DIVERSITY RULES: Biden Creates Diverse Covid-19 Advisory Board To Contrast With Trump.

Please tell me there will be a Muslim outreach program, too.

LIKE ALL THE OTHER RULES IN THE MODERN OLIGARCHY: Pandemic Rules Are Only for the Little People. “We’re expected to suffer discomfort, economic pain, and emotional distress or else pay fines or serve jail time. Government officials, meanwhile, take offense when called out for violating the standards they created.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Put more bluntly, I think the “privilege” discourse among middle class educated white liberals is mostly about rearranging prejudices to make lower class white people deserving of the scorn of the uppers. (Bumped).

HMM: Swedish government sidelines epidemiologist who steered country’s no lockdown experiment as deaths rise.

OPEN THREAD: Have fun, you crazy kids.

IT’S THE WINTER OF LOVE ON STATEN ISLAND: NYC Pub Borrows a Page From Leftists in Lockdown Dispute.

A clever bar owner in New York City is borrowing a tactic from left-wing anarchists in an ongoing spat with the government over coronavirus lockdown restrictions. The pub, located in Staten Island, declared itself an “autonomous zone” as a new ban on indoor dining at bars and restaurants took effect on Wednesday.

The New York Post reported on Saturday that a sign outside Mac’s Public House in Grant City read, “!ATTENTION! We hereby declare this establishment an !!!AUTONOMOUS ZONE!!!”

Saul Alinsky smiles.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Physicists could do the ‘impossible’: Create and destroy magnetic fields from afar.

MORE FROM MICHAEL YON: Antifa in Atlanta.

THE BACKLASH IS INTERNATIONAL: More than 150 arrested in London during anti-lockdown protest.

I don’t recall Black Lives Matter protesters being arrested in London.

CHANGE: Kentucky Religious Schools Have First Amendment Right to Reopen, Says Federal Judge.

DON’T OPEN THEM AT LEAST UNTIL 2020 IS OVER: Egypt Has Unearthed 160 Ancient Coffins Since September. Some Were Sealed With a ‘Curse.’

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STRONGER, BUT LESS VERSATILE: Neanderthals’ thumbs were well-suited to ‘squeeze,’ study says. “The paper, published Thursday in Scientific Reports, said Neanderthals were well-adapted to grip tools the way we grab hammers — but would have struggled to hold a pencil or shake hands with someone else.”

NOW OUT FROM VIRGINIA POSTREL: The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Gut microbes: The key to normal sleep. Gut flora seem to be the key to a lot of things.

PAGING TRUMP’S ELECTION RECOUNT TEAM:

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NEWS YOU CAN USE: Just Put the F*cking Turkey in the Oven.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: SIG SAUER Cross Recall. “Sig Sauer has viewed an online video that presents a single CROSS Bolt-Action Rifle with a potential safety concern. This gun has been returned to Sig Sauer and upon evaluation it has been confirmed that the rifle exhibited a delayed discharge after the trigger was pulled. Sig Sauer has decided to issue a safety recall in order to implement a modification to the firing action to address this potential safety concern.”

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OLD AND BUSTED Antifa is Simply an “Idea.”

The New Hotness? ‘F*** Thanksgiving!’: Antifa Topples Statues of George Washington, Veterans to Fight ‘Colonization.’

AP SOUNDS THE ALARM: Biden’s win hides a dire warning for Democrats in rural U.S.

Democrats once dominated Koochiching County in the blue-collar Iron Range of northern Minnesota. But in this month’s presidential election, President Donald Trump won it with 60% of the vote.

That’s not because voters there are suddenly shifting to the right, said Tom Bakk, who represents the area in the state Senate. It’s because, he said, Democrats have steadily moved too far to the left for many rural voters.

“We’ve got to see if we can get the Democratic Party to moderate and accept the fact that rural Minnesota is not getting more conservative,” said Bakk, who announced last week that he would become an independent after serving 25 years as a Democrat. “It’s that you guys are leaving them behind.”

While Democrats powered through cities and suburbs to reclaim the White House, the party slid further behind in huge rural swaths of northern battlegrounds. The party lost House seats in the Midwest, and Democratic challengers in Iowa, Kansas, Montana and North Carolina Senate races, all once viewed as serious threats to Republican incumbents, fell, some of them hard.

Though Democrats’ rural woes aren’t new, they now heap pressure on Biden to begin reversing the trend. Failure to do so endangers goals such as curbing climate change and winning a Senate majority, especially with GOP Senate seats in Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin up in 2022.

“The pressure for Democrats has to be on conveying an economic message for rural America,” said Iowa Democrat John Norris, a former candidate for governor. “We have a great one to convey, but we haven’t put enough emphasis on it.”

Gee, I’m not sure that “learn to code” has the flyover country selling power the left thinks it has.

THIS COULD BE BIG: Protein regulating inflammation in atherosclerosis identified.

GOOGLE IS A CULT? I JUST CAN’T SEE IT MYSELF: YouTube Celebrates “Unthanksgiving” Instead of Thanksgiving.

WE SHOULD PUT ITS REPLACEMENT ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOON, AS GOD AND ROBERT HEINLEIN INTENDED: World’s most powerful radar telescope at Arecibo will be scrapped.