NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU KOWTOW TO THE LEFT, YOU’RE NEVER SAFE: Cancel Culture Claims Another Scalp. “I yield to no one in my contempt for the New York Times, but I don’t think its editors are actually this dumb.”

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Plus, after Christmas deals on Bestselling Jewelry.

LATE-LIFE LAMENT OF A LEFTY WOMAN: “I don’t own a home and no one needs me; I am nobody’s mother and now I am nobody’s child, as my parents are no longer living. My friends and peers have gone on to have families, to marry and stop working…. On good days, I can take a yoga class and still feel like life’s potential is still just around the corner if I’m just open to it; on bad ones, I feel such futility, like I’ve squandered my own youth and beauty in the hall of mirrors that is our consumerist society.”

IT’S LIKE THEY THINK THEY’RE NEW YORK CITY OR SOMETHING. London Shops, Synagogues Tagged With Anti-Semitic Graffiti.

YES. Is China coming full circle by repeating the Qing court’s self-defeating mistakes? You’d think all the surveillane would help, but the (false) sense of omnipotence and omniscience it imbues probably makes things worse, not better.

DEBLASIO’S NEW YORK IS GETTING PRETTY STABBY: Man Stabbed at Penn Station. “The attacker hasn’t been arrested.” Well, if he is they’ll probably let him go without bail.

AT AMAZON, After-Christmas Deals Galore.

EDUCATION IN DEBLASIO’S NEW YORK CITY: Top DOE official arrested for trying to set up sex with underage boy. “A top deputy to city schools Chancellor Richard Carranza was busted in Wisconsin for allegedly trying to arrange sex with an underage boy online, police and sources told The Post. . . . He received his doctorate in education from Harvard University in 2017.”

OPEN THREAD: The decade is coming to an end very soon. Will you miss it?

UM, ARE YOU SURE THAT’S HOW IT WORKS? Star Wars Fan Film ‘Kenobi’ Is So Good That We Can’t Believe It’s Not A Real Lucasfilm Production.

CHINA SYNDROME: China may be behind theft of bio samples by Harvard-sponsored Chinese student, feds say.

SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB: Transgender Mother Says Her Pregnancy Did Not Make Her Less of a Man.

1984: “THERE’S A BEAR IN THE WOODS.” 2019: There’s a bear in the suburbs.

THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Rashida Tlaib Blames Israel for ‘Jim Crow’ Policies One Day After Hanukkah Stabbing.

WAIT, I THOUGHT ENDING NET NEUTRALITY KILLED US ALL:

Shot: Biden: ‘We’re All Dead’ if We Don’t Stop Using Fossil Fuels.

—Breitbart.com, today.

Chaser: “Barack Obama has only four years to save the world. That is the stark assessment of Nasa scientist and leading climate expert Jim Hansen who last week warned only urgent action by the new president could halt the devastating climate change that now threatens Earth. Crucially, that action will have to be taken within Obama’s first administration, he added.”

—The London Grauniad, January 17, 2009.

NO YOU DON’T. Career Diplomats Like Me Deserve Better Treatment.

I’VE NEVER UNDERSTOOD FACULTY WHO ARE JEALOUS OF OTHER PEOPLE’S ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Ivy League Level Jealousy: How A Law Professor Views The Tenth Commandment.

MEDIA DISAPPOINTED TO LEARN ARMED CITIZEN STOPPED MASS SHOOTING.

I’m so old, I can remember when the Babylon Bee was still satire, before morphing into America’s Newspaper of Record.

QED: Op-Ed: Mass shootings, irrationality, and why you shouldn’t bring a gun to church.

—Tom Nichols, in the L.A. Times.

JOE BIDEN TO COAL MINERS: Learn to Code!

But once Twitter deletes Joe’s account for uttering the C-word, how will his campaign survive…?

THE DESIRE NAMED STREETCAR: California’s Real “Train to Nowhere.”

Opened in 1987, San Jose’s Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) was an early leader of light rail’s expansion. But the VTA will become a leader of a different sort when it closes the Almaden branch of its system at the end of this year, due to poor ridership. Not counting some heritage trolly lines, the VTA’s Almaden branch is likely the first passenger rail line to close in almost half a century. Its 2.2 miles of single-track line and two stations—rail infrastructure worth tens of millions of dollars—will soon stand idle.

Why, in a growing and economically thriving city, would a commuter line shut down? The Bay Area is becoming famous for its housing and transportation issues, including choking traffic. San Jose is the self-proclaimed “capital of Silicon Valley,” and tech firms, along with the employees who commute to work for them, have been flooding the region for decades. Ridership on the Caltrain commuter rail system—which runs through VTA territory on the way to San Francisco—has almost tripled in 15 years, with per-mile ridership approaching New York’s Metro North