Dan Rather schooled on Twitter for wondering ‘what is going on’ with CNN: ‘Gone full MAGA’

What the end of the Pelosi era could cost California (L.A. Times)

Violent threats against lawmakers have Congress on edge (The Hill) The focus is, of course, on threats against Democrats. Nobody cares about threats against Republicans.

When ‘wokeness’ comes to Middle-earth: Why some say diverse casting ruins the new ‘Lord of the Rings’ series (CNN)

Dollar store workers in the South have a labor movement. Just don’t call it a union (NPR)

Virginia teacher sues district over pronoun policy: They think they know better than parents

Android Central.

Google does a lot of stupid things. All giant corporations are the same in that regard. But it takes special effort to do something truly terrible. That’s where Google’s Project Nimbus comes in on the spectrum.

Project Nimbus is a joint effort of Google, Amazon, and the Israeli government that provides futuristic surveillance capabilities through the use of advanced machine learning models. Like it or not, that’s part of the future of state security, and not any more terrible than many other similar projects. Many of us even use similar tech in and around our homes.

Over 10,000 govt docs without classified markings were seized from Mar-a-Lago, DOJ says (NBC) So what?

Bernie Sanders joins striking British rail workers, calls out “corporate greed” (Reiuters) What about Union greed? What about political greed?

Joe Biden says Trump ideology threatens US democracy (BBC) What ‘Trump ideology’? Guarding the border? Cutting taxes? Increasing security against China? Honest elections? What, exactly?

Now Would Be a Good Time to Investigate Ginni Thomas (Daily Beast) The witch-hunt continues.

Trump pick for Michigan secretary of state race Kristina Karamo threatened to kill her family, court records claim (CNBC)

In Michigan, one of the most brazen GOP attacks on democracy yet (Washington Post)

Twitter account Libs of TikTok blamed for harassment of children’s hospitals (Washington Post)

Dear Insurrectionists and Fascists: I’m sorry I offended you (Washington Post) Dana Milbank is, of course, not sorry at all, and uses this opportunity to double down.

Max Boot: OK, the Great Replacement Conspiracy Theory Is Actually True, But That’s a Good Thing Because I Hate You

Reality Check?? CNN’s Avlon Tries to Paint Dems as Moderate, GOP as Extreme

Biden Official Complains Big Tech Doesn’t Censor Enough: Report

S.E. Cupp: ‘Courageous’ Biden ‘Correctly’ Calls GOP Semi-Fascists

MSNBC Wishes Biden Included Reagan In Denunciation of GOP

Google releases details on how it will combat misinformation in advance of midterm elections (CNN)

Trump-aligned Pa. governor nominee Mastriano sues Jan. 6 committee (Politico)

Hamas Praises Google Worker Who Quit Over Company’s Ties to Israel

New Mexico governor commits $10 million to building new abortion clinic near Texas border

NPR Turns to Aussie Leader To Trash Fox, Murdochs as Undermining Democracy

NY Times Plugs UN Report’s Demand for Abortion, Reparations, Gun Control in US

GROSS: Nets Gush Over ‘Blistering,’ ‘Fiery’ Biden Speech Calling GOPers a ‘Threat’

If an Alternative Candidate Is Needed in 2024, These Folks Will Be Ready (N.Y. Times) David Brooks does his pet (pseudo)conservative act.

Nets Skip Liberal Bail Fund Releasing Abuser to Kill His Girlfriend

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Around 22,000 households in Colorado lost the ability to control their thermostats after the power company seized control of them during a heatwave.

One good thing about solar panels on your roof is that one is freed from such totalitarian tactics.

AOC challenger calls out NYC’s crime crisis, puts blame on defund the police and ‘woke’ prosecutors

The U.S. diet is deadly. Here are 7 ideas to get Americans eating healthier (NPR) One of the distinguishing characteristics of totalitarianism is that no aspect of life is immune from government interference. One of the distinguishing characteristics of the Narrative Media is the compulsion to tell other people how to live their lives.

White House set to hold health summit on ending US hunger Because they’ve demonstrated so much competence in every other area of life.

Convicted Felon to Get $37,000 From Washington State for Prison Time

Australian Academy of Science Demands Dissent be Silenced

Morning Joe Cheers For Dems: ‘Momentum Shift, Turning Point, On A Roll, Wind At Their Back!’  The media blitz in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

NY Times Goes Goopy Over Gorbachev, ‘Visionary…Who Lifted the Iron Curtain’

California Dreaming: A Transgender Sanctuary State?  Perhaps Texas can bus it’s ‘transgender’ people to California, in exchange for productive citizens. There’s a thought.

New Mexico Governor Directs $10M in Public Money to Build Abortion Clinic  Time to leave.

I was in America’s most hated church. Here’s how to stop extremism  Give in to the Narrative and vote Democrat. You don’t even need to read the article.

11 Pro-Free Speech Organizations ‘Permanently Banned’ by Chinese Communist Party-Tied TikTok

Kansas Teacher Wins $95K Over Pronoun Controversy

THE IRONY: ‘Catholic’ Pelosi Claims It’s ‘Sinful’ To Restrict Abortion

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A white woman is suing e-commerce giant Amazon over a program that gives “Black, Latinx, and Native American entrepreneurs” a $10,000 stipend to launch their own delivery startups, an offer the lawsuit calls “patently unlawful racial discrimination.”

UN’s Gender Czar Ends Examination of US With Bleak Report

CA School District Orders Book on 10 Sexual Orientations and 8 Genders  Time to leave.

US Leadership Needed to Push Back on China’s Abuse of Interpol

Biden is the most ‘purposefully inoffensive politician of his generation,’ MSNBC’s Joy Reid insists

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

From a Republican ‘tsunami’ to a ‘puddle’: Why the forecast for November is changing (CNN) Because the Narrative Media need it to change.

Five reasons Democrats’ midterm chances are rising (The Hill) Starting the media blitz in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Residents Become Chief Export Of California (Babylon Bee)

Progressive Policies Turning Chicago’s Magnificent Mile Into Murderous Mile

House Overview: GOP Control No Longer a Foregone Conclusion  The media blitz in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Biden dodges the August curse (Politico) The media blitz in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Pennsylvania Abruptly Changes Voter Registration Form, Combines With Mail-In Ballot Application

Trust the Science … Except Biology

Nets Mourn for Gorbachev, Falsely Claim He ‘Took Down Iron Curtain’  More accurately, had it ripped out of his hands. (Mikhail Gorbachev, former Soviet president who took down the Iron Curtain, dies CNN)

California Senate Passes Bill To Create “Fast Food Council” With Wage-Setting Power  Semi-fascist? Right here.

A device that can turn a semi-automatic weapon into a machine gun in moments is wreaking havoc on American streets (CNN) Or, at least, that’s the Narrative. What they don’t tell you, of course, is the number of such crimes being committed by Fashionable Minorities, because that would be waycist.

U.S. Life Expectancy Falls Again in ‘Historic’ Setback (N.Y. Times) Women and minorities hardest hit etc. etc.

Ze Started It: Maryland High School Pushes ‘Ze, Zir, Zirs’ Pronouns on Students

U.S. Forces Ordered to Stop Using Gender Pronouns to Improve ‘Lethality’

Report: Hate Crimes Against Jews in NYC Have Yielded 1 Jail Day Since 2018

Yale Group Says Students Who Cleaned Litter From Homeless Camp Committed ‘Violence’

Texas Has Spent More Than $12 Million Busing Migrants  Much less than they would otherwise cost, as evidenced by the overwhelming problems that NYC and DC are having with them.

ZMan takes a peek.

An enduring question on this side of the great divide is over the motivation of the Cloud People as they go about their war on the Dirt People. Is there some grand plan behind the war or is it some weird instinctual thing? Are they motivated by base instincts like money and power or is it something spiritual? There is the “deep state versus emergent behavior” angle but also the simple question about whether these people have the self-awareness to grasp what they are doing at all.

For example, the war on Russia was launched six months ago and at the time it was clear to most people that the cost to the West would be high. The question was about the cost to the Russians. Given the dismal history of economic sanctions and the public utterances of Russian leaders, sober minded people saw the sanctions regime as a high risk and extremely low reward gamble. That quickly became an all risk and no reward strategy that was doomed to fail.

Despite the obviousness of it all, the West kept doubling down on the program as if they were on the right side of history. Now people are getting gas bills in Europe that are five and ten times normal. Europeans are posting their utility bills on-line as a desperate effort to get attention to the issue. For reasons no one has bothered to explain, Western media is not treating this as an important story. They are not grilling Western leaders on the situation or even asking them questions.

In fact, European nations have asked the U.S. to step up to the plate and produce more oil and gas to help them out, and the Secretary of Energy is too busy pushing electric cars to help out our allies.

Joel Kotkin.

The last few decades have seen the emergence of two rival economies: an older analog one built on the actual production of goods, and another that profits from financial transactions, images and customer surveillance. The contest between the two has been rather one-sided, with the “laptop economy” the big winner, particularly during the pandemic.

But while lockdowns made this one-sidedness clear, recent developments have been an unwelcome reminder that the pain suffered in the analog economy still matters. Whether through inflation, energy shortages or supply chain issues, we are getting an uncomfortable lesson in the enduring relevance of the material world.

Campus Conformity: College Students Say They Self-Censor Political Opinions, Poll Finds

Arizona Supreme Court Kills Soros-Funded Ballot Initiative

CNN Hypes ‘Flashpoint’ of GOP Extremism on Abortion, No Mention of Radical Dem Stance

Malibu Students to Receive Free Breakfast, Lunch

Democratic Chicago lawmaker calls out Lori Lightfoot, Kim Foxx for crime wave: ‘The criminals are winning’

In Sf’s Tenderloin, The Drug Dealers Are Winning (Beyond Chron)

When something Joe Rogan and Mark Zuckerberg said cuts a little too close to home (CNN)

Their ancestors came to America. After Dobbs, they want out. (Washington Post) Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out. (They say that, but they never actually leave.)

We cannot squander this moment. Australia must tackle the structural issues behind women’s inequality (The Guardian) They’re so oppressed.

Parents ask federal judge to block Florida schools from carrying out ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law (Politico)

Biden to Deliver Prime-Time Speech on ‘Battle’ for Democracy

Media Watchdog Slams NY Times for Working With Pro-Hitler, Pro-Hamas Freelancers

Google Joins Big Tech Companies In ‘Pre-Bunking’ Misinformation

Fetterman opposes voter ID laws because ‘people of color are less likely to have their ID’

CRT Infects Military Academies, Medical Schools

CA Design Code Law AB-2273: You’ll Scan Your Face for Every Website You Visit

Here are the signs Republicans’ hopes for a ‘red wave’ are receding ahead of the 2022 elections (NBC) Commencing the media blitz in preparation for the mid-term elections.

Radical PBS Suggests Having A Border Is ‘Veering Towards Fascism’

Why Won’t Michigan’s Secretary of State Purge Dead From Voter Rolls?  They need the votes?

From a Republican ‘tsunami’ to a ‘puddle’: Why the forecast for November is changing (CNN) Unmentioned is the historical fact that the Narrative Media always do a publicity blitz before an election pointing out how Democrat candidates are more popular than ever, that Democrats are on a winning streak, and that Democrats will undoubtedly triumph over all.

Minnesota Proposes to Require Teachers to Use Critical Race Theory. Here’s What Parents Need to Know.  Time to leave.

Arizona’s Kirsten Engel Signed Anti-Cop Activist’s Slavery Reparations Pledge

CNNer Claims Gun Ownership in America a ‘Homeland Security Problem’

Report: Gov. Hochul May Be Violating Rules With Appointee Donations

Ohio Court to Oberlin College: Pay Up

Teen Vogue Urges Teenagers to ‘Fight Like Hell’ for More Abortions

Morning Joe: Republican Red Wave ‘Gone’ Because of ‘Political Poison’ Trump  Part of the media blitz in the runup to the mid-term elections.

The Liberal Media’s Gorbasms Over the Last Soviet Dictator

Meet Todd, A Total Chump Who Did The Responsible Thing And Worked His Way Through College (Babylon Bee)

Federal Court Ruling on Gender Identity Upends Civil Rights Law

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Banks in New York City have begun locking ATM lobbies at night, including to customers with a bank card, due to unhoused people using them for shelter.

“A lot of stuff happens at night,” an unidentified ATM technician told the New York Post, adding that many banks “periodically” close their ATM lobbies at night.

“Like a number of other banks, we have temporarily closed some ATM vestibules overnight at certain New York City branch locations where we have seen repeat activity that could present a potentially dangerous situation for our customers or colleagues,” Citizens Bank spokesperson Eleni Garbis said in a statement to the newspaper.

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Political leaders in Germany (and all other Western nations, for that matter) never acknowledge or refer to the fact that culture-enrichers are driving a massive increase in violent crime wherever they are present in significant numbers. To compensate, in the German city of Cottbus, young activists have taken matters into their own hands and put up warning signs about migrant violence.

We need a boatload of such signs for the Texas border country.

Maybe we could send some to New York City and D.C. along with the buses.

UPDATE: ‘Sanctuary City’ NYC Buckles As Migrant Hotel, Intake Center Plans Fall Apart

Watch: Antifa Shows Up To ‘Family Friendly’ Drag Show With AR-15s

With Midterms Around Corner, Here Are 10 Worst States for Voters

Bernie Sanders rebukes GOP for backing corporate tax breaks but not student debt relief (The Guardian)

California rolls out a daring new housing policy to combat high home prices and increase supply (Fortune)

Will This Be the First Country Bankrupted by Crypto? (Rolling Stone)

What I Learned About Media Rage After Getting Fired From Fox (Politico)

Unlawful assembly! Cops ignore Mayor Adams’ no-congregating order

Why medical students should be next up for debt relief (The Hill)

Senator Warren worries that Fed will tip U.S. economy into recession (Reuters)

NYC struggling to house busloads of migrants as hotel, intake center plan falls apart

Dorothy Roberts on reproductive justice: ‘Abortion isn’t the only focus’ (The Guardian) Killing your child is ‘reproductive justice’?

Renters in one of California’s ‘eviction capitals’ give Newsom adviser an earful (S.F. Chronicle)

NYC Struggles to House Busloads of Migrants Sent From Texas  How would they cope with millions coming over the border?

GlenEisenhardt: The FBI Rigged the 2020 Election

DGB Going Underground? DHS Signals So-Called ‘Disinformation’ Work ‘Can and Must’ Continue

Those Who Want to Destroy the Constitution

Post-Dobbs landscape fuels Democrats’ optimism: The Note  (ABC) Media blitz in the runup to the mid-terms.

Persuadable voters are breaking for the Democrats, NBC News poll finds (NBC) Media blitz in the runup to the mid-terms.

Supreme Court ratings plummet after abortion decision (NBC) Media blitz in the runup to the mid-terms.

Trafalgar Poll Showing Trouble for GOP in Wisconsin  Media blitz before the mid-terms.

Wa-Po Op-Ed Claims Female Athletes Need To Learn To Lose To Trans Dudes

Looking for Drag Queens? Washington Post Has You Covered

Michigan Secretary Of State Loses Round In Fight Over Dead People On Voter Rolls  “We LIKE dead people! They all vote Democrat!”

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As kids headed back to school this week, I noticed a peculiar trend: friends and acquaintances of mine have started sending their kids to Japanese, French, and Spanish immersion schools—that is, parents who do not speak those languages. I know a lovely family of American-born parents who is sending its children to mainland China to be educated, and another who selected a school offering a “Classical education,” where, in her words, “the kids are learning Latin and Greek by third grade.” (Mom never studied either language.)

Over the last two decades, matriculation at dual-language curricula in both public and private schools has skyrocketed. In 2000, there were roughly 260 dual-language programs in the U.S. By 2011, Harvard Graduate School of education estimated the number at 2,000.

The American Councils Research Center estimates that in 2010, there were about 1,000 dual-language programs in public-schools in the U.S. A decade later, there were more than three times that many. American parents are signing up their kids for instruction in languages they can’t speak and immersion in cultures to which they have no native connection.

Ben Thompson of Stratechery. (Highly recommended.)

The first and most important takeaway from Kashmir Hill’s excellent article in the New York Times about Mark, the man flagged by Google as a purveyor of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) for taking pictures of his son’s penis and sending them to their family doctor, and who subsequently lost nearly every aspect of his digital life when Google deleted his account, are the tremendous trade-offs entailed in the indiscriminate scanning of users’ cloud data.

Read it.

Are you hungry? Good, according to the central planners.

The folks over at the UN stopped destroying the world for a brief few minutes to publish a piece (snapshot below) justifying their behavior and explaining the “benefits” of the famine they’ve engineered.

Not making this up.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

By a mechanism dubbed the retrospective distortion, we look at history using the rear view mirror and flow values retroactively. So one would be naturally inclined to believe that the ancients, particularly the Greco-Romans, would seem like us, share the same wisdom, preferences, values, concerns, fears, hopes, and outlook, except, of course, without the iPhone, Twitter, and the Japanese automated toilet seat. But, no, no, not at all, Holland is saying. These ancients did not have the same values. In fact, Christianity did stand the entire ancient value system on its head.

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The Governor of the one-party state of California has designs on running for president in 2024. Newsom claims to be a big proponent of ‘freedom.’ And touts his state’s efforts to protect the freedom to kill unborn babies up until the minute of birth. But his California is also a place where one has the freedom to loot a local business without consequences. Californians have the freedom to defecate in the street of any major city. Thanks to the ruling party’s reforms, people with HIV have the freedom to spread the virus to others. California, it seems, is just bursting with freedom.

Oh, but you won’t have the freedom to buy a gasoline-powered car. That will be illegal as of 2035. Oh, and if you own a hotel, the city of Los Angeles may soon force you to put up vagrants in any vacant room.

The greening of the Arctic tundra (National Geographic)

How US government diet guidelines ignore the climate crisis (The Guardian)

Russia to build two nuclear reactors in Hungary (CNN)

Climate change could bring back wind as the future power source for ocean cargo ships (CNBC)

The Science of Snowfall and Climate Snowjobs

Pakistan Flooding Deaths Pass 1,000 in ‘Climate Catastrophe’

European Central Bank Chief Blames Climate-Change For Red-Hot Inflation

We’re From the Climate Police, and We’re Here to Help You

Green Energy Fail: British Union Boss Predicts Riots, 1990s Style Uprising

The British Energy Horror Story

The US could lose the right to vote within months’: Top official warns on threat to democracy (The Guardian)

FBI says it ‘routinely notifies’ social media companies of potential threats following Zuckerberg-Rogan podcast (The Hill) Threats to whom? Not to the social media company, obviously. Threats to Democrat election results, maybe?

‘So I Went Out With A Baseball Bat’: Residents Describe Dealing With Rampant Theft In San Francisco

Pledging “pain,” Federal Reserve declares war on the working class (World Socialist Web Site)

Communist China survivor issues warning to Americans: Socialism is only the first stage

NY Times Cheers Friendly Neighborhood IRS; Frets Over Conservative Violence

San Francisco Shop Owners Threaten To Stop Paying Taxes Unless City Tackles Crime, Homelessness

Chang: China Is Weaponizing Chinese Worldwide To Support The CCP

Serbia’s Leader Cancels EuroPride. Organizers Say They Will Go Ahead Anyway. (N.Y. Times)

Ozzy Fleeing LA Crime for UK: ‘I Don’t Want to Die in America’  Hey, come to Texas, where it’s safe.

Denver Public Schools Show Video Telling Kids To Avoid Police “As Perpetrators Of Violence”

Democrats clash over Manchin side deal, raising shutdown risk (The Hill)

SFPD chief supports officers who didn’t arrest suspect in catalytic converter theft (S.F. Chronicle)

Los Angeles County DA George Gascon declined to charge man months before he allegedly murdered off-duty cop

Video Report: ‘Smash-and-Grabs’ Becoming More Brazen in NYC

New York Times Columnist Gets First Freedom Wrong

TIPP Poll: 8 in 10 Say Laptop Cover-Up Changed Election

Maher Argues With Reiner Over Press Covering Up Hunter Biden’s Laptop

96 more migrants pour into NYC from Texas, 14 hotels now used for housing  Ninety-six people is not a ‘pour’–that’s less than would fit on a NYC subway car.

NYT: “Maternal Instinct Is a Myth That Men Created”

FBI Instructs Facebook To Censor Posts About The FBI Instructing Facebook To Censor Posts About Hunter’s Laptop  (Babylon Bee)

Nature: Manuscripts that are ideologically impure and “harmful” will be rejected

Federal Court: HHS Can’t Require Religious Docs to Perform Transgender Surgeries

‘Pre-bunking’ shows promise in fight against misinformation (Associated Press) In the Narrative Media, ‘misinformation’ means ‘doesn’t agree with the Narrative’.

Marijuana use among young people in U.S. at record high, study says (Washington Post) ‘A gramme is better than a damn!’

NIH study finds young Americans using more marijuana and hallucinogenic drugs than ever before  Gee, I wonder why?

Electrion Interference: Zuck Tells Rogan Facebook Censored Hunter Laptop Story After FBI Request

LA Homeless Authority Doesn’t Want Anyone Saying The Word “Homeless”  How about the good old term ‘vagrant’? Or ‘beggar’?

Fetterman Opposes School Vouchers for the Poor. He Sends His Kids To One Of PA’s Priciest Prep Schools.

Removal Of 327 Books With Lgbtq+ Themes By Tn School District Is “Heartbreaking” Censorship (PEN America) For proglodytes, certainly.

Biden asks Republicans to shun ‘MAGA’ in November, vote Democrat (Reuters) Biden is obviously senile.

Fetterman Sends Kids to Private School While Opposing Vouchers for Poor Families

The GOP’s Big Tent Might Finally Collapse Now That Roe v. Wade Is Gone (Daily Beast)

The Media Bias Fight in Britain

MSNBC Cheers Democrats Portraying Abortion ‘As An Issue Of Freedom’

Zuckerberg Says Quiet Part Out Loud: FBI Pressured Facebook to Censor Before 2020 Election

Bernie Sanders Tops IPSOS/USA Today Poll for Democrat Nomination  That’s all we need, another senile Democrat running for President.

Wash Post Sobs About ‘Kentucky’s Lone Trans Athlete’

NOT COOL: Anti-Police Squad Member Caught Snitching To Cops

DeSantis Opponent Names Running Mate: A Teachers’ Union Head Who Fought to Close Schools, Compared Parents to Serial Killers

Forcing Churches To Pay for Abortions Is Unconstitutional, California Federal Court Rules

Harvard To Pay Elizabeth Warren $400,000 To Teach Class On Why College Is So Expensive  (Babylon Bee)

Biden student loan plan could cost $24B per year, White House press secretary estimates (CNN)

The frustrating truth about who is excluded from college debt relief (CNN)

Biden’s big move on student loans only a first step toward making American college great again (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Biden’s student loan handout plan is a lawless power grab designed to buy votes

Biden’s Tuition Gambit Could (And Should) End Up in Court (Politico_)

‘Environmental Justice’ Bill Advances Fundamental Transformation of Federal Government

More Democrats piling onto Biden over $300 billion student loan handouts: ‘Not how I would have done it’

Biden’s ‘deplorables moment’: Joe calls Trumpism ‘semi-fascism,’ throwing ‘unity pledge in trash,’ Rove says

Is the border crisis an ‘invasion’? (The Hill)

Democrats in tough races distance themselves from Biden’s student loans decision (NBC)

Checkmate: Jacqui Heinrich, Karine Jean-Pierre Spar Over Legality of Student Loan Bailout

NBC Highlights Democrat Party Divisions Over Biden Student Loan Plan

Big Banks Build Loophole To Avoid Biden’s Share-Buyback Tax  Such tricks never work because the average banker is smarter than the average government employee–and the average member of Congress.

KJP Struggles to Answer Lemon’s Question on Biden’s Semi-Fascism Quip

Average Lifetime Earnings Of A Gender Studies Grad Rise To $10,000 (Babylon Bee)

Meet Gender Studies Major Chloe And 7 Other Underprivileged College Grads Whose Loans You’re Paying Off (Babylon Bee)

The iceman cometh: Biden creates an Arctic ambassador (Politico) More jobs for Democrat functionaries.

Watch: WH Press Secretary Refuses To Answer Question “What Is Semi-Fascism?”  I can answer that: What Democrats Do.

Biden’s Move to Fortify DACA Program an Unlawful Quasi-Amnesty

Joementum Has Arrived and It’s Propelling Democrats to Victory  I think not.

The Biden Student Loan Forgiveness Plan: Budgetary Costs And Distributional Impact (Penn Wharton)

A Vote-Buying Scheme for Affluent Millennials

“Abuse Of Power”: WaPo And WSJ Slam Biden Student Loan Handout; Penn Wharton Sees Trillion Dollar Cost

WATCH: Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week Vol. 8

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A recorded call with Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., indicates the hospital provides “gender-affirming hysterectomies” for 16-year-olds and younger patients, although the hospital is denying it does.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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A U.S. Coast Guard cutter conducting patrols as part of an international mission to prevent illegal fishing was recently unable to get clearance for a scheduled port call in the Solomon Islands, according to reports, an incident that comes amid growing concerns of Chinese influence on the Pacific nation.

The cutter Oliver Henry was taking part in Operation Island Chief monitoring fishing activities in the Pacific, which came to a close on Friday, when it sought to make a scheduled stop on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, to refuel and re-provision, Coast Guard Lt. Kristin Kam told the Stars and Stripes newspaper.

There was no response from the Solomon Islands’ government for diplomatic clearance for the vessel to land, however, so the Oliver Henry diverted to Papua New Guinea, Kam said.

She declined to specify when the incident occurred, and the Coast Guard did not immediately respond to emails or calls from The Associated Press for comment.

Nearly 300 southern Illinoisans have to give up their firearms after gun rights revoked Bellville News-Democrat

Google is trying out ‘pre-bunking’ in an effort to counter misinformation (NBC)

New York experiences sharpest drop in life expectancy out of all 50 states and DC, new CDC data shows  Time to leave.

‘We need to do something’: 200 stolen vehicles recovered by Portland man (KOIN) News from the Whitest City in America.

California DA Admits 70% Of Suspects Released On $0 Bail Committed New Crimes

Cops Shut Down 8-Year-Old Girl’s Lemonade Stand To Protect Society From Unlicensed Lemonade

Bootleg Abortion Pill Sales On The Rise

62% Say Media Bias Getting Worse (Rasmussen)

House Leadership Delays Social Security Expansion While Crafting Tax Breaks for Rich Retirees (The American Prospect)

Practical Tools to Protect Your Kids From Woke Agenda at School

Grain Traders See Record Profits Amid Food Crisis, Prompting Calls For Windfall Tax  Of course.

US Judge Blocks Idaho Abortion Ban in Emergencies

Morning Joe Mute as Crist Calls His ‘Amazing’ Popularity a ‘God Thing’

Collective Yawn: Nets Bury California’s RADICAL Move to End Gas-Powered Cars

Polling Shows Portlanders Are Scared of Downtown—and of Their Own Neighborhoods

Poop complaints have swelled in all San Francisco neighborhoods — except this one (S.F. Chronicle)

‘Hamilton’ Donates Damages Paid by Texas Church for Unauthorized Production to Gay Rights Organization (Rolling Stone)

California county saw 70% of criminal suspects released on $0 bail commit new crimes: DA

Rubbish! San Francisco’s $20,000 designer trash can struggles to contain trash (The Guardian)

4 Pittsburgh City Council members want homelessness deemed a public health emergency (WFAE)

Chinese censors change ending of latest ‘Minions’ movie (CNN)

CNN Staff Fears Right-Wing Billionaire Will Turn It Into a Dumpster Fire (Daily Beast) More than it is already?

Philadelphia Sued for Illegally Funding Abortions

Video Report: Illegals Get Free Hotels, Healthcare, Phones in New York

“F**k Wirepoints” Says Chicago Teachers Union When Confronted With Facts From The School District Itself

ABC, CBS Finally Report on Paul Pelosi’s DUI Charges, NBC Ignores

“This Needs To Stop” – After Dip During Pandemic, UK Knife Crime Is Soaring  Boy, those strict gun control laws really work.

ECB Says Cash “Not Fit” For Digital Economy, Dismisses CBDC Privacy Concerns

Warnock Voted for COVID Bill That Sent $75K to Social Justice Group He Founded 

Judge in Texas Blocks Biden Administration Emergency Abortion Guidance

The Truly Scary Part of the $1.6 Billion Conservative Donation (Slate) It didn’t go to us!

Socialist left swamps Democratic centrist challengers in NY state Senate primaries

An Illegal Immigrant Tried To Kill His Ex While Out on Bail. This Soft-on-Crime Candidate Voted To Let It Happen Again.

AOC Admits to Defying Financial Disclosure Rules

Texas Gov. Abbott Blasts NYC Mayor Adams for Lying About Bused Migrants

Canada Is Euthanizing Its Sick and Poor. Welcome to World of Government Health Care.

NYC Reportedly Incurs Largest Single-Day Busloads of Texas Migrants

Democracy vs “Our Democracy”

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In a Monday airing of “Vittert,” journalist Leland Vittert, the show’s host, announced that Mexican drug cartels are working with China to get fentanyl into the U.S. to poison Americans.

Vittert interviewed David Asher, a former State Department official, about the connection between the drug cartels and the Chinese.

“You got to understand that none of this could work without the Chinese government’s involvement. So we’re not just dealing with drug cartels and the Chinese Triad, which are the version of drug cartels in China,” Asher said.

”We’re dealing with the Chinese Ministry of State Security, the United Front part of the Communist Party; they are organizing the fentanyl shipments to Mexico. At some level, they are involved in manufacturing, and doing it with the goal of killing American kids … And then they’re having Chinese students in the U.S. pick up the [drug] money.”

‘Reliable Sources’: Why defending the press is essential to defending democracy (CNN) I guess it’s time to trot out Carl “Worse Than Watergate” Bernstein again.

Philadelphia police face staffing crisis that’s projected to get even worse

Why Are So Many Cops Walking Away From the Force? (Newsweek)

Teachers Union Head Acknowledges Sharing False List of Banned Books

NYC could spend $300M annually to house migrants in hotels: analysis

At the American Academy of Pediatrics, ‘Affirmation’-Based Gender Dogma Is Finally Being Challenged

Sanctuary City Mayors Cry ‘Uncle’, No More Migrants!

‘If We Can Do It, They Can Too,’ Border Mayor Says of DC, NYC Absorbing Illegal Aliens

Pentagon again denies Bowser request for National Guard help for migrants (Washington Post)

CDC: New York State Led US Life Expectancy Drop in 2020

Yelp to Flag Crisis Pregnancy Centers to Point Out Clinics With Abortion Services

Progressive North Carolina Judges Threaten to Nullify Voters’ Wishes

Snopes Labels Viral DeSantis Book Banning Disinformation ‘Satire’  Keep that Narrative rollin’.

Whistleblower Exposes Twitter for ‘Lying’ About Spam Bots to Elon Musk

Texas sends migrants to New York. They get a warm welcome, but life there is tough (NPR)

140 migrants welcomed in NYC from Texas in largest single-day arrival Sunday, officials say (CNN)

Racial slurs, meth and cockroaches: A day in the life running a Tenderloin SRO

Silicon Valley is wrong about the future of transportation (VOX)

Seattle needs therapy to get past defund the police (Seattle Times)

Two new memoirs show the imbalance destabilizing American democracy (CNN)

L.A. is finally separating food waste from trash. Will residents embrace composting? (L.A. Times)

Meet the Nebraska Lawmaker Gunning To Make His State Income Tax One of the Most Punishing

There’s a bipartisan bill to codify Roe — and abortion rights groups can’t stand it (VOX)

Yes, Americans Are Better Off Under Biden (Washington Monthly) Really? And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one. (Gallup: Record Number of Americans Say They’re ‘Suffering’)

LA Cracking Down on Street Takeovers

Colorado GOP Sen. Kevin Priola switches party affiliation to Democrat, citing election conspiracies and climate denialism (Denver Post) Good riddance. All RINOs ought to be so honest. (Of course, this means that Joe Manchin’s power in the Senate no longer exists. But that’s the way it goes.)

Gooey WashPost Paean to Beto O’Rourke Skips One BIG Issue: The Border

Planned Parenthood’s Planned Politicking: $50 Million and Counting  Money talks.

World Economic Forum Claims ‘Solid, Rational Reasons’ for Microchipping Children

Progressive South Texas Candidate Admits to Misleading Voters About Radical Views  Democrats lie. Alway have. Always will.

Texas Builds 600 Miles Of Border Wall Using U-Haul Trucks From California (Babylon Bee)

Ex-NFL Player’s Brother Charged With Fatal Shooting of Youth Football Coach

Teachers’ Union “Extremely Proud” of Racism

Mandela Barnes Talks Up Support for Israel on the Campaign Trail. He Doesn’t Mention His Membership in a Vocal Anti-Israel Group.

Census Bureau Admits Overcounting 7 Blue States, Just 1 Red State

Student loan announcement to come in ‘next week or so,’ Education secretary says ahead of deadline (CNN)

Energy secretary guardedly optimistic about gas prices (Politico)

Biden Energy secretary says US will be at ‘record’ oil production next year (The Hill)

Gas prices are down, but Biden’s problem at the pump isn’t going away (CNBC)

Biden Drops More Crucial Demands To Get Iran Deal

59% of Americans worry student loan forgiveness will make inflation worse

Lapid to Macron: Israel Not Bound by Iran Deal

Biden takes two-week break as vacation time outstrips Trump, Obama, Bush  Hey, it’s not as if anybody is going to miss him.

Biden Picks Major Recipient of Pfizer Research Dollars to Oversee Cancer Institute 

Landlords Try to Stop Rent Control Initiative in Florida  Proglodytes love rent control, which distorts the real-estate market in favor of the politically connected while buying votes among the underclass.

Fargo School Board Reinstates Pledge Of Allegiance After National Public Outcry

Dan Cox says he will oppose step to count mail-in ballots earlier (Baltimore Sun) The sooner you count the ballots, the sooner you know how many you need to ‘find’.

World Economic Forum Pushing For Digital ID Systems Around The World

Time Magazine Compares Liz Cheney Defeat to Stalinist ‘Disappearing’

Texas migrant buses overwhelm New York, Washington D.C. (Axios) Welcome to our world.

The crisis of crime in Minneapolis and beyond

Move over Abe! ABC’s Karl Compares Liz Cheney to Teddy Roosevelt  A progressive in the guise of a Republican? I believe it.

“If You Gonna Be A Ho, Be A Real Ho”: CPS Worker Fired After Telling 14-Year-Old To Become Prostitute

Bronx sucker punch suspect back in jail on parole violation

Court Rules Man Who Identifies as Woman Must Be Allowed in Women’s Jail

Professors of Politics

Non-Approved Websites Profiting From Online Abortion Pills Surge

San Francisco Cops Catch Catalytic Converter Thief Red Handed – Then Let Him Go

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We’ve become obsessed over the past few years with the problem of misinformation. And for good reason. “Flood the zone with shit” is now standard operating procedure for a variety of interests and factions. Groups who pretend to be above that kind of thing let confirmation bias do the same work, elevating conjectures they find convenient to believe far beyond the evidentiary basis for believing them, and transmuting concurrence among prestigious groups whose biases are aligned into “authority” to which they demand deferrence. Casual information consumers become divided into two camps, the “do you own research” types who imagine, mistakenly, that they are capable of seeing through all this (and so succumb to their own confirmation bias), and those who more accurately understand that they cannot reliably distinguish truth from bullshit (and so opt out of democratic deliberation with a shrug, other than perhaps to vote for the candidates whose political party they distrust less).

NeverTrump Helping Democrats in Missouri Senate Race

Republicans Appear to be Realizing All Their Candidates Are Dangerous Weirdos (Vanity Fair) In contrast to Democrats, all of whose candidates are corrupt sociopaths.

MSNBC Accuses GOP Of Pushing ‘Christian Nationalism’ In Schools  I have no problem with that.

Kari Lake endorsed an antisemitic Oklahoma Republican who says ‘the Jews’ are evil  (AZMirror)

“Debunked” this and “false” that – and “deniers”

The drumming-up of hatred against Republicans is escalating

DOJ must make public memo analyzing whether to charge Trump in Russia investigation, federal appeals court rules (CNN)

Tribe: The Criminal Case Against Trump Is Another “Slam Dunk”

Canadian MTO grounds trucking businesses involved in ‘Freedom Convoy’ protests

FBI Unit Leading Mar-a-Lago Probe Earlier Ran Discredited Trump-Russia Investigation

CNN’s John Avlon Decries Flood of GOP ‘Hyperpartisan Cowards and Cranks’

Mayor Adams Mandates Bike Helmets To Protect New Yorkers From Getting Sucker-Punched  (Babylon Bee)

Oversight Democrats Demand Federal Intervention Against ‘Election Misinformation’

For many neurodiverse people, ‘The Sims’ has been a lifelong comfort  Proglodytes love having a world in which their dreams of total control will actually come true.

Texas School District Pushes Teachers To Take ‘LGBTQIA+’ Training on Taxpayers’ Dime

Illinois Dem Touts ‘Historic’ Green Energy Spending That Will Likely Pad His Pocket  Doing well by doing good.

A Constellation of Anti-Voting Groups Threaten Democracy (Democracy Docket)

NY Times Mocks ‘Right-Wing Fury at I.R.S. Overhaul,’ ‘Unfounded Conspiracy Theories’

MSNBC Calls GOP Fascist Six Times In 15 Minutes, Alleges Roe’s Demise Proves It

Sources: Andrew Cuomo ‘Plotting’ His Political Return  What else has he got?

Julie Jaman, Mayor David Faber and the Transgender War Against Women

Restaurants In Lockdown-Loving, High-Crime Cities Still Reeling While Others Thrive

Greg Strange: The Transgender Transmogrification of Everything, Including the Past

MSNBC’s Tiffany Cross Cries ‘Civil War’ After Mar-a-Lago Raid Outrage on the Right

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Los Angeles police are looking for participants in the flash mob that flooded the intersection of Figueroa and El Segundo just past midnight on August 15. First they took over the street to make way for the “donut” action with which we have become familiar in Minneapolis. Then they proceeded to ransack the 7-Eleven at the northwest corner of the intersection (video below).

What is to be said? A good time was had by all except the 7-Eleven employee on duty. It is a national embarrassment.

Time to leave.

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If brighter days are ahead for the U.S. economy, why are so many tent cities popping up all over the nation? At this point things are so bad that even the New York Times is admitting that “America’s homelessness problem has the makings of an acute crisis”. That article goes on to explain that our homeless population is steadily rising. Tonight, hundreds of thousands of our fellow Americans will be sleeping in tents, under bridges, in overcrowded shelters or in their vehicles. Of course there are many that are so addicted to drugs or alcohol that they just sleep wherever they end up passing out. This is a tragedy that is growing with each passing day, and it is only going to get worse in the months ahead as the U.S. economy slows down even more.

Woke Corporations Face Backlash From Conservative States

Nadler senior staffer appears to be providing legal services to congressman, breaking House rules: watchdog

Episcopal Church Endorses Trans Surgeries for Minors

Don’t let politics obscure the horrors of grooming gangs

How Christian fundamentalist homeschooling damages children (Salon) By making them Christians! I mean, what’s up with that?

Bye-Bye Brian! The Worst of CNN’s Stelter

‘Janes Revenge’ Strikes Again, Massachusetts Pregnancy Center ATTACKED

Google Union Wants Co to Join Moloch List, Offer More Abortion Perks

Wisconsin School District Bans Teachers from Showing Pride Materials

The Constitution Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed (N.Y. Times)

Marvel Star Speaks Out Against LA’s Spiraling Crime After Boxing Trainer Shot Dead

This Iowa Democrat Says She Worked as an Engineer. It Was an Internship.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

I suppose the answer is, if they could do math they wouldn’t be liberals. No one with a decent respect for numbers could fling around hundreds of billions and trillions of dollars with only the vaguest notion of where those vast sums are going (but secure in the knowledge that they are other people’s money).

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The light fixtures were what tipped me off. You know the ones I’m talking about — you see them every time you go to Ikea, coolly geometric, and every time, you wonder if they’re worth the effort of getting them installed in your ceiling. (They’re not.)

I was in a non-chain coffee shop in Columbia, South Carolina. I was on a mission to the cities and towns closest to the geographic center of each state, and this was only stop No. 6 of 50, but I remembered seeing the same lights in coffee shops in Bend and Portland in Oregon, and innumerable others I had frequented while living in New York and the Chicago area.

This one small observation opened up the floodgates. I noticed the same kind of person was behind the counter: young and tattooed and bespectacled. The same kind of patrons: young and tattooed and bespectacled, clacking away on MacBooks. (Full disclosure: Your correspondent is young and tattooed and bespectacled, clacking away on a MacBook.) The WiFi passwords were all some cutesy variation on “coffee culture”: !Java!, TheGreatBambeano, that sort of thing.

I couldn’t stop noticing. I’d go on to see the same in Colorado Springs, in Fresno, in Indianapolis, in Oklahoma City, in Nashville.

And it wasn’t just the coffee shops — bars, restaurants, even the architecture of all the new housing going up in these cities looked and felt eerily familiar. Every time I walked into one of these places, my body would give an involuntary shudder. I would read over my notes for a city I’d visited months prior and find that several of my observations could apply easily to the one I was currently in.

Judge Blocks Texas Restrictions On Using P.O. Boxes For Voter Registration

Cyclists, welcome, you have just become the latest target in the culture wars (The Guardian)

AOC’s ‘defund the police’ report card flunks statistics test as NYC crime spike rattles communities

‘Defund the Police’ Rep. Bowman sees 30% violent crime spike in Northern Bronx

Restaurants in deep-blue cities starved for diners while Florida is feasting

A new student filmmaking grant will focus on reproductive rights (NPR) There’s gold in them thar shills.

Title X advocates worry that birth control may go the same way as abortion (NPR)

Meghan Markle ‘bitter’ about failure to ‘create woke royal family,’ expert claims

‘She-Hulk: Attorney at Law’ Is Marvel Trash at Its Most Offensive (Daily Beast) “Green Karen”

CBS Falsely Equates Abortion Bans with High Maternal Mortality Rates

Media Give Liz Cheney a Participation Trophy

German Official Trashes Cost Of Living Protesters As “Enemies Of The State”

CNN Screams ‘Misinformation’ to Defend Woke Boston Children’s Hospital

Trans Groomers Are Getting Desperate

Guessing C For Every Answer Is Now Enough To Pass The New York State Algebra Exam

Left Pushes Radical Sex Ed Curriculum

Pro-Abortion Vandals Strike Pregnancy Center in Massachusetts

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Assaults on bus drivers have significantly increased in Albuquerque, as documented by the news story below. Not coincidentally, Albuquerque began offering free buses on January 1, 2022.

Free, convenient transit is a boon for criminals. What better way to flee the scene before the cops get there?

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It’s almost time for kids to go back to school! If you live in California however, you should consider homeschooling.

California’s Newport-Mesa school district is using a “Genderbread Identity” man in its curriculum this year to facilitate conversations about gender, sexuality and everything in-between (pun intended), Fox Digital reported Tuesday.

The Genderbread man is reportedly part of CA’s “Teen Talk,” which targets middle and high school students in California. It’s purpose is to talk to teenagers about sexual topics and brainwash them with the left’s woke, radical agenda.

Fox Digital shared images of the curriculum and lets just say, an eyeball bleach bath was necessary after viewing.

Time to leave.

An “Extreme Heat Belt” will soon emerge in the U.S., study warns (Axios)

New climate deal spurs hopes of more carbon storage projects (Associated Press)

Energy & Environment — Colorado River talks stalled out ahead of deadline (The Hill)

California’s vital ocean current will soon see major disruption. Here’s what’s at stake (S.F. Chronicle)

Why scientists have pumped a potent greenhouse gas into streams on public lands (NPR)

Outnumbered: In Rural Ohio, Two Supporters of Solar Power Step Into a Roomful of Opposition (Inside Climate News)

Brazil’s other deforestation: has the savannah farming boom gone too far? (Financial Times)

Oil industry gears up to tap U.S. climate bill for carbon capture projects (Reuters) KA-CHING!

As Congress funds high-tech climate solutions, it also bets on a low-tech one: Nature (Washington Post) Not to mention the low-tech American taxpayers.

CDC: Gorgeous island nation in Asia now at ‘high’ travel risk for Covid (CNN)

Boston completes plans to strengthen all 47 miles of coastline against flooding (Boston Globe)

Vanuatu, one of the most climate-vulnerable countries, launches ambitious climate plan (The Guardian) Funded by Western tax money, of course.

‘Dangerous heat’ coming to parts of the SF Bay Area (S.F. Gate)

Triple-digit temperatures expected all week in the Sacramento region (KTXL)

China Demand: Respect the One China policy, to Restore Climate Talks

Why Is The UN Promoting A Kind Of Food Production Proven To Reduce Yields, Raise Prices, And Topple Governments?

Biden to Sign Law Cutting Most Current EV Credits

As Wildfires Get More Extreme, Observatories Are at Greater Risk  (Wired ‘Science’)

Australia’s Mangroves: BBC & ABC’s Disturbing Fearmongering with Scientific Dishonesty and Idiocy

Germany Denies WSJ Report Of Climate-Change Flip-Flop Over Nuclear Plants

Poll: Public Concern about Climate Change Warnings is Plummeting

How the Huge New US Climate Bill Will Save You Money (Wired ‘Science’)

‘Defund the police’ advocate Ilhan Omar’s city experiences sharp increase in majority of crimes, data shows

California ultramarathon runner attacked by coyote near Golden Gate Bridge parking lot (S.F. Chronicle)

NYC moving migrants into famed luxury Times Square hotel

‘Hackers against conspiracies’: Cyber sleuths take aim at election disinformation (Politico)

The US economy didn’t get the recession memo  (CNN) Certainly not on whatever planet CNN inhabits.

How social media has undermined our constitutional architecture (Washington Post)

Ohio churches create taxpayer-funded school, outraging state’s ACLU chapter

Scarborough Has a Joe Biden Moment: ‘What Was That? All the Stuff!’

Surprise! Jezebel Writer Really, Really Hates America

Samantha Power Stonewalls Inspector General on Afghanistan on Terror Cash

Radical Los Angeles Prosecutor Narrowly Dodges Recall

That Single Payer Thing Isn’t Working Out for UK

Liz Cheney Draws Almost $1M From Texans, Including Bush and Rove

Don’t Bet On Pre-election NBA Activities To Be Non-partisan Efforts

Wealthy Americans are flocking to Florida at four times the rate of any other state (Fortune)

Twitter Finally Suspends Person Who Threatened JK Rowling “You’re Next” Following Rushdie Attack

Do you want free speech to thrive? Then it has to be regulated, now more than ever (The Guardian) And there is the bare voice of progressive totalitarianism.

Public School Teachers Told to Indoctrinate Kids as Young as Three in Radical LGBT Theory

Four House Democrats just violated a federal conflict-of-interest law with late financial disclosures (Business Insider)

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A test car with autonomous steering capability veered into oncoming traffic in Germany, killing one person and seriously injuring nine others, police said Tuesday.

A spokesman for police in the southwestern town of Reutlingen said the electric BMW iX with five people on board, including a young child, swerved out of its lane at a bend in the road, triggering a series of collisions involving four vehicles Monday afternoon.

‘Woke’ NYC Starbucks now a haven for junkies, drunks and homeless

Ex-CIA official: What I’m seeing now is similar to the run-up to January 6 (CNN)

Thomas Piketty Wants To Bring Back Communism In The Guise Of Democratic Socialism

Andrea Mitchell Argues With GOP Senator: We’re Not in a Recession Yet

MSNBC Anti-Trump Melodrama: ‘Vote As If Your Life Depends On It—Will We Survive?’

CNN: Republican States Are Forcing Women to Have Babies!

Scientific American: Decolonize the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

French Conservatives Slam Push By Macron’s Deputy To Legalize Voting For All Foreigners In Municipal Elections