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Just in case, ya know?

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A few Alaska researchers are working to create insulation that removes carbon from the atmosphere and stores it for the life of a building and beyond. When a structure is at the end of its life, the insulation between the walls makes a fine soil.

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You can look and feel better by keeping up a regular exercise schedule, but did you know that exercise also supports bone and muscle health? Locomotor fragility, which affects people who are unable to exercise, causes the muscles and bones to deteriorate. Recently, Japanese researchers discovered a new drug that, by producing effects comparable to those of exercise, may help treat locomotor frailty.

We have the technology.

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If you’re an American eating at a restaurant in Europe and you order a glass of water, you may be surprised — and disappointed — to receive a glass of lukewarm water, or, even worse, a room temperature bottle of water.

A glass of ice water, though customary in the United States, is seen as strange and unnecessary elsewhere.

A few years ago, the HuffPost ran an article titled “It’s Weird That American Restaurants Serve Ice Water In Winter,” in which the author called not just drinking ice water in the winter but also drinking ice water generally a “bizarre” practice.

For some reason the Narrative Media have this (to me odd) notion that the way Europeans do things is somehow a norm to which Americans ought to conform, or at least justify any divergence therefrom.

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Assuming you have a choice, of course.

I want to be a ‘workplace culture expert’. I’ll bet I could do a great job.

“There’s an expression: ’People join companies, but they quit bosses,” Gimbel tells CNBC Make It. “That isn’t too far removed from the truth.”

See? How hard could it be?

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What goes around, comes around.

This ‘stunning’ ruling against Trump and his lawyer is a win for the Jan. 6 committee (MSNBC)

Exclusive: Emails reveal warning to Trump team about fraud claims (Axios)

Sotomayor on Clarence Thomas: ‘I believe not everyone can reach their bootstraps’ (The Hill)

Idaho’s anti-drag queen bill is the next step in rolling back LGBTQ rights (MSNBC)

In Nevada, election deniers prepare to sabotage the midterms (Washington Post) Dana Milbank pushes the Narrative in the run-up to the midterm elections.

The Jan. 6 committee is fueling unwarranted distrust of the Fifth Amendment (The Hill)

Five investigations House Republicans are plotting if they win majority (The Hill) Plotting!

A universe of biodiversity and saved by migration: Books in brief (Nature)

The weather over the Lower 48 is pulling a radical switcheroo (Washington Post)

Upper-Air Pattern Flipping Next Week: What’s the Cause? (Progressive Farmer)

The energy crisis is distracting us from the real emergency (Financial Times)

The Energy Crisis, Explained (Gizmodo)

Why Africa is central to the climate change conundrum (Financial Times)

‘Greenhushing’ Emerges as New Problem for Sustainably-Minded Companies (EcoWatch)

Once Cheap, Wind and Solar Prices Are Up 34%. What’s the Outlook? (Inside Climate News)

Concern about climate change shrinks globally as threat grows – study (Reuters)

INTERVIEW: Connection between human rights and climate change ‘must not be denied’ (UN News)

Climate crisis: how beetles and fire are devouring European forests (EuroNews)

The future of life on Earth depends on curbing overpopulation (The Guardian)

Where slavery is on the ballot this November (Axios)

Latino civil rights groups file lawsuit against York County to ensure Spanish language services for election (NBC)

SF neighborhoods using planters to discourage unhoused people from setting up encampments (ABC)

EPA sued over lack of plan to regulate water pollution from factory farms (The Guardian)

What should Chicago be doing about Fridays when hardly anyone comes to the office? (Chicago Tribune)

Wawa to close several stores in Philly, Bucks County overnight after armed robberies (CBS)

CNN commentator Mary Katharine Ham tells Megyn Kelly: ‘I wasn’t allowed to talk about Jeffrey Toobin’s penis’ (N.Y. Post)

How Serious Is the Tenderloin’s Drug Problem? Here’s What City Data Says (S.F. Standard)

Whopper Special: With midterms rapidly approaching, Dem flip-flopping is now in overdrive (N.Y. Post)

Drug and surgical treatment of transgender-identified children is wildly unpopular

Trudeau orders an immediate freeze on the sale of handguns in Canada (NPR)

Aussie Bank Begins Linking Customer Transactions To Carbon Footprint

Internet Sting Operation “J6 DELETED” Exposes How Twitter Manipulated Jan. 6 Narrative “In Real Time”

Appeals court temporarily blocks Biden’s student debt relief plan (Axios)

U.S. urges Mexico not to buy Chinese scanners for the border (Washington Post)

El Paso halts practice of busing migrants to New York and Chicago, citing new expulsion policy (CBS)

Dem El Paso mayor says White House pressured him not to declare border crisis emergency (Fox)

How responsible is Biden for high inflation? (The Hill)

Retired Brig. Gen. Holt: Iran Has ‘Blank Check’ With Biden in Power

Unmitigated gall of Joe Biden claiming that he ‘lowered’ debt

Fact-Checking 4 Biden Claims on His Student Loan Bailout

MSNBC’s Capehart Cries to Biden: I’m Scared for Future of Democracy!

Biden DOJ Wants $34 Million To Keep Targeting J6 Defendants

A common respiratory virus is spreading at unusually high levels, overwhelming children’s hospitals. Here’s what parents need to know (CNN)

Child respiratory virus cases overwhelms hospitals (CBS)

Special report: health sector at breaking point (Sky News)

CDC is discussing using oral polio vaccine for first time in 20 years to stop New York outbreak (CNBC)

CDC discussing using oral polio vaccine to combat New York outbreak: report (The Hill)

It’s time to stop saying ‘fully vaccinated’ for Covid, experts say—here’s why (CNBC)

Vaccines Today, Vaccines Tomorrow, Vaccines Forever!

Long covid: Hair loss and sexual dysfunction are among wider symptoms, study finds

Fraud-related criminal trial against Trump Organization to start Monday (Washington Post)

The Trump Organization’s Tax-Fraud Trial Is Starting. Here’s What’s at Stake (TIME)

Why the Bannon Prison Sentence and Trump Jan. 6 Subpoena Matter (Slate)

How Liz Cheney can kill the MAGA threat (The Warning)

Soros-Funded Philly D.A. Blames G.O.P. ‘Racism’ For Impeachment

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In my Substack piece a few weeks ago about leaving New York, I made the claim that the city is no longer a place to raise a family. Sadly, this is true of all communities dominated by progressives, which of course is pretty much all of America’s cities. I want to write briefly about why it is that progressives have turned against families, and what this means for our system of two-party politics.

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Millions of babies are born and named in the U.S. each year, but certain names or naming conventions are reportedly banned by state governments.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk and singer Grimes reportedly learned this fact in 2020 when they tried to name their firstborn son X Æ A-12 in the state of California.

The pair modified the name’s numeric 12 to the Roman numeral XII, which is acceptable and in accordance with California state law, Fox News Digital previously reported.

Maggie Haberman on Trump: ‘He’s become a Charles Foster Kane character’ (The Guardian) No, he’s still Trump.

Prosecutors detail Oath Keepers’ mounting frustration with Trump as Jan. 6 approached (Politico)

Trump allies have amassed nearly 30 years in prison sentences (Washington Post)

NIH Is Banning Top Geneticists from Access to Its Data for Fear of Politically Incorrect Findings About Intelligence

The Race-Obsessed L.A. City Council

RAACIST! MSNBC Panel Scoffs at Crime as Top Issue for Voters, Implies It’s Based on Racism

Climeworks closes a chapter in early carbon removal tech (The Verge)

New Study Indicates North Atlantic Is Close to a “Tipping Point” (SciTechDaily)

“Dirty” cows are destroying the Amazon rainforest (VOX)

NOAA releases winter weather outlook: How La Niña will impact your state And how the Narrative will blame it on ‘climate change’.

Renewables Are Holding Back the Emissions Tide (Gizmodo)

Kauai becomes one of the nation’s first counties to enact rules based on sea level rise

America’s Schools Warm to Climate Change, Without Question

‘Very Difficult’: Electric Vehicle Owner Took 15 Hours To Drive 175 Miles

The Green Energy Profiteering Scam

New York mayor says Biden border policy eased flow of migrants (Politico)

Explainer: What is the SPR, the U.S. emergency oil stash? (Reuters)

An often-overlooked economic measure is signaling serious trouble ahead (CNBC)

Arizona fires back at Biden admin’s demand it remove shipping containers filling gaps at border (Fox)

Arizona rejects Biden order to remove shipping containers on border (N.Y. Post)

Justice Amy Coney Barrett denies attempt to block Biden student loan forgiveness plan from taking effect (CNN)

The FBI Agents Association rewarded agents who took a knee in front of BLM, proving the rot isn’t just at the top (N.Y. Post)

Border Patrol Agents Seize Over $500,000 Worth of Fentanyl

Pentagon Establishes Abortion Travel Fund for Service Members, Abortion Providers

WATCH: This New Biden Ad Reaches ‘Levels of Cringe That Shouldn’t Even Be Possible’

Biden’s Cynical New Border Policy

Jill Biden Says Hunter Biden Is ‘Innocent,” Wrongly Pursued  Sorry, Mom, we saw the tape.

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week Vol. 16

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Abortion bans create ‘insurmountable barriers’ for incarcerated women in US (The Guardian)

Peril Of Abortion Bans To Women’s Health Becomes Dreaded Reality (MSNBC)

New conflict after Boudin recall: Jenkins accuses fired prosecutor of removing confidential files (S.F. Chronicle)

Florida Board of Education adopts strict trans restroom policy (The Hill)

Methuen mayor: ‘Multiple families’ from South America, Haiti placed by state at hotel without notice (WHDH)

Women can’t wait any longer for gender equality (CNN)

Study: Gender Transition Surgeries on Minors Accelerate, With Most Covered by Insurance

NYT Columnist WHINES People ‘Abandon’ Leftist Policy Wish List When ‘Pocketbooks Suffer’

Parents Erupt Over ‘Queerest’ Halloween Party And Drag Show Promoted By Schools

Most Major Polls Skewed To Dems By 4 to 5 Percentage Points

In Europe, Rebellion Against the Elites Emerges as Trend

Aide To New York Mayor Admits That Migrant Crisis Is Destroying The City

California’s Economy Looks Headed for Disaster as Companies Flee in Droves

Nearly Half of San Franciscans Have Been Victims of Theft, New Poll Says

NY Times Lefty Identity Crisis: Subscribers Expect ‘Mother Jones on Steroids’

April Ryan Teams With The View: Whine GOP Leading Midterm Races

There Is a Way to Make America Safe for Democracy (N.Y. Times) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Globalist Meta Oversight Board Absurdly Lists ‘Gender’ Among ‘Seven Strategic Priorities’

Illinois Voters to Decide on Constitutional Amendment Banning Right-to-Work Laws

Trafalgar Poll: Nearly 80% of Voters Oppose Trans Procedures on Minors

Democrats Out of Answers, but Not Excuses, on Crime

Ukraine Situation Report: Russia Rigged Kherson Dam To Explode Zelensky Claims

US Navy chief warns China could invade Taiwan before 2024 (Financial Times)

Republicans aim to pass national ‘don’t say gay’ law (The Guardian)

The GOP Push For A National Anti-Gay Law And The Attack On LGBTQ Existence (NBC)

Documents detail plans to gut Twitter’s workforce (Washington Post)

Report: Musk to lay off 75% of Twitter employees (KRON)

How billionaires are building a right-wing online ecosystem (The Hill)

With DACA on life support, Microsoft, Apple and other big U.S. firms launch ad campaign to protect ‘Dreamers’ (NBC) Wh00ps, there goes that right-wing online ecosystem again….

ACLU asks supreme court to overturn Arkansas’ anti-boycott law against Israel (The Guardian)

Supreme Court asked to overturn AR law requiring contractors to not boycott Israel (Fox)

Kevin McCarthy’s ugly new Ukraine threats should prod Democrats to act (Washington Post) Greg Sargent loses his shit. (Jennifer Rubin must be on vacation.)

Dallas officer running for Texas House faced nine brutality investigations early in career (Dallas Morning News) And he forgot to wash his hands after going to the restroom in 5th grade.

Republicans Are Coming for Your Social Security and Medicare (The American Prospect) Except that they aren’t.

‘Gaffes’ aside, I once assumed GOP goodwill on race. I was wrong. (Washington Post) Michael Gerson joins the witch-hunt.

Big Tech Vows to Censor So-Called Election ‘Misinformation’

Documents detail plans to gut Twitter’s workforce (Washington Post)

How Disinformation Splintered and Became More Intractable (N.Y. Times) People just aren’t buying the Narrative.

The ‘most important person’ on Kari Lake’s campaign mocked Native Americans in racist tweet (Arizona Mirror)

Democratic Secretary of State Candidates Struggle Against Election Deniers (N.Y. Times) Deniers!

Here’s How the Election Deniers Are Performing in the Polls—and Why (The Bulwark) Deniers!

Blake Masters’ campaign has had a far-right Christian nationalist on its payroll for months (Jewish Insider) Dunh dunh DUNHHH.

Quick and stealthy ‘Scrabble variants’ are poised to drive a winter Covid-19 surge (CNN)

Scientists explain what to expect with COVID variants XBB, BQ.1 (ABC)

Pfizer expects to hike U.S. COVID vaccine price to $110-$130 per dose (Reuters)

Omicron subvariants reflect a ‘viral evolution on steroids’ (NBC) Better get ready to PANIC!

Are we headed for another COVID surge? Here’s what the signs say, and what to do (Providence Journal)

Myocarditis after BNT162b2 Vaccination in Israeli Adolescents

3 More COVID Vaccine Injuries Approved For Compensation By US Authorities “One is the result of severe allergic shock. The five others are the result of myocarditis, a form of heart inflammation.”

Endonuclease fingerprint indicates a synthetic origin of SARS-CoV-2

US Health Officials Dumped Stocks In Jan 2020 (Before Declaring COVID An Emergency)

Why Fauci Can’t Whitewash His Disastrous Legacy

50-Year U.S. Summer Temperature Trends: ALL 36 Climate Models Are Too Warm

CDC Announces New Initiative To Promote Homeschooling  (Babylon Bee)

ZMan’s weekly podcast. Highly recommended.

Greg Johnson and Mark Collett had a debate about the war in Ukraine, with each man taking a quite different view of the war. It was a reasonable and polite exchange, so if you like these things, it is worth a listen. I must admit I struggle to follow the logic of Greg’s argument, as it leads him to defend the people who would throw him in a cage if they had the chance, but perhaps the fault lies with me.

Regardless, the debate itself is a good jumping off point to talk about other issues related to the larger struggle. Like Covid, the war in Ukraine is a bit of a litmus test on this side of the great divide. Where you stand on the issue says a lot about where you stand on many other issues. Like Covid, it is becoming one of those reference points for other differences in the dissident sphere.

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The Democratic platforms on policies that affect people personally — crime and public safetyare other major concerns — are not winning. And there’s no one worse at delivering, and delivering on, the left’s failing messaging than John Fetterman, Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania’s US Senate seat.

I’m a Pennsylvanian and have never understood Fetterman’s appeal. At all. Every time I’ve heard him speak or seen him posing in photos with his phony tough-guy act, I’m astounded that he was ever chosen for anything more than an extra on Pawn Stars. So I decided to visit Braddock, Pennsylvania, the town of 1,800 people where Fetterman was first elected to political office (he was Braddock’s mayor for 13 years). I wanted to see if there was something about the guy I was missing. What I learned was that when it comes to matters of economics and public safety, Fetterman is even more incompetent than I thought.

I knew I’d arrived in the small Pittsburgh suburb when I saw a billboard on Braddock Avenue with Fetterman’s face on it, labeling him as “soft on crime.” Not the Dr. Oz campaign’s most clever work, but accurate, considering Braddock’s higher-than-average violent crime rateduring Fetterman’s mayoral tenure.

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The migrant situation in the Balkans is heating up again. The following Austrian report discusses the situation in Serbia.

Steve Sailer peers behind the curtain.

One of the new problems of our age is that if you don’t high-five a black person who wants to high-five (or whatever is considered the cool way to greet at the moment) you, you can instantly be exposed to global hate from hordes of angry dimwits on social media, like that poor minimum wage worker at the Sesame Street theme park.

On the other hand, if you are a Korean pop star, you can still probably get away with it, because you are cool and a star, and only the most pathetic fans in Asia much care about what stupid Americans think.

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“Welcome to sanction-hit Russia, where prices are DOWN as Brits suffer from soaring inflation,” reads a recent headline from the Sun tabloid. For ordinary Brits and Europeans, facing the prospect of a poorer, colder, and darker winter than any in recent memory, the news that ordinary Russians will not be sharing their hardships is bitter news indeed. Aren’t sanctions supposed to afflict the target country?

Sean Hannity’s million-dollar in-kind contribution to the GOP (Washington Post) Paying no attention to the constant Narrative Media promotion of Democrats, of course.

How Did Kanye Get Here? A Short History of Provocation and Extreme Rhetoric (Rolling Stone)

Sorry, Ron DeSantis, You Are No Donald Trump (Politico)

Where the Jan. 6 committee failed (Washington Post)

Election deniers could make deep changes to Arizona voting (Associated Press) Deniers!

Kevin McCarthy’s betrayal of the United States of America (The Warning) Little Narrative Media spear-carriers always pop up before an election.

E.V. Bonanza Flows to Red States That Denounce Biden Climate Policies (N.Y. Times) That’s because no auto-maker is so foolish as to attempt to manufacture something in a Blue state.

Ruhle Mangles McCarthy’s Words To Suggest He’s Seeking Putin’s Help In Midterms

Republicans aim to pass national ‘don’t say gay’ law (The Guardian) Which they don’t, of course, but the Narrative is what it is.

Cleta Mitchell Is Training Trump Loyalists to Monitor Polls (New York Magazine) Dunh dund DUNHHHHH.

Updated Moderna Covid booster gives even better protection than earlier jab (The Guardian) A low bar.

Divide between Republicans and Democrats over flu shots deepens in covid’s wake: Poll

CDC Set To Add COVID-19 Vaccines To Childhood Immunization Schedule  Unless the ‘vaccine’ is officially recommended for children, ‘vaccine’ manufacturers don’t qualify for legal immunity against ‘vaccine’ side effects.

Why Isn’t the 83.6% White NHL Diverse Like the 82.4% Nonwhite NBA Is Diverse?sa

NHL’s Black Diversity Executive Says League Is Too White

Joy Reid: Florida A Jim Crow State, DeSantis Doesn’t Want Black People Voting

In This Issue of “Nature:” Scientists of Color Complain

This Rapper Is More Politically Dangerous Than Kanye West (Huffington Post) Another negro who won’t knuckle under to the Narrative.

The Race-Obsessed LA City Council

Trump knew voter fraud claims were wrong, federal judge says as he orders John Eastman emails turned over (CNN) The judge in question is a Clington appointee.

Judge: Trump Knew Voter Fraud Claims Were False (MSNBC)

Judge: Trump signed court document that knowingly included false voter fraud stats (Politico)

What new emails found by a federal judge reveal about Trump (CNN)

Trump signed legal documents that he knew included false voter fraud numbers, judge says (Washington Post)

Trump deposed in defamation suit filed by E. Jean Carroll (Politico)

The Durham probe has been a giant bust (CNN)

Appeals court says financial watchdog agency CFPB’s structure is unconstitutional (NPR)

Elizabeth Warren’s Controversial Financial Agency Unconstitutional, Court Rules

NRC Wants Hobbs Out as Elections Chief Over Faulty Ballots

Two democracies are forming in the U.S. Zip code determines which one you’re in (L.A. Times)

Protestors Glue Themselves To Floor, Get Mad When Company Doesn’t Give Them “A Bowl To Urinate And Defecate In”

Public Schools in DC Suburb Tout Pride Month, ‘LGBTQ Stories’

Texas Roofer Arrested in Florida for Helping Hurricane Victims

Starbucks Closes More Than 20 Stores Nationwide Due to Safety Concerns

GA Smashes Turnout Record – Abrams Says “Voter Suppression Alive And Well”

CNBC Airs 10 Minute-Long Bill Gates Rant on Climate Change and Woke ESG

WH mocked for claim Americans saving $420M on gas as Biden taps oil reserve (N.Y. Post)

Biden taken aback by multiple reporters suggesting oil reserve release is meant to help Democrats (Fox)

Biden says oil companies should ramp up production and cut prices at the pump instead of buying back stock, paying dividends (CNBC) Ramp up production where? The oil leases Biden cancelled?

Watch: Biden Energy Advisor Admits That Admin Wants To Limit Oil Production “To Accelerate The Transition”

Whistleblowers Reveal FBI Has ‘Voluminous Evidence’ Of Possible Hunter Biden Criminal Conduct: Senator

State Department funding ‘drag theater performances’ in Ecuador to ‘promote diversity and inclusion’

ABC, CBS & NBC Bury Biden State Department Funding Foreign Drag Shows

Biden Admin Tells Arizonans: Using Shipping Containers To Plug Gaps In Border Wall Is Illegal

Police Issue Warning Ahead Of Halloween After Fentanyl Pills Found In Candy Bags At LAX

Hayes Proclaims Biden Has To Raid Oil Reserve To Save Democracy

Biden Supports Federal Funding for Abortion Assistance

Federal Tax Receipts Near Record-High Share Of GDP  This is not just the Feds printing money, but them taking (increasingly inflated) money out of people’s pockets.

Oceans are warming faster than ever. Here’s what could come next. (Washington Post)

One year of wildfires undid decades of California’s emissions policy

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It is not just some crazy notion at the Claremont Institute, some crazy right-wing think tank’s invention, that we no longer live under the Constitution. The Left has been trying to undermine and overturn the Constitution for a long time. That agenda has been consistent. And the only thing that’s really changed is the rhetoric. The Progressive movement is where the attack on the Constitution first started more than a hundred years ago. And the most famous proponent of that was Woodrow Wilson, the only political scientist to be president of the United States. That tells you something right there—his being a political scientist.

And he was very open about repudiating both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution as relics of the 18th century that had no relevance to the modern world. That’s where this all started. But it was a little too bold, and it’s not an accident that Wilson was followed by 12 years of Republican presidents: Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover. Then, Franklin Roosevelt came along. Roosevelt didn’t change the agenda, but he did change the rhetoric.

And that’s where the Left started adopting this idea: they’re actually defenders of the Constitution, but they simply tweaked, and redefined, and reworked all of the concepts. And so, you’ve got a living Constitution, and you’ve got all this language about rights, but they were no longer the natural rights that the founders defended. They were a whole series of invented new rights that the government would bestow on us, rather than natural rights that the government would protect.

Victor Davis Hanson.

A Democratic myth has arisen that former President Donald Trump’s denial of the accuracy of the 2020 vote was “unprecedented.”

Unfortunately, the history of U.S. elections is often a story of both legitimate and illegitimate election denialism.

The 1800, 1824, 1876, and 1960 elections were all understandably questioned. In some of these cases, a partisan House of Representatives decided the winner.

Presidential candidate Al Gore in 2000 did not accept the popular vote results in Florida. He spent five weeks futilely contesting the state’s tally—until recounts and the Supreme Court certified it.

The ensuing charge that former President George W. Bush was “selected, not elected” was the Democrats’ denialist mantra for years.

Sarah Hoyt.

While he works, in the office next to mine, my husband listens to podcasts. This is slightly surreal because it reminds me of Portuguese men doing their work to the continuous murmur of soccer reporting coming from a portable radio near them.

Yesterday he came to me, alarmed. He was listening to Mike Rowe, who had a guest on, who did the numbers beyond the official unemployment rate, the numbers as they used to be done, without the begs and the buts.

Apparently the real unemployment rate, in terms of people simply not working (And not looking for work) among young men — young, able bodied men, 18 to 55 — is eighty percent.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Miranda Devine’s New York Post column revisits the 51 intelligence officers whose letter bore all the earmarks of a dirty political intelligence operation taking advantage of their former offices. Let us not forget that Politico acted the media arm of the operation. Devine’s column — “It’s been two years since 51 intelligence agents interfered with an election — they still won’t apologize” — confines itself to the Dirty 51.

Put no trust in anyone with a shaved head and a chin-beard. *cough* Fetterman *cough*

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So, the credentialed lost their marginal reputations for competency. Were we really to believe 50 former intelligence heads and experts who claimed Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation”? Even if they were not simply biased, did any of them have the competence to determine what the laptop was?

Or were we to take seriously the expertise of “17 Nobel Prize winners” who swore Biden’s “Build Back Better” debacle would not be inflationary as the country went into 9 percent plus inflation? Did we really believe our retired four-stars that Trump was a Nazi, a Mussolini, and someone to be removed from office “the sooner the better”?

Or were we to trust the 1,200 “health care professionals” who assured us that, medically speaking, while the rest of society was locked down it was injurious for the health of people of color to follow curfews and mask mandates instead of thronging en masse in street protests?

Or were we to believe Kevin Clinesmith’s FISA writ, or Andrew McCabe’s four-time assertion that he did not leak to the media, or that James Comey under oath really did not know the answers to 245 inquiries? Did Robert Mueller really not know what either the Steele dossier or Fusion GPS was?

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Wooden objects are usually made by sawing, carving, bending or pressing. That’s so old school! Today, scientists will describe how flat wooden shapes extruded by a 3D printer can be programmed to self-morph into complex 3D shapes. In the future, this technique could be used to make furniture or other wooden products that could be shipped flat to a destination and then dried to form the desired final shape.

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Ludwigshafen is a city in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Yesterday at lunchtime a young Somali culture-enricher went on a stabbing rampage that left two people dead and another seriously wounded.

Early news reports about the incident said the perpetrator’s motive was unknown. Since then it has emerged that the high-spirited youngster attempted to dismember and slit the throats of at least some of his victims, and shouted “Allahu Akhbar” during the act. Readers are left to draw their own conclusions.

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

Two Arrested, Third Wanted in Chaotic Brawl Over Chocolate Bars at Plano Hooters

WATCH: Stacey Abrams Says She ‘Supports Law Enforcement.’ Her Record Tells a Different Story.

Maryland’s New Emmett Till Alert System Issues Its First Alert at ‘Severe’ Level

“When you are not with where a majority of Americans are”

A Top Hispanic Media Group Was Set To Honor Catherine Cortez Masto With a Coveted Award. She Didn’t Even Show Up.

Attack Ads Are Darkening the Skin Tone of Black Candidates (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew at The Bullshit are sounding more and more like the Democrats they really are.

Congressional Black Caucus Backs White Democrat Over Black Republican  Because the Congressional Black Caucus is composed solely of Demcorats; if you aren’t a Democrat, apparently you’re Not Really Black.

Coal projects outside China becoming ‘uninsurable’, says climate group (The Guardian)

These are the most energy-efficient states (The Hill)

Microphones dropped into ocean off Greenland to record melting icebergs (The Guardian)

Carbon removal has a funding gap. This climate nonprofit is attempting to fill it. (Protocol)

‘Kowbucha’ could reduce methane produced from cow burps: study (N.Y. Post)

Why Ambitious Tree Planting and Carbon Offset Projects Are Failing (Mother Jones)

Throwing Soup at Paintings Won’t Save the Climate (New York Magazine) No, but it sure makes certain people feel good about themselves, and that’s the main point.

Clean Water Act at 50: environmental gains, challenges unmet (Associated Press)

Exxon Mobil says French refineries could take 2-3 weeks to fully restart (Reuters)

The Mediterranean Sea Is So Hot, It’s Fizzing Carbon Dioxide (Mother Jones)

Is Wind Energy Becoming Too Expensive?

Attenborough Laments Demise of 800 Penguins “Because Climate Change” – But Fails To Report Discovery of New Colony 1.5 Million Strong

British Town Council Axes Major Annual Airshow Over Climate Change

Population Crash Cancels Alaska Snow Crab Season – Media Falsely Blames Climate Change

Cost Of Public Charging an EV Is Now More Expensive Than Filling Up with Diesel–Parkers

Bjorn Lomborg: Electric Car Subsidies Are a Bad Investment

Researchers have found a way to pull more than 95% of uranium from seawater

Biden set to go to the mat with Big Oil over gas prices (Politico)

Biden to announce release of more oil from Strategic Petroleum Reserve just weeks before midterms

‘Undisciplined’ Biden shut down US economy by ‘declaring war on American energy’: Sen. Roger Marshall

Biden administration to tap oil reserve again ahead of midterms (Politico)

Biden turning to Trump-era rule to expel Venezuelan migrants (Associated Press)

Biden’s top border chief comes under internal fire (Politico)

Biden issues a 2023 pledge to Dems: Hold on to Congress and I’ll sign abortion rights into law (Politico)

Biden administration demands Arizona remove shipping containers in gaps along border (The Hill)

NYC public schools forming ‘borough response teams’ as migrant crisis overwhelms classrooms

New York Times podcaster says Biden’s policies are ‘way, way, way to the left’ of the Obama administration

White House Pressured El Paso Mayor Not to Declare Migrant Emergency: Report

Biden Wrestles Teleprompter, Loses

Biden says gas in California has always cost $7 a gallon

Biden’s DOJ Charges Another Pro-life Activist

Big Three Evening Nets Ignore Report Hunter Biden Business Received $40M from Russian Oligarch

USDA announces $1 billion debt relief for 36,000 farmers (Associated Press) Buy! Those! Votes!

“Operation Lone Star” In Texas Seizes Enough Fentanyl To Kill Every American

The Student Debt Bait-And-Switch

Odd Man Out: Everyone Expects Recession Except Biden  I think I can! I think I can! I think I can!

White House Refuses to Address Arrests of Pro-Lifers Amid Attacks on Pregnancy Resource Centers

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But looking back at that big bump of humanities majors in the 2000s and early 2010s (the raw numbers are here), and thinking about the social unrest America has experienced over the last 8 years, makes me think about Peter Turchin’s theory of elite overproduction. Basically, the idea here is that America produced a lot of highly educated people with great expectations for their place in American society, but that our economic and social system was unable to accommodate many of these expectations, causing them to turn to leftist politics and other disruptive actions out of frustration and disappointment.