LET HIM SPEAK:  ‘Karma’: Black Harvard Professor Demoted Under Claudine Gay Responds to Gay’s Resignation.

PRO-HAMAS PROTESTORS CONDEMN ISRAEL PROPAGANDA TECHNIQUE OF TELLING TRUTH:  Israel says Hamas deployed more than 170 children to the frontlines while terrorists ‘hide in shelters’.

THIS IS THE RANKEST OF LIES:  Alejandro Mayorkas: Climate Change Contributes to Migrant Surge.

There is no climate change justifying this. It’s the invitation to come and despoil America that’s responsible for a “surge” so non-spontaneous that it involves Planes Trains and Automobiles.

But I said from the beginning they’d use their astroturf soldiers to bolster their climate catastrophe lie, for the fear of fools. So it’s important to point out there’s been no change in the climate of these countries that makes them uninhabitable. Every day. And twice on Sunday.

GIVE IT TIME:  Mayor Adams proudly holds up photo of LA’s Skid Row neighborhood, brags ‘don’t see this’ in NYC: ‘Another city in America’.

SO THAT’S WHERE ALL THOS ‘JOBS’ JOE ‘CREATED’ HAVE BEEN!  The Welfare-Industrial Complex.

BLUE ON BLUE BATTLE:  New Jersey deploys cops to send dumped migrants to NYC in desperate move: ‘F–k this’.

REPEAT AFTER ME: NO AMNESTY:  Florida Surgeon General Declares Covid Jabs ‘Not Appropriate’ For Any ‘Human Beings’ Over DNA Fragment Concerns.

IT’S NOT SO MUCH SUCCESS THEY HATE AS COMPETENCE:  The left hates success, and this illustrates it.

WHEN THE US SNEEZES, THE WORLD CATCHES PNEUMONIA:  British Warship Arrives in Guyana, Amid Ongoing Border Dispute with Venezuela.

WELL, THE “ELITES” HAVE DONE A GOOD JOB OF REMOVING THAT ILLUSION:  Let’s stop pretending the system isn’t rigged.

FRANCIS TURNER HAS A NEW VENUE AND A BANG UP FIRST POST:  Sympathy for Claudine Gay.

And this is where I have a smidgen of sympathy for the woman. You see, she’s been a diversity hire all her professional career and has never had to actually face any consequences for sloppy academic research that would hole below the waterline, and probably sink, the careers of white and/or male and/or non-immigrant academics even in her chosen area of grievance studies.

So rather like my sympathy for the unfortunate child who has never been taught not to stick the silverware in a power socket and then gets electrocuted when she does so, I sympathize for Gay because no one ever told her to shape up and made it stick and now, after she’s reached pretty much the pinnacle of her career all sorts of impertinent sorts are going over her sparse academic record and looking for faults. Indeed if one can stretch the metaphor a bit, it’s more like helicopter parents not just not telling her to stick the fork in the socket but making sure that no one else told her not to either and then the poor girl goes and jams a knife into the 220v washer/dryer circuit.

READ THE WHOLE THING!

IT’S CORRUPTION ALL THE WAY DOWN:  Unusual Whales has the full rundown of the “unusually timed trades” that made members of Congress rich in 2023.

INVEST IN POPCORN FUTURES:  Epstein Documents Unsealed: Witness Testified ‘Clinton Likes Them Young’.

JOEL KOTKIN: Why the right is eating the left’s lunch: Progressives have abandoned the working class and embraced the oligarchs.

OPEN THREAD: Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends.

LOL. #JOURNALISM:

The AP stealth-edits story to note that Native American tribes used scalping against each other rather than just being a "gruesome practice taken up by white colonists" against Native Americans as the original article stated.https://t.co/RvFlnSxYVF https://t.co/6vQMlWlsF7 pic.twitter.com/47C6jocT28

— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) January 3, 2024

ORANGE TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE BAD! What Did Joe Biden Do to His Face?

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): The White House explains that it’s all very simple:

White House Explains That Biden Smeared Suntan Lotion On His Sandwich And Spread Mayo On His Face, A Simple Mistake That Could Happen To Anyone Even Someone Without Dementia https://t.co/6EqnTi9Gyu pic.twitter.com/HuVJn7tvWQ

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 3, 2024

SPACE: SpaceX deploys direct-to-smartphone satellites in first launch of 2024.

RICH LOWRY: Brace yourselves: The left will roil the country if Trump wins again.

And if Trump emerges victorious and the alleged dictatorship is underway in earnest?

Certainly, the reaction will make the pro-Hamas protests that have roiled college campuses and disrupted transportation nodes around the country look small-scale by comparison.

If the republic is supposedly on the verge of falling, extralegal means of resistance are justified.

At least some portion of the left will convince itself that only a color revolution can save the country.

During the 2016 Trump-Clinton contest, one school of Trump supporters posited that it was the “Flight 93 election” — possibly the last chance to save the country.

The consequences of failure were so awful that anything was justified to win.

The lockdowns and riots of 2020. The open borders of the Biden administration. The constant gaslighting. Biden’s “Dark Brandon” Nuremberg Rally speech. The Afghanistan debacle. The rabid campus anti-Semitism after 10/7. What else does Lowry envision possibly starting in November, if not sooner?

BLUE-ANON: THE NEXT GENERATION. Andy Ngo Reports: Chicago makeup artist behind false viral claims that McDonald’s blue wrapper paper is Israeli propaganda.

WELL: Jeffrey Epstein docs have been unsealed: here’s how to access them. I guess it’s time for a war or other distraction. Or maybe this is the distraction — but from what?

VIRUSES ARE EVERYWHERE: A Study of 500,000 Medical Records Links Viruses to Alzheimer’s Again And Again.

RULE OF LAW: En Banc Fifth Circuit Rejects FDA’s Vaping Regulation “Surprise Switcheroo.”

WELL, GOOD: New Compound Outperforms Common Pain Medication Without Harmful Side Effects.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Arnold Kling: Race, Genetics, and High Achievement: How to talk about these? Well, you’re basically not allowed to. Which doesn’t keep people from thinking about it, often wrongly.