EVEN WHITE SUPREMACY IS BEING OUTSOURCED NOW: A bookshop owner was targeted in a bias incident. The community rallied behind her. “Later that day, she said, she got a call at the store. ‘Do you sell the Quran?’ the caller asked. Dear said she replied, “Yes,” to which the caller responded, ‘I need 50 copies and I’d like to burn them and you in your store,’ before the call went dead.”

“Bayonne police launched an investigation into what they deemed an act of bias intimidation. The police increased patrol in the area and on Nov. 21, several officers on post at the bookshop were approached by a man they would later identify as Qiuewn Zheng, 59. He uttered the same words that were in the emails sent to the bookshop, police said. Zheng was arrested and charged with bias intimidation, cyber-harassment and making terroristic threats and is being held without bail at Hudson County Correctional Center.”

On the upside, he can probably find a job working for one of Xi’s Uighur camps.

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THE EVOLUTION OF A NARRATIVE:

OPEN THREAD: Comment away!

UNEXPECTEDLY!* Goldman Plots Florida Base for Asset Management in a Blow to New York.

GOP governors better get cracking on Glenn’s Welcome Wagon kits ASAP, if they want to keep their states in the red column.

* It is a Bloomberg article, after all.

JOHN HINDERAKER: Apocalypse Now? “For the sake of what is left of our country, we should #Resist the Biden administration and the Democrats every step of the way for the next four years.”

ULTIMATELY, THE QUESTION IS ONE OF EFFECTIVE CONTROL, AND SPACEX MAY HOLD THE CARDS THERE: No, Mars is not a free planet, no matter what SpaceX says.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY. The Grauniad: Neera Tanden’s unremorseful bullying should disqualify her from Biden’s cabinet.

Related: Xavier Becerra, Joe Biden’s reported pick for HHS, is a major #MeToo headache for Kamala Harris.

From the top-down, it’s a very hands-on administration, as implied by its logo:

FOR A GUY WHO SUPPOSEDLY LOST, TRUMP SURE HAD A LOT OF COATTAILS. FOR A GUY WHO SUPPOSEDLY WON, JOE BIDEN SURE DIDN’T. 2020 meltdown leaves Iowa Democrats on edge.

BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Animal-rights groups mixed on new rules for emotional-support animals on planes.

WAPO: McCarthyism was never defeated. Trumpism won’t be either.

As Glenn asked last week, “After a decade of seeing leftists doxxing people and getting them fired for expressing a forbidden opinion, I have to ask what’s their beef with Joe McCarthy?”

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Computer developed in China achieves ‘quantum supremacy.’

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K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Chicago Teachers Union Tweets Reopening Schools Would be Racist, Sexist, AND Misogynistic — And Then Deletes It!

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who is a black woman, is now saying the public schools will reopen in January. But that’s in the dead of winter, which won’t help the COVID hospitalization rate. Is Lightfoot, racist, sexist, or a misogynist, CTU? Please show your work.

Indeed:

UPDATE: At Reason, Robby Soave adds: “It’s worth recalling that the effort to keep schools closed is not grounded in science: Everyone from Anthony Fauci to Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) agrees that many districts should move toward reopening on a case-by-case basis. The evidence shows that classrooms are not a significant source of spread for COVID-19. If public educators are unwilling to provide the sort of education that families want and children need, then it would be preferable to return the money so that parents could make informed choices about schooling—and be able to pay for it. There’s nothing racist or sexist about that. Quite the contrary.”

Related: Who gets the vaccine first? “Teachers want to go to the head of the line as essential workers. Most are not teaching in person, so they’re not ‘frontline’ workers, but that could change if they’re immunized. (All proposals put children last because they’re very low risk.)”

UPDATE (FROM GLENN):

SPACE: Huge drone set to launch satellites in mid-air.

LONGTERM TEST: Our 2019 Porsche Cayenne Is Reliable Fun.

BREAKING: Rudy Giuliani Tests Positive for Coronavirus, Trump Says.

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FACEPALM: Twitter Flags Trump Rally WiFi Password as ‘Disputed.’

I WORRY THAT THIS WILL MAKE IT EASIER FOR SKYNET TO WINKLE US OUT OF OUR UNDERGROUND HIDEOUTS: Australian Team Running Its Own DARPA-Style Cave Challenge to Test Robots.

QUESTION ASKED: Did Joe Biden Want Osama Bin Laden to Escape the 2011 Raid that Took Him Down?

LEFTIST RECEIVING PAYCHECK MOCKS THOSE WHO AREN’T: Pete Davidson rips Staten Island’s anti-COVID-19 lockdown ‘babies’ on ‘SNL.’

UPDATE (FROM GLENN):

Related: Protests show two Americas — those who lost their jobs and those still getting paid.

Also, from a lefty source:

There’s a huge Covid class divide. The economy has not just bounded back for upper income Americans; it’s given them higher housing values and lower interest rates. Meanwhile, 12 million service industry workers are still out of work. Small businesses are struggling. The affluent see Covid as a health problem, while for the working class it’s about economic survival. And liberals are doing the same thing they did with Trump: Clothing their class privilege as science and facts and morality.

The politicians are even worse. Instead of coming up with a clean Covid bill, Democrats are now trying to pressure Biden into student loan forgiveness. Can you believe it? What kind of society thinks it’s ok to ask 12 million people who lost their jobs to Covid to foot the bill for the student loans of the top 40% of earners? Sure, maybe it will accidentally help someone in a food line who dropped out of college. But college-educated Americans are back at work. The Covid recession is over for them. Why are the Democrats designing legislation to help the people who need it least, in the belief that some of the benefits might trickle down to help those who need it most?

Oh, I think I know why. And this whole interview is pretty sensible.

SEPSIS IS A MAJOR CAUSE OF DEATH: Researchers discover new particle in the blood of septic patients.

Flashback: Sepsis causes more deaths worldwide than previously thought.

Related: Vitamin C infusion may reduce sepsis death risk. It sounds like this is just vitamin C, not the vitamin and steroids cocktail that has been so successful elsewhere.