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Boston Bomber Suing Government Over Prison Restrictions  How is he still alive?

The Mystery of the “Extremist Ideology”

Multicultural “Justice” in Sweden and France

Libyan Man Who Stabbed, Killed American And Two Others In UK Sentenced To Life In Prison

IDF Beefs Up Battle Procedures Against Hizballah as Tensions Remain High

New Iranian Bill Vows Israel’s Destruction Within 20 Years

Iranian Bill Seeks to Destroy Israel by 2041, Avenge Soleimani

French Police Detain 7 People With Links To Refugee Who Beheaded Schoolteacher

Israel Launches “Deadliest Airstrikes In Years” On Syria With US Intelligence Coordination

Mysterious Aircraft Pound Turkish Oil Smugglers In Syria; US Supply Convoys Are Blown Up In Iraq

Texan Indicted For Taking Minor Out Of The Country For Female Genital Mutilation

NYT Falsely Claims Embassy Move Caused ‘Unrest Across the Middle East’

Iran Fires Cruise Missiles During Naval Drill After Israel Threatened Preemptive Strike

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The states siphoned off 21 percent of gasoline taxes and other highway user fees to pay for mass transit and other non-highway activities in 2019, according to table SDF of the 2019 Highway Statistics, which was posted this week by the Federal Highway Administration. The table shows that $9.8 billion in highway user fees were spent on transit and $15.1 billion were spent on other non-highway activities for a total of nearly $25 billion out of the $120 billion collected by the states from highway users.

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

Under Minnesota law, the state’s Department of Education promulgates standards for K-12 public schools in a number of categories. The benchmarks for each category are revised by committee every ten years. This year, the Social Studies standard is being revised. The committee undertaking the revision, as you would expect in the Tim Walz administration, is hard left.

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Boston mayor Marty Walsh (D.), President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for labor secretary, funneled nearly $1.2 million into a consulting firm that employs his longtime girlfriend.

Walsh’s mayoral campaign pushed the payments to LB Strategies, where his live-in girlfriend, Lorrie Higgins, works as a fundraising consultant. The firm received the cash through a contract that allows it to compensate its employees with the money.

What’s the use of having power if you can’t abuse it?

Top scientists warn of ‘ghastly future of mass extinction’ and climate disruption (The Guardian)

Top scientists warn of ‘ghastly future’ for planet as leaders underestimate ecological threats (CNN)

Environmental Extremism Is Creeping Into Every Domain of Public Policy

A new Pause?

Betting Against Collapsing Ocean Ecosystems

Joe Biden’s racist civil rights nominee, Part Three

Racist Don Lemon: If You Voted for Trump, You’re on the Same Side as the Klan, Nazis

New York Attorney General Letitia James Sues NYPD Over Treatment Of George Floyd Protesters  Racial justice.

“Excessive, Brutal And Unlawful”: NY Attorney General Sues NYPD, De Blasio Over Handling Of George Floyd Protests

“Domestic Terrorist?” – Leftist BLM Activist Who Stormed Capitol On Jan. 6 Arrested, Charged  False flag, anyone?

Millions Kicked Out Of Heaven Following Enforcement Of New Diversity Quota  Babylon Bee.

Moderna CEO says the world will have to live with Covid ‘forever’

How COVID Paved The Road To Serfdom

Anti-Lockdown Protest in Prague

Bank Warns It Will Close Customers’ Accounts If They Don’t Wear Masks  Help ’em out – leave first.

New variants

Dem Congressman Catches COVID After Receiving 2nd Dose Of Vaccine

What They Said About Lockdowns Before 2020

Takeout Only | How California Elites Crushed LA’s Local Restaurants

Rep. Chip Roy Says Trump Actions Were ‘Impeachable Conduct,’ But Calls Democrats’ Article Of Impeachment ‘Flawed’

Chrissy Teigen, Michael Moore, Alyssa Milano And More Stars React To Trump Being Impeached Twice  But that trick never works….

REPORT: Snapchat Set To Permanently Ban Trump Following Riots  I rather doubt that Trump uses Snapchat.

NY Times Compares Trump Election Claims to Stalin, Hitler’s ‘Big Lie’  When it comes to The Big Lie, the NYT is certainly an expert.

Impeachment for the hell of it

Four Hours of Hate: The Worst Moments from MSNBC’s Post-Impeachment Vote Coverage

Illiberal Leftist Media Blast McConaughey’s Calls for Compromise, Damn Trump Voters as ‘Existential Threat’

Macaulay Culkin Responds To Fan Petition Calling For Trump’s Removal From ‘Home Alone 2’ It’s getting seriously silly out there.

The cult of Donald Trump  Andrew Sullivan returns to the plantation.

Andrew McCabe Says Trump’s Message Condemning Rioters Was ‘Dog Whistles’ For Supporters  Remember: If you hear the dog whistle, you’re the dog.

Out-Of-Work Waitress Excited To See Congress Spend Time Impeaching Trump Again  Babylon Bee. Forget that stimulus crap; let’s get to the Important Stuff.

Saddam Stooges? Joy Reid Calls for ‘De-Baathification’ of Republican Party After Trump

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The word aquafaba is the common name for the cooking liquid of beans and other legumes like chickpeas. You may know it as the typically discarded liquid found in retail cans and boxes of beans, or as the liquid left over from cooking your own.

Aquafaba can be used to replace egg whites in many sweet and savory recipes. Its unique mix of starches, proteins, and other soluble plant solids which have migrated from the seeds to the water during the cooking process gives aquafaba a wide spectrum of emulsifying, foaming, binding, gelatinizing and thickening properties.

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The Lincoln Project is a Democratic-aligned super PAC founded by schlubby white dudes with inflated egos and an unhealthy internet addiction. Despite raking in millions of dollars from wealthy libs in 2020, the group’s efforts to unseat incumbent GOP senators were not successful.

Lincoln Project cofounders such as Steve Schmidt, the former Republican strategist whose most notable achievement was persuading John McCain to choose Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008, believe they are on the front lines of a noble crusade to defend American democracy.

Schmidt, a multimillionaire, regularly appears on MSNBC to attack Republicans from the comfort of his gaudy mansion. During one such appearance on the left-wing network, Schmidt went so far as to compare the Lincoln Project’s efforts to annoy Donald Trump and elect Democrat politicians to those of the actual heroes who risked their lives during the American Revolution, the Civil War, World War II, and the civil-rights movement.

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In late December, I posted Living in the Hate of the Common People, which was inspired by the comment of an anti-Brexit Brit who said “I think we need to find a way to stop the working class from voting altogether” and also “Idiots and racists shouldn’t be able to ruin the lives of people who do well in life by voting for things they don’t understand. The problem in this country boils down to low information morons having the ability to vote.” I cited other examples of the same kind of thinking.

Yesterday, it was reported (by Veritas) that a lawyer employed by PBS had resigned after being caught saying things like it was “great” that coronavirus cases were spiking in red states because they might infect Trump voters and suggested that Republican voters should have their children put in re-education camps.

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For three days and counting, protesters in Portland, Oregon have gathered at a local bookstore to demand that it stop selling a new book critical of Antifa.

“Far-left activists surrounded Powell’s Books in Portland on Monday and demanded the store stop selling Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy, a book about antifa written by Andy Ngo,” Reason’s Robby Soave reports. “The protests forced the store to close early.”

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Unmentioned: Leftwing protesters are three times as likely to use force against police.

Seems fair to me.

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Dire wolves are iconic beasts. Thousands of these extinct Pleistocene carnivores have been recovered from the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. And the massive canids have even received some time in the spotlight thanks to the television series Game of Thrones. But a new study of dire wolf genetics has startled paleontologists: it found that these animals were not wolves at all, but rather the last of a dog lineage that evolved in North America.

I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

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To help design improved membranes, a team of researchers has used electron microscopy and 3D computational modeling for a nanoscale understanding of how water flows through the barriers. It turns out that uniform membrane density down to the nanometer scale, and not the thinness of the membranes, is crucial for improving water flow. Improving uniformity could increase efficiency by over 30 percent, the team, from the University of Texas, Penn State, and DuPont, reported in the journal Science last week.

 

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Hammer tech.

Severian.

Below, reader Frip suggested that we need to stop being nice guys. Which violates the spirit of Joe Biden’s America, in which the people who stole the election and pissed in our faces have commanded us to come together in unity, so regretfully I have reported you to the Thought Police, comrade. With that unpleasant task out of the way, here’s a history lesson, on a topic totally unrelated to passive resistance to power, with no modern day applications whatsoever.

Sarah Hoyt allows us to learn from her experience under socialism.

Now that our newspapers are mostly just making up bullshit, it is very important to know how to read the newspaper.

 

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Radical liberal activists are in your head. They’ve conquered what passes for “mainstream media.” They’ve infiltrated Hollywood, social media, academia, and the Democratic Party. Now they’ve co-opted Madison Avenue. You cannot escape. Not if you watch television. Every ten minutes? A four-minute commercial break. Four minutes of clamoring, yammering, coaxing, cajoling, pandering in seven-, ten-, fifteen-, thirty-, and sixty-second spots. You think they are pushing insurance, breakfast cereal, gymnasiums, or chef-prepared home-delivered meals. You are only 25 percent right.

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This is hardly the only video on this topic, and hardly the only eyewitnesses whose testimony is available online. My own family was at the rally.

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All the available signs so far point to a partial failure of Antifas to stir rage into the MAGA crowd, who are, by and large, law abiding, homeschooled, and middle aged. This may be due to Trump’s late arrival at the Ellipse throwing off the planned Antifas schedule. Clips exist of MAGA-men trying to pull Antifas back from barricades or to discourage violence while the Antifas try to urge the crowd forward.

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“I lost two legs for Jake Tapper’s right to say whatever the hell he wants,” Mast told the Free Beacon in response to Tapper’s Wednesday remark. “But that free speech also protects the Republicans he is so eager to condemn for asking constitutional questions about the election.”

 

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Sauce for the goose….

Spike Lee Compares ’70 Million People’ Who Voted For Trump To ‘Nazis’ And ‘Slave Owners’

Joe Biden’s racist civil rights nominee, Part Two

To help heal racial wounds, Black national anthem would become America’s hymn under proposal (USA Today) If they think that this will ‘heal racial wounds’, they’re smokin’ but not sharin’.

If Black Lives Mattered…

Apple Launches New Nationwide Racial Equity and Justice Initiative Projects  Apple is Woker Than Thou.

Andrea Mitchell’s Obama-Loving Guest Blames ‘White Rage’ For Capitol Riot

REPORT: Rapper YFN Lucci Facing Murder Charge In Atlanta

AWS Machine Learning Manager Is Rooting Out Bias in AI Programs  Except for anti-white bias, of course, that’s okey.

Rep McClintock: ‘If We Had Prosecuted BLM And Antifa … With The Same Determination,’ Capitol Riot Might Not Have Happened

Well-Known Virginia Public School Could Be Renamed After George Floyd, Kamala Harris

Climate Censorship Revealed [Updated]

UW Researchers Find Wildfire Smoke is More Cooling on Climate Than Computer Models Assume  Burn ’em up!

“A Headline That Will Make Global-Warming Activists Apoplectic”

Female scientists focus on a secret weapon to fight climate change: Moms (Washington Post)

The Climate Litigation Industry Comes to SCOTUS

Top scientists warn of ‘ghastly future of mass extinction’ and climate disruptio

May/Middleton: Rebuttal to Geological Society of London Scientific Statement on Climate Change

New Senate leadership could finally help us fight climate change  Popular ‘Science’ goes all in on Wokeness.

‘Loathsome Lizard Of A Human Being’: Donny Deutsch Slams ‘Fully Castrated’ President Trump  Like being called ugly by a frog.

‘Played Footsie With Them’: Jake Tapper Says Trump Has Flirted With The Extremist Groups That ‘Sure Do Love’ Him

Impeach Donald Trump, start Senate trial without delay (USA Today)

Trump Authoritarianism Denial Is Over Now (New York Magazine)

McConnell believes impeachment push will help rid Trump from the GOP, but has not said if he will vote to convict (CNN)

Don’t dare call it conservative: Republicans who follow Trump have betrayed their philosophy (New York Daily News) Sorry, but a Woke newspaper doesn’t get to define ‘conservative’.

YouTube suspends Donald Trump’s channel  Cancellation proceeds apace.

Pelosi Names Eric Swalwell As House Impeachment Manager

NYC Mayor de Blasio: City Terminating $17M Trump Contracts

POLL: Over 40% Of Republicans Want Trump To Be Nominee In 2024  Which is why they want to impeach him, to make him ineligible.

George Conway: ‘Psychopath’ Trump Worse Than Nixon, Will Forever Be ‘Pariah’

Here Are The Republicans Supporting Trump’s Impeachment

Rep. Eric Swalwell Compares Trump To Osama Bin Laden

House Freedom Caucus Head Calls For Cheney’s Resignation After She Backed Impeachment

Trump Close To Filling Impeachment Punch Card For Free Sub Sandwich  Babylon Bee.

Maxine Waters: Trump ‘Is Capable Of Starting A Civil War’  You don’t know the half of it, pruneface.

Democratic NY Rep Adriano Espaillat Accuses Trump Of Sending ‘A Mob’ To Assassinate Vice President Pence, Speaker Pelosi

YouTube Joins Other Big Tech Platforms, Censors President Donald Trump

Rep. Rashida Tlaib Calls Trump The ‘Racist-In-Chief’ On House Floor

Here Are The 10 Republicans Who Voted To Impeach Trump

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After banning President Donald Trump from their social media platforms, Facebook and Twitter have seen their combined market value plummet by $51.2 billion over the last two trading sessions. The news was first reported by Business Insider.

Following the Capitol upheaval last week, Facebook and Twitter indefinitely banned Trump’s accounts, claiming there was risk of additional violence. Their decision prompted a major tech sell-off.

ZMan looks at trends.

An example in our age is how technology has made it nearly impossible to know who is making the laws. We have a labyrinth of laws regarding immigration, but no one knows who offered up these laws or when many were created. Exactly no one has ever heard their congressman or senator promise them to increase immigration from Somalia, but it happened. Someone in the law-making system tucked that provision into a bill that no one read, and we suddenly have infinite Somalis.

The truth is, the reason we have the open borders system we have is that a million rats in the system have been gnawing away at the borders for generations. A defense bill will have tucked within in it an obscure passage that removes some provision of a previous bill on immigration. In the farm bill some other gremlin will slip in a provision that replaces that one removed in the defense bill. The old bill that became law years ago is still there but amended over time to be the opposite.

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If you want to map the tiniest parts of a protein, you only have a few options: You can coax millions of individual protein molecules to align into crystals and analyze them using x-ray crystallography. Or you can flash-freeze copies of the protein and bombard them with electrons, a lower resolution method called cryo–electron microscopy (cryo-EM). Now, for the first time, scientists have sharpened cryo-EM’s resolution to the atomic level, allowing them to pinpoint the positions of individual atoms in a variety of proteins at a resolution that rivals x-ray crystallography’s.

House to vote on resolution calling to remove Trump from office by the 25th Amendment (CNN)

Opinion | Yes, It Was a Coup. Here’s Why. (Politico)

Editorial: Trump needs to be punished. Impeach him again (L.A. Times)

Trump doesn’t deserve post-presidential benefits. Impeach him to ensure he won’t get them. (USA Today)

Why Republicans Are Finally Trying to Wash Off the Trump Stink (New York Magazine)

Why Isn’t President Trump Resigning Already?  National Review cuck Lopez Just Doesn’t Understand It.

CNN Historian Doug Brinkley Cheers Big Tech Censorship, Says Trump Is ‘Toast’

Trump Praised For Accepting Election Results 4 Years Quicker Than Hillary Clinton Did  Babylon Bee.

Morning Joe: ‘Dangerous’ to Prosecute Trump, Might Flee Country!

MSNBC: How Do We ‘Deprogram’ Millions of Racist, Violent Trump Supporters?

Harvard Removes Elise Stefanik From Senior Advisory Committee Over Voter Fraud Claims

Woman Smashes Into Barrier Close To Trump Tower, Police Say  What’s next> Suicide bombers?

PBS Top Lawyer Says Gov Should Build ‘Enlightenment Camps’ And Remove Children From Trump Supporting Homes

‘Absolute Lunacy’: Meghan McCain Doesn’t Understand Why Trump Isn’t ‘Being Dragged Out By His Toes’

De Blasio Says NYC Is Looking To Cancel Trump Organization Contracts ‘Very Quickly’

Cancellation Calls For Trump Friends Brady, Belichick, Courtesy Of NY Mag

WaPo Columnist Says ‘Cult’ Trump Supporters Need To Be ‘Deprogramed’

REPORT: City Begins Removing ‘Black Lives Matter’ Mural  Cue riots.

Biden Nominates HBD Enthusiast (Melanin Supremacist Subtype) to Head DoJ’s Civil Rights Division

Officer With Knee to George Floyd’s Neck to Be Tried Alone

DC Attorney General Looking Into Arresting Trump And Others  Never let a crisis go to waste.

Joe Biden’s racist civil rights nominee, Part One

House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn Will Introduce Measure To Make The ‘Black National Anthem’ The Official National Hymn For US  You can’t make this racist shit up.

A Joe Biden Justice Department Pick Argued In 1994 That Blacks Have ‘Greater Mental, Physical and Spiritual Abilities’ Than Whites  Sounds racist to me.

NBC Joins Whiny Media Chorus: Vogue Not Properly Idolizing Kamala!

Biden Unveils Skin Color Chart To Determine Who Gets Federal Aid Babylon Bee.

Biden Pick For Civil Rights Chief Promoted Racism and Anti-Semitism at Harvard

‘Burdensome’ Website Keeps New Yorkers From Getting Vaccine as Doses Are Wasted

Charlie Gasparino: Cuomo, de Blasio ‘Banking’ on Biden Bailout

The COVID Depression And “Food Insecurity”

Go Home Now. Because COVID.

How Covid paved the Road to Serfdom

COVID-19 & The Emergence Of The Pandemic Industrial Complex

New York Times Pounces on Florida Vaccine Rollout, Not Andrew Cuomo’s in New York

ABC Accuses Maskless GOP in Capitol Of Giving Democrats COVID

Rep. Jayapal Tests Positive For COVID-19, Blames GOP Lawmakers, Capitol Riot

Maskless Pramila Jayapal Complains She Got COVID-19 From Republicans Who ‘Cruelly Refused’ To Wear Masks

REPORT: Dutch Customs Officials Are Seizing Sandwiches From UK Drivers Arriving At Border

L.A. County Tells Residents To Wear Masks Inside Own Homes

Climate Change Is Turning Cities Into Ovens Cities have always been ovens.

Clean Energy Hydro Plant In Canada Dubbed A “Boondoggle” After Economists Predict $8 Billion In Losses

New Study: Sea Level Rise Rates The Same Since 1958 As They Were For All Of 1900-2018

Impacts of climate change on our water and energy systems: it’s complicated

Democratic Socialists of America, Dozens Of Teachers Unions To Host ‘Day Of Resistance’

‘Disgruntled Staffer’ Reportedly Posted Trump, Pence State Dept Webpage Saying Their Terms Ended Monday

Facebook Is Purging All Content Mentioning “Stop The Steal” Doubling down on The Purge.

Dem Rep. Thompson Suggests Flight Ban for Republicans

New Google Union Will Help Build Labor Struggle Against Technological Oppression Or magnify it. FORWARD, COMRADES!

Amazon partner GoDaddy boots gun site from its servers

Duckworth demands Pentagon investigate if troops participated in Capitol ‘coup attempt’

Air Force Brass Order Removal Of All Offensive, Non-Inclusive Patches, Mottos And Emblems

The Great Purge: Twitter Has Suspended More Than 70,000 Accounts Since Friday

‘I Can’t Go Home Tonight’: Parler CEO John Matze Says He’s Getting Death Threats

UK Government May Only Let People Out Once A Week

Mark Zuckerberg and Other Leftist Billionaires Funnel Cash to Activists Through For-Profit Corporations

Facebook Tells Employees to Avoid Wearing Facebook-Branded Apparel

Leaked memos Amazon warn ‘be vigilant’ due to threats to blow up data centers

‘Walkaway Campaign’ Founder Says Facebook Purged Account

How Silicon Valley, in a Show of Monopolistic Force, Destroyed Parler  Glenn Greenwald.

Homeland Security Chair Wants Sens. Cruz, Hawley on No-Fly List

Deutsche, Signature Bank Abandon Trump Over Capitol Unrest

House Democrats Seek Punishment For Republican Colleagues Connected To Capitol Riot

China ‘Virtually’ Admitted They Are Committing Genocide, Asian Studies Expert Says

Google’s New Union Is Already Addressing Political Issues  You think they were Woke before — just wait.

Schumer Urges FBI To Add Capitol Rioter “Insurrectionists” To No-Fly List

Barbara Boxer, Now Formally Working for China

Gun Control Group Pushes For Credit Card Regulation Of Gun Purchases

CNN Analyst Says ‘We Are Still In The Tactical Phase Of A Counterterrorism Effort’ Against Certain Trump Supporters

Salesforce relieves Republican National Committee of its tools citing ‘risk of politically incited violence’ across the US

Conservative Mental Health Up 300% After They All Get Banned From Twitter  Babylon Bee.

U.S. Pursuing Seditious Conspiracy Cases in ‘Unprecedented’ Probe of Capitol Riot

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg ‘Glad’ Trump Suspended from Platform

GoFundMe Bans Raising Funds for Protest Travel

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Schumer’s message during the media gathering in Manhattan centered on asking the Transportation Security Administration to add last week’s Capitol rioters to the agency’s no-fly list. Near the end of Schumer’s statement, a mask-wearing woman stepped in front of the podium and hurled insults at the lawmaker, the New York Post reported.

“You racist socialists can dish it out, but you can’t take it and remember this, Adolf Hitler was a socialist and that’s exactly who you follow, you’re nothing but a coward!” said the woman, who added she was “glad” about the insurrection at Capitol.

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Speaking to lawmakers on Monday (11 January), Prabhat Agarwal, an official who heads up the eCommerce unit at the European Commission’s DG Connect, noted how the EU executive’s Digital Services Act attempts to realign the balance between effective content removal and preserving freedom of expression online.

“It is no longer acceptable in our view that platforms take some key decisions by themselves alone without any supervision, without any accountability, and without any sort of dialogue or transparency for the kind of decisions that they’re taking,” Agarwal said.

“Freedom of expression is really a key value in this,” he told the European Parliament’s internal market committee.

Pretty bad when Europe has greater respect for free speech than America.

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In December, the first month after Donald Trump’s loss, the NFIB Small Business Optimism Index slumped 5.5 points to 95.9, falling below the average Index value since 1973 of 98, and missing expectations of a triple digit print. Nine of the 10 Index components declined and only one improved. Of note, owners expecting better business conditions over the next six months tumbled by a whopping 24 points to a net negative 16%, realizing that a Democrat admin is hardly conducive to small business growth.

Looks as if somebody is paying attention.

Severian.

Marxism just seems right to teenagers of all ages. Teenagers’ only frame of reference is their parents, and to the inexperienced — as all teenagers by definition are — even the best parents seem willful and capricious, if not outright tyrannical. (The gray, wrinkled teenagers who refuse to learn merely substitute “society” for “their parents” in their emotional incontinence). Teenagers live in a weirdly binary world, where the switches can only be “on” or “off,” yet all terms are undefined.

That’s why the worst thing a teenager can think of is “unfair.” It’s wrong because it feels wrong, and anything that’s wrong must be somebody’s fault — again, how could it be otherwise? Parents can’t afford to let their kids learn big lessons the hard way. Literally can’t afford it, in that teenagers can’t see why, for example, you can’t take that turn at 85 mph on an icy road. You can explain it to them until you’re blue in the face, but as anyone who has spent any time around teenagers knows, there’s a large subset of them that will simply refuse to get it. Alas, those tend to be the brighter ones, and so a large part of the subtle art of teenager management is setting up smaller, less catastrophic situations for them to fuck up, such that they hopefully learn by analogy. Which is still, of course, the grownups’ fault…

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After her website faced repeated domain name revocations, Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan has registered her website on the distributed domain names network Handshake.

The pirated database of academic papers is now accessible directly through the service’s portals as well as through NextDNS, a privacy-focused, cloud-based domain name service resolver which converts IP addresses into domain names.

ZMan deconstructs.

The expression “the big lie” gets tossed around a lot in modern times, usually defined as the means with which the Nazis fooled the people. In reality, the expression was coined by the most significant man in history to explain how the people who tried to prevent the catastrophe of the Great War ended up being blamed for it. The big lie is a falsehood so big that no one would think it possible to state such a lie. In other words, it is believed because it is so outlandish it must be true.

One of the many ironies of this age is that the people the most significant man in history accused of employing the “the big lie” have spent generations since that time redefining it to mean Nazi propaganda. In popular culture, the Left will apply the expression to some inconvenient facts pointed out by their many enemies. They claim a famous propaganda minister associated with the most significant man in history is the guy who coined the expression to describe his own efforts.

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We see this in how the term “fascist” is used in this age. The Left in the West has always accused their enemies of being fascists, even when there were no actual fascists vying for political power. For a period, fascists and communist were locked in a bitter struggle for the soul of socialism, so it makes sense. In America is never made much sense, as we never had fascists or a communist party of note, but for the Left everywhere, it is always monkey see, monkey do.

Freeberg nails it.

What we’re seeing play out now is a conflict about how one achieves, not the authority that goes with being President of the United States, but the basic respect that we expect to come our way once we’ve reached full adulthood. And I mean, by that, real adulthood not legal adulthood. True maturity. Two sets of rules.

To people who’ve fully reached adulthood there are two simple rules:

1. I can’t make you respect me. I can only inspire respect by way of my words, my efforts and my achievements.
2. I can also inspire you, in the same way, to disrespect me. It’s your choice how to see me, my choice how to inspire you.

To people who haven’t reached adulthood the two rules are much simpler:

1. I get to tell you what to do.
2. You can’t tell me what to do.

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Right away a few observations come to mind. First, if you squint the right way, you can see that our leaders don’t really take BLM and Antifa protests very seriously, and hence the kid glove treatment they get. The property damage may be significant, but our government likely doesn’t think Antifa and BLM amount to a significant political threat. Hence the leniency of the government response at all levels to riot season last year. But if the government at all levels now tries to crack down on pro-Trump protestors, won’t they have to also tighten their rules of engagement with Antifa, or will there now be a political litmus test for rules of engagement? There is, this person said, a lot of hand-wringing going on about the fact that of the hundreds of people who invaded the capitol building, only about 50 arrests were made. (There may be more as law enforcement goes about identifying people.) But the point is: from the perspective of the Deep State, the mob largely got away with it.

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With ridership stuck at around 37 percent of 2019 levels, transit advocates have stopped claiming that transit is energy-efficient and climate-friendly. Even in 2019, transit wasn’t particularly green, but the fall-off in ridership associated with the pandemic has completely destroyed any claim that transit agencies may have that they save energy by providing an alternative to the automobile.

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It was entirely predictable that incoming vice president Kamala Harris would appear on the cover of the latest issue of Vogue magazine. Few, however, could have foreseen the backlash it would unleash among her adoring liberal fans.

It is easy to see why Vogue would choose a cover image featuring Harris’s signature Converse sneakers. Despite warnings from liberal activists that highlighting a female politician’s fashion choices amounted to “sexist” reporting, professional journalists repeatedly demonstrated an unhealthy obsession with Kamala’s trendy footwear.

Aussie ABC: Coral Islands are Growing Larger, Despite Climate Change

The Folly of Renewable Energy

“Clean” Energy Economy