People also need to understand the sentence, "It's over!"
Her ex-boyfriend came to her home uninvited, forced his way inside, and began assaulting her.
The woman deployed pepper spray against her attacker first. When that did not stop him, she drew her firearm and fired, striking him three times. He was transported to the hospital with critical injuries. No charges have been reported against the woman.
So I would love for someone from the gun-hating part of the Left (it is not all of the Left) to explain what she should have done to defend herself. What should she do when she is being assaulted? What should she do when the non-lethal option fails? It only takes one to initiate a violent encounter, and if they choose you, they will not give you much warning.
With luck, between the gunshot wounds, and some prison time, this guy will learn a valuable lesson. I am not optimistic about that.
Self-defense is a human right, and this took place in Texas.
Since USAID stopped funding communists in elections in South America, the Left has lost several elections. Now the Democrats are screaming about deaths caused from lack of USAID funding. But they ignore the deaths caused by that funding.
For the record, the study Democrat Ro Khanna uses to support his claim about 4.5 million child deaths was funded by the Socialist Spanish government.
Completely non-biased Spanish socialists.
Mike Benz pointed out that USAID was funding the COVID research at the Wuhan labs in China!
COVID killed 7.1 million innocent human beings since its release from the Wuhan labs! And it was funded by Dr. Fauci and USAID!
Benz then added that USAID likely killed more people by creating COVID than the totals from the junk leftist studies.
Grieving parents usually lash out. This guy seems to be mostly concerned about the facility where his son had been living. He was living in a home for people with "high-functioning autism."
As for the person who shot his son...
Despite the pain, Barker said he holds no anger toward the homeowner.
“I don’t blame them. They were doing what they felt they needed to do to protect their family. I wish it didn’t happen, but at the end of the day, they did what they felt was right,” Allen Barker said.
He is in the middle of a personal tragedy, and can still act like a human being. That is a rare quality today.
It seems that the folks on BlueSky, the Leftist alternative to X, Parler, et al, lost its collective mind over something recently.
A Canadian feminist, Phoebe Maltz Bovy, recently published a book The Last Straight Woman: On Desiring Men. A website published a 23-paragraph excerpt of Ms. Maltz Bovy’s book and, when this excerpt was promoted on BlueSky, the book’s theme and its author were angrily denounced.
Of course, I immediately ordered the book from Amazon. Anything that sends the BlueSky crowd into paroxysms of apoplectic rage must be good. /p>
Does anyone know why the folks at BlueSky thought they needed an alternative to Mastadon?
Seems that Ms. Bovy is searching for “feminist approaches to female heterosexuality.”
Click thru for the analysis of that. It does spill over into Substack.
Tesco purchased perpetual licenses to VMWare and signed matching support contracts before the company was bought by Broadcom. Broadcom is now - according to the suit - refusing to provide support services
ITEM 4: The Washington Free Beacon reported, “Arizona Democratic Candidate Cast As Rural Working Mom Is a Millionaire Consultant With Deep Soros Ties, Wants Sex Work Decriminalized To Help ‘Trans Women of Color.’”
Bruce Crossing @SenatorCrossing, "I’m married to a beautiful Italian-American spitfire who could be Prime Minister Meloni’s sister. I know that posture well. This conversation was not a pleasant one for our President."
Is David Flippo’s primary win the death blow for Old Nevada politics?
He rallied Washington’s Trumpiest voices, poured in his own money and went straight for the jugular. That approach trounced James Settelmeyer’s legacy campaign.
Conman Carney’s Canada: Good enough. Declaration of independence.
The Democratic Party’s America: Banning meat and fish. Obama’s special guests.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: The Black World Cup. A leading Covid sceptic.
Chicago Mass Shooting Leaves at Least 13 Injured on South Side
A mass shooting left at least 13 people injured in Chicago’s Roseland neighborhood on the South Side on Friday night.
However Ezra Levant did get his manifesto and offers it for all to see here along with his own analysis.
And yeah it turns out like pretty much all of them, he was a leftist antisemite.
Senate president ‘ecstatic’ that voters will not get a say
Court Forces Tax-Cut Referendum Off Massachusetts Ballot After Democrat Attorney General’s Misleading Summary
• Recent College Grad Son of Senator Minoring in Feminism Scores $300M Valuation for Fund - Daniel Greenfield
• There it is – Gallego Targeting Acquired - CTH
FBI captures fugitive Ibrahim Hilmi, wanted for $3.7 billion Medicare fraud, in Turkey.
There needs to be a ban on immigrants serving in the government.
This guy first encountered the dog, while he was trying to move into a new apartment. He asked the owner of the dog to come get it, and that too care of the situation for a while.
Authorities said the dog later came out again and acted aggressively toward the man, who then shot the dog with a handgun.
Two shots were fired, and the dog was struck twice.
The owner of the dog, then attacked the shooter. He declined to press charges on the assault.
East Wenatchee, Washington, is about 95 miles east of Seattle. The drive will be considerably longer than that.
I am not surprised by the following.
A similar complaint involving the dog had reportedly been made just days before Saturday’s shooting.
If you own a dog, you need to control it, one way or another. If you don't something like this is bound to happen.
Cops are treating this like self-defense, and the guy who shot the dog is not expected to face charges.
There have been at least three fatal attacks at libraries in the last nine years.
Libraries near me are gun-free defenseless victim zones. Why? Because they are run by Leftists who wouldn't "feel safe" if people were allowed to defend themselves. So they feel safe, but they are not safe.
Chico, California, is about an 85 mile drive north of Sacramento.
The suspect shot a man at the entrance of the library in the leg and then shot him in the head before firing multiple shots inside and shooting another man in the head, said Sid Patel, special agent in charge in the FBI’s Sacramento office.
Click thru for details.
Now I don't have a definitive source, but I do have AI (qwen3.5-9b) running locally. I asked, "Is concealed carry allowed in the library at Chico, California?"
No, concealed carry is generally not allowed inside the public libraries in Chico, California.
Here are the specific details regarding the law and policies:
Chico Public Library Policy
The Chico Public Library system operates under a strict "Gun-Free Zone" policy. Like many municipal libraries in California, their Rules of Conduct prohibit weapons or firearms on library premises. This is enforced through posted signage upon entering the building. Violating this policy can result in the individual being removed from the property and potentially having their firearm confiscated.
California State Law
Sensitive Public Places: Under California Penal Code, certain locations are designated as "Sensitive Public Places" where carrying a concealed weapon is prohibited by law. While libraries are not always explicitly listed in the state statute like schools or hospitals, the library building itself can designate itself as an exclusion zone if proper signage is posted and local ordinances support it.
Local Ordinances: Chico City and Butte County laws generally respect these facility-specific prohibitions. A valid Concealed Carry Weapon (CCW) permit allows you to carry in many public spaces, but it does not grant immunity against specific venue restrictions where firearms are banned by policy or signage.
I'm shocked that a policy "enforced through posted signage" at the entrance didn't stop a bad guy.
This song was on WXRT's Saturday Morning Flashback, June 14th, when they were covering 1992. It reminded me of the insanity that is currently surrounding the first trillionaire, Elon Musk.
I don't particularly like Morrissey, but the song seems appropriate. The lyrics include the following.
And if we can destroy them
You bet your life we will destroy them
and
You see, it should've been me
It could've been me
Everybody knows
Everybody says so
Yeah, yeah, there was no real scandal, it was people making fun of Obama. The only people making it a scandal were the media. And, of course, they had to try the raaaaacism aspect.
And when nonimmigrants — and B-2 tourists in particular — fail to depart as promised, it makes it more difficult their fellow countrymen to come here temporarily, but legally, in the future.
On her last day in office, the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard dropped emails, reports, and whistleblower accounts that point straight back at one man and the money he sent overseas.
Amazon has dropped - the bad kind of dropped - its planned Sam Altman biopic, Artificial. (The Independent)
The film, which depicted the credibly accused but I would never say so myself compulsive liar and total sociopath in an unflattering light may just possibly have conflicted with Amazon's $50 billion investment in OpenAI
MAGA has raised its head in the highly unlikely location Chicago once again. Remember when thugs in MAGA hats oppressed Jussie Smollett? Now — only 1 mile away — these fiends are burning crosses like the KKK. Oh wait…
In the latest not-so-shocking campus news, it has been reported at Campus Reform, “Faculty at Dartmouth College sent nearly every dollar of political donations during the midterm election cycle to Democrats and related liberal causes.
One thing about the passage of time is that, as you grow older, you begin to notice the shift of values. What was once widely accepted — the expected social norms of your childhood — come to be viewed as quaint, old-fashioned or perhaps even barbaric.
CTU’s model is about union control, not children's education and safety. Change will only come if the CTU’s stranglehold, which overrides the mayor and school board, is broken
Like most red-blooded Americans, I could care less about soccer. That having been said, I am enjoying the hell out of the tweets and other social media posts by Euros and other foreigners visiting parts of America outside the blue urban shitholes and discovering Buc-ee’s, Waffle House, barbecue, local diners, Bass Pro Shops, and other wild delights found only in the fruited plains of Red America. They’re having their minds blown by ranch dressing, free refills, and air conditioning, and it’s fun to watch.
Officers with the Blue Springs Police Department were called to the 100 block of Little Garden on Friday morning on reports of a burglary. A homeowner called 911 and said that someone had entered the home unlawfully.
Blue Springs, Missouri, is located 19 miles east of Kansas City.
While cops were on the way, the homeowner shot the intruder. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Neighbors say the incident has left them shaken in an area they describe as quiet.
“I’m just more in shock than anything,” said James Ononye, a neighbor.
There are more statements along those lines. Neighbors wondering what they would do, not understanding that you need to plan ahead. The homeowner in this incident had a gun, it was loaded, and he knew how to use it, and presumably he knew a little about how the law in Missouri works.
You are not protected by your zip code. You do not live on top of magic dirt. You live in The Real World™ where crime can, and all too often does, occur. You should plan accordingly.
The investigation is only getting started, but Missouri is not Massachusetts.
As in years past, campus hate hoax incidents did not let up during the 2025-26 school year. From incidents that did occur but were not hateful, to crimes that likely did not happen, this school year saw plenty of hoaxes.
And no, The College Fix is not talking about Ku Klux Klan rallies that were funded by the Southern Poverty Law Center so that they could fundraise off that reemergence of the KKK. If that did happen, it would certainly be wrong!
I was going to say, that the first thing you need to do, is piss off your target audience, but the real problem is that Hollywood truly does not understand who the audience for superhero movies really is.
When the early projections for the Supergirl opening weekend box office were published, the high end projections were in the neighborhood of $55+ million in the USA and Canada. (Not sure why the projections include Canada, but don't include Mexico.) And then the studio set up some interviews between Milly Alcock and the LGBT media, and she insulted Christian dads, said that Supergirl is going to be some kind of gay or bisexual icon. Witness the result.
That’s notable for one big reason: it’s below the $45 million floor of the $45M–$55M range that recent tracking had settled on, and it’s a long way from where this started.
And that $39 million number is coming from Box Office Theory, one of the best sources for these projections available.
Even before this last round of recalculating the projections, Box Office Theory had settled on $51 million domestically, which is below The Flash, which had a $55 million domestic opening in 2024, and went on to lose $200 million on production budget (not including marketing) of between $200 and 220 million.
The other film that is being compared to Supergirl is The Marvels from Disney Marvel. That movie, from 2023, had an opening weekend of $46.1 million. Loses were calculated to be in the range of $237 million.
When this movie comes out this weekend, there will be much talk of superhero fatigue. But don't believe it. Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which comes out July 31st, is already setting sales records.
Tickets for Tom Holland’s fourth Spidey solo film went on sale Wednesday (along with a new trailer) and sold more tickets in the United States in a single day than any film has in the past five years. The film that it could not beat? Spider-Man: No Way Home, the last Tom Holland Spider-Man movie, five years ago.
Disparu makes some good points. The Supergirl comics were mostly purchased by men. Men are the primary audience for all superhero movies. Even Madam Web was primarily watched by men in the cinema, despite all of the marketing being aimed at women. The marketing for Supergirl seems to trying to paint this as a movie for women. That is the mistake that Disney made with The Marvels, or one of the mistakes, anyway.
I looked this song up because of a discussion on social media, and realized that I hadn't featured it. I like Lacuna Coil, but they don't really make up too much of my regular listening. I think I need to change that.
Not many Italian Heavy Metal bands make an impact in the United States. They had two songs included in the movie Resident Evil: Apocalypse, and on MTV's Headbanger's Ball. The MTV thing was probably their big US break.
[Scott County Sheriff’s Office] said that [Samantha] Hall reportedly entered a woman’s property in the Pine Hill area of Winford, assaulted a woman, then tried to force her way into the woman’s home.
The homeowner was armed, and she fired. Hall was injured, and had to taken to a trauma center in Knoxville.
Winfield, Tennessee, is about 45 miles northwest of Knoxville. The drive will be longer. It is on the state line with Kentucky.
Hall was treated, and then taken into custody. She will face charges that include aggravated assault, and aggravated burglary.
Self-defense is a human right, and Tennessee has not morphed into Massachusetts.
Wanting to get home isn’t enough. When that moment comes, what gets you there is a plan you’ve already thought through and a bag that’s already packed.
They start out with following the case of one cop who used the system to track the movements of his ex-girlfriend, and her parents. Then we get to the general statements.
Local news reports from around the country repeatedly detail police abusing the Flock surveillance systemic order to stalk their partners or ex-partners. The contours of each story are much the same, with the police officer in question using their access to the system to repeatedly track a specific person over the course of weeks or months. The cases highlight the fact that Flock can be used to track the whereabouts of individual people, that police do not get a warrant in order to use the system, and that, if they have access to the system, they have the technical ability to look up any license plate they want for any reason they want
Flock claims the abuse is rare, but it should not be possible. There should be controls, audits, something.
It turns out that there are no Greeks, in Nolan's upcoming adaptation of The Odyssey. Nolan, the director who prides himself on authenticity, or something, didn't put any Greeks in one of the quintessential Greek stories.
We write to you as Greeks, not as fragments of antiquity, not as echoes from museum displays, and not as characters sealed in marble, but as a living people whose story has never stopped being written.
Just days after making headlines by saying she was "honored" that many fans view Supergirl as a "queer icon," actress Milly Alcock is once again generating discussion about the character's sexuality and relationship to traditional gender roles.
During a recent interview, Alcock was asked whether Kara Zor-El's "queerness" was something she explored while preparing for the role. While she stopped short of explicitly labeling the character, the actress praised the film for not focusing on men and suggested she believes Supergirl would likely be attracted to both men and women.
This was after she made the comment basically saying that she was glad she pissed off Christian dads. Who the fuck does she think buys tickets to superhero movies?
Most of the reviewers have been absolutely raving about Supergirl. Unfortunately, that enthusiasm may not be able to save a film that seems doomed to a mediocre box office performance.
Translation: There is no way this train wreck is going to make money.
Early on the morning after Memorial Day, Chicago Police officials announced there were no homicides over the just-concluded holiday weekend. The local media, operating with the lack of morals and dishonesty of a sleazy PR phony, with Mayor Brandon Johnson cheering them on, immediately parroted the news.
Except there was a homicide. At least one. On Memorial Day morning, a 47-year-old man was stabbed to death in Greater Grand Crossing on the South Side. Chicago Police officers were on the scene that day — and the victim was immediately declared dead.
CPD brass very likely knew about the stabbing death. But they wanted to rush the news out -- perhaps at the urging of Johnson — so the “no homicides” headline would dominate the post-holiday news cycle.
Do we want to revisit the early days of GamerGate? Probably not, but since we seem to be in middle (or end) of GamerGate 2.0, why not? Or maybe it is just that the gaming industry is still dealing with the end the original.
These races, or the races involving the larger boats, were very popular in the town where my dad grew up, though he never raced. The boats are completely insane, and these are the smaller version.
Microsoft's latest version of Outlook takes just 10 seconds to take you from a notification to reading the corresponding email. (Windows Latest)
One small problem: It used to be instantaneous.
Apple’s New Subdomain Kills “Hide My Email” Cover
Apple is about to label every anonymous email address its paying customers generate, creating a new obstacle for privacy-conscious users.
The Democratic Party’s America: Victor Davis Hanson – The Iran war. Alphabet people certification.
China Carney’s Canada: Gay Canada. Frequent flyer. Hamas school board.
Stephen Green: “How Deep Are the Newsoms in It? THIS Deep.”
“U.S.-Iran MOU Language Released and Signed.” I haven’t read it yet, and a lot of people aren’t too happy with it.
At this point, Canada will just tell anyone to kill themselves.
Not only will the Swiss kill someone who isn’t even sick, they will charge $13,500 for the kill.
Stephen Kruiser at PJM briefs us, Trump Chips Away at the Department of Education, but Will It Be Enough? I'd like to see the whole thing gone, but that's not likely; too much graft in the game.
DAR VOTING ON WHETHER TO CONTINUE TRANS MEMBERSHIP: Daughters of the American Revolution, an organization not known for its progressive policies, apparently allows trans members.
Sounds like a 30 year old Muslim in the UK picked up a 3 year old white child and threw him in the crocodile enclosure at the zoo. Child is in critical but stable condition. Man was looked at by Police, who declared him “not fit for an interview,” and he was released.
A 26-year-old man who turned himself in to police after fatally shooting a 35-year-old man in the head at a popular Cape Cod restaurant has told investigators he acted in self-defense after being jumped, punched, and struck repeatedly in the head with a hard object during a confrontation inside the Moonfish restaurant.
He was bleeding from a head wound, that was inflicted during the assault. The cops in Massachusetts still couldn't ID this as likely self-defense, and they arrested him.
He said during an interview that he tried to walk away, the guy who got shot (the the reporters in MA keep calling a victim) hit him in the head with something.
Detectives observed dried blood on his head; he refused medical treatment.
West Dennis, Massachusetts, is about an 80 mile drive south and east of Boston.
I hope I can find more about this incident, because it is clearly more complicated than the tiny minds of New England police and reporters can deal with.
The TL;DR is fairly simple. OpenAI lost $5.09 Billion In 2024. In 2025 that expanded to OpenAI losing $38.5 Billion. (And those numbers a bit sus.)
Please note that 2025 was the year that OpenAI converted from a non-profit to a for-profit entity, leading to a $41.55 billion loss due to changes in fair value of convertible interests and warrant liability.
Taking into account other minor factors like interest income and interest expense, OpenAI is left with a net loss of $60.35 billion, which it lowered to $38.53 billion by removing $17.87 billion in costs via that “net loss attributable to noncontrolling members capital” and another $3.95 billion via a “net loss attributable to redeemable noncontrolling interests.”
When Maynard James Keenan of Tool isn't doing his Tool thing. He has another band, Perfect Circle, which is more Alternative Rock, than Heavy Metal. He is also in a 3rd band, Puscifer, but I really don't know anything about that.
Perfect Circle is starting a European tour in June, so this may be to promote that, or it may be the first indication that an album is in the works, I haven't seen anything except the tour announcement.
This is "Starless" by Perfect Circle. It was released as a single on May 27th.
They have ruined these children’s lives, making them so concerned with the SOON!!!!! doom they can barely operate. Us Gen X and earlier weren’t indoctrinated into Doom over global nuclear war, we were taught to persevere. Today’s kids are just, well, f*cked in the head.
Talk about “burying the lead”! The story doesn’t make sense until you get to the 14th paragraph and then you realize that this should have been in the headline: LESBIAN TEACHER FORCES TEEN GIRLS TO KISS IN ‘SKITS’ IN FRONT OF CLASS.
“Hey Kevin; As of Tuesday 6/16 it looks like “90 Miles from Tyranny” has been shut down too. The despots are tightening the screws on us.” A reader commented this morning and I went to check it out and lo and behold, gone as if it was a dust bunny sucked up by a vacuum.
Not a single book was banned from the Rutherford County Library, not one. Books deemed not appropriate small kids were simply positioned out of the Children’s section to other age-appropiate section.
Let’s look at two proposals for Chicago pension reform. One from Paul Vallas, ex-candidate for mayor of Chicago (among many other roles), and one from a trio of high schoolers.
An historian at Boston University both praises a couple robber barons (Carnegie and Rockefeller) and then compares the UFC event at the White House to lynching.
Once inside, McDonald aggressively confronted the mother and her two children in the foyer and began making threats. The homeowner repeatedly ordered McDonald to leave the house and warned him that she was armed and would shoot. When McDonald ignored the warnings and continued advancing toward her, the mother fired a single round, striking him in the arm.
He is a bit lucky he wasn't shot in the head or the heart.
Cops caught up with him at a local hospital, where he was arrested. This was not the first time he was arrested. Click thru for his history.
Following the recent home invasion, McDonald has now been charged with burglary with assault or battery.
Flagler County, Florida, is about 50 miles northeast of Orlando, on the Atlantic coast. It is also about 50 miles south of Jacksonville.
Queensland, is a state in the Commonwealth of Australia. It is in the northeast corner of the continent of Australia.
Traeger MP Robbie Katter has renewed calls for Queensland to adopt Castle Law, arguing the measure would strengthen legal protections for homeowners defending themselves against intruders.
The Katter's Australia Party MP's push comes after a 75-year-old Tenterfield man allegedly shot an intruder after he and his wife were critically stabbed during a home invasion.
On paper, Australians have the right to defend themselves. In reality they are subject to review by Monday Morning Quarterbacks who don't like self-defense. The term "proportional" is bandied about. As if a 25 year old man can't beat a 75-year-old man to death with his fists alone.
Click thru for the details on the crime, and the push to bring sanity back to Australia.
Mr Katter said his party had supported the concept for years but believed the need for reform had become more urgent as crime concerns intensified.
Doctor Who was a BBC program that first aired 23 November 1963. It ended after 26 seasons in 1989, went on hiatus for a while, and started up again in 2005. It was a good run. Then it got captured by the woke.
While the BBC claims that it is NOT canceled, what else would they say? "We destroyed an iconic British TV franchise on the altar of DEI?" That is essentially what they did.
Because the Doctor Who of today was nothing more than a horrifying rotten corpse, vaguely resembling what it once was, but with the life and soul ripped out of it, showered in rainbow colored glitter, and made to prance and flounce around like an obscene puppet on strings.
So what other franchises are similarly destroyed? That's the question. Or maybe the question is, "Can any of them be saved?"
The shooting happened after 10:30 a.m., when police responded to a reported breaking and entering on Hickory Grove Road.
When officers arrived, they found one person with a gunshot wound.
This incident took place in Charlotte.
The hat tip goes to Concealed Nation, who have the details on North Carolina law.
Because the shooting occurred directly during the execution of an active residential breaking and entering, the legal framework heavily favors the occupant. Under North Carolina General Statutes § 14-51.2 (The Castle Doctrine), a lawful occupant of a home, workplace, or motor vehicle is legally presumed to have a reasonable fear of imminent death or serious bodily injury if an intruder is in the process of unlawfully and forcefully entering – or has already forcefully entered – that occupied space.
Due to this statutory presumption, a homeowner has no duty to retreat and holds the absolute right to meet that intrusion with deadly force.
Regarding the recent push in the Blue States to outlaw Glocks...
A recent report from the Crime Prevention Research Center documents just 43 murders nationwide from 20 attacks involving Glock switches over the 2021-2026 period — meaning fatal lightning strikes killed nearly twice as many Americans during the same window.
It is all about feelings in the 21st century.
Full auto is not what people think it is. There is a reason that the military developed the three-shot trigger.
Click thru for the details. (Hat tip to Jews Can Shoot.)
Or so it seems to me. I am open to arguments about Movie studios dying faster.
First Sony moved their games division from Japan to the US, and then adopted US corporate BS. Xbox is part of the huge Microsoft bureaucracy. Both companies swallowed the DEI lies hook, line and sinker. And now they are sinking, because - shocking I know - gamers don't want DEI messaging jammed down their throats while they are enjoying a video game. And they have started voting with their wallets.
French video game company, Ubisoft, is probably the poster child for Get Woke, Go Broke in the gaming sphere. Their stock price has collapsed from a high of just over 90€ in 2018 to just over 5€ today. That is roughly a 90% decrease. But they are not the subject today, just a cautionary tale.
The studio, which was founded in 2009 and acquired by Xbox in 2018, most recently developed South of Midnight.
According to Kotaku, however, the studio is set to be shut down as part of widespread layoffs at the gaming division.
The studio is in "negotiations" with Microsoft to be spun off instead of closed outright. If they have any IP worth anything, Microsoft will probably hang on to that and let the people go.
And yes, there were quite a number of Sweet Baby Inc folks "working" on that title.
The future of Bungie appears increasingly uncertain as a new report claims the studio could be preparing for another massive round of layoffs, with as much as half of its remaining workforce reportedly at risk.
Bungie is a studio owned by Sony PlayStation. Rumors (out of France) are that 50% of the company could be laid off.
Bungie dropped future development support for their popular Destiny 2, to double down on their bets on Marathon.
News that Microsoft is considering closing three of its game studios — Double Fine, Ninja Theory, and Compulsion Games — is awful, but what's truly alarming is that it doesn't stop there. According to Bloomberg, "several other studios across the portfolio are at risk of being shuttered." State of Decay studio Undead Labs hasn't shipped a game since Microsoft acquired it in 2018. Obsidian Entertainment is prolific, but last year's Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2 underperformed. Rare had its big bet Everwild cancelled and can't survive on Sea of Thieves forever. At this point in Microsoft's dismally bungled adventures in gaming, it's best to think the unthinkable.
There are a lot of details at each of those links.
The poster child for failing games, is of course Concord, from Sony. I was surprised to see that this actually died in 2024, it seems like only yesterday that everyone was pointing and laughing. Sony shut Concord down in 2 weeks, and provided refunds. There are plenty of articles and more than a few YouTube videos on that debacle.
These are the crimes that the UK government didn't want anyone to know about. These are the crimes the police ignored for fear of being called racist. This is why the UK government has fought for years to silence people like Tommy Robbinson. The Rape Gang Inquiry Report
This has been going on for generations, and the people in charged, didn't care.
Britain doesn’t have a racism problem, it has an immigration problem.
— Rupert Lowe
It is long, but you should read at least through the executive summary.
I was not expecting to learn that the grooming gangs have been operating since 1955. Seventy-one years. At least two generations of British children have been savagely sacrificed on the altar of multiculturalism, willingly helped and encouraged by not only the State, but by our “Journalistic Betters”.
I was not expecting to learn that the victims number a quarter of a million. At minimum.
The least job of a society — the very minimal function expected — is the protection of the innocent and the defence of those who cannot protect themselves.
Do you need more proof that Britain is a failed state?
Apple's powerful new M5 Max chip is so far only available in laptops. There's just one small problem. (WCCFTech)
It produces enough heat to melt the screen.
The Democratic Party’s America: Victor Davis Hanson – The midterm strategy.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Sneering style. Green jobs. The colour of conflict. Moderate Muslims in France.
ITEM 8: Red State reported, “The Cleveland Clinic has reached a settlement with the Trump administration over pediatric gender-transition treatments, becoming the second major hospital system to do so in less than a month. Paul Joseph Watson – Didn’t expect this
More LA Homeless Reveal They Were Paid to Vote for Democrats
Multiple homeless residents living on Los Angeles’ notorious Skid Row have come forward to confirm earlier reports that they were offered cash and other incentives
Beege Welborn at Hat Hair, BREAKING: Trump Channels Inner Tom Clancy, Takes Out TdA Head in Airstrike. Althouse "At my direction, the United States Southern Command delivered a swift and lethal kinetic strike to successfully execute Niño Guerrero..."
The Orange-Osceola State Attorney’s Office on Tuesday dropped a murder charge against a suspect who fatally shot a man outside a nightclub north of downtown Orlando earlier this year after admitting they could not prove it wasn’t in self-defense.
This incident took place back in February. He was in jail until the 2nd of March, when a judge ruled that the prosecutors didn't have the case they hoped for, and a bond was issued.
They finally got around to admitting that they had no case.
Now I don't know what happened, and I don't know what the evidence said, but the judge said something about self-defense when he approved the bail amount. It may just be that I have a deep distrust of public officials, but I don't think Justice was ever a question. Winning is what DAs care about.
Godsmack is a band I never listened to very much. They had songs on the radio, but I didn't go searching them out. Lately some of their work is showing up in the playlists created by the Tidal streaming service, which are based on my listening habits.
This song is "Serenity" by Godsmack from their 2003 album Faceless. It was one of the singles released from the album. It is also included in their 2007 compilation album, Good Times, Bad Times... Ten Years of Godsmack.
So people donated money to the Southern Poverty Law Center expecting that the money was going to be used to "fight racism." Instead it was used to support racism. Why? Because before SPLC gave money to racists, their contributions, which support things like salaries, had dwindled to almost nothing. With more racism in the news, there were plenty of contributions to support those lovely NGO salaries.
In case you were wondering, it was Beirich who tagged me as a “neo-Confederate white supremacist” more than 20 years ago, but unlike her, no one has ever accused me of literally sucking Nazi dick.
Media outlets that have registered fewer journalists than previous years, or no journalists, include global heavyweights like Reuters, Bloomberg and the BBC, as well as German outlets like Deutsche Welle and ZDF television.
Before I give my solution: I have no illusion that the Republicans (the red narcissists) will do any of this, or anything else. The Democrats (the blue narcissists) will probably try for a far less reasonable version, so they can both do nothing and blame the red narcissists.
Cornyn is now insisting that he's a staunch Republican who still wants what's best for the party but has been pushed to the side because of President Donald Trump and reasons and feelings and stuff. It's the same oh-so-refined hissy fit we've seen ever since Arizona voters ran Jeff Flake out of office after one term.
Of course there is no way one can speak about this in any direct way in Canada. Probably even indirectly would cause problems since clearly the same layer of actual state control exists above all Commonwealth nations right now.
Four of this season’s owners have gone MIA, so if you’ve ever wanted to try out Dynasty League Baseball, this is your chance to get in on the ground floor.
You might compare Juan Thompson’s fabrication to the similar scandal of Jayson Blair at the New York Times, except that Blair’s fakery did not involve anything as egregious as Dylann Roof’s infamous slaughter.
