Maggie's Farm

Data Centers Are Doing Your Dirty Work for You. Their few defenders often misunderstand their benefits.

More Westerners Waking up to Islam as Gov’t Bans Face Coverings, Leaving Both Muslims and (Ironically) Feminists Angry

 Why Is Everything So Upside Down?

 The Stop Nick Shirley Act

We’re Teaching Kids Scarcity in an Age of Abundance

 "Seeds Of Political Change": Nomura Sees Europe Lurching Right, And Markets Are Fine With It

 Spanish Beach Stormed As Ceuta Chaos Spreads

 ‘Maybe This Really is an Emergency’: When Even Lefty Profs Complain About Unprepared Incoming Students

"After 11 years as a sports columnist at the Seattle Times, I have decided to resign."

 Once Upon a Time in the WNBA

 Cocaine Networks and Communists — Marco's Been Busy 

 I'm Sorry, The Feds Wasted HOW MANY TRILLIONS in Improper Payments?

 Mamdani’s City Grocery Store Official Explains How Their Plan to Keep Privately Owned Stores in Business Will Make Things Even Worse

 The Origins of Our $40 Trillion National Debt

Cosmic birefringence: the signal that could upend cosmology - We assume there's no preferred frame of reference in the Universe, and that light behaves the same in all directions. What if we're wrong?

Science is about theories 

 NYC’s deadly e-bike crisis is getting worse — and only Albany can tackle it

 Data Centers and Flock Cameras and AI, Oh My!

Trump’s Smart Move to Cut Nonprofit Funding - Reducing their reliance on public dollars would restore nonprofits’ independence and make them more accountable to the communities they serve.

The DSA Strategy to Build Power - The democratic socialist organization is building something much bigger than an email list.

Light Bulbs Just Went on in Britain Why They Can't Afford to Stop the Boats From France

Preaching the Word of God Is 'Hate Speech'

 UC Berkeley Calculus Professor Claims Some of Her Students Can’t Do Middle School Math

 Why Are Leftists Fighting For Hardcore Islam?

 From brothels to Medicaid fraud

The White House Needs a Ballroom. The Left Just Hates Who’s Building It.

 Blasphemy Law Is Back: Retired British Police Officer Fined For Islam Joke

 America and the Europoor

 Rewriting History: Researchers Uncover a Forgotten Amazon Civilization That May Have Housed 3 Million People

 We Passed Peak “Climate Change” (um) Research

How lefty is Big Law? 

 Biden Admin Facilitated Fraudulent Billing Behind Trans Medical Scandal, HHS Study Finds

 Kennedy Center Board Votes 20-3 to Name Grounds ‘President Donald J. Trump Plaza’ After Trump Secures $257M for Renovation

 Sensing He’s in Deep Trouble, Flock Safety CEO Says It’s All Been a Big Misunderstanding

 The New Radical Abortion Law in Massachusetts is so Extreme That Even Some Democrats Are Speaking Out Against It

Africa wants fuel

 The Dutch to Keep Reducing Nitrogen Until No More Cows Left to Come Home

 Colombia Begins Mass Mobilization Against Terror Group As Moscow Warns Of New "Anti-Russia Provocation In Latin America"

AI novels? 

The Unmaking of Jason Arday - Whatever else can be said about the “Jason Arday Affair,” he was not the victim.

 'We Lied About Jason Arday to Prevent Racists From Winning'

 30 Dead, 17 Fatal Crashes, and a Judge Tells DHS to Wait

 Armed Good Guy Successful in Miami Gardens When 2 Street Entrepreneurs’ Business Plan Goes Badly

 What Does It Take to Reopen a Nuclear Power Plant?

 Yes, Jameela, There Was (And Still Is) Slavery

 Dept. of War Embarrasses WaPo Reporter Who Missed Key Detail About Media's USS Lincoln Hysteria

 Taylor Swift is enemy No.1 to cash-grabbing Democrats in Rhode Island. They've named their new statewide vacation home property tax after her.

 Bessent: US Readies Economic Isolation Of Iran "Like The World Has Never Seen Before"

 English Villages In Fear Over 1,200 Male Migrants Moved Next To Schools

 It’s Spelled 'Turkey,' Not 'Türkiye.' Here’s Why That’s Important.

New data for Great Barrier Reef: Last five years best on record

 Cameras watching every corner are changing who we are

Dems and Republicans unite behind a common enemy: Flock cameras that are ‘documenting everybody all the time’

 Meet The Red State Corridor Behind America's Top Boomtowns

The Endless, Maddening Wait for a Woman President - Why does the prospect of a female president just seem to get further and further away?

Because you need a Maggie Thatcher 

 Virginia’s Democrats show us how to wreck a state in 5 easy steps

 Wacko Judge Considers Stopping Warrantless Arrest Of Illegals

 Northern Europe has been sweltering under a heat wave, and naturally global warming alarmists are out in force.

 UK provides masterclass in woke policing

In Which I Am Replaced By A Robot. Maybe. The robots keep getting better. . .

 Maine Lifeguard Survives After Great White Shark Drags Him Underwater

 Karoline Leavitt exiting as White House press secretary

Former SPLC Exec Arrested: Accused Of Funneling Donor Money To KKK, Neo-Nazi Informants

Feds bust NYC fraud scheme that engineered hundreds of sham marriages between Americans, Chinese nationals

Head Start Has Never Worked. The Trump administration should have stood its ground in its earlier effort to zero out the failed Great Society program.

 Ceuta Migrants Reach Mainland Spain Despite Government Denials; Report

UK Wants People To Not Use Energy During Solar Eclipse

 Flesh-Eating Screwworms Feast on Humans in Mexico

Dem Gov Maura Healey signs sweeping Massachusetts bill allowing abortions up to birth

 New Report Exposes the Foreign Cash Behind ‘Extremist Climate Activist Movement

 Why Mark Zuckerberg is 100% right on the need to ease access to US open-source AI

 Saying ‘just get it done’ is ‘hostile’ language: CU Boulder bias report

 FAA’s Gamer Recruitment Campaign Scores Over 2,000+ Air Traffic Controller Candidates

Abolish The Police, Seize The Corporations, Erase The Borders - This is the DSA platform Democrats don’t want you to read.

College Where 3 out of 4 Students Get A’s Fixes “Mental Health Crisis” by Getting Rid of Grades. Companies can hire University of Michigan grads knowing that if they're expected to perform, they'll have a mental health crisis.

 This Arday in history

 Swedish PM Calls Spanish Illegal Immigrant Amnesty 'Very Bad Idea'

 Where Did Gender Identity Come From?

 The Fantasyland Of New York City's Discount Grocery Stores

 So, What's Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey’s Favorite Kind of Abortion? Dismemberment?

 Wait, Rubio Revoked How Many Visas? Just Wait Until You See Why.

Former DNC Fundraiser: Major Democratic Donors are Done With Kamala Harris. “Kamala Harris is living in fantasyland… [thinking] that big donors would bet on her again”

 Plagiarist prof Jason Arday’s life story is published tomorrow, and it gets more unbelievable by the page

 Arday’s fate is only the most spectacular instance of a phenomenon that plagues modern academia in the Anglosphere, and increasingly beyond.

 Looks Like the WNBA's Absurdity Is About to Sink the Entire Transgender Movement

What is Zumba? 

How not to run a boat 

The Permanent Underclass Is Already Here

 The Quiet Redesign of the Bachelor’s Degree

 En Banc DC Circuit Reinstates Funding Of The Most Corrupt Program Ever Enacted

 Behind Francesca Hong’s flighty campaign is a hateful movement — and it’s landing on the right ears

 Hillary Clinton Warns Dems: GOP's Anti-Communist Messaging "Very Effective" As Marxist Hijack Party

 "We're Here To Destroy The White Race": Democratic Socialist Of America Hero Declares War On West

The UK: He bought a baseball bat 

 Jason Arday’s Cambridge Grift Ends — But the Post-BLM Reckoning Has Just Begun

How Columbia University Made Me a Conservative

 ‘My Medical Association Silenced My Views on Gender Care.’ Plus. . .

 UC Doctors Seek to Unionize 10,000 Colleagues in Massive Campaign

 Austrian ‘Fashion Researcher’ Wastes Taxpayer Money in ‘Study’ To Warn that Trad-Wives and Even Polo Shirts Are ‘Extreme-Rightwing’

 Mamdani Backs Squatters’ Rights in Video Demonizing 'Billionaire' Jewish 'Slumlord'

His Holiness, Dr. Anthony Fauci - The fall from grace we’ve all been waiting for.

Global Greening Hits New Record as Climate Emergency Fails to Materialise

 Should I Get a Gun?

 McDonald's Announces New CEO As Sales Slide

What if Freud Was Right? A neuroscientist dares to argue that old-fashioned psychoanalysis holds the key to curing mental illness.

 Comical case of Cambridge U.’s fibbing prof tests academia’s deep DEI delusions

Why Fauci Matters = He's not just a powerful guy who acted in bad faith. He's a totem to a whole class of people who don't care about that.

 Earth Is A “Climate War Zone” Or Something

 Terrifying Invasive Species Silver-Cheeked Toadfish Is Spreading Throughout the Mediterranean With Its Toxic Flesh and Crushing Bite

 Ugly Women Rulers Condemn Lookism

 Don't Forget: There Are Two Multi-Trillion Dollar Pseudoscience Scams

 Tyler Cowen: Nothing Can Stop the AI Revolution

 The American Medical Association Digs in Its Heels on Pediatric Gender Transition

 The DSA Vision: Does Any Human Being Enjoy Living As A Zoo Animal?

 Mike Rowe Triggered a Ton of People With His Lengthy Post About Socialism

You Simply Cannot Give Power to Lunatics. From Ceuta to Cuba to Tehran — and increasingly the American left — the same destructive ideas keep proving that reality is no match for ideological zeal.

 Empty Desks, Full Bill: DOT’s $370 Million Office Problem

Bipolar Socialist Immigrant Explains She’ll Be Great Governor Because She’s a Failed Chef -"Cancel Thanksgiving. Should have done this in 1621"

The Problem with City-Owned Grocery Stores - Mayor Mamdani’s plan would harm neighborhood retailers instead of helping low-income families buy food.

Ceuta Fallout Continues, With EU Members Furious at Spain

 Preference Cascade: Schengen Is Dying, Is the EU Next on the Chopping Block?

 Why UK crime victims’ families always sound so similar talking to the media

 Of course Anthony Fauci took the Fifth — and I know the damning reason why

 The Smartest Energy Policy Is Already in Bucks County

 Economists Slam NYC Mayor Mamdani’s $70M Taxpayer-Funded Government Grocery Store Plan as Socialist Disaster

Canada: The Illusion Of Free Healthcare - A comparative look at healthcare costs in Canada and the United States reveals that both are costly, but Americans get better, faster care.

The Inside Story of How Democrats Lost the Working Class - What do Democrats need to do to win back the voters they lost? Evan is better positioned than most to answer that question. I spent my entire career helping progressives get elected. Then I watched my party abandon everything it claimed to stand for.

 Fetterman Votes With Democrats, Then Defies Them When Courage Counts

 How Does Age Affect Sexual Desire?

Researchers just uncovered more about the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Findings really underscore ‘how unlucky the dinosaurs were,’ researcher says

 Ancient Roman Concrete Keeps Getting Stronger, And The Secret Was Hiding in Hadrian's 2,000-Year-Old Toilet

 A New Racket Sport Is Taking Over the Country. You Can Thank This Man. It's Padel, not Pickle

"We were right about Covid" 

 Upward Mobility Is a Better Measure of Justice Than Income Equality

 DSA's Solemn Vow: We Win an Election, You Lose a Country.

DOJ: Fifth Circuit ‘Rules Illegal Aliens Do Not Have a Constitutional Right to Roam Free’ - Did four immigration judges in Tacoma know they would trigger a legal firestorm and likely SCOTUS review?

 DSA history

Mamdani's -- your one-stop socialist superstore! Zohran, Tribune of the People, has at last unveiled his plan for government-owned grocery stores

 Mayor Zohran Mamdani Is Open to Making New Yorkers Pay Slave Reparations

 Anatomy of a Police Shooting in Madison

 Douglas Murray: Europe Spins Another Islamist Attack

 South African mobs are going door to door to kick out migrants. Socialism drives their xenophobia

 Burnham Thinks Nationalisation Will Cure Britain. He’s in For a Very Nasty Shock

 What Is the Government Good For?

 Scientists find compound that may help muscles stay strong as we age

How to Treat Our Data-Center Phobia. Plus. . .

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson Faces Backlash After Mass Shooting For Deactivating CCTV Cameras

 Trump Has Already Won the Iran War, a Twenty-Five-Year Army Veteran Argues

 New British Defense Secretary Says Europe "Shaken Out Of Complacency" By Trump

 Believing In God Makes You Crave Potato Chips, Say Academics

 Interior Dept. Proposes Expanding State Authority Over Grizzly Bear Management

Transgender dolls to be available for Minnesota schoolchildren as young as 4 under Walz-backed program: report

 rump Admin Ends Obama Policies That Forced Schools To Discipline Based On Race

 Yale scholar says patriarchy creates ‘rigid,’ ‘mythological’ categories of ‘Man, Woman’

 Some Little Towns Are Trapped in Their Own Doom Loop

 Is This the Reason Your Leftist Relatives Are Cutting You Off?

 Black-Owned Atlanta Restaurant Faces Boycott Calls for Serving a Republican

College Professor’s Clever AI Trap Uncovers Rampant Cheating

 Yet Another Embarrassment From The National Academy Of Pseudoscience

‘Mental Illness’ Blamed After Man Shouting “Allahu Akbar” Stabs 2 in Manhattan. Worldwide outbreak of 'Allahu Akbar' mental illness continues.

New York AG Leticia James Under Fire, City Spends Over $81,000 Per Homeless Person, Including Shelter Scandals

Image via Powerline

2026 Fields Medals go to four young mathematicians - The 2026 Fields Medals recognize breakthroughs in the math of messy fluids, tangled knots, spinning pencils, and more

European Heat Wave Driven by Cleaner Air, U.K. Climate Office Study Finds

Working-Age, but Not Working, 1960 to 2026 - Documenting the decades-long increase in the share of the U.S.-born not in the labor force and its implications for immigration policy

 40% won’t hire Trump voters: New report details higher education’s ideological divide

 Media Hacks Still Struggling With World Cup Ruining Their 'America Is Awful' Shtick

 Comptroller Mark Levine’s truth telling could make him the real anti-Mamdani

 How convenient that this new DSA crop proposes to fix the problems it’s causing.

 Musk Admonishes "The Economist" Editor: What Is Far Right About Having Secure Borders, Safe Cities, and Sensible Spending?

Death of Caspian Sea Affecting More Than Just Littoral Countries

The Oldest Tradition in Art - Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, shot entirely on IMAX cameras, is the newest chapter in an old story: technological innovation creating new forms of art.

 SUNY institutes mandatory tutoring, extra class time due to ‘record’ number of first-years failing math, writing

 Billion-Dollar Data Centers And The Growing Opposition

 Trump Demands Review of ‘Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence’ Used by Federal Judges

Related,  Endangerment Finding Litigation Update

 Miranda Devine: The Smithsonian reeks of communist ideologies that our Founding Fathers would be ashamed of

 Michael Goodwin: Mamdani and his DSA cronies are fueling a racial rift within the already fractured Dem party

 A Platneresque Democrat Scandal Hits WI Governor's Race, and You Just Cannot Make This Stuff Up

 What the Murder of Ann Widdecombe Says About Politics in the UK

“The goal is always to denormalize normal things, and normalize abnormal things.” Glenn Reynolds

 What happens when a woke leftist tries to read 'Little House on the Prairie'

Is There Really a Common Good? The new Democratic Socialists in America refer to the common good, or communist good, all the time. But what do they mean?

 Teachers' Unions Must Be Banned

Housing and NYC politics

 Democrats raise more money than Republicans in every key Senate race except Iowa: report

 Massive Islamophobia Hoax Falls Apart in UK

 Trump: U.S. ‘Not Finished at All’ in Iran; Pickaxe Mountain Strike Coming ‘Pretty Soon’

Our friend links a Mayo Clinic report on weight training and longevity. Big problem is that correlation does not imply causation. I'll never forget the study that correlates eating broccoli with cancer risk.

Anyway, fitness and strength are for functionality, not longevity. Any healthy person can get some cancer or just drop dead from an arrhythmia.

On the other hand, I think it might be true that the eccentric aspect of weight training gets short shrift. Slower is good for that.

 FIFA President Credits Trump for ‘Greatest World Cup of All Time’ as Record 6.7 Million Fans Attend

Cyclospora parasite not found in any Taylor Farm lettuce samples after product recall, FDA says

 A Climate Coup at the National Academies of Science - A report on C02 and extreme weather is a trial-lawyer operation

 Trial Lawyers Lobby Against Autonomous Vehicles

Staples, former retail giant, closes more stores

 Too Much Happiness Sent A Woman To The Emergency Room In an Incredibly Rare Case

 Kathy Hochul Got Grilled on Why Everyone Is Leaving NY

 "I'm Not Living In Communist America": Bill Maher Blasts Marxist DSA Democrats, Says He May Vote For JD Vance

 On the Iran War, NATO Chief Agrees With Trump -- The Media Buried the Lede

 Three-Quarters Of Refugee-Linked Households In Vienna Rely On Taxpayer Handouts

Still have post-apocalyptic-looking, and smelling, skies today. Thanks, Canada.

 Toxic Wildfire Smoke Begins To Disrupt Local Economic Activity As GOP Senator Readies Canada Sanctions Bill

 Lawyer Says He Was ‘Manic’ When He Purchased $5.5M Cape Cod Home Teetering on Cliff and Seeks Release from Mortgage

 Expecting Tenants to Pay Rent Regarded as “Violence”

 Trump Is Right About Voting Machines - And if you doubt that, just ask Obama-Appointed Judge Amy Totenberg.

 Democratic strategist James Carville blasts major news networks for not carrying Trump speech

 Democrats Are Panicking and Scrambling to Hide Something Big

 Democrats Far Outraising Republicans in Key Senate Races

 Victor Davis Hanson: Why Mamdani Wants to Erase Europeans From New York’s Immigration History

 Dark day for the UK as Andy Burnham doubles down on disaster