Good morning. Here is what matters today, in five.
1. Supreme Court lets the Big Bend border wall go up. The justices on Monday let the Trump administration keep building a border wall through Texas’s Big Bend region, brushing aside a challenge to the DHS legal waivers behind it. Only Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson would have blocked it. via The Center Square.
2. Trump pins the $2.9 trillion wipeout on the blue wave. At a surprise Monday briefing, the president said the S&P 500’s record $2.9 trillion post-election plunge came “because the stock market does not want to see Democrats,” and told voters their 401(k)s dropped with it. via The Daily Wire.
3. Philly boycott of Jewish restaurants backfires spectacularly. Cyclists targeting Jewish-owned restaurants in Rittenhouse Square on Sunday ran into hundreds of counterprotesters, a crowd police put at 500, plus condemnation from lawmakers of both parties. Gov. Josh Shapiro called it “blatant antisemitic targeting.” via The Center Square.
Picking Kristallnacht’s anniversary and calling it a scheduling conflict is certainly a choice.
4. Wes Moore’s commanding officer says the combat stories are false. Retired Lt. Col. James Gottschling, who supervised the Maryland governor in Afghanistan, says Moore worked a non-combat desk job and never led paratroopers under fire, contradicting the opening pages of Moore’s 2015 book. via the Washington Free Beacon.
Turns out “leading paratroopers” meant analyzing reports. Close enough for a Democratic governor.
5. Vanderbilt tells staff: shut everything down, hackers inside. Vanderbilt told every employee Monday to power down university devices and drop off Wi-Fi during an active cyberattack, after staff computers played a recorded warning: “Make the right choice or rot with the wrong one.” via The Daily Wire.
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