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Electronic tax filing could soon be as simple as a few clicks on a government website — free of charge.

The Internal Revenue Service will spend $15 million studying a free, government-backed tax filing system under a provision in the sweeping climate and health-care law Congress passed this summer. It’s a landmark step toward overhauling the way most Americans file their taxes and ending years of domination of tax prep by private corporations.

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Welcome to our world.

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Bees have managed to survive some 100 million years without the help of venture capitalists.

In recent years, however, with many populations of crucial species threatened, we’re increasingly recognizing how much ecosystems and agriculture rely on these extraordinary creatures. Investors, meanwhile, are finding that bee-related businesses can offer both environmental benefits and some potentially good returns.

The Beewise product line is truly amazing.

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What was the most important thing for you to know early on Saturday evening? What was the key thing which had happened in the world? America’s failure, once more, to launch its new rocket perhaps? The ongoing humanitarian catastrophe caused by the floods in Pakistan maybe? The fact that we were inching ever closer to Larry the Cat finally getting a new house-mate? No, according to those in charge of the running order of the BBC early evening news, the one thing you absolutely had to know was that Serena Williams had retired.

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Ah, Sri Lanka.

In 2020: a beautiful, agriculturally self-sufficient island nation full of tea and tourists and holder of the highest “Environmental, Social, and Governance” (ESG) investor rating in the world.

And then, as part of the larger “green” effort spurred on by international Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), woke capital, and, seemingly, a desire to sit at the big table at the various and sundry global initiative conferences, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa banned the use of manufactured fertilizer in order to create a more climate-friendly sustainable farming sector. In April, 2021, the country went all-organic overnight.

What could possibly go wrong?

By the end of last year, Sri Lanka became unable to feed itself, prices for food (especially rice) and fuel and other daily basics skyrocketed, the tea crop – and the hundreds of millions it earns in international trade – was decimated. The nation defaulted on its foreign debt, had rolling power blackouts, the tourists are staying away in droves, and Sri Lanka, already wracked by corruption and COVID, spiraled out of control.

ZMan holds a wake.

Imagine a poll that reported a majority of people thought there are little green men visiting earth on a regular basis. You do not have to imagine it. There was a big global survey half a dozen years ago that claimed a majority of people on earth think there are little green men out there. A majority of Americans believe in ghosts. More people think psychics are real than think Ron Paul is real. Big Foot is ten times more popular than the vice president of the United States.

The point is, most people are stupid, at least when it comes to understanding things that have no direct impact on their lives. They may know accounting or chemistry, but they can also think disagreeing with the government is bad for democracy. This has always been the argument against democracy. Most people lack the desire or capacity to master the material necessary to make good political choices. Giving them a ballot is like giving a toddler a hand grenade.

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Iran has long been known as a silencer of dissenting voices, but even by its standards the jailing in mid-August of a 63-year-old man with advanced Parkinson’s disease, and his wife, came as a surprise.

Last week, a 58-year-old man and 48-year-old woman joined them in Tehran’s Evin Prison. And apart from their senior years, these four Iranians have one crucial thing in common: they profess to be Christians.

Yet the quartet also possess one crucial difference: in the regime’s eyes, only one of them can truly be considered a Christian.

Fifty-eight-year-old Joseph Shahbazian is of Armenian descent and as such is considered to be “ethnically Christian”.

The other three — 63-year-old Homayoun Zhaveh, his 44-year-old wife Sara, and 48-year-old Malihe Nazari — are ethnic Persians, and this, in the regime’s eyes, means that they were born Muslims, and remain so, regardless of what they may have since come to believe.

The similarities and differences between these four Iranians — and their shared predicament — show clearly that, in the Islamic Republic, neither recognised nor unrecognised Christians are free to act out their beliefs.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

To Europe, anyway. Years of horrible decisions by European leaders have come home to roost, as Europeans now worry about how to heat their homes this winter. Reliance on a geopolitical enemy for much of their energy turned out to be a mistake, as Russia has now shut off gas supplies. Who could have predicted it? Other than anyone with a modicum of common sense? Which Europe’s governing class has lacked for many years.

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In Orange County, California, where the typical house sells for $1 million, Rep. Katie Porter’s four-bedroom, three-bath residence in a leafy subdivision on the University of California Irvine campus is a bargain.

The progressive Democrat and law professor, who has lamented the cost of housing in her district, purchased it in 2011 for $523,000, a below-market price secured through a program the university uses to lure academics who couldn’t otherwise afford to live in the affluent area. The only eligibility requirement was that she continue working for the school.

For Porter, this version of subsidized housing has outlasted her time in the classroom, now extending nearly four years after she first took unpaid leave from her $258,000-a-year teaching job to serve in the U.S. House.

But the ties go deeper, with at least one law school administrator, who was also a donor to her campaign, helping secure extensions of her tenure while she remained in Congress, according to university emails obtained by The Associated Press.

That has allowed Porter, a rising Democratic star and fundraising powerhouse whose own net worth is valued at as much as $2 million, to retain her home even as her return to the school remains in doubt.

Democrats: Party of Corruption since time out of mind.

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The Biden Department of Justice follows a contemptible practice: when questioned by reporters, it declines to comment, and then leaks its preferred spin to friendly news outlets. DOJ/FBI is up to its old tricks with the latest leak to its mouthpiece, the Washington Post.

DOJ is fighting a propaganda war over its raid on Donald Trump’s house, and so far it has not obviously been winning. Hence the current leak, headlined by the Post “Material on foreign nation’s nuclear capabilities seized at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago.”

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Teachers in Seattle Public Schools overwhelmingly vote to strike. It is against the law for public employees to strike. That has not stopped the teachers in Seattle and Kent from striking. Law-breaking with no consequences.

Seattle man who harassed, punched business employees at Pike Place Market could see trial. Could?

And, in other news: Seattle City Council passes resolution to move forward with gas leaf-blower ban.

Seattle police and firefighters are leaving in droves. Parents are pulling their kids out of Seattle Public Schools to send them to private schools, or leaving town. Crime skyrockets.

And the City Council votes to ban gas-powered leaf blowers.

No further comment necessary.

Perino: Why isn’t Lightfoot mad at Kamala Harris, the coyotes? (BRAAAAAAAINS!)

Eliza Fletcher murder suspect Cleotha Abston’s violent history of rape, assault and kidnapping explained

Hatred of Whites Tolerated, Celebrated on Racist TikTok Account

‘Critics Say’! NPR Hits Biden for Holding an ‘All White’ Meeting of Lefty Historians

Mississippi Shrinking

Suspect in Deadly Mass Stabbings Eludes Canadian Manhunt for 3rd Day

What’s Causing Black Flight? (The Atlantic)

Mandela Barnes Can’t Fit Biden Into His ‘Packed Schedule’

Murder in Memphis

Race Hustlers Dominated NASCAR’s Cook Out Southern 500 Race

Democrats Fret as Stacey Abrams Struggles in Georgia Governor’s Race (N.Y. Times)

Stacey Abrams Claims The 2022 Midterms Have Already Been Stolen  (Babylon Bee)

An “Election Denier” Strikes Back

Oath Keepers’ founder Rhodes fires lawyers, seeks delay in Capitol riot trial (Politico)

Oath Keepers leader wants trial delayed at least 90 days (The Hill)

Jennifer Lawrence had recurring nightmares about Tucker Carlson in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade (Insider)

Press: If the semi-fascist shoe fits, wear it! (The Hill)

Dr. Oz on Incest: More Than First Cousin? ‘Not a Big Problem.’ (Jezebel)

New CNN chief’s first major hire is retired cop who recently lied about the NYPD spying on Muslims after 9/11 (Media Matters)

Kansas School District Pays $95K Settlement After Suspending Teacher For Not Using Preferred Pronouns

MSNBC Cries Over ‘Rotten’ & ‘Extreme’ GOP Passing Pro-Life Laws

Scarborough: Republicans So Bad, Media Shouldn’t ‘Play It Down The Middle’

Arizona AG Candidate Continues to Support Trump, Conservative Ideals

A QAnon-Touting Election Denier Could Soon Run This Swing State’s Elections (Vice)

Kathy Griffin Claims That Republican Voters ‘Want Civil War’

Michael Flynn: From government insider to holy warrior (Associated Press) “This story is part of an ongoing investigation from The Associated Press and “Frontline” that includes the upcoming documentary “Michael Flynn’s Holy War,” premiering Oct. 18 on PBS and online.”  Ongoing investigation! Pretty scary!

Oath Keepers members list includes military, law enforcement, politicians (Axios) All of whom must now be witch-hunted.

Schumer Super PAC Spends Millions To Damage Moderate Republican in New Hampshire Primary

Lost Journalist Accidentally Wanders Into The Washington Post  (Babylon Bee)

Where to find the new omicron-specific Covid boosters, from Walgreens and CVS to local pharmacies and clinics (CNBC)

5 Omicron symptoms that are more common now than the ‘classic’ COVID signs (Mint)

‘Stealthy’ new Covid variant warning as docs say ‘it could reinfect you every month’ (Daily Star)

The CDC’s Booster Recommendations May Not Provide Optimal Protection (TIME) You still need to PANIC!

COVID “Much More Easily Explained” By Lab Leak: Harvard PhD & Rutgers Chem Professor

At Head Start, Masks Remain On, Despite C.D.C. Guidelines (N.Y. Times) It’s all part of the PANIC!

New York State Ending Mask Mandates on Transit

WH Implores Congress to Approve Fall Booster Funding for COVID-19  Those Big Pharma donations have to be paid for somehow….

10.5 million children lost a parent or caregiver because of covid, study says (Washington Post) A study! That proves it!

New York Governor Lifts Mask Mandate for NYC Subways (Bloomberg)

CDC Gave Facebook Misinformation About COVID-19 Vaccines, Emails Show

A Long-Shot Push to Bar Trump in 2024 as an ‘Insurrectionist’ (N.Y. Times)

Material on foreign nation’s nuclear capabilities seized at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago (Washington Post)

The Judge in the Trump Mar-a-Lago Investigation Is Recklessly Endangering the Rule of Law (Daily Beast)

Judge’s special-master order a test of Trump’s post-White House powers (Washington Post)

The special master ruling means Trump Mar-a-Lago investigation is suspended, for now

Trump-appointed judge provides further proof that Donald Trump is above the law (Arizona Republic)

Barr’s latest anti-Trump broadside raises political stakes of Mar-a-Lago search drama (CNN)

Politico Owner Mathias Dopfner’s Donald Trump Prayer Email Raises Eyebrows (Newsweek)

Russian State TV Host Says ‘All Our Hope’ Placed in ‘Beloved’ Donald Trump (Newsweek)

Trump FBI raid could have ‘some connection’ to murdered CIA assets, MSNBC’s Joy Reid speculates

MSNBC’s Joy Reid links Trump having classified docs to US spy deaths Making it up as they go along.

Hillary Fires Back at Trump Comparisons

Why Trump’s FBI investigation could now be delayed for months or even years (Vox)

GOP offers strained Trump defenses in Mar-a-Lago probe — for now (Politico)

The Trump search case judge doesn’t get the national security stakes (Washington Post) David Ignatius pushes the Narrative: Forget the law, Orange Man Bad!

All the former president’s lawyers (that we know of) (Politico)

Judges Trump chose shouldn’t be involved with his cases (anchor) Gee, nobody ever said that about Biden’s judges … or Obama’s judges … or Clinton’s judges ….

Trump Spokesman: WashPost Colludes With Biden Administration Over FBI Raid  That seems pretty obvious.

The Solution to the Trump Judge Problem Nobody Wants to Talk About (Slate)

Ex-Bush Speechwriter’s Screed Creed: Onward, Christian Soldiers—Against Trump

Manchin calls Biden student loan decision ‘excessive’ (The Hill)

Here’s everything we know (so far) about Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan (CNBC)

Biden resorts to fearmongering when challenged because he’s ‘not terribly bright’: Rep. Donalds

Border Patrol chief says agents caught 10 illegal immigrant sex offenders in 3 days: ‘The dangers are real’

Biden tarnished his democracy speech with partisan rhetoric (The Hill)

Doocy Torches KJP Over Tweets Saying 2016, 2018 Elections Were Stolen

A bad day for KJP

Indiana Set to Confirm a Tax on Forgiven Student Loans

Nets Ignore EXPLOSIVE Allegations Biden Admin is Covering for Hunter

FBI Ignored ‘Eyewitness Testimony’ Of Joe Biden’s Involvement In Son’s China Deal: Senator

Biden Is About 1619, Not 1776

Inflation Now Causing Hardship for Majority in U.S. (Gallup)

Archives Letter Seems to Contradict WH Claims Biden Didn’t Know of Trump Raid

Report: Illegal Migrant ‘Ladder Crews’ Scaling Arizona Border Wall Nightly

A ‘doomsday glacier’ the size of Florida is disintegrating faster than thought (Washington P0st)

As Elon Musk backs fossil fuels, one strategist sends a warning over EV sales (CNBC)

Elon Musk Backs Calls for Extraction of More Hydrocarbons (ThisDayLive)

Historic, unforgiving Western heat wave is peaking and crushing records (Washington Post)

California and the West broil in record-setting heat wave (NPR)

Glacier larger than Florida is rapidly losing ice. What could happen if it collapses? (CNN) What could happen if it exploded into space? If it ran for President?

Coalmine expansion approved for Hunter region would cause almost 1bn tonnes of emissions (The Guardian)

Dark matter and lithium water: 15 big issues poised to affect oceans and coastlines (The Guardian)

FERC Gaslights America

California heat wave: All-time heat record in Sacramento broken at 116 degrees (KCRA)

“Dangerous” heat wave breaks at least a dozen records in California as state prepares for hottest day yet (CBS)

Climate migrants flee Iraq’s parched rural south, but cities offer no refuge (Washington Post)

Environmental, Social, and Governance: What Is ESG and Why Is It Important? (Global Citizen)

The crucially important points ESG critics are missing (The Hill)

Biden Needs to Declare a Climate Emergency Despite the Deal (Newsweek)

The Oilfield That Made the Ocean Burn Last Year Is Now Spewing Methane (Gizmodo)

The Vital Role Of Nuclear Power In Reducing Emissions

California’s 2035 EV Mandate Being Debated In More Than Dozen States

The “Green Revolution” Is Impossible

Antwerp Mayor Blasts “Green Dogmatics”, Admits “Bankrupt” Belgium Is “The New Greece”

Electric Cars Are Not “Zero-Emission Vehicles”

California’s Grid Braces for Failure Just Days After Biden’s Energy Secretary Praises State’s Green Policies

California Government Recommends Purchasing A Giant Hamster Wheel To Charge Your Electric Car (Babylon Bee)

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Project Veritas on Tuesday released a video of a New York City education official admitting to hiring practices that discriminate against teachers who don’t align with far-left or progressive values.

Todd Soper, an assistant principal for grades K–4 at the New York City Department of Education’s Neighborhood Charter School in Harlem, unwittingly divulged information about the city’s hiring practices to an undercover reporter from Project Veritas.

“We have very specific questions … if people don’t answer that question right, they are just an automatic not hire,” Soper told the undercover reporter.

The video is the third in a series called “The Secret Curriculum,” which sets out to expose efforts to indoctrinate children with socialist ideology.

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The issuance of the court order comes days after the release of bombshell emails showing that the Biden administration coordinated with senior officials at Facebook and Twitter to censor posts about Covid-19 they claimed contained false or misleading information. As reported by The Federalist, “In an email dated July 16, 2021, addressed to U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, a senior representative for Facebook discussed how the company and Biden administration officials met ‘to better understand the scope of what the White House expects from [Facebook] on misinformation going forward.’”

A separate email chain dated July 20, 2021, also shows Digital Director for the White House Covid-19 Response Team Clarke Humphrey asking Facebook if the tech giant could remove a parody Instagram account of Dr. Anthony Fauci, to which a company official replied, “Yep, on it!”

Joel Kotkin.

There’s much talk today, from left and right, about threats to democracy, yet little focus on the social dynamic critical to its survival. In this respect, we may see the current, and troubling, escalation of violent political rhetoric, and even political violence, not so much as the cause of polarization but the result of changing class dynamics, most notably the increasingly perilous state of the yeoman middle class.

The United States, and much of the high-income world, is going through a revision of class relations resonant with gilded age, or even feudal models. A recent British parliamentary study projects that by 2030, the top one percent will expand their share to two thirds of the world’s wealth, with the biggest gains overwhelmingly concentrated at the top one percent of the top one percent—the top 0.01 percent.Similarly, in this country, since the mid-1980s, the share of national wealth held by those below the top 10 percent has fallen by 12 percentage points, the same proportion that the top 0.1 percent gained.As one conservative economist put it succinctly in 2018, “The economic legacy of the last decade is excessive corporate consolidation, a mas­sive transfer of wealth to the top 1 percent from the middle class.”

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams sent a delegation of officials on a fact-finding mission to the southern border on Tuesday. The mayor did not make the trip. There was no press coverage of the delegation’s visit other than by Fox News. The delegation refused to speak to the Fox reporter on the scene.

Why the secrecy, Mayor Adams? Adams has been in front of television cameras for days having a hissy fit that Texas Governor Abbott is sending buses of illegal migrants to NYC. Abbott extended an invitation to Adams to come and tour the border for a first hand look at the chaos the Biden border crisis has caused border states. Adams refused the invitation.

The delegation met with Border Patrol officials in Eagle Pass, Texas. Hundreds of migrants cross the Rio Grande River there every day. Adams accused Abbott of being “unresponsive” and turning the Biden border crisis “into a political sideshow.” In the mayor’s statement there is the implication that the migrants are being bused to NYC against their wishes.

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According to a paper published on September 6 in the journal Nature Communications, this “green hydrogen” is produced by electrolyzing the humidity in the air, rather than the traditional liquid water, which may allow the provision of hydrogen fuel to dry and remote regions, with minimal environmental impact, especially if using renewable energy. The paper’s authors have been able to electrolyze the air’s water in humidity as low as 4 percent.

“We have developed a so-called “direct air electrolyzer” in short, DAE,” Gang Kevin Li, a senior lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering at The University of Melbourne, and co-author of the paper, told Newsweek.

“This module uses a hygroscopic electrolyte exposed to the atmosphere constantly. Such electrolyte has a high potential to extract moisture from air spontaneously (without external energy input), making it readily available for electrolysis and hydrogen production once coupled with a (renewable) power supply,” he said.

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Mandiant has named a new threat group, APT42, that it says functions as the cyberspy arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which has plotted to murder US citizens including former National Security Advisor John Bolton.

While its financial backers turn their attention to assasination attempts and other terrorist activities, APT42 favors selective spear-phishing to target corporate and personal email accounts, according to the Google-owned threat intel business.

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

UPDATE: Albania expelled Iran’s embassy staff over July cyberattack

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There must be a reason why some people still live in Portland, but I don’t know what it is. The city has become a hellhole, devastated by crime and overrun by homeless drug addicts. Antifa is rampant, and the city’s political leaders are–if this is possible–even more ineffectual than the leaders of San Francisco, Chicago and Minneapolis.

The Daily Mail takes note, in a story titled “‘I’m done with Portland’: Homeless people are forcing ‘terrified’ residents to sell their homes.” Sometimes you have to go to the U.K. press to get the straight story on events in the U.S. The Mail article is profusely illustrated with photographs and deserves to be read in its entirety.

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Leftists in the academy get very defensive when you charge them with killing the liberal arts, but today the Washington Post provides fairly damning evidence that this proposition is true. The subhed to their story on the “most-regretted majors” of college graduates, drawn from a Federal Reserve study, is: “Almost half of humanities and arts majors regret their choice — and enrollment in those disciplines is shrinking rapidly.” Who dominates the liberal arts in our colleges and universities? Leftists. QED.

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After weeks of pushing out some of its highest profile personalities, CNN’s new boss has made his first big on-air hires. And the names being brought on board further suggest a less outwardly political direction for the network.

Powerful New Antibody Neutralizes All Known COVID Variants (SciTechDaily)

This nanoparticle could be the key to a universal covid vaccine (MIT Technology Review)

Better COVID vaccines are on the way. What do they do? And what technology might we see in future? (The Conversation)

Now that COVID-19 boosters are arriving in Oregon, when should you get the new vaccine shot? (Oregon Live)

Scientists say that inhaled and nasal vaccines may be needed to beat Omicron. China just approved the world’s first inhaled one (Fortune)

Young man who returned to Hong Kong from overseas trip confirmed as city’s first monkeypox case

Zero-COVID In China: Lockdowns Of Major Cities Continue

Progressives, Not the Pandemic, Hurt Kids’ Education

Biden Admin Making $3.9 Billion Gamble on Vaccine For Monkeypox  And why not? It’s not their money.

The US Economy Is Still Being Artificially Supported By Trillions In COVID Stimulus

Serious adverse events of special interest following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination in randomized trials in adults

Long-term cardiac pathology in individuals with mild initial Covid-19 illness

Covid: Summary of lab-origin hypothesis

New ‘The View’ co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin wants to be ‘voice’ of Trump voters  Not on The View she won’t.

Arizona AG’s office proves there’s no pony for MAGA cult under the manure of ‘2000 Mules’ (Arizona Central)

Donald Trump once tried to pay a lawyer with a horse, new book says (The Guardian)

Top House Democrat says ‘mainstream’ Republicans are fighting against MAGA to defend democracy (The Hill)

MSNBC guest says ‘Americans vs. MAGA’ is the new national conflict

Biden again attacks ‘MAGA’ GOP members of Congress, ‘full of anger, violence and hate,’ in Labor Day speech

‘Deeply Problematic’: Experts Question Judge’s Intervention in Trump Inquiry (N.Y. Times)

Newly obtained surveillance video shows fake Trump elector escorted operatives into Georgia county’s elections office before voting machine breach (CNN)

Politico’s New Owner Invited Colleagues to ‘Pray’ for Trump’s Re-Election (Daily Beast)

Why Trump Refused to Make Giuliani His Secretary of State (Daily Beast)

Rich Dems Worried About Trump Are Buying Second Citizenships (Daily Beast) Funny thing how Republicans never do that.

Trump’s political clout on the line again in Massachusetts GOP gubernatorial showdown

After Trump Praise, ‘Return’ Soars on Bestseller Lists

Anti-Trump Politico Owner Believes in ‘Nonpartisan’ Journalism?

A Ruling Untethered to the Law (The Atlantic) Weissman was the chief witch-hunter under Robert Mueller.

Trump Went Judge Shopping and It Paid Off in Mar-a-Lago Case (Daily Beast) As if the FBI didn’t do the same when it got the original warrant.

Biden’s Cabinet hasn’t changed, a sharp break from Trump (CNN) Trump controlled his cabinet; Biden is just a puppet.

Lori Lightfoot doubts Gov. Abbott’s faith as migrant buses arrive in Chicago: ‘He professes to be a Christian’  I don’t think Lori Lightfoot is the go-to person on Christianity for many people. (BRAAAAAAAINS!)

Memphis police find unidentified body 3 days after a teacher was violently abducted

Hate Hoax In Germany: Green Politician Resigns After Inventing Nazi Death-Threats Against Himself

Body Found in Search for Missing Memphis Jogger

One Suspect Dead, His Brother Still at Large in Saskatchewan Stabbings

An Effort to ID Tulsa Race Massacre Victims Raises Privacy Issues  (Wired ‘Science’)

The Destructionists review: brilliant study of Republican rage pre-Trump (The Guardian)

Protests outside Michelle Wu’s home: Boston judge rules protester was ‘wrongfully arrested,’ drops charges (Boston Herald)

Raskin: Ginni Thomas has ‘relevant’ testimony for Jan. 6 panel (The Hill)

Justice Department Lawyer Smears Religious Liberty Advocate as ‘Hate Group’

MSNBC’s Velshi Hypes Handmaid’s Tale as Real Possibility from GOP

Biden Says Heckler at Labor Day Speech Is ‘Destroying Democracy’

Chaplain Claims Church Of England Deemed Him “Risk To Children” For Questioning LGBT Ideology

The Campus Trans Diktat: No Debate, No Dissent—And No Jokes

Publishing needs JK Rowling to be a monster

Fox producer’s warning against Jeanine Pirro surfaces in Dominion defamation suit (NPR)

Election deniers repeatedly visited Ga. county office at center of criminal probe, video shows (Washington Post) Election deniers!

More Than 1 In 2 Americans Will Have An Election Denier On The Ballot This Fall (FiveThirtyEight) OH NOES!

New Mexico county commissioner and Cowboys for Trump founder removed from elected office for role in US Capitol riot (CNN)

Pro-MAGA D.C. Cop Secretly Worked to Undermine Seth Rich Investigation (Rolling Stone)

Irish teacher suspended from school, jailed over transgender pronouns flap

Republican campaigns are silent on health care (Axios) Perhaps because it’s none of the government’s business.

A longtime conservative insider warns: The GOP can’t be saved (Washington Post) Media push the Narrative  in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

‘Don’t Tread on Our Kids’: Brittany Aldean Faces Pushback for Conservative Opinion

The View: ’60-70 Percent’ of GOP Are ‘Fascist’ MAGA Extremists

Cloudflare stops services to ‘revolting’ far right hate site (The Register)

Elevated Discourse: Whoopi Curses Out Opposition to Student Loan Bailout

White House press secretary grilled on tweet calling 2016 election ‘stolen’

Biden’s energy secretary says she supports California gas vehicle ban

FBI agent Timothy Thibault hid intel from whistleblower on Hunter and the ‘Big Guy’ Joe Biden

US doing ‘absolutely nothing’ to stop ‘out of control’ fentanyl border crossings: Retired ICE agent

Rasmussen Poll: Faith in Biden, Dems’ Direction Still Falling

Video Report: Special Master Ruling Catches Biden in Lie About FBI-Trump Probe

Great show, Joe! Pitifully small crowd of union workers rock up to support President Biden’s Labor Day speech in Pennsylvania – as his crucial midterm election campaign ramps up (Daily Mail)

Kamala Harris Tells The Nation, “This Is the Beginning of the Next Era of the Labor Movement” (The Nation) Of which she is, of course, a proud proglodyte part.

Kamala Harris claims to eat 1st grape in her 20s over labor boycott, but there’s a wrinkle in dates Like Hillary, Jambalaya can’t resist a good story, even when it’s made up.

Harris Gets Caught in Bizarre Lie About Never Eating Grapes

Biden Puts Defense of Democracy at Center of Agenda, at Home and Abroad (N.Y. Times) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Below average, Joe: Photos show small crowd at Biden and Fetterman Labor Day rally

Biden Administration Has Admitted One Million Migrants to Await Hearings (N.Y. Times) And New York City and D.C. can’t handle the couple hundred illegals shipped to them by Texas.

WATCH: Veep Thoughts With Kamala Harris (Vol. 5)

Poll: Majority of Voters Think Biden’s Anti-MAGA Speech ‘Incites Conflict’

Biden Administration Opens Door for One Million Migrants

You’re Still Doing This?! CBS Beats Dead Horse on Biden’s Midterm Prospects

Watch: Biden’s ‘Election Denier’ Spox Scrambles To Explain 2016 Tweet

Russia bans Sean Penn, Ben Stiller, more US senators from entering country  Would that we could do the same.

A sixth reactor at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is now off the grid (NPR)

Russia should not be branded terrorism sponsor, Biden says (Reuters) I guess he saves that for Trump supporters.

Russian Shelling Knocks Ukraine Nuclear Reactor ‘Off Grid’

Exiled Russian: Those Still in Country Should ‘Sabotage’ Putin’s War

Russia To Legalize Use Of Cryptocurrency In International Trade: Report

Moscow ‘Pauses’ Annexation Vote in Ukraine Amid Fightback

Ukraine Liberates Village in Kherson Counteroffensive, Raises Flag

Retired US General Tells Ukraine “Better To Negotiate Now Than Later”

UK Intel: Russia Won’t Meet Sept. 15 Donbas Deadline

India Denies Moral Duty to Boycott Moscow

Russia Is Buying North Korean Artillery, According to U.S. Intelligence (N.Y. Times)

Italy’s Salvini Breaks Ranks: ‘End Energy Sanctions Against Russia Because We Are On Our Knees’

6 In 10 UK Manufacturers At Risk Of Closure, Lobby Group Warns As Energy Prices Soar  Boy, those sanctions really work, don’t they.

US Expands With New Base In Oil & Gas Rich Syrian Province

The chips are down: Putin scrambles for high-tech parts as his arsenal goes up in smoke (Politico)

‘Nothing Has Really Changed’: In Moscow, the Fighting Is a World Away (N.Y. Times)

“Putin Has Pushed Europe Into An Inflationary Depression And Currency Collapse”

Russia Shuts Down Nord Stream Pipeline to Europe  Boy, those sanctions really work, don’ they.

Ukraine Offers Europe Gas To Curb Rising Prices, Asks For More Weapons

Video Report: Ukraine Launching Counteroffensive to Reclaim Territory

US Veteran: Russia’s Army Will ‘Continue to Weaken’

Europe’s Nightmare Scenario Comes True: Energy Bills To Rise By €2 Trillion, Will Reach 20% Of Disposable Income

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The five stages of grief are ingrained in our cultural consciousness as the natural progression of emotions one experiences after the death of a loved one. However, it turns out that this model is not science-based, does not well describe most people’s experiences, and was never even meant to apply to the bereaved.

Of course, cold-hearted bastards like myself don’t have a problem with it. People die. Shit happens. Life goes on.

ZMan turns over a rock.

Eric Hoffer famously said that what starts out in America as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation. As we saw with Covid, it can often be all of these things at the same time. When Hoffer made this observation, mass media was still in the analog age, so things moved slower. A movement would linger for while in the corporate stage before devolving into a racket. In the digital age, these things can happen simultaneously and instantaneously.

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The Catalunyan police arrested a Moroccan resident of Empuriabrava (Girona) who was ready to commit an attack in Spain. This is a man who had already completed his process of jihadist radicalization, in which, stressed an inspector of the General Commissariat of Investigation of the Catalan police in statements to El Periodico, he had integrated arguments defending the use of violence against those he considers enemies, and had the intent to carry out a violent act.

Oh, no! Not a violent act!

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

The new German government is dithering about the problem of Islam (or “Islamism”). They can’t discriminate against Muslims, because that would be racism, yet a Muslim migrant killed a trans person. What to do?

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The trial concerns the eight people accused of helping a man plow a heavy truck through an unwitting crowd in the streets of Nice, many of whom were watching a fireworks display on France’s national day.

Over the next 3½ months in Paris, incident survivors and mourning loved ones will provide direct and anecdotal testimony related to that evening, when the alleged attacker, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, killed 86 pedestrians — including 15 children — and injured more than 400.

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

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“Google argues that it has the right to collect your most sensitive data, as long as it flows across an open WiFi network,” PrivacySOS.org said last month after Google announced a $3.2 billion acquisition of  Nest, which sells WiFi-controlled home heating appliances. “Now do you want to let this company inside your home?”

“Uhm… I hate to break this to the ACLU—given they’re supposed to be on the cutting edge of the privacy debate—but the thing is, Google’s already in our homes,” commented PandoDaily’s Yasha Levine. “It has been in our homes for a long, long time. And not just in our homes, but at work, in our cars and even when we’re walking down the street.”

“As many have pointed out the privacy concerns of this development are huge,” wrote two other PandoDaily writers, Carmel Deamicus and Michael Carney. “Nest products track detailed information about their users’ movements, in addition to things like a user’s WiFi IP address, and whether the specific address is a home or a business.”

‘I am more than grateful:’ Millions of Americans over 50 may benefit from Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan (CNN)

Border Patrol issues warning following 9 migrant deaths, asks migrants to ‘please avoid crossing illegally’  Well, then, problem solved!

Parents struggling with inflation: ‘I left that $25 backpack for my preschooler at the checkout.’ (CNN)

Over 50 Biden Administration Employees, 12 US Agencies Involved In Social Media Censorship Push: Documents

Watch: Drone Captures Images Of Mexican Drug Cartel Camp

Biden Hits New Low for Offshore, Federal Land Drilling Permits

Student Debt Relief: Reparations for Rich White People  He’s got the black vote, he needs to buy the white vote, somehow.

Lib Prof on MSNBC: Biden’s Speech Was Too ‘1776,’ Excluded Blacks and Native Americans

Biden Keeps a Promise—To Screw American Motorists

Biden Explains We Can Only Come Together As A Nation By Exterminating The Republican Half (Babylon Bee)

Omicron finally got me after two years of being a COVID hermit. Then, doctors made it worse (S.F. Chronicle)

UK approves second Covid vaccine targeting Omicron variant (The Guardian)

New COVID booster shot shows ‘tremendous promise.’ Can it prevent the next surge? (S.F. Chronicle)

Data For Newly Authorized COVID-19 Boosters Based On Mice, Not Humans

Colleges in D.C. Continue COVID-19 Protocols

CDC Warns Of New ‘Stealth’ COVID Variant Where You Test Negative And Get No Symptoms  (Babylon Bee)

Why Ken Burns Is Exposing America’s Evils During the Holocaust (Daily Beast)

‘Confederates were traitors’: Ty Seidule on West Point, race and American history (The Guardian)

Corporations are fueling abortion bans – Black Floridians are paying the price (Tallahassee Democrat) Apparently the right to kill your child is a ‘reproductive right’.

This House Race is New Ground Zero in the MAGA Civil Wars (Daily Beast)

Quiet quitting, real quitting, unionizing — what else are American workers up to? (NPR) Apparently anything but working.

Elite NYC Private School Director On Leave After Admitting To ‘Sneaking’ Political Agenda Into Classrooms  Maybe that has something to do with the teacher shortage.

Maloney says Biden ‘on the way back and so are House Democrats’ (The Hill)

Dem election committee chair: ‘We’re on a roll’ despite country facing ‘serious problems’

California Gov. Newsom Reaped $10.6 Million In Campaign Cash From 979 State Vendors Who Pocketed $6.2 Billion

“They Are Trying To Assassinate”: Bannon Accuses Biden Of Stirring Anti-Right Hatred After Home ‘SWATed’ Again

Judge Dismisses Carter Page Lawsuit Against FBI Despite ‘Deeply Troubling’ Surveillance

Why Are Leftists Obsessed With Destroying Hero Culture?

From Sri Lanka to Salinas

NPR Cheerleads for New ‘All-Trimester Abortion Clinic’ in DC Area

Amazon Blocks Negative Reviews Of Its Woke Lord Of The Rings Series

American Library Association Removes Webpage Promoting ‘Secret’ LGBT Messaging In Libraries

Vulnerable Dems Shunning Progressive Policies to Survive

It’s Time for Corporate Media to Tell the Truth About America’s Crime Problem

Sebastian Vettel believes world needs to ‘rethink our behaviors’ to tackle climate change (CNN)

This is a cold oasis in California on the hottest weekend of the year. Beware of ‘fogburn’ (L.A. Times)

How To Choose Climate-Friendly Foods If You Care About The Environment (BuzzFeed)

Examining the game industry’s hidden impacts on climate change (Ars Technica)

17 states weigh adopting California’s electric car mandate (Associated Press)

Calif. heat wave expected to be longer, ‘peak even higher’ (S.F. Gate)

How sustainable are fake meats? (Ars Technica)

By 2080, climate change will make US cities shift to climates seen today hundreds of miles to the south (ZMEScience)

California heat wave: Chance of rolling blackouts rises sharply starting Monday (S.F. Chronicle)

‘It’s blazing hot’: Bay Area seeks ways to stay cool in triple-digit heat (S.F. Chronicle)

The dangerous charms of models

Climate Change Weekly #445: Where Are All the Hurricanes? They Ain’t Here Yet

Europe’s Energy Crisis Was Created By Political Interventionism

More Signs That Illinois’ Green “Industrial Policy” Is Failing

Not Even Diablo Canyon Can Save California From Its Green Energy Nightmare

Surprise! Climate Warrior NZ PM Jacinda Ardern’s Popularity is Collapsing

Electric Car Mandates Latest Frontier of Elites War on Middle Class

Canada stabbings: Police hunt suspects after killing spree in Saskatchewan (BBC)

Manhunt underway for 2 suspects in connection with a mass stabbing that left at least 10 dead in Saskatchewan, Canada (CNN)

Sailer’s Law of Mass Stabbings?

Michigan Republicans Hit Back on Personal Charges Against Trump-Backed Candidate

Lightfoot: Texas Shipping Migrants to Sanctuary City Chicago Is “Racist”  I’ll bet you didn’t know that  ‘migrant’ was a race. (BRAAAAAAAINS!)

CNN, ABC Touted Discredited Claim of Racial Slur at BYU Volleyball Game

Memphis Police Charge Suspect With Kidnapping Billionaire Heiress

A Shooting at the Fair

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Government institutions are in the business of making things worse in order to collect more money to make them better. We declared war on poverty and impoverished ourselves. After promising to fix homelessness, the streets are covered in needles and human waste.

Nowhere is this truer than in education.

Education results are inversely proportional to the amount of money spent on them. New York has the highest per pupil spending at $25,645 and the second lowest literacy rate in the country. Utah has the lowest per pupil spending in the nation and a 90% literacy rate.

ZMan pulls it all together.

There are a lot of ways people on this side of the great divide describe the difference between one side and the other. The term “red pill”, borrowed from the Matrix movies, is the most popular term, but it has lost much of it meaning. People will talk about their awakening, but the term “woke” is now owned by the crazies and therefore indicates mental illness rather than political awareness. Another popular term is “based” but like “red pill” it has been overused.

These terms generally focus on the race issue, which is more accurately stated as the biology issue or biological realism. The main bridge over the great divide is the acceptance of biological reality with regards to sex, ethnicity and race. People on this side of the great divide accept reality, with regards to the human condition, as it appears and reject the various social constructs of the orthodoxy. This makes sense as it is the most obvious and easiest to grasp.

There is another aspect to the phenomenon of waking up to the reality of the world and choosing to live in the truth. That is the nature of modern society. It takes a while, but people who make the journey to this side of the divide eventually come to figure out that the biology issue is the leaves of the tree. The root of the tree is the vast managerial system that allows a tiny minority to wield power. We do not live in a liberal democracy, but rather in a large imperial corporate state.

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This Labor Day, you may see headlines about a supposed “boom” in union organizing, and while high-profile union campaigns against well-known companies like Starbucks and Amazon have generated buzz, Department of Labor numbers showed unions lost 241,000 members last year.

Less likely to make headlines is a trend Big Labor’s cheerleaders wish to ignore: the significant increase in efforts by workers seeking to remove long-entrenched unions from their workplaces.

Employees across the country have submitted a wave of petitions to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), asking the federal agency to schedule votes to remove unpopular unions, a process known as “decertification.”

In fact, according to the NLRB’s own data on petitions for elections to either install or remove a union, a unionized private-sector worker is more than twice as likely to be involved in a decertification effort as a similar nonunion worker is to be involved in efforts to unionize his or her employer.

American labor law is founded on three assumptions: (1) All employers want to oppress their workers to the extent that they can get away with it; (2) The only way workers can resist such oppression is to join a union, which naturally they all want to do; and (3) it’s the government’s job to favor unions (the Good Guys) and hinder employers (the Bad Guys). (The Marxist origin of this attitude is readily apparent.) As a result, American labor law is designed to favor unions, shackle companies, and entrench unions (once in place) so that they can never be removed.

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In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)—the most cited academic work across the humanities and social sciences in the 1970s—Thomas Kuhn claims that most academic work consists of puzzle solving. Researchers make incremental advances on well-defined problems within a discipline or sub-discipline. It’s rare for a thinker to successfully contest the underlying assumptions of an entire research program. Only the likes of Einstein or Crick and Watson break paradigms and reorient the research of entire fields.

Kuhn’s account, however, assumes the disciplinary prerogatives of the university. He doesn’t raise the possibility of a more fundamental type of disruption where the basic premises of knowledge production are questioned. But of course, knowledge has different functions at different times, as societies develop new priorities in response to new challenges. In this more-than-disciplinary sense we may ask whether the modern research university is structured to help us create a sustainable society.