Librarians have their own ideas of what you and your neighbors ought to read.

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Last week, Amazon extended buyout offers to hundreds of its recruiters as part of what is expected to be a months-long cycle of layoffs that has left corporate employees across the company angered and on edge. Now, Recode has viewed a confidential internal document that raises the question of whether a new artificial intelligence technology that the company began experimenting with last year will one day replace some of these employees.

According to an October 2021 internal paper labeled as “Amazon confidential,” the tech giant has been working for at least the last year to hand over some of its recruiters’ tasks to an AI technology that aims to predict which job applicants across certain corporate and warehouse jobs will be successful in a given role and fast-track them to an interview — without a human recruiter’s involvement. The technology works in part by finding similarities between the resumes of current, well-performing Amazon employees and those of job applicants applying for similar jobs.

Increasingly, labor costs are coming to be the greatest portion of a business’s expenses, not only monetarily but in terms of exposure to government regulation and labor union agitation. As a result, companies are more and more looking for ways to automate as many jobs as possible.

Fauci pleads with Americans to get COVID shot in final White House briefing (Reuters) One last lie … before you go….

Fauci urges Americans to get Covid shot, as study finds new booster is best yet (The Guardian) It still doesn’t prevent you from getting the disease nor from passing on the disease, so ‘best yet’ is a relative term….

Omicron variant BQ.1.1 found to be resistant to all monoclonal antibody treatments (MedicalXPress)

New List of the Most Dangerous Pathogens Will Include ‘Disease X,’ the Likely Next Pandemic (Gizmodo) Get in on the ground floor of the new PANIC!

California Workers Win $125,000 After Vaccine Discrimination Lawsuit

WHO Plans to Rename Monkeypox ‘MPOX’: Politico

UV Devices Could Keep Indoor Air Free of Viruses

Video Report: HHS Again Pushing Mask Mandates

A 48,500-year-old virus has been revived from Siberian permafrost (New Scientist)

Watch: Dr. Scott Atlas Sums Up Fauci’s Legacy Of “Massive Harm”

Vaccinated people now make up a majority of covid deaths (Washington Post) Really fine ‘vaccine’ ya got there, bubba.

Ice Cube Confirms He Lost $9M Film Role for Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine

This Sheriff Was All About the Second Amendment Before the Club Q Attack (Daily Beast) Betcha he still is.

NBC News reporter ripped for ‘narcissism’ as he cites own headlines to blame shooting on conservatives (Fox)

SEC charges Goldman Sachs Asset Management with not following ESG investments policies (Reuters)

Democrat Katie Hobbs Denounces ‘Dangerous’ Kari Lake

Kari Lake Gives Update, Says “Whistleblowers Are Coming Forward”

Civil Rights Grps. to Depart. of Ed.: Investigate Texas Schools for Trans Targeting

MSNBC Guest Calls Musk Man-Child, Says Existence Of Billionaires ‘Inconsistent With Democracy’

WATCH: CNN Stunned As Their Narrative on Gay Club Shooter Gets Crushed

Judge Upholds $49 Million Verdict Against Alex Jones, Despite Cap (N.Y. Times)

Kanye West Used Porn, Bullying, ‘Mind Games’ to Control Staff (Rolling Stone)

Ruhle Skips New Colorado Evidence, Labels Rush King Of Misinformation

LGBT Hysterics: Walker’s ‘Hateful Rhetoric’ Tied To Colorado Shooting

MSNBC Doubles Down on False ‘Anti-Trans’ Narrative Despite Axios News

PBS Blames DeSantis, ‘Right-Wing Influencers’ For Colorado Shooting

NBC Drops Colorado Shooting as Lefty Narrative CRUMBLES With Nonbinary Suspect

Lawrence: Trump’s Big Loss In The Supreme Court Today Was Just The Beginning (MSNBC) They hope, they hope, they hope….

Judge Blasts Trump Org Lawyers for Delay Tactics (Daily Beast)

Special Counsel Investigating Trump Is ‘Tool To Attack A Political Enemy’: FBI Veteran

Trump’s Legal Problems All Converged Into One Day of Spectacular Failures (Daily Beast)

What We Know About Jack Smith, Special Counsel Appointed In Trump Probes

CNN Lawyers Urge Florida Judge to Throw Out Trump Defamation Suit

Jan. 6 panel staff angry at Cheney for focusing too much of report on Trump (Washington Post)  Too many certifiably stupid people are getting elected to Congress these days.

US receives stinging criticism at Cop27 despite China’s growing emissions (The Guardian) YOU SUCK! GIVE US MONEY!

U.N. summit marks the latest hurdle in John F. Kerry’s long climate crusade (Washington Post) John Kerry is one of the most inept Democrat politicians in my lifetime.

Unchecked deforestation destroying evidence of lost Amazon civilisation (The Guardian)

The Renewable Energy Transition Is Failing (Resilience)

Unabated Carbon Is Shrinking Earth’s Upper Atmosphere, Scientists Warn (Science Alert)

Is Patagonia the end game for profits in a world of climate change?

NJ’s absurd suit against Big Oil only benefits posturing politicians (N.Y. Post)

What “longtermism” gets wrong about climate change (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)

Is your favorite ‘green’ product as eco-friendly as it claims to be? (National Geographic) And do you really care?

UN shipping rules targeting carbon emissions provoke storm of criticism (Financial Times)

Big Oil joins farmers, biofuel groups to tout more ethanol in U.S. fuel (Reuters) Everybody on board the boondoggle!

Time is running out. We must call out the vested interests propelling the climate crisis (The Guadian) The Narrative Media?

Dimming the Sun to Cool the Planet

The US Pledges “Climate Reparations” To Other Countries While Americans Freeze And Become Homeless

AFR: 10 Climate Disasters in 5 Years Cost $1.5 Trillion

BBC Response to Svalbard Complaint

Stop ignoring the real environmentalists

Climate Tipping Points: Real Threats or Misinformation?

Longtime Eric Adams pal goes from $30K pension to $240K a year after landing cushy NYC gig (N.Y. Post) Sometimes it is good to know the king.

Air Quality Mirrors the Racial Segregation of US Neighborhoods (Wired ‘Science’)

San Francisco Considers Axing Elections Director for Being a White Man

Zuckerberg, Soros Bankrolling Left-Wing Think Tank Conducting Racial Census of Hill Staff

Black Women at the Intersection of Narcissism and Megalomania

WashPost Columnist: ‘Racist’ Team Names Bad But Useful

San Francisco Mulls Booting Elections Director for Being White Male

Journalists Rush To Scene Of Shooting To Determine Whether It’s Politically Useful

A useful Fake News list

Pompeo says head of teacher’s union is the ‘most dangerous person in the world’ (The Hill)

How Money From Gates And FTX Bought Scientific Silence

NY Times Celebrates Elderly Biden’s Robust Health; Demanded Details From McCain

John Fetterman Disavowed ‘Dirty’ Corporate Money. Then Came Sam Bankman-Fried.

Texas High Court: Harris County Can Count 2K ‘Later-Cast Votes’

Illinois Has Created No Net New Jobs In 20 Years

Colorado club shooting suspect is nonbinary, attorneys say (Axios)

Suddenly, the Media Become Scandal Deniers

Colorado Gay Club Shooter Identifies As “Non-Binary” With They/Them Pronouns  Live by diversity, DIE by diversity.

Heritage’s Kara Frederick: TikTok Is a CCP ‘Spy App,’ Must Be Banned

TikTok CEO: Content Moderation (Censorship) Is a ‘Top Priority’

Court Blocks New York From Restricting Gun Carry on Private Property

Georgia Supreme Court Affirms Law Banning Abortions After 6 Weeks

WH Gives Dem Supporters Holiday Talking Points for Handling Conservatives  Speak loudly and slowly and they will eventually agree with you.

Howls Of Outrage After New York Times Confirms SBF To Speak Alongside Zelenskyy, Yellen

Elon Musk Finds Closet Full of Wokeness at Twitter HQ  My, what a surprise.

Steve Sailer is not afraid to ask the inconvenient questions.

If there’s a strong statistical pattern in the numbers, you should be able to come up with vivid real-life examples of it. And if you can think of several examples suggesting a pattern, you might well be able to find large-scale data for it.

My main one weird trick for coming up with enough insights to make a living as an unfashionable pundit for 22 years has been to assume that private life facts and public life facts are one and the same. Most pundits assume public controversies, such as BLM, are of a higher realm than daily life, so that what they notice about “safe neighborhoods” and “good schools” when they are making real estate decisions for themselves couldn’t possibly have any relevance to the great issues of the day they discuss in the media.

In truth, you don’t need gnostic dogmas like “systemic racism” to explain why, say, blacks on average are relatively better at playing cornerback in the NFL than center. Biological and cultural differences explain these and countless other patterns.

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Today we are in a new era of conservative discontent. The national conservatives are at the ramparts against the new status quo of woke progressivism in government, the military, business, education, culture and media. Many of them are also dismissive of the conservatism of Buckley & Co. and Ronald Reagan and their legacy of journals, think tanks and policy doctrines that became a settled Washington establishment by the 2000s and 2010s.

In their view, that establishment was complicit in progressivism’s political ascent. American conservatism became unduly attached to libertarian individualism, unfettered markets and free trade as ends in themselves—which helped set the stage for anything-goes cultural corruption, the decline of community, family and religion, and the rise of global corporations and institutions that decimated the American heartland.

Whose turn is it to be the New ‘New Right’?

Trump threatens to burn down the GOP, it’s time to move on (N.Y. Post)

Donald Trump, Sadly, Can’t Be Counted Out (Vanity Fair)

Paul Ryan invents a new category of anti-Trumpism (CNN)

Special counsel in Mar-a-Lago and January 6 investigations begins work with no sign probes will slow down (CNN)

Florida vandal caught on camera spray-painting lawns, homes of Trump supporters (Fox) But of course only Republicans engage in ‘political violence’. Nancy assures us it’s true.

Trump’s Company Kicks Off Defense Case in Criminal Tax Fraud Trial

Univision Ridicules Trump’s Message to CPAC Mexico On God, Family, Country

The Lords Of War: The Perils Facing Trump, Garland, & Smith In Washington’s Legal Arms Race

Former AG Whitaker to Newsmax: Trump Special Counsel ‘Cover’ for Biden’s DOJ

Christian Petition Against Donald Trump’s 2024 Run Signed by Thousands  These are undoubtedly participants in the Pride Parade of which Jesus is the alleged Grand Marshal.

Voters name Trump as biggest loser of midterms (The Hill)

National Poll: Biden’s Approval Remains Underwater As Majority of GOP Voters Support Trump As Republican Nominee for 2024

Huffington Tries, Fails, to Paint Trump as Anti-Semitic

AP Whitewashes IRS Scandal Out of Glowing Special Counsel Jack Smith Profile

Pfizer CEO claims 400% price hike on COVID vaccines will be “free” (Ars Technica)

What to know about the spread of COVID-19 BQ variants, flu in U.S. (CBS)

5 big reasons why kids are getting sick and flooding ERs — and ‘immunity debt’ isn’t one of them (Insider)

“Grade-A Gaslighting”: FDA Says Anti-Ivermectin Campaign Was ‘Just A Recommendation’

‘Keep Your Mask On’: Whoopi Claims ‘Nobody Got Sick’ While Wearing Masks  I would certainly encourage her to wear a mask.

Authorities Looking Into Oregon Report That Falsely Claims Sky-High Child COVID-19 Hospitalization Rates

What Reopening? China’s Covid Restrictions Are Actually Tightening

The Truth About Ivermectin

One in Four Workers Still Fear Catching COVID-19 at Work  Giess we’re still on for the PANIC!

First on CNN: White House kicking off six-week Covid-19 booster push  Trying to stick it to everybody.

HHS Report Recommends Return of Mask Mandates to Fight ‘Long COVID’

New York Times Triples Down on Pandemic Fear-Mongering

New Disney CEO Promises To Make Child Grooming Slightly Less Obvious (Babylon Bee)

San Francisco’s Perverse Incentive to Identify as Transgender

Appeals court halts depositions of 3 Biden administration officials in social-media censorship suit (Politico)

Scammers are targeting Californians’ Middle Class Tax Refund payments. (ABC) When the government hands out money, crooks are there with their hands out.

Smotrich says human rights organizations are ‘existential threat’ to Israel (Times of Israel) Because they’re pro-Muslim and anti-Jew.

Walton Family Funds LGBT Initiatives, Opposition to Arkansas SAFE Act

‘The View’ Mixes in Some Old Fashioned Heresy During Its Usual Ranting (RedState)

Report: Maricopa County Election Head Hiding Out Amid Alleged Death Threats  Funny how systems that worked perfectly well Monday night had become broken by Tuesday morning. Isn’t that amazing?

Maricopa County’s Election Dysfunction Was More Widespread Than Officials Said, Memo Claims

Balenciaga sparks outrage over ‘depraved’ ad campaign with toddlers, teddy bears in bondage

GAME OVER: The FCC Greenlights Univision’s Sale of 18 Radio Stations to ‘Radio Soros’

Emmanuel Macron Comes Clean: “We Need A Single Global Order”

Virtue Signals vs. Noise

Scarborough: GOP Probing the Hunter/Joe Biden Scandal Translates to ‘Lose Big’ in 2024

Democrats Sue To Block Election Recount In New Hampshire

FBI Director Admits 70% of Post-Roe Violence Is On Pro-Lifers, Media Misconstrues

Michelle Obama is picking up where Betty Ford left off (CNN) Wide in the beam and ready to dream.

The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama review – a guide for life from the former first lady (The Guardian) Marry well and then retire.

Zero Ethics: CBS Touts Obama Donor, Vacation Pal Gayle King Cozying Up to Michelle

High-Paid NYPD Official Had Deep Ties to Eric Adams — Including Shared Residence (The City) You’ve heard about ‘jobs for the boys’? Well, Democrats are all about ‘jobs for the squeeze’.

VMI’s first Black superintendent under attack by conservative White alumni (Washington Post)

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer makes historic pick for Michigan Supreme Court vacancy The first Affirmative Action hire for the Michigan Supreme Court. A true breakthrough.

CNN Guest: U.S. ‘A Racist, Sexist, Homophobic, Islamophobic, Anti-Semitic Country’  Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.

Atlanta to Pay $1 Million to Family of Rayshard Brooks

Obama Goes Jussie Smollett With a Fake Noose

Eco regulations force massive coal plant to shut down, sparking community uproar (Fox)

The big takeaway from Cop27? These climate conferences just aren’t working (The Guardian) THEY’E NOT GIVING US MONEY!

EPA quietly pushes expensive carbon tax (F0x)

A costly new climate rule is coming for federal contractors (Federal News Network)

Larry Kudlow: Biden’s climate reparations scam is a terrible idea (Fox)

India’s Jindal wins bid to build Botswana’s 300 MW coal power plant (Reuters) The Turd World doesn’t seem too impressed by the ‘climate crisis’.

Environmentalists push Hochul to help ‘canners’ with 5-cent increase in bottle deposits (N.Y. Post)

Why advocates want to expand New York’s bottle deposit law (Spectrum News)

Start-up aims to make zero-emission hydrogen a commercial reality (Financial Times)

Oslo, Norway’s unique approach to curbing carbon emissions

Colombia signals rethink on pledge to curb oil and gas exploration (Financial Times)

Is Earth a self-regulating organism? New study suggests our planet has a built-in climate control (Salon)

COP27 Is a Down Payment on Disaster

Here’s how deep geothermal drilling might be clean energy’s future

The Washington Post Props up Fake Meat Company That ‘Vows’ to ‘Help Save the Planet’

Farcical COP27 Debacle Ends In “Tears And Frustration” As Furious Eco-Delegates Realize Who’s In Charge

World Cup Stadiums and the “Green” Movement Supports Exploitation of Cheap, Disposable Workforces.

The EV Boondoggle

Costs of Wind and Solar Energy Are Skyrocketing

Dr. Pesta Appeals for Your Help

Churchill in Disrepute as Woke Indoctrination in Schools Spreads Throughout West

The View Defends Ilhan Omar’s U.S. Hate: A ‘Different Understanding’ of Things

Late Night Blames Guns, Masculinity, SCOTUS, And More For Shooting

App Store ‘Gatekeepers’ Urged To Deplatform “Dangerous” Twitter Itself

The Grotesque Politicization of the Colorado Springs Gay Bar Shooting (Newsweek)

Tucker Carlson Warned of a ‘Diesel Disaster’ That Never Happened (Daily Beast) It’s happening right now. Check the price of diesel fuel at your local gas station.

Pulling from extremist playbook, Oregon sheriffs refuse to enforce gun laws (Oregon Public Broadcasting) Well, I guess we know which side OPB is on.

This Grand Canyon destination will ditch its ‘offensive name’ after decades, rangers say (Sacramento Bee)

Kanye West Causes Chaos After Crashing ComplexCon (Huffington Post)

MSNBC host blames gerrymandering for DeSantis win: ‘No way he could gerrymander himself across 50 states’ (Fox)

NBC Senior Reporter Likens Opposers of Drag Queen Story Hours to QAnon

MSNBC Circus Freaks Out Over Gay Club Shooting, Blames Conservatives

Right-wing media continued attacking the LGBTQ community after the mass shooting in Colorado Springs (MediaMatters)

NASA Won’t Rename Webb Telescope Amid Anti-LGBT Allegations

MSNBC: It’s ‘Sad’ GOP Wants to Ban Drag Shows, GOP Should Be Ashamed

Jack White Quits Twitter, Calls Elon Musk’s Trump Reinstatement ‘A–hole Move’ (Rolling Stone) Who is Jack White?

Court Docs Rip Into DOJ for ‘Fiddling Away’ on Matt Gaetz Case (Daily Beast)

The Colorado massacre cannot be blamed on mental illness. It’s rooted in hate. (Washington Post) Getcher fresh hot Narrative, right here.

Mayor Of London Calls For “New Regulation Of Online Speech” After Trump Twitter Reinstatement

Complaint Alleges ‘Profound and Deep-Seated Anti-Semitic Discrimination’ at Berkeley Law School

CNN Disgustingly Ties Herschel Walker to the Colorado Gay Nightclub Shooting

NY Schools Face Funding Loss Over Mascots

Special Counsel Jack Smith Is Meant to Intimidate Not Just Trump, But All Republicans

Elon Musk is unilaterally reinstating banned Twitter accounts, despite assuring civil rights groups and advertisers that he wouldn’t (MediaMatters)

Grand Canyon Campground Changes ‘Offensive’ Name

Will the Media Ever Admit That Christine Blasey Ford Slandered Brett Kavanaugh?

Biden torched for agreeing to climate reparations: Is this an ‘Onion’ headline? (Fox)

‘Woke warfighters’: GOP report claims Biden admin, Pentagon policies weakening military (N.Y. Post)

CBS ‘confirms’ Hunter Biden laptop is real 769 days after Post broke story (N.Y. Post)

9-12 More Months: How Long US Consumers Have Before The Bottom Falls Out

Lawmakers Slam Pentagon for Funding CRT, Gender Ideology Training

What Elephant? AP Denies that There Is Any Evidence That Joe Biden Discussed Hunter’s Business Dealings  Biden family? What Biden family?

Hunter Biden Laptop Repairman Reveals “Chilling” Warning From FBI Agent

Copy of what’s believed to be Hunter Biden’s laptop data turned over by repair shop to FBI showed no tampering, analysis says (CBS) Preparing for the effort to eases Creepy Joe out of office.

DOJ Rules Officer’s Post-Jan. 6 Suicide Line-of-Duty Death  I guess it was his job to kill himself.

Biden Tells Boy to ‘Go Steal a Pumpkin’ During Thanksgiving Speech

Biden Admin Not Enforcing Conflict-of-Interest Rules, Ethics Watchdog Group Alleges  My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

G20 Summit Declaration, Endorsed by Biden, Supports Censorship of ‘Disinformation’

Turkey Denied Presidential Pardon After Photos Emerge Of It Attending January 6 (Babylon Bee)

ZMan passes the popcorn.

Way back in the early days of the internet, those already on-line could not help but notice that the media was hilariously ignorant, but supremely confident, of this revolutionary new thing called the internet. On television, the people who claimed it was their job to keep the rest of us informed clearly knew nothing about this new “internet thing” or the people signing up for accounts. The print side of the media barely knew the internet existed and had no interest in it at all.

In those early days it was a glimpse into the weird combination of ignorance, insulation and confidence that defined the mass media. Television and radio are pure carnival acts, selecting for people who fit a role. The print side, the people engaged in “serious journalism”, are stenographers and cheerleaders, hoping to one day be noticed by the carnival operators so they can get on television. The whole thing is part of a large scale agitation campaign on behalf of the ruling class.

This is what makes the collapse of Twitter so amusing. The agitation machine that is the modern mass media was invited onto Twitter in the early days as a way to promote the product over the alternatives. Twitter was custom built for the slow-witted, but supremely confident people who make up mass media. All they needed to do is download an app, open it up and begin typing. Limiting it to short messages reduced the odds of them exposing their stupidity.

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If you’ve been to a mainstream bookstore or library in the past few months, you’ve probably encountered a “Banned Books” display. These high-visibility collections serve as totems of progressives’ defiance in their latest imagined controversy: the belief that conservatives are banning books related to LGBT issues from public school libraries. “Banned Books” displays usually feature some traditional texts that may have been pulled from schools at some point in their publication history (e.g. To Kill a Mockingbird, The Catcher in the Rye, Huckleberry Finn, etc.). But the recent wave of sexually-explicit LGBT titles are always positioned so prominently that a person can only assume that the displays are in reaction to right-wing prudes trying to force their retrograde views on an increasingly progressive populace.

But are LGBT books being “banned”? Not really. Every library curates its collection, making careful choices about their holdings in the limited space they have. While it’s true that many schools decided to pull titles like Gender Queer, This Book is Gay, Flamer, Let’s Talk About It, and All Boys Aren’t Blue from the shelves, this is not a “ban.” These books remain widely available in bookstores and public libraries that are unaffiliated with schools.

So why are leftists pretending otherwise? The claims of “bans” allow LGBT activists to frame routine decisions about which books are appropriate for a school library as evidence of “hate,” discrimination, and “exclusion.” Certainly, some books are being excluded—but this doesn’t mean that LGBT students are. The trendiness of LGBT identity among impressionable young adolescents suggests that there are social rewards from belonging to this category. In fact, schools take pains to include those students, a reality underscored by the open promotion and celebration of LGBT groups in classrooms.

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Democrats are corrupt, and black Democrats are corrupt absolutely.

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In four years, the number of students graduating from high schools across the country will begin a sudden and precipitous decline, due to a rolling demographic aftershock of the Great Recession. Traumatized by uncertainty and unemployment, people decided to stop having kids during that period. But even as we climbed out of the recession, the birth rate kept dropping, and we are now starting to see the consequences on campuses everywhere. Classes will shrink, year after year, for most of the next two decades. People in the higher education industry call it “the enrollment cliff.”

Couldn’t happen soon enough, in my opinion.

Victor Davis Hanson.

For various loose definitions of the term ‘morality’.

Sam Bankman-Fried is the ultimate dangerous and ridiculous expression of the most toxic and creepy culture in America. If he did not exist, he would have to be invented.

They were diagnosed with uterine cancer and tumors. Now they’re suing the makers of chemical hair straighteners. (NBC)

MSNBC: Musk Letting Trump on Twitter Is Protecting ‘Cis’ White Men

‘Modern Family’ Producer: Dave Chappelle Is ‘Thin-Skinned One’ (Daily Beast)

Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs follows six brutal years of Republican anti-LGBTQ rhetoric (L. A. Times) No matter who did it, Republicans are to blame.

No Evidence Freedom Convoy Donations Were From Criminal Origins: GoFundMe Exec

Colorado nightclub shooter revealed as grandson of MAGA politician  That’s almost like being a Trump!

GOP’s lackluster fundraising spurs post-election infighting (AP) Mostly in the columns of the Narrative Media. (Hey, that Narrative isn’t going to create itself….)

Amy Coney Barrett urged to step away from gay rights case because of faith affiliation (The Guardian)

Former Disney CEO Isn’t Woke Enough for Leftist Media

Beware, DeSantis is as much a threat to America as Trump (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

How monoclonal antibodies lost the fight with new COVID variants (NPR)

Cold and flu season impacts small businesses (KATU)

As measles outbreak sickens more than a dozen children in Ohio, local health officials seek help from CDC (CNN)

Stanford professor who challenged lockdowns and ‘scientific clerisy’ declares academic freedom ‘dead’ (Fox)

Vaccine Breakthrough Could Finally Bring COVID to Its Knees (Daily Beast)

Are urgent care centers hurting America’s family medicine practices?

They Will Lock You Down Again

China’s Guangzhou Locks Down Millions in ‘Zero-COVID’ Fight  No matter how bad it was here, it’s ten times worse in a Communist dictatorship.

Sam Bankman-Fried & The Pandemic Industrial Complex

Canadian Bank Donates $500,000 For Transgender Surgeries On Kids

Diesel prices rising after falling U.S. refinery capacity and loss of Russian imports (Topeka Capital-Journal)

European industry pivots to US as Biden subsidy sends ‘dangerous signal’ (Financial Times)

Germany mulls breaking subsidy taboo to avoid trade war with Biden (Politico)

Are You Eligible for a Piece of the $4.5B Energy Assistance Program? (CNET)

White House announces $13 billion in grid resilience funds (The Hill)

Hess CEO says OPEC ‘back in the driver’s seat’ as U.S. shale growth slows (Reuters)

Federal court border ruling may increase migrant buses to D.C. area, advocates say (Washington Post)

Could oil-rich Alaska be forced to import natural gas? 2 utilities are looking into it (Anchorage Daily News)

U.S. Vice President Harris announces $20 million new clean energy funding for Mekong region (Reuters) Since when does the Mekong flow through the U.S.?

Poll: 71 Percent of Democrats Say Biden to Win Reelection

The Pentagon Has No Idea How Much Military Equipment It Actually Left Behind In Afghanistan

Legalizing Border Crossing for All: The Next Stage of Biden’s Migration Crisis (Center for Immigration Studies)

As Biden Turns 80, Don Lemon Laments: US Doesn’t Honor Elders Like Other Countries!

CBS FINALLY Admits Hunter’s Laptop From Hell Is REAL After Two Years of Lollygagging

12 Things That Took Less Time Than CBS Took to Acknowledge Hunter Biden’s Laptop

These prominent Republicans are speaking out against Trump’s 2024 run (The Hill)

Dem Sen. Warner says ‘Trump was right’ about banning China’s TikTok, warns parents against letting kids on app (Fox)

Donald Trump Is (Still) President of White America (Politico)

To indict or not to indict, that is the question (The Hill) Evidence? Who cares about evidence?

Jared Kushner, Ivanka May Be ‘FBI Informants’ Against Donald Trump: Cohen (Newsweek)

Trump Family’s Newest Partners: Middle Eastern Governments (N.Y. Times) Biden family? What Biden family?

CNN Inadvertently Reveals New Special Counsel Jack Smith as a Partisan Hack

13 Billion Dead After Trump Unbanned From Twitter  (Babylon Bee)

Trump White House bid has hardly any Senate GOP support (The Hill)

Manhattan Prosecutors Move to Jump-Start Criminal Inquiry Into Trump (N.Y. Times) That’s almost becoming a career field. “What was your major in college?” “Chasing Trump Studies.”

Inescapable Idiocy at the New York Times: ‘Trump, the Black Hole and Me’

New Trump special prosecutor overturned by Supreme Court, tied to IRS scandal

Ex-ESPN Lefty Le Batard Insists Trump Threatens Democracy  In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Trump’s company kicks off defense case in criminal tax fraud trial (Reuters)

Morning Rant with Mike Barnicle: Trump Re-Election Threatens to End USA ‘As We Know It’

Retired colonel ‘very concerned’ about US weapon shortages for Ukraine (CNN)

How Russia is weaponizing the Ukrainian winter (NPR)

Russia’s war in Ukraine (CNN)

Ukraine war: Germany looks to renewables after Russian invasion (BBC)

Heavy Shelling At Ukraine’s Largest Nuclear Plant: “You Are Playing With Fire!”

Energy Crisis: German Minister President Suggests Heating One Room in Winter Is Enough

MURPHY’S LAW: Russian UAV Failures

Carrier Dry Docks – Ours and Theirs

Ukraine’s Kherson Win Shifts Dynamics Across Whole Front With Russia (WSJ)

Ukraine Urges Civilians to Leave Liberated Areas for Winter

Angry families say Russian conscripts thrown to front line unprepared (Washington Post)

Secretary of Defense Austin: US Supporting Ukraine ‘as Long as it Takes’  Or until a Republican President is elected, whichever comes first.

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Despite massive and systemic problems with for-profit Medicare plans denying care to seniors while costing the government more than $7 billion annually in excess fees, the leading advocacy group tasked with protecting older Americans is welcoming the privatization of the national health insurance program — while earning as much as $814 million annually from insurers advertising the plans.

The state of affairs lays bare a conflict inside AARP, the major advocacy organization for Americans 50 and older, over how to approach the regulation of Medicare Advantage, the for-profit version of Medicare.

Everybody I’ve talked to who uses Medicare Advantage likes it a lot better than straight Medicare.

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New evidence indicates that an effort to stamp out disease-carrying insects is working. The key? Mosquitoes genetically engineered to kill off their own kind.

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We are sorry to inform you that you are in a cult. This must come as a bit of a shock. Your first instinct will no doubt be to recoil in denial. “Me? In a cult? Absolutely not!” We must unfortunately insist. It’s okay though, you had no choice. You were born to parents who started your indoctrination from day one. And, perhaps even more insidious, the cult has been watered-down from its original form, in order to retain members. Thus, the signs and scars created by your cult are subtler than those one might otherwise expect.

There are very few entrepreneurial projects more profitable than starting a cult. Ask L. Ron Hubbard.

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Downtown Dallas continues to creep away from the original Central Business District on Main Street and towards our residential anchor neighborhoods. This is not because the occupancy has outgrown the Central Business District. In fact, many buildings are empty or are being repurposed.

The real reason for this movement of the Central Business District away from the original heart of downtown Dallas lies in human preferences.

People like the vibrancy of big cities. But they are not particularly attracted to cold, canyonlike streets of tall buildings with few traces of humanity. People love the combination of nature alongside stores, restaurants and lower-density inner-city neighborhoods. There have been many more popular bars and restaurants in uptown residential neighborhoods than downtown Dallas.

Steve Sailer is on the case.

The post-1945 Great Nazi Shortage has driven the team (James Mangold and the Butterworth brothers) making the upcoming fifth Indiana Jones movie set in 1969 to the stratagem of finding Nazis behind America’s moon landing. Mads Mikkelsen plays the villain based on Werner von Braun.

At least 5 people killed, 18 injured in a shooting at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs (CNN) White supremacists! Oh, wait….

Brutal Nickname For Elon Musk Goes Mega-Viral On His Twitter (Huffington P0st)

German Public TV Compares Elon Musk To Goebbels  Goebbells could speak the language.

MSNBC: GOP a ‘Narco-Cartel,’ Trying to Turn DeSantis into ‘New Jesus’ (MSNBC) Well, they hate the old one, so it’s probable they’ll hate the new one.

Schiff bemoans growth of ‘crazy caucus’ in House GOP (ABC) As a senior member of the ‘sleazy caucus’, he has little room to talk.

How the Pelosi Attack Suspect Plunged Into Online Hatred (N.Y. Times) Another roundabout attempt to pin it on Republicans.

Press Petulant Over ‘Transphobic,’ ‘Right-Wing’ Satire Site Babylon Bee’s Free-Speech Win

OUCH: CNN’s Tapper Throws Cold Water on Dems’ Midterm Gloating

Twitter lifts Donald Trump ban after Elon Musk’s poll (The Guardian)

Elon Musk says Trump will be reinstated to Twitter after more than 15 million users voted in poll (Fox) A narrow win–as narrow as some of the Democrat victories in the mid-terms.

The perils for Trump, Garland and special counsel Smith in Washington’s new legal arms race (The Hill)

Trump’s response to DOJ announcement makes former prosecutor chuckle (CNN) Laugh while you can, monkey boy.

Trump campaign announcement deepens Republicans’ civil war (The Guardian) They hope.

Bill Barr: ‘It’s becoming increasingly more likely’ Trump is indicted (N.Y. Post)

Orange Man (Still) Bad: Anti-Trump Witch Hunt Must Continue, Says Garland

POLITICO Playbook: A new special counsel sets Washington ablaze  The desire by some to light their farts is never outgrown.

For experts, the evidence in two probes compels charging Trump (The Hill)

Pence Defends Trump, Warns About AG Garland, Partisan DOJ

Trump’s growing GOP challengers revive fears of 2016 repeat (Associated Press) I guess it’s no secret which side the AP is on.

Student debtors refuse to pay back loans: ‘I’m not gonna feed this monster anymore’ (N.Y Post)

Massive group of migrants hits Texas border as end of Title 42 looms (Fox)

Immigration attorney receives hundreds of calls, migrants asking if they can cross after Title 42 ruling (KTSM)

‘Slow-walked justice’: FBI insists it is prosecuting attacks on pro-life centers amid claims of politicization (Fox)

Texas to send military armored personnel carriers to the border to escalate enforcement: Report (Fox)

‘It’s like living in an igloo’ People are turning off their heat as prices surge

Watch: FBI Director, DHS Secretary Grilled On Tech Censorship Collusion, Targeting Everyday Americans As Terrorists

Foreign Students May Have Overstayed Visas via Employment at Possible Shell Cos

Jake Tapper Destroys Biden For Determining ‘Thug’ Mohammed Bin Salman Has Immunity: You’re Letting Him ‘Get Away With Murder’ (MEDIAite)

Arizona AG Launches Investigation Into Maricopa County ‘Election Irregularities’

Layoffs mount, and Main Street still can’t find any workers to hire for open jobs (CNBC) Why work,  when the government will give you money?

Democrats dissing Mayor Adams could lead to next Rudy Giuliani, Al Sharpton says (N.Y. Post) That would certainly solve the crime problem.

‘You do not have the right to ban books’: Meridian library officials respond to threats (Idaho Statesman) Except that they’re not ‘banning’ books; they’re merely saying don’t have them in the public library.

France brands Italy’s refusal of migrant rescue ship a ‘nasty gesture’ (EuroNews)

The Backlash To Losing Roe v. Wade Is Just Getting Started (Huffington Post)

Empty Classrooms, Abandoned Kids: Inside America’s Great Teacher Resignation (N.Y. Times) Kids, Schmids: It’s all about the benefits.

FedCoin: It Starts With A Trial Run

Not So Fast Elon: Europe Warns Musk He Must Hire Hundreds Of Moderators To Limit Free Speech

Gun Sales Skyrocket After Oregon Passes Measure Restricting Gun Rights

ZERO Dissent: NPR, PBS Air Totally One-Sided Interviews with New Trans Legislators

House GOP Leader: ‘Anti-Semitic’ Rep. Omar to Be Off Committees

Just Kidding! CBS News Resumes Twitter Posts After 40-Hour Tantrum

COP27 summit agrees on landmark climate ‘loss and damage’ fund, but does little to encourage rapid cuts to fossil fuel use (CNN) GIVE US MONEY!

The road to low-carbon concrete (Ars Technica)

Environmental groups oppose pipeline expansion in Pacific NW (Seattle Times)

Triggered by Musk, CBS News announces it’s suspending all Twitter activity out of ‘abundance of caution’ (Fox)

Did climate change really kill billions of snow crabs in Alaska? Here’s what experts say (Tacoma News-Tribune)

Analysis: India power binges on coal, outpaces Asia (Reuters)

Five crucial issues in fight to save planet – and what Cop27 did about them (The Guardian) Not a f—g thing.

US shamed as the ‘colossal fossil’ of Cop27 climate summit by campaigners (The Guardian) GIVE US MONEY!

Beware the false hope of recycling (Nature)

‘Shameful’ UN silencing Indigenous voices, say banned Cop27 activists (The Guardian)

Indigenous activists “seen, not heard” at COP27 (Axios)

Hoover Dam Brings Electricity to 1.3 Million—It’s At Risk of Shutting Down (Newsweek)

How to build a net-zero chalet (Financial Times) And of course we can all afford a ‘net zero chalet’.

Energy requirements and carbon emissions for a low-carbon energy transition (Nature)

‘No safe place’: Kiribati seeks donors to raise islands from encroaching seas (The Guardian) GIVE US MONEY!

AP COP 27 Article Grossly Misrepresents Global Energy and Emissions Reality

Methane: Much Ado About Nothing

As Green Policies Cause Energy Prices To Explode, Deforestation In Europe Accelerates

The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama review – a guide for life from the former first lady (The Guardian) Play the victim all your life and marry a Magic Negro.

Democrat Rep. Claims Slavery Reparations Could Have Saved Black Americans From COVID  GIVE US MONEY!

NAACP Calls On Twitter Advertisers To Take Action After Trump’s Reinstatement (Huffington Post)

RFK’s daughter reveals Harry and Meghan will accept honor at NYC gala for their ‘heroic’ stance against ‘structural RACISM’ of royal family (Daily Mail)

Read it.

After spending the past year cheering on Congressional Democrats in their seemingly never ending quest to investigate former President Donald Trump and his actions on and leading up to the January 6 riots, including the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate and presumably prosecute Trump, suddenly investigations and oversight are bad since it’s the GOP’s turn to conduct them.

The leftist media’s blatant and shameless hypocrisy was on full display during Sunday’s This Week on ABC when fill-in host Jon Karl interviewed former Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan about his take on politics and his new book which outlines solutions to America’s fiscal problems.

Read it.

Is there any force more powerful in America today than white guilt? That is the question that springs to mind reading Regina Jackson and Saira Rao’s new book, White Women: Everything You Already Know about Your Own Racism and How to Do Better. Jackson and Rao, who get invited and paid to ruin perfectly lovely dinner parties by lecturing attendees about their “complicity in upholding white supremacy,” have found the white guilt—the soft spot in the skull of earnest liberals—and just keep poking their thumbs into it.

COP27 is leaving huge loopholes for greenwashing (Quartz)

House GOP expected to eliminate climate crisis committee (The Hill)

Cop27 live: ‘deeply worrying’ climate talks may be close to breaking down, campaigners warn (The Guardian)

Climate talks grow tense as U.S. resists Europe’s plan for aid (Politico)

Fashion brands grapple with greenwashing: ‘It’s not a human right to say something is sustainable’ (The Guardian)

Achieving a swift reduction in global coal emissions is the central challenge for reaching international climate targets (IEA)

Charts: How much will coal’s transition cost? (Mining.com)

Monterey Bay desalination project is approved despite environmental injustice concerns (L.A. Times)

COP27 Fail: John Kerry MIA as Delegates Demand the USA Pay for “Loss and Damage” GIVE US MONEY!

King Charles: Foie gras banned at royal residences (BBC) The monarchy goes Woke.

Climate Change Weekly #453: Climate Catastrophism Is Worse Than Climate Change

Sacrifice: U.S. So Racist Michelle Obama Couldn’t Wear Braids in the White House  She’s so oppressed.

The Blank Slate Monument: Honest, That’s What It’s Called,

‘Tis the Season to Adore the Obamas

Supreme Court Justice KBJ

Ukraine Situation Report: Possible Drone Boat Attack On Russian Port

Is Russia Now Firing Denuclearized Cruise Missiles At Ukraine?

It’s Costing Peanuts for the US to Defeat Russia (Center for European Policy Analysis)

Celebrating War as Climate Win Makes Red True Color of “Greens”

Sweden Says Nord Stream Pipeline Explosion Confirmed as Sabotage

Fearing Ukrainian Forces, Russians Abandoning Crimea

Russia Secretly Moves 100 Missiles From Belarus