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  • Poem On Statue Of Liberty Updated To Read 'No Fatties'

    11/14/2025 3:48:06 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 1 replies
    BabylonBee.com ^ | Nov 14, 2025 | The Babylon Bee
    https://babylonbee.com/news/poem-on-statue-of-liberty-updated-to-read-no-fattiesNEW YORK, NY — As part of a change in immigration policy designed to limit the incoming of foreign nationals with chronic health issues, the poem posted on the Statue of Liberty was updated to read "No Fatties." The famous inscription, which had long been held as a beacon of hope to all who sought a new life and the American dream, now more accurately reflected the current administration's efforts to prevent obese immigrants from arriving to weigh down the nation's healthcare industry. "It's a modern addition that fits our updated vision," said Secretary of State Marco Rubio. "Our country...
  • Hochul open to raising taxes on NY corporations to fund socialist Zohran Mamdani’s freebies

    11/14/2025 3:37:01 PM PST · by Libloather · 12 replies
    NY Post ^ | 11/14/25 | Craig McCarthy, Matt Troutman
    Gov. Hochul is reportedly open to raising taxes on corporations in the Empire State to help fund socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s freebie-filled agenda for New York City. Hochul, who is up for re-election in 2026, is sticking to her vow to not hit high-earners with higher taxes — but has had preliminary conversations about raising revenue by upping the corporate tax rate, according to Politico, which first reported the story. The hike would help fill the more than $4 billion budget gap facing the state next year and cover some of the costs associated with Mamdani’s socialist dream in the...
  • First death reported from meat allergy caused by tick bite

    11/14/2025 3:07:33 PM PST · by yesthatjallen · 14 replies
    NBC ^ | 11 13 2025 | Aria Bendix
    A 47-year-old airline pilot from New Jersey is the first person known to have died from alpha-gal syndrome, a red meat allergy caused by a tick bite. Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine publicly reported the cause of death Wednesday after months of investigation. Their findings were published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice. The man’s death had previously been seen as a mystery, since medical examinations showed no evidence of a heart attack or other life-threatening issues. According to the researchers, the man started feeling sick four hours after consuming a hamburger...
  • Cutting key amino acids from mouse diets triggers weight loss through heat burning (Vegan diet)

    11/14/2025 2:57:04 PM PST · by ConservativeMind · 7 replies
    Medical Xpress / University of Southern Denmark / eLife ^ | Nov. 10, 2025 | Philip MM Ruppert et al
    It's not pleasant to shiver from the cold, but for some, it has the appeal of making the body burn more energy as heat than when staying in a warmer environment. This process of burning energy through heat loss is called thermogenesis. While scientists and pharmaceutical companies are exploring ways to trick the body into thinking it's cold, obesity researchers set out to investigate another route: a form of thermogenesis triggered by eating specialized diets rather than temperature. After conducting a series of mouse studies, the researchers concluded that diet-induced thermogenesis led to nearly the same amount of weight loss...
  • Small alligator rescued in Boston after slithering into the city’s heart on social media

    11/14/2025 2:35:23 PM PST · by DallasBiff · 7 replies
    AP ^ | 11/13/25 | RODRIQUE NGOWI and PATRICK WHITTLE
    BOSTON (AP) — It wasn’t a croc — there really was an alligator on the loose in Boston. And the story of the city’s slithering saurian appears to have a happy ending. The small alligator, spotted along the Charles River in Boston multiple times this week, has been rescued and delivered to safety, wildlife officials in Massachusetts said Thursday.
  • Prison Staffers FIRED After Stealing Ghislaine Maxwell’s Attorney-Client Emails and Funnel­ing Them to Rep. Raskin — Who Then Leaked the Stolen Material to Media Under a Fake ‘Whistleblower’ Label

    11/14/2025 2:27:20 PM PST · by CFW · 18 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 11/14/25 | Jim Hoft
    Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorney Leah Saffian has confirmed that multiple federal prison staffers have been FIRED for illegally breaking into Maxwell’s privileged attorney-client emails, emails that were then funneled straight to Democrat Congressman Jamie Raskin, who blasted them to the media like political propaganda. Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee, apparently believes his lofty position as a former law professor grants him the license to trample on the Bill of Rights. By leaking Maxwell’s privileged correspondence to the media, he’s not just undermining the legal process, he’s trampling her constitutional rights, including the First Amendment’s protection of confidential communications,...
  • TikTok Influencer Ordered to Pay $1.75M for Destroying Manager's Marriage

    11/14/2025 1:58:48 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 30 replies
    ABC7 ^ | Thursday, November 13, 2025 | Eric Miller
    North Carolina is one of the few states that allows jilted spouses to sue someone for interfering in their marriage.> A North Carolina woman will have to pay $1.75 million after a jury found her liable for destroying a Durham couple's marriage. The lawsuit filed in Durham County Court accused Brenay Kennard - an influencer with nearly 3 million followers on TikTok and 274,000 followers on Instagram - of seducing and having an affair with her manager, Tim Montague. "She has received justice from losing her husband and the father of her children," said Robonetta Jones, who was the attorney...
  • Resilience Disrupted (Mental Health of Marines)

    11/14/2025 1:36:13 PM PST · by Retain Mike
    U.S. Naval Institute ^ | November 2025 | Abby L. Kienle
    Now that the older members of the Generation Z cohort have reached their mid-20s, stark differences in their mental health, resilience, and socioemotional development are evident when compared with their Millennial counterparts. Many troubling trends have been measured, including:• A 188 percent increase in emergency room visits for self-harm by girls, and 48 percent for boys, since 2010.• A 167 percent increase in suicide rates for adolescent girls, and a 91 percent increase for adolescent boys, since 2010, with no abatement,• A rise in depression during the 2010s so significant that it could explain nearly all suicide mortality among those...
  • Thanksgiving Cooking Thread

    11/14/2025 1:20:05 PM PST · by Jamestown1630 · 70 replies
    Nobody seems to have begun a Thanksgiving food/cooking thread, so I thought I would. I've never eaten okra, but have always wanted to try. This time of year, I can probably only get frozen here; does anyone have a recipe they like for frozen okra?
  • Alpha-Gal Syndrome Death: NJ Man Believed to Be 1st to Die from Meat Allergy Caused by Tick Bite

    11/14/2025 1:17:03 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 12 replies
    abc7 ^ | 11/14/25 | Michael Bartiromo
    A death in New Jersey is now being called the first-ever linked to a meat allergy caused by a tick bite. Doctors say a 47-year-old man who passed away in the summer of last year had a severe reaction to a steak after spending a day in the outdoors. He became severely ill but recovered, so he thought nothing of it. Then, two weeks later, he died after eating a hamburger, according to officials. The allergy is known as "Alpha-gal syndrome." The allergy is caused by the bite of the Lone Star tick. According to University of Virginia Health, people...
  • Hegseth says U.S. must defend freedom of Christians to worship

    11/14/2025 12:42:49 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 12 replies
    The Washington Times ^ | Friday, November 14, 2025 | Bill Gertz
    Says Pentagon ready to act in Nigeria, elsewhere if ordered by president to end persecutionDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday that the United States must defend persecuted Christians in Nigeria and other parts of the world facing harsh treatment for their beliefs. “President Trump has made clear that the United States will always defend the right of Christians to freely worship here at home and around the world,” Mr. Hegseth told The Washington Times. “As a Christian, this is also very important to me and my family.” Mr. Hegseth, a conservative Christian, said in a statement that the Defense Department,...
  • MAGA Rages at Kristi Noem Saying Trump Admin Has ‘Sped Up’ Legal Immigration Process

    11/14/2025 12:35:45 PM PST · by Miami Rebel · 55 replies
    Mediaite ^ | November 14, 2025 | Alex Griffing
    Trump Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem sparked a wave of anger on the MAGA right this week when she boasted on Fox News that the administration had “sped up” the legal immigration process. Noem...was asked by host Lawrence Jones to weigh in on the administration’s additional fees for H-1B visas for high-skilled foreign workers. President Donald Trump defended the visas.... saying America does not have enough “talented” workers to meet its needs. .... “Now, we’re going to keep using our visa programs. We’re just going to make sure that they have integrity, that we’re actually doing the vetting of the...
  • The Most Valuable Military Contractor Doesn’t Make Bombs or Guns

    11/14/2025 12:27:12 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 2 replies
    The New York Times ^ | Nov. 14, 2025 Updated 9:56 a.m. ET | Jeff Sommer
    Palantir is a software company, and its national security work has driven its stock price to remarkable heights.You won’t find the most valuable national security contractor of them all on the standard lists of defense industry stocks.That would be Palantir, a rapidly growing company inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings.”The S&P 500 defense and aerospace sector contains big publicly traded companies like GE Aerospace, Boeing, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and RTX (formerly Raytheon Technologies). They make the weapons, ammunition and equipment that a nation needs to fight a war: missiles, bombs, tanks, rockets, aircraft, ammunition,...
  • Anthropic warns of AI-driven hacking campaign linked to China

    11/14/2025 12:23:16 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 1 replies
    AP News ^ | Updated 2:17 PM CST, November 14, 2025 | DAVID KLEPPER and MATT O’BRIEN
    WASHINGTON (AP) — A team of researchers has uncovered what they say is the first reported use of artificial intelligence to direct a hacking campaign in a largely automated fashion. The AI company Anthropic said this week that it disrupted a cyber operation that its researchers linked to the Chinese government. The operation involved the use of an artificial intelligence system to direct the hacking campaigns, which researchers called a disturbing development that could greatly expand the reach of AI-equipped hackers.While concerns about the use of AI to drive cyber operations are not new, what is concerning about the new...
  • Weapons makers have 'conned' US military into buying expensive equipment, Army Secretary says

    11/14/2025 12:15:15 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 22 replies
    Reuters.com ^ | 11/14/2025 | Idrees Ali
    WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Large defense companies have "conned" the U.S. military into buying expensive equipment when cheaper commercial options would have been available, U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said.Government accountability advocates and some lawmakers have long argued that defense contractors have overcharged the military. But Driscoll's comments were unusually blunt for a sitting government official speaking out against companies that supply the largest military in the world."(The) defense industrial base broadly, and the primes in particular, conned the American people and the Pentagon and the Army," Driscoll told reporters, referring to prime contractors that work directly with the...
  • “Why Are You Lying?” – Anti-ICE Protestor Confronts CBS Reporter, BERATES Her Live on Air (VIDEO)

    11/14/2025 11:56:32 AM PST · by Red Badger · 9 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | November 14, 2025 | Cristina Laila
    Police and federal agents clashed with far-left protestors outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, on Friday. Several protestors were arrested after chaos erupted outside the Broadview facility. The protestors arrived at the Broadview facility on Friday after a radical Biden judge ordered the release of 13 detainees. 21 protestors were arrested. According to Fox 32, two police officers were injured during the violent protest. A CBS reporter claimed protestors were holding offensive signs with curse words. “But there are some signs here that we cannot show on TV because they have curse words,” a CBS reporter said....
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day - Florida Northern Lights

    11/14/2025 11:43:02 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 11 replies
    NASA ^ | 14 Nov, 2025 | Image Credit & Copyright: Samil Cabrera
    Explanation: Northern lights have come to Florida skies. In fact, the brilliant streak of a Northern Taurid meteor flashes through the starry night sky above the beach in this sea and skyscape, captured from Shired Island, Florida on November 11. Meteors from the annual Northern Taurid meteor shower are expected this time of year. But the digital camera exposure also records the shimmering glow of aurora, a phenomenon more often seen from our fair planet's higher geographical latitudes. Also known as aurora borealis, these northern lights are part of recent, wide spread auroral activity caused by strong geomagnetic storms. In...
  • Swiss gruyère crowned world's best cheese

    11/14/2025 11:35:10 AM PST · by Red Badger · 41 replies
    LeMonde ^ | November 14, 2025 | Staff
    You can share an article by clicking on the share icons at the top right of it. The total or partial reproduction of an article, without the prior written authorization of Le Monde, is strictly forbidden. For more information, see our Terms and Conditions. For all authorization requests, contact syndication@lemonde.fr. https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/11/14/swiss-gruyere-crowned-the-2025-world-cheese-champion_6747449_4.html The World Cheese Awards first prize winner, a gruyère AOP special over 18 months cheese presented by Swiss cheese maker Hitz Pius, from the Vorderfultigen cheese company, during the 37th edition of the World Cheese Awards, in Bern, Switzerland, November 13, 2025. GABRIEL MONNET / AFP A Swiss gruyère...
  • Can Republicans Finally Unite on an Obamacare Alternative?

    11/14/2025 11:25:53 AM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 32 replies
    Liberty Nation ^ | 11/14/2025 | Tim Donner
    A monumental historic opportunity will be presented to Trump and the GOP – if they have the guts to seize it. While the common perception of the six-week-long government shutdown is that Republicans won and Democrats lost, the Dems did manage to squeeze one notable concession from the GOP. In return for the votes of eight Democratic Senators to reopen the government, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) promised to bring the reauthorization of COVID-era Obamacare insurance subsidies to a vote in December. And while Republicans have no appetite to further bankroll a program they have unanimously opposed for the...
  • Fed Study Vindicates Trump Trade Policy: 150 Years of Evidence Shows Tariffs Lower Inflation

    11/14/2025 11:22:45 AM PST · by Red Badger · 12 replies
    Breitbart ^ | November 14, 2025 | John Carney
    A sweeping new analysis of tariff policy spanning 150 years suggests that the economic establishment may have fundamentally misunderstood how tariffs affect prices and employment, a finding with profound implications for understanding President Donald Trump’s trade policy and the proper response by the Federal Reserve. Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco examined major tariff changes from 1870 through 2020 across the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. Their conclusion challenges the conventional wisdom that dominated economic policy debates in recent years: when countries raise tariffs, prices actually fall, not rise. “We find that a tariff hike...