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A group of surfers helped rescue a person who jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge on Tuesday afternoon, reaching him in the water before a U.S. Coast Guard boat arrived. Among them was 17-year-old Colby Ralls, of San Rafael, California, who was surfing with two others when voices from the bridge alerted them that something was wrong. "I yelled to my dad, call someone. Everyone was yelling to the beach, to call someone. And then he ended up just jumping off. There was guys up there, telling him not to. He just jumped off and just right as we saw...

Here it comes… After electing Muslims into power in New Jersey, the state is set to pass a bill that criminalizes the criticism of Islam. It is the furtherance of Sharia and Islamic Supremacy by weaponizing “Islamophobia” to do so. Look for the UK-style censorship of free speech to spread to other states now that the Red/Green Alliance is ascendant in the US.Fresh from electing Muslim Democratic Representative Adam Hamawy, who seems to have a problem with naming Iran our enemy, New Jersey is now furthering Sharia and attempting to censor free speech by passing Assembly Bill A1146, which defines...

Zephyr, also of Missoula and transgender, was simultaneously chosen as one of three minority whips. Howell, a biological woman born Sarah J. Howell, was elected in 2022 as Montana’s first "nonbinary" legislator. She previously worked as a lobbyist and activist on women’s and LGBTQ+ issues, and serves as executive director of Montana Women Vote, a nonprofit that works to get low-income women into the political process. Democrats in Montana just elected State Rep. SJ Howell as the first transgender Minority House Leader. https://t.co/E3y1fBvJvv — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 12, 2026 Howell was the only nominee for the minority leader...

Did you hear that the world is ending on Friday? That's according to three scientists in the 1960s. “Our great-great-grandchildren will not starve,” they said in an article in the journal Science published on 4 November 1960. “They will be squeezed to death.” “The work was based on a simple observation,” said Science in October – “the time it took for the human population to double in size kept getting shorter”. So, drawing on population estimates from about 400BC until 1958, the authors “came up with an equation that best described the trend”. By 2020, they predicted, the human population...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tossed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick right under the bus when asked why a firm at the center of the ongoing Nvidia drama had not been added to a list of companies posing a national security threat. Bessent appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box on Friday morning, when Joe Kernen brought up reports about tensions between Bessent and Lutnick. Those dust-ups between the two have primarily been over a Singaporean data center company called Megaspeed, which is at the heart on the ongoing drama with Nvidia and its now-ex-CEO Jensen Huang. Huang resigned as head of his own...

If you use Microsoft Outlook — or, God be with you, if you're one of the unlucky millions who have to use Teams — then you were probably aware that much of the Microsoft network apparently got zapped into oblivion yesterday. As CNBC reports: Microsoft suffered a widespread outage on Thursday and Friday, as engineers scrambled to fix server issues that caused disruption to millions of its customers. By "widespread," they mean "no one in 74 different countries could use Microsoft services." Connectivity issues began shortly before 1 p.m. ET on Thursday and continued into Friday, with Outlook and Teams,...

The ‘affordability’ problem has been solved. Gina Hinojosa, Jpardo210, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0. Texas had a pretty shocking election, but at least the good news is that the ‘affordability’ problem has been solved… in that we’ll never heard about it again from the media except to assure Texans that everything is affordable now and if they don’t think so, they’re a bunch of bigots. Gov-Elect Hinojosa is tackling ‘affordability’ by promising to dismantle border security and free illegal aliens. The new Attorney General Nathan Johnson is pledging to ensure ‘affordability’ by blocking the construction of a border wall and...

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico admitted that he was shocked by a private conversation with Ukrainian Prime Minister Serhiy Koretsky about the war between Ukraine and Russia. ve no right to reveal the details and never do, but I had a private conversation with the Ukrainian prime minister and was shocked by it,” Fico said. He stressed that his reaction primarily concerned information related to the war and its possible further course. Fico made the comments during a press conference in Bratislava on Tuesday. “Literally shocked when it comes to the war and further developments in the future,” he added....

In 2024, Democrats used a coordinated network of social media influencers to make affordability the defining issue of the midterms, and they’ll do it again. If you think the title of this blog is an exaggeration, trust me, it’s not. Months before the midterm elections, an organization infiltrated the social media network with the lie that affordability was the driving issue in this country. And through their network, they convinced voters it was true. It was a lie, and it cost Republicans the election. How did this happen? The Democrat party has formed the American Accountability Network, which can be...

But our problems start in the classroom, not at the polls. Our K-12 educational system is an unmitigated disaster. Huge numbers of American youth cannot even read at grade level. Teachers' unions vote Democrat and wield enormous political clout despite failing schools. And every day brings more headlines about political, cultural and sexual indoctrination that takes place in grade schools and high schools. Higher education is just as bad, if not worse. Tenured faculty can promote insidious and societally corrosive ideologies like communism without accountability. And where do you think the K-12 teachers come from? A miseducated population is easily...

Smart people know there are lines you just don’t cross. Now that Democrats have taken control of Congress, they’ve dropped the fiction that there is any such thing as a “moderate” Democrat. Even the “moderates” prior to election day/week/month are now coming out as DSA faithful. Moderates like Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro: He’s now all in for packing the Supreme Court. He’s also all in for gun control, and so are Texas Governor Gina Hinojosa and Minnesota Governor Amy Klobuchar. But wait a minute! Aren’t all the democrats, state and federal, supposed to be laser-focused on affordability? On lowering gas,...

A new Frontier Airlines Airbus was forced to make an emergency landing after water from the airplane's bathroom flooded the cabin. Frontier Airlines Flight 3566 took off from Denver International Airport on Wednesday at 11.03MST en route to Detroit Metro Airport, but was diverted after a faucet broke, according to air traffic recordings and flight tracking data. The new Airbus twin-jet made an emergency landing at Chicago O'Hare International Airport just before 2pmCST as pilots feared the water could come into contact with electronics. 'Mayday, mayday, mayday. We'd like to declare an emergency. Our forward lav sink has sprung a...

In case you are not keeping up with events on the Harvard campus, you should know that the graduate students and various other academic hangers-on at that elite institution have recently gone out “on strike.” After all, nothing screams “oppression” of the proletariat like the suffering of a Harvard graduate student. Ira Stoll has a report at the Washington Free Beacon on November 9. Excerpt: The strike by Harvard graduate students that has disrupted teaching and learning on the campus is escalating as it stretches into its third week, with a second United Auto Workers union of Harvard "academic workers"...

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Ninety minutes. That was the length of the United Nations webinar I participated in last week. For ninety minutes, I listened to people discuss how to better expand abortion around the world. Not once did I hear the kind of urgency one might expect when discussing women living in some of the poorest, most medically neglected regions of the world. No serious discussion of the woman hemorrhaging in a village without electricity. No anguished concern for the frightened teenager facing complications miles from the nearest hospital. Instead, I heard about “indicators, implementation strategies, reporting systems, and expanded access.” And how...

Microsoft Office will not load off of the internet. This is becoming a big deal.

On Sunday, November 1, 2026, a Learjet 60 (N722BD) flying from Austin, Texas, to North Eleuthera in the Bahamas fell from 35,000 feet inside a thunderstorm over South Florida and crashed near Greenacres in Palm Beach County. All nine people on board were killed. Seventeen other jets were in the same stormy sky above 25,000 feet that afternoon, and all of them landed. Under our last video, many of you said the others simply went around the storm. We checked every one on the real NEXRAD weather radar: most came close to the same storms, and two flew straight through...

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In October 2024, a woman entered the emergency room in North Texas. She was presenting with extreme fatigue, pain, and heavy bleeding. Just two days prior, she had an ultrasound confirming a viable pregnancy with a heartbeat. She was happy to hear about her prenatal child’s health. But in the emergency room, doctors told her that she was going through an inevitable miscarriage. A police investigation revealed that the father of the woman’s child was Justin Anthony Banta. He pleaded with her to get an abortion, which she refused. Afterwards, he invited her to a coffee shop where he offered...