HMM: I’m sure it’s a coincidence that Howard Lutnick’s sons have $362 million in Nvidia.

In May, Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent President Donald Trump and top Cabinet members a classified memorandum detailing the relationship between the Huangs and the intelligence indicating that Alice Huang was a Chinese spy. The White House directed the Commerce Department to put Alice Huang’s Megaspeed on the entity list of companies that pose national security concerns. Lutnick refused this request in May; he refused a second attempted crackdown order from Trump in August; and on Nov. 5, Lutnick reportedly stonewalled Trump again. And evidently, this wasn’t because Lutnick knew too little. Rather, the Commerce Department spent months last year conducting an investigation into Megaspeed and specifically whether it was illicitly smuggling Nvidia chips into China, only for Lutnick’s direct underling, Jeff Kessler, to invite Nvidia to reach out to Commerce about the case, bringing the department’s inquiry to an effective end.

I am sure it is just a coincidence that Cantor Fitzgerald, the financial services firm that Lutnick led for 35 years before passing it off to his 20-something-year-old sons Brandon and Kyle, has a $362.3 million stake in Nvidia, which makes up 7% of Cantor’s entire portfolio.

Full details at the link, but here’s the important part that came out earlier this week: Lutnick stalled Trump’s Nvidia–China chip curbs after Oval talks.

WELL, THIS TAKE IS NOT ONLY FUNNY, IT’S CONSISTENT WITH THE COVERAGE:

JUSTICE: Ilhan Omar Is in Real Trouble, and She Knows It.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Alarming Rise of Open Antisemitism.

SOUNDS RIGHT: New Evidence Completely Upends Cornell 7 Case: This whole case was a political operation by the Democrat Party to mobilize female voters ahead of the midterms.

IF SOMETHING CANNOT GO ON FOREVER, IT WILL STOP:

Monthly deficit hits $400 billion – monthly, not annual 🤯

At this pace the deficit will be more than the entire pre-Covid federal *budget* https://t.co/GTOKhYcBjB

— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) November 12, 2026

MICROSOFT OUTLOOK IS STILL OUT. Everyone is like, “Why couldn’t it be Teams?”

Plus:

I'm signal-boosting this because Luke clearly knows what he's talking about. I think his diagnosis that Microsoft's running cloud services are only metastable and cannot handle the restart storm is almost certainly correct. https://t.co/hidfQgRIW8

— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) November 13, 2026

CHRIS QUEEN: The NCAA Revealed an Ugly Truth About the Transfer Portal.

LAW AND ORDER: Send ICE to Harvard: If university administrators won’t restore order on campus, dispatch ICE to disperse the foreigners disrupting undergraduate education.

EARLY BLACK FRIDAY DEAL: Lucky Brand Men’s Venice Burnout V Neck Tee. #CommissionEarned

ELECTING DEMOCRATS HAS CONSEQUENCES: SpaceX Can Have a Public Beach Closed for Its Launches. The New Land Commissioner May Ground It.

Especially dangerous to SpaceX’s operations in Texas could be the revival of a fight over closing a public beach for rocket launches and tests. In 2009, voters approved a state constitutional amendment guaranteeing unfettered public access to beaches, something that had already been protected by statute since 1959.

But in 2013, the Texas Legislature passed a statute enabling the General Land Office to allow closures for spaceflight activity. This was done as the state was enticing SpaceX to build a spaceport in Cameron County. Without this exemption, Boca Chica Beach couldn’t be shut down on SpaceX’s behalf, meaning its rockets couldn’t fly from Starbase. 

Now incoming land commissioner Benjamin Flores, once he’s sworn in on January 19, plans to “request an opinion from the Attorney General on the constitutionality of the beach closure statute,” Flores’s chief of staff, Alex Martinez, told Texas Monthly.

How’s that Louisiana launch facility coming along, Elon?

Democrats will destroy the future, just to stick it to the man bringing it to us.

THEY SHOULD HAVE GIVEN HIM A BONUS: Circle K’s Message to Armed Clerk Who Stopped Robbers: Leave Your Gun at Home.

TUSCANY BAY BOOKS ON SALE FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR:  Entire catalog now on sale.

FOR SMALLER VALUES OF “AMERICANS,” SURE:

https://twitter.com/GlomarResponder/status/2121008236698779764

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Twitter is doing its weird thing where it won’t embed, so here’s a screenshot.

HE DOES HAVE A WAY WITH WORDS: Sen. Kennedy Warns the GOP to Stop ‘Urinating on Our Hands’ Before the Dems Take Over.

BEN WEINGARTEN: Ilhan Omar Almost Certainly Committed Crimes. But Will She Face Justice?

OR: HOW TO WRITE A FUTURE OR ALTERNATE HISTORY:  Worldbuilding: Experimental History.

THEY KEEP USING THAT WORD; I DO NOT THINK IT MEANS WHAT THEY THINK IT MEANS:  Hakeem Jeffries’ Plan for Affordability Includes Returning DACA Recipients to the US and Paying Them.

Never change, Temu Obama!

LIBERALS ARE FOREVER DENYING AGENCY OF THEIR TOOLS, EVEN WHEN THEY INTERFERE WITH LAWFUL ENFORCEMENT OF LAW:  Watch Scott Jennings Call Out a CNN Host for Trying to Blame Alex Pretti’s Death on Stephen Miller.

JUST MY IMAGINATION, RUNNING AWAY WITH ME:  Questions Mount Over Texas Election Data as Republicans Call for Answers.

THE SAME, BUT MORE SNOOTY AND DESPICABLE:  How do you say “useful idiots” en français?

IS THAT THEY WORK AGAINST WHAT THEY CLAIM TO WANT:  The Irony of Useful Idiots.

TRUMP IS NEITHER LAME, NOR A DUCK:  Trump warns Democrats. You can investigate us, we can prosecute you.

LET’S BE CLEAR: WHAT JENSON DID WITH HIS HUANG IS LESS IMPORTANT THAN THE MONEY FLOWING IN AND OUT OF NVIDIA AND BIG AI IN GENERAL:  The Bubble of Jenson’s Huang. Jenson’s Indiscretions With His Huang Is NOT The Big Story, NVIDIA’s finances is the big story.

ETSY GOES FOR THE “WE CAN MINE YOUR DATA AND RE-SELL” IT MOVE:  Etsy Has Lost Their Damn Mind. AI for me, but not for thee.