IRS wants to scan your face  (Washington Post) But not to vote.

The IRS website will soon require facial recognition to log in to your account (CNN) But not to vote.

These are the faces of the anti-Trump Republican Party (CNN) With RINO Romney right on top.

House Democrats introduce resolution to ratify ERA to U.S. Constitution (Axios)

Democracy’s defenders can’t just win elections. They must also campaign to save democracy. (Washington Post) Sounds like a Narrative.

Voting machine company won’t comply with Wisconsin subpoena

Los Angeles DA George Gascon recall petition approved by county registrar

Murder Chaos Overruns Baltimore As Liberals Fail To Maintain Law And Order

Top Ten Lies in Transportation Projects

Despite What They Say, Public Schools Have Plenty of Funding

Larry Fink of BlackRock and His Global Crusade to Advance Identity Politics

STUDY: Lying Networks Spin Retiring Stephen Breyer as a ‘Pragmatic’ ‘Moderate’ ‘Centrist’

‘Betraying the American people’: Leaked video reveals Joe Biden’s ‘hush hush’ migrant invasion

Republicans outraged over ‘unacceptable’ release of criminal migrants into US

Kraft-Heinz Again Raises Prices On Dozens Of Products As Inflation Continues To Bite

Politico Founding Editor Suggests Biden Should Trash-Talk His Way to Popularity

Pittsburgh Bridge Collapses Hours Before Biden Visit

Major Bridge Collapses in Pittsburgh  Pictures!

Trump faces MAGA revolt over endorsement (Politico) I guess ‘Trumpism’ isn’t all that monolithic.

Donald Trump Supporters Denounce His Decision Not to Endorse Robby Starbuck (Newsweek) All Trump! All the time!

Jailed Oath Keeper’s Estranged Wife Shares Snaps of ‘Escape Tunnels’ Dug Into Backyard (Daily Beast) I had to look to make sure it wasn’t the National Enquirer.

DeSantis’ Demented Doc Is About to Get the Grilling He Deserves (Daily Beast) High-school journalism at its finest.

Best path to Jan. 6 accountability: A civil suit against Trump (The Hill) When in doubt, sue Trump.

No, America is not on the brink of a civil war (The Guardian)

CDC’s Walensky had to Google her own website when asked about advancing equity in the pandemic response

GOP Governors Under Attack From MAGA Monsters They Helped Create (Daily Beast)

Joy Reid: ‘Absolute worst’ Manchin and Sinema ‘don’t care’ about poor people

Joe Walsh: GOP Voters ‘Want a Dictator’ Who Won’t Teach The Holocaust

Iranian Hackers Posed As “Proud Boys” During 2020 Election Disinformation Campaign, FBI Says

What Did Clinton Know And When Did She Know It? The Russiagate Evidence Builds

MSNBC Contributor: GOP Voters Are ‘Often More Emotional Than Rational’

Austin 6th Street mass shooting suspect released without bail

Jumaane Williams has ‘major concerns’ about Adams’ new NYPD anti-gun unit

A new Mississippi bill is the latest in a long effort to suppress the truth about civil rights history

Gas stoves are a threat to health and have larger climate impact than previously known, study shows (CNN)

Gas stoves in kitchens pose a risk to public health and the planet, research finds (Washington Post)

Big Oil’s New Ad Campaign Is ‘One of the Creepiest’ It’s Ever Made (Gizmodo)

‘Word salad of nonsense’: scientists denounce Jordan Peterson’s comments on climate models (The Guardian)

Scientists slam Joe Rogan’s podcast episode with Jordan Peterson as ‘absurd’ and ‘dangerous’ (CNN) Sounds like a Narrative

Empty ‘ghost flights’ may be burning as much fuel as 1.4 million cars (Euronews) Your tax dollars at work.

Greenpeace demands EU end ‘ghost flights’ (EU Observer)

For the First Time, a Harvard Study Links Air Pollution From Fracking to Early Deaths Among Nearby Residents (InsideClimate News)

Former Nuclear Regulatory Commission chair argues nuclear power isn’t a climate solution (The Verge Not if the government has anything to say about it.

Sinking 1K NYC subway cars in the Atlantic to create a reef didn’t go as planned

Scientists And Media Outlets Increasingly ‘Scolded’ And ‘Pressured’ To Blame Extreme Weather On Humans

NatGas Soars As 45 Million Americans Face Winter Storm Threat

Dr. Fauci reveals his worst-case scenario for 2022 and it involves a new variant (Deseret News) Of course it does! We have to keep stoking the PANIC!

Some monoclonal antibody treatments still available in Arkansas despite FDA’s limit

A second version of omicron is spreading. Here’s why scientists are on alert (NPR) So you’d better PANIC!

The simple numbers every government should use to fight anti-vaccine misinformation (The Guardian) Narrative! Narrative! Read all about it!

San Francisco announces changes to indoor mask mandate (S.F. Gate)

The gap between Australian climate policy and the science is closing far too slowly – we have to keep up the pressure (The Guardian)

Most Virginia school districts disobeying Youngkin on order making masks optional: report

Trump Admin’s Secret Vax Priority List Was Predictably Cruel (Daily Beast) All Trump! All the time!

Watch: Fauci Decrees Kids Under Four Will Get Three COVID Vaccines  They have to recommend it for kids so that the pharma companies can qualify for immunity from suits.

COVID-19 Can Be Stopped Without Massive Vaccination: Dr. Peter McCullough

Sweden Won’t Recommend Vaccinating Children Under 12 Due To Lack Of ‘Clear Benefit’

Ivermectin Prophylaxis Used for Covid-19

Politicians Say It’s Time to Live With Covid. Are You Ready?  Uh, we’re already ‘living with COVID’.

Virginia AG Says State Universities Can’t Mandate Vaccine For Students

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As is traditional.

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Supposedly, thanks mostly to Sinema and Manchin, the multi-gazillion dollar Build Back Bigoted Bill is dead in the water. Unfortunately, it has been my experience that you can’t stop a boondoggle. Especially one where you can call anyone who opposes it a rayciss. Without a stake through its heart, and possibly a cross and a lot of garlic, these corpses always rise again. So let’s look at just one tiny example of the pointless, outrageous giveaway the Democrats had planned to empty the Treasury for eons to come.

Weeks ago, Ann Coulter delved into the wretched thousands-page bill and ferreted out just a few gems. Though my fact-obsessed editor found her reportage less than accurate (picky, picky, picky…), it was all I had to go on, save reading it myself which was out of the question.

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A Japanese research team said it developed a vaccine to remove so-called zombie cells that accumulate with age and damage nearby cells, causing aging-related diseases including arterial stiffening.

The Other McCain is on the case.

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Justice Breyer pulled out a pocket constitution at his White House appearance today. Turns out it was the copy that Justice Breyer received when he entered Harvard Law School in 1964. The copy is pristine — never opened, never thumbed through. None of the cases he heard at the Supreme Court ever required him to consult it. It will make a great exhibit in his museum display someday.

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4,901 more people were murdered last year than in 2019. The 30% increase in murders during the year of Black Lives Matter and criminal justice reform was catastrophic. And it’s not over.

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U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg has boxed herself into a dilemma.

She has kept a report on a theoretical voting machine flaw—authored by a respected computer researcher—secret since last summer, citing concerns that releasing the report would fuel conspiracy theories about voting machines and the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

But her attempts at preventing conspiracy theories has fueled those theories anyway. And now, she has Georgia’s top elections official, Brad Raffensberger, urging her to make the report public.

Sister of Nina Totenberg, famous liar legal correspondent for CNN.

Vaccine Risk? What Vaccine Risk?

4 symptoms that mean you’ll likely get long COVID (Deseret News) So feel free to PANIC!

Long COVID-19: Study author explains four factors that can predict how you get it (The Hill)

Is it time for Fauci to exit the stage? (Washington Post) He’s become a liability, so it’s time to throw him off the sled.

Tucker Carlson airs his most dishonest and dangerous pandemic segment yet (Washington Post) Tucker must be getting close to home.

Florida Doctor: Families Sneak Ivermectin To Loved Ones In Hospitals With COVID-19, See Improvement

Doctor’s Organization Has Treated Over 150,000 COVID-19 Patients With 99.99% Survival

The Numbers Don’t Lie

We all broke lockdown, and we should have broken it more

How an Anonymous Reporting System Made Yale a COVID ‘Surveillance State’

Monoclonal Antibodies and FDA Emergency Use

Denmark Scraps All COVID Restrictions

Myocarditis Cases Reported After mRNA-Based Covid-19 Vaccination

FDA Asks Court To Delay First 55K Batch Of COVID Docs; Pfizer Moves To Join Case  What are they trying to hide? the SCIENCE?

Taibbi: The Folly Of Pandemic Censorship

The case against masks at school

The COVID-19 Impact of Expressive Individualism

5 Florida Teachers Removed for Refusing to Wear Masks

Nearly 40% Of All Illinois COVID Deaths In The Last Month Are Breakthroughs. What Gives?

Chinese Scientists From Wuhan Discover “Potentially Deadly” New Strain Of Coronavirus

Trudeau Slams “Unacceptable Views” Of Anti-Vaxx Truckers, GoFundMe Blocks Access To ‘Freedom Convoy’ Donations

Fact-Checkers Are Used To Confuse The Public: Sharyl Attkisson

Hall of Fame excludes Curt Schilling due to his politics

Gov. Hochul puts Manhattan DA Bragg on notice over soft-on-crime policies

MSNBC’s Joy Reid: Biden ‘has a point’ to complain about the media: Journalists obsess with ‘conflict’

Record Levels of Gun Violence and the Democrats’ Dilemma (The New Yorker) How to spin the fact that ‘gun violence’ is the direct result of Democrat policies.

Michael Rapaport films alleged shoplifter boldly robbing an NYC Rite Aid  Walked out right by a ‘security guard’, who didn’t lift a finger.

NYPD Reports Shoplifting Levels Not Seen In Nearly 30 Years As Organized Retail Crime Ramps Up Nationwide (New York Magazine)

Gov. Hochul won’t ‘cave to pressure’ as NYC Mayor Adams calls for bail changes

The $100 Million Latinx Bomb

Harm reduction vending machines are coming to New York

Sick Cities and Why Progressives Ruin Them

Meet Brian Williams’ Replacement: The Worst of Stephanie Ruhle

Poll: White Liberals 9 Times More Likely Than Hispanics To Use ‘Latinx’

Climate change is coming for our coffee (CNN)

Climate change: Key crops face major shifts as world warms (BBC)

Why we’re slow-walking the transition to clean energy and how to fix it (The Hill)

Rocketing demand for fossil fuels could deal blow to climate goals, report says (The Guardian) Gee, I wonder why?

EPA acts on environmental justice in 3 Gulf Coast states (NBC) There’s that new ‘environmental justice’ buzzword again.

Carbon offsetting is not warding off environmental collapse – it’s accelerating it (The Guardian)

In major reversal, Arizona utility regulators kill 100% clean-energy rules in the state

The climate solution in California’s compost and crops (The Verge)

Why doesn’t every big box store have rooftop solar?’ (Salon) Perhaps because it’s not cost-effective?

Baltimore Big Oil Climate Lawsuit Moves Forward

Why Environmentalists Pose a Bigger Obstacle to Effective Climate Policy than Denialists

Statistical Analysis Can Provide Evidence That the Official Australian Acornsat 2.1 Temperature Analysis Has Added Non-Climatic Warming to The Record, 1910 To 2019.

YouTube’s Trending Music List Suppresses Rappers’ Critique of Leftism

Michigan Mom Repeatedly Uses Racial Slur During School Board Meeting Turns out she was quoting, but that doesn’t matter – you use it, you lose it.  Unless you’re black, of course, in which case it’s alright.

Lemon weighs in on Joe Rogan and White guest’s definition of Black (CNN) Don Lemon looks pretty white to me.

NY Dem Councilwoman Still Wants To Abolish Police After Cop Killings in Neighborhood

Exclusive: The Babylon Bee Has Obtained Biden’s List Of Possible SCOTUS Nominees

Fact Sheet: A Year Advancing Environmental Justice (The White House)

Fewer Than 300 Asylum Seekers Enrolled in ‘Remain in Mexico’ After Biden Gutted Policy

Morning Joe Makes Excuses for Biden’s Pitiful Polling Numbers

STUDY: PolitiFact Is Almost 6 Times More Likely to Defend Biden Than Check His Facts

Biden Reminds Everyone That Black Justices Can Be Just As Smart As Rich Ones  Babylon Bee.

Biden Commits To Picking A Diversity Hire For SCOTUS Since That Worked So Well With His VP  Babylon Bee.

Chuck Todd Hails Biden’s ‘Iconic’ Unnamed SCOTUS Pick: ‘No Red Flags’

Georgetown Law School Lashes Out at Professor Critical of Biden’s Racial Supreme Court Promise

Mitchell, Dem Senators Plot SCOTUS Strategy, Blame McConnell For Polarization

The politics of replacing Breyer

Biden’s Surgeon General Wants Rogan’s Podcast Removed

On Colbert Show, Joy Reid Says Media Isn’t Tough Enough on GOP Never was anyone so egregiously mis-named.

EXCLUSIVE: Government Expands List of Unvaccinated, Now Tracking Both Medical and Religious Exemptions

Ginni Thomas would not be the first Supreme Court spouse to imperil a justice (Washington Post) Which is only a problem during a Narrative Media witch-hunt.

Millions Bummed that It Wasn’t Clarence Thomas (The New Yorker) Andy Borowitz is what passes for humor in The New Yorker.

A masterclass in election-rigging: how Republicans ‘dismembered’ a Democratic stronghold (The Guardian)

Dems Storm Out of Testy Confirmation Hearing for DeSantis’ Mad Doc (Daily Beast) High-school journalism at its finest.

Florida surgeon general favorably recommended after Democrats walk out of confirmation hearing (CNN) Disrespecting a Doctor of Color.

Florida Shock Jock in Matt Gaetz Circle Pleads Guilty (Daily Beast) In other news, somebody that Goetz passed on the street one day has been indicted. The walls are closing in!

Civil war expert reacts to Trump supporter. See her warning for the US (CNN) ‘Trump supporters’ are the new COVID.

What would a 2024 Trump coup look like? A new paper offers a worrying answer. (Washington Post)

The Jan. 6 Committee Members Are Patriots Making Sure Treason is Fully Documented (Daily Beast)

Witness Can Confirm Matt Gaetz Was Told He Had Sex With a Minor (Daily Beast) I guess that proves it, then.

Lawmaker on why DeSantis’ surgeon general pick is so dangerous (CNN)

Trump didn’t sign this newly unearthed 2020 election EO. We need to know why. (MSNBC) Perhaps he thought it would be a bad idea. (All Trump! All the time!)

Blaming The Donald for Biden’s Woes

Joe Scarborough’s Violent Fantasy: Will Trump ‘Bleed Out’ Like Boris Johnson?

Anti-Free Speech Left Celebrates Dan Bongino’s YouTube Ban

‘The View’ Accuses Justice Thomas of Being a Race Traitor, ACB Not ‘a Woman’

Left Barely Masks Its Contempt for Parents’ Involvement in Education

Projection: Kimmel, Meyers Falsely Claim GOPers Are Triggered by Biden Attacking Doocy

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Hot a firearm – probably doesn’t come under firearm laws.

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If a recent Scientific American opinion piece purporting to explain how growing opposition to critical race theory damages public education reveals anything, it is that the real problem with today’s left goes much deeper than its progressive ideology. The co-authors assert that resistance to CRT is based on white supremacy, a refusal to acknowledge history, a rebirth of ‘50s-style anti-communism, and the conservative desire to harden racial divisions. These stunning inaccuracies raise questions not just about the validity of their argument but the competence of the supposed experts making it.

While American news outlets — as well as universities, museums, non-profits, federal government agencies, and most other cultural institutions — have often leaned left, there was a time when the views they advanced were at least well-documented and even thought-provoking. It wasn’t that long ago when readers across the political spectrum looked forward to the latest articles by John Kenneth Galbraith, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and Norman Mailer.

That so much of what we now hear from left-leaning sources is not just predictable but sloppily concocted indicates just how much ground their best and brightest have yielded to an intellectually inferior second string. It’s a sad decline and there are three main reasons for it.

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

When Democrats aren’t trying to keep children out of school and (not) learning online, or requiring them to wear masks when they’re (not) learning in crappy union-run public schools, they’re trying to warehouse them in government-run universal child care programs.

Universal child care is one of the centerpieces of the Democrats’ BBB Bill (better known as “Biden’s Big Blunder”). Yet the people who scream “follow the science” never seem to take in what several social science studies of early preschool have found.

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Yemen’s Houthi militants have escalated ballistic missile and drone strikes on the United Arab Emirates as part of their war against the Saudi-led coalition that supports Yemen’s internationally recognized government in Yemen’s ongoing civil war.

These continuing Houthi attacks are part of a broader Iranian-orchestrated proxy shadow war against the U.S. and its allies in the Persian Gulf, Iraq, and Syria, which has escalated in recent weeks.

On Monday, the UAE government announced that its armed forces had shot down two ballistic missiles targeting its capital city, Abu Dhabi, launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, a radical Shia Islamist movement backed by Iran.

Why the Saudis don’t just go into Yemen and clean it out like a gourd has always puzzled me.

(a) Neil Young.

(b) Some homeless guy interrupted pooping on the streets of San Francisco.

(c) Can’t tell the difference.

UPDATE: Report: Strong Spike In Google Searches For ‘Who Is Neil Young’  Babylon Bee.

ZMan does a deep dive.

One of the features of every societal crisis is that the elites of the society stop enforcing the rules of society, especially on themselves. Prior to the collapse of the Roman Republic, the elites started making exceptions to the rules. In the short term they seemed practical, but in the long term these exceptions undermined the moral logic of the rules entirely. Before long, a man in Gaul could decide that the rules no longer applied and he was free to do as he pleased.

This is at the core of the current crisis in the American empire. The rules have become arbitrary with regards to the elite. In turn the elites no longer enforce basic principles that are the foundation of the country. One of the principles is property. It used to be understood that you own the produce of your labor. That was the default and infringement on your ownership had to clear a high bar. Today, the powerful can steal your property without consequence.

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The following video from Italy is the latest in a series showing examples of nano-structures found in vials of experimental mRNA treatments intended to mitigate the effects of infection with the Wuhan Coronavirus. I don’t know enough about microscopy to confirm that these objects are in fact nanotechnology, much less the self-assembling devices they are alleged to be. However, they are plainly artifacts.

Unlike previous samples shown here, not all of these can be passed off as salt crystals. The final one, in particular, has dome-like protuberances unlike anything I’ve ever seen in crystalline structures. Unless these slides are complete fakes, something weird is going on here.

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WalletHub looked at state resignation rates over the last 12 months based on numbers from the BLS to determine where people are quitting their jobs the most – and the least. Alaska and Wyoming topped the list of quit-heavy states while New York, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia saw the lowest quit rates among workers.

Companies in New York, Pennsylvania and other states with low resignation rates have embraced remote work arrangements more so than employers in rural states, which is one of the biggest factors driving quit levels, Jill Gonzalez, a senior analyst at WalletHub, tells CNBC Make It.

Workers in the food and hospitality industries have been quitting at higher rates than those in other fields – and these industries represent some of the biggest employers in Wyoming, Alaska and more states struggling to retain talent.

Meet the Progressive Frontrunners To Replace Justice Stephen Breyer

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Much of the gentrification has been due to an exodus of people from California and Northeast states, attracted by new jobs and the economic prosperity of a thriving city due to Apple, Amazon, IBM, AT&T, Tesla, and Samsung opening new campuses or expanding operations.

The flurry of high-paying tech jobs in the city has unleashed inflationary forces on the metro area, boosting the cost of living from one of the cheapest in the US to the most expensive in under a decade. Rob Gordon, the manager and real estate agent with the realty company, JBGoodwin, said the city expanded by 160,000 people in the last decade.

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In September 2020, Democratic Senators were unified: No President should nominate a Supreme Court Justice during an election year. With the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer, they now face a similar dilemma. Let’s see their positions just 16 months ago.

The fun part is watching then dance around trying to argue that That Was Then This Is Now.

This Silicon Valley city just voted to institute first-in-the-nation gun ownership requirements (CNN) And CNN couldn’t be more delighted.

San Jose approves gun owners liability insurance  It’s going to be difficult checking the liability insurance for carjackers and drive-by shooters.

Reforming the Electoral Count Act is crucial to our democracy. And it must be done on a bipartisan basis. (Washington Post) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’, and ‘bipartisan’ means ‘Republicans knuckle under’.

Watch: Mass Release Of ‘Single Adult Migrants’ Into Small Texas Town

CNN’s Acosta Says New Anti-CRT Law is Making Virginia a ‘Soviet-Style Police State’

Teachers’ Union Taps Liberal Watchdog To Help Students Identify Misinformation
8 Cities That Help Explain National Crime Wave

BREAKING: MSNBC Bizarrely Pretends Retiring Stephen Breyer Is ‘Conservative or Moderate’

Biased NewsGuard Partners With Teachers’ Union to Bring Information War to K-12 Kids

AP Chief Takes Part in Olympic Promo Hosted by CCP Propaganda Department

Vegans are Killing the Planet

Lawsuit alleging oil companies misled public about climate change moves forward

Lawsuit alleging oil companies misled public about climate change moves forward (NPR)

Oil firms accused of scare tactics after claiming climate lawsuits ‘a threat to US’ (The Guardian)

Rising sea levels could submerge major Northern California highway, Caltrans report says (Sacramento Bee) And when it doesn’t happen it will be buried forevermore.

Life in the Arctic: how climate change is killing a culture (The Guardian) Yeah – ours.

Agents of Change in Environmental Justice program accepting applications (Environmental Health News) More money for the Crust.

Activist investors and a ‘greenwashing’ backlash: Change is coming to the corporate world (CNBC)

Giant iceberg releases 152 billion tons of fresh water around remote Atlantic island (The Verge)  And yet the sea hasn’t risen any, or they would have mentioned it.

Lawmaker asks ex-EPA chief why he couldn’t convince Trump climate change is real (The Hill)

Green gaslighting: Another face of climate denialism (Al-Jezeera)

Good Housekeeping: Don’t Have Kids, Because Climate Change  We encourage people who buy into ‘climate change’ not to reproduce.

Southern Ocean storms cause outgassing of carbon dioxide

Australia’s Broken Temperature Record (Part 1)

Washington state school board removes classic novel from curriculum after complaints of racial insensitivity To Kill a Mockingbird is just so RACIST!

Isn’t “Systemic Racism” Particularly Non-Systemic?

Toronto Star: A Hate Crime Has Been Committed by What Must Have Been a White Supremacist with Deep, Scholarly Love of Black History

The Neocons’ Primary War Tactic: Branding Opponents of U.S. Intervention as Traitors

Who judges the judges?

The censor returns

Glenn Youngkin just showed us why he’s already going full Trumpist on schools (Washington Post)  And since Trump Is The New Hitler, you know what that makes him!

Reporter calls Trump WH draft executive order ‘fictional thriller’ (CNN) And, since a Reporter said it, it MUST be true!

Dr. Oz stumbles out of the gate in Senate race (Politico)

Trump’s Election Dead-Enders Won’t Say Who Wrote the Coup Plan Down (Daily Beast) Perhaps beccause there is no ‘coup plan’.

10 Oath Keepers plead not guilty to sedition charges (CNN) The swine!

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes pleads not guilty to seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 attack on Capitol (Washington Post)

‘Aggressively conservative’ Supreme Court plunges into U.S. culture wars (Reuters)

How 24 hours in January became a nightmare for Donald Trump (CNN) All Trump! All the time!

Mike Pompeo shells out for media makeover (Axios)

We’re already seeing what a mistake Virginia’s voters made (Washington Post)

Neil Young’s Long Record of Spreading Scientific Misinformation (Daily Beast)

The backlash against rightwing evangelicals is reshaping American politics and faith (The Guardian)

Who really deserves to have their honorary degree revoked?

Antifa Wins at Dartmouth

On trial for a Bible tweet

Xenophobia meter aims to track anti-immigrant hate speech

Talk Show Host Bongino Permanently Banned From YouTube

Spotify Removing Neil Young’s Music After Tantrum Over Joe Rogan ‘Misinformation’

Pfizer Board Member Suggests End To Mask, Vaccine Mandates We’ve squeezed all of the juice out of this lemon that we’re going to get.

Which pharmacies will have free N-95 masks and when? (Today) And how much will YOU have to  pay for THEIR ‘free’ masks? Ask Joe Biden.

The omicron variant doesn’t lead to ‘classic three’ COVID-19 symptoms (Deseret News) So you’d better PANIC!

The next Covid variant will be more contagious than omicron, but the question is whether it will be more deadly, WHO says (CNBC) But the WHO will be there to help you PANIC!

There’s a new version of omicron but so far it doesn’t appear to be more dangerous (Washington Post) But you’d still better PANIC!

DeSantis Blasts ‘Sudden and Reckless’ Halt on Antibody Drugs Found to Be Ineffective (Daily Beast) They had to put ‘ineffective’ in the headline so you’d know what the Narrative is.

Rand Paul continues pressing Fauci for answers on NIH gain-of-function funding

Unvaccinated man denied heart transplant by Boston hospital (BBC)

The Corona Gestapo in Harpstedt

Masks Today, Masks Tomorrow, Masks Forever!

Amid COVID-19’s Toll on Schools, Now More Than Ever, Students Need More Education Options

Welsh Businesses Demand Vaccine Passport Exemptions After Government Fails To Prove They Work

PBS Guest Claims Lifting COVID Restrictions Is A Form of ‘Ableism’

Fake vaccine cards are everywhere. It’s a public health nightmare  And so easily predictable that a child could have done it.

Quebec bans unvaccinated from buying groceries at Walmart, Costco

Boston Man Kicked Off Heart Transplant List For Not Being Vaccinated

Biden Puts 8,000 Troops On Alert In Case Peter Doocy Retaliates (Babylon Bee)

Biden Proves Mental Sharpness by Accurately Identifying Peter Doocy (The New Yorker) Andy Borowitz keeps trying to be the Left’s Babylon Bee and keeps failing.

Federal prosecutors looking at 2020 fake elector certifications, deputy attorney general tells CNN

Kid Rock releases anti-Biden, anti-Fauci single with a ‘Let’s go, Brandon’ chorus (The Hill)

Nugget Of Truth Emerges On CNN As Guest Rips Biden Apart

Is Ukraine A Distraction From Biden’s Terrible Approval Rating?

Biden’s covid “setbacks”

Biden’s Year 1 Foreign Policy Blunders

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Just one day after President Joe Biden nominated Gigi Sohn to the federal agency that oversees television networks, her nonprofit secured a favorable legal settlement with those same networks that reduced her financial liability by more than $30 million.

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I tend to do what I do best, procrastinate. Well, to feel better about myself, I like to think I am prioritizing. Either way, I have felt compelled to write about this supply chain crisis since White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki claimed President Joe Biden saved Christmas on Dec. 22. Nothing gets my blood boiling more than utter lies thrown in my face. How can someone say something so stupid, and how can so many people actually believe it? We have all seen the empty shelves for randomly illogical items, starting with toilet paper and now cat food.

With a very small engineering firm, there is a larger supply chain crisis that will be coming to a head in three to six months. We can’t get parts. I could go off on tangents, but let’s focus on just one major device. A PLC, or programmable logic controller, is a computer that runs actual stuff. Not things like a washer and dryer but how about the water that comes into your house, the water that leaves, the drawbridge that needs to go up, the MRI you desperately need. Almost everything you touch that is manmade uses one of these controllers at some point in the process.

ZMan is delightfully dyspeptic today.

What the philosopher John Locke bequeathed to the world was the notion that we could not only figure out the rules of nature, we could discover the rules of society that best comported with man’s nature. If we can figure out those rules and implement them, we will have a society that allows for the full blossoming of man. The debate since the 18th century has been about the nature of man. Communism, fascism, capitalism, libertarianism and so on are all based on this assumption.

Fast forward to this age and we appear to be in another one of those great transitions in how we look at the rules of society. You can see it in the language. Hardly anyone in power speaks of rights anymore. The term civil rights has morphed into a dog whistle by the race hustlers, stripped of any connection to natural rights. Of course, the systemic assaults on basic rights like assembly and speech are so common now, the repression of these rights and the people exercising them is now normal.

The reason for this is we are transitioning from a society based on rights codified in the law to a society based on privileges based on a terms of service. You get to do things promised in the terms of services, as long as you are compliant with the terms of service, which can change at any time. What we used to think of as rights are now privileges, no different from access to Twitter. You get to do things based on your level of compliance to the current set of rules.

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Those Ukranians are so excitable.

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Democrats pin a lot of hopes on pre-K as part of their long term push to spend more money on childcare up to but not earlier than 8 months and 29 days before birth.

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Data through sixth grade from state education records showed that the children randomly assigned to attend pre-K had lower state achievement test scores in third through sixth grades than control children, with the strongest negative effects in sixth grade. A negative effect was also found for disciplinary infractions, attendance, and receipt of special education services, with null effects on retention.

Steve Sailer

A curious example of the power of social trends on thought is that two years into the Covid pandemic, nobody of any influence has yet bothered to launch a campaign to persuade Americans to do the one obvious non-pharmaceutical intervention that would make Americans healthier whether the virus stays or goes: lose some weight.

Instead, 2022 has seen new gains in the long, grinding campaign to make the fat another of those privileged classes whose self-image cannot be affronted.

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Joe Biden last week said the American response in Ukraine would be proportional to Vladimir Putin’s actions. “It depends,” the president posited, thoughts drifting like blobs in a lava lamp. “It’s one thing if it’s a minor incursion…”

Alarms sounded all over Washington. The rip in the national political illusion was so severe, Republicans and Democrats were forced to come out agreeing, leaping into each other’s arms in panic. Secretary of State Tony Blinken, who increasingly looks like a man about to miss a historically important free throw, said of a potential Russian invasion, “We can make crystal clear the stark consequences of that choice.” Republican Senator Ted Cruz said Biden “shocked the world by giving Putin a green light to invade Ukraine.” The National Security Council issued a statement through Jen Psaki that any Russian move into Ukraine would be “met with a swift, severe, and united response.”

In a later press conference, Biden explained he had to cut things short because, “You guys will ask me all about Russia.” He appears days from pulling his pants down to show reporters the electrodes White House chief of staff Ron Klain has probably attached to his testicles by now.

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In a June run-off election, Compton City Council member Isaac Galvan, was reelected to the seat representing District 2, beating fellow Democrat Andre Spicer by 855 votes to 854 in the nonpartisan contest.

In August, prosecutors charged Galvan, 34, with election fraud and bribery.

Democrats cheat. They can’t helpit. Then even cheat each other.

‘It’s a slow catastrophe’: artists try to tackle the dangers of rising sea levels (The Guardian) Ponder what an artist, who does nothing useful, could possibly do to ‘tackle the dangers of rising sea levels’.

Can Science Fiction Wake Us Up to Our Climate Reality? (The New Yorker)

Trump sold off the Arctic Refuge — Congress must end this risky boondoggle (The Hill) He actually didn’t, of  course.

Kerry warns about efforts to blunt climate change: ‘We’re in trouble’ (The Hill)

California’s rooftop solar war intensifies as regulators pull reform proposal (East Bay Times)

Indiana students demand action on climate change. Lawmakers respond with hard ‘no.’ (Indianapolis Star) How dare they!

The ‘Doomsday’ glacier may soon trigger a dramatic sea-level rise (Science News for Students}

Militant ESG Has Become The Biggest Threat To Solving Climate Change & Energy Transition

EV Recharge Hell for Climate Activist Heidi Harmon

Democracy Dies in Dark-Moneyness: Soros Funding Behind Off-Books Congressional “Staff” to Investigate Political Opponents of Climate Agenda

US pharmacies are rolling out free N95 masks as free Covid-19 tests begin to arrive in the mail (CNN) Free to the distributees, of course, not to the taxpayers – the best way to make a profit is to have a government (ruled by the Party of Free Stuff, natch) buy up all your product and pass it out for ‘free’.

Whoopi Goldberg goes off on Bill Maher over pandemic comments: ‘How dare you’

Here’s where in the Bay Area omicron is still surging (S.F. Chronicle) Just in case you want to PANIC!

Sanitizing history leads to moments like this (CNN) A Kennedy! Disputing the Narrative! The nerve of this guy!

A vaccine scientist’s discredited claims have bolstered a movement of misinformation (Washington Post)

A vaccine scientist’s discredited claims have bolstered a movement of misinformation (Anchorage Daily News) They didn’t even bother to change the headline.

CDC adds 5 more Caribbean island destinations to its highest level of travel risk (CNN)

Cheryl Hines Finally Breaks Her Silence on Husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Anti-Vax Lunacy (Daily Beast)  Of course, we’re all waiting with bated breath to find out what (who was that again?) thinks.

What an omicron hospitalization looks like (NPR) Another thumb-sucker to make you PANIC!

COVID-19: endemic doesn’t mean harmless (Nature) You still need to PANIC!

The tragic kingdom of Anthony Fauci

Spain Ends Corona Restrictions Because Almost Everyone is Vaxed

Court Asked To Block Punishment Of All Navy Members Seeking Religious Exemptions From Mandate

Truckers Head To Ottawa In ‘Freedom Rally’ Against Vaccine Mandate

Australian Authorities Say Draconian Vaccine Passports Could Last For “Years”

Large, Peer-Reviewed Research Study Proves Ivermectin Works Against COVID-19

WHO Chief Says Europe Moving Towards Pandemic “Endgame”

NY Gov Slams State Supreme Court Ruling Abolishing Mask Mandate, Pledges To “Reverse It Immediately”  Somebody needs to remind the Governor that she doesn’t have the power to reverse a decision of a court.

“Indefensible Edict” – DeSantis Rages After Biden’s FDA Restricts Use Of Monoclonal Antibody Treatments

No Green Pass!

Virginia Schools Threaten Maskless Students With Suspension, Isolation

Pfizer Begins Human Trials For New Omicron Vaccine As US Cases Tumble

NBC’s Chuck Todd: Biden ‘no longer seen as competent and effective’  Neither, of course, is Chuck Todd.

Washington Post columnist complains media is stuck in ‘Biden is a failure’ mode  God forbid they should actually report the facts.

Joe Biden Doesn’t Have an ‘Open Border’ Policy, so Why Do Republicans Say Otherwise? (Newsweek)

Joe Biden Will Be Impeached in November, Steve Bannon Says (Newsweek)

Biden’s big energy bust

Biden Puts 8,500 Troops On “Prepare To Deploy” Orders Over Ukraine Crisis  How to distract from disastrous polls? Start a war!

Biden Family Made $31 Million From Individuals With ‘Direct Ties To Chinese Spy Apparatus’: Schweizer

TSA Backtracks On Allowing Illegal Immigrants To Use Arrest Warrants As ID To Fly

Did Biden Finally Admit His Anti-Gun Agenda’s True Goal?

The US Bombed A Vital Dam In Syria, Lied About It, & Called Anyone Who Reported The Truth “Crazy”

Springtime for liberal interventionists

Biden’s COVID-19 Tests Plan: Too Little, Too Late

Today Show: Bidenflation Has Crushed Fast Food Value Meals  A McChicken samdwich at McDonalds used to be $1.00. It’s now $1.60.