Daily Tech News 11 November 2025

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• Micron has pressed pause on its new facilities in upstate New York, but has simultaneously hit fast forward on its work on factories in Idaho. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Not sure exactly why the switch. I wouldn't want to be building anything located in New York City right now, but it's not.
  
  
  
• Speaking of "you can't build that there" datacenters in California are sitting vacant waiting for the lights to come on. (Bloomberg / Yahoo)
  
  Some of them have been waiting for six years.
  
  Silicon Valley Power says it is working on upgrades to support its new customers and expects work to be complete on the 6th of Never.
  
  

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Monday Overnight Open Thread (11/10/25)

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Scandi Rapid Transit Cafe

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Urquhart Castle, Scotland
by Stuart Mckay Photography

I wish I were gay so I could toss off a few lines from Brigadoon.

Early day today. I'm still dragging after a weekend of low sleep and low ambition.

PAWS

Like the Millennium Falcon hiding on the Star Destroyer. It works!

This puppy isn't even trying to be cute, it just happens.

This puppy might be trying a little to be cute, and he's nailing it.

I choose you as my mate. (I posted this before but I didn't note the context of this Gift of Stone. By the way, the guy here sounds like Evil Ed saying "You're so cool Brewster." And yes, I rewatched Fright Night for Halloween. One critique I've always had: I never understand the geography of this town they're in. Supposedly the vampire has a big old mansion standing just yards from normal suburban houses, and then you walk through the suburb and suddenly you're in a dark cramped alleyway.)

Dog gives his O-face.

Many dogs are guardian dogs.

Dog picks out random strangers to play fetch with.

Sometimes cats get pounced, too.

ICYMI: Dealing with an undersized bully.

The kid singing the angelic (ishtari?) chorus for the Lord of the Rings score.

When you're stuck in a pit of ocean water but the tides are kind.

Some Pig!!!

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The Head of the BBC and Its Head of News Both Resign In Wake of Revelations They Deliberately Pushed Fake News About Trump's Role in the (Also Fake) J6 Insurrection

The BBC Panorama ran stealth-edited video to make it appear that Trump was urging his followers to go to the Capitol and "fight like hell." The claim being made was that Trump told them to riot.

It was a literal stitch-up -- they framed Trump by stitching together different speeches.

Konstantin Kisin
@KonstantinKisin

23h

You don't have to be an uncritical fanboy of President Trump to be horrified at just how much lying the media around the world did about him. They said he was involved in election interference while they were the ones doing it!

Now the head of the BBC and the head of news at the BBC have been forced to resign.

The BBC's boss and its head of news quit on Sunday following accusations of bias at the British broadcaster, including in the way it edited a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump.

The publicly funded BBC had been under mounting pressure after an internal report by a former standards adviser, which cited failings in its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, transgender issues and a speech made by Trump, was leaked to the Daily Telegraph newspaper.

Terrorist propaganda outlet claims they "quit." In fact, they were forced out, more credible outlets report.

Trump welcomed the departures, criticising the two as "very dishonest people" after the BBC's flagship Panorama programme edited two parts of one of his speeches together so he appeared to be encouraging the Capitol Hill riot of January 2021.

Tim Davie, who has led the British Broadcasting Corporation since 2020, defended the organisation, saying its journalism was seen as the gold standard around the world. But he said mistakes had been made and he had to take ultimate responsibility.

Deborah Turness, the CEO of BBC News, also resigned. In an email to staff she said: "I want to be absolutely clear recent allegations that BBC News is institutionally biased are wrong."

Lie.

Widely respected around the world, the BBC still tops polls in Britain on the most trusted news brand and has huge reach in the country, providing news, entertainment and sport.

But the corporation, which is funded by a licence fee paid by all television-watching households, comes under intense scrutiny from some newspapers and critics on social media, which object to its funding model and perceived liberal stance.

"Perceived." By the way, do you know that "British Men" and "British Teens" keep attacking people with knives?

The Telegraph revealed more left-wing bias, based on leaked memos:

The leaked internal report said BBC Arabic had shown anti-Israel bias in its reporting of the war in Gaza and that an effort to cover a group campaigning for single-sex spaces had been suppressed by a small group of staff who saw it as hostile to the transgender community.

BBC Arabic was anti-Israel? Not the BBC itself?

LOL.

Also revealed today : some time back the BBC ran a story about a mass grave of Palestinian civilians, secretly buried by the IDF. Internal documents leaked today show that the BBC had hard evidence that the story was a hoax, yet they ran it anyway.

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And as for the second item: The story would have been about the need for single-sex spaces to protect women but the transgenders spiked the story.

Per the NYT: Trump is now threatening to sue the BBC for defamation.

To the tune of... one billion dollars.

President Trump on Monday threatened to sue the BBC for $1 billion for a documentary that his lawyer claimed included "malicious, disparaging" edits to a speech Mr. Trump delivered on Jan. 6, 2021.

The legal threat came in a letter from Alejandro Brito, one of Mr. Trump's lawyers, to the BBC that was obtained by The New York Times. The letter demanded a full retraction of the documentary, an apology and what his lawyers said would be payments that "appropriately compensate President Trump for the harm caused."

The letter said that if those demands were not met, "President Trump will be left with no alternative but to enforce his legal and equitable rights, all of which are expressly reserved and are not waived, including by filing legal action for no less than $1,000,000,000 (One Billion Dollars) in damages."

The letter said: "The BBC is on notice" and concluded: "PLEASE GOVERN YOURSELF ACCORDINGLY."

Noted scrupulously non-partisan media analyst and Sex Machine Brian Stelter called the double resignation "very notable."

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Is This Something?

Hunting Season looks a bit like a generic revenge actioner but it's got Mel Gibson and he's really good at revenge actioners. Alas, it's not directed by Mel Gibson, but maybe some of his over-the-top ideas for cinematic violence were used.

The final moment of the clip is good.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Embarasses George Stephanolopous But Stephanopoolous Filibusters and Talks Over Him and Ends the Interview

George Stephanolpolous -- or Slopadopolous, as Trump calls him* -- tried to lecture Scott Bessent that Republicans should give in to Democrats shutdown demands.

Bessent reminded the former (and current) Democrat spokesman and spinner that he had previously called Republicans "terrorists" for shutting down the government in 1995.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confronted ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos on Sunday for calling Republicans "terrorists" during the 1995 government shutdown.

Stephanopoulos asked Bessent on Sunday's "This Week" about the Trump administration's plan to end the ongoing government shutdown. Bessent reminded Stephanopoulos about his own experience handling a government shutdown when he served as an advisor to former President Bill Clinton.

"The best way to do it -- and look, you were involved in a lot of these in the '90s," Bessent said. "And, you know, you basically called the Republicans terrorists and, you know, you said that it is not the responsible party that keeps the government closed. And so, what we need is five brave, moderate Democratic senators to cross the aisle, because right now it is 52--3, 52--3. Five Democrats can cross the aisle and reopen the government. That's the best way to do it, George."

"I can disagree with you about the history there, but we don't have a history lesson right now," Stephanopoulos responded.

"No, no, no. George, George, George," Bessent interrupted. "If you want, I've got all your quotes here. I got all your quotes here, George."

Stephanopoulos claimed that Bessent's comments were a "mischaracterization of history" and then repeated his original question.

In a 2000 PBS interview, Stephanopoulos described how there were concerns over whether the Democrats or Republicans would be blamed more for the government shutdown that occurred in late 1995 and early 1996. He said the Democratic Party's strategy relied on accusing Republicans of "blackmailing the country" for shutting down the government.

"Our strategy was very simple. We couldn't buckle, and we had to say that they were blackmailing the country to get their way. In order to get their tax cut, they were willing to shut down the government, throw the country into default for the first time in its history and cut Medicare, Social Security, education and the environment just so they could get their way. And we were trying to say that they were basically terrorists, and it worked," Stephanopoulos said.

Below, you can see Slopadopolous repeatedly talk over Bessent to keep his viewers in the dark about his prior statements.

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Enough! Sixth Circuit Rules That Schools May Not Punish Students for Referring to Other Students By Their Biologically-Correct, Original, Real Pronouns

For at least six years, the trans lobby held everyone in terror. You'd be destroyed, fired, deplatformed, and debanked for ever doubting that a man in a party city wig was not 100% literally a woman, in every sense, in every situation, for every purpose.

To question whether they were "really" women in all situations -- such as in sports, even contact sports -- was to accept exile from the Regime's roster of craven weaklings of the Professional Managerial Class.

The spineless, soft-handed, sloop-shouldered "men" of the Regime and their insane Benzos-and-Boxwine AWFL henchpyrsyns either deferred to the Reign of Trans Terror out of cowardice or else zealously enforced it as a means of revenge on straight white men.

Years into the Reign of Trans Terror, a group of dissidents finally succeeded in putting some backbone into the cowardly Regime Professional Managerial Class, and a few PMC cowards tepidly, slightly began to buck their trans enforcement officers.

And finally now, years into The Terror, we're moving to a near-majority of Regime PMC types who are willing to risk the now much-lower risk of cancellation by the enforcers of The Terror.

The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this past week that an Ohio school district cannot punish students who refer to their transgender peers by biological pronouns.

The Columbus Dispatch reports the court determined by a party-line 10-7 vote in Defending Education v. Olentangy Local School District Board of Education that the defendant "did not demonstrate that the use of the pronouns to refer to transgender and nonbinary students would 'materially and substantially disrupt school activities or infringe on the legal rights of others in the school community.'"

Such is a direct reference to the historic 1969 Tinker decision which dealt with students wearing black arm bands at school to protest the Vietnam War.

The November 6 en banc decision overturns a federal judge's ruling, as well as that of a three-judge 6th Circuit panel.

"Our society continues to debate whether biological pronouns are appropriate or offensive -- just as it continues to debate many other issues surrounding transgender rights," the court's majority wrote, authored by Judge Eric Murphy.

"The school district may not skew this debate by forcing one side to change the way it conveys its message or by compelling it to express a different view."

The court goes on to say that this doesn't mean a school has to permit actual harassment -- just that it cannot side with a particular faction and dictate to students that they are required to obey this faction, or else be found guilty of "harassment."

On Friday, I think, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration is permitted to just have 'Male" and "Female" passports, exactly the same as every other Administration since 1796 except for Biden's.

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) recently ruled in favor of the government's removal of any genders other than male or female in passport identification. Said decision reverses prior flexibility for transgender and nonbinary passport applicants. The ruling overturns a lower court block against implementing the new limits on passport identification. This action follows the precedent set by a Supreme Court ruling issued in July 2025.

The decision reaffirms an Executive Order, which directed U.S. federal agencies to recognize only male and female genders on all official documents. Additionally, federal identification can only list a person's birth gender. Transgender and non-binary applicants with passports listing their preferred gender identity are rendered invalid.

In its' decision, the Supreme Court ruled such limitations are based on historical and biological fact and therefore don't violate any equal protection principles. Said ruling ties into the larger debate surrounding gender identification. Since the start of 2025, the government policy has been increasingly less flexible regarding individuals who don't identify with their birth gender.

I always love the left's eternal claim that the Constitution changed just last week without anyone bothering to amend it. It just changed on its own. Poof.

Members of the craven, status-seeking Professional Managerial Class, Sports Division, have recognized that, get this, sports leagues created for women only and which exclude men so that women can fairly compete are allowed, nay required, to be for women and exclude men so that women may fairly compete.

Transgender women to be banned from all female Olympic events

IOC [International Olympic Committee] likely to announce new policy early in new year after findings of a scientific review about the permanent physical advantages of being born male

The International Olympic Committee is set to announce a ban on transgender women in female competition early next year after a science-based review of evidence about permanent physical advantages of being born male.

The IOC's guidance to Olympic sports has until now been that transgender women can compete with reduced testosterone levels but leaves it up to individual sports to decide. That is now set to change under its new president, Kirsty Coventry, who has promised to protect the female category.

The committee's medical and scientific director, Dr Jane Thornton, last week presented to IOC members at a meeting in Lausanne the initial findings of a science-based review into the issues of transgender athletes and athletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) competing in female sport.

Sources said the presentation by Thornton, a Canadian former Olympic rower, stated that scientific evidence showed there were physical advantages to being born male that remained with athletes, including those who had taken treatment to reduce testosterone levels.

Really. You don't say.

"It was a very scientific, factual and unemotional presentation which quite clearly laid out the evidence," one source said. Another IOC insider said there had been hugely positive feedback from IOC members about the presentation.

It is understood the IOC is likely to announce its new policy early in the new year, possibly around the IOC session at the Milan-Cortina winter Olympics in early February.

Some work remains to be done to ensure the new policy is legally watertight. Until now the IOC's policy has been based on recommendations and guidance to sports rather than actually being part of its eligibility rules.

Some sports such as athletics and swimming have already brought in a ban on athletes who have been through male puberty taking part in female competition but others, including football, have not.

The new policy is also likely to cover DSD (differences of sex development) athletes -- those who were raised as girls from birth but have male chromosomes and male levels of testosterone.

This is such an obvious realization that it's hard to understand why it even required any realizing. As Douglas Adams said of the speed of light: Light travels so quickly it takes civilizations thousands of years to realize it travels at all.

Good. Let us stop speaking of men's and women's sports. Let's just speak of "sports" and "women's sports," where sports (unmodified by adjective) is for anyone who can actually compete -- an open category, in which men will of course dominate, but if a "transgender" "male" wants to compete, sure, he can go to the trials. Where she'll lose. But she'll be allowed to "compete."

And then we should have a restrictive category called "women's sports," for, get this, women only, as it always has been since the creation of "women's sports."

Meanwhile: other sectors of the Professional Managerial Class continue pledging allegiance to The Terror.

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More Deets: Conde Nast Fires Four Entitled Wokesters Including a Formerly-Untouchable Transgender

This isn't entirely a repeat. On Friday, I posted about this, but only had the video and a quick recap from someone on Twitter.

I also failed to say something very obvious. I know it's obvious and you probably all thought of it yourself, but it feels to me like I left a golf ball right on the edge of the cup and never tapped it in:

Five years ago, all left-wing wokesters, and especially minority wokesters, and especially especially trans wokesters, could hold executives in left-wing media operations hostage and demand firings of executives and other personnel for failing to zealously appease their every demand.

Now, it seems like even the most left of left-wing media corporations have had enough of entitled, barely-working woke political agitators on their payrolls, and are now firing them. They are using the difficult economy and rise of AI content "creation" as an excuse to fire the wokesters, but as Clownfish TV and many other people have observed, they have long wanted to fire these people anyway, but were politically/culturally cowed from doing so. Now they feel they have sufficient justification to fire barely-working workplace political terrorists.

And yes, this even means that the most protected identity of all, "trans," is now eligible for firing as well, and no, the highly-protected, highly-entitled "trans" identity will not give you sanction to harass, blockade, surround, and virgually "kidnap" executives (as they literally do in France) so you can berate them into keeping your non-binary sex-friend on the payroll, as seems to have happened at Conde Nast.

I know that's obvious enough but it's like a scratch I didn't itch on Friday and it's bugged me ever since.

So once again, a repeat from Friday: the video so you know what the hell I'm even babbling about. Conde Nast, mega-corporation with a dozen major media brands under its control, fired and/or reassigned personnel from various media outlets, including "Teen" Vogue, which now specializes in such fare as "The Teen Vogue Guide to Anal Sex," infinite stories on the best prosthetics and "tucking" underwear to simulate either having or not having a penis, and endless agitation for full-on communist revolution. Some of these sexual-extremist and Marxist people were fired, others will reassigned from Teen Vogue to regular Vogue. Conde Nast apparently wants Teen Vogue less about hard-core Marxist politics and LGBT issues and more about, you know, make up and cute outfits.

One of the people fired was a "non-binary journalist," and a group of left-wing activists surrounded and heckled the head of HR -- which I think makes him as senior executive -- and made demands of him even after he repeatedly told them to go back to their actual assigned jobs.

Oh: The other thing they're angry about is the new Conde Nast rule that they have to actually come to the office four (not five) days per week. Prior to that they were allowed to mostly, or entirely, "work" from home.

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Eight Democrats Vote for Cloture on CR Bill, Securing Only Minor Concessions

Eight Democrats gave up the ghost and voted to end the filibuster. In case you're not up to speed on how this works, before a vote on the actual merits of a bill can happen, the Senate must vote for "cloture," for the closing of all debate on the bill. This requires 60, not 50, votes, though the vote on the bill itself requires 51 (or 50 plus a VP tie-breaker vote).

Eight Democrats just voted for cloture so that the entire Senate can now vote on the bill itself. The vote was 60-40, with eight Democrats joining the Republicans to end debate, and grandstanding douchebag Rand Paul of course joining the Democrats to show how pure and virtuous he is.

OSZ
@OpenSourceZone

Senate breaks Dem filibuster on to end the government shutdown

8 Dems vote YES
🔵 Durbin
🔵 Kaine
🔵 King
🔵 Shaheen
🔵 Rosen
🔵 Hassan
🔵Fetterman
🔵 Cortez Masto

1 GOP NO
🔴 Rand Paul

Apparently John Cornyn wasn't present for the vote for a while and had to fly to DC to finally cast the 60th vote. Rand Paul of course would not supply that last vote. When the RINO John Cornyn finally made it into work, he voted "Yes" to end debate.

Thune did not "cave," as people had worried, to get the cloture vote. Some concessions were made, which I guess you can object to on principle. But the left is going berserk over how little the Democrats got so I guess by negative inference we can say that Thune "won," mostly.

I don't know if it's true that the "Democrats lost everything in the shutdown" as PJ Media's Matt Margolis says, but it does seem like they got doodly squat and they only got 30% of the doodly they demanded.

This is what capitulation looks like, and the left knows it.

The deal is simple. Schumer's caucus agreed to advance a package of spending bills that will reopen the government and extend funding through January.

That's it.

No sweeping policy concessions, no big wins tucked into the fine print, no "historic framework" or "moral victory." Just a basic continuing resolution, dressed up with some boilerplate back pay for furloughed workers and funding for food assistance through next fall. In other words, exactly what Republicans had put on the table before the Democrats decided to make a scene.

This shutdown began because Schumer thought he could strongarm the GOP into extending Obamacare subsidies that were set to expire and repealing Medicaid reforms that closed a loophole handing out free healthcare to illegal immigrants. President Trump and Republican leaders had already said they planned to address those subsidies separately, aiming to rein them in and curb abuse. But Schumer wanted drama. He shut down the government over it, thinking Republicans would blink.

They didn't.

Although there is nothing being added to the CR itself that can be called a concession to Democrats, Thune and the Republicans did make some minor promises about what they'll grant the Democrats in exchange for a cloture vote:

OSZ
@OpenSourceZone

Proposed Government Funding Bill To End The Government Shutdown:

🔴 Fund the government through January 31
🔴 Promise to vote on ACA subsidies in December
🔴 Reverse the mass layoffs of federal workers (RIFs) since Oct. 1
🔴 Provide full-year funding for Veterans Affairs
🔴 Provide full-year funding for SNAP

On the last two, I don't know what's being given up here. This is my guess: Democrats want SNAP and Veterans Affairs funded now for a full year so if they shut the government down again, they will not have to worry about their EBT army shrieking about "starving." As far as Veterans Affairs -- I dunno, Democrats don't really care about veterans.

On YouTube, Dr. Steve Turley says that that guarantee of a restoration of the jobs Trump cut during the shutdown isn't as big a concession as it seems. He says that while Republicans agree to restore those positions...

1, it does not require Trump to re-hire the people fired from those positions. He can hire other people. MAGA people.

2, it doesn't actually even require Trump to hire anyone. The Republicans agree that these positions will be restored, but there's no promise those positions will be filled.

Is that accurate? Not sure. I heard it from a guy on a webcam.

The last concession is that Republicans agree to a vote on the endless "emergency covid" Obamacare subsidies. I think this means they agree they will not demand a 60-vote threshold for cloture, but they guarantee a vote on the merits. Republicans have 53 votes and I'm almost certain that the Democrat in RINO clothing Lisa Murkoswski will vote for these supposedly temporary emergency covid subsidies, and so will the liberal "Republican" Bill Cassidy in Lousiana. I can imagine another couple of votes coming from the likes of Susan Collins and Tom Tillis (who still plagues us as he's not out of the Senate yet).

Democrats would need 51 votes to get these "temporary emergency covid subsidies" extended.

So I do think that's a concession. I do think that is a very real chit we gave the Democrats.

On the other hand, the Democrats were sabotaging the economy to try to win the 2026 midterms and set the stage for a 2028 win so... pick your poison.

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THE MORNING RANT: Post-Millenials Abandoning Television, and other Random TV Thoughts

This kid is now blind because he sat too close to the TV.

Sincerely,

Every 70s Mom pic.twitter.com/3avYoF7Z5a

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) July 26, 2023

At my day job, I recently participated in a gathering of 10 employees for the purpose of introducing a new company initiative. As an icebreaker, the moderator asked each person when introducing themselves to name a television series they are currently watching. Four of the ten individuals stated that they don’t watch any TV at all. Of those four, three of them were clearly under-35, possibly in their mid to late 20s (it’s hard for me to guess ages these days) and the other was a lady probably over 55. The moderator gently pressed a little and asked if they watch any shows on their tablets or devices, and all four of them said “no.”

I thought about old memories of how TV was demonized when I was a child in the ‘70s, yet today’s younger generation has somewhat abandoned television.

I also thought about what this portends for Hollywood. I knew that people had generally stopped going to theaters to watch movies like they used to, but I kind of assumed that meant more time was spent in front of the TV, and that there was still strong demand for all the streaming TV shows. Maybe not.

Since I’m talking television today, rather than my normal focus on the climate hoax, woke capital, or burning EVs, here are a few more television-related things that are on my mind…

*****

Missing the Red Netflix Envelope

Does anyone else miss getting movies and TV shoes on a DVD from Netflix? It was great. I would still prefer to watch a movie or TV series this way, rather than streaming.

For one thing, there was never any question about what to watch. There were always two DVDs to choose from representing shows we had previously made a decision to watch.

More importantly, there were no commercials and no buffering. How did we get to the point that I am paying a premium to stream TV shows and movies, but unlike the HBO of my youth, I’m also still having to sit through commercials?

Back to Netflix, my wife and I were “red envelopers” right until the end. That is how we watched the entire Justified series.

Also, there was an abundance of movie titles that could be rented on DVD that were not available for streaming. I believe this was due to licensing reasons, but since Netflix had actually bought the physical DVDs in my queue, those could then be rented out to me. After we had returned our last red envelopes, my wife found out that Netflix wasn’t even requiring them to be returned, since they were just going to be discarded. Had I known that, I would have made sure my last two disks were something special to me, perhaps Jaws, or Animal House, or Live and Let Die.

++ What would your last two Netflix DVDs be if you knew you didn’t have to return them?

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Why I Hated Star Trek and MTV

I hate Star Trek. Actually, I don’t have any actual malice toward the TV show, although I never got into it. But I hate how it ruined outdoor fun and play when I was a kid.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

The prayer before the meal
Jan Havickszoon Steen

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The Morning Report — 11/10/25

Good morning kids. Well, it certainly appears that the Schumer Shakedown Shutdown Shitshow has come to an end, after 40 days. Essentially Schemer and the Dems got nothing in return for passing what amounts to just another continuing resolution and the hardcore Maoists are blowing a gasket. Cue a very loud sad trombone

Whatever one thinks of polling, even before last Tuesday's horrendous election day results, polls had consistently indicated that Americans were blaming the Democrats for the perceived and in maybe a few instances real pain being felt by the government shutting down. So if their calculus was to use this as a weapon to beat up on Trump and the GOP in the run up to next year's midterms, perhaps Schumer felt it wise to just lick his wounds, fold up the tent and as Democrats always do, pray that the economy tanks and Americans suffer so they can ride that to victory next November and again in 2028 while discrediting the America First economic and political agenda.

This is what capitulation looks like, and the left knows it. The deal is simple. Schumer’s caucus agreed to advance a package of spending bills that will reopen the government and extend funding through January.

That’s it.

No sweeping policy concessions, no big wins tucked into the fine print, no “historic framework” or “moral victory.” Just a basic continuing resolution, dressed up with some boilerplate back pay for furloughed workers and funding for food assistance through next fall. In other words, exactly what Republicans had put on the table before the Democrats decided to make a scene.

This shutdown began because Schumer thought he could strongarm the GOP into extending Obamacare subsidies that were set to expire and repealing Medicaid reforms that closed a loophole handing out free healthcare to illegal immigrants. President Trump and Republican leaders had already said they planned to address those subsidies separately, aiming to rein them in and curb abuse. But Schumer wanted drama. He shut down the government over it, thinking Republicans would blink.
They didn’t.

After 40 days of a shutdown over a laundry list of demands, Democrats have nothing to show for it. Their only “win” is a vague promise of a future vote on Obamacare subsidies in December—a meaningless gesture that even they know is dead on arrival.

In the first year of Trump's second term, the economy is indeed improving. The direction upward on many fronts, from inflation to employment and other indices is unmistakeable. But of course as the estimable Victor Davis Hanson reminds us, it takes time for the average American to feel it and that gives the enemy time to lie and propagandize to their black heart's content, which they will do anyway.

The current economic indicators, at least those attributable to the 10-month Trump administration, are strong.

Fourth-quarter GDP is estimated to grow between 2.7 and 4 percent, the robust latter figure according to the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank.

Inflation from June to August ranged from 2.7 to 2.9 percent, significantly lower than the 5 percent annual average during Biden’s 2021-2025 term. . .

. . . the recent off-year elections, albeit in blue states like California, New Jersey, New York, and Virginia, were decided mostly on perceptions of “affordability,” shorthand for the economy.

When independent voters heard little from Republican candidates about the good economic news or of the sharp contrast from the prior Democratic train wreck, they simply bought the left-wing line that the lack of “affordability” was due to the administration in power—that is, Trump.

Third, most of Trump’s key economic initiatives are long-term and will not be fully realized by the end of 2025 or in early to mid-2026.

That right there is key. The timing of when things will be felt is crucial. No doubt local and national Democrat Pols will do all they can to make their own constituents suffer so they can then blame the President and his party. Of course the media as is their wont and raison d'être will be to broadcast that message 25/8/366 all the way through 2026 and beyond.

Switching gears for a moment . . .

[Friday] marked the 108th anniversary since the Bolshevik Revolution, which took place on November 7th, 1917 (October 25th, according to the Julian Calendar). Rarely has a local event produced such a profound global effect as the October Revolution, which ultimately enslaved billions around the world and caused mass murder and famine at an unprecedented rate.. . . Today, over a century later, the results are dismal — over 100 million murdered globally and billions starved and deprived of opportunities for normal lives. What is even more insidious, perhaps, is that the ideology of the October Revolution infected and conquered the education, media, and culture of the self-doubting West.

Also, Yesterday marked the 60th anniversary of the great Northeast blackout that left millions in the region and parts of Canada without power for 13 hours, and which gave rise to the expression, Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

The irony of the anniversaries of both those events is that they come within days of an election in NYC wherein the residents of NYC have chosen a Communist/Muslim jihadist to be their mayor. More chillingly are the indicators that more and more young people are openly espousing a desire for socialism and a forcible if not violent rejection of free-market capitalism and all of the social and human advancement that were engendered by it and could only have come about because of it.

The lament of then British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Gray at the outset of the First World War comes to mind: "The lamps are going out all over Europe; We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."

It remains to be seen if the miraculous victories of Donald Trump as well as the all too brief life and influence of the late Charlie Kirk are blips on an inevitable trajectory to decline and fall, or are harbingers of a great reawakening of American, Western and Judeo/Christian culture and the advancement of civilization and humanity.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s first-year economy is surging, but the race ahead hinges on perception, messaging, and whether voters see the boom before the 2026 midterms.
  The Race for the Trump Economy

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Daily Tech News 10 November 2025

Top Story

• Is there anything AI can't do? Enterprise hard drives are now on backorder for the next two years as AI deployments eat all available storage. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  That will put pressure on supplies of cheap bulk QLC SSDs, sending those prices up, which will put pressure on higher-quality TLC SSDs.
  
  But at least at the end of it you won't have a job anymore.
  
  Unless you're in a trade, in which case your employment is secure but your customers won't be able to pay you.

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Sunday Overnight Open Thread - November 9, 2025 [Doof]

Welcome to the Sunday night ONT. There might be some content. It's definitely an open thread, as always. The gray boxes await you!

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Gun Thread: Second November Edition!

Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!

Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be the Second November Edition? The time, she's flying!

With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?

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Food Thread: Stewing About Stew?

It's that time, when the leaves are falling from the trees, and there is a nip in the air! Well, the leaves are falling, but we haven't had much cold weather yet, so I am going to have to fake it with beef stew in the absence of frost!

One makes due.

But I am baking a sourdough loaf to go with the stew, because here at Chez Dildo we are nothing if not authentic! However, the stew recipe I am using is a bit odd...it calls for orange zest and cloves. And too much of both! I pulled two thirds of the orange out after about 10 minutes, and didn't bother with the cloves, because that's just weird!

It also called for two cups of flour with which to dust the meat. Two cups of flour for three pounds of chuck? That's quite a bit! So I made a roux instead, because it was obvious that the stew wasn't going to be thick enough for the aesthetic pleasure of the season's first robust dish! I also added more potatoes and carrots and pearl onions. And didn't really follow the instructions for cooking.

So...why did I bother with a recipe in the first place?

I have no idea.

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First-World Problems...

I used to have two of them, but one perished in an industrial accident. Well, I knocked it off a banister and it cracked into about 10 pieces, mostly along the repair lines! So my one remaining mug, which is barely 40 years old, must last the rest of my life!

Pathetically, the company doesn't make them any more. How a consumer products company can last without paying attention to their customers is a mystery, but I will persevere...maybe.

Unless the remaining one breaks. Then...I'll be coming for you Waechtersbach!

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They Keep Taking Our Money and Ignoring Our Priorities (scampydog)

Taxes Not the freshest topic - many justified complainers, nobody shuts up about them, and nearly every politician insists this time it’ll be different. We all know the cycle: Promise big…Collect small, Over report….Deliver little…Blame others…Repeat.

Politicians treat taxes the way linguists treat grammar: obsessively, creatively, and with a hammer of righteous. A new noun appears? They’ll find a way to tax it. A new verb? There’s a fee for that too. The left, in particular, gets excited about conjugating taxes - a new tense, a new bracket, a new license. If it exists in language or life, it exists in their desire to tax it.

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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 11-09-2025 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]

Welcome to the prestigious, internationally acclaimed, stately, and illustrious Sunday Morning Book Thread! The place where all readers are welcome, regardless of whatever guilty pleasure we feel like reading (shut it all down!). Here is where we can discuss, argue, bicker, quibble, consider, debate, confabulate, converse, and jaw about our latest fancy in reading material. As always, pants are required, unless you are wearing these pants...(Jolly Green Giant was unavailable for comment.)

So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, and dive into a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning?

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Daily Tech News 9 November 2025

Top Story

• The latest US Mars mission will launch from Cape Canaveral today at around 2:45 PM EST. (Space)
  
  The mission - dubbed ESCAPADE - involves two orbiters that will map the magnetic fields and upper atmosphere of the planet, providing data essential to human landings and settlement.
  
  The two orbiters, named Blue and Gold respectively, were built by Rocket Labs and will be operated by the University of California. They will launch on Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket - only the second flight for that design.
  
  They'll fly out to the Earth-Sun L2 point around a million miles away to make observations there and say hello to the James Webb telescope, before heading back to Earth for a gravity slingshot this time next year and finally arriving in Mars rendezvous September of 2027.
  
  New Glenn is designed to have a reusable booster and they'll be attempting to land it on a ship at sea, so that will also be fun to watch for.

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