THE GROWING ANTI-BIG TECH ALLIANCE: 40 States Joining Antitrust Lawsuit To Break-Up Facebook.

BREAKING: Georgia Governor Calls For ‘Signature Audit’ After ‘Ballot-Stuffing’ Video.

YES. Enough Already: ‘Governor, May I?’ Must End.

HARDBALL: Trump: ‘I Will VETO’ Military Spending Bill Without Section 230 Termination.

CALIFORNIA IS FINALLY REACHING PROGRESSIVE NIRVANA, WHERE EVERYTHING NOT COMPULSORY IS FORBIDDEN: Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti bans non-essential walking, and no we didn’t think he could do that either.

LOCKDOWNS TODAY, LOCKDOWNS TOMORROW, LOCKDOWNS FOREVER! Biden says Fauci will be chief medical adviser.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: TEA Withdrawal Statistics Show Record Number of Students Leaving Public Schools.

GOVERNOR GRINCH: Gavin ‘French Laundry’ Newsom Imposes Draconian Lockdown … Just in Time for Christmas.

Bravely, Newsom will surely not allow any such restrictions to impact his holiday celebrations.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: It’s Simple — If They Can Loot and Riot, You Can Celebrate Christmas.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: How many members of the White House press corps did Kayleigh McEnany just send to the burn unit?

Answer: All of them.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

• Don’t let the delivery grinch steal Christmas
• Stolen valor: Hillary and Chelsea getting richer off of actual gutsy women
• The funniest bit of 5G paranoia ever

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

UGH: Component failure in NASA’s deep-space crew capsule could take months to fix.

In early November, engineers at Lockheed Martin working on Orion noticed that a power component inside the vehicle had failed, according to an internal email and an internal PowerPoint presentation seen by The Verge. The component is within one of the spacecraft’s eight power and data units, or PDUs. The PDUs are the “main power/data boxes,” for Orion according to the email, responsible for activating key systems that Orion needs during flight.
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Replacing the PDU isn’t easy. The component is difficult to reach: it’s located inside an adapter that connects Orion to its service module — a cylindrical trunk that provides support, propulsion, and power for the capsule during its trip through space. To get to the PDU, Lockheed Martin could remove the Orion crew capsule from its service module, but it’s a lengthy process that could take up to a year. As many as nine months would be needed to take the vehicle apart and put it back together again, in addition to three months for subsequent testing, according to the presentation.

Lockheed has another option, but it’s never been done before and may carry extra risks, Lockheed Martin engineers acknowledge in their presentation. To do it, engineers would have to tunnel through the adapter’s exterior by removing some of the outer panels of the adapter to get to the PDU. The panels weren’t designed to be removed this way, but this scenario may only take up to four months to complete if engineers figure out a way to do it.

Later today or this weekend, SpaceX will attempt the highest flight yet for the eighth prototype of the company’s Starship vehicle.

BLUE ON BLUE: Tulsi Gabbard Lets Joe Biden Have It For Choosing Neera Tanden For OMB.

Gabbard shared a screenshot of an old email, allegedly sent by Tanden, in which she appeared to support the idea of confiscating oil from countries in which the United States had participated in nation building. (RELATED: Tulsi Gabbard Bucks Party, Supports SCOTUS Decision That Reined In Andrew Cuomo)

“Neera Tanden thinks the way to reduce our deficit is to steal oil from countries like Libya to pay us back for bombing them, toppling their government, and turning them into a failed state. @JoeBiden Is this really the person you want in charge of managing our budget?” she asked.

Previously: ‘Don’t back down’: Tulsi Gabbard tells Trump he has her full support in terminating Section 230.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Taking Bets on the Jill Biden/Kamala Harris 2021 Hate Match. “Let us be clear about one thing: Joe Biden isn’t going to be president, even if he’s inaugurated.”

FASTER? PLEASE! Federal Court Is Fast-Tracking Sidney Powell’s Request For A Forensic Exam Of Dominion Voting Machines.

PRIVACY: CBP’s warrantless use of cell phone location data is under investigation.

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a division of DHS, “has paid a government contractor named Venntel nearly half a million dollars for access to a commercial database containing location data mined from applications on millions of Americans’ mobile phones,” five Democratic US senators said in October.

“CBP is not above the law and it should not be able to buy its way around the Fourth Amendment,” the senators told Inspector General Joseph Cuffari while requesting an investigation into “CBP’s warrantless use of commercial databases containing Americans’ information, including but not limited to Venntel’s location database.”

Cuffari granted the request for an investigation, telling the senators that his office will “initiate an audit that we believe will address your concerns” in a letter sent November 25 and made public by the Democratic senators yesterday. The senators who requested the investigation are Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Edward Markey (D-Mass.), and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii).

It’s a motley crew, but Wyden is at least solid on digital privacy issues.

SQUAD GOALS: Anti-Israel Groups Mobilize to Install Allies in Biden Admin.

I LEARNED TO CODE BUT GOT PRICED OUT OF A NEW JOB, ANYWAY: Justice Department sues Facebook for alleged discrimination against US workers “The lawsuit suggests that Facebook, over a roughly two-year time span, knowingly favored H1-B and other temporary visa holders over US-based job applicants for more than 2,600 positions.”

WATCH: Team Trump Says Video Is ‘Smoking Gun’ Evidence of Election Fraud, Ballot-Stuffing in Georgia.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Trump Legal Team: We Have ‘So Much Evidence’ of Fraud in Nevada ‘We Had to Rent a Separate Car.’

BATTLESWARM BLOG: Walter E. Williams, RIP.

IT’S DIFFERENT NOW BECAUSE REASONS: Biden-Harris Campaign’s Anti-Vaxxer Conspiracy Theory’s Sad Epilogue: 3 Former Presidents Step Up for COVID Vaccine.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Red Pill in Progress? Ron Howard Calls Out Political Film Critics.

SECRETARY OF INDOCTRINTION: Biden Education Lead: Chinese Communist Party Has Done ‘Magical Work.’

CHARLES LIPSON: The Georgia Runoffs and Our Embattled Constitution. “It’s understandable that the national debate should focus on which party will control the Senate and just how radical the Democrats’ program will be if they do. But just beneath the surface lurk potential constitutional issues, which have received almost no attention. The basic problem is this: although America’s Founders were deeply concerned about tyranny, centralized power, and the suppression of individual rights and constructed institutional barriers to prevent those abuses, they never envisioned the mechanisms that pose serious threats today.”

BECAUSE THEY’RE INSANE AND/OR HAVE TERRIBLE TASTE IN LITERATURE: Lefty Law Profs See Handmaid’s Tale Lurking Behind Supreme Court Religious Freedom Ruling.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Wall Street Writes Off Biden’s Chances of Enacting His Crushing Tax Hikes.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: If he actually wins, would Joe Biden’s well-known “ability to f*** things up” be our country’s saving grace for four years?

Answer: Sigh, maybe, yes.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

• Barack Obama: Snake, charmer
• Twitter: Judge — and jury, and executioner — of political debate in this country
• Rick Wilson: Sad little lonely cowardly bully

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.