NEWS YOU CAN USE: Three Songs You Didn’t Know the Late Actress Carrie Fisher Co-Wrote.

The late actress Carrie Fisher will forever be known as a cinnamon-bunned space princess-turned-blaster-sporting heroine from a galaxy far, far away. But she was so much more than Princess Leia from Star Wars. She was a novelist, memoirist, screenplay writer, and all-around wordsmith, a skill that she eventually translated into song.

Here are three songs you didn’t know Carrie Fisher co-wrote.

Hey you can’t fool me:  how could Fisher have played a “space princess-turned-blaster-sporting heroine,” when it was actually Jennifer Lawrence who pioneered those roles for women?

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I FEEL THAT MY LUCK HAS TAKEN A TURN FOR THE BETTER:

I mean, bacon is pork, right?

THIS NEEDS AT LEAST ONE MORE ZERO: University of Idaho must pay $90,000 to settle free speech lawsuit.

LIKE NEGLIGENCE, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS ISLAMOPHOBIA IN THE AIR: Stanford faculty claim Islamophobia, do not give examples.

JIMMY LAI: Meet the journalist who terrifies the Chinese Communist Party.

Never trust a regime that fears free speech.

THEN: A BIDEN ADMINISTRATION WILL SEE US RESPECTED IN THE WORLD AGAIN.

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ABOUT TIME: The ESG Counter-Revolution Has Arrived.

AN IDEA SO CRAZY IT JUST MIGHT WORK: Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin Seeks to Expand Housing by Curbing Zoning: The move is a step in the right direction. It also highlights how the issue cuts across ideological lines.

OPEN THREAD: Enjoy!

SPACE: House committee leaders introduce bipartisan bills to update satellite rules.

THE NEXT STAGE: “All right. We have seen the ‘nothingburger’ response to the Twitter Files. This is the I’m-rubber-you’re-glue response: You are the very thing that you denounce.”

From the comments: “Worthy of Adam Schiff at his most mendacious.”

ALSO UNSURPRISING: Hearing Aids May Help You Avoid Dementia, Study Finds. “In fact, a loss of hearing is one of the top modifiable risk factors for dementia, along with smoking, physical inactivity, and obesity.”

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Come for the luggage savings, stay for the Sam Brinton jokes.

UNSURPRISING: Study of twins shows exercise can alter genetic markers of disease.

YES: The U.S. News Law School Rankings Boycott Is A Chance To Rethink Legal Education.

Suggestions: Limit law school to two years, cap federal financial aid at a tuition equivalent to that of the average public law school, require at least five years of practice experience for federal judicial clerks, and allow people to “read law” and take the bar without attending law school at all, like Abraham Lincoln and most Supreme Court justices prior to the mid 20th Century.

RIP COL. JOE KITTINGER, THE FIRST MAN TO FLY A BALLOON 20 MILES UP TO THE EDGE OF SPACE, JUMP OUT OF IT, AND LIVE TO TELL THE TALE.

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WELL, NOW WE KNOW WHY LIBS OF TIKTOK GOT PUT THROUGH THE WRINGER: Christopher Rufo looks at Yoel Roth’s academic publications and concludes ‘dude’s research background is wild.’

On Halloween, Elon Musk recommended that everyone on Twitter follow Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of Trust and Safety. Conservatives asked Musk to rethink that recommendation. Roth has had some very interesting opinions about Republicans and conservatives, tweeting that “I’m just saying, we fly over those states that voted for a racist tangerine for a reason,” among many others. A little more than a week later, Roth left the company, but we sure are learning a lot about the work he did at Twitter from messages on the company’s Slack channels.

We know this came up earlier, but Roth has a Ph.D. in communication, and his dissertation took a good look at the gay hook-up app Grindr. We’re cool with Roth being gay, but it’s interesting to see the works he had published before taking over Trust and Safety at Twitter.

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We don’t care if Roth is super, super gay or not, but it does make us wonder why accounts like Libs of TikTok were so heavily on the radar of the people with their fingers on the “suspend” button.

And then there’s this:

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