Weather.com:  “U.S. Coast Guard helicopters and other rescuers were called in to evacuate people from a campground surrounded by floodwaters Friday on the northern coast of Oregon.  ‘There’s an RV park with the threat of a mudslide in the area,’ Petty Officer Michael Clark, a public information officer for the Coast Guard’s 13th District in Seattle, told weather.com in a phone call.

“Clark said local authorities called the Coast Guard for assistance and two helicopters were headed to the scene. There were no reports of injuries or medical assistance needed.  The campground is in the Tillamook County town of Neskowin, about 70 miles southwest of Portland.

“The area received between 3 and 7 inches of rain, according to the National Weather Service, and an additional 1 to 3 inches were possible.  Tillamook County Undersheriff Matt Kelly told weather.com that there were 50 to 60 people at the campground, but not all of them wanted to leave. A bridge over a creek nearby was reported to be in danger of failing.  Flooding was also reported in Otis and other parts of Lincoln County, as well as at least one landslide.”

“A group on a messaging platform favored by extremists has posted the home address of the prosecutor in the Kyle Rittenhouse case. The group, Kenosha Strong Patriots, shows 159 members and shared a post from a user that features a photo of Assistant DA Thomas Binger, and lists his home address. Another person on the service comments, ‘This is absolutely not an encouragement to violence. Just would be nice to see a peaceful protest outside his home like the left does every time they don’t like something.’ Binger said Friday his aware of the Telegram posts and has taken steps to protect himself and his family. He did not elaborate” – Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.

Disgraced school administrator and lapsed Evangelical Jerry Falwell, Jr. has reinitiated a defamation lawsuit against his former employer, Liberty University, claiming the school he once ran had repeatedly slandered him after firing him, Virginia Business reports.

Falwell initially filed the $10 million lawsuit in October 2020 as a counterclaim to a $30 million lawsuit filed by Liberty University in which the institution sued Falwell, the one-time president of the university founded by his father, for breach of contract and fiduciary duty.  Falwell is accused of directing university funds to finance his lavish lifestyle and directing university resources to projects that would personally enrich him.

Falwell refiled the paperwork for the case last month.  He also seeks items he claims is personal property that the university is illegally withholding from him.  These items include a .38 revolver; the URL JerryFalwell.com (which is currently inactive); personal items from Falwell’s former offices and Liberty warehouses; three horses provided to the equestrian center; legal files from 1988 to 2007; and a collection of books and historical items.

“BREAKING NEWS: I am excited to announce that I’m running for re-election to continue representing the great state of Alaska. Watch more on why I’m running to be your independent voice!”  —Republican Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski

I AM ALL TOO UNWELL SO I WILL BE SOBBING AND EATING PIZZA IN BED TODAY 🧣

— Domino's Pizza (@dominos) November 12, 2021

Associated Press:  “South Dakota lawmakers are pressing Gov. Kristi Noem’s administration to hand over a document that could prove whether there was a plan in place to give her daughter another chance to win a real estate appraiser license prior to a meeting last year that has spurred conflict-of-interest questions.

“The Legislature’s Government Operations and Audit Committee is readying to initiate a subpoena on Monday if the Department of Labor and Regulation doesn’t hand over a signed agreement between the governor’s daughter, Kassidy Peters, and state regulators. Peters won her appraiser certification after a state agency moved to deny it last year. Noem’s labor secretary has said the agreement was a road map for how Peters could improve her work.  Two lawmakers on the committee — Republican Rep. Randy Gross and Democrat Rep. Linda Duba — said the committee was ready to issue the subpoena. However, any subpoena would also require approval from the Executive Board, a ranking committee of top legislators that will meet later next week.

“The timing of when the agreement was put into place has become a key question for lawmakers as they look into an episode that has prompted ethics experts to say Noem appeared to abuse the powers of her office. The Associated Press first reported that just days after a state agency moved to deny Peters application to upgrade her appraiser certification last year, Noem held a meeting with Peters and state employees overseeing her application. Four months later, Peters received her license.  Noem has defended her actions, telling the AP last week that the agreement was already in place prior to the meeting and that it was not discussed at the meeting. The Republican governor, who has positioned herself for a 2024 White House bid, has cast the meeting as part of a long-standing effort to solve a shortage of appraisers in the state.”

Seventy-one year old Lonnie Coffman pleaded guilty Friday to two counts of weapons related charges for his role in the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol, to which he brought eleven Molotov cocktails and cache of weapons and ammunition, AL.com reports.

While conservative commentators and politicians have characterized the events on January 6th as largely peaceful by an unarmed group of patriotic Americans, facts from the scene undermine that narrative.  More than a dozen people have been charged with gun-related crimes, including carrying guns into the Capitol.

Coffman, who spent part of the hearing complaining about being held without bond, the conditions of the jail and the quality of prison food, claimed that he didn’t remember the guns and bombs were in his truck when he drove from Alabama to Washington for the attack.  “Yes, Your Honor, I didn’t plan any action with those things…. they had been in my truck for some time… I didn’t plan on blowing nothing up,” he told the court.

President Joe Biden made reference Thursday to Negro League and MLB pitcher Satchel Paige in comments, but Fox News edited the clip to make it appear Biden referred to Paige as a “Negro”–instead of airing the full clip in which Biden refers to Paige a “great pitcher in the Negro Leagues.” Look for the deceptive cut at the 11 second mark.  The clip above is from the Fox & Friends broadcast Friday mornings; the original clip, below, was aired on Sean Hannity’s show the previous night.

Flexing their new found power in a tight job market, more than 4.4 million Americans voluntarily left their jobs in September as employers reported more than 10 million open positions available, CNN reports.  Workers are leaving high stress/low compensation positions for other jobs.

Available positions increased in the health care sector and in state and local government, while open jobs in the hospitality, arts, entertainment and recreation industry decreased as the seasonal surge ebbed.  Also dropping:  quits in state and local government education as teachers and other educators leave their positions as schools push in-person teaching.  In Republican-led states, schools are not enforcing protections against the spread of COVID.

“The pace of people quitting across the labor market is remarkable,” Nick Bunker, director of economic research at the Indeed Hiring Lab, said, “but the concentration among a few sectors is eye-popping. Quits are up the most in sectors where most work is in-person or relatively low paying.”

Associated Press:  “A Louisiana board on Friday voted to pardon Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 ‘separate but equal’ ruling affirming state segregation laws.  The state Board of Pardon’s unanimous decision to clear the Creole man’s record of a conviction for refusing to leave a whites-only train car in New Orleans now goes to Gov. John Bel Edwards, who has final say over the pardon.

“Plessy was arrested in 1892 after boarding the train car as part of a civil rights’ group’s efforts to challenge a state law that mandated segregated seating.  The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that state racial segregation laws didn’t violate the Constitution as long as the facilities for the races were of equal quality.  Plessy pleaded guilty to violating the Separate Car Act a year later and was fined $25. He died in 1925 with the conviction still on his record.

“Descendants of Plessy and John Howard Ferguson, the judge who oversaw his case in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court, became friends decades later and formed a nonprofit that advocates for civil rights education.  Other recent efforts have acknowledged Plessy’s role in history, including a 2018 vote by the New Orleans City Council to rename a section of the street where he tried to board the train in his honor.”

“Meadows was a no-show today before Jan. 6 committee, defying a subpoena and opening the possibility the House may refer him to DOJ on criminal contempt charges” – Manu Raju, CNN.

“The toughest trial Kevin McCarthy faces on his way to becoming House speaker isn’t reclaiming the majority. It’s what comes afterward. McCarthy and his allies are elated by the strong GOP showing in this month’s elections, ambitiously projecting a midterm gain next year to rival the 63-seat wave that swamped House Democrats in 2010. But if Democrats can tamp down the number of Republican victories next fall, then some of McCarthy’s own members say the Californian could hit potholes on his road to the gavel. While the GOP is widely favored to take back the House, McCarthy needs a majority of votes on the floor in early 2023 in order to ascend to speaker.”

“The minority leader’s math problem is simple: The fewer seats Republicans pick up in the midterms, the more powerful his skeptics will become. Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), a member of the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus, said the number of seats the GOP picks up next year will matter ‘big time’ for McCarthy’s speakership dream: ‘Five or eight [pick-ups] is a whole different ball game than 20 to 30’. McCarthy has worked diligently to overcome the conservative opposition that stymied his 2015 bid for speaker. He’s kept Trump close in a House GOP that’s swinging to the right while laboring to prevent a handful of firebrand freshmen from dominating the narrative of this Congress. The conference unanimously elected him minority leader a year ago next week, and he may get an added boost of goodwill if he brings Republicans back to the majority after a bumpy stretch. Even so, McCarthy’s victory in 2023 is not guaranteed” – Politico.

NBC News: “In a TikTok video that has garnered hundreds of thousands of views, Dr. Carrie Madej outlined the ingredients for a bath she said will ‘detox the vaxx’ for people who have given into Covid-19 vaccine mandates. The ingredients in the bath are mostly not harmful, although the supposed benefits attached to them are entirely fictional. Baking soda and epsom salts, she falsely claims, will provide a ‘radiation detox’ to remove radiation Madej falsely believes is activated by the vaccine. Bentonite clay will add a ‘major pull of poison,’ she says, based on a mistaken idea in anti-vaccine communities that toxins can be removed from the body with certain therapies.”

“Then, recommends adding in one cup of borax, a cleaning agent that’s been banned as a food additive by the FDA, to ‘take nanotechnologies out of you.’ In reality, in addition to being potentially harmful as a skin and eye irritant, a borax ‘detox bath’ will not remove the effects of the Covid vaccine from your body. The video is one of several methods anti-vaccine influencers and communities on social media have in recent weeks suggested to their many followers who have capitulated and received the Covid shot. Anti-vaccine message boards are now littered with users caving to societal pressure or work mandates and receiving a coronavirus vaccination. ‘Once you’re injected, the lifesaving vaccination process has already begun. You can’t unring a bell. It’s just not physically possible,’ said Angela Rasmussen, a virologist and adjunct professor at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. Detox remedies and regimens have been staples of the anti-vaccine movement for years. Long before Covid, anti-vaccine influencers and alternative health entrepreneurs promoted unproven and sometimes dangerous treatments they claimed would rid children of the alleged toxins that lingered after routine childhood immunizations.”

The ad spot from lower-tier Republican Ohio Senate primary candidate Mark Pukita with a voice actor portraying a voter asking “Are we seriously supposed to believe the most Christian-values Senate candidate is Jewish?” adding “I am so sick of these phony caricatures” is at 1:00, but might as well listen to all three 30-second spots, they’re so bad they’re kind of entertaining. On Thursday at the Ohio GOP Senate debate Pukita defended the spot, per a report in Politico.

From an interview between ABC’s Jon Karl and Trump via Axios:

Well then…

“White nationalist Nick Fuentes, who has embarked on a weeklong anti-vaccine crusade throughout New York City, canceled his nightly online show Thursday evening, citing illness. ‘No show tonight,’ the Unite the Right attendee wrote on Telegram late Thursday night. ‘I’M SICK and so is Simon,’ he continued, referring to his assistant – and adding a puke emoji. Fuentes’ illness couldn’t come at a worse time, as his white nationalist ‘groyper army’ is planning to hold another anti-COVID-19 vaccine protest on Saturday afternoon. That said, the irony appeared not to be lost on the college dropout. ‘Kind of ironic,’ he stated. ‘Lol'” – Daily Beast.

Newsmax host (and guy who really, really wants to be Tucker Carlson) Rob Schmitt interviewed former Trump attorney (and guy about to learn what abject poverty feels like) Rudy Giuliani to get the former New York mayor’s perspective on how the Russian hoax is ongoing, and Rudy did not disappoint.  Rudy claims that he gave the government “the evidence” two years ago and says he wishes “we had a vaguely competent president, not Joe Biden.”

Yeah, I know.  Giuliani is saying someone else is incompetent.  Mr. Hair Dye at a Landscaping Company.

Raleigh News & Observer:  “U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn is changing congressional districts. The first-term Republican will run in Western North Carolina’s newly created 13th Congressional District instead of the 14th Congressional District, which state lawmakers drew with him as the lone incumbent.

“‘We now have a brand new congressional district and as it stands, the new lines have split my constituents,’ Cawthorn said in a video posted to Twitter. ‘My house is almost directly on the line of separation between the 13th and 14th congressional districts and now half the counties in the new district are counties I currently represent.’  In his social media post he said he needed to make a choice on what allows him to have the greatest impact on North Carolina and he chose to represent the 13th district.

“Cawthorn had teased his change Wednesday evening in a video conference with GOP chairs, saying he would make his decision over the weekend. But he made the announcement Thursday on Twitter. ‘I have every confidence in the world that regardless of where I run, the 14th Congressional District will send a patriotic fighter to DC,’ Cawthorn said in his Twitter video. ‘But knowing the political realities of the 13th District I’m afraid that another establishment, go-along-to-get-along Republican will prevail there.’ Republican lawmakers are seen as having drawn the 13th Congressional District for N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore, who resides in Cleveland County. But after Cawthorn’s announcement, The News & Observer reported, Moore will not run for Congress, instead running for another term in the state House. He is asking his fellow House Republicans for their support for another term as speaker.”

“I challenge them as well to start making decisions based on that Seven Generation principle.  Look it, we have a lot more power than our leaders are letting us know.  [Reporter interrupts.]  I know, I know, but they don’t want us to know how powerful we are, and we can talk about 3.5% active participation from citizens to actually topple a dictator, to be successful in a civil war, and we already have that happening,” Democratic candidate for California Governor Reinette Senum said during an anti-vaccination protest in San Francisco.   “We’re beyond that number, to be honest.  People just don’t know it.

“And what’s really drawn the line for most people are the children.  We can’t do this to the children.  How dare, how dare, how dare this country, how dare this state, take our children and make them biological experiments.  Not on my watch!”