Read part of Trump’s deposition in the E. Jean Carrol libel lawsuit (PBS) Just the part that supports the Narrative, of course; this is, after all, PBS.

Trump: Special counsel Jack Smith might ‘turn out to be a criminal’ (MSNBC)

Donald Trump Calls Special Counsel Investigating Him a ‘Terrorist’ (Newsweek)

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg tells CNN that his office’s investigation of Trump Org. will continue (CNN) It’s not as if he’s got anything else to do, since they aren’t prosecuting criminals any more.

Biden’s Document Blunder Is Nothing Like Trump’s Crime (New York Magazine) Jonathan Chait indulges in a little cognitive dissonance.

ABC Suggests Trump Shares Blame For 2016 Terrorist Plot

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A North African culture-enricher made a nuisance of himself on Wednesday at the Gare du Nord in Paris by waving a sharp object around and inadvertently injuring six people.

During the incident the unfortunate “youth” reportedly shouted “Allahu Akhbar”, which is Arabic for “I have a known history of psychological problems.”

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

Steve Sailer.

Dear ChatGPT: Write me a Washington Post book review of a novel by a whiny Asian-American guy obsessed with an Asian-American player in a black-dominated sport who once got a hot hand for seven games in a row. Blame everything on white people.

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

Check it out.

Washington Post.

Don’t think of this as selling out; think of it as buying in.

The Hill.

I suspect that the provision about family members may be unconstitutional.

The Hill.

Maybe it’s something about the Hippocratic oath: Doctors, nurses and pharmacists rate highest for honesty and ethics among 18 common professions in the latest version of a long-running Gallup poll.

And maybe it’s something about the sanctity of the dinner hour: Telemarketers rate lowest in the Gallup ethics survey, followed by members of Congress and sellers of cars.

I think that the Pandemic Panic may have impacted the medical profession a bit. Just a bit.

Hochul’s myopic migrant view could bankrupt NY city and state (N.Y. Post)

Biden pays tribute to Ash Carter, defense secretary who made military more inclusive (Washington Post) I.e. more Woke.

Eric Adams pitches record $102.7B NYC budget — without money for migrants (N.Y. Post)

Pritzker threatens to fire police for not enforcing Illinois gun ban

Illinois sheriff explains why they won’t enforce assault weapons ban

Anti-ESG drive in U.S. could have cost taxpayers up to $708 mln – study (Reuters)

What to do about Sotomayor (Politico)

Virginia Progressive Prosecutor Won’t Prosecute Misdemeanors Including Hit-and-Runs  Time to leave.

‘California Is The State Of Freedom,’ Says Man Who Locked Everyone In Their Homes For 2 Years (Babylon Bee)

Up to 5,000 Soldiers to be Deployed To Secure Upcoming WEF Meeting in Davos

‘Woke’ Now Dictating Western Foreign Policy

With All The Female M&M’s Off In Their Own Bag, Male M&M’s Finally Enjoying Some Peace And Quiet (Babylon Bee)

Scotland’s Self-Determination of Gender Could Fuel Independence Movement

Democratic Women’s Caucus Wears Matching White Butcher Coats In Support Of Abortion (Babylon Bee)

Progressives eagerly await their chance to harass McCarthy (Politico)

How McCarthy is paying back the GOP leaders that voted for him (CNN)

Eric Adams blasts NY Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli for migrant budget critique (N.Y. Post)

The truth about Stone Mountain’s giant Confederate memorial (The Economist)

New documentary explores Stone Mountain’s history (Axios)

How Stone Mountain weaponized art against Black people, in a compelling new documentary (L.A. Times)

‘The nation’s executioners’: the US supreme court’s shift towards capital punishment (The Guardian)

When Idaho legislator likens women’s reproductive rights to cows, it’s no laughing matter (Idaho Statesman)

Wisconsin Republican who bragged about low turnout faces calls to resign (The Guardian)

Awkward moment on MSNBC as Andrea Mitchell scolds a colleague using ‘pro-life’ term (Fox)

Republicans invent fake procedure for symbolic anti-abortion vote (MSNBC)

Why Prince Harry is such a threat to a certain kind of man (CNN)

Amid abortion bans, Muslim Americans turn back to their faith’s ruling on abortion (NPR)

Joe Manchin’s top aide to join oil and gas lobbying group (Axios)

Idaho Lawmaker Goes Beserk at School Board Meeting Over Trans Issues (Daily Beast)

Dem Lawmakers Urge Biden to Void Visa of Brazil’s Bolsonaro

Rightwing group pours millions in ‘dark money’ into US voter suppression bid (The Guardian) More than Soros? I don’t believe THAT.

Bullies Stuff Kid Into Locker For Not Giving His Pronouns (Babylon Bee)

Time to branch out? Trees put lawns in the shade when it comes to tackling climate crisis (The Guardian)

Extreme ‘Rogue Wave’ in The North Pacific Confirmed as Most Extreme on Record (Science Alert)

A possible carbon-capture milestone in the fight against climate change (CBS News)

Swiss company that counts Microsoft as a customer says it’s removed CO2 from the air and put it in the ground (CNBC)

More homes using heat pumps as cheaper, greener alternative to fossil fuels (PBS)

Most Schools Burn Fossil Fuels for Heat. Here’s Why That’s a Problem (Education Week)

‘A new industrial age’: The coming renewable-energy boom (Al Jezeera)

IEA says clean energy manufacturing set for substantial growth as world enters ‘new industrial age’ (CNBC)

Why humans should worry about national parks’ effect on animals, plants (Deseret News)

The US was poised to pass the biggest environmental law in a generation. What went wrong? (Vox)

Five Climate Questions for 2023 (Mother Jones)

Oil companies sue Los Angeles over ban on oil and gas drilling (CNBC)

A Giant Leap Towards a Greener Future: Breakthrough in Sustainable Ammonia and Fertilizer Production (SciTech Daily)

Celebrity Who Travels On Private Jets And Collects Luxury Sports Cars Says You’re The Reason For Climate Change (Babylon Bee)

Garland appoints special counsel to investigate Biden docs (Associated Press)

US President Joe Biden’s Office Admits Keeping Classified Documents (CNN)

Biden spars over classified documents in garage with Fox News’ Peter Doocy (Fox)

Kevin McCarthy can’t get too giddy over Biden documents cache. Trump’s case is much worse (Fresno Bee)

Speaker McCarthy eviscerates the ‘Biden’s document mess is different’ defense (N.Y. Post)

Biden’s whirlwind final days as vice president had aides scrambling to close his White House office (CNN)

Salvadoran girls found on Rio Grande at U.S.-Mexico border (Reuters)

Here’s a taste of what Biden’s open-border policies cost local taxpayers across America (N.Y. Post)

1,000-person migrant tent opens in El Paso to help with border crisis (N.Y.  Post)

Study Finds Despite Campaign Promises, Malarkey Has Increased 376% Under Biden (Babylon Bee)

Biden Says He Is Unaware Of Any Classified Docs, Or Who He Is, Or Why He’s Sitting In This Oval-Shaped Office (Babylon Bee)

How much should people worry about Covid’s newly-dominant XBB.1.5 variant? Our medical analyst explains (CNN)

Why Rapid COVID-19 Test Results Are Getting More Confusing (TIME)

Childhood vaccinations in the U.S. fall again, leaving kids at risk for preventable disease (NBC News)

Seniors shrug off White House urgent pleas to get vaccinated as new variant spreads (Politico)

Should you wear a mask on flights? WHO issues new recommendations as COVID variant spreads (Euronews)

WHO officials recommend mask-wearing for travel in light of XBB.1.5, stop short of endorsing travel checks (The Hill)

Disagreement Among Progressives Over Whether The Vax Is The Literal Body Of Fauci Or Just Symbolic (Babylon Bee)

Military To End Vax Mandate Now That All The Conservatives Have Been Weeded Out (Babylon Bee)

Pfizer Reportedly Working On Vaccine To Counteract Gas Stove Emissions (Babylon Bee)

Will this Fulton County DA be the first prosecutor to indict Trump? (MSNBC)

Trump is facing various criminal charges – here’s what we can learn from legal cases against Nixon and Clinton (The Conversation)

Special counsel seeks information on who is paying Trump orbit legal bills as investigation intensifies (CNN)

John Kelly was ‘terrified’ by aspects of Trump, says Michael Schmidt (MSNBC)

Trump Dealt New Legal Blow From Judge He Appointed, Kirschner Explains (Newsweek)

DOJ Indicts Trump For Biden’s Possession Of Classified Documents (Babylon Bee)

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A court has ordered a military-aged Moroccan man who illegally entered Spanish territory by boat and who is accused of having raped and beaten a 60-year-old woman to remain in prison while he awaits trial, sources from the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands say. He faces charges of sexual assault, robbery with violence, and injuries and threats.

The Moroccan man, aged 25, was arrested by agents from Spain’s National Police last Wednesday, January 4th, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife—a city on the island of Tenerife, in Spain’s Canary Islands—a mere five days after he had arrived on the Spanish islands, La Gaceta de la Iberosfera reports.

In the old days he would have been strung up from a nearby lamp-post and that would have been the end of it.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

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When I’m asked why I never had kids, my standard answer is, I’ve spent my life in mortal fear of being tethered to another human in a manner from which I can’t legally walk away if I choose.
That’s an honest answer, but it’s not the complete one. The second part, which I always leave out, is that I was petrified of having a tard. There’s no history of tardiness in my family. But no matter your family history, having kids is always a roll of the DNA dice, and I couldn’t face the possibility of having a child who would be, shall we say, more work and less payoff.
Yes, that’s a terribly unflattering thing to admit. But it’s true.

My younger brother is a  proglodyte. That’s not officially a tard, but the ultimate effect is the same. That’s one out of three of my parents’ kids. Not a chance I’m willing to take.

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Three Cherokee tribes are pushing aggressively for the U.S. government to make good on a nearly 200-year-old promise to award them a sitting delegate in the House of Representatives.

But, sensing that lawmakers may finally act amid the Biden administration’s historic advances in Native American causes, they’re also quietly competing against each other for the largely ceremonial seat. And so they have done what those in search of Washington influence often do: hired a bevy of consultants, lawyers and K Street types to push their cause.

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Greenhouse gases and plastic waste are two of the biggest environmental problems the world faces today. A new reactor from Cambridge is designed to tackle both at once, converting CO2 and used plastic bottles into useful materials, powered entirely by sunlight.

Lightfoot campaign promises to stop soliciting CPS student volunteers after criticism (Chicago Sun-Times) BRAAAAAAAINS!

Lightfoot’s campaign emails Chicago teachers for student volunteers (WGN)

Son of Civil Rights Activist Charged for ‘Stuffing’ Ballots Into Voting Machines (Daily Beast)

Perry County Commission Chairman charged with voting multiple times, ‘stuffing’ ballot box

Emory University will offer up to $300,000 in grants for ‘racial justice and equity’ (Fox)

Gov. Kathy Hochul excludes money for Eric Adams to combat migrant crisis in State of State address (N.Y. Post)

Hochul: Not enough ‘statewide interest’ in migrant issue to bring up in State of the State speech (N.Y. Post)

State lawmaker says Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday should be celebrated without holiday for Robert E. Lee

Wife of Byron Donalds Hits ‘Racist Attacks’

Georgia Students Sue District for Banning BLM Material

Lightfoot Campaign Asks CPS Teachers to Encourage Students to Help Her Win Reelection in Return for Credit

Team Trump Hit With Fresh Jan. 6 Subpoena: Report (Daily Beast)

Trump campaign officials got subpoena asking new questions about Jan. 6 (Washington Post)

The Civil War exposes the risks of charging — or not charging — Trump (Washington Post)

Trump’s ‘Fall Guy’ Committed Crimes ‘At His Direction’: Kirschner (Newsweek) For which there is absolutely no evidence.

Judge will allow prosecutors to use Trump’s ‘stand back and stand by’ comment in Proud Boys trial (CNN)

Scarborough Instructs Garland To Prosecute Trump on Documents, Not Biden!

To defeat Trumpism, stop letting MAGA stunts drive the debate (Washington Post) Greg Sargent loses his shit. (There is, of course, no such thing as ‘Trumpism’ except in the fever dreams of the witch-hunt media.)

The Special Counsel Investigating Trump Faces Headwinds Few Others Have (N.Y. Times) Lack of anything resembling a crime, for one thing.

Trump discussed using a nuclear weapon on North Korea in 2017 and blaming it on someone else, book says (MSNBC) The more outrageous the lie, the more books proglodytes will buy.

Trump’s Shortlist of VP Picks All Have One Thing in Common (Daily Beast) It is of course delusional to think that a writer for the Daily Beast has any clue about who is on Trump’s ‘shortlist of VP picks’. Proglodytes fancy themselves mind-readers but really are just day-dreamers.

How the humble gas stove became the latest flash point in the culture wars (Washington P0st)

Study raises questions, political debate over gas stove safety (NBC News)

Illinois bans military-style weapons in win for gun control advocates (The Guardian)

Sheriffs across Illinois push back against bill banning assault weapons (WGN)

Paul Tudor Jones, hedge fund billionaire, wants to do away with ‘ESG’ (CNBC)

Hundreds Call for Resignation of Harvard Kennedy School Dean Accused of Blocking Fellowship Over Israel Criticism (Harvard Crimson)

George Soros Spewed Nearly $21 Billion into Global Politics Since 2000: Report

Oregon Dep. of Education Encourages Schools To Hide Student’s Gender Identity From Parents

Michael Busler: Blame the US Chamber of Commerce for Woke Turn

The U.S. May Finally Breach the Debt Ceiling. Here’s Why That Would Be Very Bad. (N.Y. Times) Very bad for the spend-o-crats.

9 Times Democrats Used a Kitchen Appliance They Want To Ban You From Owning

Progressive Prosecutors Play Coy With Evidence To Sell Plea Deals. Judges Aren’t Happy About It.

Man in Panties Makes Appearance in Arizona Dem’s Government Video Call

GOP Bill Allows Only American Flag Flown Over U.S. Embassies and Consulates

FAA Made Computer System Name Gender-Neutral  No wonder it broke down.

Gov. Hobbs Proposes $40M Toward Illegals Attending Arizona Colleges

MSNBC’s Ruhle Whines GOP Voted to Protect Babies in Botched Abortions

GOP thrusts gas stoves, Biden’s green agenda into the culture wars (Washington Post) That’s like saying the Jews thrust anti-semitism into Nazi politics.

Democrats’ Identification as Liberal Now 54%, a New High (Gallup) If they were telling the truth it would be about 95%.

PBS’s ‘Spectacular’ Smear of U.S. Immigration Policy: ‘A Racist…Discriminatory Journey’

Ban Gas Stoves? Just the Idea Gets Some in Washington Boiling. (N.Y. Times) Nothing to see here, move along, move along….

Right’s new fight: Gas stoves (Axios) Joining the Narrative Media effort to downplay the latest statist trial balloon.

There are no moderate House Republicans (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Dr. Phil debate on illegal immigration gets explosive: ‘Why didn’t White people stay in England?’ (Fox)

The GOP’s first bill exposes the false promise of right-wing populism (MSNBC)

Over 200 Democrats Vote Against Condemning Attacks on Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers

Kash Patel Says Jan. 6 Committee Buried Key Evidence From His Testimony

Emory Law Professor Denounces The Late Antonin Scalia As “Basically A Klansman”

Jim Jordan, Church Committee Pretender (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continues it’s mission of being a Democrat tool.

Jewish Students Reported a Professor for Anti-Semitism. Their University Retaliated Against Them.

Survey finds ‘classical fascist’ antisemitic views widespread in U.S. (Washington Post) Mostly among Democrats, I suspect, who have been fascists since Woodrow Wilson.

Exclusive: Alex Jones Phone Dump Reveals Text Convos With Tucker Carlson (Huffington Post) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH!

Man arrested at gunpoint in DeSantis voter fraud crackdown, video shows (The Guardian)

Alphabet Mob Smacks Down Dungy For Attending Christian Conference

Oceans are melting Greenland’s glaciers 100x faster than originally thought; new report finds (KXAN)

The past 8 years were the world’s warmest, report finds (Axios)

Ocean heat hit another record high in 2022, fueling extreme weather (CNN)

Saudi Aramco bets on being the last oil major standing (Financial Times)

Breakaway iceberg raises concerns over Antarctica’s ‘doomsday glacier’ (New Scientist)

Biden administration announces largest-ever funding opportunity for addressing environmental equality (The Hill)

This is the climate change ‘scam’ that’s making agenda-pushers ‘loaded’: Jimmy Failla

On Possible Ban, CNN’s Weir Compares Gas Stoves To Idling Cars

Why the Biden Administration Is So Interested in Your Gas Stove

Absurd Scenes As Police Clash With Climate Protesters Barricaded In Abandoned German Village

Mammoth Mountain Closes Because Of Too Much Snow  Gotta love that global warming.

White House: Classified Documents Found in Biden’s Garage

Second batch of classified Biden documents found (BBC)

Joe Biden Says He Is Unaware Of Content Of Classified Documents (CNN) I’m prepared to believe it.

Biden’s legal team found another batch of classified documents in search of second location (CNN) But that’s not the same as Trump, no sir, not at all! Orange Man Bad!

The Biden papers and the Mar-a-Lago documents: Apples and oranges? (The Hill) Apples and persimmons? Pineapples and kumquats?

The Hunter Biden, Chinese connection to the classified documents scandal: What you need to know (Fox)

Border Patrol agent describes danger at the border: ‘We are paying for this in United States citizens’ lives’ (Fox)

The Times tries to preemptively defend Joe Biden with Hunter opus (N.Y. Post)

White House calls GOP probe into Biden family ‘political stunt’ to ‘get attention on Fox’ (CNN)

GOP opens long-promised investigation into Biden family (Associated Press)

Biden Rolls Out New Scheme To Turn Student Loans Into Welfare

‘Shady Business’: House Republicans Press Biden Admin for Biden Family’s Secret Bank Records

Biden’s Bungled Border Promises

Biden’s DOE Funnels $50 Million to Green Energy Company That Sources Materials From China

Here’s What the FAA Has Been Focused on Instead of Keeping Planes in The Air

Buttigieg Slammed After FAA Outage Grounds All Flights

White House refuses to answer key questions about Biden classified documents (USA Today)

Sen. Graham Demands Special Counsel Probe As Biden Breaks Silence Over Classified Docs

Top GOP Lawmaker Demands Treasury Hand Over Hunter Biden Reports

Biden Education Department’s Latest Plan for Socializing Higher Education

Experts Question Why Biden And Trump Treated Differently In Classified Document Cases

NY Times: Charges Against Hunter Biden Could Be Imminent

WATCH: Journos Speculated Trump Could ‘Go Down Like Al Capone.’ Now, Biden’s Classified Docs No Big Deal.

Meyers: GOP Criticizing Biden In ‘The Dumbest Way Possible’ On Scandal

Omicron XBB.1.5 does not have mutations known to make people sicker, WHO says (CNBC)

Coronavirus ‘chimera’ made in lab shows what makes omicron seemingly less deadly (Washington Post)

COVID-19 symptoms have evolved. Here’s what to look out for now (Deseret News)

Long COVID: Biden Extends Public Health Emergency for Pandemic  Of course he does. Keep that gravy train going.

Science! Study of Monkeypox in Women Used 47% Biological Dudes

Deadline Passes For Pfizer To Submit Results Of Post-Vaccination Heart Inflammation Study To US Regulators  Prediction: Nobody will get fired, nobody will go to jail.

The Federalist.

New licensing rules in Minnesota that require teachers to ‘affirm’ students’ transgender identities will meet immediate court challenges from civil liberties advocates.

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The Department of Defense is formally ending the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for the U.S. military and the National Guard, but did not provide any signal as to whether those discharged over having refused the vaccine would have any chance of being reenlisted.

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Legislators have a strange relationship with magic. To achieve that which physically cannot be done, they like to wave magic wands and pretend that it can. Reality puts a limit on political power, a realization that always sits poorly with those in charge of our trillion-dollar bureaucratic machinery.

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is the nation’s most unpopular senator by a wide margin, according to a poll released Wednesday.

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Former Louisiana Democratic Party leader Karen Carter Peterson, who resigned from the state Senate last year year citing depression and a gambling addiction — and later pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud — was sentenced on Wednesday to 22 months in prison.

Peterson, who served in the Louisiana Legislature for 22 years, admitted in August to taking more than $140,000 in funds from her reelection campaign and from the state Democratic Party. The ex-lawmaker spent a “substantial amount” of that money on casino gambling, according to court documents.

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Favorite quote from this New York Times article: “Mx. Johnson recalled regularly crying while getting dressed for work at an upscale restaurant in Seattle.”

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Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a Republican, signed seven executive orders to decrease the size of her state’s government, combat “indoctrination” and critical race theory in schools, and remove the term “Latinx” from government documents.

During her inaugural address Tuesday, Sanders pledged to sign an executive order “preventing the political indoctrination of Arkansas’ schoolchildren.”

“As long as I am governor,” she said, “our schools will focus on the skills our children need to get ahead in the modern world—not brainwashing our children with a left-wing political agenda.”

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A Democratic state lawmaker in Colorado resigned Sunday, weeks after facing felony charges alleging she falsified her residency to run in her district again following last year’s redistricting.

Prosecutors say Tracey Bernett, who represented part of Boulder County in the Colorado House of Representatives, lied in sworn documents when she said she lived in an apartment within the new boundaries of her district. The apartment allegedly went unused, accumulating “cobwebs,” according to police, while Bernett continued living in her old home outside the new district boundaries, CPR News reported.

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A huge suicide bomb ripped through a busy street outside of Afghanistan’s foreign ministry building in the capital of Kabul on Wednesday, killing at least 5 people, according to an initial government assessment. Al Jazeera suggested possibly 20 or more killed, based on statements from the scene.

It’s the second major terror attack in a matter of weeks. The Taliban’s information ministry described that the bomber attempted to enter the foreign ministry at a moment a Chinese delegation was meeting with Taliban officials there.

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

Patriot Missiles Paired With Naval Vertical Launchers Pitched By Lockheed

North Korea’s nuclear escalation, explained (Vox)

Pentagon awards $40M ‘Vampire’ contract for Ukraine’s drone defenses (Defense News)

Russian Officials Throw a Tantrum After U.S. Diplomat Calls Putin ‘Small Man’ (Daily Beast)

Russian artillery fire down nearly 75%, US officials say, in latest sign of struggles for Moscow (CNN)

Top Marine General In Japan Bluntly Describes US Is “Setting The Theatre” For Future War With China  My, what a surprise.

Putin Deploys the Nuke-Capable ‘Sledgehammer’ to Ukraine

Turkey Is Sending Cold War-Era Cluster Bombs to Ukraine (Foreign Policy)

US to Increase Number of Anti-ship Missiles in Japan

War In Ukraine: Hunting For The Mega Trade

Oxfam Report: US, UK Supplied Arms, Killed Civilians in Yemen

New, more transmissible COVID-19 subvariant XBB.1.5 on the rise (ABC)

Pentagon formally drops COVID-19 vaccine mandate for troops

Meet MGen, a new STI going around that no one is talking about (Salon)

Some newly mailed Covid tests from the government expire imminently — even with extensions (NBC News)

Moderna CEO says COVID moving into endemic stage

Parent group wants mask mandate back at Boston Public Schools (Boston Globe) Forcing people to do things your way is what Taxachussetts is all about.

WHO meeting to decide on COVID emergency set for Jan. 27 (Reuters)

Biden team eyes end of Covid emergency declaration and shift in Covid team (Politico)

Report: Biden’s COVID-19 Emergency Extension Might Be Last

More US schools institute mask mandates as COVID cases rise (ABC News)

Sen. Sanders to Moderna: Don’t Hike COVID-19 Vaccine Price

Scientists to Expand COVID Genomic Sequencing to Better Track Flu, RSV

House COVID Panel to Focus on Origin, Pandemic Funding  They can’t do much, with the Senate in Democrat hands, but at least they can get the word out.

Merrick Garland’s Special Counsel Is Zeroing In On Trump’s Inner Circle (Vanity Fair)

Michael Cohen: When working for Trump ‘you think you’re not going to get caught’ (MSNBC)

Trump Executive Weisselberg Prepares for Jail on Rikers Island

Lawsuit Reveals Trump Can’t Stand Being Compared to Hitler (Daily Beast)

DoJ seeks to question Trump team that found more classified documents (The Guardian)

Trump’s tax returns show he was a bigger risk than we realized (MSNBC)

Trump’s Tax Returns Expose Sweetheart Loans For Ivanka And Her Brothers (Forbes) All this while ignoring Hunter. Amazing.

Study claims wealthy blue state is America’s most affordable, beating states thousands are moving to (Fox) And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Massachusetts named best state to raise a family (CBS Boston)

‘Fed up’: Newsom pledges millions to clear California homeless encampments (S.F. Gate)

Age-check X-rays risk harming child asylum seekers, government warned (The Guardian)

MRI knee scans for migrants who say that they’re under 18 (The Times)

Pritzker signs Illinois assault weapons ban

Trade unions representing laid-off Keystone XL workers silent after report shows thousands of job losses

Liberal media are trying to protect the feds from the much-needed House weaponization committee (N.Y.  Post)

Some Trans People Are Preparing to Flee the US and Seek Asylum Abroad (Vice)

Crime Concerns Drove Asian Americans Away From New York Democrats (N.Y. Times)

‘Classified Classified’? The View Defends Biden Stealing Documents

Forgery Cases Give Supreme Court Opportunity to Hold Unions Accountable for Shady Tactics

Kevin McCarthy Demotes Schiff, Swalwell, and Omar

‘Man-Made Disaster’: New Oregon Gov. Tackles Housing

Is Defying Parents the Only Ethical Alternative? (The Atlantic) Conor Friedersdorf makes the case for progressive totalitarianism. (Friedersdorf, like David Frum, used to write for National Review until he figured out that the money was better on the other side.)

Oh Gay-be! Harvard University Class Focuses on Gay, Trans, and Queer BABIES

Houston Diner Who Fatally Shot Restaurant Robber to Face Grand Jury

U.S. House Republicans vote to go after Biden Justice Department (Reuters)

Oklahoma State University sued over policies that punish students for ‘opinionated’ views

Advocates slam Supreme Court justice over “vile” comments (Axios)

From ‘Avatar’ to Elon Musk, exploration is out and culture war is in (Washington Post)

The stink from Ducey’s $200 million shipping container border wall just got a little stinkier (Arizona Republic)

Trump-appointed judge in Yale clerk boycott condemns ‘cancel culture’ at Harvard event (Reuters)

DeSantis Allies Plot the Hostile Takeover of a Liberal College (N.Y. Times) No mention of the fact that progressives did their own ‘hostile takeover’ of a formerly rigorous college.

2023 is the year for hunting heretics (The Hill) A Woke heretic hunter indulges in a little projection.

How the Biden administration can slow the GOP’s dangerous schemes (Washington P0st) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

The Normalization of Marjorie Taylor Greene (The Bulwark) Mona Charen pushes the Narrative like a good little tool.

U.S. would ‘treat seriously’ requests to revoke Bolsonaro’s visa (Washington Post) The witch-hunt knows no borders.

I once ran Human Rights Watch. Harvard blocked my fellowship over Israel (The Guardian)

Hero Customer Who Shot Armed Robber At Houston Taco Joint Ordered To Face Grand Jury By Soros-Funded DA

McCarthy’s mysterious deal with the hard right (Washington Post) As opposed to the soft right?

Capitol riot far-right internet personality gets 60 days (Associated Press) In the Narrative Media, there is no right but the far-right.

MSNBC Predicts Violence As A Result Of GOP Rhetoric, Oversight

Progressive Journalists Can’t Read a 3-Page Bill. Calling It ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill Is Easier

PBS Host Dubiously Shrieks All 20 McCarthy Vote Holdouts Were ‘Election Deniers’  Like Hillary?

GOP Kicks Off Oversight of Biden Docs Case  Not ‘Congress’, mind you, but ‘GOP’.

Divided House Approves G.O.P. Inquiry Into ‘Weaponization’ of Government (N.Y. Times)

‘Divorced From Reality’: Paul Krugman Claims ‘Election Deniers’ Are Also ‘Economy Deniers’  Says the man who has been wrong EVERY SINGLE TIME.

Jordan Peterson: Enemy Of The State

MSNBC: GOP Investigating Investigators is an ‘Insurrection Committee’

One simple graph shows why we need to study ways of reflecting sunlight to cool the Earth (CNBC)

This firm is working to control the climate. Should the world let it? (Washington P0st)

Biden says US can’t ‘wall ourselves off’ as his Delaware beach house adds new barrier (Fox)

Coming soon: Beef, coffee, and chocolate, without a side of environmental destruction (Vox)

Biodiversity: Rising tide of extinctions on Madagascar (BBC)

Oceans were the hottest ever recorded in 2022, analysis shows (The Guardian)

Population growth is a key driver of climate breakdown and biodiversity loss (The Guardian)

Conservations argue feds aren’t doing enough to protect rare plant from cattle (NBC)

‘Is There Something More Sinister Going On?’ Authorities Fear Extremists Are Targeting U.S. Power Grid (TIME)

We must act now to protect the electric grid from drones (The Hill)

Climate change makes heat waves, storms and droughts worse, climate report confirms (NPR)

Relentless rain, record heat: study finds climate crisis worsened extreme weather (The Guardian)

U.S. greenhouse emissions show signs of slowing — but not quickly enough (NBC News)

‘Mineral’ is the newest Alphabet company with a focus on sustainable agriculture

Renewables to surpass coal as global electricity source in just 2 years (Electrek) Yeah, sure.

Ozone Layer Recovers, Limiting Global Warming: UN Report

Judge Dismisses Lawsuit About Big Oil Conspiracy

Net Zero Will Lead To The End Of Modern Civilisation, Says Top Scientist

Lightfoot’s ‘No. 1 cheerleader’ in City Council rethinking support over mayor’s failure to call after he accidentally shot himself (Chicago Sun-Times) I am not making this up.

New Lightfoot ad touts her efforts against violent crime (Chicago Sun-Times) I guess that’s why crime has dropped so much on her watch … Oh, wait….

Lightfoot confronts her Achilles’ heel: violent crime and the perception of it (Fox ) BRAAAAAAAINS!

Fani Willis, the Georgia prosecutor investigating Trump, has taken on seemingly untouchable targets (Washington Post)

Elite University Department Bans Use of Word ‘Field,’ Claiming It’s Too Racist You can’t make this shit up.

Federal Judge Orders Stacey Abrams Group To Reimburse Georgia $230K for Spurious Election Lawsuit

This Prestigious Harvard Fellowship Bans White Applicants

Golden Globes Host Tells Audience ‘I’m Here Because I’m Black’

Fact Check: Rep. Ayanna Pressley Claims Abortion Is ‘Out of Reach’ for US Minorities

Biden’s classified documents issue adds to House Republicans’ growing list of investigations (CNN)

Biden ‘surprised’ to learn of classified docs at Penn think tank: ‘I don’t know’ what’s in them (Fox)

Watch how Biden reacted to reporter questions on classified documents (CNN)

Biden isn’t on the same legal planet as Trump when it comes to classified docs (MSNBC)

The Trump and Biden classified-document revelations are not the same (Washington Post)

Biden builds taxpayer-funded wall around Delaware beach house despite opposing border barriers (Fox)

US House Republicans Vote For Investigation Of Joe Biden Presidency (CNN) What goes around, comes around.

DOJ reviewing potentially classified docs at Biden center (Associated Press)

Border pressures migrate north as Venezuelans head to Denver (Associated Press)

Safety official’s remarks about possible gas stove ban fuel hot GOP takes about Biden (NBC)

Montana AG rips Biden admin for bombshell Keystone report: ‘Economic boom’ traded for ‘dangerous’ alternative

Biden administration prepares more measures to curb border crossings, keep migrants from journeying to the US (CNN) And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

DeSantis Lawyers Assail Biden Immigration Rules in Opening Arguments

Trump calls on FBI to raid Biden over classified files, misleadingly comparing the situation to documents found at Mar-a-Lago (Insider) Misleadingly!

Feds Propose ‘Student Loan Safety Net’ Alongside Forgiveness

Lemon: Biden Document Scandal Already ‘Politicized By Those On The Right’  Gee, I wonder why?

Morning Joe on Biden Classified Docs: ‘No Comparison’! ‘False Equivalency’!

FLASHBACK: Biden Shocked Anyone Could Be ‘Irresponsible’ Enough to Unknowingly Possess Classified Docs

Numbers Don’t Lie: America’s Border Crisis Is Biden-Made

Inflation Causes 50% to Stop Saving for Retirement  The Crust don’t want you to save for retirement. They want you totally dependent on government handouts once you can no longer work.

Pete Buttigieg took government jet to NYC for radio interview, ACLU meeting before flying back hours later (Fox) What’s the use of having power if you can’t abuse it?

House Republican files articles of impeachment against DHS Sec. Mayorkas (Fox) And so it starts. It won’t go anywhere, because Democrats control the Senate.

‘Republicans Quickly Pounced’; Nets Unmoved by Biden Having Classified Docs at Think Tank

Latino Nets Mad Biden Didn’t Talk to Migrants  What did they expect?

CNN Fears ‘Over-Criminalizing Mishandling’ Docs After Biden Caught

Getting “Personal”: Chuck Todd Dismisses Investigation Into Possible Biden Foreign Influence-Peddling

Southern Border Apprehensions At All-Time High  Despite Biden’s best efforts.

Apartment Demand “Evaporated” As Inflation Crushed Consumer Confidence

Shortage Fears Spike As Some Costco And Walmart Stores Run Out Of Eggs

Privacy Watchdog: ATF Uses Stingrays To Track Americans  I’d be astonished if they didn’t.

Hundreds Of Illegal Aliens Intercepted Off Florida Coast Repatriated To Cuba, Haiti

Double Standard: The View Argues That Biden Deserves “The Benefit Of The Doubt” On Classified Documents

Read it.

Get ready for the riots to break out… France’s government has just proposed raising the legal retirement age as it embarks on significant reforms to the pension system, and not for the first time. The Macron government going years back was already met with fierce pushback and anger upon earlier similar proposals and major overhaul attempts. The plan was unveiled Tuesday by Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, and proposes raising legal retirement age from 62 to 64 by 2030.

Wall Street Journal.

Coercion in the cause of banning fossil fuels is no vice for the Biden Administration, which is now coming after cooks. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) could soon ban gas stoves.
CPSC Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. teased in an interview with Bloomberg News this week that the agency plans to propose new regulations for gas stoves, which could include a ban. “This is a hidden hazard,” Mr. Trumka said. “Any option is on the table. Products that can’t be made safe can be banned.”
Mr. Trumka isn’t worried that gas stoves might cause accidental burns—a hidden hazard for electric range-tops that stay hot long after they’re turned off. Instead, the agency’s purported concern is that gas stoves cause indoor air pollution and asthma, though there’s scant evidence to support such claims.

Evidence? We don’t need no stinkin’ evidence!

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California faces a projected budget deficit of $22.5 billion for the coming fiscal year, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday, just days into his second term. It’s a sharp turnaround from last year’s $98 billion surplus.

Funny thing how Democrats can turn a surplus into a deficit in less than a year without any particular effort.

UPDATE: California Faces First Budget Gap Since 2018 as Stock Market Hits Taxes (Bloomberg) But we can’t cut taxes, no siree.

UPDATE: ‘Very Volatile Moment’: Newsom Slashes Budget After Turning $98 Billion Surplus Into $22.5 Billion Deficit in Single Year

Read it.

As he does.

Last week, following the release of December’s jobs data by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Biden crowed that “Real wages are up in recent months … and we are seeing welcome signs that inflation is coming down as well.” Biden concluded by saying “it’s a good time to be a worker in America.”

Unfortunately, things aren’t nearly as good as the White House and its accomplices in the corporate media would have us believe.

It’s only a “good time” to be a worker in America if one equates falling real wages and falling full-time employment with “robust” employment conditions.

Moreover, the numbers that the administration continued to cherry-pick to burnish its political image are themselves quite suspect. Response rates to employment surveys sent out by the BLS have gone into steep decline, and the Philadelphia Federal Reserve has recently accused the BLS of vastly overstating employment growth in 2022.

Welcome to my world.