HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Ohio State University doubled DEI staff in five years, payroll costs almost tripled.

OUT: GOLDEN STATE. IN: SILVERSHIRT STATE. California is the eye of the Jew-hating storm ravaging campuses: California is the vanguard for the ideological rationalization of anti-Semitism. Its progressive regime imposes it on students from K-12 through higher education.

LOL:

Harvard Crew Team Unveils New U-Boat https://t.co/JXpDmKtKmT pic.twitter.com/Tnnc0bO2H8

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) November 3, 2023

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: State Department Employee Accuses Biden of Supporting Genocide. “I don’t think that State Department employees are supposed to attack the policies and the character of the President of the United States. But after the election of Donald Trump, all the rules changed, and suddenly every federal government employee believes that they should get to decide who has power and what policies are to be implemented.”

This is especially true when everyone knows the sitting president is a dotard and a tool.

THE PROBLEM IS, THEY’RE NOT: The Supreme Court is set to determine whether Congress, for the purposes of taxation, may classify unrealized capital gains as “income.”

STEPS IN IT? SHE IS “IT.”
Rashida Tlaib steps in it.

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— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) November 3, 2023

THE ENEMY WITHIN: Columbia Professor Behind Pro-Hamas Letter Served as ‘Academic Mentor’ At Palestinian University That Holds Hamas Rallies.

BABIES ARE BEING BEHEADED AND BURNED ALIVE, but the real threat is “Republican ‘Christianism.'”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: University of Pennsylvania Student Calls Hamas Attack “Glorious, Joyful, Powerful.”

I remember when they sold higher education as a civilizing influence.

IRA STOLL: A Supply-Side Solution to the Campus Antisemitism Crisis.

WELL, HE’S CERTAINLY AVOIDED EXPOSING US TO NATURAL INTELLIGENCE! Obama’s Gonna Save Us from Artificial Intelligence, Everybody. “First of all, it’s nice to know all the conspiracy theories about Obama scuttling around behind the scenes of this White House were absolutely true. Second, which is worse: artificial intelligence, or politicians exploiting artificial intelligence to further their ideology?”

YOU MEAN THEY DON’T? We were a Super Tuesday away from the ‘Squad’ standing with Hamas.

NATE SILVER: Free speech is in trouble: Young liberals are abandoning it — and other groups are too comfortable with tit-for-tat hypocrisy.

Read the essay, but but game theory says that tit-for-tat is the best enforcement means for repeat interactions. “It encourages cooperation, it punishes defection, and it responds to each change in its opponent’s behavior.”

The only reason the Left traditionally supported free speech was to protect itself. Once it didn’t need to do that any more, it abandoned its protection, and it started censoring.

AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD:

Palestine Protester Tries To Argue With Skinhead But They Just Agree On Everything https://t.co/rqdc755ihr pic.twitter.com/4DxSfipK3J

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) November 3, 2023

NOW OUT FROM JULIAN STOCKWIN: Sea of Treason.

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Norway opens Andøya spaceport.

ROLE MODEL: Dolly Parton Defends Duet With Kid Rock, Says Cancel Culture Is ‘Terrible:’ “I don’t condemn or criticize,” she says. “I just accept and love.”

EARLY HOMINIDS ARE TURNING OUT TO BE MORE INTERESTING THAN WE HAD THOUGHT: The Oldest Known Burial Site in The World Wasn’t Made by Our Species. “Paleontologists in South Africa said they have found the oldest known burial site in the world, containing remains of a small-brained distant relative of humans previously thought incapable of complex behavior. . . . Engravings forming geometrical shapes, including a ‘rough hashtag figure,’ were also found on the apparently purposely smoothed surfaces of a cave pillar nearby.​”

CHANGE: Supreme Court Agrees to Review Bump Stock Ban.

Related: U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Hear NCLA Case Against ATF’s Unilateral Bump-Stock Ban.

ASTEROIDS: NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Makes “Marvelous” Discovery During Asteroid Dinkinesh Flyby. “NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has revealed that the asteroid Dinkinesh is a binary system. The flyby tested the spacecraft’s tracking abilities and provided a preview of the mission’s ultimate goal: to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids.”

CHANGE: Jews Are Tuning in to Fox News for the First Time.

Democrat politicians and pundits have long claimed that Fox News is the media home of racistsexisthomophobicantisemites, and a lot of Jews took them at their word.

Then 10/7 happened, and Jews were shocked to see that people who they thought were allies in the social justice and political world turned out to be raging antisemites.

This included many in the news media, where the MSM places a lot of emphasis on the horrors of living in Gaza and argues that Israel is being too aggressive in rooting out Hamas. There have been exceptions, but they are so few that they actually surprise you.

So something odd has happened: Jews are turning to Fox News because it has not spent the past few weeks accusing Israel of genocide.

There’s still a lot of denial, but some people are beginning to confront reality.

SLOWLY? Dems Slowly Evolving Into the Hamas Party.

HMM: At least 14% of Americans have long COVID, research suggests.

The Chinese should be made to pay, but that’s hard when they have most of our governing class bought and paid for.

BUT WE’RE NOT IN A RECESSION! EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY! International Freight Volume Plunging. “Last night Danish shipping giant Maersk announced a steep dive in profits for their third quarter compared to last year’s numbers. The heady days of astronomical pandemic shipping quotes seem to be at an end, with plenty of container space available now for transporting cargo. But there’s no freight orders to fill up the boats – volume isn’t stabilizing. It’s declining.”

UPDATE: A reader emails:

I have two customers who own major trucking companies–one on the east coast and one on the west coast. I’m sure you’d recognize their names.

They both told me last week they can’t fill their trucks with freight and they are not even making enough money to pay for the fuel. They say freight volume is down over 50%.

Consumer spending has fallen off a cliff. We are headed for some trouble.

That’s what I think. I have a friend with a specialty trucking business (boats and cars) whose volume is way down.