FAIL, BRITANNIA: Thoughtcrime is now a reality in Britain. “Why was an activist arrested for praying silently in the street?”

WE FIND THIS OUT AFTER THE ELECTION: Philly Fed: U.S. Economy Added Over One Million FEWER Jobs Than Government Statistics Claim.

ONE OF THE GENUINELY GOOD GUYS: Clarence Thomas Caught Humbly Serving at Arlington National Cemetery.

I LOVE A HAPPY ENDING: Biden Administration: You’re Not Exporting Any Of That Dirty, Sinful Natural Gas! Ted Cruz: Guess You Don’t Need Any Of These Department Of Energy Nominees Approved, Then. Biden Administration: [Folds].

MERRY CANCELLATIONS: Johnny Mathis Christmas Song Censored on Radio for Being ‘Racist.’

“EXCEPT IT DOES. ALL THE TIME.”: This Never Happens.

Men, as a class, pose a danger to women, as a class. That is an unequivocal fact. And male offending patterns are not altered by ‘gender identity’.

Whenever women protest the inclusion of trans-identified males in our spaces, we’re shouted down and dismissed as transphobes and hysterics. There is no risk, we’re in no danger, this never happens, we’re constantly told. When we produce evidence to the contrary, we’re accused of bigotry and of demonising trans people. We cannot win.

The point is that men can pose a threat to women and children however they ‘identify’ and women have every reason to fear male violence. Since it’s impossible to tell which males are harmless and which are not, basic safeguarding means we exclude all males from women’s spaces. Even the ones who claim to ‘identify as women’. The list below demonstrates that we are right to do so.

It is far from an exhaustive list – these are just some examples of which I’m aware – but there are a lot of names on it. Look how easily violent, dangerous males can claim a trans identity and be believed, accommodated and enabled. I’d like to ask all those shouting at us to be ‘inclusive’, how many victims do you deem acceptable collateral damage for prioritising male feelings over women’s safety?

Read the whole thing.

HMM: Game-changer? Huge Revelation in Kari Lake’s Election Challenge Trial.

MORE: Is This the Biggest Bombshell of the Kari Lake Election Lawsuit?

ED MORRISSEY: Zelensky’s pitch: “Americans gained this victory” — but we need more help. “Zelensky also wants the US to lead an escalation of sanctions against the ‘terrorist state’ that started this war for no good reason whatsoever, and the other terrorist state that’s supplying them with arms.”

For Ukraine, this is a war of national survival — Russia has been trying to stamp out Ukrainian national identity for centuries.

For the West, this is a war-by-proxy of choice — something Putin is certainly counting on, hoping to wait out our patience.

IT’S ONLY DELAWARE, BUT STILL, IT’S SOMETHING: Delaware Supreme Court Issues Full Opinion Overturning Same-Day Registration and Vote by Mail.

NO MORE NAMING ANY GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS FOR ANYONE LIVING: Speaker privileges: Massive spending bill creates ‘Nancy Pelosi Federal Building.’

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Twitter Files Takeaway—The U.S. Government Is Now Full Soviet. “I am fond of saying that I was never a conspiracy theory kind of guy but after 2020 I now have a walk-in closet full of tin foil hats. What used to be called ‘out there’ thinking is now merely the truth.”

MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: GOP Can’t Be Successful Until Mitch McConnell Is Gone.

BECAUSE OF COURSE: The Taliban Imposes Even More Restrictions on Women in Afghanistan.

BEEGE WELBORN, RETIRED MARINE: The Marine Corps may do WOKE what?! “Suddenly, laughing at the Woke Words idiots at Stanford, Brandeis and CalPoly isn’t so funny anymore.”

AN INSTANT HOLIDAY CLASSIC: You Have to Watch Rand Paul’s ‘Twas the Week Before Christmas.’

COLORADO: Polis, legislature shut off the gas. “As reported last week in The Gazette, obscure new state rules complicate and potentially confound the installation of new natural gas supply lines and the extension of existing ones. The rules likely will limit expanded use of gas by raising the cost of installing gas lines in new construction, as state officials more or less admit. The idea is to price natural gas out of use.”

The actual idea is to price the middle class out of Colorado, just as the Left has done to California.

FOR OUR VIP SUPPORTERS: Cocktails With VodkaPundit (and Mrs. VodkaPundit, Too): The Thyme-Pear Bellini.

ARE WE TRYING TO GOAD XI INTO INVADING TAIWAN? Marine Corps may drop ‘ma’am’ and ‘sir’ over gender-neutral concerns for drill instructors.

EVERYTHING IS ABSURD: The Spending Bill Funds Abortions to Preserve ‘Biodiversity.’

THAT SUCKS: Intimate Photos by Roomba Vacuums Leaked Online. “Those few images posted privately to contract worker shop talk groups may just be the tip of the privacy iceberg when it comes to robot vacuums and other smart home products that collect a ton of invasive data.”

THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE WASHINGTON’S JOB: Texas National Guard Secures the Border but Can Only Do so Much.

JUST IN TIME FOR JOE BIDEN’S NEXT MASSIVE WAVE OF ILLEGALS: Another Cold Blast Heading To Texas. “I’m not yet seeing single digit forecasts on my phone app yet, but 14°F is damn cold enough.”

Here on the Front Range, our high for Thursday is supposed to be -1.

Stay warm.

CHARMING: Woke Nike Was a Playground for Drunken Sexual Predators, According to Just-Released Documents. “The allegations include the company acting as a “boys club” where women are told to ‘dress sexier’ and ‘show some skin.’ Another woman claims to have walked ‘into a campus gym to find a senior staffer receiving oral sex from a female subordinate.'”

HMM:

From the abstract:

Results Among 51011 employees, 20689 (41%) had had a previous documented episode of COVID-19, and 42064 (83%) had received at least two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. COVID-19 occurred in 2452 (5%) during the study. Risk of COVID-19 increased with time since the most recent prior COVID-19 episode and with the number of vaccine doses previously received. In multivariable analysis, the bivalent vaccinated state was independently associated with lower risk of COVID-19 (HR, .70; 95% C.I., .61-.80), leading to an estimated vaccine effectiveness (VE) of 30% (95% CI, 20-39%). Compared to last exposure to SARS-CoV-2 within 90 days, last exposure 6-9 months previously was associated with twice the risk of COVID-19, and last exposure 9-12 months previously with 3.5 times the risk.

Conclusions The bivalent COVID-19 vaccine given to working-aged adults afforded modest protection overall against COVID-19, while the virus strains dominant in the community were those represented in the vaccine.

You can read the full study here.

COMMIES LIE: China’s Crematoria Are Overflowing but CCP Authorities Say Only Seven Were COVID Deaths.