HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Alabama man squatted in Stanford dorms, posed as student for 10 months.

STANDING UP AGAINST HATE, BIGOTRY, AND OPPRESSION: Venezuelan émigré student calls on Penn State to remove prominently displayed Fidel Castro quote.

Also, the “Paul Robeson Cultural Center” is named for an unrepentant Stalinist.

CHANGE: ‘We Have Rewritten the Political Map’: How the GOP Turned Florida Into a Red State. If it weren’t for Fulton County, Maricopa County, and Clark County they’d have taken the Senate, too.

JUST ONE? Guess which city is next on the list to receive a migrant bus from Texas? [Did you mean just one city? Or just one bus? — ed] Yes.

21ST CENTURY LOBOTOMY: David Freddoso: Make it as easy as possible to sue doctors who perform transgender surgeries.

XI KNOWS: Biden goes for power-positioning of the hands, but what captures my eye is the expression on Xi’s face.

THE FAT LADY WARMS UP FOR KARI LAKE IN ARIZONA, KATIE HOBBS APPEARS TO DECLARE VICTORY.

MICHAEL WALSH: The System is the Steal. “If the franchise is really ‘sacred,’ let’s start acting like it.”

WELL, YES:

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: US Consumer Confidence Plummets Over Inflation Worries.

IT’S A JOKE, AND UNDERMINES ANY TALK OF “DEMOCRACY” HERE OR ABROAD: America’s Fourth World Vote System Is a Global Embarrassment.

The whole world is laughing.

“US election results: When will we know who won?” the BBC wondered.

AZCentral.com columnist Jon Gabriel wrote: “Friends in Hungary and Brazil asked how their entire nations can count votes in a few hours, while it takes Arizona a week or longer.”

As of early Friday afternoon, America’s voting system has devolved from a global beacon of democracy to an international punchline. A bright neon sign warns: “Don’t try this at home.”

Mechanical breakdowns, baffling “ballot dumps,” and inexplicable pauses in tabulation have buried the Arizona and Nevada senatorial and gubernatorial results in sand.

Alaska has soiled itself with a new, needless, and odious rank-choice-voting process. Rather than Tuesday’s top vote-getter winning the Senate seat, Republicans Lisa Murkowski, Kelly Tshibaka, Buzz Kelley, and Democrat Patricia Chesboro are mired in a glacial redistribution of each losing candidate’s votes to those ranked higher. This ballot buffoonery could continue for weeks.

In the U.S. House, 32 seats remain uncalled. Republicans have yet to secure their expected slim majority, thanks to dilatory vote counts and mail-in ballots that land more slowly than falling autumn leaves.

Who will be the next mayor of Los Angeles? At this writing, 64 hours after polls closed, nobody knows. Some 900,000 ballots await tabulation! In 10 California congressional contests, fewer than half of the ballots have been counted, per Politico. In the Sixth District, only 35 percent of ballots have been tabulated!

What America needs is a major cleanup of our self-humiliating voting system.

Indeed.

AND DESERVEDLY SO: Narrative Fail: Every Governor Who Signed a Constitutional Carry Law Won Re-Election.

AT LEAST $1 BILLION OF CLIENT FUNDS MISSING AT FAILED CRYPTO FIRM FTX:

Customer withdrawals had surged last Sunday after Changpeng Zhao, CEO of giant crypto exchange Binance, said Binance would sell its entire stake in FTX’s digital token, worth at least $580 million, “due to recent revelations.” Four days before, news outlet CoinDesk reported that much of Alameda’s $14.6 billion in assets were held in the token.

That Sunday, [Sam] Bankman-Fried held a meeting with several executives in the Bahamas capital Nassau to calculate how much outside funding he needed to cover FTX’s shortfall, the two people with knowledge of FTX’s finances said.

Bankman-Fried confirmed to Reuters that the meeting took place.

Bankman-Fried showed several spreadsheets to the heads of the company’s regulatory and legal teams that revealed FTX had moved around $10 billion in client funds from FTX to Alameda, the two people said. The spreadsheets displayed how much money FTX loaned to Alameda and what it was used for, they said.

The documents showed that between $1 billion and $2 billion of these funds were not accounted for among Alameda’s assets, the sources said. The spreadsheets did not indicate where this money was moved, and the sources said they don’t know what became of it.

And as a result: FTX Customers Face a Long Road to Try to Get Their Money Back. The exchange paused customer withdrawals at its international unit this week; ‘If you can’t trust exchanges, the whole premise of cryptocurrency doesn’t work:’

Gianluca Giuffra, a 25-year-old investor from Lima, Peru, used FTX to trade digital assets and picked the exchange because he thought it was a safe bet.

“Sam looks like a very honest person,” he said, “He doesn’t look like the type of guy that would do crazy stuff behind users’ backs.”

Errr:

This creepy crook became a hero to the ESG grifters & those genuinely dumb enough to believe his BS. @SBF_FTX belongs in jail. pic.twitter.com/ZJ6NDn7H7I

— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) November 13, 2022

“‘Earning to give’ is thinking about which causes, which charities save the most lives per dollar:” Collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX had ties to Ukrainian government, WEF, and top Biden adviser.

UPDATE: FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Lists Bahamas Penthouse For $40 Million.

ROBERT STEINBUCH: Live Free or DEI Even Harder.

THE RISE OF THE NEW GNOSTICS. “From neopaganism to cryptocurrency cults, the Internet today is full of strange quasi-faiths.”

EVERY SUNDAY — EXCEPT WHEN I MISS — I DO A POST TO PROMOTE (MOSTLY) INDIE WRITERS:  Book Promo And Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

POUR EPATER LA CANAILLE:  Climate Change: 400 Private Jets Go Wheels-Up To COP27.

Aristo, aristo, a la lanterne.

WHAT AN IDIOT. GOING AGAINST THE GENIUSES WHO’VE KEPT OUR BOYS DYING IN WAR AFTER WAR FOR A CENTURY, AROUND THE GLOBE:  What Trump did to make career diplomats really mad: Ex-EU ambassador.

We’re going to need a bigger salt bag to clean out these slugs.

COLLATERAL DAMAGE OF BIDEN’S CLIMATE WAR:  Fed-up US farmers tell why government will put them out of business.

But it’s okay guys. We’ll live on unicorn farts and bugs.  The would be aristos might want to remember they’re made of meat.

SURE, THIS WENT INTO IT, AS DID MISS LINDSEY GRAHAM’S BS, BUT:  Why No Red Wave? Or A Labor of Love.

But in the end it’s the fraud. Look, guys, if you believe the guys who support and fight like rabid weasels to keep: vote harvesting, vote by mail, same day registration, no id, not-secure machine voting, etc. etc. aren’t commuting fraud I commend you for your sparkling shiny souls and beg you — with tears in my eyes — please grow up. You’re going to get us all killed.

Still hesitant. Sure. Repeat after me: “President Biden is so great he got the most votes in American history, and lost the fewest seats in a first midterm. Obama was holding him back all these years.”

If you can repeat that without laughing or seeing the absurdity of it, you’re either insane or you’ve been on a bender since election day and need to dry out now. Because I refuse to change my name to Cassandra, and I’m getting tired of this shouting in the desert thing. I don’t like grasshoppers in honey.

AN INCIDENT MANUFACTURED BY “MASTER MANIPULATORS” IN A NATIONAL “CONSPIRACY”:  Man in wheelchair choked, robbed in broad daylight a block from Trump Tower.

BOY HOWDY, THAT BAIL REFORM IS WORKING GREAT!  Man busted with 20,000 fentanyl pills set free: police sources.

After all, it’s not like the perp presents a danger to society, right? /s

A NYC PRINCIPAL? SO PROBABLY A LIBERTARIAN? NO? CONSTITUTION PARTY THEN?  NYC principal and cronies secretly demand steep rent from Dominican teachers.

THE FRAUD IS RESPONSIBLE:  So who’s to blame for the red wave spending itself? And is Europe sucking up to China?

Because Europe is old and stupid, and thinks China is the strong horse. Of course, they’ve always been mad for chinoiserie.
Don’t count us out yet. We’re America. Miracles just happen. (This one is going to hurt like a mother.)

COMPARED TO WHAT? THE WALKING CARCASS OF THE DEMOCRATS BEING PUPPETEERED BY COMMUNISTS?  Dead Or On Life Support – Republican Party .