‘Daily Show’s’ Jordan Klepper warns about Ron DeSantis turning Florida into an ‘autocracy’

CBS, CNN+ Tee Up Far-Left Klepper to Compare ‘Authoritarian’ Hungary to Florida

The Slime Machine Targeting Dozens of Biden Nominees (The New Yorker) Of course, they had no objection to the ‘slime machine’ – including the New Yorker – targeting dozens of Trump’s nominees.

Ginni Thomas also texted Meadows about another friend who shared election fraud conspiracy theories (CNN)  Ooooooo! Texted! A friend! Very suspicious!

ABC, NBC Wail: DeSantis Targets Disney for Supporting Child Grooming!

College Professor Wins Settlement In Pronouns Lawsuit

YouTuber Who Said Cancel Culture Was A Good Thing Gets Cancelled  What goes around comes around.

CDC asks Justice Department to proceed with mask mandate appeal

DOJ appeals federal ruling on transportation mask mandate

Covid-19 still isn’t like the flu (CNN)

The future of COVID — COVID seasons? (Deseret News)

CDC advisers mull what’s next for Covid-19 boosters (CNN) How can we keep stoking the PANIC!

Milwaukee schools reinstate mask mandate just one day after it was dropped (CNN)

What is the ‘Frankenstein’ COVID-19 variant? (Deseret News) It’s the one designed to get you to PANIC!

New CDC team: A ‘Weather Service’ to forecast what’s next in pandemic (Washington Post) If only they were that accurate….

Metro drops mask mandate after 700 days, and unease follows (Washington Post)

CDC Asks DoJ To Appeal Lifting Of Mask Mandate “To Protect Public Health”

Science Investigators Report Hundreds Of Young Vaccinated Athlete Deaths

Networks Lobby Viewers to Keep Masking, Imply Pandemic Is Surging Back  Gotta keep stoking the PANIC!

“Quite Frankly Explosive”: Wuhan Lab Allowed To Destroy ‘Secret Files’ Under Its Partnership With US National Lab

Is “Climate Change” science or pseudoscience?

McConnell slams president behind ‘court-packing’ panel for completing Jackson appointment before Breyer leaves  He’s got a point. Until Breyer leaves, there is no vacancy to be filled. You can’t just fill a ‘prospective’ kinda-sorta vacancy.

White House quits asking Saudis for more oil after verbal dust-up with top official: report

You, Too, Can Be the Next Hunter Biden!

Kamala’s Latest Deep Thoughts

Tucker, MRC’s Gainor Tease New MRC Study Showing Just ‘How Far Big Tech Will Go’ to Protect Biden

Protecting the President: Big Tech Censors Biden Criticism 646 Times Over Two Years

26 Governors Create Border Strike Force “In The Absence Of Federal Leadership”

House Republicans Expand Investigation Into Biden Admin Steering Federal Funds to Dem Donors

Biden To Attack Republicans For Not Having A Plan To Bring Down Inflation  Step one would be getting rid of Joe Biden.

A Tidal Wave Is Coming to the Border and the Biden Administration Is Full Steam Ahead

Dems ‘Weaponize’ Student-Loan Forgiveness (But Leave Working Class Behind)

‘Daily Show’ correspondent sees Hungary as ‘cautionary tale’ for US (The Hill)

The Great Immoral Panic of 2022 sweeps America (Philadelphia Inquirer) “Bunch” I assume refers to his panties.

It’s not enough to push back against authoritarianism (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin is offended by the mote in someone else’s eye.

DeSantis saves Florida kids from being indoctrinated with math (Washington Post) Dana Milbank apparently can’t read very well.

Leftist-Approved Price Gouging

Californians Rally Against ‘Infanticide Bill’

These Democrats Say Health Care Is a Human Right for All, Except Their Campaign Staff

Spotify Won’t Renew Podcast Deal With The Obamas

New NYT Editor Takes Over What NY Mag Deems a Staff With Maoist ‘Struggle Sessions’

CBS Insists Parents ‘Trust…Teachers’ on Sex Ed, ‘Don’t…Call Your Politician’

Australian Olympian Calls For An End To Transgenders In Women’s Swimming

Alcindor Laments Dem Focus on Inflation Amidst GOP Culture War

Billionaire-Owned WashPost Whines IRS ‘Urgently Needs More Money’ Day Before Tax Day

Liz Cheney Rakes In More Money From Northern Virginia Than From Her Home State, Wyoming

Obama Keynotes Disinfo Conference Alongside Allies Linked to Fake News Scandals  Well, nobody knows more about Fake News than Obama.

Execs Pull the Plug on CNN+ After Just 23 Days

Largest State Library Association to Host Drag Queens at Annual Conference

Montpelier says it’s open to parity with slave descendants. Descendants call foul (NPR) I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was a ‘descendant community’.

BIPOC environmental groups in Oregon chart a different path as Earth Day approaches (Oregon Live)

I Took My White Husband’s Last Name. I Didn’t Realize How It Would Affect The Rest Of My Life. (Huffington Post) She looks pretty white to me, but I assume that she ‘identifies’ otherwise. (My wife didn’t take my last name and hasn’t had any problems with it. I think this woman needs counseling.)

The white guilt in your coffee

NY’s BLM Lt. Gov Who Backed Police Defunding Busted for Bribery

NYT: A) White Kills Black; B) Jews Attacked by Man of Indeterminate Race

Race Does Not Exist, Boston Marathon Edition

Done-ish! ABC’s Racist Sitcom ‘Black-ish’ Promotes Segregation in Series Finale

Washington Post’s Past Racism Detailed in Book on End of World War II

‘Racial Health Equity’ Nonprofit Praises Clinic Accused of Racism

US Treasury secretary and other finance ministers walk out of G20 meeting with Russia (CNN) Russia is the New South Africa.

US congressman urges Biden to ban six UK lawyers for ‘enabling’ oligarchs (The Guardian) It’s all about the oligarchs.

Russian billionaire blasts Putin’s invasion (CNN) That won’t stop them from stealing his stuff.

US “Always Preparing The Next” Weapons Package For Ukraine: Biden Official

MSNBC: DeSantis, Youngkin Just Like Russians Who ‘Rape Children’ in Ukraine

Ukraine Attacks Civilian Targets in Russia?

Five Eyes nations fear wave of Russian attacks against critical infrastructure

China & Russia Pledge Deepened Strategic Ties ‘No Matter What’

Greenwald: Former Intel Officials, Citing Russia, Say Big-Tech Monopoly Power Vital To National Security

To Fight Russia, Europe’s Regimes Risk Impoverishment & Recession

China Doubles Russian Coking Coal Imports As Rest Of World Shuns Moscow

Germans Told To Take Fewer Showers As Energy Costs Bite

On Facebook, Denying Russian Atrocities in Bucha Is More Popular Than the Truth

Russia Expels 36 EU Diplomats After About 400 Russian Officials Booted From Europe

WINNING: A Trillion Dollar Tragedy

‘Black Hole’ – White House Doesn’t Know Where US Weapons Go After Entering Ukraine

Apple Pay in Russia: Suspension of service leads to lawsuit against iPhone maker

SpaceX shut down a Russian electromagnetic warfare attack in Ukraine

Russian law firm plans to sue Apple over removal of Apple Pay

“So Not Even A Fly Can Escape”: Putin Declares Mariupol ‘Liberated’ – Orders Besieged Steel Plant Sealed Off

Oil Jumps As “Second Wave Of Russian Oil Shock” Begins

Meet ‘Phoenix Ghost,’ the US Air Force’s new drone designed for Ukraine’s war with Russia

UPDATE: Sports Media Reacts To Wimbledon Ban Of Russians

Russia Closes Multiple Baltic Consulates – Cites Arms Transfers To Ukraine  What took them so long?

To fight climate change, and now Russia, too, Zurich turns off natural gas (NPR)

Once You Know review – must-watch essay on climate change that tells us it’s already here (The Guardian)

Climate Crisis? Fund Managers Are Sticking With Fossil Fuel

How climate change is reshaping the world (Washington Post) Mostly the world in Woke heads.

Should we feel joy or despair that we’re on track to keep global heating to 2C? (The Guardian) The Narrative says: Despair, definitely.

Ike Dike plans continue after climate change predicts rising sea levels in Gulf (KHOU)

Scientists say this new satellite is a game changer for tracking how our environment is changing (CNN)

The Conversation: Reduce Agricultural Chemicals to Save Insects from Climate Change

Complaint of Breach of Poynter Institute Principles on the Part of the Far-Left “Climate Feedback” Propaganda Website

Sinking Cities and Sea Level Rise  Still waiting for New York City to be under water. Still waiting for real estate prices in Malibu and Martha’s Vineyard to drop.

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Bacteria that convert methane in the air into useful products could be a vital tool for reducing our greenhouse gas emissions, if we can crack how they do it. A new discovery could kickstart efforts to engineer methane-harvesting bacteria, fight greenhouse emissions, and “mine” the air for useful compounds.

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Modern science was supposed to increase our understanding of the world. Instead, we seem to know less. Science has always introduced doubt regarding long-held verities. But now the authority of science, rather than the scientific method, is used to create confusion about things that had once been considered obvious and indisputable.

There have always, for instance, been rare individuals who did not precisely fit into the categories of either man or woman, but never before in human history did these exceptions lead to biological males competing in, and dominating, female athletic tournaments. There is more than compassion or tolerance at work here. America’s political and intellectual elites claim not to know what distinguishes male from female. Just a few weeks ago, the newest justice to the United States Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, stated flatly that she could not define what a woman is. This newly discovered ignorance is, supposedly, derived from superior scientific insight. Our technology advances, but our wisdom diminishes.

Joel Kotkin & Wendell Cox.

Land ownership has shaped civilizations from their beginnings, with a constant interplay between great powers—the aristocracy, the state, the Church, the emperor—and those below them. History has oscillated between periods of greater dispersion of ownership, and those that favored greater concentration.

Today, we live in an era of ever-greater consolidation, not from knights in armor, or Communist cadres, but from the forces of big capital and an ever-more intrusive regulatory state. The result has been record-high housing prices, well above the increase in incomes resulting in a systematic decline in the ability of people, particularly the young, to buy their own house as prices rise even in less expensive areas. Supply also faces great constraints, due in part to labor and supply-chain woes and the demand shock of the pandemic and remote work.

Unless reversed, young people will be forced into a lifetime of rental serfdom.

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When Spotify in 2019 signed a roughly $25 million deal with Barack and Michelle Obama to produce podcasts, the media hailed the move as a triumph in the audio streaming service’s quest to become “the world’s No. 1 audio platform.” Now, three years later, Spotify wants nothing to do with the former first couple.

As the Obamas’ contract with Spotify comes to an end and the couple solicits bids for a new deal, Spotify is not looking to renew the partnership, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. The company reportedly felt it got the raw end of the big money deal, as the Obamas were less than motivated to appear in person on the platform’s podcasts.

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When the Soviet communists’ hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered at the Kremlin for the last time on Dec. 25, 1991, some said that the last refuge of Marxism was in the academic institutions of the West.

They were right. That totalitarian ideology has infected American colleges and universities and other institutions that are purveying cancel culture, wokeism, censorship, and gender dogma that rejects reality.

But students, parents, and others are fighting back. And two colleges—Oberlin College and Shawnee State University—recently got exactly what they deserve: large legal judgments against them for defamatory and discriminatory misbehavior.

A third, Clemson University, narrowly escaped getting hit with a similar type of judgment after it agreed to reverse its false finding that a male student had committed a sexual assault and paid him to go away.

That student won a defamation lawsuit against a female student, her boyfriend, and her father for making bogus charges and conspired to hide what really happened.

Virginia Postrel has forgotten more about fibers than you or I know.

.. .polyester rules the textile world. It accounts for more than half of global fiber consumption, about twice that of second-place cotton. Output stands at nearly 58 million tons a year, more than 10 times what it was in the early ’80s. And nobody complains about polyester’s look and feel. If there’s a problem today, it’s that people like polyester too much. It’s everywhere, even at the bottom of the ocean.

I highly recommend her book, The Fabric of Civilization.

The Antiplanner is a wet blanket.

Sightline Institute researcher Michael Andersen offers Willamette Week readers “five ways to make [housing] cheaper.” Sounds good, except none of them will work.

Ann Coulter. is delightfully dyspeptic today.

With the mind-boggling rise in violent crime since the Democrats turned all policing policies over to BLM, the media have become obsessed with convincing us that it’s all the fault of the pandemic. (At least they’re not blaming it on Putin this time.)

Joel Kotkin.

At least he said ‘working classes’ rather than ‘working families’.

The French elections reflect the essential political conflict of our time. On one side, there is a powerful alliance between the corporate oligarchy and the regulatory clerisy. On the other, there are two beleaguered and angry classes – the small-business owners and artisans, and the vast, largely unorganised service class. The small-business class generally tends to favour the populist right, whether in America, Australia or Europe. These people want the government out of their business and to be left alone. Meanwhile, workers tend towards the populist left, which promises to relieve their economic pain.

The common feature is the politics of anger and resentment.

How Orwell Diagnosed Democrats’ Culture War Problem Decades Ago (Politico)

American businesses should wise up. Republicans endanger capitalism. (Washington Post) This would be the same capitalism that Jennifer Rubin actually hates, I suppose.

CNN reporter breaks down rejected Florida math textbooks (CNN) Because CNN reporters are experts on math.

Latter-day Saint leader joins open letter to Georgia: LGBTQ, religious rights don’t have to conflict (Deseret News) Even Mormons go Woke.

Student loan borrowers will get help after an NPR report and years of complaints (NPR) The Cloud People take care of their own at the expense of the Dirt People.

Biden’s latest student debt move will bring 3.6 million borrowers closer to loan forgiveness (CNN) The Cloud People take care of their own at the expense of the Dirt People.

Joy Reid obsessively invokes ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ when sounding alarm on GOP’s anti-abortion push  When you’re a one-trick pony, that’s all you’ve got.

Virginia School Board Misleads Supreme Court To Defend Anti-Asian Admissions Plan

‘Legal Advice’? Clinton Lawyers Scramble To Keep Fusion GPS Docs Secret

STUDY: 17,000 Reasons Bezos-Owned WashPost Hopes Elon Musk ‘Doesn’t Win His Bid for Twitter’

PA Elementary School To Vote On After School ‘Satan Club’

A university pays $400K to professor who refused to use a student’s pronouns

New York Times Chooses Passover and Easter to Mock God and Bible

Former Intelligence Officials, Citing Russia, Say Big Tech Monopoly Power is Vital to National Security

5 things to know about Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, Tampa judge who struck down travel mask mandate (Tampa Bay Times)

Jen Psaki in tears during interview on Republican anti-LGBTQ ‘cruelty’ (The Guardian) Psaki rehearses her Crybully Cred for a sympathetic audience.

Meet the woman behind Libs of TikTok, secretly fueling the right’s outrage machine (Washington Post) There’s nothing secret about it; it’s right there on Twitter. Even the Washington Post can find it.

‘Discrimination was their brand’: how Abercrombie & Fitch fell out of fashion (The Guardian) Bottom line: Too many white people.

Analyst says Texas Gov. Abbott’s border snarls cost billions in GDP (Axios) So we can just ignore the trillions Democrats in Congress are spending.

Dr. Oz has close ties to the wealthy du Pont family heirs, and they’re backing his GOP bid for Pennsylvania’s Senate seat (CNBC) Oh noes! DuPont cooties!

January 6 ‘was a coup organized by the president’, says Jamie Raskin (The Guardian) Who?

Attention, Joe Rogan: Spotify now reserves the right to restrict the reach of misinformation (Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard)

Roseanne Barr: I’m a Victim of ‘Witch-Burning’ Cancel Culture (Daily Beast) Apparently only the Daily Beast is allowed to whine.

FLASHBACK: NPR, MSNBC, NY Times, parroted debunked claim about Border Patrol ‘whipping’ Haitian migrants

Uber driver turns in Jan. 6 rioter who bragged about Capitol attack on dashcam

WaPo appears to make false claim in defending Taylor Lorenz  I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.

WashPost Defends Doxxing Libs Of TikTok: ‘Comports’ With ‘Professional Standards’  Such as they are.

Twitter Employee Revealed Identity of User to WaPo Reporter  I guess Elon is right.

What’s the real reason why Black celebs are still so angry with Will Smith? (The Guardian) Only the Guardian knows for sure.

The Wealth of Notions

BLM Was Always a Fraud

‘White Nationalists’ Haunt America While Black Racists Aim to Kill People

Russia planned to invade Belarus after election, Ukraine claims The available evidence suggests that they don’t need to.

U.S. trying to seize $325 million superyacht reportedly owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov (NBC News) It’s all about the oligarchs and stealing their stuff.

G20 ministers urged to use oligarch crackdown to tackle tax havens (The Guardian) Never let a crisis go to waste! Steal everybody’s stuff, not just the oligarchs’!

Economists urge G20 set up register to track oligarchs (Jakarta Post) Maybe we could put a chip in them, like dogs and cats.

German Industry Fears Immediate Russian Gas Ban

Passover in war-torn Odessa

Biden Prepping Yet Another Huge Ukraine Arms Package As Total Military Aid Nears $3BN

Russia becomes a lost cause

“I’m Done Talking” – MSNBC Analyst Quits To Fight Russians In Ukraine   Judging by what I’ve seen, the Ukrainians ought to send him back.

Under pressure, SAP shuts down Russian operations

FORCES: REFORGER In Poland

One-Third Of Ukraine Farmland May Go Unplanted As Russia Begins ‘Second Phase’ Of War  Starving Ukrainians is nothing new for the Russian state.

Ukraine war shows America could be outgunned without investing in energetics

Ukraine Has Received Fighter Jets From Unnamed US Ally: Pentagon

US Says ‘No Major Territorial Gains’ By Russians In Donbas So Far

Russian Tennis Stars Banned From Competing In Wimbledon  Russia is the New South Africa.

SpaceX beating Russian jamming attack was ‘eyewatering’: DoD official

DOJ will appeal federal judge’s ruling dropping COVID masks for public transport if CDC deems it necessary

Covid mask mandate for travel has been lifted. Where do we go from here? (NBC News)

Masks work. The judge’s ruling does not change that. (Washington Post) If masks worked, those who wanted that protection could get it by wearing a mask and wouldn’t need everybody else to wear a mask. The simple fact is that masks don’t help all that much and the Narrative Media’s opinion does not change that.

A new version of omicron is gaining a foothold in the U.S., CDC finds (NBC News)  My, what a surprise.

CDC: New Omicron strain accounts for about 20% of new cases in U.S. (Axios)

Moderna says redesigned Covid vaccine produced stronger immunity against omicron than current shots  (CNBC) So you’ll need Yet Another Shot! KA-CHING!

Does it feel like everyone has COVID? Why some experts say S.F. may be in a surge now even though cases are low (S.F. Chronicle) Who you gonna believe, the Narrative or your lyin’ eyes?

New versions of Omicron variant make gains against BA.2 (CNN)

The Big Myth About Renewable Energy You Need To Stop Believing

NBC’s Holt Whines: A ‘Trump Judge’ Struck Down Mask Mandates!

Supercut: Media Devastated by Joyful Maskless Airline Passengers

CBS, NBC Peddle Fear Porn About Masks, Demand They Stay Indefinitely

House GOPers Call On Top Scientist To Clarify Comments About Lab Leak Theory

Clean energy is buried at the bottom of abandoned oil wells (Vox) Repurposing wells for geothermal seems good until you try to get the power from the wells to the users; unlike oil, you can’t just dump it into barrels or a tanker and ship it off.

Sea Level Rise Not the Only Coastal City Danger (The Weather Channel) Join the Woke chorus.

Losing some bald eagles may be among the trade-offs for clean energy (Washington Post) The first ever use of the term ‘trad-off’ in the Washington Post with respect to an environmental issue.

Using geoengineering to slow global heating risks malaria rise, say scientists (The Guardian) So all you have left is to PANIC!

National Grid unveils plan to run carbon-free gas through its pipes by 2050 (Boston Globe) There is, of course, no such thing as ‘carbon-free gas’; this is just a trial balloon to see how stupid Woke people really are.

How Biden’s ethanol order is sparking worries about pollution (The Hill) Narrative to the contrary notwithstanding, adding ethanol to gasoline doesn’t prevent pollution, or even help.

2021 State of The Climate Report: Empirical Observations Show No Sign of ‘Climate Crisis’ – ‘Snow Cover Stable, Sea Ice Levels Recovering, & No Change in Storm Activity’

Coca-Cola Hosts Earth Day Event With Democrat Who Says Jews Control Weather

A Puppet Slip of the Tongue. Did She Really Just Say That? Hump Day Hilarity

The hair shirt eco-elite don’t want pain-free fusion power  Matt Ridley.

The madness of our worship of wind

UK Energy Bosses Call for Government Assistance for Poor People

TIME Pushes Climate PANIC, Admits Green Transition’s Threat to Blue-Collar Workers

Biden restores climate safeguards in key environmental law, reversing Trump (Washington Post) Everything Trump did must be reversed, so nobody even needs to think about it.

Jen Psaki refuses to apologize for White House’s debunked claim about Border Patrol ‘whipping’ migrants

Biden Having An Increasingly Difficult Time With G-20 Fissures

Louisiana Asks SCOTUS To Block Biden Administration From Calculating ‘Social Cost’ Of Carbon Emissions

The Biden Administration’s Seder Makes a Mockery of Passover and the Jews  My, what a surprise.

STUDY: How Big Tech Tried to Kill the Hunter Biden Story

Watch: Virtually No One Shows Up To Hear Biden Claim He Was The “Poorest Man In Congress”  Not any more….

U.S. forgives 40k student loans

Nets Spend MEASLY 52 Seconds on Hunter Laptop, Since NYT Finally Acknowledged Its Existence

COME ON! PolitiFact Claims Biden’s Invisible Handshake Was ‘Gesturing at the Audience’

Border Patrol Union: Abbott Should “Absolutely” Use Constitutional “Invasion” Powers On Border

Florida Health Dept Slams Biden Admin for ‘Injecting Political Ideology Into the Health of Our Children’

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The Supreme Court recently reinstated a Clean Water Act regulation by the Trump administration that helps to prevent states from using reasons other than water quality, such as climate change, to block critical infrastructure and energy projects.

The rule, which specifically addresses states’ abuse of Section 401 of the Clean Water Act, will remain in place pending litigation.

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As Florida and its increasingly popular Governor Ron DeSantis (now a front-runner, along with President Trump, to secure the Republican nomination in 2024) seek to respond to (some might say retaliate against) Disney over its opposition to Fla. House Bill 1557 – better known by its leftist nickname the “Don’t Say Gay” bill – the Florida Senate has now passed a bill that would dissolve the Reedy Creek Improvement District, an entity created in the 1960s that essentially gave the Walt Disney World Resort the same powers as a municipality.

Get Woke – Go Broke.

ZMan sums it up.

Most of what we consider public life in modern societies is public reactions to things done by the powerful. The New York Times makes up a new hoax and the week is spent on the hoax. The usual suspects swear by the obvious lies and normal people spend days picking apart the lies. Occasionally, we get the reverse where some uncomfortable truth gets loose and the usual suspect go bananas trying to “debunk” it while normal people cling to it as blessed relief.

This is the news cycle in a nutshell. There is very little news. It has been at least a generation since the major news outlets in America have done reporting. Most of it is just stenography. The “journalist” copies what a government spokesbot has sent to them and dresses it up with some commentary. Then there are the narratives that are designed to give the public a way to repeat the official truth that sounds convincing to them and their acquaintances.

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Narrative journalism is just accepted these days. The “news” has always been a form of passive-aggressive political activism so its evolution into story telling on behalf of powerful interests seems natural. When you think of the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal as propaganda arms of their respective clients in the managerial elite, it all makes sense. Instead of the Ministry of Truth we have the mainstream media “speaking truth to power.”

The Other McCain is not afraid to ask the not-so-hard questions.

Start with a simple question: Does wearing a mask protect you from COVID-19?
If the answer is “yes,” and you are protected by your mask, then why does it matter whether or not other people are also wearing masks? If you think other people must also be compelled to wear masks — because their mask protects you from their germs, supposedly — then doesn’t that imply that your mask is ineffective? But if your mask isn’t working to protect you, then why do you think their mask is necessary, since you apparently don’t think masks really provide a barrier to germs?

We could have a long discussion about the efficacy of masks — do they reduce the spread of airborne viruses by 10% or 20% or whatever? — but the real bottom line is that people who act as if masks will protect them from COVID-19 don’t really seem to believe masks work that way, or else they would be content to protect themselves and not worry about whether other people are also wearing masks. And we could say much the same thing about COVID-19 vaccine mandates: If you think the vaccine will protect you, why does it matter whether other people are also vaccinated?

The fundamental fact is that masks and vaccines don’t work very well, the COVIDians know they don’t work very well, but they have nothing but PANIC to fall back on. Security theater is not a monopoly of the TSA.

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Pressured by the UN and a new American government, Yemen and the Arab Coalition (Saudi Arabia and UAE/ United Arab Emirates) agreed to another truce with the Shia rebels. These ceasefires are seen as futile because the Shia rebels have violated three such agreements so far and show no interest in change, especially since Iran support is crucial to the maintenance of the Shia military efforts.

Not even Muslims trust Muslims.

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A musician is suing a government-funded Pennsylvania orchestra after it suspended him for refusing to pay union dues, a punishment he said violates his First Amendment rights.

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Qualified immunity allows law enforcement officials to get away with all manner of bad deeds. Now, the city of Durham, North Carolina, is proving that even if you overcome that obstacle, it won’t necessarily be enough to get justice.

After a Durham detective fabricated evidence, Darryl Howard was wrongfully convicted of murder and imprisoned for more than two decades. A jury awarded Howard $6 million in the ensuing lawsuit, but the city if refusing to pay it.

Worse yet, the city is asking Howard to pay the legal fees of two city employees dismissed from the suit.

The mayor of Durham, N.C., Elaine M. O’Neal:

She looks pretty white to me but undoubtedly ‘identifies’ as black.

Democrat, of course.

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The remnant of the Islamic State is calling for mujahideen in Europe to take advantage of the crisis in Ukraine by mounting terror attacks against targets in Europe.

Avoid religions that make a virtue of killing random innocent people.

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In the early days of the “pandemic” — I don’t remember exactly when, but I recall seeing articles about it at the time — someone leaked internal German government documents that discussed in the most cynical fashion possible strategies for frightening the populace in order to induce them to accede to the state’s directives.

The relevant documents are sometimes referred to as the “panic papers”. In the following video, a speaker highlights relevant quotes from a document that proposes ways to achieve “the desired shock effect”.

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The United States is awash in crises. The crime rate is surging; inflation continues to rise; COVID-19 is still not tamed; curricular reform is a contentious issue at all levels of education; global warming continues to be the source of much anxiety; the antitrust laws are under strong attack; social media continues to be a flashpoint. But for the readers of the New York Times Magazine, on April 10, 2022—devoted largely to The Money Issue—attacking the proliferation of new billionaires, who now total 735 (or is it 927?) has become the centerpiece of their campaign to reduce income and wealth inequality.

The alarm bells of this trend have been rung by Willy Staley, one of its staff writers, whose lead delivers this supposed knockout punch: “Their numbers are out of control—and the rest of us are subject to their whims.” This makes great copy, but horrific economics. Just why is the increased number of billionaires a bad thing? Theirs is not a coming crime wave in which each of us are put at risk for the loss of our lives or property by a new band of predators. Indeed, the exact opposite is true. Although none of the Times’s writers cares to mention the point, each of these billionaires (or their direct ancestors) created the wealth by selling goods and services to people, which at a minimum had a total value far greater to those people than the fraction of the gain that the billionaires were able to garner for themselves.

Tell the truth: You’ve always wanted to do that.

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“There is little to no evidence that critical race theory itself is being taught to K-12 public school students,” The Associated Press wrote recently.

If that’s true, why would the National Education Association, the nation’s largest teachers union, invest in a campaign to keep the theory in K-12 instruction? That is, how could the union keep critical race theory in classrooms if it wasn’t there in the first place?

The answer is simple: School officials around the country not only are teaching critical race theory’s components, such as “intersectionality,” to K-12 children. They also are applying the theory’s principle that discrimination is appropriate and necessary for school activities in the form of mandatory racial affinity groups. For example, where students are separated by skin color for different school functions.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that Disney had special privileges in Florida.

Ron DeSantis takes his culture war to the next level (CNN) Note how this is somehow his culture war, not the one that CNN has been waging for the last thirty years.

Why did CBS News hire Mick Mulvaney? (The Guardian) Robert Reich is not pleased with the ideological traitors at CBS.

Why Tucker Carlson wants men to aim lasers at their private parts (Washington Post) Why Dana Milbank is so concerned with men’s private parts.

Florida’s vile ‘groomer’ law may soon blow up in DeSantis’s face (Washington Post) Vile!

How ‘Drag Storybook Hour’ set off culture wars at a Virginia community center (Washington Post)

John Oliver Reveals How He’s Been Trolling Dr. Oz for Years (Daily Beast) Oliver was an asshole before being an asshole was Politically Correct.

WashPost’s Lorenz Attempts to ‘Expose’ Woman Behind Libs of TikTok  There’s gotta be a witch in there somewhere….

WaPo “Tech Reporter” Taylor Lorenz Under Fire For Doxxing ‘Libs Of TikTok’, Harassing Family

CNN Decries ‘Putin-esque’ ‘Book Burning,’ Suggests Florida Is Cancelling Math

Jack Dorsey Goes After CNN For Deliberately Stirring Division

‘Unqualified,’ ‘Florida,’ ‘Dangerous,’ MSNBC Attacks Judge Who Struck Down Mask Mandate

Liberals Raise Concerns About Account That’s Making Them Look Bad By Just Sharing Their Actual Words

Doxxer Taylor Lorenz thinks she’s the real victim  Of course she does.

How worried are people about catching COVID-19? New Utah poll has answers (Deseret News)

Florida judge voids national mask mandate for public transportation (The Guardian) And the maskerati lose their shit.

Supreme Court won’t hear New York City teacher vaccine dispute (NBC)

Risk of breakthrough COVID-19 infections are tied to mental health problems, research shows  (Deseret News) Covidian cultists hardest hit.

Shanghai Finally Confirms First COVID Deaths Since Start Of Lockdown

Americans Should Put A Stop To The ‘Biomedical Security State’: Dr. Aaron Kheriaty

Why No One Wants to Talk About Sweden

Uber No Longer Requires Masks

7 Ways To Cope Now That You Can’t Force People Around You To Wear Masks  Babylon Bee.

Biden Admin Will Likely Fight To Keep Masks on Planes, Becerra Says

Armor: Tanks As Weapons Not Targets

Former Russian foreign minister reveals precisely when Putin may pull trigger on nuclear weapons

Natural gas surges to highest level since 2008 as Russia’s war upends energy markets (CNBC)

Inside The Ukraine-Induced Defense Contractor ‘Gold Rush’ At The Pentagon

To Arm or Not to Arm?

Wargame Simulating the Sinking of the Moskva

Explaining Germany’s Russian Gas Problem

IMF Slashes Global Growth Outlook, Blames Putin; Fears ‘Social Unrest’ & ‘Global Instability’

Lavrov Denies Russia Could Use Nukes In Ukraine

AirPods looted by Russians giving away their location via Find My  Now that’s comedy.

“Battle Of Donbas” In Full Swing As Russia Launches ‘Hellish’ All-Out Assault

EU’s Hope To Rely On LNG Is Weak Point In Plan To Wean Off Of Russian Gas

Russia Must Prepare For “Possible Aggressive Action” From NATO, Putin Advisor Says

EU To Impose Full Embargo On Russian Oil Next Week, Will Send Price Above $185 According To JPMorgan  Those of us who own shares in oil MLPs appreciate the heads-up, so we can stock up.

Russian Ambassador To US Says Biden Officials Won’t Speak With Him  Of course not – not until Biden’s poll numbers start going back up.

On Ukraine: being wrong over and over doesn’t seem to stop Colonel Macgregor

Russia Tells Azov Fighters Trapped In Giant ‘Fortress’ Steel Plant: “Lay Down Arms Or We’ll Level Everything”

The Tank Is Dead: Long Live the Javelin, the Switchblade, the … ?

NBC Discovers Biden’s Border Crisis: a ‘Massive Surge’ of Migrants

Experts Doubt Mexican States Will Stop Illegal Immigration Despite Texas Deals

Biden’s ‘Integrated Deterrence’ Military Strategy Failed in Ukraine

Watch: Reporter Demands To Know When Biden Will Apologise To Border Agents Falsely Accused Of “Whipping” Migrants  Hint: Never.

Kamala Harris Raises $1 Million Dollars for Dems at Home of Disney Exec Rich People Bad, Except Woke Rich People.

Biden Unilaterally Disarms in Space Fight, ‘Handicaps’ Ability To Deter Russia

Southern Border Migrant Crossings Spike To Record High In March Ahead Of Biden’s Plan To Lift Title 42

Is Joe Biden’s Easter bunny running the country?  We might be better off.

Biden Administration Ducks Credit for Advancing Drilling for Oil, Gas  Saying the quiet part out loud.

Record Number Of Illegal Immigrants Waiting In Mexico For “Magic Day”: Immigration Expert

Biden Admin Could Remove Sanctions on 80,000 Iranian Militants

Ilhan Omar mocked for voicing outrage over Easter worship on plane: ‘Why do you hate Christians?’  Hint: Because she’s Muslim. Duh.

Americans’ taxes used to be public — until the rich revolted (Washington Post) After all, what possible objection could you have to everybody and his dog pawing through your financial affairs?

Justices reject states’ appeal over cap on tax deductibility

Out to Mislead: Media Spew Inflated Mass Shootings Stat for 2022

Expect More Riots This Summer

Apple Includes “Pregnant Man” Emoji In Latest Software Update  Sure, that’s what it means.

Justice Sotomayor: Intelligent, Well-Informed, Reasonable-Minded People Must be Banned from Capital Case Juries

Interest In Immigration Surges As Wealthy Chinese Look To Flee Shanghai  No time is a good time to live in a Communist country.

EU Exhumes 18 Year Old Embezzlement Charges To Derail Le Pen Presidential Bid

WATCH: Bezos Was a ‘White Knight’ for Washington Post Purchase. Now, Musk’s Twitter Buyout a ‘Danger’ To Free Speech.

Illinois Dem Pays Another $25K in Donor Funds to Political Rival She Bribed

More States Move to Affirm Parental Rights in Education

Despite Raging Inflation, Congress Bent on Continuing Spending Spree

NY Times Visits the Old City, Grants Islam More Deference Than Christianity, Judaism

Commentators SLAM Crybully Taylor Lorenz for Doxxing Libs Of TikTok, Disgracing Journalism

Cori Bush surpasses $300K spent on private security as she continues calls to defund the police

Kids can handle learning about civil rights. So teach them. (Washington Post)

New York Times’ Hannah-Jones became star with liberal media help despite ‘flawed’ 1619 Project: Author

‘White supremacist law’: How restrictive abortion legislation targets Black and brown women  (CNN)

De’Veon Smith cut from USFL for not liking chicken salad in unbelievable video

Derogation Parallax: Is Thinking the U.S. Is Controlled by “Straight White Men” Progressive Goodthink or a Republican “Fantasy?

Calls for Reparations Are Back, Again. It’s Still a Terrible Idea.

School District Trains Teachers to Become ‘Anti-Racist,’ Subvert Curriculum ‘Rooted in Whiteness’

Woke Racism

Wisconsin Dem Cited for Tax Delinquency Lectures Billionaires To ‘Pay Your Taxes’

Ancient Protein Rubisco Could Be Used to Save Future Food Crops From Dying in Hot Climates (Daily Beast)

As the world experiences sea level rise, Iceland’s waters are falling — and flowing to the other side of the planet (CNN)

Jamie Raskin on the climate crisis: ‘We’ve got to save democracy in order to save our species’ (The Guardian)

The hydrogen energy dream (Vox)

Japan’s ‘hydrogen economy’ runs the risk of being powered by coal (Japan Times)

In a pandemic of medical misinformation, how do you deal with conspiracy believers? (The Guardian)

Changes In Vegetation Shaped Global Temperatures Over Last 10,000 Years

Apple to celebrate Earth Day with walks, podcasts, apps  I.e. all virtue signaling, nothing really effective.

MIT Climate Change Virtue List Topped by EU Nations

The Antiplanner seconds Joel Kotkin.

The war in Ukraine has forced people of the “West”—a term that has come to mean most of Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, and New Zealand—to confront a social system that we have pretended went extinct hundreds of years ago: feudalism. While feudalism has mostly disappeared from the above-named nations, it is thriving in Putin’s Russia, as well as many other places around the world.

Read it.

Although nuclear power remains controversial, new reactors are being built in surprising numbers and these will provide the second largest share of the world’s carbon-free energy. It’s also an industry undergoing rapid change as new technology comes on line. So, what will nuclear power look like in the decades to come?

Read it.

I see that President Calvin Coolidge is in the news, along with his sidekick Warren Gamaliel Harding. Warren was a mediocrity’s mediocrity and was long held to be the worst president of modern times. That was until Jimmy Carter became president and then Barack Obama and now Joe Biden. After Joe’s term, I think we shall retire the trophy.

Climateer blows the whistle.

My topic for today: All numbers are wrong.

Like, seriously. Whenever you see a number – in a tweet, newspaper headline, office email, technical report, textbook, anywhere – assume it is wrong. Treat it as enemy misinformation, deliberate sabotage of your understanding of the world, and disregard it.

You’re thinking, ha ha, I’m exaggerating for effect. I’m not. Seriously I am not. I mean, of course not not all numbers are literally incorrect; but it happens so very, very much more often than your intuition, that I do literally mean it is a good practice to treat all numbers as incorrect by default.

I’ve come to this position slowly, over the years, one screwup at a time. But now that I’ve really started paying attention, the mistakes are everywhere.

ZMan does some sociology.

Yesterday a federal judge struck down the CDC mandate requiring passengers to wear ceremonial face coverings on public transport. For the last two years airplane passengers have been required to wear masks at the airport and on the plane, unless they were eating or drinking. Of course, this has allowed the petty dictators to harass people while traveling. The mask-marms have been looking for reasons to fly just so they could harass people. Now that is over.

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It is a little hint as to why the sociopaths in the media keep getting away with these mass hoaxes that have become a feature of life. People wake up and see that everyone is now into the latest thing. Maybe that thing is outrage over a police shooting or maybe it is some new abstract concern. All of the right people are on their soapboxes and all of the best people are following along with them. It is only normal for people to want to do the right thing and support the latest thing.

Read it.

Politico Playbook reports that the White House is weighing its options in the case holding its mask mandate to be illegal. I thought that they had to go for it and protect their phony baloney jobs protecting public health consistent with the party line over the past two years, but they see the downside and the escape hatch afforded by Judge Mizelle’s ruling yesterday.

Politico has to let us know that they (at Politico) recognize the politics of the situation, of course, but that they have no doubt about the wisdom of the absurd regime we lived under until late yesterday afternoon. If the Biden maskaholics were to seek to squeeze the toothpaste back into the tube, “the administration would risk political blowback on a hot political topic heading into the summer travel season. And it would give voters a clear target of who to blame for mask mandates despite prominent Democrats’ efforts to distance themselves from the unpopular (if scientifically sound) policy.”