NewsBusters.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley got to the heart of the government shutdown fireworks in her appearance on Fox News Sunday.

“Let’s be clear what the Freedom Caucus is really trying to do; they are trying to cut spending.”

That’s of course correct. One would be hard-pressed to find any Republican, Freedom Caucus member or not, who does not understand the gravity of the state of our federal budget and spending.

The Foundry.

There is no worse example of a biased, tendentious mainstream media with ulterior motives than the castigation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas during the past half year.

The latest example stems from flyspecking Thomas’ amended financial disclosure reports, repeating what has never been disputed and attempting to cast a dark shadow on otherwise innocent, normal conduct—that the man has affluent friends and these friends engage in activities with their friends, which is typical of those with wealth.

Apart from the shameless and intentional misinterpretation of this reality, what is omitted from the reporting truly speaks volumes. There are neither accusations nor even circumstantial evidence that the 700-plus opinions Thomas has written over his career, the 2,800-plus cases he has voted on, and the millions of words he has authored have been compromised in any way to benefit his friends.

Computer World.

Forced back into the office, many employees have admitted to showing up for just a few hours — enough time to swipe in with their employee badge, have a cup of coffee, and be seen in the workplace — then heading back home to do their work, according to a new study.

Coined as “coffee badging,” the trend showed up on a new survey of 2,000 full-time US workers conducted by videoconferencing tech vendor Owl Labs.

Owl Labs said its seventh annual State of Hybrid Work report revealed that more than half (58%) of hybrid workers said they are coffee badging to meet the minimum in-office requirement each week. Another 8% of respondents said they haven’t been coffee badging but would like to try it.

Even Starbucks Is Failing in Crime-Ridden San Francisco

ABC, CBS Hype Pope Francis Abandoning Catholic Teachings on Gay ‘Marriage’

‘Terrifying’: Resumption of Student Loan Repayments May Force College Grads To Dip Into ‘Fun Budget,’ Media Warn

A drop in salaries and in the number of jobs available in the Bay Area  Businesses are leaving.

This Is Not Freedom, America: The Profit Incentives Driving The American Police State

Actions Have Consequences: Crime Out of Control in US Cities

Top California Teachers’ Union Wants Homeless People To Sleep in Its Public School Parking Lots

CVS Pharmacists Kill Twins After Accidentally Giving Mom Abortion Drugs

California Senator Grateful For New Job With Short Commute From Home In Maryland (Babylon Bee)

WATCH: Soros-Backed Philadelphia DA Reassures ‘Fundamentally Law-Abiding’ Looters

San Francisco’s Transgender Welfare Program Gives Priority to ‘BIPOC,’ Sex Workers, Illegal Immigrants, Ex-Cons

Kevin McCarthy’s ouster as House speaker could cost GOP its best fundraiser heading into 2024 (Associated Press)

House devolves into angry round of retribution following McCarthy’s ouster (CNN)

House GOP must drop ‘any member can move to unseat the speaker’ rule (N.Y. Post)

How does a ‘frozen’ U.S. House function without a speaker? Everyone’s got an opinion. (Idaho Capital Sun)

Swiss writer being jailed for insulting lesbian journalist alarms free speech advocates (Fox News)

From a Capitol Hill Basement, Bannon Stokes the Republican Party Meltdown (N.Y. Times)

Former Mike Pence Aide Claims Matt Gaetz Likely Came To D.C. ‘For The Teenage Interns’ (Huffington Post)

MSNBC’s Hayes FREAKS! Claims Media Blames Democrats for ‘GOP Chaos’

Vote to oust McCarthy is a warning sign for democracy, scholars say (Washington Poop)

Matt Gaetz Says He’s Fueled By Small Dollars. A Leaked Video Shows Him Courting GOP Megadonors. (Daily Beast)

GOP Senator Drops NSFW Claims About Matt Gaetz In Wild CNN Interview (Huffington Post)

House GOP quietly panics over how to escape its self-inflicted mess (Axios)

Not satisfied with schools, book banners are now targeting adults’ right to read (L.A. Times) Not to be confused with the proglodyte attempts to cancel authors they don’t like.

The MAGA-McCarthy meltdown does not oblige Democrats to save the GOP (Washington Poop) MAGA is the New Nigger.

White Supremacist ‘Active Club’ Provides Security for Moms for Liberty-Allied Mayoral Candidate (Right-Wing Watch) Yet another little proglodyte mushroom of hate.

He ‘Terrorized Me’: Sunny Hostin Claims Jim Jordan Is a ‘Terrorist’  I like him already.

BEASTMODE: GOP Senator Says Matt Gaetz Was Known for Boasts About ‘ED Medicine’ and Sex Prowess

A Broken Congress Is What MAGA Always Wanted (Daily Beast) MAGA is the New Nigger.

Gaetz’s speeches against McCarthy hand Democrats fresh campaign material (Axios)

Pro-life Display Vandalized at Mo. Catholic Church

Brooklyn public policy advocate stabbed to death in front of girlfriend (NBC New York)

Dem Candidate Deletes Anti-Semitic McCarthy Post After Colleagues Call It ‘Disgusting’

Alabama gets a court-ordered congressional map with a second Black district (NBC News) Does that come with ballots pre-printed for the Democrat candidates?

Brooklyn Subway Shooter Who Wounded 10 Gets Life in Prison  So he’ll be out in about ten years.

Cornel West drops Green Party bid to run for president as an independent (NBC News)

Trump’s recent confession about the border wall underscores an inconvenient truth (MSNBC)

Hours After Gag Order, Trump Launches Fresh Vitriol Against New York Judge (The New Republic)

Florida Rep. Frederica Wilson calls out John Kelly: ‘He knew Mr. Trump’s record’ (Politico)

Coal Production Surges By 83% At India’s Largest Power Firm

Pope Francis In Greta-Style Rebuke Lambasts ‘Climate Deniers’ & Warns “Breaking Point” Coming

September was the most anomalously hot month ever

Berlin Reactivates Coal-Fired Power Plants Ahead Of Winter

MSNBC’s Chris Jansing Hypes ‘Extreme’ Weather, Hopes for End of ‘Denialism’

Climate scientists admit they have a 90% chance of being wrong about Arctic sea ice

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We have the technology.

Takes care of the tailgater problem.

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The Guardia Civil, Spain’s national police force, has arrested nine illegal immigrants who stand accused of threatening at knife-point sailors of a Dutch tugboat who had just rescued them from two boats in the Atlantic, forcing them to change course for the Spanish Canary Islands, sources from the interior ministry said.

The nine mutinous migrants had been a part of a larger group of 78 people who on the morning of Monday, October 2nd, departed from the North African coast in two separate boats in an attempt to reach the Canary Islands. The incident began after the Dutch ship “Vose Pace”—after realizing the precariousness of the two ships—rescued both, only to have some of those on board the second one threatening them with deadly weapons, El Debate reports.

The threat of violence came, apparently, because the Dutch ship, having rescued the two boats in waters under Moroccan rescue responsibility, received directions from Rabat to return the boats to the southern Moroccan port of Tan-Tan.

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Teachers’ union leader Randi Weingarten, who presided over a disastrous nationwide shutdown of schools during the coronavirus pandemic, is joining the board of one of the country’s most prominent anti-Israel groups.

J Street, a far-left group that works to undermine the Jewish state, announced on Wednesday that Weingarten will join its board of directors.

Jean-Pierre snaps at reporter who waited four months to ask a question: ‘You’re wasting our time, sir’ (Fox News)

FBI Probes Amy Coney Barrett’s Faith Group (Washington Free Beacon)

LAWSUIT: Air Force Punished Reservist Who Condemned Woke Military ‘Enforcement Tactics’ (Daily Signal)

Federal Debt Increased by $2.2 Trillion in Fiscal Year 2023 (Daily Signal)

Fact-Checking Karine Jean-Pierre’s Claims That Biden Secured Southern Border (Daily Signal)

Rep Luna: I’ll Only Support Speaker Who Backs Biden Impeachment (NewsMax)

Mexico President Blasts US Billions To Ukraine As “Irrational” – Says Focus On Latin America

Recession Warning! Four Key Triggers Are All In-Play Right Now

Biden to Announce $9 Billion More in Student Debt Relief  Buy those votes! Buy those votes! Spend taxpayer money! Spend taxpayer money!

India’s Media Arrests Put Washington in an Awkward Spot (Bloomberg)

Biden’s Iran Envoy Suspended Amid Spy Ring Allegations

ADP Employment Report Signals Weakest Labor Market Since Jan 2021

Fox’s Peter Doocy Battles KJP After She Blames Republicans for Rising Crime

Honest Talk for Border Crisis Deniers

Biden’s “Secret Money Machine”: New Book Delves Into Hunter’s China-Linked Partnership With University Of Delaware

Energy Department’s National Lab Logs Over $160 Million in Questioned Costs

Biden Taps Former Hunter Biden Colleague To Lead Office of the Special Counsel

Giuliani sues Biden for defamation over ‘Russian pawn’ remark (The Hill)

Appeals Ct Drags Censorship ‘Nerve Center’ Into Free Speech Injunction

Will Separation of Powers Survive in High Court Challenge to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?

Report: FBI Eyes Trump Supporters Ahead of ’24 Vote

New Photos Show Biden’s Dog Biting Staffer

Pope Francis calls out fossil fuel companies, says climate action is too slow (NBC News)

Pope Francis scolds U.S., ‘irresponsible’ Western lifestyle in climate plea (Washington Poop)

Point of no return: Pope challenges leaders at UN talks to slow global warming before it’s too late (WHIO)

Decarbonisation outcomes: preparing portfolios for a low-carbon world (IPE)

Tree-planting schemes threaten tropical biodiversity, ecologists say (The Guardian) There’s no pleasing some people.

Can planting trees really help fight climate change? (Al Jezeera)

Forests Are Worth More Than Their Carbon, a New Paper Argues (Inside Climate Narrative News)

Planting Trees May Be an Awful Way to Fight Climate Change (Daily Beast)

First World Sustainability Symposium Opens in Madrid (IATA)

Aviation’s Enhanced Tech Response To Charting A Sustainable Flight (Aviation Week)

The Geopolitical Forces Driving Today’s Oil Market

‘Not-ESG Friendly’: New Panasonic EV Battery Plant In Kansas To Be Powered By Coal 

September shattered global heat record — and by a record margin (Washington Poop)

EV Mania Spreads Across The Nation’s Bluest States 

If Wind and Solar Get Any Cheaper, We’ll All Go Broke

The Energy Transition is Social Vandalism

EV Owners Facing Soaring Insurance Costs

Climate Models Wrong on East Pacific… “We Don’t Know Why This Cooling Is Happening”

September’s Record-Shattering Heat Was ‘Absolutely Gobsmackingly Bananas’ (Wired ‘Science’)

Man ‘forced to drive electric car into police van’ in Scotland after brakes fail

More than 2,000 species of amphibians are threatened by extinction (NBC News) Ask me whether I care.

Many scientists don’t want to tell the truth about climate change. Here’s why

5 shot at Morgan State University campus in Baltimore (NBC News)

Fatal NYC Stabbing Of Social-Justice Activist Caught On CCTV

The DNC may have a diversity problem (Politico)

Expelling Bowman Over Fire Alarm Incident Could Be Difficult  Of course–he’s not Republican.

Whoopi Claims Criticism of Trump Prosecutors Is a Threat to Lives

Genius: Vacationing Family Poses As Illegal Immigrants To Get Free Hotel Room In New York City (Babylon Bee)

Pelosi says interim House speaker McHenry has ordered her to vacate her office in the Capitol building (CNN) Well, she’s no longer Speaker.

ESG has lost its meaning. One advocate says let’s throw it in the trash (CNN)

Sustainable investing underperforms standard index funds – study (IPE)

Money managers are shifting their attitude to ESG as ‘realism’ sets in, says S&P’s Dan Yergin (CNBC)

Backlash to arriving migrants grows in Latino community as new shelter opens in Pilsen (Chicago Tribune)

As more migrants arrive in Chicago, tensions rise among Democratic leaders (CBS Chicago)

Illinois warned to prepare for up to 25 buses of migrants a day as state pleads for federal help (NBC 5 Chicago)

‘How dare you?’: Chicago residents call out Johnson over proposed migrant housing at fieldhouse (Fox 32 Chicago)

Can RFK Jr Become President As An Independent?

NBC Panics Over Religion in Public Schools (NewsBusters)

Aarg! Homeless Pirates Pillage Leisure Boats In San Francisco Bay

Poland, Austria, & Czechia Introduce Temporary Border-Checks With Slovakia To Curb Illegal Migration

School Districts With DEI Officers See Worse Black, Hispanic Learning Loss and Secretive Transgender Policies

Sweden’s Deadly Gun Violence  Wholly due to letting in hordes of foreign immigrants.

Trans To Be Banned From Female Hospital Wards In UK

Conservative Catholics Outraged, Confused After Pope Francis Letter On ‘Blessing’ Same-Sex Unions

House bipartisan caucus risks collapse after McCarthy ouster (Axios)

Planned Parenthood is Helping Teenagers Transition After a 30 Minute Consult. Parents and Doctors are Sounding the Alarm.

Vance Bill Would Require Actual Gender on U.S. Passports

Struggling with CRT in the workplace

Croatia Sees 140% Jump in Illegal Migration Since Joining Schengen

Soros Network Grows Media Empire Before Key Polish Election

Human knocks down woman in hit-and-run. Then driverless Cruise car parks on top of her

Why Aren’t America’s Students Showing Up?  Perhaps their parents have discovered that government schools suck. (Alliance for the Separation of School and State)

STUDY: PBS NewsHour Gives 90% of Its Time to the Radical Left on LGBT Issues  Not really news, but a useful reminder.

Transgender Swimming Category Canceled At World Cup After Nobody Enters

Italy: Ten Years, Over a Million Illegal Migrants

Leftist MEPs Ridicule Migrant Gang Victims in Parliament

Gretchen Whitmer’s Sister Wants This Defund Police Group To Take Over Local School Boards

Pa. School Passes Birth Gender Restroom Rule

NYC Moves to Suspend ‘Right to Shelter’ for Migrants

Mitchell Gets Triggered When Guest Defends GOP Booting Pelosi From Her Office

RINO Alert: RNC chief on GOP infighting: ‘I don’t know how this helps us beat Joe Biden’  Trump will take care of Joe Biden. You need to worry about the Republican agenda.

Bodega Worker Sues Soros-Funded NY DA After Damning Univision Report

Philly Eatery Hires Armed Security Due to Crime

8 Signs It’s Time For Your Kid To Change Schools (Babylon Bee)

Donald Trump drops from the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans. Here’s what changed. (CBS News)

Trump drops off Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans (Axios)

Donald Trump Falls Off The Forbes List Of Richest Americans For Second Time In 3 Years (Forbes)

Donald Trump Loses $600 Million in One Year to Fall Off Forbes List (Newsweek)

Judge Kicks Reporters Out of Courtroom to Talk to Trump and AG (Daily Beast)

Pence: Trump Attacks on Gen. Milley ‘Utterly Inexcusable’

Trump is no ghost of the past — he’s haunting Ukraine’s present (Politico)

Trump Being Nominated for House Speaker Is Becoming a Real Possibility (Daily Beast) You can’t make this shit up.

Texas Republican will nominate Trump for Speaker of the House (The Hill)

Trump Won’t Rule Out Speakership: ‘I Would Do It’

As McCarthy tumbled toward defeat, Trump did not defend his speakership (Washington Poop) Gee, I wonder why?

Exit stage (far) right: Kevin McCarthy’s nightmare is now America’s ordeal (The Hill)

The Supreme Court’s uncharacteristic moment of sanity (Vox)

Business Report: Consumer financial protection in peril (Hawaii News Now)

Challenge to consumer watchdog gets a frosty reception at the Supreme Court (NBC  News)

How the Supreme Court could move to rein in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (The Hill)

McHenry ordered Pelosi to leave her Capitol hideaway office by Wednesday (Politico)

Payday Lenders Get Their Asses Handed To Them During Anti-CFPB Supreme Court Arguments (Huffington Post)

State Department slams GOP for failing to reauthorize global AIDS program (The Hill)

Leonard Leo says he will not cooperate with D.C. Attorney General tax probe (Politico)

Networks Throw Tantrums Over ‘Hard-Right’ GOP Ousting Kevin McCarthy (NewsBusters)

The Only Sin That Republicans Can’t Forgive (The Atlantic) Scott Adams characterizes The Atlantic as the least reliable publication he knows about.

FBI Says MAGA Sheriff Sold Deputy Badge to Iraqi Fixer (Daily Beast) MAGA is the New Nigger.

The House GOP Is a Failed State (Politico)

The rudderless GOP careens toward 2024 (Politico)

House Is Paralyzed, With No Speaker After McCarthy Ouster (N.Y. Times) They say that like it was a bad thing.

Giuliani’s Drinking, Long a Fraught Subject, Has Trump Prosecutors’ Attention (N.Y. Times) Not to mention that of the witch-hunt media.

Playbook: The House GOP’s fight may have just begun (Politico)

Senate Republicans watch McCarthy ouster with alarm, disbelief (The Hill) Republicans aren’t taking our shit any more! How did that happen?

UPDATE: A case study in unethical journalism (Popular Information) Odd as it may seem, they’re not talking about themselves.

Swiss Writer Sentenced To 60 Days In Jail For Calling Journalist A “Fat Lesbian”

‘He’s about clicks’: Florida Republicans furious at Gaetz (Politico)

Kevin McCarthy is GOP incompetence made flesh (Public Notice) Another prog mushroom of hate

The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon over an Economy-Wide “Hidden Tax”

Libs of TikTok Says Account Was CANCELED by Yet Another Platform

Rep. Hoyer Loses Capitol Hideaway Office

Kevin McCarthy’s embarrassing lesson: MAGA torches everything it touches — and will destroy itself (Salon) MAGA is the New Nigger.

Pelosi Booted From Plush Office After McCarthy Accuses Her of Betrayal

McCarthy ouster exposes the Republican Party’s destructive tendencies (Washington Poop)

Gaetz knocks Speaker pro tem for sending lawmakers home to ‘cry for a week’ (The Hill)

Inside the Menendez Indictment: A Mercedes and a Secretive Fatal Crash (N.Y. Times)

Bob Menendez’s Wife Needed That Mercedes Because She Killed Someone With Her Old Car, Prosecutors Say

Leader of 5th Largest School District in the Nation Signs Pledge From Group Demonizing Moms for Liberty

RNC Threatens To Ban Ramaswamy, Christie From Next GOP Debate For ‘Unsanctioned Dialogue’

Republicans are sick of Matt Gaetz, and they’re not quiet about it (Washington Poop) I don’t look to the WaPoo for accurate information about Republicans.

There Are Tapes: GOP Rep. Has Recording of Kevin McCarthy ‘Belittling’ Him (Daily Beast)

Moderate Republican says he’d vote to remove 8 colleagues from GOP conference who supported McCarthy ouster (The Hill) No wonder the Deep State keeps winning.

Say Goodbye to the COVID-19 Vaccination Card

Moore on the China Virus

“Imagine the people of Portland taking over the whole country and that was Russia after the revolution.” — ZMan

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Though there’s a long history of scandal in the olive oil world, the problem in the U.S. for consumers is less about oil that isn’t made from olives, and more about olive oil that doesn’t meet the quality standards declared on its label. But since most people in the U.S. can’t tell fusty and musty from pungent and fruity, low-quality olive oil masquerading as extra virgin is a hard problem to fix.

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Some of the policies and actions that make the Republic of Turkey different from other nations are not only its proud and aggressive denial of the many crimes it has committed over the decades, but also its physical and verbal attacks—on an international scale—against the descendants of the survivors of those crimes.

These attacks include vandalism against genocide memorials outside of Turkey, diplomatic pressure on governments that recognize the genocide, as well as on those who erect monuments to commemorate the victims and carry out other commemorative activities.

The Turkish nation’s greatest crime is the 1913-1923 genocide committed against Assyrian, Armenian, and Greek Christians in Ottoman Turkey. Approximately 3.5 million Christians were killed in this ‘jihad genocide,’ which targeted them because of their religion and ethnicity in an attempt to create “Turkey for the Turks.”

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A Chinese nuclear submarine crew is believed to be dead after its vessel was ensnared in a trap in the Yellow Sea that was reportedly intended for British sub-surface vessels.

Citing a highly-classified United Kingdom report, the Daily Mail reported that the death of the 55 Chinese sailors was the result of a catastrophic failure of the submarine’s oxygen systems.

“Intelligence reports that on 21st of August there was an onboard accident whilst carrying out a mission in the Yellow Sea,” the U.K. report reads, according to the Mail. “Incident happened at 08.12 local resulting in the death of 55 crew members: 22 officers, 7 officer cadets, 9 petty officers, 17 sailors. Dead include the captain Colonel Xue Yong-Peng.”

BBC.

Nomad Cruise is the first mobile conference for digital nomads. It combines skill-sharing, networking and celebration while travelling through breathtaking corners of the globe. And German-born Voelkner, 40, says it’s achieving his aim.

“Once we arrive at the new destination, many people end up travelling together, and we organize reunions in beautiful destinations to build and foster this community,” he says. Tickets for the company’s upcoming 12th sailing – a 10-day transatlantic crossing from Spain to Brazil in December – start at around €1,000 ($1,073; £860). To date, upwards of 2,500 remote professionals from more than 80 countries have joined Nomad Cruise for work and wanderlust.

Beyond solving a problem, Voelkner is making money. His revenue comes from negotiating deals with cruise companies and adding travel experiences and onboard programming for new and established remote workers. A record 600 participants are expected on the upcoming transatlantic cruise, and his revenue to date nears €2m ($2.13m; £1.72m).

Steve Graham has an Adventure in Modern America.

In the past, you could call the UPS number and yell “AGENT!” over and over until the phone tree wilted and gave you a person. Now you go to the site, get a bunch of prompts that don’t apply to your situation, and then receive instructions to get lost. If you call and yell “AGENT!”, the system tells you you can’t have one, and it hangs up.

None of the web prompts matched my problem, and that was deliberate on the part of UPS. I had a driver who would not put boxes where they were supposed to be, and probably three million people had the same problem today, so obviously, they do not want people with poorly-placed boxes calling them. They would be inundated.

You can’t just go to the local UPS hub and ask for help, because they will shoot you when you try to scale the fence. UPS doesn’t like riff raff any more than I do. Okay, perhaps they won’t shoot you, but you can’t complain in person. That’s my point.

I tried to use the site in spite of the lack of relevant options. I picked a prompt which was not very appropriate, figuring some human being might read it and decide to do something even though I had responded to the wrong prompt. Unbelievably, UPS contacted me. A guy named Bill at the local hub seemed to be very upset that my boxes were being rained on, and I think he really tried to help.

He thought I hadn’t entered my code on their site. I told him I had. He said he couldn’t see it, and that meant his drivers couldn’t see it. He was convinced this was the issue. He gave me a number for UPS tech support.

I called and got one of the Indian guys.

New COVID vaccine push is ‘anti-human,’ says Florida surgeon general: ‘Major safety concern’ (Fox News)

5 Things Doctors Never, Ever Do During Cold And Flu Season (Huffington Post)

Nobel Prize Awarded to Covid Vaccine Pioneers (N.Y. Times)

Absurd, attention-seeking Matt Gaetz is the GOP’s John Fetterman (N.Y. Post) And Rich Lowry punches right.

Two right-wing judges seem to be trying to rig a US House race (Vox)

Gerrymandering: Will the Court Permit Discrimination for Partisan Gain? (The Nation)

GOP dudes are big mad at Taylor Swift for reminding them that the ladies don’t like them (Salon) I doubt that Taylor Swift’s preferences are truly representative.

Neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes Just Can’t Stay Away From Twitter/X (Daily Beast) Any more than the Daily Beast can stay away from the Gossip Girls table.

Georgia Trump indictment: First defendant who took plea deal wants ‘nightmare’ over (Fox News)

Nobel Prize winner for mRNA vaccines discusses being demoted by UPenn (The Hill)

As Volunteers Blast City’s Gardaworld Contract, City Leaders Blast Lack Of State Support For Migrants (Block Club Chicago)

The anti-abortion pill judge is back — with an alarming new target (MSNBC)

The Next Targets for the Group That Overturned Roe (The New Yorker)

WATCH: ‘Welcoming’ NY Governor Hits Republicans From Right, Calls To Quadruple Border Patrol

Putin’s Pals Brag: Elon Musk ‘Really Is Our Agent!’ (Daily Beast)

Montana GOP Rep. Prayed for Smaller Republican Majority After 2022 Midterms (The Messenger)

My Fellow Republicans: It’s Time to Grow Up (N.Y. Times) The Times must have a closetful of these RINOs ready to trot out when convenient.

NY Times SCOTUS Scare Tactics: ‘How Far to the Right Will the Supreme Court Go?’

No Labels makes its choice (Popular Information)

‘Fact Checkers’ Discredit Themselves In Service to Transgender ‘Stigma’ Reduction

Mexico Blames US’s Cuba Policy for 10,000 Migrants a Day to Border

The Fight Against France’s Homeschooling Ban Goes to the UN

How Red-State Politics Are Shaving Years Off American Lives (Washington Poop)

Banks behind 70% jump in greenwashing incidents in 2023 -report (Reuters)

Energy company ‘doubling down on costly, dirty coal’ to power massive EV battery plant (Fox News)

EV battery factory will require so much energy it needs a coal plant to power it (WDBO Orland0)

Massive EV Battery Factory May Have To Rely On Coal Plant For It To Function (Daily Caller)

If you’re saying no to war, you have to say no to oil (EuroNews)

Cream and sugar with your concrete? Australians add coffee to cement. (Washington Poop)

Emergency bulkhead being installed in North Wildwood due to severe beach erosion (ABC)

Facing increasing pressure from customers, some miners are switching to renewable energy (Associated Press)

Climate change could impose ‘substantial financial costs’ on U.S. household finances, Treasury warns (CNBC)

As the ‘water tower of Asia’ dries out, villagers learn to recharge their springs (NPR)

I-Team: EPA warned Baltimore officials about water parasite risk in May (WBAL TV)

Texas drought has deepened amid this year’s brutal heat (Texas Narrative Tribune)

The Dangerous Delusion of a Global Transition To “Just Electricity”

Marc Morano on Climate Change Radicalism: ‘This Is Our World If We Allow It’

The ‘Green’ Future of Furniture Is a Sofa Stuffed With Seaweed (Wired ‘Science’)

As EV sales surge and cars get heavier, parking garages will have to change

Apple’s carbon-neutral product claims called a ‘climate-wash’

Exclusive: John Kelly goes on the record to confirm several disturbing stories about Trump (CNN)

John Kelly confirms Trump’s ‘suckers’ remark about war dead (The Hill)

Trump says he would prefer to die by electrocution in bizarre campaign rant (The Guardian)

Trump fundraises off fraud trial: ‘Nothing can break me’ (The Hill)

Real Estate Experts in Florida Say Valuation of Mar-a-Lago Cited by Judge in Civil Case Is Based on a Misunderstanding of Basic Real Estate Practice (N.Y. Sun) My, what a surprise.

Sidney Powell Paid For Georgia Election Machine Examination Upon ‘Threat’, Her Lawyer Says

John Bolton: It’s ‘entirely possible’ Trump wants his supporters to kill Mark Milley (Raw Story)

Trump ramps up violent rhetoric (NBC News)

How Trump Turned an Oval Office Fantasy Into G.O.P. Doctrine (N.Y. Times)

‘I Almost Crossed The Picket Line,’ Late Night Hosts Celebrate Trump Indictments

Beer-Can Bearing Trump’s Mug-Shot Hits Major Milestone: CEO

Why MAGA Wants to Betray Ukraine (N.Y. Times) Paul Krugman illustrates that MAGA is the New Nigger.

Trump and the New York show trial

Prosecutors Probe Trump’s Efforts to Steal Arizona’s Election — Years After He Lost

Fulton prosecutors float plea deals to Trump defendants (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) “Nice life you got there. Be a shame if anything were to happen to it…”

Civil rights leader criticizes ‘divisive protests,’ ‘rioting’ in the name of social justice (Fox News)

Capitol Police deliver new update on Bowman fire alarm incident (The Hill)

Dem Rep Jamaal Bowman’s Office: Yes, He Pulled Capitol Fire Alarm, But Republicans Are Nazis

Bowman disavows talking points attacking ‘Nazi members’ of GOP in office’s fire alarm messaging guidance (Fox News)

‘I Am Embarrassed To Admit That I Activated The Fire Alarm,’ Bowman

Rep. Jamaal Bowman pulled a fire alarm in Congress. Should he face jail time? (Fox News)

Did This ‘Squad’ Member Really Think There Would Be No Consequences to Pulling an Alarm as Congress Voted? Well, yes.

Capitol Police Corroborate Part of Rep. Bowman’s Story

Rep. Bowman Backtracks on Memo Calling Republicans Nazis

Nets Gush Over ‘Historic’ New CA Senator, Ignore Key Details

Laphonza Butler Once Backed Abolishing Bail in Calif.

ABC & NBC Drop Bowman Fire Alarm Coverage, CBS Runs Excuses

Fmr Detroit Police Chief Craig Joins Michigan Senate Race

What to Know About Laphonza Butler, Newsom’s Appointee to the Senate (N.Y. Times) Laying down the Narrative so you all will know what to think.

The Atlantic Monthly Is All Over World War Hair, by Steve Sailer

Rep. Bowman Explains

Howard Men

The lonesome death of Tyesha Edwards

The compleat Democrat

Nigeria: 8 killed on independence day in latest round of Plateau attacks

Media Desperately Try To Spin Rep Bowman’s Fire Alarm Stunt

DNC Officials Warn Delegates Could Be Too White

Newsom’s Diversity Pick for Senate Could Backfire, Create Awkward Showdown Between Two Black Female Dems

Justin Jones alleges Tennessee House Speaker violated Constitution with ‘disparate racial treatment’ (The Hill)

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It’s a stiff competition. Democratic Party prosecutors who have brought frivolous charges against Donald Trump are certainly in the mix. Nevertheless, I would award that title to Mary Moriarty, the County Attorney for Hennepin County, Minnesota. Hennepin is the state’s most populous county, and it includes Minneapolis along with a number of other high-crime towns. Nevertheless, Moriarty ran for office on a platform of not prosecuting criminals, and she is the rare politician who has kept her campaign promises.

The situation is so bad that it is now drawing national (the New York Post) and even international (the Daily Mail) attention. The Post headlines: “Fury as Minneapolis’ ‘woke’ DA Mary Moriarty allows accused rapists and killers to stay free.” The Daily Mail headlines: “Is this America’s wokest DA? Democrat Minneapolis prosecutor sparks fury by giving probation to murderers, pedophile and killer drug dealer, with even Soros-backed Minnesota AG blasting her.”

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We’ve had many meetings with NAR execs to explore compromises on the policies that would let us continue our support. Since a Redfin-wide initiative to join NAR in 2017, we’ve paid more than $13 million in dues, in an effort to influence NAR to advocate for an open, technology-driven marketplace that would benefit consumers. We’ll now explore other ways to advance those goals.

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In the many marketplaces governed by its policies, NAR still blocks sellers from listing homes that don’t pay a commission to the buyer’s agent, and it blocks websites like Redfin.com from showing for-sale-by-owner listings alongside agent-listed homes. Removing these blocks would be easy, and it would make our industry more consumer-friendly and competitive.

‘Professional associations’, no matter what they claim, are all about protecting the financial interest of existing members rather than anything having to do with either the ‘profession’ or their customers.

OffGuardian.

Here’s a story destined for urgent dispatch down the Memory Hole. In fact, if you listen closely, you can already hear it being sucked down through the ducts of the GloboCap Ministry of Truth toward the enormous mnemonic incinerator where all official “unstories” go to die.

Yesterday, it was an embarrassment. Tomorrow, it will no longer be of interest. By next week, it will have never happened.

So, let’s review it before that happens … and perhaps try to understand why it happened.

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Junpeng Mi and his colleagues working at Donghua University, China, used CRISPR gene-editing technology to recode the silk-creating properties of a silkworm. First, they took genes from Araneus ventricosus, an East Asian orb-weaving spider known for its strong silk. Then they placed these complex genes – genes that involve more than 100 amino acids – into silkworm egg cells. (This description fails to capture how time-consuming, technical, and laborious this was; it’s a procedure that requires hundreds of thousands of microinjections.)

This had all been done before, and this had failed before. Where Mi and his team succeeded was using a concept called “localization.” Localization involves narrowing in on a very specific location in a genome. For this experiment, the team from Donghua University developed a “minimal basic structure model” of silkworm silk, which guided the genetic modifications. They wanted to make sure they had the exactly right transgenic spider silk proteins. Mi said that combining localization with this basic structure model “represents a significant departure from previous research.” And, judging only from the results, he might be right. They successfully synthesized “fibers exhibited impressive tensile strength (1,299 MPa) and toughness (319 MJ/m3), surpassing Kevlar’s toughness 6-fold.”

Washington Free Beacon.

What happened: AnaYelsi Velasco-Sanchez, a radical left-wing IndoLatinx artist whose work focuses on “justice” and “liberation,” was living the dream at her first solo exhibition in Washington, D.C., until a thief ran off with two of her paintings.

“I feel violated, and I’m grieving the lost art, but mostly I’m feeling shocked at the boldness and thoughtlessness of entering a community space, and stealing art that is all about justice and liberation,” Velasco-Sanchez wrote in an Instagram post announcing the theft.

One of the stolen paintings, valued at $200 each, was titled Bountiful: The Land of Thoughts and Prayers. It dealt with “gun violence and state sanctioned violence in the United States,” the artist said on TikTok, a Chinese spyware app and social media platform.

And oh, was it ever ugly….

ScienceAlert.

The animal footprint carvings you can find in the Doro Nawas Mountains of western Namibia are quite something: the artists have captured the tracks so accurately, they can reveal plenty of useful information about the animals they represent.

A team from the Heinrich Barth Institute and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany, and the Nyae Nyae Conservancy in Namibia, worked with Indigenous tracking experts from the Kalahari region to look at a total of 513 carvings.

For more than 90 percent of them, Indigenous experts could identify the species, sex, age group, and even which leg the carving was from. It’s like a wildlife compendium, written in rock.

White House prohibiting official travel to fossil fuel conferences, internal memo shows (Fox News)

Climate solutions are necessary. So we’re dedicating a week to highlighting them (NPR)

Greenpeace Canada Co-Founder Admits “We Are Not In A Climate Crisis”

Europe Launches a Carbon Tax Attack Against the US Economy

The Shadowy Global Network Vilifying Climate Protesters

The BBC Seminar That Banned Discussion Of Climate Change

Africa is 50% hotter than the rest of the world. How farmers are combating rising temperatures

Are Small Nuclear Reactors The Answer To Big-Tech’s Energy Crisis?

AG Garland: I’d Resign If Biden Asked for Action on Trump  Of course Biden doesn’t need to ask,  Garland will do it on his own initiative.

Federal Prosecutors Push For Gag Order Against Trump After His Recent Remarks Freedom of speech is not a Democrat value.

As His Fraud Trial Begins, Trump Looks to Capitalize on It (N.Y. Times)

Bankman-Fried Explored Paying Trump $5B Not to Run

Supreme Court Rejects Long Shot’s Bid to Disqualify Trump in ’24

Trump: ‘The Crime Is Against Me,’ ‘No Crime,’ ‘No Victim Here’ Except Me  Quite agree.

House GOP Members Look to Expel Gaetz as He Schemes to Oust McCarthy: Report (Daily Beast)

Rep. Matt Gaetz threatens to trigger vote to remove Kevin McCarthy as speaker (NBC News)

Pelosi weighs in on Gaetz’s plan to oust McCarthy (CNN)

EXPLAINER | How hardline US House Republicans could strip Kevin McCarthy of speakership (News 24)

Dems Marshal Strategy on Potential McCarthy Ouster (NewsMax)

PBS NewsHour Runs Down GOP Candidates on ‘Slavery’ Curriculum, Transgender Kids

‘Red Caesarism’ is rightwing code – and some Republicans are listening (The Guardian) You gotta love all this ‘rightwing code’ that proglodyte ‘journalists’ seem to have no trouble reading.

Kevin McCarthy Shows How CBS Host Margaret Brennan Acts Like a Hostile Democrat Debater

Abortion Bans by Any Other Name Are Still Abortion Bans (N.Y. Times)

North Carolina Republicans create “secret police force” (Popular Information) Yet another proglodyte mushroom of hate.

Musk’s first year as Twitter’s Dear Leader is nigh

Musk Under Fire After Posting Mocking Zelenskyy Meme  Free speech is not a proglodyte value.

Anti-Trump Republicans Won’t Save Democracy. Can Anybody? (New York Magazine) In the Narrative media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Online Censorship: Canada Continues Crackdown

The New Push for Censorship Under the Guise of Combating Hate

COVID vaccine poll finds more than half of adults are likely to say ‘no thanks’ to the vax (Fox News)

Why Did People Comply?

Why It’s Too Soon to Call It Covid Season (Wired ‘Science’)

He, She, They: The Pronoun Debate Will Likely Land at the Supreme Court (Politico)

Horrific moment store clerk in crime-ridden Bay Area is set on FIRE with stolen lighter fluid by serial shoplifter, leaving him suffering from second and third-degree burns (UK Daily Mail)

Canada To Create Registry Of Podcasters In Potential Censorship Initiative 

For Some, Open Border Chaos Is The Goal

German Mayor Call Concerns Over Child Safety “Unfounded” Amid Plans To Accomodate 80 Asylum-Seekers At A Primary School

Pope Francis Claims No Migrant Emergency In Europe – Suggests ‘Individualism’ Is The Problem

Meet the Violent Criminals Roaming the Illinois Streets Thanks to State’s Cash Bail Ban

Playbook: A new senator, and a new showdown (Politico)

The EU Is Ruining European Agriculture

Newsom Fills Feinstein’s Empty Senate Seat With Wealthy Black Lesbian From Maryland

Stop Arguing Over Elite Schools. Just Make Public Colleges Free. (The Nation) Progs are just full of solutions that require other people to pay for their stuff.

Sweden: Gangs Start Health Care Clinics To Commit Welfare Fraud

Who Is Laphonza Butler? Abortion Strategist, Clinton Adviser, Labor Union Boss Replacing Feinstein

Is Dark Money ‘Anti-Hate’ Group CCDH Run By An Intelligence Operative?

Newsom’s appointment confirms that abortion is the heart of the Democratic Party

Gavin Newsom Throws Dart At Board Covered In Black Lesbians To Select Next Senator (Babylon Bee)

Newsom picks Laphonza Butler as Feinstein replacement (Politico) Not the black woman he was being leaned on to appoint, but a black woman nevertheless.

Newsom names Laphonza Butler, former Kamala Harris adviser, to fill Feinstein’s vacant Senate seat (Fox News)

California Gov. Newsom will appoint Laphonza Butler to fill Feinstein’s Senate seat (CNN)

Michigan Teen Who Clocked Teacher In Head With Metal Chair Arrested On Felony Assault Charges

Court Blocks Grant Program for Black Women Entrepreneurs

Gov. Newsom Picks Top Abortion Activist to Sen. Feinstein’s Seat

Intersectionality Wins Again, by Steve Sailer

Nets Play Defense for Far-Left Bowman, Accept His Excuse for Pulling Fire Alarm

Whoopi, Hostin Suggest GOP Plot Behind Why Bowman Pulled Fire Alarm

Bowman camp slams ‘Nazi’ Republicans after fire alarm flap (Politico)

Jamall Bowman: pulling the fire alarm and then pulling our legs?

20th Busload Of Illegal Immigrants Arrives In Downtown Los Angeles

Biden Policies Driving Anti-Taliban Forces Toward Russia, Iran

The Military DEI Circus Continues Merrily Onward

Meet Joe Biden’s Newest Campaign Surrogates: The Republicans Who Hate Him (The Messenger)

“Renewed Upward Pressure On Inflation” – US Manufacturing Surveys Signal Stagflation

‘SOFT LANDING’? Bloomberg News Admits ‘US Recession Is Still Likely’ and ‘Coming Soon’

Big Government Created This Economic Mess. Why Would We Think It Could Fix It?

Chief of Staff of Pentagon Counterterrorism Office Served Iranian Gov.

WATCH: Biden Freezes During Comments on Shutdown

VP Harris Allies Hope Gun Assignment Will Reset Image  Her imae as a gun-grabber?

Biden Admin Twists the Law to Force Abortion Policies on Employers. Here’s How You Can Fight Back.

Turley: Four Biden Impeachment Articles & What The House Will Need To Prove

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Sayyed Issa Tabatabai’s comments marked the first public acknowledgment of Iran’s involvement in the bombings: at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut in April 1983, in which 63 people, including 17 Americans, were killed; and the barracks of American and French members of the Multinational Force in October 1983, in which 242 U.S. Marines and 58 French troops were killed.

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) first located and translated the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) interview with Tabatabai, who represents Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Lebanon.

MEMRI reported that the part of the interview in which Tabatabai acknowledged receiving then-Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s fatwa ordering attacks on American and Israeli targets in Lebanon was removed by IRNA from its website shortly after publication.

My, what a surprise.

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

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It took firms decades to adjust to electricity by redesigning factories, products, and workflows to take full advantage of the new possibilities. Similarly, the benefits of work from home start to come most profoundly when expensive offices can be shrunk, employers can draw from a much larger pool of workers and workers can adjust when and where they work, including the location of their homes. It’s not surprising, therefore, that with little time for either the workers or the firms to adjust and with few options to choose how much to work from home, productivity fell when COVID sent workers home. But, with more time to plan and more options for hybrid but extensive work (e.g. work from home Mondays and Fridays), work from home has large benefits. We are also seeing management redesign to take advantage of work from home in the same way we saw factory redesign to take advantage of electricity. Management, for example, is shifting from input metrics–do you show up?–to output metrics–did the work get done? Designing and validating new metrics takes time, but these changes are helping to increase the benefits of work from home.

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It has become painfully clear in recent decades that, more and more, the major stumbling block in weapon acquisition programs is software, rather than hardware.

The F-35, for example, has failed on the software side of things rather than the hardware. The all-encompassing, mission planning, parts inventory controlling, maintenance regulating, aircraft health assessing ALIS software has been a colossal, and to date, unrecoverable, failure. Further, the F-35 was planned to be fully combat capable only with the advent of the Block 4 software upgrade which is now hopelessly behind schedule and has had many of its planned features deleted or deferred to some undetermined future time.