The New Yorker Cover Spotlights Aging Politicians (NewsMax)

The earmarks Adam Schiff delivered for donors (Politico)

UK Report: Over One-Third of Children on Puberty Blockers Experienced Worsened Mental Health

Majority of Americans continue to favor moving away from Electoral College (Pew Research Center) So submit the Amendment. Let people vote on it.

Navarro Praises Menendez, Prays for ‘Logical Explanation’ for Hidden Gold Bars

Justin Trudeau’s Nazi Hot Take Flexibility

Nets Wail Federal Bureaucrats Won’t Get Paid During Government Shutdown

10 Politicians Who Recently Ditched Democratic Party

Dems Take Over FCC, Chair Seeks Reinstate Net Neutrality

Gov. Newsom Signs Law to Keep Sex, Race Books in California Schools

‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’: WashPost Freaks Over GOP Fighting Against Efforts to Quash Free Speech

Gas Tops $7 in California

Leftists In Canadian Parliament Seek to Erase Embarrassing Nazi Incident From The Record

College Admissions Officers Use Pronouns to Give Preferences to Liberals, Study Finds

NJ School District Permits Cell Phone Searches

One-Third of Democrats Think Americans Have ‘Too Much Freedom’ of Speech: Poll

California Legal Course Urges Custody Attorneys To Push Puberty Blockers for Kids

NY’s Hochul Calls in More National Guard Troops as Illegal Immigrant Crisis Worsens

Damning Documents Reveal DHS’s Ongoing Censorship Scheme

Judge Orders Migrants Out of NYC Shelter

NYC now preparing to spend staggering extra $1B on hotels alone to shelter migrants for three more years (N.Y. Post)

Behar: Better for America If Biden Gets Reelected and ‘Dies in Office’

San Francisco Office Vacancies Hit All-Time Record as Businesses Flee Crime, Homelessness

Target Closing 9 Stores Due to Rampant Theft

EXCLUSIVE: School District Censored Watchdog Group After It Exposed Teacher’s Tirade Against Parental Rights

Oakland Businesses Strike Over Rampant Crime

Mass Extinction Predicted: Extreme Heat Likely To Wipe Out Humans and Mammals in “Triple Whammy” (SciTechDaily)

‘Staggering’ green growth gives hope for 1.5C, says global energy chief (The Guardian)

Peak Oil Is Near, Energy Agency Says, but Climate Change Is Far From Solved (N.Y. Times)

Net Zero Roadmap: A Global Pathway to Keep the 1.5 °C Goal in Reach (IEA)

Fossil fuel demand must fall by a quarter by 2030 to limit global warming, IEA says (Financial Times)

Even Bill Gates is backtracking — the air’s gone out of the climate-crisis balloon (N.Y. Post)

Bill Gates gets real about climate change: Planting trees is ‘complete nonsense’ but the end of the oil and gas era is finally in sight (Fortune)

Bill Gates: ‘Republicans for climate change action are gold’ (CNBC)

Climate doomsday talk is getting pushback from Bill Gates: Jesse Watters (Fox)

Share of Americans attributing extreme weather to climate change jumped 10 points this summer (The Hill)

How the Biden Administration Is Using the ‘Climate Crisis’ To Make Housing Even More Expensive

Majority Of Carbon Offset Projects Globally Are “Likely Junk”

Ford Suddenly Halts Construction At EV Battery Plant Amid Republican Probe Over China Ties

Probe Launched Into Granholm’s Electric Car Jaunt

GOP shutdown politics rock Washington as Trump and Biden head for a swing-state showdown (CNN)

Anti-religion group threatens to ‘warn’ Auburn University after 200 kids baptized on campus: ‘Absolute joke’ (Fox)

Ivey: ‘Alabama won’t be intimidated’ by Freedom From Religion Foundation (WSFA)

Anti-religion group slams Auburn for impromptu baptism event: ‘Inappropriate and unconstitutional’ (N.Y. Post)

Gov. Ivey calls FFRF letter “misleading and misguided” in statement Friday morning (Auburn Plainsman)

A new Supreme Court case could trigger a second Great Depression (Vox)

Report: Billionaire That Gifted Justice Alito Luxury Trip Holds At Least $90M in Financial Companies Overseen by CFPB (Accountable.us) The witch-hunt continues.

Supreme Court Ruling Sparks Fears About Economic Fallout (U.S. News & World Report)

Neo-Nazis Are Pushing This Beetle to the Brink of Extinction (Daily Beast) You can’t make this shit up.

Home discomfort for Ron DeSantis as Florida Republicans edge away (The Guardian)

A Nation of Snitches: DHS Is Grooming Americans to Report on Each Other (OffGuardian)

Marjorie Taylor Greene Tweets Hanukkah Menorah Image for Yom Kippur (Daily Beast) The best of American high-school ‘journalism’.

GOP donor wants his money back after candidate hires Corey Lewandowski (Politico)

WATCH: Canadian Parliament’s Standing Ovation for Nazi SS Veteran Leads Liberal Leader To Apologize

Biden world is worried about spoilers as third parties threaten to boost Trump (NBC News)

Polls Show Low Approval Ratings for Biden, and Trump Coasting in Primary (N.Y. Times)

Trump runs away with double-digit lead over Biden, new general election poll finds (Fox)

Trump edges out Biden 51-42 in head-to-head matchup: POLL (ABC News)

The cost of the unaccountable CFPB keeps getting higher (The Hill)

White House Steps Up Warnings of Shutdown Impact as Deadline Nears (N.Y. Times)

ABC Poll: Trump Leads Biden by 10, Pollsters Can’t Believe It

RFK Jr. Slams Biden Border Policy

Gen. Mark Milley, polarizing Joint Chiefs chairman, exits center stage (Washington Poop)

Biden Administration Knew Border Surge Was Coming, Internal Documents Show—And Did Nothing

NY Times Reporter Laments Biden Interviews Are Limited to ‘Friendly Talk Show Hosts’

Biden Announces $1.4 Billion to Improve Rail Safety, Capacity in 35 States  Let’s turn the clock back and throw some money at it.

Report: Biden Admin Knew Migrant Surge Would Happen

HarrisX Poll: Trump Beating Biden by 5 Points

Watch: Border Patrol Boss Admits Agency Cannot Protect US Because They’re Forced To Process So Many Illegals

Two Devastating Polls Show Why Biden and Harris Are More Unpopular Than Ever

Why Won’t Biden Close the Border?

How Washington’s $7.5 Trillion Deficit Spending Spree is Bankrupting America

‘This is not just Putin’s war’: How Finland’s top diplomat sees Ukraine (Washington Poop)

Finland’s President, No Stranger to Russia, Warns Europe About Complacency (N.Y. Times)

The Week In Russia: Limited Leverage In The ‘Near Abroad’ (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)

The risk that nuclear weapons could be used is tremendous – Finnish President on war in Ukraine (Yahoo News)

Lesson Learned? (Navy Matters)

Washington Is Fighting Against Emergence Of “Genuine Multipolar World Order”: Lavrov Tells UN

Russia Dodges G7 Price Cap Sanctions on Most of Its Oil Exports

Senator Shocked By Classified Briefing On Ukraine: Warhawks Want Blank Check With No Victory In Sight

Bringing Ukraine Into NATO and the E.U. Is the Key to Peace (N.Y. Times) Thomas Friedman gets it exactly backwards, as usual.

The Countries Pledging The Most Aid & Arms To Ukraine

Russia Penetrates Ukraine Air Defenses in Odesa Strike

Taiwan Warns of Chinese Army Buildup in Fujian

Philippines Removes Chinese Barrier at Disputed Shoal in ‘Special Operation’

Ukraine: Russian Black Sea Fleet Commander Killed in Crimea Strike

First US Abrams Tanks Arrive In Ukraine, Officials Admit They “Risk Being Destroyed”

ATTRITION: Russian Goals and Costs in Ukraine

As Covid cases rise, what to know about Paxlovid (NBC News)

What Is Paxlovid Rebound, and How Common Is It? (Prevention magazine)

Both Paxlovid, molnupiravir lower COVID Omicron deaths, hospitalizations, studies conclude (University of Minnesota)

Covid Drug Paxlovid Now Less Effective Than In Early Trials—But It’s Still Great At Preventing Death (Forbes)

CDC Refuses To Release Updated Information On Post-COVID Vaccination Heart Inflammation

WATCH: Pete Buttigieg Shreds Trump’s Reported Insult of Wounded Vet (Daily Beast) Nobody would seriously believe that Trump would ‘insult a wounded vet’. This is just another RUPAR.

Donald Trump’s attacks on top military officer are ‘outrageous,’ Pete Buttigieg says (USA Today)

Pete Buttigieg condemns Trump’s reported remarks about wounded veteran (The Guardian)

Hear what Trump reportedly said about injured veteran after this hug (CNN)

Poll showing Trump up 10 points over Biden for 2024 election criticized (The Guardian)

Trump has a second-term agenda, and it’s more terrifying than ever (L.A. Times)

Trump Trials: The Waiting Game (Washington Poop)

Big GOP donors hoped for an alternative to Trump. Now some are giving up. (Politico)

Activists’ Push to Block Trump From 2024 Ballot Stalls

Donald Trump will be all across America this week, except on the debate stage (CNN)

2 Looming Rulings Could Shape Trump’s Fraud Trial in New York (N.Y. Times)

Trump Floats the Idea of Executing Joint Chiefs Chairman Milley (The Atlantic)

The View PANICS Trump Leading ABC Poll, Claim Pollsters Were ‘High’

Not Crazy or a Nazi? Liberal Org Run For Something Wants You for School Board (Daily Beast) They would prefer that you be crazy and a Commie.

Media Ratings Firm Favors Left Leaning Outlets

Hillary Clinton: Putin Could Meddle in 2024 WH Election I guess she’s available.

Trump: ‘Start Suing’ on Pa. Automatic Voter Registration

California governor signs bills to enhance the state’s protections for LGBTQ people (NBC News)

Texas Deploys More Buses To Ship Illegal Immigrants To “At Capacity” Sanctuary Cities

Dem Texas Mayor Says City Is at ‘Breaking Point’ as Migrants Flood Across Border

Budget Gimmicks: Washington Labels Everything an ‘Emergency’ to Spend More

Busted! Adam Schiff Funneled Millions To Defense Contractors After Taking Donation

NY Gov. Deploys More National Guard to Deal With Migrants

Switzerland Closes Italian Borders Ahead of Migrant Wave

After U.N. meeting, countries brace for COP28 fossil fuel fight (Reuters)

Deep divisions over oil and gas industry role challenge UN climate talks (Financial Times)

COP28 action agenda aims to cut 22 gigatons of emissions in 7 years (Mint)

UAE oil exec and leader of COP28 climate summit tells U.N., energy industry to ‘get after gigatons’ of emissions (MarketWatch)

Top Republicans launch probe into Leonardo DiCaprio-funded blue state lawsuits against Big Oil (Fox)

How do we raise trillions of dollars to fight the climate crisis? The answer is staring us in the face (The Guardian) Gordon Brown may be getting old but he’s still a socialist.

An El Niño winter is coming. Here’s what that could mean for the US (CNN) More drivel about ‘climate change’, certainly.

This homegrown tree-planting scheme wants to tackle carbon offsetting’s greenwashing problem (EuroNews)

Revealed: top carbon offset projects may not cut planet-heating emissions (The Guardian)

Statement to Voluntary Carbon Market Stakeholders on the Latest Guardian Attack (Verra)

9 Indian projects to cut carbon emissions ‘worthless’, finds climate change report (The Print)

Inside the Great British Seaweed Race to Save the Earth (Daily Beast)

Kelp wanted: How seaweed farmers can curb the vicious cycles of climate change (CBC)

Seaweed is nutritious, not slimy. Eating it could save the world. (Yahoo News)

U.S. Housing Crisis Thwarts Recruitment for Nature-Based Infrastructure Projects (Inside Climate Narrative News)

What The Corn Industry Doesn’t Want You To Know (Mashed)

Britain’s Net Zero Police State

Yes, there was global warming in prehistoric times. But nothing in millions of years compares with what we see today (L.A. Times)

UK Backtracks On Key Green Policies

Western US Braces For Loss Of Solar-Powered Generation During Solar Eclipse

British to Be Forced to Drive Electric

Values Of Used EVs Plummet, As Dealers Stuck With Unsold Cars

I.R.S. Changes Audit Practice That Discriminated Against Black Taxpayers (N.Y. Times)

Washington National Cathedral reveals new racial justice stained glass windows to replace those that honored Confederate generals (CNN)

For $18.65, famous artist designs racial justice windows for National Cathedral (Washington Poop)

National Cathedral unveils racial justice-themed windows, replacing Confederate ones (NPR)

National Cathedral installs stained glass windows with racial justice message (WTOP)

Chicago Weekend: 3 Deaths, Including Elderly Man

ZMan turns over a rock.

Over the last decade the usual suspects have directed a great deal of resources into anathematizing the term “Christian Nationalism.” One reason is the long war against Christianity in general that dates to the start of the last century. Since these people assume nationalism is a bad word, whatever they can attach it to becomes bad as a result of the linkage. This sort of linguistic guilt by association has been a popular tactic with the usual suspects for a long time.

Another attack is from the establishment churches and affiliated political operations, who worry that their people are getting wise to the grift. Like conservatism in general, social conservatism has been a massive failure. Since so-called Christian organizations have been at the forefront of the culture war, the rank and file are now looking around for an alternative way forward. The people who got rich off losing the culture war see Christian nationalism as a threat to their grift.

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It’s commonplace for many conservatives, and others concerned about security, to express alarm about uncontrolled immigration. And while there is an invigorating perennial debate between classical liberals / libertarians and social conservatives about the merits and drawbacks to having open borders, for many, to express too strong a defense of immigration controls—or, worse, ‘repatriation’—is tantamount to racist xenophobia.

We’re here to say that this dismissive attitude—and the general reluctance among policymakers to discuss the socio-economic impacts of mass migration—does a disservice to the many countries that have opened their arms to newcomers. But given recent episodes of crime, riots, and sexual violence, and given the sheer scale of the waves of immigrants now seeking refuge in Europe, we think Europe’s future lies in part with ensuring its cultural survival, which necessarily implies ending immigration.

We think that, over the years, many intellectuals and policymakers have warned us of the challenges and potential threats of mass migration (especially from non-Western countries): Enoch Powell in Britain; Jean Raspail in France; Gianfranco Miglio in Italy. Much of this has been to no avail. But as the realities of sexual grooming, harassment, anti-Christian, and antisemitic incidents spread across Europe, we think it is time to turn to some sober analysis of the situation.

Microsoft wants to use small nuclear reactors to power its datacenters

Kerry Acknowledges Need For Nuclear Power As Climate Diplomacy Dominates New York City

Ford Admits Their Risky EV Gamble Hinges on Government Coercion

Republicans Embrace Ballot Harvesting for 2024, Some Foresee Legal Battles  As Scott Adams frequently says, if there’s a great deal of profit and no accountability, cheating will happen.

“Privacy Disasters On Wheels”: AOC Blasts NYC Mayor Adams’ New Robo-Subway Crime-Fighting Cop

Texas Sends More Migrants to NYC Amid ‘Capacity’ Claim

Chicago’s Trillion-Dollar Financial Engine At Risk Of Leaving Over $800 Million Tax Proposal

The Censorship Industrial Complex Exposes The Kleptocracy’s True Intentions

Canadian Parents (Finally) Push Back Against Gender Cultism

Cyprus Wants New Syrian Safe Zones for Increased Deportations

We install planters so you don’t have to look at homeless people

France: Foreigners Commit 69% Of Robberies, Violent Crimes & Sexual Assaults On Public Transport

UK Quietly Passes “Online Safety Bill” Into Law

20 Robo-Taxis Cause Traffic Mayhem In Austin  Couldn’t happen to a nicer place.

Pro-Choice? NPR Can Mourn a Miscarriage, Happily Air Audio of Abortion

The Clintons Welcome Trans Queens, Muslim Politicians, Foreign Oligarchs

Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech (The Guardian)

McCarthy Reverses Decision to Strip Ukraine Aid From Bill (NewsMax)

Air Force General Defends Memo That Predicted War With China By 2025

PROCUREMENT: Russia Has a Plan

Poland’s PM Warns Zelensky “Never Insult” Polish People Again

Nagorno-Karabakh’s Entire Armenian Population Set to Flee to Armenia

Seymour Hersh On The Mainstream’s Ukraine Narrative Shift

Zelenskyy, Trudeau Honor Actual 3rd Reich Nazi With Standing Ovation

Trafalgar Polls: Trump Leads Iowa by 33 Points, Nationally by 42

California Democrats Could Guarantee Trump 2024 Win  They’re certainly doing their best.

MSNBC Analyst: Trump’s Alleged Jail Worries Show ‘Overwhelming Consciousness of Guilt’

PANIC: ABC Hyperventilates Over Poll Showing Trump Beating Biden BIG  Setting the stage for easing Creepy Joe out of the top spot.

As Trump Prosecutions Move Forward, Threats and Concerns Increase (N.Y. Times) “Mommeee! Donald hit me back!”

AGAIN? NBC’s Meet the Press Also Panics Over Trump’s Polling Bump

A new Supreme Court case could trigger a second Great Depression (Vox) “America’s Trumpiest court”?

Report: Billionaire That Gifted Justice Alito Luxury Trip Holds At Least $90M in Financial Companies Overseen by CFPB (Accountable.us) SCRAAAAPE that barrell….

Supreme Court Ruling Sparks Fears About Economic Fallout (Newsweek)

How an Upcoming Supreme Court Ruling Could Benefit Alito Patron (The New Republic) “Alito patron”?

North Carolina Republicans Just Passed a Massive Power Grab to Seize Control of Elections (Mother Jones)

After Rupert Retires, NPR’s Folkenflik Rants on ‘Corrosive…Right-Wing’ Fox News on PBS

Dana Perino of Fox News Is About to Face Her Biggest Test as a Journalist (N.Y. Times) Don’t think of it as selling out; think of it as buying in.

You’ve Persuaded Us Already (The Reframe) Little proglodyte propaganda sites keep popping up like weeds.

GOP Rep Who Pushes ‘Traditional Values’ Is Accused of Affair With Lobbyist (Daily Beast) Of course he is. And the Beasties are there to push the Narrative.

The Root Cause of Crime

Government Should Pay Compensation for Secretive Cold War-era Testing, St. Louis Victims Say Apparently no black person ever had a grievance that couldn’t be salved with money.

After Florida restricts Black history, churches step up to teach it (Washington Poop) It comes as no surprise that explicitly racist churches are stepping up to push an explicitly racist Narrative.

Mexico makes agreement with US to deport migrants from its border cities amid ongoing surge in illegal migration (CNN)

Defunct ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ Sought To Censor Opposing Views On Racial Justice, Afghan Withdrawal, & Other Political Subjects

Kamala’s Latest Whopper

Migrants Hoping to Reach US Continue North through Mexico by Train amid Historic Migration Levels

Biden disapproval rating hits highest mark of presidency: poll (The Hill) Laying the groundwork for pushing Creepy Joe out of the top slot.

On Biden’s Lying

Why you might want to wait to get the new COVID booster (The Hill)

As Covid-19 hospitalizations climb, rates among seniors and children raise concern (CNN)

Worcester: 2 omicron variants responsible for spike in COVID-19 infections (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)

COVID-19 Deaths, Hospitalizations Increase as U.S. Heads Into Fall (US News & World Report)

Anti-vaxxers are now a modern political force (Politico) And it just chaps the buns of the Narrative media.

America sucks so bad that everyone wants to come here.

Gates of Vienna.

A “Viennese” teenager was planning a terrorist attack with a knife at the main railway station in Vienna, but abandoned his plan at the last minute. The misguided youth had previously declared his devotion to the Islamic State. It’s not clear why he changed his mind.

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

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The United Auto Workers (UAW) went on strike on Sept. 15. The strike affected the “big three” in Detroit—General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis, maker of the Jeep. The union wants to increase average labor costs from $65 per hour, including benefits, which is already above market rates. Nonunionized Tesla, for example, pays “just” $45 per hour in labor, considering the cost of benefits.

The UAW’s demands would roughly double labor costs and, according to management, make the companies unviable. Where will the workers go when the automakers go bankrupt, further mechanize their assembly lines, or move yet more production to China?

Many workers in these companies who aren’t on strike are already getting fired. Striking unions attempt to inflict maximum pain on their own companies with as little effort and expenditure as possible. The companies are forced to let go of misguided workers, who they can’t keep busy because other misguided workers on whom they depend are striking. All the strikers and fired UAW workers are getting paid from union funds that came from dues imposed on workers, whether they like it or not. They’re getting paid by the union to halt production.

This ludicrous practice introduces massive inefficiencies into U.S. manufacturing, yet Americans over the decades have gotten used to the deadweight it attaches to the economy.

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On the left, those with a penchant for turtleneck sweaters, hatred of orange presidents and a lottery of genders can check out Colorado-based TruuBlue, which matches social justice progressives.

On the right, those who love long shoots at the range, not murdering unborn children, and woke-free zones can check out The Right Stuff.

Sounds very convenient. (It doesn’t surprise me that leftists can’t spell.)

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• Men swipe right on 60% of women, women swipe right on 4.5% of men.
• The bottom 80% of men are competing for the bottom 22% of women and the top 78% of women are competing for the top 20% of men.
• A guy with average attractiveness can only expect to be liked by slightly less than 1% of females. This means one “like” for every 115 women that see his profile.

Sucks to be you.

Biden announces the creation of first White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention to be led by Harris (Fox) Gotta stick her somewhere.

DHS Team Recruits Officials Who Falsely Called Hunter Biden Laptop Story ‘Russian Disinformation’ (The Foundry)

Paying Iranian Terrorists Billions in Ransom Is Nothing to Brag About, Mr. President (The Foundry)

Biden to join the picket line in UAW strike (Politico)

Report: Rite Aid Plans to Shut Down Hundreds of Stores (NewsMax)

Leaked Videos Show VA Pushing Abortion as Safest Option (NewsMax)

Will “Poor Man’s Cocaine” Fuel The Next US Drug Crisis?

Sen. Murphy Slams Biden Plan To Commit ‘American Blood’ To Saudi Arabia

Media Let Biden Take Credit for Pause in Border Crisis. Now They’re Letting Him Shift Blame. (Washington Free Beacon)

Reports: No Sign of Migrant Surge Slowing Anytime Soon (NewsMax)

FBI Informant Created One Of Largest Nazi Groups In American History

Yolanda Lopez, Voice of America director, resigns amid congressional corruption probe at broadcaster

F-35 Stealth Fighter Only Mission Capable About Half The Time, Government Report Finds

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 61)

Biden to Migrants: ‘Immediately Surge the Border’

Biden’s Permitting Proposal Would Backfire, Add Red Tape For Affordable Energy Projects

Watch: National Guard Rolls Into Eagle Pass, Texas As Biden’s Border Crisis Spirals Out-Of-Control

Fmr FBI Official Admits Hiding $225K in Foreign Payments

Ukraine live briefing: Missiles strike Russia’s Black Sea Fleet HQ; Zelensky visits Toronto (Washington Poop)

Report: Russia Plans Huge Defense Spending Hike in 2024

INFORMATION WARFARE: North Korean Cyber War Efforts

The Coming Ukraine Collapse & The “Rebuilding” Headfake

US Abrams Tanks Arrive In Ukraine Next Week, Biden Confirms

Taiwan Raises Concerns China Drills ‘Getting Out of Hand’

US To Finance, Train Kenyan Soldiers For Mission To Haiti

911 call shows circumstances of F-35 ejection

Top Ukrainian General: Forces Have Broken Through at Verbove

Ukraine Says Sevastopol HQ Strike Left Dozens Of Casualties “Including Senior Leadership”

Jack Smith adds war crimes prosecutor — his deputy from the Hague — to special counsel team (Politico)

Alternate Trump Electors Push Back Against State Racketeering Charges In Federal Court

Judge asked to decide if Trump property valuations were fraud or “genius” (CBS News)

Cassidy Hutchinson Reappears. She Has More Trump Stories to Tell. (N.Y. Times)

Cancers Appearing In Ways Never Before Seen After COVID Vaccinations: Dr. Harvey Risch

American Pandemic ‘Samizdat’: Bhattacharya

WHO’s Pandemic Treaty Negotiations Run Short on Time

WashPost EXPOSED for Sneaky Campaign to Cancel Dave Portnoy’s Pizza Festival

Californians To Pay 18% Tax On Firearms, Ammo After Anti-Gun Lawmakers Strike

The Wrecking-Ball Caucus: How the Far Right Brought Washington to Its Knees (N.Y. Times)

The YouTube Unpersoning of Russell Brand

Clarence Thomas’ Latest Pay-to-Play Scandal Finally Connects All the Dots (Slate) The witch-hunt continues.

Misinformation research is buckling under GOP legal attacks (Washington Poop)

Netanyahu, Once Again, Educates CNN About Judicial Reforms

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Flirts With the Libertarian Party (N.Y. Times) The swine!

Gov. Newsom Attacks Federal Judge As Child-Killing, Extremist, Right-Wing Zealot Owned By The NRA  Don’t hold it in, Gav, tell us how you really feel.

Clarence Thomas’ Koch Party Is Latest Shocking Ethics Breach (Daily Beast) I’m shocked, shocked I tell you….

Destroying Russell Brand

Stanford-Medicine.

Tiny circles of DNA harbor cancer-associated oncogenes and immunomodulatory genes promoting cancer development. They arise during transformation from pre-cancer to cancer, say Stanford Medicine-led team.

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Here’s a story straight out of a “trigger warning” scenario for Vice President Kamala Harris’ new federal office of gun violence prevention: a murdered Ecuadorian cartel boss known as “El Fatal” has been buried with hundreds of guns in his coffin this past week, the NY Post reported.

Surrounded by hundreds of pistols, shotguns and rifles, the 39 year old was the leader of “Los Fatales”. He was getting a car wash last week when he was “suddenly ambushed by gunmen” and killed, along with his 20 year old daughter who was with him.

The murder was blamed on rival gang, the report says.

He’ll be well-armed in the next life.

Medium.

This scenario is a familiar in the world of business folklore: an unknown entrepreneur who, through sheer determination, transforms their uniquely innovative idea into a triumphant tale of success. This narrative is typically interwoven with various challenges, often of a financial nature, that our protagonist must conquer to reach the pinnacle. The enduring message remains consistent: if you possess the desire, you have the capability. If they could achieve it by surmounting numerous obstacles, perhaps you can too. At the very least, give it a shot.

Numerous instances abound, with a particularly frequent one being the story of Jeff Bezos, now one of the wealthiest individuals on Earth. Stepping into Amazon’s corporate headquarters two decades ago was akin to entering a realm of dimly lit and dispiriting offices, documents haphazardly pinned to the walls, a handcrafted logo, and a prevailing sense that little of real productivity could emanate from such surroundings. At that time, Bezos remained relatively obscure in the world of technology. It was only through extraordinary dedication and hard work that he attained his current stature.

OffGuardian.

What is BlackRock? Where did this financial behemoth come from? How did it gain such incredible power over the world’s wealth? And how is it seeking to leverage that power in shaping the course of human civilization?

Find out in this in-depth Corbett Report documentary on How BlackRock Conquered the World.

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Even as President Joe Biden leads in the 2024 primaries, Democrat presidential contender Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has higher favorability and lower unfavorability numbers than either President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, (Trump 43%, Biden 41%, RFK, Jr. 14% unfavorability) according to a new poll by The Economist/YouGov.

Rasmussen reports that a survey also revealed that twenty-five percent (25%) of likely Democrat voters would vote for RFK Jr. in the 2023 primaries for President. Three percent (3%) of Democrats favor author Marianne Williamson in the primaries, while seven percent (7%) would vote for another candidate. The Rasmussen Report is based on a national survey of 998 U.S. likely voters conducted September 14 and 17-18, 2023.

Gates of Vienna.

Ever since the Great Migration Crisis began in 2015, we’ve become accustomed to news stories from Germany and Austria featuring culture-enriching youths who experience “sexual emergencies” in public swimming facilities and attempt to satisfy their needs by forcibly imposing their amorous attentions on underage bathers of both sexes.

The following report concerns a group of eight such “New Germans” who assaulted a 13-year-old girl in a Cologne swimming pool.

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

McCarthy visibly frustrated after GOP hardliners put his plan to avoid a shutdown on ice (CNN)

Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events (Pro Publica) Secretly? Doesn’t look very secret to me.

Documentary ‘God & Country: The Rise Of Christian Nationalism’ From Producer Rob Reiner Acquired By Oscilloscope (Deadline)

Men Don’t Need Their Own ‘Affirmative Action’ (Harvard Crimson)

What Students Are Saying About the End of Race-Based Affirmative Action in College Admissions (N.Y. Times)

NY Times Puts Protective Cloak Around Slob Sen. Fetterman (D), Hits ‘Hard-Right’

Why I Can Never Forgive Rupert Murdoch (Daily Beast) I’m sure he’s losing sleep over it.

The Ludicrous Agony of Rupert Murdoch (N.Y. Times) Michelle Goldbert joins the proglodyte dog-pile.

Leftist Mayor Calls 911 On Peaceful Petitioners – Describes Them As “Far Right Wing”

New Records: Biden DHS Has Approved Hundreds of Thousands of Migrants for Secretive Foreign Flights Directly into U.S. Airports (Center for Immigration Studies)

UAW Files Labor Complaint Against Sen. Tim Scott for Saying “You Strike, You’re Fired.”

Britain’s Parliament Demands That Rumble, X Deplatform Russell Brand

David Brooks is laughing at you, peasant (Hot Air)

Michigan attorney general says fake GOP electors she charged are ‘brainwashed’ (CNN) And, being a Democrat, she would know.

Biden Campaign Dispatching Newsom to GOP Debate

With Complete Lack of Self-Awareness, CNN Trashes Fox ‘Outrage Porn’

Soros-Funded Media Press for Online Censorship and Shill for Commie-Tied TikTok

‘Morning Joe’ Cast Rejoices at Decline and Fall of Rudy Giuliani, ‘America’s Deadbeat’

Dave Portnoy catches WaPo reporter in a web of lies

Adams rolls out sweeping housing reforms, biggest NYC zoning changes in years (N.Y. Post)

Mayor Adams’ new housing plan targets every NYC neighborhood (Gothamist)

In Yards, Offices and Basements, New York Hopes to Build 100,000 Homes (N.Y. Times)

Lawlessness Spreads To Suburbia: Westport Man Carjacked In Own Garage  Blue State Blues.

UAW Auto Strike Costs “Detroit 3” $250 Million In Lost Profit Every Day, Will Lead To Much More Inflation

Older NYC Immigrants Complain Newbies Stealing Off-Books Jobs

Judge Gives Phoenix 45 Days to Clear Encampment

Rasmussen Poll: 72 Percent Say US Becoming ‘Police State’

America’s First ‘Shroom Clinic’ Opens In Oregon

Seattle Reverses Course, Makes Public Drug Use Arrestable Crime

The Valorization Of The Tyrants

Call to shut down Bristol schools’ use of app to ‘monitor’ pupils and families

Germany went from envy of the world to worst-performing major developed economy

Mexican cartels are fifth-largest employers in the country, study finds

It’s Cheaper to Live on a Boat Than Rent an Apartment in These U.S. Cities

Texas Declares ‘Invasion’ As 10s Of 1000s Illegally Cross Southern Border

CBS Giggles About Backlash to Senate Dress Code, Ignores Fetterman’s Mental Incapacity

Damage Control: The View Skips Bribery Indictment of Democrat Menendez

Menendez indicted again

Eric Clapton raises beacoup bucks for RFK, Jr.

The Best Time To Get Your 2023 Flu Shot, According To A Vaccine Expert (Huffington Post)

Will The Flu Shot Work This Year? Here’s Why Experts are Hopeful (HealthLine)

Preparing for flu season: CDC urges everyone to get flu shot (WGN TV Chicago)

7 ways the pandemic changed the Washington commute (Washington Poop)

Rep. Bob Good Proposes Defunding Colleges With Vax Mandates 

Fauci: DeSantis’ Comments Prompt Security Concerns

Pfizer-Funded Study Shows Poor Effectiveness For COVID-19 Vaccine In Young Children

A Comprehensive Timeline Of COVID-19 Vaccines And Myocarditis

Medical gaslighting: when conditions turn out not to be ‘all in the mind’

‘No longer’ a foreign threat: New bipartisan group calls out MAGA movement as ‘fascist’ (MSNBC)

MSNBC Worries Trump Will Win Over Votes of Striking Autoworkers

Trump lights his legal defenses on fire on Meet the Press (Public Notice)

Trump Tries to Strike Down New York AG Case Before It Starts (Daily Beast) The nerve of that guy!

Why Did Trump Lose His ‘Billion Dollar Lawyer’? (Rolling Stone)

Trump notches another delegate selection rule win in Massachusetts

China climate envoy says phasing out fossil fuels ‘unrealistic’ (Reuters)

The EU says ‘prove it’ to companies that are dubiously claiming their products are environmentally friendly (PCGamer)

An atmospheric river-fueled storm is headed to California. Here’s what to expect (S.F. Chronicle)

Tree Thought Extinct Discovered After 2 Centuries in ‘Incredible’ Find (Newsweek)

Holly tree species not seen by scientists in 200 years reappears (New Scientist)

Biden expands use of ‘social cost of greenhouse gases’ in budgeting and purchasing (Washington Examiner)

Bloomberg launches $500 million war to close all coal plants and block new gas plants

Green Bubble Burst: US ESG Fund Closures In 2023 Surpass Total Of Previous Three Years

A Young Architect’s Designs for the Climate Apocalypse (The New Yorker)

Earth’s average 2023 temperature is now likely to reach 1.5 °C of warming (Nature)

HBCUs brace for flood of applications after Supreme Court affirmative action decision (L.A. Times)

Former TikTok Employees Allege Racial Discrimination

Non-profit Challenges Race-Based Education Policies

Amid layoffs, BU Center for Antiracism accused of mismanagement of funds

Arizona State University’s Racially Biased Training Violates State Law, Watchdog Warns

Dallas Mayor Switches From Democratic Party to GOP

Colleges Redistribute Earnings of Black Male Athletes to White Female Athletes

U.S. contractor originally from Ethiopia arrested on espionage charges, Justice Department says (NBC News) Used to be that one had to be a US citizen to work with classified information. Sometime the old ways are best.

The number of migrants crossing the US-Mexico border is likely to keep growing. Here are 3 reasons why (CNN)

Confused Biden walks into flag, then appears to anger Brazilian prez with handshake snub at UN (N.Y. Post)

Third IRS Official Says DOJ Blocked Hunter Biden Charges

Over 200,000 Illegal Aliens Flew to US in Past Year, Immigration Watchdog Reports

Jen Pskaki: Old Politicians Hurt Biden’s Reelection Hopes

Judge Will Not Block Biden Rule on Socially Conscious Investing

Amid Ethics Scandal, Biden’s Favorite Super PAC Taps White House Staffers For Ad Blitz

US Treasury Launches China Economic Working Group  Ka-ching!

WATCH: Biden Blames Exploding Border Crisis on ‘MAGA Republicans’

How Many Times Does a Court Have to Rule Against Illegal DACA Program Before It’s Terminated?

Rep. Biggs Estimates 10M Illegal Migrants Under Biden

WATCH: Biden Praises ‘Congressional Black Caucus’ During Address to Congressional Hispanic Caucus

VP Kamala Harris Becomes Biden’s ‘Gun Czar’ As War On Second Amendment Goes In Overdrive

Gates of Vienna.

We’ve heard a lot about the puir wee bairns since the Great Migration Crisis arrived in earnest back in 2015: all those unfortunate little innocent children lined up at the border begging admittance to the EU, some of them with heavy beards and grey in their hair.

Here’s a different twist on the wee bairn front: a 15-year-old culture-enricher in Germany driving a van loaded with more migrants, some of them also wee, others not so much.

Gates of Vienna.

Any Western country with a significant Muslim minority has its local version of the mutaween, the Saudi religious police who are tasked with enforcing virtue and suppressing vice among the Islamic population.

The following article concerns the actions of self-appointed mutaween in Vienna, who took it upon themselves to correct a shameless hussy who failed to cover up, or otherwise engaged in filthy infidel practices. Notice that any mention of Islam in the following report is discreetly avoided, until an Islamophobe from the FPÖ is quoted near the end.

Read it.

Not his first rodeo.

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and his wife Nadine have been indicted in New York for allegedly accepting bribes in relation to an allegedly corrupt relationship they had with three businessmen from their home state. The indictment also charges three businessmen, Wael Hana, Jose Uribe and Fred Daibes.

“Those bribes included cash, gold, payments toward a home mortgage, compensation for a low-or-no-show job, a luxury vehicle, and other things of value,” reads the indictment.

…

In June of last year, federal agents searched Menendez’s New Jersey home, where they found “fruits” of the pair’s “corrupt bribery agreement” with the three businessman – including over $480,000 in cash, some of which was stuffed in envelopes, and $70,000 in Nadine Menendez’s safe deposit box.

They also found gold bars worth over $100,000, “provided by either Hana or Daibes.”

Read it.

The global effort to end polio is likely to miss two key targets this year on the path towards defeating the virus, according to an independent strategic review.

The aim in 2023 was to interrupt the transmission of wild polio in the two countries where it is still endemic, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and do the same for a variant form of polio known as “vaccine-derived” that is causing outbreaks elsewhere.

The Independent Monitoring Board, a group of polio experts who oversee the work of the U.N.-backed Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), said neither target would be hit this year.

Eradicating diseases is apparently not a Muslim value.