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

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

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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.

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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.

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Banana equivalent dose (BED) is an informal unit of measurement of ionizing radiation exposure, intended as a general educational example to compare a dose of radioactivity to the dose one is exposed to by eating one average-sized banana. Bananas contain naturally occurring radioactive isotopes, particularly potassium-40 (40K), one of several naturally occurring isotopes of potassium. One BED is often correlated to 10?7 sievert (0.1 ?Sv); however, in practice, this dose is not cumulative, as the potassium in foods is excreted in urine to maintain homeostasis.[1] The BED is only meant as an educational exercise and is not a formally adopted dose measurement.

Happy Birthday to My Brother the Socialist.