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Trump, Who Was Charged with Mishandling Secrets, Will Get Classified Briefings Again (Brian Bennett/Time)  Apparently, when it comes to Trump, just being charged is a sufficient proof of guilt.

Election autopsy: 5 POLITICO reporters weigh in on what mattered (Politico) Four females and one male, which tells you nothing about Trump but a lot about Politico.

Cuban implies Trump’s tariff threat having negative impact ‘right now’ (Juliann Ventura/The Hill)  Yeah, well, how bright can he be? He supported Harris.

‘Normalized A Sociopath’: George Conway Tells ‘Sad Story’ That Led To Trump’s Win (Josephine Harvey/HuffPost)

Authoritarians like Trump love fear, defeatism, surrender. Do not give them what they want (Rebecca Solnit/The Guardian)

What Does It Mean That Donald Trump Is a Fascist? (Timothy Snyder/New Yorker)  It means you don’t know the meaning of the word.

None of the conventional explanations for Trump’s victory stand up to scrutiny (Ben Davis/The Guardian)

Scientific American Editor-In-Chief Has Spectacular Post-Election Social Media Meltdown

Nicole Scherzinger apologizes for ‘hurt’ caused by her commenting, ‘liking’ pro-Donald Trump posts

Sad: Liberal Forced To Have Second Meltdown After Forgetting To Press Record  Babylon Bee.

Student President Of Harvard’s Institute Of Politics Calls For End Of Non-Partisanship After Trump Victory

Trump on Day 1: Begin deportation push, pardon Jan. 6 rioters and make his criminal cases vanish (Associated Press)

Liberal Cat Ladies Reveal “Battle Plan” To Poison Trump Men With Aqua Tofana

ZMan:

Watching the jubilation from the Trump fans online, I am amazed how they seem to have forgotten what happened in his first term. His party, the other party, permanent Washington, the judiciary and the intelligence community worked to thwart him. It is only reasonable to assume they will do the same this time, maybe without the theatrics. Trump is wiser now and he has some support from the economic elites, but he still faces the orc army of managerialism.

That does not mean it is hopeless. It just means expectations need to be tempered. The most we can expect from Trump is for him to move the ball down the field, so that Vance can start from better field position if he wins in 2028. In fact, one of the top priorities of this term should be to set up Vance to take the baton from Trump and continue the fight. Every mortgage payment in Washington depends on Trump failing, so no one should expect a glorious revolution.

Naval Gazing.

American naval captains, like their British forebears, command a great deal of authority. In the US Navy, a captain is wholly and entirely responsible for maintaining the safety of their vessel, its crew, and accomplishing the missions that they are assigned. They have sole command of all aspects of their ship’s operation, from watch rotations to weapons employment. This tradition of sole command is so inculcated into Anglo-American naval traditions that it is difficult for us to imagine any other way of running a navy ship. The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), however, offers an alternative system. Instead of being commanded by individuals, as US and UK naval vessels are, PLAN vessels have a dual command system, where a captain and a political officer assume joint responsibility for major decisions. In their report, Party on the Bridge: Political Commissars in the Chinese Navy, Jeff Benson and Zi Yang look at this very different system of commanding a naval vessel, examine its strengths and weaknesses and highlight how it may lead to misunderstandings when US and Chinese naval units encounter each other at sea.

All Communist countries do this. The Soviet Union was famous for stationing commisars behind their tropps with machine guns to ensure nobody tried to retreat.

For a hint of how well this works, read the Honor Harrington series by David Weber, available from Baen Books,  Amazon, and wherever fine literature is sold. (Or watch the behavior of sampolit Putin in The Hunt for Red October).

Freeberg nails it.

It’s the weekend. The election was on Tuesday.

I have seen and heard from many, many Harris supporters struggling to figure out how their side lost. Many of them are reporting what they’ve seen and heard from others. Many ideas. Hundreds. Maybe thousands. Not all unique, but…lots of effort to figure out where they went wrong.

Not a single one has said anything even vaguely resembling: We conjured up all these fearful prognostications about what life would be under a guy who’s been President already. We didn’t scare ’em like we wanted to. Because he’s been President already.

The Foundry.

Billionaires favored Vice President Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s election over President-elect Donald Trump, according to Forbes’ analysis of campaign finance disclosures.

Eighty-three billionaires threw verbal or financial support behind Harris, while 53 backed Trump, according to Forbes. Trump’s victory on election night came despite a massive financial disadvantage, with his campaign raising $388 million as of Oct. 16, compared to the nearly $1 billion the Harris campaign had collected.

A coalition of Harris’ wealthy backers wrote a letter in September explaining their support for her.

A pointed reminder that Democrats remain the Party of the Rich.

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An essential mission for many educators throughout the country is the indoctrination of their students. The newest arrival on the propaganda front is Israel. In August, one of the topics of a United Teachers of Los Angeles meeting was “How to be a teacher & an organizer. . . and NOT get fired.”

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

Yeah, I’d say that’s the case — not just the image, but the party itself.

Democrats are having a full-blown identity crisis.

No, they aren’t. They know who they are; they just don’t see a way clear to pulling the wool over they citizenry they way they’ve become used to

Days after Kamala Harris’ defeat, the extent of their party’s failure is becoming increasingly clear. It’s bad enough that Democrats are still losing working-class whites, as they have in recent elections. Now, exit polls show blue-collar Latinos and some Black men, long a core part of the Democratic base, are abandoning the party, too, fueling electoral shellackings. Republicans flipped the Senate and are padding their majority. Democrats’ path to a majority in the House is narrowing. And Donald Trump won in what could only be described as a landslide in the modern era.

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In interviews with 16 elected officials, party leaders and strategists, Democrats from both wings of the party agreed they have stopped knowing how to talk to the working class, once the very core of their identity. But they were deeply divided on where to place the blame — and what to do about it. Just like Donald Trump’s victory did in 2016 — and in 2020, when he lost by a smaller margin than expected — his return to the White House is fueling a raging debate between the party’s progressive and moderate wings about where to go from here.

The Atlantic, a Voice of the Crust.

One of the mysteries of this election is how the Democrats approached polling day with a set of policies on gender identity that they were neither proud to champion—nor prepared to disown.

Although most Americans agree that transgender people should not face discrimination in housing and employment, there is nowhere near the same level of support for allowing transgender women to compete in women’s sports—which is why Donald Trump kept bringing up the issue. His campaign also barraged swing-state voters and sports fans with ads reminding them that Kamala Harris had previously supported taxpayer-funded gender-reassignment surgery for prisoners. The commercials were effective: The New York Times reported that Future Forward, a pro-Harris super PAC, found that one ad “shifted the race 2.7 percentage points in Mr. Trump’s favor after viewers watched it.” The Harris campaign mostly avoided the subject.’

Judging by articles like this one, I’d bet on them not getting one.

Axios, a Voice of the Crust.

A fierce divide has emerged from the early autopsies of Democrats’ election disaster: Was it policy — or culture — that doomed the party with working-class Americans?

Why it matters: Joe Biden touted himself as the most pro-union president in U.S. history. He joined a picket line, bailed out union pensions and invested massively in manufacturing jobs. And yet working-class voters still flocked to Donald Trump in droves.

Zoom in: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who campaigned for Vice President Harris, was unsparing in his critique this week of a party that he believes “has abandoned working-class people.”

A pointed reminder that ‘pro-union’ doesn’t equal ‘pro-working-class’.

New York Times.

After gains by organized labor under President Biden, a second Trump administration is likely to change course on regulation and enforcement.

Oh, ya think?

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I don’t really know why Kamala Harris lost. The best explanation I’ve seen is that Harris ran into a buzzsaw of anti-incumbent post-pandemic disillusionment that has played out across the developed world. You can add more strategic or tactical explanations about her candidacy — the timing of Biden’s exit, specific themes she pursued — but I am not sure it overwhelms this.

Let the finger-pointing continue….

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A 33-year-old woman was returning home to Germany from Iran on Oct. 28 when she ran into some trouble with customs officers at Hamburg airport. When asked whether she had brought any goods that required declaration from her five-week trip, she denied having any, reports Bild.

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The total value of the items was some €15,000, with the woman facing a charge of €3,400 in customs duties for her undeclared souvenirs.

Officials also discovered that the woman receives a citizen’s allowance in Germany. This means that she is only allowed to go on holiday for a maximum of 21 days and only if the trip is approved by her benefit provider. Otherwise, her social benefits can be reclaimed.

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So, well, now that’s over, let’s look at the 2028 presidential race.

If you are polite, you just swore in your head – if you’re normal, you did it out loud.

But sometimes we like to torture our readers, so let’s look ahead four years, shall we?

Public Notice, a Voice of the Crust.

We really dodged a bullet when this guy didn’t make it onto the Supreme Court.

It has often been said that Donald Trump was running for president to keep himself out of prison. Mission accomplished.

But the fact that Trump wasn’t behind bars long ago, that he didn’t suffer any consequences for his criming and now likely never will, can be laid squarely at the feet of one man: Attorney General Merrick Garland. Garland dragged his feet on prosecuting Trump for election interference and pilfering classified documents, making it easy for him to run out the clock.

Coming in on the heels of a literal insurrection, Garland was a bad fit for his job from the jump. He made clear early on that he didn’t see addressing issues from the Trump era as a priority, declaring that he would not look backward. Garland is an institutionalist, leading him to see his real job as protecting the Department of Justice rather than imposing any consequences on Bill Barr and others who turned the DOJ into a corrupt playground.

Apparently his chief fault was not being a more thoroughgoing Democrat tool.  Good to know.

Washington Free Beacon.

“Ungoverning” is a term invented by Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum, political scientists respectively at Dartmouth and Harvard, to describe the project of “deconstructing the administrative state [conducted] by a reactionary movement.” This would include elected Republican officials and Supreme Court justices, aimed at depriving government of the ability to govern. But the individual they hold most responsible for this is former and future president Donald Trump, who brought decades of preexisting “hostility toward government to a crescendo.”

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The authors pursue their critique of Trumpian ungoverning through a consistently one-sided analysis. For instance, relying on a single New York Times article from April 2020, they allege that even in the COVID emergency, the Republican goal of “incapacitating government prevailed”—disregarding the remarkably rapid success of Operation Warp Speed, a public-private partnership established by the Trump administration that developed effective vaccines by the end of that year. They also scold Trump for “imped[ing] the Centers for Disease Control … from issuing its own public guidance” on how to minimize COVID transmission. This ignores infectious disease czar Anthony Fauci’s subsequent admission that his six-foot distancing rule was something he arbitrarily invented; Fauci’s dogged dismissal, backed by National Institutes of Health head Francis Collins, of the evidence that the virus originated in a Chinese lab, not a “wet market”; and the costs (to the economy and especially to schoolchildren) of extended, bureaucratically devised lockdowns.

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Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.

More than 50% of voters for Vice President Kamala Harris say they want to move following Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election, according to a survey commissioned by StorageUnits.com.

Storage Units surveyed 1,837 Harris voters on Nov. 6 to determine how many would like to relocate – and who actually plans to – and the top concerns of those who voted against Trump.

Of those surveyed, 44% would like to move, but probably won’t, while 5% said they will definitely move and another 5% said they probably will. Those who would like to move, but probably won’t, cited personal finances, family and community ties as reasons they will stay in place.

Of the 10% planning to move or seriously considering it, 90% are looking into moving to another country, with the top choices being Canada, the United Kingdom and Mexico. California, New York and Colorado were the top three choices for those considering moving to another state.

Yes, please move somewhere that your vote will no longer affect the Presidential election.

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This is like demonstrations against democracy in Pyongyang.

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Well, (a) there isn’t enough time to do that, (b) it would be too easy for Senate Republicans to run out the clock (The Turtle is at least competent enough to do that), and (c) even if it worked, they’d replace her with someone equally stupid or worse, like Jackson.

The New Republic.

Are you sitting down? Turns out it proved very hard to persuade swing voters that Trump was a bad president.

So the problem wasn’t that Trump was better, or that the media lied, or that Harris was just a dumpster fire of a candidate — no, the problem was messaging.

The New Neo.

What on earth is wrong with Arizona? Why does it take what seems like years for a state with a moderate-sized population to count its ballots? There are only about 7.4 million people in the entire state of Arizona. That makes it smaller than New York City. And yet Arizona lumbers on, and we still don’t even know for sure who its senator will be, Gallego or Lake, although Gallego has been consistently in the lead. Luckily, the presidential race is already decided and Arizona isn’t needed.

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President-elect Donald Trump has many people to thank for winning the election, but near the top of the list should be his young voters, who moved in great numbers toward the Republican since his last election in 2020.

While four years ago Gen Z—those aged 18–29—voted for President Joe Biden by a 25-point margin, this time around, they broke for Vice President Kamala Harris by six points only, according to an AP VoteCast exit poll.

A slight majority of Gen Z men, 49–47, went for Trump, according to the Edison Research exit poll.

Perhaps they are beginning to realize that Democrats are lying sacks of shit.

The Foundry.

A series of inaccurate polls that consistently favored Kamala Harris and liberal issues in the 2024 election shows that mainstream pollsters are “mouthpieces for the government” and for the corporate behemoths who own their networks, a pollster who accurately predicted the election’s outcome has said.

Polls from the legacy media consistently presented the Harris-Walz campaign as surging and possibly poised to win the White House on Tuesday. In reality, Donald Trump won 31 states and bested Harris in the popular vote—a first for a Republican presidential candidate in two decades. Yet NBC News and ABC News reported a three-point lead for Harris going into Election Day, 49% to 46%. CBS News polls showed the 2024 presidential race tied. On the other hand, Rasmussen Reports forecasted a 2.4% lead for Trump. What explains such disparate poll results?

“Polling is content. And when your pollsters all report up to organizations that are owned by massive corporations that have vested interests in making sure that the corporate oligarchy status quo in D.C. maintains its control, that’s what happens. They are literally mouthpieces for the government, and I’ve proven that they shill for Democrats,” Mark Mitchell, chief pollster of Rasmussen Reports, told “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins” on Wednesday.

Washington Poop.

The disappointment, the head-slapping, the wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth — such are the predictable reactions among pundits, prognosticators and political strategists when the guy who surely couldn’t win surely did.

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So it’s been for the past few days since Donald Trump grabbed the wheel from overnight sensation Kamala Harris — who, it must be said, performed miraculously given her abrupt campaign of just 103 days. Trump has enjoyed decades of name recognition. And despite his multiple, familiar offenses, including the “big lie,” he is likely to win even the popular vote, the first Republican in 20 years to do so.

But how?

Just bad luck, I suppose.

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Not quite a blowout, but certainly a strong victory.

President Biden won the state of Arizona by less than one-half of 1% in the 2020 election and the results in the key area of Maricopa County were also slim, with Biden beating Trump by 2%.

Before Biden won Arizona in 2020, Republicans had carried the state every year since 1996.

The 2020 election is smelling more and more rotten.

The Guardian.

t has been an extraordinary week for US politics – and a very depressing couple of days for those such as me who spent hours on the phone to people, trying to persuade them to vote for Kamala Harris and not Donald Trump. This is what voters told me time and again, and why so many did vote for Trump.

Iranian murder-for-hire plot against Trump revealed as 2 New Yorkers also busted in plan to kill journalist (New York Post)

Three charged in alleged Iranian plot that included plans to kill Trump (Washington Post)

Wind the clock (Molly White/Citation Needed)

Pentagon officials discussing how to respond if Trump issues controversial orders (CNN)

Exclusive: RFK Jr. Is Crowdsourcing Cabinet Picks for Trump (Kiera Butler/Mother Jones)

Hezbollah Targeted Israel’s Trump Heights The Day After Election

Thousands expected for People’s March on Washington ahead of Trump’s inauguration (Ellie Silverman/Washington Post)

Pentagon Worried Trump May Fire ‘Woke’ General

Gavin Newsom’s quest to ‘Trump-proof’ California enrages incoming president (Dustin Gardiner/Politico)  And rightly so, I should think.

How blue states are plotting to thwart Trump (Politico)

Can Trump Tame Resistance 2.0?

Trump’s second presidency sparks fear of ‘scary’ time ahead among some immigrants (USA Today)  At least, they hope it does.

Trump Holds Up Transition Process Over Ethics Code (Ken Bensinger/New York Times)

Smile, Flatter and Barter: How the World Is Prepping for Trump Part II (New York Times)

Justice Dept. to focus on ‘most egregious’ Jan. 6 cases until Trump is inaugurated (Ryan J. Reilly/NBC News)

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Compounded by the fact that nobody in the modern world uses the term ‘capitalism’ correctly, even worse than ‘fascism’. (Yeah, this guy is a Marxist, but listen to him. It will tell you a lot about the Kamala Bros.) (No, I have no idea what ‘cuck theory’ means.) (I love the concept of Eat The Rich movies….)

Newsbusters.

t’s been a rough few days for the leftist media elites, they have been in anguish ever since Election Day.

The mix of anger and sadness poured out as they called the massive win for Donald Trump and the GOP a “nightmare” and questioned if America had “given up on democracy.” Journalists like Stephanie Ruhle warned that the voters had just “f’d around” and were about to “find out.”

MSNBC’s Joy Reid lectured Latino men: “Y’all voted with….David Duke and against your own sisters.” MSNBC’s Claire McCaskill choked back tears as she worried that America had turned their backs on their “better angels,” by electing Trump.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that police (yes, that includes the FBI) can lie like a rug to you and face no consequences (other than perhaps a promotion), while if you lie to them you could go to jail. (Paging Martha Stewart….)

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Trump has returned. Naturally, his victory is being scrutinised by credentialed experts and professional commentators as it relates to the specifics of his economic, migration, and foreign policies. His staunchest critics, meanwhile, are sounding the seven trumpets of the Apocalypse, though they convince far fewer people than when they proclaimed the end of the republic after his 2016 victory. Conversely, there has been less focus on the philosophical framework of a figure that can no longer be considered a political anomaly, but perhaps the norm or model that Western politics will follow in the coming decades. For this reason, we should closely examine the characteristics of the political movement that Trump leads.

1960 marked the introduction of hormonal birth control, for the first time in history allowing young women to Fuck Around without having to Find Out.

If they ever develop a similar birth control product for men, society will be turned on its head.

UnHerd.

The days when most young voters, whether male or female, would reliably vote Democrat are over. Among the axiomatic election patterns smashed by Donald Trump, young men have swung to the Republicans by nearly 30%.

Cue the scorn. The Left-leaning press has derided the shift as merely the rise of “toxic masculinity” and the hatred of women’s rights. The New York Times described something even more sinister, calling it creeping “hegemonic masculinity”.

This reflexive contempt may unintentionally provide an explanation for the reversal. Many young men believe they live in a liberal-leaning society that actively despises them, treating them with disdain rather than empathy as their struggles have mounted.

UnHerd.

“False and dangerous.” “Deeply concerning.” “A neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath.” Many of Europe’s leaders may have been regretting their previous criticisms of Donald Trump. From Donald Tusk to David Lammy, the bloc’s liberals rushed to offer their stiff congratulations to the newly anointed President-elect. Meanwhile, the leaders of Italy and Hungary raced to kiss the ring of America’s godfather of populism.

Yet if there is one thing that unites Trump sycophants and sceptics in Europe, it’s the desire to boost European defence spending and security cooperation. In a nervy display of Franco-German solidarity, the leaders of France and Germany announced that they would work to build “a more united, stronger, more sovereign Europe in this context”, with an emphasis on enhancing European d efence. In Britain, there have been calls for Prime Minister Keir Starmer to draw closer to Europe on security, deepening a Brexit betrayal initiated by Boris Johnson.

For liberals, strengthening the EU and Nato will insure against Trump either withdrawing from the defence alignment — whose European members he views as parasitical free-riders — or giving up on the Ukraine war effort. For populists, greater defence spending is an act of fealty, symbolising their devotion to Trump’s new world order.

Some have speculated that Walz may have hurt Harris in Minnesota, pointing out that her margin of victory was narrower than Joe Biden’s, four years ago. I don’t think that is true, but we can safely say that Walz did her no good. The contrast between the Harris/Walz numbers and incumbent Senator Amy Klobuchar’s win is instructive. Harris carried the state by a 51.1% to 46.8% margin, while Klobuchar defeated Republican Royce White by 56.3% to 40.5%. If Minnesota has a Favorite Son, it isn’t Tim Walz.

Walz now returns to Minnesota to finish out his second term as governor. There has been speculation that he might run for a third term, even though his victory margin declined considerably when he was re-elected in 2022. But, given his embarrassing performance as a vice presidential candidate, and the discreditable facts about his history that are now widely known due to the national spotlight, I think that is unlikely. Democrats like Keith Ellison and Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan (generally viewed as even farther to the left than Walz) will probably battle it out for the nomination.

Meanwhile, down-ballot Republicans gained seats in the Minnesota House, the only races that were on tap this year. The House is now evenly divided at 67-67, which presumably means that nothing very controversial will pass next year. And there is an outside chance that an election contest could throw the majority to the Republicans. Meanwhile, Democrats control the Senate by 44-43, but infamous burglar Nicole Mitchell goes to trial in January. A conviction, which seems pretty certain since she was caught red-handed by local police, presumably would mean a special election that could tilt control of that chamber.

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In what is being widely described as a “pogrom”, Jewish supporters of an Israeli soccer team were hunted down and assaulted last night on the streets of Amsterdam.

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FEMA is supposedly constituted to provide help to Americans in the event of disaster, natural or man-made. They are funded and their personnel are paid by taxpayer dollars, which one would think that fact alone should ensure that said help would be provided without condition or qualification.

Unless, of course, a disaster victim has a Trump sign on their house. It seems that a FEMA supervisor in charge of the recovery workers in Lake Placid, Florida, ordered them as a “best practice” to skip houses with Trump signs, per a Daily Wire exclusive.

UPDATE: FEMA Official Removed After ‘Avoid Trump Houses’ Message Leaks, DeSantis Orders Investigation

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New York City can’t use an unconstitutional, two-century-old “anti-pauper” law to block the state of Texas from offering migrants free bus rides to the city from the southern border, a state judge has ruled.

The court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit brought by Mayor Eric Adams in January against charter bus companies contracted by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. It sought to bar them from knowingly dropping off “needy persons,” citing an 1817 state law that criminalized bringing an indigent person into the state “for the purpose of making him a public charge.”

Justice Mary Rosado said in a sternly worded decision that the law is unconstitutional for several reasons.

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The sleepers wake.

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A jury awarded more than $12 million Friday to a woman who lost her job at a Michigan insurance company after declining to get a COVID-19 vaccination.

Much of the award — $10 million — is for punitive damages against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, according to the verdict form.

Lisa Domski, who worked at Blue Cross for more than 30 years, said she was a victim of religious discrimination. The company in 2021 did not grant an exemption from its vaccine policy, despite her insistence that it clashed with her Catholic beliefs.

America will regret its decision to reelect Donald Trump (The Hill)

Trump’s mandate isn’t as ‘powerful’ as he suggests. Here’s why. (Washington Poop)

Some Issues and Topics Our Reporters Will Be Following in a Second Trump Presidency – and How to Get in Touch (ProPublica)

Media Elites Fume Over Their Inability to Force-Feed Narratives to the American People

WATCH: Jim Acosta Lectures Trump-Voting Latino: ‘Do You Want To See People in Camps, Rounded Up and Put in Camps?’

After 248 years, America prepares for life under a king (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)

MAGA Launches Increasingly Horrific Attacks on Women After Trump Win (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)

Election Deniers Went Suddenly Quiet When Trump Won (Claire Lampen/The Daily Beast)  No, they didn’t. You just aren’t listening.

New Jersey governor says he’ll ‘fight to the death’ against Trump actions ‘contrary to values’ (Charles Creitz/Fox News)

Dem governor issues stark warning to Trump: ‘You come for my people, you come through me’ (Sarah Rumpf-Whitten/Fox News)

Elon Musk, the Leftist Media’s New Supervillain

Canceled Classes, Rescheduled Midterms, and Stress Baking: How Elite Universities Are Coddling Students Grieving Over Trump’s Victory

Here’s the Plan to Fight Back (Sen. Elizabeth Warren/Time)

Behind the Curtain: Deep Democratic depression (Axios)

‘Your body, my choice’: Women report rise in online misogyny following Donald Trump’s victory (Lydia Spencer-Elliott/The Independent)

How Russia Openly Escalated Its Election Interference Efforts (New York Times)

Let’s Not Lose Sight of Who Trump Is (Thomas B. Edsall/New York Times)

Trump Won’t Just Change Washington Politics – He’ll Change Life in the City (Michael Schaffer/Politico)

Pentagon anticipates major upheaval with Trump’s return to White House (Washington Post)

Dump Twitter  (New Republic)

Canadian police brace for ‘worst-case scenario’ of asylum-seekers fleeing Trump (Anna Mehler Paperny/Reuters)

Books like ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘1984’ are flying off the shelves after the presidential election (Erika Tulfo/CNN)

Meyers Mourns Our ‘Stupid System’ Ended Trump’s Legal Troubles

Ted Cruz’s daughter caught wincing and telling her mom ‘don’t clap’ as senator praises Trump on stage (James Liddell/The Independent)  Gee, I wonder where she learned that?

For transgender Americans, Trump’s win after a campaign targeting them is terrifying (Kevin Rector/Los Angeles Times)  It could be worse. They could be white males.

Trump AG Prospect Warns Letitia James: ‘We Will Put Your Fat Ass In Prison’ (Ron Dicker/HuffPost)  We can only hope.

They’re good at winning. They’re absolutely terrible at governing. (Jason Sattler/I Know How Much You Care)

CNN’s Bill Weir Declares ‘Notorious Climate Denier’ Trump Will Let Earth ‘Go to Hell’

Hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters are on the verge of escaping charges (Kyle Cheney/Politico)

I blame the media – I am horrified and I am terrified and I am angry. – And I blame the media. (Dan Froomkin/Press Watch)

White House domestic policy chief Neera Tanden accused of repeated Hatch Act violations (Alex Gangitano/The Hill)

Ekosj: “The View” Cost Harris the Election

Justice Department brings criminal charges in Iranian murder-for-hire plan targeting Donald Trump (Associated Press)

Donald Trump asks arch protectionist Robert Lighthizer to run US trade policy (Financial Times)

On CNN, Hillary Advisor Phillippe Reines Analogizes Trump To a ‘Clogged Toilet’

Madonna eats ‘f–k Trump’ cake after he wins 2024 presidential election  Like Kamala, she is famous for her mouth-work.

“Devastated”: Classes At Harvard, Penn, Columbia, Swarthmore & Others Canceled Over Trump Win

Justice Department files charges in murder-for-hire scheme targeting Trump (NBC News)

US Charges Iranian Asset in Regime’s Assassination Plot Against Trump

Canadian Immigration Website Sees Traffic Surge

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President-elect Donald Trump could pull the United States out of NATO without the authority of Congress despite legislation passed to prevent him from doing so, Politico reports.

Sens. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., sponsored a bill that would require congressional approval for the president to withdraw the U.S. from NATO, a measure that was included in the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act. However, legal experts told Politico that Trump could use presidential authority over foreign policy to ignore that requirement.

Curtis Bradley, the University of Chicago Law School’s Allen M. Singer distinguished service professor, told Politico that if Trump were to declare the U.S. no longer a part of NATO, it’s unclear if Congress has the legal standing to file a lawsuit.

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Amsterdam banned demonstrations for three days from Friday after overnight attacks on Israeli soccer supporters by what the mayor called “antisemitic hit-and-run squads,” and Israel flew fans home from the Netherlands.

Mayor Femke Halsema said Maccabi Tel Aviv fans had been “attacked, abused and pelted with fireworks” around the city, and that riot police intervened to protect them and escort them to hotels. At least five people were treated in hospital.

Videos on social media showed riot police in action, with some attackers shouting anti-Israeli slurs. Footage also showed Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters chanting anti-Arab slogans before Thursday evening’s match.

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On her Thursday show, MSNBC’s Alex Wagner decried the fact that when women get married, their support for Republicans goes up. Not only that, Wagner claimed that such voting patterns show a disregard for “their black and brown sisters,” whose lives are supposedly threatened by the GOP.

Wagner lamented to CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Maya Wiley, “I want for a moment to, like, just, for a moment, talk about this loss of allyship in a very desperate time, that not only were white non-college educated women voting for Trump and against Harris, they were voting against the interest of their black and brown sisters in parts of the country where their lives are in danger, but, whether because of healthcare deserts, abortion deserts, or any other factors, and it’s a phenomenon that happens increasingly as women get married, and I wonder, you know, the plight of black and brown women in this country extends well past the fortunes of Kamala Harris.”

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Earlier this week, congressional Republicans mounted an effort to punish Qatar for providing shelter to Hamas’s remaining leadership, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. Now, following former president Donald Trump’s election, an Israeli news report suggests that the Gulf state has informed Hamas it is no longer welcome in Doha.

Sens. Roger Wicker (R., Miss.) and Jim Risch (R., Idaho)—the ranking members on the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees—sent a letter to the Biden-Harris administration on Monday arguing that it is past time for the United States to threaten severe diplomatic repercussions for Doha if it does not freeze Hamas’s assets and turn over the terror group’s top leaders who reside in the country. One day later, Trump, whose administration will undoubtedly take a tougher approach toward Hamas and its benefactors in Tehran, cemented his return to the White House.

Then, on Friday, Israel’s national public broadcaster, Kan, reported that Qatar informed Hamas’s leaders they are “not welcome here.” The move “is taking place due to heavy American pressure,” according to the report.

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A federal court upheld four female high school track athletes’ challenge to a Connecticut policy allowing male participation in female sports.

U.S. District Court Judge Robert N. Chatigny, an appointee of President Bill Clinton, ruled in favor of allowing the athletes’ case against the Connecticut Association of Schools to proceed, rejecting the request of state officials to dismiss it.

The athletes—Selina Soule, Alanna Smith, Chelsea Mitchell, and Ashley Nicoletti—all say they lost races to male athletes identifying as female. The women argue allowing biological males to compete in girls sports is unfair and violates federal Title IX, which protects female school sports by prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex.

From a comment on a Brett Cooper podcast:

“The red wave hit Kamala so hard FEMA sent her $750.”

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The security situation in the northern and eastern districts of Paris has deteriorated to such an extent that some companies have been forced to set up private security teams to protect their employees when they take public transport, for fear of muggings and robberies.

The area concerned is located on the border between the 19th arrondissement of Paris and the suburban town of Aubervilliers, renowned for its public safety concerns. For many years, the area has been selected by public authorities for administrative offices and by companies for their operation—supported by tax incentives. Ultra-modern buildings with pompous names stand side by side: Millénaire 1 and Millénaire 3 are both home to the BNP Paribas bank.

The problem is that the neighbourhood is plagued by drug addiction. Drug addicts roam the streets, assaulting passers-by for money. “We call them ‘zombies’. They try to score something when they’re going through withdrawal. They break car windows to get change, urinate and defecate in parking lots,” a policeman told Le Figaro, adding, “It generates constant insecurity for people. We can also run into crazies who pull out a knife.”

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According to a report from the Catalan regional police force, seen by the Spanish news site El Debate, officers monitoring radicalization online have found social media messages instructing their recipients to attack the police.

“Police officers can be one of the main objectives if a terrorist attack materializes,” indicates a report from the Mossos d’Esquadra’s Anti-Terrorist Coordination Cabinet.

The police force detected 189 cases of possible violent radicalization in 2023, with 62% linked to jihad. Among those messages, the agents who monitor the network to search for cases of radicalization have detected several focused on the Mossos themselves. The document cites one case from October 30th, in which the Central Radicalism Research Unit (UCIRAX) detected on social media a threatening message against police officers which included instructions on how to conduct an attack.

This message offers several options including targeting police stations and their surroundings where agents will likely be unprepared for such aggression. The message suggested other tactics, from causing a forest fire and then ambushing officers when they drive there, to shooting agents with AK-47 rifles—capable of piercing the bulletproof vests used by the Mossos—or attacking the police officers inside their vehicles.

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Apparently The Netherlands has officially joined the Turd World.

UPDATE: “Pogrom in the Streets of Amsterdam”: Football Fans Attacked in “Jew Hunt”