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A massive Bruce Springsteen fan club, with nearly 20,000 members on Facebook alone, has shut down as its members have been caught in constant cycle of bickering over Springsteen’s left-wing politics, especially since his endorsement of Michigan Democrat Senator-Elect Abdul El-Sayed. The Spring-Nuts fan club has announced that it is ending its operations and has told its more than 18,000 Facebook members that they will have to look elsewhere to indulge their support of the “Born in the USA” singer thanks to Springsteen’s constant political activism that has the fans at each other’s throats, according to reports. “As Bruce became...

Whatever happened to the republic we knew growing up and well into our adult years? We had political disagreements, some of them quite heated. But what we’re living through today, thanks to deranged Democrats, is not only unfamiliar, it is catastrophic unless the left comes to its senses. We often see charges from the political right that Democrats, socialists, and progressives want those who refuse to surrender to their agenda dead. Maybe it’s an overstatement. But when we see survey results that clearly show there is an uncontrolled sickness, a pandemic of depravity, we think maybe it’s more truth...

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In an eerie retelling of the Arthurian legend of Excalibur, archaeologists have found a 3,300-year-old sword at the bottom of a lake. The weapon was found during an underwater excavation at Lake Mezzano, a small volcanic lake in central Italy, where it had been submerged for millennia with its blade still sharp. Experts believe the sword, which dates to around 1300 BC, may have been deliberately deposited as part of a ritual offering, a practice already linked to several Bronze Age European sites. The discovery was announced by Italy's Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the Province of...

Gun rights groups and retailers are projecting a surge in firearm sales after Democrats won control of both chambers of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate in last week’s midterm elections. Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) Chairman Alan Gottlieb is warning that gun control groups are heralding the wins and will be seeking new gun control legislation and restrictions. Gottlieb said the threat of new gun control legislation isn’t limited to Congress and that Democrats also are set to push restrictions in states like Pennsylvania and Arizona. In an interview Thursday, Gottlieb...

The FAA is investigating after two passenger jets narrowly avoided a midair collision shortly after taking off from Los Angeles International Airport when one aircraft reportedly made an unauthorized turn into the other’s flight path. The close call occurred Saturday at approximately 12:20 a.m. after the pilots of Air France Flight 28, traveling from Los Angeles to Papeete, Tahiti, turned into the path of an American Airlines aircraft that had departed from a parallel runway, according to the FAA. Flight tracking data indicates the two planes came within 400 feet vertically of each other, but air traffic controllers quickly stepped...

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Serious suspicions have arisen about the validity of the 2026 election: “Was this a 2020 rigged election all over again? For millions of everyday Americans who put their faith in the ballot box, that is not a wild conspiracy theory; it is the screaming, unaddressed elephant in the room. How are we supposed to look at sudden, unexplained shifts in long-standing conservative strongholds and swallow the official narrative without choking?” The Democrats appear to have flipped dozens of congressional seats in the midterms, with many states shifting hard to the political left -- news that is almost too good to...

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...I did want to write something because I keep seeing the same headline everywhere: the religious left is back. Ezra Klein’s take on the return of the religious left is going viral. Christian Paz at Vox called Talarico’s and Hamilton’s wins the rise of a Christian left. The AP says the midterms showed the strength of the religious left... Zach W. Lambert posted a good reminder of this on Substack this week: Talarico and Hamilton are not pioneering Christian faith in progressive politics. The Black church has been leading the way for generations. Raphael Warnock. John Lewis. Adam Clayton Powell...

As Americans spend more of their time online, the neighborhood—once a primary physical location for real-world socialization—is playing less of a central role than ever before.... Whether because of social media distractions, travel sports commitments, or the rising use of freelance service providers ... Americans rely far less on close neighbors and venture out less often into their communities. As Marc Dunkelman contends in The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American Community, less routine interaction with neighbors and others in the “middle ring” of social connections allows us far fewer opportunities to practice constructive debate.[i]... It’s not only a class...

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The F-35 Joint Program Office is struggling to keep track of billions of dollars worth of spare parts for the fifth-generation fighter, government auditors said in a new report—and it still can’t find $85 million in parts that have been lost for years. The Pentagon does not maintain complete records tracking its worldwide pool of roughly 26 million spare F-35 parts that are collectively worth about $31 billion, the Government Accountability Office said in a report released Nov. 9. What records it has are often inaccurate, incomplete, and don’t reflect real-time changes, the congressional watchdog added. The report also said...

A runner at Sunday’s Santa Barbara Half Marathon struggled toward the finish line while experiencing a deep fog — then suddenly woke up in a medical tent. Nineteen competitors were hospitalized after the event, prompting a police investigation into what caused their “unusual symptoms.” One mom, who requested anonymity, told the California Post her daughter was well prepared for the race and runs regularly but got sick near the finish line. “You can see on her Garmin [watch], [she] went from a really decent pace to a crawl,” she said. “She has no memory of the finish line. She said...

Over 7,000 years ago, Neolithic farmers crossed the Mediterranean from Iberia into North Africa. Carrying Cardial Ware pottery, domesticated crops and livestock, these European migrants established communities in Morocco and mixed with indigenous Maghrebi hunter-gatherers. Archaeology and ancient DNA shows how farming spread through migration, cultural adoption and later movements from the Levant. Including the remarkable spread of the R1b-V88 paternal lineage from Mesolithic Europe and Neolithic Iberia into the Green Sahara, and ultimately to populations living around Lake Chad today. How DNA Reveals Neolithic Europeans Colonized Africa 7,000 Years Ago | 22:05 Dan Davis History | 392K subscribers |...

President Donald Trump went to bat for Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Monday, despite the latter’s affair with an alleged Chinese spy. When asked about the allegations during a White House press briefing, Trump said that he will not bring up the case with President Xi Jinping when the two meet next week. He added, “I just know Jensen very well. I think he is a very honorable man. He built a great company. American company. I think he’s a very honorable guy. I feel very confident that he will be in good shape.” Trump was later asked to put a...

Bone fragments attributed to Saint Nicolas were stolen from a church in France, then allegedly burned and crushed. Priests at Saint Nicolas de Port, one of France's few sanctuaries to hold a relic of the saint, reported the theft of a reliquary containing a fragment of the saint's body on November 2. Police later arrested the suspect, who reportedly admitted acting spontaneously out of a 'desire to destroy' the relic because he viewed devotion to the bones as a form of idol worship. Saint Nicolas, the inspiration behind Santa Claus, lived between 270 and 343 AD and is famous for...

Scholars have developed ways of thinking about the differences in how learners engage with a subject. The ICAP framework categorizes student learning as interactive, constructive, active, or passive. Research indicates the strongest learning—in terms of both content recall and conceptual understanding—comes from the interactive and constructive types, in which learners must generate their own ideas and make complex and multilevel connections. For example, a project for which a student is required to do research—finding and reading sources then determining an argument based on them—is both interactive (with the sources) and constructive (developing and communicating an argument).1Studies examining how students employ...

A rather unusual stray is looking for a new home in Southern California after being found wandering the streets. The Inland Valley Humane Society & S.P.C.A. in Pomona is hoping to find a loving home for a large, black pig that was rescued by humane officers after being spotted roaming a neighborhood. “Not every rescue involves paws and wagging tails,” the organization wrote in an Instagram post Sunday. “Sometimes, it involves hooves and a curly tail!” Photos shared by the shelter show the hefty pig strolling along a sidewalk and grazing in a grassy area as officers responded to the...

Jewels Jones ®@JewelsJonesLive·3hPete Hegseth handed America's war colleges 33 DIRECTIVES this morning. By Wednesday the House has to take a floor vote on impeaching him.He announced them to the students of the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. On the war colleges' own mission statements: "The word 'win' is entirely absent. The word 'defeat' does not appear."So the 80-page thesis is out. Competitive war games and exams are in. New civilian faculty get three-year contracts, not lifetime tenure. Colonels fresh off an operational command get a Warfighter Chair at every senior college. The war games and the chairs are...