China Starts Constructing $17 Billion Nuclear Power Plant

Cenozoic Ice Age Caused by Drop in CO2… Because Models

Europe’s ‘Unprecedented Manmade Floods’

Eemian Sea Level Adjusted Downwards

America’s Inflation Debate Is Fundamentally Confused (New York Magazine)

Illinois Democrat claims ‘a little bit of inflation’ is ‘good thing’ as prices surge  Of course! Why would you want your money to keep it’s purchasing power? Foolish mortal!

Terrifying new study says our conspiracy theory epidemic could be a result of human evolution (The Hill)

A terrifying new theory: Fake news and conspiracy theories as an evolutionary strategy (Salon)

Apple squashes employee surveys on pay equity

Texas Democrat Compares DC Stay With Dangerous Civil Rights Struggle

The Kink Kontroversy

NY Times RAGES at Fox as Their Reporter Repeats Obama Talking Points to Acosta

Group Sues for Right to Carry Guns at Minnesota State Fair

Trump was ‘in pain and afraid’ during post-Covid display of bravado, niece’s book says (The Guardian) The niece that hates him and never passes up an opportunity to trash-talk him? That niece?

The anti-American right (Vox)

New movement of religious extremists push ultra-conservative vision in US (The Guardian)

Trump praised Hitler’s “economic miracle” — and that’s even worse than it sounds (Salon) Hitler! Hitler! Hitler!

Spencer Cox, Utah governor, urged to change ‘obscene’ name

Real Journalism: CBS Devotes 14 Minutes to Latest Cuomo Accuser

Twitter Again Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Account for ‘Misleading’ Comments

Frontiers in linguistic sensitivity

Joy Reid Whines About Kyrsten Sinema Supporting ‘Jim Crow Filibuster’

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Could materials mined from the deep sea be the answer? That’s what commercial mining firms and scientists are trying to determine this month during two separate expeditions to a remote part of the Pacific Ocean known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ). A potential treasure chest of metals waiting to be plucked is at stake: This region of water is the size of the continental US, and its floor is littered with potato-sized metallic nodules, each containing high concentrations of cobalt, nickel, copper, and manganese, which are used in EV batteries. (Lithium, another key component, is primarily mined from Australia.) These materials would all be harvested as minerals, then refined into metals that could be used in batteries, usually by adding an oxide. Of course, the trick is getting the nodules off the bottom, which is 12,000 to 18,000 feet deep, without killing the creatures that live there or the fish that swim above.

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Rep. Andy Biggs filed articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday, accusing him of refusing to enforce laws against migrants illegal crossing the border, The Washington Times reported.

The Arizona Republican said in a statement that the country “is more in danger today” than when Mayorkas took office. He also insisted that the secretary “is failing to faithfully uphold his oath of office and is presiding over a reckless abandonment of border security and immigration enforcement, at the expense of the U.S. Constitution and the security of the United States.”

The statement added that “under his direction, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) “is systematically releasing COVID-19 positive aliens into our communities, subjecting the American people to unnecessary and avoidable risks.”

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They’re essentially a large international criminal enterprise.

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Here’s a fact for you. It is impossible to win a debate against a woke person. Not, of course, because they have the better arguments: woke people believe stuff that is indefensible tosh, all sane people know that. No, you won’t win because the woke person will immediately question your ethical motives and, from that point on, you won’t have a leg to stand on.

Whether you are telling them you believe that humans are best understood as being divided into two biological sexes, or whether you’re explaining that race relations are not best served by kneeling in obeisance to Marxist yobs, or whether you’re aiming to show that cancel culture is a threat to our basic freedoms, you’ll get the same response. You will be called a bigot, a racist, a transphobe, a hate-monger. And there won’t be a damn thing you can do about it.

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Most gang violence in Modern Multicultural Sweden that does not include rape involves enricher-on-enricher attacks. Knives, machetes, guns, AK-47s, hand grenades — the lethality of the gangs’ arsenals increases in direct proportion to the density of cultural enrichment in the no-go zones.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Climate Change

National Public Radio’s Misinformation on Wildfires and Climate: Part 1

The UN Climate Report: All Is Not Well—but All Is Not Lost

IPCC Press Conference (climate change related)

Climate change: IPCC report is ‘code red for humanity’ (BBC)

‘Nowhere to Run’: UN Report Says Global Warming Nears Limits  Has any U.N. official, ever, said that things are just fine?

“Code Red For Humanity” – UN Warns Climate Change Likely Can’t Be Stopped, And China Is Biggest Contributor  Which two things cancel each other out.

The lost history of the electric car – and the future of transport  Proglodyte dreams from The Guardian.

Here We Go Again: UN Climate Panel Continues Decades-Long Climate Fear Porn Tradition

Get Ready for Peak Climate Porn Today

Donald Trump Is Disappearing From Our Conversations (Newsweek) Like this one?

Christian member of Finnish Parliament faces prison for questioning support of gay pride parade

Transgender woman gets into wild confrontation with Star Wars store owner over ‘offensive’ sign

The San Diego judge trying to upend California gun laws

Yank Her Now! Subway Franchises Want Rapinoe Removed From Ad Campaign

Dangerous Words Matter

Immigration encouragement as the new form of hybrid warfare?

Teen Vogue Wants Your Kids to Be ‘Democratic Socialists’

US Businesses Pressured to Stop Importing China’s Forced Labor Products  Good luck with that.

Y Chromosome Suspended From Twitter For Calling Laurel Hubbard A Man  Babylon Bee.

‘Too Damn Late’: Chicago Police Union Head Slams Mayor Lightfoot After Officer Slain

New revelations expose future threat Trump poses (CNN)

Trump’s coup attempt grows even more worrisome as new details emerge (Washington Post)

The fallacy of ‘whiteness’ (Boston Globe)

Forget Cuomo! Dowd Claims Abbott, DeSantis ‘In A Race To Be The Worst Possible Governor’

Hateful Mika LIES, Trashes ‘DeSantis Variant’ Governor as a ‘Death Cult’

Wildfire restored a Yosemite watershed

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State District Judge Brad Urrutia in Travis County, which includes the state Capitol in Austin, Texas, issued the temporary restraining order late Sunday night, The Texas Tribune reported Monday.

The order is for 14 days unless extended by Urrutia and it blocks state police – on the permission of GOP Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP House Speak Dade Phelan – from “detaining, confining, or otherwise restricting” free movement of Texas House Democrats that fled the state to avoid losing votes in another special session, according to the report.

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Salafist jihadist terrorist groups on Aug. 5 detonated an explosive device outside the Bianco Resort. The groups had warned the resort’s owner that they would take retribution for the hotel’s hosting of a mixed-sex concert. No one was injured, but the attack damaged a wall.

“Today we went to Bianco Resort in order to deny the evil before it happened, as this resort will hold a mixed singing party on the beach of Beit Lahiya,” terrorist member Issa Miqdad wrote on Facebook on the day of the attack.

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Democratic governor Kate Brown of Oregon signed a bill last month that drops the requirement that high schoolers prove they can read, write, and do math at a basic high school level in order to graduate.

The bill, which the Democratic legislature passed in June in a mostly party-line vote, suspends Oregon’s high school graduation requirements for at least five years as the state works to reform its high school standards. A spokesman for the governor’s office told the Oregonian that suspending the proficiency requirements will benefit “Oregon’s Black, Latino, Latina, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Tribal, and students of color.”

You don’t really need
To know how to read
To follow the proglodyte program.

Freeberg jerks back the curtain.

So few among us have the capacity or spare bandwidth to deal with the awful truth, but here it is: Biden/Harris got 81 million votes, or democrats are stealing our elections. And it is virtually impossible for Biden/Harris to have received that many votes. Also, if the democrats did steal the last election, it is virtually impossible for them to have been doing it for the first time.

There is a real possibility, and some would credibly assert a likelihood, that democrats haven’t legitimately won a national election since Bill Clinton in 1992 (a three-way, Taft/Roosevelt/Wilson type of fluke).

The most ominous thing about this is the possibility, by no means remote, that very soon after people see posts like this on social media, those posts will be scrubbed.

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“Tribute to Bury woman found on fire in street,” reports the BBC. Found on fire? What happened? Was she making chips or did she fall asleep while smoking a cigarette? Read on and one learns that Sarah Hussein died from her injuries and that “three men, aged 24, 26 and 34, who were arrested have been bailed pending further inquiries.” Oh.

In the local press one finds a few more details. Hussein’s family live in Pakistan and say she was a “very nice, kind, polite person who worked hard every day to support us all.” Neighbours report hearing her screams and ingeniously using a wet duvet on her burns. But what happened before? No one will tell us.

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A growing number of places in the United States are offering as much as $20,000 to attract newly remote workers to move to their regions, USA Today reported on Monday.

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According to Fox News, it seems that they stood by and let Antifa violently break up a Christian outdoor worship event on the waterfront and the police did nothing. Before they turned their thuggish attention to the “Proud Boys” who came later, the Antifa goons…

are seen spraying red and yellow gas at the group of worshippers, as other Antifa members steal sound equipment, lawn chairs and wagons left across the lawn by families who had come to listen to the pastor speak.

And again, while this was happening, the police stood by and did not intervene. Antifa threw projectiles at children and pepper-sprayed a pastor. In their coverage of the incident, Fox News mentions that brave journalist Andy Ngo has documented this disgusting display of cowardice in the face of violence toward innocent civilians.

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When you overprotect people from any and all risks, you’re not doing them any favours. Trauma-informed approaches and safetyism lead to antifragility, a term coined by Nassim Taleb, which refers to the fact that many systems — including our immune system and psychological system — need to experience stressors to grow strong. Instead of helping young people, we are empowering their anxiety. These overprotective approaches can stunt the natural coping responses that individuals need to develop.

Critical gender studies can also have a detrimental impact on mental health. In 2016, Dr Jordan Peterson expressed his concerns about a bill under consideration by the Canadian federal government. The bill included a list of gender expressions whose use would be prohibited on the grounds of discrimination. Peterson pointed out that the bill let the notion of identity be determined solely by the individual in question — whatever identity that might be. The problem with this is the fact that identity is not solely an individual construct but also a social one. There’s more to it than a person’s choices; identity oscillates between the psychological and the social. Therefore, if someone subjectively decides their identity without taking society into account, this decision will potentially compromise others by unilaterally redefining their roles in society.

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The annual Planned Parenthood gala is the mecca of liberal elitism. In any given year, one can find Meryl Streep, Scarlett Johansson, and Sarah Silverman rubbing elbows with Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and other members of the Democratic Party’s power center, as they raise money for the nation’s largest abortion provider. They will gather at midtown Manhattan’s “premier event venue”—capacity 1,200 people—and then file to the exits for an afterparty hosted by a star of the show Queer Eye. Questlove will DJ. Vogue will provide fawning coverage.

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Stupidity is a very specific cognitive failing. Crudely put, it occurs when you don’t have the right conceptual tools for the job. The result is an inability to make sense of what is happening and a resulting tendency to force phenomena into crude, distorting pigeonholes.

High intelligence merely means that one thinks very very fast; it is no guarantee of the quality of the resulting conclusion. In fact, it often guarantees just the opposite, because the more quickly one comes to a conclusion, the more apt one is to think ‘it’s just obvious’ and put more weight behind its correctness than is deserved. That’s the truth behind the meme ‘an idea so bad that only an intellectual would believe it’.

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Physician burnout has been a problem for a long time, but it’s exploded since Obamacare. So many physicians are changing careers and retiring early that our projections about how many new doctors we need to produce each year in medical schools has turned out to be way off. We’re trying to fill the gap with nurse practitioners and physician assistants because it takes less time to educate those, but we still can’t catch up. Even the famously leftist medical journals are starting to take note.

This month’s “Family Practice News” has an article entitled, “Zero-burnout practices often solo, physician-owned.” They did a survey of several hundred small to medium-sized primary care practices and found that the burnout rate in solo practices was much lower than in other practice types.

University of Wisconsin-Madison removes massive rock from campus after ‘racism’ claims

AI algorithms uncannily good at spotting your race from medical scans, boffins warn  But, as we all know, race doesn’t really exist.

New Push to Disband Minneapolis Police After Floyd’s Death

CNN’s Sad: ‘Biden’s Immigration Plans Being Derailed by Conflicting Messages, Reality’

9/11 Families To Biden: Release Details Of Saudi Involvement Or Stay Away From Memorials

Lobbyists Spent $426 Million To Reap An Infrastructure Bonanza

US Treasury Secretary accused of corruption – $7.2Mil in ‘speaking fees’

‘Like a Mob’: Prosecutors Look at Trump’s Ice Rink Man (Daily Beast)

Mike Lindell got owned in the worst possible way on his ridiculous election fraud claims (CNN)

‘Fact Checker’ EXPOSED: WashPost’s Latest Rufo Hit Piece Implodes on Glenn Kessler!

“Watch me take a knife to your throat”

Reba Announces Breakthrough COVID-19 Infection Post Vaccination  Yup, gonna run right out and get that vaccine.

Did The CDC Director Just Accidentally Admit That Vaccination Passports Are Futile?

The CDC’s Voodoo Epidemiology

More on the Corona Stasi

“Trust The Science”, They Said…

These top US chains are reinstating their mask requirements (CNN)

160 San Francisco Sheriffs’ Deputies Threaten To Resign Due To Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccine

All French Youths Must Get the Vax!

Tragic Consequences of the Vax in Hungary, Part One

Pandemic Set Off Deadly Rise in Speeding That Hasn’t Stopped

France, Italy Swept By Mass Protests Against COVID Health Pass

Obama’s Party Ruined As Mansion Sinks Into Sea Thanks To Climate Change  Babylon Bee.

The Seas Are Rising. Could Oysters Protect Us? (The New Yorker)

Forbes: “Forget About Peak Oil – We Haven’t Even Reached Peak Coal Yet”

Why Don’t Green Buildings Live Up to Hype on Energy Efficiency?

Climate change: New report will highlight ‘stark reality’ of warming  It’s so stark it’s invisible.

‘Tortured phrases’ give away fabricated research papers

Wet July 2021 Silences Drought-Obsessed Media…Germany July Precipitation Sees No Trend Change Since 1950

Michael Mann Issues Traditional COP26 Last Chance Climate Warning

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he Taliban tightened the noose around northern Afghanistan Sunday, capturing three more provincial capitals as they take their fight to the cities after seizing much of the countryside in recent months.

The insurgents have snatched up five provincial capitals in Afghanistan since Friday in a lightning offensive that appears to have overwhelmed government forces.

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Now that’s a form of environmentalism I can get behind.

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If a frank enemy of the United States had taker over the executive branch this past January, I wonder if he would conduct himself one whit differently than have Joe Biden, his administration, and his Democratic enablers in Congress and the media. This isn’t the point that Andrew McCarthy expressly makes in his August 7 NR column “Why the Border Crisis Is Here to Stay,” but the column supports the point and it is the one I would like to make.

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How would an enemy of the United States do any differently?

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Twenty-two of the Texas Democrats who fled to Washington, D.C, to prevent a quorum in the state House have filed a lawsuit in federal court against Gov. Greg Abbott.

The lawsuit, which two of the twenty-two Democrats are disputing they signed onto, is embarrassingly bad.

The complaint does not include the usual section for “claims” or “causes of action,” so we have to sift through its pell-mell paragraphs to figure out just what the Texas Democrats are alleging.

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Former President Barack Obama was caught on video dancing maskless at his 60th birthday party Saturday night in Martha’s Vineyard — inside a giant tent filled with celebrities.

In a video posted to Instagram by singer-songwriter, Erykah Badu, Obama could be seen holding a microphone and dancing in the middle of the raised dance floor — to the cheers of gathered guests, the Daily Mail reported.

Badu had been performing with members of her band and managed to convince Obama to get on stage.

While the president’s back was turned, she took a selfie video capturing Obama fully in the frame, which she then posted directly to Instagram — despite photos being banned at the event. Crowds of people could be seen in the background, also in contrast to Obama’s insistence the event would be scaled back because of the spread of the delta variant of COVID-19, the Daily Mail reported.

Freeberg heads down a rabbit hole.

Liberals go through the motions of coming up with brand new ideas, and then the conservatives complain about them. High up on the list of these complaints the conservatives have about the liberal idea, is the observation that the idea is anything but new.

Liberals then complain about the conservatives. They ascribe all sorts of personal defects to the conservatives that are rather silly, for if they apply at all, a search for an enthused self-identifying liberal who shares such defects in equal measure, is a brief search. High up on the list of these complaints the liberals have about conservatives that apply with equal legitimacy to liberals, is the complaint that conservatives do a lot of complaining. But that one, at least, has the virtue of being true.

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The myth of ‘intellectual property’ is showing its age.

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Taliban fighters have seizesd key government buildings in the northeastern Afghan city of Kunduz, leaving government forces hanging onto control of the airport and their own base, a provincial assembly lawmaker said on Sunday.

Where are they getting the money to do all of this?

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Democrats on Capitol Hill are proving their socialist stripes: They’ve reportedly considered raiding the “super-sized retirement savings accounts” of the wealthy to pay for their $3.5 trillion progressive spending fiasco. s

MyPillow Guy Loses It as CNN Reporter Tells Him: You Have ‘Proof of Nothing’ (Daily Beast)

Trump may be fading away, but Trumpism is now in the American bloodstream (The Guardian)

Ben Shapiro Embarrasses Himself on ‘Real Time with Bill Maher’ (Daily Beast)

These Shameless Republicans Desperate to Outlast Trump Know Better, but They Don’t Care  More mind-reading from the Daily Beast. (Isn’t it amzing?)

Trump Overhauls His Massive Dark-Money Machine (Daily Beast) Dunh-dunh-DUNHHHHHH…

Barbra Streisand Says 1 Thing Should Be Shown On TV Every Day To Debunk Trump’s Lies (Huffington Post) And of course we all look to Barbra Streisand for advice in life.

The Big Money Behind the Big Lie (The New Yorker)

Demented MSNBC Rant: Sociopathic GOP ‘Comfortable with Death,’ ‘Kidnapping’ Kids

The Mypillow Guy Really Could Destroy Democracy (The Atlantic)

Conservative Radio Personality Erick Erickson Suspended From Twitter

Democrats first, feminists a distant second

MSNBC’s Johnson: GOPers Don’t Care Who Dies, Want White Ethno-State

California Judge Rules Newsom Can Blame “Republicans And Trump Supporters” For Recall

Biden Administration Drops Lawsuit Protecting Pro-Life Nurses

Well Then: Doocy Gets Psaki to Admit Parents Shouldn’t Have Say in Masks at Schools

Politico’s U-Turn: ‘Biden’s Vision for the Border has Gone Bust’

DeSantis Hits Biden’s ‘Governor Who?’ Zing: ‘What Else Has He Forgotten?’

Report: Something Bad Must Be Happening With Democrats As CNN Homepage Is Filled With Trump Articles  Babylon Bee.

Subway franchisees are fed up with Megan Rapinoe’s TV ads

Jeb Bush: Weak Americans Need to Import More Immigrants to Win Olympic Medals

Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence

VIDEO: Dems, Journos Keep Saying ‘Latinx’ Even Though Most Latinos Have No Idea What It Means

NY Times Crowns New Lefty Heroine Cori Bush on Eviction Moratorium: What Constitution?

One Man Killed After Homeless Crowd Attacks Couple At Seattle Encampment

FBI Officials “Widely Ignored” Rules In 2016, With Dozens In Contact With Reporters: Watchdog

Chinese City Offers $15,000 Reward For Snitching On Gatherings

Black real estate agent and his client arrested while touring Michigan house (Washington Post) Of course, if this had happened in a Red State, the Post would be all up in arms about systemic racism, the evils of Republicans, and totally have their hair on fire.

Execution-Style Murder in Brooklyn

Officials split on masking up children in schools as pediatric hospitals fill up with Covid-19 patients (CNN) Hint, hint.

Evidence mounts that delta variant is dangerous for kids (The Hill)

South Florida 100: For yourself, for your family, for all of us, get vaccinated (South Florida Sun Sentinel)

I’m a PhD & RD: I Want You To Stop Making This Vitamin D Mistake ASAP  Bow before my credentials, peasant!

North Texas pediatricians being overwhelmed with sick children

GOP Representative Suing Nancy Pelosi Over House Mask Mandate Gets COVID (New York Magazine) That’ll learn ‘im!

The Unvaccinated: The New COVID Scapegoats

“He’s A Pathological Liar”: Cornell Chemistry Professor Dave Collum Unloads On Dr. Fauci And Covid Hysteria

You Can Take That Needle And…

The Astonishing Hubris Of A Global Experimental Vaccine

Ivermectin: A multifaceted drug with indicated efficacy against Covid-19

With Covid-19, World Health Organisation’s Fall from Grace Is Complete

Swedish Professor Says 5 Shots Of COVID Vaccine May Be Necessary

The panic pandemic

UK Transport Minister Says Vaccines Will Be Needed For Travel “Forevermore”  And this is with a ‘conservative’ government.

“No Vaccine Passports” – Thousands Protest Across France Over New COVID Rules

Baden-Württemberg Government Announces Plans To Clear Cut State Forest, Build 1000 Turbines

World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast

Scientists make discovery of dead zones where nothing can live on two US coasts  Blue states have that effect.

‘Massive melting event’ sinks billions of tons of Greenland ice amid heat wave

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There were maybe 15 or 20 specialty labs that were doing really cool work in those days, and all of them were in California. Today, they’re all in Texas. The best lab in the world that studies cardiovascular genetics now is in Waco, Texas. There are several other examples of this phenomenon. This seems odd, to me. But whatever, right? So I was in San Francisco, around the year 2000 or so, working with one of the leaders in this field, who is a personal friend, so I will keep his identity discreet at this point. He was trying to figure out how to earn a living financially, while pursuing cutting-edge technology in this growing field. And he finally realized that he would have to leave California.

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A beach-cleaning robot called BeBot is sifting through sand in South Florida, extracting cigarette butts, plastic debris, and other trash too small for traditional systems to collect.

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Earlier today, I wrote about an alleged ideological division in the Democratic party between the far left and the establishment. Now, I want to consider an ideological split in the Republican party about which Eliana Johnson filed this report.

That gap is related to, but not the same as, the division between hardcore Trump supporters and Republicans who would like to see the Party move on from the ex-president. It’s the divide between traditional free-market Reagan Republicans and Republicans who, in Eliana’s words, want the government “to get more, rather than less, involved in national economic policy in order to help advance a certain set of social and cultural goals.” Apparently, the emerging label for the latter group is “common good capitalism.”

As I have written before, when you stick a qualifier on the front of a term, the term no longer applies. ‘Common good capitalism’ is no longer capitalism, just an attempt to hijack the term in service to a non-capitalist political agenda.