Read it.

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’

‘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

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

Read it.

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.

Read it.

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.

Read it.

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.

Read it.

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.

Read it.

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.

Read it.

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.

Read it.

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.

Read it.

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.

Read it.

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

Read it.

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.

Read it.

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.

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.

DOJ urges Supreme Court to stay out of Mar-a-Lago documents fight (CNN)

National Guard struggles as troops leave at faster pace (Associated Press)

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s fall: Not unlike the economy’s (Fox)

U.S. economy is ‘doing well’ amid global economic uncertainty, says Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen (CNBC) And if you believe that one, she’ll tell you another one.

Biden administration finalizes Obamacare ‘family glitch’ fix

Pro-Lifer Receives Praise Of Parents & Raids From FBI

Health Groups Demand DOJ Target Transgender ‘Disinformation’

The Daily Chart: Biden’s Hypocrisy on the Gender Pay Gap

Famous economists write a letter to Janet Yellen

Texas Rancher Invites Biden to Visit Besieged Border and ‘See It for Yourself’ 

State AGs Sue MORE Biden Officials Over Alleged Big Tech Collusion

Biden says Supreme Court is ‘more an advocacy group’ than an ‘even handed’ court (CNN) The Divider in Chief strikes again.

Recession Deniers: Tapper & Biden Argue Over The Next Recession

How FEMA Put ‘Equity’ Ahead of Disaster Management

A Venezuelan Gang Crosses Biden’s Open Border

The New York Times Discovers Biden’s a Liar

President Biden Pushes Hunter’s Addiction as CNN Omits Questions on Influence Peddling and Contradictions (Jonathan Turley)

Treasury Department IG probing DeSantis’ migrant flights (Politico)

Extreme Gamers

America’s Suicidal Energy Policy Has Very Real Costs

Emails Show Mayorkas Knew ‘Whipping’ Narrative Was False

DHS Secretary Knew Border Patrol Agents Weren’t Whipping Migrants. He Pushed the Narrative Anyway.

Surprise! New York Times Discovers Biden’s a Liar—but Soft-Pedals It

NYT Fluffs Biden, Says Lies Are “Folksy”

Biden’s Abuse of Power Causes CBO to Raise Cost Estimate of Private Pension Bailouts by $4.5 Billion

State of Texas cuts ties with Environmental and Social Governance companies (ABC)

These 7 cereals do not qualify as ‘healthy’ according to the FDA’s new criteria (CNBC)

FDA proposes new definition for ‘healthy’ food, but will it make us healthier? (Star-Tribune)

United Methodists are breaking up in a slow-motion schism (Associated Press) Couldn’t happen to a more deserving group of people.

London transportation agency slammed for embracing ‘woke culture’ by banning words such as ‘accident,’ ‘bikes’ (Fox)

NYC schools struggle to cope with influx of 5,500 migrant kids (N.Y. Post) We got your Sanctuary City, right here.

Kinzinger endorses Dems in major governor, secretary of state races (Politico) My, what a surprise.

Chicago crime frustrations mount against State’s Attorney Kim Foxx as ‘mass exodus’ continues: source (Fox)

Woke Malpractice?

More Bureaucrats Than Marines Authorized to Pack Heat

Chicago’s Guaranteed Income Pilot Program Open To Illegal Immigrants  Of course!

Biden Administration Considering Humanitarian Parole Program for Venezuelans (N.Y. Times)

Catherine Cortez Masto Ditches ‘Latinx’ Just in Time for Reelection Bid

The ‘Lifelong Republican’ Featured In Latest Angie Craig Ad Actually Votes As a Democrat

Angie Craig’s fake Republican

Nobel Literature Winner Is Woke Leftist  My, what a surprise.

Planned Parenthood’s Newest ‘Profit-Grab?’ Transitioning Children

Playing the Victim: Fetterman Says Opponents Have ‘Weaponized’ Fact That He Once Pulled Shotgun on Black Jogger

PayPal Gives America an Eerie Glimpse Into a Totalitarian Future

‘It’s Not Women That Produce Eggs’: Biden Education Department Plays Host to Woke Biology Teacher on Taxpayer Dime

Read it.

They find, first, that unionization throughout one’s career is associated with a $1.3 million mean increase in lifetime earnings, larger than the average gains from completing college. Second, the lifetime earnings gains are channeled entirely through higher hourly wages and occur despite earlier-than-average retirement for persistently unionized men. Third, the union wage premium is not constant throughout a worker’s career; instead it increases with more years of union membership.

Read it.

Our Hungarian correspondent László reports on the case against a Hungarian man who converted to Islam and joined a jihad conspiracy. The young perp has gotten off very lightly — a slap on the wrist would have been an improvement.

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

Read it.

These banner ads have become very lucrative for the NGO that collects the money — the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit based in San Francisco. Every year the NGO responsible for the fundraising adds tens of millions of dollars to its war chest. After a decade of professional fund-raising, it has now amassed $400 million of cash as of March. It created an endowment, managed by the Tides Foundation, which now holds well over $100 million of that. The Foundation wanted to hit that figure in ten years, but found it had sailed past it in just five. In 2021, the appeals raised a total of $162 million, a 50% year-on-year increase. Yet the running costs of Wikipedia are a tiny fraction of the amount raised each year.

Steve Sailer turns over a rock.

The so-far triumphant transgender movement is a political coalition that includes two polar opposite sets of allies who are so radically different in their thought styles that they can’t even begin to understand each other: naive nice moms and smart but not-at-all nice nerdy ex-men. The incoherence of transgenderist ideology is inevitable because its proponents aren’t at all on the same wavelength.

Few of the nice white ladies who make up much of the political support for the fad of surgically altering moody teens have even noticed that a high percentage of the best-known male-to-female trans celebrities are toxically masculine jerks. The ladies presume instead that they must be bullied victims in need of maternal nurturing and protection from the cruel world because that’s who they want them to be. (I suspect, but can’t prove, that mothers were prepped to fall for World War T in the 2010s by the anti-bullying campaign of the 2000s.)

…

The essence of the current year momist mindset is a pantheistic aversion to drawing distinctions: e.g., “Love is love.” In an age of Diversity, all is one and one is all. Liberal moms these days hate to compare and contrast for fear they might learn something.

Read it.

Modified off-the-shelf drones have been found carrying wireless network-intrusion kit in a very unlikely place.

The idea of using consumer-oriented drones for hacking has been explored over the past decade at security conferences like Black Hat 2016, in both the US and in Europe. Naomi Wu, a DIY tech enthusiast, demonstrated a related project called Screaming Fist in 2017. And in 2013, security researcher Samy Kamkar demonstrated his SkyJack drone, which used a Raspberry Pi to take over other drones via Wi-Fi.

Now these sort of attacks are actually taking place.

Greg Linares, a security researcher, recently recounted an incident that he said occurred over the summer at a US East Coast financial firm focused on private investment. He told The Register that he was not involved directly with the investigation but interacted with those involved as part of his work in the finance sector.

Read it.

A professor of medicine is calling for the American Academy of Pediatrics to be dissolved after the group posted photos of its members unmasked after calling for masks for children as young as 2 years old.

Dr. Vinayak K. Prasad, a hematologist-oncologist and health researcher at the University of California-San Francisco, tweeted:

“Great to see so many unmasked faces at @AmerAcadPeds indoor gathering Good to document their hypocrisy. This organization pushed masks on 2 year olds with no data, in defiance of UNICEF and WHO, while they were aware that masks impede interactions Org should be dissolved”

Read it.

On September 7, Margaret Marsilla called Joshua Tepper, the doctor who planned to kill her son.

Marsilla is 46, and she lives outside Toronto with her husband and daughter, a nursing student. She had known that her 23-year-old son, Kiano Vafaeian, was depressed—he was diabetic and had lost his vision in one eye, and he didn’t have a job or girlfriend or much of a future—and Marsilla asked her daughter to log onto Kiano’s account. (Kiano had given his sister access so she could help him with his email.) He never shared anything with his mother—what he was thinking, where he was going—and Marsilla was scared.

That was when Marsilla learned that Kiano had applied and, in late July, been approved for “medical assistance in dying,” aka MAiD, aka assisted suicide.

Read it.

The next time a hurricane develops it should be named Kamala, in honor of our vice president. Why Kamala, you ask? Because, like a hurricane, Kamala Harris is sometimes difficult to track, her direction is often unpredictable and the damage she causes can be substantial.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Tulsi Gabbard’s announced exit from the Democratic Party via Twitter this morning was only a small slice of the larger video below she has posted on YouTube as episode 1 of The Tulsi Gabbard Show. The whole thing makes for a thoroughgoing denunciation of Democrats and the Democrat Party line. At the same time she sketches out her agreement with key Republican and conservative positions. She is a highly persuasive and winning advocate of the positions she stakes out on the contentious issues she addresses in the video. It is must viewing.

I still wonder what her next move is. I hope she lands on our side. That much I can tell you. I’m counting on John Hinderaker to figure it all out when he hosts her at the Center of the American Experiment’s well-timed if sold-out Fall Briefing this weekend.

UPDATE: Who’s Afraid Of Tulsi Gabbard? Everyone…

Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your drains!

A California city’s water supply is expected to run out in two months (Washington Post)

“Greenwashing, pure and simple” – fury as Shell UK sponsors British Cycling (Road.cc)

‘Absurd’: British Cycling faces backlash after announcing partnership with Shell (The Guardian)

4 science fiction and fantasy books mine a real issue: climate change (Washington Post)

How fossil fuel firms use Black leaders to ‘deceive’ their communities (The Guardian)

Fact Check: Would Nuclear War ‘Solve’ Climate Change? (Newsweek)

Blowhole wave energy could soon be world’s cheapest clean power (New Atlas)

The future of dishwashing could be hot, steamy and sustainable (Popular ‘Science’)

How climate change is driving monkeys and lemurs from trees to the ground (Washington Post)

Barges grounded in Mississippi River as water levels approach record lows (Fox)

Frequent fliers are a problem for the planet. Should they pay more? (Washington Post)

New Zealand farmers may pay for greenhouse gas emissions under world-first plans (The Guardian)

Albanese government’s climate plans face hurdle as experts criticise carbon market reforms (The Guardian)

Pitted against profits, Spain’s biodiversity haven collapses (Al Jezeera)

Chicken in British supermarkets ‘linked to deforested Amazon’ (The Guardian)

Why Anthony Fauci is the greatest public servant I have known (Washington Post) Michael Gerson pushes the Narrative.

3 Myths Debunked: Animal Agriculture’s Real Impact on the Environment

Against Climatism

Big Brother Says No to Gas Furnaces

Tulsi Gabbard Abandons ‘Elitist, Woke, Anti-White’ Democratic Party

Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Gov. JB Pritzker absent from Chicago Columbus Day parade amid controversy (ABC)

Randi Weingarten takes flak on social media for Ukraine trip as US schools struggle (Fox) Look for … the Union label….

Give legal rights to animals, trees and rivers, say experts (The Guardian) There is no idea so insane that The Guardian will not print it.

How to make your bike harder to steal in Philly (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Maryland U.S. attorney establishes civil rights and special victims section (Washington Post) Whose turn is it to be the Special Victim?

French Dropped California Train Bid For Less ‘Dysfunctional’ Morocco

Virginia School Celebrates Columbus Day With A History-Erasing ‘Equity’ Lecture

The San Francisco Chronicle Calls Out the Real Bad Guys: Crime Victims Who Call 911,

The Coalition of the Fringes Comes Apart at the Seams in Los Angeles

Colonial America Is a Myth (TIME)

Politico Portrays Lincoln Project Leaders as Seedy, Greedy Grifters  Which, of course, they are.

NYC Mayor Adams Chided for Migrant Bus ‘Safety Checks’

Police Accuse Wisconsin Dem Governor of Fueling Deadly Anti-Cop Riot

State Department May Provide Gender-Transition Care for Overseas Staff

Musk Denies Vice ‘Bombshell’ Claiming He Spoke To Putin Before Tweeting Ukraine Peace Plan  Like most Narrative media, Vice peddles lies.

Supreme Court Invalidates Mail-In Ballot Ruling

Oregon Dem Kate Brown Is America’s Most Hated Governor for Second Consecutive Year

MSNBC Declares Good Versus Bad Christianity On The Ballot In Georgia  As if anyone at MSNBC knows anything about Christianity.

Which Indigenous lands are you on? This map will show you (NPR) I think where I live used to be a prairie dog town.

Charlottesville museum hoping to melt Lee statue must tell plaintiffs where it is (Washington Post)

What’s in the public interest? Murdoch v Crikey trial could test new defamation defence (The Guardian)

A Brief Summary of January 6 Panel Hearings So Far (Newsweek)

Mastriano’s Attacks on Jewish School Set Off Outcry Over Antisemitic Signaling (N.Y. Times) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH.

Univ. of Florida Students, Faculty Protest Sasse Appointment Over LGBTQ Issues

Major pro-O’Dea donor, heir to a Gilded Age banking fortune, wrote of ‘slavery redux’ (Colorado Newsline)

When the Hindu Right Came for Bollywood (The New Yorker)

TikTok Bans The Term “White Lives Matter”

MSNBC Proposes Obama-Run Democracy Commission to Weaponize Against GOP

Shouldn’t Paypal Fine Itself for Spreading Misinformation About Its Misinformation Fine?

POLITICO Playbook: New revelations about Kevin McCarthy and Jan. 6 (Politico) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH.

MSNBC’s Katy Tur Enables Democrat Senate Candidate to Compare GOP to Muslim Extremists

PayPal Censors Speech? Users Jump Ship After Questionable Policy Draft Leak  And about time, too.

Troy Aikman Catching Heat for ‘Dresses’ Comment During Chiefs-Raiders Game

Video Report: Outrage at University of Florida Over New School President  The witch-hunt continues.

GOP Senators Write Garland, Denounce DOJ’s Policing of Gender-Surgery Speech

Hate Stunt: Journalist Calls Child Welfare on ‘Racist’ Mom About Columbus Day

First on CNN: Former White House aide cooperating with investigation of Trump effort to overturn election results  (CNN)

Donald Trump Praises Jan. 6 Crowd as ‘Biggest I’ve Ever Seen’ During Rally (Newsweek) Apparently this is ‘news’.

Trump Rally Speech Shows He’s ‘Guilty and Scared’: Former Prosecutor (Newsweek) Walls are closing in etc. etc.

Fact check: Trump falsely claims George H.W. Bush took millions of documents to a former bowling alley and Chinese restaurant (CNN)

Newly released emails debunk Trump and allies’ attempts to blame the GSA for packing boxes that ended up in Mar-a-Lago (CNN) The witch-hunt continues.

How Trump’s legal expenses consumed GOP donor money (Washington Post) Gee, if only he’d spent it on something legitimate, like the mansion purchased by the head of BLM.

The Inevitable Indictment Of Donald Trump (The Atlantic)

A doctor’s humbling journey treating long Covid: ‘The second we think we know what we are doing, we fall flat on our face’ (STAT)

New COVID-19 variant causing concern as cases continue to spread (Western Massachusetts News)

Fauci: This is no time to let our guard down (The Hill)

Pfizer exec denies CEO negotiated EU COVID vaccine contract via text message (Reuters)

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

Monmouth Poll: Half Say Pandemic Will Never End  Not if the Deep State has anything to say about it.

Here.

Give if you can.

UPDATE: In the Chauvin appeal

Heather Mac Donald points out that the Biden move won’t actually let anybody out of prison.

Even though federal marijuana possession convictions are a proxy for serious dealing, there is at present no one even serving time in federal prison for marijuana possession. In 2017, only 92 people were sentenced on federal marijuana possession charges, out of nearly 20,000 drug convictions, reports the New York Times. The Biden marijuana initiative is intended to remind the Democratic base that the party remains committed to the systemic racism narrative, recent gestures about “refunding the police” notwithstanding.

Read it.

Meet Luis Antunez, your new neighbor from (probably) Venezuela. He’s a 40-year-old trader from Tucupita. Or a policeman from Puerto Carreno, or a criminal from Caracas. We may never know for sure.

I found Antunez’s ID card the week before last on the banks of the Rio Grande here in Eagle Pass while visiting border communities with Daily Signal reporter Virginia Allen and our guide, Frank Lopez Jr.

Antunez apparently chucked the identification after wading across the river into the U.S. as one of over 200,000 illegal immigrants who entered our country in September.

As you can see in the photos above and below, Antunez likely cut the ID card to obscure his last name and other details.

ZMan jerks back the curtain.

One of the great tricks of the neoconservatives was to reshape opposition to radical causes into support for their own radical projects. In the early days, this allowed normal people to strongly oppose limits on corporate power, in the name of fighting the communist threat from the Soviets. Alternatively, working class people could support the military industrial complex as their patriotic duty. Their own interests and genuine opposition to the Left was always secondary.

After the Cold War, this game rapidly evolved so that so-called conservatives supported a massive expansion of government, as well as a massive expansion of foreign policy entanglements, all in the name of freedom. Most conservative people assumed the end of the Cold War meant America could go back to being a normal country again, but those feelings were quickly channeled into new causes. The old tricksters were up to their old tricks, turning virtues into vices.

This is why conservatism never conserved anything. In the Reagan years, the conservatives were too busy fighting the Soviets to roll back the cultural revolution or clean up the welfare state. In the Bush years they were too busy spreading freedom and smart bombs to address domestic concerns. Despite promising to promote conservative causes, conservatives instead found some war to fight. Meanwhile, the bad guys got to run riot in the culture.

The Coming of Trump caused the neocons to revert to their radical roots–the Kristol Krew at The Bulwark, and the Goldberg Group at The Dispatch, spend their days bashing Republicans and ignoring Democrats, presumably in hopes that The Mammon of Iniquity will have a mansion or two to spare.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Millions of illegal immigrants have streamed across our Southern border over the last year and a half, coming from places like Mexico, Honduras, Venezuela, and various countries in the Middle East. But our northern border–the longest unguarded border in the world, as I learned in elementary school–has never seen many illegal crossings.

So this story, which appeared originally on Patch and was picked up by my colleague Bill Glahn, is curious.

Read it.

Over the past few years a massive flood of illegal migrants from the African continent has arrived in the Canary Islands, and now there is a large backlog of culture-enrichers living on the islands who have neither been repatriated nor moved on to the Land of Milk and Honey, a.k.a. the European Union. Efforts to deport refused asylum seekers to their home countries have come to naught — the entire repatriation program is just a sham.

Read it.

Taking 8,600 steps a day will prevent weight gain in adults, while already overweight adults can halve their odds of becoming obese by adding an additional 2,400 steps — that’s 11,000 steps a day, according to new research.

Take whatever action you think is appropriate.

Read it.

I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

Read it.

It’s been just over a century since Ireland was divided into two political entities, and an increasing number of people in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland think it’s time to join together as one nation.