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

How social-emotional learning became a frontline in the battle against CRT (NPR)

California Gov. Newsom must not declare war on doctors over so-called medical ‘misinformation’ (Fox)

Expect fireworks from the Supreme Court’s 2022-2023 term (The Hill) As the witch-hunt continues.

Oath Keeper charged in Jan. 6 attack texted with Andrew Giuliani about election (NBC) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Oath Keeper Lawyer Texted With Giuliani’s Son About 2020 Election: Report (Daily Beast) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Democrats getting ‘crushed’ by ‘ruthless’ Fox News hosts: Newsom (The Hill)

Historians Trash DeSantis’ Understanding of U.S. History—’Beyond Ignorance’ (Newsweek)

Why Did This DeSantis Flack Delete All His Anti-OAN Tweets? (Daily Beast)

‘Let’s get right to the violence’: New documentary film footage shows Roger Stone pre-Election Day (CNN)

New Zealand Prime Minister Calls For A Global Censorship System

MSNBC Whines Sinema & McConnell Said Nice Things to Each Other

Kristi Noem Under Investigation for Jetting to Personal Events on State Plane (Daily Beast)

Czech Elections Show Steady Rise Of Right-Wing Parties & Populists As Economy Sours

Financial censorship

How Kevin McCarthy’s political machine worked to sway the GOP field (Washington Post) The swine!

Republican ex-congressman suggests colleagues ‘had serious cognitive issues’ (The Guardian) Wriggle-man touts his book by joining in the RINO games.

Florida Contracts Go to Companies That Flooded Ron DeSantis Campaign Fund (The Intercept)

Freedom Caucus poised to pull its hardest McCarthy punch (Politico) Pushing the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

‘It Was All a Hoax’: Migrant Deceived by DeSantis Speaks (New York Magazine) After his tongue was loosened with cash, no doubt.

Don’t Agree With Time Mag Lefties? You Might be a Christian Nationalist  Don’t throw me in that briar patch.

Are You A Fascist? 12 Signs To Look For (Babylon Bee)

Climate change is causing hurricanes to intensify faster than ever (CNN)

Want to phase out fossil fuels? We must fundamentally change our buildings. (Washington Post)

Easyjet to stop offsetting CO2 emissions from December (The Guardian)

EasyJet to scrap carbon offsetting to focus on cutting emissions (Reuters)

Manchin ‘didn’t expect’ Republicans to join Bernie Sanders in opposition to energy permitting bill (Fox) Welcome to RINO-world.

Offshore Wind 125 Times Better for Taxpayers Compared to Oil and Gas (Gizmodo)

Build a Better Floating Wind Turbine and Win $7 Million from the Department of Energy (‘Scientific’ American)

Arctic Sea Ice Tied for 10th-Lowest on Record (NASA)

Leaders of Island Nations Call for Climate Justice (Global Citizen) Mainly you sending them money.

‘We need all hands on deck!’ The world’s ‘to-do list’ is long and time is short, UN deputy chief tells Global Citizen Festival (U. N. News) Mainly you sending them money.

Scientists finally find a way to recycle plastic indefinitely (ZME Science)

Germany’s loses 1 of its 5 glaciers to scalding summer (Associated Press)

Global climate change protests demand compensation ahead of COP27 (Reuters)

Afraid and anxious, young protesters demand climate action (Sacramento Bee)

At a Global Conference on Clean Energy, Granholm Announces Billions in Federal Aid for Carbon Capture and Emerging Technology (Inside Climate News)

Fossil Fuels Are the Greenest of Energy Sources

Cost of public EV charging rises by more than 42% in four months

The UK Is Reviewing Its Net-Zero Strategy In A Bid To Ensure Energy Security

What Happened to The Ice-Free Arctic?

Ron DeSantis: The Making and Remaking (and Remaking) of a MAGA Heir (Vanity Fair) Trump cooties! Unclean!

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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.

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Violent crime continues to rise across the United States, and Democratic politicians are struggling to defend their anti-law enforcement policies that have in some cases resulted in preventable deaths. This alarming crime wave has coincided with a marked increase in the number of Democratic donors, operatives, and elected officials (and other left-wing maniacs) arrested and charged with violent crimes.

Here are a few of the most notable Democratic Party officials and associates to be charged, prosecuted, or sentenced for violent crimes in 2022.

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Portland is one of the nation’s most beautiful cities, positioned at the confluence of the Columbia and Willamette rivers. But fading livability hangs over it like a raw gray drizzle. After years of political mayhem and an explosion of drug-related homelessness and crime, the city’s fabled quality of life is plunging. Every taxpayer in the 2.5 million metro area knows it.

Portlandia had its lure and charms, and yesterday’s salons and eateries still look modish. But they’re closed, chairs stacked, thank you for your patronage. Those Patagonia-clad tourists and corporate executives on generous expense accounts won’t be coming back soon. On a warm, cloudless autumn day, the city’s once spotless downtown should be bustling but…and it takes a while for this to click…it’s almost empty.

Almost. Junkies, vagrants, alkies, and crazies shamble everywhere. The dazed and tattered wander into high-end hotels and doormen shoo them out. Keyed-up speed freaks bang on cars trying to park. Uptown in Pioneer Square, two heavily tattooed lesbians with turquoise hair kiss and fondle one another, eyes darting in all directions. It’s urban performance art, understand, not eros. In Portland, zanies run the show, and if you don’t go with the vibe, you are the problem.

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If you have the feeling that liberals would like to kill you, you aren’t paranoid. You are catching on.

Around the world, we are seeing increasingly violent talk from the Left. All too often, that talk has led to violent action. When Congressman and Senate candidate Tim Ryan says “we’ve got to kill and confront” the movement of “extremist Republicans,” you are right if you think he means you.

This liberal outrage comes from the U.K.: a video game in which you try to kill Margaret Thatcher. The game is endorsed by a former leader of the Labour Party.

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Whenever Italy elects a right-of-center Prime Minister, the international press labels them a fascist and links them to Mussolini (coincidentally, the only Italian PM they’ve heard of). What was true for Silvio Berlusconi and Mario Draghi is true of their latest PM, Giorgia Meloni, elected over the weekend.

UPDATE: White House anxiously watches Meloni’s rise to power (Politico)

UPDATE: Freaking Out Over Italy

UPDATE: How a party of neo-fascist roots won big in Italy (Associated Press)

UPDATE: Italy’s Next Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni: Why Do They Hate Her So Much?

UPDATE: POLITICO Playbook: What Meloni means for America (Politico) According to the Narrative.

The Global Water Crisis Could Crush The Energy Industry

IEA Head Warns “Wild West” Energy Scenario Could Unravel Europe

The Atlantic: “What is the Real Goal here – Stopping Climate Change or Abolishing Capitalism?”

Gas From Russia’s Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Leaks Into Baltic Sea

Giorgia Meloni claims victory to become Italy’s most far-right prime minister since Mussolini (CNN) Since Mussolini considered himself a socialist, you can tell that CNN is mighty confused.

Italy’s Giorgia Meloni poised to win election as Europe turns right, exit polls show (Fox)

Giorgia Meloni: Italy’s far right on course to win election (BBC)

Italy’s right-wing parties seen winning power -exit polls (Reuters)

The Megastate G.O.P. Rivalry Between Abbott and DeSantis (N. Y. Times) Pushing the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Italy on course for far-right government after vote, according to projections (Washington Post) To the Narrative Media, there is no right but the far-right.

The Smearing of Matt Gaetz

Even in Blue States, Election Denial Can Cause Serious Damage (N.Y. Times) “Election denial” appears to be the go-to smear at the NYTimes these days.

Meadows texts reveal direct White House communications with pro-Trump operative behind plans to seize voting machines (CNN) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

GOP readies political heartburn for an FBI it won’t defund (Politico) Infirm of purpose….

The mysterious nine-second call from the White House to a January 6 rioter: CNN reveals the rioter’s identity for the first time (CNN) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Democrats need to stop urging political violence (N.Y. Post)

Facebook Slaps Fact-Check on Babylon Bee Satirical LeBron James Photo

Facebook Censoring Content Related to FBI Whistleblower

Ron DeSantis’s vile stunt outdoes Greg Abbott in trolling cruelty (Washington Post) Greg Sargent, taking his cue from Jennifer Rubin, loses his shit.

DeSantis privately elevates election deniers while publicly staying mum on 2020 (CNN) The swine!

Migrant Encounters Hit 1,500 Per Day in El Paso

Joe Biden Is Toast

Most Americans Believe Migrants Should Be Transported To Sanctuary Cities: Poll

Biden Repeats False Claims About AR-15 Velocity In Support Of A Ban

US to relax restrictions for tech companies in Iran

Biden’s economic success story could fall flat among people still struggling (Politico) Which is everybody not a Democrat politician.

The Biden-Trump rematch, in many ways, has already begun (Washington Post) Thanks to the Narrative Media.

Trump Reminds He Predicted Biden Market Crash

ABC Poll: Republicans Up 21 Points on Dems in Battleground Districts

FAA Can’t Do Much to Ground DeSantis’ Migrant Flights

Down $29 Trillion Since November

‘Abuse of Power’: Lawmakers Tear Into DOJ for Arrest of Pro-Life Father in Front of Screaming Children

Biden USAID’s Radical Gender Policy Is Exporting Cultural Colonialism

Biden Admin Freed Taliban Drug Lord on DEA’s’ ‘Kill’ List

Putin raises stakes in the war in Ukraine (Fox)

Top Russian lawmakers slam ‘excesses’ of Putin’s war mobilization (The Hill)

Russians arrested in thousands while protesting Putin’s mobilization, human rights group says (Fox)

Tehran Summons Western Ambassadors For “Meddling” As Protest Death Toll Climbs To Over 40

Orbán Calls For Sanctions On Russia To Be Lifted By End Of Year

Procurement: The Russian Gift

The View Russia Will Lose War In Ukraine May Be “Naive”

Russia Gunman Detained After Shooting at Siberian Draft Office

US Official Says Oil Price Cap On Russia Crude Exports To Include Products

Missile-launching quadcopter could be headed to Ukraine

Putin Grants Russian Citizenship to Edward Snowden

Ukrainian Territories To Be Absorbed Into Russia By Week’s End: Lawmaker

Congress Signs Up For $40 Billion Per Month Ukraine+ Subscription (Babylon Bee)

COVID is in a lull, again. Experts say it’s still a time of ‘trade-offs’ (S.F. Chronicle)

Biden sent the wrong message on COVID. He can still fix it (L.A. Times)

COVID-19 Linked With Substantial Increase in Type 1 Diabetes in Children – As Much as 72% (SciTechDaily)

COVID-19 Associated With Increase in New Diagnoses of Type 1 Diabetes in Youth, by as Much as 72% (Neuroscience News)

New Discovery Can Kill COVID With ‘Hugs’—but There’s a Catch (Daily Beast)

Pfizer Seeks FDA Approval for Updated COVID Boosters for Children

Liz Cheney on if she prefers Democrats hold House majority: ‘It’s a tough question’ (Fox) Especially for a RINO.

Cheney says she’ll campaign against Lake and Mastriano because of their election denials (ABC) And because she’s a RINO.

GOP lawmaker suggests there’s ‘pressure’ on Republicans to impeach Biden if party wins the House (CNN) Pushing the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

‘There’s A Lot Of Pressure On Republicans’ To Have An Impeachment Vote On President Biden (NBC) Apparently that’s today’s Narrative media talking point.

Corporate greed, not wages, is behind inflation. It’s time for price controls (The Guardian) Robert Reich has been a socialist statist all his life, and sees no reason to change now.

Newsom vetoes bill to make kindergarten mandatory, citing costs (L.A. Times) Apparently the teachers’ unions don’t have as much clout as they used to.

Taking aim at government, UK’s Labour unveils national wealth fund plan (Reuters)

Nancy Pelosi Booed At NYC Festival: ‘Doesn’t Bode Well For Dems Ahead Of Mid-Terms’

Mob Of People Spontaneously Ransack Wawa Convenience Store In Philadelphia

‘Nonpartisan’ Health Policy Group Pushes Dems’ Equity Agenda

How Three Liberal Nonprofits Drive the Anti-Vaping Campaign

Air Force Academy Holds ‘Transgender Visibility’ Seminar

As more states create election integrity units, Arizona is a cautionary tale (Washington Post) They actually let Republicans participate.

Democrats urge support for EPA union, testing Biden’s pro-labor pledge (Washington Post)

Undercover Cop Hater: New Mexico Congressional Hopeful Uses Fake Name To Trash Cops, Deletes Evidence

Pollsters Worried About Inaccurate Predictions Ahead of Midterms

Woke Kansas Governor Flip-Flops on Males In Girls’ Sports

Whoopi Pushes for Splitting the Republican Party, Which Helps Dems

Batman Unable To Keep Up With Rising Crime As Gotham City Elects Another Democrat  (Babylon Bee)

‘She’s for the Criminals’: Slain Officer’s Family Blasts Cheri Beasley, Who Defended Cop-Killing Brothers

Trump’s best defense in New York lawsuit? ‘Delay, delay, delay,’ ex-prosecutors say (NBC)

Why Trump allies are brushing off the New York AG lawsuit (The Hill) There’s no there, there.

Special master will force Trump to “put up or shut up” : Ex-DOJ official (Axios)

Former DOJ official says special master telling Trump to ‘put up or shut up’ (The Hill) Apparently that’s today’s Narrative Media talking point.

Trump Said Gaining Secret ‘Rich Friends’ Made Presidency Worth It: Book (Huffington Post) It’s in a book! That proves it!

NYT’s Sad Song: Elton John ‘Prescient’ About Trump Stripping Away LGBT Rights  Which, by the way, he did not do.

Twitter Might Reinstate Trump’s Account: Report

Trump’s ‘Special Master’ Delay Is Already Backfiring (Daily Beast) Walls are closing in etc. etc.

How a QAnon splinter group became a feature of Trump rallies (Washington Post)

Politico Founding Editor Wants to Rewrite Constitution Because of Trump

Stephanopoulos: Polling Shows Trump Beats Biden in ’24

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Everything’s better with an Irish accent.

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Not as efficiently as journalists can stiff out white supremacists….

ZMan notices some inconvenient truth.

It has become trite to point out that the lovers of democracy have a one way relationship with it. When the results of an election are favorable to the ruling class, they praise democracy. When the results are something other than what the rulers wanted, then you can no longer trust the process. The United States has spent the last six years torn between these two competing forces. The 2016 election was rigged while the 2020 election was the most bizarrely pure result ever.

We are about to get another dose of this in Europe as elections go the wrong way for the people who actually run Europe. In Sweden, the normally passive Swedes decided to send a very mild message to their ruling class by giving a bunch of votes to the Swedish Democrats. This allowed a moderate coalition to form up and depose the Social Democrats, which has been the ruling party for decades. For the usual suspects, this means snow Hitler is around the corner.

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All of this should be familiar to Americans. Voters sent a message to the ruling class in 2016 when they put Donald Trump in the White House. The message was received and the ruling class has been making war on those voters ever since. In a democracy, a legitimate result is one that pleases the permanent ruling elite. Anything that even questions the elite moral consensus is a threat to our democracy. The Swedes and Italians are about to learn this lesson.

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Imagine if every person in the world had the ability, at their arbitrary whim, to anonymously activate your fire alarm inside your home. That is the reality of the telephone. There is nothing quite as rude as the telephone.

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The telephone is synchronous. Because callers like myself are only available outside work hours, but the receivers are only available inside work hours, the two can never sync. I hate telephones.

Joel Kotkin.

The conflict between the material economy and the economy based in ephemera – such as the creative industries, tech and financial services – is likely to define the coming political conflicts both within countries and between them. The laptop elites, led by Silicon Valley, the City of London and Wall Street, generally favour constraining producers of fuel, food and manufactured goods. In contrast, the masses, who produce and transport those goods, are now starting to realise that they still have the power to demand better futures for themselves and their families. Like railway workers, they can threaten to shut things down and win much higher pay.

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Europe’s unelected authoritarian ruler, Ursula von der Leyen, is not going to be happy: according to early exit polls out of Italy’s national election, the right-wing bloc of Giorgia Meloni – which the ultra-left wing press just can’t stop comparing to Mussolini – is set for a historic, if largely expected, victory and a clear majority (if, however, not a super-majority) which will propel Meloni to the top of the Italian government as the country’s next prime minister, ushering in a historic right-wing shift for a country that – like Sweden until two weeks ago – has traditionally been very left-wing.

UPDATE: Leftists Announce They No Longer Support Strong, Independent Women (Babylon Bee)

US anti-abortion extremists are already waging war on IVF (The Guardian)

Skate parks and shooting cabins: do the super-rich care nothing for their neighbours? (The Guardian) Super-rich proglodytes certainly don’t.

Kinzinger slams McCarthy over GOP agenda rollout: ‘An opportunity squandered’ (The Hill) Sure–he could have sold out the way Kinzinger did.

Elderly pro-life volunteer in Michigan shot after ‘heated conversation,’ pro-life group says

Right to Life of Michigan: 84-year-old volunteer was shot while canvassing (Detroit Free Press)

FBI raids home of Catholic pro-life speaker, author with guns drawn as his terrified kids watch

Italy’s election will likely bring the far right to power. Here’s why. (Washington Post) According to the Narrative.

Ex-staffer’s unauthorized book about Jan. 6 committee rankles members  (Washington Post) Live by the leak, die by the leak. When an organization proceeds by meretricious self-dealing, they can hardly object when their camp-followers do the same on their own account.

Mysteries, legal challenges follow Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis’s migrant flights  (Washiongton PostO FUDding the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

The GOP’s ‘Commitment’ is to total political warfare (Washington Post) For E.J. Dionne to object to Republicans doing something that is SOP for Democrats is pretty rich.

How a Secretive Far-Right Network Attacks Abortion Rights Across the Globe (Rolling Stone) I guess only proglodytes get to indulge in conspiracy theories these days.

Europe holds its breath as Italy expected to vote in far-right leader (The Guardian) Dunh dunh DUNHHHH. For The Guardian, there is no right but the far-right. (Quite frankly, most people, even most people in Europe, don’t give a rat’s as who the leader of Italy is.)

Boston’s sea-level rise will require a ‘Big Dig level’ solution, city leaders say (Boston Globe) And Big Dig levels of corruption, presumably.

After destruction, Florida Air Force base rebuilds to face effects of climate change (NBC)

Vanuatu makes bold call for global treaty to phase out fossil fuels (The Guardian) And don’t forget to send money.

Head of World Bank under pressure after White House condemns his ‘climate denial’ comments (The Guardian)

Is fracking coming to a town near you? Here’s how you can fight them – and win (The Guardian)

Many of the most nutritious foods are also the most sustainable (Ars Technica) As they have been for the last 10,000 years.

Some cities are passing bans on natural gas appliances to help curb emissions, climate change (TrubLIVE) Time to leave.

Electric cars being charged at night making America’s power grids unstable, study warns  The solution, of course, is to use a hybrid and generate your own power. But, equally of course, that isn’t good enough for the Eco-Nazis.

Western governments should blame themselves for the energy crisis

In the End, Climate Change Is the Only Story That Matters (Esquire) I’ll bet you’re wondering how this came to be published in a magazine theoretically devoted to fashion and luxe living. (Wecome to the progessive totalitarianism. Be careful not to step in the virtue-signalling.)

Pelosi Booed at Climate-Change Music Fest in NYC’s Central Park  You can’t fool all of the people all of the time.

Green California Governor on Skyrocketing Prices: “We’re Just Getting Started”

Aussie Climate Minister Celebrates the Signing a Letter of Intent

More than 1K migrants bused to Chicago area by Texas governor, city expects additional arrivals (WLS) Meanwhile, over a million have arrived in Texas.

Nearly 1,200 Migrants Have Arrived in Chicago From Texas Since First Drop-Off (NBC)

US border needs ‘record’ funding for ‘advanced’ protection: National Security spokesman  Which, needless to say, it is NOT going to get.

Contrarian economist Larry Summers was right all along about inflation. His ominous new prediction for what’s next. (Fortune) More of the same–Biden is still President.

Migrants from ‘failing’ communist countries overwhelming Texas border agents (N.Y. Post)

More migrants are coming from dictatorships like Venezuela and Cuba (CBS)

PBS Pair RIPS Republican Party as Fractured and Flattened by Trump

Biden CDC Awarded Millions To Soros-Funded Activist Group Suing DeSantis

They’re Redistributing Wealth, Not Fighting Inflation

US Inflates Debt Away After Historic Pandemic Binge  Which is why no actual steps are being taken against inflation; it’s all jawboning and lies.

Trump-Appointed Judges Aren’t Giving Him Blind Loyalty (Newsweek) Of course not. That they might was a proglodyte fantasy from the start, pushed by Narrative medie (such as Newsweek).

McLaughlin Poll: Trump a GOP Runaway, Tops Biden by 4, Harris by 9  Until they cheat.

Hillary Compares Trump to Hitler, His Supporters to Nazis  As she does.

Liz Cheney says she will not remain a Republican if Donald Trump is GOP nominee in 2024 (CNN) Well, she’s not a Republican now,  so that’s not a big change. (This could be a bonus benefit to a Trump nomination.)

Three Conversations With Donald Trump (The Atlantic) Made up by Maggie Haberman, reported as journalism in order to push the Narrative.

Christie: Trump pushing himself toward ‘self-inflicted indictment’ (The Hill)

San Francisco is magnificent, and its people are furious (S.F. Chronicle) Cognitive dissonance in print.

In Chicago, the city’s largest children’s hospital offers ‘kink’ and ‘trans-friendly’ sex toys for minors

On multiple fronts, House GOP leaders trip over agenda rollout (MSNBC)

Planned Parenthood Stealth-Edits Website To Match Stacey Abrams ‘Heartbeat’ Claim

ABC’s Donna Brazile: Biden Has Done a Fabulous Job on Economy  Lies, damned lies, and Democrat ‘journalism’.

Jeff Bezos is buying up single-family homes to rent-trap humanity forever (Surviving Tomorrow) I guess being rich swamps his credentials as a reliable proglodyte.

Society OK With Religious People As Long As They’re Not Those Weird Ones Who Actually Believe It  (Babylon Bee)

NBC’s Chuck Todd: Bring in More Migrants to Solve Inflation!

West Point Turns Over 40+ Pages Of Mostly Blacked Out CRT Emails

Dick Morris: Dems to ‘Dump’ Biden, Pick up Hillary in ’24  Bring it on.

Pfizer CEO tests positive for COVID for a second time (Reuters) It’s only fair.

Less than 2% of eligible people have gotten updated Covid booster shots, 3 weeks into the rollout (NBC) Maybe they’re tired of the PANIC.

Ukraine Situation Report: Multiple Russian Aircraft Shot Down In A Day

World opinion shifts against Russia as Ukraine worries grow (Associated Press)

China says US sending ‘dangerous signals’ on Taiwan (The Guardian)

Nuclear War Is “Possible” For 1st Time Since Cold War: US Commander

China Using Civilian Ships to Enhance Navy Capability, Reach

Finland Shuts Borders With Russia As Military Age Men Flee  Welcome to the quagmire.

Drowning Of Russian Executive Latest In A String Of Mysterious Deaths  Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH.

Biden administration launches office devoted to environmental justice (L. A. Times) More taxpayer money to buy minority Democrat votes.

Dozens Of Chicago Inmates Scored PPP Loans To Make Bond

3 Wounded in Shooting at Amusement Park Near Pittsburgh “Witnesses told investigators that two groups of teenagers were involved in an altercation in front of the Musik Express ride and shots were fired by a male wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and a dark colored COVID mask.” Boy, that sure sounds like a white-supremacist Trump supporter to me.

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One of the most astonishing features of modern Wokeness is the deliberate cognitive dissonance indulged in with respect to Muslim attitudes and practices that would never be tolerated on the part of, say, Republicans. Indeed, it is quite common for Wokerati to criticize Republicans and other Deplorables for acting like Muslims while never remarking on the prevalence of such behavior on the part of Actual Muslims.

Almost as astonishing is to find so peek-behind-the-curtain an article in the New York Times.

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We found a positive association between the prevalence of depressive episodes and a meatless diet. Meat non-consumers experienced approximately twice the frequency of depressive episodes of meat consumers.

There is a reason vegetarians are such tedious assholes.

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It’s no secret at this point that the EU is an anti-democratic organization. The leadership isn’t elected, but selected from a pre-determined pool of candidates from within the Party structure.

Everyone with the power to make a decision was placed there not by popular vote but by backroom collusion.

As we approach this weekend’s Italian elections there is real despair in the air that there is any light out of this dark time. That no matter what decisions we try to make, they are only in service of those that seek total dominion.

And yet all you hear from these Eurocrats is that we are in a “war of Democracy versus Autocracy,” as EU Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen put it in her hellish EU state of the union address to the European Parliament recently.

This is what Democrats and their mouthpieces in the press and academia mean when they say that we ought to be more like the Europeans: Fascism in effect if not explicitly in form.

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We’re a queer, feminist-led tech and media company on a mission to make astrology and its wisdom accessible to everyone as a tool for self-discovery, mindfulness, and healing.

Every believer in astrology and witchcraft I ever met was a Democrat.

They sure are ‘the party of science’.

UPDATE: Astrology Is Back (Steve Sailer)

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Walk into a Walmart, Target, any drugstore chain in your neighborhood or a corner bodega for New York City dwellers, and chances are you’ll find an Ivory Soap bar, or a pack of 10 bars for under $5, sitting on the shelf.

This iconic cake of soap, invented almost 150 years ago, has become a part of Americana largely by advertising its two strange merits: “It Floats” and it’s “99+44?100% Pure.”

The original product is a no-frills, plain white, mild-scented bar soap with the name “IVORY” etched into it in script. Impressively, it has stayed exactly that way for 143 years — barring the addition of an Aloe scented variety, and is also still around.

Even CNN recognizes that sometimes the old ways are best.

U.S. abortion restrictions absolutely do not align with European law (Washington Post) Unasked: Why ought they?

Republicans offer their Commitment to Vapid Sloganeering (Washington Post) Although they can’t compete with the professionals in the Democrat party.

The scientist who almost made Mark Zuckerberg president of the World Bank (Calcalistech)

List of Shame: All the Media Outlets Pretending Babies Don’t Have Heartbeats at 6 Weeks

Politicizing College Football, UMass Trolls Liberty University With ‘Pride Day’

“No Longer Employed”: Administrator At $60K Per Year NYC School Out After Project Veritas Exposé

Pelosi Extends Proxy Voting Until Nov. 10

Germany: Greens Plan To Ban Native Germans From A Third Of Jobs To Promote ‘Diversity’

LAPD Reports ‘Troubling’ Increase In Armed Robberies  Gee, I wonder why.

Washington Post Columnist Calls for the End of Impartiality and Balance in Journalism Jonathan Turley points out the Jennifer Rubin is losing her shit.

EU Commission President Threatens Italy On Eve Of Election, Says Brussels Has ‘Tools’ If Wrong Parties Win

This Threat to Democracy Is Hiding in Plain Sight (N.Y. Times) Republicans, apparently.

A White Supremacist Under Every Bed

Riggleman: White House switchboard called a Capitol rioter on January 6 (CBS)

White House Made Call to Rioter During Jan. 6 Chaos, Former Committee Adviser Claims (Daily Beast)

Experts ‘Alarmed’ That Tom Brady Is Pushing His TB12 Program in Schools (Daily Beast)

The week in whoppers: AOC’s birth-rate idiocy, Sunny Hostin’s Nikki Haley backfire and more (N.Y.Post)

Nearly Half Of Women Would Quit Work Over Employer’s Position On Abortion: Poll (Huffington Post) A great way to get rid of all of the proglodyte Karens.

Judges Are Playing ‘Calvinball’ With the Constitution Because They’re Mad Trump Was Banned From Twitter (Daily Beast)

Retired Justice Breyer Won’t Criticize Ginni Thomas’ Post-Election Actions  The swine!

Election Deniers Are Pivoting to November. Will Voters Buy It? (N.Y. Times) Bias? What bias?

DeSantis risks voter backlash in Florida with migrant flights (The Hill) Pushing the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Stephen King in NYT Sees Dawning U.S. Dystopia

Psychopathic Leftist Intolerance And The Death Of Cayler Ellingson

Why Mastriano’s candidacy presents a special danger to the nation (Washington Post) George Will goes full RINO.

Trump and DeSantis: Once allies, now in simmering rivalry with 2024 nearing (Washington Post) Pushing the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Say Only What We Want To Hear, Or We Will Take Away Your Livelihood

MSNBC: Graham Has ‘Never Seen A Vagina’ or ‘Naked Woman,’ Pro-Life Men Need Viagra

Experts weigh in on whether the Covid pandemic is over (CNN)

Biden’s claim that Covid pandemic is over sparks debate among experts (The Guardian)

Moderna vs Pfizer: Is it OK to mix and match the updated COVID-19 booster shots? (L.A. Times)

Coast Guard discharging unvaxxed members, allegedly denying promotions despite religious exemption requests

There’s Trouble Bubbling Up in Newly Formed Alaskan Lakes, And Scientists Are Worried (ScienceAlert)

Shell, BP, Exxon: Seized emails reveal ‘deceptive’ climate tactics and greenwashing (Euronews)

US lawmakers investigate ‘deceptive’ PR tactics on behalf of oil and gas (Financial Times) The Financial Times is Britain’s equivalent of the Wall Street Journal … if the Wall Street Journal were run by the staff of Mother Jones.

California’s latest power grid problems are just the beginning (Politico)

California Turned to Natural Gas as September Heat Wave Strained Grid (Natural Gas Intelligence)

The world’s largest carbon removal project yet is headed for Wyoming (The Verge)

Climate activists protesting Manchin’s permitting bill arrested in D.C. (Washington Post) Catch-and-release is alive and well in D.C.

California first state to ban natural gas heaters and furnaces (The Hill) Time to leave.

California plans to phase out new gas heaters by 2030 (NPR)

Norway threatens to shut down wind farm after wind destroys turbines

Are heat pumps the key to accelerating the energy transition? (The Hill)

Why some places haven’t given up their mask mandates (Portland Press Herald)

Climate change is turning lakes a different color (The Hill)

“Relatively low cost” plan would cool the Earth’s poles by 2 °C (New Atlas)

Biden administration may try to oust World Bank head (Axios) Trump cooties!

World Bank President Apologizes, Won’t Resign Over Climate Change Comments

Illinois Dem. Congressman and Climate Hawk Sean Casten Flew 6,000 Miles, Stayed in Luxury European Hotel to Fight Global Warming

Jayaraj: India, China Emissions Make Mockery of Western Policies

UN: Climate Inaction Violates Human Rights

The Homemade Heat Pump Manifesto You can build a mainframe from the things you find at home.

If we may: A proposed script for Hannity to correct Trump’s falsehoods (Washington Post) I’d be more interested in a proposed script for the Washington Post to correct Biden’s falsehoods.

NY probe found potential crimes. Why isn’t Trump in cuffs? (Associated Press) A better question is, why isn’t Hunter Biden in cuffs?

Trump’s Tall Tales Have Finally Caught Up With Him (Politico) Walls are closing in etc. etc.

Blame the ‘Team Normal’ GOP for Trump’s Political Survival (Daily Beast)

Trump Continues to Escalate His Dangerous Incitement (Mother Jones) Duhn duhn DUHHHHN!

WashPost SPEWS Soros-Tied Twitter ‘Whistleblower’ Anti-Trump Hysteria  As they do.

Trump opens rally with crude insults about ‘raging maniac’ New York attorney general after she sues him (Independent)

Hillary Clinton Compares Trump To Hitler In Disturbing Interview (Huffington Post)

Trump’s attempts to delay Mar-a-Lago inquiry largely fail as legal woes mount (The Guardian) Walls are closing in etc. etc.

New York City mayor plans giant tents to house migrants sent by Republicans (The Guardian)

Poll: Nearly 7 in 10 US Voters Feel Less Safe During Biden Presidency

South Korean Leader’s Hot Mic “F**kers” Moment After Biden Handshake Goes Viral

Doocy EXPLODES After KJP Ducks His Abortion Question: ‘You Did NOT Answer My Question!’

Biden Family Worked To Sell American Gas To China, GOP Lawmaker Says Citing Whistleblower

How Government Restrictions on Domestic Drilling Drive up Gas Prices

The Wrong Way to Respond to High Gas Prices: From Federal Gas Tax Holidays to Price Gouging Claims

Venezuela Empties Prisons And Sends Criminals To US Border

What Comes of Taking Joe Biden Seriously

Moments, senior moments

FBI Responds To Whistleblower Saying Child Abuse Cases Being Dropped In Favor Of Jan. 6

Pentagon doesn’t have timeline for diversity chief probe over anti-White posts  Nor will they, I’ll bet.

A Death in ‘Killadelphia’

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The German authorities are preparing for civil unrest in the coming winter. What’s interesting about this report is the role that the extreme Left is expected to play in the disturbances. The proximate cause of the crisis is an extreme shortage of natural gas due to the sanctions against Russia, which means that the climate-change zealots will be poised to raise trouble if more coal plants are fired up to try to cope with the dearth of electric power, or other uses of fossil fuel are proposed as a way to mitigate the crisis. That must not be allowed, no matter how many people freeze or starve, because we must save the planet!