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)

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

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.

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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

PolitiFact: Why were recent COVID-19 boosters authorized before human trials completed? (Austin American-Statesman)

WHO ‘strongly advises against’ use of two COVID treatments (Reuters)

Three takeaways from the monkeypox hearing (Washington Post)

Pfizer starts late-stage trial of mRNA-based flu vaccine (Reuters)

Nearly 50 Members Of Congress Call On Pentagon To End Military Vaccine Mandate

Is The End Of COVID-19 In Sight?

‘1619 Project’ creator hammered for claiming migrant relocation has undermined ‘American exceptionalism’

WashPost Columnist Calls Queen Elizabeth Symbol of ‘White Christian Supremacy’

Biden Demands White Supremacy

Vice President Kamala Harris again ignores migrant question, husband calls busing ‘shameful’

OAN host calls Vice President Kamala Harris a “hoe” (Media Matters)

As Martha’s Vineyard Panics Over 50 Migrants, Texas Border Town Sees Hundreds in Just 2 Hours

FBI Agents: Admin Pushing Agency to Exaggerate White Supremacy, Domestic Terrorism

Biden Admits to Lie: ‘I Wasn’t Arrested’ Trying to See Mandela

Newsmax Host Confused By Lindell ‘Raid’ Whips Out Pocket Constitution (Daily Beast)

Mike Lindell’s phone search reveals new details about scope of federal probe into efforts to subvert 2020 election results (CNN)

King Charles Is a Passionate Supporter of Fake Science (Daily Beast)

Ocasio-Cortez blasts GOP lawmaker’s treatment of witness: ‘I’m trying to give you the floor, boo’ (The Hill)

Intolerance – Remain Silent Or Be Branded An Extremist

NY Times Paints Gov. DeSantis As Right-Wing Strongman, ‘Crush[ing] Adversaries’

MSNBC Accuses Abbott and DeSantis of ‘Human Trafficking’

Did you know that evil Governor Ron DeSantis is a Nazi and a human trafficker?

Trump says he ‘can’t imagine’ being indicted, argues it wouldn’t deter running again (The Hill)

House passes bill seeking to protect federal civil service employees from Trump (The Hill) They must think he’s going to win again.

Trump Lied About Secret Service Concerns to Throw Off New York AG (Daily Beast)

Stop the Steal Fans Are Burying Election Workers in Record Requests (Daily Beast)

Why Is There Still No Strategy to Defeat Donald Trump? (N.Y. Times) David Brooks polishes his pet-pseudo-conservative credentials with an obvious question.

Trump openly embraces, amplifies QAnon conspiracy theories (Associated Press) Do these guys even know what ‘QAnon’ means? Somehow I doubt it.

Hispanic Voters’ Support for Trump Could Mean Trouble for Dems

Liz Cheney’s Big Lie About Jan. 6, Trump

Donald Trump was asked what would happen to the country if he were indicted. His answer is something else. (CNN) Something else than the Narrative. Chris Cillizza was surprised.

Sunny FLIPS OUT Over Construction Workers Chanting ‘Trump 2024!’

‘Untrustworthy and ineffective’: Panel blasts governments’ covid response (Washington Post)

How Bill Gates and partners used their clout to control the global Covid response — with little oversight (Politico)

Nation warned to brace for a difficult flu season (The Hill)

Striving for 2023 launch, Pfizer touts topline PhIII win for another mass market vaccine (Endpoints News)

Worries over stigma are driving a push to rename monkeypox, but the process is slow (CNN)

It Was Politics That Drove ‘The Science’

States To Ban Gas-Powered Cars Despite Human And Environmental Cost Of Electric Vehicles

How a ‘Living Drug’ Could Treat Autoimmune Disease

Judge: City Can’t Fire NYPD Officer for Not Having COVID-19 Vaccine

Martha’s Vineyard Migrants Being Shipped to Joint Base Cape Cod (Video Report: Martha’s Vineyard Residents Don’t Want Migrants) (Scoop: Biden officials to discuss “litigation options” over migrant buses)

Biden may soon put a floor on sinking oil prices. That’s good for our energy stocks (CNBC)

US inflation still stubbornly high despite August slowdown (Associated Press)

Biden quietly pushing Mexico to take migrants under Title 42: report

White House says governors sending migrants to DC, Martha’s Vineyard ‘disrespectful to humanity’ (The Hill)

Customs officials have copied Americans’ phone data at massive scale (Washington Post)

Officials enraged after White House rejects DHS plans to mitigate crisis at southern border: report

Migrants dropped off on Kamala Harris’ DC doorstep dispute her ‘secure’ border claim: ‘We come in free, no problem’

Vice President Harris Says Border Is ‘Secure.’ Now Migrants Are Showing Up at Her House.

Rep. Fallon to Newsmax: White House Responsible For Rise in Human Trafficking

Friction between White House and senior Homeland Security officials mounts as migrant border crossings soar (NBC) But hey, the border is secure! Jambalaya says so!

Biden accused of pressuring FBI to fabricate ‘extremist’ and ‘White supremacist’ cases

Report: Biden Urged to Follow GOP Governors in Relocating Migrants

Biden Asks Congress To End Social Media Immunity At WH Summit Due To “Hate-Fueled Violence”

Martha’s Vineyard Lovingly Welcomes Immigrants To Any Other Part Of America (Babylon Bee)

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week Vol. 11

Watch: Biden Gets Lost On A Stage For Third Time In A Week

FedEx Nukes “Economy’s Doing Fine” Narrative, Global Stocks/Bonds Lose $4 Trillion In Week

More Collusion Between Biden and Big Tech? Censoring So-Called ‘Extremism’

Chicago reporter sues Mayor Lori Lightfoot for revoking press credentials: ‘Chilling effect on all reporters’  BRAAAAAAAINS!

Sniper Denied Parole, 20 Years After Terrorizing D.C. Area

Sweden: Four In Five ‘Refugees’ Have Vacationed In The Country They Fled From

The White Scare

Facebook Bans Holocaust Film for Violating Race Policy

Pfizer Hit With Lawsuit Over Fellowship That Excludes Whites and Asians

CNN’s Don Lemon Insists ‘I Was Not Demoted’

Las Vegas: Criminal Starts Gunfight; Wounded Female Officer Finishes It

Massachusetts Mobilizes National Guard to Clear Migrants from Martha’s Vineyard

Will The Polls Overestimate Democrats Again?  (FiveThirtyEight) The question answers itself.

Adam Kinzinger’s big regret (CNN) I’ll bet you didn’t know that David Axelrod could read minds.

Foxx to announce charges against 2 CPD officers after on-duty shooting (WGN)

There is not a bipartisan urgency among voters for preserving democracy (Washington Post) In the Narrative media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Democracy, are you OK? What recent history tells us about the state of politics (NPR)

The successful policy that progressives love to hate (CNN)

Schools are going online in disasters, worsening disruption (Associated Press)

‘Defund the Police’ aftermath created ‘ripple effect’ that endangers everyone, law enforcement source says

Philadelphia ‘Soda Tax’ Completely Backfired: Study

Soros-Backed Arizona DA Candidate Partners With Abortion Clinics That Sold Fetal Organs

China Expanding Overseas Secret Police Stations, Including 1 in NYC

Democrats Buoyed by Abortion and Trump, Times/Siena Poll Finds (N.Y. Times) Push-polling the Narrative in the run-up to the mod-term elections.

New California Law Wil Target ‘Disinformation’ Online  In the Narrative media, ‘disinformation’ means accepting reality rather than the Narrative.

Stephanopoulos Declares Journos ‘Have To Risk Looking Partisan’

After Dealing With Martha’s Vineyard HOA, Migrants Decide Go Back And Take Their Chances With The Cartels  (Babylon Bee)

Facebook Spied On Private Messages Of “Conservative Right-Wing Individuals”, Then Reported To FBI For Domestic Terrorism

Fetterman cast lone vote in failed bid to free man convicted of murdering woman with scissors; DA speaks out

Chrissy Teigen Changes Story: Claims ‘Miscarriage’ Was Actually An ‘Abortion’

Massachusetts gov calls up National Guard over 50 Martha’s Vineyard migrants

Illegal Immigrants Get the Boot After One Day on Martha’s Vineyard

New York City ‘Nearing Its Breaking Point’ With Influx Of Illegal Immigrants From Texas: Mayor

Surprise Is Key Part of Migrant Travel From Florida, Texas

Migrants Decline Newsom’s Offer Of Asylum In CA Since They Just Came From A Collapsing Communist Hellhole With No Electricity  (Babylon Bee)

Give Iran Nukes, Says Quincy Institute’s New Iran Expert

Top Trans Medical Group Mysteriously Removes Age Recommendations for Minors Seeking Transgender Surgeries, Hormones, Puberty Blockers

Google, Amazon Censored Campaign Exposing School Counselor Association’s Agenda, Education Group Says

Patagonia founder just donated the entire company, worth $3 billion, to fight climate change (CNBC) Fill in the blank: A fool and his money are _______.

Campaigners call for climate crisis global day of action during Cop27 (The Guardian)

SEC chair spars with senators over climate rules (The Hill)

Reversing global warming by REFREEZING the poles by would be both feasible and ‘extraordinarily cheap’, study claims (Daily Mail)

Can Green Hydrogen Save the Planet? (Foreign Affairs)

Guardian: Why did Queen Elizabeth’s Funeral Receive More Coverage than the Climate Crisis?

The World Has Reached Peak Attenborough

Patagonia Founder’s ‘Donation’: Benevolent Planet-Saver Or Giant Tax-Dodge

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Say not that the pioneering spirit is extinct in America.

ZMan’s weekly podcast. Highly recommended.

On YouTube there is a genre of video about living off-grid. That is, living in a rural area without electricity, gas, internet and so on. Many, if not most, are fake because most everything is fake these days. Some are legitimate and they make for interesting viewing because it is mostly problem solving. Watching a guy noodle through how to make a tiny hydroelectric system is interesting.

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Foldscope combines low-cost materials with precision optics to create inexpensive microscopes that are affordable for communities worldwide. With a magnification of 140X, Foldscope can visualize tiny things like bacteria and microorganisms as well as larger samples like insects, plants, fabrics, and tissues. Foldscope can also attach to mobile phones for imaging. This portable microscope is also waterproof. With that versatility, the possibilities are endless!

If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

I received a microscope kit when I was a child, my parents apparently concluding from the fact that I was worthless at (and even less interested in) sports that I was destined for a Nobel Prize.

I looked at a bug. I looked at a leaf. I looked at the multicolored dots on a comic book illustration. Then I went back to reading. Three degrees later, I still don’t have that Nobel Prize (primarily because I’m even more worthless at math than I am at sports). Still, it was a kind thought.

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Should Democrats be boosting “MAGA Republicans” as Biden screams in speeches that they’re killing democracy?

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In his campaign materials, Democrat Josh Riley is a flannel-wearing, beer-drinking, fifth-generation upstate New Yorker with blue-collar values. In real life, Riley spent years at an elite Washington, D.C., law firm and returned upstate just months ago to launch his congressional run.

Riley’s campaign site says the Democrat is “running for Congress to give working families a Square Deal” and touts his upbringing “in a working-class neighborhood” in upstate New York. Riley’s campaign launch video, meanwhile, features the flannel-and-hoodie-clad candidate alongside run-down factories and modest homes. Later in the spot, before clinking a Miller Lite glass in a dimly-lit dive bar, Riley pledges to put himself “back at the kitchen table” with his “neighbors [in] upstate New York and ask what’s best for them.”

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A vulnerable Maine Democrat spearheaded an effort to make migrants eligible for his state’s welfare program, a policy that may hurt him at the ballot box in November given that it has resulted in a costly overflow of asylum seekers in the city of Portland.

As a state legislator, Rep. Jared Golden championed a bill in 2015 that declared asylum-seeking immigrants eligible for the state’s General Assistance program, which provides free hotels, meals, and other essentials to elderly and homeless Mainers. As a result, an estimated 1,200 immigrants are now receiving emergency housing in Portland and are unable to work until they receive government approval, a process that can take several months. Portland officials in May informed federal immigration agencies that the city’s hotels reached full capacity and are unable to shelter additional asylum seekers—just as federal funds for the program are set to expire.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

It is no secret that our federal, state and local governments waste enormous amounts of money. Neither is it a secret that outright fraud accounts for a significant part of that waste. My organization, which conducts quarterly polling in Minnesota, has twice asked the question, “What is your best estimate of the percentage of state spending that is wasted?” The results were identical: the first time, the median answer was 29%. The second time, it was 30%.

Why are Americans so skeptical of government spending? In part, because of scandals like the Feeding Our Future fiasco, which we have written about before, in which hundreds of millions of dollars were funneled to community groups that purported to be feeding ridiculous numbers of poor children. The FBI has been investigating this scandal for some time, but so far the only criminal charge is a passport violation brought against a perpetrator who was trying to flee the country.

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Founder Yvon Chouinard structured the transfer of his firm in a way that keeps control within the family and avoids taxes.

Somehow that doesn’t get mentioned in all the gushing about ‘climate change’.

Here are the side effects to expect from your omicron-specific Covid booster shot (CNBC) Are they worse than actually getting the disease? We report–you decide!

US officially added to WHO’s list of poliovirus outbreak countries (Ars Technica) So it’s officially time to PANIC!

Biden admin officials worried about potential polio spread (Politico)

Moderna open to supplying COVID vaccines to China, CEO says (Reuters)

Transmission of monkeypox virus atypical and unique in 2022 (News-Medical.net) Really?

Get your omicron-specific Covid booster by Halloween, says Dr. Jha: ‘You don’t want to be that person who gives it to your grandma’ (CNBC) Guess it’s time to PANIC!

Rand Paul Hits Fauci Over 2004 Clip on Vaccinations

CDC: US Now Has ‘Circulating Vaccine-Deprived Poliovirus’

US Navy Quietly Cancels Vaccine Requirement Order For SEALs

Anthony Fauci: From AIDS To COVID-19, A Pharma Love Story

‘Significant Proof’ Air Force Discriminated Against Troops Seeking Religious Exemptions To Vaccine Mandate: Court

Monkeypox Cases in the US Are Falling. No One Knows Why

US Warns Monkeypox Could Mutate to Resist Antiviral Drug  So I guess it’s time to PANIC!

Why Trump’s former aide says he’s ‘wholly unfit’ for office (CNN) Because that’s where the money is–Duh!

Kinzinger: ‘Donald Trump brought heaps of fear into the Republican Party’ (The Hill) Nope, he merely pointed it out.

Armed Man Arrested in Dairy Queen Wanted to ‘Restore’ Trump as ‘King’ (Newsweek)  And this is somehow Trump’s fault.

What Photos of Donald Trump on Golf Course Reveal (Newsweek) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Trump Is Now the Leader of the Unfree World (Newsweek) Hey, he’s not the one throwing people in jail.

‘You’re blowing this’: New book reveals Melania Trump criticized her husband’s handling of Covid (CNN) It’s in a book! That proves it!

Trump told Jordan’s king he would give him the West Bank, shocking Abdullah II, book says (Washington Post) It’s in a book! That proves it!

Is This The End Of Executive Privilege? Or Only For Trump?

Reality Winner, imprisoned for leaking classified report, calls case against Trump ‘incredibly ironic’ (NBC) How’d you like to have a name like ‘Reality Winner’?

A Sober Look at the ‘Cartoonishly Chaotic’ Trump White House (N.Y. Times)

Pro-Trump Pundit Accused of Pocketing $200K Meant for Ukraine Body Armor (Daily Beast)

‘Every day feels like something else is piling on’: Trump world bears down

Trump chief of staff used book on president’s mental health as guide (The Guardian)

N.Y. Attorney General May Sue Trump After Rejecting Settlement Offer (N.Y. Times)

Trump scoops from Peter Baker and Susan Glasser’s new book (Axios) In the Narrative media, ‘scoop’ means ‘made up story’. (The two authors are Narrative media ‘journalists’.)

Report: N.Y. Attorney General Refuses Trump Settlement Offer

FBI arrests GOP upstate New York election official over alleged absentee ballot fraud scheme

Joe Biden is trying to make this Republican senator the face of the midterms (CNN)

Several law enforcement officers in Philly suburbs held membership in the far-right Oath Keepers (Philadelphia Inquirer) In the Narrative media, there is no right but the Far-Right.

Hidden hand involved in Stewart Rhodes’ bid to derail Oath Keepers Jan. 6 trial (Politico)

Oath Keepers lawyer and federal judge in screaming match in court over US Capitol riot case (CNN)

‘Suspicious Actors’ Who Conspired To Raid Capitol On Jan. 6 Never Arrested, Attorney Alleges

Miami Herald Terrified of DeSantis’s Faith: ‘Prone to Violence…Undermine Democracy’

Mastriano Ally: God Told Me Prince Charles Would Murder Queen Elizabeth (Rolling Stone)

Deranged Hayes Blames Mississippi GOP for Water Crisis Under Dem Mayor

Facebook spied on private messages of Americans who questioned 2020 election

Jim Jordan: FBI ‘Woke Analyst’ Labeled Veterans-Led Group ‘Domestic Terrorist’ Organization

Jan. 6 Panel Wants More John Eastman Emails

The View Denies Then Admits Late-Term Abortions Happen, Claims GOP Hates Mothers

MSNBC Declares CRT Opponents Are Racist, Want To Restrict The Vote

FBI seizes phone from election denier Douglas Frank, a Mike Lindell associate (Washington Post) The witch-hunt continues.

Americans learn skills to survive the climate crisis – in a wilderness course (The Guardian)

A year-round satellite sea-ice thickness record from CryoSat-2 (Nature)

United in Science: We are heading in the wrong direction (WMO)

Increase in LED lighting ‘risks harming human and animal health’ (The Guardian) The Guardian never met a modern convenience it didn’t hate.

EU lawmakers support ban of goods linked to deforestation (Associated Press)

Google has one of Big Tech’s most aggressive sustainability plans. Here’s its 3-step playbook for helping the planet (Fortune)

China’s clean energy model staggers under drought: dying EV cars, blackouts (L.A. Times)

To confront rising sea levels, an NYC artist invites you to stand in the East River for 12 hours (Gothamist)

Anti-Green Blowback: T. Rowe Says “Increasing Difficult To Find Credible” ESG Bonds

COP27 Host Egypt Arresting Environmental Activists

“Green” Energy Will Bankrupt Us

Too Much Business Input: Aussie Government Stacks Climate Authority with Radical Activists

Washington DC’s Energy Colonialism

Rescued 66,000 Sheets of Real UK Rainfall Observations Refute Alarmist Claims of More Drought

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Mandela Barnes Rules Out ‘Even Encouraging New Pipeline Construction’

Greenpeace Intensifies Campaign Against Bitcoin Following Ethereum’s Merge

Prosecutors Seek to Vacate ‘Serial’ Murderer’s Conviction

R. Kelly Convicted on Many Counts, Acquitted of Trial Fixing

Woke Twilio CEO Conducts “Anti-Racist” Mass Layoff

Twilio CEO: Layoffs were carried out through an Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression lens

Pro-Criminal Fetterman Puts Convicted Killers on His Senate Campaign Payroll

Whoopi RAGES Over ‘Nasty’ Gov. DeSantis Sending Illegals to Lib Cities