CONSEQUENCES: U. Chicago professor heading to court for alleged battery of police officer at ICE protest.

THE ZINN PROTOCOLS:

With the exception of Noam Chomsky, perhaps no intellectual has been more influential on today’s American neo-communists and radical progressives than Howard Zinn. The far-left academic, who died in 2010, literally wrote the book on the left’s revisionist history of the United States.

With his A People’s History of the United States, a bestseller thanks to generations of academics forcing their students to buy it, Zinn outlined a comprehensive vision of this history—likely drawn from Stalinist propaganda—that portrays the United States as a conspiratorial fraud got up by white racists and rapacious capitalists.

The conspirators, Zinn claims again and again over hundreds of pages, brutally exploit the American people, who are too duped or stupid to realize the truth of their plight. Thankfully, Zinn is there to enlighten them.

It is impossible to overestimate the power this vision exercises over today’s radical left. They have effectively adopted Zinn’s claims wholesale without the slightest question. Zinn’s influence is palpable in the tearing down of statues, demonization of the US as a racist and genocidal entity, and even “mainstream” efforts like the New York Times’ 1619 Project. If the radical left has a vision of what the US is, it is Zinn’s vision.

Read the whole thing.

CONTROL: Cops clear away pro-Intifada students protesting their Jewish peers.

IT’S THE DEMOGRAPHY, STUPID:

the greatest danger of having lived for so long in a very high-trust society of people with low time preferences (ability to delay immediate gratification for long-term gain) is that you lose the ability to imagine how low-trust people with high time preferences behave.

you… https://t.co/c0qi3XCYij

— el gato malo (@boriquagato) November 7, 2025

ROGER SIMON: Has America Found Its Mussolini in Mamdani? Oh, he’s worse than that.

THE CONSTITUTION ONLY MATTERS WHEN IT HELPS DEMOCRATS ADVANCE THEIR AGENDA:

Not exactly JD's biggest fan here, as I'm sure you already know, but he's absolutely right about this. Federal judges do not have the power to tell POTUS how to do his job. And he can't fund what Congress hasn't appropriated because Dems refuse to do THEIR job as legislators. https://t.co/bGB4BoMdAr

— Ken Gardner (@KenGardner11) November 7, 2025

THE CHURCH OF CLIMATE LOSES ITS PULPIT AT CBS:

Cutting the “climate desk” wasn’t censorship — it was a long-overdue correction to years of sanctimony.

The great tragedy of our time, at least to those who dwell in the climate-alarmist press, is not hurricanes, floods, or famine—but a network trimming its propaganda department. When CBS News laid off most of its “climate crisis” staff, the media class responded as though free speech itself had been outlawed. According to Truthout, “CBS News has fired most of its climate crisis production staff” and, in the process, “gutted” its sacred climate desk. The story was dressed up as an obituary for truth itself, complete with talk of “bloodbaths” and “new conservative management”.

To anyone outside the activist echo chamber, it looked like a normal corporate reshuffling. CBS’s parent company had merged with Skydance, and the incoming leadership did what executives always do after mergers—trim redundancies, change direction, and try to make the business profitable again. But to those who had mistaken climate coverage for a holy mission, this was blasphemy.

At the heart of the melodrama was Tracy Wholf, the now-former head of CBS’s climate desk, who had urged colleagues to insert a line into hurricane coverage reading: “The above-average Atlantic Ocean temperatures, made worse by climate change, helped Melissa rapidly intensify into a category 5 storm.” That suggestion was presented in Truthout as “accurate reporting.” In reality, it was speculative editorializing—a sentence of moral certainty grafted onto a story about weather.

The URL of the above post at Watts Up With That is “cbs-turns-off-the-climate-alarm-clock” – the climate “alarm clock” has been going off non-stop at CBS for about 55 years now. In his 2012 biography of Walter Cronkite, fellow leftist Douglas Brinkley wrote:

At the CBS Broadcast Center in New York, there was a post–Silent Spring belief that the Tiffany Network had an obligation to spread the gospel of the age of ecology. A CBS Reports segment in September 1962 had Eric Sevareid famously interviewing the literary biologist Rachel Carson about the perils of the insecticide DDT at her home in Silver Spring, Maryland. Cronkite, at the time, had been focused on the Earth-orbiting flight of the second Mercury launch. But now that Neil Armstrong had walked on the Moon, Cronkite sensed that ecology would soon replace space exploration as the national obsession. CBS News producer Ron Bonn recalled precisely when Cronkite put the network on the front line of the fight. “It was New Year’s Day, 1970, and Walter walked into the Broadcast Center and said, ‘God damn it, we’ve got to get on this environmental story,’ ” Bonn recalled. “When Walter said ‘God damn it,’ things happened.”

Cronkite pulled Bonn from nearly all other CBS duties for eight weeks so he could investigate environmental degradation. He wanted a whole new regular series on the CBS Evening News—inspired by Silent Spring, the philosophy of René Dubos, and those amazing photos of Earth taken by the Apollo 8 astronauts. The CBS Evening News segments were to be called “Can the World Be Saved?” “We wanted to grapple first with air pollution, the unbreathable air,” Bonn recalled. “But then we wanted to deal with the primary underlying problem, which was overpopulation.”

In January 1970, the promise of a new environmentalism brought about the end of The Twenty-First Century (which had succeeded The Twentieth Century in June 1967). No longer would Cronkite tolerate Union Carbide (a major polluter) as a sponsor. The Texas-based Fortune 500 company was the enemy of “Earthrise,” he told Bonn. At Cronkite’s insistence, CBS canceled The Twenty-First Century to coincide with the debut of the “Can the World Be Saved?” segments.

No one at any of the Big Three networks, with the exception of Charles Kuralt, cared about environmental issues with the passion of Cronkite. By assigning his science producer Bonn, a trusted ally since their trip to South Vietnam together in 1965, Cronkite was getting way ahead of the news curve on the environment. In the mid-1960s, Bonn had done a couple of landmark CBS News Special Reports on global warming and overpopulation. Together, Cronkite and Bonn decided to begin CBS’s coverage of the environment with an eight-minute piece on April 20—two days before Earth Day. CBS Evening News’ graphics department made a special bumper slide for the “Can the World Be Saved?” segment that consisted of Bonn’s hand clutching Earth (a photograph taken by the Apollo 8 crew). “Earth, you understand, wasn’t in the palm of my hand,” Bonn explained. “We were trying to show humanity squeezing the Earth to death.” The image became synonymous with the CBS Evening News, essentially the show’s visual calling card.

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The Nixon administration’s top environmental lawyer, William Ruckelshaus, who in December 1970 became the Environmental Protection Agency’s first administrator, believed that Cronkite’s coverage was a key factor in getting Nixon to back a spate of environmental legislation in the early 1970s. “Once Cronkite got on the environment, everybody started talking about it, worrying that we were destroying America,” Ruckelshaus said. “Back when Sevareid interviewed Carson, the environmental problem was in black and white. By 1970, with Cronkite’s ongoing ‘Can the World Be Saved?’ series, the belching smog and landfills and burning rivers were in color. That’s what grabbed the public’s attention.”

Sandy Socolow, along with many others at CBS News, thought that Cronkite had gone eco-mad. Riled up about polluters, Cronkite was, as Socolow put it, the “grizzly bear” at CBS who insisted that the ecologically charged “Can the World Be Saved?” be a prime feature on the Evening News. “Walter was almost a nutcase about the environment,” Socolow recalled. “He was really, really bothered by big companies’ pollution and the destruction of America’s natural resources. Everybody bemoaned that their stories were getting crowded out due to Walter’s need for a new environmental awareness. He was over the top, a real pioneer in getting the mass media to profile American landscapes being desecrated.”

Many of the CBS News technicians and producers thought that Cronkite was going a little gaga with his “Can the World Be Saved?” obsession. Whenever Cronkite ran an ecology story, the “Earthrise” graphic would appear behind him, with Bonn’s hand holding the planet. CBS Evening News director Ritchie Mutchler would regularly bark to his assistant, “We’ll need the hand job tonight!” To CBS News correspondent Bob Schieffer, it was akin to “Quiet on the set!” Feeling that he was being mocked, Cronkite, usually unflappable, called Mutchler aside. “Uhmm, could we call that thing something else?” he asked. “Every time I hear you call it that, my mind sort of wanders.”

I don’t know, I think “hand job” nicely sums up the masturbatory theme of radical environmentalism quite nicely.

Speaking of “Earth Day:” Earth Day predictions of 1970. The reason you shouldn’t believe Earth Day predictions of [2024].

55 years on, to paraphrase the late Kathy Shaidle on Trump as Hitler, I’m already on (at least) my fourth apocalypse:

PETER THIEL: Capitalism Isn’t Working for Young People. “If you graduated in 1970 with no student debt, compare that to the millennial experience: too many people go to college, they don’t learn anything, and they end up with incredibly burdensome debt. Student debt is a version of this generational conflict that I’ve talked about for a long time. The rupture of the generational compact isn’t limited to student debt, either. I think you can reduce 80 percent of culture wars to questions of economics—like a libertarian or a Marxist would—and then you can reduce maybe 80 percent of economic questions to questions of real estate.”

Of course, the cronyism we have isn’t really capitalism at all.

HOW SURPRISED ARE YOU?

BREAKING: New Hampshire’s first transgender elected Rep. Stacie Laughton, pleaded guilty to child exploitation charges.

He reportly asked his partner who worked in a daycare to send him nude photos of kids.

Eric Swalwell campaigned with him. pic.twitter.com/5EQFxuNMTQ

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 7, 2025

ATLAS MUGS:

hello i would like to report a murder https://t.co/AWhp4tsO2k pic.twitter.com/6MVL94ByA9

— stepfanie tyler (@wildbarestepf) November 7, 2025

JULIE KELLY: Is John Brennan Next? “Expect more tears on MSNBC over the next several months.”

LIMITED TIME DEAL: HP Ultra Slim Laptop for Students and Business. #CommissionEarned

YEP:

Their side can rely on the protections of the law by legal institutions.
Our side can’t.
The left thinks this is a good thing.
And when we stop respecting and deferring to the legal institutions just like we have stopped respecting and deferring to so many other skin suit… https://t.co/J9tFJQU56H

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) November 7, 2025

THERE’S A LOT OF PANIC OUT THERE: The Chicken Littles Of Conservative Media Appear After Two Blue State Elections: 2025 Was Not 2021 And That Explains The Results.

Related:

VDH:

Victor Davis Hanson is a treasure. https://t.co/nOHIulFvk5 pic.twitter.com/zT5uRAdcN8

— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) November 7, 2025

A QUIET COUP, FOR “OUR DEMOCRACY.”

Yeah. They basically plan to flood the entire country and every demographic with NGOs until the electorate is captured and state-level reforms are implemented, such as ranked choice voting and forcing representation based on equity (under the guise of eliminating…

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) November 7, 2025

We need brutally strict regulation of NGOs and nonprofits. To save, you know, actual democracy.

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

SPACE JUNK: China reached out to NASA to avoid a potential satellite collision in 1st-of-its-kind space cooperation.

THIS WAS BRIEFLY FORGOTTEN, FOR SOME REASON, BUT IS NOW BACK:

Employees like this are being laid off all over the country because they’re annoying AF. Bosses hire you to do your job, not to nag coworkers, record TikToks, and file HR complaints. https://t.co/AffL8xQC7Y

— Jon Gabriel (@exjon) November 7, 2025

OUCH.

Trump Derangement Syndrome will age you and make you uglier than you could ever know.

This is Stormy Daniels today. Yes, really. pic.twitter.com/T2UGFhEzHP

— Joey Mannarino 🇺🇸 (@JoeyMannarinoUS) November 7, 2025

ROAD ATLAS: Massive New Map Reveals 300,000 Km of Ancient Roman Roads.

THE BIG CHILL: Fatal Flaw in Carbon Cycle Could Plunge Earth into Global Freeze.

EXERCISE EFFECTS: Why your daily walk might not work as well if you’re on metformin.

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS HIDING UNDER THE BED: Obama’s Shocking Admission Changes Everything About the Democratic Party

THE EV BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: Yes! Honda’s Electric Sports Car Is Real, but Timing Remains Uncertain: Honda’s CEO says an electrified GT is coming, but not for a while still as the market dictates EV popularity.