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After Joe Biden’s inauguration, he ordered everyone on federal lands to wear a mask. That night, he and his family posed for pictures at the Lincoln Memorial — none of them wearing a mask.

California Governor Gavin Newsom told Californians it’s “essential” to avoid “mixing with people outside of your household.” Then he had dinner with lots of people outside his household, without masks.

Rules are for thee but not for me.

Tucker Truth-Bomb: CNN, Media Lefties Want to See FNC Shut Down, Staffers Unemployed

Milking The Capitol Melee For All It’s Worth

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Urged to Resign Over Remarks  As if that ever works.

UK COVID Cops Threaten £200 Fines For People Having Snowball Fights

The New Censors

Hollywood to Honor ‘Hanoi Jane’ Fonda for ‘Unrelenting Activism’

Mark Dice Says Facebook Warned He’s ‘At Risk of Being Unpublished’

Anti-Trump Senators Quietly Pitching Colleagues On Censure As Trump Impeachment Unlikely

HACKS: CNN, MSNBC Barely Touch Antifa Riots in Portland

Senate Democrats Reintroduce Statehood Bill, Would Make DC The 51st State  Three new guaranteed Democrat legislators! What’s not to like?

Facebook Claims ‘Incitement,’ Censors Bible Prof. for Trans Criticism: Report

Sunny Hostin: ‘There Is No Rift’ in GOP, They Are the ‘Far Right Extremist Party’

Chicago Teachers Union Plans Strike Over School Reopening

Congress To Retroactively Impeach All Previous Republican Presidents  Babylon Bee.

Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab

Pelosi Encourages Democrats To ‘Take Advantage’ Of Three Week Anniversary Of Capitol Riot By ‘Writing Their Story’ In Letter  Never let a media shitstorm go to waste.

Florida Teachers Who Demanded to Work from Home Caught at Mass Gatherings

Remember When Joe Biden Said “You Can’t Legislate By Executive Orders Unless You’re A Dictator”

Germany Poised To Cut International Air Travel “To Almost Zero” On Virus Variant Fears

Wuhan lab theory in coronavirus outbreak bolstered by declassified U.S. intelligence

NBC Warns Reopening States Kills, Gawks at Restaurants Shutting Down

US States Ease Lockdowns Despite “Mutant” COVID ‘Boogeymen’

Welcome to the Corona Gulag!

CBS Bashes Florida’s DeSantis for Planning Ahead With Vaccine Doses

Nashville Locals Have A Message For People Moving From California And New York

BODYCAM: Officer Threatens To Tase A Man Over Not Wearing A Mask

Bureaucrats Improperly Raided Millions From Public Health Research Fund In Leadup To COVID-19, Inspector General Finds

Worrisome New Coronavirus Mutations Are Emerging. Why Now?  Gotta keep that panic going!

Biden Administration Considering COVID-19 Testing Mandate For Domestic Flights

Inside the Dutch anti-lockdown riots

Are EVs Good For The Environment? …Mostly Not

NYT Climate Action Book Review: “How to Blow Up a Pipeline”

Endangered Cloud Forests, Clouds and Climate Change

DOJ Rescinds ‘Zero Tolerance’ Immigration Rule

Commerce Secretary Nominee Remains Open To Funding Biden’s Climate Agenda With Tax Hikes On The Middle Class

Ashley Biden Says Let’s ‘Make America Great’ With Social Media Post

Biden Plans to Cut Urban Crime by Boosting Suburban Crime

Biden Education Nominee Opposes School Reopening Despite CDC Finding In-Person Learning Safe

Migrants Increasing At “Concerning Rate” On Southern Border, Says CBP Agent

Biden State Department Sounds Off On Chinese Technology Abuses, But Refuses To Say If It Will Continue Trump’s Fight Against Chinese Telecoms

Why Biden’s Immigration Policy Will Harm Americans and Migrants Alike

Deep meaning of diversity, equity, & inclusion

Navy Faces Rough Waters Under Biden

Biden’s Energy Nominee Divvied Millions In Taxpayer Funds To Alternative Energy Startups That Went Bankrupt

Energy Prices to Rise Under Biden

Religious Liberty Advocates Fear ‘Tumultuous Days’ Under Biden  Oh, ya think?

Biden Administration Issues National Terrorism Advisory With No End Date — Prompted By Interagency ‘Domestic Violent Extremism’ Assessment  And so it starts.

Biden’s Asia Policy Czar Was An Executive Of Group With Chinese Communist Party Ties: Report

Rep. Andy Biggs: Ending Keystone XL Pipeline Will ‘Endanger Our Opportunity To Be Energy Independent’  As if Democrats give a shit about that.

Biden Admin ‘Reviewing’ Uighur Genocide Designation, U.N. Ambassador Nominee Says  ‘Geez, how can we wiggle out of this one?’

Media May Ignore It, but Biden Presidency Is Already Radical  And YOU get a pony! And YOU get a pony!

Biden Assembling Commission To Study Supreme Court Reform  Prelude to packing….

Superfan Roker Thrilled Biden Dictating Radical Climate Policy By Fia

Rep. Biggs: Biden’s Immigration Rules Attracting Crowds to Border  WELCOME FUTURE DEMOCRAT VOTERS!

Biden’s United Nations Nominee Praised China At CCP-Funded Institute, Report Says

Biden Orders Pentagon To Include Climate Change In New Strategy & War Games

“Your Order Is A Direct Attack”: Utah Tribe Seeks Exemption From Biden Drilling Pause

Texas father, 35, is shot dead after confronting parents of teen boy who was bullying his daughter (Daily Mail)

The Black middle class is a mirage (Vox)

The Myths Behind The “Capitalism Is Racist” Claim

Manufacturing an Atrocity Narrative: How BLM Distorts the Reality of Crime

‘Anti-racism’ claims another scalp at University of Oxford’s Medical School

Equity: The New Equality

Woke Politics Are a Disaster for Minorities

Cruz: Second Trump impeachment was ‘exercise in political rage’ by Democrats: ‘It was their id speaking’

Rand Paul calls impeachment ‘dead on arrival’ after most Republicans signal that trial is unconstitutional

Trump impeachment trial vote sees too many GOP senators dooming the party (NBC News)

Impeaching Trump gets more divisive by the minute (New York Post)

Impeachment 2.0 is another silly sham Roger Kimball.

Poll: Trump’s Approval Rating With GOP Voters Rebounds To 81%

Politico Poll: 56 Percent of Republican Voters Back Trump Running Again

Rand Paul: Dems Are “Angry, Unhinged, Deranged By Their Hatred” Of Trump

‘Mike Pence Is In Fear For His Life’: Joe Scarborough Blames Trump For People Putting Former Vice President ‘On Their Hit Lists’  Uh, no, Joe, those are proglodytes – your people.

DHS Issues New Terror Advisory On “Domestic Violent Extremists” Who “Object To Presidential Transition”

Ghoulish: Brian Williams Lets Never Trump Suggest Horse Whipping Josh Hawley

YouTube Extends Trump Ban, Censors Giuliani and The Epoch Times in Latest Crackdown

‘Publishing Professionals:’ Cancel ALL Deals with Trump and His Supporters

MSNBC Reporter: Republicans Can’t Get Over ‘Bad Breakup’ With ‘Toxic Ex’ Trump  Putting TDS in terms that the far-left will understand.

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A 26-year-old Chicago man is reportedly facing charges after allegedly scheming with his older brother, who worked as a U.S. postal worker, to steal and sell COVID-19 stimulus checks.

Akeem Kosoko promised his brother Ahmed Kosoko, 35, and other postal workers payment in exchange for stealing the stimulus checks, according to Fox2Now. The checks they were stealing were part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act issued in 2020.

Scott Adams tells a story about how he had to turn to FedEx to submit his original art for DILBERT because people at the local post office would steal them if they were mailed. He also claims that other cartoonists and artists tell similar stories. I’ve quit using the Postal Orifice.

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The fog of the Trump wars is lifting, the road from COVID-19 rising before us, the outlines of the 21st-century American system emerging. Like the bankruptcy in Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, the change has happened ‘Gradually, then suddenly.’ The age of the democratic republic is over, the age of the American oligarchy beginning.

Oligarchy is the ‘rule of the oligos’, the few: the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a self-sustaining elite. It sounds quaint, classical even, as though it couldn’t happen here because it already happened there. But it has, in fact, already happened here. Augustus Caesar, who made himself Rome’s first emperor in 27 BC, would recognize the symptoms of our American novelties. The cult of the founding fathers and the cult of entertainment. The elites divided by violent factionalism and united by naked venality. The decay of republican virtues. The widening of the wealth gap and the rise of the populares, the members of the ruling class who rebel in the name of values already overthrown. And then, when all seems lost, Oligarchy in America the rise of the imperial oligarchy that offers to restore law and order, but installs a different law and a new order.

ZMan draws an analogy.

Anyone who has had a cat knows that the cat takes a certain pleasure in the acquisition of its food. Put food down for the dog and the dog eats the food. Put food down for the cat and it will saunter up to the dish and maybe sample a little, then take a break to watch the dish for a while, before returning for some more food. A bug gets loose in the house and the dog will just eat it, but the cat will torment the thing to death. One animal is all about the process, while the other is about the result.

This difference is something to keep in mind as America descends into the woke totalitarianism of our diversity loving masters. It is assumed that totalitarianism leads to labor camps and people disappearing in the night. Those are the examples we have from our history. The communists liked sending the uncooperative to work camps, while the fascist like shooting the inconvenient. In both cases, the point was to remove the problem and discourage others from being a problem.

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Certainly within my lifetime.

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The sinister role that teachers’ unions play in our society has come clearly into focus, as our children’s lives have been devastated by needless school closures across the country. These closures–still in effect in most places, despite all scientific evidence that they are both unnecessary and harmful–largely reflect the power of the teachers’ unions. They evidently want to get paid, without ever entering a classroom again.

UPDATE: Unions Move The Goalposts On School Reopenings To The Detriment Of Children

COVID Lockdown Policies Will Disproportionately Hit Black Americans For Decades, New Study Finds  Be careful what you wish for….

Bill Maher says liberals ‘switched it all around’ and obsess over race: ‘Don’t gaslight me’

Black Supremacist Sets Fire to a Cathedral, Then Kills a White Cop, and Nobody Much Cares

CBS’s ‘All Rise:’ Police ‘Oppressive Institution With Roots in Fugitive Slave Capture’

Cancelled by the Federation of Small Businesses for questioning BLM

The uncomfortable truth about Black Lives Matter, Malcolm X and anti-Semitism

Strategy Session: Fearless Fund Securing $20M To Back Women Of Color Entrepreneurs  They’d better have qualifications other than skin tone.

Apple Celebrates Black History Month With Limited-Edition Watch, Featured Apps and Books, and More  What better way to celebrate black people than with a product that only white and Asian virtue-signalers can afford.

Impeach Obama for Inciting Black Lives Matter Riots

White House Cites Economists’ Claim That Fixing Racial Inequality Could Add $5 Trillion To The Economy In Next Five Years  Claims!

Race-Baiter Sharpton Hails Fake History in NYT’s 1619 Project 

NY Times: Forget the Two Incredible Super Bowl QBs and Pine for Kaepernick  Don’t get distracted from the Narrative.

Rep. Tlaib Wishes Happy Birthday To Former Black Panther And Communist Member Angela Davis

Judge: George Floyd’s Past Arrest Details Can’t Be Used at Trial

Meet The Team Shaking Up Climate Models

The Chart That Explains Larry Fink’s True “Green” Agenda

Dr. Anthony Fauci Says Two Masks Are Better Than One Hey, he’s always been right before … oh, wait….

Carlsbad, CA Says No More to Lockdowns. May It Be A National Model

Joseph Moure: The ‘Liberation’ of Dr. Fauci

Everyday activities are more dangerous now that new Covid-19 variants are circulating, expert says (CNN) Gotta keep that panic going!

Fauci says he worried Trump’s disinfectant comment would make people ‘start doing dangerous and foolish things’ (CNN) Push that hoax! Push that hoax!

NYC Badly Misses 1 Million COVID Vaccination Target  My, what a surprise.

Tech Workers, Businesses Flee San Fran for Austin, Miami

Americans Are On the Move

Another Study Shows—Yet Again—That Lockdowns Don’t Work

US Sees Largest Rise In Poverty Rate In 50 Years Amid Pandemic  My, what a surprise.

Hollywood Elites ‘Cutting in Line,’ Offering ‘Bribes’ To Get First Vaccines  What’s the use of power if you can’t abuse it?

‘You Can Reopen Now!’ Governor Newsom Shouts At Row Of Abandoned, Dilapidated Buildings  Babylon Bee.

Variants and variations

Netherlands Headed Toward Civil War Due To Lockdowns, Official Warns

Andrew Cuomo Says ‘Incompetent Government Killed People’ While NY Has Second Highest COVID-19 Death Rate  He was talking about Trump, of course.

‘A Cautionary Tale’: Brianna Keilar Blames Dr. Birx For Failing To ‘Stand Up For Science’ When It Mattered

Doug Kimball: Why They Hate

MSNBC’s Eugene Robinson Likens Trump Lawyers To ‘Star Wars Bar Scene’, Says ‘This Trial Has To Happen’

Donald Trump Establishes ‘The Office of The Former President’  You can’t make this shit up.

Michael Cohen Thinks Donald Trump Issued Secret Pardons for Himself, His Children and Giuliani (Newsweek)

Texas governor’s hands-off approach to Covid-19 has allowed the virus to thrive (The Guardian) Although not as much as California’s and New York’s lockdowns.

Trump Supporters Face White Supremacist Radicalization on Social Media (Newsweek) Yeah, that Zuckerberg is such a Nazi.

DUH: Sacha Baron Cohen Admits Borat 2 Made to Stop Trump Reelection  Who didn’t know that?

Economist Nukes WashPost Claim Trump Economy ‘Left Black Americans Behind’

Rand Paul Will Force Vote On The Constitutionality Of Trump’s Upcoming Senate Trial

Ben Carson On Impeachment: ‘It’s Like A Bunch Of Third Graders’

Biden’s Eviction of Churchill Bust Signals Weakening Ties With UK  Few can surpass Creepy Joe at re-building the relations with our allies that Trump supposedly trashed.

Biden Far Outpacing Trump on Early Executive Orders, Actions  It’s amazing how they can make his mouth move.

Biden Administration Considering Allocating COVID-19 Funds To Climate Change Programs: Report

Making America California

FNC’s Peter Doocy Presses Biden, Psaki on COVID Hypocrisy, Left-Wing Violence

Rep. Ronny Jackson to Newsmax TV: Biden’s Virus Plan is ‘the Trump Plan’

It’s Trump’s world, and Biden only governs in it

200 Republicans Pledge Support For Hyde Amendment As Biden Takes Aim At Pro-Life Legislation

Schumer Asks Biden To Declare Climate Emergency, Says He ‘Can Do Many, Many Things Under The Emergency Powers’

Laid-off Keystone XL worker says decision to cancel pipeline ‘is going to hurt a lot of people’

Portents of the Biden Regency

Biden Taking Executive Action To Address Racial ‘Equity’ — Two Orders Will Reportedly Undo Major Trump Polices

Biden To Halt Oil, Gas Leasing On Federal Land

‘This Political Theater … Is Scary’: Arizona Sheriff Pushes Back On Biden Border Policies

Biden Education Pick Is Leading Opponent of Return to Classrooms

Man Who Called Half The Country Racists All Year Calls For Unity  Babylon Bee.

Google Reports Sudden Spike In Searches For ‘Can You Take Back Your Vote For President’ Among Biden Voters

Journalists Justify Loudly Cheering On Biden As It’s Needed To Keep Him Awake  Babylon Bee.

Here’s How President Biden’s Executive Orders Could Hurt Workers

Judge Blocks Biden Deportation Freeze Nationwide Following Legal Challenge by Texas  The biter bit.

Sen. Blackburn to Newsmax TV: Biden Bypassing Congress With Exec Orders  Does this come as a surprise?

Reflecting the Authoritarian Climate, Washington Will Remain Militarized Until At Least March

In Stunning Reversal Of Previous Administration, New Biden COVID Plan Features Mask Wearing, Vaccinations, And Travel Bans  Babylon Bee.

30 Years of Research Rebut Biden’s Minimum-Wage Agenda

Erasing Three Colleagues, CA Democrat Claims She’s the ‘Only Single Mother’ in Congress  She probably forgot to take her shoes off — you know how Democrats struggle with numbers.

The Left Wants to Transform and Nationalize Our Election System

Democrats Have Released A Roadmap To One-Party Rule

Coming Up, Four Years Of Slumber

Bethany Mandel: Teachers Move the Goal Posts Again: Now *Kids* Must Be Vaccinated

Portland Mayor Pepper Sprays Man Who Confronted Him  Cue riots and lawsuits by BLM activists.

Man Sues Sanctuary City Albuquerque for Protecting Wife’s Illegal Immigrant Murder Suspect

Whiny Politico Bigots Pen Letter Decrying Shapiro Getting Published

China, Blaming Covid, Is Erecting Border Walls With Myanmar And Vietnam

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Suspended From Twitter

FLASHBACK: In 2001, Media Instructed GOP to Compromise with Liberals

REPORT: Farmers Drive 10,000 Tractors Through Police Barricades, Tear Gas To Protest Indian Agriculture Laws

Netherlands Hit With Third Night Of Anti-Curfew Riots

Democratic Party In Oregon Blasts “Republican Attacks” After Antifa Smashed Its HQ

Scarborough: Senator Hawley Used His Elite Education for ‘Evil,’ to ‘Kill Capitol Cops’

REPORT: WalkAway Campaign Founder Arrested Over Participation In Capitol Riot  Down with revisionism!

MSNBC Goes Full Nazi in New Ad: It’s Like These Conservatives ‘Just Following Orders’

How Academics Are Pushing Back On Our Government’s Attempts To Crack Down On Foreign Funding  Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, you know.

Nancy And Paul Pelosi Bought More Than $1 Million In Tesla, Disney And Apple Calls In December

Facebook restores service to socialist pages, claiming “automation error”

Virginia Rule Allowing Late Ballots Missing Postmark Was Illegal, Court Rules

MSNBC Shills Bemoan Filibuster Blocking Biden Agenda

Google, Apple sued for failing to give Telegram chat app the Parler put-down treatment

Compulsory Political Ideology For Illinois K-12 Teachers And Classrooms Moves Closer To Finalization

‘Transphobic A**hole:’ Liberals Freak Out on J.K. Rowling After News of Harry Potter TV Series

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The Portland-based journalist – a regular presence documenting violent Antifa activity in the Pacific Northwest (and having been assaulted for his coverage) – has fled to the United Kingdom.

“My hometown of Portland, Oregon is the epicenter of American Antifa,” Ngo told Sky News Australia in a Saturday interview. Ngo noted tthat US politicians who rightly condemned the January 6 riots at the Capitol were “at best silent last year when my city was literally under siege.”

“At worse they actually promoted some of the crowd funded campaigns,” he added.

Hey, Biden – how’s that Unity effort coming?

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National School Choice Week has taken on renewed importance this year, as too many families are approaching the one-year mark of crisis online learning provided by their public school district.

Last March, the coronavirus pandemic shuttered schools nationwide, forcing teachers, parents, and students to transition to virtual classrooms and grapple with the various effects of lockdowns. Ten months later, parents report that 53% of K-12 students are still learning in their virtual classrooms.

Public schools have remained largely closed to in-person instruction.

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I will never forget that New Year’s Day in 2008, when Egyptian-born taxi driver Yaser Said coldly shot his two beautiful daughters to death in his cab. Their names were Sarah and Amina, and they had bravely tried to save their own lives – but their mother, Tissy (Patricia), had lured them back home to be murdered.

She has never been charged, although her husband, son and brother-in-law are all behind bars.

ZMan continues to deal in inconvenient truths.

The technological revolution was expected to solve lots of problems that plagued the industrial age. Society was supposed to become more democratic, for example, as improvements in communication made it easier for people to express their preferences in the public square. The distribution of goods would become more equitable, as innovation would smash the old bottlenecks. The technological revolution would make the world flatter, more egalitarian and more peaceful.

Some of the promised benefits have happened, but the trade-offs have been enormous and could very well be the end of us. For example, the cost of being able to call anyone anywhere from a device that fits in your pocket is having millions of people experiencing the lives through their phone. All the benefits of the mobile phone were realized with the first car phone. Everything that has came after that point has been the trade-off that no one could imagine. Most of them negative.

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Donald Trump got himself into terrible trouble for referring to some African countries as “s—holes.” The fact is, most people who live in those countries would probably agree with him, but the truth matters little these days. The Biden administration will probably revert to type, forgive all the debts, cozy up to the despots, and start throwing more money at the problem, most of which will be stolen by the ruling elites and the woes will continue.

The fact is, Africa’s problems are about little else other than poor to atrocious governance and the existence of massive bureaucracies that do little other than steal and stifle growth in the private sector. A good start to addressing this deficit would be to hold African governments accountable, and that would involve criticizing the incumbents, but no Western leader will do this for fear of being labeled a “neocolonialist” or, worse still, a “racist.”

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As one American university after another suspended research ties with Huawei for its alleged ties to Chinese espionage, MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte offered a full-throttle defense of the company.

“Don’t ban Huawei,” read a May 2019 column published under Negroponte’s name. “The U.S. should collaborate with leading technology companies and their research labs, rather than banning them.”

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The Seattle City Council is about to pass “hazard pay” legislation, mandating an additional $4-per-hour for grocery store workers, lasting “for the duration of the Covid-19 pandemic.” The main sponsor of said legislation is, of course, the grocery-store workers union.

Prediction 1: Grocery store workers will lose hours, and/or lose their jobs entirely if their employers are forced to pay them an additional $4-per-hour on top of their already-inflated Seattle-mandated wages.

Prediction 2: Small grocery stores will leave Seattle for the suburbs, given that grocery stores already operate on razor-thin margins.

Prediction 3: The “Covid-19 Pandemic” will never end.

Study Shows Arctic Sea Ice Reached Lowest Point On Modern Record… In The 1940s, Not Today!

Biden Senior Director for Environmental Justice Blames “Systemic Racism” for Climate Change

Sun-Loving Bacteria May Be Accelerating Glacial Melting  (Wired ‘Science’)

Study Suggests Earth Is Losing Ice Faster Today Than 30 Years Ago  Mostly to people who are inclined to believe that sort of thing.

Attenborough’s cliff-dying walrus convinced elite Davos influencers of a global climate emergency

Carboncounter – Cars evaluted against climate targets

Earth is losing ice faster today than in the mid-1990s, study suggests  Mostly to people who are inclined to believe that sort of thing.

Fauci and Birx tell interviewers about the ‘nonsense’ of the Trump years (CNN)

BARR: A Motion To Dismiss For Lack Of Jurisdiction Should Swiftly End The Senate Impeachment Farce

Bill Kristol: ‘I Would Love’ If Republicans Threw Trump Overboard, ‘They Are Scared To’  I would love it if someone threw Bill Kristol overboard. At least he’s stopped pretending to be Republican.

Supreme Court Dismisses Suits Over Trump Finances

Biden Announces Rollback Of All Jobs Created By Trump  Babylon Bee.

National Guard Will Occupy DC Through Trump Impeachment Trial, Report Says

Comedy! ABC’s White House Correspondent Assures ‘View,’ Press Will Be Just As Tough on Biden

Sen. Leahy to Preside Over Impeachment, Not Chief Justice Roberts

Trumps Regain Twitter Followers Since Biden Took Office

CNN’s Gloria Borger: DOJ Investigation Could Show ‘Motive’ Trump Was Planning Insurrection

Petition To Recall Gavin Newsom Reaches 1.2 Million Signatures

Fox News is a hazard to our democracy. It’s time to take the fight to the Murdochs. Here’s how. (Washington Post)

Tulsi Gabbard: Domestic-Terrorism Bill Is “A Targeting Of Almost Half Of The Country”

“Pravda-Level Propaganda” – WaPo Quietly Tries To Memory-Hole Kamala Harris’ “Joke” About Starving Inmates

Down the Memory Hole: The Boston Globe’s Fresh Start Initiative

Google AI ethics co-boss locked out of work account while probing controversial ousting of colleague

Antifa Trashes Tacoma After Viral Video Of Cop Driving Through Crowd

ABC Edits Out Chuck Schumer’s Embarrassing ‘Insurrection’ Blunder  They love Big Brother.

Dr. Fauci Raking in $417.6K a Year, Highest Salary in US Govt  Sometimes it is good to be the shill.

Left-Wing Split Grows As Protests And Riots Continue Despite Biden’s Win  The SA are getting obstreperous. Time to shoot their leaders.

IGNORANT: NPR Ponders Whether Biden Is ‘Opportunity’ For Church To Alter Abortion Teaching  Not a lot of Catholics over at NPR these days, I’d guess.

Rioters Start Fires And Smash Windows During Police Brutality Riot In Washington

In Hard-Hitting Press Conference, Press Demands To Know Biden’s Favorite Disney Princess  Babylon Bee.

Australia’s Proposed “Fox News Tax”

Twitter Unveils “Birdwatch,” A New Platform Where Users Fact-Check Tweets  Enshrining mob rule. ‘Oh, we didn’t cancel them, the users did! Not our fault! We can’t be blamed! Or sued!’

Birdwatch, a community-based approach to misinformation

FOWL PLAY! Twitter Introduces New Censorship Program, Birdwatch

National Guard Considering Leaving 7,000 Members in DC Until March  So we can look like the Turd World country that we have obviously become.

Bernie Buys Fourth Home With Meme Earnings  Babylon Bee. Lot of money in being the nations Official Socialist.

Virginia Rule Allowing Late Ballots Missing Postmark Was Illegal, Court Rules  Oh, gee.

Bloomberg News Admits $145M in ‘Dark Money’ Helped Pave Biden’s Path to WH

Meet the Woman Behind Salon’s Sloppy Tom Cotton Piece

Lamest Fact Check Yet? It’s Okay, We Didn’t Know It was Wrong at the Time!

Chicago Teachers’ Union Defies Reopening Plan

Lincoln Project Still Raising Money to ‘Defeat Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue’ in Georgia Senate Runoff

Michigan Judge Charging Republicans In Flint Water Crisis Has History Of Donating To Democrats

Biden’s Energy Executive Orders Will Have ‘Huge Costs’ on American Families, Economist Says

Biden To Reinstate Trump’s COVID-19 Travel Bans, Will Add South Africa

White House Acknowledges ‘Confusion’ On Vaccine Distribution, Blames Trump Administration  Of course they do.

Top Iranian Official Celebrates Biden’s Rumored Iran Envoy

NBC Touts Pro-Abortion Biden as In-Touch With American Catholics

Biden may force American taxpayers to foot bill for San Francisco homeless hotels

In Another Despicable Act Of Insurrection, Republicans Fail To Celebrate Biden’s Executive Orders  Babylon Bee.

New York Times Boldly Proclaims: ‘Liberal Christianity Ascends With Biden’s Faith’

Executive Order Seesaw on Environmental Rules Inflicts Vertigo on Economy

Jen Psaki Says It Isn’t ‘A Fair Articulation’ To Say Then-Candidate Biden Called Trump Admin’s China Travel Ban ‘Xenophobic’

FARRELL: Biden’s First Week — Will America Have Buyer’s Remorse? ‘Buyer’s’ remorse? For a stolen election?

Biden said to be assembling cyber dream team to sort out US govt computer security  Good luck with that. (Give it to Elon Musk. Then, when it spontaneously explodes, there’ll be someone to blame)

As Thousands Die From COVID on His Watch, Biden Vows to ‘Speed Up’ Efforts to Redesign $20 Bill

The megarich have already recovered from the pandemic. It may take the poor a decade to do so (CNN) Not just the ‘rich’ but the ‘megarich’ – just like it’s never the ‘right’ but always the ‘ultra-right’. But you never hear about the ‘megapoor’ or the ‘ultra-left’.

Chicago Teachers Vote To ‘Strike’ Against In-Person Instruction Over COVID-19 Fears

Merck First US Pharma Giant To Abandon COVID Vaccine Efforts

Moderna Vaccine Not Effective Against “Mutant” South African COVID Strain, But Works With UK Variant

REPORT: Student Suicides Double In Locked Down Nevada County. Officials Now Surveil Students’ Devices 24/7

Stephanopoulos, Fauci Lament ‘Pressure’ of Working With Trump Vs. ‘Refreshing’ Science-Following Biden

Newsom Lifts California Stay-At-Home Orders, Allows Outdoor Dining  Guess he’s feeling that Recall petition.

‘Telling Us To Kill Ourselves’: Bar Owner Facing Lawsuit For Defying Lockdown Says She’s Received Death Threats

5 graphs that show how bad COVID-19 is in LA County

Triple-Masker Looks Down On People Who Only Double Mask  Unexploited business opportunity: A Basic Virtue Signalling kit, full of masks, BLM signs, eco-Nazi stickers, and whatever else we can think of.

Mayor Calls In Chick-Fil-A Manager To Help Speed Up Drive-Thru Vaccine Site  Could do worse.

How A Legitimate Theory About COVID-19 Emerging From A Lab Got Dismissed By Media Fact Checkers  It’s all about the Narrative.

Billionaires Thriving as Poor Suffer in Widening COVID-19 Divide: Oxfam  And whose fault is that?

How Much Did Urbanites Shoot Themselves in the Foot by Backing BLM?

6 Killed In Indiana Mass Shooting

Disney Adds Warning Label to ‘Peter Pan’ and Others Over Racist Content  Missed the ‘racist content’ in Peter Pan? Obviously you weren’t Woke Enough. (Confession: I have a copy of the banned Song of the South. It’s pretty good.)

Sports Writer Whitlock Compares BLM To KKK, USA Today Howls

Biden Looks to Expedite Putting Harriet Tubman on $20 Bill

NYPD Searching For A Dozen Suspects Caught On Video Beating, Disrobing And Robbing Bystander  Perps were black, vic appears to be Asian although it’s hard to tell with the mask.

Hypocrisy on Riots: A Spike Lee Joint

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On Jan. 19, a federal court, citing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, upheld conscience protections for physicians and struck down the transgender mandate that ordered doctors to perform transgender interventions when doing so violated the provider’s sincerely held religious beliefs.

The Russians have a proverb ‘Just because a dog is born in a stable doesn’t make it a horse’, and one might equally say ‘Just because a man wears a dress doesn’t make him a woman.’

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The device, which the company calls Kubota Glasses or smart glasses, is still being tested. It projects an image from the lens of the unit onto the wearer’s retina to correct the refractive error that causes nearsightedness. Wearing the device 60 to 90 minutes a day corrects myopia according to the Japanese company.

They look very odd, but if they can actually FIX myopia rather than merely correcting for it, this will be huge.

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Scott Alexander, formerly of Slate Star Codex (before he was doxxed by the New York Times).

Severian draws some parallels.

Here again, trying to predict specific events is a mug’s game. However, as I said in the comments to the previous post, revolutions — which, let’s recall, are by definition ideological — have to do certain things. They’re “historical necessities,” as Marxists might say, but it’s not “History,” capital-H, which makes them necessary; rather, it’s the ideology. A Machtergriefung not followed by a Gleichschaltung will be over before it starts.(1) Which means March Violets and Long Knives are on the menu in some form….

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At last, Republicans are punching back.

Victor Davis Hanson.

So we are beginning a great reprogramming of America. The construction of Trump and all of his supporters as abettors, terrorists, seditionists, and traitors is certainly proving useful. After the Capitol conundrum, we have seen over the past two weeks a coordinated and synchronized effort by Amazon, Twitter, and Google to destroy Parler, a small conservative-friendly rival to their social media and internet monopolies. More of such humanitarian taking care of business will follow—all as preemption for the most leftwing agenda in a half-century now rolling out.

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Serious Big Brother was never coming to America kicking and screaming in a suit and in a mile-long tie, but rather eagerly welcomed in with jeans and sneakers without socks. The First Amendment could always survive a crude, inebriated Joe McCarthy, but not so easily a social justice ex-barista, doing vanity selfies about diversity, egged on by the “progressive” media, while saving the planet, and “reining” in a hurtful, racist media.

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Sanders, an Arkansas native and daughter of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, announced her decision in a recorded message, discussing her time in the Trump administration and criticizing the “radical left.”

“As governor, I will defend your right to be free of socialism and tyranny, your Second Amendment right, your freedom of speech and religious liberty,” Sanders said.

ZMan revuews the perils of dryer lint.

or example, an increasingly common thing if you work in an office is the notice that the vents will be cleaned one night. You are told to expect some disruption of your day or maybe some things will be moved around in the office. A crew comes in to clean the vents for so everyone is safe. Residential rental properties are now required in most states to have the dryer vents cleaned once a year. In some states, home owners are required to do this too. Vent cleaning is a thing now.

It is more than just a thing. It is a booming little niche business. According to one of the rapidly growing vent cleaning companies, the demand for vent cleaning is growing at close to four percent per year. They say that the increased awareness to the dangers posed by home clothes dryers is what is driving the growth. The claim is the number of accidents caused by these appliances is making people suspicious of what’s happening in those vents, so they want all the vets cleaned regularly.

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And about time.

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At the time the Ehrlichs were publishing their dark prophecies, the world was at its peak of population growth, which at that point was increasing at a rate of 2.1% a year. Since then, the global population has ballooned from 3.5 billion to 7.67 billion.

But growth has slowed – and considerably. As women’s empowerment advances, and access to contraception improves, birthrates around the world are stuttering and stalling, and in many countries now there are fewer than 2.1 children per woman – the minimum level required to maintain a stable population.

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Scott Wilmot has a great post up about Joe Biden’s endless promotion of abortion rights; not surprising for a Democrat, of course. But Joe Biden describes himself as a devout Catholic, which appears to stick in Scott’s craw, just a bit. Now, my first thought is that perhaps when Mr. Biden describes himself as a devout Catholic, perhaps he is lying. Such behavior would not be completely new for Mr. Biden. But no! No less reputable a source than The New York Times ran an article yesterday (cited by Scott himself in the comment section of the thread I linked to above) with the following lead on Twitter: “President Biden is perhaps the most religiously observant commander in chief in half a century. A different, more liberal Christianity grounds his life and his policies.”

Has The New York Times forgotten Bill Clinton? Every time another woman accused him of sexual assault, one could find him in the front pew of a church somewhere, with his glasses on the end of his nose in a nice, grandfatherly way, reading his Bible. The New York Times itself often used such photo-ops irrefutable demonstrations of his Christian beliefs as evidence that Mr. Clinton was an ethical man. Does The New York Times now think that was all a bunch of hooey?

Republicans Have Decided Not to Rethink Anything (New York Magazine) Unmentioned: That Democrats have decided the same.

My wife guarded the Capitol. My mom joined the horde surrounding it. (Washington Post) A modern fairy tale.

Tiffany Trump’s fiance is heir to billion dollar empire and brother stars in The Crown If Trump is such a racist as is claimed, he’s singularly bad at it. Maybe he didn’t get the memo.

What’s Driving California’s Mass Exodus? (CNBC) I’d say people voting for Democrats but that’s just me.

Seattle Antifa rioter claims destruction of property isn’t violence

Amazon Demands In-Person Union Vote After Arguing Mail-In Ballots ‘Raise Risk Of Fraud’  Oh, ya think?

New Law Allows China’s Coast Guard To Fire On Foreign Vessels

COZY! WashPost ‘Fact Checker’ Admits They Won’t Count Biden’s False Claims

Facebook Disabled My Account After I Criticized Them

Glenn Greenwald: ‘Journalists Are Authoritarians’

Church Known for Its Conservative Views Bombed in California

Utah Tribe Calls Biden’s Order On New Oil Drilling A ‘Direct Attack’ On Its Economy

ABC, NBC Already Itching for Biden to Ditch Unity and ‘Ram’ Agenda

Cuomo and Lemon Discuss ‘Deprogramming’ the ‘Diabolical’ Far Right

‘As Far As We Can’: Bernie Sanders Plans To ‘Push’ Joe Biden To The Left

“You’re Forgetting Who You Are As A Journalist”: Rand Paul Slams Stephanopoulos In Sunday Spat Over Election Integrity

Lincoln Project Senior Adviser Blames Capitol Riot on … David Brooks?

Sources: Biden to halt all oil, gas & coal leasing on Federal lands & waters  Democrats are determined to kill the good Trump economy, no matter what it takes.

ABC: U.S. Like Post-War Germany, Antifa and BLM Violence Is Morally Right

Actor Seth Rogen Trolls Sen. Cruz With ‘Hate,’ Vitriol

Biden 2020 Run Backed By $145 Million In ‘Dark Money’

Senate Republican threatens impeachments of past Democratic presidents (The Guardian) I only wish that Republican Senators had the balls to do that.

Trump faces a second impeachment trial. Here’s how it could be different from the first. (CBS News)

Trump deserves a speedy Senate trial and conviction (S.F. Chronicle)

Confessions Of A Deprogrammed Trump Supporter

The D.C. Occupation Will Continue Until Democracy is Saved

Oxford pledged to donate rights to their Covid Vaccine, then sold them to pharma

Elizabeth Warren Claims Trump Told Mob To ‘Go To The Capitol And Invade’  Yet Another Democrat Lie.

Amy Klobuchar: Trump ‘Sent An Angry Mob Down The Mall To Invade The Capitol’  Yet Another Democrat Lie.

The team shaking up climate models

Our infrastructure is being built based on past climate data

Pandemic and anti-Asian racism have decimated Chinatown in New York, San Francisco and Seattle

California Refuses To Disclose COVID-19 Data Used To Drive Lockdowns