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Imagine, for a moment, the near future Amazon dreams of.

Every morning, you are gently awakened by the Amazon Halo Rise. From its perch on your nightstand, the round device has spent the night monitoring the movements of your body, the light in your room, and the space’s temperature and humidity. At the optimal moment in your sleep cycle, as calculated by a proprietary algorithm, the device’s light gradually brightens to mimic the natural warm hue of sunrise. Your Amazon Echo, plugged in somewhere nearby, automatically starts playing your favorite music as part of your wake-up routine. You ask the device about the day’s weather; it tells you to expect rain. Then it informs you that your next “Subscribe & Save” shipment of Amazon Elements Super Omega-3 softgels is out for delivery. On your way to the bathroom, a notification bubbles up on your phone from Amazon’s Neighbors app, which is populated with video footage from the area’s Amazon Ring cameras: Someone has been overturning garbage cans, leaving the community’s yards a total wreck. (Maybe it’s just raccoons.)

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French accounts that use planes’ transponder signals and publicly accessible information have tracked Arnault’s and other rich folks’ use of private jets to reveal just how much wasteful flying time is used by the world’s wealthiest.

Easily done: Just make a deal with a selection of charter air services and pick one at random when you want to go somewhere.

Anyone who isn’t constantly traveling is a fool to buy a jet.

In September, the Twitter account laviodebernard (Bernard’s Plane) wrote that Arnault’s plane had been de-registered in France. The account wrote “The LVMH private jet has not been registered in France since September 1, 2022. Still no word from Bernard Arnault or LVMH on the subject of private jets. So Bernard, are we hiding?”

If I were the world’s second richest man I would track this guy down and beat him until he rang like a bell. A couple hundred thousand ought to do it.

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After a March 21, 2020 meeting, the international shipping subcommittee sent draft recommendations to the Transportation Department’s Maritime Administration, according to a document the Cato Institute recently obtained from the government. The document, reviewed by The Dispatch, broadly discusses the problems of an aging U.S. fleet and insufficient shipping capacity.

Nestled among bullet points recommending policy changes to fix those problems is one labeled, “Unequivocal support of the Jones Act.”

Beneath it: “Charge all past and present members of the Cato and Mercatus Institutes with treason.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Meghan Markle (the Duchess of Sussex) has a podcast on which, earlier today, she hosted Paris Hilton as a guest. The topic of their discussion was “bimbos.” (They said it, I didn’t.)

All actors/actresses are narcissists. Narcissists are crazy. Crazy people are dangerous. Avoid if at all possible.

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The Palestinian government is still paying imprisoned terrorists stipends and inciting violence against Israel, even as the Biden administration provides nearly half a billion dollars in American taxpayer funds to the government, according to a non-public State Department report recently furnished to Congress.

The Palestinian Authority, which committed to stop these acts to receive new tranches of U.S. aid money, “continued payments to Palestinian prisoners who had committed acts of terrorism, as well as the families of so-called ‘martyrs’ who died while committing acts of terrorism,” according to the report, a copy of which was reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. Official Palestinian government media organizations and social media accounts also “broadcast or published content praising or celebrating acts of violence.”

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

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Hillary Clinton’s 1996 groomer handbook It Takes a Village made the case that parents can’t do it alone; you need an active and involved community to raise your children for with you. “We all depend on other adults whom we know—from teachers to doctors to neighbors to pastors—and on those whom we may not—from police to firefighters to employers to media producers [!] to political leaders—to help us inform, support, or protect our children.”

Increasingly, however, the only danger the Village wants to protect your own kids from is YOU.

America’s Favorite Supervillain, Governor Gavin Newsom, just legalized child kidnapping in California.

Sen. Tuberville Blasts Dems’ Racism Claims: ‘The Issue Is Crime, Not Race’

Why Wakanda might be a model for our future cities (CNN)

Warnock Denies His Church Evicts Tenants. Three Eviction Notices Were Filed Last Week.

MSNBC’s Melber Compares Locking Up Criminals to Jim Crow ‘Mass Incarceration’

California Stabbing Suspect Arrested After 1 Killed, 3 Hurt

Washington Post Dishes on Crime Stats by Race

Nets Hide Stacey Abrams at Debate STILL Flirting With Election Denialism

MSNBC: ‘9/11 Is Nothing Compared to January 6,’ Need ‘War Footing’

MSNBC: ‘9/11 Is Nothing Compared to January 6,’ Need ‘War Footing’ (Axios)

Disgraced Former FBI Official Declares ‘9/11 Is Nothing Compared To Jan 6th’

Herschel Walker tries to turn ‘prop’ badge controversy into campaign gold (NBC)

Texas Dad Arrested for Speaking Out at School Board Meeting Waits Hours for Hearing, Only to Be Denied Yet Again

Scalise acknowledges GOP plan to change Social Security, Medicare (MSNBC) So that they won’t run out of money, but that is never part of the proglodyte program.

Virginia Democrat Wants To Criminalize Parents Who “Misgender” Their Children

Congress braces for new members who were at Capitol on Jan. 6 (Axios) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH.

How Liberals Should Confront a Right-Wing Supreme Court (N.Y. Times)

New York Times Cancels…Chaucer? Canterbury Tales ‘Embedded in Systematic Rape Culture’

Top Georgia journalist warns about Herschel Walker’s political assets (The Dworkin Report)

Mike Lee’s Golden Rule (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew at The Bullshit burnish their anti-Republican credentials as a tool of the Uniparty.

Why NPR Can’t Lecture Anyone About Refusing to Condemn Rioting

The House rules chairman blocked Lauren Boebert’s measure under a ‘new rule’ against ‘lunatics’

Biden administration officially opens application for student debt cancellation (NBC)

Student Loan Forgiveness Application Website Goes Live

‘They Will Come After You’: GOP Attack Ads Warn Of Weaponized IRS

Nets Ignore Report Joe Biden Knew About Hunter’s Business Dealings

New Select Subcommittee Report Details Trump Administration’s Assault On CDC And Politicization Of Public Health During The Coronavirus Crisis

Biden to Release Another 10-15M Barrels of Oil to Balance Markets

Retired U.S. generals, admirals take top jobs with Saudi crown prince (Washington Post) That’s because being a retired general or admiral pays peanuts, and the Saudis pay very well indeed.

Mike Lee tries to distance himself from Trump in Utah debate (Associated Press)

Dems Concerned About Losing Independent Women Over Abortion

Voter Rolls Are Essential to Victory in the Election Integrity Fight. Here’s Why.

Will James Comey & Robert Mueller Be Prosecuted For Lies John Durham Uncovered?  Hint: No.

Central Bank Digital Currencies Would Let Governments Control What People Spend Money On: IMF Official Admits

Woke War III – The Deadly Neocon-Left Alliance

Watch: Smash-And-Grab Hits Jewelry Shop On NYC’s Billionaires’ Row

Los Angeles will never be multicultural heaven

Florida To Revoke Licenses Of K-3 Teachers Who Discuss Gender Identity, Sexuality

The Long Game: An Uphill Battle To Restore Gun Rights

Top 10 Scapegoats If Democrats Lose the Midterms

Australia Drops Recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital

Nothing Says over 40 Like Two Spaces After a Period  Nothing says “totalitarian mindset” like giving a shit how many spaces people put after a period.

Ruhle Laments Voters Blame Dems, Not GOP, For Massive Spending

Office Vacancy Rate in San Francisco Just Hit a New High

NYC Subway Killing Highlights Urban Violence Increase

What to Eat and Drink Before and After Getting the Flu Shot, According to Doctors, Nurses and Dietitians

We Need to Build a Better Flu Shot (Washington Post) One that won’t stop you getting the flu, or passing it on,  but will bring in big bucks for Pfizer and its running mates.

US warned to get ready as Europe deals with new COVID-19 rise (The Hill)

Next covid wave could be on a collision course with holiday travel (Washington Post)

Harvard Doctors Reverse Long-Held Ideas About Fat, Diabetes, and Heart Disease (SciTech Daily) Follow the science! Until it changes….

Ebola Is Back—and Vaccines Don’t Work Against It  Certainly not ‘vaccines’ as redefined by the CDC.

Addiction Drug Shows Promise for Alleviating Long COVID Brain Fog, Fatigue  I sure hope it works better than the ‘vaccines’.

Hyping the Energy Transition

Environmental nihilism

Poverty Level Workers Use Cars in Commuting More than Others

A Hidden Universe of Uncertainty

A Cold, Dark Winter In New England

New Study Claims the CO2 Increase Since 1850 Can Account for Only Half of Modern Global Warming  The rest didn’t occur until AlGore entered politics.

I tried to add EV chargers to my rental property. Here’s what happened  Far better to get a hybrid, which carries its charger with it.

UK Announces Plans To Crack Down On Climate Protests

Why The Woke Create the Disasters They Warn Of

They Can’t Make Green Energy Using Only Green Energy

John Fetterman said he’s ‘always supported’ fracking – he previously said ‘I don’t’ and ‘never have’

“Just Read” always works for me.

Trump Says He Wants Marjorie Taylor Greene in His Next Administration (Rolling Stone) If they didn’t have Trump, they wouldn’t have anything to write about.

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There has always been a tension within the progressive alliance between gays and lesbians on the one hand, and Muslims on the other. As long as either group was relatively marginal, they could maintain an uneasy truce within the larger leftist coalition. But now that the gay lobby is seemingly ascendant, the dynamic has changed. Muslims are, in effect, being asked to submit.

The following article concerns the offense taken by a mosque in Amsterdam at a request from the (communist) mayoress that they sign a pledge to condemn violence against sexual deviants. The leadership of the mosque considers this an insult to their honor and an affront to the dignity of Muslims, etc.

In the long run, my money’s on the Muslims. In every political conflict they can always back up their position with the implicit threat of mob violence, which should provide them with a trump card. But we’ll see.

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

El Paso may stop sending migrant buses to NYC over Biden policy change (N.Y. Post) The squeasky wheel gets the grease.

OPEC+ members endorse output cut after U.S. coercion accusation (Reuters)

Biden wants high gas prices — he just doesn’t want voters to notice (N.Y. Post)

The immigration crisis isn’t what you think it is (The Hill)

White House ‘deeply disappointed’ after Abbas tells Putin he doesn’t trust US (Times of Israel)

Congress eyes cutting off foreign markets from US strategic reserve oil (Washington Examiner) Eyes!

Administration’s Links to China Threatens National Security: Pompeo

NBC: Biden Challenges Are Due to Communications, Not Policy Failures

Commerce Dept Puts Squeeze on Americans Working on Chinese Chips

Buttigieg Admits Recession Is ‘Possible but Not Inevitable,’ Defends Economy

Texas Sheriff Declares Undocumented Migrants “Crime Victims” To Secure Visas  Democrat Texas sheriff–a rare thing.

Biden’s Border Chief Focused on Agency Culture, Not Migrants: Report

“He Was Not Arrested”: CNN & MSNBC Ex-Bosses Struggle To Justify Burying The Hunter Biden Story

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked emails reveal Hunter Biden’s real estate company received a $40MILLION investment from Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina, the billionaire widow of corrupt Moscow mayor, who also paid president’s son $3.5million consulting fee (Daily Mail) Sometimes it is good to be the son of the king.

Durham slams FBI for botching Trump-Russia investigation in closing Danchenko arguments

Hiding Hunter’s Laptop: “Right Out Of The Soviet Playbook”

Trump ‘Trying to Hide His Guilt’ If He Refuses 1/6 Subpoena: Legal Expert (Newsweek) Well, Larry Tribe, so it ought to say ‘senile partisan legal expert’.

‘I decided to share my voice’: Estela Juarez on her mother, who Trump deported, and her new book (The Guardian)

‘Saturday Night Live’ targets Jan. 6 committee, Trump (The Hill)

Trump attacks American Jews, posting they must ‘get their act together’ on Israel (Washington Post) Hardly an ‘attack’.

Trump Response to Jan. 6 Subpoena Was ‘Self-Incriminating’: Glenn Kirschner (Newsweek)

Trump Beats Biden In 2024 Hypothetical And Barely Anyone Cares About Jan. 6: Harvard Poll

Kari Lake’s sugarcoated Trumpism is scarier than the original (Washington Post) Greg Sargent is the backup Trump-hater at the Washington Post; Jennifer Rubin must be on vacation or something.

Climate change exposes lack of US preparedness in defending Arctic Ocean interests, US senator says (CNN)

La Niña winter will feel like a tundra — without the snowy wonderlands (N.Y. Post)

More than 80 percent of the U.S. is facing troubling dry conditions (Washington Post)

Climate change: Can an enormous seaweed farm help curb it? (BBC)

California Passed a Landmark Law About Plastic Pollution. Why Are Some Environmentalists Still Concerned? (Inside Climate News)

Here’s How The Ocean is Being Harnessed as a Climate Solution (TIME)

Endangered species protections kick in too late, study finds (CNBC)

Japan Considers Removing 60 Year Limit On Nuclear Plant Operations

Greta Thunberg Fractures German Greens with Her Call to Continue Operation of Hated Nuclear Power Plants

The Real “Existential Threat” To People and Planet

If You Don’t Already Live in a Sponge City, You Will Soon  (Wired ‘Science’)

Monday Mirthiness: Mickey Mann Plays The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Wash Post: Climate Change Makes People Mean

Battery Tech Breakthrough: 10-Minute Charge Time Paves Way for Mass Adoption of Affordable Electric Car  Sorry, but I don’t believe it.

Sad: Climate Activists Vandalize A Jackson Pollock But No One Notices  (Babylon Bee)

Another day, another EV Battery Fire

Extreme Cold May Trigger Power Blackouts Across New England  On the other hand, they’ve got plenty of trees to burn.

Ukraine war: Kyiv attacked by ‘kamikaze drones’, say officials

How Iodine Pills Can—and Can’t—Help Against Radiation (Wired ‘Science’)

NATO Kicks Off Nuclear War Games On Monday

Gazprom CEO Says All Nord Stream NatGas Could Be Redirected To Turkey

How Russian Ships Are Laundering Grain Stolen From Occupied Ukraine (Bloomberg)

Russian Journalist Who Protested War Flees Country

EU Unanimously Votes To Designate Vladimir Putin ‘A Real Jerk’ (Babylon Bee)

Newsweek Legitimizes Idea Nuclear War Could Offer ‘Temporary’ Help for Climate Change

Report: Missile Tech ‘Funded by US Taxpayers, Through the US Government,’ Ends Up in China

Report: Ukrainian Nuclear Reactor Staff Must Join Russian Energy Company to Keep Jobs

NY Times Columnist Charles Blow: Racism of L.A. Latino Democrat Pols Is ‘White Supremacy’

To understand China you need to understand whiteness, yet it’s missing from the conversation (ABC) I guess Chinese are honorary white people.

The SAT Gap and the Supreme Court: Are Asians Just Massively Smarter or Is the SAT Broken?

‘Absolutely’: Tim Ryan Promised Investigation Into Whether Government Created HIV To Kill Black People  If so, it’s doing a piss-poor job of it.

ACT Test Scores Drop to Lowest Levels in More Than 30 Years

Tourists Shocked As Number Of Homeless Encampments Explodes In DC

The right’s dangerous embrace of soft isolationism

Igor Danchenko Trial Revelations: Team Mueller’s Obstruction

The Greens Embrace Bans on Speaking

Former FBI director said blockchain is easier to trace than paper money

New study suggests people with dark personalities weaponize victimhood

‘Rings of Power’ Comes To An End: Here Are The Most Cringy Beta Male Moments From Season 1

NYT Cries Over Dems Not Praising Biden’s Atrocious $1.9T ‘Stimulus’ Before Midterms

Rep. Bush Spends $500K on Security, Calls to Defund Police

These two new COVID variants could drive the next surge. Here’s why they’re causing surprise and concern (S.F. Chronicle)

Chicago’s Top Doc Predicts ‘We’re Going to See a COVID Surge’ This Winter (NBC Chicago)

Vaccine makers face revenue slump as demand falls for Covid jabs (Financial Times)

Few Getting Updated COVID-19 Boosters Despite White House Pleas

‘Pandemic of the unvaccinated’ turned out to be just another Democratic lie

Republicans are trying to win by spreading three false talking points. Here’s the truth (The Guardian) Of course, Robert Reich wouldn’t know the truth if it bit him on the foot.

Who’s behind those vile, right-wing political TV ads during the baseball playoffs (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Christian childcare teacher who refused to read LGBT books to kids sues after being fired: ‘Blatantly illegal’ (Fox)

What are tech billionaires’ text messages like? Just as petty as ours, it turns out (The Guardian)

Perspective: The shadow side of the fight against white Christian nationalism (Deseret News)

We Should Try to Prevent Another Alex Jones (N.Y. Times) How? Genetic engineering?

Kari Lake won’t commit to accepting 2022 election results (CNN)

CBS Smears Rush Limbaugh & Talk Radio as ‘Bad for America’  I miss Rush Limbaugh.

New Book Reveals Jim Jordan’s Dirty Tricks With Impeachment (Daily Beast) And of course if it’s in a book it must be true, right?

Why are scientists filing lawsuits against their critics?

ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES: Feds Could Investigate PayPal Speech ‘Fine’

New Zealand Arts Funder Rejects Shakespeare as ‘Imperialism’

The End of the Good Republicans (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew reveal their true agenda: ‘Good Republicans’ are, of course, anti-Trump and quasi-Democrat.

The Problem of Marjorie Taylor Greene (N.Y. Times) They keep trying to cancel her and she refuses to stay cancelled.

Biden DOJ Wants 6-Month Prison Sentence For Steve Bannon

CNN’s Inside Politics Uses Term ‘The Big Lie’ Again After Being Told Not To by CNN President

‘Abuse of Power’: Biden DOJ Targets Another Pro-Lifer With FACE Act Charges

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They forgot one: Regularly vote Democrat.

(Most reference works I’ve consulted make no distinction between ‘sociopath’ and ‘psychopath’.)

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Quantum entanglement is the binding together of two particles or objects, even though they may be far apart – their respective properties are linked in a way that’s not possible under the rules of classical physics.

It’s a weird phenomenon that Einstein described as “spooky action at a distance”, but its weirdness is what makes it so fascinating to scientists. In a 2021 study, quantum entanglement was directly observed and recorded at the macroscopic scale – a scale much bigger than the subatomic particles normally associated with entanglement.

The dimensions involved are still very small from our perspective – the experiments involved two tiny aluminum drums one-fifth the width of a human hair – but in the realm of quantum physics they’re absolutely huge.

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Just in time for us all to die from ‘climate change’. How convenient.

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This week a lawsuit against the CDC has given us access to some of the V-safe data. This is the smartphone app created by the CDC that lets you register for the vaccine and report side effects and other health information. As with any user-reported data, it should be taken with a grain of salt, but there are people who argue that reporting systems like this and VAERS undercount adverse events because most people don’t bother reporting. Either way, this is data that the CDC has been sitting on and only released due to a recent court order.

The data provided is from 10.1 million users and the headline number is 7.7% of those required medical attention after vaccination. It is such an absurdly high number that if I was working at the CDC, I would insist it was incorrect and there must be something wrong with the software. It will be very interesting moving forward to know how many employees were privy to this information or if there was any internal debate about releasing or debunking it. Data like this would create a liability nightmare, that is if liability existed for such a thing.

ZMan reads the tea leaves.

Is the Biden administration planning to use tactical nuclear weapons against the Russians in defense of Ukraine? It should be unthinkable but we live in an age in which the most offensive and absurd is celebrated, so we can no longer assume anything, no matter how monstrous, is beyond the pale. The bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines was an outlandish act of provocation, so we cannot assume there is anyone in the admiration on the side of restraint.

The first clue that the Biden people are talking about the use of nuclear weapons is their endless talking about the use of nuclear weapons. For months they have been talking about it, in the context of the Russians threatening to use nukes. The trouble is, the Russians have never threatened to use nuclear weapons. Western media keeps making this claim, but an examination of the record shows that Russian officials have repeatedly said the exact opposite.

It is a well known aspect of regime psychology to project what they are doing or plotting onto some enemy of the regime. In 2016 we got the Russian collusion hoax in which Trump was accused of plotting with foreigners to rig the election. What we eventually learned is that it was the regime that was working with foreign intelligence services to not only rig the election but undermine the Trump administration. The opposite rule is an iron law of understanding regime behavior.

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One of the most powerful environmental regulators in the country is set to upturn a critical part of the trucking industry—again. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has opened up a public comment period until October 27 on a new proposed rule, the Advanced Clean Fleet rule, which would ban the sale of diesel-fueled commercial vehicles in California by 2030.

No one knows exactly how this rule will play out in the years to come, least of all CARB, which does not concern itself with details like the lengths of haul run by the trucking carriers based in California, the performance characteristics of commercially available battery-electric vehicles, or indeed their affordability and total cost of ownership. As technology advances, we’re told, the logic of the Board’s decision will be revealed in the fullness of time.

The rule being considered by California regulators today bears all the hallmarks of a regulation concocted deep in the bowels of CARB, hermetically sealed off from any consideration of the operating models of California truckers. Californian carriers are crucial links in the national supply chain, because not only do they connect North America’s largest port complex at Los Angeles and Long Beach to the rest of the country, but they also keep the nation fed with Californian produce.

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Periodically the problem becomes an issue for Congress and a “reform law” is passed that does not work. Despite that every few years there is a major effort, often involving more than one service, to deal with the problem themselves. None ever succeed. For example, in 2017 the U.S. Air Force joined the Navy by continuing to extend temporary exceptions to the traditional (since 1947) “up or out” policy prevalent throughout the American military. What up or out meant was that if you were not promoted within a certain number of years (of your last promotion), you had to leave. That meant capable, often very capable personnel, especially NCOs and mid-rank officers, with jobs that had little opportunity for promotion were often forced to leave because of this rule. The air force, like the other services, are slowly modifying the “up or out” rule so that it at least becomes tolerable and not counterproductive.

Whenever there were major reductions in military personnel (after World War II, Korea and Vietnam) it was common for a lot of very competent NCOs and officers to be “up or outed so, since the last major round of downsizing in the 1990s, all the services sought more ways to avoid losing skilled personnel who being lost for no other reason than that there were no opportunities for promotion in their military occupation specialties (MOS). After 2001 the navy and air force were hardest hit and both services have implemented temporary adjustments to “up or out” rules to keep people they could not afford to lose and could not easily replace by retraining veteran personnel in other fields or obtaining new recruits with the needed skills and experience.

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Over the last seven years, hundreds of bills and resolutions seeking to put an end to daylight saving time have been introduced throughout the U.S. Many haven’t passed, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Two states — Hawaii and most of Arizona — already observe permanent standard time (the time between November and March), meaning they don’t change their clocks at all.

Under current federal law, the U.S. as a whole can only abandon the twice-yearly changing of the clocks if Congress enacts a federal law, or a state or local government submits detailed information to the U.S. Secretary of Transportation “supporting its contention the requested change would serve the convenience of commerce.”

Documents show top DeSantis officials were personally involved in Martha’s Vineyard flights (Politico)

Peter Thiel’s midterm bet: the billionaire seeking to disrupt America’s democracy (The Guardian)

Wisconsin lawyer suing over fake elector plot wants to probe Ron Johnson’s Jan. 6 communications (NBC)

Misinformation most amplified on TikTok, Twitter: report (The Hill)

Racist GOP appeals heat up in final weeks before midterms (Washington Post)

GA Debate Blows Up On Tiffany Cross: Guests Say Walker Met Expectations, Warnock Didn’t!

The Right’s Quiet Uncanceling of a Dead White Supremacist (Vanity Fair)

ABC Panel ERUPTS After Christie Questions Jan 6 Committee Credibility

Unchecked review: how Trump dodged two impeachments … and the January 6 committee? (The Guardian)

Documents reveal Australia’s efforts to stay neutral as Donald Trump claimed electoral fraud (The Guardian)

Paul Ryan says Trump will not be 2024 nominee (N.Y. Post)

A history lesson for Donald Trump (Spectator) Journalists never tire of giving unasked-for advice.

Suspected Stockton serial killer caught with gun while ‘out hunting,’ police chief says (KCRA Sacrament0)

EPA says state agencies’ regulation of air pollution may violate civil rights of Black residents (NOLA.com) Your tax dollars at work.

EPA: Louisiana may have discriminated against Black communities facing air pollution (The Hill) The EPA is one of the reasons Richard Nixon will burn in Hell for all eternity.

Chicago Fifth-Grade Teacher Allegedly Made ‘Kill List’ Of Students, Teachers: Police

NYT Covers Mexican Racism, American Readers Baffled

ABC: “Xi’s China May Represent the End of Whiteness. Except That the Chinese Communist Party Itself Mirrors Whiteness.”  Who knew that the Chinese are champions of White Supremacy?

LA’s Black-Latino Tensions Bared in City Council Scandal

Teens are pouring milk out in grocery stores in new trend to raise awareness about dairy production emissions (Fox)

To romanticise or demonise – not the only ways to frame working-class lives (The Guardian)

Fast food fever: how ultra-processed meals are unhealthier than you think (The Guardian)

The mystery lurking in California’s $8 gas prices (Washington Post)

The global economy is in chaos. Nobody’s coming to the rescue. (Politico)

IMF meetings have exposed the fragmentation of the global economy (The Guardian)

Officials ‘grinding to the bone’ to prepare for cash-bail reform amid what they call misinformation, politicization (Chicago Tribune)

Democratic Party Moved From Uncomfortable To Intolerable For Members: #WalkAway Founder

The WashPost Way: ‘Badass’ Journalists ‘Afflicting the Comfortable’ for ‘Radical Change’

Report: San Francisco ‘Woke’ Policies Turned City Into Open Drug Market  Good–maybe all the druggies will move there and leave the rest of us alone.

Why Are Student Test Scores Plunging? Look At Politicized Education

National Conservatism Is New Deal Liberalism

Why high speed rail hasn’t caught on

The Invisible Crisis

Democrats Spent $2 Trillion to Save the Economy. They Don’t Want to Talk About It. (N.Y. Times) Possibly because it’s obvious to anyone with two brain cells to rub together that they just made it worse.

Obama Calls Dems a ‘Buzzkill’ on Cancel Culture, Policy

Nancy Pelosi Claims Dems Will Win Big – Apologizes For Saying Trump’s Name Out Loud On Colbert Show

List from Trump of Voting Irregularities

Malpass survives climate gaffe, but the World Bank’s fossil fuel policy may not (Politico)

Nature is disappearing: Here’s why it matters and what to do about it (The Hill)

‘Like a train that can’t be stopped’: how the climate crisis threatens clammers (The Guardian)

What is methane, how much does Australia emit, and will we sign the pledge? (The Guardian)

Methane reduction is vital to achieving a 1.5C future (The Guardian)

‘It was terrifying’: Stop Oil activists on the new battle against fossil fuel (The Guardian)

Ocean currents protect Galápagos Islands from global warming; but are they safe forever? (Down to Earth Magazine)

Two Words Explain California’s Wildfire Woes: Spotted Owl

In Overheated Economy, Dems Forced To Cool Climate Messaging

More Foods Will Be Gene-Edited Than You Think

Green Academics Blame “Climate Injustice” for Energy Price Hardship

Driving Buy: Pollution, Customers and Development

What to do with your old phones, gadgets and other e-waste (CNN) Gazelle.com.

This groundbreaking motionless wind turbine is 50% more efficient than regular turbines (Interesting Engineering)

Cheap wind harvester generates electricity from a gentle breeze (New Atlas)

Is Global Warming Responsible for Hurricane Ian? The Evidence Says No

Omicron-specific Covid boosters appear to work well, new data says—regardless of the side effects you experience (CNBC)

Signs of immunosenescence correlate with poor outcome of mRNA COVID-19 vaccination in older adults (Nature)

Omicron boosters could arm you against variants that don’t yet exist (Nature) And give you ailments you wouldn’t otherwise have gotten.

North Carolina judge sends prospective juror to jail for refusing to wear mask in mask-optional courthouse (Fox)

Gov. Pritzker changing the state’s recommendation on face masks

As Ebola reaches Ugandan capital, vaccines race to catch up

Researchers engineer SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant with 80% mortality rate  Oh, joy.

Migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard may get visas after being declared victims of crime (The Guardian)

How Kamala Harris’ Approval Ratings Stand 4 Weeks Before Midterms (Newsweek)

Protest closes US-Mexico border bridge in Texas (NBC)

The high price of Biden’s foolish energy policy and Saudi squabble (The Hill)

Buses brought the border to New York City. Soon emergency tents will house hundreds of migrants (CNN)

Adams’ NYC migrant shelter build on Randall’s Island sparks major safety concerns: ‘Riot on the island’ (Fox)

The lawyer who could deliver on Biden’s wish to be the most pro-union president (Washington Post) Look for … the Union label….

Importing more foreign farm workers is sowing the seeds of destruction (The Hill)

Texas border patrol discovers $402K in liquid meth inside of condom-filled pumpkins (Fox)

Federal Tax Haul Nears Record-High Share Of GDP

Biden calls testimony, video from Jan. 6 committee hearing ‘devastating’ (Reuters)

Inside Hunter Biden’s cash ties to communist China’s ‘political warfare’ machine

Economists Project ’23 Recession, Job Losses in WSJ Survey  Spendaholic Dems will do that.

Embattled Biden Turning to Trump-Era Rule to Expel Venezuelan Migrants

The Other McCain has a Darwin Award nominee.

Say hello to Steven Joaquin “Zhoie” Perez (a/k/a “Furry Potato”), a transgender YouTuber who specializes in “First Amendment audits.”

You may not have heard of this phenomenon: People who record videos in public places — post offices, municipal buildings, etc. — in order to test {“audit,” as they say) the police response. These self-declared are deliberately non-cooperative when confronted by law enforcement, refusing to identify themselves and sometimes insulting the officers who usually show up in response to reports of “suspicious behavior.”

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Well, it’s more of a shed than a house, but still…. It would probably do for a burger shack or an ATM hut.

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Terahertz (T-ray) technologies offer the promise to transform how we interact with the world around us, from delivering lightning-fast data transfer beyond 6G to providing X-ray-like imaging without any harmful radiation. Yet effectively and efficiently harnessing T-rays for mainstream commercial applications has continued to elude scientists and engineers, relegating T-ray technologies to the realm of science fiction.

However, recent breakthroughs in how terahertz waves are generated and detected have now brought the technology to a tipping point for mainstream adoption. T-ray scanners can now be small enough to fit on a desktop, and they have enabled widespread terahertz use in medical, corporate, manufacturing and security settings across the world, with more developments to come. Here’s how T-ray technology has evolved over the past few decades and what we can expect in the years ahead.

Good news and bad news.

“Socialism, this is the path to save the planet, I don’t have the least doubt. Capitalism is the road to hell,” Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez told the 2009 Copenhagen climate conference.

Rhetoric like that won the socialist dictator the admiration of socialists from Barack Obama to Noam Chomsky. But the dirty little secret of the socialist revolution in Venezuela was that it was a front for a massive drug smuggling operation. Chavez and his successor, Nicolas Maduro, gutted Venezuela’s rich oil resources and turned the country into a socialist drug cartel.

“Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the proven leadership of vice president Maduro,” Sean Penn promised. The population has fled or is starving, but the revolution endures.

In 2020, Maduro and top officials of his regime were indicted in the United States as leaders of the Cartel de los Soles for conspiring with FARC to smuggle tons of cocaine to the United States. Venezuela’s biggest asset was its border with Colombia. Cuba, which had backed FARC and other narcoterrorists in Colombia, scored a big win with the socialist takeover in Venezuela.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Tonight was American Experiment’s Fall Briefing, and, as Scott previewed, Tulsi Gabbard was our keynote speaker. I looked forward both to meeting and to hearing her, as she is one of the most interesting figures on our political scene. And, of course, the timing was fortuitous with Gabbard having just departed the Democratic Party.

So, what did I think of her? I was blown away. Our audience was, too.

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When secular, non-practicing criminal Muslims get sent to prison, by the time they are released, they tend to be full-fledged mujahideen, ready to slay infidels for Allah. To make matters worse, many non-Muslim criminals convert to Islam during their prison terms.

Based on the following report, this is especially true in France.

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

Steve at Tools of Renewal lets it all go.

I do not want to sign up for your cool updates and offers, especially when you sign me up without permission. When I am forced to opt out, I do not want to be asked why I left. Please don’t tell me you’re sorry to see me go. No human being was ever aware I was there in the first place.

I do not want to be part of your cool new community, or worse, “family,” and neither does anyone else. I do not want to interact with you or other users. I do not want other users to know I exist.

If people wanted to associate with you, they would have talked to you when you were in high school, which they did not, because you are nerds.

I do not want a password on the hardware you sold me. I do not care if someone hacks into my Gopro or wireless printer. If your stupid software insists on a password, do not tell me what kind of password it has to be. Allow me to use “1,” which is my all-time favorite. Please do not put a long, complicated initial password with a lot of numbers and capital letters on the product you sold me and then put the password on a tiny label on the bottom of the product in microprint.

Please do not print your serial numbers in fonts only an ant can read.

Please put your software on disks (in the box) AND online, do not charge me for downloading it, do not put a bunch of junk in it no one wants, and do not make me fill out any forms in order to get it. Don’t even think about charging me for it.

Include all the necessary cables. Seriously, what’s wrong with you?

Do not force me to upgrade my firmware or software before using the product. I don’t care if it understands the latest emojis or gets along well with Tiktok. Last year’s stuff is fine.

If your product is a printer, do not write your software so it tries to sell me your toner cartridges and lies and says they’re better than the other ones. I do not want the $100 cartridges. I want the $17 cartridges from China which work just as well, and I am willing to hack your printer in able to use them, because using someone else’s toner isn’t stealing.

Do not include “lite” software which does not work but hits me with ads for the real software I have to pay extra for.

Do not cover your package with ridiculous bragging about how green it is. I do not care. It’s going to the same dumpster, where I will mingle the plastic, styrofoam, cardboard and staples without remorse. For all I care, you can spray your boxes with dioxin and use plutonium staples along with cellophane that has been rubbed all over Ebola patients. Just get your product to me without damage.

Just knock it off, okay? Just sell me what I want, make it quick to start using it, and buzz off.

The January 6 panel makes it clear: American democracy needs accountability (The Guardian) Indeed, although not in the way he means.

Why The January 6th Committee Hearings Were Just As Riveting In The Room As They Were On TV (Deadline) Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz….

Ban on guns with serial numbers removed is unconstitutional -U.S. judge (Reuters)

Mark Wahlberg is the latest wealthy person to ditch California for ‘a better life’ in a taxless state (Fortune) Taxless? Hardly.

Jamie Dimon says ‘some investors don’t give a s–t’ about woke ‘ESG’ investing (N.Y. Post)

How Kathy Hochul is ‘bribing’ her way to election — with nearly $1 billion of your money (N.Y. Post)

Woman with 40 prior arrests who stole wallet from dead crash victim is freed without bail (N.Y. Post)

Heartless homeless woman who pickpocketed dead man, 62, of ‘only $40’ after he was crushed by construction truck in NYC is FREED without bail – and claims ‘he robbed me first’ (Daily Mail)

Plans to turn parts of all Chicago expressways into tollways (WGN)

In Canada it’s illegal to call yourself software engineer

4 Myths Jon Stewart Perpetuated About Radical Gender Theory

Stacey Abrams’ group funnels thousands to director’s family and friends with no political experience (Fox) A classic case of Democrat machine politics.

The Danchenko trial: on framing Trump, on exonerating Hunter

Wawa Calls It Quits On Its Hometown City, Shuttering Two More Philadelphia Stores Due To “Safety Challenges”

CNN Panel Does Not Like Being Reminded Democrats Also Believe Conspiracies