IT’S A NEW WORLD: A (female) friend who’s partying with the girls in Key West writes: “Drag queens making Kamala jokes. Fantastic. It’s a new world.”

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

THE TECH BROS ARE NOW UNITING IN FAVOR OF CHANGE. You had Zuckerberg on Rogan. Meanwhile you also have Peter Thiel in the London Financial Times, calling for deep investigations of government misconduct and a Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

The link works for me, and I’m not a subscriber, so I hope it’ll work for you. But exactly what he says is not as significant as the fact that so many tech lords are coming out together against the abuses of the outgoing regime. Keep an eye on Bill Gates, though personally I think he’s too compromised to join the movement.

HMM: High THC, High Risk: The Cannabis-Psychosis Link.

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CHANGE:

DANIEL GREENFIELD: The LAFD is Run by Three Lesbians Named ‘Kirsten.’

Mayor Eric Garcetti had promised to bring the number of women up to 5% from 3.5% and now the LAFD is approaching 8%. No one was allowed to ask if this was going to make the LAFD any better at fighting fires now that it was hiring in order to hit a diversity target.

Beyond DEI, every stupid woke idea found a home under Crowley’s regime. After taking over, Crowley debuted the first “electric fire engine” to fight “pollution”, instead it was sidelined by a water leak. The vaccine mandate ousted some firefighters and suspended others. Last year, with a shortage of firefighters, the LAFD began trying to bring some of them back.

Los Angeles and the LAFD fought the Firefighters4Freedom Foundation group which represented 500 members of the LAFD. Now the LAFD has been reduced to begging for volunteers with firefighting experience. The DEI LAFD seems to be a whole lot more diverse, but also a lot less competent at deploying manpower than the old organization used to be.

While the LAFD might have lost a whole lot white men who knew how to fight fires, it gained a lot of DEI hires who knew how to pursue diversity, inclusion and all the pronoun stuff.

And while LA might have lost a lot of buildings, it gained a lot of lesbian fire chiefs.

Exit questions from center-left comedienne Whitney Cummings:

UPDATE:

RED-PILLED:

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: He’s Suing Because He Got High on the Stuff He Bought to Get High On. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week we have the frivolous lawsuit to beat all frivolous lawsuits, how not to hit on a cop, and what not to do on a flight from San Francisco to the Philippines.”

I DO BELIEVE HE’S FALLEN UNDER ELON’S INFLUENCE: Zuckerberg does Rogan.

Alternatively, all the sociopolitical data he has from Meta has shown him which way the wind is blowing, and how hard it’s likely to blow. Either is fine with me.

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JOANNE JACOBS: Misbehavior is worse, say educators. “The 2024 survey results were slightly worse than in 2023, despite schools’ efforts to engage students and strengthen student-teacher relationships, she writes.”

WHY NOT MORE FIRES IF GLOBE IS WARMING? Good question, especially in light of the many “experts” attributing the recent increase in California wildfires in part to the drought in the area.

In fact, according to Just Facts Daily, (check out the “Global Rainfall Trends” question) there is no record of more or fewer droughts or floods in the past 150 years. One might expect that a correlation of wildfires and droughts would be evident going back centuries, but that just doesn’t appear to be the case.

“Contrary to predictions that global warming would cause more droughts and floods, studies published by the International Journal of Climatology, the Hydrological Sciences Journal, the journal Theoretical and Applied Climatology, and the Journal of Hydrology all found no significant trends in rainfall or droughts over periods that extend back to as far as 150 years ago,” Just Facts explains.

“Previous studies had examined shorter timeframes and found changes that were blamed on global warming, but the results were generally not statistically significant and ‘not entirely surprising given that precipitation varies considerably over time scales of decades.’ These facts drive home the importance of examining the broadest possible range of evidence instead of cherry picking data, time periods, or geographic areas,” Just Facts continued.

 

LITTLE SUPPORT AMONG HILL AIDES FOR ADDING CANADA: More than two-thirds of congressional aides who gave their opinions anonymously in a recent Capitol Pulse survey said they oppose President-elect Donald Trump’s trial balloon regarding Canada becoming our 51st state.

CALIFORNIA’S IN THE BEST OF HANDS: Pacific Palisades reservoir was offline and empty when firestorm exploded.

A large reservoir in Pacific Palisades that is part of the Los Angeles water supply system was out of use when a ferocious wildfire destroyed thousands of homes and other structures nearby.

Officials told The Times that the Santa Ynez Reservoir had been closed for repairs to its cover, leaving a 117 million gallon water storage complex empty in the heart of the Palisades.

The revelation comes among growing questions about why firefighters ran out of water while battling the blaze. Numerous fire hydrants in higher-elevation streets of the Palisades went dry, leaving firefighters struggling with low water pressure as they combated the flames.

I’m sure this is all the fault of global warming and Donald Trump: