K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: The Ideological Erosion of College Readiness. “The report points to pandemic disruptions, the removal of standardized tests like the SAT, and grade inflation masking academic weakness. But these are symptoms, not causes. The deeper problem is an ideological takeover of America’s K-12 system — an approach that dismisses standardized tests as ‘products of white supremacy’ and inflates grades to preserve the illusion of success. It’s an approach that relies on a teaching philosophy that promotes activism in the classroom for causes like decolonization (‘down with America’) and anti-racism (solving racism with more racism), all at the expense of core academic proficiency.”

CUTTING EDGE IN ITS DAY: The Lexus Flagship That Once Had an Optional Built-in Fax Machine.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Elevated Holiday Threats Require Heightened Awareness, Packed Heat.

I MEAN, WHAT IF YOUR FACE FREEZES THAT WAY, THOUGH? Is crossing your eyes really bad for you? We asked an optometrist.

UM: OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide: OpenAI’s response to teen suicide case is “disturbing,” lawyer says.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX launches 140 payloads in rideshare program from California.

MARK PULLIAM: The Canary in the Tennessee Coal Mine. “Has the cultural rot evident in blue states spread to Tennessee? The December 2 special election in TN-7 is a canary in the coal mine.”

HIPS BUTTS DON’T LIE: Buttocks’ shape could help predict diabetes risk, other aging factors.

MORE LEFTIST TRANS VIOLENCE: Non-binary student attacks senior citizen after TPUSA chapter approved. Deck these people if they try to harm you.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Auditor identifies rampant waste of public resources at closed school: ‘The public should be outraged.’

HE TOLD THEM WHAT THEY WANTED TO HEAR. OR MAYBE PROVIDED COVER FOR WHAT THEY WANTED TO DO. Why Was Lawrence Summers So In Demand to Begin With?

George Will describes it as “presentism” whereby modern views on morality are imposed on past actions. Will’s crucial point is that if we continue down this path of judging the past through a present-tense lens, eventually those judging and canceling will find themselves being judged and canceled.

It’s just a comment that whatever the underlying truth about economist Lawrence Summers’s present-day expressions of “shame” about the past, the fact that his past actions elicited no outrage from left, right or in between calls into question his present-day cancelation. Isn’t the societal point to constantly learn from the past, and improve on it?

What’s arguably more notable about Summers given their more globalized impact are his views on the economy. We find in his cancelation that the allegedly brilliant Summers was very much in demand on the speaking circuit, by elected officials, hedge funds mining his supposedly deep insights into economic matters, not to mention his newspaper columns in influential newspapers like the Washington Post and the New York Times. Unknown is why.

Is it really unknown?

SI VIS PACEM, PARA BELLUM: Why the Ukraine Peace Plan May Be Pointless.

OH, CANADA: ‘Not going to happen’: First Nations threaten to end Carney’s pipe dream.

The Canadian PM’s breakthrough oil deal with Alberta cost him a cabinet minister and will still face stiff opposition
Fri 28 Nov 2025 09.30 EST

When the people of the Haida nation won a decades-long battle for recognition that an archipelago off the coast of British Columbia in Canada was rightfully theirs, it was a long overdue victory.

The unprecedented deal with the provincial and the federal governments meant the Haida no longer had to prove that they had Aboriginal title to the land of Xhaaidlagha Gwaayaai, “the islands at the boundary of the world.”

Now, both governments will have to face what that might mean.

On Thursday, the Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, and the Alberta premier, Danielle Smith, agreed an energy deal centred on plans for a new heavy oil pipeline reaching from the province’s oil sands to the Pacific coast.

Heralded as a major political breakthrough between deadlocked parties, the deal lays the groundwork for an oil duct that could carry more than a million barrels each day from the oil sands to the Pacific. With new legislative powers, Carney’s government could also slash permitting and approval delays.

But the response from politically powerful nations, such as the Haida – whose consent the government needs – was both quick and simple: “This project is not going to happen.”

Gaagwiis, the president of the Haida nation, said the federal government had a duty to “uphold the honour of the crown” when working with his community.

“Trying to ram through a project puts that ‘honour’ in jeopardy,” he said. “This is an opportunity for the government of Canada and the prime minister, to look in the mirror and see what kind of country he wants to lead and what kind of country he wants Canada to be.”

Despite Carney’s pledge to obtain the full consent of First Nations – and to share any windfall – on any possible pipeline project, Gaagwiis said there was nothing federal or provincial leaders could say to move his nation.

How about: Your subsidies will end if we don’t get this? Somebody’s dickering here. But if this fails it’s just another reason for Alberta to secede.

IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN THEY DO IT:

Hey, Ben.

Was it illegal when Obama ordered extrajudicial drone strikes on American citizens, including children?

You helped lead the Obama NSC when this happened.

Should the Trump Justice Department investigate these killings?

Murders? https://t.co/VvBsugMv9E

— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) November 29, 2025

OPEN THREAD: Party like it’s Saturday night.

OOPS: Russia’s only active launch pad for cosmonauts damaged by Soyuz crew launch to International Space Station.

SCIENCE MARCHES ON: Your Poop Schedule Says a Lot About Your Overall Health, Study Shows.

GOOD NEWS FOR MICE: New Nasal Nanodrops Eradicate Brain Tumors in Mice.

HE’S NOT WRONG:

The political gloves are off now. The left is being openly accused of promoting, deliberately or through idealistic ignorance, an deal of mass Third World migration into the West in exchange for electoral gain.

The replacement vote idea has gone from taboo in polite conversation…

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) November 28, 2025

OOPS: Ford Being Sued For a Missing F-150 Lightning Feature: There are allegedly 2024 Ford F-150 Lightnings missing the Forward Sensing System, according to the lawsuit.

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THIS IS PROBABLY GOING TO BECOME A TREND: NYC serial spitter bloodied in street-style justice during epic beatdown: ‘Worse than jail.’ “Anthony Caines — the sicko busted by the NYPD for allegedly spitting in the faces of white women who passed him in Williamsburg — has apparently been on the receiving end of some street-style justice. Video footage shared on social media showed two men beating and kicking a man who appeared to be accused spitter Caines, 45, outside of a hair salon on Sixth Street. . . . Caines, curled up on the sidewalk in a defensive fetal position, is dealt multiple blows by the two attackers, whose faces are never shown.”

Ultimately, the police aren’t there to protect society from criminals. They’re there to protect criminals from society.

PLAUSIBLE: Science confirms hand gestures make you seem more persuasive.

A MODEL FOR OTHER STATES IN THE AREA:

The Chinese maritime militia thought they could swarm South Korean waters like they own the Yellow Sea.

Plot twist: The South Korean Coast Guard (KCG) rolled up, tear-gassed the deck, zip-tied the invaders, and seized the boat.

Cry harder, Beijing! @SariArhoHavren pic.twitter.com/LdEWhJxIVH

— Nguyen Ho (@NguyenHo1096438) November 24, 2025

UNWELCOME GIFT: Cases of norovirus are on the rise just in time for the holiday season.