MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Americans Hate Overreach: Impeachment Is Helping Trump.

And for our VIP members: Harvard Student David Hogg Writes His Own LGBTQ Gun Control History. “This is a tweet for for the founders of the gun violence prevention movement started centuries ago by almost entirely black, brown and indigenous lgbtq women and non binary people that never got on the news or in most history books.”

That VODKAPUNDIT promo code is still good for a discount, if you’ve been considering becoming a supporter.

SHAMPEACHMENT: Dem wavering on impeachment? Manchin signals he’s open to Trump defense argument.

HMM: Billionaires and Big Pharma Are Bankrolling the Transgender Industrial Complex.

NICE: Poland to sign $4.6 billion F-35 fighter jet deal.

OH: Democrat Caught on Video Teaching Illegals How to Vote.

OVERDUE: FBI reviewing claims Ilhan Omar married her brother.

Two FBI agents held an hours-long meeting in Minnesota in mid-October with a concerned party who handed over a trove of documents regarding Omar’s 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a source with knowledge of the event said.

At the meeting, first reported by website The Blaze, the agents discussed concerns the Somali-born Democrat married Elmi, a British citizen rumored to be her brother, so he could obtain a green card and study in America, the source said.

The two agents said they would share the information with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the US Department of Education, but did not commit to opening an investigation into the firebrand lawmaker, the source said.

If Omar did marry her brother, she could be found guilty of committing marriage fraud — a felony offense punishable with a prison sentence of up to five years and a fine of up to $250,000.

Will the FBI keep acting as partisan tools, or will they pursue a real investigation and let the chips fall where they may?

THE NEW CIVILITY: Feminist Oxford Prof. Given Bodyguards After Threats From Transgender Activists.

BECAUSE OF COURSE SHE DOES: Rashida Tlaib Retweets a Lie from the Palestinian Atrocity Factory.

UGH: 5 million residents left Wuhan before lockdown, mayor reveals, as 1,000 new confirmed cases expected in city.

WHEN HE’S RIGHT, HE’S RIGHT: ‘They’ve Taken Their Best Kill Shot And Missed’: Geraldo Rivera Says Impeachment Is Doomed.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Another Painful Reminder That Life Is Fragile. “Everything we love can be shattered in an instant, and that’s the only real hot take we need to have here.”

HEH: Protester to Adam Schiff on Capitol Hill: ‘Move to Venezuela, Mr. Schiff!’

A MERE TECHNICALITY: Dershowitz: Democrats’ case meritless because no crime committed.

Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Dershowitz, a member of Trump’s defense team, said Democrats had not made a sufficient case to charge the president with a crime as they presented their arguments in 24 hours over three days.

“The conduct has to be criminal in nature — it can’t be abuse of power, it can’t be obstruction of Congress,” he said referring to the two charges laid out in the articles of impeachment against Trump. “Those are precisely the arguments that the framers rejected.”

To be fair, Democrats reject the Framers and the Constitution for a whole lot of things.

CAN’T TRUMP DO ANYTHING RIGHT? Social Media Stats Suggest America’s BORED by Impeachment Trial.

I’m sure it must be Trump’s fault. I just haven’t figured out how.

WELL, IT SHOULD: Virus Sparks Soul-Searching Over China’s Wild Animal Trade.

It didn’t take long to identify the suspected source of a deadly coronavirus outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan: a cluster of vendors in a downtown market offering carcasses and live specimens of dozens of wild animals—from bamboo rats to ostriches, baby crocodiles and hedgehogs.

The Huanan food market, a scruffy complex of 1,000 stalls spread over an area the size of nine football fields, is the largest of its kind in central China, mostly supplying seafood to Wuhan’s residents and restaurants. It is typical of the wet markets where most people in this country buy their food.

Like many such markets, it also sold wild animals enjoyed as culinary delicacies or used as traditional medicine—an ancient trade Beijing has continued to allow despite warnings that it caused a deadly coronavirus outbreak almost two decades ago, and could trigger another global epidemic.

First-world global commerce and a third-world attitude toward public health are a bad combination.

THIS FARCE IS (ALMOST) ENDED: Impeachment End Game in Sight as GOP Senators Plan for Acquittal after Witness Vote.

BREAKING: Trump Lawyer: Dems Are ‘Asking You to Tear Up All of the Ballots’ by Removing Trump in an Election.

I HOPE THIS MEANS THE NEXT USS ENTERPRISE WON’T BE ANOTHER NAVAL VESSEL:

TYLER O’NEIL IS ALL OVER THE MARCH FOR LIFE: Trump Defends the Unborn at March for Life: Every Life ‘Is in the Image of Almighty God.’

ALSO: David Daleiden Exposes Planned Parenthood’s ‘Coordinated Attack on the Civil Liberties of Pro-Life Americans.’

SUGGESTED? NO. FLAT-OUT SAID IT? YES. Biden Still in Denial, Says ‘No One Has Suggested My Son Did Anything Wrong.’

EVER NOTICE OUR BETTERS ARE ANYTHING BUT? Vox offers us plebs a glimpse inside the private celebrity Resistance Twitter club known as — we kid you not — ‘the Decency Collective.’

MAYBE SACRAMENTO SHOULD PASS A LAW AGAINST UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES:

Or maybe in this case the consequences were fully intended.

REP. JIM JORDAN: ‘7 Important Things’ Schiff ‘Had Exactly Wrong’ – and ‘We’re Supposed to Believe Him?’

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Florida Man Friday: Caution! Falling Iguana Zone. “Florida’s cold snap is so severe, that the nightclubs on Key West have gone from closing out last call with ‘It’s Raining Men’ to ‘It’s Raining Semi-Frozen Kinda-Hibernating Iguanas’.”

HE KNOWS WHAT’S GOOD FOR HIM: Accused Rapist Harvey Weinstein Distances Himself From Bill Clinton at Trial.