ALL THE BEST PEOPLE ASSURED ME IT WASN’T ADDICTIVE: They relied on marijuana to get through the day. But then days felt impossible without it.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: US Justice Department plans gun rights office within civil rights unit.

HE’S RIGHT, YOU KNOW:

The radical partisanship of these teacher unions has been a major contributor to education decline in the US.

They see the K-12 school system as as a political means for adults to further their agenda. This is why the unions fought so hard to close schools during COVID; it was… https://t.co/vOOfjMKEXw

— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) November 25, 2025

You can make a good case — in fact, I’ve made it — that public education is obsolete today and does more harm than good.

WE NEED TO END THE POWER OF THE ACCREDITORS EVERYWHERE.

The problem of officers like Mark Kelly is largely created by the various military service and Joint war colleges.

Leftist civilian faculty infest these schoolhouses and O-6 students spend a year being indoctrinated into leftist ideologies while those same civilian professors…

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) November 26, 2025

JOEL KOTKIN: Joel Kotkin: Universities have sold a whole generation a lie: Worker shortages in US manufacturing shouldn’t be filled by mass migration, but by teaching real skills to young people.

WHY DO DEMOCRATS HATE AMERICA, AND THE TROOPS?

https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1993799720071020929′

November 19th: Sedition 6 video released.

November 26th: Two National Guardsmen were sh0t in DC.

They knew exactly what they were doing…

Sedition. pic.twitter.com/mlCBilkJKN

— C3 (@C_3C_3) November 26, 2025

HMM: Tradwives are fighting the cultural stigma that still remains around being a homemaker. That makes them damn good feminists.

HOW DARE YOU QUESTION THE LOYALTY OF A DECORATED VETERAN!

It is not unprecedented for serving U.S. senators who served honorably in the U.S. military and were service academy graduates to commit treason and betray the Constitution.

Jefferson Davis, the first and only present of the Confederate States of America, was a serving U.S.…

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) November 25, 2025

JOHN HINDERAKER: Elon Exposed the Fake Activists. “I think this is hugely important. A few years ago, Democrats pretended to be deeply concerned about ‘foreign interference’ in our politics. That was mostly a fraud, but this is much more significant. . . . Have you wondered how some guy named Nick Fuentes, whom no one had heard of not long ago, suddenly became, or appeared to become, a significant force on the right? Despite his professed admiration for both Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler? Does this sound like enemy action? Yes, it does.”

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s rising influence in space prompts Senate to call for new US research institute in post-ISS era.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Parkinson’s Link to Gut Bacteria Suggests Unexpectedly Simple Treatment.

CHEESE FOR THE WIN: A Taste For Cheese May Reveal Your Future Risk of Dementia. “Of the cheese-eating group, 134 people developed dementia (3.4 percent); among cheese abstainers, 176 developed dementia (4.5 percent). That’s a difference of around 10 or 11 extra cases in every 1,000 people.”

Glad it turned out that way. If loving cheese is wrong, I don’t want to be right.

OF COURSE, THAT HAPPENS WITH HUMAN THERAPISTS, TOO: Why Your AI Therapist Might Be Doing More Harm Than Good.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: People with more muscle mass and less visceral fat have younger brains, study finds.

BUT DOES AMERICA NEED A MICROCAR? Fiat’s Adorable Topolino Is the Microcar America Didn’t Know It Needed. A “car” with a 45-mile electric range and a top speed of 27 mph isn’t a car, it’s a Neighborhood Electric Vehicle. We already have a lot of those.

SHOTGUNS: How to Breach. “Yes, thanks to the shotgun’s brute power and the width of its payload as it exits the muzzle, our police and Soldiers have discovered that, with training, it can be a useful tool for blowing a door off its hinges or a deadbolt out of the doorframe to gain entry where a crowbar might not do.”

REPORT FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Chicago’s Weekend Violence at Loop Tree Lighting and on an MTA Train Leave the City Reeling.

#JOURNALISM:

This story is about a man whose green card was revoked because he'd been convicted—not accused, but *convicted*—of murder, armed robbery, and forcible theft with a deadly weapon. https://t.co/goz0lcLGNo

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 25, 2025

UPDATE:

"Who lived in New York for nearly 50 years"

Yeah, I mean, 27 of those years where spent in Sing Sing for a 25 to life murder conviction. https://t.co/wK05Jg2nfD

— Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌 (@Chris_arnade) November 25, 2025

They’re now doing “you can’t deport convicted murderers because that’s like slavery” https://t.co/IOqQzoW30H

— Sunny (@sunnyright) November 25, 2025

PAPER BALLOTS: Oops. Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key. Voting system required three keys. One of them has been “irretrievably lost.”

HMM: Lower LDL cholesterol linked to higher type 2 diabetes risk independent of statin use.

WOEING: NASA: Starliner will only fly cargo for first mission to Space Station.

NATIONAL VIGOR RETURNS: Argentina has record rise in syphilis cases, driven largely by young. But it’s in large part a function of better reporting.

CDR SALAMANDER: Nigeria’s Jihad: Only a problem if you try to take action to stop it? Really?

TRUE: ‘Nobody Is Above the Law’ Never Applies to the Left.