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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.

Exclusive: DOJ mulling potential special counsel if Trump runs in 2024 (CNN)

DOJ considering appointing special counsel if Trump runs in 2024: report (N.Y. Post)

Judge says he’ll appoint monitor for Donald Trump’s company (The Hill) Absent is any explanation of how this judge has that authority.

Musk is managing Twitter Trump-style (Axios) They say that like it was a bad thing.

Musk’s Trump-style management rattles Twitter workers awaiting layoffs (Washington Post) What is ‘Trump-style management’? Do they even know? Is that even a thing, or just a verbal stick with which to beat Musk?

McConnell’s PACs put money where Trump’s mouth is (Washington Post)

Kimmel Admits He Lost ‘Half’ His Fans Bashing Trump

Why isn’t Trumpism hurting the GOP? Some Democrats see vexing answers. (Washington Post) Greg Sargent just can’t understand it.

New York Times.

I dare even the most die-hard, dyed-in-the-wool Democrat to say, “Oh, New York has never been better. In fact, it’s just getting better and better.” Does anyone really believe that? Is there a single person out there who can really say that with a straight face? As they survey the crime in our city, the homelessness, the waste and rats. And I’m not even talking about the incumbents of City Hall. Does anyone think that this great city has become greater in the last two years?

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I doubt that vegetarians will be willing to ‘follow the science’

ZMan’s weekly podcast. Highly recommended.

This is the last final push to the election. That means the democracy supporters have just a couple more days to get those ballots printed and into the mail, depending upon the state they are ballot stuffing. Elections have turned into Christmas for the elves who are tasked with making sure their bosses get what they want when they wake up the morning after the election.

All joking aside, the very weird noises coming from the Biden people suggest they are plotting a caper next Tuesday. Biden’s chief of staff issued what he called a final warning about the election. Of course, Biden’s speech made clear that the only way to defend democracy is to support the regime at all costs. It was another form of “by any means necessary” that we heard in the Trump years.

Much like the over-the-top response to Kanye West and now the basketball player, a repeat of 2020 next Tuesday would serve our interests. The regime would avoid an embarrassing result on Tuesday, but it would come at the price of their legitimacy, which would be an enormous price to pay. Too many people would notice what was happening and draw the obvious conclusion.

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The Brooklyn Nets suspended Kyrie Irving for at least five games without pay Thursday, dismayed by his repeated failure to “unequivocally say he has no antisemitic beliefs.”

Hours after Irving refused to issue the apology that NBA Commissioner Adam Silver sought for posting a link to an antisemitic work on his Twitter feed, the Nets said that Irving is “currently unfit to be associated with the Brooklyn Nets.”

“We were dismayed today, when given an opportunity in a media session, that Kyrie refused to unequivocally say he has no antisemitic beliefs, nor acknowledge specific hateful material in the film. This was not the first time he had the opportunity — but failed — to clarify,” the Nets said in a statement.

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As a follow-up to Tuesday’s post about the Halloween antics of migrants in Austria and Germany, here’s a report about culture-enriching gunfire in Vienna on All Hallows’ Eve. The article includes a video of a culture-enricher screaming “Allahu Akhbar” and firing off gunshots. According to Hellequin GB, he also shouts “F*** you, f*** you sons of whores!”

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

“Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.” — Kurt Vonnegut

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It seems that Kimberly Zapata, the Milwaukee Deputy Elections Commissioner, went to a website called MyVote.WI.Gov and requested a bunch of military ballots for people who didn’t exist. They were then sent to Wisconsin Assembly Elections Committee chairwoman Janel Brandtjen (D22–R).

The American middle class is at the end of an era (Fortune)

Why daylight saving time is worse for your body than standard time (Washington Post)

Adams’ plush NYC tent city finally welcomes migrants as 100-plus Senegalese move in (N.Y. Post)

Prominent New York trans activist arrested for allegedly soliciting a minor (N.Y. Post)

Bloated College Administration Is Making Education Unaffordable

College Removes American Flags From Dorm Window, Allows Pride Flags

Judge Stops Arizona “Mule Watchers” From Ballot Box Surveillance Tactics

Why the Legacy Media Is Panicked About Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover

Comedy Dies as Colbert and Warren List Four Reasons to Vote Democrat

Elon Musk Trolls AOC After Democratic Rep’s Twitter Temper Tantrum

Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron: Prioritizing ESG Investments ‘Inconsistent’ With Law

San Francisco DA Won’t Release Police Bodycam Video, 911 Calls From Paul Pelosi Attack

CNBC is cancelling Shepard Smith’s show (Semafor) I guess being Woke doesn’t deliver the ratings that it used to.

Vice Frets Voting Is Hard for….Trans People?!?

Moms Read Explicit Library Books To School Board

UN Votes Overwhelmingly to Condemn US Embargo of Cuba  Yeah, we’ll give that all due consideration.

These glaciers are on track to disappear within the next 30 years, new report shows (CNN) And yet they never do.

Glaciers in Yosemite and Africa will disappear by 2050, U.N. warns (Washington Post) I’ll bet you didn’t know that there were glaciers in Africa.

Big agriculture warns farming must change or risk ‘destroying the planet’ (The Guardian)

Call to Earth Day 2022: A global mission to protect our oceans (CNN)

Himalayan Plateau Is About to Fall Apart Due to Thawing Permafrost (Newsweek)

Warehouse plan in Long Beach’s North Park area worries officials on environmental justice (Newsday)

Only a complete and rapid system shift can avoid climate disaster (The Hill)

Waterlogged wheat, rotting oranges: five crops devastated by a year of extreme weather (The Guardian)

Human Adaptability to Climate Change Might Not Be All It’s Cracked Up to Be (Science Alert)

WSJ Editorial Board Mocks the COP27 Global Warming Flagellants

The Next OPEC-Like Cartel Could Be In Battery Metals

UK PM Sunak U-Turns On Decision To Skip COP27

Why International Climate Summits Are Doomed to Fail, Part 2: Upward Mobility for Poor Depends on Energy

Stephen Miller Calls Out Anti-White Racism

Top 100 Counties by Homicide Rate vs. Black Share of the Population

Harvard to Justice Alito: To be Honest, We Use Race to Triage the Lame Asians from the Cool Blacks

What if Black Box AI Works Better Than Human Decision-Making Because Humans Have Dumbed Down Our Decisionmaking to Fight Racism and Sexism?

Democrats count on huge Black turnout, but has the party delivered in return? (Washington Post) It’s all about the GIMME.

Rampant Racism: Sunny Calls White Women ‘Roaches’ for Voting GOP

New Covid variants are circulating. What do we know and will the Omicron-specific booster be effective? (The Guardian)

New RSV vaccines are coming. This is very, very good news. (Vox)

Why we still don’t have a vaccine for the common cold (Popular ‘Science’)

No, There Will Not Be Any “Pandemic Amnesty”

China’s ‘iPhone City’ Locks Down As Workers Flee Factory Amid Zero Covid Chaos

Medical Board Moves To Strip Dr. Peter McCullough Of Certifications  Cross the Narrative, and you will be punished.

There’s no case for mask mandates

White House insists it’s not using Facebook censorship portal despite Jen Psaki’s ‘flagging’ admission (N.Y. Post)

ACLU slams government working with Big Tech to decide ‘what is true or false’ (Fox)

ABC/CBS/NBC Ignore Biden’s Latest Embarrassing Gaffes, Signs of Cognitive Decline

The View Co-Host Joy Behar Claims Crime Is “Going Down” Under Biden

Under Biden, America’s Oil Reserves Drop to Lowest Levels Since 1984

Biden, Trudeau Choose Green War on Oil and Gas Over Working Class

Video Report: US Agents Fire ‘Crowd Control’ Projectiles in Border Chaos

Fact-Checking 5 Biden Warnings About Dangers to Democracy

Immigration officials confirm alleged Pelosi attacker was in the U.S. illegally (Washington Post)

How the government hid the truth behind Hunter Biden’s laptop (N.Y. Post)

Top Pipeline CEO Compares Biden’s Chaotic Energy Policy To “Saturday Night Live Skit”

SURPRISE: PolitiFact Throws First ‘Pants on Fire’ Flag at President Biden

WH Chief of Staff Ron Klain: US Not in Recession  Stock market says you’re wrong.

Biden Says It May Take Days For Democrat Votes To Be Double-Counted (Babylon Bee)

Suspect in Arizona candidate Katie Hobbs campaign burglary was illegal immigrant wanted by ICE  I’m guessing he’s not a Republican.

Top Trump adviser granted immunity for testifying in Mar-a-Lago papers case (The Guardian) Walls are closing in etc. etc.

Trump 2024 campaign prepares for post-midterms launch (Associated Press)

Clarence Thomas was ‘key’ to a plan to delay certification of 2020 election, Trump lawyers said in emails (CNN) And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Trump files lawsuit against NY AG to halt review of personal trust (The Hill)

The Court Battle That Threatens Trump After Election Day (New York Magazine)

CREW to pursue disqualification if Trump runs (CREW)

Judge Says He’ll Appoint Monitor for Donald Trump’s Company

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In the wake of Kanelos’s punchy cri de coeur, published last November, the University of Austin was mocked as a haven for aggrieved academics peddling retrograde views, a cynical cash grab, or possibly both. Critics put the word “university” in scare quotes. Someone on Twitter wondered whether “final grades are just skull measurements,” while another suggested re-christening the institution “U Genics.” The Root compiled an imaginary course list with titles like “Karenology 320″ and “White History 101.” The New Republic rolled its eyes, averring that the enterprise “seeks to be higher education’s premier institution of monetizing moral panics.”

Not all the reviews were quite so scathing, and some pundits — generally more conservative ones — applauded the idea. If you believe free inquiry has become anathema on college campuses, or if you think, as Kanelos wrote, that higher-ed might be “the most fractured institution of all,” then you surely thrill to the prospect of beginning anew. If you think that the crisis narrative is overblown, and that those sounding the alarm are hustlers and prima donnas, then the project probably sounds like a boondoggle.

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You don’t think such-and-such because you reasoned logically to that conclusion; you think such-and-such because you are a white, heterosexual, middle-class American female, and so forth. In this way, totalitarians do not persuade or refute their interlocutors with reasoned arguments. They merely impute bad faith to their opponents and refuse to engage in meaningful debate. They forcibly cut their adversaries off from the sphere of enlightened conversation. One does not bother arguing against such dissidents; one simply steamrolls them after placing them outside the realm of acceptable opinion.

ZMan tells us a story.

Imagine you are presented with evidence of some sort, maybe pictures of a crime scene or some sort of accident. You see all of the physical evidence and you are given three stories to explain what you see. Each version is presented by a person who comes into the room to give their theory of the event. What we know about human nature tells us that you will agree with the best storyteller. Even if his story requires some leaps of logic.

Humans have been telling each other stories since we acquired language. Much of our social activity is story telling. When you go to a party, everyone there tells each other stories about their lives, their experiences, current events and so on. Some people are better at storytelling than others. These people tend to get invited to more social events, because they are entertaining and therefore pleasing. Even if they polish the apple a bit, people still like a good storyteller.

This is most obvious in politics. Ronald Reagan was famous for his short, pithy stories he would tell audiences on the stump. Sometimes they were just funny and other times they had a point. In the latter case, that point had something to do with some larger political point he was making. In the former case the story relaxed the audience and made them more open to his pitch. A man who can tell a good story is always someone we feel we can trust, even if we disagree with him.

Stories are the evolved way that humans passed on their cultural ‘wisdom’. From nursery rhymes and fairy tales to sacred scripture, pre-literate and marginally-literate societies had no other way to pass knowledge and belief from one generation to the next.

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The Department of Homeland Security agency was established in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and subsequent threats to air travelers’ safety, such as the foiled shoe bomber in 2001 and the 2006 attempt to detonate liquid explosives hidden in soda bottles on flights from England to North America. Many of the safety measures introduced back then are still with us now, such as the 3-1-1 liquids rule.

“I don’t think anyone is saying that the way we did things are the way we will do things,” said J. Matt Gilkeson, director of TSA’s Innovation Task Force, which tests new security technologies. “We want to be beyond where we were 20 years ago.”

The TSA will continue to push people around so long as they tolerate it.

Tom Veal.

Do true defenders of the right of the people to choose who will govern them consistently oppose measures designed to ensure that ballots are cast only by legally qualified voters, that no one votes more than once, that how individuals vote is secret from everyone but themselves, and that ballots are secured against tampering after they are cast? The absence of those precautions is the hallmark of pseudo-democratic regimes – and the gospel of an array of Democratic office holders and seekers who profess to be defending “our democracy” against the menace of “election deniers” and “mega-MAGA Republicans”.

Nothing undermines the legitimacy of an ostensible democracy more swiftly and thoroughly than a widespread belief that “what counts isn’t who votes, but who counts the votes”. What gives heft to conspiratorial claims about the 2020 Presidential election is the sloppy way that it was conducted. If it weren’t for the ease with which non-citizens and ineligible felons can register to vote, the failure of many states to keep registration lists up to date, the widespread absence of ID requirements at the polls, the “black box” nature of electronic voting machines, and mail-in ballots’ inherent lack of secrecy and security, “stop the steal” would resonate only in the most paranoidly partisan corners of Internet.

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The National Education Association was caught spending 9% of its budget on member assistance and 50% on various political programs. Teachers’ unions have become enormously powerful by turning their membership and their resources into assets for the Democrats.

Democrats have generously returned the favor by negotiating favorable contracts and allowing teachers’ unions to dismantle the educational system, including shutting down schools for an extended period during the pandemic, eliminating standards in favor of promotion and turning a blind eye to sex abuse. While the shutdown of schools traumatized a generation, leading to increased suicide rates, loss of learning skills, social decline and even higher crime rates, school sex abuse is an ongoing crisis that targets a narrower population of abused students.

That doesn’t mean that the damage is any less.

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What’s in the vax? Short answer: You don’t want to know.

The following report from Austria discusses the poisonous substances that are acknowledged to be present in the Moderna and Pfizer jabs. If they were in any other product, it would not be allowed to injected into human beings.

My sympathies go out to those who succumbed to pressure and took the experimental mRNA treatment intended to mitigate the effects of infection with the Wuhan Coronavirus. If I had taken the vax, I don’t know how I would cope with all this information. I would probably go into a different line of work, so I wouldn’t have to hear about it.

Border Patrol union slams coverage of clash with illegal migrants, calls on Mayorkas to defend agents (Fox)

Biden says he ‘spoke to’ man who ‘invented’ insulin, who died before president was born (Fox)

Martha’s Vineyard, While Touting ‘Humanitarian’ Response, Quickly Decided to Ship Illegal Aliens to Mainland

U.S. exploring whether it has authority to review Musk’s Twitter deal

Cook shortage threatens to sink U.S. Coast Guard operations

White House Announces $13.5 Billion Aid for Home Energy Bills  Buy those votes! Buy those votes!

US debt: Federal interest payments could soon exceed military spending

Unmonitored Capitol Police Cameras Caught Pelosi Break-In

Scientists have their eyes on several ‘Deltacrons’—new COVID variants with the potential to attack the lungs like Delta and spread as easily as Omicron (Fortune)

Mouse Study Suggests a Surprising Link Between Nose-Picking And Alzheimer’s (Science Alert)

Can Picking Your Nose Really Cause Dementia? What to Know About the Trending Study (Prevention)

COVID symptoms recur more often in those who took Paxlovid, study finds (Seattle Times)

Lockdowns: The Great Gaslighting

Monkeypox Public Health Emergency Renewed

Preening Over Preferences (City Journal)

The Fabulous Reason Why Kanye Can’t Sell His ‘White Lives Matter’ Shirts (Daily Beast)

Philadelphia D.A. Sees Point-of-Use Gun Control as Racist

Colbert Tries, Fails To Debunk Roberts On Affirmative Action

Despite years of exposure to the climate science, I don’t believe we are headed for total societal collapse (The Guardian)

Positive developments on climate change might make the future just a little less horrible (San Diego Tribune)

The world’s melting glaciers are yielding up their secrets too quickly (Washington Post)

This UFO-like structure could help Europe transform its energy (Washington Post)

Data centers aren’t prepared for the climate crisis (Protocol)

Huge ‘planet killer’ asteroid discovered – and it’s heading our way (The Guardian)

Climate change is rapidly accelerating in California, state report says (L.A. Times)

California set a record for greenhouse gas reductions in 2020, but it means nothing (L.A. Times)

LA Is Facing a Major Natural Disaster—and It’s Not Related to Earthquakes (Newsweek)

This coral reef resurrected itself — and showed scientists how to replicate it (NPR)

Europe is seeing its warmest weather on record so late in the year (Washington Post)

Germans Are Shocked — Shocked! — to Learn That the Greens Lied

A Transition to Fossil Fuels Is Under Way  Turd World leaders are realizing that they were lied to by the Woke transglobalists, that no Huge Stacks o’ Money are in the offing, and that if they want to get ahead they gotta hump & git it, as Merle Haggard would say.

A Surprising Threat To The US Power Grid Could Plunge The Country Into Darkness

A Caustic Shift Is Coming for the Arctic Ocean (Wired ‘Science’)

Who’s Funding the Climate Lawsuits? Do the Plaintiffs Even Know?

Greta Expectations

Climate Activists Who Glued Themselves to Famous Dutch Painting Sentenced to Prison And about time, too.

Donald Trump joins the Paul Pelosi conspiracy caucus (CNN)

Biden uses Florida’s ‘extreme MAGA Republicans’ as foils for his closing midterm pitch (CNBC)

Stephen Colbert Hits The Jackpot With A Billion-Dollar Troll Of Trump (Huffington P0st)

Trump Peddles Pelosi Attack Conspiracy — And Has Been Saying Worse in Private (Rolling Stone) The witch-hunt continues.

With Falsehoods and Ridicule About Pelosi Attack, Republicans Mimic Trump (N.Y. Times)

Biden’s Recognition of Lula’s Win Is a Rebuke to Trumpism (The Nation) I sincerely doubt that Biden, Lula, or the writing staff of The Nation have the slightest idea of what Trumpism is, even should it exist.

Dana Pico Schools Jen Rubin (But Trump Derangement Syndrome Is Incurable)

News Hoax Quiz John C. Wright throws down a challenge.

Mehmet Oz’s medical research was rejected in 2003, resulting in 2-year ban (Washington Post)

Criminal trial of Trump’s business begins as his legal woes mount (MSNBC)

Several GOPers push bigoted theories ahead of Election Day (MSNBC)

Obama torches Trump Republicans in massive MAGA takedown (MSNBC)

Inflation fuels sharp rise in prized tax break for the wealthy (Politico)

Leading election denier is on the verge of leading Nevada’s election system (Politico)

The Heir: In Nevada, a G.O.P. Candidate Sheds His Political Inheritance (N.Y. Times) FUD-spread in the run-up to the election.

The Dark Heart of the Republican Party (The Atlantic) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH.

Joy Reid & Hillary Clinton Shriek Over ‘Violent Fascist Republicans’

‘True The Vote’ Founders Jailed For Contempt Of Court

Hillary Clinton: GOP Rhetoric a ‘Threat to the Heart of Our Democracy’

40 justice organizations and media watchdog groups call on top Twitter advertisers to demand Elon Musk adhere to brand-protecting community safety rules or stop advertising on the platform altogether (Business Insider) Despite it’s name Business Insider has nothing to do with business and everything to do with proglodyte activism.

Kanye West fans launch GoFundMe to ‘make him a billionaire again’ (N.Y. Post) Gotta love fans.

CNN’s Tapper Insists Crime is NOT Skyrocketing, Suggests GOP is Lying

Skipping Hillary’s Latest Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory

PBS Warns Of Civil War Started By ‘Christian’ ‘White Men’

The Courts Are the Only Thing Holding Back Total Election Subversion (The Atlantic)

NYT Weeps Over GOP Campaign to ‘Demonize and Dehumanize’ Pelosi in ‘Ugly Ways’

Daniel Radcliffe Explains Abandoning Rowling to Trans Mob

Denying the Attack on Pelosi Is a Bridge to Supporting It (New York Magazine) Jonathan Chait has the IQ of a carrot, and yete is paid a hefty sum to demonstrate same in public. They hire the handicapped.

Hillary Clinton’s Latest Half-Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory

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Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., is calling on the Small Business Administration to explain why it forgave $67 million in Paycheck Protection Program loans to Planned Parenthood affiliates—loans that these abortion clinics should never have gotten in the first place.

In a letter first obtained by The Daily Signal, Tenney and her Republican colleagues told Inspector General Hannibal “Mike” Ware that the Small Business Administration “decided to forgive” 38 Paycheck Protection Program loans given “in violation of the guidelines set by Congress” to Planned Parenthood affiliates.

Those loans totaled at about $67 million, the letter said.

ZMan does a little history.

The main difference between the 19th century peasant and the modern suburban peasant is communications. The French peasant could go weeks or months without speaking to neighbors. The suburban peasant cannot go five minutes without information bombarding his senses. The same information storm intended to keep the suburban peasant suspended within a solution of information, often insulates him from his conditioning, resulting in radicalization.

Marx was right about the French peasants. They were never much use for the revolution, something the Bolsheviks would eventually learn as well. For the modern dissident, there may be some portion of the suburban peasantry that has radical potential, even if he is immune to direct radicalization. The phenomenon of normie going from zero to eleven on the radicalization scale after an incidental encounter with forbidden material is well known.

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There is no Muslim democracy. Not one.

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Acting Secretary of State Leigh Chapman, the leftist election rigging activist appointed by Gov. Tom Wolf, warned that it will take days to determine who won. At a “virtual press conference”, the virtual election boss, who hasn’t actually been confirmed by the legislature, warned that it would take “several days worth of work” to determine who won what. And who didn’t.

Chapman, a veteran of The Advancement Project, funded by Soros and the Ford Foundation, which worked against voter ID rules to stop voter fraud, and Let America Vote, a leftist group to eliminate election security regulations, urged voters to “feel confident in our election system and in the final results.” Nothing creates confidence in an election system like a radical partisan activist being put in charge of it and then warning that the FBI will target any critics.

If there’s still any doubt, Chapman assured that “this delay does not mean anything nefarious is happening.” Being told that “nothing nefarious is happening” is incredibly reassuring whether it’s hearing it from a strange guy in an alley, a corporate CEO or an election official. People who aren’t doing anything nefarious don’t usually feel the need to assure you of that.

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It is sad that 161 years after Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, and 154 years after the adoption of the 14th Amendment, we are still debating whether public institutions like the University of North Carolina should be able to engage in race discrimination. One might have thought that by now, that issue would have been settled.

Liberals seem resigned to the fact that that they now will have to pretend, at least, to stop discriminating on the basis of race.

Democrats have dependably been racists every age.

Feel free to substitute the popular music artist of your choice.

Rishi Sunak badly misread the national mood, and now a Cop27 U-turn is looming (The Guardian)

The Green Revolution – Were We Lied To? (SciTech Daily) Well, duh.

On Guam there is no birdsong, you cannot imagine the trauma of a silent island (The Guardian) It’s actually very peaceful, just the sound of the wind and the waves.

Even Greenpeace now admits the obvious: recycling doesn’t work. (City Journal)

Greta Thunberg to skip ‘greenwashing’ Cop27 climate summit in Egypt (The Guardian)

Report details strategies for receding beaches and the threat of sea level rise (Honolulu Star-Advertiser)

Drag queen Pattie Gonia wanted a scary Halloween costume. She went as climate change (NPR)

“Another Stab In The Back”: Climate Movement Miffed After UK’s Sunak Snubs Cop27 Climate Talks

UK Trapped in The Green Energy Cul-de-Sac

First-ever inflatable wing sail technology is being mounted on a merchant ship

UN Seeks $4 To 6 Trillion Per Year To Address Climate

Greta Thunberg Calls For “Overthrow Of Whole Capitalist System”  She’s Just Another Commie after all.

Climate Protestors Attempt to Disrupt the Melbourne Cup Horse Race  Perhaps if several of them get executed….