NICK GILLESPIE: ‘We Can Fact Check Your Ass,’ but Not When It Comes to Political Ads. “Twitter has announced that it will forego running all paid ads for individual candidates and issues…This sort of thinking represents a fundamental betrayal of the ideals that helped build the internet into an unparalleled, open system of knowledge and information. [Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey] is effectively saying that we—you, me, and the typical Twitter user—can’t manage to sift wheat from chaff online.”

ANOTHER TORPEDO READY TO CIRCLE BACK? Polls Suggest Impeachment Will Help Trump Reelection in Swing States.

ALSO, IT KNITS UP THE RAVEL’D SLEEVE OF CARE: Deep sleep may allow brain to rinse out toxins.

IT’S MORE OF A GENTLE TAP THAN A HEAD-BUTT, BUT STILL: GOP Rep Don Young, 86, Head-Butts Camera of Progressive Activist (Video).

HMM: The DNA database used to find the Golden State Killer is a national security leak waiting to happen.

FASTER, PLEASE: Rotavirus vaccine: A potential new role as an anticancer agent.

COLORADO: Multiple Democrat candidates accepting county party money in ‘nonpartisan’ municipal races.

IT’S NOVEMBER 1st. WHILE LOS ANGELES IS DEFINITELY A CERTIFIABLE HELLSCAPE, I’M STILL WAITING FOR FLYING CARS AND SEXY REPLICANTS: Blade Runner was set in November, 2019. Here’s what it and other movies got right and wrong about the ‘future.’

IN MY EXPERIENCE YOU DON’T EVEN HAVE TO BE WORKING OUT: Using Curse Words Can Help Combat Pain, Improve Your Workouts.

ITS ARRIVAL WAS PRETTY MUCH WHEN MY INTEREST IN HEAVY METAL WANED: Cookie Monster and the Heavy Metal Growl: Let’s Give Credit Where Credit Is Due.

THAT MEANS IT’S WORKING: Results Are In: Common Core Is Making American Kids Dumber.

VIDEO: Former CIA Boss Celebrates Impeachment: ‘Thank God for the Deep State!’

“TESTIMONY:” John Lucas: Alex Vindman’s Impeachment Testimony Completely Rested On His Personal Opinions. “Alex Vindman’s testimony about the July 25 call between the two presidents does not add any new facts. So, what does he say? He offers his opinions about the wisdom of the call. That’s it.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: If You Don’t Know What ‘OK Boomer’ Means, You’d Better Read This (Or Else Get a Young Person to Explain).

VIDEO: Newtown, Connecticut, Woman Disrupts Beto O’Rourke, Challenges Views On 2A.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: University cuts humanities program even as it employs over a dozen people ‘with the title of VP or higher.’

SEE, THIS IS WHERE THE MEDIA BEING DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES HURTS THEIR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: The “Bonfire of the Democratic Party’s Once-Rising Stars,” with forensic analysis by Jim Geraghty:

But the other lesson is that running for president is really hard, and a lot of these candidates have spent most of their careers in heavily Democratic areas and states where the political wind was always at their back. Gillibrand certainly wasn’t going to sweat Senate races in New York. Booker’s Newark and statewide races never had that much tension. Despite the redness of Texas overall, San Antonio and El Paso were dots of blue, meaning O’Rourke and Castro never faced tough general elections. (Credit O’Rourke for coming close against Cruz, but in the end all of that glowing coverage wasn’t because the media expected him to just “come close.”)

In a way, getting good press is just not that difficult for a young-ish Democratic lawmaker with decent public speaking skills. Just invite a big newspaper or magazine reporter to hang around for a few days, let them marvel as you charm little old ladies and speak some eighth-grade Spanish to a local Latino organization, offer some trite observations that “technology changes everything” and “government can do so much more if we only have the will,” and then roll up your sleeves and pose for your looking-off-in-the-distance photo shoot. Presto! Instant presidential “buzz.”

In contrast, when it comes to conservatives and Republicans, as Moe Lane wrote in 2011 before abandoning political blogging, “The Media hates you, and wants you to die in a fire.” That’s the first of his “Ten Media Truths for Conservative/Republican Legislators,” which remain valid to this day. As does this 2014 CNN article headlined: “Inside the GOP’s secret school,” on the Obama-era GOP’s disciplined approach to dealing with the media. Although at least one quote sounds remarkably dated post-2016:

Spicer and Reince Priebus, the RNC chairman, embarked on an overhaul of the organization’s media operations, hiring web-fluent staffers, streamlining their surrogate database and stepping up their media-training operations to instill discipline over candidates. The latter move, Priebus said, became essential after witnessing Republican candidates up and down the ballot in 2012 ruin news cycles with offensive or tone-deaf comments on issues like abortion or rape.

“I’d rather have candidates being careful to a fault than, you know, having a fountain of blabber coming out of their mouth that’s not disciplined,” Priebus says. “We are training candidates, training state parties, training operatives to appreciate that communicating isn’t just a free-for-all, natural-born type of activity. People need to be trained and disciplined.”

If you’re not Donald Trump, that’s still excellent advice for a Republican politician dealing with a media that, unlike when reporting on youngish Democratic lawmakers with decent public speaking skills, hates you, and wants you to die in a fire.

FROM THE BIRTHPLACE OF ENGLISH LIBERTY: Homeowners who refuse to install a smart meter will face a huge hike in energy bills, minister warns.

The Government wants 85 per cent of homes to have a smart meter to monitor power usage by 2024 – but the rollout has been plagued by delays.

However, climate change minister Lord Duncan told the business, energy and industrial strategy committee those who refused a smart meter would soon ‘find the stick’ of rapidly rising bills. He said the cost of maintaining a traditional meter would increase as the rollout progressed because it would be more expensive for suppliers to do manual readings.

He added: ‘Once you get to the point of moving down from 15 per cent to 10 per cent to 9 per cent and so forth, the expense of maintaining these relic meters will be very high.’

BS. Any savings generated by smart meters won’t be going back to consumers. Britain will jack up prices on older meters in order to force compliance, and to increase surveillance and control over Britons via smart meters.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: In a recent interview, a professor from Pacific Lutheran University told local news that he has no problem if a “fascist” gets “beaten up” by Antifa, specifically referencing journalist Andy Ngo.

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ABSURD, ALL THE BEST PEOPLE HAVE ASSURED ME WE’RE PLUNGING INTO A DEPRESSION DUE TO TRUMP’S DESTRUCTIVE ECONOMIC POLICIES: October job creation comes in at 128,000, easily topping estimates even with GM auto strike. “The unemployment rate for African Americans nudged down to a record low 5.4%. Also, the total employment level as measured in the household survey jumped to 158.5 million, also a new high.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Impeachment and a House Divided Perhaps Forever.

There isn’t an adult of sound mind in this country who sees all of this playing out in a way that sees a bunch of Republicans finally deciding that the president needs to go or the Democrats finally admitting defeat in their attempts to prematurely oust him.

Face it, we don’t like each other much anymore, the Right and Left in America. We’ve been heading towards this for a while. I blame Hillary Clinton, partially because she’s so adept at being unlikeable, but mostly because I believe she is more than likely Satan’s latest incarnation on Earth.

Just my opinion.

Granny Maojackets has spent the last three years fortifying herself with boxes of Franzia and remaining in the public eye to make sure Democrats continue to believe that the result of the 2016 election was illegitimate.

Her flying monkeys in the mainstream media have made sure that the message keeps buzzing in the air.

Read the whole thing.

I’d just add that every time Hillary Clinton speaks in public, she gnaws at the social fabric and institutions of this country. And maybe whenever she speaks in private, too.

“DOC” AND BLUE ANGELS OVER THE DESERT: The B-29 Superfortress “Doc” flies in formation with the Blue Angels during the 2019 California Capital Air Show in Sacramento.