I’ll TAKE HEADLINES FROM 1943 FOR $500, ALEX: Porsches Across Russia Suddenly Stop Working.

Hundreds of Porsche cars have stopped working in Russia due to an issue with a satellite-based security system, according to local reports.

Owners reported various issues with their vehicles, including not being able to start the engine, or it shutting down soon after ignition. Others said that they had been locked out of their cars.

The root cause of the issue is not yet known, though a representative for Russia’s largest dealership group told local media that it could be an act of sabotage.

“It’s possible this was done deliberately,” the Rolf spokesperson told the RBC news website, without providing any evidence.

There is no official support for Russian Porsche owners after the German manufacturer suspended commercial operations in the country following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

To be fair, Porsches have a long history of being surprisingly unreliable in Russia: Elefant Tank Destroyer: Ferdinand Porsche’s Epic Fail That Got Its Butt Kicked at Kursk.

I’VE BEEN WARNING THE GOP ABOUT ITS LACK OF A TURNOUT MACHINE FOR A WHILE. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE ONE:

I’m not discounting the loss.

Need to put it in perspective.

The GOP did not turn out.

445k people in Miami proper.

38k voted in the runoff

We need to understand why the GOP primary voters didn’t consolidate.

Trump doesn’t get turn out when’s he’s not on the ballot. https://t.co/1nl6tTS5pd pic.twitter.com/G3DLRNniYW

— El Guapo 🍸 (@pancho_joe) December 10, 2025

SHE HAS TO RIDE HERD OVER AN AWFUL LOT OF SORE LOSERS: Bari Weiss Named a New CBS News Anchor and the Response Is the Funniest News Ever.

LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: “Our Job is to Teach the Children, Not be the Children:” UVA lawprof Xiao Wang exposes immature and unprofessional behavior by his colleagues.

Professor Xiao Wang, director of University of Virginia’s Supreme Court Clinic, litigated the case of Ames v. Ohio Youth Services. The thrust of the case was quite simple, and intuitively appealing: Heterosexual employees alleging discrimination based on sexual orientation have the same burdens as homosexual employees alleging such discrimination. Such symmetry is built into our antidiscrimination laws, which is why the laws ban discrimination based on “race” or “sex” or “sexual orientation” and not “against people of color” or “women” or “people who identify as LQBTQ.” Not surprisingly, the Court reasserted this principle in a unanimous opinion.

While the case was pending, however, Wang and his students were subjected to a campaign of harassment by some of his faculty colleagues and other students. You can watch a video of him recounted what transpired, and inspired the title of this blog post, here.

Good for him for calling them out. With a quibble that law students are not children. They may act like them sometimes, but no more often than a good chunk of the faculty, these days.

HAMAS CAPTURES HOBOKEN! Palestinian Flag-Raising In Hoboken Draws Ire From Mayor-Elect Jabbour.

HOBOKEN, NJ — Hoboken’s next mayor has blasted the current city administration for raising the Palestinian flag in front of City Hall without input from other officials.

As the conflict in Gaza continues, a number of events related to Israel and Palestine have raised controversy around the region.

As Mayor Ravi Bhalla finishes his last full month in office, Mayor-Elect Emily Jabbour blasted his decision to raise the flag on Tuesday.

“Today, we are seeing first-hand the repercussions of decisions made without a larger community conversation, and without any engagement with myself or my council colleagues,” Jabbour said in a social media post on Tuesday afternoon. (See the post below.)

Local resident Audrey Truschke said in response, “The Palestinian flag raising was organized by an informal group of Hoboken residents from diverse backgrounds. City Hall selected the date.

“Mayor-elect Jabbour’s arm-jerk reaction against a basic show of solidarity with a beleaguered people shows that she is out of touch with her constituents, who requested this flag raising. It also suggests that she lacks empathy. I hope she displays better judgment as mayor than she has as mayor-elect in this situation.”

What is an “arm-jerk reaction?” Is she implying something this?

If only there was a way for mayors to avoid this sort of unnecessary controversy. If only:

Maybe then we should chill with all these flags. Too risky. A USA flag, a NJ flag and maybe the new mayor can initiate a citywide contest to design a Hoboken flag— and that’s it. Nothing else goes up that pole.

— David Brown (@thatDavidBrown) December 9, 2025

CHANGE: HUD terminates Biden-era guidance, claiming it unfairly favors Afghans. “HUD Secretary Scott Turner argues the Biden-era guidelines prioritized nearly 200,000 Afghan refugees who were admitted following the 2021 pullout of American forces from Afghanistan by encouraging landlords and property owners to forgo credit checks, occupancy limitations, and engage in targeted marketing toward Afghans.”

CHANGE: Australia Implements Ban on Social Media Accounts for Those Under 16 Years Old.

TREAT THE PAIN: NEENCA Professional Knee Brace for Pain Relief. #CommissionEarned

SOLAR IS A WASTE OF SPACE: Young farmer’s crusade to protect vanishing farmland pits her against solar developers in New York.

The neighbor assured her that he wasn’t going to sell his land to solar developers, but Fasulo said the developers are aggressive and many farmers do end up selling. Between 2017 and 2024, the U.S. saw a decline of 24 million acres of farmland, a trend that worries Fasulo.

The average age of farmers is rising, and few young people aren’t pursuing careers in agriculture, making it attractive to sell off unused farmland to developers.

Farmland is being sold for other types of development than renewable energy. But renewable energy takes up large amounts of land, and unlike other types of energy, rural land is an attractive location to site wind and solar projects.

Nuclear power works 24/7, and unlike solar or wind, has a tiny footprint.

GOOD: New FAFSA update flags colleges with ‘lower earnings’ for graduates. Honestly, it should go beyond this sort of warning and specifically warn if average earnings for graduates at these schools are insufficient to pay off the loans.

“TRUST THE SCIENCE,” THEY SAID. “IT’S PEER-REVIEWED,” THEY ASSURED ME:

It's all fake research. I hate to tell everyone this, but it's true. https://t.co/52fG3P4tJz

— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) December 10, 2025

I GOT NOTHIN’: This Viral Clip of Walz and Newsom Talking About ‘Masculinity’ is Comedy Gold.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: DEWALT 20V MAX Cordless Drill and Impact Driver. #CommissionEarned

LUTHERANS DIDN’T USED TO BELIEVE THAT: Cal Lutheran’s TPUSA chapter was rejected because students think they have a right to comfort.

CHANGE? Trump administration quietly builds plans for what would happen if Maduro were ousted in Venezuela. “They include multiple options for what US action could look like to fill the power vacuum and stabilize the country if Maduro voluntarily leaves as part of a negotiated departure or is forced into leaving after US strikes on targets inside Venezuela or other direct action, the sources said.”

2026 PREVIEW:

Republicans better stop running on foreign policy and start doing something here at home. https://t.co/f1jPlRLiAY

— Brickhouse (@Brick_House04) December 10, 2025

Turnout was almost comically low. But almost every indication is that the GOP gets slaughtered next year, absent some getting stuff done in DC.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Can We Retro Impeach Biden for Ketanji Brown Jackson? “When playing by the Dems rules, Jackson has two built-in shields of protection. If I criticize her, I’m a racist, a misogynist, or both. I prefer racogynist, thank you.”

NEW U.S. NUKES ARE COMING: Now, hot off the presses comes news the Department of Energy will kickstart funding for construction of 10 new nuclear power plants, according to Secretary of Energy Chris Wright in an exclusive interview with the Washington Free Beacon.

Wright told WFB’s Thomas Catenacci that “we want things built by and risk capital coming from the private marketplace, and most everything we’re doing is dominantly going to be funded by private capitalBut the government smothered the nuclear industry for 40-plus years. We’ve got to get it back up on its feet again.”

To do so, Wright said the Department of Energy would back well-funded equity investments with low-interest government loans:

“We are going to use our loan program office at the Department of Energy for credit-worthy hyperscalers that are putting equity capital in front of us. We’re going to back that up with low-interest loans. We’ll supply it to maybe the first 10 reactors that get built. That’ll incentivize people to move fast.”

(VIP Digital-Age FYI: “Hot off the presses” refers to the days long, long ago of what is now known, if it is known at all, as “Old-School Journalism” when a reporter would get a VIP news story before his competitors and his editors rushed it into print. Ok, by “print,” I mean in the old days before the Internet, people actually paid for what were called “newspapers” that were printed on giant rolling ink applicators known as “presses.” Since it was an important story, the presses would be run at high speed, meaning they heated up more quickly. Thus, a big story was called “hot off the presses.”)

SBA BUCKS TO ‘MOM-AND-POP’ STORES LIKE WALMART: The Senate’s Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee will get an earful today about waste, fraud and mismanagement at the Small Business Administration (SBA), including hundreds of millions meant for Main Street shops going instead to Fortune 500 Giants like Walmart.

INSURRECTION: DHS Nabs N.J. Twins in Plot to Shoot ICE Agents ‘on Sight.’

Federal authorities arrested twin brothers in Absecon, New Jersey, after alleged threats against Department of Homeland Security officials and calls on social media to “shoot ICE on sight,” according to a press release emailed by DHS to Newsmax on Tuesday.

DHS said it worked with the Absecon Police Department’s SWAT team to execute search and arrest warrants for U.S. citizens Ricardo Antonio Roman-Flores and Emilio Roman-Flores.

According to DHS, Emilio Roman-Flores is charged with unlawful possession of an assault weapon, possession of prohibited weapons, conspiracy to make terroristic threats, criminal coercion, threats, and cyber harassment.

Another non-shocking outcome of keeping the LITERALLY NAZIS dial turned up to 11, 24/7.

WHAT SUBVERSION IN SUPPORT OF AN INVASION LOOKS LIKE:

True https://t.co/TuHs2jUnQB

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 9, 2025

FINALLY: Navy pilot who took out 4 Soviet jets in covered-up mission may get Medal of Honor.

GOOD NEWS: Morning Greatness: DOJ Rolls Back ‘Anti-Discrimination’ Rules.

SHOWING PROPER RESPECT (CONT’D):

The leftist mind in a nutshell. A white immigrant billionaire who makes rocket ships and electric cars is a “parasite” but an unemployed black Somali immigrant who scams the welfare system is an integral contributor to American culture who we must welcome and praise at all times. https://t.co/XRtnOLOKyR

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) December 10, 2025

We could use a lot more "parasites" like @ElonMusk, and a lot fewer Botox Beaujolais bimbos like this gargoyle. https://t.co/kqB7BcDd7o

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) December 9, 2025

SHOWING A PROPER RESPECT:

I’m running for Governor of Minnesota. pic.twitter.com/MXOLCxN6cr

— Bad Hombre (@Badhombre) December 10, 2025