest in xAI, Musk’s artificial intelligence startup created to compete with OpenAI. Tesla said that more votes were in favor than against but results are so far inconclusive.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 6 allowed the Trump administration to enforce its policy requiring the sex designation on a U.S. passport to be consistent with the passport holder’s sex at birth. The court’s decision in Trump v. Orr took the form of an unsigned order without comment. Three justices—Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor—dissented from the new ruling. (snip) The order temporarily stays a June 17 order by the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, which is now under appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

During Wednesday’s jubilations for Democratic victories across the board the night prior, MSNBC’s Katy Tur claimed New York City’s wealthiest won’t leave because of the immense amount of culture on offer. Her guests also supported the idea that electing Zohran Mamdani (D) won’t scare off the one percent and subsequently bankrupt the city. When asked if it was insane for a socialist to be placed in charge of the “capitalist capital of the world,” former Biden adviser Jared Bernstein defended the mayor-elect: Look, there is a long and mistaken view that what's good for Main Street, or should I say what's good for Elmhurst or Brooklyn Heights, is bad for Wall Street.

The Supreme Court on Thursday reinstated the Trump administration’s mandate that passports must identify individuals by their biological sex. The High Court paused a lower court’s ruling that blocked the passport policy from being implemented while it is adjudicated in the courts. The policy is born out of President Trump’s day one executive order that requires the federal government to only recognize two sexes. The order also declares that sex is not changeable.

Greetings, Dear Reader, As usual, they’re all wrong and I’m right. How can we interpret the two conflagrations in our midst? Let’s get into it. THE PIED PIPER OF BUSHWICK There are a couple of fires right now for conservatives. To our front, the Heritage Foundation is in the midst of a generational struggle session over allegiance to Israel. While I think the reckoning is worthwhile and ultimately inevitable – especially considering future American conservatives are not apt to carry Jerusalem’s burden – the one to our rear is much more immediate and consequential. The story we’re hearing from the left (and the right) about Mamdani’s win in New York City is pure mythology.

It hasn't even been two full days since polls closed in New York City, so the full blossoming of the Mamdani effect is far from being fully witnessed. But what the heck. Let's take a peek in on parts of Gotham and see how things going. As for Zohran Mamdani himself, it didn't take more than an hour when it became official he would be the next resident of Gracie Mansion that the Mayor-Elect gave an angry acceptance speech. There were plenty of lowlights all throughout his address, but here are just some of the bits that will cause a lot of New Yorkers to

I did not vote for Zohran Mamdani. Call me crazy — but a socialist who, until five minutes ago, was gleefully tweeting to defund the police and who refuses to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada” is not my ideal steward for this glittering center of progress. On social media, there’s a relentless schadenfreude chorus of “You deserve what you vote for” from out-of-towners who don’t seem to understand that massive swathes of New Yorkers did not, in fact, vote for Mamdani. But that doesn’t mean I’m going anywhere.

Poland is set to introduce a new military training program this month, the Defense Ministry said Thursday. The "Always Prepared" program is part of wider plans to train 400,000 people in 2026. Poland's Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said the program, which he dubbed "the largest defense training in Polish history" would be available to "all Polish citizens," from primary school children to old-age pensioners. Why is Poland offering military training to its citizens? Poland, which shares an approximately 530 kilometer-long (330 miles) border with Ukraine, has significantly increased its military spending since Russia invaded Ukraine.

“And so it begins!” Donald Trump’s dramatic, four-word salvo on Truth Social just before midnight Tuesday means he knows the honeymoon is over. After thumping wins by radical Democrats — a tautology now, of course — the battle lines are clear. The president knows he has just one year until the midterms to ­fireproof his agenda and safeguard ­future elections against Democratic fraud. That’s why he wants to end the filibuster. The 60-vote Senate threshold is strangling Republican priorities and is allowing Democrats to shut down the government for the fifth week while blaming Trump. Yet too many Senate Republicans don’t know what time it is.

Democratic Governor-Elects Abigail Spanberger of Virginia and Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey champion energy policies that could spell bad news for the East Coast states, several energy policy experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Affordability was a major factor in both gubernatorial races, with Sherrill and Spanberger both vowing to lower energy costs during their tenures as governor. Democratic energy policies backed by Sherrill and Spanberger could spike energy costs and strain grid reliability in the states, several energy policy experts warned. “[The] election results are bad news for affordable energy. With climate-obsessed Democrats taking full control in Virginia, expect a return to costly net-zero mandates that raise electric bills

In December of 2016, President Obama turned to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan with a request to change the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) and blame the Russians for election interference in the prior presidential election. Brennan gave the task of assembling the fraudulent intel to a CIA analyst named Julia Gurganus.Subsequently, inside the CIA the National Intelligence Council (NIC) and the Directorate of Analysis began working on a pretext that would create the impression for the misleading Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) as demanded by Obama, Clapper and Brennan; ultimately it was constructed by Julia Gurganus.

After securing the New York City mayoral race Tuesday night, Democrat Zohran Mamdani announced that former Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan will serve as one of four co-chairs on his transition team. Khan, who led the federal antitrust and competition agency under the Biden administration, has been accused by some conservatives of weaponizing the FTC for partisan purposes during her tenure. Mamdani’s transition website hails the former regulator as the “nation’s leading antimonopoly champion.” The former FTC chair will serve on an all-female transition team appointed by Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist who campaigned on raising taxes on corporations and on “richer and whiter” neighborhoods.

Democrats won decisive victories in the 2025 elections, including a mayoral win in New York City and governorships in New Jersey and Virginia. Democrats also did well in races at the state and local levels. Despite the victory, their path forward remains no clearer than before, according to some political analysts. That’s because the top Democratic winners presented vastly different governing strategies to voters.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday she would not seek another term in Congress in 2026. The first and only female speaker of the House, Pelosi, 85, has been a fixture within the halls of Capitol Hill since 1987. She is the second-highest elected female official in US history, behind former Vice President Kamala Harris.

The EU summit on Thursday in Brussels focused primarily on security issues. To put it bluntly: Ukraine must somehow turn its lost war against Russia into a victory, and the EU must be militarily ready for action by 2030. The fact that this would only be feasible with a functioning economy has apparently not yet dawned on the power center in Brussels. Instead, they are preparing for a major fiscal “liberation strike,” giving bureaucracy a lush boom of its own. When German chancellor Friedrich Merz traveled to Brussels for the EU summit, his fiery rhetoric about EU bureaucratization followed him closely. “Let me put it in very vivid terms:

While Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has gotten the lion’s share of the media attention these last several weeks, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg quietly sailed through his reelection bid, securing more than 70% of the vote. Bragg’s win reflects a bucking of what some might have been tempted to call a national trend of so-called “progressive” prosecutors around the country being made to suffer the electoral consequences of going soft on crime. Recent examples include LA’s George Gascón, Oakland’s Pamela Price, San Francisco’s Chesa Boudin, and Athens, Ga.’s Deborah Gonzalez, defeated in the wake of Laken Riley’s murder.

The Cyclone is the name of the iconic wooden roller coaster in Coney Island that has been there for almost 100 years. Like all roller-coasters, it lifts riders to a steep point and then lets them drop just as steeply and race around the track for a few moments of excitement. Today, Ross Douthat argues that Zohran Mamdani has probably peaked, like a rider of the Cyclone it's probably all downhill from here. It’s official: Zohran Mamdani has been elected mayor of New York City, raising the flag of the far left over Gotham. And if you believe the hype or the fears of his critics, then the 34-year-old Ugandan-born Muslim

Is it, or should it be true that in order to win, we should follow the principle that there are "no enemies to the right?" On its face, the principle makes sense. After all, elections are won by adding together enough voters and voting blocs to get a plurality of the vote. Unless you have more voters than the other side(s), you lose. So if you see a group of voters who might be persuaded to vote along with you, it makes sense to either appeal to them or, at the very least, not criticize them. This is the essence of some conservatives' arguments that the critiques of Tucker Carlson,

If Republicans had any hopes of scoring surprise election victories on Tuesday, they were absolutely crushed. The loss was sweeping. In New Jersey and Virginia, the Republican candidates did worse than Donald Trump just one year ago. And in Virginia, Democrats picked up at least 10 seats in the state legislature. New York elected its most radical mayor in its history. Californians voted by an almost 3-to-1 margin to redraw the state’s districts to squeeze out five more seats for Democrats. All of these elections had one thing in common – they were akin to a primal scream about President Donald Trump.

Burger Kings are among the many cash-heavy businesses around the US grappling with the phaseout of the penny — with one group of the fast-food joints reportedly hoarding the coins by the box since President Trump ordered the Treasury Department to stop minting them earlier this year. Businessman Gary Andrzejewski told The Wall Street Journal that the Burger Kings he operates in Baltimore have stockpiled 30 boxes of pennies so far. “I don’t think anyone has any idea of what they are doing right now,” he was quoted as saying. He said since his armored car service stopped dropping off pennies to his Baltimore stores, he has saved up

There's an iron law of climate change: if something brings human beings joy, it must be destroying the planet. Could it be that happiness is the real enemy of climate cultists? Are they really so unhappy that they want everybody so unhappy that they will queue up for the suicide pods that liberals are so excited to roll out? (Snip) Now you have to give the Associated Press SOME credit for doing a deep dive into the subject of cats and dogs. After much research, they discovered that they have to eat, and as we know, the production of food is a bad thing. That's why European governments

In the days prior to news breaking about arrests being made concerning a National Basketball Association (NBA) cheating scandal, an interesting study was published by Oxford University’s Public Opinion Quarterly. Titled “To Report or Not to Report? A Qualitative Analysis of Journalists’ Perspectives on Harm to Public Opinion,” its abstract noted this: Journalists face intricate decisions regarding what to publish, especially when problematic content may impact public opinion in a way that could fuel hate and/or undermine democratic attitudes. Standing out in the study is the finding that “journalists who do not publish problematic content do so because they expect to negatively impact public opinion, in particular democratic attitudes,

Someone point this out to the "Qu**rs for Palestine" crowd: In Dearborn, Michigan, two 20-year-old men are under arrest for allegedly plotting a mass-shooting attack on LGBTQ+ bars in the area; they had obtained weapons, practiced with those weapons, and scouted targets. It's a matter of luck and sharp police work that they were caught before committing an atrocity. Two 20-year-old men who had acquired high-powered weapons and practiced at gun ranges were scouting LGBTQ+ bars in suburban Detroit in September for a possible Halloween attack, authorities said Monday in filing terrorism-related charges. Here's the onion: Mohmed Ali, Majed Mahmoud, and co-conspirators were inspired by the Islamic State group’s extremism,

Arctic Frost was the FBI investigation that tried to associate Donald Trump and many other Republicans with the January 6, 2021, Capitol protest. It was the basis for one of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s indictments of Trump. That indictment was dismissed. Senator Chuck Grassley has been on this case for a long time; whistleblowers approached him long ago to explain the corruption of the FBI and Joe Biden’s Department of Justice. Arctic Frost can best be seen as a continuation of the Russia Collusion Hoax and the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, which sought to prevent Trump from being elected, and then to cripple his administration after he won the 2016 election.