NYPD Braces For Protests ‘Growing In Size, Frequency And Intensity’ Surrounding ‘Most Highly Contested Election In Modern Era’

Pelosi Slams CNN’s Wolf Blitzer: “You’re Always An Apologist For Republicans”

China Sees Affirmation in Election to Human Rights Council

“Guillotines, Motherf*cker”: Colorado Democratic Committee Member Caught On Hidden Camera Talking Violent Revolution

Pelosi Ridicules CNN’s Blitzer in Contentious Exchange

San Francisco’s political leadership has squandered a fortune

Governments are using the pandemic as an excuse to restrict internet freedom

More Than Half Of All Americans “Plan To Stockpile Food And Other Essentials” For The Chaotic Months Ahead

Voters Blame Nancy Pelosi For Lack Of Stimulus Deal, Poll Shows

‘You’re Gonna Have A Problem’: Top New York State Judge Reportedly Seen On Video Shoving Police Officer

Rep. Doug Collins Introduces Resolution To Remove Nancy Pelosi For Lack Of Mental Fitness

While Cuomo Targets Orthodox Jews, Muslim Mass Gatherings Go On

Josh Hawley Takes Aim At Facebook For ‘Actively Censoring’ Hunter Biden Email Story

‘Unlawful Assembly’ Declared In Wauwatosa As Protests Continue

Facebook Slowing Spread of NY Post Story on Hunter Biden Until Fact Checked  The story is by the New York Post. Do they fact-check stories in the New York Times or Washington Post? Clear evidence of bias to me.

Mike Pompeo, Betsy DeVos warn about Confucius Classrooms

More Examples of Election Fraud Prove the Left Is in Denial About It

The Third Wave of the Pandemic Is Here (New York Magazine)

Mitch McConnell laughs at criticism over Congress Covid relief failure (The Guardian)

Rush Limbaugh Touts the New York Times: A COVID Optimism Outbreak!

Rickards: We Destroyed The World’s Greatest Economy For No Reason

Hawaii “Has Committed Suicide” – Local Rages “Hardly Anyone Is Sick, But We’re All Broke”

“Facts Do Not Matter” To The Covidian Cult

Swedish Health Chief Said Country Avoided Lockdown To Prevent “Pandemic Fatigue”

Governments are using the pandemic as an excuse to restrict internet freedom

COVID-19 cases are on the rise yet again (Popular ‘Science’)

CDC Warns Small Household Gatherings Fueling COVID-19 Spread

Unhinged Lunatics at MSNBC: GOP ‘Clowns’ Part of ‘Macho Death Cult’

Bill Gates Warns “World Won’t Return To Normal” Until “Second Generation” Of COVID-19 Super-Vaccines Arrives

Obesity and Covid-19  Think of it as evolution in action.

COVID has killed the EU’s crowning achievement

Pennsylvania County Says 29K Wrong Ballots Were Mailed Out

How the Michigan Supreme Court Whacked Whitmer for COVID-19 Overreach

Judge Blocks Wisconsin Governor’s Order Forcing Businesses To Limit Capacity To 25%

Here’s Why A Vaccine Won’t End Coronavirus Hysteria

Coronavirus in one state (113)

New York Gov. Cuomo Sends Warning Letter To Areas That Won’t Enforce Social Distancing, Threatens To Withhold Funds

Nearly 29,000 Pennsylvania Voters Reportedly Receive The Wrong Mail-In Ballots

Elizabeth Warren Lashes Out At Disney For 28,000 Layoffs That Happened As A Result Of Gov’t-Mandated Shutdowns

Why must we ‘live with’ coronavirus?

The Flu Is More Likely To Kill You Than COVID-19 If You’re 17 Or Younger, Statistics Show

The World’s Biggest Seller Of Halloween Costumes Cannot Find Workers Due To COVID-19  Pretty scary.

France To Issue Curfews In Paris, 8 Other Cities As Coronavirus Surges

‘Mass Murder’!: CNN Guest on Possible Trump Embrace of Herd Immunity

‘Prisoners In Our Own Home’: Seniors Hold Coronavirus Protest Outside Nursing Home

Forget silicon. This material could be a game-changer for solar power

New Design Molten Salt Reactor Is Cheaper To Run, Consumes Nuclear Waste

The Arctic is in a death spiral. How much longer will it exist? (The Guardian)

The Great Barrier Reef has lost half its corals within 3 decades (CNN)

Temperatures of deepest ocean rising quicker than previously thought (The Guardian)

Claim: The deep sea is slowly warming

25-Year Study of Nuclear vs Renewables Says One Is Clearly Better at Cutting Emissions

UN Warns Climate Disasters Doubled in the Last 20 Years  So we must give more money to the UN!

Where Do the Plastic Bottles Go?

Is wind power’s future in deep water?

Climate Reparations

The Arctic “Death Spiral”: Lamenting the Collapse of a 4000 Year Old Ice Shelf

The Automatic Climate Lawsuit Generator

Barrett Addresses Attacks On Her Adopted Children From Haiti

Philadelphia: Murder City, U.S.A.

The Lawrence Mead Affair

Slaughter in the Cities

Yelp’s anti-racist social credit nightmare

Southwest Boots Black Trump Supporter For Lowering Face Mask To Eat

CBS Revamps Its Cop Shows Because of Black Lives Matter

The Civil Rights Legend Who Opposed Critical Race Theory

NBA to revisit “social justice” messaging  Get woke, go broke.

Who Speaks for Black Lives Matter? The Answer Can Be Complicated

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Room-temperature superconductors—materials that conduct electricity with zero resistance without needing special cooling—are the sort of technological miracle that would upend daily life. They could revolutionize the electric grid and enable levitating trains, among many other potential applications. But until now, superconductors have had to be cooled to extremely low temperatures, which has restricted them to use as a niche technology (albeit an important one). For decades it seemed that room-temperature superconductivity might be forever out of reach, but in the last five years a few research groups around the world have been engaged in a race to attain it in the lab.

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Webster’s Dictionary quickly edited the definition of the word “preference” after it was declared by some as an “offensive” term to use when discussing sex.

The dictionary previously added in a definition for “preference” to include “orientation” and “sexual preference,” Steve Krakauer, the executive producer of Megyn Kelly’s podcast, tweeted.

Of course, no intelligent person has depended on a “Webster’s” dictionary for twenty years.

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It ain’t necessarily so….

I often wish I were a shark.

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Lake County prosecutors said that the gun Kyle Rittenhouse used in the Kenosha shooting was bought, stored and used in Wisconsin. No charges will be filed against him in Lake County.

Herschel Walker claps back at celebrities claiming African Americans are ‘oppressed’

Kanye West Asks Voters To Write In His Name For President With First Campaign Ad

Wife Of Pennsylvania Lt. Gov., Gisele Barreto Fetterman, Films Woman Calling Her An ‘N-Word’ At Grocery Store

Michelle Obama, LeBron James Team to Help Boost Early Voting  They want to lock down Biden’s alleged lead before something happens to change it.

All Hail the Cult of Black Suffering

Scientific American, 2020-Style, by Steve Sailer

Black Lives Matter Wants to Send a Black Man to Jail  It’s not enough to be black, you have to be the right kind of black.

King James & Queen Michelle Obama Partner in Early Vote Effort

Sen. Dick Durbin Blames Indiana, Mississippi For Chicago’s Gun Violence  He doesn’t explain how those triggers pull themselves.

‘God intended it as a disposable planet’: meet the US pastor preaching climate change denial

Revisiting the Simon-Ehrlich Wager 40 Years On

Climate ‘Weeds’ versus ‘High Altitude’ Survey

Greenland and the 1950s Climate Consensus

Solar Power Costs 2-3 Times As Much As Wind, Fossil Fuels and Nuclear

Our midcentury climate goals require radical change today

Trump mocks virus as he launches potential superspreader sprint to win reelection  (CNN)

Trump made it hard for me to protect America. How could I vote for him again? How could anyone? (USA Today)

New research explores authoritarian mind-set of Trump’s core supporters (Washington Post)

Amy Coney Barrett went to my all-girls high school. I hope she’s not confirmed (The Guardian)

These GOP senators are distancing themselves from Trump

Fauci’s anger at Trump is more damning than it first appeared

In a stunning rebuke, a federal judge hammers the Trump administration for snatching back stimulus payments from incarcerated individuals (Washington Post) Stunning!

Slate Faces Backlash Over Article Calling Barrett ‘Shameless, Cynical Careerist’ Like Jambalaya Harris?

WATCH: Acosta Snaps At Trump Supporters Chanting ‘CNN Sucks!’ During Florida Rally  They can dish it out, but they can’t take it.

Joy Behar Says ‘Male, White Panic’ Is Driving Republicans To Confirm Amy Coney Barrett

Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten: “Of Course I’m Voting For Trump”

Triggered! Liberal TV Critics ‘Jar[red] and Upset’ by AOC Character’s Turn as Villain

22 Arrested Outside Senate Building Before Amy Coney Barrett Confirmation Hearings  Leftists just can’t stop themselves breaking the law.

Denver: ‘Mostly Peaceful’ Protest Until Gunman Murdered a Trump Supporter

Dems This, Dems That: ABC Boasts Dems ‘Remarkably United’ Against ACB

CNN Expresses Outrage: Barrett Will Not Be a Liberal Judicial Activist

Federal Court Rules Against Louisiana High School After Painting Over Student’s Trump Mural

NYT Feminist Grasps at Straws Against Barrett: She Is Successful in Spite of Her Faith

ABC Hails Biden as ‘Grown-Up in the Race’ as Nets Slam Trump Rally  Yeah, he’s so grown-up he’s senile.

Democrats And Media Promote Myth To Advance Baseless Attack On Trump

Dick Durbin Blames Trump Tweets For Democrat Attacks On Amy Coney Barrett’s Independence  The Devil made them do it.

Notre Dame Liberal-Arts Faculty Ask Barrett to Halt Her Nomination  None of the law faculty, of course.

‘View’ Gushes Over Cindy McCain’s ‘Brave’ Biden Endorsement: ‘Wish More Republicans’ Would ‘Put Country Over Party’  Yes, we all encourage the RINOS to come clean.

Fact-Checking Gun Control Activists’ Lies About Amy Coney Barrett

Can’t Touch This! Hollywood Struggles To Hurt Amy Coney Barrett’s Reputation

Richard Blumenthal’s Fear-Mongering

ACB Calmly Answers Questions While Typing Up Appellate Court Decision And Cooking Dinner For 9  Babylon Bee.

Dems See Trump’s Reelection As ‘An Existential Crisis.’ Here’s What Might Happen If He Wins

Richard Blumenthal Lied about Amy Coney Barrett’s ‘Radical’ Quote  It’s not as if we don’t know that Democrats lie.

Sen Hirono Asks Amy Coney Barrett If She Has Ever Committed Sexual Assault  In a galaxy of dim bulbs, Democrat Hirono is one of the worst.

California Officials Tell State GOP To Stop Distributing Ballot Drop Boxes

Protesters topple statues in “Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage” (Axios) I.e. ‘riot’.

Under Pressure, AP Backs Down from Trying to Spin Supreme Court-Packing as ‘Depoliticizing’ It

Man Caught on Video Stealing Mail, Voting Ballots From California Mailboxes

Twitter Fined For Multiple Campaign Finance Violations

A Nation Plagued by Misinformation  An attempt to explain why nobody believes Orange Man Bad.

Michigan Supreme Court Rejects Gov. Whitmer’s Request, Rules Executive Orders Were Unconstitutional Effective Immediately

Declassified FBI Spreadsheet Exposes Steele Dossier Farce: Media Reports On FBI Reports Of Media Reports

Security Guard Who Fatally Shot A Right-Wing Protester In Denver Claims Self-Defense

China Bringing Xinjiang-Style Forced Labor Camps to Tibet, Report Says

Postal Worker Placed Off Duty After Throwing Away Ballot, Political Ads  Postal workers are among the most corrupt and worthless in the country. There’s a reason the Post Office is a joke.

Dems Criticize ACB For Constantly Interrupting Their Campaign Speeches  Babylon Bee.

‘Spontaneous’ Street Violence Is Well Organized, Pursuing a Radical Agenda

California’s Governor Mocked My Concern. But a Ballot Arrived at My Parents’ House 8 Years After I Moved Away.

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We’re 10 months into 2020, and businesses are still making adjustments to the new realities of large-scale telework (which, if you’re not in the IT biz, is just a fancy term for “working from not in the office”). In the Before Times, telework was an interesting idea that tech companies were just starting to seriously flirt with as a normal way of doing business—whereas now, most businesses large or small have a hefty fraction of their workforce staying home to work.

Unfortunately, making such a sweeping change to office workflow doesn’t just disrupt policies and expectations—it requires important changes to the technical infrastructure as well. Six months ago, we talked about the changes the people who work from home frequently need to make to accommodate telework; today, we’re going to look at the ongoing changes the businesses themselves need to make.

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Essentially, Massachusetts voters are deciding on whether or not to add “mechanical” vehicle telematics data—realtime updates from a car’s sundry sensors transmitted to an automaker’s private servers—to the list of things OEMs have to share with independent mechanics. Telematics data was purposefully excluded from the original 2013 law, but as cars have gotten more computerized over the last decade, that gap in coverage has grown more pronounced.

The ‘right to repair’ fight is typically framed in terms of farm equipment but it really extends across the hi-tech universe.

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I would look forward to moving.

The Other McCain lays in out.

Politics is not about debate. Politics isn’t about compromise. It is not about “image.” Ultimately, politics is about power.

This is something Republicans have a habit of forgetting. Because the Republican Party represents the respectable middle class, its leaders tend to be concerned with bourgeois respectability, an encumbrance which does not inhibit Democrats. Having assembled a coalition of the aggrieved and impoverished — including criminals, drug addicts, perverts and decadent intellectuals — Democrats unapologetically advocate the selfish interests of their constituent groups, whereas Republicans seem almost embarrassed by their own middle-class supporters.

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A viral campaign on TikTok urged users to reserve spots at Trump’s rally in Staten Island, New York in September. The goal was to try to drive down attendance. Instead, the Staten Island GOP turned the tables on them, the New York Post reported. The local Republican group charged for the previously free tickets.

Now that’s comedy.

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Jeez, who would want him?

And who would pay anything to get him back?

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The pitfalls of radically changing the election system to mass mail-in balloting in the weeks and months leading up to an election are more apparent by the day. Yet the mainstream media keeps telling us there are no problems, have never been problems and never will be. Twitter and Facebook automatically add “context” to legitimate news posts about voting troubles to explain that everything is safe and secure no matter what you just read. News organizations question whether they should call winners on election night or wait days – perhaps weeks – for stray ballots to be counted.

There’s a reason why we vote in person.

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No, they just poke fun at the proglodytes, and that gets a laugh every time. Mission Accomplished.

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Pyrrhic victory. Like most of the rapidly-dwindling band of people who are capable of thinking for ourselves, I regard the Kung Flu freakout as a mostly manufactured event. The initial freakout was real enough — Boomers still control the culture, and Boomers are nothing if not obsessive about their last few minutes on the stage — but it was quickly co-opted by cynical political operators as a great way to damage the Bad Orange Man and his booming economy. And it worked: record unemployment, lots of businesses closing. But it might turn out to be the very definition of a Pyrrhic victory.

The great online-ening of the past year has shown just how useless so much of the modern “economy” is. To take just the most obvious example, ask any teacher how important face-to-face instruction is. If you’d asked them before March, you’d be forgiven for thinking that teaching is some kind of super-skilled, rocket scientist-level job that only years of training and fanatical, monk-like dedication can prepare you for. Post-COVID, and “education” means “log in, look at the powerpoint, and answer the multiple choice quiz… you know, whenever you feel like it. Or don’t, it’s all good, because following schedules and completing assignments is racist.”

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We have the technology. (For those not In The Know, “EULA” stands for End User License Agreement.)

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It’s been three weeks since the U.S. threatened to bomb pro-Iran Iraqi militias unless Iraq eliminated the threat first. The American position was that Iran was at war with Americans in Iraq and said so frequently and publicly. All the major Iraqi Shia religious leaders have called for the disbanding of all PMF (Popular Mobilization Forces) militias, in part because Iran was rapidly turning the entire PMF into an Iraqi version of the Lebanese Hezbollah organization called Kataib Hezbollah. Founded in the 1980s with Iranian help, the original Hezbollah still takes orders from Iran and has dominated Lebanese politics for over three decades. Most Lebanese want Hezbollah gone but a heavily armed militia with enormous economic power in Lebanon is difficult to disband. Iraqis want Kataib Hezbollah gone and cannot understand why their prime minister does not act. Fear probably has a lot to do with the delay. In Lebanon Iran had several senior Lebanese politicians assassinated for being too openly hostile to Hezbollah. The personal danger for the Iraqi prime minister is based on fact, not just speculation.

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Following the money can answer many questions, especially when it comes to the virtue merchants. The Lincoln Project exudes virtue, but selling virtue can be very profitable. A group of elites that may be engaging in class warfare by protecting their elite political status.

They have endorsed Joe Biden, and needless to say, will be immune to the policy decisions of a Biden administration. Defunding police departments, no school choice, and the loss of blue-collar jobs will not affect them. They can afford a Tesla, so no fracking, no problem.

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Joy Behar is the poster child for the irrational crazy wing of the Democrat Party.

Weekly Energy and Climate News Roundup #426

25-Year Study of Nuclear vs Renewables Says One Is Clearly Better at Cutting Emissions

The Battle Between Renewables And Nuclear Is Heating Up

A Geological Perspective of Polar Bears

INSANE: NY Times Climate Reporter Links ‘Fossil Fuels and White Supremacy’

NBC: Trump Stokes Fear While 64% of Supporters Are Hopeful  Trump isn’t the guy out there looting and pillaging; the fear is real, Trump is merely Noticing.

New York Times’ Crazy Sanger: Trump’s Declassifications Make Him An Authoritarian

Coons says that confirming Barrett ‘constitutes court-packing,’ Sasse responds that’s ‘obviously’ incorrect

Barrett must recuse from 2020 election cases, shield Supreme Court from Trump corruption (USA Today) Really? Says who?

Amateur hour at the Trump White House (POLITICO)

Michigan AG: Barr might have committed perjury Scraaaaaaape that barrel….

Trump slight against Gold Star families adds to military woes (The Hill) Another imagined ‘slight’.

Tax records show 200 entities funneled money to Trump properties while reaping benefits from White House: NYT (The Hill) Hunter Biden? Who’s Hunter Biden?

Joe Biden, Herman Cain appear as flies on Mike Pence’s head during ‘SNL’ VP debate spoof  I remember when SNL was funny. That was a while ago.

‘Sadistic Hope’: NBC’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ Is Sad That President Trump Didn’t DIE!

American Bar Association Gives Amy Coney Barrett Highest Possible Rating

Celebrities Freak Out Over Amy Coney Barrett

‘No Low They Won’t Stoop To’: Chuck Grassley Criticizes Democratic ‘Crusade’ To Tarnish Supreme Court Nominees

Feinstein Defends Obamacare As Democrats Prepare Volley Of Health Care Attacks Against Barrett

Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy Says People Are Scared Amy Coney Barrett Will Cause Discrimination Against Women  People on his side of the aisle, maybe.

Schumer Says Democrats Will Try To Block Barrett Confirmation By Not Giving Republicans Quorum

Dan Rather Babble: The Media’s Problem Under Trump Is Too Much Fairness!

Durbin Gets It Wrong on the Politicized Confirmation Process

Twitter Flags, Disables Some Options on Trump Tweet About COVID-19

Graduating from Barrett’s High School Does Not Make You an Expert on Her Nomination

Democrats Hiss In Terror As ACB Pulls Out Crucifix  Babylon Bee.

Kamala Harris Says Amy Coney Barrett Nomination Threatens Right To Vote  Scraaaaaaape that barrel….

UNIVISION: Mike Pence Is Garbage, ‘Good Luck, Kamala!’

Behar Freaks Out Over Barrett: Republicans In a ‘White Male Panic’ With ‘Reactionary Rush Limbaugh Ideas’

‘Clown Car Vagina’: Feminists Hurl Sexist Attacks at Amy Coney Barrett’s Motherhood

ANTIFA Is Compiling Lists Of “Fascist” Businesses For Yelp’s New “Racist Behavior Alerts”  You knew it was coming.

Trump Tweets ‘Put Animals in Jail’ Following Portland Riots

Unofficial ballot drop boxes worry California elections officials  If the gummint ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.

Arrest Of Local Activist Sparks Protests Outside Home Of Jewish Journalist He Allegedly Incited Violence Against  When in doubt, hate on the Jews.

Why Liberals Want Total Control Of College Education

Don’t listen to the health fascists — drink up

Portland Demonstrators Reportedly Tore Down Roosevelt And Lincoln Statues During ‘Day Of Rage’

Antifas Evicted to Make Room for Culture-Enrichers

5 Religious Groups Reportedly Fined For New York City Gatherings

TechWatch Report: Facebook Still Enabling Antifa, Far-Left Militia

How Does Race-Does-Not-Existism Disprove the White-Black IQ Gap?  Mostly, by ignoring The Science.

‘F*** Reform’: Colin Kaepernick’s New Essay Series Calls For Abolishing Police Departments And Prisons

76 Arrested After NBA Championship Celebration Descends Into Rioting, Looting, Clashes With Cops

The Black Trump Vote

Black Man Arrested By Horseback Police With Rope Files $1 Million Lawsuit

A taskforce of Black doctors is independently evaluating COVID-19 vaccine candidates  Since everybody knows that black doctors are brighter than non-black doctors.

Yelp’s anti-racist social credit nightmare

50 Shot, 4 Dead After Chicago Weekend Gun Violence

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Is this a great country or what?

Jack Butler points out the dirty little secrets of the Crust.

That Barrett’s background is distinct in this way is not in itself a reason to place her on the Court. But a serious assessment of modern American life ought to consider why her background is so unique — that is, why so many people who end up holding positions of political and cultural power, whatever their origins, tend both to go through and then be molded into similar shapes by a set of common elite institutions.

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We have the technology.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

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I actually heard an ice-cream truck (didn’t see it, but I heard it) the other day. That’s the first time in decades. Brings back good memories, though.

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Last Friday the Berlin police evicted a group of Antifa squatters from a building on Liebigstraße in Berlin. The anarchists had been living there illegally for thirty years, but the Powers That Be have only now gotten around to removing them. The reason? The neighborhood has recently been “renovated”, i.e. gentrified, and the municipal authorities had been under pressure to get rid of the undesirables and their eyesore of a building. In other words, it was a typical NIMBY initiative on the part of affluent progressives.

Below are two news videos about the eviction. Notice that all the graffiti on the inner walls of the building seem to be in English. Do the residents not speak German?

Have you ever noticed how protest signs are almost always in English, even in countries where they don’t speak English?

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This George Will column is called “Republicans, are you tired of winning yet?” Oddly, Will makes no real effort to assess the extent to which, from a conservative Republican perspective, America has been winning under President Trump.

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Oh, I suspect that they’re a minority even now. Try to find one.

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The pandemic has created a butchering capacity shortage in the U.S. It’s illegal for ranchers to butcher their own animals and sell them directly to consumers, but a new state law offers relief.

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A cow sold to restaurants or retailers has to be processed at a USDA-certified facility.

Why would it be illegal for ranchers to butcher their own animals? Does that make any sense at all?

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The Antifas or “anti-fascists” were all but unknown to Americans until after the election of Donald Trump four years ago. In the fall and winter of 2016-2017 they appeared in “black bloc” gear on the streets of American cities like Minerva bursting full-grown from the head of Zeus. In the ensuing years they have continued to ravage public spaces across the country, and have joined forces with Black Lives Matter to the point that the shock troops of the two groups are all but indistinguishable.

PBS NewsHour Pundits Agree Trump Will Lose on COVID, It’s Not Ideological At All

Hours after Trump’s dark and divisive White House speech, his doctor still won’t say if he’s tested negative (CNN)

How Trump damaged science — and why it could take decades to recover (Nature)

NYPD seeks would-be thief who pulled knife on man wearing MAGA hat

Smerconish: There’s a feeling this thing is getting away from Trump (CNN)

Taliban Slams CBS ‘Fake News’, Refutes Claim They Endorse Trump

UK at ‘Tipping Point’: England Braces for More Restrictions

Bill Burr Rips Cancel Culture And Woke White Women In Incredible ‘Saturday Night Live’ Monologue

Putin Trolls Biden: Communists & Dems Share ‘Common Values’ While Trump Record Hard On Russia

Why rightwing extremists are thriving on Facebook  (The Guardian) Except that they aren’t rightwing extremists, but leftwing extremists.

Greta Thunberg: ‘Get Everyone To Vote’ For Joe Biden

Ex-NYPD Commish Kelly: Mayor de Blasio Made NYC ‘Unsafe’

The Great California Exodus Accelerates

Bad Kshama: meet Seattle’s worst socialist

Security Paralyzed By Fears Of Being Called “Racist” As Shoplifting Mobs ‘Bulldoze’ Luxury NY Stores

Study: “mitigation costs of limiting global warming … are higher than … avoided damages this century”

A Coronavirus Vaccine Could Kill Half a Million Sharks, Conservationists Warn

Do they really care about science ?

Killer Mike’s new Black-owned bank receives ‘tens of thousands’ of account requests in less than 24 hours

One Dead After Shooting At ‘BLM-Antifa,’ ‘Patriot Rally’ Protests

Kaepernick Makes ‘Demand for Abolition’ of Police, Prisons

I altered my personality to fit in at work

Math Association Say Math “Inherently Carries Human Biases”, Citing Critical Race Theory

Race for Los Angeles District Attorney Increasingly Bitter

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A front page story in yesterday’s Minneapolis Star Tribune is a good illustration of how corrupt today’s press has become. It would be insignificant, except for the fact that its dishonesty is replicated thousands of times every day, in newspapers across the country.

The Strib’s story is headlined, in the print edition, “Town Lashes Out at Floyd’s Uncle.” The story refers to a controversy that occurred several months ago in Gettysburg, South Dakota, population 1,162, where, coincidentally, George Floyd’s uncle Selwyn Jones lives. Strib reporter Chao Xiong describes the controversy this way: “Jones led the charge to remove Confederate flag-adorned patches from the uniforms of Gettysburg police.” At the outset, there are several problems with this story.

This article from the New York Times is an overview of how the Crust recruits new members and succeeds in brainwashing a considerable part of what ought to be Middle America.

Obviously, this guy went to Yale after the rot set in, so his experience doesn’t match those of us who went there in ‘the good old days’ (which weren’t all that good, just less bad than now). To a considerable degree, ‘wokeness’ is simply an attempt by parvenus to blend in with what they think is the Upper Class, especially black kids who have been promoted beyond their competence — they come to think that the way to success is to be activist assholes, and for the most part they’re right.

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In recent decades, “racial disparity” has become the central framework for discussing inequities affecting African Americans in the United States. In this usage, disparity refers to the disproportionate statistical representation of some categorically defined populations on average in the distribution of undesirable things—unemployment, low wages, infant mortality, poor education, incarceration, etc. And by corollary logic, such social groupings are also found to be statistically underrepresented in desirable things—wealth, income, educational attainment, etc.

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This way of thinking about injustice and what does and doesn’t call for remedial action has its roots in enforcement of anti-discrimination law in the 1960s and 1970s. Identifying disparate treatment or outcomes that correlate with racial difference can be a critical step in validating a complaint. However, the inclination to fixate on such disparities as the only objectionable form of inequality can create perverse political incentives. We devote a great deal of rhetorical and analytic energy to the project of determining just which groups, or population categories, suffer or have suffered the worst. Cynics have sometimes referred to this brand of what we might term political one-downsmanship as the “oppression Olympics”—a contest in which groups that have attained or are vying for legal protection effectively compete for the moral or cultural authority that comes with the designation of most victimized.

Women and minorities hardest hit.