Avlon: Trump’s response to subpoena is ‘vomit’ (CNN)

Trump Responds To Jan. 6 Committee Subpoena With Letter Pushing Election Fraud Claims (NBC)

Donald Trump’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Newsweek)

Trump Is Going to Create Yet Another Constitutional Crisis (Daily Beast)

Donald Trump Tried to Destroy the Constitution (The Atlantic)

The Munich Model for Trump’s National Security Extortion (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew neocons revert to their Trotskyite roots.

While Condemning Racism, Racist MSNBC Laments ‘Latinos Who Are White’

Report: DC AG Probing Border Governors Over Illegal Migrant Transports

Chris Pratt Is the New Tim Tebow

Secret Service reached out to Oath Keepers ahead of January 6 riot (CNN)

Jan. 6 Capitol riot panel briefed on multiple calls between Secret Service and Oath Keepers, NBC News reports (CNBC)

What was the point of Ted Cruz tweeting that fake news story anyway? (Washington Post)

The Jan. 6 Hearings Are Over. These 3 Things Must Happen Now. (N.Y. Times) 1. Witch-hunt, 2. Witch-hunt, 3. Witch-hunt.

D.C. attorney general opens investigation into Republican governors’ relocating migrants to the capital (Texas Tribune) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH.

Dems fear Kari Lake could be Arizona’s governor—and a major MAGA star (Axios) OH NOES!

“Pretty troublesome”: New COVID variant BQ.1 now makes up 1 in 10 cases nationwide, CDC estimates (CBS) Once more, it’s time to PANIC!

Omicron BA.5 is declining in the U.S. as emerging variants gain ground, CDC data shows (CNBC)

A global epidemic of cancer among people younger than 50 could be emerging (CNN)

Fauci Edited Paper By NIH-Funded Group Tied To Wuhan Lab

CDC Director: Americans Should Brace for ‘Severe’ Flu Season  And don’t forget to PANIC!

Public Relations Company for Big Pharma Now “Embedding” Employees at CDC One hand washes the other.

Weber Shandwick provides PR for Moderna and Pfizer, while staffing the CDC

Border governors taking action on illegal immigration because Biden administration caused crisis (Fox)

Venezuelan migrants in shock and limbo after new US immigration plan (CNN)

Mayorkas Threatened With Impeachment Over Border ‘Whipping’ Response (Newsweek) Talk’s cheap.

We’re Heading for a Stagflationary Crisis Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen (TIME)

Nearly 130,000 unaccompanied migrant children entered the U.S. shelter system in 2022, a record (CBS)

CNN, MSNBC Bosses Offer Awful Defense of Dismissing the Hunter Laptop Story in 2020

Latest Supply Chain Crisis Could Threaten Global Stash Of Food, Energy

DOJ Sued Over Refusal To Explain Zero Protection For Conservative Supreme Court Justices’ Homes

Former FBI Agent Thibault Rejects House GOP Request for Testimony

Daniel Greenfield.

Luftmensch meant a ‘man of air’ who lived detached from the real world, had no income or any way to pay his bills, and yet here he was. With the internet, we’re all cloud people now. Our economy is dominated by companies with unclear business plans except that they somehow involve the cloud.

Facebook, which despite its recent downturn, still has a stock price twice the value of GE, unveiled its big achievement, ‘Legs‘ which will allow its avatars to enjoy the appearance of feet in the metaverse. Netflix’s stock price is double that of IBM, even though it suffered some reverses when investors realized that its plan to continue growing forever while spending $17 billion a year on creating bad movies and TV shows was not actually sustainable. Good thing there’s solar panel and wind turbine companies to bet on.

Beyond cryptocurrencies (just imagine if your money were even more intangible, less secure and backed by even less in the way of assets than it is now) and software as a service (why own when you can rent), the effect of the luftmensch on our society has been far more devastating. The social web eliminated personal and geographic space. No longer were people kept apart by neighborhoods, communities, classes, national borders or even languages. Like a great slum housing project, we were all living on top of one another. And there was never a respite from life in this ugly, loud, noisy and dangerous neighborhood.

BBC.

So go out and wallow.

The Other McCain is not impressed.

This week marked the beginning of the end of “The United States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, more commonly known as the January 6th Committee.”

Congress has now adjourned until after the election, which Democrats will lose, and so, while we might see some further theatrics during the lame-duck sessions before the 118th Congress convenes in January, this was their big finale: “Let’s subpoena Trump!”

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Angry culture-enrichers in France are threatening to give a teacher the Samuel Paty treatment, i.e. they intend to behead him. It’s not clear what he did to upset the soldiers of Allah, aside from the fact that he’s Jewish.

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

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Before Rodney Briones’ physicians at Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center in California treated him with Remdesivir, they allegedly did not disclose the risks to him or to his wife, Christina, and did not obtain informed consent, according to a complaint filed by the Briones family.

The couple had gone to the managed care consortium for help after Rodney developed COVID-19 symptoms and tested positive twice for SARS-CoV-2.

A five-day course of treatment with the controversial drug and other allegedly contraindicated, high-risk medications allegedly led to kidney failure for the 50-year-old Briones, who was subsequently placed on a ventilator. During this time, Kaiser Riverside reportedly refused to allow the man’s wife or family to see him. He died on Sept. 12.

Joel Kotkin.

In the past, ruling classes sought to protect the system that secured their coveted positions. But sometimes, as in the era before the French or Russian Revolutions, some in the ruling circles stopped believing in their religion, their traditions, and their state, only to be exiled, executed, or turned into what the Soviets called “former persons.”

Like our current elites, many French aristocrats lived dissolute lives but also supported revolutionary ideas which threatened “their own rights and even their existence,” as Alexis de Tocqueville noted. Today a large, even dominant portion of the wealthiest and most privileged parts of our society—including the heirs of nasty capitalist titans such as Henry Ford or John D. Rockefeller—are key funders of an increasingly anti-capitalist left. Others are still young tech billionaires and—increasingly—their discarded or former spouses.

This elite has arisen at a time when, as in France before 1789, inheritance is becoming ever more important as a vehicle for upward mobility, which is otherwise increasingly remote for most of the population. Home ownership among middle income Americans, for example, the primary means for asset accumulation for the non-rich, has dropped by over 8 percent in the past decade, while the wealthy have garnered the greatest gain from increased housing prices. American millennials are three times as likely as boomers to count on inheritance for their retirement. Among the youngest cohort, those ages 18 to 22, over 60 percent see inheritance as their primary source of sustenance as they age.

NPR.

The headline tells you everything you need to know about the Narrative media attitude toward facts.

‘Powder keg’ for ‘disaster’: As migrant surge sweeps NYC, here’s where they’re being housed (N.Y. Post) Remember: The total number of migrants sent to New York City is what Texas towns receive every day.

The Ute Indian Tribe calls Biden’s newest national monument an ‘unlawful act of genocide’ (Salt Lake Tribune)

Biden says he visited Rio Grande — despite ducking border trip (N.Y. Post) More Biden lies.

36 migrants arrive outside VP Kamala Harris residence, buses continue pouring into NYC (Fox)

DOJ Sued for Refusing to Say Why It Ignored Protests at Justices’ Homes  Well, because they were Heretics and Sinners. Duh.

Social Security’s 8.7% COLA Will Protect Retirees From Inflation, but Will Hasten Program’s Insolvency  Maybe people will quit voting for Democrat giveaways. Maybe.

WSJ: Top FTC Officials Had Stocks in Firms They Regulated

‘Demented Liar Joe Biden’

The Stagflation President

The Era Of Cheap Food And Cheap Gasoline Is Over

WATCH: Biden Says He Agrees With Everything Maxine Waters Says. Roll the Tape.

Media Desperately Spin Inflation: ‘Silver Lining!’ Economy ‘Strong!’

AOC Welcomes Flood of Migrants to Big Apple

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week Vol. 15

The Palm Court $30 burger tastes like the death of San Francisco (S.F. Gate)

Eyeballs and AI power the research into how falsehoods travel online (NPR) From the Narrative point of view, of course.

Clinton Crony Linked to Steele Dossier and Russia Serves on Taxpayer-Funded Nonprofit That Aims To Build ‘Resilient Democracies’

Sorry Nobel Committee, Ben Bernanke’s Interventions Were The Crisis

Massive Bean Piles Spotted Up And Down Mississippi River As Barges Can’t Meet Harvest Demand

Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs

Noah Seeks To Make Filibusters Great Again With Wendy Davis MSNBC Doc Abortion Barbie is always a favorite on the Left.

Texas Votes To Airlift Austin To California (Babylon Bee)

Survey: Nearly 8 Percent of San Francisco, Seattle Residents Plan to Move  And who could blame them?

ABC’s ‘Station 19′: ‘Women’s Bodies are (Being) Held Hostage by the Government’

MSNBC: ‘Non-Partisan’ Abrams, Warnock Activists Are Trying To Save Democracy

Michael Steele, Beschloss: Vote Democrat, Just as the January 6 Committee Taught You

Minnesota Medical School Students Pledge To Value Activism Over Medicine

Nation’s Top Law Firms Fund Anti-Semitic Campus Groups at Berkeley

Big Three Evening Nets Ignore Soros Pouring $1M to Boost Election-Denier Abrams for 2 Days

The Midterm Boogeyman of ‘Christian Nationalism’

Chase Bank allegedly shutters bank account of religious freedom nonprofit, demands donor list (Fox)

Abrams: Kemp ‘simply refused to commit treason’ for Trump (The Hill)

Stacey Abrams slams Gov. Kemp, says he’s as ‘vicious and as callous’ as Trump (Fox) And she’s a bigger liar than Biden.

Jordan Peterson, ‘lightning rod’ of US culture wars, receives warm embrace in Israel (Times of Israel)

He Marched At The Nazi Rally In Charlottesville. Then He Went Back To Being A Cop. (Huffington Post)

Va. parents could face abuse charges for not affirming their LGBTQ child under new bill (ABC)

Counterproductive Cancel Culture: Ye Banned from Social Media and Chase Bank

BREAKING: Soros Gave $30M to Groups Urging Censorship of So-Called Disinfo Before Midterms

Sidney Powell’s nonprofit raised $16 million as she spread election falsehoods (Washington Post) How much did Hillary raise? How much Stacy Abrams?

Leftist Troll Tries To Piss Off J.K. Rowling, and She Couldn’t Care Less

Yahoo! Finance Makes Stupid Attempt to Blame Pro-Lifers for Making America’s Diaper Crisis ‘Worse’

First Martian life likely broke the planet with climate change, made themselves extinct (LiveScience.com)

Ancient Life Caused The Destruction Of Mars, Scientists Speculate (Futurism)

Plans to scrap nature-friendly farm subsidies put biodiversity target ‘at risk’ (The Guardian)

When Will the World As We Know It End From Climate Change? (Newsweek)

Scientists just discovered a new whale. Now they fear it may go extinct. (Washington Post)

How to get Asia to net zero (The Economist)

Green energy projects face stark environmental, local opposition nationwide (Fox)

Sweden’s Incoming Cabinet Says New Reactors Will Be Built (Bloomberg)

Irony: Greens Now Praying for a “Warmer” Winter to Help Germany Survive Energy Crisis

Who Throws Soup? Climate Activists Trash Van Gogh Painting With Tomato Bisque

U.S. extends Covid public health emergency even though Biden says pandemic is over (CNBC) It’s all about the PANIC!

U.S. extends COVID-19 public health emergency declaration (Reuters)

Posts mislead on Pfizer COVID vaccine’s impact on transmission (Associated Press)

Flu off to an early start as CDC warns about potentially severe season (NBC) Gotta keep up the PANIC!

“Severe Adverse Effects”: Doctors Warn Pfizer’s Paxlovid Can Interact With Common Medications

No Data To Recommend ‘Preferential’ Omicron Booster Jabs: WHO Panel

Babies Born In Lockdown Less Likely To Speak Before First Birthday; New Study Finds  Are their first words “How dare you!”?

Telemedicine is Dying

Nury Martinez’s ‘little Latina girls’ line sparks backlash (L.A. Times)

EPA: Louisiana may have discriminated against Black communities facing air pollution (The Hill)

Do we want social media companies to decide whether Kanye West gets a platform? (The Guardian) Robert Reich suddenly discovers that there is a threat to free speech.

The Ferguson Effect Eight Years Later

Tenured Professor Fired for His Breakthrough Race-IQ Study

Apple contractor fired after her day-in-the-life TikTok video went viral  I would never hire a Fashionable Minority employee. They inevitably spend more time thinking about how oppressed they are than doing any actual work.

Atlanta Fed President Reveals Five Years Of Trading Violations; Claims He “Didn’t Understand” Disclosure Obligations

Jan. 6 select committee votes to subpoena Trump for testimony, documents in connection with Capitol assault (CBS) Guess they’re feeling the lack of attention.

Trump reacts to committee’s unanimous vote to subpoena him (CNN)

7 takeaways from the January 6 hearing (CNN) Come and get your Narrative, fresh from the Hive.

The Trump Subpoena Will Be the Headline, But the Real Washington News Was Elsewhere (Politico)

The Jan. 6 hearings are over. Time to vote. (Washington Post) On what? Now much they’re obsessed with Trump? Who doesn’t know that already?

Jan. 6 panel: Trump ordered large-scale U.S. troop withdrawals after election (Axios)

New Robert Draper book shows how Trump worked the refs (Axios)

Trump: Committee a ‘BUST’: That’s Why It Wants My Testimony Now

Jan. 6 Panel Wraps Up Final Hearing (N.Y. Times)

Jan 6 Panel Continues To Hold Hearings For Stuffed Animals And Action Figures They Arranged In Chairs (Babylon Bee)

Jan. 6 Panel Proves Again Trump Must Be Held Accountable (Bl0omberg) The witch-hunt continues.

The Jan. 6 Committee Has Helped Make Trump a Historic President (Politico)

Pelosi, Dems put politics first in Trump impeachment, new book argues (Politico) Who doesn’t know that?

Turkey adopts media law jailing for spreading ‘disinformation’

Video Shows Pelosi Threatening to ‘Punch Out’ Trump on Jan. 6  I’d bet on Trump.

Judge Dismisses 1 Count Against Trump Dossier Source; 4 Counts to Go to Jury

ZMan’s weekly podcast. Highly recommended.

There used to be a time when certain pundits would post about the correlation between economics and election results. They would go to one of the quantitative guys who modeled these things and then make predictions based on his model. This was a way for a pundit to pretend he was smart. George Will perfected this trick back in 1992 when he consulted a Yale professor whose model predicted a Clinton win.

We do not see much of that anymore. The last time anyone bothered to make the connection was in the 2012 election. The economic models said the election should be razor thin, but that was declared haram. Obama was black Jesus and no one would be allowed to cast shade on our dusky savior. Since then, no one has bothered to talk about economics and elections.

Even now it is not getting much discussion, despite the fact we have 1970’s style inflation and a crumbling economy. People are feeling the pain at the cash register, but the real pain lies just after the election. People seem to get that and will most likely make this known on election day. On the other hand, the great invisible army of Biden voters may think everything is great. Who can really know?

Where does the Constitution authorize the Federal government to spend money on Education? On Welfare? On Health Care? On Pensions? Don’t sweat the arrival of socialism: It’s already here.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

“Intersectionality” is a favorite lib word. It refers to the idea that there is a hierarchy of oppression, so that, for example, Native American women are more oppressed than homosexual white men. All of the allegedly oppressed groups ostensibly make up the liberal coalition, and liberals expect them to take their places in the pecking order.

This works, sort of, as long as everyone is on board. But as we have often seen, divisions often appear between allegedly allied groups. A particularly enjoyable instance of the collapse of intersectionality happened in Dearborn, Michigan, when hundreds of Muslim parents attended a school board meeting to protest homosexual porn in the public schools’ libraries.

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You think the Biden inflation is bad? Check out grade inflation at Harvard.

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NASDAQ-listed The Metals Company (THC) says it has successfully collected polymetallic nodules from the seafloor of the Pacific Ocean as part of a trial of a new nodule collection system.

The trial marked the first such test in the Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ) since the 1970s. The CCZ is a 1.7-million-square-mile fracture zone in the eastern Pacific Ocean that contains trillions of potato-size polymetallic nodules lying on the muddy seafloor or just below. The rock-like deposits contain metals needed for the production of batteries that will be critical for the clean energy transition.

Cue hand-wringing by Eco-Nazis.

NYT: I am Shocked, SHOCKED to Find That Los Angeles City Councilpersons Are Ethnic Tribalists!

Raiders WR Charged With Shoving Cameraman, Jemele Hill Thinks Its ‘Racist’

DHS watchdog appointed by Trump has fueled an exodus of agency lawyers, sources say (NPR)

Health care inflation is coming for Biden (Politico)

Pelosi admits Biden admin must do better job of securing southern border during NYC visit (N.Y. Post)

Gov. Kathy Hochul says Joe Biden won’t ‘take ownership’ of NYC migrant crisis (N.Y. Post) Gee, she sounds like a Republican.

Cuomo Downplays Hunter Lying on Federal Gun Buying Form, a Felony

Alejandro Mayorkas has no shame

US Core CPI Surges To 40 Year Highs; Food & Shelter Costs Soar

Most PPP loans have been forgiven, despite signs of possible fraud

White House cops to pushing Saudi Arabia to postpone oil cuts until after midterms (N.Y. Post)

Muslim Families Back On No-Fly List After Attending School Board Meeting

Obama’s border chief: Mayorkas is a ‘scumbag’

Nets Ignore Biden’s Latest Lies: House Fire, Son Died in Iraq

How Biden and IRS Unlawfully Expanded Obamacare

Army’s Misplaced Priorities: Recruitment Shortfall More Problematic Than Climate Change

‘We are in trouble’: Study raises alarm about impacts of long covid (Washington Post) Gee, if only we had a vaccine … that worked.

The astounding impact and reach of long Covid, in numbers and charts (The Guardian)

CDC recommends Covid omicron booster shots for kids as young as 5 years old (CNBC) Unless the vaccines are officially recommended for children, pharma companies don’t qualify for immunity from liability for side effects.

Big Pharma Says Drug Prices Reflect R&D Cost. Researchers Call BS

Will the Feds Ever End the Public Health Emergency?

Lancet Commission Report: 6 Reasons COVID Response “A Massive Global Failure”  If you lie enough, eventually people stop believing you.

Jimmy Kimmel Mocks Trump’s Penis for Going After Late-Night Hosts (Daily Beast)

Jimmy Kimmel Stops The Show With A Prison Wish For Donald Trump (Huffington Post)

Lawyer group says Trump attorney broke ethics rules in fake elector plan (Reuters)

‘Lies The FBI Should Have Uncovered’: Day 1 Of The Igor Danchenko Trial

Trump Threatened to Out Confidential Sources From Russia Investigation (Rolling Stone)

FBI Offered Bribe to Bring Down Trump

G.O.P. Candidates’ Fervor for Trump Fluctuates on the Campaign Trail (N.Y. Times) All Trump! All the time!

N.Y. AG James Seeks Court Oversight of Trump’s Business Dealings

Trump Forms New Company, Drawing Scrutiny From N.Y. Attorney General (N.Y. Times) In the Narrative media, ‘scrutity’ means ‘witch-hunt’.

1/6 Panel Votes to Subpoena Former President Trump

NYC man released without bail for McDonald’s ax attack arrested again and released without bail (Fox)

The new state of healthcare in America: one for men and a worse one for women (The Guardian)

A $100 million campaign aims to fix Jesus’ brand from followers’ damage (Washington Post)

NY Times Now OK With Truth of Liberal Hero Woodrow Wilson’s ‘Terror Campaign’

California man fined for selling maps of property boundaries without a license

Nets Bury DHS Secretary Lying About Migrant Whipping, Hiding Knowledge

What our progressive overclass has wrought

The Left Calls For A Ban On Germany’s AfD Party Just As The Party Surges In Popularity

Noah Compares Fetterman To Politicians Who Are Disabled War Veterans

Is This the Beginning of the End for George Soros?

Colbert, Former Clinton Hack Stephanopoulos Lament Hypocrisy In Politics

AOC Humiliated At Town Hall In Viral Clip: ‘Why Can’t You Be More Like Tulsi Gabbard?’

Systemic Racism? Democrats Prefer Hiring Elite White College Graduates, Report Shows

The View Defends Dem Fetterman’s Inability to Comprehend Words

High School Girls Explain Why They’re Uncomfortable Having a Biological Male in Their Locker Room

Climate change: Greenland’s culture shifts as Arctic heats up (BBC)

Direct action not ruled out by conservation groups over environment policies (BBC) In other words, breaking the law to interfere with people to ‘raise consciousness’.

These spectacular deep-sea creatures live in a potential mining hot spot (Vox)

China needs $17 trillion in investments to meet climate goals, World Bank says (Reuters) Yeah, that’s gonna happen….

Equilibrium/Sustainability — Florida coastline erosion visible from space (The Hill) The implication being, of course, that this is due to ‘climate change’.

‘Stop setting things on fire’: nine great ideas to save the planet (The Guardian)

Facts take a backseat in CSIRO fracking fact sheets partly funded by the gas industry (The Guardian)

Joining Battle Over The “Science” Of Global Warming

Study finds climate change is bringing more intense rains to U.S. (Washington Post)

Climate Crisis: False News Roundup

Dear Neighbour, Please “Roster Ration” Your Electricity Use so our EVs can Charge

LITHIUM mining for electric vehicles is incredibly destructive to the environment and about as far from “green” as you can imagine

Alex Jones ordered to pay $965 million for Sandy Hook lies (Politico)

Gay rights are on the midterm ballot after Clarence Thomas opinion, says new GLAAD ad (The Hill)

McConnell, McCarthy public splits raise questions about ability to govern (The Hill) Pushing the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Leonard Leo Pushed the Courts Right. Now He’s Aiming at American Society. (N.Y. Times)

Oath Keeper testifies about mass of guns allegedly stored near DC on January 6 (CNN) Which they never attempted to use. Who comes to an ‘insurrection’ without a gun?

‘Stop the steal’ supporters train thousands of U.S. poll observers (Reuters) Of course, Reuters thinks this is  a Bad Thing.

Michigan county hires ‘Stop the Steal’ ringleader to recruit poll workers (Politico) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH.

Salon Says GOP ‘Fascists’ Want to ‘End Multiracial Democracy’

Biden Administration Outsourcing Online Censorship of Conservatives

Watchdog Group Calls Out Investment Giant Morningstar for Reputed Anti-Israel Bias

Abrams Busted For Ad Blaming GOP Rival for Georgia Loss Of All-Star Game

Nebraska News Anchor FIRED For Being Christian, Pro-Life

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Friday will mark two years since The New York Post broke the Hunter Biden laptop story and it’s been two full years of the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks doing all they can to avoid telling their audiences about the stunning revelations that have sprung from Hunter’s hard drive.

Even their favorite liberal organ of record – The New York Times – finally acknowledging the “laptop from hell” was authentic and not a part of a Russian hoax did little to spur the networks to cover the scandal.

The networks did manage to cover The Washington Post (it was a front page story, hard for them to ignore) reporting that the FBI had collected enough evidence to charge President Hunter with tax and gun-related charges. However ABC, CBS, NBC (10/6 through 10/9) spent a total of only 15 minutes, 51 seconds on it. By October 10 the story was completely dropped.

Hunter’s laptop has been a literal treasure trove of evidence of wrongdoing, much of which can be linked to Joe Biden and proves he was lying when he claimed in 2019: “I’ve never spoken to my son [Hunter] about his overseas business dealings!”

NewsBusters has been detailing (here, here, and here) all the shocking Hunter scandals and how the networks have covered or more accurately NOT covered them.

The following are eight BRAND NEW Hunter scandals that have been censored by the networks.

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Public figures who have consistently called for more censorship online joined a new council Wednesday to “fix” social media.

The Council for Responsible Social Media, a project of Issue One, was publicly launched with their website saying it was created to address “the negative mental, civic, and public health impacts of social media in America.”

Members of the council include former Senator-turned-MSNBC pundit Claire McCaskill (D-MO), former Clinton chief of staff and Obama CIA Director and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, and Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen. All have called for increased online censorship in the past.

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Where did they go? To better-paying jobs stocking shelves, cleaning offices or doing anything that pays more than $15 an hour.

Low unemployment means that jobs people don’t want to do don’t get done. Employers who depend on low-wage labor whine and moan and wring their hands while paying illegal immigrants under the table.

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Look! Up in the sky: it’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a woke bisexual guy in tights! Except he’s not going to be there much longer. According toBrittany Bernstein at National Review Online, DC Comics announced at the New York Comic Con that it’s canceling Superman: Son of Kal-El because it turned out nobody was really interested in an excruciatingly woke comic book. Go figure. Don’t ask me how comic book fans can pass up riveting story lines about Clark and Lois’s light-in-the-tights teenage son fighting climate change and other progressive bugaboos, but the series was less popular than CNN+. “The fourth issue of the series sold just 37,500 copies, earning it an abysmal 55th place in October 2021 sales,” Bernstein reported. So what the hell was DC thinking when it dreamed up this dud? According to the series author, “The idea of replacing Clark Kent with another straight white savior felt like a missed opportunity.” So this was an expensive exercise in virtue signaling. Lot of that going around.

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For all the talk of the world being on the verge of nuclear war courtesy of the dementia patient in the White House, a real life financial nuke just went off at 8:30am when the BLS reported a shocking CPI print so unexpectedly hot (a 2.9-sigma upside surprise to consensus), that even the bears were shocked. The result was… well, an absolute disaster doesn’t even begin to cut it.

I guess Janet Yellen was wrong; the economy is not in good shape at all.

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Law professor Mary Ellen Turpel Lafond is a well-known member of Canada’s Great and the Good.

She’s received eleven honorary degrees from law schools for being the first Canadian Amerindian this and that, despite being extremely white-looking.

Not surprisingly, a long investigative report by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation can’t find any evidence of her actually being an Indian.

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My favorite part of this story is how the French company hired to help build California’s High-Speed Choo-Choo ultimately quit in frustration. Essentially, they said, “California, your government is too corrupt and dysfunctional, so we’re going to work with an African country instead.”

The even better part; the African high-speed train was completed in 2018. California’s project might get done near the end of this century, if it gets done at all.

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A young Portuguese woman named Diana was beheaded in Luxembourg last month. “Hmm…” you think, “that doesn’t sound like the standard modus operandi in either Portugal or Luxembourg.” Quite true. But now we learn the suspect in Diana’s murder is the uncle of her husband, who is… Moroccan! It seems her marriage to him was a purely financial arrangement, entered into in order to allow the husband to gain Portuguese nationality. Unfortunately for Diana, apparently the standard Moroccan business practice in such matters is to do away with the bride once her usefulness has ended, just to tidy things up. And beheading her makes sure the process is fully halal.

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

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It appears US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has some very concerning short-term memory problems, just like her boss.

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The richest counties in America are the ones that surround Washington, D.C. The high-income people who live in those suburbs are mostly lobbyists, lawyers, consultants, and others who profit from trillions in government spending. But an investigation by the Wall Street Journal suggests that plenty of high-level bureaucrats are also profiting improperly from their government jobs.

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

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A 2017 YouGov survey of 2,300 US adults on issues related to free speech and tolerance on college campuses (weighted to be nationally representative) found that:

* 56 percent of men said that colleges should not protect students from offensive ideas; 64 percent of women said that they should.
* When presented with a variety of controversial claims made by speakers (e.g., men are better at math, all white people are racist, police are justified at stopping African Americans at higher rates), a majority of men supported nine of the 11 speakers’ right to speak on campus, and a majority of women opposed all 11 speakers’ right to do so.
* 51 percent of men said colleges should not disinvite speakers if students threaten violent protest; 67 percent of women said they should.
* 58 percent of men opposed a confidential reporting system at colleges which students could use to report offensive comments; 54 percent of women supported it.
* 63 percent of men thought controversial news stories in student papers should not need administrators’ approval before publication; 51 percent of women thought they should.
* 65 percent of men believed that supporting the right to make an argument is not the same as endorsing it; 51 percent of women disagreed.

Apparently women are fascists.

Pfizer Exec Admits COVID Vaccine Never Tested to Prevent Transmission

Researchers find monkeypox virus on hospital surfaces, in air (University of Minnesota)

Biden administration scrambling to get more people boosted before winter (Politico)

A winter pandemic wave is looming. Get the booster. (Washington Post)

In Newsom’s California, Big Brother is getting into the act between doctors and patients on conversations about COVID

What If The Truth Never Comes Out?

China Gives Clearest Sign Yet It Will Stick With Zero-COVID Strategy  Well, if you shoot everybody who catches COVID, bingo, zero COVID. Problem solved.

COVID-19 Nasal Spray Fails to Deliver Vaccine Protection  What ‘vaccine protection’?

Pfizer in the Hot Seat

Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Turns Negative Within Months: Study  Fine ‘vaccine’ ya got there, bubba, simply fine.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech Bivalent COVID-19 Vaccines for Use as a Booster Dose in Younger Age Groups (FDA)

Ukraine Situation Report: U.S. To Rush Delivery Of NASAMS Air Defense Systems

Could Long-Range Iranian Missiles Be Next For Russia?

U.S. Army Eyes Buying More New APCs After M113 Transfers To Ukraine

U.N. publicly rejects Russia’s call for secret vote on Ukraine (Reuters)

Jamie Dimon: Oil crisis should be treated ‘almost as a matter of war at this point’

Exclusive: KLA to stop sales and service to China to comply with U.S. export curbs (Reuters)

Explainer: What makes a nuclear weapon ‘tactical’? (Reuters)

Iran’s Illicit Oil Sales Help Fuel Mass Military Buildup

US arms sales rebound back to $50B in fiscal 2022

Better fighting vehicles and trucks are in the Army’s future

U.S. sensors unable to track Chinese, Russian hypersonic missiles: report

CCP Runs Police Outpost In New York City, Part Of Global Network Of Transnational Repression: Report

Dark Days Ahead For Europe As Lack Of Russian Oil Could Spark ‘Worst Energy Crisis In Decades’

AIR DEFENSE: Delivering New Systems To Ukraine

Ukraine Recaptures 5 Settlements in Kherson Region

Major Russia-Germany Oil Pipeline Partially Shut After Leak

German Government Fears Millions of Furnaces Going Off…Children Now Being Handed Blankets at School  Off with the nose! Take that, face!

How Close Is Vladimir Putin to Using a Nuclear Bomb? (The New Yorker)

World Bank to launch new trust fund for emissions reduction grants (Reuters)

World Bank defends climate record in meeting with NGOs (Reuters)

There is no Planet B: Why sustainability should be the last word when it comes to new technology (The Hill)

S.F.’s plan to protect the city from sea-level rise will ‘set the stage for our future shoreline’ (S.F Chronicle)

Scientists retrofit diesel engines to use hydrogen as fuel, increasing efficiency 26% (Interesting Engineering)

US appoints special envoy to champion nature in time for Montreal summit (The Guardian)

The melting of Greenland’s ice sheet may have a wide range of impacts in Colorado (NBC)

Major European airlines mislead customers with carbon offset credits, report says (The Verge)

WMO: Embrace Renewables to Stabilise the Power Grid

Pittsburgh Airport installs an algae air purifier

Russia Building Floating Nuclear Reactor Fleet To Power Remote Projects  We could do that … but won’t.

Climate Change Risk to Castles? No, Just More BBC Fake News!

Stanford engineers warn that electric car charging could crash a grid powered by renewable energy

Flower Power: AZ Dem Wants to ‘Convert’ Military Resources to Fight Climate Change

Blood for Solar Panels: Politico Honors Vladimir Putin as Climate Influencer of the Year

Chaos hits LA city council following audio of racist comments (Axios)

Demonstrators call for Los Angeles City Council members to resign amid leaked audio of racist remark (KTLA)

Biden believes embattled L.A. City Council members caught on tape should resign (KTLA)

You think S.F. is a mess? Here’s what’s happening in L.A. right now (S.F. Chronicle)

Nury Martinez, Gil Cedillo and Kevin de León have done grave racial harm to L.A. (L.A. Times)

Barbara Chase-Riboud: ‘The so-called culture war has nothing to do with culture’ (The Guardian)

Omaha man pleads guilty to civil rights charge for placing noose on Black co-worker’s chair (ABC)

Why I hope 2022 will be another 1866 (CNN)

Georgia Inmate Scams Billionaire For Over $11 Million In Wild Tale: Prosecutors

Nets Obsessed Over Walker, Ignore Claims ‘Reverend’ Warnock Is Evicting the Poor

Minority Farmers’ Lawsuit Claims US Reneged on Loan-Relief Plan (Bloomberg) Perhaps the government discovered that all of the black farmers in America could fit into a Denny’s, and they all vote Democrat already anyway.

The Texas Republican fighting Wall Street — and protecting the energy industry (Politico)

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene rises from GOP fringe to front (Associated Press)

The Kanye West Tucker Carlson didn’t want his audience to see (Washington Post) Ever notice how much the Narrative media depend on mind-reading?

Kevin McCarthy’s rage at Trump over Jan. 6 signals danger ahead (Washington Post)

What does Madison Cawthorn do now? (Washington Post) Wait for the revolving door to swing him into a new job.

Fact check: Herschel Walker’s false and misleading recent claims (CNN)

A New Low for Woke Journalism

That Fake Newspaper in Your Mailbox Was Paid For by Peter Thiel (Daily Beast) Well, no, actually it wasn’t, but the Daily Beast would certainly like you to believe that it was.

“Medical Censorship”: Dr. Peter McCullough Responds To Twitter Ban

Latino Media HIDE Party Affiliation of Busted Racist L.A. Democrat Council Members

Students protest nomination of Republican senator as university president: “Danger for our university” (Fox) Even in red states, academia is deeply blue.

Florida collectibles dealer connected to Gaetz probe sentenced to 15 months (Politico)  The ‘connection’ in question was, of course, solely in the minds of the Narrative media.

EXCLUSIVE: Inside the right-wing press factory that pumped Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill (Daily Dot) There are many left-wing ‘activist’ sites, and they are less restrained even than the Narrative media.

Kanye Shows Where the Right’s Troll Politics Lead (N.Y. Times) Michelle Goldberg appears to think that Trump somehow turned Kanye into a white supremacist, or something.

The left thinks social media is reality

Washington State GOP Pays a White Nationalist, Pro-Nazi Blogger (Daily Beast) Well, not really, but the Daily Beast would like you to believe that.

How to Make a Semi-Fascist Party (New York Magazine) Jonathan Chait’s job is to push the Narrative, which he does with enthusiasm.

Election deceiver, science fabulist, billionaire benefactor. After 12 years, it’s time to term-limit Sen. Ron Johnson (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal) Probably has Trump cooties as well.

Holder Warns Of Fascism As PBS Worries About Erosion of Democracy  In the Narrative media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Ben Sasse is an affirmative action hire if there ever was one (Washington Post) Apparently Jennifer Rubin’s first language is not English. Ben Sasse has five degrees, four of them from Harvard and Yale, whereas Jennifer Rubin has two from Berkeley. I know where I’d put my money.

Violent threats against Jan. 6 witnesses spread on fringe sites (Washington Post) Fringe site … like the Washington Post?

Archives pushes back on Trump claims that other presidents mishandled records (The Hill)

Trump continues to claim other presidents mishandled documents. Hear why that’s not true (CNN)

Prof. Tribe lays out how many crimes AG Garland could indict Trump with (MSNBC) Tribe is as obviously senile as Biden.

Kimmel on Columbus: ‘like if Trump had been born in the 1400s’ (The Guardian)

FBI offered Christopher Steele $1 million to prove dossier claims, senior FBI analyst testifies (CNN)

FBI Offered Up to $1 Million for Allegations on Trump

January 6 committee to argue in upcoming hearing Trump remains a ‘clear and present danger’ (CNN) My, what a surprise.