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HMM: Scoop: Pentagon halts Biden transition briefings.

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Sadly, the incoming Biden administration seems poised to throw out Trump’s immigration plans entirely, and illegal immigrants know it: Surge in border crossings spells early test for Biden’s immigration plans.

Obviously, Biden’s whole campaign was predicated on Orange Man Bad. By why does he hate fellow Democrats Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, and Harry Reid so?

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THE RETURN OF CIVILITY: Biden spokeswoman defends incoming deputy chief of staff’s ‘spicy language’ in Glamour interview.

CIVIL RIGHTS: Liberal Dems Want Colleagues Disarmed On Capitol Hill. “Liberal Democrat House members are calling on Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to prohibit members of Congress from carrying guns anywhere on Capitol Hill, and incoming freshman, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, thinks this effort is aimed squarely at her.”

IT’S NOT SO MUCH THAT THEY DIDN’T NOTICE, AS THAT THEY DIDN’T WANT YOU TO NOTICE: Obama trafficked in anti-Semitic tropes — lefty media didn’t notice.

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VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Go to the Back of the Vaccine Bus, Whitey.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: How are we ever going to achieve a color-blind society when our nomenklatura insists on seeing everything through the lens of race?

Answer: We’re not supposed to achieve it, because then the nomenklatura wouldn’t be able to keep us at one another’s throats for their own benefit.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

• Here comes Santa Claus, and he wants to to locked down
• Helen Keller was ‘Just Another Privileged White Person’ because of course she was
• Racist nipples

Bonus Sanity: Nope, none of that today.

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Princeton punished him after he said a female sexually assaulted him. A judge refused to toss his suit.

THEY KNOW WHEN YOU’VE BEEN NAUGHTY: Capella Space’s new satellite can see into your house at any time.

(UPDATED, see below)

An unconventional new satellite from Capella Space can do the unthinkable: peer right into your bedroom and snap high-resolution pictures at any time. If that sounds pretty creepy to you… yeah, we’re right there with you.

The Capella-2 satellite is unlike any hunk of metal currently orbiting the Earth, thanks to the ludicrously high resolution of its onboard cameras. And Capella has launched it with an unconventional service to match: the government or private customers can request a picture of anything on the planet at any time.

Right now there’s just one Capella-2 satellite roaming around in the atmosphere, so that functionality is somewhat limited. Capella plans to launch six additional satellites with similar capabilities in the next year.

The Capella-2 is certainly an enormous leap forward in space-based photography; it will surely usher in more of a race for this type of technology. The satellite is also a massive privacy risk — and one that lies outside any policy framework we have around surveillance.

If I were President, I’d be tempted to order Space Force to shoot it down.

UPDATE (Charlie): The story now has a correction:

Correction: A previous version of this article stated in error that the satellite can see into buildings. It cannot. The post has been updated to reflect this.

The signal they’re using is 9.6GHz, and most all houses are opaque at that frequency. So it can’t really see into your house, and your sex life is safe from satellites. That doesn’t mean it’s not a privacy concern, though — it can see your property, your car, people going into and out of your house.