Sunday, November 23, 2025

The rise of the ‘performative male:’ How young men are experimenting with masculinity online.

Across TikTok and university campuses, young men are rewriting what masculinity looks like today, sometimes with matcha lattes, Labubus, film cameras and thrifted tote bags. - Jillian Sunderland
The “performative man” is a new Gen Z term describing young men who deliberately craft 
  • a soft, 
  • sensitive, 
  • emotionally aware aesthetic, 
  • signalling the rejection of “toxic masculinity.”...

Don't mess with the Gulf of America!

 


California loses one taxpayer per minute, Florida gains | National | thecentersquare.com

California loses one taxpayer per minute, Florida gains | National | thecentersquare.com - Andrew Rice | The Center Square
An analysis of data from the IRS conducted by the National Taxpayers Union Foundation found that Florida, Texas and North Carolina gain new taxpayers faster than any other state in the country.

  • Florida gains a new taxpayer every 2 minutes and 9 seconds; 
  • Texas gains one every 2 minutes and 53 seconds; and 
  • North Carolina gains a new taxpayer every 6 minutes and 21 seconds.
  • South Carolina and Tennessee follow close behind as they gain a new taxpayer every 7 minutes and 30 seconds and 8 minutes and 42 seconds, respectively
The states losing taxpayers most frequently are California, New York and Illinois...


#1 This day 1984-----Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (Official Video)

Updated: Ric Grenell Warns NYT to Expect Lawsuit If It Does Not Correct Sen. Whitehouse's False Story

We have a balanced budget, we’ve raised a whopping $117 MILLION under @realDonaldTrump - and FIFA has paid millions plus covered all expenses (the NYT made a gigantic mistake by assuming FIFA was a rental not a major Sponsor). - Ward Clark

Richard Grenell...serving as interim President of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and he's taking that seriously, too.
  • So when Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) made some unfounded and, candidly, false claims about the Kennedy Center under Grenell's management, Mr. Grenell was quick to issue a sharp rebuke, fact-checking Senator Whitehouse into the next time zone. 
In his X account, Mr. Grenell went to town.
The attached letter is where the fact-check really gets down to it.
Here are a couple of highlights:
  1. Before the arrival of new leadership, the Kennedy Center was hemorrhaging donor dollars. Members of the executive leadership team were paid between $400,000 to $700,000 per year. New leadership has ended the financial chaos...
  2. The cost of convening a single board meeting under previous leadership was over $120,000 in expenses. Today, it's a fraction of that cost, with the next Board meeting being hosted by a Board member at no cost to us...
  • The letter goes on in that vein...

If it'll end the war.

 


Convicted child molester announces bid for Rhode Island mayor as Democrat | Blaze Media

Convicted child molester announces bid for Rhode Island mayor as Democrat | Blaze Media

A Democratic mayoral candidate in Rhode Island declared that his disturbing criminal history does not disqualify him from running for office. Providence voters will decide on their next mayor in 2026. Incumbent Mayor Brett Smiley and state Rep. David Morales, both Democrats, are the current leading candidates in the race.

Minnesota welfare fraud exposes the failure of assimilation - UnHerd

When migrant communities can mass-import their own relatives via the so-called family preference programme, the result is ghettoised enclaves in which newcomers can pretend like they’re still living back home — only with colder weather and thicker welfare nets. - Sohrab Ahmari

  • There is no whitewashing this scandal: segments of the Somali community in Minneapolis have been engaged in systematic welfare fraud, and used some of the proceeds to fund the Al-Shabaab terror group in their homeland.
  • The enraging City Journal exposé presents a case study in why the United States must drastically slash the number of immigrants it admits, and become significantly more rigorous in choosing whom to admit and how to assimilate them...

AM Fruitcake

 


History for November 23

History for November 23 - On-This-Day.com
Franklin Pierce 1804 - 14th President of the United States
  • 1835 - Henry Burden patented the horseshoe manufacturing machine.
  • 1936 - The first edition of "Life" was published.
  • 1945 - The U.S. wartime rationing of most foods ended.
  • 1946 - Mound Metalcraft changed its name to Tonka Toys Incorporated.
  • 1983 - The first Pershing II missiles were deployed in West Germany. In response, the U.S.S.R. broke off International Nuclear Forces (INF) talks in Geneva.

Saturday, November 22, 2025

'Peak Irony' Riley Gaines Fires Back Against Megan Rapinoe's Attack on the 'Save Women's Sports' Movement

'Peak Irony' Riley Gaines Fires Back Against Megan Rapinoe's Attack on the 'Save Women's Sports' Movement

Wednesday, on the social media platform X, women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines, a former collegiate swimmer, noted the “peak irony” in former U.S. Women’s Soccer player Megan Rapinoe’s recent attack on those who seek to protect women’s sports from men posing as women, which Gaines has tried to do through her “Save Women’s Sports” movement.

“Megan Rapinoe questioning the motives behind protecting women’s sports is peak irony,” Gaines wrote. “The only reason she had a professional career at all is because she had a protected female category.”

The way we were-----JFK assassination: Cronkite informs a shocked nation

Reform UK’s Sarah Pochin Called for a BAN on the Burqa in Britain

JD Vance Drops Truth Bombs on Canada

Canada is being overrun by migrants. - David Strom
Almost half of all births are now to foreign-born mothers (42% currently, and rising), and one-third of the overall population is foreign-born.
One of the many terrible consequences of the liberal policies that have resulted in this replacement of the native population is stagnating economic growth.
  • ...it is undeniable that replacing a high-trust first-world citizenry with people from a low-trust, low-education, and low-productivity region is bound to make your society and economy lose vitality and eventually collapse...
Ask Rome about that, if you like....

By March 2021, MHRA had received 15,146 reports of cardiovascular events and 1,014 reports of thromboembolic events. - Vaxrevia DATA RELEASE - 2

In our first post, we told the story of our quest for evidence of harms following vaccination with the Covid-19 AstraZeneca Vaccine (AZD1222/ChAdOx1-S), since christened Vaxrevia. - Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan
In this post, we analyse what more can be said of the information we obtained from the UK’s MHRA.
  • To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time anyone (outside the powerful) has seen the reports submitted to the MHRA regarding serious potential harms during the first period of the rollout of British Science’s triumph.
  • Here are the 48,872 reports for cardiac disorders following vaccination by month of reporting:

  • Here are the data for thromboembolic effects...

'Cynical crime': Florida Democrat indicted for allegedly swiping federal disaster funds, paying for her campaign * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

'Cynical crime': Florida Democrat indicted for allegedly swiping federal disaster funds, paying for her campaign * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

A federal grand jury in Florida has indicted Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., for allegedly swiping federal disaster funds, laundering them through various corporations and then using the money to pay for her 2021 congressional campaign.

George Carlin | Nightly News Report | The Smothers Brothers Show 1975

Imagine the media's response if this had been Trump's admin!-----Biden’s Weaponization of the DOJ Against GOP Lawmakers Was Worse Than We Thought

New, disturbing revelations show just how far Joe Biden was willing to go to target his political enemies. - Matt Margolis
In 2022, his Justice Department secretly seized more than two years of House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan’s personal phone records. 
  • Fox News Digital obtained a subpoena that exposes the depth of Biden’s weaponization of the government against his enemies.
  • The subpoena shows a federal prosecutor — who later joined Jack Smith’s January 6 team — ordered Verizon to cough up Jordan’s records dating back to Jan. 1, 2020.
Jordan is the latest in a growing list of Republicans revealed as having been targeted by the Biden Justice Department as part of Arctic Frost
The sweep started earlier with Rep. Kevin McCarthy in 2023. At least ten GOP senators also landed on the list, including Sens. Lindsey Graham, Marsha Blackburn, Ted Cruz, and Ron Johnson. 
The pattern shows a previously unknown and disturbing level of weaponization...
  • Biden’s weaponization of the DOJ against Trump was already a dark stain on American democracy...

Lunch video-----Seattle's Socialist Mayor SHOCKS Voters With Tax MELTDOWN Plans

Noon-toon

 


'Who the hell is he?' Byron Donalds reminds Mamdani he's required to obey U.S. Constitution * WorldNetDaily * by Mariane Angela, Daily Caller News Foundation

'Who the hell is he?' Byron Donalds reminds Mamdani he's required to obey U.S. Constitution * WorldNetDaily * by Mariane Angela, Daily Caller News Foundation

"What is this guy doing? This is what happens when you elect a radical who's never had a job, who's never done anything constructive in his life except be in the New York Assembly and go on TikTok. Now you got a guy who's saying that New York City won't follow the laws of the United States. It will follow international law. That is insanity. So, unfortunately, this is going to come to a conflict, politically and legally, and Zohran Mamdani is going to lose," Donalds added. Donalds said voters across the political spectrum are alarmed by Democrats' hard-left turn.

True colors!

 


𝐃*𝐀𝐓𝐇 𝐓𝐎 𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀… 𝐈𝐍 𝐌𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐆𝐀𝐍. 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐁 𝐂𝐀𝐍’𝐓 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐃: “𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐍.”

Only in Biden’s America can a crowd in Dearborn, Michigan — not Tehran, not Kabul, not Gaza — stand in the middle of a U.S. city and chant “𝐃*𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚.” - M.A. Rothman⁣⁣⁣
The mayor condemned it.
The White House condemned it.
  • ⁣⁣⁣But 𝐑𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐚 𝐓𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐛? The actual member of Congress representing Dearborn?
  • Suddenly she’s got 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐣𝐚𝐰.
⁣⁣⁣Fox Business’ Hillary Vaughn asked the most basic question on planet Earth:
  • 𝘋𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢?
⁣⁣⁣And Tlaib’s answer?
Not “yes.”
Not “no.”
  • Just a frantic meltdown about “𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐬,” “𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐚,” and her favorite coping mechanism:
  • “𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐅𝐨𝐱 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬.”


⁣⁣

A deadly cancer!