ANALYSIS: TRUE. Dear Google: Your AI Is Garbage.

Remember when Google was a world-leading corporation whose motto was “don’t be evil”, universally trusted for Internet searches, branching out into other businesses and could seemingly do no wrong? You may not, since that was a good 15-20 years ago. Since then, Google has done plenty of evil to lose our trust, from spinning up useful services only to allow them to be killed off a few years later to letting itself be infected with social justice to ruining search results to plump ad revenues.

Now Google is infecting itself with AI across all its divisions, and the results are disastrous.

Read the whole thing.

STAY TUNED:

Starting-level DEI hires of the last five years will begin to come up for tenure in 2026. Will universities enforce standards of scholarly excellence? Or will they keep treating activism as a substitute? We’ll soon start seeing whether they are capable of meaningful reform. https://t.co/iVv7mygWUd

— Timur Kuran (@timurkuran) November 11, 2025

What’s going to happen if they end up having to try and produce results in the private sector? Nothing good, I imagine.

ERIC FLORACK: Veterans Day: Honor Their Sacrifice.

CLASSISM, POSTMODERN STYLE:

Christopher Lasch warned 30 years ago that cosmopolitanism masks Liberals’ seething contempt for ordinary Americans.

What we call the professional managerial class is a blob of rootless narcissists who have long since come to regard the people they left behind in Middle America… pic.twitter.com/rx5f3LDKoj

— Christian Heiens 🏛 (@ChristianHeiens) November 11, 2025

UNCHARTED TERRITORY: Hysteria and High Cap Magazines: The Arming of America’s Violent Left Wing. “Perhaps, in some dark corner of their minds, the new progressives believe they’re the heroes in history’s next great moral war. They forget that history has a habit of eating its heroes. It also has an excellent memory. It remembers every bullet, every boast, every cause that mistook fury for faith. And it will remember who called it justice when they started killing the innocent.”

TERRORISM: PM Modi speaks to Amit Shah on phone from Bhutan; 13 people dead.

The conspirators of the Delhi blast will not be spared as the probe agencies will get to the bottom of the case, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday (November 11, 2025), as the death toll in the explosion rose to 13.

Government sources told The Hindu that the occupant of the car in which an explosion was reported on the evening of November 10, 2025, was likely Dr. Umar, a resident of Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir. Additionally, Delhi Police registered an FIR under the The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and Explosives Act in connection with the blast.

Meanwhile, Union Home Minister Amit Shah chaired a high-level security review meeting in the wake of the blast. Mr. Shah had earlier said that “all possibilities are being explored and a thorough investigation will be conducted, taking all options into account.”

The national capital has been placed on high alert with strict vigil being maintained at the airport, railway stations and bus terminals.

Developing…

BLUE ON BLUE: Democrats’ Leadership Crisis Goes Viral As 8 Senators Defect.

WE HAVE A SPENDING PROBLEM, FULL STOP: Current Federal Deficit.

For FY25, the deficit was $41 billion below last year’s level. However, October 1, 2023, fell on a weekend, thereby causing certain federal payments to be shifted into the previous fiscal year (FY23) and artificially reducing the deficit in FY24. Without that effect, the deficit for FY25 would have been $113 billion less than last year’s adjusted total.

For FY25, total outlays were $7 trillion, $275 billion higher than the same period in the previous year. Adjusting for the timing shift, spending was $202 billion above the same period last year. That increase was driven mainly by three categories: Social Security spending was up by $120 billion, stemming from cost-of-living adjustments and some retroactive payments; net interest rose by $89 billion; and Medicare outlays increased by $78 billion (adjusted for timing shifts). Partially offsetting those and other increases was a $235 billion decrease by the Department of Education due to several loan estimation adjustments and a $63 billion decrease in outlays by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation related to the resolution of bank failures that occurred last year.

Continuing resolutions don’t cut it. We need Congress to get back to actual budgeting, which ought to start with the question, “How much income do we have?” instead of “How much spending can we get away with?”

IT’S EVIL! DON’T TOUCH IT! Just When You Thought You Hated the Media Enough… “Some days it feels like I ask too much of you, gentle reader, and yet here I go again, asking you to hate the mainstream media more than you already do. But I have three new reasons just this morning.”

DIPLOMACY, YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG: Chinese Diplomat Threatens to Behead Japan’s PM Takaichi.

A Chinese diplomat issued a violent threat toward Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi after she warned that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could pose a “survival-threatening situation” for Japan.

Xue Jian, China’s consul general in Osaka, Japan, posted on social media that he would “cut off a dirty neck without a moment of hesitation,” in a message that included a news article describing Takaichi’s remarks.

Xue’s post has since been removed.

You’d think a diplomat would know better, but I guess not in Xue’s case.

GREG BYRNES: The Ragged Old Flag and Veterans. “Current Veterans Affairs estimates are that there are about 35,000 homeless veterans on America’s streets on any given night. Eight percent of total homelessness. It is one of the great unsolved problems of our time. It is a scandal that, like most intractable problems, will probably only end when each of these troubled souls goes to his reward. There is no easy solution, but it is worth our attention. Resources that can help are listed at the end of this story.”

FA, MEET FO:

Portland woman starts panicking, hyperventilating, and begging for mercy after getting pulled over for impeding ICE operations.

"I'm just a mom! I'm just a mom! … I'm shaking," she pleaded.

The woman was captured on camera by @KatieDaviscourt running a red light before… pic.twitter.com/Lkk5SPSjA2

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 10, 2025

2026 PREVIEW: Another House Dem drops out of 2026 rat race as party faces generational reckoning.

Continuing a trend of retiring figures in the 119th Congress, Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J., announced that she will not seek re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives next year.

“I made a commitment years ago to always lead the charge on behalf of those I represent, and I believe I have fulfilled that commitment to the very best of my abilities. I have always stood on the front lines in the fight for principled progressive policies,” Coleman said in a post on X.

“While I am not seeking re-election, there is still more to be done in my last year in public office. I absolutely intend to continue serving my constituents in the 12th District straight through to the last day of my term.”

Coleman has represented New Jersey since 2015 and before that served the Garden State as a state legislator from 1998 until her arrival in Congress. She last won re-election in 2024 in a 61.2%-36.4% victory over Republican challenger Darius Mayfield.

Even without the advantage of incumbency, Republicans are unlikely to capture New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District.

Another reason not to read to much into this: Coleman is 80.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Will SCOTUS Bring a Modicum of Sanity to Mail-In Ballot Madness? “This is anecdotal, but it is a thing that happened. For the last six years that I lived in California, I was on the permanent vote-by-mail list, a list that I never once opted in on. Every election, I would fill out a provisional ballot, and request to be taken off of the vote-by-mail list, which never happened. After I had been back in Arizona for a few years, I checked and I was still registered in California and on the list.”

STRANGE BEDFELLOWS:

🚨 BREAKING: Rep. Jasmine Crockett demands all 50 states ABOLISH Dominion voting machines because she fears Donald Trump and Republicans will rig the coming elections. pic.twitter.com/YUoqZx5oaQ

"It's going to be really important for us to educate all states that we can to make…

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 10, 2025

Can’t we all just get along with paper ballots?

HMM: Tesla’s Engineering Exodus Comes Amid Shift From Core EV Mission.

Tesla shareholders just overwhelmingly backed CEO Elon Musk’s unprecedented pay package that could be worth $1 trillion over a decade, but engineers running the company’s main vehicle programs, for its top-selling Model Y, Model 3 and the controversial Cybertruck, aren’t sticking around to see how things turn out.

Emmanuel Lamacchia, an eight-year Tesla veteran and program manager for the Model Y, said late Sunday in a LinkedIn post that he was leaving the Austin-based company. His announcement came just a few hours after a similar post by Siddhant Awasthi, another eight-year veteran who ran the Model 3 and Cybertruck programs. Neither gave reasons for their decisions, though both mentioned new career steps, which they didn’t detail.

They’re just the latest high-profile engineers to leave as Musk seeks to shake up Tesla’s business, prioritizing AI-powered businesses – namely robotaxis and humanoid robots – that don’t generate revenue currently, rather than selling more electric vehicles, batteries and charging services, which do. Earlier this year, Musk fired the company’s head of manufacturing and sales in North America and Europe. In August, the director of Tesla’s battery team left the company, as did the head of its former “Dojo” supercomputer team and vice president of North American sales and service. Even Musk’s much-hyped “Optimus” robot project, which the billionaire said last week is likely to be Tesla’s biggest new business, quit in June.

Aside from the fact that the poor-selling, much-derided Cybertruck ranks among the auto industry’s biggest flops, Musk’s prioritization of non-EV businesses is making the company less attractive to auto engineers, according to a former Tesla executive.

Given the state of the EV market, reprioritization had to happen sooner or later. The company already reinvented itself once, going from a boutique maker of EVs to a mass manufacturer.

Now it’s adapting again.

ICYMI: It’s Time to Call Out Tucker Carlson.

CHANGE: Warren Buffett’s investor letter may be his last as Berkshire Hathaway’s CEO.

“I will no longer be writing Berkshire’s annual report or talking endlessly at the annual meeting,” the 95-year-old wrote in the letter. “As the British would say, I’m ‘going quiet.'”

Buffett’s shareholder letters have long been considered essential reading for investors, offering insights into Berkshire’s performance, plainspoken wisdom and reflections on business and life. In his new eight-page message, Buffett reminisced about his childhood in Omaha, Nebraska, the people who shaped his career, and the values that guided him, while noting that his health remains good.

“To my surprise, I generally feel good,” he wrote. “Though I move slowly and read with increasing difficulty, I am at the office five days a week where I work with wonderful people.”

It’s difficult to image a world where the Oracle of Omaha has gone quiet.

ROBERT SPENCER: Iranian Leaders’ Take on Mamdani’s Victory Is… Unique.

The Tehran daily Hamshahri, a decidedly pro-regime publication, was enthusiastic about the deep divisions in American society that Mamdani’s win seemed to portend. According to Iran International, Hamshahri ran the happy front-banner headline, “America Against America,” and really, that’s not wrong. The question now will be whether Americans who value the free society that the United States has been all these years will be able to triumph over those who want to replace that free society with a totalitarian, socialist, internationalist hellhole — with Zohran Mamdani leading the way.

Meanwhile, Abolghasem Jarareh, a member of parliament from Tehran, stood up in that august body and offered his sage analysis. “Zohran Mamdani’s victory,” Jarareh declared, “shows the strength of the slogan ‘Death to Israel!’”

Read the whole thing.

YOU GOTTA LEAVE THAT KIND OF THING TO THE PROS: Drunk United Airlines attendant was 10 times legal limit after chugging vodka to ‘calm down.’

TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP: A Tale Of Two VW Vans.

Based on recent auction prices and AutoTrader listings, a 2019 VW 2.0L TDI Diesel Highline van lost £4,000 in depreciation.

The 2021 VW ABT Etransporter T32 ADVA electric van lost £47,000.

The hard details (including auction results) are real, though the stories of how each were used seems invented for amusement value.

The EV van has only 8,064 miles, the diesel has 23,699.

“The price when new for my diesel van in 2021 was £32,997 and [the] EV was £55,717.”

Caveat emptor.

ACTUALLY, HER NAME IS MEGHAN: But the Prince, You See, Was Under Duress.

HMM: Learning lasts when teachers are ‘brave enough to be boring.’ “Brett Benson used to be a fun teacher, he writes on his SOL in theWild Substack. ‘My classroom was loud, colorful, fast-moving.’ But students didn’t remember much. Now, the seventh-grade World History teacher is proud to be boring.”

ENOUGH: It’s Time to Call Out Tucker Carlson.

HE’S NOT SAYING IT’S ALIENS… BUT IT’S ALIENS: Astronomer Avi Loeb warns world not to ignore new comet’s potential alien threat.

“Its path in the plane, the ecliptic plane of the planets around the sun, is [aligned by] five degrees,” Loeb said. “The chance of [this happening] at random is one in 500. Its size is very anomalous … 1 million times more massive than ‘Oumuamua.” Its composition contains “nickel and very little iron, the way we find in industry rich alloys with aerospace application.” And, he said, its jet path was “not away from the Sun like comets … In July and August, the glow extended from the object towards the Sun, not away.”

This week, Loeb invited Kim Kardashian to join his research team after the reality star tweeted asking for the “tea” on 3I/ATLAS — and received a response from NASA acting administrator Sean Duffy, to the chagrin of Loeb and other critics who slammed Duffy for responding to Kardashian while ignoring an official inquiry from Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna.

Everything about this is strange.