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A growing number of men are undergoing a radical and expensive surgery to grow anywhere from three to six inches. The catch: It requires having both your femurs broken. GQ goes inside the booming world of leg lengthening.

On the other hand, you get titanium femurs, and how cool is that?

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Thank you, minimum wage laws.

Thank you, Union label.

Thank you, progressive activists everywhere.

While advising Trump on judges, Conway sold her business to a firm with ties to judicial activist Leonard Leo (Politico)  Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Legal Analyst Outlines Two Unanswered Questions About Cassidy Hutchinson (Newsweek)

Tapper says Hutchinson’s Jan. 6 testimony transcript ‘like a mob movie’ (CNN)

Jim Jordan ‘Quite Likely’ Under Investigation by DOJ: Former U.S. Attorney (Newsweek)

Awkward: McCarthy, Jordan Could End Up Under Investigation Even As They Take House Control (MSNBC)

Eric Bolling Rips ‘Putin’s Press Secretary’ Tucker Carlson for Innuendo About Lindsey Graham’s Personal Life (MEDIAite)

Flashback: Eight Christmas-Trashing Quotes from the Liberal Media

Far Right Turns on ‘Faker’ & ‘Liar’ Marjorie Taylor Greene (Daily Beast) Like being called ugly by a frog.

Twitter brings Elon Musk’s genius reputation crashing down to earth (Washington Post) Especially among the Wokerati, whose fair-haired boy he once was. But let’s give it a bit more time before declaring victory, shall we?

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moments of the Year 2022

The World Trade Organization’s gift to Joe Biden (The Hill)

Is Biden Killing the World Trade Organization? (Foreign Policy)

Harrowing photos show migrants risk kidnapping, freezing temps to get into US (N.Y. Post)

FBI Faces Calls to be Abolished Over Twitter Files Revelations (Newsweek)

Biden slammed for Christmas ‘unity’ speech after year of political attacks: ‘Spare us, you old grinch’ (Fox)

Taliban minister defends closing universities to women as global backlash grows (The Guardian)

Federal Officials Drop Hundreds of Migrants at Transit Centers Around San Diego

The pain isn’t goin’ away: Inflation cost households an extra $10K (N.Y. Post)

Arizona border officers find more than 700,000 fentanyl pills hidden in train arriving from Mexico

California Seized Enough Fentanyl to Potentially Kill the Entire Population of North America, Twice (Office of the Governor of California)

Military bases had $260M in damages from Afghan evacuation (Associated Press)

There’s nothing compassionate about the humanitarian crisis Democrats have created at the border (N.Y. Post)

How Trump paid $0 in income tax in 2020 (The Hill)

‘Easy to Imagine’ Mark Meadows Has Flipped on Trump: Former Special Counsel (Newsweek)

Poll: Trump’s Favorable Rating Eclipses McConnell’s

Are the Democrats Trying to Prop Up Trump’s Chances in 2024 GOP Primary?

Georgia special grand jury wraps up probe of Trump, allies (Associated Press) And, once again, no crime is found.

Black Women Murdered More Often in Minnesota, Whites at Fault,

MSNBC: Justice Jackson and Black Woman Harvard Prez Are Victims Of ‘Glass Cliff!’  They’re so oppressed.

Omicron subvariant XBB jumps to 18% of U.S. COVID cases, CDC says (Reuters)

The Checkup With Dr. Wen: We must prepare for the fallout from China’s covid U-turn (Washington Post)

COVID in California: Bay Area counties enter CDC’s ‘high’ community virus tier (S.F. Chronicle)

Florida Supreme Court rules Gov. Ron DeSantis can impanel grand jury to investigate COVID-19 vaccine makers (N.Y. Post)

Report: Nearly 37M Infected With COVID-19 in China in Single Day

How Many Republicans Died Because the GOP Turned Against Vaccines? (The Atlantic) None, because the GOP didn’t ‘turn against vaccines’, they turned against lockdowns, not the same thing. This sort of political gaslighting is all the rage on the Left.

Leaked Notes From Chinese Health Workers: 250M Covid-19 Infections in Past 20 Days

Another tech conference will be fleeing San Francisco in 2023 (S.F. Chronicle)

Mayor Adams’ whereabouts unknown as NYC experiences severe weather and flooding (Gothamist)

Democrats try to find cover on Title 42 (The Hill)

Bari Weiss happy to ‘debate’ FBI over accusation that ‘Twitter Files’ are ‘misinformation’

California gas prices are plummeting. What does it mean for Newsom’s penalty on Big Oil? (Sacramento Bee)

AOC Only Democrat to Vote ‘No’ on $1.7T Omnibus Bill  I’ll bet there’s a story behind that.

On PBS NewsHour, David Brooks Puts Biden Chief of Staff Ron Klain on Santa’s ‘Nice’ List

How the Worst Fears for Democracy Were Averted in 2022 (N.Y. Times) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

A Fight for a Manger: The Hunt for Nativity Scenes in Southern France

MSNBC Slobbers Over “Outstanding” Biden, “Great, Effective” Harris

340k people moved out of CA in 2022, most of any state

Liberal Media Can’t Report ‘Twitter Files’ on 2020 Collusion with FBI — Zip, Zero, Nada

Can capitalism and nature coexist? (Vox)

Analysis: U.N. nature deal can help wildlife as long as countries deliver (Reuters)

Why Chinese Aluminum Producers Emit So Much of Some of the World’s Most Damaging Greenhouse Gases (InsideClimate News)

Research suggests polar cold snaps are prodded by Arctic warming (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)

Is climate change triggering extreme cold? The debate is super hot. (Washington Post)

US military ‘downplayed’ the number of soldiers exposed to ‘forever chemicals’ (The Guardian)

If You’re Anxious About Climate Change, This Is What Experts Say You Can Do To Cope (BuzzFeed)

6 ways you’re recycling wrong, according to Bay Area trash experts (S.F. Chronicle)

Is ‘Chemical Recycling’ a Solution to the Global Scourge of Plastic Waste or an Environmentally Dirty Ruse to Keep Production High? (Inside Climate News)

The Great Carbon Con Is Coming to an End (Wired)

Climate change will become a CEO dealbreaker (Reuters)

The world is using more coal than ever (Quartz)

Exxon’s bad reputation got in the way of its industry-wide carbon capture proposal (Ars Technica)

Target date for cleaning up waterways in England is moved back by 36 years (The Guardian)

Canada’s Hudson Bay polar bear population plummets as climate change warms Arctic (Reuters)

Ocean geoengineering scheme aces its first field test

Global Energy Crisis Forces Japan To U-Turn On Its Nuclear Policy

WEF: Playing Fortnite While Streaming Climate Messages Boosts Interest

This Christmas, It’s ‘Firmageddon’ as Climate Change Hits Oregon

The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter  They suck.

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

Of course, you have to be rich or have a job that doesn’t tie you down to one place. How many 28-year-olds can say that?

(Key point: “… it’s cheaper than living onshore in Southern California …”)

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It needs reliable cheap electricity.

IN JUNE, A vast new vertical farm opened on the outskirts of the English town Bedford. At a swanky opening event, members of the UK Parliament heard that the gleaming facility would one day produce 20 million plants annually. It was the latest opening for Infarm, a European vertical farming company that had raised over $600 million in venture capital funding, promising a future where vegetables are grown in high-tech warehouses stacked with LED lights rather than in open fields or greenhouses.

But now the future of the Bedford farm looks less than gleaming. On November 29, Infarm’s founders emailed its workforce to announce they were laying off “around 500 employees”—more than half of the workforce. The email detailed the firm’s plans to downsize its operations in the UK, France, and the Netherlands, and concentrate on countries where it had stronger links to retailers and a higher chance of eventually turning a profit. In September, Infarm had already laid off 50 employees, citing a need to reduce operating costs and focus on profitability.

CDC issues warning about rise of invasive strep A infections in children (The Hill) One more thing to cause PANIC!

Nobel-nominated vaccine expert warns of Covid complacency: ‘We’re still losing too many lives’ (The Guardian) Hey, when your ‘vaccine’ doesn’t work, what do you expect?

FDA approves new monoclonal antibody for hospitalized COVID-19 patients (The Hill)

Canadian Government Tells Kids They’ll Be On Santa’s ‘Naughty List’ Without COVID Vaccine, Masks

Study: Merck’s COVID Pill Does Not Cut Hospitalization, Death Rates in Many Vaccinated Adults

The Bittersweet Defeat of Monkeypox  Apparently the stupid homosexuals have been weeded out by AIDS and COVID.

Swedish Report Highlights Immigrant Racism “In a recent study called “Afro-phobic hate crimes,” the Swedish National Crime Prevention Council reports that 44% of the perpetrators of this type of crime have a non-white ethnicity.”

NBC Interviews Biden EPA Chief Claiming Racism in Environmental Laws

Kamala Harris, a Very Turbulent Year in America, and the Challenge of Being First (Vanity Fair) The sort of tongue-bath you would expect from Vanity Fair.

McKinsey on the Unbearable Whiteness of Running

Harvard’s new president is the next chapter of its racial spoils system

Blacks Migrating to Suburbs Creates Election Battleground

Pro-oil petition drive in California under question (Associated Press)

Biodiversity group says omnibus puts right whale ‘on an irreversible extinction trajectory’ (The Hill)

In a Famed Game Park Near the Foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, the Animals Are Giving Up (Inside Climate News)

Your eco-friendly choices may feel good, but they also play a role in political polarization (The Hill)

The $52 billion plan to save New York’s low-lying areas from sea level rise and storm surges (CNBC)

Climate Crisis Is Destroying Oregon’s Conifer Forests (Mother Jones)

A record high number of dead trees are found as Oregon copes with an extreme drought (NPR)

65% of Antarctica’s plants and animals could disappear, scientists say. Its iconic penguins are most at risk (CNN)

Emperor penguin at risk of extinction, along with two-thirds of native Antarctic species, research shows (The Guardian)

The tricky business of putting a dollar value on a human life (Vox)

Seven reasons to be cheerful about the Amazon in 2023 – and three to be terrified (The Guardian)

7-foot tides expected to bring flooding to San Francisco Bay Area (S.F. Gate)

Guardian: Climate Change Is What Led to the Murder Surge During the Black Lives Matter Era

Understanding ESG Objectives And Goals In The Era Of Greenwashing

The EU Plans To Impose Direct Carbon Taxes On Individuals

Why electric vehicles need EV-specific tires

Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift

US fails to give money promised for developing countries to ease climate impacts (The Guardian)

West Point will remove Confederate symbols from its campus (NPR)

Repairing Your Car in Your Own Garage Is Considered Illegal in Sacramento, California

MSNBC’s Dowd: When GOP Says ‘America First’, They Mean Democracy Last  In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Omnibus Bill Has Extra Funds For DOJ To Pursue More Jan. 6 Lawsuits

Mother Finds Herself Under Military Scrutiny For Objecting To Sexuality Poster At School

Do Not Cross Ron DeSantis (N.Y. Times) “I’m guessing he’s the seething protagonist of a revenge thriller.” Apparently Frank Bruni has the hate-DeSantis chair at the Times, as Jennifer Rubin has the hate-Trump chair at the Post.

Top 6 Worst CensorTrack Cases of 2022: Big Tech Censored God, Veterans and So Much More

Extremists at the vanguard of a siege: The Jan. 6 panel’s last word (Politico)

Inside the Jan. 6 Committee (N.Y. Times)

The Devastating New History of the January 6th Insurrection (New Yorker) The New Yorker lines up to push the Narrative.

The Shame of Adam Kinzinger (The Other McCain) “Why do Republicans like Kinzinger hate their own constituents?”

Texas Businessman Testifies That Bank Tried to Use His Loan Application to Coerce Him to Publicly Promote ESG Ideology

Netherlands Forced to General Repentance Over Colonisation

Apple bows to authoritarian regimes, claims activist group  I’m going to found a Passivist group and see what sort of headlines I can generate.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been vacationing in Costa Rica during one of the most consequential legislative weeks of the year (Business Insider) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH!

El Paso’s Dem mayor teams up with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to send more migrants to NYC (N.Y. Post)

Major US financial firm gives blacklisted Chinese companies higher ESG ratings than Amazon, Meta

Marines told to stop using ‘sir,’ ‘ma’am’ to avoid ‘misgendering’ superiors (N.Y. Post) Needless to say, this will never happen.

After 1 mother complains, Kansas City area school board removes social justice lessons (Kansas City Star)

CALEXIT: What pushed one of California’s biggest counties to consider leaving the state

Republicans Trick People Into Reading Spending Bill By Naming It ‘Harry Potter And The $1.7 Trillion Omnibus Spending Bill’ (Babylon Bee)

“Baltimore City Becomes Graveyard” Amid Dangerous Murder Wave

Bloomberg Looking to Buy Dow Jones or Washington Post  Everybody else has a newspaper, why not me?

Democrats and Republicans agree… on wasting taxpayer dollars

The FBI Says: Pound Sand

Academics Pursue Project to ‘Decolonize Physics’

Is ChatGPT moving toward the median voter?

California’s population shrinks for third straight year as high costs stress households (Sacramento Bee)

US Court Orders Marines to Allow Sikhs With Beards and Turbans

FBI blasted for dismissing Twitter Files as misinformation: ‘Chilling’ (Fox)

FBI slams ‘conspiracy theorists’ in scathing response to ‘Twitter Files’ (Fox) It’s not a theory when you catch them doing it.

Biden administration overstated Q2 job growth by 1 million: Philadelphia Fed (N.Y. Post) In other words. THEY LIED.

Eric Adams doubles down on ask for half NYC Council’s ‘pork’ funding for $1 billion migrant cost (N.Y. Post)

‘We’re waiting’: Migrants throng U.S.-Mexico border in asylum limbo (Reuters)

Migrants fill El Paso shelters as more wait to cross U.S.-Mexico border (CBS)

International Migration Drove US Population Growth in 2022

Coddling Kamala Harris at Christmas

The shocking Hunter Biden twists in the Twitter Files

Illegal Aliens Are the Protagonists of CNN’s Border Coverage

Jan. 6 House committee releases final report on Trump Capitol riot investigation (CNBC)

Jan. 6 committee releases final report, says Trump should be barred from office (CNN)

Jan. 6 committee report is clear: Trump must be held accountable (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Trump Rips Jan. 6 Final Report, Blames Pelosi, Says He Called for Peace (Newsweek)

Alan Dershowitz: Jan. 6 Panel’s Criminal Referral Of Trump ‘Clearly Unconstitutional’

The Final Campaign Inside Donald Trump’s sad, lonely, thirsty, broken, basically pretend run for reelection. (Which isn’t to say he can’t win.) (New York Magazine) The campaign is heating up, and Olivia Nuzzi has been chosen as NYMag’s hate-Trump person.

McConnell calls out ‘diminished’ Trump, vows not to bow to his candidates in 2024 (NBC)

Jan. 6 Panel Issues Final Report, Placing Blame for Capitol Riot on ‘One Man’ (N.Y. Times)

Jan 6 Committee Unveils 845-Page Report Damning Trump & His Supporters One Last Time

The Biggest Takeaway from the January 6 Report (The Atlantic) The biggest ‘takeaway’ appears to be that Trump sucks and needs to go to jail. What a surprise.

Special counsel Durham has spent more than $6.5 million on inquiry into Trump-Russia probe (CNN) And has found precisely … nothing. (Except some people lying about it.)

The Jan. 6 report’s most important finding: Trump enabled extremist groups (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit. (Last I looked, that wasn’t illegal.)

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Twitter was staffed by craven functionaries eager to please contacts and former colleagues in the national security state…

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

ZMan looks behind the curtain. (He has a stronger stomach than I do.)

Regimeology is not just the art of interpreting the official pronouncements from the managerial elite, but it is also for interpreting their actions. Nothing they say can ever be accepted at face value, so nothing they do is on the level either. It is all signaling back and forth to communicate between nodes of the collective. If the regime happens to do something useful for the people, it is a happy accident. Most of what they do is about the internal dynamics of the regime.

The Sam Bankman-Fried story is a good example. At this point everyone understands that this is not a corporate financial scandal. There is little chance that the sophisticated people involved with this guy and his partners were unaware of the nature of his business. The entertainment people hired to shill for the company had no idea, as hey are stupid people, but the sharps putting important people in touch with this weird looking goblin of a man were not fooled.

The one thing we know is it was a money laundering operation to move cash into the pockets of politicians and connected people in the regime. To no one’s surprise, there is a Ukraine angle here. Apparently, Ukraine was taking money handed over by Washington and putting some of it into crypto accounts on the FTX exchange, allegedly to pay their own people. The absurdity of that claim is obvious. Most likely it was quietly shifted to other accounts and ended up in other pockets.

They say you cannot teach an old dog new tricks, but there is nothing that says you cannot teach a new dog old tricks. The heart of the issue is one of the oldest tricks in democratic politics. The politician makes a deal with a favored vendor, who then hires friends and relatives of the politician. Some portion of their salary ends up as expensive gifts to the politician. Alternatively, the vendor rewards the politicians with gobs of campaign cash.

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I haven’t paid much attention to the January 6, 2021, demonstration in Washington because it was not one of the 50 worst U.S. riots in the 12 months that bracketed it. It wasn’t even the most destructive riot, or the second most destructive, in Washington during that time.

If you want to see a destructive riot, come to Minneapolis. But none of the Minneapolis rioters were arrested, held in solitary confinement for a year or more, and ultimately tried and sentenced for…not actually being violent. Because their riot was approved by the Democratic Party.

What was really notable about the January 6 event was not that a few hundred partisans (plus an unknown number of FBI agents) were sufficiently exercised about the election to besiege the Capitol. What was notable was the astonishing failure of security that let them in. At one entrance, Capitol guards opened the doors and apparently welcomed a large number of protesters, who entered the building, staying between the velvet rope lines, taking selfies. I think that is how most of the protesters who entered the Capitol got there. At least one criminal defendant has been acquitted on the ground that he had every reason to believe he was being invited into the building as a tourist.

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In 2015, Ruwa Romman was enabling Oglethorpe University’s Students for Justice in Palestine to pass the first BDS resolution in the region. Around the same time the Jordanian immigrant began working with the Georgia Muslim Voter Project and became the communications director for the Georgia operation of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the funding of Hamas. A year earlier an individual in Atlanta by the same name urged readers to “join the BDS movement” during the Hamas campaign against Israel caused by the Muslim Brotherhood terror group’s kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers, including Naftali Fraenkel, an American citizen.

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Now, Ruwa Romman is an incoming member of the Georgia House of Representatives.

On the other hand, the image of Stacy Abrams wearing a hijab does have a certain charm.

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On December 13, the school board of Chesapeake, Virginia postponed voting on whether to authorize the establishment of an “After School Satan Club” at a local elementary school. Parents describing themselves “at their wits’ end” over the idea protested the proposed vote. The proposal emanated from the Satanic Temple, a group of political activists who identify themselves as a religious sect and portray After School Satan Clubs as a counterpart to fundamentalist Christian Good News Clubs, which they maintain constitute an unconstitutional effort by the “Religious Right” to infiltrate public education and erode the separation of church and state. Lawyers representing the Satan Club said the school must provide space for the club because of its affiliation with religion, protected by the First Amendment.

According to June Everett, “campaign director” for the proposed club and an “ordained minister” in the Temple, the club, far from worshiping the devil and espousing evil, “is intended to foster creativity and promote empathy,” and attempts to establish a “constructive and positive alternative” to other religious after-school clubs. She reports having first been drawn to the Temple five years ago after her first-grade son was “traumatized” on the playground by classmates who taunted him for not attending the Good News Club, and warned that he would burn in hell if he didn’t accept Christ as his savior.

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The media no longer pretends to be impartial. Neither does the FBI. Neither does the tech oligarchy. Neither does the educational establishment. Neither does the unelected bureaucracy. And yet, we’re still expected to pretend to believe all this stuff. Despite evidence like that listed in Alex’s Tweet, we’re still expected to believe that Republicans are greedy and selfish, while Democrats are nice. You believe that, right?

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Can the European Union afford to snub Qatar? The corruption scandal engulfing the European Parliament centers around allegations that the Gulf state gave bribes in exchange for influence and favor. But if the EU cleans up this problem by distancing itself from Qatar, it might have a serious, potentially even larger, dilemma on its hands.

The war in Ukraine, sky-high inflation, the energy crisis and internal divisions have already shaken the very foundations of the EU. With four suspects, including Eva Kaili, a vice president of the European Parliament, now being held on charges of corruption and money laundering, what has been dubbed “Qatargate” may push the EU over the brink. Even if it wanted to, can it clean up its own act?

Before the war in Ukraine, the EU imported 40 percent of its gas and 27 percent of its oil from Russia. These gas imports have now fallen to under 10 percent with oil imports to follow by the end of the year. The resulting rise in energy prices has been a key driver of inflation, as well as making bills unaffordable for many businesses and private households. To fill the hole left by Russian gas, Europe will need to source an estimated 200 million tons of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, alone over the next few years.

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After posting a record-breaking $250 million bond, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is under house arrest at his mom and dad’s $4 million Palo Alto, Calif., home.

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At the end of November, the BBC, our nation’s very own 5th column and bastion of national self-hatred, announced with glee that “Jamaica is considering whether to seek compensation from a wealthy Conservative MP for his family’s historical role in slavery” – a role from 400 years ago.

For those who have been hiding incommunicado in a covid bunker for some time and thus unaware, the treasure hunt called “Black Lives Matter” has given birth to a new form of the game called “reparations lotto” in which greedy, black people who have never been slaves try to sue rich white people who have never owned any.

U.S. Capitol riot committee delays releasing final report on assault by Trump backers (Reuters)

Flustered Elon Musk Flips Out on ‘Jackass’ for Questioning Him (Daily Beast)

Elon Musk has absolutely no idea what he’s doing (Boing Boing) And of course some random presstitute knows more about it than a billionaire who has started multiple successful businesses.

Meghan McCain Reacts to Being Called ‘Deranged’ Over ‘NYT’ Swastika Debate (Newsweek)

Board Finds Loophole for South Dakota Guv in ‘No Exceptions’ Law (Daily Beast)

Media Downplays Gun-Carrying “Good Samaritan” Who Stopped Mass Shooting At Amazon Facility

“I Was Shocked”: Reno Mayor Sues Private Investigator After Discovering Tracking Device Installed On Vehicle

House GOP locates emails, texts showing Pelosi office directly involved in failed Jan. 6 security

Detroit School Board Removes Ben Carson’s Name from School for His ‘Crime’ of Serving Under Trump

MSNBC’s Sanders Asks Jan 6 Committee to Expel GOP Senators Like Confederates  Except that Confederates were all Democrats.

Putin’s Useful Idiots: Right Wingers Lose It Over Zelensky Visit (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew make a successful transition to the neo-con version of the Huffington Post.

Publix heiress was willing to spend $3 million on Jan. 6 rally, documents show (Washington Post) Which isn’t a patch on what House Democrats were willing to spend on the Stalinist Jan. 6 show-trial.

NY Times Expands Wail Against ‘Imperial’ Conservative SCOTUS: It’s Power-Hungry Too!

‘Are You Praying?’ Authorities Arrest Woman for Silently Praying Outside an Abortion Clinic

Hate Leader Nick Fuentes Is Recruiting Incels (Mother Jones) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH!

PBS: ‘Far Right’ GOPers Are Anti-Drag Because ‘Brainwashed’  And far-left Dems are pro-drag because brain-rotted.

Mother in Miami airport hurls computer at American Airlines worker after losing kids: ‘Went into a panic mode’ (Fox)

‘She went into panic mode’: Mother in Miami Airport throws computer and threatens airline staff after losing her children before she was due to check in (Daily Mail)

‘Batsh—t Crazy’: Washington State Supreme Court Says Any Accusation of Racial Bias Should Lead to a Retrial

Reparations and ‘The Woman King’: Blackwashing Slavery

NYT: Black Youths Shot Each Other Like Crazy During the “Racial Reckoning,” So We’ll Keep Blaming It on the Pandemic

Big welfare handouts mean folks who stay home are living high on the hog off your tax dollars (Fox)

Think America is a ‘Christian nation’? George Washington didn’t. (Washington Post) As if Jennifer Rubin knew her butt from a hole in the ground about George Washington.

The Anti-Abortion Myth Haunting the Pro-Choice Movement (The Nation) Gaslighting for the Narrative.

Protect the Abortion Rights of People in Prison Too (MS Magazine)

California county first in US to pass law banning criminal background checks for housing (The Guardian) Time to leave.

This Bay Area county just became the nation’s first to prohibit criminal background checks on tenants (S.F. Chronicle)

We can’t afford to carry on without a national public health system (Seattle Times) We have a national public health system. It’s just not run by and paid for by the government. For that, you have to go to the train-wrecks like the V.A. system in the U.S. or the NHS in Britain. There’s a reason Canadians come to the U.S. for critical health care.

San Francisco businesses demand full tax refund from city for coping with area ‘controlled by drug dealers’

Burglar Who Broke Into Robert De Niro’s NYC Home Had Rap Sheet With Two Dozen Arrests This Year Alone  When progressive prosecutors practice ‘catch & release’, this is what you get.

Federal Government Leaves Border Hospital With $20 Million Bill for ‘Free’ Health Care to Illegal Aliens

3 Princeton DEI staff members resign, alleging lack of support (The Princetonian)

NPR, New York Times Explore ‘Beautiful Issues’ of Teenage Gender Confusion

Bill would give New York the nation’s best-paid legislature (Associated Press) After all, they’re doing such a tremendous job.

REPORT: George Soros Dumped $35 Million into Anti-Police Groups and Causes in 2021

BOLD-FACED LIE: Gun Control Groups Twist Heritage Foundation Data Out of Recognition in Court Documents

Electoral Count Act, Re-Written by Democrat Campaign Lawyer Marc Elias, Imposes Judicial Supremacy to Override States

Huh? AOC Claims Abortion Is A Jewish Sacrament

The Left’s Big Pitch: Embrace a Worse Life in the Name of Equality

Philadelphia Hits 500 Homicides For Second Year In A Row

New Research Reveals What Happens to Immune Cells After Vaccination (SciTechDaily)

Pandemic Grifters Are Here to Stay (Daily Beast) Although not in the sense meant by the science-deniers at the Daily Beast.

Facing Demographic Doom, China’s Army Of Retirees Returns To Work In Post “Zero-Covid” Economic Wasteland

Childhood immunizations drop in Florida, where public health is mocked (Orlando Sentinel) Say rather that the lies spread by public health authorities are mocked.

CDC Funding Decisions Based Largely On Politics, Not Science

It Was Always About Control

US Releases Medicine From National Stockpile as Flu Continues to Surge  I’ll bet you didn’t know we even had a ‘national stockpile’.

Florida High Court OKs Grand Jury Probe of COVID-19 Vaccines

The Most Damning Things Jan. 6 Witnesses Have Said About Trump (Rolling Stone)

We Haven’t Seen Trump’s Taxes Yet, but It’s Clear the IRS Failed America (Daily Beast)

‘No money, nowhere to stay’: asylum seekers wait as Trump’s border restrictions drag on (The Guardian) They chose to come to the border.

Trump’s Taxes: Red Flags, Big Losses and a Windfall From His Father (N.Y. Times) None of which is any business of the New York Times,  OR OF ITS READERS.

Trump-era pardon recipients are increasingly back in legal jeopardy (ABC) Scraaaaaaape that barrel….

Journey’s Neal Schon Files Cease-and-Desist Against Bandmate Jonathan Cain for Playing Group’s Music at Trump Rallies (Variety) TRUMP COOTIES! They’re everywhere! They’re everywhere!

In rural Georgia, an unlikely rebel against Trumpism (Washington Post) All Trump! All the time!

Arizona-Mexico border: Container wall to be dismantled (BBC)

Iranian Protester Executions Spark More US Treasury Sanctions  Ooooo, I’ll bet they’re scared.

Nets Ignore FBI’s Defiant Statement Calling Conservatives Conspiracy Theorists

Latin American Media: Migrants Marching North for Title 42’s Funeral

Ex-Google boss helps fund dozens of jobs in Biden’s administration (Politico)

Hunter Biden Hires Ex-Clinton Lawyer Ahead of GOP Probes

House GOP to Investigate Biden’s Secretive Order on Voting

Biodiversity treaty: UN deal fails to address the root causes of nature’s destruction (The Conversation)

Analysis-U.N. Nature Deal Can Help Wildlife as Long as Countries Deliver (U.S. News & World Report)

Researchers ‘shocked’ by college biology textbooks’ handling of climate change (The Hill)

US college biology textbooks failing to address climate crisis, study says (The Guardian) Failing to parrot the Narrative, they mean.

Five ways you can help stop biodiversity loss in your area – and around the world (The Conversation)

To attain global climate and biodiversity goals, we must reclaim nature in our cities (The Conversation)

Pace of new climate, sustainable business rules will not let up (Reuters)

Biden admin is funding foreign reporters to write climate stories, emails show (Fox)

Climate activists decapitate prominent Berlin Christmas tree (Associated Press)

The Global Economy Is Finally Realizing That Fossil Fuels Are Finite

Puerto Rico Greens Launch a RICO Lawsuit Against Big Oil

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For more than thirty years, Scott Adams has captured the absurdity and humor of office life in his popular syndicated newspaper cartoon strip “Dilbert.” The title character, an oblong-headed, cubicle-dwelling everyman, is one of the most familiar cartoon characters in America, but last September he vanished from more than seventy newspapers.

Shortly before Dilbert’s partial disappearance, his opinionated creator had set his sights on ESG. Adams’s views on the vogue for “Ethical, Social and Corporate Governance” investment strategies weren’t exactly difficult to discern. In one strip, for example, Dilbert asks, “What is this ‘ESG’ thing I keep hearing about?” His sidekick Dogbert offers a definition: “Imagine if a crooked politician and a crooked financial advisor got married and had a baby.” “So… ESG would be that baby?” “Only if it is colicky and has firehose diarrhea.”

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The political meaning of Red was once loud and clear. No more—at least in the United States. A unilateral decision was made by the national television networks in the contentious presidential year of 2000 to have Red represent the Republican Party and Blue the Democratic one. One prominent network television executive justified this arbitrary and counter-intuitive decision by pointing out that the Republican Party begins with the letter r, hardly a compelling reason for reversing political symbolism deeply rooted in the political experience of modern man since the late eighteenth century. As a result, American conservatives are now the new “Reds,” a change of language and symbolism that is truly startling if anyone took the time to think about it.

This is not, strictly speaking, true. Back in the 1970s I purchased a board game that was based on American Presidential politics, and it had Republicans as red and Democrats as blue. So I suspect that it’s older than the 2000 election. Nevertheless, it is unfortunate.

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Recall that, under former Director James Comey’s band of dirty cops, the agency had done something similar in 2016: It spied on the Trump campaign and many top FBI leaders actively worked to flip the election to Hillary Clinton.

So, unlike Nixon during Watergate, Trump not only didn’t know about the “dirty tricks,” he was the victim of them. Numerous reports show that enough Biden voters said they would have voted for Trump to change the outcome had they known Biden was “the big guy” slated to get a secret 10% cut of his son’s China payoff.

Victor Davis Hanson.

Hint: Yes.

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Former FBI, CIA, NSC, and State Department officials are working in senior-level positions at Meta, Google and Twitter, including several CIA agents at the top ranks in almost every politically sensitive department at Meta, according to a report by Mint Press.

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Well, actually, they could–never underestimate the incompetence of government employees–but it certainly looks suspicious.

Lake’s lawyers attempted to make that case with their bombshell revelation that a review of random ballots found that 48 out of 113 (42.5 percent) were “19-inch ballots produced on 20-inch paper,” causing them to be rejected.

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“The machines should have been programmed for 19.” By Maricopa County’s own testimony, there is no such thing as an 20? ballot,” Lake’s campaign team wrote. “Yet somehow machines in 61% of their polling centers still printed a 19? inch ballot on a 20? paper. Deliberate sabotage targeted at Republican turnout.”

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Cue enviro-Nazis losing their shit.

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The tedious proglodyte trope “FOLLOW THE SCIENCE!” gets threadbare pretty quickly when you realize that THE SCIENCE changes from year to year, sometimes even from month to month. Remember when red meat was bad for you? Remember when butter was bad for you? Remember when eggs were bad for you? Remember when fat was bad for you? Well, it turns out that THE SCIENCE was actually wrong.

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The key distinction here is between income and wealth. Really Wealthy People have income, of course, but they don’t need it; if you have a million dollars, you can spend $50,00 a year (and I could live quite comfortably on $50,000 a year) for twenty years with no income at all.

The fly in the ointment is that everyone, no matter what his or her income, can always think about somebody who is far richer, and naturally thinks, by comparison with that person I am middle class.  That’s why the vast majority of people in the U.S. think they are ‘middle class’, even if they are demonstrably not.

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The networks are urging everyone on board with the latest $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill, and no one needs to read its 4,155 pages. Just vote yes. For any Republicans to argue against this newest deluge of many billions is apparently horrendous. What we’re going to get is more opportunities for a Speaker Pelosi Federal Building in San Francisco and a Michelle Obama Trail in Georgia.