Ukraine makes progress in Kherson region, Russian-installed official confirms (Reuters)

Here’s What Putin’s Nuclear Disaster Would Really Look Like (Daily Beast)

Russian Nuclear Military Train Move Prompts Fears of War Escalation

Retreating Russian Forces Left Destruction and Documents in Their Wake (N.Y. Times)

INFORMATION WARFARE: Another Iranian Scary Secret Weapon

MORALE: The Shrinking American Army

US Munitions ‘Dangerously Low’ Due to Biden Drawdowns: Report

Perfectly time your new omicron-specific Covid booster (CNBC)

Omicron booster rates have “major gaps” (Axios)

New infectious threats are coming. The U.S. probably won’t contain them. (Japan Times)

Japan ends distribution of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, discards 13M doses

Peter Strzok and the Russia Collusion Hoax, Revisited

Family Guy Episode Mocks MAGA Supporters as Mindless Parrots

Maggie Haberman: Media of ‘1970s, 1980s, 1990s’ to Blame for Trump

Republican Senator on Trump’s Racist Rant: ‘I Hope No One Is Racist’ (New York Magazine) Jonathan Chait apparently has the Bash Trump chair at New York Magazine.

Trump Sues CNN for Defamation, Saying News Org. Fears 2024 Run for Reelection

The UK is institutionally racist

Racist ‘Willie Horton’-style fearmongering on crime may win midterms for GOP (Philadelphia Inquirer) Will Bunch pushes the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

The US has Relatively Low Rates of Hiring Discrimination

The Society for Personality and Social Psychology: All Presentations at Our Annual Meeting Must Uphold Ibram X. Kendi Thought

Native American tribes dependent on fossil fuel resources rip Biden admin for double standard (Fox)

VP Kamala Harris dodges question asking about dispersing Hurricane Ian relief based on ‘equity’

Biden continues to compare student loan handout to PPP, slams Republicans as hypocrites

Biden thanks Coast Guard rescuer for hurricane heroics days before firing over vaccine policy

Kamala Harris Remains True to Doctrine of Unequal Treatment

Biden to Announce $60 Million in Hurricane Aid for Puerto Rico  Buying votes with YOUR money.

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A recent staff presentation to the Washington Metro board’s finance committee revealed that the agency is expecting to run out of federal COVID relief funds in 2024 and anticipates a $187.5 million shortfall in funding that year. From then on, it anticipates funding shortfalls of more than $500 million a year, rising to more than $700 million by 2030.

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A coveted working-class demographic that has been loyally Democratic for generations stands poised to vote Republican in record numbers. Its voters are upwardly mobile, having risen from the deep poverty of their immigrant ancestors to a decent middle-class life. Their incomes are rising quickly and are soon expected to reach the national average. They start businesses at rates that exceed the native born. Recent government data shows them moving into the suburbs from ethnic enclaves in the cities. All of this has coincided with their political shift to the right.

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Back in August I posted about a “French” imam named Hassan Iquioussen who went on the lam to avoid being deported. It seems Mr. Iquioussen had run afoul of French law by giving voice to Jew-hatred, calling for the subjugation of women, promoting sharia, and other orthodox Islamic theological positions.

The expulsion order mentions that Imam Iquioussen espouses doctrines that represent “a vision of Islam contrary to the values of the Republic.” Unfortunately for the Republic, all Islamic doctrines, if faithfully observed, are contrary to its values. Evidently the courts are unaware of this fact.

Now Mr. Iquioussen has been recaptured in Belgium.

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

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My kid brother John runs a small television, antenna, cable, and dish installation business in New Mexico. He’s been doing it for many years and he’s really good at it. He sends me pictures sometimes of huge flatscreen televisions he’s mounted on tile walls above fireplaces in extraordinarily expensive Santa Fe homes, stuff like that. He does nice work.

Lately, he’s been busy — really busy — doing Starlink installations. Starlink, as everyone probably knows, is Elon Musk’s space-based internet service provider. New Mexico is a huge, wide-open, mostly empty state with lots of mountains and pockets of wealth. It’s a booming market for Musk’s high-speed, low-latency, low-Earth-orbit service.

Starlink interests me. Not because I want it: I have inexpensive cable internet that does a great job for me. It interests me because it’s innovative, beautifully engineered, and one of the drivers of SpaceX (Starlink’s parent company) and Musk’s rocket business.

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How many more times must we endure these spiteful outbursts from a president who promised to unite the country?

How much longer must we cringe as he reads “end of quote, repeat the line” off the teleprompter?

How many times must we wince as he ad-libs recklessly in a speech about international tinderboxes, like Russia, Ukraine, the Nord Stream pipeline, or Taiwan?

How much longer must we watch him wandering around lost on stage after giving a speech, appearing to shake imaginary hands or gesture to invisible staff?

Adams’ aide inked doc barring second jobs while keeping casino gig

Obama judge slaps down Stacey Abrams’ election lawsuit in state Biden labeled ‘Jim Crow 2.0

Accused of vendetta in handling of Fire Department promotions, Lightfoot reverses course, promotes 30 to lieutenant (Chicago Sun-Times) BRAAAAAAAINS!

The NFL’s Racial IQ Problem  Zman.

VP Harris: Hurricane Ian Aid ‘Based on Equity’ and Race

Kamala, Kamala, Kamala  Women and minorities hardest hit, etc. etc.

The Harassment of Ginni Thomas (Tiffany Cross MSNBC Show Unloads: Ginni Thomas a Shill, Flack, Liar, Criminal!)

Ron DeSantis changes with the wind as Hurricane Ian prompts flip-flop on aid (The Guardian)

U.S. VP Harris, actress Priyanka Chopra discuss mansplaining, abortion rights (Reuters)

DeSantis defends early hurricane response as questions mount over evacuations (Politico)

Republicans are mad that the Library of Congress allowed Lizzo — a classically trained flutist — to play James Madison’s 200-year-old crystal flute (Insider)

Elon Musk’s texts offer a rare glimpse at the billionaire boys’ club (Vox)

Fox’s Jeanine Pirro is back in the hot seat in $1.6 billion election defamation case (NPR)

Trump: Ginni Thomas ‘Is Right,’ Dems ‘Cheating on Elections’

Trump Blasts Dems for ‘Weaponizing’ Justice Against ‘Political Opponent’

FLASHBACK: Journalists Love to Politicize Hurricanes, Trash GOP Response

This Liberal Filmmaker Is Standing Up to the Censor-Loving Progressive Mob

Joy Reid Tweet-Smears DeSantis As a ‘Segregationist’ for Anti-Looting Remark

The Racial Divide Herschel Walker Couldn’t Outrun (N.Y. Times) Pushing the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

US supreme court to decide cases with ‘monumental’ impact on democracy (The Guardian) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

A shaken Supreme Court returns to chambers (Politico) Now that the Supreme Court can’t be depended on to impose the Woke agenda from the bench. they have to be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail.

WATCH: Rick Scott Squirms When Pressed on Trump’s Racist Attack Against Mitch McConnell’s Wife (MEDIAite) MEDIAite is where people to0 over-the-top for MSNBC go to pursue their Woke witch-hunts.

Triggered! Planned Parenthood Outraged by Powerful Pro-Life Scenes in Netflix’s Marilyn Monroe Drama ‘Blonde’

No Peep From Capehart As Beto O’Rourke Equates Abbott With Mass Murderers

As New Term Starts, Supreme Court Is Poised to Resume Rightward Push (N.Y. Times) Now that the Supreme Court can’t be depended on to impose the Woke agenda from the bench. they have to be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail.

Over 700,000 borrowers no longer qualify for student loan relief—how to check if you’re still eligible (CNBC)

Biden says ‘we can afford’ student debt forgiveness after GOP lawsuit (N.Y. Post)

White House meets oil industry over Hurricane Ian price-gouging concerns (Reuters)

Americans Are Running Out of Patience With Biden’s Approach to Putin’s War (Newsweek)

FBI Agents Improperly Saw Privileged Trump Communications: Lawyers

Biden Pledge to Make Federal Fleet Electric Faces Slow Start

Rep. Mike Turner: Expect ‘Wild West’ Spending Spree if Dems Lose House

CBS’s Brennan Gaslights Scott, Lies Harris Didn’t Advocate Hurricane Equity

The world’s largest carbon removal project will break ground in Wyoming (The Hill)

Cop15 is an opportunity to save nature. We can’t afford another decade of failure (The Guardian)

Land grab or environmental justice? New Mexico moves forward with 30X30 conservation plan

US leaders can help win the EV battery race (The Hill)

New Method Converts Greenhouse Gas Into Fuel (SciTech Daily)

To understand the scale of the climate emergency, look at hurricanes (The Guardian)

‘Business was a way for me to cope with climate anxiety’: how opening a zero-waste store helped a college student (The Guardian)

Here’s where sea levels are rising fastest in California. Homes, a nuclear facility and part of Highway 101 are all at risk (S.F. Chronicle) Call me when real estate prices in Malibu start dropping.

‘Dark data’ is killing the planet – we need digital decarbonisation (The Hindu)

What is ‘dark data’? How digital information is quietly sapping energy (Interesting Engineering)

US proposal would permit eagle deaths as renewable energy programs expand

Wealthiest 10% Responsible for Nearly 50% of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Study Finds (EcoWatch) Class warfare to save the planet!

Zeldin calls out helicopter riding Hochul’s ‘hypocrisy’ over NY’s electric vehicle mandate (N.Y. Post)

Day One CPAC Australia: Climate Skepticism, Freedom and Protestors

UN official at WEF: ‘We own the science & we think that the world should know it’ so ‘we partnered with Google’ to ensure only UN climate results appear

‘Range Anxiety’ – How Far Can An EV Go On One Charge? That’s only a concern because once an EV runs out of juice IT’S A TOTAL PAIN IN THE ASS TO RENEW IT. If one were able to recharge a EV as quickly and as easily as a fossil fuel vehicle, range wouldn’t matter. If you could be a sure of being able to find a recharging point as you are of being able to find a gas station, range wouldn’t matter.

Moderna refused China request to reveal vaccine technology (Financial Times)

First on CNN: US government to provide $266 million to build community, public health work force (CNN)

U.S. government awards $266 million to build public health workforce (Axios)

Top Chicago Doctor Breaks Down Common Side Effects for New Bivalent COVID Boosters (NBC)

New York’s private schools are gaming vaccine exemptions in ‘obvious’ fraud (Politico)

New coronavirus subvariant BA.2.75.2 tops concerns as officials gear up for potential winter wave (L.A. Times)

Omicron subvariants getting better at evading antibodies (Jerusalem Post)

FDA Withholding Autopsy Results On People Who Died After Getting COVID-19 Vaccines

Navy Attempting To Remove Sailor Who Refused Vaccine Under ‘Pretext’ Of Attempted Desertion: Attorney

The $250,000,000 Scandal That’s Wrecking Minnesota Democrats  Given the chance, Democrats steal. After all, they invented the city political machine.

Why Right-Wing Traditionalism Is So Appealing to So Many (Daily Beast) Because it’s not evil?

Washington, DC police officers under investigation after confiscating guns without making arrests

7 DC police officers accused of letting suspects found with illegal guns go without arrest (WTOP)

Gimmicks won’t solve the humanitarian crisis at the border (The Hill) Nor will Democrats.

Meta board approves personal security for outgoing executive Sheryl Sandberg

California Gasoline Is Now More Than Double The Price In Texas

Remember Back When Journalists CARED About the Politicization of the FBI?

CNN Misleads, Ignores Poll Supporting Busing Illegals to Blue Cities

FBI Singles Out Conservative Agents In ‘Purge,’ Retaliates Against Whistleblowers: GOP Lawmakers

George Soros’s Open Society Foundation Puts Millions Behind Pro-Amnesty, Pro-Illegal Immigration Groups

Firearm Background-Checks Now Report Home Addresses Of Gun Owners

Snowden Didn’t “Flee to Russia”: Obama Trapped Him There

Mandated diversity statement drives Jonathan Haidt to quit academic society

Election officials brace for confrontational poll watchers (Associated Press) Blatantly stealing an election will have that effect.

Bloomberg and NewsBusters Show ESG Is Neither Virtuous Nor Profitable

Apocalypse now: Democrats embrace a dark midterm message (Washington Post) Pushing the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Once Known for Vaccine Skeptics, Marin Now Tells Them ‘You’re Not Welcome’ (N.Y. Times) Sometimes it’s hard to keep up with the ever-changing Narrative.

Survey: Bay Area Residents’ Exodus Plans Above 50 Percent for Second Straight Year  Time to leave.

Alyssa Farah Griffin denounces Trump after Elaine Chao attack: ‘He’s not even trying to hide the racism’ (The Hill)

Mayor’s migrant tents being built by Trump border wall contractor (Politico)

Trump’s latest attack on McConnell sets a new standard of despicable (Washington Post) The only time a Washington Post writer is allowed to say something nice about McConnell is when he is being attacked by somebody they hate worse … such a Trump. (I suppose DeSantis would also qualify.)

Maggie Haberman on Donald Trump: “He saw the presidency as the ultimate vehicle to fame” (CBS) More fairy tales dribble out of the underwear of the Narrative Media.

McMaster: ‘Never Uncomfortable’ With Trump Handling Classified Info

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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Timed to extract maximum donations from liberal Jews around the High Holy Days, PBS is airing “The U.S. and the Holocaust” not to set the record straight, but to cover it up yet again by whitewashing the FDR administration and exploiting the Holocaust to call for open borders.

It’s all about the Benjamins.

Steve Sailer.

It’s striking how much of a secret it is in modern America that affirmative action is mathematically necessary to achieve the levels of diversity that Nice White People think are morally mandatory. Pollsters seldom if ever ask this question, so I can’t prove that most Americans are ignorant of the fact that African Americans are not intelligent enough on average to be terribly competitive in quantitative terms in cognitively elite institutions and careers, but it sure seems like few Americans are cognizant of the cognitive realities.

The one set of people who seem to be uniformly aware of the numbers are liberal college presidents. I wonder if when they make you president of an Ivy League college, is there a National Treasure: Book of Secrets moment where they unlock the drawer in the presidents’ desk and pull out the college’s top-secret copy of The Bell Curve with the special added customized chapter about how few blacks would get in to your school without racial quotas?

New York Times.

Violent political speech has increasingly crossed into the realm of in-person confrontation for members of Congress in both parties, raising the prospect of a disastrous event.

Well, perhaps if they did the jobs they were elected to do rather than being total whores and tools, they might not have this problem.

Bill Gates says telling people to stop eating meat and buying big houses will never solve climate change (Fortune)

Environmental destruction is part of Liz Truss’s plan (The Guardian) George Monbiot goes on the witch-hunt.

‘Brexit freedoms bill’ could abolish all pesticide protections, campaigners say (The Guardian)

Climate change confusion: Extreme heat waves aren’t taking place more frequently than expected

These ‘nuclear bros’ say they know how to solve climate change (Washington Post) You can tell by the derogatory headline that the witch-hunt is on.

“Ticking carbon bomb:” Legacy carmakers massively understate carbon emissions (The Driven)

The Sustainable Future of Food Must Bring Everyone to the Table (Wired)

First carbon negative car stopped by UC Merced (Fox)

New Zealand PM UN Address Calls for Global Censorship of Climate Skeptics

Never Let a Devastating Natural Disaster Go to Waste 

Warnock Fundraises With Steyer After Voting for Legislation That Poured Billions Into Green Energy

Climate Change Weekly #448: Proposed Virginia Wind Facility Threatens Endangered Whales

PBS Predicts More ‘Climate Disasters’ If GOP Doesn’t Fall In Line

Most registered voters say Trump shouldn’t be allowed to serve a second term, says new poll (The Hill)

The Memo: Michigan appears set to deliver a blow to Trump (The Hill)

Silicon Valley billionaires square off over support for Trump and the MAGA movement (CNBC)

Jared Kushner Allegedly Tried to ‘Inflate’ 2020 Poll Numbers to Avoid Trump’s Tantrums, Book Says (Rolling Stone) Maggie Haberman’s fairy tales keep dribbling out of the underwear of the Usual Suspects.

A PayPal Ultimatum to Customers: Go Woke or Go Broke?

Once-swanky Tenderloin is S.F.’s ultimate riches-to-rags story (S.F. Chronicle)

Party like it’s 1789! My weird, enlightening month living strictly by the US constitution (The Guardian) Proglodytes think that cosplay constitutes deep thought.

Defund the police push, liberal policies driving Chicago business exodus, hurting poor the most: experts (Fox) Experts! That proves it!

Some business owners on Pittsburgh’s North Side moving neighborhoods due to violence (WPXI)

US public education systems facing a crisis point (The Hill)

AOC says companies favor abortion bans ‘to force poor people to work more’ (N.Y. Post)

Watch: Yet Another Democrat Witness Claims Biological Men Can Have Pregnancies

Memory Holed, Part II: The “Rigged” Election

US Judge Dismisses Mexico’s $10B Lawsuit Against Gunmakers

Newsom Signs Bill That Restricts Use of Rap Lyrics in Court

Progressive ‘De-Prosecutors’ Disrupt Criminal Justice System, Experts Say

Girls Volleyball Team Banned From Own Locker Room in Transgender Dispute

Macron vs. Meloni

Newsom signs bill to allow minors from other states to receive medical gender transitions without parental consent

Boston Police Turn Blind Eye to Drug Use Outside Government ‘Harm Reduction’ Facility

NPR Is Not Your Friend

North Korea fires fourth ballistic missile in one week after Vice President Harris’ gaffe

Biden White House preparing to take executive action to protect DACA ‘Dreamers’ (NBC)

Haitian advocates file lawsuit against Biden administration over Del Rio (The Hill)

Media Neglect FBI Refusal to Investigate Firebombings of Pro-Life Centers

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week Vol. 13

Stagflation Is “Just The Beginning” For America’s Economic Crisis: Peter Navarro

Durham Prosecutes FBI Informants, While Protecting Their Handlers: Sperry

Exxon CEO Pushes Back On Biden’s Plan To Limit Fuel Exports

‘Republicans Pounce!’ The Hill Squawks Over Biden Being Blamed for American Wealth Obliteration

JOURNOS SCREECH: GOP’s ‘Party of Inhumanity’ Can Only Be Stopped by ‘Courageous’ Biden

Biden administration unveils Russia sanctions in response to annexations (The Hill)

US imposing ‘swift and severe costs’ on Russia following Putin’s Ukraine annexation (CNN)

Zelensky Asks Ben Stiller If He Can Put Him Down As A Reference On His NATO Application (Babylon Bee)

WARPLANES: Ukraine Builds Its Own

Justices shield spouses’ work from potential conflict of interest disclosures (Politico) Of course the Narrative Media want spouses’ clients revealed, so that they can witch-hunted as well.

Analysis: Ted Cruz’s latest comments expose the truth about Trump & the GOP (CNN)

NYTimes: ‘Bomb-Throwing’ DeSantis Hurricane Hypocrite For Shunning Fed Covid Guidance

Fact Check: What Politico, FEMA Chief Got Wrong as Florida’s DeSantis Prepared for Hurricane Ian 

‘Libs Of TikTok’ Threatens To Sue Twitter Over New Suspension

Paramount+ Liberal Drama ‘The Good Fight:’ Republicans Will ‘Trash Everything’ if They Win

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Companies haven’t yet internationally outsourced many jobs that require higher education, Stansbury tells Fortune, adding that many call center-type jobs, or remote-first jobs like software design or back-end engineering have already been offshored.

But if high-paying white collar jobs can be done remotely, outsourcing them to cheaper areas could “pretty clearly” offer huge savings. The potential for change “would be seismic if all of these well-paid white collar jobs were suddenly outsourced to less rich countries,” she adds.

“If people that code for Google and Facebook were able to live wherever in the U.S. they wanted and [work] for a year and a half without ever going to the office, it seems very, very likely that a lot of companies will be rethinking this longer-term and outsourcing those kinds of jobs that didn’t used to be outsourced,” Stansbury adds.

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California apparently didn’t get the Biden Administration memo about the good news of falling gasoline prices. Here’s the price chart for my local gas station on Monday:

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The Federal Trade Commission has sued the retail giant, seeking civil penalties in what Walmart is calling “an egregious instance of agency overreach” undertaken in spite of a “lack of constitutional or statutory authority.”

The FTC alleges that Walmart did not do enough to protect its customers from scams run by money-transfer services offered inside the company’s stores.

Walmart has responded to the FTC’s lawsuit by challenging the agency’s very constitutionality, and its argument could affect the legal status not only of the FTC, but of other agencies across the administrative state.

This could be huge.