November 3, 2026

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS A DSA SKINSUIT:

Posted at 3:02 pm by Stephen Green

OUCH: Disney Eyes Thousands of Layoffs in Push for 20% Cost Cuts.

The possible job cuts come as CEO Josh D’Amaro is reportedly facing challenges from growing AI use, weaker box office revenue, mounting competition from streaming challengers and a slowdown in theme park attendance abroad, according to Bloomberg, which first reported the news.

It’s said that some operations within Disney are set to face larger cuts than others. Though, per the reports, D’Amaro plans to reinvest the savings from the cuts into the company’s film and TV programming, technology, theme parks and cruise ship operations. It’s currently unclear how many jobs could be impacted, but Disney employed about 231,000 people at the end of 2025’s fiscal year.

Well, they killed the Star Wars cash cow and the MCU is on very expensive life support. Something has to give.

Posted at 2:47 pm by Stephen Green

JUST THE REGULAR IRREGULARITIES:

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And more to come from the usual suspects as our increasingly absurd election process grinds on today.

Posted at 2:32 pm by Stephen Green

OLD-SCHOOL DOCTORS PAID ATTENTION TO THESE CUES. MODERN ONES NOT SO MUCH: Sniffing out the link between odor and disease. So we’ll have machines to do it.

My old doctor, now retired, complained that most people now take a pulse with a pulse oximeter, which just gives you a number for beats per minute. Taking a pulse manually gave you a lot more than a number: Was it bounding, thready, steady or irregular, etc. Useful information was lost in exchange for the convenience of sticking a small gadget on someone’s finger.

Posted at 2:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

MISTAKES WERE MADE: The New York Times rushes to apologize for its outbreak of journalism.

Having outraged its core audience, The New York Times is rushing to explain how it managed to commit journalism in covering the Senate race in Alaska.

The paper last month impressed its usual critics by tracking down damning details of how Democratic candidate Mary Peltola’s campaign recruited a strawman candidate sharing the same name as the Republican incumbent, a ploy that, in concert with the state’s ranked-choice-voting rules, could make her the winner even if more people meant to vote for the real Dan Sullivan.

Since Peltola’s core appeal is as an outsider, not another politician, the story of her efforts to defraud the voting public was extra-damning.

But Times readers on social media and in its comment section howled about this betrayal of their expectation that the paper of record will confirm all their biases, especially “Democrats good, Republicans evil” — offering “All the news that’s fit to think.”

The paper’s been rushing to control the damage with various followup offerings, including an earnest report on how Peltola had no idea what her top aides were doing and a newsletter dispatch about how “both sides do it.”

Gentlemen, you can’t report the news here — this is the New York Times!

Posted at 1:45 pm by Stephen Green

THREAD:

Needless to say, read the whole thing.

Posted at 1:28 pm by Stephen Green

WHY IS THE LEFT SUCH A CESSPIT OF ANTISEMITISM? Philadelphia anti-Israel groups to stage ‘boycott ride’ past Jewish-owned restaurants on eve of Kristallnacht anniversary.

Philadelphia anti-Israel groups are planning a bicycle ride targeting Jewish-owned businesses on the eve of the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the 1938 Nazi-orchestrated pogrom against Jews in Germany and Austria.

The “Boycott Ride,” organized by Philly Bike On Your Left in collaboration with Philly Writers Against the War on Gaza, Boycott CookNSolo and Philly Solidarity Calendar, is scheduled for Nov. 8 at 11:30 a.m. at Rittenhouse Square in the heart of Center City. A flier promoting the event states, “No business for Zionists,” adding, “These Zionist establishments must go.”

The flier names several Philadelphia businesses, including Dizengoff, a modern Israeli restaurant; Huda, a sandwich shop; Schlesinger’s Restaurant and Delicatessen, a Jewish deli; Mac Mart, a macaroni-and-cheese kiosk; K’Far Cafe, an Israeli cafe; and Goldie, a kosher falafel shop.

“Ride around Rittenhouse with us as we show these zio business owners that we see them for the disgusting humans they are,” organizers wrote.

The Anti-Defamation League of Philadelphia, American Jewish Committee of Philadelphia/Southern New Jersey, the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia and StandWithUs released a joint statement on Monday calling the boycott ride “Jew-hatred, plain and simple.”

“The ride falls on the eve of the anniversary of Kristallnacht, Nov. 9-10, 1938, when Nazi-organized mobs destroyed thousands of Jewish businesses, homes and synagogues in Germany and Austria, while thousands of Jews were beaten, assaulted and sent to concentration camps,” the groups stated.

“The public targeting of Jewish businesses should alarm every person of conscience,” they stated. “No business should be targeted because of the identity, heritage or perceived political beliefs of its owners.”

In September, Bill Maher had this exchange with veteran music producer David Foster:

Foster: “What turned the Democratic Party antisemitic?”

Bill Maher: “Israel. It’s what turned them. It’s a question I explore a lot on my show.”

David Foster: “I don’t know the answer. And you don’t either?”

Maher: “I do. Again, it’s lack of education… They don’t know anything about the Middle East or the history. They just know one thing that they’ve been indoctrinated in, which is that the world is divided between oppressors and… people who are oppressed. And it has everything and only to do with race, which is ridiculous.”

“It has sometimes something to do with race; certainly in America it did. But slavery wasn’t invented in 1619. And as far as this connection somehow between the brown people who are Palestinians — they must be right because they’re brown and they’re poor and the Israelis are rich and white, which is not even true. Israelis are brown too. They’re different.”

“It just seems to always land back at the Jews. I mean, it’s so bad now that the right wing is doing it — Tucker Carlson is doing it, and Candace Owens is doing it, and so is everybody in the Democratic Socialists. You have to get on the page that Israel is the monster country of all time.”

A whole lot of people need to be asking themselves, “Are we the baddies?”

Posted at 1:19 pm by Ed Driscoll

LARRY O’CONNOR: Why I’m Still Not Buying the Blue Tsunami.

When I look at that map, I see a path to a Democrat majority. I’m considerably less persuaded by the path to a landslide.

The Senate requires its own analysis. Some of the Democratic breakthroughs being forecast would require substantial shifts in states with established Republican voting patterns.

I want convincing evidence of what has changed in those states. Who is switching sides? Which voters are staying home? What turnout assumptions produce the projected result? The larger the departure from recent voting history, the more closely those questions deserve examination.

Then there are the polls.

In three consecutive presidential elections, polling underestimated Republican support relative to Democratic support. Polls performed considerably better in the 2018 and 2022 midterms. That belongs in the discussion, and I take it seriously.

Nobody knows. But you can add a little certainty just by voting.

Related item from Andrew Stiles: Brace for Impact. “A Democratic rout would mean the polls were basically right. That would be genuinely shocking. If they’re wrong, and Republicans do better than expected—retaining control of the Senate while narrowly losing the House, for instance—Democrats will struggle to maintain their composure. They might start to question the sanctity of our democracy. If they fail to capture either chamber, the meltdown will be extraordinary.”

It would also be well-financed and planned well in advance.

Posted at 12:43 pm by Stephen Green

I DON’T KNOW ART, BUT I KNOW WHAT I LIKE:

Posted at 12:27 pm by Stephen Green

US AID TO ISRAEL: Now that President Donald Trump has announced the end of U.S. military aide to Israel, all kinds of conjecture is blowing up on Social Media on the backstory. But Richard Pollock’s is one of the few sane voices and he provides the needed context that points to the continued strong relationship between the U.S. and Israel.

Posted at 12:24 pm by Mark Tapscott

A VERY SPECIAL EDITION OF VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: Races to Watch on Election Day. “Ballots go out weeks in advance to where you live, where you used to live, where someone said you lived, where your second cousin once removed thought you lived, and nobody — zero people — checks.”

Posted at 12:12 pm by Stephen Green

IT’S OUT TODAY: Kurt Schlichter’s American Warlord. I read it, I blurbed it, I recommend it.

Posted at 12:08 pm by Glenn Reynolds

TELL ME AGAIN ABOUT THOSE LAYERS OF EDITORS AND FACT-CHECKERS BECAUSE THAT ONE NEVER GETS OLD:

Posted at 11:56 am by Stephen Green

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Why is my A student failing algebra?

Adriana Aviles’ son was an A student in math in New York City K-8 schools, she tells David Spector of the New York Post. He got into a top high school. But her honor-roll student is failing algebra.

She tried to help him study. “He stared blankly at the page, completely puzzled by the material. He was completely thrown off by equations that contained fractions.” He scored a 10 out of 100 on the test.

Her son now spends four lunch periods a week getting math tutoring to learn the skills he didn’t learn in elementary school. Aviles bought “math review books intended for first- through fourth-graders so I can see how much he actually knows, and in which grade he stopped learning.”

If you think that’s bad, wait’ll you see what’s happened to high school vocab:

“If you believe that kids should develop rigorous vocabulary, be capable of sustained reading, and possess background knowledge, I have bad news for you. The SAT no longer measures these.”

Posted at 11:41 am by Stephen Green