SARAH ANDERSON: Tracking China in the Americas: Hongqi Bridge Is Falling Down — and Everything Else Is Too. “Welcome to the fourth installment of my ‘Tracking China in the Americas’ series, in which I cover some underreported stories on China’s footprint in the Western Hemisphere. I actually had something different planned for this week — a deep dive into how China is reaching out to young people in the Western Hemisphere — but when I saw this bridge fall, I knew I had to switch gears.”

I HOPE NOT, BUT IT COULD CERTAINLY AUGMENT THEM: AI is learning how to teach: Will bots replace human teachers? “The story of EdTech has largely been one of expensive failure,” Hendrick writes. There’s evidence that AI tutoring can be highly effective, if structured to supplement human teaching. However, “many uses of AI in education actively harm learning.” Research confirms what teachers suspect: “When AI does the thinking, students stop doing it themselves.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Kamala Harris Is Now Sniffing the Paste Before She Eats It. “Yes, it’s only been a couple of weeks since the last time we kicked off the Briefing by mocking Kamala Harris but, dear readers, she keeps going out in public and saying stuff. If she’s teeing them up, we would be remiss if we didn’t hit them somewhere. I hope that you’re all on board with me on this one.”

FASTER, PLEASE: Ted Cruz schedules hearing on impeaching ‘rogue’ federal judges.

The hearing comes after Republicans complained that some judges have intervened with President Donald Trump’s executive orders. Several lawmakers have introduced legislation this year that seeks to curb rogue judges, after multiple judges issued nationwide injunctions on some of Trump’s agenda, instead of focusing on the people in the specific case.

The Senate subcommittee hearing is scheduled to take place next week, on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. No witnesses have been announced so far, but it will occur in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. It is expected to begin at 2:30 p.m. Eastern.

Stay tuned…

COLD WAR II: How the Hell Did We Let China Buy a Trailer Park in THIS Spot?

DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS: Paxton Sues Leftist Open Borders Group Over Voter Registration Fraud. “There’s no election fraud vector Democrats won’t try. With some blue states handing driver’s licenses out like candy in a ploy to get illegal aliens onto the voting roles, Paxton is wise to nip this particular fraud attempt in the bud.”

THINGS CAN ALWAYS GET WORSE: If Schumer Gets Booted From Leadership, the Replacement Options Are Nightmares. “The need to recycle Granny Maojackets in a presidential race eight years after the then-upstart Obama threw her from the early polling heights she occupied was the surest sign that the Dems were struggling for candidates whom the American electorate cared about.”

ICYMI: IT’S EVIL! DON’T TOUCH IT! Just When You Thought You Hated the Media Enough…

FALLOUT: Michele Bachmann Resigns From Heritage Foundation Task Force. “Inexplicably, consistent voices of antisemitism on the political right were embraced and, worse, defended by the leadership of Heritage Foundation.”

NICE: Trump’s Memphis Safe Task Force’s Biggest Victory? The Kids.

I’VE SEEN THIS SHOW BEFORE, AND IT DIDN’T END WELL:

Fannie Mae set to drop its 620 credit score minimum.
Mortgage giant will instead use its own analysis of risk factors.

Officials say they're easing barriers to borrowing.

"It's just the latest in a series of policy changes aimed at creating home ownership opportunities in the… pic.twitter.com/yvzcgr1YB1

— Nightingale Associates (@FCNightingale) November 11, 2025

DECOUPLE FASTER, PLEASE: How the Hell Did We Let China Buy a Trailer Park in THIS Spot?

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Rocket Lab delays first Neutron launch to 2026. “Beck, speaking on a Nov. 10 earnings call, did not cite any specific issues that caused the latest delay. Instead, he said the company was taking a meticulous approach to testing Neutron before its first flight.”

GOOD LORD: FBI Was Warned Violent Antifa Would Be in the J6 Crowd, and Trump Still Gave Outdoor Speech.

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.”