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We don't need to tell you which shape is "kiki" and which is "bouba."

Precolonial manatees may have been tourists in the Sunshine State.

Though nobody could see it, Rick Mears was on fire.

Even after significant weight loss, fat cells retain the “memory” of obesity.

An electric charge was used to create this particular creation!

The Greco-Bulgarian conflict would be known as the War Of The Stray Dog.

If you thought the leftist media couldn’t get any dumber with their pro-Bidenomics propaganda following President-elect Donald Trump’s sweeping electoral victory, TIME magazine just took a shot at one-upping everybody. TIME’s asinine Nov. 14 headline spoke for itself, “Don’t Give Trump Credit for the Success of the Biden Economy.” The bloviating piece, which took two authors to cough up, attempted to blame Trump for the pandemic economy Biden oversaw and spun that Trump’s second term, in contrast, would be riding on the coattails of Biden’s imaginary successes.  “President-elect Trump is receiving the strongest economy in modern history which is the envy of the world,” authors Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Stephen Henriques gaslighted. That’s a funny way to characterize an economy where the dollar is losing about a fifth of its value as the Biden administration continues to buoy the economy with an explosion of government debt. But the Biden apologists at TIME took to treating their readers like they were complete idiots by making it seem like prices are falling against rising wages: “Despite understandable concerns about post-Covid inflation, prices continue to fall as wages rise.” It’s Morning in America again didn’t you know! This is blatantly false. Prices are still rising, albeit at a slower rate. Consumer prices are 20 percent higher on average under Biden.  A September 2024 Bankrate study found, “The past 16 months of ‘real’ wage growth — as economists have called it — haven’t been enough to offset the 25 months where prices were rising disproportionately faster than Americans’ paychecks.” It’s as if TIME forgot that the election is over and is still trying to hoodwink voters into believing that Bidenomics was some stroke of genius. Economist Daniel Lacalle wrote in a Nov. 17 column, “Anyone who has delved into the supposedly solid headline figures can clearly see the real weakness of the U.S. economy.” Specifically, Lacalle added, “An unsustainable increase in government spending and federal debt bloated the official GDP, making gross domestic income significantly weaker than headline GDP. Additionally, the Conference Board and University of Michigan consumer confidence readings, well below 2019 and 2021 levels, indicated a stagnant economy.”  But TIME masked all this damning economic context by plastering a rosy picture over it laced with sunshine, rainbows and daffodils: Many Americans are still surprised to learn that the U.S. economy has seen unrivaled growth under the Biden Administration. Both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have had to increase their growth estimates for the American economy, surprised by its resilience and superiority over every developed country. Unemployment is at record lows. Nearly one million manufacturing jobs have been added. Financial markets have notched 80 record highs. Oil and natural gas production is higher than ever before, and nearly one-third higher than Saudi Arabia and Russia,” [emphasis added.] But the devil — as is always the case with those who swear by Bidenomics — is in the details.  There’s currently a labor shortage, with about 1.7 million at least missing from the labor force as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce pointed out in October. Inflation has caused stock markets to “appear stronger than they really are and [are] cutting into returns for everyone, including those with retirement accounts,” as Heritage Foundation Senior Research Associate Alexander Frei noted in an Oct. 31 column. Oil and gas production has continued to chug along in spite of Biden’s eco-extremist energy policy, not because of it. In March 2024, the American Energy Alliance specifically outlined 200 actions that the Biden White House took over the course of its administration to kneecap energy production in the U.S. to satisfy its radical environmentalist goals. And that’s not even counting the fact that gas prices overall have been considerably higher under Biden than under Trump when adjusted for inflation, something TIME didn’t even bother mentioning.  Rather, TIME tried to paint a scenario where Trump is positioned to take credit for Biden’s supposed brilliance: President-elect Trump will likely attempt to claim credit as wages continue to recover from pandemic-led inflation and as the prices of everyday goods continue to fall. He will attribute credit to his “America First” agenda, aggressive tariff policy, and self-ascribed supernatural market powers. However, let’s register the history right now for accuracy. There is no question as to whom that credit should go: President Biden and his administration. Should Biden get “credit” for the reality that more than half of Americans are now struggling under his leadership to pay their bills and save money, as Bloomberg News reported Nov. 19. After all, we are being told by TIME to — *checks notes* — “register the history right now for accuracy.” Economist Dan Mitchell recently used Labor Department data to argue that “workers lost a lot of ground in 2021 and 2022. There’s been a bit of progress since then, but the best-case scenario is that workers have merely recovered their losses.” Mitchell wrote that this essentially “means zero overall economic progress over the past four years.” TIME can take Biden’s so-called “success” and shove it.  Conservatives are under attack. Submit a letter to the editor at Time (letters@time.com) and demand the publication stop acting like the PR department for the Biden administration’s terrible economic policies.  

When most people go to the airport, they are preoccupied with thoughts of checking luggage, obtaining boarding passes, getting to the correct gate, and determining whether or not their carry-on will fit in the overhead compartment. They aren’t thinking about what’s going on behind the scenes in air traffic control. Until recently, passengers have never had to think about the strangers up in the towers tasked with ensuring that planes don’t crash into each other on the ground or in the air. They’ve always trusted that these individuals are highly qualified and capable of ensuring their safety. Unfortunately, those days of blindly trusting that air traffic controllers have a tight grip on the reins are long gone. BlazeTV’s Stu Burguiere lays it all out in the latest Blaze Originals documentary. “Over the past year, the number of close calls between commercial airliners has surged to nearly three per week,” says Burguiere. What changed? Stu traveled to Chicago, South Florida, Denver, Phoenix, and Washington, D.C., and met with experts in the field as well as government officials to seek answers to that question. The results of his investigation are both harrowing and complicated. From severe understaffing and absurd DEI hiring policies to outdated technology and a seemingly untouchable Federal Aviation Administration, the people managing 45,000 flights, three million travelers, and 29 million square miles of airspace every single day are not in a position to continue keeping our skies safe. We can’t help but wonder: It’s been 15 years since the last fatal commercial airline crash, but is the golden era of flying coming to an end? Join Stu as he digs into the air infrastructure scandal few others are willing to give attention to.“Blaze Originals: Countdown to the Next Aviation Disaster” drops today on BlazeTV. If you’re not already a subscriber, go to BlazeOriginals.com and start a seven-day free trial. Plus, use code DEI for $30 off your first year of BlazeTV+.

Two brothers beat up a Miami tire shop employee amid a dispute over a work order Monday afternoon, police said. Both brothers were arrested — but one of them, a Cuban national — reportedly was placed on an immigration hold.Miami-Dade police told WPLG-TV that 40-year-old Pedro Luis Rodriguez and 32-year-old Luis Angel Rodriguez-Candano came to Tire Liquidators Miami II in the 2000 block of SW 67th Avenue in west Miami-Dade and argued with the employee over a job done on a car.Rodriguez grabbed the employee's gun, hit him on the head with it, and said in Spanish, 'What good is it to kill you?' WPLG noted, citing the police report.Police said Rodriguez began punching the employee multiple times amid the argument, WPLG reported.The employee then drew a gun from his waistband and held it in the air, the station said, citing a police report. With that, Rodriguez-Candano lunged at the employee and began pushing him, WPLG said, adding that authorities indicated both brothers jumped on top of the employee, punching him multiple times in the head and body.The employee then fired three shots — and one of them struck Rodriguez in the leg, the station said. Rodriguez grabbed the employee's gun, hit him on the head with it, and said in Spanish, "What good is it to kill you?" WPLG noted, citing the police report. Police said Rodriguez ran out of the office to call for help, the station said. Police added that Rodriguez-Candano, once outside, continued to punch the employee, took the gun from Rodriguez, and pointed it at the victim, WPLG reported.Medics were sent to the scene just after 3:45 p.m., the station said, citing dispatch records. Authorities told WPLG that the tire shop employee suffered a cut to the top of his head and bruising on both arms but was not taken to a hospital.Police added to the station that the employee told them he fired the gun in self-defense — and the tire shop owner also supports that claim.The brother who was shot was taken to a hospital in stable condition, WPLG said.The station, citing jail records, reported that both brothers are facing one count of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, and that Rodriguez-Candano is facing a separate charge of battery. The brothers appeared in Miami-Dade bond court for second hearings Tuesday, WPLG reported, adding that both required Spanish interpreters and were represented by attorneys appearing via Zoom. Rodriguez, a Cuban national, was placed on an immigration hold, and his bond was set at $5,000, the station said.Rodriguez-Cadano was also given a $5,000 bond, WPLG reported, adding that a judge ordered both brothers were ordered to stay away from the victim.You can view video reports about the incident here and here.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!