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

Who falls for fake news? Psychological and clinical profiling evidence

Wikipedia admin unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin banned in 2015

Newsom Signs $25 Minimum Wage Law For ALL Hospital Workers, Finds Out Afterwards It Will Cost California $4 Billion  Mostly they don’t even bother to find out the cost.

The Nashville Shooter’s Transfesto Finally Leaks

6 Bizarre Examples of How Voter Registration Fraud Happens

Time for Scrutiny of DEI Policies of Administrative Office of US Courts, Judicial Conference

Planned Parenthood Says Proper Term For Unborn Baby Is Now ‘Womb Colonizer’ (Babylon Bee)

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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.

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Five years ago, congresswoman Susan Wild distanced herself from a population control group that has called for families to be “taxed to the hilt” for “irresponsible breeding.” But the Pennsylvania Democrat has quietly restored ties to the organization and praised it for “thoughtful and relentless advocacy” on the abortion issue.

Hutchinson booed for over a minute after claiming ‘significant likelihood’ Trump will be found guilty (Fox News)

Trump Scores More Florida Lawmaker Endorsements, Including DeSantis Defectors (The Messenger)

Media Cites First Amendment in Trump Trial TV Ban Challenge

Barring Trump from office could bring closure for Jan. 6 riots, former officer says

Election Group Slapped With RICO Says It Can Prove Trump Won Georgia In 2020

Trump and allies plot revenge, Justice Department control in a second term (Washington Poop)

Trump 2.0: A second term would see him pick more and uglier fights on immigration (The Hill) He says that like it was a bad thing.

If Trump wins, more voters foresee better finances, staying out of war — CBS News poll (CBS News)

Injury in Massachusetts field hockey game renews debate about co-ed sports (WCVB)

America’s Immigration Daydream Is Coming To An End

Seattle Limits Cops From ‘Knowingly Lying’ After Suspect Commits Suicide

Congress Sneaks In Stealth $34,000 Pay Raise; Gaetz, AOC Among More Than 200 Lawmakers To Benefit

Family Outraged N.Y. Will Parole Cop-Killer

The French far-left has made France a terrifying country for Jews

A Jewish Political Realignment?

Middle Schooler SUSPENDED And BANNED From Sporting Events After Being Accused Of Wearing Blackfac

Dominant or Recessive Cultural Traits?

White Victims of Racial Discrimination Are Starting to Sue More Often

Blinken meets Palestinian leader in West Bank, stepping up Mideast diplomacy as Gaza war escalates (Associated Press)

Blinken rebuffs calls for immediate Gaza ceasefire (Reuters)

Israel-Hamas war live: Palestine president calls for ‘immediate ceasefire’ (Al Jezeera)

Hamburg airport remains closed as police deal with ‘hostage situation’ (Reuters)

CNN Spreads Fake News In Order To Label Israeli Airstrikes ‘War Crimes’

Greene to reintroduce Tlaib censure resolution after genocide comments (The Hill)

Zelensky Complains War In Gaza Is “Taking Away The Focus” From Ukraine  Oh, ya think?

“Allahu Akbar, Fu*k Joe Biden!”: Enraged Pro-Palestinian Protesters Gather Outside White House

A Ukrainian Missile Strike on a Shipyard in Crimea Damages a Russian Ship

Russia Says it Test-fired an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile from a New Nuclear Submarine

Majority Support For Muslim Migration Ban As 3 In 4 Germans Say Newcomers Hate Western Society

Queers For Palestine: Identity Politics At Its Most Absurd

IDF: Hamas Using Children as ‘Human Shields,’ Hiding, Attacking From Playgrounds

Non-Jews Putting Up Mezuzahs as Jews Take Them Down

Turkey Recalls Ambassador To Israel, Holds Netanyahu Personally Responsible For Gaza Atrocities

Zelenskyy Pushes US for More Aid, Invites Trump to Ukraine

Unethical Gaza Reporting Cuts Crucial Context

Trump: Prosecute Migrant ‘Charities’ for Human Trafficking

Blinken Tells Abbas He Asked Israel To Use ‘Smaller Bombs’ On Gaza

Hamas Leader: ‘Alliance’ With North Korea a Way to Strike US

CNN SOTU: Bernie Refuses To Condemn Tlaib ‘From The River To The Sea’ Video

US Rolls Out 50th Weapons Package For Ukraine

Police Find No Evidence That Israel Supporter Attack UNC Muslim Student With Knife

The German State Pays the Jizya

ON POINT: America Faces Multi-Front Proxy Warfare

ON POINT: Turkey’s Erdogan Applauds Hamas’ Terror: Is Erdo’s ‘Middle Man’ Sham Kaput?

Poor Josh Hawley Can’t Help Himself (The New Republic) Neither, apparently, can TNR.

Sen. Hawley clashes with McConnell over FEC law (KOMU)

Josh Hawley makes a point about corporate money in politics. Would his bill make a difference? (CNN)

Boos Rain Down on Chris Christie During Florida GOP Speech (The Messenger)

Mark Meadows’ Publisher Sues Him for Millions Over Election Lies in Book (Daily Beast)

MSNBC’s Jen Psaki’s Curious Bible Hangup With Speaker Johnson

All The Ways Republicans Tried To Game The Ohio Abortion Vote (Talking Points Memo)

Mark Levin SLAMS Washington Post for Helping CNN Smear Him as Anti-Semitic

‘MAGA Mike Johnson’ and Our Broken Christian Politics (N.Y. Times) David French loses his shit.

Trump 2.0: The climate cannot survive another Trump term (The HillO Michael Mann continues lying about the climate.

On NPR, Kinzinger Says GOP = ISIS, Hannity and Levin Cause ‘Brain Rot’  The worm turns but remains a worm.

‘Biden, you can’t hide’: Tens of thousands march in US for Gaza ceasefire (Al Jazeera)

Evidence that Biden received payments traced to China

VP Harris’ Stepdaughter Promotes Pro-Gaza Fundraiser

Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter Ella Emhoff is promoting an $8M Gaza fundraising campaign: ‘Abhorrent’ (N.Y. Post)

Scoop: Biden’s 2024 team roiled by Israel-Hamas war (Axios)

Don’t Fall For Biden’s Latest Talking Point

Trump Leads in 5 Critical States as Voters Blast Biden, Times/Siena Poll Finds (N.Y. Times)

Trump Vows to ‘Build State of the Art Missile Defense Shield’

Sen. Johnson: FBI’s Cover-Up on Biden Probe “Greater Scandal’

Hundreds Join Mexico Migrant Caravan to US

Democrats Rattled After NYT Poll Shows Trump Beating Biden In Majority Of Swing States

A Paid Agent of a Foreign Power

Newsom Rewrites Pandemic History

FDA Responds After Being Urged To Recall Pfizer’s Vaccine Over DNA Fragments

These haunting underwater photos portray climate change in a new way (CNN) According to the Narrative, of course.

‘Greenies’ Are All About The Green

Judge Interrupts Just Stop Oil Protestor’s Flight to India

The Coming Collapse of Green Energy, and why EVs Will Never Catch On

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Folksinger Buffy Sainte-Marie got her start in the Greenwich Village scene and during the 1960s became an indigenous icon. In 1975 she showed up on “Sesame Street” proclaiming, “We want kids to understand that Indians exist. We really are real.” And as Buffy explained, “Cree Indians are my tribe, and we live in Canada.” That nation showered Sainte-Marie with awards, made her a companion of the Order of Canada, and even put her on a postage stamp.

In 2019, St. Marie appeared at a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) music festival, where she complained about “moms who have such a pride in family, maybe patriotism and tradition,” before her performance of “The Universal Soldier.” Behind the scenes, the CBC was busy checking birth records, newspaper accounts, and interviewing relatives. Last month, the CBC’s 6,000-plus-word report outed the soi disant Cree from Saskatchewan as Beverly Jean Santamaria, born in 1941 in Stoneham, Massachusetts, with no indigenous ancestry whatsoever.

Speaker Johnson Expects Decision On Biden Impeachment Articles ‘Very Soon’

More Terror Suspects Reaching The US: Here Are ‘Known Unknowns’ Of The Biden Border Crisis

Biden’s SPR Election Gimmick Undercut National Security

Why Biden’s Policies Are A Nightmare For Housing Affordability

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 67)

House GOP approves cutting EPA budget by nearly 40 percent (The Hill)

House approves funding bill slashing EPA budget to 1990 levels, expanding domestic energy production (Fox News)

House passes bill with massive cut to EPA (Axios)

House GOP backs large EPA cut, setting up negotiations (The Hill)

Deep Rifts at UN Loss and Damage Talks Cast a Shadow on Upcoming Climate Conference (Inside Climate Narrative News)

Western countries clash with Saudi Arabia over UN climate fund (Financial Times)

Western nations are on the cusp of usurping Loss and Damage Fund. This could derail COP28 (EuroNews)

Global: A human rights-focused Loss and Damage Fund for climate change is vital to alleviate suffering (Amnesty International)

Rich Men North Of Richmond: Michael Bloomberg’s Anti-Coal Agenda

Fine Dining in London is Now a Climate Guilt Experience?

Uranium Demand Hits Decade High as Nuclear Renaissance Gains Traction

Nearly 2 Billion People In The World Don’t See Climate Change As A Threat

Mask mandates return in some settings even as COVID-19 stalls in California (S.F. Chronicle)

Mask Mandates Officially Return In California (OutKick)

Mandatory Masking Makes a Comeback in Southern California (L.A. Magazine)

California Counties Making Mask Mandates Grate Again (Daily Signal)

Certain Scientists, Journals Pose ‘Potential Threats To Vaccine Confidence’: CDC

Hydroxychloroquine Associated With Lower COVID-19 Mortality: French Study

House Republican Introduces Bill To Block CCP Influence At State Department

Federal appeals court upholds Illinois assault weapons ban (The Hill)

Federal appeals court upholds sweeping Illinois gun ban (Chicago Tribune)

Federal court upholds Illinois ban on assault-style weapons (WTVO WQRF)

US appeals court upholds Illinois assault weapons ban (Reuters)

Conservative-loved ‘Sound of Freedom’ Streams on Amazon

Republicans, fed up with Tuberville, plot ways to bust his military blockade (Politico)

John Fetterman unleashed: ‘I’ve already been dead once’ (Washington Poop)

Biden DOJ Pushing Supreme Court Case To Nullify Pro-Gun Ruling

9 Ways To Scare Off Californians Looking To Move Into Your Neighborhood (Babylon Bee)

FLASHBACK: An Election So Biased, Even the Media Had to Admit It

Leftist Journos Push Hamas Propaganda as Fact, Compare GOP Speaker to David Duke

California Governor Wants To Spend $640,000 Each For 10,000 Mental Health Beds

NBC Tries To Argue Being Pro-Abortion Is Conservative

New J6 Footage Shows Ray Epps Whispering To ‘Baked Alaska’: “We’re Here To Storm The Capitol”

The DNC’s 2024 Convention City is Drowning in Illegal Aliens

California wants to end Cupertino’s tax deal with Apple  Democrats in government never see a deep pocket without trying to pick it.

Fetterman Torches Manchin: ‘He’s Not Going to Be Around Much Longer’ (Daily Beast)

Supreme Court to Hear NRA Free Speech Case (NewsMax)

Santos to run for reelection even if expelled and downplays past lies (CNN)

Republicans Introduce Bill To Expel Palestinians From The United States (Huffington Post) Note how the witch-hunt expands from the single Congressman who introduced the measure, Ryan Zinke, to the generic smear “Republicans”.

Jamie Raskin Marks Up George Santos’ Thank-You Note With Corrections (Huffington Post) The Mean Girls Table expands to fit the bile available.

RFK Jr. comes ‘home’ to his anti-vaccine group, commits to ‘a break’ for U.S. infectious disease research (NBC News)

Rolling Stone Has Become the SPLC?

Lauren Boebert Wants ‘Mercy.’ Some Republicans Want an Alternative. (N.Y. Times)

Haley, Pledging to ‘Close’ the Border, Is Asked: What About Migrants Who Are Already Here? (N.Y. Times)

How Speaker Mike Johnson’s plans for a Christian law school unraveled (Washington Poop)

Police: 6 shot, 1 dead after shooting involving multiple juveniles in Cincinnati’s West End (WLWT)

These Black voters could determine Biden’s fate in a pivotal swing state (CNN)

NAACP Rails Against Failing Maryland Schools: “African Americans Aren’t Being Educated”  ODF.

So Now “Picnic” and “Good Morning” Are Racist?

Did You Donate To BLM? Here Are 10 Moving Photos Of What Your Money Funded (Babylon Bee)

Trump’s New York Fraud Trial Descends Into Another Shouting Match (Daily Beast)

Judge issues another gag order in Trump’s civil fraud trial (Politico)

Trump’s Lawyer May Ask for Mistrial Because of … the Law Clerk? (The New Republic)

Trump lawyer Chris Kise may be misogynistic, says judge in N.Y. fraud case (N.Y. Daily News)

Trump to Face Anonymous Jury in Carroll’s Second Trial

Appeals Courts Pauses Trump’s Gag Order as He Fights Restrictions on His Speech (NewsMax)

Appeals court pauses Trump gag order in federal election interference case (The Hill)

NY Judge Slaps Gag Order on Trump Lawyers (NewsMax)

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The sense of dread that so often accompanies Mondays could feel slightly more bearable for some next week as Virginians gain another hour of sleep this Sunday from daylight saving time. (Of course, that extra rest comes at the cost of darker nights for the next four months.)

If some lawmakers had their way, the tradition would have ended in Virginia years ago because of its disruptive and impractical nature.

The latest attempt to eliminate daylight saving time in the commonwealth came from Sen. Richard Stuart, R-Westmoreland, whose bill narrowly died on the Senate floor this January.

Everybody talks about it but nobody seems willing to go ahead and do it.

Quillette.

There appears to be near-unanimity of opinion that innovative discoveries require public funding of scientific research. A quote from the Lancet neatly summarizes this view: “When governments cut research funding, they are quite literally cutting their future discovery path and hence their future economic capabilities.” The Biden administration has followed suit by asking for a large increase in science and technology funding, which it describes as “the largest ever investment for federal R&D.” This is on top of previous budgetary requests for billions more dollars to fund the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Cheerleaders for such an approach abound. Writers at Nature believe that such an approach will keep the US “competitive.” A statement from the National Science Foundation (NSF) reads, “The budget makes critical, targeted investments in the American people that will promote greater prosperity and economic growth for decades to come.” Science magazine also welcomed the proposal; its only real criticism was that it would be difficult to gain bipartisan support.

State investment in science is certainly nothing new, but what is fascinating is how easily it is now accepted as the de facto means of spurring scientific innovation. Pew polling confirms that, while government funding does not necessarily inspire trust in science, the public is far less likely to trust scientific findings when funded through an industry source. Additionally, 82 percent of Americans believe government investment in scientific research is usually worthwhile.

Government has two jobs: Make people safe and make people honest. Anything beyond that is corruption.

The Spectator.

The political left isn’t content to secretly smelt statues of Robert E. Lee or remove a plaque honoring the Confederate general’s horse, Traveller. Apparently, the Democrat Party’s own history is too problematic to bear.

Over the years, the Democrat Party’s official website has undergone some curious changes. The Spectator previously reported on the Democrat logo changing from sky blue to royal blue after President Joe Biden took office. It seems the “Our History” page is also getting whitewashed.

Since 2019, the history page has neglected to mention anything about the Democrat Party prior to the 1920s. In 2008, the Democrats proudly lifted up the “war hero” Andrew Jackson and the anti-elitist Thomas Jefferson as founding fathers of their party, noting that Jefferson served “two distinguished terms” as president. However, by 2012, the Democrats had scrubbed their history of page of any mention of those two men or, really, any of their history prior to the twentieth century. Now, the Democrat Party apparently got its legitimate start in 1920 with the women’s suffrage movement. Put that in your public school textbook!

Read it.

If you think offering migrants luxury hotel rooms, free meals, laundry service, transportation, health care, and immigration lawyers is excessive, just wait until they can vote.

Read it.

“In a world that is not conforming to the narrative of continuous Progress, the response from self-declared progressives has been to try to rewrite our past into the multicultural utopia that they wish to see realised. This will not end well. The war on reality cannot be won.”

– Luke Dodson

At this moment, when there is an awful struggle over the Hebrews’ place in the world – so dire that you’re waiting for World War Three to vaporize everything you’ve ever cared about – one observes the Jewish American scene with trepidation. Since I am a Jewish American, I’m just going to flop this one on the table like so much meat to see what kind of animals it brings out of the woodwork to fight over it.

A former Memphis officer pleads guilty to charges in Tyre Nichols’ beating death (NPR) Note: a black former Memphis officer.

Adams left Washington abruptly. A widening corruption scandal greeted him in NYC. (Politico)

Did Beethoven Invent African-American Music?

Why Are the Cops So Mean to Blacks in San Francisco? Nobody Knows!

Cardona: Antisemitic Incidents on Campus Appalling

Biden weighs border deal — altering asylum law for Ukraine aid (Politico)

Ivanka Trump Loses Court Fight to Block Her Testimony Next Week (The Messenger)

What’s Hidin’ Biden: Beatlemania Edition (NewsBusters)

Trump Asks Appeals Court to Lift Gag Order in Election Interference Case (NewsMax)

Trump’s Truth Social page is a riot of witness intimidation (Public Notice) “Mommmeeee! Donald hit me back!”

Complaint Calls for Trump New York Trial Judge’s Clerk to Be Disbarred for Excessive Political Donations

NY Judge Blasts Trump Lawyers for Attacking Staff

Tuberville Dismisses 20-Hour Work Days for Military Brass (NewsMax)

DeSantis Makes Cringey Attempt to Reclaim ‘Bootgate’ Narrative (Daily Beast) I’m glad they have nothing more important to write about than Ron DeSantis’ boots.

PBS Invites Favorite ‘Republican’ Adam Kinzinger on to Denounce Undemocratic GOP (NewsBusters)

Colbert Continues To Smear ‘Awful’ Johnson In Buttigieg Interview

Judge finds Eastman culpable for ethics breaches in 2020 bid to keep Trump in power (Politico)

Where does Speaker Mike Johnson sleep when he’s in DC? Most likely in his Capitol Hill office (Insider) I’m glad they don’t have anything more important to write about.

Does Mike Johnson Even Want to Avoid a Government Shutdown? (New York Magazine) Maybe not.

NBC’s Fake Abortion Fact Check of Ohio Republican with Fake ‘Nonpartisan Experts’

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PBS’s Amanpour Loves ‘Renegade’ Kinzinger: ‘Are You Pro-Democracy or Against It?’

Va. Students Protest Transgender Bathroom Policy

Guess Which Stories Media Literacy Firm Ad Fontes Didn’t Rate After Gaza Hospital ‘Bombing’

A Recipe for Big Government: ‘Food Insecurity’

Judge: Release Oregon Inmates Without Attorneys

Supreme Court takes up NRA coercion claim against former New York official (NBC News)

High Schoolers’ Resistance to Trans Restroom Policies Grows as Walkouts Multiply

Spike in Gun Sales Attributed to Hamas Attack, Maine

High School Students Chase Abortion Advocates off Property, Burn Contraceptives They Left Behind

Court tosses EPA ban on pesticide linked to brain damage in kids (The Hill) Linked!

Former EU Climate Pope Again Uses Girl’s Death to Push Green Agenda

House Approves Massive Cuts to EPA Budget

Energy Efficiency Program Makes Washington, DC, Living Even More Expensive