NOT THEIR BEST WORK: Apple botched the Apple Intelligence launch, but its long-term strategy is sound.

SLEEP IS IMPORTANT: Successful aging starts with a good night’s sleep, study suggests.

STANDING UP TO DISINFORMATION:

I'm a board certified OBGYN and you're a complete lying piece of sh*t.

Here's the published study. They're cutting the breasts off girls as young as 12 in this country.

Here's the published paper.
Stop your lies while kids are being mutilated.https://t.co/UR3s4R9dtM https://t.co/c3245ybiCI

— Greg J. Marchand MD (@MarchandSurgery) November 11, 2024

ALL IS PROCEEDING AS I HAVE FORESEEN: CNN Gets Whiplash Over How Fast Trump Is Moving to Fix This Country.

Me, last week: “Like airplanes on a runway. Trump’s approach this time around should be what he should have done last time: Shock and awe. Shut down departments, fire bureaucrats, exercise emergency powers, all so fast that the establishment’s responses are saturated. Javier Millei’s whirlwind assault in Argentina should be the model, sometimes in specifics but also in general approach. Bureaucrats move slowly; Trump should move fast.”

FROM JOSH BLACKMAN: An Interview with Judge James C. Ho.

LOL, SAYS THE TONE-DEAF PREACHER. Obama’s biographer reveals ex-president fears for his legacy after ‘tone-deaf preaching’ harmed Harris campaign. A friend writes: “His legacy will be that he was exactly what he said he was, an illusion. ‘I am a blank screen on which everyone projects themselves.’ The ultimate golden calf reflecting ppl back to themselves.”

DO THE LETTERS “F.O.” MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU? Massachusetts Democrat Seth Moulton’s former interns, staffers demand apology over LGBTQ remarks.

Former staffers and interns of Congressman Seth Moulton are calling on the Salem representative to apologize for speaking his mind about pronoun usage and boys playing in girls’ sports. . . . Democrats continued blasting Congressman Seth Moulton over the weekend for sticking to his opinion that boys and transgender athletes have no place in girls’ sports and voicing his belief that pronouns in email signatures are “kind of weird.”

As criticism against the former U.S. Marine and presidential candidate kept raining down, a group of former staffers and interns on Saturday circulated a letter expressing their concerns about Moulton’s recent statements, demanding an apology.

On Sunday, Moulton appeared on MSNBC where he said party leaders wouldn’t even return his calls, proving his point that Democrats need to be able to talk about divisive issues.”

“Demand?” Get lost, guys, it’s not 2020 anymore.

Plus: “The Massachusetts Democrat, in his criticized remarks, blamed his party for the Republican red wave and President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, saying that Dems were ‘out of touch with the American people,’ especially on transgender issues.” Ya think?

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: ‘This sh*t is not a f***ing game’: Teacher goes on profanity-laced anti-Trump rant in class.

STANDARDS: UCLA med students alarmingly sub-standard, as school ‘cuts corners’, admits applicants based on race.

I’M SO OLD I REMEMBER WHEN THE PRESS CALLED HIM “WEIRD.”

REPORT: JD Vance has the highest net favorability rating of all candidates on both major tickets – CNN

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 10, 2024

IF THIS WERE HAPPENING IN OTHER COUNTRIES, WE’D CALL IT COUP-PLOTTING:

New: Pentagon officials are having informal conversations about how the DOD would respond if Donald Trump issues orders to deploy active-duty troops domestically and fire large swaths of apolitical staffers, officials tell @NatashaBertrand and me https://t.co/RHRksYPhvD

— Haley Britzky (@halbritz) November 8, 2024

“We are a long way from a hard coup, but when Pentagon officials are having secret meetings to scheme how to disobey orders given to them by the supreme civilian authority, that is, shall we say, insurrection-lite. So much for norms and protecting the Constitution, guys. This sort of behavior is treasonous but not without precedent. General Mark Milley–who should be recalled and court-martialed–actually schemed with China at the end of Trump’s first term. I don’t think, from the evidence, that he committed treason, but he committed gross insubordination as the highest military officer in the land. He belongs in jail.”

These guys are manifestly better at plotting internally than at fighting or preparing for wars. Fire them and replace them with people whose focus is on their jobs.

Also, “apolitical staffers?” Nobody believes they exist anymore.

UPDATE: Day One: Fire Them All.

Pentagon bureaucrats are privately meeting trying to thwart President Trump.

A FEMA supervisor instructed employees in Florida after the hurricane to avoid helping families whose homes had Trump signs in the yard. Yes, it really happened.

The staff at the Department of Justice, particularly in the Civil Rights division, are notoriously progressive. The staff at the EPA likewise have put absurdities ahead of practicalities in balancing environmental regulation with cost and common sense.

Fire them all.

The bureaucrats have forgotten they work for the people and instead think the people and politicians work for them.

On the first day, Donald Trump should purge the bureaucracy. They need some sense of humility. They need to be forced into submitting to the will of the Chief Executive Officer of the United States of America.

Cut what can be cut. Fire who can be fired.

Yes. Also, repeal the Civil Service laws. They certainly didn’t give us the nonpartisan, expert government they were promised to. At least under the “spoils system,” you knew who was responsible.

BROS ARE PEOPLE TOO: John Fetterman says Democrats have a man problem:

“We have a challenge. We have our own kind of ‘childless cat ladies’ situation: ‘Bros.’ People refer to these young guys as bros, and clearly that’s not a positive term,” Fetterman told the outlet Semafor in an article published Friday. . . .

Fetterman said the GOP’s branding of Harris as an advocate for transgender rights as an undermining factor in her leadership.

“And it’s undeniable that Republicans created a really powerful message: ‘She’s for they/them, and Trump is for you. That was, I think, our cycle’s version of ‘Where’s the beef?’ or, ‘I knew Jack Kennedy, and you’re no Jack Kennedy,’” he told Semafor. “That kept hitting again and again and again and again for tens of millions of dollars. It had an earworm quality. And I’m not surprised that that resonated.”

The Keystone State lawmaker often credits Trump’s survived assassination attempt in July in Butler, Pa., as a point of connection between the former president and voters.

Flashback: Bros are people, too: Glenn Reynolds.

With some helpful advice.

TRUE: Calling Trump ‘Hitler’ Has Done Permanent Damage to the Moral Realm. “The abuse of language is a fundamental characteristic of the Left. Leftists have done this not only to ‘Hitler,’ ‘Nazi’ and ‘fascist’ but to ‘genocide,’ ‘apartheid,’ ‘racist’ and virtually every other term connoting evil. It started with Stalin calling Trotsky a fascist and it continues to this day.”

BIDENFLATION:

The damage has been done …. Watching a Diners Drive Ins and Dives from 2008 and it’s a completely different world. A bacon cheeseburger was braggadociosly only $4.75. I looked up the website and that burger is $17 today.

The Flavortown you were raised to live in no longer…

— Tony (@tonyoklah) November 2, 2024

ROGER KIMBALL: The Aftermath: Trump’s Victory Sparks Media Outrage and National Introspection.

The introspection never lasts long; the outrage is perpetual.

OPEN THREAD: Ready to go.

ELON SHARES A POLL:

Who should be Senate Majority Leader?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 10, 2024

HMM: Crew-8 astronauts remain mum about post-splashdown medical issue.

A FRIEND TEXTS THIS SUCCINCT SUMMARY OF THE ELECTION: “They ran a shitty candidate with a shitty campaign and couldn’t steal. And Biden is so delighted. He’s more articulate than he’s been in years.”

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Physicists May Have Figured Out How to Safely Transport Antimatter.

TERRORISTIC THREATS: Liberal Cat Ladies Reveal “Battle Plan” To Poison Trump Men With Aqua Tofana.

MAKE THE RUBBLE BOUNCE: Donald Trump clinches biggest popular vote count by a Republican ever.

PROGRESS: Democrat Yadira Caraveo concedes to Republican challenger in swing Colorado House race. “The seat was listed as a target for pickup by the National Republican Congressional Committee, and was part of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s front-line program. Polls ahead of the election showed a tight race within the margin of error of various surveys. The district has the largest Hispanic community of any of the state’s congressional districts, a demographic Republicans have gained ground with nationwide in recent elections.”

MICROBIOME NEWS: Signals from the gut could transform rheumatoid arthritis treatment. “Bacteria associated with inflammation is found in the gut in higher amounts roughly ten months before patients develop clinical rheumatoid arthritis, a longitudinal study by Leeds researchers has found.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

“Trump 2024: Lock up Thieves not Toothpaste” would have won fifty states

— gatsby (@Grategatsby) November 9, 2024