Fauci lashes out at Elon Musk over COVID claims: ‘Prosecute me for what?’ (Fox) For being a lyin’ sack of shit, of course.

Dr. Fauci maintains COVID outbreak caused by ‘natural occurrence’ (N.Y. Post)

Fauci on calls to prosecute him: ‘There’s no response to that craziness’ (The Hill)

Fauci Hits Back at Elon Musk’s Prosecution Call: ‘Off the Deep End’ (Newsweek)

Counting the cost of mask mandates

Florida surgeon general’s Covid vaccine claims harm public, health agencies say (The Guardian)

From Sweden, a Covid Postscript

“One Health”, ESG & “Sustainable Development”: Inside the WHO’s “Pandemic Treaty”

Fauci Fumes After Elon Musk Calls for His Prosecution

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I didn’t know that zebras could do that.

Let that be a lesson to us all.

Why We Can’t Ever Have Nice Things.

1. Costs ballooned.
2. NIMBY’s objected.
3. Hey, New York–’nuff said.

Steven Hayward at Power Line speaks for all right-thinking people.

So I woke up this morning, looked at my watch, and thought—”Hey, slept in rather late this morning!” But then the fog lifted and I remembered: those commie rat bastards robbed me of an hour! Yes—Daylight Saving Time was a Progressive-era invention, giving Progressives a literal time to move the clock forward! (Yes, we literally get to “turn the clock back” in the fall, but I wish we didn’t do it all all.)

Can’t add anything to that.

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Sunday, as I was preparing to write about the Silicon Valley Bank situation, I sent an email to Professor Lawrence H. White of George Mason University, who really knows this stuff. I invited him to respond to some of the points made by Bill Ackman, who was arguing for a government rescue of depositors.

White very generously sent along some slides he uses in his undergraduate course on money and banking; they are embedded below. White also responded to Ackman’s argument that understanding a bank’s riskiness or safety was too much to ask of depositors. “Nobody is asking households with insured deposits to shop around for a safe bank,” White wrote. “With deposits insured up to $250,000, the current system is only asking people with uninsured deposits, like corporations with payrolls to meet, to hire a professional money manager who can evaluate the safety of banks versus other places to park large sums of cash. That doesn’t seem unrealistic.”

Write went on: “Silicon Valley Bank took excessive risk by carrying a huge duration gap, and didn’t hedge that risk, leading to its insolvency when interest rates rose. The current system relies on uninsured depositors shopping around for a safe bank to incentivize bank prudence (regulators being often unaware of how close a bank is to insolvency were assets marked to market) by making risky banks pay a premium for uninsured deposits. If the government lets uninsured depositors off the hook this time, moral hazard intensifies yet again. Not closing insolvent banks promptly is what made it so costly to eventually resolve the S&L crisis in the 1980s.”

Blue States every one.

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When it comes to assigning dates to military campaigns described in the Bible, the parameters of the debate take on almost biblical proportions. Exactly when did the Amalekites wage war against the Hebrews in the wilderness? Did Joshua fight the Battle of Jericho in 1500 B.C. or in 1400 B.C. — or at all?

Such uncertainty exists, in part, because the radiocarbon analysis that scientists use to date organic remains is less accurate for certain epochs. And, in part, because archaeologists often disagree over what the timelines for different narratives should be. But a new technique, which makes use of consistently reliable geomagnetic data, allows scientists to study the history of the Levant with greater confidence.

The Other McCain jerks back the curtain.

The money has to come from somewhere, and the only source for money that the government has is taxpayers. They can blabber all they want about ‘no cost to taxpayers’ but that’s an obvious lie.

Jean-Louis Gassê.

Just as there are no atheists in foxholes, there are no libertarians in a bank run. We now see appeals for more government intervention using taxpayers funds.

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At the bottom of the copyright page of the latest editions of Roald Dahl’s books, a new notice now appears. “Words matter … The wonderful words of Roald Dahl can transport you to different worlds and introduce you to the most marvellous characters.”

On the surface, it seems whimsical and innocuous. However, it signals a recent effort carried out by his publisher, Puffin, to rewrite his classic texts to make them less “offensive.” Words like “fat” and “ugly” have been culled, whole phrases rewritten, and, of course, gender-neutral terms have been added in places.

While highly reported on in the media, this rewriting of classic literature is just the most recent manifestation of a central facet of the new dangerous trend to label language as a form of violence, under the guise of the very mantra that introduced the new bastardization of Dahl’s work: Words Matter.

Those who like reading the Dilbert comic strip, be advised that, as of today, it is available on on the Locals channel “Coffee With Scott Adams”. (Locals.com) Highly recommended.

New York Post.

A woman who walked out on her date after he refused to pay $3.00 for a slice of cheese on his burger is copping criticism for the “insane” reason why she abandoned him in a restaurant.

New York woman Dafna was on a date having dinner with a man she’d met on dating app Hinge and things were going well – until he said no to having cheese on his burger after the waitress told him it came at an additional cost.

His refusal to part ways with an extra few dollars proved too much for Dafna who, after eating, said she was going to use the bathroom but actually went and paid the bill.

She then left the restaurant without saying goodbye, opting to instead send him a message that read: “The check is taken care of. You should have gotten the cheese.”

While walking home, Dafna took to TikTok to rant about the encounter, explaining the entire bill was just $55.00.

I wouldn’t pay $3.00 for a slice of cheese either, even in New York. Most women of my acquaintance would appreciate a guy so careful with his money (note that it was his burger, not hers.) This guy just dodged a major bullet.

Ukraine Situation Report: Leopard 1 Tanks Will Arrive This Spring

Russian-Iranian Deal For Su-35s Finalized, State Media Reports

Poland’s New FA-50 Light Fighter Emerges

UK: Russian Advance in Bakhmut Could Come With Heavy Losses

US Winged Smart Bombs Are Now Operational In Ukraine

New Iron Curtain Strengthened: Poland Fortifies Belarus Border

Heading Off Chinese Dominance: Australia To Buy U.S.-Made Submarines

NAVAL AIR: Turkish Carrier Aircraft

Russian Advance Stalls in Ukraine’s Bakhmut, Think Tank Says

SHOCKER! TikTok Whistleblower Confirms CCP-Tied Platform’s Data Abuse

Lawmakers blast free college for migrants while NY students get tuition hikes (N.Y. Post)

NYC mayor floats plan to send migrants to college for free, courtesy of taxpayers footing potential $1.2M bill (Fox)

FLASHBACK: How the Media Tried to Kill Hillary’s Egregious E-Mail Scandal

Ky. Senate Passes Public Drag Show Ban Bill

MSNBC’s Phang Tees Up Swalwell To Suggest Keeping Our Troops from Viewing Fox News

MSNBC Admits Abortion Is About Consequence-Free Sex

Restaurants: Dem Mayor’s Rule Racist, Sexist

Idiot Democrat From Houston Doesn’t Have the Faintest Clue Who Bari Weiss Is

Antifa Assaulted Me at a Detrans Rally: Here’s What Happened

Silicon Valley Bank had NO head of ‘risk assessment’ for nine months before it collapsed… as woke boss for Europe, Middle East and Africa was busy organizing a month-long Pride campaign and a ‘Lesbian Visibility Day’ (UK Daily Mail)

Oscars Ratings Soar As Nation Watches In Hopes Of Seeing Someone Slap Jimmy Kimmel (Babylon Bee)

Regulators unveil plan to assure depositors will get money after SVB collapse (CNBC) Apparently Silicon Valley Bank is Too Big To Fail.

Why Saving the Whales Means Saving Ourselves (Inside Climate News) Obvious bullshit.

The ironic side effects of the rapid global energy transition (Reuters)

The role of renewable energy and battery technology in the push toward a greener economy (Washington Post)

Why renewable energy must be responsible energy (Eco-Business)

Windfall Tax Leads To Job Losses At UK’s Largest Oil & Gas Producer

Orthodox Rabbi Debunks Left’s Claim That Conservatives Want To Force ‘Christian Values’ Down Americans’ Throats

MSNBC Alleges DeSantis And Youngkin Seek To ‘Demoralize’ Black People

Can Trump’s ‘Straight Man’ Lighten Up? (Politico)

What Would Happen If American Elites Told The Truth?

Lauren Boebert will be a grandmother at 36. This is what conservatives want for us (The Guardian) Non sequitur.

Democrats Refuse To Address The Contents Of The Twitter Files – Attack The Messengers Instead

PBS Attacks Former Ark. GOP Gov: Transgender ‘Rhetoric Leads to Real-World Violence’  Certainly: Violence by trans-activists and their running mates on the mobocratic Left.

France: Senator Tried for Tweeting “Immigration Kills the Youth”

A Trump veteran at Fox struggled to balance election lies with the network’s interests (Washington Post)

NBC’s Todd: DeSantis Teaching Dangers of Communism is ‘Politicizing’  He says that like it was a bad thing.

Federal Judge Calls On Stanford To Fire DEI Dean That Participated In Student-Led Revolt  Ain’t gonna happen.

MSNBC Vocab: Ron DeSantis Is a ‘MAGA Extremist Bully,’ a ‘Fascist,’ and a ‘Richard’

PBS Whines as DC Crime Bill Trounced: GOP ‘Pounced,’ Dems ‘Blindsided’

Atlantic Writer Discovers Weird Wacky World of YouTube Censorship

Hear Dr. Fauci’s response to Covid lab leak theory (CNN)

Don’t Believe Anybody Who Says They Know How COVID-19 Started. Here’s Why (Newsweek)

Fauci says Redfield’s testimony of COVID call was ‘unequivocally incorrect’ (The Hill)

New WHO Amendments Creating A Global Regime In The Name Of Health

When Censorship Fails: Two Thirds Of US Adults Think COVID Likely Started In A Lab

Karine Jean-Pierre torched for ‘word salad’ defending Biden’s border policy: ‘40 seconds of total nonsense’ (Fox)

‘On Second Thought, I Guess Trump Was Right and I Was Wrong’ About Rampant Abuse of the Asylum System (Center for Immigration Studies)

Former Trump officials skeptical of Biden admin’s reported plan to resume migrant family detention

I Went to the Southern Border at 3 A.M. This Is What I Saw.

Left-Wing Advocacy Groups Blast Biden’s Judicial Pick

Lt. Christopher Olivarez to Newsmax: Don’t Go to Mexico

Jean-Pierre Mute on Migrant Family Detention

Proud Boys J6 Sedition Trial Halted After Leaked Chat Logs Show FBI Agent Said Her Boss Ordered Her To “Destroy Evidence”

Biden Dumps Trump Air Force One Design, Unveils New Paint Job (Daily Beast) Actually, it isn’t a new paint job but rather the Same Old Paint Job chosen by JFK.

“It’s As Bad As We Thought”: CCP Money Flowed To Biden Family According Bank Records, Documents Obtained By House GOP

Watch KJP Struggle with English During Friendly MSNBC Interview

He was with Emmett Till the night he was murdered. The horror haunts him still (NPR) The Jews will forget the Holocaust before proglodytes forget Emmett Till.

Trump Gets Caught Trying to Play Judges to Manufacture Trial Delays (Daily Beast) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Without Evidence, ABC’s Martha Raddatz Blames Trump for SVB Collapse

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Over the past two centuries, legislation, random chance, and a variety of land deals have left the American West with a patchwork landscape of public and private land. Within the patchwork lie swaths of alternating sections of public and private land, like the squares of a checkerboard. At every point where four squares meet, there is a property corner ripe for controversy. With the issue of corner-crossing in the news again, we decided to leverage our strengths and drill down on the data. What we discovered was shocking in its scope.

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Suspected Islamist militants killed at least 19 people and burned a medical facility in a raid on a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo early on Sunday morning, two regional officials and a resident said.

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

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At a restaurant in Miami last month, dining beside my husband, I examined the women around me for what people refer to as Instagram Face. The chiseled nose, the overfilled lips, the cheeks scooped of buccal fat, eyes and brows thread-lifted high as the frescoed ceiling. Many of the women had it, and thus resembled each other. But not all of them. Not, for example, me.

Critics call this trend just another sign of our long march toward a doomed, globalized sameness. A uniform suite of cosmetic procedures, popularized by social media, apps and filters, accelerated by both natural insecurity and injectables’ dropping costs. One by one, they hint, women will give in and undergo them. Until we all look identical, just like our restaurants do, and our hotels, and our airports, in our creep toward homogenization which we’ve somehow mistaken for a worthwhile life.

They’re wrong, because in their focus on uniformity, they’ve forgotten the premise of cosmetic work in the first place. Distinction. Good face, like good taste, has a direction: downward. The success of Instagram Face, its ubiquity, isn’t the start of cyborg aesthetics. It’s the end of it. Because what might save us from such apocalyptic beauty is something almost too ugly to say out loud: When in history have rich women ever wanted to look like regular ones?

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Instagram Face goes with implants, middle-aged dates and nails too long to pick up the check. Batting false eyelashes, there in the restaurant it orders for dinner all the food groups of nouveau riche Dubai: caviar, truffle, fillers, foie gras, Botox, bottle service, bodycon silhouettes. The look, in that restaurant and everywhere, has reached a definite status. It’s the girlfriend, not the wife.

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It’s expensive to be poor. When you don’t have money, you’re often forced to make decisions that seem necessary in the short term. Those decisions often add to your long-term burden, adding to the high cost of being poor. That can lead to a cycle of poverty that’s difficult to break.

Nobody wants to be poor. Nobody wants to live with expenses that exceed income or to struggle to make it from paycheck to paycheck. The reality of being poor is that it imposes conditions that perpetuate poverty.

Conceding that this is true, so what? The Poor in America have access to sufficient public assistance that they can lead quite comfortable lives–if they want to. A large part of the ‘costs’ of being poor reflect sub-optimal personal choices, such as wasting money on recreational drugs like tobacco, alcohol, and controlled substances. Poor people tend to have character defects such as short time horizons and poor impulse control, which is why just giving them Free Stuff doesn’t ever solve the problem, as witness the Homeless Crisis that exists in its worst forms in precisely the places that bend every effort to alleviate their distress. No homeless person ever turned down a smoke, or a drink, or a hit: There’s the difficulty in a nutshell.

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Hunting and habitat loss drove many large mammals in Europe close to extinction. New data shows us that many of the continent’s mammal populations are flourishing again.

As John Hodgman famously said, “I am a friend to all the creatures of the earth, when I am not eating them or wearing them.”

Ross Douthat.

I am fully prepared to believe that Establishment Pet Ross Douthat is part of the problem. Unfortunately, he shows no signs of repentance, much less any intention of being part of any solution.

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ast week came some stern words for millennial women: egg-freezing may not be all it’s (excuse the pun) cracked up to be. That was the advice of Professor Imogen Goold, who warned at the annual conference of the fertility charity Progress Educational Trust, that clinics may be “preying on women being anxious about having children by getting them to throw money at the problem”. The chances of using eggs to have a baby, said the professor, were as low as three per cent for eggs frozen when women were aged 36 to 39.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

Washington Post.

On a recent weekday afternoon, Bruce Albright arrives in the Wonder Book parking lot, pops the trunk of his Camry and unloads two boxes of well-worn books. “It’s sad. Some of these I’ve read numerous times,” he says.

Albright, 70, has been at this for six months, shedding 750 books at his local library and at this Frederick, Md., store. The rub: More than 1,700 volumes remain shelved in the retired government lawyer’s nearby home, his collection lovingly amassed over a half-century.

Piker. My wife and I have over 4,000 books, down from the 6,000 we had when we got married and consolidated our collections. “We can’t ever get divorced,” she said, “It would be impossible to sort out whose books are whose.”

This, of course, doesn’t include the thousands of books we have on Kindle, nor the thousands of books I have scanned into PDFs over the course of the last twenty years.

If we have books we no longer “need”, we donate them to our local public library. They have periodic sales of such donated  books; the library gets additional funding, and the books are priced low enough that people who don’t have the money to spring for a Kindle or tablet get something they can afford to read (and perhaps treasure).

What goes around comes around.

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I like fusion, really. I’ve talked to some of luminaries that work in the field, they’re great people. I love the technology and the physics behind it.

But fusion as a power source is never going to happen. Not because it can’t, because it won’t. Because no matter how hard you try, it’s always going to cost more than the solutions we already have.

I suspect this mirrors similar arguments concerning railroads, steel ships, and various other technological tricks that were uneconomical when first developed but ultimately became so once associated technologies became sufficiently advanced. I expect that eventually we will have fusion power, although I don’t expect it any time soon–but I’d be very much surprised if it weren’t available a hundred years from now.

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Few initiatives have backfired as badly as Sweden’s publicly funded “youth centers.” In Botkyrka, rather than keep kids off the streets, they became a base for gangland criminals. According to police, gang members — when not committing crimes — would spend night after night playing video games at the centers and gangsters had shown up wearing bulletproof vests. Weapons and drugs had also been found at the centres. The mayor, Ebba Östlin of the center-left Social Democrats, decided last year that these places had become part of the problem and should be closed.

Unmentioned in the article, because You Can’t Say That, is that the origin of the problem lies with letting lost of Muslim immigrants into a formerly homogeneous country.

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Israeli forces shot and killed three Palestinian militants Sunday who opened fire on troops in the occupied West Bank, the military said, the latest bloodshed in a year-long wave of violence in the region.

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

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A teacher testified before the Arizona state Senate education committee earlier this month and claimed that she and her colleagues knew better than parents what books belonged on school library shelves. “I have a master’s degree,” she said. “What do the parents have?” In the video, now widely circulated on Twitter, she continued, “The purpose of public education is not to teach only what parents want [students] to be taught. It is to teach them what society needs them to be taught.”

Back when I was a kid and teachers reflected the values of the parents,  that might have been true. Since the education industry has been taken over by radical progressive unions and various species of Wokerati, it is manifestly untrue.

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If you ask OpenAI’s artificial-intelligence chatbot ChatGPT to generate a Steve Sailer tweet, it will respond, “I’m sorry, I cannot generate a Steve Sailer tweet, as his tweets often contain controversial and divisive content, which goes against OpenAI’s values of promoting kindness and respect.” Major publications are afraid to cite him. Journalists I know are afraid to be seen interacting with him on Twitter. A Florida professor was disciplined by his university for linking to a Steve Sailer article on his personal Twitter account.

Steve, along with John Derbyshire, Stacy McCain, and Baron Bodissey at Gates of Vienna, tell it like it is, rather than the way the Narrative would like it to be. (I think I now need to include Scott Adams among The Saints….)

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A blast hit a cultural center during an event for journalists in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least one person and wounding eight, according to authorities and journalists.

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

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The start of daylight saving time is upon us again, meaning almost all Americans – Hawaii and parts of Arizona don’t observe DST – are setting their clocks ahead one hour. Some, however, are calling for the bi-annual changing of the clocks to come to an end.

But could we really “lock the clocks” soon?

Lawmakers – both at the state and federal levels – are hoping that’s the case.

Don’t hold your breath.

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With great interest for sailing, boatbuilding and vikings the project to build and sail the greatest viking ship of modern times started. The curator of the project, Sigurd Aase, wanted this extraordinary ship to follow in the wake of one of the most challenging viking explorations – the Viking discovery of the New World.

It always warms my heart to hear of things like this, apparently of no practical utility, being done just because people find it interesting.

Wired.

“Globally, the debate is fixed—there are more countries not changing the clocks,” says Ariadna Güell Sans, co-coordinator of the Barcelona Time Use Initiative for a Healthy Society, an organization focused on time-related policy. Research has shown how moving the clocks forward and back, even by just one hour, negatively affects the economy, road safety, and health. Still, the US, Europe, and a few other nations are finding it hard to break the habit. The issue, says Güell Sans, is whether we stay on standard time or daylight saving time forever.

One of the plainest of indicators that our political systems are dysfunctional is the fact that it is apparently impossible to change a situation that evidently everybody agrees needs to be changed.

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For the last thirty years, the Republican Party has been a battleground between two competing ideologies. One of these is fundamentally liberal, although it is packaged and sold under a variety of brand names: “compassionate conservatism,” neoconservatism, classical liberalism, and — most misleadingly — Reagan conservatism.

The other ideology is a rejection of modern liberalism and the post-Cold War elite consensus in American politics. It is skeptical of free trade, large-scale immigration and US involvement in foreign conflicts. Pat Buchanan and Donald Trump are the primary representatives of this view, which is often called populist or nationalist.

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

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

While Adams didn’t attribute the newspapers’ decision to drop the cartoon to his stance on ESG, he did pledge to “destroy ESG… or at least take a shot at it” shortly after the move. He is not alone; the ranks of the forces taking on ESG have been growing lately. They include investors, lawyers, regulators, climate change activists, energy companies, state treasurers, state legislators, congressmen, senators, 2024 presidential contenders — and now a cartoonist.

Now that Dilbert is no longer available in newspapers or online, it is still published daily on Scott Adams’ LOCALS channel, which is dirt cheap for what you get. Look for Coffee With Scott Adams.

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Mean scores on IQ tests rose generally in the U.S. beginning in the 1930s, apparently reflecting better nutrition and improved schooling. But that trend has now been reversed.

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I don’t even have to say anything.

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Colin Kaepernick:

An actual black man:

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What happened: Max Boot, the Washington Post columnist who wears a fedora to conceal his agonizingly hairless dome, formally renounced his neoconservative affiliation on Friday.

And there was much rejoicing.

Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo is front and center in Dominion’s defamation suit (L.A. Times)

Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch dismisses $1.6 billion defamation case revelations as ‘noise’ (CNN)

Fox News’ ‘craven hypocrisy’ on alleged voter fraud runs deep (Tampa Bay Times)

Inside the Secret Working Group That Helped Push Anti-Trans Laws Across the Country (Mother Jones) Dunh dunh DUNHHHH…. I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

Fox News Editor Overseeing Crime Fearmongering Is Felon Himself (Daily Beast) Who would know better?

House Republicans Launch Probe Into Jan. 6 Panel

The FCC could choose to act against Rupert Murdoch for Fox News’ election lies, but few expect it to (NBC News)

Beware The Nonresponsive Response To Tucker Carlson

CLOWN SHOW: VA Governor Glenn Youngkin Ambushed at CNN Town Hall

Ron DeSantis is just getting started with his rightwing agenda. That should worry us all (The Guardian)

Ron DeSantis Loves to Bash the Press. Will That Playbook Work in a Presidential Race? (Vanity Fair)

In Florida, far-right groups look to seize the moment (NPR) For NPR, of course, there is no ‘right’ but the ‘far-right’. I’ll leave you guess how many times NPR has warned about ‘far-left’ groups.

Playbook: The GOP’s 2024 picture snaps into focus (Politico) Forging the new Narrative ahead of the election.

NBC’s Lester Holt Leaves Republicans on the Cutting-Room Floor

Colbert Labels GOP Bad Christians For Budget Priorities  Colbert wouldn’t know a Christian if one bit him on the ass.

Meet the ‘Ghost’ Woman Fox Relied on for Voter Fraud Claims (Daily Beast)

GOP Presidential Field Rallies Around One Idea: Declare Drug Cartels Terrorists  Which they obviously are.

MSNBC Compares Florida To Jim Crow To Urge MLB To Denounce DeSantis

Heckler’s Veto: Judge shouted down at Stanford law school with help from Dean of DEI (Hot Air) The ‘Dean of DEI’ is, of course, a fat ugly black woman

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Trump Official Gives Marjorie Taylor Greene Exactly What She Wants (Newsweek)

Sealed hearing in DOJ’s attempt to force Trump attorney to testify ends without a ruling (CNN)

Will Oprah Sue Donald Trump? Book Revelations Could Land Him in Hot Water (Newsweek)

New York prosecutors indicate Trump criminal charges likely, report says (CNBC)

A camp icon

The election-denying Republicans who aided Trump’s ‘big lie’ and got promoted (The Guardian)

2024 Trump Is Even Scarier Than 2020 Trump (The New Yorker)

‘Racist’ Trump is blowing up because he can’t stand being prosecuted by Black lawyers: Former GOP strategist

Daylight Savings Time: If Only Trump Would Pick a Side, Then We’d Know Which Side to be on

Trump Gets a Taste of His Own Medicine (The Atlantic) I wouldn’t mind The Atlantic getting a taste of its own medicine.

One State Generates Much, Much More Renewable Energy Than Any Other—and It’s Not California (Inside Climate News)

Texas leads in harvesting wind for power (Bloomberg)

Guess which state is a national leader in green energy (HotAir)

Climate change: New idea for sucking up CO2 from air shows promise (BBC)

How to Make Carbon Capture Way More Efficient (Gizmodo)

New material captures CO2 from air and stores in ocean as baking soda (Interesting Engineering)

The CDP Awards: rewarding cities and businesses taking on the environment and biodiversity challenge (EuroNews)

Do back-to-back disasters show first climate tipping point is upon us? (New Scientist)

Bill Gates: Shunning Luxury Won’t Fix Climate

Doug Casey On The Rise Of “Climate Brats” And Other Useful Idiots

UK Scientists Propose Rationing To Combat Climate Change

GOP’s Graham Plans Carbon-Import Fee as Idea Gains With Party  RINO alert!

US neighborhoods with more people of color suffer worse air pollution (The Guardian) Well, perhaps they ought to bathe more frequently.

Environmental Justice Lost a Champion. Congress Must Build on His Legacy (Newsweek) ‘Environmental Justice’ is the latest meaningless proglodyte buzzphrase.

Racist Roads

Colin Kaepernick Accuses His Own White Adoptive Parents Of “Perpetuating Racism”  Arguably by not drowning him while he was young.

‘Stop the boats’: Sunak’s anti-asylum slogan echoes Australia’s harsh policy (The Guardian)

Europe’s far right praise UK’s illegal migration bill (The Guardian)

Explainer: What is the US-Mexico GM corn dispute about? (Reuters)

More states are proposing bills targeting LGBTQ rights. ‘It’s only getting worse,’ advocate says (CNN)

Should Colorado launch its own universal health system? Legislators want to take a look (Denver Post)

Arkansas’ Sanders Signs Ambitious Education Reform Agenda of School Choice, Anti-Indoctrination

BREAKING: Indiana Student Counselor Fired for Condemning School District’s Hidden Transgender Policy

Networks Cheer Biden’s Reckless Tax & Spend Budget, Omit Key Details

Democrat Bill In Baltimore Would Prevent Anyone Under Age 25 From Facing Felony Murder Charges

How Pennsylvania Democrats seized power amid a groping scandal

British Minister Faces New Charges Under Counter-Terrorism Laws For Criticizing A Trans Woman

Jane Fonda Offers Final Solution to Pro-Lifers: ‘Murder’ Them  Actually, I’m astonished that Jane Fonda hasn’t been whacked by now.

Praising Death: Lefties Celebrate ‘Abortion Provider Appreciation Day’