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News One Piece Netlfix Reveals One Piece Season 2’s Premiere Date and Where the Crew Is Going Next Luffy and the Straw Hats are heading to the Grand Line. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on October 28, 2025 Credit: Casey Crafford/Netflix Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Casey Crafford/Netflix The second installment of Netflix’s One Piece will be upon us before we know it, and in addition to announcing the premiere date today, the streamer shared an official synopsis and new images showcasing certain locations the voyagers will be visiting.  The second season will have the title One Piece: Into the Grand Line, which reveals that we’ll be going to (you guessed it) the Grand Line, a “legendary stretch of sea where danger and wonder await at every turn,” as the official synopsis describes it.  The synopsis goes on to say that, as Luffy and the Straw Hats “journey through this unpredictable realm in search of the world’s greatest treasure, they’ll encounter bizarre islands and a host of formidable new enemies.” “At the end of the first season, our characters made this pledge around a barrel to achieve their dreams, and in season two, we put those dreams to the test,” co-showrunner Joe Tracz told Tudum. “Every island we visit in the Grand Line is going to challenge one of the Straw Hats in a unique way, and they’re going to learn that, to fulfill their dreams, they have to rely on each other.” Elsewhere on Tudum, Netflix shares some details on specific places the crew will go: Loguetown, “a town of the beginning and the end” where pirate king Gold Roger was sentenced to death; Reverse Mountain, where “the dreams of pirates are crushed before they even begin” by the river that flows up its peaks; Laboon, who is a really, really big whale; Whisky Peak, a town on Cactus Island that loves pirates; Little Garden, an island where dinosaurs still roam; and—last but certainly not least—Drum Island, which has drum-shaped mountains, an ominous castle, and freezing temperatures all year round. “It’s our medieval, Winterfell [on] Game of Thrones location, where you have this haunted-seeming castle at the top of a snowy mountain inhabited by someone the villagers say is a witch,” Tracz said about Drum Island.  Drum Island was also shot in South Africa, which had no snow. “We brought in piles and piles of fake snow,” Tracz added. “It tricks your brain. You’d get to set and feel like you should be cold, even though it was summer, because of all the fake snow everywhere.” We also got the release date for the new episodes: Season two of One Piece (aka One Piece: Into the Grand Line) will premiere on Netflix on March 10, 2026.  While we wait, check out some newly released images from the second season. [end-mark] Credit: Casey Crafford/Netflix Courtesy of Netflix Courtesy of Netflix The post Netlfix Reveals <i>One Piece</i> Season 2’s Premiere Date and Where the Crew Is Going Next appeared first on Reactor.

CENTER SQUARE—The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released its report on the investigation into former President Joe Biden’s cognitive health, resulting in referrals to the Justice Department and the D.C. Board of Medicine, citing what it said were multiple cover-ups of Biden’s cognitive decline. The report, released Tuesday morning, claims that the former president’s “inner circle” gaslit the American people on Biden’s cognitive decline. In addition to the referrals, the report argues that many of the former president’s executive actions signed by autopen could be invalid. The committee interviewed over a dozen aides and key Biden advisers during the course of the investigation. The report, “The Biden Autopen Presidency: Decline, Delusion, and Deception in the White House,” notes that testimony revealed that “political advisers” rejected cognitive testing in an effort to “protect” the former president’s “reelection prospects.” 6900d82daeb6a.pdfDownload Biden’s physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, invoked his Fifth Amendment rights when the committee questioned him. As a result, the committee chairman, Rep. James Comey, R-Ky., is recommending the District of Columbia Board of Medicine review the physician’s actions while serving as Biden’s physician at the White House, to review whether he “produced false or misleading medical reports to the American people.” The committee contends that senior Biden staff “exercised presidential authority or facilitated executive actions without direct authorization” from the former president, including the use of the autopen. Comer is asking the Justice Department to “conduct a comprehensive review of all executive actions” during the Biden’s presidency, specifically calling for “further scrutiny” of O’Connor, Annie Tomasini, and Anthony Bernal after they invoked the Fifth Amendment. The comprehensive report includes video and transcripts of the interviews of 14 Biden aides. Comer underscored the magnitude of the “cover-up” behind the former president’s cognitive decline, claiming the executive actions signed by the autopen are invalid. “The Biden Autopen Presidency will go down as one of the biggest political scandals in U.S. history. As Americans saw President Biden’s decline with their own eyes, Biden’s inner circle sought to deceive the public, cover up his decline, and took unauthorized executive actions with the autopen that are now invalid,” said Comer in a news release. The Kentucky lawmaker argues that the former president’s senior aides purposefully misled the American people, calling for further investigation. “Our report reveals how key aides colluded to mislead the public and the extraordinary measures they took to sustain the appearance of presidential authority as Biden’s capacity to function independently diminished. Executive actions performed by Biden White House staff and signed by autopen are null and void, Comer said. “We are calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to conduct a thorough review of these executive actions and scrutinize key Biden aides who took the Fifth to hide their participation in the cover-up. The D.C. Board of Medicine must also review the actions taken by President Biden’s physician to hide his true condition,” the Kentucky lawmaker said, adding: We have provided Americans with transparency about the Biden Autopen Presidency, and now there must be accountability. Questions regarding Biden’s mental fitness were raised well before the 2020 presidential election. Republicans and many in the conservative media continued to raise questions regarding the former president’s health throughout his presidency. However, the investigations were fueled in part by a book written by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, “Original Sin,” which the congressman quoted as claiming, “Five people were running the country, and Joe Biden was at best a senior member of the board.” Originally published at TheCenterSquare.com The post House Oversight Panel Refers Biden ‘Cover-Up’ to DOJ for Investigation appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Political parties routinely dispatch high profile surrogates to campaign on behalf of their top-of-the-ticket candidates, especially in off-year election states. But Democrats have an added incentive this year because a marquee cause held dear by the party and embraced by its two gubernatorial candidates in next week’s elections is at risk of dissolving into irrelevancy.   The bedrock of transgender ideology got a seismic shock earlier this month when research from the University of Buckingham showed a precipitous decline in young people identifying as something other than their natural sex. Eric Kaufmann, a professor at the university’s Center for Heterodox Social Science, reported on Oct. 10 that, among other things, “The transgender share among university students peaked in 2023 and has almost halved since, from nearly 7 percent to under 4 percent.” Adding to the woes of Democrats, Kaufmann found that, “Today’s freshmen are less BTQ+ than seniors, suggesting that decline will continue.” Kaufmann further observed, “There is evidence that improved mental health has reduced BTQ+ identification.”  The net takeaway from Kaufmann’s research is that transgender ideology is a passing fad, like Pet Rocks in the mid-1970s. As is the case with trans ideology, Pet Rocks identify as something they clearly are not, present themselves by mimicking the outward characteristics of something they’re not, and include a guidebook on caring for and training them. The comparison may seem preposterous, but the parallels are undeniable.   Virginia, New Jersey Gubernatorial Candidates Clinging to a Failing Ideology  In New Jersey and Virginia, Democrats have fielded candidates for governor who support the idea of males competing against females in sports. If either or both of these Democrats are elected next month—Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey and Abigail Spanberger in Virginia—it will be hailed by LGBTQ+ activists as a victory for transgender ideology. If not, it will signal the continued repudiation of a destructive and evil ideology that’s already falling out of style. For transgender ideologues, the 2025 election cycle is critical to their agenda.   Neither Sherrill nor Spanberger have made trans ideology a centerpiece of their campaigns, and for good reason. A June Gallup Poll found that 69% of respondents think boys and girls in sports should compete only against those of the same sex. Before that, a New York Times/Ipsos poll found that 79% of Americans believe boys should not be allowed to compete against girls. Small wonder that Sherrill and Spanberger are not proclaiming their support for transgender ideology; Americans think it’s a very bad idea so they’re hiding from it.  But what these candidates cannot hide from is their voting records. Sherrill voted twice—in 2023 and again in 2025—against bills in Congress to ensure that boys’ and girls’ sports remain sex segregated. She also voted against legislation requiring schools to inform parents that their children have bought into transgender ideology. Spanberger also voted against protecting girls in sports before leaving Congress and opposed letting parents know about their child’s interest in transgender ideology.   Conservatives are largely indifferent about men simply masquerading as women and vice versa. The problem arises when politicians seek to memorialize this dangerous and faddish ideology in public policy, particularly when it comes to children. Trans ideology exploits the tragedy of a minuscule percentage of people with clinical gender abnormalities. It then pursues the indoctrination of insecure youngsters into a political ideology that promotes surgical mutilation, corruption of the body’s endocrine system and delusions that match the American Psychological Association’s definition of a mental disorder. This is what Sherrill and Spanberger want for New Jersey and Virginia.   Make no mistake about it, transgender ideology is on the ballot this year. Both candidates know it’s a 70-30 issue at best, so they try to ignore or avoid it at all costs. I have long theorized that in politics, the number of words needed to explain an idea is inversely proportional to the amount of truth it contains, and Spanberger exemplifies this theory. When asked by a TV reporter recently about her position on transgender ideology in sports, Spanberger responded not just with a word salad but an entire word salad bar. For her part, Sherrill is mostly keeping quiet about the matter. She, too, knows it’s a losing issue yet remains wedded to it because her base demands ideological purity.  Sherrill and Spanberger embrace dangerous positions on an unpopular issue, and they’re doing everything they can to obfuscate their support for it. They know, and their party leaders know, that affirmation of transgender ideology is rapidly waning, so they’ll use any means necessary to breathe fresh life into a dying cause. Voters in New Jersey and Virginia must now decide whether they will resuscitate it or reject it. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Transgender Ideology Is on the Ballot in NJ, VA appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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HBO’s John Oliver is not content to only import his bad jokes from his native Britain; he also wants to import its disastrous healthcare system as well. On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, Oliver devoted most of the show to a crusade against Medicare Advantage, which he alleged could be fixed by instituting a single-payer healthcare system. After a clip of former Sen. Orrin Hatch claiming private industry does things better than the government, Oliver went on a weird digression about slippers: Yeah, the whole argument was this would expand choice, and companies would do a better job at controlling costs than the government. And look, some things are better when the private sector's involved. Take novelty slippers. Only through competition in the free market do you get innovations like hairy feet slippers, creepy Marge Simpson slippers, Sigmund Freud slippers, ‘Danny DeFeeto’ slippers, and golden penis slippers. And if you're wondering, who the fuck would buy those? You are looking at him right here. Now, why did I buy them? I don't know, probably because of something deep-rooted in my psyche stemming from childhood, at least according to my Sigmund Freud slipper right here.      Getting back on track, Oliver claimed healthcare is not like slippers: But sadly, the private sector hasn't done as well with Medicare as it has with slippers, because these plans have never saved the government money. In fact, a report last year estimated Medicare Advantage had cost the government, over the previous 18 years, an extra $591 billion. And this is partly down to the fact the major companies involved need to make profits for their investors, and they've found ways to do that. One concerns how they get paid. Because in traditional Medicare, a provider treats you, and the government pays a fee for it. But in Medicare Advantage, plans get a fixed payment from the government for each member they take on, regardless of whether you get treatment or not. And crucially, that payment's based in large part on what illnesses you're listed as having, because insurers are entitled to extra money when their patients are diagnosed with conditions that are costly to treat.  The solution to that would seem to be to fix the risk adjustment system, but later, Oliver would contend that the government’s involvement with private health care companies proves that it is the health care companies that need to go, “And when you take this all together, you get a system where the incentives are clearly set up for insurance companies to make you look as sick as possible on paper, while doing as little as possible to help you when you actually need it.” Oliver then asked and answered his own question: So, what can we do? Well, as I've said before, so many of these problems would go away if we had single payer healthcare. And we could get closer to that by making regular Medicare more expansive and easier to navigate, and getting rid of that 20 percent gap in coverage. But until then, we should at the very least be calling Medicare Advantage by a different name, and ideally one without the term 'Medicare' anywhere near it. Because as you've seen, they're just not the same. It's like the difference between a flashlight and a fleshlight. Sure, they might sound similar, but they do drastically different things. Not only is there no evidence that a single-payer system will lead to better healthcare, there is ample evidence the opposite would happen. Across the pond, Britain’s National Health Service continues to be a disaster with excessively long wait times and shortages. Meanwhile, just to the north, in Canada, with its provincially run system, there are also still outrageously long waiting lines and shortages. Here is a transcript for the October 26 show: HBO Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 10/26/2025 11:18 PM ET JOHN OLIVER: Yeah, the whole argument was this would expand choice, and companies would do a better job at controlling costs than the government. And look, some things are better when the private sector's involved. Take novelty slippers. Only through competition in the free market do you get innovations like hairy feet slippers, creepy Marge Simpson slippers, Sigmund Freud slippers, "Danny DeFeeto" slippers, and golden penis slippers. And if you're wondering, who the fuck would buy those? You are looking at him right here. Now, why did I buy them? I don't know, probably because of something deep-rooted in my psyche stemming from childhood, at least according to my Sigmund Freud slipper right here.  But sadly, the private sector hasn't done as well with Medicare as it has with slippers, because these plans have never saved the government money. In fact, a report last year estimated Medicare Advantage had cost the government, over the previous 18 years, an extra $591 billion. And this is partly down to the fact the major companies involved need to make profits for their investors, and they've found ways to do that. One concerns how they get paid. Because in traditional Medicare, a provider treats you, and the government pays a fee for it. But in Medicare Advantage, plans get a fixed payment from the government for each member they take on, regardless of whether you get treatment or not. And crucially, that payment's based in large part on what illnesses you're listed as having, because insurers are entitled to extra money when their patients are diagnosed with conditions that are costly to treat.  … And when you take this all together, you get a system where the incentives are clearly set up for insurance companies to make you look as sick as possible on paper, while doing as little as possible to help you when you actually need it. Now, the industry is going to dispute that. They've even funded their own studies suggesting their plans actually save the government money, and deliver consistently better health outcomes than traditional Medicare. Though, when STAT News asked more than a dozen leading health policy experts to review a bunch of those studies, they found they had “fundamental flaws” and “obvious biases,” and on the whole were so skewed they basically constituted an “alternate reality.” And look, if these companies are living in such a dangerous fantasy world, they clearly need professional help. Luckily, I know a board-certified therapist who can see them. He's out of network though, so fuck you. So, what can we do? Well, as I've said before, so many of these problems would go away if we had single-payer healthcare. And we could get closer to that by making regular Medicare more expansive and easier to navigate, and getting rid of that 20 percent gap in coverage. But until then, we should at the very least be calling Medicare Advantage by a different name, and ideally one without the term "Medicare" anywhere near it. Because as you've seen, they're just not the same. It's like the difference between a flashlight and a fleshlight. Sure, they might sound similar, but they do drastically different things. 

“We get that reporting might be tough since NPR was defunded after we exposed your woke CEO and biased ‘news’ at our hearing,” the House Oversight Committee responded Tuesday when National Public Radio’s Tom Dreisbach criticized a video promoting the committee’s latest report. “One oddity of this GOP Oversight Committee video is that so little of it involves the actual testimony of former Biden aides,” the NPR correspondent wrote in a social media post commenting on a @GOPoversight video announcing release of the committee’s findings regarding its investigation of “the Biden Autopen Presidency.” “There's a lot of Fox News sizzle reel stuff in here!” Dreisbach wrote, in an apparent effort to discredit the video. Indeed, the video provides clips of Fox News Channel highlights of the scandal involving Joe Biden’s mental decline during his presidency and his administration’s insistence that Biden was in full possession of his faculties. But, it also provides video of two of Biden’s senior advisers and the White House physician appearing at a House hearing – and refusing to testify by invoking the Fifth Amendment protecting them from self-incrimination. And, while the video may not provide enough testimony by Biden aides to suit Dreisbach, “you’ll be glad to know that all 47 hours of deposition and transcribed interview footage are available on our website,” the Oversight Committee’s reply notes. “Joe Biden WAS NOT running the show. Our new report EXPOSES how Biden's decline was real and his aides covered it up. Aides didn't even know WHO was operating the autopen to sign official documents and pardons. Watch the truth they tried to bury,” the committee declared in its initial post of the video, prompting Dreisbach’s critique.   Joe Biden WAS NOT running the show. Our new report EXPOSES how Biden's decline was real and his aides covered it up. Aides didn't even know WHO was operating the autopen to sign official documents and pardons. Watch the truth they tried to bury ?? pic.twitter.com/WkQsy5k6uC — Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) October 28, 2025   Titled “The Biden Autopen Presidency: Decline, Delusion, and Deception in the White House,” the hundred-page report “exposes Biden’s decline, the White House cover-up, and invalid executive actions signed by autopen,” Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) said in a statement Tuesday: “The Biden Autopen Presidency will go down as one of the biggest political scandals in U.S. history. As Americans saw President Biden’s decline with their own eyes, Biden’s inner circle sought to deceive the public, cover-up his decline, and took unauthorized executive actions with the autopen that are now invalid.” As a result of the findings, Chairman Comer has asked U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to look into both the legitimacy of Biden’s executive actions and the aides who invoked the Fifth, the committee writes in a follow-up post: “In light of our bombshell Biden Autopen Presidency report, Chairman Comer is calling on @AGPamBondi to conduct a review of ALL executive actions taken during the Biden presidency. He's also referring Dr. Kevin O'Connor, Annie Tomasini, and Anthony Bernal for further investigation after they took the Fifth during our deposition.”   We get that reporting might be tough since NPR was defunded after we exposed your woke CEO and biased “news” at our hearing. But you’ll be glad to know that all 47 hours of deposition and transcribed interview footage are available on our website. https://t.co/yXI5LhLVYM — Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) October 28, 2025

A NewsBusters analysis of five leading liberal Capitol Hill reporters has found that, by a margin of roughly two-and-a-half-to-one (72 to 28), they have taken to X since the start of the government shutdown to condemn Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and the House for being out of session than they have highlighted crucial government programs like food stamps and pay for soldiers that have been affected by the Democrat-created crisis. With X posts starting with the shutdown itself on October 1 and running through Monday, NewsBusters chose five of the longest-tenured and well-known reporters on the Hill: PunchBowl’s John Bresnahan and Jake Sherman, The New York Times’s Annie Karni, independent reporter Jamie Dupree (formerly with Cox), and The Washington Post’s Paul Kane. Concerning attacks on Johnson and the House, we found 72 relevant tweets using the following terms: Calendar, district, House, out, session, votes, and work. Tweets specifically discussing Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) were not included. Karni had the fewest tweets with four and one was an X post of her October 25 article that read like a column: “Keeping the House Absent, Johnson Marginalizes Congress and Himself.” Showing the incestuous nature of the liberal D.C. press, Sherman shared Karni’s article as one of his 24 X posts about Johnson and the People’s House, calling it a “good [Annie Karni] story.” Back on October 3, Sherman posted on X that “House Republican leadership has been all over the map on whether to bring the House back.” Five days later, he huffed “House Republican leadership has felt fine keeping lawmakers at home and blaming the Senate.” Bresnahan also shared Karni’s punditry as one of his 13 whiny posts, adding a quote of hers: “Speaker Mike Johnson’s decision to put the House on an indefinite hiatus … is the latest in a series of moves he has made that have diminished the role of Congress and shrunken the speakership at a critical moment.” “The government has been shut down for weeks & the House GOP leadership won’t bring their own members back. Pretty stunning,” Bresnahan said just over a week earlier on October 17. As for Dupree and Kane, they had 21 and ten X posts, respectively. This October 10 missive from Kane was particularly egregious in showing his bias. Check out his rejection of an argument that keeping the House around would make little sense (given they passed a clean continuing resolution): “This is a bonkers theory that some Rs are floating. Its core tenet suggests: Our members are too immature & insane to be here during important debates, better to hide them back in their districts. If this is the case, why should they ever be in DC? Abolish the House?” Last week, Kane blasted Johnson: “In Oct '23, Rs settled on a low-profile member to become speaker because he was only one who could get the votes & reopen House after 3-week shutdown. On Saturday @SpeakerJohnson celebrates 2-yr anniversary by overseeing 35-day-and-counting shutdown of House.” But when it came to substance, they were far less interested. To find our 28 X posts, we used these search terms: benefits, federal employee, federal pay, nutrition, pay, SNAP, troops, troop pay, veteran, and WIC. Kane and Karni tied for one X post each. Karni mentioned troop pay being in jeopardy on October 1, but as for Kane, he posted on October 16 about missed paychecks. However, he wasn’t concerned about missed pay for air traffic controllers, troops, or other government workers who defend country: “That’s a wrap on this week of shutdown. With Senate adjourned until 5:30 pm Monday, it’s official: Thousands of Senate staff will miss a full payment for time worked this month. They get paid 5th & 20th each month. They will get back pay at end of shutdown. But only then.” Brenahan was next as he fired off seven X posts on affected groups from October 1-27. Three were about troops, two on SNAP benefits, and one each on back pay and federal employees. Dupree had eight X posts about troop pay having been in question as a result of the shutdown. Incredibly, all of them were kvetching about the legality of finding work-arounds to continue paying our servicemen and women. “Maybe someone can cite the section of federal law which allows a President to move unused Pentagon funding into military pay for a new fiscal year - without Congressional approval,” he grumbled on October 11. In another, he complained four days later: “Is this constitutional?  31 U.S.C. §1301(a) states: ‘ Appropriations shall be applied only to the objects for which the appropriations were made.’ Does leftover Pentagon RDT&E funding have a 'reasonable, logical relationship' to military pay?  Doesn't seem like it.” Sherman had the most on 11 X posts about affected parties (seven on troops, three on back pay, and one on WIC). The liberal press have always been hostile toward Republicans and government shutdowns have long been an unfortunate but crystal clear contrast. But given the fact that this shutdown has been driven by their fellow liberals, these journalists have used social media to eschew the usual tactic of accusing Republicans of being heartless to instead complain about....process.