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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

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

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

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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.”

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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?

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

Powerful ‘rivers in the sky’ could cause Antarctic Peninsula’s biggest ice shelf to collapse (CNN)

Our food system isn’t ready for the climate crisis (The Guardian)

Democrats keep working against oil companies, ‘not with us’: Big Oil CEO  My, what a surprise.

As Australia’s climate changes, a tropical disease advances (Washington Post)

California proposes ban on sale of gas vehicles by 2035  And the exodus will become a flood.

Battle over carbon capture as tool to fight climate change (Associated Press)

Rightwing populist parties blight climate policy, study finds (The Guardian) Blight!

‘We’re all in trouble’ – Wind turbine makers selling at a loss

Sorry, Nature, Associated Press, etc., Climate Change Is Not Making Hurricanes ‘Wetter’

‘The lunacy is getting more intense’: how Birds Aren’t Real took on the conspiracy theorists (The Guardian) The Left is what happens when kids never grow up.

Jordan Klepper Crashes CPAC and Confronts Delusional MAGA Cultists (Daily Beast) Best high-school ‘journalism’ ever.

The Supreme Court may be setting the stage for the mother of all culture clashes (Washington Post)

Mary Trump on the fate of democracy (MSNBC) If her name weren’t Trump, would anybody care?

These Minnesotans are bringing social justice to the Seder table (Minneapolis Star Tribune) There is no escaping the Woke.

Anti-Israel Referendum at Princeton Marred by Fraudulent Instruction From Top Voting Official

MSNBC Warns of ‘Devastating Consequences’ If Elon Musk Buys Twitter, Allows Free Speech

Add Kansas to the Growing List of States Banning Sanctuary Cities

70% of Seattle Light-Rail Riders Don’t Pay

Twitter Suspends LibsofTikTok For Featuring Liberals Talking About Themselves?

Avlon Laments ‘Another Blow to Our Democracy’ After RNC Debate Withdrawal

New AMC Drama ’61st Street’ Depicts Cops as Horrible Monsters

CNN Slams Libertarian Children’s Books—Causing Sales to Surge

Twitter Board Adopts “Poison Pill” To Thwart Musk Takeover, Exposing Itself To “Titanic” Legal Liability  Musk is taking lessons from Trump on Shaking The Box; I suspect he’s having a great time.

GOP Lawmaker: Hitler Should Serve as an Inspiration to Homeless People (Daily Beast) Best high-school ‘journalism’ in the country.

NY AG launches gas price gouging investigation into the oil industry (CNN) Gouging!

DOJ charges 3 Russians with running ‘foreign influence and disinformation network’ in U.S. (CNBC) Can a Trump indictment be far behind?

Raskin: Jan. 6 panel’s report will include ‘crimes that have not yet been alleged’ (The Hill)

Soros-Funded Group Whines Billionaires Are ‘Toxic’ to ‘Democracy’

Freeberg nails it.

So, Elon has made his move on Twitter. And now we’re all talking about free speech, and those awful terrible billionaires doing…stuff.

This debate over “free speech” is about to drift over into “Yeah but what about truth?” The narrative is going to be that we can’t have speech that’s so free that people can sling about untrue things. So it’s like a hose, you see? Or a coffee filter. You can constrict it and be anti-free-speech, but if you open it up too much, a bunch of “disinformation” gets in there…so we have to find a happy medium.

Back up the truck. Before we even get there, let’s inspect this.

ZMan discusses what’s going on.

It is fair to say that this is the worst time for Christians and Christianity in the West since the Roman empire. In order to promote equality, liberal democracy has created protected classes of people who cannot be criticized. The other side of this are people who must me mocked and ridiculed. Christians were the first group placed in this category and remain the popular object of ridicule in the West. There is no prohibition against overt hatred of Christians in most Western countries.

We are not feeding Christian to lions in gladiatorial pits, but you can be sure some elements of the ruling class have thought about it. Back in the Obama years, much of the health care bill was designed to torment Christians. For example, forcing Catholic groups to pay for abortions and prophylactics. There was no public health reason for these provisions. They simply satisfied the demented and sadistic impulses of the people who put together the program.

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What is this “democracy” that Max Boot seeks to protect? It seems undeniable that his understanding of “moderation” includes the elimination of “content” (even if completely accurate) that puts left of center political interests and candidates in a bad light. The thin pretense that Boot is deeply committed to the truth is part of the same vision animating Nancy Pelosi’s claim that legislation intended to make election cheating vastly easier is needed to “save” democracy.

The weird use of “democracy” here is more than a cynical attempt to gain an electoral edge for one side. There appears to be a coherent tacit redefinition of “democracy” at work.

David Horowitz.

Bernie Sanders is the founder of the Progressive Caucus and most popular figure in the Democrat Party. He is also the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, and therefore a key player in determining how Washington decides to spend taxpayers’ dollars. Bernie is also a lifetime fan of Communist regimes and apologist for their totalitarian practices – and atrocities. He supported Iran’s Islamo-fascist regime in 1979 when it made hostages of 52 American diplomats and embassy workers, held them for 444 days, and chanted “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” – repeating the threats through time.

As an American politician for more than five decades, Bernie’s chief passion has been hatred of billionaires and of wealth in general, and of the economic system that makes wealth possible. He pursues this passion without a scintilla of self-awareness, ignoring the fact that he, himself, is worth $3 million. This personal wealth allows him to own three houses, while the average person is lucky to own one. While presenting himself as a champion of the working classes, and opponent of million- dollar incomes, he has no apparent intention of redistributing his own wealth to less fortunate individuals who may need it more than he does.

68% of U.S. execs admit their companies are guilty of greenwashing (Fast Company) In their limited sample.

Global executives suspect their own companies of “greenwashing” (Axios) based on the same small sample.

XR scientists glue hands to business department in London climate protest (The Guardian)

The Wild, Uncertain Future of Carbon Dioxide Removal (Gizmodo)

Is civil disobedience OK if it’s the only way to prevent climate catastrophe? (The Guardian)

Why are climate and conservation scientists taking to the streets? (The Guardian)

The climate crisis is supercharging rainfall in hurricanes, scientists report (CNN)

First look: Climate, environment shape Gen Z life decisions (Axios)

Exit the Paris Climate Accord

Where have all the Clouds gone and why care?

??Oceans Aren’t Just Warming—Their Soundscapes Are Transforming (Wired ‘Science’)

The View: SCOTUS to ‘Pass a Bill’ ‘On Their Desk’ to Make NY ‘Open Carry’  The level of ignorance among the ‘journalists’ of the Narrative Media never ceases to amaze.

Two Florida men at The Villages admit to voter fraud in 2020 election (Washington Post)

San Francisco ready for ‘change,’ Pelosi faces criticism from hometown crowd ahead of reelect bid

Dysfunctional Supreme Court confirmation process damages democracy (Knoxville News Sentinel)

Principal at elite Lowell High School resigns, slamming SFUSD in farewell letter (San Francisco Chronicle)

Peruvians are over their president. Latin America seems over democracy. (Washington Post)

‘A plot to destroy democracy’: civil rights group raises alarm at threats to US elections (The Guardian) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Now nothing will stop the Supreme Court from overturning Roe v. Wade (Washington Post)

UK to give asylum seekers one-way ticket to Rwanda (BBC)

Hawaii Democrat hasn’t been to DC in months, still working as airline pilot

Net Domestic Migration: Shift to From Larger Metros to Smaller Areas Accelerates

In Name of ‘Consumer Protection,’ Government Forces Financial Institutions to Go Woke

Robert Reich Goes Full Orwellian: More Freedom Is Tyranny

LA Sheriff Charges That Policies of Soros-Backed District Attorney Profit Criminals

Twitter Suspends Popular ‘Libs of TikTok’ Account  Go, Elon! Go, Elon!

Not Just Biden: Lawmakers Say Dianne Feinstein Is Cognitively Impaired

Is the Woke Cultural Agenda of Union Leaders Undermining Support For Unions?

The ACLU Forced an All-Female Prison To Take Transgender Inmates. Now 2 Prisoners Are Pregnant.  Saw that coming.

Kimmel: Florida ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Law Made ‘To Get Dumb People Excited’  Well, he’s a dumb person, and it got him excited, so I guess it worked.

Democrats Dominate ‘Misinformation’ Firm Working With Teachers’ Union

VIDEO: Democrat Mocks Asian Congresswoman’s Accent  And Democrats were assholes, every one.

The Squad’s Next Member Compares ‘Defund the Police’ Activists to MLK  Well, for one thing, they’re less Republican.

In Ad Campaign, DC Police Union Slams Politicians Over Surge in Crime

The Urge to Spend Other People’s Money

‘Hard Right Turn’: MSNBC Aghast At Republicans Being Republicans

CDC extends travel mask requirement to May 3 as COVID rises (Associated Press)

WHO says Covid still a global public health emergency even as deaths fall to lowest level in two years (CNBC)

COVID remains a public health emergency for now, says WHO and Biden administration (NPR)

Pfizer’s Bourla: COVID vaccines for new variants possible for Fall (Reuters)

Primary iPhone factory in China now operating as normal, new COVID-19 precautions in place

Watch: Fauci Admits “You Use Lockdowns To Get People Vaccinated”

Proof that Covid Shutdowns Are Useless

‘Covid Relief’ Funds Spent on Tennis Courts and Smoothie Bars  Well, I’m sure that was a relief.

Texas Follows Through With Gross Stunt of Dumping Migrants in D.C. (Daily Beast)

Greg Abbott eagerly fills the border-politics void left by Trump (Washington Post)

How to explain Tim Scott? (Washington Post) Well, usually by just making stuff up.

Replacing derogatory names in WA gets dragged into our larger culture war (Seattle Times)

State: Residency law too late to remove Trump-backed hopeful (Associated Press)

Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoes 26 Democratic bills (Associated Press)

Liberal NowThis News ripped for 2018 video mocking Trump’s prediction about Germany  Trump was right again.

Capitol riot defendant blames actions on Trump and false election claims (The Guardian) He now loves Big Brother.

NY AG expands Trump Organization civil investigation to include role of appraiser (CNN)

Wealthiest Americans pay just 3.4% of income in taxes, investigation reveals (The Guardian)

These Bay Area and California billionaires pay a lower effective federal tax rate than you do (S.F. Gate)

MSNBC, ABC, CBS, Democrats repeatedly fearmonger, claim GOP will be the ‘death of democracy’

Ruhle Lets MSNBC Analyst Liken Republicans to ISIS on Abortion

MSM Brands Musk A “Supervillain” As Blue Checks Melt Down Over Hostile Twitter Takeover

Why Biden’s pandering trip to the ‘heartland’ is worthwhile (Washington Post) Gotta keep those rubes in Flyover Country quiet.

Psaki slams Gov. Abbott over truck inspections at Texas-Mexico border, blames him for price increases

Biden approval rating tumbles to lowest point of his presidency: poll

Biden’s approval falls to new low amid economic pessimism, inflation woes, CNBC survey finds (CNBC)

‘Now I’m pissed’: Secret Service agents outraged by White House spin over First Dog bites

Biden Extends Mask Mandate For Americans, While Scrapping All Restrictions For Illegal Border Migrants

It’s Biden’s price hike, not Putin’s

Hunter Biden Likely To Be Charged Under FARA… If DoJ Applies The Mueller Standard  Which it won’t. The Crust takes care of its own.

Biden Administration Extends Freeze on Student Loan Payments… Again  They’d love to just cancel student loans and be done with it, but they realize that it would be seen for what it would be, a huge giveaway to the Children of the Crust at Dirt-People-Taxpayer expense.

Pigeon That Pooped On Biden To Speak At CPAC  Babylon Bee.

This Group Is Poised To Sue the Biden Administration To Stop a New Iran Nuclear Deal

Biden FEC Pick Repped Mayor Who Robbed Children’s Book Profits To Fund Campaign

Biden Fuels Soaring Inflation and Media Does Its Part to Gaslight Us About It

New Rule Would Force Climate Change Reporting Requirements on Most Companies in America

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Yellowstone is celebrating its 150th birthday by offering an annual park pass that won’t be valid for another 150 years. In exchange for a $1,500 donation, park supporters can snag a current annual parks pass and one of these “Inheritance Passes,” handing it down to their descendents to use in 2172.

There’s one born every minute.

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Affordable non-polluting power would break a lot of rice bowls. I’m looking forward to it.

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Germany is a big source of income for Russia. Conversely, Germany depends a lot on Russia, which provides 55% of Germany’s gas, 34% of its oil, and 53% of its hard coal. And fossil fuels provide the lion’s share of Germany’s energy needs.

Follow the money….

The basic problem with nuclear power for the Crony Crowd is that it doesn’t provide any of the Cloud People with a dependable stream of income – not like oil, gas, wind, solar, chicken farts, and unicorn poop.

Steve has some thoughts.

I just had my first decent breakfast in weeks. I had my last good breakfast in Ireland, during my recent trip. Every breakfast since then was lame. Until today. I just visited McDonald’s.

I don’t know why people don’t man up and admit McDonald’s makes some of the best breakfast food on the planet. It must be snob anxiety. They’re afraid of what other people will think. I remember seeing Candice Bergen brag that she had never had a McDonald’s hamburger. She sounded like a fool to me. Sure, she said the right thing to avoid raising the anemic eyebrows of her elitist vegan peers, but she sounded like a snob who was more interested in currying favor than in enjoying good food. For all she knew, McDonald’s burgers were wonderful, but she was afraid to try them because the unwashed intracoastal masses ate them.

I know Mcdonald’s burgers are NOT wonderful, but then I’ve eaten them. I gave them a shot. I didn’t sneer at them in proud ignorance.

Today I had a sausage and egg McMuffin, a sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit, and hash browns. I mixed Hunt’s All-Natural ketchup with a little Frank’s Red Hot, and I dipped liberally. I’m still basking in the afterglow.

Concur. I have great respect for the Sausage Egg McMuffin. It isn’t the best breakfast sandwich available, but it’s far from the worst.

ZMan does an eyeroll.

The government released the latest inflation data and the results were the worst we have seen in forty years. The retail number came in at 8.4% and the wholesale number clocked in at 11.2%. Of course, the retail number excludes the things that people buy, like food, fuel and housing. These numbers also rely upon the new math rather than old math used the last time inflation was an issue. By the old inflation standard, retail inflation is over 15%.

The political class is poleaxed by these numbers as they have been assured that inflation at these levels was impossible. Modern economic theory says that inflation is caused by too much money chasing too few goods. We now have top men in place to keep an eye out for this. They just need to manage the money supply to keep inflation under control. This assumption led the top men to assume inflation was transitory, the result of supply chain issues.

That should be the first red flag when looking at the economic data. Those top men that are supposed to have a handle on the money supply say they are as surprised as the rest of us that food has doubled in price. A month ago, they were talking about a series of exceedingly small rate hikes. Now they are talking about a series of substantial rate hikes to prevent inflation from going even higher. You get the sense that there is both panic and confusion among those top men.

Ann Coulter is fed up.

Weird that the media didn’t cite Ketanji Brown Jackson’s height and weight as her most important characteristics. When it came to THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN ON THE SUPREME COURT, it was all about her race. But after a guy shot up a New York City subway car this week, the last thing the media wanted to tell us was his race.

For more than three hours after the attack, we got urgent alerts: Suspect at large! Police request public’s help! Be on the alert for a male, about 5’8?, 160 lbs.”

In this particular case, the media’s rule of never telling us the suspect’s race (unless he’s white) was more deranged than usual. This wasn’t a carjacking. It wasn’t a shooting at a block party. It wasn’t an attack on an Asian or Jew. This crime had all the earmarks of a terror attack — smoke bombs, fireworks, a gas mask, and about a dozen people shot while trapped in a subway car.

The police desperately needed the public’s help, but most people were looking for a Middle Easterner.

Read it.

“What happened to that guy?” A lot of us have asked this question in the past few years about columnists, pundits, and thinkers we’ve always agreed with, only to see them taking a wildly different tack. Next, we’ll ask, “Did I change or did they?” I know I’ve changed quite a bit, but to see influential conservatives pushing “the conservative case for voting Democrat/Promoting CRT and Queer Theory/censoring Republicans/etc.” remains tough to stomach.

Every time I see “The Conservative Case For [insert proglodyte scheme here]” I want to barf.

Read it.

According to TDEM, Abbott’s plan is already working. The agency told Fox News on Monday that many of the communities that originally reached out for support – from the Rio Grande Valley to Terrell County – say the federal government stopped dropping immigrants in their towns since Abbott’s announcement on April 6.

This could prove amusing.

Brooklyn subway shooting live updates: NYPD concludes investigation at 36th Street station

BLM defends multimillion-dollar mansion purchase in lengthy Twitter thread

Vandals spray paint over national award-winning social justice murals in Gainesville parks (Gainesville Sun)

Subway Shooter Coverage in NY Times vs. NY Post  Sailer’s Law of Mass Shootings proves out once again.

“Kill All The Whiteys” – Suspect In Brooklyn Subway Shooting Spouted Hateful “Black Nationalist” Rhetoric, Praised “Beautiful” 9/11

‘It’s, Like, Triggering’: Watch BLM Leader Break Down Over Laws Requiring Disclosure of How She Spent Donor Money

“Decolonising Math”: University Asks Professors To Consider Race Of Mathematicians Before Relying On Their Work

Racial Paranoia in Post-Obama America

Subway shooting suspect Frank James arrested: an equal opportunity hater, but you would have trouble learning that if you only read the MSM

Elon Musk’s vision for the internet is dangerous nonsense (The Guardian) And Robert Reich knows all about dangerous nonsense.

An unintentionally revealing line in a Donald Trump un-endorsement (CNN) And of course Chris Cilizza, ace mind-reader, absolutely knows what Trump’s intention is.

Kimmel Hits Back at Accused ‘Sex Offender’ Matt Gaetz for Calling Him Sexist (Daily Beast)

Did Jared Kushner just get a $2 billion bribe? (Philadelphia Inquirer) Since he’s not a public official, it doesn’t matter. But it’s really all about Trump.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Joining Military Is ‘Throwing Your Life Away’ (Newsweek) Leaving out, of course, the key qualifier ‘under Biden’.

Jimmy Kimmel Spots Major Trump Confession Hiding In Plain Sight (Huffington Post) Except that it isn’t really.

The infuriating insincerity of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos’ chat about San Francisco homelessness (S.F. Gate)  Infuriating! (The Narrative Media is just chock-full of expert mind-readers.)

CLOWN Robert Reich: Elon Musk’s ‘Libertarian’ Views on Internet ‘Dream of Every Dictator’

NYT Opinion Editor: Couldn’t Help Worrying ‘For Our Democracy’ After Hearing Conservative Men  ‘Their’ democracy is one in which they win all of the time.

20 Federal ‘Assets’ Embedded At Capitol On Jan. 6, Court Filing Says