A new 🇨🇳 gain of function study created chimeric coronaviruses that can infect human cells and kill mice (up to 100% mortality). 🚩"The viral infection [and all animal experiments] were performed in a BSL-2 laboratory"(!)🤦‍♂️ *The authors thank a.o. Ben Hu & Zheng-Li Shi.

I’m genuinely bothered by this “$140k national poverty line” thing. The biggest ticket item in Michael Green’s simple arithmetic of survival is $32,773 childcare. If you are paying that much for childcare, it’s not really a case of poverty as much as socioeconomic policy failure

France is finished. Officials cower before Islamists who rape torture and murder French citizens. French Muslim boy jailed for rape of 12-year-old Jewish girl has sentence commuted in retrial, citing reintegration needs, sparking renewed outrage. jpost.com/diaspora/antis…

“Only a fool thinks antisemitism is a threat just to Jews - it’s a very, very serious threat to everything we can decently call civilization” Christopher Hitchens

Trump has designated specific branches of the Muslim Brotherhood as “terrorist groups.” Faisal Saeed Al Mutar says that while it may not seem broad enough, this move is effective because unlike gender, the Muslim Brotherhood is fluid. He wrote about its rise in America: “The

Abby Stein met with the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran days before it fired 250 ballistic missiles at Israel. Zohran Mamdani just appointed Abby to his transition team.

I fucking hope so. After the retarded tariffs, insane corruption, gangster foreign policy, anti-science RFK bullshit, DOGE failure, and national debt explosion, they deserve to be wiped out for a generation.

Reports of a shooting near the Farragut West Metro Station in Downtown Washington, D.C., only about a mile from the White House, with casualties and fatalities including two members of the National Guard.

Tough to be a young person in this labor market.

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This is long, so allow me to paraphrase for Peter Beinart: “I’m sorry I spoke to Israelis directly instead of performing unquestioning obedience to the BDS purity ritual. Next time, I’ll be sure to denounce the people I’m trying to convince are evil genociders from a safe

The average monthly price of groceries in U.S. for a family of four has gone up to $1,030, an all time high, per FeedingAmerica.

So the Chicago PMI print today was 36. In 25 years this has only been lower twice, during Covid in 2020 (32) and during the depths of the great financial crisis in 2008 (31). & nobody batted an eyelid.

This is insane: The Trump administration is arresting the wives and husbands of US citizens when they show up for their green card interviews, even though they entered legally and have no criminal record. So much for family values. nytimes.com/2025/11/26/us/…

71% of American adults say they're spending more money on groceries compared to a year ago, per WaPo

The self-cleansing of radicals- left and right- is their most important tribal ritual. They seek out anyone who is not as pure in their rejection of logic, compromise, decency, or dialogue, treating all these as signs of weakness and, therefore, contemptible. Yet this ritual is

Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין Of course, there’s the obvious problem with your theory in that everyone currently living in Gaza is, you know, alive. It’s not very pleasant, of course, but their “ability to live” is not destroyed. So that argument doesn’t stand.

The proliferation of ugvs has really gone underreported in this conflict.

So are we ready to revisit what you said to Charlie Kirk days before he was murdered?

Bro took over Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Gaza and is talking about interference.