THEY ARE INSANE AND PROJECT A LOT:  Journalist thinks Trump’s Twitter return will kill people.

ELECTIONS, CRIME, EVERYTHING, IT’S FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN:  Crime: narrative vs. reality.

THEY HAVE THIS CURIOUS INABILITY TO PERCEIVE INDIVIDUALS. EVERYONE IS FUNGIBLE TO THEM:  Schumer on immigration—lies, damn lies.

THEY’RE KILLING THE GOLDEN AGE OF EVERYTHING, REALLY:  The gods of diversity are killing the ‘golden age’ of medicine.

OTHER THAN HIS BEING A CORRUPT LOON:  The Case For Booting Adam Schiff From The House Intel Committee.

IT AND THEIR COWARDLY CORRUPTION NEEDS PUBLICIZING:  CBS engages in some Now It Can Be Told about Hunter Biden’s laptop.

THIS UNLIKE THE STUPID POSTURING WITH KNEELING IS REAL COURAGE:  Silent Protest: Iranian Soccer Players Refuse To Sing Anthem.

CLOSE SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION. SALT THE EARTH:  Worst Aspects Of CRT-Based “Liberated Ethnic Studies” Flourishing In Washington State Teacher Trainings.

FRAUD. THAT’S THE EXPLANATION:  AZ Attorney General’s Office Wants Maricopa County to Explain Voting Problems.

IT DOESN’T MAKE ME LIKE MCCARTHY, BUT IT’S A GOOD START:  Omar, Swalwell Snipe at McCarthy for His Promise to Keep Them Off House Commitees.

OPEN THREAD: Monday, monday.

WALKING IT BACK: FDA attorney argues guidance against ivermectin for COVID was recommendation, ‘not mandatory.’

EVERYTHING SEEMINGLY IS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL: AP Fires Reporter Whose Anonymously-Sourced and Retracted Story Claimed Russia Killed Polish Civilians.

NEW VIDEO FROM AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Californians Move to Texas, Episode 5: Buc-ee’s!

More here: Watch: Hilarious Babylon Bee Take as Californians Discover the Wonder of Buc-ees.

RACIAL REVISIONISM HAS PEAKED: NASA confirms decision to keep JWST name after historical report.

MICHAEL WALSH: The Sting. “If you knowingly sit down at a fixed poker game and lose your entire stash, would you also complain that some of the other players also cheated? If it was a friend who brought you into the game, would you then go to another one with him? And having lost all your money when you bet the farm, would you re-mortgage it and bet it all again on the chance that this time things would be different? If you’re a Republican, the answer is: of course you would, because you just did and you’re about to do it again.”

JOEL KOTKIN: After Intersectionalism.

We are now, already in LA and soon in New York City, entering an era of relentless jostling between an ever-wider array of ethnic groups—Black, Asian, and most consequentially Latino. At the same time, the Jewish presence in America’s cities is shrinking. Even with the high birthrates of Orthodox Jews, New York City’s Jewish population is roughly 25% smaller than its midcentury high. In Los Angeles, the community’s size has not decreased but its political power has, as non-Jews have won electoral offices once held by Jewish community members in the San Fernando Valley and the Westside. In the new arena of ethnic competition, Jews, like other diminishing white ethnic groups, will need to make alliances for pragmatic reasons that may vary from city to city.

Finding the best political course will be far more complex than in the heyday of postwar multicultural liberalism, when the alliance between Jews and African Americans seemed a clear-cut matter of moral and political sense. Without a larger framework like the one provided by the Civil Rights movement, competent Jewish leaders now need to forge ties with other ethnic communities that will depend on who is ascendant and willing to accept Jewish concerns.

The real question is not how to prevent ethnic groups from uniting into some potential revolutionary force aimed at overthrowing the “white” majority, but how to integrate them into the broader economy and society. Doing so will not mean the elimination of all ethnic conflict, which, at its most basic level, is a healthy expression of minority groups fighting for their voice in a democratic society. It should, however, reduce the scale and intensity of that conflict, as the different groups involved recognize that their fight for a larger piece of the pie is taking place within the common community of American life.

As Tom Wolfe wrote in his last novel, “A phrase pops into his head from out of nowhere. ‘Everybody… all of them… it’s back to blood! Religion is dying… but everybody still has to believe in something. It would be intolerable — you couldn’t stand it — to finally have to say to yourself, ‘Why keep pretending? I’m nothing but a random atom inside a supercollider known as the universe.’ But believing in by definition means blindly, irrationally, doesn’t it. So, my people, that leaves only our blood, the bloodlines that course through our very bodies, to unite us. ‘La Raza!’ as the Puerto Ricans cry out. ‘The Race!’ cries the whole world. All people, all people everywhere, have but one last thing on their minds — Back to blood!”

AFTER SCHOOL SATAN CLUB:  California elementary school has a new “After School Satan Club.”  Parents not amused.

IS MASTODON THE NEW TWITTER?

Next are the “ground rules.” Aside from feeling like he was being told off by a teacher, Cockburn found said rules frustratingly vague. “Stay tasteful and legal,” “be nice to everybody always” and “use content warnings for sensitive topics.” Content warning: what a load of BS.

Next there’s the “toots” rather than “tweets.” Not a big deal, but so incredibly twee. On the plus side, users have almost twice as many characters, 500, to write a post.

But as much as Musk-skeptic celebs try to convince us that Mastodon is the new hip thing, the truth will always out. A few days ago New York Times columnist Paul Krugman announced that he was opening a Mastodon account “as a precaution against the possible Muskocalypse on this site.” Within a few hours Krugman posted an update, saying: “so far things are not going well on Mastodon. After the initial post, nothing I try to post is showing up. And despite setting it *not* to send an email every time someone follows me, it’s sending  them. I hope these are just teething problems.”

What Krugman is saying is that not even his young, tech-savvy interns can figure out how to work Mastondon, since it’s very unlikely he’d even know how to login: “By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.”

JIM TREACHER: Happy 80th Birthday, Joe! “It’s weird, though… The White House has barely even mentioned the happy occasion. Biden didn’t make any public appearances on his birthday, and he doesn’t really seem excited about it. Just last month, he said: ‘I can’t even say the age I am going to be. I can’t even get it out of my mouth.’ Sad emoji! Granted, these days there are a number of words Joe can’t get out of his mouth. But “eighty” seems fairly easy to pronounce, right?”

SMILING WITH YOUR EYES: Scientists Confirm You Can Communicate With Your Cat by Blinking Very Slowly.

GET READY FOR THE HOLIDAYS: McCook® MC69 Knife Sets. #CommissionEarned (Bumped)

BREAKING NEWS FROM 1790: Recreational Use Of ‘Laughing Gas’ Rising: EU Drugs Agency.