Althouse: Sunrise — at 6:37 — with a blustery wind that almost blew my iPhone out of my hand.

November 9, 2025

Sunrise — at 6:37 — with a blustery wind that almost blew my iPhone out of my hand.

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narciso said...: https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/11/09/harwood-waggoner-n2421446; 11/9/25, 5:11 PM
Beasts of England said...: New Glenn launch for the ESCAPADE Mars Mission was scrubbed today due to clouds and some issues with the ground support equipment. Maybe the weather tomorrow will cooperate…; 11/9/25, 5:52 PM
narciso said...: Oh blue origin, its a lame exercise is space exploration; 11/9/25, 6:12 PM
Kakistocracy said...: I just hope the former Capitol PD officer who was accused in the story of being the J6 pipe bomber sues The Blaze and this writer. He got his 13 million viral views. Now it looks like maybe he’s talked to a lawyer about it.

🚨Update on J6 Pipe Bomber Report🚨
After an abundance of counsel from trusted parties within and outside the government, we've hit the pause button so those interested parties can have some more time to look at the J6 pipe bomber evidence. There are things they need to do internally.

This is a real story. When it breaks, it's going to be a HUGE story. There are a lot of moving parts, but we need to give them time to do what they need to do, and I know everyone is waiting. Believe me. Tensions are running high. There have been a lot of sleepless nights the last two weeks. But this is a game-changer, and we don't want to do anything to jeopardize that right now.

I was up at 3:30 am preparing the video clips for the release on this morning’s Glenn Beck Program. Contrary to what so many X complainers will say, this wasn’t a hype stunt for views and clicks. And no, the government didn’t silence us. Glenn and I both were pretty amped up to put it all out this morning. And we were both very disappointed when the decision to postpone was made.

The government’s investigation into the J6 pipe bombs was going nowhere just two weeks ago. Today I can tell you that has all changed. A bunch of people got pretty spun up yesterday.

Hang tight. It’s all coming. ~ Steve Baker @ SteveBakerUSA; 11/9/25, 6:17 PM
rhhardin said...: YouTube suggests Cyndi Boste, Night Ride from something I watched a decade ago. Fine alto voice Australian folk.

YouTube never forgets.; 11/9/25, 6:19 PM
narciso said...: Thats good it doesnt sound australian though; 11/9/25, 6:34 PM
narciso said...: Then again men at work midnight oil i hadnt heard a distinctly female australian voice; 11/9/25, 6:36 PM
narciso said...: What i was referring to earlier

https://youtu.be/1xclzuq1dNM?si=efzZAzrsRfXlfEU_; 11/9/25, 6:45 PM
narciso said...: In drinkers inimical scottish brogue; 11/9/25, 6:48 PM
Beasts of England said...: ’Oh blue origin, its a lame exercise is space exploration’

I don’t see their optempo ever matching SpaceX. Maybe they’ll make up the difference with lower volume. lol; 11/9/25, 6:50 PM
narciso said...: I thought it was a serious exercise till i found it was blue origin; 11/9/25, 6:52 PM
rehajm said...: It’s the creepy daycare scandal people brainwashing again. Massachusetts leads the nation in em…; 11/9/25, 6:55 PM
rehajm said...: They lost the Kennedy seat when Marsha wouldn’t give it up; 11/9/25, 6:57 PM
narciso said...: Oh not that (redacted) again; 11/9/25, 6:57 PM
narciso said...: What is this referring to now; 11/9/25, 6:57 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Very windy here too. I had to put something handy from the porches on the lightweight Amazon packages I was delivering today. Don't want them blowing in the wind; that could get a man banned.; 11/9/25, 6:58 PM
narciso said...: Yeah about that rigamarole
https://x.com/RogerP23486/status/1987428644789363148; 11/9/25, 7:04 PM
narciso said...: Amusing

https://youtu.be/fAx3By62Dr8?si=C1hD4sBcp5LqxHgX; 11/9/25, 7:11 PM
Sweetie said...: I wish Bari Weiss luck but this morning Wes Moore was interviewed on Face the Nation and Margaret Brennan never used the word 'filibuster' while Wes complained about the government shutdown for nearly 8 minutes. Some facts must be sidelined to keep members of the team from jumping ship I guess.; 11/9/25, 7:29 PM
narciso said...: https://share.google/ClQJH7JDYASWWaI7b; 11/9/25, 7:42 PM
john mosby said...: 'ciso: "Then again men at work midnight oil i hadnt heard a distinctly female australian voice"

What about KYLIE!!!!!11111?????? CC, JSM; 11/9/25, 7:59 PM
Jaq said...: So I installed a Tablo, put an antenna on my roof, and pointed it at the nearest city, and now I can watch over the air TV on any phone, tablet, or smart TV in the house, and the picture is fantastic, you can read the numbers of another player off of the quarterback's helmet, every football game is as good as. the 4K World Series broadcast. Seems too good to be legal, cord cutter's dream. Well, guess what? The broadcasters are pushing through a new standard, purportedly to "improve the picture quality," I was watching college football yesterday, and I could see a cellophane candy wrapper blowing around the player's feet, I think that the quality is already pretty good, but of course, that's not the real reason.

They want to impose Digital Rights Management on broadcast TV. They don't want you to be able to record a show on your own device in your own home, and skip their commercials. You won't be able to share your signal throughout your own home with a device like Tablo, because of DRM. None of the TVs on sale right now at Walmart will work under this new standard, which they want to make mandatory starting in 2028. So instead of having one cable from the antenna to my Tablo, I will have to go back to the days of wiring my whole house up with coax, and have a "cable box" type adapter for every TV I own that doesn't support the new standard, starting in 2028, which is all the TVs I own. The only devices that they currently have to manage these broadcasts if DRM is enabled by the broadcaster, demand an internet connection, or no "free TV" for you!

It's just a power grab, and therefore a money grab, by the broadcasters, no consumers want this. The broadcasters want addressable advertising at the device level in your home.; 11/9/25, 8:29 PM
Eva Marie said...: Shutdown shut down.; 11/9/25, 8:51 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Althouse the pooh and the blustery day. I love blustery days as long as its not too cold and there's no rain. To me, a warm aka about 60 degrees (but not rain) day with strong winds is perfect.; 11/9/25, 9:01 PM
Christopher said...: Jaq, it sounds like you're a fan of YouTubers Tyler the Antenna Man and Lon.TV. If not you should be, they've been all over the new ATSC3 standard and DRM. The fat lady hasn't sung yet on that one, the FCC's NPRM (regulatory thing) is asking industry and others a lot of questions about DRM, whether it makes any sense for the private consortium that set itself up as the DRM gatekeeper to continue in that role, and so on.

I live in Northern Virginia and cut the cord at least 15 years ago, and my scores of over the air channels, including crystal-clear reception on the primary channels, provide more than enough screen time to dull my brain. I do cheat with two or three streamers but could do without except for maybe MLBTV over Roku.

Tablo rocks.; 11/9/25, 9:02 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: "It's just a power grab, and therefore a money grab, by the broadcasters, no consumers want this. The broadcasters want addressable advertising at the device level in your home."

Agree. But many dumb consumers and voters want to be slaves to Big Media cause "Muh Free market" - so the bribed senators and congressmen stay bribed.; 11/9/25, 9:03 PM
Big Mike said...: @Eva Marie, you beat me to it. There’s a report that 10 Democrat senators have pledged to vote for cloture. There has been an claim that Republicans made concessions but Republican senators cal bullshit.; 11/9/25, 9:07 PM
Beasts of England said...: Tomorrow is one of my least favorite days of the year. With a high of only 34° I’ll be forced to wear long britches for the first time in over eight months. Ugh.; 11/9/25, 9:07 PM
Gospace said...: A point I haven't seen made about the end of insurance subsidies under the Unaffordable Care Act.

When Democrats, without a single Republican vote, passed the act, they included an end date for insurance subsidies.

In case you missed the point- Democrats, unanimously, voted in an end date for insurance subsidies. Without a single Republican vote.

An edn date to subsidies is what they voted for, and therefore- is what they wanted. So they are now getting- exactly what they voted for and what they wanted. And Republicans are simply helping them achieve what Democrats unanimously, without a single Republican vote, wanted.

Republicans are giving Democrats exactly what they voted for- an end to subsidies. So why are they all complaining? They should be rejoicing at Republican cooperation in achieving what they voted for- an end to subsidies.; 11/9/25, 9:12 PM
Kakistocracy said...: 👆The ACA was fully financed.

The budgetary cost of the legislation was that it was projected to reduce deficits by more than $200 billion over 10-years through a combination of taxes and budget cuts. Ultimately, that didn't happen.

What happened is that insurance companies took hundreds of millions of dollars and started electing Republicans (and later right-wing Democrats) who repealed funding cuts to the private Medicare Advantage program. Medical suppliers successfully lobbied to repeal the device makers tax.

One of the funding mechanism was a major cut to expensive publicly-backed private student loans for colleges. That was restored through lobbying. In 2015, Marco Rubio, when he was a Senator, repealed reinsurance coverage in the law, which resulted in the first battery of major premium spikes in November 2016 (helping to elect Trump).

The real problem is that the Democrats tried to appease reactionaries and big business, rather than just expanding the public Medicare insurance program to cover everyone.

What the Republicans are doing isn't exactly my preferred path to single-payer or nationalized health insurance, but it does help to re-open this matter as a political issue, because they aren't dealing with the real issue, which is that Americans have a bloated and inefficient payment and provider system that costs taxpayers and consumers an absurd amount of money for mediocre health outcomes. Based on the money we already pay, we should have universal health care that is free at the point of service.; 11/9/25, 9:17 PM
Mason G said...: "An edn date to subsidies is what they voted for, and therefore- is what they wanted."

What they wanted was to get the subsidies in place, and once in place, continuing them forever. Ending them was never on the agenda.; 11/9/25, 9:19 PM
Original Mike said...: "The real problem is that the Democrats tried to appease reactionaries and big business, rather than just expanding the public Medicare insurance program to cover everyone.

What the Republicans are doing isn't exactly my preferred path to single-payer or nationalized health insurance, but…"

Remember folks, Rich calls himself a conservative.; 11/9/25, 9:23 PM
n.n said...: Obamacare was financed to the tune of nearly 40 trillion dollars in federal debt, more in state debt, and the rest in consumer debt, with a progressive return on health care.; 11/9/25, 9:24 PM
n.n said...: Not to mention savings on abortion of diverse , Diverse "burdens" at Planned Parenthood umbrella corporation.; 11/9/25, 9:26 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: The shutdown is one senator vote away from ending?; 11/9/25, 9:26 PM
n.n said...: Obamacare is not a viable solution. Abort. Sequester.

Resolve the incongruities in MIC, PIC, and SIC. Focus on health, affordable medical services, and not financing through redistributive change schemes (e.g. inflation or progressive prices). Resolve labor, environmental, and monetary arbitrage through tariffs and other compensatory measures.; 11/9/25, 9:32 PM
Iman said...: Schumer Shutdown Shitshow nearing an end. A few more process-related things to square away this week and it’s done.; 11/9/25, 9:34 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: well it looks as if all my wagers that Democrats would fight for what their issue was, funding the ACA reductions on Health Insurance and they folded like a cheap suit. 40 DAYS FOR WHAT? They could have made this deal 40 days ago They got a PROMISE (from the guy who has been fact checked for being the most obsessive/compulsive Liar in American political history. Good luck with a promise from that group. The goods thing the people made to suffer will get some solace The Democratic base should just forget about this spineless group as Repubs know Dems would never go all the way to the mat,its their history. My wager on TACO folded up again put a crimp in my wagering format but thats the life of a gambler. I just saw this on news and just shook my head and chalked this up to better handicapping,can't beat a dead horse. Chalk the "WIN" TO THE REDS" BLUES need to get a younger group of reps..Johnson should have no problem pushing this through with trumps order.; 11/9/25, 9:36 PM
Iman said...: Kak is fully full of shit.; 11/9/25, 9:37 PM
Iman said...: Dinky! Get a grip… pretend it’s your dink.; 11/9/25, 9:39 PM
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Yancey Ward said...: "Tomorrow is one of my least favorite days of the year. With a high of only 34° I’ll be forced to wear long britches for the first time in over eight months. Ugh."

Wuss. I don't bring out the long britches until it is under 20 degrees F.; 11/9/25, 10:25 PM
effinayright said...: Iman said...
Dinky! Get a grip… pretend it’s your dink.
**********
Then beat it pretending it owes you money.; 11/9/25, 11:05 PM
Prof. M. Drout said...: My prediction of when the Dems would end the shutdown was only off by at most 3 days. Not bad for an English professor.; 11/9/25, 11:10 PM
Disparity of Cult said...: Natalie Imbruglia mostly masked the accent but "Torn" is no "Overkill" anyway.; 11/9/25, 11:18 PM
Jim at said...: I deleted my earlier comment (if you care) because I was a bit harsh on the Senate Republicans. I mean, if the sun comes up in the east every morning, you begin to take it for granted after awhile.

While the details are still trickling out, I don't see how this is a 'win' for the Democrats in any way.

The original CR was only going to carry us until sometime later this month. So, another vote was coming. If what I'm reading is accurate, the new language carries us well into the new year while actual budget negotiations continue.

Bringing back the RIFs? If there was no shutdown, they'd still be there.

And the promise for a stand-alone vote on Obamacare subsidies? OK. Eventually that steaming pile of shit will need to be dealt with. The time to NOT do it was while holding the CR hostage.

Again - if what I'm reading is accurate, and everything goes through - the Ds got nothing they couldn't have gotten 40 days ago.; 11/9/25, 11:35 PM
Yancey Ward said...: The media were having to go to ever more ridiculous lengths to pretend that the GOP was responsible for the shutdown. No one was really fooled by this (well, maybe Inga was), but at some point self-respect has to kick in and you end the shutdown because you are tired of looking like a lying sack of shit.; 11/9/25, 11:42 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Chuck Schumer is probably toast. He had this right back March but let himself get goaded by the Left into this 40 day shutdown which got him nothing at all. AOC is going to trounce him in the primary.; 11/9/25, 11:51 PM
Jim at said...: I spare no tears for Schumer, but New York state isn't NYC.

I'll enjoy AOC trying to primary him if she does. But, she'll be moving from the shallow end of the pool to the deep end.

Schumer didn't get to where he did by losing to the likes of that twit.; 11/10/25, 12:02 AM
buwaya said...: The US has an 80-85% "socialized" medical payment system, by Euro standards. This is a combo of government "single payer" plus employer mandates. Very much like several European countries. Lots of Euro countries also have mainly private providers, like Spain France and Germany. The UK is an outlier.
The US problem is it cant afford "single payer" because the costs of medical care are just too high, that is the main way the US differs from Europe and etc. I have heard nothing about reducing costs. This should be the easiest thing. Make medical schools cheap and accessible (make it easy to get in, not hard) destroy the anticompetive guilds, get rid of excessive liability, murder the licensing authorities, license all generic drugs, etc.; 11/10/25, 12:05 AM
buwaya said...: Ex. I take Novartis Entresto (sacubril/valsartan) for my cardiomyopathy. A months supply in Spain is less than EU200. That comes out of my pocket, or for most people here, Spanish taxes.
US price is USD700-900. For most US people this is paid for by taxation or employers insurance.
There is your problem, not "Obamacare" or any other payment scheme.; 11/10/25, 12:19 AM
Kirk Parker said...: Two thoughts on the blustery wind:

1. I think we have reached the point of diminishing returns with making our smartphones thinner and lighter.

2. Lots of wind and the lake isn't frozen over yet? Time to go sailing!!!; 11/10/25, 12:26 AM
Readering said...: Court of Appeals denies DOJ stay request on District Court order to fully fund SNAP payments for November. Order goes into effect in 48 hours absent stay from USSC.; 11/10/25, 1:58 AM
Readering said...: Perhaps the late night 60-40 Senate vote will moot this litigation.; 11/10/25, 2:06 AM
Heartless Aztec said...: Temps are dropping along the St Johns River in North Central Florida. I might have to wear socks for the next couple of days at some point... The horror is real.; 11/10/25, 2:43 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: NY Post via YouTube: BBC honchos resign over doctored anti-Trump ‘Panorama’ program footage.; 11/10/25, 2:51 AM
john mosby said...: Trump pardoned Giuliani, the Kraken, and Mark Meadows. CC, JSM; 11/10/25, 4:33 AM
john mosby said...: Buwaya ref high cost of healthcare: Yes, making medicine an undergrad subject like it is in most countries would cut docs' debts in half. Reducing malpractice judgments would slash their malpractice insurance premiums. If the system doesn't have to carry those costs, prices should come down. CC, JSM; 11/10/25, 4:39 AM
john mosby said...: Just looked at the pardon:

https://x.com/EagleEdMartin/status/1987730498374828252

It's got a list of about 20 specific people, but also says it's not limited to them. And it has very broad language saying it's for all American citizens for conduct related to exposing fraud in the 2020 election.

I could see any Dems he tries to prosecute saying the pardon covers them, since all they were trying to do was keep the election honest (in their twisted minds, where honest means they win).

Maybe he doesn't care.

CC, JSM; 11/10/25, 5:05 AM
Big Mike said...: @john mosby, “loser pays” would get rid of a lot of spurious malpractice suits.; 11/10/25, 5:41 AM
Big Mike said...: The ACA was fully financed.

Only if a number of wild, pull-it-out-of-your-ass, assumptions made by the Obama administration turned out to be true.; 11/10/25, 5:46 AM
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Christopher B said...: The gales of November remembered

Fiftieth anniversary documentary from Fox6 Milwaukee; 11/10/25, 6:06 AM
boatbuilder said...: Since this is the open thread, I would just like to express my sincere appreciation and thanks to all of our veterans.; 11/10/25, 7:07 AM
Rusty said...: Snowed again last night. Just a dusting. Too cold to go outside and I need to buy a turkey.; 11/10/25, 7:41 AM
West TX Intermediate Crude said...: Big Mike at 0541-
“loser pays” would get rid of a lot of spurious malpractice suits."

The average plaintiff in a medical malpractice suit has a net worth in 3 or maybe 4 figures; many less. "Loser pays" might work if it would be the plaintiff lawyer who pays, but I don't see a way of getting there from here.; 11/10/25, 7:53 AM
narciso said...: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/04/bbc-arabic-bias-pushed-hamas-lies/; 11/10/25, 8:12 AM
Michael McNeil said...: I've been wearing long-johns here (in far northern Calif.) for weeks. I'm from Montana; I'm not shy about it.; 11/10/25, 8:40 AM
Original Mike said...: The nation's largest trucking company says it will no longer service New York City after Mamdani takes office:

"We've instructed our dispatchers to reject loads to any of the Five Burroughs," said Company Spokesman Joe Barron, "We don't see a way to continue doing business in the Big Apple.."

The news comes as Mamdani released his plan to increase revenue across the city by quadrupling the cost of tolls, licensing, permits, and inspections of all commercial vehicles.

"He's going to put a lot of the independent truckers out of business."; 11/10/25, 8:53 AM
Narr said...: People who wear clothes are wimps. (I admit that I wear my Speedo year-round, but that's just modesty.); 11/10/25, 9:35 AM