SO MANY DRAMATIC WEATHER TERMS THESE DAYS: Expert: ‘Bomb Cyclone’ Pounding The US Will Be Strong And Unpredictable.

We used to just call them winter storms, or blizzards.

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BREAKING: Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell calls the ICC a “sham court.” pic.twitter.com/n8TqHDr2Ws

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) November 21, 2024

BREAKING: Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that Canada would arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Trudeau continues to prove he is a horrible leader.

“It’s just who we are as Canadians.” pic.twitter.com/7ivp9A62g3

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) November 21, 2024

UPDATE: A friend writes: “Would Trudeau arrest any Hamas leaders? Out on a limb here, I bet he’d give October 7 rapist-murderers asylum.”

NOT EXACTLY MICROBIOME NEWS, BUT CLOSE: New Discovery Shows How Gut Hormones Could Hold the Secret to a Longer Life.

IT’S PAM BONDI: Trump Has a New Attorney General Nominee.

UPDATE: Friends comment: “A much more conventional pick but someone who Trump can trust. Probably a good pick for him and what he is hoping to accomplish without generating as much opposition, especially on the Republican side.”

Plus: “It’s also a continuation of the Florida takeover of the federal government. Ryan Petty for FBI Director?”

We could do worse, and have.

ELON IS SMART: Eliminating the EV subsidy is a huge win for Tesla, since it kills its rivals.

WE’RE HEARING NOTHING BUT GOOD NEWS ABOUT THESE DRUGS: Weight-loss drug tirzepatide may lower heart failure deaths. I hope it’s all true, but it feels a bit bubble-ish.

REVIEW: 2024 Rolls-Royce Spectre Is Both Absurd and Sublime.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: New York Judge Allows Lawsuit Against Body Armor Ban To Go To Trial.

ELIZABETH SCALIA: Family and friends, the 2024 election and Thanksgiving.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Six months in space is not that bad for your brain: In a new NASA study, there were no signs of major cognitive impairment.

PLANT-BASED EGGS AREN’T EGGS: Cracking the recipe for perfect plant-based eggs.

I WOULDN’T BRAND IT LIKE GOOGLE, GOOGLE’S REP IS SLIDING: Human Cell Atlas hopes to be ‘Google Maps’ for health research.

FATTY NATION: More than half of U.S. adults might be candidates for Ozempic.

APRIL SMITH: Childless Cat Ladies for Law and Order.

I am a woman living alone near Philadelphia with a cat, so I guess you could call me a “childless cat lady.” I never wanted children, so I never had any. Since I have dedicated my life to helping other people, for many years I subscribed to all of the social justice causes. That began to change when the neighborhood I live in became a hotbed of crime and leftist intolerance. . . .

I later discovered that on the neighborhood Facebook group people were extoling the act as a way to fight gentrification! The cafe is not a chain and it employs residents of the neighborhood. But that didn’t stop commenters from suggesting that smashing out their windows, gunfire, and loud groups of youth are all good ways to ward off would-be gentrifiers.

About a month ago I heard five rapid-fire gunshots across the street from my apartment. The sirens came a bit later, along with police helicopters.

All of these kinds of things make it so that I am afraid to leave my apartment at night. When I have to, I make sure I am on the phone so at least someone can call the police if I am attacked. . . .

A few months ago, there was a meme on Facebook that showed a white woman saying, “I don’t feel safe in my neighborhood,” and a man answered her, “You literally voted for this.” I now understand that my situation resembles this cartoon.

I have voted Democrat all my life. I supported soft-on-crime candidates because I didn’t want to see people go to prison and lose their chance at a better life. But now I see the ruin that we have to live with as a result of these policies. The white liberals in the suburbs do not live with the consequences of their votes. I do.

Childless cat ladies are a demographic that is very vulnerable to violence and disorder. Their very existence is predicated on a society that is reasonably safe and wealthy. Also, she should buy a gun.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Public Support For An Assault Weapons Ban Continues To Tumble.

WHY IS UCLA SUCH A CESSPIT OF ANTI-SEMITIC HATE? UCLA must make ‘fundamental’ changes after ‘chaotic’ handling of anti-Israel protests: watchdog.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: ‘DEAD TO ME’: Unhinged New Jersey college professor has meltdown over election, bashes Trump-supporting minorities.

THE GLOBAL USELESS CLASS DOUBLES DOWN: I.C.C. Issues Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant. The ICC is a fundamentally trivial body, biased to the needs and wants of a set of institutions that have proven incapable and are on their way out.

DON SURBER: Trump Finally Vanquished Obama.

IF YOU CAN’T GOVERN, WHY SHOULD YOU WIN?

Democrats won supermajorities in California a long time ago and cities ended up getting less safe, housing got more expensive, and the high speed rail just sat there, never getting completed. Can't restore faith in the party until you fix the state that has come to define it.

— Lee Fang (@lhfang) November 20, 2024

The astonishing collapse in Democratic support in deep blue areas is the strongest evidence that the 2024 election was, in fact, a referendum on 2020-era progressivism, and the progressives lost decisively. pic.twitter.com/DEUZZZWb1D

— Geoff Shullenberger (@g_shullenberger) November 20, 2024

WORTH YOUR TIME, FOR SURE: From the late Gerard van der Leun, The Name In The Stone, and Other Essays.

JOEL KOTKIN: The Left’s war on men is backfiring disastrously: Young males are moving to the Right. But as birth rates collapse, this is a bigger problem than politics.

Sex is supposed to be fun, and productive, but when mixed with politics it can have some less fortunate societal impacts. This autumn, as the US presidential election moved to its denouement, both campaigns focused largely on their gender bases, hoping to win the chromosomal war.

Women almost elected the pathetic Kamala Harris, with 53 per cent of them giving her their votes according to the exit polls. Her biggest edge was among younger women, who supported her by 61 per cent, and black women, who backed her by 91 per cent. Some Democrats attacked white women after the election for “dooming Kamala”, particularly married suburban women, who turned out to care about things other than sexual politics.

But what really saved Donald Trump was his strong support among men. Trump’s focus on the “Manosphere” of fight fans, fitness buffs, male influencers, and people attracted to uber-males like Joe Rogan and Elon Musk paid off big time, with him winning the overwhelming majority of white as well as Hispanic working class men. He even notched up an astounding 21 per cent among male African Americans, more than twice his percentage with black women. Among white men under 30, he won by an astonishing 14 points.

Men clearly preferred the Trump model to that presented by Democratic men, who proudly boasted of being “less masculine” than their Republican counterparts, leading to comparisons with Bud Light’s disastrous flirtation with a transgender influencer. The low point, however, was the laughable attempt to manufacture he-men who “eat carburetors for breakfast” and vote for Harris, in a TV ad later revealed to have been created independently of her official campaign by Hollywood actors and writers.

Everything about her campaign was fake.

POLITICAL AD FODDER FOR 2026: WATCH: Dem Rep. Jasmine Crockett Goes Nuts During Hearing, Starts Shouting About the ‘White Man.’

PERHAPS A RETURN TO TAR AND FEATHERS IS IN ORDER: ‘Corrupt Tyrants’: Bucks County Citizens Go After County Commissioners.

KAROL MARKOWICZ: The real Jewish vote: And why it matters.

For me, it’s: Did we put our own survival at the top of the issues pile? Did we see clearly who are friends are and who they are not? Did my people learn lessons? But also to show the outside world: look, we did.

I had anecdotes. Liberal Jewish friends who leaned in over dinners and whispered “I’m voting for him.” One after another made the confession. One couple in particular, lifelong friends of mine, shocked me into silence when they said they had voted Trump. They were committed Democrats (MSNBC watchers! Howard Stern listeners!) who had spent years arguing with me. I knew they didn’t trust Kamala Harris on Israel and I figured they would sit it out. They live in New York, they don’t have to vote. But they did. And they voted for him.

I felt the sea change when Lizzy Savetsky, a Jewish influencer, tipped to Trump. I generally don’t believe that endorsements matter that much. If Oprah and Taylor and Beyoncé couldn’t swing it, who could? But I took Lizzy’s seriously. She’s an important figure in the Jewish world, she’s beautiful and smart, focused on her family and very outspoken. I saw her as representative of a specific voting bloc that I saw emerging: women who are normally repelled by Trump but set that aside to do what’s best for the country. It wasn’t just that she was voting for Trump, it was that she was admitting to it on Sid Rosenberg’s extremely popular New York City morning radio show. Lizzy Savetsky being out with her Trump support, despite the fact that it would hurt her, and cost her followers, made me think something was moving. She wasn’t like Taylor and Beyonce, they took the easy position. She was like Travis Kelce and Jay-Z, neither of whom made endorsements. But Lizzy did.

Anecdotes aren’t data, yes, of course, but data can be bad too. It’s why people recoiled so hard from Ann Selzer’s flawed Iowa poll in the closing days of the presidential election. Her “gold standard” poll showed Trump losing Iowa to Kamala Harris by 3 points. It didn’t make sense. People on the ground in Iowa were dumbfounded. Trump would end up winning Iowa by 13. Her poll was data, not anecdotes, and it was wrong.

Yeah, anecdotes are, in fact data. All facts are data, if you know what to do with them.