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ale Law School’s Office of Student Affairs has removed all administrator profiles from its website “to protect staff members” in the wake of widespread outrage about the school’s treatment of Trent Colbert, the second-year law student who invited classmates to his “trap house,” according to a university spokeswoman.

Two of those administrators, Yale Law diversity director Yaseen Eldik and Associate Dean Ellen Cosgrove, suggested that Colbert could have trouble with the bar if he didn’t apologize for his invitation. That wasn’t an empty threat: According to a now-deleted version of the student affairs website, Cosgrove’s remit involves the bar exam’s “character and fitness” investigations, which review aspiring lawyers’ disciplinary records in considerable detail.

Eldik’s profile is no longer viewable on any Yale Law website, though he remains listed as a “discrimination and harassment resource coordinator” with the university. An entry for Cosgrove—which contains no mention of her “character and fitness” duties—is still viewable on the law school’s main website. Archived web pages indicate that the profiles were scrubbed between Oct. 13 and Oct. 18.

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Mark Zuckerberg emerged from his walk-in T-shirt closet last week to make a stunning announcement: Facebook will be changing its name. And while we don’t yet know what the new name will be, I think I may be able to help here. How about this: Boomerware? Or in keeping with Silicon Valley’s penchant for trendy misspellings: LyfeSuck? Or instead of a name, there’s just the sound of Rome burning?

The reason that “Facebook” is getting retired, per Zuck, is that he wants to “transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.” What that means is that he’s trying to distance himself from Facebook, Instagram, the very brands he owns. The reason is that those brands have become synonymous with privacy violations, self-harming video challenges, conspiracy theories, bullying, riots, insurrections. A good Vegas bender, in other words, though less healthful as social fabric.

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News that the John Wick spin-off TV series The Continental has cast its lead actor has produced an unusual amount of vitriol. Was this because it was not an actor of color, a trans performer or some other member of a minority? No: it was because it was Mel Gibson, the walking bête noire for liberals in Hollywood. As many other outspoken conservative or simply unsavory figures (hello, Kevin Spacey! Greetings, Armie Hammer!) have found their careers curtailed for their antics, Mel Gibson’s continued ability to book high-profile acting roles has driven the sharp-fingered mob of social media into a frenzy of disdain.

I’m not sure that Mel Gibson is right for the John Wick part — he’s always a bit happy-go-lucky in the parts that he plays; can he do semi-autistic as well as Keanu Reeves? I guess we’ll find out.

ZMan lays it out.

The paradox of modern liberal democracy is that despite its constant exhortations in favor of inclusion, it systematically excludes most options. It is a tails the rich people win or heads the rest of the people lose. There is no option for the guy making $250K per year to get more of what he wants from government at a better rate. The people not paying income tax do not have an option that promises to do some of things they want at a reasonable cost in taxes to them.

The fact is, most of the people who vote Republican want the government to defend cultural norms so they can live their lives in peace. They don’t mind paying taxes and they do not resent rich people for being rich. The people voting Democrat want the government to do a better job looking after the poor and to provide useful services to the middle-class. The people running both parties hate all of that and spend their time pitting the two sides against one another.

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Why are congressional Democrats breaking welfare again?

In March, they transformed the child tax credit into a monthly child allowance — no work conditions attached. If made permanent, as they are now trying to do, it would be the second-largest expansion of the welfare state in U.S. history.

The credit used to increase as low-income parents worked more. The allowance, however, goes to non-working families. Proponents insist that this giveaway won’t substantially affect low-income parents’ interest in working, but a new study has made it clear: Fewer low-income families will work.

Earlier reports have underestimated the effect of eliminating the Child Tax Credit’s pro-work incentives. But researchers at the University of Chicago have found that 1.5 million workers — 2.6% of all working parents — would exit the labor force if the child allowance is made permanent.

Those who are dependent on government are faithful voters for the Party of Free Stuff.

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The left claims that their most urgent battle is to save democracy, but when it comes to any questioning of the LGBT lobby, they are the ones who sound like authoritarians. The overtones are unmistakable in the “news” coverage promoting “dozens” of employees walking out of Netflix in Los Angeles on Oct. 20 in protest. The target? A popular Dave Chappelle comedy special, “The Closer.”

Tens of thousands of anti-abortion advocates can assemble and be ignored, but assemble two dozen transgender lobbyists and NBC and PBS will treat it as momentous.

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A team of engineers working on Twitter’s own ML Ethics, Transparency and Accountability (META) unit scraped millions of tweets of thousands of elected officials from seven different countries: US, Japan, UK, Canada, Germany, Spain, and France. They tracked how likely these posts made between 1 April 2020 and 15 August 2020 were to be placed in a higher rank in users’ personal Twitter feeds using Twitter’s algorithms.

Tweets posted by politicians from right-wing parties were amplified more than those from left-wing parties in all countries except Germany. The effect was strongest for Canadian and British politics. For example, content from UK Labour MPs was amplified 112 per cent as opposed to the 176 per cent amplification of Conservative MPs’ content; and Canada’s Liberal party politicos were amplified 43 per cent versus 167 per cent for the Canadian Conservative party.

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In Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy, Batya Ungar-Sargon, the deputy opinion editor of Newsweek (where, full disclosure, she has published two of my essays), argues that elite left-wing journalists have embraced a race-based view of American inequality and abandoned any sort of class-based analysis. They’ve done this, she explains, because it largely absolves them of having to apologize for their own elite lifestyles. “The fact is,” she writes, “journalism has become a profession of astonishing privilege over the past century, metamorphosing from a blue-collar trade into one of the occupations with the most highly educated workforces in the United States. And along with this status revolution has come the radicalization of the profession on questions of identity, leaving in the dust anything commensurate to a similar concern with economic inequality…”

SNL’s Michael Che Nails Trump’s New ‘Sex Offender’ Social Network (Daily Beast) And I’m sure Trump even noticed.

White supremacists are returning to Charlottesville. But this time, they’re on trial. (Washington Post) Yeah, all ‘handful’ of them.

Why is the idea of ‘gender’ provoking backlash the world over? (The Guardian) Perhaps becaus the Left’s idea of ‘gender’ is insane?

German police stop far-right vigilantes patrolling Polish border (Reuters) Well, when the government won’t enforce the law, citizens have no other option.

‘They are treating us like a game’: Migrants caught in border standoff struggle to survive (CNN)

S.F.’s Riordan high school students walk out during antiabortion presentation

How Do Bad Cops Stay in Power? Just Look at Miami. (Politico)

Right-Wing Pro-Trump Event Aiming for 10,000 Attendees Sees Less Than 1,000 on First Day (Newsweek)

Illinois Supreme Court Rules Gun, Ammo Tax Unconstitutional

Texas Nabs Win over Big Tech in Lawsuit Over ‘Free Speech’ Law

Soros-backed Virginia prosecutor loses again

Pelosi: Wealth Tax Likely Included on Final Spending Bill  Except that a ‘wealth tax’ is unconstitutional; the only reason we have an income tax is because it was specifically authorized by the 16th Amendment.

61% Of Americans Paid No Federal Income Taxes In 2020 – Who’s Greedy?

NBA Again Refuses To Stand Up To China After Celtics Broadcasts Banned

CNN Calls for Press to Ditch Objectivity, Portray GOP as Threat to the Country  What objectivity?

Let’s Put an End to Prosecutorial Immunity

Child Sacrifice in the US

Rural Canadian pastor spends extra night in jail after refusing condition keeping him from church

Austria Makes Life Difficult for the Unvaccinated

Physicians & The Vaccine Tyranny

EcoHealth Throws NIH Under The Bus Over Wuhan Gain-Of-Function Report; Researcher Claims ‘Massive Cover-Up’

Majority Of Maryland Parents Oppose Vaccine Mandates For Students, Teachers, Survey Says

Nunes, Grenell Call on DOJ to Prosecute Dr. Fauci for Wuhan Testimony  He belongs to the Crust. The motto of the Crust is: Nobody gets fired, nobody goes to jail.

“Welcome To The Hunger Games”: More Chicago Officers ‘Summoned’ As City Council Mulls Vax Mandate Reversal

Anti-Vax Mandate Demonstrators Attempt to Storm Doors at Brooklyn NBA Arena

I voted for Trump in 2020 — he proved to be the ultimate RINO in 2021 (The Hill) Yeah, The Hill knows what it means to be a Real Republican.

Trump Advisers Enlisted Ex-Army Psy-Ops Specialist in Bid to Overturn Election (Daily Beast)

Jim Acosta confronts Marjorie Taylor Greene on Capitol Hill (CNN)

Trump Derangement Porn

MSNBC Decries Republicans as ‘Killers’ and Fascists

Biden widely mocked on social media for bizarre hand gestures

Organized migrant caravan moves toward US, surging past Mexican forces

Biden: Walls for Me But Not for Thee

White House Moving 55K Refugees to US Homes

Trump Slams Response as 2,000 Migrants Continue Walk Through Southern Mexico  There really ought to be some pushback on Mexico for allowing this to go on.

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Hard luck, Madonna, your lovingly assembled rainbow family is no longer the most cutting-edge crew on the showbiz block. If you want to excel as an A-list parent these days, you need a trans child to show off on social media.

Jamie Lee Curtis has revealed that her child, born Thomas, now answers to the name of Ruby. The 62-year-old actress has declared to a waiting world — via People magazine — that the most difficult thing about adjusting to this unforeseen circumstance is calling them by their new name.

Fortunately the kid is adopted and so won’t screw up the succession to the Haden-Gust barony. The heir-presumptive only has daughters, so presumably the title will die with him.

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Oddly enough, despite my captivating, detailed earlier reports, none of you Ricochetti has asked for regular updates on the status of the construction of Black Lives Matter Plaza in DC. So in the true federal government spirit, I will now provide what you apparently don’t want or need and did not request.

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What happens is that his negatively charged material absorbs hydrogen. When light passes through it, the polarity of the bonds changes to positive, and the hydrogen is released. That’s a much better process than compressing hydrogen to 5,000 psi up to 10,000 psi, as today’s fuel cells need. For example, the Toyota Mirai holds 5.5 kg of hydrogen at that pressure.

This material Plasma Kinetics developed can be used as a disc or as a film that is just one-tenth of a thickness of a human hair. At first, the discs helped the company to explain the technology: hydrogen would be released when the laser hit it as a compact disc would “release music” when the laser reader hit it. However, the nano graphite film proved to be a better means to deal with hydrogen storage.

Are You Ready For ‘The Mother of All Caravans’?

Our Punchline-in-Chief  Charlie Cooke does the Biden dance.

Biden’s Afghan Debacle: Questions Future Historians Will Ask

Biden Blames Pandemic on Delay of JFK Records

All Records Shattered After 1.7 Million Illegal Immigrants Arrested At Southern Border

State Department Privately Admits ‘Nearly 400’ Americans Still Stuck In Afghanistan

Recall of S.F. D.A. Chesa Boudin likely to head to voters, with many more signatures submitted than needed (S.F. Chronicle)

Dozens Rally in Support of San Francisco DA as Recall Push Continues (NBC) Dozens!

In a post-Trump world, these pastors are ditching the evangelical label for something new (Washington Post) And the Narrative Media is all in.

Italian flight attendants strip off to protest working conditions (CNN) I guess they weren’t getting enough attention.

Corrupt Media Censor News of Illegal Who Raped Woman on Philly Train

Who asked Meghan Markle to save Build Back Better?

Virginia Dems’ Lax School Crime Bill Under Fire Amid Rape Scandal

European Parliament: UK and US are global hubs for money laundering, tax evasion  Both of which are politician-speak for ‘preventing politicians from stealing your money’.

CNN’s Oliver Darcy Tattles on Fox for Daring to Be Different Than CNN

Poland Will Not Be “Blackmailed” Into Accepting European Union Laws, PM Morawiecki Says

Twitter Censors Congressman For Calling Rachel Levine A ‘Man’

Variety, AP Brazenly Lie About Chappelle-Netflix Protest

Pranksters have already defaced Trump’s new social network (Washington Post)

Bannon Caught Fleeing U.S. Disguised as Man Who Recently Took Shower (The New Yorker) I don’t care who you are, that’s funny.

Democrats move to finalize new ‘billionaire’ tax proposal, targeting 700 wealthiest Americans as key source of revenue for spending plan (Washington Post)  Successful? Well, we’ll punish you for that. (Betcha it neither increases what ‘billionaires’ pay nor provides the money they say it will.)

Lincoln Project files ethics complaint against Abbott (The Hill) Of course they do.

Feeding The Liberal Flock: Glenn Greenwald Exposes The Real Reasons For The Congressional 1/6 Committee

Cancel Culture Takes A Big “L”  Matt Taibbi looks at the Dave Chapelle situation.

White House details plans to vaccinate 28M children age 5-11 (Associated Press) Who don’t need it, according to The Science.

Arizona AG Seeks Immediate Halt to Federal COVID Vax Mandates

Mutated Strain Of Delta Variant Causing Panic In UK Has Been Found In US

Sweden Suspends Moderna Shot Indefinitely After Vaxxed Patients Develop Crippling Heart Condition

CDC Director Admits “We May Need To Update Our Definition Of ‘Fully Vaccinated'”

Joe Rogan calls CNN’s Don Lemon a ‘dumb motherf—–‘ for doubling down on ‘horse dewormer’ narrative I am inclined to agree, although I would add ‘lying sack of shit’ to the mix.

The Arbery Show Trial Begins—More Human Sacrifices to Appease the BLM Gods

Injecting Anti-Racism Activism Into the Adoption Process Won’t Help Black Children

On PBS, Capehart Lies That CRT Is Taught NOWHERE to Children in U.S. Schools

A theater professor refused to express anger at something that wasn’t meant to cause anger. Coastal Carolina University wants to fire him for it.

White House report on climate, migration opens door to refugee status for ‘environmental defenders’

How Climate Change Is Posing A Mounting Threat To U.S. National Security (NBC News) Yeah, we’re all going to be attacked in our beds by starving polar bears.

‘Delinquent’ Matt Gaetz Blocked from Practicing Law (Daily Beast)

Justice Dept. adds two top prosecutors to Matt Gaetz case (Chicago Tribune) Scraaaaaaape that barrel!

Florida is ditching palm trees to fight the climate crisis (CNN)

Your green credentials may be linked to your genes, study says (The Guardian) Further proof that insanity is hereditary.

Andrea Mitchell Whines: Climate Change Is a National Security Threat, Senate’s Unfair!

“How Dare You?” – These Countries Are The Most Committed To Coal

Watch: Morano’s full 25 min speech on Climate Lockdowns at Heartland Skeptic Conference in Las Vegas

David Friedman.

Perhaps we owe thanks to our stone age ancestors for the glaciers not yet having started south.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

night should be a source of disquiet and consternation to anyone who cares about the United States. Fielding what must have been screened questions submitted by a friendly invitation-only audience, Biden required a number of clean-ups in aisle 46 back in the White House.

Dominic Green touches on a few particulars in the Spectator column “Biden builds back in the USSR” (my favorite: he couldn’t remember Kyrsten Sinema’s name). Gordon Chang focuses on China in “Joe Biden’s Taiwan Policy Is Now A Total Disaster” (“If there is anything unclear, it is the situation after the clarifications from Biden administration officials: Press Secretary Jen Psaki, State Department spokesperson Ned Price, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. All of them walked back Biden’s statement to CNN”).

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I am not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV or in the movies. I am, however, someone who can read, look things up, and understand numbers- and when it comes to the dreaded covid, numbers are all important. And, there’s something you need to understand right up front- your doctor isn’t responsible for your health. Your insurance company isn’t responsible for your health. The government- especially the government- not only isn’t responsible for your health but seems these days to be actively working against it. There is one and only one person responsible for your health- you. Awesome responsibility, isn’t it? Doesn’t apply to children- PARENTS, adults, are responsible for their health Not teachers, not school superintendents or school boards, parents or in some cases legal guardians.

Amen to that.

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Words go in and out of fashion all the time. For example, the phrase “the debate over” is fading out in favor of “the conversation around.”

My guess is that the change in prepositions is merely a fad. After all, prepositions in English are somewhat arbitrary, which is why it’s hard for people learning English to remember which preposition to use.

I don’t know whether it is the product of heredity or of environment, but compulsive nattering appears to be the way women relate to the world, especially to other women. This can be tedious for those of us who make a point of not saying anything when we don’t have anything to say, and wishing that other people would have the good grace to do the same, but there it is. I remember going to an SCA event with my late first wife to Tulsa, a four-hour trip from Dallas, and noticing that she didn’t stop talking for more than ten seconds at a time during that entire four-hour trip. It’s a gift; I couldn’t have done that even if I’d tried.

Taki is delightfully dyspeptic this day.

“The City of London Is Hiding the World’s Stolen Money,” screams a Bagel Times headline, as bogus a message as that caricature of a newspaper’s other captions of an antiwhite, anti-cop, anti-male, and anti-Conservative platform. (“Bid the binary goodbye,” is another pearl.) Not that anyone takes the Bagel Times seriously any longer since it decided that whites are very bad people, and that it will cover only Blacks (capitals for them, lowercase for us). Still, I found it amusing that London is responsible for the shame of the Pandora Papers, when most of the miscreants involved are third-world dictators and Eastern oligarchs.

Never mind. A newspaper that consistently shades the facts to suit its agenda—even book reviews are assigned to well-known haters of the subject reviewed—is not to be taken seriously, and it’s not, but as I’m traveling and feeling good, I will for the second week running defend the very rich. For starters, it’s only the very rich who are clobbered when investing in Silicon Valley start-ups that go belly-up. Those below a certain net worth are not allowed by law to invest. Mark one for the common man and woman. When a start-up implodes, as most of them do, the very rich take it with their chin up, while the media laugh like hyenas. But the working stiffs are safe by having been excluded from the start.

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I am not making this up.

Indiana Jones, call your office….

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In 2012, he pulled out of a conference in Delhi at which Salman Rushdie was also booked to speak, stating that he “could not even think of participating in any programme that included Salman Rushdie, who has caused immeasurable hurt to Muslims across the globe.” Rushdie responded by pointing out that “30 years ago Imran Khan was a fan at my 1982 Delhi lecture and 100 percent secular. Now my work ‘humiliates’ his ‘faith.’ Which is the real Imran?” He later added: “When Imran was a playboy in London, he was called ‘Im the dim.’ Imran may have been born again. He will have to be judged by this (the new Imran). Those of us who knew the young Imran don’t remember him like this.”

The Bill Clinton of the Middle East?

Victor Davis Hanson.

Sheer chaos and anarchy on the border? Afghanistan—the most humiliating defeat in recent U.S. military history? A labor-starved supply chain in shambles and holiday shelves emptying out? The worst inflation in 30 years that seems soon ready to match Carter-era levels? Gas hitting $5 a gallon with winter heating fuels soaring? Free-for-all looting in the major cities without consequences? Joe Biden’s policies and Biden himself diving in the polls?

Never in recent American history has any administration birthed such disasters in its first nine months.

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In the following video, a man identified only as Wolfgang records a message to his loved ones from his ICU bed about his medical condition. He is now paralyzed from the neck down a month after receiving an injection of the experimental Johnson & Johnson mRNA medical treatment intended to prevent infection with the Wuhan Coronavirus.

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Sweden as a society is currently run by women, specifically feminist women. The prime minister is male, and numerous members of parliament are males, but important cabinet posts and administrative positions in the bureaucracy are filled by women. Female social workers. Female police chiefs. Female directors of enterprises, both public and private. And the ideology that animates public service and cultural institutions is avowedly feminist.

It is this feminist, feminized ideology that requires Swedes to welcome immigrants and celebrate them. Sweden has no legitimate culture of its own, so Swedes must embrace the multiculturalism that immigrants bring. Even if those culture-enrichers abuse, mutilate, brutalize, rape, and murder women and girls.

By 2050 — in less than thirty years — Sweden will no longer be run by feminists, because there won’t be enough of them left. Oh, there will be plenty of women, but the majority of them will be the property of patriarchal polygamous men who have been welcomed in from the Third World to enrich Swedish culture.

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An on-set shooting death has reignited concern about the use of prop guns like the weapon actor Alec Baldwin discharged in the killing of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins while filming a movie in New Mexico.

I think that instead it ought to re-ignite concern about Alec Baldwin. The gun didn’t fire itself.

UPDATE: Alec Baldwin’s Accident  John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Billions in environmental justice funds hang in the balance (Associated Press)

North Austin business owner was told by police to gather his own evidence after a burglary at his store

Americans no longer have faith in the US supreme court. That has justices worried (The Guardian)

Biden’s favorite stat — that 55 major corporations paid no federal income tax (Washington Post(  Or, more accurately, they didn’t collect any tax from their customers.

Brazen San Francisco thief breaks car windows, steals bags as ‘smash-and-grab’ crimes continue

Please Stop Using These Common Ageist Phrases (Lifehacker) Ageist!

UNREAL: YouTube Removes Ron Johnson Interview For COVID ‘Misinformation’

WaPo Editorial Board Calls For US Military Invasion Of Haiti

Twitter CENSORS Marjorie Taylor-Greene for Saying Trans Levine ‘Isn’t the First Female Anything’

AOC Backs Radical NY Voting Law Changes

DOJ Inspector General: McCabe Lied Under Oath

ABC, CBS Are MIA as Border Arrests Reach Historic, ‘Stunning’ High

Illinois Sheriffs Reject Mayor Lightfoot’s Urgent Plea To Cover Police Shortage In Crime-Hit Chicago

CNN Accuses GOP of ‘Partisan’ Redistricting, Ignores Dem Gerrymandering  As it does.

Rand Paul blasts Anthony Fauci after NIH admits gain-of-function funding

Crime-hit Chicago grapples with police vaccine revolt (BBC)

Chicago police union boss on vaccine mandate fight: ‘Welcome to day three of ‘The Hunger Games”

Vaccine Mandates Decimating Police Forces Across US

COVID Authoritarians Are The Cause Of America’s Problems, Not The Unvaccinated

California Maskless Woman in Store Convicted of Trespassing

The Price of COVID-19 Risk In A Public University

Anthony Fauci’s metaphysical get-out-of-jail-free card

Washington State Lawmaker Locked Out of the Capitol

CDC: Definition of Full Vaccination for COVID-19 May Change

Allison Williams Hired By Daily Wire After Refusing Vaccine at ESPN

Woke Medicine’s Critical Harm

“No Jab, No Job” – Aussie Supermarkets Demands 300K Workers Must Get Vaccinated Or Find Work Elsewhere  Australia is turning int0 a right little Nazi-land.

Outraged North Carolina parent calls out ‘racist’ banner taunting football team’s White privilege

Lawsuit Targets Massachusetts Public School System for Racial Segregation, Censoring Students

‘No more time to waste,’ chair of House climate panel warns ahead of Cop26 (The Guardian) TIME TO PANIC!

Inaction on climate change imperils millions of lives, doctors say (Washington Post) Millions! In peril!

“Damage and Destroy” Climate Zealots’ Final Solution?

South Pole’s Winter Weather Record

White House Wants Easier Path For “Climate Migrants”

Border arrests have soared to all-time high, new CBP data shows

Biden: I Guarantee Free Community College

Biden Finally Admits Dems Don’t Have The Votes To Raise Corporate Taxes For ‘Build Back Better’ Agenda

Joe Biden’s Soviet town hall

Court Order To Reimplement ‘Remain in Mexico’ Could Prove Ineffective

The Biden Admin Said It Left 100 Americans in Afghanistan. They Now Admit It’s Far More.

3 reasons why Donald Trump’s new social media company is doomed to fail (CNN)

America’s Children Demand That Joe Manchin’s Salary Be Tied to Work Requirement (The New Yorker)  Listen carefully, you can hear them.

Photo of College Lecture on ‘Right-Handed Privilege’ Goes Viral (Newsweek)

Matt Gaetz’s Fundraising Craters as He Finally Shuns Spotlight (Daily Beast)

Key Investor Bails After Learning He’s In New Trump Company: ‘Not A Close Call’ (Huffington Post)

‘What a fool’: fellow actors criticise William Shatner’s space flight (The Guardian)

Geophysicist canceled from MIT delivers speech in Princeton

Mitch McConnell’s resignation to Trumpism (Washington Post) All Trump! All the time!

The GOP rebrands itself as the party of tax cheats (Washington Post)

Outdated Stand-Up Comedy Replaced With Stand-Up Scolding  Babylon Bee.

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They’d be fools not to

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The Utah Supreme Court is the latest stop in EFF’s roving campaign to establish your Fifth Amendment right to refuse to provide your password to law enforcement. Yesterday, along with the ACLU, we filed an amicus brief in State v. Valdez, arguing that the constitutional privilege against self-incrimination prevents the police from forcing suspects to reveal the contents of their minds. That includes revealing a memorized passcode or directly entering the passcode to unlock a device.

In Valdez, the defendant was charged with kidnapping his ex-girlfriend after arranging a meeting under false pretenses. During his arrest, police found a cell phone in Valdez’s pocket that they wanted to search for evidence that he set up the meeting, but Valdez refused to tell them the passcode. Unlike many other cases raising these issues, however, the police didn’t bother seeking a court order to compel Valdez to reveal his passcode. Instead, during trial, the prosecution offered testimony and argument about his refusal. The defense argued that this violated the defendant’s Fifth Amendment right to remain silent, which also prevents the state from commenting on his silence. The court of appeals agreed, and now the state has appealed to the Utah Supreme Court.

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A hefty set of tusks is usually an advantage for elephants, allowing them to dig for water, strip bark for food and joust with other elephants. But during episodes of intense ivory poaching, those big incisors become a liability.

Now researchers have pinpointed how years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks.

During the conflict from 1977 to 1992, fighters on both sides slaughtered elephants for ivory to finance war efforts. In the region that’s now Gorongosa National Park, around 90% of the elephants were killed.

The survivors were likely to share a key characteristic: half the females were naturally tuskless — they simply never developed tusks — while before the war, less than a fifth lacked tusks.

Well, that’s how evolution works.

The Buckhead Lamborghini Murder

Court mistakenly gave potential jurors in Ahmaud Arbery case his mental health history

Eric Adams, Curtis Sliwa Spar in 1st NYC Mayoral Debate

Watch: Condoleezza Rice Crushes Critical Race Theory: “White Kids Shouldn’t Be Made To Feel Bad For Being White”

Biden at MLK Commemoration: 1/6 Was Motivated by White Supremacy

What Liz Cheney just said about January 6 is *really* important (CNN) If, of course, you support The Narrative.

Two people could save US democracy (CNN) And they are, of course, Democrats.

Please, Everyone, a Moment of Silence for These Antivax Cops Who Ragequit Their Jobs (Gizmodo) Not just ‘quit’ but ‘ragequit’, so you’ll know the correct thought.

Army Kicks Out Hitler Mustache-Wearing Solider Who Allegedly Breached Capitol, Says Report (Daily Beast) It must be a great disappointment to the Daily Beast that Trump doesn’t wear a Hitler Stache.

Professor Dorian Abbot: I was canceled for basing admissions on merit

Trump faces new criminal investigation into New York golf club  (Washington Post)

Trump broke the suburbs for the GOP. The rebuilding could start in Virginia. (Politico) As if anyone at Politico knew anything about suburbs.

Twitter Mob Comes for Dave Chappelle. It’s Time to Realize They Aren’t As Powerful As They Think.

Joe Scarborough: On Voting Rights, GOP Like George Wallace ‘In Schoolhouse Door’  George Wallace was, at the time, a Democrat.

Trump’s new social media site collapses after trolls flood it before launch

Kooky Tom Friedman on Cooper Show: Cruz, Hawley Seek to ‘Burn Down the Country’

Head of California’s largest union arrested on theft, fraud charges  Look for … the Union label….

Tech Salaries Are on the Rise, Just Not in New York or San Francisco

Brian Laundrie might be dead, but women like me are still hunting for closure And somebody, by God, had better provide it for me.

New gerrymander weapon Gerrymandering is a Bad Thing … when Republicans do it.

A politicized Supreme Court? That was the point (The Hill) No. Just … no. A ‘politicized’ court is never the point.

Poland triggers an existential crisis for Europe (Washington Post) No, just for the E.U., which is not quite the same thing.

ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN/MSNBC Spend Zero Seconds on Loudoun,VA School Sex Assaults

Facebook kept its own oversight board in the dark on program for VIP users

Andrea Mitchell Hails David Hogg for ‘Really Effective Protests’ for Gun Control  Really? What ‘gun control’ measure has “Camera” Hogg gotten passed?

China Blocks All Boston Celtics Games After Enes Kanter Demands “Dictator” Xi “Free Tibet”

Religious Persecution? Ex-Washington State University Football Coach To File Lawsuit

DC Cops Say Department Pressured Them To Have Abortions

YouTube Bans ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Video for ‘Medical Misinformation’

Nevada Democrat Violates State Mask Mandate at Star-Studded Gala Honoring Chinese Billionaire

ACLU Sues Texas School District Over Long Hair Policy

Pa. Poll Worker Gets 1st 2020 Voter Fraud Bounty Reward From Texas Lt. Gov.

University of Virginia Students Vandalize Thomas Jefferson Posters

Reducing People to Their Pronouns

ABC’s Roberts Whines to Jill Biden About Loss of ‘Free’ College in Dem Spending Binge

The Hypocrisy of Environmental Elites

COP26: Document leak reveals nations lobbying to change key climate report It’s not about The Science, it’s about The Politics.

What’s Holding Nuclear Energy Back In The U.S.? Hint: Government red tape.

It’s time for a ‘moo shot’ to disrupt industrial animal agriculture (The Hill) Climate Chante! Is there anything it can’t do>

Reports: Health Problems Linked to Global Warming Increased

Proposed Electric Vehicle Tax Credits Benefit Unions, Wealthy Individuals—Not Environment

Climate reports outline Biden administration fears on global warming

The Cost Of Going Green Is About To Get More Expensive