Amid civil rights probe, another Everett school administrator files discrimination complaint

Broadway’s ‘Lion King’ interpreter fired for being white settles case after backlash

The Spectacular Life of Octavia Butler  Octavia Butler is the poster child for the new Woke takeover of the Science Fiction/Fantasy ‘establishment’.

Ex-Surgeon General Jerome Adams says he couldn’t find job after leaving Trump White House (N.Y. Post) BIPOC privilege can’t overcome Trump cooties.

WaPo: “‘Wakanda Forever’ and the Importance of #BlackGirlGenius”

Westminster City Council in London Declares That Nonwhites Will Henceforth be Called “Global Majority”

EU officials slam Biden administration for ‘profiting’ off Ukraine war (N.Y. Post)

This affluent city in Mexico has become a waystation for migrants with eyes on Texas (DMN)

US Issues Expanded License to Allow Chevron to Import Venezuelan Petroleum  Anything to avoid increasing U.S. petroleum production.

Biden’s ‘Buy American’ Rules Undermining Infrastructure Spending  Apparently nobody has explained to Biden exactly why people ‘ship jobs’ overseas. He is SUCH a dimwit.

‘Woke Warfighters’: GOP Report Says Leftist Ideology, Gender “Insanity” Weakening America’s Military

Mexican Asylum Seekers Set Their Sights North — on Canada

The Diesel Crunch Is Finally Causing Demand Destruction

How Obama’s Big Economic Lie Caused Our Inflation Crisis

Climate change: Could centuries-old wheat help feed the planet? (BBC) I didn’t know the planet was hungry.

The world can’t recycle its way out of the plastics crisis (Boston Globe)

Are real or artificial Christmas trees better for the environment? (Washington Post) I’m glad they have nothing more important to worry about.

Food waste is contributing to climate change. What’s being done about it? (PBS)

The market can deliver the green transition — just not fast enough (Financial Times)

Bison proliferate as Native American tribes reclaim stewardship (The Guardian) The same Native American tribes that used to drive buffalo herds over cliffs?

“There’s No Emergency” – Dissident Climatologist Dr Judith Curry on Climate Change

US Nuclear Reactors Among The Oldest In The World

Germany Tees Up Windfall Tax On Solar And Wind  Oil companies: Welcome to the ducking stool!

Claim: California’s Carbon Mitigation Efforts May be Thwarted by Climate Change Itself

An Inconvenient Tree: Is Climate Change Driving Worse Floods?

Climate Hoax Exposed — Again

Protests in Shanghai and Beijing as anger over China’s COVID curbs mounts (Reuters)

Protests erupt across China in unprecedented challenge to Xi Jinping’s zero-Covid policy (CNN)

Growing Protests In China Over Zero-Covid Restrictions (NBC)

Protests spread in China as anger mounts over ‘zero-COVID’ (Al Jezeera)

MIT Finds Indoor Humidity “Sweet Spot” To Reduce Spread of COVID-19 (SciTechDaily) Well, if you’re under water, it’s hard to spread COVID, that’s true.

Fauci emailed friend saying masks were ‘ineffective,’ pushed for mandates anyway, Missouri AG says (Fox)

Journalists reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic relied on research that had yet to be peer reviewed (CNN) Not that it would have mattered.

China Reports 3rd Consecutive Daily Record for New COVID Cases

Omicron BQ Variants, Dangerous to Immunocompromised, Dominant in US  Gee, if only we had a vaccine….

‘Forgetful’ Fauci Could Not Recall Key Details Of COVID Crisis Response During Deposition: Louisiana AG  Well, you know, the guy IS getting old….

Protests in Shanghai and Beijing as Anger Over China’s COVID Curbs Mounts

Another Study Finds Heart Inflammation Higher After Moderna Vaccination Versus Pfizer

‘People Aren’t Listening’ ABC Frets Americans Refusing COVID Boosters   Well, that’s what happens when people HAVE BEEN LIED TO REPEATEDLY FOR TWO FARGIN YEARS.

Is the “Pandemic” Over? Maybe, Maybe Not

How Effective Is the New Covid Vaccine?

Trump faulted for dinner with white nationalist, rapper Ye (Associated Press) AP climbs aboard the witch-hunt.

Former GOP lawmaker identifies ‘larger problem’ after Trump’s dinner (CNN) Feeling a lack of spotlight.

Trumpworld Think Tank Is Barely Paying Its Bills (Daily Beast)

Trump’s act is ‘old and tired’, says his own former national security adviser (The Guardian) Bolton was only Trump’s national security adviser until Trump realized that he was an unrepentant neocon warmonger, whereupon he was fired. This disingenuous characterization by the Grauniad is merely another rhetorical stick with which to beat Trump; nothing resembling journalism.

The attempt to revive a sexual assault case against Trump

January 6 report expected to focus on Trump’s role and potential culpability  Oh, ya think?

Republicans shrug off Trump ’24 bid: ‘The excitement’s just not there’ (Politico) Gether Narrative right here!

It’s Time, Again, for My Brother Kevin (N.Y. Times) Maureen Dowd shares the general proglodyte scribbler delusion that everybody is interested in her and her relatives’ hatred of Trump.

GOP lawmakers hushed on Trump’s dinner with white nationalist (Axios) Jumping on board the bash-Trump bandwagon.

‘Not an accidental meeting.’ GOP Arkansas governor blasts Trump for hosting white supremacist (USA Today) Jumping on board the bash-Trump bandwagon.

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After all, those guns just run around killing people.

If we were going to be ‘honest about guns’ we would ban young black males from possessing firearms.

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This is actually very clever.

I can also see the system being gamed to harass your enemies … if you work at MacDonalds.

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The New York Times, of course, is not on the side of property rights.

This is why some people can only do Starbucks work. Guarantee she (he? it?) had tatoos, piercings, and oddly-colored hair (what there was of it).

Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s Very Different Thanksgiving Messages

Trump hosted Holocaust denier at Mar-a-Lago estate during visit with Kanye West, a week after announcing 2024 run (CNN) CNN finally picks up the Narrative.

What to do with Trump’s tax returns (CNN)

The Unwelcome Return of Trump’s #Resistance Reply Guys (Daily Beast) ‘Shut up!’ they explained.

Trump was ‘very taken’ with Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and they fawned over each other during Mar-a-Lago dinner with Kanye West (Daily Mail) Fawned!

An engineering marvel just saved Venice from a flood. What about when seas rise? (Washington Post)

The environmental impact of Black Friday (DW)

Shipping Emissions Are Black Friday’s Dirty Secret (Gizmodo)

Who Were the Worst Climate Polluters in the US in 2021? (Inside Climate News)  Let not a year go by without a witch-hunt!

Coal bounces back (Politico)

Earth Might Be Experiencing 7th Mass Extinction, Not 6th – “A True Decrease in the Abundance of Organisms” (SciTechDaily) “Ya can’t tell your extinction without a scorecard!”

Dream homes and disasters: Is the government ready to confront climate risk? (Politico)

These Are the Most Sustainable Cities in the World The ones you want to avoid.

Humans v nature: our long and destructive journey to the age of extinction (The Guardian)

NY Times Profiles ‘Compassionate,’ ‘Uplifting’ Activist Who Wants Humanity to Die Off

COP-27: A Window into How the UN Keeps the Poor Poor

Barbados Proposes Rich Countries Provide $1Trillion to Fund Climate Action  GIVE US MONEY! Meanwhile, we’ll be busy running the secretive banking and money-laundering operations for which we are famous.

Abortion rights: French parliament votes to include right in constitution (EuroNews)

Joe Biden has a chance to rebalance America’s judiciary (The Economist) ‘Rebalance’ meaning ‘turn more to the Left’.

Socialist-backed Caban wants to make it harder for NYC businesses to fire workers (N.Y. Post) And so businesses will be more reluctant to hire people. Jobs lost! Businesses ruined! Win-win!

Elon Musk Confirms Twitter Helped Libs Win Elections

California Mulls Ban On All Gas And Diesel Truck Fleets  That’ll turn it into a Turd World country over night.

Emboldened Biden, Dems Push Ban on So-Called Assault Weapons

Kari Lake’s Campaign Sues Arizona’s Maricopa County Over Election Issues

On Second Thought, Chris Licht Wants CNN To Stay Librul!

Reefer Madness: Demand For Illegal Pot Soars In California Due To High Taxes

DC Think Tank Scrubs Chinese Policy Experts’ Profiles After CCP Ties Revealed

CNN Is Mute as Biden Still Doesn’t Understand Meaning of ‘Semi-Automatic Weapons’

The West is struggling to set an oil price cap that hurts Russia (CNN)

Ukraine’s four nuclear power plants reconnected to grid – IAEA (Reuters)

These economies are booming as Putin’s war drives migrants and money out of Russia

Putin Branded a Narcissist in Leaked FSB Letters (Newsweek) So obviously he won’t be allowed at the Cool Kids’ Table–they don’t appreciate competition.

Vladimir Putin Wanted To ‘Attack’ Japan, Before He Chose To Invade Ukraine – Claims Alleged FSB Whistleblower (EurAsian Times) And there’s a rumor that he doesn’t wash his hands after he goes to the bathroom, too.

Turkey’s Invasion of Syria Could Lead to Release of Thousands of ISIS Terrorists  Remind me why Turkey is in NATO.

As Negotiations Fracture, EU Postpones Talks On Russian Oil Price Cap To Monday

Western sanctions catch up with Russia’s wartime economy (Washington Post)

Gas Price Cap Could Cause Irreversible Harm To Energy Markets

It Was Never About Ukraine

dsSarah Palin lost the battle, but won the war (CNN)

The Hobby Lobby leak looks bad for Justice Alito. But that’s not the worst part. (MSNBC) The worst part is the Narrative Media witch-hunt.

Bombshell report deals another blow to the Supreme Court’s reputation (CNN) On the Left. And what else matters?

Stephen King Swats Elon Musk In ‘MyPillow’ Fight On Twitter (Huffington Post)

Jordan Peterson’s Politics Make Life Harder for Young Men (Daily Beast) Poor babies.

Elon Musk and the Narcissism/Radicalization Maelstrom (Talking Points Memo)

WashPost Throws A Fit Over Musk’s Pro-Free Speech Changes To Twitter

As Georgia Voting Begins, MSNBC Touts Warnock, Hurls Insults at Herschel Walker  It’s not enough to be black, you have to be the right kind of black.

At Protests, Guns Are Doing the Talking (N.Y. Times) Except with BLM and AntiFa, where rocks, bricks, and molotov cocktails do the talking.

Biden wastes billions on COVID boosters no one wants (N.Y. Post) SPEND! SPEND! SPEND!

In Washington, Macron to seek relief for Europe Inc amid China competition (Reuters) Statists of a feather flock together.

With rail strike looming, Biden says he has ‘not directly engaged,’ contradicting White House press secretary (Fox)

China’s Urumqi to ease Covid lockdown amid public anger over deadly fire (CNN)

COVID protests erupt after deadly Chinese fire (Reuters)

Deadly Xinjiang fire stokes discontent over China’s covid restrictions (Washington Post)

Now-censored videos appear to show China’s zero-Covid measures delaying response to deadly fire (CNN)

Protests erupt in Xinjiang and Beijing after deadly fire (Reuters)

White House battles pandemic fatigue in vaccine push (The Hill)

Hotels Seek Millions from San Francisco Over COVID Homeless Program

The Journalist-Run, Intelligence-Linked Operation That Warped British Pandemic Policy

Here’s how some therapists are tackling structural racism in their practice Leave no Woke behind.

Progressives Find New Pets. Former Pets—Black Americans—Object

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The complex biochemistry that sees coca plants make cocaine has been unpicked and replicated in a relative of the tobacco plant. Recreating the process by modifying other plants or microorganisms could lead to a way to manufacture the stimulant or produce chemically similar compounds with unique properties.

What could possibly go wrong?

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Hey, this is serious stuff.

sThe Ridiculous Reality Of The “Russian Oil Price Cap” Debate In One Picture

Russia Has Issued Over 80K Passports In Annexed Ukrainian Territories

Putin Ally: Russia Will Send Ukraine ‘Back to 18th Century’

AFGHANISTAN: A Work in Progress

Ukraine to Receive 186 Million Euros in Aid from Hungary

Europe accuses US of profiting from war

FCC Bans Equipment Sales, Imports from ZTE, Huawei; National Security Risk

Pelosi’s Heir Apparent Jeffries Supports Bill to Study Slave Reparations

Why Are There Few Black Third Basemen and Soccer Goalies?

Bombshell report deals another blow to the Supreme Court’s reputation (CNN)

Mike Pence Said 7 Words That Disqualify Him from Holding Office: Kirschner (Newsweek)

Jan. 6 Panel Takes a Jab at Mike Pence’s ‘Disappointing’ Comments (Daily Beast)

Internet Mocks Ted Cruz Ahead Incoming Texas Snowstorm: ‘Are You Packed? (Newsweek)

Montana man gets 3 years in prison for role in Capitol riot (Associated Press)

Tobacco companies can’t sponsor Australian arts. Should fossil fuel giants be banned too? (The Guardian)

UC Berkeley student groups’ refusal to invite Zionist speakers draws civil rights complaint (L.A. Times)

Why We Filed a Civil Rights Claim Against UC Berkeley Law School (Newsweek)

Sarah Palin’s Loss ‘Never Gets Old’: Alaska Defeat Sparks Memes, Jokes (Newsweek)

Three Richmond schools to be renamed, erasing Confederate ties (ABC)

Herschel Walker Committed ‘Election Fraud’ With Texas Residence: Analysts (Newsweek)

The Supreme Court’s New Second Amendment Test Is Off to a Wild Start (The New Republic)

Adidas Launches Probe into Misconduct Allegations Against Kanye West

Rep. Boebert Slams Dems Blaming Her for Colorado Gay Club Shooting  As they do.

Cancel Culture’s War On History, Heritage, & The Freedom To Think For Yourself

Musk’s Twitter “amnesty” plan for suspended accounts alarms activists (Axios)

No Good Jew Goes Unpunished

Climate advocates see a path forward in the farm bill: Lining farmers’ pockets (Politico)

How to be a sustainable parent (BBC) Make your children out of recycled plastic.

For Many, the Global Warming Confab That Rose in the Egyptian Desert Was a Mirage (Inside Climate News)

After decades as a nuclear powerhouse, France makes its play in offshore wind (CNBC)

Embrace what may be the most important green technology ever. It could save us all (The Guardian) George Monbiot wrings his hands and gives us clickbait.

One crop uses more than half of Utah’s water. Here’s why. (Salt Lake Tribune_

Could hemp be a key tool in fight against climate change? (The Guardian) Especially for aging hippies.

US Naval Academy breaks ground on seawall project to protect campus from rising sea levels (WTOP)

Rolls-Royce calls for formal funding talks over small nuclear plants (Financial Times)  Because nothing happens without the government paying for it.

EPA floats sharply increased social cost of carbon (Energy Wire)

Sustainability Democrats propose narrow permitting reform effort on electric grid, community involvement (The Hill)

How One Woman Pulled Anchor and Set Sail in a Solar-Powered Tiny Home

Biden Allocates $1.1 Billion To Keep California’s Nuclear Power Plant Operating

Climate Change Activists Paralyze Berlin Airport

Berlin Airport Closed By Climate Activists Glued To Runway

Why we should resist academic calls for climate reparations

A wave-powered prototype device is aiming to produce drinking water from the ocean

The “Biohome3D” House Is 3D-Printed, Fully Recyclable and Made of Natural Materials

Whales dying from consuming plastics  Think of it as evolution in action.

Ghana plans to buy oil with gold instead of dollars  Sometimes the old ways are best.

Eastern Canadian Arctic Has Much More Sea Ice Than Usual While Svalbard Polar Bears Deal with Less

Biden says he will try to move on gun control during lame-duck session (The Hill)

Biden Is ‘Going To Try’ To Ban Assault Weapons (MSNBC) Except that there is no such thing as an ‘assault weapon’ except in the minds of proglodytes.

U.S. prepared to authorize Chevron to boost Venezuela’s oil output (Reuters) But not America’s oil output, oh no, can’t have that.

US officials pressured Canada to stop ‘Freedom Convoy,’ new testimony reveals (N.Y. Post)

Biden phone call to Thanksgiving parade broadcast begins with 20 seconds of confusion: ‘Can you hear me?’ (Fox)

Same Dismal Pattern: CBS Only Mustered One Hunter Biden Story, ABC and NBC Fail to Notice  Biden family? What Biden family?

Texas Sends 2 More Buses of Migrants to Philadelphia

Post-FTX Regulatory Crackdown Will Erode Liberties, Accelerate Path To CBDC ‘Social Engineering’

STATE PROPAGANDA: Univision Shills for Biden’s Student Loan Bailout

In Huge Black Friday Sale, Store To Sell Everything For Price It Was Before Biden Became President  (Babylon Bee)

Biden: Over 55K Workers Got Pay Raise Through Minimum Wage Exec Order  Uh-huh. And how many lost their jobs because they’re employers judged them not worth the extra money?

Biden to Trudeau: Stop the Truckers’ Freedom Convoy  Fascists of a feather flock together.

Taliban Conducts 1st Public Whipping In Soccer Stadium Since 1990s  Thank you, Joe Biden.

Victor Davis Hanson.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has just announced the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith.

But Smith’s team will not look into the Biden family quid pro quo syndicate nor its incriminating confessionals on Hunter Biden’s laptop.

Instead, it will further investigate Donald Trump’s possession of presidential records that were hauled off from Mar-a-Lago, as well as his purported role in the January 6 “insurrection.”

Nah, just kidding. Open Threads are for blogs that are interested in conversation. That ain’t this.

This blog is not intended to spark ‘conversations’ among readers. (If it were, I’d have one of those snazzy plug-ins that actually threaded reader responses, rather than just tipping them into a pile.) It exists to be a dumping ground for stuff with which I would otherwise pester my friends. (Note to self: Do rant on ending sentences with a preposition. Also one on using ‘if’ where you ought to use ‘ought’.)(Maybe one on what preposition to use after ‘different’.)

This blog is intended to publicize things that I find interesting, and in passing document some of the more absurd things that the Evil Party are doing to this country. (If you can’t remember the latest thing that a Stupid Democrat Or Worse did, come here and search. You might find it.) You will note a certain imbalance. That is because Stupid People do more Stupid Things than Interesting People do Interesting Things. (Not My Fault.) Or you could just read the Babylon Bee.

Think of it as a political Ted Talk, without the Wokeness and on-stage preening.

You want to make a snarky comment, feel free. You want to call me names, get banned.

Those are the only rules we have. Take whatever action you deem appropriate.

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I am a big fan of slow cooking.  That and sous vide….

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A new government in Italy was elected partly because of promises to do something about the people smuggling from North Africa used corrupt North African governments. Italian gangsters and EU (European Union) countries far from the Mediterranean back NGOs (non-government organizations) which operate boats to take the illegal migrants directly to European (mainly Italian) ports where the migrants are deposited and claim asylum. According to EU rules that means they can stay, often in Italy. This becomes a problem for local Italians who are not prepared to absorb so many migrants, who become an economic burden for Italy and contribute to a rising crime rate.

The new government in Italy refused to allow an NGO “rescue boat” to unload its 230 passengers in Italy. For a while the NGOs were able to land their illegal migrants in Malta, which lies between North Africa and Italy. Malta joined the EU in 2003 and found that EU rules obliged it to accept illegal migrants from North Africa who were picked up by NGO rescue boats and taken to the nearest EU nation where they were they could claim asylum. This was quite a burden for Malta, with a population of only half a million. In contrast Italy has 60 million and France 65 million. In 2015 Malta began refusing to allow the NGO boats to land, so the NGO boats took their passengers to Italy, The EU criticized Malta but did not try to force Malta to accept the illegals. At first Italy went along with accepting the illegals but eventually that became a political issue in Italy and now the NGO boats must take their passengers to France, which protested when 230 illegals were landed at a French port. The NGO boats are sponsored by EU members far from the problem, mainly Norway and Germany. Most EU members would prefer that all these illegals land in Italy, where most of the migrants will stay and become a problem for Italy but not the rest of the EU nations.

Tom Veal.

The White House has twitted (why hasn’t it yet migrated to Mastodon?) a list of “some talking points when ‘that Uncle’ comes ‘at you’ about @POTUS”. I leave mockery of the substance (and it is eminently mockable) to others. What immediately strikes me is the assumption that “Uncles” (capitalized to emphasize the menace, I suppose, like “The Thing”) are particularly prone to start disruptive arguments at family gatherings.

But you will soon be replaced by robots if you keep this shit up.

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After all, the guns just walked in and started shooting by themselves.

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After several decades, therapeutic cancer vaccines now show signs of efficacy and potential to help patients resistant to other standard-of-care immunotherapies, but they have yet to realize their full potential and expand the oncologic armamentarium. Here, we classify cancer vaccines by what is known of the included antigens, which tumors express those antigens and where the antigens colocalize with antigen-presenting cells, thus delineating predefined vaccines (shared or personalized) and anonymous vaccines (ex vivo or in situ). To expedite clinical development, we highlight the need for accurate immune monitoring of early trials to acknowledge failures and advance the most promising vaccines.

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Broadly speaking, the recent electoral tremors have been based on an education split, graduates voting for the status quo, non-graduates seeking to overturn it. In Brexit, 29 of the 30 areas with the highest proportion of graduates voted Remain, while the cohort overall split 57%-43% compared to 48%-52% for the country as a whole. Hilary Clinton won graduates by 11% while losing non-graduates by 7%. By the 2020 election, the gap had widened to 14% and 15% respectively. In the recent French election, there was an almost linear relationship between education level and voting, with President Macron winning the run-off votes of 78% of higher degree-holders, 63% of degree-holders, 53% of those with a baccalaureate, but just 44% of those with no qualifications.

The commentator David Goodhart attempted to explain these data by introducing the notion of “Anywheres” and “Somewheres”. The former are those who do well at school, go to good universities before progressing to well-paying jobs in big cities or overseas. The latter, leaving school with few or no qualifications, find the university route blocked so are forced into low-paying jobs in their hometowns with little or no opportunity for progression. The modern globalised world works for “Anywheres”. It does not for “Somewheres”. To Goodhart, Brexit and the other political upheavals of recent years represent an attempted revolution by a group who finds itself in a world which no longer caters to its needs.

D.C.’s downtown is comatose. Here’s how to revive it. (Washington Post) The chief way would be to change the far-left policies of the one-party Democrat administration, something that the Washington Post won’t mention and the D.C. city government wouldn’t consider.

Elon Musk ‘dismantles safety work at Twitter,’ makes employees ‘cry:’ Washington Post report (Fox) Poor iddle babies.

How We Beat an Anti-Abortion Amendment in Deep-Red Kentucky (The Nation)

Salt & Straw co-founder says ‘I can’t stay here’ if Portland HQ employees aren’t safe (Oregon Online)

Salt & Straw could be moving out of Portland…for their own safety (KOIN)

Muslim, Christian parents sue Ohio school board over transgender bathroom and locker room policies (Fox)

The SF Police Dept is requesting permission for their robots to use deadly force

San Francisco politicians to vote on policy endorsing lethal force for robots

Top Arizona Election Official Moved To ‘Undisclosed Location’

Brussels Announces Plan to Curtail Illegal Migration in Mediterranean 

NPR Presents Laughably Pathetic Thanksgiving Food Substitutes Due to Inflation

FDR Served Up a Critique of Capitalism With His Thanksgiving Proclamations (The Nation) It is doubtful that FDR knew anything more about ‘capitalism’ than The Nation does.

BBC documentary used face-swapping AI to hide protesters’ identities

Fired Twitter Moderator Reveals “Worries” Over Platform’s Free Speech Future

Fauci says he never imagined Covid would kill a million Americans (CNBC)

WHO to rename ‘Monkeypox’ to ‘MPOX’ at Biden admin’s request (Fox)

Measles now an imminent global threat due to pandemic, say WHO and CDC (Reuters) Then I guess it’s time to PANIC!

Understanding and neutralising covid-19 misinformation and disinformation (BMJ)

Covid is no longer mainly a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Here’s why. (Washington Post)

Fighting COVID Tyranny in Canada

Fauci: I’m a Bureaucrat, Not a Scientist  “I am the bureau!”

Trump attacks Cheney over WaPo report Jan. 6 panel staff frustration (The Hill)

‘It’s on the tape’: Bob Woodward on Donald Trump’s ‘criminal behavior’ (The Guardian)

Democrats weigh options after Supreme Court decision on Trump taxes (Reuters) Gee, what if they don’t find anything?

Trump’s new nemesis (Axios)

Jimmy Kimmel Says Seized Trump Photos Show ‘He’s Even Weirder Than We Thought’ (Huffington Post) But not as weird as Jimmy Kimmel, I suspect.

Trump Can’t Quit the Victim Act (Politico)

Can Trump Win Again?

Trump Hosts Holocaust Revisionist Nick Fuentes and Kanye West at Mar-a-Lago  ‘Holocaust revisionist’ is a new smear.

Ukraine war: How Germany ended reliance on Russian gas (BBC)

Finland and Sweden step up military aid to Ukraine ahead of winter (EuroNews)

Senators alarmed over potential Chinese drone spy threat (Politico)

Russia’s Gazprom threatens to cut last remaining supply of natural gas to Europe (Fortune)

Iran starts enriching uranium to 60% purity at Fordow plant (Reuters)

Power Outages Reported Across Ukraine After New Wave of Strikes (N.Y. Times)

SPACE: Shooting Blanks Over Ukraine

Britain Provides Helicopters To Ukraine For First Time In War

European Parliament Declares Russia State Sponsor of Terrorism

Iranian advisers killed aiding Russians in Crimea, says Kyiv (The Guardian)

Ukraine Battles to Reconnect Millions in Cold, Dark

University of Chicago’s ‘Problem of Whiteness’ class sparks controversy

Jury trial imminent in civil rights case against Buffalo and police officers

Lawsuit: Police captain went on racist ‘rant’

Florida man drinks a cup of bleach after jury finds him guilty of armed robbery  Sounds like a self-correcting problem.

Don’t Mention That the Pygmy Negritos Are Pygmy Negritos

ACLU to Court: Reject Total Immunity for Officers in Protest Case

Hanoi Joy Reid: America Was Founded on Violence, Smears Thanksgiving

Fungal Racism

Africa: No Continent for Utopian Ideas

Yet Another Inconvenient Mass Murder Destined for the Media’s Memory Hole

Don Lemon: ‘Hands Up Don’t Shoot’—Fake But Accurate!

Black Conservative Radio Host Fired for Violating Diversity Policy

The Stench of Corruption Is Growing Stronger Around the Supreme Court (The Nation)

Supreme Court’s silence on most serious ethics issues says it all (Reuters)

University course on ‘Problem of Whiteness’ shines light on free speech, hypocrisy (Chicago Sun-Times)

The challenge of tracking methane emissions and why they are higher than publicly reported (PBS)

How tide has turned on UK tidal stream energy as costs ebb and reliability flows (The Guardian)

Etihad’s ‘Greenliner’ shows a glimpse of a more sustainable future for aviation (CNN)

Manchin’s permitting deal is a major setback for environmental justice (The Hill) Ah,  yes, the famous proglodyte ‘X justice’ buzzphrase.

Climate change is making the weather more severe. Why don’t most forecasts mention it? (NPR) Maybe they don’t buy the Narrative.

America’s Billion-Dollar Tree Problem Is Spreading (Wired ‘Science’)

Biden administration approves $550M for community-based clean energy (The Hill) SPEND! SPEND! SPEND!

U.S. Renewable Energy Will Surge Past Coal and Nuclear by Year’s End (‘Scientific’ American)

Whole Foods temporarily drops gourmet grocery item, cites environmental concerns (The Hill) No lobster for you.

Climate activists are on the right side of history (The Guardian)

Young people just got a louder voice on climate change — and could soon be shaping policy (CNBC) Yech, all we need are more Greta Thunbergs.

New Visa Card Features Personal Carbon Emissions Tracker

How China, the world’s top polluter, avoids paying for climate damage (Washington Post)

You’ll Hear Ever More About How Billions Will Need to Move North Due to Climate Change

Wealthy Californians “Just Stop Oil” campaign – popular in Europe; has anyone asked, say, Bangladesh?

Westinghouse sees a tech disrupter in its eVinci microreactor  I want a nuclear-powered car.

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Remember the good old days, when the most obvious difference between conservatives and liberals was that conservatives objected to wasteful government spending? Now we live in a world where wastefulness is one of liberals’ better qualities.

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Our elections are an embarrassing third-world mess.

On top of that, there’s no mechanism to test or improve the accuracy of elections. Nobody’s even talking about improving them. And every change that gets implemented makes the system more susceptible to fraud. (Like that wasn’t the whole point.)

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The Empire State Building and the World Trade Center make for an interesting comparison. In many ways, they’re similar. They’re both iconic Manhattan skyscrapers (they were built just 3 miles apart) that sit right next to each other in the sequence of “world’s tallest building”. Both started out as projects aimed at creating (among other things) a large amount of commercial office space, and were later nudged by their owners into becoming the world’s tallest building. Both were completed in the midst of a severe economic downturn (the Great Depression and the 1973 Oil Shock, respectively), and took many years to be fully occupied. The Empire State Building would be only partially occupied through the 1930s (making money largely from visitors to the observation deck), and the owners were only saved from bankruptcy because the lender (MetLife) didn’t want the building. It wouldn’t start to turn a profit until after WWII. Similarly, the World Trade Center didn’t reach full occupancy in 1980. In both cases the building owners had to coerce government agencies to use much of the available space.

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The recent mass shooting in Colorado Springs is the 601st mass shooting in 2022. There have been four mass shootings since then, but you likely haven’t about them. You probably didn’t hear about most of the previous 600 shootings, either. Why is that? Because the left is keeping secrets. Let’s talk about what they don’t want you to know about mass shootings and why, so you can dominate your commie relatives at the Thanksgiving dinner table.

Ann Coulter.

For more than 50 years, our country has been engaged in systemic discrimination against the nation’s most despised racial group, whites. Recently, the Supreme Court heard cases challenging legal race discrimination in a pair of lawsuits brought against Harvard and the University of North Carolina for their “affirmative action” policies.

Despite the oft-repeated claim that affirmative action “hurts black people the most,” for the past half-century, it’s whites who’ve been bringing lawsuit after lawsuit for being rejected — solely because of their race — from universities (not to mention jobs, promotions, government contracts, scholarships, executive suites, homecoming queens, etc.).

In response, the Supreme Court announced this fundamental principal of constitutional law: Could you guys try hiding what you’re doing a little better?

The Guardian.

What’s this ‘we’?

Read it.

The common person, equipped with a superb neural system as the result of millions of years of animal evolution, cringes at large structures (i.e. buildings) that communicate a psychological threat. There are sound medical reasons for not ignoring such a negative reaction, since experiencing long-term stress is known to generate pathologies in the body.

The hegemony of the architecture-industrial complex — consisting of building financing, global construction, media-certified “star” architects, real-estate speculators and a machinery of architectural education resolutely stuck in dogma and ideology — crushes public opinion. It has managed to silence the occasional protesting voices for decades.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now capable of judging what sort of buildings and environments are good for our health and psychological wellbeing. The tests are ridiculously easy to perform. We finally possess a set of powerful tools that are ready to finish off a century of absurdly inhuman architecture.