Yeah, that oughta do the trick, Joe… Biden hopes to tackle AI safety with exec order (The Register)

McDonald’s Now Offering 36-Month, 0% Interest Financing On All Value Meals (Babylon Bee)

White House Accidentally Hands Out Plastic Baggies Of Cocaine To Trick-Or-Treaters (Babylon Bee)

White House shoots down GOP funding bills (The Hill) So what happened to all of this hand-wringing about ‘shutting down the government’?

Biden Throws $45 Billion In Federal Funds To Convert Offices Into Homes

Jorge Ramos: Biden Must Allow An Extra 3 Million Immigrants a Year Into The U.S. (NewsBusters)

Biden’s Cabinet Secretaries Will Push Divided Congress on Israel, Ukraine Aid (NewsMax)

Biden’s Mobile App Failed to Curb Illegal Immigration  Who expected that it would?

National Archives Sued, Reveals Existence Of 82,000 Pages Of Joe Biden Emails Using Pseudonym

IRS Chief Hints At Possibility Audits May Rise For Americans Earning Under $400,000

Harris had a contingency plan for campus protests over Israel (Politico) You might have blinked and missed it, as I did.

House Speaker Mike Johnson Vows To Continue Biden Impeachment Inquiry

Kamala Harris Urged to Call for Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire

Biden’s Gaza Stance Spurs Stunning Drop in Arab American Support (TIME) I don’t imagine that he cares all that much. What are they going to do, vote for Trump?

National Archives: 82K Biden Emails Used Fake Accounts

Watch: Reporter Exposes White House Double Standards On “Extremists”

Mayorkas Can’t—or Won’t—Say How Many Illegals Biden Admin Has Released Into US

DOJ Official Asks Google for ‘Personal’ Relationship as SCOTUS Weighs Biden Censorship Case

House Chairs Take Aim at DC Over Probe Into GOP Activist (NewsMax)

‘Medical emergency’ leads to another short-handed military post due to Tuberville protest (Raw Story)

Tuberville: WH Would Rather ‘Burn Down’ Senate” Than Negotiate

Ron DeSantis Turns Down Chance To Squash Lifted Shoe Speculation (Huffington Post) I’m sure glad they don’t have anything more important to write about.

3 Expert Shoemakers Say Ron DeSantis Is Probably Wearing Height Boosters (Politico) I’m sure glad they don’t have anything more important to write about.

Mike Johnson’s Wife Takes Down Website That Compared Being Gay To Bestiality, Incest (Huffington Post) I thought that proglodytes had no problem with bestiality and incest?

Democrats’ all-purpose message for 2024: Defeat MAGA chaos (Washington Poop) Jennifer Rubin is back from her break, tanned and fit and ready to witch-hunt.

“It Was Always Going to End Badly”: The Untold Story of Tucker Carlson’s Ugly Exit From Fox News (Vanity Fair) Still obsessing over Tucker Carlson, I see.

Journalist Groups Defend Rachel Scott Against GOP, But Didn’t Defend ‘SOB’ Peter Doocy

Kinzinger says family disowned him over loss of Hannity’s trust (The Hill) Can’t blame them.

Colbert, Daily Show: Johnson’s a Hypocritical Christian For Not Banning Seafood

Why Doug Burgum Is Staying in a Race He Can Afford to Lose (N.Y. Times) Everybody needs a hobby.

Former Fox Reporter Faces Contempt Charge After Refusing To Reveal FBI Source

Senate Dems plan to subpoena conservative justices’ billionaire patrons (Axios) Let not the new witch-hunts distract us from the old witch-hunts.

Media: Mike Johnson Is a ‘Far-Right’ ‘Christian Nationalist’ ‘Extremist’  I like him already.

House Republicans: No Aid for Israel Unless Rich Tax Cheats Get a Break (New York Magazine) Jonathan Chait pushes the Narrative.

Guess Who Is the King of Nazi Analogies on Television?

House Liberals Use Hearing on Global Religious Persecution to Decry ‘Christian Nationalism’ in America

Twitter Files: Sen. Klobuchar the Overreaching, Would-Be Censor

Zombie Wandering Capitol Hill In Search Of Brains Starves To Death (Babylon Bee)

Macron Again Proposes To Put Abortion in Constitution

Can public officials block you on social media? It’s up to the Supreme Court (NPR)

‘It’s cruel’: the last southern refuge for abortion rights might soon fall (The Guardian)

‘People just can’t pay their bills’: Oklahoma’s wild marijuana market is about to shrivel (Politico) Oh, the horror!

Soros-Backed Activist District Attorney Gets Robbed – Becomes Victim Of Her Own System

Salesforce CEO Demands Return Of ‘Law And Order’ Across Crime-Ridden San Fran  Good luck with that.

Federal Judge Blocks Calif. Law Banning Gun Shows at County Fairs (NewsMax)

Stanford Law School Taps Organizer of Shout-Down Protest To Help Find New Dean

America’s Rifle Fetish Is Destroying Its Sense of Freedom (N.Y. Times)

British Police ‘Don’t Care About Anti-White Hate Crime’

Bills On Israel, Ukraine ‘Dead On Arrival’ In Both House And Senate As Shutdown, Funding Battles Gear Up

Female Martial Arts Competitors Drop Out of Tournament in Fear of Safety Against Transgender Athletes (Hot Air)

Portland Neighborhood Terrified By Residents Dressed Up As Normal Middle-Class Family (Babylon Bee)

Covid vaccines and mortality (Marginal Revolution)

Watch: COVID Authoritarians Want Forgiveness – Here’s Why They Don’t Deserve It

Sen. Tillis Tests Positive for COVID-19

Pro-DeSantis Group Goes After Trump in Iowa Over Abortion (NewsMax)

Ala. Man Faces Charges for Threatening DA Willis, Sheriff

Hedge fund billionaire Leon Cooperman, in rare public rebuke of a Republican candidate, says Trump ‘belongs in jail’ (CNN) Billionaires are evil–except when they’re anti-Trump.

Donald Trump Jr. Says Prosecutors Want ‘The Death Penalty’ for His Father (The Messenger) If they could get it–I think that’s accurate.

NBC Poll: Iowa Republicans OK That Trump Skips Debates

Donald Trump’s Colorado ballot challenge trial begins with each side warning of an attack on democracy (Denver Post)

Alabama Pol Jailed for FaceTiming Witness in His Bribery Case (Daily Beast) Were he a Republican, of course, that fact would have been in the headline. I’m surprised they even bothered to cover it.

Why Did Self-Identifiying Native Americans Incease 85% from 2010 to 2020? It Couldn’t be Flight from White, Now Could It?

Spooky! Lori Lightfoot Dresses Up As Lori Lightfoot (Babylon Bee) BRAAAAAAAINS!

Why many scientists are now saying climate change is an all-out ‘emergency’ (Washington Poop)

Is your hotel sustainable? Not if these two things are in your room, says Soneva’s founder (CNBC) I don’t know about you, but I’m always worried that my hotel might not be sustainable.

Earth’s freshwater is getting saltier, and people are to blame (Washington Poop)

Wrong, Amnesty International, “Climate Change in Mexico” is Not Displacing People

EV Driving Range Is Even Worse Than Advertised

Mark Lynas ‘99% Consensus’ on Climate Change – Busted in Peer Review.

The Foundry.

nstitution, with almost two-thirds now rating the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as “only fair or poor.” Half of America no longer has much confidence in science itself.

The loss of trust is part of the disgraceful legacy of those who held power during the pandemic caused by the SARS2-CoV virus. Two presidents and dozens of governors hid behind public health bureaucrats Anthony Fauci, Deborah Birx, Robert Redfield, and Rochelle Walensky. They ignored Henderson’s classic review 15 years earlier showing lockdowns were both ineffective and extremely harmful.

They rejected the alternative, targeted protection, recommended as early as March 2020 by Ioannidis, Katz, and Atlas. Beyond a reckless disregard for foreseeable destruction from their policies, America’s leaders imposed sinful harms and long-lasting damage on our children, the totality of which may not be realized for decades.

Peter Zeihan.

The US is blessed with one of the most prolific water networks in the world, yet it operates at sub-optimal levels. You’ve all heard my thoughts on the Jones Act, so you can probably guess where the blame falls once again.

Something will have to change as the US reshores its industry and attempts to build out its manufacturing footprint. Thankfully, reviving water transport in the US is a low-hanging fruit. All it requires is some amendments to the Jones Act and its regulations on waterborne commerce.

If we can manage that, we’ll all enjoy some nice economic growth thanks to reduced product transport costs and a boost to US manufacturing.

Next to the Davis-Bacon Act, the Jones Act is the worst piece of fascist legislation ever dumped on an unsuspecting nation.

The Critic.

“From the Indian Emperors who contained the nefarious ambitions of the East India Company, to the West African kings who resisted British demands and set the terms of the trade in enslaved people … this book retells the history of early Empire from the all too familiar story of conquest to one of empowering defiance and resistance.”

This extract comes from the publisher’s blurb of David Veevers’ ambitious and wide-ranging new book, The Great Defiance: How the World Took On the British Empire. To be sure, competing for shares of the market for slaves against European traders qualifies, at least technically, as “resistance” — but is that really of the “empowering” sort? Empowering to whom? Could a modern and progressive historian really write in praise of African slave-traders for being better at slave-trading than their European competitors?

Sure can. Look at all of the black people in the U.S. who affect Muslim names, despite the role that Muslim slave-traders had in the global traffic in African slaves. (I don’t see any Jews naming their kids ‘Adolf’ or ‘Heinrich’.)

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Due to their long history of funding and abetting Islamic fundamentalist militias, Qatar became the Mecca for Arab terrorism in the 21st century. The estimate of Qatari funding for Hamas topped $1.8 billion in 2021, and they’ve lent their political support to branches of Al Qaeda, to the Taliban, as well as to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the 9/11 attacks.

In light of the tight security partnership between the two countries, the United States must now require the Qatari government to hand over the terrorists on its soil, or at least expel them. It also needs to step up efforts to definitively halt the funding and support of Islamic terror networks, even those that are “deeply ideologically tied” to the “pure Islam” of the Wahhabi movement that most Qataris practice.

Then, as punishment for Qatar’s affiliation with Hamas, the international community should ensure that all global sporting events, including the 2024 World Aquatics Championships and the 2024 F1 Qatar Grand Prix, be removed from Qatar, to be held elsewhere.

Don’t hold your breath.

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Another month has passed without full release of Audrey Hale’s manifesto, which could reveal her motive for the murder of nine-year-olds Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney and Hallie Scruggs, daughter of Chad Scruggs, senior pastor at the Covenant Presbyterian Church in Nashville.

Hale, a woman who thought she was a man, also shot dead schoolmaster Katherine Koonce, 59; substitute teacher Cynthia Peak, 61; and custodian Mike Hill, 61. On March 29, 2023, two days after the murders, the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit took custody of the manifesto. While release awaits, a movie offers insight into motive, the primary question in any murder case.

New York Post.

Closed-door testimony by former Pittsburgh US Attorney Scott Brady to the Senate Judiciary Committee last week is a chilling case study of how credible corruption allegations against President Biden and his family were covered up by the FBI and DOJ — before and after the 2020 election.

Brady’s testimony fits a pattern revealed by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) last week, in which over 40 confidential human sources gave information to the FBI, over several years, about potential criminal activity involving the president, his brother James and son Hunter.

In a blistering letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday, Grassley alleged ongoing efforts “among certain Justice Department and FBI officials to improperly delay and stop full and complete investigative activity into the Biden family.”

Australia Warns Ferries about EVs

More Questions about Electric Vehicles

Why are the globalists calling “Climate Change” a “Public Health Crisis”?

The *cough* evidence *cough* that shows climate change is already impacting our lives

CNN Cheers Maine Democrat Finding ‘Moral Courage’ for Gun Control After Shooting What kind of ‘courage’ does it take for a Democrat to embrace gun control? Minimal at best.

CVS Stores In DC Resort To Framed Photos Of Toilet Paper

School Board Member Sues for Right to Recite Bible Verses

Americans Traveling To Europe Now Forced To Take A New Step

Men Are Taking Over Women’s Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

They Just Keep Coming

The Continuity of the Old and New Left

EU ‘Superstate’: European Parliament Proposes Treaty Change

Tuberville says he will keep blocking military promotions despite Israel’s war (CNN)

David “Camera” Hogg Now Blames “White Woman In Suburbs” For Gun Violence

ABC’s ‘This Week’ Rips Speaker Mike Johnson, Reruns Dismissal of Election-Denier Quiz

Vexed Over X! New York Times Weeps for Lost Blue Checks, Musk’s ‘Free-For-All Hellscape’

Harvard ‘Doxxing’ Truck

Mike Johnson’s first big test (Washington Poop) Can he successfully demonstrate that he is a Servant of  the Crust? Only time will tell…

Speaker Mike Johnson’s corporate backers (Popular Information) Corporate backers for Democrats: Good! Corporate backers for Republicans: Bad!

New York AG Considered Investigating Giuliani Over Ukraine (Daily Beast)

The Christofascism of Mike Johnson (Public Notice) (While Hamas Supporters Terrorize Jews, Can You Guess What Noah Berlatsky Considers a More Important Menace?)

Rep. Donalds: Speaker Controversy Hasn’t Sidetracked Biden Probe

Dems to Carville: Stop Talking About Biden’s Dim Reelection Odds

Biden State Department Won’t Fire Notorious Anti-Semitic Foreign Service Officer

Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence

Biden to Clear $127B Student Debt Despite SCOTUS

2 Dead, 16 Hurt in Florida Halloween Shooting Tyrell Stephen Phillips (despite the fact that he looks white to me) undoubtedly ‘identifies’ as black. (I know of no white person with the name ‘Tyrell’.)

WATCH: Cori Bush’s husband confronted over the thousands in cash he has received from her campaign

Judge Reinstates Gag Order in Trump Election Case

Ben Carson Endorses Trump for President

How Trump’s Verbal Slips Could Weaken His Attacks on Biden’s Age (N.Y. Times)

Trump Colorado Ballot Trial Begins

Trial begins on whether Trump should be kept off the 2024 ballot in Colorado (NBC News)

Colorado Trial Will Consider Whether the 14th Amendment Disqualifies Trump (N.Y. Times) Ludicrous on its face.

Face mask effectiveness: What science knows now (CBS News)

The Veil Of Silence Over Excess Deaths

COVID Meds Like Paxlovid Will Soon Have Big Price Tags

The Critic.

Do you believe in cancel culture? I apologise for asking — it’s a trick question. Just as complaining about the use of Karen makes you a Karen, thinking cancel culture exists makes you deserving of being cancelled. Not that this is a problem; if anyone were really being silenced, we’d hear them complaining about it, which would then mean they weren’t actually being silenced.

Such are the logical contortions outlined in Umut Özkirimli’s Cancelled: The Left Way Back from Woke. It explores how certain self-styled goodies — those who identify with being on the right side of history — promote a version of leftism which rivals the right in “its disdain for dissent, its bunker mentality, and Manichean simplicity”.

The Spectator.

A “Chinese puzzle” in its classic version is a game where you must fit a variety of ill-assorted boxes inside other boxes. The term came to mean any intricate problem, especially one in which what looks like the way forward leads only to new obstacles.

These days, in which we are warned not to use ethnonyms for fear of giving offense, it might be safer to say something like “brainteaser.” But the efforts of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to manipulate American society genuinely deserve the old term.

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Mrs Rodin and I watched Dinesh D’Souza’s Police State on Rumble yesterday. I hope this review, summary, or whatever will not cause you to not watch it yourself.

First, is “police state” the correct description of America, today? My initial inclination is to believe that it is true for some and not true for many. That America is now a “surveillance state” is beyond question. It shifts into a police state whenever the apparatus of the state using the surveillance data at hand picks and chooses to harass/destroy “disfavored” persons and cower the remainder into submission.

If one looks at history, the existence of a police state does not require the full quiescence of a people. There will always be dissenters within a police state. We tend to regard dissent’s failure to “move the needle” in such places as evidence of the existence of the police state. And so it is, when viewing an historically free and democratic society, it can be difficult to judge when a police state might exist because there is always some level of sturm und drang reflecting political debate within that society, some level of criminality associated with political belief, and a desire to characterize any failure to gain ideological purchase within the larger society as the result of state machinations.

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Ammonia (NH3) serves as the foundation for the creation of chemical fertilizers used for agricultural crops. For over 100 years, the global production of ammonia in large quantities has relied on the Haber-Bosch process. This industrial breakthrough has had a major impact on agriculture, enabling the feeding of a rapidly growing human population. However, the Haber-Bosch process is extremely energy-intensive, requiring high pressure levels of 80-300 atmospheres and temperatures ranging from 572-1000 F (300-500 C) to break nitrogen’s strong bonds. Additionally, the steam-treatment of natural gas involved in the process contributes significantly to the release of carbon dioxide, a key contributor to climate change.

“We were shocked to see that we could generate ammonia in benign, everyday temperature-and-pressure environments with just air and water and using something as basic as a sprayer,” said study senior author Richard Zare, the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science and a professor of chemistry in the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences. “If this process can be scaled up, it would represent an eco-friendly new way of making ammonia, which is one of the most important chemical processes that takes place in the world.”

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Researchers recently discovered that they could give young, healthy animals Alzheimer’s disease by transferring the gut microbiome of human subjects with Alzheimer’s into germ-free rats.

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It’s the accusatory nature of a great deal of progressive commentary that makes it so obnoxious. On the face of it, it sounds absurd to take offence at an article which maintains that Britons from ethnic minorities can feel uncomfortable in rural areas. Yet an article in The Lead with the headline “Black and brown hikers are taking back Britain’s countryside” is so fiercely combative that one can do nothing else. It stands in your face daring you to react.

First, what’s with that headline? “Taking back”? Did it belong to them? Have I missed a giant chunk of British history? Why must it be “taken” at all? Is this some sort of weird game of “capture the flag”?

Pentagon renames Georgia fort in final project to replace bases honoring Confederates (The Hill)

Fort Gordon, last Army base honoring Confederate general, renamed Fort Eisenhower (N.Y. Post)

Newly-named Fort Eisenhower signifies Augusta’s “commitment to the future of the nation” (WJBF)

House Speaker Johnson: Russia, China, & Iran Are The New Axis Of Evil

Mike Johnson Conducted Seminars Promoting the US as a “Christian Nation” (Mother Jones)

Biden’s New Challenger Doesn’t Remember GOP Megadonor Cash (Daily Beast)

The Devil’s Bargain Mike Pence Could Not Escape (N.Y. Times) The Devil, of course, being Trump.

DeSantis allies earn big paychecks on the front lines of his culture fights (CNN)

Expel George Santos? Some fear terrible precedent despite his terrible record (Washington Poop) Yeah, they might start expelling Democrats with terrible records, and we can’t have that.

“Lord of the Flies”: The House’s chaotic next era, explained (Vox) According to the Narrartive, of course.

Jenna Ellis Could Become a Star Witness Against Trump (N.Y. Times) Depending on how much she’s willing to lie her way into the Establishment.

CNN Oozes at Democrat Senator Who’s ‘Worked Tirelessly’ for Gun Control

Joy Behar Reminds America She’s A Moron With AR-15 Misinformation

FBI Raids Baltimore City Taxpayer-Funded ‘Safe Streets’ Program For Possible Gang Infiltration

Politico: Nikki Haley ‘Breaking Through at the Right Moment’  Promoting the Establishment’s favorite counter-Trump.

Sedition Hunters: how ordinary Americans helped track down the Capitol rioters (The Guardian) ‘Good Germans’ are everywhere you look.

Indians Are Entering the U.S. Illegally in Record Numbers  I have no problem with that.

Cocky Runner Sprints From 172nd To 5th Place After Competing As A Girl

House Weaponization Panel Gets IRS To End ‘Abusive’ Surprise Visits; Taibbi Thanks Jim Jordan

White House Freezes Gun Exports In New Attack On US Gun Manufacturers

The Insidious Way the Biden Admin Forces Staff to Preach DEI

DOJ Corroborated Information From FBI Source Who Provided Biden Bribery Allegations: Official

Rep. Banks: US Military Running ‘Far-Left’s Social Experiments’

Biden’s Freefall Continues

Antarctica is melting and we all need to adapt, a trio of climate analyses show (NPR)

Chilling Reality: An Unseen Factor Is Accelerating Antarctic Glacier Meltdown (SciTechDaily)

Antarctica’s glaciers are melting from beneath, speeding sea-level rise (The Hill)

EV Skeptic Toyota Chairman Says People Are ‘Finally’ Waking Up To Reality Of Electric Vehicles

The Political Risks Of Mandating EVs For Everyone

Los Angeles Times Misrepresents California Central Valley “Weather” as “Climate”

New York City Zero Emission Vehicle Fleet Legislation

Going All in with Peak Fossil Fuels by 2030

‘The early adopters have adopted’: US carmakers slow their EV growth plans

More climate violence rhetoric: When it was “time to put heads on spikes”

Kendi’s Critical Race Theory Is A Failed Marxist Doctrine

Senator Demands Answers From FDA On Safety Signal For COVID Vaccines And Children

COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Reduce A Major Beneficial Bacteria, Gut Biodiversity: Research

Russia’s Sputnik V “Covid vaccine” is now officially useless

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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an unindicted co-conspirator in an Islamic terrorism funding trial, has gone to bat for a convicted Islamic terrorism funder who was asked to remove her hijab.

Muna Osman Jama, a Somali immigrant, had been sentenced to 12 years in prison for providing material support to al-Shabaab: a Somali Islamic terrorist group allied with Al Qaeda.

Jama had set up a chat room to coordinate funding for Islamic terrorist operations including in Nairobi where the Jihadist group had perpetrated the Westgate Mall Massacre. During the killing spree, al-Shabaab terrorists had singled out non-Muslims by asking them to name Mohammed’s mother or recite the shahada, the Islamic creed, and if they failed, killing them.

Serving a sentence that will only end in 2027, Jama has retained her devotion to her cult. And now CAIR, which has a history of support for Islamic terrorists, is suing the Federal Correctional Institution in Waseca, Minnesota, alleging that the terrorist funder was caused “a great deal of shame and embarrassment” by being asked to remove her hijab.

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Matt Taibbi is one of a group of honest liberals who are not blind to the contemporary Left’s faults. At Racket News, he writes about his testimony before Jim Jordan’s House Weaponization of Government Committee, which apparently prompted a visit to his home by the IRS. Jordan’s House committee investigated, with the result that the IRS has announced a new policy on home visits.

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After more than 11 long years, jury selection in Michael Mann’s defamation case against Mark Steyn and others begins on Monday. I had lost track of this case as it wended its tortuous way through the courts, and tried to catch up with it by watching Mark’s deposition, the two short halves of which you can see here and here. The deposition does not lack for entertainment value, but as I watched it, I wondered, how can this terrible case possibly be going to trial? How could Mark Steyn not have gotten summary judgment?

The case arises out of a post that Mark wrote at the Corner on National Review quite a few years ago. He quoted Rand Simberg, who called Michael Mann the Jerry Sandusky of climate science (both Mann and Sandusky were employed by, and investigated by, Penn State). Mark added a few comments of his own about Mann’s absurd hockey stick. The gist of Mark’s brief post was that Mann’s hockey stick was a fraud. Which it was.

Ukraine Situation Report: Signs Longer-Range ATACMS Will Be Sent Grow

Plans For More Destructive B61 Nuclear Bomb Unveiled

Israel-Gaza Situation Report: Major Expansion Of Ground Operation Into Gaza Underway

Does Israel Really Have ‘Sponge Bombs’ For Sealing Tunnels?

Israel-Hamas War Live Updates: Israel “Expands” Gaza Ground Operations, Hamas Vows “Full Force” (NDTV)

Israeli military expanding ground operations in Gaza (CBS News)

200 held as Jewish group shuts NYC’s Grand Central calling for Gaza ceasefire (Times of Israel)

Shut Up, Grandpa! Nets Still Pushing Hamas Death Tolls Despite Biden Telling Them Not to (NewsBusters)

PBS Hosts Queen of Hamas: Amanpour Fails to Find Her Compassion For Jews (NewsBusters)

UPenn Leadership Fights To Keep Jobs After Donor Backlash Over Weak Hamas Statement (Washington Free Beacon)

You know that hospital that supposedly was hit by Israeli fire, but it was actually a Palestinian rocket gone awry? (The New Neo)

Watch: Chinese Jet Comes Dangerously Within 10 Feet Of US B-52 Bomber

‘Out of the Blue’: Tulane Student Recounts Violent Attack Against Pro-Israel Student During Campus Protest

US Says Anti-Iran Strikes in Syria Hit Ammo Depots

Qatar Sentences Eight Indians To Death Over Israel Spy Charges

Watch: Zennials Are Terrified Of Military Draft As War Looms

Pay No Attention To The Country Behind The Curtain

Dead Civilians and the Allocation of Blame

SUBMARINES: Submarines Sidelined by Maintenance Backlog

Hamas Leader Appointed Senior Fellow At Harvard University (Babylon Bee)

Sweden To Deport Quran-Burning Iraqi

US asks Qatar to ‘turn down the volume’ of Al Jazeera news coverage

Gaza’s Tunnels Loom Large for Israel’s Ground Forces (N.Y. Times)

Europe Facing Civil War?

Slovakia’s New Populist PM Follows Through On Blocking Arms To Ukraine

Iranian Teenager Injured While Not Wearing a Headscarf Has Died

‘Israeli Women Attack Harder Than Hamas’: Courtship and Coupling Explode in Jewish State on the Brink

What Hamas promised Palestinians

Israel to test Iron Beam laser system on Hamas missiles

US halts exports of most civilian firearms for 90 days

US Freezes Gun Exports, Reviews Its Backing of Firearm Industry (Bloomberg)

The case of Karen Attiah

Grand Central Terminal Shut Down By Left-Wing Pro-Palestinian Protesters

Heroes

Erdogan Vows To Get Israel Branded As “War Criminal” State, Also Blames West For Gaza “Massacre”  Turkey needs to be expelled from NATO, in which it has no legitimate role.

ABC Military Expert Bats Down Host’s Concern About Possible Israeli ‘War Crimes’

Trump Vows to Avenge: If You ‘Kill Our Citizens, We Kill You’

Notre Dame President Defends Drag Queen Show

South Carolina Teachers Union Out to Deprive Students of Learning Options

Migrant Hot-Potato: NYC Offers Illegals Plane Tickets To Anywhere But The Big Apple

The Decline of Modern Shopping

Trump appointee faces 10-year prison recommendation for joining mob at Capitol (Raw Story)

New House Speaker Mike Johnson used to be top counsel for anti-LGBTQ hate group (Salon)

ABC Censors Dem Dean Phillips Rising to Challenge Biden in Primary

Mike Johnson’s Wife Runs Counseling Service That Compares Being Gay To Bestiality, Incest (Huffington Post)

Survey: Most Oppose Book Bans, Support Elective Bible Study

The Christian Nationalism of Speaker Mike Johnson (TIMT)

PolitiFact Pounces on New House Speaker, Unlike Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries

New Climate Institute Claims Microsoft is “Unjustly” Quarantining Their Emails

For Mike Johnson, Religion Is at the Forefront of Politics and Policy (N.Y. Times) They say that like it was a bad thing.

PBS Freaks ‘Far-Right’ Johnson Promotes ‘Christian Nationalism’

Ex-CNN+ Host Smears Johnson as ‘David Duke-Lite’

Misinformation is flowing ahead of Ohio abortion vote. Some is coming from a legislative website (Associated Press)

Not an accidental speaker: How Mike Johnson positioned himself for the gavel (Politico)

Johnson’s speakership win fails to end House GOP infighting (Politico)

The deep inequity of the anti-college movement (The Hill)

Ramaswamy Defends Opposition to Israel Aid in Speech to Jewish Republicans (Washington Free Beacon)

Mike Johnson is well within the mainstream of today’s GOP (CNN) They don’t mean it as a compliment.

A new Covid variant has become dominant amid slow uptake of the updated shots (NBC News)

COVID Deception

“There Is No Cure”: Long-Forgotten Virus Could Return, US Is Not Prepared

FDA Should Recall ‘Adulterated’ Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine: Robert Malone

Biden Admin Paid Hamas-Linked Mosque $340K to Promote COVID Vaccines

A Genius Award for Airborne Transmission

The bacterial horror of hot-air hand dryers

Scarborough Hits Panic Button: Biden Getting No Credit, Trump On a Path to Win Again in ’24!

Federal prosecutor to Congress: I didn’t hinder Hunter Biden probe (Politico)

Full Phillips: ‘If this election was held today, President Biden would lose’ (NBC News)

Terror Threat Looms Over US Southern Border After Attack on Israel

The Inflation Reduction Act: A Bidenomics Loser In 2024

Cruz Recounts ‘Horrifying’ Scene at Southern Border During Midnight Patrol With Agents

Biden Admin to Unveil AI Executive Order

Harris Pushes Australian Gun Laws in Wake of Maine Mass Shooting

IRS Can Enter ‘Anyone’s House at Any Time’: Abuse Detailed in New Weaponization Report

Gun Czar Kamala Harris Praises Australian Gun Confiscation

Biden-Appointed Prosecutor Wouldn’t Cooperate on Hunter Case

Biden has succeeded all along. The media can’t ignore it. (Washington Poop) Jennifer Rubin is back with new lie.

Speaker Johnson Concerned About Biden’s Cognitive Decline

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 66)

To Choke Migration to US, El Salvador Hits Africans, Indians With $1,130 Fee

Sweeping new Biden order aims to alter the AI landscape God forbid anything should exist in this world without being under the thumb of the state

Biden asks ‘who the hell’ needs a high-capacity assault weapon after Maine shooting (The Hill) If even one of those victims had been packing, the death toll would be smaller.

Biden takes swipe at Trump, GOP at fundraiser: ‘Democracy is at stake in 2024’ (The Hill) Indeed–if the Democrats manage to steal two elections in a row, democracy is pretty much over.

Time To Think ‘Quadrillions’, As There’s ‘Zero Fiscal Restraint’ In D.C.

Trump doubles down on calling Hezbollah ‘very smart’ (Washington Poop)

FLASHBACK: While TV Ignores Biden Inquiry, They Feasted on Trump’s

Ivanka Trump to testify Friday in the NY civil fraud trial – here’s how she can hurt her father and brothers (Business Insider) Masturbating to the tune of the anti-Trump tango.

A hidden feedback loop under Antarctica’s glaciers could accelerate sea level rise, scientists find (CNN)

Automakers Wake Up to Reality on Electric Vehicles

Health Care Worker Crisis Looms As Burnout And Mental Health Issues Surge, CDC Warns

The Graphite Grip: How China’s Crackdown On Exports Threatens Global EV Battery Supply Chain

The Daily Chart: More Red Ink for Green Energy

Green Dreams Going Up In Smoke

BP buys $100M worth of Tesla chargers

Chemical crisis: The unseen toxic threat contaminating wildlife worldwide (The Hill)

Emergency Oil Meeting Discusses Potential For Diesel Outages

Study: Fueling EVs Really Costs $17 Per Gallon

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There was a time, in the bad old days of ALF, when animal rights terrorists were considered the second greatest terror threat to the UK behind the IRA. While various Islamist groups have overtaken them now, animal rights terrorism still abounds, carried out by a small but active crew of extremist cadres who still resort to violence to pursue their political aims. The animal rights movement is a product of just the past 50 years, so these individuals are relative newcomers to spreading terror as a form of direct action.

“Children thrown from frightened horses while out for a weekend ride, vehicles vandalised, businesses threatened, fieldsports participants physically attacked, horses and hounds injured, incessant trolling by sab dross online and groups of aggressive hunt saboteurs hiding behind balaclavas … need I go on? These unhinged and violent individuals are a danger to the public, as the jailing of Paul Allman underlined this week.”
_{Ben McCarthy Terrorists Among Us, CSM Aug 19th 2023}

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Armita Geravand, a 16-year-old Iranian girl, has died following an alleged encounter with officers over violating the country’s hijab law, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday.

“Unfortunately, she went into a coma for some time after suffering from brain damage. She died a few minutes ago,” IRNA reported.

Geravand had been pronounced brain dead last week after she fell into a coma on Oct 1.

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