GETTING AHEAD OF THE CURVE, HE DID NOT COMMIT SUICIDE NEXT YEAR: Sam Bankman Fried Convicted in Fraud and Conspiracy Trial, Faces 110 Years in Prison.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Loudoun County High school students walk out of class in protest of transgender bathroom policy: ‘They ignore us.’

SPACE: NASA’s Lucy spacecraft swoops past first of 10 asteroids on long journey to Jupiter.

SHOCKER: We Found a Dem Congresswoman’s Old Blog and It Has Some Troubling Content. “In addition to radical (and repeated) liars such as Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and her fellow Squad members, freshman Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) is apparently another member of Congress who has equivocated, rather than condemned, terrorists now waging a bloody war against Israel.”

TRUE:

But what it really means as per Red Cross is it prohibits attacks against military objectives which are “expected to cause incidental loss of … civilian objects … which would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated”.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) November 1, 2023

At this point, pretty much all talk of “proportionality” and human rights is just lawfare for the bad guys. It didn’t have to be that way, but too many “experts” are just shills.

WELL GOOD: Commercial Aircraft Engine Dominance Gives the USA Military Air Domination.

READER BOOK PLUG: Four Lessons From My Three Sons: How You Can Raise A Resilient Kid.

TRUE: Evangelicals Need to Stop Shaming Men: They need to stop delivering hectoring “Man up!” lectures that simply drive men away.

No one is moved by a lecture on manhood from David French. Plus: “It’s one of the most well known facts in social science that women initiate the vast majority of divorces – around 70% or so depending on the source you look at. It’s a fact I have never heard an evangelical pastor mention. In fact, as one feminist scholar found in her academic research, in evangelical sermons ‘women are framed primarily as receivers of divorce rather than initiators.’ And, while there have been improvements, divorce court and child custody practices still favor women. . . . It’s also worth asking what Blake – and by extension the rest of the evangelical leadership class – are doing to reduce these risks, help men manage them, or to create an environment in which men have a better chance of marital success. The answer is basically nothing. . . . They could tell men, “Get married and we’ve got your back.” But they don’t. Instead, should some man actually get married and any troubles arise, they will almost certainly blame him for it.”

IT SHOULDN’T: Will Your Next (or First) EV Come From China?

FIREARMS: What Does “Clean” Really Mean? “Outside of politicians, the biggest enemies of a gun are rust, oxidation and corrosion.”

GOOD: Scalp-cooling technology can help some chemo patients keep their hair.

NOW OUT FROM CHRISTOPHER TUBBS: Kingfisher.

HOW’S THAT SPACE PROGRAM COMING ALONG? What astronomers learned from a near-Earth asteroid they never saw coming: No one spotted space rock 2023 NT1 until two days after it missed us.

FASTER, PLEASE: ‘Injectable tissue prosthesis’ offers new approach for regenerating damaged muscle/nerve.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: In 2022, U.S. infant mortality up 3% in biggest increase in 20 years, CDC says.

PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Law Firms Warn Universities About Antisemitism on Campus: Two dozen major Wall Street firms sent a letter to top law schools to crack down on discrimination and harassment amid an escalation in incidents targeting Jewish students.

With universities across the United States grappling with a rise in antisemitism since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, elite law firms are putting schools on notice. In a letter to some of the nation’s top law schools obtained by DealBook, about two dozen major Wall Street firms warned that what happens on campus could have corporate consequences.

“We look to you to ensure your students who hope to join our firms after graduation are prepared to be an active part of workplace communities that have zero tolerance policies for any form of discrimination or harassment, much less the kind that has been taking place on some law school campuses,” the firms wrote.

Among the firms that signed the letter are:

Cravath, Swaine & Moore

Debevoise & Plimpton

Kirkland & Ellis

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Skadden

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Another signatory, Davis Polk & Wardwell, last month rescinded job offers over letters blaming Israel for the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.

The letter follows a series of recent antisemitic episodes at universities. Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York sought this week to reassure Jewish students at Cornell after online posts threatening violence against them. Students at other schools have said they feel increasingly unsafe amid rallies and other acts that, in some instances, have become violent.

Make them pay.

BUY A GUN: 23andMe user data targeting Ashkenazi Jews leaked online. Then instead of a threat, it becomes an opportunity to kill terrorists from the comfort of your own home, without expensive and bothersome travel.

MAKING YOUR LIFE WORSE ISN’T A SIDE EFFECT, IT’S A GOAL: Congress Sheds Light on Proposed New Energy Rules That Could Leave Americans in the Dark. “In May, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced proposed rules to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from new and existing power plants. Our modeling at American Experiment found these strict regulations would cause massive rolling blackouts in America’s heartland by forcing reliable, abundant forms of traditional U.S. energy — like coal and natural gas — out of use. On top of blackouts, these regulations will also result in higher power bills and greater dependence on hostile foreign energy sources.”

MUCH LIKE LEFTIST POLITICS: “Anorexia is a very unusual disorder because it’s so tied up with identity. A lot of times it’s really hard to imagine life without the disorder.”

MASSIVE RESISTANCE: U. Louisville will still use race in admissions, president says.

REMEMBER WHEN WE WERE TOLD THAT ELECTING BIDEN WOULD BRING A RETURN TO NORMALCY?

Jews are getting locked inside of libraries and told to hide in attics. https://t.co/s0YG6SQyYD

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) November 1, 2023

UPDATE:

While Jews are being targeted all over the world, to include here in the US, our President thought this was the time to announce “first ever national strategy to counter Islamophobia.”

What in the actual f*** is wrong with these people.

— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) November 2, 2023

ABOLISH THE IVY LEAGUE: How Did Student Patrick Dai Become Radicalized At Cornell? “There’s no indication from what’s been released so far about his background that he came to Cornell with these thoughts. He learned them at Cornell.”

No, seriously, abolish the Ivy League. It used to be about reducing inequality, but now it’s about drawing a poison from our nation’s soul.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Yale student newspaper retracts anti-Semitic edits, but clarification confirms bias.

DON SURBER: Democraticide: The Squad is the face of a party too diverse to survive.

WHEN THEY SHOW YOU WHOSE SIDE THEY’RE ON, BELIEVE THEM: White House Announces National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia… Yes, Really.

Related: “These were young people going out to have a wonderful evening, celebrating and supporting the concept of peace, and they were slaughtered by Hamas. All of that will be drowned by pictures, articles, concern about proportionate responses. And my question is: If you know that 40 babies have been killed, what’s a proportionate response?”