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After weeks of pushing out some of its highest profile personalities, CNN’s new boss has made his first big on-air hires. And the names being brought on board further suggest a less outwardly political direction for the network.

Powerful New Antibody Neutralizes All Known COVID Variants (SciTechDaily)

This nanoparticle could be the key to a universal covid vaccine (MIT Technology Review)

Better COVID vaccines are on the way. What do they do? And what technology might we see in future? (The Conversation)

Now that COVID-19 boosters are arriving in Oregon, when should you get the new vaccine shot? (Oregon Live)

Scientists say that inhaled and nasal vaccines may be needed to beat Omicron. China just approved the world’s first inhaled one (Fortune)

Young man who returned to Hong Kong from overseas trip confirmed as city’s first monkeypox case

Zero-COVID In China: Lockdowns Of Major Cities Continue

Progressives, Not the Pandemic, Hurt Kids’ Education

Biden Admin Making $3.9 Billion Gamble on Vaccine For Monkeypox  And why not? It’s not their money.

The US Economy Is Still Being Artificially Supported By Trillions In COVID Stimulus

Serious adverse events of special interest following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination in randomized trials in adults

Long-term cardiac pathology in individuals with mild initial Covid-19 illness

Covid: Summary of lab-origin hypothesis

New ‘The View’ co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin wants to be ‘voice’ of Trump voters  Not on The View she won’t.

Arizona AG’s office proves there’s no pony for MAGA cult under the manure of ‘2000 Mules’ (Arizona Central)

Donald Trump once tried to pay a lawyer with a horse, new book says (The Guardian)

Top House Democrat says ‘mainstream’ Republicans are fighting against MAGA to defend democracy (The Hill)

MSNBC guest says ‘Americans vs. MAGA’ is the new national conflict

Biden again attacks ‘MAGA’ GOP members of Congress, ‘full of anger, violence and hate,’ in Labor Day speech

‘Deeply Problematic’: Experts Question Judge’s Intervention in Trump Inquiry (N.Y. Times)

Newly obtained surveillance video shows fake Trump elector escorted operatives into Georgia county’s elections office before voting machine breach (CNN)

Politico’s New Owner Invited Colleagues to ‘Pray’ for Trump’s Re-Election (Daily Beast)

Why Trump Refused to Make Giuliani His Secretary of State (Daily Beast)

Rich Dems Worried About Trump Are Buying Second Citizenships (Daily Beast) Funny thing how Republicans never do that.

Trump’s political clout on the line again in Massachusetts GOP gubernatorial showdown

After Trump Praise, ‘Return’ Soars on Bestseller Lists

Anti-Trump Politico Owner Believes in ‘Nonpartisan’ Journalism?

A Ruling Untethered to the Law (The Atlantic) Weissman was the chief witch-hunter under Robert Mueller.

Trump Went Judge Shopping and It Paid Off in Mar-a-Lago Case (Daily Beast) As if the FBI didn’t do the same when it got the original warrant.

Biden’s Cabinet hasn’t changed, a sharp break from Trump (CNN) Trump controlled his cabinet; Biden is just a puppet.

Omicron finally got me after two years of being a COVID hermit. Then, doctors made it worse (S.F. Chronicle)

UK approves second Covid vaccine targeting Omicron variant (The Guardian)

New COVID booster shot shows ‘tremendous promise.’ Can it prevent the next surge? (S.F. Chronicle)

Data For Newly Authorized COVID-19 Boosters Based On Mice, Not Humans

Colleges in D.C. Continue COVID-19 Protocols

CDC Warns Of New ‘Stealth’ COVID Variant Where You Test Negative And Get No Symptoms  (Babylon Bee)

Sebastian Vettel believes world needs to ‘rethink our behaviors’ to tackle climate change (CNN)

This is a cold oasis in California on the hottest weekend of the year. Beware of ‘fogburn’ (L.A. Times)

How To Choose Climate-Friendly Foods If You Care About The Environment (BuzzFeed)

Examining the game industry’s hidden impacts on climate change (Ars Technica)

17 states weigh adopting California’s electric car mandate (Associated Press)

Calif. heat wave expected to be longer, ‘peak even higher’ (S.F. Gate)

How sustainable are fake meats? (Ars Technica)

By 2080, climate change will make US cities shift to climates seen today hundreds of miles to the south (ZMEScience)

California heat wave: Chance of rolling blackouts rises sharply starting Monday (S.F. Chronicle)

‘It’s blazing hot’: Bay Area seeks ways to stay cool in triple-digit heat (S.F. Chronicle)

The dangerous charms of models

Climate Change Weekly #445: Where Are All the Hurricanes? They Ain’t Here Yet

Europe’s Energy Crisis Was Created By Political Interventionism

More Signs That Illinois’ Green “Industrial Policy” Is Failing

Not Even Diablo Canyon Can Save California From Its Green Energy Nightmare

Surprise! Climate Warrior NZ PM Jacinda Ardern’s Popularity is Collapsing

Electric Car Mandates Latest Frontier of Elites War on Middle Class

Washington Post.

Chileans on Sunday delivered a resounding rejection to a new leftist constitution that aimed to transform the country into a more egalitarian society.

In a referendum, Chilean voters were asked to approve or reject a proposal to replace the country’s 1980 dictatorship-era constitution — considered one of the most market-friendly in the world — with one of the world’s most inclusive.

The new charter envisioned a dramatic shift to the left in the South American nation, expanding the role of government and calling for an economic model that would narrow inequalities and help lift up the poor.

Trump suggests the Mar-a-Lago documents were bound for his library. But advisers say he’s rarely talked about it. (NBC)

Scrutiny builds over FBI’s discovery of empty folders at Mar-a-Lago (The Hill)

Trump’s obsession with the FBI’s ‘deceiving’ photo hints at much deeper insecurities (NBC)

Trump moves to general election mode with Pennsylvania rally (Associated Press)

Civil War May Have ‘Already Begun,’ MSNBC Host Says, Citing MAGA Violence (Newsweek) What about BLM violence? What about Antifa violence?

Mary Trump Slams Bill Barr Over Donald Trump Criticism: ‘Way Too Late’ (Newsweek)

Video of John Harwood Calling Trump a Threat Viewed Over 2.7 Million Times (Newsweek)

Deep inside busy Mar-a-Lago, a storage room where secrets were stashed (Washington Post)

Donald Trump Will Call for ‘Violence’ as Allies Turn on Him: Mary Trump (Newsweek)

New omicron boosters are now available, but it’s unclear how effective they will be (CNBC)

CVS, Walgreens are rolling out omicron boosters. Here’s how to know you’ll get the updated shot (S.F. Chronicle)

Miracle ‘farm dust’ pill could prevent childhood allergies (The Guardian)

COVID: EU warns ‘completely new’ strains possible this winter (DW.com)  Guess it’s once more time to PANIC!

Hospital executives who expected rebound from COVID this year say they’re stunned by financial losses instead (Oregon Live)

Monkeypox Has Been Linked To Serious Heart Inflammation In A 31-Year-Old Man (BuzzFeed)

Scientists Identify Heart Muscle Inflammation As a Possible Complication of Monkeypox Infection (The Weather Channel) Even the Weather Channel has to push the Narrative.

Stressed out about climate change? 4 ways to tackle both the feelings and the issues (NPR)

Mapping this summer’s extreme divide in rain and drought (Washington Post)

Death Valley National Park in California scorched a world record for high temperatures on Thursday. (Huffington Post)

Scientist finds perfect spot in Tucson to study glaciers (Arizona Daily Star)

You may qualify for over $10,000 in climate incentives from the Inflation Reduction Act. Here’s when you can claim them (CNBC)

Sea level rise prompts city to plan future oceanfront developments more inland (Hawaii News Now)

The U.S. has a new climate law. Now comes the hard part. (Washington Post)

“Game-changer” Paxlovid turns into pandemic enigma (Axios)

What Is Paxlovid Mouth and Why Do Some Get It? Chicago’s Top Doc Explains (NBC)

NY Times Laments COVID Learning Loss, But Lets Liberals, Own Reporting Off the Hook

The Pandemic Did This? New York Times Fails Fact Check

Synthetic DNA nasal spray could stop COVID, flu, and other viruses

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The FT describes themselves as unbiased purveyors of the truth in a fake news world. I repeat the question I asked in my previous article: does that sound like the FT to you?

The Financial Times is to Britain what the Wall Street Journal is to the U.S. … if the Wall Street Journal were put out by the staff of Mother Jones.

CDC clears reformulated Covid shots targeting omicron in time for school (CNBC)

CDC signs off on updated Covid-19 boosters (CNN)

City to Begin Offering Second Doses of Monkeypox Vaccine to New Yorkers and Begin Accepting Walk-In Appointments (NYC.gov) Lot of queer fools in NYC.

The tech winners and losers of the pandemic (The Economist)

Covid vaccine drive for youngest kids off to underwhelming start, data shows (Politico)

Fact Check: Reuters Misled You About Our DC Vaccine Mandate Piece

Victor Davis Hanson: The Mysteries Of Long-COVID

California passes massive climate and clean energy package, halts closure of state’s last nuclear plant (CNN)

California Just Banned Gas-Powered Cars. Here’s Everything You Need to Know (Inside Climate News) The good news is, gas-powered cars no longer have to meet California’s stringent CAFE standards.

Costs of climate change far surpass government estimates, study says (Washington Post) A study! That proves it!

Carbon should cost 3.6 times more than US price, study says (Associated Press) A study! That proves it!

8 TikTok Trends That Are Terrible for the Environment (Gizmodo)

Polling shows that US voters favor climate bills – yet assume fellow Americans don’t (The Guardian) According to the Narrative.

Permafrost thaw seems to be draining Arctic lakes at an accelerated rate (New Atlas)

Youngkin administration to move forward with plan to withdraw from greenhouse gas initiative (WDBJ)

Sea level rise over next 30 years will affect NH (WMUR) Betcha it doesn’t.

California to Cover Canals With Toxic Solar Panels

Greenhouse Gas Pollution by Wind Turbines

Extinction Rebellion: Climate activists stage protest in Commons chamber

How Serious is the ARk Storm (Catastrophic Flooding) Threat Along the West Coast?

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When we consider the lie that America is a nation of immigrants, the really important question to ask is: how does this lie serve the regime? What’s the instrumental purpose of this lie? And I think, that, if we inquire a bit, it’s political purpose is clear. If we’re a nation of immigrants, fundamentally, then we are wrong not to just throw open the door. We’d be violating our most sacred and eternal traditions not to do that. If you don’t want to do that, you’re not just a bigot, you’re not just a racist, but you’re fundamentally anti-American in some way. That is the narrative that this lie serves.

We are a nation of legal immigrants.

New York Times.

The Justice Department used 35 pages of type in a court filing on Tuesday to provide new details of its investigation into former President Donald J. Trump’s handling of hundreds of classified documents that were taken from the White House at the end of his term.

But the most easily digestible element of the filing was appended at the end: a single photograph showing documents with secret and top secret markings arrayed on a patterned carpet, with a carton of framed pictures on one side. The photograph did not clearly display any details of the subject matter of the documents, which were conspicuously bordered in red when labeled secret and in yellow for top secret.

So they admit that it was posed.

But the genesis of the photograph appears to be in keeping with standard protocols for how federal agents handle evidence they come across in a search.

Really? They pose ‘evidence’ for pictures as ‘standard protocols’? Really?

The folders were arrayed by agents at Mar-a-Lago after being removed from what the filing indicated was Mr. Trump’s office — they were not discovered scattered on the floor, according to two federal law enforcement officials.

And that tells you everything you need to know about this picture.

New Covid Variant BA.4.6 Outcompeting Dominant BA.5 Across Swath Of U.S. For First Time (Deadline)

CDC advisers to decide on Omicron-retooled boosters on Sept 1 (Reuters)

US Plans to Move COVID Vaccines, Treatments to Private Markets in 2023

The Lab-Leak Theory And What We Know About The Cover-Up

How New Orleans School Vaccine Mandate Is Affecting Students

California Bill Seeks to Punish Doctors Who Don’t Toe the COVID-19 Line

FDA Authorizes Moderna, Pfizer/BioNTech Omicron Vaccine Boosters

NBA Will Still Test Unvaccinated Personnel Despite CDC Announcement

In 2024, Los Angeles Will Vote On Forcing Hotels To House The Homeless  We got yer semi-fascist, right here.

California Will Now Punish Doctors For Refusing To Comply With The Establishment COVID Narrative

US fossil fuel firm sues insurer for refusing to cover climate lawsuit (The Guardian)

Canada reviews anti-racism funding after ‘vile’ tweets (BBC)

Rising sea levels have some New Jersey barrier islands taking drastic actions (ABC)

Contra-rotating floating turbines promise unprecedented scale and power (New Atlas)

New contra-rotating turbine design produces double the energy of the world’s largest turbine (Interesting Engineering)

‘It’s getting extremely hard’: climate crisis forces China to ration electricity (The Guardian) I suspect that’s not the real reason.

Why even environmentalists are supporting nuclear power today (NPR)

Bible demands action on climate change, Evangelicals say in new report (Washington Post)

Major evangelical organization says Christianity demands climate action (The Hill)

U.S. climate envoy Kerry urges China to resume emissions talks -FT (Reuters) Oh, right, Kerry is still enjoying his cushy no-show job in the Biden administration.

U.S. Must Dispel Pelosi’s ‘Negative Influence’ Before Climate Talks: China (U.S. News)

Why climate change may be driving more infectious diseases

It is 100 days until Cop15 – and the omens are good for a global plan to protect nature (The Guardian) A plan that no one will follow.

Are fossil-fuel CO2 emissions good or bad?

Will a Small Change in Average Temperature Lead to a Large Change in Extremes?

Climate Scientists Discover Food Grows in the Tropics

Arctic Ice at Decade-High Level: Can Doomsayers Explain?  Well, no.

CNBC Blames ‘Human-Caused Climate Change’ for Sea Levels Rising by ‘Nearly One Foot by 2100’  Betcha it doesn’t.

Bizarre ‘Fact Check’ of World Climate Declaration Claims No Natural Climate Change for Almost 200 Years

Poll: 54 Percent of Americans Consider Electric Vehicles Impractical

Just Days After Phasing Out New Gas Cars, California Says “Avoid Charging EVs” Amid Potential Blackouts

Wired Gushes Over Rivian’s R1T And R1S, Gives EVs A Record 9/10 Rating

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The self-appointed “fact checkers” generally fall silent when a Democrat tells a whopper. We are seeing a lot of that in Minnesota these days, with incumbent Governor Tim Walz locked in a tight race with Dr. Scott Jensen. Walz didn’t have a lot of composure to start with–he is an angry, intemperate man–and whatever composure he had seems to be crumbling under pressure. The result is frequent departures from the truth.

On Sunday, Walz was interviewed at the State Fair by a liberal reporter from WCCO television. He unleashed a couple of epic lies. First, he claimed that there had hardly been any school shutdown in Minnesota: “Just to be clear, over 80% of our students missed less than 10 days of in-class learning.”

This assertion is inexplicable. Gov. Walz shut down the entire school system on March 15, 2020. His administration then put in place a complicated matrix using county health data and school district boundaries for schools to reopen in the fall of 2020. Most public schools did not return to in-class learning until the spring of 2021. “Less than 10 days”? That is not true of any public school student in the state. For most, it was a year.

Struggling with long Covid? Experts say diet and nutrition could help — here’s what you need to know (CNBC)

A mutated virus, anti-vaxxers and a vulnerable population: how polio returned to the US (The Guardian)

Eye Roll: CBS Uses New Poll to Pump Up Liberals, Insist Abortion Is Top Midterm Issue

Joe Rogan on lessons learned from pandemic: ‘Vote Republican’ (The Hill)

Judge Rules COVID Vaccine Mandate For DC Government Workers Is Unconstitutional

Supreme Court’s Sotomayor Keeps New York City COVID Vaccine Mandate

Unvaxxed Coast Guard Cadets Given 24 Hours To Leave Campus

Texas Confirms First Death of a Person with Monkeypox

CDC Advisers to Decide on Omicron Boosters on Sept 1

A melting glacier, an imperiled city and one farmer’s fight for climate justice (Washington Post)

Elon Musk says ‘civilization will crumble’ unless we continue using oil and gas in the short term

Scientists call on colleagues to protest climate crisis with civil disobedience (The Guardian) Where it’s always still the sixties.

Explainer: How industry is depending on carbon capture technology for climate goals (Reuters) You’re too stupid to read the news for yourself so we’ll thell you the Narrative.

Zombie ice from Greenland will raise sea level 10 inches (Associated Press) Betcha it doesn’t.

Greenland ice losses set to raise global sea levels by nearly a foot, new research shows (CNN) A study! That proves it!

EPA tells 15 states they missed air pollution plan deadline (The Hill)

Harrison Ford frequent flier on private jets despite climate change activism Rules are for thee but not for me.

How sea-level rise could sever a vital transport link in Canada (Al Jezeera) Betcha it doesn’t.

Renewable energy is maligned by misinformation. It’s a distraction, experts say (NPR)

Washington Post: The USA Should Pay for Pakistan’s Climate Floods

Last WH polar bears ashore even later than 2009 as Hudson Bay finally becomes ice-free

New Zealand’s plan to prepare for inevitable climate change impacts  Betcha they don’t happen.

Systemic Error in Global Temperature Measurement

A third of Pakistan is underwater from floods, climate chief says  Works for me.

First Solar announces new U.S. panel factory following the Inflation Reduction Act “Saddle up, boys! There’s government money in them thar hills! KA-CHING!”

Why “Zombie Ice” and other claims of Greenland ice melt raising sea levels are just modeled hokum

A simple paint job can save birds from wind turbines

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The central reason the Left loves EVs is that the process of forcing Americans to convert to electric-powered transportation will destroy forever the incredible freedom and prosperity associated with privately owned gas-powered vehicles.

The future will instead be centrally controlled by rich elitists and their corrupt politicians, power-hungry bureaucrats, and ideologically driven “experts.”

Some 290 Million Years Ago, Climate Change Caused An Explosion Of Reptiles (SyFy)

Sea level rising more rapidly than previously predicted (WPLG)

Warming Trends: Bill Nye’s New Focus on Climate Change, Bottled Water as a Social Lens and the Coming End of Blacktop (Inside Climate News)

Arctic Sea Ice Extent Forecast for September 2022. The remaining sea ice will play a crucial role in the course of next winter (Severe Weather Europe)

Hurricane center increases odds for tropical wave’s development, tracking 3 other systems (Orlando Sentinel)

Environment Agency tells staff to ignore pollution complaints, says ex-employee (The Guardian)

In fast-warming Nevada, climate bill may not lift Democrats (Washington Post)

Swiss Politicians Form ‘Stop The Blackouts’ Coalition: “We Cannot Do Without Nuclear Power Plants”

German Experts Warn Of Grid Instability…”Conventional Power Plants Needed For A Long Time To Come”

The Guardian Accuses the Woke Aussie Government of “Climate Denial”

Congress tries to protect the planet from an overreaching court (Wasington Post) I guess Carl Bernstein couldn’t come out of hibernation in time, so E.J. Dionne had to fill in.

In fast-warming Nevada, climate bill may not lift Democrats (Washington Post)

Greenland ice sheet set to raise sea levels by nearly a foot, study finds (Washington Post) A study! That proves it!

Greenland ice sheet climate disequilibrium and committed (274mm) sea-level rise (Nature)

Made-In-America EV-Battery Production? Metals Needed Suggest No Time Soon

Climate Change Forecasts

The Libs Are Coming After Your Lawns

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For every election cycle, a few months prior to voting day, pollsters release surveys that show Democrats leading with wide margins. The media gleefully amplify these polls.

This isn’t a recent phenomenon.

Californians working while sick with COVID-19, fooled by mild symptoms (L.A. Times)

A man thought he had COVID. It turned out to be a deadly fungal infection that spreads through dust. (Insider)

Why Omicron Boosters Weren’t Tested in People (TIME)

Omicron booster shots are right around the corner (Axios)

Google employees frustrated after office Covid outbreaks, some call to modify vaccine policy (CNBC)

The world is moving on from the pandemic. Not these covid long-haulers. (Washington Post)

‘Thirdhand smoke’ may last longer than you think and damage your health’ (Medical News Today)

Touching someone else’s clothing can increase cancer risk, study claims (The Mirror)

Long Covid is responsible for about a third of unfilled jobs in the U.S., new research suggests (CNBC)

‘Triple Threat’? Man Diagnosed With HIV, COVID, & Monkeypox At Same Time

Fall Vaccination Campaign Will Bring New Shots, Worse Access (N.Y. Times) Women and minorities hardest hit etc. etc.

Rockefeller Foundation Wants Behavioral Scientists To Come Up With More Convincing COVID Vaxx Narratives

Masks for Thee, But Not for Me

Could long Covid be linked to herpes viruses? Early data offer a hint

Nuclear fusion power inches closer to reality (Washington Post)

Nuclear Fusion Is Doing the Impossible—Uniting Politicians (Newsweek)

Washington and Massachusetts to follow California’s gas car sales ban

Following California’s lead, Oregon exploring ban on gas-powered vehicles

Amazon adopts green hydrogen to help decarbonize its operations (About Amazon)

Here’s Why Amazon’s Green Hydrogen Partnership with Plug Power Is a Big Deal (The Motley Fool)

Illegal road in Brazilian Amazon brings threat of further deforestation

Inside Clean Energy: The Idea of 100 Percent Renewable Energy Is Once Again Having a Moment (Inside Climate News)

Half of year will be ‘dangerously hot’ in tropics by 2100, research shows (The Guardian)

Dangerous heat waves to at least triple across the world by 2100, study says (CNN) Oooo, a study! That proves it, then!

Democrats’ inflation bill quietly created green energy loan program critics warn could lead to next Solyndra

The New Peer-Review: Why ‘Unbiased’ Science Is Now Often Misleading

How to Turn California Into Cuba

Lake Mead Low Water Levels: Overuse, Not Climate Change

Georgetown students speak out against ‘completely senseless’ mask mandate in classrooms

Covid-19 rebound is probably more common than data suggests, but Paxlovid is still effective

CDC Finally Admits COVID Mutations Hobbled Vaccine Effectiveness

MSNBC Accuses DeSantis of ‘Violent Language’ Towards Fauci  I guess they haven’t been listening to me….

Pfizer’s RSV vaccine is 86% effective at preventing severe illness

Researchers may have created a universal coronavirus vaccine

Drug Company Unveils New Drug To Fix Side Effect From Other Drug That Fixed Side Effect From Other Drug  (Babylon Bee)

Long Covid, Cognitive Impairment, and the Stalled Decline in Disability Rates

School is in session. Should you worry about your kid catching monkeypox? (CNN)

Why monkeypox is making some college kids nervous right now

SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern emerging from chronic COVID infections, study shows

Chronic COVID-19 infections are source of variants of concern, study shows (Emory University)

Health officials: Three Ga. children with monkeypox caught it at home (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Rancho Cotate High student tests positive for monkeypox (Santa Rosa Press-Democrat)

Chinese city ‘stretched to the limit’ as millions wait in line for Covid tests in extreme heat (CNN)

Milwaukee parents lash out against mask mandate revival: ‘a bunch of bullies and cowards’

Mayor Bowser’s vaccine mandate unlawful, DC Superior Court judge rules

NIH experts review monkeypox challenges

Illinois Coronavirus Updates: Longer-Lasting COVID Symptoms, Fall Boosters, Variant Tracking (NBC)

US Monkeypox Cases May Be Peaking, Experts Say

House GOP Launches Probe Into Education Dept.’s Use of COVID Funds

Twitter COVID-19 errors; Jack Dorsey’s regret; minor victory for Musk

Taking Mask Off Science Driving COVID-19 Responses as Schools Reopen

Moderna Sues Pfizer, BioNTech Over COVID Vaccines

DC Delays School Vaccine Mandate After Daily Signal Report 

DC Mayor Bans Unvaccinated Children From Attending School

Study: Pfizer COVID pill showed no benefit in younger adults (Associated Press)

How Long Do COVID Symptoms Last? Here’s What to Expect First and Which Ones Might Linger (NBC)

Unvaxxed Navy sailors face ‘deplorable’ living conditions while religious exemptions pend

Admiral who said unvaxxed SEALs cause ‘immediate harm’ to Navy admitted no combat operations affected

Monkeypox in Children and Women Remain Rare, CDC Data Show (MedScape)

Bill Gates: Dr. Fauci is ‘a hero to millions of people, including me’ (CNBC) Yet another reason to dislike Bill Gates.

Watch: Fauci Claims Lockdowns Have Not “Irreparably Damaged Anyone”

Unvaccinated Djokovic Out of US Open; Can’t Travel to US

Twitter labeled factual information about covid-19 as misinformation (Washington Post)

Nate Silver: Liberal Elites Pressured Pfizer to Delay COVID Vaccine Rollout  My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Report of an ancient methane release raises questions for our climate future (Washington Post)

It’s Happened Before: Paleoclimate Study Shows Warming Oceans Could Lead to a Spike in Seabed Methane Emissions (Inside Climate News)

Cheap, high capacity, and fast: New aluminum battery tech promises it all (Ars Technica)

Rechargeable aluminum: The cheap solution to seasonal energy storage? (New Atlas)

‘Charismatic’ dugong sea mammal declared functionally extinct in China (Washington Post)

In this societal city builder you’ll restore civilization after global climate change (PC Gamer)

The world’s first hydrogen-powered passenger trains are here (CNN)

Fleet of hydrogen passenger trains begins service in Germany (Associated Press)

The Big Bet on Natural Gas Is Blowing Up in the World’s Face (The American Prospect)

Five 1,000-year rain events have struck the U.S. in five weeks. Why? (Washington Post) Climate change, of course!

Deepwater Horizon spill linked to gene expression changes in dolphins (NBC)

Deepwater’s dolphin damage highlights toxicity of oil (The Hill)

Forests Are Being Destroyed and ‘Nature Lovers’ Are Helping (Daily Beast)

Harvard’s Endowment Suffers Through Woke Investing While The University Of Texas Drills Oil And Rakes In Cash (Daily Wire)

Appalachian, Indigenous pipeline foes say climate deal ‘left us to burn’ (Washington Post)

Weakening environmental safeguards won’t help renewable energy (The Hill)

Atlantic Tropics So Quiet It May Set A Record Soon (Just In Weather)

A near 100 per cent renewables grid is well within reach, and with little storage

Could Poor Coffee Harvests Send Prices Even Higher?

Early Investors In Texas Shale Are Now Reaping The Benefits Of Sticking With Their Bet

WEF: Teach Compulsory Climate Change Studies to Alleviate Youth Anxiety

‘There is No Climate Emergency’ (1,107 Signatories and Counting)

Tesla, Nio EV Charging Stations Go Dark As China Rations Power

How Eco-Fiction Became Realer Than Realism (The Nation) It uses the buzzword ‘interrogating’ so you know it’s Woke.

How Fracking Billionaires, Ben Shapiro, and PragerU Built a Climate Crisis–Denial Empire (Vice)

August On Verge Of Being Tropical-Storm-Free For Only Third Time In 60 Years

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America is ruled by an elite whose status and power depend on enforcing certain falsehoods. I don’t mean the commonplace lies which generate a forgettable scandal sprung on the public like a drive by shooting. I mean core, fundamental lies, on the basis of which the regime that currently rules America maintains itself: that we are still unambiguously a democracy, rather than an oligarchy which looks to be heading toward a tyranny; that the differences between males and females are societal fictions or that women can operate in the world with no reference to the facts of biology; that we are a nation of immigrants; and, of course, the endless lies about race.

Byron York.

The story we’re all hearing is: This is huge, but we can’t tell you what it is, exactly.

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CNN’s Tom Foreman is an award winning fact checker, but on Thursday’s CNN Newsroom he spread some fake news about Texas’s new pro-life law, declaring that it is now a felony to provide an abortion in order save the life of the mother. In the next hour, host Poppy Harlow would contradict him while teeing up another pro-abortion segment.

Foreman’s official CNN biography states, “He leads the network’s fact checking initiative and in 2013 Foreman and the fact checking team were awarded the Walter Cronkite/Brooks Jackson Award.”

ZMan looks at patterns.

There are two strains of thought on this side of the great divide with regards to the behavior of the people in charge. One camp, the dominant camp, thinks there is an organized campaign run by a small group of people. The so-called deep state pulls the levers resulting in the things we see happening in the world. The other camp, the much smaller camp, subscribes to the emergent behavior doctrine. What we see is the result of the hive mind that dominates the managerial class.

By any reasonable standard, the deep state side has the easier claim. Spend a week following the main regime media organs and a pattern emerges. On a Monday, the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and other legacy operations will be running with the same theme. The next day, all of the next tier media operations are running with the Monday theme. By the end of the week, the media narrative has become conventional wisdom, maybe even holy writ.

As Auric Goldfinger said to James Bond, once is chance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.

Moderna seeks FDA authorization for updated Covid-19 booster (CNN)

FDA plans to authorize bivalent boosters by Labor Day, sources say (NBC)

A dog in France has monkeypox, worrying scientists that we won’t be able to eradicate the virus if it spreads to more animals (CNBC)

I’m a doctor. Here’s why my kids won’t wear masks this school year. (Washington Post)

Medical experts weigh in on continued COVID-19 school measures: ‘There is no place for universal mandates’

Anthony Fauci Fires Back Against Right-Wing Attacks on Fox News (Daily Beast)

Omicron subvariants BA.4.6 and BA.2.75 are here. How concerned should California be? (L.A. Times)

Omicron subvariants BA.4.6 and BA.2.75 are here. How concerned should U.S. be? (Seattle Times)

Americans are highly vaccinated against polio. Here’s why it could still spread (CNN)

Mass. health leaders call for stepped-up COVID plans for fall and winter (Boston Globe)

Anthony Fauci Was ‘a Total Disaster’: Leading Scientist Responds to Fauci’s Retirement

Rise and Fall of Fauci Illustrates Death of ‘Expertise’

Biden Administration Plans for New Booster Campaign Soon After Labor Day (N.Y. Times)

Federal Judge Protects The Religious Right Of Marines To Refuse COVID Vaccine

Boutique Bans Masks Due to Crime

Polio Is Back in the US and UK. Here’s How That Happened (Wired ‘Science’)

Moderna Seeks Authorization for Booster Targeting Omicron BA.4, BA.5

Bavarian Nordic to Boost Monkeypox Vaccine Supply to Combat Shortfall

Watch: CNN Tells Viewers Monkeypox Is Not Sexually-Transmitted

New Jersey’s Largest School District Implements Mask Mandate for Entire School Year

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I‘m sure you’ve seen the pictures of lakes Mead and Powell, those great reservoirs on the Colorado River that supply water to the west. For years now, we’ve been allowed to believe that we are in a great drought that is causing these lakes to diminish to their current meager levels. The drought, we’re directed to assume, has been caused, or at least exacerbated, by climate change, which is in turn caused by our own arrogant use of fossil fuels, the bane of all existence, an existential threat as urgent, deadly, and certain as the great asteroid that hit the Yucatan and destroyed the dinosaurs. The bathtub ring of calcium salts that stains the rock at the edge of these reservoirs is yet more evidence that we are the problem and will cause our own demise, good riddance to us.

But for those who believe all this and demand massive response, look at this chart; it comes from the US Dept. of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation study completed in 2012. It shows the Colorado River Basin’s historical watershed and the actual and projected demand for water from this watershed.

This chart, to even the most ardent climate change activist, shows absolutely that the declines in lakes Mead and Powell have nothing at all to do with drought. It is demand that is draining the lakes; we’ve depleted the watershed faster than it can be replenished. Further, there is no evidence that the watershed is diminished at all. The entire issue is a fiction.

WATCH: Why Dr. Fauci Won’t Be Missed

New York State Ends COVID-era Guidelines in Schools

LA Public Health Department Faces Backlash After Offering COVID-19 Test To Animals, Including Seals  Your tax dollars at work.

Overlapping emergencies strain the nation’s public health workforce and threaten critical vaccination campaigns (CNN)

Home prices plunging in ‘pandemic boomtowns’ as market slumps

From dating to concerts, these activities are—and aren’t—safe for monkeypox risk, experts say

California School Principal Calls Police on Unmasked 4-Year-Old

Maddow Gushes Over Fauci: There’s Never Been Anyone Like Him!  Thank God.

British Scientists Behind Key COVID Trial to Test Monkeypox Treatment

Fauci’s long goodbye

CDC Director: ‘Dramatic’ Mistakes During Pandemic Mistakes Prompts Reset

Unvaccinated Yankee Great Restricted From Mingling With Team

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A new group called Climate Intelligence (Clintel for short) has been founded in the Netherlands with the express purpose of combatting the extremism of the climate change campaigners. One of their early efforts is a statement, signed by 1,100 scientists and policy experts from around the world, that argues “There Is No Climate Emergency.”

There is no climate emergency  So say 1500 scientists.

Diet for a hotter climate: five plants that could help feed the world (The Guardian)

The century of climate migration: why we need to plan for the great upheaval (The Guardian)

Carbon dioxide removal is growing. So is the need for a code of conduct. (Protocol)

Want to see how climate change is stressing bees? Look at their wings. (Washington Post)

How livestock grazing is benefiting the planet (The Guardian) George Monbiot gets some pushback.

Boston mayor seeks to ban fossil fuels in new buildings (The Hill)

These Trees Are Spreading North in Alaska. That’s Not Good

Corruption of Climate Science Supported by Flawed Models

Top German Official Says Life Extensions For All Nuclear Power Plants Unlikely

How messed up was Germany’s energy policy?

Ocean Acidification Cut Down to Size

Should You Get a Polio Vaccine Booster? What Health Experts Are Saying (Good Housekeeping)

FDA asks Pfizer to test second Paxlovid course in patients with COVID rebound (Reuters)

Washington state’s King County declares monkeypox a public health emergency (CNN)

FDA authorizes Novavax Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use in ages 12-17 (CNN)

More than half of TN’s monkeypox cases reported in one county (WKRN)

Omicron-specific Covid booster shots are just weeks away. Here’s who will—and won’t—be eligible (CNBC)

Lawsuits Coming For Entities That Don’t Change COVID Mandates After CDC Update: Lawyer

US National Institutes Of Health Ending Subaward For Wuhan Lab

Pfizer Asks FDA to Authorize Omnicron Vaccine

Anthony Fauci Announces He’s Retiring in December

World In Panic As Science Announces Retirement (Babylon Bee)

The Walensky confession

New Study Shows An Alarming Link Between Being A Conspiracy Theorist And Not Having Myocarditis (Babylon Bee)

Ode to Joylessness: Mask Debate Cancels Edinburgh Beethoven Performance

Despite the Evidence, CNN Insists ‘Monkeypox Is NOT a Sexually-Transmitted Infection’

Biden Inflation Act Provides the EPA New Weapons to Pursue their Climate Change Jihad

Climate Change Weekly #444: China Scraps (Already Scant) Climate Cooperation Over Pelosi Taiwan Visit

Aussie Triumph? Solar Briefly Overtook Coal, then Failed at Sunset

The New World Energy Order: A Battle Of Attrition

Democrats’ $369 Billion Green New Virtue Signal Barely Scratches Global Warming

Is Your Government Ready For Another Pandemic?

Self Care for Psychopaths: The Anthony Fauci Children’s Book

Post-Covid excess deaths in Britain

Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths in Britain is only tip of the iceberg

The World’s Second Largest Cinema Chain Is Preparing For Bankruptcy

Polio in US, UK and Israel Reveals Rare Risk of Oral Vaccine

Chinese City Testing Fish For COVID

The Real Wuhan Virus Vaccine

CLIMATE PROPAGANDA: Telemundo Forces Green Agenda On To Viewers

Global Warming Spawned the Age of Reptiles

Green Energy Nightmare: German Politician Labels Poor People “Enemies of the State”

Emails, Wayback Machine Gem Confirms: DiCaprio, Other Private Funders of Governmental Climate Litigation Paid Millions to “Climate” Lawyers Via Pass-through Charity

Failed Climate Predictions – Willie Soon, PhD

Study Finds 0% Of Leftists Who Are Warning About Overpopulation Have Volunteered To Die First (Babylon Bee) Selfish swine.

DEBUNKED: Europe’s claimed ‘worst drought in 500 years’ – Peer-reviewed studies, data & IPCC reveal ‘drought has not increased’ & ‘cannot be attributed to human-caused climate change’

NBC News: Monkeypox chiefly transmitted through sex between men, suggests CDC update communications strategy

Monkeypox Is a Sexually Transmitted Infection, and Knowing That Can Help Protect People (‘Scientific’ American)

Current COVID Symptoms: Common Symptoms Now Compared to Earlier in Pandemic (NBC News Chicago)

Fauci: It’s a ‘Problem’ That Americans Don’t Want the COVID-19 Vaccine

CDC Misunderstands Why People Hate It, Attempts to Reorganize Anyway

Examining How COVID-19 Lockdowns So Easily Curbed American Freedoms

Long Covid: A Parallel Pandemic

Antibody fragment discovered that neutralizes all major Covid-19 variants

NBC News: Experts Got Monkeypox Wrong: It’s Now a Gay Venereal Disease Spread Sexually

The end of quarantine? What people should know about the CDC’s new Covid-19 guidelines (CNN)

Stanford monkeypox case not sex-related, raising questions about transmission (Mercury News)

The reemergence of polio is a public health emergency. And a tragedy. (Washington Post)

Anti-vaccine activists giddily celebrate as poliovirus spreads in NY (Ars Technica)

Oregon’s first pediatric case of monkeypox confirmed (KOIN)

WHO says monkeypox vaccine ‘not a silver bullet’ as breakthrough cases reported (Politico)

Sanctuary Cities Seethe as Illegal Immigrants Actually Arrive (Newsweek)

COVID in California: Some S.F. school kids masking up even without mandate (S.F. Chronicle)

Rutgers Keeping Mask, Vaccination Mandates for Fall Semester

The flawed reasoning behind the mask “requirement” in healthcare settings

CDC Admits Its Covid Performance Was Lacking  Oh, ya think?

A Deeper Dive Into The CDC Reversal

Discriminatory COVID Fines Dropped for California Church

RFK Jr.’s Anti-vaccine Group Kicked Off Instagram, Facebook

US Offers Extra Monkeypox Vaccine Doses for Gay Pride Events

Appeals court revives Biden pause on federal oil, gas leases

These Striking Nature Ads Call Out Mercedes-Benz for ‘Greenwashing 101’

Scientists warn of dire effects as Mediterranean heats up (Associated Press)

The spending bill will cut emissions, but marginalized groups feel they were sold out (NPR) Women and minorities hardest hit.

Institutional decarbonization scenarios evaluated against the Paris Agreement 1.5?°C goal (Nature)

The evergreen tree that outlasted the dinosaurs is now endangered (CNN)

There Is No Climate Crisis: History Shows Us That The Earth Has Seen Far Worse

Charging Electric Cars Like “Spilling Liters of Petrol”…(Hidden) Losses During Charging Are Huge

Jordan Peterson: Peddlers of Environmental Doom Have Shown Their True Totalitarian Colors

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Talk is cheap, and Democrat talk is the cheapest of all.

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I guess we won’t have Brian Stelter to kick around anymore.

Pity.

The Impact of Human CO2 On Atmospheric CO2 – Summary

Keeping the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open is a dangerous waste of effort and money (L.A. Times)

Shadowy Oil and Gas Interests Are Deciding Texas’ Energy Fate (Gizmodo) Shadowy! Dunh-dunh-DUNHHH….

L.A. is right to phase out oil drilling, but communities can’t wait 20 years (L.A. Times) California has an amazing amount of untapped oil reserves, all locked away by blue-state environmentalism.

Bill Gates and the Secret Push to Save Biden’s Climate Bill (Bloomberg)

How safe are nuclear power plants?

Germany: Finally Facing Energy Reality

Climate Activist European Companies Rushing to Exploit African Oil

Green Fascists Are Destroying the World

COVID public health emergency appears to be headed for extension (Axios) Of course it is.

Zeldin, GOP accuse Hochul of abuse of power with latest COVID emergency extension

Blood abnormalities found in people with Long Covid (Science) So I guess it’s time to PANIC!

Is Covid Over?

Inside America’s monkeypox crisis — and the mistakes that made it worse (Washington Post)

CDC Announces Overhaul After Botching Pandemic

Sex between men, not skin contact, is fueling monkeypox, new research suggests

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I remember Norah O’Donnell from the First Gulf War. She was pretty hot back then.

She hasn’t aged well.