We spoke to older voters about Trump and Biden’s age. We saw 3 recurring themes (NPR)

Thousands of ‘special interest aliens’ from Middle East countries stopped at southern border since 2021: data (Fox News)

Lauren Boebert Compares Migrant Numbers to Wyoming Population—What To Know (Newsweek) Because you’re too stupid to figure it out for yourself.

Upcoming plastic bag ban in Pittsburgh prompts concerns about loss of business (CBS News Pittsburgh)

California becomes the first state to ban 4 food additives linked to disease (NPR)

The Answer: What is the Skittles Ban? (CBS Sacramento)

Newsom signs California’s ‘skittles ban’ into law, World Mental Health Day, and more of today’s trending news (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

California becomes the first state to ban four chemicals in food, including red dye No. 3 (NBC News)

Retaliation for Protest Is an Indignation (Harvard Crimson)

Harvard Pres. Disavows Student Statement on Hamas-Israel War

MSNBC’s Velshi Frets Palestinians Seen as ‘Exclusively the Bad Guys’

N.C. Republicans Enact Voting Changes, Prompting Dems to Sue

Rashida Tlaib Fundraiser With Ties to Hamas Accuses Israel Of ‘Genocide’

How Socialist-Agitating Helped Tank Mack-UAW Deal

New York Times Ignores Eliminationist Rhetoric at Pro-Hamas Rally, Plays ‘Both Sides’ Game

NYU Student Bar Association President Loses Job Offer for Calling Israel Massacre ‘Necessary’ as School Distances Itself (The Messenger)

Democrats For Mass Murder

California Dems Under Fire for Ties to the Squad’s Anti-Semitic Socialist Party

Harvard Student Groups Attempt to Justify Hamas Terrorist Attack 

Trans Takes All: Miss Universe Now Has Two Biological Male Contestants

The shameful lack of women in Congress sent child care over a cliff (Politico)

Taxpayer-Funded NPR Promotes Billboard: ‘God’s Plan Includes Abortion’  No, but evolution’s plan certainly does.

The New York Times And 8 Other Great Toilet Paper Alternatives (Babylon Bee)

The Foundry.

The attack Hamas launched on Israel Saturday was “a genocidal savage rampage by uncontrollable militants who were simply trying to destroy Jews,” says Victoria Coates, who formerly served as a deputy national security advisor to President Donald Trump.

Hundreds of Israelis were killed in the initial attack and the death toll, which includes at least 14 Americans, continues to rise.

Reports of Hamas torturing Israeli citizens and beheading babies are “appalling, and it shows you what these people are capable of,” says Coates, who is vice president of the Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)

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Rivian R1T pickup owners should be wary of even minor fender benders, as the vehicle’s complex design could result in a massive repair bill.

EV blog InsideEVs says the owner of a Rivian R1T pickup in North Carolina was recently quoted $41,000 – nearly half the value of the vehicle – to fix a minor dent on the driver-side rear panel bumper.

The U.S. Government Is Preparing for a Fentanyl WMD Attack (The Intercept)

How Medicine Suffers “When We Ignore the Fact That Half of Us Have Breasts” (Mother Jones) No mention of the inconvenient fact that half of us have XX chromosomes.

The Supreme Court will hear a case that could overturn a 40-year-old legal doctrine (NPR) The Chevron doctrine is a cornerstone of the Deep State. (‘Since 1984’ is a ‘long time’?)

Chief Judges of D.C.’s Local Courts Must Answer for Questionable Conduct

Oakland Police Tell Residents Not To Confront Auto Burglars

Alabama Deploys National Guard In Response To Illegal Immigration Crisis

Flipping Kansas Blue? Governor Struck Deal With Left-Wing Groups Likely to Drive Up Democrat Vote 

“We No Longer Feel Safe!” Paris Residents Fear Next Wave Of Migrants Arriving From Lampedusa

Reshoring Mentions By Top Execs Soar In Earnings Calls As ‘Made In USA’ Gains Traction 

The Insincerity of the Left

Islamo-Leftists in the West Celebrate Hamas Attacks

Hundreds Cheer Hamas Slaughter of Israeli Civilians in Protest Backed by the Squad’s Socialist Party

Oh, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: Don’t Call Hamas a ‘Terrorist’ Group

RFK Jr. Ditches Democrats To Pursue 2024 Presidential Bid As An Independent

UN Women’s Group Ignores Horrific Assault on Israeli Women, Celebrates ‘Trans Lesbians’ Instead

Dem Rep. Slams ‘Squad’ Members on Israel Statements

‘Get This Story Right’: ADL’s Greenblatt BLASTS MSNBC Siding With Hamas

WTF? CNN Guest: Hamas Has ‘Mainly Attacked…Military’ Sites, Hostages Were Soldiers

UN Honors Trans Lesbian Day As Hundreds of Israeli Women Are Killed

Nobel economics prize awarded to Claudia Goldin for women’s role in workplace

Hamas and the American Left

Court Blocks School District Policy Forcing Pronoun ‘Respect’

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Identity politics is best understood as a moral caste system. Buying into variants such as critical race theory means accepting that your actions matter less than your race, gender or sexuality. The promised liberation of identity politics imposes the collectivist understanding that nothing you do truly matters outside the constraints of your caste. Who you were born is who you are.

Identity politics denies that any particular human being is an individual and regards him or her simply as an instance of a specified class. Most people don’t even push back; “I am an X” or especially “As an X” is one of the most frequent thing you’ll hear out of most people’s mouths.

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Following a day of protests after a former Philadelphia police officer had murder charges tossed by a judge, looters ransacked an Apple Store in Philadelphia’s Center City on September 26.

The thefts, as well as others at other stories throughout the city that night and for several days afterward, had been openly planned on social media, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. More than 60 people had been arrested after the first two nights of looting throughout the city, although it’s not clear how many of them had been at the Apple Store specifically.

As is usually the case with display iPhones and other items stolen from stores, the stolen devices did not work, and the thieves could be seen on viral videos dropping the useless phones on the ground.

Making lawns more eco-friendly (NPR)

‘I wasn’t the obvious choice’: meet the oil man tasked with saving the planet (The Guardian)

The big mistake in Pope Francis’s new climate change scolding (Fox News)

Current Climate: The Pope Urges The World To Solve Climate Change (Forbes)

Should We Cut Down All the Oak Trees? The Unexpected Link Between Trees and Air Pollution (SciTechDaily)

Instead of Purifying the Air, These Plants Could Further Worsen Air Pollution! New Study Explains How (The Weather Channel)

Study finds limiting oaks and poplars may aid climate control

Should we cut down all the oak trees? (earth.com)

The Danger Upstream: In Disposing Coal Ash, One of These States is Not Like the Others (Inside Climate Narrative News)

Top grain traders ‘helped scupper’ ban on soya from deforested land (The Guardian)

ERCOT Readies ‘Retired’ Gas Generation for the 2023/24 Winter Peak

Four NY offshore projects ask for almost 50% price rise

Geoengineering: A Futile Attempt to Fix a Non-Issue and Dangerous as Well

Enraged Portuguese Motorists Clear Climate Roadblock

New study definitively confirms gulf stream weakening (phys.org)

Starlink carbon footprint up to 30 times size of land-based internet (New Scientist)

Investment titan BlackRock has taken massive hits because of its use of ESG (N.Y. Post)

Amazon’s Alexa has been claiming the 2020 election was stolen (Washington Poop)

Angus Deaton on inequality: ‘The war on poverty has become a war on the poor’ (The Guardian)

Chicago residents enraged by migrant housing plan displacing seniors, youth: ‘Blatant disrespect’ (Fox News)

Chicago, New York mayors ask for federal help amid migrant influx (CBS News)

Conversion of West Side park into migrant shelter leaves youth football team in the dark (WGN)

Chicago aldermen request end to migrant housing at Inn of Chicago due to safety concerns (Fox 32 Chicago)

We’re deporting asylum seekers so fast they can’t get attorneys or justice

San Francisco’s Newly Approved Homeless Plan ‘Most Expensive’ Ever: Legislative Analysts

The Squad’s Socialist Party Rallies in Support of ‘Palestine’ Hours After Hamas Terror Attacks

At Shooting Ranges, More Women Pull the Trigger (NewsMax)

Knife Attacks At German Train Stations Have More Than Dubled Since 2019

Raspail’s Dystopian “The Camp Of The Saints” Novel Warning Of Immigration Influx Has Been Realized 50 Years Later

A Cornucopia of Cultural Enrichment in Italy

Once, Democrats Were Discreetly Anti-American. Today, They’re Less Discreet.

The pronoun ritual

The Bottomless Swamp Of Regulatory Capture

‘I’d still vote for’ Biden if he was ‘dead’: Pa. voters react to Trump-Biden 2024 rematch (NBC News) Which is why they elected Fetterman, I presume. Idiots.

‘The Squad’-Backed Democratic Socialists Of America Hold Times Square Protest ‘In Solidarity’ With Palestine

WEF: Somebody Has To Be In Charge Of Rationing Freedom

MSNBC Provides ‘Context’ to Terrorist Attacks Against Israel

Born poor, stay poor: what my $120k student debt says about class in the US  (The Guardian) Feel entitled to be upper class, borrow to get the necessary credentials, discover that nobody wants you in the upper class, and whine about how oppressed you are. Classic Guardian article.

“Go Back To Jersey, You Migrant-Hating Creep”: NYC Mayor Heckled In Unusual Trip To Colombia

Thousands of young people are fleeing Toronto – economists say city will suffer

Washington Free Beacon.

“Congratulations: TO THE TRUTH!”

No, that’s not a tweet from Jennifer Rubin or @NaztyWmn4Biden on Election Day 2020. It’s what famed reporter Bob Woodward wrote in a signed copy of his Watergate book, The Last of the President’s Men, given to Cassidy Hutchinson, the former White House staffer whose “explosive” testimony before the January 6 committee in 2022 fueled several weeks’ worth of hysterical commentary on CNN and MSNBC.

Hutchinson, as expected, has written her own book. (Her name and face appear on the cover, at least.) Enough is a memoir, both personal and political, recounting the author’s breakneck journey from abandoned daughter to homework aficionado to Capital Hill intern to low-level staffer in the Trump White House to high-level staffer to subject of a congressional investigation to divine apostle of TRUTH, hero of the anti-Trump #Resistance, and published author.

The book, as intended, has titillated journalists (and other activist Democrats) with splashy headlines about Rudy Giuliani’s cold-fingered gropey hands and sordid tales of how the Trump White House was “more chaotic than previously known.” Whether out of a cynical desire for clicks and ratings, or due to some undiagnosed mental health disorder, these people insist on making Donald J. Trump the lead character in every story about American politics.

Enough isn’t a book about Trump, it’s a book about Cassidy Hutchinson. For that reason, it’s one of the most authentically compelling (and terrifying) accounts of the inner workings of official Washington, D.C., sometimes referred to as “The Swamp,” at least since Veep went off the air in 2019. For starters, it’s the first political memoir I’ve seen that is dedicated to the author’s attorneys. It won’t be the last.

Washington Free Beacon.

Let’s say you’re scanning a few labels of convenience foods you have on hand. The “modified starch” in your tub of rice pudding sounds more innocuous than hydroxypropyl distarch phosphate, one of its scientific synthetic names. But maybe the “yellow prussiate of soda” vs. sodium ferrocyanide in your rolled oats is a closer call.

No matter. You as an average consumer in an industrialized nation probably don’t give either of them much thought, even though you are estimated to ingest 17.6 pounds of food additives per year. You assume they have been deemed safe for consumption and that they serve a purpose: to emulsify or stabilize, to extend shelf life, to keep bits from clumping together. Better living through chemistry!

What these ingredients have in common, though, is that they are among the thousands of “self-certified” industrial substances on the FDA’s list of GRAS additives, or Generally Recognized as Safe. Certified, as in, declared safe not by government standards, but by or on behalf of the companies who make and use them.

The Mirage of “Middle Class” (Mother Jones)

Men took over a job fair intended for women and nonbinary tech workers (NPR)

Women’s tech conference overrun by men claiming to be ‘non-binary’ draws amused reaction: ‘I love this’ (Fox News)

Women in tech conference overrun with men claiming to be ‘non-binary’ (UK Telegraph)

Men invade tech job fair for women after ‘lying’ about being non-binary (N.Y. Post)

Mayor Sounds Alarm on Utah Being Declared Sanctuary State

Student Walkout Urges School Board to Reverse Pro-Trans Policy

When Even The Nazis Aren’t Nazis

Starbucks Closing 7 San Francisco Locations Amid Crime Wave (But Swears It’s Unrelated)

Vets’ Army-Navy Hotel Rooms Canceled to House Migrants

Education Shock: 200 Maryland Public Schools Have <5% Students Proficient In Math

NYC Mayor in Mexico: Illegal Immigrants Face ‘Nightmare’

Nets Hide Political Identity of Left-Wing Activist Killed in NYC

As Arrest Made, Murdered NYC Activist’s Pals Run GoFundMe To “Take Time Off Work”

Killing a CVS in Columbia Heights DC

D.C. Struggles to Curb Violent Crime Surge

Florida Dem Who Wants Her Student Loans Canceled Owns a $3 Million House

Pennsylvania School Board Reverses Decision, Bans Boys From Girls’ Restrooms

Hakeem Jeffries: A bipartisan coalition is the way forward for the House (Washington Poop_) When Democrats say ‘bipartisan’ it means’ both parties do it our way’.

NYC mayor to residents of Puebla, Mexico: ‘Mi casa es su casa,’ but ‘there’s no more room’ (Associated Press)

When Reporters Get Cozy With Their Democratic Pals

Despite Stiff Laws, Violent Gun Crimes Rise in Calif.

GUSHY: CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Hails ‘Historic’ First Transgender Elected in Tennessee

NewsBusters.

Independent journalist Tucker Carlson took a deep dive into how genital mutilation and chemical castration became a lucrative industry.

During the October 4th edition of his show, Carlson brought on “investment banker and policy guy” Chris Moritz to discuss who benefits from something as “unnatural and prima-facie demented” as transgenderism. Moritz discussed how companies such as Pfizer profit off of puberty blockers, testosterone and estrogen, while making some disturbing comments about the incentivization of harmful drugs and surgeries. It seems that X (formerly Twitter) categorized the video as what X CEO Linda Yaccarino calls “lawful but awful” as the platform appears to have demonetized the video.

Elon Musk shared the video encouraging his followers to “Follow the money.” However, X demonetized the post, according to Libs of TikTok founder Chaya Raichik. Raichik suggested that the platform may have taken action against the video for using the words “genital mutilation” in the post accompanying the video.

In the video, Moritz explained why the health industry has been so quick to accept transgender ideology.”There are very perverse incentives for health systems to go full on board with this, this line of service and this line of products,” he said. Leftist groups like Human Rights Campaign, Mortiz added, “have established what is essentially ESG for trans. They call it HEI — Health, Equity, Inclusion.” Moritz noted that like ESG, or Environmental, Social and Governance standards, HEI scores entities based on their adherence to woke ideology and pressures them into supporting a leftist agenda. “Human Rights Campaign, about fifteen years ago, established this national benchmarking tool, and it effectively is a equity and inclusion gauge for health systems. And it is used coercively,” said Moritz.

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For a box a square meter in size it can produce 5 liters of drinkable water per hour. The system can also last for several years. Perhaps more importantly, the total price for the water is less than the average price for tap water in the US. The system should also be scalable.

ZMan’s weekly podcast–highly recommended.

The ouster of Kevin McCarthy is one of those things that quickly gets internalized, despite its novelty, because the media machine operates like a hype man for a professional wrestling operation. It turns everything into trashy daytime drama, so even an important thing becomes just another poo-flinging contest between professional media partisans. As a result, it loses all meaning.

In the fullness of time, we may look back at it as one of those cracks that appeared in a system that was about to collapse. Think back to the downfall of Speaker Jim Wright in the late 1980’s and what followed. Like McCarthy, Wright was not very popular, but he was a system man who would not rock the boat. The trouble was the old system was no longer sustainable as the world outside was changing.

In the case of Wright, there was a new generation coming along and there was the final leg of the political realignment that started in the 1970’s. In the case of McCarthy there is a generational change and the radicalization of politics. The days of playing the old Republican Party tricks are coming to an end. McCarthy’s “say one thing and do another” approach is no longer going to work for the GOP.

Even Starbucks Is Failing in Crime-Ridden San Francisco

ABC, CBS Hype Pope Francis Abandoning Catholic Teachings on Gay ‘Marriage’

‘Terrifying’: Resumption of Student Loan Repayments May Force College Grads To Dip Into ‘Fun Budget,’ Media Warn

A drop in salaries and in the number of jobs available in the Bay Area  Businesses are leaving.

This Is Not Freedom, America: The Profit Incentives Driving The American Police State

Actions Have Consequences: Crime Out of Control in US Cities

Top California Teachers’ Union Wants Homeless People To Sleep in Its Public School Parking Lots

CVS Pharmacists Kill Twins After Accidentally Giving Mom Abortion Drugs

California Senator Grateful For New Job With Short Commute From Home In Maryland (Babylon Bee)

WATCH: Soros-Backed Philadelphia DA Reassures ‘Fundamentally Law-Abiding’ Looters

San Francisco’s Transgender Welfare Program Gives Priority to ‘BIPOC,’ Sex Workers, Illegal Immigrants, Ex-Cons

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The Guardia Civil, Spain’s national police force, has arrested nine illegal immigrants who stand accused of threatening at knife-point sailors of a Dutch tugboat who had just rescued them from two boats in the Atlantic, forcing them to change course for the Spanish Canary Islands, sources from the interior ministry said.

The nine mutinous migrants had been a part of a larger group of 78 people who on the morning of Monday, October 2nd, departed from the North African coast in two separate boats in an attempt to reach the Canary Islands. The incident began after the Dutch ship “Vose Pace”—after realizing the precariousness of the two ships—rescued both, only to have some of those on board the second one threatening them with deadly weapons, El Debate reports.

The threat of violence came, apparently, because the Dutch ship, having rescued the two boats in waters under Moroccan rescue responsibility, received directions from Rabat to return the boats to the southern Moroccan port of Tan-Tan.

Genius: Vacationing Family Poses As Illegal Immigrants To Get Free Hotel Room In New York City (Babylon Bee)

Pelosi says interim House speaker McHenry has ordered her to vacate her office in the Capitol building (CNN) Well, she’s no longer Speaker.

ESG has lost its meaning. One advocate says let’s throw it in the trash (CNN)

Sustainable investing underperforms standard index funds – study (IPE)

Money managers are shifting their attitude to ESG as ‘realism’ sets in, says S&P’s Dan Yergin (CNBC)

Backlash to arriving migrants grows in Latino community as new shelter opens in Pilsen (Chicago Tribune)

As more migrants arrive in Chicago, tensions rise among Democratic leaders (CBS Chicago)

Illinois warned to prepare for up to 25 buses of migrants a day as state pleads for federal help (NBC 5 Chicago)

‘How dare you?’: Chicago residents call out Johnson over proposed migrant housing at fieldhouse (Fox 32 Chicago)

Can RFK Jr Become President As An Independent?

NBC Panics Over Religion in Public Schools (NewsBusters)

Aarg! Homeless Pirates Pillage Leisure Boats In San Francisco Bay

Poland, Austria, & Czechia Introduce Temporary Border-Checks With Slovakia To Curb Illegal Migration

School Districts With DEI Officers See Worse Black, Hispanic Learning Loss and Secretive Transgender Policies

Sweden’s Deadly Gun Violence  Wholly due to letting in hordes of foreign immigrants.

Trans To Be Banned From Female Hospital Wards In UK

Conservative Catholics Outraged, Confused After Pope Francis Letter On ‘Blessing’ Same-Sex Unions

House bipartisan caucus risks collapse after McCarthy ouster (Axios)

Planned Parenthood is Helping Teenagers Transition After a 30 Minute Consult. Parents and Doctors are Sounding the Alarm.

Vance Bill Would Require Actual Gender on U.S. Passports

Struggling with CRT in the workplace

Croatia Sees 140% Jump in Illegal Migration Since Joining Schengen

Soros Network Grows Media Empire Before Key Polish Election

Human knocks down woman in hit-and-run. Then driverless Cruise car parks on top of her

Why Aren’t America’s Students Showing Up?  Perhaps their parents have discovered that government schools suck. (Alliance for the Separation of School and State)

STUDY: PBS NewsHour Gives 90% of Its Time to the Radical Left on LGBT Issues  Not really news, but a useful reminder.

Transgender Swimming Category Canceled At World Cup After Nobody Enters

Italy: Ten Years, Over a Million Illegal Migrants

Leftist MEPs Ridicule Migrant Gang Victims in Parliament

Gretchen Whitmer’s Sister Wants This Defund Police Group To Take Over Local School Boards

Pa. School Passes Birth Gender Restroom Rule

NYC Moves to Suspend ‘Right to Shelter’ for Migrants

Mitchell Gets Triggered When Guest Defends GOP Booting Pelosi From Her Office

RINO Alert: RNC chief on GOP infighting: ‘I don’t know how this helps us beat Joe Biden’  Trump will take care of Joe Biden. You need to worry about the Republican agenda.

Bodega Worker Sues Soros-Funded NY DA After Damning Univision Report

Philly Eatery Hires Armed Security Due to Crime

8 Signs It’s Time For Your Kid To Change Schools (Babylon Bee)

Donald Trump drops from the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans. Here’s what changed. (CBS News)

Trump drops off Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans (Axios)

Donald Trump Falls Off The Forbes List Of Richest Americans For Second Time In 3 Years (Forbes)

Donald Trump Loses $600 Million in One Year to Fall Off Forbes List (Newsweek)

Judge Kicks Reporters Out of Courtroom to Talk to Trump and AG (Daily Beast)

Pence: Trump Attacks on Gen. Milley ‘Utterly Inexcusable’

Trump is no ghost of the past — he’s haunting Ukraine’s present (Politico)

Trump Being Nominated for House Speaker Is Becoming a Real Possibility (Daily Beast) You can’t make this shit up.

Texas Republican will nominate Trump for Speaker of the House (The Hill)

Trump Won’t Rule Out Speakership: ‘I Would Do It’

As McCarthy tumbled toward defeat, Trump did not defend his speakership (Washington Poop) Gee, I wonder why?

Say Goodbye to the COVID-19 Vaccination Card

Moore on the China Virus

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Though there’s a long history of scandal in the olive oil world, the problem in the U.S. for consumers is less about oil that isn’t made from olives, and more about olive oil that doesn’t meet the quality standards declared on its label. But since most people in the U.S. can’t tell fusty and musty from pungent and fruity, low-quality olive oil masquerading as extra virgin is a hard problem to fix.

Exclusive: John Kelly goes on the record to confirm several disturbing stories about Trump (CNN)

John Kelly confirms Trump’s ‘suckers’ remark about war dead (The Hill)

Trump says he would prefer to die by electrocution in bizarre campaign rant (The Guardian)

Trump fundraises off fraud trial: ‘Nothing can break me’ (The Hill)

Real Estate Experts in Florida Say Valuation of Mar-a-Lago Cited by Judge in Civil Case Is Based on a Misunderstanding of Basic Real Estate Practice (N.Y. Sun) My, what a surprise.

Sidney Powell Paid For Georgia Election Machine Examination Upon ‘Threat’, Her Lawyer Says

John Bolton: It’s ‘entirely possible’ Trump wants his supporters to kill Mark Milley (Raw Story)

Trump ramps up violent rhetoric (NBC News)

How Trump Turned an Oval Office Fantasy Into G.O.P. Doctrine (N.Y. Times)

‘I Almost Crossed The Picket Line,’ Late Night Hosts Celebrate Trump Indictments

Beer-Can Bearing Trump’s Mug-Shot Hits Major Milestone: CEO

Why MAGA Wants to Betray Ukraine (N.Y. Times) Paul Krugman illustrates that MAGA is the New Nigger.

Trump and the New York show trial

Prosecutors Probe Trump’s Efforts to Steal Arizona’s Election — Years After He Lost

Fulton prosecutors float plea deals to Trump defendants (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) “Nice life you got there. Be a shame if anything were to happen to it…”

OffGuardian.

Here’s a story destined for urgent dispatch down the Memory Hole. In fact, if you listen closely, you can already hear it being sucked down through the ducts of the GloboCap Ministry of Truth toward the enormous mnemonic incinerator where all official “unstories” go to die.

Yesterday, it was an embarrassment. Tomorrow, it will no longer be of interest. By next week, it will have never happened.

So, let’s review it before that happens … and perhaps try to understand why it happened.

He, She, They: The Pronoun Debate Will Likely Land at the Supreme Court (Politico)

Horrific moment store clerk in crime-ridden Bay Area is set on FIRE with stolen lighter fluid by serial shoplifter, leaving him suffering from second and third-degree burns (UK Daily Mail)

Canada To Create Registry Of Podcasters In Potential Censorship Initiative 

For Some, Open Border Chaos Is The Goal

German Mayor Call Concerns Over Child Safety “Unfounded” Amid Plans To Accomodate 80 Asylum-Seekers At A Primary School

Pope Francis Claims No Migrant Emergency In Europe – Suggests ‘Individualism’ Is The Problem

Meet the Violent Criminals Roaming the Illinois Streets Thanks to State’s Cash Bail Ban

Playbook: A new senator, and a new showdown (Politico)

The EU Is Ruining European Agriculture

Newsom Fills Feinstein’s Empty Senate Seat With Wealthy Black Lesbian From Maryland

Stop Arguing Over Elite Schools. Just Make Public Colleges Free. (The Nation) Progs are just full of solutions that require other people to pay for their stuff.

Sweden: Gangs Start Health Care Clinics To Commit Welfare Fraud

Who Is Laphonza Butler? Abortion Strategist, Clinton Adviser, Labor Union Boss Replacing Feinstein

Is Dark Money ‘Anti-Hate’ Group CCDH Run By An Intelligence Operative?

Newsom’s appointment confirms that abortion is the heart of the Democratic Party

Gavin Newsom Throws Dart At Board Covered In Black Lesbians To Select Next Senator (Babylon Bee)

Dem Rep. Bowman Faces Investigation After Pulling Capitol Fire Alarm

McCarthy: Punish Rep. Bowman for Pulling Fire Alarm Before Vote

House Passes Spending Bill After Democrat (Allegedly) Pulls Fire Alarm

Political Cursing vs. Pulling a Fire Alarm

Dem Congressman Obstructs an Official Proceeding

A Breakthrough for Diversity

Let’s Play, ‘Find the Hidden Racism’!

GOP Outrage Over Bowman Pulling House Alarm  Not that anyone gives a shit, much less Bowman.

AOC Defends Lawmaker Who Pulled Fire Alarm To ‘Open Door’ And Totally Not Disrupt The Democratic Process  The chief difference between Republicans and Democrats in Congress is that Democrats never forget which side they’re on.

Black Caucus Wants Rep. Lee to Replace Feinstein

Lee supporters reignite pressure on Newsom over Senate appointment (Politico)

Manhattan DA Bragg Sued Over ‘Racial Equity’ Pursuit

UK home secretary says multiculturalism has ‘failed’ as Europe faces migrant crisis (Fox News)

Suella Braverman’s message of divide and rule must be resisted (The Guardian)

Tory MPs complain to chief whip about Suella Braverman’s asylum speech (BBC)

Is The US Military Laying The Groundwork To Reinstitute The Draft?

Univision Cheers Licenses For Illegals In Minnesota

Newsom Vetoes Bill Offering Strikers Unemployment Pay

Paris Homeless Problem Swept Under the Rug for Olympics

RFK Jr. Could Make Announcement On Run As Independent On Oct. 9  Cleverly timed to give all of the RINOs and never-Trumpers a place to fetch up.

Gaetz says he will force vote to oust McCarthy as House speaker (Washington Poop) Talk is cheap. Don’t say it; do it. This kabuki dance fools no one.

Trudeau Government moves to regulate podcasts

Canada to require registration of podcasters and streaming services

MSNBC Host Alicia Menendez: DUH, I Won’t Be Covering Daddy’s Bribery Scandal

To Many Americans, Government Dysfunction Is the New Normal (N.Y. Times) They’re shocked, shocked to find that people are seeing government dysfunctional.

CBS Sunday Morning ‘News’ Airs Robert Reich Rant Ending with Vote-Democrat Appeal

Majority of US students now support speech codes

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“Nobody plays with Ken,” Ryan Gosling told Jimmy Fallon in an interview prior to the release of the Barbie movie. “He’s just an accessory and not even one of the cool ones.”

From the original advertising, it seemed that playing Ken was unusual for Gosling, who often portrays complex and troubled male characters. In Blade Runner 2049, for example, his role reflected the sensation of feeling not only lonely, but lost in a world and trying to find purpose within it.

This stands in stark contrast to Ken’s initial depiction as a clingy, unassertive simp who secretly harbours resentment about being in the friendzone. As the infamous Barbie poster says, “She’s everything. He’s just Ken.”

Why the 2020 Social Justice Revolutions Failed (Daily Beast)

Reporter Kicked Out of Trans Event After Asking ‘What is a Woman?’

Will SCOTUS Kill Texas, Florida Free Speech Laws?

Parents, Teachers Start Winning Court Battles Against Secret Gender Transition Policies

Over 186,000 Migrants Crossed The Mediterranean So Far This Year, UN Says

Sweden Turns To Military For Help Amid Daily Shootings, Bombings In Migrant Gangland Chaos

Techies are paying $700 a month for tiny bed ‘pods’ in downtown San Francisco

Our Society Is Melting Down Even Faster Than Most People Thought That It Would

The View Falsely Claims Republicans Didn’t Discuss Policy at Debate

Peter Daou’s Theory of Election Interference—by Democrats (The New Yorker)

Swedish Gang Crime Spilling Into Norway

Murder Crisis Plagues DC As Mayor Begs For More Officers After ‘Defunding Police’

More Than 15K Migrants Land in Chicago After 27 New Busloads

How A CBDC Created Chaos & Poverty In Nigeria

Too Little Too Late? Europe Finally Realizes Mass Immigration Is Destroying Them

NYC Mayor: Never Told Migrants, ‘Come One, Come All’  What did he think ‘sanctuary city’ meant?

Reporters Caught Using Identical Talking Points to Dems on Impeachment

Nearly All San Francisco Restaurants Vandalized in Past Month: Survey

Media Choir Raise Voices to Falsely Glorify Feinstein a ‘Centrist’

CNN vs. CNN: Smerconish Informs on ‘Porous’ Border as Acosta Harrumphs and Misleads

‘It’s Our Choice To Use’: Drug Users Erupt After San Francisco Moves To Tie Welfare to Drug Testing

The Checkup With Dr. Wen: The CDC needs to change its covid guidance (Washington Poop)

COVID cases see return of conspiracies (The Hill)

3 questions for the CDC about how COVID-19 is still transforming our lives (Yahoo News)

COVID conspiracies return in force, just in time for 2024 (The Hill)

Fauci And The CIA: A New Explanation Emerges

NIH Doctor Flagged Wuhan Virus Lab Safety Problems As Early As 2017

SARS-CoV-2 infection triggers inflammatory responses in human heart vessels

Yet Another Fear-Mongering COVID Surge Turns Into Trickle As Hospital Admissions Wane

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When I was a kid we were taught in school that America is a nation of immigrants. It was seen as something to be proud of, even if it arguably left out Native Americans. But now the phrase is taking on a whole new meaning, as illegal immigrants threaten to take over from childbirth as our main source of population growth.

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Slovakia goes to the polls this weekend in an election that The New York Times warns us could be a victory for the “far right” in Europe—and even a harbinger for the return of “fascism.” Why? Because Robert Fico, the right-wing politician who has a good chance of returning to power, is a critic of NATO’s strategy on the Ukraine war. It used to be said that with Washington’s neoconservatives, it is always Munich 1938. Since Russia invaded Ukraine, it has become true of the liberals too.

EPA Rolls Out Training Grants For Environmental Justice Communities (Inside Climate Narrative News)

A Nobel prize-winning immigrant’s view on American inequality (NPR)

Neil deGrasse Tyson explodes during debate about trans women competing in women sports (Fox News)

Beacon Hill’s new tax bill leaves fiscal conservatives and progressives frustrated (Boston Globe)

What’s in Massachusetts’ $1 billion tax relief package for you? (Boston Globe)

Here’s what parents, renters, seniors and more would save under the new Mass. tax cut bill (WBUR)

$1 billion tax break bill set for House, Senate votes this week (WGBH)

China’s national security minister rates fake news among most pressing cyber threats

Sweden Launches Explosives Registry To Fight Gang Bombings

DNA Drives Help Identify Missing People. It’s a Privacy Nightmare (Wired ‘Science’)

EXCLUSIVE: California AG Defies Court Order on Transgender Parental Notification, Lawyers Say (The Foundry)

Election Watchdog’s Lawsuit Claims Hawaii Breaks Law on Voter Rolls (The Foundry)

California Gov. Gavin Newsom Signs Law to Protect Doctors Who Mail Abortion Pills to Other States

Usher’s 2024 Super Bowl Halftime Show to Include Pole Dancers

New law allows doctors living in ‘hostile’ red states to get abortion training in California (L.A. Times)

Costa Rica Declares State Of Emergency As Migrant Crisis Rocks Americas

Canada Launches UN Declaration Targeting Online ‘Disinformation’

The New Abnormal: Authoritarian Control Freaks Want To Micromanage Our Lives

Second GOP Debate Marred By Univision Moderator’s Anti-American HATE and LIES

Philadelphia Looting Could Be ‘Turning Point’ for Retail Theft

Senate Votes to End Fetterman Rule: Business Attire Is Back

Calif. Town First to Recognize Elephants’ Rights

Senate unanimously moves to reverse ‘Fetterman Rule’ — restoring formal dress code after massive blowback (N.Y. Post)

Calif. Raises Fast Food Workers’ Minimum Wage to $20  And if you aren’t worth $20 an hour, you’re out of a job. I guess California hates low-skilled workers but really loves robots.

Donald Trump liable for business fraud, says judge in New York civil case (BBC) Not one of those banks ever complained. All of the money was paid back in a timely fashion. This is a political witch-hunt, pure and simple.

Ruling Against Trump Cuts to the Heart of His Identity (N.Y. Times) And so it was intended.

First Thing: Donald Trump committed fraud, New York judge rules in civil case (The Guardian) The judge was elected and is therefore a liberal Democrat. (And, we can suppose, a Trump-hater.)

Cassidy Hutchinson warns second Trump term wouldn’t have ‘guardrails’ (The Hill)

The Sick, Racist Message Behind Why Trump Chose That Particular Gun Store (The New Republic)

State Election Officials Will Defer to Courts on Removing Trump From 2024 Ballot

Trump’s threats to Milley fuel fears he’ll seek vengeance in second term (The Hill) “Mommeee! Donald hit me back!”

Trump Wants His Enemies to Fear for Their Lives (New York Magazine)

Let’s Not Sleepwalk Into Another Trump Presidency (Vanity Fair)

Politico’s Kyle Cheney Can NOT Wait for Trump’s January 6 Trial, Puffs the Obama-Picked Judge

Biden Launches First Trump Attack Ad of 2024 Campaign  I guess Biden thinks that Trump is going to be the nominee.

President Drink Bleach says what? Trump now claims he beat George W. Bush and Barack Obama (Salon)

Tools of Renewal.

Every big city in America is becoming Detroit.

Businesses are boarded up all over America. Crime and covid ended them. Covid drove people to remote work, which they really like, because it’s easier to get away with doing very little at home. Now they don’t want to go to cities and support stores, restaurants, and landlords. BLM and Antifa taught people crime was a human right, so even if people wanted to return, many are afraid to. Commercial property values are tanking. Maybe next year you’ll be able to buy the Chrysler Building for a thousand dollars.

A long time ago, I saw Detroit described as a doughnut. The suburbs were the ring, and the center, which was destroyed by the people of Detroit, was the hole. I guess we’re going to see a lot of doughnuts in the near future. A lot of worthless toilets that used to be centers of commerce where decent people could live decent lives.

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Today marks six months since Audrey Hale, a woman who thought she was a man, shot her way into the Covenant School in Nashville and gunned down nine-year-olds Hallie Scruggs, William Kinney and Evelyn Dieckhaus, and adults Mike Hill, Katherine Koonce, and Cynthia Peak. Hale, a former student at the school, carefully planned the attack for months.

The killer left a manifesto explaining her actions but six months after the mass murder it remains unreleased to the public. While revelations await, the victims can testify through their autopsies.

The New Yorker Cover Spotlights Aging Politicians (NewsMax)

The earmarks Adam Schiff delivered for donors (Politico)

UK Report: Over One-Third of Children on Puberty Blockers Experienced Worsened Mental Health

Majority of Americans continue to favor moving away from Electoral College (Pew Research Center) So submit the Amendment. Let people vote on it.

Navarro Praises Menendez, Prays for ‘Logical Explanation’ for Hidden Gold Bars

Justin Trudeau’s Nazi Hot Take Flexibility

Nets Wail Federal Bureaucrats Won’t Get Paid During Government Shutdown

10 Politicians Who Recently Ditched Democratic Party

Dems Take Over FCC, Chair Seeks Reinstate Net Neutrality

Gov. Newsom Signs Law to Keep Sex, Race Books in California Schools

‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’: WashPost Freaks Over GOP Fighting Against Efforts to Quash Free Speech

Gas Tops $7 in California

Leftists In Canadian Parliament Seek to Erase Embarrassing Nazi Incident From The Record

College Admissions Officers Use Pronouns to Give Preferences to Liberals, Study Finds

NJ School District Permits Cell Phone Searches

One-Third of Democrats Think Americans Have ‘Too Much Freedom’ of Speech: Poll

California Legal Course Urges Custody Attorneys To Push Puberty Blockers for Kids

NY’s Hochul Calls in More National Guard Troops as Illegal Immigrant Crisis Worsens

Damning Documents Reveal DHS’s Ongoing Censorship Scheme

Judge Orders Migrants Out of NYC Shelter

NYC now preparing to spend staggering extra $1B on hotels alone to shelter migrants for three more years (N.Y. Post)

Behar: Better for America If Biden Gets Reelected and ‘Dies in Office’

San Francisco Office Vacancies Hit All-Time Record as Businesses Flee Crime, Homelessness

Target Closing 9 Stores Due to Rampant Theft

EXCLUSIVE: School District Censored Watchdog Group After It Exposed Teacher’s Tirade Against Parental Rights

Oakland Businesses Strike Over Rampant Crime

GOP shutdown politics rock Washington as Trump and Biden head for a swing-state showdown (CNN)

Anti-religion group threatens to ‘warn’ Auburn University after 200 kids baptized on campus: ‘Absolute joke’ (Fox)

Ivey: ‘Alabama won’t be intimidated’ by Freedom From Religion Foundation (WSFA)

Anti-religion group slams Auburn for impromptu baptism event: ‘Inappropriate and unconstitutional’ (N.Y. Post)

Gov. Ivey calls FFRF letter “misleading and misguided” in statement Friday morning (Auburn Plainsman)

A new Supreme Court case could trigger a second Great Depression (Vox)

Report: Billionaire That Gifted Justice Alito Luxury Trip Holds At Least $90M in Financial Companies Overseen by CFPB (Accountable.us) The witch-hunt continues.

Supreme Court Ruling Sparks Fears About Economic Fallout (U.S. News & World Report)

Neo-Nazis Are Pushing This Beetle to the Brink of Extinction (Daily Beast) You can’t make this shit up.

Home discomfort for Ron DeSantis as Florida Republicans edge away (The Guardian)

A Nation of Snitches: DHS Is Grooming Americans to Report on Each Other (OffGuardian)

Marjorie Taylor Greene Tweets Hanukkah Menorah Image for Yom Kippur (Daily Beast) The best of American high-school ‘journalism’.

GOP donor wants his money back after candidate hires Corey Lewandowski (Politico)

WATCH: Canadian Parliament’s Standing Ovation for Nazi SS Veteran Leads Liberal Leader To Apologize

Not Crazy or a Nazi? Liberal Org Run For Something Wants You for School Board (Daily Beast) They would prefer that you be crazy and a Commie.

Media Ratings Firm Favors Left Leaning Outlets

Hillary Clinton: Putin Could Meddle in 2024 WH Election I guess she’s available.

Trump: ‘Start Suing’ on Pa. Automatic Voter Registration

California governor signs bills to enhance the state’s protections for LGBTQ people (NBC News)

Texas Deploys More Buses To Ship Illegal Immigrants To “At Capacity” Sanctuary Cities

Dem Texas Mayor Says City Is at ‘Breaking Point’ as Migrants Flood Across Border

Budget Gimmicks: Washington Labels Everything an ‘Emergency’ to Spend More

Busted! Adam Schiff Funneled Millions To Defense Contractors After Taking Donation

NY Gov. Deploys More National Guard to Deal With Migrants

Switzerland Closes Italian Borders Ahead of Migrant Wave

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It’s commonplace for many conservatives, and others concerned about security, to express alarm about uncontrolled immigration. And while there is an invigorating perennial debate between classical liberals / libertarians and social conservatives about the merits and drawbacks to having open borders, for many, to express too strong a defense of immigration controls—or, worse, ‘repatriation’—is tantamount to racist xenophobia.

We’re here to say that this dismissive attitude—and the general reluctance among policymakers to discuss the socio-economic impacts of mass migration—does a disservice to the many countries that have opened their arms to newcomers. But given recent episodes of crime, riots, and sexual violence, and given the sheer scale of the waves of immigrants now seeking refuge in Europe, we think Europe’s future lies in part with ensuring its cultural survival, which necessarily implies ending immigration.

We think that, over the years, many intellectuals and policymakers have warned us of the challenges and potential threats of mass migration (especially from non-Western countries): Enoch Powell in Britain; Jean Raspail in France; Gianfranco Miglio in Italy. Much of this has been to no avail. But as the realities of sexual grooming, harassment, anti-Christian, and antisemitic incidents spread across Europe, we think it is time to turn to some sober analysis of the situation.

Republicans Embrace Ballot Harvesting for 2024, Some Foresee Legal Battles  As Scott Adams frequently says, if there’s a great deal of profit and no accountability, cheating will happen.

“Privacy Disasters On Wheels”: AOC Blasts NYC Mayor Adams’ New Robo-Subway Crime-Fighting Cop

Texas Sends More Migrants to NYC Amid ‘Capacity’ Claim

Chicago’s Trillion-Dollar Financial Engine At Risk Of Leaving Over $800 Million Tax Proposal

The Censorship Industrial Complex Exposes The Kleptocracy’s True Intentions

Canadian Parents (Finally) Push Back Against Gender Cultism

Cyprus Wants New Syrian Safe Zones for Increased Deportations

We install planters so you don’t have to look at homeless people

France: Foreigners Commit 69% Of Robberies, Violent Crimes & Sexual Assaults On Public Transport

UK Quietly Passes “Online Safety Bill” Into Law

20 Robo-Taxis Cause Traffic Mayhem In Austin  Couldn’t happen to a nicer place.

Pro-Choice? NPR Can Mourn a Miscarriage, Happily Air Audio of Abortion

The Clintons Welcome Trans Queens, Muslim Politicians, Foreign Oligarchs

Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech (The Guardian)

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• Men swipe right on 60% of women, women swipe right on 4.5% of men.
• The bottom 80% of men are competing for the bottom 22% of women and the top 78% of women are competing for the top 20% of men.
• A guy with average attractiveness can only expect to be liked by slightly less than 1% of females. This means one “like” for every 115 women that see his profile.

Sucks to be you.

OffGuardian.

What is BlackRock? Where did this financial behemoth come from? How did it gain such incredible power over the world’s wealth? And how is it seeking to leverage that power in shaping the course of human civilization?

Find out in this in-depth Corbett Report documentary on How BlackRock Conquered the World.

Fetterman Campaign Seizes on Attacks, Sells Dress Code Merch  Monetizing Uncle Fester.

Evening Nets Ignore National Debt Topping $33 Trillion for Two Days (NewsBusters)

Katie Porter and the politics of real life (Washington Poop) Of course they would never run an article like this about a Republican.

Democrat Katie Porter Says Republican Women Don’t Count as Women (Washington Free Beacon)

NYC Leaders Ignore Illegal Alien Crisis, Continue to Push Maoist Cultural Revolution (The Foundry)

Liquor In The Front, Poker In The Rear: Denver Homeless Camp Busted For Drinking, Prostitution

Despite ‘Financial Tsunami’ From Migrants, NYC Mulls Reparations, Removal Of George Washington Statues

The Permanent Strikes Continue: GM Joins Ford, Stellantis With Mass Layoffs As Result Of UAW Action

N.Y. No Longer a Sanctuary? Gov. Hochul: Go Elsewhere

Media Literacy Firm Rigged to Favor Left-Wing Media

DeSantis Vows to Defund COVID Vaccines, End Forced Compliance

New COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Hits Hurdles (NewsMax)

Exhibitionist Democrat No Longer Has Endorsements, Only Fans

Feds Investigating ‘Bullion Bob’ Menendez Over Mysterious Gold Bars: Report

Democratic Senator Accused of Cartoonish Corruption (New York Magazine) Again.

Manchin circulates proposal to reverse Schumer on dress code (The Hill)

Whatever happened to “independent journalist” John Sullivan, who filmed the killing of Ashli Babbitt?

The Other McCain.

These women are now the core grassroots constituency of the Democratic Party, the kind of people so insulated from reality they think CNN is objective journalism.

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Revolutions need foot soldiers and our current political moment is no different. Although they may sometimes sound like they are in opposition, the reality is that there is a considerable amount of congruence between the direct action we see today on the Left and the political and media duopoly in power in most of the West. Rather than being opposed to the supposed establishment, these activists provide the street muscle, fierce passion, and raised voices that bureaucrats dare not show—at least not usually.

In the U.S., black-hooded Antifa aggressively push for ‘racial justice’ and ‘trans rights.’ Anti-oil and animal-rights groups disrupt traffic, spill milk in stores, and glue themselves to paintings in the United Kingdom. In continental Europe, ‘anti-racist’ far Left groups and blocs of immigrants attack the same opponents. Churches and Christian symbols face fire—real or symbolic—from leftist, feminist, or Islamist sources. These are manifestations of what is known as direct action—whether violent or non-violent—which as a term developed on the political Left in the early 20th century, although antecedents can be found in the 19th century.

States and governments themselves may arrest people for some of these actions; sometimes the authorities may even prosecute some of them. But there is not that much political space between the street radicals and the broader agendas of most of our entrenched elites on a range of issues such as race, gender, climate change, immigration, or even their view of (Christian) religion. The street toughs may be getting a little ahead of the program, be a bit hot-headed, but they are pointing in the ‘correct’ direction. Their political hearts are in the right place and largely in lockstep with globalist elites. Such ideological harmony is reflected in the media coverage, where they are often treated with kid gloves, and described as ‘activists’ or ‘progressives’ while their opponents are ‘far’ or ‘ultra,’ as in ‘far-right’ or ‘ultra conservative.’

The Foundry.

The Wisconsin Department of Corrections is housing a man who raped his own daughter in a women’s prison because he said he identifies as a woman himself—and the DOC is refusing to offer any kind of insight or explanation on the matter.

ZMan looks behind the curtain.

The next Republican debate is scheduled for this coming Thursday at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley California. According to state media, the same cast of characters is expected to perform at this event, with the exception of Asa Hutchinson and Doug Burgum, who they forgot to invite. Why this is being held in California is a mystery, as there is no chance a Republican will every win the state. For all anyone knows or cares, there is no Republican Party in California.

Putting that aside, the pre-coverage of this debate shows us that the narrative for the 2024 election is running into serious trouble on the GOP side. The script said that at this point, Trump would be out of the race due to the indictments. The party would have swung behind one of the zombies to stop Ron DeSantis, who would be desperately swimming to the “middle” in order to maintain donor support. Instead, Trump now looms over the whole thing like Godzilla attacking Tokyo.

The main flaw in the narrative was assuming that Trump’s support would collapse after the string of indictments. Because the people behind this stuff are lizard people from an alien planet, they have no way to read public sentiment. They are left to imagine how humans would react under certain conditions. Apparently one of their texts on humans said that humans naturally flee when the bad guys attack their champion for the crime of fighting back against the bad guys.

The Foundry.

As an Eagle Scout, I feel a debt to the Boy Scouts of America, but I also think the BSA abandoned its defining values by embracing transgender ideology. Both the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of the USA have embraced far-left social agendas that alienate many of the young families who form their natural constituencies.

I sat down Wednesday with Patti Garibay, founder and executive director of American Heritage Girls, the leading scouting alternative to the Girl Scouts. She founded American Heritage Girls back in 1995, after she realized that the Girl Scouts were promoting homosexuality and abortion.

While the Girl Scouts had begun moving in that direction during the 1970s, Garibay said, it really hit her in 1993 when the Girl Scouts removed an oath to God from the Girl Scout Promise.

LI town to ‘woke’ NYC: We’ll take statues honoring Washington, Jefferson, Columbus (N.Y. Post)

New York City threatens statues of Washington, Columbus and Jefferson over slavery links and mulls reparations task force as monumental budget cuts hit police, firefighters in the wake of the migrant crisis (UK Daily Mail)

Soviet-style grocery stores won’t save Chicago from pro-crime pols (N.Y. Post)

City-Owned Grocery Store Could Be Coming To Chicago’s Food Deserts (Block Club Chicago)

‘Power to communities’: Chicago considers city-owned grocery store to address ‘food deserts’ after giants like Walmart and Whole Foods shutter stores (Yahoo Finance)

Chicago mayor considers creating city-owned grocery store after Walmart, Whole Foods close stores in the city (Fox)

Progressives Hate School Choice Until It’s Time to Send Their Kids to School

DC-Area Police Department Turns to Puerto Rico To Alleviate Officer Recruiting Shortages

CALLING HIS BLUFF: Tuberville Tests Schumer by Forcing Senate Vote on Military Officer

UN To Discuss How To Better Control The World At Annual General Assembly

Permanent Strike: Ford Lays Off 600 Workers Due To UAW Strike

California Legislature Approves $25 Per Hour Healthcare Worker Minimum Wage Bill

Voter Registration Charities: A Massive, Overlooked Scandal

Eric Clapton Raises $1M for RFK Jr. Campaign

Cape Cod Residents Outraged At Democratic Governor’s Migrant Housing Plan

Lawsuit Unearths Link Between Dem Megadonor SBF, Parents, and Democratic Dark Money Behemoth Arabella Advisors

Playbook: Inside the Dems’ shutdown strategy (Politico)

California on Track To Lose Five House Seats in 2030 as Residents Leave

Catch-and-Release Illegal Charged With Texas Murder

Gov. Newsom Refuses to Answer when Abortion Should be Cut Off During CNN Interview

Anti-Impeachment GOP Rep. Ken Buck Seeks Job at CNN  Don’t think of it as selling out; think of it as buying in.

GM, Stellantis Lay Off 2,370 Due to UAW Strike