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News The Boys The Boys Season Five Trailer Teases Its Supernatural Reunion They’re in fear for their lives and I don’t think the long arm of the law is the problem here By Molly Templeton | Published on December 8, 2025 Screenshot: Prime Video Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Prime Video The end is coming for The Boys, Prime Video’s adaptation of the comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. It feels as if this show has been on forever, but this final season is only its fifth—though of course there’s the Gen V spinoff, the upcoming Vought Rising spinoff, the animated The Boys Presents: Diabolical anthology series, and a yet-to-come series set in Mexico. But first, Butcher (Karl Urban) and company need to save the world. That is the primary focus of this trailer—saving the world, what it costs, how it’s worth it even if everybody dies—and to that end, said trailer involves a lot of shots of individual characters looking angry and/or worried. The synopsis says: In the fifth and final season, it’s Homelander’s world, completely subject to his erratic, egomaniacal whims. Hughie, Mother’s Milk, and Frenchie are imprisoned in a “Freedom Camp.” Annie struggles to mount a resistance against the overwhelming Supe force. Kimiko is nowhere to be found. But when Butcher reappears, ready and willing to use a virus that will wipe all Supes off the map, he sets in motion a chain of events that will forever change the world and everyone in it. It’s the climax, people. Big stuff’s gonna happen. But the secondary focus—or the primary focus, depending on your feeling about a certain long-running CW series—is that this season includes a Supernatural reunion. Jensen Ackles has been on The Boys for a while now, playing Soldier Boy (who will be central in Vought Rising). But now here comes Jared Padalecki to join him! Padalecki, whose character is still a mystery, appears to walk into a room where Soldier Boy looks mighty confused by his arrival. (This could be tricky editing; it’s not entirely clear if Padalecki’s arrival is what Ackles’ expression is about.) In Soldier Boy’s defense, Padalecki kind of looks like a serial killer who stole Michael Sheen’s wig from the Underworld movies. To underscore this momentous occasion, the trailer is set to a vamped-up version of Styx’s “Renegade,” a song which memorably appeared in a second-season episode of Supernatural. The Boys is created by Eric Kripke, and along with everyone mentioned above, it also stars Antony Starr, Jack Quaid, Erin Moriarty, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Tomer Capone, Giancarlo Esposito, Karen Fukuhara, Colby Minifie, Cameron Crovetti, Susan Heyward, and Valorie Curry. The final season begins April 18, 2026.[end-mark] The post <i>The Boys</i> Season Five Trailer Teases Its <i>Supernatural</i> Reunion appeared first on Reactor.

Column SFF Bestiary Marine Life Weirder Than Space Aliens Colonial animals like the Portuguese Man o’ War push the boundaries on life as we know it… By Judith Tarr | Published on December 8, 2025 Photo by Sebastian Schuster [via Unsplash] Comment 0 Share New Share Photo by Sebastian Schuster [via Unsplash] I have learned so much while researching and writing this chapter of the SFF Bestiary. I’m endlessly intrigued by the sheer range and variety of creatures that live in the ocean. Some, like cetaceans, are alien but still relatable to our mammalian brains. Others are as weird and truly other as anything we can imagine on another planet. When I started researching this topic, I was surprised to discover that the Portuguese man o’ war is not a jellyfish. It looks like one, with its shimmering, clear-plastic-like inflatable bladder and its trailing tentacles, not to mention its notorious stingers, but it’s something else. It’s a siphonophore. Jellyfish and siphonophores are related. They’re both classified as Cnidarians. They share a gelatinous body, stinging tentacles, and no blood or brain. But structurally they’re very different. A jellyfish has a bell or hood, tentacles, arms, and a mouth. Sometimes it has eyes or eye-like structures. It’s an animal in the way we are, a collection of specialized organs that add up to a single creature. A siphonophore is what’s known as a colonial animal, a community of tiny creatures called zooids. Every member of the colony has a specific and separate function. Some feed, some swim, some reproduce. They’re joined together along a central stem, through which they share energy and nutrition. Individual zooids can’t survive apart from the colony, but if some are separated, the rest of the colony can survive and generate new zooids. All the zooids in a siphonophore are clones of a single fertilized egg. The egg develops into a polyp, which buds off copies of itself, specialized according to its location in the colony. The ones that eat can’t swim, the ones that swim can’t eat, and so on. Siphonophores of the same species grow their zooids in the same order, but different species have different arrangements. Many have swimming zooids called nectophores that propel them through the water. Some species, including the man o’ war, have a gas-filled bladder or pneumatophore at or near the front. Some have pneumatophores but not nectophores. They all have feeding polyps with long tentacles that capture and usually sting prey and then consume it, and reproductive zooids that can be either all male or all female or both. A man o’ war’s balloon or float is fairly small, around six inches (15cm) high, but the stinging tentacles can extend as far as 100 feet (30 meters). Hundreds of man o’ wars can congregate in a single area, just like a jellyfish bloom, with similar effects on swimmers and beachgoers. What you see on the beach or above the water is a tiny fraction of the whole animal. The man o’ war is far from the largest or longest of its kind, and it’s one of the few that lives on or near the surface of the ocean. Most siphonophores live in the twilight zone, down 2000 feet (700 meters) and more. That’s where the giants are. The giant siphonophore, the praya dubia (doesn’t that sound like an alien species?), is one of the longest creatures in the ocean, longer than the blue whale. Supposedly it can reach 50 meters (160 feet). It’s an apparently endless ribbon, glowing with bioluminescence, transcribing enormous spirals in the darkness of the deep sea. Seeing it and its fellow siphonophores on video, it’s hard to comprehend the scale. What looks like a hollow sea cucumber or a textured wind sock moves into the frame with human divers, and dwarfs them. We’ve seen something like it on Star Trek, in “The Doomsday Machine”. The way it’s constructed, as a colony of individual organisms rather than a single entity, is about as far from our experience as it can be. Its body is toxic to us, and it lives in an environment that cannot support human life. It’s beautiful and weird, and proves yet again that nature is stranger than we humans can imagine. If we find living creatures on other planets, we might encounter a being, or colony of beings, remarkably like this. Or it might even appear in space. The question then might be, is it sentient? Will we communicate with it? Can we? Or will it be as mysterious as our own terrestrial alien?[end-mark] The post Marine Life Weirder Than Space Aliens appeared first on Reactor.

An illegal alien from Honduras is reported to have stabbed a man on a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina. Suspect Oscar Gerardo Solorzano-Garcia is in custody and has been charged with attempted first-degree murder. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has logged an arrest detainer for the man.   The incident marks the second stabbing on Charlotte’s transit systems in five months.   “Another stabbing by an Illegal Migrant in Charlotte, North Carolina,” President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social over the weekend. “What’s going on in Charlotte? Democrats are destroying it, like everything else, piece by piece!!!”  Decarlos Brown Jr. was arrested over the summer and later indicted by a grand jury in the stabbing death of Ukrainian woman Iryna Zarutska. If convicted, Brown could face the death penalty.   Charlotte is a Democrat-run city with Democrats holding the majority of city council positions and controlling the school board. Vi Lyles, a Democrat, currently serves as the mayor of Charlotte. The city has not had a Republican mayor in over 15 years.  “Everyone deserves to be and feel safe in our city, and there is no room for violence in our community,” Lyles wrote on X after the Friday stabbing incident. “There are several aspects of public safety that are outside of the city’s jurisdiction, including immigration policy and enforcement, but we will continue to focus on public safety and ensuring a safe and vibrant community,” the mayor added.   The man stabbed in the most recent incident was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. A spokesperson for the Charlotte Area Transit System said the violence does not appear to have been random but the result of an “altercation between two individuals that escalated,” according to the local outlet WBTV 3.   Since Zarutska was stabbed on a Charlotte light rail train in August, the Charlotte Area Transit System has “taken a proactive and robust approach to keep employees and passengers as safe as possible by deploying additional off-duty [Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department] officers, private security personnel, new technology and safety reporting tools,” the train system Interim CEO Brent Cagle said.   Authorities arrested Honduran Solorzano shortly after the stabbing on Friday.   Suspect Oscar Gerardo Solorzano-Garcia. (DHS) In 2018, Solorzano was issued a final order of removal from an immigration judge and was removed in March 2018, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Authorities apprehended him crossing the border illegally in 2021 and he was removed but reentered the U.S. at an unknown time.   “This heinous stabbing by this twice removed illegal alien should have NEVER happened,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said. “ICE lodged an arrest detainer to ensure Oscar Gerardo Solorzano-Garcia is not released back into North Carolina neighborhoods. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee the county will honor the detainer since they have a history of not cooperating with ICE,” she said.  Charlotte is not a “sanctuary city,” but Sheriff Garry McFadden has a reputation of not willingly cooperating with ICE. Despite opposition from local leaders, immigration officials are carrying out enforcement efforts in the community.   In November, DHS launched Operation Charlotte’s Web in North Carolina to “target the criminal illegal aliens who flocked to the Tar Heel State because they knew sanctuary politicians would protect them and allow them to roam free on American streets,” according to DHS.   “Under President Trump, ICE is being unleashed to ensure public safety for all Americans,” Noem said. “Make no mistake: We will not rest until every depraved criminal illegal alien is removed from our communities.”  The post Trump Bashes Charlotte Democrats After Second Stabbing on Train   appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Google settled a racial bias lawsuit for $50 million. Merrill Lynch paid $20 million. Maryland taxpayers will have to pay $3 million to make a racial discrimination suit go away. “This is ridiculous! Taxpayers should not be on the hook for this!” complains Heather Mac Donald, author of “When Race Trumps Merit.” In our new video, she argues that companies and governments feel forced to pay because of a legal doctrine called “disparate impact.” “Most people don’t even know what it is!” I say. “It is their greatest weapon against excellence,” she replies, “and it is an abuse of the spirit of our civil rights laws.” Disparate impact rules say any policy or test in which some races or sexes do better than others is illegal discrimination, even if the policy has nothing to do with race or sex. “The Maryland State Police wanted to make sure state troopers could read at a very basic level,” says Mac Donald. But because black applicants got lower scores, the test was ruled racist. Because women got lower scores on the physical fitness test, the state was also found guilty of sexism. State politicians promised to change their standards and create new tests. Maryland taxpayers still have to pay millions. “Disparate impact means an institution can be completely colorblind, it can want to have as many different races as possible, but if it has a standard that blacks do poorly on, you got to throw out the standard,” says Mac Donald. New York taxpayers also paid about $2 billion because lawyers said a test for teachers was racist. Mac Donald says, “Even though you’ve spent decades throwing out every question on this exam that has too wide a racial divergence, you still didn’t have the same proportion of black applicants passing as white applicants, we’re going to throw out the exam. And you, New York taxpayers, are liable for $2 billion!” I push back, saying the reason Blacks are behind “is because of the legacy of slavery ... That’s all they’re saying. Remember that.” “No,” replies Mac Donald, “they’re saying much more than that! ... We have way overcorrected. You can have meritocracy in an institution, or you can have diversity. You cannot have both.” Now, President Donald Trump has ended disparate impact rules in the federal government. “We’re bringing meritocracy, the American way, back!” said his energy secretary. Trump also told colleges to get rid of DEI programs. “Some did kind of dismantle the DEI offices,” says Mac Donald, “but a lot of other ones just renamed them. ‘Diversity and Equity’ becomes ‘Belonging and Community.’” At the University of Virginia, staffers were caught bragging about it. “We have to change the names of some of our programs,” says one. “We have ‘queer brunch.’ You can’t call it ‘queer brunch’ anymore. You (have) to call it ‘cozy brunch’ ... We’re doing the same stuff, but changing the names a little bit.” “It is an act of narcissism and ego on the part of these college administrators who only care about the photos that show up on their college website and making sure that they’re suitably diverse,” says Mac Donald. “None of your viewers should give any benefit of the doubt to these bureaucrats. There’s no knowledge required to be a diversity bureaucrat. The only thing necessary is you’re willing to prosecute the race hustle.” That’s doing real harm, she says. “You already have medical schools that have simply waived the medical college admissions tests for black students because they do so poorly on them. They are bringing blacks into medical schools with qualifications that would be automatically disqualifying if presented by whites or Asians.” These facts are unpleasant for many to hear. But they deserve to be heard. Institutions should have one standard for excellence. “Ban discrimination,” says McDonald, “but we do not ban excellence. We do not ban high expectations ... Have a single level of excellence in this society. That is how we’re going to move forward.” Every Tuesday at JohnStossel.com, Stossel posts a new video about the battle between government and freedom. He is the author of “Government Gone Wild: Exposing the Truth Behind the Headlines.”

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A rampant repeat offender who reportedly was arrested a dozen times this year alone is accused of beating up a female doctor in a Chicago hospital parking garage elevator in an unprovoked attack.According to a Sunday CWB Chicago report, prosecutors said 39-year-old Sean Popps followed a 42-year-old cardiologist into the elevator in the parking garage at Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Streeterville campus just after 1:30 p.m. Nov. 2 and began repeatedly punching her in the head as she stumbled backward and covered her face with her hands.Popps also was arrested seven times in 2024, again in almost every case mostly on or near the hospital grounds, the outlet said.A Chicago police report said the victim suffered multiple bruises, scrapes, and hematomas to her face, head, arm, and hand, the outlet reported.What's more, officials said she had no prior contact with Popps and that the attack was completely unprovoked, according to CWB Chicago.More from the outlet:A Northwestern security officer instantly recognized Popps from surveillance video, citing “approximately 30 plus prior incidents at the hospital where [Popps] had to be removed,” a detention petition stated. Another Northwestern officer reported having “incidents with [Popps] approximately two times a day over the last 19 months.”At the time of the attack, Popps was on pretrial release for allegedly trespassing at a Streeterville residential building in October and attempting to escape from the police station lockup afterward.RELATED: Thugs on parole, probation thrown behind bars after allegedly repeating same crimes that got them in trouble previously Photo by Scott Olson/Getty ImagesCWB Chicago reported that police have arrested Popps a dozen times this year — and in almost every case for allegedly trespassing or damaging property on or near the hospital.Popps also was arrested seven times in 2024, again in almost every case mostly on or near the hospital grounds, the outlet said. He also was arrested at the hospital two times in 2020, twice in 2021, once in 2022, and once in 2023, CWB Chicago added.Judge Anthony Calabrese ordered Popps detained on a charge of aggravated battery in a public place, the outlet said. Jail records indicate his next court date is Dec. 30 and he has no bond.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!