Migrants’ refusal to leave New York hotel met with outrage: ‘Absolutely insane’ (Fox)

NYPD clears migrants’ tents from in front of Hell’s Kitchen hotel (ABC)

Calls for transparency from NBC News grow louder in wake of Paul Pelosi attack bodycam video (Fox)

NYC forces all city employees to undergo radical critical race theory training (Fox)

The political targeting of Ilhan Omar is inextricable from her religion (Washington Post) And its consequent anti-semitism and corruption.

Grotesque, Woke Art in Public Spaces Is Next Phase in War on History, Culture

“One Lie After The Next”: CNN Ratings Hit 9-Year Lows After Reputational Suicide

When Americans Lost Faith in the News (The New Yorker)

PBS NewsHour Special Pushes Liberal Line on Guns and American Racism

Washington D.C.’s free bus bill becomes law as zero-fare transit systems take off (NBC) it’s not ‘free’, of course; it’s being paid for by all D.C. taxpayers, including those who don’t take buses and will never take a bus–but they have to pay for it nevertheless. This also makes it easy for a gang-banger to hop a bus, go to a completely different part of the city, mug somebody, and then hop a bus to escape.

George Soros: Propaganda Powerhouse

CBS, NBC Blame Israel for Having ‘Triggered’ ‘Cycle of Violence’ Against Palestinians

California’s Female Prisoners Feel Threatened by Transgender Inmates. The State Doesn’t Care.

WashPost ‘Fact Checker’ Admittedly Uses Faulty Data to Dismiss Good Guys With Guns

EXCLUSIVE: Lessons in Preferred Pronouns Should Start in Pre-K, Largest Teachers Union Says 

Missouri AG Moves to Protect Kids From Sexual Instruction After School Takes Kids to Drag Show

The Biden team is digging in its feet with spending and border (The Hill)

Biden’s new student loan repayment plan would cost billions more than White House projected

Watchdog Group Accuses Biden WH of ‘Gag Rule’ on Science Integrity Policy

Nets Ignore Pro-Life Activist’s Acquittal on Bogus Biden Admin Charges

The media is blowing Biden’s documents ‘scandal’ out of proportion (The Guardian) Margaret Sullivan for the Narrative.

Report: Biden Considers Abortion Health Emergency Declaration

Military Vets Take Biden Administration to Court Over New Gun Restriction

Biden Family Corruption, COVID Origins, Weaponized Government, And Border Crisis: House GOP Kicks Off Investigations

Biden’s Pursuit of Racial Balkanization Will Further Divide the Country

White House Failed to Disclose FBI Search of Biden Think Tank

Hunter Biden Paintings Worth Less Than His Mounting Legal Bills

Biden Administration Releases Over 1,300 Criminal Illegal Immigrants In 1 Month

Hunter Biden’s allies weigh legal-defense fund for president’s son (N.Y. Times)

White House: Health Emergency for COVID Is Out. Health Emergency for Abortion Is In.

NYPD on Scene as Migrants Refuse to Leave Manhattan Hotel

Corruption at the Border Is Fueling America’s Drug Crisis

US Job Opening Far Lower Than Reported By Department Of Labor, UBS Finds

We Just Witnessed An Economic Sign That Hasn’t Happened Since The Peak Of The Great Depression In 1932

Texas Bishop Slams President Biden’s ‘Fake Catholicism’ Stance on Abortion

Trump’s Justice Department Goons Oversaw an Actual Witch Hunt While He Screamed About One (Esquire)

Trump’s Lawyer Says He’s Actually Winning Legal Cases but People Don’t Know (Newsweek)

Reports: New grand jury in NY examining Trump hush money (Associated Press)

DOJ Is ‘Boxed In’ In Handling Of Biden, Trump Document Probes: Experts

2 people who searched Trump properties for classified documents testified before federal grand jury in Mar-a-Lago probe (CNN)

Fear Of Trump Paralyzes GOP’s Potential Candidates

Looking back on the coverage of Trump (Columbia Journalism Review)

Trump’s slow-rolling 2024 bid cobbles together new Senate support (Politico)

A conservative judge helped stop Trump on Jan. 6. He wants to finish the job. (Washington Post) Judge Luttig has a house at Vail, Colorado. I wonder how he paid for that?

Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley Need to Find the Strength to Attack Trump (Daily Beast)

Trump-DeSantis rivalry approaches boiling point (The Hill) The Narrative Media project to pick a fight between Trump and DeSantis proceeds apace.

Exclusive Bulwark Poll: Most Republicans Want to Move on from Trump (The Bulwark) Actually, most Republicans want to move on from the Bulwark.

Why DeSantis Is on Track to Beat Trump (New York Magazine) Jonathan Chait for the Narrative.

Video of Trump deposition in New York fraud probe shows former president taking the Fifth, repeating “same answer” (CBS)

Trump’s Well-Worn Legal Playbook Starts to Look Frayed (N.Y. Times) Maggie Haberman for the Narrative.

The fake think tank that fueled the Russiagate narrative

Senate Judiciary mulls action amid fallout from Durham probe (The Hill)

‘Atrocity, worse than Trump’: George Santos hammered for mounting lies by Stephen A. Smith (MSNBC)

Far-right spreads misinformation about Paul Pelosi attack (MSNBC) To the Narrative Media, there is no right but the far-right.

Bolsonaro Seeking Tourist Visa To Extend US Stay As Criminal Cases Pile Up In Brazil

Ron Paul: The Real Disinformation Was The “Russia Disinformation” Hoax

Trump Files $49M Lawsuit Against Woodward for Selling Tapes Without Consent

Rep. Maxine Waters Calls GOP House Members “Domestic Terrorists”

Polls reveal the real reason Ron DeSantis is fighting the teaching of Black history (MSNBC) Not only can ‘journalists’ at MSNBC can read minds, but polls can read minds too! Who knew?

Exclusive: Extremists raised $6.2 million on crowdfunding websites in ‘heyday’ of financing (USA Today) By ‘extremists’, of course, they don’t mean Democrats, much less BLM or Antifa.

Newsday poll: 78% of 3rd District residents say George Santos should resign (Newsday) Newsday, of course, has been calling on him to resign since day one, so you can tell how much that poll is worth.

Ron DeSantis Wants to Erase Black History. Why? (N.Y. Times) The New York Times wants to lie about Ron DeSantis. Why?

Santos Temporarily Steps Aside From House Committees Amid Calls to Resign (N.Y. Times) Committees involve work. He’s not there to work; he’s there to collect a hefty paycheck. This is an amazingly fortuitous opportunity.

On Policing, Colbert Asks When GOP Will ‘Start Being Evil’  My question is when Colbert will start being adult.

‘It can be scary’: how corporate America is hitting back against unions (The Guardian) The Guardian, as a Voice of the Crust, just loves unions and just hate ‘corporate America’.

The Political Targeting of George Santos Is Inextricable From His Sexual Orientation and Latinx Heritage

The historic support for George Santos’s resignation (Washington Post) Doesn’t matter a damn. They keep pretending that it does, but it doesn’t.

Emissions divide now greater within countries than between them – study (The Guardian)

Global elite produce almost half greenhouse emissions, UN says (Financial Times)

Clean energy is taking over the Texas grid. State officials are trying to stop it. (Vox) The swine!

What is greenhushing? How to spot the sophisticated greenwashing tactics being used in 2023 (EuroNews)

Spain’s prized jamón ibérico under threat from climate crisis (The Guardian)

99 percent of US coal plants are more expensive than new renewables would be: report (The Hill)

Inside the Fight to Save the Peruvian Amazon From Big Oil (Rolling Stone)

China Invests $546 Billion in Clean Energy, Far Surpassing the U.S. (‘Scientific’ American) China good, U.S. bad.

King tides offer clues about effects of rising sea levels (KGW)

LISTEN: Researcher admits electric vehicles have hidden ‘concerning’ environmental costs (Washington Examiner)

A Golden Solution to Pollution? Scientists Have Developed a New Method of Reducing Carbon Dioxide (SciTech Daily)

Norway discovers huge trove of metals, minerals and rare earths on its seabed (CNN)

Jobs and wages boom in America’s busiest oilfield (Financial Times)

De-Extinction Startup Colossal Biosciences Raises $150M To Bring Back The Dodo  It would appear that they already have.

Colonialism Reappears in Africa with a Woke New Spin

3 Memphis EMTs fired for their response to the fatal police beating of Tyre Nichols (NBC)

What the Tyre Nichols videos don’t show (L.A. Times) The mental gymnastics necessary to fit this incident into the Narrative.

Yale honors Black girl, 9, wrongly reported to police over insect project (The Guardian)

Cook County prosecutors to drop all charges against R. Kelly, State’s Attorney Kim Foxx announces (Chicago Tribune)

Race storm erupts after Andrea Riseborough’s best actress Oscar nomination (The Guardian)

SC bill would prevent teaching about slave owners, ‘including George Washington’ (The Hill)

The Media Agree: Black Cops Beating Black Victim Is White Supremacy

Ten wounded in ‘targeted’ drive-by mass shooting in Lakeland, Florida: Police (Washington Examiner)

Joy Reid: ‘What Happened to Tyre Nichols Was as American as Apple Pie’

Princeton’s criminal justice-inspired Honor Code hurts FLI students (The Princetonian) Apparently expecting honesty and fair dealing is WAAAAACIST.

Why does the Left want everything to be about white supremacy? (Washington Examiner)

Daily Show, Kendi Call Critics Racist, Lie About Florida

Progressive Media Drools Over Black QB Storyline For Super Bowl LVII

Black Americans Are Much More Likely to Face Tax Audits, Study Finds (N.Y. Times) Perhaps they are more likely to cheat on their taxes. It’s possible.

Long Covid has an ‘underappreciated’ role in labor shortage, study finds (CNBC)

1M+ People Called in Sick Every Month Since COVID’s Beginning: CDC (Daily Beast)

COVID still an emergency but nearing key immunity level, WHO says (The Hill)

Study suggests robust lung mucosal immunity against SARS-CoV-2 can be better achieved through hybrid immunity, as opposed to peripheral vaccination alone (News-Medical)

Evolutionary history of SARS-CoV-2 leads to a universal vaccine already being tested in animal models (Medical Express)

Long-COVID brain changes causing rise in mental health issues (ABC)

West Point continues to impose COVID-19 vaccine mandate, despite rule’s lift by Pentagon: report

Unvaccinated Kidney And Heart Patients Denied Transplants Get Day In Court With Michigan Hospital

“It’s Time For The Scientific Community To Admit We Were Wrong About COVID & It Cost Lives”

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The oldest known writing systems first emerged in Mesopotamia, between 3400 and 3100 BC, and Egypt, around 3250 BC. The Latin alphabet, which I’m using to write this post and you’re using to read it, gradually took the shape we know between the seventh century BC and the Middle Ages. Over the eras since, it has spread outward from Europe to become the most widely used script in the world. These are important developments in the history of writing, but hardly the only ones. It is with all known writing systems that historical map animator Ollie Bye deals in the video above: not just those used today, but over the whole of the past five millennia.

Politico.

Our intrepid reporter camped outside the office of Congress’ most scandal-plagued freshman, so you don’t have to.

They’re actually paying people to do this.

It’s 11:05 a.m. on a Tuesday, and none of the 20 or so reporters huddling outside George Santos’ congressional office wants to grab the last of twelve donuts he brought to the Longworth House building. The gaggle has been here for hours, camped out next to a cardboard carafe of coffee rapidly growing stale. Around 8 a.m., Santos had waltzed in, ceremoniously plopping a Dunkin’ Donuts bag on a side table placed outside L-1117, a confectionery bounty. He didn’t need to be here so early (his first vote is at 6:30 p.m.), but he had teased a “surprise” the day before on Twitter, “for the ‘journalists’ assigned to stake out side [sic] of my office,” the quotation marks smacking of cheerful condescension. “I brought you guys some donuts!” he exclaims. “Donuts and coffee, for all the hard work you guys do.”

“Thank you. Seriously,” he says, by now half-inside his office, just before the door swings shut against the videographers and photographers and reporters, all of whom crave answers more than pastries.

And George Santos is in his Congressional office laughing like a loon….

David Cole.

German atonement provides useful lessons for American whites.

If they pay attention.

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What happened: Democratic activist and NBA star Stephen Curry wants to block construction of a multifamily housing unit near his $30 million estate in the San Francisco suburbs. Curry and his wife Ayesha expressed “major concerns in terms of both privacy and safety” regarding the proposed development of up to 16 townhouses on a site currently occupied by a single-family home in Atherton, Calif., where an acre of land costs $8 million.

“We hesitate to add to the ‘not in our backyard’ (literally) rhetoric, but we wanted to send a note before today’s meeting,” the celebrity couple wrote in a Jan. 18 letter to the town government. “Safety and privacy for us and our kids continues to be our top priority and one of the biggest reasons we chose Atherton as home.” According to Almanac News, the Currys also said they were “pleased” to learn that the proposed development “would not contribute to very-low or low-income housing quotas required by the state.”

Why it matters: Rich liberals insist the world would be a better place if people like them were in charge of everything and could force ignorant racists to embrace liberal policies such as increasing the availability of affordable housing units, homeless shelters, and wind farms. The Curry situation is one of many examples of how rich liberals immediately abandon their support for these policies when local politicians try to implement them within sight of their illustrious mansions.

I doubt that 16 townhomes in Atherton on land that goes for $8 million an acre are going to be purchased by plumbers or crack dealers. I suspect they’ll work for Apple or Google.

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On paper, Dr. Julie Goodman is exactly the kind of seasoned scientific expert the New York Times would typically venerate.

She received her Ph.D. in toxicology from Johns Hopkins University. She taught at Harvard’s School of Public Health. She served as a cancer prevention fellow at the National Cancer Institute. And she’s now affiliated with both the American College of Epidemiology and the Academy of Toxicological Sciences. She believes in “the science.”

There’s just one problem. Goodman doesn’t think the federal government should come into your home and rip out your gas stove. In her (expert) opinion, studies linking the suddenly controversial appliance to childhood asthma are flawed. They don’t justify dramatic action.

“The reason for feeling good is to make other people feel bad. Never lose sight of that.”

— Scott Adams, Coffee With Scott Adams, 31 January 2023.

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Of course, anyone with two brain cells to rub together knows that. But some people have to have their noses rubbed in it. (Which Muslims are delighted to do.)

Following last week’s terrorist attack which saw an Algerian man attack churchgoing Catholics—including a priest and a sacristan—with a machete as he shouted “Allahu akbar,” Santiago Abascal, the leader of Spain’s national-conservative VOX party, has stated plainly that Islamism is not compatible with the West.

In statements given to the Madrid-based newspaper La Gaceta de la Iberosfera days ago, Abascal offered his condolences to the relatives and close friends of Diego Valencia, the local sacristan who lost his life during the terrorist attack in Algeciras, and asserted that VOX will not tolerate being lectured that Spaniards must “get used to these kinds of atrocities” taking place on their soil.

“My condolences to the family and friends of the victim. Some open the doors for them, others finance them, and people suffer from them. We cannot tolerate Islamism advancing on our soil,” the VOX chief wrote on social media.

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

Katy Hays’s involving, well-tuned debut novel takes its name from a real museum in New York, the Cloisters. Built by a Rockefeller, it resembles a medieval monastery and brims with glorious treasures. Ann, our provincial heroine (from Walla Walla, where she worked a menial job in order to fund college), would have preferred the Met, but when she’s serendipitously hired for a summer role, she finds herself swiftly pulled into the institution’s inner workings and the nefarious machinations of its well-heeled staff.

The cutthroat nature of the museum is placed under the spotlight. Although Ann is brilliant at history of art, with her lack of connections she finds it all but impossible to garner a foothold in the coveted PhD programs of the Ivy League, and views the Cloisters as a step up into a successful career. She can’t afford to get it wrong, renting a tiny apartment and avoiding phone calls from her mother to keep from being drawn back into hicksville. The irony, of course, is that in leaving a cloistered past, she’s entering somewhere even narrower.

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“My father told me if I protested, or spoke out, he would kill me.”

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Trump Financial Crimes Investigation Was ‘Buried,’ Kirschner Says (Newsweek) As they’re now doing with the Bidens?

How the Trump Document Scandal Became a Congressional Pissing Match (Daily Beast)

Waiting for a Deus Ex Machina End to the Trump Era (The Atlantic) Don’t hold your breath.

Donald Trump Isn’t the Only One to Blame for the Capitol Riot. I’d Know. (N.Y. Times) No, you wouldn’t.

Trump investigations: Georgia prosecutor ups anticipation (Associated Press) Smoke and mirrors–if they had anything real, we would know it by now.

Trump’s 2024 MAGA litmus test (MSNBC) As if Charlie Sykes knew anything about it.

Manhattan Prosecutors Will Begin Presenting Trump Case to Grand Jury (N.Y. Times)

Far-right project that pushed election lies expands mission as Trump ramps up 2024 campaign  (The Guardian) For the Narrative Media, there is no right but the far-right.

Trump Used Records Requests to Get Look Behind Scenes of Talks Over His Taxes (Bloomberg)

Trump Sues Journalist Bob Woodward for Releasing Interview Recordings

Ukraine: Boris Johnson says Putin threatened him with missile strike (BBC)

Putin Threatened To ‘Hurt’ Former UK PM Boris Johnson ‘With A Missile’ (CNN)

U.S. ‘On the Verge’ of War With Russia—Deputy Foreign Minister (Newsweek)

Japan, Netherlands Agree to Limit Exports of Chip-Making Equipment to China

White House Refuses To Say If Ukraine Will Get Toxic Depleted Uranium Ammo

Russia Claims Gains in Relentless Battles in East Ukraine

War Games

WINNING: Paying For Defeat

SPECIAL OPERATIONS: Russia Recruits Exiled Afghan Operators

U.S. arms left in Afghanistan are turning up in a different conflict (NBC) Thank you, Joe Biden.

Woman who faked Native American heritage resigns from Wisconsin university residency

PBS Host, Guest Claim Black Memphis Cops Driven by ‘Anti-Black Racism’ in Deadly Beating

How the Mainstream Media Think About Memphis

Bayless Suggests Carolina Panthers Should Boycott 2024 Season Over White Coach’s Hiring

Black Memphis police spark dialogue on systemic racism in the U.S. (N.Y. Times) Dialogue? Say rather frothing demagoguery–after all, nothing says ‘systemic racism’ like five black police officers beating a black guy to death.

Conservatives Hit Mayor Lightfoot Over Chicago Crime  Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it’s not just conservatives.

Don Lemon’s Super Bowl Obsession: The Color of the Quarterbacks  Halfricans worry about such things.

Tyre Nichols’s Death Proves Yet Again That ‘Elite’ Police Units Are a Disaster (N.Y. Times) Well, it may prove that ‘elite’ police units composed of black people are a disaster.

Some Democrats are worried about Harris’s political prospects (Washington Post) Harris has political prospects? News to me.

CBS Welcomes in Racial Arsonist Kendi to Promote ‘Anti-Racist’ Book for Teens

Report: NYC Mayor Adams Mandates ‘Racial Equity’ Training

MSNBC’s Hasan: ‘Florida’s Gone From Don’t Say Gay to Don’t Say Black’

Lori Lightfoot: footloose and fancy-free as Chicago crime soars

Bezos and Washington Post show honeymoon is over for tech mogul media owners (The Guardian)

NBC’s Todd Dismisses FBI Targeting of Parents, Jim Jordan Educates Him

Utah Outlaws Hormone Therapies and Gender Surgeries for Minors

The New York Times Is Orwell’s Ministry Of Truth

Mom Explains What It Took to Rescue Daughter From Transgenderism

How the Atlanta Riots Were Funded

What Progressive Educators Get Wrong About Creativity

Tocqueville’s warning about the Democrats

Nuancing

Gavin Newsom’s Wife Rakes in Cash Charging California Public Schools To Screen Her Woke Movies

Helping 200 Teachers Abandon Indiana’s Largest Teachers Union

Museums Rebrand ‘Mummy’ as ‘Mummified Persons’ to Humanize Egyptian Remains

Bill Aims to Block Federal Funds From Schools That ‘Indoctrinate With Critical Race Theory’

Utah’s Spencer Cox Signs Bill Protecting Minors From ‘Life-altering’ Transgender Surgery  

Progressive Groups Pressure ABA to Reject Common Definition of Antisemitism

Judge Blocks New Jersey Ban on Guns at Beaches, Casinos

Iowa Democrats pick an election denier as their chair

Absence from work at record high as Americans feel strain from Covid (The Guardian)  COVID? Really?

Moderna is planning to dramatically raise the price of its COVID vaccine. Biden shouldn’t let it. (Boston Globe)

Three years after COVID-19 started, scientists have learned valuable lessons (NPR)

How Two Conflicting COVID Stories Shattered Society

WHO Declares COVID Still a Public Health Emergency, in Transition  Please! Give us back our power!

Report: Baltimore Schools Used Youth Program to Push COVID Vaccine

Greg Abbott blasts Biden’s new border policy that will allegedly attract ‘even more’ illegal migrants (Fox)

Vending machines with lifesaving drug grow as opioid crisis rages in US (The Guardian)

Biden admin issues 20-year mining ban as it turns to foreign supply chain amid green energy push (Fox)

Radical Activists Illegally Protest Outside Amy Coney Barrett’s Home

5 Ways The “Inflation Reduction Act” Is Stealing Your Money

Blinken Urges ‘Calm’ as Israel-Palestinian Conflict Rises  Uh, sure.

Biden is coming for your job (Fox)

More Cite Gov’t as Top U.S. Problem; Inflation Ranks Second (Gallup)

Senior Biden Official Stood To Profit From Canceling Alaska Oil Leases, Watchdog Charges

Biden Admin Funnels Another $1.6 Million to Beijing-Backed Green Energy Company Over Senate Objections

First on CNN: Biden administration to strengthen Obamacare contraceptive mandate in proposed rule (CNN) The fundamental flaw with Obamacare is that it gives you the benefits THEY think you ought to have rather than what you might want, and YOU still have to pay for them.

Administration Is Playing Deceitful Shell Game to Claim Fewer Illegal Border Crossings

Report: Pakistani Terrorists Using Weapons Biden Left Behind in Afghanistan  Thank you, Joe Biden.

Ex-Twitter Execs to Testify on Block of Hunter Biden Story

Payday Loan Center Sets Up Shop In Egg Aisle

NYC’s Migrant Woes Persist as Many Refuse to Relocate  If you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere.

The radical Christian group that is still getting a pass on Jan. 6 (MSNBC) And the Christophobes at MSNBC can’t have that.

Georgia cop, 19, resigns after suspension for religious post on gay marriage: ‘Dangerous precedent’ (Fox)

White House blasts McCarthy for comments on strengthening Social Security, Medicare (The Hill)

I got an upside-down pineapple tattoo — I didn’t know its racy hidden meaning (N.Y. Post)

Inside a US Neo-Nazi Homeschool Network With Thousands of Members (Vice)

The NYT should tell readers whether it helped crooked FBI agents get Trump elected in 2016 (Philadelphia Inquirer) Will Bunch is the official Deranged Lefist at the Inquirer.

Matt Gaetz, Political Arsonist, Has New Powers. What Will He Do With Them? (N.Y. Times)

CNN Slams Left-Pleasing ‘He Gets Us’ Ads for Jesus As a…Right-Wing Conspiracy?

America’s war on words

What three hard-line conservatives plan to do with their seats on the Rules Committee (The Hill) And, of course, mind-reading ‘journalists’ at The Hill know precisely what ‘hard-line conservatives’ intend to do. (Really?)

Bill Barr’s Image Rehab Is Kaput (N.Y. Times)

Inside the audacious new scheme to erase LGBTQ people from Michigan schools (Popular Information)

Declaring Emergencies and Banning ‘Latinx’: First Acts for 9 New Governors (N.Y. Times)

Republicans are mostly ignoring a $9.4 million sexual assault lawsuit against the Trump-aligned head of CPAC (Insider) That’s because it’s bullshit.

This group is sharpening the GOP attack on ‘woke’ Wall Street (Washington Post) Mysterious donors! Little-known group!

NOT GUILTY: Jury Clears Catholic Father Targeted by Biden DOJ

SILENCED! YouTube Censors Project Veritas & Pfizer Video for ‘Medical Misinformation’

California’s climate is the first to suffer in Newsom’s proposed budget cuts (Sacramento Bee)

The hidden environmental costs of transitioning to electric vehicles (NPR)

Geothermal energy could be off-ramp for Texas oil (The Hill) Texas doesn’t need an ‘off-ramp’, thank you very much.

Can board games teach us about the climate crisis? Game creators say yes (The Guardian) Yet another Narrative propaganda tool.

World’s first semi-submersible floating wind farm achieves 78GWh power (Interesting Engineering)

We are ‘greening’ ourselves to extinction (Al Jezeera)

Travel companies are ‘greenwashing’ — here are 3 ways to find ones that aren’t (CNBC)

When Will We Hit Peak Fossil Fuels? Maybe We Already Have (Inside Climate News)

The Climate Alarmist’s Greatest Fear

Windfall Taxes Sweep Through The Global Energy Sector

Electrify America “fries” EVs at charging stations

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Oklo, a California-based energy startup, has submitted its licensing project plan for a commercial-scale nuclear fuel recycling facility to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The fuel recycling facility will be the first of its kind and is meant to make use of nuclear waste, which still has up to 90% of its energy content that could be used to meet energy needs in the U.S.

The submitted licensing project plan outlines the company’s “pre-application engagement activities” ahead of licensing for the fuel recycling facility. The engagement activities are meant for Oklo to identify and reconcile regulatory requirements, “enabling efficient and effective NRC license application review through a process which is equivalent to a staged licensing approach with the benefits of flexibility and customization,” the company said in a press release.

The company’s fuel recycling facility would be capable of recycling used nuclear fuel from its own reactors as well as reactors from other companies. According to Oklo, the spent fuel is about 95% recyclable, and the energy available in nuclear waste could meet U.S. energy needs for over 150 years.

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Minimum wage advocates somehow think that their wishful thinking can override basic economics. But no matter how much they tell you otherwise, supply and demand are a thing. Raising the cost of labor will mean less labor employed, all other things being equal.

But every so often, we get an economic study that claims basic economics has been overturned.

But as André Marques explains, no matter what these studies purport to show, the minimum wage creates unemployment and a lack of opportunity for people with little or no work experience or skills.

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Corridors of hotels – even pricey ones – have become more and more dimly lit with more and more disturbing design elements.

While people scoping out their honeymoon stay will be shown photos of the lavish entryways, lobbies and the suites themselves, rarely are the hallways ever mentioned. Ditto for the casual traveler, or the monthly corporate commuter.

Some of us have physical situations where it is easy to be put off balance by the latest in decor. Those people who suffer from Meniere’s disease, have had a stroke, or taken a bad fall have enough to deal with without the latest in decor bad choices: rugs that look like their center opens into a vortex to hell right there in your close friend’s living room.

New York Post.

Bad news for Joe Biden and his cover-up merchants in the FBI and the media.

A Rasmussen poll out Monday, and exclusively revealed here, shows that almost three-quarters of voters (72%) regard the president’s handling of classified records as a scandal. That includes a majority (55%) of Democrats.

Nearly half (48%) of all voters say it is a “major scandal,” according to the national poll of 1,000 voters taken over the weekend.

But even more damning for the president is that 60% of all voters believe it is likely that information from those classified documents “was used by Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, in his foreign business deals.” Fully 44% believe it is “very likely.”

Among Democrats, 36% believe it is likely that Hunter used his dad’s classified files, with more than one in five saying it is “very likely.” Not a good omen for the president’s bid for re-election.

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A machete attack in New York’s Times Square. A stabbing at the Gare du Nord in Paris. A foiled plot in Germany. A shooting in Spain. It’s still only January, but 2023 has already made it clear: the jihadist threat is far from over.

Nit-pick: It’s not a ‘machete’, it’s a kukri knife.

Indeed, jihadism scholar Gilles Kepel points to an emerging “post-IS generation” in Europe that “combines two dimensions: terrorist attacks by individuals influenced by online ‘entrepreneurs of hatred’ who vilify specific targets, and the flourishing of a separatism culture on social networks that aims at a clear break with ‘kuffar’ (infidels) in the name of Salafism, and prepares the ground to seed further violence.”

Others, including Shiraz Maher, director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalization, warn that ISIS may well see a resurgence in the next year, with the possibility that thousands of foreign fighters now in Syrian detention camps could escape – creating what he called the “single greatest security threat to the West.”

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

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Welcome to the Whitest City in America.

Just 22 cups will be available from Proud Mary Coffee Roasters, which has locations in Portland and Austin, Texas.

Of course.

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Entropy is master of us all.

The stunning hypocrisy of Bill Barr’s probe into the Russia-Trump investigation (Vox)

Why Merrick Garland Should Fire Special Counsel Durham Now (Daily Beast) Getting too close to the truth?

MSNBC Uncorks Fever Dreams of MAGA Killing Democracy — As DirecTV Nixes Newsmax

On PBS, Amanpour Warns LGBTQ ‘Human Rights Are Under Fire’ from ‘Strange’ DeSantis

Ski resorts can now make fake snow in 80 degrees. Here’s why that’s a problem. (Washington Post)

Electric vehicles more expensive to fuel than gas-powered cars at end of 2022: consulting firm (Fox)

Fuel Costs of Electric Vehicles Overtake Gas-Powered Cars: Study (Epoch Times)

Norway’s last Arctic miners struggle with coal mine’s end (Associated Press)

The Guardian view on carbon offsetting: a model with dangerous flaws (The Guardian)

As carbon offsets, tree planting can be shady (The Hill)

‘Vegan,’ ‘sustainable’: How to spot misleading fashion claims (Washington Post)

Researchers Successfully Turn Abandoned Oil Well Into Giant Geothermal Battery (Futurism)

Environmental advocates express frustration over Biden regulation delays (The Hill)

Food, feed and fuel: global seaweed industry could reduce land needed for farming by 110m hectares, study finds (The Guardian)

Harvesting Ocean’s Bounty: Farming More Seaweed Could Help Fight Food Crisis, Deforestation and Climate Change (The Weather Channel)

Should COVID vaccines be given yearly? Proposal divides US scientists (Nature)

Annual? Bivalent? For all? Future of COVID shots murky after FDA deliberations (Ars Technica)

FDA Quietly Changes End Date for Study of Heart Inflammation After Pfizer COVID Vaccination (Epoch Times)

Guardian: Can video games change people’s minds about the climate crisis?

Kids Fight Off COVID More Easily, But Their Immunity Wanes Faster

NIH Failed To Monitor EcoHealth Alliance: Federal Watchdog

Karine Jean-Pierre upstaged by White House official in Biden docs saga, critics say: ‘She talks like a binder’ (Fox)

Former White House press secretary unloads on Karine Jean-Pierre: ‘I would feel shamed’ (Fox)

Social Security Has an Immigration Problem — and It’s Getting Worse (The Motley Fool)

Will the Hunter Biden saga spell trouble for Joe Biden? (The Economist) Why would it? It hasn’t so far.

Hunter Biden converted Delaware house with classified documents into home office (N.Y. Post)

‘Curiouser And Curiouser’ – Is Joe Biden Serving Two Masters? “Joe Biden has been in politics for 50 years. He’s never had a real job.”

Classified Docs Probe Pushes Biden Think Tank Into Spotlight

Obama Border Chief Says Immigration Crisis ‘Much Bigger’ Now As 77 Democratic Lawmakers Slam Biden

Lightfoot urges General Assembly to do its share to bail out city pension funds (Chicago Sun-Times)

Judge orders Confederate monument removed from Tuskegee amid property dispute

Leftist Media Claims Tyre Nichols Death At The Hands Of Five Black Police “Still About Racism”

Who Wants To Be White?

Are Blacks More Error Prone?

London Is Recruiting Functionally Illiterate Nonwhites to be Bobbies

Black People Kill Black People All the Time, But You Aren’t Allowed to Know That in the NYT

ABC Panelist Equates CRT Bans with Police Brutality Against Black People

Trump’s Social Network Is a Cesspool of Weird Fringe Ads (Daily Beast) SCRAAAAAAAPE that barrel….

Sen. Lindsey Graham: ‘There Are No Trump Policies’ Without Trump

Trump’s path to GOP nomination is strewn with obstacles (Washington Post) Obstacles like the Narrative Media.

Trump says he is ‘more angry’ than ever as he tries to revive White House bid (The Guardian)

Trump’s lasting legacy on the judiciary is not just at the Supreme Court (Washington Post)

Christian Nationalism’s Popularity Should Be a Wake Up Call (TIME)

‘There Is a Real Sense That the Apocalypse Is Coming’ (Politico)

Twitter Files #15: More glimpses behind the Potemkin village the left built

Taibbi Shreds Hamilton 68 ‘Laughable And Damning’ Response To Being Exposed As Frauds

Let’s go crazy, taxes edition

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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has announced that it has successfully demonstrated the operation of a rocket engine technology for the first time in space. This experiment proved the efficiency of a rotating detonation engine (RDE) which converted the shock waves generated when a mixture of fuel and oxygen reacts explosively into thrust.

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80/20 provides T-slot aluminum profiles, or bars, that have channels used to connect other bars and parts — for instance, panels, linear bearings or casters. It is a building system anyone can use to create custom solutions.

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

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A man suspected of breaking into a Seattle home has refused to come clean about his intentions, even though police found him fully clothed in a bathtub filled with water.

A woman returned to her home Friday night to find a window smashed and an unknown man inside the house, according to the Seattle Police Department.

She remained outside the home and called police. Upon their arrival, officers instructed anyone inside to come out. When they got no reply, they went in to search the home — and found a suspect in a bathroom.

“The man was clothed but very wet, and the bathtub was full of water,” police said in a statement.

Full of hopes and full of fears
Full of laughter full of tears
Full of dreams to last the years in Seattle

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A UK man was crushed to death by a hydraulic ‘telescopic’ Urinal designed to pop out of the ground for use.

The man, who has not been named, was performing maintenance on the pop-up urinal at Cambridge Circus outside the Palace Theatre, when the hydraulic unit trapped him below street level.

Think of it as evolution in action.

These types of pop-up urinals appeared in London around 20 years ago to discourage urination in the street.

Uh-huh. San Francisco, take note.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Several years ago, I saw a cartoon that went something like this: a liberal college administrator tells a conservative speaker that his event is being canceled because there have been threats of violence. The conservative asks, who are the threats coming from? and the liberal administrator answers, “Us.”

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What does it mean to be “woke”? If you ask talk show host Joe Walsh, a former Republican politician who’s migrated leftward and now regularly denounces the GOP, being woke “just means being empathetic. And tolerant. And willing to listen. And open to learning.” On the other hand, if you ask writer Wesley Yang—a public intellectual whose politics are decidedly “anti-woke”—the word means “active discrimination to obtain equal outcomes across identity groups, dismantling law enforcement while policing speech and thought, and sterilizing gay, autistic, and gender-nonconforming children.”

The Guardian.

There’s a reason Bradley Johnston watches “literally everything” with subtitles on. It’s not an accessibility issue – the 25-year-old is a native English speaker and isn’t hard of hearing. He is “the kind of TV viewer that just doesn’t want to work for it”.

“Like, if there’s a subtle moment some people might miss that’s integral to the plot, let me know about it,” he says.

Take, for example, the recent season of HBO hit The White Lotus. “There is so much going on in that show … I know there’s something being shown to me that I need to pick up on, so just tell me what it is.” Or the horror movie Barbarian, which Johnston saw first at the cinema and then watched again at home with a closer eye. “I honestly reckon it was a better watch the second time around because of the subtitles,” he says.

Lazy listeners it is, then.