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For the most part, generational politics are a self-defeating enterprise, because you end up attacking your allies. It is hard to attack people about whom you know little, but it is easy to find fault with those you know well. Every generation strains against its parents and every generation strains to teach its children. This is why it has been encouraged among the majority populations in the West. It is an effective way of keeping a natural majority from forming up in opposition to the ruling elite.

That said, there is something useful to thinking generationally. Oswald Spengler relied upon a form of generational politics to put forth his theory of history. Of course, we have the old adage, “shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations”. This describes the inability of grandchildren to manage the wealth passed down to them from their grandparents and parents. This is Spengler’s argument in a nutshell. A civilization rises, accomplishes what it can and then falls into decline.

We are witnessing the end phase with the Global American Empire. It is not exactly a three generation cycle, but the basics are right. One theory of American history says the empire was founded at Gettysburg. That would mean the current generation of rulers is the fifth or sixth generation. On the other hand, some argue the Second World War is the founding of the empire, so that mean the third generation is in charge. The concept still works and is closer to the old adage.

The more things change, the more they’re the same thing, as the Frogs like to say.

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HB11 is approaching nuclear fusion from an entirely new angle, using high power, high precision lasers instead of hundred-million-degree temperatures to start the reaction. Its first demo has produced 10 times more fusion reactions than expected, and the company says it’s now “the only commercial entity to achieve fusion so far,” making it “the global frontrunner in the race to commercialize the holy grail of clean energy.”

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Salah Abdeslam is the only surviving member of the leadership group of Islamic terrorists who carried out the deadly attacks in Paris in November of 2015, including the hideous slaughter at the Bataclan café. Mr. Abdeslam’s trial in Paris has been underway since last year, and is expected to conclude sometime next month.

In an earlier post, it was reported that Mr. Abdeslam had refused to answer questions. But now he seems to have changed his mind, to a certain extent.

Avoid religions that make a virtue of killing innocent people

Bill Maher: The Left-Wing Media “Buried” Hunter Biden Story Because It “Wasn’t Part Of Their Narrative”

It’s Open Season On Cops

PBS and NPR Air Unanimous Taxpayer-Funded LGBT Radicalism

State-Sponsored Discrimination: One Step Back, One Step Forward

After Amazon workers’ union victory the Fed must stop tipping the scales for bosses (The Guardian) Robert Reich thinks this is still 1933.

Adams defends NYPD crackdown on low-level offenses, rejects suggestion he’s bringing back ‘broken windows’ policing  God forbid he should adopt a policy that famously worked.

$45,000 in damages reported at Castro Theatre after two break-ins (S.F. Gate) Time to leave.

South Carolina Gamecocks Use National Anthem To Protest

18-34 Year Olds Want More Free-Money For Themselves (But Who Will Pay For It?)

SARS-CoV-2 spike protein induces cognitive deficit and anxiety-like behavior in mouse via non-cell autonomous hippocampal neuronal death

Clinical health outcomes of omicron ‘less severe’ than delta for pediatric patients

New study reveals how we get sick from COVID (Deseret News)

The CDC is beholden to corporations and lost our trust. We need to start our own (The Guardian) We’ll stick “The People’s” in the name to show that it’s sufficiently Woke.

Enough: New Yorkers must demand an end to Adams’ toddler mask mandate

What Do We Do About COVID Now? (The New Yorker) Aside, of course, from continuing to PANIC!

COVID, Hospitals, and Humanity

“I Have No Idea What’s Going On” – Shanghai Officials Separate COVID-Positive Children From Parents As Outbreak Worsens

NIH Admits It “Suppressed” Wuhan Lab Genetic Data, But Disputes Watchdog’s “Deleted” Label

China, Once Praised by Media for COVID Response, Tears Sick Children From Parents  It always astonishes certain people when a Communist government acts like a Communist government.

Fauci’s United Front Is Collapsing

Biden Invokes Defense Production Act to Boost Renewables  What do ‘renewables’ have to do with defense? Not a fucking thing. But it’s part of the Narrative.

President says first lady Jill Biden was Obama’s VP in latest gaffe

Mexico suspends gasoline subsidy as Americans cross border for deals

Energy groups target Biden administration over unwillingness to expand domestic oil production

For the Last Two Months, the Nets Buried the Border Crisis (And It’s About to Get Much Worse)

Another One? Kamala Harris Deputy Chief-Of-Staff Quits

Nets Refuse to Cover Secret Service Spending Thousands with Hunter in Malibu

Hunter Biden’s Secret Service Detail Spends $30K Per Month Renting Out Mansion

SHOCK: Wash Post Finally Sees ‘Danger’ to ‘Suppressing’ ‘Accurate’ Hunter Story

3 States Sue Biden Administration Over Ending COVID-19 Restrictions at Border

Biden’s “Absolute” Defense Of Hunter Leaves Media & Justice Department In A Muddle

Pentagon to scrap nuclear gravity bomb as part of Biden review

Biden Continues to Lie About the Oil & Gas Industry

Ketanji Brown Jackson takes swipe at legal correspondent who called US Constitution ‘actually trash’

Sacramento shooting: ‘Multiple’ gunmen sought after 6 killed, 12 injured

Ex-NYT Scribe SEETHES: ‘How Low Will’ the GOP ‘Go?’

Masters Name is ‘No Coincidence!’ Unhinged Olbermann Says Boycott Augusta

Clash Of SJW Titans: Abdul-Jabbar Calls Out Hypocrite LeBron James

‘Don’t Trust Black Women’: Whoopi RAGES at GOP Opposition to Jackson

Apple, Netflix bail out of bidding war for Will Smith biopic amid controversy

After Judiciary Committee Deadlocks, Ketanji Brown Jackson Advances To Senate Confirmation Vote

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Chicago, Chicago, that fascistic town….

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David Horowitz authored this essay on the progressive mind. Too many conservatives fail to appreciate the radical evil that lies at the heart of progressivism by, e.g., giving progressives credit for good intentions and assuming that the disasters caused by their policies are inadvertent. David disagrees.

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Earlier this month, the FDA approved genome-edited cattle for use in meat production. They were bred with climate change in mind, and they have extremely slick, short hair, which is said to help the animals cope with hot weather more effectively.

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The corporate media’s effort to suppress any news of the ongoing border disaster, which is expected to accelerate after the Biden Administration’s widely advertised repeal of Title 42, includes suppression of the recent overrun of the Mexican National Guard near the border with Guatemala.

COVID-19: Here’s what experts say to expect as BA.2 omicron subvariant spreads across Florida (Palm Beach Post)

The top BA.2 COVID-19 symptoms doctors are seeing right now (Deseret News)

10 unusual COVID-19 symptoms to remember (Deseret News)

Covid-19 hospitalizations hit a pandemic low in the US, but strain on hospitals persists (CNN)

WHO unveils plan to end global COVID-19 emergency in 2022 (The Hill) I guess our ‘two weeks to flatten the curve’ are up.

Shanghai Lockdown Expanded To Cover Entire City As China’s Worst Outbreak In 2 Years Drags On

Employees are returning to the office to sit on zoom calls

Period problems after Covid vaccine: Tenfold increase in reports

New York City Will Mandate Masks For Children Under 5 Years Old

Manchin: Biden’s repeal of Title 42 order ‘a frightening decision’ (The Hill)

Wilmington computer shop owner speaks out after latest Hunter Biden laptop developments

Washington Post, New York Times finally admit Hunter’s laptop is real — but only to protect Joe Biden some more

U.S. boosts fuel efficiency rules as Biden reverses Trump rollback (Reuters)

Kamala Harris Contradicts Biden’s Putin Remarks: “We Are Not Into Regime Change”  Laying the groundwork for the soon-to-be Harris administration.

The hope and climate catastrophe roadshow: ‘there’s just this thirst for optimistic story’ (The Guardian)

Soon-to-be released UN report to say removing carbon from atmosphere only way to save climate

Bolsa Chica wetlands face dire threat from sea-level rise (O.C. Register)

Slap yourself and pay attention: The Doomsday Glacier is a global risk (WRAL Tech Wire)

The signs grow more dramatic and harder to ignore | Eco News (Western Advocate)

These companies say their carbon pipelines would curb climate change. Farmers object (NPR)

Climate change is speeding up sound in the ocean. That’s bad for marine animals (Fast Company)

“Who’s Talking Climate Change Now?”: Arab States Respond to Global Demand for Energy Security

Limits to green energy are becoming much clearer

The new Pause lengthens: now 7 years 6 months

Deep secrets of climate change

Wind Turbines Out West Part II

Baby bonds? Reparations? There’s no quick fix for racial wealth gap (Washington Post)

A food festival accused of ignoring Black history is trying to change (Washington Post)

Justice Department Charges 12 People For Arming Gang Members In Chicago  Unmentioned in this entire article are the facts that the Gangster Disciples is a black gang and that the three soldiers in question are almost certainly black as well.

‘Refunding’ police isn’t working in California or anywhere else (S.F. Chronicle)

Two years after ‘Defund the Police’ movement many places are funding the police again (Denver 7 Colorodo News)

FEC investigation found AOC campaign did not ‘properly’ disclose expenses and gives her a pass

Americans aren’t fooled by Democrats’ disastrous record (The Hill)

What really happened at Geneva’s crucial biodiversity negotiations? (The Guardian)

What the Left Keeps Getting Wrong About Free Speech (The Daily Beast)

Media embrace of free speech, illiberalism debate angers some on the Left

Mainstream Media Shocked Again by the Inevitable—This Time Government Waste (Newsweek)

Young people too entitled, says CEO worth $400m (The Guardian)

MSNBC Frets Florida Parents’ Rights Law Is ‘Terror Tactic’

WhatsApp for iOS limiting number of messages users can forward to prevent misinformation

CNN: LGBTQ Are Culture War Victims, Parent’s Rights Like Segregation

‘The House That Davos Built’ Quakes As PM Orban Takes ‘Commanding Early Lead’ In Hungary Election

‘SNL’ takes aim at Clarence Thomas, wife Ginni Thomas over text message controversy

Apple wields its lobbying might against LGBTQ laws (Politico)

The Memo: Trump, allies face mounting troubles from Jan. 6 twists (The Hill)

Critics Mock Donald Trump’s ‘Truth Social’ Over Slump (Newsweek)

The Lynching of Justice Clarence Thomas

NOT Subtle: Washington Post Cartoonist Paints DeSantis as Child Murderer

Biden Wants DOJ To Prosecute Trump Over January 6  Or for SOMETHING.

MSNBC’s Tiffany Cross Fantasizes Trump Being Arrested ‘Cops’-style  I get the impression that people at MSNBC have a very rich fantasy life.

Putin Seeks To Declare ‘Victory’ Over Eastern Ukraine By May 9th: US Officials

Twitter Breaks Own Rules, Allows Death Threat Against J.K. Rowling

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National Conservatism, if people have heard of it at all, is regarded by many in the English-speaking press as an extremist ideology. In 2020, when the first conference was held in Rome, Daniel Kawczynski MP was furiously criticised by the press for appearing at a conference that also included Victor Orban. Resentment at the hostility of the Anglo-American media still lingered, and I heard from multiple people who felt their movement had been cynically misrepresented by a journalistic establishment that is ideologically hostile to nationalism, even when nationalism is wedded (as many speakers suggested) to civil liberties, democracy, and anti-racism.

Big enough to drive a truck through.

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A privately-owned tokamak in the United Kingdom has reportedly achieved ignition temperature for nuclear fusion, meaning the reactor has reached the threshold for commercial energy production.

Tokamak Energy, an amusingly hard-to-Google company based in Oxford in the south of England, has been working on tokamak reactors since 2009. Even before that, the group was founded as part of England’s national Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, with decades of history as part of the world’s nuclear fusion research efforts. (Private companies like Tokamak Energy, which spin off of research facilities housed at universities or as part of government programs, are surprisingly common. One battery researcher tells Popular Mechanics that the reason is simple: students and public funds should be doing new research, not slogging through the long road of research and development on an emerging commercial product.)

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Memorization means purposely learning something so that you remember it with muscle memory; that is, you know the information without needing to look it up.

Every educator knows that memorization is passé in today’s day and age. Facts are so effortlessly accessible with modern technology and the internet that it’s understanding how to analyze them that’s important. Names, places, dates, and other kinds of trivia don’t matter, so much as the ability to logically reason about them. Today anything can be easily looked up.

But as I’ve gotten older I’ve started to understand that memorization is important, much more than we give it credit for. Knowledge is at our fingertips and we can look anything up, but it’s knowing what knowledge is available and how to integrate it into our existing knowledge base that’s important.

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The blight that is wheat took root 10,000 years ago, when Triticum aestivum, or bread wheat, was domesticated from wild grasses in the “Fertile Crescent” of the Middle East. Initially, the local Neolithics cultivated wheat alongside traditional hunter-gathering and incipient pastoralism (livestock farming). But wheat is a slave-master, demanding in its specific and daily needs, not least the endless — or so it seems to us who have ever grown the stuff — weeding. Wheat locked us into a seasonal cycle of planting, weeding and harvesting from which we have been unable to escape ever since. It also made us more sedentary, both in terms of chaining us to static settlements, and becoming less active. Guarding a wheat field from wild boar requires less energy than hunting wild boar; the lineal ancestor of the couch potato was the campfire bun.

“Carbs! Carbs will kill ya, kid! Stay away from carbs! You’ll thank me.”

Ending CDC Order That Expelled Illegal Border Crossers to Prevent COVID-19 Spread Will Create Massive New Influx

The Fed Cannot Undo The Damage It Has Already Caused

Judge Ousts Five School Board Members After Pennsylvania Parent Petition

Election Watchdog Finds 137,500 Ballots Unlawfully Trafficked In Wisconsin

Nets Skip Trump Call Log Reversal, CBS Gushes for Biden’s Sister

International Journo Group to Give Andrea Mitchell for ‘Award for Excellence’

How Are Food Prices Being Covered On Television News?

Maher: Hunter Laptop Cover Up is ‘Why People Don’t Trust the Media’

L.A. Judge Rules LGBT Corporate Diversity Law Unconstitutional

The Media’s Hunter Biden Embarrassment Continues

Chicago Fed’s Woke Enemy Of Free Speech Heading For Promotion To Federal Reserve Board

MSNBC host Joy Reid accused of ‘pulling a Smollett’ with blog hacking claim

Lindsey Graham’s No Vote on Ketanji Brown Jackson Breaks 17-Year Precedent

Cross Suggests Clarence Thomas Suffers From a Racial Identity Crisis  Because that’s what would be happening to Tiffany Cross and isn’t everybody just like her?

White House forced to clean up new Biden gaffe on renewable energy

US fuel economy rules will soon require 49 mpg average (CNN)

Breakup at Land Glacier (NASA)

US taps $420M to boost water supplies hit by climate change (Associated Press)

With climate change accelerating and despair growing, how far are activists willing to take their protests? (Boston Globe)

Why is Biden boasting about drilling for oil? Our planet demands we stop now (The Guardian)

Floridians don’t seem to care that our environment is being fouled (Gainesville Sun)

Weird: NY Times Praises UN Climate Guru Gluing Herself to Oil Company HQ’s

Estimates of the carbon cycle – vital to predicting climate change – are incorrect, Virginia Tech researchers show

Fossil Fuels v Renewable Energy

How Russian oligarchs are finding safe havens outside the West (Washington Post)  All oligarchs, all ghd gimd.

Who is Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich? (Washington Post) All oligarchs, all the time.

Has the Ukraine war saved Orbán?

The Frozen Russian Superyachts (And Those That Got Away)  All oligarchs, all the time.

The war in Ukraine may have only just begun

Troll Farms Aren’t Actually as Strategic of a Weapon as the Kremlin and New York Times Assumed

Behind the Ukraine war  Lefty SF writer Charlie Stross has some thoughts.

IMF Warns That Sanctions Against Russia Threaten To Weaken The Dominance Of The Dollar

Gazprom Halts Gas Shipments To Europe Via Critical Pipeline

Unless democracies defend themselves, the forces of autocracy will destroy them (The Atlantic)

Roman Abramovich’s $1 Billion Five-Yacht Fleet Exposed  All oligarchs, all the time.

Ukraine Announces Million Dollars Reward Per Russian Helicopter, Fighter Jet, Warship

Putin’s Game Ends

China Accused Of Massive Ukraine Cyberattack Days Before Russian Invasion  We’ll get by with a little help from our friends….

Pope Frances For 1st Time Denounces Putin As “Potentate” Fomenting “Savage War” – Mulls Ukraine Trip

Google Threatens To Demonetize Publishers Over Ukraine Views

Foreign Threats Demand a Muscular Domestic Response

New Mutant “XE” Omicron Variant May Be The Most Transmissible Version Of Covid Yet, According To WHO (Deadline)

How the next coronavirus variant could emerge (CNN)

Fauci Says China Was “Extremely Secretive” But “Didn’t Necessarily” Cover-Up Pandemic

German Apparatchiks Get a Corona Bonus

What Educating Our Kids Looks Like After COVID-19

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Early success with a procedure called a mitochondrial transplant offers a glimmer of hope for people fighting for survival after cardiac arrest, stroke, and more.

Glenn Greenwald.

The front-page reporter, Taylor Lorenz, recently ofThe New York Times and now The Washington Post, uses the skills she learned growing up in Old Greenwich, Connecticut and while being educated at Greenwich High School and absolutely lovely boarding schools in the Swiss Alps to express, on NBC News’ Meet the Press Daily, the trauma and victimization she endures from critics of her journalism: journalism which she has often weaponized to destroy the lives of many powerless people including teenagers, on April 1, 2022 (credit: MSNBC)

When Hillary Clinton’s divine entitlement to the U.S. presidency began to look imperiled in 2016 — first due to the irreverent and unkempt (but surprisingly formidable) Democratic Party primary challenge from Bernie Sanders, the independent socialist Senator from Vermont — her campaign and its media allies invented and unveiled a deeply moving morality tale. A faceless horde of unnamed, uncredentialed, unmannered, violent, abusive and deeply misogynistic online Sanders supporters — dubbed with the gender-emphasizing name “Bernie Bros” even though many were women — were berating, insulting and brutalizing Hillary, her top campaign surrogates (U.S. Senators, former cabinet members, corporate executives), and especially pro-Hillary corporate journalists with a vast artillery of traumatizing words and violent tweets.

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Apparently our long national nightmare is over.

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There is a famous Wizard of Id cartoon in which the king is sitting on his throne when a messenger rushes in to say ‘The moat monsters are starving!” The next panel shows the king and the duke looking down into the moat from the top of a wall when another messenger rushes in to say “The peasants are revolting!” The king turns to the duke and says something on the order of “I think this could work out.”

So I see this article and think of the Amazon workers in New York who just voted to join a union. “I think this could work out.”

Can’t say he’s wrong.

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The hup, as it’s sometimes known, is the onomatopoetic vocalization of effort given by the player-character when initiating a jump. While a gleeful bloop traces back to Donkey Kong (if not earlier), and Z-axis movement dates to the vehicular combat sims of the mid-’70s, a human character jumping in first-person perspective wouldn’t be achieved until 1992’s Ultima Underworld: the Stygian Abyss—released two months before BJ Blazkowicz would begin clearing bunkers full of Nazis with both feet firmly planted on the ground.

An unacknowledged ancestor of the ‘hup’ can be heard in the musical film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in the scene where the two German spies are carrying a beam and need to cross railroad tracks.

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Genetically modified purple tomatoes are potentially days away from FDA approval, according to the team that created the colorful fruit. The fruits are modified to be packed with antioxidants.

Joe Biden Walks Back Claims That Hunter Biden Is His Son (Babylon Bee)

Biden’s Provocative Weakness on Iran

Kamala Harris panned for offering ‘word salad’ at WH event with Jamaican prime minister: ‘Is she punking us?’  Never ascribe to malevolence what can adequately be explained by stupidity.

We’re expecting a big increase in migrants at the US-Mexico border. But this time is different. Here’s why (CNN) Biden will make no attempt to stop them.

CNN: ‘Realistic chance’ Hunter Biden could be indicted (The Hill) Obviously it’s time to start easing Slow Joe out in favor of Kemala.

Biden to invoke Defense Production Act for electric vehicle battery materials

The Fed’s preferred inflation gauge rose 5.4% in March, the highest since 1983  On our way to Carter Country.

ABC, CBS Move on From Hunter Biden Scandals, NBC Cleans Up Their Mess

Biden Runs Out of Gas

The Sudden Biden Epiphany at The Washington Post

Ukrainian Forces Reportedly Blow Up Fuel Depot On Russian Territory In “Daring Cross-Border Attack”

Biden DOJ Warns Red States Not To Restrict ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Trans Kids

Jen Psaki Reportedly In Talks To Leave White House For Lucrative Gig At MSNBC  The Mammon of Iniquity pays very well.

Jen Psaki Walks Back Claims That She Ever Worked For Biden Administration  Babylon Bee.

Biden Signs ‘Don’t Say Gas’ Bill  Babylon Bee.

New Iran Nuclear Deal Could Allow Iranian Terrorists Into US

Lawmakers Demand Hunter Biden’s Communications With Obama White House

Biden Doubles Down on Radical ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Kids

White House Announces Jen Psaki Will Be Replaced By Grima Wormtongue  Babylon Bee.

Shanghai Officials Conceal COVID Deaths At City Nursing Homes Amid Punishing Lockdown

The first thing you should do if you have COVID-19 symptoms (Deseret News) What else but PANIC!

Did Sweden beat the pandemic by refusing to lock down? No, its record is disastrous (L.A. Times)

Defining the risk of SARS-CoV-2 variants on immune protection (Nature)

NIH Deleted Info From Wuhan Lab On Covid-19 Genetic Sequencing, Watchdog FOIA Finds

The English Faucis Are Even Worse Than The American Ones

Fauci: Americans Should Be ‘Prepared for Possibility’ Of More COVID-19 Restrictions

Fauci Flashback: “The Most Potent Vaccination Is Getting Infected Yourself”

WHO Outlines Strategy To End Global COVID-19 Emergency In 2022  Been there, done that.

BREAKING: Homeland Security 20th Agency to Track Religious Vaccine Objectors

CNN+: Forget Hunter, REAL Media Scandal Is CBS Hiring a Trump Official

Please, Merrick Garland. Don’t wait for the Jan. 6 committee. (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin is very impatient to burn the witches.

The US supreme court’s assault on voting rights hits a new low (The Guardian)

Pelosi responds to calls for Justice Clarence Thomas to resign from Supreme Court

Facebook fails to label 80% of posts promoting bioweapons conspiracy theory (The Guardian) The swine!

The Latest Trump Scandal: Never Mind

FINALLY! Google Acknowledges Trump Was President in ‘About’ Section

‘Unprecedented’: Conservative Lawyers Condemn Coordinated Effort to Discredit Clarence Thomas

Hostin Made to Read ANOTHER ‘Legal Note’ After Smearing Ginni Thomas

MSNBC Blames Fox, Tucker Carlson For Online Threats, Harassment  Like being called ugly by a frog.

Illinois’ Pritzker Ranks 4th-Worst Governor For Economic Freedom

Demonizing Disney: Fox and right-wing media attack the entertainment giant as ‘woke’ company indoctrinating kids (CNN) Whose turn is it to be the victim?

Americans are ‘wasting too much money on housing,’ says top economist—here are 4 ways to get ‘house rich’ (CNBC) No matter what the Dirt People do, it’s wrong – according to the Cloud People.

DeSantis broaches repeal of Disney World’s special self-governing status in Florida

Bay Area residents are growing even more dissatisfied, poll says (S.F. Gate)

TSA implementing new gender-neutral screening process at checkpoints  Everybody Groped the Same.

Would-be star witness Michael Cohen slams unraveling of Manhattan criminal probe into Trump (CNN) This is what happens when you sell out and the check bounces.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sued by LGBTQ students, parents over new law (NBC News) Of course.

Arizona will require voters to prove citizenship and residency, angering activists

Republicans Say ‘Groomer’ to Put a Nice Face on Homophobia (Daily Beast) They say that like it was a bad thing.

How this S.F. retailer went out of business after a robbery and $30,000 in monthly security costs

Washington Post: Pregnant Women Are No Longer Pregnant Women, They Are “Pregnant People”

New Hearing In Sussman-Russiagate Case Reveals Why Clinton Emails Will Likely Come Out

The NHS is a failed institution

Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service in UK

Truly Foolish: Top 5 Most Ridiculous Cases of Big Tech Censorship

Judge Throws Out New York Dems’ Gerrymandered Redistricting Map

Ruhle: Biden’s a Bystander, Raise Taxes to Lower Gas Prices

17 MONTHS LATER: Univision Admits Existence of Hunter Biden Laptop

An Unwelcome Campus Renaissance for the Heckler’s Veto

Yale Law Professor Takes on Dean, Calls Disruption of Free Speech Event a ‘Blatant Violation’ of School Policy

‘A Fundamental Dignity to the Man’: Morning Joe’s Sudden Respect For Richard Nixon

X-Men Cross Out Divinity of Christ- Refer to Him as ‘Mutant’

Greta Thunberg to publish a ‘go-to source’ book on the climate crisis (The Guardian) Because high-school students are the first people we consult on complex scientific public policy issues.

Will skiing survive? Resorts struggle through a winter of climate and housing woes (NPR) And the Cloud People are just devastated.

Misinformation is derailing renewable energy projects across the United States (NPR) In the Narrative Media, ‘misinformation’ means ‘disagrees with the Narrative’.

The Impending Climate “Crisis” in the Gulf of Mexico and Other Biden Frack Ups

Inside Climate News Confuses Models with Reality

“[CO2] Emissions are at an All Time High”: UN Admits they are Losing

What Collins got right about supporting Jackson — and what she didn’t (Washington Post) Colliins isn’t RINO enough for Jennifer Rubin. (Have they given up the pretense that Rubin is a Republican?)

Kamala Harris, daughter of a Jamaican immigrant, meets with island’s prime minister (L.A.Times) I have to admit, he looks about as black as she does. (‘Your country sucked, so my parents left.’)

California Reparations Panel Struggles To Decide Which Black Americans Should Receive Handouts

Why Do Dem SCOTUS Noms Lie About Their Beliefs?  For the same reason that all Democrats lie: If they told the truth, no one would vote for them.

Florida Man Shot to Death After Attacking Cops at His Niece’s Wedding Reception  “Daniel Patrick Knight, 39, had a criminal record dating back as far as 1998, when he was 15.”  He’s so oppressed.

Return to George Floyd Square

When Joy Reid was an anti-gay witch hunter

What We Know About Judge Jackson’s Record in Child Porn Sentences

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Just when you thought the Hunter Biden scandals had died in darkness, The Washington Post published more than 6,300 words on March 30 admitting that a notable fraction of his laptop contents was authentic.

Why now? Why not last year? Why did liberal outlets act like everyone expressing concern about Biden was a Trump-adoring kook?

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This week the Washington Post published a story on the contents of Hunter Biden’s very real laptop. The FBI have misplaced the laptop, but the Post has possessed the contents since June 2021. Now at least part of the story can be told.

When the New York Post first broke the laptop story in October 2020, a few weeks before the presidential election, the Washington Post was not happy about it. As I noted in defamed and disparaged it. WaPo reporters, WaPo columnists, and an esteemed WaPo fact-checker blasted the other Post’s scoops reporting those contents. Now the WaPo defamers are all but slapping themselves on the back for picking up after the Post.

Having taken part in the Post’s 2020 coverage and followed up with a book on the laptop, Miranda Devine is not impressed. In her Post column yesterday Devine observes the “curious omissions” in the Washington Post story….

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Fertilizer prices are at record highs following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine puts massive pressure on American farmers to transition to crops that need less fertilizer.

A Bloomberg survey found that farmers will plant 2 million more acres of soybeans and about 2 million fewer of corn. That’s because soybeans require very little fertilizer versus corn.

I’m opening a book to take bets on how long before soy products will be required by law to be added to gasoline For The Environment.

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Oregon’s Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC) is writing new climate rules aimed at helping Oregon reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050. The rules won’t do that, but they will impose even higher housing and transportation costs on Oregonians.

Welcome to the Left Coast! Hand over your wallet.

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Shortly before the close on Thursday, the closely-watched 2s10s yield curve, better known as the recession harbinger, inverted again for the second time in three days, and this time it will likely fail to bounce as the US slides ever closer to its recession D-Day.