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.

She/her/or/else

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

Income inequality in Europe: Which countries have the highest and lowest disposable income? (EuroNews)

Droves of Californians are moving to Texas. Here’s the life they are finding (L.A. Times)

California’s homebuyer exodus continues. But this region remains a national hot spot (Sacramento Bee) Oh, is it wildfire season again?

Why people are leaving California for Arkansas (Fox News)

Police Won’t Confirm Authenticity of Alleged Manifesto of Nashville Shooter (Daily Signal)

Newsom’s Money in SC Sparks More Talk of 2024 Run (NewsMax)

3 States Sue FDA for Allowing Abortion Pills to Be Shipped Via Mail (Daily Signal)

3 Absurd Claims About the Lewiston Shooting Made by Gun Control Activists (Daily Signal)

“Tough Place”: Implosion Of Downtown San Francisco Forces McDonald’s To Close After 30 Years

Macron’s Party Scrambles for Support for Immigration Reform

You Get Nothing: Google Abandons Building 15,000 Homes In San Francisco

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear hopes to show Democrats can win even if Biden is unpopular (ABC News)

Trans-Obsessed PBS Gushes Over ‘Hero’ Caster Semenya, Alleged ‘Female’ Runner

OF COURSE: CNN, MSNBC Won’t Touch the Nashville Shooter’s Tranifesto

Nets Suppress MASSIVE Caravan Headed To U.S. Southern Border

Best Way to Change Trans Policies in Sports? Women Refuse to Play

Satan on the Ballot in Virginia

Letitia James Reportedly Broke Into Laughter During Trump Testimony  Trump’s a funny guy.

‘Chill over much of courtroom’: Expert on Trump’s impact as witness in NY civil fraud trial Monday (MSNBC)

Trump testifies in New York civil fraud trial (CNN)

Extra Time: Trump testifies in New York civil fraud trial; gearing up for Election Day 2023 (WABC-TV)

Lawrence: Trump incriminated himself and his children with one word on the stand (MSNBC) Still no crime here. No lender takes the borrower’s word for property characteristics; all of a borrower’s assertions are vetted by trained professionals.

Trump Tangles With Judge, Complains of Treatment at N.Y. Fraud Trial (NewsMax)

‘Control Your Client’: Judge Quarrels With Trump and Lawyers During Fraud Trial (Washington Free Beacon)

4 things we learned from Trump’s testimony in the New York fraud trial (Washington Poop)

Sarah Huckabee Sanders is set to endorse Trump at his Florida rally this week (NBC News)

Jack Smith Could Be On Shaky Ground In Trump Charge: Analysts

Trump doesn’t just want to win. He wants revenge. (Washington Poop) And who could blame him?

Jan. 6 riot was ‘culmination’ of Trump conspiracies to overturn 2020 election, special counsel says in new filing (NBC News)

Prosecutors Assail Trump’s Bid to Have Federal Election Case Dismissed (N.Y. Times) Does this come as a surprise to anybody?

Trump Forgets What Years He Was President While on the Stand in NY Trial (Daily Beast) Who care? (Other than the arrested adolescents in the Narrative media.)

Trump kids’ blame claims don’t match with fraud case facts: reporter (Raw Story) I’d sooner believe the Trump Kids (Is that a band?) over some Narrative media ‘reporter’.

Grievances, insults, tangents: Trump brings his 2024 campaign into the courtroom (Washington Poop) How does that differ from what the Narrative media bring into their Trump coverage?

Trump belief that 2020 election was stolen is not a defense, DOJ says (Washington Poop) Sure sounds like a defense to me.

‘He’s a child’ Trump is imploding because he thinks ‘rules don’t apply to him’: biographer (Raw Story) Yet he’s a billionaire businessman and was a successful President of the United States. Can this ‘biographer’ show more success?

TV Ignores Trump’s GOP Rivals, Blasts Ex-Prez With 93% Bad Press

‘Stop It!’ Scarborough Screams At Team Biden for Not Trashing Trump Enough on TV

Trump’s Wealth Has Grown $500M Since Leaving Office

Trump’s day in court paints a dark preview of the national ordeal ahead (CNN) Poor iddle baby….

Trump Plots Against His Enemies (The Atlantic) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Trump’s Recipe for a Shockingly Raw Power Grab (Politico)

The Foundry.

Although Republican senators have for months muttered their disapproval of Tuberville’s strategy of holding high-level military promotions until the Defense Department reverses its policy, this skirmish was the first time his GOP colleagues had openly rebelled against him.

It won’t be the last. These same senators—and others—are plotting with Democrats to change the rules governing the Senate to undermine Tuberville and process the promotions. Watch for news of that in the days to come.

Why would Senate Republicans fight against one of their own, especially on something as fundamental as the fight to defend the unborn? Despite their espoused principles and campaign promises, life is simply not the top priority of many elected Republicans—at least, not like it is for their voters.

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Taxpayers will be able to submit all sorts of tax documents and other communications to the IRS digitally months earlier than originally planned under a new timetable for paperless taxpayer communications announced Tuesday by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.

“The impact will be significant and far-reaching,” Yellen says in a speech prepared for delivery at IRS headquarters in Washington, “and we’ll speed up processing times for the system as a whole.”

The IRS has endured decades of underfunding and been overloaded with paper documents that prevented the agency from processing tax forms at a faster pace. Yellen’s speech is intended to signal that the infusion of cash for the IRS over 10 years included in the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act is working.

The Foundry.

Patrick Ruffini is a Republican pollster with a reputation for deciphering data and spotting trends. His new book, “Party of the People: Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP,” takes a deep dive into one of the biggest political realignments of our lifetime.

Ruffini spoke with The Daily Signal about the demographic changes that are rapidly transforming America’s two biggest political parties—and what it means for the 2024 presidential election and beyond.

“When I first started in politics, Republicans had this reputation as being the country club party,” Ruffini said. “Democrats had this reputation as being the party of the people, the party of the working class.”

He added, “Flash forward almost 20 years, and that trend has completely almost reversed.”

Historically the backbone of the Republican party has been farmers and small businessmen, the first in line to get buttfucked by the Deep State and the coastal Crust. It would be nice to see that world turned upside down.

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In a fascinating episode from Jubilee Media’s “Ranking” series, a diverse mix of Gen-Z and millennial participants were tasked with assessing each other’s intelligence to establish a ranking within the group. Despite the varied backgrounds, the collective judgment of the group placed a young Marine at the lower end of the spectrum, whereas individuals with college degrees, including some from prestigious Ivy League institutions, were deemed the most intelligent. However, when it came time for the actual IQ test, the Marine outsmarted three college grads.

The Economist.

here is no “i” in team. But there is one in “autopilot”. Despite the growing importance of teamwork in organisations, the processes used to manage employees have carried on much as before. Bosses may wax lyrical about collaboration, but the way they reward, review and recruit has not caught up.

People in organisations have always worked in concert with others. But the emphasis on teams is growing, for a variety of reasons. Technology has made the sharing of ideas and information easier, while hybrid working has made it more vital. (There’s a reason it’s not called Microsoft Silos.) The software industry has spread the gospel of teams—agile, scrums, okrs and all the rest of it—into all kinds of places.

Teams, it turns out, are better at solving complex problems, according to a recent paper by Abdullah Almaatouq of the mit Sloan School of Management. Research also suggests that people have a greater attachment to their work group than to their organisation; you’re less likely to go for lunch with a logo.

The military calls it ‘unit cohesion’ and that’s Old News.

Interesting Engineering.

Conventional desalination plants work in either of these approaches – thermal or membrane. In the thermal process, seawater is heated till the water evaporates, leaving the salt behind. The evaporated water is cooled, collected, and made available for use.

In the membrane approach, seawater is passed through a semi-permeable membrane that takes in the salt. This approach is also energy-intensive but comparatively better than the thermal treatment.

Oneka’s approach to desalination is an improvement over the membrane approach. This is achieved by using buoyant machines that are anchored to the seabed and using a membrane system that is powered by the waves.

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After journalists Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss and Michael Shellenberger won a $100,000 award from the National Journalism Center / DAO for excellence in investigative journalism regarding the Twitter Files, WikiPedia editors threw a fit – with one, who goes by “Specifico”, removing all mention of the award until other editors were in ‘consensus for inclusion.’

A new Silicon Valley manifesto reveals the bleak, dangerous philosophy driving the tech industry (The Conversation) The ‘bleak, dangerous philosophy’ in question is just opposition to Wokeness.

Mike Johnson Admits He and His Son Monitor Each Other’s Porn Intake in Resurfaced Video (Rolling Stone)

PolitiFact Cries Pro-Lifers Are ‘False’ on Ohio’s Pro-Abort Referendum

The Great Reset, Part 2: A Camp With No Outside

Will the Supreme Court Toss Out a Gun Law Meant to Protect Women? (N.Y. Times) Linda Greenhouse does the Proglodyte Two-Step: Guns are bad, unless they protect women, in which case guns are good.

Expect a rough two weeks for Speaker Johnson (Washington Poop) Especially with the Narrative Media gunning for him.

How Republicans are using congressional maps to entrench their power (Public Notice) Aaron Rupar is the fellow after whom the verb ‘rupar’ was coined.

“Apocalypticism”: Polling expert reveals the root of “panic among conservative White Christians” (Salon)

PBS NewsHour Agenda: Trashing Conservatives in Congress Is What We Do

More proof that more guns will not save us (The Hill) Non sequitur. Whatever the ‘gun culture’ in Maine might be (and I don’t take the word of The Hill for that), I see no evidence that anybody in the places where people were shot were carrying. If they had been, the death toll would be far smaller–in Texas, where people commonly carry firearms in public, the shooter would have been put down before he got off more than one or two shots.

Biden trails Trump in states likely to decide 2024 US election, polls show (Reuters)

CNN panelists sound alarm on ‘really scary’ poll showing Biden trailing Trump in key states (Fox News)

Why Democrats shouldn’t despair over concerning new polls about Biden (CNN)

Axelrod Suggests Biden Should Drop of Presidential Race

FACT SHEET: President Biden Advances Vision for World Class Passenger Rail by Delivering Billions in New Funding (WhiteHouse.gov) And our buggy whips are the best in the world!

Poll shows Biden support slumping among Michigan Muslims (NBC News) It doesn’t matter–what are they going to do, vote Republican? I think not.

Gavin Biden/Joe Newsom

Behind the Curtain: Biden’s race problem (Axios)

IRS Targets Conservative Group Exposing the Biden Admin

Dem Congresswoman: Minorities Fleeing Biden Because of ‘Feelings’, Lack of Civics Education

Just 1 arrest after pro-Palestinian DC protest spurs acts of vandalism, bid to scale White House fence

Treasury Borrowing Running At Crisis-Era Levels

Meacham Talks Polls on Morning Joe: Biden’s ‘Not On Trial Here, I Think We Are’

Granholm Jets Off to Puerto Rico for Sixth Time Since Last Fall

World Bank to host climate damages fund despite opposition from developing nations (CNN)

California EV HELL: QUEUING for chargers at MIDNIGHT!!!

Setting Utility Rates

Watch: Just Stop Oil Climate Crazies Smash Glass Protecting 17th Century Painting with Hammers

Drunk grizzlies keep getting hit by trains in Montana  Think of it as evolution in action.

£15 Million AI Climate Change Grant for the University of Southampton

Professor Lockdown Denies Ever Calling For Lockdown

CDC to Test Travelers for Respiratory Viruses

Donald Trump expected to appear in $250m civil fraud trial in New York (The Guardian)

What to expect when Trump takes the stand in civil fraud trial (MSNBC)

What to watch when Donald Trump takes the stand in New York civil fraud trial (CNN)

Donald Trump, known his whole life for ruthless approach to real estate, set to answer for fraud in historic Monday testimony (N.Y. Daily News)

Tips for Questioning Trump Under Oath — From Someone Who’s Done It (Politico)

Appeals Court Freezes Trump Gag Order Issued By Out-Of-Control Woke Judge

Trump Campaign Fights For Place On Michigan Ballot

Trump and His Lawyers Dare NY Judge to Throw Him in Jail (Rolling Stone)

Ivanka Is Not Going to Save Trump in His New York Fraud Trial—and He’s Not Going to Save Himself (Daily Beast)

Trump under oath: Six things to watch for as the former president testifies (Politico)

Trump Indictments Haven’t Sunk His Campaign, but a Conviction Might (N.Y. Times) They hope, they hope, they hope….

Playbook: Trump testimony kicks off a jam-packed week (Politic0)

Donald Trump’s Gift To Adam Schiff (The Atlantic)

Trump administration considered ideological ‘screenings’ of noncitizens (The Guardian) Works for me.

Trump, on witness stand, derides judge, denies fraud and talks of castles and windmills (Politico) But what did he say? That would be news. This is just gossip.

New Twitter Files Show Twitter Knew Truth About Russia-Gate Hoax

Boy killed, 5 wounded in Cincinnati mass shooting (The Hill) A ‘vibrant neighborhood’ indeed.

Anne Frank Kindergarten Renamed for ‘Diversity’ Reasons

‘Kill All You Little Crackers’

How democracy dies, right here in America (The Hill) In the Narrative media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

How states are using legislative privilege to drag out redistricting lawsuits (PBS) Democrats are objecting to Republicans doing the sort of partisan redistricting what Democrats always do when they’re in power.

Court rulings will fuel more gerrymandering — here’s how (The Hill) It’s only ‘gerrymandering’ when Republicans do it, of course.

How states are using legislative privilege to drag out redistricting lawsuits (PBS)

The 7th Circuit Holds That AR-15s Aren’t Protected By The Second Amendment

Anheuser-Busch Studio Head Exits Company Amid ‘Bud Light Situation’

Fake Breasts, Laser Hair Removal, and Facial Feminization: California Taxpayers Bankroll $4 Million Worth of Gender-Affirming ‘Enhancements’ for Prisoners, Including Four Death Row Inmates

“These People Are F**king Nuts And You Should Be Calling Them Out”: Bill Maher Snaps At Neil deGrasse Tyson Over Woke College Campuses

Obama’s Subtle Tactics of Division

Report: Sen. Sanders Staff Deputy Moves to AOC’s Team  Movin’ on up.

Watch Live: First Three Pages Of Transgender School Shooter’s Manifesto Leaked

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Every year, around 400 million tons of plastics are produced worldwide, a number that increases by around 4% annually. The emissions resulting from their manufacture are one of the elements contributing to climate change, and their ubiquitous presence in ecosystems leads to serious ecological problems.

One of the most used is PET (polyethylene terephthalate), which is found in many packaging and beverage bottles. Over time, this material wears down into smaller and smaller particles—so-called microplastics—which aggravates environmental problems. PET already accounts for more than 10% of global plastic production and recycling is scarce and inefficient.

Now, scientists from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center—Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), together with research groups from the Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry of the CSIC (ICP-CSIC) and the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), have developed artificial proteins capable of degrading PET microplastics and nanoplastics and reducing them to their essential components, which would allow them to be broken down or recycled.

We have the technology.

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Do you find it a little disturbing that the combat capability of our aircraft carriers has not improved since WWII and, in fact, the only really important characteristic, air wing size, has markedly decreased?

Further, when factoring in the construction cost,
Early Essex $40M ($750M in 2023) [2]
Late Essex $78M ($1.33B in 2023) [2]
Ford $16B+
the Ford represents a staggering decrease in combat value for the dollar.

It’s clear that our carriers have become less combat effective over time. I know that some of the less enlightened among you will attempt to say that a Ford can strike from a longer distance and with more precise, devastating weapons. Well, first, that’s a reflection of the air wing, not the carrier and, second, that’s an absurd comparison. The proper way to compare between WWII and today is to do so relative to the time period and the threats that existed during that period.

ZMan sums it up.

There has always been a circular logic to wartime propaganda, going back to the Greeks. The bad guys are bad because they are the enemy, and they are the enemy because they are bad. What makes them bad, of course, is they do things we would never do, and they never do the things that we know good people are supposed to do.

Fast forward to the present and villains are either Hitler or Bull Connor, who have morphed into a Janus like creature that haunts every conflict. The foreign villains are always going to be Hitler, while domestic villains are the generic racist. Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden were Hitler, despite the obvious differences, while every white conservative is a fledgling Bull Connor. Donald Trump managed to be both, despite his Zionism and love of black people.

The language of public discourse now sounds like wartime propaganda because we now live in the age of emotivism. The term “emotivism” comes from an early 20th century school of ethics that claimed all ethical sentences are actually expressions of emotional attitude, as in positive or negative. When a speaker says something is good or bad, he is not stating an objective fact, but merely expressing his own emotional attitude toward the object in question.

The Antiplanner.

Affordable housing projects aren’t making housing more affordable. In fact, says a new study by an MIT economist, construction of new subsidized housing displaces new unsubsidized housing for little net gain in the housing supply. Specifically, the study found, ten new subsidized housing units resulted in eight fewer unsubsidized units.