WELL, THAT’S PRECIOUS:  San Fran Elections Commissioner Canned Because He’s White.

FUNNY ONLY ONCE. SECOND TRY IS PLAYING AROUND. BOUND TO FIND OUT:  Biden’s HHS Seeks to ‘Encourage or Mandate’ Masking to Stop ‘Long Covid’.

ER… BECAUSE DEM DONOR:  Why Hasn’t Crypto-Scammer and Dem Donor Sam Bankman-Fried Been Arrested?

MIDDLE FINGERS AHOY:   EPA Pushes for a ‘Significant Increase’ in Carbon Emissions Tax.

Abolish the EPA. Salt the Earth.

THE SCIENCE IS APPARENTLY AMNESIAC:  Fauci Deposition report: “he can’t recall practically anything dealing with his Covid response!”.

I CERTAINLY THINK SO, BUT THEN IT’S NOT MY $44 BILLION:

EVERY INSTITUTION HAS BEEN CORRUPTED: NHL is all in on trans women.

OPEN THREAD: Prove that you love me, and buy the next round.

CONTROVERSIAL TAKE: It’s Bad To Put Words In The Mouths Of Murder Victims.

So the fact of the matter is we don’t know why Anderson Lee Aldrich shot up Club Q. But to [NBC’s] Ben Collins, that doesn’t matter. What matters is immediately to tie the shooting to a broader narrative. This, it goes without saying, is utterly bankrupt journalism. It could certainly be that Aldrich shot up the club out of antigay or anti-trans animus fueled by (say) LibsOfTikTok’s endless spotlighting of the most off-putting left-wing LGBT people on social media. But until you know that, you can’t assume. This is something you learn in the first week or two of any intro to journalism class. What Collins has done here is really wrong. He has spread a huge amount of… well, not even misinformation, because we don’t know yet! This is basically the journalistic equivalent of being not even wrong.

But the worst part of Collins’ monologue, by far — the part that tipped me over from exasperation at Collins and into genuine queasiness, like This dude is doing something really gross — came when he followed up his question about what reporters can do better with this: “Because there are five dead people in a strip mall, because that was the only place they felt safe as gay or trans people, in this town, in Colorado Springs.”

Let’s name those victims: Raymond Green Vance, Kelly Loving, Daniel Aston, Derrick Rump, and Ashley Paugh. They are actual, real-life, flesh and blood human beings who were alive until Saturday night. Since they cannot speak for themselves, they deserve to have their lives and their experiences represented accurately by the journalists discussing and reporting on them. Ben Collins is putting words into their mouths and thoughts into their heads. He is, in effect, speaking over recent murder victims solely to make a political point and to inflate the importance of his own particular beat. That’s the only way to describe this.

Read the whole thing.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China to use space station to test space-based solar power.

WILL THEY CHANGE THEIR VOTES? Survey done for the Heritage Foundation finds majorities of likely voters in five key red states oppose same-sex marriage bill their GOP senators backed.

UNEXPECTEDLY! NBC Drops Colorado Shooting as Lefty Narrative CRUMBLES With Nonbinary Suspect.

Or as America’s Newspaper of Record reports: Journalists Rush To Scene Of Shooting To Determine Whether It’s Politically Useful.

Jon Gabriel’s handy chart is their guide:

PRESIDENT KLAIN REALLY SHOULD LEAVE THIS STUFF TO HIS COMMS TEAM: Ron Klain ruins Thanksgiving.

THAT WOULD BE ME. Mysterious Changes Identified in The Brains of People Who Get Migraines. “The scans revealed that the perivascular spaces in the centrum semiovale of patients with migraine were significantly enlarged compared to the control group. Researchers also found a difference in the distribution of a type of lesion known as white matter hyperintensities in migraine patients. These are caused by tiny patches of dead or partially dead tissue starved by a curtailed blood flow, and they’re pretty normal. There was no difference in the frequency of these lesions between the migraine patients and the control patients, but the severity of deep lesions in migraine sufferers was higher.”

I get migraines much less often since I started taking CoQ10. Maybe it’s a coincidence, but I don’t think so.

GOOD, I LIKE THEM ANYWAY: Study: Eating a serving of dark, leafy greens daily may slow memory decline.

Though preferably slathered with Caesar or Bleu Cheese dressing.

BE PREPARED: USB Rechargeable Flashlight. #CommissionEarned

AT AMAZON, Early Black Friday Deals. #CommissionEarned.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China rolls out rocket to launch new crew to newly-completed space station.

THE UPDATED HONDA PILOT: Nicer, but more expensive. That’s pretty much the trajectory of cars in general, isn’t it?

But I noticed this: “Honda is also adding a Honda Performance Development (HPD) special options package for the Pilot. Available on any trim for $2950, the HPD package adds fender flares, bronze- or black-colored wheels, and special HPD graphics. The updated Pilot will begin arriving at dealerships in December.”

What does any of this have to do with performance?

MARK JUDGE ON LIFE AFTER THE KAVANAUGH ACCUSATIONS.

SELF-DEFENSE STORIES: A Week of Everyday Heroes.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: On This Thanksgiving, a Very Important Thank You.

A SOCIETY THAT RUNS ON EXTORTION. I used to spend a lot of time wondering why so many smart, powerful people in government and business make so many obviously dumb and self-defeating moves. Then I realized that most of these can be explained if you assume the elites spend a huge percentage of their time engaging in legal and illegal forms of extortion against one another (and the public–you don’t wanna kill grandma, do you?). Throw in an all-seeing corporate/state surveillance apparatus, and things start to make sense. But if you’re going to extort someone for favors, you have to actually deliver the goods.

BLACK FRIDAY DEAL: Apple AirPods Pro (2nd Generation). #CommissionEarned

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