December 31, 2025

SHE’S RUNNING: Kamala Harris Launches ‘Fight for the People’ PAC. “I have tried not to send any fundraising texts since the last election, but I wanted to take a few minutes to tell you about how I have decided to approach this moment in time — and why I hope you’re still with me in this fight.”

Posted at 8:36 am by Stephen Green

REMINDER:

Posted at 8:33 am by Glenn Reynolds

SPECIAL NEW YEAR’S EVE MORNING OPEN THREAD: Disport yourselves in the comments.

Posted at 8:31 am by Glenn Reynolds

ANALYSIS: TRUE. AND EXPRESSED WITH AMY’S TYPICAL SUBTLETY:

Posted at 8:20 am by Stephen Green

ICYMI: FINALLY, Jewish Space Lasers. “While soon-to-be-former Georgia Republican Congresscritter Marjorie Taylor Greene continues her one-sided breakup from President Donald Trump, one of her favorite conspiracy theories just became reality in Israel.”

Posted at 8:05 am by Stephen Green

I DON’T THINK THE CANADA AND MEXICO EXAMPLES HELP THEIR CASE HERE, EITHER:

Posted at 8:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

NOT ENOUGH GRAFT IN THE FUTURE I WAS PROMISED, SO THEY GAVE US THIS ONE INSTEAD:

Posted at 8:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

WHAT WOULD WE DO WITHOUT SCHOLARS? I DON’T KNOW, BUT I’D LOVE TO FIND OUT: Scholar: Boys kissing, ‘genderfluid pottery artists’ in kids’ lit makes ‘better masculinity role models.’

The taxpayer-subsidized anti-Trump site The Conversation is at it again, featuring a Christmas Eve article on how boys kissing and diverse Asgardian characters such as “deaf elves, Muslim American female warriors and genderfluid pottery artists” can improve the concept of masculinity.

According to Edinburgh Napier University Senior Research Fellow Adrianna Zabrzewska, “toxic masculinity” not only “marginalizes” women and those in the LGBTQ+ community, but hurts straight males by “discouraging emotional expression, tenderness, and connection.”

In order to reach young boys “before they radicalise in dangerous ways,” Zabrzewska says children’s and young adult literature can assist in “rethinking masculinity” by focusing on “relationality, vulnerability, and inclination.”

Two books in particular Zabrzewska recommends are “Two Boys Kissing” and “Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard.” In the former, two boys are “hoping to set the world record for the longest kiss,” while the latter features a “sweet, caring” teenaged male protagonist and an “engaging” lesson on intersectionality via “deaf elves […] Muslim American female warriors and genderfluid pottery artists.”

Grooming, straight up.

Posted at 7:34 am by Stephen Green

WELL, IN FACT THE POWERS THAT BE BROUGHT THEM HERE TO STEAL, AND ARRANGED THINGS SO AS TO MAKE IT EASY: Somalis gonna Somali. They’re a deeply tribal people, but all the people who say they didn’t adapt to America are wrong. Governments left the vault doors wide open and practically begged them to steal. Of course they did. “When individual families from tribal societies come to Western countries, they have little choice but to adopt Western stacking mechanisms — to accept the rule of law and the authority of independent political jurisdictions. Plenty of individual Somalis have done just that. But when they come en masse, as the Somali immigrants of Minnesota did, they may try to keep their tribal structures at least partly intact. In November, the independent newspaper County Highway ran an extraordinary piece about the Somali fraud in Minnesota explaining how easily the community had reestablished itself along clan lines. ‘The community is the result not of a voluntary movement of ambitious people seeking a new life in America, but of the US-government’s mass resettlement of entire families at once.'”

Posted at 7:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

#JOURNALISM:

But there is real reporting being done:

Posted at 7:18 am by Glenn Reynolds

CDR SALAMANDER: Understanding Japan’s Military Expansion.

While Beijing may not be able to get over WWII, almost everyone else is. As the WWII generation is almost gone, so are their ghosts and phobias. In their place, natural and enduring concerns are rising to the surface and exerting themselves.

In the Western Pacific, the rise of China, a society of representative government taking root, nationalism, reliance of the free flow of goods at market prices, and geography—all are shaping modern relationships.

The last few decades’ increasingly positive relationship between Japan and Taiwan is just one manifestation of this growing movement.

Taiwan’s memory of its colonial rule by Japan is, well…complicated…more positive than the Korean-Japanese history. A friend of mine recently moved to Japan. He and his Japanese girlfriend vacationed in Taiwan recently. The one thing he noticed was that without fail, if they were trying to talk to someone who could not speak English, his girlfriend would switch to Japanese and, sure enough, they were off and running. To a person, everyone was happy to meet an American and a Japanese.

I don’t think this is just one or many anecdotal reports.

As both nations face the same primary enemy, that should drive the relationship closer.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

THING IS, THIS DEAD PERIOD BETWEEN CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEARS? Autists have a lot of time on their hands.  A lot of time:  If you want to help but cant donate, please go to somaliscan.com/foia and find a template for your state so you can start submitting Freedom of Information Act requests. It is getting more and more difficult to track the fraud (by design). Data is power, save and share as much of it as you can. “God will restore what the Locusts have eaten” Joel 2:25

AND FOR: the x-cancelled.

 

Posted at 3:00 am by Sarah Hoyt