CORN, POPPED:

🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: The Department of War is considering recalling Democrat Senator Mark Kelly to active duty to be COURT-MARTIALED for telling troops to refuse President Trump’s orders

FAFO is in order!

STATEMENT FROM DoW: “The Department of War has received serious allegations… pic.twitter.com/pPQrKqCOY4

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) November 24, 2025

I hope this isn’t a tease.

NIALL FERGUSON:

The best is the enemy of the good. Contrary to recent press speculation, the draft 28-point plan for peace in Ukraine is in fact a reasonable basis for negotiations. Journalists can gripe about it as they griped about the 20-point Gaza plan. But wars are not ended by op-eds. 1/5

— Niall Ferguson (@nfergus) November 21, 2025

RIP: Jimmy Cliff, 81, Jamaican singer who took reggae international with “You Can Get It If You Really Want.”

Jimmy Cliff, who has died aged 81, was a singer, songwriter and actor whose work opened up the music and culture of Jamaica to an international audience.

Blazing a trail for Bob Marley, Cliff enjoyed a string of hits in the early 1970s that combined his unusually pure singing voice with a lilting reggae rhythm. But his real breakthrough came when he starred as the gun-toting, drug-dealing rude boy in the low budget blockbuster The Harder They Come (1972).

A brutal depiction of life in the Jamaican capital, Kingston, the film followed the travails of an underdog musician adrift in a big city where corruption was endemic. The accompanying score established reggae in America and became a bestselling soundtrack album.

Although it included songs by accomplished performers such as Toots and the Maytals and Desmond Dekker, it was Cliff’s compositions “You Can Get it if You Really Want” (which became the Conservative Party’s anthem at their annual conference in 2009), the hymn-like “Many Rivers To Cross,” as well as the title track, that particularly stood out.

Absolutely killer soundtrack album; Cliff would go on to appear as a musical guest on the first season of Saturday Night Live (with Dick Cavett as the show’s host), and co-star in the 1985 Harold Ramis-directed movie Club Paradise, alongside Robin Williams, Peter O’Tooole and Rick Moranis.

BIG BAD ORANGE MAN: Scott Adams Drops a Trump Story You Won’t Forget.

THE WALLS CLOSING IN: The Clintons Risk Prison If They Defy Epstein Subpoenas.

SHOCKER: Locking Up Criminals Reduces Crime. “Forgive the snark — I’m not at all making fun of City Journal’s Tal Fortgang or James Q. Wilson’s Thinking About Crime, which remains instructive after five decades — and forms the backbone of Fortgang’s new article. I’m making fun of the fact that our friends on the Left must be constantly reminded of this basic truth.”

JAMES CARVILLE, TRAPPED IN 2020: Why Don’t Democrats Try Being Revolutionary Lunatics?

While utterly reckless, urging Democrats to gnash their teeth over “the system” would help the party’s candidates paper over their contributions to the very crisis against which they’re supposed to be raging. Carville lists the younger generation’s grievances: the high cost of housing (a function of limited housing stock exacerbated by municipal zoning regulations, environmental studies, and legal compliance costs), rising utility rates (due to insufficient capacity resulting, in substantial part, from environmentalist activism and policy prescriptions), and the cost of food (which was too high even before Donald Trump’s tariffs, owing to the Democratic Party’s heedless 2021-22 spending spree and its inflationary effects). If Democrats do not rage constantly and monomaniacally against these conditions, “we will continue to be viewed as part of it.”

In other words, the idiot masses can be bamboozled into forgetting the Democratic Party’s role in their malaise if the party’s messengers are sufficiently irrational about it. Coincidentally enough, Carville’s advice just happens to align with the political project in which the progressive movement’s youngish revolutionaries are already engaged. He’s got his finger on the pulse.

In 1968, Democrats embraced  “Getting Clean for Gene,” shaving off their Zapata moustaches, trimming their Sgt. Pepper-length hair and donning coats and ties to appear centrist for Eugene McCarthy’s candidacy. That strategy paid off brilliantly in 1992 with Bill Clinton and in 2008 with Barack Obama. (Of course, it helps in both cases that your youthful candidates have rock star levels of charisma.) Going full Rage Against (Your Own) Machine seems like a curious strategy for Carville to embrace in his dotage.

Exit quote: “The art department at the [New York] Times did Carville no favors by gracing his effort to flatter progressive pretensions with a portrait of a feral donkey, spittle erupting from its clamorous muzzle. The image did, however, capture the spirit of the piece.”

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: AOC seeks money for Thanksgiving turkey giveaway—donations go straight to campaign through ActBlue.

The outlet reported that an email was sent out by Ocasio-Cortez that stated, “Thanksgiving is two weeks away. Will you chip in $5 or anything you can today to help us bring the joy of the holiday season into homes around NYC this year?”

However, clicking on the contribution link sends those who read the email to a campaign fundraising page on the Democrat donations platform, ActBlue. Those submitting donations were prompted to make one-time or repeated donations, the outlet reported.

After selecting a dollar amount, there was also a disclosure that states the appeal is “paid for by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Congress” and that the donations do not qualify for charitable donations.

Looks a little scammy.

THE NEWS JUST KEEPS GETTING WEIRDER: The Skies Empty Over Caracas As the Dictator Dances. “What I can report today is that Maduro is still trying to appeal to the American public to stop Donald Trump from invading his country and crying about imperialism. Last week, he did it by singing “Imagine” by John Lennon and claiming he has some sort of direct line to Jesus, who will protect Venezuela from the yanquis.”

BLACK FRIDAY DEAL: BowFlex SelectTech 840 Adjustable Kettlebell. #CommissionEarned

AI: Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand.

During an all-hands meeting earlier this month, Google’s AI infrastructure head Amin Vahdat told employees that the company must double its serving capacity every six months to meet demand for artificial intelligence services, reports CNBC. The comments show a rare look at what Google executives are telling its own employees internally. Vahdat, a vice president at Google Cloud, presented slides to its employees showing the company needs to scale “the next 1000x in 4-5 years.”

While a thousandfold increase in compute capacity sounds ambitious by itself, Vahdat noted some key constraints: Google needs to be able to deliver this increase in capability, compute, and storage networking “for essentially the same cost and increasingly, the same power, the same energy level,” he told employees during the meeting. “It won’t be easy but through collaboration and co-design, we’re going to get there.”

It’s unclear how much of this “demand” Google mentioned represents organic user interest in AI capabilities versus the company integrating AI features into existing services like Search, Gmail, and Workspace. But whether users are using the features voluntarily or not, Google isn’t the only tech company struggling to keep up with a growing user base of customers using AI services.

Major tech companies are in a race to build out data centers. Google competitor OpenAI is planning to build six massive data centers across the US through its Stargate partnership project with SoftBank and Oracle, committing over $400 billion in the next three years to reach nearly 7 gigawatts of capacity.

Where’s the power supposed to come from?

FINALLY: California City Bans Pickleball Over Noise Complaints.

If you’ve ever been to Carmel, you’ll know that the vibe of the wealthy tourist town filled with retirees is more quaint-German-storybook, less Plinko.

The town put in place a one-month temporary ban last month while they came up with a better long-term solution, but residents enjoyed the break from the constant noise so much, the council voted to keep the ban in place permanently.

One resident, Kimberly Edwards, said in the council meeting that while there’s been an uptick in people playing tennis,

It’s been so peaceful and quiet.

She went on to say that she wasn’t sure how effective the ban would be, noting that,

These aren’t supervised courts. You know that. They’re not — there’s no parks and rec department. So as I addressed in my letter: Who’s going to enforce this? … Am I going to have to hear a noise and then call the police? Is a police officer going to have to be, you know, sitting there on these courts, supervising them?’

Carmel Mayor, Dale Byrne, is in favor of the ban, but admitted,

It’s just a really difficult thing to enforce. And I can’t ask the [police] chief to send his people up there. … It’s really sad that we can’t figure this out.

I don’t know about you, but if I were a pickleball player, I think I would take that statement as permission to go ahead and play the game just as loud as I want.

I disagree — aficionados of the sport should stick to playing it where they’re actually wanted: Movie theaters are trying everything to bring audiences back — from pickleball to cocktail bars.

FINALLY, A COLLEGE-STUDENT CAUSE THAT MAKES SENSE: Pitzer College undergrads lobby for topless pool hours.

JAMIE K WILSON: The New Definition of Blackness: When Race Stops Meaning Race. “In this framework, blackness is not about lineage or shared culture. It’s not about lived experience or heritage. Blackness is an ideological posture — one enforced by those who claim the authority to define it.”

BLACK FRIDAY DEAL: Kiehl’s Ultimate Strength Hand Salve. #CommissionEarned

INSURRECTION: Posters found depicting violence against ICE agents at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Related: Virginia assistant principal, brother busted at airport over alleged disturbing ICE violence plot: ‘Penetrate the vests.’ So much lefty violence from teachers.

EXCLUSIVE: Trump tells Just the News he will designate Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization.

The president’s announcement came just days after Just the News published a long expose on the Muslim Brotherhood’s activities and growing concerns inside the Trump administration. Trump has been considering the move since his first administration.

The Muslim Brotherhood is an Islamist group founded nearly a century ago in Egypt but with chapters, parties, and affiliated movements around the world.

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott last week designated the MB and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as being “foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations.” CAIR has denied the label and sued the Texas government. According to Politico, “CAIR says that proclamation, which bars its members from buying land in Texas, violates its members’ constitutional property and free speech rights.”

Republicans in the House and the Senate, along with some Democrats, have been pushing the State Department to designate the Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization. Secretary of State Marco Rubio indicated in August that the designation of the MB as a foreign terrorist organization was “in the works” but that the process was a lengthy and careful one, including because the MB has numerous branches and affiliates to examine individually.

Overdue, but welcome.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Keeping It Weird Until the End.“That was an intensely strange way to emerge from my regularly scheduled weekly news coma. My weekends are devoted to sports, video games, and non-political reading. By the time I get around to paying attention to the real world on Sunday night, all kinds of fun stuff has gone on. Finding out that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene had a Michelle Obama moment was a real shocker.”

YES.

Yesterday, Elon Musk used his 229 MILLION strong megaphone to back four basic election safeguards:

– Voter ID
– Paper ballots
– Same-day voting
– Proof of citizenship

This isn’t “extreme.” It’s common sense.

This needs to be the GOP’s #1 mission. Lock down our elections,…

— Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) November 23, 2025

I’M BEGINNING TO BELIEVE THAT LIBERAL WOMEN SECRETLY CRAVE THE HANDMAID’S TALE WORLD:

Gold pic.twitter.com/ISkU63VkNq

— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) November 22, 2025

It’s not so much a nightmare scenario as a fetish.

STANDARDS: C students will get automatic college admission in California.

There are fewer 18-year-olds and more wariness about college costs. “The number of high school graduates entering higher education is about to begin a projected 15-year drop, starting with the class now being recruited,” writes Marcus. “That’s on top of a 13 percent decline over the last 15 years.”

“The reality is, the overwhelming majority of universities are struggling to put butts in seats. And they need to do everything that they can to make it easier for students and their families,” said Kevin Krebs, founder of the college admission consulting firm HelloCollege.

Somebody should write a book about this.

THANK YOU FOR RECOGNIZING THE TRUTH:

I was reflexively disinclined to believe it was all foreign accounts promoting racism and anti-Semitism under the guise of the pro-Trump America First banner. That sounded too easy, and similar to the (now debunked) idea that all the Trump content on Facebook in 2016 was actually…

— Robby Soave (@robbysoave) November 23, 2025

More:

And he deleted his entire account – 😂 – 👇

@Ronxyz00 https://t.co/JSqLEXqRph

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) November 23, 2025

And another:

I just searched “groypers”. 5 out of the 6 top results are foreigners pic.twitter.com/o6jgGq6Hor

— Ethan Isaacson (@ethan1saacson) November 22, 2025

Fuentes is an op.

UTTERLY TRUE: Our Elites Are So Mediocre.

CHECKS OUT:

Location of all the "America First" accounts supporting H-1B visas on X. pic.twitter.com/8FxiQNwCSd

— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) November 23, 2025

DON SURBER: The Mamdani Effect: 86 House Democrats vote against socialism.