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Climategate global-warming activist Michael Mann resigns from PennU after celebrating murder of Charlie Kirk

Michael Mann
Climate activist Michael Mann

Though he has claimed to be a climate scientist for decades, Michael Mann at the University of Pennsylvania has been proven time and again to merely be a leftwing global-warming activist, faking data to make it appear the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is causing global warming, falsely claiming he was a Nobel laureate winner, and acting to destroy the careers of anyone who challenged the veracity of his research.

Sadly, when these facts were discovered almost two decades ago, about the time the climategate emails were released, the climate science community ignored the facts (a very bad thing for scientists to do) and acted to defend Mann. Thus he was able to continue to publish while keeping his job as a professor in academia, first at Pennsylvania State University and then at the University of Pennsylvania.

Mann’s ability to survive fraud and abuse of power however has finally come to an end, and it did so because he decided to go on line after Charlie Kirk was assassinated to joke about that murder and to slander Kirk by reposting comments that called Kirk “head of Trump’s Hitler Youth.”

Though Mann subsequently denied that was what he was doing, deleting some of his worst tweets while claiming to condemn such violence, it appears no one believes him. As a result, he announced yesterday that he resigning his position at Pennsylvania University in order to become a full time political activist. From his resignation statement:

I have reluctantly come to the position that the science policy advocacy work I am doing, especially surrounding my new book “Science Under Siege” with vaccine scientist Peter Hotez, at times feels in conflict with the nonpartisan role demanded of me as an administrator at a university with an established institutional neutrality policy.

Particularly at this moment in time, I don’t feel that I can forsake the public scholarship and advocacy that I am doing and have thus decided to step down from the VPC role.

At last Mann is being honest, at least in terms of his political biases. He has never been non-partisan, and as a result his leftist leanings poisoned all the research he participated in. Now at least we all know where he stands. He no longer is hiding behind a curtain of being “an objective scientist”.

Mann more than anyone illustrated the decline in American science during the 21st century. For decades he put advocacy and politics above real research, faking data and viciously libeling those who questioned his work in order to prove human-caused global warming. When the climate science community chose to favor his political advocacy and blacklisting over good science, it showed that Mann’s dishonesty had seeped into all levels of science.

That he is no longer a practicing scientist is a good thing. His resignation from academia might also be the first sign — albeit a weak one — that academia is finally beginning to clean up its act.

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41 comments

  • Clark

    Couldn’t happen to a worse individual… mainly because I can’t think of anyone worse than Michael Mann. The lawfare he subjected Mark Steyn to and the guilty verdict imposed on him by the “sclerotic toilet of DC justice” should consign Mann, his Soros-funded white-shoe lawyers, and that clearly-biased DC jury to the lowest circle of Hell.

  • Ronaldus Magnus

    Do not be surprised if the Hockey Stick Charlatan receives a new “book deal” to make up for his termination.

  • F

    Clark,

    “Couldn’t happen to a worse individual . . .”

    I won’t argue with you, but just remember that he’s got a lotta competition.

    https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/09/alleged-discrimination-against-israeli-student-by-anti-zionist-cornell-prof-eric-cheyfitz-warrants-federal-investigation/

  • Cotour

    And I quote: Zohran Mamdani:

    “Violence is an artificial construct”.

    Tell that to Charlie Kirk.

    I look forward to an Objective BTB review of the new Michale Mann book:

    https://michaelmann.net/books/science-under-siege/

  • Andi

    I believe it’s called UPenn rather than PennU, which sounds like an insult: “PennU!” “Oh yeah, PennU too!” :)

  • Doubting Thomas

    Andi – UPenn is Ivy League university in center of Philadelphia. PSU ( Penn State University) where Mann was employed, is the Land Grant college of Pennsylvania adjacent to State College PA, in University Park PA.

    A proud Nittany Lion who is glad Mann is gone

  • Jeff Wright

    Not to be confused with the director of HEAT or Manhunter, of course.

    Wasn’t he the same yokel who wanted the United States to bankrupt itself painting the Arctic black to keep us out of an ice age?

  • cam

    When will we go and hunt down all the people who cheered Charlie Kirks’s murder . Funny how George Floyd was a ‘martyr ‘ and no one cheered his death , even when they knew the story was a total Lie .

    These Evil Ones need to be killed .

    That is all .

    Isn’t it strange , how even murderers and rapists are allowed to live and given mercy

    ki ll eveey nigger , jew , and euro royal on earth , and all illegal invaders and lgbtq sub-humans , and their supporters .

    We have millions to cull from The USA , don’t forget the murdering doctors , nurses , and teachers too .

  • David Yastreb

    “Science under siege”? Sounds like a Stephen Segal movie.

  • F

    cam,

    It is the Left that calls for such violence. The rest of us want to live in peace, with individual liberty and limited government leading to prosperity. The Left seeks control, and will go to extreme measures in order to obtain it.

  • pzatchok

    When i asked people on line to show me a study of GW without any reference to Mann of the hockey stick no one could find me one.

  • Dave in Denver

    I look forward to Mark Steyn’s next op-ed piece. Monday, perhaps, if not an extra edition. Should be one heck of a read.

    Following up on Ronaldus M, I’ve been mighty suspicious of “book deals” for some time now. Apparently, it’s not just me.

  • wayne

    Steyn ridicules Michael Mann, other warmist scientists for claiming to be Nobel winners
    US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
    December 8, 2015
    https://youtu.be/Jl1wHF2vUxI
    1:15

  • Chuck

    Dang, I was going to write a wicked screed about Mann, and then Clark went and stole all the good words to use!

    Well DONE, sir!

  • Chris

    IF I recall correctly the majority of the Mann fabrications occurred at Penn State, the school that values its football program far above the lives of the children who lost their innocence to Jerry Sandusky.

    I doubt that bringing in government grants to fabricate/study “climate change” and sacrificing the lives of children to protect a football program that brings also in millions are a coincidence,
    The common theme is seeking money and power regardless of morals.

  • Tim

    Unfortunately, it is my understanding that he stepped down as a “vice-Provost” or something, but still is on the faculty at UPenn.

  • James Street

    “The lawfare he subjected Mark Steyn” – Clark

    And Rand Simberg

    “Readers of the blog likely recall this lawsuit, brought by climate scientist Michael Mann against columnist Mark Steyn, blogger Rand Simberg… in January 2024, the jury found Steyn and Simberg liable for defamation, to the tune of $1 compensatory damages + $1M punitives against Steyn, and $1 compensatory + $1K punitives against Simberg.”
    https://reason.com/volokh/2025/03/04/punitive-damages-award-in-mann-v-steyn-reduced-from-1m-to-5k/

  • David Ross

    Mann left Sandusky State already in 2023. He’s in UPenn now.

  • Richard M

    Would Mann have dialed back his toxic social media presence if his lawsuits in federal court against NRO, Rand Simberg, and Mark Steyn had been squashed with prejudice in quick order after his filing, as they should have been?

    Probably not. But I can dream.

  • Lee S

    This is going to be a rather unpopular comment given the audience, but right wing nutters are more prolific than left wing nutters when it comes to “mass shootings” in the last 12 months. If you don’t believe me… Use a search engine of your choice to fact check.

    I absolutely condemn the closing down of free speech from either side of your crazy political system… ( I have to give you something to bite upon ) And of course I deplore violence of any kind. And to be honest, a random act of violence by a drug addled thug is far preferable to a pre meditated act of violence in the name of some political or religious beliefs. The later can always inspire “copycat” crimes.

    I’m not just pointing my finger at the US, the current spate of political violence is spreading like a virus, and I have no idea how to combat it, but it is disingenuous to blame it all on the “left”… Yes… There is blame, but there is as much blame on the “right”

  • pzatchok

    Off your meds again?

  • Jeff Wright

    That might be a response to a recent study.
    https://phys.org/news/2025-09-wing-extremist-violence-frequent-deadly.html
    Eric Robert Rudolf killed several as a bomber–and we had that fool during Obama’s Presidency that tried to kill a church full of folks—things look to be getting worse across the board

    What I find chilling:
    https://phys.org/news/2025-10-pr-firms-climate-misinformation-behalf.html

  • Edward

    Lee S requested: “Use a search engine of your choice to fact check.

    So I did. Every post-Kirk result that said more right-wing than left-wing also said that Kirk’s assassin was right-wing. We know that is not true. So now we have to suspect those sources.

    Older search results declared as right-wing the assassin of Minnesota state legislator Melissa Hortman and her husband in June, and we know that is not true, too.

    It seems that those who are claiming right-wing violence are actually mislabelling left-wingers in order to make their point. It is easy to do, as the news media initially blames every violent act on the right, until it is shown otherwise, then the news media stops reporting the leanings of the suspect. This lets a bias set in like a miasma of mendacity.

    But what else do you expect from the left-wingers?

  • Lee S: To add to Edward’s point about the biases of most search engines today, good research can still use them to get real data. For example, consider this:

  • Lee S

    I didn’t say the left is blameless, it obviously isn’t.. but the right is certainly not blameless either. I think the thing that both the reasonable right and left should be worried about is the rise in political violence and extremists of every flavor. As you guys know, I’m very much in favor of free speech, and anything that attempts to close free speech down should be condemned, but I can see no easy answer to the current environment we live in. Scary times indeed.

  • Larry Beck

    Lee, agree completely that the “right” is not blameless, we are all human with all the flaws and biases and prejudices that each and every one of us carries.
    BUT, I do have to take issue with a couple of things, as a moderate that is now regularly labeled a “Far Right Extremist” what used to be words to describe are now boxes used to divide and exclude.
    Secondly your position that “…both the reasonable right and left should…” Assumes evidence Not in fact,
    I have never met a “reasonable” Leftist, I have been un-friended and banned by some which I thought were my friends,
    But as a “Far Right Extremist” I have never un-friended or banned any friend just because we disagree…
    Where is the “Reason” within the lefts’ echo chamber?

  • Dallas Logan

    Mann and Hotez – now there’s a pair.

    Mann’s history of deception, lies, and vitriol will mesh well with “vaccine scientist” Hotez’s theatrics demonstrated in his deadly and endless advocacy for the mRNA COVID jabs (plus endless boosters).

    Any publication put out by this duo should be placed in either the “Fiction” or “Fantasy” aisle at Barnes & Nobel.

  • Its best if you all just did as you are instructed, it will be much less painful for you.

    https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/everything-the-u-n-and-democrat-party-is-about

    “The U.N. just like the Democrat party in America has been infiltrated by the radical, Socialist, “progressive” Wack a doodle, We Will Tell You How You Are Going to Live, Globalist Left.”

    https://youtu.be/hdN5YJg6f_Y?si=MxKwFcSmUqEjNTZb

    “Remember, they are ALL more ideological (Socialist I.E. Agenda 2030), moralistic and superior to you. They are your awaiting new masters.”

    No need for discussion.

  • Cotour

    And a follow up to the treason that has been ongoing over the years to install this U.N. Globalist agenda, DNI Tulsi Gabbard just got through with irrefutable EVIDENCE that indicates former President Obama’s efforts to subvert Americas elections.

    TREASON in other words!

    There is a line to be drawn between the contentious politics of the day, and TREASON!

    And like we / I have been suspecting of Mr. Obama he has apparently gone over that line!

    Stand by.

  • Cotour

    LeeS:

    In your opinion why do you think the governments around the world are loath to arrest and keep jailed violent criminals especially if they have an extra dose of melanin in their skin?

    What is your interpretation of this phenomenon especially happening within the more Liberal / EU / Globalist aligned countries and cities, especially in America?

    Do you agree with this quote: “Violence is a construct”.

    https://news.grabien.com/story/zohran-mamdani-violence-is-an-artificial-construction

    I am very interested, do violent people no matter the color of their skin have a right to be violent and terrorize the public and their neighbors? Is that a Right in your estimation?

  • Lee S

    @Cotour…. Do you actually read any of my posts before commenting?

    Quote, myself “of course I deplore violence of any kind.”… Kinda speaks for itself really.

    Now here is an idea to contemplate…. I believe that the regular posters here are experiencing confirmation bias. You move in right leaning circles, and your view on the left is formed by what you hear in the media. The more outrageous the story the more likely it is to be reported, especially in political leaning news sources. You simply never hear about moderate folks because they do nothing newsworthy.

    And once again, for the record, I have friends and family from all over the political spectrum. I enjoy conversation with the right wingers.. shouting into an echo chamber does nothing to evolve ideas and understanding. This doesn’t mean I’m going to shoot one of them.

    So go on… Hug a leftie, buy them a beer, sit down and have a chat. You might realize we are human too.

  • Max

    Why does Lee post here the things he does? Because he can… If he was in Britain he would be in prison.
    Britain has arrested thousands for saying the wrong thing, or just appearing to say the wrong thing, or somebody “accusing” having heard them say the wrong thing.

    “A man was convicted for sending a tweet while drunk referring to dead soldiers. Another was arrested for an anti-police t-shirt. Another was arrested for calling the Irish boyfriend of his ex-girlfriend a “leprechaun.” Yet another was arrested for singing “Kung Fu Fighting.” A teenager was arrested for protesting outside of a Scientology center with a sign calling the religion a “cult.””

    http://freepressers.com/articles/britains-thought-police-say-theyll-arrest-anyone-anywhere

  • Cotour

    “Another was arrested for calling the Irish boyfriend of his ex-girlfriend a “leprechaun.””

    Now THATS funny!

    I think the only solution as Britain moves further and further towards fulfilling their Globalist authoritarian requirements to show the rest of the world how it is done, the British people must create another language filled with words and terms that are on their face innocuous.

    The people MUST obey!

  • Cotour

    LeeS: You really did not answer my specific questions.

    And I read all / most of your posts. Take note below, how’s your hairline?

    https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/collecting-political-scalps

    COLLECTING POLITICAL SCALPS

    Over the years I have spoken about politics to seemingly rational people on the other side of the fence now and then. People who I could never really get through to. But it does happen now and then when they are brave enough to adjust their perspective based on evidence that they themselves have come to realize. They come to me and admit where they have arrived ideologically concerning the politics of the day in America. It happens!

    I have a female customer / friend, a very nice hard-working tax paying American person who is politically active who usually is a steadfast, reliable Democrat voter in New York City. This is what she just told me concerning the coming NYC mayoral election in November.

    Now to be clear, she is still a hard NO on Trump, for now :)

    She unsolicited by me volunteered that in the NYC mayoral election she will not be voting for the Democrat party primary winner, Democrat Socialist, Zohran Mamdani. The Democrat party in NYC and many other cities in America and politicians in Washington D.C. are controlled and allied with today’s radical “progressive” Marxists. Haters of the Constitution and Capitalism.

    She shares with me: “I have some Democrat friends that when I talk to them about their Democrat party politics, they all seem to be very crazy.”. “They really believe all of this crazy stuff that you hear.”

    Really! And that is exactly what I have been attempting to gently get her and many others to see. I consider her as one of my political scalps. I have several nailed on my wall, their political blood running down in front of my desk.

    You know, a scalp, that is what the “peace-loving” native North Americans have been doing to each other for thousands of years as a symbol of instilling fear, violence and domination in the hearts of their enemies before “you know who” arrived.

    https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e691e8_14cfb64168214c95a14989db0ce120a6~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_524,h_275,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/e691e8_14cfb64168214c95a14989db0ce120a6~mv2.png

    She continues: “You should hear them and what they say that they actually believe, it is so insane that I cannot believe what I am hearing from them.”

    Well, they are indoctrinated and teached to self-hate, hate America and they are looking to “Destroy the Patriarchy”. They are essentially Communists, what else would you expect? Oh, they do not CALL themselves Communists, but that is exactly what they are.

    As an example: Who talks like this? Zohran Mamdani on: “Seizing the means of production”. Right out of Marx’s Communist Manifesto: https://youtu.be/WAWmaC-4vAY?si=GvZnnrdL-U1QOqYT

    My rule is that if you talk like a Communist, I tend to believe that you are a Communist, no matter what you call yourself. (The means of production means your private property and businesses).

    My point here is that there are still rational American Democrats who vote that are seeing things in politics in a very different light and more of a rational manner than what the party machine pushes.

    And who will she be voting for in the NYC mayoral election? The “INDEPENDENT” candidate, Andrew Cuomo. Andrew Cuomo being among the worst of the worst as far as manipulative, self-serving, egomaniacal, self-stroking, self-important politics goes. Andrew Cuomo will say and do anything in order to prevail and fulfill his now very silly dream of recovering his credibility and becoming the president of the United States to fulfill his Democrat political royalty aspirations. The radical Left within his own party took care of that fantasy while they were setting up for AOC, Mamdani and other still incubating young blood true believer Leftists.

    I consider this progress.

    Progress one mind at a time.

    Are You Paying Attention Yet America? JGL 10/3/25

    https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e691e8_87189d6c01704e659d30aaa456efa2e6~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_925,h_616,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/e691e8_87189d6c01704e659d30aaa456efa2e6~mv2.jpg

  • Edward

    Lee S,
    You wrote: “Now here is an idea to contemplate…. I believe that the regular posters here are experiencing confirmation bias. You move in right leaning circles, and your view on the left is formed by what you hear in the media.

    Good God! Talk about not reading posts, I have explained multiple times that the media here in the U.S. is very heavily left wing, so we don’t get any confirmation bias. It is the exact opposite. We have to seek out truth in order to hear, see, or read it. We have to distrust the news and other sources of information until we can verify or disprove what we heard, saw, or read.

    We can be sure that news reports are based upon some sort of reality, that something happened, the who, where, and when, but after that the what, why, and how are untrustworthy, and the information about the who is also untrustworthy. Finding these facts is problematic.

    My comment above was an attempt to point this out, but apparently you, Lee, didn’t bother to read it. Robert’s comment immediately after mine emphasized that research is needed to find truth. The news media and most of the other media on this side of the pond are definitely biased (what else would you expect from left-wingers?) and are losing their reputations among Americans.

    For the record, although I think I have said so before, I have friends and family from all over the political spectrum — it cannot be avoided here. I enjoy conversation with the right-wingers, but the left-wingers don’t want to hear, much less acknowledge, anything that does not fit with their very fixed, immutable biases.* Just like discussions with you, Lee, it is like shouting into an anechoic chamber — nothing spoken comes back acknowledged, so ideas do not evolve and understanding is prevented. This doesn’t mean I’m going to shoot one of them, as it would be irrational, not rational, because they still would not behave any better and acknowledge or understand any view outside their biases.

    Is it hopeless? Yes. But continuing to discuss these issues here brings about a variety of ideas, rather than the one, fixed, politically correct (at least for today) view on each topic. In addition, we still get to present our views to the middle of the roaders, the undecideds, and other open minded people who read our comments (whether or not they comment here).

    So, Lee, keep on commenting, but you don’t have to remind us, each time, that we may have a different viewpoint than you do. This is not leftist America where difference of opinion is a bad thing, it is only that we disagree with you, not that we hate you.

    Which reminds me, American leftists feel that disagreement means hatred, but that is how they feel and they project their own feelings onto the right, explaining why they feel that they can convince the world that the peaceful righties are the violent ones.

    After all, when some unknown person dies of an overdose while in police custody, the left throws a “Summer of Love” that consists of “mostly peaceful” riots across the country, during which dozens are killed and hundreds of police are injured. But when a beloved christian who advocates right-wing values is intentionally and stochastically murdered by a leftist who thinks he is protecting his transitioning lover, the right has a candlelight vigil. America’s left defines their own violence and riots as free speech, but they define right-wing speech as violence. Apparently, defining speech as violence gives the left a natural right (God given Right, had they believed in God) to self defense through their own violence. So Kirk’s assassination was merely the permissible defense of a loved one, making the assassin a hero, to the leftists.

    And the news media declares the violent perpetrators (mass shooters, etc.) to be right-wing, up until they no longer can get away with it, at which time they shut up about his leanings. Once again, giving permission for others to defend against the “violent right” in stochastic acts of hatred and violence.
    _________________
    * Did I say immutable? Oh, these biases change, all right, but only when political correctness changes. Political correctness, and therefore left-wing biases, change all the time. Donald Trump was a left-wing hero, until the day he declared he was running for president on the Republican ticket; then hero worship became politically incorrect. The same thing happened to Elon Musk when he noted that the Democrat Party had moved so far to the left that he related more with Republicans than Democrats. Changing political correctness is also how we got Diversity, Inclusion and Equity; Critical Race Theory; Woke-ism; and other leftist aberrations, including schools using pronouns without parental knowledge, which led to teachers helping minors get surgical procedures, also without parental knowledge.

    The echo chamber is on the left, and when a leftist hears another leftist say something, he had better echo it back, or he is likely to be shunned. On the right, one can express a variety of ideas, try them on, see if they fit or make sense, explore alternatives, and no other righty will shun him. Other righties may even join the exploration. How many different ideas are expressed in threads here on BTB, and no one gets shunned or thrown off for disagreeing with others? But Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other leftist social media had closed people’s accounts for expressing the “wrong” opinions or ideas.

    So, when I say immutable, I mean that nothing can change their bias until the leftist mob makes a change, then the rest of the members have to hurry to catch up. Logic, reason, and persuasion do not work to change leftist minds. Emotion only works when it comes from the left. No outside force can change a leftist’s bias until he is ready to give up leftism, which means giving up friends and maybe even family. The peer pressure on the left is strong, and few people are brave enough to admit to reality rather than the kinds of fantasies that have led to boys pretending to be girls and the inability to define a woman without using the word “woman” (“a woman is a woman, is anyone who says he is a woman, and I will know one when I declare that I am a woman”).

  • Cotour

    JW:

    “By any means necessary”, Once you have identified and objectified your enemy.

    “It is currently impossible for global leaders to take the urgent actions necessary to respond to the climate crisis and pandemic threats because they are thwarted by a common enemy—antiscience—that is politically and ideologically motivated opposition to any science that threatens powerful special interests and their political agendas. Unless we find a way to overcome antiscience, humankind will face its gravest threat yet—the collapse of civilization as we know it.”

    “And they point to an obvious culprit: “There is, unquestionably, a coordinated, concerted attack on science by today’s Republican Party.”

    And so the solution? Globalization of government and Socialism in order to get humans to act as directed.

    “My Sept. 22 column, “If you control carbon, you control life,” questioned the scientific validity of Michael Mann’s “hockey stick.” Dr. Mann wrote an Other Voices article in The Union the next day complaining my statements that his contrived hockey stick ignored the Medieval Warm Period are a “falsehood,” and “a distortion, half-truth, or plain untruth.””

    https://www.theunion.com/opinion/norm-sauer-mann-s-hockey-stick-a-documented-hoax/article_5e9bee14-1468-59aa-90d9-6d1e82f584cf.html

    ?????????

  • Edward

    From Jeff Wright’s linked Ars Technica article:

    “There is, unquestionably, a coordinated, concerted attack on science by today’s Republican Party.”

    Thus, we know that the article is biased.

    A vaccine developer and a climate scientist walk into a bar write a book.

    The Wuhan Flu “vaccine” was only a political football. Before Trump (45) was out of office, it was declared by the Democrat Party to be ineffective and dangerous. Once he was out of office it was declared by the same people to be a godsend and mandatory. Which version is right? The evidence shows that the Democrats were right the first time, and they never should have made this experiment mandatory on the general population.

    The climate scientist is Michael Mann, who has lost court cases due to his professional mendacity. He is a leader in the scientific field that fudged the global average temperature dataset, another act of mendacity. The minders of this dataset sent out modified data, a decade ago, without announcing the modification was made, a bad thing to do and one of the indicators of fudged data. The changes were noticed by the scientists who were using these annually-released datasets for their own research. The changes were explained by handwaving, not in any scientific way, another indicator of fudged data, and all the changes were in the direction that supported their own hypothesis, a serious sign for fudged data.

    If data points are to be modified, then it is each and every modified data point from the original data collection that must be individually noted and explained. Instead, they modified the reduced (averaged) data as though that were what the scientific method allows to be adjusted.

    Now both scientists are blaming someone else for their own bogus science. They blame politics and the very political party that they both oppose. They use political reasons, not scientific ones. Rather than using the scientific method, Wuhan flu research and climate research have deviated from it.

    The article does not defend these two scientists’ poor science, as it is indefensible, but it attacks their opponents. This is not scientific. It is political.

  • pzatchok

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/dhs-says-ice-agents-chicago-suburb-boxed-10-cars-tensions-escalate

    Our ‘peaceful’ leftists US protestors.

    The extreme left here in the US is insane and violent. The rest of the left supports them. The democrat party tries to support all of the left in hopes they will be their strong base of support, which is driving the moderate democrats to the right.

    As for the US being poorer than the Rest of the world. A long standing argument of yours.
    https://www.newsweek.com/are-people-mississippi-really-richer-people-europe-2066233
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HQ3796ji6A

    We even have universal government assisted health care now. A friend of mine pays about 65 dollars a month. Granted its not total or perfect it is affordable to get all basic medical procedures covered. If you want more pay more just like everyone all over the world.

  • wayne

    Landman Se 1 Ep 10
    “Tommy Explains the Farm-Out to Rebecca”
    https://youtu.be/fmbZwxEnAFc
    5:07

  • Jeff Wright

    It isn’t just climatologists miffed these days.

    Biology needs a re-write too it seems:
    https://phys.org/news/2025-10-island-spider-genome-defying-evolutionary.html

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