Zheng-Li Shi has worked closely with Ralph Baric on bat SARS coronaviruses I have been vaguely expecting news along these lines, right as President Trump is just getting started. The disruption would, I figured, either come in the form of war escalation or a “new virus of pandemic potential…

Editor's Note Revolutionary movements can only be successful if they are able to attain power. Often in the rise of historical totalitarian regimes, that power has been achieved by mass violence. In our current crisis, it is far more subtle. Peachy Keenan observes here how the Left’s constant…

Frances Thompson Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division CNN — On a Friday in June, Frances Thompson swore an oath before a congressional committee and began to testify about what she’d experienced during a race riot in Memphis one month earlier. She told the committee how…

Delaware, with a population of less than 1 million people, is home to over 1.8 million business entities, including more than 60% of Fortune 500 companies. The state was traditionally viewed as having a business-friendly legal structure and specialized business court system (the Court of Chancery)…

An illustration showing Earth’s inner structure Rostislav Zatonskiy/Alamy Earth’s solid inner core appears to have changed shape in the past 20 years or so, according to seismic wave measurements – but the behaviour of these waves could also be explained by other shifts at the centre of the planet.…

Exothermic Core-Mantle Decoupling – Dzhanibekov Oscillation theory (ECDO Theory) is a series of hypotheses regarding climate change and its relationship to the dynamics of the Earth’s core, as well as geophysical, monument, artifact, and mythological evidence surrounding global cataclysms. It is…

Total VictoryNov 7 pirate wires #128 // season of lies concludes, and the mainstream press monopoly is dead; america votes in favor of the social contract; and it’s a clown world landslide (good news, bad news)

The prophecies of the Irish Saint Malachy (1094-1148), the 12th-century bishop of Armagh, have thrilled and dismayed readers for centuries. In a series of 112 cryptic Latin phrases, the Irish saint "predicts" the Roman Catholic popes. He predicted there would be only one more pope after Benedict,…

Pope Francis’s Apocalyptic Dream R. R. Reno February 11, 2025 Share Article Pope Francis published his suicide note. It took the form of a letter to the American Catholic bishops. In so many words, the Holy Father urged his brother bishops to intervene in American politics and oppose the Trump…

As I write this in early 2025, a quiet revolution is unfolding within the U.S. government. Inside the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), teams of young tech operatives are systematically dismantling democratic institutions and replacing them with proprietary artificial…

The signature tequila cocktail is called a Hot Flash. The playlist skews towards nostalgic hits from the 80s, 90s and early 2000s. Cis men are politely asked to just stay away. Founded in Chicago by two friends in their 40s, the Earlybirds Club is a party designed for women and trans and non-binary…

DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup known for its DeepSeek-R1 LLM model, has publicly exposed two databases containing sensitive user and operational information. The unsecured ClickHouse instances reportedly held over a million log entries containing user chat history in plaintext form, API keys,…

Share this: DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence lab, has emerged as a formidable player in the global AI race, challenging the dominance of U.S.-based tech giants like Google, Meta, and OpenAI. What makes this development particularly exciting for us is that DeepSeek is open source, meaning…

Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 47th president of the United States. Trump, starting his second non-consecutive term as president, took the Oath of Office presided over by Chief Justice John Roberts of the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday inside the Capitol Rotunda — the first time since 1985 the…

Trump is back at the helm of the United States, and the majority of Americans are optimistic about the prospect. Especially the young. In a poll by CBS News, it's the 18-29 demographic that's most excited, with a whopping two-thirds answering in the affirmative to being optimistic about the next…

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It’s been a long four years, a quartet of anni horribiles that saw America suffering under the alleged reign of a kleptocratic human eggplant and his commie handlers. These degenerates ruined the economy, castrated our military and thousands of autistic kids with Munchhausen mommies, made America a…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Attorneys for a woman who is among thousands who lost their homes in the Eaton Fire outside Los Angeles say Southern California Edison crews working to repair and restore power in the area may have destroyed evidence that could help determine what sparked the wildfire. The fire…

As the wildfires in Los Angeles left hundreds of homes in ruins, one family that lost everything in the worst wildfire in Colorado history says there's a better way to rebuild. Three years ago, Erik Ela, his wife and his now 4-year-old son, Alex, lost their two cats and their home in the Marshall…

Arts and Culture by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman January 15, 2025 Butler's work has resurfaced for its depictions of the future seemingly coming to life. The grave of Octavia Butler, whose novel Parable Of The Sower imagined fires engulfing Los Angeles, still stands at a local cemetery in Altadena. Butler’s…

Thousands of Californians have lost their homes and livelihoods to an ongoing inferno. I write this while tracking the flames approaching my property. For many of us, the fires are both a natural disaster and a deathly reminder of the catastrophic consequences of government incompetence. A…

We all grow up somewhere, and that place shapes us. I grew up in Altadena, a magical place, and now it is gone. The first two homes I lived in — a little dingbat stucco on Sunny Oaks Circle across the street from the Angeles National Forest, my parents’ first house, and then the one they built down…

What we covered here • Death toll expected to rise: At least five people have died, California Gov. Gavin Newsom told CNN, as several wind-driven fires blazing across Los Angeles County remain mostly uncontained. The newest to break out is the Sunset Fire in the Hollywood Hills, where evacuation…

Books & the Arts / January 6, 2025 Why Is the Right Obsessed With Epic Poetry? From Elon Musk to Jordan Peterson, a certain strand of conservatism has recruited the poetry of Homer and Dante in their culture war. Copy Link Facebook X (Twitter) Bluesky Pocket Email Juan de la Corte’s The Fire of…

Find a Doctor Make an Appointment En español Swelling (inflammation) is your body’s natural reaction to an injury. Inflammation can happen anywhere—on the skin, within the body, and even inside the arteries. In fact, scientists are now learning that inflammation may play a part in many of the…

Russian gas supplies to European Union states via Ukraine have been halted, shutting down Moscow's oldest gas route to the continent. The five-year gas transit deal between Russia and Ukraine ended in the early hours of 1 January. The move was expected after Kyiv repeatedly said it would not extend…

Here’s a confession: I do not feel particularly disturbed when great American institutions come under scrutiny, whether they be Harvard, the NSA, Wall Street, or the CDC. I figure if they are under attack it is probably for good reason, and either way will be made more honest by weathering the storm…

Writers I Have Met; Or, On Learning That Cormac McCarthy Was a Creep

This fall, I was rereading a Ray Bradbury story before class. He wrote some of his best work in the campus library, and I enjoy telling students to check out his old typewriter, which they keep behind glass. Until recently I also told them to visit his yellow house in Cheviot Hills. Then they…

About a decade ago, I was introduced to the book “Generations” by Strauss and Howe. It’s a stylized social science model for interpreting and possibly predicting social/political/economic, and even military trends. While I put little confidence in the model itself (and wouldn’t bet on it maintaining…

Featured Offer Link to our SHOP Article The Government Cartel paid billions to Walgreens and CVS not to fill Ivermectin – the question is why Maggie Thorp JD and Jim Thorp MD May 20, 2024  Leave a comment Former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, who pushed the government’s deadly COVID-19 narrative and…

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DOGE has made it both impossible not to talk about government reform, and impossible to talk about it. The topic is everywhere, but the subject is now entirely eclipsed on the left by the horror of wh

For the past four weeks, car-sized objects have been reported flying over critical infrastructure and military assets in New Jersey. They come from the ocean, appearing around sunset, and sometimes tu

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Briefing Takeover Tussle 10:34am on 5 December 2024 Link copied The news: Sales software provider Bigtincan has terminated its business combination agreement with Investcorp AI Acquisition Corp, after