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.

THE CIRCULAR FIRING SQUAD MIGHT ONLY BE GETTING STARTED: The Agony of Defeat: How the ‘Schumer Shutdown’ Became the Dem’s Iraq War.

JAMES CARVILLE: Democrats Will Win In 2028, Congress Will Increase Supreme Court Justices From 9 to 13.

A Democrat is going to be elected in 2028. You know that, I know that. It’s going to be a Democratic House.

It’s going to be a Democratic Senate. The Democratic president is going to announce a special transition advisory committee on the reform of the Supreme Court that we could have our third branch of government has lost the faith and trust of the American people. And his president is going to do everything in the law.

He’s going to point a blue ribbon, maybe Judge Ludick and the dean of the, you know, just the usual fucking suspects. All right. And they’re going to recommend that the number of Supreme Court justices go from nine to 13.

That’s going to happen, people. That’s going to happen to you. They’re going to win.

And just like 2016, 2020, and 2024, the goal is to effectively make the country a one-party state.

VICTORIA TAFT: The Flood of Stunning New Evidence That J6 Was a Fedsurrection Can’t Be Ignored.

VIDEO: Elon Musk On The Homeless Industrial Complex. “You see these videos of people that are just shuffling, they’re on fentanyl. They’re taking a dump in the middle of the street, and they’ve got like open sores and stuff. They’re not like one job offer away from getting back on their feet.”

JAMIE K WILSON: Born Perfect: The Girlboss and the Death of Growth. “She was the girl in school who treated advice as an insult, who corrected the teacher, who surrounded herself with friends chanting ‘You go, girl!’ while everyone else waited for the lesson that never came. That is the girlboss story. It looks like empowerment, but it’s arrested development in high heels, the pretense of heroism without the pilgrimage.”

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China breaks annual launch record with VLEO Chutian and Shiyan technology test launches. “The pair of launches were China’s 69th and 70th orbital launches of 2025, meaning the country surpassed its previous record for launch attempts in a calendar year of 68, set in 2024, with nearly two months remaining in the year.”

So about half of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 orbital launches for 2025.

DEAR YOUNG AMERICANS: I’m Begging You Not to Take Trump’s 50-Year Mortgage.

FUNNY HOW THAT WORKS:

All of the Democrats who called it a “Republican shutdown” seem pretty mad that 8 Democrats voted to open the government.

— I Am Leah (@Bossy_Leah) November 10, 2025

SO NOW THEY TELL US: Now It Can Be Told: Mamdani’s Plans Are Going to Be Wildly Expensive. “Zohran Mamdani won his race to become the next mayor of New York City on Tuesday. On Thursday the NY Times published a story explaining just how expensive his plans for the city will be.”

Let’s start with free child care:

The biggest plan, by far, is free universal child care. The city already offers free preschool for all 4-year-olds and many 3-year-olds.

Expanding child care to infants and to toddlers under 3 would be a major challenge. Mr. Mamdani’s administration would have to create new day care facilities and hire scores of child care workers.

Mr. Mamdani’s campaign estimated that this could cost $6 billion annually.

The Mamdani estimate is roughly equal to the annual cost of the NYPD, the largest police department in the United States. But it’s important to note that no one really knows what this will cost. One left-wing group has estimated the cost for NYC could be as little as $2.5 billion per year but other estimates of the cost of expanding a program like his to the entire state come in at $12.7 billion to $20 billion per year. Just shy of half the state’s population lives in New York City so the cost of Mamdani’s plan could range from $6 billion up to $9 billion per year. Again, no one knows because the cost is dependent on a lot of factors including the wages paid to the caretakers.

Much more at the link, including this gem: “His new tax will make taxes from the city and state about as high as federal taxes.”