71% Of Elementary School Math Textbooks In Florida Contained ‘Woke Indoctrination’

Warren Pleads For New ‘Rules’ For ‘Unregulated’ Social Media

San Francisco’s “Housing First” Nightmare

LA DA George Gascon causing ‘havoc and mayhem,’ recall effort will be a ‘photo finish,’ deputy DA says

The ACLU Says It Wrote Amber Heard’s Domestic Violence Op-Ed and Timed It to Her Film Release

California’s budget surplus has exploded to $68B (Politico)

In the 2022 Scottish Census, Carnies (A.K.A., “Showman or Showwoman”) Are Their Own Official Ethnicity

Trans activist makes a fuss without facts

UK government wants to regulate Apple TV+, Netflix, and other streaming services  The UK is turning into a right little totalitarian state.

Musk’s Mention Highlights Twitter Counsel Baker’s Russiagate Past At FBI

Biden ‘disinfo’ czar Nina Jankowicz ripped over cringeworthy Mary Poppins TikTok

Lauren Boebert leads effort to defund Biden Administration’s ‘disinformation’ board

Florida AG Moody releases internal DHS document she says contradicts Mayorkas testimony on border crisis

ICE struggles with growing crowds outside Florida facility amid migrant surge

The border wall Trump called unclimbable is taking a grim toll (Washington Post)

Media Brings Back ‘Unexpectedly’ to Describe GDP Contraction

 “Oh God It’s Going To Get So Much Worse”

Mayorkas, Nina Jankowicz and CREW Stand Up for Fascism

How this U.S.-made, $176,000 anti-tank weapon could change the war in Ukraine (CNBC)

Lawmakers fret over dwindling Javelin supply (Axios)

Russian TV Hosts Discuss Nuclear Strikes on U.K, France, Germany (Newsweek)

Statement of Orthodox Christian Laity on the Invasion of Ukraine

WARPLANES: The Urgently Bespoke Phoenix Ghost

White House Says It Would “Strongly Support” Finland & Sweden NATO Membership

1991: When America Tried To Keep Ukraine In The USSR

Russia To Pull Out Of ISS Over Western Sanctions 

To Defeat Putin, You Must Go Without

Texas high school policy banning braided or twisted hair has stopped a teen from attending school, his mom says (CNN)

‘Your hate is not welcomed’: Genoa Township couple receive hateful letters over BLM flag

Indiana’s attorney general sues Black Lives Matter over its use of donations

Workers’ Rights Champion Warnock Took Thousands From CEO Who Called His Employees ‘Dumb Dolphins’

Golodryga Lets Guest Compare Parental Rights to Race Segregation

Durham’s Treatment Of Clinton Camp Contrasts With Mueller’s Treatment Of Trump Camp

Radical Left Targets Video Games as Hotbeds of Right-Wing Extremism

Judge rejects Trump’s affidavit saying he doesn’t have documents sought by New York’s attorney general (CNN)

DeSantis’ Bonkers Claim About Cartoons Has Twitter Destroying Him With Acme Dynamite (Huffington Post)

YIMBYs accuse wealthy S.F. neighborhood of trying to skirt housing laws with historic status — and point to racist past (S.F. Chronicle)

The week in whoppers: Joy Reid’s ugly slurs, WaPo’s scaremongering and more

MSNBC analyst claims he was confronted by a ‘Musk bro’ at an airport

NY Times: FLA Under DeSantis: ‘Rightward Lurch…More Rigid Conservative Orthodoxy’

New Jan. 6 Bodycam Videos Show DC Police Officer Assaulting Unconscious Protester

PBS, Lincoln Project Label DeSantis, Press Secretary ‘Alt-Right’

FLASHBACK: Vile NBC Blamed Rush Limbaugh, Talk Radio for Oklahoma City Bombing  As did Bill Clinton.

After Ant-Semitic Trope About Israel, Velshi Laments Musk’s Idea of Free Speech

NY Case Against Trump Implodes As Grand Jury Ends With No Charges  New York Democrats are still going to be beating that dead horse for years, if not decades.

Daily longitudinal sampling of SARS-CoV-2 infection reveals substantial heterogeneity in infectiousness (Nature)

U.S. likely to find out about next COVID booster by summer -Fauci (Reuters)

CDC: Deaths among vaccinated, but not boosted, people rises  Fine ‘vaccines’ ya got there, bubba.

Hundreds Of CDC Employees Still Haven’t Received COVID-19 Vaccine

Why Is CDC Trying To Put A Mask On Your Face Again?

Magical thinking on fossil fuels endangers safety (Financial Times)

Is sucking carbon from the air the key to stop climate change? Some scientists say so (NPR)

A robot lives in this Antarctic penguin colony. It’s trying to save them (CNN)

“We Created the Pandemicene”: Ed Yong on How the Climate Crisis Could Spark the Next Pandemic (Democracy Now)

Climate change may increase risk of new infectious diseases (Modern Healthcare)

‘Deep-sea gold rush’ for rare metals could cause irreversible harm (The Guardian)

How Far Are We From Phasing Out Coal?

Queen Rania calls for optimism on climate crisis

Claim: Global warming accelerates the water cycle, with relevant climatic consequences

NEW STUDY: “Part Of North Atlantic Is Cooling”…”Natural Fluctuations Have Been Primary Reason”

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Currently there is somewhere around $1.6 trillion outstanding in unpaid student loans. That is approximately twice the amount of all credit card debt. And many thousands of college graduates and dropouts find themselves unable or unwilling to repay their student loans.

How did we get into this mess? It goes back to the Higher Education Act of 1965, but, as with so many government programs, the senators and representatives who voted for it never imagined how it would transform higher education, in part by driving costs relentlessly higher. Now the Biden administration is trying to buy votes in the midterm elections by promising to cancel the entire $1.6 trillion outstanding debt.

“Social media are the fidget spinners of the soul.” — L. M. Sacasas

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In the midst of unprecedented inflation, skyrocketing commodity prices and projected food shortages and supply chain issues arising as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an interesting story has started to surface: food processing plants globally appear to be catching fire and burning down at a notable rate.

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Ben Avraham was an early member of one of the youngest, most surprising Jewish communities in the world. Previously, Nigeria hadn’t appeared even on the periphery of any map of the Jewish realm. There is no old text laying down a Jewish lineage for Nigerians, the way the Kebra Nagast, the 14th-century epic, purported to do for the kings of Ethiopia. No Sephardic Jews migrated here from Spain and Portugal, as they did to territories in northern Africa in the 15th century. No Jewish communities arrived as part of the colonial project and stayed after its end, as they did in South Africa.

Beginning in the 1990s, though, a number of people in southern and eastern Nigeria have become practising Jews, importing wholesale the rites of this unfamiliar faith and its foreign tongue. Seemingly, this turn has been spontaneous – which is to say, there have been no local rabbis at hand to pilot these Jews through their incipient religion, and there has certainly been no formal guidance from Israel, which refuses to recognise this as a Jewish population.

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In ten low-budget films made by British exploitation studio Hammer, Lee portrayed the monstrous-yet-seductive blood-sucking nobleman as a very proper Englishman with “a certain lascivious sex appeal“—beginning with 1958’s Horror of Dracula (see a trailer above) and ending with 1973’s The Satanic Rites of Dracula. I find Lee’s Dracula so memorable that I was delighted to hear the audio above of him reading an adaptation of the novel, in ten parts. The video begins with titles and an establishing shot from the Hammer films, then segues to images from a 1966 Dracula graphic novel, the source of the “pretty faithful” adaptation by Otto Binder and Craig Tennis, for which Lee wrote an introduction.

Tyler Cowen.

A series of meritocratic hires will come from a variety of backgrounds and cultures; it’s not as if they all went to Eton together. Those meritocratic hires thus may want some additional layer of shared culture — and the enterprise of tech, so often based on the manipulation of abstract symbols, does not provide it.

Wokeism does. In fact, this semi-religious function of woke ideology may help explain what many people perceive as the preachy or religious undertones to woke discourse.

You might wonder why this shared culture is left-wing rather than right-wing. Well, given educational polarization in the U.S., and that major tech companies are usually located in blue states, it is much easier for a left-leaning common culture to evolve. But the need for common cultural norms reinforces and strengthens what may have initially been a mildly left-leaning set of impulses.

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer knows how to fix inflation: higher taxes.

“If you want to get rid of inflation, the only way to do it is to undo a lot of the Trump tax cuts and raise rates,” surmised the New York Democrat to reporters on Tuesday, after meeting with West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin about the budget. “No Republican is ever going to do that. So the only way to get rid of inflation is through reconciliation.”

I’m trying to figure out how tax cuts cause inflation and I’m not finding it. I’m thinking Two-Buck Chuck is talking out of his butt again.

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After Palestinians in Berlin engaged in a frenzy of Jew-hatred at a “demonstration” last weekend, Berlin police banned a repeat of the event scheduled to take place this weekend. An appeal by the organizers of the demo has been denied by the Berlin Administrative Court.

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The Biden administration is so bad that it is tempting, from day to day, to think that it can’t possibly get worse. The establishment of the Disinformation Governance Board and the appointment of Nina Jankowicz to run it are evidence that, however bad things seem, they can indeed get worse. And probably will.

Tracking COVID-19: Hospitalizations in North Texas have remained under 2% since March

COVID cases rise across bulk of the U.S. (Axios)

4-time vaccinated Fauci mocked for pulling out of White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Servers at correspondents’ dinner not approached about testing, vaccination requirements, union says (The Hill) After all, who cares about Dirt People?

The masks, the CDC and the judge — a battle brewing since 1944 (NPR)

BART reinstates mask mandate on trains and platforms. Here’s for how long (S.F. Chronicle)

Another rare virus puzzle: They got sick, got treated, got covid again (Washington Post) That’s not rare at all.

Denmark becomes the first country to halt its Covid vaccination program (CNBC)

Whistleblowers: CDC, FDA “Altered” Covid Guidance And Suppressed Findings Amid Political Pressure  My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Shanghai Residents “Caged In” With Green Fencing To Prevent Them From Leaving Their Homes

China Reports 1st Ever Human Case Of H3N8 Bird Flu

Lockdowns Drove 60,000 Children In UK To Clinical Depression; Study Finds

22 Countries Drop Mask Mandates As Experts Debate Consequences

Big Myths Employers Are Using to Force “Return to Office”

Hospitals Ignoring Price Transparency Rule Rack Up Billion-Dollar Profit

‘Defund police’ Democrats poised to expand power in party in 2022 midterm elections

After years of progress on gay rights, how did the US become so anti-LGBTQ+? (The Guardian) Perhaps when progressives starting being assholes about it.

An opportunity for a bipartisan victory on LGBTQ nondiscrimination (The Hill) In the Narrative Media, ‘bipartisan victory’ means ‘Democrats win, Republicans lose’.

NewsGuard FINALLY Downgrades Daily Beast for Hunter Biden, Rittenhouse Flubs

Kansas Senate Overrides Governor’s Veto On Transgender Sports Ban Bill

California To Hike Gas Tax Despite Record High Prices At Pump

Chinese Regime Seeks To Control Global EV Supply Chain, Leaving US Vulnerable: Experts

San Francisco Spent $160 Million Only to Have Homeless Die in Rat-Infested Hotels

Government Disinformation Board Determines All Criticism Of Government Disinformation Board To Be Disinformation  Babylon Bee.

YouTube U-Turn: Censors Strike Again for No Good Reason, Just as Inexplicably Reverse Course

Ilhan Omar Wants Taxpayers To Pay Off Her Student Loans. Her Husband Could Do That With His Vineyard Earnings.

Malcolm Kenyatta is the Dems’ future, so why can’t he be their present? (Philadelphia Inquirer) ‘People of color’ is the Politically Correct way of saying ‘colored people’, which is apparently waycist.

Is Ukraine just a white man’s war?

The Racial Reckoning and the Not So Great Reset Come for Letter Grades in College

The Ferguson Effect Has Almost Tripled Traffic Accidents on … Ferguson’s Main Street

The FDA is proposing a ban on menthol cigarettes

Robert Reich Cites Kaepernick In Claim That Conservatives Are Free Speech Hypocrites

Ocean animals face a mass extinction from climate change, study finds (Washington Post)

Global warming risks most cataclysmic extinction of marine life in 250m years (The Guardian)

Claim: Unchecked Global Emissions on Track to Initiate Mass Extinction of Marine Life

Report: Houston is one of the fastest sinking cities on Earth, could ‘disappear’ (MySanAntonio.com) And, really, who would miss it?

Red states ask Supreme Court to block Biden rule on societal cost of greenhouse gases (NBC News)

GOP-led states ask Supreme Court to block key Biden climate accounting measure (The Hill)

Climate change increases cross-species viral transmission risk (Nature)

‘Potentially devastating’: Climate crisis may fuel future pandemics (The Guardian)

Claim: New Study Finds Climate Change Could Spark the Next Pandemic

Energy & Environment — 16 states sue Postal Service over truck order (The Hill)

16 states, D.C., climate activists sue USPS to block truck purchase (Washington Post)

Who owns the Arctic and should they drill for oil and gas? (BBC)

Some experts fear these forests could shift from absorbing carbon dioxide to emitting it (CNN)

North American boreal forest fires could emit huge amounts of greenhouse gases, study finds (The Hill)

Russia’s war on Ukraine shows the urgent need to move away from fossil fuels as fast as possible (CNBC)

Claim: Model Pinpoints Glaciers at Risk of Collapse Due to Climate Change

It Took Me 6 Months, but I Finally Understand Methane Lifetimes

CNBC: “…the 2030s will bring “extreme [climate] events unprecedented in the observational record.”   And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Utilities Want to Convert Coal Plants to Nuclear; Skeptics Abound

Earth Day Activists Ignore Big Wind’s ‘Carnage’ for Eagles

Climate Colonialists Disrupt African Pipeline, Perpetuate Poverty

White House defends DHS ‘disinformation’ board: ‘Not sure who opposes that effort’

Jordan’s questioning of Mayorkas about migrants on terror watch list goes off the rails

Here’s the 5 laptop reveals the GOP will want Joe and Hunter Biden to explain

Biden staffers lead 50-country pledge to ‘reclaim’ internet, fight ‘disinformation’

US and over 55 other countries commit to democratic internet governance (CNN) In the Narrative Media, ‘democratic governance’ means “Democrat governance’.

6 Takeaways as House Republicans Accuse Homeland Security Chief of ‘Intentional’ Border Crisis

Media Doing Its Part to Prop Up Biden

Biden’s Ministry of Truth

Meet the CCP-Loving Biden Donor Responsible for US Economic Interests in Asia

Silence on Hunter Biden’s Widow-Trashing Emails

Fed’s Favorite Inflation Signal Hits 40 Year High As Savings-Rate Crashes

Watch: Biden’s New ‘Disinfo’ Queen Goes Full ‘Libs Of TikTok’

Doctor Dud: Jill Biden Biography Sells Just 250 Copies in First Week

Biden’s new ‘misinformation czar’ is a Hunter laptop denier

Biden Labor Secretary Covered for Police Union That Enabled a Convicted Child Rapist

Princess, Meet Pea: PolitiFact Throws ‘False’ Flag at RNC Over ONE Word in a Biden Speech

George Will points to Hawley while arguing senators should be barred from presidency (The Hill)  Don’t recall him having any problem with Bernie Sanders – or Jumbalaya Harris. I guess he’s just pretending to be a Republican. (Lot of that going around.)

Conservative Catholic group calls Greene a ‘disgrace’ over comments about church (The Hill) About the only time The Hill has ever cared what a ‘conservative Catholic’ group thought.

Democrat admits ‘unparliamentary language’ after criticism of Greene (The Hill)

Trump’s appraiser was ‘not consistent’ in adhering to internal quality controls, judge says (CNN)

Welcome to the cultural authoritarianism era (Tampa Bay Times)

FCC commissioner shoots down ‘absurd’ claim that the federal government can block Musk’s Twitter purchase

Bias, far-right sympathies among California law enforcement going unchecked, audit finds (L.A. Times) There is no right but the far-right.

Democrats announce plans to ‘go after’ big oil in effort to bring down prices (The Guardian)

To cut gas costs, Democrats to focus on oil company ‘price gouging’ (The Hill)

Manic Morning Joe’s Advice To Dems: Make People ‘Very Afraid’ of ‘Crazy’ Republicans

Pennsylvania College Reins in Free Speech After Hillsdale Professor’s Talk Leaves Left Grumbling

Profiles in Liberal Courage Only: JFK Foundation Awards Snub Manchin, Sinema

Morning Joe Hopes Twitter Buyout ‘Brings Down Musk’s Entire Business Empire’

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“The big lie is just that,” President Joe Biden bellowed about crooked ballots. “A big lie!”

Election integrity expert Catherine Engelbrecht offered the perfect rejoinder to this nonsense. True the Vote’s founder said: “You don’t need a whole lot of fraud. You just need a little in the right places over time.”

Engelbrecht’s observation comes vividly to life in “2,000 Mules,” commentator and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza’s stylish, chilling, maddening new documentary. Premiering in selected cities May 2, this film provides enough hard evidence of vote fraud to pry open the eyes of Abrams, Schumer, Biden, and other Democrats—if only they were open-minded enough to watch it.

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An Austin rancher has offered to donate free land to Elon Musk for the use of a new Twitter headquarters in Texas, if he chooses to relocate the company from San Francisco to the Lone Star State, reported Austonia.

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Using a novel polymerization process, MIT chemical engineers have created a new material that is stronger than steel and as light as plastic, and can be easily manufactured in large quantities.

The new material is a two-dimensional polymer that self-assembles into sheets, unlike all other polymers, which form one-dimensional, spaghetti-like chains. Until now, scientists had believed it was impossible to induce polymers to form 2D sheets.

Such a material could be used as a lightweight, durable coating for car parts or cell phones, or as a building material for bridges or other structures, says Michael Strano, the Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT and the senior author of the new study.

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Australia has become the second country after the United Kingdom to legalize a fertility procedure that mixes genetic material from three people. The technique is meant to prevent couples from having children with certain debilitating disorders caused by faulty mitochondria, the energy-generating structures in our cells. But it’s controversial because it involves a genetic change that can be passed to future generations, so its rollout in Australia will be extremely cautious.

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To commemorate Earth Day, Memphis television meteorologist John Bryant decided to try riding the bus to work. Normally, his home-to-work journey takes about 15 to 20 minutes. His effort to protect the environment ended up taking 2-1/2 hours. Part of the problem was his unfamiliarity with the bus system, but the fastest he might have been able to make it was at least 90 minutes, partly because he had to walk a half mile from his home to the nearest bus stop and another mile to work from the nearest bus stop to his office. The few other passengers riding the bus with him were mostly too poor to own an automobile.

Public transport takes you from where you aren’t to where you don’t want to be, and takes three times as long to do so. Public transport was beneficial when the alternative was walking or riding a horse, but that’s no longer the case. Public transport was also beneficial when people worked in a dense urban core but lived farther out, but that’s no longer the case either.

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On MSNBC’s The ReidOut, Joy Reid and fellow host, Lawrence O’Donnell quickly sought to prove to each other and everyone watching that neither of them have any clue about how our nation’s government works. Separation of powers and division of powers are foreign concepts to both of them.

Proof of this came early in the show when Reid kvetched how many of President Joe Biden’s left-wing programs have been held up in the U.S. Senate. “None of those things are law and none are likely to become law despite Democrats narrowly controlling both branches of the federal legislature and the White House,” Reid wailed. “Because one or two Senators can literally shut down every one of those things over the will of hundreds of representatives in the house which has passed most of the things.”

The unhinged host then whined that “without 60 Senators’ approval, 327 million Americans cannot have nice things.”

What she doesn’t understand, or simply refuses to understand is Biden’s agenda isn’t being held up by “one or two Senators” the legislation is being blocked by fifty Republican Senators and two Democrat Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) & Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ).

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It’s no coincidence that the plot to impeach Justice Clarence Thomas comes at the same time as Ketanji Brown Jackson’s appointment to the Supreme Court.

Conservatives see the Supreme Court as a forum for legal arguments about government power, while leftists see it, like all institutions, as a forum for moral arguments about the urgent measures needed to address the victimhood of oppressed groups. The former see legal arguments as moral because they are grounded in the Constitution and the nation’s founding while the latter see legal arguments as tools for achieving moral outcomes for the oppressed.

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Marianne Eloise wants the world to know that she does not “have a regular brain at all”. That’s her declaration, on the very first page of her new memoir, Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking. The book catalogues her experience of a dizzying variety of psychiatric conditions: OCD, anxiety, autism, ADHD, alcohol abuse, seasonal affective disorder, an eating disorder, night terrors, depression. By her own telling, Eloise has suffered a great deal from these ailments; I believe her, and wish better for her. But she would prefer we not think of them as ailments at all. And that combination of self-pity and self-aggrandisement is emblematic of our contemporary understanding of mental health.

California to raise its gas tax, already the highest in the nation I guess people aren’t leaving the state fast enough.

Amend the Constitution to bar senators from the presidency (Washington Post) George Will gets a bug up his ass.

‘We have a democracy problem’: how Texas voter suppression helps keep climate action off the table (The Guardian) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

China is hunting Uyghurs around the world, with help from some surprising countries (NBC News)

Florida is the least affordable place to live in the U.S. (CBS News) Less affordable than California? Pull the other one.

Billionaires Are a Policy Failure That Must Be Addressed (Newsweek)

Mayorkas testifies DHS is creating ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ (The Disinformation Fighters)

Los Angeles DA George Gascon hit with new lawsuit: ‘Required prosecutors to unlawfully hide the truth’

‘Woke-a-Cola’: Coke CEO becomes first target in activist shareholder’s busy week

The US may not share Britain’s obsession with class – but it hates women every bit as much (The Guardian)

The Supreme Court’s threat to the separation of church and state (Washington Post)

More Secret Gender Transition Closets Discovered In Public Schools

Oklahoma GOP Governor Sign Nation’s First Law Banning Non-Binary Birth Certificates

Is Critical Race Theory Being Taught in Our Schools? Here Are the Facts

Iowa Dem Wants To Keep Kids in ‘Failing’ Public Schools, Just Not Her Daughter

The Anti-Israel Past of NYT Jerusalem Bureau’s Latest Hire

New Discovery+ Series ‘Generation Drag’ Celebrates Child Drag Queens

Showtime Series Lies, Pretends NBC, CNN Yelled at ‘Terrorist’ Michelle Obama

People Who Say They Aren’t Censoring Anyone Really Mad They Won’t Be Able To Censor Anyone  Babylon Bee.

Big Banks Nailed Over Woke Agenda During Annual Shareholder Meetings

Socialist ‘Squad’ Member Defends Vote To Protect Russian Oligarchs

MSNBC Hits Dems From The Left For Accepting GOP Open Borders ‘Myth’  The Narrative admits no deviationism.

Lockdowns for Thee But Not Me: The View Defends Attending WHCA Dinner

Sen. Kennedy grills AG Garland on crime, calls Chicago ‘world’s largest outdoor shooting range’

Garland refuses to answer Hunter Biden investigation question, doesn’t commit to appointing special counsel

American oil refineries shutter amid Biden’s hostile fossil fuel policies, adding to pain at the pump: expert

Biden administration lays out post-Title 42 border plan (The Hill) 1. Open border. 2. Let ’em all in.

Biden admin confirms talks about using Veterans Affairs resources to treat migrants at southern border

Under Biden, Government Forces Social Media Companies to Censor Americans

States Join Forces To Tackle Border Crisis And Cartel-Related Crime

U.S. economy shrank at a 1.4% annual rate in the first quarter  Gee, it was growing under Trump. What happened?

Oops! Our Bad! IMF Director Admits “We Printed Too Much Money”

White House launches Declaration for the Future of the Internet  Under government control, of course.

Biden Launches Ministry of Truth

FNC’s Heinrich Keeps Chipping Away at Psaki on Hunter Biden, Border Crisis

Sheriffs Protest Joe Biden’s Border Disgrace

Sen. Josh Hawley Grills Biden Judicial Nominee Over Her Work for Southern Poverty Law Center

US Economy Shrinks as Recession Fears Rise

Corn Prices Climbing Clear Up to the Sky

Why This Rio Grande Valley Rancher Wants Biden to Finish Border Wall

DeSantis Vetoes Controversial Rooftop Solar Bill

A top energy regulator is in turmoil over climate rules (Washington Post)

La Niña could enter rare third straight year. Here’s what that means. (Washington Post) It certainly means more whining from the global warming crowd.

In Petaluma neighborhoods, the ‘extravagant life’ is over as climate activism grows (S.F. Chronicle) Examples of why normal people are leaving California.

Climate change putting 4% of global GDP at risk, new study estimates (Reuters)

Plastic Grocery Bag Bans Actually Boost Sale Of Small Plastic Garbage Bags: Study

Wait, Environmentalists Are Anti-Technology?

Climatistas’ Bank Heist Defeated

A Mostly Wind- & Solar-Powered US Economy Is A Dangerous Fantasy

Arctic Sea Ice Stabilizes, No Trend Reduction In More Than 10 Years As Solar Cycle Starts Off Weakly

Watch: Morano on TV explains how climate agenda is pushing ‘the end of private car ownership’ & end of meat-eating

It’s Not Too Late to Stop Mass Extinction in the Ocean  (Wired ‘Science’)

Asset Managers Are Ignoring Climate “Science” and Continuing to Fund Fossil Fuels!  The swine!

CDC report finds 75 percent of children and teens had Covid by February (NBC News) And they counted every one of them.

‘Perfect storm’ of disease ahead with vaccines delayed and measles cases up, WHO and UNICEF say (CNN) After all, the Pandemic Panic worked so well, maybe they can spread it around.

Measles cases surge nearly 80% in wake of Covid chaos, with fears other diseases could follow (The Guardian) Why limit the PANIC to just one disease?

Can we trust rapid COVID tests against BA.2? This is what the experts say (NPR)

Mask Mandates Make Comeback To US College Campuses

America’s “Test to Treat” has failed. Here’s how to fix it.

Danish study shows no benefit to overall mortality from mRNA vaccines

Innate immune suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccinations

How government overreach bred Covid skepticism  When the government regularly and obviously lies to you, you quite believing anything that they say.

Moderna Asks FDA To Authorize Covid Vaccine For Children Under 6  If they can get it officially recommended for kids, they qualify for legal immunity from liability for side effects of their ‘vaccines’. KA-CHING!

The GOP is no longer a party. It’s a movement to impose White Christian nationalism. (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin gets her panties in a wad yet again.

Judge Says Real Estate Giant Broke Rules for Trump (Daily Beast) Wouldn’t do it for just anybody, mind.

House Dems to lead hearing on Supreme Court ethics, amid calls for Thomas to resign or be impeached

Rand Paul’s comments on Russian invasion criticized as echoing Putin’s point on Ukraine (Courier Journal)

New York grand jury hearing evidence in DA’s investigation into Trump Organization expires this week (CNN)

Elon Musk already broke his agreement with Twitter (Quartz)

Fact check: Kevin McCarthy keeps repeating false claim that attorney general called parents ‘terrorists’ for wanting to attend school board meetings (CNN) Which he did.

McCarthy’s false claim that Garland called parents ‘terrorists’ (Washington Post) Which he did.

A top Democrat ties Pence’s ‘I’m not getting in the car’ to Jan. 6 ‘coup’ (Washington Post)

The next threat to democracy in the US: Moms for Liberty? (Al Jezeera) What would Al Jezeera know about democracy?

Trump Warns of Killer ‘Tomatoes, Pineapples, and Bananas’ in Court Docs (Daily Beast)

Man Applauded for Leaving Family With Dinner Bill After Sister’s Gay ‘Joke’ (Newsweek)

‘Homophobic’ first-class passenger accused of assaulting Delta flight attendant (NBC News)

How The Media Built The ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Narrative

MSNBC, ABC Claim Elon Musk Wants To See Abuse Of Women & Jews, And A Return To Apartheid

Washington Post Warns Elon Musk Tweets Can ‘Unleash Mobs’ Online — ‘Including Racist Ones’

UK Streaming Platform Censors ‘Homophobic’ Line In 2002 Spiderman Movie

CNN Uses Anonymous Teen To Accuse Adults of Attacking ‘Non-Binary’ Youth

2,350,000 Reasons George Soros Funded Group Wants to Ban Trump — Again

Credit Suisse says U.S. authorities will ‘absolutely not’ find any wrongdoing amid probe into Russian oligarch record shredding (CNBC) It’s all about the oligarchs.

This Earth Day, We Could Be Helping the Environment—and Ukraine (The New Yorker)

Iran & China Declare Deepened Military Cooperation To Confront ‘US Unilateralism’

Former NATO Commander Disguises War Propaganda As Novel

Stinger Missile Production Hit With Delays, Raytheon CEO Warns

Russia’s Weakness Makes It Dangerous

NBC WEAPONS: The Battle Of Chernobyl- Lost In The Red Forest

ATTRITION: Russian Veterans Of Ukraine Cause Problems

Our Twisted Sister

Ukraine Says Russia Increasing Pace Of Attack In “Almost All Directions”

Watch Live: President Biden Explains Why Ukraine Needs Another $33 Billion Of US Taxpayer Money

Russian Fossil Fuel Revenues Double Despite Western Sanctions

German Lawmakers Vote Overwhelmingly To Send ‘Heavy & Complex Weapons’ To Ukraine

MSNBC’s Joy Reid has lowest-rated month ever, sheds 51% of debut audience from 2020 Hate will only get you so far.

Father of 5 shot, killed in Dallas Costco parking lot; family wants teen suspect tried as adult (WFAA) No mention of the perps’ race in the story, so you can pretty dependably figure that they were black. (And indeed they are: )

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And without government-provided health care, there was no hope for Him.

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Following reports he shirked congressional duties to keep his second job as a pilot, the one-term congressman is leaving Congress to run for governor of his state. Kahele spent almost no time in Washington, D.C., this year, voting by proxy more than 120 times and in person just 5 times. His absence prompted ethics questions about whether he was cashing in on his commercial pilot’s job at Hawaiian Airlines—a speculation that his spokesman later confirmed.

Kahele spokesman Michael Ahn told Politico the congressman was making “occasional flights to maintain his certification” but denied accusations that the flights violated House ethics rules. The congressman’s pilot’s salary earned him almost $120,000 in 2020, Civil Beat reported.

I have no problem with a governor who skips his day job to spend his time flying aircraft rather than wasting the taxpayers’ money on bullshit socialist schemes. Short of having a None Of The Above slot on the ballot, it’s a win-win.

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Liberal comedian Chelsea Handler on Thursday endorsed for Congress an anti-Israel activist who served as a lawyer for Palestinian terrorists.

“Let’s get some new politicians elected,” Handler tweeted, sharing a link to a Huwaida Arraf campaign video. Arraf, who launched her campaign in November, has defended terrorists who in 2010 imported weapons and military equipment for Hamas to the Gaza Strip. Arraf was also on the legal team that fought for citizenship rights for Rasmea Odeh, who orchestrated a 1969 Jerusalem bombing that killed two Jewish college students.

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Actress Olivia Wilde, the daughter of failed Democratic House candidate Leslie Cockburn, was served custody papers at a Las Vegas film convention as she was speaking on stage.

“This is for me?” Wilde asked after a woman slid her a manila envelope with the papers, which she glanced at before continuing her speech. The 38-year-old split in November 2020 with her fiancé, Horrible Bosses star Jason Sudeikis, with whom she has two children. She is currently dating a man 10 years her junior who enjoys wearing dresses.

Sounds like a Democrat to me.

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You’d think that I could simply tell them that I’m not doing business in California and be done with it. No — California defines “doing business” in a number of ways, one of which is to have more than 25% of your payroll in California. Which I had, because I had only one employee.

So now, because I employed one of their residents, I’m fully subject to California regulation. I have to file all of the employment-related forms, including those pertaining to withholding and unemployment insurance (which I expected). I also have to register my company with the California Secretary of State and renew my information every year or face penalties, and apparently I have to file a corporate income tax return

You’d think I’d be able to file a simple return, file zeroes on it, and be done with it. But no — I had to pay my accountant to do it, and the form is literally 42 pages long. That cost a few hundred dollars. And in the end, I still owed them $800. For 2019 alone; I’ll also owe them for 2020 and 2021.

I owe $800 for the “minimum franchise tax”. California charges this fee to everyone for the “privilege” of “doing business” in California, whether they have revenue or not. Only a few states have a business franchise tax, and California’s is wildly higher than anywhere else. This is in addition to California’s generally out of control taxes.

“We don’t have a border. We have a suggestion.” — Dan Bongino

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Conservative Twitter users have noticed a massive uptick in followers and engagement following Elon Musk’s Twitter buy, while leftists on the platform are experiencing the inverse, prompting some to wonder if the company is undoing evidence that it rigged the reach of people it deemed to be undesirable.

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Associate professor Mazhar Ali and his research group at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) have discovered one-way superconductivity without magnetic fields, something that was thought to be impossible ever since its discovery in 1911 – until now. The discovery, published in the journal Nature, makes use of 2D quantum materials and paves the way toward superconducting computing. Superconductors can make electronics hundreds of times faster, all with zero energy loss.

“You are never closer to nature than when you pick it or kill it.” — John Lewis-Stempl

“I am a friend to all the creatures of the earth, when I am not eating them or wearing them.” — John Hodgman

Nearly 60% of Americans now have antibodies from Covid-19 infection, CDC study finds (CNN) But we still need to PANIC!

This is the scariest thing in the new Mark Meadows texts (CNN) Chris Cillizza likes to share with us how scared he is.

More Evidence That Masks Don’t Work

Sicilian Court Rules the Mandatory Vax Unconstitutional

When the Next Covid Wave Breaks, the US Won’t Be Able to Spot It (Wired ‘Science’) So we need to keep up the PANIC!

Things The CDC Does Not Know

Fauci Admits “Pandemic Phase” Of COVID Is Over  Very white of him.