AP Poll: American Trust in COVID-19 Information Plummets

Meet the disease detectives fighting to understand COVID-19

It’s Time to Talk About Covid-19 and Surfaces Again  Because you have nothing else to do than obsess about what is panicking the Crust.

Ireland Imposes New Fines For Violating Europe’s Most Restrictive Lockdown: Live Updates  Moderation has never been an Irish value.

CDC Recommends Masks on Planes, Trains, Buses  Be the first on your block to come up with a new ridiculous place to wear your slave mask! (In the shower!)

A Mechanist’s Guide to the Coronavirus Genome  More than you ever wanted to know.

NY Dem Congressional Candidate Running As A Sterling Former Army Officer Was Actually Relieved Of Duty

Democrat-Run Chicago Broke As Mayor Mulls Tax Hikes & Layoffs To Plug $1.2BN Budget Gap  BRAAAAAAAINS!

‘Banish’ Him: P. Diddy Announces Political Party For African Americans to Combat Trump’s ‘Race War’

Q&A: A Look Inside The Black Venture Institute  Apparently it’s okay to make explicitly racist programs and organizations so long as they favor the Politically Correct race.

SF May Rename 44 Schools

‘You Can Hear Gunshots’: Minneapolis Residents Sue City For Failing To Adequately Staff Police Amid Crime Surge

Sunny Hostin Helps BLM Co-Founder Reject ‘Unfair’ Conservative Criticism Over Group’s Own Beliefs  Does this count as Blackwashing?

No justice, no peace, no tax payments

Two Officers Shot In Houston, 40-Year Police Veteran Dead

Iconic Food Web Threatened by Climate Change

Michael Mann: Whether or not Trump gets re-elected … could determine the fate of our planet

What Will Northwest Weather and Climate Be Like in 2050?

Climate experts fly more often than other scientists  Just trying to help bring on the Apocalypse, I guess.

CNN: Climate Change is Driving Fatal Shark Attacks  Global Warming – Is there anything it can’t do?

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Every other day, we’re bombarded with news about a celebrity lecturing us to vote out Donald Trump. At this point, it’s practically a relief to see an actor or singer not ordering us to vote for Biden come November. Unfortunately, as Chris Pratt proves, that’s all you need to be canceled nowadays. Or worse, remaining quiet gets you labeled as a MAGA supporter.

Pretty sad.

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Oh, I believe it.

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In 1973, Graham Greene wrote an introduction to a bookselling friend’s memoir. As Greene was one of the most respected writers of his day, this was no small gesture, but the author was also a committed bibliophile. The book dealer and biographer John Baxter’s memoir A Pound of Paper contains treasurable glimpses of Greene deliberately signing obscure copies of his works in far-off locations, in the certain knowledge that these items would become hugely sought-after rarities, and he remains one of the few serious literary figures who also understood the glamour and romance of the bookselling trade. In his introduction, he openly acknowledged this, writing ‘Secondhand booksellers are the most friendly and most eccentric of all the characters I have known. If I had not been a writer, theirs would have been the profession I would most happily have chosen.’

The author is using ‘demise’ in its slovenly modern usage as a synonym for ‘death’. It actually means ‘convey by death’, as in ‘demise of the crown’. I hate sloppy writers. Hate ’em hate ’em hate ’em.

But the article itself is interesting, though written by a nitwit.

John C. Wright.

Is it time to reconsider the 19th Amendment?

The argument for female suffrage is that women are not more prone to bouts of emotionalism than men, and hence is it equally worthwhile, as the whole, to consult with them over the conduct and control of public business.

Unfortunately, it is evident that there are but rare and few men in the current generation show any particular manly or masculine virtues which would entitle them to a say in the public business, if stoicism, reason, and virtue were preconditions for the franchise.

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The San Francisco Police Department arrested Adora Anderson, 35, Sunday and charged him with mayhem and a hate crime enhancement, according to the statement.

I actually thought that was impossible.

Steve has voted.

I voted at a public library. A northerner was standing out front with a Biden sign, yelling, “Thank you for voting.” I don’t know if he lives here or what. His accent and his sign made him stand out like a bar of soap at an Antifa rally.

We had one of those, too.

We hear a lot about Trump signs being stolen, but nothing about anyone stealing Biden signs.

Babylon Bee.

To the relief of Texans across the state, Governor Greg Abbott has signed a law prohibiting escaping Californians from voting after they move to Texas. Experts say this will prevent the happy and prosperous slice of heaven from sliding into the endless despair and crushing poverty of leftist policy.

And about time, too.

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A Michigan bar owner featured in a Joe Biden campaign ad saying his business may fail because of President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 response is a wealthy tech investor who made it big after receiving a large family inheritance.

Democrats lie. This is not news.

Glenn Harlan Reynolds (Instapundit).

SO USA TODAY DIDN’T WANT TO RUN MY HUNTER BIDEN COLUMN THIS WEEK. My regular editor is on vacation, and I guess everyone else was afraid to touch it. So I’m sending them another column next week, and just publishing this one here. Enjoy! This is as filed, with no editing from USAT.

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President Donald Trump’s key debating point on health policy is substantively correct: Former Vice President Joe Biden’s health proposal would progressively eliminate Americans’ private health insurance and back Americans into a single-payer system of government-controlled health insurance.

In Canada, for example, you have to go to the government for your health care. As a result, people who can’t afford the long lines and denial of coverage by bureaucrats have to come to the U.S. to get help — but where would WE go?

Paul Graham.

One of the biggest things holding people back from doing great work is the fear of making something lame. And this fear is not an irrational one. Many great projects go through a stage early on where they don’t seem very impressive, even to their creators. You have to push through this stage to reach the great work that lies beyond. But many people don’t. Most people don’t even reach the stage of making something they’re embarrassed by, let alone continue past it. They’re too frightened even to start.

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The Other McCain is on the case.

Here’s some cold facts for you: Most black people live in communities (of which Atlanta is certainly one) where Democrats control local government. So the Democrat officials in charge of their local precincts are the ones responsible for the long voting lines. This is not a right-wing conspiracy, it’s just Democrat incompetence in operation.

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Unions really don’t like competition.

One of the few bright spots of 2020 has been the embrace of new educational options for kids. The greatest success has been the “microschool” model, where five to ten students gather in a home and receive instruction from one or more teachers. And the nation’s largest labor union is furious about it.

In a recent poll, about one-third of parents already participate in a learning pod, while over half have either joined or are looking to form one. Teachers love microschools as well, with nearly 70 percent expressing interest in teaching in one.

You would think that a group called the “National Education Association” would be thrilled that so many kids are being educated. You’d be very wrong. The NEA is primarily concerned with the money spigot flowing into traditional public schools. And if public schools bar their doors, they want every child to be left behind.

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The Crust takes care of its own.

Newsweek.

Which isn’t going to happen. What Democrats really want is to lock in their votes before the Hunter Biden debacle gets any traction.

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And you can’t say they don’t deserve it.

CNN.

With Joe Biden holding his lead over President Trump in most battleground state polls, CNN’s John King breaks down the latest Electoral College projections and compares it to the 2016 election.

NYC authorities break up 200-person party at Queens catering hall

‘Guns are a way to exercise power’: how the idea of overthrowing the government became mainstream (The Guardian)

Protest Reporters Bring Their Own Security

New York’s Botched Ballot Mailing, Primary Debacle Rattle Voter Confidence

71% of Tech Pros Surveyed Believe Anti-Conservative Bias Exists: Report

New Data Analysis Finds 353 Counties With 1.8 Million More Registered Voters Than Residents

NYPD Sees Nearly 90% Rise in Retirements

NYSE Prepares To Move Operations Out Of New Jersey If Trading Tax Passes

Liberal Totalitarianism on Campus

UK test and trace data can be handed to police, reveals memorandum

‘Hostage Situation’: Twitter Censors Charlie Kirk for Mail-In Voting Tweet

Fire in LA County Ballot Box Investigated as Arson

Biden Offers Anyone Who Votes For Him A Seat On The Supreme Court Babylon Bee.

Being white won’t hold boys back. Being working class just might (The Guardian)

Evolutionary Origin of Skin Colors Revealed by Genetic Mutation in Snakes  But race is just a ‘social construct’ that has no roots in biology.

Chicago Mayor Weighs Layoffs, Massive Tax Hike Amid Budget Woes  BRAAAAAAAINS!

At Least 4 Teens Among The 35 People Shot In Bloody Chicago Weekend That Left 6 Dead

Free Speech Rally Organizer Loses Two Teeth After Getting Punched By Counter-Protester

Kanye West Says Saturday Night Live ‘Uses Black People To Hold Other Black People Back’

Apple Entrepreneur Camp applications go live for Black founders and devs

Judge Denies Former Officer’s Request To Use 2019 Footage Of George Floyd Incident With Police As Evidence

50 Cent Endorses President Donald Trump After Seeing Biden’s Tax Plan

Democrats hatch plans to counter Trump’s attempts to cast doubt on election results (CNN) Which he hasn’t done.

Trump lost the ratings battle: What that really means (TheHill)

‘It’s not fair’: workers in a poor Mississippi county pay more tax than Trump (The Guardian)

Kirstie Alley responds to ‘nasty,’ ‘horrible’ people criticizing her support for Trump

A 2009 Supreme Court ruling may require Barrett to recuse herself from 2020 election cases (Washington Post)

FiveThirtyEight: Trump’s Numbers With White Voters Dropping  If FiveThirtyEight had correctly predicted the last election, this might be more persuasive.

Twitter, Facebook Censored Trump, Campaign 65 Times, Leave Biden Untouched

Teachers Reportedly Demand High School Student Remove Trump Flag From Wall At Home

‘Everything He Says Is Pissing Me Off’: Whoopi Goldberg Says She’s ‘In A Depression’ Because Of Trump  Good.

‘Putin Might Take Him’: Ana Navarro Will Help Pay For Trump To Leave The Country If He Loses  I’ll be happy to pay for Ana Navarro to leave the country whether Trump loses or not.

Debate Moderator Kristen Welker Has Democratic Ties, Liberal Media Stooges Rush to Defend

CNN Demands Trump Stop Talking About Hunter Biden Scandal

Heartwarming: Amy Coney Barrett Just Adopted A Local Troubled Youngster Named Hunter  Babylon Bee.

Human-driven climate change is changing the colors of fall foliage, scientists say (Washington Post)

Weekly Climate and Energy News Round Up #427

The Real Toll of Oregon Forest Losses.

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White House chief of staff Mark Meadows suggested Monday potential lawsuits against Twitter and Facebook were pending over the Internet media outlets’ blocking of distribution of a New York Post story claiming the son of Democratic nominee for president Joe Biden introduced a Ukrainian petroleum executive to his father.

In more a than 10-minute appearance on the Fox News’ “Fox & Friends,” Meadows claimed the two platforms used dubious and specious justifications for prohibiting the story last week being linked on users’ personal accounts, with Facebook saying the information needed to be fact-checked and Twitter saying it violated its policy on distributing “hacked” material.

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Twitter’s Orwellian decision to censor the Hunter Biden laptop scandal published by the New York Post completely backfired – ‘nearly doubling’ its visibility, according to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and media intelligence firm Zignal Labs.

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Friday’s Real Time With Bill Maher showcased the liberal hate fest the HBO series has become known for. But in addition to sliming Any Coney Barrett’s religious faith as “nuts,” host Bill Maher brought on TV and movie actor John Leguizamo to slime Latinos who may vote for Donald Trump.

Maher wondered, “There was an article I saw on the paper this week and I thought this was trading on stereotypes that said Trump is doing rather well with young Latino men because of the machismo factor.”

The John Wick actor sneered, “Latin people for Republicans are like roaches for Raid. Let’s just get real.”

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My, what a surprise.

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Vaping is an alternative to smoking. It’s a way in which nicotine addicts can access that drug without exposure to the harmful tars and chemicals in cigarettes that cause cancer, heart disease, and other maladies. It therefore presents the possibility of saving millions of lives.

However, much of the left hates vaping. So it’s not surprising that “science” has been marshaled against it.

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A Maryland man has been accused of shooting at two passers-by with a shotgun over the weekend while he was putting up Joe Biden campaign signs in his yard, according to Baltimore County Police reports. 

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Hollywood is the land of special snowflakes who expect to be told that they’re pretty and wonderful, so they can muster the courage to crack a smile on camera. Tough work, we know. But boy howdy, are they quick to point out the ugly in folks who look and think different than they do.

Over the weekend of October 17, Hollywood stars Kirstie Alley and Jon Voight voiced their support for Trump. To no one’s surprise, mainstream, far left Hollywood broke out in a fever as if it was a human body trying to fight an infection of orange-colored bacteria.

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That alone is reason enough to vote against him.

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Dozens of protesters in New York City filled a casket outside a Brooklyn nursing home with 6,500 copies of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s new book cover to commemorate the 6,500 who have died in nursing homes from COVID-19 over the last nine months.

Unless they stole the covers, which I doubt, they actually bought 6,500 copies of his book — so Cuomo is smiling all the way to the bank.

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Have you ever noticed that nobody tries to grow meat that tastes like plants?

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Narco-subs have ferried cocaine from Colombia to Central America since the 1990s and recently proliferated. Rarely true submarines, they are generally semisubmersibles that float mostly but not completely below the waterline and are nearly undetectable. Most are built out of sight in South American jungles for around $1 million apiece.

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Reporter Adam Housley has evidently been talking with John Paul Isaac, the owner of the repair shop where Hunter Biden brought three devices in 2019, one of which is his now-infamous laptop. According to Housley, Biden’s lawyer called Isaac the day before the New York Post broke its first story.

Guess it’s all true, then.

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On Saturday night’s CNN Newsroom, host Ana Cabrera collaborated with Michigan’s Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel to forward insane conspiracies about President Trump inspiring the attempted kidnapping of Michigan’s Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Seemingly forgetting that some of the would-be kidnappers have expressed sentiments that are decidedly not right-wing, Cabrera stood by as Nessel declared “I know it is” Trump who inspired the kidnappers.

Goodbye civil rights: Amy Coney Barrett’s America is a terrifying place (The Guardian)

Thousands of women protest Barrett nomination (Reuters)

Twitter employees openly rip Trump, praise Biden: ‘Trump must be defeated’

Trump Reads List Of Statues Commission Wants Removed From Washington — Then Throws Away Letter

Clinton Labor Secretary Wants A ‘Truth And Reconciliation Commission’ To ‘Erase Trump Lies’  I’d like to see one to erase Biden’s and Harris’ lies. But that won’t happen.

Deadspin: Trump Drags Nation Into ‘Sewer’ of White Nationalism, COVID-19

Classroom learning for Blacks, online learning for Whites?

Tulsa Digs Again for Victims of 1921 Race Massacre

“Still Think This Is An Idea?” – San Francisco Free-Speech Marchers, Police Violently Attacked By Antifa

Amazon’s Attempt To Muzzle Shelby Steele Speaks Volumes About Race In America: Wirepoints

How green hydrogen can become cheap enough to compete with fossil fuels

China as Climate Change Saviour: The Triumph of Hope Over Experience?

Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’

Some surprises in polar bear sea ice habitat at mid-October 2020

Free speech rally marred by violence as counterprotesters storm event, beat pro-Trump demonstrators

Statue of former California governor Pete Wilson removed in San Diego

NYT Again Maligns Babylon Bee: ‘Traffic[s] in Misinformation’ Disguised as Comedy

“A Truly Orwellian Culture” – Amazon Removes COVID Skeptic’s Book For Violating Content Guidelines 

Per Biden Memo: ABC Warns Viewers Not to Get Complacent Against Trump

Pushback: Wichita Mayor Threatened Over Mask Mandate

EU Bans Illuminated Rolls Royce Mascot  The key indicator of a totalitarian society is that nothing is too small to trigger government interference.

‘The City Will Be On Fire’: New Yorkers Reportedly Prepare To Flee Homes To Avoid Election-Related Unrest  Notice how the riot-thugs never try this stuff in Red States outside of Blue Cities (almost all of them).

Chris Coons Is ‘Not A Fan Of Court Packing,’ But He’s Open To It If Amy Coney Barrett Is Confirmed

Meet ‘The Press’? Chuck Todd’s Flagrant Lies In Gretchen Whitmer ‘Interview’

Governor Of Pennsylvania Says No To Reopening Restaurants At Full Capacity

Fearing Election Unrest, New Yorkers Seek to Flee for Peace  New Yorkers find out what it’s like to live in the Turd World.

CBS Doubles Down on Their ‘Speculation’ Russia Stole Hunter’s Emails  Who cares? The point is, are they real? Whenever proglodytes get caught with their hands in the cookie jar, they always try to handwave the focus to how their shenanigans were revealed, rather than the fact that they’re guilty.

Soros-Funded Prosecutors Put ‘Social Justice’ Above Law and Order, Analysts Say

‘You Have Until Tuesday’: Pelosi Issues Ultimatum Over Relief Funds  One of the most amusing aspects of the Democrat politician personality is the assumption of more power than they actually have, perhaps under the fake-it-till-you-make-it theory.

Some U.S. doctors flee to New Zealand where the coronavirus outbreak is under control and science is respected  (CNBC)

How the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally may have spread coronavirus across the Upper Midwest  (Washington Post) ‘may have’

The Chinese Lockdown-and-Mask Model Failed. Now Its Proponents Need Scapegoats

UK Bans Sex For At-Risk Couples

Pfizer Vaccine Timeline

And yet the American trial remains suspended

The pandemic has eroded democracy and respect for human rights

Tocqueville: Arrested for Brunching with Friends? Life in France in 2020.

Europe’s Daily COVID-19 Tally Hits 200k/Day As World Nears 40 Millionth Case: Live Updates  (Reminder: cases are not hospitalizations are not deaths.)

‘Masks Work? NO’: Twitter Removes Anti-Mask Tweet From Trump Coronavirus Adviser

Twitter Silences Top Trump COVID Task Force Expert  You WILL NOT contradict the narrative.

Coronavirus timeline

The never-ending lockdown cycle

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MSNBC regularly gets away with fantasies that would shame the National Enquirer.

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The person currently in charge of Facebook’s election integrity program is Anna Makanju. That name probably doesn’t mean a lot to you, but it should mean a lot – and in a comforting way — to Joe Biden.

Before ending up at Facebook, Makanju was a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. The Atlantic Council is an ostensibly non-partisan think tank that deals with international affairs. In fact, it’s a decidedly partisan organization.

In 2009, James L. Jones, the Atlantic Council’s chairman left the organization to be President Obama’s National Security Advisor. Susan Rice, Richard Holbrooke, Eric Shinseki, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Chuck Hagel, and Brent Scowcroft also were all affiliated with the Atlantic Council before they ended up in the Obama administration.

The Atlantic Council has received massive amounts of foreign funding over the years. Here’s one that should interest everyone: Burisma Holdings donated $300,000 dollars to the Atlantic Council, over the course of three consecutive years, beginning in 2016. The information below may explain why it began paying that money to the Council.

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The mujahid decapitator of Paris has now been identified as an 18-year-old Russian Chechen named Abdoullakh A., and his schoolteacher victim as Samuel Paty. Both of them are dead — why is it that we only get an initial for the killer’s surname, but are given the full name of his victim?

I noticed in the photo accompanying the article that the Parisian Eloi have heaped up the usual saccharine “memorial” materiel outside the school where Mr. Paty taught. Savvy investors who bought teddy bear futures or stock in candle companies must be making a killing — so to speak.

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Outside of academia, you might follow one writer’s account to learn about SaaS pricing, another to understand the intricacies of the electoral college, and yet another to understand personal finance. In economic terms, content disaggregation enabled by digital platforms ought to create efficiencies through intellectual hyper-specialization.

Instead, we have the endless hellscape of the casual polymath. A newsletter about venture capital will find time to opine on herd immunity. The tech blog you visit to learn about data science is also your source of financial strategies for early retirement. The Twitter account you followed to understand politics now seems more focused on their mindfulness practice. We have maxed out variety of interests within people, at the cost of diversity across them.

Apparently JFK was the original Hunter Biden.

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The author, judging by where her stuff gets published, is a garden-variety proglodyte, but manages to keep her bias pretty well tamped down — except in the headline, where somehow the American Dream has turned into the Red State Dream. Of course, it doesn’t occur to her to wonder why that change happened.

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As these get better and I get older, I may eventually need to get one.

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Clarity allows you to see the distinct differences between things you may not have noticed before. Winemakers (before fine filtration) used to use clarifying agents to clear up their wine. Some homemade winemakers do so now.

In my lifetime I have been blessed to witness two spectacular Republican Presidents, Ronald Reagan (The Great Communicator) and Donald Trump (The Great Clarifier).

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The news media, “we are not biased” and this past Thursday we have Savannah Guthrie doing a lion taming routine with President Trump while George Snuffelupagus acted as Joe Biden’s masseuse and nanny at the same time. George only forgot to give Joe a glass of warm milk and a blankie before he sent him home.

As President Trump says, “Fake news is the enemy of the people” – Clarity.