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I love you Spencer, but if the movie industry moves to Tennessee, they will effectively turn it into the shit hole they destroyed themselves. We will take Universal Studios bc it can employ other TN residents. But fuck godless Hollywood, for real https://t.co/Auf2B5MWAt
— ♡ 𝙱𝚎𝚎 ♡ (@Benedicta_Bee) September 18, 2026
Ed: Exactly this. We already see this happening in Austin, for example, and it nearly happened in Florida until Ron DeSantis made Disney pay for its attempts to flex its political muscle on behalf of Woke Inc. I would much rather see mid-level capital flee places like California, which remain in the hands of entrepreneurs and first-generation owners who appreciate and defend liberty. Corporate relocations are another matter entirely.
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The Hollywood Reporter: With the clock ticking on his own deadline to move Paramount out of California, CEO David Ellison has been making the rounds to state officials as he fields bids on relocation packages.
A sit-down with Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick last month was said to be on the books, per a public records request obtained by The Hollywood Reporter. In an Aug. 11 email to economic development officials, Red Sanders, chair of the Texas Media Production Alliance, said that Ellison met with Patrick about the move. ...
Indeed, Texas officials have been mobilizing on this front in a coordinated push to lure Paramount away from California. After Sanders messaged state economic development representatives about Ellison's meeting with Patrick, he was told to meet with Texas Film Commission deputy director Ali Nichols, who didn't respond to a request for comments.
It wasn't the first time they discussed the issue. Earlier in July, only days after THR reported that Tennessee had been courting Paramount, the TXMPA chair and owner of Red Productions asked to "gather up key stakeholders that could help pitch Texas in the most favorable way," according to emails disclosed in the records request. A meeting was convened the following Monday.
Ed: Patrick had better understand what that means politically in Texas. Yes, it would be a nice, gigantic thumb in the eye of Gavin Newsom. However, the fable of the frog and the scorpion applies to this case as well.
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I want to be exceedingly clear about this and then I’m done with it.
— Aaron Prager (@theaaronprager) September 18, 2026
Tell me again how it’s brave and against them grain to be Pro Palestine and life is so hard if you dare speak against the Israelis and Jews.
Macklemore lost an opening tour spot. And in return has generated… https://t.co/gPg8rd78Zq
Macklemore lost an opening tour spot. And in return has generated more positive attention for himself than that tour would have given him and more positive attention than he has had in years. Plus the income from social media and no doubt new financial prosperous endeavors opened specifically because of his anti Israel pro Palestine stance.
Ed Sheeran in the other hand, loses all opening acts, loses his band, gets dragged on social media, radio stations refuse to play his music. Which no doubt leads to a huge financial hit. And we’re not even done yet. Doors will be closed to him, friendships will be lost, the list goes on.
So, tell me again how it’s brave to be anti Israel and pro Palestine.
Ed: Well said. Especially given the nonsensical position of 'Palestine' in the first place. These are Arabs living in areas captured in wars started by Arabs with the intent to seize and subjugate Israel and the Jews who are indigenous to the land. Jews lived in that land long before Arabs began to colonize the Levant and north Africa. And we have plenty of evidence for that ...
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NY Post: A 2,000-year-old Jewish ritual bath unearthed in southern Israel has been extracted from the ground whole, offering evidence that a hitherto unknown Second Temple community existed at the site, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Thursday.
The 25-ton bath, or mikveh, was discovered in July in the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Gat, located about 25 miles north of Beersheva, ahead of the construction of a new neighborhood, the state-run archaeological body said.
A crane was used to extract it intact, and the mikveh will later be returned to the city for public display.
“The Jewish settlement we discovered here is the first and the only known one in this area,” said Elena Kogan-Zahavi, who led the excavations at the site. “In the Judean Lowlands, many Jewish settlements from the Roman period are known, but in the seam between the Judean Lowlands and the northern Negev no Jewish settlement was known until now.”
Ed: Two thousand years ago, eh? That would provide clear evidence that Israel is indeed the indigenous home of the Hebrews and Jews, and that the Arabs are the colonizers – as if we didn't already know that.
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Indigenous people don't fear archeology, colonizers do - which is why Jews can't stop digging and Palestinian Arabs will do anything to stop the digging. https://t.co/pyhaSP6pZs
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) September 18, 2026
Ed: The Left fears evidence. Don't be surprised when the mainstream media insists that this is a "cheap fake" in the archeological sense. The 'Palestinian' (Arab) claims on the land are Sharp As A Tack™! They run rings around claims four times as old as they are! Don't think for a moment that the Protection Racket Media's propaganda strategies exited the scene when Joe Biden did.
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Free Beacon: Abdul El-Sayed calls him "hilarious" and a "fellow Egyptian." Mehdi Hasan calls him a "good friend." But Bassem Youssef, known as "the Jon Stewart of the Arab world," is also an antisemitic conspiracy theorist who regaled Candace Owens with loony canards about Israel on her podcast.
Youssef asserted in the Jan. 29 interview that the 9/11 attacks were a "false flag" operation conducted by Israel. And he accused the Jewish state of fomenting other "false flag" attacks, including the Bondi Beach massacre in Australia, in which ISIS-inspired radicals murdered 15 people at a Hanukkah celebration on Dec. 14, 2025.
"How can you believe a country that has a very lucrative history of false flag operations?" Youssef asked Owens.
He called 9/11 "the biggest false flag operation," adding: "And of course we have the Bondi attack."
Beyond pushing debunked claims about Israeli involvement in those atrocities, Youssef invoked antisemitic tropes in a highlight video of the podcast appearance.
Ed: Why am I unsurprised to find a two-degree link from El-Sayed to Owens? Birds of a feather, I suppose. This is once again reminiscent of the lines from one of my favorite poems: "You can tell the man who boozes by the company he chooses / And the pig got up and slowly walked away."
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🚨 THIS ONE IS PERSONAL: El-Sayed’s breast cancer comments hit home for me 🎗️
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) September 18, 2026
As a BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR, I can’t get past his argument that research funding may reflect the “social power and privilege” of those most likely to get the disease.
Breast cancer is the… pic.twitter.com/QCksVyTn4o
Breast cancer is the SECOND-LEADING cause of cancer death among American women — about 1 in 43 women will die from it. This is not some academic exercise.
Ed: What in the world ...? Why would a doctor get offended by efforts to heighten awareness of breast cancer? I can understand criticism of the performative demonstrations by the NFL and others, but El-Sayed actually opposed NIH funding for research into the disease...
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Free Beacon: In a 2012 essay entitled "The Pink Ribbon Lobby and Everyone Else," El-Sayed, who has a medical degree and refers to himself as "Dr. El-Sayed" in political ads, bemoaned the increase in federal funding for breast cancer research, calling it a "disturbing" trend that diverts federal funding to study other serious diseases.
The culprit, according to El-Sayed, was the all-powerful "breast cancer lobby," which he also derided as the "pink ribbon lobby," a reference to the pink ribbons that commemorate Breast Cancer Awareness Month each October.
"The breast cancer lobby has done an incredible job raising my 'awareness' of Breast Cancer," El-Sayed wrote for the 2x2 Project, a journal sponsored by Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, where El-Sayed worked as an epidemiologist. El-Sayed noted that the George Washington Bridge in New York City was adorned with pink lights and that his alma mater's football team, the Michigan Wolverines, were decked out "in pink cleats and arm bands."
"If I weren't an epidemiologist, it would have me believing that the women around me were in imminent danger," said El-Sayed, who asserted that the significant funding for breast cancer created problems "for equity in health research allocation" by prioritizing funding for diseases that affect people with "social power and privilege."
Ed: Gee, a Muslim man complaining about power and privilege being accorded to women. Quelle surprise! I wonder what the gender gap will look like in Michigan's general election this year. This is so utterly absurd that it defies description; one has to wonder how anyone who wrote this thought they could have a career in electoral politics. That is, anywhere women are allowed to vote.
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Ed: It didn't take long for Mike Rogers to put that argument in front of Michigan voters. "What is wrong with Abdul El-Sayed" is a question that has many answers, and Rogers should plan to explore every single one of them.
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Salena Zito at Middle of Somewhere: None of this is landing in a neutral country. It is landing in one where the debate over artificial intelligence has turned political, cultural, and increasingly fearful. A Quinnipiac University poll released this past March found that 55 percent of Americans now believe AI will do more harm than good in their daily lives, up eleven points in a single year. Eighty percent said they were concerned about AI. Seventy percent believed it would cut the number of jobs available to human beings. And the number most relevant to places such as Appalachian Pennsylvania: 65 percent said they would oppose the construction of an AI data center in their own community.
That opposition is not theoretical. In Archbald, in Conshohocken, in Wilkes-Barre, and in Hampden Township outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvanians have packed municipal meeting rooms to fight data center proposals over noise, water, air quality, property values, and the fear that their power bills will subsidize somebody else's chatbot. A statewide Quinnipiac survey found 68 percent of Pennsylvanians would oppose a data center in their community—including 81 percent of Democrats, 67 percent of independents, and, notably, 53 percent of Republicans. This is one of the few things that polls the same way across the aisle right now.
And yet Shippingport, a borough of 154 people that has watched its tax base evaporate twice in one lifetime, is not Archbald. The mayor is on the podium. The building trades are counting jobs. The county is counting revenue. When your town has already lost the nuclear plant and the coal plant, a two-gigawatt anything looks less like an imposition and more like a lifeline.
Both of those reactions are real. And people—actual, complicated people, not the caricatures the loudest voices on either side reduce them to, particularly online—are perfectly capable of holding both at once.
Ed: Exactly, and we can take opportunities while mitigating risks at the same time. That's how we built America in the first place. This is a magnificent essay. Read it all.
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🚨The War in Iran created the current political environment.
— Scott Rasmussen (@ScottWRasmussen) September 18, 2026
✅️ Currently, 30% of voters say their finances are getting better and 34% say worse. Not good for the party in power, but not as bad as a month ago.
✅️ Had pre-war trends continued, perceptions of the economy would… https://t.co/u4ZMwIikYD
... would be more optimistic and GOP midterm prospects would be brighter.
✅️ This is not a policy comment on the War, merely political impact analysis.
Ed: Scott's always worth hearing.
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Brianna Lyman at The Federalist: There are now just 10 Democrats of more than 250 in Congress who have signed on to a coalition that opposes rising socialism and communism. As part of their “Promise to America,” the 10 Democrats declare (among other things): “We are capitalist, not socialist,” “We want safety, not lawlessness,” “We are proud, not ashamed of America.” That not all Democrats signed on to that in and of itself is concerning.
The embrace of socialism — an extremist ideology — among mainstream Democrats both in office and in the electorate is the logical extension of Democrats’ policies. As I’ve previously written, the DSA isn’t necessarily inventing any new ideas or positions. They’re merely taking positions already embraced by much of the Democrat Party and just following them through to their logical conclusion. ...
Democrats can keep pretending they are “moderate” to win general elections (I’m looking at you, Abigail Spanberger and James Talarico), but moderation requires more than just saying the word over and over again. It requires drawing a line and opposing radicals who want to explicitly get rid of the Constitution, end borders entirely, and end police. Yet today’s Democrats — as evidenced by only 10 joining the aforementioned coalition opposing socialism — are unwilling to draw that line because they’re already on the same side as the socialists.
Ed: And even more stunning, most of them no longer bother with the pretense.
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Still no mention of the dining at French Laundry lies and his crushing thousands of restaurants https://t.co/kl3Fw3JuCe
— Chef Andrew Gruel (@ChefGruel) September 18, 2026
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Would’ve been quicker for El-Sayed to just say: “I’m insecure and I want attention.” https://t.co/bfaoagPOZ2
— Abigail Jackson 🇺🇸 (@abigailmarone) September 18, 2026
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