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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There have been a reported 2,000,000 illegal migrants in the recent surges (total illegals here already is certainly a multiple of that but let’s go with the most recent Biden-induced numbers).

Martha’s Vineyard has a population of 15,000.
The USA population is 332,000,000
The Vineyard’s share of new illegals is therefore 90.34.

People may point out that if the richest community in the US cannot handle a little over half of its share of illegals (50), what can the rest of them be expected to do? Blah, blah. Throw in the 26 homeless that comprise our allotted share of the national homeless population if it comes to that. Are we ready to spend to build a compound for 116 people who–let’s be honest–are not our sort at all?

UPDATE: Martha’s Vineyard and the fraud of the rich white liberal

UPDATE: Biden Admin Mulls Litigation Against GOP Governors Busing Migrants

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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’.

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I’ve never been blessed enough to vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, but if you’re an illegal alien who’s always dreamed of biking with the Obamas, you might be in luck. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has just sent two planeloads of migrants to the New England paradise.

You’d think the residents of Martha’s Vineyard would be thrilled at the opportunity to increase the diversity of the approximately 80 percent white island. Oddly, there have been reports of elderly women in straw hats and kaftans packing up their “no human is illegal” signs and marking their doors with the blood of slaughtered lambs.

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

CNN Nukes Morning Show, Far-Left Don Lemon Demoted to Sunrise Duty

Dozens of migrants arrive on Martha’s Vineyard via charter flights (ABC)

Ron DeSantis sends two planes of illegal immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard

Migrants’ plane lands on Martha’s Vineyard: island mobilizes, with many unanswered questions (New Hampshire Public Radio)

Governor signs disaster declaration, calls up National Guard to assist with migrants bused from Texas (Chicago Tribune)

Illinois calls up National Guard to handle migrants, Chicago wants federal money diverted from Texas

Elena Kagan to her colleagues: You’re why the Supreme Court has lost legitimacy (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Kagan repeats warning that Supreme Court is damaging its legitimacy (Politico) According to the Narrative.

“Quiet quitting” is understandable — but it won’t save us from predatory capitalism (Salon) Or even predatory socialism.

Ohio school board meeting gets heated over ‘woke’ policy keeping parents in dark about kids’ gender changes

Disinformation via text message is a problem with few answers (NBC) In the Narrative media, ‘disinformation’ is anything that disagrees with the Narrative.

Anti-abortion groups are getting more calls for help with unplanned pregnancies (NPR)

McDonald’s plans to expand West Loop HQ, but CEO says city needs to ‘face facts’ about downtown business climate (Chicago Tribune)

Eric Adams wants to put thousands of migrants to work in New York Doing jobs that Americans won’t do!

Chicago daylight robbery outside an Apple store thwarted by suburban mayor’s armed security detail

Advocacy groups say Fairfax is not doing enough to curb deportations (Washington Post)

CA Gov. Gavin Newsom Launches Tax-Funded Abortion Website

Half Of Americans Think US Will No Longer Be A Global Superpower Within Ten Years; New Poll Finds

Mitch McConnell’s Refusal to Seat Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court Is Coming Back to Haunt Him (The New Republic) On the contrary, I’m sure he thanks God every day (as I do) that Merrick Garland is not on the Supreme Court.

Can This Lawsuit Overturn California’s 3D-Printed Gun Ban?

Why ‘Voter Suppression’ Is a Myth

Captiongate: How a Single Zoom Call Propelled Canada’s Greens Into Pronoun Meltdown

23% of Congress Is Over Age 70, Compared to 4% in 1981

Democrats Finally Have the Upper Hand in the Culture Wars (The Atlantic) Pushing the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Democrats’ No. 1 fall goal: Try not to ‘poke the bear’ (Politico)

Delaware Judge: State’s Vote-by-Mail Law Unconstitutional

Persecuted at Home, Iran’s Christian Converts Finding Europe’s Doors Closed

Tax-Happy Congresswoman Penalized for Tax Delinquency

Montana Judge Blocks Anti-trans Birth Certificate Rule

Biden to announce approval of $900 million in U.S. EV charging funding (Reuters) Go out there and spend! Spend! Spend!

Biden battles Trump for ‘Soul of Nation’ because Democrats can’t run on his failed policies

Americans should brace for higher natural gas prices, Chevron CEO says (CNN)

Biden’s student loan handout will allow college cartel to shake down taxpayers for more

‘Positive Spin’: Networks Isolate Biden From Blame for ‘Disappointing’ Inflation Report

DOJ Official Who Exposed Themselves, ‘Sexually Assaulted Civilian’ Won’t Be Prosecuted: IG

Nets Ignore Hunter Biden Crying Poor, Wants Child Support Lowered

Exclusive: Biden urges Mexico to take migrants under COVID expulsion order he promised to end

Biden Admin Awards $80 Million Contract That Prohibits GPS Monitoring Of Illegal Immigrants

Biden approval rises sharply ahead of midterms: AP-NORC pol (Associated Press) Push-polling the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

2 migrant buses arrive outside Vice President Kamala Harris’ Naval Observatory residence in DC (Abbott refutes Harris) (Texas sends a migrant surprise to Kamala Harris)

Nearly Every Major ‘Fact-Checker’ Has Ignored Karine Jean-Pierre Since Taking Over for Psaki

Highest Number in US History: Border Patrol Logs 8,000 Migrants Entering US Each Day

Food Stamps For US Soldiers

Former FBI Official Who Helped Spark Russia Probe Under Scrutiny

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Saw that comin’.

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And who could blame them?

I’d live to live in Switzerland and work in the U.S.

I call it ‘retired’.

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I love books. If I go to the bookstore to check a price, I walk out with three books I probably didn’t know existed beforehand. I buy second-hand books by the bagful at the Friends of the Library sale, while explaining to my wife that it’s for a good cause. Even the smell of books grips me, that faint aroma of earthy vanilla that wafts up at you when you flip a page.

The problem is that my book-buying habit outpaces my ability to read them. This leads to FOMO and occasional pangs of guilt over the unread volumes spilling across my shelves. Sound familiar?

But it’s possible this guilt is entirely misplaced. According to statistician Nassim Nicholas Taleb, these unread volumes represent what he calls an “antilibrary,” and he believes our antilibraries aren’t signs of intellectual failings. Quite the opposite.

Better too many books than too few.

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A number of financial institutions in and around New York City are dealing with a rash of super-thin “deep insert” skimming devices designed to fit inside the mouth of an ATM’s card acceptance slot. The card skimmers are paired with tiny pinhole cameras that are cleverly disguised as part of the cash machine. Here’s a look at some of the more sophisticated deep insert skimmer technology that fraud investigators have recently found in the wild.

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These skimmers do not attempt to siphon chip-card data or transactions, but rather are after the cardholder data still stored in plain text on the magnetic stripe on the back of most payment cards issued to Americans.

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The FBI appears content with its role as the enforcement arm of the Democratic Party, somewhat like–although, so far, not as bad as–the role the Ku Klux Klan played years ago. The Mar-a-Lago raid was a low point, but the FBI has followed up with more intimidation tactics. Subpoenas reportedly have been served on dozens of Republicans, apparently fishing for some evidence of a connection to the almost entirely peaceful protest in Washington on January 6, 2021.

The day after Joe Biden’s notorious Nuremberg speech, three armed FBI agents visited the home of a New Jersey woman named Lisa Gallagher. Why? The FBI had an anonymous tip that Gallagher had something to do with the January 6 demonstration. She also had a pro-Trump sign on her lawn.

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I’ve shipped a supply to the White House. I only hope it’s in time.

Trump-appointed judge convicts three Jan. 6 defendants but acquits two of them on obstruction charge (NBC)

Why our 14th Amendment lawsuit against a Trump fanatic sets a key American precedent (ABC) Empowering the witch-hunt.

Washington state Human Rights Commission says Alaska Airlines uniform policy is likely discriminatory (The Hill)

Erasing Confederate items from U.S. military will cost $62 million, panel says (Washington Post)

‘Outrageous’: GOP Lawmakers Slam DOJ Official for Smearing Legal Defense Organization as ‘Hate Group’

FBI Tracks Down Mike Lindell On Hunting Trip, Surrounds His Car And Seizes Cell Phone

Harvard Tells Students: ‘Using Wrong Pronouns’ Constitutes ‘Abuse’

Election deniers advanced to November ballots in 27 states, report finds (NBC)

Mainstream Democrats romped in the primaries. Republicans went full MAGA. (Washington Post) Dana Milbank pushes the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Watch: Dem Rep. Says “We Gotta Kill” MAGA “Extremists”

In Mastriano’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, a chilling template for future races (Philadelphia Inquirer) Yeah–if you cheat, you’ll get called out for it.

MSNBC: GOP Is ‘Hell-Bent on Controlling and Punishing Women’

Crist Labels Florida Governor ‘DeSatan’ in Surfaced Video

New Hampshire Shows GOP Isn’t Learning the Right Lessons (Bloomberg) Don’t you just love it when Democrats give Republicans advice?

A new reminder of the advantage misinformation has over reality (Washington Post) In the Narrative media, ‘misinformation’ means ‘talking about reality rather than the Narrative’.

Camerota Insults Pro-Lifers, Says They Don’t Know How Pregnancy Works

Rep. Jeffries: Republicans ‘Running Scared’ Ahead of Midterms  Uh, sure….

Trump faces a new threat: Scrutiny of ‘stop the steal’ money scam (Washington Post)

Justice Department criminal investigation now touches nearly all efforts to overturn 2020 election for Trump (CNN)

Has Merrick Garland screwed up the Mar-a-Lago case? (The Hill)

Telling Big Lies: more Senate probes of Trump

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

World heading into ‘uncharted territory of destruction’, says climate report (The Guardian)

UN warns world is entering ‘uncharted territories of destruction’ from climate crisis (CNBC)

Scientists who detected massive Pemex methane leak say ‘no way’ they made a mistake (Reuters)

Mountain glacier in Chile’s Patagonia collapses amid high temperatures (Reuters)

Investors with $39 trillion urge governments to plan fossil fuel phase out (Reuters)

More than 6,000 New Jersey buildings will be engulfed by seawater by 2050, study predicts (Philadelphia Inquirer) A study! That proves it!

Maps show where extreme heat shattered 7,000 records this summer (Washington Post)

We’re careening into ‘uncharted territory of destruction,’ WMO climate report says (The Verge)

A Biodiversity Crisis: Food Webs Worldwide Are Collapsing (SciTechDaily)

Poland receives U.S. offer to build nuclear power plants (Reuters)

EU chief von der Leyen promises overhaul of energy markets, tax on fossil fuel profits (CNBC)

Wisconsin’s first grassland climate adaptation site is a ‘best case scenario’ for mitigating climate change (Wisconsin Public Radio)

A low-carbon chemical industry ‘could create 29m jobs and double turnover’ (The Guardian)

VIDEO: Watch Mandela Barnes Say World Must ‘Stymie Capitalism’ To Combat Climate Change

Study: Climate Change is Making People Angrier Online

Democrats go full delusional on climate change

A GMO Purple Tomato Is Coming to Stores. Will the US Bite?

Media Can’t Agree on the Number of Climate Tipping Points, Much less When

Frozen Planet II repeats Attenborough’s climate change scaremongering that began in 2015

Cheap carbon capture tech could filter out CO2 in smokestacks

So you haven’t caught COVID yet. Does that mean you’re a superdodger? (NPR) No, you still need to PANIC!

No, you can’t get the omicron booster if you’ve never been vaccinated. Here’s why (Charlotte Observer) First, you need to PANIC!

Virus associated with polio-like muscle weakness is spreading among kids, CDC warns (NBC)

Pentagon in ‘potential noncompliance’ with law after denying vaccine religious accommodation requests: IG

Air Force loses appeal in federal vaccine exemption lawsuit

$1.3 Billion in COVID Relief Funds Ended Up Overseas, Says Inspector General

WHO: End of the COVID-19 Pandemic Is in Sight

WHO: COVID End ‘in Sight,’ Deaths at Lowest since March 2020

Violence Up Significantly in California Since Pandemic, Study Shows  Uh, I don’t think it was the pandemic ….

Denmark no longer offering Covid vaccinations to healthy adults under 50

Border Patrol chief says memo clearing migrant release into US after Title 42 end is unprecedented

Judge won’t force disclosure of records on alleged episode with Hunter Biden’s gun (Politico)

Illegal immigrants who entered US since Biden took office to cost taxpayers $20+ billion a year: analysis

Migrant surge overwhelms Border Patrol and shelters in El Paso (NBC)

El Paso looks like a ‘third-world country’ after Texas border city is overrun by migrants

Foreign-Born Population Grows to Highest Level Ever Under Biden

Pelosi Nudges Crowd to Clap for Biden at WH Event

Watch: Dem Senator Slams Kamala Harris As “Dead Wrong” For Claiming Border Is Secure Joe Manchin ain’t buyin’ what she’s sellin’.

Quinta Brunson had to step over Jimmy Kimmel to accept her Emmy (CNN)

Jimmy Kimmel accused of ‘white privilege’ after Quinta Brunson Emmys stunt falls flat

Inmate Who Sued Over ‘Baby Shark’ Torture Found Dead in Cell

Trafficked Teenager Who Killed One of Her Abusers Ordered to Pay Restitution (N.Y. Times)

Day 2 of Jury Deliberations at R. Kelly’s Child Porn Trial

The View Loves How Stacey Abrams ‘Didn’t Traditionally Concede’  Neither did Trump.

What will American religion look like in 50 years? (Deseret News)

U.S. Christian majority could fade in coming decades, models find (Washington Post) Models! That proves it! Just like climate change!

‘Public Safety In Chicago Is A Joke,’ Chicago Democrat Says

New York City homeless man sleeps on sidewalk with toaster oven, crisis worst ‘since Great Depression’

Is being transgender a medical condition? (Washington Post)

Illinois mayor says Gov. Pritzker owes his community an ‘apology’ for sending 90 migrants with little notice

Two more buses with migrants from Texas arrive in Chicago area (CBS)

Well-paid millennials left New York and California in their THOUSANDS in the early pandemic, many for lower-tax living in Florida, Texas and Washington state, study shows (Daily Mail)

California will send you hundreds of dollars next month (S.F. Gate)

US News college ranking under scrutiny after Ivy League university plummets (The Guardian)

‘Viewpoint diversity’ will lead to indoctrination and ignorance (Knoxville News Sentinel)

Democrats outpacing Republicans by tens of thousands of absentee ballot requests in key midterm state  Setting up the steal.

Chicago Tribune wins fight for public records that Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration sought to keep secret  BRAAAAAAAINS!

Seattle police staffing drops to 30-year low, officers leaving in ‘droves’ after defunding

Boston Marathon Offers ‘Non-Binary’ Option to Applicants for First Time

Anti-War Vandals Deface 9/11 Memorial at Michigan State University

Not Just Nancy: Lawmakers Have Been Trading Like Drunken Insider Sailors

Arizona Can’t Enforce New Election Law In 2022 Election: Clinton-Appointed Judge

WATCH: Journalists Tout ‘Good News’ of 8.3% Inflation as Stock Market Plummets

House members roll out bipartisan election bill aimed at preventing future coups (NBC) Pushing the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections. In the Narrative media, ‘coup’ means ‘Republicans winning an election’.

San Francisco Makes It Insanely Hard to Build Housing

Chicago Mayor Supports State of Emergency Over Migrant Crisis  BRAAAAAAAINS!

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There are some things the Japanese do that are just incomparable.

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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris might be the single worst pair of communicators to occupy the White House. Both Joe and Kamala are wedded to teleprompters because he has too much to say and she has nothing to say. Teleprompters are there to keep Joe Biden from telling wildly inappropriate stories about his leg hairs or announcing an impromptu surrender to China, but they’re also there because in her natural state Kamala is incapable of saying anything at all.

Presidents and their veeps are supposed to be a balance of strengths and weaknesses like a good marriage, but instead Biden and Kamala are a bad marriage in which their weaknesses are mirror opposites, but also so far apart that they’re incapable of balancing each other out.

Neither Joe or Kamala have any real skills. They both got to where they are as a combination of political accidents by men who were attracted to their weakness and incompetence.

ZMan tightens the belt.

The American stock exchanges dropped sharply yesterday when it was announced that the inflation reduction act had not reduced inflation. The consumer price index came in higher than expected. This triggered the robots to sell on the expectation that the Federal Reserve will keep tightening the money supply. The DOW dropped 3.94% bringing the decline for the year to 14.4%. Luckily, they have changed the definition of a bear market so this is still a bull market.

The inflation report was all bad news. Gasoline prices declined ten percent, but all other energy increased for the period. That probably means two things. One is the gas price decline is due to less driving. In other words, people are adjusting their spending because inflation is not starting to take a bite out of their budgets. Instead of a weekend car trip, people are staying home. According to AAA, over all sales of gasoline declined in August to levels last seen during the lockdowns.

Another piece of the gasoline puzzle is the dumping of cheap crude on the domestic refineries by the Biden administration. They panicked when gasoline hit five bucks a gallon nationally so they started releasing crude from the SPR. This drives down the price of gasoline a little. The taps run dry at the end of next month, just before the election, so prices will tick back up. In other words, some of the bad news has been pushed out to after the November elections.

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On Bastille Day of 2016, a 31-year-old Tunisian named Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel deliberately drove his truck into a crowd of people celebrating France’s national day in Nice. A total of 86 people were killed. The attacker was killed by police. Eight people are currently on trial in Paris, charged with aiding the terrorist.

Today, police in the French town of Auxerre in the Yonne Department arrested a 20-year-old man for disseminating hateful messages on social media against the victims of that attack, and supporting the attack itself.

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

Joel Kotkin.

For much of the 20th century, Los Angeles symbolised the future. Over the course of the century, the population grew 40-fold to nearly four million people.

But now, for the first time in its history, the population of Los Angeles is in decline, falling by 204,000 between July 2020 and July 2021. LA was once a magnet for investors. But recently many of the area’s corporate linchpins – including aerospace giant Northrop Grumman, Occidental Petroleum and Hilton Hotels – have left, taking with them high-paying jobs and philanthropic resources.