This felt like a culmination of two separate worlds. Letlive. embodied the post-hardcore scene for the last twenty years and Taking Back Sunday the emo scene. Seeing them together on stage was truly a once in a lifetime experience. Both bands were stellar and delivered some of their best performances yet. Letlive. was, to no one’s surprise, stellar beyond belief. Jason Alan Butler has gained notoriety through all his bands as being one of the most captivating front man. He threw the bass drum, kicked over mic stands, and used his spilled water as a slip-n-slide across the stage. Every second of their set was captivating. Taking Back Sunday unveiled their new mega-lineup. This was the first time fans got to see both Fred Mascherino [from Where You Want To Be and Louder Now] and John Nolan [from the rest of their discography] play side-by-side. It felt like all eras of the seminal band colliding. They sounded fantastic and the new songs fit seamlessly next to their hits. We were fortunate enough to send our photographer @LiveOnToor out to capture the chaos. Please enjoy our gallery below. Letlive. Taking Back Sunday.
https://www.theaquarian.com/2025/11/18/letlive-and-taking-back-sunday-in-las-vegas/
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American Head Charge Frontman Resurfaces To Discuss Addiction Struggle With Soft White Underbelly
Unfortunately just smack in the middle of the Mudvayne tour our best friend, and just amazing guitar player person, Bryan Ottoson ended up passing away in the tour bus. And really nobody was prepared for that. We none of us were none of us had the tools to, I don’t know, process that. The best thing we could come up with is, you know, Bryan would want us to be out on tour making music if he were in our shoes. And so we went home for like three days, buried him, and ended up coming right back out on tour. And we were out of our minds. We didn’t know how to deal with it, how to process it. So there’s a lot of sideways anger and animosity coming out all over the place to each other to. it was everywhere. And nobody was dealing with it. And then so we did that Static-X tour with a actual friend of Bryan‘s, a guy named Benji [Helberg] who ended up being [our] guitar player off and on for the subsequent years. But after Bryan died, I really, I love that dude. I loved making music with him. And I didn’t, I just I couldn’t process it. I felt a lot of guilt for his death because he died in part. He had been taking antibiotics for strep throat. He had gotten strep throat for like a second time. He didn’t deal with. He wasn’t able to deal with the rigors of being on tour and and all that goes into that and your immune system’s just got to be on. It’s tough and he just wasn’t used to it. That was his first, well his second, tour and his body was just not handling it. So he ended up taking some pills that I had. I mean, I was deep in my addiction. I had a jar of pills like about this big and it was just a grab bag of like every opiate, benzo, muscle relaxer. It was. at the time I thought it was awesome, but you know, I think in a lot of ways, had that not been there, Bryan might still be alive. So I struggle with a lot of guilt over that. It certainly fueled more spiraling and I really kind of turned my back away from the band for a number of years, and then started to write music again. And I just can’t really get away from it. I mean it’s like every record seems to be doomed somehow. When when we released the debut record [The War Of Art], we released it August 28th. Well, August 28th, 2001. Well, September 11th happened two weeks after we released our record. So, it was, we were doing great. Like, sales wise, we were on course to. you know, other records that have gone gold were right where we were in terms of sales. Anyway, so that first record had 9/11 happen. The second record had Bryan die. Um, the third record well, we did an EP actually between the second and and third one and that one really didn’t have any like major tragedy to it. But the third one, by the end of it, the guy that I had started with, my bass player [Chad Hanks], he had had Hepatitis C for a long time [and he] refused to stop drinking. He basically locked himself in a friend’s basement a la Leaving Las Vegas; he basically drank himself to death. Drinking just massive bottles of vodka every day until he ended up needing to be in hospice because he all his organs were failing. And so that one I didn’t deal with very well either. That one was. I mean it, Chad and I had a connection that was otherworldly, and when he died I just really went off the deep end. I had no intention of waking up the next day. So, like my my days were, I was down for whatever. I was doing a lot of stuff that I shouldn’t have been doing. I was hanging out with a lot of people I shouldn’t have been hanging out with. Luckily I ended up getting arrested randomly. They did, the cops this is in Orange County at the time, I was living in Orange County at the time the cops did a sweep of this hotel that I wasn’t staying at, but I was there seeing somebody and they just happened to catch me. And when I walked out of that hotel room, there was mind you, the city I was living in, they get a little overboard with the cops and I came out to like 30 or 40, 20 or 30 cops, all guns drawn. I look back on that, I’m really lucky they did because I had some bad plans with some bad people to do some really nasty stuff. And I’m really glad I didn’t get a chance to do any of that. Anyway, I ended up doing like three months, and then I had to do some treatment to satisfy the courts. I did that, came out, and we made our last record. So I mean Chad died and I just, like I said, I wasn’t trying to wake up at all, and I kept waking up. And then I got out of jail and somehow my guitar player had bought a house in the hills of Los Angeles. And little did I know that while I was in jail, he had become addicted to slamming meth and had completely lost his mind. He [became] paranoid schizophrenic. It’s just, he was beyond help. I mean there was nights where [I’d] just hear kicking and screaming and him throwing things around his room and there’s nothing anybody could do about it. He’s screaming at the voices in his head. I mean. the fact that he got a new girlfriend that was. basically it was just me and him in the house, and it was his house. But when he got this girlfriend [they became] convinced that she basically wanted a house for herself and him to be alone. I can’t fault them or fault her for that, but you know, it was this is somebody that was like my brother I expected to live to an old age [with] and and he would always be there. And I came home one night, or one morning, and he had changed the locks. And through the screen door. I said, ‘What’s going on?’ And he just says, ‘I don’t want you in my life anymore.’ That was such a such a gutshot. I didn’t even like, I just, I had no idea that that was anywhere on my horizon. And I had nowhere to go. I had a motorcycle at the time and I ended up homeless. I ended up homeless down in Echo Park. And I migrated after they closed Echo Park down to a couple different places and then ended up down in good old MacArthur Park and [I’ve] been there for years. A couple of my friends were looking for me. It sucks because I love music. I love making music. I love the whole process. I love touring. I love everything about it and it’s just been so much negative, like every person I’ve lost in my life has been like almost directly a result of me, or my involvement in the band. For whatever reason, either I got to fire the person because they’re not doing, you know, what needs to be done, or they die, or they go crazy, or they kick me out of their life because I’ve been doing drugs the entire time they’ve known me, but suddenly now I need to stop. I’ll admit, [they’re] probably right, but I’m a stubborn motherf*cker. And so really I just still have a bunch of music in my mind and my heart. It’s just bringing myself to do that. I mean, I pour everything into the records when I make them and it’s like I know I have at least two to three records in my head that I want to release. I mean all the music I make is really just for myself, but it’s like my therapy and if I don’t, I don’t I know, I’m going to die.
https://stereogum.com/2480021/american-head-charges-cameron-heacock-discusses-fentanyl-addiction-in-new-interview/news/
The Saucony Ride 18 is the best running shoe for most people, and it just received its first Black Friday discount
As a keen runner, I’ve worn and reviewed a lot of running shoes, but I’ve always had a soft spot for Saucony’s Ride series. All-rounder shoes perfect for the everyday runner just looking to get plenty of miles in without needing any technical performance tweaks or hugely expensive super-shoes. I’ve been wearing Saucony Rides since the Ride 14, and loved the range as it evolved. They’re just great all-rounder shoes. If it’s hard to parse through reams of different shoes in the Black Friday deals and you’re not sure what to get, a good all-rounder shoe is probably what you need. Right now, you can get them cheaper than ever for Black Friday. The Saucony Ride 18 is available now, reduced from $145 to just $107. 50 on Amazon. That’s in both women’s sizes and men’s sizes. • Shop the full Black Friday deals Check out the deals in full below. Of course, you can visit our Black Friday deals hub for all the early discounts as Black Friday draws closer, from more running shoes to roombas. Today’s best Saucony Ride 18 deals In our official Saucony Ride 18 review, we said this shoe “handles pavement, track or light trails with ease making it perfect for both short and long training days”. I’ve certainly found that true in my experience with the Ride series: I used them for 3-4km runs around my local park, all the way up to half-marathons, and the shoe handled everything with aplomb. I’d certainly have no qualms running a marathon in these, and I might just get myself a pair for 2026’s racing season. It’s not light enough for serious performance racing, not waterproof enough for muddy, wet trails, and not thick enough for intense ultramarathon long-distance training. But if you’re after a mid-distance shoe that’s good at everything in moderation, this is it. It’s the best running shoe for most people. More Black Friday deals in the US.
https://www.techradar.com/health-fitness/smartwatches/the-saucony-ride-18-is-the-best-running-shoe-for-most-people-and-it-just-received-its-first-black-friday-discount
Republicans revive bid to require proof of citizenship for mail-in voter registration
Republicans revive bid to require proof of citizenship for mail-in voter registration Washington Examiner ^ | November 18, 2025 12: 00 pm | Ramsey Touchberry Posted on by E. Pluribus Unum EXCLUSIVE Republicans in Congress are renewing a push to combat noncitizen voting in federal elections, directing their attention to the registration forms used to vote by mail. The Citizen Ballot Protection Act, spearheaded by Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) and Rep. Gary Palmer (R-AL), would codify states’ ability to require proof of citizenship on mail voting applications. The legislation, introduced Tuesday, was offered during the previous Congress but failed to gain traction under Democratic leadership and then-President Joe Biden. “Voting in our country is a sacred right that must solely be limited to American citizens,” Britt said in a statement. “To allow states to uphold this principle should be simple commonsense.” The proposal would amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, which says voter registration forms submitted by mail may not include “any requirement for notarization or other formal authentication” and is intended to empower states to enact citizenship requirements for mailed applications. The current requirement includes attesting on the form, under penalty of perjury, that the applicant is an American citizen. The Supreme Court in 2013 struck down an Arizona law requiring proof of citizenship when registering to vote, concluding that states could not create new requirements for federal elections under the NVRA. (Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer. com . TOPICS: Politics/Elections KEYWORDS: Click here: to donate by Credit Card Or here: to donate by PayPal Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC PO Box 9771 Fresno, CA 93794 Thank you very much and God bless you. We live in Bizarro World. 1 posted on by E. Pluribus Unum Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by.
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Federal court halts Texas’ new House map, orders return to 2021 districts
A federal court on Tuesday blocked Texas from using its newly drawn 2025 congressional map, ruling that state lawmakers likely engaged in unconstitutional racial gerrymandering. In a 160-page order, a three-judge panel in the Western District of Texas issued a preliminary injunction preventing the state from implementing the map in the 2026 elections. Instead, the court ordered Texas to revert to the congressional map enacted in 2021 while the case proceeds. This is a breaking news story. Check back for updates.
https://www.wptv.com/politics/federal-court-halts-texas-new-house-map-orders-return-to-2021-districts
Gov. Abbott Designates CAIR a Foreign Terrorist Organization
Gov. Greg Abbott released a proclamation today identifying the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as foreign terrorist organizations in the state of Texas. Gov. Greg Abbott is designating the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations as foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations. The designation authorizes “heightened enforcement” against both organizations and their affiliates and prohibits them from purchasing or acquiring land in Texas, according to Abbott’s office. Abbott’s move comes as he has increasingly spoken out against Muslim groups amid his run for a record fourth term. Muslim advocates say he is amplifying Islamophobic rhetoric that they fear could lead to violence against Muslim communities. Abbott released a statement about the proclamation: “The Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR have long made their goals clear: to forcibly impose Sharia law and establish Islam’s ‘mastership of the world,’” said Governor Abbott. “The actions taken by the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR to support terrorism across the globe and subvert our laws through violence, intimidation, and harassment are unacceptable. Today, I designated the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations. These radical extremists are not welcome in our state and are now prohibited from acquiring any real property interest in Texas.” The proclamation itself can be viewed here. It includes a list of people CAIR has “employed, affiliated with, and supported” who promoted “terrorism-related activiites.” The last person on the list is Nihad Awad, the group’s current president. The proclamation says he “praised and supported Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack against Israel.” Did Awad do that? Yes, he did. In fact, the Biden White House disavowed CAIR after Awad’s comments. The White House disavowed an American-Islamic advocacy organization on Thursday after the group’s director declared that he “was happy to see” Palestinians break out of Gaza on Oct. 7, the day of the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel that killed an estimated 1, 200 people and led to the seizure of 240 others as hostages. A spokesman for President Biden condemned the remarks by Nihad Awad, the national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, who declared in a speech that Palestinians in Gaza “have the right to self-defense” but that Israel “as an occupying power” does not. Mr. Awad said his comments were being misconstrued. “We condemn these shocking, antisemitic statements in the strongest terms,” said Mr. Biden’s spokesman, Andrew Bates.“The people of Gaza only decided to break the siege, the walls of the concentration camp, on Oct. 7,” he said. “And yes, I was happy to see people breaking the siege and throwing down the shackles of their own land and walk free into their land that they were not allowed to walk in. “And yes,” he continued, “the people of Gaza have the right to self-defense, have the right to defend themselves, and yes, Israel as an occupying power does not have that right to self-defense.” Video of his statement is here. It seems pretty clear to me he’s saying that the land of Israel belongs to the Palestinians and Israel has no right to defend itself. After the speech circulated, Awad claimed he was misunderstood and that he was only referring to Palestinians who wandered into Israel while the attack was taking place, not to Hamas. In any case, CAIR just released a statement reacting to the proclamation by Gov. Abbott. Greg Abbott is an Israel First politician who has spent months stoking anti-Muslim hysteria to smear American Muslims critical of the Israeli government. Although we are flattered by his obsession with our civil rights group, his defamatory proclamation has no basis in fact or law. Unlike Mr. Abbott–who unleashed violence against Texas students protesting the Gaza genocide to satisfy his AIPAC donors–our civil rights organization is an independent voice that answers to the American people, relies on support from the American people, and opposes all forms of unjust violence, including hate crimes, ethnic cleansing, genocide and terrorism. CAIR has successfully sued @GregAbbott_TX three different times for shredding the First Amendment to benefit the Israeli government, and we are ready to sue him again if he attempts to turn this publicity stunt into real policy. See you in court again, Greg. if you dare. On the federal level, neither group has been designated an FTO, but a bill was recently introduced to target the Muslim Brotherhood. In July, Florida Representatives Mario Díaz-Balart, a Republican, and Jared Moskowitz, a Democrat, co-chairs of the Friends of Egypt Caucus, reintroduced the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2025, aimed at designating the global Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group. The U. S. government has not designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization as a whole, citing the group’s diffuse structure and political activities across different countries. I wanted to include some reactions to the proclamation from X, unfortunately X is not behaving well this morning and won’t let me embed any tweets at the moment. Editor’s Note: Do you enjoy Hot Air’s conservative reporting that takes on the radical left and woke media? Support our work so that we can continue to bring you the truth.
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2025/11/18/gov-abbott-designates-cair-a-foreign-terrorist-organization-n3809024
Real ID So Real, Even Real Terrorists Can Get One!
Hot Air ^ | 17 Nov, 2025 | Beege Welborn Posted on by MtnClimber In the middle of last month, and in response to a sudden rash of horrific and fatal semi-truck accidents found to have been caused by illegal aliens with commercial drivers’ licenses (CDL), the Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, announced he was immediately imposing a radical measure in an attempt to get these dangerous, often non-English speaking hazards off American highways. Calling the current use of non-domiciled CDLs a “national emergency” and a “threat to public safety,” the U. S. Department of Transportation plans to drastically reduce eligibility. The new system will make non-citizens ineligible for a non-domiciled CDL unless they meet stricter requirements, including an employment-based visa and a federal immigration status check. During a news conference on Friday, Sept. 26, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the changes are in response to a recent series of fatal crashes caused by non-domiciled drivers. “We have a government system designed to keep families on the road safe, but that system has been compromised,” Duffy said. “I’m talking about non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses that are issued across the country. In plain English, this is a license to operate a massive 80, 000-pound truck that is being issued to foreign drivers who are not U. S. citizens or lawful permanent residents. The process for issuing these licenses is absolutely 100% broken. It has become a threat to public safety, and it is a national emergency that requires action right now.” He was shutting down the blue states’ ability to issue CDLs to all comers. 1. Limits individuals eligible for non-domiciled CLPs and CDLs to those maintaining lawful immigration status in certain employment-based nonimmigrant categories, certain individuals domiciled in a U. S. territory and individuals domiciled in a state that is prohibited from issuing CLPs or CDLs because the state’s CDL program is decertified 2. Requires non-citizen applicants (except for lawful permanent residents) to provide an unexpired foreign passport and an unexpired arrival/departure record indicating one of the specified employment-based nonimmigrant categories at every issuance, transfer, renewal and upgrade action 3. Requires state driver’s licensing agencies to query the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements System to verify the accuracy and legitimacy of provided documents and information 4. Requires the state agencies to retain copies of the application documents for at least two years 5. Requires the expiration date for any non-domiciled CLP or CDL to match the expiration date of the arrival/departure record or to expire in one year, whichever is sooner 6. Requires the applicant to be present in person at each renewal 7. Requires the state agency to downgrade the non-domiciled CLP or CDL if the state becomes aware that the person is no longer eligible This update of regulations would have rendered nearly 190, 000 non-citizens’ licenses invalid. That number alone tells you the size of the problem. On the 10th of this month, a federal court ruled that Duffy’s new rule could be ‘administratively stayed,’ effectively neutering the program before it even began while they looked into it. SNIP TOPICS: Society KEYWORDS: Click here: to donate by Credit Card Or here: to donate by PayPal Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC PO Box 9771 Fresno, CA 93794 Thank you very much and God bless you. 1 posted on by MtnClimber To: MtnClimber No doubt there will be a judge who puts a stay on this measure. 2 posted on by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.) Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by.
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Hive Digital’s 53% crash mirrors Bitcoin’s retreat, but analysts predict a bullish bounce to $10
Hive Digital Technologies’ stock price has entered a bear market, down over 53% from its year-high. The stock, listed on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol HIVE, traded at $3. 50, down from its October high of $7. 82. It has tumbled to its lowest level since Sept. 26. Why Hive Digital stock has crashed Hive Digital stock jumped by over 500% from its April low to its October high. This rally was driven by the recent Bitcoin (BTC) bull run that pushed it to a record high in October. The company also surged after announcing plans to pivot into the artificial intelligence and high-performance computing industries. This strategy mirrors that of other Bitcoin mining companies, such as Core Scientific, IREN, and Bitfarms, which have become multi-billion-dollar entities. Recently, Hive stock price has crashed due to the ongoing crypto market downturn. Its retreat is also similar to other AI data center companies. CoreWeave, a former Bitcoin miner that has become the sector’s most significant player, has dropped 61% from its year-to-date high. Similarly, IREN stock has dropped by 37% from this month’s high despite reaching a $9. 7 billion deal with Microsoft. Bitfarms and Nebius are down 60% and 40%, respectively, from their recent peaks. Top Wall Street analysts are bullish on Hive stock Some major Wall Street analysts are highly bullish on Hive Digital stock and expect it to jump by 185% to $10. In a note, Rosenblatt noted that the management’s strategy was working, as evidenced by the Q2’26 report. The company had $87 million in revenue in the quarter, higher than the $80 million Rosenblatt had expected. Its Bitcoin mining revenue rose to $82 million, while its AI business brought in $5. 7 million. The analyst wrote: “With the stock selling off sharply in the recent market pullback, we see an attractive entry point and reiterate our BUY rating. Our Price Target remains $10 based on 12x our FY27 Adjusted EBITDA estimate.” Meanwhile, H. C. Wainwright analysts also predicted that the Hive stock price will jump to $10, citing management’s plan to deploy 11, 000 GPUs by the end of next year, up from ~5, 000 today. These investments will help it make $140 million in annualized AI cloud revenue by the end of next year. The analyst noted: “ We are raising our price target to $10 from $8 previously. Our revised price target reflects a 5x EV/revenue multiple applied to our revised C2026 revenue estimate of $498. 7M (down from $534. 8M).” Hive Digital shares technical analysis The daily timeframe chart shows that the Hive stock has formed a cup-and-handle-like pattern. The cup’s upper side was at $5. 54, while its lower side was at $1. 28. It is now forming the handle section and has found support at the 200-day moving average. Therefore, remaining above this average will point to a rebound, initially to the cup’s upper side. The cup has a depth of about 77%. Measuring the same distance from the cup’s upper side gives a target of $9. 8, which is a few points below the analysts’ estimate of $10.
https://crypto.news/hive-digital-stock-wall-street-analysts-predict/
Openledger Launches OPEN Mainnet to Fix AI’s Data Theft Problem
Openledger has launched the OPEN Mainnet, a blockchain designed to introduce fair compensation and transparency to the AI industry by addressing the uncompensated use of training data. OPEN Mainnet Introduces ‘Payable AI’ to Compensate Creators Openledger has launched the OPEN Mainnet, positioning it as the first blockchain infrastructure built specifically to address what it calls [.].
https://news.bitcoin.com/openledger-launches-open-mainnet-to-fix-ais-data-theft-problem/
Diaper Changes Don’t Require Diplomatic Negotiations — No Matter What The Experts Say
Parenting is not a collaborative effort in which moms and dads give gentle guidance and suggestions while offering the child an opportunity to haggle over each.
https://www.conservativereview.com/diaper-changes-dont-require-diplomatic-negotiations-no-matter-what-the-experts-say-2674306085.html