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Populists on both the Left and Right have a narrative to push. According to this narrative, when economic inequality rises, the middle class suffers and the American dream dissipates. When the government combats inequality, conversely, the middle class rises and the American dream prospers. Let us call this the inequality fable. It is a tale the Left has been telling for over a century, though patriotic Americans on both sides of the aisle have been rallying around it with passionate intensity since the Great Recession of 2007, facts be damned.

All modern discussions of ‘economic inequality’ proceed from the axiom that ‘economic inequality’ is a Bad Thing and that the more of it you have the worse off things are. Nobody every takes the time to explain why this might be so; it’s simply assumed (hence my use of the term ‘axiom’).

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recent paper from China finds that the vast majority of public transmissions of COVID-19 in that country took place on various modes of mass transportation.

Trump goes into hiding  CNN.

The cost of Trump’s deadly state of denial  Washington Post.

Say it loud, say it clear: Donald Trump needs to resign over his handling of the coronavirus  Boston Globe.

The White House attempts to humiliate CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Washington Post.

Trump is exhibiting all the symptoms of a hydroxychloroquine overdose  Washington Post.

Politico Quietly Updates Article After Claiming Trump Currently ‘Owes’ Millions To Bank Of China

Twitter CEO Unveils Feature To “Editorialize” Trump’s Tweets As Election Looms

Politico’s Fake Story Collapses: ‘Trump Owes Tens of Millions to Bank of China’

ABC, NBC Boost Biden Claim Trump Might Call Off Election in November

Pelosi Refuses To Say That Trump’s Ban On Travel From China Was ‘The Right Move’

‘We’re Missing The Bigger Pieces’: Dr. Birx Scolds Media For Focusing On Trump Flubs Over Coronavirus Data  She foolishly things these are about information, but they’re not; they’re about trying to make Trump look bad.

Tapper Gets Rebuked By Dr. Birx, Declares GOP to Be Remembered as ‘Villains’

Larry Hogan: ‘Hundreds Of Calls’ To Maryland’s Emergency Hotline After Trump’s ‘Misinformation’ About Disinfectant

‘I Refuse To Concede’: Stacey Abrams Won’t Accept Possibility That Trump Wins 2020 Election

CACrabtree: Look Ethel! Another Anti-Trump Book Just Went By!

‘Calling For Americans To Die’: Chinese Official’s Tweet About Gargling Disinfectant Sparks Backlash

ABC Hypes Trump’s 2020 Chances Getting ‘Decimated By this Coronavirus’

Atlanta mayor says clients should tell manicurists about coronavirus numbers  They are not of the body.

The coronavirus crisis is way worse than feared

Will China Use Economic Insecurity To Buy Up Stakes In US & Europe?

After Decades Of Brainwashing, MSM & Governments Are Losing Control Of The People

Atlantic Magazine: Hurrah for Pandemic Censorship!

Beaches across the nation are packed as people ignore social distancing  The proles rise up….

Twitter Suspends Account Of Biotech Company Testing UV Light To Treat Coronavirus

Chinese Company Suspected Of Spying On US Citizens Donates Police Drones To 22 States

A British view: Covid-19 and the basics of democratic governance

Germany changes stance on Apple-Google contact tracing project

Small Businesses In Catch-22 Begin Revolt: ‘Defy State’s Stay-At-Home Order Or Face Collections’

Stad: Homeschooling Is Dangerous? Who Knew?

Central Planning and Coronavirus

Jack Dunphy: (Over)Policing the Pandemic

Archive Of Biden Accuser’s Mother Calling CNN Scrubbed From Google Play Catalog

‘Are You Using This Crisis To Take Us Into Socialism?’: Maria Bartiromo Confronts Bill De Blasio About NYC Coronavirus Response  Well, he’s sure trying….

Protests Under Coronavirus are Dangerous and Illegal… Unless They’re by Lefties

‘We’re Data Driven’: Oklahoma Governor Spars With Chris Wallace Over Reopening State

UK & German Governments Plan to Turn Covid-19 into a Climate Action Opportunity  “Never let a crisis go to waste.”

Rice genetically engineered to resist heat waves can also produce up to 20% more grain

Climate Activists Want Michael Moore’s Doc Panning Green Energy Banned, Say It’s Chock Full Of Misinformation  Step away from the Party Line and they will Cancel you.

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It’s clear that nothing is more tempting for the New York Times than a juicy story portraying Donald Trump as corrupt or mad with power. That view was reinforced on Wednesday, when a report claimed that Rick Bright, the former top vaccine expert at the Department of Health and Human Services, was fired for opposing the use of hydroxychloroquine. The story crumbled quickly.

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Some animals are more equal than others.

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I want to go to a restaurant.
I want to wait to be seated.
I want the hostess to ask me if this table is alright.
I want to take a long, deep sip from the water glass, a water glass that is full of ice and has droplets of water running down the side like glacial meltwater.
I want to examine the appetizer list like I’m choosing a college major.
I want to know what the soup of the day is.
I want the server to tell me about the specials. I want them to ask me what sides I want with my meal.
I want to hear the muted clang of the silverware as it rolls out of the napkin, then revel in anticipation as I tuck the napkin into my lap.
I want to savor each bite of my food, knowing that someone was paid good money to make it come out just right.
I want the server to offer me dessert. I want to decline their offer because I am just too full.
I want to sip a cup of coffee as the taste of the meal I just ate lingers in my mouth.
I want to tip my server for providing me this wonderful experience.
I want to smile politely to the hostess as I leave and thank them for an excellent meal.
I want to go back to a restaurant, and I want to go back soon.

Freeberg lays it out.

One month ago, staying at home and abiding by sensible “shelter-in-place” directives was an entirely non-partisan thing. That’s no longer true. There are exceptions to everything, but a sentiment of “That’s enough of this nonsense let’s get back to work” has risen up and it is a political-right thing; continuing with this “whole nation housebound” situation is a political-left thing. What happened?

ZMan jerks back the curtain.

Given the facts emerging about the Chinese flu virus, the panic should be subsiding, but too many people are too invested in the panic, for personal and political reasons, to let this thing go away quietly. Instead we have a new round of drama as the heroic politicians listen to the heroic TikTok workers about when they can safely stop tormenting people over what is looking like a real life example of this famous quote. If it ever was, it is no longer about public safety. Instead it is about the drama queens.

Here in Lagos, the local dictator has issued an edict requiring everyone to wear their underwear over their heads if they go outside. That’s a slight exaggeration, but not that much of one. The requirement to wear masks, something unavailable for months, means people are wearing all sorts of outlandish get-ups. More than a few times I have seen women with what looks like feminine napkins on their face. There have undoubtedly been men wearing briefs on their heads just to go outside.

At this stage, demanding that people wear masks is nothing more than a punitive measure to humiliate the public. That move may have made some sense two months ago, but at this point there is no health reason for it. Instead, the politicians and TikTok heroes have got to justify what is turning out to be something closer to the infamous War of the Worlds panic than a legitimate public emergency. To admit reality at this point risks bruising their tender psyches, so we suffer on.

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A significant concern that readers should have during an economic collapse and pandemic is food security. We’ve noted over April that troubling news is developing deep inside America’s food supply chain network, suggesting shortages and rapid food inflation could be ahead.

The reason behind the disruptions begins with meatpacking plants across the country are shuttering operations because of virus-related issues. At the moment, we’ve reported at least 10-12 large operations have gone offline in the last several weeks, which could result in pork shortages in the first or second week in May.

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Some animals are more equal than others.

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Although we must wait for complete data, modelling by country’s authorities suggests that the infection rate in Stockholm peaked on 8 April. If so, we need to consider the implication, namely that, once basic hygiene and distancing measures are in place, tightening the screw further perhaps makes little difference. Which would be good news for the rest of us. Adopting Sweden’s more laissez-faire response might not restore our economies to full health, but it would at least allow us to bring them out of their induced comas.

Wild horses, of course, won’t get politicians to admit that they over-reacted.

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More than a dozen countries on four continents recently disclosed problems with Chinese-made coronavirus tests and personal protective equipment. The problems range from test kits tainted with the coronavirus to medical garments contaminated with insects. Defective Chinese face masks, purchased by Spain’s Ministry of Health, were distributed to hospitals and nursing homes across the country, and more than 100 healthcare workers who used them tested positive for Covid-19.

To be fair, everybody whose done business with Communist China knows that they will ship you cheap defective shit in place of what you actually bought unless you stand over them 24/7, so this doesn’t appear to be a deliberate operation but rather a revelation of their Standard Operating Procedure.

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The Daily Caller contacted every Democrat in the Senate, asking them if they would even consider the allegations by Biden’s accuser, Tara Reade, who has accused the then-senator of kissing her, touching her and penetrating her with his fingers without her consent in 1993. Each Senate office was given 24 hours to respond but not one did.

Some sexual predators are more equal than others.

Amanpour Sees ‘Undercover Assault’ on ‘Clean Air’ by Trump  Of course she does.

CNN RAGES at Trump’s ‘Dangerous,’ ‘Idiotic,’ ‘Soviet’ Remark; Thinks ‘We Are Morons’

Brian Williams Attacks Trump’s ‘Lack of Empathy’ For COVID Deaths

MSNBC Analyst: Trump a ‘Cult Leader’ Like Jim Jones of Jonestown Massacre

NY Times Distorts Trump’s ‘Cure-All,’ Blames Him for Fish Tank Cleaner Death  There are lies, damned likes, and mainstream journalism.

The Liberal Media’s Latest Corona Attack on Trump

STUDY: Washington Post Bashes Trump Virus Response with 25-to-1 Negative Headlines  Well, that’s a ‘consensus’! What are you, a ‘denier’?

WP: “climate change and the pandemic may cool the geopolitical tensions between the United States and China”  I have my doubts.

Climate change may push some species to higher elevations — and out of harm’s way

Protest of Wisconsin Stay-at-Home Order Among Nation’s Biggest Yet

A Handful Of Cops Are Standing Up To Tyranny With The People

Pakistan uses military spy technology to track Covid-19 cases

Big Tech, Elected Officials Mimicking China’s Surveillance Methods To Police Citizens Amid Pandemic

Contact apps won’t end lockdown. But they might kill off democracy

Court Reinstates California Ammunition Purchase Law

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Those Georgians who are returning to work have apparently accepted that they’re guinea pigs in a great national experiment with incredibly high stakes.

After weeks of unemployment, often with uneven government help, some said they were happy to be earning paychecks but worry about the ultimate costs of abandoning isolation too soon, according to the Washington Post.

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We need to Recall Governor Ralph Northam from the office because he is attempting to take away our 2nd amendment rights. He has signed 5 new gun laws to try and limit people from buying and owning guns and has 2 more in pending to be signed very soon. We need to get him out before Virginia citizens can no longer own a gun.. We must fight for our 2nd amendment rights and step up as virginians to make this happen. Please sign the petition and help our declining state from this monster.

He has also made it legal for women to to have an abortion up to 36 weeks pregnant.

He has also allowed Undocumented Citizens the right to vote which could rig the election polls.

Well, that’s what happens when Democrats run your state.

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The pandemic shutdown is going to do a Major Extinction Event for the nation’s economy.

Small businesses. Restaurants. Oil companies. Farmers. Auto companies. Who will survive the meteor strike?

Think of it as evolution in action.

UPDATE: How Shutdowns Will Keep Killing The Economy, Even When They’re Over

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Envision a scene in which two Renaissance men are hanging out in a bar in Bologna with a prostitute.  Watching this scene, I, with my professional knowledge of the place and period, notice that there are implausibly too many candles burning, way more than this pub could afford, plus what they paid for that meal is about what the landlord probably earns in a month, and the prostitute isn’t wearing the mandatory blue veil required for prostitutes by Bologna’s sumptuary laws.  But if I showed it to twenty other historians they would notice other things: that style of candlestick wasn’t possible with Italian metalwork of the day, that fabric pattern was Flemish, that window wouldn’t have had curtains, that dish they’re eating is a period dish but from Genoa, not Bologna, and no Genoese cook would be in Bologna because feud bla bla bla.  So much we know.  But a person from the period would notice a thousand other things: that nobody made candles in that exact diameter, or they butchered animals differently so that cut of steak is the wrong shape, or no bar of the era would have been without the indispensable who-knows-what: a hat-cleaning lady, a box of kittens, a special shape of bread.  All historical scenes are wrong, as wrong as a scene set now would be which had a classy couple go to a formal steakhouse with paper menus and an all-you-can-eat steak buffet.  All the details are right, but the mix is wrong.

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Stewart Butterfield expanded on this idea when he discussed what he called the “Three Levels of Wealth.”  My colleague, Ben Carlson, beautifully summarized the three levels of wealth as:

• Level 1. I’m not stressed out about debt: People who no longer have to worry about their credit card debt or student loans.
• Level 2. I don’t care what stuff costs in restaurants: How much you spend on a particular meal isn’t impacted by your finances.
• Level 3. I don’t care what a vacation costs: People who don’t care how expensive the hotel is or which flight they go on.

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It has nothing to do with psychology and everything to do with supply chains. It helps to explain why stores are still having trouble keeping it in stock, weeks after they started limiting how many a customer could purchase.

In short, the toilet paper industry is split into two, largely separate markets: commercial and consumer. The pandemic has shifted the lion’s share of demand to the latter. People actually do need to buy significantly more toilet paper during the pandemic — not because they’re making more trips to the bathroom, but because they’re making more of them at home. With some 75% of the U.S. population under stay-at-home orders, Americans are no longer using the restrooms at their workplace, in schools, at restaurants, at hotels, or in airports.

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Yesterday on my work Facebook page, a reader asked, “Why is it that the places Covid-19 show up the most are in Democrat controlled areas?” As much as I’d like to believe that all the troubles in the world can eventually be traced back to Bill de Blasio, I responded, “Probably because ‘the places it shows up the most’ are large densely-packed cities with a lot of international and domestic air travel and high use of mass transit, where Democrats have been winning elections more than Republicans for at least a generation and in many cases several generations.”

ZMan peers into the future.

Lost in all the excitement of the government crackdown this past six weeks has been the fact that the Inner Party crushed the Bernie Bros. The party did not just outmaneuver them like they did in 2016, but they humiliated them. Their champion was forced to endorse the first Alzheimer American to run for president, while hiding in one of his mansions during the crackdown. The party made clear that they will not tolerate any more nonsense from the Bernie Bros going forward.

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New figures from the UK’s Office of National Statistics show that the number of deaths from flu and pneumonia is three times higher than the total number of coronavirus deaths this year.

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When the European Union was preparing a report on government disinformation about the Coronavirus, Chinese officials went ballistic, demanding that the report be altered or cancelled. The EU caved.

As they do.

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After decades of debate and assumptions, archaeologists have picked up their Bronze Age swords to find out whether these soft metal weapons could really hack it in combat.

Twitter CEO: We Would Label Trump Tweets to ‘Show a Disagreement’

Washington Post attacks Trump for listening to experts

CBS’s Paula Reid Ghoulishly Touts Body Bags Left Outside Trump Hotel

Fact check: Trump wrongly suggests sunlight could help cure coronavirus  CNN. Wrongly!

Coronavirus: Outcry after Trump suggests injecting disinfectant as treatment  BBC. Which, of course, he didn’t do.

Trump suggests ‘injection’ of disinfectant to beat coronavirus and ‘clean’ the lungs  NBC. Which, of course, he didn’t do.

Donald Trump just threw Georgia’s governor directly under the bus on coronavirus  CNN. Uh, not exactly.

Chuck Schumer Pushes Debunked Trump Coronavirus ‘Hoax’ Claim On MSNBC – With No Pushback

Medics react with horror as Donald Trump claims injecting disinfectant could treat coronavirus  Telegraph. Which he didn’t, of course.

‘Morning Joe’ Goes Nuts, Screaming About Fox News: ‘They Never Learn!’

Trump Says Comments About Consuming Or Injecting Disinfectant Were “Sarcastic”  No wonder the humor-deficient media didn’t understand.

Stelter: Trump and Fox News Coronavirus ‘Drug Pushing’ Endangered Lives

Gross Michelle Wolf: Trump Gets ‘Sweet, Sweet Oral Satisfaction’ From Media

Biden Predicts Trump Will Try To Delay 2020 Election  Except that it’s the Democrats that are trying to close everything down and Trump trying to open things up.

Debunking The Hydroxychloroquine “Controversy” – Media Full-Court Press Continues Against “Trump-Touted” Drug

Senior MSNBC Reporter Suggests Tanning Bed May Have Contributed To Trump’s ‘Irrational Rants’  Amazing the number of ‘journalists’ who’ve never met the President and yet know everything about him, even what he’s thinking.

Yale Prof: Trump’s Using Subconscious Techniques To Push “Armed Troops In The Streets” Toward A “Massacre” Some sort of mind-reading by a Chinese academic doesn’t have a lot of credibility.

NBC Blames Trump for ‘Growing Discrimination’ Against Asian Americans

Hillary Clinton Knocks Trump Disinfectant Comments

‘No Money For The Post Office. Instead, Inject Lysol Into Your Lung’: Pelosi Uses Press Conference To Attack Trump

Nicolle Wallace Suggests The ‘Silver Lining’ Of Deadly Global Pandemic Is That It Could Hurt Trump Politically

Stay Classy, NY Times: U.S. Leading World ‘in a Different Way’ Under Trump, in Corona Deaths

‘That’s Not How It Looked’: Bret Baier Questions Trump Saying His Comments On Injecting Disinfectant Were ‘Sarcastic’  Especially when the looker is predisposed to misunderstand.

The Trump Show! The Best 3 Minutes of Trump’s Thursday Briefing

katievs: The Circular Reasoning of Trump Critics

We can’t let Trump roll back 50 years of environmental progress The Guardian.

Financiers of poverty, malnutrition and death – Part 2

BLACKWELL: COVID-19 Has Revealed The Radical ‘Green’ Agenda

Push to Replace Earth Day with ‘Nature Rights’

David Stockman To Newsmax TV: Virus Lockdown ‘Fraud On Massive Scale’

The Seven-Step Path From Pandemic To Totalitarianism

Why Joe Biden’s America loves a lockdown

Anti-Lockdown Protesters Come To Gov. Whitmer’s House As Michigan Legislature Wants To Limit Her Authority

California Bans ‘Gatherings’ On State Properties After Protests Surge Against Newsom’s ‘Stay-At-Home’ Orders  The Deplorables rise up.

Deadspin Attacks ‘White-Winged’ Lockdown Protest, Praises Kaepernick

AP ‘News’ Story: ‘Coronavirus Shakes the Conceit’ of ‘American Exceptionalism’

Emotional Brzezinski Pleads for Fox ‘Puppets’ to Rediscover Their ‘Goodness,’ ‘Objectivity’

After Holding Up Small Business Relief Funds, Democrats Go Full Throttle On Bailing Out Blue States

Mitchell & Pelosi Push Conspiracy Theory of Trump Delaying Election

Twitter Reportedly Cracks Down on Memes Mocking Biden  No one gets to mock the Dear Leader.

In a Bold Move, Microsoft Office Is Now Flagging Double Spaces Between Sentences as an Error

Appeals court invents fundamental right to a basic minimum education

Governments’ COVID-19 Response “For Your Own Good”: Ban Alcohol, End Free-Speech, & Curb Homeschooling

The Man Who Would Be King

Authoritarianism On The Rise In America In The Age Of Coronavirus

Apple, Google in a ‘standoff’ with Germany and France over contact tracing privacy

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New court documents were filed in Flynn’s case Friday containing the aforementioned exculpatory evidence, commonly referred to as Brady Material. Flynn’s attorney, Sidney Powell, announced the new filing on Twitter. She has repeatedly accused the FBI and Justice Department of hiding evidence in the case.

Mark Krikorian peeks under the hood of the New Feudalism.

The House is expected to vote Wednesday on the hilariously misnamed Farm Workforce Modernization Act, which would “modernize” agricultural labor right back to the 17th century.

At the core of the bill are several indentured-labor schemes intended to tie current illegal aliens and future “temporary” workers to farm jobs for four to ten years before giving them green cards. The reason for the indenture system is that farmers know from experience that once the illegal aliens or visa workers get green cards, almost all will flee the medieval labor system that prevails in much of fresh fruit and vegetable agriculture.

Sometimes the old ways aren’t best.

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First, although child-care workers aren’t expensive on an hourly basis—their median hourly wage is less than that of non-farm-animal caretakers and janitors—labor is the biggest line item for child-care facilities. Unlike, say, car companies, they can’t cut spending by moving labor to poorer countries or by replacing human workers with machines. Like health care and education, child care requires lots of domestic salaries, which means that its costs will continuously rise faster than overall inflation.

The industry is highly regulated, perhaps reasonably so, given the vulnerability of the clientele—which is the second key driver of child-care costs. As Jordan Weissmann has reported in The Atlantic, states with strict labor laws tend to have the most expensive facilities. In Massachusetts, which requires one caregiver for every three infants, the average annual cost is more than $16,000. In Mississippi, which allows a one-to-five ratio, the cost is less than $5,000. Thanks to high turnover rates—a result of those low wages—companies have to constantly train new workers to meet regulatory standards. Other costs include insurance to cover damage to the property and worker injuries, as well as legal fees to deal with inevitable parent lawsuits.

Finally, there’s the real estate. The most expensive child-care facilities tend to be situated near high-income neighborhoods or in commercial districts, where the rents are high. And they can’t downsize in a pinch, because most states require them to have ample square footage for each kid.

In other words: (1) Crustian expectations, (2) government regulation, and (3) government regulations.

In the old days, you could get grandma or Aunt Beth to sit with the kids — but nowadays grandma is out kayaking and there is no Aunt Beth in your second-generation single-child family. (No shit … I know a couple, both of whom are single children, who have a single child and probably won’t have any more; that’s four grandparents with one grandchild to go around.)

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Horizon organic milk, which is what I use, is also ultra-pasturized, so it lasts about a month. The change in taste makes it a bit sweeter. (I still keep it refrigerated.)

German Authorities Disrupt Terrorist Cell Targeting U.S. Military Bases

Iran military manages to keep a straight face while waggling miracle widget that ‘can detect coronavirus from 100m away’

The Ikhwan in Sweden, Part Three

Watch: Dramatic Footage Shows Chadian Military Jet ‘Accidentally’ Fires Missile At Senior Commander’s Home

ATTRITION: Trust In Allah But See A Doctor

YEMEN: Covid19 Becomes A Weapon

Coronavirus Presents a Formidable Challenge to Hizballah

31 unarmed prisoners ‘executed’ in Burkina Faso says rights group

The Coronavirus Comes to Afghanistan

Turkey Overtakes China & Iran In Total COVID-19 Cases But Still Resists Lockdown

Russia, China, Iran Acting In Tandem To Paint COVID-19 As An American Bioweapon, State Dept Report Suggests

Dingell, AMP, Craft Hamas-Free Narrative About Gaza Challenges

Paris’s banlieues are burning once again

Ramadan: Balancing restrictions with tradition across the Muslim world

Jerusalem’s City Hall Complex Goes Up In Flames After Molotov Cocktail Attack

NY Times Marks Earth Day: ‘I Need Help Arguing With My Denialist Uncle’

Iran Hails First ‘Successful’ Military Satellite Launch, But US Intelligence Says ‘Failure’ To Orbit

Migrant Areas Of Paris Hit With 4th Consecutive Night Of Riots

Ramadan 2020: fasting, prayer and how Muslims celebrate the revelation of the Koran

Debt-Stricken Lebanon Becomes First Arab Country To Legalize Cannabis Growth

Migrants Go Missing During Coronavirus Testing in Lisbon

Spanish Agents Capture Europe’s Most-Wanted ISIS Terrorist Wearing COVID-Mask As Disguise

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Yeah, I can see Danny DeVito as Satan’s Antichrist daughter.

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Senator Feinstein wrote to express her unhappiness that President Trump had blocked Iran from getting $5 billion from the International Monetary Fund. She urged him to help the Islamic terror state, which has murdered countless Americans, get the money in the “interests of international security”.

While Americans were dying, the Senate Terror Caucus was hard at work… for Iran.

In late March, Connecticut’s two Democrat Senate members, Chris Murphy and Dick Blumenthal, along with Hawaii’s Schatz, Maryland’s Van Hollen, New Mexico’s Udall, Maryland’s Cardin, Virginia’s Kaine, Vermont’s Leahy, Oregon’s Merkley, Delaware’s Carper, and Ohio’s Brown, had dispatched a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging lowering economic sanctions on Iran and Venezuela while claiming that easing up on two terror states was “the right thing to do from a national security perspective.”

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My, what a surprise.

Mayor Called Reckless for Urging Vegas to Test Reopening  The Crust need as much economic destruction as they can get, so anybody who leaves the Reservation has to be pummeled.

Nets Pounce on Bogus Claim Doctor Fired for Opposing Drug Trump Pushed

How Does Pelosi Get Away With It?

‘This Woman Is Nuts’: Jimmy Kimmel Goes Off on Vegas Mayor

Human Lab Rats: The US Government’s Secret History Of Grisly Experiments

Common sense about states rights during a pandemic

Global COVID-19 Lockdown – What You’re Not Being Told, Part 2

UK’s Investigatory Powers Act is set to expand

Brutal Realities & Illusions Of Normality: Angry Voters, Destitute Retirees, & Social Unrest

Texas Judge’s 30-Day Mask Order Slammed as ‘Government Overreach’

Judge Andrew Napolitano Tells Gov. Whitmer: ‘Don’t Treat Us Like We Are Children’  But that’s what they do best.

Bill Gates Continues To Push ‘Immunity Passports’ And Tech-Enabled Surveillance State To Combat COVID

‘Not The Mask Police’: Grocery Workers’ Unions Want Store Owners To Deny Non-Mask Wearers Entry

Cardi B Reminds Georgians That They Could Die Alone As State Plans To Reopen Economy  All the establishment mouthpieces unite in the Narrative chorus….

Top Elections Lawyer: Vote-By-Mail Is “The Most Massive Fraud Scheme In American History”

China is using coronavirus to crack down on Hong Kong  ‘Never let a crisis go to waste.’

Eric Weinstein BLASTS Big Tech for Censoring Content on COVID-19, ‘Fantasizing About Being N Korean’

Homeschool Families Protest Harvard’s ‘Biased’ And ‘Elitist’ Homeschool Event

Republicans Vow to Cut Michigan Gov’s Emergency Powers Over Stay-Home Debate

YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice  Bow before our new robot overlords.

“Pandemic Drones” To Fly In Connecticut, Hunting For CCOVID-Carriers

Authoritarian Democrat Party Punishes Two Black Office-Holders for Wrongthink

LORD: Re-Open Rebellion Hits Pennsylvania

The Left’s Long War on Parents Over Schooling Their Kids

‘Looking Like The Executioner’: CNN Analyst Implies Trump Is Threatening Experts

If Trump does suspend all immigration, US democracy — and the economy — will suffer for decades

Trump’s tweets are an alternative world where coronavirus barely exists  I guess the daily briefing doesn’t count for Vox.

Amanpour Cues Liberal Senator to Claim Trump’s Urging ‘Armed Rebellion’ in Tweets

Trump’s move to pull WHO funds could make the pandemic worse   Popular ‘Science’.

Liberals Would Rather People Die Than Have Donald Trump Be Right

Watch Joe Scarborough Suffer a Screaming Coronavirus Breakdown  Puberty must be hitting him really hard.

‘She’s Welcome To Lose’: DHS Deputy Chief Responds To NY Attorney General’s Threat To Sue Over Immigration Ban

Oh No! An NBA Player and a Rapper Don’t Like Trump’s Virus Response!

Ellen Barkin Says Trump Killed More People Than Vietnam War, Calls Trump ‘Stalin’

Georgia Democrat Who Endorsed Trump Takes Aim At His Own Party: ‘They Are The Bigots They Claim To Hate’  But you knew that.

Atlantic Writer Wails on Morning Joe: Trump is ‘Collaborating With the Virus’  Not colluding?

Jorge Ramos Cherry-Picked Dr. Fauci’s Words in Order to Slam Trump Coronavirus Response

Michael Moore Claims Trump ‘Is Getting Us Killed’

Nicolle Wallace Sees ‘Silver Lining’ to Deadly Virus—It’s Hurting Trump

Lisa Jackson touts Apple’s environmental initiatives in Earth Day talk  Apple absolutely needs to keep on top of the hipster preference stack.

NY Times Marks Earth Day: ‘I Need Help Arguing With My Denialist Uncle’

An Earth Day Reminder of How the Republicans Have Forsaken the Environment  New Yorker.

Devastating Simulations Say Sea Ice Will Be Completely Gone in Arctic Summers by 2050  And simulations are always right, as you know.

How Did CBS Celebrate Earth Day? Declaring Humans Aren’t Needed

Sad: Michael Moore’s New Movie Is Free Online, Blasts ‘Infinite Growth’ of People

United Nations: The Covid-19 Lockdown CO2 Emissions Fall is “unfortunately (only) short-term good news”

The End of Big Green? The Guardian Praises Michael Moore’s Anti Renewables Flick “Planet of the Humans”

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Rules are for thee but not for me.

I can’t find any party affiliation listed for Mayor Ames but I’d bet significant money that she’s a Democrat.

Perhaps she was wanting to make sure her Karen haircut was in good shape.

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When asked about why so many people are so adamant the country remain locked down nigh-forever, Brit Hume says that if you “drill down” into who those people are, you’ll find they are almost all inveterate haters of Donald Trump. He sort of says, “Do the math in your own head.”

I’m sure it’s all just a coincidence that the most Trump Deranged people are also the most fervidly pro-economic depression. It just worked out that way!

Isn’t that amazing!

Read it.

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

The poop doesn’t fall far from the rectum.