US Diplomats Slam President Trump For Riot At Capitol, Call For His Removal From Office

Stripe Stops Processing Trump Campaign Website Payments

‘Go Sack The Capitol And Lynch The Vice President’: The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg Says Trump Wanted Violence  Loserthink: Mind-reading.

The ‘Woke’ Purge Has Begun

The Purge Has Begun. Where It Stops, Nobody Knows.

In Devastating Blow, Trump Banned From Sun Tan City  Babylon Bee.

PGA Cancels Agreement to Hold Championship at Trump’s Golf Club

Trump’s Twitter Exile Spurs Opposition from Germany, France

Dana Bash: ‘How Many Hot Stoves Does The President Have To Touch To Be Locked Out Of The Kitchen?’

EU-China Investment Deal: “It Spits In The Face Of Human Rights”

The black hole of online censorship

Lawmaker Urges House Leadership to Stop Distributing Communist Propaganda Paper

Organizations Linked to Chinese Military Are a Cash Cow for American Colleges

YouTube bans Steve Bannon’s podcast channel

Stealing Your Private YouTube Videos, One Frame at a Time

WhatsApp data sharing with Facebook prompts antitrust investigation in Turkey

ACLU Warns Of “Unchecked Power” After Facebook, Twitter Suspend Trump

Amazon Banned From Amazon Servers For Selling Trump’s Art Of The Deal  Babylon Bee.

Trump Hides Nuclear Codes In Bible Where Pelosi Will Never Find Them  Babylon Bee.

Canada Considering Labeling White Supremacist Groups Including The Proud Boys As Terror Organizations

CNN Reporter Suggests YouTube Bears Culpability, Should Have Censored More

BLACKLIST: Forbes Magazine Threatens Companies That Hire Trump Officials

After Reportedly Receiving Numerous Customer Complaints About Censorship, Local Internet Provider Offers To Block Twitter And Facebook 

Social-Media Oligopolists Are the New Railroad Barons. It’s Time for Washington to Treat Them Accordingly

The “Crisis” Is Corporate Liberal Authoritarianism

Bongino: Amazon Pulling Parler Servers Is ‘Stage 2’ of Left’s ‘Gross Totalitarian’ Takeover

Facebook Says It Is Removing All Content Mentioning ‘Stop the Steal’

‘You Held Out For Eight Months’: Lesley Stahl Calls Out Pelosi For COVID Relief Delay

A Medical Doctor Explains What We Know About New Coronavirus Strains

COVID Gone Crazy – An Epidemic Of ‘Positive’ Tests

When it comes to COVID-19 risk, what counts as ‘outdoor’ dining?

COVID-19: why did a second wave occur even in regions hit hard by the first wave?

Chicago Teachers Could Face Discipline, Termination If They Don’t Show Up To In-Person School Monday

After Forcing Thousands Of Business To Shut Down, Cuomo Now Says The ‘Cost’ Of Staying Closed Is ‘Too High’

A Nursing Home Had Zero COVID Deaths. Then, It Vaccinates Residents And The Deaths Begin

The Capitol attack was White supremacy, plain and simple (CNN)

NYT Columnist Charles Blow Calls for Blacks to Flee Racist Northern White Liberals for Shelter in the South

Harris Team Says it Was Blindsided by VP-elect’s Vogue Cover

“Homeless” Congresswoman Pushes Bill To Expel Republicans Who Backed Election Challenge

Colin Powell Leaves GOP… Again and Again

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Twitter’s share price sunk 11% when markets opened Monday morning for the first time since the site banned President Donald Trump.

ZMan points out a sad truth.

What has gotten the most attention on this side this past week is the hypocrisy by the ruling class and their histrionic flunkies in the media over the peaceful protest in the Capitol last week. The first response of normal people is to note how the same people raging about these protests were celebrating violent riots in the summer. In what remains of the internet, people have been posting examples of people in politics or the media saying the exact opposite of what they said a few months ago.

Normal people have been programmed to think hypocrisy is important, even though it is clearly not important to the people in the ruling class. Normal people are taught that a civil society operates by a clear set of rules that apply to everyone. When the people in the ruling class have one set of rules for normal people and a different set of rules for themselves, normal people get mad. The ruling class, however, does not care, as there is one set of rules for them and another for the rest of us.

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On Sunday night’s PBS NewsHour Weekend, they bizarrely decided to discuss the “truth” and misinformation with… disgraced CBS News anchor/fake news purveyor Dan Rather, selling his old book What Unites Us that came out in 2017 (even the paperback is from 2019). His fraudulent smears of  George W. Bush in 2004 never came up.

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

During our live podcast/VIP/whiskey hour Friday evening, Steve commented that the Republican Party is “reeling” following the D.C. demonstration and riot last week. Given what I know of the Republican Party establishment I expect he is right, but still I was taken aback. Why in the world should Republicans be reeling? Because a handful of demonstrators invaded (or, in some cases, were ushered into) the Capitol and some of them behaved badly? What do those people–not the hundreds of thousands who demonstrated peacefully, but the few who rioted–have to do with the Republican Party? Not much: I will hazard a guess that the total amount ever donated by the rioters to the party adds up to $0, and the number of times they have ever been called upon to be spokesmen for the party is also 0.

If anyone should be reeling on account of riots it is the Democrats, whose party members and allies have burned down and otherwise devastated major sections of American cities, including D. C., during the last year. Especially since the Democrats’ leadership has cheered them on, without any exception that I have noticed.

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• Joe Biden has hired at least 14 current or former executives from five major tech firms to serve in his administration or advise his transition team. 
• The firms — Apple, Google, Amazon, Twitter and Facebook — have all clamped down this week on President Trump and Parler, a social media site popular with conservatives. 
• Conservatives have long expressed concern over Biden and Democrats’ close ties to the major tech companies. 
• Apple’s top lobbyist is a longtime Biden adviser. Former executives from Twitter and Facebook are also joining the Biden White House.

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ow many Asian immigrants in the U.S. are on the phone right now with cousins still in the Old Country telling them 2021 should be the time to move to America and open that black hair care products retail shop they’ve been planning because the Biden Administration will subsidize it as part of their Back of the Bus for White Men plan?

U-Haul Reveals 2020 Migration Trends As Pandemic And Taxes Take Toll

MRNA Vaccines Could Vanquish Covid Today, Cancer Tomorrow

Azar Blasts Cuomo’s ‘Ignorant Demagoguery” On COVID Variants

“It’s A Ghost Town”: Debt-Laden NYC Taxi Drivers In Dire Straits

Nets Ignored Cuomo Order Caused Hospitals to Toss Out Vaccine Doses

Another “Mutant” COVID Strain Discovered In Japan As Greater Tokyo Outbreak Worsens

LA Times Demands a Fossil Fuel “Non Proliferation Treaty” to Combat Climate Change

Steve Bannon Banned by YouTube

Politico Founding Editor Criticizes Twitter Censorship

The Media and Cancel Culture

ABC News Calls For “Cleansing” Of Trump Supporters

NY Times’ Riot Response Shows Hypocrisy on Race, Hugo Chavez, and Maxine Waters

Beijing Pushes Back Against Trump Administration Efforts To Halt Slave Labor In Xinjiang

Apple Removes Parler From App Store After Failing to Take ‘Adequate Measures’ to Address Dangerous Content

Twitter Allows ‘Hang Mike Pence’ To Trend After Banning Trump For “Inciting Violence”

Amazon Is Booting Parler Off AWS

Demi Lovato Is Facing Backlash For Her Tweets During The Capitol Riots, And It’s Now A Meme (BuzzFeed)

These Southern California officials rallied in Washington. Now they face calls to resign (L.A. Times)

Rep. Hank Johnson: If Trump Supporter Wasn’t Shot ‘We Would Have Been Swinging From Those Railings’  Seriously?

This Week In Campus Insanity Vol. 26

The Lafayette Park Protests And The Revision Of History

Pro-China Authorities Block HK-Protest Website Simultaneous With US Big Tech’s Own Crackdown

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Claims ‘We Came Close To Half The House Nearly Dying’ During Capitol Riot

Marco Rubio: The Left Is Using The Capitol Riot As ‘An Opportunity To Destroy The Right’  Hey, never let a crisis go to waste! Right out of Hitler’s Reichstag playbook….

Mollie Hemingway Calls Out Media’s Double Standard on Riots and Violence

Here It Comes: ‘Patriot Act 2.0’ Aimed At The UnWoke Enemy Within

Twitter’s Jack Dorsey Ripped For Tweet That Seemed To Mock Parler’s Deplatforming

Watch: Likely Capitol Rioter Booted Off Plane For Being A “Terrorist”   The purges continue.

Mortality rate for Black babies is cut dramatically when they’re delivered by Black doctors, researchers say (Washington Post)

The Hunt for the Great White-Adjacent Defendant

Police: Man Shoots 7 in Series of Chicago-Area Attacks

Four Dead In Chicago Mass Shooting, Police Say

A Palm Beach Proud Boy at the Putsch (The New Yorker)

Pre-Nazi Germany tells us the fight to save American democracy is just beginning (Washington Post)

Pence has not ruled out 25th Amendment, source says (CNN)

An Air Force Combat Veteran Breached the Senate and Descended on Nancy Pelosi’s Office Suite (The New Yorker) Descended!

Trump Admin Trying To Force Banks To Finance Fossil Fuel Projects — Wall Street’s Pissed

Colombia knows how precious democracy is. Just as the US has stood by us, we stand by you (CNN) Solidarity, comrades!

Former CISA Chief Chris Krebs: Trump ‘Has To Resign’ In Order To ‘Prevent Further Bloodshed’  The world is full of people who live to tell other people what they MUST do.

Trump Impeachment Vote Could Come ‘As Soon As Tuesday’ According To Senior Democrat  I guess they have nothing more important to do.

RINOs ASSEMBLE!

Was he ever, really?

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U.S.—Facing unprecedented efforts from Big Tech to silence their infallible reporting, The Babylon Bee has announced an innovative new format known as “print.” Fans of the newspaper can now receive their news written on an anonymous, untraceable format known as a “newspaper.”

The new technology will be printed with ink on paper and hand-delivered by kids riding bikes–directly to your mailbox.

“We’ve been working hard on this technology for a long time,” said Owner Seth Dillon. “After years of research, we have finally developed a technology and distribution method that Big Tech can’t touch.”

Sources say this new paper can be enjoyed and passed around without an internet connection. After it has been read, it can be used to line the floors of bird cages or to wrap fried fish and chips.

The Babylon Bee set a lofty goal to have 20 print subscribers by the end of the decade. Unfortunately, Mark Zuckerberg quickly bought all the paper companies and barred them from selling paper to The Babylon Bee.

The Bee is now researching stone tablet technology in order to avoid censorship.

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In the first two posts in this series — The Great Conservative Migration of 2021 and The Great Conservative Migration of 2021, Part 2 — I outlined our decision to leave California and our decision to move to East Tennessee. In this part I am describing our experience in making the move.

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It will no doubt be at a premium price, like Tesla. Unlike Tesla, however, I think we can be confident of premium quality.

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I previously discussed Kentucky Route Zero (KR0 for short) in the context of the first Trump-Clinton debate. It’s relevant to that because it’s a tour through coal-country America, and it engages with the desolation there that’s fueling Trump’s support.

As a portrait of the region, it’s a Picasso or maybe a Goya, not a Velázquez. It has moments where it approaches documentary realism, but it mostly traverses an imaginary landscape reflecting its creators’ perceptions, inspired by their real-life travels in Kentucky.

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The Maricopa County Republican Committee voted to censure former Republican Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake on Saturday.

The resolution passed by a 1,190 to 291 vote at the meeting, which was held at Dream City Church in Glendale, the Arizona Republic reported.

Steve Sailor.

The Democrats having a lot of elderly leaders like Pelosi and Biden means they aren’t thinking terribly far ahead about the long term impact of their racist hate speech. They will already be dead and gone when their chickens come home to roost.

Wikeleaks just dumped all of their files online.

Check ’em out.

Hillary’s e-mails are under /file/clinton-emails/.

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I don’t think anyone except the Silicon Valley oligarchs, who no doubt had this planned well in advance, and Vox Day, who had expected this for some time – expected the whole sale purging of conservative & populist accounts from social media that’s taken place this week.

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America’s public schools are owned lock, stock and barrel by the Democratic Party, so it is no surprise that they are now echoing their party’s line on last week’s events. I have seen several partisan emails from school districts; this one comes from my own district….

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Having now reviewed everything I can find on what the President actually said at the protest in D.C., I can state with confidence that he did not cross a line into legally actionable speech. The bar set for classifying speech as criminal is pretty high, and the President did not even come close to meeting it.

Try to set aside what you think about President Trump. That’s a stretch goal for a lot of us, but let’s stretch: consider, for just a moment, that there might be an issue here that’s bigger than the President himself, and that could have repercussions that go far beyond January of 2021.

Those who call for the President’s removal from office are asking that punitive action be taken — in fact, that the most punitive action which can be taken, in the case of the Chief Executive, be taken — for his exercise of constitutionally protected speech.

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The rat-tat-tat of takedowns was a striking display of the tech industry’s power to shape the fate of even the president of the United States. And it comes after years of efforts by both Democrats and Republicans in Washington to cut Silicon Valley down to size — including lawsuits that Trump’s antitrust enforcers have filed in recent months against Facebook and Google, plus efforts on both the right and left to challenge Section 230, the provision in communications law that limits online platforms’ liability for what users post to them.

Those lawsuits, legislative efforts and a potential antitrust investigation of Apple’s App Store echo the complaint that, remarkably, Trump supporters, civil libertarians and some prominent Democrats are airing this weekend: No handful of companies should have this much unilateral authority.

What Would It Take to Run a City on 100 Percent Clean Energy?  (Wired ‘Science’)

FLASHBACK: DiCaprio Panicked It Was ‘Too Late’ to Save Earth From Climate Horror

Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell Banned From Twitter  The Capitol invasion is turning out to be the Reichstag fire of this election season.

ABC, CBS Reporters Delete Hot Tweets — One on ‘Cleansing’ and One on DeVos Quitting

Apple Has Threatened to Ban Parler from the App Store

Vox Writer Reveals Own Hypocrisy on Leftist Riots vs Capitol Hill Riot

‘Utterly Shameful’: Josh Hawley Strikes Back After Joe Biden Likens Him To Nazi Propagandist

Trump Sneaks Back On Twitter By Disguising Self As PR Rep For Chinese Communist Party  Babylon Bee.

SCOTUS Agrees to Hear Case Challenging First Amendment Violations by Kamala Harris and Xavier Becerra against Conservative Nonprofits

CNN Parties Over Twitter’s ‘Amazing’ Choice to Ban Trump: He’s ‘Been Kneecapped!’

Scottish Police Enter Home, Arrest Family After Neighbor Snitched On Them For Violating COVID Rules

Amazon Employee Group DEMANDS Speech APP Parler Be Deplatformed

National Security Officials In Trump Admin Are Being Snubbed For Jobs, Compared To ‘Hitler Youth’

Mediaite: Rioters Overheard Talking of Executing Pence  I heard a guy who heard a guy who heard a guy….

Shopify Removes Trump Organization & Trump Campaign Stores, Allows BLM  Bias? What bias?

Mexico’s President Blasts Twitter & Facebook For Acting Like “Holy Inquisition” In Censoring Trump

Trump Begins Throwing Pence’s Belongings Out Of Window Onto White House Lawn  Babylon Bee.

Murkowski Becomes First Senate Republican To Call For Trump To Resign  My, what a surprise. Let me be the first to call for Murkowski to come clean and switch parties.

Trump Has ‘Lost All Legitimacy’: Bob Corker Fears Impeachment Could Make Trump Stronger

Iraq Court Issues Arrest Warrant For Trump Over Militia Leader Killing  And I’m sure Trump’s really worried.

MSNBC’s Nance Fears Rogue MAGA Secret Service Agent Could Pose Threat to Biden Admin  Quick! Look under the beds in the White House!

To Protest Siege On Capitol, Kamala Harris Helps BLM Burn Down A Target  Babylon Bee.

“Chilling Video” – Miami Ambush Caught On Camera As Multiple Shooters Wound Six 

REPORT: Woman Who Accused Keyon Harrold’s Son Of Stealing Her Phone Arrested

Why Did Mass Shootings Spike Upwards Spectacularly About the Time George Floyd Died?

Contra Biden and Harris, How Many BLM/Antifa Have Been Shot by Police?

St. Louis Prosecutor Kim Gardner Can’t Prosecute Gun-Wielding Mark McCloskey, Judge Affirms

NY State Assembly Bill A416: COVID Concentration Camps Coming To America?

Nearly Half Of U.S. Voters Believe Health Officials Have Been Misleading With COVID Data

New Hyper-Infectious “Mutant” COVID Strain May Already Be Spreading In US

London Mayor Declares ‘Major Incident,’ COVID-19 ‘Out of Control’

SARS-CoV-2 induced remission of Hodgkin lymphoma

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Using the pretext of the brief Capitol takeover, Progressives and their Big Tech allies are moving apace to secure the country. Yesterday, a digital pogrom took place — the President was banned from Twitter and Big Tech took actions to block and minimize the reach of any alternative to Twitter that the President or his allies could use. Other prominent conservative voices were likewise silenced.

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Hammer tech.

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Get your barf bags out….

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I am not making this up.,

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Liberal journalist Glenn Greenwald scorched the left-wing establishment and Big Tech for taking totalitarian measures against conservatives.

Greenwald condemned Big Tech after multiple platforms purged sitting President Donald Trump. “A handful of Silicon Valley oligarchs decide who can and cannot be heard, including the President of the United States. They exert this power unilaterally, with no standards, accountability or appeal,” Greenwald lamented in a Jan. 7 tweet. He warned followers on Jan. 8: “The centralized power over US democracy (and other democracies) concentrated in the hands of a tiny number of unaccountable Silicon Valley oligarchs is stunning, unprecedented and unsustainable.”

The Other McCain calls out the lies.

Twitter banned President Trump last night, “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.” Note the word “further,” an implied assertion that on some previous occasion, Trump incited violence.

If you have watched CNN or MSNBC the past few days, you know that this assertion has been repeated as a certainty multiple times every hour, 24/7, ever since the mob stormed the Capitol, as if there were no doubt that (A) the President’s speech caused (B) the subsequent riot.

This is the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy as “journalism.”

Ann Althouse — who, I remind you, is a professor of law at the University of Wisconsin — took the time to read the transcript of Trump’s hour-long speech Wednesday and found no such incitement. It simply never happened, no matter how often the media say it happened.

I know the feeling.

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Unschoolers, who have long occupied an obscure corner of the home-schooling community, have suddenly become intriguing, less like alien life-forms and more like your cool neighbor who managed to stay relaxed through the monthslong shortages of toilet paper and child care. Unschooling is a pedagogy premised on letting your kid sleep in, read whatever they like (or not) and learn math (or not) through baking, elaborate Lego creations or wandering the internet rather than working through a textbook.

This approach is unlikely to work for most families. Even some who believe wholeheartedly in the idea of unschooling struggle with it in practice. But unschoolers’ choice to take on that struggle should compel the rest of us to face big questions about motivation, coercion and the purpose of education during this unusual school year and beyond.

Steve Sailer.

On February 27, 1933, the Reichstag, the German parliament building, burned. The Nazi government blamed a foreign leftist named Marinus van der Lubbe, warned of a vast leftwing conspiracy against Germany, and used the outrage and hysteria to crack down on his opponents’ civil liberties.

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Four years ago, after the unthinkable happened and the ‘wrong guy’ won the US election of 2016, I wrote an article about how I had feared a type of “cultural purge” from within the corporate media, Big Tech and cancel culture spheres.

And now we can watch it in real time.

Michelle Obama Calls On Big Tech Companies To ‘Permanently’ Ban Trump  Of course she does.

Prosecutors Plan to File 15 Federal Cases Related to Wednesday’s Capitol Riot  Anybody remember any charges filed over the 150 days of BLM/Antifa rioting last summer? Bueller? Bueller?

REPORT: Two Trump Supporters Stabbed At Pro-Trump, Anti-Trump Protest Clash  Notice how it’s never the anti-Trump protesters who get stabbed. And where are the ‘Federal charges’?

Simon & Schuster Cancels Publication Of Josh Hawley’s Book

Media Spent Months Downplaying Violent BLM, Antifa Riots. With The Capitol Riot, They’ve Suddenly Changed Their Tune

Democrats Were For Riots Before They Were Against Them

MSNBC Guests: Police Made ‘Active Choice’ ‘By Design’ to Allow Capitol Violence

House Homeland Security Chair Urges Authorities To Put Capitol Rioters On ‘No-Fly List’

CEO of Publishing Company That Canceled Hawley Book Is a Dem Donor

‘Real Fights Are Scary’: Dan Crenshaw Says House Members, Media Pushed Rioters Into The Fight

Rioters swarm Portland suburbs, attack police station

Man Seen With Feet On Pelosi’s Desk Arrested In Arkansas  as opposed to BLM/Antifa rioters, who trash businesses and escape scot-free.

Ana Navarro Rages Against Republicans on ‘The View:’ ‘Blood on Their Hands!’  Whose blood? That of the unarmed woman shot by the cop?

Pelosi Asks Military To Prevent Trump From Accessing The Nuclear Codes  I don’t think she can do that.

Cancel Crusade Reignites As Reddit Bans Pro-Trump Forum, Facebook Unpersons ‘Walk Away’ Movement

How can we prevent Trump-like presidents in the future?

CNN: Trump Staffers and ‘Top Liars’ Resigning Now Just Trying to ‘Cleanse Reputation’

Exclusive: 120 Prominent Twitter Leftists Call for President Trump to Be Banned

Reddit bans subreddit group “r/DonaldTrump”

Congressional Democrats to Pursue Second Impeachment of Trump  I guess they have nothing more important to do during the next two weeks.

Six Tech Platforms Censor Trump or Supporters Over DC Riot

Representative Joaquin Castro Prepares Legislation To Bar President Trump’s Name From Federal Buildings  No spite is too petty for a Democrat.

REPORT: Experts Investigate Death Of Doctor Who Died Two Weeks After Receiving Vaccine

Cuomo’s COVID Vaccination Rollout In NY Is A Total Mess

Over 100 Scientists and Doctors Call for Increased Vitamin D to Combat Covid-19

Don’t Let Covid-19 Patients Die with Vitamin D Deficiency

Vaccines conquered smallpox and polio, but COVID-19 looks like a tougher battle

How Fast Can Scientists Find the New Coronavirus Strains? (Wired ‘Science’) How fast do politicians need them to?

Miami Doctor Dies After Receiving First Dose Of Pfizer Vaccine

New York Hospital Fined For Vaccinating First Responders Without Cuomo’s Consent  Illustrates just how much despotic power a modern state governor has.

Dem Governors ‘Demand’ More Vaccine Doses From Feds, But Can’t Even Use Up What They Have

Covid: Women on exercise trip ‘surrounded by police’

More Frothing Madness From the Coronareich

More food for Polar Bears: Arctic report card 2020 highlights the huge benefit of less summer sea ice

Study Predicts the Amazon Rainforest Will Collapse by 2064  Sufficiently far in the future that nobody will be held accountable for flubbing it.

The Conversation: Pikas are NOT Dying Out from Global Warming

Kamala Harris Called Riots “A Movement” Last Summer, Said “They Should Not” Stop

Nets Push Bogus Claim Cops Harsher on BLM than Trump Supporters

CBS Sports Writer Jonathan Jones Says Carson Wentz Avoids Criticism Because He’s White

REPORT: DaBaby Arrested On A Gun Charge In Beverly Hills

The weather is racist

Condé Nast: Drop the Souvenir, Cultural Appropriator!

LeBron Alleges Capitol Police Would Have Treated His ‘Kind’ Worse Than KKK-like Trump Supporters  Except they never have, during the 150 days BLM rioters were trashing the cities on the Left Coast.

Biden Promises More Money For Black, Brown Businesses; Says Americans “Entitled” To $15 Min Wage  That giant sucking sound is the Biden administration hoovering up the contents of your bank account.