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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’

Kinzinger on GOP-majority House: They’re going to demand a Biden impeachment vote every week (The Hill) And who could blame them?

Republicans will try to impeach Biden ‘every week’, Adam Kinzinger says (The Guardian) First, though, they’ll expel him from the House for pretending to be Republican.

A landmark Supreme Court fight over social media now looks likely (Washington Post)

Ken Burns: ‘We’re in perhaps the most difficult crisis in the history of America’ (The Guardian) Of course we all look to film-makers for political advice.

Ken Burns, Resident of a 96.0% White New Hampshire Museum Piece Village, Thinks You Need to be Enriched by More Diversity, Good and Hard

CBS Star Reporter Fears We’re on the Brink of Civil War (Daily Beast) Not just any old reporter, but a STAR reporter!

The latest threat to democracy? The language of the Constitution is hurting Dems

Texas gov’s office accuses NYC mayor of ‘flat-out lying’ after considering legal action over bussed migrants

Ruling the US supreme court isn’t enough. The right wants to amend the constitution (The Guardian) The Left doesn’t–they just want to ignore it.

Mysterious Explosions Heard Across SF as Police Investigate ‘Small Devices’ (S.F. Standard)

Parents blasts Fairfax school board for shuttering schools, leading a ‘race to the bottom’

Fear and misinformation rife as SAFE-T Act and the end of cash bail become political lightning rods heading into election (Chicago Tribune)

Workers can’t be fired for off-the-clock cannabis use under new law signed by Newsom (S.F. Chronicle)

Randi Weingarten touts report about struggling schools despite having hand in closures Look for … the Union label ….

New Communist Food Delivery Service Just Delivers You Empty Containers Then Shoots You  (Babylon Bee)

Fauci, Klain, Yellen, Kendi Headline Pfizer-Funded, Far-Left Conference In D.C. This Week

Report: Philadelphia on Track for Most Violent Year After Summer Shootings

Congress’ latest House-Senate wrangle: Preventing the next Jan. 6 (Politico) Not the witch-hunt, of course.

National Conservative Groups Invest Heavily in School Board Elections  And about time, too.

Scholars Ask Congress to Scrap Winner-Take-All Political System (N.Y. Times) Yes, we want an ineffective minority-deadlocked system like Europe! or Asia! or Africa!

Montana to Allow Transgender People to Change Birth Record

Martha’s Vineyard Newspaper Lists 50 Job Ads Despite Claims Of No Work On Island

Bexar County Sheriff announces investigation into how migrants went from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard  A Democrat sheriff in Texas has no jurisdiction over what the Governor of Florida does. This is pure grandstanding.

EU Seeks Sweeping New Crisis Powers To Secure Critical Supply Chains  Never let a crisis go to waste.

Switzerland’s Environment Minister Suggests People Shower Together To Save Energy

DeSantis’s Migrant Flights Aim to Jolt Midterms, and Lay Groundwork for 2024 (N.Y. Times)

The New York Times, Linda Sarsour, and Misinformation

Freeform Sitcom ‘grown-ish’: ‘Marriage is a Heteronormative and Oppressive Institution’

Newsom Is Turning California Into a Third World State  That’s TURD-world state.

EXCLUSIVE: Expert Says Politics Drove Facebook to Spy on Private Messages, Help Oust Trump

College Newspapers Are ‘Obsessed With Israel’ and Produce ‘Extremely Biased’ Coverage, Watchdog Says

NYC Police To Release Criminals Onto The Streets Faster With Newly Installed Giant Slide (Babylon Bee)

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.

U.S. arrests along Mexico border top 2 million a year for first time (Washington Post) But a couple of hundred almost break New York, Chicago, and D.C.

Lawmakers blast Army soldier food stamp suggestion amid Biden’s student loan handout: ‘Outrageous’

U.S. to sell up to 10 mln bbls of oil from SPR for Nov. delivery (Reuters) Just in time for the mid-terms! What a coincidence!

Members of Congress demand answers from Austin over ‘blanket denial’ of religious vaccine accommodations

US officials: Border crossings soar among Venezuelans (Associated Press)

33 senators call for Hunter Biden special counsel, cite DOJ ‘politicization’

Financial expert: Government-fueled inflation is killing retirements

See-no-evil Biden says he’s not at all concerned about Hunter ‘conflicts’

House Oversight Panel to Consider Demanding Financial Details of Biden Family Business Deals 

WH: COVID Response Unchanged Despite Biden Saying Pandemic ‘Over’  Pay no attention to that old man, he doesn’t speak for the White House.

Migrant Arrests Top 2 Million For The First Time Ever After Kamala Declares ‘Border Secure’

DHS Intel Report Indicates Venezuela Emptying Prisons, Sending Violent Criminals To US Border

GOP Demands Defense Secretary Answer for Denial of Religious Vax Exemptions

DHS Spends $700,000 In Taxpayer Money To Study “Extremism In Video Gaming”

Delaware Mobilizing for Possible Plane Filled With Migrants

Watch: Biden Proclaims “There’s A Through Line Of Hate” In American History  And he’s it.

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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

The world’s ice is melting. Humanity must prepare for the consequences. (Washington Post)

Burning world’s fossil fuel reserves could emit 3.5tn tons of greenhouse gas (The Guardian) And emptying the oceans would prevent sea-level rise.

Climate change and the energy crisis are powering the comeback of a 1970s technology now being installed in 40% of new U.S. homes (Fortune) Heat pumps. They won’t tell you that in the headline because it’s all about the clicks.

Warming Trends: A Comedy With Solar Themes, a Greener Cryptocurrency and the Underestimated Climate Supermajority (Inside Climate News)

This super-efficient appliance could save you thousands on home energy costs (CNN) More heat pumps. Of course, if it were all that efficient, everybody would be using them. And if you’re electricity goes out, as it often does during winter storms, you freeze in the dark. But hey, it’s sustainable!

How fast fashion can cut its staggering environmental impact (Nature)

Scientists warn South Florida coastal cities will be affected by sea level rise (CBS)

Refreezing Earth’s Poles: Feasible and Cheap, New Study Finds (Slashdot)

California Governor Signs ‘Most Aggressive’ Package Of Green Laws

Cost Of the Green Energy Transition: Who You Gonna Believe, Some Research Assistants from Oxford or Your Lyin’ Eyes?

Checkbook Journalism: Bought & Paid for Climate ‘News’: NPR Announces Facebook’s Zuckerberg & Rockefeller Foundation Will Be funding NPR’s ‘Climate Desk’

“Big Oil vs The World”: BBC Exposé Fails

WashPost Editorial Board Tells Americans ‘Some Will Have to’ Abandon Homes Due to Climate Change  Fortunately it’s people on the Left Coast and the Other Left Coast.

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!’

Russia’s underperforming military capability may be key to its downfall (The Guardian)

Russia is Running Out of Options to Recruit More Soldiers (Newsweek)

Coal stoves and wood thieves: Europe braces for winter without Russian gas (Washington Post) Boy, those sanctions really work, don’t they.

“Mass Graves” Allegation Becomes Focus Of Calls For Putin To Face War Crimes Tribunal

Senate Bill On Taiwan Will “Make War Much More Likely”

Putin’s Energy War with Europe Seems to Falter  Seems pretty on-track to me….

Europe, More Than Putin, Must Shoulder The Blame For The Energy Crisis

Ban On All Russian Tourists In Baltic States & Poland Takes Effect  Putin cooties are almost as bad as Trump cooties.

Kremlin Rejects Mass Grave “Lie” & “Provocation” As Bodies Exhumed

The Full $16Bn List Of What Biden Has Sent Ukraine

ZMan attempts to follow the bouncing ball.

The so-called reactionaries cannot be working from fear for what change will do to their social power, when they have no political or social power to conserve. This does not stop the radicals from pretending their victims have power, but it is a self-serving game of make believe. The people on the receiving end of radicalism know who has the whip hand.

This is why the old Left-Right framing makes no sense. The people claiming to be on the Right these days are not monarchists. They are not in genuine opposition to the people on the Left. They simply prefer a slower pace of change. The Left is certainly not opposed to institutional power, like all prior left-wing movements. They worship institutional power and act in defense of it. To maintain the old framing, the dissidents are the New Left and the regime is the New Right.

Recent events support this new framing. The election integrity protests during the 2020 cycle looked like every other protest against power. The people in control of the institutions certainly saw it that way. They still carry on like January 6 was a failed Bastille Day or the echoes of 1848. In response, they are acting like institutional power always reacts to threats. They are rounding up opponents, abusing the rights of their citizens and threatening retribution.

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 The Biden administration brought tens of thousands of Afghans into our communities who were never properly vetted and who may not have had proper documentation to show who they are.

Last September, Secretary of Homeland Security Mayorkas claimed that “the federal government has been focused on the screening and vetting of individuals evacuated from Afghanistan” and that the Department of Homeland Security, the State Department, the Department of Defense and the FBI had “established a robust screening and vetting architecture” for the masses of Afghan migrants that Biden had brought to this country.

But the latest report from the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security reveals that the vetting of the migrants was so lacking in even basic information that 36,400 Afghans carried an unidentified document and at least 11,110 had fake birthdays.

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Concerned about privacy? Got ya covered.

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One London evening in 1914, just after Great Britain had declared war on Germany, British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey was in his parliamentary office talking to a journalist. This is not always advisable for today’s politicians, but in those days statesmen from Westminster and hacks from Fleet Street took dinner at the same club, or at least within the same social set, and his confidant was John Alfred Spender, editor of the influential Westminster Gazette. “The lamps are going out all over Europe,” said Sir Edward mournfully. “We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.” A quotable quote, certainly, as long as we bear one thing in mind: Sir Edward was speaking figuratively.

Almost a quarter of a century later, Winston Churchill updated the phrase during a speech broadcast in America just before World War II, saying that “the lights are going out” across Europe, and referring of course to the rise of Hitler. Once again, he spoke figuratively. Eighty years after that, a man who has been called “literally Hitler” made a speech to the United Nations. In that speech, Donald Trump was not being figurative when he informed delegates that following the German energy model of almost complete reliance on power supplied by Vladimir Putin’s Russia would be ruinous. The German delegation openly mocked him. This has turned out to be unwise, particularly when you are from the country that invented the word schadenfreude.

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In The Student Loan Giveaway is Much Bigger Than You Think I argued that the Biden student loan plan would incentivize students to take on more debt and incentivize schools to raise tuition with most of the increased costs being passed on to taxpayers through generous income based repayment plans. Adam Looney at Brookings takes a deep dive into the IDR plan and concludes that it’s even worse than I thought.

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Just over fifty years ago eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team, plus a German policeman, were murdered in Munich by Islamic terrorists from “Palestine”. According to recently revealed accounts, one of the surviving terrorists lived unmolested in Berlin for thirteen years.

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

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Despite Joe Biden’s absurd search for “white supremacist” criminality, the reality is that virtually all political violence comes from the left. The latest case in point occurred on Thursday at the University of New Mexico, where Turning Point USA sponsored a speech by Tomi Lahren. Far-left students, determined not to allow speech they disagree with, created an ugly and dangerous scene….

Book: Trump wanted to trade Puerto Rico for Greenland (The Hill) More leftist fairy tales from the Narrative journo hit-piece The Divider.

Maher claims CRT and LGBTQ curricula in schools will drive voters to choose Trump despite him being a ‘creep’

Rally With Trump? Some G.O.P. Candidates Aren’t Thrilled About It. (N.Y. Times) Pushing the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

PBS RINO: Abbott, DeSantis Demonstrate ‘Laboratories of Progressively Worse Inhumanity’

Trump used ‘almost mob-style extortion’ to try to convince AT&T to sell CNN to Rupert Murdoch, new book claims (Business Insider) Further leftist fairy tales from the Narrative journo hit-piece The Divider.

What the Martha’s Vineyard Stunt Says About the Trump Wannabes (N.Y. Times) I think it says they’re winning.

Unpacking Apparent Trump-Hillary Double Standard

Echoing Trump, These Republicans Won’t Promise to Accept 2022 Results (N.Y. Times) Like Hillary and the Democrats after 2016.

‘Welcome to fascism’: Top Arizona Republican blasts Trump-backed candidates who might try to overturn future elections (CNN)

Down with the rich! Class rage fuels new wave of ‘us v them’ films and plays (The Guardian) Too bad most of The Rich are liberals.

Virginia policy latest attempt to restrict rights of transgender students (Washington Post)

North Dakota sheriff, representatives from Minnesota, South Dakota listed as members of Oath Keepers (INFORUM) The witch-hunt continues.

Trump ‘Didn’t Say Not to’ Harm Congressmen: Oath Keeper on New Jan. 6 Audio (Newsweek)

Trussonomics is a fanatical, fantastical creed, and the last thing Britain needs (The Guardian) George Monbiot, of course, thinks Britain needs more socialism.

Right-wing media turn unsustainable conditions for freight rail workers into a political football (Media Matters)

The story of the praying Bremerton coach keeps getting more surreal (Seattle Times)

What Happens When a Party Rejects Humanity? (New York Magazine) Pushing the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

CNN Likens Abbott, DeSantis to Segregationists, Debunked Whip Scandal

‘A Crisis Coming’: The Twin Threats to American Democracy (N.Y. Times)

Women Turned Off by Billionaire’s Conservative Dating App (Daily Beast) According to the Narrative.

Former CNN Anchor Chris Cuomo Slams Democrats For Demonizing Trump Voters

Report: Jan. 6 Committee Quickly Crafting ‘Sweeping Legislation’  The witch-hunt continues.

The Coming Outlawing of the Republican Party

EU Recommends Suspending Billions in Funding to Hungary

PolitiFact Helper: Tim Ryan ‘Mostly True,’ J.D. Vance ‘Mostly False’ in Ohio Senate Race

Hungary Can No Longer Be Considered A Full Democracy, Claim EU Lawmakers In Latest Attack On Orbán’s Conservative Government  As if the E.U. were all that impressive as a ‘democracy’.

If you care about your country and your rights, don’t vote for any Republicans in 2022 (USA Today)

Ted Cruz forced to admit trafficking migrants to Martha’s Vineyard is illegal (Independent) No, he didn’t.

Paranoid Todd Wonders If DeSantis Flew Migrants to Distract from Abortion

Merrick Garland faces stormy waters over Trump investigations (The Hill)

Biden says US democracy is under threat. Here’s what he can do to help fix it (The Guardian)

‘Biden Chronicles’ to Take Entertaining Look at Presidency

Biden Administration Intentionally Weakening Military: Retired General

GOP Sen. Ted Cruz: Biden ‘Biggest Human Trafficker’ in the World

GOP Guest Schools ABC Panel on Migrant Crisis: This Didn’t Happen In Trump Admin

DHS to Spend Almost $700k Investigating ‘Radicalization in Gaming’

8 Potential Bivalent Omicron Booster Side Effects to Anticipate, Experts Say

Can you combine Paxlovid with other COVID-19 drugs? FDA says no, for some (CBS News)

Scientists debate how lethal COVID is. Some say it’s now less risky than flu (NPR)

COVID in California: WHO strongly recommends against use of two treatments (S.F. Chronicle)

Long COVID: Self-targeted immune attacks may lurk behind it

NYC Education Dept. Fires 850 Unvaccinated Teachers, Aides  The witch-hunt continues.

U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right regulate online speech (Reuters)

Nicaragua’s dictatorship is criminalizing democracy and fueling migration to the US (The Hill) Daniel Ortega. Remember him?

America’s Christian majority is on track to end (NPR)

The Supreme Court and the uses of history (The Hill) Pushing the Narrative (and bashing Clarence Thomas) in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Kirsten Gillibrand wants to send NYC migrants upstate so cities could get federal funds

Bill Maher blasts Portland Public Schools curriculum as a ‘unified theory of wokeness’ (Oregon Live)

State Democrats send voters pre-filled absentee ballot applications (WWNY)

How ‘social justice’ is corrupting science

Cracks in GOP emerge over abortion policy and messaging (The Hill) Pushing the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

What Does The Right’s Historic Victory In Sweden Mean For Europe?

CNN Founder Couldn’t Fathom Why People Hated North Korean Dictator

Is Showtime Doing Damage Control for the Disgraced Lincoln Project?  My, what a surprise.

Martha’s Vineyard Takes Revenge On DeSantis By Shipping Him 50 Karens (Babylon Bee)

Separating Sports by Sex Doesn’t Make Sense (The Atlantic) According to the Narrative.

TikTok Won’t Promise To Stop Transferring US Data To China: COO

This Is Not Bail Reform, This Is Insanity

‘Zuckerbucks 2.0’: Lawmakers Eye Private Money to Get Out Vote in Milwaukee Elections

‘Never sleeps, never even blinks’: the hi-tech Anduril towers spreading along the US border (The Guardian) Along the border: BAD! In social media: GOOD!

‘The threat is real’: Dems press big donors to target state races “And now that we have your name, you go on the list for when we start Soaking The Rich.”

Poll: Abortion, Trump boost midterm prospects for Democrats (NBC News) Pushing the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Martha’s Vineyard flights leave migrant advocates scrambling (Washington Post)

Republicans in key battleground races refuse to say they will accept results (Washington Post) Like Hillary and the Democrats in 2016. Or Stacy Abrams to this day.

Criticism intensifies after big oil admits ‘gaslighting’ public over green aims (The Guardian) Did they? Really?

House Oversight Committee publishes internal energy company documents, alleges emissions ‘deception’

What happened to the ozone hole? (Deseret News)

China lost its Yangtze River dolphin. Climate change is coming for other species next (CNN)

The dramatic effects of climate change from coast to coast (CBS News)

The US is on the cusp of a clean energy revolution — we can’t leave anyone behind (The Hill)

Horrifying: Commonly Used Agricultural Herbicide Can Cross the Blood-Brain Barrier (SciTechDaily)

Axios Climate Truths: New health crisis (Axios)

Rapid Green Energy Transition Will Likely Result in Trillions of Net Savings  According to the Narrative. In Real Life … not so much.

Manchester To Shut Down in 2027 If Carbon Targets Are to Be Met

Deep Sea Mining About to Start in Pacific Not ‘Sustainable at Any Level’ Step 1: Come up with a hundred deeply frightening scenarios; Step 2: Use political lawfare to shut down any progress on the basis that all of these frightening scenarios will actually occur, for which there is absolutely no evidence. The basic ‘climate change’ eco-Nazi playbook.

Litigious Climate Scientist on the Hook for Legal Fees

Sister of oligarch Alisher Usmanov removed from EU sanctions list (The Guardian) Not enough Putin Cooties, I guess.

As India Joins China in Distancing From Russia, Putin Warns of Escalation (N.Y. Times)

UK Defense: Russia at Risk of Losing Luhansk

EU Calls for War Crime Tribunal Over Mass Graves in Ukraine

China Enjoys Energy Bonanza As NATO Sanctions Against Russia Fail

PEACE TIME: Another Putin Political Punishment Plot

Ukraine’s ambassador describes ‘war crimes of massive proportions’ (Politico)

Russia Widens Strikes on Ukrainian Civilian Targets After Frontline Setbacks

Body of water in Cook County renamed by the Department of the Interior to omit slur, one of 650 across US (Chicago Tribune) According to the Narrative.

Manhattan immigrant has been voting illegally for 13 years: BOE

Blacks Agree On MSNBC: ‘White People Turn Violent When They Don’t Get Their Way’  But black people are peaceful under all circumstances.

Twin Cities’ communities of color hurt most by lack of trees. (Star-Tribune) Women and minorities hardest hit etc. etc. (In search of tree equity)

The Other McCain turns over a rock.

Most people know, although they are reluctant to acknowledge, the meaning of “good schools.” You don’t have to be Ibram X. Kendi to see the systemic racism embedded in that common bit of code-speak. When people are looking to buy a house, they’ll pay a premium for a “good school district,” by which they mean a majority-white district.

What has always struck me about this, as a longtime critic of our education system, is how little attention such parents pay to the curriculum. What upscale suburban parents seems to care about most is the relative prestige of their child’s school — is this the fashionable district? do a high percentage of students go onto college? are the SAT scores high? — and never mind what is actually being taught.

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.Notice that both of these teachers, who profess themselves “distraught” by a policy they regard as “cruel” to “marginalized” students, have been employed a long time by Bucks County schools. We may be certain that, when Becky Cartee-Haring was hired in 2006, there were no controversies about pronouns and “gender identity” in Bucks County schools. We know this because the sudden vogue of youth transgenderism didn’t begin until about 2014, and the acceleration of this trend has been driven mainly by online social media. Yet here are teachers adamantly defending beliefs that didn’t even exist when the students at Central Bucks West High School started first grade.

Read it.

Industrial heat consumes a huge proportion of global energy. Rondo Energy says its brick-toasting heat storage device is so cheap and efficient that it makes decarbonization an instant no-brainer across a huge range of industries. Bill Gates agrees.

Oh,  well, if Bill Gates agrees, that settles it.

The Other McCain.

Yesterday, Ace of Spades jabbed Jonathan V. Last as one of “True Conservatives Conserving Conservatism at The Bulwark” — a jab richly deserved, but it filled me with a sense of sadness, because Last used to be so good, before he fell victim to Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

The Martha’s Vineyard’s meltdown illustrates the efficacy of a few of Saul Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals. Governors Abbott and DeSantis have put several of Alinsky’s rules in play Among them:

• Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.

• Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.

• A good tactic is one your people enjoy.

• Keep the pressure on.

• The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.

• Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

These rules were formulated for the use of the left. When employed to mount opposition to the left, the axis of American life and politics tilts. The end of the world is nigh.

Climate change & doomsday: Irreversible tipping points may mean end of human civilization (WRAL)

The win for activists in two halted chemical plants — by the numbers (Washington Post)

The U.S. looks to rival Europe and Asia with massive floating offshore wind plan (CNBC)

Biden administration targets Oregon coast for wind power generation (NBC)

Energy & Environment — Newsom signs sweeping climate package (The Hill)

Gov. Newsom signs climate laws to dramatically cut California’s use of oil and gas (KCRA)

Why future sea levels matter to Suffolk’s Sizewell nuclear plant (The Guardian)

The West’s water crisis is worse than you think (The Hill)

Biden Climate Appointee Studied at CCP-Controlled University Linked to Chinese Military

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot: Time to send Illinois GOP gubernatorial candidate ‘back to the farm’

Chicago’s Democratic Socialists Endorse 3 City Council Challengers Amid Push to Expand Power (WTTW)

Satanic panic is making a comeback, fueled by QAnon believers and GOP influencers (NBC)

Hungary can ‘no longer be considered a full democracy,’ says EU Parliament (CNN)

With shameful Martha’s Vineyard stunt, DeSantis dishes out cruelty with a smirk (Miami Herald)

Warnings From Authors Who Track Domestic Extremism (N.Y. Times)

CNBC Anchor Proud of Orwellian Nightmare He Created for Gun Owners

Let’s Call DeSantis’s Migrant Stunt What It Is—Kidnapping (The Nation)

Scarborough Admits There’s a Border Crisis, But Accuses GOP Of ‘Grotesque Human Trafficking’

Justice Department asks appeals court to revive its criminal probe into classified Mar-a-Lago documents (CNN)

Judge rules for Trump in Mar-a-Lago documents case (YouTube)

How important is the Trump investigation special master? (The Hill)

Why Donald Trump Won’t Release Mar-a-Lago Video of FBI Raid (Newsweek) Mind-reading and witch-hunting.

The Divider review: riveting narrative of Trump’s plot against America (The Guardian)

The Bad Part of Being a Lawyer in Trumpworld (Daily Beast)

It’s Time to Call MAGA a National Security Threat (Daily Beast)

The Mar-a-Lago judge’s latest opinion is as atrocious as legal experts say it is (L.A. Times)

Philadelphia voters say Fetterman’s health won’t impact their vote, citing Biden’s age and health

US libraries face ‘unprecedented’ efforts to ban books on race and gender themes (The Guardian)

Giant refugee puppet joins ‘huddled masses’ in New York (Reuters)

What Liberals Don’t Want to Admit About Influxes of Migrants (Daily Beast)

Fraudulent Document Cited in Supreme Court Bid to Torch Election Law (Politico)

More than 200K transgender Americans face barriers to voting in midterm elections (The Hill)

Culture war spills out on the diamond, Arkansas Travelers rightfully dragged (Arkansas Times)

US Army’s Recruiting Crisis Worsens As Test Scores Drop, Disqualifications Rates Surge