Todd Tantrum: Biden Hosts Democracy Summit as GOP Destroys Democracy!

TikTok Reportedly Censors Pro-Rittenhouse Video As “Hate Speech”

A New Hydrogen Plane Can Fly Halfway Around the World Without Refueling

How will humanity endure the climate crisis? I asked an acclaimed sci-fi writer

Tropical forests can recover from deforestation remarkably fast and on their own, new study finds  The only surprise here is that this appeared in the Washington Post.

Frosts, heatwaves and wildfires: the climate crisis is hitting the wine industry hard (The Guardian) Except that the wildfires are caused by Stupid Government policies.

Darwin in a lab: Coral evolution tweaked for global warming (NPR)

Food waste becomes California’s newest climate change target Climate Change! Is there anything it can’t do?

Rain Caused Volcano to Erupt… Because Climate Change?

Underwater speakers draw fish to restore coral reefs  I am not making this up.

NY Times Claims Brazil Is Turning Into Desert, As Foliage Growth Surges

Jussie Smollett guilty of staging race-baiting hate attack to boost career

University of Wisconsin Milwaukee reportedly hosted $40K Ibram Kendi event with restricted use of recording

Bitcoin surge was a windfall for white supremacists, research finds (NBC News)

Don Lemon Faces ‘Ethical Questions’ Over Jussie Smollett’s Tip-Off Testimony

Georgia Republicans purge Black Democrats from county election boards (Reuters)

Kim Foxx: The woke Chicago DA who tried to help Jussie (Daily Mail)

A viral image of a Black fetus is highlighting the need for diversity in medical illustrations (CNN)

Former ‘Mighty Ducks’ Actor Convicted of Hate Crime Hoax

Don’t Mention the Black Murder Rate!

Black Lives Matter Calls For Xmas Boycott Of “White Companies”  Racism, straight up.

I am leaving New York City for Florida. I never thought I would

New York City Council approves measure to allow nearly 800,000 non-citizens to vote in local elections

Defund the Police meets the crime wave

New Zealand Moves to Make It Impossible for Next Generation to Smoke Cigarettes

US Attorney Flaks for Embattled Soros DA Hours After Taking Office

Illinois Dem Under Investigation for Bribing Prospective Primary Opponent

Ideologically-based teacher screening becomes widespread

Dems investigate funder of election protest rally  But never Soros, not ever.

11th Hour Hits Midnight: Here’s the Worst Moments From Lyin’ Brian at MSNBC

America’s Public Education System Is Collapsing As Teachers’ Unions Force Schools To Close  While still paying them, of course.

Why Looting Turned San Francisco Into A Ghost Town

The Bay Area Crime Wave

Stunning: Facebook Court Filing Admits ‘Fact Checks’ Are Just A Matter Of ‘Protected’ Opinion

ADL Head Calls on Big Tech to Scrub Offensive Content, But Protect Colleague’s Speech

George Soros Funnels $4 Million into Extremist Group Looking to Defund Police

The Unmitigated Gall of Ilhan Omar

Beto Surges To The Lead For Governor Of Texas In Poll Of Californians  Babylon Bee.

Wisconsin Dem Fundraises With Anti-Semite Valerie Plame

Overwhelming Number of Diversity Officers at US Colleges Hold Anti-Israel Views, Study Says

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Multiple explosions rocked a Palestinian refugee camp in the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre on Friday night, with international reports citing unknown casualties, and several social media videos showing large flames reaching into the night sky.

Though unconfirmed, many reports are saying a Hamas weapons depot ignited, and there’s also rampant speculation it may have possibly been attacked by Israeli airstrikes.

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Gangs have had their the run of the Twin Cities at least since the retreat of law enforcement in the wake of the George Floyd riots. Carjackings have sprung up and spread like a virulent cancer. Homicides have reached record levels in both Minneapolis and St. Paul.

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The show this week is on a topic that comes up here in different ways from time to time but will become more of a focus in the future. That topic is the intellectual and spiritual underpinnings of the new religion. Our side has the bad habit of judging this stuff by objective standards, which has some minor utility, but is of no use in developing suitable defenses or an alternative moral philosophy.

The first step in that process is the same as in war, which is to reconnoiter the enemy in order to understand his strengths and weaknesses. In the sense of the culture war, that means going into the enemy’s intellectual territory to understand how they think and get a grip on their code. Every subculture has its own language and the new religion is not an exception. They have their own jargon which we have to learn.

I want one.

More than half of high-impact cancer lab studies could not be replicated

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The Northern Hemisphere winter is just 12 days away, and some Americans have already packed their bags and headed to the sandy beaches of Cancun to escape cold weather. Vacationers this year have to be on guard amid a spate of shootings that have turned the area into a tropical warzone.

The latest incident occurred Tuesday outside the four-star Oasis Palm resort in Cancun. According to NBC News, a group of gunmen pulled up on jet skis and began shooting in the hotel zone.

Avoid the Turd World. Life there never ends well.

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Vuity, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in October, would potentially replace reading glasses for some of the 128 million Americans who have trouble seeing close-up. The new medicine takes effect in about 15 minutes, with one drop on each eye providing sharper vision for six to 10 hours, according to the company.

CNN does its job as the DNC press office.

One Republican, Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, voted with all the Democrats for the bill.

One RINO allows fhem to claim it was ‘bipartisan’. The fact that no real Republicans voted for it, even under Fascist Joe Biden, indicates that it doesn’t really address ‘abuses of power’ by a President.

The bill, which has support from the White House, aims to strengthen guardrails that were tested by former President Donald Trump, including limitation on presidential pardons, the requirement for candidates for president and vice president to submit their personal tax returns for 10 years, and the acceptance of any foreign or domestic emoluments.

In other words, it’s an anti-Trump bill, aimed at things he did that the Never Trumpers particularly hated. Hence the virtue-signal name.

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A breakthrough study by University of Alberta researchers has shown the fat cells that lie just beneath our skin shrink when exposed to the blue light emitted by the sun.

“When the sun’s blue light wavelengths-the light we can see with our eye-penetrate our skin and reach the fat cells just beneath, lipid droplets reduce in size and are released out of the cell. In other words, our cells don’t store as much fat,” said Peter Light, senior author of the study, who is a professor of pharmacology and the director of the U of A’s Alberta Diabetes Institute.

“If you flip our findings around, the insufficient sunlight exposure we get eight months of the year living in a northern climate may be promoting fat storage and contributing to the typical weight gain some of us have over winter,” added the Dr. Charles A. Allard Chair in Diabetes Research.

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A bionic eye that could help visually impaired people see again is ready for clinical trials — and if it works as hoped, it might one day give us superhuman sight.

San Francisco woman charged 120 times for alleged shoplifting arrested again, jailed

‘BART Basel’ guerrilla art pranksters take over SF public transit

San Francisco police lt. blames ACLU for string of smash-and-grab robberies: ‘Protecting the criminals’

San Francisco Safeway adding barriers to curtail shoplifters

Supreme Court signals further erosion of separation of church and state in schools (NPR)

A huge study of 20 years of global wealth demolishes the myth of ‘trickle-down’ and shows the rich are taking most of the gains for themselves (Business Insider)

CNN Uses Pearl Harbor Anniversary To Warn of Second Civil War

Democrats View Socialism More Favorably Than Capitalism: Gallup  Wow, there’s a shock.

CAIR’s Antisemitism Fails to Draw Media Scrutiny

The Left’s War With Biological Reality

Crazy People Are Dangerous: Psycho Torches Fox Christmas Tree in Manhattan

NBC Hails Hillary’s BIZARRE Reading of Fantasy 2016 Victory Speech

California Considers Funding Abortion Tourism as Part of Plan to Become ‘Sanctuary’ If Roe Overturned  I would encourage people in California not to reproduce.

ABC, CBS Deem 12 Cities Breaking Homicide Records Not Newsworthy

Safeway Redesigns San Francisco Store To Prevent ‘Flash Mob’ Robberies 

Police Detective Warns People Not To Visit Los Angeles Due To Rising Crime

Record homicides in city after city

How Trial Lawyers Team With Leftist Activists to Hurt Consumers

Attention, Woke Leftists: Women Don’t Want Men in Restroom Stall Next to Them

Meet the Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Who Founded a Left-Wing ‘Social Justice’ Magazine

Cargo Theft Soaring As Thieves Take Advantage Of Increased Traffic, Idled Shipments

n court filing, Facebook admits ‘fact checks’ are nothing more than opinion

Murders Spike to All-Time Highs in Democrat-Run US Cities

Climate change crisis: Golf courses on borrowed time as Earth’s weather patterns become wilder (CNN)

DeSantis proposes plan to fight rising seas without any ‘left-wing stuff’ (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)

Climate Change May Make Hurricanes Hit Sooner and Last Longer (Wired ‘Science’)

Alarmists Say the Funniest Things! Hawaiian “Blizzard” Edition

Trump’s social media platform hits roadblocks as major political battle looms (The Guardian)

Low-profile heiress who ‘played a strong role’ in financing Jan. 6 rally is thrust into spotlight (Washington Post)

Low-profile heiress who ‘played a strong role’ in financing Jan. 6 rally is thrust into spotlight (Seattle Times)

Jan 6. Panel Reveals Meadows Loved the Idea of Replacing State Electors With Trump Fans (Daily Beast)

‘Let’s go Brandon’ boat wins Virginia parade contest, then stripped of award

Man Arrested For Setting Fire To Christmas Tree Outside Fox News Headquarters

100 Times Big Tech Censored Users Who Affirm Science, Only 2 Genders

MSNBC Blames Russia Invasion Threat on ‘Republican-Russian Alliance’

Who Should Kyle Rittenhouse Sue First? Let Me Nominate Colin Kaepernick

“All Black Lives Matter” to be added to six Dallas streets

Washington Post: Advocates Push Nationwide Movement for Land Return to Blacks After Victory in California

Senate issues rebuke of Biden’s workplace vaccine mandate’

Senate votes to overturn Biden vaccine mandate for businesses

Jordan Klepper Moves on From MAGA World to Expose the Anti-Vax Left (Daily Beast)

BoJo Unveils “Plan B” Restrictions As Omicron Cases Top 500 While Deaths Linger At Zero

Pfizer Says 3 Doses Of Its Jab Can “Neutralize” Omicron Variant  KA-CHING!

Bill Gates Believes “Acute Phase” Of Pandemic Will Finally End In 2022

Tester To Join Manchin In Striking Down OSHA Vaccine Mandate

Explosion In New Heart Conditions Dismissed As “Post Pandemic Stress Disorder”

Healthcare Chief Says Omicron “May Signal The End Of COVID-19”

“Absolutely Appalling”: Mother Says LA School Vaccinated Son Without Consent, Bribed With Pizza

FDA Says It Now Needs 75 Years To Fully Release Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Data  What are they trying to hide? Hmm?

Chinese Virologist Says Communist Regime Targeted Her for Exposing COVID-19 Origin

New Zealand Prime Minister Admits “There’s Not Going To Be An End Point To This Vaccination Program”

Are You Still Fully Vaccinated?

Maryland Man Charged After Allegedly Distributing Hundreds Of Fake Vaccine Cards

TV Show Mysteriously Deletes Poll After Vast Majority Oppose Mandatory Vaccination

COVID Fact-Check: “ICUs Are Filled With The Unvaccinated”

Professor Says COP26 Climate-Change Summit Could Have Been Omicron Super-Spreader Event

How Many New Yorkers Are At Risk Of Losing Their Job Over De Blasio’s Vaxx Mandate?

Norwegian COVID Experts Says Omicron Could Provide “Best Scenario” Of “Natural Immunity”

Fauci: Definition Of ‘Fully Vaccinated’ Will Be Changed

Traveling Nurses Triple Salaries As Hospitals Struggle With National Staffing Crisis

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I have a little list – they never would be missed….

“There’s nothing wrong with New York City that adding a million ethnic Chinese wouldn’t fix.”

— John Derbyshire

‘Her failing is not an option’ — Harris convenes Black women and charts the path ahead (Politico)

Kamala Harris is on to something: AirPods are bad (The Guardian)

Nate Silver savages media study claiming harsher treatment of Biden compared to Trump: ‘Complete crap’

Watch: Psaki Snaps When Pressed On Hunter Biden’s ‘Laptop From Hell’ 

Biden’s Supreme Court Commission Does What He Intended: Nothing

Comrade Down: Socialist Nominee for Bank Regulator Drops Out

Kamala, On the Job!

Nets Skip Biden’s Court-Packing Pipedream Ending With a Whimper

What teens think about White privilege, discrimination and how their generation will treat people when they grow up (Washington Post) Or, at least, what they OUGHT to think.

How making $300,000 in San Francisco can still mean you’re living paycheck-to-paycheck (SFGate)

‘I thought I was a free man’: the engineer fighting Texas’s ban on boycotting Israel (The Guardian)

Fallout from parents-as-terrorists letter puts NSBA in funding freefall

Hundreds of college professors blast ‘woke’ math movement

Whoopi, Joy Lecture Media: You’re Underselling Biden’s Good News!

COLLUSION: Media Outlets Meet With White House To ‘Reshape’ Coverage of Biden Administration

Censoring History: YouTube Age-Restricts YAF Video About Socialism’s Victims

Hundreds Of Mathematicians, Scientists, Sign Open-Letter Against Social-Justice-Based Curriculum

California School District: ‘Write Your Own Hex Poem, Cursing That Person’

Jussie Smollett blasts prosecutor for reading actor’s texts that included N-word

Black People Are Leaving Chicago en Masse. It’s Changing the City’s Power Politics. (Politico)

CNN Continues Coverup of Don Lemon Tipping Off Smollett on Police Not Buying Story

Smollett: ‘The True Attackers Were Inside Me All Along’  He’s such a victim.

Smollett Blames Police, Black ‘White MAGA Men’, & Anti-Gay Lover In Surreal Defense Of Hoax Attack

Desperately Seeking White Supremacists

The media has given Republicans a free pass on assaulting democracy (Washington Post)

Americans must get serious about fighting the Republican threat to our democracy (Chicago Sun Times) There’s an echo in here.

Lin Wood Claims Greene Is Under the Influence of ‘the Devil’ (Daily Beast)

Devin Nunes Idiotically Thinks Trump Will Pay Him (The New Yorker)

Merrick Garland’s Texas lawsuit shows the war on democracy is succeeding (Washington Post) I sense a theme….

Biden’s DOJ is suing Texas for gerrymandering, but will it go after blue states for the same thing?

‘Don’t Look Up,’ a thinly veiled warning about climate change, premieres in New York City (Boston Globe)

Bezos Earth Fund Announces $443 Million in Grants to Advance Environmental Justice, Conserve and Restore Nature, and Improve Monitoring and Accountability Ah, yes, ‘environmental justice’…

.John Kerry is counting on the private sector to help solve climate change (Washington Post) Oh, I think not.

S.F. made parklets permanent — but added so many rules that many restaurants plan to tear them down

As millions fell into poverty during the pandemic, billionaires’ wealth soared (CNN) Hey, ‘billionaires’ didn’t cause the lockdowns that destroyed the economy. They didn’t originate the mask mandates and concentration camps for the unvaccinated.

Here’s what pleading the Fifth is and what it means for the January 6 committee (CNN) Because CNN readers are too stupid to figure out the politically correct position without having it explained to them.

Here are 22 new laws Californians must start following in 2022

Democrats fall flat with ‘Latinx’ language (Politico)

Far right is using Twitter’s new rule against anti-extremism researchers (Washington Post) There is no right but the ‘far-right’, and the Narrative Media will hunt them down.

Chicago Public Schools’ New ‘Gender Equity’ Restroom Policy Ignores Biology, Invades Students’ Privacy

Dem Rep Bans Staffers From Using ‘Latinx’

“They Don’t Care…They Just Do” – Chinese Economist Explains President Xi’s Crackdown

Looters Target California Pot Shops, Steal $5 Million Of Product

Energy Experts Dismiss Liz Warren’s Complaints: “It’s Econ 101, Not Rocket Science”  Not that she could handle either.

You Won’t Be My Neighbor: Opposition to High Density Development

De Blasio Unveils Latest Plan To Get More People To Move To Florida  Babylon Bee.

Nearly 600 Scientists, Mathematicians Rip California’s Math Curriculum Plans

From pollutant to product: the companies making stuff from CO2 (The Guardian)

‘Your generation got us in this mess’: children of big oil employees discuss the climate crisis with their parents (The Guardian) Not a discussion but a lecture.

How do we fight climate change while global energy demand soars? (The Hill)

Burned-out Forests Are Not Re-Growing (Dissident Voice)

Climate Change Weekly #418

Climate Change? Energy Development First! (plea from Mozambique)

A white teacher taught white students about white privilege. It cost him his job (Seattle Times) And rightly so.

Don Lemon accuser says CNN is ‘predator protecting machine,’ happy to see ‘some accountability’ with Cuomo

CW Sci-Fi Series ‘4400’ Glorifies Violent Black Panther Tactics

Our under-incarceration problem, Beverly Hills edition

NY Times Op-Ed Writer Rants Against ‘Whiteness’ Ruining a Little Lawn Library

CNN’s Don Lemon Was Advising Jussie Smollett, Actor Tells Jury

ABC Hosts Wants You to Forget Their Embarrassing Smollett Reporting

Christmas Series BOMBS, Seth Rogen Blames ‘White Supremacists’  Because he’s such a Victim of Color.

Kamala Harris ‘elevated above her ability’ as office turmoil ensues  Well, that’s what happen s when someone is picked for her gender and skin color rather than qualifications.

Kamala Harris described as a ‘bully’ and ‘soul-destroying’ boss

Trump Lost the Presidential Battle but Won the Immigration War (Daily Beast)

Dems plot escape from Biden’s poll woes (Politico)

Joe Biden’s War Against Alaska Benefits Russia

Kamala Stopped FBI From Monitoring Black Supremacists Like Waukesha Killer

Biden Bureaucrats Quietly Increase Federal Government’s Control Over Health Care

Deportations Plummet 90 Percent on Biden’s Watch

Biden Judicial Commission Rejects Court Packing, Term Limits

SURPRISE! CNN Scoop Exposes Biden WH Trying to Shape Econ Coverage in Its Favor

‘Just Unacceptable’: Bipartisan Senate Report Criticizes HHS Over Shelters for Migrant Children

Judge Blocks Biden’s Nationwide Vax Mandate For Federal Contractors

Avengers Announce Diplomatic Boycott Of Thanos  Babylon Bee.

Inside Dr. Oz’s Shameless Flip-Flop on Abortion (Daily Beast) I have no objection to mocking ‘Dr. Oz’, but I doubt that they would do so were he running as a Democrat.

Republicans don’t disguise their indifference to human life (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin abandons any pretense of being a Republican. (Pretty ironic, coming from a proponent of abortion.)

A white supremacist march in D.C. was pushed by a fake Twitter account, experts say (Washington Post) The problem with these false-flag operations is that they are instantly obvious as cartoon portrayals of the Left’s right-wing fantasies rather than any credible extremist group.

GOP Women Are Leaning Into Mudslinging and Total Villainy (Daily Beast) Villany! Total!

Democrats Know the GOP Will Retaliate. They Want to Punish Lauren Boebert Anyway. (Daily Beast) Haters gotta hate.

DOJ aims to block key Bannon defense strategy (Politico)

Steve Bannon Wants to Turn His Criminal Charges Into a Media Circus: DOJ (Daily Beast)

David Letterman Immediately Shreds Donald Trump At Kennedy Center Honors (Huffington Post) My, what a surprise.

Worry about Trump continuing to undermine democracy, not his abuse of Mark Milley (Washington Post) Oh, surely there’s room for whining about both?

Trump spurs on GOP fight for Georgia governor, thrusting his false election claims to center stage (Washington Post) All TYrump! All the time!

Normal Day: Fredo’s Replacement Uses Bob Dole’s Death to Bash GOP

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One of the examples that I use to show how much we’ve learned about biology (and how much we didn’t know, even in the relatively recent past) is RNA. Who could have predicted that there would turn out to be so many different kinds of the stuff? We all grew up hearing about the basics in school – messenger RNA, transfer RNA, ribosomal RNA if your introductory course got fancy. But short hairpin RNA? Double-stranded RNA? Long noncoding RNA? Circular RNA? MicroRNA? I know that I’m leaving some out, but I’m also sure that there are others that belong on that list that we haven’t even stumbled across yet. Either we don’t know where to look, or how to look (because our existing techniques might not pick them up), or we don’t understand what we’re looking at even if we come across them. And I don’t mean to give the idea that the classes above are all figured out, either. We’re just starting to get the first ideas about what some of these things do in the cell, and how they relate to health and disease. Scientists of 2060 or so will look back on us with some pity, because of all the important things that we just didn’t know yet back in the 2020s.

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The Biden administration plans to push the Supreme Court to dismiss a school-voucher case on a technicality, fearing that a ruling that allows state funds to go toward religious uses will throw open public coffers to religious schools.

The Biden Justice Department during oral arguments on Wednesday will press the Court to dismiss the case. The plaintiffs have a leg up heading into the argument because the Court said in decisions from 2017 and 2020 that religious groups can’t be excluded from public benefits because of their religious identity.

Paul Mirengoff at Power Line.

This opinion piece in the Washington Post carries the title, “Sotomayor saw she couldn’t sway her colleagues. So she talked to us instead.” The article is by law professor Melissa Murray who clerked for Sotomayor at the appeals court level.

I don’t know whether either proposition in the title is accurate, but I can vouch for the second and third words of the second sentence. Sotomayor talked.

She talked and talked. She talked when counsel for the state of Mississippi tried to answer her questions. Counsel was lucky if he could get ten words out without Sotomayor interrupting him.

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But the chances of the Eco-Nazis and their pet Woke politicians letting you do so is negligible.

ZMan does a review.

Politics in a liberal democracy is first and foremost performative. Getting attention is the first goal for political types and they do that by comporting to familiar roles. How well they play those roles, as in any type of theater, establishes their status in the hierarchy of the political theater. Some actors, of course, take a short cut and play one of the various fools or jesters in the political drama. If done well this is a fast-track to attention, but the role itself is always on the periphery of the main show.

If most people were operating from self-interest and had a reasonable sense of their self-interest, political theater would not exist. For example, why would people line up to vote when they know their votes will be ignored? Most people know this to some degree and the science bears it out, but people still vote. In fact, voter participation has gone up as the effectiveness of voting has declined. The theater of democratic politics blinds people to the futility of it for some reason.

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Bus drivers in culturally enriched areas of the Netherlands are facing increasing difficulties due to the multicultural activities of asylum seekers who board their buses. The drivers are taking unilateral action to protect themselves, refusing to stop in neighborhoods where culture-enrichers cause repeated problems for them.

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One of the chief scandals of the 2020 election was the manner in which a group of left-wing former intelligence officials, liberal newspapers and television networks, and social media giants conspired to squash information about Joe Biden’s political corruption–information that, later polls suggested, could have cost him the election if voters had been permitted to learn the facts. The true story has now been told in Miranda Devine’s Laptop From Hell, about the treasure trove of documents, photos and videos that conclusively demonstrate not just Hunter Biden’s depravity, but, far more important, Joe Biden’s efforts to extract bribes from the Communist Chinese. As I have said many times, no one has ever bribed Hunter Biden, a pitiful, drug-addled loser who probably would not be employable were his father not an important government official.

During the 2020 campaign, Jen Psaki tried to sell the ridiculous claim that Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation,” while Hunter himself never denied the authenticity of the laptop or the materials it contained. It helps when you control a once free and diverse press.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Democrats have painted themselves into a corner on the number one issue of the day, crime. They tolerated and in many cases glorified the George Floyd riots as legitimate protests against oppression. They sympathized with criminals rather than law enforcement, arguing that America doesn’t have a crime problem, it has a law enforcement problem. They attacked law enforcement at every turn, actively trying to defund the police in some jurisdictions. And Democratic Party legislators and prosecutors effectively legalized theft in some cities and states.

To no sane person’s surprise, both violent and less-violent crime have exploded. Riots, arson, assault, homicide, carjacking, have all skyrocketed. And criminal gangs have taken advantage of the moratorium on law enforcement in a number of cities by organizing the mass looting of stores like Walgreen’s, Best Buy, Nordstrom, Apple, and so on.

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Some of California’s largest school districts are dropping D and F grades. Students who don’t learn the material, pass the final exam, or finish homework by the end of the semester would earn an “incomplete” which, I assume, could be converted to at least a “C” later on. Los Angeles Unified, Oakland Unified, Sacramento City Unified, San Diego Unified are among the districts that will make this move.

According this article, which gushes over the decision, the goals are to cause students to “re-engage” in school and to boost their chances of acceptance into the state’s public colleges. It is also designed to “especially” help “Black, Latino and low-income students,” according to the same source. Who would have guessed that?

San Francisco crime surge prompts city to suspend cannabis tax to help dispensaries versus drug dealers

Surprise surprise! The supreme court is coming for women’s rights after all (The Guardian)

What comes next after the Supreme Court’s signal on abortion rights (CNN) Signal!

14-Year-Old Girl Jailed for Escaping Arranged Wedding Ceremony in Mexico (Daily Beast) The Turd World lives up to its name.

Students are fed up with racist slurs and bullying. Now they’re walking out of class (CNN)

Biden Gets Standing Ovation at Kennedy Honors After Trump Boycott (Daily Beast)

Gun capitalism — not ‘ghost guns’ or other trends — is to blame for gun violence (Washington Post)

A right-wing ‘local-control’ movement is spreading in California fire country (SFChronicle) Right-wing!

‘Historical accident’: how abortion came to focus white, evangelical anger (The Guardian) White! Evangelical!

House Democrats Won’t Schedule Vote on Bill to Sanction Chinese Slave Labor

How ‘Science’ Went Woke

Politico Skips Fake News Basement Quarantine Stunt When Listing Chris Cuomo’s Problems

Brian Williams Berates Dems From Left: Lack ‘Guts’ to ‘Pack or Alter’ SCOTUS

Shots Fired: CNN’s Brian Stelter Unleashes Potato-Gun On Chris Cuomo

Bank of America execs warn junior staffers to ‘dress down’ as NYC crime surges

“They Were In Uniform With Multiple Weapons”: San Francisco Restaurant Defends Booting Cops

MSNBC Uses Dem Attacking Pro-Life GOP to Peddle Misinformation on Guns, Abortion

MSNBC Hysteria: Racist Pro-Lifers Attacking ‘Democracy’ by Denying Women Their ‘Abortion Care’!

Americans Keep Moving to the Suburbs

Refusal to wear a mask says more about you than your face ever could (The Guardian) Indeed it does.

Marjorie Taylor Greene wonders why we never closed schools or businesses because of cancer (Daily Kos)

Fauci calls Ron Johnson’s AIDS comment ‘preposterous’: ‘I don’t have any clue of what he’s talking about’ (The Hill) Almost certainly true.

Fauci dumbfounded by GOP senator’s false accusation (CNN)  False!

Face masks and omicron: Should you upgrade from cloth to N95s? Double mask? (SFChronicle) In any event, you need to PANIC!

Omicron: More Transmissible, Less Severe Due To ‘Common Cold’ Mutation?

Questioning School Madness and Vaccine Mandates

Fauci Downplays Severity Of Omicron Strain

Krazy Krugman: GOP ‘Apparatchiks’ Trying ‘To Keep Pandemic Going’

Huge New Study Shows Zero COVID Deaths Among Healthy German Kids

New York Will Require Full Vaccination To Access Restaurants, Gyms And Entertainment; 5-Year-Olds Need At Least One Shot  Time to leave.

Moderna President Warns Vaccines May Struggle To Protect Against Omicron

Doctor Banned For Questioning Efficacy Of Masks Wins High Court Case

Biden Surgeon General: Even Tripled Vaxxed Still Have To Wear Masks Indoors  Don’t forget to PANIC!

De Blasio Announces NYC Will Mandate Vaccines for Private Sector Workers  Time to leave.

Oregon Moves To Make Indoor Mask Mandate Permanent  Time to leave.

GOP lawmaker: Marjorie Taylor Greene is a ‘tattletale’ for running to Trump (CNN) When these guys graduate from high school they’re going to be awesome.

Trump Accidentally Posts Statement Blasting His Own ‘Stupid’ Election Lies (Daily Beast) Or maybe not.

Why Is Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts Acting Extra Crazy? (Daily Beast) Because he’s Republican?

Neil Gorsuch’s terrifying paragraph (The Hill) Terrifying!

Olbermann: ‘Trumpist Fascism’ Somehow to Blame for Michigan School Shooting.

CNN Hypes Dem’s Vile Attacks Blaming GOP for School Shooting

Morning Joe Hypes GOP’s ‘Catastrophic Turn’ To ‘Authoritarianism, Nativism and Conspiracism’  That’s a lot of -isms. They forgot deviationism, revisionism, and running-dog-ism.

Russia hoax whitewash era begins (3)

Daunte Wright shooting: Minneapolis activist charged with intimidating Kim Potter trial judge

NYT: By Encouraging Integration, Little Free Libraries Are Racist

Is My Little Library Contributing to the Gentrification of My Black Neighborhood?  Anti-white racism is alive and well in LA.

STUDY: After Hyping Fake Smollett Attack as ‘MAGA’ Terror, Nets BURY Actor’s Hoax Trial

‘Let’s Go Brandon’ store opens in Massachusetts town

Biden to Uyghurs: Drop Dead

Kamala Harris A ‘Soul-Destroying Bully’ Who Lacks Self-Confidence According To Former Staff

Biden Admin Sues Texas for Second Time in Three Months

How a Native American tribe on Long Island is losing its land to rising seas (CNBC) Not to mention property developers.

Climate change: Is ‘blue hydrogen’ Japan’s answer to coal? (BBC)

‘Sharks are amassing’: Tracker shows great white sharks gathering on East Coast

He lost his best friend in a mudslide. Now he’s using coconuts to fight deforestation in West Africa. (Washington Post)

Understanding San Francisco’s unseasonably warm November, climate change (ABC)

Environmental activists challenge ‘unlawful’ UK fossil fuel plan in high court (The Guardian)

“Earth’s Black Box” to chronicle humanity’s descent into climate chaos (New Atlas)

Three Things Not Caused by Climate Change

Tasmania Building a “Black Box” Recorder for Climate Change

Found: Stupidest Climate Change Headline Ever

Why We Must “Quit Worrying About Uncertainty in Sea Level Projections”

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A former DC National Guard official has accused two senior Army officials of lying to Congress about the circumstances surrounding the January 6th Capitol riot in order to protect a top Army official who didn’t want to send the Guard to the Capitol, Politico reports.