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Deputies in several California counties say they won’t enforce Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home order at businesses, reports Fox 11.

Newsom on Thursday announced the state’s strictest new measures aimed at keeping hospitals from becoming overwhelmed, including sweeping stay-at-home orders set to take effect when the intensive care units in a region’s hospitals fill to more than 85% of capacity.

A nurse and six of her family members have Covid-19. And it began with a small act of kindness No good deed goes unpunished.

Michael Moore to MAGA Fans: ‘A Lot of You Are Going to Die’ From COVID  I guess we’ll see.

Democrat Lockdowns Exempt Hollywood, Destroy Small Businesses

Harris Poll: Many Want to See Fauci Take Vaccine First

Gov Newsom Introduces 3 Week Stay-At-Home Order For Parts Of California

Nets Cover-Up Tyrannical Dems Breaking Their COVID Restrictions

Here’s How COVID-19 Restrictions Curb Religious Freedom  Or would, if we let them.

UK Government Medical Officer Says Masks Should Be Worn For Years

Pfizer chairman: We’re not sure if someone can transmit Covid after vaccination

About Those Vaccine ID Cards…

Conflict Over COVID ‘Science’ Sparks Santelli & Sorkin Screamfest 

‘I Want To Stay Away From Business’: LA County Sheriff Vows To Limit Enforcement Of Recent COVID-19 Restrictions

Friday Morning Fight: CNBC Panel Explodes Over Draconian COVID Restrictions

Arlington Teen Charged in Double-Fatal Shooting Says Someone Pulled a Gun on His Father

Google’s star AI ethics researcher, one of a few Black women in the field, says she was fired for a critical email She doesn’t look all that black to me.

Her Name Is ‘Destiny’

Facts Aren’t Her Strong Suit: Reid Insinuates Perdue Should Be Jailed Like Martha Stewart

Data Violence  I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was such a thing as ‘data violence’. But black people are victims always and everywhere.

‘Not Safe:’ CBS Sitcom Guilts White Man For Giving Black Child Toy Water Gun  He’ll have a real one soon enough.

‘Black Lives Matter’ Rioter Charged With Murder in N.C. Home Invasion

Woke Corporations Who Supported BLM Lobby Against Ban On Chinese Slave Labor

Man Suspected Of Shooting Officer Killed In New York City Gunfight That Left 2 Marshalls Wounded

‘Black Panther’ Star Letitia Wright Called Out By Other Actors After Sharing Anti-Coronavirus Vaccine Video  It’s not enough to be black, you have to be the right kind of black.

Maxine Waters’ Campaign Paid Her Daughter Over $240,000 For Second Year In A Row, FEC Records Show

Leader Of All-Black Militia Charged With Pointing Rifle At Cops During Protest

Donald Trump releases video statement repeating baseless vote fraud claims (The Guardian) Baseless!

Are You Preparing for War? CNN Says ‘We Need to Remain Vigilant’ About Trump

Bored Now: CNN Eager for Biden, ‘Sick’ Over ‘Reckless’ Trump

Facebook Bans Anti-Vaccine “Conspiracy Theories” As US Rollout Begins

Yes, This Makes Perfect Sense: Cities Across America Are Slashing Police Budgets As Crime Rates Soar

The Leftist Obsession With Parler Reveals Their Infatuation With Thought Control

400 International Lawmakers Sign Open Letter To Bezos Demanding Amazon Pay & Tax Hikes  Look for … the deepest pockets….

Editor Daily Rundown: China Using Blackmail, Bribery To Influence Members Of Congress, DNI Ratcliffe Says

Durham Seeks Jail Time For Ex-FBI Lawyer Who Altered CIA Email About Carter Page

REPORT: New York Activists Are Buying Ubers For Georgia Voters To Get To The Polls

Mika Brzezinski: ‘I’m Done With Being Polite’ to Republicans!  When did that happen? I must have missed it.

‘Like Having Xi Jinping Sitting In The White House’: Here’s Why Asian Pro-Democracy Activists Are Worried About Biden

California To Issue Democrat Politicians Special ID Cards Allowing Them To Break Lockdown Rules  Babylon Bee.

Mayor Garcetti Bans Walking As Latest LA Lockdown Begins

Supreme Court Sides Against Newsom on California Church Restrictions

Facebook Planning to Remove COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation

Ohio County Closes Schools, Leaves Casino Open

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USA Today has a “fact checking” team that is funded and weaponized by Facebook to limit or censor social-media posts. But amazingly, the standard employed isn’t whether something is factual or non-factual. It seems to be whether someone is a Democrat or not.

“Fact checker” Abby Patkin penned a December 1 article revolving around the claim: “Several Democratic politicians are urging social distancing and issuing stay-at-home advisories while hosting or attending gatherings themselves.” Patkin threw a penalty flag at the conservative Facebook page of “Occupy Democrats Logic,” which included a November 13 tweet about Democrat hypocrisy by former One America News host Liz Wheeler.

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Cue Mickey Mouse….

Come to think of it, Jambalaya Harris does resemble Goofy.

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Trump legal team volunteer Jacki Pick spoke at a Georgia Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on election fraud yesterday (video immediately below). In her remarks Pick drew on just-discovered surveillance footage from Atlanta’s State Farm Arena showing secretly counted ballots coming from suitcases left under a table on election night — when counting had supposedly stopped and observers evacuated.

But of course there is ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE of vote fraud. None. Don’t even think about it.

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But of course there is ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE of vote fraud. None. Don’t even think about it.

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The United States is not the only country where transit agencies are spending far too much money building obsolete infrastructure. TransportNSW (for New South Wales) has spent AU$3.1 billion (US$2.3 billion) building a 12-kilometer (7.5-mile) South East light-rail line in Sydney that’s slower than buses making the same journey. For those whoa are counting, that’s more than $300 million a mile in U.S. dollars, putting it well above the average U.S. light-rail project.

Infidel Statues Must be Beheaded!

‘Definitive Punishment’: Iran Supreme Leader Demands Retribution For Assassination Of Top Nuclear Scientist  Good luck with that.

Israeli Embassies On ‘High Alert’ Globally As Iran Vows Revenge For Covert Hit

Mujahid Targeted Catholic Youth Group in Vienna

Iran Newspaper: Strike Haifa If Israel Killed Scientist

Afghan Officials Say 34 Killed in Separate Suicide Bombings

USS Nimitz to Gulf as Iran War Threat Grows

US Carrier Strike Group Heads To Gulf As Iran Threatens Retaliation  We got yer retaliation, right here.

Stabbed in Neukölln for Wearing a Cross

A Fascination With Decapitation

Pastor and Rabbi Work to End Persecution of Christians in Africa

Hamas Laments Resumption of PA-IDF Security Coordination in the West Bank

Iran Nuclear Scientist Was Shot With Mounted Remote-Controlled Machine Gun  We have the technology.

Islamists On Motorcycles Mount ‘Most Violent Attack On Civilians This Year’ In Nigeria

Rabbi Attacked in Vienna by Nondescript Woman

SYRIA: The Crumbling Continues

2 Killed, Several Injured After Car Hits Crowd Of Pedestrians In Germany

ISIS Claims Rocket Attack On Oil Refinery In Iraq, No Injuries Reported

Palestinian Authority Deceives American Audiences  Muslims are encouraged to lie when it benefits them. Look up ‘taqiyya‘.

CNN Reports Iran Has Developed Peaceful Nuclear Power Plant In More Efficient Shape Of A Rocket  Babylon Bee.

Lawmakers In Iran Chant ‘Death To America’ After Voting To Boost Nuclear Program

Rashida Tlaib Retweets, Then Deletes Anti-Semitic Tweet

LIBYA: Follow The Money, Militias and Mercs

The Horrific Killing of Christians in Nigeria

Future Of Middle East Christians Looks Bleak, Experts Say — Will A Biden Administration Take Steps To Protect Them?

Iran To Boot Nuclear Inspectors Unless Access To Banking & Oil Markets Restored 

Saudi Arabia, Qatar Near US-Brokered Deal to End Lengthy Rift

At Least 110 Killed In Attack By Extremist Group On Nigerian Farms, Report Says

US, Israel Readying For Iran Strikes In Mid East

‘Breeding Grounds Of Terrorism’: 76 Mosques Investigated For Radicalization Of Members In France

Homelessness vs. Cultural Enrichment in Germany

What Role Models Did the Death Driver In Trier Have?

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But of course there is ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE of vote fraud. None. Don’t even think about it.

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(For those not paying attention, the headline is a reference to Lenin’s ‘Who? Whom?’ comment.)

Quoting the Washington Post:

The company is overhauling its algorithms that detect hate speech and deprioritizing hateful comments against Whites, men and Americans.

Victor Davis Hanson.

Matt Larson (“Hoover has gone too far,” Nov. 19, 2020) cited me among others in his Stanford Daily angry attack on Hoover Institution scholars. He alleges that we at Hoover are purportedly “more interested in making money and promoting right-wing politics than in doing actual academic research.” Larson also charges that “Hoover fellows constitute a veritable wall of shame. They have been involved in just about every type of skeezy behavior imaginable.” These are serious writs against our institution and yet mostly leveled without substantiation.

My colleagues can address these particular loaded charges of “every type of skeezy behavior imaginable” in their own fashion. But to the degree that these unfounded stereotypes pertain to me, and for the record, I have never received any compensation for media appearances. I am not “making money” on corporate boards. Nor have I ever worked in “right wing politics” — or on any campaign of either party. I am a registered independent voter without party affiliation, and the author of over 20 scholarly books on classical, agrarian and military history and culture. Scholarship, and its dissemination among the broader public, are the major criteria by which all Hoover senior fellows are annually reviewed.

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But of course there is ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE of vote fraud. None. Don’t even think about it.

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“Bill Barr is the best lawyer in Washington, D.C. He’s a two-time attorney general. He is the most effective, high-functioning person in the Trump Administration. He had the president’s back more than anyone else in Washington.”

Rivera went on to say that it had been Attorney General William Barr who stood up before the American people and pushed back on the Russia narrative, adding that Barr had most recently said that he didn’t see evidence of widespread fraud that would change the outcome of the election.

“You’re not addressing the testimony! You’re just pointing to Barr! You’re not answering what we are asking!”

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But of course there is ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE of vote fraud. None. Don’t even think about it.

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But of course there is ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE of vote fraud. None. Don’t even think about it.

Black Lives Matter? ‘Black-ish’ Character Donates to Planned Parenthood ‘Instead’ of Church

Baby Boy Shot Dead In DC Drive-By

‘Cuomo Sucks! Cuomo Sucks!’: Hundreds Gather To Support Staten Island Bar Owner Who Was Arrested For Violating Lockdown Restrictions

Black Americans Are Reportedly More Skeptical Than Other Ethnic Groups About Vaccine Safety  They must have heard that it’s all a CIA plot, like crack cocaine.

Kentucky Mayor Reportedly Crashes Into Pole After Falling Asleep In Fast Food Drive-Thru While Drunk

Don’t let race cloud judgments about 911 calls for the mentally ill

REPORT: Facebook To End Race-Blind Hate Speech Moderation  After all, everybody knows that only white people can be racist.

FB Policing ‘Anti-Black’ Speech More than ‘Anti-White’ Speech: WaPo

Stacey Abrams’ Voter Registration Group Accused of Wrongdoing in 2014

“This Gives Some Hope” – Japanese Study Finds 98% Of COVID Patients Still Have Antibodies 6 Months Later

LA County Mayor Says Not Wearing A Mask Is “Act Of Domestic Terrorism”

Tequila Bar In England Registers To Become A Church So It Can Re-Open

5 Burning Questions About The New COVID Vaccine

Welsh Government Says People Will Get ID Cards To Prove They’ve Been Vaccinated

LA Imposes Toughest Lockdown Yet To Avoid “Devastating Tipping Point” As COVID Hospitalizations Soar

AstraZeneca to be exempt from Covid vaccine liability claims in most countries

UN: Pandemic Pushed 32M People Into Extreme Poverty  No, government panic over the pandemic pushed 32M people into extreme poverty.

Mask up without breaking out. Here’s how to prevent pandemic acne.

Palestinian Leaders Want Israel Destroyed – Until They Need a Doctor

USA Today Hypes COVID Panic-Porn: Breathing ‘A Deadly Event,’ Everyone ‘A Potential Serial Killer’

Biden Compares Wearing A Mask To Sacrifices In World Wars, Korean War  Except for the absence of Nazis and Communists.

Here’s Which COVID Vaccines Are Produced, Tested Using Aborted Baby Cells, According To A Pro-Life Institute

‘Picking Weed Over The Workers’: McCarthy Hammers Dems Over Delayed COVID Relief

‘Immunity Cards’ To Be Issued To All Americans; Enable CDC To Track COVID-19 Vaxx Status In Database ‘Your papers, please!’

CDC Tells Americans to ‘Stay at Home and Not Travel’ for Christmas  Americans tell CDC to piss off.

Angry Shop Owner Interrupts Live Broadcast To Air Grievances About Lockdowns

‘Apples and Oranges!’ ‘View’ Hosts Scramble to Explain Away Dems COVID Hypocrisy  Yeah, they’re the apples, we’re the oranges.

Fauci Bashes UK Because ‘They Really Rushed’ Approval For Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine

Biden Says Fauci To Stay On, Will “Ask” Americans To Wear Masks For First 100 Days Of Admin

Here Are The Lawmakers Who Refused To Stay Home After Telling You To

Defunding Police Backfires In Minneapolis As Shootings, Homicides, And Carjackings Surge

Georgia sees Hollywood figures posing as Republicans, mockingly urging conservatives not to vote

Scary Music! Black and White Pictures! Insane PBS Doc Demonizes Mitch McConnell

Pope Francis Tweets Pro-Abortion Biden’s Campaign Slogan

San Francisco Votes To Make Smoking Tobacco In Apartments Illegal, Marijuana Allowed

MSNBC Hypocritically Demands Republicans Vote for Biden’s Cabinet  Republicans will give nominees the exact same treatment Democrats gave Republican nominees.

Biden Pledges To Hike Taxes To Bush Administration Levels  But I thought Bush was Hitler?

DOJ Sues Facebook For Discriminating Against US Workers, Reserving Jobs For H1-B Workers

Omar, Tlaib Among More Than 400 Lawmakers To Endorse ‘Make Amazon Pay’ Campaign

Ivy League Librarians Demand A “World Without Policing”

New Paleoclimatology Finding Shows Earth’s Climate Was Typically Warmer than Today

UN Paris Agreement Architect Blasts Australia’s “Lack of Integrity” on Climate Action

The Climate Warriors are Eyeing Your Plate  And not in a kindly way.

Nets Push Trump Family Pardon Speculation, Ignored Obama Helping Terrorist

Mike Pence Backs Away From the Trump Election ‘Fraud’ Train Wreck (Daily Beast) Train wreck!

Trump escalates baseless attacks on election with 46-minute video rant (Washington Post) Baseless!

The big lie from Donald Trump (The Hill) Big!

Trump fundraiser to challenge voting results is the real election fraud (USA Today) Fraud!

HATEFUL CNN: Trump Deserved Our Treatment of Him

Joy Behar Asks Mary Trump to Diagnose President With Mental Disorder: ‘Is He Crazy?’  No, but you are.

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Employees at Spotify threatened to strike if they were not given editorial control over the guests invited on Joe Rogan’s popular podcast. Abigail Shrier’s book Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters was briefly removed from Target’s inventory following complaints, only to be quickly replaced following a backlash. And students at the University of Chicago have sought to have Professor Dorian Abbot publicly censured for criticizing the university’s diversity and inclusion initiatives and the censorious climate on campus. Numerous other examples abound in academia, publishing, news media, and elsewhere. Anxiety about this trend peaked over this summer and led a number of commentators to sign the Harper’s Letter in an effort to defend free speech and inquiry (an initiative that produced its own furious row).

These emotional attempts to suppress controversial or unpopular speech have increasingly made use of what I call the “Mourner’s Veto”—individuals will say that a speaker or a piece of writing has caused them to become distressed or sad or angry or frightened, and they will support these claims with allegations of “harm” or even threats to their “right to exist.” Reasonable debate and discussion then becomes impossible as activists make unfalsifiable but furiously emotive claims about alleged threats to their safety and wellbeing amid much weeping and claims of exhaustion and mental fragility. It is not healthy for the limits of permissible speech to be dictated by the most sensitive person in the room, nor to allow emotional appeals to supplant robust argument as the most effective strategy in a debate.

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The stunning discoveries recently made in northern Mexico’s Chiquihuite Cave raise more questions than they answer. Even so, they change the conversation: The who arrived 15,000 years ago in the Western Hemisphere were not the first people here as previously believed. The 30,000-year-old tools and animal remains of Chiquihuite Cave belonged to someone else. We have no idea who, but they were gone for thousands of years by the time the Clovis culture began.

“For decades people have passionately debated when the first humans entered the Americas,” says co-study lead DNA scientist Eske Willerslev of St. John’s College, University of Cambridge. “Chiquihuite Cave will create a lot more debate as it is the first site that dates the arrival of people to the continent to around 30,000 years ago — 15,000 years earlier than previously thought.”

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Dying retinal cells send out a rescue signal to recruit stem cells and repair eye damage, according to the findings of a new study published today in the journal Molecular Therapy. The findings open the door to restoring eyesight by modifying stem cells to follow the signal and transplanting them into the eye.

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Disturbing election night footage has emerged showing Georgia poll workers waiting for observers and news outlets to leave State Farm Arena in Atlanta after calling an end to counting for the night, before pulling out several large suitcases containing ballots from under a table.

The footage, presented by an attorney working with Republicans during a Thursday state Senate hearing, is perhaps the strongest direct evidence of potential fraud, and demands serious inquiry. In it, a handful of poll workers can clearly be seen staying behind after GOP observers say they were told to clear out. After the media packs up their belongings, the workers can be seen pulling out the suitcases and opening them at approximately 11 p.m.

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Following an FBI investigation this summer, more than 1,000 researchers who had hidden their affiliation with the Chinese military fled the United States, the Justice Department said Wednesday.

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When I read that several staff at Random House Canada had cried during a meeting to discuss the publication of Jordan Peterson’s new book, supposedly because of how the author had affected their lives (adversely, of course), I was not sure whether I should laugh, be disgusted or outraged, or even feel a little sorry for them. How could anyone who worked in publishing be so fragile, so utterly weak and lacking in fortitude, what my teachers used to call moral fiber, that the mere publication of a book could reduce him—or rather her—to tears? With what hysteria would such people react if a book of their own were refused publication?

Such fragility is now to be expected, however, because crying at the first opportunity is the new heroism. To display one’s vulnerability to all and sundry is a manifestation of emotional authenticity, to hold anything inward a form of deceit and betrayal of the self. A cycle of competitive vulnerability is set up; the person who can withstand the least is now the strongest, and certainly the most moral.

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In news that should stun no one, the Government Accountability Office has found that the Labor Department has “consistently” provided inaccurate information on the state of the labor market. The GAO also found that millions of workers were underpaid by government assistance during the pandemic.

The Labor Department’s weekly jobless claims reports have produced “flawed estimates of the number of individuals receiving benefits each week throughout the pandemic,” the GAO said, according to the Wall Street Journal. The GAO said they “didn’t know the full extent of the errors”.

‘White Women Voted for Trump’ Is the Worst Election Trope (New York Magazine)

Archive and historians sue White House, seek to preserve presidential records  They’re sure there’s a Smoking Gun there, even if they have to invent one.

Project Veritas’ Alleged CNN Tapes Show Senior VP Suggesting Cubans Like Trump Because They’re ‘Very Attracted To Bullies’

New Study Finds Vitamin D Deficiency More Than Triples COVID-19 Mortality

How Many COVID-19 Vaccines Has Trump’s Operation Warpspeed Secured?

REPORT: Man’s 99th Birthday Party Leads To 12 People Infected With COVID-19 Despite Allegedly Quarantining, Testing  I guess Security Theater doesn’t work after all.

New York Gov. Cuomo Demands Health Officials Not Share Information With Immigration Agencies So That Undocumented Residents Get Vaccinated

I jab myself daily to stay healthy, and people can’t wear a mask?

Now we have proof that kids are paying the price of Covid (CNN)

British Army Deployed To Handle “Anti-Vaccine Propaganda” And Protests

UK Minister Warns Brits Could Be Denied Normal Life Without COVID Vaccination

“The Benefits Far Outweigh The Risks” – Pfizer COVID Vaccine Wins UK Approval

Faculty Senate Condemns Covid-19 Actions of Hoover’s Scott Atlas

Two Global Efforts Try to Trace the Origin of the Covid Virus

UK PM Boris Johnson: COVID-19 Vaccine Won’t Be Mandatory

White House Task Force Warns States That Coronavirus Risk Is Now At All-Time High Gotta keep stoking the panic.

CDC Expected To Revise Coronavirus Quarantine Guidelines, Reduce Number Of Recommended Isolation Days  Guess they didn’t get the memo that WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!

Three Nashville Women Criminally Charged For Allegedly Throwing A Football Watch Party During The Coronavirus Pandemic

Surprise! CNN Finally Discovers China Lied About COVID Mishandling

Coronavirus in one state (133)

CDC To Shorten COVID-19 Quarantine Period From 2 Weeks To 10 Days

Here’s How Joe Biden’s COVID-19 Advisers May Throw Our Whole Economy Back Into A Tailspin

Owner Of NYC Bar Arrested Days After Declaring “Autonomous Zone” To Dodge Pandemic Restrictions

More Lockdowns Aren’t Answer to Stopping COVID-19

Evictions Associated with More Than 10k Deaths from Covid-19

MIT study: Covid-19 vaccines may be less effective for racial minorities

Criminals Selling, Administering Fake Coronavirus Vaccines, Interpol Warns

Governors and Mayors Should Quit Making Quarantine Decrees

Austin Mayor Flew Private To Cabo San Lucas Where He Filmed Himself Telling Citizens To ‘Stay Home’

Health Officials: Thanksgiving to Push COVID Deaths to Record Rates

We’re Saved! New Zealand just Declared a Climate Emergency

CBS Goes Full Climate Propaganda: Why Are Humans ‘at War With Nature?’

Dallas Mayor Requests ‘Disproportionately Affected’ Minority Communities Be Prioritized for Virus Vaccine  And so it starts.

Majority Believe BLM Made Racial Tensions Worse, New Poll Finds

Students At UK University Demand The Word “Black” Be Banned From Lectures & Textbooks

In plain sight: the ghosts of segregation  The New York Times beats its favorite drum.

‘Make Room For New Voices’: Obama Scolds Democrats For Not Giving Ocasio-Cortez Longer Speech At Convention  I guess AOC is an Honorary Black Person, the way Asians are Honorary White People.

Six Months After Minneapolis Pledged To Dismantle The Police, Residents Grapple With Triple Digit Increase In Carjackings

‘No Slavery, No Exceptions’: Democratic Lawmakers Introduce Resolution To Amend 13th Amendment  The 13th Amendment is pretty explicit.

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“What I witnessed at the TCF Center was complete fraud. The whole 27 hours I was there, there were batches of ballots being ran through the tabulating machines numerous times, being counted 8 to 10 times. I watched this with my own eyes; I was there to assist with IT,” said Melissa Carone, who added that there were ‘completely untrained’ people working night shift – including a friend she’s known for two decades.

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A girl that can kick a football 30 yards (which any high-school male can do) is the new Great Woke Hope.

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And there’s a reason for that.

Last year, President Trump called Baltimore a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess”.

Speaker Pelosi responded by calling Trump’s comments “racist attacks”. Vox claimed that Trump was using “racist tropes” and US News conducted a fact check accusing him of racism.

Now the rat race numbers are in. Orkin, the past control company, ratted out the “rattiest cities” and Baltimore has broken through into the top 10 for the first time. Like a rat clambering after a piece of moldy cheese, Charm City leaped up four places to be America’s 8th rattiest city.

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Last week we saw the first successful virtualization of ARM Windows 10 on an M1 Mac. The good news is that it even appeared to be “pretty snappy.” Now we’ve got a look at a helpful walkthrough and peek at real-world performance in a new video, including the M1 Mac mini blowing away Microsoft’s Surface Pro X.

Severian draws a distinction.

Back at the old Rotten Chestnuts, we discussed the difference between a revolution and a rebellion. Briefly: Revolutions are programmatic, rebellions are pragmatic. A revolution seeks to overturn the existing order of society; a rebellion aims, at most, to churn a society’s leadership. The American and French Revolutions really were revolutions, but so were the American and English Civil Wars. Pretty much all others are mere rebellions, whatever title they might have in the history books.

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I don’t doubt that Orange Man has a sincere love of his country. He might even, given enough time, be able to articulate it. The problem is, “his country” hasn’t existed since the late 1980s, and even then it was mortally wounded. If “Trumpism” actually existed, it would amount to little more than “Wouldn’t it be nice if it were still 1982?” Alas, demographics is destiny.

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Powerline recently linked to a an extraordinary article from The Non-Partisan New York Times, entitled, “The Rich Kids Who Want to Tear Down Capitalism.” If you haven’t read it, you really should. The author of this piece, Zoe Beery, is a freelance journalist based in Brooklyn who has previously enlightened her readers with pieces like, “What Abortion Access Looks Like in Mississippi,” and “Global Quest for ‘Green’ Concrete Goes On, as Researchers Ask if it Can Be Done,” and “Climate Inaction Means Children Born Today Will Face Severe Health Risks, New Report Warns.” You know that The New York Times is really trying to shed its reputation as a leftist rag when it hires writers such as this.

If all people with tattoos were executed, the quality of our culture would improve tremendously.

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Quick, to the Biden!

ZMan looks behind the curtain.

For most of Europe, this has been the explicit arrangement. In Scandinavia, what is often called socialism is actually corporatism. Workers get generous benefits, but the state protects business from competition. In other parts of Europe it is not as explicit, but the social contract is based on the cooperation of the government, business and labor unions. The irony is that this was the approach favored by fascist movements, but no one dares mention that bit of history.

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The new system is an informal arrangement between Silicon Valley, Wall Street and the political class in Washington. Left out of this is not only labor, but the bulk of business, which does not operate globally. You see this with Covid. Exceptions were made for the giant corporations, but the small and midsized business forced to knuckle under to draconian measures. A great transfer of power and money is underway from the middle-class to the elites.

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Election workers and observers presented alarming accounts of voter fraud to the Michigan state Senate on Tuesday, with some calling on lawmakers to act and insisting on an audit of the vote in that state.

The Michigan state Senate Oversight Committee held the hearing, which included testimony from a former senator with expertise on data and technology. The witness spoke to the committee under oath about voting by dead people, a truck full of ballots coming into the counting center long after the deadline, and vulnerable voting machines.

UN Climate Agency Slapped With Corruption Allegations 

Climate Emergency! Save the Great British Bakeoff

EXPOSED: Return of Sue-and-Settle: State AGs, DC Swamp Preparing Biggest End-Run in History — “Green New Deal” with No Legislation, No Rulemaking Process, Just a Sweetheart Consent Decree

Vitamin D Insufficiency May Account for Almost 90% of Covid-19 Deaths

British Elite Army Unit To Spy On & Combat ‘Anti-Vax Militants’: Sunday Times

Treatment for Covid-19 Using Ethanol Vapor Inhalation

LA County Supervisor Eats At Restaurant Hours After Voting To Ban Outdoor Dining  She sure looks like a Karen.

San Jose Mayor Attended Thanksgiving Party After Telling Citizens To ‘Cancel Big Gatherings This Year’

Dr. Fauci Says Stadiums Might Be Full Again By The End Of Summer 2021  Well, he’s been wrong about everything so far….

Visitors At New York’s Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Limited To 5 Minutes, Must Enter Pods

Todd Blames Conservative ‘Assault on Science’ for COVID Deaths

Coronavirus in one state (132)

The US is in its third COVID-19 peak—and by far its largest  Popular ‘Science’.

REPORT: Major COVID-19 Testing Site Reopens After Movie Filming Cancels Appointments, Sparks Backlash

COVID-19 Kills Record 1,000 VA Patients in November  Want to know what government-provided health care is like? Look at the dumpster-fire of the V.A. system.

Full list of Coronavirus rebels

Chicago Vs. Smith College

Criticizing the Biden Administration Is Racist

How A Grassroots Movement Killed California’s Attempts To Impose State-Mandated Racial Preferences

Annoyed Colbert: ‘Nasal Decongestant’ Ads Stole Time From My Interview of ‘American Icon’ Obama

‘Tick Tock, Baby’: Whoopi Goldberg Says NY AG Letitia James Is ‘Waiting’ On Trump

Is Taking Credit Cards Online Racist?

Berkeley Prof: “Law And Order” Is A Racist Dog-Whistle  Remember: If you hear the dog-whistle, then you’re the dog.

Teenager Fatally Shot For Allegedly Playing Music Loudly, Suspect Arrested And Charged

Hours After Voting To Ban Outdoor Dining, LA County Supervisor Dined Outdoors

NASDAQ To Require One Woman And One Minority Or LGBTQ On Company Boards

Biden’s OMB Pick Has Spent The Last 4 Years Personally Attacking The Republicans Who Will Vote On Her Confirmation  Wonder who his second choice is?

Biden’s Pick For Budget Chief Scrubs Twitter History Ahead Of Contentious Confirmation  Nothing to see here, move along, move along….

“And Why Stop There?”: CNN Analyst Calls For Sweeping Regulation Of Free Speech On The Web

Government Prepares For Next Pandemic By Taking Away Everyone’s Rights Ahead Of Time  Babylon Bee.

Michael Eric Dyson Touts Defunding Police on ‘View:’ Abolishing Slavery Angered White Americans, Too But it was white Americans who abolished slavery, of which he seems unaware.

Hollywood’s Religious Hate and Ignorance in Three Celebrity Tweets The Usual Suspects are at it again.

Daily Beast Editor Calls For “Humiliation” And “Incarceration” For Trump Supporters