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The New York Times has just published a big investigation of President Donald Trump. It says the president used big tax losses in some years to avoid paying taxes in other years, that he invested some of his profits into money-losing businesses, that Trump paid his daughter as “a way to transfer assets to his children,” that his businesses are propped up by foreign revenue, and that Trump “has written off as business expenses costs — including fuel and meals — associated with his aircraft, used to shuttle him among his various homes and properties.”

The Times ought to know — because the New York Times Company and the Ochs-Sulzberger family that control it have done the same things.

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Presidential candidate Joe Biden has announced that, if elected, his goal will be to make major changes to tax rules, mostly by raising taxes on the wealthy as well as on corporations. In fact, the Penn Wharton model, prepared by the University of Pennsylvania, indicates that Mr. Biden’s plans would raise $3.375 trillion in additional tax revenue from 2021 to 2030.

And how much would it go up once they realize that it’s still not enough to pay for all that extra spending?

French bar owners arrested for offering free WiFi but not keeping logs  You can’t have a Surveillance State without proper paperwork.

Portland Officer Hit A Demonstrator With His Motorcycle After Being Surrounded, Police Say

Local Montanans Decide They’re Done Wearing Masks

At Dalhousie University, Ideology Comes First, Science Comes Second

Ilhan Omar and Voter Fraud. It’s Happening.

More than 1K alumni from Amy Coney Barrett’s undergrad college sign letter of concern

MSNBC Finally Realizes Trump Really Has Built New Border Wall, Freaks Out

NEW LOW: ‘SNL’ Debut Roots for COVID to Beat Trump, Science Meets Karma If they want to have somebody portray Joe Biden, they could do worse than the star of DUMB AND DUMBER.

ABC Whines Trump Getting ‘Best Medical Care Possible’ to Protect His Life  Women and minorities hardest hit.

Pelosi: Republicans, Trump ‘Don’t Trust Science’ And Have Allowed COVID-19 To ‘Run Free In The White House’

‘Death Watch’: CNN Media Panel Likens Trump Health to Stalin’s Demise

‘Get Well And Get It Together’: Jake Tapper Accuses Trump Of ‘Inflicting’ Failures On Americans

Univision Falsely Reports Trump Never Condemned White Supremacists

Bernstein Accuses Trump of ‘Homicidal Negligence’

Restoring Scientific Debate on Climate

The Guardian: Americans Need to Accept Climate Migrants from California  No problem, as long as they repent and are baptized.

Greenland Melting Fastest Any Time in Last 12,000 Years  And they’ve been there to measure it for all 12,000 of those years.

Psilocybin Can Save the Environment

Claim: A Canadian Climate Lawsuit May Succeed Because of a Dutch Climate Activist Victory

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They don’t come out and say so, but the finger pretty plainly points to the regulatory burden imposed by the FDA and similar agencies.

And then when they do come up with a successful product, the pressure starts to sell it for less than it costs to make, or even to give it away for free.

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The next time you unlock your front door, it might be worth trying to insert your key as quietly as possible; researchers have discovered that the sound of your key being inserted into the lock gives attackers all they need to make a working copy of your front door key.

It sounds unlikely, but security researchers say they have proven that the series of audible, metallic clicks made as a key penetrates a lock can now be deciphered by signal processing software to reveal the precise shape of the sequence of ridges on the key’s shaft. Knowing this (the actual cut of your key), a working copy of it can then be three-dimensionally (3D) printed.

This discovery of a major vulnerability in the physical keys that millions of us use to secure domestic and workplace doors and lockers was made by cyberphysical systems researcher Soundarya Ramesh and her team at the National University of Singapore. At the 21st International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile 2020) in Austin, TX, in early March, Ramesh revealed how their technique works.

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For the purist – and there are many purists – top-class jamón ibérico de bellota (acorn-fed Iberian ham) must come from Iberian blackfoot pigs that spend the last months of their lives eating acorns on the dehesa, a traditional Spanish or Portuguese pasture shaded by mature oak trees.

After being hung and dry cured for at least 36 months, the meat produced is silky with fat, and, say experts, has a flavour that can only come from the acorns. Spaniards consider jamón ibérico their greatest gift to international gastronomy – the caviar of the Iberian peninsula.

But now two American companies have had the incredible temerity to begin importing blackfoots to the US in order to make their own jamón.

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Carmen Sandi recalls the skepticism she faced at first. A behavioral neuroscientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, she had followed a hunch that something going on inside critical neural circuits could explain anxious behavior, something beyond brain cells and the synaptic connections between them. The experiments she began in 2013 showed that neurons involved in anxiety-related behaviors showed abnormalities: Their mitochondria, the organelles often described as cellular power plants, didn’t work well — they produced curiously low levels of energy.

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Absolute pitch, the ability to identify or produce the pitch of a sound without a reference point, has a critical period, i.e., it can only be acquired early in life. However, research has shown that histone-deacetylase inhibitors (HDAC inhibitors) enable adult mice to establish perceptual preferences that are otherwise impossible to acquire after youth. In humans, we found that adult men who took valproate (VPA) (a HDAC inhibitor) learned to identify pitch significantly better than those taking placebo—evidence that VPA facilitated critical-period learning in the adult human brain. Importantly, this result was not due to a general change in cognitive function, but rather a specific effect on a sensory task associated with a critical-period.

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New research by neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh and University of California San Francisco (UCSF) revealed that a simple, earbud-like device developed at UCSF that imperceptibly stimulates a key nerve leading to the brain could significantly improve the wearer’s ability to learn the sounds of a new language. This device may have wide-ranging applications for boosting other kinds of learning as well.

I don’t think a taser counts.

The data scientist exposing US white supremacists: ‘This is how you fight Nazis’ (The Guardian)

Breaking: Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend says SHE opened fire on cops

Arlington SWAT Arrests Teen Implicated in Robberies, Stabbings, Hit-and-Run, Police Say

Rochester, NY Mayor Warren indicted on charges including defraud in first degree and violation of election law  Yet another crooked black female Democrat politician.

Man Arrested, Charged With Murder Of Man Killed At North Central Service Road

LA Police Call for Calm, Condemn Spasm of Gun Violence

‘Knockout Game’ Attack on Rick Moranis Raises Awareness of Racial Violence

Media Ignore White Police Shooting Deaths, Even When There’s Video

PROPAGANDA: Univision Uses COVID Report To Push Latino Victimhood  To the victims belong the spoils?

Florida Man Charged With Vote Fraud  How come Republicans never get charged with vote fraud?

Feds Close Investigation Into Yet Another ‘Hate Crime’ Hoax

Medical Journal Calls For Mandatory COVID Vaccine: “Non-Compliance Should Incur A Penalty”  Fascism tiptoes in wearing a white coat.

Michigan Supreme Court strikes down governor’s emergency Covid powers

Is The UK Heading Toward Medical Martial Law?

Poll: 40% Of Democrats ‘Happy’ That Trump Has COVID  Of course they are. Democrats: Party of Fear/Party of Hate/Party of Death.

Morning Joe Hopes COVID Will Stop Trump’s ‘Interference’ With Government  How dare Trump interfere with government The swine!

Chelsea Clinton doesn’t hold back in criticism of former friend Ivanka Trump

Sacha Baron Cohen Revisits ‘Borat’ Character to Mock President Trump

‘The Melania Tapes’ reveal she’s even cooler than we thought

Twitter Will Remove Tweets That Wish Trump Dead Following COVID Diagnosis  Leave ’em there. Let’s show the world just how ugly the Left can get. Democrats: Party of Fear/Party of Hate/Party of Death.

Tasteless NY Times Gloats: Trump’s COVID Diagnosis Confirms Dems Criticism

Governor Cuomo Generously Offers To Admit Trump To New York Nursing Home  Babylon Bee.

MSNBC’s Rick Tyler: No Sympathy for ‘Drunk Driver’ Trump Who Killed 200,000  Funny how none of these ankle-biters can cite one single thing that Trump could have done that he didn’t do that would have made it better.

@CNN ’s Fake Climate Propaganda Lies Exposed, Again

Michael Mann: “A second Trump term is game over for the climate – really!”

Cuba Shows a Sudden Interest in Carbon Trading

Australia’s Koalas Are ‘Sliding Towards Extinction’

Eco disaster at Kamchatka peninsula with mass death of sea animals

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Researchers in Germany have developed a new drug that can act like a “shredder” for proteins implicated in causing cancer. In tests on lab-grown cancer cells, the drug worked to kill the tumors, suggesting a new pathway to a treatment for the disease.

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A team of University of Arkansas physicists has successfully developed a circuit capable of capturing graphene’s thermal motion and converting it into an electrical current.

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A team of researchers at the USDA and several research institutions say they’ve developed “transparent wood,” a glass-like material made almost entirely out of trees that they claim is stronger, safer, more cost efficient and more thermally efficient than glass.

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When the mob comes for you, you are going to want one of these.

I want one already, although I have no need for one.

Zman looks under the covers.

People who work with large complex systems understand that you don’t always know what will result from even the smallest change in the system. Usually this lesson is learned the hard way, by making some small change that seems simple, only to find out it caused serious downstream problems. Large complex systems are often highly dependent on initial conditions. Those small changes to the initial state, after they branch through the system, can have a huge impact.

This was a point wiser heads made about the Covid panic. The American economy is a wildly complex nonlinear system. The people in charge of it, the Federal Reserve, have mastered just one small set of inputs. This is why they are so cautious about tinkering with the money supply. They understand that beyond small changes in interest rates, they really don’t know what will happen. Through necessity they have figured out how to buy up distressed assets to keep the asset bubble inflated.

Not even for a second.

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Trash cans are a ubiquitous, and malodorous, fact of urban life, but a few dozen cities around the world are experimenting with eliminating them.

In their place, local governments are installing chutes which connect to an underground system of pneumatic tubes that use high-pressure air to woosh garbage away to a handful of centralized collection points.

I have my doubts.

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That would explain a lot.

Dramatic changes in the Arctic suggest climate change could return Earth to Pliocene conditions of 3 million years ago

The Arctic hasn’t been this warm for 3 million years — that spells big changes for the Earth  No doubt women and minorities hardest hit.

Greenland Ice Sheet Doomed… Again  Academy Award for Best Lingering Death.

Is It Too Late to Stop Climate Change?  Depends on who you ask.

California’s Looming ‘Green New Car Wreck’

Colorado governor proposes to cut greenhouse gases, remove all gas powered vehicles

Former Twitter CEO says some capitalists ‘going to be the first’ to be ‘shot in the revolution’

Colorado Secretary Of State Urges National Media Not To Report Results On Election Day To Save Democracy

NYTimes Admits WHO’s Decision Not To Close Borders At Start Of Pandemic Was Based On “Politics”, Not Science

California Gov Newsom Changes Reopening Rules Again, Adds Racial ‘Equity’ Measures

Twitter Flags Accurate Election Statements as ‘Misinformation’

Watch: Democratic Ad Compares 2020 America To Nazi Germany

Migrant Caravan “Blows Through Guatemalan Border” Towards US

Coronavirus Panics After Testing Positive For Trump  Babylon Bee.

Kayleigh McEnany holds car crash White House briefing, prompting furious tirade by Fox News reporter (Daily Mail)

Presidential Psychopathology: Clinical Psychology Views  Shrinks have fun diagnosing the President without ever having met or talked with him. In other medical fields this is called ‘malpractice’.

How Desperate Are the Democrats…

Second Presidential Debate Has Moderator Who Was Intern for Biden  Bias? What bias?

Morning Joe Meltdown: Cancel Future Debates Because ‘We’re Not Doing This to Our Country’

Here Were CNN’s WORST Moments Immediately After Trump’s COVID Diagnosis

“I Hope They Die” – Trump’s Critics Celebrate News Of COVID-19 Diagnosis

Top 10: ‘Terrifying’ Trump Sat Back and Watched Americans ‘Die’  No word about Cuomo?

Al Sharpton: Trump Opponents Should Not Use His Coronavirus Diagnosis To Point Fingers Or Say ‘I Told You So’  Except that they will, of course. I’m surprised that Sharpton isn’t first in line.

WaPo Tweets ‘Imagine Never Having To Think About Trump Again’ Just As COVID Diagnosis Broke

CNN Enables Scaramucci Slime on Trump’s Infection: ‘Mother Nature Sending a Message’

Trump Faking Covid? Michael Moore, Other Leftists Peddle New Conspiracy Theory

‘How Fake Is It Now?’ 10 Hollywood Ghouls Mock Trump Having COVID

Here’s How Celebrities Are Reacting To President Trump’s Positive COVID-19 Test  It is not a pretty sight.

Chris Murphy Says Quarantine Will Force Trump To Rely On Campaign Surrogates — Such As Vladimir Putin

CNN: Trump Will Use ‘Violent Extremists’ to ‘Disrupt the Elections!’  More violent and extreme than AntiFa and BlackLives Matter?

Tammy Duckworth Accuses Amy Coney Barrett Of Wanting To Ban IVF  For which, of course, there is not one shred of evidence. (If Democrats didn’t make stuff up, they wouldn’t have anything to say.)

Democrats Use Trump, Lee Catching Coronavirus To Demand Amy Coney Barrett Hearing Delay  Of course, they have absolutely nothing to do with each other.

ABC’s Karl on ‘View’ Tells Americans, Don’t ‘Trust’ What WH Says About Trump’s Health

Trump Preemptively Pens Dying Wish Canceling Out RBG’s Dying Wish  Babylon Bee.

Creepy Joe Scarborough Demands GOPers Denounce Trump in Weird Rant: ‘ ‘I Can See You’

On CNN, HuffPost WH Correspondent Uses Trump Diagnosis To Re-Write History  If they didn’t have lies, they wouldn’t have anything to say.

CBS Seizes on Trump COVID Diagnosis as ‘October Surprise’  Well, it was a surprise, and it is in October ….

It Sure Looks Like Daniel Cameron Lied About Breonna Taylor’s Killing  (New York Magazine)

California was a free state. But there was still slavery. Now reparations are on the table. (Washington Post)

Black Voters In NC Face Higher Mail-In Ballot Rejection Rate Than White Voters  (NBC) Systemic racism apparently forces them to fill in the forms incorrectly. (NBC Cries Racism for Mail-In Ballot Rejection, Admit It Had No Witness Signature)

‘Pandering For A Vote’: Herschel Walker Criticizes Concept Of Slavery Reparations

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Dresses Up As ‘Rona Destroyer’ To Announce Halloween Guidelines  BRAAAAAAAINS!

Don’t Mention the Race of Your Victimizers

Black Lives Matter Leaders Support Violent Riots, Biden Won’t Condemn Them

Grand Jury Audio Details Moments Before Breonna Taylor Died  Key points: (1) They had a ‘no-knock’ warrant but actually knocked three times and announced that they were police, (2) Breonna Taylor was not in view and couldn’t have been shot ‘just because she’s black’ because they didn’t even know she was there.

Ohio State Prof Pens Hyperbolic Apology For His “Whiteness” After Suggesting College Football Could Unify The Nation

Joe Biden Ad Features Rapper Who Called Nation Of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan His ‘Mentor’

Prosecutors Say There’s Not Enough Evidence To Prove White Men Set Biracial Woman On Fire In Potential Hate Crime  Yet Another Hate Hoax?

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Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the push for widespread mail-in voting and other alternatives to going to the polls ahead of the presidential election has increased the risk of vote fraud through “ballot harvesting,” and the elderly are particularly vulnerable, advocates warn.

To protect seniors, especially those with physical impairments, the American Constitutional Rights Union (ACRU) is stepping up its efforts to prevent what it calls “Stranger Danger” through its Protect Elderly Votes project. The ACRU is a Naples, Florida-based right-leaning nonprofit dedicated to what it says is safeguarding the liberties enshrined in the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

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This looks like a very intriguing design. The orientation doesn’t matter–the vanes on the side funnel the wind from whatever direction into the spinning element in the interior of the unit, so it appears pretty safe.

Popular ‘Science’.

They forgot the most important one: Living in a Blue State.

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The Trump Economy appears to be pretty robust in the face of the Pandemic Panic.

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Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, you know.

ZMan commends on the culture.

In the English speaking world, it has become common to “blackwash” movies and television shows. This is the process of removing white characters and replacing them with non-white characters. The stated claim is that popular entertainment needs to reflect the changing nature of the audience. Of course, the reason the audience is changing is that the same people blackwashing films and television shows are ethnically cleansing white societies with mass immigration.

For a long time now, Hollywood has been taking great care to make the good characters black and the bad ones white. For a short while, the bad guys could be Arab terrorists, but now bad guys are white again. If they need to be foreign baddies, then they are neo-Nazis from eastern Europe or Russian gangsters. Of course, the smartest characters are black or female. If we’re lucky, the brainiac is a black lesbian. Every computer hacker is now non-white or female.

Paris Knife Attack Near Former Charlie Hebdo Office Being Investigated As Terrorist Attack

4 Wounded In “Meat Cleaver” Attack Near Site Of 2015 Charlie Hebdo Massacre

Has terror returned to the streets of Paris?

US Is Preparing Military Response To Wave Of Iranian-Backed Attacks On Its Forces In Iraq

Meat Cleaver Jihad in Paris

US Angrily Threatens To Close US Embassy In Baghdad After Near Daily Attacks

Rocket Attacks On Baghdad’s Green Zone Stepped Up Amid US ‘Warning’ It’ll Shutter Embassy

Pakistan Court Accepts Appeal From Family Of Beheaded American Journalist To Keep Reported Killers On Death Row

Convicted ISIS Member Resentenced To 30 Years, Says Police Became His ‘Mentors’

‘Rapid Strikes To Follow’: Iraqis See US Threat To Shutter Embassy As Prelude To War

Rasmus Paludan, Most Wanted Infidel

View from the Golan Heights: Israel prepares to take on Hezbollah

Full-Blown War In Caucuses Rising As Turkey Vows To Help Azerbaijan Take Back “Occupied” Lands

American Father And Son Arrested After Allegedly Joining ISIS

More on the Meat Cleaver Jihad in Paris

Arrest Sheds New Light on Joint Hizballah/Quds Force Terror Unit

US Brings Back ‘Every American Supporter Of ISIS’ Held By Syrian Democratic Forces: DOJ

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In a move that will surprise no one at all, Congress has extended federal funding for highways and public transit until September 30, 2021. Such federal funding was set to end on September 30, 2020, and rather than revise the law to take into account the latest trends and events, Congress simply extended the existing law for another year.

It’s not like there was any new information, such as a pandemic, widespread forest fires, or the acceleration of urban decentralization, that might lead Congress to change its funding priorities anyway. Or, to be more accurate, it’s not like any new information would actually persuade Congress to change its funding priorities, as those priorities are driven by ideology more than actual facts.

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Can we agree that there are two types of Covid-19?

The first type, is Covid-19 ,”The Virus”, which is a fairly mild infection that most people don’t even realize they’ve contracted. They remain either asymptomatic or have slight flu-like symptoms that go away after a week or so. A tiny sliver of the population– that are mainly-older, vulnerable people with underlying health conditions– can develop complications, become seriously ill and die. But, according to most analysis, the chances of dying from Covid are roughly between 1 in every 200 to 1 in every 1,000 people. (CDC-IFR- 0.26%) In other words, Covid is not the Spanish Flu, not the Black Plague and the Genocidal Planetary Killer Virus it was cracked up to be. It kills more people than the annual influenza, but not significantly more.

The second type of Covid-19, is Covid “The Political Contrivance” or, rather, CODENAME: Operation Virus Identification 20 19. This iteration of the Covid phenom relates to the manner in which a modestly-lethal respiratory pathogen has been inflated into a perennial public health crisis in order to implement economic and societal changes that would otherwise be impossible. This is the political side of Covid, which is much more difficult to define since it relates to the ambiguous agenda of powerful elites who are using the infection to conceal their real intentions. Many critics believe that Covid is a vehicle the Davos Crowd is using to launch their authoritarian New World Order. Others think it has more to do with Climate Change, that is, rather than build consensus among the world leaders for mandatory carbon reductions, global mandarins have simply imposed lockdowns that sharply reduce economic activity across-the-board. This, in fact, has lowered emissions significantly, but at great cost to most of humanity. Covid restrictions have triggered a sharp uptick in suicides, clinical depression, child abuse, domestic violence, alcoholism and drug abuse. The list goes on and on. Also, it has left economies everywhere in a shambles, increasing unemployment and homelessness exponentially, while setting the stage for massive famines in undeveloped countries around the world. Even so, key players in the Covid crisis– like mastermind Bill Gates– continue to marvel at impact these onerous restrictions have had on emissions.

Steve Sailer explores the future.

Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff have documented that America appears to be undergoing a mental health crisis dating back to about the beginning of the Great Awokening around 2013: i.e., before Trump. My guess is that the tension generated by the increasingly crazy things you are supposed to believe in order to not get canceled by the Woke is taking its toll. Trump has driven people even crazier by seeming to be immune to the requirements of polite society to be politically correct.

But is Trump really just the Emmanuel Goldstein of the Great Awokening? Will the Two-Minutes Hates be retired when Trump is no longer President?

Steve Sailer draws a parallel.

ollowing up my review in Taki’s Magazine of the bestseller Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, I’m reminded that many of the practices of the Hindu caste system sound like our current Social Distancing festishes gone nuts.

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For the first time, scientists have observed an interaction of a rare and baffling form of matter called time crystals. The crystals look at a glance like “regular” crystals, but they have a relationship to time that both intrigues and puzzles scientists because of its unpredictability. Now, experts say they could have applications in quantum computing.

Bob Woodward: We now have a constitutional problem (CNN) Famed constitutional scholar Bob Woodward explains it all to you.

Get Him a ‘Shock Collar’: Insecure Lefty Celebs Want ‘A**hole’ Trump Muzzled Next Debate  I think Robert DeNiro and Rob Rainer would profit from wearing shock collars.

How Low Can Far Left Go? Attacks on Barrett for Adopting Haitian Orphans Hit Rock Bottom

Morning Joe: Trump Has ‘Death Wish,’ Will ‘Take Americans Down with Him’

USA Today Gives LGBT Nonprofit Space to Panic About SCOTUS

Rising Star Cyclist Suspended By US Team For One Word ‘Pro-Trump’ Tweet

Since 1976, The Washington Post Has Panicked At Thought Of The GOP Candidate Winning White House

Facebook Removes Trump Ads on COVID-19 and the Border

NY Times Unleashes Shrinks and PHONY FACT CHECKS for Debate

John Cusack: ‘I’m Blocking Anyone Who Isn’t Aggressively anti Trump’

There is no getting ‘back to normal,’ experts say. The sooner we accept that, the better  (CNN)

There is no getting ‘back to normal,’ experts say. The sooner we accept that, the better (WHDH Boston)

California task force will consider paying reparations for slavery Perhaps all the black people in America will move to California as a result (and leave the rest of us alone).

‘Deliberately Corrupt’: Nets Hide Comey Getting Called Out in Senate Hearing  Does anybody besides me think it odd that all of these people — Comey, Mueller — who start out being praised as the very epitome of rectitude eventually turn out to be total scumbags after all?

Face Masks Are The Mob’s “Dumbo’s Feather”

NFL Teams Might Lose Draft Picks If Coaches Don’t Wear Masks While On The Sidelines

Postal Worker Who Altered Ballots Is Not Evidence Of Widespread Fraud, Election Official Tells Trump  And if you believe that one, he’ll tell you another one.

AP Stylebook Ruling: Don’t Use ‘Riot,’ It ‘Stigmatizes Broad Swaths’ of Rioters

Students vandalize conservative group’s abortion memorial at Texas university

The Associated Press Whitewashes Riots

House Conservatives Call for Probe of China’s Ties to Black Lives Matter Co-Founder

House Democrat Releases FBI Document Detailing Concerns About White Supremacy In Law Enforcement

Sports Journalists Loses Job After Calling Tim Scott ‘Uncle Tom’

Black Entertainment Television Founder Suggests He’s Sticking With Trump In 2020

Ohio Democratic Legislator Endorses Trump, Thanks Him For ‘Ensuring The Success Of The Black Community’

Photographer Went Undercover With Looters Expecting To Find White Supremacists. Instead, He Found Anarchists

Breonna Taylor Case: Black Kentucky Attorney General Called ‘Sellout,’ Compared to Slavemaster

Greenland’s ice melting faster than at any time in past 12,000 years (The Guardian)

The Ocean Is Becoming More Stable, And The Consequences May Be Dire, Scientists Warn  Dire!

The Unusual Connection Between Beavers, Permafrost and Climate Change

How affluent people can end their mindless overconsumption (Vox) Not just consumption, but overconsumption! Mindless overconsumption!

“Why have I not seen any sea level rise in 40 years?”  A very good question.

On noes! Antarctic sea ice may not cap carbon emissions as much as previously thought

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Aaaaand anyone whose labor wasn’t worth $25 per hour just lost his or her job.

I’m sure that robots and other automated systems (or at least those who design, build, and sell them) appreciate it.

By Jonathan Coulton.

Sing Hey Hidey Ho, where’d the Old Lobster go?
With its body so furry and broun?
Sing Ho Hidey Hey, have they all gone away?
‘Cause we haven’t seen any around…

One cannot mourn without music. (Well, you can, but it’s pretty lame.).

Jonathan Coulton is the only composer now living who accurately captures the life experience of some of us. I particularly recommend his works Code Monkey and Shop Vac and IKEA, which speak to the heart of modern life.

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More than 1,000 Honduran migrants have crossed illegally into Guatemala in a bid to reach the United States as a major new caravan formed barely a month ahead of U.S. presidential elections, Guatemalan authorities reported on Thursday.

No sign that the Guatemalan authorities are trying to turn them back. That sounds like an Unfriendly Act toward the U.S. Obama would just apologize, but I think Trump might have something different in mind.

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I’ll happily contribute to a GoFundMe to buy plane tickets.

They’ve been saying this after every election since 1968, and they never actually do it. Color me disappointed.

Jonathan Turley.

In his long-awaited testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony proved as casual as his appearance in an open shirt from his home office. Comey was hammered with embarrassing findings of errors under his watch in the handling of the Russian investigation, including the reliance on information that FBI agents warned might be Russian disinformation supplied by a Russian agent. After years of investigation, the FBI was unable to show that a single Trump official conspired or colluded with the Russians. Instead, investigations found extensive errors, irregular and criminal conduct, and statements of intense bias by key FBI figures. Yet, Comey proceeded to give what amounted to a series of shrugs in either denying any recollection of such information or deflecting responsibility to others.

Comey was asked about an intelligence report suggesting that Hillary Clinton personally approved an effort “to stir up a scandal against U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump by tying him to Putin and the Russians’ hacking of the Democratic National Committee.” The report was reportedly sufficiently serious to be included in a briefing of President Barack Obama. However, when asked about his knowledge, Comey again shrugged and said it “didn’t ring a bell.” That’s it.

Jonathan Turley is a Professor of Law at George Washington University.