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.

Read it.

Switzerland’s parliament has approved a ban on face coverings in legislation thought to be targeting Muslim women wearing burqas and niqabs.

The country’s lower parliamentary chamber voted overwhelmingly in favor of the bill on Wednesday, which was passed with 151 votes in favor and 29 against. The upper chamber had previously approved the ban, which was strongly supported by the right-wing Swiss People’s Party.

It prohibits the covering of the nose, mouth and eyes in public places, as well as private buildings that can be accessed by the public.

So much for COVID masks.

You want useful? I got yer useful–right here….

Adams, Hochul call Biden’s protection of Venezuelans a game changer in migrant crisis for NYC (7 New York)

Biden administration announces relief for Venezuelans in the US, likely appeasing New York City officials (CNN)

Healey gets wish as U.S. offers some Venezuelan migrants legal status, work permits (CBS News)

U.S. Will Allow Nearly 500,000 Venezuelan Migrants to Work Legally (N.Y. Times)

Stocks & Bonds Slammed As Powell Pi$$es In Next Year’s Punchbowl

Biden’s Defenders Are Blowing Smoke

WATCH: NBC’s Guthrie Hammers Blinken on Giving Iran Billions, More Ukraine Funding (NewsBusters)

Merrick Garland hearing: Texas representative grilled Garland over whether his department was still targeting parents (Washington Examiner)

Lawmakers Aim to Put Price Tag on ‘Financial Costs of Mayorkas’ Open Border’ (Daily Signal)

Designer Gets Back Clothes Stolen by ‘Genderfluid’ Ex-Biden Official (Washington Free BeaconO)

WATCH: ‘Sanctuary’ Dems Decide They Don’t Love Migrants So Much After All (Washington Free BeaconO

Biden Admin Cancels $37M in Student Loan Debt (NewsMax)

7 Takeaways From Merrick Garland’s Testimony to House Panel (The Foundry)

25 Governors Demand Transparency From Biden on Impacts of Border Crisis (The Foundry) Good luck with that.

Border Patrol Closes Bridge on US-Mexico Border

Elon Musk Says “Strange Almost No Legacy Media Coverage” On Worsening Southern Border Crisis 

ABC & NBC Cry: ‘GOP on the Attack’ Against Biden AG Merrick Garland

California Awarded $100 Million From Fed To Plant Trees To Combat Extreme Heat Ka-ching!

CBS Joins ABC on Biden Border Crisis, NBC Skips

Inside Biden’s Bogus Illegal Immigrant ‘Visa’ Program (The Foundry)

4 Ways Washington’s Spending Spree Caused Inflation With Trillions in Waste, Fraud (The Foundry)

White House to Ambassador: Stop Taunting China (NewsMax)

Blame Bidenomics for UAW strike (Washington Examiner)

Graham to Newsmax: Venezuelan Work Permits Will Bring ‘Another Million’ to US

Amid new border strains, Biden extends legal status to 470,000 Venezuelans (Washington Poop)

Joe Biden Defiles The Corpse Of The Strategic Petroleum Reserve

WATCH: Kamala Says Young People Aren’t Buying Homes Due to ‘Climate Anxiety,’ Doesn’t Mention 7% Interest Rate

Biden’s EPA Has Spent Millions on Military Grade Equipment. A GOP Senator Wants to Know Why.

Illegal Border Crossings Approach All-Time Record Levels

Chinese Spy Ops on U.S. Soil Soar Under Biden, GOP Rep Says

Fetterman Campaign Seizes on Attacks, Sells Dress Code Merch  Monetizing Uncle Fester.

Evening Nets Ignore National Debt Topping $33 Trillion for Two Days (NewsBusters)

Katie Porter and the politics of real life (Washington Poop) Of course they would never run an article like this about a Republican.

Democrat Katie Porter Says Republican Women Don’t Count as Women (Washington Free Beacon)

NYC Leaders Ignore Illegal Alien Crisis, Continue to Push Maoist Cultural Revolution (The Foundry)

Liquor In The Front, Poker In The Rear: Denver Homeless Camp Busted For Drinking, Prostitution

Despite ‘Financial Tsunami’ From Migrants, NYC Mulls Reparations, Removal Of George Washington Statues

The Permanent Strikes Continue: GM Joins Ford, Stellantis With Mass Layoffs As Result Of UAW Action

N.Y. No Longer a Sanctuary? Gov. Hochul: Go Elsewhere

Media Literacy Firm Rigged to Favor Left-Wing Media

DeSantis Vows to Defund COVID Vaccines, End Forced Compliance

New COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Hits Hurdles (NewsMax)

Exhibitionist Democrat No Longer Has Endorsements, Only Fans

Feds Investigating ‘Bullion Bob’ Menendez Over Mysterious Gold Bars: Report

Democratic Senator Accused of Cartoonish Corruption (New York Magazine) Again.

Manchin circulates proposal to reverse Schumer on dress code (The Hill)

Whatever happened to “independent journalist” John Sullivan, who filmed the killing of Ashli Babbitt?

Trump vows expanded travel ban if reelected (The Hill)

Why Is Donald Trump Afraid to Debate? (Wall Street Journal) Even the WSJ can be stupid at times.

Trump Vows Massive Deportation Plan If Elected (NewsMax) Good.

THE PATRIOT: How General Mark Milley protected the Constitution from Donald Trump (The Atlantic)

What Trump’s assistant told investigators about classified records — and why it’s so damning (L.A. Times)

Scarborough: Forget Biden Dementia Concerns, Trump Clearly Has ‘Dementia’!

Trump’s latest legal gambit could cause ‘cascade’ of trial delays, New York warns (Politico) What a pity.

Police Officer Survives Shootout

Following layoffs, Boston University announces ‘inquiry’ into Ibram Kendi’s Antiracist Center (Boston Globe)

UN leaders rail against emissions as swarms of gas-guzzling SUVs descend on city (Fox)

UN chief warns ‘humanity has opened the gates to hell’ as he convenes world leaders for climate summit (CNN)

U.N. chief calls for an end to $7 trillion in fossil fuel subsidies (CNBC)

At a Summit on Climate Ambition, the U.S. and China End Up on the B List (N.Y. TImes)

David Attenborough’s Cop 26 speech had no impact, says Chris Packham (The Guardian)

Chris Packham: Is It Time to Break the Law? review – the bravest, most anguished TV of the year (The Guardian)

Suella Braverman slams ‘militant’ climate activism and Chris Packham documentary (UK Independent)

Chris Packham and the eco militants: BBC Springwatch presenter discusses blowing up oil pipeline with green campaigner and praises ‘highly-intelligent’ protester jailed for bringing M25 to 40-hour standstill in new documentary (UK Daily Mail)

Michael Bloomberg pumps $500 million into bid to close all US coal plants (Reuters)

Michael Bloomberg Dials Up a War on Plastics (N.Y. Times)

Biden admin alums team up with Bloomberg network in war on fossil fuels (N.Y. Times)

French drillers may have stumbled upon a mammoth hydrogen deposit (Ars Technica)

New York Times Again Normalizes Radical Nutty Enviromental Protest in NYC

Backfire: World’s Fourth Largest Iron Ore Producer Stops Purchasing Carbon Offsets 

Michael Bloomberg Unleashes Another $500 Million to Destroy US Coal Industry (NewsBusters)

Biden’s EPA Has Spent Millions on Military Grade Equipment. A GOP Senator Wants to Know Why.

Ray Epps Pleads Guilty to Jan. 6 Charge

National Guard Refused Before Jan. 6 Because ‘Pelosi Will Never Go For It’: Former Capitol Police Chief

FBI Had So Many Paid Informants In J6 Riot They Lost Track And Had To Perform Audit: Ex-Official

A Nation Of Snitches: DHS Is Grooming Americans To Report On Each Other

Republicans can’t pass bills for the same reason they support insurrection (Public Notice)

Book banners target public libraries (Populat Information)

Republicans resigned to being the villains in the inevitable government shutdown (Politico)

Ruhle Gets Angry When Tuberville Labels DOD Abortion Policy As Illegal

Extremists have turned Texas into a hotbed for hate, report finds (Texas Tribune)

WashPost ‘Gender Columnist’ Loses Her Mind Over DeSantis Term ‘Abortion Tourism’

Vivek Ramaswamy and the Woke Culture War on Hindus

‘Stabbed In The Back,’ PBS Teams Up With Al Gore To Trash British PM on Climate

Right-Wing Rebels Block Defense Bill Again, Rebuking McCarthy on Spending (N.Y. Times)

New COVID vaccine campaign off to a bumpy start (the Hill)

Fall Covid shot rollout gets off to a bumpy start as some patients see insurance delays (CNBC)

Are COVID vaccines still free? Why it’s not so simple anymore (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Judge: Biden Admin Violated Doctor’s First Amendment Rights

Viral RNA Can Persist For 2 Years After COVID-19: Preprint Study

Biden HHS Hits Wuhan Lab With 10-Year Funding Ban Amid Mounting Evidence Of Leak

The Other McCain.

These women are now the core grassroots constituency of the Democratic Party, the kind of people so insulated from reality they think CNN is objective journalism.

Read it.

Less than an hour from the capital of the European Union, gangs fight gun battles in the streets or bomb each other’s outposts. Crime reporters, police and prosecutors are bought off or killed. Torture cells are set up in shipping containers and bodies can be cleanly disposed of, but when the gangs really want to send a message they set up a public execution or fire off a rocket.

That’s the way things are done, not in Bogota or Beirut, but in Antwerp.

The Spectator.

When hundreds of mostly African migrants escaped from the transfer center in Porto Empedocle, Sicily, last weekend and began roaming the town’s bakeries and shops begging for food, the mayor took to social media to explain. There were 2,000 migrants squeezed into a facility meant for 250, he told terrified locals. The conditions were inhumane. The repeated attempts to escape were inevitable.

On the island of Lampedusa, 11,000 migrants had arrived in the space of five days. There were 6,000 migrants in a facility meant for 600. The Sub-Saharan Africans were fighting with the North Africans. “To get food is a problem,” one migrant told a television interviewer. “If you don’t fight, you don’t have food.” Public transport was at a standstill as authorities commandeered buses to shift the migrants. Locals — and an increasing number of Italian politicians — refer to what is going on as an invasion. Migrant arrivals have doubled this year to 130,000 and the enormity of the crisis is about to shake European politics to its core.

However overwhelming the situation in southern Italy may look now, it is only the merest foretaste of the troubles that await. Europe’s population is shrinking, and fast. In countries where childbearing has been out of fashion for quite some time — Italy among them — each native generation is only about two-thirds the size of the last. Since Europe is rich and peaceful, migrants would be rushing to fill the void in any case, but Africa, especially south of the Sahara, is now growing at a rate never witnessed on any continent. Sub-Saharan Africa passed the one-billion population mark in 2015, but it is going to more than double, to 2.12 billion, by 2050. By then the population will be ten times what it was in 1950.

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Revolutions need foot soldiers and our current political moment is no different. Although they may sometimes sound like they are in opposition, the reality is that there is a considerable amount of congruence between the direct action we see today on the Left and the political and media duopoly in power in most of the West. Rather than being opposed to the supposed establishment, these activists provide the street muscle, fierce passion, and raised voices that bureaucrats dare not show—at least not usually.

In the U.S., black-hooded Antifa aggressively push for ‘racial justice’ and ‘trans rights.’ Anti-oil and animal-rights groups disrupt traffic, spill milk in stores, and glue themselves to paintings in the United Kingdom. In continental Europe, ‘anti-racist’ far Left groups and blocs of immigrants attack the same opponents. Churches and Christian symbols face fire—real or symbolic—from leftist, feminist, or Islamist sources. These are manifestations of what is known as direct action—whether violent or non-violent—which as a term developed on the political Left in the early 20th century, although antecedents can be found in the 19th century.

States and governments themselves may arrest people for some of these actions; sometimes the authorities may even prosecute some of them. But there is not that much political space between the street radicals and the broader agendas of most of our entrenched elites on a range of issues such as race, gender, climate change, immigration, or even their view of (Christian) religion. The street toughs may be getting a little ahead of the program, be a bit hot-headed, but they are pointing in the ‘correct’ direction. Their political hearts are in the right place and largely in lockstep with globalist elites. Such ideological harmony is reflected in the media coverage, where they are often treated with kid gloves, and described as ‘activists’ or ‘progressives’ while their opponents are ‘far’ or ‘ultra,’ as in ‘far-right’ or ‘ultra conservative.’

The Foundry.

The Wisconsin Department of Corrections is housing a man who raped his own daughter in a women’s prison because he said he identifies as a woman himself—and the DOC is refusing to offer any kind of insight or explanation on the matter.

ZMan looks behind the curtain.

The next Republican debate is scheduled for this coming Thursday at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley California. According to state media, the same cast of characters is expected to perform at this event, with the exception of Asa Hutchinson and Doug Burgum, who they forgot to invite. Why this is being held in California is a mystery, as there is no chance a Republican will every win the state. For all anyone knows or cares, there is no Republican Party in California.

Putting that aside, the pre-coverage of this debate shows us that the narrative for the 2024 election is running into serious trouble on the GOP side. The script said that at this point, Trump would be out of the race due to the indictments. The party would have swung behind one of the zombies to stop Ron DeSantis, who would be desperately swimming to the “middle” in order to maintain donor support. Instead, Trump now looms over the whole thing like Godzilla attacking Tokyo.

The main flaw in the narrative was assuming that Trump’s support would collapse after the string of indictments. Because the people behind this stuff are lizard people from an alien planet, they have no way to read public sentiment. They are left to imagine how humans would react under certain conditions. Apparently one of their texts on humans said that humans naturally flee when the bad guys attack their champion for the crime of fighting back against the bad guys.

Why didn’t I think of that?

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

More accurately, clothes reflect the man. John Fetterman dresses in a manner that is deliberately slovenly and inappropriate, and that appears intended to mock the institution of which he is a member. But it’s not just that: the rest of his conduct is similarly inappropriate and demeaning to the office he holds.

When Fetterman speaks, his brain damage is evident, and he can be an object of sympathy. But when he posts on social media, the sympathy factor is gone. He comes across like a troubled 15-year-old boy who never grew up.

Washington Free Beacon.

It pays to be married to the “Squad.”

As Democratic Reps. Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), Ilhan Omar (Minn.), and Cori Bush (Mo.) rage against capitalism from within the halls of Congress, their husbands bring home the bacon, raking in millions through consulting firms, vineyards, and private security operations. The husbands of the “Squad,” who appear to be friends in their own right, have seen their financial fortunes rise in line with their wives’ political stardom.

The Foundry.

As an Eagle Scout, I feel a debt to the Boy Scouts of America, but I also think the BSA abandoned its defining values by embracing transgender ideology. Both the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of the USA have embraced far-left social agendas that alienate many of the young families who form their natural constituencies.

I sat down Wednesday with Patti Garibay, founder and executive director of American Heritage Girls, the leading scouting alternative to the Girl Scouts. She founded American Heritage Girls back in 1995, after she realized that the Girl Scouts were promoting homosexuality and abortion.

While the Girl Scouts had begun moving in that direction during the 1970s, Garibay said, it really hit her in 1993 when the Girl Scouts removed an oath to God from the Girl Scout Promise.

LI town to ‘woke’ NYC: We’ll take statues honoring Washington, Jefferson, Columbus (N.Y. Post)

New York City threatens statues of Washington, Columbus and Jefferson over slavery links and mulls reparations task force as monumental budget cuts hit police, firefighters in the wake of the migrant crisis (UK Daily Mail)

Soviet-style grocery stores won’t save Chicago from pro-crime pols (N.Y. Post)

City-Owned Grocery Store Could Be Coming To Chicago’s Food Deserts (Block Club Chicago)

‘Power to communities’: Chicago considers city-owned grocery store to address ‘food deserts’ after giants like Walmart and Whole Foods shutter stores (Yahoo Finance)

Chicago mayor considers creating city-owned grocery store after Walmart, Whole Foods close stores in the city (Fox)

Progressives Hate School Choice Until It’s Time to Send Their Kids to School

DC-Area Police Department Turns to Puerto Rico To Alleviate Officer Recruiting Shortages

CALLING HIS BLUFF: Tuberville Tests Schumer by Forcing Senate Vote on Military Officer

UN To Discuss How To Better Control The World At Annual General Assembly

Permanent Strike: Ford Lays Off 600 Workers Due To UAW Strike

California Legislature Approves $25 Per Hour Healthcare Worker Minimum Wage Bill

Voter Registration Charities: A Massive, Overlooked Scandal

Eric Clapton Raises $1M for RFK Jr. Campaign

Cape Cod Residents Outraged At Democratic Governor’s Migrant Housing Plan

Lawsuit Unearths Link Between Dem Megadonor SBF, Parents, and Democratic Dark Money Behemoth Arabella Advisors

Playbook: Inside the Dems’ shutdown strategy (Politico)

California on Track To Lose Five House Seats in 2030 as Residents Leave

Catch-and-Release Illegal Charged With Texas Murder

Gov. Newsom Refuses to Answer when Abortion Should be Cut Off During CNN Interview

Anti-Impeachment GOP Rep. Ken Buck Seeks Job at CNN  Don’t think of it as selling out; think of it as buying in.

GM, Stellantis Lay Off 2,370 Due to UAW Strike

Decision To Give ATACMS To Ukraine Is About To Become Easier

Let’s Talk About Russia’s New Long-Range Kh-BD Cruise Missile

“He Just Lost It In The Weather” – Audio From F-35 Crash Response Emerges

Azerbaijan Reignites Shooting War In Disputed Nagorno-Karabakh Region

Nagorno-Karabakh: EU calls for immediate end to Azerbaijan ‘hostilities’ as ceasefire agreed (The Guardian)

Ethnic Armenians accept Russia ceasefire plan following Azeri military operation in Nagorno-Karabakh (CNN)

Azerbaijan pounds Karabakh as Russia and US call for calm (Reuters)

Azerbaijan-Armenia live: Rivals reach Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire (Al Jezeera)

China Infiltrates Public Schools Near American Military Bases, Experts Testify

Zelensky Seeks To Cancel Russia At UN, Asks Why “Russian Terrorists” Have A Place

Rising Ammunition Prices Could Interfere With Western Plans To Arm Ukraine

Ukraine’s American Trans Spox Picks A Fight With US Senator J.D. Vance

MURPHY’S LAW: Russian Defense Industry Disintegration

Azerbaijan Launches New Military Assault on Christian Armenian Enclave

Iranian President Demands US Prove ‘Goodwill’ To Revive Nuclear Deal

Thousands Of Armenians Rush To Airport, Fearing Genocide, As Ceasefire Announced In Nagorno-Karabakh

Notorious racist Donald Trump indulging in a little white supremacy.

The Only Opponent Who’d Make Adam Kinzinger Vote for Trump (The New Republic)

CNN’s Oliver Darcy LASHES OUT at NBC’s Welker for Trump Interview

Trump Is Said to Have Told Aide Not to Acknowledge She Knew of Documents (N.Y. Times)

Rupert Murdoch often wishes Donald Trump dead, Michael Wolff book says (The Guardian)

Trump Privately Frets He Could Be Headed to Prison (Rolling Stone) The notion that writers for Rolling Stone have any clue regarding what Trump frets about, privately or not, is ludicrous.

Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb compares Trump to ‘mob boss’ (The Hill)

Insurance premiums could surge in these American cities because of climate disasters, new data shows (CNN)

Homes in parts of the U.S. are “essentially uninsurable” due to rising climate change risks

Report warns of a real estate “climate bubble” (Axios)

Renewables are cheaper than ever yet fossil fuel use is still growing – here’s why (The Narrative Conversation)

Don’t get ‘left behind’ on renewables investment, engineering CEO says (Australian Financial Review)

Dead in the Water: EU Audit Reveals Issues with Offshore Green Strategy

Biden administration announces $4.6B grant program to reduce planet-warming pollution (CNN) Ka-ching!

Woke Duke Energy Jacks Up Electric Rates to Pay for ESG, Zero Carbon Mandates

‘Employment Violence’: BU Professor Slams School for Mass Layoffs at Antiracism Center

John Fetterman baffles by attacking journalist who defended him (Fox)

Ibram Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research Hasn’t Produced Any Research

2 Teens in Las Vegas Face Murder Charges for Hit-and-Run

NIGERIA: Living in a Bed of Thorns

Garland document touts DOJ’s work ahead of House testimony on department oversight (Fox)

Ray Epps, subject of Tucker Carlson’s Jan. 6 conspiracy theories, charged by DOJ (NBC News)

Ray Epps, Target of Jan. 6 Conspiracy Theory, Charged in Capitol Attack (N.Y. Times)

Pro-Trump protester Ray Epps set to plead guilty to Jan. 6 disorderly conduct charge (CNBC) Not, you will not, insurrection.

Ray Epps, focus of a Jan. 6 conspiracy theory, is charged in Capitol riot (Washington Poop)

Biden gives Bronx cheer to NYC, snubs meeting fellow Democrat Mayor Adams as migrant crisis surges: ‘A terrible look’ (N.Y. Post)

Biden administration’s ‘abject failure’ on immigration creating ‘Biden-villes’ in NYC: Councilman Joe Borelli (Fox)

Mayor Adams and Gov. Hochul call the migrant influx ‘unprecedented’ – historians disagree (The Gothamist)

Amid Surge in Illegal Alien Encounters, GOP Senators Push ‘Secure the Border’ Bill

Cargo Lot at Bridge of Americas Closed to Stem Migrants

Here’s Another Way the Biden Admin Might Push Illegal Student Debt-Shifting Scheme

Harvard/Harris Poll: Biden Trails Trump, Haley, Scott

WATCH: ‘The Southern Border Is Exploding Once Again’

The Biden Administration Separates Families at the Border. The Media Shrugs.

EXCLUSIVE: Economists Rip Philadelphia Inquirer Columnist’s Fairy Dust Defense of ‘Bidenomics’

Deliberately Distorting Data To Downplay Devastation Of Bidenomics

Biden to create new office of gun violence prevention (Washington Poop) Are they going to take guns away from young black males? That’s the most effective move they could make against ‘gun violence’.

Networks Ignore Biden’s Refusal to Address Border Crisis at United Nations (NewsBustsers)

No Big Deal: Newsom Defends Hunter Biden Influence Peddling Scheme

AG Garland Faces GOP Critics Amid DOJ Scrutiny (NewsMax)

White House launches American Climate Corps (NBC News) Another jobs program for Children of the Crust (temporary) and their underclass clientele (permanent).

Migrants Hitching Rides Force Mexican Trains to Stop

Report: Pentagon Seeks to Restore Honor to LGBTQ+ Vets  Retrospectively normalizing perversion. Some ‘honor’.

Shock: ABC Rediscovers Border Crisis, CBS Unearths Cartel Gun-Running Scheme

DHS Taps Spooks Who Signed False Hunter Biden Letter for ‘Intelligence Experts’ Group

ACP issues updated Omicron-specific COVID-19 treatment guidance (Univ. of Minnesota)

Annals Video Summary – Outpatient Treatment of Confirmed COVID-19FREE (Annals of Internal Medicine)

Outcomes of targeted treatment in immunocompromised patients with asymptomatic or mild COVID-19: a retrospective study (Nature)

Prescribing of Z-Drugs With and Without Opioid Coprescribing to Primary Care Patients in a Large Health Care System From 2019–2020 (Journal of Clinical Psychiatry)

Bay Area counties reinstate mask mandate for health care workers as COVID and flu rise (S.F. Chronicle)

Sonoma County issues masking order for health care workers as COVID-19 cases rise (Santa Rosa Press Democrat)

Sonoma County health care workers ordered to wear face masks starting in November (NBC Bay Area)

FDA Has ‘Gone Rogue’ In Its Approval Of New COVID-19 Boosters: Dr. Robert Malone

Red State Pharmacists Use ‘Religious’ Loophole To Deny Patients Ivermectin: Doctor

New Study Detects Spike Protein 6 Months After COVID-19 Vaccination

We’re fighting the Covid censors

The anti-vaccine movement is on the rise. The White House is at a loss over what to do about it. (Politico) Always a problem for people who know for a fact that you need to do things their way.

US Awards $45 Million for Long COVID Clinics  Ka-ching!

The Republican Party infighting is driving America toward a government shutdown (CNN) They say that like it was a bad thing.

Shutdowns Don’t Work, But Republicans Seem Determined to Force One Anyway (Bloomberg)

Right-Wing House Republicans Derail Pentagon G.O.P. Bill, Rebuking McCarthy (N.Y. Times)

An out-of-control GOP is the party of nonstop national crisis (The Hill)

Twitter regrets and glass houses: 8 things we learned from the Musk bio (Washington Poop)

The World According to Elon Musk’s Grandfather (The New Yorker)

Elon Musk worried his father was ‘uncomfortably attentive’ to his stepdaughter when she was 15, biographer says. His father later had 2 kids with her. (Business Insider)

On GPS: How Elon became Elon (CNN)

Freedom Caucus Holds Shutdown Talks in a Tax Cheat’s Home. The Neighbors Are Pissed. (Daily Beast)

A Batman researcher said ‘gay’ in a talk to schoolkids. When asked to censor himself, he quit (Associated Press)

YouTube Preemptively Punishes Russell Brand Amid Allegations

McCarthy Capitulates Again as House GOP Implodes Spectacularly Over Spending Bill (Daily Beast) I suspect that the Daily Beast doesn’t actually know the meaning of the word ‘implode’.

Republican infighting paralyzes the House as some call a shutdown inevitable (NBC News)

Sen. John Fetterman Mocks Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory That He Has A Body Double (Huffington Post)

Murdoch Called Hannity ‘Retarded’ and DeSantis ‘Kicked’ Tucker’s Dog, Wild New Book Claims (Daily Beast)

Right-Wing Group That Compares Biden Conservation Plan to Genocide Is Getting Taxpayer Money (Daily Beast)

SBF’s Parents Steeped In Democrat Dark Money And ‘Illegal’ Election Tactics

New Initiative Exposes ‘Bias’ Reporting in Public Schools (NewsMax)

Democratic groups target House Republicans in new shutdown ads (NBC News)

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Rupert Murdoch didn’t want to dump his ratings leader and favorite Fox host. But was Tucker Carlson giving him a choice? (New York Magazine)

MSNBC Claims GOP Wants To End Democracy, Empowering China And Russia

How crisis pregnancy centers get millions in tax dollars to perpetuate lies (Public Notice)

Former NZ PM Ardern Urges United Nations To ‘Crack Down On Free Speech As A Weapon Of War’

Watch: Charlie Kirk Gets Mobbed by Angry Activists During Visit to Northern Arizona University (RedState) But of course we all know that only Republicans indulge in political violence.

If the Shoe Fits: Joy Behar Whines The View Cast Are Called ‘Libtards’

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The United Auto Workers went on strike against the Big Three US automakers in Detroit last week. Peter Schiff went on Real America with Dan Ball to talk about the strike and how it might impact the US economy.

Peter put the strike in the context of the current inflationary and high interest rate environment, and talked about how it might impact the broader US economy.

This is the first time the UAW has gone on strike against all three US automakers at the same time. About 12,700 workers are on strike. The UAW is demanding a 40% wage increase through 2027 with a 20% raise immediately. They also want a 32-hour workweek.

Jonathan Turley on Jack Smith’s attempt to impose a gag order on Trump

Trump to Woo Striking Union Members in Detroit, Skipping 2nd G.O.P. Debate (N.Y. Times)

Trump Promises to Pardon Pro-Life Advocates Jailed by Biden

“They Were Laughing”: Rogue Gang Of Teens Brutally Beat Gas Station Clerk In Lawless Seattle

Quashawn, Rashan, and ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ in Polk County

California Gov. Newsom Boosts AI “Misinformation” Fears, Complains Of “Micro-Cults” Around Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan

The Atlantic Wants to Cancel Richard Hanania’s “The Origins of Woke”

It’s time for the world to stop building coal plants, once and for all (Washington Poop)

United Nations Seems to Boost Plastics Industry Interests, Critics Say (Pro Publica)

This Treaty Could Stop Plastic Pollution—or Doom the Earth to Drown in It (WIRED)

Are seafloor desalination pods the answer to California’s drought woes? (L.A. Times)

Floating cows and giant storm barriers: How the Dutch plan to survive rising sea levels (EuroNews)

Challenging the Mathematical Basis of General Circulation Models

Another Stupid Los Angeles Times Climate Alarmist Propaganda Claim

Biden Admin’s Latest Political Target: Christopher Rufo

Biden trails Trump, Haley, Scott in 2024 race: poll (The Hill)

Anxiety ripples through the Democratic Party over Biden (Washington Poop)

PBS Plays Judge, Jury for Biden: ‘We Have Established…No Evidence’ of Wrongdoing

Illegal border crossings are on the rise: 7,500 migrants were stopped on Sunday alone (NBC News)

The truth about the US-Iran prisoner deal

Watch: Freight Train Full Of Migrants Heading To Southern US Border 

The Immigration Conundrum

Biden’s Top 7 Most Recent Inaccurate Statements

Housing Starts Plunged In August As Renter-Nation Collapses

Desperae NYC Parents Spending Millions, Lying, Moving Across the Country to Get Kids Into Ivy League (N.Y. Post)

This Super PAC Is Fundraising for Hawaii Disaster Relief. The Money Could End Up in Democratic Campaign Coffers. (Washington Free Beacon)

Illinois, Chicago Set To Become More Dangerous As Cash Bail Ends

Adams’ upstate migrant suits fizzle (Politico)

This Liberal City Wanted Millions In Grant Funding To Fight Retail Crime. It Missed The Application Deadline.

Illinois becomes first state to end cash bail (CBS News Chicago)

How Far Are We From Revolution?

Where Has All the Left-Wing Money Gone? (N.Y. Times) Michelle Goldberg wants to know.

Why Does Ultra-Feminist Vassar Pay Male Professors More?

Twilight of the liberal Jew

Antifa Discussed Plans To Firebomb Federal Buildings, Jan. 6 Court Filing Contends

France Refuses Lampedusa Migrants Amid Rising Tensions 

Lawmakers, Staffers Warned Against Crime in D.C.

BMW’s Ultimate Driving Machine, for Driving Through Gunfire and Grenades

George Soros Buys 22 Local Papers in Maine  I’m sure they were happy to get the money.

San Francisco on Track for Record Drug Overdoses as Opioid Epidemic Grips City  Think of it as evolution in action.

Pennsylvania Governor Launches ‘Automatic Voter Registration’ Plan Ahead of 2024

Census Bureau Wants to Test Sex Orientation, Gender Identity Questions on Biggest Survey

Voter Registration ‘Charities’: An Overlooked, Hyperpartisan Scandal

The Daily Chart: Follow the COVID Money

COVID lab leak ‘only’ explanation, ex-intel chief John Ratcliffe says

COVID-19 Vaccines Revealed To Be ‘Neither Safe, Nor Effective’: Watchdog

How many medical studies are faked or flawed?

Fauci and His Wife Were Worth More Than $11M When He Left Government, Disclosures Show  Doing well by doing good.

Appeals Court Orders Facebook to Turn Over Documents Related to COVID-19 Censorship

The American Mind.

The United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) somehow survived without a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) office during the first 66 years of its existence. Now it has one, with a self-declared mission to “aid in the transformation of future Air and Space Force leaders.” Hudson Institute Senior Fellow John Fonte has written in this publication that “today, the goal of progressive educators is ‘fundamental transformation.’” But one seldom sees this spelled out as clearly as it has been by Air Force’s DEI office.

The “transformation” being sought isn’t one from selfish teenager to selfless man or woman prepared to serve with distinction in the U.S. Air Force. Rather, it’s from selfish teenager who believes in traditional American mores to self-obsessed adult who doesn’t. Part of the current motto of the Air Force Academy—which ditched the more spirited “Bring Me Men” 20 years ago—is “Service Before Self.” But the USAFA DEI office largely encourages the opposite.

The DEI office teaches future military officers to emphasize their own identity—the ways in which they are different from others—at the expense of unit cohesion and shared goals. It teaches, in the words of USAFA DEI chief Joseph Looney, that “it is impossible to ‘Respect Human Dignity’ as a leader if you fail to value a follower’s identity”—even if that identity defies reality. “We’re committed to supporting transgender Airmen and cadets,” says Looney. The Air Force Academy DEI office, which opened shop the same month President Biden took office, also says its mission is “to serve as the U.S. Air Force Academy’s strategic leader in structuring a shared vision of diversity and inclusion.” The notion that a DEI office would serve as a strategic leader of any sort in a military context is incredible.

ZMan thinks about the unthinkable.

Until recent, few people outside of the Kagan cult and the Pentagon thought about fighting a war with Russia. The former has thought of nothing but such a war since the Roman legions crossed the Alps, while the latter is tasked with wargaming every imaginable scenario, no matter how unlikely. Otherwise, war with Russia stopped being a concern with the end of the Cold War. The only wars anyone needed to think about were the wars against pipsqueak countries in the Middle East.

Of course, the West now finds itself in a proxy war with Russia in Ukraine which could easily tip into a direct war. Former Vice President and current 2024 candidate Mike Pence is promoting the idea of sending American troops to Ukraine. Other than Trump and Ramaswamy, all of the candidates for 2024 want a hot war. The Kagan cult, which runs Biden’s Ukraine policy, is doing all it can to provoke the Russians into something they can use to trigger Article 5.

Assuming war happens, could the West actually win such a war? Until this year, no one thought about this question, outside of the Pentagon. The United States had the world’s best military by far. It has been assumed that a war with Russia would mean certain defeat for the Russian army. The real question was whether the United States could beat both Russia and China at the same time. After eighteen months of war, the answer to the question of war with Russia is not so simple.

This year’s COP could be the most important yet (Politico) And will be ignored like all the others.

Gov. Newsom Will Sign Climate Transparency Laws for Big Business

Tens of Thousands Mob NYC to Protest Biden’s Lack of Climate Action

Clean Energy Dirty Tricks? A $500 Gift Card for Signing Over Your Property Rights

Lay Off the Rum: NYT Guest Essay Calls for ‘Geoengineering the Oceans’ to Fight Climate Change

Sorry, Guardian and Reuters, Island Nations Have No Climate Case

This Treaty Could Stop Plastic Pollution—or Doom the Earth to Drown in It (Wired ‘Science’)

Climate Protesters Arrested After Marching Outside NY Fed Building

Visualizing The Military Imbalance In The Taiwan Strait

Clinton Foundation to Launch ‘Ukraine Action Network’  There’s money going by! We need to wet our beaks!

Ukraine to Sue Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia at WTO

Mexican President Defends Inclusion of Russian Military Contingent in Independence Parade  Because the Russians were such a great help with Mexican independence….

Bidenomics Simplified

Gen. Mark Milley Asserts Military Is ‘Not Woke’  Despite his best efforts.

Biden Says ‘Lots of Luck’ to Republicans Looking to Impeach Him (Bloomberg)

Soros Backed Joe Biden TikTok Influencers

Disney Sees Massive Fall Off for Disney+, Hulu Subscribers After Price Hike, Woke Policies

MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin Isn’t Fact Checking on the Bidens… He’s Face-Planting.

Hunter Biden sues IRS over disclosures (Washington Poop)

Thanks Joe… Gas Prices Have Never Been This High This Time Of Year

Hunter Biden Sues IRS Over Whistleblowers’ Disclosures

Poll: Majority of Americans Oppose Iran Prisoner Swap  Hey, if Biden can trade somebody else’s money for six voters, he’ll do it.

WATCH: Veep Thoughts with Kamala Harris (Vol. 12)

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FDA Refuses To Change Anti-Ivermectin Statements After Court Ruling

Journal Rejects Request To Retract Study Suggesting Negative COVID Vaccine Effectiveness

‘Get Your Fifth Booster Keith:’ Aaron Rodgers Claps Back At Olbermann

Myocarditis & COVID-19 Vaccines: How The CDC Missed A Safety Signal And Hid A Warning

Taiwan: 103 Chinese Warplanes Flew Toward the Island

You’re Not Supporting Ukraine Enough Until The Nuclear Blast Hits Your Face

European Elites’ Dream Of Power Crumbles As Security Threats From Russia, Africa, & The Mid-East Grow

Ukrainian Draft-Dodging Scandal Deepens With New Arrests As Citizens Attempt To Flee Service

WEAPONS: Naval Strike Missiles for Poland

ATTRITION: Russian Wartime Labor Shortage

Russia Calls on World Court to Throw Out Ukraine Genocide Challenge

Zelenskyy Presses US For More Financial Aid Amid War

Better camouflage is needed to hide from new electronic sensors (The Economist)

Get Woke, Go Broke: Ibram X. Kendi’s Foundation Firing 33% Of Employees

Schumer ditches Senate’s informal dress code (Axios) So Fetterman won’t look like a vagrant in his customary shorts and hoodie, no doubt.

Los Angeles Times Editorial Board: Reparations Now!

Her students reported her for a lesson on race. Can she trust them again? (Washington Poop)

Priest kidnapped in southeast Nigeria