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Postal employees in Wisconsin backdated mail-in ballots in the presidential election and nursing home staffers pressured elderly residents on how to vote, witnesses told state lawmakers.

A state election official, meanwhile, assured the Wisconsin lawmakers that there is no evidence of widespread fraud.

These and other witnesses testified Friday before two committees of the Wisconsin Legislature that held a joint hearing on allegations of fraud and irregularities during the Nov. 3 election.

Why Is Half the Pfizer Vaccine to be Warehoused Unused for First 3 Weeks?

America Last: Melinda Gates ‘Incredibly Disappointed’ After Trump Gives Americans Vaxx First

A Cure Worse Than the Disease

One marginal Covid-19 and Fast Grants update

Fauci: Unless Americans Take The Vaccine, The Masks Need To Stay On

Jim Rickards: The Good News & The Bad News

It’ll Be Easy To Skip The Line, Bypass Priority Groups For Coronavirus Vaccine, Experts Warn

Why is Hollywood ‘Essential’ and Church Not? Thank Showbiz Lobbyists

Trump’s last-ditch effort to steal the election is the biggest farce of all  Washington Post.

Reality check for Trump’s fantasies: Judges aren’t his pawns on election lawsuits.  USA Today.

Battleground states issue blistering rebukes to Texas’ lawsuit to invalidate millions of votes CNN. Blistering!

The Trump team throws in the towel on proving voter fraud  Washington Post.

Donald Trump Labelled ‘Loser of the Year’ by Europe’s Biggest News Magazine  Newsweek.

Biden/Harris Named Time Magazine’s “Person Of The Year”, Trump Labeled “Loser Of The Year”

CNN’s John Harwood Attacks GOP, Says ‘They Would Go Smack Their Moms In The Face’ If Trump Said To  Yeah, well, Mom and I didn’t get along all that well.

Same Old, Same Old: CNN Keeps Ignoring Hunter Biden, But Still Promotes Every Trump Allegation

Stephen King: Republicans ‘in Favor of a Trump Dictatorship’

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf Imposes New Lockdowns, Bans Indoor Dining, Large Gatherings

Grassley Blasts MSM Over Hunter Biden Hypocrisy

“Free Speech Is Being Weaponized”: Columbia Dean And New Yorker Writer Urges More Censorship

ABC, CBS Wave GOOD-BYE to Corrupt Hunter Biden, Drop It After a Day; NBC Footnotes It

Party of Science: Celebs Back Native Rep. for Cabinet Position to ‘Honor Mother Earth’

NJ Lawmaker Wants Mandatory COVID Shot For All Kids Without Exemption

New York City to Ban Indoor Dining Again  Apparently the NY economy is not yet sufficiently destroyed.

New York Must Raise Taxes Regardless Of Whether It Receives Federal Relief, Gov. Cuomo Says  Time to leave.

YouTube Accidentally Deletes CNN Russiagate Coverage While Banning Outlandish Conspiracy Theories  Babylon Bee.

Key People Are Leaving Facebook and Torching the Company in Departure Notes

New Hampshire Governor Blasts Defiant Maskless Republicans

Gavin Newsom Aides Privately Worry About Forced Special Election Possibility, Report Says

The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database Tops 1,300 Cases

Australia Not Invited to a Big International Climate Summit

MSNBC’s Ali Velshi Channels UN’s ‘Apocalyptic Climate Report’ of ‘Horrifying Records’

NPR Reverts to State-Run Radio with Socialist Softballs for Climate Czar John Kerry

Claim: The greening of the earth is approaching its limit

Electric vehicle shock treatment

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(Otherwise known as ‘California on the Colorado.)

Time to leave.

UPDATE: Oracle Moves To Texas As Silicon Valley Exodus Accelerates

UPDATE: Oracle will move headquarters to Texas from California

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Silicon Valley and San Francisco are over. Everyone is leaving California.

And who could blame them?

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A host of Democratic politicians said the execution of a man convicted of burning two youth ministers in 1999 was an injustice in Friday social media posts.

Brandon Bernard, 40, was killed by lethal injection following a two-decade old conviction lighting a vehicle on fire after an accomplice robbed, shot and dumped two youth ministers in the trunk in 1999, according to CBS News. Bernard, who became the ninth federal inmate to be executed in 2020, was the subject of pleas to commute his sentence from numerous celebrities and advocates, CBS reported.

Sounds like justice to me.

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Time to leave.

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In the world of Democrat politics, there are no coincidences. With that principle in mind, it’s possible to understand why Democrat media outlets are suddenly reporting about Hunter Biden’s corruption, a story that spills over onto his father. The first is to get ahead of potential breaking news about Hunter’s imminent arrest. The second theory is the one Monica Showalter advanced: The leftists used Biden to attain the White House (or so they believe) and are now ready to get rid of him. Having a criminal son may be just what the Obama/Harris camp needs to make that happen. And if there’s any doubt about this theory, an article in The New York Times seems to lay it to rest.

I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

The Other McCain fills you in.

When Chinese agent “Christine” Fang first befriended Eric Swalwell, he was just a city councilman in a suburb of Oakland, California. So how did she know to target him specifically? Swalwell challenged incumbent Rep. Pete Stark, who had Obama’s endorsement, in the 2012 Democratic primary. Out of all the local politicians in the San Francisco Bay area, why would Fang have made Stark a target of her influence operation, unless Fang’s Chinese spymasters had some inside knowledge?

Not to get too paranoid here, but it has been reported that Fang raised money for Swalwell, and you have to wonder if Beijing’s influence was a “thumb of the scale” of that 2012 election. In other words, Fang targeted Swalwell because China knew he would beat Stark — the fix was in.

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Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen are planning to move to South Florida, where they will become Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s new neighbors on an exclusive Miami island. According to Page Six….

That ‘No State Income Tax’ gets ’em every time.

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St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner and her whole staff have been removed from the case against Mark McCloskey, who with his wife Patricia was charged with brandishing weapons against Black Lives Matter protesters earlier this year, after the prosecutor referred to the case in her fundraising emails.

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Circuit Judge Thomas Clark II said Gardner’s emails “raise the appearance of impropriety and jeopardize the defendant’s right to a fair trial,” according to The Associated Press.

Suffice it to say that Kim Gardner is a Soros puppet and racist black female.

UPDATE: St. Louis Prosecutor Removed From McCloskey Case After She ‘Initiated A Criminal Prosecution For Political Purposes,’ Court Says

UPDATE: “Like A Needle Pulling A Thread”: Prosecutor Kim Gardner Kicked Off McCloskey Case

UPDATE: Kim Gardner disqualified from prosecuting Mark McCloskey

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While there aren’t any species of mushroom large enough to live in, one Bay-area designer thinks he can make one if he only cranks out enough of his patented “mushroom bricks.”

 

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Liberal hypocrisy and inconsistency are impossible to overestimate. Here are two instances, both from today’s InstaPundit. (By the way, I tend to assume that Power Line readers all read InstaPundit daily, but that probably isn’t true. If you aren’t checking Glenn Reynolds’ site, now with other contributors from PJ Media, at least a couple of times a day, you should.)

Steve Sailer.

In news that couldn’t possibly have been reported before the election for Reasons, it was announced this week that 87 year old Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) is over the hill cognitively and that, yeah, Hunter Biden likely is a crooked influence-peddler.

UPDATE: Democrats Savage Feinstein In Cruel New Yorker Piece After She Fails To Destroy Justice Amy Coney Barrett

U.S. sets daily record for coronavirus deaths, as Britain warns of allergic reactions to vaccine (Washington Post)

Wyoming Health Official Resigns Following ‘So-Called Pandemic’ Comment

The state of COVID-19 testing in the US  Popular ‘Science’.

AirAsia CEO: Asian Nations “Won’t Let Anyone In Without A Vaccination”

Alabama Basketball Coach Nate Oats Goes On Incredible Rant About Coronavirus, Shines A Light On Mental Health

Will COVID Cool Millennials’ Crush On Socialism?  Unlikely.

Brewery Owner Spends Over $100,000 To Comply With LA County Outside Dining Regulations

Trump’s Republicans have gone around the bend  (Washington Post)

A GOP senator reveals just how deranged many in his party have become  (Washington Post)

Univision Helps Biden Plagiarize Trump Promise of 100M Vaccines in Next 100 Days

HYPOCRISY ALERT: Dem Hack Kimmel Asks Stacey Abrams Why Trump Hasn’t Conceded

Disgusting CNN: Trump Is the Equivalent of Slave States for Challenging Election

NBC’s Bennett Sucks Up to Kerry, Wonders What Americans Must ‘Sacrifice’ to Save the Earth

Bombshell finding: Automobile tires, not climate change – is killing west coast salmon

The natural ‘Himalayan aerosol factory’ can affect climate

Suburban man charged with selling devices that turn pistols into machine guns

Feds: 2 men sold machine-gun converter kits ‘for people who want to shoot some people’

Look Who’s Standing In The Schoolhouse Door Now: The Chicago Teachers Union

Ben & Jerry’s Is Releasing A New Flavor In Honor Of Colin Kaepernick

Cartoon Network Rewrites History with Woke ‘Anti-Racist’ PSA

‘Intentional Erasure’: Black Lives Matter Fractures Over Power As Chapters Split From Network

No one wins in the race race

Megan Thee Stallion Thanks Conservatives For Making ‘WAP’ A Hit, Calls Them ‘Crazy’

Obama Still Whining About Gun Owners’ Political Power

America has an authoritarian voter problem (Washington Post)

Media Largely Ignores Report Of Swalwell’s Involvement With Suspected Chinese Spy

Cover-Up: ABC, CBS Barely Cover Hunter Biden Probe, Ignore Business Deals in China

U.N. Commissioner Blames ‘America First’ For Human Rights ‘Setbacks’

Don’t Let COVID-19 Lockdowns Become a Permanent Power Grab  Ben Shapiro.

VIDEO: Media Done with ‘Unity,’ Want ‘Trump Apologists’ Jailed

MSNBC’s Tyler Accuses Georgia Governor, Secretary of State of Voter Suppression in Runoffs

Portland Autonomous Zone Is ‘Stockpiling Weapons,’ Has Armed Patrols, Police Say

Fox News Reporter Gets Shooed Away After Asking Jill Biden About Hunter News

Setting Up A Siege? Antifa Has Armed Guards, Stockpiled Weapons At Portland Autonomous Zone

‘We Are Not Crazy’: California Restaurant Defies Outdoor Dining Ban

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In past presidential election years, the day the Electoral College convenes to vote goes largely ignored, as most of the public stops paying attention after Election Day.

This year is different. Amid allegations of voter fraud, litigation in key states, and state legislative hearings, the public is more focused on the electors’ voting set for Monday.

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Tom Kirsch is President Trump’s nominee to fill the seat on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals vacated by Justice Barrett. Kirsch is well qualified for the judgeship, and his nomination has received approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee.

However, some Senate Democrats are opposing Kirsch because he is White. For example, Sen. Blumenthal says the Seventh Circuit lacks “diversity,” and that if Kirsch is confirmed, the court will continue to be all-White.

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Executive board member of the NBA’s Golden State Warriors and CEO of Social Capital, Chamath Palihapitiya has said “fuck you” to every rich millennial on a trust fund attacking capitalism and claiming they’re socialists.

Appearing on the All-In Podcast alongside Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, and David Friedberg, the quartet got to discussing trust fund kids claiming to be socialists, specifically naming a recent New York Times article titled ‘The Rich Kids Who Want to Tear Down Capitalism’ as highly misguided since capitalism is exactly how those rich kids got to where they are now.

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South Florida is reportedly seeing a rise in robbers who’ve exploited the coronavirus pandemic by blending in — walking into banks wearing face masks just like everybody else and raising no red flags.

Five bank heists were done by the same mask-wearing robber, the Sun-Sentinel reported.

My, what a surprise.

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New York Times liberal columnist Michelle Goldberg displayed some laugh-out-loud ignorance in her Tuesday tirade about election protests by Trump supporters in Michigan, “No One Expects G.O.P. Civility.” (And no one expects New York Times balance.) The text box gave the flavor: “Election officials are terrorized, and everyone shrugs.”

Goldberg’s piece was saturated with uninformed sarcasm.

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Prediction: Badly.

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College campus safe spaces, speech codes, and woke witch hunts may be coming to a high school near you.

Charles Fain Lehman chronicled in The Washington Free Beacon how school districts and private schools around the country are adopting woke, “anti-racist” policies based on critical theory ideologies once ensconced in the ivory tower.

Schools are adding the Pulitzer Prize-winning but factually challenged 1619 Project, to their curriculum. The 1619 Project was aimed at reframing American history as being rooted in slavery rather than the ideas of liberty from 1776.

This is only the tip of the iceberg.

I can hear it plotting….

Ann Coulter.

That’s your first clue they’re lying. Liberals don’t try to say partial-birth abortion never happens. They don’t say black men killing cops never happens. They don’t say immigrants ripping off government programs never happens. Only voter fraud NEVER HAPPENS.

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In a landmark phase 3 clinical trial, the international team, coordinated by Dr. Patrick Yu-Wai-Man from the University of Cambridge and Dr. José-Alain Sahel from the University of Pittsburgh and Institut de la Vision, Paris, successfully treated 37 patients suffering from Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON). Subject to further trials, the treatment could help thousands of people across the world to regain and retain some of their sight.

If the Corporate Media weren’t so focused on bashing Trump we might get some decent coverage of amazing news like this.

Glenn Greenwald.

Hunter Biden acknowledged today that he has been notified of an active criminal investigation into his tax affairs by the U.S. Attorney for Delaware. Among the numerous prongs of the inquiry, CNN reports, investigators are examining “whether Hunter Biden and his associates violated tax and money laundering laws in business dealings in foreign countries, principally China.”

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Seventeen states whose elections were won by President Donald Trump told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that they support Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s bid to file a lawsuit that could effectively reverse President-elect Joe Biden’s projected Electoral College victory.

The filing backing Paxton by those states came a day after he asked the Supreme Court for permission to sue Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, all of which Biden won, over their voting processes.

Seth Meyers: ‘If you’re not calling this an attempted coup, what are you calling it?’  (The Guardian)

How to Avoid Ivanka (The New Yorker)

SNL’s Chloe Fineman Excited To Move on From Trump, Like That Will Happen

‘Suckers’: Hollywood Celebs View Trump Supporters As Gullible Fools  Pretty harsh coming from people who voted for a cardboard cutout as President.

What an Actual Socialist Makes of Republicans’ Anti-Socialism Hysteria  (New York Magazine)

‘They demolished my house for this?’ Residents outraged by the Foxconn factory that fizzled (The Guardian)

The rank hypocrisy of the Texas AG’s election case (CNN)

Here’s a list of crimes on LA’s new DA’s do-not-prosecute list

New Los Angeles DA announces end to cash bail, the death penalty and trying children as adults

Noncitizens and illegal immigrants found in North Carolina voting and jury pools

‘Yellow Privilege’: College Residence Adviser Anonymously Distributes Document On Asians As Oppressors

Portland Police, Protesters Clash in Broad Daylight

YouTube To Delete Content That ‘Undermines’ 2020 US Election Results  Managerial fascism on the march!

Portland Mayor Authorizes ‘All Lawful Means’ To End Autonomous Zone After Banning Non-Lethal Munitions During Months-Long Unrest

Twitter’s Dorsey Donates $15M To Mayors’ Universal Income Program

Portland Police Attacked In Broad Daylight After Antifa Erects New ‘Autonomous Zone’

New EU legislation proposes 30% ‘European content’ minimum for Apple TV+, Netflix

New Yorker’s Steve Coll: Free Speech ‘Is Being Weaponized’ Against Journalism  Because ‘journalism’ is So Very Special.

Buying power: how China co-opts the UN

Who Is That Unmasked Man and Should I Care?

Inside The Battle Over Pandemic Policy — What Exactly Does The Science Support?

Struggling Business Owner Responds to NBC’s Deceitful Edit of Her Viral Video

Blacks are wary of covid vaccine. Why is that?

Regulators Investigating Allergic Reactions To New Coronavirus Vaccine In United Kingdom

‘We Missed Catching The Signs’: 16-Year-Old Reportedly Committed Suicide After Struggles With Coronavirus Lockdown Isolation  Did they even look all that hard?

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Will Biden Give In To The Hydroxy Effect?

100 days of wearing masks could make an enormous difference in the pandemic  Popular ‘Science’.

EU Medicines Agency hacked, BioNTech-Pfizer coronavirus vaccine paperwork stolen, probe launched

In Stunning Rebuke, LA Judge Strikes Down ‘Abusive’ Outdoor Dining Ban As Lacking ‘Science, Evidence Or Logic’

Poll: Republican Women Twice As Likely To Doubt Coronavirus Vaccine As Republican Men

‘We Put Everything On The Line’: Michigan Business Owner Speaks Out Against COVID-19 Restrictions

Steve Sailer.

I’m coming around to the notion that a Polygamy Push is fairly likely to follow Transmania the way it followed gay marriage.

Paul Mirengoff at PowerLine.

What we get is a Hollywood melodrama. It’s not really a bad movie in my opinion, but it’s not a worthwhile one. If you read the book, there’s not much reason to see the movie unless you like to grumble. If you haven’t read the book, you might enjoy the movie, depending on your tastes, but you won’t get much out of it.

The film has not received favorable reviews from critics — far from it — although the audience reviews are pretty good. Glenn Reynolds thinks the critics’ negativity is politically based.

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One small Georgia county has reportedly tossed a monkey wrench into Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s recertification that gave Joe Biden the win over President Donald Trump, doubting the “credibility” of its recount.

Coffee County Board of Elections officials sent out a letter last week saying they couldn’t certify the electronic recount numbers given its “inability to repeatably duplicate creditable election results,” WALB.com reported Tuesday.

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Unfortunately, that would only happen if he were a Republican.

UPDATE: Swalwell’s swill

UPDATE: Tucker Carlson: ‘Eric Swalwell … Used His Office To Promote Beijing’s Talking Points’ While Sitting On House Intelligence Committee

UPDATE: ‘They Are Not Going To Silence Me’: Swalwell Says No ‘Wrongdoing’ In Relationship With Probable Chinese Spy

Victor Davis Hanson.

America traditionally has not reinvented reality after an election, although prior presidential winners have often tried, as in the fashion of our politics. But the new powers of social media, Silicon Valley, and a woke media have made reality-changing now a reality.

Suddenly Antifa and BLM have all but disappeared from their heroic barricades. Where and why did they go? Did they ever really exist?

Apparently the cucks at National Review have instituted a paywall — which is good, because that means that their me-tooism will be restricted to those who already buy into the Establishment party line and they will no longer be leading innocents astray.

ZMan observes the Pandemic Panic.

In ordinary times in ordinary countries, the prospect of a vaccine for even a nuisance ailment like the Chicken Pox would be welcome news. After all, one measure of society is the technology to improve human health. In a technologically advanced society, members not only live longer, the quality of life is better. An extra 20 years as a feeble old man is not exactly a reward for a life well-lived. Therefore, the promise of a Covid-19 vaccine next year should be welcome news.

As with everything else, it seems, the news of a possible vaccine just reveals how deranged and bizarre life has become in the West. The majority of Americans are highly skeptical of the vaccine. If people were honest, you would find large majorities unwilling to take the vaccine at all. Even in the medical professions, where faith in their own skill is beyond reality, close to half distrust the vaccine. It does not help that the rulers feel the need wrap the vaccine question in their racial madness.

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I’m a sucker for multitools.

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Some people understand the election results only too well.

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Well, OK, it’s November 2020. The show is almost over. When do we get Hitler?

No, do not tell me “any day now.” You’ve been telling us that for four straight years. Do we look like a bunch of gullible idiots that you can whip up into a four-year frenzy of mindless hatred and paranoia by screaming “Hitler!” over and over, and then not produce an actual Hitler?

Well, we’re not. We remember what you said. You promised us Hitler, and we want Hitler, or at least a decent facsimile of Hitler.

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

Yesterday the State of Texas filed pleadings in the U.S. Supreme Court alleging that the electoral processes followed by Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin in this year’s election were unconstitutional and the results in those states should be negated. Because this is a lawsuit between states, the Supreme Court has original and exclusive jurisdiction. Texas’s pleadings are embedded below.

The Texas motion and supporting brief are well-drafted and make a plausible case–importantly, one that, if accepted, does not require extensive fact-finding into alleged voter fraud. Reduced to its essentials, the motion alleges 1) that under the Constitution’s Electors Clause, state legislatures have plenary authority over appointment of each state’s electors; 2) that in each of the defendant states, non-legislative actors (e.g., the Secretary of State) unconstitutionally changed the rules governing this year’s election without legislative approval or ratification; 3) that these changes favored some voters over others, in violation of the Equal Protection Clause; and 4) in each state, the number of ballots that were counted pursuant to unconstitutional changes in election procedures exceeds the margin of Joe Biden’s alleged victory.

UPDATE: Number Of States Joining Texas Suit Against PaGaWiMi Hits 7