EXCORIATION IS GOOD, LEGISLATION IS BETTER: Automakers excoriated by Senators for fighting right-to-repair: OEMs also called out for selling data they collect on drivers.

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Never Give Up! Never Surrender!

OF COURSE NOT: A fentanyl antidote is saving lives. But it isn’t ending the fentanyl crisis.

JAMES LILEKS: Christmas traditions, and how to break them.

BUT NOT THE MORE ATTRACTIVE MEMBERS OF EITHER GROUP, HENCE THE DESPERATION:

Luigi discourse being increasingly about how hot he is and decreasingly about why he did it—a handy reminder that the Left is now almost entirely women and gay men.

— Paul Heron (@Paul_Heron_) December 21, 2024

INDEED:

Tell me more about “toxic masculinity” pic.twitter.com/WVbQR0BC26

— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) December 23, 2024

KURT SCHLICHTER: No Circular Firing Squads This Time, Republicans.

#JOURNALISM: This is What Happened—This is How it is Reported.

LIFE IN THE BLUE ZONES:

The Subway Burning Victim’s Name was AMELIA CARTER.

She was 29 years old. 🙏 pic.twitter.com/w9ffed1NNO

— Henry (@HenryBack2Play) December 23, 2024

EMPTY HONORS FOR A HOLLOW MAN: Fauci holds several ‘professor’ titles at Georgetown but never teaches.

Dr. Anthony Fauci is a “distinguished university professor” at Georgetown University but does not appear to have taught a single course since his appointment, nor does he have any future classes scheduled.

The title of “University Professor” is “Georgetown’s highest professional honor that recognizes extraordinary achievement in scholarship, teaching and service,” according to the university announcement.

It has been a year and a half since the Jesuit Catholic university announced Fauci would have the title at its medical school. He also joined the McCourt School of Public Policy at the same time.

Bearing false witness.

OF COURSE: SJP leader at George Mason University whose home had anti-Semitic and pro-terrorist signs once urged school to bash Jewish state.

DON SURBER: NYT goes Wile E. Coyote again. “The New York Times is out of touch with the times. In 2016, the left’s anger over Hillary losing fueled efforts to stop Trump like Democrats were the French resistance taking on Hitler. This time, no one over 25 cried when Kamala lost because she sucks. . . . At the New York Times, the wounds are all self-inflicted. They are going back for more.”

DON’T LET THE DOOR HIT YA WHERE THE GOOD LORD SPLIT YA:

BREAKING: According to Politico, Federal Workers are considering quitting their jobs over the holidays before President Trump takes office in January.

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— Ian Jaeger (@IanJaeger29) December 22, 2024

TRUE: Fetterman believes ‘fascist’ label of Trump did not connect with people. That’s because it’s stupid and obviously wrong.

WELL, HE’S RIGHT YOU KNOW: Joe Manchin, upon retiring from Senate, blames ‘progressives’ for making Democratic Party ‘toxic:’ He considers the party to be out of touch with America for moving away from issues like jobs and better pay to social issues like transgender rights and telling Americans what they can or cannot do.

So why did he vote with them nearly all the time?

LOWEST RATINGS IN NETWORK HISTORY, SO FAR. CNN Sees Lowest Ratings in Network History in 2024.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE! Our National Science Foundation Has Given Over $2 Billion to DEI Projects.

YES. That’s why the Left hates him so much.

The thing about Elon’s alleged political power is that it mainly flows from just saying things out loud that are obviously true.

— Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 (@pmarca) December 22, 2024

TELLING US THAT EVIL PEOPLE ARE THAT WAY BECAUSE THEY’RE OPPRESSED IS A LEFTIST TROPE: Wicked, Luigi Mangione, And Evil. “Wicked in particular is a product of a therapeutic culture. The dangerous message of Wicked is that once you understand somebody’s origin story, you realize that the evil they do is a result of their victim status.”

Leftists like this because they strongly suspect that they’re awful people and want a get-out-of-jail card established in advance.

“ANTI-ZIONISTS” SHOWING THEIR TRUE COLORS:

Have you ever seen someone tear down a poster of a missing dog. I haven’t.

Now what if the poster was of your missing child, parent or grandparent, or worse, one or more of your family members that had been taken hostage?

The banality of evil on 93rd and Columbus in full… https://t.co/ti2Q5A7fpR

— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) December 22, 2024