WHY IS UCLA SUCH A CESSPIT OF ANTI-SEMITIC HATE? UCLA must make ‘fundamental’ changes after ‘chaotic’ handling of anti-Israel protests: watchdog.

SOD OFF, SWAMPY: Joyless ‘Scientists’ Want to Police the Language on Your Invitations.

BLACK FRIDAY DEAL: Apple 2024 MacBook Air 13-inch Laptop with M3 chip. #CommissionEarned

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: ‘DEAD TO ME’: Unhinged New Jersey college professor has meltdown over election, bashes Trump-supporting minorities.

THE GLOBAL USELESS CLASS DOUBLES DOWN: I.C.C. Issues Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant. The ICC is a fundamentally trivial body, biased to the needs and wants of a set of institutions that have proven incapable and are on their way out.

BEST NEWS OF THE DAY: SpaceX just got exactly what it wanted from the FAA for Texas Starship launches.

In a draft version of what is known as an “Environmental Assessment,” the FAA indicated that it will grant SpaceX permission to increase the number of Starship launches in South Texas to 25 per year from the current limit of five. Additionally, the company will likely be allowed to continue increasing the size and power of the Super Heavy booster stage and Starship upper stage.

“FAA has concluded that the modification of SpaceX’s existing vehicle operator license for Starship/Super Heavy operations conforms to the prior environmental documentation, consistent with the data contained in the 2022 PEA, that there are no significant environmental changes, and all pertinent conditions and requirements of the prior approval have been met or will be met in the current action,” the federal agency stated in its conclusion.

Then again, 25 launches for SpaceX is just getting started.

SAY HER NAME AND DON’T LET UP: JustTheNews has a deep-dive into the checkered history of officer Michael Byrd, who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt during the Jan. 6 riots:

“The issues in Captain Michael Byrd’s background included a failed shotgun qualification test, a failed FBI background check for a weapon’s purchase, a 33-day suspension for a lost weapon and referral to Maryland state prosecutors for firing his gun at a stolen car fleeing his neighborhood, according to congressional and police documents obtained by Just the News.”

Like the Good Professor says: “Read the whole thing.”

DON SURBER: Trump Finally Vanquished Obama.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Are the Lawfare Lunatics Sweating Yet? “It is difficult to figure out who the most egregious Trump-hating perverters of the law were in this tawdry assault on justice, but Alvin Bragg and Juan Merchan would probably get my vote. Bragg is a daddy issues-laden freak show who doesn’t hide his creepy obsession with Trump. He’s a typical Soros hack who is more interested in protecting criminals than law-abiding citizens.”

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YOU MEAN, “READY TO GOVERN AS PROMISED ON DAY 1”: Trump’s immigration crackdown is expected to start on Day 1. “Trump’s team is already thinking about how to craft executive actions aimed to withstand the legal challenges from immigrants’ rights groups — all in hopes of avoiding an early defeat like the one his 2017 travel ban targeting majority-Muslim nations suffered. This time, Trump may have friendlier arbiters. These fights will be refereed by a federal judiciary that he transformed during his first term, including by appointing more than 200 federal judges himself. And at the very top — the ultimate decider of these questions — is the Supreme Court, to which he appointed three conservative justices.”

IF YOU CAN’T GOVERN, WHY SHOULD YOU WIN?

Democrats won supermajorities in California a long time ago and cities ended up getting less safe, housing got more expensive, and the high speed rail just sat there, never getting completed. Can't restore faith in the party until you fix the state that has come to define it.

— Lee Fang (@lhfang) November 20, 2024

The astonishing collapse in Democratic support in deep blue areas is the strongest evidence that the 2024 election was, in fact, a referendum on 2020-era progressivism, and the progressives lost decisively. pic.twitter.com/DEUZZZWb1D

— Geoff Shullenberger (@g_shullenberger) November 20, 2024

WORTH YOUR TIME, FOR SURE: From the late Gerard van der Leun, The Name In The Stone, and Other Essays.

BATHROOM WARS:  Single-sex Congressional bathrooms will remain single-sex, not single-gender.  Note that members of Congress have their very own private bathrooms, so the newly-elected transgender Representative from Delaware–Sarah McBride–will not be forced to use the men’s room.

The notion that federal laws banning sex discrimination require that transgender individuals be assigned to the bathroom that correspond to their gender (rather than their sex) has always been a non sequitur.  The logic of the arguments that are made for it would lead to unisex bathrooms, not bathrooms based on gender.

UNAMERICAN: Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes: Business Receives Backlash After Refusing to Serve Trump Supporters.

JOEL KOTKIN: The Left’s war on men is backfiring disastrously: Young males are moving to the Right. But as birth rates collapse, this is a bigger problem than politics.

Sex is supposed to be fun, and productive, but when mixed with politics it can have some less fortunate societal impacts. This autumn, as the US presidential election moved to its denouement, both campaigns focused largely on their gender bases, hoping to win the chromosomal war.

Women almost elected the pathetic Kamala Harris, with 53 per cent of them giving her their votes according to the exit polls. Her biggest edge was among younger women, who supported her by 61 per cent, and black women, who backed her by 91 per cent. Some Democrats attacked white women after the election for “dooming Kamala”, particularly married suburban women, who turned out to care about things other than sexual politics.

But what really saved Donald Trump was his strong support among men. Trump’s focus on the “Manosphere” of fight fans, fitness buffs, male influencers, and people attracted to uber-males like Joe Rogan and Elon Musk paid off big time, with him winning the overwhelming majority of white as well as Hispanic working class men. He even notched up an astounding 21 per cent among male African Americans, more than twice his percentage with black women. Among white men under 30, he won by an astonishing 14 points.

Men clearly preferred the Trump model to that presented by Democratic men, who proudly boasted of being “less masculine” than their Republican counterparts, leading to comparisons with Bud Light’s disastrous flirtation with a transgender influencer. The low point, however, was the laughable attempt to manufacture he-men who “eat carburetors for breakfast” and vote for Harris, in a TV ad later revealed to have been created independently of her official campaign by Hollywood actors and writers.

Everything about her campaign was fake.

FAIL, BRITANNIA:

BREAKING: The UK will scrap five warships, dozens of military helicopters and a fleet of drones to save money despite growing threats from Russia and a war raging in Europe.
John Healey, the defence secretary, announced the dramatic move in parliament on Wednesday, saying it…

— Deborah Haynes (@haynesdeborah) November 20, 2024

More: “How can the UK talk tough on defence while at the same time failing to ensure sufficient funding for the military to at the very least be able to mothball “outdated” warships, helicopters & drones? A key lesson from Russia’s war in Ukraine has been that old equipment brought out of deep storage is better than no kit.”

But as CDR Salamander noted, Britain’s decline is bipartisan:

Vote for Labour, get Labour.

…but to be fair, the “Conservative” party was not much better…and really, husbanded much of the decline.

This is inertia more than anything.

From its military, to its culture, to its freedoms, to its demographics, we are watching a nation… https://t.co/5SL9nkuyLn

— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) November 20, 2024

Indeed.

POLITICAL AD FODDER FOR 2026: WATCH: Dem Rep. Jasmine Crockett Goes Nuts During Hearing, Starts Shouting About the ‘White Man.’

HERE LIES THE AAUP: A once-great org that abandoned its principles in favor of partisan expediency.

PERHAPS A RETURN TO TAR AND FEATHERS IS IN ORDER: ‘Corrupt Tyrants’: Bucks County Citizens Go After County Commissioners.

LESSONS UNLEARNED: Democrats Are Going to Get Younger and More Radical.

TO BE FAIR, I GET CONFUSED BY THIS STUFF SOMETIMES, TOO: Self-Own: Fetterman Says Trans Rep. Can Use HIS Bathroom.

KAROL MARKOWICZ: The real Jewish vote: And why it matters.

For me, it’s: Did we put our own survival at the top of the issues pile? Did we see clearly who are friends are and who they are not? Did my people learn lessons? But also to show the outside world: look, we did.

I had anecdotes. Liberal Jewish friends who leaned in over dinners and whispered “I’m voting for him.” One after another made the confession. One couple in particular, lifelong friends of mine, shocked me into silence when they said they had voted Trump. They were committed Democrats (MSNBC watchers! Howard Stern listeners!) who had spent years arguing with me. I knew they didn’t trust Kamala Harris on Israel and I figured they would sit it out. They live in New York, they don’t have to vote. But they did. And they voted for him.

I felt the sea change when Lizzy Savetsky, a Jewish influencer, tipped to Trump. I generally don’t believe that endorsements matter that much. If Oprah and Taylor and Beyoncé couldn’t swing it, who could? But I took Lizzy’s seriously. She’s an important figure in the Jewish world, she’s beautiful and smart, focused on her family and very outspoken. I saw her as representative of a specific voting bloc that I saw emerging: women who are normally repelled by Trump but set that aside to do what’s best for the country. It wasn’t just that she was voting for Trump, it was that she was admitting to it on Sid Rosenberg’s extremely popular New York City morning radio show. Lizzy Savetsky being out with her Trump support, despite the fact that it would hurt her, and cost her followers, made me think something was moving. She wasn’t like Taylor and Beyonce, they took the easy position. She was like Travis Kelce and Jay-Z, neither of whom made endorsements. But Lizzy did.

Anecdotes aren’t data, yes, of course, but data can be bad too. It’s why people recoiled so hard from Ann Selzer’s flawed Iowa poll in the closing days of the presidential election. Her “gold standard” poll showed Trump losing Iowa to Kamala Harris by 3 points. It didn’t make sense. People on the ground in Iowa were dumbfounded. Trump would end up winning Iowa by 13. Her poll was data, not anecdotes, and it was wrong.

Yeah, anecdotes are, in fact data. All facts are data, if you know what to do with them.

UH UH. IT’S NOT JUST THE  TROOPS, THEY ALSO HAVE TO BE EQUIPPED AND SUPPLIED:  Europe preps for WWIII as secret German docs reveal plans for 800K troops in case Russia invades NATO.

WHERE THE BUOYS ARE*:  Texas drops more migrant-blocking buoys into Rio Grande: ‘We won’t back down’.

*Movie reference.