GET YOUR REST: Aging Brains Beware: Just 1% Less Deep Sleep Could Significantly Increase Seniors Risk of Dementia.

A WEIGHTY ECONOMICS PUZZLE: “Yesterday a new study was released showing that patients on Eli Lilly’s Zepbound (tirzepatidere) lost weight but regained a meaningful percentage after being switched to placebo. Eli Lilly stock ‘tumbled’ on the news, e.g. here and here or see below. In other words, Eli Lilly stock fell when investors learned that to keep the weight off patients would have to continue to take Zepbound for life. Hmmm…that certainly violates what the man in the street thinks about pharmaceutical companies and profits. Chris Rock, for example, says the money isn’t in the cure, the money’s in the comeback. If so, shouldn’t this have been great news for Eli Lilly? So why did Eli Lilly stock fall?”

IS THIS HELL? NO, IT’S IOWA. Satan welcomed. Jews must hide. Iowa Capitol hosts Satanic temple. Other areas cancel Hanukkah.

TROUBLE IS, YOU GET RID OF HIM YOU GET KAMALA: House Republicans authorize Joe Biden impeachment investigation in major escalation.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Hunter Biden’s Attorneys Argue That Drug Users Can No Longer Be Barred from Gun Ownership.

HMM: Japanese researchers warn that rates of urgent dialysis and death are on the rise.

LONGEVITY: “A microbiologist named João Pedro de Magalhães has proposed the idea that the reign of dinosaurs forced mammals to speed up their reproductive cycle, eliminating key longevity genes.”

HMM: Cannabis exposure linked to 1.5-times higher risk of unhealthy pregnancy outcomes.

FEMALE PRIVILEGE: Women less likely to die from gun injuries than men, study shows.

SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER! Boston City Hall roiled by email party invitation for ‘electeds of color’ sent to all.

A Wu administration official, on behalf of the mayor, mistakenly sent all Boston city councilors an email Tuesday inviting them to a holiday party that was meant exclusively for “electeds of color,” prompting an apology and mixed reactions.

Denise DosSantos, the mayor’s director of City Council relations, told the body’s “honorable members” that, “on behalf of Mayor Michelle Wu,” she was cordially inviting each of them “and a guest to the Electeds of Color Holiday Party on Wednesday, Dec. 13 at 5:30 p.m. at the Parkman House, 33 Beacon St.”

Approximately 15 minutes later, however, DosSantos sent out a follow-up email to city councilors, apologizing for the prior email, which was apparently only meant for those who were invited. The body includes seven white councilors and six of color.

“I wanted to apologize for my previous email regarding a Holiday Party for tomorrow,” DosSantos, a Cape Verdean Black woman, wrote. “I did send that to everyone by accident, and I apologize if my email may have offended or came across as so. Sorry for any confusion this may have caused.”

Whether the email offended the excluded councilors was unclear, several of whom chose not to respond to the Herald’s request for comment.

Outgoing City Councilor Frank Baker, who is white, described the mayor’s decision to exclude some members as “unfortunate and divisive,” but said the email didn’t offend him personally.

“I don’t really get offended too easily,” Baker told the Herald. “To offend me, you’re going to have to do much more than not invite me to a party.”

Baker said he wasn’t sure what the reasoning behind the mayor having a separate party based on racial lines was, but said he didn’t think it was a “good move,” given the recent tensions on the City Council.

A Boston reader coments:

Haha, the apology is not for staging a racist, exclusionary holiday party … in luxury city-owned digs … but for inadvertently sending the invite to white people.

That’s pretty fkkn precious. Makes Claudine Gay look … OK, no, that doesn’t make her look less Nazi.
Do these people not listen to themselves?

OK, white pol throws a party for white pols only, inadvertently sends invites to pols “of color.” Withdraws it with an “oops!”

You’d have people looting and burning shit over that one.

That’s different because shut up.

FIGHT THE POWER: Med schools redo ‘diversity’ programs after federal complaints.

ELIMINATIONISM: Food Fight: Yale dining hall removes ‘Israeli’ from couscous dish.

A GREAT SECOND AMENDMENT CHRISTMAS GIFT: To Trust the People with Arms: The Supreme Court and the Second Amendment. From my friends (and in the latter case former student) Bob Cottrol and Brannon Denning. (Bumped).

SO HARVARD ALREADY KNEW ABOUT THE CHARGES: Harvard Attorneys Protected Claudine Gay After New York Post Confronted School in October About Possible Plagiarism in Her Works.

OUT: ELECTION FRAUD IS A MYTH. IN: 1 in 5 Mail-in Voters Admit Engaging in Election Fraud.

Other surveys have shown that sizable groups of voters agree the election was plagued with fraud, but this is the first in which voters told a pollster they were involved.

Among the findings shared with Secrets:

Twenty-one percent of likely voters who voted by absentee or mail-in ballot in the 2020 election say they filled out a ballot, in part or in full, on behalf of a friend or family member, such as a spouse or child, while 78% say they didn’t.

Thirty percent voted by absentee or mail-in ballot in the 2020 election.

Nineteen percent of those who cast mail-in votes say a friend or family member filled out their ballot, in part or in full.

Seventeen percent of mail-in voters said they cast a ballot in a state where they were no longer permanent residents.

Among all voters, mail and in-person, 11% said a friend, family member, co-worker, or other acquaintance has admitted to them they filled out a ballot on behalf of another person in 2020.

No more.

“GOD’LL GET YOU FOR THAT”

Turkish MP threatens violence against Israel saying the Jewish state will suffer the ‘Wrath of Allah.’

Moments later he has a heart attack and collapses.

pic.twitter.com/EEsXkkAC0d

— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) December 12, 2023

UPDATE:

IDF soldiers operating in Jenin last night, lit the Channukah candles in the same place where terrorists in Jenin gather and incite from. pic.twitter.com/JWyVqQahNz

— Documenting Israel (@DocumentIsrael) December 13, 2023

HAPPY ARMED JEWS WEEK.

MATT TAIBBI: Tireless Busybodies Again Target Substack: Substack faces another deplatforming campaign, triggered by a clarion-call from America’s flagship of suck, Atlantic Magazine. “As an aside: a big reason people read Substack is because of the terribleness of magazines like The Atlantic, which is edited by a guy, Jeffrey Goldberg, who won a pile of awards for blowing the WMD story in spectacular fashion for years on end, making him a walking, talking symbol of the failing-upward dynamic in corporate media. If that magazine wants people to read Substack less, it might consider not filling its pages with exposés about the Alfa Server fantasies or plaintive defenses of the Steele dossier or other transparent propaganda, instead of demanding deplatforming here.”

Hey, it’s a competitor. Substack offers access to the kind of writing and reporting that The Atlantic used to be known for, before it went woke.

NATE SILVER: Why liberalism and leftism are increasingly at odds. “The old left-right coalitions have long been under strain as America has moved away from materialist politics to the politics of cultural grievance. The clearest manifestation of this has been intense polarization based on educational attainment (the more years of schooling, the more likely you are to vote Democrat). If, however, higher educational institutions and the ideas associated with them continue to become more and more unpopular, I’m not sure what happens next.”

FROM INSTAPUNDIT’S EARLIEST DAYS — AND BEFORE — I’VE BEEN CALLING FOR THE NONPROFIT SECTOR TO BE CLEANED UP: RealClearInvestigations: How Tax-Exempt Nonprofits Skirt U.S. Law to Turn Out the Democrat Base in Elections.

WELL, HE WAS DUMB ENOUGH TO MARRY KAMALA, SO . . . How could our Jewish Second Gentleman get the Hanukkah story so CRINGINGLY wrong? It’s so typical of this blundering White House – and just as Biden rolls back support for Israel!

DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH: Outrage at French School After Muslim Students Refuse to Look at Renaissance Painting. Just tell the students it’s a painting of Hamas fighters raping Israeli teens and they’d be happy.

I WONDER IF THEY’RE GOING TO CALABRIA?

Hamas depart Qatar, destination unknown.https://t.co/zmeEu8SKw9

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) December 12, 2023

Yes, that’s an obscure musical reference.

OPEN THREAD: Discourse freely.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s reusable rocket race heats up with new hop test.