GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Oakland Published a Report Saying the City Is on the Brink of Bankruptcy.

AS USUAL, RANDY IS CORRECT:

That Penny is on trial at all is an egregious miscarriage of justice, even if he is acquitted. This is worse than Rittenhouse, which was also very bad. Bad politicized prosecutors bring bad politicized cases. And I am a former criminal prosecutor in Chicago. https://t.co/xBE4k6KdTI

— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) November 26, 2024

GOOD: GLP-1 weight-loss drugs might help protect kidneys.

DOUBLE-SECRET DEI: University of North Texas teacher’s college hides DEI language from courses following public scrutiny: Political agenda under scrutiny as UNT students fail teacher exams.

RE-COLONIZING WOULD BE BETTER: University at Buffalo hosts ‘tough topics’ event on ‘decolonizing’ Thanksgiving.

A FRIEND SENDS THE FOLLOWING COMMENTS: 1. Nobody’s 7-year-old said this. 2. Kamala looks less like a good influence and more like she’s under the influence.

Just finished watching the grassroots thank you call 🥹

My seven year old: “I am going to take Kamala’s advice to not give up. She’s a good influence. That’s why she should have been president.” pic.twitter.com/tQQsWfIkxe

— Qondi (@QondiNtini) November 26, 2024

My thought is, who could watch this and believe that anyone ever thought she was a good candidate to run against Trump?

TED BALAKER: Julia Roberts’ Political Ad Was Right! (Just Not How She Intended): Shaming Trump supporters backfires on Eight Percenters.

I’M DELIGHTED THAT THEY DID NOT MANAGE TO SCREW THIS UP:

Before (left) and after (right) of the interior of Notre Dame.

Modernists lost this battle, so instead of a glass spire and partially destroyed vaultings everything was reconstructed as it was. Architects, for example, made sure that the former Medieval assymetrics in the… pic.twitter.com/4FACuLXwTB

— Father V (@father_rmv) November 25, 2024

LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY:

When they started reducing women to “birthing people,” know this is exactly what they had in mind. Postmodern feminism is dead – it never wanted to empower women in the first place. pic.twitter.com/QBK9D3QyeH

— Isabel Brown (@theisabelb) November 25, 2024

THE RAGE OF THE ENTITLED OVERCLASS: “The collective mental breakdown among self-styled progressives since Donald Trump’s re-election has been quite the sight to behold. The subsequent declaration by many that they will leave X, in protest of that platform’s supposed descent into fascism, has made matters all the more entertaining. What a glorious outpouring of self-importance and self-righteousness, combined with an utter lack of self-awareness.”

OPEN THREAD: Enjoy!

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Rocket Lab launches two Electrons within 24 hours.

NEWS FROM 1600: Severe ‘Melancholia’ Depression Can Be Diagnosed by Facial Expression.

NAPS FOR THE WIN: New Study Shows How Light Sleep Improves Your Cognition. “The research, published in Science, reveals how NREM sleep — the lighter sleep one experiences when taking a nap, for example — fosters brain synchronization and enhances information encoding, shedding new light on this sleep stage.”

WELL, GOOD: New malaria vaccine shows high protection in clinical trial.

LONG TERM TEST: “Our 2024 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 ZR2 has proved that it’s an incredibly competent off-roader and one of the most efficient pickups on the market. It has enabled adventures far and wide and towed its maximum weight up and down the West Coast. Through it all, the unsung hero has been the truck’s pickup bed. It’s where we have carried our most prized possessions as well as literal garbage. It’s what makes the pickup the versatile tool that it is. After months of working with the Silverado’s bed we have found a handful of features that we have really grown to love, along with a couple that we utterly loathe.”

A DISH BEST SERVED COLD: How Peanut the Squirrel Might Get Revenge on New York’s Gun Control Laws.

REMINDER:

@bertkellerman #usa🇺🇸 ♬ original sound – Bert Kellerman

UGLY FLASHBACK: Survivors mark 20th anniversary of deadly 2004 tsunami.

PROGRESS: Researchers develop skin patch to measure blood pressure.

HMM: “A tenured professor at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania has been fired after making numerous antisemitic and anti-Zionist remarks. At least eight Jewish students complained to the university, stating that her rhetoric made them feel unsafe.”

No, I’m a lefty. I’m supposed to get other people fired for their rhetoric.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE! Biden-Harris admin’s NSF spent over $2 billion imposing DEI on scientific research: Senate report.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Northeastern University Spirituality Center hosts ‘Slime making BIPOC healing space’ in response to Trump victory.

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN ON JACK SMITH’S COLLAPSED TRUMP CASE: “Special Counsel Smith has had a full and fair opportunity to prove—before the trial court and now on appeal—that he was lawfully appointed and lawfully compensated. He failed to establish those specific points in court. As a result, the DOJ may and (in my opinion) should sue for return of illegal salary paid by the U.S. Treasury to Smith and his staff (that is, those not otherwise employed at DOJ). Special Counsel Smith failed to prove that the documents seized by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago belong to the U.S. government or any of its agencies. Trump should move, and if necessary sue, for return of all his files taken by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago.”

Well, I’m a make-the-rubble-bounce kinda guy, so yeah.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Don Surber: “You’re not the media!” is a compliment.

Plus: “The people who work at NBC News will not have careers in journalism 10 years from now. And the reason they won’t is not because of the technology. It’s because they have no credibility.”