Michigan Rep. John James is the best-positioned Republican candidate to flip Michigan’s governorship red in the 2026 contest, according to new polling. The Plymouth Union Public (PUP) Research survey, shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation, found James leading a general election field and trouncing a crowded slate of candidates in the primary contest. In […]

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The origins of Sonic Youth can be found in New York City’s downtown art scene in 1981, when guitarist Thurston Moore and bassist Kim Gordon, both immersed in the city’s experimental underground, formed the group that would redefine the boundaries of rock music. Joined by guitarist Lee Ranaldo, who had been playing with avant-garde composer Glenn Branca, the band initially explored dissonance, feedback, and alternative tunings in ways that defied mainstream conventions. Drummer Richard Edson appeared on their earliest recordings before being replaced by Bob Bert, and later by Steve Shelley, whose arrival in 1985 solidified the classic lineup. The The post Complete List Of Sonic Youth Songs From A to Z appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

Stretches of land, now hidden beneath the sea, may have given early humans a way to move between what is today Turkey and Europe, according to groundbreaking new research in this little-studied region. The recently published study reveals the first evidence of Paleolithic activity in Ayvalık, and may reshape how scientists understand our species’ journey […] The post Female Archaeologists Uncover Lost Land Bridge That May Rewrite European History appeared first on Good News Network.

Books Horror Five Horror Books Set in Liminal Spaces Endless, eerie, impossible places — do you explore, or run like hell? By Lorna Wallace | Published on October 16, 2025 Photo by Adrian Mag [via Unsplash] Comment 0 Share New Share Photo by Adrian Mag [via Unsplash] Liminal horror can be a bit of a murky category, slightly hard to define. Describing a space as “liminal” usually means that it’s “in-between” or “transitional”—a place that feels uncanny, or perhaps strangely familiar but somehow wrong—but I don’t think that fully covers what we mean in the context of horror fiction. In my opinion, there are two other things that can also make a setting feel like a liminal space: endlessness and eeriness. Endlessness comes from the physicality of the space itself—think of a tunnel that seems to stretch on as far as the eye can see. But it’s not just about architecture, it’s also about a space’s purpose…and that’s where eeriness comes in. Abandoned malls, for example, can be described as liminal because they used to be bustling and full of life, but they’re now empty, and that contrast evokes an eerie, haunting feeling. In horror stories, authors are able to push the creepiness of liminality even further by adding supernatural elements into the mix, be that a road through the woods that only appears once a year or a corridor that shouldn’t exist between two buildings—you’ll find these and more in the five horror books below. A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck (2009) When Soren Johansson dies, he finds himself in a rather unexpected afterlife: an unfathomably large library. While that might sound like a dream come true to any bookworm (speaking for myself here), this library is actually a version of Hell and Soren can only escape if he finds the book that tells the story of his life. That might not sound that hard, but the library contains a copy of every book that could ever possibly be written—including (and, in fact, mostly) books that are complete gibberish. Still, Soren starts his journey in good spirits. He can’t see the beginning or end of the library, but he isn’t eternally burning in a lake of fire, so it could be worse. But it doesn’t take long for Soren to realize that near-endlessness of his new surroundings (the library may seem infinite, but it isn’t) is very much its own kind of hell. A Short Stay in Hell may only be novella-length, but it packs a whole lot of existential and liminal dread into its pages. Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall (2019) Teenager Sara Donoghue has been struggling since her sister, Becca, vanished a year ago. The only lead is that Becca was chasing after a local legend about Lucy Gallows—who allegedly went missing in Briar Glen Woods decades earlier and is now said to haunt the forest. Legend also has it that once a year, a path through the woods appears and Lucy’s ghost beckons people to play a game. Sara and her friends decide to follow in Becca’s footsteps in the hope of finding her. Rules for Vanishing is told via mixed media elements, with the story being comprised of interviews, text messages, written testimony, and video descriptions (because what teenager wouldn’t film their journey along a creepy road that just appeared out of nowhere in the woods?). As the group venture further and further down the path, it becomes clear that they’ve crossed over into an otherworldly realm, and what they find along the way gets scarier and scarier. The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher (2020) The Wonder Museum might not be everyone’s idea of a comforting place—it’s stuffed to the rafters with botched taxidermy and cryptid tat—but for Kara, who goes by the nickname Carrot, her uncle’s eclectic museum provides a soft place to land in the wake of her recent divorce. She dedicates herself to cataloguing the museum’s artifacts, but her project hits an unexpected snag when she finds a hole in the wall that leads to a concrete corridor that shouldn’t physically exist. Carrot can’t contain her curiosity, but she isn’t about to explore an impossible hallway on her own, so she enlists the company of her friend Simon—who works at the coffee shop next door. The pair discover an eerie bunker at the end of the hallway, but what waits beyond the bunker’s door is even creepier: an uncanny world of willow trees, small hills, shallow water, and seemingly not much else. This strange place is too empty and too quiet, but while that produces an unsettling feeling, it’s when Carrot and Simon start to find and hear things that true terror arrives. But never underestimate the power of humor—which both of our not-so-intrepid explorers use as a coping mechanism—to help process liminal horrors. The Babysitter Lives by Stephen Graham Jones (2022) It’s the night before Halloween, but high school senior Charlotte is more concerned with studying—the SATs are the next day—than with costumes and candy. The opposite is true for the Wilbanks twins, Ron and Desi, whom Charlotte has been tasked with babysitting. She thinks it’ll be an easy night—she can get the kids to bed and then get paid to sit and cram for the test. But things quickly start going off the rails in a weird way. The twins are too excited about Halloween to go to bed, but Charlotte can handle that—what she can’t handle is when they seemingly start disappearing and reappearing at will. What follows is pure chaos as Charlotte attempts to wrangle and protect her young charges. The Babysitter Lives takes the traditional haunted house story and flips it on its head, adding twisty timelines and dread-inducing liminal spaces into the mix to create something uniquely freaky. The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig (2025) The Staircase in the Woods starts with a group of old friends reuniting after becoming estranged. Back in their high school days, they had bonded over being misfits, but cracks started to appear after the fifth member of their group went missing. While camping and partying one night, Matty found a lone-standing staircase in the middle of the woods, climbed it, and disappeared. Twenty years have passed since then and the gang is getting back together, ready to finally figure out what happened to Matty by climbing the staircase themselves (though, for some of them, they need to be pushed into doing so). I won’t reveal what exactly lies at the top of the strange staircase, but it’s incredibly dark, with the story touching on some very heavy topics, including self-harm and sexual abuse. I probably wouldn’t have climbed any staircase I stumbled across in the woods anyway, but reading this book has made me certain that the right move is to turn and run in the other direction—you won’t find me putting even a single toe onto one of those steps. If you’ve got any recommendations for horror stories that take place in liminal locations—however you define that for yourself—please feel free to leave them in the comments below![end-mark] The post Five Horror Books Set in Liminal Spaces appeared first on Reactor.

Fueled by the explosive rise of artificial intelligence and the data centers that power it, America’s demand for electricity has surged to record highs. Meeting that demand will require unprecedented investment in reliable, affordable energy. Yet just as the need for dependable power grows more urgent, radical climate activists are working to choke off the very projects that promise to supply it and threatening the integrity of the American judicial system in the process.   The clearest example of this troubling trend came earlier this year, when Greenpeace International filed a lawsuit in the Netherlands against the American company Energy Transfer, an extraordinary attempt to overturn a verdict issued by an American court. In the case, a North Dakota jury ordered Greenpeace to pay roughly $660 million in damages for its role in the disruptive 2016 and 2017 protests targeting Energy Transfer’s Dakota Access Pipeline.  During the North Dakota trial, jurors heard how the organization engaged in a campaign of defamation, disruption, and property damage that led to costly delays in the pipeline’s construction. One of Greenpeace’s central falsehoods was that the pipeline would cut through sacred tribal lands. In reality, Energy Transfer worked directly with tribal leaders and routed the pipeline to avoid such areas, a fact Greenpeace chose to ignore. Greenpeace was also found to have dispatched paid protesters to the construction site who were carrying tools that were later used to lock agitators to equipment. These ‘hired guns’ trained protesters who assaulted law enforcement officers, set fires, and caused untold environmental damage by leaving behind 48 million pounds of garbage.  Sensing that it was likely to lose, Greenpeace filed a countersuit in the European Union, claiming Energy Transfer’s case violated a new EU directive against “Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation,” or SLAPPs. That measure was meant to stop frivolous lawsuits designed to silence critics, not to shield activist groups from the consequences of their own unlawful actions. The implications of this transnational lawsuit are staggering for American energy security and judicial independence. Greenpeace’s attorneys have said that if they win, they will seek enforcement in any jurisdiction where Energy Transfer holds assets, and those assets “would be subject to seizure.” In other words, a foreign court could soon decide the fate of an American company, and by extension, the energy infrastructure that powers our economy. If that precedent takes hold, it will open the floodgates for radical activists to weaponize the U.S. judicial system and effectively veto energy projects they disagree with. Many other climate NGOs are already turning to litigation and disruption to advance political goals. As the National Law Review recently noted, climate NGOs “have increasingly sued gas, oil, and energy companies, challenging their historic messaging on climate change, plastic recycling, and fossil fuels’ effects.” In one especially brazen case, four nonprofit organizations sued ExxonMobil over the environmental impact of single-use plastics, even though ExxonMobil doesn’t manufacture plastics. Beyond the courtroom, radical activists have also increasingly deployed violence against American energy suppliers. In 2016, a group calling itself “ShutItDown” launched coordinated attacks on U.S. pipelines across three states in the name of “climate justice.” In 2021, an Iowa woman was charged with conspiracy to damage an energy facility after plotting to use cutting torches on the Dakota Access Pipeline. The same year, roughly 100 protesters stormed Enbridge pump stations in Minnesota, forcing out workers and damaging critical equipment. What ties these incidents together is not a legitimate environmental concern, but a willingness to weaponize protest and the legal system to achieve ideological ends. The result is greater risk to workers, communities, and the energy systems that power our nation. If Greenpeace succeeds in convincing a foreign court to overrule an American jury, others may be emboldened to follow suit. U.S. companies could face endless rounds of duplicative or retaliatory litigation abroad, even after winning fair verdicts at home. Such a system would also undermine legitimate environmental advocacy while crippling investment in critical infrastructure, a lose-lose situation for good-faith actors on both sides of the issue.  The stakes could not be higher. Every kilowatt that powers our factories, homes, and AI data centers depends on a stable, secure energy supply. Undermining that supply threatens not only our economy but also our technological and national security. Meeting this moment will require bold action to ensure American energy security and judicial independence are upheld.  We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Greenpeace Wants Europe to Rewrite American Law appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Panic At The Demsco: Obama Jumps In to Save Spanberger in VA

Something else to be thinking about at 3.00 am.

It's a similar story to how frankfurters and wieners got their names.

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel was deliberately obtuse on his Wednesday show when he claimed that the Trump administration’s focus on Antifa is non-sensical because ANTIFA “is just short of anti-fascist.” Kimmel also pretended that the administration thinks Antifa is a terrorist group simply because they have matching signs. Kimmel teed up a clip of Attorney General Pam Bondi by declaring, “The reason we know Antifa is organized against the government is because their matching signs indicate they are somehow in league with Kinko’s.”     In the clip, Bondi proclaimed, “You’re seeing people out there with thousands of signs that all match, pre-bought, pre-put together. They’re organized, and someone is funding it. We are going to get to the funding of Antifa . We're going to get to the root of Antifa , and we are going to find and charge all of the people causing this chaos in Portland and all of the cities across our country.” The signs are proof of organizing. The violence is meant to be the proof of terrorism, but Kimmel tried to claim Bondi was claiming the signs were proof for the latter, “Yeah, and if we can't find them, we are going to pretend we did. Antifa is just short for anti-fascist. It's not a club you can join. There are no membership dues, but they have matching signs!” Under that logic, North Korea—the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea—is the most democratic country on earth because it has “democratic” and “people” in its name. Still, Kimmel then continued his bad faith argument by putting up a picture of a 2024 Trump rally where attendees all held signs that read “Witch Hunt,” and claimed that if signs are proof of terrorism then, “Okay, well, then I guess we'd better round up these domestic terrorists too.”   Nobody has ever argued that signs alone are proof of terrorism. However, people like Kimmel have tried to claim that Antifa is just an idea or an umbrella term for a movement that has no central headquarters that hands out marching orders, but Bondi was trying to argue that’s not true. If Kimmel and his late night comedy compatriots want to “speak truth to power,” they should at least focus on what the administration is actually saying. Here is a transcript for the October 15 show: ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live! 10/15/2025 11:39 PM ET JIMMY KIMMEL: The reason we know Antifa is organized against the government is because their matching signs indicate they are somehow in league with Kinko’s.  PAM BONDI: You’re seeing people out there with thousands of signs that all match, pre-bought, pre-put together. They’re organized, and someone is funding it. We are going to get to the funding of Antifa . We're going to get to the root of Antifa , and we are going to find and charge all of the people causing this chaos in Portland and all of the cities across our country. KIMMEL: Yeah, and if we can't find them, we are going to pretend we did. Antifa is just short for anti-fascist. It's not a club you can join. There are no membership dues, but they have matching signs! Okay, well, then I guess we'd better round up these domestic terrorists too.