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Layoffs hit NBC News Wednesday, with the network news division facing cuts ahead of Comcast’s spinoff of Versant. About 150 jobs were eliminated, representing about 2 percent of the workforce of the NBC News Group. The cuts were across the News Group, without specific teams being targeted. The Versant spin will see MSNBC and CNBC separated from NBC News. NBC News, MSNBC and CNBC are currently all part of the NBC News Group, led by Cesar Conde. Per a source, the cuts were driven by the fact that NBC News will no longer be providing newsgathering capabilities for CNBC and...

AI is Not Ready for Prime Time: The Infrastructure and Human Reality GapArtificial Intelligence has captured the imagination of investors, companies, and the public alike, promising unprecedented efficiency, automation, and insight. Headlines trumpet AI’s transformative power, but a closer examination reveals a significant gap between hype and operational reality.1. The AI Bubble: Investment vs. ValueAI has attracted billions of dollars in investment, reminiscent of the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s. Startups and established companies alike promote “AI-first” futures, claiming humans will be replaced, efficiency will soar, and profits will skyrocket. In practice, however:Most AI applications are effective only in...

In this 5min speech, the Prime Minister of Pakistan praises Trump in the most effusive and heartfelt manner that we have ever heard from anyone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG-qTu20YzU There is, of course, a cynical take and a face value take of this speech.

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Kathryn Kirk and Robert W. Kirk, stand in silence as Amazing Grace is played…

Over the past several years, a common refrain in education has been that educators need to “meet students where they are.” Equally common is the promise to do just that—and we’re hearing it more and more in North Carolina. The idea of “meeting students where they are” is most commonly invoked in non-academic contexts. For example: DeVetta Holman Nash, assistant director of student wellness services and coordinator of student academic success at UNC, proclaims, “I meet students where they are individually.” UNC Charlotte touts a new “all-pathways [‘collegiate recovery’] program model to meet students where they are.” After partnering with...

As previously reported, Mitt Romney’s sister-in-law, Carrie Elizabeth Romney, was found dead near a parking garage in Valencia, California. Authorities responded to a call on Friday night on reports of a dead woman near a parking garage. The woman, later identified as former Senator Mitt Romney’s sister-in-law, Carrie Romney, either jumped or fell off a five-story structure near the Valencia Town Center mall. The 64-year-old died on scene. Carrie Romney was married to former Senator Mitt Romney’s older brother, George Scott Romney, 81. According to divorce records obtained by The New York Post, George Romney was trying to make sure...

Nick Sortor @nicksortor 🚨 WOW! Trump says a donor offered to COVER payroll for our troops if money could not be shifted for their paychecks, as Dems use troops as pawns What a PATRIOT. Bi-weekly payroll for troops is around $6.6 BILLION! It’d have to be someone like @elonmusk . Not just any billionaire could cover it!

Even in what you might call the mainstream liberal media, you'd have to look far and wide to find outspoken support for the often-violent, blatantly antisemitic, pro-Hamas student protesters that have plagued American colleges in recent times. But look no further than CNN This Morning and its host, Audie Cornish, formerly of NPR. Last week, reacting to a poll showing a majority of Americans opposing sending more weapons to Israel, and supporting sending humanitarian aid to Gaza, we caught Cornish saying: "There's a whole bunch of students out there who are probably like, hey, thanks for coming around." Cornish was...

A surprising shift is taking place in the gender and sexual identities of young Americans. Data from my new Centre for Heterodox Social Science report, “The Decline of Trans and Queer Identity among Young Americans”, shows that since 2023 both trans and queer identification have dropped sharply within Generation Z.The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), which conducts a large annual survey of US undergraduates, polled over 60,000 students in 2025. My analysis of the raw data shows that in that year, just 3.6% of respondents identified as a gender other than male or female. By comparison, the figure...

A Scottsdale Unified School District (SUSD) teacher is under fire after shocking allegations surfaced that she labeled a third-grade student an “extremist” and coordinated with a neighbor to spy on him outside of school. Even more disturbing, this is the same teacher who reportedly celebrated the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk on social media. In a heartbreaking video testimony shared by Libs of TikTok, a third grader shared his disturbing experience with Donna Javinett, a 3rd-grade teacher at Anasazi Elementary School: “I was a third grader at Anasazi, but in a different class than Mrs. Donna Javinett....

The New York Times scrambled to run cover for leftist billionaire George Soros after a groundbreaking report exposing his pro-terrorism funding served as the pretext for the Justice Department launching an investigation into his Open Society Foundations (OSF). The Times tried October 10 to attack the Capital Research Center’s investigative report showing that Soros had funneled at least $80 million into “groups tied to terrorism or extremist violence” both in the U.S. and abroad. The headline: "Report on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism." One heavily Soros-funded group, Al-Haq, is “a nongovernmental organization (NGO) based...

MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has gone scorched-earth on her own party, publicly lambasting what she called “weak Republican men” in Congress. The Georgia Republican suggested that men don’t have the guts to truly fight for the conservative agenda...

1:07 VIDEO AT LINK. She gets it................ On another note: Why do people make all these videos in their cars?..................

Psalm 62:1 (King James Version) Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. It is impossible to overstate the size of Trump’s accomplishment with the Israel/Gaza peace agreement. One week after the Swedish brat was going to Gaza to stir up unrest and blame Israel for more atrocities, Trump is signing the agreement for peace. This is truly remarkable by a remarkable man who has spent his entire life prepping for this moment. The man who has been vilified more than anyone since Christ while showing why the Founding Fathers wanted successful part time politicians rather than...

Who is paying for this stuff? Where is is coming from? Can a trace be done with the trailer numbers? License plates? 0:46 VIDEO AT LINK..................

Unidentified drones, equipped with lights, were observed over several Danish airports on the night of September 24, 2025. Flights were disrupted at Aalborg, Billund, and Copenhagen airports for various periods of time. From the BBC, 25 September 2025: Denmark says drones flown over its airports appear to be the work of a “professional actor” but there was no evidence of Russian involvement, after such activity disrupted its airspace for the second time in a week.Aalborg airport was forced to shut down for several hours on Wednesday evening after green lights were spotted overhead, while Billund airport also briefly closed. Three...

Michael McCarthy @punishablepress A disturbing video shows a group of black boys assaulting two young white girls while recording the incident. This happened in Holmes & Woodland High School in Covington Kentucky.

For 15 years, Matthew Shepard’s unspeakably brutal murder on a lonely prairie in Wyoming has been a byword for the very worst of American anti-gay bigotry and a rallying cry for a more tolerant, more inclusive society. The 21-year-old University of Wyoming student was found trussed to a fence post, bleeding and half-frozen to death, in a rocky field on the outskirts of Laramie. He had been pistol-whipped so severely that his brain stem was crushed. His killers even removed his shoes, on the off-chance he broke free of his bonds and tried to run to safety. Shepard’s death inspired...

Gain of Fauci @DschlopesIsBack Buried video of Ashli Babbitt arriving at the doors inside the Capitol on January 6th just moments before Michael Byrd shot and killed her. Babbitt is seen talking with Officers while her friend offers them water. She doesn’t seem like an insane or dangerous person at all.