JAMES LILEKS: Panic! at the yarn store:

A Twin Cities yarn store is the latest small business to pull Harry Potter products from its shelves in protest of J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans views.

The team at Needle & Skein in St. Louis Park announced the decision in a Nov. 7 apology letter regarding the recent sale of Harry Potter-themed kits at the shop.

Reddit applauds! Reddit is happy. The Fiber Art Community has been on this for a long time. I remember reading how social-justice issues split the Yarn-American Community a while back – and by “split” I mean the people who did not realize that knitting is inherently political, and decline to incorporate the proper politics into their worldview, where excoriated and ostracized. Hence the rise of things like the Social Justice Sewing Academy.

Flashback: The Latest Dispatches from the World of Jacobin Knitting.

DISPATCHES FROM AL-BRIṬĀNIYĀ: Green councillor said Muslims who condemn October 7 attack ‘bear shame of supporting Jews.’

Mustafa Ahmed celebrated his election to serve Burngreave ward on Sheffield City Council in May 2026 by waving a Palestinian flag and chanting “free Palestine” following four unsuccessful attempts between 2021 and 2024.

Since his election, Ahmed has been a prominent supporter of the “Zionism is racism” motion, which has sparked a dispute on the city council.

The Labour-led minority council remains in coalition with the Greens.

This is despite instructions from the national Labour Party to sever such agreements unless local Green groups disavow the motion which calls for a single Palestinian state by “all available means, including armed struggle”.

The Red-Green alliance is real. But the lefties are only now just starting to figure out they’re being used as tools of their own destruction.

THEY MAKE THEIR LIVING MANAGING PROBLEMS. ACTUALLY SOLVING THEM DESTROYS THE GRIFT.

IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH:

IT’S VETERANS’ DAY. A reminder from a commenter on my Substack:

A reminder for burger cultists:

In N Out gives a free any-burger-fries-soda meal to any vet on Veterans Day.

And a cool flag sticker- collectible!

Nov 11 Wednesday.

Vets take note.

OPEN WIDE. YOU NEED A SERIES OF THESE:  The White Pill.