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Well, sort of.

I read an SF book once, don’t remember the name, where construction was effected by putting a pile of materials on site and having drones assemble them in a predefined order–each component had an ID, and the drones knew where each piece was and where it fell in the assembly process. That would be useful. This … not so much. But I suppose it’s a step in the right direction.

California seeks to ban sales of diesel commercial trucks effort to fight pollution, climate change  Another step on the road to Turd World status.

Senate approves climate treaty limiting potent greenhouse gases (The Hill)

Republicans join Democrats to ratify UN climate treaty that could boost consumer prices

Duke Energy is one of the top leakers of a gas that is 25,000 times more polluting than carbon dioxide, EPA records show (NBC)

Duke Energy Is Leaking a Potent Climate-Warming Gas at More Than Five Times the Rate of Other Utilities (Inside Climate News)

Why Latino people are on the front lines of climate change (NPR) Because Narrative.

U.S. EPA to consider tougher emissions rules for heavy trucks (Reuters)

I Told You So: Aramco CEO Slams Unrealistic Energy Policies

Jim Beam Is Making Renewable Gas From Bourbon

Denmark First to Pay into the UN Climate Change Loss and Damage Fund

Permitting Reform Is A Decoy For Ramping Up Gas (The American Prospect)

Updated Climate Models Clouded by Scientific Biases, Researchers Find

Polar Bear No Closer to Extinction Than It Was 18 Years Ago as Arctic Sea Ice Resists ‘Tipping Point’

France Prepares To Nationalize Its Struggling Nuclear Industry

50 Reasons to Re-Think Climate Policy

In Denmark, Omicron reinfections reveal ineffective post-COVID-19 immunity (News-Medical.net)

Illinois Coronavirus Updates: State of Pandemic, New COVID Variants, Booster Timing (NBC)

Rep. Tenney Calls On Biden Not to Renew COVID Emergency in October

Watch: Rand Paul Promises To “Find The Paper Trail” For Lab Leak COVID Origin

Large Study Finds COVID Raises Risk for Long-Term Brain Injury

Authorizing the Killing Fields

Canada to Drop Vaccine Mandate at Border Sept. 30

PayPal shuts account of parents’ group that campaigned to keep schools open during pandemic (Telegraph)

Will “McHenry” Enter the Language Like “Charlottesville” or Will This Homicide Remain a North Dakota Police Blotter Item?

DOJ investigating Mike Lindell over potential identity theft, damage to protected computer (The Hill) SCRAAAAAAAPE that barrel.

My Pillow CEO, Trump ally faces probe for plot to target 2020 election computers (Reuters)

Most Republicans Support Declaring the United States a Christian Nation (Politico) Push-polling the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Florida has an ‘extensive’ network of White supremacists and other far-right extremists, ADL report says (CNN)  Targeting DeSantis in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Rashida Tlaib Calls on People to Close Their JPMorgan Accounts After CEO Says Divesting from Oil Would be ‘Hell for America’  (MEDIAite)

Elon Musk blasts Robert Reich as ‘idiot, liar’ for saying self-made billionaires are ‘myth’

Alberto Ibarguen and Ken Griffin

$43 Billion NYC Pension System “Reassess” Relationship With BlackRock Over ESG Backtracking

Hawley Accuses Google of Joining ‘The Far Left’s Campaign to Punish Pregnancy Resource Centers’

Soros-Funded Group Behind Lawsuit Against DeSantis on Martha’s Vineyard Flights

Border Patrol ordered agents not to assign migrants registration numbers to clear over-crowded facilities

White House releases state-by-state student debt forgiveness estimates (The Hill) Here’s how much you’ll be paying for other people’s kids’ student loans.

Former ICE official sends message to Mayorkas after suspected terrorists caught at border: ‘He knows better’

Dem strongholds beg the White House for help with migrants (Politico)

South Korean president overheard insulting U.S. Congress as ‘idiots’ (Washington Post) Can’t say he’s wrong.

Inflation Costing Average American Family $11,500 This Year

2 More Buses Filled With Migrants Arrive In NYC

George Soros Network Bankrolled Activist Group Suing DeSantis Over Martha’s Vineyard Flights

House Republican seeks Treasury reports on ‘millions’ paid by Chinese company to Biden family

Jean-Pierre Clarifies That Official White House Policy Is The Opposite Of Whatever Biden Says In Interviews (Babylon Bee)

FBI whistleblower suspended

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Among shooting suspects, 85 percent are first- or second-generation immigrants, according to the newspaper Dagens Nyheter, as immigrant neighborhoods have become hotbeds for gang crime. National Police Commissioner Anders Thornberg has described the violence as “an entirely different kind of brutality than we’ve seen before” and his deputy, Mats Löfving, says that 40 criminal clans now operate throughout the country. Spreading fear are “humiliation robberies,” targeting children and youth, in which victims are subjected to degrading treatment by assailants, such as being urinated upon. Just this week, four men were sentenced for robbing, beating and urinating on an 18-year-old, who was also filmed by his tormentors.

Guess–just guess–where most of those immigrants are from. (C’mon, guess.)

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

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Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi walked away from his first-ever interview on U.S. soil because the interviewer, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, said she would not wear an Islamic headscarf.

Amanpour, who also hosts a show for PBS, on Wednesday wrote on Twitter that she was ready to interview Raisi in New York City “after weeks of planning and eight hours of setting up.” Forty minutes after Raisi was supposed to show up, a presidential aide told Amanpour that she could not interview Raisi without a headscarf.

She refused, and Raisi pulled out from the interview.

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Dzenan Camovic, a Bosnian national who was living in Brooklyn illegally, was inspired by terrorism, prosecutors said, adding he will be deported after completing his sentence.

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

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We have learned in recent weeks that there is such a thing as an Archivist of the United States at the head of the National Archives and Records Administration and that the position is not unimportant. President Biden has nominated one Colleen Shogan to fill the position and she appeared for a confirmation hearing before the Senate Homeland Security Committee yesterday. C-SPAN has posted video of the hearing here. ABC News reports on the hearing here with some useful background.

Senator Josh Hawley examined Shogan concerning her 2007 Perspectives on Politics article “Anti-intellectualism in the Modern Presidency: Republican Populism.” (Perspectives on Politics is the American Political Science Association’s flagship journal.) In C-SPAN’s summary, “Shogan says the article was about Republican presidents’ use of rhetoric and their success connecting with the American people. She also says that she is non-partisan and has a demonstrated record during her 15 years of service at the Congressional Research Service, the Library of Congress, and the White House Historical Association.”

Senator Hawley questioned Shogan closely about the article (video clip below). His examination of her is exemplary. It is amazing how disingenuous Shogan is and how Hawley is able to expose her evasions so quickly. “I have your article. Don’t dissemble in front of me,” he told her. Nevertheless, she persisted.

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Adams consistently poked fun at how Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) issues affected the workplace. One of the many focuses of the ESG philosophy is to make sure that workplaces are diverse, since that automatically means that a company will perform better (wink). “All of the wokeness and anything that permeated from ESG … so that stuff made its way into the business world, and then it became proper content for Dilbert,” Adams said. “The problem is that people see that even though it’s a workplace-related joke, but it’s more about how they implement it.”

On his daily podcast, Coffee With Scott Adams (on LOCALS, highly recommended), Scott explains that since he’s already rich he can do stuff like that.

UPDATE: ‘Dilbert’ Fired by Some Comics Pages, but Critics of Corporate Wokeness Might Get Last Laugh

People often ask me why I never smile. I respond that I do smile but just not when they’re around.

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A fifth day of protests in Iran have resulted in multiple deaths amid a security crackdown, following the death last week of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old from Iranian Kurdistan who reportedly died due to being roughed up by police for “unsuitable attire” – or not conforming to Islamic Republic standards of a hijab.

Iranian officials say seven people have died since protests erupted Saturday, following Amini’s funeral, where women began removing their headscarves in protest, sometimes burning them in public displays of defiance. Demonstrators have decried instances of what they say is ‘live fire’ tactics and deadly forced used by police to disperse the protests, which have now spread across several provinces.

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In the video, a massive crowd cheers as a woman lifts a pair of scissors to her hair — exposed, without a hijab in sight. The sea of people, many of them men, roar as she chops off her ponytail and raises her fist in the air.

It was a powerful act of defiance Tuesday night in the Iranian city of Kerman, where women are required to wear hijabs (or headscarves) in public, as outrage over the death of a woman in police custody fuels protests across the country.

Al Gore sees the world at ‘tipping point’ for climate action (Reuters) As he has done regularly for the last thirty years.

How an effort to reduce fossil fuel use led to another environmental problem: light pollution (L.A. Times)

Big business likes to trumpet ESG credentials. But a ‘greenwashing’ reckoning could be on the horizon (CNBC)

Most big coastal cities have areas sinking faster than sea level rise (New Scientist) But they’ll blame ‘sea level rise’ anyway because Narrative.

‘Polluters must pay’: UN chief calls for windfall tax on fossil fuel companies (The Guardian) Fine, let’s start with China … oh, wait….

Droughts, heat and fire: the future of wine in the climate crisis (The Guardian)

Biodiversity quickly rises up the ESG investing agenda (Financial Times) The Financial Times is Britain’s Wall Street Journal … if the Wall Street Journal were run by the staff of Mother Jones.

Fidelity International launches Sustainable Biodiversity fund (Investment Week) There’s gold in them thar fools!

Climate change could wipe $108 billion from U.S. property market, study finds (NBC)

UN Secretary General: Climate Catastrophe, War, Poverty, Pandemic, Give Money

Up Next: Green Starvation

Now’s your chance, AI, to do good. Protect endangered eagles from wind turbines

Natural Oceanic Cycles Behind Heavy East Australia Rains, New Study Finds

A Natural Gas Shortage Is Looming For The US

It’s Time for Cities to Ditch Delivery Trucks—for Cargo Bikes (Wired ‘Science’)

Climate change misinformation leads Facebook to experiment with informed democracy

Emissions-slashing hybrid trains to hit tracks in Europe

“Big Oil vs The World”: BBC Exposé Fails

If It’s Over, Why The Continued Emergency?

Portland art festival event is free to ‘Black folks’ but ‘$80 for all others’

For the first time in 230 years, Congress has full U.S. Indigenous representation (NPR)

Why Isn’t Marilyn Mosby In Prison Yet?

Nikki Haley BLASTS Racist ‘Sunny Hostin,’ Calls Out ABC’s Inaction Against The View

Millions Celebrate Latinx Heritage Month By Commemorating That Time A Few Years Ago When The Word ‘Latinx’ Was Made Up  (Babylon Bee)

Trump to Face Sexual Battery Suit Under New ‘Survivors’ Law (Daily Beast) Which will go nowhere, as all of these witch-hunts do.

E. Jean Carroll says she will sue Trump under NY law for sexual assault and wants his deposition (CNN) What she wants is his bank account, but she’ll start with his deposition.

80s hits and nuclear secrets: security concerns plague Trump’s Mar-a-Lago (The Guardian) All Trump! All the time!

Mar-a-Lago: the lax security of Trump’s alternative ‘White House’ – visualized (The Guardian) All Trump! All the time!

Trump’s in a ‘Perfect Storm’ of Criminal Investigations: Former Prosecutor (Newsweek)

Aftermath of 2020 election left Fox News between Trump and the truth (Washington Post)

‘Unchecked’ book excerpt: Inside McConnell’s decision not to convict Trump (Washington Post)

Dozens of Trump’s phony electors, many under investigation, still hold powerful GOP jobs in key states (NBC)

GOP attorneys general back Trump in court fight over Mar-a-Lago documents (Washington Post)

How Fla Gov. DeSantis decision to send migrants to blue states could help a 2024 showdown with Trump (USA Today) Pushing the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Amy Schumer’s Unfunny Show Making a Comeback, Comedienne Predicts ‘Trump’s Probably Going to be Back’

Trump Endorsed QAnon Because He’s Stuck (The Atlantic)

New York attorney general files civil fraud lawsuit against Trump, some of his children and his business (CNN)

Trump and His Spurious Business Face a Reckoning (Bloomberg) The witch-hunt continues.

Dershowitz on Letitia James and her Ahab-like pursuit of Trump

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It may be possible to develop superconductors that operate at room temperature with further knowledge of the relationship between spin liquids and superconductivity, which would transform our daily lives.

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Iran will use cash assets provided by the Biden administration as part of a new nuclear accord to fund regional terror groups and enhance the capabilities of a militant network committed to assassinating U.S. officials, according to written testimony to Congress from a top U.S. military commander exclusively obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Gen. Stephen Townsend, who led U.S. Africa Command until August of this year, in March warned Congress that Iran is certain to use “at least some of the resources gained from sanctions relief to” increase its illicit shipment of advanced weapons to terror groups operating in Africa and the Near East region, according to written information he provided to Sen. Joni Ernst (R., Iowa) after a public hearing before Congress.

In addition to boosting Iran’s terror allies like the Houthi rebels in Yemen, sanctions relief will enable Tehran to expand its Iranian Threat Network, a group of terror cells run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’s Quds Force that is focused on assassinating American officials, according to Townsend.

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

Read it.

The undocumented migrants who were transferred to Martha’s Vineyard have quickly adopted one common American practice: litigation. A firm, Lawyers for Civil Rights, in conjunction with the migrant-led nonprofit Alianza Americas, filed the action on behalf of Yanet Doe, Pablo Doe and Jesus Doe who are using pseudonyms for the action “on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated.” The filing is a Jackson Pollock of legal claims with twelve claims thrown against Florida from false imprisonment to intentional infliction of emotional distress to misuse of the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund. The splattering of claims face considerable legal barriers based on the consent of the migrants, as shown in a waiver released by Florida.

An obvious put-up job by Democrat lawyers and ‘activists’ who aren’t happy that their hypocrisy is being outed.

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CNN’s Don Lemon played the fool — okay, he did his thing as usual — in conversation with Strelmark president and “Royal Watcher” Hilary Fordwich. Lemon packs slavery, reparations, the empire, and the monarchy into his boffo question. Fordwich dispatches it in a baloney meets the grinder moment. Lemon was unprepared to engage beyond the shibboleths. That must be why this highly satisfying video has gone viral.

Halfricans are smarter than Africans, but not as smart as their white ancestors.

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For more than three days now, left-wing TV networks have refused to report on the politically-motivated killing of 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson, a conservative, by 41-year-old Shannon Brandt in North Dakota.

In the early hours of Sunday morning, Brandt hit the teenager with his car, reportedly due to a political disagreement, before driving off. Brandt admitted to police that the collision was a deliberate attack, and that he had been motivated by Ellingson’s political affiliation. According to court documents, Ellingson called his mother twice and asked her to pick him up, saying that someone was chasing him. By the time she arrived to collect her son, Brandt had already run him down and left the scene.

A review of news coverage on leftwing broadcast (ABC, CBS, and NBC) and cable (CNN and MSNBC) outlets revealed that none of these networks have given the attack even one second of airtime. Both Fox News and Newsmax covered the incident on Tuesday evening during the 7 p.m. Eastern hour.

Funny thing how the airwaves are full of Wokerati hand-wringing over the Inevitable Right-Wing Extremist Violence, the only violence that happens is by Democrats on Republicans, like Steve Scalise and this poor kid.

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The final sprint of the midterms has brought another battery of ads, with scores of spots set to ominous music and deep-voiced narrators warning about the perils of the opposition.

But deep into an election cycle once assumed to be a lost cause for Democrats, something new is emerging: A wager from a group of progressive operatives that their party’s success comes down to narrative storytelling presented in an animated format.

The Democrats have always been a cartoon party–it’s not surprising that they are taking demagoguery to new levels.

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To be fair, Muslims are quick enough to kill other Muslims as to kill non-Muslims.

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Turkey continues its path of international aggression and embrace of Islamist ideas. As the Western world grapples with the effects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Turkey is directly threatening to invade Greece, a fellow NATO member.

During a Sept. 3 speech at an aerial technology festival in Samsun, eastern Turkey, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan explicitly threatened that the Turkish army will “come down suddenly one night” in the Greek isles of the Eastern Aegean The phrase is taken from a song referring to Turkey’s 1974 invasion of Cyprus, a state with an ethnic Greek majority, and is an allusion to an invasion of Greece. Erdogan has used the same phrase to refer to possible military intervention in Syria and Iraq against Kurdish militants.

According to the state-run Anadolu news agency, Erdogan questioned Greece’s territorial sovereignty over its islands in the eastern Aegean Sea: “Athens’ occupying islands does not bind us. When [the] time comes, we will do what’s necessary.”

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

Sarah Hoyt.

What I am calling for is a cold, hard look at the utility of mass-industrial, state enforced education as we head out of the mass-production, mass-skills era.

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We have the technology … if it works.

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I posted last month about the trial of a young female convert to Islam in the Italian-speaking region of Switzerland. The young lady in question had wanted to do jihad like the guys, only better, so she stabbed two women in a department store in Lugano. She has now been convicted in a Swiss court.

If this had been Sweden, she would probably have received a suspended sentence of six months with two years’ probation. Switzerland, however, threw the book at her: she has been sentenced to nine years in a mental health facility.

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

Read it.

Educators and administrators running K-12 education on America’s military bases are indoctrinating the children of military personnel in radical gender ideology, critical race theory, and left-wing activism. In a new Claremont Institute investigative report, my colleague Scott Yenor and I document this latest evolution in America’s culture war.

This development at military-run schools tracks broader trends in American education. In recent months, Chris Rufo has exposed the rampant woke indoctrination occurring in our nation’s K-12 schools, with striking examples from Los Angeles, Portland, and San Diego. In 2020, Rod Dreher wrote about the creeping woke rot at America’s oldest military academy.

Glenn Youngkin Won As A ‘Normal’ Republican. Now He’s Endorsing ‘Big Lie’ Booster Kari Lake. (Huffington Post) In the Narrative media, a Normal Republican is a RINO.

Colbert Wonders ‘How Big of an A-Hole Is Ron DeSantis?’  After all, we already know how big of an A-hole Colbert is.

These male politicians are pushing for women who receive abortions to be punished with prison time (CNN) Well, if it’s against the law, it’s against the law. When you break the law, prison sometimes happens.

AZ Secretary of State Candidate Mark Finchem Campaigned With Sandy Hook Truther Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

The Cruelty and Dishonesty of the DeSantis Immigration Stunt (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew go full Narrative.

Conspiracy Theorists Want to Run America’s Elections. These Are the Candidates Standing in Their Way (TIME) Pushing the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Videos Show Trump Allies Handling Georgia Voting Equipment (N.Y. Times) But we aren’t the Conspiracy Theorists, they are!

Marco Rubio declines to say whether he’ll accept election results, calls Democrats the real election deniers (Florida Politics)

Trump’s ‘big lie’ fueled a new generation of social media influencers (Washington Post)

‘New Twist’; Nets Celebrate Lefty Texas Sheriff Launching Criminal Probe of DeSantis

MSNBC, CNN Guest Roasted After Calling Evangelical Prayer-Hands ‘Nazi Salute’

Gov’t-Funded Canadian Outlet Claims ‘Extremist’ Ben Shapiro Radicalizes Young Men

New Alzheimer’s diagnoses more common among seniors who have had Covid-19, study finds (CNN)

CDC moves 3 tropical island getaways to ‘moderate’ risk category for Covid-19 (CNN)

A newborn’s mysterious rash stumped ER doctors for days. It turned out to be monkeypox. (Insider)

Area health expert sounds off on potential end of COVID-19 pandemic (KSTP Minneapolis)

1 in 3 workers fear they’ll catch Covid by returning to the office—here’s how to keep yourself healthy (CNBC)

Biden Declares Pandemic ‘Over.’ So What About His COVID-19 Policies?

‘Out of control’ STD situation prompts call for changes (Associated Press)

Fauci: US Not Where It Needs to Be in COVID-19 Fight

DOJ Charges 47 With Stealing $250 Million From COVID Child Food Program  Whenever a government handout exists, people will rise up to steal it.

Rockefeller Foundation Bankrolls NPR ‘Climate Hysteria’ Agenda of ‘Total Control’

The country that is showing the world how to save water (CNN)

These tech companies are accelerating permanent carbon removal to save the planet (Fortune) Save the planet!

Why Electric Vehicles Won’t Break the Grid (‘Scientific’ American)

Minneapolis Is Latest U.S. City to Demand Emissions-Free Shipping (Gizmodo)

Phoenix Won’t Limit Water Use Because California Would Take Saved Gallons (Newsweek)

Movement to defund fossil fuels is coming for the private equity industry (CBS)

The Netherlands Sets 70 GW Offshore Wind Target for 2050, Plans Large-Scale Green Hydrogen Production and Energy Hubs (OffShoreWind.biz)

These climate actions make the biggest difference, book says (Washington Post) Book says! That proves it!

Loop Energy says its new hydrogen fuel cell is more efficient than diesel  You first.

Environmentalism is a Fundamentalist Religion  Joel Kotkin.

EU Votes to Keep Burning Forests Because of Climate Change

Virginia Child Climate Lawsuit Bites the Dust

The US Is Measuring Extreme Heat Wrong

Compost Burial Will Be New Option in California

Abrams spoke at church of pro-Farrakhan pastor who said gay people should feel ‘uncomfortable’ in their ‘sin’

George Floyd Denied Posthumous Pardon for Drug Conviction

Stacey Abrams: It is ‘wrong’ to compare her refusal to concede with Trump’s stolen election rhetoric

Racist Hulu Dramedy ‘Reservation Dogs’ Depicts White People as ‘Degenerates,’ ‘Crackers’

‘Sunny Hostin’ Accuses Nikki Haley of Using Fake Name to Seem White

Liberal Host Sunny Hostin (Real Name Asunción) Smears Nikki Haley (Real Name Nikki) as Racial ‘Chameleon’

Wisconsin’s Mandela Barnes Blames False Police Endorsement on ‘Clerical Error’

Trump may wish he hadn’t pushed to block online content moderation (Washington Post)

Trump’s unhinged rage in Ohio shows the danger of a GOP Congress (Washington Post) Greg Sargent aspires to take Jennifer Rubin’s job.

Nazi analogies are dangerous. But they are increasingly relevant today. (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin needs to keep ahead of Greg Sargent in the Trump-bashing biz.

Trump discovers he’s not in Cannon-land anymore (Politico)

Trump Is Making Love to QAnon and We Should All Be Terrified  (Daily Beast)

Donald Trump Is More Deranged Than Ever (New Republic)

‘The Divider’ probes Trump’s White House years for lessons about our political future (NPR)

Trump has more legal problems of his own making (Washington Post) If Jennifer Rubin didn’t have Trump to bash, she would have nothing to write about.

DeSantis’s Migrant Move Marks ‘New Low in Politics,’ Says Communist Nation Engaged in Genocide Against Muslims  (Babylon Bee)

New Trump tome ‘The Divider’ offers most comprehensive chronicle of his term to date (NPR) It contains every lie and smear concocted by the Narrative media in one place for handy reference.

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Delaware’s Governor has said they are ‘preparing’ for any migrants that may be sent to Biden’s home state by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis – as the plane which was flown into Martha’s Vineyard heads towards Georgetown airport.

Pass the popcorn.

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A Norwegian yards group, Westcon, has put in place an agreement with Sweden-based company SeaTwirl to deploy 1MW vertical axis wind turbines in the North Sea by next year, Recharge News has reported. This commercial scale vertical axis turbine could kick off a new era in offshore wind farms delivering cost competitiveness very soon.

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The vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) offer a slew of advantages over conventionally used horizontal axis wind turbines (HAWTs). The latter relies on sophisticated instruments that tell them in which direction the breeze is flowing in and where to point themselves for maximum power generation. The turbines of a VAWT can harness power from all directions, so they can work without such equipment.

ZMan points out some inconvenient truth.

The blank slate crowd are sure that everything about a human society is a construction of the mind and can therefore be deconstructed. Western society, which has towered over the rest of mankind for more than five hundred years, can be disassembled and then reassembled to put non-Western people in charge. There is no evidence to support the claim, but a great global experiment is underway, nonetheless. There is mass migration from the Global south into the West.

A dozen years ago, Jason Richwine did his doctoral thesis in the topic and found that migration into the United States from the south was decreasing the quality of human capital by reducing the over all IQ of the population. He relied upon the mountain of IQ studies that show the average intelligence of Hispanics to be ten points below the average for Europeans. The usual suspects flew into a rage and had Jason Richwine condemned for heresy.

No one bothered to challenge the conclusions of his study, as that would suggest moral claims can be subject to objective measures. A key component of any religion is that the moral claims are unassailable. The new religion of Diversity, Inclusion and Equity operates like every other religion. Its principles are beyond question. In this case, it means that all people are equally capable and the differences seen between people are due to the racism of white people.

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Proportional representation is how the Nazis got control of Germany in the 1930s.

Proportional representation is why most European governments can’t form stable administrations.

Proportional representation is an idea so stupid only intellectuals will believe it.

New York Times.

The death of Queen Elizabeth II has dominated headlines this month, homages to her reign and dissections of the Harry and Meghan situation unsurprisingly pushing other news aside, especially other stories from Britain.

But even amid all the pomp, one news item out of Britain has attracted curiously little attention. Liz Truss, the new Conservative prime minister, announced her cabinet, and for the first time ever, not a single member of the inner circle — what’s referred to as the Great Offices of State — is a white man.

The home secretary, Suella Braverman, is the daughter of Kenyan and Mauritian immigrants. The mother of Foreign Minister James Cleverly emigrated from Sierra Leone. The new chancellor of the Exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng, was born to Ghanaian parents.

Did the left break into applause? Were there hosannas throughout progressive Twitter heralding this racial, ethnic and gender diversity as a step forward for society?

Not exactly.

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The immigrants are being transported from Republican-led border states to northern Democratic enclaves, which have long proclaimed themselves “sanctuaries” for the migrants they are now so appalled to find arriving. Democrats charge that it’s a stunt, and they are partly right. But it is a very shrewd stunt with a far-reaching impact. Although the buses carry a vanishingly small number of the illegals arriving daily in Texas and Arizona, they are making several big points.

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What people in the UK may not realise is that there are teams of contractors who start the American harvest in the south, almost on the Mexican border, and as the year progresses, they move steadily north, combining as they go. After all, the further north, the later the harvest. They finish somewhere in Canada playing chicken with winter.

Now some of these chaps work closely with the major machinery manufacturers. After all they might have several big combines and tractors and they will change them every three years. Not surprisingly, because their machinery works hard. They can be combining, 24 hours a day, for days on end when harvest is ready. So, some of these contractors will effectively have new machinery on standing order. It’s metaphorically got their name on it even as it proceeds along the production line.

One of these chaps was approached by a representative of the company he deals with. The company wanted him to go electric.

His response was simple. “How do I charge these combines when they are many miles from an electrical mains supply, in the middle of a cornfield, in the middle of nowhere?” “How do I run them 24 hours a day for 10 or 12 days straight when the harvest is ready, and the bad weather is coming in?” “How do I get a 50,000+ lb. combine that takes up the width of an entire road back to mains electricity 20 miles away when the battery goes dead?”

Apparently, the answer is ‘we’re working on it’.

Uh, yeah….

Skeletal remains found at NYC construction site ID’d as ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protester missing for a decade

Jackson’s Water Crisis Is a Climate Justice Wake-Up Call (TIME)

Rep. Warren Davidson to Newsmax: Biden Taps Strategic Oil Reserves to ‘Juice’ Midterms

NC judge dismisses NAACP lawsuit seeking to remove Confederate statue in Graham (ABC)

NYC Mayor Adams Calls for ‘Coordination’ on Moving Migrants

Biden Admin Awards Over $100M To Dismantle ‘Racist’ Highway In Detroit

This Headline Is for Real

Democrat Hidalgos and the Hispanic Working Class

MSNBC’s Capehart: Conservatives Could Reclassify Me As 3/5ths Of A Person!  I’d say two-fifths at most.

Speed Cameras

Martha’s Vineyard Builds Planned Parenthood To Combat Rising Population Of Minorities (Babylon Bee)

‘Serial’ case: Adnan Syed to be released, conviction tossed

Sim NIMBY, the Game Where You Can’t Build Anything

In a first, European Union moves to cut Hungary funding over damaging democracy (Reuters) As if the E.U. were the model of democracy toward which all aspire.

Maybe the US is in a recession, but small businesses don’t know it (The Guardian) Except the ones being shafted by inflation and inability to find workers.

The Nation That Never Was review: a new American origin story, from the ashes of the old (The Guardian) Pushing the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Still the wrong way to pick judges (The Hill) Pretending that ideological screening is a Republican innovation.

Starbucks makes good on promise to close more stores as crime rages in New Orleans

Denver set to give 140 homeless people up to $12,000 in cash as part of ‘basic income’ program  That’ll buy a lot of drugs.

NASDAQ Nancy holds up bills on congressional trading while the insider rot spreads  What’s the use of having power if you can’t abuse it?

New Orleans Takes Over as Murder Capital of US

Newt Gingrich: ‘Civilization Breaks Down’ in Crime-Ridden Dem Cities

Kurtz Highlights Leftist Media Double Standard on Don Lemon Demotion

Suits to Save Confederate Icons Dropped in South Carolina

How mechanics keep 50-year-old BART trains running: Windows 98, eBay, and scraps

Organized Retail Crime Reaching “Crisis Scale”

Annals of Liberal Cluelessness, Martha’s Vineyard Edition

High School Defends Trans Teacher Who Wore Massive Fake Breasts To Class

Canary In The Tax-Mine? California Sees 11% Drop In Revenue

Meet the Democrat on a Six-Figure Income Who Can’t Afford To Buy Her Kids Shoes

Fetterman Voted To Free Murderer Who Hacked Innocent Man to Death With Garden Shears

Colorado’s Democratic Governor Raised Special-Interest Tax Benefits, Breaking Campaign Promise, New Report Says

The Paradox of Multiculturalist Globalism

Gaming Event for Cancer Charity Overshadowed by Woke Complaining  

After Courts Force Jewish University to Host LGBTQ Campus Group, University Shuts Down All Clubs

Don Lemon Says His New Job As CNN’s Janitor Is Not A Demotion  (Babylon Bee)

In Some States, Endangered Animals Enjoy More Protections Than Unborn Babies  Of course. Endangered animals are scarce, whereas babies … not so much.

The Times’ Anti-Democratic “Democracy”

Success eludes New York’s plan to convert hotels into affordable housing (Politico)

Caving to Demands for Diversity, SNL Hires Funny Cast Member  (Babylon Bee)

Blue State Blues: Customers are stealing shopping baskets instead of buying bags, N.J. supermarkets say

DeSantis campaign ad features Christian nationalist pastor with antisemitic views (Forward) The Forward is the paper of record for Jewish Red Diaper babies.

The end of the debate? Republicans draw the curtain on political theater (The Guardian)

“Kidnapping Is A Thing”: MSNBC Continues False Claim That DeSantis Is Kidnapping Migrants

Republicans are wearing cruelty as a badge of honor (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Massachusetts seeks human trafficking probe targeting Florida Gov. DeSantis over migrants (USA Today)

Trump ally goes on trial for ‘espionage lite’ and obstruction (CNN)

Republicans try a pocketbook play to vilify Warnock (Politico) Proglodyte Projection is where Democrats accuse Republicans of doing what Democrats routinely do.

Proud Boys memo reveals meticulous planning for ‘street-level violence’ (The Guardian) None of which was carried out, unlike that of BLM and Antifa.

Ron DeSantis, King of the Jerks (Eyes on the Right) The witch-hunt continues.

DeSantis Accused Of Human Trafficking After Dropping Kids Off At Soccer Practice  (Babylon Bee)

’60 Minutes’ Is Kinder to Murderous Iran Regime than Republicans

NYT Front Page Dredges Up ‘Russian Trolls’ to Paint Sharia-Law Loving Sarsour As Victim

NYC Mayor: Asylum Seeker Dies in Homeless Shelter By Apparent Suicide  If somebody shipped me from Texas to New York, I’d consider doing the same.

Trump’s favorability rating drops to new low: poll (The Hill) A poll by NBC pushing the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Retired General Compares Trump’s Ohio Rally to Hitler’s 1936 Nazi Event (Newsweek)

This QAnon-flavored soundtrack to Trump, GOP’s fascist right turn should terrify you (Philadelphia Inquirer) Will Bunch is the PI’s Jennifer Rubin.

Trump Rally Plays Music Resembling QAnon Song, and Crowds React (N.Y. Times) Resembling! That proves it!

Trump Fumes: DeSantis Stole My Plan for Shipping Migrants (Rolling Stone)

The Story So Far: Where 6 Investigations Into Donald Trump Stand (N.Y. Times)

Trump Lawyer Settles Secretary’s ‘B*tch’ Discrimination Case (Daily Beast)

Congress Blows Its Shot to Stop Trump’s ‘Deep State’ Revenge (Daily Beast)

Tom Barrack case: Jury selection to begin in trial of former Trump fundraiser (ABC) The witch-hunt pursues Trump cooties wherever they may lead.

Trump’s ‘Save America’ Scam (The Bulwark) The Never-Trumpers of the Kristol Krew officially join the Narrative media witch-hunt.

What Is This Eerie Salute People Are Doing at Trump Rallies Now? (Vice) “The signal was immediately compared to the “Sieg Heil” salute.” Of course it was.

Trump under fire for QAnon display at Ohio rally: ‘He has gone completely insane’ (The Independent) According to the Narrative.

Trump’s frightening rally in Ohio shows the media still doesn’t get it (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin is back to her day job.

Does the new bivalent COVID booster have different side effects? (The Hill)

Anti-Vaccine Geniuses Are Hiding Disinformation Posts With Carrot Emojis (Daily Beast)

Facebook’s anti-vax carrot emoji, explained (Mashable)

Fauci: COVID ‘Anti-Vaxxer Attitudes’ Could Harm Kids

The Blood Clots From Hell

China Health Chief Tells Public Not to Touch Foreigners After First Monkeypox Case

Biden Declares The COVID Pandemic “Is Over” Despite Continued Use In Policies & Programs  Yeah,  well, Bill Clinton declared that The Era of Big Government Is Over, and that was a lie, too. Democrats lie. It’s what they do.

No Jab, No Job: New York City Fires Hundreds More Teachers for Not Getting COVID Shot

Former DHS secretary says Biden administration ‘unfairly’ perceived as ‘lax’ on border issues (The Hill) I’d say that was pretty obvious.

Gov. DeSantis will use ‘every tool’ to solve America’s border crisis because Joe Biden refuses to act

Record number of buses carrying migrants rolls into NYC’s Port Authority

Migrants continue to be bussed across US from Texas and Florida (WFAA)

Democrat El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser says he sent migrants to NYC ‘to help them’ After all, New York is rich, and El Paso is not.

Why it’s time to start paying with $2 bills (CNN) Because inflation. The government won’t quit inflating, so we have to compensate elsewhere. (Wait a couple years, and you can use $5 bills.)

Rep. Ronny Jackson: Administration Allows Border Crisis ‘On Purpose’

“This New Period Is Very Different, And Far Worse In Many Ways Than The 1970s”

Taibbi: The Justice Department Was Dangerous Before Trump. It’s Out Of Control Now

John Durham’s final act: exposing the FBI

Senate Republicans seek special counsel authority for prosecutor in Hunter Biden criminal probe (CNBC)

Eric Adams Considers Housing Migrants on Cruise Ships (N.Y. Times) Great idea. Two weeks and they’re back where they came from. “Swim for it, guys!’