Coup bomb goes off: New video places indicted Trump ally at Capitol on Jan. 6 (MSNBC)

Joe Manchin’s Extremely Annoying Political Strategy Is Backfiring (The New Republic)

Manchin ranked most bipartisan senator as he faces tough 2024 path in conservative West Virginia (Fox)

Will West Virginia’s Manchin Become ‘Traitor Joe?’ (Newsweek)

Arizona Investigators ‘Aggressively’ Looking at Top Trump Ally Kelli Ward (Rolling Stone)

The GOP Is Over Its War On ‘Woke’ (Huffington Post) I’ll take that bet.

What If There Had Been No COVID Coup?

Genes May Explain Why 20% Of People Who Get COVID-19 Are Asymptomatic: Study

Another One? Boeing Dreamliner Pilot Suffers “Fatal Cardiac Arrest” Shortly After Takeoff

Researchers Discover Concerning Cancer Trend In Young Adults

FDA: Ivermectin Still Not Approved for COVID

Whoops! Never Mind.

The Lab-Leak Illusion

Study On ‘COVID-19 Misinformation’ Rife With Misinformation: Critics

Most Intensive Ivermectin Use Had 74% Reduction In Excess Deaths In Peru: New Study

Billions in Pandemic Aid Spent, but Little Accountability  Buy them votes! Buy them votes!

New plant-based pork ribs to feature edible vegan bones (The Guardian)

Wealthy oil nation lays groundwork for ‘eye-popping’ climate fund (Politico)

Growing Warnings: Biden Could Get Scorched By Green Dependency On Red China

Texans Asked to Cut Electricity Use, As Wind Power Drops Off

No Significant Precipitation Trend Change in Germany Since Recordings Began In 1881

Climate Alarmism: A New Political Weapon?  No doubt about it.

Conservation Officers Misleading the Public about Polar Bear Problems in Churchill

NewsMax.

The spike in migration was made possible by the discovery this year of a new route through Nicaragua, where relaxed entry requirements allow Mauritanians and a handful of other foreign nationals to purchase a low-cost visa without proof of onward travel.

As word of the entry point spreads, travel agencies and paid influencers have taken to TikTok to promote the trip, selling packages of flights that leave from Mauritania, then connect through Turkey, Colombia, and El Salvador, and wind up in Managua, Nicaragua. From there, the migrants, along with asylum seekers from other nations, are whisked north by bus with the help of smugglers.

And, of course, once they’re here, they’re here to stay.

Read it.

French authorities have deployed a new floating barrier in the Prefecture of Pas-de-Calais in the north of the country in an effort to hinder illegal migrant boats trying to cross the English Channel and catch people smugglers.

The barrier, which has been labelled a “floating dam,” was deployed on the Canche River last week in Étaples and is designed to stop so-called ‘taxi boats’ from picking up migrants before heading across the English Channel, the newspaper Le Parisien reports.

The barrier itself is made from yellow buoys connected tightly together with a chain and is anchored on each side of the Canche River making any crossing of the river impossible.

Sound familiar? It does, to a Texan.

The Other McCain.

Last year, my son Jefferson was studying the Punic Wars — Hannibal, Cannae and all that — and in discussing it with me, remarked that at the time, slaves were about half the population of the city of Rome. These were white slaves, however, and the Roman Empire collapsed long ago, so there’s no “critical theory” or “systemic racism” angle to be exploited for political gain, which is why most people never contemplate the condition of Roman slaves. Of course, considering the general decline of education in this country, most Americans know next to nothing about ancient Rome, and in particular don’t understand the path by which Rome went from a Republic to an Empire. Julius Caesar was aligned with what was called the Populares (democratic) party in Roman politics, whereas Cicero was a leader of the Optimates (aristocratic) party. It was on behalf of “the people,” therefore, that Caesar assumed the dictatorship and, after his assassination led to civil war, it was Caesar’s ally Mark Antony who insisted on Cicero’s assassination.

Some scholarly readers will protest against my drastic oversimplification of this history — necessary for the sake of brevity — but my point is that (a) ancient Rome was not a democracy, and (b) it was the populares who, by their opposition to the senatorial voices of aristocratic tradition, helped pave the way toward the destruction of the Republic and the tyranny of imperial power. “Democracy” ruins everything.

Gates of Vienna.

Four different UN agencies “have partnered with and accepted [millions of dollars] from the terrorism-affiliated NGO Qatar Charity,” which presents itself as a humanitarian organization.

Politico.

U.N. forces on the divided Mediterranean island on Friday morning blocked Turkish Cypriot construction workers who were building a road near the village of Pyla/Pile that encroached on the U.N. enforced buffer zone. The zone divides the southern half of the island, which is controlled by Greek Cypriots, from the breakaway Turkish north.

Video obtained by the Telegraph showed bulldozers picking up U.N. vehicles and tossing them across the landscape. Angry physical clashes reportedly left three U.N. personnel — two Brits and a Slovak — in need of hospital treatment.

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

Read it.

“The Plumber Problem” is a phrase I coined to describe the experience of watching a movie that touches on some subject area that you know way more about than the average person, and then some inaccuracy in what’s depicted distracts you and takes you out of the movie. (This can occur in any work of fiction, of course: movies, TV, books, etc.)

Here’s an example. A plumber is watching a movie with a scene where something having to do with pipes is integral to the plot. But it’s all wrong, and the plumber’s mind rebels. No one else in the audience is bothered. They’re all still wrapped up in the narrative. But the plumber has a problem.

Readers of speculative fiction have this all the time. Historians have this problem all the time with ‘historical’ fiction & movies. Military people especially have this problem all the time.

The Plumber Problem is loosely related to the “Gell-Mann amnesia effect” which is “the phenomenon of experts believing news articles written on topics outside of their fields of expertise, yet acknowledging that articles written in the same publication within their fields of expertise are error-ridden and full of misunderstanding.”

The American Dream Is Dead for Us Working Class Americans (Newsweek)

Raising White Flag? Rep. Buck Breaks Silence on Big Tech Censorship Battle (NewsBusters)

Radically Biased Google Programs AI to Summarize News for Users (NewsBusters)

Vetoes Overridden: NC Legislature Protects Gender-Confused Minors, Parental Rights, and Women’s Sports (The Foundry)

Federal judge rejects push to block Florida Chinese land ownership law (Politico)

Philadelphia SEPTA Driver Resigns After Having His Gun Stolen Off His Bus While On Break

Leftist Establishment Dismayed By Rise Of “Populist” Candidate In Argentina

FLASHBACK: Hawaii Official Who Allegedly Withheld Water From Firefighters Says ‘Equity’ Comes First

‘Tanning Mom’ Patricia Krentcil Announces Run For Florida Senate Seat (Huffington Post)

Don’t Bring Your California Transportation Policies to Texas (The Foundry)

Philly Businesses Set Booby Traps to Deal With Drug Addicts (NewsMax)

Maui Emergency Management Chief Resigns Amid Criticism

Resignation Calls Mount After Maryland Superintendent Public Records Destroyed In Test Score Scandal

From Press-Room Raids To Indictments, Anything Goes When The Government Piles On

Why San Francisco is make or break for Gavin Newsom (Politico)

Doug Casey On How Economic Witch Doctors Convince Everyone They’re Neurosurgeons

Texas Lawsuit Could Make Planned Parenthood Bankrupt (NewsBusters)

American democracy is cracking. These forces help explain why. (Washington Post) Gitcher Narrative, right here….

Trudeau Under Fire After Trans Powerlifter Shatters Women’s Records

New York Launches Plan To Rezone Midtown Offices To Houses  If the owner wanted to do that, they wouldn’t let him. But if they want to do it, to make Bidenvilles, why, it’s a great idea.

‘Squad’ Member With $250k in Student Debt Wants To Cancel All Loans

Chicago Democrat Asks Gang Members To Limit Shootings to Nighttime

Californians Prepare For Hurricane By Nailing Plywood Boards Onto Their Tent Flaps (Babylon Bee)

Driverless Cruise car collides with SF fire truck, injuring passenger

DOJ Seeks 33 Years in Prison for Ex-Proud Boys Leader

Black Atlanta venture capital firm sued for racial discrimination

There Can Be No Saving the Republican Party (The New Republic)

North Carolina is the latest in a wave of states passing anti-trans laws (Vox)

YouTube Takes Censorship to Whole New Level on So-Called Misinfo (NewsBusters)

A Hysterical Hit Job on Florida’s History Standards (The Foundry)

Man Who Attacked Officers With Flagpole on Jan. 6 Gets 4 Years  Let’s see … nope, still no jail time for any BLM or Antifa rioter.

Child Social Media Stars Can Now Sue ‘Influencer’ Parents Under New Illinois Law

Ramaswamy’s Faith Singled Out in DeSantis Super PAC Memo (N.Y. Times)

This ‘Far-Right’ Bit Is Getting Old

Scarborough: ‘We Don’t Need To Hear’ What Conservative Media Is Saying

Prosecutors seek 27 to 33 years in prison for Proud Boys guilty of seditious conspiracy (NBC News) Let’s see … nope, still no jail time for any BLM or Antifa rioter.

California Is Trying to Use Its ‘Market Power to Change How We Farm,’ Iowa AG Says

Rudy Giuliani Was Never ‘America’s Mayor’ (N.Y. Times)

How Long Until a Woke Lynch Mob Hangs Somebody?

Kenneth Chesebro, alleged architect of fake electors’ plot, followed Alex Jones around Capitol grounds on January 6th (CNN) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

New York Times Gloats: Harsh Capitol Riot Convictions Discouraging Pro-Trump Protesters

TV Host ‘Faked Racist Tweet by AfD’

Antifa Blamed for Machete Attack on Presumed Right-Winger

Rosen Runs on Working-Class Roots; Drops $12K on Hotels, Fine Dining (NewsMax)

Senate Democrats’ campaign arm launches billboard campaign targeting Justice amid lawsuit over his schedule (The Hill)

Is it too soon to get your flu shot? Here’s the answer (KSDK St. Louis) Not just any answer–THE answer.

New vaccines this fall could curb covid variant, respiratory viruses (Washington Post)

Medical experts encourage flu shot, COVID booster ahead of fall (KRCR)

Mesa County Public Health warns about trifecta of respiratory viruses (KKCO Grand Junction Colorado)

All signs point to a late summer COVID wave (Axios)

Covid cases are ticking up. But it’s not time to panic, experts say. (NBC News) But you can go ahead and PANIC if you want to.

CDC reporting uptick of COVID cases involving new variant (KSNV Las Vegas)

Doctors see uptick in COVID cases (WGAL-TV)

Djokovic Back in US With ‘Zero Regrets’ After Biden’s Vax Ban (NewsMax)

How Did Big Pharma Buy So Many Governments?

WHO Monitoring Highly Mutated New Strain of COVID-19  Has Fauci been shoveling money to China again?

Trump DOJ official Jeffrey Clark urges judge to reject March 2024 trial date in Georgia case (CNN)

Trump’s legal team seeks to delay federal election case until April 2026 (MSNBC)

Trump’s proposed Atlanta court date on Super Tuesday eve ‘planned and coordinated’: Ex-attorney general (Fox)

Trump wants a delay in his Jan. 6 trial. Here’s how he’ll try to get it. (Washington Post) When they don’t have anything to write, they just make shit up.

Georgia sheriff looking into threats against grand jurors post-Trump indictment (N.Y. Post)

Fact-Checking the Breadth of Trump’s Election Lies (N.Y. Times)

The left’s goals for Trump (The New Neo)

Ex-Watergate Prosecutor: Televise Trump Jan. 6 Case (NewsMax)

Trump plots counterprogramming for GOP primary debate, sources say (CNN) Sources! That proves it!

PBS vs PBS? NewsHour Assumes Trump’s Guilt on Georgia Phone Call, Amanpour Doesn’t  What does it take to be more anti-Trump than Amanpour?

Trump Attorneys Claim Georgia Case Belongs In Federal Court, Instead Filed In State ‘By Design’

The Benefits and Drawbacks to Charging Trump Like a Mobster (The New Yorker)

The richest Americans account for 40 percent of U.S. climate emissions (Washington Post) They’re the only ones who can afford gas under Biden.

America’s richest 10% are responsible for 40% of its planet-heating pollution, new report finds (CNN) A report! That proves it!

40 percent of US climate emissions attributed to richest households: study (The Hill) Attributed! That proves it!

Wealthier Americans Are Responsible For More Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Study Suggests (Forbes) A study! That proves it!

Here’s where water is running out in the world — and why (Washington Post)

25 countries now face ‘extreme water stress’ every year – three of them are in Europe (Euronews)

Dozens of countries using most of their water supply yearly, new study shows (CBC/Radio Canada)

Global Water Scarcity: 25 Countries Face Extremely High Water Stress, And It’s Getting Worse (NDTV)

The hidden cost behind the US push for green energy (The Hill)

Indonesia Delays $20 Billion Climate Plan

Undeniable Proof that Alarmist Climate Scientist Michael Mann is Misinforming the Public About a Climate Crisis!

Europe’s Climate Consensus Is Unraveling  

MSNBC Coos Over Study Hoping to Soak the Rich Over Climate Change

NewsMax.

Women lose value if men can see their uncovered faces in public, a spokesman for a key ministry of Afghanistan’s Taliban government said Thursday, adding that religious scholars in the country agree that a woman must keep her face covered when outside the home.

The Taliban, who took over the country in August of 2021, have cited the failure of women to observe the proper way to wear the hijab, or Islamic headscarf, as a reason for barring them from most public spaces, including parks, jobs and university.

Molvi Mohammad Sadiq Akif, the spokesman for the Taliban’s Ministry of Vice and Virtue, said in an interview Thursday with The Associated Press that if women’s faces are visible in public there is a possibility of fitna, or falling into sin.

“It is very bad to see women (without the hijab) in some areas (big cities), and our scholars also agree that women’s faces should be hidden,” Akif said. “It’s not that her face will be harmed or damaged. A woman has her own value and that value decreases by men looking at her. Allah gives respect to females in hijab and there is value in this.”

Loses value? Like depreciation? Is there some kind of Abdul’s Blue Book that tracks residual values?

A pearl of great price.

Minnesota police force’s resignation sparks outcry: ‘Defund the Police lunatics’ just got their wish (Fox)

Entire police force of small Minnesota city resigns, citing low pay (Washington Post)

An entire police department quit over $22-an-hour pay, saying there is ‘zero incentive’ to work there (Insider) The market works, even when you don’t want it to.

City of Goodhue reaches deal with sheriff on police coverage (Fox 9 Minneapolis-St Paul)

Fed, economists make course correction on US recession predictions (Reuters)

As recession fears fade, we may be experiencing a ‘richcession’ instead — here’s what that means for you (CNBC)

Will The U.S. Enter The Recession Experts Warned About For Months? It’s Complicated (Forbes)

Recession Warnings Keep Coming. How Worried Should We Be? (The Motley Fool)

Should We Be Using Recycled Plastics in Construction Materials? (Mother Jones)

Hundreds protest new ‘tent city’ for migrants at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center; Curtis Sliwa among those arrested (N.Y. Post)

Arrests made at asylum seeker shelter protest in Queens (CBS)

Former New York City GOP mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa arrested during Queens protest: report (Fox)

Queens senior center staff expresses concerns about migrant shelter’s impact on its center (Spectrum News NY)

Gen Z reclaims the word ‘hater’ in viral backlash against ‘culture of inclusivity’ (N.Y. Post)

5 Things You Can Do Right Now to Fight the Deep State (The Foundry)

LA Hotel Converted to Homeless Housing Suffers $11.5 Million in Damages

With Veto Override, N.C. Limits LGBTQ+ Instruction

Appeals Court Backs Abortion Pill Restrictions; Supreme Court Appeal Planned

Feminist medical school professor says trans kids identifying as ‘minotaurs’ are part of ‘gender revolution’ (Fox)

Medical school professor says children can be ‘gender hybrids’ like a ‘gender minotaur’ (Washington Examiner)

Anheuser-Busch Heir Offers to Buy Back Family Business (NewsMax)

Harvard University Shows Students How To Milk Welfare System

“Doom Loop Walking Tour” Of San Francisco Sells Out

Inside the campaign to cancel sex ed (Popular Information)

Minneapolis Arts Center Slammed For Encouraging “Family Friendly” Demon-Summoning

Chess Body Bans Transgender Women From Women’s Events

Hawaii Vows to Prevent Land Grabs After Wildfires  Just sell your land to the State! They will protect you!

You Could See The Appeals Court Ruling on the Abortion Pill Coming From a Mile Away (Esquire)

CNN Lets Fired Librarian Falsely Claim Her Library Had No Sexually Explicit Content

Woke Hawaiian Official Stalled Release Of ‘Revered Water’ Until It Was Too Late To Save Maui

ELITIST: Charlie Sykes Scolds GOP for Listening to Their Voters

Fifth Circuit Rules FDA Must Restore Vital Safeguards for Abortion Pill

Prince Immediately Regrets Waking Rachel Zegler With A Kiss After She Starts Ranting About The Patriarchy (Babylon Bee)

Congress Investigating Democrats’ Alleged Use Of Non-Profits And Foreign Money To Win Elections

Clinton Flunkie Robert Reich to MSNBC: We’re Living in a ‘Goldilocks Economy’

The Hard-Tweeting Defense Lawyer GOP Candidates Have Learned to Fear (Politico) Talk is cheap.

California Achieves World’s First Crime Rate Of Zero After Legalizing All Crime (Babylon Bee)

Spree Of Robberies, Car Thefts Drive Chicago Crime To New Highs

COVID : Symptoms of Eris variant appear a week before positive test, says report (Times of India)

New Covid variant BA.6 is ‘probably’ already in the US, experts warn – amid calls for masks to return (UK Daily Mail)

Covid Ireland: Simple test can distinguish Eris variant from flu as pharmacist lists main symptoms (The Irish Mirror)

‘It’s time to mask up’ – Fears new Covid variant could cause ‘big wave’ (UK Birmingham Live)

The Long Reach Of COVID-19: Unraveling The Cognitive Puzzle Of Recovery

Medical Board Suspends License Of Doctor Critical Of COVID-19 Vaccines

Long Covid in a highly vaccinated population – Australia, 2022

Maui wildfires expose rift over island’s tourism: ‘We’re more vulnerable than anyone admits’ (The Guardian)

Lahaina man captures video of suspected cause of devastating wildfires (Hawaii News Now)

ABC News changes headline amid backlash, after saying ‘climate change can’t be blamed’ for Maui wildfires (Fox) When the choice is between the truth and the Narrative, better go with the Narrative.

Is climate change accelerating and is it worse than we expected? (NewScientist)

The renewable energy revolution is happening faster than you think (NewScientist)

Consumers Are Seizing the Energy Transition From Big Business (Washington Post) Massive expenditure of taxpayer money and the relentless drumbeat from the Narrative media will do that.

Consumers are seizing the energy transition from big business (The Economic Times)

Climate: Consumers are seizing the energy transition from big business (MoneyControl)

Global methane emissions from rivers and streams (Nature)

World’s Largest Investor Starts Cutting Tech Exposure, Blames Global Warming For People Not Working In “The Middle Of The Day”

Thanks To Government, Maui’s Lahaina Fire Became A Deadly Conflagration

EPA Carbon Rule Will Lead to ‘Significant Power Shortages’

Twitter Climate Alarmists Alarmed at the Rise of Free Speech

L A Times Exposes the L A Times Maui Wildfire Climate Alarmist Propaganda Incompetence

10 Facts That Prove the World Is in a Climate Emergency (WIRED ‘Science’)

Israeli Researchers Produce Green Hydrogen with 90% Efficiency

The Great Climate Change Science Bottleneck

Ark. School District: Will Continue AP African American Course

Socialist Scholar Cornel West Owes $500,000 In Taxes

Trump prosecutor Fani Willis faces racist abuse after indicting ex-US president (The Guardian) Because, of course, any criticism of a Magic Negro is ipso facto ‘racist abuse’.

Looming Trump trials are throwing judges into an election maelstrom (CNN)

Trump may try to move the Fulton County criminal case to federal court. Here’s why (CNN)

Lawrence: Georgia indictment of Trump is ‘ingenious’ (MSNBC)

A Frame-Up in Georgia (New York Review of Books)

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries: Prosecutors will ‘follow the facts’ in Trump election interference case (MSNBC) For Democrats, ‘the facts’ means ‘the Narrative’.

Roy S. Johnson: Call ‘em the Thug Trump gang (AL.com)

Unmasking the Co-Conspirators in Trump’s Georgia Indictment (Daily Beast)

Trump’s Total Charges Could Result In More Than 700 Years In Prison—Here’s Why That’s So Unlikely (Forbes) The Narrative media is prepping the psychological space for an anti-Trump outcome.

Trump Allies, and Possibly Trump, Likely to Be Booked at Notorious Atlanta Jail (N.Y. Times)

Clues point to identities of ‘unindicted co-conspirators’ in alleged Coffee County breach (Washington Post)

Pence world poised for a showdown with Trump (Politico)

Trump’s legal advisers urge him to cancel press conference to refute Georgia allegations: Sources (ABC) Sources! That proves it!

Ex-Trump Aide Says Trump’s Use Of Word ‘Riggers’ Is A Racist Dog Whistle (Huffington Post) Remember: If you hear the dog-whistle, you’re the dog.

Grifters Gonna Grift: Lincoln Project Adviser Sells Overpriced Trump-Themed Mints to Depressed Liberal Wine Moms

FLASHBACK: When Democrats Were Cool With Calling Elections ‘Stolen’

Georgia Indicts Millions Of Voters For Conspiring To Elect Trump (Babylon Bee)

Ga. State Sen. Calls for Emergency Fani Willis Inquiry  Sauce for the goos….

Dual citizen of France and Canada who mailed ricin to Trump sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison (CNNO)

Bias by Omission: Media Present Trump’s Democratic Prosecutors as Nonpartisans

NPR/Marist Poll: Independent Voters Pick Trump Over Biden

Georgia Lawmaker Seeks Probe of Prosecutor Who Indicted Trump

Biden shouts during speech, challenges anyone to name ‘one thing’ the US set out to accomplish and failed (Fox) Well, let’s see: Afghanistan, inflation, homelessness, a secure southern border….

OK, Since You Asked: Conservatives Provide Biden With List Of Failures He Asked For

Sen. Schumer: GOP Biden Probes Don’t Matter to Americans (NewsMax)

Dems Turn on Each Other Over New York Migrant Crisis (Washington Free Beacon)

Biden’s Scandal-Plagued Iran Envoy Lands Ivy League Gigs Amid FBI Investigation The Crust take care of their own.

Special Counsel for Hunter Biden Doesn’t Meet DOJ Regulations. Now What? (Daily Signal)

What Residents of Hawaii Can Learn From Biden’s Response to Another Disaster in Ohio

Emails Show Hunter Biden Hired Specialists To Quietly Airbrush Wikipedia

House GOP Investigates State Department Atheism Grants

GOOD LUCK! MSNBC’s Hayes Urges Dems to Run on Inflation Record in 2024

These Cities Have The Most “Trapped” Homeowners By Their Low-Rate Mortgages

Snopes Rushes to Defend Biden, KJP From Fake News on Maui Visit (Just Like East Palestine)

Podcaster Rogan: Dems Trying to Torpedo Biden

Lawmakers Urge Biden To End Delay in Offloading Seized Iranian Oil

Biden Says Anyone Struggling To Buy A House Should Just Try Setting Up 20 Shell Companies To Launder Money From China (Babylon Bee)

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

We noted here the last few days that the predictable rush to blame the horrific Maui fires on climate change goes against what the so-called “consensus” science of the IPCC says about attribution of specific weather events. But you can’t stop the narrative for pesky little details like that.

But maybe the climatistas are right—just not in the way they know. In fact, it’s their fault. It is thought that the Maui fires were likely started by sparks from electric utility lines owned by Hawaiian Electric, just as the fires that killed nearly a 100 people in Paradise, California, a few years back were ignited by poorly maintained PG&E power lines. The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that Hawaiian Electric has been aware for years of the vulnerability and hazards of its electricity lines, but has done virtually nothing about it.

Why? The Journal’s subhed provides the answer: “It made little progress, focusing on a shift to clean energy.”

UPDATE: Hawaiian Grid Operator Focused on Promoting Green Energy Instead of Wildfire Preparedness

UPDATE: Hawaiian DEI kook refused to divert water to fight fires

Alex Tabarrok.

Christianity in India has roots at least as old as in Italy. Millions of Christians in Kerala today believe that their tradition traces back directly to Thomas, one of the 12 apostles of Jesus, who traveled to India in the first century AD. According to the Acts of Thomas, the apostles divided the world and drew lots to decide their respective regions for spreading the gospel. Thomas, drew India but, ever the doubter, he demurred. “It’s too hot and the food isn’t kosher”, he said, more or less. Jesus appeared to Thomas, however, and bade him “go to India!” Amazingly, he still demurred–what a doubter!–but by a minor miracle just as this was happening an Indian merchant arrived in Jerusalem calling for a master architect and builder to return with him to India. Finally, with this sign, Thomas’s doubts were allayed and his India adventures began.

The Antiplanner.

Washington state Democrats believe that a Portland-Seattle-Vancouver high-speed rail line is vital to the future of the Northwest. It is so vital, in fact, that they want someone else to pay for it, namely the federal government. The federal government, after all, seems to be unique in the world in that it can spend unlimited amounts of money without raising taxes to cover those costs.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Why does anyone still live in San Francisco? Why would any group hold a convention or similar event there? Why would a tourist set foot there? That city has been so badly governed for so long that the question is no longer whether it will thrive, but rather, whether it will survive.

Many San Francisco businesses have closed their doors, while others are barely hanging on. Gump’s is an upscale department store that has been in business on Post Street for 165 years. But its Chairman, John Chachas, has seen enough.

If I wanted to live outdoors I’d have joined the Army.

A multitrillion-dollar carbon bubble? Climate chief warns world leaders over fossil fuel plans (CNBC)

ESG cheerleaders are suddenly pivoting and and running for cover (Fox)

Who will pay to decarbonize the supply chain? (Supply Chain Dive)

Dry Springs in Central Texas Warn of Water Shortage Ahead (Inside Climate Narrative News)

Edwards Aquifer Authority issues Stage 4 water management (KXAN Austin)

What impact is Texas drought having on Austin-area swimming holes? Here’s what experts say (Austin American-Statesman)

The world’s most powerful wind turbine has set a world record (Electrek)

Vestas 15MW turbine breaks 24-hour wind power generation record (Renew Economy)

Vestas Offshore Wind Turbine Breaks 24-Hour Production Record (Offshore Wind)

California’s ocean is warming from a marine heat wave. Here are its effects (S.F. Chronicle)

Critics of ‘degrowth’ economics say it’s unworkable – but from an ecologist’s perspective, it’s inevitable (The Conversation)

The Prophet of Power Density

“There Is No Climate Crisis”…1600 Scientists Worldwide, Nobel Prize Laureate Sign Declaration

Democrats’ climate distraction won’t stop Hawaii wildfires (Washington Examiner)

Team Climate Crisis Resorts to Bullying, Again

GOP strategists warn Trump’s post-indictment political resilience could falter after Georgia (NBC News)

Here’s what DeSantis, Christie and other Trump 2024 rivals are saying about the Georgia indictment (CNN)

Trump will take mugshot at Fulton County Jail (Fox 5 Atlanta)

The best argument for the Georgia indictment doesn’t involve Trump (Washington Post)

The Case for Why the Constitution Blocks Trump Being President Again (TIME)

The Conservative Legal Roadmap to Disqualify Trump From Office (The New Republic)

Trump is not eligible to be president, 2 conservative legal scholars say (Bangor Daily News)

Andrea Mitchell Fears ‘Trump Opponents’ Will Get ‘Indictment Fatigue’ and Lose Interest (NewsBusters)

This Indictment of Trump Does Something Ingenious (N.Y. Times)

Trump Plans to Release 100-Page Report on Georgia Election Fraud Claims (N.Y. Times)

Destruction of Rule of Law in Fani Willis’ Georgia Star Chamber (The Foundry)

Kimberly Guilfoyle Cites John Gotti To Defend Trump, Makes The Opposite Point She Intended (Huffington Post)

‘Justice Shrugged’: The Persecution Of Donald Trump

This Indictment Hits Different (The Bulwark)

NBC Highlights 2024 Election Interference Due to Trump Indictments

In Georgia and federal indictments, two vastly different approaches (Washington Post)

Greg Gutfeld Lets Loose: Trump ‘Doesn’t Deserve Any of This’ (Daily Beast)

Special counsel obtained Trump DMs despite ‘momentous’ bid by Twitter to delay, unsealed filings show (Politico) Everyone deserves privacy but Trump, because Orange Man Bad.

POLL: 60% of Republican Primary Voters Support Trump for President

‘Much Bigger than Watergate’: Right on Cue, CNN Nudges John Dean on GA Indictments Carl “Worse Than Watergate” must be on vacation.

CNN’s Endless Indictment Orgasm (The Other McCain)

Trump Takes 47-Point Lead Over Republican Field as Ramaswamy Surges to Second

Trump’s Georgia Lawyer Donated to Fani Willis’ DA Campaign (Rolling Stone) The D.A. is well-named.

Mark Meadows Wants To Move Georgia Indictment To Federal Court – And Legal Experts Say He’ll Succeed

The Highly Dangerous Georgia Indictments (Ben Shapiro)

PBS Cheerleads for Bidenomics vs Trump’s ‘Tax Giveaways to the Ultra Rich’  I paid less for gas under Trump. That’s a fact. I paid less for groceries under Trump. That’s a fact.

The ‘brains’ behind fake Trump electors was once a liberal Democrat (Washington Post) The witch-hunt expands.

ESG cheerleaders are suddenly pivoting and and running for cover (Fox)

This Psychologist Wants To Vaccinate You Against Fake News (WIRED)

Major San Fran retailer condemns city, state leaders in full-page ad: ‘Abject disregard for civilized conduct’ (Fox)

166-year-old luxury retailer in San Francisco warns: This could be our last year (CNN)

SF icon Gump’s writes open letter to San Francisco leadership slamming city’s current conditions (CBS)

San Francisco’s “Tyranny of the Minority” (City Journal)

China adopts interim AI rule requiring technology to back the communist system

Soros-Backed Calif. DA Facing Recall, Charges of Nepotism (NewsMax)

When All Crimes Are Those Against The State

Judge: New Texas Election Law Unconstitutional; Appeal Next

Texas Lawsuit Could Bankrupt Planned Parenthood Chapters

Entire police department resigns in Minnesota city, leaves mayor ‘blindsided’: ‘Zero applicants’ (Fox)

Branding Expert: New ‘Snow White’ Could Ruin Disney

‘Stay Home’: Feds Tell San Francisco Workers To Telecommute Due To Crime Wave

Watch: San Francisco Retailers Are Abandoning The City In Droves

Republicans Introduce Bill to Repeal DC Home Rule

Blue State Blues: ‘Raped And Pillaged’: Maui Fire Survivors Describe Nighttime Looting, Botched Supply Drops

FLASHBACK: Feds Accused Incoming Dem National Convention Chair of Steering Funds to Illegal Clinton Shadow Campaign

Boston University hires Harvard disinformation scholar Joan Donovan (Washington Post) A fat ugly white woman instead of the usual fat ugly black woman. That’s odd.

Target Sales Hit by Pride Month Backlash

The Locus of Racist Evil Has Finally Been Unveiled: Kindergarten Teachers

Hawaii governor says state is looking to ‘acquire land’ destroyed in fires (The PostMillenial) Big Brother wants your land, because obviously he knows better how to use it than you do.

Making Everything Gay: Princess Penises, Trans Elders, Hip Hop & Pikachu

CNN Declares The Goal Of CRT Bans Is To Make Children Dumber

You Can Always Leave: Australian Girl Triggered by American Flags…in America

NYC Mayor Calls On Biden Admin To Expedite Work Permits For Illegal Immigrants

Liberal Dark Money Behemoth Faces IRS Complaint Over Alleged Bait-And-Switch Scheme

CNN Beclowns Itself Pushing Gibberish ‘Neopronouns,’ ‘Nounself Pronouns’

All About the (Qatari) Benjamins: Qatar Funded Ilhan Omar’s World Cup Trip

George Santos Missed the Deadline to Reveal His Finances. Now What? (N.Y. Times) No Republican is so insignificant as to escape the witch-hunt.

Tenn. Hospital Faces Federal Civil Rights Probe Over Trans Records (NewsMax)

Dishonest Mediaite Hacks Take Katie Pavlich’s Comments Out of Context (NewsBusters)

Georgia Indictment Joins Totalitarian Tradition of Mass Trials of Political Opposition (Breitbart)

Missouri Supreme Court Upholds Truancy Law

Court Revives Lawsuit Alleging DC Double Standard: BLM But Not Pro-Life Graffiti Allowed

From ‘America’s Mayor’ to Criminal Defendant: Giuliani’s Long Tumble (N.Y. Times) He’s still America’s Mayor, he’s just not the Democrats’ Mayor.

Everything we know about the EG.5 covid-19 variant and its symptoms (New Scientist)

Update on COVID-19 variant of interest EG.5 (World Health Organization)

As the new Eris Covid variant spreads across the world, here’s what we know so far (CNBC)

The EG.5 COVID variant is spiking in the U.S. Is it time to mask up? (National Geographic)

Doctors Sound The Alarm Over Latest Obesity Drug Risk

The Unforgivable Ivermectin Swindle

Reuters.

A Muslim crowd attacked a Christian community in eastern Pakistan on Wednesday, vandalising several churches and setting scores of houses on fire after accusing two of its members of desecrating the Koran, police and community leaders said.

The attack took place in Jaranwala in the industrial district of Faisalabad, police spokesman Naveed Ahmad said. The two Christians were accused of blasphemy, he said, adding they and family members had fled their homes.

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

ZMan is not impressed.

The latest indictments of Donald Trump are a good example of how narrative is a controlling feature of the managerial state. This is the fourth batch of indictments and arguably the most ridiculous. The players on the side of the regime are like characters from a racial satire. The fact that they accidentally posted the results before the grand jury vote is what we have come to expect in the crisis of competency. It is as if the regime is trying to prove the critics are right.

John Stossel.

It’s August, when many young people head off to college.

This year, fortunately, fewer will go.

I say “fortunately” because college is now an overpriced scam.

Overpriced, because normal incentives to be frugal and make smart judgments about who should go to college were thrown out when the federal government took over granting student loans.

Why?

Because our government basically vomits money at everyone who applies.

Definition: To edit a video or audio clip (typically by removing context) such that it appears to suggest the opposite of the actual case.

Examples:

• The Charlottesville Fine People Hoax: Deliberately truncated to remove Trump’s explicit disavowal of the Nazis in the march and to exclude them from the previous remark that the people marching included ‘fine people’.
• The Drinking Bleach Hoax: Deliberately truncated to remove Trump’s beginning and ending comments making clear that he was talking about the use of light as a disinfectant.
• The Covington Kids Hoax: Deliberately truncate to make it seem that one of the kids had confronted the Old Indian Agitator when it was the other way around.

Named for Democrat ‘journalist’ Aaron Rupar, who makes this sort of thing a regular practice.

Mary Rose Cook.

I used to believe that every book has an objective value. And I used to believe that this value is fixed and universal.

Now, I believe it’s much more useful to say something in this form: this book has this value to this person in this context.

This is one of those metanoia experiences where you encounter something that completely changes how you think about the world. Read The Whole Thing.

Read it.

table of contents

Don’t use VPN services. §
Why not? §
But my provider doesn’t log! §
But a provider would lose business if they did that! §
But I pay anonymously, using Bitcoin/PaysafeCard/Cash/drugs! §
But I want more security! §
But I want more privacy! §
But I want more encryption! §
But I want to confuse trackers by sharing an IP address! §
So when should I use a VPN? §
So, then… what? §
But how is that any better than a VPN service? §
So why do VPN services exist? Surely they must serve some purpose? §

Welcome to my world.

Read it.

Indeed, monarchy itself is not so easy to define. Mention the word, and the modern mind—fresh from being ordered to its room in masks by our freely elected masters, whilst the same impose their racial, gender, and hormonal views on a more or less unwilling society—immediately exclaims “tyranny.” Images of Nero, Henry VIII, and a wildly distorted George III are summoned up before said mind, subjected to an obligatory two minutes of hatred, and then once again sent triumphantly back to the mental recesses from whence they came. That task accomplished, one is able to return to the weary world one actually inhabits, feeling that at least one is ‘free.’

And yet, and yet, there are still people who openly call themselves monarchists. If the ‘M’ word is uttered, the malefactor’s hearers often reply: “So, you want to be a lord or something? If we had a monarchy again, you’d be nothing!” My favourite response to this was made by an American lady living in Germany, who answered “What makes you think I’m something now? Do you think the chancellor cares if you or I live or die?” There was no answer to that. At any rate, let us put that argument aside, as well as those who do indeed look for titles or orders of knighthood as social accessories, and concentrate on those who are serious about holding this unpopular view.

Quilette.

To hear almost anyone tell it, racial preferences in university admissions are dead. But this pervasive sense of finality belies a curious silence in the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions. The Court never expressly overrules the line of precedent that has allowed universities to discriminate for the last 50 years. Without a direct overruling, how can we know whether the Supreme Court has ended racial preferences or simply renovated the existing case law?

A careful reading of the Chief Justice’s opinion and an understanding of his judicial philosophy indicates that the Court has left universities with no realistic means to rely on racial preferences in admissions, even if the case law stating otherwise lingers in a vegetative state. Four key cases have formed the foundation for racial preferences in student admissions, with a case called Grutter v. Bollinger as the cornerstone. The Students for Fair Admissions case presented the Court with a choice: either apply the existing test under Grutter and friends or uproot the whole line of precedent.

Read it.

The New York Fire Department recently reported that so far this year there have been 108 lithium-ion battery fires in New York City, which have injured 66 people and killed 13. According to FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh, “There is not a small amount of fire, it (the vehicle) literally explodes.” The resulting fire is “very difficult to extinguish and so it is particularly dangerous.”

Organized crime or gangs could be behind a $300K L.A. ‘flash rob,’ police say (NBC)

Johnson quotes Tupac, dances around questions about health chief’s firing (Chicago Sun-Times)

Disputes over school reopenings, mental health centers key in firing of Chicago’s top doctor (CBS)

Chicago’s ex-top doctor reveals how she was fired in new wide-reaching interview (NBC)

Brandon Johnson’s unconscionable treatment of Dr. Allison Arwady (Chicago Sun-Times)

On Visit to China, NBA Mediocrity James Harden Attacks League Exec Who Supported Hong Kong Freedom Protests

She Wasn’t Able to Get an Abortion. Now She’s a Mom. Soon She’ll Start 7th Grade. (TIME)

Alabama Republicans defend not creating a second majority Black district in court (Politico)

Arkansas rejects AP African American Studies, cites Arkansas law on “prohibited topics” (Popular Information)

NKorea: Travis King Wants Refuge from Mistreatment in US Army

Georgia charges Trump, former advisers in 2020 election case (Reuters)

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis speaks after Trump election case indictment is unsealed (CNN)

Georgia lieutenant governor describes testimony to Fulton County grand jury as ‘very serious’ (The Hill)

Donald Trump among 19 charged in Georgia election interference case (WHAS 11)

Trump ‘like a toddler’ who needs consequences for speaking about cases: former White House press secretary (The Hill)

‘He’s going to be very surprised’: Georgia DA Fani Willis prepares to face off with Trump (The Guardian)

Georgia Grand Jury Delivers Indictment Hours After Court Claims Trump RICO Document “Fictitious”

‘Daring the judge’: Donald Trump attacks judge in 2020 election case, despite her warnings (USA Today)

Two Months in Georgia: How Trump Tried to Overturn the Vote (N.Y. Times)

Trump ups the ante on going after judges and witnesses. Where’s the line? (Washington Post) How about the First Amendment?

Ga. Judge to Allow Cameras in Courtroom if Trump Indicted  Admitting, after all, that it really is a show-trial. Beria would be proud.

Trump Attorneys on Georgia Charges Leak: Not a ‘Mistake’

Trump Spent The Weekend Publicly Attacking His Judge (Talking Points Memo)

Finger-pointing begins inside Trump team over Jan. 6 indictment (Washington Post) When ‘journalists’ don’t have anything to write about, they just make shit up.

Age Of Rage: UChicago Report Finds 30 Million American View Violence As Justified To Keep Trump From Power

How a law associated with mobsters is central to charges against Trump (Associated Press)

Trump has no plans to stop posting about 2020 election conspiracy case despite stern warnings from judge (CNN)

Hillary & Maddow Cry About Election Deniers, Dream About Trump Moving to Belarus

Trump’s 4 criminal cases, ranked in order of how screwed he is (Insider)

Trump is indicted in Georgia on charges of racketeering. What it means, what happens next (Washington Post)

Trump Indictment, Part IV: A Spectacle That Has Become Surreally Routine (N.Y. Times)

The Georgia Indictment Offers the Whole Picture (The Atlantic) All of the Narrative witch-hunt in one comprehensive package.

Meet the 18 people charged with Trump in Georgia indictment (The Hill)

Georgia DA Indicts 18 Trump Attorneys and Allies  (NewsMax) Apparently it’s illegal for Trump to talk to a lawyer. Who knew?

Dershowitz slams GA indictment, says Trump used same tactics as Al Gore in 2000: not a ‘crime’

Awkward: Rachel Maddow Calls Out ‘Election Deniers’ As Hillary Clinton Offers Blank Stare

Biden Admin Coaches Colleges on How to Use Race in Admissions After Supreme Court Ruling

How America Got Mean (The Atlantic) David Brooks does his house-conservative thing.

NASCAR Faces Boycott After Suspending Rookie Phenom

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin blasts GOP senator’s blockade of military promotions as ‘unnecessary’ and ‘unsafe’ (NBC) They could unblock it tomorrow if the administration were willing to quit pushing abortion in the military, but they’re unwilling to do that.

While Hundreds Deal With Maui Fires, Paris Hilton Vacations With Fam

NPR Airs MASSIVE Story On the ‘Cost’ of Parents Pushing Librarians on ‘Book Bans’

The Dream Was Universal Access to Knowledge. The Result Was a Fiasco. (N.Y. Times)

The Media Still Doesn’t Get Biden Voters (The Bulwark)

Damning Report Reveals Big Tech’s Interference in Kari Lake’s Election

Massachusetts Bars Couple From Foster Care Over Christian Views on LGBT Matters

Newest “anti-woke” tantrum: Right-wingers don’t think kids of different races can be friends (Salon)

PBS, ProPublica Insult Justice Thomas: ‘He’s Always Wanted to Get Paid’

Snow White Star Rachel Zegler Dubbed ‘Fake Feminist’

The GOP Senate candidate whose Trump ambassador stint is coming back to haunt him (Politico)

This Far-Left Socialist Is a Top Donor to RFK Jr.

Where is Hillary’s Indictment on the Same Charges as Trump?

Marjorie Taylor Greene is out but not down (Politico)

Dems Outraged at RFK Jr. After Abortion Comments  How dare a Democrat be in favor of actual democracy.

PolitiFact Rates DeSantis ‘Mostly False’ For True Statement About CRT

DC ‘Selectively Enforced’ Anti-Defacement Laws Against Black Lives Matter vs. Pro-Life Groups, Federal Court Rules

Orgs EXPOSED for Blacklisting ‘Conservative News’ Online

New Covid vaccines are on the way as ‘Eris’ variant rises (Reuters)

States brace for COVID-19, Flu, RSV this fall (CBS Texas)

‘There are reasons to be optimistic’ about new COVID boosters, expert says (WTOP)

New vaccine: Local health officials expect to receive updated COVID-19 shots as vaccinations lag in Columbus area (The Republic)

Tennis Star Novak Djokovic Returns to U.S. Following Ban Over Vaccination Status

‘People Letting Down Their Guard’: CBS Demands Return to COVID Masks

It’s Not Just The Office: School Attendance Rates “Plummeting” As COVID’s “Stay At Home” Effects Linger People have discovered that you don’t need a government school to produce an educated child. (Indoctrination, Intimidation & Intolerance: What Passes for Education Today)

Termination Zero: Our Predicament May Be Totally Unprecedented (The Conversation)

The new climate law is upending the solar landscape (Axios)

EPA Overrules Texas Plan to Reduce Haze From Air Pollution at National Parks (Inside Climate Narrative News)

The desperate race to create a protection zone around the rapidly melting Arctic (The Guardian)

Engineers Find a Zero-Carbon Way to Make Everyday Chemicals (Newsweek)

An alarming pattern: Climate disasters hit, and Spanish-language misinformation spreads (NBC News) Apparently Spanish-language media aren’t pushing the Climate Change Narrative strongly enough.

ALERT: This Portland Woman Won’t Date You Unless You Suffer From Crippling Climate Anxiety  A bullet, dodged.

Two Princeton, MIT Scientists Say EPA Climate Regulations Based On A ‘Hoax’

Those who don’t study weather history are condemned to repeat it as ‘climate alarmism’

This Bold Plan to Kick the World’s Coal Habit Might Actually Work  (Wired ‘Science’)

China Abandons Clean Energy Goals Making US Efforts Painful And Pointless

New Studies Find No Global Drought Trend Since 1902…Global Flood Magnitudes Decline with Warming

Deadly Hawaii Fires Are Result of Political and Policy Failures—Not Climate Change (The Foundry)

Why is Canada giving two automakers $30B in subsidies for EV battery production?  Oh, maybe corruption?