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Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
November 2, 2026
ONE-SIDED ERRORS.
Oh look – Katie Hobbs is trying to pull her stolen election bullshit again. https://t.co/r1HsOJgssE
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) November 2, 2026
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Turnabout is Fair Play: Pro-Gun Initiatives On the Ballot in Four States Tomorrow.
MEANS NOTHING — 20 YEAR OLDS WERE ACES IN THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Learjet co-pilot in fatal Florida crash ID’d as Nathalia Gadelha, 20, who got her license in high school.
IS ANYONE REALLY SURPRISED TO HEAR THIS?
wait, she's a staffer?!
holy hell https://t.co/8fNvlz7YxU
— Matt Vespa (@mVespa1) November 2, 2026
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Leftists’ masks are coming all the way off — revealing the ugly truth.
DIVERSITY PROBLEM: 95% of political donations from UC Boulder faculty members went to left-wing candidates.
Is it reasonable to expect bipartisan support for such a partisan institution as higher education has become?
THE SUPPLY OF CREEPY GIANT LEFTIST NGOS SEEMS ENDLESS:
PolicyLink is a creepy giant NGO which deserves a lot more attention. https://t.co/QUXjw2tqzM
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) November 2, 2026
SUE HER FOR ASSAULT AND BATTERY. THE PROCESS IS THE PUNISHMENT.
🚨 UNREAL: The University of Michigan student caught on video shoving Jewish conservative Liz Benichou to the ground is ALREADY BACK OUT.
Police watched her do it. She resisted arrest. Then, as she was loaded into the cruiser, she screamed that she "should have f***ing killed"… https://t.co/fLwHKbiQQX
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) November 2, 2026
A federal lawsuit — and prosecution — for interference with civil rights would probably apply too.
CDR SALAMANDER: Russia’s Bloody Two Months of Losing Ground.
WELL, LEFTISTS ARE EVIL, SO. . . .
Keep in mind, this is the man Democrats want to throw in jail and demonize at every chance they get. https://t.co/8zCa9Sfecb
— Gina Milan (@ginamilan_) November 1, 2026
EVERYTHING IS FAKE:
BREAKING: Dallas Morning News just added an editor's note saying they were unaware that the author was paid $57,000 by Gina Hinojosa’s political campaign.
They said they wouldn't have published it if they knew.
Then take it down, now, @dallasnews. https://t.co/U0cX8kaXQC pic.twitter.com/rlXqnjA0Rc
— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) November 2, 2026
LOL. JAMES CARVILLE WILL FOREVER AFTER BE “TEMU SKELETOR” TO ME:
What Temu Skeletor here can’t comprehend is that the Republican Party is actually the party of free thought and true tolerance.
That’s why it welcomed @elonmusk @RobertKennedyJr me and many more.
Stevens will be warmly welcomed and then decide for herself where she lands. https://t.co/VFBGhGKz0d
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) November 2, 2026
ROGER KIMBALL: Beware the False Electoral Prophets.
As the 2026 midterm election jamboree entered its final days, the punditocracy has been treated to a couple of cathartic and possibly clarifying shudders.
As I write, Elissa Slotkin, a Democratic Senator from Michigan, is scrambling to retrieve her standing after she told an interviewer that she favored having the deep state harass people who supported Donald Trump and the MAGA agenda. She didn’t put it quite like that, of course. What she said was: “I want young people coming out of school to say, ‘Should I go work for the Trump administration?’ I want them to be like, ‘Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don’t want, and so let me avoid participating in that.’ I want that deterrence message sent.”
“Deterrence,” eh? Slotkin’s semi-veiled – or, rather, nearly naked – threats did not go down so well. Neither did her hysterical efforts to portray herself as a victim of “far-right” criticism when her remarks went viral. As of this moment, public sentiment has turned decisively against the CIA operative turned Democratic pit bull, notwithstanding the united front put forward by the legacy media. Item: “Trump’s Vile Tirade About Sen. Elissa Slotkin Exposes Sleazy MAGA Scam.” That’s from the New Republic. Similar instances of dispassionate reporting can be found wherever the organs of the deep state are operative.
Deep state organs are widespread, and need to be excised.
IF YOU WANT TO GO TO WAR WITH AN AGENCY OR OFFICIAL, FOIA THEIR TRAVEL REIMBURSEMENT RECORDS: High Speed Rail CEO Resigns After Questions From CBS. “The move followed an investigation by the Office of the Inspector General which concluded that consultants have billed the authority nearly $600,000 for unauthorized expenses, including first-class flights and rides to gyms as well as an escape room.”
Best line: “Only in California could a project that is years late and billions over budget somehow find money for consultant rides to a cigar lounge.”
I’ve always said that if my university ever fired me, I’d hire an investigator and audit all the travel accounts. Pretty much guaranteed pay dirt.
BROKEN WINDOWS:
Arresting fare jumpers is one of the best things you can do. Naive communists assert that “petty crime” shouldn’t be prosecuted because they want the breakdown of society. Without fail, the fare jumper is committing other more serious crimes every day. Because if you’re willing… https://t.co/4Dxg5bKDXd
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) November 1, 2026
SECURITY & CIGARS ON THE SUPREME COURT’S RIFLE CASE: Common Use Comes to December: It isn’t about common use. It’s about what the Bill of Rights put beyond government’s reach.
November 1, 2026
CRUMBLING:
JUST IN: Another Michigan Democrat just crossed over. State Rep. Karen Whitsett is endorsing the Republican, Mike Rogers, and rejecting El Sayed.
When Democrats in Detroit start walking away, the party has a problem.
Michigan, go finish it. pic.twitter.com/WZvfTEkPPN
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) November 2, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.
SCIENCE MARCHES ON: Does It Matter if Men Pee Sitting or Standing? A Randomized Test Has an Answer.
UPDATE:
Men piss standing because we can.
It does mean not having to plant one’s ass on some filthy public toilet seat.
We can just piss anywhere. Against trees. Against walls. There’s an indescribable if casual unremarked freedom about it. We just … pee …
Then we go off, kill the…
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) November 2, 2026
Do you really want to be a sitzpinkler? “‘All my friends demand that their husbands or boyfriends sit down,’ said Jessica. ‘I think it shows respect for the women who clean. My brother, for example, would not dream of standing up. Among the young, leftish intelligentsia, there is also a view that to stand up is a nasty macho gesture.'”