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Prediction: None one of them will spend any significant time in jail.

Just more ‘catch and release’, which is why this stuff keeps happening.

CNN: “The pandemic didn’t solve climate change. This week’s disasters are proof”

The Climate Alarms Are Blaring — Are People Not Hearing Them?  No, the climate alarmists are blaring — not the same thing.

A New Cold Record set at International Falls: Should we be surprised?

Sea Ice Caused the Little Ice Age… Cart Pulls Horse… Film at 11

British FT Admits China is Using Calls for Climate Justice to Advance Their Economy

Review: Climate Hustle 2 Movie coming on Sept 24th

Portland Protests Resurge After Wildfire Smoke Clears

‘All Out War Zone’: Rochester Shooting Leaves Two Dead, 14 Wounded

Joy Reid Urges Dems to Pack SCOTUS, Kill Filibuster, Make DC & Puerto Rico States

‘Bias Virus’? Legal Org Warns Universities Against “Unconstitutional” COVID Policies

University Suspends Professor For Viral Video Wishing Trump Supporters Would ‘Die Before The Election’

Facebook Fact-Checker Censors Pro-Trump Ad for ‘Missing Context’ on Biden Tax Plan

CNN Trumpets Ex-White House Staffers’ Effort to Hurt Trump Before Election

NBC Remembers Ginsburg as Partly ‘Moderate’ Justice, Fret Trump Filling Seat

Biden Says Trump Is Responsible For All Deaths Throughout Human History Since The Dawn Of Time  Babylon Bee.

Master Negotiator Trump Forges Peace Deal Between Elves, Dwarves  Babylon Bee.

Report: Law Enforcement Intercepts Ricin Sent to Trump  Did anybody ever attempt to assassinate Obama?

Secret Service Intercepts ‘Highly Toxic’ Poison Ricin Mailed To White House  Fortunately most of these cretins are incompetent.

Man Arrested After Punching 84-Year-Old Woman, Attacking Others At Trump Rally

Annals of White Privilege: Now, a Third Case of a Becky Pretending to be a Beq’ee

Indianapolis Racial Justice Activist Admits She Is White, ‘Used Blackness’ For Own Gain

Schumer, Warren Introduce Resolution To Cancel $50,000 In Student Loans To “Close Racial Wealth Gaps”  Of course, if you’re black and didn’t borrow to go to college, well, you don’t count.

Woke Capitalism (And A Nigerian Immigrant) At Goldman Sachs, by John Derbyshire

More Black on Black Funeral Shootings

Rochester Shooting Leaves 2 Dead, 14 Injured

Racial bias in Zoom’s and Twitter’s algorithms erase black faces

Mostly Non-Peaceful? Princeton Study Finds BLM Responsible For 91% Of Riots Over Last 3 Months

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The residents of Portland are getting a look at the future of police services, and response time in Portland. It’s not going to be pretty, judging from this Oregonian headline:
“Intruder with knife, boy being held: No Portland police response for 1 hour, 36 minutes.”

Time to leave.

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As a very smart person pointed out, if Democrats could pack it when they win, then Republicans can re-pack it when they win; do they really want to go down that road?

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Seems like.

Steve gives us an update.

First, I made biscuits with White Lily flour, and they were no good. Second, Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, taking us one step closer to civil war.

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The Party of Billionaires is pissing its pants over losing the Supreme Court.

The Other McCain calls out Fredo’s brother.

Before he became infamous for killing Grandma, the Democratic governor of New York signed into law an “affirmative consent” policy (a/k/a “Yes Means Yes”) that applies only to university campuses. Anyone familiar with human nature could predict that this law would produce disastrous consequences, because (a) college girls get drunk, (b) drunk girls do embarrassing things, and (b) the next morning they regret the stuff they did when they were drunk. This scenario accounts for perhaps 90% of all campus “sexual assault” accusations and, even if we can’t hold guys blameless in such incidents, the difficulty is determining guilt in a “he-said/she-said” situation where both participants are usually drunker than the proverbial skunk.

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Four years ago the Avengers assembled to stop Donald Trump’s presidential plans.

The video clip featured a who’s who of the MCU, the acronym for Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe. Think Robert Downey, Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Don Cheadle, Mark Ruffalo and Clark Gregg. They joined a gaggle of fellow Hollywood stars to warn the nation against Donald Trump’s potential presidency in a clip dubbed “Save the Day.”

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That was then. Today, some of these stars are re-assembling to push Joe Biden’s presidential hopes against now-President Trump. Nothing unusual there given the industry’s progressive leanings.

So what’s missing?

Hollywood voices speaking out against either Chinese human rights abuses, an ongoing and intractable problem, or the recent headlines swirling around Mulan.

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The ghoulish political maneuvering continued on MSNBC, Friday night, as CNN and MSNBC hosts trashed Republicans and plotted to stop Mitch McConnell from replacing the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg. CNN political analyst Gloria Borger sounded like a DNC operative as she lobbied to keep a conservative justice off the Supreme Court.

Severian plays hardball.

o Satan finally called in his marker. Soros must be shaking in his infant-skin slippers right now. The tab always comes due eventually, you bastards. Interesting times ahead:

The Sellout: It goes without saying that Reid, McConnell and Co. will sell us out; the only questions are “when” and “how.” My best guess is that they team up with their respected opponents across the aisle to announce that, to solemnly honor the memory of a great American, they’ll hold off on any confirmation hearings until after the election.

ZMan pulls no punches.

After years of false promises, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has finally made the world a better place by exited from it. Her near-death experiences had reached a number where it was starting to look as if she was immortal. She was in the hospital more than the typical nurse, but somehow always managed to recover. It turns out that her deal with Old Scratch did have an expiry date and the world rejoices. They announced her death Friday night, but who knows when she really died.

As is custom when a Progressive goblin dies, the liberal media will carry on as if she was the most important person in history. They had already made movies about her that no one watched, so they will all be wearing black armbands this week. Whatever funeral services they have for her will be turned into another circus. Maybe in honor of George Floyd, peace be upon him, they will drop her corpse next to his. Then pilgrims can pay respects to both on the same trip.

Rather refeshing, really, what with all of the RINOS and NeverTrumper cucks lining up to bow to her coffin. Ginsburg was an ACLU hack until her dying day, and her only saving grace was that she wasn’t as ‘woke’ as she could have been.

Deconstructing the Washington Post.

As I wondered at the time, what was the most important thing for readers of Washington Post to see on the front-page of the paper? A big headline focusing directly on the legacy or impact of the life of Antonin Scalia? No. In bold, large font, the Post declared, “Supreme Court Conservative Dismayed Liberals.”

Audacious Epigone.

Mitt Romney must be giddy at the prospect of being able to stab Republicans in the back but he’ll need a couple other turncoats besides Lisa Murkowski to go along with him.

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The tears of our enemies are sweet.

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The Left has no problem with burning books from people they don’t like, even if there’s no problem with the actual books themselves. It’s all about the Narrative.

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San Francisco salon owner Erica Kious got a letter from Placer County Board of Supervisors Chair Bonnie Gore welcoming her to move to the community.

“While you may already know your next destination, I would like to invite you to consider setting up your next salon here,” Gore wrote. “Our arms are open to hard-working small business owners.”

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This week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit heard argument in the case against Harvard University brought by Students for Fair Admissions. The plaintiffs allege that Harvard’s use of racial preferences results in discrimination against Asian-American applicants. The liberal district court judge who tried the case disagreed. She found for Harvard.

 

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Feel the Hate.

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Some of the largest riots so far have taken place in cities where police-related incidents led to fatal outcomes. In a number of instances, people heard the news of a police shooting and immediately reacted with violence and rioting before the facts were even out.

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GoFundMe and Patreon, of course, wouldn’t touch it.

BLM Co-founder Teams With Pro-Chinese Communist Party Group

“Antifa Is A Real Thing”: FBI Director Wray Rebuts Democratic Claims That Antifa Is A “Myth”

Nashville Mayor May Have Kept Low Coronavirus Numbers Secret

D’oh! Last Guy Left In California Gets Stuck Paying The $140 Billion Tax Bill  Babylon Bee.

New York Taxi Drivers Shut Down Bridges In Desperate Call To End ‘Life Sentence To Debtor’s Prison’  Time to leave.

Australia Pushes New Measure To Detain COVID “Conspiracy Theorists”   Australia is turning into a regular police state.

The Democrats suppress the Green vote

Pushback: Florida Bar Bans Masks: ‘We Do Not Believe in Them’

Students Can Now Be Punished for the Pictures They Post

Pushback: Archbishop: Right to Worship ‘Unjustly Repressed’ by Coronavirus Policies

Colorado Rioters Charged After Allegedly Barricading Officers For 7 Hours In Precinct

House Democrats Ramp Up Effort To Thwart Durham Probe, Call For ‘Emergency Investigation’  Democrats may call, but will anybody answer?

Seattle Elementary Schools Forcing Kaepernick, BLM Propaganda On Children

UN Adopts Resolution Singling Out Israel For Women’s Rights Violations  Arabs, of course, and Palestinians in particular, are paragons of equality and women’s rights.

Shameless CNN Argues BLM Protests Are Safe From COVID Outbreaks, But Not Trump Rallies!

Ex-Pence Adviser Says Trump Bungled Virus; She’s for Biden  Unless they can point to specific things that he could have done and didn’t, they’re just breaking wind.

Trump can’t decide whom he should tell people to hate  (Washington Post) I have a little list….

Trump Stoked Police Violence, And It May Have Cost Him the Election  (New York Magazine) They hope, they hope, they hope….

Dee Snider scolds anti-mask parade of people in MAGA gear playing Twisted Sister song at Florida Target

What President Trump revealed about himself with a tweet  According to the mind-readers at CNN, anyway.

Biden Falsely Claims Trump Held The Bible Upside Down At St. John’s Church  Lies are all he’s got.

WashPost, Politico Fact Check Biden’s Trump-Virus Claim

CNN: Trump the Killer, Biden the Working-Class Hero

CNN ‘New Day’ Hosts Troll Trump on His ‘War on Facts and Science,’ and Lack of a Medical Degree  Of course, none of them have a medical degree, either, but apparently that doesn’t count.

When Do Black Lives Matter, and Why?

Black Lives Matter Protesters In Pittsburgh Charged After Harassing, Cursing Out Diners

Black Lives Matter Co-Founder’s New Org Sponsored By Group That Raised China’s Communist Flag Over Boston City Hall

Just-Laid-Off Minneapolis Police Officer Looks On Helplessly As Rioters Burn Down City Council Members’ Homes  Babylon Bee.

Trevor Noah Sells Bel Air Mansion for $21.7 Million  Further evidence of how black people are oppressed in America. (Even Halfricans are fleeing California.)

Black Lives Matter Linked To 91% Of Riots Over Three Months, Study Finds

UK: Shaunagh Brown: ‘If me, being mixed race, female and having my hair out, makes girls want to have a go at rugby, then job done’

UK: NHS Test and Trace worker’s head stamped on five times by bus attacker

‘Born This Way?’ Lady Gaga Says Americans Are Born Drinking ‘Poison of White Supremacy’  And of course she’s an expert on Americans.

Princeton Falls Victim to the Left’s Catch-22 on Racial Justice

‘Are You Just Going To Scream Over Me?’: ‘The View’ Explodes When Kim Klacik Brings Up Joy Behar’s Adventures In Blackface

Fire Expert Bob Zybach Cites Liberal Policies As Contributing Factor For West Coast Wildfires

California’s Wildfires Have Burned Enough Carbon To Power Roughly 23 Coal Plants For One Year, Estimates Show

NASA-led ice melt study makes a terrifying prediction about rising sea levels  The latest in a long line of such ‘terrifying’ predictions that never come to pass. One wonders why they even bother.

Climate change: Earthquake ‘hack’ reveals scale of ocean warming  (BBC ‘News’)

These maps show you where to move once climate change makes parts of the U.S. unlivable  And while you’re there you can buy a saddle for your unicorn.

Coastal Zone Management Bill Becomes Law, Mitigating Erosion and Rising Sea Level Threats  Just passing a law has mitigated those threats! Isn’t that amazing?

Ice Age Temperatures Help Predict Future Warming  (‘Scientific’ American) But apparently not very well, otherwise those predictions would actually come to pass.

Climate Change’s Role in Wildfires Not as Clear-Cut as Some Argue

Rep. Liz Cheney Asks The DOJ To Investigate Whether China, Russia Are Infiltrating US Environmental Groups

UK: End sale of petrol, diesel and hybrid vehicles by 2030, Labour urges government  The Labour Party — making people miserable for over a century.

Wildfires offsetting California’s expensive cap-and-trade emissions cuts  When you’re burning up the state, cutting fossil fuel emissions doesn’t really help you.

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GOP congressional candidate for Maryland’s seventh district Kim Klacik, whose powerful campaign ad about how Democrats have destroyed Baltimore drew the attention of President Trump, appeared on The View today and there were definitely fireworks.

While co-hosts Meghan McCain and Sara Haines were polite to their guest, liberal co-hosts Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, and Ana Navarro were extremely hostile particularly because the young, black Republican woman strongly defended President Trump on the issue of racism. In fact, she made them so angry that the liberal hosts ganged up on her and shouted her down to end the show.

I guess black lives don’t matter when they vote Republican.

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Fair use: satire.

If they’d gotten it from the parents, that would be one thing — but it was broadcast on CNN, so that makes it ‘published’ and fair game for satire.

Typical election year hand-waving. They’re just trying to make the Orange Man Bad side spend money. (Speaking of which, I’d like to find out who exactly is funding this suit. These people can’t afford it on their own … nor, I suspect, was it their idea.)

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

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ABC’s Cecilia Vega was caught flat-footed on Friday’s Good Morning America as her expert guest on the COVID-19 task force debunked each and every osne of her Democrat talking points disguised as questions. At one point, Testing Czar Admiral Brett Giroir even called the journalist out for her numerous lies, which he politely called “misstatements.”

 

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One of the phoniest and most outrageous tropes pushed by the leftist press is that they are just innocent bystanders who report the news, instead of being partisan hacks who routinely push whatever narrative the Democratic Party wants. MSNBC host Chuck Todd promoted the fantasy during Thursday’s MTP Daily when he marveled over the Biden campaign’s supposed “luck” at receiving a favorable “news cycle” where the media hammered President Trump on its behalf.

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As wildfires rip through the Pacific states, environmentalists and liberal politicians are blaming man-caused global warming. But the particular severity of this year’s fires may be traced to a different cause: arson.

There’s evidence of criminal human activity causing forest fires. Over a dozen people have been charged recently with setting western wildfires. Domingo Lopez Jr. may be the champion firebug. He started a brush fire along I-205 in Oregon using a Molotov Cocktail, was arrested, booked and later released. Then Lopez proceeded to start six more small fires in the next twelve hours before being apprehended again. Another alleged arsonist, BLM activist Jeffrey Acord, livestreamed the fire on Facebook as police arrived, then claimed to be calling the incident in.

At a time when the Left Coast cities are convulsed by riots and looting, this ought to come as no surprise.

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Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to China Terry Branstad accused Beijing of being responsible for the coronavirus pandemic.

He made his comments during an interview with CNN on Friday. He said that “what could have been contained in Wuhan ended up becoming a worldwide pandemic. And that was what’s so sad.”

Branstad claimed that the “Chinese system was such that they covered it up and even penalized the doctors who pointed it out at the beginning.”

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They may have won all the battles / But we had all the good songs!

ZMan does his weekly podcast on a subject that most people avoid.

Failure analysis is one of those things that most people do every day, but they don’t think about it that way. Much of what passes for a work in a modern corporation is exception handling, which is just solving the problems that occur when the normal business processes fail in some way. No one calls customer service to tell them that they are happy with the product and have no complaints. Those departments and the people in them exist to figure out what went wrong and remedy it.

At a higher level, smart people making big salaries spend their days trying to understand why complex systems produce unacceptable results. There are people who spend every day studying plane crashes, looking for the cause of the failure. Pretty much every quality control program is just failure analysis. The idea is to measure success against some ambitious standard and then look for the causes as to why the standard is not currently being met.

Dad’s Arrest Exposes Support Network Behind Alleged Honor Killers

US Commander: Attacks on US Troops in Iraq on Upswing

Biden Says He Won’t Completely Withdraw Troops From Afghanistan And The Middle East

Israeli Warplanes Use American Tanf Base Area To Strike Aleppo

ISIS Celebrates 9/11 As ‘Pivotal Moment’ In First Statement Issued About The Attacks

Culturally Enriched Inferno in Moria

Houthis Strike Riyadh With Missiles And Drones; Saudi Coalition Retreats In Yemen

Ethiopian migrants detained in Saudi Arabia return home

Koran-Burning in Rinkeby

Report: Iran Considering Assassination of US Ambassador to S Africa

The 9/11 Attacks: Understanding Al-Qaeda & The Domestic Fall-Out From America’s Secret War

NIGERIA: Losing The North

Annexation or Not, Fatah Still Calls for Intifada Against Israel

Naked woman beaten and executed on camera in Mozambique by men in uniforms

Knife Jihad in Stolberg

Saudi Air Force Leveling Yemeni Capital In Response To Houthi Strikes On Riyadh

Rocket fire prompts Israeli fighter jets to bomb Gaza  Rinse. Repeat.

Four Afghan Migrants Charged With Arson Of Refugee Camp In Greece

Imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca: We Need to Treat Jews Well!

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Says Rapists And Pedophiles Should Be Publicly Hanged Or Castrated After Mother Is Gang Raped  Sounds about right.

Priest Murdered by Culture-Enricher in Como

A Win for Freedom of Speech Against Islamist “Cancel Culture”

Rasmus Paludan Has Made the al-Qaeda Hit List

The Burning of Lesbos and Samos

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Not 56%, not 58%, but precisely 57% of your personality traits. (But they’re only ‘semi-accurate’.)

Washington Post.

Just admitting what we all know? Sudden attack of honesty? (For those not in the know, Jennifer Rubin is one of those pseudo-conservative pets of DemLegHump Media organs — like the Washington Post — that they trot out from time to time to make themselves feel good about being proglodytes.)

UPDATE: Jennifer Rubin Needed Something to Write About

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Two weeks ago, Princeton University’s president, Christopher Eisgruber, issued a letter to the Princeton community in which he admitted that the institution he has run for seven years is plagued by “systemic racism.” This is quite an admission for a number of reasons.

One of them, as I pointed out, is that it confesses to a violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. Title VI provides that “No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” Those who attend a “systemically racist” college are, by definition, subjected to discrimination by the college.

I wasn’t the only one who spotted this problem. The U.S. Department of Education has spotted it, too.

When confessing your sins, anything you say may be taken down and used in evidence against you.

I thought that the requirement that the President of Princeton identify every individual student that has been harmed by Princeton’s ‘systemic racism’ and specify the damage done is especially humorous.

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Probing the probe?

Who will investigate the investigators?

When Senate Democrats call, who will answer?

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World-famous podcast host Joe Rogan moved his massively popular and free talk show exclusively to the Spotify platform, and some of its staff members have been triggered ever since.

“In a Spotify all-hands company meeting on Wednesday, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek defended keeping transphobic content from hugely popular podcaster Joe Rogan on the audio platform,” Vice Motherboard summarized September 16. “In the case of Joe Rogan, a total of 10 meetings have been held with various groups and individuals to hear their respective concerns,” Ek said, according to three sources quoted by Vice Motherboard. “And some of them want Rogan removed because of things he’s said in the past.”

They/re everywhere! They’re everywhere!

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This spring, public officials at all levels were thrown into a public-health crisis that made the first SARS, H1N1, Ebola, MERS, and Zika look like small potatoes. It is understandable that mistakes would be made, but officials assured us that their decisions were data-driven and that they were following science (or “SCIENCE!” as Gavin Newsom insists).

When cities and states enacted lockdowns, mostly in March and April, the U.S. had about a million diagnosed cases, concentrated in cities, particularly in the Northeast. Lots of counties in the rest of the country had few or no cases. Enacting a full lockdown in those places — shutting down all nonessential businesses, telling people to stay home, placing restrictions on interstate travel — was an excessive step that burned through a limited supply of public patience. Eight weeks of lockdowns limited the stress on hospitals and bought time, but at extreme economic cost, and that time was largely not put to good use. We would have been better off if restrictions were enacted on a local basis, depending on the prevalence of cases — although our assessment of how many cases were in an area was impeded by the limited number of tests and the difficulty of getting fast results. Some corners of the public will be highly resistant to any attempt to reinstate those restrictions, because they no longer have faith that they’re necessary.

We don’t mind ‘following the science’ so long as it is not JUNK SCIENCE, which a lot of the underlayment of these job-destroying restrictions is turning out to be.

Leaked Video Shows Democratic Rep Sean Casten Rapping About How Trump Supporters Are ‘Racist’ And ‘Loony’

Donald Trump accused of sexual assault by former model Amy Dorris  The Guardian.

First endorsement for president in publication’s 175-year history  CNN.

Trump’s nightmare is coming true: Two ‘blue wall’ states aren’t even close  Washington Post.

CNN Smears ‘Make America Great Again’ as Racist ‘Insult’

Is ANY Anti-Trump Idea Too Absurd for CNN? Check Out This Howler From Scaramucci

Dangerous Spin: ABC Helps Biden Spread Fear Trump ‘Compromised’ COVID Vaccine Safety

CNN Hypes Scientific American Magazine Endorsing Biden for ‘Science’ and ‘Health’

California Scheming? NY Times Tries to Use Wildfires to Burn Trump’s 2020 Chances

CBS: Trump ‘at War With Scientists, ‘Fighting the Science’

Tyranny Down Under: From Blue Shirts To Brown

Nearly Half NYC High Earners Considering Leaving

Barr calls coronavirus lockdowns the ‘greatest intrusion on civil liberties’ since slavery

Armed civilian roadblocks in Oregon town fuel fears over vigilantism  The Guardian. When police do their job, that’s not a problem.

Wife of South Dakota man dragged out of school board meeting for not wearing mask speaks out

California Wants Me to Vote, Even Though I Haven’t Lived There for Over 8 Years

Nashville Officials Allegedly Covered Up Data Showing Few Cases From Restaurants And Bars, Emails Show

Facebook Purges Ad Saying Pro-Trans Joe Biden ‘Would Destroy Girls’ Sports’

Watch: Australians Chant “Freedom!” As COVID Riot-Cops Shut-Down Food Market

Kroger Sued Over Alleged Religious Discrimination After Firing Employees Who Refused To Wear Rainbow LGBTQ Symbol

Newsom Vows to Fast Track Toward Germany’s Failed Climate Goals

Congress Investigates the Appointment of Legates to NOAA

It’s Not Climate Change, Stupid

Attenborough’s new attempt to scare people about polar bear extinction and walrus deaths

Pope Supports Classifying ‘Ecocide’ as an International Crime

The Planet’s Not Angry, But Stockman Warns The Pelosi/Newsom/Harris Climate-Howlers Are Truly Dangerous

Jemele Hill: ‘There’s ‘an Issue’ With Steelers Player Honoring War Hero Amidst Social Justice Protests

Accounting for the “racial gap” in D.C. marijuana arrests

Premier League Soccer Abandons BLM “Political Movement”  Wondered when they would get tired of it.

Two Campaign Staffers For Ilhan Omar’s GOP Challenger Shot In Minneapolis, Suspect Arrested

Chicago Logs 52 Percent Jump in Homicides From Last Year

95% Of Murder Victims In Chicago This Year Are People Of Color