If ‘permacrisis’ is the word of 2022, what does 2023 have in store for our mental health? (The Guardian)

Permacrisis, Partygate and mini-budget: the Guardian’s breakthrough words of the year (The Guardian)

AOC yet to visit migrant facilities at border under Biden, after high-profile trip during Trump admin (Fox) It’s all about the optics.

Questions loom at CNN after difficult year (The Hill)

This is CNN? Beleaguered network has tumultuous year, marked by high-profile firings, continued ratings woes (Fox)

Yale University ‘happiness professor’ warns capitalism is destroying students with anxiety

Why Are We Spending Millions Housing Illegal Migrants While Americans Go Homeless? (Newsweek)

N.J.’s minimum wage is going up Sunday  Hello, automation!

‘Man of the Year’ Dr. Levine Pushed for Increased Big Tech Censorship

9 Controversial California Laws Taking Effect On Jan. 1

Washington, Colorado, and Oregon: The Next Domestic Outmigration Wave?

Arizona’s AG says dropping Title 42 would cause border ‘chaos’ (NPR)

Here’s what Americans can expect from Biden’s tax hikes taking effect on Jan. 1 (Fox)

U.S. ramps up immigration arrests mostly at Mexican border (Reuters)

More arrested at border, but only half are deported: ICE (N.Y. Post)

Chasten Buttigieg fires back at Democratic critic of Pete over Southwest meltdown (Fox)

‘Somewhat evasive’: Karine Jean-Pierre accused of hiding behind obscure law to avoid tough questions (Fox)

Biden administration will withdraw Trump-era rule letting all health care workers refuse reproductive, transgender care (S.F. Chronicle)

Putin Is Making Biden’s Border Nightmare Even Worse (Newsweek)

Russians join thousands of migrants waiting for end of Title 42 at US border (N.Y. Post)

“Somebody Was Lying”: Biden Doesn’t Trust Secret Service Detail, Thinks They Fabricated Dog Biting Incident  Being accused of lying by Joe Biden is like being called ugly by a frog.

The U.S. passed a historic climate deal this year — here’s a recap of what’s in the bill (CNBC)

Here’s what Anthony Fauci’s wife actually does at NIH (Fox)

EPA issues new rule to strengthen water protections in the U.S (NBC)

EPA issues clean water rule that repeals Trump administration changes (CNBC)

2022: A year of environmental milestones (U.N.) I think they mean ‘millstones’.

A Pivotal Year for the Health of the Planet and its People (U.S. Dept. of State)

Think those bags are recyclable? California says think again (L.A. Times)

‘I am an optimistic person’: the scientist who studies climate catastrophes (The Guardian) So long as I keep predicting catastrophe, I’ll be well paid.

Human hair recycled in Belgium to protect the environment (Reuters)

How ocean wind power could help the US fossil fuel industry (The Guardian) I don’t think they mean using wind power to pump oil.

How Did EVs Handle America’s Arctic Blast?  Poorly.

Global Holiday Chaos: Long Queues as Tesla Drivers Overwhelm Charge Points

2022 Same Shit, Different Year: 55 Years Of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions

Michelle Obama says she ‘couldn’t stand’ husband Barack for 10 years (The Guardian) I know how she felt.

The medical system has failed Black Americans for centuries. Could reparations be the answer? (Vox) It is for the Narrative Media.

Time Mocked for Article on Exercise’s Roots in White Supremacy

Trump’s tax returns are much to do about nothings (CNN)

Michael Cohen Reacts To Trump’s Tax Returns: ‘Donald’s Time Has Come’ (MSNBC)

In testimony to Jan. 6 committee, former White House deputy chief of staff Anthony Ornato said he didn’t recall heated motorcade interaction with Trump (CBS)

‘Alex Jones Did Nothing Wrong’: Meet the Christian Nationalist Behind ‘Pastors For Trump’ (Rolling Stone) You might have thought that Rolling Stone was about the music industry, but you’d be wrong. It’s just another brick in the wall of the Narrative Media.

Trump’s Taxes Are the Best Case Yet for Putting Him in Prison (Daily Beast)

The Trump tax returns

COVID variant XBB.1.5 now accounts for 40 percent of cases in the US: CDC (The Hill)

Travel nurses took high-paying jobs during Covid. But then their pay was slashed, sometimes in half. (NBC) What, no ‘windfall profits tax’ on nurses, like on oil companies?

China steps up Covid variant monitoring as countries impose entry curbs (Financial Times)

Covid: England to require negative test for arrivals from China (BBC)

CDC warns of future surge in diabetes among young Americans (The Hill) So I guess it’s time to PANIC!

Congressional report: U.S. FDA broke own protocols in approving Biogen Alzheimer’s drug (Reuters)

FDA criticized for working too closely with biotech company to approve Alzheimer’s drug (PBS)

8 infectious diseases that made a comeback in 2022 unexpectedly — and illnesses that could surge in 2023 (Insider) Which means you’d better PANIC!

Vaccine-Evasive Omicron Subvariant on the Rise  Just to be safe, we’d better PANIC!

The Supreme Court is manipulating its own calendar to lock GOP policies in place (Vox)

Mark McCloskey won’t get his guns or money back despite pardon, Missouri judge rules (The Hill)

Elon Musk Fires Twitter Janitors, Reportedly Forcing Staff To Bring Own Toilet Paper (Huffington Post) Considering how full of shit most Twitter employees have turned out to be, I can see where that would be a problem.

Left-Wing Politico Blasted for Naming Meghan Markle Among 2022’s Worst ‘Narcissists’ (Breitbart) Which she so obviously is.

Jan. 6 committee is running out of time. Key documents may soon be locked away for decades (L.A. TImes)

TV News Liberals Hit “Rigid,” “Hard Line” “Cartoonish” Pope Benedict

N.C. State Broadcaster Let Go After Mentioning ‘Illegal Aliens’

The Invention of Elise Stefanik (N.Y. Times) When RINO is not enough….

An MSNBC “Debate”: Is GOP “Neo-Fascist,” “Proto-Fascist” or “Semi-Fascist?”  Wow, that’s a stumper, all right. It would be more interesting if anyone at MSNBC knew what ‘fascist’ meant (other than ‘we hate you’).

ECHR Upholds Eric Zemmour’s “Incitement to Discrimination” Conviction

Newsbusters.

Well, isn’t this rich. Republican Congressman-elect George Santos has been caught flatfooted, lying about all manner of things — his education, job history, religion, his mother’s death and more.

The lib media has, but of course, gone crazy with this. Doubtless, beyond the lying itself, this focus on Santos is partially driven by the battle to elect the next GOP Speaker of the House. Embattled GOP House Leader Kevin McCarthy needs every vote he can get – and that would include a Santos vote, presuming Santos does not resign before the election on January 3rd. Something that as this is written appears unlikely.

But there’s more here than meets the eye.

Over there at The American Spectator, columnist (and colleague) Scott McKay has noted – correctly in my view – something very curious. How was Santos able to tell these lies and get away with it in his election? Says Scott: “He realized that Stupid Woke America values ‘diversity’ over competence or merit, and so he fed Stupid Woke America what it wanted.”

If I were Congressman Santos, the first assignment I would give to my staff would be to list all of the various ‘lies’ the Narrative Media accuse me of telling, then dig into the records of every Democrat member of Congress and post a list of those who did the exact same thing without any complaint from the Usual Suspects. (One might start with Alcee Hastings, who was impeached and removed as a Federal judge for bribery and then went on to a ‘distinguished’ career as a corrupt black Congressman, re-elected again and again by the stupid black people of his district.)

Newsbusters.

It was a challenging task but an esteemed panel of NewsBusters editors led by MRC President L.Brent Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2022 and on December 15 announced The Brian Stelter Memorial Award for Quote of the Year.

Of course, every year there is way too much bias for just one category. So Baker led a panel of NewsBusters editors to break down the Worst of 2022 into eight additional categories (The GOP Will End Democracy Award; The Damn Those Conservatives Award; The Praising and Protecting Old Joe Award;The Media Heroes Award; The Cursing the Conservative Court Award; The Joy of Hate Award for Joy Reid Rants; The Craziest Analysis Award and the Celebrity Freak-Outs Award).

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

I have tried to maintain cordial relations with my old Weekly Standard friends who have gone on to their successor media outlets, especially The Bulwark. I’ve even placed an article or two there. I have acknowledged the reasonable case at the core of The Bulwark’s outlook that Donald Trump and the broader populist current he galvanized have exerted some negative forces in the Republican Party, though my own balance sheet concludes that Trump was much more sinned-against than sinning, and think the populist turn among conservatives is long overdue and largely healthy. (By the way, someone who thought this a long time ago was . . . Irving Kristol. See below.*)

But it became clear a while ago now that the “Never Trump” disposition has become fanatical to the point that Bulwarkers and others in the same camp have gone nuts, throwing every conservative principle over the side simply because Trump embraced them. But Last—tempting to call him “the Last Man”—really scraped bottom with his clubfooted treatment of Scruton. Much of Last’s article consists of classic “ventriloquist journalism,” citing in a faux-questioning way an article by Alan Elrod (I’ve never heard of him either) in Arc Digital, most of which doesn’t deserve the dignity of a response.

The Kristol Krew at The Bulwark have fully descended into Junior Wokerati Liz-Cheney-Land and are fully-paid-up members of the Narrative Media.

SciTech Daily.

An adhesive that can stimulate muscles to stretch and contract has been developed – and it has the potential to prevent and enable recovery from muscle atrophy.

Muscles can become weak and waste away due to a lack of exercise, such as when a limb is immobilized in a cast, or gradually as people age. This condition, known as muscle atrophy, can also occur as a result of neurological disorders like ALS and MS, or as a response to certain diseases including cancer and diabetes.

Mechanotherapy, a type of therapy that uses manual or mechanical techniques, is believed to have the potential to aid in tissue repair. Massage, which uses compressive stimulation to relax muscles, is the most well-known form of mechanotherapy, however, it is not clear whether stretching and contracting muscles through external means can also be effective as a treatment. There have been two major obstacles to studying this possibility: a lack of mechanical systems that can evenly apply stretching and contraction forces to muscles along their entire length, and the inefficient delivery of these mechanical stimuli to the surface and deeper layers of muscle tissue.

BuzzFeed.

On Sunday, Reddit user u/dramaticatlady asked, “What’s a profession that will cease to exist in the near future?” People gave examples of careers/jobs that will probably be obsolete in the near future due to technology, apps, and other advancements.

Newsweek.

Who’s going to clean up their poop, that’s what I want to know.

New York Post.

Frightening new technology in the hands of government intelligence agencies has the ability to commandeer any smart camera and even “alter feeds” to manipulate both its audio and visuals — including past recordings, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.

The Big Brother-like software — used by the nation’s intelligence agency Mossad — has been brokered since 2018 to global states by a former Israeli defense force cyber chief’s company, Toka.

Border encounters exceed 617,000 so far in fiscal year 2023, a record high

Homeland Security warns of potential domestic extremist-fueled violence related to Title 42 (CBS)

Progressives take aim at Buttigieg over Southwest fiasco (The Hill) The gay icon loses his lustre?

How states can move people from welfare to work, sidestepping Team Biden’s ban (N.Y. Post)

Inflation Reduction Act Tax Hikes to Hit on Jan. 1

Biden Awkwardly Congratulates Most Extreme Right Government In Israel’s History

Buttigieg Knew: State AGs Warned Transportation Agency Of Airline Debacle Months Ago

GOP-Controlled State Legislatures Weigh ‘Constitutionality’ Of Presidential Executive Orders And about time, too.

Biden Seeks to Undo Trump-era Rights for Health Workers

Biden’s Back Door Tesla Subsidy

Nets Ignore the Courtroom Drama With Hunter Biden’s Baby Mama

Biden Pardons 6 Convicted of Murder, Drug, Alcohol Crimes

The Foreign Billionaire Funding the Dem Attack on Hunter Biden Investigation

Trump Jr. details efforts to sway father on Jan. 6 in panel deposition (The Hill)

Key findings from the latest Jan. 6 panel transcripts, including from Donald Trump Jr. and others (CNN)

Nevada’s newest (and least qualified) judge is an alarming teachable moment (MSNBC)

Melania Trump was ‘angry’ with Meadows and ‘wary’ of lawyers ahead of Jan. 6: Grisham (The Hill)

Dangerous Devotion: Congressional hearing examines threat of white Christian nationalism (Southern Poverty Law Center)

With latest Title 42 ruling, Supreme Court majority makes a mockery of the law (Washington Post)

‘Obscene and unprecedented’: Text messages reveal GOP calls to overturn 2020 election results (MSNBC)

West Point Begins Removal, Alteration Of Confederate Memorials On Campus

Lying Liar George Santos Under Investigation For All Those Lies  And what will the investigation find? “Yup, he lied. No law against that.” (If there were. half of the Democrats in Congress would be in jail.) He’s still a Congressman, and will be for the next two years.

DHS watchdog has launched criminal probe into destruction of Jan. 6 Secret Service text messages, sources say (NBC)

World Economic Forum Cancels Twitter, Directs Followers To Chinese Social Media Apps

The MAGA Right Would Have Called Winston Churchill a ‘Welfare Queen’ (Daily Beast) One of the most reliable hobbies of the Narrative Media is building straw-men that they can then enjoy pummeling.

Will George Santos’ Lies Cost Him Access to Classified Information? (Daily Beast) Does he even care? I wouldn’t, in his situation. If they deny him a clearance, he just says, ‘Fine, less work for me to do.’

All the Worst: CNN Year in Review Attacks Dobbs Decision, Musk

MSNBC Analyst LIES: We ‘Ignored’ Timothy McVeigh After Oklahoma City?

John Lewis statue to be placed where Confederate monument once stood (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

WORST OF 2022: The Joy of Hate Award for Joy Reid Rants 

January 6: judge hints Trump wanted supporters to ‘do more’ than protest (The Guardian)

Federal Judge Says Trump May Have Signaled To Supporters ‘To Do Something More’ Than Protest (MSNBC) May have! That proves it!

Raskin: The case against Trump over Jan. 6 is ‘open and shut’ (MSNBC)

MAGA hat is free speech, says court in reviving threatened teacher’s lawsuit (Reuters)

Teacher hassled over MAGA hat can sue principal for allegedly threatening his job, court says (S.F. Chronicle)

The IRS Really, Really Should Have Audited Trump (The Atlantic) Oh, are we talking about what the IRS really, really ought to have done? Because I have a list….

Trump’s tax returns raise questions over his business operations, loans he gave his children and more (CNN) Let’s have a look at Biden’s tax returns–is ‘10% for the Big Guy’ taxable income?

On Final Day Of Power, House Dems Release 6 Years Of Trump Tax Records; GOP Warns Of Retaliation

Trump Warns Dems After Tax Release: It’s ‘a Dangerous Two-Way Street’

What we’ve learned from Trump’s tax returns (Washington P0st) As seen through the prism of the Narrative, of course.

Trump-supporting billionaire Home Depot founder says ‘nobody works anymore’ because of ‘socialism’ and the ‘woke people [who] have taken over the world’ (Fortune)

The incredible shrinking NY: New proof that progressives are driving away residents — including millionaires who pay for their goodies (N.Y. Post)

Predictions that global economy is heading for a recession are premature (The Guardian) We’re already in a recession.

Jamie Raskin thinks the Electoral College threatens democracy. He’s right. (MSNBC) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Right-Wing Extremists Will Hate This New Government Spending (Daily Beast)

Sen. Bernie Sanders Blasts Southwest’s ‘Corporate Greed’  Really, is there anything more predictable? *YAWN*

California Lawmaker Introduces Bill To Legalize Magic Mushrooms, Other Psychedelics

Judge Keeps Oregon’s Strict Gun Control Measure On Ice

Finland Proposes 30% Windfall Tax On Power Companies

ExxonMobil Launches Legal Challenge Against EU Over Windfall Profit Tax

Democratic Congress was disappointment for immigration activists (The Hill)

Crocs Shoe Brand Sponsors Kids’ Drag Fashion Show

MIT Adopts Free Speech Resolution: “We Cannot Prohibit Speech As Offensive Or Injurious”

Return Your Nobel: Top 4 Worst Paul Krugman Economic Hot Takes of 2022

Judge: NY Ban on Guns in Places of Worship Unconstitutional

What we know about XBB, the new dominant COVID variant in New England (Boston Globe)

XBB Variant Sparks New Covid Concerns (NBC)

China races to vaccinate elderly, but many are reluctant (Associated Press)

MSNBC contributor Katty Kay was ‘appalled’ her kids refused COVID boosters before holidays I’m sure she was.

Waning immunity means majority of COVID deaths now among vaccinated, experts say (Springfield News-Sun) Fine ‘vaccines’ ya got there, bubba.

First “virovore” discovered: An organism that eats viruses (New Atlas)

Of Economic Crises & Pandemics: Facebook As Fact, Government As Truth, Big Pharma As God

China’s COVID Chaos A “Horrible Indictment” Of US Leadership For Emulating CCP Lockdowns: Former White House Adviser

The New Yorker Promotes “People’s CDC” And Mask Mandates Forever

CDC Urges Teachers, Administrators, School Nurses to Adopt LGBT Curriculum, Endorse Transgender Identity

Twitter’s COVID-19 Censorship Led To Loss Of Life, Says Former White House Adviser Dr. Scott Atlas

China Hit By Tsunami Of COVID Infections In Reopening Scramble But It’s All Just Omicron, As No New Variants Emerge

COVID Deaths Double in China: 11K Daily  Guess their ‘vaccines’ are just as shitty as ours.

Fraud, Overspending Lead to $2 Billion Spent on COVID-19 Testing

It Would Have Been So Much Worse If I Hadn’t Been Vaxed  According to the Narrative.

Association between influenza vaccination and risk of stroke in Alberta, Canada

How can coral reefs deal with climate change? Get better roommates (NPR)

‘Climate change before our eyes’: Sounding the alarm as Mt. Rainier glaciers quickly fade (KIRO)

Here’s why the U.S. electric grid isn’t running on 100% renewable energy yet (CNBC)

We must change how we think to solve the plastic waste crisis (The Hill)

Higher king tides expected as sea levels are predicted to keep rising (KING5)

Green hydrogen: Fuel of the future has ‘big potential’ but a worrying blind spot, scientists warn (Euronews)

CNN Ignores Deadly Blizzard in ‘Top 10 Climate Stories of 2022’

BlackRock, State Street Admit Signing Net-Zero Pledges They Don’t Act On

W. Hudson Bay polar bear population decline stories are unethical and ignore critical caveats

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The Centers for Disease Control is one of a number of formerly-respected federal agencies that now have fallen into disrepute. CDC has become a tool of the Left in general, and the Democratic Party in particular, and it seems that the people who run the Centers are more interested in political activism than in disease control.

Thus CDC’s latest initiative: a self-assessment tool for “LGBTQ Inclusivity in Schools.” (Via Breitbart.)

TIME magazine wanders out into Left field.

How did U.S. exercise trends go from reinforcing white supremacy to celebrating Richard Simmons? That evolution is explored in a new book by a historian of exercise, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, author of the book Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession, out Jan. 2023.

Because, you know, black people just can’t do shit when it comes to exercise.

Read it.

watches at home as they attempt to stay under criminals’ radar while in public. From Los Angeles to Manhattan to London to Paris, violent high-end watch robberies are rising.

Think of it as ‘anticipatory reparations’. (You know, for all the money that rich people have been stealing from poor people all these years.)

Bloomberg reported London’s Metropolitan Police Service recorded a staggering 60% jump in knife-point robberies. In Paris, an entire police task force has been assigned to investigate luxury watch theft.

Wow, those gun-control laws really work. Oh, wait….

Read it.

President Biden and congressional Democrats imposed a long list of tax increases as part of their “Inflation Reduction Act” passed in 2022.

Read it.

How about that government-provided health care? Don’t you wish we had a system like that in this country?

(Actually, we do: It’s called the VA, and it totally sucks. Ask anybody.)

Buffalo blizzard fuels racial and class divides in polarized city (N.Y. Times) The Unbearable Whiteness of snow.

WATCH: Looters Ravage Buffalo After Deadly Blizzard

Why Have Democrat-Controlled Schools Become Such Cesspits of Racism?

Slipping over Mexico border, migrants get the jump on U.S. court ruling (Reuters)

US emergency oil stockpiles drop to lowest level since 1983 as gas prices tick up

Sorry, Kamala: It’s not the media’s fault no one thinks you’re a strong leader — it’s your own (N.Y. Post)

Anti ‘woke’ ESG policies are already costing taxpayers millions (Fast Company)

Migrants assembled in Mexico hatch plans to cross border after Title 42 is extended (N.Y. Post)

US military bases that housed Afghan evacuees suffered $260 million in damage

Twice-deported, MS-13 gang suspect on El Salvador’s most wanted list arrested in Virginia

Supreme Court Bars Ending Title 42, but Border Crisis Will Continue Because Biden Won’t Enforce It

CNN: Title 42 Battle ‘Fodder’ for Smugglers, ‘Misinformation’ on Facebook

Funny What Even A Flimsy Border Fence Can Do…

Chris Hayes Mocked for Downplaying Biden Life-Story Lies Compared to George Santos

FBI Twitter Files Corruption Is ‘Tip of the Iceberg,’ Warns GOP Senator

Forlorn CBS Shovels More Sob Stories of Illegals Stuck Waiting for Title 42 to End

Mom of Hunter Biden’s Daughter Asks Court to Change Daughter’s Name to Biden  All the better to squeeze more money out of the deep pockets.

Republicans pounce on the poor beleaguered FBI  It’s good to see that they’ve got the energy.

NYC Gets $8M in Migrant Aid  Most of which will wind up in the pockets of local Democrat apparatchiks.

Harvesting human pee and DIY fertiliser: top conservation issues in 2023 (The Guardian)

Terrawatch: the rise and bigger rise of Mediterranean sea levels (The Guardian)

Big coal miners’ profits triple as demand surges (Financial Times)

Too pricey for naughty children’s stockings: Cost of coal soars in 2022 (Colorado Springs Gazette)

My burning shame: I fitted my house with three wood-burning stoves (The Guardian) George Monbiot transgresses.

Do wood burners cause pollution and is it worth buying one? (Eastern Daily Press)

The mission to return jaguars to the US: ‘We aren’t right without them’ (The Guardian)

10 signs we got closer to climate disaster in 2022 (LiveScience)

Exxon sues over EU fossil fuel ‘windfall tax’ (Politico) Let’s go plundering/The better way to tax!

NYC Electric Garbage Truck Plans Hit Wall After Trucks “Conked Out” Plowing Snow After Just Four Hours

Geoengineering Startup Begins Releasing Sulfur Particles Into Atmosphere In Attempt To ‘Stop Climate Change’

How The New Cold War Solved Global-Warming

“How Dare You?”: Greta Thunberg Loses Her Cool at Ex-Kickboxer’s Automobile Collection  Apparently Greta is an expert in penis size. Who knew?

Rogue geoengineering startup attempts to affect atmosphere despite warnings

The Climate Struggle Literally Hit Home in 2022 (Wired ‘Science’) For sufficiently Woke definitions of ‘home’.

Washington Post ‘exclusive’ finds U.S. Capitol ‘honors’ 140 ‘enslavers’ in artwork

The Trumpiest court in America (Vox) Trump cooties! Unclean! Unclean!

DeSantis’ culture war isn’t just divisive, it’s also expensive (MSNBC) But MSNBC’s culture war isn’t, I guess.

The ethical dilemmas of renaming scientific principles that honour fallen idols

What Did Nancy Know & When Did She Know It?

Right-Wing Flop of the Year: Dinesh D’Souza’s 2000 Mules (The New Republic)

Rep.-Elect Santos Faces Criminal Probes Over Campaign Lies  Which no Democrat has ever done, no matter how egregious the lies. (Lying George Santos, Meet Lying Joe Biden)

Trump and MAGA Misfits Turn on ‘Trump’s Bitch’ Sean Hannity (Daily Beast)

Elon’s Banning Spree & The Media’s Sudden Conversion to Free Speech Absolutists

NPR Turns Naps Into Attack on Capitalism

WORST OF 2022: Cursing the Conservative Court Award 

US will require COVID-19 testing for travelers from China (Associated Press)

U.S. records 100 million Covid cases, but more than 200 million Americans have probably had it (CNBC)

White House sees light at the end of the monkeypox tunnel (Politico)

As Covid-19 Continues to Spread, So Does Misinformation About It (N.Y. Times) In the Narrative Media, ‘misinformation’ is anything thta doesn’t agree with the Narrative.

‘Life Turns Lonelier’ — New York Times Sends Page-One Sympathy Card to Mask ‘Holdouts’

Hydroxychloroquine lowers Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias risk

New transcripts shed light on Trump’s interest in Jan. 6 pardons (MSNBC)

Trump Hails ‘Unselect’ Jan. 6 Committee ‘Subpoena Is Dead!’  It was just for show anyway.

Morning Joe Invites Dem Descendant of Holocaust Victims To Blame Trump For Santos

Elaine Chao addresses Donald Trump’s repeated use of “racist taunt” about her (Courier-Journal)

Trump’s GOP foes are scared. But not as much as they should be. (Washington Post) The chances that anyone writing for the WaPo knows how “Trump’s GOP foes” feel is close to zero. But they get paid to write about things of which they are ignorant, and you always get more of what you pay for.

Dick Morris: Trump Just Won the ’24 Election  Can we all go home now?

Why restaurant chains are investing in robots and what it means for workers (CNBC) Can you say ‘minimum wage’? Can you say ‘Union label’? I’m sure you can.

2022: The Year ESG Fell to Earth (Real Clear Energy)

State lawsuits defend abortion access with religious freedom (Associated Press) What religion requires abortions?

5 things to know for Dec. 28: Immigration, Snowstorm, Southwest, Trump’s taxes, Gas (CNN) Get your Narrative! Right here!

Red States Texas, Florida Crush Blue New York, California, & Illinois When It Comes To 2022 Population Growth

Transgender Guidelines May “Destroy” Women’s Sports, According To Female Olympians

The Great Re-Sort: New, National Survey Indicates Political Migration Will Soar

Stanford University’s Anti-‘American’ Wokeness

2022 Man of the Year: Judge James Ho

New York Gov Frees 11-Year-Old Boy’s Killer

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I detect Seth Lipsky’s characteristic prose and train of thought in the New York Sun editorial “Yes, Virginia–There Is a Santos Clause.” Seth’s hand in the editorial makes sense: he is the editor of the Sun.

The subject of the editorial is the post-election discovery that Rep.-elect George Santos is not who he said he was. The subhead summarizes the gist of the editorial: “All the falsehoods George Santos is accused of are small beer compared to the truth of his campaign — which is that the voters in his district decided to bring in a Republican to replace a Democrat.” Seth unveils the Santos clause toward the end of the editorial: “[Congress] can’t refuse to seat an elected candidate on the basis of lies he told — or even, for that matter, truths — or whether Brazil thinks he kited checks [as may be the case with Santos].”

It is interesting to see the hysteria whipped up by the media in response to the exposure of Santos’s fabrications. So far, he has only been exposed as a liar. As Seth argues, he will be in good company if and when he is able to take office, though I wouldn’t want to put much credence in his oath.

Santos made the mistake of compressing all of his fibbing into one election season. If he had stretched it out over 30 years, the way Joe Biden did, he might be on his way to the White House.

Read it.

While the campaign to create a health care “public option”—a government health plan designed to compete against private health insurance—may have waned in Washington, D.C., this left-wing project is very much alive in some states.

Following in Washington state’s footsteps, the Colorado and Nevada legislatures have recently passed laws creating state-based “public option” health care programs.

Read it.

Dr. Rachel Levine, a man who identifies as a woman, urged doctors at state medical boards to pressure Big Tech to stifle “medical misinformation” right after he declared that there is no “scientific or medical dispute” about the benefits of using experimental drugs and surgeries to force male bodies to resemble female bodies or vice versa.

Levine, the assistant secretary of health at the federal Department of Health and Human Services, presented an extremely dubious worldview as the established position of science, and acted as though no rational person would dare dissent.

Read it.

The Bail Project, an organization with the stated goal of bail reform, has discontinued its chapter in Las Vegas after coming under scrutiny for posting bail for a criminal who ended up shooting a restaurant worker.

The point of bail is to release a person from incarceration so that they can go about their daily routine while ensuring that they don’t run away. It presumes that the bailee is at least arguably not a flight risk and not a danger to society, and can either put up bail, afford to arrange bail from a bondsman, or have friends/family who will stand surety for him (or her). This is, of course, ‘discriminatory’ in the eyes of the Wokerati; hence the Soros push to elect prosecutors who will waive bail or put up bail for people who otherwise not be able to get bail (such as being an habitual criminal).

In November 2021, Rashawn Gaston-Anderson was arrested for pandering and carrying a concealed weapon. A day after being released, he was arrested again for theft and burglary. In December 2021, The Bail Project posted a $3,000 bond and got him out. Six days later, Gaston-Anderson opened fire at a restaurant worker in Chinatown, shooting the victim Chengyan Wang a total of 11 times.

I don’t think we need to wonder about the ethnicity of ‘Rashawn Gaston-Anderson’, or that of his victim.

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“Politics and the English Language” addressed the jargon, double-talk, and what we would now call “spin” that had already distorted the discourse of the mid-20th century. “In our time,” Orwell argued, “political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. … Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness. … Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” Those are the sentences most cited whenever a modern leader or talking head hides behind terms like “restructuring” (for layoffs), “visiting a site” (for bombing), or “alternative facts” (for falsehoods). In his essay, Orwell also cut through the careless, mechanical prose of academics and journalists who fall back on clichés—“all prefabricated phrases, needless repetitions, and humbug and vagueness generally.”

These objections still hold up almost 80 years later, but historic changes in taste and technology mean that they apply to a new set of unexamined truisms and slogans regularly invoked less in oratory or print than through televised soundbites, online memes, and social media: the errors of reason and rhetoric identified in “Politics and the English Language” can be seen in familiar examples of empty platitudes, stretched metaphors, and meaningless cant which few who post, share, like, and retweet have seriously parsed. Consider how the following lexicon from 2023 is distinguished by the same question-begging, humbug, and sheer cloudy vagueness exposed by George Orwell in 1946.

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Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have engineered molecules that act like “cellular glue,” allowing them to direct in precise fashion how cells bond with each other. The discovery represents a major step toward building tissues and organs, a long-sought goal of regenerative medicine.

Adhesive molecules are found naturally throughout the body, holding its tens of trillions of cells together in highly organized patterns. They form structures, create neuronal circuits, and guide immune cells to their targets. Adhesion also facilitates communication between cells to keep the body functioning as a self-regulating whole.

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Leading up to that assessment is a catalogue of outrages – attacks targeting women, men, churches and Christian-owned businesses with guns, bombs, stones and fists – inflicted regularly by Moslem fanatics on Bethlehem’s dwindling Christian minority. The Palestinian Authority, which is in charge of security in the city, suppresses reports of anti-Christian attacks rather than the attacks themselves. International organizations, focused on blaming Israel for all that goes wrong in the Middle East, aren’t much interested in the plight of Christians.

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The following article and interview concern the work of a German pathologist who — despite the political headwinds blowing against anyone who attempts an honest evaluation of the effects of the experimental mRNA treatments intended to mitigate the effects of infection with the Wuhan Coronavirus — has conducted autopsies and analyzed the results for people who died after “vaccination”.

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Indeed they ought.

With forests in peril, she’s on a mission to save ‘mother trees’ (Washington Post)

California has to become carbon-neutral by 2045. What does that mean for natural gas? (Sacrament0 Bee)

Liberal media made slew of dubious claims about climate change, year-end report finds (Fox)

Controversial activist Steven Donziger is a folk hero to the left, a fraud to Big Oil (The Hill)

When the State Cut Their Water, These California Users Created a Collaborative Solution (Inside Climate News)

Brutal Christmas storm: Is it climate change — or just weather? (The Hill)

Fact check: What’s the link between global heating and extreme weather? (ABS-CBN News)

Carbon credit groups seek to expand investor appeal (Financial Times) You can’t run a grift without marks.

South African Energy Contractors Accused of Stealing Coal and Shipping it to Europe

The Faux Urgency of The Climate Crisis Is Giving Us No Time or Space To Build A Secure Energy Future

Ukraine Situation Report: Kyiv Struggling To Keep Captured Weapons In The Fight

Taiwan Extends Mandatory Military Service Due To Chinese Invasion Threat

Putin’s Disgruntled Troops Intensify Battle Between Key Allies (Newsweek)

Noted Crimean Activist Afanasyev Dies Fighting Russian Troops In Ukraine (Radio Free Europe)

New sanctions starting to bite Russia’s economy as Moscow admits deficit impact (CNBC)

Ukraine Wants UN-Backed Peace Deal With Russia, But On One Condition: Officials

Special Forces Insider: The CIA Is Directing Sabotage Attacks In Russian Territory

Russia Dismisses “Smokescreen” Kyiv Offer Of February Peace Talks

The Democrats Are Now The War Party

Russia Intensifies Attacks on Liberated Kherson, Eastern Ukraine

(Another) Putin Critic ‘Falls’ Out Of Window, Dies  They ought to be more careful.

Russia, China Hold Naval Drills, Practice Submarine Capture

SEA TRANSPORTATION: Modernized Multi-Scam Oil Smuggling

Drunk Russian Soldier Beats His Commander to Death (Daily Beast) Nah, I don’t believe that one.

NYC Mayor Admits He Was on Tropical Vacation During Devastating Storm (Daily Beast)

Mayor Adams defends U.S. Virgin Islands trip as NYC prepared for winter storm (Gothamist)

Kim Kardashian breaks down in tears over how hard co-parenting is with Ye

Kim Kardashian says she ‘hated’ how she felt when visiting the White House for the first time: ‘I didn’t know half of anything that they were saying’  Perhaps because she’s dumber than a fence post.

Adams Gives Himself ‘Solid B+’ on First Year. How’s He Done? (The City)

Knoxville Mayor Attends ‘All-Ages’ Christmas-Themed Drag Show with Simulated Sex Acts

‘I Don’t Talk to the Police, Sir’

NIGERIA: Slow Recovery From An Epic Fail

‘Uniquely American’ Violence? PBS Openly Backs Liberal Activist Pushing Gun Control

Local health departments working to restore trust as they fight vaccine misinformation (NBC) In the Narrative Media, ‘misinformation’ is anything contradicts the Narrative.

Thousands of workers were fired over vaccine mandates. For some, the fight goes on (NPR)

US To Require Negative COVID Tests After “Extremely Irresponsible” China Reopens Borders

Watchdogs Need More Money to Find Stolen COVID Aid: Report  You’ve heard that it takes money to make money? Apparently it also takes money to find money.

Ex-Twitter Employees Ran ‘Fauci Fan Club’ Slack Channel

The Case for Wearing Masks Forever (New Yorker) How will you signal your virtue without wearing a mask?

Shadowbanning is real: Here’s how you end up muted by social media (Washington Post)

GOP Civil War Tensions Mount as Republican Senators Attack Mitch McConnell (Newsweek)

The Woman Who Plans to Make Elon Musk Pay for His Twitter Sins (Daily Beast)

Greg Abbott: Scrooge. (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continues pushing the Narrative.

Face of ‘Libs of TikTok,’ who remained anonymous due to Left’s ‘violent nature,’ finally revealed Cue proglodyte mob.

NPR: Apple Slammed for Working Conditions, Pandering to CCP

Chaya Raichik appears to have trespassed at the Capitol  Duhn dunh DUNHHHHH!

ADL Head Rips Whoopi Goldberg for Holocaust Remarks

Pompous NY Times Paints Opposition to Drag Queen Storytime As Dangerous Extremism

ABC, CBS Decry SCOTUS Keeping Title 42 in Place, ‘Dashing the Hopes of Thousands’

Aussie Cops Ask Neighbors To Rat Out ‘Anti-Government, Anti-Police, Or COVID-Vaccine Conspiracy Theorists’  Australia is unaccountably turning into a Woke little fascist wonderland.

Former Trump White House aide told Jan. 6 panel Mark Meadows burned documents a dozen times during the transition period (CNN) Which is exactly what you’re supposed to do with no-longer-needed classified documents.

Jan. 6 response would have been ‘vastly different’ if rioters were Black, House sergeant at arms told investigators (NBC) Yeah–not a single fucking one of them would be in jail now.

Jan. 6 transcript: Mnuchin briefly discussed 25th Amendment removal of Trump (The Hill)

Biden Signs Bill Removing Bust of Dred Scott Decision Author From Capitol

Art at Capitol honors 141 enslavers and 13 Confederates. Who are they? (Washington Post) All aboard for the witch-hunt!  (Not mentioned: Every damned one of them was a Democrat.)