SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Chancellor James Kent on Hamilton’s Federalist No. 77 and Modern Academic Commentary.

ONWARD AND UPWARD:

That's 4.2% when just a few months ago the trump haters were predicting recession and empty shelves. https://t.co/1zOl99XePV

— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) November 19, 2025

HAHA:

So the biggest backfire in history has begun. https://t.co/9AiG5qNDep

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) November 19, 2025

A REASON NOT TO WAIT UNTIL COMMIES ARE IN CHARGE: Thousands of New Yorkers Discovering City’s Barriers to Gun Ownership Now That They Really Need Them.

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

SPACE: Private mission to save NASA space telescope will launch in 2026 on a rocket dropped from a plane.

SPACEX’S LITTLE BROTHER: Rocket Lab launches hypersonic test flight for US military.

Rocket Lab is a very cool company that would be getting more attention if SpaceX didn’t exist.

DRAMA: Trump Signs Bill Authorizing Release of Epstein Files: Justice Department has 30 days to make unclassified documents available from its investigation. A friend writes:

In stately homes and boardrooms, there are important men shitting themselves as we speak.

OK, so how many take the plunge or put 9 grams through the gray matter before morning? How many banished, shunned. How many divorces? This will be interesting to watch.

That and of course the spectacular swan-diving demise of assorted lefty icons.

Theoretically should shut the Dems up for a while. (Spoiler, it won’t. Let the victimization begin! All Trump’s fault, of course. That and a high likelihood of concerted media/social media squelching/leaving alone.)

Harder with the Social Media Formerly Known As Twitter back in free speech zone, though.

As horribly divisive and disturbing as the past decade has been, it’s about to get fakking hilarious.
Oh, the sanctimony!

Well, stay tuned.

PUBLIC INTEREST: Victims’ Families Ask the Fifth Circuit to Overturn the Dismissal of the Criminal Case Against Boeing.

AS ROBERT HEINLEIN PREDICTED: Future Moon Base? Robots Explore Lava Tubes As Shelter for Astronauts.

HMM: Youth with mental health conditions share strikingly similar brain changes, regardless of diagnosis.

HMM: Is the Hyundai Ioniq 9 the Ultimate Family Hauler? Signs Point to Yes.

INSURRECTION:

You should know that this is an open call for others to carry out one of the steps involved in executing a color revolution. See Step 6: defections within military, intelligence, and law enforcement. pic.twitter.com/qcHSykxnd6

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) November 18, 2025

For a color revolution to work, the government must have little motivated support. I suspect that a “color revolution” in America would be met with mass, violent resistance. I don’t think that possibility even enters their minds. Also, pressure from the American government is one of the things preventing a harsh response to color revolutions. That wouldn’t be operative here.

THE JUDICIARY’S SELF-MARGINALIZATION CONTINUES:

Well we certainly can’t have dirty old buildings getting power-washed without a federal judge saying it’s okay. A building being cleaned without the approval of some braindead, unelected idiot with a law degree would be the end of democracy. https://t.co/7mafnVkmSS

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) November 19, 2025

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): John Lucas writes: “This federal judge did not block anything or make any ruling on an injunction. The plaintiff requested an injunction and the government then filed an affidavit saying that they did not intend to take any action until December 31. The judge then simply entered a minute order that established a briefing schedule, based upon the government filing. That’s it: no ruling on the merits.”

Here at InstaPundit we don’t promise not to make mistakes, only to fix them when we find out. That said, at this point it was an entirely plausible headline.

FORMER PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN DISAGREES: Personal Defense Tip: Do Not Shoot Through Doors.

THE INSTAWIFE IS VERY MUCH OF THE OPINION THAT IT CAN: Can one big meal really make you gain weight?

IT’S BAD THAT HE DID BUT IT’S GOOD THAT HE COULD: Tesla safety driver falls asleep during passenger’s robotaxi ride. Notice that no accident was reported.

THE CASE FOR HUGS: Intimacy and oxytocin together linked to modestly faster skin wound healing.

MEDIA: HBO’s ‘The White Lotus’ doubled Internet searches for lorazepam.

THIS:

Without mass deportation, the communist cannot lose.

With it, he cannot win.

It is everything to him. It’s his entire foundation.

Remember that. On this issue, we must win.

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) November 18, 2025

DO THE LETTERS “FO” MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU? Aussie academics: Parents should get ‘consent’ before changing their newborn’s diapers. I mean, academia is basically self-discrediting.

HIGHER EDUCATION UPDATE: New rankings score colleges on merit, academic rigor, free speech: New university rankings from the City Journal highlight a growing divide between institutions that prioritize affordability and academic standards and those that maintain higher costs and politicized agendas.

BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMISTRY: Big is no longer beautiful and body positivity is officially over: Amy Schumer lost a ton of weight and scrubbed her Instagram of all traces of her former overweight self. “All the body positivity bullshit was just that: bullshit. No one wants to be obese. No one even wants to be chubby with arm dangles.”

Everything is a lie, until reality asserts itself.

INSURRECTION:

For eight years under Obama and four Obama lite years the same people now shrieking about “the sanctity of civilian control” and “the military can’t be political” treated the Pentagon like their personal progressive playground.

They shoved mandatory DEI struggle sessions down…

— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) November 19, 2025

YES:

They are an infinitesimally small minority whose voice is being deliberately and wildly amplified by nefarious money in a specific effort to cause people just like you to feel just like you do.

Please do not fall for this. https://t.co/WD51l4odGN

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) November 19, 2025