Special counsel seeks ‘narrowly tailored’ gag order against Trump, citing ‘disparaging and inflammatory attacks’ (ABC News)

Trump’s become a runaway train in the GOP primary. Here’s why. (Politico) Gitcher Narrative, right here.

Inside Trump’s Gambit to Get Rid of a Judge by Suing Him (Daily Beast) The best of American high-school journalism.

Trump’s indictments – and mug shot – are deepening his supporters’ anger and revving up their support (CNN)

Stephen King’s ‘Holly’ Swamped by Trump Derangement Syndrome (NewsBusters)

Trump Decries ‘Double Standard’ In Documents Case, Pointing To Treatment Of Hilary Clinton

NBC’s Welker Attempts to Fact Check Trump Live, Fails Miserably (NewsBusters)

Fact checking Trump’s ‘Meet the Press’ interview (NBC News) For every thing (spin, spin, spin) there is a Narrative (spin, spin, spin) and a lie for every purpose under heaven….

COVID levels are so high, they’re hovering near 2020’s initial peak, as the WHO urges those at high risk to take any booster they can get their hands on (Fortune)

‘Statistically Significant Increase’ In Myopericarditis And Single Organ Cutaneous Vasculitis Found After COVID-19 Vaccination

The Religion Of Masking

‘Gut Instinct’ Cause For Numerous Sensory Symptoms In Long COVID, Doctors Offer Comprehensive Treatment

Canadian School Removes All Books Published Before 2008

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Elite Parents Enabled His Crypto Empire

Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed in Palmdale ambush (ABC 7)

Congressional Physician Under Scrutiny After McConnell Episodes

“Murdered That Man For Laughs”: Shocking Video Of Out-Of-Control Teens In Vegas 

Chicago Mayor Johnson Moves Toward City-Run Grocery Stores

‘People Have Sex,’ MSNBC Celebrates Virginia Dem Who Did Porn

Hollywood Is Dead: Here’s Why No One Cares

Trudeau Threatens ‘Grocery Tax’ To Combat ‘Record Profits’

Anchorage Scrambles to Find Housing for Homeless Before Winter

NYC Migrant Care Firm CEO Resigns After Lie

Bud Light Might Soon Lose Retail Shelf Space Amid Boycott: Experts

They Welcomed Illegal Immigrants With Open Arms, Now Sanctuary Cities Say They’re Past ‘Breaking Point’

Miguel Cardona: Public Schools at ‘Make or Break Moment’

How Mexico became a progressive hell

Will The UAW Strike Perpetuate the Death Spiral Already Mandated for The Automobile Industry?

Belgium: Protests Erupt over Sex-Ed Classes

Making the Case For Capital Punishment

Ibram X. Kendi’s Former Assistant Director of Narrative Says He’s a Real Slavedriver

Tabernacle stolen from Nigerian parish

C’est Ma’am! Gynaecologist Accused of Transphobia for Not Examining Male Patient

Acquitted AG Paxton got off and Texas politics is Dunn for (Houston Chronicle)

The striking hypocrisy of Republicans’ Hunter Biden righteousness (MSNBC)

Ramaswamy wants to end the H-1B visa program he used 29 times (Politico)

FLASHBACK: The Nasty Media Campaign to Destroy Brett Kavanaugh (NewsBusters)

PBS Warns GOP ‘Cheapening’ Impeachment Without a ‘Holy Cow’ Moment (NewsBusters)

The hard right is getting closer to power all over Europe (The Economist) And the hard left is really upset about it.

Armed man arrested at RFK Jr. campaign event in Los Angeles (Politico) History doesn’t repeat, but it often rhymes.

Is The Biden White House Instructing The Media’s Anti-RFK Jr. Coverage? (NewsBusters)

PBS Rains on Isaacson’s Elon Musk Bio: He’s a Racist, Sexist, ‘Potentially Dangerous Man’

Canadian School Purges Books Published Before 2008 In Bid For ‘Inclusivity’

House GOP in midst of ‘civil war’ amid shutdown threat, warns Dem leader (The Hill) What possible reason would anyone have for wanting to know what a Democrat has to say about what’s going on in the Republican Party?

California sues 5 major oil co’s for campaign of deception about climate change

Income-based U.S. household carbon footprints (1990–2019) offer new insights on emissions inequality and climate finance (PLOS Climate)

Antarctic sea-ice at ‘mind-blowing’ low alarms experts (BBC)

It’s Too Late For Geoengineering Alone To Save Antarctica, Scientists Find (Futurism)

Single-bladed floating wind turbine promises half the cost, more power (New Atlas)

Biden’s Climate Change, Union Goals Clash Apparent in UAW Strike

Battle Over Electric Vehicles Is Central to Auto Strike (N.Y. Times)

Here’s The Climate Dissent You’re Not Hearing About Because It’s Muffled By Society’s Top Institutions

Are you or Have you Ever Published the Work of a Climate Skeptic?

MSN Pushes Rice, Sugar, Tomato Crises – Despite New Crop Records

Wind turbines may be killing whales. Why won’t Greenpeace admit it?

Telegraph Scrapes the Bottom with Latest Climate Scare

Inside the Trillion-Dollar Climate Solutions Industry

New Study Identifies United States as ‘Planet-Wrecker-in-Chief’

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Using the smartphone as a point of entry, young people could be inspired to understand that every significant technological breakthrough that has transformed society results from continued human imagination, failure, persistence, courage and, above all else, ambition. Understanding the evolution of the smartphone could, in turn, spark dreams about inventing the future for understanding and changing the world for the better. But praising young people’s apparent technological prowess does the opposite. It encourages complacency and the lowering of ambition.

The result is as depressing as it is inevitable. Instead of a spark for knowledge and a future-oriented aspiration, the smartphone has become a tool of self-reflected indulgence and narcissism. Instead of inspiring young people to raise their eyes from their screens and engage the world around them, we have kindled introspection, a quest for inner identities which fatalistically trap us in the very biology our forefathers overcame with their imaginations.

I have an iPhone SE. Making phone calls is about #45 on the list of the top things I use it for. In fact, I don’t remember the last time I actually made a phone call on it (not to be confused with the last time a spammer tried to call me).

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Right now, searching for a job in America means that you’re part of a wildly and almost hilariously broken process. I’ve experienced more false leads, dead ends, scams, sadness and silence than your Facebook Marketplace interaction — and it’s only getting worse.
If you currently have a job, congratulations. For real. But if you’ve held that job for a while, you might have forgotten (for good reason) the challenges leading up to that job. Whatever path you took from “Oh Shit” to “Thank God” is no match for what job applicants currently face. In fact, America’s job market increasingly feels like it’s working against its applicants…
…and that’s because it is.

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When the ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ campaign broke out in Oxford, Nigel Biggar rose to the occasion and engaged the ‘decolonising’ agitators in a public debate. He now admits to having been a little more naïve back in 2015 than he is today. For one thing, he seemed to think that this was a good faith discussion about history. Yet the leader of the Rhodes Must Fall side made it clear within the first minute of his speech that the Cecil Rhodes statue outside Oriel College, Oxford, is not a stand-alone offence, but just one “emblem” among many of an inexpungeable guilt, a totemic symbol of a civilisation that was built on white supremacy. Europe, he added, is still plagued by the legacy of this original sin, to the ‘systemic’ disadvantage of non-Europeans who for some reason continue to cross the Mediterranean in vast numbers to reach this irredeemably racist hellhole.

This must have caught Biggar off-guard, for he showed up to the debate armed with more old-fashioned weapons—things like facts, figures, even quotes from Rhodes himself, none of which his opponents bothered to rebut. “Thus did I stumble, blindly, into the Imperial History Wars,” he recalls in his splendid book, Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning. Biggar won the debate by Socratic standards, but not by the sophistical ones operative on the other side and, regrettably it seems, in the packed Oxford Union audience as well. This begs the question: what really motivated this enthusiastic crowd, and what motivates others like them, if not a noble hunger for the vicarious experience and practical wisdom that knowledge of history confers?

Long Run Health Matters.

Take whatever action you deem appropriate.

The American Mind.

The entire premise of the “Documents Case” against President Donald Trump is illegitimate and a direct assault on the Constitution and the separation of powers doctrine. In pursuing 41 felony counts against the president for possessing classified information, prosecutor Jack Smith is engaged in a work of legal abuse without parallel in American history.

A thorough review of the facts, the law, and the Constitution itself indicates that Donald Trump, as President of the United States, had the right to know every secret contained in the executive branch during his time in office. Moreover, as president, Donald Trump had every right to declassify and make public whatever documents or state secrets he chose while in office. In addition, the correct understanding of the separation of powers doctrine makes clear that Congress does not have the right to proscribe how the president is to conduct purely executive branch business either during or after his term. From these premises we can assert that the Presidential Records Act of 1978 is unconstitutional and that any documents discovered in President Trump’s possession after his presidency are presumptively legal for him to possess and dispose of as he sees fit.

Jann Wenner: my feelings don’t care about your facts

Sometimes it takes a dishonest newspaper to put a lying magazine in its place.

On Friday, the New York Times published an interview with Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner — and the Gray Lady did not hold back. Interviewer David Marchese asked Wenner to defend the magazine’s now discredited University of Virginia rape story, accusing the publication of putting a “juicy story” ahead of the truth.

Washington Free Beacon.

It pays to be a politician—literally.

That’s the argument of conservative commentator Matt Lewis’s new book Filthy Rich Politicians, lambasting the culture of corruption in politics that stems from elected officials monetizing their power in the most flagrant possible ways.

The timing of the book’s publication comes at a populist moment, with the hit song “Rich Men North of Richmond” having topped the Billboard charts and reflecting widespread angst about the growing chasm between the haves and have-nots. Lewis, refreshingly, is able to criticize the excesses of the ruling class without getting mired in the self-defeating grievance that defines so much of today’s populist movement.

Through outlining too-good-to-be-true book deals to hiring family members on staff to capitalizing on all-too-timely stock trades, Lewis takes readers through an eye-opening tour of lawmakers’ conflicts of interest that leave so many Americans jaded toward the Swamp that is Washington, D.C.

As Lewis puts it: “The rich get elected and the elected get rich.”

Washington Free Beacon.

America marked a grim anniversary on August 30. That was the date, two years ago, when the United States ended its military presence in Afghanistan. The war that began there in the wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks lasted a full two decades. The war ended with a botched American retrograde that led directly to the deaths of 13 brave servicemen and thousands of stranded American citizens and Afghan allies.

The collapse of U.S. resolve to win the war reflected an impatience on the part of the American public, spurred on by populist and isolationist rhetoric that has steadily grown since the financial crisis of 2008. The negotiated defeat, which culminated with the Pentagon embarrassingly referring to the Taliban as our “Afghan partners,” began with President Barack Obama but continued through the administrations of Donald Trump and Joe Biden. The duplicitous government of Qatar hosted the negotiations and guided the process of American surrender through all three administrations.

In the final analysis, however, the disastrous withdrawal—leading directly to unnecessary deaths, unmitigated chaos, and the return of the brutal Taliban government—is the responsibility of one man: President Joe Biden.

The Foundry.

Chalk it up as another victory for the mob.

Earlier this month, Princeton University professor Robert P. George was slated to give a talk at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, including “a discussion of the importance of free and open discourse during college of the great questions of human life.” That’s according to an email from the organizing professor obtained by the student newspaper, The Elm.

But apparently “a discussion of the importance of free and open discourse” was too much for Washington College students to stomach.

“Protesters at Washington College … were successful in silencing the speaker, Robert P. George,” reported The Star Democrat, a local Maryland newspaper.

OffGuardian.

Much has been made of the September 9, 2023 simultaneous reports in The New York Times and Vanity Fair of the claims of a former Secret Service agent, Paul Landis, who was part of the security detail in Dallas, Texas when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. Like so many reports by such media that have covered up the truth of the assassination for sixty years, this one about “the magic bullet” is also a red herring.

It encourages pseudo-debates and confusion and is a rather dumb “limited hangout,” which is a strategy used by intelligence agencies to dangle some truth in order to divert attention from core facts of a case they are desperate to conceal. With these particular articles, they are willing to suggest that maybe the Warren Commission’s magic bullet claim is possibly incorrect. This is because so many people have long come to realize that that part of the propaganda story is absurd, so the coverup artists are willing to suggest it might be wrong in order to continue debating meaningless matters based on false premises in order to solidify their core lies.

Gov. Youngkin directs VMI to accept controversial Confederate statue (Washington Poop)

A Jan. 6 rioter was convicted and sentenced in secret. No one will say why (Associated Press)

Lancaster County Jan. 6 rioter convicted and sentenced in secret. No one will say why (ABC27)

Three remaining Whitmer “kidnapping” defendants are acquitted

Three Defendants Acquitted in Whitmer Kidnap Plot Trial

There’s Videotape! Annals of Feral Lauren Boebert … (Talking Points Memo)

The View Decries Hunter Gun Charges: All Addicts ‘Lie,’ ‘Commit Crime’

The long knives are out for Kamala Harris

US Military Sets New Interviews on Deadly 2021 Afghan Airport Attack as Criticism Persists

Orwell Meets Your Stuffy Nose

White House Whips Liberal Media for Not Being Pro-Biden Enough

WATCH: History According to Joe Biden

Biden’s Broadband Plan Subsidizes Delaware, Mansions, Vacation Homes, Senate Panel Finds

Hunter Biden’s lawyer says gun statute unconstitutional, case will be dismissed (ABC)

House Judiciary Subpoenas FBI Agent After DOJ Tried to Block Testimony

WH Press Secretary on Biden’s Age: ’80 Is the New 40′  He was senile at 40, too?

MSNBC’s Mueller ‘Pit Bull’ Prosecutor Turns Into Biden Lap Dog Over Hunter Indictment

Lee’s jabs at Newsom cause exodus from her super PAC (Politico)

Russian Missile Technology Smuggled to US and Handed to DOD, Court Says (Newsweek)

Green hydrogen successfully produced from plastic waste (Interesting Engineering)

Where Did the Carter White House’s Solar Panels Go? (‘Scientific’ American)

California sues oil giants for downplaying risks posed by fossil fuels (Reuters)

California sues oil giants alleging ‘climate risks deception’: Report (Al Jezeera)

California sues oil giants for ‘decades of deception’ (Bangkok Post) On those grounds we ought to be able to sue the Democrat party.

Long Beach, state commission sued by environmental group over oil drilling plans (Long Beach Press-Telegram)

Matt Walsh Rips Apple CEO for ‘Cringiest Corporate Virtue Signal of All Time’

Meteorologists, Scientists Explain Why There Is ‘No Climate Emergency’

A Global Surge in Cholera Outbreaks May Be Fueled by Climate Change  (Wired ‘Science’)

Threat from Climate Change to Some of India’s Sacred Sites Is Reshaping Beliefs

Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis turns on ‘malignant narcissist’ ex-president (The Guardian) Ka-ching!

What the Ken Paxton saga shows about MAGA and Trump (Politico) When was the last time a Democrat legislature impeached a Democrat official? Take your time; we’ll wait.

Special counsel warned Trump could ‘precipitate violence’ if told of Twitter search warrant (The Hill) Democracy dies in Democrat darkness.

New Hampshire Secretary Of State Speaks Out On 14th Amendment Challenge To Trump

Trump Will Be ‘Imprisoned With Ivanka’ Says Maxine Waters As Trials Delayed  Congresswoman Bitter Beer Face has spoken.

Expected CDC guidance on N95 masks outrages health care workers (NBC News)

Sore throat, then congestion: Common Covid symptoms follow a pattern now, doctors say (NBC News)

Scientists uncover COVID’s weakness (UC Riverside)

“Not A Good Decision For Young People” – Florida Surgeon-General Snubs FDA ‘COVID Boosters-For-All’ Guidance

San Francisco exodus: New data shows one demographic keeps leaving city (S.F. Chronicle) “San Francisco continues to lose residents who haven’t attended college, according to newly released Census data.”

Virginia Democrats Distance Themselves From Pornstar Candidate

Dr. Robert Redfield Comes Clean On Government Censorship

“Close The Freaking Border!” – Angry New Yorkers Shout-Down AOC & Nadler Over Immigrant Crisis

Kansas to Stop Changing Birth Certificates to Reflect Gender Identities

New Yorkers Shout Down AOC at Migrant Press Event

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Calls on Nation to Remember Ugly Past Truths (N.Y. Times) Cementing her place as the court’s affirmative-action hire.

Albuquerque Gun Shops See Spike In Sales After Governor’s Ban

Smithsonian Suspends Upcoming ‘Marxist’ Latino Exhibit Amid Backlash

MSNBC: Soft Bigotry Showing Among Leftists Who Criticize Kamala Harris

The Ferguson Effect Got 14x More People Killed Than It Saved

Jussie Smollett’s Legal Team Seeks Dismissal of Hate Hoax Charges

Chicago Mayor Explores City-Owned Grocery Store

Rainforest carbon credit schemes misleading and ineffective, finds report (The Guardian)

US launches $1bn tree-planting scheme to mitigate effects of climate crisis (The Guardian)

Feds spread $1 billion for tree plantings among US cities to reduce extreme heat and benefit health (Associated Press)

8 Colorado communities will benefit from millions of federal dollars to plant trees (Colorado Sun) Ka-ching!

Millions of dollars coming to Iowa to help make it greener (KCRG) Ka-ching!

Coal prices jump to 4-month high on China’s power demand (Nikkei Asia)

Meet Honda’s latest electric vehicle: A rideable suitcase

China’s Refinery Throughput Jumps To Record Highs  What do they know that you don’t?

New York attorney general trial against Trump is in limbo (CNN)

Trump’s New York Fraud Trial in Limbo After His Legal Gambit Works (Daily Beast)

Judge temporarily halts NY fraud trial against Trump, pending appeal (Reuters)

Weeks away from Trump’s $250M financial fraud trial in NYC, details are fuzzy on who will lead defense (N.Y. Daily News)

“Meet the Press” booking Trump for first show with new host is how FASCISM is normalized (The Dean’s Report)

Trump’s Last-Minute Legal Challenge Could Disrupt N.Y. Fraud Trial

Trump, His Kids, and His Bankers: New York AG Lays Out Witnesses in Case (Daily Beast)

Judge Halts New York AG Letitia James’s Fraud Trial Against Trump

Twitter turned over at least 32 direct messages from Trump’s account to special counsel

Hunter Biden indicted on gun charges (CNN) The only charges available that didn’t involve Joe.

IRS whistleblower’s boss recommended his removal from Hunter Biden probe ‘to protect the integrity of the investigation’ (N.Y. Post)

9,100 migrants cross from Mexico to Arizona in one day: ‘cartels control the border’ (N.Y. Post)

Biden Attacks ‘MAGAnomics’ as Government Shutdown Looms ‘MAGA’ is the New Nigger.

Biden Tells Media To Defend Him—and They Oblige

WATCH: Kevin McCarthy Makes Case for Impeachment Probe to Reporter Who Says There’s No Evidence

The E In EPA Certainly Isn’t For ‘Ethics’

House GOP to Probe ‘All Manner of Corruption’ in Biden Impeachment Inquiry

Defense Expert: America’s Ability to Defend Herself Is Declining—by Choice

Really? DoD Awards Disinfo Researcher Who Praised Hunter Biden Laptop Censorship

House Passes Bill Banning State Limits on Gas Vehicles

Deliberately Distorting Data to Downplay Devastation of Bidenomics

EPA expands state authority to block pipelines (The Hill)

Ramaswamy: Hunter Biden Indictment a ‘Smoke Screen’

There’s More Than Enough Evidence for a Joe Biden Impeachment Inquiry

Once More … Government Officials’ Entitlement Syndrome

Biden Crime Family and the Statute of Limitations

MSNBC: ‘How Not to Have a Psychic Meltdown When You See New Trump-Biden Poll Numbers’

Jonathan Turley: 5 Facts Pushing Impeachment Inquiry

U.A.W. Strike Is a Real-Time Test of Biden’s Economic Agenda (N.Y. Times)

Biden Administration Aims to Trump-Proof the Federal Work Force (N.Y. Times) “If Donald Trump wins a second term, he and his allies want to revive a plan to allow a president to fire civil service workers who are supposed to be hired on merit. The Biden administration is trying to thwart it.” Biden–The Deep State President.

Biden Recalls Teaching at UPenn, but Never Taught Classes There

‘Union Joe’ To Address Auto Workers Strike He Said Wouldn’t Happen

WATCH: Kamala Harris Says Government Must Enforce ‘Equal Outcomes’

Civil Rights Hero, Gold Star Dad, Ivy League Professor: Biden Adds Job to Fake Résumé

DHS Awards $20 Million To Program That Flags Americans As Potential “Extremists” For Their Online Speech

Hunter’s Attorney: Gun Charges Will Be Dismissed  Of course they will. This is just a smokescreen.

WATCH: Jennifer Granholm Throws Staff Under the Bus After Charging Station Fiasco

What is Nipah virus? India rushes to contain outbreak. (Washington Poop)

A new study doesn’t show Pfizer’s COVID vaccine causes ‘VAIDS’ (Associated Press)

Threads Blocks Search Results For ‘COVID’ And ‘Vaccines’, Upsetting Users

Why Is Rhode Island Still Irrationally Targeting School Children With “Masking And Testing” Policies?

Doctor’s COVID-19 Protocol: FTC Suppressed Solution For Recovery

House GOP Eyes Subpoena for HHS in COVID-19 Probe

Dogmatism, Data, and Public Health

Who’s Afraid of Covid?

CDC Rolls Out ‘Wild To Mild’ Flu Shot Campaign To Reach Vaccine-Hesitant

De-Transitioner Sues After Doctors Removed Her Breasts At 16

Planned Parenthood Set to Resume Abortions in Wisconsin

California’s Crime-Plagued Bay Area Now Has a Problem With Pirate Attacks

‘Trifecta of Harm’: Judge Blocks Calif. School’s Gender Policy

Baltimore City Official Blames Cars, Not Crime, For Population Collapse 

From Court Packing to Climate Change, Teachers’ Unions Push Progressive Priorities as Test Scores Plummet

NYC Pays Al Qaeda Terror State $200M to Rent Hotel Rooms to Illegal Aliens

Congress is in crisis. There’s no clear escape. (Politico) They’d rather we just shut up and keep spending.

BBC ‘Disinformation’ Reporter Lied On Her CV, Admits To “Awful Misjudgement”

Oregon’s First Legal Psilocybin Center Faces High Demand

DeSantis Offers Illinois Cops $5,000 To ‘Make The Smart Move To Florida’

California School Districts Ban LGBTQ Pride Flags

Blue State Blues: A man helping deer cross the street shot to death by ‘scared’ driver (Washington Poop) This happened in Washington state, not Texas.

Johnson and Johnson is getting rid of its script logo after more than 130 years  Nobody is taught cursive any more, so young people can’t read it any more.

Outflanked by liberals, Oregon conservatives aim to become part of Idaho (Washington Poop) Outflanked? Say rather railroaded. “Here on the Oregon side, where Bob Wheatley has lived his entire life, are a collection of high-end cannabis shops, a new Planned Parenthood clinic, and gas prices a dollar higher than those just over the river.”

Just The Tip: AP Gave Dem Porn-Wife Heads-Up Before WaPo Scoop, Allowing Her To Delete Videos

Auto CEOs Struggling With Whether To Replace Striking Workers With Robots Or Mexicans (Babylon Bee)

House Democrats Threaten To Keep Government Open (Babylon Bee)

New Bill Combats Tyrannical Democrats From Declaring Nationwide Public Health Emergency To Enforce Gun Control

Librarians say they were fired for rainbow autism symbols, accused of ‘LGBTQ agenda’ (Washington Poop) Scorecard! Getcher scorecard here! You can’t tell the virtue signalers without a scorecard!

With democracy on the ballot, the mainstream press must change its ways (The Guardian) Progressive Projection strikes again.

The state of right-wing extremism nearly 3 years after J6 (Public Notice)

Hawley: AI Will ‘Absolutely’ Censor Conservatives Ahead of Elections

‘ALL TALK’: Chuck Schumer’s Own Talking Points Give the Lie to His Claims on Military Readiness, Tuberville Says

Point and Laugh at the Far-Left Daily Beast for a Silly, Fact-Free Smear of NewsNation

The secret thoughts of moderate Republicans (Politico) Who knew that Politico ‘journalists’ could read minds?

Brussels Prepares Autonomous Wartime Economy in Fear of Trump 2024 Win

Why Is the Left So Desperate to Destroy the New College of Florida?

‘Building Blocks For a Police State’: Conservatives Raise the Alarm About Washington State’s ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Effort

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Social media has been awash with videos of migrants storming the shores of Italy in recent days, and Italy’s nominally conservative government is being forced to respond.

Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, known for his hawkish stance on immigration during his tenure as interior minister in 2018, said on Wednesday that when 120 boats filled with migrants arrive on the shores of Italy at the same time, “it is not a spontaneous phenomenon, it is a declaration of war on Europe.”

Time to break out Camp of the Saints and read it again.

Moderna flu shot succeeds in late-stage study (Reuters)

Moderna says mRNA flu shot generates better immune response in study than currently available vaccine (CNN)

Moderna says flu vaccine showed promising results in phase three trial, paving path to approval (CNBC)

Why we can’t let Newsom, Weingarten forget their lockdown failures (N.Y. Post)

Zuckerberg’s Threads Goes After COVID: New Platform, Same Censorship

Florida surgeon general rejects FDA guidance, urges people under 65 not to get Covid booster (Politico)

Experts call for global moratorium on efforts to geoengineer climate (The Guardian)

‘Peak oil’ could be on the horizon, but new fossil fuel projects are pushing ahead (NBC News)

Fossil fuel investment ‘very unwise economic risk’, says energy expert (The Guardian)

It’s Official: International Agency Marks ‘Beginning of The End’ of The Fossil Fuel Era (ScienceAlert)

IEA: Backlashes mean oil and gas demand may not peak so soon (Money Control)

Missouri company faces criticism over alleged role in Brazilian deforestation in new report (Missouri Independent)

Study: Even Green Cleaning Products Emit Harmful Chemicals (NewsMax)

“The EU has turned environmentalism into a substitute religion”: An Interview with Paolo Borchia

JA21 Founder Accuses Extinction Rebellion of Communist Agenda

Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries

iOS 17 Includes ‘Grid Forecast’ Feature to Let You Know When ‘Cleaner’ Energy is Available

Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest continues to decline

Nearly 7000 people arrive at Italian island in less than 24 hours (EuroNews)

The 10 best public colleges and universities in the U.S.—none are in California (CNBC)

MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan Asks Why Critics Object to George Soros: MRC Provides Answers (NewsBusters)

What Republicans are doing to Wisconsin is a warning sign to all Americans (The Guardian)

US judge freezes New Mexico governor’s gun ban (Reuters)

‘Black Market of Employment’: NYC Mayor Says City’s Migrant Crisis Is Driving Prostitution Spike (Washington Free Beacon)

Not So Fast Karen: Federal Judge Blocks New Mexico Governor’s “Health Emergency” To Suspend Gun Rights

Calif. Passes Bill That Could Ban Manufacture of Skittles

‘Muzzling Speech’: Federal Appeals Court Shoots Down California Gun Ad Law

‘Invasion’: 5,000 Illegal Migrants Arrive in Lampedusa in One Day

How mobile apps illegally share your personal data

“Resign Today”: Maryland Republicans Voice Outrage Over Superintendent’s Education Scandal

“AI Crusades Have Begun”: Robo-Taxi Involved In Hammer Attack In San Fran Following ‘Coning’ Incidents

CBS Reports Judge Striking Down New Mexico Gun Ban, ABC & NBC Ignore

A closer look at California’s $267 million war on “organized retail crime” (Popular Information)

G20 Announces Plan To Impose Digital Currencies And IDs Worldwide

Socialists Dictate Terms of Ethics Reforms in EU Parliament

‘You’re screwed’: Romney’s exit threatens a collapse of Senate’s middle (Politico)

The Morning Briefing: Get Ready for an Onslaught of Saint Romney Hot Takes From the Dems (PJMedia)

The Philly Soda Tax Scam…5 Years Later

Alvin Bragg keeps winning — and nobody’s talking about it (MSNBC)

Food Prices Up Almost 20 Percent Under Biden (NewsMax)

Milley disputes claim he recommended Trump attack Iran (CNN)

Jailed Proud Boy Leader: Feds Tried To ‘Coerce Me’ Into Implicating Trump

Musk: ADL ‘Instrumental’ in Trump’s Twitter Ban

Judge rejects request to try all Trump Georgia defendants together next month (The Hill)

Newsom taunts DeSantis: ‘He’s belly-flopped’ (Politico)

Newsom assails right-wing attacks on rights, and on California values (San Jose Mercury News)

Gavin Newsom bashes ‘belly-flopped’ Ron DeSantis (Florida Politics)

Maine Church Attacked Over Biblical Views (NewsBusters)

House GOP Questions Biden Admin Probe of Christopher Rufo’s Pronoun Use (Daily Signal)

Ramaswamy Says He Would Fire Most of the Federal Work Force if Elected (N.Y. Times) No, not really. (I wish….)

‘Double Standard’: Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Christian Athletic Club Ousted From California School District (Daily Signal)

‘School Choice for Me but Not for Thee’: New Report Reveals Backroom Deals Between Teachers Unions and Louisiana Schools (Daily Signal)

O’Donnell Shrieks Over FL Abortion Law, DeSantis Schools Her on Fake Travel Warning (NewsBuzters)

Pope Francis Mulls Removing Bishop for Traditionalist Views

FEC Tables Allegation Gaetz Misused Campaign Funds

DeSantis took undisclosed private flights and lodging through wealthy donors (Washington Poop)

In Poland, Testing Women for Abortion Drugs Is a Reality. It Could Happen Here. (N.Y.Times) But it won’t … just like Hunter Biden could go to jail, but he won’t.

Texas was state with most book bans in 2022, report shows (The Guardian) In the Narrative media, a book removed from a school library for being age-inappropriate is ‘banned’.

Fulton County DA to Reveal 30 Unindicted Co-conspirators

Joy Behar Blames Poor Mental Health for Her Unhinged Attacks on GOP

This Illinois Democrat Can’t Stop Tweeting About How Dumb His Constituents Are

Biden brushes off House impeachment inquiry and says Republicans want to shut down the government (Associated Press)

The IRS whistleblower at the heart of the Hunter Biden probe took notes. We’ve got them. (Politico)

FBI agent involved in Hunter Biden probe does not believe politics were involved (Fox)

Comer Gives Away the Game When Asked Why He Won’t Just Subpoena Hunter Biden (The New Republic)

House Dems take aim at Hunter Biden to defend his dad (Politico)

Fact-checking McCarthy’s claims while launching Biden impeachment inquiry (CNN)

Watch: White House Asked Why Biden Made Up 9/11 Ground Zero Narrative

Federal judge again declares DACA immigration program unlawful, but allows it to continue (CBS)

DOD Backpedals on Gender-Neutral Pronouns. Gen. Milley’s Citation Won’t Use ‘Themself.’

UN Agency Crowns Biden’s Southern Border As ‘Deadliest Migration Route Worldwide’ 

Growing Maze Of State And Local Laws Challenging Biden’s Energy Push

RFK Jr. Getting Republican Support For His Democratic Primary Bid To Unseat Biden (Huffington Post) I intend to vote for him in the Democratic primary, if he’s on the ballot

.PBS Greets Biden Impeachment Inquiry: ‘Far-Right’ GOP’s ‘Unsubstantiated’ Claims

Walmart, Pfizer CEOs Head to WH to Discuss Refugees  Checkbooks in hand, no doubt.

Biden Censorship Plans Take Major Hit

Threats mount against prosecutors and FBI agents working on Hunter Biden probe (NBC News)

Dale Repeatedly Falsely Claims ‘No Public Evidence’ Biden Is Corrupt

Obese Black Girl Lies to Get White Student Expelled, Dove Rewards Her

Ibram X. Kendi’s Ivory Tower Comes Crashing Down

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Miami International Airport surveillance video allegedly shows two Transportation Security Administration officers stealing money from the bags of passengers going through the screening process.

The Spectator.

As recently as the early Nineties, when the great cities of the Midwest and East Coast were careening toward what seemed like an inevitable downturn, the urban agglomerations along the Pacific coast offered a demonstrably brighter urban future. From San Diego to the Puget Sound, urban centers along America’s western edge continued to thrive and expand as migrants from other parts of the country, and the world, crowded in.

In the process, the Pacific cities seized the economic initiative. The West Coast became home to the country’s premier trade entrepôt and its dominant entertainment and technology centers, and home to five of the world’s six most valuable companies.

Yet now these same cities — despite differing histories and industrial mixes — face a precipitous decline. Never before have all the burgeoning cities of the future, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Oakland, started to shrink. This is, at least in part, a reaction to high prices, relentless property crime, homelessness — San Francisco’s rate of homelessness, for example, is twelve times the national average — and diminished economic opportunity, particularly for the middle and working classes.

And people are less inclined to put up with your shit.

The Antiplanner.

The nation’s fifty largest urban areas housed 82.5 million jobs in 2020, and auto drivers could reach 98 percent of them in an hour of travel. Transit riders, by comparison, could reach only 8 percent in an hour while bicycle riders could reach 7 percent, according to the University of Minnesota Accessibility Observatory.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

When we started this web site, we spent a lot of time criticizing what was then called the “mainstream media.” Over the years, I have done this less and less. Twenty years ago, the legacy press at least pretended to be fair and objective its reporting, so we pointed out errors and biases. But today, the pretense is gone: most media outlets are shills for the Democratic National Committee, and make no bones about it. Pointing out bias has become mostly pointless.

At times, though, it can still be entertaining. I wrote yesterday about Susanna Gibson, Democratic candidate for the Virginia House, who raised money (likely for her campaign, it appears) by going on a porn site called Chaturbate and performing sex acts with her husband while asking the audience–she had more than 5,000 followers–for “tips.” You can think that is depraved or you can consider it enterprising, but there is zero doubt about what she did.

Unless you are reading the New York Times. In its effort to help the Democrats in Virginia, the Times slides from spin to outright falsehoods. It headlines: “State House Candidate in Virginia Condemns Leak of Sex Tapes.” But there was no “leak.” Susanna Gibson performed sex acts in public, for money. The videos were posted by her, not someone else. Nor was there a “sex tape,” which carries connotations of nonconsensual posting of a private video by another party. No: Gibson did this herself, publicly, for cash. And the paper’s suggestion that the story here is Gibson’s “condemnation” of Republicans, not what she did, is risible.

Washington Free Beacon.

A Virginia Democrat running for a seat in the House of Delegates claims to have been the victim of a “sex crime.” She wants the FBI to investigate “leaks” of her “online activity” that she is calling an “illegal invasion of [her] privacy designed to humiliate” her and her family, according to the New York Times.

Sounds bad, but wait until you read the fine print. The 40-year-old Democrat, Susanna Gibson, along with her husband, moonlighted as pornographers on an X-rated website, including while she was a candidate for office. In exchange for “tips,” the duo offered to perform various sex acts in front of the camera, including but not limited to urination and violent sex.

Washington Free Beacon.

The judge who vacated the conviction of the disgraced former president of Penn State University after he was found guilty of covering up Jerry Sandusky’s sexual abuse of minors could soon get a promotion.

Senate Democrats are primed to confirm Karoline Mehalchick to the Middle District of Pennsylvania on Thursday. Mehalchick, who serves as a magistrate judge in the state, has a history of contentious rulings: She has had at least 31 decisions reversed in less than a decade on the bench.

But no ruling was more controversial than her 2019 decision to let then-Penn State president Graham Spanier off on a technicality after a jury found him guilty of child endangerment in 2017. Mehalchick ruled that prosecutors had misapplied the child endangerment statute to Spanier, who in 2001 did not notify police that Sandusky, then-Penn State’s assistant football coach, raped a child on campus.

Mehalchick’s ruling let Spanier walk free for over a year, until an appeals court reinstated his original sentence. Sandusky was convicted in 2012 of 45 counts of child sexual abuse and sentenced to up to 60 years in prison.

The Foundry.

Many parents, regardless of their religion, quote this biblical truth found in Proverbs: “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”

But in today’s culture, parents aren’t the only ones seeking to “train up” a child in the way he or she should go. Now, perhaps more than ever, we live in a society that wants to tell your child which way to go.

Even in the most radical left cities in America, however, it’s still possible to raise kids who understand the truth, Katy Faust says.