These buildings combine affordable housing and vertical farming Two – Two – Two Virtue Signals In One!

Should the rich pay for the pandemic? Argentina thinks so. Other countries are taking a look. (Washington Post)

The party that does not give a darn (Washington Post) Republicans, of course – what, you think they’re talking about Democrats?

Bill Gates Bankrolling Educational Organization That Says Math Is Racist

Rush Limbaugh and the Myth of the Conservative Working Class (Newsweek)

China Keeping Rare Earth Export Ban In “Back Pocket” To Punish Biden If He Gets Out Of Line

This Week in Campus Insanity

Nikki Haley Tags Media for Wanting GOP Civil War; CNN Anchor HATES It

Watchdog Group: Cuomo COVID-19 Edict Might Have Caused 1,000 Nursing Home Deaths  How does one get to be a ‘watchdog group’? Is there a form you fill out, or is it just enough to have an impressive-sounding name?

How the COVID-19 Censors Killed the Truth

Latest Viral Threat: Bubonic Plague Emerges In Congo

“It’s A National Crisis” – Officials Admit Billions Lost In “Veritable Tsunami” Of Pandemic Aid Fraud

Entire School Board Resigns In California After Being Caught On Video Disparaging Parents Who Wanted Schools To Reopen  Every cloud has a silver lining.

Reversal of Earth’s magnetic poles may have triggered Neanderthal extinction — and it could happen again (CNN) If we say ‘may’ and ‘could’, we can lie like a run and nobody can prove us wrong!

Friday Funny: nature makes a mockery of month-ahead model forecasts.

Let’s Review 50 Years Of Dire Climate Forecasts And What Actually Happened

Eco-friendly golf balls for a greener game  And nothing is more important than sustainable green balls.

Junk Grade Models: Even Short-Term Climate And Weather Modelers Get It All Wrong

Cold Snaps Expose Climate Science Fragility

What Left-Wing Educators Don’t Teach During Black History Month

Day-By-Day Graph of Exactly When 2020’s Huge Murder Surge Began: the First Weekend of the Mostly Peaceful Riots

L.A. Times: Meet the Black Plantfluencer with a Fresh Take on Plant Parenting

MSNBC’s Joy Reid Fawns Over Gay Black State Representative Running for U.S. Senate.

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Her basic message:

“I ask that Smith College stop reducing my personhood to a racial category. Stop telling me what I must think and feel about myself. Stop presuming to know who I am or what my culture is based upon my skin color. Stop asking me to project stereotypes and assumptions onto others based on their skin color.”

For this the president of Smith College, Kathleen McCartney, sent out a campus-wide note denouncing Shaw, and openly lamenting that labor laws prevented her (McCartney) from disciplining or firing Shaw for her wrongthink.

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As reported here previously, former Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini is on trial for “kidnapping” due to his actions as interior minister in closing Italian ports to migrant ferries run by NGOs. The judge in the case is a fellow named Nunzio Sarpietro.

As it happens, Judge Sarpietro was recently discovered dining in a restaurant in Rome, in an “orange zone” where no restaurants are allowed to be open because of the Wuhan Coronavirus. Like California Governor Gavin Newsom, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and many other grandees, the esteemed judge is not bound by lockdown rules — when he wants to dine out with his daughter, he dines out with his daughter. Let the peons stay at home and eat gruel!

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The inauguration of President Biden as the 46th US President hasn’t produced quite the catharsis that Democrats (and others) had hoped for. After only a few months of one-party rule in Washington, DC—and the sputtering finale of impeachment—there should be fear among Democrats that attention will return to the signs of real damage done to the progressive/liberal project in the wake of its collision with the Trump train.

The shifting of both American political parties into one another’s former political spaces has been head-spinning. The trend of Republicans turning into the party of labor and Democrats becoming a party of capital looks to continue in the 2020s—something few people outside of Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot would have guessed 30 years ago. And it turns out that the promise of a Democrat-voting bloc made up of well-educated whites, blacks, and the growing Hispanic population delivering a decades-long progressive era in American politics is not coming to pass.

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The former computer repair shop owner who claimed he came into possession of Hunter Biden’s laptop has sued Twitter for a second time alleging defamation.

John Paul Mac Isaac, who owned a Delaware computer repair shop until closing it last year, filed his lawsuit Thursday in the Southern District of Florida, per the Washington Examiner.

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When a dog curls its lip and bares its teeth, you know what sort of dog you’re dealing with. One such dog curled its lip in Massachusetts recently. His name is David Ismay – possibly related to the Bruce Ismay of Titanic fame, but hold that thought.

This Ismay wants to “break the will” – his words – of people who rely on gasoline to power their cars and oil and natural gas to heat their homes, in order to “combat climate change.”

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The former defense secretary Robert Gates famously wrote that Joe Biden “has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” If the early days of his presidency are any indication, Biden is determined to prove him right.

Gov. Whitmer Quietly Extended Michigan’s Restaurant Restrictions Until Late-March

PATEL: How The COVID-19 Censors Killed The Truth

Indonesia Moves To Punish Citizens Who Refuse COVID Vaccine  Perhaps they ought to give some thought as to why people are refusing a vaccine for a pandemic disease.

Report: Wuhan Lab Received US Funds, Still Eligible Into 2024

NYC Waitress Fired For Waiting To Take COVID Vax Over Pregnancy Concerns

“Pandemic Precautions” Left Some Texas Shelters Closed As Homeless Froze To Death

Blinded by science

Church vs. State: The Heat Is On

Maine Governor’s Restrictions On Churches Are ‘Unacceptable,’ Bishop Says

‘Callous And Uncalled For’: Public School Board President Resigns After Being Caught Disparaging Parents’ Push To Reopen Schools

New Report Shows Cops Used Ring Cameras to Monitor Black Lives Matter Protests  Thank God Rign doorbells are good for something. They sure suck at being video doorbells.

‘Squad’ member Pressley calls for creation of ‘federal job guarantee’ program  Science tells us that the average IQ of African-Americans is 85. History tells us that many of these are elected to Congress.

Cornel West Claims Opposition To Israeli ‘Occupation’ Is Reason He Did Not Receive Tenure At Harvard  Or maybe it was because he was too much of a racist asshole even for Harvard.

‘Climate expert’ Bill Gates’ synthetic beef folly

4 sustainability experts on how they’d spend Elon Musk’s $100 million climate commitment  Loving the opportunity to spend Other People’s Money — as experts live to do.

Researchers rethink life in a cold climate after Antarctic find  Turns out that The Science isn’t all that hot, no pun intended.

Assigning Blame for the Blackouts in Texa

John Kerry Says We Have 9 Years Left Until Climate Catastrophe  Gee, usually the predictions are 10 years out.

Poor Swelter as Urban Areas of U.S. Southwest Get Hotter  Um … not this month.

Biden Finally Accepts First Call From Netanyahu After Month-Long Delay

Biden Administration Announces ‘Road Map’ To Vaccinating Children: ‘Sometime In The Fall’   We are back to Swamp Slowness.

January Border Arrests Reach Highest Level In A Decade As Some Migrants Expect Softer Treatment Under Biden  Gee, why would they think that?

Biden Killed Keystone XL. Now Another Pipeline Is On The Chopping Block

Biden Announces Ambitious Goal Of $100 Per Gallon Gas By End Of First 100 Days In Office  Babylon Bee.

Rep. Mark Green: Biden Immigration Plans ‘Pretty Crazy’

Attorneys General Urge Biden To Reinstate Policy Targeting Illegal Immigrant Sex Offenders

Help Is On The Way: John Kerry Personally Warms Texas By Flying Private Jet Around  Babylon Bee.

ABC Spent Less than a Minute on Federal Cuomo Probe, Almost 4x on Cruz Optics

Oakland Chinatown Shop Owner Arrested After Firing Shots Into The Air To Thwart Robbery  

Retired General Leading Capitol Review Has A History Of Peddling Far-Left Conspiracy Theories  Yes, Virginia, there are left-wing generals.

‘Payback’! Bette Midler Thinks Texas Snow Storm Is God’s Punishment on Conservatives  Bette Midler wouldn’t recognize God if He stepped on her foot. I doubt that she’s ever given Him a thought except for trash like this.

Fredo, Lemon Pounce on Cruz to Distract from Federal Cuomo Probe

How an Influential Medical Journal Laundered Progressivism as ‘Public Health’

Rabobank: We Officially Have Central Planning With No Plan

FLASHBACK: Rush Was a Threat to Them, So They Tried to Destroy Him

‘MSNBC Republican’ and Former Cuomo Aide Admits: He’s ‘Known to Strongarm’

Kendall Jenner’s Tequila Makes the Mob Cry Cultural Appropriation  She always struck me as a Tequila kind of girl.

‘Die Fighting The Enemy’: Man Charged With Planning To Attack Trump Supporters At Florida Capitol

As Nets Pound Cruz, Only CBS Compares to Gavin Newsom’s Mask-Free Gaffe

‘Media Has Ignored It For A Year’: Meghan McCain Slams Media For Giving Cuomo A Pass While Blasting Cruz  There must still be a Republican bone left somewhere in Meghan McCain.

‘Oh My God’: CNN Anchor Reacts To ‘Shocking’ Report On Gang Rape In Chinese Internment Camps  Wakey, wakey.

Public Schools Are Becoming Cesspools Of Woke Liberal Activism. What Happened?

House Releases Text Of $1.9 Trillion Stimulus – Which Includes $15 Hourly Minimum Wage Hike

OF COURSE: MSNBC Politicizes Freezing Texans

Facebook blocks news sites, charities, government pages in Australia  Let us see who has the bigger penis.

The Other McCain points out the nude monarch in the room.

Everybody knows this, but you’re not supposed to say it….

A new study from renowned University of Hamburg researcher Roland Wiesendanger concludes the Wuhan Institute of Virology was the “cause” of COVID-19.

Popular ‘Science’.

But it might as well.

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The metal mesh screens in front are ideal for when BLM/AntiFa come calling.

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eviewing “Repressive Tolerance” and other works by Herbert Marcuse, the quack who became America’s most influential thinker

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The most frustrating argument is the one you agree with but is made badly. With the death yesterday of Rush Limbaugh, NRO’s Michael Brendan Dougherty reflected on the division between the Rush Limbaugh-wing of conservatism and Roger Scruton-wing; and how they will always have an uneasy alliance. He also laments, “If anything, considering the place of Rush Limbaugh in his nation’s political life is to realize that conservatism has been late to develop a voice that cuts in somewhere between its aloof intellectuals and aggro broadcasters. Conservatism is still searching for a middlebrow voice.” Alas, he fails to see his own role in finding the middlebrow voice, and blames Rush Limbaugh for the failings of institutional conservatism, Michael Brendan Dougherty very much included. Rush Limbaugh fulfilled a specific role in conservatism, and he fulfilled it very well. Scruton, likewise, fulfilled a specific role, and did so very well. Leftists are well aware of the idea of “Diversity of Tactics,” and letting different people use their talents in different ways to get effect. The failure on the right was of those who thought there was only one way to do things -and refused to adapt either to the success of Limbaugh, the critiques of Scruton, or the manifest failures of conservatism.

The Other McCain shines a spotlight.

Whenever police kill a black criminal, it is now predictable — as night follows day — that the media will run a story about how the family of the deceased suspect “demands answers” about the shooting. Generally speaking, there will be a “civil rights” lawyer at the press conference, and there will eventually be a lawsuit against the cops. We take this for granted nowadays, along with the media interviewing relatives of the deceased criminal, who had an extensive felony record, saying that he was really a wonderful person, a beloved father, blah blah blah.

ZMan’s weekly podcast. Highly recommended.

Blackness, as has been discussed here many times, is a negative identity. Black identity depends entirely on the relationship between blacks and whites, real and imagined. Everything about being black in America revolves around the black relationship with whites. Remove whites from the equation and blackness has no meaning. If whites pack up and leave, blacks will have to follow them, as whites are their reason to exist now.

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In what pundits and pols are beginning to dub “a fight for the soul of the Republican Party,” Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump signaled last week they would be backing disparate candidates for Republican nominations.

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One of the notable features of 21st century life is that America’s blue states are failing and losing population, while red states are thriving and growing. This is blindingly obvious to anyone who travels around the country, or to those who have seen half of their friends move to Nashville. But today Stephen Moore’s Committee to Unleash Prosperity sent an email that shows the trend graphically.

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

I agree. Anyone who sends a kid to a government school these days is committing child abuse.

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Sen. Ted Cruz is under attack for flying to Mexico while Texas is facing severe winter weather and power outages. Cruz explained why he went there:

With school cancelled for the week, our girls asked to take a trip with friends. Wanting to be a good dad, I flew down with them last night and am flying back this afternoon. My staff and I are in constant communication with state and local leaders to get to the bottom of what happened in Texas.

If true (and I’m unaware of any reason to believe it isn’t), this is a complete defense to the attack on Cruz. Those who suggest that he was derelict in his duty as a Senator should explain what Cruz could have done to help his state, beyond having his staff in constant contact with officials, during the brief time he was on this trip.

But they won’t, they’re just grasping at any excuse to trash-talk Cruz.

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President Joe Biden is forcing Chicago’s top federal prosecutor to resign amid ongoing criminal probes of powerful Illinois Democrats and their associates.

U.S. attorney John Lausch is prosecuting close confidants of Democrat boss Mike Madigan, an ally of former president Barack Obama who resigned from the state legislature Thursday after a decades-long reign in Springfield. Lausch’s office will also prosecute Chicago alderman Edward Burke (D.), an influential figure accused of strong-arming businesses into retaining his law firm.

Investigating Democrats? Can’t have THAT!

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At younger ages than ever before, American children are being targeted by the left with sexual content and destructive gender ideology.

It’s coming at them not just from cultural forces in social media and entertainment, but from state governments and local school boards. Now, the White House and Congress are poised to exacerbate these trends by infusing K-12 schools with destructive ideology, politicizing medicine, and undermining parental rights.

NYT Quietly Updates Article Claiming Capitol Police Officer Died After Being Struck With Fire Extinguisher During Jan. 6 Riot

‘The Dam Is Breaking’: Rep. Stefanik Says Bipartisan Opposition To Cuomo Is Building

ABC REFUSES to Cover Disgraced Biden Aide’s Resignation for Attack on Their Former Colleague

Democrat Who Harassed, Called For Doxxing Of Pro-Life Teens Announces Bid For PA Lt Gov

Former Gang Member Tapped for Democratic Campaign Committee Post  Obviously, he has a skill-set that they need.

CNN’s Brian Stelter Helps Freshman Democrat Push ‘Truth Commission’ for Trump Backers

China Threatens To Hobble US Defense Industry By Limiting Export Of Rare-Earth Metals  Of course they do.

Aim Of Impeachment Was To Paint All Trump Voters As Criminals: Rep. Mike Johnson

How The Chinese Communist Party Infiltrated US Academia

Joe Scarborough: Ron Johnson ‘Not Worthy To Be A United States Senator’

Impeachment Manager Hopeful ‘9/11-Style Commission’ Will Expose ‘The Hatred That Is Lurking Within’  Although not ‘within’ the Democrat party, which is where the true world-class hatred resides.

‘The Left Wants To Re-Write Our History’: Gov. Kristi Noem Criticizes MSNBC’s Joy Reid

‘The Daily Show’ Host Compares Trump To O.J., Says ‘He’s Responsible For More Deaths’  Trump – Is there anything that blaming him can’t do?

Unions Are Keeping Students and Teachers Out of the Classroom. Here’s What Lawmakers Can Do About It.  Smile and bend over?

Court Upholds Twitter Ban of Feminist Who Said Men and Women Are Different

NYT Discreetly ‘Updates’ Their Own Fake News on Capitol Police Officer’s Death

MSNBC Propagandist Rachel Maddow Strategizes With Guest on How to Destroy GOP

‘The Only Way To Become A Good Republican Is To Become A Democrat’: Meghan McCain Slams Media’s Coverage Of GOP  And she would know.

Fired Football Coach Sues School Officials for Retaliation Over Political Differences

New York Prep School Principal Sent Parents An Actual Whiteness Meter, Including A ‘White Traitor’ Category, Reports Say That flapping sound is chickens coming home to roost … and poop.

Exclusive: Twitter Suspends Free Speech Group’s Account

The Woke Madness That’s Devouring the New York Times

Texas Mayor Reportedly Resigns After Calling Residents ‘Lazy’ During Mass Power Outages

Banned from researching trans

Los Angeles School District Cuts More Than 130 Police Officer Positions And Will Replace Them With ‘Climate Coaches’

Deadspin, LGBT Forces Rage Against State Attempts To Protect Integrity Of Women’s Sports

‘I Wish We Could Just Blow Up All The Trump Buildings’: MSNBC Guest Wants Former President Erased From Country’s Memory  Gee, I wish we could blow up MSNBC.

Cartoon Network Urges Kids To View Each Other By Skin Color

Why Is Bill Gates Telling You What You Should Eat?  Because he can.

An Absurd Look At The Marxist, Ultra-Woke “Education” System In 2021

Portland Police Keep Crowd From Raiding Dumpster

America 2021? Cops Block Hungry Portlanders Scrambling For Discarded Food

State-Run Radio? Pompeo-Pounding NPR Now Nodding and Winking at Blinken

‘Loud Enough For My Wife To Hear’: Ron Kim Details Threatening Phone Call From Gov. Cuomo

NBC’s Roker to Gates: How Can ‘Big Tech’ Shut Down ‘Climate Deniers’?

Scandal-Plagued Illinois Democrat Resigns from Office

‘The Bullying Is Nothing New’: De Blasio Says Reports Of Threats And Demands Are ‘Classic Andrew Cuomo’  And, to tell the truth, classic De Blasio.

Chicago Reviewing Statues of American Icons Lincoln, Washington  BRAAAAAAAINS!

Ignorant Senator Shares New York Times Article Thinking It’s Real  Babylon Bee.

Video Ignites Tensions in Closed California School District; Board Caught Mocking Parents

Denver Mayor Who Traveled For Thanksgiving After Telling Citizens To Stay Home Says His Trip Didn’t Violate Ethics

CDC Director Changes Mind On Re-Opening Guidelines After Entering Biden Administration

PROTECTION RACKET: Nets Bury Cuomo’s Bombshell Nursing Home Scandal

Cuomo Blames ‘Press, Cynics’ For COVID ‘Disinformation, Conspiracy Theories’

There’s A New Dating Term Called ‘Fauci-ing’

WHO COVID-19 Investigator Tried To Hide Involvement In Pro-China Statement, Email Reveals

Medical Marijuana Sellers Given Priority For Vaccination Over Teachers  I cannot disagree.

Police Bust Up A Snowball Fight At Ole Miss’ Football Stadium  Super-spreader event! Unclean! Unclean!

“Far-Reaching Violation”: Dutch Govt Ordered To Lift ‘Illegitimate’ Pandemic Curfew By Hague Court

‘He Is Trump’s Twin’: New York Democrat Slams Cuomo After Losing Father To COVID In Nursing Home  Trump: Is there anything that blaming him can’t do?

Shocked Gayle King: Wait, Is It Possible Andrew Cuomo Was Less Than Honest?

CNN is complicit in the Cuomo COVID cover-up ‘Cuomo COVID cover-up’ – say that five times fast … if you can.

Dr Fauci Spins His Handy Wheel of Science.

Snarky Chuck Todd to Texans: At Least the Cold Will Make You Want to Wear a Mask!  Texan responds: No, it won’t.

First National Face Mask Standards Published  Because God Forbid We Should Do Anything Without a National Standard.

Wuhan Lab Eligible To Receive US Taxpayer Funding Through 2024, NIH Confirms

Fauci Contradicts Himself on CNN to Defend VP’s ‘Starting From Scratch’ Lie

DNC TV: CNN’s Louis Dismisses Cuomo COVID Scandal as Not Really a ‘Cover-Up’

‘He Would Destroy Me’: New York Lawmaker Says Cuomo Threatened Him, Pressured Him To Lie

Democrats Continue to Misuse Pandemic Relief to Push Pre-COVID-19 Wish List  Duh.

Lame Claim: USA Today Exonerates Kaepernick Because Capitol Rioter Attacked Cop With Flagpole

Anti-BLM Group Threatens Production Of Colin Kaepernick’s New Netflix Series

Swalwell Pushes For ‘A White Nationalism Task Force’

School Principal: Race Traitors Needed to Dismantle Institutions

NYC public school asks parents to ‘reflect’ on their ‘whiteness’

Was America’s Brutal Racial History Really That Brutal?

Dem Congressman Sues Trump, Giuliani Over Capitol Riot

Teachers Refusing to Have Students Learn ‘Racist’ Shakespeare

Black McDonald’s Franchise Owner Sues Company Over Alleged Racial Bias

Survey Shows 90% Of Minneapolis Residents Don’t Feel Safe, 70% Say Others Are Afraid To Visit

Oregon Education Department Promotes Course on ‘Dismantling Racism in Math’  Not bad for the Whitest State in the Country.

Los Angeles DA Resigns From Attorney’s Association Over Lack Of Diversity, Group President Calls It A ‘Publicity Stunt’

State Superintendent Candidate Deletes Twitter Account, Apologizes After Saying She Was Called Racial Slur At 16

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Behind ‘Anti-Racist’ Math Push

Joy Reid Bashes Suffering Texans, Suggests They Had It Coming by Voting GOP  Black women have cold hearts.

Rioting Pays

Delivery Driver And Customer Have Epic Food Delivery Showdown

Bethany Mandel: White Privilege, Thy Name is Ashley Judd

Mayor Groot Calls for a Conversation on Tearing Down Chicago’s Five Lincoln Statues  BRAAAAAAAINS!

Shooting Leaves 8 Injured In Philadelphia

Northwestern’s Black History Month Program Includes Lesson on BDSM

Harvard Docs Say Trillions in Reparations Needed to Address COVID  Of course, they won’t have to pay it. It’s very easy to spend Other People’s Money, especially if you’re a professor.

Major Jewish groups split over Biden’s anti-Israel staffers

Biden’s limp reaction to Houthi terrorism reads like a parody

Media Silence After Biden Removes Petitioning From White House Website  I guess they realize that Biden, unlike Trump, doesn’t give a shit what the Dirt People think.

3 Actions by Biden Administration Could Cost Millions of Jobs

“Where The Hell Are We?” – Biden’s CNN Townhall Disaster Ignored By Mainstream Media

Kamala Harris Repeatedly Dodges Saying Teachers Can Safely Go Back To School Without Vaccines  You can get into trouble for what you say but not (these days) for what you dodge.

Nets Refuse to Criticize or Fact-Check Biden Lies, Walk Backs At Town Hall

‘It’s Not A Trick Question’: CNN Anchor Pushes Spokesperson For Kamala Harris To Stop Dodging On Teacher Vaccinations

Biden Backtracks on School Reopenings. Here’s How Left, Unions Put Ideology Before Students.

Biden Needs To ‘Stop Defining Himself As A Devout Catholic,’ Archbishop Says  Good luck with that. Unless he’s officially excommunicated, he’s going to continue pretending to be a Catholic.

Journalists Cheer As Jen Psaki Announces The Gulags Will Be Run By A Woman Of Color  Babylon Bee.

Biden Nixes Union Contract With Pro-Trump Labor Group

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It’s a captured Twitter thread, so if you’re comfortable navigating those, which I am not, you might find it educational.

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Today the French government published its defense in the court case brought by several environmental groups claiming that the French government is not keeping its commitments to the 2015 Paris agreement.

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Experimental physicists have developed the smallest microchips ever – 100 times smaller than conventional microchips. They believe that this next generation of microchips could lead to computers and phones running thousands of times faster.

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A conservative women’s group cannot paint its own mural on New York City streets even after Mayor Bill de Blasio allowed a yellow “Black Lives Matter” mural to be painted outside Trump Tower, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled on Thursday.

U.S. District Judge Lorna Schofield said Women for America First, a supporter of Republican former President Donald Trump, did not show that the city violated its First Amendment rights in rejected its mural “Engaging, Inspiring and Empowering Women to Make a Difference!”

The judge said the city may apply reasonable, viewpoint-neutral restrictions to street surfaces, which are typically reserved for signage to promote traffic safety and are not “message boards for private expression.”

Steve Sailer follows the Science.

Scientific-minded dissidents frequently compare today’s orthodoxy that the cause of whatever ails blacks is—and, indeed, must be—white racism to discarded scientific constructs such as phlogiston in chemistry and aether in physics. But the most informative comparison might be to the long, unfortunate hold of the miasma theory of disease on medical thought.

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One of the things that happened to stories was memetics. Stories proliferate or decline based on their own Darwinian logic. They may reproduce if they are funny, or if they flatter the listener, or if they are set to a catchy tune. Consider my simplified story of history: isn’t it pleasing in its symmetry? Doesn’t “both eras had their benefits and challenges” sound like something a sophisticated person would say? But memetics isn’t inherently hostile to truth and unity. It produces Harambe, not Lysenkoism. Stories, like Soviet agronomists, are corrupted by power.

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For almost a year, the central policy debate in most Western countries has been whether—and for how long—to impose lockdowns. Advocates of stringent lockdowns argue that measures such as stay-at-home orders and forced closures of businesses are necessary to save lives and prevent health-care systems from being overwhelmed. So-called “lockdown sceptics,” on the other hand, argue either that such measures are ineffective, or that their benefits are outweighed by the associated social and economic costs; and that a focussed protection strategy is preferable. (The term “lockdown,” as I am using it, does not encompass all non-pharmaceutical interventions. In particular, I am excluding non-onerous, common-sense measures like asking symptomatic individuals to self-isolate, encouraging vulnerable people to work from home, and restricting large indoor gatherings.)

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A group of Utah parents has prompted a review of an “equity book program” in their local school district after a teacher read a book favorable to transgenderism to a class of third graders.

The book, “Call Me Max,” written by transgender-identified author Kyle Lukoff, follows the story of a girl wanting to be seen as a boy.

The book is a transparent attempt to make children comfortable with the idea of changing gender. According to the book’s description, it is “a sweet and age-appropriate introduction to what it means to be transgender.”

Some parents, however, saw the book as an attempt to indoctrinate their children into a false view of gender and sex.

To their credit, they did something—and their actions have made a difference.

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Note that she’s very very white. The Crust takes care of its own.

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Note the smear word ‘flee’. There’s nothing that a U.S. Senator can do to cope with a state-controlled agency’s power mistakes that requires him to be on the scene. If I could have gotten to Mexico, I would have gone.

Biden, as President, has more tools at his disposal to help such a crisis than a Senator. But Biden did — wait for it — exactly nothing. (Oh, now that the crisis is solving itself, they’re providing a bunch of diesel-powered generators — how about those fossil fuels! — which, I predict, will not ever be used.)

UPDATE: Media Informs Ted Cruz You Can Only Travel During A Crisis If You’re A Democrat  Babylon Bee.

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Because they’re assholes. Ask me a hard one.

Democrats: Party of Fear – Party of Hate – Party of Death.

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Where they will sit in a warehouse, unused, like the stuff they sent Louisiana for Katrina and to Puerto Rico for whatever the name of their hurricane was, while politicians and government employees wrangle over who gets the swag and who gets the credit.

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Can’t fault his priorities.

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Why not? He needs a hobby.

Alex Lasry, the 33-year-old son of a billionaire Democratic megadonor with alleged Russian mob ties, launched a Senate campaign in Wisconsin on Wednesday.

“We need a new way of thinking and a new perspective,” the wealthy Milwaukee Bucks executive said in his announcement video. Lasry is running to succeed Republican senator Ron Johnson, who has not revealed whether he will run for reelection.

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North Carolina Democratic Senate hopeful Jeff Jackson backed a bill that would immediately grant voting rights to convicted felons—including murderers and rapists—upon their release from prison.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit against Amazon on Tuesday night alleging that the online behemoth bypassed regulations meant to protect its workers from COVID-19.

The lawsuit claims that since the pandemic began in March the company refused to adopt legally required safety measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus in its two New York City facilities. It also alleges that Amazon did not adequately sanitize and close its facilities, adopt necessary social distancing measures or notify its employees of possible coronavirus exposures.

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The lawsuit follows a complaint from Amazon against James made last week in an effort to block it. The company alleged that James was trying to oversee activities and policies that fell under federal law, putting them outside of her jurisdiction and invalidating the suit as a result.

I think Amazon can afford better lawyers than the State of New York can. Of course, the Halfrican New York AG doesn’t care about winning the case (although that would be nice)  but mainly about harvesting the headlines.