Taki takes a look around.

Uncharacteristically, the golden geese are fleeing south in April, and by that I mean the fat cats are fleeing to Florida and other points south, leaving the muggers, the homeless, the gang members and Taki behind. Tax-heavy high-cost Bagel may be a magnet for criminals but it’s a turn-off for banks and investment houses that are drawn to low-tax states like Florida and Texas. Here are the facts: crime and disorder are way up, homicides have spiked to 46.7 percent and shootings 97 percent. It is the largest increase in at least 60 years. New bail laws turning every criminal suspect loose have emptied the jails. Homelessness has hit a level unseen since the Great Depression. The Bagel has 80,000 homeless, some of them parked outside glitzy Park Avenue abodes like mine.

Taxes are exorbitant and going up even further. Sales taxes are the highest in the nation, as is the cost of living. What do Bagel-dwellers get in return? From what I’ve seen, soaring crime, public spaces occupied by the mentally ill and the homeless and a non-stop campaign by the news media against white supremacists, a species I have yet to encounter in the mean streets of Noo Yawk.

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Apple goes far to make its devices seamless and attractive, but it wants to go further and create controls that are invisible until you need them.

Apple already goes to thoroughly unreasonable, impractical lengths to hide elements of devices that other manufacturers wouldn’t even think of. Just look at the light that tells you a Mac mini is on.

If that device isn’t on, there’s no light. That’s not to say the light is switched off, that it’s blank, but rather that it is vanished.

You can call it over-engineering and you can call it unnecessary, but it’s Apple’s acute attention to detail — and the company wants to do more of it.

I don’t like this trend.

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A North Carolina teacher’s lesson on slavery included a discussion question that downplayed the Holocaust and likened 19th-century Americans to Nazis.

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If you have the misfortune to follow the dreary climate change business, you’ll know that one of the fine points is which long-term emissions forecast to plug into your model. Never mind the accuracy of the models for now—even a good model is vulnerable to the age-old GIGO problem—”garbage in, garbage out.” In climate model forecasting, if you have an absurd emissions forecast, you’ll get absurd (but headline-grabbing) results.

People who follow this subject have long known that the emissions forecast that generates most of the scary headlines of the last few years is known as RCP 8.5 (short for “Representative Concentration Pathways”—never use plain language when you can use forbidding jargon), and most experts agree that its very high emissions forecast is bunk.

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A chemical abortion is a two-pill regimen that ends the life of the baby and poses health risks to the mother.

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When Congress agreed to finance the Interstate Highway System in 1956 by dedicating taxes on gasoline, tires, autos, and trucks to a Highway Trust Fund, it also adopted a policy of not spending more from the fund that was actually collected in highway fees into that fund. This delayed completion of the interstate highways because inflation increased costs without increasing gas taxes and other revenues, but it ensured that the fund remained solvent.

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That is no longer the case, and today Congress spends about $14 billion more per year out of the fund than it collects in highway user fees. Yesterday, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing on the “long-term solvency of the highway trust fund.” Most of the witnesses at the hearing spoke about problems with gasoline taxes and why they should be replaced with mileage-based user fees.

That’s all well and good, but everyone seems to have lost sight of why the trust fund is insolvent. It isn’t, as asserted by one of the speakers (whose testimony was otherwise fine), because of “revenue shortfalls.” Instead, it was because of Congressional overspending.

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Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony from Kristen Clarke, Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. Clarke appeared along with Todd Kim, the nominee to head the Environment and Natural Resources Division. This meant a pretty easy time for Kim.

Clarke, by contrast, came under heavy fire. She tried to deflect it through a combination of lies and nonsense.

Consider her exchange with Sen. Ted Cruz. In June 2020, Clarke wrote an article for Newsweek called “I Prosecuted Police Killings. Defund the Police — But Be Strategic.” So Cruz asked Clarke whether she still favors defunding the police.

Clarke responded that she doesn’t support defunding the police, and that she wrote the Newsweek article to make it clear that she does not support defunding the police (she later made clear that she equates “defunding” the police with investing fewer resources in the police). Clarke blamed the title of the article, which called expressly for defunding the police, on Newsweek.

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During the George Floyd riots in Minnesota last Summer, the first night or two of violence was carried out predominantly by locals. But then the professional rioters and career criminals arrived, in the person of Antifa. That seems to be happening again, as Fox Newsreports, with reporter Mike Tobin on the scene.

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Don’t like the rules you find? Find some rules you like.

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An elderly retired French businessman-politician and his wife were beaten and robbed in their home by four African culture-enrichers. The incident is fraught with irony, since the two victims are well-known “refugees welcome” people.

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While reporting on the funeral for slain Capitol police officer Billy Evans on Tuesday, the media skirted around the fact that his killer was an avid Nation of Islam supporter

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From time to time others have noted that today’s leftism is a de facto religion, with its own creed and rituals. With the recent Gallup survey of church-going practices of Americans showing that fewer than half attend religious services, perhaps it is not surprising that politics has become a substitute faith.

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“Researchers can produce tetraalkoxysilane from sand through a reaction with alcohol and a catalyst by removing water, which is a byproduct of the reaction,” says Yuya Sakai, lead author of the study. “Our idea was to leave the water to shift the reaction back and forth from sand to tetraalkoxysilane, to bond the sand particles with each other.”

CNN is sore afraid.

‘s the latest — and best-funded, with an initial budget of $20 million — example of how the 45th President and his supporters are building out a constellation of groups (political, legal and policy) that parallel the structure of the national Republican Party.

And yet more evidence that not only does Donald Trump have no plans to step away from politics, but that he is also constructing what amounts to a shadow version of the GOP.

Lessons In Woke “Science”: Covid-19 And Climate

Aussie ABC: Deal with Climate Guilt by Shifting Blame to Everyone Else

Man with 2 kids burglarizes NYC frozen yogurt shop

BLM’s ‘Marxist’ Co-Founder Raked In $20,000 A Month As Chairwoman Of Jail Reform Group

BLM’s Latest Martyred Saint: Daunte Wright Had a Warrant Out for His Arrest for Attempted Aggravated Robbery Charges After ‘Choking and Holding a Woman at Gunpoint for $820 in 2019’

Police Fire Tear-Gas, Flashbangs As Minnesota Riots Enter 3rd Night

Comedian John Cleese ‘Apologises’ For Making “Fun Of White English People”

The Media’s Selective Reporting of Alleged Criminals’ Race  The dog that never barks.

Pigmentation Nation

Rand Paul Calls Out Democrats’ Jim Crow Legacy at Election Forum

Expert Blames George Floyd’s Death on Heart Rhythm Problem

Meet Kimberly Gardner, the Rogue Prosecutor Whose Policies Are Wreaking Havoc in St. Louis

‘I Refuse To Stand By’: Teacher Speaks Out Against ‘Antiracist’ School As Peddling ‘The Opposite Of Truth’

 Minnesota Mob Intimidates City Council

Reuters ‘Fact Check’ Rushes to Defend Democrat H.R. 1 Voting Bill

Follow the Science! Washington Post Proves, Using Numbers, That Right-Wing Violence Was 73/25ths More Common Than Left-Wing Violence in 2020

‘New Amsterdam:’ Protections Against HIV-Tainted Blood Donations ‘Bigoted,’ ‘Hate’

UN Chief Wants To Slap Billionaires With Wealth Tax Over Pandemic Profits

Employee refuses to download app that monitors location, says it got her fired

60 Arrested in 3rd Night of Violent Minnesota Shooting Protests  Prediction: Not a single one of them will do any time.

Civil Unrest Continues In Minneapolis: Mass Detainments, Unlawful Assembly Declared

‘Can’t Be Reformed’: Ben & Jerry’s Says Police System ‘Must Be Dismantled’

Nancy Pelosi’s Husband Buys Microsoft Ahead of Big Govt Contract

Protesters Set Police Building Ablaze, Riot Declared In Portland  I’m surprised that Portland has any people left. I’d have moved somewhere else after the first riot.

“Riot” Declared After Protesters Set Fire To Portland Police Association Building

Amazon Creates Online Looting App To Allow The Timid To Loot From Home  Babylon Bee.

Biden Nominee For Border Chief Called Covington Kids ‘Cruel,’ Questioned Their ‘Parenting’

Top Trump Admin Official Praises Biden For Adopting ‘Nearly All’ Of His Predecessor’s China Policies

Texas Nonprofit Hires Biden Transition Official – Then Lands Half-Billion Dollar Contract To Manage Border Crisis  Doing well by doing good.

DeSantis: Florida Continuing With Lawsuit Over Biden ICE Policy

Steve Scalise Says VP Harris Is MIA At The Border, So He Put Her Face On A Milk Carton

Amid Economic Woes, Biden Pushes to Make Megan Rapinoe Richer

Senate Confirms Warren Ally to Lead Top Wall Street Regulator

Expert Says Cop Was Justified in Pinning Down George Floyd

‘I Lost My Job, But I Still Have My Integrity’: Brooklyn Center City Manager Who Was Fired For Calling For Due Process Speaks Out

MSNBC’S Johnson Claims Cops Are as Bad as Criminals, Shouldn’t Be Armed

Officer Who Shot, Paralyzed Jacob Blake Reinstated Without Charges After Investigation

Squad Calls to Abolish Police, Top Dems Distance Themselves

CNN Declares War on ‘Racist’ Fonts

Deranged Hollywood Now Thinks Lefty Aaron Sorkin Is ‘Right-Wing’???

‘Grossly Misplaced Charges Of Antisemitism’: 1,500 Rabbis Back Letter Condemning ADL For ‘Attack’ On Tucker Carlson

Ocasio-Cortez Claims Police Bodycams Don’t Work Because ‘Indefensible System’ Will ‘Find A Way’ To Kill ‘In Other Ways’

‘Every Cop In America Should Be Terrified’: Tom Cotton Accuses Kristen Clarke Of ‘Jumping To Conclusions’ On Jacob Blake

STEADFAST! Whitlock ‘Won’t Post Bail’ After Twitter Censored Him for Roasting BLM Leader

WashPost OBSESSES Over Tucker With 11 Articles in ONLY Six Days

The Loss of Liberties During the Coronavirus Pandemic

UK Cops Break Down Door, Arrest Man For Violating COVID Quarantine Rules

Denmark to permanently cease using AstraZeneca vaccine

Gov. Ron DeStantis BLASTS Big Tech for Censoring COVID-19 Roundtable

California County To Launch Digital Vaccine Passport For Your “Peace Of Mind”

The Covid culture that is Australia

Whitmer’s Health Director Reportedly Vacationed As Michigan’s Coronavirus Cases Surged  I’d have done the same. Who wants to be around a bunch of whiny sick Democrats?

Watch: Rand Paul Demands “Petty Tyrant” Fauci Be “Removed From TV For Fear Mongering”

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The first Police Officer is a 26-year veteran of the department, with an excellent record. This Police Officer made a traffic stop, of a vehicle with expired license tabs. When the Officer ran the plates through the criminal justice database, the Officer discovered that the driver of the vehicle had an outstanding arrest warrant for assault, and carrying a firearm. The Officer then got out of the squad car to speak with the driver. A few minutes later, after the driver had worked himself loose from the handcuffs being applied, and gotten back into the vehicle to flee, the Police Officer shot him with her gun, while shouting “I’ll tase you, I’ll tase you!” This Officer will be charged with second-degree manslaughter. This Officer’s name and photo is all over the news, everywhere, and riots, burning, and looting are occurring all over the country, in support of the criminal victim.

The second Police Officer was present at a “riot” (also described in all of the Press as an “armed insurrection”). The Officer, in the middle of a crowd of trespassers, shot and killed a “rioter”, while said rioter was standing near a window. The person who was killed was a Veteran, with no criminal record of any kind, and was not engaging in any kind of destruction, nor was the person armed with any kind of weapon. Due to “lack of sufficient evidence”, this Police Officer will not be charged with any crime. This Officer has not been identified in the press, and no riots, looting, or burning are taking place in support of the innocent victim.

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And who could blame them? It’s usually a safe bet that the right thing to do is the opposite of what Democrat politicians and the Narrative Media are yelling at you to do.

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While the media is constantly accusing the right of being domestic terrorists, left-wing extremism is routinely ignored by the media. A Democrat congresswoman’s cry for policing and prisons to be abolished should make the news but as often is the case, it was ignored by ABC, NBC and CBS.

Following the fatal police shooting of Daunte Wright, “squad” member Rashida Tlaib didn’t try to quell the unrest with responsible calls for peace and justice, even as riots erupted in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota and elsewhere. Instead, she threw gasoline on the fire by accusing every police department in the country of being “inherently racist” and demanded they be abolished, despite “defunding” being linked to rising crime.

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The Star Tribune keeps a running toll of deaths resulting from police encounters in Minnesota. For the period 2000 to 2021, the total is 207, of whom 54% were white and 27% were black. Of course, suspect behavior has a lot to do with the likelihood of a fatal encounter with law enforcement. This is evident from the fact that only 3% of those killed by police have been women.

This total of 207 includes many cases–I assume a substantial majority–where the killing was in obvious self-defense, or for other reasons there was no real question about its propriety. Still, even if we take the raw total of 207 deaths, it represents by my calculation around 0.0002 of all deaths in Minnesota during that time period. It seems remarkable that such a tiny number of occurrences have come to play such a major role in our public life.

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Remember Apu, the kindly Indian shopkeeper from The Simpsons? Well, in the time since most people have stopped watching that 32-year-old show, past its prime for at least two of its three decades, the world has come around to deciding that he is actually a really racist character, perhaps even a 2D agent of white supremacy.

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Recently, there has been a drumbeat of expressed concern by the left — the Democrats and their ever faithful messengers, the press — over a rise in hate crimes committed against Asians.  The shooting in Atlanta, in which six of the nine victims were Asian women, brought on a rush to declare this an anti-Asian hate crime.  It turned out, however, that the fact that a majority of the victims were Asians had nothing to do with the shooter’s motivation.  More recently, the brutal attack, caught on video, of a man shoving an elderly Asian woman to the ground, kicking her several times, and shouting “you don’t belong here” was, indeed, a hate crime.  So leftists were palpably anxious to declare it a symptom of their go-to faux bogey, white supremacy.  But the facts revealed that the anti-Asian assailant was a black man and a convicted murderer (of his mother!) out on parole.  (It is inconvenient for this perfidious white supremacist narrative that blacks have committed a sizeable number of the assaults against Asians.)

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You might be woke if: you call a guy a bigot because he doesn’t want to date a “girl” who has a penis.

You might be woke if: you think people are racists because of the color of their skin.

You might be woke if: you think transvestites should host children’s reading events but it’s “cultural appropriation” for a woman to wear hoop earrings.

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Parents in Chicago protested outside the Chicago Teachers Union’s (CTU) headquarters Tuesday to demand the union not continue delaying the reopening of classrooms for high school students, ABC 7 reported.

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Due to the government mandated coal phase-out, 11 coal-fired power plants with a total capacity of 4.7 GW were shut down on January 1, 2021. But the coal phase-out ended up lasting only 8 days, after which several power plants had to be reconnected to the grid due to a prolonged low-wind period.

The line for ‘I Told You So’ forms on the right….

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For years, activists have demanded stricter gun control in America, on the cogent (though perhaps unconstitutional grounds) that fewer guns will save the lives of young people in American cities.

Cockburn has an alternative proposal: instead of gun control, America needs celebrity control. Lacking any skin in the game and let loose on Twitter, famous people are saying extremely insane things that are going to get people killed.

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In an announcement on Tuesday, America’s telecoms watchdog said it had written to cellular network operators asking them to detail the free robocall blocking tools they provide to consumers. It also released two cease-and-desist letters against two robocalling hosts and said it would track the agency’s actions in implementing a new anti-robocall law.

Just as with an announcement yesterday pushing an internet speed measuring app, the measures taken are soft, rather than strong enforcement, but indicate a clear shift in priorities under the FCC’s new chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel.

NoMoRobo is your friend.

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The Florida House took the unusual step of denouncing democratic socialism Tuesday with the sponsor of a non-binding resolution invoking the name of the country’s most prominent champion of the ideology, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, in calling it a threat to American democracy.

Though the resolution has little legal significance, Democrats disavowed the bill as political theater in a state where the specter of socialism and communism has become a potent political talking point, particularly among Florida’s sizable Hispanic electorate with relatives who have fled political turmoil of Cuba, Venezuela and other Latin American countries.

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In a comment to the video, an Instagram user asked: “Actual KKK in California in 2021?” to which Ortiz responded: “Yeah it’s called a democratic party.”

Another comment under his video asked “Why didn’t you mention BLM and antifa? We know it’s most likely set up by one of those.” In response, Tito said: “I should just say the Democratic party.”

Governor Blocks Biden Administration From Bringing Unaccompanied Migrant Kids To South Carolina

WashPost ‘Reporter’ Aaron Blake Falls On His Face Over Biden Hiding from Media

How Joe Biden Created The Border Crisis

When It Comes To Inflation, What One Does And Doesn’t See Is All Political

Report: Biden Infrastructure Plan Now Includes $300 Million To Bail Out Essential Looters  Babylon Bee.

Texas, Missouri Sue Biden Administration Over Policies Allowing Immigrants To Stay In US

FLASHBACK: Biden Says US Troops Will Be Out Of Afghanistan By 2014

WashPost Submerges Kamala’s Border Duties, Promotes Her ‘Mark’ on the ‘Crochet Scene’

Biden Admin Gives Valuable Defense Contract to China Collaborator

Daunte Wright shooting: Brooklyn Center city manager fired after call for due process for police officer

‘It’s Not Justice’: St. Paul Mayor Says Cops ‘Landing In Jail’ For George Floyd And Daunte Wright Is Just The Start

Private Conversations at Home ‘Stirring up Hatred’ Are Now a Criminal Offence in Scotland

OOPS: Tucker Carlson Reveals The ADL Is Guilty Of The Same Supposed Sin Over Which They Called For His Firing

Tucker’s Overton Window-Smashing Broadside

Steak-Umm Brand Sandwich Meat Takes Aim At Neil deGrasse Tyson On Twitter

CNN’s John Berman Loves to Hate ‘Flip-Flopping’ Nikki Haley…As He Flip-Flops

Hack John Oliver Back to Protecting ‘A*sshole’ Cuomo After Brief Show of Backbone

The Boycott Wave Has Only Just Begun

‘Our Focus Was To Get Trump Out Of Office’: Project Veritas Video Appears To Show CNN Tech Director Discussing Network’s ‘Propaganda’

‘We Were Creating A Story — Our Focus Was To Get Trump Out’: CNN Director Busted By Undercover Veritas Operative

NBA Coach Likens Cancel Culture to Germany Stamping out Nazism

Facebook’s Oversight Board Will Remove Posts Flagged By Users  The Karens are now officially in charge.

Boston hospital set to offer ‘preferential care based on race’

Netflix Family Sitcom Lectures Teen Girl About ‘White Privilege’

BLM = Buy Large Mansion

BLM Co-Founder’s Consulting Firm Goes Offline As Reports Expose Her Multimillion Dollar Real Estate Buying Spree

MSNBC Lamely Tries to Blame ‘White Supremacy’ for Black-on-Asian Violence

Footlocker Looted Again Despite $200 Million In Donations To BLM Causes  I imagine Louis Vuitton and Gucci have the same problem.

I Refuse to Stand by While My Students Are Indoctrinated

Riot? What Riot?

Current climate model simulations overestimate future sea-level rise

Major News Outlets Pledge to Begin Calling ‘Climate Change’ a ‘Climate Emergency’

Energy Charade Update

Caught: CNN Staffer Admits Network Reported ‘Propaganda’ to ‘Get Trump Out of Office’

Here’s the biggest myth in the Republican Party today (CNN) Chris Cilizza lectures you on people he doesn’t know and wouldn’t understand if he did.

‘No More Policing’: Rep. Rashida Tlaib Claims Daunte Wright Shooting Was ‘Government Funded Murder’

Big Government Rides To The Rescue Of Labor Unions

Labor Union That Failed To Organize Amazon Workers Declares Moral Victory, Promises To Challenge Election Results. Here’s What Happens Next

Sen. Warnock Admits To Signing Email With Fake Info About Georgia Voting Law

‘Evolving Science’: NCAA Will Pull Championships Out Of States That Ban Trans Athletes

Man at Riot Curses Out CNN LIVE: Press ‘Twisting Up’ Story, ‘Makes This Worse’

How Far Left Infiltrated Corporate America and What Can Be Done About It

The Prince of the Wokes Joins the American One-Party State

Woke-a-Cola: How To Destroy A World-Leading Brand In 60 Seconds

Chinese Propagandists Tout NYT Columnist Thomas Friedman’s Comments

Portlanders Join Nationwide Riots After Cops Kill Minnesota Man; Hurl Bottles, Rocks, & Fireworks  Any excuse to riot will do.

More Than 35 Conservative Organizations Sign Pledge to Reject Big Tech Money

Google Shadow-Bans Searches For “Riots Today” Following Violent Unrest In Minnesota

GM and Ford CEOs Lead Michigan Group Opposing Voter Restrictions

Colbert Balks at Boehner, ‘Crazy’ Left Doesn’t Have Media on Their Side!

School custodian refuses to download app that monitors location, got her fired

Crime and no punishment in Minneapolis

They ‘Make Me Sick’: Kaiser Health News Editor-In-Chief Demands ‘Assault-Style Weapons’ Ban

Watch Protesters Take To The Streets Of DC For Daunte Wright  Any excuse for a riot will do.

Big Corporations Now Deploying Woke Ideology the Way Intelligence Agencies Do: As a Disguise  Glenn Greenwald.

MSNBC host, top House Dem peddle misleading info about waiting periods to legally purchase guns

Minneapolis City Council To Offer Looting Passports  Babylon Bee.

NCAA “Unequivocally Supports” Transgender Biological Male Participation In College Women’s Sports

CNN’s Stelter mocked for complaining Fox News journalists haven’t shared enough ‘vaccine selfies’

‘Cause It’s None Of Your F*cking Business’: Greg Gutfeld Torches Brian Stelter On Vaccination-Selfie Criticism

Fauci Fallacies at All-Time High 

‘Faucian Bargain’ Does What Media Failed to Do by Examining Influence of Anthony Fauci

Pentagon Researchers Develop Microchip Detecting COVID-19 Under Skin  You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

The Latest Coronamadness From Germany

Study: COVID-19 Variant From UK Not Linked To More ‘Severe Disease Or Death’

Beijing Plans To Mix Chinese COVID Jabs To Boost Efficacy As ‘Vaccine Diplomacy’ Falters

China Blasts US Handling of COVID-19 as ‘Total Failure’  Like being called ugly by a frog.

US Halts Use Of J&J COVID Vaccine After 6 Cases Of Deadly Rare Blood Clots Identified

Biden Admin Puts Use Of Johnson & Johnson Vaccine On Pause As Six Of 7 Million Develop Blood Clots

The End of Hygiene Theater

Trump Blames “FDA’s Love For Pfizer” For Biden Admin Decision To Halt J&J Jabs

President Biden, Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Lopez, Faith Hill And Others Team Up For NBC Vaccine Special

Sanjay Gupta Breaks With CNN, Backs COVID Lab Escape Theory As ‘Simplest Explanation’

Here Are The Biden Administration’s 10 Great Ideas To Get Dumb Conservative Rednecks To Take The Vaccine  Babylon Bee.

A vaccination pause that seems senseless and harmful

Newsom Backs Down on Church Crackdown Following Supreme Court Smackdown

Andrea Mitchell Tries to Blame Michigan GOP for Whitmer’s COVID Failures

The perpetual pandemic

Gloomy NY Times Spreads Teachers Union-Backed COVID Pessimism

Canada Confirms First Case Of Deadly Blood Clots Tied To AstraZeneca Jab

You Can Take Your Dictatorship and Shove It!

Don’t go down to the pub today, because the Covid teddy bears may be there.

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Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.

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Without Trump, they’re really scrambling.

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Facebook’s Oversight Board just moved to OK even greater censorship, despite years of criticism of the site’s attacks against conservatives. The Board announced its intention to expand its ability to censor content by accepting appeals from users who have reported content that they disagree with.

The Oversight Board announced the decision to allow users to appeal complaints to its platform April 13 amidst an already tumultuous year for free speech. “Now, users can also appeal content to the Board which they think should be removed from Facebook or Instagram,” the Oversight Board said. “The Board will use its independent judgment to decide what to leave up and what to take down. Our decisions will be binding on Facebook.” It added that the option to appeal content would “be available to all users over the coming weeks.”

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It would certainly be appropriate for somebody to shoot Chelsea Handler. Not that I would ever advocate that, of course. Just sayin’.

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Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority (SCA) announced Tuesday that the Ever Given, a cargo ship that wedged itself in the canal late March, had been impounded pending $900 million in compensation.

The figure covers the costs of dislodging and maintaining the ship, along with the losses Egypt bore as a result of the six-day blockage, chairman of the SCA Osama Rabie told local outlet Al-Ahram.

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Armed thugs in Hong Kong broke into the printing facility of an anti-government newspaper to destroy its equipment, the latest example of what the paper says is the Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown on press freedom in the city state.

The Epoch Times, a paper founded by Chinese dissidents in 2000, said four intruders forced their way into the paper’s Hong Kong printing plant during the early hours of April 12. The intrusion marks the fifth time vandals attacked the printing facility since it was established in 2006.

Surveillance footage shows masked attackers, one of them armed with a knife, wielding sledge hammers to destroy printing equipment. The intruders scuttled away after two minutes, stealing a computer in the process.

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Apparently GQ is now officially a gay magazine. No surprises here.

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Just days after Baltimore’s progressive mayor announced a task force aimed at slashing the notoriously violent city’s police budget, Maryland Democrats killed a bill that would enhance penalties for those who use guns to commit violent crimes.

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Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, Police Officer Kim Potter, who fatally shot Black motorist Daunte Wright, 20, in a struggle after a traffic stop, has resigned along with the police chief.

Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott said the resignations came after the city council passed a resolution to dismiss both the Potter and her chief, Tim Gannon.

Potter, a 26-year veteran officer made the move “in the best interest of the community.”