WHAT A LONG, STRANGE, DELIGHTFUL TRIP — AND IT’S NOT OVER YET: Looking Back on 16 Years of PJ Media. “As an editor, you get to a point where you can pick your writers out of a police lineup based only on their prose. If you put a 2005 VodkaPundit or Belmont Club post in front of me, I’d be able to identify it immediately. That consistency is why so many of you have been loyal readers for so many years.”

OH: Microsoft will now snitch on you at work like never before.

Microsoft is preparing a couple of little updates that may curb employee rulebreaking enthusiasm.

Yes, this news again comes courtesy of Microsoft’s roadmap service, where Redmond prepares you for the joys to come.

This time, there are a couple of joys.

The first is headlined: “Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider risk management — Increased visibility on browsers.”

It all sounded wonderful until you those last four words, didn’t it? For this is the roadmap for administrators. And when you give a kindly administrator “increased visibility on browsers,” you can feel sure this means an elevated level of surveillance of what employees are typing into those browsers.

You might want to limit searches for “Let’s Go Brandon” t-shirts to your personal gear.

NEVER GIVE ANYTHING TO THE MOB: NJ State Senate Candidate Who Spent $153 to Win is Already Apologizing to the Woke Mob.

THE MOST CHARITABLE EXPLANATION IS THAT DEMOCRATS AREN’T COMPETENT ENOUGH TO RUN AN ELECTION: Not Suspicious at All: Top NJ Democrat Says They ‘Recently Found’ 12,000 Ballots. “They wonder why there are conspiracy theories about election integrity. Well, here you go.”

DOUBLING DOWN ON STUPID: Biden Advisor Ignores Warnings From Election Defeats, Wants to Push Further Left.

COME SEE THE RACISM INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: MSNBC Regular: ‘Sick of White Men’ Like Carville, ‘Shut the F Up.’ “MSNBC viewers got a triple helping of racist comments as frequent guests Roland Martin and Elie Mystal took aim at whites. After Mystal claimed in the show’s first hour that blue-collar whites only care about “using their guns on black people and getting away with it.” And in the second hour, Martin declared that he was ‘sick of white men’ like veteran Democratic strategist James Carville criticizing the far left, adding that he should “shut the F up.'”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: RINOs Bail Out Biden But He’s Still Cratering. “ When your opponent is flailing as badly as Team Biden is now, why offer a hand to help them out of the quicksand? The thoroughly execrable Adam Kinzinger was one of the 13 turncoats, and he’s been slipping knives into the backs of his fellow Republicans since the beginning of the year, so that wasn’t a real shocker.”

NOW: Biden Gets Heated over Proposed Payments to Illegal Immigrants: Families ‘Deserve Some Kind of Compensation.’

THEN: Biden Says $450,000 Payments To Illegal Immigrants Are ‘Not Gonna Happen.’

So what’s going on here is the Biden Administration haggling with itself over how much money to pay people for breaking our laws.

COMPLY, THEY EXPLAINED: Emilio Estevez Benched From ‘Mighty Ducks’ Series Over Disney’s Vaccine Mandate.

PHILIP CARL SALZMAN: The Intentional Destabilization of America. “Imagine what we would say if a foreign country, for example Russia, China, Iran, or North Korea, carried out the following actions.”

CHANGE: Conservatives chalk up numerous wins in school board races across Colorado.

I HAD BEEN ASSURED THAT THE VOTING DEAD WAS A MYTH: Public Interest Legal Foundation Sues Over 26,000 Dead People on Michigan Voter Rolls.

CHARMING: Meghan Markle blasted for lobbying US senators, using her royal title, “Meghan Markle was blasted Thursday after it emerged she has been cold-calling US senators on their private numbers — and using her royal title while lobbying them about the disastrous $3.5 trillion spending bill.”

SIN TAX:Democrats Seek to Build Back Better…on the Backs of Vapers?

JOY PULLMANN: Democrats Are Right To Be Scared About Losing The Parent Vote.

On MSNBC Wednesday, a former Obama campaign manager declared, in an urgent tone, “The one thing that we need to make sure that Republicans in 2022 don’t become is the party of parents. Because we need to be the party of parents.”

It’s too late; that’s already happening. Even the hoax-mongering New York Times can see it, and they’re afraid too.

On Nov. 4, the Times issued a hysterical article covering the Virginia results with the same motif. “Republicans Pounce on Schools as a Wedge Issue to Unite the Party,” read the headline, followed by this malicious smear in the subheading: “Rallying around what it calls ‘parental rights,’ the party is pushing to build on its victories this week by stoking white resentment and tapping into broader anger at the education system.”

Get that? Parental rights in scare quotes and insisting it’s racist to complain about the clearly subpar quality of instruction offered to most American children in public schools.

Thanks in part to the lockdowns (that teachers insisted upon) and the attendant Zoom instruction, parents are discovering that our institutional rot extends all the way down to their local school board.

Democrats own this, and that’s why they’re panicking.

CHANGE: Conservative Minorities Rising While Democrats Remain Clueless. “As Media Research Center Latino’s Jorge Bonilla points out, there’s more to the nightmare scenario for Democrats than Winsome Sears.”

DEVELOPING: Red States Sue Biden Admin Mere Hours After Vaccine Mandate Issued. “Ohio’s suit calls the mandate ‘an unlawful executive order’ and reminds the court that ‘our system does not permit agencies to act unlawfully even in the pursuit of desirable ends.'”

NEW YORK: Families could be denied death benefits for unvaccinated loved ones. “In an article on its website, KHN said the New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority is denying $500,000 death benefits to the families of the unvaccinated subway, bus and commuter workers.”

THIS TRIAL HAS BEEN A MESS: A Bad Joke Gets Rittenhouse Juror Tossed From Jury.

BECAUSE OF COURSE: Team Biden Is Trying To Re-Divide Jerusalem. “The Biden move reestablishes a roadblock to peace that Trump removed. Recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and moving the U.S. embassy there was a big part of setting up the Abraham Accords. This action tool the religious component out of the peace equation and allowed the Arab States to make peace without conceding the Muslim’s third holiest city to Israel because it was a done deal. If he opens a Palestinian mission in Jerusalem, he is taking away the freedom of Muslim states to make peace without causing a religious revolt. The move also provides the Palestinians another reason to refuse peace.”

WELL: Woman Who Testified Against Trump Also Introduced Authors of Fake Russian ‘Dossier’ to Each Other. Gee, What Are the Odds…?

STRATEGIC BREAKOUT: China Could Have 1,000 Nuclear Warheads By 2030. “In 2020, the PLA added a new milestone for modernization in 2027, to accelerate the integrated development of mechanization, informatization, and intelligentization of the PRC’s armed forces, which if realized would provide Beijing with more credible military options in a Taiwan contingency.”

IT’S THE STUPID WOKES: ‘People Don’t Like Them’: James Carville Has a Stern Warning for Woke Democrats.

WHAT’S WORSE THAN SOCIAL MEDIA? Facebook’s metaverse plans labelled as ‘dystopian’ and ‘a bad idea.’ “Facebook should have lost the right to make its own choices. A regulator should be there giving pre-approval for everything they do. The amount of harm they’ve done is incalculable.”

Related: Facebook Says ‘We’ll Quit Using Facial Recognition’ (Not Really!)

HAVE YOU CONSIDERED CAUCUSING WITH THE GOP, SENATOR? ‘I Have a Lot of Concerns’: Manchin Laments Far Left’s Agenda.

Related: Joe Manchin Could Save His Career (And the Country) By Switching to the GOP, Here’s Why.