Leslie’s Look Back at 2025: Dead Cows, Dire Wolves, Glamornauts, and Sydney Sweeney

Leslie’s Look Back at 2025: Dead Cows, Dire Wolves, Glamornauts, and Sydney Sweeney

Looking back at 2025, a few years have seen a wilder news cycle.

But I also must note that the year’s stories included a declaration of victory in the battle for real climate science, America’s critical mineral supplies being more secure, and the demise of ‘body positivity’.

So, all in all, not a bad year.

January: 2025 began with a bang, literally, as a Cybertruck ‘explosion’ at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas was investigated as a possible act of terrorism. Shortly after, Pacific Palisades and Altadena were destroyed by the Los Angeles-area wildfires, which were driven by Santa Ana winds, bureaucratic incompetence, and woke hiring decisions. The area remains in ruins to this day. President Donald Trump continued to pursue a more robust relationship with Greenland.

February: The USAID website went dark as DOGE began the audit process. The Danes launched a petition to purchase California. And the Associated Press was booted out of the Oval Office for dead-naming the Gulf of America.

March: After oil companies began shutting down the state’s refineries and moving their headquarters, California officials began pondering whether the state could run the refineries. The lab-leak theory of the covid pandemic’s origin is now widely accepted as the most likely scenario. Still, The New York Times ran an op-ed demanding amnesty for scientists who denied this possibility and silenced and bullied others who thought a lab leak was a reasonable possibility worth considering. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass begged Sacramento for a $2 billion bailout.

April: The Mainstream Media attempted to generate excitement over Blue Origin’s Glamornauts. Real science made a return, after a new article debunked another “study” that smeared the reputations of white doctors treating black infants. Genetic scientists endeavored to bring back the dire wolf, resulting in adorable puppies and controversy.

May: U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard initiated an official investigation into Dr. Anthony Fauci’s role in funding research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin announced plans to end federal incentives for the hated automatic engine stop-start technology in vehicles.

June: The Trump administration began reassessing funding for scientific and medical research, ending funding to HIV vaccine studies that still haven’t generated a working vaccine in over four decades. Six months after the January fires, only 68 building permits were issued for rebuilding in Pacific Palisades (6800 structures were destroyed in the January fires). “Heat Dome” hysteria broke out in the summer, which is now recognized as another media attempt to peddle climate pseudoscience.

July: “Body Positivity” died unexpectedly, as Sydney Sweeney’s curvy sex appeal in a fun American Eagle campaign boosted jean sales and led to charges of racism from the usual suspects. Once the Trump administration ended large-scale poultry culling in response to bird flu, the egg supply was restored, and Waffle House removed the egg surcharge from the menu. The United Nations’ highest court issued a “strongly worded letter” threatening climate reparations for carbon emitters.

August: The once respected science publication, Nature, published an article demanding that science include decolonization and indigenous knowledge. The African Union demanded an end to the use of the Mercator map, as it claims it is disinformation, as it misrepresents Africa’s size. A Scottish teen reminded Great Britain of the phrase, “Never surrender.”

September: The U.S. military hit the first narco-terror boat transporting illegal drugs in the Caribbean. The Food and Drug Administration issued a notice to doctors linking the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy to autism, which, in turn, led to pregnant women popping Tylenol on social media to “show Trump.”

October: Trump officially declared victory in the climate crisis hoax. Diversity-funded French “experts” assert that toy teddy bears need more diversity and realism. Trump received Egypt’s highest state honor, the Order of the Nile. A British Professor accused Tolkien of colonialism in the epic “The Lord of the Rings“, because orcs were dark-skinned.

November: Dead cows can’t fart, which may be the key reason they reduce methane after Danish farmers used feed infused with Boaver per government mandates. A new climate study indicates we may be heading for… a new Ice Age (which might be good news for the dire wolves mentioned above). Still seething from the successful American Eagle campaign, a woke interviewer tried to gene-shame Sydney Sweeney. It did not go well for the interviewer, who is now part of a famous meme.

December: Nature was forced to retract a widely cited paper that climate crusaders used. Utah’s desert yielded a rare earths motherlode, and a rare-earth processing operation opened up in Tennessee. Illinois legalized doctor-assisted suicide, and New York will likely follow.

Finally, polar bears refuse to go extinct because of “climate change.”

It’s been a pleasure bringing news of science, technology, and California to Legal Insurrection readers. I wish everyone a very healthy, happy, and prosperous 2026.

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