November 3, 2026

YO, TEXAS:

Posted at 5:05 pm by Stephen Green

NOT ALL DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH:

Posted at 5:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

WHERE WAS THIS GUY A MONTH AGO?

And does Pete’s newfound “courage” mean the Dems are reasonably sure El-Sayed is toast?

Posted at 4:35 pm by Stephen Green

CONSERVING CONSERVATISM MOST CONSERVATIVELY:

Bill Kristol’s Website just went full Salon. Never go full Salon, man.

UPDATE: Steve Hayward’s review of Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism, from the January 2008 edition of Kristol’s former publication, The Weekly Standard: Who’s Fascist Now? 

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

SPACE: NASA Is Looking For Ways To Save The Hubble Space Telescope From An “Uncontrolled Reentry”, And Extend Its Mission Beyond 2032.

“Lifetime analysis performed in July 2026 identified a 10% probability of reentry by September 2032, and 50 percent probability by December 2033,” NASA explained in a notice. “[Hubble] does not have a propulsion system and, without a servicing action, will ultimately experience an uncontrolled reentry.”

Now, NASA is looking once again at rescuing the space telescope.

“Hubble still has important science ahead of it, and we should be looking at every reasonable opportunity to keep it delivering for as long as possible,” NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman explained in a statement.

“If there are innovative and cost-effective ways to extend the life of an asset already on orbit, we owe it to the American taxpayer and the scientific community to explore them. Extending Hubble’s life would mean more discoveries, more science, and more opportunities to expand our understanding of the universe.”

The main problem is that the telescope has outlasted the Shuttle program that serviced it. As such, NASA is now looking to see whether commercial partners could feasibly re-boost the telescope by 2032, ensuring its continuation.

That would be a helluva thing for a satellite that was originally supposed to cease operations and deorbit in 2005.

Posted at 3:49 pm by Stephen Green

SHE SEEMS NICE:

Posted at 3:33 pm by Stephen Green

FINALLY:  My new book—WHY WE WALK ON EGGSHELLS:  How Our Civil Rights Laws Stifle Our Civic Discourse–is being officially released TODAY!

Here’s the way the book is described in on the Amazon web site:

What happens when left-of-center ideas on matters of race or sex can’t be challenged in polite company? Free from criticism, they slowly grow increasingly extreme, eventually losing touch with reality. This is how we find ourselves in the Woke Era. In Why We Walk on Eggshells, Gail Heriot sketches out the practical incentives created by our civil rights law and policies that caused the woke ideology to develop and flourish. One of the most important of those incentives was the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which for the first time made employment-discrimination lawsuits–including those based on harassment–lucrative for plaintiffs. Employers understandably panicked and started requiring what came to be called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training to ensure that employees would never say anything, no matter how trivial or even how true, that might be considered offensive. Employees were urged to walk on eggshells. Even statements like “I believe the most qualified person should get the job” were often forbidden. Slowly workplace culture (and eventually American culture in general) evolved to resemble the culture that had taken hold on college campuses more than a decade earlier as a result of another of the many wrong turns in civil rights law–the Supreme Court’s fateful decision in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke(1978).Why We Walk on Eggshells is a masterful treatment of the legislation and judicial decisions that helped give birth to the Woke Era. It is for anyone who wants to grapple with how we arrived at our present woke crisis and discover a way out of it.

I hope you find it worthy of a read.

Posted at 3:10 pm by Gail Heriot

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:

More:

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