Matt Continetti.

Democrats have run smack into political reality, and it isn’t pretty. They spent months convincing themselves that a presidential election decided by 42,000 votes in three states, a tied Senate, and a 220-212 House (with 3 vacancies) is the same as FDR’s and LBJ’s supermajorities. Now they are just figuring out that the coalition that put them into office doesn’t agree on much of anything besides the idea that Donald Trump shouldn’t be in the White House.

Now the autumn of 2021 is turning into a reckoning for a Democratic Party that wanted to leverage a squeaker election into fundamental change. Like their predecessors in 1993 and in 2009, frontline House Democrats have to decide whether supporting a liberal agenda is worse for their careers than denying a president of their own party a legislative win. Either way, they lose.

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Providing context on this tax-and-spend bill’s size and cost helps bring into focus just how radical it is, and why some Democrats are now pushing back against it.

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James Bond star Daniel Craig was made an honorary officer of the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy on Thursday — matching his onscreen 007 persona, who holds the rank of commander.

“I am delighted to welcome honorary Commander Daniel Craig to the Royal Navy,” First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, the head of the Royal Navy, said in a news statement.

The climate can’t wait for electric planes. Sustainable fuel may be the answer (CNN)  What makes a fuel ‘sustainable’? Government subsidides! Because government spending is forever!

11 Hilarious Responses to Late Night TV’s ‘Climate Night’ Programming

Late Night FREAKOUT: Hosts Preach Climate Hysteria and Radical Socialism

Pro-Trump lawyer’s memo begins with a lie, then descends into madness (CNN)

Mike Pence’s 6-point plan to steal the election: Republicans leave roadmap for future authoritarians (Salon)

Lefty Doc Demands Government ‘Go After’ ‘Anti-Science’ Conservative Media

ABC Takes Victory Lap After Smeared BP Agents Are Put on Desk Duty  Let’s see: Going from chasing illegals on horseback in the Texas heat to sitting down all day in air conditioning. What a punishment.

San Diego Teachers’ Union Passes Resolution That Rejects Israel’s Legitimacy

Sunny Hostin: Let’s Throw Out the Entire Republican Party  She would if she could.

The Supreme Court has only itself to blame (Washington Post)

Nigel Farage on Biden’s ‘utterly bizarre’ meeting with Boris Johnson: Is he actually ‘fit’ for office?  Well, no.

Why many thousands of Haitians converged on the US-Mexico border (CNN) Biden got elected.

Chaos on tarmac at Haiti’s main airport after US deports migrants (CNN()

Officials: Many Migrants From Border Camp Staying in US, Not Being Deported as Promised  My, what a surprise.

Biden To Stick Haitian Immigrants In Gitmo, Seeks Contractor With ‘Creole-Speaking Guards’  Check the Del Rio bridge – there are a lot of people there that need jobs.

ABC, NBC Ignore Biden Getting Thrown in the Trash By Polls Nationwide

Biden speaks at conference filled with anti-white, anti-police rhetoric  You know, as he does.

Why Biden’s domestic agenda is in big trouble

WSJ: Questions Continue Over Hunter Biden’s Art Sales

Biden Pushing For Dishonourable Discharges, Court Martials For Troops Who Refuse Vaccines

US Special Envoy to Haiti Resigns Over Migrant Expulsions  Guess the U.S. wasn’t his first priority after all.

Kamala Harris Demands To Speak With Whoever Was Put In Charge Of Border  Babylon Bee.

Watch: White House Blames UK Prime Minister For Biden Not Answering Press Questions

Hunter Biden Tried To Charge Libya $2 Million To Recover Billions Frozen By Obama Administration: New Emails

Utah family denied cruise ship boarding despite COVID-19 tests, vaccines

Lawyer Forces Ivermectin on Hospitals—and Drives Docs Crazy (Daily Beast) It certainly drives the Narrative Media crazy.

MTA to ticket maskless NYC subway, bus and train riders after a year of lax enforcement; cover your face or face $50 fine

The real reason this pandemic is the deadliest to ever hit the US (CNN) Because the media and the government panicked.

FDA Agrees With Advisors, Limits Booster Jabs To Older & Immunocompromised Americans  How did that happen?

Do The ‘Global Managers’ Really Want The Pandemic To End?

The COVID pantomime at my father’s memorial

New York’s New Gov Threatens To Replace Unvaccinated Hospital Workers With ‘Foreigners’  Maybe from New Jersey.

CNN Special or DNC Ad? ‘Price of Freedom’ Pushes Anti-Gun, Anti-NRA Agenda

Feds Pay Florida School District $150,000 for Defying DeSantis Mask Ban

Why the White House and Democrats use $400,000 as the threshold for taxing ‘the rich’ (CNBC)

Pennsylvania university tells students ‘action could be taken’ if they use wrong pronouns

‘The Wire’ creator David Simon will pull upcoming HBO series from Texas over abortion law (CNN)

Stunning Interview Sees China Warn “23 Million Australians” That US Pact Now Makes Them “Target” For Nuclear Attack  Communists, like Muslims, are always a threat.

ACLU Rewrites a Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quote Because Men Can Have Abortions Too,

Facebook Fact Checkers Just Censored Peer Reviewed Science

Feds Give Planned Parenthood Millions in Pandemic Relief After Ruling it Ineligible for Gov’t Aid

Spain will ban selling fruit and vegetables in plastic containers starting 2023

Washington National Cathedral Names Artist to Replace Confederate Windows  Guess they were from the wrong nation.

Marvel Studios May Drop the ‘Men’ from X-Men  Why not? They’ve already dropped the men.

AOC Unveils Custom ‘Tax The Rich’ Tesla  Babylon Bee.

Oh No! Girl James Bond Is Foiled When Villain Places Details Of His Evil Plans In Pickle Jar  Babylon Bee. What my wife calls ‘hubby work’ – too bad 007 isn’t married.

Law professor tells Cruz Texas’ voter ID law is racist in fiery hearing exchange (CNN)

Murders Increased by 29 Percent in 2020, Biggest Bump Since Record-Keeping Began

Biden Nominee Helped Free Robber, Accused Sex-Trafficker  That doesn’t narrow it down a lot.

The Racial Wreckening Sees Murders Up by Almost 5,000

CNN Celebrates Professor Lecturing Ted Cruz on ‘Racist’ TX Voter ID Law

Maxine Waters: Haitian Migrants Treated ‘Worse Than What We Witnessed in Slavery’  Sorry, Bitter Beer Face, you didn’t ‘witness’ anything in slavery. You weren’t alive then. Your parents weren’t alive then.

CNN Diagnoses ‘White Woman Syndrome’ in Coverage of Gabby Petito Case

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Sure, open the borders! Let ’em all in! What could possibly go wrong?

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Rep. Jared Huffman (D., Calif.) led a resolution, cosigned by fellow Democratic representatives Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), Maxine Waters (Calif.), Mark Pocan (Wis.), and Jésus García (Calif.), to “abolish” America’s newest military branch. The measure received support from the Koch-funded National Taxpayers Union and radical anti-war groups such as Peace Action and Demand Progress.

“Since its creation under the former Trump administration, the Space Force has threatened longstanding peace and flagrantly wasted billions of taxpayer dollars,” said Huffman. “It’s time we turn our attention back to where it belongs: addressing urgent domestic and international priorities like battling COVID-19, climate change, and growing economic inequality. Our mission must be to support the American people, not spend billions on the militarization of space.”

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One of the founders of the Taliban and the chief enforcer of its harsh interpretation of Islamic law when they last ruled Afghanistan said the hard-line movement will once again carry out executions and amputations of hands, though perhaps not in public.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Mullah Nooruddin Turabi dismissed outrage over the Taliban’s executions in the past, which sometimes took place in front of crowds at a stadium, and he warned the world against interfering with Afghanistan’s new rulers

“Everyone criticized us for the punishments in the stadium, but we have never said anything about their laws and their punishments,” Turabi told The Associated Press, speaking in Kabul. “No one will tell us what our laws should be. We will follow Islam and we will make our laws on the Quran.”

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

Where Are the Tests? “Other countries are awash in Covid tests. The U.S. is not.”

Brazil’s unvaccinated president had to eat pizza on NYC sidewalk

‘Funeral home’ ad spreads message for the unvaccinated (CNN)

Unvaccinated Bride Spent Wedding Day in Hospital on Ventilator Before Dying From COVID (Newsweek) Daily Narrative Media scare store about COVID.

Wuhandromeda Strain?

JPMorgan Makes An Unexpected Discovery: Delta Variant Only “Half As Infectious As Assumed”

Police Bust Gang Members With Car Trunk “Full Of KFC” Takeout Breaching ‘Strict Lockdown’

Covid Pass in Lithuania: How vaccine mandate laws have upended my family’s life

“Taking Advantage of This Unfortunate Situation Called the Covid Pandemic”

Wuhan Scientists Planned To Release ‘Chimeric Covid Spike Proteins’ Into Bat Populations Using ‘Skin-Penetrating Nanoparticles’

Fed Urged To Fire Officials Over “Pandemic Profiteering”

With Cue Health IPO On Tap, Other Startups With COVID Tests Are Also Scaling 

Lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data alone are unreliable  (Nature)

As Vaccine Mandates Increase, Religious Exemptions Come Under Fire

Trump Sues NYT and Niece—Who Calls Him ‘F*cking Loser’ (Daily Beast)

Residents in AOC’s district say how much they think the rich pay in taxes

A couple wore masks inside a Texas restaurant to protect their newborn son. The owner kicked them out. (Washington Post)

Grieving Harry Dunn Family, Who Trump Tried to Ambush, Settles Out of Court (Daily Beast)

Trump Campaign Admitted in Internal Memo That Outlandish Election Conspiracy Was BS (Daily Beast)

Texas Democrat argues with CNN anchor over Border Patrol agents: ‘They don’t carry whips’

Huge hack reveals embarrassing details of who’s behind Proud Boys and other far-right websites (Washington Post)

New bombshells show Trump’s coup threat was real and hasn’t passed (CNN)

Dead Horse: ABC, CBS Continue FAKE NEWS Smear Against Mounted BP Agents

CNN On Debt Limit: ‘Nihilistic’ Republicans ‘Happy To Let World Burn’

MSNBC Trash Talker: Republicans Deride Minorities as ‘Dirt,’ ‘Enemy’

No Holds Barred: Joy Reid Latches Onto Lies About Border Agents Using ‘Whips’

Punch in the face

Trump Sues Niece, NY Times Over Pulitzer-Winning Tax Story

Liberal Group Includes Call to ‘Shoot Republicans’ in Letter to FCC

Sen. Ron Johnson Grills Secretary Mayorkas About ‘Closed’ Borders Claim

Angry Scenes at Haiti Airport Add to Biden Pressure Over Expulsions

GOP Rep. Gibbs Files 3 Articles of Impeachment Against Biden

Officials: Many Haitian Migrants Are Being Released in US

White House Reporters Have Launched ‘Formal Objection’ About Biden Refusing To Answer Questions

New Proof Emerges of the Biden Family Emails: a Definitive Account of the CIA/Media/BigTech Fraud

Biden’s Aides Won’t Let Him Speak

Politico Reports Biden Laptop ‘Genuine’; NY Post Mocks: ‘Shocked’

FBI Admits It’s Really Hard To Solve Crime They Didn’t Make Up Themselves  Babylon Bee.

‘Nasser Was Not An Outlier’ – Exposing The FBI’s Incurable Rot

California Voters Give Newsom Approval to Continue Regressive Policies Against the Working Class

Woke Was At Its Worst Last Week In Cook County

Mississippi Attorney General Details Abortion Case That Could Undo Roe v. Wade

Twitter and the ‘Fact Checkers’ Line Up for Biden

Lithuanian government warns about secret censorship features in Xiaomi phones

‘We’re All Pro-Life, Everybody’: View Hosts Dismiss GOP Guest Calling Out ‘Extreme’ Pro-Abortion Dems  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Democrats Push Tax Breaks for Union Political Activity

Border Patrol Agents Accused Of Patrolling Border  Babylon Bee.

Uma Thurman Shouts her Abortion: It Was ‘Path To Life of Joy & Love’  So I ought to be able to whack Joe Biden, which would similarly enrich my life? Is that what you’re saying?

A Black town’s water is more poisoned than Flint’s. In a white town nearby, it’s clean (The Guardian)

MSNBC’s Joy Reid dismisses focus on Gabby Petito case as ‘missing White woman syndrome’

Reasonable Doubt

Lemon Claims BP Is Example of ‘Systemic Racism,’ Cuomo Defends ‘Slavery’ Smear

CW’s ‘Supergirl’ Leans on White Guilt as Black Superhero Embraces Her Power

Are the Del Rio Haitians the Forerunners of the Coming African Inundation?

How Racial Anxiety Conquered an Orchestra and Crushed a Career

Virginia County Board Votes to Denounce Teaching of Critical Race Theory

Federal Judge: Florida Immigration Law Racially Motivate  I didn’t know judges could read minds. Impressive.

Chelsea player breaks ranks, declines to kneel

Are US Northwest Summers Getting Drier? The Truth May Surprise You.

Claim: Climate Change is Causing Catastrophic Power Line Fires

Babylon Bee.

The natural world is teeming with God’s creative genius, engineering brilliance, and artistic beauty. Our only complaint? WE NEED MORE. Seriously–we’ve had the same animals since God created the universe. Would it hurt to get some new ones? We at the Babylon Bee are geniuses when it comes to thinking of new animal designs. Here are ten ideas.

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According to The Washington Post, the top 10% of American income earners pay nearly half of all income taxes, compared with just 27% for the top 10% of Swedes, 31% for the top 10% of Germans, and 28% for France’s top 10%.

So what, precisely, does Biden mean by “pay their fair share”?

Perhaps he means simple sloganeering. Like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., donning a Cinderella ball gown emblazoned with the words “Tax the Rich” to the Met Gala—a dress made by Aurora James, a woman who owes tens of thousands of dollars in back taxes and who has received more than $40,000 in federal pandemic aid—class-warfare sloganeering is more about the sloganeering than the class warfare.

Low-Information Voters are the Democrat base.

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According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 4 million Americans quit their jobs in July 2021. Resignations peaked in April and have remained abnormally high for the last several months, with a record-breaking 10.9 million open jobs at the end of July. How can employers retain people in the face of this tidal wave of resignations?

Addressing the root causes of these staggering statistics starts with better understanding them. To explore exactly who has been driving this recent shift, my team and I conducted an in-depth analysis of more than 9 million employee records from more than 4,000 companies.

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In the space of one week, we have been subjected to the Met Gala, the Emmys, and the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly—three orgies of preening self-congratulation by disgraceful narcissists. Besides their total uselessness to society, these nauseating pageants have a few other things in common: they feature inane political statements by people with distinguished track records of feckless idiocy, they cost exponentially more money than they are worth, and they are forced relentlessly into our field of vision despite the fact that, if we have even a little dignity, we find them repulsive.

It has become standard practice to dismiss these sorts of spectacles as “irrelevant.” In one sense that is true: they are the farcical dying gasps of an American monoculture that was long ago hollowed out into a skin suit for entitled mediocrities to cover the nakedness of their souls. Though the Emmys’ ratings ticked up slightly this year, their overall pattern this millennium has been one of steady decline. Your average American has far more pressing things to do than mire his psyche in the interminable transcript of Biden’s speech to the U.N., and practically the only thing anyone has seen of the Met Gala was that dress AOC wore.

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orget what you hear most pundits saying about last week’s recall election that failed to unseat California Governor Gavin Newsom. Some Democrats think because Newsom ran on an anti-Trump platform that will bring the party success — or cause them less damage — in the next two elections.

They are wrong. The real story is the slow but gaining-in-speed exodus from California to states with lower or no state taxes. This mass exit likely reduced the number of people who might have voted to oust Newsom. Then there’s the rising cost of just about everything, including gasoline. At nearly $6 a gallon at some stations in the San Francisco Bay area and Los Angeles, California has the highest average price for gas in the nation.

There are also other forces at work.

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Democratic leaders in the House are backing a measure to provide U.S. assistance to Iraqi militia groups that are known to be dominated by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

A Democrat-led amendment to the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, the sprawling annual bill that funds U.S. military operations around the world, would permit U.S. funding for Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces, a confederation of militia groups that work alongside the corps’s Quds Force, Iran’s paramilitary fighting brigade.

The amendment, authored by Rep. Brad Sherman (D., Calif.), was slipped into a larger package of measures that are backed by Democratic leadership and expected to easily pass into the larger National Defense Authorization Act, which is set to be finalized this week.

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Decades hence, historians laboring to make sense of the Covid years will undoubtedly ask why it took 18 months to deploy our most powerful weapon against the virus — the open celebrity letter. How many lives would have been saved if, in the early weeks of the pandemic, authorities had tapped the intellect of Anne Hathaway or the insights of Peter Dinklage?

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Team Biden is running a con game: “A second U.S. official, also with direct knowledge and speaking on the condition of anonymity, said large numbers of Haitians were being processed under immigration laws and not being placed on expulsion flights to Haiti that started Sunday. The official couldn’t be more specific about how many.”

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The left has found a scenario it thinks it can retail to defuse the invasion of the United States by Haitians and hundreds of thousands of others via our former southern border. They want us to believe that overwhelmed immigration enforcement authorities on horseback are whipping Haitians.

ZMan does a deep dive.

In the present crisis, the culture of the ruling class is lacking the tools to address the problems, but it also lacks the sort of people who will look outside the system. It has been selecting for highly conservative people, with respect to the culture of the managerial class, for generations now. It is why the system violently vomited up Donald Trump and continues to dry heave over the memory of him. The culture of the ruling class is built around adversity to change.

The Other McCain weighs in.

Nearly all my fellow conservatives are shrieking in anger at MSNBC’s Joy Reid for saying something that is actually true: There is such a thing as “Missing White Woman Syndrome,” and we ought to call it out when — as in the case of Gabby Petito — it dominates the news cycle.

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A blonde, blue-eyed “social media influencer” is not typical of murder victims, who are disproportionately male and black. During the month of August, when Gabby and her boyfriend were on their excursion across the West, 87 people were killed and 424 were wounded in Chicago. Did any of those Chicago victims make national news? Well, about 83% of the victims in Chicago were black, and none were blonde, blue-eyed 22-year-old “social media influencers.” Not newsworthy, you see?

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Gender identity ideology began as a way to conceptualise transgender people. According to this belief system, they have a gender identity that doesn’t match the sex they were “assigned at birth”. This ideology currently has the endorsement of governments, educational institutions and NGOs worldwide — a state of affairs that has come about with remarkably little comment. Contradicting this dogma has become suddenly taboo, even via statements nobody would have considered controversial ten years ago, such as arguing that the national census should continue to collect data on people’s biological sex, or that sex itself is a fixed and binary characteristic.

In spite of the pressure, this summer has seen the publication of three new non-fiction books by “gender critical” feminist writers who oppose gender ideology.

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The latest example of this is the fact that Iran has major, and expensive, problems in Syria, Iraq, Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen. All these Iranian trouble spots are managed by the Iranian Quds Force as part of its ongoing wars against Israel and Saudi Arabia. None of these conflicts are doing well for Iran, which provides some comfort for the people in Syria, now being torn apart by its own endless civil war. The most damage to Iran is occurring in Syria. The core problem is that if Sunni Islamic terrorists remain in northwest Syria (Idlib province), while ISIL is active in eastern Syria and Iranians near the Israeli border, there will be no peace and rebuilding. While the Islamic terrorist and the Iranian presence persists, the Syrian civil war will not be over. Officially, Iran needs this civil war to end so they can concentrate on Israel. The key role of Iran in Syria has been noted and no one, not even Iranian allies, are cooperating with Iran. The only ones who cannot walk away from this are the Syrian Assad government, Turkey and Israel.

Steve Sailer.

The sudden crossing of the Rio Grande river at Del Rio, Texas, by 15,000 Haitians is a reminder that the most prophetic novel of the last half century was the late Jean Raspail’s 1973 book The Camp of the Saints about a million third-worlders landing on the beaches of France, and whites being unable to summon the will to be so racist as to turn them away.

Do American leaders still believe that they have the moral right to protect the territory of the American people by force? Or will we unilaterally disarm in the Scramble for America?

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Young investors have a new strategy: watching financial disclosures of sitting members of Congress for stock tips.

Among a certain community of individual investors on TikTok, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s stock trading disclosures are a treasure trove. “Shouts out to Nancy Pelosi, the stock market’s biggest whale,” said user ‘ceowatchlist.’ Another said, “I’ve come to the conclusion that Nancy Pelosi is a psychic,” while adding that she is the “queen of investing.”

“She knew,” declared Chris Josephs, analyzing a particular trade in Pelosi’s financial disclosures. “And you would have known if you had followed her portfolio.”

Last year, Josephs noticed that the trades, actually made by Pelosi’s investor husband and merely disclosed by the speaker, were performing well.

Seth Meyers Nails Tucker Carlson for COVID Mandate Contradiction (Daily Beast)

Eat the rich! Why millennials and generation Z have turned their backs on capitalism (The Guardian) Constant trash-talk from media like The Guardian probably has something to do with it.

Louisiana State University Begins Disenrolling Students Not Compliant With Vaccine Rules

Get the Jab, or Lose Unemployment Benefits

“F**K The Jab, Long Live Australia” – 20,000 Shut Down Melbourne Highway In Massive Lockdown Protest

J&J Says Its Booster Shot Provides Increased Protection from Covid  But they would say that, wouldn’t they?

Health Authorities Claim “Performers” (Rich & Famous) Are Exempt From Mask Rules  Of course they are.

New York Restaurant Adds Voting Booth So They Can Allow People In Without ID  Bablyon Bee.

Medical Schools Update Hippocratic Oath To Exclude The Unvaccinated

Black Lives Matter holds ‘cancel Carmine’s’ protest in New York City

CBS’s ‘The Neighborhood’ Pours on the White Guilt for ‘America’s Racist Past’

Psaki grilled on why migrants aren’t required to be vaccinated but foreign nationals who fly are

The Biden border crisis isn’t going away

Taliban Order Kabul Government Female Employees To Leave Workforce, Stay At Home

India Seizes $2.7B Afghan Heroin Haul Amid Kabul Takeover Chaos

Mexico Struggles to Hold Migrants Far From US Border

Texas Gov. Abbott: Admin ‘Refuses to Even Pretend’ on Border Crisis

Former ICE Official: Migrants Being Transported, Released Around US

Biden’s big UN whopper

Options Shrink for Haitian Migrants Straddling Texas Border

Memo shows Trump lawyer’s six-step plan for Pence to overturn the election (CNN)

The wealthy may avoid $163 billion in taxes every year. Here’s how they do it  All of which is perfectly legal. (CNN)

January 6 Rioters Identify As Pedophiles So FBI Will Cover For Them And Look The Other Way  Babylon Bee.

ABC, CBS Smear Border Patrol Agents With Lies About Using ‘Whips’ on Illegals

In Breach of Norms, Biden Fires Trump Appointees From Government Panels

Royal Holloway music professor quits over cancel culture

One-Sided NPR Cues ‘Abortion Providers and Seekers’ to Rip ‘Cruel’ Pro-Life Law in Texas.

Mark McCloskey, Wife Could Face Suspension of Law Licenses After Firearms Incident

AOC, Omar Spread Fake News Claims That Border Patrol Is Whipping Migrants

‘Billionaires Joyriding Into Space’ Draw UN’s Red Glare

University Says ‘Action Could Be Taken’ Against Students for ‘Misgendering’ or ‘Pronoun Misuse’

Democrats Agree: Criticizing Our Behavior Is Racist, Sexist, Homophobic

Amid Dem Progressive Outcry, Military Aid for Israel Is Pulled From US Bill to Fund Government

Rep. Nunes Wins Major Victory In Defamation Case Against Ryan Lizza And Hearst

Telemundo’s Border Coverage Now Pushes The “Whip” Hoax

In a Tiny Arctic Town, Food Is Getting Harder to Come By (Wired ‘Science’)

“The Most Dangerous Form Of Portfolio Greenwashing”: French Study Shows Climate ETFs “Undermine” Fight Against Global Warming

Biden Pledges To Double Climate Funding In UN Address  As if anybody listens to Biden, which they don’t.

How (Not) to Tax Billionaires (CNN}

Centrist Democrats threaten Biden’s agenda over opposition to lower drug prices (Salon)

Nancy Pelosi, Estimated To Be Worth $114 Million, Says Capitalism Has “Not Served Us Well” And “Needs Improving”

Census Data Confirm Migration from Big CIties

Ben & Jerry’s ‘Change Is Brewing’ Funds Defund Police Movement

Fiscally Responsible Democrat Says We Should Be Able To Destroy America For Way Less Than $3.5 Trillion  Babylon Bee.

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If you would have told me two years ago that homeschooling numbers would jump from 2% to 11% in the matter of one school year, I would have laughed. I’ve been homeschooling and working with homeschoolers for over 2 decades. If I’ve learned anything about my fellow parents, it’s that most of you don’t want to or simply can’t take on educating your own children for whatever reason. I get it. Homeschooling is not for everyone. Not everyone is called to this lifestyle. But everyone can do it, as all of you parents figured out when your schools and childcare options shut down abruptly and left you in the dust to fend for yourselves. The village collapsed and decided to serve itself, not only at the peril of your child’s education, but also of his health and mental well-being. Apparently, we are not really all in this together.

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Illegal immigrants who were camped out under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, revolted against customs agents and took control of a federally contracted bus.

The Washington Examiner reported that Haitian migrants in custody hijacked the bus on Monday as it was en route from Del Rio to San Antonio. They then escaped custody.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Customs and Border Protection agency did not respond to the Examiner‘s requests for comment, though ICE confirmed to Local 23 news that “several individuals attempted to flee the bus and were able to escape for some time.”

Most commonly used phrase by a public employee: “We can’t tell people that!”

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The girls on Afghanistan’s national soccer team were anxious. For weeks, they had been moving around the country, waiting for word that they could leave.

One wants to be a doctor, another a movie producer, others engineers. All dream of growing up to be professional soccer players.

Then the message finally came early Sunday: A charter flight would carry the girls and their families from Afghanistan — to where they didn’t know. The buses that would take them to the airport were already on their way.

“They left their homes and left everything behind,” Farkhunda Muhtaj, the captain of the Afghanistan women’s national team who from her home in Canada had spent the last few weeks communicating with the girls and working to help arrange their rescue, told The Associated Press. “They can’t fathom that they’re out of Afghanistan.”

ZMan smells a rat.

magine if at your place of work, you began to suspect that many of your coworkers were members of a secret organization. At first you notice that when one has an idea, all of them suddenly adopt it. One day one will use a turn of phrase and then all of them are using it, as if on command. They display no outward expression of membership in a secret group, but their behavior suggests they are controlled by the same source, or they are coordinated by some unknown actor.

This would have been the experience of Donald Trump when he took office. He knew, of course, that many of the people he inherited were loyalists to the Bush crime family or the Clinton crime family. That was part of his campaign, rooting out these people as bad for the American people. What he did not understand is that even the people who appeared to support him in Washington were part of an informal club. The Bush and Clinton clans were just manifestations of this secret club.

That seems farfetched, but take a look at this post in Politico about what they call “the secretive consulting firm that’s become Biden’s Cabinet in waiting”. The short version of it is that a “consulting firm” operated as a shadow administration while the Democrats were out of power. When Biden was installed, in was from this shadow government that he picked key appointees. The source of funding for what amounts to a secret society is not mentioned, but it is not hard to guess.

I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

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Adolescents used to identify with a party but polarization was muted by a general warmth towards authority figures. Today, however, the warmth is gone and adolescents are as polarized as adults which has implications for future polarization and generalized distrust.

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DroidDrive is a German company currently working on such a trailer. It’s called Trailerduck and, for the time being, it still needs a tow vehicle, even though it’s not technically towed by it. Trailerduck is self-propelled, but it still takes cues from the vehicle in front, which can be anything from an e-bike to an actual car.

I am not making this up.

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Apple is reportedly researching ways to use the cameras inside of the iPhone to detect childhood autism, aiming to use data from the camera to observe a child’s behavior that could be used for early diagnosis, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal.

UPDATE: iPhone & Apple Watch study launches to detect depression, dementia

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The real story is the slow—but gaining-in-speed—exodus from California to states with lower or no state taxes. This mass exit likely reduced the number of people who might have voted to oust Newsom. Then there’s the rising cost of just about everything, including gasoline. At nearly $6 a gallon at some stations in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Los Angeles, California has the highest average price for gas in the nation.

There are also other forces at work.