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Amazon has announced the retirement of its proprietary MOBI file format for eBooks, and a transition to the EPUB format for use on Kindle devices and apps. As of August 2022, you will no longer be able to send the MOBI file format to Kindles or the Kindle app using the Send to Kindle service. The MOBI file format no longer supports the newest document features, while the EPUB format is updated and accepted by Kindle devices.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James is purporting to investigate Donald Trump’s businesses. James is obsessed with Trump, and her supposed investigation is an obvious piece of political grandstanding. She scheduled Trump for a deposition today. In Trump’s eyes, the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago raid was the last straw, and he announced today that he is invoking the Fifth Amendment and has declined to submit to a deposition.

Trump released a statement that is lengthy, but worth reading in its entirety:

When the government is doing a witch-hunt, anything you say can land you in jail, as Martha Stewart found out.

Don Lemon rejects ‘narrative’ that CNN is moving toward political center

Don Lemon rejects ‘narrative’ new CNN boss wants to shift network to political center with Charlamagne Tha God

Pro-Antifa California teacher given 3 years’ salary to resign: report

Two House Democrats cut ads for Liz Cheney in Wyoming (The Hill)

Kinzinger allies unveil new push to recruit ‘pro-democracy’ candidates (The Hill) On the road to becoming a Democrat in name as well as in nature.

Sen. Wyden Proposes Big Tax Hike on Oil Companies Making More Than $1B  Democrats never see a Deep Pocket without feeling a compulsion to pick it.

GOP Rep. Beutler, Who Voted to Impeach Trump, Concedes Primary Loss  Karma is a bitch.

The Chickens Of ‘Woke’ Are Coming Home To Roost On Business Heads

Michels Wins Wisconsin GOP Gov. Primary; Trump’s Endorsements Sweep 6-0

Texas Still Busing Migrants to NYC Despite Mayor’s Threat  Hey, enough New Yorkers are moving to Texas that it’s only right we balanced things out.

Every Single Senate Democrat Just Voted Against Defining Pregnancy As A Biologically Female Process

Twitter Suspends Journalist Paul Sperry After FBI Trump-Raid Tweets

How Vulnerable Dems Used Legislative Gymnastics To Pretend They Were Against New Taxes

Former FBI Agent Says Agency’s Political Bias Started Under Mueller

Buffoonery: Paul Krugman Suggests Dems May ‘Save’ Civilization with Insane Inflation Bill  If Princeton is actually paying him to teach economics, they ought to demand a refund.

Twitter Suspends Russian Foreign Ministry Account For COVID Origins Theory

Biden: No Guns for Weed Smokers

Trump uses FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago home to solicit campaign donations (Reuters) The swine! (This is news?)

FBI would not let Trump attorneys in rooms as agents raided Mar-a-Lago, warrant focused on NARA: source

How the Republican Party came to embrace conspiracy theories and denialism (NPR)

Why the Fulton County Grand Jury Isn’t Going to Indict Trump (Daily Beast)

Eli Lilly assails Indiana antiabortion law — after plying its supporters with campaign funds (L.A.Times)

Another reason not to work in Indiana (Chicago Sun-Times) Fine, stay in high-crime high-tax Illinois.

Public opinion relatively unchanged after Jan. 6 hearings: poll (The Hill) The Stalinist show-trial didn’t work–hence the raid on Trump’s home.

Ex-Trump aide shares story about Trump mishandling classified documents (CNN)

New hotline to report white supremacist activity has received more than 2 dozen calls (CBS Boston) Can’t have a witch-hunt without witches!

Grisham denies she was source of Haberman’s White House toilet photos (The Hill) Can’t have a War on Trump without toilet photos.

4 Key Questions After FBI Raids Trump’s Home

MSNBC Fearmongers: Mar-a-Lago Raid Will Trigger Terrorism Like OK City Bombing  Certainly that’s what the Left would do.

GOP Rep. Scott Perry Says FBI Agents Seized His Cellphone

The Guardian Accuses Republicans Of ‘Weaponising’ Trump-Raid  Gee, I think the FBI already did that.

FBI warrant for search of Trump home may involve suspected violations of Espionage Act, former chief of DOJ national security chief says (Michael Isikoff)

Ruhle Demands You Stop Calling The FBI Mar-a-Lago Raid a Raid!

Kevin McCarthy Promises a Republican Congress Will Obstruct Justice (The NationO Well, no, that’s just the Narrative spin. What he said was that the Republicans will start playing hardball, and that’s what the Deep State fears most.

“The Whole Enchilada”: Pundits Wrongly Claim Trump Raid Could Disqualify Him From Future Office

‘It’s Christmas!’ Colbert Celebrates ‘Most Beautiful’ Mar-a-Lago Raid

Exclusive: An Informer Told the FBI What Docs Trump Was Hiding, and Where (Newsweek) And if they had actually found anything significant, we would know it by now; it would have been leaked to somebody in the Narrative Media.

Facebook bans hate speech but still makes money from white supremacists (Washington Post)

Eric Trump tells DailyMail.com what REALLY happened in FBI raid: President’s son says 30 agents REFUSED to hand over warrant, kicked lawyer off property, rifled through clothes – and how Mar-a-Lago staff refused to turn off security cameras

Trump and Republicans Are Already Trying to Cash in on the Mar-a-Lago Raid (Rolling Stone) This is news?

FBI agents, Garland and Wray see increased death threats after Trump Mar-a-Lago raid: sources  And rightly so.

Josh Hawley, senator-as-symptom of a broken news business (Washington Post) George Will goes full RINO and joins the witch-hunt.

Far-Right Extremists Are Violently Threatening the Trump Search-Warrant Judge  (Vice) Welcome to our world. Karma is a bitch.

Does Ukraine Have A Stash Of Domestically Developed Ballistic Missiles?

The people of Belarus want democracy — America must stand with them (The Hill) And get in Yet Another War?

Russian disinformation spreading in new ways despite bans (Associated Press)

Crude oil prices rise as Russia suspends exports to Europe through pipeline

EU Members Back Zelensky’s Call To Ban All Russians From Traveling

Oil Slides As Ukraine Readies Resumption Of Russian Crude Flow To Europe

Zelensky Vows Liberation Of Crimea Following Russian Base ‘Mystery’ Blast

Russia Vowing to Destroy Nuke Plant If Ukraine Retakes

What the Hell Is Happening With Monkeypox? (Rolling Stone) Trying to fine the Narrative.

Three Possible Futures of the Monkeypox Epidemic (Wired ‘Science’)

Head Of The Lancet’s COVID-19 Investigation Is “Convinced” It Came Out Of A Lab  As am I.

Anthony Fauci Booed At Seattle Mariners Game  And rightly so.

17 GOP Govs Urge Biden to Drop International COVID Vaccine Travel Mandate

Landmark US climate bill will do more harm than good, groups say (The Guardian)

California’s cliffs are crumbling into the sea. This map shows the spots where they’re eroding the fastest (S.F. Chronicle)

Many Americans still don’t think climate change is coming for them (CNN) And there’s a reason for that.

Billion Barrel Oil Reserve Discovery Confirmed In Central Wyoming

Panama Canal grapples with climate change threat (BBC)

Trillions of dollars at risk because central banks’ climate models not up to scratch (The Guardian)

Heavy rains close major California tourist attractions (S.F. Gate) How’s that Great Drought coming?

Claim: Reserve Banks Should Hire Climate Scientists

The Psychology of Inspiring Everyday Climate Action (Wired ‘Science’) Buy the Narrative! Buy the Narrative! Buy the Narrative!

Star Marine Ecologist Committed Misconduct, University Says

Congress Just Passed a Big Climate Bill. No, Not That One. (The Atlantic)

The GOP Is Learning What Black Folks Have Known Forever: The FBI Can Be Corrupt (Newsweek) Women and Minorities Hardest Hit!

A Latina professor who was denied tenure at Harvard is demanding a ‘revolution’ in academia (NBC News)

“The Menace of Nativist Hate Stalks Muslims Even in Sunny Albuquerque.” Oh, Wait, Never Mind …

The Atlantic’s Reviewer Denounces “The Last White Man” as Not Anti-White Enough

Is the Pope Hispanic?

Native Americans Urge Boycott of ‘Tone Deaf’ Pilgrim Museum

Russian Spies Were Behind Black Nationalist Protest Groups

Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Boston Bicycle Advocate Visits Amsterdam and Complains Dutch City Planners Focus on Needs of Dutch Cyclists Rather Than on Bike-Hating People of Color

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Aldo Steinfeld, a professor at ETH Zürich’s Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, says his system for converting ambient air into jet-ready kerosene fuel using a solar refinery tower isn’t science fiction. It’s simply thermodynamics.

In a two-year proof-of-concept test atop ETH Zürich’s Machine Laboratory building in Switzerland back in 2019, Steinfeld’s mini solar refinery first showed how the process works, and laid the groundwork to scale the project. Both carbon dioxide (CO2) and water are extracted directly from ambient air and split using solar energy, as Steinfeld describes his work in a new paper, published late last month in the journal Joule. The result is syngas, a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide, which is then processed into kerosene.

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Can’t say that I blame her. I mean, the place is crawling with Democrats.

Washington City Paper reports that the “quintessentially D.C. dispute” dates back to at least 2009, when residents of the wealthy neighborhood successfully pushed back against city plans to build sidewalks for pedestrians in the interest of public safety. Opponents complained that doing so would make the posh neighborhood feel more “urban,” a racist euphemism for “not white.”

Oops. Can’t have that.

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Amazon.com Inc.’s $1.7 billion acquisition of robot vacuum cleaner company iRobot Corp. is a move by the megacorporation to use Roombas to map the interior of homes. This data type is a digital gold mine for Amazon because if marketers know more about what’s inside, they can easily create tailormade ads.

From a market perspective, Amazon’s acquisition of iRobot is to gain deeper insight into customers’ homes via the autonomous robotic vacuum cleaner called “Roomba.”

I can see some guy picking up his Roomba and shouting at it: “Hey, Jeff! Where are my fargin’ granola bars?”

I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning….

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Unless scores of witnesses saw Donald Trump stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot someone, the FBI’s raid of his Mar-a-Lago home represents an unforgivable politicization of our justice system. The proof rests in the peaceful, undisturbed abodes of Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden, Jim Biden, James Comey, Stefan Halper, Rodney Joffe and every other partisan the FBI investigated without violating the sanctuary of their homes.

On Monday, news broke that the FBI had raided former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida. Conservatives justifiably doubt that probable cause supported the search, but an even broader swath of America should see the Bureau’s raid as an affront to equal justice under the law and the weaponization of the Justice Department against its political enemies.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

What do we know? Law enforcement leaks and confirmation from the Trump side indicate that the FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence indicate that the search was focused on presidential records and the possible violation of the Presidential Records Act. In her inside account of the raid, Miranda Devine puts it this way: “The Post has learned that the search warrant used by the FBI to enter the palatial Palm Beach property focused solely on presidential records and evidence of classified information being stored there.”

The scope of the seized documents, however, may have extended well beyond the terms of the warrant. It appears that the FBI scooped up just about every document at the residence. I take it that the authorities are out to get Trump.

That seems a reasonable assumption.

The Attorney General and the FBI are not talking in public. You see, they are involved in an ongoing investigation. Confidentiality is sacred.

“[M]ultiple people familiar with the investigation” nevertheless spoke with the three New York Times reporters who wrote up the raid. Funny how that works.

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President Biden stood outside the White House on Tuesday, celebrating what was arguably the best stretch of his presidency. He smiled. He basked, aviators firmly in place, in the sun. He signed his latest legislative priority into law.

“Decades from now, people are going to look back at this week — with all we passed, and all we moved on — [and say] that we met the moment at this inflection point in history,” Biden said, before signing a bill to boost semiconductor manufacturing.

That may be true. But they also may not remember it tomorrow. Cable news channels covered his remarks, but then quickly returned to the topic they had been covering before the brief Biden interlude: Donald Trump.

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U.S.- German auto parts company ZF has engineered a strut suspension front axle concept that allows the front wheels to turn up to an incredible 80 degrees. The invention is called EasyTurn.

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FBI agents scoured Melania Trump’s wardrobe and spent several hours combing through Donald Trump’s private office, breaking open his safe and rifling through drawers when they raided the former First Family’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida Monday morning.

The Post has learned that the search warrant used by the FBI to enter the palatial Palm Beach property focused solely on presidential records and evidence of classified information being stored there.

A source close to the former president expressed concern that FBI agents or DOJ lawyers conducting the search could have “planted stuff” because they would not allow Trump’s attorneys inside the 128-room building to observe the operation, which lasted more than nine hours.

Appalling.

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German citizens are being told what they will have to do in the coming winter. In addition to freezing and starving, they will be required to get a Corona “booster” every three months.

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Kellen worked for Epstein as his scheduler for years and was referenced in deposition testimony given during the defamation case between Virginia Guiffre and Ghislaine Maxwell. Marcinkova was a more prominent member of Epstein’s entourage as she served as one of the pilots of his infamous aircraft dubbed “The Lolita Express.”

Reinhart assumed his role as Kellen and Marcinkova’s attorney once he set up a criminal defense firm after resigning from his post as a senior prosecutor in the Southern District of Florida as it was negotiating a non-prosecution agreement for Epstein. Reinhart would officially begin his legal representation of Epstein’s accomplices within days of leaving his position as a senior prosecutor within the district.

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We’ve reached the stage of American history where everything we see on the news must first be understood as political theater. In other words, the messaging layer of news now almost always dominates the factual narrative, with the latter often reported so unreliably as to be meaningless anyway. Yesterday’s sensational tale of the FBI raiding the Mar-a-Lago home of former president Donald Trump is no different.

As of now, it’s impossible to say if Trump’s alleged offense was great, small, or in between. But this for sure is a huge story, and its hugeness extends in multiple directions, including the extraordinary political risk inherent in the decision to execute the raid. If it backfires, if underlying this action there isn’t a very substantial there there, the Biden administration just took the world’s most reputable police force and turned it into the American version of the Tonton Macoute on national television. We may be looking at simultaneously the dumbest and most inadvertently destructive political gambit in the recent history of this country.

Over 300 Illegal Haitian Migrants Detained Trying to Sail to U.S.

FBI Director Wray Leaves Senate Hearing Early to Fly on Government Plane to Vacation Spot  Imagine what would have happened had a Trump administration official done such a thing.

New Bill In Congress Hires An IRS Agent To Live In Every Home  (Babylon Bee)

Rick Scott Wants Biden, DOJ, FBI to Explain Raid on Trump’s Estate  He won’t get it.

DHS to End ‘Remain in Mexico,’ Asylum Seekers to Enter US  And once they’re in, they’re in for good. We know how this scenario works out.

‘Squad’ supporting Justice Democrats PAC raked in six figures from dark money source

Officers in this Northern California county stop Asian drivers at 12 times the rate of other drivers, lawsuit claims (S.F. Chronicle)

Thieves steal $2M worth of valuables from New York City jewelry store, video shows

Obsessed CBS Demands Tim Scott Talk All Trump All the Time

Back-to-School Blues: Droves of Americans Ditching Public School

CBS Censors Own Documentary After Ukraine Outraged

George Soros and His Woke Prosecutors

Rejecting Christian Nationalism Is What Jesus Would Do (Daily Beast) As if anybody at The Daily Beast had the slightest clue as to what Jesus would do. That’s like asking Himmler what’s kosher and what’s traif.

2 Democratic lawmakers encourage Wyoming voters: Change parties and back Cheney (ABC)

… ‘and Her Merry Persons?’ New Robin Hood a Black, Female Gen-Zer  They deform everything they touch.

Poll: 70 Percent of Texas Teachers Considering Leaving Profession  Being Woke in a red state will do that to you. Of course, the sooner we get rid of such people the better.

Princeton Introduces ‘Diversity’ Search Filter for University Vendors

Progressive Pollster Finds That People Oppose Progressive Policies

ACLU wants US border officials to stop helping Abbott remove illegal immigrants (Washington Post) Of course they do.

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Ten companies exist on the planet today that were founded before 1000 AD. Seven of those are Japanese, the oldest being Kong? Gumi, a construction firm founded by three craftsmen from Korea who took a commission from Prince Sh?toku in 578 AD. Sh?toku was the great early patron of Japanese Buddhism and was responsible for constructing the Shitenn?-ji temple, Japan’s oldest Buddhist house of worship (still in operation, image above). The Kong? clan continued to operate their family firm for centuries, contributing for example to the construction of Osaka Castle in the 1500’s. In the early 2000’s, a scion of this business dynasty, Masakazu Kong?, was still Kong? Gumi’s CEO. But his poor business decisions finally led to its acquisition by a larger firm in 2006. No pressure, Masakazu-san.

Sarah Hoyt.

Either they find secret stuff they can use to do their big Stalinist show trial and finally imprison him — yes, they really believe this, because he’s a “bad man” so of course he must have recorded himself twirling his mustache and talking about his love affair with Putin — OR they piss us off so much that we erupt into civil war and then they can put us down easily, because frankly there’s only a couple thousand of us, and we’re all racist rednecks and over 70. So it will be trivially easy, right?

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The first thing you need to understand is that evil people assume everyone else is evil. Crooks assume everyone else is a crook, and pathological narcissists think everyone is a pathological narcissist. You have to understand that to realize why they act the way they do.

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Look for ‘Soylent Green’ on the label.

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I’d love to get a look at Biden’s tax returns — not to mention Obama’s.

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The drab white left and its minority whipping class consists of the worst people in the world. They are the worst because they have fostered a culture that encourages destroying the things they secretly admire and promoting the things they privately hold in contempt. The left cannot stand being reminded of achievements it has never achieved and thus assumes moral superiority in order to circumvent personal integrity. Unfortunately, the most destructive representative of this phenomenon is today’s watered-down WASP, who insists upon milquetoasting his heritage into soggy oblivion by taking the best of his traditions and putting them to work in the service of his own self-subversion. It is a curious state of affairs.

Curious, and depressing.

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Even taken at face value, sending armed men to recover documents that first, do not exist, second, if they did were removed by staffers, third, if they had been removed would not have been illegal (since the President can declassify any document at will by removing them from the White House), fourth, if they had been removed illegally, Trump already offered, without reservation, to have officers of the national archives go through his documents to confirm.

The FBI padlocked the room to secure it weeks ago, in order to secure any possible documents while the Archivists investigated. During the raid, they broke the padlock they themselves installed.

Of course, this is red meat to the MAGA base. If the effort to exclude Trump from the next Presidential election fails, they may deeply regret the effort. “He who draws his sword against the king must throw away the scabbard.”

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When a patient suffers an ischemic stroke — when a clot chokes off the blood supply of vital oxygen and nutrients to the brain — those brain cells begin to die within minutes. The resulting tissue damage can lead to long term complications, including paralysis, memory loss, depression, difficulty controlling emotions, and changes in behavior.

There are currently no FDA-approved therapies for repairing the damage caused by a stroke.

Now, researchers at the University of Cincinnati and Case Western Reserve University have identified a new drug which may help repair — not just limit — stroke damage.

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The Deep State is getting serious.

UPDATE: ‘Dark Times,’ Trump Responds as Agents Raid Mar-a-Lago Home

UPDATE: Hunter Biden Breathes Sigh Of Relief As FBI Raid Team Passes By His House On Way to Mar-A-Lago (Babylon Bee)

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A Joe Biden donor is the organizer behind a U.S. Senate debate in Georgia that will allow Democratic senator Raphael Warnock to symbolically debate an empty podium after Republican challenger Herschel Walker turned down the invitation.

Atlanta Press Club director Lauri Strauss, who is organizing the debate, and at least three other members of the group’s board have donated thousands to Democrats, including Biden, Georgia Democratic senator Jon Ossoff—and Warnock himself.

Race Is Just Skin Deep

Florida’s Democratic Senate Frontrunner Said These Radical Activists Would Dismantle Police in ‘Very Thoughtful’ Way

ACLU Calls On DHS to Probe Texas’ Policy of Returning Migrants to Border

Man Who Shot Ahmaud Arbery Gets Life Sentence for Hate Crime  Not for murder, note, but for a made up proglodyte ThoughtCrime.

U.S. Senate approves bill to fight climate change, cut drug costs in win for Biden (Reuters) Except that Biden had nogthing to do with it. It was entirely constructed and pushed through by the Democrat leadership, while he was isolated for COVID. Maybe they mean he didn’t managed to screw it up somehow.

Democrats Spent $43 Million Helping Election Deniers Win Their Primaries (Newsweek)

What the Alex Jones trial means for the future of conspiracy culture (CNN)

Trump Pick for Michigan AG Tied to Voting Equipment Breach: Report (Daily Beast)  Tied! Can’t get more guilty than that!

Feds Arrest Man for Allegedly Mailing Poop to Rep. Jim Jordan (Daily Beast) Didn’t know that was against the law. Good news for Senator Warren.

From the fringes of the far right, Doug Mastriano vainly tries to dance back to the middle (Philadelphia Inquirer) There is no Right but the Far-Right.

Trump’s worst toadies hold degrees from Harvard and Yale. Did they learn anything? (The Guardian) Robert Reich was a Rhodes Scholar. He obviously learned nothing.

How ‘Loyal Dog’ Sean Hannity Went From King of Fox News to Has-Been (Daily Beast) Uh, he still has a bigger audience than the Daily Beast….

Bodega clerk Jose Alba leaves NYC ‘afraid for his life,’ mulls move back to Dominican Republic: report

The GOP is Viktor Orban’s party now (Washington Post) Max Boot loses his shit.

House Dems Say Gun Company Ads Emphasize Masculinity, Make Veiled References To ‘White Supremacist’ Groups

Lies, Damned Lies, & The January 6 Committee

How Dangerous Is Peter Thiel?  Dangerous enough to witch-hunt.

Adams condemns Texas governor for busing migrants to New York (Politico) My, what a surprise.

Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals (The New Yorker) Probably the first time The New Yorker has had anything good to say about generals.

2 Men Face New Trial Over Scheme to Kidnap Michigan Governor

Nets Cheer Biden for Zawahiri Strike, Griped About Trump’s ‘Dangerous’ Droning of Soleimani

HUH? Bloomberg News Co-Founder Blames ‘Election Deniers’ for Americans Thinking Biden Economy Sucks

Washington YMCA Bans Member For Standing Up To Transgender Ideology

Photos show handwritten notes that Trump apparently ripped up and attempted to flush down toilet (CNN) Donald Trump: Living rent-free in proglodyte heads for six years and counting.

No One Despises MAGA Voters More Than MAGA Elites (The Bulwark) Jonathan Last of the Kristol Krew splahes around in the proglodyte Fantasy Land. (‘MAGA Elites’? I guess cannabis really is legal there.)

What Is Elon Musk? And how is it possible that he could emerge from his Twitter debacle more culturally dominant than ever? (New York Magazine) Voices of the Crust are always so surprised when reality intrudes on their dream-world.

Trump Asked Generals Why They Couldn’t Be More Like ‘Totally Loyal’ Nazis, Report Claims (Daily Beast) A report! That proves it!

Monkeypox is disproportionately affecting Black, Hispanic people, latest CDC breakdown shows (CNN) ‘World to End, Women and Minorities Hardest Hit’.

Just because some people can pretend COVID is over, doesn’t mean it actually is (S.F. Chronicle)

Long COVID isn’t inevitable. It only feels like it (Fortune)

Scared after the fall of Roe, these 2 Texas women rushed to tie the knot (NPR)

The dangers of monkeypox hysteria

The “Unvaccinated” Question (Revisited)

The Chaotic Monkeypox Vaccine Pipeline Is Leaving Everyone Short (Wired ‘Science’)

Long COVID-19 and chronic conditions after viral infections may stem from an overactive immune response

CBO: Inflation Reduction Act Won’t Reduce Inflation

Democratic ads boosted extremists in Republican primaries. Was that wise? (The Guardian)

Winners and losers from the Democratic tax, health care and climate change bill (The Hill) Not even the Narrative Media pretend it’s for inflation control any more.

Forward! Is America’s latest third party marching to power – or oblivion? (The Guardian)

Houston Newsmakers: Political extremes lead to 3rd party effort in Texas, and more (Click2Houston)

Second terms for Biden, Trump “worst thing” for U.S., voters say in new poll (Axios)

‘What exactly are they doing?’: 45 S.F. traffic cops issue just 10 citations combined a day (S.F. Chronicle)

Uganda suspends operations of charity championing LGBT rights (Reuters)

Los Angeles voters to decide if hotels will be forced to house the homeless despite safety concerns

Here’s the Truth About What ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ Would Do

Entertainment Companies Start Dumping Woke Content As Viewership Tumbles

Michigan AG calls for special prosecutor in case now involving her Trump-backed opponent (Politico)

Pro-Tax-Hike Dem Continues To Fail To Pay His Own Taxes

‘Peak Berkeley’: Protesters Halt Low-Income Housing Project

Another Aspect of the Dem Disaster: Drug Price Controls  Price controls lead to shortages. Always have; always will. Shortages lead to a system where those with political connections control who gets what.

Ex-RNC Chair-Turned-MSNBC Republican Backs Dem Meddling in GOP Primaries

N.Y. Mayor Requests Federal Help for Migrants Bused in From Texas

Liberal PBS Pundit Compares His Hero Liz Cheney to… Obi-Wan Kenobi

The tax provisions of the new climate and taxes bill

Five States Will Decide If the 2024 Election Can Be Stolen (Bloomberg) Of course, they’re worried about Trump supporters stealing the election, which means that’s what they’re planning to do.

Axios-Ipsos Poll: Republicans Want to Move to Red States, Dems to Blue (Axios) My, what a surprise.

ACLU Calls on UN To Demand US Dole Out Reparations

Report: While AOC Backed NYPD Cuts, District Saw Soaring Crime

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Scientists have joined a lawsuit against the Biden administration. The lawsuit alleges that the administration used social media companies to censor certain COVID-19 information.

Drs. Jayanta Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff, and Aaron Kheriaty joined the lawsuit last week. The doctors say that Big Tech social media platforms censored them for posting content contrary to the federal government’s narrative about COVID-19.

The New Civil Liberties Alliance’s (NCLA) Tuesday press release indicated that the doctors were fighting for their First Amendment rights.

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Without mind-reading there would be no conspiracy theories.

(I love the smell of conspiracy in the morninng….)

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In a search for novel forms of longevity medicine, a biotech company based in Israel says it intends to create embryo-stage versions of people in order to harvest tissues for use in transplant treatments.

The company, Renewal Bio, is pursuing recent advances in stem-cell technology and artificial wombs demonstrated by Jacob Hanna, a biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. Earlier this week, Hanna showed that starting with mouse stem cells, his lab could form highly realistic-looking mouse embryos and keep them growing in a mechanical womb for several days until they developed beating hearts, flowing blood, and cranial folds.

You’re just a clump of cells, right? So it’s back to the factory for you.

New York Times.

Since January, judges in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Ohio have found that Republican legislators illegally drew those states’ congressional maps along racial or partisan lines, or that a trial very likely would conclude that they did. In years past, judges who have reached similar findings have ordered new maps, or had an expert draw them, to ensure that coming elections were fair.

All the maps complained about, of course, were drawn by Republicans. No mention of any maps drawn by Democrats, who are all as pure as the driven snow.

FLASHBACK: Democrats created gerrymandering—they must own it

Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act is ‘economic malpractice’: Economist

White House condemns Indiana abortion law (Indianapolis Star)

Automakers say 70% of EV models don’t qualify for tax credit under Senate bill

Hunter Biden attributes his penis obsession to ‘body dysmorphia’

Biden Wants China Hawks To ‘Put The Brakes’ On Bill Gutting 40 Years Of Taiwan Policy

Where Is Jorge Ramos’ Scathing Column Against Biden’s Border Wall?

Biden steps out of the room and finds legacy-defining wins (Associated Press) He says it best when he says nothing at all.

Homan slams Mayor Bowser, Mayor Adams for immigration hypocrisy and ‘out-of-control crime’ in sanctuary cities

Taxes, housing, sunshine: Don’t count on Florida’s new arrivals to go back to New York  (Palm Beach Post)

Nearly 2,000 NYPD cops quitting before getting full pensions — a 71% jump from 2021  Gee, I wonder why?

US library defunded after refusing to censor LGBTQ authors: ‘We will not ban the books’ (The Guardian) I guess ‘democracy’ only counts when it’s Woke.

The new Yellowstone: Chris Pratt’s new Navy thriller The Terminal List defies woke critics’ scathing reviews to shoot up ratings chart with 1.6 BILLION minutes of streams (UK Daily Mail)

Sens. Sanders, Warren set to give billionaires free pass after years of knocking tax loopholes for wealthy

California will soon start giving kids free money for college. Here’s what families need to know (S. F. Chronicle)

Democrats plan to challenge parliamentarian on insulin cap (The Hill)

A challenge for antiabortion states: Doctors reluctant to work there (Washington Post) I guess PRIMUM NON NOCERE doesn’t mean anything any more.

The Corruption of Medicine Heather MacDonald.

Despite Strict Gun Control, California Had The Most Active Shooter Incidents In 2021: FBI

NPR Reporter Upset by Republicans ‘Shunning Mainstream Press’ for Their Liberal Bias

Republicans have long feuded with the mainstream media. Now many are shutting them out (NPR) “Mommmeee! Johnny hit me back!”

“Revolution Has Begun”: 75,000 Brits To Stop Paying Power Bills Amid Inflation Storm

You Know It’s Bad When… Bernie Mocks Dems’ “So-Called Inflation Reduction Act”

‘Stampede’ Quitting NYPD Even Before Reaching Pension Status

Bill Maher Slams “Fat Celebration” And “Body Positivity”

Amnesty is now utterly morally bankrupt

Washington Post publishes book preview claiming ‘sick’ GOP set for ‘destroying the world’s oldest democracy’

Tennessee college alumni lobby to remove Supreme Court Justice Barrett from school’s ‘hall of fame’

Justice subpoenas of Trump counsel mark turning point (The Hill)

Facebook quiet on election misinformation efforts as midterms loom (NBC News)

Trump’s grip on GOP activist class on display at Texas conclave (Politico) ‘Activist class’? Do the Democrats have an ‘activist class’?

Sensitivity Readers Are the New Literary Gatekeepers

Ben & Jerry’s Suing Its Owner to Keep Israel Boycott in Place

How colleges are preparing for a new public health threat: monkeypox (NPR)

Low neutralization of Omicron BA.5 after four doses of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine (News-Medical) That’s some fine ‘vaccine’ ya got there, bubba.

Larry Brilliant Says Covid Rapid Antigen Tests Are Bad for Public Health (Wired)

Woke Medical Organizations Are Hazardous to Your Health

US University Admits It May Have Broken Law In Contract With Wuhan Lab

Susan Quinn: Deborah Birx– not Anthony Fauci – Was the Covid Ringleader

Why the international climate community isn’t popping champagne over the US energy bill

Nature can affect human well-being in many more ways than you think (Washington Post)

Environmental watchdogs, researchers urge caution with new and legacy threats of contamination (WXYZ Detroit)

‘Change is coming’: Meet the Englishman prepping for climate apocalypse in an old German barracks (The Guardian)

Study Finds World Can Switch to 100% Renewable Energy and Earn Back Its Investment in Just 6 Years (My Modern Met)

What’s driving the massive, destructive rainfalls around the country (Washington Post) Why, ‘climate change’, of course!

Craft brewers’ latest challenge: Carbon dioxide shortage (Washington Post)

Will the Inflation Reduction Act Make the Carbon-Capture Business a Reality? (New York Magazine) Oh, so the ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ is actually a climate bill! Who knew?

Red States Fighting ‘Woke’ Banks That Push Anti-Fossil Fuel Policies (Epoch Times)

What my generation is facing — A high schooler’s take on the climate crisis (Deseret News) Yeah, we let high-school students make our climate policy.

EPA says it is looking for “super-emitters” of methane gas in Texas’ Permian Basin (Texas Tribune)

Everyone loves e-bikes – except some who have to share roads with them

Paul Ehrlich’s Cloud of Blue Steam

Sorry, CNN, Great Barrier Reef Is Setting Records, Fearmongering Won’t Work

Pacific Typhoons Defy Climate Experts’ Dire Forecasts…Trending Downward 70 Years!

CBS Sunday Morning Frets ‘Human Extinction’ from ‘Climate Change’

The Big Green Lie Almost Everyone Claims To Believe

Carbon offsetting is just another form of greenwashing

Guardian: We Should Consider Prepping to Survive the Climate Apocalypse

“The only people who care about Lynne Cheney are the people related to Lynne Cheney and the people who plan to vote against Lynne Cheney. Nobody else gives a shit.”  — ZMan

Read it.

Technology’s default mode is to constantly call for my attention. Attention is engagement, engagement is profit.

And thus a big chunk of the economy devotes itself to grabbing my attention by increasingly coercive means. It took considerable effort to get technology to just shut the fuck up.

This is what this post is about; making technology quieter, and building a healthier relationship with it.

Hear, hear.