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Having stumbled upon an effective way to steal a Presidential election, Democrats are scurrying to lock it into law.

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A few weeks ago I asked a fire fighter friend how they extinguish electric vehicle battery fires.

He said “Oh you mean like a Tesla or something? The answer is you can’t. You cordon off the area, and spray a fine mist of water on the fire to try to keep the temperature down until it finishes burning. Takes a few days until it is safe”.

Just in case you needed a reason not to buy an electric car. And don’t get me started about Tesla….

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Now a group of physicists have put together the first proposal for a physical warp drive, based on a concept devised back in the ’90s. And they say it shouldn’t break any of laws of physics.

 

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Get woke, go broke.

CNN.

Leading US grocery chains, pharmacies, retailers and auto manufacturers, including Target (TGT), Kroger (KR), CVS (CVS), Walgreens (WBA), Best Buy (BBY), Macy’s (M) JCPenney (JCP), Toyota (TM), GM (GM) and others, say they will continue to require mask wearing at their stores and facilities by both employees and customers. There are exceptions, however, and some business advocates are concerned that the end of these states’ mask mandates will create new challenges for companies and their workers.

Keep wearing your mask, health officials say after Gov. Greg Abbott lifts mask mandate (Texas TribuneO Of course they do.

Editorial: Don’t ditch masks yet. We’re still in a pandemic. (Austin American Statesman)

Texas still needs a mask mandate, governor (Dallas Morning News)

All the Narrative Media in Texas are trying to keep the panic goin’.

Canada’s Quarantine Hotels Backfire As People Starved

Sweden Moves To Protect Academic Freedom After Prof Quits COVID Research Due To Harassment

Anthony Fauci Pleads: Don’t Declare Victory  Gotta keep the panic goin’!

Big Business Using Government-Funded Vaccine Program To Scoop Up Data On Vaccine Recipients

‘Vial Of Death’: Louis Farrakhan Pushes Vaccine Conspiracy Theories In Videos Posted On Facebook, Twitter

CDC Director Implores Texans To Keep Wearing Masks Regardless Of Governor’s Orders

108 Illegal Immigrants With Coronavirus Released in Texas

Experts Warn Lifting Mask Mandates Could Contribute To Dangerous Spread Of Freedom  Babylon Bee.

CNN, MSNBC Pretend There’s a ‘Night & Day’ Difference Between Trump & Biden on Vaccines

‘It Has Been A Year Of Kids Suffering’: Latino Parents And Students Protest For San Francisco Schools To Reopen

Big Tech Platforms Allow Farrakhan to Spread Vaccine Conspiracies

James Cook University Walks Back Extreme Global Warming Coral Extinction Claims

Earth’s Oxygen-Rich Atmosphere Will Last Only Another Billion Years Yet another reason to panic?

California City Bans New Gas Stations, Says No More Pumps

United Nations Demands an End to Silicon Solar Panels and Wind Turbines  It’s not easy being green.

Black Lives Murdered

California Reopening Plan ‘Propagates Racism,’ LA Teachers Union Says

Teachers Union Allegedly Sends Emails To Racially Profile Los Angeles Parents Speaking To Media In Favor Of School Reopening

A double-standard in colorblind casting  Colored people are encouraged to play white people, but white people aren’t allowed to play colored people.

‘You Don’t Speak For The Black Community!’: Leo Terrell Goes After College Professor Over Canceling Dr. Seuss

Black Parents Plan School Reopening Rally After Teachers Union Claims White, Rich People Are Behind Push To Reopen

Elderly Woman Planning Her Son’s Funeral Killed After Shots Were Fired Into Residence

ABC Helps Mrs. Obama Sell Kids Books and Praise Woke BLM ‘Generation’

Mike Brown’s Father And Ferguson Protesters Demand $20 Million From Black Lives Matter

Again, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Serves as Communications Director for NAACP Boss

Is your three-month-old baby racist?  I certainly hope so.

Biden Announces All Bombs Used In The Middle East Will Be Purchased From Black-Owned Businesses  Babylon Bee.

Cuomo Claims CPAC Attendees Think Up ‘Wicked’ and ‘Magical’ ‘Ways to Kill’ Dems

Moping about Muppets: Another humiliation for Disney

Smith College controversy highlights struggles schools face in making racially equitable campuses (CNN) No, it just highlights the struggle schools face in hunting for heretics and sinners.

Meyers Mocks ‘Dumb’ Conservatives, ‘Invented Culture War Grievances’

U.S. Soccer Council Expels Former Paralympic Athlete For Speech Defending the Anthem

Designer Who Created CPAC’s Stage (The One Activists Decided Was Nazi Symbolism) Is ‘Very Liberal,’ Also Did Designs For MSNBC, Biden  But, of course, what matters is not what you meant, but what they imagine you meant.

D.C. Police Issue Emergency Alert On “Possible” Militia Plot To Breach Capitol Tomorrow  Put that right next to the ‘possible’ Global Warming.

Universal Orlando ‘Evaluating’ Seuss Landing After Pulling Dr. Seuss Books From Shelves

Quotes From Kamala, Obama Praising, Celebrating Dr. Seuss Go Viral During Push To Ban The Book

‘Biden Totally Caved’: Jesse Watters Says Teachers Unions ‘Held Students Hostage’ To Jump The Line On Vaccines

ICE Launches Human Smuggling Probe After Deadly Crash

‘We Should Be Stopping This’: Mark Morgan Says Biden Border Policy Is Empowering Cartels, Child Smuggling

Biden Admin Planning For Influx Of 117,000 Illegal Youths To US This Year

Biden, Senate Deal Cuts Off Relief Checks for Those Over $80K  The objective is, after all, to buy Underclass votes.

Becerra Confirmation Delayed By Split Committee Vote As Conservatives Ramp Up Pressure On Biden Nominee

SUV in Crash Came Through Hole in Border Fence

Twitter Account for Immigration and Customs Enforcement Alerts on Criminal Aliens Locked By Biden Administration

Number of Illegal Border Crossings Is Six Times What Obama Team Considered ‘Crisis’

Biden’s next big move could deliver a crippling blow to Trumpism (Washington Post) Except that there is no such thing as ‘Trumpism’ other than in the fantasies of proglodytes.

80 House Democrats Urge Biden to Reverse Trump’s Cuba Sanctions

Congressional Democrats Want To Make Ballot Harvesting The National Standard, Regardless Of What States Want

EXCLUSIVE: Pro-Market Economist RIPS Krugman Claim That ‘Too Much Choice Is Hurting America’

Glenn Greenwald Says ‘I Consider Tucker Carlson To Be A Socialist’  Surprised me too.

Study: Academics Support Conservative Discrimination

CBS Socialist Dokoupil ‘Very Excited’ By ‘Guaranteed Basic Income’

Chinese Court Calls Homosexuality a ‘Disorder,’ Will Disney and The NBA Boycott?

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The United States should issue letters of marque to fight Chinese aggression at sea.

I like it. It has texture, and scope.

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As we continue to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, many public schools have been closed for in-person instruction for nearly a year, thanks in large part to resistance from teachers’ unions. Meanwhile, children have been falling behind academically, mentally, and physically — and their families have been scrambling to search for education alternatives because of the traditional public school system’s unwillingness, and in some cases inability, to adapt to change.

The past year has exposed one of the main problems with K-12 education in the United States: there is a long-existing massive power imbalance between the public school monopoly and individual families.

Moeny for nothin’ and your checks for free….

Sarah Hoyt is just about fed up.

Years ago, when I blogged more regularly at Classical Values than here, the blog had a post on the current war on things that work.

What things? Well….. everything: from pirex apparently no longer being made with the stuff that made it actually more or less high-temp impervious, hard to break, etc; to dishwashers that take forever to wash, where dishes must be put into already washed and which, even so, often manage a great redistribution of grease and grit all over the dishes;to toilets that are “low flush” and thus use more water than ever because you have to flush them about five times, and still they won’t work; to cars–

Never mind. it would be easier to describe the things the left has left alone, instead of going after them like Don Quixote tilting against the last functioning windmill in the land, the one needed to grind wheat for his bread. To my knowledge they have yet to interfere with– wait, wait, let me think about it…. Um…. Okay, they haven’t yet dictated that every morning I must get dressed by first putting my pants on, and then putting on my underwear. However, rest assured this is probably around the corner, and just a matter of them getting a bee in their bonnect about some virtue signaling they can do relating to “the order in which humans get dressed.”

ZMan.

In the modern age, and really just in the last generation, this relationship has flipped around the other way. We have all the data we need for any question. We know more about world than we really want or need to know. What we lack is information and more important, trustworthy sources of information. Medieval man could rely on the Church or the local lord to maintain the rules of society. The only thing modern man can know about his sources of information is they are wrong.

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The first thing you should notice is the people most responsible for the tsunami of disinformation are claiming to be at war with disinformation. Unless this results in mass suicide by media and entertainment, it means they are lying. Note also the use of the term “expert” in that piece. There is no such thing as a disinformation expert, outside of the institutions promulgating disinformation. One cannot be an expert at doing something unless you are actually doing that thing.

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For centuries prior to the invention of sealed envelopes, sensitive correspondence was protected from prying eyes through complex folding techniques called “letterlocking,” which transformed a letter into its own secure envelope. However, locked letters that survive to the present are fragile and can be opened physically only by slicing them to pieces.

The new X-ray method offers researchers a non-invasive alternative, maintaining a letterpacket’s original folded shape. For the first time, scientists applied this method to “locked” letters from the Renaissance period, kept in a trunk that had been in the collection of the Dutch postal museum in The Hague, The Netherlands, since 1926.

We have the technology.

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The Phoenix Police Department says a man called for help saying a burglar tried getting into his home, and the incident ended with the caller in handcuffs.

In a social media post on March 1, the department stated, “A man calling to report a possible break-in, finds himself in handcuffs instead. While officers were searching his home for the alleged burglar, they located: 6,000 fentanyl pills, 392 grams of meth, $4,685.”

Be careful what you wish for.

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The eye drops don’t treat the cause of presbyopia but help treat its symptoms. Instead of targeting the eyes’ lens, the drops make the eyes’ pupils smaller, creating a pinhole effect that increases the depth of focus.

 

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Senate hopeful John Fetterman often touts his role in advocating for the release of harmless and “innocent” prisoners. A review of the Democrat’s record on commutation cases, however, shows the Democrat has voted to release violent criminals jailed for their roles in brutal murders.

As Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor, Fetterman leads the five-person Board of Pardons, which evaluates clemency applications in the state. Since taking on the job in 2019, the Democrat has voted to release more criminals sentenced to life in prison than any other member of the panel, state records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show.

Mike Pence.

Under the Constitution, elections are governed at the state level. And each state is required to appoint presidential electors “in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct.”

Many of the most troubling voting irregularities took place in states that set aside laws enacted by state legislatures in favor of sweeping changes ordered by governors, secretaries of state, and courts.

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This is why Texas is flourishing, and California is tanking.

There have been a lot of complaints, but I don’t see any movement to recall Greg Abbott.

Paul Mirengoff of PowerLine.

It says a lot that Andrew Cuomo became a media darling even as his policies caused thousands of deaths in New York nursing homes, but now, suddenly, is the subject of impeachment talk because three women have accused him of mild or borderline sexual harassment. What it suggests to me is that our priorities are skewed and that our culture is becoming frivolous.

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Outgoing Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron claimed the Post has no “ideological attachment” to the Democrats. But the front of Tuesday’s Style section had a splashy article headlined “The cachet of having Jill Biden as a customer.”

The paper that now touts merchants getting thrills up their leg for a Jill Biden visit is the same paper where the “gender and society” columnist compared Melania Trump to a “garage-sale lampshade.”

Cancel Culture Comes For Dr. Seuss

Too Late: Former Cuomo-Worshiper Colbert Suddenly Finds Criticism for Scandal-Laden Governor

Ivy League ‘Wokes’ are the Biggest Domestic Violent Extremism Threat

Treating Antifa, White Supremacy Equally Is Insulting To Injured, Killed Capitol Police Officers, Durbin says

‘The View’ Uses Cuomo Accusations To Bash Donald Trump And Jim Jordan: ‘Enough Is Enough’

Amazon changes new app icon after design is compared to Hitler mustache

Public School Teachers Issue Students Their Summer Book-Burning Lists  Babylon Bee.

Penguin Random House Announces Revised Dr. Seuss Book ‘Oh, The People You’ll Cancel!’  Babylon Bee.

Laying Down the Law! Iowa Legislature Joins Fight Against Big Tech

Hollywood FREAKS: Hyatt Will Feel ‘Imminent Boycotts’ For Hosting CPAC ‘Nazis’

Majority of Academics Support Discriminating Against Conservatives, Study Shows

Incoming NYC Schools Chancellor Backs Claim That America Was ‘Built On Lies’

Tea and Racial Sympathy

Bill Clinton: ‘Vernon Jordan Was a Wonderful Friend’  Not bad for an Oppressed Person of Color.

But He Was Woke! Media ‘Shocked’ Atlanta Hawks Fire Losing Coach

Denver Teenagers Charged In Unprovoked Shooting Case Of 32-Year-Old Mother

The Price Tag for Academia’s ‘Fake Racism’

REPORT: Arizona Education Department Provides ‘Equity Toolkit’ That Shows Racism Starts At 3 Months Old

A Texas city had a bold new climate plan – until a gas company got involved (The Guardian)

Why ‘Social Cost of Carbon’ Is Most Useless Number You’ve Never Heard of

CBS Cheers Biden as on the ‘Side’ of Workers in Union Battle  Forget all those union jobs he killed by cancelling the Keystone pipeline.

House Democratic Lawmakers Introduce Wide-ranging Climate Bill

Historical UK Sea Levels

Squaring the illegals circle

Progressives Fume At Biden As $15 Minimum Wage Hike Fails

Biden’s Protection of Murderous Saudi Despots Shows the Hidden Reality of U.S. Foreign Policy  Blenn Greenwald.

Ilhan Omar Calls Out Biden Administration, Introduces Bill To Sanction Mohammad Bin Salman

‘They’re Exactly So-Called Cages’: Immigration Expert Explains What’s Happening At The Border

Only ABC Discovers Illegal Immigration Surge Under Biden

States Act To Protect Rights While White House Mulls Gun Control Moves

The worst-kept secret: Conservatism has no value(s) (Washington Post)

Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders propose 3% wealth tax on billionaires (CNBC) The crazy is strong today.

Trump and the Republican revolt against democracy, explained in 13 charts (Vox)

Kinzinger’s allies launch super PAC to defend Republicans who impeached Trump  (CNN)

‘A Foil Against Donald Trump’: NY Post’s Miranda Devine Warns That Cuomo Is Expendable Now That He’s ‘Served His Purpose’

WashPost Boss Cracks Us Up: We’re Not ‘Ideologically Attached’ to the Democrats!

Welcoming ‘Refreshing’ Biden White House, Still Cursing ‘Horrible’ Republicans

‘You Didn’t Answer Me!’: CNBC Host Clashes With Sen. Elizabeth Warren Over ‘Ultra-Millionaire Tax’ Proposal  No Democrat has ever seen a pocket that she didn’t want to pick.

COVID-19 Relief Package Could Send Up To $50 Million To Abortion Providers

FBI Director: Capitol Riot Was Domestic Terrorism  Funny how he doesn’t seem worried about BLM and AntiFa.

91% of COVID-19 Bill Is Just ‘Democrat Wish List,’ Rep. Ted Budd Says  My, what a surprise.

POLL: 71% Of Americans Believe Antifa Is A Domestic Terrorist Organization  I’m worried about the other 29%.

Indian Nations University Student Paper Editor Sues School For Restricting Speech

ICE’s Twitter Account Warning Public Of Fugitive Immigrants With Criminal Backgrounds Locked

YouTube Suspends Rudy Giuliani For False Election Claims  It’s all about the Narrative.

Amazon Sued for Alleged Race, Gender Bias in Corporate Hires  What goes around, comes around.

Dems Jumpstart Gun-Control Efforts

Welsh Man Arrested, Claims He Was Strip-Searched For Going For A Walk Too Far From Home

Japanese Woman Dies After Taking COVID-19 Vaccine

Who killed Chicago?

“Freedom Bracelet” Tracking Device Launched As Alternative To Quarantine  ‘Your papers, please!’

These Three Nightly News Programs Worked Overtime To Ignore Cuomo’s Nursing Home Scandal In 2020

California Reopening Plan ‘Propagates Racism,’ LA Teachers Union Says

School parents are mad as hell and they’re not going to take this anymore

COVID-19 cases aren’t dropping anymore (Popular ‘Science’) Gotta keep that panic goin’!

What kids know—and don’t know—about COVID-19  I’d be more interested in what they know that ain’t so.

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Of course, to a writer for The Atlantic, this would be a disaster.

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If you are like most economists—until a couple of years ago, it was virtually all economists—you are not greatly troubled by this story, which is, with some variation, the consensus long-arc view of economic history. The machinery of innovation, after all, is now more organized and sophisticated than it has ever been, human intelligence is more efficiently marshaled by spreading education and expanding global connectedness, and the examples of the Internet, and perhaps artificial intelligence, suggest that progress continues to be rapid.

But if you are prone to a more radical sense of what is possible, you might begin to follow a different line of thought. If nothing like the first and second industrial revolutions had ever happened before, what is to say that anything similar will happen again? Then, perhaps, the global economic slump that we have endured since 2008 might not merely be the consequence of the burst housing bubble, or financial entanglement and overreach, or the coming generational trauma of the retiring baby boomers, but instead a glimpse at a far broader change, the slow expiration of a historically singular event. Perhaps our fitful post-crisis recovery is no aberration. This line of thinking would make you an acolyte of a 72-year-old economist at Northwestern named Robert Gordon, and you would probably share his view that it would be crazy to expect something on the scale of the second industrial revolution to ever take place again.

The essence of Progressivism is that progress in the modern world is inevitable — that’s the Right Side of History they keep nattering about — as long as we change enough stuff to allow progress to happen. Since progress is inevitable and progress requires change, then any change will ultimately produce progress, and it doesn’t really matter what change it is. Conservatives, on the other hand, see that history teaches us that change can be either good or bbad, so we have to be careful about what changes we make.

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Presumably it will have a dependable supply of electricity — until it catches on fire.

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The NYT wrote that the beer aging situation was a “first-of-its-kind monthslong experiment in deep-water beermaking,” and it’s not really clear right now how the thieves managed to locate the beer and break it loose.

I am not making this up.

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It seems obvious, once you think about it.

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eff McAdam was giving a report from the street about Comic-Con’s in-person events being canceled during the coronavirus pandemic, and a gunfight involving the police started right behind him.

Didn’t know comic fans were that feisty.

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Q: Why is it that only Democrats want D.C. and Puerto Rico to be states?

A; Because they want four more guaranteed Senators.

If they could revoke Alaska’s statehood, I’m sure they would.

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The word ‘illegal’ doesn’t appear in the story. It doesn’t have to.

Steve Sailer.

The Hemingway-besotted economic historian has published a paper outlining his coming book.

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The agency in a press release described the Quidel Quick-Vue At-Home COVID-19 Test, the fourth one it’s approved since last November, as “another antigen test where certain individuals can rapidly collect and test their sample at home, without needing to send a sample to a laboratory for analysis.”

Good news, right? Right? Uh, no.

The at-home test will require a prescription from a doctor, for individuals suspected of COVID-19, “within the first six days of symptom onset.”

A PRESCRIPTION? FOR A SIMPLE TEST? A TEST DESIGNED TO BE DONE AT HOME BY AN INDIVIDUAL?

Is that not the most stupid, brain-dead, government-bureaucrat BULLSHIT that you’ve ever heard of?

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The New York Times’ lead pandemic reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr. got forced out of his 45-year-career over, more or less, the high crime of being an Old White Man With a Good Job Who Acts Like He Deserves It.

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A billion or two years ago, corals, brachiopods, and other sea creatures took carbon dioxide and calcium out of the seawater to build shells out of calcium carbonate, CaCO3. They were little biological factories capable of building giant structures like coral reefs. When they died they would sink to the bottom of the shallow seas and become limestone.

About 200 years ago, Joseph Aspdin figured out how to reverse the process, cooking limestone and clay at high temperatures, which decomposes after the water and carbon dioxide is driven off, leaving calcium oxide (CaO). This reacts with other ingredients, silicates and aluminates, to make Portland cement. Mix that with aggregate and water, and the mixture crystallizes and glues everything together into concrete.

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

n the wake of last Summer’s devastating riots in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Hollywood celebrities and left-wing politicians led by Kamala Harris joined forces to bail out violent criminals who committed arson, looting and other felonies. But apparently there were not enough such criminals to go around–not enough who got arrested, anyway–so the Hollywood/D.C. leftists bailed out everyone in sight. Along with other victims, one or more Minnesota women have now suffered kidnapping and assault as a result of Kamala Harris’s largesse.

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International Booker winner Marieke Lucas Rijneveld will not translate inaugural poet’s work into Dutch after anger that a Black writer was not hired.

I’m surprised that a Lefty rag like The Guardian even reported this.

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Nick Searcy had a message for former CIA Director John Brennan who said that he’s “increasingly embarrassed to be a white male these days.”

“That’s so weird, @JohnBrennan,” the 61-year-old actor tweeted Monday following Brennan’s comment that he was “embarrassed to be a white male.”

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Ignoring how numerous states across the country had their elections laws unconstitutionally changed in 2020 and certain changes led to mass confusion, Monday’s CBS Evening News was on a mission to smear the Republican Party with lies about them being against the right to vote. With the false claim of “rolling back voter rights,” anchor Norah O’Donnell gaslighted her audience in the opening tease about a supposed “Republican push in more than 40 states to limit voting access.”

When she finally got around to the story 10 minutes later, O’Donnell painted the GOP as radicals targeting minorities.

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Whether or not lockdowns are justifiable on public-health grounds, they certainly represent the greatest infringement on civil liberties in modern history. In the UK, lockdowns have contributed to the largest economic contraction in more than 300 years, as well as countless bankruptcies, and a dramatic rise in public borrowing.

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Rep. Katie Porter (D., Calif.), a self-styled working-class champion who has criticized the number of millionaires in Congress, has up to nearly $3 million in assets, filings show.

According to her most recent financial disclosure report, Porter has between $1.2 million and $2.8 million in assets. Porter’s leadership PAC, Truth to Power, recently solicited donations with a statement decrying the fact that millionaires comprise “a shockingly large portion of our federal government.”

I have no problem with legislators being millionaires, although it does rather make their Soak The Rich noises somewhat ludicrous.