Trump’s new Manhattan bar: serving rip-off drinks and a side of narcissism (The Guardian) All Trump! All the time!

Trump White House had a secret crypto booster in Jared Kushner, new Mnuchin file dump shows (CNBC) They say that like it was a bad thing.

Matt Gaetz’s ex-girlfriend testifies to grand jury in sex trafficking probe (NBC) So we can presume she’s totally unbiased and objective.

Majority in new poll backs reforming law Trump tried to use to subvert Electoral College (The Hill) A poll by Politico. No bias there.

Zach Galifianakis: Celebrity culture ‘how we ended up with’ Trump (The Hill)

The Protecting Our Democracy Act gives Republicans a chance to prove they care about democracy (Washington Post) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

West Virginians scramble to get by after Manchin kills child tax credits (The Guardian) Perhaps they could just cut taxes on low income people instead. Then they would need tax credits.

50K kids in Joe Manchin’s home state could sink into deep poverty without child tax credits (The Hill) Perhaps they could just cut taxes on low income people instead. Then they would need tax credits.

On the phone with the real world, Trump hangs up (Washington Post) All Trump! All the time!

Joe Manchin’s arguments for the filibuster keep getting more ludicrous (Washington Post)

Can insurrectionist enablers be disqualified from office? It’s complicated. (Washington  Post)  They actually pay people to write this crap.

This Might Be the Scariest Far-Right Mask Trend Yet (Daily Beast)

Joy Reid mocks Ron DeSantis for touting freedom in Florida, calls the state ‘authoritarian’  I guess that’s why people are moving there from such bastions of liberty as California and New York.

ABC’s WNT WHINES: Republicans Keep Blocking Voting Rights!  Rather a blatant lie.

The Conversation: Moratorium on Climate Research until Governments Take Action

Vt. lawmakers look to create statewide environmental justice policy  Sounds like a meme.

RI homeowners already suffering due to sea-level rise, Sen. Whitehouse says (WPRI) Would you miss Rhode Island? I can’t say that I would.

Climate change degrading Oregon coastal ecosystems, study suggests (OPB News)

What’s the weather forecast for 2050?  CNN can tell you!

The Uncertain Future of Antarctica’s Melting Ice (Eos)

Climate change destroying homes across the Arctic (BBC) I’ll bet you didn’t know that there were ‘homes in the Arctic’.

Newsom allocates $22.5 billion to climate crisis in California budget proposal (The Hill) Fortunately there is nothing more important to spend that money on.

US Gov’t Spent $1.1B On Failed Carbon Capture Projects In A Decade

World ocean temperatures in 2021 were the hottest ever recorded

Class War is Just Beginning

ABC, CBS, NBC Cheerlead for Election Power Grab By Democrats

Why is so little known about the 1930s coup attempt against FDR? (The Guardian) Perhaps because it never happened? But you can’t hide from The Guardian!

His election loss stunned Democrats. Now he might run for governor. (Politico) Anything to avoid actually having to work for a living.

Southeast Asia’s autocrats have created an alliance against democracy (Washington Post) Who knew they were Republicans?

Indiana Lawmakers Crack Down on Bail Charities After Grisly Murders

Killings of Cops Spiked in 2021

Uses and abuses of the past

Who Is Ray Epps? DoJ Refuses To Say, Jan6 Committee Claims ‘Not A Fed’

Probing the FBI’s Role in January 6

A single district attorney in Georgia has the best case against Trump (Reuters( And we’re all looking for the best case against Trump, amiright?

Trump Threw Tantrum After His Lawyers Met Georgia Prosecutors, Maddow Reports (Daily Beast) And Maddow is, like, totally credible and honest.

Steve Bannon and the Right Have a Scary New Tactic to Take Over Politics (Daily Beast) Perhaps it involves an INSURRECTION! And I’ll just bet it has something to do with Trump….

Trump wants the Jan. 6 suits against him dismissed. Why he’s on shaky ground. (NBC)

Trump Accuser Pushes New York to Pass the Adult Survivors Act, Plans to Sue for Rape (Newsweek)

Fauci Defends Calling G.O.P. Senator a Moron: “I’m Just Following the Science” (The New Yorker)

Texas’s new attempt to circumvent the Constitution resurrects an old tactic (Washington Post)

Top FBI official dodges when Cruz asks if agents participated in Jan. 6 riot

Clock is ticking on what Garland needs to do about Trump’s bid to overturn 2020 election (Boston Globe)

Stern Goes Ballistic About Unvaccinated Djokovic Continuing Tennis Career

Joyless Gaslighting: Reid Claims Republicans Want to Ban Voting, End Elections (Not True)

CNN’s ‘Flamethrowers’ Melt Down Over Fox News, Trump

Twitter Bans Project Veritas’s Spracklen Following Exposé on Fauci

Bill Gates Flip Flops After Turning Omicron ‘FUD’ Up To ’11’

4 Takeaways From Heated COVID-19 Senate Hearing Featuring Another Fauci-Paul Clash

China Halts Some US Flights As Omicron Wave Spreads

Freedom is Slavery

ABC Suggests Sen. Rand Paul Is Responsible for Threats Against Dr. Fauci

Vaccine Mandates Are A Driver Of Wage Inflation

US Apartment Occupancy Hits Record High After COVID-Fueled Migration

Welcome to the Hive!

Cannabinoids Block Cellular Entry of SARS-CoV-2 and the Emerging Variants

Did Fauci Start the Pandemic?

How long can I keep using the same N95 respirator mask? Here’s what Bay Area experts say (S.F. Chronicle) Release your inner Californian!

Omicron may be headed for a rapid drop in Britain, US (Associated Press) But you still need to PANIC!

Two Years Is Long Enough

Europe’s FDA Warns Against Vaccine Boosters, Expresses Concerns Over Immune Response

“Doomed To Fail” – Top Immunologist Blasts Global COVID Response Driven By “False Propaganda”

NCAA Recognizes Natural Immunity In Definition Of ‘Fully Vaccinated’

Quebec Government Becomes World’s 1st To Impose Steep “Health Tax” For Unvaxxed Citizens

4-year old w/leukemia evicted from Ronald McDonald House due to vaccine status

Marine researcher: COVID-19 virus made in Chinese lab as bat vaccine

Fact-Checking 6 Claims From Biden’s Voting Rights Speech

Former Border Commissioner: “We Have Lost Control Of The Southwest Border”

Inflation isn’t Biden’s fault. And he can’t solve it, either. (Washington Post)

More than 47,000 migrants released into US by Biden admin in 2021 failed to report to ICE  My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Education Secretary Allegedly Solicited Letter From National School Boards Association Comparing Parents to Domestic Terrorists

Biden Job Approval Plummets To 33% As Majority Think US Democracy ‘In Danger Of Collapse’

Biden’s COVID Test Rule Could Cost Insurance Companies Up To $20 Billion A Month

Are You A “Terrorist”? Take This 50 Question Quiz And Find Out!

How Biden’s Electric Vehicle Tax Credit Threatens ‘Renewed US-Canada Partnership’

Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick will win Florida special election to replace the late Alcee Hastings, CNN projects (CNN) Alcee Hastings was the corrupt black Democrat who was impeached and removed as a judge for taking bribes – so he rnn for Congress, where you can get away with that sort of thing.

The UK is heading towards authoritarianism: just look at this attack on a minority (The Guardian)

Businesswoman Sued for Over $250,000 After Calling Man ‘Waste of White Man’s Skin’ (Newsweek)

Black Country Artists Demand Answers from Grand Ole Opry After Morgan Wallen Performance (Newsweek) Who? Last I heard, Charlie Pride was dead.

Dear People of Color

Seahawks’ Smith Insults, Threatens Cops During DUI Arrest

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I begin to think the Bush-Republicans are actually worse than their Rockefeller-Republican predecessors. The Rockies openly admitted their liberalism; the Bushies spout conservative rhetoric while doing everything they can to advance the Democrat agenda, and make money for themselves in the process. Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney not only eagerly signed onto Nancy Pelosi’s January 6th Inquisition, but she is now apparently leveraging the Committee’s Subpoena Power to harass her primary opponent.

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New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman (not to be confused with the NYTimes columnist who wants to be Governor of Oregon because he thinks the current governor isn’t left-wing enough) thinks Biden should pick Liz Cheney as his running mate in 2024.

His rationale … I am not making this up… is because Israel is a parliamentary democracy and Orange Man Bad, and therefore, combining a president with a 28% approval rating with a vice president so consumed with hatred for the previous president that her own party has rejected her will unite the country and save democracy.

It might.

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An obscure agency within the Biden administration, the Pretrial Services Agency, announced an Orwellian tracking scheme on Tuesday that could serve as a model for the entire US government to collect the names and “personal religious information” of federal employees who make “religious accommodation requests for religious exception from the federally mandated vaccination requirement,” according to the Daily Signal.

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At a speech in Georgia yesterday, President Biden charged all U.S. Senators with deciding “where they stand, not just for the moment, but for the ages.” The Senate filibuster, which Biden defended passionately in 2005 and again last year, is now apparently a neo-segregationist atrocity because it stands in the way of the president’s legislative agenda.

Biden wants federal power to veto election laws in certain states, because he is on the right side of history. Of course this means if you oppose him, you are on the wrong side. “At consequential moments in history, they present a choice,” he said. “Do you want to be on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace? Do you want to be on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor? Do you want to be on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?”

Dr King was a Republican; George Wallace was a Democrat while he was a segregationist, then switched parties when he changed his outlook. John Lewis and Bull Connor were both Democrats Abraham Lincoln was a Republican; Jefferson Davis was a Democrat. Looks like the Republicans are willling the Right Side of History sweepstakes here.

George Wallace, an actual segregationist, is like the filibuster: Biden used to like him. Now, not so much. In 1987 the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Biden “bragged of an award he received from George Wallace in 1973.” In 1975, then-Senator Biden added: I think the Democratic Party could stand a liberal George Wallace—someone who’s not afraid to stand up and offend people.”

Here we have a president who constantly needs to distance himself from views and relationships which have come to seem morally toxic in the span of just one lifetime. You would think that experience might make him more circumspect about declaring what future generations will think of today’s political debates. Not so.

Being On The Right Side of History has been a progressive thing forever. Yet they never seem to get it right.

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Video shows Ray Epps, among other things, encouraging unlawful entry into the Capitol building, yet he has never been prosecuted. Why?

Under Ted Cruz’s repeated questioning, Ms. Sanborn repeatedly states, “I can’t answer that.” I suppose she hopes you will think that she is saying that she does not know. However, she precedes the litany of “I can’t answer that” responses by saying that she is “can’t go into sources and methods….” What does that tell us? Her “I can’t answer that” is all about sources and methods, not any lack of knowledge.

As I hear her testimony, her “I can’t answer that” is because it would reveal “sources and methods.” Who sources and methods? The FBI’s, of course. In other words, I hear her answers as essentially admitting that the FBI was involved in encouraging the January 6 unlawful entry into the Capitol building.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Everything about the speech is a lie, right down to the title. He worked in a fraudulent reference to Abraham Lincoln for good measure.

That pretty much sums up The Biden Experience.

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It always surprises me that Islam is the beloved child of the proglodytes, since Muslim culture (which they always try to implement by force whenever the opportunity presents itself) attempts to enshrine everything that proglodytes claim to detest. Is it just Jew-hatred, or something deeper?

ZMan takes a long view.

It speaks to the bankruptcy of the political class that they keep indulging in these weird walks down memory lane. Within living memory politicians would run on specific agendas, tied closely to things that were important to people. Biden ran on not being Trump and now Hillary plans to run on not being Trump or Biden. Elections have always been beauty contents, but now they have been stripped of their talent portion, leaving us with the terrifying image of geezers in swimsuits.

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Zuckerberg’s company, Meta (formerly Facebook), announced it would lease offices in a massive new building in Austin, Texas. Big tech companies, who cut their teeth and built empires in California, are fleeing the state and relocating to Texas. It’s almost as if high taxes, stifling corporate regulations, and out-of-control housing costs are unattractive to businesses and long-term sustainability. Who knew?

Eeewww….

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I was awake ridiculously early this morning (like 4 am), and was caught short by the news of the FAA ground stop and landing order for air traffic in the western U.S. yesterday in hair trigger response to a North Korean test launch of a hypersonic missile. The FAA’s statement left things pretty vague as to why. I note the mainstream media caught up with this unusual story today, but as usual offer superficial accounts.

The ground stop and landing order (similar to the landing order of 9/11) only lasted a few minutes and was quickly cancelled, but I am wondering about the linkages and protocols between NORAD and the FAA’s air traffic control system. It doesn’t seem there was much time lapse. Maybe this is just part of the post-9/11 world. But I also wonder if there is something we aren’t being told. Why would the government order a total ground stop and landing order for the west coast in response to a single missile launch? I can think of a few plausible reasons, but I can also think of some others that are less reassuring.

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While American forces were able to shoot down the terror drones, these latest acts of Iranian diplomacy came complete with the words “Soleimani’s revenge” scrawled on the drones. The latest Iranian attacks on Americans forces use Soleimani’s death as a pretext, but the attacks began before the Iranian terror boss was killed, and have sharply escalated under Biden in response to his appeasement of the Islamic terror regime.

There were repeated Iran-backed rocket strikes against Americans in Iraq throughout the last year totaling an estimated 25 separate attacks under the Biden administration.

These attacks have mostly gone unpunished.

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BRAAAAAAAINS!

In pivot to voting rights, Biden risks falling short on a second big goal (Washington Post)

Coalition of Georgia voting rights groups won’t attend Biden’s speech in Atlanta (CNN)

Kamala Harris channels Jimmy Carter, blames American ‘malaise’ for Biden’s woes

VP Harris’ new comms director said George W. Bush ‘stole’ election from Gore, was ‘illegitimate’

#BareShelvesBiden trends on Twitter as shoppers encounter desolate grocery store aisles: ‘Apocalypse Now’

Bipartisanship is out for Biden. It’s about time. (Washington Post)

Report: State and Local Governments Spent $5.6 Million on Lawyers for Illegal Immigrants

‘Urgent Reset Needed’: Democratic Insiders Come Forward To Admit Biden Admin Has ‘Gone Backwards’ On COVID Policy

Biden Boasts About Voting Rights, But Scarborough Mocks Stacey Abrams Fleeing Him!

House Republicans Release Damning Fauci Emails Suggesting Concealed Knowledge Of Lab Leak

DOJ Creates Specialized Unit For Domestic Terrorism Amid Attempts To Dub Jan.6 “Worse Than 9/11”

Djokovic’s positive PCR test was manipulated

Biden Seeking Advice From Russia Hawks On How To Handle Ukraine Talks

Biden Admin To Reduce Oil Leasing in Alaska  Energy crisis? What energy crisis?

Biden’s Education Secretary Allegedly Requested ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Letter From School Boards Group

American democracy is under threat. Where’s the bill to defend it? (Houston Chronicle)

California loses $200 million a year to recycling fraud, 5 or 10 cents at a time

Making Manhattan a crook’s paradise

HBO’s ‘Euphoria’ is more than a parent’s worst nightmare. It’s a creative triumph (NPR)

Asian Boss planted deep blue YouTuber and pretended he was a ‘man on the street’

Prominent Chinese Communist Party Members Serve on Board of Yale Beijing Center

NYC Comptroller Has ‘Full Confidence’ in Anti-Israel Activist at Helm of His Press Shop

Journalists EXPLOIT January 6 to Push Dems ‘Voting Rights’ Agenda

Sanders: Dems Have Turned Their Back on the Working Class  So has Socialist Sanders, he just pretends otherwise.

Dome Of Capitol Building Raised To Accommodate Nancy Pelosi’s Eyebrows  Babylon Bee.

Critical Race Theory Program Teaches Disabled Preschoolers That ‘Whiteness Affects Everything’

Black LA residents lack access to guns as wealthy rush to buy firearms amid crime wave: Activists

The Federal Government Wants Racial Qualifications to Be Added to COVID-19 Treatments

We need more than deplatforming (Mozilla.org)

No Republican should be able to evade these simple questions (Washington Post) Not Democrats; just Republicans, the Heretics and Sinners.

Imagine another American Civil War, but this time in every state (NPR)

Dark-money group asks judge to block bank records that would reveal donors (Tampa Bay Times) Dox those Heretics and Sinners so we can cancel them!

How a Trump Golf Course Is Screwing Over a Public School (Daily Beast) All Trump! All the time!

72-Year-Old New Yorker Charged With Threatening to Kill Donald Trump, Members of Congress (Newsweek)

Foundation behind network pushing election and coronavirus conspiracies had its tax-exempt status revoked. It still solicits donations (CNN) Apparently CNN doesn’t know that you don’t have to be tax-exempt to solicit donations.

Former House Staffer Opens Up About How Conservative Media Ruined His Life (Daily Beast) Welcome to our world, snowflake.

‘The Timothy McVeighs are still there’: fears over extremism in US military (The Guardian)

Robert Reich has the perfect answer to Trumpism (Salon) Except there is no such thing as ‘Trumpism’ outside of the fever dreams of the Narrative Media.

Activists target public relations groups for greenwashing fossil fuels

Facebook Censors Pro-American Children’s Books as ‘Disruptive Content’

High School Lesson Plans Tell California Students They’re Inherently Privileged If Male, Cisgender, White, Christian

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“Sarge! I couldn’t shoot a Republican!”

If you’re old enough to recognize the joke, you’re old enough to appreciate the irony.

If you’re not, look it up.

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A reasonable precaution until the Powers That Be determine where it was headed. If we need to trigger our ballistic missile defense system, minimizing the number of Innocent Bystanders is alway a good idea.

Which agency ordered the ground stop remains a mystery. North American Aerospace Defense Command spokeswoman Pamela Kunze told CNN on Tuesday that the order was not national and that a regional air traffic control facility might have issued the ground stop.

That statement contradicts what airport officials and pilots heard at the time, sources reported.

San Diego International Airport spokeswoman Sabrina LoPiccolo told Newsweek that air traffic controllers informed airport officials of a national ground stop order at about 2:30 p.m.

“We really don’t have any more details,” LoPiccolo said.

CNN reported that an air traffic controller cited “a national ground stop” in ordering a Cessna pilot to land.

Steve draws a lesson from life.

Hell doesn’t exist solely to punish. It also exists to bless the righteous by keeping the depraved out of their sight. When you’re in hell, the people in heaven can’t see you or hear you. They don’t get updates on you. They don’t visit. They never ask God to help you. They don’t think they owe you anything. They don’t remember you existed. You can’t put on a black outfit and a mask and go to heaven to riot for what you think are your rights.

This has to be one of the best things about heaven.

Being a do-it-yourself protestant, Steve’s ideas of Heaven and Hell are pretty far off-base, but one can certainly appreciate where he is coming from.

One of the worst aspect of the Religion of Progressivism is that it anathematizes the concept of charity. Nobody is allowed to feel good about doing something nice for a person less well off; that’s considered a character defect, because it might damage the self-esteem of the recipient. Instead, everybody deserves nice things BY RIGHT and if you have more than somebody else you are a Heretic and a Sinner unless you pass it all out until everyone is equal. This attitude has infected the less-well-off (who are, in many cases, that way because of their own deficiencies) to the point where NO GRATITUDE WILL BE FORTHCOMING for any act of benevolence, merely whining about how it’s So Unfair that X has something that Y doesn’t.

ZMan is delightfully dyspeptic today.

Hollywood figured out a long time ago that they could make a lot of money on a sequel to a popular movie. They could count on attracting most of the original audience without having to think too hard or spend a lot of money. If the sequel was just the original with a couple new twists, then it was easy money. The reboot is a similar concept, except it relies on nostalgia to sell the concept. Fans of the original Star Wars movies could take their kids to the reboot of the franchise.

The general consensus is that the reboot and remake are a sign that Hollywood has run out of creative writers. The wrinkly brains are now in the technical end, making cool graphics and special effects. The writers arrive in a short bus. This cultural dead end where they just keep rebooting prior ideas has reached a point where they are rebooting reboots of reboots now. The only novelty is they are stripping away anything of interest and replacing it with ideology.

Leni Riefenstahl is smiling in her grave.

The same process has been happening with politics. The first little hint of it happened with Bill Clinton who was sold as his generation’s JFK. This played on Baby Boomer nostalgia, which has been powerful juju since the 1980’s. The first genuine political reboot was Obama. He was pitched as the black JFK, which was a foreshadowing of what has been happening in popular culture. Just as the role of JFK was being played by a black guy, everything on TV is now played by nonwhites.

The thing that was interesting about Obama was that despite all the talk about the future, they were obsessed with the past. His signature program, health care, was a re-do of the failed health care fight in the 1990’s. His Russian reset was a rebuke of Reagan’s tough approach to the Soviets. His Iran policy was a re-do of what happened in the late 1970’s under Carter. The Obama years were a series of remakes of old defeats by the Left, but this time they were the winners.

Just as the copy is never as good as the original, Joe Biden’s AlGore is a cheap plastic imitation.

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North Korea carried out another ballistic missile test off the east coast. This missile was tracked by South Korea as it traveled 700 kilometers, after reaching a max altitude of 60 kilometers. South Korea pointed out that this was the second such test in a week and not the sort of thing North Korea needs to do if they are serious about negotiating a peace deal with the south and obtaining massive foreign aid as a result.

Since Trump is no longer in office, and the same old Establishment cold-warriors are back in charge, they’re reverting to the only thing in their toolbox. Rather understandable.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

The CDC and other government agencies grossly overhyped the covid epidemic. Many suspect that this was done intentionally, in order to drive President Trump from office. The best argument against this hypothesis is that foreign government agencies were nearly as panic-stricken as our own.

The Minnesota Department of Health maintains an extraordinary volume of records relating to every death that occurs within the jurisdiction. These data include not only the entire contents of the death certificate, but information as to who found the body, the address and phone number of the funeral parlor, and much more–a spread sheet with over 250 fields in total. I bought the complete MDH mortality records for 2020 and the first half of 2021, had one of my staff members slim the spread sheet down to the relevant fields, and printed all the records where the death certificate included the words “covid,” “sars-2,” etc. I then spent some time reviewing these thousands of records.

If you follow this simple procedure, you immediately realize two things: 1) most “covid deaths” involve people who have already lived longer than the average life expectancy in our state, and 2) when you look at the various maladies listed on the death certificates, in a large majority of cases covid was the least of the decedent’s problems. In many if not most instances, it seems a marvel that the person was still living so as to catch the coronavirus.

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After single injection, paralyzed animals regained ability to walk within four weeks

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For nearly two years, and with the midterm election coming up, conservatives and Republicans were vilified as conspiracy theorists for raising questions about COVID hospitalization numbers when it came to who was there because of COVID and who just happened to be infected. On Monday, CNN and anchor Jake Tapper finally arrived at the scene to ask the obvious questions after CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky admitted to Fox News that number is inflated by upwards of 40 percent.

Tapper prefaced his late revelation by prefacing to CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta that “the case numbers aren’t really a significant as hospitalizations because what’s important is how sick people are getting.”

And since CNN had obfuscated the idea that the CDC was misleading people, Tapper had to spell out what was going on.

SURPRISE!

Chicago Schools Close For 4th Day As Anti-Science Teachers’ Union Refuses To Budge

COVID-19 Omicron Variant Resistant to Monoclonal Antibodies – But Neutralized by Vaccine Booster

Omicron 105% more transmissible than Delta, say French scientists

How to hold unvaccinated Americans accountable (The Hill) Accountable for what? Deciding not to PANIC?

Federal agencies prepare to act against unvaccinated employees (The Hill)

Study Finds Supreme Court Has Now Shared More COVID Misinformation Than Your Crazy Facebook Aunt Babylon Bee.

Povidone Iodine (PVP-I) Oro-Nasal Spray: An Effective Shield for COVID-19 Protection for Health Care Worker (HCW), for all

ABC’s Karl TORCHES Biden Over COVID Testing Failures

AOC Accuses COVID Virus Of Just Wanting To Date Her  Babylon Bee.

Almost Half Of New York COVID-19 Hospitalizations Not Due To COVID-19

California Folds; Says Asymptomatic COVID-Positive Health Workers Can Get Back To Work Amid Shortages

We Have Ways of Making You Vax

Jay Sekulow Explains Vaccine Mandate Cases Before Supreme Court

European Leaders Double Down On Demonizing Unvaxx’d But Jabs Fail To Stop Transmission

The Cure For COVID Is Turning Off The TV

Australian Gov’t Weighs Whether To Bar Djokovic For 3 Years After Judge Orders Immediate Release

Stelter Decries Media ‘Doomsday Doctors’ Spreading COVID ‘Panic Porn’  That’s a change.

Pfizer Promises Omicron Vaccine Will Be Ready In Time For Their Q1 Earnings Report  Babylon Bee

The Six Stages of the “Pandemic”

‘The View’ Spreads COVID Misinformation, Defends Sotomayor’s Falsehoods

The Only Way for Unvaccinated Workers to Work in NYC is to Become Artists

Rachel Bovard Challenges Social Media on Now-Credible COVID-19 ‘Misinformation’

GOP senator says Trump’s election allegations are unfounded (Politico) Except that’s not what he said.

GOP senator says he would ‘take a hard look’ at another Trump run (The Hill) I should hope so.

Even Canadians fear US democracy could end soon (CNN) Even Canadians! Even Canadians! (Sounds like a theme….) I guess they worry about no longer having a refuge from rampant socialism.

Global spread of autoimmune disease blamed on western diet (The Guardian) If it’s Western, it’s got to be bad!

Christian nurse harassed by hospital for years over cross necklace wins lawsuit

An Alabama family started an antiracist library to promote racial justice and the importance of diversity in reading (CNN) They can’t really be anti-racists – none of them are wearing masks.

What it will take to save American democracy (CNN) Sounds like a theme.

A World War II soldier’s letter to his mother from 1945 has just been delivered to his surviving widow, 76 years after sending it USPS: Making the Soviet Union look efficient for a hundred years.

Is the US really heading for a second civil war?  (The Guardian)

Tapper presses NYC mayor on appointing his brother as NYPD official (CNN) Smells too bad even for CNN.

Messenger: Beer Hall Project aims to counter Jan. 6 disinformation, protect American democracy (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) I am not making this up.

Huh? MSNBC Hypes Canada ‘Intervening’ With ‘Autocratic’ U.S.’s 2024 Election

Welcome to the End of Democracy  Joel Kotkin.

You Know Global Elites Are Triggered When The Propaganda Institutions Collaborate To Refute “Mass Formation Psychosis”

Based on False Assumption, Amazon Still Censoring Book on Transgenderism

NYC police chief deeply troubled by Manhattan DA’s new policies

Mark Zuckerberg is creating a future that looks worse than the world we have now

Video Transcript: CBC Journalist Quits in Protest of Repressive & Politicized Newsroom

Former General Hyped by Media for Warning of Military Coup has Long Record of Political Bias

CNN and Sellers Push Michelle Obama Ad, Decry ‘Level of Malaise’ — Under Democrat Rule

More COVID-19 School Closures Spell End of Teachers Unions Empire

57% of Democrats Want Facebook, Twitter to Censor Posts to ‘Make Sure Some People Are Not Offended’

Former NYPD Commissioner Criticizes New Manhattan DA Over Soros Ties

A lesson from Surfside? Underground assault from sea-level rise puts coastal structures at risk (Palm Beach Post) Checking Zillow … nope, real estate prices not dropping; going up, actually.

Only a culture change can end this state of climate inaction (The Guardian)

Sea level on steroids: Record tides flood Washington coastlines  Journalists: Confusing weather with climate for at least twenty years now….

Why the climate-wrecking craze for crypto art really is beyond satire (The Guardian) I’ll bet you didn’t know that art could wreck the climate.

Glenn Youngkin is no moderate on the environment (Washington Post)

Ocean Battery stores renewable energy at the bottom of the sea

Rising sea levels threaten affordable housing (NPR) Because houses on the beach are SO affordable.

New research helps link increasing extreme air pollution days to climate change

Investment Advisor Slams Climate Disaster Claims

When the Wind Doesn’t Blow

American Airlines apologetic after Twitter user complains about pilot with ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ sticker Oh, no! A Twitter user complained! How will we survive!

Former cult member: Trump used techniques and tactics exactly the same as a cult (CNN) A cult like … Twitter?

Experts Are VERY Suspicious of Mike Pompeo’s Weight Loss Claim (Daily Beast) When these writers graduate from high school they’re going to be totally awesome.

The Decision Trump Made That May Destroy NYC Someday (Daily Beast)

Climate change is helping invasive species take over trout habitats in Montana (Washington Post) The first time that the WaPo ever gave a shit about Montana.

Here’s where Christian nationalism comes from, and what it gets wrong (Dallas Morning News) Didn’t know Christians were a ‘nation’.

Clyburn knocks Manchin for arguing voting rights vote must be bipartisan (The Hill)

TikTok SCRUBS MRC Video Knocking COVID-19 Containment Measures

Deutsch Demands Dem ‘Protection’ Against ‘Lying’ GOP Effort to ‘Cheat’

Lincoln Project Doubles Down on Nazi Symbolism

American Airlines Investigates Pilot With “Let’s Go Brandon” Sticker

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that L.A. had commuter trains.

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Sometimes life comes at you fast. ­Such was the case this week for Glenn Kessler, the so-called fact-checker for Jeff Bezos’ publication, The Washington Post. Kessler himself was inadvertently fact-checked by the U.S. Department of Justice, and yet this reporter who spends his career allegedly seeking the truth and correcting others was unwilling to admit his own mistake.

Kessler’s full-time job is to perform public relations work for the Biden regime by often issuing fake “fact checks” of conservatives when they make points that run counter to the regime’s narrative. More often than not, these fact checks require some serious spinning, or even inventing of “facts,” in order to find objectionable grounds.

ZMan speaks truth to power.

The little light on the dashboard of your car telling you that you are too close to another car and the warnings about drinking the contents of the shampoo bottle are all part of the custodial state and they come with a cost. The federal government spent over six trillion dollars in fiscal year 2021. That is 30% of the GDP. State and local government spent another three trillion. Roughly half of the U.S. GDP is consumed with the cost of governance. This is true throughout the West.

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This game guides you through a series of questions that help you practice self care.

It’s especially useful for people who struggle with self care, executive dysfunction, and/or reading internal signals. It’s designed to take as much of the weight off of you as possible, so each decision is very easy and doesn’t require much judgment.

Take your time. Set aside some time–maybe an hour total–to allow yourself to work through each step. Don’t rush or skip ahead; just follow the directions. Self care is important, and you deserve to devote some time to it.

You can even go through this routine as soon as you wake up, as a preventative measure.

Tom Veal.

Two items caught my eye today, reminders that American liberalism used to be far different from its current progressive incarnation. That it vanished so completely after the 1970’s, having dominated the country’s politics for about forty years, is an odd, under-analyzed historical phenomenon.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has tested positive for Covid-19, less than one week after she was spotted partying maskless at a crowded bar in Miami.

Biden Admin Cuts Florida’s Weekly Monoclonal Shipment In Half  God forbid that Ron Desantis should be successful at anything.

The Hunter Connection? Kazakh Security Chief Arrested For Treason Was “Close Friends” With Bidens

Cyprus reportedly discovers a Covid variant that combines omicron and delta (CNBC) So I guess it’s once again TIME TO PANIC!

A rough week for Bay Area schools, as sickouts, closures persist amid omicron surge (S.F. Gate)

Vaccine Scientist Banned From LinkedIn

Funny Business With Vax Numbers in Bavaria

COVID Vaccines Do Disrupt Menstrual Cycles, New Study Reveals

Iowa Nursing Home Operator Forced Into Bankruptcy By “Crippling” Staff Shortages

Flee in Terror — The Next Variant Has Arrived!

Covid Mortality In Europe

UK Scientist Says Omicron Is “Ray Of Light” That Could Help Transform COVID Into Common Cold

CDC Director Sheepishly Admits Justice Sotomayor Issued COVID Misinformation On Hospitalized Kids

Photos show what sea level rise may look like in Bay Area by 2050 (S.F. Gate) “May” Call me when real estate values drop in Malibu, Palm Beach, and Martha’s Vineyard.

California is about to stumble in the climate fight (The Hill)

As spending bill stalls, Biden climate goals remain elusive (Associated Press) Perhaps he can’t remember them.

You’re allowed to hate Netflix’s Don’t Look Up and still believe in climate change (BGR) Well, that’s a relief.

Google Makes War on Climate Science

Do climate models predict extreme weather?

Swiss Researchers Use Brain Electrodes to Stimulate Climate Concern

A Children’s Book for Liberals Who Think Children Are Destroying the Planet

Using An Outdated Reference Period, Germany’s DWD Weather Service Turns Cooling Into Warming

Steve Bannon Sought Bizarre Loan as His Jan. 6 Woes Spiraled (Daily Beast) And this is national news … why?

More than 1,000 US public figures aided Trump’s effort to overturn election (The Guardian) Obviously they must be punished!

Chicago Teachers Union delegate vows to ‘report’ members who show up for work  To whom? The FBI? Homeland Security? Nancy Pelosi?

Trump has birthed a dangerous new ‘Lost Cause’ myth. We must fight it (The Guardian) All Trump! All the time!

Strategy shift: Biden confronts Trump head on after year of silent treatment (The Guardian) The only President to go on national TV to complain about an election he won.

The insurrection is only the tip of the iceberg (The Guardian)

MSNBC’s Tiffany Cross: I’m a ‘Bigger Patriot’ Than ‘Half-Witted’ Tucker and Ted Cruz

Princeton Faculty Member Brags About Death Threats Against Trump Admin Envoy

PBS Anchor Coddles Kamala on ‘Very Forceful’ 1/6 Speech, Wants Trump Prosecuted for Riot

Hating On Novak Has Become A National Sport In Australia

The racist 1890 law that’s still blocking thousands of Black Americans from voting (The Guardian)  Apparetly ‘convicted felon’ is a race. Apparently all convicted felons are black.

Data Science Director at Thomson Reuters Fired for Criticizing BLM, Media Bias

Breakthrough Documentary Lessens Chances of Noticing by Keeping Screen Black

Criminology: Half of Blacks Preferred to be Robbed or Burglarized Than to Have Unprovoked Contact with Cops

NPR’s White Supremacy Crisis

Science Museum Boards Up Display on Early Human Migration Because It Is ‘non-inclusive’