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Having been coached by Snopes to scope out the different angles that might portray the president in a more flattering light, I have checked out a few views of the intervention of the Easter bunny in Biden’s conversation yesterday on the White House lawn. Each angle confirms that White House staff do not trust the president to wing it and that he does not take their supervision amiss. He dutifully follows the lead of his minders who know him best. What a message.

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Easy to say – but who gets to pay for it? The taxpayer, of course.

Fund your own damned research.

Some days are better than others. We take our victories where we can.

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ProPublica, the left-wing journalism nonprofit bankrolled by billionaires, appears to have violated its ethics policy when it hosted an event last week sponsored by the white-shoe consulting firm McKinsey & Company.

ProPublica says it does not “accept sponsorship of news applications, series, or other targeted sections of our website from any participant in the industry or sector covered within that section of the site.” Yet the April 12 event—”The Billionaire Playbook,” an evening chat with reporters about how the world’s richest people ostensibly evade taxes—was sponsored by McKinsey, a firm that provides many of these people with corporate consulting and has been the subject of many ProPublica reports.

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Of all the hilarious freakouts over Elon Musk’s bid to buy Twitter, my personal favorite comes from journalism professor and self-styled “NYC insider” Jeff Jarvis (as noticed by The Spectator‘s Bill Zeiser last week). Jarvis tweeted — and I quote — “Today on Twitter feels like the last evening in a Berlin nightclub at the twilight of Weimar Germany.”

One imagines Mehdi Hasan and Molly Jong-Fast manically jazz-dancing as the Bruenigs belt out a song from a cabaret stage. And surely nothing calls down the specter of fascist totalitarianism quite like Musk’s pledge to end Big Tech censorship. Because that’s what the Nazis did, right? They kicked down the door to the nightclub, stormed through the horrified crowd, and barked, “ATTENTION PLEASE! YOU ARE NOW FREE TO SAY WHATEVER THE HELL YOU WANT!”

Jarvis’s tweet should have been a regrettable one-off. But of course it wasn’t. This is Twitter, after all. Thus did several users spend the start of a perfectly lovely Easter weekend debating whether the dark night of fascism was about to descend by means of looser content moderation. And while the analogy is obviously insane, there’s a point to be made about style here too. Because the thing about elite Twitter is that it actually makes Weimar look pretty good by comparison.

Jeff Jarvis is a Professor of Journalism at NYU. Now you know why they are the way they are.

Jarvis is also a fan of Habermas, which tells you pretty much all you need to know. (Frankfurt School? Where have I heard that before?)

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For many people nowadays, the first port of call upon discovering an unusual rash or feeling a worrying pain is not the doctor, but rather Google.

Considering the behavior of doctors throughout the Pandemic Panic, can you blame them?

9 people shot in mass shooting at South Carolina lounge, police say (CNN) Let’s see: many wounded, no dead – Sailer’s Law of Mass Shootings says that this suggests that the shooter was black. This Is CNN, though, so no mention of a black shooter’s race is allowed.

South Carolina mall shooting suspect’s bond set at $25,000, can go to work with ankle monitor  And there we go: Meet Jawayne Price:

DC men released without charges after stealing puppy at gunpoint

Pittsburgh Mass Shooting: 10 shot, 2 juveniles dead at party in Airbnb; multiple shooters suspected

The Media Set Out To Incite the Next Subway Shooter

Could the Road Rage Explosion Have Anything to Do with the Racial Reckoning?

NFL-Style Diversity Excludes Whites, Some Minorities From Opportunity

Fareed Zakaria: We must stop Putin’s plan B (CNN) And, of course, a talking head at CNN knows what Putin’s Plan B is. Never doubt it.

Biden and US allies face new dilemma on Ukraine aid (CNN)

Dusty Johnson among hundreds of U.S. Representatives sanctioned by Kremlin, calls it a ‘badge of honor’

‘They mean nothing to me,’ Langevin says of Russia’s sanctions on members of Congress  I mean, it’s not as if people are fighting to go to Russia the way they’re fighting to come to America.

Germany’s Economic Minister Warned Of Unrest If Russian Gas Is Immediately Cut Off

James Lileks: Vladophilia

Shades Of Gray In The Russia-Ukraine War

R.I.P., Another Russian General

US, EU Sacrificing Ukraine To “Weaken Russia”: Former NATO Adviser

Austrian Chancellor: Putin “Believes He Is Winning The War”

LOGISTICS: The War Reserve Stockpile War

FORCES: Ukraine Must Decide

Russia Expands ‘Powerful’ Cruise Missile Strikes To Western City Of Lviv

Willing Victims

British Elite SAS Soldiers Are Training Troops On Ukrainian Territory

Captured Britons Appear On Russian TV Urging Boris Johnson To Negotiate Ukraine Prisoner Swap

It isn’t just Putin — Russia vs. Ukraine

A current sticking point of the Iran deal (also, how the Deal and the Ukraine War intersect)

Top Democratic Senator Favors Sending US Troops To Ukraine  But not to the southern border.

Kamala Harris keeps traveling to unconventional places. Here’s why. (Politico)  It’s not as of she has a Real Job.

U.S. arrests 210,000 migrants at Mexico border in March, rivaling record highs (Reuters)

20 House Republicans Demand ICE Data on Arrests, Deportations Withheld by Biden

White House “Disappointed” That Federal Judge Declares CDC Mask-Mandate For Planes, Trains Unlawful

‘We’re trying to turn the magnet towards optimism’: Cate Blanchett on her new climate crisis podcast (The Guardian)

Suing over climate change: Taking fossil fuel companies to court (CBS)

Ozone May Be Weakening One of the Earth’s Most Important Cooling Mechanisms – Heating the Planet More Than We Realize (SciTech Daily) So we’d better PANIC just in case.

How to fight the affordable housing and climate crises at once (Vox) Live in a thatched hut somewhere that doesn’t have electricity.

How a Determined Congressional Aide Helped Break Open the Biggest Environmental Scandal in U.S. History (Politico) Funny how nobody’s ever heard of it.

A beginners’ guide to planting trees – and fighting the climate crisis (The Guardian)

Thawing Permafrost Is Roiling The Arctic Landscape (Honolulu Civil Beat)

“Diplomats for Climate Action” Demand Australia Kowtow to the EU

The Green Hydrogen Swindle

Fake News: Wind Tops Coal & Nuclear for First Time in US History

Charleston SC’s Junk Climate Change Lawsuit

Throwing some cold water on Florida as a hot destination for anti-vax tourists (Palm Beach Post) Becuase God forbid that Vax Deniers should get anything good anywhere any time.

Suit seeks to overturn renewed Philadelphia mask mandate

Fourth COVID-19 vaccine shot protects against severe omicron symptoms, study says (Deseret News)

“The Light Is Killing Me” – Ukrainian Woman Describes Brutal Conditions Inside Shanghai Quarantine Center

Boise’s Pandemic-Driven Housing Boom Begins To Crack

Will America follow China toward ‘Zero Covid’?

Bill Maher Asks Vaccinated Mask-Wearers If They “Keep The Condom On” After Sex

The First Post-Trump Republican Race (The New Yorker) A bit of wishful thinking there.

Trump’s clout on the line in Senate GOP primaries (The Hill) Guess somebody didn’t get the memo that we’re now ‘post-Trump’.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal: Student debt cancellation is ‘racial justice,’ ‘gender justice,’ ‘economic justice’ Surely she could have gotten a few more varieties of justice in there?

NYC Mayor Eric Adams agrees progressive politics play a role in increased crime across American cities

Rapper-turned-Brooklyn Dem candidate spews anti-cop hate, wants to defund NYPD  He looks pretty white to me.

‘The Minutes’ on Broadway Brilliantly Shows How Democracy Dies Under Strip Lighting (Daily Beast)

Illinois offering free health care to some illegal immigrants  God knows Americans aren’t worthy.

The red-blue divide is growing even bigger (CNN) Gee, imagine that.

How Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Rigged the 2020 Election to Defeat Trump

Univision Now Promoting Classes On How To Swim Across The Rio Grande

Scarborough Warns Dems: Deal With Border Chaos and Crime, or ‘Thugs Like Trump Will’

Dems Explain They Don’t Want Billionaires Controlling Our Media Unless They’re Bezos, Zuckerberg, Gates, Bloomberg, Buffett, Or Soros  Babylon Bee.

Free-Thinking Nonconformist Comes Out As Non-Binary Just Like Every Single One Of Her Friends  Babylon Bee.

The American socialist worldview is just broken

Durham: Five Witnesses Connected To The Clinton Campaign’s False Russian Claims Have Refused To Cooperate

CENSORED: How ABC, CBS, NBC Suppressed the Hunter Biden Laptop Scandal

It’s Not Just Jews: Ilhan Omar Doesn’t Like Christians Either

Stelter: Allowing Free Speech on Twitter Will Be Playing in the ‘Gutter’

Why we’ve just scratched the surface of the January 6 investigation (CNN) Liz Cheney always looks as if she hadn’t bothered to wash her hair for a couple of weeks.

He Could’ve Taken Down the Trump Org. Now He’s Taking the Blame. (Daily Beast)

The Trumpified RNC strikes another blow against democracy (Washington Post)  Mommee! Billy hit me back!

On MSNBC, NPR’s Hinojosa Falsely Accuses Border Agents of Whipping Haitians

Brian Stelter Plays Dumb (Again) on Big Tech Spiking Conservatives

WashPost’s Max Boot Cries Elon Musk Is ‘World’s Richest Troll’  Which leaves Max Boot with the title of World’s Dullest Troll.

Report Alleges U.S. Spied on Big Tech Accounts of Project Veritas Employees

Lefty Singer on CBS: Abbott Wants to Make Black AND Gay People Disappear!

The Monopoly On Your Mind: These 6 Companies Control 90% Of What You Read, Watch, & Hear

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Anybody at all making money, actually, except Children of the Crust.

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When Roland Barthes wrote his 1967 essay “The Death of the Author,” he probably didn’t intend that, fifty-five years later, a major American news outlet would be provocatively suggesting that the world’s bestselling author should be de-personed, de-platformed or de-materialized from history. And yet that is exactly what has happened with the New York Times. They recently ran a series of advertisements on the subway featuring a reader named “Lianna” who is, as much of their subscriber base now are, “breaking the binary,” experiencing “queer love in color” and meditating on “heritage in rich cues.”

So far, so predictable. But the ads took a grimmer turn when one suggested that Lianna was “imagining Harry Potter without its creator.” This example of what the Times calls “independent journalism for an independent life” has taken up one of the most disquieting contemporary developments in the culture wars, as the newspaper has shamelessly monetized it for promotional purposes. Ever since J.K. Rowling wrote a long, thoughtful essay in June 2020 to explain her views on gender-identity issues, she has been a hate figure of almost comical proportions to the woke. And now, the Times’s advertisement has given succor, even encouragement, to those who despise her opinions.

Under the Narrative, either you are on board with the totality of Wokeness, or you are one of the enemy. There is no grey area, no nuance, no middle ground.

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For the vast majority of Americans, the IRS already knows what we owe in taxes. Instead of telling us, though, the IRS tasks us with filling out a slew of complicated forms and doing a bunch of arithmetic, which drives many people to tax-prep services.

Government regulation invariably leads to a complicated and burdensome web of restrictions and requirements. This, in turn, creates a service industry of ‘experts’ devoted to helping people to cope with that burden. This, in turn, motivates that industry to impede any attempt to make that burden any lighter and easier to navigate without the help of the ‘experts’. It also motivates the businesses in that industry to lobby their favorite politicians to preserve, and if possible extend, the scope of the regulatory burden so as to provide further business opportunities for the existing service industry players. The ordinary citizen invariably winds up with more stress and a much lighter wallet.

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Small, deployable nuclear reactors, an idea that the United States military has been experimenting with for decades, will receive new life under a program the Defense Department announced Thursday.

And unlike previous efforts to deploy alternatives to diesel and other fossil-fuel generators, which were stalled by high costs and little political support, this new effort may succeed in helping the military, and eventually commercial energy providers, wean themselves off carbon-intensive power. As one expert explained, while the physics haven’t changed, increasing concerns about the geopolitics of fossil fuels coupled with growing concerns about climate change have made the effort more critical.

Imagine the fights when localities try to set up one of these and the NIMBY/EcoNazi crowd attempt to regulate it to death:

But a number of nuclear scientists and watchdogs have questioned the need for such a device. In recent years, they have publishing scathing reports, commentary and analyses about the potential contamination should the reactor or its fuel be damaged during an attack, stolen or experience a catastrophic failure.

“Not only have my concerns not been alleviated, they’ve actually grown,” Professor Alan J. Kuperman told Military Times.

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“Don’t teach kids what to think, teach them how to think.” There is some truth to this. Any decent teacher knows that if a student arrives at an answer by themselves, instead of simply being given it, there is a better chance they’ll remember it. Students have the right to develop their own opinions, and should be offered tools to aid critical thinking.

But is this warm, cuddly mantra as profound as it appears? In their new book Dumbing Down, economist Magnus Henrekson and political scientist Johan Wennström assess the decline of Swedish education in the context of its starry-eyed departure from classical knowledge to the realms of “post-truth” schooling.

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California has always been like a trendy nightclub that can get away with a hefty cover charge because everyone wants in. I once asked Arthur Laffer, of the famous curve, how California could keep getting away with such a high cover charge—i.e., high taxes and crushing regulation—when virtually no other state could get away with it. I was expecting a technical economic term—”exploitable asymmetries”—that is, the great climate and abundant natural beauty that many people are willing to pay a premium to enjoy (like me), but no. Instead, he said, “That’s like asking why pretty girls are mean. Answer: Because they can.”

But maybe California can’t any more. Even the pretty mean girls age, and start to show wrinkles, gray hair, and such. The Census data showing more middle class people leaving California than coming in reminds of the old Yogi Berra line about a popular New York restaurant: “Nobody goes there any more; it got too crowded.”

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Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus, a reliable barometer of certified liberal opinion inside the Beltway, has a column up about the matter of Dianne Feinstein, which even a careless reader can make out as another loud note in chorus of coordinated voices that has determined that Feinstein needs to be forced from office.

The article breaks no new ground in terms of news value or reporting, as with one small exception it simply recycles the details of the San Francisco Chronicle story.

I wish I had a job like that.

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If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.

Florida rejects math books with ‘references’ to critical race theory  (Washington Post)

Rich countries that let inequality run rampant make citizens unhappy, study finds (The Guardian) Especially with the Narrative Media harping on it day and night.

This one simple trick will help get kids out of poverty (The Guardian) Give them money – your money

Millions of Kids Fell Into Poverty and No One Noticed (Daily Beast) Except the Cool Kids at the Daily Beast.

DA Chesa Boudin: Five Takeaways From a Fiery Live Interview (S.F. Standard) Straight from the horse’s ass mouth.

Twitter faces the ‘nightmare’ of being forced into free speech (The Hill)

Everyone has a theory of why crime is rising. This one doesn’t get discussed enough (L.A.Times) Income inequality! Is there anything for which it can’t be blamed?

exas A&M, America’s Largest College, Won’t Say Why It Defunded Its Campus Drag Show  (Daily Beast) Yeah, that’s a real head-scratcher, all right.

He wants to destroy Elon Musk. He could end up endangering the Dems’ Senate plans. (Politico)

What We Keep Getting Wrong About the Right (Daily Beast) The Daily Beast? Almost everything.

Another Smash Up at the Leftist Intersectionality

100k Detroit homeowners illegally taxed $600M still waiting to be compensated

U.S. Government Investigating TikTok: Report

Journalist Calls For Genocide on Twitter

Is herd immunity for Covid-19 still possible? (CNN)

New, highly transmissible forms of omicron may pose latest covid threat (Washington Post)

NYC Planning to Elevate COVID Risk From ‘Low’ to ‘Medium’ As Cases Rise (Daily Beast)

Even mild Covid-19 can cause your brain to shrink  (National Geographic)

NY Times Turnabout: Covid ‘Receding,’ Everyone Vaxxed, So Throw the Borders Open!

Calls for US to issue visa bans for UK lawyers enabling Russian oligarchs (The Guardian) It’s all about the oligarchs.

Russia’s Oil Industry Is Suffering As The West Shuns Its Crude

Europe has yet to hit Russia where it would hurt the most: banning its oil and gas  I guess some ‘journalists’ didn’t get the memo.

INTELLIGENCE: Epic Fails

Blinken: Ukraine War Will Last Through 2022

Mariupol Has Been “Wiped Off The Face Of The Earth,” Ukrainian Governor Says

Former Aide Knocks Trump’s ‘Dumb Endorsements’ in GOP Primaries (Newsweek)

The one word that explains Donald Trump’s endorsement of J.D. Vance (CNN) CHris Cilizza apparently doesn’t have a big vocabulary.

SNL’s Michael Che and Colin Jost Brutally Roast Elon Musk (Daily Beast) Ritual denuciation of the latest heretic and sinner welcomed by the Cool Kids at the Daily Beast.

SNL’s Marjorie Taylor Greene Warns Easter Is Way Too Gay (Daily Beast) And no attempt at humor is too sophomoric for either SNL or the Daily Beast.

Ohio public university to pay $400,000 in damages after punishing professor over preferred pronoun controversy

Trump, Allies ‘Inarguably Committed’ Crimes With Jan. 6 ‘Coup’: Kirschner (Newsweek) No, not that Kirschner, another one, one you’ve never heard of.

Libs Of TikTok Suspended Again After Getting Reinstated

Is Hunter Biden’s Laptop Killing Twitter as We Know It?

CIA Bombshell: The Sussman Data Was “User Created”

‘Sense of urgency’ for HHS climate change office (Politico)

Former stripper running for Congress says ‘climate emergency’ partially prompted decision to get an abortion

Shrinking glaciers and melting ice: Mountain guides have a front-row seat to winter’s woes (Deseret News)

Climate change: ‘We’re making wine in Norway’ (BBC) And that’s a Bad Thing, right? Right?

State climate bill would let 10 communities ban natural gas hookups. Business groups say that’s a bad idea.  (Boston Globe)

To fight climate despair, this Christian ecologist says science isn’t enough (Washington Post) One also needs the new Religion of Climate Change.

Climate change spikes fire danger throughout New Mexico’s bosque

IPCC Scientists: Climate Change Doom is Doomier than People Realise

Climate Feedback Fact Checks CO2 Coalition

As Climate Fears Mount, Some Are Relocating Within the US  (Wired)

ABC Repeats Biden Admin Talking Points on Oil Drilling

“That’s Cooking Oil” – UK Extinction Rebellion Blockades the Wrong Truck

12 injured, 3 people detained after shooting at South Carolina mall, police say (CNN) According to Sailer’s Law of Mass Shootings, many wounded but few dead suggests that the perps were black; this is underlined by the fact that the news stories don’t mention the race of the shooters, which is invariably done when they are white.  Stay tuned.

When ‘white’ becomes an epithet

CDC: Black Motor Vehicle Traffic Deaths Up 27.5% in 2020, While Whites Up Only 2.5%

Joe Biden’s numbers are collapsing among a group you really wouldn’t expect (CNN)

Sinema dashes Biden’s hope for major tax overhaul  When Democrats say ‘overhaul’ they mean ‘increases’.

Biden May Open Reunification Process to More Families Separated Under Trump (Newsweek) ‘Reunification Process’ means ‘letting in more illegal immigrants’ and ‘separated under Trump’ means ‘sent back after entering illegally’.

“Not What We Are Seeing” – US Intel Officials Reject Biden’s “Genocide” Claims  It’s always safe to believe the opposite of what Joe Biden says.

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Washington DC has just received its fourth busload of ‘undocumented’ migrants from Texas – a ‘special delivery’ from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott that contained roughly 10 passengers, according to Fox News.

The buses are being sent by dint of an order from Abbott imposed earlier this month week tasking the Texas Division of Emergency Management with providing charter buses or flights to transport illegal immigrants released into the US by the Feds over to Washington DC.

Greg Abbot has got my vote.

While some in the media have questioned the legality of Gov. Abbott’s order, it’s worth remembering that transportation of illegal migrants from one state to another part of the country isn’t new or unique. In fact, as has been widely reported, the federal government has been transporting thousands of migrants across the country to different states via bus and plane as part of a plan that was initially kept quiet until the whistle was blown by the media.

What’s more, as even MSNBC acknowledges, the trips to Washington DC are “completely voluntary”.

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The pandemic is not over yet, according to the new Biden administration Covid czar Ashish Jha speaking on FOX News Sunday and elsewhere this morning. Although his manner is not grating, the message is infuriating.

Also infuriating is the lack of follow-up questions. We don’t expect any better of such Democratic enforcers as George Stephanopoulos (below), but on FOX News Sunday Mike Emanuel was equally lame while Jha blathered liberally on the various Coronavirus fronts including this one (video here).

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What, you may ask, is the job of the mainstream media, and how does Elon Musk threaten it? You may have missed the explanation provided by the deep thinkers holding down the fort on MSNBC’s morning show. “She said the quiet part out loud,” as Michael Doran put it.

What more is to be said? This says it all. What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed, though not quite in the way that Alexander Pope meant.

Scott Adams (on his Locals podcast COFFEE WITH SCOTT ADAMS, which I highly recommend) points out that the reason Twitter has power in this world is that it has both Left and Right arguing with each other. If one side went away, it would just be one side talking to themselves and it would fail. (This is why the various right-wing alternatives to Twitter never succeed; nobody from the Left ever goes there, or ever will go there, so there is no chance of it ever having power.) This is why the Elon Musk thing is seen as such a threat — Mommeee! Billy hit me back!

Why do ‘right-wing’ people fight so hard not to Get Canceled on Twitter? Because they want to be on Twitter so badly that they’ll fight to be there, even when they are being regularly and routinely abused. It reminds me of the classic story of the guy whose job was shoveling up elephant shit all day. When somebody suggested that he go into another line of work, he responed ‘What? And give up show business?’ If this kind of ‘show business’ is so important to you that you are willing to spend your days shoveling up elephant shit, THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU>

This is psychotic. Twitter (in its present form) is an stage for left-wing people to abuse right-wing people; the right-wing people are necessary for this process because their Role In Life is to serve as whipping-boys for the proglodytes. The same can be said of alleged ‘conservatives’ who accept invitations to appear on networks like CNN and MSNBC when everybody and his dog knows that the only reason for such an invitation is that it provides the Usual Suspects with a target for abuse. Why put up with that? A character defect is the only reason I can think of.

Conservatives, stop using Twitter. If you did, it would die, and yet another arena for the Left to abuse their natural victims would cease to exist. You have the key to Hell in your own hands; leave whenever you decide to do so. That’s all it takes.

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I think one of the great misconceptions about economic crisis is that solutions are always dependent on centralized government action. In truth, most financial disasters are actually caused by too much government action and involvement. Central banks like the Federal Reserve are also primary culprits; as I outlined in last week’s article their machinations, which are independent of government oversight, fall into the category of deliberate sabotage. The Fed bankrolls corruption through fiat money creation while government officials and corporations utilize that money to wreak havoc on our living standards.

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It is amazing. Certain politically pregnant phrases are repeated nearly verbatim, over and over by a multitude of pundits, politicians, news anchors, podcasters, talk show hosts, etc. It’s as if they’re all reading from the same script. (They are.) The worst of these is the declaration of a “threat to our democracy.” It’s as if this is the definitive, final, word. Except that they all must say it, just in case it didn’t quite take in first time. Just in case we didn’t hear it. Just in case someone, aghast, challenged the idea of it, declared it not just unoriginal, but also just plain wrong.

Challenge is an ugly thing. It is “a threat to our democracy!”

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he central bank of France has covertly repatriated 221 tonnes of gold between 2013 and 2016. Since then, all its monetary gold is stored in La Souterraine in Paris. Repatriating all gold is related to France’s aim to revamp Paris as a gold trading center.

They used to keep their gold in New York just in case the Soviets invaded Western Europe. I guess that’s no longer a concern.

Head of S.F. police union gets her window smashed. And she’s pissed (S.F. Examiner)

Man who paid $2.9m for NFT of Jack Dorsey’s first tweet set to lose almost $2.9m (The Guardian) Heh.

The silent majority against Republicans’ moral panic on schools (Washington Post) If’s official–proglodytes can’t count.

Mysterious Pregnancies at All-Woman Prison

Good Friday: NBC Chats With Leftist in ‘Thank God for Abortion’ Shirt

NY Times: GOP Pushing Mean-Spirited Identity Issues to ‘Inflame…Base at All Costs’

California’s Vanished Dream, By The Numbers

MSNBC Blast From The Past: It’s Our Job To Control How People Think… Not Elon Musk’s

A “Robin Hood Mentality” Emerges On America’s Streets As Gangs Of Thieves Start To Prey Upon The Rich

Michigan School Under Fire After Student Leaks “McCarthyist” Questionnaire

GOP-Appointed Judge Says Trump Doesn’t Care About Democracy, Only Power (Newsweek) Bias? What bias?

Man who blamed Trump’s ‘orders’ for riot actions is found guilty (KTLA)

DA Gascón derailed veteran prosecutor’s career amid media storm over rapist’s bid for early release (L.A. Daily News)

Donald Trump’s Losing Power in Capitol Riot Investigation (Newsweek) Because it’s All About Trump.

Why Good Friday is a warning against far-right Christian nationalism (NBC) Any Friday when you can bash Trump and Christians is a Good Friday for the Narrative Media.

Ex-Trump White House press secretary is now working against the former president (NPR) Let’s see – which side of the bread has butter? The Left side, of course!

DOJ seeks to limit Steve Bannon’s defense ahead of July contempt-of-Congress trial (CNN) I’m sure it does.

A ‘Stop the Steal’ enthusiast could advance in California secretary of state election (S.F. Gate)

Elon Musk is the wrong kind of billionaire

Scientists Warn Of Rapidly Spreading ‘Musk Derangement Syndrome’

What form Putin’s revenge against the US could take (CNN)

Russia believed the West was weak and decadent. So it invaded. (Washington Post)

Zelensky Warns Russia May Use Nukes After CIA Says Putin Desperate to Win (Newsweek)

Sanctioned Russian oligarchs linked to £800m worth of UK property (BBC) Linked!

ON POINT: Ukraine’s Warrior State A Fact

What should the US Navy learn from Moskva’s demise?  The Russian Navy sucks.

Putin’s war is a cross to bear for all Russians

“Z” Must Go!

4.6 Million Seeking Refuge From Russian Invasion

Nuclear weapons are not as destructive as you think

Study on US-Russia nuclear war: 91.5 MM casualties in first few hours (2019)  Mostly in Blue states, so it’s not like it’s a bad thing.

Biden administration to grant temporary protection to Cameroonians (Washington Post)

DHS launches first-ever ‘equity action plan’  Signal that virtue! Signal that virtue!

Biden shakes hands with thin air after North Carolina speech

Journos Wonder Where Joe Biden’s Wartime ‘Bounce’ Is, While Cursing GOP’s ‘Hideous’ Agenda

Mayor Eric Adams won’t commit to releasing his tax returns, breaching decades of custom (Politico) He’s so oppressed.

LA County sheriff rips liberal prosecutor George Gascón: Unless you’re a BLM activist, you don’t exist

Traffic Stops Are Bad Because They Discourage Black Criminals from Carrying Guns, Driving Badly, and Dealing Drugs

BLM: It Was Always a Scam

MSNBC Calls Pro-Life Laws Racist, Not Really Pro-Life

Covid-19 cases trend up again in the US, driven by the growth of BA.2 (CNN) Breathing new life into the PANIC!

We are in a transition phase of COVID-19, Dr. Fauci says (Deseret News) So we still need to PANIC!

Covid cases in D.C. region quietly rise again, fueled by BA.2 (Washington Post)

It’s not over: COVID-19 cases are on the rise again in US (Associated Press)

Flight from big cities INCREASES despite end of pandemic (Daily Mail)

Dr. Oz on ‘View’ host Sunny Hostin wanting more mask mandates: ‘Makes no sense medically’  Oh, as if that had anything to do with it!

Pfizer to soon pursue Covid boosters for kids (Politico) Unless they can get it officially recommended for kinds, they don’t qualify for immunity for liability for the side effects.

High hopes but tempered expectations as CDC launches review of agency’s structure and systems (The Guardian) Prediction: Nobody gets fired, nobody goes to jail.

Economists Starting To Think Shutting Down The Economy For Two Years May Have Had Some Negative Consequences  Babylon Bee.

The silenced deaths of the Shanghai 2022 lockdown

A Mujahid on Vax Guard Duty

UCLA Ordered to Release Records Showing Coordination Between Law Enforcement to Attack ‘Climate Denialism’

Fossil fuels v our future: young Montanans wage historic climate fight (The Guardian)

Polar regions normalise – for now – after record-breaking heat (Al Jezeera)

New Solar Shingles Get Rid of the Ugly, Complex Hassle That Can Be Part of Rooftop Solar (CNET)

Early warning system for Amazon forest losses seen in climate models (New Scientist)  Climate models! Is there anything they can’t do?

New York green lights massive renewable energy projects to cut fossil fuel reliance (The Hill) At taxpayer expense, of course.

EPA opens civil rights investigations over pollution in Cancer Alley (The Guardian) ‘Cancer Alley’ is one of those invented smears that the Narrative Media love so well.

Climate change: Key UN finding widely misinterpreted (BBC)

Study: Atmospheric rivers may cause next Antarctic ice shelf collapse (Axios)

‘Capitalism didn’t understand community’: Brian Eno steps up the climate crisis battle (The Guardian) Who?

National Geographic’s Misinformation about Forests and Climate Change

Read it.

Greg Pulles was the long-time general counsel of TCF Financial Corporation. (I worked for Greg in that capacity for 12 years.) Greg is something of a Renaissance man, however, in dogged pursuit of truth, beauty, and the American way. Most recently, Greg undertook the review of all 2020 and 2021 Minnesota death certificates which bear the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) code for COVID-19 (U07.1).

Having reviewed all 10,903 such certificates, Greg’s analysis supports the conclusion that the vast majority of Minnesotans was not at serious risk of death from COVID-19 and that the campaign of fear and intimidation was simply wrong. Greg’s viral Alpha News column setting forth his analysis is “Who died of COVID-19 in Minnesota?” Subhead: “Only 291, or 2.67% of the 10,903 certificates we examined, were ‘COVID only’ with no comorbidity listed.”

Read it.

As I reported yesterday, Rasmus Paludan’s planned burning of a Koran in the Swedish city of Linköping inspired an anticipatory riot by the culture-enrichers of that city. The ferocity of the rioters induced the police to withdraw from the location of the event, and the notorious Koran-burner was unable to make an appearance.

Shoulda burned a Bible instead. Nobody could possibly object to that.

Last night the violence spread from Linköping to the nearby city of Norrköping.

What’s new in the Religion of Peace?

Read it.

And Biden’s poll numbers plummet, which is the important part.

.UPDATE: Biden administration announces it will resume onshore oil and gas lease sales with higher royalty rate  (CNN) But don’t call it price-gouging! No, siree! Only Big Oil does that!

UPDATE: Biden Opens More Public Land To Oil & Gas Drilling In Latest Climate-Policy Capitulation

Why has Biden’s approval plunged with young people? (Washington Post)

Biden approval rating lowest with Hispanic voters, poll finds

Whitey Bulger’s nephew played key role in Hunter Biden’s Chinese business ventures

How History Will View the Biden Years  Worse than Jimmy Carter.

Chatlee: The Folly of Biden’s Ethanol Mandate

How low can Joe go?

Covid-19 booster raises antibody levels against Omicron for children ages 5 through 11, Pfizer and BioNTech say

OCD isn’t just about being a neat freak. And for those with it, this next stage of the pandemic may be hard (CNN) Time to keep pushing the PANIC!

How to know if you’re at risk for omicron XE (Deseret News)

Dr. Gottlieb: In two weeks, pace of infection in the U.S. may look different (MSNBC) Who?

This major COVID symptom is linked to brain damage (Deseret News) Linked!

Bay Area COVID cases are rising. How worried are public health officials? (S.F. Chronicle)

2 new omicron variants are spreading in N.Y. and elsewhere. Here’s what we know (NPR)

Less than 10 percent of Americans say COVID still a ‘serious crisis:’ poll  And they all work for the government or the Narrative Media.

Name Your Poison

Does Vaccination Make You MORE Likely to Catch Covid?

Biden COVID Czar: Little Kids Should Still Wear Masks Because CDC Says So