HUMAN CONTACT 101: Why Can’t Gen Z Communicate Like the Rest of Us? “Colleges are now offering a course on how to make small talk and network with other humans.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: 70+ Columbia student groups publish anti-Israel manifesto, demand school reinstate clubs suspended for threats and intimidation.

Expelling people guilty of threats and intimidation would be better.

YOU KNOW WHO ELSE FUELED THEIR TROOPS WITH METH? NAZIS. Somebody is Feeding Hamas Crystal Meth to Fuel Terror Attacks.

No, really.

OUR HANGOVER FROM DC’S OVERINDULGENCE ISN’T GOING AWAY ANY TIME SOON: Fed gave no indication of possible rate cuts at last meeting, minutes show.

MORE J6 REVELATIONS: When Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) opted to make public all 40,000 hours of January 6 Capitol videos, he empowered hundreds of reviewers unencumbered by Trump Derangement Syndrome. The result is likely to be disastrous for a lot of powerful people in Congress and thereabouts.

Consider this new report from Just the News, which found video of a Metropolitan District of Columbia police officer explaining “we go undercover as Antifa.” One of the most significant lingering questions about January 6 is how many undercover local and federal law enforcement officials were encouraging the crowd. More to come, so stay tuned.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Leftist Attempts to Destroy Elon Musk Won’t Work in Time for 2024. “Leftist attempts to discredit Musk and wrest Twitter/X away from him have been unceasing and remarkably unsuccessful. Perhaps the biggest indication of the latter is that they have to use Twitter/X to get out the news about how awful they think that Twitter/X is.”

BLACK FRIDAY SALE: DMoose Forearm Exerciser – Hand, Wrist, and Forearm Strengthener. #CommissionEarned

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: In red America, standing up for Israel isn’t controversial.

WELL, THIS HAS BEEN A CLOWN SHOW: Sam Altman Is Reinstated as OpenAI’s Chief Executive. “OpenAI’s revamped board of directors will include Bret Taylor, an early Facebook officer and former co-chief executive of Salesforce; Lawrence Summers, the former Treasury secretary; and Mr. D’Angelo, a current board member and chief executive of the question and answer site, Quora.”

Larry Summers was forced out at Harvard because he angered STEM women. Now he’s replaced two of them on OpenAI’s board, which is revenge of a sort, I suppose.

LOL, MORNING JOE: Morning Joe Crosses the Line, Big Time. “Donald Trump was president for 4 years, and exhibited not one of the traits that Mr. Morning Joe here accuses him of. In fact, many of the acts of lawlessness he claims Trump will commit are being committed right now under President Biden.”

That’s why they’re afraid.

BIDENOMICS ISN’T WORKING: Democrats urge Biden to revamp campaign’s economic message.

“We cannot, just through sheer repetition, convince voters of something that is not their lived reality when it comes to economics,” said Adam Green, co-founder of the PCCC.

Democratic messaging, including that coming from Biden, should be “acknowledging pain and pivoting to a contrast,” Green said, and it should focus on “beginning progress, not pretend that we’re already there.”

Doug Heye, a GOP strategist, said the Biden team has the tough task of chipping away at voters’ impressions that goods are just more expensive now than when Biden took office.

“They’ve got some good news that they can talk about, but everything that every American does that involves spending money, they’re spending more of it than they were when Joe Biden became president. And that’s now ingrained into their daily lives. And it’s very hard to chip away at that,” he said.

The current message — which amounts to “you proles don’t know how good you have it” — for some reason doesn’t seem to be resonating with voters.

GO FIGURE: “The two-decade-high level of homicides in the nation since President Joe Biden took charge of the White House has apparently helped to boost those who believe that the criminal justice system is not tough enough on criminals.”

THE REDNECK INTELLECTUAL: Why You Fight: A Speech to the 224th Military Intelligence Battalion.

DO YOU HAVE A STORY TO TELL?:  The Center for Equal Opportunity is listening.  Two weeks ago CEO launched the “After Affirmative Action Network.”  The AAA Network is intended to serve as a clearinghouse to gather and distribute information on how colleges, universities and other schools are changing their admissions policies to comply (or not comply) with the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard.

Don’t be shy.  If you have information, send it to my friends Devon Westhill and Linda Chavez.  They will make sure it gets into the hands of journalists and litigators.

LOL: Chicago may quit being a sanctuary city, now that immigrants are actually coming there.

“THE ISSUE ISN’T THE ISSUE. THE ISSUE IS ALWAYS THE REVOLUTION.” The Silence of the ‘Intersectional Feminists’ on Hamas’ Misogyny.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Huge: Fourth Circuit Declares Maryland’s ‘Handgun Qualification License’ Unconstitutional.

THE TERM “SNAFU” ORIGINATED IN THE ARMY FOR GOOD REASON: U.S. Soldier Says Army Demands Cash for Gear Ordered Left Behind in Afghanistan.

WHY IS GOLDMAN SUPPORTING THE ENEMY? New York City Communists Pushing For a Gaza Ceasefire Took Millions From Goldman Sachs Charity.

“YOU DON’T NEED A GUN, THE POLICE WILL PROTECT YOU.” They don’t even protect each other, sometimes. “In New York City, a uniformed police officer in the Bronx was caught on video standing and watching as a fellow officer was beaten by two thugs on a subway, according to the New York Post. It didn’t take the NYPD long to figure out who the bad guys were. One of them was a cop. An officer who was caught on video watching as his brother-in-arms was ruthlessly beaten was put on desk duty and had his gun taken away until the incident can be sorted out, officials said.”

FASTER, PLEASE: The slow demise of green energy?

The giant push toward a net zero utopia is not practical and has been a complete disservice to the American consumer. Components of the green movement are experiencing major setbacks, namely offshore wind, electric vehicles (EVs), and investments.

Offshore wind projects are struggling to secure financing and stay on track. The biggest blow came last month, when the world’s largest offshore wind developer Ørsted canceled two major projects off the New Jersey coastline, taking the wind right out of Gov. Phil Murphy’s green energy sails. Ørsted is also suspending work on offshore projects in Maryland and Delaware.
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The EV market is also losing steam. Sales are slumping and manufacturers are scaling back on production.

To be fair, nuclear power plants are green and we should be building a lot more of those.

AT AMAZON, Black Friday Deals. #CommissionEarned

PLENTY OF WOMEN JOINED ISIS, TOO: When Pro-Hamas Bomb Throwers Turn Out to Be Pasty-Faced White Girls.

There’s a lot of LARPing from people who aren’t challenged enough in their daily lives. Maybe we need a Tunnel in the Sky style rite of passage or something.

IF YOU’RE FROM CHICAGO, YOU’LL UNDERSTAND:  I’ve been down on Macy’s since they took over Marshall Field’s more than a decade ago.  I won’t shop there.  You can’t make me.  No one can.  Macy’s killed my favorite store.

I was therefore pleased to learn that “Stephen Miller’s Legal Group Targets Macy’s [Illegal] Diversity Policies.”  Go get ’em, Stephen.

DAVID BROCK: THE NEXT ALEX JONES? Matt Taibbi: Media Matters and the Fake News Era Go to Court: The X/Twitter lawsuit against David Brock’s media arm could become a referendum on the fake news era. “MMfA is accused of creating a news story, reporting on it, then propagandizing it to willing partners in the mainstream press. Again, the X allegations need to hold up in an adversarial process, but the company claims to have fully captured a dollhouse version of a generation’s larger media frauds, making this a fascinating case to watch. This whole thing would be merely a petty spat between political antagonists, except Media Matters has been a major driver of this general type of story, in which an offense is first invented, then made the focus of ginned-up outrage, then massively propagandized via unscrupulous press partners.”