Trump Amends Big Tech Lawsuit As 65,000 Americans Submit Censorship Stories

American democracy’s infrastructure is crumbling (CNN)

Nets Hide Massive Group of Illegals Apprehended at Border, Over 1,000

Pelosi Asks Biden to Extend Eviction Moratorium in Violation of Supreme Court Ruling

NBC Hypes U.S.-Bashing Sprinter, Ignores Belarusian Sprinter Defection

DC Police Confirm 4th Suicide Among Officers Defending Capitol Jan. 6  Perhaps they can’t live with their shameful role in these political show trials.

It’s Not All Fun and Games At The Olympics

Mitchell Touts ‘Very Special’ Jane Mayer Hit Piece on Conservatives ‘Suppressing the Vote’

Illinois Gov. Pritzker to Enforce Background Checks for Private Gun Sales

Pelosi Says She Will Arrest Any Congressperson Caught With Copy Of The Constitution Babylon Bee.

Elizabeth Warren Tells Teen Vogue ‘Access to Abortion’ is ‘About the Functioning of Our Democracy’  Apparently democracy includes killing bablies. Aristotle would be surprised.

Head of Group for Exiled Belarusians Found Hanged in Ukraine

New York County Passes Bill To Allow Cops To Sue Rioters

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The Delta variant of the novel Coronavirus has delivered a tremendous opportunity for Democratic officeholders and public health authorities to feed their will to power. The Democratic officeholders have also seized the moment to replay the freestyle stupidity that carried us through the epidemic. Here are four columns that shed light on dark corners.

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Leaving California would be an obvious first step.

Higher Gas Prices Mean Higher Taxes: Illinoisans Now Pay The Nation’s 2nd-Highest Gas Taxes

AOC Hires Heavy Security, Ex-Blackwater

Minneapolis Crime Update

Pick Your Pronouns Wisely

Culture & Conduct Risk: The Normalization of Deviance

‘The Chi:’ ‘People of Chicago Don’t Need Policing,’ Reality: 50 Shot This Weekend

Home Depot Is Selling Power Tools That Require Activation In-Store  Shoplifting has gotten pretty bad. Try Amazon.

Home Depot is introducing power tools that won’t work if they’re stolen  Thank you, George Soros.

Governments reportedly used Pegasus spyware to post private photos of female journalists

NY Spent $106M on Cuomo’s Halted Bridge Lighting Plan

Hypocrite NY Times Troubled By Targeting of Left-Wing Arsonists: ‘Extreme Crackdown’

‘The Muppets’ Spin-Off Teaches Toddlers the Beauty of Transgenderism

Senate May Move on Universal Pre-K

Libertarians built a Bitcoin economy in a New Hampshire town, feds tore it down

ABC Touts Jailed Murderer Elected in DC, Lobbies for Prisoners to Vote

German High Court Rules Facebook Illegally Censored Content

Soros-Backed Virginia Prosecutors Face Recall Amid Crime Surge

David Brooks.

The creative class was supposed to foster progressive values and economic growth. Instead we got resentment, alienation, and endless political dysfunction.

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The biggest local crime story this year may be the beheading of America Thayer in broad daylight on the streets of Shakopee, Minnesota last week. America was murdered by one Alexis Saborit. Saborit was her abusive boyfriend.

In a 2017 Carver County proceeding against him for abusing America (Thayer, that is), Judge Kevin Eide indicated in the court’s release order/bail hearing document that “Defendant has ICE hold.” At his initial appearance on the murder charge on Friday, Saborit asked to be deported to his own country rather than stand trial in Scott County.

Saborit was on his way to court with Thayer on a 2020 arson charge when he murdered her. In the arson case Saborit is described as a Puerto Rican male. If so, he would be an American citizen.

What is Saborit’s immigration status? So far as I can tell, Alpha News editor Anthony Gockowski is the only reporter pursuing an answer to the question. He reports: “[N]either the Shakopee Police Department nor ICE responded when Alpha News asked for clarification.” One way or another we intend to achieve clarity.

A lawyer hoped history books would help her Capitol riot clients grow. She was called a traitor — and worse. (Washington Post)

California Parents Are Pulling Children From Public Schools

American Medical Association: Remove Sex from Public Birth Certificates

TikTok Star Shot Dead at US Cinema

Bacon may disappear in California as pig rules take effect

NPR Allows Its Reporters to Engage in Direct Activism

Belarus Runner Alleges Olympic Team Tried to Send Her Home

California Fighting Federal ‘Let It Burn’ Policies, Annual Wildfires

San Fran DA Chesa Boudin Stands Up For Shoplifters And Drug Dealers

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During the campaign I thought the over/under on the decline of Biden’s faculties should be set at 40 percent. Since then I have upped it to 50 percent. Until he takes a cognitive test, we are stuck with guesses based on our observations and inferences. Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Michael Goodwin notes in the New York Post today the visible “evidence he is not up to the job. His frailty and mannerisms hardly inspire confidence, and the obvious attempts to hide him from extended questioning fuels more doubts about his fitness.”

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The Telegraph reports that documents from Britain’s National Health Service, dated 2017 and 2018, indicate that the NHS contemplated denying medical care to those over 70 in case of a “serious flu epidemic.”

Gotta love that government-provided health care!

Narrowing the U.S. wealth gap is important. Narrowing the racial wealth gap is urgent. (Washington Post) Why? Why is it ‘urgent’? Why is it even ‘importnt’? (The fact that they write so many articles about it suggests that nobody outside the Hive thinks it either important or urgent.)

OOOPS: Unfortunate PolitiFact Job Tweet Says ‘Come Join Our Misinformation Team’

The recycling myth: A plastic waste solution littered with failure

With Dem-Loving Press, Science Is Whatever Biden Says It Is at the Time

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But some exceptions have cropped up. In 1977, for instance, researchers in the Soviet Union found something peculiar while looking at a virus that infects photosynthetic bacteria: All the A’s in the genome had been replaced with an alternative base, 2-aminoadenine, which was later dubbed Z. Usually, C pairs with G and T pairs with A to form double-stranded DNA. But in this virus, with no A’s to be found, T paired with Z. (During gene transcription, T-Z was still treated as though it were T-A.)

The Z base looks like a chemical modification of A; it’s an adenine nucleotide with an extra attachment. But that modest change allows Z to form a triple hydrogen bond with T, which is more stable than the double bond that holds together A-T.

BLM gives senator ultimatum to cut ties with ‘all white’ country club

Black Lives Matter Rhode Island to protest Sheldon Whitehouse over exclusive club ties

Suspects accused of murdering 60-year-old woman in Garland arrested

Why Is Nobody, Other Than My Commenters, Suggesting That Simone Biles Was Stressed by Her Brother’s Recent Triple Murder Trial?

Morning Joe Pundit Compares GOP Voting Laws to Emmett Till Murder

Job applicants with black names less likely to get interviews  Gee, I wonder why?

Gaetz, Greene and Gohmert turned away from jail to visit Jan. 6 defendants | TheHill

‘I Thought I Was Going To Die’, Says Capitol Police Officer Who Held Door Open For Protestors On Jan. 6

‘Converse’ Unveils New Occult Shoe Line

NPR Ethics Striptease on Protests: Let Your Progressive Flag Fly, Reporters!

“The Enemies Of The State”: The New York Times And The Fluidity of Advocacy Journalism

Colorado web designer who refused to make same-sex wedding websites loses appeal

NYT: There Is No Good Reason You Should Have to be a Citizen to Vote

CAUGHT: CNN En Español Openly Pushing Communist Cuba’s Propaganda

Critics Concerned About Canada’s New Speech Legislation  This is why it’s handy to have the First Amendment.

Cuomo pushes employers to force their employees return to NYC

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Hammer tech.

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The transit industry is terrible at accurately predicting future costs and ridership. It is terrible at cost-effectively moving people. But it is very good at one thing: spin.

When the pandemic dropped ridership by more than 80 percent, did the industry say, “I guess we aren’t needed right now; you can cut our subsidies”? No! It said, “We are carrying essential workers to their jobs, therefore you must increase our subsidies.”

Now that ridership is slowly recovering, is the industry saying, “we are now carrying only 42 percent of pre-pandemic levels, so you can cut our subsidies”? No! Instead it is saying, “Ridership of some agencies has increased by as much as 80 percent, so you must increase our subsidies!”

“Transit” never means “going from where you are to where you want to be as quickly as possible”. It always means “going from where you aren’t to someplace not where you want to be on somebody else’s schedule that incidentally eats up at least twice as much time as driving”.

Scientists Model “True Prevalence” of COVID-19 in the United States Throughout Pandemic

CDC mask advisory gets tepid Montana response

“Not Grounded In Reality”: Many Republican Governors Make Clear They Will Not Be Mandating Masks Or Vaccines

BUSTED: Habitual Parking Violator AOC Shuns Pelosi’s Mask Mandate, Puts Lives at Risk

The CDC’s Hysterical Delta Flip-Flop Might Be Its Final Undoing Don’t hold your breath.

Biden’s Border Patrol Dumping COVID-Positive Illegals In Texas Town Via Local Charity

California Restaurant Requires “Proof Of Being UNvaccinated” For Service  Except that you can’t prove a negative.

California One-Ups CDC With More Restrictive Mask Mandate

America’s Covid policy remains largely a train wreck

The Vaccine Karens

Sydney Sends In Military To Help Enforce Lockdown Amid Record Jump In COVID Cases

The Pointless Drive To Make Masks Great Again

France Calls UK Quarantine Rules Discriminatory, Excessive

CBS Leaps to Defense of ‘Target’ Newsom in Recall, Spins History of Mask Hypocrisy

Fall in Line: Big Tech Companies Implement New COVID-19 Policies to Control Employees

Police Ordered to Arrest Visitors, Staff Refusing to Wear Masks on House Side

American Postal Workers Union Opposes Mandatory Vaccinations “At This Time”

Face Masks Found To Be Effective At Making You Look Like A Giant Dummy Who Doesn’t Know How Vaccines Work Babylon Bee.

Besides Lost Jobs, 3 More Ways Minimum Wage Laws Hurt Workers They’re Meant to Help

Washington Post’s Margaret Sullivan: Stop ‘Fair-Minded’ Coverage of January 6 Hearings

Tweets Show Capitol Officer Dunn as Critical of Trump, Praising BLM Protests

Tim Cook, other CEOs urge Congress to pass citizenship path for Dreamers  They have a ‘citizenship path’ – it’s called Obey The Law. (In passing, they might want to give their parents a smack for putting them in this position.)

Infrastructure Agreement Filled With Billions for Green Energy, Racial Justice Projects  My, what a surprise.

Air Force report: China ‘weaponizing’ economic clout to coerce U.S. allies

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When I was a kid, scientists in the movies were either good guys who used their knowledge and skills to solve the problem and kill the monster or the aliens or they were bad guys (“mad scientists”) whose ego caused them to misuse science in an attempt to rule the world. Those movies never had incompetent scientists trying to fake science and skill to gain power and influence; that would be the movie we are seeing now.

We could start working the script with a long look at the execrable Neil Ferguson who became famous by persuading British authorities that millions of Britons would die from Mad Cow Disease. He made equally stupid predictions about swine flu and bird flu. There is nothing in this man’s professional record that would suggest he has any credibility, but damn if the U.K. and the U.S. didn’t base their initial response on his preposterous COVID model which was followed by his even sillier prediction of mass deaths if any nation dared let up on lockdown or closure interventions.

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Why would anyone have faith in the government’s telling the truth? It’s clear that if the facts get in the way of their agenda, they aren’t interested in “complicating” their message. We always knew that government, and especially politicians, “mishandled” the truth, but we figured that behavior went with the job. After all, they desperately wanted to fool as many people as possible. But now the lying is so ubiquitous that the word “truth” has lost its meaning. I’d like to think the lying happens less on the Right, but I simply don’t know if that’s true anymore. Even more disappointing is that more than ever, the media has decided that its mission is to defend the Leftist agenda, so they are happy to collude in the lying.

MSNBC’s McCaskill Fears Americans Won’t Watch Partisan Dem Hearing  Well, shucks.

Where the fight to build a better democracy starts (CNN) At CNN, of course.

CNN Republican Margaret Hoover Longs for a More Liberal GOP  She could always dig up the corpse of Teddy Roosevelt.

Politico: Georgia Democrats Say ‘We’re F***ed’ With Voter ID Required, a ‘Turnout Catastrophe’

Your Kids Are Next: Facebook Continues Development of Instagram for Kids Despite Backlash  What better venue for Drag Queen Story Hour?

Catholic Bishops Rebuke Self-Described ‘Strong Catholic’ Terry McAuliffe

MSNBC Hails Leftist Media Mogul Lear Demanding Dem Election Takeover

CUNY Professors Leave Union in Droves Following Anti-Israel Statement

New ‘Oregon Trail’ Game Has You Try To Survive A Trip Through Portland  Babylon Bee. Prepare to die.

Chinese Defense University Conceals Partnerships With U.S. Schools

Police Reform Passed in Washington State

The Post-Dirtbag Left (The New Yorker)

San Francisco considering congestion tax on high-earning drivers

UK Labour Councillor Ridiculed For Bragging About Wearing A Mask On An Empty Train  If you virtue-signal and there’s nobody there to see it, did it really happen?

First Pro-Democracy Protester Convicted Under Hong Kong National Security Law

Arizona Senate Subpoenas Maricopa County Routers

Progressive Christian Offers New, More Open, Less Judgmental Christianity — No, Wait, It’s Just Satan Again Babylon Bee. Any resemblance to Pete ButtPlug is purely coincidental, I’m sure.

Arrest Warrant Signed for Texas Dem Who Fled State

China Building Massive Nuclear Missile Base, Satellite Images Reveal

American Women’s Soccer Team Defeated After Opponents Play U.S. National Anthem During Game Forcing Them To Kneel The Whole Time  Babylon Bee.

GOP Lawmakers Join Pro-Cuban Marchers at DC Rally of Support

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“Treating healthy people like biohazards over an illness that has killed two dozen personnel in a force of millions is insane. Those preventative policies have consequences, too; the surge in depression and suicide among the young is real. . . .”

I am healthy, but our governor in California regards me as a biohazard because I am not vaccinated. He supports, “My body. My choice.” Except when he doesn’t.

Maybe if you were going to kill one of his children ….

Texas Democrat fears ‘rural cop’ retaliation for fleeing state Well, maybe if you’d do your job….

MSNBC Allows TX Dem to Float Unhinged Conspiracy Theory: ‘Rural Cops’ Are After Us!

Chicago Chamber Of Commerce Rages As Average Unemployed Illinoisan Parent Earns $35/Hour Sitting On The Couch

China Blasts US Seeing It As “Imaginary Enemy” Leading To “Stalemate”, Gives Biden A “To Do” List

Police Are Telling ShotSpotter to Alter Evidence from Gunshot-Detecting AI

Inside a Chinese Internment Camp

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After over a quarter century mostly lived in the Golden State, my family left it all this year for Texas—and we haven’t looked back.

It turns out that when you have kids, you don’t want to be in Venezuela when it collapses. Old friends now ask us about the hot Texas summer. But, like so many others, I’m not at a stage in life where I give a damn about refined weather. As you may have noticed, we have some work to do to save America. And weather and geography do not matter when you are ruled by people who hate you and your family and everything you stand for—when the rule of law is routinely bent for one side and not the other.

Arizona GOP Audit Director Barred From Recount After Sharing Data Supporting Trump Loss (Newsweek)

U.S. drops cases against five researchers accused of hiding ties to Chinese military (Washington Post)

California Is Experiencing A Crime “Tsunami”, DA Says  Gee, I wonder why?

“It Looks Like A Bazaar In Istanbul”: Without Police On The Street, Illegal Vendors And Gamblers Are Taking Over The Bronx

Argentina Establishes a Transgender Quota for Government Workers

CNN’s Darcy Promotes NAACP CEO Wishing Fox News Could Be ‘BANNED’

FBI Entrapment Claims Abound Around Jan. 6, Busted Whitmer Plot

Pelosi Plans to Add Anti-Trump GOP Rep. Kinzinger to Jan. 6 Panel  The new ‘bipartisan’: Democrats and RINOs.

The Other McCain turns over a rock.

San Jose isn’t Alabama or Mississippi. You can talk all you want about “the system” and slave ships, but San Jose was never part of that. There were no cotton plantations in Santa Clara County, and I’m doubtful the KKK ever had much influence there. As for the current demographics of San Jose, the city’s population is less than 30% non-Hispanic white, 33% Hispanic, 32% Asian, 16% “other,” and about 3% black.

Even if we did not know the specific details of Demetrius Stanley’s death, does it make sense to jump to the conclusion that racism explains this shooting? Is San Jose a bastion of right-wing Trump voters upholding “systemic racism”?

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All of San Jose’s elected representatives are Democrats. The governor of California is a Democrat, as are both of the state’s U.S. Senators. In the 2020 election, Joe Biden got nearly 64% of the vote in California, and almost 73% of the vote in Santa Clara County. There may be more liberal places in American than San Jose, but certainly the city is not a reactionary stronghold of white supremacy.

WaPo reporter sues paper for not assigning her to cover Kavanaugh matter

Meet the CDC-Backed Groups That Want To Teach Trans Ideology to Kindergartners

NPR Book Club Promotes Author Who Wants Race Riots and Looting Defined as ‘Rebellions’

CNN Ponders ‘Swearing Off Meat Completely’ To Save Planet

Severian is unhappey.

There’s definitely a lot of that going around, but it doesn’t describe the behavior of the apple polishers, or the people who have issued themselves the Asshole License. You know the ones I mean: SJWs, of course, but also CrossFitters, vegans, cyclists… basically, anyone who takes up a certain cause or lifestyle seemingly for the sole purpose of being an enormous douchebag about it in every possible social situation. Neither I nor anyone else would have a problem with vegans, say, if they really were doing it for their health, as they so often claim, because if they really were doing it for their health, they’d bring it up once, and then forever shut the fuck up about it.

I’m pretty sure that nobody in Ranger School or BUD/S ever asked, ‘Is this going to be on the test?’

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A patriotic restaurant owner in northern Illinois is facing fines of $200 – all because he decided to fly an American flag outside his business, according to a report.

Terry Trobiani, who runs Gianelli’s, a hot dog and beef spot along Highway 176 in Prairie Grove, McHenry County, says he was ticketed for “improper display” after a village administrator recently stopped by, according to FOX 32 of Chicago.

“He says, ‘You might want to read this,’” Trobiani recalled the official saying as he was handed a printout of the local rules.

“The American flag is a symbol of patriotism,” Trobiani said. “It’s not a sign. They’re equating it with open/closed. Dine in, sign out.”

 

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In a pattern similar to what other industrialized nations have already experienced, China not only has a labor shortage because of a low middle class birth rate, they are now experiencing the side effects of too many university graduates. Currently about 54 percent of young (18-22) Chinese will obtain university degrees and a growing percentage of them cannot find jobs that justify the effort and expense that went into obtaining a diploma. In 2021 over nine million recent university graduates went looking for a job. That was four percent more than 2020 and most will not find a job that requires a university degree. Even grads with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) degrees are not guaranteed a job and, even if they get an offer, it is not as attractive (well-paid and in their field) as a decade ago. Many have to settle for low-level (high school) teaching jobs. The military is always seeking STEM grads but this is considered second-best because pay and benefits are not great and working conditions are often very unattractive, especially in the navy where ships spend more and more time at sea. Another problem with the military is that you have to qualify to be an officer and that excludes many STEM grads who cannot meet the physical or gender (males preferred) requirements.

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Other than drunks on skid row downtown, Los Angeles didn’t have many homeless people in the postwar era. That was largely because of the immense Camarillo State Mental Hospital, which had 7,000 residents/inmates/patients or whatever you want to call them in 1957. For example, Charlie Parker recorded “Relaxin’ at Camarillo” after his six restful months there in 1946 following a series of unfortunate events such as setting his hotel room on fire and playing his saxophone naked in the lobby.

Whistleblower Docs: NASA Held Microaggressions Training

North Carolina State Board Of Election Denies Audit Request

“Hundreds Of Thousands Have Disappeared” – Inside China’s Largest Detention Center

Inside the new gender critical research network

It’s Almost as if Spending More on the Homeless Invites in More Homeless…

German TV News Reporter Suspended After Video Shows Her Smearing Herself With Mud In Flood-Hit Town

Scaled-Back Olympics Opening Ceremony Marred By Protests As Sponsors Flee

China Hits US Entities With Retaliatory Sanctions, Including Wilbur Ross, Over Hong Kong Warnings

Pelosi’s Archbishop Rebukes Her for Saying She Supports Abortion as ‘Devout Catholic’

Social Justice Warriors Demand Unrestricted Rights To Olympic Protest

Spree of church burnings in Canada continues

As Predicted, Court-Packing Looms Large in Supreme Court Commission’s Second Public Meeting

Massive Immigrant-Led Protest Shuts Down Manhattan Bridge

Biological Male May Join Middle School Girls Cross Country Team, Judge Rules

Teen AirDrops images of airsoft gun to passengers on United flight, plane evacuated

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Clausewitz famously drew the parallel between war and politics when he said, “War is the continuation of politics by other means.” Therefore, is makes sense for those engaged in politics to study the tactics of war and the warrior. It is not an accident that many of the great political figures in our history were also military men. Twelve U.S. presidents were generals. For a country founded on the principle of civilian rule, having a quarter of the executives come from the military is telling.

The Book of Five Rings is a book on martial arts written by a legendary Japanese swordsman named Miyamoto Musashi. He was also a philosopher, strategist and luckily for us, a writer. He became famous in 17th century Japan for his unique fighting style and his undefeated record in his 61 duels. He is known to westerners through his book on strategy, but in Japan he is still remembered for his great deeds. There is a shrine named after him, which is supposed to be his burial site.

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Sociopaths are people who “have no regard for others’ rights or feelings, lack empathy and remorse for wrongdoings, and have the need to exploit and manipulate others.” That definition perfectly fits New Urban planners and the environmentalists who support them.

And Democrats – don’t forget the Democrats.

I could be referring to planners eager to inflict congestion on commuters in order to persuade a few of them to take transit. But today I’m referring to planners eager to drive up housing prices in order to force more people to live in multifamily housing.

Yeah, those are Democrats, alright.

Asians in San Francisco Are Angry That Their “Leaders” Won’t Protect Them from Assault,

California court strikes down transgender pronoun law as First Amendment violation

The biggest win for the working class in generations is within reach (The Guardian) Bernie Sanders lets his Progressive hang out.

Pennsylvania decertifies county voting system following private company audit promoted by pro-Trump state senators (Washington Post)

Shameless shoplifters: Retail thefts getting bolder in California and beyond

Cuban Authorities Begin Punishing Young Protesters

Watch: California Shoplifters Stroll Out Of TJ Maxx With Arms Full Of Merchandise

Cuba Demoted To “Not Real Socialism”

A YouTube chat about chess got flagged for hate speech

Facebook took our election ad money then bulk-deleted our pages

AG Garland Going to Chicago in Bid to Bolster Battle With Gun Violence  Perhaps some oppressed Person of Color will shoot him. That happens a lot in Chicago.

Oregon Congressman Proposes SPACE Tax To Penalize Billionaires Who Pay To Go To Space

Pennsylvania Decertifies County’s Voting System, Cites Violation Of Election Code

Twitter Suspends Nation of Islam for Alleged Vaccine Misinformation, Ignores Anti-Semitism

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Imagine if President Joe Biden said he would cancel the Fourth of July to give the United States time to reflect on the sins of its past. There would be no fireworks and no festivities, just a solemn order to self-flagellate.

If you happen to be from Canada, this is not a hypothetical scenario. It’s reality.

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The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee split along party lines during a Thursday morning vote on President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management.

The Democrats on the committee unanimously backed the nominee, Tracy Stone-Manning, in the face of fierce Republican opposition due to her involvement in a 1989 eco-terrorism incident and her alleged dishonesty to the committee about the incident.

Disney to Unveil Animatronic Biden at ‘Hall of Presidents’  Who can tell the difference?

Biden’s Wild Murder and Jim Crow Accusations

Biden White House Admits Using Big Tech to Silence Americans

Disney’s Animatronic Biden Praised As ‘Incredibly Realistic’ After It Short Circuits, Has Speech Malfunction (Babylon Bee)

Pew Poll: Republican Voters Fear for Their Children’s Future Under Biden

Texas Dem Celebrated Volunteer Event With ID Requirements

Hannah-Jones: “All Journalism Is Activism”

California Appeals Court Overturns Anti-Misgendering Law On First Amendment Grounds

‘Lawlessness’: San Francisco’s shoplifting problem increasingly frustrates business owners, employees

De Blasio lugs out giant $15B check to stump for congestion pricing

D.C. Council votes to raise taxes on the rich (Washington Post) That’s one way to get rid of rich people.

Many Big-City Democrat Mayors Defunded Police While Spending Heavily On Their Security Details

Pentagon Reportedly Tracking “Extremist” Web Searches Including “The Truth About Black Lives Matter”

Inspiring: US Women’s Soccer Team To Boycott Scoring Goals Until Racism Is Defeated (Babylon Bee)

AOC Says How She Accidentally Glued Her Face To Her Coffee Table Is A Clear Failure Of Capitalism (Babylon Bee)

CAUGHT ON VIDEO: AOC Illegally Parks Tesla Near Whole Foods AGAIN

Whitmer Kidnapping Defendants Claim Entrapment After 12 FBI Informants Involved In Plot

ACLU: “Gov’t Cannot Be Trusted to Label ‘Truth’ or ‘Fiction’ Any More than Facebook or Twitter”  Nor, for that matter, can the ACLU.

To Improve Olympic Chances, US Women’s Soccer Team Replaced By 15-Year-Old Boys Team In Wigs

Rasmussen Poll: Majority Want BLM Protests Inquiry, More Than Jan. 6

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Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attack in Norway. On July 22, 2011, a man named Anders Behring Breivik detonated a truck bomb in central Oslo next to government headquarters, killing eight people. While police and emergency services were dealing with the aftermath, Mr. Breivik drove to the island of Utøya, where a summer camp for Socialist Youth was being held. There he methodically shot and killed sixty-nine teenagers with a high-powered rifle. When police finally arrived at the island, he calmly surrendered.

And because of bleeding-heart liberalism he is still alive today, being maintained at taxpayer expense. “He was sentenced to 21 years in prison, in a form of preventive detention that required a minimum of 10 years incarceration and the possibility of one or more extensions for as long as he is deemed a danger to society. This is the maximum penalty in Norway.”

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When considering these privacy issues, we might draw parallels with another technology. Many colour printers add secret tracking dots to documents: virtually invisible yellow dots that reveal a printer’s serial number, as well as the date and time a document was printed. In 2017, these dots may have been used by the FBI in the identification of Reality Winner as the source of a leaked National Security Agency document, which detailed alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election.

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Standard metadata is difficult enough to avoid – you have to scrub it afterwards, and the only piece of information you can stop from being created in the first instance is photo geolocation. Photo response non-uniformity, however, is far more difficult to extricate. Technically, it should be possible to suppress, for example, by reducing the image resolution, says Farid. But, by how much? This of course depends on many factors such as the type of device used for image capture, as well as the fingerprint matching algorithm employed. There is no one-size-fits-all solution to fingerprint removal.

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Shane Sonderman, of Lauderdale County, Tenn. admitted to conspiring with a group of criminals that’s been “swatting” and harassing people for months in a bid to coerce targets into giving up their valuable Twitter and Instagram usernames.

At Sonderman’s sentencing hearing today, prosecutors told the court the defendant and his co-conspirators would text and call targets and their families, posting their personal information online and sending them pizzas and other deliveries of food as a harassment technique.

Other victims of the group told prosecutors their tormentors further harassed them by making false reports of child abuse to social services local to the target’s area, and false reports in the target’s name to local suicide prevention hotlines.

Eventually, when subjects of their harassment refused to sell or give up their Twitter and Instagram usernames, Sonderman and others would swat their targets — or make a false report to authorities in the target’s name with the intention of sending a heavily armed police response to that person’s address.

Yet another reason not to be on Twitter, Facebook, or other public-facing ‘social media’.

Sarah Hoyt turns over a rock.

Frankly, if the numbers don’t convince you this insanity is an illegal take-over of our institutions (partly by corrupt traitors within. Hey, anyone know how many lampposts there are in the continental US? Asking for a pissed off We The People) look at it from the psychological side: the only way a major party would run Joe and the Ho from a basement, with virtually no appearances in public, and on a platform of “we’ll open the border so you’ll be invaded, and tax you till you teeth hurt, oh and take away your fossil fuels too” is if they knew, because they’d been cheating for years, that they’d finally achieved a level of cheating in which they didn’t need any input from We The People, and no matter how we voted, their side would win. It was a potemkin campaign leading up to a grand theft election. (Or do you think they’re fighting so hard against election reform because they care about the individual? Ah!)

Preach it, sister.

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A New Jersey woman faces daily monetary fines if she refuses to remove obscene signs critical of President Joe Biden, NJ.com reported.

Patricia Dilascio, who lives in Roselle Park, New Jersey, has displayed anti-Biden flags containing profane words on her fence. The signs belong to her daughter, Andrea Dick.

Of course, if she were a member of a Fashionable Minority and the obscenities were aimed at Trump or the police, she would be The Darling of the Media, and nobody would dare touch her.

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Researchers from France and Russia have published a study indicating that the use of AI-driven probabilistic text generators such as GPT-3 are introducing ‘tortured language’, citations of non-existent literature and ad hoc, uncredited image reuse into previously respectable channels for the publication of new scientific literature.

Perhaps of most concern is that the papers studied also contain scientifically inaccurate or non-reproducible content presented as the fruits of objective and systematic research, indicating that generative language models are being used not only to bolster the limited English skills of the papers’ authors, but actually to do the hard work involved (and, invariably, to do it badly).

Follow the science, even if it’s bogus!

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Every time I write about the ghastly homicide toll in Chicago, our friend Dana Pico pipes up to remind me that the per-capita homicide rate in Philadelphia is actually worse. Do the math, says Dana, and the homicide rate in Chicago currently works out to about 27 per 100,000 population annually, while in “Kill-a-delphia,” the current rate is about 35 per 100,000 annually — about 25% higher. So while the forecast in Chicago continues to be “partly cloudy with widely scattered afternoon and evening gunfire,” it’s always pouring down murder in Philadelphia.

Don’t mess around with Texas — just move back to California

Fact check: Arizona audit chief baselessly raises suspicion about 74,000 ballots (CNN) Gotta push that Narrative!

Sorting out Trump’s comments on the Arizona audit (Politico)

Nikole Hannah-Jones said Cuba is among ‘most equal’ countries because of socialism

Julian Assange Case: Keystone Witness Admits He Lied, US Media Ignores

USA warns Hong Kong government may demand business and customer data, run surveillance without warrants

AOC Now Pushing Political Merchandise  KA-CHING!

Even CNN Admits Dems Won’t Press Cuba Because Many Support Socialism

Desperate Humanity Sends Robot Back To 2004 To Stop Mark Zuckerberg From Ever Inventing Facebook

Admitting It: CBS Cheers 1619 Project, Touts Idea That Journalism Should Be Activism

Texas Dems’ DC Fly-Away Will Cost Donors Combined $1.5M

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Two New York City Ivy League lawyers will stand trial in March 2022 for allegedly firebombing a police cruiser and distributing Molotov cocktails during the George Floyd riots last summer.

Defense lawyers for Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman have been in plea negotiations with federal prosecutors since February but have not come to terms, prompting U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan to set a trial schedule for both defendants. Pretrial motions are due on Sept. 17 and jury selection will begin on March 14, 2022.

The accused enjoy widespread support and sympathy from New York’s legal and media elites. Rahman is represented by one of the city’s best defense attorneys, and a former Obama administration official guaranteed her bail in the amount of $250,000. Both have been the subject of favorable profiles in New York magazine and NPR, among other venues.

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groups and fringe research circles, the controversy over cold fusion (sometimes called low-energy nuclear reactions or LENRs) refuses to go away. On one hand, ardent supporters have lacked the consistent, reproducible results and the theoretical underpinning needed to court mainstream acceptance. On the other, vehement detractors cannot fully ignore the anomalous results that have continued to crop up, like the evidence for so-called “lattice-confinement fusion” adduced last year by a group at NASA’s Glenn Research Center.

Scientists at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Division have pulled together a group of Navy, Army, and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) labs to try and settle the debate. Together, the labs will conduct experiments in an effort to establish if there’s really something to the cold fusion idea, if it’s just odd chemical interactions, or if some other phenomenon entirely is taking place in these controversial experiments.

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For all the IITs’ proficiency at training and placing students, though, the coders, programmers, product developers, and engineers fanning out to global tech bring with them the troubled legacy of India’s caste system. On campus, students are surrounded by—and in some cases participate in—a culture of discrimination, bullying, and segregation that targets fellow pupils from India’s Scheduled Castes, also known as Dalits. The IITs officially discourage such harassment, but the prejudice against these students remains quite open.

Caste in India speaks, as race does in America, to centuries of social, cultural, and economic divisions. Unlike in the U.S., though, India has since 1950 had a national system of affirmative action designed to undo the legacy of bias. Among its provisions are ones that help Dalits and other oppressed groups get into and pay for college. For nearly half a century, IIT admissions have been subject to a reservation system that’s still hotly debated on the campuses. In recent years, the schools have opposed attempts to extend affirmative action to faculty hires, arguing it would dilute the quality of the applicant pool and undermine their meritocratic image.