John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Whenever I get depressed over the steep decline suffered by the city of Minneapolis, I console myself with the thought that it could be worse: we could be Portland. Portland, home of Antifa; site of a skyrocketing violent crime rate; abandoned by one business after another; beset with homelessness.

But now, maybe Portlanders–those who are left–have had enough.

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In his canonical 1993 book The Invisible Dragon, art critic Dave Hickey prophesied that the “therapeutic institutions”—art schools, museums, and fund-granting bodies—will eventually jettison any art that does not fit the bureaucratic precepts du jour. Over the next three decades, as the art world’s priorities shifted from aesthetics to ostentatious displays of political virtue, Hickey’s prediction that puritanical intellectuals and activists would conquer culture in the name of social justice has been conclusively vindicated.

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With the Navy’s eyes set on achieving a goal well above Congress’ mandated 355 manned warships, the American shipbuilding industry has a lot of work to do. Unfortunately, the industry’s current state doesn’t offer much hope for meeting those goals, let alone sustaining a modestly larger fleet.

In a 2021 report on U.S. defense supply chains, The Heritage Foundation’s Maiya Clark explained what is called a “Fragility and Criticality” assessment. That’s a tool used by the Department of Defense to identify and mitigate weaknesses in the defense industrial base.

Fragility can be understood as how likely disruption is to a certain “product or service,” while criticality indicates how difficult it would be to replace the item.

Applying that tool to U.S. Navy shipbuilding reveals that America is a far cry from its former status as a major shipbuilder.

Bob Woodward to publish Trump interviews detailing his ‘effort to destroy democracy’ (The Guardian)

Tapper: What Trump said to make Woodward ‘break glass in case of emergency’ (CNN)

Trump Organization’s criminal tax fraud trial begins (NBC)

No indications Russia has decided to employ a nuclear weapon, U.S. official (Reuters)

MSNBC Legal Analyst Declares Trump Could Be Charged With Manslaughter  Well, he could be charged with anything.

Report: Stacey Abrams Funnels Millions to Campaign Chair’s Law Firm

Jailed Brittney Griner Not Expecting ‘Miracles’ in Russian Appeal Hearing

All Your Base Are Belong to Us (Belated MLK Day ‘White Supremacy’ Edition)

Covid-19 vaccine study links side effects with greater antibody respon (CNN)

‘I feel less alone’: The pandemic’s varied effects on wellbeing (BBC)

NYT Warns: GOP Could ‘Seize’ on Record Drop in Student Test Scores During COVID-19 Pandemic

Less Than 1 In 100 Million Chance That COVID-19 Has Natural Origin: New Study

The Costs of Covid Shutdowns

New York Supreme Court Reinstates Unvaccinated Employees With Backpay: ‘It Was About Compliance’

CDC Adds Declining Math, English Scores To List Of COVID Symptoms

Ukraine Situation Report: Intel Chief Says Russia Is Reinforcing Kherson City

Rotax Engine Found In Iranian Mohajer-6 Drone Downed Over Ukraine

Russia’s Growing Dirty Bomb Threat Narrative Is Highly Concerning

Russia’s Medvedev Threatens Defense Industry Arrests During Tank Plant Visit

UN Office: More Than 6,400 Civilians Killed in Ukraine’s War With Russia

Marco Rubio Canvasser Violently Attacked in Dem Neighborhood

Nets Ignore GOP Volunteer Viciously Beaten for Wearing Rubio & DeSantis Gear

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas temporarily blocks Sen. Graham’s subpoena from Georgia grand jury (CNBC)

Clarence Thomas freezes order for Lindsey Graham to testify before Georgia grand jury investigating 2020 election (CNN)

Hollywood talent agency CAA cuts ties with Kanye West after antisemitic tirade (L.A. Times)

Kanye West’s Antisemitic Comments Spur Companies To Cut Ties (NBC) And yet Al Sharpton and Louis Farrakhan are still on TV. Why is that?

Harvard and MIT students shut down Exxon recruiting event (Boston Globe) Great! More good-paying jobs for state university grads!

Business groups block action that could help tackle biodiversity crisis, report finds (The Guardian)

‘The Good Liars’ surprise Herschel Walker with gift on stage during campaign even (MSNBC)

GOP loses pre-election bid to mess with Pennsylvania’s votes (MSNBC)

Key candidate contributes to voter intimidation problem in Arizona (MSNBC)

‘The View’ descends into chaos as hecklers interrupt taping to shout down Ted Cruz (N.Y. Post)

Ye Dropped by Talent Agency, Documentary on Him Scrapped  And yet he’s still rich. They can’t take that away from him. Or can they?

Opinion Why Putin hopes for a GOP victory, as explained by a top Russia expert (Washington Post) The witch-hunt continues.

Biden Says GOP Offering ‘Mega-MAGA Trickle-Down Economics’  MEGA-MAGA certainly works for me.

Typical: MSNBC Host Makes Racist Claims about Nonwhite GOP Candidates

University of Florida Will Ban Protesters From Sasse Nomination Vote

Democracy Is a Threat to Democracy, Say Democrats

Study: On Air, MSNBC Has Used ‘Fascism’ or ‘Fascist’ 1,614 Times So Far in 2022  They must really love it.

Colbert, Buttigieg Worry For Democracy Should GOP Win

Watch: Trump Voters Shut Down MSNBC Host’s J6 Propaganda

NYT WHINES Alternative Social Media Platforms Allow Free Speech Pre-Midterms

Biden’s Border Crisis Worse than Ever, Yet TV News Slams Republicans

Reid Warns Of Fascism, Dowd Of Nazis Amid Inflation Concerns

Penn State, Fearing Violence, Cancels Show by Proud Boys Founder  Needless to say, they were not fearing violence on the part of Republicans.

Democrats Form Committee To Get To The Bottom Of Who Did All Those Lockdowns And Vaccine Mandates  (Babylon Bee)

Scarborough Tries To Suggest Crist Is More Conservative Than DeSantis

Media Pile on After Yankees’ Fans Pour Hate on Sen. Cruz

CBS Tells Pennsylvanians to SHUT UP About Fetterman’s Mental, Physical State

Liberal Democrats call on Biden to shift Ukraine strategy (CNN)

Liberals urge Biden to rethink Ukraine strategy (Washington Post)

Liberal Democrats withdraw letter to Biden that urged him to rethink Ukraine strategy (Washington Post)

US Border Patrol sends migrants places where no help waits (Associated Press)

Biden ‘not competent’ to be president after appearing to zone out during MSNBC interview: Rep. Claudia Tenney (Fox)

Judge orders Fauci, Psaki deposed in social media censorship lawsuit (N.Y. Post)

New crisis brewing for Venezuelans turned back at US border (Al Jezeera)

Biden falsely claims student loan forgiveness program was ‘passed’ by Congress (N.Y. Post)

Biden Invites Transgender TikToker On 221st Day Of Being A ‘Girl’ To White House

In Powerful Call For Nation To Calm Down, Biden Falls Asleep (Babylon Bee)

Illegal Immigrant Arrests At Border Soar In September, Set New Fiscal Year Record

Nets Bury ‘SHOCKING’ Numbers of Migrants, Terrorists Crossing Border

Biden Appears to Get Lost in His Own Garden: Where Are We Going?

Border Patrol Found 98 on Terror Watchlist at the Border

Judge Quashes Sweeping DOJ Subpoena Against Conservative Group

New York, New England Rationing Heating Oil

Why Fentanyl Is Killing So Many Americans

World is in its ‘first truly global energy crisis’ – IEA’s Birol (Reuters)

Here’s exactly how your diet affects the planet, a landmark study finds (Washington Post) Landmark!

The end of a battery’s life matters as much as its beginning (Vox)

29,000-acres in the UP purchased for forest carbon project (WLUC)

Recycling plastic is practically impossible — and the problem is getting worse (NPR) As if a Greenpeace report would find anything else.

With Fossil Fuel Companies Facing Pressure to Reduce Carbon Emissions, Private Equity Is Buying Up Their Aging Oil, Gas and Coal Assets (Inside Climate News)

How Dare They?

Much US “recycling” goes straight to the landfill

La Nina Transforms Australian Desert Into Wetlands

Goldman Sachs’ Jeff Currie: ‘$3.8 Trillion of Investment in Renewables Moved Fossil Fuels from 82% to 81% of Overall Energy Consumption’ in 10 Years

NYT Guest Essay Predicts ‘History May Absolve’ Van Gogh Climate ‘Soup Throwers’  Certainly history taken from the New York Times.

‘It’s a medieval vision’: fears for LGBTQ+ rights in Meloni’s Italy (The Guardian) In the Narrative Media, ‘medieval’ refers to any time before 1964.

Is European politics beginning another lurch to the right? (Euronews) Lurch!

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx says office making strides in hiring (Chicago Tribune)

Cannabis Users Experience More Pain After Surgery (SciTech Daily)

Universal access to safe drinking water requires increased investment backed by strong government institutions – WHO, UNICEF, World Bank (WHO)

Val Demings Says It’s Harder To Be a Politician Than a Police Officer

Murkowski, Peltola cross party lines to endorse each other in tight Alaska races (Washington P0st) That RINO Murkowski would do this comes as no surprise.

Fighting Woke Agenda, Tampon-Maker Says ‘Only Women Can Have Periods’ 

Convicted Murderer Freed by Philly DA Larry Krasner in Custody After Deadly Shooting

Now Mired in Crime, City That Kick-Started ‘Defund the Police’ Movement Struggles to Recruit New Officers

Cheney Says She’ll Do “Whatever It Takes”, Including Presidential Run, To Stop Trump In 2024 The problem is that there is literally nothing she can do, aside from assassination, to ‘stop Trump’ in 2024. All she will succeed in doing is making herself look even more meretricious than she is now.

Video Report: Lawmakers Question US Funding for Drag Shows Abroad

ABC’s ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Targets SCOTUS Over Roe v. Wade Decision, Pushes Pro-Abortion Propaganda

Markets Are Finally Grasping That China Is A Marxist State

Blinders On: Nancy Pelosi Can’t Believe Americans Will Vote Against Party That Brought Record Inflation and Spiking Crime

Huffington Post.

The kerfuffle over a now-withdrawn letter from 30 House Democrats shows how the left is still struggling to communicate effectively on foreign policy.

It’s hard at times to keep the Party Line straight.

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And rightly so.

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Which means, of course, that the Democrats have a plan to ‘literally steal’ the election, since Democrats always accuse Republicans of what they themselves intend to do.

ZMan looks behind the curtain.

The midterm election is two weeks away and we are seeing the predictable pattern in the polling and news coverage. Whenever there is a Democrat in the White House, the regime media works feverishly to convince everyone he is the next Lincoln, but the voters think otherwise. Fake polls are released claiming the president is more popular than sex and the media is full of stories about doomed Republicans. Then autumn hits and everything swings the other way.

This pattern started in 1994. Bill Clinton was some weird mash up of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Al Goldstein. Supposedly, everyone loved Bill Clinton, even most Republican voters. In fairness, most people probably did like Bill Clinton as a picaresque character. They feared and loathed his deranged old lady, so they ran to the nearest Republican at the first opportunity. The GOP picked up eight Senate seats and 54 House seats in a sea change election.

This pattern did not hold in 2002, when newly minted president George W Bush went into his first midterm. The media spent a lot of time carefully explaining how this mumbling fellow was Hitler, but no one fell for it. His endless slobbering over Israel was probably the clue. That and the fact that his administration had more Jews in it than an accounting convention. The Republicans actually picked up a few Senate seats and lost just one House seat.

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It is extremly disturbing that major scientific organizations are forbidding the publication of research that offends some political sensibilities. Indeed, roadblocks are being put into place to even investigate some questions.

Disturbing but not unexpected. During a witch-hunt, everyone with a wart on his nose needs to hide.

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As they always do.

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An Orthodox Jewish school at the forefront of the battle for religious freedom has presented an interesting compromise: Rather than endorse the LGBT student club that is currently suing the school for recognition, it will launch its own club that it says will help LGBT students while obeying the Law of Moses.

Yeshiva University announced Monday that it has established “the Kol Yisrael Areivim club for LGBTQ students striving to live authentic Torah lives.” The announcement came just over a month after the Supreme Court rejected the university’s request to block a non-final New York trial court order forcing it to recognize YU Pride Alliance, an LGBT student group that promotes activities that conflict with Torah values, according to the university.

I don’t think this will satisfy the Freedom Deniers, but it’s a clever move.

Biology Denier: Person who refuses to accept that there is a genetic physical difference between a male and a female.

Spread the word.

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The Justice Department’s effort to win the witnesses’ cooperation shows how the investigation stemming from the classified materials found at Mar-a-Lago is entering a new phase.

Yes, the ‘suborning witnesses’ phase of the witch-hunt.

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

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For millions of Americans, these ingredients are a recipe for an upset stomach, hives, swelling, or even a trip to the emergency room — all because of allergies to food.

Food allergies are becoming increasingly common, in children and in adults. Yet it’s surprisingly difficult to get a handle on even the basics. The United States Department of Agriculture estimates about 2 percent of adults and 4 to 8 percent of children suffer from food allergies, but some scientists think the number is as high as 10 percent across the board, around 33 million people in the US. Some have even described food allergies as an epidemic.

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In an apparent attempt to outdo her outrageous segment from last week, MSNBC Deadline: White House host Nicolle Wallace used part of her show not to condemn foreign interference in our elections but to call for other countries to administer them for us. She said this to Democratic Congressman Jim Himes (CT) who seemed to suggest that, while he was opposed to the idea now, he could be open to it at some point.

“I don’t want to get off topic but if you read through the papers this weekend, the threats to our elections in – what, two and a half weeks – are so pervasive and they’re dire and they include violence,” she proclaimed, without evidence.

She then suggested that the U.S. needed other countries to come in and run our elections for us and treat us like a destabilized, war-torn country. “I mean, do you think it’s time to ask for friends and allies to come over and help us monitor our elections? We used to do that in other burgeoning and threatened democracies,” she pressed.

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“Last night, one of our canvassers wearing my T-shirt and a DeSantis hat was brutally attacked by 4 animals who told him Republicans weren’t allowed in their neighborhood in #Hialeah #Florida,” Rubio posted Monday on Twitter. “He suffered internal bleeding, a broken jaw & will need facial reconstructive surgery.”

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

President Joe Biden, Democrats, and the media have escalated attacks against Republicans since the Aug. 8 raid on Mar-a-Lago, the Florida estate owned by former President Donald Trump.

Biden labeled Trump’s supporters “a threat to democracy” during a Sept. 1 speech in Philadelphia, while Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, urged America to “kill and confront” a movement he described as “extremist” during a Sept. 13 appearance on MSNBC.

An 83-year-old woman campaigning against Proposal 3 in Michigan was shot in the back Sept. 20 while passing out campaign literature. In North Dakota, a man accused of running down 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson on Sept. 18 reportedly claimed the teen was a “Republican extremist.”

UPDATE: Rubio Supporter Attacked While Canvassing in Hialeah Is Identified, Has Apparent White Supremacist Past (Miami New Times)

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The narrative to attack any tax cut and defend any increase in government size is reaching feverish levels. However, we must continue to remind citizens that constantly bloating government spending and increasing the size of monetary interventions are some of the causes of the widespread impoverishment of the middle class. Constantly increasing taxes and diminishing the purchasing power of the currency is wiping out the middle class in most developed nations.

Currency printing is not neutral, and it never is. It disproportionately benefits government and massively hurts real salaries and deposit savings. It is a massive transfer of wealth from savers to the indebted.

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That’s why I never do … especially any channel Joe Biden would watch.

Why take a chance?

‘I’m deadly serious’: why film-maker Michael Moore is confident of a Democratic midterm win (The Guardian)

Examining Income Inequality In The U.S. Amid Rising Prices Due To Inflation (NBC)

Why New Jersey doesn’t let people pump their own gas (CNBC)

Socialist Seattle Dem who pushed police defunding fumes at cops for not protecting her from feces thrower (Fox)

Anti-police Seattle pol claims cops ignored poop-tossing attacks on her home (N.Y. Post)

Dems’ illegal Hochulmander conspiracy was even slimier than we knew — and isn’t over yet (N.Y. Post)

Colleges that ditched admission tests find it harder to fairly choose students  Gee, I wonder why?

Let’s Say Gay (N.Y. Times)

California court rules in favor of Christian baker who refused to bake cake for lesbian wedding

Fears Over Fate of Democracy Leave Many Voters Frustrated and Resigned (N.Y. Times)

Watch: Pelosi Admits Democrats Need To ‘Change The Subject’ From Inflation

NY Judge Declares ‘Vote By Mail’ Law Unconstitutional

“There Is Too Much Debt In The World, So They Must Inflate It Away, Which They Will. That’s The Only Thing You Need To Know”

Hyperpartisan ‘local news’ sites are dangerous to democracy (Washington Post) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Musk on Twitter Purchase: Less Uproar When Bezos Bought WashPo

Why The Censors Fear Information Freedom

New California Laws Will Create ‘Ideological Purity Test’ for Police by Banning Ties to ‘Hate’ and ‘Bias,’ Critics Say

Polls Show January 6 Probe Flunked with the Public, Media Are Terribly Out of Touch

Their America Is Vanishing. Like Trump, They Insist They Were Cheated. (N.Y. Times) I’d say they’ve got a good case–like Trump.

Most Americans think money comes before mission at U.S. news organizations  Of course it does.

Florida’s Hispanic voters back DeSantis over Crist, support Martha’s Vineyard migrant flights

UK Newspaper Takes Pro-Abortion Deception to Next Level

New NAEP Test Scores Are a Disaster. Blame Teachers Unions.

Ron Paul: Wreck The Economy, Win A Nobel Prize

Anti-Semitic, Socialist Dem Candidate: Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping Are ‘Two of the Best Leaders in the World Today’

Paul Krugman Claims ‘Gas Prices’ Could ‘Doom Democracy’ by Throwing Election to GOP

GOP Sues Google Over Routing Donation Emails To Spam

American University Requires Students to Take ‘AUx1,’ ‘AUx2’—aka Leftism 101, 102

What the Constitution actually says about race, explained (VOX) At least, according to the Narrative.

Everyday people were civil rights heroes, too. This is the story of one town’s fight (NPR)

More antisemitic hate seen in L.A. after Kanye West’s remarks (L.A. Times)

MSNBC Analyst: ‘Whites Will Be Replaced,’ But GOP Still Racist

Proto-Liz Warren: Celebrated Indian Victim Wasn’t

Revealed: how coyotes and scammers use TikTok to sell migrants the American dream (The Guardian)

Biden’s ‘Tammany’ machine revs up (N.Y. Post)

The ACLU and others urge border authorities to limit detention of pregnant migrants (NPR) How about: Just send them back?

U.S. economy likely grew a lot last quarter. Most people didn’t notice. (Washington Post) Pushing the narrative it an attempt to save Democrat butts.

Watch: Biden’s Brain Reboots Mid-Interview

Man Pretending To Be Woman Visits Man Pretending To Be President

Crown Prince Mocks Biden As Mentally Challenged Amid Crashing US-Saudi Relations

MSNBC’s Capehart Buries Biden Seemingly Nodding Off During Their Interview

Rep. Liz Cheney on Trump testimony: He’s ‘not going to turn this into a circus’ (CNN) Well, it’s already got a group of clowns.

Pelosi: Trump is not “man enough” to show up and testify in Jan. 6 probe (Axios) He’s certainly not chump enough.

Trump says he “will probably have” to run for president again in 2024 (Axios)

Explained: Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Trump (NPR)

Woodward’s taped time with Trump reveals much about both the author and his subject (NPR)

The Trump Tapes: 20 interviews that show why he is an unparalleled danger (Washington Post)

Trump Trashes Fraud Trial — Ongoing ‘Democrat Witch Hunt’  Which it obviously is.

Bob Woodward on Donald Trump: “He is a threat to democracy” (CBS) Trotting out the retreads.

Will the Bob Woodward Audiobook Put Trump Back on the Ballot? (New Republic)

The main COVID symptoms have changed, research shows (Wood TV)

Pfizer plans to sell its covid vaccine at a 10,000% markup in 2023 (Quartz)

RSV in children: Symptoms, treatment and what parents should know (CNN)

What Do Parents Need To Know About RSV Infections In Children? (TODAY)

New York’s struggle with the new Omicron variant BQ is trying to tell us something (Fortune) And what could that be?

2 Dead With Monkeypox In NYC As Officials Rename ‘Stigmatizing’ Disease

A ‘Tripledemic’? Flu and Other Infections Return as Covid Cases Rise (N.Y. Times)

Federal Court Orders Fauci Deposition In Big Tech ‘Collusion’ Case

Lawyers Prepare To Sue Any State That Requires COVID-19 Vaccination To Attend School

The data is in and the cost of school closings was terrible

New Breakthrough Treatment For Depression Just A Hammer To Smash Your Phone With  (Babylon Bee)

Right-wing roadshow promotes Christian nationalism before midterms (Washington Post)

Christian nationalism is a racist, ahistorical ideology of violence (MSNBC)

Dark money groups have spent nearly $1 billion so far to boost GOP Senate candidates (NPR)

Mystery Surrounds Company Paying MAGA Candidate’s Salary (Daily Beast)

How rural Nevada became the next battleground for the ‘Big Lie’ (Nevada Independent)

Potential mass layoffs at Twitter could cripple content moderation, some experts say (ABC) Outside of the Narrative Media, ‘content moderation’ is called ‘censorship’.

Tim Ryan Will Entertain Your Conspiracy Theory, Analysis Finds

Florida Puts Raging MAGA Moms on Book-Banning Council (Daily Beast)

Ted Cruz Hid in Supply Closet During Jan. 6, New Book Reveals (Newsweek) The sophomore class at Activism High welcomes you.

Los Angeles officials condemn demonstrators seen in photos showing support of Kanye West’s antisemitic remarks (CNN)

The effort to break America’s elections (Washington Post) “Break” here means the same safeguards we insist on when holding elections in Turn World countries like Iraq and Afghanistan. Do you trust Democrats more than Muslims? I don’t.

How one man brought affirmative action to the Supreme Court. Again and again. (Washington Post) Of course, the Narrative Media thinks that’s a bad thing.

Alito Assured Ted Kennedy in 2005 of Respect for Roe v. Wade, Diary Says (N.Y. Times) I guess he changed his mine–like Obama and Biden on abortion.

Curtis Yarvin wants American democracy toppled. He has some prominent Republican fans. (Vox)

Ukraine’s Zelenskiy: only Russia could use nuclear arms in Europe (Reuters)

US, Russian defense secretaries speak for second time in three days amid ‘dirty bomb’ claims (Fox)

Putin’s ‘Luck Is Over’ in Ukraine War: Former Russian Diplomat (Newsweek)

Reports: Israel Destroyed Iranian Drone Manufacturing Plant in Syria Doing the jobs Americans don’t want to do….

Worried About Nuclear War? Consider the Micromorts (Wired ‘Science’)

EU To Give Ukraine 1.5 Billion Euros Per Month Next Year

Russia Only Creating ‘Illusion’ In Kherson Of Evacuation

Liberals urge Biden to rethink Ukraine strategy (Washington Post)

Cop 27: Uganda-Tanzania oil pipeline sparks climate row (BBC)

Global deforestation pledge will be missed without urgent action, say researchers (The Guardian)

The Contingency Plan review – climate-crisis dramas on a human scale (The Guardian)

The Contingency Plan review — making two dramas out of a climate crisis (The Times)

‘Massive gaps’ seen in countries’ plans to tackle climate change -study (Reuters)

Global deforestation pledge will be missed without urgent action, say researchers (The Guardian)

Climate crisis poses ‘growing threat’ to health in UK, says expert (The Guardian)

Electric Vehicles Won’t Save Us (The Nation)

‘Ecocide’: The US-Mexico border wall is blocking the movement of wild animals (Euronews)

US Atlantic coast now a breeding ground for supercharged hurricanes – study (The Guardian)

The Young People Working for the Most Evil Companies (Vice)

Natural gas is a fuel of the future

Wait, why are there so few dead bugs on my windshield these days? (Washington Post) All together now: CLIMATE CHANGE!

Plastic recycling remains a ‘myth’: Greenpeace study

‘Just Stop Oil’ Activists Have ‘Blood On Their Hands’ After Two Women Die Amid Bridge Stunt

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I can count on the fingers of one hand the people that I’d face a bear to save, and “teammate” doesn’t make the cut.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

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If you look at the source code for this blog, you might notice that all my blog posts (written in Markdown) have two spaces after every period.

Every so often this Slate article makes the rounds and annoys me. This time I figured I’d write a blog post/rant to get it off my chest once and for all: two-spacing is equal or superior to one-spacing in all non-trivial ways.

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There was a violent incident between new Russian recruits on October. Men recently mobilized were on a firing range when two Moslem recruits opened fire on the Slavic (ethnic Russians) recruits and killed eleven and wounded fifteen before they were killed. The two shooters were Moslem and sought to avoid hitting other Moslem troops. About ten percent of the men “mobilized” for army service during late September were Moslem. Currently about 20 percent of the Russian population consists of ethnic minorities, most of them Moslem. These “Russians” do not want to die for Russia or even live in Russia. Many Moslems were conquered and incorporated in the Russian empire over the last few centuries. Most of them formed their own nations when the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991. There was still a significant minority of Moslems remaining and most would prefer to be anywhere but Russia. During World War II the percentage of Moslems in combat units was low early in the war because Russia did not trust large groups of armed Moslems. In the closing months of the war, most Moslem, and often non-Slavic, troops were found in combat units. Slavic troops had made up most of the combat troops until then but by the end of 1944 the army had to replace losses with Moslem troops. The loyalty of these non-Slav troops was assured by the fact the Russians were winning and about to enter Germany, where all the troops were allowed to loot and rape civilians when they weren’t killing the few remaining German troops. After 1945 the Russian army returned to its policy of keeping most non-Slav men out of combat units. There were plenty of support units where Moslem recruits could safely (for Slavic troops) serve out their conscription service. This discrimination against non-Slav soldiers continued after the Soviet Union dissolve but there were some changes.

The Guardian.

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

The US supreme court case that could bring the tech giants to their knees (The Guardian)

Top US court to hear cases seeking to hold social media firms responsible for terror (Times of Israel)

Cannabis must be removed from the Controlled Substances Act (The Hill)

City Where George Floyd Was Killed Struggles to Recruit Cops  Gee, I wonder why?

Velshi: ‘Especially Foolish’ To Blame Biden, Democrats For Inflation

Transgender Volleyball Player Severely Injures Female High Schooler With Spike To The Face

Flashback: Back When Beto O’Rourke Was a Media Star

NYPD’s Losing Cops, Struggling to Secure Subways: PBA  Gee, I wonder why?

Report: Experts Worry About Presidential Succession With 90-Year-olds in Line

Weaponized Governmental Failure: A Primer

Illinois Now Has The Worst Unemployment Rate In The Nation

Politico Accidentally Admits Ranked Choice Voting Helps Democrats

Democrats predict an ‘extremely busy’ lame duck. Here’s what’s on the agenda (CNN) Spend! Spend! Spend!

NYPD on Pace for Over 4,000 Quits: ‘Full-Blown Staffing Emergency’

The Continuing Descent of Canada into a Police State

NY Times: Failed Mueller Probe Was Noble, Durham’s Mere ‘Fodder for Grievances’

Rally Against ‘Child Mutilation’ Draws Thousands Of Supporters

Gunfire During Illegal Racing on Chicago Street Kills 3

Over 6 in 10 Americans favor leaving race out of college admissions, Post-Schar School poll finds (Washington Post) Not that anyone cares what Americans think. Certainly not the government.

Sacheen Littlefeather was a Native American icon. Her sisters say she was an ethnic fraud (S.F. Chronicle)

ABC’s Donna Brazile: Record Voter Turnout in Georgia is Jim Crow 2.0

Returned to Mexico: ‘Traumatic’ expulsions meant to deter migrants from re-entering US (El Paso Times)

First group of Venezuelans with U.S. sponsors arrive under new immigration program (CBS)

Biden’s SPR follies will hurt Americans and damage our national security (N.Y. Post)

Cardona says Republicans fighting student debt relief won’t succeed (The Hill)

U.S. EPA begins work to set up $27 bln green bank (Reuters) With YOUR money.

Biden Breaks His Annual Record With 2.3M Illegal Border Crossings

Macron Lashes Out At US Over Double Standard Energy Policies

Illegal Border Surge Under Biden Hits Highest Level Ever Recorded

Joe Biden Lies About the Economy  As he does about almost everything.

Soviet-Era Centralized Heating Systems Were Ukraine’s Secret Weapon for Cutting Emissions. Now They’re a Vulnerability (TIME)

‘Dr. Doom’ predicts NYC destroyed by nukes, storms in next 20 years (N.Y. Post)

The secret history of America’s tactical nukes (Vox)

In bloody battle for Bakhmut, Russian mercenaries eye a symbolic prize (Washington Post)

Using Adoptions, Russia Turns Ukrainian Children Into Spoils of War

Lawmakers Seek To Pass $50BN In New Ukraine Aid Before Next Congress  Go out there and spend! Spend! Spend!

Military Think Tank: Russia Withdraws Officers From Kherson

Iran Is Conducting “Massive” Military Drills On The Azerbaijan Border

Trump Could Harness Unresolved Legal Issues to Resist Jan. 6 Panel’s Subpoena

Trump Firm’s Tax Fraud Trial Promises Ex-CFO as Star Witness (Bloomberg)

For Trump’s Backers in Congress, ‘Devil Terms’ Help Rally Voters (New York Times)

Full Cheney: ‘If Donald Trump is the nominee of the Republican Party, the party will shatter’  (NBC) Who would notice?

Why getting your flu shot this year is crucial (KSL)

Medical Experts Suggest Getting Your Flu Shot Before the Holiday Season (WHNT)

Controversial new research suggests SARS-CoV-2 bears signs of genetic engineering (The Economist)

Judge rules Fauci be deposed in lawsuit alleging White House worked with Big Tech to censor speech (Fox)

How Vaccine Skeptics Took Over the Republican Party (New York Magazine) Jonathan Chait, Voice of the Crust, pushes the Narrative.

Fauci, Biden Officials Ordered To Be Deposed In Social Media Collusion Case

The Costs of Covid Shutdowns

Stockman: The Macroeconomic Consequences Of Lockdowns & The Aftermath

Paul Krugman Is Tired of Rural Nobodies Spreading Calumny About Urban Elites

Doug Mastriano adviser Jenna Ellis questions Josh Shapiro’s faith — ‘at best a secular Jew’ (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Florida’s immigrants face barriers in hurricane relief under DeSantis policiess (The Guardian) Women and minorities hardest hit, etc. etc.

Minnesota House candidate encourages people to fly Confederate flag, calls Islam a Satanic plague (Minnesota Reformer)

Jan. 6 committee investigating potential Secret Service cover-up (MSNBC)

NYC Prep Schools Compelling Parents to Adhere to Critical Race Theory

Sandy Hook Families Seek $2.75 Trillion in Damages From Alex Jones

Cross, MSNBC Republicans Declare GOP Women, Minorities Tokens

Election Deniers Are Predicted to Win 189 Midterms Races (Newsweek) Deniers!

Washington Post columnist regurgitates nonsense about crime and “Democrat-run cities” (The Watch) Radley Balko pushes the Narrative.

A guide to the election deniers in midterm races (CNN) Deniers!

Media Harping on ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ in Georgia Crashes Into the Hard Facts

Not Again! NY Times Page One ‘Disinfo’ Dud Digs Up Disinfo-Board Czar Nina Jankowicz

MSNBC’s Tiffany Cross: Tucker Carlson’s Crazy Like Kanye!

Kari Lake suggests early voting be restricted in Arizona as she repeats election lies

Half-Earth Day is not a celebration, but a warning (CNN)

Climate Regulations Are About to Disrupt Global Shipping (Harvard Business Review)

Can a slew of nuclear fusion start-ups deliver unlimited clean energy? (New Scientist)

Electric Discharge From Plants May Be Changing Air Quality in Ways We Didn’t Expect (ScienceAlert)

Climate protesters glue themselves to Porsche museum but needed to go potty (AutoBlog)

NYU’s ‘Dr. Doom’ says New Yorkers who moved to Florida, Texas, says states won’t ‘survive’ climate change (Fox)

USDA-Wyoming agreement: A new chapter in conservation history (The Hill)

The Deadly Consequences of Urban Oil Drilling (The Nation)

I fund climate activism – and I applaud the Van Gogh protest (The Guardian) Another rich Woke heir pushes the Narrative.

Ottawa and Alberta clash over who must pay to lift Canada’s carbon capture credits (Reuters)

Insurrection: New York Times Promotes Sabotage, ‘Guerrilla Warfare’ to End Fossil Fuels

“Farming Needs to Stop, That’s the Single Biggest Driver of Climate Change”

Climate Activist Aussie Netball Players Wipe Out their Own Sponsorship

Guardian Readers Are The Most Gullible On The Planet, New Data Shows

Climate activists throw mashed potatoes at Monet work in Germany (The Guardian)

Stacey Abrams Reveals Eight More Problems Besides Inflation You Can Fix By Killing Your Kids  (Babylon Bee)