A Prominent Federal Judge Declares He Will No Longer Hire Clerks From Yale Law School

What Happens When A Fact-Checker Doesn’t Get The Facts Right?

Victor Shi: We don’t need a third party. We need ranked choice voting. (Chicago Tribune)

Minnesota Counties Sued For Duplicate Voter Registrations

How Democrats can flip the crime issue against the GOP (Washington Post)

Planned Parenthood doctor tells Congress men can get pregnant: ‘This is medicine’

There’s an ESG backlash inside the executive ranks at top corporations (CNBC)

It’s Official: America Is an Oligarchy (The Nation) Of course it’s nothing of the kind.

Why almost 2 million Californians may need to switch health insurance plans (S.F. Chronicle)

‘Reason to worry’: Italy’s Meloni holds a mirror to Trump’s GOP (Politico)

U.S. farmers urge Washington to challenge Mexico’s looming ban on GM corn (Reuters)

They were turned away from urgent care. The reason? Their car insurance (NPR)

NYC changes controversial high school admissions process (N.Y. Post)

Chevron to help move 200 workers to Houston as it downsizes in California

Atlantic: A Woke Army Is a Smarter, More Diverse and Intellectually Flexible Army

The NYT Goes Transphobic Over Pronouns Due to a Higher Calling: Covering Up the Gender Identity of an Alleged Pro-Russian Traitor

NY Times Alarmed By GOP Spreading ‘Racist Fears’ About Soft-on-Crime Democrats

How 1 Small European Study Changed Transgender Medicine in US

California Gov. Newsom Signs Refuge Bill for Trans Youths, Families  I guess trans are the New Jews.

Federal Court: Critical Race Theory Is a ‘Resource’ To ‘Transform’ Judiciary

Convention of States President Torches ‘America-Hating’ Soros Groups

Gun Owners, Rights Groups Challenge Connecticut Firearms Ban

CNN, MSNBC avoid Biden’s ‘Where’s Jackie?’ snafu after obsessing over Trump’s ‘Tim Apple’ gaffe

Houston doctor bashes Texas abortion ban as ‘white supremacist agenda’ in congressional testimony

Shania Twain says a dinner with Oprah Winfrey ‘all went sour’ over the topic of religion: ‘No room for debate’

Austin police morale cratered after city defunded police, embraced BLM: Survey

Conservatives Very Offended by Lizzo Twerking With Slave Owner’s Crystal Flute (Jezebel)

Saint Anita Hill Fights ‘Gender Violence’

FBI insiders say agents who took a knee during BLM protests were rewarded

Another Racism Scandal for John Fetterman

From Abortion to Apartheid Comparisons, Here’s The Worst Of Trevor Noah

Liberal Media Sycophants Still Shilling for Saint Anita Hill

The Future of Climate Activism Is Intergenerational—and on TikTok (Wired)

Al Gore & John Kerry Aim To Hijack The World Bank For Climate Agenda

Discovery of ‘fingerprint’ confirms alarming predictions of Greenland ice sheet melt (NBC)

A glaring error in methane flaring (Ars Technica)

Urban greening can reduce impact of global heating in cities, finds study (The Guardian)

Arctic Ocean acidifying up to four times as fast as other oceans, study finds (The Guardian)

Vestas launches ‘world’s tallest onshore tower for wind turbines’ (CNBC) How many birds will that kill?

Companies using carbon credits to ‘cover their tracks’, says iron ore billionaire (The Guardian)

The aspiring ‘coral factory’ restoring reefs wrecked by climate change (Washington Post)

Climate Activists Attacking Fertiliser Use, Mass Produced Food

NYTimes Hurricane Analysis is Purposefully Misleading

Media Shriek Climate Change Causing Hurricane Ian’s ‘Rapid Intensification’

“Historic Levels Of Fraud”: US Watchdog Estimates $45.6 Billion Bilked From Pandemic Unemployment Program

The guy who designs our annual flu shots is getting his in October, and suggests you do too (Insider)

Why Flu Shots Are Especially Important This Year (TODAY)

A Chinese mRNA COVID vaccine is approved for the first time – in Indonesia (Reuters)

How to repair trust in health care (Politico) For a start, don’t push a PANIC!

Preparing for the BF-7 COVID-19 variant and flu season (CBS)

Zoonotic diseases like COVID-19 and monkeypox will become more common, experts say (NPR)

BREAKING: Fauci’s Net Worth Soared To $12.6+ Million During Pandemic – Up $5 Million

Fauci Net Worth Soared 66% During Pandemic

I’ve had COVID and am constantly getting colds. Did COVID harm my immune system?

Dr. Fauci and wife’s wealth ‘skyrocketed’ by $5 million during pandemic: analysis (N.Y. Post)

Pandemic Paid Off: Dr. Fauci’s Net Worth Doubled During COVID

US Judge Does Not Require Trump to Attest That FBI’s List of Seized Records Is Accurate

Judge bails Trump out of special master plan that would have forced uncomfortable submissions in court (CNN)

The Reporters Who Proved That Journalism Is More Powerful Than Trump (Politico)

Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump Are Ready for the Saudi Cash (Politico)

New details on the bizarre effort to hide the USS John S. McCain for Trump (Washington P0st)

“We Don’t Have Due Process”: Book Reveals Decision To Abandon Historical Precedent To Impeach Trump

‘It’s My Curse and My Salvation’: Trump’s Most Famous Chronicler Opens Up (Politico) Say rather ‘witch-hunter’.

Liberals Wishing Hurricane Ian Destroys Mar a Lago  Democrats: Party of Fear/Party of Hate/Party of Death.

Tucker Carlson Secretly Tried to Get Jared Kushner to Broker Pardon for Roger Stone, Book Reveals (Rolling Stone) Maggie Haberman’s fairy tales keep dribbling out from the pants of the Usual Suspects.

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Stop hating your readers.

One of the silliest ideas to infect mainstream journalism in recent years is the notion that when journalists produce work about a bad person, they must signpost that work, seemingly every moment, with explicit indicators that that person is bad. You need to hold readers’ hands tightly, because they are moral idiots, and the moment your grip slips, they’ll race off and return in a Klansman’s hood or something.

This is now a thoroughly mainstream view in journalism, and it is applied to coverage not just to actual fascists, but to an ever-growing variety of right-wing (or otherwise disfavored) figures.

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We have the technology.

Now–if it can carry a bomb….

ZMan’s weekly podcast. Highly recommended.

The other day, a grotesquely overweight black woman was sent out onstage in her underwear to make noises with James Madison’s 200-year-old crystal flute. The item was a gift to James Madison in 1813 by the French flute maker Claude Laurent and has been kept locked away for decades. For reasons they never bothered to explain, the Library of Congress let this woman use it as a prop in her circus.

The most likely reason, of course, is antiwhite animus. Hating white people, especially those from the past, is a centerpiece of the new religion. The toppling of statues and vandalizing of culture items is something like a sacrament for them. Publicly flinging their poo at the works of the white man is a ritualistic break from the culture coercion from which they seek to liberate themselves.

That is what the show is about this week. One way to look at the great intellectual flowering in the West is as a quest for liberation, with liberation being defined as the elimination of coercion. The utopia on the other side of the revolution is a world where everyone gets to do whatever they want without the need for permission. You are answerable only to your imagination.

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It’s tempting to interpret the Italian electoral results this past Sunday as voters merrily hurling a bowl of lush papardelle with wild boar ragu over the collective bland faces of the toxic unelected Euro-oligarchy sitting in Brussels.

Well, it’s complicated.

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While the Federal Reserve is in the midst of nuking the U.S. economy and stock market and as inflation runs rampant, destroying quality of life for middle income and lower income households, Senator Elizabeth Warren has turned her focus away from berating Jerome Powell to…vacuum cleaners.

Having apparently solved all of the nation’s other financial woes already, Warren has now directed her attention to a relatively small pending acquisition by Amazon, of Roomba vacuum cleaner company, iRobot.

Warren and a group of lawmakers has publicly asked the FTC this week to reject Amazon’s plans to buy the vacuum maker for $1.7 billion, according to Reuters. The FTC was already in the midst of an antitrust review of the deal, as of earlier this month.

DoJ pushes back on Trump’s claims it planted evidence at Mar-a-Lago (The Guardian) Which he never did–he merely raised it as a concern.

Kushner camping tale one of many bizarre scenes in latest Trump book (The Guardian) Pushing Maggie Haberman’s lies  because, well, because Trump.

Politico Co-Founder Says Constitution Must Be Rewritten To Stop Donald Trump  Because, you know, Trump cooties.

Scarborough: In Dark Days of Trump, I’d Sit At Night and Listen to Churchill Speeches

Judge Warns of Justice Department’s Gift to Trump That Could Keep on Giving (Daily Beast)

Donald Trump Belittled Jared Kushner In Front Of Aides With ‘Deliverance’ Jibe: Book (Huffington Post) The Usual Suspects are pushing Maggie Haberman’s lies because, well, Trump.

Trump Is Single-Handedly Keeping QAnon Alive (Vice) Actually, it would appear to be Narrative media like Vice that are keeping ‘QAnon’ (whatever that is) alive; they’re the only one talking about it.

Italy and the f-word

Free Elections? Google-Owned YouTube CANCELS ‘Entire Day’ of Content from CPAC Texas

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s husband files for divorce (ABC)

Russell Brand says YouTube taking down his video for misinformation ‘looks like censorship’ (Fox) Yes, it surely does.

Russell Brand, Once Seen as Progressive, Moves to Conservative Platform (Newsweek) Maybe he just likes free speech.

How we expunged a racist, sexist slur from hundreds of public lands (Washington Post)

Migrant encounters at the border are higher today than they were before Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star began (Texas Tribune) Narrative media go hunting Republicans.

Jan. 6 Panel Subpoenas Wisconsin House Speaker Over Trump Phone Call (Daily Beast) Trump cooties! Burn the witch!

Ilya Smirin: Chess commentator sacked for sexist comments during match (BBC)

22 members of Congress press Garland for answers on arrest of pro-life Catholic activist Mark Houck (Fox)

Government Disclosed Jan. 6 Activities Of Five Confidential FBI Sources: Defense Lawyer

Smith & Wesson sued over link to July 4 parade mass shooting (Associated Press)

Trial Attorneys Target Gunmakers, Smith & Wesson Again

Highland Park Fourth of July massacre: First lawsuits filed, call attack ‘predictable and preventable’ (Chicago Sun-Times)

How Peter Thiel’s pet candidate may doom the GOP’s Senate hopes (Washington Post) Greg Sargent takes a break from bashing Trump.

Youngkin and his national ambitions straddle the ‘big lie’ divide (Washington Post) In the Narrative Media, the witch-hunts continue.

Always be wary of Fox News (Washington Post) The witch-hunts continue in the Narrative Media.

This Right-Wing Faction Is Waging Civil War Inside the Libertarian Party (Daily Beast) The witch-hunts continue.

Gab Founder Andrew Torba Wants to Build a Christian Nationalist Internet (Vice) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

‘Progressives’ Propose That Praise of DeSantis Denotes He’s a Dictator

As Supreme Court’s standing falters, Alito pushes flawed defense (MSNBC)

Woke Mob Targets Nebraska Punter For Supporting New PM Of Italy

Species ‘Extinct’ for Nearly 100 Years Bought Back to Life in Colorado (Newsweek)

The CIA Just Invested in Woolly Mammoth Resurrection Technology (The Intercept)

Why tackling climate change means a stronger economy — according to Janet Yellen (NPR)

Should you take a green cruise? (Washington Post)

Europeans increasingly burning trees for energy after green policies, Russian war, leave countries hobbled (Fox)

Swiss glaciers see worst melt on record in back-to-back heat waves (CNN)

Swiss glaciers disappearing at record speed (BBC)

Terrawatch: why is sea level rising faster along China’s coast? (The Guardian)

Tiny Oregon town hosts 1st wind-solar-battery ‘hybrid’ plant (KATU)

Google is getting new sustainability features, including a fuel cost calculator (TechCrunch)

Americans Are Being Turned Into Human Compost to Save the Planet (Newsweek)

Industrial Farming Causes Climate Change. The ‘Slow Food’ Movement Wants to Stop It (TIME)

America’s hardest-hit communities need Biden to declare a climate emergency (The Guardian)

In a first, U.S. appoints a diplomat for plants and animals (Washington Post) You can’t make this shit up….

Climate Scientists Want to Ban Dissenting Views

The Conversation: How to Convince Economists to Back Climate Action

Hurricane Ian’s climate warning (Axios)

New York State to Adopt California 2035 EV Rules

Converting coal power plants to nuclear gains steam

Climate Change Is Burying Archaeological Sites Under Tons of Sand  (Wired ‘Science’)

Japan taps industry to build safer, more secure nuclear energy future

First Openly Transgender Army Officer Indicted for Trying to Give Soldiers’ Medical Info to Russia

U.S. says ex-Army major and wife tried to leak military health data to Russia

Transgender Media Hero Indicted for Plotting to Give Secrets to Russia

Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria Is the New Recovered Memories of Satanist Abuse Mania

US population stability requires immigration — just not too much (The Hill)

Mayor Eric Adams roasted for claiming ‘Kansas doesn’t have a brand’ (N.Y. Post)

Virgin Atlantic says men can wear skirts, updates gender policy (Fox)

Virgin Atlantic launches new gender-neutral uniform policy (CNN)

States appeal dismissal of suit against U.S. archivist for refusing to certify ERA ratification (Politico)

Appeals court debates whether Equal Rights Amendment is really dead (Washington Post)

Lame duck spending bill is a Democrat-designed democracy detour (The Hill)

Why is fiscal responsibility not discussed anymore? (The Hill)

Bay Area high-speed rail will displace hundreds of residents, businesses (S.F. Gate) And be a total waste of money.

The story of one US governor’s historic use of clemency: ‘We are a nation of second chances’ (The Guardian) Putting criminals back on the street.

New California abortion laws set up clash with other states (Associated Press)

Philadelphia PD Seeks To Identify 100 Juveniles In “Riot” At Wawa Convenience Store Last Weekend  Maybe the FBI could help with that.

Western liberalism is still skating on thin ice (Financial Times)

Meta Disrupts Chinese Social Media Campaign To Stoke Division Ahead Of U.S. Mid-Term Elections

Rohingya Seek Reparations From Facebook for Role in Massacre

Record Number Of New York Residents Changing Driver’s Licenses To Florida

Firebombing Attorney Begs for Light Sentence, Citing Inebriation and ‘Unprocessed Trauma’

Princeton University Marks Constitution Day With Event Deeming Founding Document ‘A Form of Geopolitical Gaslighting’

Florida Congressional Hopeful Illegally Omitted Stock Holdings From Her Financial Disclosure, Watchdog Says

Snopes Cries ‘False’ at PJ Media for Accurate Obama Foundation Story

UK Police Department Savaged For Defending Convicted Serial Pedophile Against ‘Hate’

Philadelphia Sets Record for Carjackings “Defund the Police” they said….

Is This the Beginning of the End of the Internet? (The Atlantic)

Message to Parents: Stay Out of Your Kids’ Education and Trust Teachers to Indoctrinate Them

Kevin McCarthy: The Gimp Who Thinks He’s a Master (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew push the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Paging Babylon Bee? WashPost Columnist Rants ‘7 Ways a Recession Could Be Good for You’

“We’re Horrified”: Major Brands Pull Twitter Ad Campaigns Over Child Porn

Does Anyone Still Care about the Lincoln Project?

Amy Schumer Pitches Colorado As ‘Premier Destination’ … For What? ABORTIONS

M&M’s New Addition: Purple ‘Spokescandy’ For ‘Acceptance and Inclusivity’

DC Council Bill Would Permit Noncitizen Voting in City Elections

Pfizer or Moderna: Which new omicron-specific Covid booster should you get? (CNBC) Neither.

Here’s Who Really Needs the New Covid Booster (Washington Post) Those who are ready to PANIC!

CDC Warns About Enterovirus D68, the Virus Linked to Paralysis in Kids (Prevention Magazine) Trying out candidates for the next PANIC!

Circulation of Virus Tied to Paralysis in Kids Is Rising, CDC Says (MedPage Today)

Broadly neutralizing antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 and other human coronaviruses (Nature)

People experienced some key personality changes during the pandemic, study finds (CNN) Yes, many turned into total fascists.

Indonesia approves first home-grown COVID vaccine for emergency use – media (Reuters)

Should I still be worried about monkeypox? (Washington Post)

States spend federal COVID aid on roads, buildings, seawalls (Associated Press) Free money! Let’s go shopping!

CPS moves forward with Near South Side high school plan, despite opposition (Chicago Tribune)

Whoopi, Cuomo Suggest White People Don’t ‘Pay Attention’ to Black People

Climate Justice Is Possible—Just Look Beyond Technology  (Wired ‘Science’) Yeah–to the politics.

Race Hysteria: USA Today Cites Systemic Racism In Hiring of NFL Coaches

Lakers Announce 4th Pride Night, But Block Comments On Instagram

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With the House in session just two more days before lawmakers leave for the usual midterm panderings, a (repeated) promise by Democrat leaders to vote on a congressional stock-trading ban this month appears not to be in the cards – despite a scorching analysis from the NYT which revealed thousands of stock trades by 97 current lawmakers which posed potential conflicts of interest.

As Punchbowl News reports, House Democrats aren’t likely to vote on the Cognressional stock-trading ban “anytime soon.”

When the outlet asked House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer about its passage, he replied: “Well, it was just introduced. … I gotta look at it and see what it is.” Hoyer had previously stated in closed-door leadership meetings that he didn’t like what was being proposed.

My, what a surprise.

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Eighty-four-year-old Joan Jacobson never imagined she would be shot when she knocked on the door of a Michigan couple’s home, hoping to convince them not to vote for a local pro-abortion ballot proposal.

Sharon Harvey answered the door and quickly became “hostile, belligerent, and antagonistic” when she learned Jacobson’s mission, according to David Kallman, Jacobson’s attorney with the Great Lakes Justice Center.

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In a Thursday phone interview with The Daily Signal, Jacobson insisted that Harvey refused to listen to her, yelling over her, and finally ordering her off the property. The 120-pound woman, who stands at 5 feet tall, said that Harvey followed her down the porch, onto the sidewalk, continuing to yell at her, before her husband Richard Harvey appeared in the yard carrying a .22 caliber rifle.

“When that registered in my mind, I heard a shot, I felt some pain, and I thought he had hit me in the back,” she said. Jacobson learned at the hospital that the bullet allegedly went through her shoulder and out her back, very narrowly missing her spine. “I was just in shock. I said to myself, ‘Did I just get shot? Did he just shoot me?’”

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A prominent Oklahoma Republican has formally endorsed a Democrat running for the state’s open U.S. Senate seat against her GOP opponent backed by former President Donald Trump.

Kendra Horn, a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, revealed the endorsement from Kris Steele on Twitter on Wednesday, sharing a video of the Republican expressing his support for her.

Steele served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013 and was its speaker from 2011 to 2013, as well as speaker pro tempore from 2009 to 2011.

“I’m honored to receive the endorsement of Kris Steele, former Republican Speaker of the Oklahoma House,” Horn wrote on Twitter.

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Just days after a North Dakota man admitted to killing an 18-year-old because he was a Republican, supporters of the ultra-progressive Democratic group known as The Squad, attacked a group of Republicans holding a vigil in Boston on Sept. 24.

The attack, which appears to be unprovoked, was caught on video and released to The Epoch Times.

One of the men attacked was Donnie Palmer, the Republican nominee looking to unseat U.S. Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, a member of The Squad.

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Republican senators are growing concerned by colleague Mitt Romney’s refusal to help fellow Utah Republican Mike Lee decisively win his re-election campaign — a posture that could potentially keep their party from gaining a majority in the November elections. Unlike every other Republican senator, the 2012 failed Republican presidential candidate is declining to express a preference in Republican Lee’s re-election effort against Democrat-endorsed Evan McMullin.

“I respect [Romney], and I understand that each state has its own dynamics, but I do not understand why he is remaining neutral,” said one Republican senator who asked not to be identified. “Whatever our differences, we all try to support each other around election time.”

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Even so, the poll suggests the strategy McMullin shared with left-wing allies at The Washington Post and other corporate media — building a coalition of Democrats, independents, and Romney and his supporters — is working at least somewhat according to plan.

Romney needs to be primary’d and replaced with a real Republican.

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Every four years, the United Nations’ International Telecommunication Union (ITU) stages a Plenipotentiary Conference at which member states decide how the organization will steer the development of communications technologies.

The event is usually only of interest to telco and policy wonks.

But this year’s event has become a geopolitical football – and possibly a turning point for internet governance – thanks to the two candidates running in an election for the position of ITU secretary-general.

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The possibility of Rashid Ismailov being elected ITU boss, and potentially driving adoption of censorship-enabling tech like New IP around the world, therefore has plenty of people worried – not least because in 2021 Russia and China issued a joint statement that called for “all States [to] have equal rights to participate in global-network governance, increasing their role in this process and preserving the sovereign right of States to regulate the national segment of the Internet.”

 

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‘Clean’, like ‘smart’, has become the prerequisite for all technology. Both are myths.

Smart technology is surveillance technology. It is not smarter because of its inherent qualities, but because it sends and receives data that allows it to be ‘smarter’ in manipulating users. The smart part of smart technology comes from human beings. So does the stupid part when people sacrifice their privacy and independence for the benefits of technology being shaped to them.

Clean energy is even more of a myth. The Inflation Increase Act doles out another stream of billions toward the inefficient forms of energy generation that the government has been subsidizing for over 50 years because some Madison Avenue ad agency branded them ‘clean’.

Energy is inherently clean and dirty. Making the inherent forces of the universe useful requires mining metal, cutting down trees, and turning fossil fuels into plastic to assemble machines. Once those machines are running, they will shed heat because ‘clean’ or ‘dirty’, that is how the second law of thermodynamics works. Not even Al Gore can evade entropy and not even the shiniest solar panel, sleekest wind turbines or smoothly humming Tesla will prevent energy from being wasted as it is transferred, stored or used to do one thing or another locally or nationally.

Ann Coulter looks at immigration. It doesn’t go well.

The massive news coverage of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ “political stunt” of sending 50 illegal aliens to Martha’s Vineyard reminds me of the media’s “political stunt” of referring to illegals as “legal asylum-seekers.”

Number one: They broke into our country. They’re illegal aliens. Number two: All asylum claims are frauds. Every single one.

Asylum is nothing but a conveyer belt to bring the worst people on Earth to our shores. You say you turned your own country into a hellhole? Fantastic! Come right in!

ZMan looks ahead.

The first step in surviving a nuclear war is to avoid a direct hit. Washington DC will get several direct hits and the initial flash will vaporize most of the population. The shock wave will level most of the city. By now, the Russians and Chinese know to target Northern Virginia, so it will be a saturation bombing. The five percent that survive the initial blast will be radiated and die soon thereafter. Therefore, the first rule of nuke club is to be outside the target zone.

The safe bet is to be away from the coasts. The Rockies or Appalachia are the best bet for making it through the first stage. Denver will be nuked, for sure, but the damage will be contained to that plateau. People in the mountains will escape the flash and the blast, even if Denver takes multiple strikes. The Green Briar will get hit, for old times sake, but most of West Virginia will be spared. There are lots of places to escape the flash and the blast in the mountains.

Once things settle after the final missile strikes, there will be four key things to surviving the aftermath. You will need water, shelter, food and a way to defend yourself from the people who were not prepared. Imagine a land ravaged by mask wearing Covidians and you get the picture. You will have to be prepared to kill a lot of people in order to avoid ending up like them. This means you need to pick a spot that has access to water, a food source and is defendable.

Smith & Wesson are your friends.

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In April of 2021 a young Pakistani woman named Saman Abbas disappeared in Italy, and was presumed to have been “honor-killed” by her parents and male relatives. Below is another new report with information on the case.

Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.

‘You Must Be A Gun Nut’: Closeted Liberal Women Embrace 2nd Amendment

Top Unions Lost Nearly Quarter of a Million Members After Court Struck Down Mandatory Membership

IMF says UK fiscal measures will ‘likely increase inequality,’ urges rethink (Reuters)

IMF gives damning verdict on Britain’s tax cuts (CNBC)

The man who recruited migrants for flights to Martha’s Vineyard says he feels betrayed (CNN)

Unhoused SF residents sue London Breed, SFPD over ‘cruel’ sweeps (S.F. Gate)

Schnitzer: ‘Enough is enough’ of downtown Portland vandalism (KOIN)

Voice assistants could ‘hinder children’s social and cognitive development’ (The Guardian)

Eric Adams ‘frustrated’ by NYC’s migrant crisis — wants national ‘decompression strategy’ (N.Y. Post) Doesn’t give a shit about Texas’ and Arizona’s ‘migrant crisis’, of course.

Transgender Ga. deputy taking county to trial over denied healthcare (WSB-TV)

Virginia Students Walk Out Over Younkin’s Floated Transgender Policies

New York Times Admits That Hundreds of ‘Top Surgeries’ Are Being Performed on Children

Air Force Academy Defends Telling Cadets To Replace ‘Mom And Dad’ With ‘Gender-Neutral Language’

Farmers Jump Off Hemp Bandwagon Amid Lack Of Profit And Underwhelming Performance

Tim Ryan Says Americans Need To Give Up Gas Cars as He Drives Around Ohio in Gas Guzzlers

“All Ages” Drag Show In Tennessee Canceled After Protesters Arrive

What Country Is the Wall Street Journal Living In? (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew pushes the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

New Poll Debunks Media Claims That Pro-Life Stance Will Doom GOP

Confused NY Times Rejoices GOP Govs Migrant Bus ‘Stunts’ Are ‘Backfiring’

Trump Counties Come Out of Pandemic Better Economically Than Dem-Run Ones

What Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson Don’t Understand About War (The Atlantic) But a writer at The Atlantic does, of course.

How to Spin the Upcoming FBI Crime Stats to Help the Democrats,

Pregnant Comedian Kicks Off Peacock Series With ‘Killer Abortion Jokes’

Carbon bombs and Gulf Stream collapse: the most urgent climate stories of our time (The Guardian)

Amid an energy crisis, Germany turns to the world’s dirtiest fossil fuel (NPR)

Amphibious houses and floating cities could protect coastal communities from sea-level rise (CNBC)

Climate complacency has left firefighters ill-prepared, says union chief (The Guardian)

Manchin’s energy permitting proposal stripped from funding bill after GOP, progressive opposition (Fox)

North Yorkshire puts seaweed at the heart of its carbon-negative ambitions (The Guardian)

Fossil fuel recruiters banned from UK university careers service (The Guardian)

A running shoe made from carbon emissions now exists – and it looks good too (TechRadar)

Sidewalk and trees falling into ocean at popular Maui beach, prompting growing calls for action (Hawaii News Now)

Tiny Oregon town hosts 1st wind-solar-battery ‘hybrid’ plant (Associated Press)

A Corporate Greenwashing Bonanza Just Descended on New York City (TIME)

Pollution from Florida mining a concern with Hurricane Ian (Associated Press)

“The Train Crash Scenario”: California EV Mandates Will Further Stress An Already Exhausted Electric Grid

NOAA Hurricane Director Twice Shuts Down Lemon For Blaming Climate Change

Reality Bites Wind

Blockade Australia Charges Dismissed Because of Climate Insanity

Hurricane expert brushes off Don Lemon climate change question: ‘I want to talk about the here and now’ (The Hill)

At RE:WIRED Green, We’re Innovating to Fight the Climate Crisis  Virtue signaling for fun and profit.

Climate Activist’s Rank Hypocrisy Exposed In Hilarious Radio Interview

WATCH: As Hurricane Ian Reaches Florida, Media Fixate on Climate Change

Women said covid shots affect periods. A new study shows they’re right. (Washington Post)

Amid conspiracy and conflict, WHO’s Tedros plans for the next pandemic (Washington Post) Without which he has neither power nor status.

CDC no longer recommends universal masking in health facilities (The Hill)

Five things about covid we still don’t understand at our peril (Washington Post)

Japan’s COVID herd immunity near 90% after Omicron wave, study says (Reuters)

Gov. JB Pritzker announces significant payment toward Unemployment Insurance Loan (ABC)

General: Unvaccinated National Guardsmen Activated For Hurricane Ian

When Will the Pandemic Truly Be ‘Over’? (Wired ‘Science’) When the Ruling Class have squeezed it for all the power it will yield.

Columbia students react to their college being ranked worst for free speech on campus (Fox)

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes’ path: From Yale to jail (Associated Press)

DeSantis-appointed county commissioner resigns after alleged Ku Klux Klan picture emerges (Politico)

Gadsden County commissioner appointed by Gov. DeSantis resigns after KKK costume photo emerges (Tallahassee Democrat)

The Key Ingredients Of Christian Nationalism (Talking Points Mem0) Except for the inconvient fact that Christians aren’t a ‘nation’.

From DeSantis to McCarthy to Trump, a week that defined the GOP-Democrat divide in 2022 (NBC)

Dershowitz, Barr, Durham, and lawfare against political opponents

Who Decides What Children Read? Authoritarians Slander Parent Groups as ‘Book Banners’

Roger Stone Promoted Violence, Then Sought Pardon After Jan. 6, Evidence Shows (N.Y. Times)

Reid Accuses DeSantis of Owning the Libs Instead of Preparing for Hurricanes

‘Absolutely Fake News’: Even Liberal Former PM Dismisses ‘Fascism’ Brewing in Italy Claims (Breitbart)

Watch: French PM Declares EU Will Be ‘Vigilant’ Against ‘Threat’ Of Democratically Elected Italian Leader  Democracy is great so long as it supports the Narrative.

Leftist Former Italian PM Says ‘Return of Fascism’ Narrative Is “Absolutely Fake News”

The Right’s Lust for Violence (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew go full left-wing.

CBS’ ‘FBI: Most Wanted’ Targets Georgia & Tennessee Pro-Life Laws

Italian Ambassador Debunks Media’s Fascist Label Of New Prime Minister

Mulkey Takes LSU Women’s Basketball Helm, Woke Mob Screams ‘Homophobe!’

Doug Mastriano is holding an event with Jack Posobiec, who has collaborated with neo-Nazis and spread antisemitism (Media Matters for America)

The View Lashes Out at DeSantis for Thanking Biden for Hurricane Help

After sharp right turn, U.S. Supreme Court conservatives step on the gas (Reuters) If only.

Tucker Carlson’s shoddy case linking U.S. to alleged Nord Stream sabotage (Washington Post) If it’s Tucker, it has to be wrong.

Italy Is Just the Latest Country to Paint a Pretty Face on Fascism (Daily Beast) All fascism! All the time!

Video: Media Meltdown Over ‘Neo-Fascist’ Italian PM Bringing Back WWII

QUASH! YouTube Removes Future Italian PM’s Speech After It Goes Viral

Biden Vows Next Hurricane To Hit US Will Be Named After A Woman Of Color  (Babylon Bee)

Biden’s student debt relief faces first major legal challenge (Politico)

Biden pumped up, demands gas stations slash prices at the pump: ‘Do it now’ (N.Y. Post)

Stock market losses wipe out $9 trillion from Americans’ wealth (CNBC)

Borrower Sues to Stop Biden’s Unfair, Illegal Student Loan Bailout

Inflation Bites: NYT Union Demands Annual 8 Percent Pay Raise

FLASHBACK: 3 Paul Krugman Rules for ‘Bidenomics’ That Self-Destructed in 2022

Beto Turns On Biden, Blames Prez For Latino Voters’ Rightward Shift

Biden Says Social Security Is on ‘Chopping Block’ if Republicans Win Congress (L.A. Times) More bullshit from Biden.

CBP Document Details Mass Release of Illegal Aliens under Biden (Center for Immigration Studies)

War on Women: Biden White House Fuels Gender Pay Gap

Biden’s delicate midterm dance (Politico)

Watch: Biden Advisor Declares MAGA Conservatives Want To ‘Destroy’ America

STUDY: PolitiFact Is Nearly 6 Times More Likely to Defend Biden Than Check His Facts  My, what a surprise.

Iran Protests Raise Pressure on State

House Republicans Launch Probe Into Education Department’s Funding of Woke Universities

Watch: Biden Asks If Recently Deceased Congresswoman Is At White House Speech

Biden admin awards $41M in contracts to new left-wing group that helps illegal immigrants fight deportations

Biden Draining SPR Like “Campaign Credit Card” For Midterms

7 ways a recession could be good for you financially (Washington Post) Pushing the Narrative right over the edge.

SILVER ALERT: Biden’s Bumbles Hit New Low

Biden’s Climate Policies Upset Top Ally

Senior moment of the day

Biden administration to grant Puerto Rico shipping waiver after uproar

In boost to Trump, appeals court opens door to DOJ shielding him in defamation lawsuit

Court hands partial win to Trump in rape accuser’s defamation suit (The Hill)

Nadler feuded with Schiff, Pelosi over ‘unconstitutional’ impeachment of Donald Trump (Fox)

‘Afraid of losing their power’: Judge decries GOP leaders who back Trump election claims (Politico)

Trump Saw Staffers of Color at White House, Assumed They Were Waiters, Book Says (Rolling Stone) More invented smears from the Narrative media.

Haberman’s New Book Details Trump’s Transphobic and Anti-Gay Behavior (Daily Beast) My, what a surprise from a New York Times reporter. The Narrative media are going to be trumpeting Maggie Haberman’s lies for the next two years.

Trump weighed bombing drug labs in Mexico, according to new book (Washington Post) The Narrative media are going to be trumpeting Maggie Haberman’s lies for the next two years.

New book: Trump nearly fired Jared and Ivanka via tweet (CNN) The Narrative media are going to be trumpeting Maggie Haberman’s lies for the next two years.

Millions of Americans believe force justified to restore Trump to White House, University of Chicago study finds (CBS) A study! That proves it!

A Hurricane in 2022 Is Trump’s Fault

‘Giant Backfire’: Trump’s Demand for Special Master Is Looking Like a Mistake (N.Y. Times) All Trump! All the time!

At Least 4 Times the FBI Passed on Presidential Raids

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America’s corporate press is out of control. It claims to be an institution essential to successful self-government—and it would in fact be so, if it did its job responsibly. But all too often the American press seeks not to facilitate democratic deliberation by informing the voters but instead to shape political outcomes by dealing in hysteria and misinformation. More specifically, the corporate media routinely seeks to pull the nation’s politics leftward by using defamation to render prominent figures on the right odious to the public.

The case of Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz is only the most recent example. For much of the last two years, Gaetz has been the target of “news” stories, based on anonymous sources, that he was under investigation by the Department of Justice for sex trafficking. Now, we are told, career prosecutors are recommending against charges because of concerns about the credibility of the witnesses. This is another version of the same treatment given to Donald Trump before and during his presidency. For years Trump was subjected to innumerable breathless stories that he had “colluded” with Russia to steal the presidency. But when the investigation was over it turned out that Trump was guilty of no such thing.

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These are alarming times. We continue to hear stories of the FBI confronting citizens who have not committed crimes to all appearances, but who have offended the powers-that-be in the political realm. These are folks who are stopping at a fast-food drive-thru, or who are on vacation with their families, or who are confronted at their homes by multiple FBI agents with guns drawn. The FBI’s goals are clearly to intimidate those they’ve accosted, but the interactions can be frightening and bewildering. In other words, they’ve accomplished their mission.

The days of respecting the FBI have been over for quite a long time. In all likelihood, the organization never fully recovered from the times of J. Edgar Hoover. And today, anyone—anyone—could be an FBI target. So, I decided it would be common sense to prepare for an exchange with the FBI.

You might think that you could never be an FBI target. Let me suggest, however, that if you write on Twitter, Facebook, or on other social media sites, you could be in the sights of the FBI. If you post photos that could be considered “controversial” or at odds with the Biden government, you could be seen as an adversary.

Even writing on Ricochet could make you vulnerable.

So let me share some suggestions, which are not in any way intended to be legal advice, if the FBI shows up at your door.

You have the right to remain silent. DO SO.

Don’t talk to the police.

Never Talk to the Police; Even With Your Lawyer Present.

Police TRAP YOU with Small Talk (How to Avoid It)

Why Shouldn’t I Talk to Police if I am Innocent?

Never talk to the police – An Idaho Attorney’s Perspective

DON’T Talk to the Police … 7 REASONS WHY

Don’t Talk to Cops-Lawyer Explains Common Mistakes In Dealing With Police!

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Despite what you’ve been told, the American left is not composed of people who hate the country and want to see its institutions burned to the ground in an orgy of rage. Oh, sure, those people exist — but they’re not the whole left. Not even most of the left. Nor are they, on their own, all that dangerous, since burn-it-down-style radicalism inevitably runs up against the natural human desire for peace and order. (Even in Seattle, CHAZ could last only so long.) No, the great majority of Americans who identify with the left belong to a different faction: the whigs.

When I say “whig,” I’m not talking about powdered faux hair or the Democratic Party’s long-lost rival or British parliamentary politics. I’m talking about those Americans — and there are many of them — who take a whiggish view of the country’s history. Such people consider themselves patriotic. They hang red, white, and blue flags from their porches. They watch fireworks shows and march in July 4 parades. They swoon at the sight of military regalia. They flock to old battlefields and can rattle off facts about Benjamin Franklin and the Constitutional Convention. They also believe that Elizabeth Warren is the fullest expression of the Lincolnian spirit and that gas-powered cars must be abolished, lest life on Earth end.

If the whig left had a creed, it might be this: Social change is America’s genius. Resistance to social change is illegitimate and un-American. The Democratic Party, as the progressive party, is the natural steward for the best parts of American history — a history that consists of a series of virtuous struggles against oppression: the oppression of the British crown, the oppression of slavery, the oppression of the patriarchy, the oppression of unbridled capitalism, the oppression of the Jim Crow regime, the oppression of homophobia, the oppression of immigration restriction, and so on.

Whigs were Progressives before they came up with a cool new name.

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The partisans running the House January 6 Committee would like you to believe there’s a controversy over an ex-Republican coming out with his own “unauthorized” January 6 book the day before their last scheduled committee hearing. Would your average cynical reporter buy this “going rogue” story line? Or does it look conveniently designed to put the Pelosi-picked panel back in the headlines?

Liberal media outlets lose all the cynicism when the Democrats are in power. CBS’s 60 Minutes pushed out one of those “bombshell” interviews with Denver Riggleman, the former GOP congressman from Virginia who worked on the committee at Liz Cheney’s urging. CNN and MSNBC were pushing this story in heavy rotation. Their appetite for the January 6 narrative is ravenous.

The 60 Minutes tick-tock was predictably partisan on September 25. A week after Scott Pelley’s soft-soap interview with President Biden, Pelley conducted another soft-soap interview with Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Even there, January 6 came up, as Pelley asked Blinken “Given January 6th, given the fabricated controversy over the election results, do you find that countries around the world are worried about the stability of the United States?”

There’s always demand for a Trump smoking gun. So there’s always supply. (Washington Post)

Riggleman: After I criticized Trump, my mom texted me, ‘I’m sorry you were ever elected’ (The Hill) So are we all.

Christo-Fascist Salutes Displayed During Recent Mastriano And Trump Rallies (Bucks County Beac0n) ‘Christo-Fascist’?

Ex-Staffer Says DeSantis TORCHES Trump in Private: ‘Moron Who Has No Business Running For President’ (The MEDIAite) The Narrative Media making stuff up in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

When it comes to reacting to criticism, Lori Lightfoot needs much better advice (Chicago Tribune) BRAAAAAAAINS!

Race and power collide in a fight over sacred rock art in remote Australia (CNN)

Civil rights law targets ‘cancer alley’ discrimination (N.Y. Post)

The Case for Leaving America to Escape Racism (Washington Post) Where you gonna go?

This Oakland neighborhood used to be majority Black. Dramatic change is sparking tension (S.F. Chronicle)

$1 Million Yale University Research Project To Combat Racist Video Game Hair

“Race Science” Comes Back—On the Left

Shareholders Demand Pfizer Scrap Race-Conscious Policies in the Wake of Civil Rights Lawsuit

Woke is now a dog whistle for Black. What’s next? (Washington Post) Remember: If you hear the dog whistle, you’re the dog.

Hailey Bieber’s ‘Brownie Glazed Lips’ Look Is Yet Another Example of Cultural Appropriation in Beauty (TIME) Funny how black women like Joy Reid and Nikole Hannah-Jones don’t get dinged for dying and straightening their hair. I guess Cultural Appropriation, like Racism, only goes one-way.

An in-your-face fraud

Obama Suggests Racism Behind GOP’s Border Security Push  My, what a surprise.

What We Know So Far About BA.2.75.2, the ‘Most Resistant’ Variant to Date (TIME)

Study of 9 million Swedes shows rapidly declining effectiveness of COVID vaccines against Omicron (News-Medical)

CDC tracking 3 new COVID-19 variants as some experts warn cases could increase (CBS)

Viruses May Be “Watching” You – Lying in Wait Before Multiplying and Killing (SciTech Daily) So you’d better PANIC!

Just 1.5% Of Eligible People Have Gotten Updated COVID Booster

Medical Journal: 17M Excess Deaths Due to COVID-19

The Dystopian Vision Of The Health-Information Police

Israeli Investigators Find COVID-19 Vaccines Cause Side Effects: Leaked Video  No! Really?

Even the richest San Franciscans think economic inequality is out of control. Here’s how bad it is (S.F. Chronicle) That’s because even the richest San Franciscans are Wokerati.

My children were born in New York but now live in Texas. I sometimes wish we had never moved. (Insider) Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.

Why Haven’t Linda Sarsour, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib Even Mentioned Iran’s Hijab Protests?  Not part of the Narrative.

NYC Council Eyes Buying Back Used Needles From Drug Addicts

Urban Devolution Continues

“Murderapolis”: Ground Zero For ‘Defund The Police’ Movement Now Suffering Horrendous Crime Wave

Major London Department Store Gives Up On Calling Police To Catch Shoplifters

This Montana Democrat Invests in Company She Blames For Housing Crisis

Meyers Fawns Over Alleged Economic Genius, Bernie Sanders

AZ Schools Offers Secretive Sex Chat Rooms for Kids

The Second Amendment Gives No Comfort to Insurrectionists (N.Y.Times) Jamie Raskin pushes the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Fake charities are spending millions to help Democrats win elections (Washington Examiner)

Meta busts first Chinese campaign targeting US midterms

ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN Still Burying Political Murder of Republican Teen

Chris Wallace’s New CNN Show Bombs in Debut

Santa Cruz is a Housing Nightmare

Philadelphia Mayor Issues Ban on Guns at City Parks, Pools  I will be interested whether this will survive the inevitable constitutional challenge.

Fascism Expert Somehow Able to Find Fascism Everywhere (Babylon Bee) Amazing how that works.

CBO: White House plan to cancel student loan debt costs $400 billion (Washington Post)

Texas city hit by 1,500 illegal migrants a day (The Hill)

Doocy Trips Jean-Pierre With Simple Crime Question: Are Americans Safe?

FBI, Justice Department Twist Federal Law to Arrest, Charge Pro-Life Activist

Federal Reserve Playing Chicken With Financial Markets

Inflation, Biden style

Biden’s EPA Launches ‘Environmental Justice’ Office to Throw Billions at Minority Groups  Any Woke excuse will do.

Kamala Finally Goes to the Border—in Korea

President Meandering & Confused While Honoring Atlanta Braves

Biden’s America: Retailers Opt for Empty Shelves To Prevent Theft

Americans Have Lost $4,200 In Annual Income Under Biden Administration: Report

Washington Post Buries Its Own Terrible Poll for Biden on Page A-14, with Trump Ahead

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Not sure I’d be sufficiently interested in this feature of a phone to spend that kind of money, but hey….

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Parents across America are fed up with schools replacing traditional education with identity-based programming and thinly disguised political indoctrination. Schools should be teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic. But they aren’t, and the low proficiency rates only further expose the replacement of traditional education with activist ideology.

The social justice ideologies that have infiltrated our K-12 schools teach children to look, first and foremost, at skin color, undermining the uniquely American idea that all of us share a common identity, regardless of where our ancestors came from. This is destructive to the fabric of our country. But perhaps that is the point.

School districts are not subtle that their goal is to replace individual liberty with collectivism and state control as the purpose of government. One of our cases at Southeastern Legal Foundation alleges that the district teaches that individualism is oppressive, that both “equality” and the nuclear family are racist, and that we should question “the very foundations of the liberal order,” and even constitutional law.

ZMan looks behind the curtain.

A feature of this age is words and phrases have fluid definitions, rather than the old, fixed definitions from our dark history. Vaccine used to mean a preparation to simulate the immune system in order to prevent infection. Now it means the sponsor of the regime friendly cable chat shows. Recession used to mean two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth, but now it means a thing that never happens. After all, who can really say what words really mean anyway?

It looks like we may be getting a new definition for bear market, which used to mean a prolonged decline in equities. The rule of thumb is that a long decline that reached 20% off the previous high is a bear market. Yesterday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached that point when it dipped below 29,300. It is now off 20.4% from the high in January 2022 when stocks rallied after the end of Covid. The index is now below the level it was at when Biden took office.

The main reason the market is in decline is the global economy is a mess and Western finances are even worse. The wild spending during Covid was always going to come with a hefty cost, but the assumption was that the economy would just turn back on and everything would be fine. Western government could then stretch the cost of Covid policies over a long period of time. Instead, we have inflation, war and a global energy crisis that is demanding government action.

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The 2022 Socialism Conference in Chicago earlier this month felt more like an academic conference than, as the promotional materials pronounced, “a place where activists can share lessons from their struggles.” Attendees paid $150 for full-price passes granting access to four days of panels, talks, and social events for professional schmoozing at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place hotel and convention center in Chicago’s swank South Loop neighborhood. Panels hosted academics and writers plugging and signing books that could be purchased at the conference book fair. Keynote speakers gave the kind of rousing and impassioned prewritten talks to restrained applause that one would expect of a literary reading. The only real perceivable difference between the Socialism Conference and, say, the annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference was that of genre, which was social justice instead of more traditional literary poetry or prose.

Socialism is the astrology of the modern intellectual class.

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The Congressional Budget Office has set forth the direct economic cost of the illegal Biden student loan giveaway in a letter to Senator Richard Burr and Rep. Virginia Foxx. The letter is posted online here. Following up, Republicans on the House Budget Committee issued
this press release.