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The White House on Monday released a “Bidenomics” report that touted the “rapidly growing” electric vehicle market. Just hours later, Ford announced plans to cut the production of its electric truck in half, citing insufficient demand.

The report, which came from White House chief economist Heather Boushey, claimed the “U.S. consumer market for EVs is rapidly growing” and touted President Joe Biden’s efforts to meet that “growing demand by setting ambitious goals for accelerating the EV transition.” Ford threw cold water on those claims hours later, when a leaked memo from the automaker revealed that it plans to produce just 1,600 F-150 Lightnings per week in 2024, a significant reduction from the 3,200 it initially planned to produce. The memo said “changing market demands” motivated the cuts.

“We’ll continue to match production with consumer demand,” a Ford spokeswoman said.

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Over the weekend, border-policy negotiations between Senate Democrats and Republicans fell apart. The talks were meant to firm up Republican support for the president’s massive $105 billion military support proposal ahead of Wednesday’s vote by including additional funds for border security in the spending package. Now, with no imminent approval of further aid to Ukraine, hawks in government and the media are trying to stoke panic about what will happen if Kyiv is cut off from US support.

The American Mind.

The border crisis is a disaster for the rule of law. Approximately five million inadmissible migrants have already entered during Joe Biden’s presidency, and the numbers continue to climb. Far from attempting to block the flow, the Biden Administration is actually facilitating it, inviting migrants without visas to come to the U.S. to receive “parole” or other temporary status. The legal situation has deteriorated to the point where the administration effectively claims the right to wave through any migrants it wants, from whatever countries it wants, at any time it wants.

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From a certain perspective, the Aegis combat system was one of the worst developments in the history of the Navy. It directly led to the [literal] sinking of an entire class of the best ASW destroyer ever built and has resulted in expensive ships with permanently degraded radar systems. Worse, there was an alternative to Aegis which was the New Threat Upgrade (NTU) program which would have modernized the existing conventional radars and combat systems, providing much the same capabilities.

The ‘Affordable Care Act’ made health care substantially less affordable.

Washington Free Beacon.

Sen. John Barrasso (Wyo.) and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Wash.), the top Republicans on the Senate and House energy committees, have asked the Department of Energy to turn over records regarding the loan to Sunnova Energy by Dec. 21.

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Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian has issued some surprising remarks claiming that Lebanon-based Hezbollah and Gaza-based Hamas can procure more weapons anytime they want utilizing the thriving arms black market in Ukraine. He suggested this is already happening while addressing a conference in Doha Monday.

He went so far as to say these groups, which the US has listed as terror organizations, can “easily” and “without much effort” get whatever they need in Ukraine.

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Research firm TechInsights reports Huawei Technologies Co.’s Mate 60 Pro smartphone continues to “bypass technological embargos” by Washington. Further examination of the smartphone has shown considerable progress in Chinese design and engineering of radio-frequency chips.

The new analysis of the Mate 60 Pro shows China is quickly progressing in developing high-tech chips despite technological embargos by the Biden administration.

“This progress isn’t just in the application processor system-on-chip (SoC) but also in the 5G BaseBand processor and mobile RF technologies,” the report stated.

ZMan peers under the bend.

There is an old meme where a guy is up late at night and his wife asks him why he is not in bed. He says, “There is a guy on the internet saying things I don’t like.” Most people are not like this, but the weirdness of this new thing depends on that reality at the start. You are not supposed to care about the words of anonymous weirdos.

That is the place to start with yet another example of the regime losing its mind over people holding the wrong opinion about the 2020 election. Here is a breakdown of the charges the Biden administration is bringing against Trump over the peaceful protests on January 6. The first thing to note is the prosecutor is using the crackpot idea of stochastic violence, which was cooked up by mentally unstable people on Twitter who thought mean tweets would cause them physical harm.

Note also that the core of the case against Trump here and in all of the January 6th persecutions is that the offenders are election denier. In many of these cases, the judge, as a part of the punishment, makes the accused say in open court that he now believes Biden won fair and square. You can be sure that the main goal of these charges against Trump is to get him to do the same. The regime and its volunteer army of toadies is obsessed with this idea.

The morality of the schoolyard bully: It’s not enough to beat your victim down, you don’t really win until you get him to cry Uncle.

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A major case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court (Moore v. United States) is calling into question one of those provisions. Depending on how the court rules, large portions of the U.S. tax base could quickly become legally uncertain, putting significant revenue at stake.

Statist pocket-pickers love the idea of ‘taxing’ (stealing) part (or all) of the increase in value of an asset–your stocks went up in price? Well, that means you’re richer, so we get to wet out beaks. Your stocks went down in price? Sorry, dude, that’s your problem, not ours; you shoulda picked better stocks. Unfortunately (from their point of view) current law doesn’t let them do that, and that’s what this case is all about.

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We could write about illegal immigration every day, and we probably should. Our open southern border is one of the greatest long-term threats to our country’s survival in any recognizable form.

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Europe is in turmoil over the mass migration policies of the EU elites. Migration has become a dominant, divisive issue across the European Union from eastern Germany to southern Italy—and in the UK.

Geert Wilders’ populist PVV party shocked the Brussels ‘bubble’ by finishing first in November’s Dutch elections, after pledging to cut “the asylum and immigration flood to the Netherlands” and ban mosques and Islamic schools. In the same month Dublin was convulsed by riots, sparked by the stabbing of three Irish schoolchildren and a woman by an Algerian-born knifeman. Meanwhile, nervous European cities have witnessed angry pro-Hamas protests by Islamist migrants, aided and abetted by their useful idiots on the Islamoleft.

The response of the panicking European authorities has been to brand anybody who speaks out about the problems connected to mass migration as ‘far right’ extremists who should be cancelled, censored, banned, or even arrested. But they cannot silence the growing disquiet.

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A new systematic review has been published in Archives of Disease in Childhood, one of the journals of the British Medical Journal, by Sandlund et al. titled ‘Child mask mandates for COVID-19: a systematic review‘.

Washington Poop.

Here is the best-kept secret about U.S. military aid to Ukraine: Most of the money is being spent here in the United States. That’s right: Funds that lawmakers approve to arm Ukraine are not going directly to Ukraine but are being used stateside to build new weapons or to replace weapons sent to Kyiv from U.S. stockpiles. Of the $68 billion in military and related assistance Congress has approved since Russia invaded Ukraine, almost 90 percent is going to Americans, one analysis found.

The military-industrial complex at it’s finest.

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Immigrants who illegally cross the border into Arizona are being handed $5,000 in good-as-cash gift cards, along with cell phones and costly plane tickets, all of which are being paid for by the American taxpayer, according to Arizona Sheriff Mark Lamb.

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Founded in 2020 in the aftermath of the George Floyd protests, the Black Legacy Project describes itself as “a musical celebration of black history to advance racial solidarity, equity and belonging.” It brings together artists of all backgrounds “to record present day interpretations of songs central to the Black American experience and compose originals relevant to the pressing calls for change of our time.”

A similar arts group, Nu Art Education Inc., an offshoot of the NorCal School for the Arts, says it is “following the theory of change that utilizing theater arts” can be “a tool to teach and practice conflict resolution in the classroom.”

While both outfits share a mission of using the arts to inspire social change, they have something else in common: counterterrorism. Or rather, both have received taxpayer grants through the Department of Homeland Security’s “Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention” (TVTP) program. Together, the two groups have received more than $1.4 million since the Biden administration doubled the program’s annual budget, to some $20 million per year.

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As corporate progressive media diverts the public’s attention with Time Magazine’s naming of Taylor Swift as Person of the Year this week, the Biden administration’s southern border crisis continues to spiral out of control.

Sources within the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) told Fox News that Tuesday was the largest single-day illegal migrant encounter ever on the US-Mexico border. They said over 12,000 migrant encounters were reported, with 10,200 of them between ports of entry.

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China is working to enhance its submarine force amid ongoing U.S. struggles with its fragile industrial base – a potentially perilous mix that could see the Chinese military outproduce and overstretch the U.S.’s underfunded and undermanned Navy at a time of increased tensions between the superpowers.

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American students scored an all-time low in math on a major international exam, which provided the first comparison of global achievement since the pandemic radically changed education around the world.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear arguments in a case that hinges on whether, as a legal matter, Congress can blend powers the Framers of the Constitution carefully kept separated.

In Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) v. Jarkesy, the justices will determine the constitutionality of the agency’s system of in-house administrative law judges (ALJs), bureaucrats who often act as judge and jury in the agency’s enforcement actions. Since many federal agencies—including the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Postal Service—utilize ALJs, the case’s outcome will reverberate across the administrative state.

George Jarkesy, whom the SEC accuses of securities fraud, argues that the ALJ system violates the Seventh Amendment, which guarantees the right to a jury trial. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled for Jarkesy in 2022. Should the Supreme Court do likewise, countless Americans would regain access to a foundational constitutional protection.

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Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Carjacking Task Force the FBI Washington Field Office Violent Crimes Task Force announce a juvenile has been arrested in connection to an armed carjacking of a federal agent in the 100 block of 12th Street, Northeast.

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On Monday, December 5, 2023, 17-year-old Devonta Lynch, of Southeast, DC, was arrested and charged, as an adult under Title 16, with Armed Carjacking (Gun).

Federal agents cannot feel secure against crime even in our nation’s capital.

What does it say about our government when our capital city is becoming famous as a behavioral sink?

Washington Poop.

The fate of an obscure provision of President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax package, which will be reviewed by the Supreme Court next week, has many experts panicked over the potential to destabilize the nation’s tax system. In addition, some say the outcome could preemptively block Congress from creating a wealth tax.

As you might expect, anything that gets in the way of the government taking any money it wants from anybody it wants scares minions of the Narrative media out of their socks.

UPDATE: Supreme Court Case Has Democrats Salivating at Possibility of Green Light for Wealth Taxes

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Education Secretary Miguel Cardona hosted a meeting this month with an anti-Israel activist who has praised Hamas and Hezbollah and called for violence against Israel.

Cardona on Nov. 15 met with 13 activists—including Palestine Legal advocacy manager Lina Assi—to address the “extremely disturbing pattern of hate and threats of violence in schools and college campuses” following Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Assi has called Iran and its terrorist proxy, Hezbollah, “crucial and important” in “resisting imperialism” in the Middle East. As a student activist, she led a crowd in a chant of “Viva, viva Intifada,” a call for violent uprising against the Jewish state.

Assi’s organization represents Students for Justice in Palestine, an anti-Israel student group that projected the pro-Hamas statement “Glory to our martyrs” on buildings at George Washington University. Palestine Legal is representing the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at the University of Florida, which was kicked off campus for expressing solidarity with Hamas in its “Day of Resistance Toolkit.”

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It truly is a foreign country.

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The CIA was created after World War II to prevent another Pearl Harbor attack, writes Charles S. Faddis, a former CIA operations officer and Middle East station chief. Faddis believes the agency “no longer works,” an easy case to make but not exactly news.

Al Qaeda was well known but “we had not a single source inside that organization capable of warning us of the 9/11 attacks that would kill almost 3,000 Americans.” It took a decade to take out bin Laden, and one doubts it went down as portrayed in Zero Dark Thirty.

As with 9/11 “we received no warning prior to the outbreak of the pandemic,” and the CIA could “apparently provide no useful information regarding the origins of the disease,” still true years later. The CIA has “no sources inside China’s top bio lab,” which is probably true of most, if not all, of China. Faddis blames bureaucratization and politicization but may underestimate the problem in both cases.

Outside APEC, Complaints Of Intimidation & Assaults

Should Biden Redesignate Houthi Rebels as a Terror Group?

Meet the Panic! Kornacki Shows ‘Stunning’ New NBC Poll Finding Trump Leading Biden

Biden turns 81 as questions about age continue to dominate 2024 race (ABC News) The question is not age, the question is competence.

Michigan Poll: Trump Leads Biden in Key Battleground State

Forget Our NBC Poll! Scarborough Yawns Past Biden’s Bad Polling Graveyard

Terror Threat Is “Real” While Border Remains Open, Says Former CBP Chief

Harvard/Harris Poll: Trump Tops GOP by 58, Biden by 6

Biden FCC Moves to Put New DEI Controls Over Internet

Angry Over Israel Policy, Young Voters Break Sharply From Biden – Trump Leads NBC Poll For First Time

ExxonMobil Vs. Google: Profits, Taxes, & Perceptions Explained

Report: Biden Sends Screening, Deportation Team to Panama

EXCLUSIVE: FCC Commissioner Paints Harrowing Picture of Biden’s New Power Grab

Cardi B declines to endorse Biden, pointing to spending on wars (The Hill) OH NOES! (What’s she going to do–vote for Trump?)

The Real Reason Why Biden Shouldn’t Drop Out (The New Republic) Winning is the only thing.

Sleepy Joe Turns 81: America’s Oldest President Just Got Even Older

Federal Indictment Unsealed After U.S. Postal Employee And Two Co-Conspirators Are Arrested For $24 Million Stolen Check Scheme (DoJ) Scott Adams loves to tell the story of how he came to stop mailing his cartoons in to his syndicate, because the local post office employees would invariably steal them.

Biden campaign works to ease Democratic anxiety over reelection chances (Washington Poop) Good luck with that.

Biden Poised To Sanction West Bank Settlers Attacking, Displacing Palestinians

Poll: Biden’s standing hits new lows amid Israel-Hamas war

Biden campaign facing heat over plans to deal with his age (Politico)

‘BEYOND INSANE’: Trump Veteran Condemns Biden’s Gift to Tehran as Iran-Backed Forces Attack US After Oct. 7

NBC Poll: Trump Leads Biden for First Time Ever

Slow Joe turns 81

“He’s Going To Lose”: Bill Maher And Donna Brazile Slam Biden As Democrats Recoil Over Age, Handling Of Israel War

Axelrod: Biden’s Chances in ’24 ‘No Better’ Than 50-50

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 69)

Pentagon turns to press flaks and academics to help fight information wars

Hunter Biden’s career of benefiting from his father’s name (Washington Poop) The Crust gears up to ease Creepy Joe out of the Presidential slot.

Why Haven’t UAW Leaders Stood Up to Biden’s EV Mandates That Could Cost 400,000 Jobs?

Outrage Ensues After No Charges Likely In Biden Classified Document Scandal  Laws are for thee but not for me.

FAU Poll: Trump Leads Biden in Fla. Among Nonbinary Voters

DOUBLE STANDARD: Networks SUPPRESS News Of No Charges In Biden Classified Docs Case

Taliban Pocketing $2.5 Billion In US Taxpayer Humanitarian Aid: Inspector General  Democrats never tire of giving money to our enemies.

GAO: Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Lacked Fraud Prevention

Pentagon Fails To Account For Over $3 Trillion For 6th Year In A Row

Watchdog Exposes Fraud Risks In Biden’s Canceled $430 Billion Student Debt Relief Plan

Lawmakers Press FDIC Chief Over Misconduct Charges

Media Aren’t Quite Hackish Enough for Biden White House

Biden says he still believes Xi Jinping is a dictator (CNN) At least Joe hasn’t lost all touch with reality.

Biden judicial nominee fails to explain law terms when asked by Sen. John Kennedy

Yahoo Poll: Trump Leads Biden for First Time in Months

Morning Vomit: Joe Scarborough Thanks God That ‘Brain Surgeon’ Biden Is President

Watch: Blinken Dies Inside While Biden Blunders Through Major Geopolitical Moment

The BorderLine: Will Biden Going Soft on Venezuelan Dictator Lead to Increase in Immigrants to US?

Leaked NSA Doc Reveals Woke Glossary Promoting Race Theory & Gender Ideology

The Great Train Robbery: Taxpayer Subsidies for Amtrak Should Be Derailed

NewsGuard: Surrogate the Feds Pay to Keep Watch on the Internet and Be a Judge of the Truth

CNN Exclusive: Special counsel using California grand jury in Hunter Biden probe, subpoenas his uncle James Biden (CNN)

Pentagon fails sixth audit in a row (The Hill)

JESSE WATTERS: The Secret Service has been lying to you about the White House cocaine scandal (Fox News)

Photos released of cocaine found in White House this summer (CNN)

Biden Unlocks Fresh Funds to Iran Totaling Billions

Biden to nominate attorney who would be first Muslim American judge on a federal appeals court (NBC News) Would FDR have nominated a Nazi to the federal bench during World War II? I think not….

FBI Director Pleads for No Warrants With FISA 702

Hunter Biden Seeks to Subpoena Trump, Former AG Barr

Court Orders Biden Administration To Hold Oil And Gas Lease Sale

Young Voters Warn Biden of ‘Scary Election’

Navy SEAL Under Investigation After Protesting the Trans Agenda

Rep. Higgins Warns FBI’s Wray of Evidence of Jan. 6 ‘Ghost Buses’

‘Bask in the Good News’; NBC Argues We Celebrate Economy ‘Going in the Right Direction’

USPS Loses $6.5B After Crafting Plan to Break Even

Rep. Foxx Again ‘Dogs’ White House Over Commander

US extends sanctions waiver allowing Iraq to buy electricity from Iran Holey sanctions, Batman.

Administrative State Scolds Biden for Not Obeying Them

FBI Director: FISA Section 702 warrant requirement a ‘de facto ban’

If Biden can’t run a normal campaign, he should step aside (Nate Silver)

Biden Taps Top Campaign Donor To Lead Powerful Treasury Department Commission  Money talks.

Biden Admin Thinks Israel Seeking Pretext For Wider War In Lebanon: Axios

First photos reveal the COCAINE found in the White House: Images of the baggy in cubby hole that sparked White House investigation – and the culprit has still not been found (UK Daily Mail)

Report: Border Crisis Costing US Nearly $500B

Senate Republicans Demand Biden DOD Rescind Abortion Policy That Inspired Tuberville’s Holds

Biden Has “Hurt The Economy A Lot” According To 33% Of Americans, While Only 14% Say They’re Better Off  Those 14% must be those that have gotten a piece of the trillions that the U.S. has gone into debt since Biden was elected.

Eight NEW Biden Family Scandals ABC, CBS, NBC Are Hiding

More Than 400 U.S. Officials Sign Letter Protesting Biden’s Israel Policy (N.Y.Times) The Deep State thinks he’s being too friendly to Israel.

Migrants’ Border Wall Falls Devastating — and Costly

Illegal Border Crossings Into US Drop in October After 3 Months of Increases

Migrant Encounters at the Southern Border Remain at Record Levels in October

Oy Vey, WashPost! Quit Treating Voters Like They’re Stupid for Recognizing Biden’s Economy Sucks

Rep. Greene Chides Mayorkas Impeachment Blockers  With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?

8 Republicans Voted With All House Democrats to Block Mayorkas Impeachment (Hot Air) With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?

While Hamas Planned Its Attack on Israel, Biden’s Intel Community Was Focused On Climate Change

Secret Service agents protecting Biden’s granddaughter open fire when 3 people try to break into SUV (Associated Press) Crime in D.C. pretty bad when this happens in Georgetown.

Likely impeachment adds to feeble Joe Biden’s already brutal presidency (N.Y. Post)

Here’s How Biden Can Turn It Around (Politico)

NY Post’s Goodwin: Biden ‘Likely’ to Be Impeached

Why Are Americans In Such A Rotten Mood? Biden Blames The Media

Internal State Dept. memo blasts Biden, U.S. policy on Israel-Hamas war (Axios)

I Was Obama’s 2012 Campaign Manager. There’s No Need to Panic Over Biden. (Politico) As Stalin said, it doesn’t matter who votes, what matters is who counts the votes.

Report: Biden Losing Black Voter Support

Only 14% of US voters say Joe Biden has made them better off (Financial Times)

Secret Service Agent Protecting Biden Granddaughter Fires at Car Thieves as DC Crime Wave Surges

Biden Runs Against New York City

‘We Only Deal in Billions’: FOIA Documents Show Feds’ Indifference to Massive Jobless Benefits Overpayments

Biden Mulls Approval of Fresh $10 Billion for Iran

National Media Finally Notice DC Crime Wave After Biden Granddaughter Marginally Involved in 863rd Carjacking Incident of 2023

Voters are worried about Biden’s age. He knows it. (Politico)

Sullivan: White House Wants to Resume Military Ties With China

Saving Private Biden+

Joe Biden wants to complete his goals on civil rights, taxes, and social services if he’s reelected (Associated Press) Look, the sock puppet talks!

Another Government Agency Secretly Plans to Follow Biden’s Election Executive Order

The House ‘Concentrates The Mind’ Of Hunter Biden With A Game-Changing Subpoena

Defying Democratic pushback, Dean Phillips vows to invest millions in his primary challenge to Biden

Jonathan Martin: ‘Imperative’ Biden Talk 3rd Party Candidates Out of Running, ‘Stop Trump’

Thousands Already Lined Up For Black Friday After Grocery Store Offers Prices From When Trump Was President (Babylon Bee)

Moody’s cuts U.S. outlook to negative, citing deficits and political polarization (CNBC)

The House is most definitely not in order (Washington Poop) Dana Milbank loses his shit.

The Censorship “Switchboard”: A New Layer To The Biden Administration’s “Orwellian Ministry Of Truth”

White House tried, and failed, to persuade Manchin to make another Senate run

Taibbi: Big Brother Is Flagging You

Beto O’Rourke: Biden ‘Failing Us’ on Immigration  Hey, Joe, if you’ve lost Beto….

ATF Director Says Assault Weapons Ban Now On His “Wish List”

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 68)

How Joe Biden Got Paid

Bump Stock Case Could Nullify Other Biden Admin Gun Control Rules

Borrowers Got $127B in Student Loans Canceled  And taxpayers take it in the shorts.

Revelations From Special Counsel David Weiss’ Testimony On Hunter Biden Investigation

The American Mind.

On January 6, 2021, former Proud Boys’ Chairman Enrique Tarrio didn’t punch any Capitol police officers, he never “surged” forward to overwhelm Capitol defenses, he never smashed any Capitol windows or destroyed any Capitol fences, he never threw anything at Capitol police, and he never set foot in the Capitol. He never did any of those things because on January 6, 2021, Enrique Tarrio was in Baltimore, Maryland.

You might be surprised to learn this crucial fact considering that the Justice Department indicted Tarrio and several co-conspirators for seditious conspiracy, among other charges, claiming they “very nearly succeeded in provoking a constitutional crisis.” Two years later, following a four-month trial, a Washington D.C. jury convicted Tarrio and the Proud Boys of most of the counts. In August 2023, DOJ argued that Tarrio should be imprisoned for 33 years; the court sentenced him to only 22.

ThoughtCrime is apparently independent of location, or even action.

2.9 Million Borrowers Pay Nothing In Biden’s ‘Most Generous Ever’ Student Loan Repayment Plan Buy those votes! Buy those votes!

Senate Hearing Shows—Again—Why Mayorkas Should Be Impeached

DOJ: Constitution Protects Right to Travel for Abortion

Gov. Kemp Extends Gas Tax Suspension Over Bidenomics

New FBI Headquarters Headed To Maryland In Blow To Virginia Officials

Under new speaker, some Republicans hope impeachment inquiry will step carefully (Washington Poop)

Biden faces expanding list of potential challengers in reelection bid (Washington Poop)

Special Counsel Sought OK to Prosecute Hunter in 2022  Cover-up? What cover-up?

Federal appeals court calls Biden’s ‘ghost gun’ limits unlawful (NBC News)

Hunter Biden Lied To CPA, Then Scrambled To Clean Up Tax Mess During 2020 Presidential Race

Karine Jean-Pierre’s claim Biden ‘has done everything’ to fix border crisis met with mockery: ‘Speaks volumes’ (Fox News)

US Senate’s top Republican: Biden’s funding request will not pass without ‘border solution’ (Reuters)

Matthews: Joe Biden: Organized crime’s best friend (The Hill)

White House Urges Caution on Polls Showing Biden in Trouble

‘Morning in America’ Eludes Biden, Despite Economic Gains ( N.Y. Times) What ‘economic gains’?

‘Martyrs of the Struggle’: Green Group That Employs Interior Sec’s Daughter Lauds Hamas Terrorists

Report: Taliban Takes ‘Direct Control’ of Migrant Trafficking Gangs

You can buy personal info of US military staff from data brokers for just 12 cents a pop

David Weiss confirmed denial of special status in Hunter Biden case: Jim Jordan (N.Y. Post)

Special Counsel Weiss tells lawmakers politics ‘played no part’ in Hunter Biden probe (Fox News)

Special counsel in the Hunter Biden case insists he was the ‘decision-maker’ in rare testimony (WHIO)

Joe Biden’s weak polling numbers spark alarm among Democrats (Financial Times)

New emails show DHS created Stanford ‘disinfo’ group that censored speech before 2020 election (N.Y. Post)

Counterterror Director Used Hamas Attack to Justify Mass Surveillance Program Renewal (The Intercept)

Rupi Kaur rejects Biden administration’s Diwali invite over its response to Gaza (NBC News) Who? *yawn*

Weiss Claims ‘Full Authority’ Over Hunter Biden Probe

Biden’s polls (The New Neo)

Biden Checks His Latest Poll Numbers To See If Israel Still Has Right To Defend Itself (Babylon Bee)

America First Legal Files Suit Against DHS’ Experts Group

Some Democrats worry Biden’s team is ignoring political warning signs (Washington Poop) Reality intrudes yet again.

Research Flags “Concerning” Employment Losses At Nursing Homes Amid Biden Administration Staffing Push

Watchdog: Afghanistan Has Received $11 Billion In Aid From US Since Withdrawal

Biden’s stumbles spark concerns about ad strategy and surrogate operation (Politico)

Biden Confronts the Limits of U.S. Leverage in Two Conflicts (N.Y. Times)

Report: Feds Coordinated Broad Censorship of Americans on Election, COVID, More

Meyers FREAKS OUT Over Polls Showing Trump Ahead

Biden Administration Focuses on ‘Islamophobia’ While Jew-Hatred Runs Rampant

Obama Deployed to Salvage Wreck of SS Biden

The Foundry.

Although Republican senators have for months muttered their disapproval of Tuberville’s strategy of holding high-level military promotions until the Defense Department reverses its policy, this skirmish was the first time his GOP colleagues had openly rebelled against him.

It won’t be the last. These same senators—and others—are plotting with Democrats to change the rules governing the Senate to undermine Tuberville and process the promotions. Watch for news of that in the days to come.

Why would Senate Republicans fight against one of their own, especially on something as fundamental as the fight to defend the unborn? Despite their espoused principles and campaign promises, life is simply not the top priority of many elected Republicans—at least, not like it is for their voters.

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Taxpayers will be able to submit all sorts of tax documents and other communications to the IRS digitally months earlier than originally planned under a new timetable for paperless taxpayer communications announced Tuesday by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.

“The impact will be significant and far-reaching,” Yellen says in a speech prepared for delivery at IRS headquarters in Washington, “and we’ll speed up processing times for the system as a whole.”

The IRS has endured decades of underfunding and been overloaded with paper documents that prevented the agency from processing tax forms at a faster pace. Yellen’s speech is intended to signal that the infusion of cash for the IRS over 10 years included in the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act is working.

Biden trails Trump in states likely to decide 2024 US election, polls show (Reuters)

CNN panelists sound alarm on ‘really scary’ poll showing Biden trailing Trump in key states (Fox News)

Why Democrats shouldn’t despair over concerning new polls about Biden (CNN)

Axelrod Suggests Biden Should Drop of Presidential Race

FACT SHEET: President Biden Advances Vision for World Class Passenger Rail by Delivering Billions in New Funding (WhiteHouse.gov) And our buggy whips are the best in the world!

Poll shows Biden support slumping among Michigan Muslims (NBC News) It doesn’t matter–what are they going to do, vote Republican? I think not.

Gavin Biden/Joe Newsom

Behind the Curtain: Biden’s race problem (Axios)

IRS Targets Conservative Group Exposing the Biden Admin

Dem Congresswoman: Minorities Fleeing Biden Because of ‘Feelings’, Lack of Civics Education

Just 1 arrest after pro-Palestinian DC protest spurs acts of vandalism, bid to scale White House fence

Treasury Borrowing Running At Crisis-Era Levels

Meacham Talks Polls on Morning Joe: Biden’s ‘Not On Trial Here, I Think We Are’

Granholm Jets Off to Puerto Rico for Sixth Time Since Last Fall

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Do you find it a little disturbing that the combat capability of our aircraft carriers has not improved since WWII and, in fact, the only really important characteristic, air wing size, has markedly decreased?

Further, when factoring in the construction cost,
Early Essex $40M ($750M in 2023) [2]
Late Essex $78M ($1.33B in 2023) [2]
Ford $16B+
the Ford represents a staggering decrease in combat value for the dollar.

It’s clear that our carriers have become less combat effective over time. I know that some of the less enlightened among you will attempt to say that a Ford can strike from a longer distance and with more precise, devastating weapons. Well, first, that’s a reflection of the air wing, not the carrier and, second, that’s an absurd comparison. The proper way to compare between WWII and today is to do so relative to the time period and the threats that existed during that period.

The Antiplanner.

Affordable housing projects aren’t making housing more affordable. In fact, says a new study by an MIT economist, construction of new subsidized housing displaces new unsubsidized housing for little net gain in the housing supply. Specifically, the study found, ten new subsidized housing units resulted in eight fewer unsubsidized units.

‘Biden, you can’t hide’: Tens of thousands march in US for Gaza ceasefire (Al Jazeera)

Evidence that Biden received payments traced to China

VP Harris’ Stepdaughter Promotes Pro-Gaza Fundraiser

Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter Ella Emhoff is promoting an $8M Gaza fundraising campaign: ‘Abhorrent’ (N.Y. Post)

Scoop: Biden’s 2024 team roiled by Israel-Hamas war (Axios)

Don’t Fall For Biden’s Latest Talking Point

Trump Leads in 5 Critical States as Voters Blast Biden, Times/Siena Poll Finds (N.Y. Times)

Trump Vows to ‘Build State of the Art Missile Defense Shield’

Sen. Johnson: FBI’s Cover-Up on Biden Probe “Greater Scandal’

Hundreds Join Mexico Migrant Caravan to US

Democrats Rattled After NYT Poll Shows Trump Beating Biden In Majority Of Swing States

A Paid Agent of a Foreign Power

Speaker Johnson Expects Decision On Biden Impeachment Articles ‘Very Soon’

More Terror Suspects Reaching The US: Here Are ‘Known Unknowns’ Of The Biden Border Crisis

Biden’s SPR Election Gimmick Undercut National Security

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