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-Anemican 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 ostrasized. Hence the rise of things like the Social Justice Sewing Academy.

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

IF YOU LIVE IN DC OR ARE GOING TO THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY’S NATIONAL LAWYERS’ CONFERENCE:  I’ll be doing a book signing of my new book “Why We Walk on Eggshells:  How Our Civil Rights Laws Stifle Our Civic Discourse” at 2:30 pm on Friday.  You don’t need a ticket to the NCL to go to the book signing.  I’ll be up on the mezzanine level at the Mayflower Hotel.

LIGHTNING DEAL: CREWORKS 15L Ultra Sonic Cleaning Machine. #CommissionEarned

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 LIVINGS MANAGING PROBLEMS. ACTUALLY SOLVING THEM DESTROYS THE GRIFT.

These motherfuckers are terrified that Bukele will actually solve the problem. That his solution to violence and corruption is and has always been the only real solution. 75 years of nation-building aid strategies accomplished nothing worldwide; Bukele helped Haiti in a week. https://t.co/hi9580AJWH

— Town Moron (@townmoron) November 9, 2026

IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH:

Holy CRAP.

Joe and Jill Biden were at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland today to see Hunter Biden receive an award (yes, seriously) and crazy pro-Palestine rioters THREW stuff at them. pic.twitter.com/V8oxmme0uH

— Mila Joy (@Milajoy) November 10, 2026

TDS REALLY GOT TO MASSIE: Hegseth Brings Flamethrower to Massie’s ‘Farcical’ Impeachment ‘Sabotage.’

GIFTS TO MAKE READERS OUT OF YOUR BOYS:  The Holiday Gift Guide: Raconteur Press Boys’ Adventure Books That Actually Get Read.

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.

THE LEGEND LIVES ON FROM THE CHIPPEWA ON DOWN:  Remembering the Edmund Fitzgerald 51 Years Later.

THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY I’VE BEEN EXPECTING:  Robot builds structure in space for the first time in technological breakthrough.

THEY’VE BEEN LESS SUCCESSFUL AT REDUCING EMISSIONS THAN THEY ARE AT ENDING POVERTY (EXCEPT FOR UN BUREAUCRATS):  Taking People For Mugs – Another COP In Pursuit of Windmills. After thirty years of hot air governments are still expanding their COP carbon footprints (at tax payer cost) without any effect on emissions let alone on climate.

SUCH THINGS USUALLY ARE:  David Crowley Promised Medicaid Expansion. Looks Like That’ll Be Harder Than He Thought.

NEITHER IS AMERICA DEFEATED:  Without Trump, Is Israel Facing a Diplomatic Nightmare? “Donald Trump is neither lame nor a duck”.

IN CASE YOU’RE NOT ALREADY SICK & TIRED OF THIS:  Here Are the Three Updates Regarding Lindsay Clancy.

WHEN GREAT BRITAIN NOTICES THE MIDTERMS AND STILL FAILS TO UNDERSTAND AMERICA: Ofcom indicated in a hearing today that it is going to start pushing for arrest warrants for American refusers of the Online Safety Act. It is wildly inappropriate for a foreign country to threaten Americans for exercising our constitutional rights.

FOLLOW UP:  When I said “hey, Ofcom wants to throw Americans in jail for their free speech,” the response of a Peer of the Realm was not “no we don’t.” It was “hell yeah we want to jail Americans for their free speech.” You know what you have to do

DEFUND NPR:  NPR Celebrates Activist Whose Data Center Campaign had Ties to China-Linked Socialist Group.

GOOD BUT WE NEED FAR MORE:  IBM plans to end immigration sponsorship program for Consulting unit: report.

SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES ARE TRULY ANXIOUS TO RESIGN FROM THE FUTURE:  In September, Finland and Norway launched an international call for control over development of frontier AI models. To date, more than 30 countries have joined the initiative. Discussions on artificial intelligence continued today at a virtual leaders’ meeting hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron. The views expressed at the meeting were closely aligned with those underpinning the Finnish-Norwegian initiative. It was particularly valuable that chief executives of leading technology companies also took part in the discussion. Following the meeting, a joint statement was issued, which Finland also endorsed.

Socialism always kills, fast or slow, but first it rots the brain.

NO. IT WON’T KILL US. AT WORST YOU’LL NEED A NEW SNOW SHOVEL:  Hi. Meteorologist here. This is nonsense. We have not entered a “new age of climate extremes.” There is no such thing as a “supersized El Niño” and the planet isn’t being “superheated” by climate change either. First, the correct meteorological term is “very strong El Niño.”

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

WHEN THE FRAUD HITS YOUR EYE LIKE THE MOON IN THE SKY:  Dead felons, dog and now a prisoner: Spanberger voting rights letters draw fresh scrutiny. House Minority Leader Terry Kilgore calls the latest error ‘a new level of carelessness’ and demands answers from governor.

It’s not carelessness when it’s all in one direction.

MANY SUCH CASES, AND IT’S SIMPLY NOT BELIEVABLE ACROSS THE BOARD:  The results are in. Texas Republican voters didn’t stay home, or switch sides and vote Blue Republican voters showed up with larger numbers than before. The problem is, Democrats l somehow materialized 1.6 MILLION new voters Here’s where it gets really corrupt, Democrats somehow pulled higher numbers in Texas for midterms than they did during the 2024 Presidential Election

FOR VETERANS DAY, GET A BOOK BY A VETERAN, WITH VETERAN CHARACTERS:

From Celia Hayes:  Return to Alder Grove

#CommissionEarned

Love in all the wrong places – Caro Robertson was a professional researcher, employee and occasional on-air reporter for a national public radio outlet; the perfect job, the perfect condo, the perfect fiancée. She had the college education, the job, the social position, the perfect life … and then in one fell swoop, everything went sour. Wrong. Disastrously wrong. In the space of a single week, she lost her beloved pet, the perfect fiancée and then her job. What was left for her, but to return to Alder Grove, the little town in Texas where she lived as a child and try to rebuild that life and a new career?
Mark Bascomb – owner of a small fabrication business, small-town handyman, veteran and high-school drop-out; everything in life that Caro Robertson wasn’t. Could they find common ground with each other, a common interest, even love, when they are so different?
Find out when the sparks fly in Alder Grove, in this short romance novel by the author of the Chronicles of Luna City, and the Adelsverein Trilogy.

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.