THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: FEMA worker Marn’i Washington breaks silence on not helping Trump-voting hurricane victims.

The FEMA boss who was fired after ordering volunteers not to approach homes displaying Trump signs in Florida after Hurricane Milton has insisted her edict ‘was not isolated’ and also happened in North Carolina.

Speaking out for the first time since she was fired, Marn’i Washington accused the Federal Emergency Management Agency of ‘lying’ about the scandal, and making her the scapegoat of a wider practice.

Washington was blasted publicly and lost her job after a text chain was leaked that showed her instructing colleagues to ‘avoid’ houses that had Trump signs in their yards.

Washington told DailyMail.com she is seeking an attorney and is ‘at risk’ as a result of the backlash she’s received. ‘I have information that proves FEMA is lying,’ she said.

In a podcast appearance last night, she went further — claiming more FEMA employees are guilty of the same bias, but that she is the only one being hung out to dry.

‘FEMA preaches avoidance first, and then de-escalation. This is not isolated. This is a colossal event of avoidance,’ Washington said in an interview with YouTube podcaster Roland Martin.

‘Not just in the state of Florida. You will find avoidance in the Carolinas,’ she revealed.

She says she was directly following FEMA protocol when she issued the controversial directive.

As Karol Markowicz tweets, “This should be a gigantic story:”

The fired FEMA worker is going down fighting and saying it’s agency policy to skip Trump supporter’s homes, she didn’t come up with it on her own. This should be a gigantic story. https://t.co/l71wziqjDF

— Karol Markowicz (@karol) November 12, 2024

Josh Hawley concurs:

The Homeland Security Committee needs to launch an immediate investigation and call this individual to testify. Under oath. In public. https://t.co/Jax02rRG6X

— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) November 12, 2024

SARAH ANDERSON: Nancy vs. Bernie: The Ultimate Democrat Showdown (and What It Means for the GOP). “I enjoy kicking back and watching the infighting. It’s fun to be on offense for a change.”

JAMES LILEKS: Introducing Notes From Highway 10.

TURNS OUT, GIVING STUDENTS IPADS DIDN’T MAKE THEM SMARTER: The EdTech Revolution Has Failed: The case against student use of computers, tablets, and smartphones in the classroom.

WE COULD SURE USE A PROCUREMENT WIN: The B-21’s Price Is Decreasing With Over $5 Billion Saved for the First Five Lots. “The B-21 budget for the first five production lots went from the $19.1 billion budgeted by the U.S. Air Force in 2023 to the $13.8 billion budgeted for 2025. The decrease amounts to a 28% discount, or $5.1 billion, for the same number of bombers to be acquired between 2023 and 2027.”

I LIKED THE ARMY OF DAVIDS BETTER THAN THE “ARMY OF STUDENT CHEATING.” Cheating Has Become Normal. What Can Faculty Do?

Students cheated on informal discussion-board prompts. They cheated on essays. A few weeks ago, she emailed a student to say that she knew the student had cheated on a minor assignment with AI and if she did it again, she would fail the course. Clukey also noted there were several missed assignments. The student replied to “sincerely apologize,” said she was “committed to getting back on track,” and that she regretted “any disruption [her] absence or incomplete work may have caused in the course.” But her next paper was essentially written by artificial intelligence. Curious, Clukey asked ChatGPT to write an email apologizing to a professor for plagiarism and missed work.

“And what did it do?” she said. “It spit out an email almost exactly like the one I had gotten.”

I guess we’ll have to go back to in-class handwritten exams.

DE-GLEICHSCHALTUNG* IS BEGINNING: Report: Corporate Executives Sit on Boards of Hospitals That Perform Child Sex Changes.

* As Ace warned in February, and likely even more so going forward, it’s time for the establishment left to breakout the airbrushes on a Stalinist level: The Trans-Children Era is About to Be Memory-Holed and the Perpetrators Will Be Disavowing Involvement. Particularly since, as Rich Lowry wrote on Sunday, “Trans Moralism Is Killing the Democrats.” “This is what happened on trans issues in the election. Donald Trump’s ‘she’s for they/them’ attack ad was the most effective and consequential political spot of this century.”

RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR: Here Comes the Russian Counter-Counteroffensive?

YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK:

80,000 pounds of Costco butter was just recalled, because the label doesn't say that it contains milk.

It's butter.

News articles are telling people how they can return, or safely dispose of, the butter.

It's butter.

— Spike Cohen (@RealSpikeCohen) November 11, 2024

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH MATTHEW YGLESIAS IS A VOICE OF SANITY: A Common Sense Democrat manifesto.

My goal here is to write these principles down at an adequate level of abstraction such that they don’t become a policy laundry list. They’re also not supposed to be a straitjacket. Different people have different views and different priorities, and principles need to be loose enough to accommodate some differences. But I also don’t want these to be total platitudes; I want some people to read them and think, “Fuck this, I don’t agree.” Over the next few weeks, I’ll share posts elaborating on each one individually, but in the meantime, these are the principles I’d like to see the Democratic party embrace:

1. Economic self-interest for the working class includes both robust economic growth and a robust social safety net.

2. The government should prioritize maintaining functional public systems and spaces over tolerating anti-social behavior.

3. Climate change — and pollution more broadly — is a reality to manage, not a hard limit to obey.

4. We should, in fact, judge people by the content of their character rather than by the color of their skin, rejecting discrimination and racial profiling without embracing views that elevate anyone’s identity groups over their individuality.

5. Race is a social construct, but biological sex is not. Policy must acknowledge that reality and uphold people’s basic freedom to live as they choose.

6. Academic and nonprofit work does not occupy a unique position of virtue relative to private business or any other jobs.

7. Politeness is a virtue, but obsessive language policing alienates most people and degrades the quality of thinking.

8. Public services and institutions like schools deserve adequate funding, and they must prioritize the interests of their users, not their workforce or abstract ideological projects.

9. All people have equal moral worth, but democratic self-government requires the American government to prioritize the interests of American citizens.

Does he mean it? Yglesias famously tweeted in his younger, more carefree days:

And as John Ekdahl tweeted today, “He’s gonna get utterly obliterated for this, and I can’t wait.” But in any case, “I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people,” Milton Friedman once said. “The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or if they try, they will shortly be out of office.”

HEY, MAYBE THAT “WHITE DUDES FOR HARRIS” THING WASN’T SUCH A JOKE:

You look at the precincts Trump won in LA County.

Strong Jewish, Iranian, and Armenian populations. pic.twitter.com/4RjhxQijWm

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) November 11, 2024

“Jewish, Iranian, and Armenian” doesn’t exactly fit the “rich old people” stereotype of the GOP. And it seems to be mostly upper-middle-class white women going on social media to shave their heads.

SOMETHING DOESN’T ADD UP: Oprah: ‘I Was Paid Nothing, Ever’ by Harris Campaign… So What Was that Million Dollars? “Does 94 minutes of unscripted, live television, produced on a small set, really cost a million dollars to produce?”

#1 ON AMAZON, Melania. #CommissionEarned

PUSHBACK: Hey MSM And Hollywood: It’s The Woke, Stupid. “And I can tell you right now, right now, I have no doubt in my mind the reason that people went this way was because they are been pushed that way by the news, by the media, by social media, by Hollywood, by out-of-touch celebrities. By these immature people, screeching baby meltdowns that you see constantly.”

DAYS OF WINE AND SMUGNESS:

K12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Teacher: Men should wear blue bracelets post-election to indicate they’re ‘safe’ to be around. “If you are, or know, a man … of any color, any background, any nationality, any ethnic group, any religion … who voted blue … you wear the blue bracelet, you wear the safety pin.”

IMPROPER LABELING KILLS: You Won’t Believe the Reason for Costco’s Massive Butter Recall.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Michigan State University prof reportedly sends ‘grief’ email to students, offers extra credit for attending class after Trump victory.

ENDORSED:

We won the presidency, house, and senate. For once I don’t care about the margins. I don’t care about whether it’s a landslide.

I remember 2008-2010.

Do everything you can in the next two years as if you’d won 99 to 0.

We’ve got to turn the ratchet the other way somehow.

— Kaya (@sisterinferior) November 11, 2024

Biden did the same thing during his first two years in office — only worse.

It’s time for turnabout, GOP. Are you up to the task?

LIGHTNING DEAL: LEGO Technic Bugatti Bolide Racing Car Building Set. #CommissionEarned

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: GOP Holds the House, So Trump’s Two-Year Disruptor Clock Is Ticking. “It is Trump’s party now, but there are still remnants of the Butthurt Bush Vestige Caucus in Congress.”

YES, LIKE GANDALF THE WHITE HE HAS BEEN TRANSFORMED BY HIS BATTLE WITH THE DARKNESS: Don Surber: This ain’t your father’s Donald Trump.

Plus: “Recess appointments allow presidents to bypass the confirmation process temporarily. All three of President Eisenhower’s Supreme Court appointees were recess appointments to protect them from racist Democrat filibusters. It has been years and maybe even decades since the Senate last allowed recess appointments.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE. It Wasn’t an Election. It Was an Intervention.

Trump drove so many mad, from the Never Trumpers to the Woke Left, because they destroyed themselves trying to destroy him. Their biggest problem was that they were never fighting the real Trump. They were fighting one they invented, a supervillain whose mere presence could end democracy itself.

It’s hard to imagine such smart people losing their critical thinking ability. Power will do that to you, though. No one gives it up willingly. But still, you’d think some of them might have had an inkling America was ready for change by now.

Leftism is a permanent political temper tantrum against human nature, so reason doesn’t much figure into it.

PRIORITIES: Trump’s first moves match public’s push for immigration fix.

FAST AND FURIOUS: Trump Picks Rubio to Head State Department.

I wonder if Ron DeSantis could appoint himself to Rubio’s Senate seat? His term as governor is up in 2026.