‘Punishing The Hit Man And Not The Mob Boss’: CNN’s Dana Bash Calls Out Biden’s Inaction Against Saudi Crown Prince Over Khashoggi Murder  Lefty ‘journalists’ are discovering that the Deep State doesn’t really care all that much for their ideological fetishes once the election is done.

Trudeau Gives Up On Keystone XL Pipeline, Says Biden ‘Administration Has Made Its Decision’  ‘First thing we do, we’ll piss off Canada.’

Chris Wallace Presses Psaki On Border Policy: ‘Isn’t The Biden Administration Contributing To This Crisis?’

“What Am I Doing Here?”

Republicans continue to embrace Trump’s election lie at rightwing summit (The Guardian)

Republicans’ real beef with the Jan. 6 commission More mind-reading at the Washington Post.

CBS’s Cuomo Flirt, Jane Pauley Ignored His Sexual Harassment Scandals

CNN’s Dana Bash Says Trump Speech Will Bring Back ‘The Big Lie’  Certainly on CNN’s part. They’re always looking for an anti-Trump hoax that they can push.

‘Crazed’ Antifa Mob Target Portland Businesses As ‘Defunded’ Police Stretched Thin

“You’re The F**king Nuts” – Bill Maher Blasts New York’s “Insane” Woke School System

“Socialism On A Global Scale”: Sky News Host Demolishes Davos Elites And ‘Great Reset’ Scheme

Amazon Under Fire For Blocking Anti-Transgender Book, Canceling Clarence Thomas

To stop climate disaster, make ecocide an international crime. It’s the only way. (The Guardian)

“This Warm Winter, Austinites Can Look Out Their Windows And See Climate Change”

Boston public schools suspend advanced learning classes

NY Times: GOP Questioning of Puberty Blockers Are ‘Tirades,’ ‘Ugly Attacks’ on Kids

‘Frightening’: Devin Nunes Says FBI Informant ‘Made Up A Bunch Of Lies’ About Michael Flynn

MSNBC Hate: Republicans Are Skeptical of Big Government Because They’re Racist

Clean break: the risk of catching Covid from surfaces overblown, experts say

Just Take the Needle, and Everything Will be Fine

Sometimes a Border is a Border, and Sometimes it Isn’t

How does the Johnson & Johnson vaccine compare to other coronavirus vaccines? 4 questions answered

Is This Why “New COVID Cases” Are Crashing?

Following the science? — the show so far

PM Justin Trudeau Keeping Canadian Border Closed ‘for Now’

US ‘Mysteriously’ Sees Lowest Flu Season On Record During COVID Pandemic  It’s a mystery!

Omitting Cuomo Scandals, CBS Gets Combative With Noem on COVID

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Whereas refusing to wear a mask outdoors in DC is an act of resistance, in Florida it’s expected. Some businesses have their own indoor mask mandates, but they are often loosely enforced if at all. At first, mingling and schmoozing in a crowded bar without a mask felt naughty. By my second night in town, I reveled in the freedom. No flimsy piece of cloth would slow down my ability to slam old fashioneds and inhale jumbo shrimp.

New Yorkers love to express disgust and horror at videos of the pool parties and clubs in the south. They ignore the awkward truth that their own state and neighboring New Jersey have the highest COVID-19 death rates despite strict lockdown measures. Free Florida sits comfortably below average. I suspect the NY outrage at pina colada-sipping Sunshine Staters is more down to jealousy.

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ZMan does a review.

The American Conservative Union (CPAC) and America First (AFPAC) had their big annual events this weekend in Orlando Florida. Both were moved from Washington to Florida because of the Covid panic. Both are struggling to get their footing now that Trump has left office, so it makes sense for both groups to hold their event in the former president’s home state. That and Florida has become the last bastion of rational, conservative government, where the people remain free.

ZMan keeps an eye on this stuff, as many of us do not.

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An interesting read. Recommended.

“If you’re realling trying to take over a country, you leave the women at home.” — Scott Adams

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On Friday’s All Things Considered, National Public Radio reported on Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s growing scandals, and as they discussed Lindsey Boylan’s charges of sexual harassment, reporter Sally Herships noted Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s office gave her the “No comment” treatment. This is the same Gillibrand that drove Sen. Al Franken out of office on sexual harassment charges.

When it came to Franken, Gillibrand on Facebook that he had to go: “I believe it would be better for our country if he sent a clear message that any kind of mistreatment of women in our society isn’t acceptable by stepping aside to let someone else serve.”

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The exodus from the Left Coast proceeds apace.

Steve Sailer points and laughs.

Back in February 2020, the Establishment Press was mostly worrying about the pandemic in terms of how it could lead to racism against Asians by Trump supporters. Now, during the Biden Era, with blacks being caught on video perhaps a little more often than normal attacking blacks (or it could just be randomness or it could just be that blacks have been exuberantly acting out violently more than usual toward everybody all during the Racial Reckoning), they are back to worrying about how Trump is at fault.

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Derek Chauvin goes on trial for murder in the death of George Floyd on March 8. His trial has been separated from that of the other three officers who have been charged; theirs will begin in August. Chauvin is the principal defendant. Of the four policemen involved, two were on something like their fourth day on the job. The third was a tiny guy, also not very experienced. Chauvin was the only officer on the scene who had the experience and the strength to deal with an oversized career criminal who was hopped up on drugs, and he took the lead.

I want to see how they argue that somebody can be choked to death by kneeling on the side of his neck.

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Customers have noticed that “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words,” a documentary on the renowned supreme court justice, is no longer available for streaming on Amazon Prime.

To celebrate Black History, Amazon created a page called “Amplify Black Voices,” which “features a curated collection of titles to honor Black History Month across four weekly themes (Black Love, Black Joy, Black History Makers, and Black Girl Magic).”

On Amazon Prime, the company added multiple films, including docu-dramas and documentaries on the country’s first black supreme court justice, Thurgood Marshall. The site even added two films about Anita Hill, the woman who made claims that Thomas sexually harassed her.

But Thomas’s documentary has been removed in all regions.

Bias? What bias?

Superman Might Be Black In The Latest Movie Reboot By Ta-Nehisi Coates And J.J. Abrams

UK Blacks Are 8.9 Times as Likely to be Convicted of Murder as UK Whites

Boston Public Schools Suspend Advanced Program Because Officials Were ‘Disturbed’ By The Number Of Asian And White Students

In Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Script for JJ Abrams’ “Superman” Reboot, Will Black Clark Kent Battle His Greatest Foe: Escalator Karen?

Anti-White NYC School Supremo Richard Carranza Is Pushed Out

A Hero for a Race-Obsessed Era: Radical, White-Hating Author to Write New Superman Script

Are knitted jumpers racist?

The Evolutionary Advantages of Playing Victim

How Trumpism Has Become a Cult of Losing (New York Magazine) It’s not hard to lose when the other side cheats.

Open Season on Townies at Lesbian-Heavy Smith College

Supreme Court Slaps Down California County’s Ban On Indoor Church Services

Virginia school system cancels Dr. Seuss, citing racial ‘undertones’ in writings: report

Amnesty International Strips Anti-Putinite Political Prisoner Alexei Navalny of His “Prisoner of Conscience” Status for Being an Immigration Restrictionist

MSNBC’s Jackson: Talk of Protecting Minors, Women’s Sports is ‘Anti-Trans Rhetoric’

How Long Until They Come for Darwin?

MSNBC: Don’t Blame Biden For Virus Problems; It’s All Trump’s Fault

SUNY Suspends Education Student For Posting Views On Biological Gender

As Mexico’s Largest Migrant Camp Empties, New Tents Spring Up Along Border

UN Shames Australia for a Lack of Climate Ambition

New CDC Director Raises Alarm On “New Variants”… Despite Finding Virtually No Household Asymptomatic Spread  Gotta keep that panic going, gotta keep our numbers up.

Is Anyone Else Fed Up With Dr. Fauci’s Forever Moving Goalposts?

Day 324: Pandemic. Are We Seeing a Slow Rolling Larger Disaster in COVID-19?

The FDA just authorized Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot COVID-19 vaccine

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We keep hearing about the end of California. The cost of living, the homelessness, the public schools, the shoddy roads and bridges have prompted a decades-long exodus that has accelerated dramatically in the Age of the Pandemic. The progressive canard — but everyone wants to be here! — is a canard, and it’s being used to sidestep an uncomfortable truth that conservatives love to drone on about: in California, there is no political marketplace. Which is true. It’s not just that Democrats enjoy a monopoly. It’s that the state GOP, which used to produce presidents and statesmen, has morphed into a risible adumbration of its former self.

But lurking behind the headlines is the new vice president, who, until recently, was California’s junior senator and is now nicely positioned to win her party’s 2024 presidential nomination. The plight of California will be campaign fodder — because Kamala’s rise and her state’s decline feel like the same story.

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In his classic 2008 essay “1000 True Fans,” Kevin Kelly predicted that the internet would transform the economics of creative activities:

To be a successful creator you don’t need millions. You don’t need millions of dollars or millions of customers, millions of clients or millions of fans. To make a living as a craftsperson, photographer, musician, designer, author, animator, app maker, entrepreneur, or inventor you need only thousands of true fans.

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But the internet took a detour. Centralized social platforms became the dominant way for creators and fans to connect. The platforms used this power to become the new intermediaries — inserting ads and algorithmic recommendations between creators and users while keeping most of the revenue for themselves.

The good news is that the internet is trending back to Kelly’s vision. For example, many top writers on Substack earn far more than they did at salaried jobs. The economics of low take rates plus enthusiastic fandom does wonders. On Substack, 1,000 newsletter subscribers paying $10/month nets over $100K/year to the writer.

 

Can You Return To Normal Life After The COVID-19 Vaccine?

The Walls Are Closing In On Andrew Cuomo

A Year Into The Pandemic, Scientists Still Don’t Know COVID-19’s True Origin  Or won’t admit it.

It’s Not a COVID-19 Relief Bill. It’s Christmas for Democrats.

Scientists Discover ‘All-Natural’ COVID Treatment That Can Prevent ‘Cytokine Storm’ In Severe Patients

Scientists: Vaccination Before Every Vacation May Be Needed

Russia & West Trade Blame For Vaccine ‘Price Gouging’ & Exploitation Of Africa

Sanders, Wyden Demand COVID Relief Punishes Businesses That Don’t Pay $15 Per Hour

How A Vocal Element Of The Medical Community Wants Us To Wear Masks Forever

“A New World Altogether” – Global Airlines Set To “Go Live In March” With COVID ‘Passports’   ‘Your papers, please!’

‘Recipe For More Shuttered Businesses’: Small Businesses Speak Out Against Minimum Wage Hike

New California Bill Would Fine Retailers With Separate “Girls” & “Boys” Sections

Minimum Wage Increase Not Allowed In Biden Rescue Plan, Senate Rules Official Says  Next order of business: Changing that rule. (Bernie Sanders Blasts Senate Parliamentarian’s Minimum Wage Decision)

California Collapsing

Barely Trying: CNN Finally Covers Cuomo Claims…But Gives It 96 Seconds in Two Days

MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace Says She’s ‘Knocked Over’ By ‘Delusional Echo Chamber’ Republicans Who Oppose Equality Act

Founder Of Chinese Front Group Spoke At CIA Nominee’s Think Tank Amid Beijing Propaganda Push

Eviction Moratorium Unconstitutional, Judge Rules

Unfunny Seth Meyers Dubs Trump ‘President Outbreak Monkey,’ Hits Biden From the Left

Apple series ‘Truth be Told’ filming shut down amidst protests  Apparently Leftists don’t like truth.

CNN Lets Democrat Fudge Facts on Forcing Women To Compete Against Biological Men

27% Of All Household Income In The US Now Comes From The Government

Mr Potato Head and the cult of gender neutrality

The National Guard Has Been In DC For 50 Days, And It’s Still Unclear When Troops Can Return Home

9th Circuit Eyes California Ban on High-Capacity Magazines

Twitter Prepares ‘Safety Mode’ to Mute ‘Hateful’ Remarks, Censor Free Speech on Its Platform

Los Angeles DA Hires Anti-Cop Activist for Top Prosecutor Job

Close ally of Marjorie Taylor Greene among those in Capitol mob (CNN)

University of Chicago students push back on cancel culture, launch newspaper promoting conservative speech

The Open Threat of Draconian Tactics

Policing offence

Apple TV+ ‘Truth Be Told’ filming shut down by protestors in LA

MSNBC Guest Donny Deutsch Claims ‘False God’ Trump Is ‘Going To Go To Jail’ And the hunt for heretics and sinners can’t get much more explicit than that.

BBC: Most of Our Employees Are Bigots Who Need ‘Bias Training’

Republicans Investigating Capitol Safety Is Like Having ‘Robbers To Help Design Security For The Bank,’ Former FBI Official Says

Wash Post Op-ed: Sen. Paul Is A ‘Monster’ For Asking Health Sec Nom About Trans Kids

‘I Hate Theatrics In Politics’: Meghan McCain Says Marjorie Taylor Greene Is ‘A Twitter Troll Come To Life’

FARRELL: Coach Fired For Questioning Woke Curriculum

Possible Biden Pick for NEC Scrubs Twitter Feed  Gotta keep ahead of the mob….

The GOP is not even trying to disguise its racism anymore (Washington Post) Hey, it isn’t the GOP trash-talking people on the basis of their skin color. (California board member compares reopening schools to ‘White supremacist ideology’ and ‘slavery’) Racism, thy name is Democrat.

Shock: NYT’s Dive Into Race Hoax at Smith College Questions Lefty Race Doctrine

Is Black-On-Asian Violence a Hate Crime or Just Blacks Acting Black?

More Black Trump Supporters Running Amok, Not Only Attacking Asians But Shooting Lady Gaga’s Dogwalker,

‘How Racist Is That?’: Larry Elder Slams Obama For Saying ‘White Resistance’ Blocked Slavery Reparations

Bass Under Fire for Praise of Ethiopian Prime Minister

Tennessee GOP Asks Universities To Disallow Kneeling; Black Coaches Threaten To Erase Schools’ Recruiting Efforts

Student Group Sues Yale for Discrimination, Revives Trump-Era Case

Los Angeles Police Release Description Of Suspects That Allegedly Shot Lady Gaga’s Dog Walker

Democrats Keep Getting Their Climate Change Doomsday Predictions Wrong

Freshwater outflow from Beaufort Sea could alter global climate patterns

Luongo: The Greening Of The Grid Froze Texas

Russia and India Reject Climate Alarmism at UN Security Council

WATCH: Hoover Visiting Fellow Bjorn Lomborg Slaps Down Leftist Climate Alarmism on Kudlow

After Warning of Coming End of the World, ABC Asks Socialist How to Fight ‘Fear’

Minnesota Republicans Call For Environmental Activist’s Resignation

Not a myth: State of the Polar Bear Report shows 2020 was another good year for polar bears

House Votes to Protect 3 Million Acres From Development

The Shame of Joe Biden

Secretly, Biden’s Foreign Policies Are Trump’s Foreign Policies

CBS Refuses to Show Shipping Containers Biden Stores Migrant Kids In

Biden Minimum Wage Hike Would Kill Family-Owned Restaurants, Business Owner Warns

Middle Easterners Begin Painting Transgender Flag Colors On Doorposts To Avoid Biden Drone Strikes  Babylon Bee.

Proud Obama Awards His Nobel Peace Prize To Biden For Bombing Syria  Babylon Bee.

EXCLUSIVE: Biden Admin Exploring Ways To Advance Pandemic Eviction Moratorium Despite Judge’s Unconstitutional Ruling

‘I Hate Theatrics In Politics’: Meghan McCain Says Marjorie Taylor Greene Is ‘A Twitter Troll Come To Life’

Not a myth: State of the Polar Bear Report shows 2020 was another good year for polar bears  The Constitution? Who cares about that?

People Warned The Biden Camp. Now There’s A Growing Crisis At The Border

Biden Press Office Seeks To Charge Reporters $170 For COVID-19 Tests Before Entering White House  Why didn’t Trump think of that?

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More than 30 bills on ranked-choice voting have been proposed in state legislatures across the country, according to Fair Vote, the nonprofit group that is promoting the system nationally.

Ranked-choice voting is a system that allows voters to rank a first, second, and third choice, or more. A voter casting a ranked-choice ballot, for example, might select three candidates in order of preference out of six candidates for a congressional seat.

Proponents say ranked-choice voting is a moderating force and superior because it means voters don’t have to settle for the lesser of two evils. Opponents say the system is problematic because it is confusing to voters and can lead to outcomes where the candidate winning the most votes loses the election.

The effort to promote ranked-choice voting largely has been financed by a liberal donor who is the daughter-in-law of media mogul Rupert Murdoch.

This is sometimes known as the Australian Ballot because elections in Australia use it a lot. It is also known as the ‘automatic run-off” system.

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The pageant argued that under the First Amendment it has rights to free association. The pageant argued that the pageant is meant for biological women and that allowing Green to participate would “undermine its vision” and that had the court ruled in favor of Green it would be undermining the pageants “message about empowering only biological women.”

Cue Woke shitstorm.

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Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed HR5, the so-called “Equality Act,” to amend various provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If it passes the Senate and is signed into law by the president, the bill will cause incalculable damage to our society—with a particular assault on women and religious believers. The bill is expressly designed to impose a controversial sexual-ideological scheme on the American public, and to forbid any religiously-based objections to that agenda.

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With Neera Tanden’s nomination in serious trouble, the knives are out for Ron Klain, Joe Biden’s chief of staff. How do we know? Because of the leaking that drives this Washington Post article called “Biden’s chief of staff at center of controversy over White House budget pick.”

Leaking can be a subtle art, but not in this case. One of the leakers told the Post that the Tanden play “was Ron, Ron, Ron, Ron.”

The Democrat Party motto ought to be Nature Red In Tooth And Claw.

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It has texture, and scope.

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An open letter signed by major Irish NGOs — including Amnesty International (AI) and the National Women’s Council (NWC) has called for the removal of media and political representation for women who won’t capitulate to the demands of extreme trans activists.

‘We call on media, and politicians to no longer provide legitimate representation for those that share bigoted beliefs, that are aligned with far right ideologies and seek nothing but harm and division,’ reads the letter. ‘These fringe internet accounts stand against affirmative medical care of transgender people, and they stand against the right to self-identification of transgender people in this country… they stand against trans, women’s and gay rights by aligning themselves with far-right tropes and stances.’

Scott Johnson at PowerLine.

Michael Powell’s New York Times story on the Smith College nightmare provides a useful summary of the events. Powell’s story also links to the 35-page report commissioned by the college. The madness at the heart of the story has engulfed our country and our culture, as we saw in the riots of this past summer.

Tucker Carlson reviewed the Smith College story in a 12-minute segment of his FOX News show last night. FOX News has posted the text here. I have lifted the video from the Tucker Carlson Tonight Facebook page and embedded it below. It brings the story to life.

Refugee Fatally Stabs French Immigration Employee After Being Rejected For Asylum

Jihad on the Tram

The Malmö City Government Bankrolls the Jihad

Beheading in the Name of Islam

‘It’s so unfair’: life on the streets of the French town branded as ‘lost to Islam’

‘Utter outrage’: White House says US in talks with Iran over detained Americans

SOMALIA: The Worst Gets Worse

Rocket Attack Targets US Embassy In Baghdad A Week After Deadly Erbil Assault

Iceland Is Now Enjoying the Blessings of Diversity

Saudi Arabia Sued for ’19 Florida Military Base Shooting

Eritrean Terror Cell Busted in Sweden

Russia Says Jihadists Are Planning “Simulated” Chemical Attack In Idlib To Get Biden’s Attention

Families Of Three Service Members Killed In Pensacola Naval Air Station Shooting Sue Saudi Arabia 

BBC Misinformation: Mohammed Film “Innocence of Muslims”

Al Jazeera Launching Right-Wing Media Company  Using whose definition of ‘right-wing’?

Looney Tunes: Supreme Leader Issues Fatwa To Require Cartoon Women To Wear Hijabs

Jihad Groups Raided in Berlin

USA Today.

Misleading claims shared by prominent conservatives that wind turbines caused massive winter storm power outages in Texas whipped through Facebook without fact-checking labels, racking up millions of views, according to a new report shared exclusively with USA TODAY.

Human rights group Avaaz says the 10 top-performing posts about wind turbine failures from public figures such as Fox News personalities Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee received more than 15.8 million views on Facebook.

As of Tuesday, none of the posts had a fact-checking label, including those reviewed by Facebook’s fact-checking partners.

Apparently Facebook isn’t Woke enough for Some People.

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Move Oregon’s Border, also known as Greater Idaho, confirmed Tuesday that the initiative to move swaths of largely rural eastern and southern Oregon into Idaho qualified for the May 18 special election ballot in five counties: Baker, Grant, Lake, Malheur and Sherman.

In Baker County, organizers far exceeded the 496 signatures required by submitting 746, with the clerk reporting that 630 were accepted. The county population is about 16,000.

Larry Elder.

Last week, I testified before the House Committee on the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties regarding H.R. 40: Examining the Path to Reparative Justice in America. In other words, reparations. This is the first part of the statement I submitted:

“Reparations is the extraction of money from people who were never slave owners to be given to people who were never slaves.”

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Eight Republican Michigan state senators sent letters to acting Attorney General Monty Wilkinson and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel on Wednesday demanding investigations into Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s handling of COVID-19 in the state’s nursing homes.

Residents of Michigan’s long-term care facilities represent 5,549 of the 16,436 suspected and confirmed COVID-19 deaths in the state since the start of the pandemic, according to the state’s latest available reporting. The GOP lawmakers requested Nessel and Wilkinson investigate whether Whitmer’s April 15 executive order, which prohibited nursing homes in most cases from barring admission to residents who were previously hospitalized with the virus, contributed to the death toll.

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• Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick
• New York Rep. John Katko
• New York Rep. Tom Reed

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For years, Big Tech, Hollywood elites, and Democrats in power have stretched their reach to gain unprecedented control over our speech, our culture, and our way of life. From censoring conservative speech on social media to de-platforming a sitting president of the United States, the left has sought to win over public opinion through shaming and smearing the opposition, rather than winning hearts and minds in the battle of ideas.

The current chapter in this larger saga is taking place in the House of Representatives this week. The House just passed H.R. 5, ironically called the “Equality Act.” This bill is a patently unconstitutional assault on religious freedom, which also weakens long-standing civil rights law by equating biological sex with “sexual orientation and gender identity.”

This legislation at its core would take civil rights laws designed to protect classes of people based upon immutable and objective characteristics, and would instead base it upon subjective ideas about gender, and political viewpoints about sexual orientation.

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The U.S. Labor Department’s inspector general said this week that roughly $100 million in fraudulent unemployment insurance claims were paid in 2020 to criminals who are already in jail. That’s a tiny share of the estimated tens of billions of dollars in jobless benefits states have given to identity thieves in the past year. To help reverse that trend, many states are now turning to a little-known private company called ID.me. This post examines some of what that company is seeing in its efforts to stymie unemployment fraud.

The risks of communicating extreme climate forecasts

John Kerry: Climate Inaction is a “Mutual Suicide Pact”  Pick Up The Green Man’s Burden….