ICE shoots illegal perp
On Thursday, law enforcement in New York City tracked down a suspect with ties to the Trinitarios gang. He was previously convicted of grand larceny and was arrested for assault, robbery, drug possession, and weapons possession. One officer fired his weapon, injuring the criminal; a child sitting in the back seat was thankfully not injured. Officers provided aid, arrested the illegal, and took him to the hospital. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said of the involved law enforcement agency, “All they do is terrorize this city.” A violent mob surrounded the hospital, physically assaulting law enforcement. In December 2023, the NYPD arrested the same criminal, then released him days later. This bare-bones account makes the situation clearer: The man was an illegal immigrant; the law enforcement agency was ICE; and the NYPD had to release a known criminal because of New York’s sanctuary city policy.

High-stakes Senate debates get personal
Multiple Senate debates took place recently, all featuring candidates locked in tightly contested races. Voters in Maine, Michigan, and Georgia tuned in as candidates debated, but all of them devolved into a game of attacks and name-calling. In Georgia, Democrat Jon Ossoff essentially refused to debate his opponent, Mike Collins, opting instead to play the fascist card and insult him all night. In Maine, Republican Susan Collins was baselessly accused by her opponent of profiting off of the Iran war. Michigan was by far the worst, as not a single argument went by without Mike Rogers (R) and Abdul El-Sayed (D) hurling personal attacks at each other. The bickering was so bad that it even continued off the air, something moderator Rick Amblin noted he had never seen in his three decades of debates. Unfortunately, debates often turn into candidates merely roasting each other.

Talarico sick, GOP demands proof of life
With Democrat Texas Senate candidate James Talarico’s absence from the campaign trail stretching beyond 12 days and counting, Republicans are calling on him to provide “proof of life.” Ken Paxton campaign spokeswoman Madison Cercy chided, “James Talarico wants to represent 31 million Texans in the U.S. Senate, but for 12 days he’s hidden from every one of them. If James Talarico is too fragile to face Texans, he has no business asking for their vote.” According to Talarico, he has been ill with the flu, blaming it on “shaking too many hands on the campaign trail.” His campaign promised that he would be back out in public this weekend. Meanwhile, Talarico’s absence appears to have hurt his polling numbers, with a UMass Lowell poll showing the two candidates now tied.

McCormick, Fuller pitch bill to block the DSA
Republican Reps. Rich McCormick and Clay Fuller have introduced legislation that would ban party status for the Democratic Socialists of America. “The DSA has made clear that it wants to abolish and fundamentally change the 250-year American experiment of self-government,” Fuller explained. “The organization’s co-chair has confirmed support for abolishing institutions like the Senate, presidency, and Supreme Court, abolishing ICE and our borders, defunding the Pentagon, and mass amnesty for illegal immigrants.” Dubbed the Communist Control Act of 2026, the bill mirrors the Communist Control Act of 1954, which was signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. As Fuller argued, “Communism has no place in the United States.” With 84% of Democrats under the age of 29 expressing support for socialism, this bill seeks to address a pressing danger to the nation.

Anti-Israel former ICC judge awarded Nobel Peace Prize
To send a message to those attempting to undermine international legal institutions, the Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 was awarded to a former judge with the International Criminal Court, South African Navanethem “Navi” Pillay. The Nobel Committee honored Pillay with the award “for her efforts to promote peace and international law” through her work on international justice. Following her service as a judge at the ICC from 2003 to 2008, she became the United Nations human rights chief before assuming her current role at the International Court of Justice. Pillay chaired the inquiry by the UN last year that accused Israel of genocide, and the U.S. imposed sanctions on the UN court for issuing an arrest warrant in 2024 for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel condemned the award as a “grotesque weaponization of an award to legitimize anti-Israel hatred and prejudice.”

Big Tech awards at the White House
The White House hosted the Science: A New Golden Age Summit yesterday, and President Donald Trump awarded Elon Musk and several other tech CEOs for their scientific and technological achievements. Musk departed the Trump administration last year after arguments with the president, but he has recently returned to Trump’s orbit, co-leading a Pentagon project on warfare weapons and technology. Along with the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Trump gave the National Medal of Science to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and Lisa Su, CEO of a semiconductor company. Ironically, before the award ceremony, Vice President JD Vance criticized Microsoft for firing 6,000 U.S. workers and obtaining over 9,000 H-1B visas and green cards. Vance suspended Microsoft from the green card application program.

Fort Hood shooter’s execution will be public and live streamed
Nidal Hasan, a former U.S. Army major and psychiatrist who killed 13 service members and an unborn baby and wounded 32 others at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, will be executed by firing squad on December 3 at 1 p.m. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth confirmed on Thursday that the execution will be live streamed for the public and carried out at the same time that the terrorist committed the attack 17  years ago. “It was a radical Islamist attack in uniform inside ranks, and so he’s going to get a firing squad of soldiers as it should be,” Hegseth said. The Supreme Court upheld the death sentence conviction for Hasan in 2025 after he appealed, and following President Trump’s authorization last week, Acting Army Secretary Adam Tell ordered the execution of Hasan.

AI surpasses humanity in math
OpenAI released a series of mathematical findings that have pushed the frontiers of mathematics. Leading mathematicians reacted in mixed ways; some were joyful, and others were a bit concerned. Some called the findings revolutionary and lauded them as progress never seen in so little time. Others have questioned the accuracy of the findings, saying it may take a long time to review everything and verify whether any of it is correct. Still others have become concerned about the impact that powerful AI would have on graduate students entering the field of advanced math. It may become harder for them to learn and grasp advanced concepts and theorems when AI is present to make their lives much easier. AI-led progress is great, but humans need to keep up going forward.

Maduro gets torture charge
On Thursday, the DOJ charged Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, accusing them of torturing American citizens. Already facing drug trafficking charges, Maduro and Flores were captured in a raid in January. The court scheduled a trial for June 2027 and denied Flores’s motion to be released from jail (both have pleaded not guilty). One of Maduro’s senior officers developed the torture methods. The indictments said the torture included “electric shock, asphyxiation, rape, forced nudity, prolonged isolation, starvation, punishment cells, and psychological torture, such as threats to harm and kill victims’ families, including children.” One U.S. detainee in Venezuela was beaten for days and forced to eat his own vomit. Another victim, a man falsely accused of planning to assassinate Maduro, was held in prison and tortured for over eight months.

Climate change propaganda flops at the box office
Few actors today have as much star power as Tom Cruise, but even he can’t make audiences enjoy climate doomerism. Cruise’s newest movie, “Digger,” was well advertised and even generated early buzz, but its opening weekend brought in only $8 million in the U.S. and $12 million overseas. The film is a black comedy satire targeting oil executives and their disregard for the “doom” that climate cultists predict from fossil fuels. Oscar-winning Mexican director Alejandro G. Iñárritu seemed to take special delight in highlighting what he sees as a flaw in American culture. Just $20 million during opening weekend makes “Digger” an extraordinary flop; it’s believed to have cost $125-175 million to make, with tens of millions more spent on advertising. Estimates suggest the movie will lose over $200 million.

Headlines

  • Isaias becomes a major hurricane before Gulf landfall tonight (The Weather Channel)
  • Federal grand jury hears evidence in probe of former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s J6 testimony (Fox News)
  • Workers at Obama’s presidential library vow to unionize over benefit cuts, workloads (NY Post)
  • Mamdani signs contract to give kids “gender-affirming care” (Not the Bee)

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