The Antiplanner.

Here’s evidence, if anyone needs it, that rent control contributes to housing scarcity: a new report says that more than 13,000 rent-controlled apartments have been vacant for at least two years. Nearly 90,000 rent-controlled apartments were vacant in 2021 and more than 60,000 were still vacant in 2022.

When people leave a New York City rent-controlled apartment, landlords are allowed to raise the rent for the next occupants by $89 a month. Too often, that’s not enough to pay for the repairs and other work needed to make the apartment attractive to new renters. As a result, the apartments sit vacant, waiting for the owners to sell or, less likely, for the rent control law to be repealed.

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Air Force Chief of Staff Charles Q. Brown Jr, Biden’s nominee to replace Milley as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had signed off on a memo to impose a 43% quota for white male officers in the Air Force. That would be catastrophic at a time when the Air Force is struggling with recruitment, faces a shortage of over 1,000 pilots and 86% of its pilots are white men.

The Foundry.

The Left has found its newest implausible scapegoat for a crime wave that began in 2020; namely, foreign car companies.

A recent editorial column in The New York Times, “Kia and Hyundai Helped Enable a Crime Wave. They Should Pay for It,” has been part of a spate of national and local media stories blaming the massive surge in car thefts on the Korean automaker. (Kia is owned by Hyundai.)

A number of blue cities beset by crime and auto thefts have decided to sue the automakers following the success of a class-action lawsuit earlier this year. On the list of cities suing Kia and Hyundai are Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, and New York.

The contention here is that it’s the fault of the South Korean car companies for making some of their vehicles too easy to steal.

Tired of feeling hopeless about climate change? Take a look at these charts. (Washington Post)

Electrifying Your Home Is About to Get a Lot Cheaper (Mother Jones)

Agribusiness Giant Cargill Is in Activists’ Crosshairs for Its Connections to Deforestation in Bolivia (Inside Climate Narrative News)

Shuttered EPA investigation could’ve brought ‘meaningful reform’ in Cancer Alley, documents show (Associated Press)

Prominent Scientist Admits To Pushing “Preapproved” Climate Change Narrative To Get Papers Published

Ramaswamy, Not the Washington Post, Is Right About Climate Deaths

The Great Climate Change Science Bottleneck

Dutch Elections: Farmers Party Plummets As Greens Propose 75% Livestock Cull

California’s plastic bag ban is failing

World is releasing greenhouse gases at level unprecedented in geologic history, scientist says (The Hill)

Hunter Biden: Prosecutors seek indictment of president’s son this month (BBC)

Border floodgates finally closed in Arizona — but migrants continue to overwhelm closest legal point of entry (N.Y. Post)

Smugglers are steering migrants into the remote Arizona desert, posing new Border Patrol challenges (Arizona Daily Star)

Arizona border floodgates closed early following migrant influx (NewsNation Now)

Smugglers are steering migrants into the remote Arizona desert, posing new challenges for Border Patrol (Border Report)

US Judge Orders Texas to Move Rio Grande Barriers to Embankment, Siding With Biden

Joe Biden’s Knockout Punch for American Energy Independence

Why do immigrants oppose immigration?

CNN Poll: A majority of Americans believe Joe Biden, as VP, was involved with son’s business dealings (CNN)

Trump escalates false attacks on Biden as some Republicans push toward impeachment (Washington Post) Bias? What bias?

McCarthy Faces House Revolt Over Biden’s Latest Multi-Billion Slush Fund For Ukraine, Stonewalled Impeachment Inquiry

Vogue Gets Weak Knees Over ‘Blunt,’ ‘Realist’ KJP, Who’s Full of ‘Compassion,’ ‘Directness’

Biden’s DOJ Faces Lawsuit Over Alleged Big Tech Collusion: Watchdog

Trump Georgia election co-defendants Chesebro, Powell to be tried together Oct. 23, judge rules (CNBC)

Takeaways from the first Fulton County hearing on the Trump election subversion case (CNN)

Georgia Trump election case | Attorneys try to separate trials (CNN)

Georgia prosecutors say Trump trial could last 4 months and rely on 150 witnesses (PBS)

Election season has come. Here’s what you need to do to stop Trump from winning (The Guardian) Robert Reich is Yet Another Senile Left-Wing Drone. Still, it probably pays well. And he doesn’t squawk “Worse than Watergate! Worse than Watergate ! Awwk!” every time his string is pulled.

Mar-a-Lago IT Worker, Jack Smith Strike Cooperation Agreement

Jan. 6 Rioters Have Been Held to Account. That Might Be the Easy Part. (N.Y. Times)

Trump Plans $1 Million ‘Family Style’ Mar-a-Lago Dinner to Raise Money for His Co-Defendants (The Messenger)

Report: DA Willis Seeks Juror Protection in Georgia Trump Case

Willis blast’s congressman’s ‘interference’ in Fulton Trump probe (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Georgia Official: Can’t Keep Trump Off Ballot

Trump’s border wall caused ‘significant’ cultural, environmental damage, watchdog finds (Politico) I guess the ‘watchdog’ is the one listening for the ‘dog-whistles’.

Huntington Beach City Council votes to ban mask and COVID vaccine mandates (ABC)

Emails Show Fauci Was Aware of Wuhan Lab Funding

“It’s Just Bizarre That Some People Still Want COVID Measures…”

Get A New COVID Shot? The Evidence Suggests Otherwise…

Alabama exposes a new constitutional landmine on abortion (MSNBC)

NEA president vows to transform nation’s largest union, putting ‘social justice’ first (WGN) I guess she’s tired of a white woman getting all of the good Woke press coverage.

Google Pulls Conference Out of Crime-Ridden San Francisco

White-Collar Law Firms Sponsor Award for Anti-Israel UN Official

‘A Big Circle Jerk’: John Fetterman Dares Republicans To Impeach Joe Biden (Huffington Post)

To settle suit, NYPD agrees to scale back enforcement of protests (Reuters)

Mexico’s Supreme Court upholds abortion rights nationwide, paving way for federal access (Reuters)

Gucci? A Wig Shop? Unprosecuted Crime, Economic Woes Turn Beverly Hills Into Ghost Town

As Abortion Laws Drive Obstetricians From Red States, Maternity Care Suffers (N.Y. Times) Ponder a world in which killing your child is considered ‘maternity care’.

California School To Pay $100,000 Settlement For Keeping 11-Year-Old’s Gender Transition Secret

“Betrayed Customer Base”: Backlash Erupts After Gun Safe Company Gives FBI Customer’s Passcode 

72% Of French Believe Migrants Pose Security Risk & Govt Gives Them Too Much Aid

Soros Funded House Democrats’ ‘Socialist Sympathy Tour’ to South America, Records Show

School Year Begins With Slew of Religious Lawsuits

Pennsylvania school district requires social studies classes to incorporate right-wing propaganda (Popular Information) More Progressive Projection.

Wyoming Mayor Says ‘Third-World Stuff’ Happening In City Overrun With Homeless People

Dem Mayor Adams: Illegal Immigration Will ‘Destroy’ NYC

Democrats Could End Tuberville’s Blockade of Military Promotions. Here’s Why They Won’t.  

FLASHBACK: NYC Mayor’s Office Celebrated Immigrants He Now Says Will ‘Destroy’ City

5th California School District Says Teachers Must Notify Parents If Kids Identify as Trans

Elon Musk Reveals “Extremely Powerful” ADL CEO Sought To Shake Him Down For Donations

South Florida city becomes state’s first LGBTQ sanctuary (The Hill)

Harvard is named worst school for free speech — scoring zero out of possible 100 (N.Y. Post)

Harvard finishes last in nonprofit’s ‘free speech’ rankings of 254 colleges: ‘Abysmal’ (Fox)

Harvard University is the worst college for free speech: ‘Abysmal’ rating, report says (Boston Herald)

NEW: 2024 College Free Speech Rankings show alarming 81% success rate of deplatforming attempts at nation’s most censorial schools (FIRE)

She was a childfree woman enjoying her Saturday. Then came the culture warriors. (NBC News)

The Right Would Like All Women to be 1950s Housewives, Please (Rolling Stone) The world would be a better place.

Viral “29 And Single” TikTok Sparks Heated Debate About Single Life Vs. Married Life (Evie Magazine) Women not wanting children is a self-correcting problem.  Natural Selection works whether you want it to or not.

Civil rights groups attacked by Elon Musk are mounting a counteroffensive (NBC News)

ADL head responds to Elon Musk’s lawsuit threats: ‘We will be ferocious in fighting hate’ (MSNBC)

Musk misstep obscures a serious gripe on the ADL’s tilt hard-left (N.Y. Post)

Ramaswamy Campaign Cuts Off Free Beacon Access After Appearance on Anti-Semitic YouTuber’s Podcast

America’s Authoritarian Exceptionalism (The Bulwark) Jonathan Last succumbs to Progressive Projection.

Tommy Tuberville’s Hissy Fit Shows McConnell Has Lost His Hold on the GOP (Daily Beast) The best of American high-school journalism.

Wagner Condemns GOP Candidates For Ignoring SPLC’s Hate Group Ratings

Joe Kennedy Resigns From Position Over ‘Retaliation’ From School District

Hostin LASHES OUT at School Choice Despite Her Kids’ Private Education

Emory Healthcare Replaces Christmas Eve With Juneteenth on Paid Holiday Calendar  I guess Kwanzaa was too much of a stretch.

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Two separate reports published this week have both sounded the alarm over a rising number of migrants arriving in Europe. In its Risk Analysis for 2023/2024, the European Union’s border agency, Frontex, warns that “geopolitical instability in countries to the east and south of Europe may result in large-scale refugee outflows.” These “could pose a severe challenge to the EU’s capacity to host these populations and strain local people’s willingness to help.”

OffGuardian.

Today, we are witnessing the nudging (manipulation) of the population to accept a ‘new normal’ based on a climate emergency narrative, restrictions on movement and travel, programmable digital money, ‘pandemic preparedness’ courtesy of the World Health Organization’s tyrannical pandemic treaty, unaccountable AI and synthetic ‘food’.

Whether it involves a ‘food transition’, an ‘energy transition’, 15-minute cities or some other benign-sounding term, all this is to be determined by a supranational ‘stakeholder’ elite with ordinary people sidelined in the process. An undemocratic agenda designed to place restrictions on individual liberty, marking a dramatic shift towards authoritarianism.

Since Scott Adams has been ‘cancelled’ from his normal comic syndication deal, his cartoons have improved by orders of magnitude. Subscribe to his feed on Locals.com. It’s well worth the money.

Gates of Vienna.

Slovenia saw a large influx of “refugees” during and after the Great Migration Crisis of 2015. However, those masses of culture-enrichers were largely transient — they were passing through Slovenia on their way to greener pastures in Austria, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, and other points to the north and west of Slovenia. The same could be said of the other countries on the Balkan Route — Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, etc. The migrants would pass through their territory, and maybe engage in a little robbery and rape when the opportunity arose, and then move on to the next country, leaving a lot of rubbish and filth in their wake.

A network of asylum facilities was set up in Slovenia to handle the transient culture-enrichers streaming north to the Promised Land; one such facility is in the town of Logatec.

Judge Chutkan is The Boss (Washington Monthly)

CNN Poll: Trump Widens Lead Over DeSantis to 34 Points

New York AG asks judge to sanction Trump for rehashing failed legal arguments (CNBC)

Would Trump pardon the Proud Boys? (Washington Post) Philip Bump lives in his one proglodyte world.

Sidney Powell Alleges Falsehoods In Georgia Trump Indictment

New York AG James Asks Court to Fine Trumps, Lawyers $20K

Trump scores big social media vote victory (Axios)

VP Harris: Trump Can’t Be Spared Accountability for Jan. 6

Top Trump Loyalist Is About to Finish Falling on His Sword for His Master (Daily Beast)

How Trump still taps into America’s cultural animus (Public Notice)

Trump’s big lead: Among nonvoters, many agree with him that elections are rigged (USA Today)

Media Hide the (D) When Covering Those Prosecuting Trump

Lawsuit filed to remove Trump from ballot in CO under 14th Amendment (CREW)

A crisis in U.S. presidential legitimacy is looming

The political bias of Judge Chutkin, who is presiding in the DC trial against Trump

Revealed: how US immigration uses fake social media profiles across investigations (The Guardian)

U.S. power sector, states say Biden’s carbon rule is unrealistic (Deseret News)

Republicans ask Buttigieg for information on ‘disturbing’ aviation, rail safety failures (The Hill)

WATCH: Biden Forgets the Year He Became President

Media Stunned by How Weak Biden Is Against Trump

Oversight Subpoenas Mayorkas, Others on Hunter Probe

Former Harvard Journal Editor Accuses Biden of More Plagiarism

Mexican Officials Place Slab Of Berlin Wall Next To Open US Border As “A Lesson”

Report: Texas Floating Border Wall Proving Ineffective

Hispanic Democrats want Biden to cut the red tape for migrants (The Hill)

Proof That Bidenomics Has Been A Catastrophic Failure

The Kids Are Not Alright: Biden’s Creepiest Interactions with Children

What an Army Colonel Biden Wants to Promote Had to Say About Elizabeth Warren, Confederate Statues, NFL Kneelers

James Comer Subpoenas Mayorkas for Hunter Biden Records, Nets Ignore

Breaking News from 1988: Biden Lies a Lot!

Biden’s Green Energy Inflation Reduction Act Needs A Big Bailout Already

Biden administration to announce cancellation of Alaska wildlife drilling leases-sources (Reuters) There is no effective limit to the damage that can be done by a dim-witted ideologue like Biden. Anybody who does business with the government deserves what they get.

While Millions Invade America, DHS Fights the Heat

WATCH: Biden Wanders Out in Middle of Medal of Honor Ceremony

Biden To Cancel Trump’s Oil Drilling Leases in Alaska  Presumably they’ll give a refund to the state development agency that purchased those leases … but, these days, expecting honest dealing from the Federal government is often disappointed.

House Finds ‘Evidence of Collusion’ Between Biden’s VP Office and Hunter’s Business Partners

Biden Raised Taxes, but Tax Revenues Are Way Down This Year. Here Are 5 Reasons Why.

EU ‘Green Claims’ directive will tackle greenwashing’s crafty cousin, circular washing, too (EuroNews)

Farms that create habitat key to food security and biodiversity (Stanford News)

Radiative Cooling: The Pioneering Approach to Climate Control (SciTechDaily)

New Generation of Activists Fight Greenpeace’s Anti-Nuclear Stand 

Do CMIP5 models skillfully match actual warming?

Ukraine Situation Report: Counteroffensive Pushes Toward Second Defensive Line

SAM Sites Could Return To Critical Locales Across U.S.

Ukraine Has Lost Its First Challenger 2 Tank In Combat

G7 shelves regular Russian oil cap reviews as prices soar – sources (Reuters)

Russia, China & North Korea To Launch Trilateral War Games

PROCUREMENT: Australia Goes HIMARS

CHINA: Reassembling the Empire

US Moves Nuclear-Capable Jets to Britain

European Commission Grapples With Influx Of Ukraine Grain

What is ‘Combat Effective’?

Blinken’s $1BN More For Ukraine Includes Seized Assets Of Russian Oligarchs  It’s all about plundering the ‘oligarchs’.

Don’t make taxpayers fund Smithsonian’s Marxist Latino museum (The Hill)

New Jersey Governor No Longer Wants Immigrants After Earlier Advocating For Sanctuary State

Annals of intrepid entrepreneurship and adventure vacationing: “rat tours” in NYC (The New Neo)

Chicago Criminals Get Green Light To Rob, Loot And Steal As Odds Of Punishment Collapse To Near Zero

Georgia Can Resume Ban on Hormone Treatment for Transgender Youth, Judge Says

PBS Weeps Over Denial of ‘Gender-affirming Medical Care’ for TX Transgender Kids

Law Firm Sued Over Diversity Fellowship Folds

Portland Teachers Threaten School Shutdown if Their District Declines To Provide Subsidized Housing

The Daily Chart: Is College Now a Net Negative for Social Welfare?

Soros-Aligned, Soft-on-Crime Texas D.A. Resigns to Avoid Removal Hearing – then Announces Run for Senate

San Francisco Tops US in Plunging Home Value

Teachers Union Encouragers Educators to Break Law Over Gender Identity Surveys

Massachusetts’ Religious Bigotry Leaves Foster Kids Without Homes

Protests Erupt in Blue Cities Over Illegal Immigrants as Democrats Reap What They Sow

Massachusetts teen dies after eating spicy tortilla chip (The Guardian)

Teen dies after taking part in viral ‘One Chip’ social media challenge: ‘We lost a rising star’ (Fox)

Warning about viral social media challenge known as the “one chip challenge”

‘The Ultimate Gangsta’: Rappers Endorse Trump as Biden’s Support Among Minorities Craters

A Prediction About the SAT’s Asian-White Gap

Crime Wave Now Reaches Hospitals

Reporter Gets Owned on Social Media for Saying Football Fans Only Yell ‘F— You’ at Black Coaches

Police Shooting Of Black Pregnant Woman In Ohio Could Unleash New BLM Protests, Mayhem 

Proud Boys’ Enrique Tarrio gets record 22 years in prison for Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy (Associated Press)

Ex-Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio sentenced to 22 years in prison for Jan. 6 conspiracy

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio sentenced to 22 years in prison, longest for a January 6 defendant (CNN)

Enrique Tarrio’s sentence was shorter than prosecutors wanted. That’s OK. (MSNBC)

GOP efforts to curtail out-of-state abortions take a radical turn (MSNBC)

New ordinances would ban driving through cities and counties en route to abortion care (KTRK)

Texas highways are the next anti-abortion target. One town is resisting (MySA)

Anti-choice Texas traps women within its borders. Some in Missouri would follow suit. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

The judge defending Clarence Thomas has his own ethical conundrum (The Hill)

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse files ethics complaint over Justice Samuel Alito interview (MSNBC)

Americans Are Losing Faith in the Value of College. Whose Fault Is That? (N.Y. Times)

California Dems Could Remove Visitation Rights for ‘Non-Affirming’ Parents

‘Good To Be On’: Ramaswamy Appears on Anti-Semitic YouTuber’s Podcast (Washington Free Beacon)

George Santos Insists He Is Not Working On A Plea Deal (Talking Points Memo) No nit is too small for the Narrative media to pick.

Shellenberger: Government Intel & Security Agencies Behind NGO Demands For More Censorship By X/Twitter

‘THE FIX IS IN!’ MSNBC Panics SCOTUS Will Uphold Alabama’s Maps

The Global War On Thought Crime

The truth about Elon Musk and anti-Semitism (Popular Information) More accurately, the Narrative.

Tarrio, a Miami-made Proud Boy, got what he deserved. But Miami is far from blameless (Miami Herald)

The Foundry.

Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky has questioned the credibility of a doctor’s notes asserting that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is in good health, according to comments reported by Politico on Tuesday.

McConnell, age 81, has faced several public health scares in 2023, the most recent being when he froze while speaking with reporters in Kentucky on Aug. 30.

Paul, a physician and ophthalmologist, suggested that McConnell is suffering from a neurological issue, even as the attending physician of Congress has denied that McConnell’s freeze was prompted by serious health concerns, according to a report by Politico.

“You know I’ve practiced medicine for over 20 years, I’ve seen people who are dehydrated. What’s occurring, from what I’ve seen, is a neurological event, it’s not dehydration,” Paul said, according to Politico. “I think my advice would be to be more forthcoming with what’s going on.”

The American Mind.

To paraphrase Karl Marx, a specter is haunting the United States and the Western world more broadly: the specter of woke despotism. Most disturbingly, its epicenter is in the United States, a land once gloriously immune from the ideological and totalitarian temptations that so haunted and deformed European politics in the 20th century. As Christopher Rufo demonstrates in his indispensable new book, America’s Cultural Revolution, the woke revolution has been gaining traction for a very long time and is now on the cusp of “controlling everything,” from our universities and corporations to the prestige media to the increasingly censorious network of “social media” that stands in for civic discourse in the United States today.

Quilette.

Denunciations of “dog-whistle politics” are now a familiar part of contemporary public discourse. The metaphor refers to the high-pitched sound that calls canines but cannot be heard by humans, and it is used to imply that an apparently neutral policy or argument is actually a subtle or coded appeal to the biases of a select audience. Deploying politically coded messages in this way is a serious accusation, evidenced in a sample of recent headlines: “Politicians Should Stop Using Confusion Over Trans Issues as a Dog Whistle for Intolerance” (from the Globe and Mail), “The QAnon Dog Whistle at the SCOTUS Confirmation Hearings” (from the Atlantic), “Aitchison Condemns Lewis’ Nuremberg Email as ‘Dog Whistle’ to COVID Vaccine Critics” (from CTVNews), “Haley Sounds Her Dog Whistles As She Makes a Play for the MAGA Base” (from the Washington Post), “Backlash Against ‘Dog Whistle’ Labour Tweet About Rishi Sunak” (from the Daily Telegraph), et cetera, et cetera.

The term’s origins are murky, but it made an early appearance in a 1988 remark by Washington Post pollster Richard Morin, who warned that a “dog whistle effect” should be considered in answers to the paper’s surveys when “respondents hear something in the question that researchers do not.” Twelve years later, Australian journalist Tony Wright was among the first to use the term as a reproach, when he wrote about Australian Prime Minister John Howard, whose views on immigration and Aboriginal issues were supposedly playing to white nativism:

It’s funny how Narrative media ‘journalists’ can hear these ‘dog whistles’ when most other people can’t. (Remember: If you hear the ‘dog whistle’, then you’re the dog.)

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Displays of cultural diversity have yet again broken out in the multiethnic utopia of Sweden

Otherwise known as migrant riots, the latest violence has erupted in Malmo following a Quran burning by an ‘Anti-Islam activist’ according to the BBC.

“A group of angry protesters tried to stop the burning, which resulted in a showdown between them and police,” the report states.

The Foundry.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell did not suffer a stroke or seizure after his latest freeze in public, according to a doctor’s note released by his office on Tuesday and shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation.

McConnell, R-Ky., 81, froze during a press conference in Kentucky on Aug. 30 and was unable to continue speaking before being led away, the second such instance that has occurred in public. After McConnell’s office published a note from the office of the Attending Physician of United States Congress that cleared him to continue his public schedule, his office published a second note on Tuesday that clarified the freeze was not the result of a seizure or stroke.

And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Why we all need to think like Floridians now (Washington Post) If we did, the WaPo would be out of business.

Invasive species cost the world $423 billion every year and are causing environmental chaos, UN report finds (CNN)

Invasive species costs global economy €391bn per year – UN report (EuroNews)

Scientists warn invasive pests are taking a staggering toll on society (Washington Post)

From toads to bugs, UN says invasive species rising at ‘unprecedented rate’ (Al Jezeera)

G20 per capita CO2 emissions from coal rise 7% from 2015 -research (Reuters)

Global Coal Consumption Returns To Record Levels (Forbes)

Australia has highest per capita CO2 emissions from coal in G20, analysis finds (The Guardian)

G20 Summit: Per Capita Coal Emission Of Group Rising Despite Climate Pledges & Transition Efforts (ET NOW)

“Atlantification”: How Warm Atlantic Waters Are Being Diverted In The Arctic (IFLScience)

Heat pump design to reduce footprint of solar thermal installations (PV Magazine)

Despite Claims, Climate Change Not a ‘Factor’ in Maui Wildfires

The Effect of a Short Observational Record on the Statistics of Temperature Extremes

BMW Warns Gasoline Car Ban Poses “Imminent Risk” To European Automakers

Trump’s Fulton County Case Has Descended Into Chaos Even Before It Starts (Daily Beast)

Biden Uses Labor Day Speech to Attack Trump

Peter Navarro to Face Contempt Trial Over Defiance of Jan. 6 Committee

Inside MTG and Kari Lake’s ‘Death Race’ To Become Trump’s VP (Rolling Stone)

rump’s co-defendants are already starting to turn against him (Politico) Not really, but they’ve got to say something to keep the pot boiling.

GOP Rivals See Focus on Hunter Biden as Helping Trump

The 14th Amendment Trump Panic (Wall St Journal)

“Dangerous”: Law Professor Sounds Alarm On Attempts To Disqualify Trump

D.C. POLL: 64% of Residents Would Find Trump Guilty Ahead of Trial  Bias? What bias?

‘Menace to the Planet’ The View Blames Trump for Rain at Burning Man

Jill Biden positive for COVID, President Biden tests negative -White House (Reuters)

New AI-generated COVID drug enters Phase I clinical trials: ‘Effective against all variants’ (Fox)

Optimization of therapeutic antibodies for reduced self-association and non-specific binding via interpretable machine learning (Nature)

Disease-X Is A High-Return Business Strategy

The Delights Of The Pfizer/Moderna Catfight

College Drops Mask Mandate Amid Rising COVID Cases

North Carolina Supreme Court justice files lawsuit over state investigation into her comments about diversity (CNN)

Texas fracking billionaire brothers fuel rightwing media with millions of dollars (The Guardian)

“No Choice”: Musk Threatens Suit Against ADL; Blames Activists For “Most Of X’s Revenue Loss”

How Democrats are bracing for a ‘MAGA shutdown’ (Politico) MAGA is the New Nigger.

Senate Democrat Asks Chief Justice to Investigate Alito

CNN Finds It ‘Remarkable’ Democratic Appointees Criticize Tuberville

When “Punch a Nazi” Goes Wrong

Revealed: US pro-birth conference’s links to far-right eugenicists (The Guardian) As opposed to, say, far-left eugenicists.

‘I have to leave’: Migrants flock to US ‘mobility’ centres in Latin America (Al Jezeera)

Germany is the ‘sick man of Europe’ — and it’s causing a shift to the right, top economist says (CNBC)

Chicago Teachers’ Union President, Hater Of Private Schools And School Choice, Reportedly Sends Child To Private School

CNN Promotes Gay Couple Fleeing Louisiana for New York

CNN Host Phil Mattingly’s Pauline Kael Moment

“Unprecedented Levels” Of Theft In Nation’s Capital Forces Supermarket Chain To Remove Name-Brand Items From Shelves

Small Towns Disbanding Police Forces, Citing Hiring Woes

Economists typically rely on bogus population data

Tech workers flocked to Austin. Now they’re desperate to get out

Asylum Applications in the European Union Keep Rising

CNN Cheers Anti-Gun Group Targeting Generation Z

From One Unapologetic Media Hoax to the Next

Italian and Greek PMs Form Alliance to Stem Surging Illegal Migration

Come downstairs or we’ll eat your order, delivery workers tell customers

Woman, 60, Beaten With Own Cane in NYC Subway Station

Parents’ Nightmare Shows It Matters How States Implement School Choice

Teachers’ Union To Teachers: Destroy Evidence Of Student Gender-Identity Survey

BREAKING: More than 60 training center activists named in RICO Indictment

California Mom Wins Settlement Against School District That Socially Transitioned Her Daughter

Leftist business-as-usual: crying RACIST!

A Manufactured Hate

Warnock Filed False Financial Disclosure In Violation Of Federal Law, Watchdog Charges

How a kids playdate in Oakland became a flashpoint for racists (S.F. Chronicle)

Exposing the Hoax Numbers Behind California’s Racial Reparations

Federal Court Again Strikes Down Alabama’s Congressional Map (N.Y. Times)

Judges Reject Alabama District Lines, Will Draw New Districts on Race

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw Resigns

NewsBusters.

Pauline Kael knew she wasn’t a representative American.

The onetime New Yorker film critic is famous in folk memory for having said she didn’t know anyone who voted for Richard Nixon in 1972, when he won a 49-state landslide.

The way her words are misremembered, she was surprised that someone so reviled by her social set could win the White House.

In fact, she wasn’t surprised: Kael told the Modern Language Association in a Dec. 28 speech that year, “I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they (i.e., Nixon voters) are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken.”

Kael’s example is worth keeping in mind when thinking about next year’s election.

Gates of Vienna.

Thirteen years ago Thilo Sarrazin was reviled and cancelled for daring to suggest that Germany, through its disastrous migration policies, was in the process of abolishing itself.

Well, now it’s pretty much official: Germany has abolished itself. I assume that being able to say “I told you so” is cold comfort for Mr. Sarrazin in his role as a German Cassandra.

An arrogant Iranian-German woman named Naika Foroutan has written a book in which she admonishes Germans “who have lived here for a longer time” to get used to the fact that their country no longer belongs to them.

Biden says he went to his house in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, because he can’t go ‘home home’ (Associated Press)

Biden says he wasn’t on vacation while visiting home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware: ‘I can’t go home home’ (Fox)

DOD Awards AI Contractor to Monitor ‘Viral Disinformation’

‘Arrogant’ US Navy Refuses to Modernize Sufficiently

US-Born Workers Drop by 1.2M, Foreign Born Spike

Oil giant led by COP28 boss to spend an ‘eyewatering’ $1 billion a month on fossil fuels this decade, Global Witness says (CNBC)

The Climate Crisis Could Mean the Twilight of the American West (Rolling Stone)

Health Researcher Scrutinizes “Environmental Injustice of Beauty” (Mother Jones)

Ancient Mud in Mississippi Reveals Dramatic Saga of Antarctic Ice (ScienceAlert)

German Electricity Imports Hit New Record As Nuclear Phase-Out Increases Production Cost

New Discoveries In Climate Science

Why Your Local Newspaper and TV Station Get Climate Facts Wrong

How Accurate Were EPAs Predictions of climate change from 40 years ago?

Fauci roasted as ‘fraud’ and ‘liar’ after being confronted with damning study on masks (N.Y. Post)

Florida Doctor Reinstated After Losing Board Certification For Criticizing COVID-19 Vaccines

Pharmacists Continuing To Refuse Ivermectin Prescriptions, Raising Ethical Concerns

“Screw Your Face Diapers!!” Mask Mandate Return Sparks ‘We Will Not Comply’ Trend

Pfizer Asks Court To Revoke Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Patents

Fauci unmasked…again

Watch: Fauci Squirms As CNN Anchor Confronts Him With Data Showing Masks Don’t Work

Wisconsin voters caught in the middle as misinformation takes on education (The Guardian)

Neo-Nazi groups spew hate outside Disney World and near Orlando, officials say (NBC News)

Videos Show Angry Neo-Nazis Cursing and Screaming Slurs During March in Florida (Rolling Stone)

Shocking video shows Neo-Nazis marching outside Disney World chanting ‘We Are Everywhere’ (N.Y. Post) Except that they’re not.

ADL Florida warns of Labor Day mobilization for antisemitic ‘White power’ groups (FloridaPolitics)

The California Megachurch Pushing Public Schools to the Far Right (Daily Beast)

NYT’s Demirjian Lambasts ‘Ultraconservative’ GOP For Pushing Border Security

Vivek Ramaswamy Now A White Supremacist, According To Democrat Party

“Election Interference!” Trump Slams NY Attorney General Over ‘Targeted’ Prosecution

Trump: ‘Rigging the Election’ by Indictments ‘Won’t Hold Up’

Conflicting Dates In Trump Trials Unfair, Must Be Resolved, Experts Say

Orange Man Disqualified? Adam Schiff Talks 14th Amendment  You can tell he’s lying because his mouth is moving.

An effort to ban caste discrimination in California has touched a nerve (Politico)

Retailer’s Revenge! Obese Jewelry Thief Gets Whipped Then Stripped

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It is projected that in 2027, 86.5 million people will be freelancing in the United States making 50.1 percent of the population.

 

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ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos was surprised by a new Wall Street Journal poll that showed President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump tied at 46% in a potential 2024 rematch. The survey of 1500 registered voters was conducted August 24-30.

On Sunday’s edition of “This Week,” Stephanopoulos said, “It is kind of shocking in a way that despite all of the baggage that Donald Trump carries, he’s tied with Joe Biden right now.

His “shock” is evidence that Trump Derangement Syndrome is a very real thing and it is blinding Democrats to Biden’s obvious vulnerabilities. It allows them to ignore the fact that the president of the United States has become the laughingstock of the world. He’s barely able to read a speech off of a teleprompter, often butchering and even slurring his words, particularly when he tries to speak fast.

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People who get tattoos are narcissists.

Narcissists are crazy.

Crazy people are dangerous.

Gates of Vienna.

The following report is a reminder that diversity is our nation’s greatest strength. How fortunate we are to live in such a glorious mélange of different cultures that enrich our own!

Here are which symptoms to watch for as new COVID variants circulate (NBC 5 Chicago)

As a new variant emerges, is Covid coming back to the UK? (The Guardian)

COVID-19: These Are Most Likely Symptoms Of New Pirola Variant Spreading In US (Hartford Daily Voice)

New COVID variant detected in Ohio (The Courier)

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds Tries To Scrub Her Lockdown Record

Dr. Birx to Newsmax: ‘We Don’t Need to Mandate’ Masks

The Pandemic Lockdowns: This Century’s Sacking of the Monasteries

The pandemic your grandparents forgot about

Federal Court Rules Against FDA Over Anti-Ivermectin Posts

Kennedy’s Supreme Court legacy is being erased, in part by past clerks (Washington Post) Glad to hear it.

Defenders Of Confederate Symbols Distort History To Sow Division

An Important Lesson From Chicago On Confronting The Enemies Of Free Speech

Judge: DeSantis’ Fla. Redistricting Map Unconstitutional

Greene responds to criticism over impeachment comments: ‘The White House is attacking me’ (The Hill)

PBS Pushes Lefty Misinformation GOP Trying to Erase History of Slavery

Neo-Nazis March Through Florida Park (Daily Beast) I’m more worried about Neo-Commies than Neo-Nazis.

Residential School ‘Mass Grave’ was underground rocks, no bodies found

Ron DeSantis Gets the Sarah Palin Treatment

As Clarence Thomas faces record unpopularity, Americans want an ethics code for the Supreme Court (CNN) Pushing the Narrative witch-hunt as hard as they can.

PBS: GOP Has ‘Turned Up Volume on Violence’ Against Trans People  There is no ‘violence against trans people’ that isn’t caused by ‘trans people’ themselves.