Tabs goin’ up on a Tuesday …
We saw all of this at Berkeley back in 2017. @UCBerkeley was sued, and settled the case.
The @CivilRights will investigate what happened here, and I see several issues of serious concern regarding campus and local security and Antifa’s ability to operate with impunity in CA. https://t.co/aN7JzouXwl
— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) November 11, 2025
Ed: Time to start drafting another lawsuit. This time, the FBI is already on the case for a suspected criminal conspiracy behind Antifa. At some point, though, let’s hope that the administration follows through on its threats to list Antifa as a foreign terrorist organization.
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WSJ Editorial Board: Most folks on Capitol Hill were optimistic this week about a deal to end the month-long government shutdown, which has accomplished nothing. But behold the cynicism of Democrats, who now want to exploit their Tuesday election victories to prolong the dysfunction at the public’s expense.
“I think it would be very strange,” Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut mused to Axios, “if on the heels of the American people having rewarded Democrats for standing up and fighting, we surrendered without getting anything for the people we’ve been fighting for.” Mr. Murphy elaborated to another outlet that a compromise now could damage the “Democratic brand.”
The proles languishing on the tarmac for hours can take heart—your suffering is an assist to the Democratic brand. You may miss Thanksgiving this year when you see that red “canceled” notice on the departures board, but rest easy that you helped Democrats stir up their voting base for the 2026 midterms.
Ed: The Democrats are the party of the poor, in that they want to create more of them. Also, they are the party of the poor in terms of using them as leverage to pay back the oligarchs funding their activists. Zohran Mamdani didn’t put his arm around a poor person after winning his election, after all, but embraced Alex Soros, almost a central-casting cliché of a next-gen oligarch. But speaking of Thanksgiving …
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“If the government doesn’t open … we are not going to get to Thanksgiving.”
Ahead of the upcoming holiday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy predicts “more disruption” if the government shutdown continues past this week. https://t.co/aEa8FlxAi3 pic.twitter.com/DpRorcm9ik
— ABC News (@ABC) November 11, 2025
Ed: The longer it takes to pass the CR, the longer it will take to unwind the damage done to the logistics of air travel in the US.
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Isaac Schorr at The Spectator: Even if the shutdown helped Democrats expand their margin of victory in last week’s off year election in November, Republicans were always going to hold the cards in this fight picked by Schumer. With control of Congress and the White House in hand, the GOP was never going to allow the Democrats to win by taking hostages.
Schumer picked it anyway, though, not only because his party demanded it, but because his party demanded it or else. The loss the septuagenarian suffered in this particular fight was not the first crack in his armor, but it could be among the final ones.
As a leader, Schumer leaves much to be desired. He’s among the worst orators in the Senate, and he’s compounded his grating voice and uneven delivery with shouting habit. As a pro-Israel senior, he is out of touch with the energetic, activist base of his party, which demands not only allegiance to the Palestinian cause, but is openly, if not self-awarely, antisemitic. And as a tactician, he was routinely routed by Mitch McConnell, and shows no signs of being able to best his successor, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, despite the fact that his caucus is far less ideologically diverse – and difficult –– than theirs.
Ed: Schumer is every bit as malicious as Harry Reid, but without half or more of Reid’s cunning. And Cocaine Mitch outboxed Reid, too. They’re not sending their best on the Democrat side of the aisle. Or worse yet, maybe they are.
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You have political elites making millions from their newsletters feuding over the shutdown. There are a lots of valid opinions about it. But they have absolutely no right to speak on behalf of the largely poor and middle-class people who were bearing real consequences from it.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 11, 2025
Ed: Yes, targeting Jennifer Rubin is like shooting fish in an intellectual barrel, but this was a particularly idiotic rant. Rubin called the eight Senate Democrats who voted to end the shutdown “Neville Chamberlains,” one of the worst historical non-sequiturs yet used for a budgetary dispute. Plus, as Silver points out, neither the federal workers nor the SNAP recipients signed up to be cannon fodder for Shutdown Chuck’s pointless political stunt. Ye gods.
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John Nolte at Breibart: The fury from far-left elected Democrats, and socialists like Jon Stewart, over the federal government reopening tells you they don’t give a damn about the poor going hungry.
They wanted the government to remain closed. Even though if the government had not reopened, millions would not have received their monthly SNAP payment, which is the federal government’s food stamp program.
Here’s oh-so compassionate Jon Stewart speaking for the Democrat party as he rages against reopening the government…
“They fucking caved on the shutdown, not even a full week removed from the best election night results they’ve had in years,” Stewart screeched. “You had the wind at your back, election victories all over the country… Democrats, you sold out the entire shutdown not to get what you wanted but for a promise not to get what you wanted later.”
Ed: The masks are dropping all over the place. So are the F-bombs …
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Governor J.B. Pritzker attacked school choice and said its supporters “can F*CK ALL THE WAY OFF.”
He went to private school.
He sent his kids to private school. pic.twitter.com/YKusZRFN9k— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) November 11, 2025
Ed: Pritzker went to private schools. He sent his kids to private schools. He and his family contribute to private schools. Pritzker wants to keep effective education exclusively for the wealthy, and the poor and middle class can f*** off.
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Jake Wallis Simons at Spiked: In the light of the findings, it is no exaggeration to say that the BBC has long been functioning as the propaganda arm of Hamas, funded by the British public. That is an extraordinary sentence to have written. But it is the only reasonable conclusion to be drawn.
For years, the broadcaster has been brushing this stuff under the carpet. In responding principally to the Trump allegations and largely ignoring the material on its anti-Israel bias, the BBC is pulling out the same playbook, hoping that when the dust settles, it will be back to business as usual.
The depressing thing is, it is probably right.
Ed: Be sure to read this whole essay. The BBC’s corruption extends far beyond Trump. And it’s not just the BBC either …
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Brian Stelter said that the biggest story he covered at CNN was the negative effect that Fox News’ spreading of misinformation was having on the country.
Stelter is now defending the BBC deceptively editing a video to spread misinformation. https://t.co/2ZR2DKFjT9 pic.twitter.com/rxVHfepRgd
— MAZE (@mazemoore) November 11, 2025
Ed: Stelter is a priest of the Protection Racket Media’s narrative maintenance church.
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Noah Rothman at NRO: As Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff, Chakrabarti was among the chief proponents of the Green New Deal — an enterprise that “wasn’t originally a climate thing at all,” he confessed, but, rather, “a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.” He was quick to adopt the language of intersectionality when that was the fashion, retailing unimaginative progressive policy prescriptions as a means to achieve racial justice. He co-founded Justice Democrats — an activist organization that campaigns on behalf of congressional “Squad” members, including AOC, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar.
The Washington Post deemed him the “chief of change” and a “movement” leader. The New Yorker styled him one of a handful of progressive figures in Washington who “supplanted the Obama generation.” And he was no go-along-to-get-along type. Chakrabarti picked fights inside the Democratic tent, up to the point that the New York Times described him as the “unelected symbol of the party’s growing disunity.” During one forgettable legislative conflict over a border security funding package that progressives opposed, for example, Chakrabarti said the Democrats who voted with the GOP are “hell bent to do to black and brown people today what the old Southern Democrats did in the 40s.”
That sort of talk isn’t going to win you many friends inside the Capitol, but it does signal a sufficient level of radicalism to the progressive base. Or so Chakrabarti thought.
Ed: Chakrabarti is about to become the latest Robespierre to discover what happens when the next Robespierre comes along and advances The Revolution. I wonder if AOC is going to experience that — or lead the next Robespierre in that mission.
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🚨MUST WATCH: UNHINGED leftist storms Senator Kaine’s (D-VA) office to CONFRONT him about voting to reopen the government
She claimed no one in Sen. Kaine’s office answered her calls this morning, so she drove 1.5 hours to meet with him in person.
“Lime Accordion” is known on… pic.twitter.com/YxObTDZVFa
— Cam Higby 🇺🇸 (@camhigby) November 11, 2025
Ed: It’s worth watching this in its entirety, for one reason: to respect the staffers on Capitol Hill. These men and women have to deal with these crazies regularly, and have to do so while maintaining their equilibrium, and usually for few if any thanks. Kaine’s staffers deserve a raise, or at least a spa day.
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Life News: The Senate approved a compromise funding measure Monday night to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history after 41 days, with eight Democrats breaking ranks to join Republicans in a 60-40 vote that sent the bill to a divided House.
The good news for pro-life Americans is that the deal rejected attempts by Democrats to force Americans to fund abortions under Obamacare.
The Senate bill came after Democrats held it hostage for 41 days over their demands to continue taxpayer-funded abortions through Obamacare.
The deal combines three full-year spending bills with a short-term continuing resolution to fund the rest of the government through January 30. Senate Majority Leader John Thune secured Democratic support by agreeing to allow a vote on extending expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies which currently fund abortions. However, that legislation is expected to fail.
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Kamala says she was playing “3 -dimensional chess” during the campaign against Trump 💀
“I understood the game that was being played, & I made a decision that I wasn’t gonna get played.”
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) November 11, 2025
Ed: If that was Harris’ idea of 3-D chess …
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Here’s the brutal truth that Dems are dancing around all over TV right now:
It was Democrats who passed the “Affordable Care Act.”
“Affordable” was the first word! It’s not, and it never was. The jig is up and now they don’t know what to do. pic.twitter.com/mRbBuNBBCi
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) November 11, 2025
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