‘SNL’ takes kids to Ted Cruz Street with Big Bird

Antifa members clash with anti-vaccine protesters outside NYC’s Gracie Mansion

Should you go to Thanksgiving dinner with your unvaccinated uncle? Experts help make the decision (CNN) Because you’re too fucking stupid to figure it out on your own without CNN’s help.

“Its Entirely Feasible That Herd Immunity Has Been Reached In The Current Environment”

Worldwide Vaccine Failure

Oklahoma National Guard ‘Goes Rogue’ After New Commander Rejects Vaccine Mandate; Pentagon To Respond ‘Appropriately’

Federal Appeals Court Upholds Block to Biden Vaccine Mandate

CDC Admits No Record Of Naturally Immune Transmitting COVID-19

The judge in Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial is considering lesser charges. Here’s what that means (CNN) Because you’re too fucking stupid ot figure it out without CNN’s help.

Republicans Return to Their Happy Place: Full-On Crazy (Daily Beast)

Rittenhouse trial judge receiving threatening messages, reports say

Jan. 6 Defendants Taken Out Of Cells On Stretchers: Court Filing

“I Keep Forgetting That You’re Still Alive”: Musk Taunts Bernie Sanders, Asks If He Should “Sell More Stock”

Cross Accuses GOP of ‘White Supremacy,’ Attacks Journalists From Left

Kanter Rides Boston Bench, NBA Threatens China Critic With Banishment

REVIEW: John McWhorter’s ‘Woke Racism’

Build Back Better must sharpen focus on environmental justice (The Hill) ‘Environmental justice’ is the latest proglodyte magic spell.

All they wanted was to open a noodle shop. Their tangle with S.F. bureaucracy has them regretting they tried (S.F. Chronicle)

Connecticut police open investigation into brazen caught-on-tape theft of grocery store carts full of goods

Rohan Criticized For Crossing State Lines To Defend Minas Tirith Babylon Bee.

Peloton Blocks Users From Using #LetsGoBrandon Hashtag

Washington Post’s Wemple Demands that CNN Retract Claim Steele Dossier Was Corroborated

Hogarth’s Paintings Now Come with a Trigger Warning

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When it comes to salaries, this is what it’s always been like for job applicants. You make your best guess of how much to ask for, based on the few tidbits about pay ranges that you’ve been able to glean from friends and co-workers and job apps, and then you negotiate in the dark. It’s a system of secrecy that benefits employers: By treating everyone’s salaries as “confidential,” companies are able to keep workers guessing about how much they’re willing and able to pay.

That’s all about to change. A growing number of states are enacting measures known as “pay transparency,” which force companies to disclose their compensation levels. New laws set to take effect in Connecticut and Nevada next month, and in Rhode Island in 2023, require employers to provide applicants the salary range they pay for each position at some point in the hiring process. Four other states and two cities have enacted similar mandates, some of which also require employers to disclose their pay scales to existing employees. The most far-reaching law, which Colorado implemented in January, compels businesses to include their salary ranges in every job posting — effectively making their payroll public.

The backbone of a market economy is the price system – we depend on prices being accurate reflections of the value of the use of a resource for that particular ‘product’. The chief hole in directed economies (such as communism) is that, whatever its imperfections, the price system beats central planning six ways from Sunday at allocating resources satisfactorily.

One of the constant temptations in business, a temptation that is rarely resisted, is to promote inefficiency in favor of the business by hiding efficient price information from one side of the transaction. In hiring, this disadvantaged party is the employee. Nothing is so common as a company that won’t tell you what the salary for a position is (or could be), but hides behind the fog-speak ‘competitive pay’. (Competitive with what? With whom?) I’ve never worked at a company where telling somebody else in the company what you are paid won’t get you fired (if they catch you).

And historically it has been very difficult for prospective employees to educate themselves in this area. But times are changing.

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Parking and privacy aren’t typically things that go hand in hand. That’s changing.

Colin Shanahan discovered this during a recent visit to the Trader Joe’s grocery store in Hollywood.

After parking his car in the garage — seldom an easy task, as any SoCal TJ’s customer will attest — he was instructed by an attendant to download an app to his phone, register for service and use that for payment.

“Not wanting to give some random app a ton of personal information, I declined,” the Hollywood resident told me.

The parking-lot attendant, he said, “let me off with a warning that I wouldn’t be so lucky next time.”

Time to leave.

First of all, if you use the Metropolis app, you may not be paying just for parking. You may also be charged a “convenience fee” for your re-engineered legacy parking experience.

The company’s terms of service don’t specify how much this fee will run, stating only that the cost is “calculated as a small percentage of the total visit charge.”

No. Just … no.

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I received a notification from one Twitter user alerting another to the fact that “Shinigami Eyes shows [me] as a transphobe”’ with a link to the webpage Shinigami-eyes.github.io. Confused, I clicked on the link and made a startling discovery. Shinigami Eyes is a browser add-on that highlights supposed “transphobic” and “trans-friendly” people, businesses and organisations. Unbeknownst to members of the public, users who enable this function are invited to colour code others in either red or green — red meaning “danger” and green meaning “safe”. The extension supports Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, Medium, Youtube, Wikipedia articles and search engine results. According to Google Chrome, it has over 40,000 current users, and the extension is also supported via Firefox and Android.

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Poland’s border police announced Sunday that about 50 migrants have made it across the border into the EU from Belarus after forcing their way through fences and barriers, amid a standoff which has seen multiple thousands of migrants and asylum-seekers set up camps just meters from Polish guards.

“Yesterday, before 5 p.m., around 50 people broke into Poland near Starzyna,” Podlaska police said Sunday. “All of the people were caught by Polish uniformed services and brought back to the border, Border Guard spokeswoman Katarzyna Zdanowicz told Polish state news agency PAP,” France24 details of the statement.

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Olaf Gersemann, a German journalist, 15 years ago set out to correct Europeans who believed that economic life in America was a race to the bottom. He showed that America’s flexible labor markets, dynamic growth, and job creation worked at least as well as Europe’s economies and welfare states. Now American writer David Harsanyi bookends that earlier project with a new text that punctures not European myths about America but the myths that some Americans hold about Europe.

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For those who don’t know, Eric Clapton is merely the most celebrated guitarist in rock history, but did you know what the Covid injections did to him? Have you heard about the song he and Van Morrison recorded in 2020 protesting the lockdowns?

Covid cases are surging in Europe. America is in denial about what lies in store for it (The Guardian)

YouTube temporarily suspends Ron Johnson’s channel over COVID-19 misinformation

Fauci Warned About Coronaviruses In 2003 – But Didn’t Act On It

“It Raises Serious Constitutional Concerns” – Appeals Court Re-Affirms Stay On Biden Vaccine Mandate

Moderna has fewer breakthrough cases than Pfizer’s, but higher myocarditis rates

Artists must confront the climate crisis – we must write as if these are the last days (The Guardian) Without artists on your side, can anything really get done?

The fossil fuel industry turned out in force at COP26. So did climate activists (NPR)

This Colorado community was proof an all-electric, net-zero future is possible. Now that vision is under siege (CNN) By reality. (Virtue-signaling face mask required, of course.)

Oceanfront Home on the Hawaiian Island of Maui Sells for $42 Million  Guess they didn’t get the memo about how the seas are rising and we’re all gonna die.

Welcome to Paradise: Jeff Bezos Purchases $78 Million 14-acre Hawaii Estate Guess he didn’t get the memo, either.

The Hounding of Roger Pielke Jr amid the demise of academic freedom in climate change

Justin Rowlatt’s Fake Californian Wildfires Report

Democrats want to give a tax cut to the top%, 6x bigger than any other bracket

Rex Huppke: Guilty or innocent, Kyle Rittenhouse should disgust us all

These maps show how Republicans are blatantly rigging elections (The Guardian) Funny how the Narrative Media are only offended by partisan redistricting when Republicans do it.

Dems’ gerrymandering complaints bring unified GOP response: Remember 2001!

Trump scores legal wins with one lawsuit dropped and another dismissed

Joe Manchin Wants to Sabotage the $12,500 EV Tax Credit (Gizmodo) I don’t see why rich people’s tech toys ought to get a taxpayer subsidy.

Manchin blasts union-made EV tax break at Toyota event (The Verge) I don’t see why only Union-made products deserve a taxpayer subsidy.

Kyle Rittenhouse Worship Is Just the Beginning for Twisted GOP (Daily Beast)

She helped her husband start a far-right militia group. Now the Oath Keeper’s wife says she has regrets (L.A. Times) There is no ‘right’ except the ‘far-right’.

Legal Expert Schools Dejected CNN Hosts on Rittenhouse Trial

Nancy Pelosi’s Jan. 6 Witch-Hunt Committee Burns Its First Witch

The hounding of a female academic

CNN Blasts ‘Bigoted,’ ‘Drama King’ Judge in Rittenhouse Case

Rittenhouse Trial Brings Out the Crazy

Don Lemon attacks judge in Kyle Rittenhouse case as possibly racist, treating defendant like his ‘grandson’

NYT Wants to Put African-Americans Back in the Cotton Fields

Progressives ruined San Francisco, but at least ‘advocacy’ is thriving George Will.

The wealthy pay more than their ‘fair share’— and liberals know it (The Hill)

Moore: ‘Tax the rich’ ruse hasn’t worked before, won’t now (Boston Globe)

Key Democratic senators silent on rising inflation, potential implications for Biden’s massive spending bill

California Fraudsters Get Rich Off Unemployment Benefits

Austria to declare nationwide lockdown for unvaccinated people

Los Angeles Defunds Police, Uses Money For Guaranteed Income Experiment  Time to leave.

NYT: All Europe Has to Do to Keep from Being Pushed Around by Belarus Is Open Its Borders to Everybody

Andrea Mitchell Frets Conservative Rulings as ‘Setback,’ ‘Doesn’t Bode Well’

“Non-Binary” Assistant Professor Calls For “Stigma” Of Pedophilia To Be ‘Delegitimized’

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Today it’s Kyle Rittenhouse. Not long ago it was young Nicholas Sandmann. And, of course, for four years or so it was the Trump-Russia collusion business. What do these three episodes have in common? That would be the fact of a wildly untrue liberal media narrative.

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Former Afghani finance minister, Khalid Payenda, says that most of the 300,000 Afghan troops never existed, and were in fact “ghost” solders who were fabricated by corrupt officials who then pocketed their wages, according to the BBC.

Think of it as evolution in action.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

The New York Times has now published its fourth story on the investigation of James O’Keefe and Project Vertitas in connection with their possession of the diary of Ashley Biden. The otherwise questionable authenticity of the diary can be inferred from the involvement of the FBI. It has somehow become a federal case in the Age of Biden.

Today’s story is “Project Veritas Tells Judge It Was Assured Biden Diary Was Legally Obtained.” Subhead: “But a search warrant in the case suggests the Justice Department believes the diary kept by the president’s daughter Ashley Biden was stolen.” The story is by Times reporters Michael Schmidt and Adam Goldman with the assistance of researchers Susan C. Beachy and Matthew Cullen. That amounts to four cooks in the kitchen to produce what turns out to be thin gruel.

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Belarus has confirmed that some 2,000 Middle East migrants are currently camped at the EU border crossing near northeast Poland, which has emerged as the main crisis point involving clashes with Polish border police and attempts to dismantle the security fence.

Amid frigid temperatures the crisis continues to escalate, with on Saturday the death of a young Syrian man being reported at the border. “Polish border authorities said Saturday that the body of a young Syrian man around 20 years old was found Friday. The man was found near Wólka Terechowska, a village in northeastern Poland,” The Wall Street Journal reports. “The exact cause of death wasn’t immediately determined, they said.”

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We used to have lots of semiconductor fabs all over the country that could produce different kinds of chips, but these were gradually sold off or closed. It’s gotten so bad that the Pentagon relied on one production line for key chips, and that production line, owned by Abu Dhabi-controlled Global Foundries, just sold it off to a firm that will shut it down. The Pentagon is stockpiling extra chips, but in a war, these kinds of things get used very quicktly.

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People in California, take note.

(Ponder a 1400 square-foot house that looks like a sawed-off Quonset hut but costs $350,000.)

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) was photographed officiating Ivy Getty’s lavish wedding in San Francisco last week. The photo explains everything you need to know about the Democratic Party. Nearly every important aspect of the party and its voter base is represented.

1) Millionaires and billionaires

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2) Really old career politicians

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3) White guys

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4) Celebrities

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5) Anti-Semites

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6) Selectively enforced rules

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An Algerian culture-enricher has been convicted in Paris for the notorious murder of an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor. He was sentenced to life, which means at least 22 years in France. Which is better than in Sweden, where a “life” sentence generally turns out to mean eighteen months or so.

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No clue as to how much they’ll cost. I suspect it won’t be cheap.

Cheney reveals what Republicans are saying privately about taking on Trump (CNN) Because obviously Republicans are determined to ‘take on’ Trump, right?

Judge in Kyle Rittenhouse trial makes inappropriate Asian food joke (CNN) The swine!

The truth about Trump is out there. And it’s coming soon (CNN) All Trump! All the time!

‘Slow-Rolling Insurgency’; Reid, Pals Accuse All Conservatives of Being Terrorists

Fox ‘Straight News’ Anchor Stunned to Learn Biden Actually Runs the White House (Daily Beast) Actually, that doesn’t surprise anyone.

A sobering, new report shows how much work is needed to protect democracy (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin thinks the way to protect democracy is more progressivism.

Nicole Hannah-Jones’ ‘shameful’ World War II take knocked as the ‘1945 Project’

‘I hope it’s a fever that will break’: GOP wrestles with infrastructure vote backlash (Politico)

Two Big Myths About Why Energy Prices Are Rising (New York Magazine)

Our deepest fear for America — and the world (CNN) Because CNN is all about fear.

NYT’s Stunning Revelation: Project Veritas Employs Lawyers to Make Sure It Doesn’t Break the Law!

Joy Reid, Michael Steele Spew More Youngkin Lies, Defend Porn in Schools

“You May Not Be Interested In Politics, But Politics Is Interested In You”

Andrea Mitchell and Abedin Complain Clinton Faced ‘Sexism’ From Press

CNN Laments Americans Exercising Their 2nd Amendment Rights

Meet the ‘inactivists’, tangling up the climate crisis in culture wars (The Guardian) The swine!

Hey, We Might Not Die (Gizmodo)

Frustration and defiance rule in Welsh village set to be abandoned to the rising sea (Associated Press)

How 4 environmentalists travel with the climate in mind (Washington Post)

How businesses can move from just green initiatives to true social good  Fast Company joins the Wokerati.

Cities will be the focus of COP26 on Thursday. Here’s what you need to know. (Washington Post) Move to the country, live on nuts and berries.

Extra-high tides offer a glimpse into the future as sea level rises (NPR)

Plastics doesn’t [sic] have a recycling problem, it has an image problem

Iran Climate Agreement Demand: No Sanctions and Free US Technology

COP-Out? Global Climate Plans Fall Short

Climate Conference’s Carbon Footprint Doubles From Last Summit

Climate Models Overlook Benefits of CO2 and ‘Lukewarming,’ Data Scientist Says

‘We don’t want any more Black pastors coming in here,’ says defense attorney in Arbery death trial (CNN)

No, Black jurors aren’t ‘biased’ when it comes to shootings of Black people (The Guardian)

Authorities ID Victims Killed at Fort Worth Game Room, Bus Stop

TERRORISM: Nets Ignore BLM Threatening to Bring ‘Bloodshed’ to NYC

Grading Is Racist “White Language Supremacy” Says Arizona State Professor

Tree Planting So White? Bizarre Racism at Vice

Taiwan Halts 2nd Dose Of Pfizer Jabs For 12-17 Year Olds

Liberal Governor Tried to Pump Covid Numbers to Justify Shutdown

10 States Sue Biden Over COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate For Healthcare Workers

With 7.4 Billion COVID Shots In Arms, Bill Gates Admits The Quiet Part Out Loud

Robots Steal Jobs During Pandemic As Working Poor Displaced

Aussie Health Chief Says People Who Don’t Get Vaccinated Will Be “Miserable” And “Lonely” For Life

Singapore Cancels Free Healthcare For Those “Unvaccinated By Choice”

Regulator Reviewing Reports Of “Rare” And Serious Condition Linked To Moderna Vaccine

Scholars Now Believe Mary And Joseph Were Denied Room In The Inn Due To Being Unvaxxed  Babylon Bee.

CEO: I Am Challenging The Vaccine Mandate To Protect My Workers’ Jobs

LinkedIn CENSORS Vid of Doctor Criticizing COVID-19 Vaccines: Report

War Memorial Defaced With The Words “The Real Heroes Are The Vaccinated!”

Taki is delightfully dyspeptic today.

Don’t let anyone tell you the Bagel is worse off than Kabul, where three people were recently shot dead by Islamic gunmen for playing music at a wedding. No sirree, people over here are shot every day and night, but not for playing music at a wedding. Give New York credit where it’s due. The city is a bloody horror if you’re living way uptown, way downtown, or in the Bronx, while the rest of Gotham is experiencing a new story of street savagery not seen in decades. The rich continue to leave, taking their tax revenue with them down south; the huddled masses arrive with outstretched palms expecting social justice. Street crime is rampant, Times Square is no longer a tourist trap because one can get killed there, yet the media continue to write and report on the evils of…Donald Trump. The perpetually offended, however, blame all this on racism by whites, ignoring that black-on-black crime is responsible for 95 percent and more of murders.

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At The Washington Post, when Democrats are kicked unceremoniously out of office, it can only mean one thing. Democracy died in darkness.

Take Stephen Sweeney, the powerful Democrat leader of the state Senate in New Jersey. Absolutely no one thought he would lose to a Republican who was a trucker who had a tiny campaign treasury.

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A Swiss billionaire is bankrolling a leading dark money group lobbying for the Biden administration’s Build Back Better plan and green energy jobs initiatives, according to corporation and lobbying records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.

Climate Power, one of the main groups pushing for the White House’s climate agenda, has billed itself as a traditional advocacy organization, with an advisory board featuring John Podesta, Stacey Abrams, and former senator Harry Reid. But the group doesn’t actually exist independently—it is owned and operates as a front group under the Fund for a Better Future, a Democratic dark money organization that has received the majority of its funding from Swiss health care mogul Hansjorg Wyss’s foundation since 2016, according to corporation records.

For all that Democrats constantly wring their hands about ‘dangers to our democracy’, they seem to be the ones doing their best to slide their way around it.

I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

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China has reportedly tested a new strategic weapon: a fractional orbital bombardment system armed with a hypersonic glide vehicle. What exactly does this weapon do and what is the threat to the United States?

Hmm. No place in South America. No place in Asia. No place in Africa.

For a racist hellhole, the U.S. is looking pretty good.

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I suspect that the cumulative effect of ‘social media’ is the latest addition to the toolbox of Natural Selection.

Think about it.

The more people become addicted to Facebook and Twitter, the less they engage with real life.

Real life includes having and raising children.

To the extent that people are allowing themselves to become addicted to social media, to that same extent they are slowly excluding themselves from the gene pool.

Think of it as evolution in action.

Newsmax Star Returns to Twitter—and Is Permanently Banned Hours Later for Vax Insanity (Daily Beast)

Let’s Discuss the Media’s Shameless Dishonesty in the Kyle Rittenhouse Case

Austin forces cancellation of Veteran’s Day parade, Gov. Abbott, others respond to ‘slap in the face’  As Kevin Williams likes to say, Austin is not Texas, although you can see Texas from there.

Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the old way of grading  In preference, I guess, to actually doing their jobs.

Six Degrees From Brookings: How A Liberal Think-Tank Keeps Coming Up In The Russian Collusion Investigation

YouTube Hides “Dislikes” Following Mass Downvoting Of Biden Administration Videos

Facebook Users Unable To Find Results When Searching For “Kyle Rittenhouse” Amid Teen’s Homicide Trial

Baltic States Warn Of Military Clash Over Belarus’ “Deliberate Escalation” Of Migrant Crisis

Arizona School Board President Kept Secret Files On ‘Wacko’ Parents Opposed To Mandates And CRT

Social Media Companies Suppressed Claims of Kyle Rittenhouse’s Innocence

Google Researcher Warns on Dangers of New Axios-Google Election Issue Project  Axios is as dependably Woke as The Guardian.

Massachusetts Bans Light Bulbs

‘You can’t live in a swamp’: Virginia fishing village threatened by rising sea levels (NBC ‘News’)

Kyle Rittenhouse spokesperson slams Joe Biden for casting defendant as a White supremacist  Funny thing – all the people he shot were white.

Tuvalu seeks to retain statehood if it sinks completely as sea levels rise (The Guardian)

At COP26, Tuvalu pushes for underwater sovereignty (Washington Post)

Scientists extend and straighten iconic climate “hockey stick”

World’s ‘calamitous’ water crisis being ignored in climate talks – WaterAid (The Guardian)

Make extreme wealth extinct: it’s the only way to avoid climate breakdown (The Guardian)

CNN Hypes Questionable Climate Hysteria About Underwater Island Nations

Toyota sneakily spreads anti-EV propaganda in Japan  If it’s ‘propaganda’, then by definition it’s not ‘sneaky’.

Moving endangered species could save them — or turn them into invasive species  What’s a mother to do?

How SARS-CoV-2 in American deer could alter the course of the global pandemic (NPR)

As Covid recedes in US a new worry emerges: wildlife passing on the virus (The Guardian)

People testing negative for Covid-19 despite exposure may have ‘immune memory’ (The Guardian)

Long COVID symptoms may have causes other than SARS-CoV-2

CBP orders supervisors to push employees on vaccine mandate, or be disciplined for insubordination

Germany Latest EU Government To Warn Young Adults, Pregnant Women Not To Get Moderna Jab

Irish Health Minister Sues Van Morrison Over Criticism Of COVID Measures

Customs and Border Protection May Lose Thousands of Agents Due To Vaccine Mandate

UK Vaccine Mandate May Force 123,000 Out Of Health Care Sector

Despite Vaccine Passport Schemes, COVID Cases Surging Across Europe

Florida May Withdraw From OSHA Oversight Over Vax Mandate

White supremacists declare war on democracy and walk away unscathed (The Guardian)

DOJ opens environmental justice probe of Alabama health departments, the first under 1964 law (CNN)

White supremacists find a new platform to spread hate: A federal courtroom in Charlottesville (Washington  Post)

Black Lives Matter activists threaten ‘riots’ if Mayor-elect Eric Adams reinstates controversial NYPD anti-crime units But of course the real threat to American democracy is white supremacists.

Highways Are Egalitarian, Not Racist

Abdul-Jabbar Accused Rodgers Of Threatening Lives, While Son Nearly Killed Neighbor

Black Lives Matter Leader Threatens Eric Adams With ‘Riots’ and ‘Bloodshed’

Watch: MSNBC Host And Guest Say Rittenhouse’s Trial Is “White Privilege On Steroids”

On Veterans Day, MSNBC Suggests The Military is Racist

The Left’s Lies About Race

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An anti-Israel activist who helped organize the 2010 flotilla of ships to the Gaza Strip and was the lawyer for a Palestinian terrorist who killed two Jewish college students is running for Congress as a Democrat in Michigan.

Huwaida Arraf, who this week launched her campaign based on her record of “fighting injustice” on the world stage, is an activist lawyer who cofounded the International Solidarity Movement, which encourages anti-Israel activists to take “direct action” to force confrontations with Israeli forces. Arraf has used her status as an American citizen to protect Palestinian terrorists, including during the infamous 2010 flotilla to Gaza that was blocked by the Israeli military. The flotilla, which was paid for by a group with ties to terrorist organizations, was loaded up with weapons and military equipment for Hamas.

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The State Department is working to secure the release of several hostages taken by Iran-backed terrorists after they stormed the U.S. embassy facility in Sana’a, Yemen, U.S. officials told the Washington Free Beacon early Thursday.

A group of Houthi rebels reportedly stormed the U.S. compound on Wednesday seeking “large quantities of equipment and materials,” according to regional reports translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute. The raid comes just five days after the Houthis kidnapped Yemeni nationals who work for the U.S. embassy.

The State Department confirmed to the Free Beacon that the Yemeni staffers are being held hostage and that the Iran-backed militants stole property after breaching the American facility in Sana’a, which housed U.S. embassy staff prior to the suspension of operations there in 2015.

The Biden administration will, of course, do as little as possible.

Zman does some analysis.

The opposite rule of liberalism says that whatever the Left is saying, you should start with the opposite and that is where you will probably find the truth. For example, if they are accusing one of their bogeymen of something, most likely the target is not doing it and is not the bad guy. Odds are, it is the Left engaging in the activity. Whether it is latent guilt or deliberate distraction, the Left tends to accuse others of the things they are doing or plan to do in the future.

It is not always simple like we learned with the Russian collusion hoax. The Left is fond of creating elaborate and plausible concepts that they can use to frame issues so that they are the default moral position. Homosexual marriage is an example where they inverted the morality of the issue. Normal people felt the need to explain why we should maintain normal marriage, as if it was a novel concept. The opposite, of course, was the truth but it was hard for people to see it.

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For the past few months the government of Belarus has been inflicting a wave of Middle Eastern “refugees” on the European Union through the borders of Lithuania and Poland. The migrants are flown from Turkey or Baghdad to Minsk and then carried by bus or taxi to the borders of the EU. Poland has borne the brunt of this onslaught, and the crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border has intensified since the beginning of November.

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A “youth” went on a stabbing rampage with a knife on Monday in the French city of Cannes. He attacked a police car and slashed at a policewoman, who was fortunately unharmed, thanks to her bulletproof vest. Two of her colleagues then got out of the vehicle and shot the knifeman, wounding him.

The attacker’s motive is unknown, although “Allahu Akhbar” (Arabic for “defund the police”) features prominently in this news report.