Steven Hayward at Power Line.

The dominant narrative of the Democrat-Media-Complex is that Joe Biden is coming back—look, his approval rating has risen above 40 percent! The “generic ballot” for the House shows Dems back in the lead! Democratic Senate candidates are leading their weakling Republican challengers in several red states! (Although in fact several recent polls reflect rising GOP Senate candidate strength in key races, but never mind.) Independent voters are breaking back to Democrats! Happy days are here again.

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In January of 2022, the San Francisco-based law firm Girard Sharp, which specializes in class action lawsuits, announced its investigation into the adverse effects of puberty blockers on transgender-identified children. These adverse effects can include low bone density, psychological problems, and potentially, per a July 2022 FDA warning label, pseudotumor cerebri, a condition which can cause brain swelling, headaches, nausea, double vision, and permanent loss of vision. Across the Atlantic, as of August 2022, the U.K.’s Tavistock Centre, a gender transition clinic, is expecting a class-action lawsuit from at least 1,000 families of children who were prescribed puberty blockers. Meanwhile, Sweden’s National Board of Health and Welfare released in February of 2022 new guidelines on transgender medicine, recommending that doctors not prescribe puberty blockers outside of “exceptional cases,” as their use is built on “uncertain science.” The reality that so-called “gender-affirming” medicine is not safe is now becoming too obvious to deny, and its implications could not be clearer: we are entering the long-overdue lawsuit phase of the transgender movement, and it is in lawsuits that this movement ends.

Trump-Appointed Judge’s ‘Originalist’ Claim Is Absurd (Daily Beast)

Donald Trump Is Not Invited to Queen’s Funeral, and Joe Biden May Have to Take the Bus (Daily Beast)

FBI Concerned That If MAGA Doesn’t Conduct A Terrorist Attack Soon They’ll Have To Fake One (Babylon Bee)

No delay for Trump Organization criminal tax fraud trial (Reuters)

GOP Leader Says Homes Of Trump Supporters May Soon Be Raided By FBI

Woman Arrested for Threatening Judge Who Granted Trump Special Master Request

Senate to Investigate Charge That Trump Meddled in Prosecutor’s Office (N.Y. Times)

Inside a Republican Superlawyer’s Break With Donald Trump’s G.O.P. (N.Y. Times)

Trump’s PAC faces scrutiny amid intensifying legal probes (Associated Press)

Senate to Probe Former US Attorney’s Claims of Trump DOJ Interference

Liz Cheney says new revelations reveal true ‘danger’ of Donald Trump

Trump’s Not Even Pretending to Hide His Support for QAnon Any More (Vice)

Joe Who? Celebrities Mentioned Biden Zero Times During Emmy Awards, But Still Took Jabs at Trump

The big takeaway from Trump’s legal filings: He has no defense (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin returns to her day job of bashing Donald Trump.

Trump faces a new threat: Scrutiny of ‘stop the steal’ money scam (Washington Post) Greg Sergent wants a cushy gig like Jennifer Rubin’s.

New York Times Censors Dick Morris Book on Trump

Harvard-Harris Poll: Trump Trouncing DeSantis, Leads Biden by 3

Durham Shocker: Steele Dossier Primary Source Was Paid FBI informant

Morning Joe Claims—Yet Again—That Walls ‘Closing In’ On Donald Trump  Slowest walls in the universe.

Nearly every major fact-checker has completely ignored Karine Jean-Pierre since taking over for Psaki

Harris: ‘Probably by design’ that attacks on abortion, voting and LGBTQ rights come from same ‘sources’ (The Hill) Jambalaya has the IQ of a carrot.

Johns Hopkins Economist Slams Fed for Blaming ‘Everything Under the Sun but Money’ for Inflation

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Exposed for ‘Ministry of Truth’ Dirty Work

Biden Admin Has Issued The Fewest Oil And Gas Leases Since The 1940s  But high gas prices are Putin’s fault.

Smearing Your Opponents Is No Way to Run a Republic

Life For Border Ranchers: Assaulted, Dogs Beaten, Fences Destroyed, Dead Bodies

Biden Fights 9/11 Victims in Court to Protect Taliban Cash

23 Things More Secure Than The Southern Border (Babylon Bee)

Inflation Falls to 8.3 Percent on Lower Gas Prices

Rents, food drive U.S. consumer prices higher (Reuters)

Biden Scrambles For Damage Control After Disastrous Inflation Report

Democrats Propose Another Inflation Reduction Act To Combat Inflation Created By First Inflation Reduction Act (Babylon Bee)

Jen Psaki Excited To Start Her First Day Of The Same Job  But paid a lot more.

The Biden Administration Has Approved $4.8 Trillion of New Borrowing  Boy, that’ll sure whip that old inflation!

Media Finally Notes Biden’s Border Mess When It Hits Acela Corridor

‘Troubling’: Justice Department Hides Biden’s Voter Registration Plan

Biden Admin Reportedly Ready To Refill Strategic Petroleum Reserve At $80/BBL

Harris: Authoritarians can point to Dobbs decision to justify taking away rights But only court-invented rights, like abortion and gay marriage.

Poor poor Hunter and the invasion of his privacy by the big bad Republicans

Biden’s Title IX Rule Change Would Redefine Pregnancy to Include Abortion  The Wokerati just love to re-define words.

Mom told family she drowned her 3 children at Coney Island beach

Malerba sworn in as 1st Native American in US Treasurer post (Associated Press)

After risky journey, migrant and his dog say goodbye at U.S. border (Reuters)

Economy Flights Not Safe For Black Women, Says New Orleans Mayor

Stereotype Alert: Rapper Murdered at Chicken-and-Waffles Restaurant

Rapper PnB Rock fatally shot during robbery at Roscoe’s; police seek gunman

Green Globalism is the Ultimate Expression of White Supremacy

As Judge, Cheri Beasley Wanted Lighter Sentence for Career Criminal Who Possessed ‘Weapon of Mass Death’

The View: Until U.S. Has Racial Reckoning, Impossible to Unite Like 9/11

Biden court nominee fails to win confirmation as two Democrats miss vote

Why Taylor Lorenz Is Embracing White Supremacist Harassment Tactics

How ESG investing got tangled up in America’s culture wars (NPR)

NPR report defends ESG, says Republicans are ‘trying to score political points’

Juan Williams: Democracy is at stake in this year’s midterms (The Hill) Pushing the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

California’s anti-misinformation bill is well intentioned. But it’s a bad idea. (Washington Post)

Former Planned Parenthood president warns against California’s medical misinformation bill

Connecticut teacher’s controversial worksheet enrages parents, school board members: ‘Frustrating as hell’

‘A wakeup call’: more Republicans are softening staunch anti-abortion stance (The Guardian) Pushing the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

The Fed should pause interest rate rises as US inflation slow (The Guardian)

EU plans to make fossil fuel firms share excess profits, draft shows (Reuters) Who decides what is ‘excess’?

Official greeter for illegals

No Law Enforcement Means No Law

Smile, You Were Always the Real Enemy

Rep. Jayapal Removes 9/11 Tweet Mourning Those Lost, Including 19 Hijackers

DOOMSDAY POLL: Half of Republicans Believe ‘A Total Breakdown of Law and Order’ and Civil War is Imminent (MEDIAite)

Christian Legal Group: WH Title IX Proposal ‘Undermines Parental Rights’

San Francisco Is On The Verge Of An Economic Reckoning

Jennings CRUSHES CNN for Defending Credit Cards Tracking Gun Buys

NBC Interviews ‘Pro-Life’ Woman Who Cried After Roe Was Overturned

University of Vermont Faces Federal Investigation for Fostering ‘Severe Anti-Semitic Harassment’ on Campus

Twitter Whistleblower Reveals at Least 1 Chinese Agent Is at Company

FLASHBACK: Media Were Hillary’s Biggest Defenders During Email Scandal

Virginia election official indicted over ‘discrepancies’ in 2020 race

Nation’s Largest Public University Hit With Class Action Suit Over Race-Based Hiring Practices

ABC Rediscovers Murder of Vegas Journalist, FINALLY Mentions Suspect’s a Democrat

Nonbinary Nonsense: Boston Marathon Creates New Division For 2023

Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Praise Wet A** P**sy Song

Taylor Lorenz Lashes Out at MSNBC Over Reaction to Her Fake Cry Viral Video

TikTok Helps Spread Tips On Illegal Border Crossing

Sacramento Edict Would Offer Housing to Every Homeless Person

NY Times Suddenly Gushing Over State Ballot Initiatives, When They’re Pro-Abortion

Southern Poverty Law Center Takes Aim at School Boards, Local Elections With New PACs

‘Wildfire of disinformation’: how Chevron exploits a news desert

Vile John Oliver Uses Queen’s Death as Way to Trash New Conservative PM

Justice Dept. Issues 40 Subpoenas in a Week, Expanding Its Jan. 6 Inquiry (N.Y. Times) The witch-hunt continues.

DOJ Subpoenas Conservative Group for Documents in Alabama Transgender Case

January 6 committee set to meet in person on Tuesday as it debates whether to invite Trump and Pence to appear (CNN)

DOJ Issues 40 Subpoenas, Seizes Phones From Top Trump Aides Over 1/6 Probe

U.S. Sen. Rick Scott’s epic fail at GOP campaign job: squandered millions, crap candidates (Florida Phoenix)

The Southern Baptist Convention’s Deal With the Devil (The Nation)

Justice Department subpoenas more than 30 people in Trump’s orbit in January 6 probe (CNN)

Biden Immigration Boss Apologizes After CBP ‘Retweets’ Ex-Trump Adviser Stephen Miller

Alex Jones Spied on His Wife and Ex-Wife, Texts Reveal (Rolling Stone) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH…. Rolling Stone descends even further into the Tabloid Zone.

Even by Florida GOP Standards, This Is Lunacy (Daily Beast)

Republicans tried to sidestep the issue of abortion. Now they’re seeking a reset. (NBC News) Pushing the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Inside Chris Christie’s antiabortion blitz (Washington Post) Pushing the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

“This Is A Full-Blown Political Purge”: Tucker Carlson Obtains DOJ Subpoenas Targeting Trump Allies

Justice Dept. Seizes Phones of Top Trump Aides in Jan. 6 Inquiry

Verdicts for men charged in Jan. 6 assaults could have a major impact on Capitol prosecutions (NBC News)

Charlie Crist Compares Gov. Ron DeSantis To Satan And Himself To Jesus Christ

CNN Declares Court Has ‘A Real Stain’ After Roe’s Demise

Republicans’ stealthy primary play (Axios) Pushing the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Arizona GOP Chair Shares Post from Racist Account The witch-hunt continues.

Should I get the Omicron booster now or wait a few weeks? (L.A. Times)

Mucosal Antibody Response to COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Depends on Prior Infection (Contagion Live)

What is the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection among gout patients? (News-Medical.net)

Biden’s Ever-Shifting Position on COVID-19 ‘Emergency,’ Exploited Purely for Political Gain

New Zealand Scraps Nearly All COVID-19 Restrictions, Including Mask And Vaccination Mandates

Study: Antibody Levels Decline 15 Percent a Month After COVID Booster Shot

The Ruins of the Covid Regime

FDA Refuses To Provide Key COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Analyses

What You Need to Know About the Polio Emergency  It isn’t an emergency.

Megadrought in the American south-west: a climate disaster unseen in 1,200 years (The Guardian)

Nearly 9% of state’s taxable land at risk of being lost by 2050 due to rising seas (Greater Baton Rouge Business Report)

A new campus offering: Climate anxiety therapy (Washington Post)

All Earth’s Records Are Being Broken: ‘The Natural Cycle No Longer Applies’ (Newsweek)

‘Climate change is already happening’ A look back at a summer of extreme weather in Sussex (Sussex Live)

‘Clairvoyant’ 2012 climate report warned of extreme weather (Associated Press)

Activists raise red flag over Argentina’s green hydrogen project (Al Jezeera)

World Economic Forum Introduces Pumpkin Spice Crickets (Babylon Bee)

This strange fruit could feed the world during climate change

All quiet on the hurricane front

The Guardian Downgrades the 1.5C Global Warming Panic

The World’s First Hydrogen Trains Started Passenger Service in Germany

Europe’s Drought Might Force Acceptance of Gene-Edited Crops

About the Newly Approved Nuclear Microreactor

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Cheese, curry, beer: We can thank our ancestors who put food scraps to creative use. What we’re leaving our children is garbage

To be fair: We’d love it if a restaurant or grocery store would sell us only as much food as we wanted. But they don’t. You get a choice of what they consider an economic quantity of food for them to sell, and if it’s more than you need (or want), tough shit.

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The underground excavation industry is exploring mini robots, plasma torches, and superheated gas to replace the massive boring machines now in use.

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A lawsuit filed Saturday alleges that Texas A&M University’s hiring practices discriminate against white and Asian men applying for faculty positions.

Richard Lowery, an associate professor of finance at the University of Texas at Austin, filed a complaint in federal court in Houston, saying the policies at Texas A&M prevented him from being hired at the university. Lowery alleges that the university uses “racial preferences” to determine its hires for faculty positions, favoring “underrepresented minorities” over white and Asian men.

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Texas A&M, which receives federal funding, allegedly designates funds specifically for salaries of “underrepresented minority groups,” the lawsuit stated. Faculty positions within the school also allegedly have been deemed only for those part of “underrepresented minority groups.”

Even in red states, academia, the media, and urban government machines are dominated by the Wokerati.

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A woman whose DNA from a rape kit was used by cops to arrest her for an unrelated burglary filed a federal lawsuit against San Francisco on Monday, alleging the police invaded her privacy.

The DNA of the woman, known as Jane Doe, was stored by the SFPD as part of a domestic violence and sexual assault case in 2016. According to her lawyer, Adanté Pointer, the same sample was used to charge her with retail theft five years later.

The lawsuit claims that the victim’s DNA was entered without her knowledge or consent into a database used to identify perpetrators in other crimes.

In pari delicto.

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We may take pleasure in the suffering that is roiling the waters at the New York Times. Workers at the Times are struggling with the conditions of their employment. I hadn’t heard about the issues before reading Keith Kelly’s New York Post story “Over 1,300 New York Times employees pledge not to return to office.” Kelly himself seems to enjoy the contradictions.

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Blake Masters is running against incumbent Arizona Democratic Senator Mark Kelly in the upcoming November elections. Running for reelection in a purple state, Kelly impersonates a moderate and may even be one in some sense, although he is reliable Democratic vote at a 100 percent level of certainty. In this he presents a telling contrast with his Arizona colleague, Kyrsten Sinema.

Kelly nevertheless holds himself out as Mr. Bipartisan. I assess his claim to be an exaggeration. To the extent it is true, however, we may infer that bipartisanship isn’t what it’s cracked up to be.

Well, we already knew that. In addition to its inherent defects, bipartisanship is also a fraud. Take my Senator Amy Klobuchar — please.

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Last month, conservative media was buzzing about a British pick up artist being banned from the internet. On the same day, all of his social media accounts were shutdown and his payment processors dropped him. Conservatives noticed this incident because the victim did not look white. It turns out that he is half-black, so for American conservatives he is an ideal victim. It is the DR3 exception to the “they are private companies” principle of conservatism.

Amusingly, the regime media felt the need to address the issue, probably for the same reason so-called conservatives noticed the story. An iron law of the new religion states that any time a nonwhite cries out, it must be noticed. The New York Times helpfully stepped in and solved the problem. They noticed his banning but spent the bulk of the article explaining how his white half caused his black half to violate all of the important rules of the one true faith.

The racial part has another angle. Andrew Tate made the fatal error of turning up on banned shows like Alex Jones. Tariq Nasheed is every bit as “misogynistic” as Andrew Tate and he adds in wacky conspiracy theories. He makes Alex Jones look like a piker when it comes to the conspiracy stuff. On the other hand, he is viewed as left-wing, mostly because of his over-the-top hatred of white people. He gets to hate women as much as he likes on social media as a result.

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The commander of Iran’s Army Ground Forces said his country now has a drone capable of reaching two of Israel’s largest cities.

Brigadier General Kioumars Heidari said the Arash 2 drone specifically was designed to attack Haifa and Tel Aviv, the Iran’s Mehr News Agency reported. He added that the military was awaiting orders to start using the drones.

“Today, we have drones with a strategic range and also a drone with a range of 2,000 kilometers [1,243 miles],” Heidari said. “Of course, we also have drones with lower ranges in our stockpiles.”

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

UPDATE: Israeli Defense Minister Gantz Reveals Map Showing 10 Iranian Missile Facilities in Syria

UPDATE: Iranian Oppression Causes a Backlash

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Two stories in the news strike a common chord: the need to stop infantilizing minority, especially black, populations. The first comes from the world of sports and involves the familiar racial hate incident hoax. Briefly, the Duke women’s volleyball team played a match at Brigham Young University, and lost. After the match, the godmother of one of the Duke players, who is black, tweeted that someone in the BYU crowd had yelled the “N-word” at her goddaughter when she was serving. It turned out that she (the godmother) is a virulent anti-white racist (“These white folks ain’t never had they ass kicked, but they better get used to it”).

The player then backed up this claim, and it became a national news story. The reliably left-wing ESPN reported it as fact. The President of BYU denounced the incident. Good Morning America, ABC News, CNN and Deadspin all weighed in, as did Lebron James. A BYU student who was accused (wrongly, as it turned out) of being the perpetrator was suspended from attending the college’s sports events. And the coach of the South Carolina volleyball team canceled an upcoming match against BYU.

All of these people and institutions studiously ignored the fact that these campus “hate incidents” nearly always turn out to be hoaxes. One might have expected that Duke, given its history, would be sober enough to reserve judgment. But of course, that didn’t happen, even though the claim here was inherently dubious. Why didn’t the Duke player, or one of her teammates, or her coach, or anyone on the BYU team, or any other observers, say anything at the time?

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Instead of migrants waiting in Denmark for their asylum request to be processed, the country’s left-wing government will now begin deporting them to Rwanda after the African country agreed to accept them in a bilateral agreement.

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Watching BBC and Sky News coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth II, one is struck by the adjectives used by reporters, commentators, and people interviewed outside Balmoral Castle and Buckingham Palace: sense of duty, virtue, integrity, service.

What astounds is that these and other character traits the late queen exhibited were once considered normal and worthy of being taught to children, but today stand in sharp contrast to what is modeled and accepted.

One commentator said the queen’s death is the symbolic end of the greatest generation. We pay lip service to the virtues that made the greatest generation great, but no longer promote them, whether it is in public schools, social media, or the wider culture.

UPDATE: ‘That Wretched Woman’

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Comparing the Russian and American royal coverage of the last few days, you’d never guess which nation was on the UK’s side. Whereas Vladimir Putin has praised the late Queen and Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda called her “the last living titan of the twentieth century,” some of the transatlantic broadcasters appeared to greet the death of the sovereign as little more than an invitation for some good old-fashioned Brit-bashing.

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We’ve all been asked to speak to some particular lie of the present regime. First, though, a word on that word.

We, or at least I, have been taking some flak recently for using it. It is said that we mean it as a pejorative. But when I say “regime” in reference the present ruling order, I am speaking as a political scientist. “Regime” means “ruling order” or “form of government.” How, then, could using this clinical word possibly be pejorative?

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In the case of the fake “conservatives,” I believe they know our regime has changed, they welcome that change, and so attack those who notice but don’t welcome it. This is the Law of Salutary Contradiction married to the Celebration Parallax: they get to say it because they like it; when we say the same thing, it’s a dangerous conspiracy theory. The role of these fake “conservatives” is therefore to gaslight you into believing that the founders’ regime still rules, and, failing that, to denounce you for saying otherwise. Telling the truth about the present regime is not a privilege allowed to its critics.

If every person in the world isolated for a month, would all transmissible diseases disappear? (The Guardian)

The U.S. shouldn’t live with covid. It should get beyond the virus. (Washington Post)

CDC warning parents, pediatricians about dangers of Enterovirus D68 (CBS)

Post-COVID Fatigue, Exercise Intolerance Signal ME/CFS (Medscape)

Pre-existing psychological distress increases risk of long-COVID (News-Medical.net)

Reasons for (cautious) optimism: the good news on the climate crisis (The Guardian)

Here’s the alarming amount of ice California’s longest glacier just lost in the heat wave (S.F. Chronicle)

The Ghosts of Antarctica Will Haunt the End of the World (CNET)

How climate change is tweaking the taste of wine (BBC) Climate change! Is there anything it can’t do?

Cities Need to Kick CO2 Emissions to the Curb (Newsweek) Easy to say….

Rocky path revealed between Swiss glaciers in extreme melt season (Reuters)

Tourism is sucking Utah dry. Now it faces a choice – growth or survival? (The Guardian)

The Green Dream to Rebuild a Sustainable Ukraine from the Rubble of War (Politico)

The Mennonites being accused of deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon (The Guardian)

Comparing All The Upcoming Electric Semi-Truck Models

Europe’s Newest Nuclear Reactor Eases Finland’s Power Problems

New Reservoirs Could Help Battle Droughts, but at What Cost?

Bikes, Not Self Driving Cars, Are The Technological Gateway To Urban Progress What is it with proglodytes and bikes?

OUTED: Climate Industrial Complex: Emails Show ‘Urgent’ Media Role in ‘Climate Disinformation’ & Hill Hearings

Climate-Policy Is A Much Greater Threat Than Climate-Change

Ukraine’s gains expose thinly spread Russian invaders. More could follow (The Guardian)

White House alarm rises over Europe as Putin threatens energy supply (Washington Post)

It’s Time to Prepare for a Ukrainian Victory (The Atlantic)

Could Russia’s Sudden Ukraine Retreat Mean A Tactical Nuclear Weapons Strike Is Coming?

EU Ministers Call For 10% Cut In Energy Consumption

A Desperate Erdogan Cozies Up to Iran and Russia

Germany’s Arms Pipeline To Ukraine Has ‘Crossed Red Line’, Kremlin Says

Last Operating Reactor At Ukraine’s Largest Nuclear Plant Shut Down

Sen. Tester defends Biden’s anti-MAGA speech, says president was referring to people who support ‘violence’

Here’s who John Roberts should blame for the Supreme Court losing ‘legitimacy’ (CNN) How about the Narrative Media?

Former Democratic senator slams Chief Justice Roberts, says he’s ‘out of touch’ after Dobbs decision

House GOP eyes its own Trump-free Jan. 6 inquiry (Politico)

Jan. 6 panel set to reemerge with eye on Newt Gingrich (The Hill) The witch-hunt expands.

DHS chief warns of “emerging threat of the domestic violent extremist” (Axios)

Two Americas Index: Democracy deniers (Axios)

Roberts joins the chorus of Supreme Court whining (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin takes a break from her real job of bashing Trump in order to hate on the Supreme Court. A refreshing interlude!

What Chief Justice Roberts misses (Washington Post) Ruth Marcus joins the witch-hunt.

Rick Scott and the GOP want to be the anti-elite elites (Washington Post) What does that even mean?

Dem Senator Compares 9/11 Terrorists To January 6 Rioters  As they do.

CNN’s Amanpour demands King Charles III address ‘reparations,’ ‘justice’ in the ‘wake of Black Lives Matter’  Uh,  that’s not his job….

Chicago mayor: Migrants bused from Texas treated with lack of respect, dignity (The Hill) Yeah, they weren’t shot by gang members over the weekend; now that they’re in Chicago, though, it could happen. (BRAAAAAAAINS!)

Owner of Hawaii license plate offensive to BLM movement sues state, city (Hawaii News)

Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, 93, Dies; Created Database of Enslaved People (N.Y. Times)

A Snapshot Of Wealth In Africa

Trump-y GOP judges will destroy America without radical court changes (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Judge Cannon Helping Trump Enablers Pretend ‘Everything’s Fine’ (Newsweek) Mary Trump continues the only job she’s got: Bashing Donald.

Why is a ‘special master’ reviewing Trump’s documents?

Trump Is Not Your Problem

Rulers Over Rules

Exclusive: ‘I’m just not going to leave’: New book reveals Trump vowed to stay in White House (CNN) It’s in a book! That proves it!

Trump’s Quiet Trip to D.C. Sparks Flurry of Speculation

Trump judges are on a tear (Politico) Trump judges! Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

What Precisely Was the Big Lie?

Trump Attorney Accuses DOJ Of Cover-Up After FBI Raid

Trump’s Latest Court Filing Attempts Legal Sleight of Hand (Daily Beast) Sleight of hand! Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Donald Trump’s Surprise Visit To Washington D.C Sparks Arrest Speculation (Newsweek) Really, you can’t make this shit up.

Let’s hope this ruling against ‘Cowboys for Trump’ founder has a ripple effect (MSNBC)

Border sheriffs slam DC mayor, officials for declaring emergency over migrant buses: ‘They have seen nothing’

D.C. Mayor Bowser promised a ‘sanctuary city.’ Now it’s crunch time. (Washington Post)

Attack on asylum seeker in New York sparks outrage over conditions (The Guardian)

Illinois officials send 90 migrants to another suburban Chicago town with little notice

The ‘Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste’ Crowd Strikes Again

Former Virginia Election Official Hit With Felony Charges Linked to 2020 Election

“Gun Violence Epidemic Looms Large Over a Swedish Election”

Sham investigations silence professors at Central Florida and Princeton

NPR Skips the D-Word on Las Vegas Reporter’s Killer, Alludes to Trump Instead

“Protecting” Democracy Through Censorship

Sweden Swinging to the Right?

Silencing The Lambs – How Propaganda Works

*The Culture Transplant: How Migrants Make the Economies They Move To a Lot Like the Ones They Left*

Federal Judge Halts Arizona Ban on Filming Police Within 8 Feet

Swedish election: far right makes gains but overall result on knife-edge (The Guardian) For the Left, there is no Right but the Far-Right.

Trump Voters Put Biden Signs In Their Yards So That The FBI Will Pass Over Them (Babylon Bee)

Yes, the Polling Warning Signs Are Flashing Again (N.Y. Times) Push-polling the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

NY Times: Polls May Give Dems False Hope

Failing Upwards: Harvard Hires Failed Liberal Media Janitor Brian Stelter

Democrats spend tens of millions amplifying far-right candidates in nine states (Washington Post)

Former CNN Anchor Stelter to Discuss ‘Threats to Democracy’ as Harvard Fellow

NYC Middle School Teacher Encourages Students To Engage In Political Violence

Patty Murray Slams Opponent for Questioning Election Results. She Did the Same Thing in 2004.

Here’s What These Fired CNN Hacks Are Up to Now

Border Patrol seizes record-breaking $12M in meth at Del Rio Port of Entry

Biden to hit China with broader curbs on U.S. chip and tool exports: Reuters, citing sources (CNBC) Sounding a lot like a Trump….

Gas prices could spike again this winter, Yellen warns (The Hill)

Yellen says inflation and higher gas prices remain a ‘risk’ (CNN)

‘It’s not enough:’ Student loan forgiveness means less for the millions of borrowers who never finished college (CNBC)

The Sordid Saga of Hunter Biden’s Laptop

Watch: Kamala Harris Proclaims Border ‘Secure’ When Asked About 2 Million Illegals Crossing

“The border is secure”

Rasmussen Poll: Biden’s Philly Speech Leaves Voters Divided

Democrats’ Midterm Dilemma: How to Back Biden, Yet Shun Him, Too (N.Y. Times) They’ll find a way.

Oops She Did It Again and Again! The Seven-Least Covered Kamala Blunders

Biden Withdraws Record Amount Of Crude From ‘Strategic Midterm Reserve’

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While water is an essential element to life that can be found for free most everywhere you look, that does not stop business from turning it into a profitable commodity. There is a whole aisle at the store dedicated to bottled water in a variety of forms. While some of us are too cheap to splurge on fancy water, it still manages to be a $283 billion global industry. With that in mind, it was only a matter of time before we circled fully around and went full Spaceballs by selling air in a can.

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A feature of this age is lots of talk about the future, but not in the practical sense as was the case in the past. A century ago, industry would promise labor saving devices to make material life better for regular people. Today, the managerial elite talks about the future in vague terms, sometimes awful and sometimes glorious. In the future, we will go about in self-driving electric cars, unless Gaia burns creation to a crisp over the use of fossil fuels and inappropriate pronouns.

The fact is the managerial elite does not speak in specifics about the future because they do not have a clear vision for it. The only thing they are sure of is they will be in charge of it and as such, it will need their constant attention. Like the members of a committee, the managerial class can only imagine the next meeting. The future is always more of them doing what it is that makes them possible. As a result, the future they work towards is more of an aesthetic than a real place.

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If they work. Remembering the problems they had with the Ford, the Zumwalt, and the LCS series, I have my doubts.

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I have never seen, or heard tell of, blue honey.

Not sure I’d want any … unless it came with super powers.

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Pass a Tesla on the street or pick up an Apple Magic Mouse and you encounter the sleek simplified aesthetics that underlie the mindset of the new technocracy. Apple used Picasso’s Bull, a set of drawings that reduce the animal to a stylized cubist abstraction, as the basis for its own minimalist aesthetic reductionism. It’s an aesthetic that meshes with Big Tech’s love of frictionless experiences that make complex processes appear deceptively simple.

Eliminating the extrusions on a car or a computer peripheral doesn’t actually make them any simpler to construct or to operate. It’s a marketing strategy that also shapes how people think of technology. Early computer kits were messy assemblies of wire and circuit boards. The early internet was a sprawling assortment of unregulated content. That was around the time that science fiction author William Gibson, a foremost promoter of Cyberpunk, coined the term “cyberspace”. A generation later, Gibson even more radically envisioned the internet disappearing and being reduced to a few apps on the phone. And that is what happened.

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Free speech was the first casualty of the simplified internet. Most people give it away for convenience. And they never missed it until suddenly they realized that they wanted to say or hear things that the new platforms no longer allowed. Big Tech wanted people to keep on clicking, but not in a way that disrupted their business model, their politics or culture.

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We’ve already seen how graceless the hateful left can be in their reaction to the death of Queen Elizabeth II, but “Squad Member” Rep. Pramila Jayapal takes the cake with this one.

There were 2,977 killed in the twin towers and at the Pentagon that day. How does Jayapal get the 2,996 figure? By adding in the 19 hijackers.

Pretty clear whose side she’s on.

I’m a prepper, you’re a prepper, he’s a prepper, she’s a prepper, wouldn’t you like to be a prepper too?

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of Ansbach. Fortunately, he only managed to wound two people before he was shot dead by police.

According to witnesses, the high-spirited youngster shouted “Allahu Akhbar” — which is Arabic for “I demand a more diverse and inclusive society” — during his attack.

The following two video reports give accounts about what happened in Ansbach.

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

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It’s tricker than you might suppose.

41,000 of 80K Resettled Afghan Refugees in U.S. Are in Workforce

New push to define Bidenomics (Axios)  Easy–tax and spend.

Number of illegal migrants who entered US since Biden took office approaching two million

All Biden Has to Do Now Is Change the Way We Live (N.Y. Times) Ezra Klain, Voice of the Crust, dreams the impossible dream

VP Harris blames GOP ‘election deniers’ for making US democracy ‘weaker’ through ‘threats from within’

VP Harris blames GOP ‘election deniers’ for making US democracy ‘weaker’ through ‘threats from within’

VP Harris Dodges Criticism of Dems Funding GOP Candidates to Beat

A verbal encounter with police at a Black Lives Matter protest led pregnant activist to 4-year prison sentence (CNN)

Black gay community concerned monkeypox response is inadequate (NBC)

Liberal Disinfo: New York Times Corrects ‘Racist’ BYU Hoax It Should Never Have Spread

First class arrogance! New Orleans’ Democrat mayor says flying economy is UNSAFE for black women, as she refuses to repay $30,000 of taxpayer cash she splurged on luxury flights to Europe (Daily Mail)

As Texas sends thousands of migrants to sanctuary cities, liberal mayors scramble to respond

The rice capital of California is ‘now just a wasteland.’ Satellite images show how bad it is (S.F. Chronicle)

California drought raises red flags for agriculture (The Hill)

Americans Spent More on Taxes in 2021 Than on Food, Clothing and Health Care Combined

Sweden Holds Vote Expected to Boost Anti-Immigration Party

Payments Giants to Apply New Code Identifying Sales at US Gun Stores

Chuck Todd Shocked by Harris Claim That The Border Is Secure

NBC’s Alcindor Suggests Threat to Democracy More Important than Biden’s Age

Activism Uncensored: A Weekend Of Californians Screaming And Flailing At Each Other

Cash Handouts To Canadians Could Spark “Inflationary Fire,” Economists Warn  What does that matter, if it will buy votes?

Cancer breakthrough is a ‘wake-up’ call on danger of air pollution (The Guardian)

Scientists Think They’ve Solved The ‘Enigma’ of How Air Pollution Causes Lung Cancer (Science Alert)

A carbon footprint life cycle assessment can cut down on greenwashing (Science News)

How to make recyclable plastics out of CO2 to slow climate change (Science News)

An Ocean of Plastic —  Fishing Gear

The Religious Moral Dilemma that Drives the “Moral Imperative to Stop Global Warming” into a Brick Wall

This Winter, Europe Plunges Into “The New Dark Ages”

WEF: Pakistan Climate Change Floods are the British Empire’s Fault?

Europe Is Facing Energy Disaster And It’s Going To Bleed Over Into The US

We need a fossil-free internet by 2030 (Branch Climate Action) Why?

Swiss Social Media Abuzz Over ‘Rat Out Your Neighbor’ Energy Use Posters

Air conditioning has a climate problem. New technology could help.

From a Corona Dictatorship to a Heating Dictatorship

Two Trump officials subpoenaed for fundraising to undermine elections (The Guardian)

DOJ Unlikely to Charge Trump Before Midterms as Unofficial Deadline Passes (Newsweek)

Biden seeks to motivate voters from all parties against ‘Maga Republicans destroying politics’ (The Guardian)

‘Astounding’: Trump documents reveal casual disregard for long-standing security protocols (USA Today)

Why CNN Is Booting All the Trump Critics Who Work There (Slate) According to the Narrative, of course.

COVID-19 Symptoms Have Changed Over Time. Here Are the Latest Signs of Infection to Look Out For (NBC)

Can preclinical COVID-19 models help unlock mystery of long-COVID? (News-Medical Net)

Randi Whine-garten’s latest lies about school closings

How Outschool won the pandemic

Packers QB Rodgers Tackles California Lawmakers, COVID Mandates

Former Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller subpoenaed by Justice Department (CNN)

Fox News Host Tucker Carlson Mocked as Ukrainians Force Russia to Retreat (Newsweek)

Discriminatory profiling needs to end at Homeland Security (The Hill)

Jan. 6 Prisoners And Families Expose Brutal Truth About Jail Lockdown

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In November 2020, a report from McKinsey & Co. to the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority predicted that transit ridership would recover to as high as 92 percent of pre-pandemic levels by 2025. Now McKinsey has revised that number downward to as low as 70 percent. Even that is probably optimistic considering that recent data indicate that New York subway ridership has been flat at least since February 2022, and has even declined somewhat since June.

More than in most cities, transit in New York depends on fare revenues. Before the pandemic, fares covered more than half the operating costs of New York City transit but only about a quarter of the costs elsewhere. A decline in ridership hits the city’s transit budget harder than almost anywhere else, so it’s no surprise that both national and local media are focused on the “fiscal cliff” that MTA is likely to hurdle over when it runs out of federal COVID relief funds, probably in 2024.

As the New York state comptroller noted in a recent publication, this is more than just a question of increased subsidies vs. reduced service. Instead, it is truly an existential issue for transit agencies nationwide.

New York is the poster child for mass transit–if it can’t be viable there, where can it be?

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