CHANGE: Ford to start selling certified used cars on Amazon.

The Dearborn, Michigan-based automaker on Monday said the deal allows customers to browse local dealers’ pre-owned Ford vehicle selections on Amazon Autos, and complete most paperwork online. Shoppers can then schedule a time to pick up their auto in person.

The program will debut in Los Angeles, Seattle and Dallas and add other locations over time, Ford said.

The vehicles come with a manufacturer-backed warranty and other benefits, the same as if they were sold directly through a dealership.

Ford notes that the only step of the purchase process that cannot be completed online is the retrieval of the car: “No Amazon Prime delivery for cars!” the company said in a press release announcing the partnership.

Someday — probably soon — self-driving cars will deliver themselves.

DECLINE IS A CHOICE: ‘We owe it to science’ is ‘unacceptable’: Indiana U. training prioritizes ‘tribal knowledge.’

SARAH ANDERSON: This Is What Dictatorship Looks Like: The Story of Marggie Orozco. “She wasn’t trafficking kilos of fentanyl or robbing a bank, and she didn’t kill anyone. On July 28, 2024 — the day Venezuelans went to the polls to vote for a new president — Orozco simply recorded a private voice message in a WhatsApp group to share with her neighbors, urging them to go vote against Nicolás Maduro that day.”

GET READY FOR THE COLD: Yeokou Men’s Casual Slim Full Zip Thick Knitted Cardigan Sweaters. #CommissionEarned

CHANGE: UFlorida leads in merit, affordability rankings as Ivy Leagues fall behind.

MAKE ARMS SALES STEALTHY AGAIN: Trump says the U.S. will sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia.

“I will say that we will be doing that, we’ll be selling F-35s, yeah,” the president said when he was asked by reporters in the Oval Office if the U.S. would be selling the fighter jets to the Saudis. Mr. Trump said the Saudis “want to buy” them, and they’ve “been a great ally.”

The president aims to lock in major business and national security deals with Saudi Arabia during the crown prince’s visit.

Mr. Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner have fostered close relationships with the Saudis and the crown prince in particular, viewing them as critical partners for both security and business in a turbulent Middle East.

For a so-called “failed” jet, everybody sure seems to want some.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Can We Get Back to Nuking the Dept. of Education? “Sec. McMahon has been pretty clear about being OK with actively working to phase out her own job. The time to do that is now. Republicans will almost certainly never have an opportunity like this again. Even if they do, they may not have a leader who has the iron will that President Trump has.”

20 MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE:

Very shortly, you're going to hear this from Democrats in media:

Look, I had disagreements with Trump, but he kept the crazies on the fringes.

The really dangerous extremist is JD Vance. Trump, by comparison, is a responsible patriot (that's the Bush/Cheney trajectory): pic.twitter.com/wqlYKRo0cX

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 17, 2025

Every Republican president is Hitler, until the next Hitler comes along, and the former Hitler is transformed into a wizened elder statesman to attack the current Hitler.

CHANGE: Robert George resigns from Heritage Foundation board over Kevin Roberts video.

George said in a Facebook post that he would resign from the board because Roberts did not fully retract his initial video when he issued an apology.

“Kevin is a good man,” George said. “He made what he acknowledged was a serious mistake. Being human myself, I have plenty of experience in making mistakes. What divided us was a difference of opinion about what was required to rectify the mistake.”

George said he was saddened to leave Heritage and prays the think tank “will be guided by the conviction that each and every member of the human family, irrespective of race, ethnicity, religion, or anything else, as a creature fashioned in the very image of God, is ‘created equal’ and ‘endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights.’”

“The anchor for the Heritage Foundation, and for our nation, and for every patriotic American is that creed,” he said. “It must always be that creed. If we hold fast to it even when expediency counsels compromising it, we cannot go wrong. If we abandon it, we sign the death certificate of republican government and ordered liberty.”

There are still plenty of good people at Heritage. Here’s to hoping they can fix whatever has gone awry there.

CHANGE: Poland’s Leadership in European Deterrence.

GOODER AND HARDER, LA: Will Los Angeles Be the Latest City to Elect a Democratic Socialist Mayor? Karen Bass Gets a Challenger.

Who would have thunk it? We now have two democratic socialists who have won their mayoral races in major American cities – Zohran Mamdani in New York City, of course, and inexperienced Katie Wilson in Seattle. Both cities have already suffered greatly at the hands of “progressive” politicians, and the only question here is how much lower they can sink.

Could Los Angeles be the next to throw their city into the hands of radical leftists? You could argue that they already have with Mayor Karen Bass and their radical city council and county Board of Supervisors, but what if they took it a step further?

Now they’ll get their chance, as community organizer Rae Huang is tossing her hat into the ring to challenge Bass, a Democrat who was in Ghana – despite warnings of dangerous fire conditions – when the massive January blazes that wiped out huge swaths of the city broke out. Since then, little rebuilding has been accomplished under her tenure.

This is something of a lateral move for citizens with a 213 area code: Surprise! Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is a life-long rabid supporter of communism and the Cuban dictatorship.

ICYMI: Iran Just Made This Yuge Non-Bombshell Claim.

WITH SUCH AMAZING LEADERSHIP, THAT’S A SHOCK: Canada is Losing the Trade War: As Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney lost the battle over Brexit. Now as Canada’s PM he’s failing in his bid to shield Canada’s industrial heartlands from U.S. tariffs.

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A VIVID PORTRAIT OF A TORRID AFFAIR BETWEEN TWO LUNATICS:

The New York Times recently published a complimentary profile of Olivia Nuzzi, the former political correspondent for New York magazine who had a “digital affair” with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is currently the Secretary for Health and Human Services. Nuzzi has a new book coming out, American Canto, telling her version of the story.

I can hear it now; “I don’t care about Nuzzi.”

You don’t have to care much about Nuzzi herself, although this sordid mess does give us further illumination into the character of the man who currently runs the HHS Department, and who therefore has a major say in how the roughly one quarter of the federal budget managed by HHS is directed. Even by the already-low standards of the Kennedy family, there’s something skin-crawling about Nuzzi’s insistence that she only fell in love with RFK Jr. after he first said “I love you” . . . several times.

Did I mention she is 39 years younger than he is?

It is also less-than-reassuring to hear Nuzzi claim Kennedy told her that he “still uses psychedelics, and even smoked dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, a powerful drug on which people are known to have what feel like near-death experiences.”

DMT is illegal, and “has no approved medical use in the United States” according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. DMT is one of the key ingredients of ayahuasca, a powerful hallucinogen which should only be consumed in extreme emergencies, such as becoming the quarterback of the New York Jets.

Heh, indeed. Read the whole thing.

2028 PREVIEW: Cruz dodges question on 2028 presidential run.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, declined to rule out a presidential run in 2028 as buzz around his possible ambitions made headlines.

Axios on Monday reported that Cruz was “laying the groundwork” for a presidential bid as he continued to attack Tucker Carlson, a close ally of Vice President JD Vance. The same day, Cruz fielded a question from Fox News’s Harris Faulkner about his aspirations.

He declined to answer directly and instead told her that “I got a job. It’s representing 31 million Texans, and it’s fighting every day for 31 million Texans,” The Hill reported.

Cruz might make a damn fine president — but he might be even better on SCOTUS.

ENEMIES OF CIVILIZATION:

Nuclear power has been set back decades because brain-dead hippies like Jane Fonda weren’t smart enough to tell a nuclear power plant apart from a nuclear bomb. People her age think Three Mile Island killed thousands of people when the actual death count was zero. https://t.co/q4jOJirG3u

— Chris Martz (@ChrisMartzWX) November 17, 2025

XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT! Bombshell docs reveal alleged Chinese mole Linda Sun ‘forged’ Hochul’s signature on gushing invites to Henan dignitaries: feds.

Alleged Chinese mole Linda Sun brazenly forged then-Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul’s signature in glowing missives sent to dignitaries from the Henan province, according to the feds and documents presented at her bombshell trial.

Jurors in Brooklyn federal court were shown copies of letters purportedly sent by Hochul on March 26, 2018, inviting a six-member delegation from the province in central China to a meeting with then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

But the letters bore clearly forged versions of Hochul’s signature — that featured “overly loopy” handwriting, her former chief of staff Jeff Lewis testified.

“From my experience, this is not how she would sign her name,” Lewis told jurors last week.

“The ‘K’ is different than it typically would be,” he said. “I don’t have another word for it, but there seems to be an overly loopy or bubbled nature to the handwriting.”

The letters suggested that members of the delegation could expect discussions about “promoting greater investment, trade cooperation and tourism opportunities” with the Empire State, court records show.

Prosecutors say that Sun, who served as Cuomo’s director of Asian-American affairs, forged the governor’s then-No. 2 Hochul’s signature several times that year in an attempt to curry favor with Chinese officials.

Related: “Authorities seized more than $130,000 in cash in a safety deposit box leased by the mother of Linda Sun, the former gubernatorial aide from Long Island who is accused of illegally influencing New York State on behalf of China, an FBI agent testified on Monday in federal court in Brooklyn.”

DON’T MESS WITH A GUY WHO’S BEEN PLAYING THE MEDIA FOR DECADES: Trump Shreds Reporter Who Wouldn’t Let Him Finish His Answer.

DON SURBER: TRUMP ROPED THE DOPES ON EPSTEIN.

UNLESS I SCREWED SOMETHING UP — UNPOSSIBLE ! — THIS SHOULD BE ON 99c SALE BY THE TIME YOU CLICK:  Darkship Thieves.

Prometheus Award winner, Libertarian fiction from my younger and more radical days.

Athena Hera Sinistra never wanted to go to space. Never wanted see the eerie glow of the Powerpods. Never wanted to visit Circum Terra. She never had any interest in finding out the truth about the Darkships. You always get what you don’t ask for.

When an intruder in her bedroom forces Athena to flee her father’s luxury cruiser in a tiny lifeboat, her escape leads her straight to the legendary Darkships—mysterious vessels that steal Earth’s power supply. And into the life of the pilot of the Darkship.

Thrust into a hidden asteroid colony and hunted by powerful enemies, Athena discovers shocking truths about her father’s empire and her own identity. As she navigates this dangerous new reality, what began as a fight for survival becomes a battle for freedom that could transform humanity’s future.

THE BEEB HAS SOOOOO MUCH FOR WHICH IT SHOULD APOLOGIZE:   Yes, the BBC should apologise – for its covid fearmongering.

JUMMY CARTER’S REVENGE ON AMERICA:   Trump’s Plan to Close the Education Department Has Majority Support, Once Voters Hear the Details.

DOING THE JOBS AMERICANS WON’T:   Milwaukee Suburb Targeted by Highly Organized Gang of Illegal Immigrant Burglars.

HOPEFULLY WITHOUT THE MILITARY INSTALLATIONS:  Humanitarian Groups Work to Rebuild Gaza Schools Hamas Used As Terror Bases.

Or the Jihad training.