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Like autumn leaves falling from Hollywood’s once-evergreen trees, a familiar cycle is returning to American entertainment. For years, the industry insisted its experimental season would last forever, that audiences would adapt to whatever programming executives deemed necessary for our moral improvement. But nature, like the marketplace, has its own immutable laws. The entertainment industry has been quietly recalibrating its priorities lately, though you wouldn’t know it from the panicked press releases flooding out of activist organizations. Television networks and streaming services, those great barometers of American cultural preferences, are making decisions based on an almost forgotten metric: what viewers actually...

The grand opening ceremony of a sprawling 150,000-square-foot “milestone for the global Shia Ismaili Muslim community and a transformative addition to the city’s cultural landscape” has opened in Houston. “The Ismaili Center opens in Houston — a first for the U.S.,” by Shafaq Patel, Axios, November 6, 2025: The stone tapestry, with its triangular patterns, illuminates at night and has shadows in the day. The Ismaili Center, Houston, an architecturally grand cultural and religious space and one of only seven worldwide, has completed construction and is opening to the public next month. Why it matters: The 150,000-square-foot center — the...

According to a statement released by the Spanish National Research Centre for Human Evolution (CENIEH), Ana Mateos and Jesús Rodríguez and their colleagues think that scavenging for carrion was vital to the survival of early hominins. It had been previously suggested that although eating carrion requires less effort than hunting, it carries the risks of consuming pathogens from spoiled meat and being attacked by hungry predators. Yet ecological research indicates that carrion is more widely available than had been thought, and tends to be available when other food sources are scarce. Acid in the human stomach may have acted as...

Beloved, our dear friends at "Word of Truth Production" have created this amazing video which causes us to use our God-given common sense as we look at man's inventions versus Almighty God's highly complex creation and design (Gen. 1:1-3, Neh. 9:6; Prov. 3:19, Isa. 45:18, John 1:1-3, Rom. 1:18-32, 1 Cor. 8:6, Rev. 4-5)! The real objective biblical question that we need to ask all ourselves in these Last Days of EXPONENTIAL growth of man made technology; which provides vast abundant insight into the ETERNAL genius of the mind of Almighty God of ETERNAL Creator is this, "Are we a...

Is America about to be hit with a Mamdani-style socialist tidal wave? That’s what more than a few Americans are thinking as the dust settles on the unnerving election of socialist Democrat Zohran Mamdani in New York City. Make no mistake, his faction of the Democratic Party absolutely has momentum after the win. So right now, much of the national political discourse is focused on the “meaning of Mamdani.” I grew up in California, the Bay Area, and got used to “fringy” leftists in local government. But to see an American city as massive and iconic as New York fall...

Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes: Muslims claim New York for Islam “We're done hiding. We're done. —This is the correct[sic]religion. This is the religion[sic] that all of humanity needs to be a part of Islam, and we will not stop until it enters every home. — I wanna hear it in every single district. It should tremble. Brooklyn should hear it. The Bronx should hear it. Queens should hear it. Say it as if the ummah depends on this, my brothers and sisters — There is no God worthy of worship except Allah — and final pro_het[sic], Mohammed.”

The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. The justices on Monday turned away an appeal...WASHINGTON(AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. The justices, without comment, turned away an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the high court's 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges.Davis had been trying to get the court to overturn a lower-court order for her to pay $360,000 in damages and attorney's...

A nonbinary furry starred in Nike's latest advertising campaign amid a slump in sales at the legendary sportswear brand. Nike has been beset with poor sales over the past year while competitors like Adidas and Hoka have enjoyed surging profits. The company's latest campaign, Gaming Division, a collaboration with British designer Martine Rose, is tailored to the video gaming community. The products launched on October 30 and were modeled by five new gaming-style 'characters' who Nike has described as 'heroes of a modern arena', defined by 'creative energy'. (.....) The self-proclaimed furry, who uses he/they pronouns and identifies as gay...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday he wants to order 25 Patriot air defense systems from the United States, as Ukraine desperately tries to fend off relentless Russian aerial attacks that have brought rolling blackouts across Ukraine on the brink of winter.Zelenskyy acknowledged that the Patriot systems are expensive and that such a large batch could take years to manufacture. But he said European countries could give their Patriots to Ukraine and await replacements, stressing that “we would not like to wait.”Combined missile and drone strikes on the power grid have coincided with Ukraine’s frantic efforts to...

Some spectators booed as President Trump appeared on the videoboard at a Washington Commanders gain against the Detroit Lions. The jeering continued while Trump read an oath for members of the military to recite as part of an on-field enlistment ceremony during a break in the game.

One of the better posters/commenters on X is the aptly-named @DataRepublican, who does some great work digging into data, crunching numbers, taking big nests of snakes and laying them all out straight, and uncovering things that just generally make the left uncomfortable. DataRepublican has outdone herself on this thread. Let's look at a few highlights. First, the opening post: [X post at link] DataRepublican writes in full: Ex-USAID employees describe how, before January 20, they moved internal groups off government systems and into encrypted Signal chats, then quickly linked with foreign partners and NGOs after the inauguration. This attempt at...

JTN Network, the parent company of Just the News™, announced Monday that it has acquired the news brands Human Events™ and The Post Millennial™ as it launches a major expansion into a news, entertainment and technology network. Human Events, one of the country’s oldest conservative publications dating to the 1940s and once a favorite of Ronald Reagan, will be ending daily publication this month and will be re-imagined into a large virtual and live events platform with ticket, music and movie sales and daily event programming for politics, news, sports and entertainment. JTN Network will be led by CEO Mark...

Daiji World reports that workers restoring a Shiva temple near the Javvadu Hills in India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu discovered 103 gold coins dated to the Chola period, which spanned the ninth through the thirteenth centuries A.D. The coins had been neatly stacked in a pot and buried beneath the temple floor. The temple is thought to have been built during the reign of King Rajaraja Cholan III, between 1216 and 1246. Temple wealth flourished during the late Chola period, when gold-based trade networks were active across South India, according to researchers from the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments...

Several Trump Administration officials including top adviser Stephen Miller, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, have felt the need to live in military housing in order to be safe from politically motivated violence. An article the Atlantic by Michael Scherer, Missy Ryan, and Ashley Parker pointed out that "this is far more frequent than what has been the case than in the Obama and Biden administrations. Maybe it's MAGA's own fault. They ought to look inward for answers as to why this might be occurring. Perhaps...

DALLAS — Improper maintenance led to a brake system "anomaly" that caused an American Airlines plane to overrun a runway at DFW Airport in February 2024, a new report from the National Transportation Safety Board detailed. The agency's final report on the incident was released Monday, Nov. 10. The incident happened Feb. 10, 2024, after American Airlines flight 1632 from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport landed at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and lost "braking effectiveness," causing it to come to a stop on the paved overrun area on the south end of runway 17L. No one was injured in the...

Despite detailed photographic evidence to the contrary, many liberals continue to assert that the Venezuelan boats recently destroyed by the U.S. Navy are merely fishing, not drug, boats. The Associated Press has jumped into the fray and in a roundabout "nuanced" way admitted that the destroyed boats are indeed drug boats. The "nuance" comes in via the AP asserting that among the crews of the drug boats, some worked mostly as fishermen or other low paying jobs with drug smuggling only as a side gig to boost their income. The AP reluctantly made the 'nuanced' admission that the destroyed boats...

President Donald Trump has pardoned his former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, his former chief of staff Mark Meadows and others, according to a Justice Department official. Ed Martin, the government's pardon attorney, posted on X a signed proclamation of the "full, complete, and unconditional" pardon, which also names conservative attorneys Sidney Powell and John Eastman. The document "includes, but is not limited to" 77 people. It says the pardon does not apply to Trump. Trump, in the proclamation dated Friday, said the move would end "a grave national injustice" and "continue the process of national reconciliation." Presidential pardons only apply...

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has tapped a 74-year-old former high-ranking de Blasio administration official and longtime budget guru as his top City Hall advisor. The appointment of Dean Fuleihan as first deputy mayor marks the first major staffing decision for the incoming Mamdani administration that wants to spend more than $10 billion on a lofty socialist agenda while facing down a nearly $5 billion budget gap. Fuleihan, who is more than twice the age of the 34-year-old socialist lawmaker, also served as then-Mayor Bill de Blasio’s first deputy mayor and had been advising Mamdani on his campaign. “I think that Dean...

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will enact a new policy that will prohibit transgender female athletes from competing against biological women, according to multiple reports. The policy is reportedly set to cover those with differences of sex development (DSD). The IOC’s current policy leaves it up to each individual sport’s governing body to make policies governing transgender athletes. But as the IOC changed its leadership, The Times of London reported on Monday that its policies are set to change as well. IOC President Kirsty Coventry called for "protecting" the women’s category in June and there was "overwhelming support" from IOC...

Daily Readings from the USCCBMemorial of Saint Leo the Great, Pope and Doctor of the ChurchJesus said to his disciples, “Things that cause sin will inevitably occur, but woe to the one through whom they occur. It would be better for him if a millstone were put around his neck and he be thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.” Luke 17:1–2Having a millstone placed around your neck and thrown into the sea is very descriptive. Jesus is using very evocative language. A millstone was a large round stone with a...