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In a reflection of a changed political landscape, a new report by the advocacy group Giffords finds that 525 significant gun laws have passed at the state level since the 2012 massacre.

Laws passed: Many.

Lives saved: [chirp] … [chirp] … [chirp]….

The only photograph of Maxine Waters smiling.

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Thank you, minimum wage law.

Thank you, Union label.

Too bad for you, low-skilled laborers.

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A district court in Vienna has convicted three adult males from Afghanistan of having raped and murdered a 13-year-old girl from Bavaria named Leonie, bringing an end to a case that brought immense grief and rage to the hearts of many far beyond Austria.

While the primary defendant, 24-year-old Zubaidullah R., was found guilty of rape and murder and sentenced to life in prison, the two co-defendants, 20-year-old Ali H. and 19-year-old Ibraulhaq A., were found guilty of murder by omission for failing to call emergency services after Leonie overdosed on the drugs that had been administered to her. The two were sentenced to 19 and 20 years, respectively, the Vienna-based newspaper Der Standard reports.

According to the indictment, the young girl, who was at the house of one of the suspects one night in June 2021, was given a drink with at least six ecstasy pills, causing her to overdose. While Leonie was incapacitated—and dying from an overdose—the three men raped her and filmed her agony. When it was clear that she had passed away, the perpetrators dumped her body on a grass verge on the side of a road in a residential area of Vienna. She was found with bruises around her neck, wearing only her underwear, and leaning against a tree.

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

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Two top officials of a Northern Virginia public school district were indicted Monday for their roles in the handling of a bathroom rape by a skirt-wearing boy after The Daily Wire revealed the apparent coverup last year, court documents unsealed Monday showed.

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Anarchy gets a bad rap, mainly because the word sounds cool and gets used as a synonym for chaos, disorder and violence. A lot of people will laugh when you bring up the idea of anarchist leadership, or anarchist organizations. When you introduce yourself as an anarchist you often wind up needing to cover a fair amount of rhetorical ground just to convince people you’re not a violent maniac or an adult with the brain of a teenage skateboard punk from a Disney Channel Original movie.

There are a lot of different ways to ‘do’ anarchy, but the general goal is always the same: the dismantling of unjust hierarchies. Murray Bookchin was an American. The ideas that wound up shaping the system in Rojava were originally conceived because they were the system he thought could best take hold in the United States. Bookchin saw massive, dense urban areas making laws for rural mountain-dwellers hundreds of miles away. He saw small-town voters forcing their beliefs on cosmopolitan city-dwellers via legislation. The goal of Libertarian Municipalism was to break down these unfair hierarchies.

Is there such a thing? Read and find out.

Razib Khan has probably forgotten more about genomics that you (or I) will ever know.

We have the technology.

Higher education’s sea change (Axios)

Concern as US media hit with wave of layoffs amid rise of disinformation (The Guardian)

The big-deal bills Congress needs to pass before the end of the year (Vox)

A plea to conservative Christians on gay marriage (Washington Post) E.J. Dionne rises from the dead.

Election Group That Gave ‘Zuckerbucks’ in 2020 Renews Grants

German Chancellor Mulls Quitting Twitter Over Musk

Cause of death: Washington faltered as fentanyl gripped America (Washington Post)

New York Times ‘Best Of 2022’ TV & Movie Lists Reveal the Ideological Splits on Rioting

The media’s silence on the ‘Twitter Files’ is shameful (N.Y. Post) What else can they do? (Silence of the shams)

Who wants to be a Minneapolis cop?  Nobody, it would appear.

The ‘Twitter Files’ are the final nail in the media’s credibility (Washington Examiner)

Inside the secret $32M effort to stop ‘Stop the Steal’ (Politico) Add a deep wallet to a guilty conscience and what do you get?

‘Google at It Again,’ Search Giant Favored Warnock in Search Results in Neutral GA Precinct

Rand Paul: “Republicans Are Not Perfect. But Are Not Pushing Your Child To Have Surgery To Remove Their Genitalia”  He’s got a point.

Washington State to Give Health Insurance to Migrants  Your tax dollars at work.

Nervous Morning Joe Tries to Laugh Off Hunter Biden Laptop Investigation

Nets Bury Heads in the Stand, Shut Out Mention of Fourth Twitter Files Batch

Seattle Is Finally, Irretrievably, Lost

NBC News Reports on Liberal Angst Due to Unwillingness to Leave Twitter  They can’t stand not being a part of the mob.

Canadian Healthcare System Introduces Punch Card Where On Your 10th Visit You Get Free Suicide (Babylon Bee)

White voters helped propel Lori Lightfoot to the mayor’s office in 2019. Will they stick with her in February? (Chicago Tribune) BRAAAAAAAINS!

Harris swears in Bass as first Black female mayor of Los Angeles (The Hill)

Liberal Mindy Kaling ‘Comedy’ on HBO Max Makes White People the Butt of the Joke

Cop-Shooting Criminal Released From Jail, Thanks To Ex-Packer

What the New Trump Contempt Motion Tells Us About the Mar-a-Lago Documents Prosecution (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew is all in on the witch-hunt.

Mary Trump: GOP isn’t denouncing Trump because ‘they created this monster’ (MSNBC)

Former US Attorney: DOJ ‘On a Path’ to Charge Trump

Files Reveal Illegal Political Bias Behind Twitter’s Ban of Trump

THE TWITTER FILES: The Removal Of Donald Trump, Part 3

Special counsel sends Trump subpoena to Ga. secretary of state Raffensperger

Lawmakers react to Musk’s call to prosecute Fauci (Axios)

Elon Musk tweets that his pronouns are ‘Prosecute/Fauci’

WA public health leaders again urge masking indoors amid ‘tripledemic’ (Seattle Times)

Authorities are urging indoor masking in major cities as the ‘tripledemic’ rages (NPR)

Ancient Pathogen Is ‘Imminent Threat’ in Every Part of The World, WHO Warns (ScienceAlert)

Measles: Why the World Health Organization has declared it an ‘imminent global threat’ (Indian Express)

Paxlovid Has Been Free So Far. Next Year, Sticker Shock Awaits. (Kaiser Health News)

Elon Musk invites blacklisted Stanford professor to Twitter headquarters

Is my RAT actually working? How to tell if your Covid test can detect Omicron (The Guardian)

China’s Top Medical Advisor Says Omicron No More Dangerous Than The Flu

CDC Urging Return to Masks Amid ‘Tripledemic’  Time again to PANIC!

Europe is simply switching gas dependency from Russia to U.S.-RIA cites Kremlin (Reuters)

Analysis Shows More Iranian-Made Drones in Strikes on Ukraine Infrastructure

Nato Chief Fears Ukraine Will Precipitate “Major War” Between West and Russia

Which Countries Believe WWIII Is Coming?

WINNING: Big Brother And The Invisibility Cloak

INFORMATION WARFARE: Russian Cyber War Fails In Ukraine

Fighting Rages in East Ukraine, West Eyes More Sanctions on Russia

Pentagon Gives Tacit Support For Ukrainian Drone Attacks Deep Inside Russia

Report: Russia Using Ukrainian-Made Missiles Against Ukraine

Zelensky Seen Sitting On Mall Santa’s Lap Asking For Another $50 Billion (Babylon Bee)

Israel Threatens to Bomb Beirut Airport if Iran Smuggles Weapons: Report  Unlike Democrats, the Israelis are not to be fucked with.

Ukraine Intelligence: Russian Military Loses 24 Tanks in a Single Day  Well, were did you see them last?

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In 12 short years, the U.S. will hit the Biden Administration’s deadline for a fossil fuel-free power grid. In a previous article, I discussed the lack of resources to meet the frankly ludicrous plan to quadruple our renewable power generation and meet the arbitrary deadline of “no more fossil fuel” for a green grid. But what about coal?

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he machines are coming for your crops—at least in a few fields in America. This autumn John Deere, a tractor-maker, shipped its first fleet of fully self-driving machines to farmers. The tilling tractors are equipped with six cameras which use artificial intelligence (ai) to recognise obstacles and manoeuvre out of the way. Julian Sanchez, who runs the firm’s emerging-technology unit, estimates that about half the vehicles John Deere sells have some ai capabilities. That includes systems which use onboard cameras to detect weeds among the crops and then spray pesticides, and combine harvesters which automatically alter their own setting to waste as little grain as possible. Mr Sanchez says that for a medium-sized farm, the additional cost of buying an ai-enhanced tractor is recouped in two to three years.

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In a snub to Israel, Democratic senator Chris Murphy (Conn.) described Qatar—the small oil-rich country allied with Iran—as the United States’ “best partner in the region.”

Qatar, Murphy said in a recent interview, is “an imperfect partner. There’s a lot not to like about Qatari policy. But in many ways, they are our best partner in the region.”

Murphy’s remarks came after he traveled to Doha to attend the 2022 World Cup, which was hosted by Qatar after it bribed the FIFA soccer association and built its sports infrastructure using slave labor. Qatar is a well-documented human rights abuser and enjoys close relations with Iran, the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism. Qatar itself is also a major hub for terrorism financing, money that empowers regional militant groups that target U.S. assets and allies in the region.

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One Negro: Check.

One woman: Check.

I guess they couldn’t find a Nonbinary Person of Color for their largesse. Pity.

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UPDATE: Iran execution: Man publicly hanged from crane amid protests (Associated Press)

ZMan pulls back the curtain.

A feature of professional Christianity is to not only abandon a fellow Christian attacked by the enemies of the faith, but to also rush to the front of the line of bigots taking turns kicking the accused. Here is the execrable Rod Dreher taking some self-righteous shots at Thomas Achord. Like David French, Rod Dreher never misses an opportunity to promote his own virtue. He is who Emerson had in mind when he said, “The more he spoke of his virtue, the faster we counted the spoons.”

Note that Christian mercy never comes up when the Left starts howling for the blood of a Christian accused of violating the progressive faith. Professional Christians are like a pack of wild dogs. As soon as they sense a member of the pack is weak, they pounce on the poor fellow, tearing him to pieces. One cannot help but wonder if this behavior is solely to please the Left. Many of them, like Dreher and French, seem to take pleasure in these sadistic rituals.

Of course, the reason that professional Christians rush out these condemnations whenever one of their own has violated progressive dogma is to let the people holding the other end of the leash know they are a good boy. For professional Christians, what matters is remaining in good standing with the Left. These ritualized condemnations are a public act of piety – progressive piety. It is an affirmation that Christian piety must always rest on the moral foundations of the Left.

A prison inmate … votes Republican? votes Democrat?

A convicted felon … votes Republican? votes Democrat?

A drug cartel minion … votes Republican? votes Democrat?

A drug dealer … votes Republican? votes Democrat?

A drug addict … votes Republican? votes Democrat?

A homeless ‘street person’ … votes Republican? votes Democrat?

A coyote human trafficker … votes Republican? votes Democrat?

A person with tattoos … votes Republican? votes Democrat?

A person with body piercings … votes Republican? votes Democrat?

A person with unnaturally colored hair … votes Republican? votes Democrat?

Someone who follows a daily horoscope … votes Republican? votes Democrat?

A Wiccan … votes Republican? votes Democrat?

A modern ‘pagan’ … votes Republican? votes Democrat?

A pedophile … vote Republican? votes Democrat?

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Someone has been attacking power plants all over the country, and federal authorities are trying to determine who it is.  In recent days, we have seen significant sabotage on both the east and west coasts, and so it can’t just be one individual that is responsible.  During the first eight months of this year, there were a total of 106 attacks on the electrical grid in the United States, and that represents the highest number ever recorded in a single year.  Hopefully authorities will be able to get to the bottom of this mystery, because winter will soon officially begin.  If power goes out in your neck of the woods for an extended period of time during the months ahead, what will you do?

Generac is your friend.

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AT MOFFETT FIELD in Mountain View, Calif., Lighter Than Air (LTA) Research is floating a new approach to a technology that saw its rise and fall a century ago: airships. Although airships have long since been supplanted by planes, LTA, which was founded in 2015 by CEO Alan Weston, believes that through a combination of new materials, better construction techniques, and technological advancements, airships are poised to—not reclaim the skies, certainly—but find a new niche.

Although airships never died off entirely—the Goodyear blimps, familiar to sports fans, are proof of that—the industry was already in decline by 1937, the year of the Hindenburg disaster. By the end of World War II, airships couldn’t compete with the speed airplanes offered, and they required larger crews. Today, what airships still linger serve primarily for advertising and sightseeing.

LTA’s Pathfinder 1 carries bigger dreams than hovering over a sports stadium, however. The company sees a natural fit for airships in humanitarian and relief missions. Airships can stay aloft for long periods of time, in case ground conditions aren’t ideal, have a long range, and carry significant payloads, according to Carl Taussig, LTA’s chief technical officer.

Border officials seeing massive migrant numbers, large groups ahead of Title 42’s end (Fox)

Biden’s focus on semiautomatic weapons is ignorance manifest (N.Y. Post)

Senators Press HHS As Whistleblower Alleges Unaccompanied Children Being Transferred To Criminals

Biden Decides To Read ‘Art Of The Deal’ After Getting Ripped Off In Griner Trade (Babylon Bee)

Russian Media Laughs At US Government’s Woke Trade For Griner Instead Of Whelan  And well they might.

On MSNBC, Dem Slime Merchant Vows To Dish Dirt On Republicans Probing Hunter Biden

Rapper ‘Nuke Bizzle’ Who Bragged About Scamming Covid Relief Sentenced To Prison

Germany: Authorities must take ‘urgent action’ to tackle racism in their ranks

The New York Times: Being Woke and White Comes Back to Bite

Crazy People Are Dangerous (and Keep Getting Shot by Cops in Detroit)

Sheriff Calls on Feds to Seize Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s Illegal Border Wall Equipment (The Intercept)

We Are Watching Elon Musk and His Fans Create a Conspiracy Theory About Wikipedia in Real Time (Vice) Who are you going to believe, me or your lyin’ eyes?

Twitter Files: The Real News Is That the Left/Dems/Media Do Not Care

‘Duct Tape and Band-Aids’: Inside Herschel Walker’s Campaign Collapse (Daily Beast) Apparently the Republican establishment didn’t provide the necessary adult supervision that the Democrat establishment provided to Warnock.

Some Hunter Biden allies making plans to go after his accusers (Washington Post) Democrats never forget which side they’re on–and act like it. Who is the Democrat equivalent of David French? There is none.

French Dance Teacher Canceled for Using ‘Man-Woman’

MSNBC Accuses Conservatives Of Setting ‘Conditions For Stochastic Terrorism’

#TwitterGate Update: Shadowbanning Is Real, and Vijaya Gadde Lied About It

Confederate Monument Set to be Removed from Virginia Capital

CNN: GOP Opposes Griner Prisoner Swap Because She’s a ‘Black Lesbian’  An anti-American criminal black lesbian. Let’s not forget the important part.

A widening gender rage gap? No wonder: women have a lot to feel angry about (The Guardian)

Nearly 25% of U.S. homebuyers want to move — this state is the top destination (CNBC)

Justice Jackson is smashing right-wing legal claims at Supreme Court hearings (MSNBC)

S.F.’s graffiti cleanup team scrapes and sprays, helping tagged businesses avoid fines (S.F. Chronicle)

Louisiana to decide on an amendment allowing only U.S. citizens to vote in the state’s elections (The Hill) Which ought not even to be necessary–but these are crazy times.

Oregon looks to create first-in-nation universal health care plan

Florida teachers flee county with ‘egregious’ student behavior, like spitting, biting, drug use, theft

Former French Secret Service Head: Mass Migration “Threatens Civil Peace”

CNN, WashPost Omit ‘Democrat’ from Segregationist Origins of Georgia Runoff

Following Sinema’s Exit, Romney Announces Intention To Remain In Democratic Party (Babylon Bee)

Biodiversity: What is a mass extinction and are we causing one? (BBC)

House Oversight Committee accuses oil companies of ‘lying’ about climate actions (Politico)

What Big Oil Knew About Its Products’ Climate Risks—and When (Mother Jones)

Rising temperatures causing distress to foetuses, study reveals (The Guardian) Since when did The Guardian ever care about foetuses?

Water Mission to Gauge Alaskan Rivers on Front Lines of Climate Change (NASA)

Equilibrium/Sustainability — Major dams to fall in Pacific Northwest (The Hill)

‘Eco’ wood burners produce 450 times more pollution than gas heating – report (The Guardian)

Climate Change Weekly #455: COP 27 Will End Up as FLOP 27

DNA From 2 Million Years Ago Reveals Arctic Utopia That Was 50-65 Degrees Warmer

To End Climate Lunacy, Stop Treating Warming & C02 Hysterically

Animals Are Running Out of Places to Live (N.Y. Times) Except that they’re not. This is a pretty obvious lie.

It’s Time the Green Movement Stopped Demonizing Nuclear

The DeSantis secret weapon that Democrats — and Trump — should fear (The Hill)

Florida GOP likes DeSantis far more than Trump in new poll (The Hill) How is this news?

The Media Still Don’t Know How to Cover Trump’s Extremism (Mother Jones)

THE TWITTER FILES: The Removal Of Donald Trump, Part 1

Scarborough: Trump’s a ‘Fascist,’ So Conservatives Can’t Criticize Griner Swap!

DOJ Subpoenas Michigan Elections Department Regarding Trump  The witch-hunt progresses.

Twitter Execs Sought Rules to Ban Trump Alone, Files Say

THE TWITTER FILES: The Removal Of Donald Trump, Part 2

NBC’s Todd Worries: Can Dems Win Without Demonizing Trump?  Doesn’t matter. They can’t help themselves.

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This year, Time’s “Person of the Year” was a no-brainer — Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose decision to stay and fight the Russian invasion of his country had a profound effect on events in Europe and the rest of the world.

But three years ago, the same magazine’s editors made the ridiculous choice of making the radical activist Greta Thunberg their “Person of the Year” for 2019, when she was just 16 years old. The idea seemed frivolous then and seems even more preposterous now, as Thunberg has become even more extreme in her views.

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Facebook is reversing the controversial policy put in place early this year, first reported by the Washington Free Beacon, that allowed for users to solicit human traffickers to smuggle them across the border.

The social media giant, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, announced Thursday in a policy memo that, going forward, users are forbidden from posting any content that “offers to provide or facilitate human smuggling” or “asks for human smuggling services.” The platform previously held that these types of posts were needed to protect human rights.

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Everyone knows that covid is dangerous mostly to old people who are already sick. Thus, there has been a particular emphasis on vaccinating and boosting the elderly. Our public health establishment has now abandoned the claim that vaccination will prevent a person from catching covid, but says that it will greatly reduce the risk of hospitalization or death.

Assessing the relative risks of the vaccinated and unvaccinated requires accurate knowledge of the numbers in each category. We have records of the people who have been vaccinated, so the “unvaccinated” in government figures merely represents the difference between the total population cohort and the number known to have been vaccinated or boosted. So the size of the total population cohort is obviously critical.

Kevin Roche, proprietor of Healthy Skeptic, realized that in Minnesota, the Department of Health was basing its vaxed/unvaxed comparisons on different time periods: it looked, for example, at case etc. rates for people who were vaccinated in 2021, but in order to determine the rates for the unvaccinated, it used population numbers averaged between 2015 and 2019. The over-65 population in Minnesota grew significantly between 2015 and 2021. In a cohort where vaccination rates are high, that turns out to make a huge difference.

We’d know, if the public health authorities (bureaucrats with MDs) told us the truth. (… which they aren’t, and haven’t, and probably won’t.)

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Engineers ought not to design products. Products need to be designed by users, or with users in close proximity to the design process–and never go to market without extensive User Acceptance Testing. “Looks cool” doesn’t square with “practical”, and practical is what drives sales.

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This sort of thing never works. If people want to do X badly enough, they will find a way to do X. If doing X is made a crime, it merely encourages criminal behavior. Prohibition ought to be sufficient evidence of how bad an idea this is.

The only time banning certain behavior works is if most people accept that such behavior is a bad thing. If a significant portion of the population don’t do that, then all that happens is the creation of a criminal subculture devoted to servicing people who want to indulge in that behavior. Gambling, recreational drugs, sex work–all testify to the eternal truth that such can’t be eliminated, merely driven underground. That just makes it even more profitable for the criminally inclined to service that market. (Markets work even when you don’t want them to.)

A.P. Hill statue removal to start Monday (NBC)

S.F. officials find at least two bedrooms at Twitter HQ as investigation continues (S.F. Chronicle) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH.

‘Hurt the Senate!’ Behar, Hostin RAGE Sinema Going Independent

Twitter Files Part II Reveals Platform’s Secret Censorship Team

Musk Confirms Political Candidates Were Shadow Banned By Twitter’s Censors

Roughly 60% Of Students Fear Expressing Their Views In Higher Education; New Poll Finds

Win Against Wokeness: Philly Ordered to Remove Box Over Columbus Statue

San Francisco investigates Hotel Twitter, Musk might pack up and leave The mayor of Miami is already hinting that Musk ought to move the Twitter operation to Florida.

White House denies involvement in Twitter censorship despite ‘direct contact’ on COVID ‘misinformation’

Democrats tell Biden to ditch ‘punitive’ immigration measures (The Hill)

University of Washington sued for withholding docs detailing professor’s alleged role in DHS disinfo campaign

Group of over 700 migrants caught crossing US border into Texas (N.Y. Post)

Biden-Harris Administration Announces More Than $2.3 Million to Create Good-Paying Union Jobs, Catalyze Economic Revitalization in Alaska?and Texas (Dept. of the Interior) Note: Good-paying union jobs.

‘Very Amused’: Russian State Media Mock Biden’s Woke Diplomacy

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week Vol. 22

Ron DeSantis BEATS Trump In New Primary Poll, Trump Approval Dips After 2024 Announcement (The Hill) Be careful what you wish for.

The Lesson of Trump: Character Matters (The Bulwark) But only for Trump. The anti-Trump agenda of the Kristol Krew is more and more apparent.

Twitter Releasing 3-Day Deep Dive on the Banning of Donald Trump

Flu season off to an aggressive start as doctors implore people to get vaccinated (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Flu surged after Thanksgiving, as early season continues to worsen (CNN)

Fauci Blasts ‘Low-Life Trolls’ Who Harassed Family Imagine how they refer to him.

NYC Advises Residents to Mask Up Again as COVID, Flu Surge  Plus the masks make it easier to escape identification from the CCTV video in court.

Marijuana Industry’s Buzz Wears Off As Pandemic Party Over

John Kerry examining likely impact of new UK coalmine (The Guardian) Let me take a wild guess here: I suspect he’s against it.

We are tearing holes in the fabric of life on Earth (CNN)

Big Oil shouldn’t be able to fleece Californians while polluting the planet (L.A. Times)

Environmental groups troubled over Portland’s push to replace petroleum diesel with renewable fuels (Oregon Live)

Why is there another COP happening? (The Economist) The desired amount of money was not forthcoming.

The US is a rogue state leading the world towards ecological collapse (The Guardian) George Monbiot loses his shit.

Climate anxiety isn’t the enemy: Embracing it can speed change (The Hill) Note the assumption that change, any change, is a good thing.

Climate change has come to town (Seattle Times)

Is the Renewable Energy Industry Nothing More Than a Jobs Program?  Oh, it’s a lot more, but it’s at least that. I suggest ‘grift’ as the most accurate term.

Watch: Climate Hypocrite Kerry Says It Would Be “Great” If Americans Paid Carbon Reparations

San Francisco guaranteed income program for pregnant Black women to expand across California

Griner’s Detention Showed the Strength and the Struggle in Women’s Sports (N.Y. Times) Mostly it showed an overwhelming sense of arrogance, privilege, and entitlement.

Report: Walmart Previously Investigated Chesapeake Store Shooter

Public Library Pays Ibram X. Kendi $22,500 to Deliver Woke, ‘Anti-Racist’ Message

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The white flags of surrender are flapping in the breeze, thanks to Republicans willing to accept as permanent the “emergency” election rules that Democrats demanded during 2020’s COVID hell.

Longing for the elusive red wave, some GOP officials and operatives are suffering Stockholm Syndrome: They think it’s time to surrender to Democrats, swallow their dodgy vote schemes, and eventually sink them with early, mail-in, and trafficked ballots, drop boxes, and ballots received and counted days and weeks after polls close, etc.

Rather than switch, Republicans should fight. They have nothing less than federal law and the U.S. Constitution on their side. The GOP should litigate this matter all the way to the Supreme Court before ever yielding to Democrats’ rabid vision of how Americans should vote.

I wish there were a mutual fund that tracked the Obesity Index. That would be an investment.

‘Extractivism’ is destroying nature: to tackle it Cop15 must go beyond simple targets (The Guardian)

UN Environment Chief Warns of a Biodiversity Apocalypse (Mother Jones)

Why knowing your neighbors could save you in the next climate disaster (The Guardian)

Cumbria coal mine: empty promises of carbon capture tech have excused digging up more fossil fuel for decades (The Conversation)

‘Deeply damaging mistake’: UK’s decision to approve a new coal mine criticized as misguided (CNBC)

Surprising loss of sea ice after record-breaking Arctic storm is a mystery to scientists (LiveScience)

How Seychelles ocean plants could help tackle climate change (BBC)

Where can California squeeze in more solar panels and wind turbines? (L.A. Times)

House Democrat Claims Her Children Had ‘Nightmares’ About Climate Change  And whose fault is that?

Concrete Built The Modern World. Now It’s Destroying It.

Big Oil has engaged in a long-running climate disinformation campaign while raking in record profits, lawmakers find (CNN) What did they expect? They saw that it worked for lawmakers, so they figured they would get in the act.

Some U.S. officials express concern over Brittney Griner prisoner swap (CBS)

Brittney Griner’s return to the U.S. sparks controversy (Fox)

Bad deal for Viktor Bout, and a terrible day for the US (N. Y. Post)

Biden threatens Europe’s car batteries (Politico)

FBI ‘Deeply Concerned’ After Apple Says Nearly All iCloud Data Now Has End-to-End Encryption

DeSantis Raises $59 Million For Florida Hurricane Relief, Says Biden Denied Funds

Biden earned political capital this fall. He’s quietly spending it. (Politico) But on ice cream, not on visiting the border.

Not Since ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ Has Anyone Made a Worse Trade Than This  Yeah, Biden didn’t even get any Magic Beans.

IRS Agents Slide Down Chimneys Looking For Gifts Of $600 Or More  (Babylon Bee)

Putin Fleeced U.S. Over Obsession With CRT, Diversity

Dutch farmers battle technocratic forces driving them into oblivion

Chicago school at center of Project Veritas hit offers affinity groups for pre-K, says White kids can’t attend (Fox)

Victories against ESG Starting to Accelerate

Project Veritas: Chicago Dean Brags About Giving Underage Students Sex Toys During Pride Month

Buying the Presidency: George Soros Dumps Another $50,000,000 Ahead of 2024 Election

State Attorneys General Say FedEx And UPS Help Feds Track Gun Sales

New Zealand Takes Baby From Parents Demanding “Unvaccinated” Blood For Heart Surgery

Neocons Are Not Conservatives

Media Tiptoe Around Colorado Nightclub Shooter’s Preferred Pronouns

STUDY: Trevor Noah’s Daily Show Guests Were 86 Percent Democratic  My, what a surprise.

As Noah Departs, CBS Mourns Decline in Late Night Viewership

The politics of Kyrsten Sinema’s party switch (Washington Post) Except that it wasn’t a party ‘switch’, unless there’s an Independent party of which I am unaware.

George Soros: The Money Behind Leftist Media & Censorship

Germany Considers €20,000 Basic Inheritance  Will it be subject to the crippling inheritance taxes that the Left so love?

NHS waiting lists in England hitting new high of 7.2M people  How’s that government-provided health care working out?

Low nutritional quality in vegetarian meat substitutes

VA School Resubmits Application For After School Satan Club

Why this predominantly White county in Southern California is declaring racism a public health crisis (CNN) Because that’s where the money is.

Pharmaceutical Trials: When Left’s Obsession With Race Kills

Black Homicide Rates Are Back at ’90s Levels. The Problem Isn’t the Guns.

To Embrace Immigration, Canada Must Reject Trudeau’s Racialized Policies

The MAGA faithful who refuse to celebrate Brittney Griner’s release (NBC)

Musk’s Twitter bombshells keep coming. Social media company was giant conservative censorship machine (Fox)

Clarence Thomas violated law ‘in plain view,’ Tribe says (MSNBC)

Twitter Confirms Shadow Banning Conservatives

Inside the Herschel Walker campaign fiasco (Axios)

Sexist Kimmel Attacks GOP Rep.’s Looks, Says She Looks Like A Lesbian  One would think that, for a proglodyte, that would be a good thing.

Aiding and Abetting: Nets Ignore Second Batch of Twitter Files on MASSIVE Censorship

Former Southwest Airlines Flight Attendant Reinstated by Court After Firing Over Pro-Life Views

Top progressive firm drops Sinema as a client (Politico) It’s not enough to be independent. You have to be a Democrat.

BUSTED: Musk Twitter Files Expose Prior Platform Execs for Lying About Shadowbanning

Hospitals in the US are the fullest they’ve been throughout the pandemic – but it’s not just Covid (CNN)

The Ongoing COVID Deceptions: How Ruling Elites Lied About Masks And Mask Mandates

Federal Pandemic Program Forgave $809 Million In PPP Loans To White-Shoe Law Firms: Watchdog

Chinese Health Official Admits 80-90% Of Population May End Up With COVID

Poll: Less Than Half of US Adults Have Gotten Flu Shot  Maybe they’re not into ‘vaccines’ any more. I wonder how that could happen.

Climate-Change Lockdowns? Yup, They Are Actually Going There…

Trump Mar-a-Lago suit ends after former president declines to appeal ruling (NBC)

Trump does not plan to appeal dismissal of Mar-a-Lago special master to Supreme Court (CNN)

MAGA Is Eating Itself After GOP’s Midterm Disaster (Daily Beast) Walls are closing in etc. etc.

Donald Trump Doesn’t Respect (or Even Understand) the Constitution (Daily Beast) Nor does anybody writing for The Daily Beast.

Justice Department asks judge to hold Trump team in contempt over Mar-a-Lago case (Washington Post)

Trump’s 2024 Campaign So Far Is an Epic Act of Self-Sabotage (New Yorker)

Private RNC member emails reveal anger at Trump, frustration with McDaniel’s response to him (Politico) And how did the writer get access to these ‘private RNC member emails’, hm? Or are they just more Narrative Media lies?