01a Apocalyptic

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Imagine reliving your entire life in the space of seconds. Like a flash of lightning, you are outside of your body, watching memorable moments you lived through. This process, known as “life recall,” can be similar to what it is like to have a near-death experience.

What happens inside your brain during these experiences and after death are questions that have puzzled neuroscientists for centuries.

However, a new study  from Dr. Ajmal Zemmar of the University of Louisville and colleagues throughout the world, “Enhanced Interplay of Neuronal Coherence and Coupling in the Dying Human Brain,” published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, suggests that your brain may remain active and coordinated during and even after the transition to death, and be programmed to orchestrate the whole ordeal.

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The US Department of Commerce has launched what could become one of the most significant initiatives in the Administration’s AI Action Plan: the American AI Exports Program. This new effort positions the Department of Commerce as an active partner in expanding the global reach of American AI technologies: hardware, software, and models. This initiative marks a shift from regulating AI development domestically to fostering trusted AI ecosystems worldwide. At its core, this effort uses US economic and diplomatic strengths to shape the global AI marketplace before others do.

Over the past few years, Washington’s AI policy debate has focused on risk management: how to prevent bias, combat misinformation, and ensure safety in critical systems. These concerns are crucial, but they shouldn’t be the sole focus when discussing emerging technology. The AI Exports Program demonstrates a deliberate expansion of the federal government’s tools, with the Department of Commerce acting as both a regulator and promoter of growth.

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Most Americans see the vital importance of America being the leader in artificial intelligence and the enormous need for electricity to support it. They recognize that with President Donald Trump’s reindustrialization of America, we must have more power to drive the boom in blue-collar jobs.

They also know that in the face of all of this new demand, we must increase the supply of fossil fuels, particularly clean natural gas, and become energy dominant if we are going to keep gas and electric bills affordable.

Most people also know that Democrats and left-wing climate activists oppose American energy dominance through the development of fossil fuels, but they likely don’t know that the biggest obstacle today is a court whose territory doesn’t have a single well, liquefied natural gas terminal, or pipeline — the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill, a staunch advocate for unrestricted abortion, won New Jersey’s gubernatorial race Tuesday night, defeating Republican Jack Ciattarelli in a contest that pro-life leaders decried as a setback for vulnerable unborn children.

With nearly all votes counted, Sherrill captured 53% of the vote to Ciattarelli’s 46%, according to projections. The victory extends Democratic control of the governor’s mansion for a third consecutive term — the first such streak for the party in New Jersey since 1961 — and positions Sherrill, a former Navy helicopter pilot and federal prosecutor, to succeed pro-abortion Gov. Phil Murphy in January.

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It’s near impossible to sugarcoat what happened here in New York last night. The city that never sleeps fell asleep at the wheel, electing a democratic socialist (communist), pro-“seizing the means of production”, anti-law enforcement, vile, American-loathing, pro-terror, radical Muslim, as its mayor.

 

And they did so just shy of a quarter of a century after the worst terrorist attack on American soil.

Many of us outside the fanatical left-wing mindhive in the city are looking at the election results, convinced that Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s ascension is a suicidal blow to the Empire City.

That said, Republicans have no choice but to pick up the shattered pieces from last night’s election results and somehow find a silver lining. That is, to make the sacrifice of New York City (a queen’s sacrifice in chess) into a victory for the nation as a whole.

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In a New York minute….

CNN’s Van Jones was not a fan of Zohran Mamdani’s angry, far-left, rage-filled victory speech:

“I think he missed an opportunity. I think the Mamdani that we saw in the campaign trail, who was a lot more calm, who was a lot warmer, who was a lot more embracing, was not present in that speech. And I think that Mamdani is the one you need to hear from tonight. There are a lot of people trying to figure out, can I get on this train with him or not? Is he going to include me? Is he going — is he — is he going to be more of a class warrior even in office? I think he missed a chance tonight to to open up and bring more people into the tent. I think his tone was sharp. I think he was using the microphone in a way that he was almost yelling. And that’s not the Mamdani that we’ve seen on Tiktok and the great interviews and stuff like that.”

“So, I felt like it was a little bit of a character switch here, where the warm, open, embracing guy that’s close to working people was not on stage tonight. And there were some some other voice on stage. That said, he’s very young. And he just pulled off something very, very difficult. And I wouldn’t write him off, but I think he missed an opportunity to open himself up tonight. And I think that that will probably cost him going forward.”

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The mayoral election in New York City is about to spark the strangest American political dynamic since the mid-19th century. Socialist Zohran Mamdani’s victory Tuesday has put the Democrats in the unenviable position of having to decide what their party is, and how it moves forward into the 2026 midterm election cycle.

By virtue of Mamdani’s election and campaign endorsements by high-profile Democrats, he is now the putative leader of his party. This gives Republicans the opportunity to demand that their opponents in every local, state and federal race explain whether they embrace or denounce Mamdani’s socialist ideology, which now defines Democratic Party. This situation is far more perilous for Democrats than the identity crises they faced after Richard Nixon’s defeat of Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 election and Nixon’s shellacking of George McGovern four years later. The party’s socialist ideological and policy schisms are growing deeper and wider, creating the same conundrum faced by the Whig Party in the years before the Civil War.

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As our Managing Editor Jennifer Van Laar reported, California voters approved Prop 50, Gavin Newsom’s gerrymandering scam that essentially tossed out the maps drawn by the constitutionally-mandated independent redistricting commission in favor of maps drawn by the California Democrat Party. The goal: to get rid of five Republican-held seats in the House of Representatives.

 

There was only one issue on the ballot in California this Election Day: Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Election Rigging Act, Proposition 50, which throws out the maps the state constitution-mandated independent redistricting commission spent a year drawing and replaces them with maps paid for by the DCCC and drawn by an extreme partisan with the purpose of disenfranchising Republicans.

Although polls closed only 30 minutes ago, and although people are still voting at some vote centers, the race has already been called – Newsom now can brag that California has voter-approved gerrymandering that could decimate the state’s Republican congressional delegation.

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A Florida couple is fighting to regain custody of their twin boys after the state falsely accused them of child abuse.

Michael and Tasha Patterson’s ordeal began in October 2022 when the parents took their premature twins to Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in Hollywood, Florida. Hospital staff found that the twins had suffered several injuries, including rib fractures.

 

The Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) took custody of the twins and Michael’s eight-year-old son.

Yet, multiple doctors found that the twins had Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a genetic disorder that causes easy bruising, dislocations, and an increased risk of bone fractures. Dr. Michael Holick, a renowned expert in metabolic bone disorders, examined Tasha and found that she had the same condition, which means she likely passed it on to the twins.

He concluded that it was most likely the twins inherited this condition from me… which affects bones, blood vessels, cartilage, muscles, everything,” Tasha told Townhall in a previous article.

You can read the original report here.

Nevertheless, the courts ruled against the couple. Judge Stacey Schulman did not allow the conclusions of the other doctors to be included in the court proceedings. “She didn’t allow us to bring in everything that we had. She only allowed us to bring in limited evidence… So even when it was brought up that we had other doctors saying the same thing. She said no,” Tasha said.

However, more information has now emerged regarding a potential conflict of interest involving Judge Schulman. Patterson and her attorney discovered through public filings that the judge’s family foundation donated at least $4,000 to ChildNet—the lead agency pushing for the removal and permanent adoption of the Pattersons’ children.

Moreover, Schulman never disclosed the donation, which was made in 2019, at any point before or during the proceedings, according to a motion filed by the Pattersons’ attorney.

 

ChildNet is a private, nonprofit agency contracted with DCF to manage foster care, adoption, and child welfare services in Broward and Palm Beach counties. It is responsible for handling child protection cases, which include placement, supervision, and determining whether to reunify parents with their children or to pursue adoption by other families. The agency wields tremendous influence in court proceedings as its recommendations carry weight with judges.

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People who say things like this should not be taken seriously. They deserve to be mocked.

While studying at one of the “top” higher education institutions in the U.S., a new author recalls how he was described as “ideologically violent” for arguing in favor of standardized testing.

This incident and other concerns about diversity, equity, and inclusion in education inspired him to write a book.

His book “Unbalanced: Memoir of an Immigrant Math Teacher,” written under the pen name “Yellow Heights,” raises concerns about the ideologically-driven focus of higher education.

“Unbalanced” was released on Amazon and recently won a Maxy Award, an honor for indie a

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Not that anyone should count on congressional Republicans to take a win when it’s presented on a gold-plated platter, but with each passing second, their position on this stupid, Democrat-driven government “shut down” only grows stronger.

Food stamp recipients aren’t getting their supplements, and air traffic controllers aren’t getting paid. Neither are thousands of other government workers. It’s not because President Trump and his Republican allies are causing a holdup. They’ve voted to continue current government funding levels. It’s because Democrats are demanding that middle-aged people (which is to say, working-aged) get to have cheap or free health insurance.

Seriously, that’s what Democrats are fighting for. According to 2023 data cited by the health policy organization KFF, the average age of a “nonelderly” Obamacare enrollee is 40 years old. Even if elderly Americans were included in that stat, it wouldn’t make a difference. Most are eligible for Medicare when they turn 65, and Obamacare was designed to extend health care benefits to individuals younger than that

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There’s no sugar-coating it: Sanity had a bad night Tuesday. Democrats, energized by having President Donald Trump to rail against, turned out at the polls and brought some radical candidates across the finish line in key races across the country.

Just a brief recap: Muslim democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won the New York mayor’s race. Abigail Spanberger won the Virginia governor’s race. Mikie Sherrill won the New Jersey governor’s race. Even Jay Jones, the Democrat who infamously fantasized about the deaths of Republicans’ children, prevailed in the Virginia attorney general’s race.

This doesn’t necessarily bode ill for Republicans in the midterms next year, but it does disappoint those of us who expected better from our fellow Americans.

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The third time wasn’t the charm for Republican businessman and former New Jersey lawmaker Jack Ciattarelli in Tuesday’s race for the Garden State’s next governor. And Virginia didn’t elect its first black governor — a woman at that.

New Jersey and Virginia remain squarely in the blue state column.

But Tuesday’s election, contrary to the left and their corporate media partners, wasn’t an early verdict on Republican President Donald Trump or a bellwether of next year’s midterms.

The Democratic National Committee proclaimed far-left Abigail Spanberger’s victory over Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears in Virginia’s race for governor “another sign that voters are rejecting Donald Trump and his Republican allies’ extreme agenda that is raising health care and utility costs and destroying jobs.”

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“If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,” he wrote. “I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action.”

Trump added, in his signature style, “I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians! WARNING: THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT BETTER MOVE FAST!”

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth responded beneath the post: “Yes sir.” Trump elaborated on his post Sunday, stating, “They’re killing record numbers of Christians in Nigeria. They’re killing the Christians and killing them in very large numbers. We’re not going to allow that to happen.”

Predictably, the mainstream press pivoted immediately to trotting out a claim they have been making for years: That there is no targeted mass killing of Christians in Nigeria, and that there is certainly no genocide underway. The BBC led their coverage by stating that “claims of a genocide against Nigeria’s Christians have been circulating in recent weeks and months in some right-wing U.S. circles.”

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A federal judge has ruled that the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) must provide sex change procedures to a convicted pedophile who recently began identifying as transgender.

Brian Buckingham, 47, is serving more than 21 years in prison for sexually abusing his 10-year-old son and producing child sex abuse images. Shortly before sentencing, Buckingham began identifying as “Nani Love” and claimed to be female, Reduxx reported.

In court filings, Buckingham claimed that being unable to access previously provided “gender-affirming” treatments, like hormone therapy, had worsened his depression and suicidal thoughts, The Post Millennial reported. Attorneys for Buckingham argued the sex change procedures were “medically necessary” to treat gender dysphoria and that denying Buckingham access to them is a violation of his Eighth Amendment rights.

Magistrate Judge David Christel ruled in September that Buckingham is “likely to succeed” on his claim that the BOP’s denial of sex change procedures is cruel and unusual punishment. In his ruling, Christel cited evidence that the BOP first acknowledged Buckingham’s requests for sex change procedures but then “discontinued them without reason.”

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There are numerous incidents of voter suppression, voter fraud, intimidation and other election crimes.

The RNC joins lawsuit to BLOCK the counting of suspected illegal mail-in ballots.

New Jersey: Bomb Threats in Republican Polling Sites Force Relocations

Chester County where so many voters were forced to leave

People need to be arrested.

RNC joins lawsuit to BLOCK the counting of suspected illegal mail-in ballots in Bergen County, NJ.

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In Virginia tonight, it was a clean, blue sweep.

Former Democrat Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger was elected Governor.

Jay Jones — who fantasized about murdering a Republican official and his children — was elected Attorney-General.

And now, another Democrat has been elected as Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor.

Ghazala Hashmi has now become the first Muslim woman to be elected to statewide office in our nation.

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New Jersey: Bomb Threats in Republican Polling Sites Force Relocations Of Seven Sites

“Politically motivated”

Always the Democrats. Always.

The lie, cheat, steal and if all else fails….. bomb.

In three RED districts in Cumberland County, New Jersey, the machines are down.

On the phone w/ legal right now.

Bomb threats forced relocations of seven NJ polling sites Tuesday morning
🚨Toms River, Woodbridge, and Lake Como schools were targeted as voting began
🚨The email making one threat said it was ‘politically motivated’

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Following their significant losses in the 2024 presidential election, Democrats were jubilant when election results came in for their candidates in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York City late Tuesday. On the other hand, Republicans admitted defeat in the most high-stakes races this year.

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Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy reflected on the loss in a short video, advising his fellow Republicans to focus on lowering costs for Americans’ utility bills and groceries, among other areas. Also, President Donald Trump claimed Republicans lost because he wasn’t on the ballot this year.

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It’s officially the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, and about a dozen Democrats are itching to find a way out.

But after Democrats’ sweeping victories Tuesday night, their colleagues are waking up this morning and wondering: Are we really going to cave now?

The big wins in Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and elsewhere stand to complicate efforts to reopen the government. It’s hard to see most Democrats wanting to temper their momentum immediately after witnessing a massive voter backlash to President Donald Trump and Republicans.

“Tonight’s results are a repudiation of the Trump agenda,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement that called it “a good night for Democrats and our fight to lower costs, improve healthcare, and reach a better future for American families.”

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For Democrats, Tuesday night felt like 2017 all over again.

All across the country, Democrats won big, from the marquee races to the down-ballot contests. Counties that had shifted right a year ago veered back to the left, and the suburbs that powered Democrats’ massive wins in the first Trump administration came roaring back. Exit polls even showed Democrats improved their margins with non-college educated voters.

The strength of the wins hints at Democrats’ appetite to take on Trump as he ends his first year in office and voters’ concerns about cost of living.

Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill cruised to double-digit victories in Virginia and New Jersey. Two Georgia Democrats flipped seats on the state’s Public Service Commission, the first non-federal statewide wins for a Democrat in nearly two decades. Democrats flipped a pair of Republican-held state Senate seats in Mississippi, cracking the GOP supermajority in a deep-red state. And a successful California ballot measure delivered five additional seats for the party’s House margins ahead of the 2026 midterms, offsetting Texas’ redistricting push.

It was an injection of life into a depleted, depressed Democratic Party that had been cast into the political wilderness by Donald Trump’s decisive victory a year ago. Democrats, locked out of power in Washington, have spent the last year soul-searching and data-digging, as their brand sagged to historic lows.

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Tokyo – Japan’s Defense Ministry sent troops on Wednesday to the northern prefecture of Akita to help contain a surge of bear attacks that have horrified residents in the mountainous region.

Bears have shown up near schools, train stations, supermarkets and even a hot springs resort, with attacks by the animals reported almost daily across Japan, mostly in the north.

Since April, more than 100 people have been injured and at least 12 killed in bear attacks across Japan, according to Environment Ministry statistics at the end of October. That is the highest number of people killed by the animals in the country in one fiscal year since 2006, when the ministry started compiling the statistics.