WELL, THAT’S NOT SO GREAT: Porsche Taycan’s Terrible EPA Electric Range Makes It the Least Efficient EV.

CHANGE: Trump Ends Liberal Domination of 9th Circuit Appeals Court as Senate Confirms Lawrence VanDyke.

AT THE LONDON SPECTATOR: UK election live blog: Boris Johnson vs Jeremy Corbyn.

ROGER & ME REDUX: Roger Goodell says league has ‘moved on’ from Kaepernick special workout.

“This was about creating an opportunity,” Goodell told reporters on Wednesday, at a league meeting. “We created that opportunity. It was a unique opportunity, a credible opportunity and he chose not to take it. I understand that.

“We’ve moved on.”

Representatives for Kaepernick, who has long maintained that he is ready to rejoin the league, said the workout was moved to the high school facility as a result of the NFL not conducting the workout as a “legitimate process.”

As I wrote in 2018, “Does Kaepernick actually want to be signed? Unless he delivers Johnny Unitas-level talent to whoever he plays for, actually suiting up and riding the pine each week as a backup, or a return to his mediocre performance during the 49ers’ 2-14 season in 2016 would be anti-climactic. Kaepernick has become the athletic equivalent of Michael Moore’s deception in his first movie, Roger & Me. Then-General Motors CEO Roger Smith had met with Moore — reportedly twice — during the shooting of his agitpropumentary, but Moore wouldn’t have a movie if he actually included that footage. Similarly, Kaepernick needs to remain permanently off the gridiron, to keep his uber-woke SJW pose alive.”

Not to mention keeping the funds flowing from Nike while being used by them as a prop to cancel the Betsy Ross flag in a 4chan-style PR stunt.

U.K. ELECTION:  Exit poll predicts huge Tory victory.  Purr.

AND YOU THOUGHT THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED: U.S. ‘epidemic of loneliness’ questioned by new studies.

THAT’S RICH: Eric Holder Says Bill Barr Is Too Political to Be Attorney General.

OUT IN A FEW DAYS FROM MY FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE BEN BARTON: Fixing Law Schools: From Collapse to the Trump Bump and Beyond.

ROGER SIMON: Trump Shows Himself a Better Friend to the Jews Than Even Truman.

TRADE: U.S. Reaches In-Principle China Deal, Awaits Trump Signoff.

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: House Passes Bill Making U.S. Space Force the Sixth Branch of Military. “The measure is expected to pass the Senate easily, and President Donald Trump is eager to use his pen.”

HMM: Tesla wants to produce 500,000 cars per year at German plant.

AT AMAZON, Top Gift Ideas.

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THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: AOC Joins the Left’s Swelling Ranks of Antisemites.

The young bartender-turned-congresscritter retweeted a Labour campaign video, and also added, “The hoarding of wealth by the few is coming at the cost of peoples’ lives. The only way we change is with a massive surge of *new* voters at the polls. UK, Vote!”

To be fair, Labour did import tons of new voters into the UK, mostly from countries with cultures hostile to Jews.

Read the whole thing, if you don’t mind me saying so myself.

WORST. HITLER. EVER. Trump’s Support Among Orthodox Jews Has Risen from 54% to 89%.

HOW DARE YOU! Shame on the Liberals Who Use Greta Thunberg as a Human Shield. This Jim Treacher post is behind the PJ VIP paywall (please join!) but here’s the key point:

I would prefer if Trump didn’t tweet mean things about her, and I’m not going to tell anybody not to scold him for it. Go right ahead. But if all these adults are going to hide behind a child to push their political agenda, she’s going to get some pushback.

In fact, they know she will. They’re counting on it. That’s the whole idea. They love that Trump is yelling at her. He’s playing right into their hands.

It’s the bread and butter play in the left’s playbook, and partly explains why they love their “mascots of the anointed,” as Thomas Sowell dubbed them in The Vision of the Anointed. The media declared Jon Stewart to be the second coming of H.L. Mencken, but if anyone criticized him, the clown nose went back on, and the response was “he’s just a comedian.” To criticize Obama was to risk being called a racist, leaving John McCain in the role of the Washington Generals in 2008. And now to criticize Thunberg is to be told “she’s just a kid.” But why would anyone take science advice from a kid? Or as Steve Hayward of Power Line wrote yesterday:

The media is so self-unaware that it cannot conceive that the whole St. Greta phenomenon represents the nadir of the climate crusade. After all, if a Nobel Prize and Academy Award for Al Gore didn’t do the trick, what makes anyone think a 16-year old Swedish girl will cause everyone to sit up and say, “Well, I guess I better buy a Prius now!”

I’m still awaiting a media story that discloses the massive and organized PR operation behind St. Greta. You don’t really think she emerged spontaneously? Who pays for the travel of her retinue, for her hotel rooms and meals, and organizing the public events and other moveable feasts where she appears? I suspect she and her parents (reportedly leftist artists and actors of one kind or another) are banking some nice coin on this whole scene.

But like a teenage rock band, her freshness date may expire quickly. As Treacher notes, “They’re just exploiting her. The minute she’s no longer useful to them, they’ll drop her like a global warming-heated rock. Ask Cindy Sheehan. Ask Sandra Fluke. Ask the Krassenstein brothers. Ask any other one-time liberal superstar who is now long forgotten. It’s a short ride.”

UPDATE: America’s Paper of Record is spot-on: Democrats Introduce Debate Strategy Of Holding Up Small Child Whenever Their Positions Are Challenged.

DON’T GET COCKY: How Democrats lost the Impeachment War — and probably 2020.

And a related item from Bill Whittle: Impeach Trump: The Democrat Party’s 2020 Election Concession Speech.

INTERESTING: Cancer: Common antibiotic may boost immune system. “New research in mice finds that taking the antibiotic vancomycin before underoing radiation therapy alters gram-positive bacteria in the gut, thus boosting the immune system and enhancing the antitumor effect of the treatment.”

THE ONLY UNLIMITED RESOURCE IS OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: Elizabeth Warren says ‘there’s always money’ when asked how she’ll pay for her policies.

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: 1,300 Square Feet of Skin Being Shipped from U.S. to N.Z. to Help Burned Volcano Victims Survive.

SEA POWER: Russia’s Only Aircraft Carrier Has Erupted In Flames.

THIS COULDN’T HAVE BEEN EASY FOR THEM: Even MSNBC Is Forced to Admit: FBI Made ‘Pretty Egregious, Very Clear Mistakes.’

OLD DIAGNOSIS: ALCOHOLISM. NEW, MORE FLEXIBLE DIAGNOSIS: Alcohol Use Disorder. Okay, I can see the point here, but I can also see how more flexible diagnoses lead to more people being diagnosed, which usually seems to be because someone has a treatment to sell. That’s been the take of several physicians I’ve talked to about the new, much stricter, blood pressure guidelines, for example.

“YOU COULD USE A SHOVEL.” NASA Identifies Regions of Mars With Water Ice Just Below The Surface. Someday someone will.