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1. Prioritization(1): Ordering a todo list. You make a giant list of things you could do, things you should do, things you’d like to do… and then you put a unique number next to each item. Now it’s an ordered list.
2. Prioritization(2): Only doing the top item on the list. You already have a giant todo list. Which thing are you actually going to finish?

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Every year, the president puts forth a budget. And every year, the media diligently reports on it as if it matters to what the government will do over the coming year.

Don’t get me wrong: budgets are important. They provide a sense of their crafters’ priorities and a roadmap for achieving their goals. But budgets don’t hold the force of law, which means — in our government — they serve as non-binding blueprints and little else.

This is especially true of presidential budgets.

No President’s budget is worth a shit. The OMB works very hard (and is paid very well) to craft a budget every year (a stack of paper several feet high), the President sends it to Congress, the opposition party in Congress publicly declares it Dead On Arrival, and Congress does whatever it wants.  The President has to depend on his influence over the leaders of his own party in Congress — and whatever arm-twisting and backscratching he can perform with the other party — in order to get anything done.

It’s all Budget Theater.

ZMan.

Broadly speaking, a crisis comes in two forms. There is the internal crisis driven by irreconcilable contradictions. Then there is the external crisis that is driven by some unusual occurrence like a natural disaster. The latter tests mostly the ability of the system to weather the storm and recover. The former tests the ability of the system to radically alter itself in order to address the contradiction. This is the most dangerous crisis and the one that few systems survive.

Of course, the internal crisis can be papered over for a long time until some external crisis comes along and makes that impossible. The external crisis puts pressure on the system, forcing it to respond under duress. The internal problems are then made obvious as the system responds poorly. Efforts to quickly resolve those issues in order to address the immediate problems just create new problems. This was the process that led to the French Revolution.

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A new study from researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has found that cells carrying oncogenic KRAS mutations harbor elevated levels of a specific kind of iron. This iron could be used to activate drugs that target cancer cells, avoiding harm to normal, healthy cells.

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FROM THE BIZARRE creatures in the depths of the oceans to the bacteria inside our bodies, all life on Earth consists of cells. But we have only a very rough idea of how even the simplest of those cells function.

Now, as described recently in Cell, a team at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and their colleagues have created the most complete computer simulation ever of a living cell. With this digital model, biologists can burst through nature’s constraints and accelerate their exploration of how the most basic unit of life ticks—and what would happen if it ticked differently.

The Antiplanner peeks behind the curtain.

Now that the war in Ukraine has revealed that Europe is even more dependent on foreign oil than the United States, Americans can smugly sit back and say, “If only those Europeans acted more like, you know, Europeans, they wouldn’t be in this fix.” Because, as everyone knows, Europeans travel mostly by electric public transit and high-speed trains, so they aren’t dependent on oil to get around by car or airplane.

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Joe Biden took questions from the press today, most of which focused on his foreign policy blunders of the last few days. He chose to brazen it out, denying that his comments had been walked back on multiple occasions and denying specifically that he had called for Vladimir Putin to be ousted. Under the circumstances, there is not much else he can do, and he is far past the point where he and his aides have the luxury of caring whether what he says makes any sense.

Then and Now, on the Fly

FDA Tells Doctors In 8 States To Stop Using COVID-19 Treatment

Shanghai Orders Staggered Lockdowns After Reporting Record New COVID Cases

BA.2 variant doesn’t have unique symptoms yet, doctor says (Deseret News)

FDNY unions call for Mayor Eric Adams to lift vaccine mandates for city workers: ‘One rule for all’  Good luck with that.

The Pandemic Revolutionized Disease Surveillance. Now What?

Far UVC Sanitization Kills COVID

Ginni Thomas’ West Wing contacts raise new questions for another Trump ally: John Eastman (Politico)

Trump turns Michigan into MAGA proving ground (Politico)

Trump Rally in Georgia Helps Stacey Abrams With Fundraising Appeal (Newsweek)

Kinzinger Wants Tucker Carlson ‘Held to Account’ for Taking ‘Putin’s Side’ (Newsweek) But who’s going to hold Kinzinger accountable for taking Democrats’ side?

Biden’s budget to boost military, raise taxes on billionaires (Reuters)

International Condemnation of Joe Biden

It’s Been 259 Days Since the Network Newscasts Said the Words ‘Hunter Biden’

How Low Can Biden Fall?

Biden’s Regulatory Blitz a Massive Tax, Especially Harming Seniors and Low-Income Americans

Biden administration kills Trump-era nuclear cruise missile program

Reporters Hammer Biden Over Russian ‘Regime Change’ Comment At Budget Press Briefing

WOW: Nets Hammer Biden’s ‘Shocking,’ ‘Horrendous Gaffe’ as ‘Backlash’ Grows

Biden DOJ Kills Trump-Era Program To Catch Chinese Spies

If every judge is an originalist, originalism is meaningless (Washington Post)

Jackson, Thomas, and the end of the Supreme Court’s ‘Black seat’ (MSNBC)

Montgomery County schools’ anti-racist audit to examine its curriculums (Washington Post)

Washington schools adopt race-based discipline

What Is Black America?

The Racial Reckoning Doesn’t Seem to Have Gotten Black People to Behave Better Toward Each Other

Pants on Fire: Washington Post Editor Pretends Kavanaugh Was Never Smeared

Southern Poverty Law Center Is Racist, Employees Say  Not really news.

Jon Stewart: ‘The Problem With White People,’ All Like Klansmen  Including Joh Stewart, presumably.

Russia is dying out

Will Chechnya’s gamble in Ukraine backfire?

The number that puts Vladimir Putin at risk (CNN)

Could Vladimir Putin Be Overthrown? (Newsweek)

New Great Game: Can Venezuela Negotiate An End To US Deadly Sanctions?

All Stocks On Moscow Exchange To Trade Monday 

Ukraine: where are we?

Stop the Russian Invasion of America

Stockman: Washington Is Delirious With War Fever (For No Reason To Do With Homeland Security)

LOGISTICS: Starved Of Mobility and Protection

Greenwald: Biden’s Reckless Words Underscore Dangers Of US Using Ukraine For Proxy War

Russian tank manufacturer shuts down production

Ukraine using Clearview AI to identify slain Russian soldiers

Hunting with Drones

Analysis: Fact-Checkers Fail to React to New Facts on Hunter Biden Emails

Ukraine Says Russia Seeking To Split Country “Like North & South Korea”

China APT group using Russia invasion, COVID-19 in phishing attacks

WP: Ukraine War Helps with “Communicating the Need for [Climate] Sacrifice”

Insurers could have been climate heroes. Instead, they have risked a crisis to dwarf 2008

A heat wave and snowfall: Why researchers are puzzled by Antarctica’s recent weather (BBC) When reality doesn’t follow the Narrative.

L.A.’s asphalt-covered schoolyards are an environmental injustice (L.A. Times) There’s that fashionable buzz-phrase ‘environmental justice’ again.

Reducing Our Reliance on Oil Will Increase Our Quality of Life (The New Republic)

Conserve oil — a little sacrifice won’t kill us (The Hill)

Complex Models Now Gauge the Impact of Climate Change on Global Food Production. The Results Are ‘Alarming’ (Inside Climate News) As they are carefully crafted to be.

Why geothermal energy is being viewed as a viable alternative to fossil fuels (PBS NewsHour)

Biden’s most effective climate warrior faces potential doom in the Senate (Politico)

Next arriving at Amtrak’s 30th Street Station: A PGW natural gas controversy

Tens of billions of dollars’ worth of property facing climate and erosion risk, analysis shows (ABC News)

Cities need to be redesigned for the climate crisis. Can they make us happy, too? (The Guardian)

How to save the Amazon? Brazil company says NFTs are the answer (CNN) I am not making this up.

Saving America from Planet-Threatening Fossil Fuels

Covid Pandemic and Climate Change Facts: Fact Checking the Fact Checkers

A Bold Idea to Stall the Climate Crisis—by Building Better Trees  (Wired ‘Science’)

Comprehensive European Study Finds Warmer Climate Periods Do Not Lead to More Conflict, War

Our soil is dying We and our governments need to act  Mostly our governments.

Newsom’s Energy Regulations Have Oil Tankers Emitting More Than Twice What All of California’s Vehicle Fleet Do

Yet another California city becomes unaffordable

People’s Convoy Gives Up, Will Leave Washington, D.C., Area After Three Weeks of Doing Nothing (Daily Beast)

Law enforcement focus on quality-of-life offenses renews old debate over ‘broken windows’ policing (CNN)

Trump backers push election change that would make counting slower, costlier and less accurate (Politico)

Disney has been outspoken on DeSantis’ parental rights bill but silent on Uyghur genocide

The Guardian view on public interest: democracy rests on a free press (The Guardian)  Too bad they encourage censorship.

#OscarSoWoke: Hosts Attack ‘Unbearable White Women’ and ‘Toxic Masculinity’

Without Notifying Parents, New Jersey Middle School Forces Students To Learn About Transgender Hormone Therapy

Analysis: Fact-Checkers Fail to React to New Facts on Hunter Biden Emails

Republicans Investigate VOA for Biased Coverage of Iran, Advocacy for Biden

‘Political Weapon’: NYT Warns Rumble Helping Right Dodge Censorship  Well, yeah, that’s kinda the point.

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Miranda Devine zooms in on the story of Devon Archer in the New York Post column “Biden’s silent as son’s former friend and business partner faces jail, financial ruin.” Devine updates us on the story: “Archer has less than five weeks left before he has to go to jail to serve a one-year, one-month sentence over a fraud he says he had no knowledge his then-partners were committing, and which cost him his life’s savings.”

Devine’s February 7 column anticipated Archer’s sentencing. Her previous column seems somewhat more cynical about Archer than her column today. In any event, her column today contrasts with it. In the February column Devine exhumes interesting material from Hunter’s laptop. Both columns are worth reading.

It has been left to the reporters and columnists of the New York Post to tell the Hunter Biden story. Archer is a chapter in the story. Archer and several of his business colleagues have been convicted of fraud in the case brought by Southern District of New York prosecutors.

The Antiplanner makes an obvious suggestion.

The recent earthquake off the coast of Japan derailed a high-speed train and forced East Japan Railway to shut down the rail line. Fixing the line, the company admitted, may take “a considerable amount of time.”

Joel Kotkin.

As the centers of media and political discourse, large cities, notably New York, have a unique ability to promote themselves, asserting that dense, core urban areas own the future. Yet in reality, even during good times, and well before the pandemic, Americans have been headed, in increasing numbers, to suburbs, exurbs and to smaller cities. Romantic illusions to past urban recoveries may make people feel better, but they ignore both long-lasting trends and new realities.

Steve Sailer.

College admission notifications are going out this week, and there are rumors that the University of California public colleges are actually taking seriously all their Racial Reckoning rhetoric, at the expense of the white and Asian applicants who keep their prestige up.

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PhD dissertation.

Time To End The Grievance-Industrial Complex

What Quantum Mechanics Can Teach Us about Abortion (“Scientific” American)

Court Rules Democrats Engaged In “Extreme Partisan Gerrymander” In Maryland

‘A Huge Red Flag’: Chuck Todd Panics Over GOP Lead in NBC Midterm Poll

Utah Lawmakers Enact Ban On Transgender Youth In Girls’ Sports, Overriding Governor’s Veto

NY Times Mad at GOP Senators ‘Angrily Lecturing and Interrupting…Jurist’ Jackson

Capehart, Brooks: Republicans Put Jackson ‘Through Hell’ To Get on Fox

New York Times Systemic Racism Used To Attack Jackson Critics

AP Mocked for Saying GOP Thinks Ketanji ‘Brings Too Much Empathy’

Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Favorite Critical Race Theory Book Rejects the Constitution

Aspiring Rapper Update: ‘Baby Cino’ Gets Out of Jail, Immediately Gets Shot Dead

ABC’s Karl: GOP’s Questioning of Judge Jackson ‘A Message to QAnon’

NYT Notes ‘Pain and Disgust’ Toward GOP After KBJ Hearings; ‘Appeals to Racism’

CNN Lets Race-Baiter Guest Accuse GOP of ‘Race-Baiting’ on Jackson

Media works overtime to clean up Joe Biden’s word salads

Biden Says “Butcher” Putin “Cannot Remain In Power” In Call For Regime Change In Russia

Taibbi: The Media Campaign To Protect Joe Biden Passes Point Of Absurdity

Biden Promised Europe More LNG From US… Forgot to Check With Industry First

Biden Admin’s Nuclear Deal: “This Isn’t Obama’s Iran Deal. It’s Much, Much Worse.”

Biden’s Reckless Words Underscore the Dangers of the U.S.’s Use of Ukraine As a Proxy War

Chaos In the White House

Could Biden gaffe us into World War Three?

Evergreen Headline: ‘Update: White House Corrects Biden’

Sanctions On Russia May Achieve Opposite Of Biden’s Stated Long-Term Goals

Rescued Victorian Rainfall Data Smashes Former Records

“Its a Disaster”: Aussie Noise Nuisance Court Defeat Panicking Renewable Energy Investors

Senate unanimously supports Vermont’s 1st environmental justice policy There’s that ‘environmental justice’ slogan again.

There’s a 1 in 5 chance of a future dangerous COVID-19 variant, expert says (Deseret News)

New York Climate Act: Cost Estimate Sleight of Hand

Leading Environmental Group NABU Now Vigorously Opposes Wind Parks In German Forests

“Save The Children” Chooses Climate Virtue Signalling Over Feeding Hungry Kids

Biden Administration Set To Approve 2nd Booster Dose For Americans Over 50

New Type of Ultraviolet Light Makes Indoor Air as Safe as Outdoors

The mask of authority

Breathe easy: how respiratory viruses evolve to become milder

Stockman: How The C-Suite Embraced Lockdowns And Economic War

The Russians Fleeing Putin’s Wartime Crackdown  (The New Yorker)

Turkey’s Bosphorus Strait Reopens After Suspected Naval Mine “Neutralized”

Dirty bomb ingredients go missing from Chornobyl monitoring lab

Russia, Ukraine Conduct First Soldier-For-Soldier Prisoner Swap Of War

Velshi Wonders if Ukrainians Benefit From Being White Christians

CBS Compared Ukraine’s Independence to Kid Running Away From Home

Daily Mail Drops Hunter Biden Emails Linking Him To Ukraine Biolab Funding

Dubai’s Economy Booms As Wealthy Russians Seek Refuge In Local Property Market

Regime Change In Russia

War shakes Europe path to energy independence, climate goals (Associated Press)

No more dithering over Ukraine

PEACE TIME: Trusting Russia Does Not Pay

Nuclear weapons are not as destructive as you think

A Manufactured World Crisis?

Leader Of Lugansk People’s Republic Hints At Referendum To Join Russia “In Near Future”

Will Russian mercenaries conquer the world?

The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War

“Listen, Viktor!”: Hungary Berated by the Deep State for War Hesitancy

Who Are The Russian Oligarchs  Under the Alinsky Rules, any Enemy of the People has to be personalized, which is why the Narrative Media are so tightly focused on Putin and Oligarchs.

Ethics experts see Ginni Thomas’s texts as a problem for Supreme Court (Washington Post)

Democrats rip Justice Clarence Thomas over his wife’s ‘deranged’ push to overturn election (N.Y. Daily News)

‘I get a chill’: Bertie Carvel on exploring the human side of Donald Trump (The Guardian)

Four GOP senators who should go back to law school (The Hill)

White House Unveils 20% “Billionaire Minimum Tax” Proposal In 2023 Budget

The Shaming-Industrial Complex

Italian Authorities Seek To Seize Megayacht Allegedly Belonging To Vladimir Putin  We don’t know for sure so we’ll steal it just in case.

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A new process introduced by the Rice University lab of chemist James Tour can turn bulk quantities of just about any carbon source into valuable graphene flakes. The process is quick and cheap; Tour said the “flash graphene” technique can convert a ton of coal, food waste or plastic into graphene for a fraction of the cost used by other bulk graphene-producing methods.

“This is a big deal,” Tour said. “The world throws out 30% to 40% of all food, because it goes bad, and plastic waste is of worldwide concern. We’ve already proven that any solid carbon-based matter, including mixed plastic waste and rubber tires, can be turned into graphene.”

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Traditional weights and measures emerged organically as responses to the requirements of human life. Just as scientific hypotheses are proposed to answer intellectual questions, so too are forms of life developed to answer the needs of life. In a reverse Gresham’s law, the good drive out the bad.

The foot, the mile and the pint are all human measures, emerging either from a human reference or for an understood human need. Unlike decimal systems, which can only be divided by 2 & 5, the old shilling — being 12 pennies — could be divided by 2, 3, 4 or 6. Such measures exist at the scale of daily life, and in a world increasingly alienated and atomised they help to bind us to the notion of place and dwelling. The pint is not simply an abstraction of fluid quantity: it’s a social activity, an anticipation and a pleasure.

One of the joys of being an American is that you don’t need to use the fucking metric system unless you choose to do so.

I think he was right the first time.

COVID symptoms or allergies? 3 major reasons to get a COVID-19 test (Deseret News)

NYC Mayor Eric Adams is slammed by fired city workers and unions after he grants vaccination exemptions for rockstars, actors and players for the Yankees, Nets and Mets – but not for regular New Yorkers

Yale epidemiologist: ‘The pandemic is not over’

We’ve found one factor that predicts which countries best survive Covid

CDC updates Covid-19 guidance to allow patients wear N95s

Mask Mandates Forever?

Legal correspondent doubles down on claim US Constitution is ‘actually trash’

Did Tipping Come from Slavery? The 1619 Project Lies Again

Questions remain as resentencing initiative championed by Kim Foxx is slow out of the gate in Cook County

50 years after Watergate, the president of the United States still flies above the law

Big population drops in Los Angeles, San Francisco transforming urban California

Pittsburgh metro area loses population, leads nation in natural population decline

Democrats propose bills to send gas payments to Americans, some funded by taxing oil companies  Buying votes with other people’s money – it’s what Democrats do best.

Virginia Thomas urged White House chief to pursue unrelenting efforts to overturn the 2020 election, texts show (Washington Post) Guess she didn’t believe the Narrative.

Toobin: Why Ginni Thomas’ texts around 1/6 are problematic (CNN) Thoughts from the Narrative’s official wanker.

‘They are the ones paying the consequences’: Jan. 6 rioters mimic Trump’s misinformation playbook but see different results (CNN) They’re not billionaires and so the Deep State can crush them.

After crippling rounds of sanctions, these are the oligarchs who are (and aren’t) speaking out against Russia’s war (CNN) All oligarchs, all the time.

The Purges in Putin’s Shrinking Inner Circle (The New Yorker)

That was then, this is now, again Russia/Ukraine edition

Russian Superyachts ‘Go Dark’ To Avoid Tracking

Ice shelf as big as New York City collapses in previously stable East Antarctica (Boston Globe)

Antarctic ice shelf nearly the size of Los Angeles collapsed as temperatures soared to 40 above normal (CNN)

Climate action has been ‘a calamity’, says Senate Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse (The Guardian)

Fridays for Future school climate strikes resume across the world (The Guardian)

Young Australians take climate protest to prime minister’s residence (Reuters)

Birds are laying eggs earlier, a new study shows. Scientists blame the climate crisis (CNN)

ABC Ignores Biden Backtracking on Effectiveness of Russian Sanctions

Joe Biden, Liar

Biden Still Doesn’t Get Deterrence

MLB’s Machado Wears ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Shirt To Interviews

Wow: CBS Calls Out Biden Flip Flops on Sanctions (ABC Still Spinning)

Joe’s Little Big Guy

Biden Administration Has a ‘Momflation’ Problem

Biden Bid To Waive Sanctions on Iranian Terrorists Could Derail Nuclear Deal

Doddering on the World Stage

Who Said It: Vice President Kamala Harris Or Elmo?  Babylon Bee.

Eric Adams exempts athletes, performers from city vaccine mandate In other words, rich Democrats.

The Inflation Disaster Is Collateral Damage From Lockdowns

Covid is over — if you’re famous and good at sports

Poll: Nearly Half of Parents Say Masks at School Hurt Kids

The COVID Fight Ahead

YouTube Removed CPAC Videos About 2020 Election

NYPD revives ‘broken windows’ policies as Adams fumes over weekend shootings

DOJ Accused Of Assault On Free Speech And Press In Project Veritas Case

Hayes: GOP ‘Over Inflated’ Al-Qaeda Threat, Should Fight Trump Instead

Disney’s Sex-Ed-for-Kindergarteners Crusade

Big Oil Is No Longer “Unbankable” Good news for a change.

PBS Runs Puff Piece on Cori Bush’s ‘Activism,’ Radical Agenda

MSNBC Piece Claims ‘Health & Fitness’ Is New Gateway Drug To The Far-Right

The View Fantasizes About Secretly Drugging Men With Infertility Pills

USA Today: There Is ‘No Simple Answer’ for Defining What Is a Woman There is if you’re not a left-wing nutter.

NY Times Cries Republican Racism on Front Page in Desperate Defense of KBJ

When Harvard canceled a black professor

Manchin A “Yes” On Jackson As GOP Support Evaporates

Kimmel Gives Jackson the ‘Outstanding Poker Face While Listening to Idiots’ Award

Reject Ketanji Brown Jackson

FBI Scuttles Ketanji Brown Celebration At LA Field Office

In Fit of Racially Charged Outrage, Democrats Target Supreme Court’s Only Black Justice for Impeachment

Trump Sues the Russia Hoaxers

Not Gonna Happen! Scarborough Sputters With Rage That Trump Won’t Be Prosecuted

No, School Boards Are Not ‘Banning Books’

Sally Fields Is So Mad at Pro-Lifers, She Might Physically Assault Them  Somebody ought to encourage Sally Fields to get an abortion. From the neck up would work, after all, it’s just a clump of cells.

Caitlyn Jenner Bashes Swimmer Lia Thomas

Men to the left of us, men to the right of us

2021 emissions surge leaves less than 10 years to avoid 1.5 degree warming: study (The Hill)

Satellite data shows entire Conger ice shelf has collapsed in Antarctica (The Guardian)

Ice Shelf Twenty Times the Size of Manhattan Collapes in Antarctic Heat Wave (Daily Beast)

SEC proposes far-reaching climate disclosure rules for companies – here’s where the rules may be vulnerable to legal challenges

Big Three Evening Networks Ignore SEC’s Green Tyranny

NATO Doubles Battlegroups In ‘Eastern Flank’ States: Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania & Slovakia

US DoJ reveals Russian supply chain attack targeting energy sector

Visualizing The EU’s Energy Dependency

Russia’s Top Space Official Says No More Launching European Satellites

Oil Prices Tumble After EU Fails To Agree On Russian Import Ban

Russia Signals It Will Limit Scope To “Complete Liberation Of Donbas” – Says “No Progress” In Talks

Stinger, Javelin production can be increased, with congressional support: Army official

That was then, this is now: Russia/Ukraine edition

10 Unintended Consequences Of A Protracted Russia/Ukraine War According To JPMorgan

Ukraine: Fighting in Nemishaeve?

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Imagine, therefore, how surprised I have been this past couple of decades to see more and more men fighting on behalf of “women”. Trans-women that is. Let’s call him Nigel — this man is a type you will recognise. White, bearded, and whether gay or straight he somehow manages to shoehorn himself onto the LGBTQQIAP+ community, and is absolutely, without question, more oppressed than females. He gets himself out of bed, dragging himself away from Insta, Twitter and Pornhub (he has donated to some bird making ethical porn, but he prefers the real stuff) and cycles down to where are the feminists are speaking about rape and domestic violence and other bourgeoise rubbish.

His pronouns intact, fluctuating between he/him and they/them, depending entirely on his mood and what he chooses to wear that day, Nigel drops his washing off at his mums, gets his girlfriend (they are a queer couple though) to clean out the hamster cage, slips on his £150 trainers and joins the baying mob shouting “TERFS out” and “bigots”, etc.

Nigel may identify as a citizen journalist, so keen is he to alert the online world to the danger lurking behind any gathering of witches banging on about single sex spaces. Or perhaps he is working for a “progressive” media outlet, and makes it his business to contact feminist event organisers asking probing, intelligent, open-ended questions such as “how many trans women have you killed today” or “when did you become a fascist/bigot?” He writes headlines such as, “Transphobes secretly campaigning to remove the right to free cervical smear tests for trans women.”

Joel Kotkin.

Perhaps nowhere is the gap between America’s cognitive elite and its populace larger than in their preferred urban forms. For nearly a century—interrupted only by the Depression and the Second World War—Americans have been heading further from the urban core, seeking affordable and safe communities with good schools, parks, and a generally more tranquil lifestyle. We keep pushing out despite the contrary desires of planners, academic experts, and some real estate interests. In 1950, the core cities accounted for nearly 24 percent of the U.S. population; today, the share is under 15 percent, according to demographer Wendell Cox. Between 2010 and 2020, the suburbs and exurbs of the major metropolitan areas gained 2.0 million net domestic migrants, while the urban core counties lost 2.7 million.

This is less a growth in “bedroom suburbs,” supplying workers to the urban core, but one that serves multiple employment centers and commercial development. The latest edition of Commuting in America estimates that almost 70 percent of metropolitan-area workers now live and work in the suburbs; trips within suburbs or suburb-to-suburb commutes constitute more than double the commutes with a central business district as the final destination.

Watch: Beverly Hills Smash-And-Grab Robbers Steal “Millions” From Jewelry Shop  I assume Axel Foley is on the case.

Candace Owens calls out New York Times for shifting narrative on Ukraine, Hunter Biden laptop

Douglas Murray on Yale free speech protest: Law schools in crisis from ‘activist left-wing mobs’

A Suicide Foretold: How Social Justice Rhetoric is Turning People off Human Rights

‘Pain Never Goes Away,’ Says Mother of Daughter Who Took Her Life After ‘Transitioning’ to a Boy

Universities Follow The Politics, Not The Science

Call Them What They Are: Smear Merchants

Will the West Coast walk away from wokeness?

Time to end the grievance-industrial complex

Men Now Dominate Women’s Sports

Twitter Backtracks After Flagging The Federalist

The Left Strikes Again at Freedom of Speech in Akron, Ohio

Twitter STINGS Babylon Bee with Censor Blitz Over Trans Satire Posts

Round Two? Tulsi Gabbard Says Big Tech Censored Her Again for Cautioning Against War