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Jalen Brunson anota 37 puntos mientras Knicks vencen 118-111 a Bucks y avanzan en la Copa NBA
NUEVA YORK (AP) — Jalen Brunson anotó 37 puntos y los Knicks de Nueva York avanzaron a la ronda eliminatoria de la Copa NBA, venciendo 118-111 a los Bucks de Milwaukee el viernes por la noche en el regreso de Giannis Antetokounmpo tras una lesión en la ingle.
Miles McBride sumó 19 puntos, incluidos dos triples en los minutos iniciales del último cuarto para poner a los Knicks adelante por 13. Nueva York tuvo un récord de 3-1 para ganar el Grupo C del Este.
Josh Hart tuvo 19 unidades y 15 rebotes en su tercer juego de regreso en la alineación titular. Mikal Bridges anotó 14 tantos mientras los Knicks lanzaron con un 44% de efectividad.
Antetokounmpo terminó con 30 puntos, 15 rebotes y ocho asistencias en 28 minutos después de perderse cuatro juegos.
Kyle Kuzma añadió 20 puntos mientras Milwaukee perdió su séptimo partido consecutivo y fue eliminado del torneo con un récord de 2-2 en la fase de grupos. A.J. Green finalizó con 18 puntos para los Bucks, quienes lanzaron con un 52.1% de efectividad y encestaron 18 triples.
Brunson tuvo su tercer juego de 30 puntos desde que regresó tras una ausencia de dos partidos debido a un esguince en el tobillo derecho. Encestó siete de ocho tiros en el tercer cuarto, cuando los Knicks convirtieron un déficit de un punto al medio tiempo en una ventaja de cuatro.
Los Bucks casi remontaron un déficit de 13 tantos en el cuarto período, pero Brunson encestó tres tiros libres después de recibir una falta de Antetokounmpo con 3:37 por jugar y preparó el tercer triple de McBride del cuarto para una ventaja de 110-107 casi un minuto después. La jugada de tres puntos de Brunson con 1:27 por jugar puso el marcador en 114-107.
Los Knicks perdieron brevemente una ventaja de seis puntos al final del tercer cuarto, pero se reagruparon y mantuvieron una ventaja de 92-88 en el cuarto después de que Bridges y Brunson encestaran triples en el último minuto. McBride encestó dos triples y Tyler Kolek también anotó uno para una ventaja de 101-88 al inicio del período antes de que Milwaukee regresara con fuerza.
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Deportes en español AP: https://apnews.com/hub/deportes
3 takeaways as the Chicago Bulls drop an embarrassing loss, including a dismal 35-year old defensive record
Midway through the second quarter of Friday’s 123-116 loss to the Charlotte Hornets, Coby White ran out of runway.
The play started like normal. White put his head down and stopped worrying about defenders. He charged toward the rim, barreling awkwardly into Moussa Diabaté in a flat parabola that sent him crashing down into the hardwood.
White had wanted to play hero, offer the Chicago Bulls another two points as they found themselves mired in a shootout against the sixth-worst defense in the league. Instead, he ended up halfway into a back roll, shoulders crunched against the stanchion, legs flailing with the bleak desperation that defined the Bulls throughout the first half.
White’s feet hit both Brandon Miller and Diabaté in the process, contact that was too aimless to inflict injury. The officiating team nevertheless upgraded the foul to a flagrant 1, a designation that White half-heartedly disputed as a trainer taped up his scraped knee. The outcome was a familiar one for the Bulls — another small error that piled into a deficit, then ultimately a loss.
The Hornets are not a competitive team. This is accepted as a fact in the NBA. They had won only four games before Friday night. They rank 12th in the Eastern Conference and give opponents the relative resistance of a colander on defense. And yet their offense was simply too much for the Bulls to counteract.
Same with the New Orleans Pelicans, who won their third game of the season against the Bulls earlier this week. And the Utah Jazz, who took their fifth win of the season off the Bulls. Games against the Bulls have transformed into dates to circle on the calendar — a rare opportunity to score at will and, if you’re lucky, pick up a win to boot.
Here are three takeaways from the loss.
1. The Bulls were bleeding points.
Charlotte Hornets forward Brandon Miller shoots over Chicago Bulls guard Coby White during the second half of an NBA Cup game in Charlotte, N.C., Friday, Nov. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond)
One hundred and sixteen points should be enough. That’s the brutally plain problem of nearly every Bulls loss this season. One hundred and sixteen points should be enough to win a basketball game. But it wasn’t — and it hasn’t been for a long time.
The Bulls have now allowed at least 120 points for 11 consecutive games, the longest such streak in 35 years of NBA history. This consistent permeability disarms any strengths the Bulls might have to offer, preventing them from establishing runs and exacerbating every individual error.
This is an insurmountable weakness. Chicago allows its opponents to score the third-highest volume of points (124.2) in the entire NBA. Only the five-win Utah Jazz and two-win Washington Wizards allow more points. And even with one of the highest-scoring offenses in the league, the Bulls rarely have enough in the tank to counteract their own defensive deficiencies.
2. Losses in the margins.
Most Bulls games can be defined by the same handful of stats — opponent rim attempts and second-chance points. These two variables represent the basic equation of marginal gains — or losses — that can help or hurt the Bulls in their attempt to establish consistency as a roster with no All-Stars.
The Bulls can sling dozens of shots from behind the arc and push the pace in transition from the opening whistle to the final buzzer. But if they don’t keep opponents off the rim and prevent offensive rebounds, they spend most of the second half fighting an uphill battle due mostly to self-inflicted wounds. The Bulls have now finished 12 of their 18 games this season in the clutch — and lost five of those games — often as a result of these inconsistencies.
Against Charlotte, the Bulls clinched a rare win in the paint — outscoring the Hornets 74-56 — but still allowed 44 points at the rim. But this doesn’t mean the Hornets lacked penetration; they simply sprayed out their chances at the rim, which helped to fuel their 15 baskets from behind the arc.
The Hornets scored 10 points off second-chance opportunities while logging 10 offensive rebounds. The depth of this weakness was captured with 42 seconds left in the fourth quarter, when Diabaté outjumped two Bulls defenders to secure an offensive rebound and kick the ball back out to LaMelo Ball for a second-chance opportunity. The Hornets did not ultimately score on that drive, but the offensive rebound allowed the home team to burn 12 precious seconds of the clock.
3. Bulls eliminated from the NBA Cup.
Friday’s loss officially dashed any lingering hopes for the Bulls to advance out of East Group C in the NBA Cup. The Bulls won only one of their four games in the group stage, dropping losses to the Miami Heat, Milwaukee Bucks and Charlotte Hornets.
The New York Knicks won the group outright with a 118-109 win Friday over the Bucks. The Heat are also slated to advance as a wild-card team.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/28/chicago-bulls-charlotte-hornets-defensive-record/
Wrong-way drivers among problems cited for East Dundee’s River/Main Street intersection
Engineering consultants who gathered data about the safety of the Main Street/River Street intersection in East Dundee observed nine motorists driving the wrong way on River Street within 12 hours.
“They (also) noticed a close call resulting in some road rage and, really, kind of a scary incident,” said Steve Pautsch, Civiltech Engineering project engineer told the East Dundee Village Board at a recent meeting.
Civiltech, as part of a Bike and Pedestrian Plan it’s doing for the village, is also looking at the saftey of the Main Street/Route 72 and River Street intersection, which was the most frequently cited safety concern in a resident survey and at public meetings.
Pautsch said the study used new technology that can capture information and video on near-miss crashes. Such technology has not been used in Illinois before, consultants said.
The study took place during peak hours from Sept. 24 to 28 at which time there was a high volume of pedestrians and cyclists crossing the west leg of Main Street, the consultants said.
One hundred and twenty-seven pedestrians and 236 cyclists were counted, and the eastbound and southbound right-turn lanes at the intersection had a high traffic volume, the study found. On southbound River Street, 170 vehicles were counted.
Data showed pedestrian and bike crashes tend to be sporadic, with complaints also made for near misses, Pautsch said.
What consultants found is motorists yield to pedestrians and cyclists but don’t give them enough space, he said.
“It’s more of an issue of driver behavior than an engineering difficulty” of the intersection or crosswalk, Pautsch said.
Civiltech consultants are recommending some changes that might help in the short term, such as posting a stop-for-pedestrians sign and adding a right turn on a red light restriction to the westbound lane of Route 72.
Long-term recommendations are still being developed but could include realigning the crosswalks, relocating the Fox River Trail to the west side of South River Street and improving the sightlines by doing things like removing the village’s digital sign.
Lissa Sweeney, transportation planner with Civiltech, also gave village officials a progress report of the Bike and Pedestrian Plan. The idea is “to create a roadmap to prioritize future projects when opportunities are available,” she said, and to provide the data needed for the village to apply for funding grants.
Improving safety and enhancing connectivity for people walking, bicycling and rolling throughout the village is the goal, Sweeney said. It will build on the village’s existing bike and pedestrian network, she said.
The Fox River Trail is the primary walking/biking path in East Dundee but lacks sidewalks or paths for east-west connectivity, Sweeney said. There also are gaps in the sidewalk network and only one pedestrian signal downtown and not along other major roads, she said.
Civiltech is expecting to wrap up its work in the spring. A public meeting will be held for residents to provide more feedback before the village board reviews and approves the plan, Sweeney said.
Gloria Casas is a freelance reporter for The Courier-News.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/28/dundee-wrong-way-main-river-street-study/
Football, basketball and local scores for the Southland, Aurora, Elgin, Naperville and Lake County
High school and local college results and highlights from the Southland, Aurora, Elgin, Naperville and Lake County coverage areas.
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TUESDAY’S EVENT
HIGH SCHOOLS
FOOTBALL
CLASS 5A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
At Hancock Stadium, Normal
No. 9 Wheaton St. Francis (10-3) vs. No. 5 Providence (10-3), 3 p.m.
FRIDAY’S RESULTS
HIGH SCHOOLS
FOOTBALL
PREP BOWL
St. Ignatius 40, Morgan Park 12
Morgan Park (9-5): Ronald Smith Jr. TD passes to Travezz Jones and Reggie Gray Jr.
BOYS BASKETBALL
BATAVIA KEN PEDDY WINDMILL CLASSIC
Marmion 78, Bartlett 49
CHICAGO HEIGHTS CLASSIC
Homewood-Flossmoor 60, Bloom 43, championship
Hillcrest 65, Marian Catholic 47, third
Lincoln-Way Central 68, St. Francis de Sales 56, fifth
Lincoln-Way Central (3-1): Nick Brzezniak 22 points. Alex Panos 18 points. Micah Evans 14 points. Nolan Morrill 11 points.
COAL CITY/MANTENO TOURNAMENT
IC Catholic 72, Beecher 33
Beecher (0-3): Wences Baumgartner 10 points, 4 rebounds.
CRYSTAL LAKE CENTRAL TOURNAMENT
Crystal Lake Central 62, Elgin 32
DeKalb 55, Grant 49
DOWNERS GROVE NORTH/DOWNERS GROVE SOUTH TOURNAMENT
Metea Valley 61, Hinsdale Central 57
Metea (2-1): Tre Watkins 18 points. Manny Miller 12 points. Collin Booker 11 points.
GENEVA BOB SCHICK MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT
Geneva 39, Wheaton St. Francis 22
Geneva (3-0): Gabe Jensen 12 points.
Naperville Central 52, South Elgin 47
HANCOCK TOURNAMENT
Evergreen Park 58, U-High 24
Evergreen (2-1): Lenear Bolden 12 points. Evan Washington 12 points. Camryn Dandridge 8 points.
Richards 85, Johnson 27
Richards (3-0): Messiah Horton 21 points, 5 assists. Jordan Shaw 17 points, 9 rebounds. Travon Gourdine 13 points, 5 assists, 5 steals. Shamar Buggs 10 points.
St. Laurence 83, Tinley Park 25
St. Laurence (3-0): Reggie Stevens 18 points. Evan Lemons 15 points. Logan Brown 12 points. Markese Peoples 10 points.
HARVEST-WESTMINSTER TOURNAMENT
Aurora Christian 66, Providence-St. Mel 33
Aurora Christian (3-0): Jacob Baumann 19 points. Preston Morel 11 points.
JOHNSBURG TOURNAMENT
Grayslake Central 45, Johnsburg 38
Grayslake Central (2-2): Cole Halverson 22 points.
Cary-Grove 54, Waukegan 52
MARIST BUCKETS AND BLESSINGS TOURNAMENT
Marist 69, Perspectives 47, championship
Shepard 50, Fenger 46, third
Shepard (2-1): Peter Primbas 11 points, 5 rebounds, 3 steals. Danny McGovern 9 points.
MUNDELEIN TOURNAMENT
Deerfield 57, Mundelein 43
Deerfield (3-0): Jake Pollack scored 1,000th career point.
McHenry 49, Antioch 43
Antioch (0-4): Miles Marabella 16 points. Mark Render 15 points, 7 rebounds.
NORTHRIDGE BATTLE AT THE ‘RIDGE TOURNAMENT
T.F. South 62, Wheeling 34
Vernon Hills 66, Northridge 40
Vernon Hills (3-0): Brady Larsen 17 points. Hudson Self 11 points. Daniel Odhiambo 11 points.
OAK LAWN LEN SCADUTO CLASSIC
Crete-Monee 60, Ag. Science 44
Crete (3-0): Joseph Jones 15 points, 12 rebounds. Zyon Floyd 8 points. Zyheir Gardner 8 points.
Oak Lawn 71, Andrew 44
Oak Lawn (3-0): Jack Dempsey 29 points. Omar Saleh 14 points. Marc Harvey 10 points. Jeff Wilder 10 points.
Andrew (1-2): Malik Mahmoud 9 points.
OSWEGO/OSWEGO EAST HOOPS 4 HEALING TOURNAMENT
Oswego East 74, Neuqua Valley 65, championship
Oswego East (3-0): Mason Lockett 39 points. Dshaun Bolden 14 points.
Neuqua (2-1): Cole Kelly 30 points. Mason Martin 22 points.
Oswego 59, Rockford Guilford 58, third
Oswego (2-1): Brayden Borrowman GW 3-pointer as time expired. Ethan Vahl 22 points, 8 rebounds, 7 steals.
Butler 54, West Aurora 51, fifth
West Aurora (0-3): Orlando Edwards 15 points. Travis Brown 14 points.
OTTAWA DEAN RILEY TOURNAMENT
Oak Forest 63, LaSalle-Peru 61
Oak Forest (3-0): Aiden Barnett 17 points. Hayden Noha 14 points.
Oak Forest 52, Streator 38
Oak Forest: Gary Manso 16 points. Donovan Williams 8 points.
LaSalle-Peru 58, Plano 45
Plano: Ethan Taxis 11 points, 5 rebounds. Kevin Martinez 10 points, 5 rebounds.
Streator 55, Plano 49
Plano (0-3): Taxis 21 points, 4 rebounds.
PALATINE ED MOLITOR CLASSIC
Lake Park 41, Hampshire 39
Hampshire (0-3): Trey Simmons 9 points.
Palatine 68, Stevenson 36
Stevenson (2-1): Aidan Albrecht 8 points, 7 rebounds.
RIVERSIDE-BROOKFIELD BILL VANDEMERKT CLASSIC
Brother Rice 51, Joliet West 45
Brother Rice (2-1): Joe Niego 12 points. Uriah Davis 9 points.
Thornwood 68, Zion-Benton 48
Thornwood (3-0): Lester Watson 26 points. Mekhi Young 12 points.
Zion-Benton (0-3): Karl Wilson 18 points. Maurice Thompson 14 points.
ROCKFORD AUBURN FRED VANVLEET CLASSIC
Larkin 64, Douglass (Tenn.) 45
Warren 69, Rockford East 49
Warren (1-0): Jaxson Davis 30 points. Braylon Walker 14 points. Joel Paasch 12 points.
Memphis Central 72, Morgan Park 51
Morgan Park (2-1): Daniel Wallace 12 points, 5 steals. Geonnye Bennett 10 points. Jamari Warren 9 points, 4 rebounds.
ROCKFORD BOYLAN TOURNAMENT
Thornton 65, Marshall 59
Thornton (1-2): Deandre Higgs 18 points. Kobe Stevenson 16 points. Montana Fontanez 12 points.
ST. ANTHONY TOURNAMENT
Leo 53, Edwardsville 42
Leo (4-0): Brian Kizer 17 points. Jeremiah Echols 12 points.
ST. CHARLES EAST RON JOHNSON TOURNAMENT
Plainfield East 76, Thornridge 62
Plainfield North 64, St. Charles East 52
Schaumburg 57, East Aurora 43
Wheaton Academy 59, St. Charles North 51
ST. VIATOR CLASSIC
St. Viator 55, Libertyville 47
Libertyville (1-2): Trevor Wallace 14 points.
SERENA HARDWOOD TIP-OFF TOURNAMENT
Newark 71, Somonauk 44
Newark (2-2): Jimmy Kath 20 points, 5 assists. Cody Kulbartz 18 points, 18 rebounds, 4 blocks.
SYCAMORE STROMBOM TOURNAMENT
Yorkville 75, Sycamore 36
Yorkville (2-0): Gabe Sanders 16 points. Joey Jakstys 15 points. Braydon Porter 12 points. Graham Martinson 10 points. Nate Kubin 10 points.
Dixon 64, Sandwich 53
Sandwich (0-3): E.J. Treptow 21 points, 16 rebounds. Nick Michalek 18 points.
Sycamore 62, Burlington Central 56
WJOL TOURNAMENT
At University of St. Francis
Lemont 72, Bradley-Bourbonnais 54
Lemont (3-0): Ryan Crane 23 points, 5 rebounds. Julian Overton 17 points, 4 rebounds, 4 steals.
Lincoln-Way West 53, Joliet Central 46
Lincoln-Way West (2-1): Drake Been 17 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists. Luke Gouty 8 points, 10 rebounds.
Lockport 79, Minooka 35
Lockport (3-0): Nedas Venckus 20 points, 5 assists, 4 rebounds, 3 steals. Owen Nemecek 15 points, 4 rebounds. Gavin Anderson 11 points, 5 steals, 4 rebounds. Nathan Munson 10 points, 7 assists.
Providence 55, Plainfield Central 33
Providence (1-2): Eli Phillips 19 points, 4 rebounds. Jayde Wyett 14 points, 7 rebounds. Cade Strysky 9 points, 7 rebounds, 3 steals.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Taft 41, De La Salle 40
BUFFALO GROVE TOM DINEEN BISON CLASSIC
Hersey 66, Waukegan 37
Maine South 46, Libertyville 28
Libertyville (3-1): Lily Fisher 12 points. Charlotte Harrison 8 points.
HINSDALE CENTRAL TOURNAMENT
Freeport 61, Stagg 52
LYONS TOURNAMENT
Lincoln-Way East 48, Wheaton North 47
Lincoln-Way East (3-0): Kennedy Johnson 11 points. Ellie Guyette 11 points.
NAPERVILLE CENTRAL TIP-OFF TOURNAMENT
Benet 56, Naperville Central 47
Homewood-Flossmoor 64, St. Laurence 48
Kenwood 50, Batavia 20
WEST AURORA TURKEY TOURNAMENT
Aurora Central Catholic 42, West Aurora 25
Compiled by Josh Krockey.
‘Beneath Sheep’s Clothing’: Communism’s Capture Of America
‘Beneath Sheep’s Clothing’: Communism’s Capture Of America
Authored by Rudolph Lambert Fernandez via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
Anti-Communism Week has been marked for November 2025. Writer-producer Julie Behling’s documentary “Beneath Sheep’s Clothing” warns of communism’s devastation: “Globally, communism claimed the lives of approximately 150 million people in the 20th century.”
The narrator continues, “This history is now suspiciously missing from America’s public school systems.” Therein lies a tale.
This documentary shows how socialism-communism that’s failed somewhere keeps trying to reinvent itself elsewhere, typically prioritizing rights over responsibilities.
For example, yes, source-country citizens have a right to emigrate. But host nations owe their own citizens managed, meaningful immigration. Source countries also have responsibilities to ensure their citizens aren’t compelled to emigrate, just as those emigrating must be bound by host-nation norms, not enforce theirs.
Introspection requires humility and courage; the film mentions two people who showed both. Manning Johnson fell under communism’s spell, then found his Christian upbringing and critical thinking at odds with communism’s self-destructive mass hypnosis. Bella Dodd did likewise.
There’s a misconception, critical race theory critic James Lindsay suggests, that Karl Marx put forth an economic doctrine. In truth, he put forth a totalitarian “religion” that forces people to remake themselves into what they’re not. Fuller treatment of this theme can be found in Lindsay’s podcast.
Communism in the Classroom
In Behling’s film, Lindsay addresses parents. He says the communists are “coming for your kids, your kids are the revolution for them.” They’ll get around to brainwashing children, but they must ensure parents can’t “brainwash them first.” Once a “politics of oppression” has entered the classroom, it’s easier to mobilize students as activists, as they were mobilized for COVID-19 hysteria and lockdowns, Black Lives Matter, pro-Palestine, or anti-Israel protests.
Lindsay, Behling, and educator Cari Bartholomew lament how America’s K-12 school education terms nearly everything “systemic”: racism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism. Being “woke,” is being awake to these supposedly self-perpetuating hegemonies and denouncing them.
This requires finding solutions through oppressor-oppressed binaries. And it’s racial minorities, radical feminists, and LGBT figures who get to decide who’s oppressed, who’s oppressing, and what the solutions are.
The Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child framework envisages schools caring for all of a child’s needs, relegating parents to redundancy, and undermining moral values and church authority. It schools children to complain, blame, feel entitled, and prioritize their feelings over everything and everyone else.
Education theorist Henry Giroux’s “praxis” in the late 20th century was to get radicals tenured as professors and shape teachers unions around Marxist agenda and conformity. But Lindsay says, it wasn’t until the 21st century that socialism-communism powered ahead, contorting America’s institutions around victimhood and self-loathing.
“Common Core” curriculum, effectively erased (and revised) much of American history, dumbing down academic standards, enforcing a device-led conformity around “content.” Journalist Alex Newman says it’s not education but “behavioral training,” much like the physiologist Ivan Pavlov who trained his lab dogs to develop compulsive responses to stimuli.
Behling explains, “A dumbed-down populace led by emotion and accustomed to the constant, instant reward of dopamine hits for clicking the right boxes? It’s easier to control than a rugged, skeptical, critically thinking populace.” It’s why too many parents took too long to question film, TV, or on-campus shows for preschool children featuring gender-bending characters.
Why is a culture of grievance attractive? Behling admits this is because oppression happened. But the socialist-communist playbook marries truth to a lie. It pretends that Marxist solutions, such as reparations or redistribution of private property, will restore for the oppressed the rights of their past, by absolving them of their responsibilities in the present.
Sexuality in Schools
Critic of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Lisa Logan warns of how “Transformative” SEL encourages schoolteachers to teach “power dynamics,” to make white children learn that they’re “privileged,” that supremacy is so ingrained that they have “implicit bias.” Their very skin informs their racism.
Teachers emotionally blackmail children, holding them accountable for things they can barely understand, coercing them into becoming allies (and activists) for sundry causes. Trouble is, cognitive dissonance results when children are schooled on beliefs that destroy familial, religious, and cultural beliefs their parents try to inculcate at home.
Transformative SEL medicalizes schools, pathologizing disagreements, critical thinking, and religious or spiritual traditions. Social workers, psychologists, and curricula from organizations such as Planned Parenthood have introduced Comprehensive Sexuality Education, discussing sexuality, identities, and puberty blockers in classrooms, rather than age-appropriate sex education.
Newman cites a 2023 Boston Middle School Youth Risk Behavior Survey that asks children how many sex partners they’ve had, offering up to six options, the lowest being “never” and the highest being “6 or more people.” Other questions are equally depraved. The point is to normalize deviancy in children whose brains aren’t developed enough to judge for themselves what’s normal and abnormal for a child.
What Can Be Done?
First, democracies must shed complacency. Implied in the film, socialist self-destructiveness shows up in the unlikeliest places; socialist democracies aren’t immune because they’re democracies.
India’s nationalist-Hindutva state and party ideology, for instance, demands conformity as proof of patriotism, labeling lack of it as treason. Ignoring the diversity of India’s nearly 30 states, the federal government floods public life with conformity slogans.
Implied is the notion that, if the prefix “One Nation” announces policy, whatever practice follows must also be “one” and adopted unquestioningly: one religion, one election, civil code, language, curriculum. Or one email server.
Second, democracies must recognize that “equity” from the socialist-communist diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) playbook is a trick. It’s made to sound like more or better equality. It’s neither. It is instead, as Lindsay says, “An administered political economy in which shares are adjusted so citizens are made equal.”
A New Wrapper
It’s socialism in a new wrapper. It undermines diversity, imposing a dull sameness. Behold the tyranny of pronouns. Far from inclusive, it excludes, as Mao’s in-or-out-groups once did, naming those deserving of state and party commendation and shaming, blaming, and punishing those deserving of condemnation.
Third, Lindsay suggests, fights for religious liberty must accompany those for individual liberty. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn once said, “Only moral criteria can help the West against communism’s well-planned world strategy.” Yes, Christ’s call was to be as gentle as doves. But Lindsay wonders, whatever happened to Christ’s other call, to also be as wise as serpents?
Finally, those who care about democracy must speak up, act, and work for family stability and trust as the best antidote to a cult. Ignorance is no longer an excuse. Lindsay admits that fear holds people back; they fear ostracism and losing their jobs, friends, and family.
President Reagan during a news conference at the White House in 1984. AP Photo/Dennis Cook
But he insists, the truth matters more. Love for our children and the world we leave behind matters more. Mom Army founder Seak Smith recalled the savagery of Cambodian communism. She now devotes her energy to supporting (or opposing) bills that protect (or endanger) children, through lobbying and litigation.
When Ronald Reagan railed against similar evils in his 1964 speech, he didn’t use the word “communism” once. But he did use the word “socialism” five times, hinting at a war with “the most dangerous enemy.” Aptly, Behling’s film has his voiceover calling for conviction, courage, clarity, character: “There is a price we will not pay … a point beyond which they must not advance.”
You can read Part 1 of this two-part commentary on “Beneath Sheep’s Clothing” here and watch the documentary here.
Tyler Durden
Fri, 11/28/2025 – 23:15
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/beneath-sheeps-clothing-communisms-capture-america
Con 37 puntos y rebotes clave de Desmond Bane, Magic supera a Pistons por 112-109 en la Copa NBA
DETROIT (AP) — Desmond Bane anotó 37 puntos y capturó dos rebotes ofensivos cruciales para que el Magic de Orlando se impusiera el viernes 112-109 sobre los Pistons de Detroit, con lo cual ganó su grupo en la Copa NBA.
Orlando terminó con una foja de 4-0 en el Grupo B del Este y avanzó a la ronda eliminatoria. El Magic se sobrepuso a un triple-doble de Cade Cunningham de los Pistons, quien terminó con 39 puntos, 12 rebotes y 11 asistencias.
Franz Wagner añadió 21 puntos a la causa de Orlando.
Tobias Harris consiguió 18 unidades por los Pistons, que han perdido dos duelos seguidos después de una racha de 13 victorias consecutivas. Jalen Duren sumó 16 puntos y 12 rebotes.
Detroit terminó 2-2 en la Copa NBA y no avanzó.
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Deportes AP: https://apnews.com/hub/deportes
Triple-doble de Jalen Johnson lleva a Hawks a victoria 130-123 sobre Cavaliers en la Copa NBA
ATLANTA (AP) — Jalen Johnson anotó 29 puntos, descolgó 12 rebotes y repartió 12 asistencias para liderar a los Hawks de Atlanta a una victoria de 130-123 sobre los Cavaliers de Cleveland en un partido de la Copa NBA el viernes por la noche.
Atlanta eliminó a Cleveland del torneo de mitad de temporada, lo que significa que ninguno de los equipos avanza a la ronda de cuartos de final.
Nickeil Alexander-Walker añadió 28 unidades, incluyendo un crucial triple en los últimos momentos, ayudando a Atlanta a lograr una racha de 7-0 en menos de 30 segundos para crear distancia.
Donovan Mitchell lideró a Cleveland con 42 tantos. Fue el sexto juego de Mitchell en los últimos ocho en los que anotó al menos 30 puntos y el segundo total de puntos más alto de la temporada.
Zaccharie Riscaher de Atlanta encestó un triple decisivo con 1:09 por jugar para romper un empate a 123, y Alexander-Walker encestó un triple en movimiento con 47,7 segundos después de que Mitchell fallara un tiro potencial para empatar el juego.
Atlanta mantuvo a Cleveland sin anotar en los últimos 2:03. Los Cavaliers habían liderado por cuatro puntos con 2:25 por jugar.
Ambos equipos tuvieron rachas extendidas en la primera mitad. Los Hawks utilizaron una de 21-4 en el primer cuarto y lideraron por hasta 13 puntos. Los Cavaliers usaron una de 14-0 en el segundo para borrar su déficit.
Los equipos han dividido sus dos primeros juegos de la temporada regular, con cada lado ganando en casa. Los equipos se enfrentarán dos veces más en abril, durante la última semana de la temporada regular.
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Deportes en español AP: https://apnews.com/hub/deportes
First Congregational Church of Naperville seeks city landmark status
Vicki Keller will never forget the first time she walked through First Congregational Church of Naperville.
The year was 1969 and Keller, now 79, had moved to Naperville from Clay Center, Nebraska, her small town of less than a thousand people. She was looking for a church to join and while she came from an Evangelical background, she looked at First Congregational Church of Naperville as an option.
“The minute I walked into that church, I had a feeling and it was warm — kind of like somebody was wrapping their arms around me,” Keller said. “Standing actually in the back of the church by the stained glass windows is where I had this feeling and I thought, ‘This is the place for me.’”
More than 50 years later, she is now leading an effort to secure landmark status for it. The Naperville Historic Preservation Commission will review the application Thursday.
First Congregational is the oldest organized church in DuPage County and the oldest Congregational church founded in northern Illinois.
Among its one-time members were people influential in building Naperville into the town it is today, including businessman James L. Nichols, who bequested the funds to build the city’s first library, and Naperville Village Board Trustee George Martin IV, whose tile and brick business helped rebuild Chicago following the 1871 fire.
Since its founding, congregation members have been active in social justice movements, from the national abolitionist effort in the 1800s to the current campaign to push Naperville away from using coal-fired energy.
“It is just so rich with the history of Naperville and it feels like a living history because it still has the same congregation and type of congregation that it had when it was founded,” said Diane Diamond, a church member helping in the landmarking process.
A plaque outside of the First Congregational Church of Naperville on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025. The plaque says that the church oldest church in DuPage County and the oldest Congregational church founded in Northern Illinois. (Carolyn Stein/Naperville Sun)
The origins of the church
The church was founded as a Presbyterian organization on July 13, 1833, a few years after New England families descended from Puritans settled along the banks of the DuPage River, according to the church’s landmarking application.
The day after it was founded, people from all around the settlement came to worship beneath the shade of oak and hickory trees. Of that meeting, one of the church’s founding pastors, the Rev. Jeremiah Porter, wrote: “It was a cheering scene. Few had dared to expect such a scene at this early period in the settlement of our frontier. The grain of mustard seed will, we trust, become a great tree so that the multitudes shall yet rest under its delightful shade.”
The phrase “multitudes shall yet rest under its delightful shade” and a picture of a large tree have been symbols of the church ever since.
Although they established a Presbyterian organization, Porter and many charter members were Congregationalists. They chose the Presbyterian form of governance in part because it was believed Presbyterian governance was better for frontier life.
The church eventually switched to Congregational in 1834 and would formally become First Congregational Church of Naperville. Other churches branched off from the original, including First Presbyterian Church of DuPage in 1844.
The inside of the First Congregational Church of Naperville on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025. When it was founded, the church was a Presbyterian organization. (Carolyn Stein/Naperville Sun)
Building a house of worship
As the church grew in size, it was determined in 1838 that the congregation needed have its own building. Capt. Morris Sleight donated land at the northwest corner of Center Street and Benton Avenue in 1845 on two conditions: the church always have a bell tower and never have a burial ground.
In 1846, construction of a frame structure was completed. Sixty years later, the congregation replaced it with the Gothic revival-style building that stands at Benton Avenue and Center Street today.
Architectural features include pointed arch windows and doors, stained-glass windows and limestone quarried from Joliet. Other buildings have since been added to the site, including a parish hall in 1930 and a community room and basement classrooms in 1979.
When the new church was dedicated on May 6, 1906, nearly 700 of the city’s then 3,000 residents attend. The same number came out for an evening ceremony on the same day.
A sign outside of the First Congregational Church of Naperville on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025. Since its founding, the church has been active in social justice causes. (Carolyn Stein/Naperville Sun)
A legacy of activism
Since the beginning, church members have been active in social movements. Israel and Avice Blodgett, two of the church’s charter members, were outspoken abolitionists.
Newspaper articles from the Western Citizen anti-slavery newspaper detailed Israel’s participation in abolitionist activity in the 1840s and 1850s. According to an autobiography written by the couple’s son Henry Blodgett, Avice reportedly refused to give water to a presumed slave catcher who visited their farm with two captured Black men.
Other social justice activities included sponsoring a Vietnamese family fleeing Saigon in the 1970s near the end of the Vietnam War and the launch of a recycling program in the 1980s that was later taken over by Naperville Recycling.
Today, the church shares its space with the Community Access Naperville, which a congregation member helped organize to provide support to developmentally disabled young adults. Some church members have been instrumental in establishing the Say No To Coal consortium, which is pushing for Naperville to find clean energy sources for city’s electricity supply.
The chancel on the inside of the First Congregational Church of Naperville on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025. Vicki Keller, who is leading the church’s preservation efforts, wanted to landmark the church building after seeing other preservation efforts in Naperville. (Carolyn Stein/Naperville Sun)
Move to landmark
Keller said she was inspired to seek landmark status for her church after seeing other Naperville preservation efforts, including the those for the old Nichols Library and Beidelman Furniture, the oldest business in DuPage County. It’s proximity to downtown made it all the more important, she said.
“I was involved with trying to save old Nichols, and that really had an effect on me,” Keller said. “I was very, very sad (with the outcome of that effort). Even though the outside was saved, to me, it’s still not saved with buildings being put around it. I didn’t want that to happen to our church.”
She pitched the idea to the church council last year, and a task force was formed to gather information on the the building’s history.
“One of the things I felt really strongly about was that we involve the congregation in knowing about the landmarking process,” said Diamond, a task force member. “Every week we did this thing called ‘Landmarking Bits and Bobs.’ And it was just little facts about the building or little facts about the history.”
The process has brought the church’s congregation closer together, she said.
“The whole process made me look more closely at everything within the church,” said John Klein-Collins, church council moderator.
As an eighth-grade teacher at Kennedy Junior High School, Klein-Collins typically takes his students to Naper Settlement to learn about the Underground Railroad, which includes a reenactment of people involved in the DuPage area.
One day when he was at church sitting in the back, he leaned over to look at a plaque of the church’s founding members.
“I’d never really looked at it closely, and it had many of the names of the people from Naper Settlement, the individuals who participated in the Underground Railroad,” he said. “All the way back then church congregants were fighting for marginalized communities.”
It was one of those “a-ha” moments that made him proud to be part of the church and invigorated to continue that legacy, he said.
cstein@chicagotribune.com
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/28/first-congregational-church-naperville-landmark/
Tyrese Maxey anota 22 puntos, 76ers vencen a Nets por 115-103
NUEVA YORK (AP) — Tyrese Maxey anotó 22 puntos, Jared McCain sumó 20 desde el banquillo y los 76ers de Filadelfia derrotaron el viernes 115-103 a los Nets de Brooklyn en un duelo de la Copa NBA.
Quentin Grimes añadió 19 puntos, y Paul George contribuyó con 14 para que los 76ers, incluso con bajas, rompieran una racha de dos derrotas consecutivas.
Los 76ers jugaron sin el pívot titular Joel Embiid (cuidado de rodilla derecha) y VJ Edgecombe (tirón en la pantorrilla izquierda). Perdieron al pívot suplente Andre Drummond (esguince en la rodilla derecha) a mitad del segundo cuarto.
Drummond intentó bloquear la flotadora de Tyrese Martin y luego trató de agarrar el rebote con la mano izquierda, pero cayó en la cancha y de inmediato se sujetó la rodilla.
Egor Demin anotó un récord personal de 23 puntos, y Tyrese Martin tuvo 16 por Brooklyn. Los Nets han perdido tres partidos consecutivos y cayeron a 0-9 en casa esta temporada. Son el único equipo sin una victoria como local esta temporada —su última en el Barclays Center fue el 8 de abril contra Nueva Orleans.
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Rockefeller Foundation Partners With MrBeast To Target Youth With “Next-Gen” Propaganda
Rockefeller Foundation Partners With MrBeast To Target Youth With “Next-Gen” Propaganda
Dr. Rajiv J. Shah – former USAID administrator and onetime head of agricultural development at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, now president of the Rockefeller Foundation – announced a “next-gen storytelling” partnership with the world’s top YouTube creator, MrBeast.
“Proud to announce our partnership with @BeastPhilanthr, bringing together a storied history of improving billions of lives with next-gen storytelling that inspires action. With @MrBeast, we’ll show that when kindness goes viral, big change is possible,” Shah wrote on X, accompanied by a video featuring him and MrBeast founder Jimmy Donaldson.
Proud to announce our partnership with @BeastPhilanthr, bringing together a storied history of advancing billions of lives with next-gen storytelling that ignites action. With @MrBeast we’ll show that when kindness goes viral, big change is possible. https://t.co/fJJGIg3ClK pic.twitter.com/JtC6owICXv
— Dr. Rajiv J. Shah (@rajshah) November 24, 2025
“Next-gen storytelling” is simply another way of saying an influence operation campaign aimed at targeting young audiences with far-left messaging.
📢 We’re launching a new partnership with @BeastPhilanthr to make kindness go viral. Together with @MrBeast, we will inspire young people to take action, and make big things happen.
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— The Rockefeller Foundation (@RockefellerFdn) November 24, 2025
MrBeast’s demographic includes:
13–24 years old: ~55–60% (His largest, most engaged cohort.)
25–34 years old: ~22–25%
35–44 years old: ~10%
45+ years old: ~5–7%
Rockefeller Foundation president Dr. Rajiv Shah told AP News that MrBeast can emotionally connect with younger generations in ways that traditional philanthropy has failed to do.
The move signals Donaldson’s sellout to globalists and dark-money-funded NGOs, as investigative researchers Peter Schweizer and Seamus Bruner of the Government Accountability Institute recently noted that the Rockefeller Foundation is one of a handful of major philanthropies bankrolling the anti-Trump permanent protest industrial complex.
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— Seamus Bruner (@seamusbruner) October 16, 2025
The left is furious that Joe Rogan and other major podcasters have defected from their woke cult. Now the Rockefeller Foundation appears to be gearing up for a youth-focused propaganda operation ahead of next year’s midterms and the 2028 presidential race.
Tyler Durden
Fri, 11/28/2025 – 22:40
