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.

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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.

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“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’

Amazon Founder Bezos to Move From Seattle to Miami (NewsMax) Even the Woke don’t want to go broke in the high-tax Left Coast.

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

University of Birmingham.

In ‘Physiological responses and cognitive behaviours: Measures of heart rate variability index language knowledge’ published in the Journal of Neurolinguistics, Professors Dagmar Divjak, Professorial Research Fellow in Cognitive Linguistics and Language Cognition at the University of Birmingham, and Professor Petar Milin, Professor of Psychology of Language and Language Learning, discovered a direct correlation between instances of bad grammar and subjects’ Heart Rate Variability (HRV).

Steve Sailer.

I can see why Egypt or Turkey would like to own a U.S. Senator — the U.S. is the world’s most powerful country, so it makes sense to bribe a senator — but I don’t get what paying off the mayor of New York, and a rather buffoonish mayor at that, would get you.

ScienceAlert.

In an unexpected twist, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) think they have discovered a whole new source of evaporation, and its transformative effect on liquid water could eclipse even that of heat.

Light itself.

Nature.

Tumour-targeting antibodies coupled with toxic chemicals are an unprecedented success in treating bladder cancer.

ALSO: New drug shows promise in killing cancer cells with genetic vulnerability

ALSO: Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Approach That Targets Translation Looks Promising

ALSO: New cancer therapy using antibody could offer a less toxic treatment option, study shows

I Lived Abroad For 11 Years. This Is The Thing That Shocked Me Most When I Moved Back To The U.S. (Huffington Post) I’m shocked that all of these ‘America isn’t sufficiently socialist’ haters persist in coming back.

Speaker Johnson’s hypocritical First and Second Amendment contradictions (The Hill)

Before he became a politician, House Speaker Mike Johnson partnered with an anti-gay conversion therapy group (CNN)

Mike Johnson was part of push for Louisiana’s fifth law school (Greater Baton Rouge Business Report)

Speaker Mike Johnson made his name fighting abortion in Louisiana. Will he do it in Congress? (NOLA.com)

House Rejects Effort to Expel Rep. George Santos of New York (NewsMax) Sometimes the witch-hunt works, and sometimes it does not.

Democrats scrap plans to vote on Greene censure resolution (The Hill)

PBS’s Frontline Portrays Senate Leader Mitch McConnell as Sinister Supreme Court Svengali (NewsBusters)

What’s “Extreme Right Wing”? (House of Eratosthenes)

Post: AI Doesn’t Watch Enough TV Commercials

Nancy Mace’s Staff Guide Shows Her True Priority: Nancy Mace (Daily Beast) The Beast would never write such a hit-job concerning a Democrat, of course.

On Colbert Show, Kinzinger Compares Mike Johnson To The Taliban

Barbara Lee hits California Senate opponents Schiff, Porter on Santos expulsion vote (The Hill)

Tuberville staffer asks anti-abortion groups to float primaries against Republicans who oppose military holds (Politico)

Pelosi launches an all-out attack against No Labels (Politico)

CNBC Host Smears Conservatives as ‘Bigoted People,’ Downplays Boycotts of Woke Companies

Tuberville Staffer: Primary GOP Sens Who Oppose Military Hold

I Grew Up in Mike Johnson’s District, Where Kindness Can Mask Cruelty (N.Y. Times)

From 9/11 to Benjamin Netanyahu: The world is learning that toxic masculinity can’t keep us safe (Salon) Amanda Marcotte loses her shit.

Climate’s ‘Catch-22’: Cutting pollution heats up the planet (Reuters)

America’s Most Powerful Nuclear Reactor Makes a Landmark Revival (Power Magazine)

CNN Peddles Alarm About Western Antarctica Melting

COP28 Organisers Already Accused of Greenwashing

Will China pay climate change “loss and damage”?

COP28: European Anti-Coal Crusade on Collision Course With China

Why EVs Aren’t The GreenTech Panacea

Colorado River Flow Data Disproves “Climate Change Warming” Computer Model Flow Reduction Claims

Health misinformation and lack of confidence in vaccines continue to grow, years after the Covid-19 pandemic, survey shows (CNN) In the Narrative media, ‘health misinformation’ means anything that doesn’t push the Narrative.

FDA Defends COVID Vaccine Against Smoking Gun Claims (Newsweek)

How AI played an instrumental role in making mRNA vaccines

California Counties Making Mask Mandates Grate Again

France moves closer to banning gender-inclusive language (EuroNews)

French senate aims to ban ‘inclusive writing’ (The Local France)

Macron rejects gender-inclusive writing to ‘protect’ French language (UK Telegraph)

$1 trillion in unpaid corporate taxes sparks UN tussle (The Hill)

Two downtown S.F. businesses closing after three decades (S.F. Chronicle)

FiDi 24-Hour Fitness and McDonald’s Both Announce Closures Amidst Record Office Vacancy (SFist)

24 Hour Fitness in downtown SF closing (KRON 4)

After 29 years, SF McDonald’s closes permanently (SF Gate)

GOP Senators Turn on Tuberville on Approval of Biden’s Military Promotions (Daily Signal) This is why Republicans can never get anything accomplished.

Senate Republicans erupt in anger over Tuberville’s military freeze (Washington Poop) I’m sure they’d like you to believe that.

Homeschooling Trend Is More Than Passing Fad (The Foundry)

Nancy Pelosi Subpoenaed in Husband’s Calif. Attacker Case

All Your Euros Are Belong to Us

California Senate hopeful Rep. Adam Schiff claimed primary residences in Maryland and California (CNN)

What we still don’t know about Paul Pelosi attack (Politico)

New Analysis Shows Homeschooling Is Here to Stay (NewsMax)

Ilia Calderón Cites Lack of Abortions As Cause For Increase In Infant Mortality

Fans Note That Only MLB Team Not to Celebrate ‘Pride’ Just Won World Series

Student Protesters Walk Out of Hillary Clinton’s Class at Columbia (N.Y. Times)

Western Europe Pushes To Abolish EU Veto Rights

California Proposes Another Minimum Wage Increase So People Can Afford Products Made More Expensive By Previous Minimum Wage Increase (Babylon Bee)

Maine Law Author: Shooter’s Guns Could Have Been Seized

The BorderLine: New York’s ‘Right to Shelter’—a Socialist Blank Check Aliens From Around the World Are Cashing

Donald Trump Jr’s courtroom debut: Chuckles, smiles and mispronunciation (BBC News)

Donald Trump Jr. takes the stand in NY Attorney General civil fraud case (MSNBC)

Judge Denies Trump ’24 Removal Dismissal

Florida Judge Might Delay Trump Classified Docs Case

Don Jr. Has a Conveniently Fuzzy Memory of Trump Org Finances: “I Leave It to My CPAs” (Vanity Fair) Conveniently!

Trump Jr distances himself from documents at center of fraud trial: ‘I don’t recall’ (The Guardian)

Court to decide if 14th Amendment case over Trump’s Minnesota ballot eligibility proceeds (ABC News)

Trump Derisively Celebrates Rep. Buck’s Departure

Mary Trump says Ivanka Trump will throw her father ‘under the bus’ in fraud trial testimony (The Hill) She hopes, she hopes, she hopes….

Minn. Justices Appear Skeptical of States Deciding Trump’s Eligibility for Ballot

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President Joe Biden says 24 million Americans “suffer from food insecurity!”

News anchors were shocked that there is “food insecurity in the richest country in the world!” ABC hosts turned “insecurity” into “hunger.”

But in my new video, Rachel Sheffield, who researches welfare policy at The Heritage Foundation, explains, “Food insecurity is not the same thing as hunger. It just means that they had to rely on cheaper foods, store-brand alternatives … or reduce[d] variety.”

Really? The alarm about “food insecurity” is based on that? Well, yes. Even the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in its fine print, admits that “for most food-insecure households, the inadequacies were in the form of reduced quality and variety of food rather than insufficient quantity.”

“They always want to create a crisis,” I say to Sheffield.

“Government programs want to keep themselves going,” she replies.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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The American Mind.

The aggressive promotion of gender ideology has coincided with a sharp rise in children identifying as transgender. As with the eugenics movement of a century ago, doctors are subjecting these young and vulnerable children to harmful drugs and irreversible surgeries that can leave them permanently sterilized.

Since most of their parents are progressives, I’d say this was a self-correcting problem.

ZMan breaks out the popcorn.

Some movies are on the top-100 list because they are great stories told very well, while others are on the list for their great technological breakthroughs. Some are on the list for their cultural impact. That is the case with Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, a comedy about race mixing from 1967. The film had two legends, Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn, and a big star at the moment in Sydney Poitier.

The film was viewed at the time as groundbreaking because it featured a mixed-race couple in a positive light. Right around the time the movie was released, the Supreme Court had struck down anti-miscegenation laws in Loving v. Virginia. Of course, the civil rights movement was at its peak, so this was just what white liberals wanted to see, which was white liberals being celebrated for their goodness.

The movie itself is pretty simple. It opens with the couple in question, generic rich white girl and her much older black boyfriend, Sydney Poitier, getting off an airplane and strolling through an airport like lovers on a walk in the park. Keep in mind that this is 1967, but no one in the airport notices, because you see, this is the glorious future where race no longer matters, so get used to it you terrible bigots.

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The Democratic Party is undergoing a civil war over Gaza and Israel. Traditional Democrats like Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are pro-Israel. Possibly this has something to do with the fact that American Jews contribute a large portion–last time I saw the numbers, more than half–of all campaign funds for Democratic candidates. To be fair, however, it may also reflect basic human decency.

But the newer generation of Democrats, represented by the Squad, is not impressed. They hate Israel and don’t much like Jews. And the Squad speaks for lots of Democrats: Joe Biden’s approval ratings have fallen among Democrats, apparently because many object to the pro-Israel stance he has taken in connection with the Gazan massacres.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, never a team player, weighed in yesterday with an over-the-top attack on AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. AIPAC is a grass roots and lobbying organization that supports Israel. It is bipartisan and has endorsed many Democrats, but is seen as relatively conservative in orientation, by Washington standards.

Richard Epstein.

For the past few years, many progressives have made it a high priority to impose on the superrich an annual wealth tax that takes hold even on those whose wealth declines in a given year—or, failing that, to impose a tax on unrealized income (i.e., simple accretions of wealth by people who have not sold or otherwise disposed of their property). These proposals looked to be off the table until the decision of the Supreme Court to hear Moore v. United States (2023) put the matter into high relief.

Moore started out as a technical tax dispute when the government sought to collect $14,729 in taxes from Charles and Kathleen Moore under the mandatory repatriation tax (MRT) part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 on income trapped in a corporation by the MRT’s regulations. But the case quickly attracted greater attention because the Moores claimed that the MRT tax was unconstitutional because gain had not been realized—that is, distributed from the corporation to the Moores.

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According to one estimate I have seen, in 1973 there were only about 13,000 children being homeschooled. Today the number is over 5 million—and may be much higher, as many states do not track the numbers very carefully.

The Washington Post has noticed, and you can tell they are worried about it. (The left has always hated homeschooling, and the teachers unions rightly understand what a threat homeschooling is to their gravy train, as most public schools derive their revenue by how many students are enrolled.)

Me, during football season.

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Several days ago, in a post I called “Distinctions Without a Difference,” I expressed several questions that were floating around the back of my mind regarding whether there are really meaningful distinctions of intent between “Palestinians” and “Hamas.” I raised those questions because everywhere we turn, both explicitly and implied, we’re being asked to believe that Hamas is one thing but Palestinians are another. I said in that post that I can imagine that such distinctions are meaningful, but that I always seemed to lack actual evidence.

One of the arguments I often hear for the lack of evidence for the existence of non-genocidal Palestinians is the fact that peaceful Palestinians are oppressed by Hamas and, if they were to openly push-back on acts of terror, then they would themselves be targeted. It isn’t hard to imagine that possibility, but there’s something about it that feels a wee bit too convenient for my comfort. We’re just supposed to take their word for it. Such an explanation is crafted in a way that forecloses the possibility of ever having any empirical evidence. We are expected to take it completely on faith.

The narrative for the existence of peaceful Palestinians goes something like this: “By golly, those meany people in Hamas are terrible, but Palestinians aren’t like Hamas. All those secret peace-loving Palestinians would really tell it like it is if they weren’t afraid of those meanies in Hamas. Otherwise, boy, they’d really let loose with their anti-genocidal views.”

GOP Governors Lean On NCAA To Keep ‘Biological Men’ Out Of Women’s Sports

Sen. Josh Hawley To Introduce Bill Reversing Citizens United

Bachelors Of Advocacy: The Rise Of Activism Over Academics In US Higher Education

CA Funding LGBTQ+ Group Fighting Parental Notification

Home schooling’s rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education (Washington Poop)

Mesa high school teacher on administrative leave after students say he dressed up as devil, said ‘hail Satan’ to students (NBC)

29 Cities In Los Angeles Sue County Over Zero Bail Policy

The Evangelical Church of Germany Calls For More Cultural Enrichment

The U.N.: What Is It Good For?

Pro-Family Groups Take a Stand Against EU Parenthood Certificate

Hungary bans teens from visiting World Press Photo exhibition over LGBTQ images (NBC News)

Elon Musk: “Twitter Was Completely Controlled By The Far Left”

Sarah Huckabee Sanders Bans ‘Woke Nonsense’ Language From Arkansas

Chipotle Will Be More Expensive in California Next Year as Minimum Wage Hike Takes Effect, CFO Says

Elon Musk Exposes How Soros ‘Hijacked’ US Cities Without Changing Any Laws

Biden Administration Approves Biggest Offshore Wind Farm Yet, in Virginia (N.Y. Times)

The Great ‘Green Energy Transition’ That Wasn’t (The Foundry)

World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm-Developer Abandons Two Major US Projects As Renewable Bust Erupts

The EV transition trips over its own cord

Ørsted Abandons New Jersey Wind Projects

Trump grouses that his indictments took years. Here’s why that is. (Washington Poop) They wanted to time it for the election, of course–forget the Narrative BS.

Mike Johnson’s Satanic panic: How evangelical delusions trained Republicans to love Trump’s lies (Salon)

Supreme Court to Determine Legality of ‘Trump Too Small’ Trademark (NewsMax)

Trump’s Allies Want a New Style of Lawyer if He Returns to Power (N.Y. Times)

Trump fights loom large for a Supreme Court that has tried to ignore him (Politico)

Trump Attorney Alina Habba: Jail is ‘Not Even Something We Think About’ (The Messenger)

Untested Legal Imagination’s the Mother of Trump and Jan. 6 Prosecutions

Trump to Judge: Leave My Kids Alone

Speaker Johnson taps veteran GOP operative as chief spokesperson (Politico)

Sen. McConnell Warns Dems on ‘Inappropriate’ Subpoenas (NewsMax)

Tesla Wins First Jury Trial Over Fatal Autopilot Crash (NewsMax)

EXCLUSIVE: House Speaker Mike Johnson Opens Up About Intersection of Faith, Politics (The Foundry)

Missouri Court Rejects GOP’s Abortion Summary Language (News Max)

Was That Bernie Sanders In A Scarborough Halloween Outfit Proposing A ‘Billionaire Tax?’

House Ethics says update on Santos investigation coming as possible expulsion vote looms (CBS News) Let not the new witch-hunts distract us from the old witch-hunts.

Republicans Out to Impeach Biden Have a Friend in House Speaker Mike Johnson (The Messenger)

RFK Jr. Renews Plea For Secret Service Protection After Second Stalker Arrest

Dinesh D’Souza’s Film ‘Police State’ Is Warning Cry for Americans: ‘We’re in Danger’

The Latest Target for California Conservatives? Local School Boards (N.Y. Times)

Idaho’s first ‘abortion trafficking’ arrest (Abortion, Every Day)

False Claims Haunt Family Of Woman Who Died On Jan. 6

Adam Kinzinger Rewarded for Denouncing the GOP ‘Terrorist Caucus’ (NewsBusters)

The Virginia voter purge (Popular Information)

RFK Jr.’s 2024 bid is a threat to Republicans — and donor data shows it (Politico)

Before he became a politician, House Speaker Mike Johnson partnered with an anti-gay conversion therapy group (CNN)

Does New Speaker of the House Mike Johnson Have a Bank Account? (Daily Beast) I’m certainly glad they have nothing more important to write about.

As the World Smolders, the New Speaker Trolls Biden (N.Y. Times)

Democrats launch attack ads against vulnerable Republicans over election of Speaker Johnson (Washington Examiner)

Christian Nationalism ‘Is No Longer Operating Beneath the Surface’ (N.Y. Times)

The GOP voter suppression jamboree comes to North Carolina (Public Notice) In the proglodyte media, ‘voter suppression’ means ‘making sure voters aren’t fraudulent’.

“Faith and Family” vs Democracy (Democracy Americana)

“A kind of Stepford wife”: It’s more than a prayer keeping Mike Johnson’s wife suddenly out of view (Salon) Amanda Marcotte loses her shit.

Scarborough: House GOP Plans Please Jew-Haters, Tax Cheaters, Illegal Aliens and Putin

Democrats quickly seek to make Speaker Johnson a boogeyman (Washington Poop)

Musk Doubles Down on Soros Criticism: ‘He Fundamentally Hates Humanity’

A Virginia GOP State Rep. Built Her Political Career On A Story That Doesn’t Add Up. (Huffington Post)

G.O.P.’s Buck Won’t Seek Re-Election, Citing His Party’s Election Denialism (N.Y. Times) Some RINOs are a self-correcting problem.

12+ Churches Targeted As Ohio Pro-Aborts Demand Unrestricted Abortion Bill

House Republicans Subpoena Biden Administration For Afghan Refugee Records Amid Rising Terror Threats (Washington Free Beacon)

5 Takeaways as Senate Grills FBI, DHS Chiefs on Terrorism, Antisemitism, Border, Big Tech (The Foundry)

White House: Saudi Arabia is still interested in pursuing mega-deal

BAD NEWS FOR BIDEN: Kamala Harris Predicts Victory in 2024 (Washington Free Beacon)

Hawley, Mayorkas Spar Over Antisemitism in DHS

US Sanctions Guatemalan Officials for Post-Election Crisis

Psaki Knocks Speaker Johnson as ‘Christian Fundamentalist’

Judge Blocks Biden Administration From Damaging Razor Wire Along US–Mexico Border

White House Warns Biden Would Veto House GOP Standalone Israel Funding Bill  The Deep State laid bare for all to see.

White House Will Develop an Anti-Islamophobia Strategy

Rep. Comer Shows Proof of $40K Biden China-Tied Check

5 Mayors Want to Discuss Migrants With Biden

Biden’s COVID-19 Vax Mandates Spawn Lingering Bad Results

“Pharmageddon” Strikes US Drugstores As 5,000 Workers Walk Off Job

Pfizer To Shut Down Two Facilities Amid Major Cost Cuts

NIH-funded US Lab Tested SARS-like Virus on Bats in 2018

Lifehacker.

When confronted with the need to tie something off, most people resort to simply tying as many half-assed knots as they can in the vague hope that the sheer frictional complexity will stymie the natural forces of entropy.

This approach can work, as long as you’re okay with sacrificing your dignity and the effectiveness of said knots—but it’s much better to learn how to tie some of the most useful of the roughly 4,000 knots known to humankind.

Here are 11 knots every adult should know how to tie.

Marriage is apparently not one of the essentials.

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Primates other than humans, that is. Monkeys and chimps don’t have government regulations to wade through.