New coronavirus, likely from dogs, infects people in Malaysia and Haiti (NPR)

He survived severe Covid-19; now he’s getting vaccinated, but losing friends (CNN)

“Health Should Not Be Political”: Packers’ Aaron Rodgers Deflects Hysteria About Being Unvaccinated In Lengthy Interview

Life in the Corona Gulag

“People Don’t Know The Special Fund Exists” – Feds Pay Zero Claims For COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries/Deaths

Ex-WH Staffer Fears What Trump Would Do if Reelected: It’s ‘Different in the Second Term’ (Newsweek) Fears! (All Trump! All the time!)

Glenn Youngkin’s Underage Son Tried to Vote in Virginia Governor’s Election, Officials Say (NBC) Officials say!

‘We Want to Live’: Climate Protesters Follow Sen. Manchin in Southwest DC (NBC)

Desperate, Deranged DeSantis Devolves Into Dumb Troll (Daily Beast)

Manchin casts a shadow over potential US action at international climate summit (CNN) Manchin! A shadow!

Biden Energy Sec. Granholm laughs at question about boosting oil production: ‘That is hilarious’

How the climate crisis is forcing Americans to relocate (The Guardian)

The Great Reset Action Item #4: No Meat For You

Glasgow: The Stampede To Mass Poverty

Janet Yellen Admits The “Net Zero” Grand Reset Price Tag Will Be $150 Trillion

The secret lab making the most sustainable food in the world  Sustainable! (‘What does that even mean?’ ‘I don’t know, but it’s Hip and Trendy, so we wants it!’)

No Mention Of The Little Ice Age, Justin?

Greta Thunberg brands UN climate summit ‘a failure’ & ‘a PR event’ … a ‘global greenwashing festival’ – ‘Shove your climate crisis up your arse’ – ‘No more whatever the f*ck they’re doing inside there’  Kid’s got a mouth on her.

8 Killed as Houston Hip Hop Show Becomes ‘Mass Casualty Incident’

Aspiring Rapper Update: The Promising Criminal Career of ‘JayDaYoungan’

The Liberal Media ‘Racist Dog Whistle’ With Virginia’s Black Lt. Gov-Elect Winsome Sears  Remember: If you can hear the dog-whistle … you’re the dog.

Aspiring Rapper Update: Mom Shocked by the Unexpected Death of ‘Lil Theze’

Federal Appeals Court Blocks Biden’s ‘Big-Company’ Vaxx-Mandate

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Most readers are aware that unvaxed activists have been trolling the vaxed snowflakes online by referring to those who have not been injected with the experimental mRNA treatment as “Purebloods”. It’s a good tactic, because it takes the conversation to a place the pro-vaxers would be smarter to avoid.

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As our dystopia emerges fully in the next few months, it’s possible that the unvaxed will start wearing buttons or hats with “Pureblood” emblazoned on them to proudly proclaim their dissident status. I’m a severe introvert, so I probably won’t do it myself, but the idea of it makes me smile.

 

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COBOL is a coding language older than Weird Al Yankovic. The people who know how to use it are often just as old. It underpins the entire financial system. And it can’t be removed. How a computer language controls the financial life of the world.

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In 2005, the psychologist Agnieszka Golec de Zavala was researching extremist groups, trying to understand what leads people to commit acts of terrorist violence. She began to notice something that looked a lot like what the 20th-century scholars Theodor Adorno and Erich Fromm had referred to as “group narcissism”: Golec de Zavala defined it to me as “a belief that the exaggerated greatness of one’s group is not sufficiently recognized by others,” in which that thirst for recognition is never satiated. At first, she thought it was a fringe phenomenon, but important nonetheless. She developed the Collective Narcissism Scale to measure the severity of group-narcissistic beliefs, including statements such as “My group deserves special treatment” and “I insist upon my group getting the respect that is due to it” with which respondents rate their agreement.

On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog — until you bark.

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Any person who produces art or literature, or who offers up anything at all for public consumption, must have a thick skin. Harsh reviews are as much a part of the writing life as days in front of a blank screen. But Jessie Tu’s recent article in the Sydney Morning Herald about Irish novelist Sally Rooney strikes a nastier tone than most scathing book reviews manage. It is symptomatic of an increasingly prevalent trend in literature, according to which the identity of the writer is more important than the words on the page. If your reaction is to scoff and retort that this is exactly what happened when white men dominated publishing, well okay. But that injustice is simply being re-rehearsed in reverse—this time, the wolf preens in progressive sheep’s clothing, masquerading as virtuous while advocating a heavily regressive approach to reading.

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A northern California town has declared itself a “constitutional republic” in response to Covid-19 health restrictions imposed by the governor, in the latest sign of strife between the state’s government and its rural and conservative regions.

The city council in Oroville, located at the base of the Sierra Nevada foothills about 90 miles from the capital of Sacramento, adopted a resolution this week stating it would oppose state and federal orders it deems to be government overreach.

Oroville leaders said the designation was a way of affirming the city’s values and pushing back against state rules it doesn’t agree with, although a legal expert said the designation was merely a gesture and did not grant the city any new authority.

And the sheep push back.

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Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Chairman Menendez Fail to Question the Nominee for U.S. Ambassador to Turkey about Terrorism

Several times this year, the U.S. State Department and Treasury Department have cited Turkey as a financial base for ISIS and al-Qaeda.

Turkey has long sponsored ISIS and other international terrorist organizations. No serious analyst disputes this.

Turkey has armed, financed, and deployed terrorists in such locations as Syria, Libya, and Azerbaijan.

On September 28, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) and Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ) quizzed President Biden’s nominee to be ambassador to Turkey, former U.S. Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ).

Thousands Of Active-Duty Air Force Members Miss Deadline For COVID Shots

San Francisco To Force 5-Year-Olds To Show Vaccine Passport To Enter Restaurants

Pfizer Shares Surge After Release Of ‘Miracle’ COVID Pill That Is 89% Effective At Preventing Hospitalization

Florida Governor DeSantis Announces Lawsuit Against Biden’s “Unconstitutional” Employer Vaccine Mandate

More Than Half Of Unvaccinated Americans Say Nothing Will Change Their Mind

CDC Director Refuses To Tell Senators How Many CDC Employees Are Fully-Vaxx’d  She probably doesn’t know.

NYC Firetruck Availability Down To 55%, Manpower Shortages Due To Vaccine Mandate: NY Firefighters

Young Professional Athlete’s Reaction to Vaccine

Florida Court Reinstates Governor’s Ban On Masking Mandates In Schools

Maryland county teaches there’s a “double pandemic” of COVID and racism

We obtained never-before-seen data on how Chesa Boudin is prosecuting cases. Here’s what it shows

Google Employees Oppose Company’s Cooperation with Israel

China’ll hold supporters of Taiwan independence criminally responsible for life

White House Is Bypassing Usual Fiscal Review Process to Push Spending Bill Through. This Is Irresponsible.

Authorities Arrest Analyst Who Contributed to Steele Dossier

No, Universal Pre-K, Child Care Subsidies Won’t Pay for Themselves

Michigan Secretary Of State Sued For Failing To Remove Dead From Voter Rolls

How Government Worker Unions Manipulate Municipal Elections

Report: Hillary Clinton Tried To Prove Trump Was Colluding With Russians By Colluding With Russians  How … Clintonian.

Taibbi: Rachel Maddow’s Shocking New Low

GOP Congresswoman Lauren Boebert Mocks AOC With “Let’s Go Brandon” Dress

White House Flip-Flops Again: Illegal Immigrants Could Get Government Payouts

Massive Spending Bill Sends Your Tax Dollars to Corrupt Corporate Media

Saudis Respond To Biden: Your Energy Crisis Isn’t Our Problem

Watch: US-Bound Migrant Caravan Overwhelms Mexico’s National Guard

California Forced To Embrace Natural Gas

Climate Scientists to Their Kids: We’re Going to Die Like the Dinosaurs

It’s Time to Delete Carbon From the Atmosphere. But How? (Wired ‘Science’)

Andrea Mitchell Lets Al Gore Push Global Warming Alarmist Agenda  As she does.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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The Gender Plan asserts that America has failed to deliver on its promise of equality to all. Using women as a pretext to address standard progressive priorities, the plan deplores the plight of marginalized minorities, who require a “shift in social and cultural norms,” not to mention universal health care, more immigration, more benefits for illegal immigrants, cashless bail, higher retirement benefits, a solution to the climate crisis, and institutionalizing the race-based practices of diversity, equity and inclusion throughout government.

The plan willfully confuses the core American principle of equality of opportunity with the goal of “equity, which is fundamentally discriminatory. Even in this encyclical about women, the Administration couldn’t advance a plan that was about women as women. Instead, the plan focuses only on women who are “of color, LGBTQI+ people, people with disabilities, and all those whose lives are affected by persistent poverty and inequality.” The plan promises that gender equity and equality are at the forefront of America’s foreign policy.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

White House deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre conducted the press conference in the absence of the psychedelic Jen Psaki yesterday. In the Psaki pspirit, Peter Doocy “circled back” to the question he raised with Biden about settlement negotiations between the Biden Department of Justice and the ACLU. According to the Wall Street Journal, the negotiations were “circling in” on payments of $450,000 to illegal aliens allegedly traumatized by the unfriendly welcome they received during the Trump administration.

On Wednesday Biden told Doocy that the Wall Street Journal story was “garbage” and that the settlement “[wasn’t] going to happen.” The ACLU responded: “President Biden may not have been fully briefed about the actions of his very own Justice Department as it carefully deliberated and considered the crimes committed against thousands of families separated from their children as an intentional governmental policy.”

Government employees never seem to wake up to the fact that if you pay people who break the law, you will get more people breaking the law.

ZMan’s weekly podcast. Highly recommended.

One of the unnoticed things about the current crisis is that the people getting what they want are increasingly angry, while the people getting worked over by the system are remaining calm and patient, for the most part. The crazies got what they wanted through the Trump years. They snarled his administration in a made-up plot and convinced his own party to sabotage his efforts. This required little effort, as the GOP is just their dull-witted flunkies.

Then they purged him from the system. The 2020 election should have signaled the end of the madness. The evil orange man had been removed from office. The Republicans could crawn back under their beds and the Democrats could waste everyone’s time with their crackpot ideas. The media would not have hear every day that they are fake news or the enemy of the people. Everything was back to how it was. You would think that they would be celebrating in the streets.

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Proposed guidelines in the state would de-emphasize calculus, reject the idea that some children are naturally gifted and build a connection to social justice. Critics say math shouldn’t be political.

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The massive trade imbalance with China has left the US with an abundance of empty shipping containers piling up at warehouses and outside parking lots around ports. Sending shipping containers back to China is often a costly task for shipping companies, and many are left in the US.

So Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, thinking on his feet, is dealing with a twin crisis of containers and his state overrun by migrants because the Biden administration has ignored the border crisis, has repurposed containers as a makeshift wall to block illegals.

A Perfect Storm: The Chocolate, Coffee, and Climate Crises

Bill Gates Pushes For Green Industrial Revolution and U.S. Climate Leadership (NBC News)

Humanity needs to ditch coal to save itself. It also needs to keep the lights on. (CNN)

Deforestation: Which countries are still cutting down trees? (BBC)

These otherworldly photos convey climate change’s effects on Arctic regions (NPR) See if you can find the starving polar bear. You know there’s one in there somewhere.

Coal Keeps Lights On At COP26 As Low Wind Strikes Again

Inside the Negotiations to Decide the Fate of Our Planet  (Wired ‘Science’)

ABC, NBC Hint Youngkin Catered to Racists, Skip Win for Black Republican Woman

Judge finds ‘intentional discrimination’ in Arbery jury selection but allows trial to move forward with 1 Black member (CNN)

The Ahmaud Arbery Murder Trial Is Already Getting Ugly (Daily Beast)

Henry Ruggs was driving 156 mph seconds before deadly DUI crash, loaded gun found in car, prosecutors say

‘The View’ hosts clash over Kaepernick and his NFL slavery comparison: ‘Nobody forces these guys to play’

Dems Announce Plan To Call People Racist Even Harder  Have you noticed that the first thing black women do when they become famous is try to make their hair look like a white person’s?

ERASURE: Media Ignore Historic Achievements of GOP Candidates of Color

‘These Republicans Are Dangerous’ and Other Stupid Media Election Reactions

New Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears DESTROYS Joy Reid Over Her Left-Wing Hate

Donald Trump fever may be breaking (CNN) All Trump! All the time!

Trump Allies Set Up Legal Fund for Jan. 6 Elite, but Leave Protesters on Their Own (Daily Beast) All Trump! All the time!

Boebert: I Gave Birth in a Truck, So No One Deserves Parental Leave (Daily Beast)

BLAME: ABC Pins Dem Election Disaster on GOP ‘Exploiting Fears’ of Parents  Which fears, from what I’ve seen, were totally legitimate.

Morning Joe: Biden Unpopular? Blame Trump!

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The husband of an Iowa Democrat running for Congress as a moderate locked down his Facebook account after the Washington Free Beacon asked about his posts comparing American Christians to Islamic terrorists, predicting Republicans would put people in gas chambers, and expressing hope that former president Donald Trump would get the coronavirus.

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The Left is much like a buzzing hive, no conspiracy just an agenda they all manage to agree with. Most importantly, the Hive does not sting its own.

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Imagine being able to design a new organism as easily as you can design a new integrated circuit. That’s the ultimate vision behind the computer-aided design (CAD) program being developed by the GP-write consortium.

“We’re taking the same things we’d do for design automation in electronics, and applying them to biology,” says Doug Densmore, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Boston University. One of Densmore’s startups, Lattice Automation, is leading the effort to develop the CAD. He says the first version will be available by the end of the year.

One of Densmore’s hopes for the project is that it will help computer scientists see a way to get involved in genetics and biology. “There are some really brilliant computer scientists out there, who might say, ‘I don’t get what this is doing biologically, but I like the coding,’” he notes.

Be the first on your block….

ZMan is delightfully dyspeptic today.

One of the rules of the universe is that you should never take advice from your enemy, unless you are a Republican. This is the one big exception to what should be a fairly obvious rule of life. This also applies to so-called conservatives, who love nothing more than taking advice from the people they claim are their opponents. On the other hand, so-called conservatives and Republicans never listen to their voters. You see this in the aftermath of the Tuesday elections.

Here we have an actor on a far left cable channel explaining how Glenn Youngkin beat Terry McAuliffe in Virginia. The cable channels always have these guys who pretend to know things that they cannot possibly know. They are less reliable than palm readers, but they are a staple of political coverage. In this case, the role of this guy is to explain why the Republican should read the election results as an embrace of the far-left agenda and use it as a road map for future elections.

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Reminder: Islam is an oppressive totalitarian ideology with which no co-existence is possible.

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Hey, you, you normal Americans – you suck, why won’t you just admit it?

(How did what most people enjoy somehow become ‘irrational’, ‘bizarre’?)

Oh, I like green grass and I cannot lie….

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Meantime…this is modern day train robbery. Modern day LA not far from Union Station…a few days ago. Unfortunately it is happening every day. As soon as the train stops, thieves start opening containers. It is quite well organized. This is the main line

Joel Kotkin.

The stunning defeat suffered by the Democrats in Virginia, a surprisingly close race in deep blue New Jersey and the defeat of a “police defunding measure” in Minneapolis represent a remarkable turning point in American politics. It is less an affirmation of a resurgent Trumpism than a rejection of what might be called Bidenism, an unnatural merger of traditional Democratic corporate politics with a radical, progressive agenda.

Appealing to what James Carville, Bill Clinton’s campaign manager, has dubbed “faculty lounge politics” — with its emphasis on Critical Race Theory, racial quotas, transgenderism and defunding the police — has become an obvious flaw in their political strategy. These positions might prove popular in certain sections of the media, but not so much among the public.

Racism In the Public Schools

Nobel Peace Prize Winner Proves Bad at War

‘View’ Hosts Lose It On Guest For Disagreeing CRT ‘Isn’t Taught’ in K-12

I Was Told I Have Career Advantages ‘as a Black Woman.’ Here’s How I Replied

Braves Fans Celebrate World Series Win With Racist Cheer That Won’t Go Away The Huffington Post huffs and posts.

CNN, MSNBC Ignore Victory Speech of Historic Black Republican in Virginia  She’s a Republican and so Not Really Black.

CNN’s Van Jones Compares Youngkin to Delta Variant Spreading ‘Disease’

Tracking A Journalistic Cliché: “The Worst Attack On Our Democracy Since The Civil War”

Trump derangement syndrome

CNN analyst compares ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ to rhetoric from ISIS, Nazis, KKK

Trump, the billionaire family and the bull semen baron who divides them (Politico) If it ain’t got Trump, it ain’t news.

Eric Trump in Tears After Dad Eats All His Candy (The New Yorker) Andy Borowitz thinks he’s funny, but he’s not.

Watch: MSNBC Immediately Declares Youngkin A Racist After Virginia Victory

Cisco requires COVID-19 shots for all US staff – even remote workers

Don Lemon Heckled After Being Caught Vacationing Maskless In Florida Rules are for thee but not for me.

German Companies Creating Segregated Canteens For Vaccinated And Unvaccinated

Military Vaccine Deadline: Clash Begins With Troops Who Refuse Shots

Climate change will alter where many crops are grown

Climate change is not an ‘existential threat’

Colorado’s Climate Change Roadmap

Bill Gates shops for climate-saving farm — aboard super-polluter yacht

The sea is rising faster now than any time in the last 3,000 years, experts say, slowly swallowing the Texas Gulf Coast  I’ll start worrying when Galveston is evacuated.

‘Super polluters’: the top 10 publishers denying the climate crisis on Facebook (The Guardian)

Beware: Gaia may destroy humans before we destroy the Earth (The Guardian)

Incredibly Bad Idea Gains Steam At COP26: Tariffs To Combat Climate Change

Republicans Slam Biden Admin Efforts To Nationalize Education

Truckers Tired Of Taking Blame For Congestion Crisis At California Ports

Democrats Becoming More Honest About How They See Themselves. And How They See You.

FBI Sat On Bombshell Footage From Kyle Rittenhouse Shooting

Stalking Sinema, Menacing Manchin, and Talking Trillions is Political Theater

Jennifer Granholm Violated Hatch Act in Maine Elections, Watchdog Says

With Youngkin Win in VA, CNN Declares America ‘Incredibly Divided’

Safeway In Castro Cuts Hours Due To ‘Off The Charts’ Shoplifting; ‘It’s Sad, Upsetting And Frustrating’

Why It’s So Hard To Tax the Rich (Politico) Money talks, and most rich people (these days) are Democrats.

Washington Post: Democracy Dies When the Republican Candidate Gets More Votes Than the Democratic Candidate

“It’s A Blood Bath” – NJ Governor’s Race Still Too Close To Call As Voters Punish Democrats For Leftward Shift

UN Expert Calls for Countries to Embrace Radical Gender Theory

GLAAD, USA Today: America Still Not Gay Enough

Dems Remain Delusional

Florida Homeowner Fined For Hanging Trump And “Let’s Go Brandon” Banners On His Own Home

You Mean There Were More?! Behold, the Worst Overnight MSNBC Hissy Fits

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McDonald’s McPlant, a burger with a plant-based meat patty, is now available at select locations in the U.S. for a limited time.

Notice how nobody ever tries to make a meat-based plant substitute.

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The U.S. Army has been preparing for a “near peer” (conventional enemy) war for over a decade now and one problem has gotten worse. For a near peer conflict the army needs rail lines from bases to ports as well as an adequate number of rail cars to carry heavy equipment. Currently about half the army rail lines from bases to the commercial mainlines are unusable because of delayed repairs. A five-year program to remedy this is behind schedule. There is also a shortage of army rail transportation troops, made worse by a 2015 reduction in railroad troops because the army believed they could rely on commercial railroad personnel in the U.S. and foreign nations to do the job. That proved to be too optimistic. When the availability of commercial railroad specialists was recently checked it was found that the needed personnel for wartime operations were not available in the numbers needed.

The last time there was a major movement of units to ports was in 2003, for the invasion of Iraq. During that period the army found that 67 percent of army vehicles and heavy equipment had to move by rail. The army could not repeat the 2003 performance now and a near-peer war would involve the initial movement of at least twice as many units as in 2003.

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In the places that do allow pot shops and grows, business owners say high taxes, the limited availability of licenses, and expensive regulatory costs have put the legal market out of reach. And many of the Black and brown entrepreneurs who were supposed to benefit from legalization have actually ended up losing money. Meanwhile, consumers remain confused about what’s legal and what’s not.

Once again, government is the problem rather than the solution.

Joel Kotkin.

Like its global predecessors, the COP26 Glasgow conference will usher in a new wave of apocalyptic warnings about climate change. It will also likely prove no more successful, in terms of actually addressing the issue, than its predecessors, particularly as China, India and other developing countries ramp up their emissions.

Nevertheless, none of this will force the climate activists to reconsider how the current strategies against global warming could break the backs of the already beleaguered working and middle class. (For British readers, I use the phrase ‘middle class’ here in the American – less bourgeois – sense.) The climate chorus of celebrities, oligarchs and royals may feel virtuous, but for most people the future could prove to be propertyless proletarianisation. Many of those in Glasgow at the moment pray at the altar of ‘de-growth’. They want to limit the consumption of the working and middle classes, undermine their jobs, raise their energy bills, and inhibit their ability to buy property or travel.

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If you are a good man living in a bad regime, you will necessarily be a bad citizen. That is Aristotle’s teaching. The current controversies surrounding the Claremont Institute, particularly its various fights with both the Left and Right, must be understood in this light.

What Aristotle meant is that if a regime is unjust, it will regard as good citizens only those who are unjust in the way the regime is unjust. Anyone who refuses to acquiesce in the regime’s injustice will be regarded as dangerous. Precisely the just men and women will be seen as disloyal to the ruling authority and as politically illegitimate. In the early 1940s, Germans who sheltered Jews were bad citizens of the Third Reich, and Russians who circulated books critical of Marxism were unfaithful to the ideals of the Soviet Union.

Backdoor Roth, a tax strategy favored by the rich, survives in Democrats’ latest plan (CNBC) My, what a surprise.

Virginia’s Mainstream Democrat Gubernatorial Candidate Declares War on His Own Voting Base: Nice White Public School Teachers

End of the avocado: why chefs are ditching the unsustainable fruit (The Guardian) Fruit getting cancelled for being Politically Incorrect.

Tax the rich? Maybe not. Democrats’ spending plan could be a tax cut for the rich, budget watchdog finds (CNN) Democrats can’t even get stealing right.

Lincoln Project’s sleaze is now owned by the Democrats

Journos: Anyone Opposing Today’s Democrats Is Like a Democrat (George Wallace)

Hacks at the Wash Post Endorsed Every Virginia Democratic Candidate for Governor Since 1977

Amazon To Open New Office In Jersey City After Being Chased Out Of NYC By AOC

FDNY Union Head: De Blasio’s Ensured People Who “Care For Criminals Have More Rights Than People Who Care For The Average New Yorker”

More than 100 world leaders pledge to halt deforestation by 2030 (Washington Post) And we believe them, don’t we? Don’t we?

Energy Policy Advocates Files Suit Against State Department Seeking “Special Climate Envoy” Kerry’s Ethics, Recusal Records

Prince Charles Calls for Global “War Like Footing” to Address the Climate Crisis

Can we stomach the latest emerging food innovations? (BBC) The war against meat.

Hawaii’s beaches disappearing amid rising sea levels, erosion (ABC) So Hawaii ought to be under water in ten years. Let’s see whether that actually happens.

This Is Where the First Climate Wars Will Break Out (Daily Beast)

Biden Wakes Up From The Strangest Dream That He Was Attending International Climate Conference Babylon Bee.

Climate Democracy Dies in Darkness