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I was recently asked by a former colleague why I had increased my exposure to certain sectors in the equity market. After all, the information that had informed my decisions must already be priced in since the market is efficient, he argued. One could spend plenty of ink on the definitions of market efficiency as is usual in academia, but let’s just not. Instead, I’d like to argue that the market, at least important parts of it, may have become notably less efficient due to changes to the information landscape.

Many may be familiar with the concept tragedy of the commons. Jointly used land (commons) tends to be overused, polluted, and so on. Today’s information landscape actually resembles such a common. Today’s information commons has however become limited (reduced flora and fauna) and less valuable (the soil has been depleted), for several reasons.

Paxlovid reduces risk of long Covid, Veterans Affairs study finds (CNN)

Do new Covid ‘Scrabble’ variants make omicron boosters pointless? Here’s what experts say (CNBC)

New Corona “Cases” Mean Two More Years of Totalitarian Rule in New Zealand

WATCH: Whitmer Bails on Interview When Questioned About Pandemic Record

Billionaires emit a million times more greenhouse gases than the average person, study finds (CNN)

Trump ‘Apologizes’ to Matt Gaetz on Behalf of America. America Rolls Its Eyes (Rolling Stone) Well, the Rolling Stone does, anyway.

NYT Front Page Tries to Neuter GOP on Crime: But, But…It Was Worse in the ’90s!

Inside the unhinged midterm election conspiracy theories on Truth Social (The Guardian) Not to be confused with the unhinged midterm election conspiracy theories in The Guardian.

DeSantis Draws Two Silly Hit Pieces in Last Weekend from Washington Post, New York Times

How a GOP Congress Could Roll Back Freedoms Nationwide (The Atlantic)

CNN Rips Ron Johnson: ‘Injecting Race’ by Noting His Democrat Opponent’s Hot Race Takes

Greek Soccer Legend Sentenced to Jail For Criticizing Child Sex Change Surgery

Voter Suppression: ABC, CBS Cast Doubt on Midterms, Blaming Violent Right-Wingers

Musk Shares a Nazi Meme Then Tells Twitter to Vote Republican (Daily Beast) After all, nobody knows Nazi memes like the Daily Beast … if you hear the dog whistle, you’re the dog.

Paramount+ Drama ‘The Good Fight’ Pushes MAJOR Leftist Propaganda: ‘When Did Republicans Go From Crazy to Evil?’

The Trump-DeSantis feud just got worse. A hidden factor is driving it. (Washington Post) There is no Trump-DeSantis feud; that’s just a fever dream in Greg Sargent’s proglodyte brain. As is any chance that he would know the ‘hidden factor’ even if there was one.

Record number of Republicans support party over Trump: NBC poll (The Hill)

Trump and other Republicans are already casting doubt on midterm results (CNN)

Do we really need a special counsel to indict Trump? (The Hill) Can’t we just have a mob show up at his house?

Appointing a Special Counsel for Trump Would Be a Mistake (Daily Beast) Let’s just have a mob show up at his house.

Trump May Pose a Test No Special Counsel Can Pass (N.Y. Times) Mainly because he hasn’t done anything illegal.

RNC chair says committee can’t pay Trump’s legal bills if he announces 2024 run

Expected Trump indictment looms over midterm election (The Hill)

Trump Is Calling Republicans to Ask ‘How Many’ Times They’ll Impeach Biden (Rolling Stone)  However many it takes.

Trump speeches use dozens of lies, exaggerations to draw contrast with Biden (Washington Post) Like being called ugly by a frog.

Censored? London premiere of Andres Serrano’s Capitol attack film pulled for being ‘pro-Trump’

Sky-high electricity is Biden’s new pain point before elections (Straits Times)

Twitter fact-checks Biden gas price claim (Fox)

Biden: The Days Are Over For Corporations Paying Zero Federal Tax (MSNBC)

Biden Admits The Truth: “No More Oil Drilling” As Energy Stocks Set To Soar

Joe Biden Gets the CNN “Fact Check” Treatment  Getting ready to dump Joe Biden.

“They’re Simply Not Motivated”: Homebuyers Are Fleeing The Market

“People Are Fed Up”: Soaring Electricity Bills Become New Pain Point For Biden

Tom Cotton Slams Merrick Garland for Allowing Illegal Protests at Supreme Court Justices’ Homes

Northeast Faces Winter Energy Crisis as Biden Promises ‘No More Drilling’

Inflation Was Always The Endgame

These are the states enacting legislation to help make daylight saving time permanent (NPR)

Dems, not democracy, at risk, Joe’s shortages socking families and other commentary (N.Y. Post)

Musk Bans ‘Impersonation’ After Parody Elons Flood Twitter (Daily Beast) The best of American high-school journalism.

Twitter suspends Kathy Griffin’s account for impersonating Elon Musk (Fox)

Pope says EU states should share responsibility for migrants (Reuters)

Former CIA Intelligence officer suggests using ‘counterterrorism’ strategies against ‘right-wing’ Americans (Fox)

‘I’m a Woman With a Beard, I Stopped Shaving to Make a Point’ (Newsweek)

The Air Force Went Woke, Its Planes Won’t Fly

Streamlining the Great Replacement in Germany

PTSD-Stricken Progressives Flee Austin Over “Too Many Republicans”

Can the FBI Be Saved?

“It’s Not Looking Good” – Martin Armstrong Warns There May Not Be A 2024 Election

Two Abortion Ballot Measures Open Floodgates for Transgender Agenda and Erosion of Parental Rights, Critics Say

How Business Giants Get Lower Interest Rates for Meeting Diversity Quotas

Scoop: Top Dems warn party is seen as extreme (Axios) This is a ‘scoop’?

CBS’ ‘FBI’ Bucks Pro-Abortion Language, Calls Unborn Child ‘Baby’

Politico: Suddenly, ‘Fears Loom Large’ of Cheating and Hacking the Midterms  For Democrats, maybe.

Beto O’Rourke’s third campaign in 6 years embodies Democrats’ unrealized gains (Washington Post) He has the perfect Democrat job–he spends his time spinning Narrative lies, and living off of the money stupid people give him. I should have such a job.

Is there a more tone-deaf politician than Hochul of New York?

Whoopi Quits Twitter: ‘All Speech Is Not Free Speech’ ‘I’m Out!’  I think that counts as a win.

Musk’s Twitter Buy Makes No Sense – Unless It’s Part of Something Bigger  Talk about conspiracy theories….

Black voters in Florida express fear, confusion as DeSantis election laws kick in (Washington Post) You mean we actually have to vote for ourselves? And show ID?

Democracy Is on the Ballot. The Democrats Are the Only Choice (Newsweek) Scott Dworkin pushes the Narrative.

Kelly Loeffler Calls for Investigation Into Stacey Abrams’s Shady Voter Group

The Political Left’s Reaction To Free Speech On Twitter Confirms Their Authoritarian Intent

Report: Kathy Griffin Uses Deceased Mother’s Account to Evade Twitter Ban  Democrats are cheaters every age.

COP27: delegates weigh ‘climate compensation’ for poor nations impacted by global warming (Fox) GIVE US MONEY!

Question of compensation for poor on COP 27 agenda (Reuters)

Equipment that’s designed to cut methane emission is failing (Associated Press)

Exxon faces $2 billion loss on California oil property sale (Fox)

Climate crisis: past eight years were the eight hottest ever, says UN (The Guardian) GIVE US MONEY!

Fareed asks climate scientist about ‘surprising good news’ (CNN)

Analysis: Brazil’s Lula hopes to unite rainforest nations, tap funding at COP27 (Reuters) GIVE US MONEY!

Climate activists block private jet runway at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam (CNN) Shoot a few and that would stop.

Against climate doomerism

“No More Drilling”: Climate Crusader Joe Biden Announces the End of Oil and Gas

Flakes On A Plane: Hundreds Of Climate Protesters Block Private Jets At Amsterdam Airport

Europeans Are Burning Trees to Keep Warm

Vietnam Gas Stations Start To Close Due To Widespread Shortages

UN: $2 Trillion Per Year Required for Climate Development  GIVE US MONEY!

Climate Expert Bjorn Lomborg Debunks Lancet’s Climate Doom Report: ‘Deliberately Deceptive’

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We hear the lament from the Left continually, even more so as election season dawns, and endlessly as election day approaches: “If you vote for the Republican, it will mark the end of democracy.”

We know this mantra by now. Trump tried to destroy democracy not only on January 6 but on the day he was born, actually on the day he was conceived. Rudi Giuliani is a threat to democracy. Steve Bannon is a threat to democracy. Fox News is a threat to democracy. The conservative columnists at the New York Times and Washington Post are threats to democracy. Sean Hannity. Tucker Carlson. Now, Elon Musk is a threat to democracy. They all must be canceled and destroyed — to save democracy.

But who is the real threat to democracy? Consider three examples: the Courts, the Legislature, and Elections.

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On Friday NBC’s Today show reported a story bearing on the assault on Paul Pelosi. Within a few hours the network deep-sixed the story with the comment that “it did not meet NBC News reporting standards.” We posted the memory-holed story via Twitter and noted NBC’s retraction here.

How did the story fail NBC News reporting standards? They didn’t say.

The Washington Post’s Paul Farhi spoke to “people at the network.” He mocks anyone who reiterated the story despite NBC’s mysterious “retraction.” Farhi’s story ran under the headline “NBC retracts erroneous Paul Pelosi story that fueled conspiracy theories.” Subhead: “People at the network said the ‘Today’ show report was based on ‘unreliable’ information from a source who was unnamed in the story.”

Note that Farhi’s sources (assuming they are plural as he says) remain unnamed in his story.

If NBC didn’t publish stories with ‘unnamed sources’ they wouldn’t have anything to publish.

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Controversial event on academic freedom at Stanford University goes forward amid controversy. Speakers include Amy Wax, Jordan Peterson, Scott Atlas, Joshua Katz and more.

Apparently it’s ‘divisive’ because the speakers are in favor of academic freedom rather than against. Inside Higher Ed ought to change their name to Inside Higher Indoc.

Wall Street Journal.

I may have to start a new category.

Liberals have tried to draw similarities between Elon Musk and Donald Trump, perhaps to justify their acquired distaste for the Tesla and new Twitter CEO. But the main thing the two provocateurs have in common is that they both drive the left into hysterical fits.

As President Biden last week warned in a dark speech that American democracy is “under attack” by Mr. Trump and “MAGA Republicans,” Democrats and their media allies hyperventilated that Mr. Musk would take a wrecking ball to Twitter. “The world’s richest man has apparently decided to set his $44 billion investment on fire,” wrote one Washington Post columnist.

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IKEA sent a cease and desist letter to the upcoming survival horror game The Store is Closed over its similarities with the company’s chain of warehouse locations.

As reported by Kotaku, the famed Swedish furniture giant sent the request to The Store is Closed‘s sole indie developer Jacob Shaw, who also goes by the studio name Ziggy. The letter demands that Shaw make significant design changes to the game, which is set in a large warehouse store that strongly resembles an IKEA. Lawyers for the furniture company claimed The Store is Closed commits copyright infringement due to comparisons made by some news outlets between the game and IKEA’s stores.

Spoilsports.

Indeed it is.

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At this point what social scientists call “pattern recognition”—an updated version of Occam’s Razor—is kicking in. We’ve now had three Democratic presidents in a row— stretching back to Clinton in 1992, then Obama in 2008, and Biden in 2020—who all campaigned as moderates, but lurched sharply left once in office. In other words, Democratic presidential candidates lie to us, over and over again, and then voters issue a restraining order at the first opportunity. It’s as though voters need reminding every other decade how bad Democrats in power can be. “Swing voters,” wise up.

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Which advertisers, pressured by whom? Let’s start with the first half of that question, answered in part by the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, among others. Many companies aren’t trying to hide it in what they may believe is a virtue signal.

Crickets… Illinois Professor Publishes Racist Attacks Against Herschel Walker With No Outcry From Faculty Or Media

At Least Nine People Wounded in Philadelphia Shooting

Biden says ‘my shotgun’ ready to ward off recession, calls Afghanistan ‘God-forsaken place’ (N.Yl Post)

Fact check: Biden’s midterms message includes false and misleading claims (CNN) The Inner Party must be getting ready to dump Biden.

“Independent Commission” SEC Coordinated with White House on ‘Climate Risk Disclosure’ Rule

Americans Moving To Mexico At Record Pace – Up 85% Since Pre-Covid  Inflation can be a bitch.

Chuck Todd: More Immigration Will Fix America’s Inflation Problems  By voting Democrat, of course.

Biden Press Secretary Under Fire For ‘Mega MAGA Republican’ Comment

5.5 Million Illegal Aliens Crossed US Border Since Biden Took Office: Report

“I’m Selling My Blood To Eat, I have No Choice”: Biden Inflation Crushes Americans

Feds Paid Room Service, Laundry, for Illegals in Hotels

MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle confronts Gov. Hochul on NY crime: ‘We don’t feel safe’ (N.Y Post)

Kathy Hochul claims cashless bail does not impact crime, CNN host agrees: ‘No evidence’ (Fox)

Michigan’s top election official: ‘Every tactic tried in 2020 will be tried again’ (The Guardian)

Jocelyn Benson: The Big Lie Discourages Americans From ‘Believing In The Power Of Their Voice’ (MSNBC)

Haven’t received your California Middle Class Tax Refund? Here’s what’s happening (Desert Sun)

Bill Maher on 2022 midterms: ‘Democracy is on the ballot’ and ‘it’s going to lose’ (The Hill)

Is Big Tech Funding Literal Migrant “Roadmaps” To Enter The US From Central America?

Why Elites Like Greta Thunberg Hate Capitalism (Michael Shellenberger)

The Big Lie about ‘The Big Lie’

Trans criminals can use ‘loophole’ to hide previous convictions when applying for jobs (The Telegraph)

Gosh, Some People Seem Awfully Worried About Election ‘Misinformation’ Now

Why Are Fact-Checkers Ignoring False Statements On School Closures?

Why Is The Left So Afraid Of Twitter?

New York Times Front-Page Fright: Wisconsin GOP on ‘Verge of Total, Veto-Proof Power’

Why Is World War T Winning in U.S. But Starting to Lose in U.K.?

Philadelphia Home Depot Workers Vote to Reject Unionization

Russia Reactivates Its Trolls and Bots Ahead of Tuesday’s Midterms (N.Y. Times) Getting the excuses ready in case of a shellacking.

Trump and other Republicans are already casting doubt on midterm results  (CNN) Anticipating another Great Steal.

‘He was chosen’: the rightwing Christian roadshow spreading the gospel of Trump (The Guardian) Hey, it’s not as if he were The Magic Negro or somebody important.

“Italy Is A Fully Sovereign Country” – Italy’s New Conservative Govt Refuses To Dock Migrants From German NGO Ships  At last, the charade unravels.

Police Refuse To Release Mugshot Of Pelosi Hammer Attack Suspect  The coverup continues.

Democrat Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney’s idea to combat inflation: have some Chef Boyardee (N.Y. Post) I actually like Chef Boyardee, although I agree that it isn’t at the top of my food list. Kind of like Spam that way.

Biden won on infrastructure. Democrats are struggling to get voters to care. (Politico) They don’t believe lies, yours or his.

Nate Silver Prepares For Biennial Tradition Of Screaming That His Wildly Erroneous Polls Were Somehow Right (Babylon Bee)

“When True Democracy Goes Away, People Get Hurt”: Obama Joins Mantra That Democracy Is At Risk If GOP Wins  In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Whitmer’s Running Mate Pledges To Shut Down ‘More Coal Plants’

The U.S. is officially in a flu epidemic, federal health officials say. They’re preparing to deploy troops and ventilators if necessary (Fortune) And especially the PANIC!

Wells are running dry in drought-weary Southwest as foreign-owned farms guzzle water to feed cattle overseas (CNN)

Are the unvaccinated still a danger to the rest of us? (L.A. Times) More to the point, where they ever ‘a danger to the rest of us’? The answer is No.

COVID variants BQ.1/BQ.1.1 make up 35% of U.S. cases (Reuters)

Climate ‘loss and damage’: why it’s such a big deal at Cop27 (The Guardian) By their ‘climate justice reporter’. (Bias? What bias?)

Climate emergency: Will polluting rich nations pay reparations? (Al Jazeera) Hint: No.

Explainer: What the latest IPCC science says about climate change (Reuters)

Cop27 is here and the climate crisis is daunting but here’s the key to tackling it – cheer up (The Guardian)

The New Way to Fight Climate Change (Foreign Affairs Magazine)

Deadly E-Bikes: Four Explosions in New York Every Week

NPR Offers Softball Interviews to Radical Climate Gallery Vandals

World in Crisis a Grim Backdrop for UN Climate Talks

Democrat Energy Policy Civil War: Manchin Blasts Biden’s Coal Shutdown Comments

Australia Backs Climate “Loss and Damage” Compensation at COP27  Australia seems to have gone Full Woke. Disappointing.

Kari Lake-Linked Tech Firm Wreaking Campaign Finance Havoc (Daily Beast) Linked! Havoc!

Georgia shoe manufacturer lays off most of workforce after Adidas stops Yeezy production (CNN)

Yeezy resale market shot up, despite Adidas cutting out Kanye West (The News International)

With conservative Supreme Court, religion always wins (The Hill) They say that like it was a bad thing.

In Arizona, Kari Lake Worked in Local TV News. Now, She Calls Reporters ‘Monsters.’ (N.Y. Times) Well, she should know.

Media Silence When Democrats Talk About Beating Up Republicans

CNN Host Helpfully Tees Up Jim Clyburn to Compare U.S. to Nazi Germany

Ronald Lauder: New York’s Billionaire Political Disrupter (N.Y. Times) Electing anybody other than a Democrat is ‘disruptive’. For shame!

ABC’s Karl Complains to Youngkin That GOP Congress Will Impeach Biden  That’s a feature, not a bug. (Shoulda thought about that before witch-hunting Trump….)

Ahead Of The Midterm, CBS Trots Out Ye Olde ‘Spanish Language Disinformation’

KNIVES OUT: Liberal Pundits Blame ‘Stupid’ Dems for Midterm Losses And that would be … all of them?

FBI called to Kari Lake’s campaign office after staff received suspicious white powder in two envelopes with ‘threatening’ messages for Republican Arizona Governor candidate (Daily Mail) But of course only Republicans indulge in political violence.

NBC Hypocrites Lash Out At GOP Ads With Guns, Ignores Dem Gun Ads

Thousands of Christians Condemn Rep. Greene, Mike Flynn as ‘False Prophets’ (Newsweek) SCRAAAAAPE that barrel….

Ron Johnson pushes racial divisions in his closing message to Wis. GOP voters (Washington Post)

Homeland Security Admits It Tried to Manufacture Fake Terrorists for Trump (Gizmodo)

Voters most blame social media, cable news and Trump for political violence (NBC) They had to put Trump in there to have a token Republican.

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

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Brain-damaged Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate brought in the big guns, if I may use that term, to whip up turnout in their strongholds yesterday. When I say Fetterman is brain-damaged, that is a statement of fact. When I say “big guns,” that is a metaphor. The flags behind Fetterman fell as he introduced his biggest gun. Some choose to see the perfect timing of the flags falling as a metaphor. You be the judge.

Sometimes being the Magic Negro just isn’t good enough.

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Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)  are scaling up the production of vertically aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT). This incredible material could revolutionize diverse commercial products ranging from rechargeable batteries, sporting goods, and automotive parts to boat hulls and water filters. The research was published recently in the journal Carbon.

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Jameesha Harris, a councilwoman in New Bern, N.C., bought a gun and obtained a concealed-carry license to protect herself and her children against a spate of death threats from constituents. Deanna Spikula, the top election administrator in Washoe County, Nev., resigned after receiving a battery of menacing emails, including one warning her to “count the votes correctly as if your life depends on it, because it does.” After speaking out against book bans, Amanda Jones, a librarian in Livingston Parish, La., received a death threat from a man in Texas who saw a photo of her posted in a right-wing Facebook group.

Across the U.S., there has been a surge of harassment, attacks, and violent threats targeting civic and public officials and their families. America is a nation shaped by violent acts and founded on principles that protect free speech, even when it is ugly or incendiary. Yet the specter of politically motivated violence today has become alarmingly pervasive, and the fear it engenders is upending the political landscape, according to more than two-dozen interviews with analysts and public officials.

Funny thing, there’s no mention of Antifa or BLM in this article. You might almost mistake it for a political hit job.

Bloomberg.

Once the domain of end-of-timers and right-wing radicals, the survivalist mindset is pushing into the mainstream thanks to rising climate-change disasters and civil unrest.

No, this isn’t a new SF novel from Sarah Hoyt’s site. But you could not be blamed for thinking it was at first blush.

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The Dartmouth Review is the conservative alternative student newspaper at Dartmouth College.

From its promotional materials and online presence, it is clear that the University of Austin tries to market itself as something altogether different from its competitors. After all, in a country with more than 5,000 institutions of higher education, it is imperative for a school to separate itself from the pack. Nevertheless, Howland clarified that the difference UATX attempts to offer its potential students is a fundamental one. The University of Austin does not seek to reform America’s traditional model of a university but rather upend it.

Austin, although in the red state of Texas, is as blue as San Francisco, and therefore an odd choice for locating a new non-Woke University.

Pfizer/BioNTech say updated Covid-19 booster generates ‘substantially higher’ protection against Omicron subvariants than original vaccine (CNN)

Newsom sued over COVID ‘misinformation’ law that doctors say tramples First Amendment rights (Fox)

US hospital flu cases hit 10-year high as vaccinations fall (BBC) So it’s time for you to PANIC!

Flu’s ferocious comeback: Hospital rates hit decade-high and SEVENTEEN states have ‘very high’ infection levels (Daily Mail)

Why you may soon have to pay for that COVID-19 test (The Hill)

4 of the most dangerous fungi that can make you sick, according to the WHO — from toxic mold to yeast infections (Insider)

Invasive fungi recognized as a global threat (Axios)

Great leaps forward in vaccine history (The Guardian)

Fauci says U.S. is at a ‘crossroads’ as COVID kills 2,600 a week and new Omicron variants bloom with winter coming soon (Fortune) So I guess it’s time to PANIC!

Evictions are piling up across the U.S. as Covid-era protections end and rents climb (NBC) I guess the Wokerati figured that the Free Government Money would never run out.

TSA To Continue Requiring COVID-19 Vaccine Proof For Non-US Citizens To Enter Country

Bob Woodward says Trump Tapes reveal ‘evasions,’ ‘denials’ — and outright lies (CBC)

Trump Ally Tom Barrack Acquitted of Foreign Agent Charges

Hulu’s ‘Falwell Pool Boy’ Documentary Devolves into Another Trump-Christian Bashing Film

House January 6 committee interviewing Secret Service agents in Trump’s motorcade on day of attack (CNN) I guess they have nothing more important to do.

Investigators search for pricey gifts to Trump from foreign leaders (Washington Post) SCRAAAAAAAPE that barrel….

Diddy Makes a Big Move Into Cannabis Game With $185 Million Purchase of Major Pot Players (Billboard) Looks like ‘systemic racism’ has been bery bery good for him.

Both Twitter, Parler Censor Kanye West Over Use of ‘N-Word’ (Huffington Post) He must be a white supremacist.

Chicago Officials Withhold Key Financial Information as City Hands Public Housing Land Over to Wealthy Ally of the Mayor (ProPublica) BRAAAAAAAINS!

French far-right MP suspended after yelling, ‘Go back to Africa’ (Politico) No freedom of speech in France, apparently.

Lemon Desperately Tries To Argue Oprah Endorsing Fetterman Matters

Nets Tout Oprah Backing Disabled Fetterman as CBS Brings on Failed Kamala Flack for Pep Talk  YOU get an endorsement! And YOU get an endorsement!

Dr. Oz is Muslim. Why Isn’t the Media Celebrating His Candidacy?  Perhaps because he’s a Republican and therefore Not A Real Muslim?

‘Unexpectedly’!  She’s so oppressed.

Warning People That They’re Being Discriminated Against Is Racist!

White Homicide Rates by County

Is gender bias hurting Kathy Hochul? (City and State NY)

Ruhle Asks ‘Petite, Capable’ Hochul If She’s A Victim Of ‘Sexism’

Joy Reid Says Voters Didn’t Know About Inflation Until Republican Politicians “Taught Them” The Word  Calling her dumber than a box of rocks would be an egregious insult to the rocks.

Biden predicts Democrats will take Senate, have chance to keep the House in midterms (Fox)

Biden says coal plants ‘all across America’ will be shut down, replaced with wind and solar (Fox) Which is why Democrats are going to lose in the mid-terms.

White House releases net-zero road map (Energy Wire)

Biden administration identifies ‘game-changing’ climate technology for priority investment (The Hill)

White House may have violated law by deleting fact-checked tweet: watchdog (N.Y. Post)

US Debt-Servicing Costs Skyrocket: $1.4 Trillion In Interest Payments On Deck  The problem with all the drunken-sailor Democrat spending is that it has to be paid for by borrowing money, and now that the Fed has quit subsidizing Federal debt with negligible interest rates that chicken (say rather dragon?) is coming home to roost.

Biden: Republicans Will Impeach Me If They Win  Got that right. Sauce for the Trump is sauce for the Biden.

House Republicans Release Scathing FBI Whistleblower Report: Bureau Is ‘Rotted at Its Core’

Kimmel on Biden’s democracy speech: ‘Like Gandalf talking about Sauron’ (The Guardian) More like Saruman talking about Sauron.

Hawley aims to reshape Senate GOP with Vance and Masters (Politico)

The Hawley caucus under construction (Politico)

Bombshell leaked emails: Trump lawyers targeted Clarence Thomas to steal election (MSNBC)

‘And on the 8th Day’: DeSantis Rolls Out Cringe Ad Saying He Was Sent by God (Daily Beast) He might be right.

Newsweek Embraces the Anti-Democracy Hard Right (Southern Poverty Law Center)

Ron Johnson fought for a tax cut as his family was amassing luxury real estate around the country (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Pranks, Parties and Politics: Ron DeSantis’s Year as a Schoolteacher (N.Y. Times) Gossip Girl ‘journalism’ is all they’ve got left.

How Zeldin’s tough talk on crime in New York could lead to more of it (Washington Post) Up is down, war is peace, freedom is slavery, and Jonathan Capehart is pushing the Narrative.

Flashback: The Media Exploited Giffords’ Shooting to Slime Conservatives

How Republicans Fed a Misinformation Loop About the Pelosi Attack (N.Y. Times)

BRACE: “Hate, Harassment and Incitement” Are Coming to Twitter

‘The View’ Will Now Just Be One Hour Of Hosts Beating White Women With Sticks  (Babylon Bee)

The Unruly Heirs of Sarah Palin (N.Y. Times) Upon the Restoration in 1660, royalists dug up the corpse of Oliver Cromwell and subjected it to various indignities. The Narrative Media don’t even wait for people to be in the ground first.

Ron DeSantis, who denounced Disney, actually got married there (Washington Post) Hannah Sampson phones it in.

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Price inflation and the resulting business cycles are monetary phenomena, and without increases in the money supply—i.e., monetary inflation—there is no price inflation. If the world were a very simple place, we would see this relationship clearly displayed: when the money supply increased, we would also see a general increase in prices soon thereafter. The world, however, is not a very simple place and an economy can include countless factors that can mask, delay, and otherwise obscure the connection between monetary inflation and price inflation.

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Rent control policies seek to ensure affordable and stable housing for current ten- ants; however, they also increase the incentive for landlords to evict tenants since rents re-set when tenants leave.

“Rent control”,  a classic political intervention in economic markets, suffers from the same wage-and-price-control defects as other attempts to fit economic reality into political fantasy. Markets work, whether you want them to or not. When prices are fixed, markets respond in two ways: rationing, in which there are more willing buyers than willing sellers, so transactions depend on favoritism (typically political) or wait-lists; and “black markets”, a smear coined by statists who are mortally offended by the fact that people will trade in ways of which the Ruling Class do not approve. “When trade is criminalized, only criminals will trade”: Prohibition gave us organized crime, the War on Drugs gave us the Mexican cartels, and Democrats gave us the corrupt urban political machine that is the distinguishing characteristic of modern city living.

Washington Post.

The mass layoffs Friday gutted teams devoted to combating election misinformation, adding context to misleading tweets and communicating with journalists, public officials and campaign staff.

In other words, proglodytes can no long put their feet on the scales in favor of Democrats while throwing Republicans down the Memory Hole. No wonder they’re panicked.

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A multinational team headed by University College London scientists has discovered a new mechanism that slows down and maybe even prevents the normal aging of immune cells, one of the nine “hallmarks of aging.”

The discovery in-vitro (cells) and validated in mice was “unexpected,” according to the researchers, who believe harnessing the mechanism might extend the life of the immune system, enabling people to live healthier and longer lives, and would also have therapeutic use for diseases such as cancer and dementia. Their findings were recently published in the journal Nature Cell Biology.

Explaining the study, lead author, Dr. Alessio Lanna, Honorary Professor at UCL Division of Medicine, said: “Immune cells are on constant high-alert, always ready to fight pathogens. To be effective they also must persist for decades in the body – but the strategies employed to execute this life-long protection are largely unknown.

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“Celebrities should consciously practice socialist core values ??in their advertising endorsement activities, and endorsement activities should conform to social morals and traditional virtues,” the new regulations say.

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In the private sector, if an employee fails to meet his job requirements, he is likely to be reprimanded or fired. Imagine that an HVAC tech gets called to install 30 units throughout the month. Instead of installing 30, he only installs 22. The HVAC tech missed his goal by about 25 percent. His boss will probably start looking for a new tech.

The U.S. Army just missed its recruiting goal by 25 percent. As a result, the total force of the Army will be undermanned by 15,000 soldiers.

So who’s responsible? Who is ultimately in charge of recruitment for the entire U.S. Army? There is an easy answer found in Title 10 of the U.S. Code, which pertains to the Armed Forces. The code lays out in plain English the responsibilities of the Secretary of the Army. The first responsibility listed is “Recruiting.” It falls directly under the Secretary of the Army, who was chosen by the President of the United States and confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

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Early this Sunday morning, Americans will engage in the annual autumnal ritual of “falling back” — setting their clocks back one hour to conform with standard time.

If some lawmakers had their way, it would mark the end of a tradition that has stretched for more than a century. But a familiar story unspooled of congressional gridlock and a relentless lobbying campaign, this one from advocates that some jokingly call “Big Sleep.”

A bill to permanently “spring forward” has been stalled in Congress for more than seven months, as lawmakers trade jabs over whether the Senate should have passed the legislation at all. House officials say they’ve been deluged by voters with split opinions and warnings from sleep specialists who insist that adopting permanent standard time instead would be healthier, and congressional leaders admit they just don’t know what to do.

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There must be a reason why some people still live in Portland, but I don’t know what it is. The city has become a hellhole, devastated by crime and overrun by homeless drug addicts. Antifa is rampant, and the city’s political leaders are–if this is possible–even more ineffectual than the leaders of San Francisco, Chicago and Minneapolis.

The Daily Mail takes note, in a story titled “‘I’m done with Portland’: Homeless people are forcing ‘terrified’ residents to sell their homes.” Sometimes you have to go to the U.K. press to get the straight story on events in the U.S. The Mail article is profusely illustrated with photographs and deserves to be read in its entirety.

How Saidiya Hartman Changed the Study of Black Life (The Nation)

Oprah Winfrey announces her support for Dr. Oz opponent, John Fetterman

The Worst and Best Counties for Hispanic Homicides

The Worst and Best Counties for Black Homicides

WaPo: Poor White Kids Are Less Likely to Go to Prison Than Rich Black Kids  Seriously? Seriously?

Democracy Distorted by the Meathead Media

BROKEN CONNECTION: Tiffany Cross Out at MSNBC (Bye-Bye Tiffany! The Worst of Cross)

Originalism’s Charade (New York Review)

Don Lemon’s new show ‘CNN This Morning’ bombs in debut (N.Y Post)

Don Lemon’s ‘CNN This Morning’ debuts to dismal ratings, trails long-struggling ‘New Day’ (Fox)

CA mother attacked in parking lot with 1-year-old in her arms, charge against suspect dismissed: Report (Fox)

$2 million ranges, deleted job posts: NYC’s salary transparency law is off to a rocky start (CNBC)

Police back Republican candidates in U.S. midterms, even those at Jan. 6 riot (Reuters)

Homelessness has risen 70% in California’s capital. Inside the staggering emergency (The Guardian)

Shooting at NC-14 GOP candidate Pat Harrigan family home, none injured (Carolina Journal) But of course Hillary assures us that only Republicans engage in political violence.

FBI Probes Shooting That Nearly Struck Kids of N.C. GOP Candidate

Nets Ignore Bullet Shot Through Window of GOP Candidate’s Family House

Transgender Specialists Blame ‘Toxic Media’ for Fear of Child Gender Care  Biology deniers push the Narrative.

Video Report: N.Y. Man Out on Cashless Bail Allegedly Murders Wife Soon After

BATYA UNGAR-SARGON: For years, the Left has willfully ignored the kind of horrific crime the Pelosis suffered and let criminals run rampant. Now they’re finally waking up… shame about the forgotten victims! (Daily Mail)

Beauty Pageant’s Rejection Of Transgender Women Is Legal, Appeals Court Rules  The biology deniers lose one.

MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle Cheers Abortion as Good for Economy, Reason to Vote Democrat

Crime Starters USA

How sustainable are fake meats?

The Quiet Way Trump and DeSantis Are Preparing for a Fight (Daily Bezst) Well, no, they’re not, although the Narrative Media are doing their best to drum up some sort of fight.

‘Climate carnage’: UN demands funding surge to save millions of lives (The Guardian)

Countries hit hardest by climate change need much more money to prepare, U.N. says (NPR)

‘It’s greenwash’: most home compostable plastics don’t work, says study (The Guardian)

‘Compostable plastic’ doesn’t live up to its environmental claims. Here’s what you can focus on instead (CNN)

A showdown over climate reparations is brewing — and it will determine the success of the COP27 summit (CNBC)

Rich countries pressed to pay for driving climate change (Axios)

The EPA awards grants to monitor air quality in communities hurt by pollution (NPR) Buying the votes of the underclass with YOUR money.

EPA spends $50 million on ‘air monitoring’ for ‘marginalized’ communities with Biden spending bill funds (Fox)

Conservatives insist policies to cut emissions drive up power bills. There’s net zero evidence for that (The Guardian)

Explainer: Why methane emissions are threatening climate stability (Reuters)

Methane Emissions Must Fall for World to Hit Temperature Targets (International Monetary Fund)

Fossil fuel burning once caused a mass extinction – now we’re risking another (The Guardian)

The ocean’s ‘blue carbon’ can be our secret weapon in fighting climate change (CNN)

The Climate ‘Crisis’ Isn’t What it Used to Be

The New Pause Lengthens to 8 years 1 Month

New York Times prediction BUST: 1995 article cited climate ‘experts’ warning ‘most of the beaches on the East Coast of the U.S. could be gone in 25 years’

The UN Climate Talks Are About to Face Maddening Uncertainties (Wired ‘Science’) Maddening to the clerisy.

Open-source maps are saving the rainforest—and the world  Great. Perhaps the climate change piss-ants will shut up now.

A multinational Delphi consensus to end the COVID-19 public health threat (Nature)

How the world can end Covid-19 as a public health threat (STAT)

I spent 10 days in a secret Chinese Covid detention centre (Financial Times)

Why Pfizer’s RSV vaccine success is a big deal, decades in the making (Ars Technica)

Moderna shares fall after Covid vaccine maker lowers 2022 sales outlook (CNBC) Guess it’s time for another PANIC!

HILARIOUS: CBS Discovers DeSantis’s COVID Policies Were Popular AND Right

New Covid Variants Are Circulating. Here’s What to Know. (N.Y. Times)

U.S. sells last batch of emergency reserve oil from historic release (Reuters)

Biden administration sells final tranche of emergency oil stockpile (Washington Examiner)

Biden administration boasts ‘no meetings’ to prep for recession — despite expert warnings (N.Y. Post)

White House says US not in recession, lowering inflation ‘number one’ priority (Fox)

Harvard economist issues dire warning on economy (Fox)

DHS Begins Limited Implementation of DACA under Final Rule

Biden: Student Loan Forgiveness to OK 16 Million by Week’s End

Probe Launched Into Homeland Security’s ‘Taxpayer-Funded Censorship Campaign’

House GOP Preps 1,000-Page Report on Politicized DOJ Under Biden

Biden Admin Renews Public Health Emergency Over Monkeypox

TikTok Hires Biden’s Campaign Spokesman

Black Seattle detective feared Proud Boys were chasing her. They were undercover sheriff’s officers (NPR)

World’s richest man decides to set $44 billion on fire (Washington Post)

Alabama’s Confederate mansions get state funding, distort our history (AL.com)

A Michigan judge tried to block an abortion rights measure. His ex-wife says he helped her get an abortion in college. (NBC)

Man Who Left Democratic Party Blasts Stephen Colbert for Calling Him ‘Made Up’

Room for any other Views? Outrage as show’s Sunny Hostin likens white women voting Republican to ‘roaches voting for Raid’, Joy Behar calls party a ‘cult’ and Sara Haines says all GOP candidates are ‘election deniers’ (Daily Mail)

Former US Capitol Police Officer Found Guilty Of Obstructing Jan. 6 Investigation

NY Times’ Deluded Social-Media Censor Frets Twitter Under Musk on Side of Thugs

White Suburban Women Running Back Into GOP’s Arms, Leftist Elites Enraged

Forget Elon Musk. Maybe the Problem with Twitter Is You

Republicans Are Bad for the Economy. Here’s Why. (Daily Beast)

Twitter Sued by Employees for Mass Layoffs Without Enough Notice

US midterms: The conspiracy theorists running to control 2024 vote (BBC) No, they’re not referring to Hillary or Stacy Abrams.

A ‘Threat’ to Free Speech: Media Meltdown Over Musk-Twitter Deal

House Majority Whip: US ‘on track to repeat’ Nazi Germany, downplays inflation ahead of midterms

The tragedy of John Roberts (Washington Post) Ruth Marcus finds a tear in her beer.