CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: News outlets push pro-union stories while taking undisclosed cash from organized labor.

I had a girlfriend who quit journalism for PR because she said PR is more ethical. She was clearly right.

MARK JUDGE: Washington Post Shake Up Should Shake Out Ruth Marcus. “Marcus is an apologist for the Justice Department and the deep state who rejoices whenever the government abuses its power to destroy people. . . . When Marcus comes across a genuine example of government overreaching to ‘punish enemies,’ she always takes the side of the Stasi.”

AT BOTTOM, IT’S ALL ABOUT THE TRANSFER OF WEALTH: These Four Democratic Firms Raked in $600 Million Running Ads for Kamala’s Failed Campaign: Nearly 70 percent of the Harris campaign’s known total spending went to just four media consulting firms.

IT BEGINS: Rufo set to pitch Trump team on plan to dismantle DEI at US universities.

IF YOU WANT RESPECT FOR YOUR PROFESSION, TRY BEING PROFESSIONAL: Axios CEO Beclowns Himself Defending Journalisming.

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

THE JOKES WRITE THEMSELVES: ISS crew reports “unexpected odor” from Russian Progress cargo spacecraft.

JUST A FEW YEARS AGO THE SCIENCE WAS “SETTLED” ENOUGH TO CUT OFF FUNDING FOR ALTERNATIVE THEORIES: Alzheimer’s May Not Actually Be a Brain Disease, an Expert Reveals.

HMM: 4.45 Billion-Year-Old Meteorite Points to Hot, Habitable Waters on Early Mars.

Related: Why I Hope There’s No Life on Mars.

SO MUCH FUN: NORK Soldiers Sent to Russia Discover Wonder of Innerwebs and Then Porn.

PAINFUL AND EXPENSIVE: McLaren Elva, Ferrari LaFerrari & 812 Superfast and Bentley Continental GTC Wind Up in Pricey Pile-Up.

EFFECTIVE, BUT LOUD: Is .357 Magnum Good For Self-Defense?

WELL, GOOD: UTIs are extraordinarily common but kidney infections are not—now doctors know why. “A multidisciplinary team at Cambridge University in England solved the conundrum in an elegant series of experiments. Dr. Andrew P. Stewart and colleagues found that highly specialized biological structures called neutrophil extracellular traps—NETs—are pivotal in protecting the kidneys from infection. NETs are sticky webs of wispy strands that quite literally serve as traps. They ensnare bacteria that attempt to migrate northward to the kidneys from the lower urinary tract. NETs add to an array of antimicrobial activities mounted by the body to beat back infection.”

HMM: Psychosis symptoms found to precede adolescent cannabis use.

SO IT’S SAFER THAN LIVING IN WASHINGTON, DC THEN: Living in space won’t do permanent harm to astronauts’ thinking skills.

CERTAINLY LESS ENJOYMENT OF LIFE: Uterine fibroids, endometriosis linked to shorter life spans.

YES!

Can one post “learn to code” at journos now? Good.

— BrendanEich (@BrendanEich) November 25, 2024

HE’S RIGHT: To be “the media,” you have to reprint press releases from Democratic operatives without question.

🚨JIM VANDEHEI IN TOTAL MELTDOWN BECAUSE WE ARE THE MEDIA NOW

“Everything we do is under fire. Elon Musk sits on X everyday saying like, ‘we are the media. You are the media. Bullshit! You're not the media!”pic.twitter.com/nj3eD2LY51

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) November 25, 2024

HIGHER EDUCATION’S DESCENT INTO SELF-PARODY CONTINUES: Professor claims hostility to Barney the Dinosaur rooted in white anti-gayness.

CHANGE: University System of Georgia curbs DEI, adopts institutional neutrality, strengthens First Amendment rights in new changes.

SCOTT JOHNSON: Who Will Guard Newsguard? “The Washington Post employs a large staff of political reporters, columnists, and editors. Coverage of the presidency is central to its mission. If I understand correctly, we are to believe that no one at the Post staff itself noticed Biden’s senility before these Biden donors in 2023. NewsGuard didn’t see it our way. The Washington Post didn’t see it our way. As Bond notes in the JTN story linked above, however, the Washington Post scores a perfect rating of 100 percent by NewsGuard. Someone needs to guard us against NewsGuard.”

CDR SALAMANDER: China to the world: what are you going to do about it? Classic imperialism. “Weakness invites aggression. Appeasement accelerates it. There is absolute clarity what the People’s Republic of China is doing. There is also absolute clarity that no one on the international stage has the will or the ability to do anything about it.”

DON SURBER: And the horse Walmart rode in on: Sam Walton championed American factories. His heirs cheer Red China’s. “Big business tells us that free trade creates jobs and tariffs hurt Americans. Corporate America never explains why all our factories are closed and the Midwest is dying. If tariffs are as inflationary as Fortune and Walmart claim, then why was the annual inflation rate only 1.9% under President Trump even after he imposed tariffs on Red China?”

YOU’VE BEEN A GREAT YEAR, 2024, BUT PLEASE JUST GIVE US THIS ONE MORE THING: Will Elon Musk Buy MSNBC?. “And, of course, if Rogan wants he can have a show called ‘Morning Joe!'”

THE MONEY PRODUCES RESULTS, JUST NOT FOR STUDENTS:

The US is one of the top per-pupil spenders in the world. Tell me John, how much more money till you admit it’s not the money? https://t.co/RGctnRhy0d pic.twitter.com/GLTUeTj7qW

— Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ (@InezFeltscher) November 24, 2024