CDR SALAMANDER: The Opportunities With Trump’s Return, with Jerry Dunleavy. “With 63 days until President Trump’s second inauguration and a new national security team lining up, what are the expected opportunities they will be looking to make an impact quickly? What should people be looking at? Where is the fruit ripe for the picking?”

LOTS OF ROOM FOR LAYOFFS:

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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 16, 2024

OPEN THREAD: How are we feeling about the Trump transition so far?

EVERYONE INVOLVED IN THIS ABSURD CHARADE SHOULD HAVE TO SIT NAKED IN THE TOWN SQUARE WEARING A DUNCE CAP FOR AN HOUR:

Wow when not one person in the school or the police knows that we do indeed have $2 dollar bills in this nation maybe a history lesson is in order.
😲😲😲 pic.twitter.com/WSenBO1CVW

— Sadie (@Sadie_NC) November 17, 2024

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX stacks Flight 6 Starship megarocket ahead of Nov. 19 launch (photos): Liftoff is scheduled for 5 p.m. ET on Tuesday evening (Nov. 19).

WITH MY LUCK I’D ARRIVE TO A PLANET SETTLED BY THE MUCH FASTER SHIPS THAT WERE DEVELOPED SHORTLY AFTER MINE LEFT: The Radical Plan to Build a Spaceship to Carry Humans For Generations.

JOY:

Yes. This here is the single best video on the internet right now… ⚡️🇺🇸

pic.twitter.com/sSJBnRagCH

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 17, 2024

WELL, GOOD: Beyond Plaques and Tangles: Scientists Discover Key to Halting Brain Damage in Alzheimer’s. Turn that into a treatment, please.

MICROBIOME NEWS: New study shows how salmonella tricks gut defenses to cause infection.

I DON’T BLAME THEM: Abandonment Hertz: Customers Met By Empty Rental Desk Simply Abscond With Cars. Hertz employees left their posts hours early, which led to customers grabbing whatever keys were available.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Low Round Count Pistol Drills: Sharpen your skills without emptying your wallet.

OPPORTUNITY: Research finds no negative impact of repealing law allowing companies to pay disabled workers below minimum wage.

“CLEAN” ENERGY: Clean energy could create millions of tons of waste in India. Some are working to avoid that.

WELL, RUSSIANS ARE ALL ABOUT SAFETY: U.S., Russian officials disagree over International Space Station leak severity.

SHOT: Experts advise to stop worrying about holiday weight gain.

CHASER: Study projects nearly 260 million Americans will be overweight or obese by 2050.

AT LEAST WE GOT RID OF MONKEYPOX, YOU NEVER HEAR ABOUT THAT ANYMORE: First known U.S. case of mpox clade I found in Calif.; risk to public ‘low.’

CHANGE: Austria says Russia to cut off gas from Saturday.

Russia’s oldest gas-export route to Europe, a pipeline dating back to Soviet days via Ukraine, is set to shut at the end of this year.

Ukraine has said it will not extend the transit agreement with Russian state-owned Gazprom in order to deprive Russia of profits that Kyiv says help to finance the war against it.

Moscow’s suspension of gas for Austria, the main receiver of gas via Ukraine, means Russia will now only supply significant gas volumes to Hungary and Slovakia, in Hungary’s case via a pipeline running mostly through Turkey. In contrast, Russia met 40% of the European Union’s gas needs before Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said Gazprom’s notice of ending supplies was long expected and Austria has made preparations.

Good. Plenty of American and, increasingly, Israeli gas available.

CHIVALRY IS NOT DEAD:

Conservative Husbands Sacrificially Volunteer To Have Twice The Sex To Make Up For Lib Sex Strike https://t.co/DjhueN8qAt pic.twitter.com/XKcU1ymBF0

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) November 15, 2024

MASS FORMATION PSYCHOSIS: Half of Gen Z suffers from ‘eco-anxiety,’ new poll finds.

WELL: Education Cmte. will work with Dept. of Government Efficiency to ‘cut back waste’ in higher ed: Rep. Burgess Owens.

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Postal chief brags of 100% union ‘comrades’ as bankruptcy nears.

CHANGE: LA Times Owner: ‘We Want Voices From All Sides.’

GOOD: Trump Taps Fracking Executive and “TV-ready Evangelist for Fossil Fuels” for Energy Secretary. “Chris Wright is the Chief Executive of Liberty Energy, a fracking company based in Denver. Wright’s appointment is on-brand for Trump’s new template for candidates: Wright is innovative, embraces new approaches to energy development, and is not connected to the Deep State.”

Plus:

This is the way:

Stanford’s Jay Bhattacharya emerges as a top candidate to lead NIH – The Washington Post https://t.co/4p21H2syuJ

— Walter Kirn (@walterkirn) November 16, 2024

DON’T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU WHERE THE GOOD LORD SPLIT YOU: Still Fuming from Harris Endorsement Drama, Washington Post Gives Readers Advice on How to Flee the Country: Deranged liberals have been threatening to leave the United States since 2004.

DAVID STROM: The Genius of Trump’s Top Advisers Picks.

DEI employees threatening to quit over Sec Def Hegseth appointment

FDA employees threatening to quit over RFK Jr HHS appointment

DOJ employees threatening to quit over AG Gaetz appointment

At this rate Elon & Vivek won't have to fire hardly anybody. Fkn tremendous.

— Clint Russell (@LibertyLockPod) November 15, 2024

Unfortunately, like celebrities threatening to leave the country, they won’t.