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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) are calling for Chinese Communist Party-tied TikTok to be banned as “potential spyware.”

Massachusetts voters approve ‘millionaire tax.’ What it means for the wealthy (CNBC) It means “Move to Florida”.

Over 200 entertainment leaders urge Amazon, Barnes & Noble to drop antisemitic title (Times of Israel)

Amazon, Barnes & Noble Urged In Open Letter Signed By Celebrities To Pull Controversial Film And Book Promoted By Kyrie Irving (Deadline)

Rep. Kinzinger: ‘If you’re Kevin McCarthy right now, you’re in a really bad place’ (MSNBC) But still not as bad as Adam Kinzinger, who will be out of a job in January.

Leftist NY Times Slams Lack of Twitter Election Censorship

Sports Star to Be Jailed 10 Months for ‘Transphobic’ Message That ‘God Created Adam and Eve’

Two Weeks of Chaos: Inside Elon Musk’s Takeover of Twitter (N.Y. Times)

Liz Cheney says 2022 midterm elections were a ‘rejection’ of Trump and a ‘victory for team normal’ (Business Insider) For certain far-left-leaning values of ‘normal’.

Trump voters are ‘done’ with ex-president: ‘He needs to disappear’ (N.Y. Post)

Where does Dr. Oz — and his reputation — go from here? (Washington Post)

Paramount+’s ‘The Good Fight’ Character Accuses Ron DeSantis of Sexual Assault

Note on Trump’s personal ledger was “deleted” before copy sent to grand jury, Trump Organization executive says (CBS)

Trump Org. controller said he was ordered to hide benefits on tax forms (CNN)

The Trump effect (The Economist)

Trump Has 3 Choices: Good, Bad, & Ugly For The Republican Party

The GOP Revolt Against Trump Is More Serious Than You Think (New York Magazine) At least Jonathan Chait would like you to believe that.

Nearly three-quarters of Jewish voters think Trump and Maga are a ‘threat to Jews in America’, survey finds (The Independent)

Elon Musk’s Twitter faces its ‘Titanic’ moment as executives and advertisers flee while trolls run rampant (CNN)

Saying ‘no’ in science isn’t enough (Nature)

Eric Adams now says ‘fears’ of crime are real, Democrats must deal with it (N.Y. Post)

Oakland civil rights attorney confirmed to California Supreme Court, becoming its second LGBT justice (S.F. Chronicle)

Nation Excitedly Anticipates First Funny SNL Episode In Years After Writers Boycott (Babylon Bee)

U-Haul Builds Bullet Train From California To Texas (Babylon Bee)

French court: refusing to disclose mobile passcode to law enforcement is a crime

Fetterman Realizes American Dream Of Living With Parents Til You’re 50 And Then Getting A Government Job (Babylon Bee)

British Airways Goes Gender-Neutral

Jen Psaki Casually Admits That Dems Peddle Socialism But you knew that.

The Left Wants Parents Out Of The Schools – And To Have Farting Teachers In

Crazed Canada: Transgender Teacher’s Protruding Prosthetics Permitted

Cameras Go Dark At Vote Counting Facility In Key Nevada County

Google: The Ultimate Election Puppetmaster?

Yoel Roth, the Twitter exec who censored The Post’s Hunter Biden exposés, quits in latest mass exodus (N.Y. Post)

Goodwin Compares Election To Surviving The Depression, Winning Civil War, WWII

ABC’s Moran Is Disappointed You Won’t Accept Arizona’s ‘Normal,’ ‘Ordinary’ Vote Counting

Warnock’s Church Faces Subpoena Threat as Georgia Runoff Campaign Kicks Off

Federal Agencies Become ESG Activists

Manchin comes out against Biden nominee for energy commission (The Hill)

Migrants hoping to seek U.S. asylum face years-long legal limbo in overwhelmed system (CBS)

Biden admin directs pregnant migrant girls to be sheltered in states with abortion access (N.Y. Post)

Biden pushes to require big federal contractors to cut climate pollution (Washington Post)

Biden says women ‘beat the hell out of’ SCOTUS justices in midterms

Texas Judge Strikes Down Biden’s Student-Loan Forgiveness Plan As Unconstitutional

Federal Court Blocks Biden’s Student Loan Bailout. Will the Opinion Stand?

Big Three Ignore Biden Admitting He ‘Can’t Guarantee’ US Will ‘Get Rid’ of Inflation

8 Big Biden-Related Investigations Likely From House’s New GOP Majority

Washington’s Pandora’s Box: The Opening Of The Hunter Biden Laptop Could Expose The Cottage Industry Of Influence Peddling

Turning 80, Biden Weighs Reelection as Fitness Questions Persist  80? I didn’t think his IQ was that high.

Video Report: Biden Suggests Elon Musk Should Be Investigated  It would be appropriate if Elon Musk were to suggest that Joe Biden be investigated. Certainly the available evidence points that way.

Biden Renews American Apology Tour in Egypt

White House Won’t Say How It Spent $1 Billion in Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week Vol. 19

Coal miners slam Biden as White House walks back ‘shut down’ pledge: ‘Trying to destroy the country’ (Fox)

Here’s what happened on day 4 of the U.N.’s COP27 climate talks (NPR) GIVE US MONEY!

The inconvenient truth of Herman Daly: There is no economy without environment (The Conversation)

‘The Office’ star Rainn Wilson changes name to bring awareness to climate crisis Oh, and, incidentally, to himself.

African nations tell COP27 fossil fuels will tackle poverty (Reuters) But still, GIVE US MONEY!

Europe scrambles for African gas

Homes are collapsing into the ocean in Florida. Here’s what’s behind the dangerous situation (CNN)

Exclusive: U.S. blocks more than 1,000 solar shipments over Chinese slave labor concerns (Reuters)

Here are 3 dangerous climate tipping points the world is on track for (NPR)

A mountain, a tower, a thermos of molten salt. These are the batteries that could power our renewable future. (Vox)

How dash for African oil and gas could wipe out Congo basin tropical forests (The Guardian)

Congo Basin, world’s second-biggest rainforest, now reported to be facing rapid destruction (The Globe and Mail)

COP27: nuclear boss doesn’t expect surge in waste recycling (Reuters)

EPA to consider adopting stricter locomotive emissions rules in response to California regulators (Fox)

‘It takes more and more’: Camargue under threat from rising seas – photo essay (The Guardian)

Tesla rival Rivian posts losses of $1.7b, with worse to come

Bloomberg Claims Tropical Storm Nicole Made Stronger by Climate Change

The Warming that Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas

Washington State Ban on Natural Gas Heating Is All Cost, No Benefit

Democracy Dies in Climate Panic

Carbon Dioxide Emissions Increased in 2022 as Crises Roiled Energy Markets (N.Y. Times)

Biden Announces Restrictions on Methane Emissions at COP27 (Wall Street Journal)

The Dirty Secrets inside the Black Box Climate Models

Glacier Saga

NYT Essayist with Soros Ties Pushes ‘Climate Reparations’ for ‘Third World Corruptocrats’

Senator Malcolm Roberts Challenges the Aussie Government to Prove CO2 is a Problem

Flu and colds are back with a vengeance — why now? (Nature) Because we need another PANIC!

4th COVID shot boosts antibodies for 13 weeks, Israeli study finds (Times of Israel)

‘We’re Not Permitted To Make The Connection’: Social Worker Shares Aftermath Of COVID Vaccine Injury

UK Man Sent To Prison For 6 Months For Serving Snacks At Club During Lockdown

Supreme Court’s Sotomayor Denies NYC Workers’ Bid To Halt Vax Mandate

6 Takeaways From House Freedom Caucus’ COVID-19 Hearing

Covid-19 Public-Health Emergency Status to Stay in Place (Wall Street Journal) They get so much power from the PANIC!

The New York bishop who was robbed at gunpoint during a livestream sued a local radio station for $50 million after a host accused him of using his church to ‘hide that old drug money’ (Insider)

Noose found at Obama Presidential Center construction site in Chicago (Reuters)

Instagram star gets 11 years for $300m email scam plot

CNN Report: Lottery System a Form of ‘Systemic Racism’

Jemele Hill: MSNBC Was Racist To Fire Cross, Others ‘Comfortable Voting For Cruelty’

Fake Noose? Eventually, Some White Will Place a Real Noose as a Hate Crime

Report: Education Official Previously Called Out Schools for ‘Whiteness’  “Can I get a whiteness?”

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One of the lessons of the Tuesday election show is that voting matters when the results are open to competition. In one party states, voting is ceremonial as the results are always the same. America is well on its way to becoming a one party state, so voting is no longer a part of politics. It is another lottery, a thing to let stupid people think that one day something magical will happen.

And, of course, it rarely does.

After several choruses of Someday My Prince Will Come we wind up with … Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and John Fetterman.

It’s time to demand our money back.

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Bertelsmann, the German giant, which formerly used to put out “The Christmas Book of the Hitler Youth”, has become the leading publisher and distributor of some of the most famous and influential racist woke books.

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Bertelsmann has conquered and gutted American publishing’s crown jewels. The book spines beloved to generations of readers are now just assets to a corporate office in Westphalia which uses them to distribute racist hate across America.

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Two Iranian-born brothers were charged in Sweden with aggravated espionage for allegedly spying for Russia and its military intelligence service GRU for around a decade, prosecutors said Friday. One of the men worked for Sweden’s domestic intelligence agency.

Authorities identified them as Peyman Kia, 42, and Payam Kia, 35. One of the brothers was also indicted for the alleged gross unauthorized handling of secret information. It wasn’t immediately clear which of them it was.

FBI arrests 2 Venezuelan illegal immigrants for assault on Border Patrol agent in Texas (Fox) The invasion continues.

Overwhelmed El Paso releases 600 migrants onto streets – until Biden admin pays $7M (N.Y. Post)

Biden’s Latest Gaffe: Russia Withdrawing From ‘Fallujah’

Average American Family Has Lost $6,100 in Real Income Under Biden, Economist Says

Here Were the Dumbest Questions from Biden’s Post-Midterms Presser

Biden’s Versus Trump’s ‘Lies’ — What a Difference an Administration Makes

Could Barbados blueprint be a Marshall Plan for the climate crisis? (The Guardian)

New Study Indicates That We Are at a Catastrophic Ocean Warming “Tipping Point” (SciTechDaily)

EXCLUSIVE US, EU plan new pledge targeting oil and gas methane emissions – document (Reuters)

Growth of renewables puts them on par with nuclear in US (Ars Technica) Yeah, over-regulated and not financially viable without political subsidies.

Time for rich nations to face hard climate truths at Cop27 (The Guardian) GIVE US MONEY!

Weatherwatch: ‘spicier’ Arctic Ocean is causing alarm (The Guardian)

Serious concerns raised in NZ about environmental impact of major productions including Amazon’s Rings of Power (The Guardian)

Energy crisis: ‘My energy efficient home didn’t keep my family warm’ (BBC)

What Is Greenwashing, And Why Should It Really Annoy You? (IFLScience)

Explainer: Decoding COP27: the many shades of green bonds (Reuters)

Economic growth no longer means higher carbon emissions (The Economist)

German chemicals giant stockpiles coal to keep producing (Financial Times)

Extensive inland thinning and speed-up of Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (Nature)

Melting Greenland ice sheet adds more to sea-level rise than previously thought (New Scientist)

COP27 Invited an Accused Narco-Terrorist – John Kerry Shook His Hand

Fossil Fuels for Africa! African Energy Chamber at COP 27  GIVE US MONEY ANYWAY!

Pennsylvania Reelects Dead Democrat

America’s housing dream is broken (CNN)

California sheriff’s office will no longer patrol during the day due to ‘catastrophic’ staffing (S.F. Gate)

Asteroids! Solar Storms! Nukes! Climate Calamity! Killer Robots! (Washington P0st)

Every Story Is a Science Story (‘Scientific’ American) Especially once science is politicized by the Narrative.

Whitmer vaults into national spotlight with double-digit reelection win (Washington Post) Time to leave.

It’s all ‘Blood and Gore’ until somebody loses a fortune

California Voters Reject Millionaire Tax To Boost Electric Vehicle Use

Failing Upward: MSNBC Hypes Defeated Dems, Liz Cheney For Higher Office

Soros Prosecutor Botches Another Case, Frees Second Murder Suspect in a Month

The Latest COVID-19 Variants Can Evade Vaccine Protection, According to New Data (TIME)

MHRA grants approval for second Pfizer/Biontech bivalent Covid-19 booster vaccine (News-Medical.net)

Bird flu is a huge problem now – but we’re just one mutation away from it getting much worse (The Guardian)

The Six Biggest Takeaways From Musk’s Groveling Call With Twitter Advertisers (Daily Beast) The addition of a single word changes a news story to Narrative propaganda.

Elon Musk has no idea what he’s doing with Twitter (S.F. Gate) And of course some left-coast scribbler knows more about business than a successful multi-billionaire. I see.

Musk: ‘We Have To Be Tolerant Of Views We Don’t Agree With’  This, of course, is proof positive that he is a right-wing extremist.

‘SNL’ staff writers boycott over Dave Chappelle’s hosting gig

MSNBC Predicts Lauren Boebert Will Do Porn if She Loses House Seat  I guess MSNBC is auditioning to be the Comedy Channel.

New York Times Front Page Blames Rapper, NBA Star’s Anti-Semitism on Trump and GOP

CNN’s Lemon Tried to Blame Lee Zeldin for Crime Near His Family’s Home

WATCH: Bloomberg Reporter Asks Biden if Elon Musk Is a ‘Threat to National Security’

University of Kentucky student who repeatedly hurled racist slur at Black student permanently banned from campus (CNN) If the roles were reversed, would we even be hearing about it? I think not.

ZMan is not happy.

A feature of this age that has slowly evolved to be the centerpiece of our society is the fact that nothing is on the level. The central issue with the last election, for example, is the degree of shenanigans. Few people care about the platforms or people, outside of a few absurd examples. What matters to everyone are the many questions about the integrity of the process. Ours is an age where nothing is on the level and everyone is assumed to be up to something underhanded.

America is a marketplace society and the marketplace has always been the natural hunting ground for people who like to take advantage of their fellow man. This was something the ancient Persians observed about the Athenians. The agora, as far as the Persians could tell, was where Greeks tried to take advantage of their fellow Greeks through deception. Greek democracy was the marketplace applied to the arena of politics, which meant politics was based on deception.

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The spine stiffens.

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Back in the year 2000, David Brooks made his name with the publication of his first book, Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There. Until that time, Brooks had been a journalistic journeyman, having put in stints at the City News Bureau of Chicago, the Wall Street Journal, National Review, the Washington Times, and the Weekly Standard. But Bobos in Paradise made him a star. In 2003, when the New York Times went looking for someone to replace retiring conservative columnist William Safire, Brooks got the job. Ever since, he has been one of America’s most visible and widely published pundits, with regular appearances on PBS’s The News Hour, NPR’s All Things Considered, a contributing-writer slot at the Atlantic, visiting professorships at prestigious universities, and even a TED talk, which he delivered back in 2019. And all of this came about because of a book filled with observations about America’s future that have turned out to be spectacularly wrong.

Joel Kotkin.

Yesterday’s Midterms were not a victory for conservative or progressive ideology, but an assertion of the growing power of geography in American politics. It was less a national election than a clash of civilizations.

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So, what is happening in this increasingly inexplicable country? Essentially, there are now two prevailing realities in the US. One is primarily urban, single and, despite some GOP gains in this demographic, still largely non-white. It functions on the backs of finance, tech and the service industries. The other is largely suburban or exurban, family centric and more likely involved in basic industries like manufacturing, logistics, agriculture and energy.

Usually, the media assume these two Americas represent equally viable political economies. But this is increasingly not the case. In population terms at least, red America is now growing far more rapidly than blue America. And this makes it more important politically. Since 1990, Texas has gained eight congressional seats, Florida five and Arizona three. In contrast, New York has lost five, Pennsylvania four and Illinois three. California, which now suffers higher net outbound-migration rates than most Rustbelt states, lost a congressional seat in 2020 for the first time in its history.

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The word GUY so pervades American speech that a detailed account of it would hardly seem necessary, yet the multiple meanings of the word guy are quite complex and are connected to the structure of English. Contemporary English is in a schismatic state between those who make use of or prescribe generic nouns and pronouns, such as man and he ‘human being’, and those who view these constructions as signs of a deeply sexist structure of English. Generic uses of man and he have now long been the targets of “politically correct” language reforms, the chief objection being that a word that primarily signifies the masculine gender cannot also signify the feminine gender or serve as a nongendered or gender-inclusive lexical item. Both man and he primarily signify the masculine gender, but they are also polysemous. English man ‘male human being’ developed from the Old English grammatically masculine noun man(n), whose meaning was originally ‘human being’, and hetook on generic functions after the loss of grammatical gender in the Middle English period. Semantic change is not an uncommon phenomenon, but such changes should not be taken as clean, crisp breaks with the past. The prototypical meaning of a lexical item may change its focus, but the old meanings can still remain connected peripherally. The cognitive model behind the multiple meanings of man and he, despite the current trend to eliminate their generic and inclusive uses, must still be powerfully active in the minds of English speakers, for the development of the word guy closely parallels their meanings and functions.

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Companies, emboldened by an economic rebound after the nadir of the pandemic, rushed to acquire talent and fill their ranks with skilled middle managers. The Harvard Business Review even wrote that middle managers are more important now than ever (Fortunewrote that story six ways to Sunday as well). But a lurking recession is now threatening the livelihoods of white-collar workers: Those higher-salaried management roles—the jobs once heralded in American society as the key to obtaining the middle-class American Dream—may be axed in waves.

As these jobs vanish in favor of blue-collar workers at more manageable costs, that pipeline to the middle class could be chopped at the knees, reports The Financial Times.

Middle-management jobs typically deal with information flows–gathering and consolidating data for upper management, supervising production processes, performing interim analytics, identifying (and hopefully resolving) production problems, and monitoring employee performance. That sort of thing is more and more being automated, significantly flattening management hierarchies.

Biden-nominated US Attorney Rachael Rollins under DOJ IG investigation (Fox)

Rachael Rollins reportedly subject of DOJ probe following Herald report (Boston Herald)

Biden Call To Congratulate Fetterman Lasts Three Hours As Neither Can Form A Coherent Sentence (Babylon Bee)

Here’s what happened on day 3 of the U.N.’s COP27 climate talks (NPR) GIVE US MONEY!

Who should pay for climate change damage? (BBC) GIVE US MONEY!

Oil and gas greenhouse emissions ‘three times higher’ than producers claim (The Guardian)

Sinking Pacific island nation issues historic call for treaty to phase out fossil fuels (CNBC)

COP27 Countries band together to keep forest promise (Reuters)

Scientists Are Uncovering Ominous Waters Under Antarctic Ice (Wired)

Face it: Electric cars don’t do much of anything for the environment (N.Y. Post)

COP27: Polluters must pay for climate change, poor nations tell rich (Reuters) GIVE US MONEY!

Don’t get fossil fooled: EVs really are better for the climate (The Driven)

COP27 – Corporate climate pledges rife with greenwashing – U.N. expert group (Reuters)

World’s ‘most potent greenhouse gas’ escaped during work on UK windfarm (The Guardian)

Amazon destruction woes overshadow Brazil’s farming advances (Financial Times)

Automakers, foreign governments seek changes to U.S. EV tax rules (Reuters)

Kuwait says to become carbon neutral in oil and gas by 2050 (Reuters)

Ex-Obama advisor says global events are overshadowing climate change efforts: ‘We are not acting swiftly enough’ (CNBC)

New Research Showing U.S. Warming is Exaggerated by 50 Percent

Climate Victimhood Comes to “Corruption House Number One”

COP27: A Meaningless Ritual for China and India

US Climate Envoy Kerry Announces New Carbon Market  GIVE US MONEY!

France legislated that parking lots for 80 cars must be covered by solar panels

Countries Hit Hardest by Climate Change May Finally Get Their Due (Wired ‘Science’) GIVE US MONEY!

IPCC’s 1990 Predictions Were Even Worse Than We Thought

Bloomberg News Gives Platform to John Kerry to Declare ‘War’ on Climate Change as Midterms Wind Down

Oath Keeper Boss Goes on Unsolicited Rant About Having Sex With Lawyer (Daily Beast) The best in American high-school ‘journalism’.

Don Lemon Dings CNN Colleague’s McCarthy Interview Over Lack of Fact-Check (Daily Beast) In the Narrative Media, ‘fact check’ means ‘push the Narrative’.

SAD TROMBONE: CBS Crisscrosses Florida, CAN’T Find a Single DeSantis Hater

MSNBC Declares Georgia Results ILLEGITIMATE Before Polls Close

Companies Yield To Left-Wing Activists, Announce Twitter Ad Pause

Court Orders Release Of ‘True The Vote’ Leaders From Jail

NY Times Pundit Krugman Called 2016 a ‘Rigged Election,’ Says GOP ‘Anti-Democracy’  This is news?

‘Homegrown Falsehoods’: Lib Media Target ‘Election Misinformation’ Before and During Election Day

Wells Fargo, Zelle slammed by Liz Warren over rampant online banking fraud  Coming from a walking, talking, government-funded fraud, that’s like being called ugly by a frog.

Why this could be a nasty flu season (S.F. Gate)

Flu Season Is Hitting US Earlier And Harder In 2022 (TODAY)

COVID cases are on the rise again this autumn. Here are the symptoms to look out for (Fortune)

Biden warned staffing shortages sparking exodus of emergency room physicians, nurses (The Hill)

Covid, flu, RSV: Here are the best masks and masking methods for protection against the ‘tripledemic’ (CNBC)

Researchers compare the risk of myocarditis between Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines (News-Medical)

Why are clinical trials so expensive? Tales from the beast’s belly

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All of them voted Democrat in the mid-terms, of course.

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talk about social issues ever, ever again. Instead, they would run solely on their economic message. Asked about abortion? Pivot to jobs as quickly as possible. Your opponent attacks you as a bigot on race or LGBT issues? Talk about taxes. The economy was bad, and voters, they were sure, were eager to hear their message of fiscal restraint and benefits for “job creators.”

The Democrats would be able to say whatever they want on the icky stuff—abortion, gender and sexuality, racism, whatever—but voters would ultimately take a good look at the bad economic indicators and reward Republicans with a landslide victory.

The plan failed miserably. Mitt Romney, the “safe” GOP nominee for president, lost decisively. The economic message had been vague and unmotivating, and the silence on social issues had been suicidal, permitting the Democrats to define the debate however they wanted.

Ten years later, the pony is trying that same one trick, and it’s still not working. RINO Romney declines to support his Republican Senate colleague up for re-election … will he be punished? It is to laugh.

Politics is about morality, not economics. Democrats understand this. Few Republicans do, and they’re not running for election.

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Once your iPhone is connected to the satellite, you can call an emergency service when there’s no cellular signal coverage from your carrier. Satellite connectivity can also be used to share your location with friends and family via Find My.

Since it takes some time to establish the connection with the satellites, iPhone will ask users a few questions while the device is searching for signal. This includes questions such as “What’s the emergency?,” “Who needs help?,” and “Is anyone injured?” Then, iPhone automatically sends a text message with all these details to a local relay station.

A useful thing, if you are accustomed to wandering out in the middle of nowhere.

Not me, but other (crazy) people….

Steve girds his loins for adventure.

Once again, a friend and I are in what we jokingly call THE CONE OF CERTAIN DEATH. Unbelievably, the devil has managed to scrape together a tropical storm after the end of hurricane season, and he has tried really hard to get it to go right over my house. The National Hurricane Center’s prediction cone is looming ominously, like the strong possibility of Kamala Harris becoming president when Biden finally forgets who he is.

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The Democrats have constructed a machine that has almost eliminated the non-voting Democrat. “Enthusiasm” no longer matters if three weeks before an election somebody comes for that mailed ballot or keeps calling about it. Late-breaking trends don’t matter anymore if there is a large buffer of early votes in place.

Cheating? Sure, probably in lots of places (PA certainly) but the reality is that the left has made full use of the new rules to guarantee themselves a pretty sizable baseline in most places even without the “additional” voters and large-scale organizing also provides cover for “additional” registrations. Those dark-money billions actually mattered again in this election.

Babylon Bee.

UPDATE: Nation Unsure Whether To Support Party That Runs Brain-Damaged Candidates Or Party That Loses To Brain-Damaged Candidates

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US Livid As Brittney Griner Transferred To Russian Forced Labor Camp

The White House is livid after WNBA star Brittney Griner has been transferred to a forced labor colony to serve out a nine-and-a-half year sentence after her conviction for possession of a small quantity of cannibas oil.

Note the equation of ‘White House livid’ with ‘U.S. livid’. Sorry, but the White House is not the U.S. I doubt that anyone outside of the clerisy gives a shit about what happens to Brittney Griner, who made the foolish mistake of believing that celebrity earned her a pass for violating an easily avoidable illicit-substance law.

Will she learn anything from this? Doubtful. Will her ‘fans’ learn anything from this? Extremely doubtful.

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What bunch of fools would send a ‘woman journalist’ to Iran?

Or is this just some clever way to get rid of them?

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Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke accomplished something remarkable on Tuesday. Though he didn’t win his campaign against Gov. Greg Abbott (R., Texas), the widely anticipated loss was Beto’s third failed bid for public office in as many election cycles since 2018—a trifecta of political failure.

But actually winning an election would be a bad move for Beto: He’d actually have to work. As it is, the only thing he needs to run is his mouth, hardly an exhausting enterprise, and people will keep giving him money.

He raised almost $200 million from Democratic donors over the course of these failed campaigns.

There are a lot of stupid Democrats in this country. Monetizing that stupidity is one of the most reliable roads to a comfortable lifestyle I know.

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In a statement earlier this week, the DOJ said it was sending officials to 64 jurisdictions throughout the country – most of which would be in red or purple states.

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For years, liberal activists—with the assistance of their corporate media allies—have been pushing the myth that there is a wave of “voter suppression” going on across the country. As the record registration and turnout numbers in recent elections prove, as well as their numerous losses in litigation show, this is a false claim created by opponents of commonsense election reforms like voter ID.

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But is this claim really true, or is it an overblown assessment similar to the fraudulent claims made in 2016 that the Russian government had conspired with the Trump campaign to fix the election?

Well, let’s look at the numbers.

This Democratic leader just broke the first rule of politics (CNN)

Clyburn draws parallel between US today and Germany before Nazis (The Hill)

Civil rights organizations sue over 1,000 unsent absentee ballots in Atlanta-area county (The Hill)

Chicago principal suspended over student’s Nazi costume (N.Y. Post)

Corporate America gears up for a new wave of investigations by Congress (Financial Times)

Hear Jordan Klepper describe what surprised him about interviewing election deniers (CNN)

Report: Far-right social media site users claim they’ll be poll workers (Politico) Oddly enough, they don’t seem bothered by the prospect of far-left social media site users being poll workers. (For Politico, there is no right but the far-right.)

Republicans hope Michigan is proof-of-concept for an LGBT backlash (Semafor) As if David Weigel knows anything about what Republicans hope for.

MAGA Candidate Slapped With Cease-and-Desist Over ‘Racist’ TV Spot (Daily Beast)

West Side Story-Singing Pro-Trans Activist Arrested at Lincoln Memorial Protesting Pro-Woman Feminists

Putin Insiders Pray for ‘Frightening’ GOP Election Sweep (Daily Beast) Does anybody seriously believe that some arrested adolescent writing for the Daily Beast has any accurate knowledge of what ‘Putin insiders’ are praying for? I suppose it doesn’t really matter if you get paid for just making shit up….

CBS Scares Voters: Midterms Could Be Marred by Far-Right ‘Violence’

Meet the ‘Black Robe Regiment’ of Extremist Pastors Spreading Christian Nationalism (Vice)

CBS Panel FLIPS OUT After Mulvaney Notes Polarizing Dems Are Election Deniers

Trump’s Second Term as President Would Plunge EPA into ‘Alternate Universe’ (Newsweek)

Legal Experts Weigh DOJ Appointing Special Counsel

Climate change threatening ‘things Americans value most,’ U.S. report says (Washington Post)

Report: Drastic changes needed for U.S. to stymie climate change’s effects (Axios)

World faces ‘terminal’ loss of Arctic sea ice during summers, report warns (The Guardian)

COP27: Loss of Arctic summer sea ice ‘inevitable’ within 30 years — report (Reuters)

COP27: Which countries will push to end fossil fuel production? And which won’t? (The Conversation)

Human rights case overshadows start of COP27 climate change summit in Egypt (PBS)

‘It was like an apocalyptic movie’: 20 climate photographs that changed the world (The Guardian)

They used to call California ocean desalination a disaster. But water crisis brings new look (L.A. Times)

How to move a country: Fiji’s radical plan to escape rising sea levels (The Guardian) GIVE US MONEY!

Herzog at COP27 summit: ‘Middle East is on the brink of catastrophe’ (Times of Israel) GIVE US MONEY!

EXCLUSIVE COP27: IMF chief says $75/ton carbon price needed by 2030 (Reuters)

Wanjira Mathai: ‘We’re only at a 1.2C world. Can you imagine how much worse it will get?’ (Financial Times)

NIST Breakthrough: Simple Material Could Scrub Carbon Dioxide From Power Plant Smokestacks (SciTech Daily)

Matt Ridley: Green Zealots are Threatening Real Conservation

Macron Urges US, China To Pay Their “Fair Share” For Climate Change

Scientists Are Uncovering Ominous Waters Under Antarctic Ice

Victims of the Faux Climate ‘Crisis’. Part I: Children

“We Are On A Highway To Climate Hell” But What Does Europe Really Want: Environmentalism Or Neoliberalism?

New Greta Thunberg Thermostat Scowls At You When Turning The Heat Up  (Babylon Bee)

EU says it has serious concerns about Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (CNBC)

‘I’m selling my blood’: millions in US can’t make ends meet with two jobs (The Guardian)

Washington Post Gives Biden ‘Bottomless Pinocchio’ Rating

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Joe was centered on the returns in the family coffers.’ Whistleblower claims Hunter and then-VP Biden were part of a group call to discuss online gambling venture in Latin America – the president talking like he was chairman of the board (Daily Mail)

Biden Tells Big Oil to ‘Expand Supply,’ Assures ‘No New Drilling’

FBI Announces “Enhanced” Firearm Background Checks For Young Adults To Start Next Week

Biden approval ticks lower as Democrats brace for midterm losses -Reuters/Ipsos (Reuters)

Does Joe Biden Know The Fix Is In? (American Thinker)

Trump is losing steam. That’s reason for Biden to bow out in 2024. (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin signals that Dump Biden has been given the green light.

Pro-Life Father Arrested By Biden DOJ Reacts to Press Sec Claiming Democrats Aren’t Locking Up Pro-Lifers

Viral load dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Delta and Omicron variants following multiple vaccine doses and previous infection (Nature)

Study identifies a potential pharmacological target for treating COVID-19-associated heart failure (News-Medical)

Quack COVID Group America’s Frontline Doctors Is Suing Its ‘Rogue Founder’ Simone Gold (Vice)

New mRNA vaccine for flu and COVID-19 enters human trials

Novavax Says Omicron Shot Shows Strong Immune Response

COVID truth and reconciliation

Leaked docs: Ugandan gov expects Ebola will escape control, 500 deaths by May  But they’re just Africans, so who cares?

Uncovering COVID-19’s Origin Just One of Many Pandemic Questions for Congress to Answer 

CDC Warns of Serious Infections From Dentists’ Water Lines

Chicago police take two hours to respond after shots fired during attempted business burglary (Fox)

The Christian Nationalist Forces That Terrorized Me as a Child Have Grown Only More Powerful (TIME)

MSNBC takes heat over shock firing of Tiffany Cross as Rachel Maddow called out for silence (Fox)

MSNBC Staffers Worry They Just Handed Tucker Carlson a Win (Daily Beast) The best of American high-school journalism.

U.S. judge suspends many of New York’s new gun restrictions (Reuters)

Top Dems Warn Party Seen As ‘Extreme’ And Driving Inflation

Who’s Committing Election Violence?

Delaware Professor: Doubting Fetterman’s Fitness Is Embracing Eugenics

Philly Home Depot Workers Reject Union In Lopsided Vote

LATimes Op-Ed Says Press “Failing Americans’ By Treating Both Parties Equally

Houston Man Arrested for Attacking Sen. Ted Cruz at Astros Parade  But of course the Republicans are the ones who engage in election violence.

Elections Need More Transparency. Why Do Some on Left Want Less?

A Cliché of a Stereotype: Kathy Griffin and the Pathetic Fate of Liberal Cat Ladies

ABC News Says “Red Mirage” Will Look Like Big Republican Win, But Vote Count Could Take “Weeks”  I.e. the fix is in.

Fetterman Predicts ‘Dramatic’ Overnight Comeback, Taps Clinton Lawyer To Fight PA Election Law  Late Night is when the ballot stuffers come out to play.

The looming election disaster (Politico) Proglodytes scribblers start losing their shit.

Late Night Hosts Sound The Literal Alarm In Final Election Pitches

Florida to Monitor DOJ Election Observers

“Yup”: Elon Musk Seemingly Confirms Twitter Employees Sold Verification Badges ‘Behind the Scenes’

Calif. Voters Weigh New Tax on Rich to Boost EVs  It will certainly boost emigration of rich people.

NPR Revealed To Be Just One White Woman In New Hampshire Who Does All The Voices (Babylon Bee)

Chicago man back in jail after life sentence was commuted by Pritzker (Fox) “A Chicago man who was freed from prison after 29 years is now back behind bars after a months-long alleged crime spree.”

Nets give Kyrie Irving six requirements to fulfill before he can return from suspension, per report

Black leaders are protesting Tiffany Cross’s firing from MSNBC

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RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel (Mitt Romney’s niece) signals that if Republicans win the House and Senate they will work together with President Biden.

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Republicans look forward to working with the president that called them “semi-fascists” and “a threat to democracy” just a few days ago.