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A process for making wastewater drinkable again is now revealing hidden benefits. The discovery comes thanks to Stanford engineers, who’ve developed a cost-effective way to convert a toxic byproduct of the process into useful chemicals.

“Hopefully, this study will help accelerate adoption of technology that mitigates pollution, recovers valuable resources, and creates potable water all at the same time,” lead author Xiaohan Shao said in a press release.

Do These Black Lives Matter to L.A.’s Idiot D.A.?

Cowardly NY Times Again Evades Fact of Black-on-Asian Hate Crimes, Blames Trump

DC Mayor Says Carjacker ‘Probably Didn’t Intend To Kill’ Victim

‘Forget About COVID’, They Say…

Plano man recovering after nearly 200 days in hospital with COVID-19

The CDC is tracking new major COVID variants, but hasn’t found any yet (Deseret News)

The CDC’s New Guidelines on COVID Risk and Masking Send Confounding Signals (MedScape)

CDC director reveals why you may need your masks again (Deseret News)

Biden Admin Bans Unvaccinated Tennis Ace Djokovic From Competing

FDA Rejects Non-mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine For Children: Company

Wisconsin Special Counsel Alleges Massive Misconduct In 2020 Election

Elizabeth Warren Wants ‘’Windfall Tax’’ On Oil Profits

Texas Elections Official To Resign After 1000s Of Uncounted Ballots Found  Houston is in deep-Blue Harris County.

Dark Reality of How Transgender Ideology Is Affecting Women, Girls

‘You can’t be scared to lose’: San Francisco D.A. Boudin speaks out after jury acquits officer of assault charges (S.F. Chronicle)

Congress just got its secret weapon back (CNN) Democrats sneak earmark return into funding bill.

New CA bill would impose 25% gain tax on house flippers who sell within 3 years

Gay! Gay! Gay! Gay!

Sex Offenders, Pedophiles, And Democrats Hardest Hit By Florida’s New Parental Rights Bill  Babylon Bee.

Disney CEO To Make Hail Mary Trip to Speak to DeSantis And Stop His ‘Don’t Say Gay Bill’

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Has the level of public discourse ever been lower? The Biden administration’s energy policies have been a disaster, as an overwhelming majority of Americans recognize. So the Democrats are flailing wildly, trying to blame exploding energy costs on Vladimir Putin, while suggesting that their own failed policies demonstrate the need to stop pumping oil altogether and shift to wind and solar power, fueling electric vehicles.

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“Canada will always be there to defend the right to peaceful protest” – Justin Trudeau, in a reference to protests in India…

Asked why he supported some protests, but was determined to crush the trucker convoy, Justin Trudeau answered without hesitation: He supported – and even participated in – protests he agreed with. But he did not support – and vowed to crush – those with “unacceptable views”. Then he proceeded to take a wrecking ball to Canada’s banking system, and whatever is left of our individual civil liberties.

We are now seeing how far his NDP-backed Liberal government is prepared to go to economically execute dissenters – those with “unacceptable views”. A convoy organizer was jailed, and led into court in shackles. Bank accounts have been frozen, businesses have been destroyed, and many working Canadians will find it impossible to earn a living in their own country.

Environmentalists vs. Science

Climatistas Officially Declare Themselves Brain Dead

Amazon rainforest reaching tipping point, researchers say (BBC)

Satellite images show the Amazon rainforest is hurtling toward a ‘tipping point’ (Washington Post)

Humanity Just Produced The Biggest Increase in Global CO2 Emissions Ever Recorded (ScienceAlert)

ABC’s Stephanpoulos spars with Chris Christie over energy independence: Climate change is ‘existential crisis’

UN: Africa, already suffering from warming, will see worse (Associated Press)

Japan Sees NO WINTER WARMING In Decades…Tokyo Winters Haven’t Warmed Since 1984!

New Poll Shows 70% of Americans Favor Increased Oil, Gas Production

Environmentalist NIMBYism Means Foreign Policy Disaster

New York Democrats Caught Comparing Climate Change to 9/11

Anonymous hacks Russian TV, plays Ukraine war footage

Australia to invest $38B to surge troop strength by 30 percent

Two Russian Generals Reported Killed as Ukraine Invasion Becomes ‘Clusterf**k’

UK Says It’s A Criminal Offense For Any Russian Plane To Enter Airspace As Private Jets Get Seized

Watch: US Intel Officials Warn Putin Could Nuke A Ukrainian City

Burkina Faso: Another Coup Led by U.S.-Trained Soldier

CBS Recounts Cruel U.S. Policy Stranding Ukrainian American (Skimps on Biden)

Jaromir Jagr Uses Hockey Game To Raise Funds For Ukrainian Refugees

Ukraine Bans Wheat & Grain Exports Vital To Global Food Supply, Citing Citizens Under Siege

Trudeau Hints Canada Ready to Replace Russian Fossil Fuel Imports  For a price, of course.

Patriot Missile Batteries Dispatched To Poland Amid Fears Of “Stray” Russian Missiles

Next US defense budget will get a boost due to Ukraine invasion: Pentagon comptroller

Victoria Nuland: Ukraine Has “Biological Research Facilities,” Worried Russia May Seize Them

China’s Xi Objects To Russian Sanctions In Summit With France And Germany

Russian invasion raises new danger of Chinese attack on Taiwan

Russian Oil Import Ban Just a Distraction From Biden’s Anti-Energy Policies

Nets Ignore Biden Admin Freeing 20th 9/11 Hijacker from Gitmo

Video: Reporter Refuses To Accept Psaki’s Attempt To Blame Russia For Gas Price Surge

U.S. oil industry prepares to boost production — but with a giant warning (Politico)

Biden to issue executive order on cryptocurrency

Saudi, UAE leaders declined calls with Biden amid Ukraine conflict: report (The Hill)

Reporters call out Associated Press reporter for ending White House press briefing early

State Department Hire Oversaw UN’s Terrorist Textbook Program

The madness of slow Joe, Iran edition

Biden Says Gas Prices Are Not His Fault Unless They Go Back Down Again  Babylon Bee.

Where Are the Regretful Voters?

Saudis Refuse Phone Calls With Biden Amid Surging Gas Prices

PAIN AT THE PUMP: Tracking the Biden Oil Crisis

How Chinese Companies Linked to Hunter Biden Could Bail Out Putin

Crypto-Clamped! Biden Bites Down on Alternative Currency with New Executive Order  If it moves, regulate it.

Greenwald Slays ‘Fact Checkers’ After Nuland’s Ukraine Biolab Bombshell

Biden Sics Bureaucrats on Cryptocurrencies

Jen, Joe… Is it 9,000 leases or 9,000 permits that oil companies are allegedly sitting on?

Drag Queen Who Says Biden Is a ‘Senile’ ‘White Supremacist’ Scheduled To Perform At Dem Retreat  Not the Babylon Bee.

US Destroyer can’t deploy because CO won’t get Covid vaccine, Navy says

What the Dictator of Washington State Said About the Republicans in the State Legislature, Regarding Vaccine Mandates

An omicron ‘subvariant’ is doubling in NY, just as mandates lift (Gothamist)

CDC Data: ‘Stealth’ Omicron Responsible for More Than 1 in 10 Coronavirus Cases (U.S. News)

Adams blasts rogue principals as another tells kids to keep masks on in class

A new COVID-19 variant could emerge after ‘honeymoon’ period

New Pfizer data kills the case for universal child Covid vaccines

Florida To Allow Doctors To Use Off-Label Drugs For Early Treatment Of COVID-19  Freedom! It’s a rare and precious thing.

Masking Policy Is Incredibly Irrational

Why Is CDC’s Walensky Refusing To Answer this Senator’s Questions?

DNI: China still blocking virus origin probe

DOJ Offers 70- to 87-Month Prison Sentence For Man Photographed With Feet Up in Nancy Pelosi’s Office

Donald Trump’s power is fading: Trumpism is the clear and present danger now (The Guardian)

In the first Jan. 6 trial, a jury found Capitol riot defendant Guy Reffitt guilty (NPR)

Tucker Carlson goes full blame-America on Russia’s Ukraine invasion (Washington  Post)

Al Franken Unimpressed With Tucker Carlson’s Coverage of Ukraine (Newsweek)

Clarence Thomas’ Strange Pick to Promote His Book Says It All (Daily Beast)

Republicans revert to ‘it won’t be that bad’ mode on Trump (Washington Post)

A Yale professor’s list of companies staying in Russia has put the business world on notice (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Fox News Graphic Malfunctions While Listing Donald Trump’s Achievements (Newsweek)

‘Trump Lost Lol’ Sign Directed at People’s Convoy Protest Seen in D.C (Newsweek)

High-powered group targets Trump lawyers’ livelihoods (Axios)

Why it’s so hard to prosecute Donald Trump (CNN)

NBC Makes Ron DeSantis ‘The Face of Controversy’

Rowling to Trans Mob: ‘Worry About Your Legacy, I’ll Worry About Mine’

How anti-racism can make you rich

‘Key to white survival’: how Putin has morphed into a far-right savior (The Guardian)

This marijuana-smoking, Confederate flag-burning Senate candidate is having a ball (Washington Post)

MSNBC’s Joy Reid: World paying attention to Ukraine because it’s a ‘White … Christian nation’

NY Times: ‘Lasting Legacy’ of Castro-Loving Belafonte; ‘Dapper’ Al Sharpton

‘Baltimore-Area Women’

ABC Teams With Biden WH to Hail Ketanji Jackson With Help From ‘Lifelong Friends’

Biden’s HHS Pushes ‘Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility’ Agenda to Racialize Government

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Remember how, after 9-11, George W. Bush made a big deal out of going to a mosque? Remember how politicians from both sides (ha-ha) of the aisle lectured us not to hate on Muslims because 3,000 Americans had just been murdered by gentlemen of Arabic descent shouting “Allahu Akbar!” Remember how each subsequent Islamist terror attack — Orlando Pulse, Fort Hood, London 7-11, Little Rock, San Bernardino, the Boston Marathon bombing — were accompanied by somber editorials reminding us that “Islam is a religion of peace,” and how local and federal law enforcement were ordered to be on the lookout for “Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes.”

All right, since you remember all that, isn’t it weird that no politician has told us not to hate Russians for the actions of Vladimir Putin? No editorials have been written telling us to love our Russian neighbors. No, quite the opposite is happening.

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On January 6, 2020, Matthew Perna walked through an open door in the U.S. Capitol. Two police officers manned the door. They appeared welcoming. For 20 minutes, Perna walked through the halls, took videos, and shouted “USA, USA.” Then he left.

Last Friday night, Perna went into his garage in little-town Pennsylvania and hung himself. Perna had become the victim of Joe Biden’s Justice Department and the FBI. He was hounded for two years, rejected by friends, lost his job, and was subjected to widespread ridicule. And he was on the cusp of receiving upward of six years in prison. All this for walking through an open door, not causing any damage, not threatening anyone, taking a few videos, and shouting patriotic slogans.

Steve is not convinced that we have a dog in this fight.

Many Russians are much tougher than we are. Putin is much stronger than Biden, and Harris isn’t even worth discussing. I suspect we are poking the bear a little too hard, without a compelling interest.

 

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Project Veritas has captured New York Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg delivering news that has somehow been deemed unfit to print in the paper (video below). PV’s post on the video comes under the heading “Pulitzer Prize Winning New York Times Reporter: January 6 Media Coverage ‘Overreaction,’ FBI Involved, Event Was Not Organized Despite Ongoing Narrative.”. PV’s post leads with a set of bullet points highlighting quotable quotes.

PV invites readers to contrast Rosenberg’s comments in the video with his own Times story (with Jim Rutenberg and Michael Grynbaum) “The Next Big Lies: Jan. 6 Was No Big Deal, or a Left-Wing Plot.” Subhead: “How revisionist histories of Jan. 6 picked up where the “stop the steal” campaign left off, warping beliefs about what transpired at the Capitol.” The contrast strikes me as newsworthy.

Steve Sailer.

Back in the days when a proper meal for a Supreme Court justice was a steak, a baked potato, a couple of shots of bourbon, and a cigar, nominees to this lifetime job weren’t expected to last all that long. For instance, Harry Truman’s four picks spent an average of only eleven years on the highest court.

But over time the stakes have been elevated to Battle of Stalingrad proportions due to a combination of a more activist judiciary and extended lifespans. The seven justices selected by Reagan, the elder Bush, and Clinton averaged 27 years, with Clarence Thomas still ticking.

The Supreme Court will likely decide upon the constitutionality of affirmative action at universities in 2023. But many would prefer that the existence of racial preferences not be even thought about when assessing the career qualifications of Joe Biden’s nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was chosen out of all the black women in the country. (No one else need apply.)

Joel Kotkin.

This is a disease one should not underestimate, but let’s assume that the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic is past us, at least for now. The disease’s impact on economy, our way of life, the state of democracy and the world will resonate for years to come and could have some unexpected wrinkles.

Covid-19 was a major disrupter of virtually everything, but it also accelerated many things that were already in play. From the growth of the tech oligarchy to the dispersion of population to suburbs and to smaller cities, to a wide range of political impacts, it will continue to be felt here and around the world.

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Saw that coming.

Psaki claims Keystone XL Pipeline would make no difference for rising gas prices

Family of Marine detained in Russia says Biden declined meeting in Texas (The Hill)

Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg slammed for ‘tone deaf’ e-vehicle push as gas skyrockets

Ilhan Omar hammers Biden over reports WH may ask Saudis to pump more oil

Biden, Jew-hating Left, Enable Putin and Iranian Theocracy

Climate Obsessed Biden Administration Seeks Oil Deal with Venezuela and Iran

Russia Links Ukraine Sanctions to Iran Nuclear Talks to Shake Down Biden Administration

Biden Admin Sends 9/11 Terrorist Home From Guantanamo

Pete Buttigieg Says Everyone Worried About Gas Prices Should Just Get Six-Figure Government Job With Free Car Service And Unlimited Parental Leave  Babylon Bee.

The Biden Administration’s Shocking Scientific Abuses at EPA

Now Courted By Biden, Socialist Strongman Maduro Hails “Cordial” US Talks For Oil Supplies

Don’t Worry, CBS Says Biden Policies ‘Are Not Hurting Oil Production’

Front-Row Favoritism? 4 of the 7 Outlets at Front of WH Briefing Room Are Actively Trying to Hire Jen Psaki  The old revolving door/We’ve seen it before….

CNN Defends Biden on High Gas Prices, Says There Are ‘Only Bad Options’

How Dems Helped Spike Gas Prices

Ukrainians are giving Americans two lessons about democracy that we’ve forgotten (CNN)

How governments worsen poverty in California (CalMatters)

New York Times op-ed calls for more censorship in order to ‘protect democracy’

Do Republicans Know What Communism Is? (New York Magazine)

Milwaukee County DA becomes 2nd prosecutor declining to charge state election commissioners over nursing home votes One hand washes the other.

Why Is Everything the Left Doesn’t Like ‘Misinformation’?

New York Times Whines GOP ‘Want to Further Gut the IRS,’ Cripple ATF

‘Outrage’ as Nets Obsess Over DeSantis ‘Scolding’; Still Ignoring Border, Hunter

Livestream Platform Twitch Implementing Aggressive So-Called ‘Misinformation’ Bans

Comedian & Tesla Owner Worth $75M Says It’s Morally Good to Pay $15 a Gallon for Gas

United Nations Caves to Russia, Won’t Let Staff Refer to Ukraine ‘Invasion’ or ‘War’  U.N. = Cheap Whores.

The View Claims FL’s Parental Rights Bill Allows Child Torture at Home

Florida surgeon general contradicts CDC, says healthy kids shouldn’t get COVID vaccine (Miami Herald)

Many parents are angry over COVID policies. They could be key to GOP 2022 gains (NPR)

Pentagon asks Supreme Court to allow it to stop the deployment of unvaccinated SEALs (NPR)

CDC adds former Covid success stories to its highest-risk category for travel (CNN)

Scientists identify genetic factors behind severe Covid symptoms (Financial Times)

Senators to meet with ‘People’s Convoy’ members; group circles Beltway for pandemic-related demonstration (Washington Post)

Is the media still stifling the lab-leak theory?  I would say so.

Republicans warn Justice Department probe of Trump would trigger political war (The Hill)

Putin’s Hollywood pals – the stars who snuggled up to the Russian dictator (The Guardian)

Biden Shatters Israel’s Delusions (Newsweek)

San Francisco police officer found not guilty of assault and battery charges in landmark use of force trial (S.F. Chronicle)

David W. Schamens, Pro-Trump PAC Treasurer, Rants About Hillary Clinton After Feds Charge Him for Ponzi Scheme (Daily Beast)

NBC Makes Ron DeSantis ‘the Face of Controversy’

News Outlet Blasts ‘Hypocrisy’ of Sanctioning Russia But Not Israel

Chicago-area mayor running for Congress rips Kim Foxx: ‘Putting rest of us at risk’

Professor Calls Parents “Ignorant Racist[s]” For Opposing Critical Race Theory

Racist Joy: We Only Care About Ukraine Because They’re White

Biden’s Supreme Court Pick is a Racist Attack on the Constitution

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Poland says it will accept planes with “corresponding operational capabilities” in return for giving the US it’s MiG-29s to transfer to Ukraine. The problem is, no one seemed to have told the Americans about this plan.

Hey, we’ll trade you our junky old MiGs for some shiny new F-35s….

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In response to my post from last night, our Hungarian correspondent László sends his observations on the war in Ukraine.

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“The authorities of the Republic of Poland, after consultations between the President and the Government, are ready to deploy – immediately and free of charge – all their MIG-29 jets to the Rammstein Air Base and place them at the disposal of the Government of the United States of America,” it said.

Why don’t they just do it directly? Poland shares a border with Ukraine; all they have to do is fly the jets there.

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Most people you meet in everyday life — at work, in the neighborhood — are decent and normal. Even nice. But hit Twitter or watch the news, and you’d think we were all nuts and nasty.

Why it matters: The rising power and prominence of the nation’s loudest, meanest voices obscures what most of us personally experience: Most people are sane and generous — and too busy to tweet.

Reality check: It turns out, you’re right. We dug into the data and found that, in fact, most Americans are friendly, donate time or money, and would help you shovel your snow. They are busy, normal and mostly silent.

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A majority of Democrats would abandon their country in the face of Russian aggression, according to a Quinnipiac poll published on Monday. By contrast, most Republicans and independents—a majority of American adults—would stand their ground and fight for freedom.

Not really news, but a useful reminder.

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The controversy erupted late December after female students at an all-girls pre-university government college (equivalent to U.S. high school) in Udupi, a city in the southwest Indian state of Karnataka, were denied permission to attend classes wearing the hijab.

Indian schools follow the British tradition of uniforms that are not common in the United States.

In a wildly overblown response to the controversy, Justice for All – a group that has sponsored events featuring jihad supporters – called on its readers to sign a petition asking the United Nations to save “India from Fascism.”

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One of the especially promising therapies to appear in the realm of anti-aging research involves a set of molecules known as Yamanaka factors, which scientists have deployed to rejuvenate aging cells, trigger muscle regeneration and tackle glaucoma. New research at the Salk Institute has sought to build on these short-term and specific use cases by demonstrating how these molecules can reverse signs of aging in middle-aged and elderly mice, with no evidence of health problems following the extended treatment.

 

California’s reparations task force is struggling with its first big test: Who should qualify? (S.F. Chronicle)

Kyrie Irving full of praise for Eric Adams: ‘Grateful that he’s on my side’

Ketanji Brown Jackson could bring public defender background to Supreme Court  (NPR)

Harris says Ketanji Brown Jackson ‘stands on the shoulders of giants’ (The Hill)

Harris calls for voting rights legislation before walking across Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday anniversary (CNN)

Fla. police chief Larry Scirotto fired for favoring non-white officers

Black-led urban farms are thriving – until they have to fight for their land (The Guardian)

Buttigieg draws link between transportation and history of civil rights at Edmund Pettus Bridge

Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Harvard group hosted ‘anti-Semitic’ speaker

Shocker: ‘The Shop’ Panel Says Racism Against Black QBs Still Exists

CBS’s ‘The Equalizer’ Attacks NYPD as ‘Racist System’

SF restaurant that appeared in ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ moves to Texas

The disaster we should have seen coming  (CNN) We did; you didn’t.

Another brazen theft at an S.F. Walgreens caught on video (S.F. Chronicle)

Fort Lauderdale police chief fired over minority-first practices in hiring and promotions, report says (CNN)

GOP Utah Gov Will Veto Law Protecting Integrity Of Women’s Sports

Durham Tells Court Not To Dismiss Charge Against Lawyer Who Hid Ties To Clinton Campaign

The Idiocy of Seattle

Media Outlets Continue To Portray Pro-Biden Lincoln Project as ‘Republican’ Organization

Whose day is it today?

Biden can hope the worst is behind him (Washington Post)

Biden supporters applaud his speech as boring — and that was a good thing (Washington Post)

U.S. crude oil briefly tops $130 a barrel, a 13-year high on possible Western ban of Russian oil  (CNBC)

National average for a gallon of gas tops $4, the highest price at the pump since 2008 The Obama legacy.

Broken Clock: CNN’s Zakaria Urges Biden to Ramp Up US Oil Production

Saudi Crown Prince Gives Biden The Cold Shoulder: “I Do Not Care” What He Thinks

Biden Sells Alaska Back To Russia So We Can Start Drilling For Oil There Again  Babylon Bee.

CNN’s Cillizza On Ukraine: ‘Is This the Beginning of a Joe Biden Comeback?’  Doubtful.

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Alvin Bragg, the new district attorney for Manhattan, promised to pursue a radical vision of criminal justice. In his campaign he vowed to adopt a “presumption of non-incarceration” for pretrial detention, except in cases of rape or murder. His presumption that people should not go to prison was also applied to his philosophy of sentencing the guilty, except for convictions for rape, murder, or public corruption. Who needs public defenders when you’ve got the prosecutor doing their job?

The impact of the new DA’s plans didn’t hit New Yorkers until he was actually sworn in and began to implement his promises. With crime continuing to soar, there was a mild degree of outrage about Bragg’s intentions, though he had always been quite clear about his plans; it’s just that no one was paying attention, or they assumed he wasn’t serious.

Taki lets loose.

We are in the midst of soft-on-crime time, where DA’s like Alvin Bragg of New York City, Kim Foxx of Chicago, Los Angeles’ George Gascon, and, most infamous of all, San Francisco’s Chesa Boudin have all declared let’s be nice to the bad guys, let’s be less punitive, and other such nonsense. In the meantime, crime has gone through the roof in American cities, with criminals brazenly breaking the law and looting stores, and murders having doubled in mostly black and Hispanic neighborhoods. The media, needless to say, blame the rise in crime on a white-supremacy aftermath, a bit like blaming the Jews for the rise of Hitler.

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And well it might.

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Can’t say that I blame them.

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With newsflow out of Ukraine having become a firehose, with market moving headlines firing every minute, traders can be forgiven if they have just given up following the narrative. To help out, here is a snapshot of all the latest market-moving news out of Ukraine over the weekend and overnight, courtesy of Newsquawk.

UPDATE: Evacuation route out of Mariupol was mined, Red Cross says

UPDATE: UK Dock Workers Refuse To Unload Russian Ships Over Invasion Of Ukraine

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I’d say that our deadliest enemy is stupid people, not mosquitoes, but I’ll concede that mosquitoes are probably in the top ten.

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Industrial scale carbon-negative production of two commodity chemicals has been achieved for the first time using a genetically modified bacterium that can turn waste carbon dioxide into acetone and isopropanol. The work, which offers a blueprint for making other chemicals, holds promise for a more sustainable, renewable and environmentally-friendly chemical industry as the world strives to shift from fossil fuels to a circular carbon economy.

Trump kept hearing his fraud claims were false — but those he trusted kept saying they weren’t (Washington Post)

The Emptiness Inside Donald Trump’s New Social Media Platform (Politico)

Donald Trump Can’t Stop Whining About His Failing Social Media App (Daily Beast)

Disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein caught smuggling Milk Duds in jail (NBC)

Christie Torches Libs on ABC Panel for Blaming Trump for Ukraine

‘Nobody can point to one thing’ Kamala Harris solved ahead of her Eastern European trip

John Kerry: Putin’s Useful Climate Idiot

Chuck Todd Bemoans Biden Not Connecting Ukraine to ‘Voting Rights’

Getting back to normal life means understanding what COVID-19 immunity really is (Philadelphia Inquirer) At least according to the Narrative.

We must prepare for vaccine-proof coronavirus variant (Arab News)

This COVID-19 symptom can last ‘24/7’ without a clear end (Deseret News)

The end is near: The new pandemic data looks promising – for some, anyway (CNN)

How respiratory viruses evolve to become milder  Matt Ridley.

US Senate Passes Bill To End COVID-19 National Emergency

Record growth, record heat, record drought: how will Las Vegas weather the climate crisis? (The Guardian)

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve only covers a fraction of US energy demands (Popular Science)

Heat wave a glimpse of climate change’s impact in N. America (Associated Press)

The End of Oil Drilling in L.A. (The New Yorker)

Why a California city is trying to build the state’s last fossil-fueled power plant (CNBC)

California drought, Australia floods: Two sides of La Niña amplified by climate change (L.A. Times)

How a rocket scientist tries to live sustainably: Zero-waste kits, batch errands and slow cookers (Washington Post}

Why Blaming Recent Warming on Humans is Largely a Matter of Faith

Germany considers keeping nuclear power plants online

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Swedish hypercar maker Koenigsegg has long been a home for novel engineering, and that’s evident in its new electric motor. Developed for the Gemera four-seater, this electric motor, dubbed the Quark, is a tiny powerhouse. In a package that weighs just 63 pounds, the Quark develops 335 hp and 443 lb-ft of torque. For scale, that’s a 330-mL energy drink in the pictures seen throughout.