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Sometimes it’s just that simple. Trust and obey! - Pastor Jimmy
West Coast Bible Study · WCBS
The study explored Psalm 133, focusing on the joy and importance of unity among believers. The net control explained that sin is the primary cause of division and strife, referencing Genesis 3 and Proverbs 22:10. Unity is restored when sin is dealt with through repentance and the work of Christ, leading to peace and reconciliation among God's people.
Participants discussed the metaphors in the psalm, specifically the precious oil on Aaron's head and the dew of Hermon. The oil symbolized the Holy Spirit flowing over the twelve tribes, representing a unified people despite their diversity. The dew of Hermon was explained as the life-giving rain that covers the land, symbolizing the common spirit of unity that gives life to the nation of Israel.
The group also examined practical applications of unity, citing Genesis 13:8 where Abraham offers peace to Lot, and Hebrews 13:1 regarding brotherly love. They emphasized the need for outwardness, humility, and forbearance, distinguishing between sin that must be addressed and personal differences that require patience. The study concluded with a reflection on the various circles of unity, from national to familial, and the call to live peaceably with all men.
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Clallam County Watchdog
Clallam County's draft Comprehensive Plan update would adopt, nearly word for word, the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe's own statement that it "will continue to reacquire land" across its federally approved Land Consolidation Area, the Watchdog reports after reading the 567-page draft ordinance, the two-volume Hazard Mitigation Plan and the county's Public Engagement Report. The piece set out to test Ron Richard's claim to the commissioners that parts of the plan read as if the Tribe wrote them.
The route is one sentence. Policy 8.6 in the new climate chapter adopts the 2025 Hazard Mitigation Plan "by this reference" and makes it part of the Land Use Element, which pulls in more than 2,100 pages, tribal annex included. Each government in that FEMA plan writes its own annex. The Tribe's July 2024 worksheet said "our Land Consolidation Plan"; the annex now says "the Tribe's," adds that its goal is to move land from fee status to trust, and defines its service area as all of Clallam County. Some first-person passages ("we," "our," "us") survived. The Watchdog says annexes like this are normal; the problem is adopting it into county land-use policy with no note that it is the Tribe's statement, not the county's.
Tribal emails also changed policy directly. An April 1, 2026 email from the Tribe's transportation manager led the Planning Commission to adopt changes "by concurrence": Policy 15, which kept commercial development on trust land near Diamond Point Road from justifying commercial zoning next door, is replaced with a promise to "work with the Tribe"; all of Blyn Policy 4, on police and fire demands from tribal development, is deleted. A December 2025 email led to striking the Highway 101 overpass language tied to casino traffic. Two more deletions, a casino-sprawl policy and a line noting the county has no authority over tribal land use, came with no named requester.
The article credits the county's outreach: a 464-response survey, five workshops in July 2025, library binders and a Planning Commission hearing continued ten times. But automatic email notices to subscribers were broken until March 4, 2026, and the hazard plan's steering committee saw drafts before the public.
The sharpest point is the county's own words. On October 27, 2026, Commissioners French, Johnson and Ozias signed a letter asking the Bureau of Indian Affairs to deny a 9.6-acre Fish Hatchery Road trust application, saying trust transfers erode the tax base and zoning and that nearly 70 percent of the county is already tax-exempt public land. None of that analysis is in the plan. A 2025 Charter Review amendment to require such standards failed 4–7, though the commission later recommended the Board adopt procedures.
Comments are still accepted through the commissioners' hearing. The Watchdog suggests writing Community Development Director Bruce Emery and Clerk of the Board Loni Gores, asking the county to restore the deleted policies or explain them, label annexes as not county policy, put the BIA letter's analysis in the plan, adopt fee-to-trust response standards and publish every change made at another government's request.
Source: ccwatchdog.com
Letters from an American
Heather Cox Richardson’s Veterans Day letter starts with history: the holiday began as Armistice Day, marking the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, and Congress renamed it Veterans Day in 1954 after World War II and Korea. President Eisenhower, himself a five-star general, asked Americans to remember the sacrifices of those who fought and to recommit to “promoting an enduring peace.”
She then contrasts that tradition with this year’s observances. At Arlington National Cemetery, President Trump broke with the custom of a nonpartisan speech, closing with a defense of the war on Iran and a celebration of the Venezuela operation that put its oil fields under U.S. control: “We’re taking out billions and billions of dollars of oil… To the victor belong the spoils.” MeidasNews reported that the president also used a Veterans Day greeting to launch a “Presidential Fundraising Blitz,” telling supporters the MAGA movement “took a blow” in the midterms and asking for sustaining contributions.
After the ceremony, CNN reported, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, his wife and senior aides were chatting and laughing during photos at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, where visitors are expected to stay silent. The Old Guard sentinel stopped his patrol to call out, “All visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times.”
Richardson notes competing ideas of how to honor veterans. Trump said the 250-foot triumphal arch he wants between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington is for veterans, even though Vietnam veterans are among those suing to stop it. New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani instead urged confronting veterans’ homelessness, isolation and deportation threats.
The core of the letter is ProPublica reporter Eric Umansky’s investigation of the Department of Veterans Affairs. The VA serves about 9 million veterans with what amounts to government-run medicine, and despite scandals and short staffing it generally gets better outcomes than private care. Richardson says the right has long sought to push veterans into private care. Under Trump and VA Secretary Doug Collins, after backlash to sweeping cuts, the administration has instead made working conditions hard enough that staff leave: canceled union contracts, return-to-office orders for buildings that could not hold them, weekly accomplishment reports and buyouts. The VA lost 3,800 doctors, nurses and mission-critical staff in the first six months, Collins set caps aimed at cutting 30,000 jobs in September 2025, and the VA’s watchdog says 97% of VA hospitals report severe doctor shortages. Veterans are steered to Community Care providers whose waits can run for months, with the VA acting more like an insurer.
Richardson sets that against the 1944–45 G.I. Bill. Democrats, fearing 15 million returning soldiers would bring back the Depression, pushed unemployment, education and loan benefits. Republicans called it welfare at first but came around because opposing veterans was politically impossible. Jobs proved plentiful, so the education and housing provisions mattered most: 7.8 million veterans went back to school, producing hundreds of thousands of engineers, teachers, scientists, medical professionals and accountants, and four million bought homes, fueling the postwar boom and the baby-boom economy.
She acknowledges the bill’s failures. Its benefits went mostly to white men, because segregated colleges, underfunded HBCUs, local VA offices and redlining banks shut out Black and Brown veterans. Still, she concludes, no law did more to show that investing in Americans pays off. It echoed the original Republicans, who opened national homes for disabled soldiers on March 3, 1865, the day before Lincoln urged the nation “to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan.”
The Verge
Nvidia's board is preparing to dismiss CEO Jensen Huang following a report from The New York Times about a second alleged extramarital affair , just days after he admitted to a separate affair with a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy, The Wall Street Journal reports . The second alleged affair was with an executive who reports to him, Nvidia's vice president of health care, Kimberly Powell, according to the Times .
The Nvidia board will meet as soon as today to decide on Huang's future at the company, according to the Journal . Nvidia did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Verge .
Huang and Powell, who are both marrie…
Source: The Verge
9to5Mac
Crypto exchange Binance has warned iPhone users about an iOS vulnerability that could allow malicious apps to access sensitive data stored by other apps. Here are the details.
Source: 9to5Mac
Clallamity Jen
Hang in there — It’s not over!
Today’s new number: 9,261
That’s the number of uncounted accepted ballots in Clallam County that can still make a difference in some of the local races, including the District 3 commissioner race between Jake Seegers and Mike French, now separated by 2,986 ballots.
54% of ballots have been counted, an increase of 6% from Monday. And now Clallam is no longer in second place in my Top 5 ranking.
Top 5 Counties with Uncounted Accepted Ballots as of 11/10/26:
1. King = 21,842
2. Stevens = 10,393
3. Walla Walla = 9,940
4. Clallam = 9,261
5. Thurston = 9,039
Stevens moved up from fifth place to second; Walla Walla moved up from fourth place to third; Clallam is now in fourth place with Thurston coming in fifth.
That’s a great improvement for Clallam County. My video contains insight into the reason why the counting is going so slowly out here. It’s not a manpower issue. It’s a not-enough-room issue. And it’s not a reflection on the staff doing the work. It’s a reflection on the commissioners who have the power to improve the situation. Gayle is petitioning the commissioners to find elections a larger space; message her on Substack here to add your voice to cause.
Challenged ballots have gone up to 339. Please check your ballot status here or here. Certification is on November 24th and ballots are accepted until November 23rd.
Here’s my latest video going over the numbers, including a look at updated data on the West End Voter website, the locations of the official ballot boxes in the county, and the latest pay vouchers for emptying ballot boxes from the November 10th commissioners meeting.
Resource Links:
* West End Voter data website: An independent, nonpartisan look at ballot returns, counting progress and precinct-level results, focused on the West End of Clallam County, Washington.
* Clallam County Meetings Agendas & Minutes (where to find all county meeting events, including Board of Commissioner meetings, along with agendas, minutes, and videos of past meetings)
* Clallam County Elections & Voter Registration (includes Auditor contact information and elections center livestream link)
* Clallam County 2026 November General Election (includes information about resolving challenged signatures)
* Clallam County Unofficial Results Election Statistics (updated once a day around 5pm)
* Clallam County Ballot Box Locations (Google map)
* Washington State Ballot Return Statistics (updated once a day around 5pm)
* Clallam County Register of Warrants (pay vouchers from 11/10/26 commissioners meeting agenda)
Counting will resume on Thursday the 12th, after a day off on Wednesday for Veterans’ Day.
Have a great day, everyone!
Clallamity Jen
Source: clallamityjen.substack.com
Brian Roemmele Report
Brian Roemmele ties a 1950s Cambridge habit to a 2026 AI-built chemistry program to argue that checking, not typing, is now the craft.
In the early 1950s chemist Frank Boys had one night a week on EDSAC, an early stored-program computer with about half a kilobyte of memory. He still required every published calculation to be run a second time, separately and often much later, and he trusted only exact agreement. Boys also left a bigger legacy: his 1950 Royal Society paper showed that the product of two bell curves is another bell curve, which made chemistry's hardest integrals solvable. Nearly every quantum chemistry program today runs on those "Gaussians." He never became a professor.
In April 2026 Bonn computational chemist Michael Peintinger started directing AI coding agents to build a full quantum chemistry package from a blank repository. The first comprehensive version, vibe-qc, was ready in about ten weeks, handles molecules and crystals, is open source, and was published in the Journal of Computational Chemistry on October 27; the University of Bonn announced it November 10. Programs like this have historically taken expert teams years.
The agents made mistakes. On day one the AI tried to treat lithium's three electrons with a method that assumes electrons come in pairs, which Peintinger caught by counting. Subtler errors only appeared when vibe-qc's answers were compared with an independently written program, so he made that comparison the gate for every method and calls the validation set a key contribution. On basic molecular energies vibe-qc matches independent codes to within billionths of a unit. "The steering was mine. The typing was not," he wrote.
Roemmele's point is that Boys's rule came back around: run it twice by an independent path and believe only what agrees. The long post then walks through Boys's Gaussian trick, the 1956 hydrogen trio that settled a reaction-barrier dispute, the mail-order era of punched-card chemistry codes, and a home build that computes the hydrogen molecule from scratch and cross-checks it against PySCF. He adds a prompt that turns a coding agent into a self-checking night shift, and he lists his sources, noting what he read in full and what he could not obtain.
Source: brianroemmele.substack.com
Clallam County Watchdog
Clallam County Watchdog says the Department of Natural Resources' draft Elwha Watershed Study recommends taking about 2,180 acres of working state trust timber out of production, and that its 171 pages never count what that would cost the local districts that live on timber receipts. Public comment on the draft closes at 11:59 p.m. on Friday, November 13, 2026, at wadnr.commentinput.com.
The study answers a $250,000 proviso in the Legislature's 2025 capital budget. DNR was told to inventory ecological and conservation values on the land it manages in the Elwha watershed and identify acres that might become a Natural Area Preserve or a Natural Resource Conservation Area. The Watchdog's point is that nobody asked it to measure what the trust beneficiaries would lose, and the draft does not.
DNR manages about 7,700 acres of trust land in the Elwha, roughly 4 percent of the watershed. About 2,130 acres are Common School Trust, which helps pay for K-12 school construction statewide. About 5,570 acres are State Forest Transfer land managed for Clallam County and the junior taxing districts where the trees stand. The draft itself names the Elwha beneficiaries: County Roads, the Port of Port Angeles, the North Olympic Library District, Hospital District 2 (Olympic Medical), Crescent School District and Fire District 4. It also recites DNR's trustee duty to generate revenue and act with undivided loyalty to those beneficiaries, mainly through sustainable timber harvest.
The Washington Natural Heritage Program wants a new "Elwha Hills Natural Area" of about 2,364 acres in four units: Eden Valley (113 acres, preserve), Dan Kelly Ridge (799 acres, conservation area), Joyce Ridge (1,035 acres, preserve) and Whiskey Creek (417 acres, preserve). About 2,180 of those acres are DNR trust land, roughly 28 percent of what DNR manages in the watershed. Preserves generally bar recreation, and that is the proposed status for about 1,565 acres; mountain biking on the conservation area would be decided only after designation. The draft does document real species, including Taylor's checkerspot butterfly, marbled murrelet, northern spotted owl, rare plants and lichens, a state-endangered grassland and a state-threatened dry-forest type. The Watchdog grants that, but argues science can describe a hillside without excusing a missing bill.
The money is real. The county treasurer's 2024 Tax and Timber Report shows DNR timber distributions of $10,029,286.98 countywide in 2023. The six Elwha beneficiaries got $2,358,128.61 that year: County Roads $1,015,535.24, the library district $382,725.61, Crescent schools $315,089.73, Hospital District 2 $310,628.45, Fire District 4 $194,657.73 and the Port $139,491.85. From 2018 to 2023, countywide distributions averaged about $5.92 million a year, and DNR's 2025 fourth-quarter report showed $9,551,558 accrued for the county in 2025 with another $11.49 million under contract. The piece is careful that these are countywide figures, that Elwha transfer land is about 6 percent of the county's transfer base, and that DNR never says how many of the 2,180 acres are county transfer land versus school trust. Its complaint is that DNR declined to estimate lost board feet, stumpage or levy support, so nobody can put an honest dollar figure on the proposal. Once designated and acquired, those acres stop producing timber checks, and a Trust Land Transfer payment would be a one-time appropriation rather than a renewable stream.
Jobs are the other half. A 2024 Port of Port Angeles presentation cited 1,904 timber-dependent jobs in Clallam in 2023, about $117 million in labor income, including 878 direct jobs averaging $84,331. The Forks Forum reported that the August 2024 McKinley Mill closure cost nearly 500 direct and indirect jobs. DNR's public survey drew more than 1,200 responses, 44 percent from mountain bikers, with trust beneficiaries and junior taxing districts each under 1.5 percent.
The report covers only the first three of seven steps. Next come a recommendation to the Natural Heritage Advisory Council, a Clallam County public meeting and a decision by Commissioner of Public Lands Dave Upthegrove, followed by applications for Trust Land Transfer or state wildlife and recreation grants to buy the land from the trusts "if funds are awarded." The Watchdog notes that an August 2026 advocacy report from Earth Economics, the Elwha Legacy Forests Coalition and allied groups sought a much larger lockup, that the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe got an exclusive two-week preview from October 16 to November 2, and that the posted draft's tribal and public comment sections are still blank. About 41 percent of the proposed boundary, 1,233 acres, sits outside the Elwha watershed the Legislature asked about, and part of Whiskey Creek has not been surveyed. The recommendation goes to the Legislature by December 1, and the Watchdog urges readers to comment before Friday night that the economic chapter is missing.
Source: ccwatchdog.com
Christian Warrior Training
On Sunday morning, November 8, a man stood on the lawn of Genesis Metro Church in Frisco, Texas, shouting while holding an AR-style rifle after a fight with a protester over a sign. Church safety team members walked up and argued with him while the rifle was in his hands. No shots were fired and no one was hurt. The protester, a former 12-year member with a dispute with church leadership, told Christian Warrior Training on November 10 that police arrested the man for disorderly conduct. Police, the church and local news had said nothing publicly.
The account rests on 15 seconds of the protester's own phone video and a CWT interview. He says he stood on the public sidewalk with a sign reading "This Church SUCKS.com" after the church had police give him a criminal trespass warning. A man he did not know grabbed the sign and carried it onto church property; the protester says he took him to the ground, got the sign back, and the man returned from his truck with a rifle asking "What about now?" The video shows the man holding the rifle muzzle-down, people within arm's reach, voices saying "Put the gun away," and an off-duty officer approaching. The charge was not aggravated assault because the rifle was never raised, the protester said, and a detective will decide whether he faces trespass for stepping onto the grass to read the plate.
CWT's lessons for church safety teams: a protester on a public sidewalk has a First Amendment right to be there, so the team's real job is often protecting the protester from angry members. Tell the congregation to walk past and say nothing, and learn your state's trespass law before you need it. Problems start in the parking lot, so a lot team should spot an agitated member and walk him inside before words fly. Once a gun is out, de-escalation is over: evacuate people away from doors and windows, have one person call 911, and let police handle it. Radio calls should describe the person holding the weapon first, not name someone standing nearby, since "gun over by Mike" sent responders toward the wrong man. Teams should also read what a protester has posted; this one had told the pastor by name, "I'll be seeing you soon." The post closes on Romans 12: a church cannot control a protester, only how its own people respond. Paid subscribers get tabletop and walk-through scenarios.
Source: christianwarriortraining.com
Cliff Mass Weather Blog · Tue Nov 10, 2026 · 9:53 PM PT
There is a deep connection between meteorology and religion, and there are times when one wonders about divine intervention in our weather.
This is such a time.
Last year brought low snowpack for most of the West.
Some were worried about water shortages and poor crops.
But well-timed rain and substantial reservoir storage saved the day, with agriculture doing well and sufficient water available for human consumption.
Divine intervention?
This fall started out relatively dry, and some folks were worried, including a certain local newspaper.
But again, higher powers intervened. During the past 72 hours, there have been substantial amounts of precipitation over the region (see below)
Local reservoirs are refilling, including some low ones on the Olympic Peninsula (such as Wynoochee Lake below)
For example, California, the source of many of our fruits and vegetables.
Well-timed rainfall last year filled the reservoirs, but snowpack was low. As a result, some of the big reservoirs are now below normal, such as Shasta and Oroville (see below).
Fortunately, the current forecasts promise significant intervention, with massive amounts of precipitation over the Golden State during the next ten days (see below). Remarkable.
Vancouver's reservoirs are quite low.
Fortunately, impressive amounts of precipitation are forecast for southwestern BC through next Monday morning
The water situation is rapidly improving on the West Coast. The forecasts are highly promising.
There is only one thing to say about it:
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Source: Cliff Mass Weather Blog
Cliff Mass Weather Blog · Sun Nov 8, 2026 · 6:12 PM PT
Yesterday, a strong front, associated with strong winds gusting to 40 mph or more, moved through the region, resulting in numerous power outages.
As I will describe below, numerical weather models predicted this event with great skill, something we could not have done 20 years ago.
This is a triumph of modern weather prediction technology.
Let me demonstrate this to you.
Below is the radar image around 4 PM Saturday, based on the radar observations from the Langley Hill radar near Hoquium. An intense radar return was apparent offshore (the thin yellow and red line, indicated by the red arrow). This is the front.
Fronts associated with a narrow, cold frontal rainband were first described by UW researchers, such as Professor Peter Hobbs and associates.
Even more impressive is a video of the cold front approaching the coast (from a wonderful phone app called RadarScope).
Here is a forecast of a simulated radar image, made 24 hours (from 4 PM) before the event is shown below. It was made by the UW WRF model run by my group.
Almost perfect. Very strong simulated front.
A forecast made on Thursday evening, showing the strongest near-surface wind gusts, indicating strong winds over the region. Strong enough to worry about.
The winds for Seattle made for Seattle City Light as part of the UW WindWatch system were clearly accurate, showing the threat of strong wind (the black dots are the strongest observed with the city; the gray and colored lines indicate model forecasts)
The models were very, very clear.
There was a prediction of 30-45 mph winds over the city. And that means power outages, particularly early in the storm season.
Such an emphatic forecast by the models was the reason I blogged about it on Friday, making it clear that some would lose power.
In fact, over 100,000 customers lost power over western Washington last night (see below).
This kind of skillful forecasting occurs time and time again, based on highly skillful weather model forecasts.
Another reminder that it is no longer appropriate to make fun of forecasters and weather models. 😀
No longer appropriate
Source: Cliff Mass Weather Blog
Cliff Mass Weather Blog · Fri Nov 6, 2026 · 8:35 PM PT
Most weather fronts that cross the region are unremarkable due to their passage over the relatively warm, uniform waters of the northeast Pacific.
This weekend will be different: a SuperFront will make landfall late tomorrow (Saturday).
Some of you will lose power.
Let me show you simulated radar images for three times: 10 AM, 4 PM, and 9 PM on Saturday from the UW high-resolution forecast system (from the 4-km grid-spacing domain). Red indicates very strong winds, followed by yellow. The arrows point to the frontal locations.
The high-resolution 1.3 km simulation run by my group at the UW produced an even more intense front (forecast around 8 PM shown). Very impressive.
What about the predicted winds?
The City of Seattle supports the most high-tech wind prediction system in the country (called SeattleWindWatch, run at the UW), which includes an ensemble of many wind predictions for estimation of the uncertainties.
The forecast below is for the winds over Seattle. Several of the simulations predicted winds reaching 40 mph. Over the water, winds could be stronger,
Winds will rev up after dinnertime and peak overnight.
As noted above, wind will be strongest over the water (see forecast below for 4 AM). I suspect most of the power outages will be in such areas.
For the whole region, the strongest winds will be on the coast (see map of strongest wind gusts below). Importantly, there will be areas of intense gusts on the lee/downstream side of some of our highest terrain, including the eastern slopes of the Cascades.
In addition to wind, the front should bring substantial ( and welcome) precipitation to the region, with the total through 4 AM Sunday shown below
So, if you live west of the Cascades, get your meteorological popcorn out and be prepared for a dramatic meteorological show later tomorrow and early Sunday.
Source: Cliff Mass Weather Blog
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Your AI Guy · YouTube
Worth watching? Yes, for a detailed breakdown of the new model's benchmarks, pricing, and the strategic implications of its restricted release.
Source: Your AI Guy on YouTube
Substack
Channel: Your AI Guy Published: 2026-11-12T08:28:44+00:00
• Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 and a restricted version, Mythos 5.2, which shares the same underlying model but has fewer safeguards for vetted security and life science organizations. • Fable 5.2 tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of 65, surpassing Gemini 4 Carbon and Opus 5.5, while also leading on the Frontier Code 2.0 benchmark at 49.1%. • The model offers a 20% price reduction to $8 per million input tokens and 30% faster output speeds, though max-effort settings can increase per-task costs due to higher token usage. • Anthropic claims the model formalized a proof of Matt's Last Theorem in Lean in 30 hours and solved two open black hole physics problems during pre-release testing. • A 264-page safety report notes the model suspects it is being evaluated in 43% of transcripts and shows stronger covert capabilities, raising questions about real-world alignment. • The launch coincides with Anthropic's upcoming IPO, with the company aiming to signal strong growth and competitive positioning ahead of a potential $1.2–1.3 trillion valuation.
Worth watching? Yes, for a detailed breakdown of the new model's benchmarks, pricing, and the strategic implications of its restricted release.
Source: gmail.com
9to5Mac
In an update rolling out today, Gentler Streak is introducing new ways for users to track their wellbeing and personalize the app’s guidance based on how they feel. Here are the details.
Source: 9to5Mac
The Verge
Nvidia's board is preparing to dismiss CEO Jensen Huang following a report from The New York Times about a second alleged extramarital affair , just days after he admitted to a separate affair with a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy, The Wall Street Journal reports . The second alleged affair was with an executive who reports to him, Nvidia's vice president of health care, Kimberly Powell, according to the Times .
The Nvidia board will meet as soon as today to decide on Huang's future at the company, according to the Journal . Nvidia did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Verge .
Huang and Powell, who are both marrie…
Source: The Verge
The Verge
United says it won't let personal AI assistants book tickets on the airline, citing both privacy and regulatory concerns.
The company says it hasn't yet seen many people try to use AI agents to book their flights, The Wall Street Journal reports , in line with observations from other businesses like Doordash . But United is concerned that agents could expose customers' information or make purchases they didn't intend, and potentially skirt federal rules about the kind of information airlines need to share with customers - like having them attest that their bags don't have explosives.
While agents can still show users United flights, they…
Source: The Verge
MacRumors
Apple employee Eric Chen Su was arrested and charged with suspicion of gross vehicular manslaughter last week following a fatal collision near the intersection of North Tantau Avenue and Pruneridge Avenue, right next to the Apple Park Visitor Center, according to the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office and the San Francisco Chronicle .
Shortly after noon on Friday, Su was reportedly traveling between 90 and 100 miles per hour when he struck the back of a stopped vehicle occupied by a two-year-old girl and her babysitter, an adult woman. Both were seriously injured and transported to a nearby hospital, where tragically the child later died despite lifesaving efforts.
Su suffered minor injuries, according to authorities. His charges have since been upgraded to murder and assault with a deadly weapon.
Apple responded to the incident in a statement shared with MacRumors today.
"Our hearts are broken by the tragic accident that happened outside of Apple Park Visitor Center," an Apple spokesperson said. "Our thoughts are with all of those grieving, and we are grateful for the care and support of the first responders."
Apple did not immediately respond when asked if the…
Source: MacRumors
9to5Mac
Crypto exchange Binance has warned iPhone users about an iOS vulnerability that could allow malicious apps to access sensitive data stored by other apps. Here are the details.
Source: 9to5Mac
9to5Mac
Bloomberg reports that Apple has met with Thai government officials in the wake of its recent wave of iPhone alerts about mercenary spyware attacks. Here are the details.
Source: 9to5Mac
9to5Mac
Earlier this year, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Finances. The feature started on the mobile app and website, but it’s been missing from ChatGPT’s desktop app. Starting today. ChatGPT Finances is now available on the Mac as well.
Source: 9to5Mac
MacRumors
Google has announced that a dedicated Gemini app on Apple CarPlay is rolling out around the world in several languages starting today, allowing you to have conversations with the AI assistant right from your vehicle's dashboard.
Gemini conversations on your iPhone automatically sync to CarPlay, so you can continue a previous conversation or start a new one.
For example, you can ask Gemini to "Give me my daily brief for today" and it can give you a personalized answer based on your information in apps such as Gmail and Google Calendar. Or if you are driving around and looking for a restaurant, you could ask "What's a quick lunch spot in downtown Austin that's easy to get in and out of?"
To get started, make sure you have the latest version of the Gemini app on your iPhone. Then, tap on the Gemini icon on CarPlay to start a conversation.
CarPlay gained support for voice-based conversational AI apps starting with iOS 26.4. AI apps that have already rolled out CarPlay support include OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, X's Grok, Microsoft's Copilot, Perplexity, and others. iOS 27 also added Siri AI support to CarPlay, complete with a Siri app.
Gemini was already…
Source: MacRumors
The Verge
Gaming, social media, and e-commerce platforms are facing a fresh wave of sweeping European Union rules that aim to make "your online experience fairer." The newly proposed Digital Fairness Act (DFA) published by the EU Commission on Wednesday is designed to tackle practices that exploit consumers into spending more of their time and money online, including misleading prices or availability, addictive design features like gaming loot boxes, undisclosed influencer marketing, and more.
"The Act will protect consumers of all ages shopping and browsing for goods or services online," the EU Commission said in a news bulletin . "It will also mean…
Source: The Verge
The Verge
Toyota is dusting off the Scion badge for a radically different mission. Rather than targeting youth-market hatchbacks, "Scion by Toyota" is being positioned as an experimental mobility incubator - and its first vehicle is an authentic Japanese-style kei truck built in Indiana.
Kei vehicles, which are built to satisfy Japan's light vehicle regulations, are enjoying surging popularity around the world, including here in the US. More than 30,000 used kei trucks have been imported into the US since 2020, with roughly 7,500 units entering the country each year. Even President Trump is a fan , telling reporters last year that he authorized the De…
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Thursday Morning refresh (am-e2): NEW Daily Grind The Simplicity of Surrender (replaces Clean Hands and a Pure Heart); NEW 12 YouTube briefings (Gary Sinise on the foundation that works every day, Anthropic's Fable 5.2, Brandi Kruse on Seattle's crime cameras and the mayor, a farrier's Veterans Day thanks, Pax8's payphone prompt-injection CTF, We The Governed on the Washington Supreme Court and late rural ballots, Ari Fleischer on legislative purpose, Peter Diamandis on what AI cannot take, Google's Gemini 4 Carbon, and Alex Finn on the Hermes mobile app). Skipped: a banned Remnant field note, The Rundown AI on Jensen Huang, and the Smarter MSP lead-follow-up digest. Carried: Front lead Clallam County Watchdog on the draft Comprehensive Plan and Jamestown S’Klallam land-reacquisition language; Heather Cox Richardson’s Veterans Day letter; Roemmele on the 1950 Cambridge rule; Christian Warrior Training on the Frisco, Texas church rifle confrontation; Clallamity Jen 11/10/26 update; WCBS Psalm 133; election tracker on the Front (and at /election/). Robin shows Wednesday’s close. Standing sender bans kept.
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Brian Roemmele Report
Brian Roemmele ties a 1988 NASA idea to a new long-context language model and argues that the useful question is whether a model's working memory stays a fixed size as the text gets longer.
The 1988 idea is Pentti Kanerva's Sparse Distributed Memory, published that year by MIT Press from work at NASA Ames Research Center under contract NCC2-408. Kanerva wanted a memory that could take a long, slightly messy cue and still find what was stored, while the hardware stayed the same size. His design uses long binary addresses and builds only a sparse sample of possible locations, called hard locations. A write goes into every location within a set Hamming distance (the count of differing bits) of the cue. A read lets those nearby locations vote, so a close cue is enough. Kanerva's 1993 chapter shows the memory building a clean prototype from nine noisy copies of a pattern, and walking a stored sequence forward from a noisy cue. A February 1988 Stanford report, filed as NASA-CR-184554, describes a buildable prototype using ordinary dynamic RAM, 256-bit addresses and words, and 8K to 128K locations. The table of chips stays fixed and only the set of things it can recall grows.
The modern half is "Muir," a November 5, 2026 arXiv preprint (2611.08376) by Tushaar Gangavarapu of UT Austin and Google with Gil Tabak and Clemens JS Schaefer of Google. A standard Transformer keeps a key-value cache that grows with every token it reads, and at some length that cache is what runs out of memory. Linear-attention models instead compress what they have read into a fixed-size state. Muir builds on the Gated DeltaNet-2 line with three changes. It merges the erase and write gates into a thinner low-rank projection and spends the savings on a 30.4 percent wider feed-forward layer. It adds a "matched-filter readout" that re-weights the state so slow-fading channels, which the authors measured at more than 100 times the energy of fast ones, don't drown out faint traces from far back in the text. And it uses a chunked JAX kernel for stable training on TPUs.
The authors trained models from 166 million to 1.34 billion parameters on 100 billion FineWeb-Edu tokens with a 4,096-token training length. They report that the 1.34-billion model reads continuous 10,485,760-token streams, 2,560 times its training length, in a 25 MB float32 state with no perplexity drift. Roemmele checks the 25 MB against the architecture: 24 layers times 16 heads times a 128-by-128 state times 4 bytes is 25,165,824 bytes. By comparison, a same-shape Transformer's bfloat16 cache at that length would be about 2.06 TB, which the authors round to 2.1 TB. Muir also lowers perplexity 1.8 to 2.0 percent against GDN-2 and 2.5 to 3.6 percent against a same-size Transformer, and trains 2.74 times faster than the Transformer at 32,000 tokens.
He is careful about the labels. The paper is a preprint, not peer reviewed, and he found no public weights on GitHub or Hugging Face as of the morning of November 10. The flat 8.11 perplexity at 10 million tokens equals the score when the state is reset every 64,000 tokens, so on its own it doesn't prove the model uses the whole stream as one memory. The near-perfect passkey retrieval belongs to a static-readout variant (90.0 percent at 1 million tokens zero-shot, 99.4 percent after extra training). The full dynamic model finds the passkey 85.6 percent of the time at 32,000 tokens but only 12.5 percent at 1 million. He says the two variants should not be mixed into one headline.
The practical case is for people who run models at home or in a small shop, where a growing cache eventually pushes the job off the machine. A working state that stays the same size at 4,000 tokens and at 10 million changes that planning. Roemmele includes a small Python and NumPy script, "The Fixed Desk," that builds a toy sparse distributed memory and compares Muir's constant state with a Transformer cache at lengths up to 10 million tokens. On his machine the toy recovered a 12-bit-error cue with 4 errors and walked a six-step sequence exactly. He stresses that it doesn't run Muir.
He closes with a "Kanerva's Desk" SuperPrompt that keeps a short running list of key facts, open questions and pointers, erasing old facts before writing replacements. He also gives two checks before trusting any long-context claim. The first asks whether working memory grows with each page. The second hides a unique fact early in a long document and asks for it at the end. A not-financial-advice opportunity map follows.
Source: brianroemmele.substack.com
Brian Roemmele Report
Brian Roemmele ties a 1950s Cambridge habit to a 2026 AI-built chemistry program to argue that checking, not typing, is now the craft.
In the early 1950s chemist Frank Boys had one night a week on EDSAC, an early stored-program computer with about half a kilobyte of memory. He still required every published calculation to be run a second time, separately and often much later, and he trusted only exact agreement. Boys also left a bigger legacy: his 1950 Royal Society paper showed that the product of two bell curves is another bell curve, which made chemistry's hardest integrals solvable. Nearly every quantum chemistry program today runs on those "Gaussians." He never became a professor.
In April 2026 Bonn computational chemist Michael Peintinger started directing AI coding agents to build a full quantum chemistry package from a blank repository. The first comprehensive version, vibe-qc, was ready in about ten weeks, handles molecules and crystals, is open source, and was published in the Journal of Computational Chemistry on October 27; the University of Bonn announced it November 10. Programs like this have historically taken expert teams years.
The agents made mistakes. On day one the AI tried to treat lithium's three electrons with a method that assumes electrons come in pairs, which Peintinger caught by counting. Subtler errors only appeared when vibe-qc's answers were compared with an independently written program, so he made that comparison the gate for every method and calls the validation set a key contribution. On basic molecular energies vibe-qc matches independent codes to within billionths of a unit. "The steering was mine. The typing was not," he wrote.
Roemmele's point is that Boys's rule came back around: run it twice by an independent path and believe only what agrees. The long post then walks through Boys's Gaussian trick, the 1956 hydrogen trio that settled a reaction-barrier dispute, the mail-order era of punched-card chemistry codes, and a home build that computes the hydrogen molecule from scratch and cross-checks it against PySCF. He adds a prompt that turns a coding agent into a self-checking night shift, and he lists his sources, noting what he read in full and what he could not obtain.
Source: brianroemmele.substack.com
Letters from an American
Congress returned to Washington on Monday after what Heather Cox Richardson calls the "midterm earthquake." The membership is the same until January, she writes, but the national mood and the parties' momentum have shifted so much that it feels as if the country lived through a decade of change in a week.
As a sign of that change, Democrats say they will move the plaque honoring the officers who defended the Capitol on January 6, 2021, 250 of whom were injured, to a more prominent spot. Congress authorized the plaque, Speaker Mike Johnson refused to hang it, and Senate Republicans eventually put it on a basement wall. When Trump tried Monday morning to revive the claim that any election he loses is rigged, the story got little traction; Megyn Kelly answered, "Just stop."
Democrats are signaling they will move fast on affordability and accountability. Sixteen Democratic senators renewed their push to undo the Medicaid cuts in the July 2025 "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" and asked Finance Committee chair Mike Crapo and Majority Leader John Thune to delay the Medicaid work-reporting rules due January 1, 2027, arguing such requirements push eligible people off coverage without adding workers. New inflation figures came in hotter than expected; CNBC's Carl Quintanilla cited a Schwab estimate that consumer prices rose 12 percent from October 2025 to October 2026. Richardson blames tariffs, the Iran war and deportations. Senator Elizabeth Warren, expected to chair the Banking Committee, called Trump's economic agenda "a failure" and proposed a higher minimum wage and bans on congressional stock trading and "surveillance pricing." The Wall Street Journal reported that Democrats on several committees have asked Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft for records on ties to possibly corrupt administration schemes, including Trump's legacy projects, by January 4.
On Nvidia, Trump told reporters he had not known about CEO Jensen Huang's relationship with an alleged Chinese spy before inviting Huang aboard Air Force One to China in May. The New York Times reported instead that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had briefed him, at least the second time in seven months he was told. Political scientist Elizabeth Saunders tied the inaction to Judge Aileen Cannon's dismissal of Trump's classified-documents case.
Representative Thomas Massie filed eight articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth: three on War Powers Act violations in the Iran war, and others on ignoring civilian-casualty laws, extrajudicial killings of at least 221 people in boat strikes, retaliating against Senator Mark Kelly, seizing Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro and an unlawful war in Yemen. At his first press conference in about six months, Hegseth called the effort political and said everything he did was "ordered by the commander in chief." Vanity Fair reported that reporters were warned anyone who "gets out of line" would be removed, and he reportedly took questions only from right-wing outlets. That night every House Republican but Massie voted to refer the measure to the Judiciary Committee. Richardson argues that only ensures slower hearings under Democrats next year.
The administration is also rushing Washington legacy projects, including the triumphal arch, Lafayette Square, East Potomac Golf Links and the Tidal Basin. CNN reported that whistleblowers told Representative Jared Huffman that records are being destroyed. Interior called that "100% false," and Huffman sent preservation letters, saying "Everything is coming."
Richardson says MAGA Republicans are doubling down. Johnson said "voters made the wrong choice," and Senator Josh Hawley called for an hour-long Christian fast at the Capitol on December 15. Citing Jack Hopkins, she says Stephen Miller as chief of staff will amplify Trump's impulses where Susie Wiles managed them. After Trump floated amnesty for some immigrants on 60 Minutes, former Project 2025 director Paul Dans told Matt Gaetz on OAN to end the H-1B program and "let young white men take the wheel again." MAHA Action and Donald Trump Jr. defended Russell Brand after his 10½-year U.K. sentence for rape and sexual assault.
In other news: Attorney General Todd Blanche again said he might prosecute Democrats who promise accountability. An appeals court rejected the Justice Department's "overbroad" demand for 18 months of journalists' LinkedIn records. USDA revived a SNAP cut that would hit about 6.3 million people in fiscal 2029. The Justice Department joined Ken Paxton's lawsuit against Planned Parenthood. House Republicans chose Jim Jordan to lead their conference. Richardson closes with Trump's confusion of a press-secretary candidate named Dana White with the UFC promoter of the same name, and a rambling call to C-SPAN.
Letters from an American
Heather Cox Richardson’s Veterans Day letter starts with history: the holiday began as Armistice Day, marking the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, and Congress renamed it Veterans Day in 1954 after World War II and Korea. President Eisenhower, himself a five-star general, asked Americans to remember the sacrifices of those who fought and to recommit to “promoting an enduring peace.”
She then contrasts that tradition with this year’s observances. At Arlington National Cemetery, President Trump broke with the custom of a nonpartisan speech, closing with a defense of the war on Iran and a celebration of the Venezuela operation that put its oil fields under U.S. control: “We’re taking out billions and billions of dollars of oil… To the victor belong the spoils.” MeidasNews reported that the president also used a Veterans Day greeting to launch a “Presidential Fundraising Blitz,” telling supporters the MAGA movement “took a blow” in the midterms and asking for sustaining contributions.
After the ceremony, CNN reported, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, his wife and senior aides were chatting and laughing during photos at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, where visitors are expected to stay silent. The Old Guard sentinel stopped his patrol to call out, “All visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times.”
Richardson notes competing ideas of how to honor veterans. Trump said the 250-foot triumphal arch he wants between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington is for veterans, even though Vietnam veterans are among those suing to stop it. New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani instead urged confronting veterans’ homelessness, isolation and deportation threats.
The core of the letter is ProPublica reporter Eric Umansky’s investigation of the Department of Veterans Affairs. The VA serves about 9 million veterans with what amounts to government-run medicine, and despite scandals and short staffing it generally gets better outcomes than private care. Richardson says the right has long sought to push veterans into private care. Under Trump and VA Secretary Doug Collins, after backlash to sweeping cuts, the administration has instead made working conditions hard enough that staff leave: canceled union contracts, return-to-office orders for buildings that could not hold them, weekly accomplishment reports and buyouts. The VA lost 3,800 doctors, nurses and mission-critical staff in the first six months, Collins set caps aimed at cutting 30,000 jobs in September 2025, and the VA’s watchdog says 97% of VA hospitals report severe doctor shortages. Veterans are steered to Community Care providers whose waits can run for months, with the VA acting more like an insurer.
Richardson sets that against the 1944–45 G.I. Bill. Democrats, fearing 15 million returning soldiers would bring back the Depression, pushed unemployment, education and loan benefits. Republicans called it welfare at first but came around because opposing veterans was politically impossible. Jobs proved plentiful, so the education and housing provisions mattered most: 7.8 million veterans went back to school, producing hundreds of thousands of engineers, teachers, scientists, medical professionals and accountants, and four million bought homes, fueling the postwar boom and the baby-boom economy.
She acknowledges the bill’s failures. Its benefits went mostly to white men, because segregated colleges, underfunded HBCUs, local VA offices and redlining banks shut out Black and Brown veterans. Still, she concludes, no law did more to show that investing in Americans pays off. It echoed the original Republicans, who opened national homes for disabled soldiers on March 3, 1865, the day before Lincoln urged the nation “to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan.”
Christian Warrior Training
On Sunday morning, November 8, a man stood on the lawn of Genesis Metro Church in Frisco, Texas, shouting while holding an AR-style rifle after a fight with a protester over a sign. Church safety team members walked up and argued with him while the rifle was in his hands. No shots were fired and no one was hurt. The protester, a former 12-year member with a dispute with church leadership, told Christian Warrior Training on November 10 that police arrested the man for disorderly conduct. Police, the church and local news had said nothing publicly.
The account rests on 15 seconds of the protester's own phone video and a CWT interview. He says he stood on the public sidewalk with a sign reading "This Church SUCKS.com" after the church had police give him a criminal trespass warning. A man he did not know grabbed the sign and carried it onto church property; the protester says he took him to the ground, got the sign back, and the man returned from his truck with a rifle asking "What about now?" The video shows the man holding the rifle muzzle-down, people within arm's reach, voices saying "Put the gun away," and an off-duty officer approaching. The charge was not aggravated assault because the rifle was never raised, the protester said, and a detective will decide whether he faces trespass for stepping onto the grass to read the plate.
CWT's lessons for church safety teams: a protester on a public sidewalk has a First Amendment right to be there, so the team's real job is often protecting the protester from angry members. Tell the congregation to walk past and say nothing, and learn your state's trespass law before you need it. Problems start in the parking lot, so a lot team should spot an agitated member and walk him inside before words fly. Once a gun is out, de-escalation is over: evacuate people away from doors and windows, have one person call 911, and let police handle it. Radio calls should describe the person holding the weapon first, not name someone standing nearby, since "gun over by Mike" sent responders toward the wrong man. Teams should also read what a protester has posted; this one had told the pastor by name, "I'll be seeing you soon." The post closes on Romans 12: a church cannot control a protester, only how its own people respond. Paid subscribers get tabletop and walk-through scenarios.
Source: christianwarriortraining.com
Clallamity Jen
Hang in there — It’s not over!
Today’s new number: 9,261
That’s the number of uncounted accepted ballots in Clallam County that can still make a difference in some of the local races, including the District 3 commissioner race between Jake Seegers and Mike French, now separated by 2,986 ballots.
54% of ballots have been counted, an increase of 6% from Monday. And now Clallam is no longer in second place in my Top 5 ranking.
Top 5 Counties with Uncounted Accepted Ballots as of 11/10/26:
1. King = 21,842
2. Stevens = 10,393
3. Walla Walla = 9,940
4. Clallam = 9,261
5. Thurston = 9,039
Stevens moved up from fifth place to second; Walla Walla moved up from fourth place to third; Clallam is now in fourth place with Thurston coming in fifth.
That’s a great improvement for Clallam County. My video contains insight into the reason why the counting is going so slowly out here. It’s not a manpower issue. It’s a not-enough-room issue. And it’s not a reflection on the staff doing the work. It’s a reflection on the commissioners who have the power to improve the situation. Gayle is petitioning the commissioners to find elections a larger space; message her on Substack here to add your voice to cause.
Challenged ballots have gone up to 339. Please check your ballot status here or here. Certification is on November 24th and ballots are accepted until November 23rd.
Here’s my latest video going over the numbers, including a look at updated data on the West End Voter website, the locations of the official ballot boxes in the county, and the latest pay vouchers for emptying ballot boxes from the November 10th commissioners meeting.
Resource Links:
* West End Voter data website: An independent, nonpartisan look at ballot returns, counting progress and precinct-level results, focused on the West End of Clallam County, Washington.
* Clallam County Meetings Agendas & Minutes (where to find all county meeting events, including Board of Commissioner meetings, along with agendas, minutes, and videos of past meetings)
* Clallam County Elections & Voter Registration (includes Auditor contact information and elections center livestream link)
* Clallam County 2026 November General Election (includes information about resolving challenged signatures)
* Clallam County Unofficial Results Election Statistics (updated once a day around 5pm)
* Clallam County Ballot Box Locations (Google map)
* Washington State Ballot Return Statistics (updated once a day around 5pm)
* Clallam County Register of Warrants (pay vouchers from 11/10/26 commissioners meeting agenda)
Counting will resume on Thursday the 12th, after a day off on Wednesday for Veterans’ Day.
Have a great day, everyone!
Clallamity Jen
Source: clallamityjen.substack.com
Clallam County Watchdog
Clallam County's draft Comprehensive Plan update would adopt, nearly word for word, the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe's own statement that it "will continue to reacquire land" across its federally approved Land Consolidation Area, the Watchdog reports after reading the 567-page draft ordinance, the two-volume Hazard Mitigation Plan and the county's Public Engagement Report. The piece set out to test Ron Richard's claim to the commissioners that parts of the plan read as if the Tribe wrote them.
The route is one sentence. Policy 8.6 in the new climate chapter adopts the 2025 Hazard Mitigation Plan "by this reference" and makes it part of the Land Use Element, which pulls in more than 2,100 pages, tribal annex included. Each government in that FEMA plan writes its own annex. The Tribe's July 2024 worksheet said "our Land Consolidation Plan"; the annex now says "the Tribe's," adds that its goal is to move land from fee status to trust, and defines its service area as all of Clallam County. Some first-person passages ("we," "our," "us") survived. The Watchdog says annexes like this are normal; the problem is adopting it into county land-use policy with no note that it is the Tribe's statement, not the county's.
Tribal emails also changed policy directly. An April 1, 2026 email from the Tribe's transportation manager led the Planning Commission to adopt changes "by concurrence": Policy 15, which kept commercial development on trust land near Diamond Point Road from justifying commercial zoning next door, is replaced with a promise to "work with the Tribe"; all of Blyn Policy 4, on police and fire demands from tribal development, is deleted. A December 2025 email led to striking the Highway 101 overpass language tied to casino traffic. Two more deletions, a casino-sprawl policy and a line noting the county has no authority over tribal land use, came with no named requester.
The article credits the county's outreach: a 464-response survey, five workshops in July 2025, library binders and a Planning Commission hearing continued ten times. But automatic email notices to subscribers were broken until March 4, 2026, and the hazard plan's steering committee saw drafts before the public.
The sharpest point is the county's own words. On October 27, 2026, Commissioners French, Johnson and Ozias signed a letter asking the Bureau of Indian Affairs to deny a 9.6-acre Fish Hatchery Road trust application, saying trust transfers erode the tax base and zoning and that nearly 70 percent of the county is already tax-exempt public land. None of that analysis is in the plan. A 2025 Charter Review amendment to require such standards failed 4–7, though the commission later recommended the Board adopt procedures.
Comments are still accepted through the commissioners' hearing. The Watchdog suggests writing Community Development Director Bruce Emery and Clerk of the Board Loni Gores, asking the county to restore the deleted policies or explain them, label annexes as not county policy, put the BIA letter's analysis in the plan, adopt fee-to-trust response standards and publish every change made at another government's request.
Source: ccwatchdog.com
unDivided with Brandi Kruse · YouTube · Washington
Worth watching? Useful for understanding the political friction between local surveillance policies and federal civil liberties concerns in Seattle.
We The Governed · YouTube · Washington
Worth watching? For viewers interested in the specific political dynamics and candidate histories behind the 2026 Washington State judicial elections.
Source: We The Governed on YouTube
We The Governed · YouTube · Washington
Worth watching? Useful for understanding the specific logistical arguments regarding late ballot demographics in Washington State.
Source: We The Governed on YouTube
unDivided with Brandi Kruse · YouTube · Washington
Worth watching? Useful for understanding the specific political friction between Seattle's progressive base and its mayor regarding surveillance policy.
The Patriot Post and AIER (The Daily Economy) — last 48 hours. Kept off the Front Page by request.
The Patriot Post
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After the Republicans’ shellacking last Tuesday, voters on the Left and a surprising number on the Right still want the U.S. government to “do something” about the price of tea in China (archaic reference alert).
It’s partly because politicians condition voters by constantly offering more government as a solution to bad government. But it also reminds me of James Madison.
On January 10, 1794, Madison rose in the House of Representatives to challenge a proposal to provide financial assistance to French refugees who had fled the violence in Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti). We’re still paying for the Haiti benevolence program 232 years later.
Madison did not question the refugees’ suffering or the humanitarian impulse behind the appropriation, but rather whether Congress possessed the constitutional authority to spend taxpayers’ money on charity.
According to the Annals of Congress, Madison declared: “Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.”
He continued: “It would puzzle any gentleman to lay his finger on any part of the Constitution which would authorize the government to interpose in the relief of the St. Domingo sufferers.”
The congressional record also describes Madison’s concern that he could not identify constitutional authority permitting Congress to spend constituents’ money on objects of benevolence. They spent the money anyway, sidestepping Madison’s ironclad objections by taking a $15,000 credit against France’s debt to the U.S. — not taxpayer money, just a little bookkeeping sleight of hand.
“Benevolence” leads to a loss of independence, a “he who pays the piper, calls the tune” sort of situation. That’s about as anti-liberty as it gets. People depending on the government must abide by its rules and regulations to get handouts. Once you sign up, you must submit to the whole enchilada of limitations and surveillance.
But government oversight and control also threaten the individual liberties of taxpayers who fund such “benevolence” but have no say in where, how, or to whom the government transfers their money. Because economic and individual liberty remain inexorably intertwined, these programs also compromise the freedom of those forced to fill their coffers.
Madison’s objection apparently marked the last time anyone in government felt shame over such spending. Today, depending on how broadly we define benevolence, roughly two-thirds to three-quarters of federal spending funds social insurance, income support, healthcare, and other programs that provide financial or material benefits to individuals. A remarkable proportion, especially considering Madison’s argument against just $15,000 on humanitarian relief.
Which brings me to the “affordability” crisis, and how the newly anointed Democrat controlled government deigns to “solve” it.
The Democrats’ own Space Cadet, Senator Mark Kelly, said he supported the Working Americans’ Tax Cut Act, which aims to provide tax relief for low- and middle-income Americans by eliminating federal income taxes for those earning under $46,000 and funding this through a surtax on millionaires’ incomes over $1 million.
The Left has no intent to work on supply chains, cut waste and fraud, reduce taxes and regulations on businesses, or decrease the profligate government that caused inflation in the first place. Democrats use the ObamaCare methodology: offsetting price increases for one group through subsidies funded by targeted taxes on another, less politically popular group.
That methodology works so well that the Democrats shut down government last year to force more spending on COVID-era “temporary” extensions of Medicare/Medicaid funding. If only you and I could live as long as “temporary” federal programs.
When combined with government, the only human characteristic stronger than the desire to be benevolent toward others is to do it with someone else’s money!
Their answer to affordability is a downward spiral of taxing and spending, appropriation and borrowing, and the dependency that created the need for the “benevolence” in the first place.
Did I mention we are still sending aid to Haiti 232 years later?
James Madison is probably rolling in his grave.
The Patriot Post
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Today is Veterans Day. The day originally began as Armistice Day to mark the 11:00 AM ceasefire on November 11, 1918, that ended World War I. In 1954, Congress renamed Armistice Day as Veterans Day to honor the veterans of all our wars. Sadly, we are living in an era of increasing hostility toward America. A number of newly elected Democrat members of Congress actually despise the America our Founders gave us. Many young Americans voted for them. A false narrative has taken root on our college campuses. We are teaching our children not American history, but anti-American history. We are teaching that our nation is an evil, oppressive force, founded on slavery and genocide. No wonder growing numbers of young Americans and Democrats do not describe themselves as patriotic. Thank God Donald Trump is fighting this, but it is a generational battle that cannot be won in just a few years. Increasingly, the values that used to unite us now divide us. Monuments to our founding fathers are under attack. Even the Pledge of Allegiance is protested and denounced as “an instrument of white nationalism.” Of course, our veterans know better. They understand that America is a force for good in the world, that it is worth defending, that it is, as Abraham Lincoln once described it, “the last best hope of Earth.” Please find an opportunity over the next few days to talk to your children and grandchildren about what happened at Concord Bridge and Gettysburg, on the beaches of Normandy, and in more recent conflicts. There is a poem you have likely seen before, but I want to share it with you again, because it summarizes well what we owe our veterans.
It is the veteran, not the preacher, who has given you freedom of religion. It is the veteran, not the reporter, who has given you freedom of the press. It is the veteran, not the poet, who has given you freedom of speech. It is the veteran, not the protester, who has given you freedom to assemble. It is the veteran, not the lawyer, who has given you the right to a fair trial. It is the veteran, not the politician, who has given you the right to vote. It is the veteran, who salutes the Flag, who serves under the Flag, whose coffin is draped by the Flag.
To the millions who have always been there to stop the tyrant, protect the weak and preserve the peace — we have not forgotten you. A grateful nation thanks God for giving us heroes like you. Here at Campaign For Working Families, I pledge to continue to fight the good fight against the Islamist and Marxists who want to destroy the country you wore the uniform to defend.
In recent days, we have been digging deep into the election results. We didn’t do a Democrat-Republican analysis. We looked at the results through the lens of how they will impact faith, family, freedom, and the sanctity of life. Read more in my latest public policy update for the James Dobson Family Institute.
The Patriot Post
The Patriot Post
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I’ll say this about Senate Republicans: .
Mom would be proud of my restraint here. So, I’m guessing, would Thomas Jefferson, for it was Jefferson who once advised , “When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.”
Alas, it didn’t work. I counted to 100, and I’m still every bit as disgusted by the decision of Senate Republicans to return John Thune as their leader despite last Tuesday’s resounding electoral shellacking. I mean, Thune oversaw the immolation of Republican seats in ostensibly solid red states such as Ohio, Iowa, Texas, South Carolina, and freaking Kansas, so why not reward him with a show of confidence?
You know what they say: You can lead a herd of do-nothing McConnellite RINO globalist elephants to water, but you can’t make them stop smearing feces on themselves.
As The Hill reports , “A Senate GOP aide announced late in the afternoon that Thune had been reelected as leader ‘by acclamation,’ despite objections raised by a handful of GOP senators over proceeding with the vote this week.”
“Acclamation” seems a weird word to describe the GOP’s lukewarm reelection of Thune, especially in the face of opposition from conservative fighters like Wisconsin’s Ron Johnson, who demanded a delay in the election and eventually walked out in protest. As Johnson put it in an X post:
I did not participate in today’s Senate leadership election because a defeat of this magnitude demands serious reflection and change. Holding a rushed election ignores the message our voters sent. We must acknowledge where and why we failed and develop strategies to succeed. I hope our conference can unite, learn from this moment, and do a better job listening to the American people and addressing their concerns.
“In order to best continue doing nothing,” quipped the folks at The Babylon Bee, “Senate Republicans reelect John Thune as Minority Leader.” Just so.
President Donald Trump tried to be diplomatic, but he still damned Thune with faint praise : “Well, look, he’s a very fine man,” said the president. “I know him very well, but that’s really up to the Senate. I like John Thune. I wish the Senate could get more done.”
Aside from acknowledging that he and his party got their butts kicked last Tuesday, Johnson and his fellow stalwarts also understand something else that Thune does not: Republicans are on the clock , and their ability to do anything legislatively ends abruptly on January 3. Or maybe Thune just doesn’t care. Johnson and his fellow patriots wanted Thune to cancel the upper chamber’s week-long Thanksgiving recess in order to pass key elements of the SAVE America Act and fund the Department of War through a budget reconciliation package — to which Thune not-so-enthusiastically replied, “We’ll see.”
Would you like to save our Republic, John, or just watch it burn? We’ll see .
Sadly, but not surprisingly, Thune’s lieutenants were also rewarded with reelection: Wyoming’s 74-year-old John Barrasso as whip, West Virginia’s 72-year-old Shelley Moore Capito as policy committee chair, and Oklahoma’s milquetoasty James Lankford as conference vice chair. That Arkansas’s Tom Cotton was reelected as conference chair is, I suppose, some small consolation, but it’s hard to imagine a less vigorous, less energetic bunch than this.
Over in the House, though, things are decidedly different. Speaker Mike Johnson, who’s been a solid, thoughtful, and articulate voice for conservative policies, honorably decided against running again for leadership, instead leaving it to a choice between current Majority Leader Steve Scalise and House Freedom Caucus cofounder Jim Jordan. Jordan won resoundingly by a vote of 106–73.
“Republicans on Tuesday,” the Washington Examiner reported , “declined the seasoned experience of Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), who has served in leadership since 2014 and as the No. 2 House Republican under Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) for the last two years.”
In short, House Republicans elected a fighter rather than a fixture — which is precisely what Thune has been ever since he arrived in Washington.
There could hardly be a better contrast between two men than the tall, measured, perfectly coiffed and exquisitely attired Thune and the short, frumpy, frenetic, sleeves-rolled-up Jordan, the one-time NCAA champion wrestler.
But I’ll take Jordan’s serious substance over Thune’s vapid style every stinkin’ time .
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Source: AIER · Tue Nov 10, 10:53 PM PT
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Source: AIER · Tue Nov 10, 10:24 PM PT
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Your AI Guy · YouTube
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