Voters are worried about Biden’s age. He knows it. (Politico)

Sullivan: White House Wants to Resume Military Ties With China

Saving Private Biden+

Joe Biden wants to complete his goals on civil rights, taxes, and social services if he’s reelected (Associated Press) Look, the sock puppet talks!

Another Government Agency Secretly Plans to Follow Biden’s Election Executive Order

The House ‘Concentrates The Mind’ Of Hunter Biden With A Game-Changing Subpoena

Defying Democratic pushback, Dean Phillips vows to invest millions in his primary challenge to Biden

Jonathan Martin: ‘Imperative’ Biden Talk 3rd Party Candidates Out of Running, ‘Stop Trump’

Thousands Already Lined Up For Black Friday After Grocery Store Offers Prices From When Trump Was President (Babylon Bee)

Feds zero in on texts suggesting Adams fast-tracked Turkish diplomatic headquarters

‘I have nothing to hide’: New York City mayor’s phones seized by FBI (CNN)

FBI agents seized Mayor Adams’ electronics days after searching campaign fundraiser’s home (CBS New York)

FBI seized phones, iPad from NYC Mayor in an escalation of fundraising investigation (WGRZ)

Voting group founded by Abrams, once led by Warnock, faces financial scrutiny (Politico)

Progressive Minnesota US Rep. Ilhan Omar Draws Prominent Primary Challenger

F.B.I. Examining Whether Adams Cleared Red Tape for Turkish Government (N.Y. Times) Wander off of the Democrat plantation, they’ll send the Feds to round you up.

FBI Probes Adams’ Texts for Potential Pay-for-Play Scheme

Stacey Abrams, Sen. Warnock-Tied Non-profit Under Scrutiny

Mayor Adams: DOJ Political Hit?

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

All things considered, Peggy Noonan must be the worst columnist in the United States. That is a rash judgment, I concede. She certainly has a lot of competition over at the New York Times. For the combination of fatuity and self-love, however, she must be in a class by herself.

Peggy Noonan has become a great disappointment.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

In 2002, I discovered a 1927 lecture by Bertrand Russell entitled “Why I am Not a Christian”. It did not cross my mind, as I read it, that one day, nearly a century after he delivered it to the South London branch of the National Secular Society, I would be compelled to write an essay with precisely the opposite title.

The year before, I had publicly condemned the terrorist attacks of the 19 men who had hijacked passenger jets and crashed them into the twin towers in New York. They had done it in the name of my religion, Islam. I was a Muslim then, although not a practising one. If I truly condemned their actions, then where did that leave me? The underlying principle that justified the attacks was religious, after all: the idea of Jihad or Holy War against the infidels. Was it possible for me, as for many members of the Muslim community, simply to distance myself from the action and its horrific results?

Gates of Vienna.

Pakistanis are currently crossing the southern border of the USA, along with innumerable additional “refugees” from China, Nigeria, Yemen, Bangladesh, and other wonderful multicultural paradises. Interestingly enough, Spain is also seeing a culture-enriching influx of Pakis. Must be something in the air…

WaPo’s Shipley Hand-Selected Hamas Cartoon He Pulled Amid Woke Blowback, Cartoonist Ramirez Says

Peter Thiel Is Taking A Break From Democracy (The Atlantic) George Soros, who isn’t mentioned, is of course actively trying to destroy it.

In very rare move, Pope dismisses conservative US bishop Strickland (Reuters)

Ohio Republicans Say It’s Their ‘God Given Right’ to Restrict Abortion Access (Rolling Stone)

Inside Mike Johnson’s Ties to a Far-Right Movement to Gut the Constitution (Politico)

CENSORTRACK: Five Worst Times Big Tech Silenced Veteran Voices on Their Platforms

Ramaswamy now selling merch after Haley’s ‘scum’ comments (The Hill)

“Malpractice”: Ramaswamy Denies Claim By RNC Chair McDaniel That He Voted For Obama

Sen. Blackburn Seeks Epstein Flight Logs to Identify Perps  Epstein cooties are even more powerful than Trump cooties.

Teacher Fired for Using Gender-Neutral Honorific Title

Stelter Returns To CNN To Attack Fox, The ‘Beating Heart of the GOP’

Bill Maher and Ted Cruz Stage Unexpected Mutual Love Fest (Daily Beast)

Taibbi: According To Pundits, “Ignorance” Makes Americans Give “Wrong” Answers To Economic Confidence Poll+

Pastor Indicted With Trump in Georgia Asks Evangelical Supporters for Help (N.Y Times)

Good Samaritan Arrested After Stopping NYC Subway Assault By Firing Warning Shots

Trump Swing-State Lead Expected To Hold Until 3 A.M. On Election Night (Babylon Bee)

Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump’s 2025 Immigration Plans (N.Y. Times) Democrats plan the same thing, except for white people.

Trump’s D.C. Trial Strategy: Do Everything to Delay Until After 2024 Election (The Messenger) Amazing how many people on the Left are convinced that they know what Trump plans to do. I wonder where they got that information–and whether they washed their hands afterwards.

Still Living Rent-Free in Their Heads

Stephen Miller: Trump will implement ‘spectacular migration crackdown’ (The Hill) God, I hope so.

‘Church Shouldn’t Be Political,’ Says Pastor With BLM, Pride Flags On Building (Babylon Bee)

“Have You Lost Count Yet Of The Number Of Things In Our Country That Are Broken?”

Alarmed by Off-Year Losses, Mainstream Republicans Balk at Abortion Curbs (N.Y. Times) Principle is all very well, but we can’t let it cost us power and money.

Gun Owners Score Major Legal Victories On Pistol Braces and Ghost Guns 

Regulating crypto might end it. And that’s just fine. (Washington Poop) After all, something that can’t be tracked and controlled by the government (that is, the Democrat Crust) can’t really be of any benefit. (Russia’s Finance Ministry Says (Again) That The Digital Ruble Will Replace Cash)

Bay Area Counseling Service Hosts Meet-Ups for Adults and Minors To Discuss Gender and Sexuality  At taxpayer expensed, natch.

Businesses Fleeing Crime-Ridden ‘Blue’ D.C.

Not Married, No Kids: The Rise Of China’s ‘Single’ Culture  Sounds like what the Wokerati have in mind for the U.S.

‘Facts Matter,’ Cruz Battles Maher on Left’s History of Election Denialism

Steve Fast: How Did Ronna McDaniel Become RNC Chair?

San Francisco Clears Homeless And Cleans Sh*t-Covered Streets For World Leaders Next Week  So: They can do it, they just don’t want to.

Adam Carolla: Gavin Newsom Is a ‘Sociopathic, Tyrannical Dictator’

Germany approves global minimum corporate tax  Corporations do not pay taxes. Their customers pay the taxes; corporations merely collect the taxes. Governments like ‘corporate taxes’ because it allows them to tax their people twice (or more) while pretending that they are Socking It To The Rich. Don’t be deceived.

Ruth Marcus and the Alarmed, Oblivious Washington Post

Bill Maher’s Pissed Off At ‘Progressive’ Pandering Using “Victims Or Victimizers” Reductivism

Only 15% of Californians can afford a home, new data shows

Moody’s cuts U.S. outlook to negative, citing deficits and political polarization (CNBC)

The House is most definitely not in order (Washington Poop) Dana Milbank loses his shit.

The Censorship “Switchboard”: A New Layer To The Biden Administration’s “Orwellian Ministry Of Truth”

White House tried, and failed, to persuade Manchin to make another Senate run

Taibbi: Big Brother Is Flagging You

Beto O’Rourke: Biden ‘Failing Us’ on Immigration  Hey, Joe, if you’ve lost Beto….

ATF Director Says Assault Weapons Ban Now On His “Wish List”

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 68)

How Joe Biden Got Paid

Bump Stock Case Could Nullify Other Biden Admin Gun Control Rules

Borrowers Got $127B in Student Loans Canceled  And taxpayers take it in the shorts.

Revelations From Special Counsel David Weiss’ Testimony On Hunter Biden Investigation

El Niño is now ‘strong’ but acting strange. What that means. (Washington P00p)

Climate change is pushing American farmers to confront what’s next (Washington Poop)

A new COVID variant, HV.1, is now dominant. These are its most common symptoms (TODAY)

FBI Seized NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ Phones, iPad

Washington Post: College Presidents Shouldn’t Have Issued Proclamations About George Floyd

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The two decades of IRA (Islamic Republic of Afghanistan) rule were made possible by $2.3 trillion dollars of American aid. Some of this money also went t0 Pakistan, which turned out to be a mistake. In 2019 Pakistan admitted that for the last fifteen years it had lied about the presence of over 30,000 armed men in Pakistan and Kashmir working for 40 Islamic terror groups. That deception was one of the reasons the U.S. cut off all aid to Pakistan. In addition to halting cash assistance of Afghanistan, the United States pulled the last of its troops in late 2021 and the U.S. backed IRA government collapsed, replaced by the IEA. If the IEA does allow groups based in Afghanistan to make attacks on the United States or American in other countries, the response will be sanctions and air strikes on Afghanistan. Untrustworthy Afghan governments are nothing new, and it is a tradition that is several centuries old. Outsiders are considered fair game for all manner of deceptions and costly mistakes while trying to do business in Afghanistan. The Americans proved to be the most lucrative victim and, after 20 years of persistent corruption, decided the situation was not going to change and left. The U.S. still supplies support for Afghanistan through its donations of UN food programs for Afghanistan.

The Spectator.

Since Sisi came to power in 2014, his government has not allowed demonstrations. He is determined to avoid public disturbances after they led to the overthrow of Mubarak in 2011. He is assiduous, too, in rooting out the Muslim Brotherhood, his deadly enemy. It ruled before him, planned assassinations in Egypt, and has links with Hamas. Consequently, he vehemently opposes the prospect of Palestinians escaping Gaza through the Rafah crossing because he sees it as a way for Hamas to infiltrate Egypt. He has strong public support for resisting Israeli suggestions that settlement in Sinai is a solution to the Palestinian problem. Nonetheless, Sisi wants to show sympathy for the Palestinians. Egyptian television and social media are dominated by images of destruction in northern Gaza and the impossibility of escape to the south. Footage of bombed hospitals and injured children is widely watched. Sisi has invited Egyptians to express their outrage at the situation, preventing otherwise pent-up emotions from spreading into greater discontent.

The American Mind.

On January 6, 2021, former Proud Boys’ Chairman Enrique Tarrio didn’t punch any Capitol police officers, he never “surged” forward to overwhelm Capitol defenses, he never smashed any Capitol windows or destroyed any Capitol fences, he never threw anything at Capitol police, and he never set foot in the Capitol. He never did any of those things because on January 6, 2021, Enrique Tarrio was in Baltimore, Maryland.

You might be surprised to learn this crucial fact considering that the Justice Department indicted Tarrio and several co-conspirators for seditious conspiracy, among other charges, claiming they “very nearly succeeded in provoking a constitutional crisis.” Two years later, following a four-month trial, a Washington D.C. jury convicted Tarrio and the Proud Boys of most of the counts. In August 2023, DOJ argued that Tarrio should be imprisoned for 33 years; the court sentenced him to only 22.

ThoughtCrime is apparently independent of location, or even action.

N.Y. Times.

Sarah Camino had been in a relationship for two years when she found out she was pregnant. The father, whom she met while they were both working at a restaurant in Times Square, was initially excited. But he had been using drugs lately, and had been fired from his last four jobs; when she ventured that she was scared she might wind up raising the child alone, he got defensive and walked out. She and her daughter now live in Florida with her parents, and he is not a part of their lives.

Sounds as if they’re better off for it.

Ms. Camino, a beautician and hospitality worker, checks all the boxes of the demographic that has been targeted for advice in recent months by an array of columnists and authors, who have argued for the promotion and prioritizing of marriage, sometimes for the sake of overall happiness, but more often for the sake of children’s well-being.

With the results as you see them.

She’s a 37-year-old single mother without a college degree. She cares deeply about her child’s happiness and about providing her with a good future.

But not enough, apparently, to get married first.

When I asked what she made of the advice to get married, though, she was skeptical. “I don’t think things are perfect like that,” she told me. She had planned to stay with the father, but that’s not how it happened. “I didn’t think he was gonna leave me like this,” she said.

Better yet, ask men whether they would want to marry a Modern Woman. I certainly wouldn’t.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

— John McCrae

This is one of the many poems I memorized in my younger days. Back when this was still America, children were encouraged to read (and memorize) significant poetry (“The Highwayman”, “The Raven”, “Ulysses”, “Recessional”, etc.). Worrying about pronouns and ‘climate change’ doesn’t leave a lot of bandwidth for anything else, unfortunately.

Read it.

For most normal businesses or organizations, an employee expressing support for Adolf Hitler is a clear red line with no second chance. Not, however, for the New York Times, which has rehired a freelancer previously exposed by HonestReporting for his pro-Hitler, pro-terrorist social media posts.

In 2022, HonestReporting’s investigative work exposed several journalists covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as being virulent and unapologetic antisemites. As a result of our reporting, several mainstream media outlets decided to cut ties with them.

This included freelance filmmaker Soliman Hijjy (also spelled Sulaiman Hejji) who we uncovered as having praised Adolf Hitler on Facebook in 2012. “How great you are, Hitler,” Hijjy wrote on the social media site, sharing a meme featuring the Nazi mass murderer. Six years later, he doubled down: in a caption accompanying a picture of himself, Hijjy stated he was “in a state of harmony as Hitler was during the Holocaust.”

Read it.

We have the technology.

Glamour Magazine Names Transgender Model Among ‘Women of Year,’ Drawing Online Ridicule

Tuberville’s Effort to End Pentagon Abortion Policy Backed by Veterans on Heritage Foundation National Security Team

Oregon Trains Teachers to Promote ‘Equitable Math,’ Dismantle ‘Systemic Inequities’ in the Classroom

“Younger Voters Have Turned Against The Governor”: Berkeley Poll Reveals Record Number Of Californians Disapprove Of Newsom

ABC News FREAKS OUT Over Potential Manchin ‘No Labels’ POTUS Run

American Elections Are About Abortion Now (N.Y. Times) Certainly if Democrats have anything to say about it.

Speaker Mike Johnson to NYC: Dump ‘sanctuary’ policies to get migrant money (N.Y. Post) How about no money and don’t care about ‘sanctuary city’ policies–let them stew in their own proglodyte juice.

ECB Finally Admits Its “Temporary” Asset Purchases Are Really Permanent

Kimmel Hires Drag Queen To Speculate About Cruz’s Nipples To Children

Former Rep. Adam Kinszinger Says He Would Back Christie Over Other Republican White House Hopefuls  (The Messenger) RINOs of a feather flock together.

Princeton Professor Calls Sex with Animals “Thought-Provoking”

Trans Anomaly: Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto Suggests an Inconvenient Aspect of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

TikToker Teaches ‘How To Practice Abortion as a Magical Ritual’

Brian Stelter Plugs Fox-Frying Book on MSNBC, No Talk of CNN’s Kisses from Hamas

DC Restaurant Chain Shuts Down Over Surge in Violent Crime, Costs

Miss Universe Owner Files for Bankruptcy After Accepting Transgender Contestants

2.9 Million Borrowers Pay Nothing In Biden’s ‘Most Generous Ever’ Student Loan Repayment Plan Buy those votes! Buy those votes!

Senate Hearing Shows—Again—Why Mayorkas Should Be Impeached

DOJ: Constitution Protects Right to Travel for Abortion

Gov. Kemp Extends Gas Tax Suspension Over Bidenomics

New FBI Headquarters Headed To Maryland In Blow To Virginia Officials

Under new speaker, some Republicans hope impeachment inquiry will step carefully (Washington Poop)

Biden faces expanding list of potential challengers in reelection bid (Washington Poop)

Special Counsel Sought OK to Prosecute Hunter in 2022  Cover-up? What cover-up?

Federal appeals court calls Biden’s ‘ghost gun’ limits unlawful (NBC News)

Hunter Biden Lied To CPA, Then Scrambled To Clean Up Tax Mess During 2020 Presidential Race

Former Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby found guilty on 2 counts of perjury (N.Y. Post)

Even this Supreme Court knows it shot itself in the foot with a disastrous decision (MSNBC)

Bannon Appeals Contempt Conviction at Hearing

Running On Censorship: A California Candidate Seeks To Ride The Anti-Free Speech Wave

FEC Commissioner Calls Out Her GOP Colleagues in Brutal 5-Sentence Takedown (Daily Beast) Let’s see … nope, no mention of the Biden Crime Family….

MTG Is Trashing Lauren Boebert as a ‘Whore’ to GOP Colleagues (Daily Beast) Pretty rich, the Daily Beast complaining about somebody else’s ‘high school’ behavior. Mote, meet beam.

Taibbi: The Tragic Victimhood Of “Disinformation Experts”

Georgia Man Arrested for Threatening to Kill Rep. Greene

Dr. Robert Malone Reveals How The Government Tore His Reputation Apart, “Piece By Piece”

Justice Barrett gets standing ovation at Federalist Society gala (Washington Poop)

Lefties Trash NBC News for Hosting a Debate with Media ‘Extremists’

McCarthy Predicts Nancy Mace’s Downfall After She Voted Him Out (Daily Beast)

House GOP’s Dysfunction Inches Government Toward Shutdown (Daily Beast)

Arizona fake electors led vocal campaign to overturn the 2020 election – they’re now part of a ‘robust’ state investigation (CNN) Who better to look for hanky-panky?

How the GOP muzzled the quiet coalition that fought foreign propaganda (NBC News) In the Narrative media, ‘foreign propaganda’ is whatever disagrees with the Narrative.

The Key to Mike Johnson’s Christian Extremism Hangs Outside His Office (Rolling Stone) How dare he be a Christian! The swine!

Inside Mike Johnson’s Ties to a Far-Right Movement to Gut the Constitution (Politico) Bias? What bias?

Why Is Mike Johnson Flying a Christian Nationalist Flag Outside His Office? (The New Republic) They say that like it was a bad thing.

Why is Eric Adams being investigated?  (The New Neo) Apparently he wandered off of the Democrat plantation.

Alarming collapse of Greenland ice shelves sparks warning of sea level rise (LiveScience)

Power grid watchdog warns of higher winter blackout risks, cites Biden energy policies as top threat

America’s power grid at risk of buckling this winter: Regulator (WSYR)

Two-Thirds of North America Could Face Power Shortages This Winter (Insurance Journal)

FERC, NERC Caution Against Closing Everett LNG Import Terminal in New England (Natural Gas Intelligence)

More people not having children due to climate breakdown fears, finds research (The Guardian) Think of it as evolution in action.

In California’s Central Valley, a massive carbon removal factory is pulling CO2 from the air (Fast Company)

Nation’s first commercial carbon capture plant opens in Tracy (KCRA Sacramento)

A surprising green technology rises in the San Joaquin Valley (S.F. Chronicle)

Climate tech company Heirloom opens US commercial carbon capture plant (Reuters)

First-of-a-Kind Nuke Project Terminated in Blow to Biden Clean Energy

Arrests ‘Part of the Deal’: Climate Activists Who Struck Degas Exhibit to Return to DC

Australia Signs Historic Climate Refuge Pact With Tuvalu (Bloomberg)

German Gov’t Agrees To Bailout Giant Loss-Making Wind Farm, UK Increases Subsidies

Renewable Energy Meltdown Spreads: Plug Power Crashes After ‘Going Concern’ Warning 

Scientists: Nearly 4 Decades of Climate Model Failure Undermines Confidence In Future Predictions

As The Transition to Green Energy Crumbles, Funding for The Climate Scare Soars

Minnesota Supreme Court Dismisses Case To Keep Trump Off The Ballot

Trump’s Lawyers Argue Judges Don’t Have a Role in Enforcing 14th Amendment Challenge on Day One of Michigan’s Oral Arguments (The Messenger)

Trump’s false election claims lurk in background as court weighs robocall case (Politico)

Trump suggests he could investigate opponents if reelected (The Hill) Sauce for the goose….

Trump’s right, the system is RIGGED. In his favor  Right, it’s so rigged in his favor that he’s under … how many indictments?

The Warnings About Trump in 2024 Are Getting Louder (The New Yorker) Especially from the sort of people who write for The New Yorker.

Rep. Elise Stefanik files ethics complaint against judge in Trump’s civil fraud trial (NBC News) It’s about time somebody did.

Trump: I Could Also Weaponize Government Against Enemies  Sauce for the goose….

Billionaire Home Depot Founder Bernie Marcus Endorses Trump  Apparently not all the billionaires are Democrats. Who knew?

Trump turns to oil barons to boost his White House bid (Washington Poop)

Trump Warns He Could ‘Certainly’ Indict Political Opponents if He’s Reelected (Rolling Stone) Sauce for the goose….

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The sole Muslim-majority member of NATO, Turkey is a formidable strategic asset. This makes the possibility of decoupling it from NATO a powerfully attractive prospect for the West’s adversaries. Situated in a vital location, on the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, it is also the only nation bordering Europe (Greece and Bulgaria), Asia (Georgia and Armenia), and the Middle East (Syria, Iraq, and Iran). Cleaving Turkey from NATO would mean taking out many U.S. and Western bases and intelligence gathering posts—most or all of which China, Russia, and Iran would surely step in to replace. Turkey’s armed forces are NATO’s second-most numerous and double those of third-place France, an important consideration when a large-scale conventional war seems more likely than at any other time since 1945.

China and Russia know that high-definition, streaming images showing Israel—“America’s closest ally,” to quote countless American politicians—using American bombs, weapons, and intelligence against Sunni Muslims in Gaza will undoubtedly provoke an intense anti-American and anti-European reaction among fellow Sunni Muslims in Turkey.

The evidence is already accumulating.

Turkey has no business in a NORTH ATLANTIC Treaty Organization. The original reason, to counter the Soviet Union, no longer exists. Turkey causes ten times more problems than any other member of NATO. Time to get rid of it.

NewsMax.

The Republican National Committee said 2024 GOP presidential candidates who participate in the Family Leader’s Thanksgiving forum will be barred from future Republican primary debates.

I guess RNC stands for ‘RINO National Committee’. Good to have that cleared up.

Ars Technica.

Traffic navigation app Waze is adding a new feature to its toolbox today. It’s called crash history alerts, and it’s meant to warn drivers about dangerous hotspots, based on a combination of historical data plus road and traffic data.

If you have the capability to use Waze when you’re driving, and you don’t use it, well, the angels will weep for you….

Alarming collapse of Greenland ice shelves sparks warning of sea level rise (LiveScience)

Coral spawning season brings hope for the Great Barrier Reef (CNN)

What does a Jordan Peterson conference say about the future of climate change? Apparently we’re headed towards ‘human flourishing’ (The Guardian) Sarcasm in a headline never works.

Epstein lays out benefits — and morality — of fossil fuel use (Freightways)

The U.S. Project Meant To Debut Revolutionary Nuclear Reactors Just Fell Apart (Huffington Post)

First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled (Ars Technica)

Utah just lost an important future energy source. Here’s why (Deseret News)

Number of species at risk of extinction doubles to 2 million, says study (The Guardian)

Eco-friendly plastic turns into a source of nutrition for ocean life (Interesting Engineering)

Behind Mike Bloomberg’s $500 Million Donation To ‘Finish The Job On Coal’

Researchers Try Doomsday Images To Scare Meat Eaters

Climate Extremists Block Ambulance in ‘Life or Death’ Situation

New Study Finds Most Of Antarctica Has Cooled By Over 1°C Since 1999…W. Antarctica Cooled 1.8°C

Ivanka Trump testimony: Why ‘I don’t recall’ is a common legal strategy (BBC News) Plus it’s the correct answer if you, say, don’t recall.

Trump shows off disclaimer clause he tried to show judge at civil trial and claims it clears him of fraud (N.Y. Post) As indeed it would.

Judge Engoron’s Handling of Donald Trump Comes Under Scrutiny (Newsweek)

What Trump stands to lose in his New York civil fraud trial (Axios) Any commitment to the American legal and political system, for one.

Karine Jean-Pierre’s claim Biden ‘has done everything’ to fix border crisis met with mockery: ‘Speaks volumes’ (Fox News)

US Senate’s top Republican: Biden’s funding request will not pass without ‘border solution’ (Reuters)

Matthews: Joe Biden: Organized crime’s best friend (The Hill)

White House Urges Caution on Polls Showing Biden in Trouble

‘Morning in America’ Eludes Biden, Despite Economic Gains ( N.Y. Times) What ‘economic gains’?

‘Martyrs of the Struggle’: Green Group That Employs Interior Sec’s Daughter Lauds Hamas Terrorists

Report: Taliban Takes ‘Direct Control’ of Migrant Trafficking Gangs

You can buy personal info of US military staff from data brokers for just 12 cents a pop

Rand Paul Wants Fauci Taken Down or a New Law Passed (Newsweek)

New York Times Oozes Sympathy for Lefty House Members Trapped in ‘Far-Right’ Hellhole

SPLC Goes to Extreme Lengths to Brand Speaker Mike Johnson ‘Racist’ on Immigration

Who’s Blackmailing Whom? EU Continues to Withhold Funds from Hungary

Republican Party Checks Into Rehab For Addiction To Losing (Babylon Bee)

Republicans Join the Rich-Bashing

Ibram X. Kendi Decries ‘Racist’ Financial Audit After Boston University Clears His Beleaguered Antiracist Research Center

The Left’s Crying Over Whiteness, Transgender Periods & Bare Butts

Zman turns over a rock.

The Republicans have been vexed by one primary complaint for close to a decade. The people they want to swindle into voting for them do not like them very much. In fact, they went so far as to vote for the one guy the party said was off-limits in 2016, Donald Trump. Despite the party’s best efforts to rid themselves of this troublesome man, the rank-and-file voters still prefer him over whatever the party offers as an alternative.

In other words, the party’s complaint is that the voters refuse to support the blocks of wood the party is selling and they support the guy they hate. This turned up in the local elections yesterday, where the Republican Party underperformed again. They even put up a based black guy in the Kentucky governor’s race, but the Democrat still won, in a state that is reliably Republican. In Virginia, the party failed to win the state house, despite their claims about the governor’s popularity.

Ohio voters will approve constitutional right to an abortion, CNN projects (CNN)

The Supreme Court appears poised to rein in its worst decision on guns (Vox)

Supreme Court reviews domestic abuser gun ban (MSNBC)

Supreme Court appears likely to hand Biden DOJ a win on challenge to gun law (Fox News)

Why American women of childbearing age now have another Supreme Court case to watch (CNN)

David Weiss confirmed denial of special status in Hunter Biden case: Jim Jordan (N.Y. Post)

Special Counsel Weiss tells lawmakers politics ‘played no part’ in Hunter Biden probe (Fox News)

Special counsel in the Hunter Biden case insists he was the ‘decision-maker’ in rare testimony (WHIO)

‘Insanity’: petrostates planning huge expansion of fossil fuels, says UN report (The Guardian)

Plastic waste ‘spiralling out of control’ across Africa, analysis shows (The Guardian)

Plastic is plaguing lower-income countries. Where does fashion fit in? (Vogue)

WWF models cost of plastic pollution in Pacific region (Australia B.C.)

Indonesia must lead towards an ambitious Global Plastics Treaty (Eco-Business)

Chile shuts down a popular glacier, sparking debate over climate change and adventure sports (Fox News)

James Lileks.

There’s something profoundly askew in the souls of the people who feel compelled to tear down the posters of kidnapped children. I’ve been watching these for weeks now, it seems, and every day, a new one, a new person, a new flat-aspect person with dead eyes or, on occasion, sparky ire for anyone who DOES NOT UNDERSTAND that putting up the images of kidnapped children is NAZI PROPAGANDA. Even after a fortnight of people getting filmed and ID’d, they’re still taking them down. Because other people are still putting them up. Why not? The fliers are like flypaper.

As many have noted, some seem to confront shame for the first time in their adult lives, and they’re like dogs who have a mouthful of something unfamiliar and do not know how to proceed.

Prolific Wanker Known As ‘The Sperminator’ Creates ‘Unvaxxed Sperm’ Group On Facebook After Requests Skyrocket

Trump’s Record Black Support Has Democrats in Panic (NewsMax)

The Nashville trans shooter apparently wanted to kill a bunch of white children

ABC, CBS, NBC Ignore Leak of Nashville School Shooter’s Disturbing Manifesto

California scientists suggest a strategy to ‘eat our way’ out of the climate crisis (The Hill)

Physicists Warn Earth Could Feasibly Descend Into Chaos (Science Alert)

Embattled conservation group leader heads for exit (Politico)

Why surging sales of large electric vehicles raises environmental red flags (The Narrative Conversation)

What’s really going on with the electric car market? (Axios) People are discovering that they are an expensive and impractical answer to a non-existent question.

An EV slowdown? Battery makers are cool with that. (E&E News)

Yet Another “Climate Crisis” News Cabal

Africa Doesn’t Need Western Elites’ Meaningless Climate Policies

A boneheaded state official may have just handed the NRA a big Supreme Court victory (Vox)

Texas man’s challenge to gun ownership, domestic violence law heads to Supreme Court (CBS Texas)

Supreme Court facing record case related to domestic violence with guns (WOAD)

The Supreme Court may make America’s gun violence problem even worse (CNN) Or better, depending on your point of view.

Biden primary challenger Dean Phillips sees little support from past home state donors in Minnesota (CNBC)

Elon Musk’s Free Speech Stance Is “Dangerous”, Columbia Journalism Fellow Warns

Speaker Mike Johnson Faces Looming Battles Over Biden Impeachment, Shutdown

Are ‘MAGA’ Republicans Worse Than Hamas? Many on Far Left Appear to Think So. (The Foundry)

Christian Wedding Photographer Who Refused to Celebrate Same-Sex Marriage Wins Settlement

Woke Teachers Trying To Ban Classic Novel From Schools To “Protect Students”

Tommy Tuberville Is Just the Face of a ‘Broken’ Confirmation Process, Critics Say

House Report: Newsmax Among Targets of Censorship in 2020

Hawley Challenger Suggests Republicans Are Like the Nazis Who Planned the Holocaust  Hey, Republicans aren’t the ones hating on Jews.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Shows Congress How to Lose Friends and Not Influence People (Daily Beast) I’d rather have MTG as a friend than anybody at the Daily Beast.

Squad: It’s Super ‘Dangerous’ to Criticize Us, You Guys

YouTube Censors Steven Crowder After He Exposed Nashville School Shooter Manifesto

Conservative Watchdog Alleges Retaliatory IRS Audit After Exposing Biden Nominees

Why Does the Right Hate America? (N.Y. Times) The only hate I see is coming from Paul Krugman.

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COVID US Map Shows States Where Cases Are Highest in Latest Week (Newsweek)

Joe Biden’s weak polling numbers spark alarm among Democrats (Financial Times)

New emails show DHS created Stanford ‘disinfo’ group that censored speech before 2020 election (N.Y. Post)

Counterterror Director Used Hamas Attack to Justify Mass Surveillance Program Renewal (The Intercept)

Rupi Kaur rejects Biden administration’s Diwali invite over its response to Gaza (NBC News) Who? *yawn*

Weiss Claims ‘Full Authority’ Over Hunter Biden Probe

Biden’s polls (The New Neo)

Biden Checks His Latest Poll Numbers To See If Israel Still Has Right To Defend Itself (Babylon Bee)

America First Legal Files Suit Against DHS’ Experts Group

Some Democrats worry Biden’s team is ignoring political warning signs (Washington Poop) Reality intrudes yet again.

Research Flags “Concerning” Employment Losses At Nursing Homes Amid Biden Administration Staffing Push

Watchdog: Afghanistan Has Received $11 Billion In Aid From US Since Withdrawal

Biden’s stumbles spark concerns about ad strategy and surrogate operation (Politico)

Biden Confronts the Limits of U.S. Leverage in Two Conflicts (N.Y. Times)

Report: Feds Coordinated Broad Censorship of Americans on Election, COVID, More

Meyers FREAKS OUT Over Polls Showing Trump Ahead

Biden Administration Focuses on ‘Islamophobia’ While Jew-Hatred Runs Rampant

Obama Deployed to Salvage Wreck of SS Biden